I'd like to set a computer's hwclock periodically using NTP.
I've installed the xntp .deb. Now what?
(Yes, I've read the docs.. :( )
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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/tex/
Just right-click on the tetex-base0.9 directory, and select 'save as'.
It's not particularly stable, however.
What is unstable about tetex? I am just about to upgrade to Hamm but
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
I used to run AccelX on Debian 1.3.1 with no problems.
I did a custom install and installed ONLY server and fonts.
Did xdm work with your configuration?
thanks
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote:
Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or
may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is
Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.enlightenment.org if I'm not
mistaken). It implements just
How do I set system clock (the RTC) on a fairly standard,
however old, PC which is running Debian GNU/Linux?
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, AUBORD Alain wrote:
3) Buy the complete package
4) Do a custom installation and then install just the AcceratedX package
I'm sorry, but I can't get this to work either. XiGraphics does not answer
my emails. I've tried experimenting with this over and over again. Now all
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
The usual timeout for ARP entries is 30 seconds IIRC. That doesn't
mean that some hardware might do something different.
I went home unsuccesful and then returned today, two days after I fought
with this, because I had some ideas I wanted to try.
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
The router finds the hardware (or MAC) address by broadcasting a request
to the network. It basicly asks Does anybody here know what the MAC
This is the ARP request described in the NAG. But there is also some kind
of cache which can be viewed with
Here is my situation: I want to connect a laptop to the Internet using a
PLIP connection to my Ethernet-connected workstation. This pretty much
sums up what I have tried (except for those ifconfig's):
on laptop:
route add workstation-ip plip0
route add default gw workstation-ip
on workstation:
With a lot of luck I've succeeded in putting up a hamm system from
scratch. Now I want to make identical installations on a couple of
machines with almost identical hardware.
What is the easiest way? Can it be automated (I bet many people has
done this before..)? If I have to do it by tarring the
How can hamm go into frozen when dselect-over-FTP hasn't been fixed yet?
When will it be fixed (I recently tried the 98-03-29 disk set)?
Also, selecting keyboard layout (swedish) does not work (says it can't
find the keymap-file). Sometimes it complains about the user 'root' not
being found, but
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Anthony Fok wrote:
I'm afraid about PostGreeSQL because it's not 100% ANSI SQL. We'll run
PostgreSQL is as close to ANSI SQL 92 as you can get, and it is still
You might want to check out mySQL too. I do not know of its functionality
but I've heard some good things. I
I previously posted a question on the list if anyone had good or bad
experiences from running Accelerated X with Debian. The only replies
I got were positive. I decided to evaluated it before actually buying,
so I downloaded it and installed on a fresh bo (stable) with XFree
installed.
After the
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
Getting the bootable flags back wasn't the problem; they're set that way
now. But it litterly shifted the partition names; hda1 became hda2, and
so forth. Is there any way to change them back?
This is exactly what OpenDOS did with my Linux
I have a PC machine here on which I have installed Debian stable. It is an
early Pentium, a Dell XPS/60. It is giving me a lot of problems. When it
has been on for a while, it starts giving me floating point exceptions in
several programs (including troff and fvwm2).
What can be the cause of
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself
down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it).
This is not what I want. That way the disks spin down too often.
What I was looking for is a way to spin them down when
I am using pine (from the debian distribution), and I would like
to know how to set the return address (instead of the standard
You have to recompile perl and enable the ALLOW_CHANGING_FROM #define.
Its all in the docs. Download the source from www.washington.edu/pine.
It'd be great if Debian's
How well does Accelerated X (a commercial X server from www.xig.com) work
with Debian GNU/Linux? Is there a Debian installer for it? Can I skip
installation of XFree if I buy AccelX (if so, won't Debian dependencies
of XFree give me problems)?
thanks
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I would like my IDE disks (I'd very much appciate a general solution too
which can be used on SCSI systems) to spin down when unmounted. Mounting
them would cause them to spin up again. Is this possible and how?
thanks
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I tried to install the `hamm' distribution today on a fresh installation.
Is that not possible yet? Anyway, I encountered the following problems
during installation which might be of value to someone:
* The disk partitioning program did not work. When I created a maximum
size partition it said
I have decided to install something unixish on an old 486/33 which just
sits in the lab, which has a crashed MSwin311 installation and no one uses
it. I don't have much info on hardware but I've figured out most of it. The
network card has `SMC' printed on it so I choose the first SMC driver (I
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
claimed that Apache was used in about 50% of sites and Netscape/MS were
barely more than 10 each!
That jibes with the O'Reilly article; apache 60%, Netscape ~25%??, MS
~10%, the rest 7%.
A pity not too many people has discovered Roxen
On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 and it wouldn't let me install emacs AND
xemacs... one or the other. How can I get both on my system?
Most probably you don't want both of them. XEmacs has more features than
GNU Emacs (if running under X), but hogs system
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Mark Phillips wrote:
I have installed the auctex package, but when I use emacs to edit a file
with a .tex ending, AUC TeX is not invoked. Why isn't it working?
You have to put it in your .emacsrc-file. I believe its all in the AUC TeX
documentation.
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On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, David R. Kohel wrote:
I'm looking for the equivalent of the /etc/DIR_COLORS in Slackware,
from where it is read, and where to specify that users' ~/.dircolors
Have you actually read the 'ls' manpage ?
man ls
(you can search for 'color')
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Should it not require xbase, or something like that?
That DOES seem silly.
No, why? They _DO_ require xbase to work, don't they?
Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the
16-color X server whenever installing X (otherwise
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
Can you get Matlab for Debian? Someone told me that Matlab is
Matlab is supported only my The Mathworks (I think that's the name of the
Consider OCTAVE as well. It is free.
Personally, I love it. I prefer it to MatLab.
(..looks exactly like
A friend of mine made the mistake of only installing an X server during a
fresh Debian 1.3 installation. He had no dependency problems.
Should it not require xbase, or something like that?
Also, should we not have a RECOMMENDATION that the user installs the
16-color X server whenever installing X
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
I'm trying to print/view a pdf encrypted file without any success.
The US Government imposes export restrictions on crypto-related stuff, so
you will have to get the files from:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~geoffk/pdfencrypt/
.. to make
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
Does anyone know of a program which writes PDF files under Linux?
pdftex, is program that makes (La)TeX output PDF files instead
of the standard DVI. It's still in Beta though, but will probably
be included in the next teTeX-release (which
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
I've been trying to download a PASCAL compiler for Linux and I've been
unsuccesful. Every site I've gone to either has the wrong link on their
The two major FREE Pascal compilers available are GNU and FPK Pascal.
I've tried them both, and
On Sat, 3 May 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
This is what caused me to finally break linux. I moved OpenDOS from a
primary (sda2) to a logical (sda5).
I know Solaris numbers disks differently, I think it is based on the disks
serial number. A very good solution, however, you get away from this sort
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ryan Shaw wrote:
i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at
the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm
If you want if for every login, put a `clear screen' in your /etc/issue
like this:
clear /tmp/banan
cat
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Hong Huang wrote:
I remember Keyboard got configured during installation. My question is:
is it possible to change the keyboard configuration after installation?
Yes, it is. By using the 'loadkeys'-program. Use it to change your
keyboard layout. Put in somewhere in your
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Dany Dionne wrote:
I'll buy a 3D video card this summer and i can expense 750$ (1000$
Canadien). This card is to use in the developpment of a 3D environnement
in OPENGL on PC. Do you have any recommendations? I don't know if it's a
I'd settle for those S3 based cards. S3
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:
The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not
with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to
/bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup
So if these script doesn't work with ash nor zsh in
On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Britton wrote:
Annoying isn't it? Browsers can do a lot of things like this apparently,
a fact which their makers arn't advertising. Profiling = big money I
Of course their makers are advertising! They say that it conforms to the
CGI 1.0 specifications. Now what that is,
On 8 Mar 1997, Richard Sharman wrote:
[completion control]
compctl (completion) has been setup to complete for a variable name
if the command is export. While the zsh seemed easier, I guess
the bash approach allows you to control it more.)
I hope that's a typo.. The zsh way is more
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
Where do you want to put these instructions? I have posted
instructions to debian-user and debian-devel. If you put it in the
preinst script it is to late.
Isn't this something that whoever it is maintaining dselect should fix?
I don't think this
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Carl Privitt wrote:
How did [EMAIL PROTECTED] become _the_ Linux group? These guys
don't even have a web server or actual hosts in their domain. Now if
Has linuxnet stepped forward somewhere and declared what they will do with
the money when (if) they win? Are we sure
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Marcelo Magallon wrote:
The wierd thing is that dpkg --remove latex works...
That didn't work for me. I had to remove my previous Debian TeX
installation by *hand* (that is, using rm and not dpkg) because dpkg
just gave me script aborted with an error when trying to use it.
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see
no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a
Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team...
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On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
Unless massive action is taken to avert this ominous development, the
Personally, I hate the Penguins, except the ones that are the outline. I
I think there should be RULES declaring that if any logotype for the Linux
project is present in the
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Toens Bueker wrote:
Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread
I have installed jdk-common 1.0.2-4 and jdk-static 1.0.2-4.
I had the exact same problem when trying to run HotJava (a WWW-browser
from Sun). Someone around here told me that this was
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Hayao Nakahara wrote:
Yes you can.
The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files.
On such configuration, I can
mount cdrom by accessing /l/cd,
mount floppy with ext2 format by /l/fd
mount floopy with fat format by /l/msdos.
and explicitly
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote:
Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it...
Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your
Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these.
I still think that the Microsoft-like tips is a good
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote:
I've been meaning to look at fortune to see whether it can easily handle
or be adapted to handle different databases of fortune cookies - such as
tips. I'm running low on free time just now, so does anyone have the
Don't know about fortune... it
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Rob MacWilliams wrote:
I am running X using xdm. Is there a more elegent way to go to the full
screen consoles than kill xdm. When I try to exit fvwm, on the middle
I don't know if I misunderstood your question...
how about just switching virtual console (ctrl-alt-f1) ?
I have two small questions today ;) :
a) where can I find information about what the
different debian run-levels are used for?
0 is halt, 6 is reboot, 1 is singleuser, but
what about the rest? Are there an multiuser with
X and one without X?
b) when I do an 'lsmod' it says that
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
What about a Tip of the day package in place of fortune
Just kidding!? Hey, this idea is not so bad actually! It may be a nuisance
for experienced users but for newbies and stil not very experienced users
I think it is a great idea. As long as it is
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
You're really losing the point here... what is in your mind, an EASY
installation? A brain dead program, that does all your thinking for you?
Come on!!! All I was saying was that it is not CONSISTENT of dselect to
start a XF86Setup during the config
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior
I disagree. You should understand what you are doing. If you don't even
want to know what is going and how you are to use it, what is the point of
having it? Bragging to
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote:
Then I don't think it can be considered a bug per se. If XF86Setup is
Neither do I.
not on your system, you are not expected to run it. You must come
across XF86Setup from some other documents and from the same source
Yes, but as a totally new
On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
In concept, dselect is great. It's an attempt to create a user interface
that's not based on the window/pulldown menu interface that (I believe) is
I totally agree with you.
What often confuses me about dselect is that it sometimes when running
into
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
Is there any way of modifying the message before the login prompt? or,
How about editing /etc/issue?
(and issue.net, which I think is a symlink to issue in Debian)
failing this, is there any way of adding a message before the login:
/etc/motd ?
I think
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The
development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new
ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model.
That wounds interesting. Do you think you can tell us more?
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all
bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion
and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory
Then I guess I should be installing
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else.
However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished
using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower
power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, with
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you
should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about
If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :)
Someone actually told me that I should install
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
I had trouble with this too. I believe one problem is that the host name
of your machine must match the IP address of your machine. Otherwise,
thank you for this information! I've had this problem too ;)
And lastly, Sun's talk seems to be
On Tue, 24 Dec 1996, James W. Tucker wrote:
I've installed Debian 1.2 from scratch but dpkg indicates that it
can't find libXt.so.6 when I try to install the texbin package. I did
I've had exactly the same problem, so it might be common.
I don't know how to fix this (I used dpkg to force the
On Sat, 14 Dec 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The distribution has gotten so large that 1.2 barely fits on a CD,
How can you say that?
I downloaded the whole rex (1.2) yesterday, including contrib, non-free,
and non-us. Also all the disk images. This was in total just above 300 MB.
Did I miss
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
From what I understand, PGP 'international' is not supposed to be used in
the US, and the US version is not supposed to be use outside of the US.
Is this right? Which one should I be using?
1) That is completely right.
2) The i-version since it
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
Heard about this client... Those someone if there are a Linux equivalent
of this telnet-with-zmodem client? Can be really cool.
A Linux telnet-terminal (and serial too) with zmodem?
I think 'ecu' does this.
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On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote:
I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86
(specifically P120). Does Linux support it
I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an Cyrix/IBM P-150+ and it runs like a
charm. No problems (yet). I am sporadically running maybe an hour a day
for
I have a feeling that this question is very off-topic here, but in that
case I would appreciate if I am told where it is not. I installed Debian
on a computer mainly to run LaTeX, but I don't understand really what I
need to do. I installed almost everything on the TeX disks.
When I try to run
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, William Burrow wrote:
While the Qt authors may have different concerns than Knuth does over
TeX, the idea may be the same: modified versions may reflect badly on
Troll Tech.
This is not the whole story, since it is only their X version that is free
for non-commercial
When can we users expect to see the newly released XFree 3.2 in the Debian
distribution? I need it for my virge-card to work, and I wonder if I
should download buzz-fixed and then XFree 3.2 separately or wait until it
is included in rex ?
BTW, how unstable is rex? Should I download it instead of
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