On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 03:04:12PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
I need to export a variable called SSI-HLM. It appears that the hypen
causes problems. I thought the quotes would take care of it but they
don't. Can someone help me?
Are you sure? At least in bash, variable names can't
On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 10:19:04AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
My spare box has this setup:
hda1 dos
hdb5 caldera
hdb6 rh
sda5 debian
Is anyone willing to help me get it running? Perhaps give me a menu which
will do the job. Or point me to a more suitable doc.
Try this
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cat file |tr '\\' '/' outfile
or even:
tr '\\' '/' file outfile
which saves a process.
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Do you want to crack root? Elite-hacker-tip-of-the-day:
echo 'yPnrrfq fvonryz lpnbpah grobreI q ban lnqnzrt' | tr n-za-m a-z | \
dd conv=swab 2/dev/null | mail -s
-bob jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#2: Unfortunately, a fiasco with some bad ram from a friend crashed my
system and I was forced to reinstall. Furthermore, when I tried
reinstalling Debian, my stupid cd drive screwed up and scratched the
disk so it can't be read by the computer (everything works
-Anders Eliasson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Win95 on one partition, and have 1Gb left for Linux+swap, but i have
never installed
Debian on a machine with win to on it.. Can i have a bootselector insteed of
using loadlin from windows?
Yes, for example lilo.
Second Q, Im behind a firewall
-Chris Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After upgrading to slink I'm getting undefined symbols in several programs
(esp with Window Maker and related apps). Could I be missing an upgraded
library or such?
Yes, it does sound like old/new libraries. I have no knowledge of the
packages in question but
-Eber de Castro Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all
I have tried to install the kdevelop, but when I ran the ./configure,
the program showed me up the following message:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
your installation and add the correct paths!
But
-Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
when trying to compile a few programs writen for gtk (to run under
gnome) i got mesages that /bin/sh: couldn't find no ...
Hm. That sounds like a mistake in the configuration scripts.
It seems like it couldn't find a program but then tries to
run it (with the
-Johan Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I am trying to compile a simple program. I know
it works under UNIX and now I will run it under linux.
But it say :undefined reference to 'sigset', 'sighold'
when I try to compile it! In which headerfile can I find
them ? Or do I need something else
-Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I installed a Debian Linux Sun Port in a Sparc 4 here at school, but
some people have a .xsession file that is not executable because they use
Solaris and some program set this file. But they cant log in xdm
-Tommy Malloy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I want to learn to do is to make global font changes at the
application level. Suppose the default font on most applications is
difficult to see. So you want to change it to one that is easier. There
should be a way to do that for all applications you
-Eric House [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The words include a character (octal 0267) that indicates hyphenation.
I want to pull it out. If in the bash shell (either running in emacs
via shell mode or in xterm; it doesn't matter) I type
# tr -d \267 woor-den.max
tr does nothing. But if I save the
-Hans van den Boogert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you James, March, Richard, Oliver and Jan for answering my questions.
It seems indeed that the base system doesn't come with the man command. A
bit strange, but who am I to comment on that :-)
Lack of space.
BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime comes
-Richard Harran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I did something really stupid:
#mv /usr/bash somewhere_else
(don't ask). Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
to fix it. I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work.
-Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I have a problem with du. When I do a du * -sx the -x flag
should exclude other mounted filesystems, but it doesn't. I was
using v3.16 and then upgraded to 4.00, both don't work right. Can
anybody help?
With du 4.0 -x seems to work for me.
-Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I cannot find the shadow passwd in slink, anyone know here it is??
I need the function fgetspent, but man returns no manual entry
found. I do have fgetpwent however.
Could someone tell me which package I need to get in order to have
this function??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard)
I know this is the wrong place to ask, so I've got two questions
now. What is a good unix/C newsgroup? I think I'm gonna need some
For general C, try comp.lang.c. It's probably the wrong place
for these questions, since they are UNIX specific.
comp.unix.programmer
-Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know that ip-up and ip-down are run by pppd when the link is brought up
or down respectively. However, ip-down is run AFTER the link is brought
down. What I'd like to do is run a script or two BEFORE the link actually
goes down.
Make a script that does
-Shawn Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Does anyone know a good book for Xwindow? I looked up O'reilly and
they
seems to have two of them. One for MIT version and one for Motif. I have
no idea which one I should get so if anyone can recommend a book I would
appreciate it. And
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Hi !
im looking for a good email client (graphical and non-graphical) w/c can
automatically sort out emails like put all mails where either the to: or the
cc: fields contain debian-user@lists.debian.org etc etc. seems like there
are just too many of them to try out
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*- On 5 Mar, Ole J. Tetlie wrote about ppp
I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
the line with Hangup. I don't know why that happens. I made the
configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a
machine with working ppp. Could
-David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 installed, but when I use dpkg -l
I see this
ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
with the -6 at the end truncated.
How can I list the full package name?
dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version:
--
I'm having a little trouble with ppp. Everything seems normal until
the line with Hangup. I don't know why that happens. I made the
configuration with pppconfig, making the same choices as for a
machine with working ppp. Could it be some other netconfig
that is making trouble. I'd appreciate a
-Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
mouse under X?
Try
xmodmap -e pointer = 3 2 1
--
The only way tcsh rocks is when the rocks are attached to its feet
in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus
-Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
end i found that the given profiles were all useless to me BTW is there
somewhere a system like the 'custom tags' in slackware? (i have some more
installations to do and would like to completely automatise installation...)
I don't know what the slackware
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The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options probably has the line
run-xconsole
which, when commented out (#) will get xdm (the program that provides that
login banner) to stop starting and running xconsole.
If you use hamm this would probably be /etc/X11/config. See
if you
*-Kirk Hogenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Qt is a C++ library. (No wrappers that I know of -- it is much
| harder to wrap an OO-library, unless you're wrapping in another
| OO language...)
There are many wrappers for Qt. Since there is a C wrapper you
could also write a wrapper for almost any
*-Robert King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I'm trying to compile pine 4.10 and having problems. The build fails with
| ld: cannot open -lncurses: No such file or directory
| I'm trying to work out if I'm missing a required library before reporting
| it as a bug, but there doesn't seem to be any way to
*-Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Howdy Y'all...
|
| I'm trying to write some QT1.42 apps; they won't compile when I issue
| the command:
|
| g++ -I /usr/local/qt/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lqt TestCalc.cc
|
| I get the following error messages:
|
| /usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x36): undefined
*-Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| What command-line options should I use to compile a qt program,
| e.g. the Hello World! example from the qt homepage. I get a lot of
| errors concerning qpushbutton.h, qapplication.h, etc. I tried
| gcc qttut.c -I/usr/X11R6/include/qt
| and other things but I
*-Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I need to start Abacus Sentry when my machine boots, but unlike other apps
| that will start from /sbin/setup.sh Sentry just crashes when I do it that way.
|
| Is there a way to start sentry after every other process has finished?
| Perhaps by using an 'at'
*-Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I am really moving along with Debian, fixing one thing after another.
|
| What is missing here? I have never seen this error.
|
|
| /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 pics/*.xpm /usr/share/apps/kxicq/pics
| /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kxicq/wav
| mkdir
I'm trying to set up my brothers computer so that it just
boots by itself, and then mounts /usr and friends from my
computer. The question is: Which directories should I mount
and what files need I take special care of?
Currently, I've tried to mount /usr /lib /bin /sbin and /etc.
I've also had
*-Gregory Vandenbrouck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi,
|
| Seems like there is no Corba package. Is there one ? I need to use
| Corba, and I have seen that there is quite a lot of free Corba programs
| to get. Do you have an advice about which one I should use ?
We have omniorb, tao, orbit, ilu* and
*-Darknight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better
| than the others i've tried. The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe,
| so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org. This just caused more
| problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK
*-Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
| when I startx.
|
| Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?
Some things to check:
Does /etc/X11/window-managers seem good? Incidentally, the first
line in mine is
*-Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that
| it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with
| the Oracle oratab.sh script?
What does 'groups oracle' say?
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting
*-Tom Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP
| correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach
| any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is
| 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site
*-Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their
| documents? 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there
| a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk?
| When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search
*-ivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| You could also write your own (dirty!) kernel
| device driver module which allows you to access hardware directly. This is
| not too hard.
|
|
| Thanks - I'm thinking about this now. Are there any references other than
| the kernel hackers guide on writing drivers ?
*-trio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
|What happened?
|
|I installed linux v2.0.34 about a month ago. Everything was working
| fine. In fact, everything is still being served by apache just fine, but
| my telnet sessions get as far as logging me in, telling me that i have
| new mail and then
*-Emil Soleyman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hello,
| I have been trying to install Window Maker on my Debian system but with no
| avail. It is recommended to install the following tarballs in this order:
| libPropList, WindowMaker-data, WindowMaker-0.51
|
| The problem that I am having has to do with
*-Robert Rati [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I just d/led and installed the latest xfree86 packages from
| http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86 in an attempt to solve a problem
| I had with X freezing my screen. It appeared to be pretty stable and to
| fix the problem, so I rebooted. After I boot, I
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|
| I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems
| with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything
| installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss.
|
| Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do?
This is potato, right?
*-Tun Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed
| already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without
| the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error...
| ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
If I
*-Charles Collicutt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
| badger(larry) gxsnmp
| gxsnmp: error in loading shared libraries
| libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
|
| I thought that was just me, I get that too. Means I can't run
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)
|
| The maintainer of balsa and yagirc is a lazy bum, but he promises to
| release new versions before he leaves for christmas on Sunday.
Sorry, but he has to wait for new gnome libraries. :-(
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
*-Rich Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Is there any program or way to look at your video setting while in X
| - for instance to see what color mode (bpp) you're in (I guess
| xvidtune doesn't do that...) I'm running an ATI 3d rage II card, but
| can only seem to use 8 bpp without getting these
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|
| X is totally confusing me at the moment. Or rather, how to get it all
| working, where are the good window managers, etc.
There is a web page dedicated to window managers for X. There you can
see most of them in action. I don't have to URL handy, but a search
should find
*-Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| OK, I do appreciate that the whole thing is maintained by volunteers,
| and I am very grateful for the work they do. I am not moaning as much as
| wondering - it seems that Slink has been frozen, and Potato is being
| worked on - where do new releases of
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|
| I'm running 2.0.36 on i386, and have a SoundBlaster AWE 64 plugged into
| it, which is unconfigured.
|
| I used to use Red Hat, which came with a rather neat little utility
| called soundconfig (I think) that was capable of automatically helping
| you install a module for
*-KTB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| First I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the base
| instillation! I would now like to install X11 but when I am in dselect
| and have highlighted xbase and then try to install I get a message:
| dselect: unable to open/create access method lockfile:
*-Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Why does the cursor changes its look when, i.e, changing from the root window
(X-like cursor) to a application (arow cursor)? Does the app say X to change
the cf (cursor font) from X to arrow and then when going back to the root
window it says X to change
*-Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| [1 multipart/alternative]
|
| [1.1 text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)]
| I finally was able to setup my Linux box to work with the NE2000 card. Now
the next question is: should I use fetchmail or smail to send/receive emails
from my POP account?
*-Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| How do i change the mouse pointer in X?
Two ways:
* Ask your window manager politely.
* xsetroot.
| I dont like that X cursor
Captain Blueeye is much better...
--
Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)
*-Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I heard that it's now possible to do installation of packages on several
nodes
| simultaneously. In our case we have 4 linux boxes and would like to have
same
| packages on all of them, yesterday I spend a night jumping between 4 running
|
*-Birgit Kellner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Perhaps bizarre question: I installed debian, everything seems to be
| fine, but bash refuses to recognize the commands man and info and
| just returns command not found. Any explanation?
Have you installed the packages man-db and info? They should
give you
*-Andrea Novara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I have a small config feeling question?
| Since we spawn hundreds of messages each day, it
| would be more comfortable to have a constant string
| in subjects such as [ DEBIAN ] that allows easy
| filtering.
|
| If anyone have better suggestions or cat filter
*-Mário Olímpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| The error is:
| gcc -O -I../inc -I/user/openwin/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -o
| ../bin/Linux/hierarchy hierarchy.c ../lib/Linux/libIM.a
| ../lib/Linux/libFFT.a ../lib/Linux/libjpeg.a -lm -L/usr/lib
| -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/lib/X11 -lX11
| ld:
*-C.J.LAWSON [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi,
|Please could someone inform me as to the 'standard' way of generating
| glossary and nomenclature entries within a latex document
LaTeX has \makeglossary and \glossary{...} which are equivalent to
\makeindex and \index{...}. Could this be what you
*-[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I've downloaded emacs and g++ and it seems to work fine. I've created a
| mytest program and it compiled fine. When I try to execute mytest I get
|
| bash:mytest: command not found
|
| So how do you invoke your c++ binaries? Thanks.
Is it possible
*-Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Just how stupid an idea did I have when I did this:
|
| $PS1=[\e[31m\h\e[m:\e[34m\u\e[m:\e[31m\w\$\e[m]
|
| in my /etc/profile?
Chuck explained what was going on. Your prompt could be:
PS1=[\[\e[31m\]\h\[\e[m\]:\[\e[34m\]\u\[\e[m\]:\[\e[31m\]\w\[\$\e[m\]]
*-Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote:
|
|main()
|
| A long shot, but technically the above is illegal; you have to do:
| int main(int argc, char* argv[])
It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'.
| then return something from
*-Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| On Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 09:03:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
| It can also be 'int main(void)', which is equivalent to 'main()'.
|
| Hmmm. I was told that 'int func(void)' means it takes no parameters,
| while 'int func()' means it could take any
*-Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
|
| Messages from a Debian developer are messing up my combination of
| sendmail and fetchmail.
|
| His Sender field has an empty email address:
| Sender: Ole J. Tetlie
I have also been in touch with another person who have problems with
my headers.
| I would
*-Jan Krupa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I am reading XFree86 Video Timings HOWTO and I would like to
| compute DCF/HSF but I do not know what DCF (dot clock frequency)
| is ? I mean I do not know where it comes from?
It's the number of pixels that the video card will send to the
monitor each second.
*-Ingo Hohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hello!
|
| I've some source-packages (mostly .tar.gz) that I'd like
| to install. Is it possible to do this in a way, that the
| system later on knows about the binarys, like, if it's
| been a debin binary package? (Things like automatic menus,
| eventual
*-Torsten Hilbrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes:
|
| Hi,
| As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried
| to use 'sort' for this purpose. From man bash I have read that the
| LANG variabale is responsible for
*-computer team [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| cc -o ../nwbind nwbind.o emutil.o net1.o tools.o nwdbm.o nwcrypt.o
| unxlog.o sema.o -ldbm -lcrypt
|
| ld: cannot open -ldbm: No such file or directory
Try installing libgdbmg1-dev
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
*-Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| c++ -o xtvscreen -O2 -fno-strength-reduce -L/usr/X11R6/lib xtvscreen.o
visual.o TVscreen.o channel.o callbacks.o allwidgets.o snap.o sound.o-ljpeg
-lXm
| -lXpm -lXext -lX11 -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXxf86dga -lm -lX11 -ljpeg -lXm -lXpm
-lXext -lX11 -lXt
*-Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no
| luck.
|
| Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system
| (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not
| for usability.
I think you'll
*-Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it
| in? I couldn't find one.
It should be in tetex-bin. I don't know if it's in unstable.
--
...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly).
*-Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find
| the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but
| would like to run KDE if possible.
The runtime files are in:
*-Vaibhav Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hello;
|
| I updated my hamm to slink yesterday. Everything seems to work
| fine except for X. I get the following error, when I type
| startx -- -bpp 32
|
| _X11TransConnect: Cant connect: errno=111
|
| My question is, that is X broken in the current
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|
| Ole J. Tetlie said
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| |
| | In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app
understands
| | if its not listed in the man page?
|
| I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called
| editres.
|
|
| Editres
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|
| In general, how does one find out about what resources an X app understands if
| its not listed in the man page?
I don't know about gEdit specifically, but you can try a program called
editres.
--
Eschew obfuscation(go on; look them both up)
*-Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi all, new to SQL and having trouble finding docs I need.
Hm. I couldn't find this either.
| I want to have a database that user a administers and users b, c, and d can
| access. How do I set this up w/ postgres? I am writing a web site and would
| like the user
*-tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi.
|
| Can't seem to find a way to change the
| configuration of my xterms in fvwm2. I
| would like to change the default scrollbars
| from the hatched display to a more solid
| type. I've been through a lot of
| documentation and I've either missed it
*-Richard Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Somehow, I've managed to make the ftp option disappear from the access
| menu of dselect. I've no idea how this happened. Could anyone please
| suggest a fix?
|
| Luckly, I'd just about finished installing, and did the rest with dpkg,
| but that's too
*-Alexander Gieg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hello!
|
| Today many users like to use StarOffice and/or other graphical WYSIWYG
| office suites. Is there any project to make a GPL package with all the
| userlikeness of these packages, with the same resources (and less
| bugs ;-)) that MS-Office has?
*-Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Thomas Apel wrote:
|
| I always thought there was a package called dos2unix to convert dos
| text files to unix text files. But I can't find it anywhere. Is there
| such a package somewhere out there? And if yes, what's its name?
|
|
*-Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| I have two questions concerning KDE that I have as yet been unable to find
| an answer in the documentation.
|
| 1 - Is it possible to switch to another window manager while in KDE? Can
| KDE be started from other window mangers?
Yes and yes. Kill kwm
*-David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Greetings Debianites,
|
| I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for.
|
| My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells
| me I don't have my CVROOT variable set. If I run it from xterm, everything
| is
*-Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Now, I find that when trying to mount /fd0 I get the error can't find /fd0
in /etc/mtab
| or /etc/fstab
| I have edited /etc/fstab to include this line...
| /dev/fd0 /floppyauto noauto,sync 0 0
| as per the instructions I found at
*-Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
| Hi. I'm new to the group and to Linux.
Hello, and welcome :-)
| I have installed Debian on my 486 laptop from Dos with files from
| ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/
| and have found base2_0.tgz is missing the man executable file.
That
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| Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things
| like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell
| programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up the curve,
| it would be nice to have so good refernces around.
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| DEar all,
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| I donwloaded a really simple GTK program, and tryed to build it:
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| ld: cannot open -lXi: No such file or directory
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| What is going wrong, please?
You probably haven't got xlib6g-dev installed. If you do, something is
boroken, but you
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| I could not figure out how to copy the contents from /cdrom to /target.
| The simple cp on the root image couldn't do it. The simple tar star
| I didn't know how to use (is there any documentation anywhere) and
| trying to use the cp command on the cd-image
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| When I setup up Hamm I selected the 'Home-User' option believing that it
compiled the kernel with the sound drivers. I
| don't appear to have sound. How can I check to determine if the driver was
compiled in the kernel?
Try 'cat /dev/sndstat'.
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*-Jesse Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Hi, folks!
Hi
| I've just downloaded and installed the debian system on my home PC and
have gotten myself into a bit of trouble after running dselect. I grabbed all
the 'home system' stuff and finally got to the configuration steps, where I was
asked if
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| I'd like to develop a script that will automatically d/l the E cvs
| source each night. However, I have to login to the cvs server and
| provide it with a password (password is just pressing the return key).
| Is there a way to have the script send the return
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| Dear all,
|
| Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for
| scientific writing...
For introduction and normal use: (the lion book)
Lamport: LaTeX - A document preparation system, 2. edition, Addison Wesley
For advanced use and
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| Hi all ,
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| After dleting my root partition I have managed to install a minimal syste.
| I tried to install some new packages but te installation script for
| cpp failed and I cannot login to my machine. The error i get is
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| sh: Error in loading shared
*-Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a
| host and retrieve a file?
If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be
used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script).
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I have unfortunately come into possession of some files in
the rtf format. Is there any way to read these on Linux, or
even better, is there a cleaner to just extract the text?
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A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
(Martin
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| Are there any Debian packages available for creating HTML pages? (I've
| just started with this and I would like some recommendations...)
Amaya (in package amaya) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
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*-tracheotomy_bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Hallo again,
| during my fiddling this weekend trying to get Quake to work, I've
| changed some permissions
| somewhere and I don't know where. If I do man smail as root I get the man
| page. If I do
| man smail as a normal user I get the message:
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|
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| When I try to run my PPP scripts, everyone of them results in permission
denied.
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| I did edit the /etc/group file and added my user name as follows:
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| dip:x:40:hwalton
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| I still get permission denied? Can anyone figure what is going on here?
|
| I did logoff
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| When I installed deb 2.0 a few weeks ago it was a pain in the arse
| process, so I was wondering whether there is anywhere I can write with
| comments on how I think it could be improved - I notice that people are
| still having some of the problems I
*-Alexander Gutfraind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Hello Fello Users!
|
| I have a small completely newbie question:
| What is segmentation fault AKA segfault?
It means that the program has made an illegal memory access,
for example trying to store in a region of memory it doesn't
have permission to
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