equired
package equivalent compiled from source, you may use equivs package.
But if you are doing this just to get some new package installed onto
stable machine, think about backporting package by recompiling in stable
machine.
More on my document:
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:00:24AM -0600, Art Edwards wrote:
> On my last upgrade, tetex-bin failed to install. I received the
> following in the debconf window:
Disclaimer: I am not maintaining this package>
Please check and see it has been reported or not.
http://bugs.debian.org/tetex-bin
If
Hi,
> On Saturday 02 Oct 2004 12:50:25 +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Who said Debian has moved completely to UTF-8 ?
> > man, aptitude
> > I thought these are not UTF ready. See BTS.
> >
> > I wish these were. So if you do, you need multiple locales.
> &
Linux documentation, i.e., learn
how to do this yourself. Good luck.
Cheers,
Osamu
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.''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's
Hi, Choosing desktop elegantly on Debian was kind of hard... I took
some time recently ...
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 08:14:36PM +0200, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Michael Graham wrote:
>
> >I assume you don't want the display manager (xdm,kdm,gdm) to be started
> >when you boot your machine? Well on d
sktop environment task
Then have life.
Read fine manuals :-) See my sig for pointers.
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Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brussels Belgium, GPG-key: A8061F32
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Hi,
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:03:49AM -0500, Frederick B. Henry Jr. wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Context: Debian unstable. I have the ucs fonts package installed, as well
> as several classical polytonic Greek fonts, which render very well in
> Mozilla Firefox. I can start an xterm thusly:
...
> S
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 11:47:19AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I upgraded to KDE 3.3 recently and now the sound on my Thinkpad X31 no
> longer works... I get a /dev/dsp can't be opened error on most of the
> sound utilities, and looking at the Sound entry in InfoCenter in KDE, it
> notes t
back :-)
Osamu
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.''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers
: :' : http://qref.sf.net and
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:24:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear sir,
>
> I have successfully made "X-chroot setup" as reffered on mantioned
> section parallely on my Debian machine, but I don't find any
> explanations how can user/root run xterm on such enviorment? The
> funny thin
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 04:57:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> "Steven Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > just a thought
> >
> > I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type
> > scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later...
>
> Flash memory can
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:25:20AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:07 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I see funny heavy process.
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
> > 4240 osamu 25 0 23104 11m 21m R 98.4
I see funny heavy process.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
4240 osamu 25 0 23104 11m 21m R 98.4 2.3 25:28.06 kdeinit
This seems to be something to do with konqueror but I only run blackbox
so I did not need something like this.
Any thoughts?
--
T
will be able to handle breakage
without waiting for official release note.
Osamu
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:57:29PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for
> >>my internal network.
> >>
> >>But when im trying initialise,
Hi, this one scratched my head too.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:09:49PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
> I want to use apache 2 and php4. However, php4 pulls in apache1 stuff:
> php4
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: web
> Instal
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:10:00AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for
> >>my intern
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:29:47PM -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I trying to set up a bridge, to work like a hub or switch, for
> my internal network.
>
> But when im trying initialise, i dont know why, its freezes.
>
> I tryed to initialise it with:
>
>
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:18:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I plan to install PHP and Apache on a new, virgin (remote) Debian
> server, with PHP running as an Apache shared module. Can I do that
> using "apt-get install"? Would I simply run "apt-get install php4" (is
> that the c
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:05:54PM +0100, rich wrote:
> > Do you control firewall?
> > If yes : use DNAT to redirect external connection to SSH server
> > (if firewall is NAT box)
> >or open port 22 and forward connectio to internal hosts
>
> There's a firewall I control
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:08:16PM +0100, rich wrote:
> I have a (woody) box running sshd sitting behind a firewall. From
> outside the firewall, I want to be able to ssh in.
>
> I can see that I could get around the firewall if the connection was
> initiated from within the firewall, ie. if some
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 08:04:48PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 16:22:54 +0100, Keith O'Connell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What a strange answer that was. I really don't care how tasksel
> > works. I have no idea if a bug exists. I was asking if the lists
> > that used t
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:14:48AM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Sam Halliday wrote:
> > Paul Gear wrote:
> > > Sam Halliday wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a
> > > >recent>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'!
> > > >
> > > >
>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:29:57AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > hi ya
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote:
> >
> > > > - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody
> > > >
> > > > -
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:49:52AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Brian Astill wrote:
>
> >I have just started to use Debian - some would say I still haven't
> >started because I'm using Knoppix 3.4 installed on my HD.
> >
> "" all you want, but Knoppix is not Debian; it is based on Debian.
> Havi
installation, Debian package management, the Linux kernel under Debian,
system tuning, building a gateway, text editors, CVS, programming, and
GnuPG.
http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:25:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>
> >So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of
> >testing?
> >
> A couple of years ago a bug found its way into PAM in unstable, and
> caused a lot of unstable users to be unable to log in
ature. Just like life. We just
have to make best of it.
Osamu
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...
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:54:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I meant to add an analogy. It's an automobile analogy, because I'm lame
> and that's $DEFAULT_LAME_ANALOGY_TYPE.
>
> Two guys were talking about their cars with a mechanic.
>
> First guy: When I try to start my car in the morning,
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:08:12AM +1000, James Sinnamon wrote:
> Dear debian users,
>
> Is there a utility to simply return the IP address of an interface, say
> eth1 or ppp0? I need something that works like:
>
> $ netutil eth0
> 144.133.251.117
>
> ... or is it necessary to use ifconfig some
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 07:33:53AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Brian Nelson writes:
> > It's the reason why Debian has a maintainer application process, requires
> > new maintainer gpg keys to be signed by existing developers, and requires
> > all uploads to be gpg signed by a key in the Debian key
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:57:33PM +0200, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
>
> I have been looking at a few of the the sites that offer unofficial
> debian packages, and I am somewhat confused about the security issues.
> I am not a great Linux guru, so I wonder how easy it would be to hide
> a rootkit i
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 05:57:50PM -0400, Juan Carlos León Centurión wrote:
> We have some packages .deb and want to have our own sources.list like
>
> deb http://ourownserver.org/ ./
>
> Can anyone send me any howto about it?
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-loca
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:57:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:58:17PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Stefan Drees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > i?m searching for an easy to configure mail spam/ content filter,
> > > confi
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:35:53PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>
> >>Please tell us, because this is a very serious botch-up which makes
> >> Debian almost unusable for non-C-locale users.
> >
> >
> >This is obviously not true, since the locale warnings you got were
> >
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:30:08AM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> Yes, I have seen this discussed before; but, I cannot find the Debian
> consensus solution. Which search criteria ought I to use in the
> archives?
>
> I have a box on which I want to install qmail from source. In order to
> ge
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:33:54PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> >
> >I would venture to say that only 'apt-get source' is useful.
>
> Don't forget 'apt-get build-dep' and 'apt-get moo'...
Try all this :)
$ aptitude moo
$ aptitude -v moo
$ aptitude -vv moo
$ aptitude -vvv
On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:52:24AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Once you start using aptitude, it is depreciated to use
> > apt-get for installing packages since you lose the
> > benefits of aptitude tracking automatic
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:28:44PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:35:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:21:11PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> >> >
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:35:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:21:11PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > > Anyway, it seems no tool keeps users alert that some of their
> > > packages are "no longer". Perhaps it should appear
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:18:11AM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> Ken Bloom wrote:
...
> Things still work after an almost empty /etc/modules (I need to put
> psmouse there otherwise my mouse does not work in Gnome, but I also
> still see all the already loaded messages :-(. Is it possible that it
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:21:41PM -0600, S.Squarepants wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:27:23 -0500
> "Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > S.Squarepants wrote:
> >
> > >On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:03:17 -0500
> > >"Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I messed up my boot sector.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:30:35AM +, Alexis Huxley wrote:
> > I am wondering how to write simple shell script of "more" equivalent:
> >
> > 1. read from stdin
> > 2. write to stdout
> > 3. this loop is paused by key
> >
> > Of course, I know this can be dome by other means but when I was ma
Hi,
I am wondering how to write simple shell script of "more" equivalent:
1. read from stdin
2. write to stdout
3. this loop is paused by key
Of course, I know this can be dome by other means but when I was making
a bit more complicated shell script, I could not find an easy way to stop
the
obsem locked up the machine
> overnight. Weird.
For my case, this machine never booted OK with 2.6 kernel (I never
cared. I have other machine booting 2.6).
Anyway, here is what I do.
1. select boot with single user mode.
2. get to root shell by entering password
3. "ifup lo"
4. CTRL-D to continue boot process
I do not have time to f
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:49:48AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:24:01PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 11:50:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > | Hi Debian!
> > |
> > | Did you see that in announce? The next stable release is 13 cd's.
Hi,
Short answer seems to be:
# apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:00:45PM +, Toby Batch wrote:
> Julius Plenz wrote:
> >* Toby Batch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-14 13:42]:
> >Maybe cfs (cryptographic file system) is what you want.
> I tried this but I got this w
X,o-rwx .
should do the best one liner command to address original poster's request.
Osamu
PS: I do "chmod -R go=rX,u+rw ." more often since this is what I usually
wants for the fixed permissions. So Joey is right except typo :)
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Jack Falstaff wrote:
>
> I'm new to debian, but not linux. I've installed and ran RH, SuSE and
> Slackware(ran this one for five years) and I will need some hand holding
> with this distribution. Installation is turning out to be a nightmare. For
> the
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:36:13PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Given this, I'd expect the machines to be fairly similar in speed.
> >> While I know that gentoo does optimize stuff, and it does result in
> >> perfor
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:01:18PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
>
> Anyone's opinion is valued, of course; but I'm especially interested
> in hearing from any DDs who might read this . . .
>
> I'm curious what the etiquette is about inquiring into the status of
> an ITP.
Oh, just write a letter
Hi,
After reading your original post carefully, getting properly backported
package for spamassasin may be what you are looking for.
> Osamu Aoki writes:
> >I recommend you to move whole system to "testing" or "unstable" and
> >cross your fingers :-) You ma
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:02:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Paul Johnson writes:
>
> >On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:00:34PM -0600,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Is there an easier way to go about collecting dependencies?
> >
> >Use apt instead of trying to do it by hand.
Slightly
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:53:56AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi folks
> >
> > OK - I admit it. I've been working with computers for over 20 years
> > (IBM mainframe, mini, micro(or PC as they are c
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:53AM +, Steve Hargreaves wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> What would people recommend I start with (assume I'm a complete novice) that
> will guide me through the basics of Linux (and more specifically, debian)
> that I can get without trawling the web and spending se
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:07:30PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> I need to be able to build and install the system in slice hda3 while
> running from hda2 and then I'll do a test boot and eventually set hda3 as
> my default slice in lilo. I'll eventually move back over to hda2 since
> it's next to the
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:59:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
Hi, Colin and others gave "correct" answers :-)
Just for the heck, I have no "awk", no "sed", no shell pattern match to
do this.
#!/bin/sh
get_first () {
BUFFER=$1
}
get_first `uname -a`
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +, Tendril wrote:
> The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
>
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process i
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:33:47AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:40:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> > > I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr
> > > (when we're not doing -
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Olivier Sirven wrote:
> > Rob Weir wrote an excellent font guide:
> > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt
> > strategies for business
> Yes, I've already read it but itr didn't help me to find my problemI still
Same here.
> can't find fixed-jis
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:31:12PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:08:38PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 02:13:12PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote:
> > > That's an interesting thought. Any recommendations f
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:54:29PM +0100, David Baron wrote:
> Most everything I try to do, packages, compiles, etc., kick on the env locale.
...
> the kernel does not support en_us.
Like Colin said, it has nothing to do with Kernel.
It is one of glibc thing.
locales GNU C Library: National L
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:14:54PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:07:35PM -0500, Lou Losee wrote:
> > * Gruessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-17 12:21]:
> > >
> > > Is there a way I can open man files in a text editor.
> > > I like to print one but have not configured my prin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:26:39PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Problems persist and have gotten nowhere!
...
> 1. Connecting ADSL -- edited everything including ppp_on_boot, dsl_provider,
...
> 2. Running Java stuff--Open office works. I installed netbeans (a Java
...
> 3. The Adobe Acrobat reader
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:21:19PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> micro-people <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >mmm
> >my Debian 3.0 says that it cannot locate it
> >maybe the base(used 20 FDs to install) only system
> >still doesn't have that module installe
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:10:37AM -0200, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> Em Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:47:21 -0500, Rich B escreveu:
>
> > One of my servers is running stable, but I've added Unstable
>
> If you *really, really* want to do it, there is a section on
> running mixed
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:50:17PM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:28:28PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:48:39 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't pin between stable and anything newer, or you'll end up just
> > > having some serious casc
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:30:23PM +, James Hosken wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying top install KDE but all I get are errors. I origianlly
> installed woody then upgraded to testing.
>
> here's the message I get..
> fork:~# apt-get install kde
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Depen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:44:00PM -0500, Robert Benjamin wrote:
>I have Red Hat 9.0 installed on a 30 gig HD and want to onstall
How did you partitioned your system?
> Debian 3.0r1 over it, or remove Red Hat.
What do you mean "over". Unless you know extremely well not to ask this
question
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:09:07PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 05:00:00 -0800,
> "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:16:09PM +0100, Lukas Ruf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> >
> > > since the servers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote:
> Thanks again for all your help. I'll try to tackle it this weekend. With
> any luck debian will soon be my main os.
...
> >>, so I think I'll wait for the (imminent?) release
> >>of sarge and then start over again. Assuming I'm able to
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I've spent some time pouring over apt-HOWTO, and just don't
> understand. I want to use aptitude to install a local .deb file. I
> place it in my /storage/debs.
>
> In the HOWTO, it said to do this:
>
> deb file:/storage debs\
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:41:57PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it somehow possible to enable a kind of hotplug with the debian
> interfaces system?
Please read new Thomas Hood's guides. (This is not my writing.)
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html
>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:21:50PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:00:25PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:38:45AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> > > Shouldn't you be hitting the L key in mutt, for 'reply-to-list' instead
> > > of g for 'reply-to-all'
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:44:53PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> > The little penguin at the top of the screen while the kernel is loading?
> >Bugs for that should be filed against "kernel", I believe.
That is only displayed with
Package: kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
Maint
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:59:38AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Of course, if you feel this is an acceptable business risk, you're more
> than welcome to test the system.
Hmmm That is actually a too good point to point out. Many incidents
of clear copyright violation exist without prosecut
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:10:39PM +0100, Andrew Borland wrote:
> [New User Alert]
Please read install mamnual and, if you care, Debian Reference :-)
You can start at:
http://www.debian.org/doc
Osamu
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:09:56PM +0200, Osamu Aoki said
> > Rob,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> > > Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
&g
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Sanchez the Cactus wrote:
> I'm currently using fetchmail set up as a daemon to gather mail from
> various email accounts and deliver them on my system. default exim3
> is installed, and users have .procmailrc files to direct mails to a
> local Maildir.
I
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:02:06PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Hm. After reviewing your bug report I'll ask the dumb question: are you
> sure you actually had some history to forward-isearch on? Your bug
> report sounds to me like exactly what would happen if there were no
> entries forward of you
Rob,
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:58:45AM -0700, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I've just spent a while expanding on my short guide that I've used on
> > the list a couple of times. It's available from
> > http://egads.ertius.org/~rob/font_guide.txt and is reprod
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:34:07PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
> I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need.
>
> I have played with debfoster, orphaner etc ... still quite difficult.
>
> Is there a way to say:
>
> This is the list of the packages I really need. Keep them an
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 01:40:01PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R
> >> (reverse incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using
> >> Ctrl-S (normal incremental search).
>
> Your termin
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but
> > generic BASH question...
> >
> > In order to search command hist
Here is my somewhat OT question since this is not exactly Debian but generic
BASH question...
In order to search command history in BASH, I can use Ctrl-R (reverse
incremental search) but so far am unsuccessful in using Ctrl-S (normal
incremental search).
As I see in BASH manual page bash(1)
...
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:43:42PM +0200, Neo wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
> so, sumarizing for my situation: it's no use tracking a
> unstable 'release' because it just isn't that: a release, and never
> will be.
Never. You are correct.
> It's stabiblity level will vary over time, (for
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 01:56:22PM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> Note: The first package that you should install from areas that are not
> "reqiured" ; even if you are trying to maintain a small file system is
> 'mc' (midnight commander) it will be your friend :-)
AOL ... :)
Maybe next is vim.
Hi, my neibour :-)
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:02:08PM +, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> i have a server and it has a quite extensive sources.list. Now i would
> like to make a cron job that does "apt-get update" every so often and
> then use that cache for my connected client so i don't have to
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:41:30AM -0700, Joseph Phillips wrote:
> Anyone know when the next release of Debian is scheduled?
"Bits from the RM" said
So, it's time we start doing more than think about the next release. Since
I'm all for aggressive goals, let's aim for sometime in December -- how
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:51:52PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I compiled a kernel. And added the Realtek RTL 8139C module.
> It does not show up when I boot up again.
>
> Also the ALi 5451 chipset driver does not show up.
>
> I have acer 630 laptop.
>
> I had troble putting in th
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:13:40AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > The definitive guide is:
> > http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/
> >
> > I wrote something too:
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
>
> ..thanks, this helps me _use_ chroot and debootstra
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:28:01AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html
>
> Would something like this be considered a "Security Fix" and get into
> Bind9 for Stable?
>
> BTW -- is there a way in apt-cache or on the Debian site to see when a
> p
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:30:01AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:04:51 +0100,
> "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
^^
Hmmm.. Karsten may have finally got DSL/cable ? :)
> > So while I'd re
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:19:49PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote:
> Rebecca Dridan wrote:
> >I've installed canna, kinput2-canna, and jvim, but I don't understand
> >how to use them. I've installed japanese fonts and generated all the
> >japanese locales I could find, although my normal LANG et al are
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:20:38PM -0400, Ashley Graham wrote:
> hello friends,
>
> i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a
> friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux
> on something else.
>
> the system is a compaq contura 430cx
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0700, Dweeil Brock wrote:
> > trying to rename a folder and recieve the following error message:
> >
> > Bare word "foldername" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
>
> Don't use 'rename' to move
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 03:20:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Christophe Courtois wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ;
> > getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf
>
> Hi C,
> IIRC most of them come
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:11:24PM +0200, Christophe Courtois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Howtos that I find on the Debian site are often in HTML format ;
> getting them page by page is very painful. Pdf
Many DDP documents offer PDF and many latest contents are available as
debian package in unstabl
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:05:19PM +0530, George Abraham wrote:
> Can apt-get and deb package management system be installed in a Red hat
> machine?. I am thinking about the possiblity of evolving a GNU/Debian
> system from a Red Hat system. Is it possible?. Pardon me if I am wrong
> and ignoran
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0800, csj wrote:
> I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy.
>
> I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're too
> expensive to fix or upstream thinks they're a "feature"). But
> how are bug reports resolved in the Debian bug system? I jus
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