Sorry, that was the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO.
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Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I wish I have a good partition map.
I believe that the Multiple-Disks-Layout HOWTO covers this very issue
(even if you don't have multiple disks).
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Edward McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
chmod uses these values to confir privelege so giving read-write to
owner but total lockout to group world is
% chmod 600 file.foo
I also find it easier sometimes to use (recall) the symbolic options.
So you could also say:
% chmod u=rw,g=,o=
Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Due to some reasons, mostly funincial, I need to establish wireless
connection between home and lab. I have read a little about HAM radio and
it sounds nice in that sense. Is there anybody who can share his
experience about this topic? Expected speed
Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started.
Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having
trouble even finding that file. any ideas?
Well, if you're talking about it launching whenever you log in, yes,
that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If it's a line-termination character problem, how can solve it?
Well, with HP printers, there's a control character that you can send
the character to set the convention. I don't know what you'd do for
other printers, or even if it's actually relevant, but I'd say you
Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hope this helps! its very annoying and I haven't really done any changes
for this to have happenned! I am using BO btw maybe thats it.
Hmm, it looks OK to me too. Did you check the /etc/shells problem
that others mentioned...
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Petri Wessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, life on the bleeding edge is always interesting :-)
I'd be a little careful with 2.1.25. At least on my system, clock()
always returned 0. Not good.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print.
If I try to print anything (via cat as root, or with lpr),
the device seems to receive data, because its display says
so (PROCESSING...WAITING... and then READY).
But it still does not print.
This is
Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can't login into my box the ftpd denies access to everyone! I check the
files /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess and they are
all fine! what else could it be? I am using wu-ftpd..
Could this be the problem caused by a recent
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My solution was to configure the system to always do a _cold_ boot.
This is done by the following line in lilo.conf:
append = reboot=c
And I believe that the latest development kernels now do this by
default.
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Carey Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sure there are even better ways to do this...
You mean something like (global-set-key [f5] ()?
Exactly :
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Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow, you guys sure think fast :) But I know where you are coming from. I
am a pretty speedy typist and have often been annoyed by odd keys. Now I
am wondering: is there an easy way with emacs or some other editor to
assign a short string to a 'wierd key'?
I bet your problem is that one of that package that you installed
killed your /etc/inetd.conf file. At least that's what happened to me
last week. I never did figure out who did it. Check to see if it's
there.
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Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
is there a package of the FTP client ncftp? The one that comes standard
with Debian isn't as nice as ncftp.
Check in non-free. It's there.
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Perry Piplani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
man 8 clock
to learn how your hardware clock is read to and written from. You can run
it in your shutdown script.
I run it from a cron script that synchronizes to a timeserver first, my
system clock is 45 sec fast per day.
Also, you can can
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
Both actually. First, user config details, then more about
programming. I'm at a point where I understand a good deal about
windowing systems in general, and programming as well. I've not had
much exposure to X, and though it seems quite powerful in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
Now what might have happened is that you have your CMOS clock running on GMT.
Some BIOSes try to be smart and update the CMOS clock when you boot if they
see DST has come into effect since the latest reboot.. You should be able to
turn that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
What I'm trying to do is get to where I can use X to get some actual work
done. Right now, as much as I hate to say so, all I can get X to do is nifty
parlor tricks.
What were you interested in learning? Programming X, or user
configuration details?
I assumed that the hardware clock was always written to reflect the
current system time on shutdown. Is that true? The reason I ask is
because we just had the daylight savings switch here, and at least one
of my systems came up after a reboot with the wrong time (it was an
hour off). If the
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is the problem with bash 2 only the ; before the } ? Then wouldn't it be
possible to use perl to determine if a { ??? } type construct is a
variable replacement thingy or a block of code, and edit it accordingly?
Any idea where I could get a list of the
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You mean the modem device or something else? I am using /dev/modem which
is symlinked to /dev/ttyS1 in pppd as well minicom and pppupd both of
which redial correctly.
I may be mistaken, but I think that this can cause problems in some
cases,
Greg Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please don't let me start another editor snowball here. What is the
difference between /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0?
I think this is (or should be) a FAQ somewhere, but the short story is
that the cua* devices are only kept around in the kernel for
historical
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/tmp okay? Has been known to lose normal-user write permissions,
although not for quite a long time for me. Should be
drwxrwxrwxt.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that's not it either.
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Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just noticed this problem. The ownership of /var/spool/lpd has
changed to root.root, wheras it should be root.lp. I changed the
permission manually and it then worked. Hmm. I don't know what caused
this to happen.
Wow, you win the prize. I had the same
Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail
with the following message:
Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock
'/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA225raven' open failed - Permission denied
The only way I've found to fix this is
/etc/init.d/lprng stop
Dima [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Check the permissions on /dev/null -- here something has changed them
to crw--- twice already and I haven't found the offender yet.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and that's not the problem.
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Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but
it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman
doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as
options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have
Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am going to download the newest version of Debian Linux with Windows
95. How can I convert them to Linux format so that Linux will recognise
the boot disk, root disk, ect. I've heard that their is a utility to do
that, but I can't find it. If you
Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
interaction of these things (along with imperfections in the kernel) has
caused the system to hang in the past, but I didn't do enough testing
to tell you which part was at fault.
FWIW, I use a 2940UW as well, and all the troubles that I have had
Bernd Kreimeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The hardware works fine with 1.3.88 up to 2.0.0. It does not work
with 2.0.25 and 2.0.27 under my current installation, and with
the Debian Base rescue disk. 0 SCSI hosts detected. I do not have
a clue, but my hunch is that Adaptec sells boards with
Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when I use locate I get an error. This is what I get if I type
like locate what ever. Like locate new.stuff. I get locate:
/var/lib/locate/locatedb: No suck file or directory. Can anyone tell me
why? And is there a command to see how much disk
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pain to configure it to install one package... The problem isn't with a
lack of dselect documentation, IMHO, but due to the way dselect is setup.
However, one can argue that dselect is for initial installations, and the
dpkg utilities under dselect are
Shawn Asmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
H... Well, that's news to me. I wasn't aware that pppd would
redial.
FWIW see the persist option in the pppd man page. That will make it
redial on failure.
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Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why don't you let init do this job?
Or see the pppd persist option in the pppd man page. The lcp
options Nils mentioned are probably a good idea too.
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I Brake for Moths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way for a user without root priveleges to cleanly unmount the
root file system and shutdown the computer?
I've been running 'init 0' as root before turning off the box, but I
don't want to have to give out the root password to my
Marco Prandini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to write some code with perl5's Tk module, but I've been
stopped two seconds after my first try:
Sounds like you have the latest perl installed, but not the latest
perl-tk. If you upgrade to the latest perl-tk package (from
unstable), the
Marcelo Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then, to the maintainer, PLEASE, include instructions about this unless we
want to see the question How do I upgrade TeX? n+1 times on
debian-user... I'm guessing something in the lines of In dselect [R]emove
packages *first*, *then* [I]nstall them
Michael Diers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whatever happended to the Pthreads libs that used to be part of
libc5?
There are now libpthreads and libpthreads-dev packages containing all
the LinuxThreads headers/libraries.
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Joe Piche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How does one get a system set up for this? I can't find much info on the
subject. (Yes, the kernel is compiled with that function).
Install the doc-linux package and check out
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.gz
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Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we could create a proxy and route all key requests through our
www.debian.org,
OK, does someone want to do this? I don't know how, and probably
don't have the required access anyway, but it sounds like the most
reasonable solution, and satisfies
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do I get my users happy again?
Netstd no longer includes the pop daemon. You need to install the
qpopper or cuicpop package. I had to install it twice to make it work
right. The first time it didn't quite edit the /etc file properly.
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Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mind you, I can't see anywhere in /etc/init.d/* where it only
starts xdm based on the runlevel, nor in the inittab.
I think the information you want may be in /etc/init.d/README
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But if I turn on the streamer after the computer I get:
/dev/tape: No such device
whenever I try to access the tape (through /dev/tape as a link
to /dev/nst0 or 7dev/st0). Is this normal? Do I really have to
reboot when I want to make a backup, ie. want to use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
The Linux kernel is able to rescan the SCSI-bus at run-time (normaly it
does so once at boot time only)
Therefore you should do the following as root, before insmoding (or
executing someting on the /dev/tape device, e.g. tar, cpio)
echo scsi
I tried to install Debian on a friend's Thinkpad 365X, and it gets to
the Loading stage and then locks up. I've tried the
floppy=thinkpad option at the boot prompt with no effect.
I found someone else had asked about this on the list, and there was
no definitive answer. Also there were a
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
under the other distributions. his card is a 3c509b, a combo card, using
the 10baseT port. however the standard driver for 3c509 only detects the
bnc port. is there away around this to show my friend the ever most
powerful distribution of debian?? sorry if
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He implies that his FreeBSD servers just learn routing
like this with apparently no extra daemons!
Sounds like you want routed. It doesn't run on a debian system by
default because most people have no use for it (see man routed).
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dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
please disregard my previous message. i figured it out. fyi, for this
type of card you have to load the 3com ether disk to manually change the
nis transceiver type to the 10baseT instead of auto detect. the utility
was called 3c5x9cfg.exe from the file
Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SHIFT PGUP/PGDN works for me during boot time.
Yes, except that once the login prompt has popped up, you lose your
entire scrollback buffer (at least I do). So you have to use scroll
lock to pause the boot process before you get to that point. Then you
Jesse Goldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I may have misunderstood your problem but, from you letter, I'm guessing
that you get a standard xdm login/password box which then keeps resetting.
If that's the case, did you try using an alternate virtual console?
I've gotten bitten by this problem
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've done this as well. The only way I was to resolve it was to boot of a
custom floppy.
Mount the root file system.
Remove the S99xdm (actually just move it some where else).
Get the system running without xdm
Put the S99xdm back where it belongs
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes.
You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on
my single PP200.
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Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there something I should know or keep my eye on during this jump? For
example, is it wise to install the new bash straight ahead or should I put it
on hold instead and install it after all the other packages?
I'd say put bash-2.0 on old for a
dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i just installed debian, and i can't seem find tcl.h
On a Debian system, the best way to answer a question like this is to
use dpkg's intrinsic ability to find files that it has installed on
the system. So, in your case:
$ dpkg --search tcl.h
tcl76-dev:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In other words, if you don't have plenty of money, don't use Debian.
FUD
It just means that you can be as cutting edge as you feel comfortable
with/can afford. Many other systems don't even give you that option.
Also, CheapBytes sells a Debian CD for $2.99. I doubt
Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am just querying why the cron postinst doesn't install, or offer to
install the cron deamon using update-rc.d, so that cron is started at
boot up. Even the gpm daemon (a significantly less important daemon)
is started at boot up by default.
This was
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've
added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission
denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more
groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones
OK, I've started playing with dselect. I had avoided it after some
unfortunate misunderstandings in my early Debian days. Now, after
being much more careful about not touching *any* keys without knowing
exactly what they do, and reading every screen carefully, I have come
to understand the way
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a manual page update, which was announced on COLA several
weeks ago. Will there be a .deb made available for us all soon?
I think it's available now in unstable: manpages_1.15-1.deb
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Does anybody out there suggest an alternate boot loader? Can I boot
debian from the NT boot loader ??? This is a work based machine - that
would be the best - considering the other users will use M$-NT on
occasion ...
I'd solve this one by
Richard Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian
Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under
dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the
questions wrong when installing, but that was a while
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought perhaps my lprng problems might be helped if the server
ran lprng too. So I installed it on there, and it works great;
an lp queue (raw) and a ps queue (runs ghostscript), no magicfilter
as yet. But now I can't print a damn thing from the
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Run tzconfig and make sure that you answer the GMT question correctly.
Oh, right. Why didn't I think of that...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John T. Larkin) writes:
This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run
since they couldn't find the libraries. They had installed a bunch of
X packages, so one of the packages should have been responsable for making
sure that this line was added to
I was trying to set up a debian box as a gateway from a small 4-bit
subnet to a larger 8-bit (class C?) subnet. I have the kernel
configured properly (I think), and I have the two network interfaces
on the gateway and the routes set up.
From one of the machines on the 4-bit subnet I can ping
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in
/etc/makedev.cfg.
I think this, at least, is fixed in the latest install disks.
Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing something
like
tar tf /dev/nst0
Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org writes:
The Debian install disks don't seem to have the necessary driver to detect
my hard drives.
They should. I have the same machine and card, and it worked for me
(Debian 1.2). The card should be treated as a 2940.
I did notice a few references to the
[Previously (accidentally) posted to debian-devel]
Is there any reason that msquerading wouldn't work right using the
current (unstable) debian packages?
I tried to set up a simple net, following the instructions in the
IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO, and have had no success. Here's some info
if
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe I don't get it right, but to me, it seems you're masquerading USING
your eth0-interface, instead of your ppp0-interface.. am I right?
That's right. I have a ppp connection from the host to the internet,
and a ethernet connection from the
Martin Konold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel.
How does it depend on the distribution?
Actually, it's more complicated than that unless you use sbrk
etc. directly. If you use malloc (in C) or new (in C++) then libc
plays a role in
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a US PGP .deb package anywhere? I will be darned if I can
locate it. I am probably staring right at the thing. I seemed to be
able to find pointers to the non-us PGP but where is the US version?
The US version is on the same site, outside the
Jimmer ENDRES [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could someone tell me where and to whom I submit this?
Check www.debian.org. It has a pointer.
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Dr. Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there some 'one who understands why lprm in Debian 1.2 doesn't
work as normal user? Even if a normal user is put into the lp-group
there is following error message:
Don't know. I had a similar problem after some upgrade of lpr, but I
fixed it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a problem with the ldso or X packages. One of them doesn't
put /usr/X11R6/lib into /etc/ld.so.conf
Just (as root) add it, and rerun ldconfig, and you should be fine.
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Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files
seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the
'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)).
Clearly the configuration files
Wieboldt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files
in linux?
Thanks
-lars
I think gv also handles PDF.
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Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
alternatively, i believe there might be an option in the mirror config to
set the ownership permissions on files. see man pages for mirror and
mirror-master for details.
Exactly. See the user, group, and file_mode options.
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ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is my .gnus file: (BTW, should I put this stuff in .gnus, or
.emacs, or does it matter?):
Don't know. All my stuff's in my .emacs monstrosity.
A couple of things. The folder that you want mail to go in to in your
home directory may (or may not) need to
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm starting to think there are serious problems with my mail setup, and
I have no clue as to whether they are related or not :(
Thanks again
You could also have a leftover (stale) lock file that's tripping
everyone up.
Just for comparison (user names changed to
ME? [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I set the permissions to those you have, but I get this message
approxamately 5 min after doing echo test | mail lars at any given
terminal:
Are you runnning sendmail, or smail?
Reading active file from lars_mail via nnml...
nnml: Reading incoming mail...
the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(setq user-mail-address [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(setq gnus-local-organization The University of Texas at Austin)
;; Change the name osiris below to whatever you like. As far as gnus
;; is concerned, it's the name
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) How to prevent a user to prematurely eject a disk before sync is
over? Mounting with the sync option is not enough: that's the way I
do it, and still the fd light goes off before the file is truly
written to disk (and umount or sync gets it on again).
Mike O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
WHAT I THINK IS WRONG: I think that my configuration of xdm is
broken.
OK, I think I can help as I got myself in a very similar situation a
couple of times. This is probably not an xdm problem, but an X
problem. Most likely, in the course of
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
changing the flags passed to the remote ls:
flags_recursive+L
or
flags_nonrecursive+L
First test this by trying a ls -lRatL on the remote site
under the ftp command to check whether the remote file-store
Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anybody know if Caldera's WABI will run on a Debian system?
Caldera's web page kind of says maybe.
I'm tempted to pay the $200 just so I can run Quicken without
booting up DOS/Windows.
Actually I use Executor for that. It runs Macintosh
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If the only impediment is that they need a maintainer
Yes.
, what do I need to do to enlist? (Probably check the FAQ first,
huh? Duh!)
See the Work Needing and Prospective Packages document. I'm not sure
where it it kept, but it's
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex?
bo is the new unstable release. rex was the previous unstable release
that has gone into code freeze, and should become the next stable
release in time.
Right now:
unstable -- bo
frozen --
I was wondering if there was some alternative in one of the debian
packages to xfontsel that would show all the fonts installed in the
server in a scrolling window. It's a real pain to have to go picking
through the fonts one at a time.
Thanks
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I just switched to xserver-svga from AcceleratedX, and everything
wen't smoothly, except that Meta no longer works right in emacs. I
can't say things like M-q and have the right thing happen.
I thought uncommenting the /etc/X11/XF86Config line
LeftAlt Meta
would fix it, but it didn't
Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it
provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I
don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other
distributions have tried this, and it occasionally
If you try to get a copy of the debian archive (say devel) with
ncftp's get -R command, you'll mostly get a directory full of
symlinks. Using get devel.tar does the same thing.
Is there an easy way to get the actual files, following the links?
Thanks
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For just playing CD's, you don't necessarily
need to do all this if your CDROM is already recognized. In
that case, the program 'workbone' will play CD's for you. One
problem may be the default volume level of your sound card.
Also don't forget
Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I check/monitor the number of file descriptors being used??
This I know. Install the lsof package, and use lsof (ls open files).
It will give a listing of all the open files and who's using them.
This program gets installed in /usr/sbin, and
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why, after years and years of needing them, are the /dev/cua's suddenly,
seemingly, obsolete?
There was a post a long while back where the maintainer of the kernel
serial devices said not to use cua's anymore if you can avoid it. He
seemed to be
Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you read this message, please, send it again.
I think that was Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Missed the initial request, but I saw this.
Email copy coming right up.
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David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I do this? Do I need to download the source and compile it?
Don't know. All I know is that you should be able to say
gv -antialias foo.ps
and get antialiasing. Unfortunately, it dies with:
Unknown device: x11alpha
Error:
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was looking at some postscript files and quality was not very good. Is
there different fonts I can get that would produce better output in X
and especially ghostscript? If so, where and how.
One thing that will help screen output tremendously is
the server will accept me
(setq gnus-local-domain cs.utexas.edu)
;; So the from field will be reasonable.
(setq gnus-user-from-line Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(setq user-mail-address [EMAIL PROTECTED])
(setq gnus-local-organization The University of Texas at Austin)
You might have to delete
Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm. I don't really know much about dftp, but when dpkg-ftp sees that two
of the files it has downloaded are different versions of the same package,
it installs the more recent version and discards the older one. Can't dftp
do something like that? Or
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