maths wrote:
without X11, how to watch dvi file?
dvisvga (previously called tmview).
On Thu, 4 May 2000, David Karlin wrote:
I'm installing potato from floppies, and when I try to load the kernel
modules, I get: modprobe: Can't open /target/etc/modules.conf
and Installation failed.
Just switch to the second virtual console and do
touch /target/etc/modules.conf
This will be
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dan Brosemer wrote:
On potato, smartlist adds Resent-To: headers which list all the people
subscribed to the list on every outbound message.
Can this be removed?
Yes, please read /usr/doc/smartlist/README.exim.
I tried with the following (and enabled
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
At least since I mixed my slink system with potato packages (glibc 2.1) a
couple of months before, I have a problem with /dev/null. Firstly, lprng
reported at startup: setuplog: open /dev/null failed: permission denied (I
fixed it by installing
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Brian Boonstra wrote:
I'd like to compile some binaries capable of running on slink, but
my only available platform is woody. What is generally involved in doing
this? I've tried to search the mailing list archive, but the engine seems to
be broken (more
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Egbert Bouwman wrote:
Many months ago I learned somewhere that you have to use 'apt-cdrom'
in order to add CD's to your sources.list, and that worked.
But now Pann McCuaig sais he manually added a line for a CD
to sources.list:
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
and
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Adrian Bunk wrote:
I'm looking for a list of all packages that are new (not only a newer
version) in potato compared to slink. Is something like that available
somewhere?
Just take the Packages.gz file from slink and potato, make a list of the
package names by doing
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, peter karlsson wrote:
Got this during today's apt-get dist-upgrade:
Preparing to replace base-files 2.1.10 (using .../base-files_2.1.11_all.deb)
...Unpacking replacement base-files ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_2.1.11_all.deb
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
Hi,
I have defined iso-8859-15 charset in my $HOME/.bash_profile, and it
works as such if I set a proper font for it, eg.:
# setfont lat9u-16.psf
lat9u-16.psf is a font I copied into /usr/share/consolefonts/. I use
/etc/kbd/default.map for
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Larry Huffman wrote:
steps taken:
dpkg-source -x pine_v.dsc
cd pine
debian/rules binary (as root)
error message received:
test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules
debian/rules binaryPine
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-v'
test -f pine/pine.c -a -f
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mike Schmitz wrote:
A while back, my system crashed, but I was able to bring up a crippled
system that I can limp along with. I lost mostly just data, and what
programs I lost, I have been able to replace by reinstalling them. One
that is becoming a sore spot, though, is
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi Debian users,
I installed Debian at my friend's lab and he wants to install
everything
in /usr under /usr/local to remote mount.
What is the safesty way to copy /usr to /usr/local?
Why not just export
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Chris Gray wrote:
I've been having a problem installing Debian standard packages.
The version of libc6 installed from the base diskettes was 2.0.7v-1 but
the version of libc6-dev listed as available from the ftp site is 2.0.7t-1
This is strange.
In slink, libc6 and
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've read binutils 2.9.1-0.2 is broken or faulty, and the suggestion is
to get 2.9.1-0.3
I found the package in ftp.debian.org/.../sid/main/bin/binary-hurd-i386
what's the reason behind adding hurd to binary-i386?
hurd-i386 is the dpkg
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, David Wright wrote:
One of the nice things about installing hamm was that I could do it with
one floppy and a zip drive. So I was really looking forward to putting
slink on a couple of new boxes which are, as far as possible, MS-free.
So I partitioned a disk, got to
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote:
I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have
loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add
a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility
packages; to this end I've copied
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, archangel.8eight8.net.ph wrote:
i have a quickie question for those who have already tried slink. is
apt and apt-get already built w/in the base or required field ?
Yes, in Debian 2.1, apt is in base.
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, sepp_r wrote:
I read on slashdot.org that potato will soon be frozen. Is this true?
It depends on the definition of soon :-)
We don't know yet when we will freeze potato, if this is what you refer.
Debian 2.2 will include Linux 2.2 and glibc 2.1 among other things. Even
if
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are
now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two
_required_ packages listed as obsolete:
--- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base ---
*__
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Erik Forsberg wrote:
I'm using smartlist for some small mailinglists on a Debian machine (I
hope this isn't too offtopic)
Is there a way to configure smartlist NOT to distribute a message to
the sender of the message ? I don't want my own postings.
Short answer: no,
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, XRDLAB wrote:
Currently I am using fetchmail and pine to get the mail from my isp
account and to read/send the messages respectively. As the number of
messages I am getting has increased, I
am feeling the need to use procmail to sort the mail into different
folders. How
On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
Anyone had problem with this version of libc6?
After I install it, all my dns stop working, I had to down grade
to the version in the stable hamm.
Please, remember to report this as a bug.
A couple of weeks ago, I upgrade my system
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Henrik Damkjaer Vind wrote:
I get the error message
crc error
--System halted.
trying to boot for the first time from my newly prepared rescue disc.
I've just run the install.bat from a dos prompt in the directory
containing the compressed kernel.
What do
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Werner Reisberger wrote:
I am using Debian 2.0r4 and trying to boot my brand new PC since 4 days
with several rescue disks I prepared with dd on my good old Linux PC.
I even tried to boot with a self prepared root.bin disk but a reader
of this list told me that I don't
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
i am trying to upgrade to potato...
first question, to stay on the safe side, in sources.list the line concerning
potato should come before or after the slink line?
Mmm, I think there is not any difference, but to really stay on the safe
side, you
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Bernhard Dobbels wrote:
Recently, i have done something really stupid: rm -r /var
and, yes, everything was away, including my /var/backup directory!
Yes, i know, it's no place for a backup.
Everyting is restored now.
Just all the info that dpkg put there is away and i
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote:
I downloaded gnuplot 3.7 today, as I wanted to compile it to plot graphs
on the console. Compilation went OK, but if I try to plot a graph in the
console, I get an I/O permission error. For a try, I logged in as root, and
everything worked
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
Can someone send me his or hers original
/root/.bash_profile, file.
I messed up mine.
And i don't no what was in it.
Look at /usr/share/base-files
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
On 12-Feb-99 Cuno Sonnemans wrote:
Can someone send me his or hers original
/root/.bash_profile, file.
I messed up mine.
And i don't no what was in it.
Stuppid eh
Nothing important -- you are not missing anything.
/usr/sbin and /sbin from
Navindra Umanee wrote:
My bo system used to say System halted. everytime I halted the
system but since I upgraded to hamm it sez Power down.. Where has
this changed? I grepped for Power in /etc/init.d/* and /etc/*/* but
couldn't find where to configure this.
Did you update your kernel? :-)
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mamoun Alissali wrote:
I've done a very stupid thing taht removed the /bin/cat binary,
so I think I have to reinstall the textutils package (is there any
other/better
solution?), but can't do it since it is marked installed/up-to-date. How
do I force dselect to
Install the libc5 from the oldlibs section in hamm.
Then you will be able to install libc6.
libc6 conflicts with the libc5 in bo, but not with the one in hamm.
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Evan Parry wrote:
What's the recommended method for upgrading from hamm to slink?
Other than waiting for slink to be released? :-)
The APT package is quite good, you might want to try it as dselect method.
Be careful with the X packages, some of them changed their names,
On 19 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
MH == Mark Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MH Does anyone know roughly what size an upgrade from hamm to slink
MH is?
Don't call apt-get dist-upgrade directly.
Better use the apt method in dselect. (update, select, install)
There have
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Jim McCloskey wrote:
[ upgraded from bo to hamm ]
There were small problems here and there, but nothing more than I
expected, and all the diagnostics I ran (apt-get check especially)
gave (and give) no indication of trouble.
There is one big problem though---trying to
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote:
fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail
I would add quotes:
fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Cagdas Ogut wrote:
Last night I was interested with the non-free directory of the
ftp.debian.org and I have downloaded binary-i386 completely. For an
Intel based machine do I need anything else? I know that many docs etc.
was just symbolic links to files in binary-all
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Andrea Novara wrote:
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
On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Daniel Elenius wrote:
Is it possible when installing a debian package with:
dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc
, followed by ./configure, make, make install,
to get dpkg/dselect to understand that the package has been installed,
so that I can later uninstall it with
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
Okay, It has now REALLY gotten to me. I like pine, but my only gripe is
that I cannot get rid of those annoying pauses when you go to open another
folder. Can anyone alleviate my anger/lack of patience/stupidity??
You may use Maildir folders with
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
[...]
When I rename .bash_profile to .bash_login nothing changes, but when I
change its name to .profile it does get processed during login and I get
root's correct path.
Are you sure that /bin/bash is your login shell for root and not /bin/sh?
On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Well i still cannot make procmail to filter my emails. [...]
I'm sad to hear that.
Did you bothered to read /usr/doc/procmail/QuickStart and follow what it
says to the letter? (It worked for me).
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Alex McCool wrote:
Is there a resc1440.bin image for slink?
All I can find is resc1742.bin ( whatever size that is)
There will be one very soon.
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
By the way, the FSF is working on their own kernel called the Hurd. The
Hurd will probably also run an operating system comprised mainly of GNU
utilities, just like most Linux distributions. In fact, Debian is
developing its own Hurd distribution.
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install
ncurses-base.
dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Rombalski, Emmanuel wrote:
I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel
166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible
NIC. I created a 400 MB
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Cristov Russell wrote:
make[2]: as86: Command not found
as86 is in the bin86 package. Just install it.
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, SEGV wrote:
Since I am going to install Debian 2.1 on a new hard drive once it is
released,
I thought I'd ask a few pertinent questions here (I haven't installed Debian
since Feb98).
- Has the install process changed? improved?
- Is apt or dselect used? which is
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote:
I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any
documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any
help would be much appreciated.
man-db packages was ---
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
Where is the color file for the color option of ls? In slackware it's
/etc/DIRCOLORS but I can't seem to locate it on debian :(
Maybe you are looking for this:
dircolors --print-database
[ Complete details in info format ].
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
Anybody installed this package from project/experimental?
I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I
cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function.
Once more I have to say: Please, do not modify
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports
submitted?
See http://www.debian.org/Bugs
Most bug fixes are around bug #26600, does it mean that
26600 is the total number
of bugs discovered in all packages?
Yes, but many of them are
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I
can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist
(undefined references to crypt) and other little annoyances.
The Debian source of pine 4.05 is available in
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm
(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
least they create directories there).
Well, our local system administrator is
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent
questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian
packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in
getting files that are symlinked to
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail?
It depends on what you consider best.
When I receive a duplicate answer (through the list and Cc:ed to me),
I usually like to have them in separate folders (not a duplicate mail in
the
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I'm having a problem setting up a mailing list with Smartlist. One
of the subscribers is being held hostage to an NT system ;-) and for some
reason it says Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Smartlist doesn't like it and
rejects
mails. The point
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, [ISO-8859-2] Pawe³ Sakowski wrote:
Debian 1.3.1
Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I
don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows
which packages need installation.
You are
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On 5 Aug 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote:
Just curious if anyone had done it.
Christoph Lameter compiled some Debian packages for Solaris some time ago.
You may look in the debian-devel mailing list archives.
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The new mountable dselect method (in package dpkg-mountable)
logs everything. Maybe this is what you are looking for.
On the other side, if you want to install a Debian system from scratch by
using just dpkg, you may use the new package pkg-order to write your
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is trying to subscribe to this list, but all
the email it sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not
answered.
The list server rejects subscription requests from suspicious user names
such as root,
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Paul Serice wrote:
I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages.
My current setup is
ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs.
ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities.
[...]
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On 23 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at
/debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory
structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do
they just rename/relink
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote:
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple
way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase?
I would do this:ls | awk '{ system(mv $0 tolower($0)) }'
(But just
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Keith wrote:
I have tried about three time to build a debian package from the Pine 3.96L
files that I downloaded from the debian server. I have all three files it
runs through the whole thing, but all I get is a tech-notes package.
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote:
Dialog segfaults dumps core after I upgraded ncurses.
Versions:
ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-2.1
ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user
server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, [...]
Hi. I am getting lots of messages like the one you quoted, but because I'm
*also*
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote:
I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error
message I'm getting from dpkg:
libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( 5.4.33-7 )
version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed
I have been unable to find
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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
can I remove the 'base' package? it claims to be obsolete, and contains
mostly /dev/* and the root dir structure...
If it contains files in /dev/*, it is better not to remove it...
Devices are now created by the
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Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite
painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the
version in hamm easily.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hell santiago,
[paul:~]$ mail -v paul
Subject: test procmailrc
test testing tested failed!
Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121
director user matched user paul
transport local uses driver
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was
doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where
I ran into trouble.
These are the versions of procmail and smail
On Mon, 4 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just an ignorant question, how often do new libcs come out? What's the
story with glibc (how is it different from libc6)?
[ Just to avoid confusion, glibc means GNU libc. glibc version 2 is
being called libc6 in Linux ].
Switching to libc6 from
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On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
The latter First force the removal of e2fsprogs (IIRC
--force-remove-essential) and then install e2fslibsg. You need a
package named comerr2g too.
No. comerr2g and e2fslibsg are obsolete and should be removed from the
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote:
I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home
My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment.
I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span.
You may use
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
What is the real story with debian 2.0?
We don't want Debian 2.0 to be yet another Red-Hat 5.0.
We don't know for sure when it will be released, but we know that it
should be bug-free enough before it will be released.
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Is there only the `stable' directory on the Official CDs?
Yes.
If so, then I'll have to ftp all the `contrib' and `non-free' stuff when
2.0 comes out.
No, when 2.0 comes out, there will be a stable main, a
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Donald Harter Jr. wrote:
I had bo installed. Then I tried to install hamm and my system became
unusable. (The hamm installs disks were the old libc version.)
I had files from hamm and bo on the system.
It is highly discouraged to
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Michael Balcos wrote:
Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the
Debian packages.
Yes [*].
Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1
R6 release?
No need.
[*] There were some packages (zip
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
As I understand it, the license forbids distribution of a modified
source or binary, but allows the distribution of patch files.
Adam Klein
Agreed, but is debian
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the
right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington
encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic :
:0
* ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian
I would not trust the From line.
Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field?
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
debmake is kind of out of fashion now and has been
replaced by a different package called debhelper.
Well, debmake may be out of fashion, but perhaps replaced would not be
the right word here. They are just
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:
[...]
Although it still says Debian 1.3 on the outside...once again, no big
deal to fix. /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, right?
Yes, but these files are conffiles.
dpkg should have asked you about keeping them or
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Vaclav Hula wrote:
I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I
have big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can
anybody tell me how?
What you need is probably:
cat mbox | formail -s
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable?
Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive,
however it seems alot of old packages are missing (ie. pine, etc). Will
these be included
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribution _for Intel only_
(just binary-i386, isn't it?)
Well, binary-i386, binary-all and disks-i386.
However, you might want to retrieve the files the symlinks
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A. M. Varon wrote:
I have two files say, file1 and file2
file1 contains:file2 contains:
alpha alpha
bravo
charlie
What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of
file1
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Pabis wrote:
I have one little question. What does GNU stands for?
GPL is General... and what is GNU
You will find the answer here:
http://www.gnu.org
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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
I don't know what crtbegin.o is, or where to find it,
I have a crtbegin.o file in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3
I'm using gcc_2.7.2.3-4. Which compiler are you using exactly?
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Won-Ho Kye wrote:
Where can I obtain ar source?
First, we need to know where it comes from:
$ which ar
/usr/bin/ar
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ar
binutils: /usr/bin/ar
So ar is part of the binutils package.
Current (hamm) binutils source is in
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, iquest wrote:
I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check
the debian home site and the news did not mention about this.
I would not mind at all if the announcement is made several days after the
real freeze...
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On 2 Mar 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
I have a hard disk that had gained a couple of bad blocks recently.
Linux (Debian 1.3.1) is having problems dealing with them
kernel panic ...
what can I do to mark the bad block in Linux?
Try e2fsck -c
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
How do you get pine to show all headers? I can NEVER get it to work...
Press the letter 'h' when viewing a message. Pressing it again turns it
off.
Moreover, for
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
Santiago: Will further future upgrades of base-files again remove the
link? I would think that would be a good thing as it will root out buggy
packages.
Actually, the package does not remove the symlink, it just
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote:
In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's
incorrect behaviour a bug when the incorrect behaviour is caused be the
standards being changed _after_ the software was released?
Hi.
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On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
David Maslen writes:
I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail.
qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your
procmail binary also uses flock, there should
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Hello.
This mail is intended for the user who is running the current Debian
unstable distribution (a.k.a. hamm).
I'm the Debian maintainer who removed the /usr/spool symlink and some
other symlinks that were part of the `base-files' package...
Not only the
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You might need to touch the files where the mail is supposed to go to
make an empty file for procmail to start storing the mail in.
procmail creates a new file if needed.
However, all directories where procmail is supposed to create those files
*should*
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
is there any plans for adding Qmail's Maildir support to the following
packages soon?
pine (there already is a patch, but I couldn't compile it)
The one in unstable has the patch already applied. You have to compile
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