I was having some problems with procmail and the new lists' headers (which
appear to be ironed out), so I haven't been able to see much of the content
of the list for a little while--so I'm apologizing if this has been
mentioned already.
The gs and ghostscript packages depend on the libpaper
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
From: Arrigo Triulzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
sorry for writing to you direct but this is urgent: it seems
that under the Debian X11 installation it is impossible to reboot
the machine at the Xlogin prompt under xdm.
Hi. It may not be possible
I need the ability to run my dialing script as root since the script
makes hostname, domainname, and /etc/resolv changes.
It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a
feature that I can turn on through a configuration file?
No. There is no way to turn on the
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, John McLaren wrote:
Help Needed!
After looking around for a 486 to dedicate to linux, a 5-year-old
ex-bleeding-edge server became available cheaply, containing an
EISA mb and Ultrastor 22CA EISA ESDI cacheing controller running
two Micropolis drives--seemed like a good
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
Kevin is one of two people who are currently _still_ unable to post, so
I am forwarding his message. :-(
From: Account for Debian group mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use a program call nist - timestanderization under Linux by Frank
Brokken. This
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm interested in getting a book on adminstering Linux systems, but just
about *every* book I look at focuses on Slackware. *Blech!*.
Are there any books that focus on Debian?
Well, perhaps partially, and soon :-) This was on
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996 12:43:36 +0100, Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
: TERMCAP=co#80:li#24:
:
: I use Jed editor and if I want to edit file the Terminal not powerful
: enough
: for SLang. message appears. When TERMCAP is unset Jed works OK.
:
: TERMCAP can be set to either
On Tue, 08 Oct 1996 16:02:09 CDT Lukas Nellen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
u.unam.mx) wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Here comes a small tcl/tk script which will appear under the xdm screen and
give the opportunity to halt, reboot or go to a console session (ie kill
xdm).
As far as I understand
As far as I can tell, dpkg 1.4.0.1 is shipped exclusively with .html
versions of the docs.
But I would really prefer to get it out on paper. Am I missing
something obvious, or do I need to grab the source to the sgml files
and work from there?
Did somebody find an easy way to install Debian on 4 MB? We
want use a cluster of 10 old PCs that way. After boot/root
ths swap space has to be partitioned by hand and activated by
the 2nd VC, and other problems follow, for the ramdisk steels
too much of the valuable memory. (No, these old
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Christian Lynbech wrote:
As far as I can tell, dpkg 1.4.0.1 is shipped exclusively with .html
versions of the docs.
But I would really prefer to get it out on paper. Am I missing
something obvious, or do I need to grab the source to the sgml files
and work from there?
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version
of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends
to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you
have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently
Hello Thomas,
Thomas Baetzler scripsit:
|The way we have handled this at a customer installation is that
|we created a user shutdown who was privileded to run shutdown.
You are not the only one to suggest this... the problem with this is
that it is highly insecure (well, you might say so is
Jim Worthington scripsit:
|1)Boot Message - I get the following message when booting:
|
|
|Oct 8 17:10:10 hercules syslogd 1.3-0#6: restart.
|Oct 8 17:10:11 hercules kernel: Cannot find map file.
|
|What is a map file?
Map of kernel symbols (= functions and external variables)
|Where is it
Hi.
I've installed the X Athena Widgets 95 v1.1 library with a debian package,
but it hasn't changed anything. I've verified the links and my ld.so.conf,
and everything seems to be right :
/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw95:
libXaw.so.6 = libXaw.so.6.0
/usr/X11R6/lib:
libXaw.so.6 =
I was having the same problem. What you need to do is a 'uname -a' from
that get your hostname and make sure there is an entry in the /etc/hosts
file for both that hostname and the hostname.domainname, if you are using
dynamic ip w/ ppp just set your hostname to 127.0.0.1.
-Michael
On Thu, 3
David C. Winters scripsit:
|The gs and ghostscript packages depend on the libpaper package, which is
|currently listed as unavailable. Is there a problem with it, or is it
|somewhere other than in stable, non-free, or contrib?
You can find it in the unstable tree (at least, here on the UK mirror
First of all, thanks to all who had comments, suggestions about my X
setup!
I have gotten X to run. It turns out that in /etc/X11/XF86Config the mouse
was setup as /dev/mouse when in fact I have no such device. I changed
this line to /dev/cua0.
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does
Hello,
I have been using XFree86 for the last week or so. Yesterday I left my desk
for about 15 minutes to help another user with a problem and when I had come
back, I found 'gnuchess' running. I terminated the program and afterwards I
can't get
xdm to work properly. (next time I'll be sure to
My systemname is debian but my provider has another ( offcourse ;-)
When I post mail to someone via my provider I want my From header
looking like : [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of graeve or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've read all about smail and elm ( I think ) but cannot find a
solution.
When I send mail
does anyone ahve an old debian perl 4 package lying around?
I need one for compatability reasons...
and, what are the possible ramifications of trying to install
it when I have perl5 already installed?
--Zachary
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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
I've never used xdm before so I don't really know much about it. I can
kill the original xdm and type xdm again but this does nothing.
What sort of things should I be looking for? What configuration files
should I be looking at?
Strange
I can start X by using xinit -- xdm STILL does NOTHING. At bootup, xdm
runs, but there are NO consoles running X (C-A-F1 through C-A-F6 give me
other text consoles, and C-A-F7 through C-A-F12 do NOTHING). ps shows
getty running on consoles 1-6.
I've never used xdm before so I don't really
On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Marcel Burggraeve wrote:
My systemname is debian but my provider has another ( offcourse ;-)
When I post mail to someone via my provider I want my From header
looking like : [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of graeve or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've read all about smail and elm ( I
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
There was a problem with clock in the older util-linux package. The
version in the stable tree is OK as is the current version in the
unstable tree (version 2.5.7). I think that upgrading is all you need to do.
Carlo
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clemmitt Sigler)
Subject: Re: rescue disk set
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Distribution: world
Followup-To: linux.debian.user
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization:
Keywords: linux,fsck,hard,drive
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian C. White [EMAIL
some software looks for /usr/include/asm, which doesn't exist, but
probably should as a symlink to asm-i386.
Just a minor bug report that's probably well known.
--Z
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
I'm seriously considering changing to sendmail or perhaps qmail, or
whatever. One of the reasons is that I need virtual e-mail domains. Does
smail handle this? Is is reasonable to use it for this? How about qmail?
Are there plans to
[CMOS clock set to stardate :)]
Could it be that the new debian box has a different version of clock?
A while back I upgraded mine (from the one in the stable tree to the
one in the unstable tree --- sorry I forget the exact version) and my
clock started acting up (one day we were in the 21st
Does the main figures in the Debian community have anything to say about this?
Do you intend to cooperate in this important effort?
Thanks,
--Amos
--Amos Shapira | Of course Australia was marked for
| glory, for its people had been chosen
Hello,
I'm considering using ACE (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html)
under Debian and noticed that the currently available Pthreads
implementation is the MIT one, which is discouraged by the ACE-Linux
people (http://users.deltanet.com/users/slg/ACE/) because it is a
user-level
Amos Shapira:
Does the main figures in the Debian community have anything to say about this
?
Do you intend to cooperate in this important effort?
Read also the response from Unifix, just posted. It's already on the
web site, if your news service is slow.
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Hello
I am maintaining jed pkg and wanted to ask for your advice, since in the new
jed pkg, JED_ROOT is going to be in /usr/lib/jed, i was wondering if i should
rm the old /usr/jed (~i think) JED_ROOT dir in the preinst script.
P.S /usr/lib/jed look like better
From: Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Statement about the Linux POSIX compliance effort]
Does the main figures in the Debian community have anything to say about
this? Do you intend to cooperate in this important effort?
I just uploaded the POSIX.1 test suite to our master site. It will show
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