Lorens Kockum wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:58:56PM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote:
(cd dir1 tar cv *) | (cd dir2 tar xf -)
which preserves everything (dunno about times however).
Huh? What about files beginning with a '.' that are not expanded by the
'*'? That's just to begin
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
The asterisk was perhaps a bad example. This works for me (including all
dot files):
tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -)
Some people add a bunch of other flags to tar.
Wading in late but
Why not
cd /path; find . | cpio -dump /other/path
Andrew Akins wrote:
1) Where do I put programs (daemons) that I want to automatically
startup, ie., what is the Autoexec.bat file of the unix world? I
looked in .bashrc and .bash_profile, which seem to set a lot of
enivronment variables, but I don't se if you can put programs in this.
Hi,
I'm having trouble with xdm. Every couple times the user exits the window
manager, the machine hangs with a black screen and red and blue vertical
lines. The only thing to do at this point is a hard reboot. This has
happened with a range of kernels (now it's using 2.0.32) so it seems to me
I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30
kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage
is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes
with the communicator package from netscape. I know that dselect won't
Here's a question I haven't been able to find anyplace: I have Debian
installed on a Compaq Prolinea MT, and the mouse is on a built-in port.
GPM detects and installs this as ttyS0, coincidentally locking out the
modem on com1/irq4/ttyS0...I tried to uninstall gpm, but it refuses to
uninstall with
Does pppd version 2.3.1 have demand dial built into it or does one still
have to use diald with it. And can it be used with linux 2.0.29 ?
Chuma
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Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
Here's a question I haven't been able to find anyplace: I have Debian
installed on a Compaq Prolinea MT, and the mouse is on a built-in port.
GPM detects and installs this as ttyS0, coincidentally locking out the
modem on com1/irq4/ttyS0...I tried to uninstall gpm,
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Olivier THARAN wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:39:09PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I would just recommend only less.
more is in the base distribution, and we are not sure that anyone will
choose the 'less' package during installation, moreover, many brain-dead
I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30
kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage
is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes
with the communicator package from netscape. I know that dselect
what is zipdrive and is it worth the 100 dollars, that stores want to
charge so we can have it. thank you randy
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote:
I hope I didn't send this out twice...
Not that I saw.
I'm new to unix (let alone debian) and I can't seem to figure out two
problems (which I think are related...)
1) Where do I put programs (daemons) that I want to automatically
startup, ie.,
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, TJM wrote:
I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30
kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage
is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes
with the communicator package from
Dale Scheetz writes:
Please don't let me start a flame war here about the best pager, but
compared to more, my personal oppinion is, that less is more, is more
than a cute word play, it is true for every context of more.
less is better, but DOS users know about more and the name is easier to
When trying to link using libc6 and tcl8, I can no longer include -ldl on
the link line without getting an error. If I have
[...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl
then it links okay. If I have
[...] -ltcl8.0 -lm -lnsl -ldl
then I get the warning:
ld: warning: libdl.so.2, needed by
Is there currently any Web Based Admin for Debian
Linux?
There is a package called linuxconf (there is a package in experimental)
which provides web based admin for linux boxes.
I belive that there are some issues between what it expects in terms of
file systems lay out and how Debian is
I get my feed by uucp and use procmail to look up lists.debian.org!* in
the From -line. Works fine.
peter
I suggest you sort on X-Mailing-List: rather than To:
Yes, using characters out of To: does seem kind of pointless. THere's plenty
of filtering software out there.
rick
The only advantage I know of is that netscape does some stupid things when
installing, among them placing files in ~root/.netscape/ that should go in
$MOZILLA_HOME/.netscape/ - other than that, I can't really see any
advantages (which reminds me that I should submit as a bug against this
Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've installed communicator 4.03 successfully on my debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30
kernel system and all works fine. I would like to know what the advantage
is to using the installer package rather than the install script that comes
with the communicator
I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep
getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt
to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues.
Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an
alternative how can I get sed
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:
: I am trying to get my local lan going and cannot seem to figure out how
: to make the kernal see the ethernet card. I am using a 3com 3509 and I
: know that the driver is there. When I use ifconfig I run into problems
: such as SIOCSIFADDR: no such
I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a
list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want.
There are not many things more frustrating than thinking I know it can be
done, but I don't know how and I don't even know with what utility, so
Caldera is GPL-ing COAS (http://www.caldera.com/coas/). They promised on
their public list that the sources will be ready this month. From what I
hear we might have some interesting reading over the Thanksging weekend.
What they are releasing is _not_ a complete web-based admin system, but it
is
Run col.
Bruce
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I've been trying to install hamm on a new disk, but I have twice
now had disk problems, or maybe network problems. The
installation went well in both cases. After a couple of days,
ftp crashed and dumped core, apparently leaving me with a
partition that causes fsck to core dump when it checks at
or xterm -rv
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, robert havoc pennington wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote:
Is there any way to change the colors of Xterm? mine defaults to
black on white (which gets really annoying when you telnet to a
machine using really light ansi colors), and
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
Run col.
Thanks! That was exactly what I needed!
Dwarf
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I am trying to transfer some troff files to straight ascii, but I keep
getting intermixed control characters and extra characters in its attempt
to deal with bold, underscore, and other format issues.
Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dean C. Sullinger wrote:
Is there currently any Web Based Admin for Debian
Linux?
Maybe you could have a look at www.webmin.com
There is such a thing in developement and it really looks good. The shell
prompt is much faster, but if you don't know all the options to use
in
Here's a question I haven't been able to find anyplace: I have
Debian
installed on a Compaq Prolinea MT, and the mouse is on a built-in
port.
GPM detects and installs this as ttyS0, coincidentally locking out
the
modem on com1/irq4/ttyS0...I tried to uninstall gpm, but it refuses
Hi all,
when trying to run the xhost command from a tcsh I get the following
error msg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 28% xhost +
Xlib: connection to eenpc65:0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xhost: unable to open display eenpc65:0.0
as you can see I am running a
After starting/quitting minicom, and then finishing internet connection,
what is the best way to kill pppd without doing a 'kill ' (or the pid
of pppd? I haven't found that answer anywhere, and I have tried looking.
If I missed a simple statement somewhere, my apologies ;)
Mike
A Zip Drive is a removable diskette that stores 100 meg of information. It comes
in 2 types... parallel and SCSI... The SCSI is much faster. I have both and wou
ldn't know what to do without them. Makes great backup disks for your Linux syst
em. Everyone should have one.
Keith
On 24-Nov-97
Make a script and put it in your /usr/sbin directory. I have included mine (call
ed: ppp-off) to get you started.
Keith
#!/bin/sh
DEVICE=ppp0
#
# If the ppp0 fpid file is present then the program is running. Stop it.
if [ -r /var/run/$DEVICE.pid ]; then
kill -INT `cat
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote:
Also, the system refuses to take a hostname. I've reinstalled it several
times (I'm using it as a training tool) and it seems to alternate
between UNKNOWN_13 and (none). Typing hostname DLinux to set the
name (or just hostname) gives hostname:
One more thing that might be a bit confusing... The Parallel Zip Drive installs
as a SCSI device under Linux and does not as of yet support port thru for a prin
ter plugged into the Zip Drive. If you want to connect your Parallel Zip and a p
rinter at the same time... you will need 2 Parallel
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You may use apropos.
Which doesn't work as well as it ought to, due to people being careless in
the writing of man pages.
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On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Is there a way to get troff to not do these formatting steps? As an
alternative how can I get sed or some other text manipulator to take
the three character sequence characterXcontrol-HcharacterX into
simply characterX?
perl -pie s/X\cHX/X/g
will
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