On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
* I am downloading the entire hamm binary-i386, contrib and non-free
tree to a directory (actually, my home directory) on an NFS server. Is
there a possibility that NFS might stop working during
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George Bonser wrote:
I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the
one currently available completely free Linux distribution and
improve it rather than further fragment the community with yet
another distribution.
Our
I have found that instead of risking lilo (the hopeless newbie i am)
loadlin has provided the best alternative, and the option with the least
questions.
Really what are we talking about here, how much effort is involved in using
a boot disk, or loadlin, why even risk possable damage (especially
I like the list the way it is aswell! :)
I have found many of the questions posted by other users helping me out,
and if the list was split, who would answer the newbies questions, other
newbies?? - that would be a bit like the blind leading the blind.
The list benefits from allowing all to post
I've talked with several others on the usenet boards, and everyone is
clueless so far. I was going to purchase the new version of debian
linux, except, my current version won't install. I currently have
version v1.3 (with kernel v2.0.29), it was on the boot disc from boot
magazine's 15th issue.
Rick wrote:
I have found that instead of risking lilo (the hopeless newbie i am)
loadlin has provided the best alternative, and the option with the least
questions.
Really what are we talking about here, how much effort is involved in using
a boot disk, or loadlin, why even risk possable
I have setup a small Debian Linux system as a router, is there an easy way
to clone this? I.e. to create copies of it on similar machines. Ee need
them in pairs for WAN links between segments (EN-PPP-EN).
E.g. a small boot to an LRP* or recovery disk, and a tftp, or, ?
Now we have to take
Þann 13-Jan-98 skrifar Matthew Majka:
Please take Debian and improve the
installation utilities (I'm a big fan of SGI's 'swmgr'.
Anyone want to write a clone for dpkg?).
I'm a big fan of SGI :-) and it is a good idea to provide a GUI software
manager, preferrably written in C/C++. There
Hows it comming ?
anyone car to guess when 2.0 will be ready
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Hi Oleg Krivosheev; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
Hi, All
what is the best way to move from
libc5 based X (3.3-4) to libc6 ?
Is there a particular order of upgrades?
I already have libc6-2.0.6 and related
stuff from hamm installed.
regards
OK
Well, FWIW I upgraded all
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
Xdefer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: (ERR175) host retry file locked
And if I do rm /var/spool/smail/retry/smtp/localhost, I get these in
the msglogs.
Xdefer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason:
The following was sent to webmaster. I'd appreciate it if the
wonderful people on debian-user could send him a reply.
- Jay
- Forwarded message from Alexander Skwar -
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 13 21:17:46 1998
X-UIDL: 9bdd10ca462b95f84a3b50065b1e2d60
Delivered-To: [EMAIL
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
(how can you do this - using procmail in fetchmailrc ?)
try
mda /usr/bin/procmail
in ~/.fetchmailrc
I'm not really an smail hacker, I just found that adding
hostnames=rivendell.rdny.udel.edu:localhost
to /etc/smail/config was the solution I
Hi Marcus Brinkmann; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 11:59:20PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
Ok. I've narrowed it down -- smail doesn't like mail addressed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if I tell fetchmail to use procmail as the delivery
(how can you do this - using
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
I have setup a small Debian Linux system as a router, is there an easy way
to clone this? I.e. to create copies of it on similar machines. Ee need
them in pairs for WAN links between segments (EN-PPP-EN).
If you have all the packages installed on
Hi,
A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the
same system?
I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than
others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people.
Anyone done any benchmarks???
Thanks for any help,
Tim.
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
Hows it comming ?
anyone car to guess when 2.0 will be ready
There is a snapshot around in project/experimental (incoming usually
though) but we are not targeting a release for 2.0 unless 2.0 is fairly
delay..
Jason
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Matthew Majka wrote:
I definitely have to agree with these statements. I think
the last thing a new Linux user needs, is another Linux
distribution to choose from. I know I was a bit
dissappointed with the fragmentation when I started with it
(about 3 months ago).
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote:
Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced?
This is not so easy to do. Presumably, if you divide the list
there would need to be some criteria defining appropriate posts for each
level. How would
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
- Trim the post that you are quoting.
Is there a way to trim the header size? - maybe at debian.org?
Most posts are 2-3k, but nearly all of this is in the headers.
I guess 2-3k isn't much, but it definately mounts up.
If the headers could be
After running debian, if I reboot into DOS or win95, my cdrom is not
detected by the driver. I have to power off and back on before by cdrom is
accessible again. It is an IDE/ATAPI 24X cdrom. I'm not sure of the brand
offhand. Just curious if anyone has encountered similar problems, or might
Hi,
Just a quick thank-you to all the kind people who offered advice re my
CD problem.
Simple answer - buy a new CD and all problems disappear.
As for the Newbie/Pro discussion, I think that you _may_ be able to
split the the *people* into two groups (I mean, you know which group you
are in),
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, ic382 wrote:
space in the extended partition to install linux. But, every time I
try, it says FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition. I never touched the
2gb primary partition, and it was always flagged bootable. The extended
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
why not pick a subset of debian as your base distribution? more than
the debian base disks but less then the full distribution. modify the
packages as appropriate for your needs.
then users of seul would be able to install any .deb package out of
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
Also, should I normally Cc messages to the person I am repling to? They
would normally be subscribed anyway, but many of you Cc replies anyway.
I prefer that people cc replies to me, as well as sending them directly
to the list. The reason for this is
Yo-
I have had a lot questions today and I'd like to thank everyone for their
help! I have one more question though.
I just compiled 2.0.32 on a new machine and it has a SoundBlaster 16
PNP(arggh..) and I noticed that the new lernel offered new options for
including the SB16 PNP. I compiled
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
won't work. The player starts and I hear a *click* from the speakers but
That's the sound module being inserted by kerneld -- it gets inserted when
you try to play a sound, and removed when you haven't played one in a
while.
no sound. I have
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
why not pick a subset of debian as your base distribution? more than
the debian base disks but less then the full distribution. modify the
packages as appropriate for your needs.
I beleive all discussion with relation to SEUL should be put on the
Hi,
Thanks to the help of the fine folks in this mailing list, I was able to
upgrade to hamm reasonably easily. I am still poking around my system
to find out problems with the upgrade.
After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in
YP.
$ cat /etc/passwd
...some
Here is a quick way I do it.
lets say you put in a spare hard drive at /dev/hdc
make the filesystems you want on /dev/hdc (at least on for the / partition)
and leave room for the swap partition.
now mount your filesystems together off of say /mnt
now 'find / -xdev -print | cpio -p -admuV
Hey guys,
Most sincere apologies if this question has been asked already, but...
Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am
curious because Red Hat decided not to support this...
Martin Jackson: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I need to rewrite some of my config files, and I just
wanted to know why you have to use $($user$) in some
places instead of just $user?
Adam Klein
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When I attempt to post an article to a newsgroup I get this error message:
Unable to open file in /var/spool/slrnpull/out.going.
The permissions are as follows:
$ ls -al /var/spool
total 11
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Dec 29 07:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Aug 29
If you still have the partion magic software, can you try to move the
fat32 partition to a primary partition and then make all your extended
partitions linux partitions. I find that separating linux and fat32
as much as possible is generally a good thing.
ic382 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matthew Majka wrote:
Michael Stutz wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote:
I think it might be a better idea to concentrate resources on the one
currently available completely free Linux distribution and improve it
rather than further fragment the community with yet another
Dear users,
i m a novice user of debian-Linux. The installation was easy, and
everythink works well :-).
Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well,
when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM, the
Xserver starts, asks for login but after login it seems
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This was just what I was about to suggest. It would be awkward if
SEUL users had to go to a different packaging system for packages not
available in SEUL. In effect it would become a kind of Debian-lite,
(or, dare I say it, a Red Hat-lite or
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, G John Lapeyre wrote:
[snip]
Can someone make a rescue floppy with a patched kernel ?
Here in Italy we made a modified version of Debian 1.3.1 that could be
installed with umsdos, can mount FAT32 and other little things (I say we
and mean Pluto Group... baut I
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Mario Filipe wrote:
: I have every package that has Xpm in it's name (except the aout one)
: installed, but i can't find the file libXpm. What is the package where i
: can get it?
$ dpkg -S
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the
same system?
Depends on how you define efficient.
I usually use different computers in my department, and the first thing I do
is to install a X-Server for Win32, so I can use all the
Ian Bambury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Other lists have keywords to allow people to filter postings. Any
takers?
This list has keywords as well. They are called subject. If you choose a
good subject, the time to scan through a group will decline.
I normaly skip messages about PCMCIA for
Martin Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am
curious because Red Hat decided not to support this...
Yes.
You will need the -altdev packages for libc5 compiling. Then you prepend
/usr/i486-linuxlibc1/bin to the path and
I can not decipher recommendations for setting time for those with ppp
connections that can get very good time with ntpdate (referencing 3 ntp
servers). In the following, hardware-clock refers to the medium grade
clock that runs whether the computer is on or off; Linux-clock refers to
the
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote:
Yup, same here. It takes a *very long* time for the mail to get from fetchmail
to my mailbox. Has anyone tried exim package and what (if any) downsides are
to
use the exim instead of the smail package?
I use the smail version that came with the
How do I start X using more than 8bp ?
I've tried
startx -bpp16
startx --bpp16
going thru all the startup and config scripts I could find
reading how-to's and man pages
hiring a witchdoctor
No luck..
I'm using the
Hello all:
I have tried getting my Xserver to run at 16 bits color with a 2 meg
video card as well with no success. I have had absolutely no troubles
with a 4 meg video card and 8 meg video card. I'm using ATI.
Is it a memory thing? Thats the only conclusion I can come up with.
To get xdm
Debian seems to have made it as one of the more popular distributions.
I would recommend working on it. Debian could benefit greatly from
some polishing.
I agree whole-heartedly on this. It seems to me (from a reasonably brief
scan of the SEUL web pages) that Debian and SEUL compliment each
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote:
Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced?
A lot of people are against it, for reasons easy to understand.
OTOH, the list does have a lot of traffic.
Wouldn't it be possible to divide it into something like
Hi, folks.
I'm getting trouble configuring IPX in my Linux Box.
I'm using Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1
ncpfs 0.23
i do the following:
modprobe ipx --- No error
modprobe ncpfs -- No error
ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on --No error
/proc reports
infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:04:25AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on --No error
/proc reports
infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx
Local_Address Remote_Address Tx_Queue Rx_Queue State Uid
infinito# cat /proc/net/ipx_interface
To get xdm working, first you have to install it. During installation it
should ask you if you want to automatically start xdm at boot time.
Alternatively, xdm is started out of /etc/init.d/xdm. Follow the indicated
files and you will see what you are missing. Make sure you have run
xf86config.
Jens,
Not at this time, at least not in the same way logging on to a domain works.
In order to do this samba needs to be able to function as a Domain
Controller. The current version does not have this capability, though the
samba team is working on this.
What a pity... really. It
Hi!
I'd like to know if there's any tool for watching what a user is
doing in a terminal, let it be serial or telnetd.
I think I have a malicious user, but I want it to be a safe shot.
TIA!
Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple
reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked
for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my
kernal? I even installed one from dselect and went back and checked
and it still was not
How do I start X using more than 8bp ?
startx -- -bpp {16|24|32}
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How do I start X using more than 8bp ?
startx -- -bpp {16|24|32}
Thank you.
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Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a
rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while,
though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
on his system.
Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect
install
Doing domain authentication is easy. First you need to know what share
constitutes your home directory ('smbclient -L' will list shares on a given
machine). Then you can use smbmount (as root) or smbclient (works like tar,
you can run it as yourself) to access the share--just specify the user
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser:
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote:
This is somewhat incorrect, George. Yes. X uses a protocol called XDMCP to
allow xfer's of information, as you have explained, between local and remote
machines. And X uses sockets and protocols when used
Þann 14-Jan-98 skrifar Herr Detlev Scholz \(ODIS\):
Dear users,
i m a novice user of debian-Linux. The installation was easy, and
everythink works well :-).
Now i installed the KDE-desktop on the box. The KDE is working well,
when i start with startx. When i try to aktivate XDM or KDM,
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
won't work. The player starts and I hear a *click* from the speakers but
That's the sound module being inserted by kerneld -- it gets inserted when
you try to play a sound, and removed when you haven't
On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Martin Jackson wrote:
Will Debian 2.0 support compiling libc5 applications out of the box? I am
curious because Red Hat decided not to support this...
Yes, the altgcc and altdev's will permit this out of the box.
Brandon
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I like the list the way it is aswell! :)
Yes, I do to.
Although I would dearly love to see a:
When is version 2 coming out-list
How to move from libc5 to libc6-list
Both lists could be answered by a bot that posted the usual reply.
I do think that a lot of general Linux questions that aren't
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Lorens Kockum wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 11:13:25AM +0100, Irmund Thum wrote:
Shouln't it be possible to divide the list in beginners and advanced?
Wouldn't it be possible to divide it into something like
configuration (problems with install and
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, John Boggon wrote:
Have already done this. xdm is installed and working. I figured I'd try and
get X to start in 16bp before I tried to configure xdm to do the same.
To set it to permanently use 16 bpp instead of 8, edit
/etc/X11/XF86Config and find the Depth setting for
Do you already have a domain controller? If so, you can have samba authenticate
using the NT domain controller. That's what I use here in our office, since all
our client machines (6 Win95, 1 NT wkst) log on to our local domain. You just
edit
the smb.conf file and set these options:
encrypt
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in
YP.
$ cat /etc/passwd
...some stuff...
+::0:0:::
OK
$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: db files
group: db files
shadow:
A while back there was a warning regarding the hamm version of the
e2fsprogs package - e2fsprogs_1.10-4.deb I believe. I now have
e2fsprogs_1.10-10.deb installed and have had a few weird problems
at home with a partition greater than 2GB in size. Is there a
known problem with this package?
Hi folks, is it posible to generate binary files for NT using gcc under
Linux??
And if so, what packages shoud i install??
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Telefono: 691.30.56
Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación
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At 07:24 -0600 on 1/14/98, Chris Keathley Keathley wrote:
I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple
reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked
for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such
Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a
rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while,
though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
on his system.
Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
to a stable system again. I suggested letting dselect
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mario Filipe wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
In that case i need another type of assistance. When i do
ldconfig -p | grep libXpm i get this :
126 - ELF libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
127 - ELF libXpm.so =
Sorry about this but it should be
-L/usr/X11R6/lib
without the space I added in my first message.
Steve
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Chris Keathley Keathley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am having problems trying to run make config for one probably simple
reason. But since I don't know a whole lot yet, I am stumped. I looked
for /usr/src/linux, and there is no such directory. Where is my
kernal? I even installed one from
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:26:27PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
After the upgrade, I am unable to log into my machine with a username in
YP.
$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
passwd: db files
group: db files
shadow: db files
For these
» I have setup a small Debian Linux system as a router, is there an easy way
» to clone this? I.e. to create copies of it on similar machines. We need
» them in pairs for WAN links between segments (EN-PPP-EN).
»
» E.g. a small boot to an LRP* or recovery disk, and a tftp, or, ?
»
» Now we
I've read many messages concerning the new libc6 and associated problems.
Why libc6? What does it do for Linux that libc5 does not?
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Pere Camps wrote:
I'd like to know if there's any tool for watching what a user is
doing in a terminal, let it be serial or telnetd.
I think I have a malicious user, but I want it to be a safe shot.
Check out the ttysnoop package.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes:
Oh, boy! A friend just called me and said he did a
rm -r /usr by mistake. He did stop it after a while,
though, so that he can at least still do a little bit
on his system.
Now, he asked me, what he should do in order to get back
to a stable
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 01:53:00PM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote:
Gregory,
I believe that the dot clock setting is from the video adapter and not the
monitor.
Correct, however monitors *do* have a bandwidth limitation - for instance my
Iiyama is 160MHz. I believe that the dot-clock you specify
On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 07:38:33PM +0100, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:
Hi all!
I've read a discussion about serial ports and interrupts and still have
some doubts.
WHY KERNEL'S SERIAL DRIVER IS WRITTEN IN THIS WAY THAT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO
SHARE INTERRUPTS?
I think it is more of a case of
I've read many messages concerning the new libc6 and associated problems.
Why libc6? What does it do for Linux that libc5 does not?
- Better compliance with the standards.
Most of the problems we see in moving to libc6, are caused by
the non-conforming oddities of libc5.
- Libc6 is
Hi folks, slightly off topic but what the hell,
I`ve attempting to use Linux as a viable Quake platform. I`ve got
QstatView which is a Quakeworld server browser and is X based written
in TK. Now, I have a script which supposedly launches qwcl into a console
and switches to that console.
Will Lowe wrote:
I prefer that people cc replies to me, as well as sending them directly
to the list.
I use procmail to sort out incoming mail,
and the stuff that's sent to/from lists ends up in debian, freedos,
kde folders. Stuff that's send to me (ala a cc
Como hago para adquirir el Programa LINUX DEBIAN. Lo nesecito urgente y
no lo concigo?
Nombre: Fabio Guerra.
Ciudad: Rivera - Uruguay
Telefono: 28553
Direccion: Ituzaingo 558
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Brian Skreeg wrote:
Trouble is I need a program called getvc.
Is there a debian package with this in it?
This is amusing, becuase I'm a debian developer, and the author of getvc and
of the script below, and yet getvc is not in debian. :-)
#!/bin/sh
# Run something on a VC, from X, and switch
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
Also, I am in Panic Mode now.
* If I am unable to log in as root, how do I fix what I did to
nsswitch.conf? I was sensible enough to backup the old file before
making the changes. I am unable to locate my emergency disk (or
whatever
Hallo Pann McCuaig
At work I have a bo system serving in-house e-mail. Most of the client
machines are running IE on Win95 and get their mail via POP3.
Mail is transferred between ISP and the bo system using uucp and smail.
Everything is fine.
But . . .
Say a message comes in for
Hello.
This is the LAST time that I mail you guies without joining the list.
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I've configured most of my packages, but with XFree86 I get an error
message, labeled 111 I get this message several times, then I get the
configuration screen
what kind of entry do I need to add to lilo.conf to get lilo to boot
a alternate kernel located on a Zip disk? I can use a custom boot floppy
and mount the Zip disk (/dev/sda1) as root but it would be simpler if
I didn't need the floppy... one less disk to misplace ;-)
Thanks,
Tim
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Tim Thomson wrote:
A friend of mine asked me if X-win was more efficient than Win95 on the
same system?
I said it would probably be better for somethings, and maybe slower than
others, but I wasn't sure - so I though to ask you people.
Anyone done any benchmarks???
This is not a
Sorry for get back to the same question, I bet that millions of times
you have solved this answer but this is the first time I ask it :o)
I got Debian 1.3 in CDs and installed in my second hard drive, guess
what is in the first one... anybody sayed windoze95?
Well the thing is I tryed creating a
With 2MB , you a line in your XF86Config that only includes lower
resolutions. The X Sever will ignore any lines that try to much
resolution and too many colors simultaneously. Maybe this is your
answer...
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, John Boggon
Hello, I'm a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've sent
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Hallo,
Leafnode is not working well with my news provider so I tried to install
Cnews an Suck. Cnews installation script exits with an error message
informing the user that it could not configure cnews. I don't know how to
proceed from there. I am using a Debian 1.3.1. CDROM for installation.
On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 09:18:55AM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
passwd: db files
group: db files
shadow: db files
For these three replace db files with compat and you should be done.
How should it read? The HOWTO mentions this
I used to participate in another high-traffic list. The Free
Catholic Mailing List gets over 200 messages per day.
They had a solution to the high traffic that worked very well (at
least for me). The list is echoed to a usenet newsgroup,
bit.listserv.catholic. The group is moderated by a
Hi
I installed Staroffice 3.1 using the debian installer .deb's All
seemed to have gone fine, but when I run setup to do the per-user setup
bit, it coredumps... Also if I run swriter3, or any of the other
binaries, it also tries to run the setup bit, which core-dumps of
course, and then
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for documentation try the command
info libc
then look at the section
* Name Service Switch
Well you could also just read the /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz
file which explains everything in detail.
Mike.
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# Run something on a VC, from X, and switch back to X when done.
# GPL Joey Hess, Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:27:08 -0400
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