While reading replies to my recent questions posed to debian-users, I was
once again reminded of why I chose and continue to choose to be a part of
the Debian community. In a period of less than 24 hours I received help
and advice from others, many located in other parts of the world. I wish
I
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
Then maybe the warning signs in the ftp sites should be updated? Back when
I went for Debian I saw lots of them lying around (and so I went to 0.93R6,
which indeed prooved less stable than unstable), as well as when I mirrored
unstable 1.1.
My 0.93R6
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Interesting. I've had no problems at all with BIND...
If you're running a 1.2.x kernel and an unstable bind, zone transfers
from your machine will fail (because it attempts to get the ip
options, something not supported in 1.2.x, and on failure drops the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Ian Jackson said:
Scott Barker writes (Re: more trouble with 1.1 upgrade):
ok. So what happens when I install the new cron, and /usr/bin/savelog
isn't in
it? Won't dpkg remove it, since /usr/bin/savelog has been removed from
On 2 Jun 1996, Joe Reinhardt wrote:
I uploaded a mailcrypt package last weekend, mailcrypt-3.4-1.all.deb.
Can you please tell me where I can find it. I check at one of the Debian
mirror site eg. ftp://sun10.sep.bnl.gov, but cannot find it in the directory
debian/unstable/binary/mail. If
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: problem with debian 1.1 upgrade installation
--text follows this line--
After my upgrade, the following messages is mailed to my
root account exactly once every minute:
Return-Path: root
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 96 22:02 EDT
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
My 0.93R6 system at home is the most stable linux system I have ever seen.
Now that 1.1 is nearly ready for release, I agree that it is approaching
the same level of stability. It is true that 0.93 probably is not
compatible with some of the newer hardware and
This has already been debated enough. Debian will continue to include
known-working kernel headers with libc unless and until that
arrangement proves to be unworkable. As I have time, I will continue
to encourage H.J. Lu and other Linux distributors to do the same.
I still prefer to use
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, James D. Freels wrote:
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] atrun -d 0.5
...
non-option arguments - not allowed: No such file or directory
From atrun's man page:
atrun [-l load_avg] [-d]
So make it 'atrun -d -l 0.5' or just 'atrun -d'. 0.5 is the default
anyway.
Guy
Hi,
Amos == Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Amos I'm still looking for this kernel-image package. Can't find it
Amos in the ls-lR files.
It should appear in the mirrors soon, it was moved out of
incoming recently.
Amos Now what about support for multiple kernels? Is it possible
On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, N. Salwen wrote:
I tried this both man and more on my slackware system at home and they
both go backwards. I don't have the PAGER variable set.
I realize this is slackware but I am surprised at the difference.
As someone else pointed out, slackware man most likely
Guy Maor wrote
While using man to read a manpage I am not able to scroll backwards a page
by using b or ^B. Has anyone else experienced this? My current
version of man is 2.3.10-11. If I just use more to read a text file,
everything works fine.
more can't go backwards on unseekable files,
On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote:
Those systems maybe format the manpage to a temporary file, then
use more to view that file. Debian's man put the formatted output
through a pipe directly to the pager, for speed.
Note that you can also do:
$ export MANOPT='-Pless'
so
Package: dviljk
Version: 2.5-3
On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
And what's the exact reason for using using '-d'?
So that you'll get annoying mail every 5 seconds!
Guy
Dominik,
I am hoping to get a large number of debian 1.1 systems running in our
teaching laboratories next year. We use amd at our site. I have
noticed a serious problem with amd as distributed. The code enabled by
defining NEW_TOPLVL_READDIR is not well thought out. It does not take
into
Well I didn't think it was easier to install 1.1 instead of 0.93
on my old PC, but if it is I'll try for sure.
Wait for some days and you'll have a complete report of my
work.
Thank you (and all the other) for the suggestions. It was really kind.
Alberto.
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Alberto Brizio ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Guy Maor writes:
From atrun's man page:
atrun [-l load_avg] [-d]
So make it 'atrun -d -l 0.5' or just 'atrun -d'. 0.5 is the default
anyway.
And what's the exact reason for using using '-d'?
Michael
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[EMAIL
My problem was in the /etc/crontab file. This file apparently
configures root cron jobs in addition to
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. On another system that I configured
from scratch, the atrun command was input correctly. On this system,
which I configured as an update from 0.93R6, the command
I found MailCrypt in master.debian.org, under the debian/Incoming
directory.
Derek Lee
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian C. White writes (Re: How to handle new packages):
As I understand dselect, it looks at the Packages file to determine
the list of packages, their dependencies, and whatever else.
Suppose I want to upgrade a single package. I grab the .deb
You can define $PAGER as something like
cat /tmp/$$;more /tmp/$$;rm /tmp/$$ to get the back-scrolling at
the cost of somewhat reduced speed. You won't see the first page until
the last has been formatted (which is why we don't do this by default).
Bruce
--
Pixar's Toy Story: Over 1/3
First, I want to thank everyone involved with Debian for doing an
excellent job. I far prefer my Debian system at home to my current
Sun or previous Ultrix systems at work. Three cheers for DEBIAN!
Now my question.
While trying to build a custom kernel under 0.93R6, I get an error
about
I'm having trouble swapping the Control and Caps Lock keys on my
keyboard. I have the following two line file that used to work
with 'loadkeys' just fine:
keycode 58 = Control
keycode 29 = Caps_Lock
Now however it just really messes up when control is pressed. It
seems to stick in control
Sorry for the confusion. It turns out that more is not the same as less
on slackware but man automatically uses less without a variable set. I'm
pretty sure it is not using a temp file.
Is there any reason the default PAGER on Debian should not be set to less
out of the box?
Nathan
New boot floppies are available in
ftp://ftp.i-connect.net/debian/unstable/disks-i386/1996_6_2 .
These will no doubt get to the mirror sites later today.
Module configuration has been improved and dselect's FTP method might
work once the base system has been installed (my test system didn't have
a
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Is there any reason the default PAGER on Debian should not be set to less
out of the box?
less is not a base package, so might not be installed. more is one
third the size of less, and it's very important to keep the base
packages as small as possible.
Guy
I have recently upgraded my debian machine from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta.
I am happy to report that everything, except one important piece, is
up and running and better than before!
I had a few minor problems which have been reported earlier and were
easily fixed:
1) /etc/crontab contained an
Package: dviljk
Version: 2.5-3
cat file.dvi|dvilj - should work but doesn't. It complains of an
invalid null option. I'm surprized to see such a bug :-( Here's a
patch.
--- dviljk-2.5/dviljk/dvi2xx.c Sun Jan 8 15:22:13 1995
+++ /home/carlos/dvi2xx.c Mon Jun 3 17:10:13 1996
@@ -1568,7
Package: apsfilter
Version: 4.9.1-6
apsfilter considers a ljet4 and a ljet4l equivalent after setting the
options to dvips. However if you send raw postscript to it this is a
bug. The patch below corrects this, and a few more small glitches. It
seems the authors haven't used PRINT_DVI very much
Hello,
Since 1.99, I get messages like:
Jun 4 00:03:50 marin modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
Jun 4 00:03:52 marin modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
in my daemon.log. Do you know what they mean?
Thanks,
Yves.
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