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Thank God, my signature is finally working.
Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working.
Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it.
In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting
up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an
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-Original Message-
From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 6:20 AM
Subject: user limits
Is there any way to limit background processes?
Check out the ulimit command. More
= /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
It should be obvious that /etc is vital (how can the system mount
other filesystems without any startup scripts or /etc/fstab)?
I hope this helps.
Brian May
PS: Of course it might be possible to only have the bare essiental
files on the root file system, and remount
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote:
I am having trouble with my backspace key in X. It acts as the delete
key rather than the backspace, deleting characters after the cursor
rather than backspacing over them.
Hi,
edit /etc/X11/Xmodmap and put
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I have just stumbled across an annoying little problem. A friend and I
have a network between our PC's, and when I mount his smbfs shares, I get
really screwy file listings. when there is 700 files or something (windows
dir.. :) ) it comes out showing me
My problem is I want to get the FAT formatting onto a file (disk image
may be a better word) that is 20Mb large so I can mount it under DOSEMU. Why
do it that way, you ask? Simple, I don't have any room on my current HDs to
make a real DOS partition and by doing it this way I can delete it
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
The Hurd uses the Mach microkernel: microkernels are supposedly more
efficient, but somewhere I read (I vaguely think it was by Linus, arguing
with Tanenbaum about whether Minix was superior to Linux) that in the Real
World, microkernels aren't as
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
That was an excellent idea, unfortunately Darxus has already tried
this and it didn't work for him. Perhaps gzip tries to read the whole
file and even though, in your case, the file is truncated it'll do
what it can. In Darxus' case that means it's trying to
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Please help!
I have already posted about this weird thing to comp.os.linux.network,
but nobody seems to be able to help me, maybe one of you Debian
specialists will have a clue...
Here is my problem: My newly installed Debian 2.0 box (I'm new to
Debian,
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
I think dselect, especially in
combination with the apt access method, is terrific - it just takes some
time upfront to get used to it.
Many people switching to Linux from the 'Other ' OS may equate spending time
to learn an install package, with difficulty
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Hi,
I purchase a new printer (above model) and I'm having some
troubles to get correct settings for it.
I tried to use the magicfilter options (stcolor 360 and 720dpi)
but the 720dpi always fails to print.
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I operate a cluster of diskless linux PCs using debian hamm. It works quite
well and i can say that debian causes the least problems with diskless machines
(tried SuSe an Redhat too).
However i was wondering about /var/lib/dpkg. Normally, in a diskless
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whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot
everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs.
2.2.1 and 2.2.3 both work OK for me...
At this point I get on my client:
Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.1.1
portmap: server 192.168.1.1
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I'm not sure about this, but perhaps you should remove, rather than
purge, the xbase package. This is what I did, and I did not get this
problem. The difference between purging and removing is that removing
leaves configuration files alone, so
will
be compatable, but cannot confirm it.
Thanks in advance,
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is obvious).
Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
On mar, 08 dic 1998 10:55:11 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
Hi Debian users,
I have a problem.
I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in
colors with
my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600
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Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I type
lpr -Pprintername FILENAME and I get a cover page, a page DESCRIBING the
desired file, and then a blank sheet. When I print from Netscape, it either
prints hundreds of blank pages,
with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1024-bit RSA key, ID 59EF33BD, created 1999-06-01
File `abc.gpg
removed those two packages and installed gpg-rsa1 and
gpg-idea1 instead.
So it would seem that version 2 of the above packages are broken unless
libc6 2.1.x is used (I am assuming it works - I haven't tested it).
Where can I get version 1 from?
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pgpldTefgSZN1.pgp
be given a filename on
the command line.
This seems a bit weird, but I will take your word for it.
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manager
sets the windows initial size and position, but the application
can override it. I have no idea if this is the case or not
for the above applications.
(actually - I am not using this computer - I prefer fvwm)
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Package: xemacs20-bin
Version: 20.4-13
[ My E-Mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - please check this is
correct before replying ]
When I point to a button (eg open) I get the following error:
Can't instatiate image (probably cached): [xmb :mask
files are large because I have NFS root images. Any suggestions to
limit the size? (I tend to think a number of files mentioned aren't
really security issues, eg programs that are setgid games).
Any comments for any of the above??
Thanks in advance.
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pgpqPrhWlDwpy.pgp
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:30:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
wtmp: I don't understand why it should be so large for 294 entries:
snoopy# last | wc
2942788 22522
Thats 26kb per entry!!! Really??? If this really is the case, please
tell me why each record is so large...
More
On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 06:30:29PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
My system is fully slink.
wtmp: I don't understand why it should be so large for 294 entries:
snoopy# last | wc
2942788 22522
In investigating the above problem, I found something else:
[508] [snoopy:bam] /var/log last -f
qmail, I manually removed all programs
that depended on sendmail, then removed sendmail, installed qmail, and
reinstalled all my mail programs again. Yuck!
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break my mail configuration.
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do this, of have suggestions as to where I
could look? I'd be prepared to change back to XDM, or even GDM, if it
can't be done in WDM.
I have a script to put in /etc/init.d/X that will automatically
restart X as required, in my diskless boot package. Please
ask for further details.
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On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 07:32:45AM -0400, Norris Preyer wrote:
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a script to put in /etc/init.d/X that will automatically
restart X as required
Are transparent PNGs possible? or is this only possible with GIF?
The reason I ask, is that I am having problems saving a PNG file
in GIMP with the background transparent, and would rather not
use the non-free GIF format.
Thanks in advance,
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with cross-posts? I would
rather have them show up in news as... umph... cross posts ;-).
I suspect this might be easier said then done though.
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particular care what editor I use, just as long as it
gets the job done efficiently.
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!)
Thanks in advance,
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currently installed.
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `cftp' missing, assuming
package has no files currently installed.
Try reinstalling these packages.
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back into Debian wrestle
with X more try to figure out why pine isn't working. Good day.
I much prefer mutt to pine ;-)
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? Anytime I try to do anything with tetex,
kpsewhich is eating 98.6% of CPU for 20 minutes. Did I screw up the install or
is this normal behavior for tetex?
Everything works fine for me...
I don't use lilypond though, so I don't know what it involves.
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PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
Check this log file. Is anything appended to it when you receve mail?
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/openldap-1.2.3/builddir'
make: *** [pre-binary-stamp] Error 2
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On Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 09:10:59PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Everything works OK until it tries to build the package. I don't have
any time right now to look into the segmentation fault (will do so
ASAP). Apart from openldap source which is from potato and kerberos
which is also from potato
).
Thanks in advance,
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vendor_info: 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 '
Revision : '4.10'
Cdrecord's website (as well as cdrdao's) states that it won't work with
the drive if it has firmware 4.14, because it isn't
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Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OTOH, I have the same CDR with 4.17, and it doesn't work under
Linux. I'm quite desperate at this point -- have been trying for 3
months, and no luck -- cdrecord (and cdrdao) both crap out at the very
beginning
this in the docs, but on double checking,
I can't see it right now :-(
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or reopened the bug report - maybe I
should do it myself before it expires??? (side note: how do I do this?)
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??? (side note: how do I do this?)
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here (as far is I am aware), is that the maintainer of
latex2html wants the files to be viewable via file: and http:.
See /usr/doc/latex2html/README.debian.gz for details.
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Jim have any suggestions?
Are you sure the server is not seeing the request? Or perhaps,
the sparc client cannot see the reply?
Use tcpdump on the server to find out if the server is responding or
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of if the messages have been read or
not). You would need to somehow put the above into a crontab entry.
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that there are unofficial Debian packages available
from Helix's website (or somewhere around there). Not sure about woody
yet though.
I suspect these should install fine, and worse case, if you have any
problems, just go back to what you know works.
I have never tried it myself though...
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yesterday.
Thanks in advance.
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. Or even better, package it for
Debian. I think a number of people could use similar program that is
fully featured.
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Brian == Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian Sorry, it is ages since I last looked at this (it worked
Brian last time I checked!):
Sorry, I somehow missed the attachment (perhaps gnus is
still buggy :-( here). Sending as plain text:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIME
one needs to put in the .muttrc to make it easier.
I have:
mailboxes {your.imap.server/ssl}INBOX
of course, I am using mutt from woody, which has support (complete
with bugs) for ssl.
Now I can access the mailbox quickly with the following keystrokes: c
[tab] [tab]
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of your
computer, just other web sites where you have non-standard privileges
(whether this is based on IP address, HTTP authorisation, or cookie
based scheme - did I miss anything?).
Footnote:
[1] I will blame HTML for it here, but technically, you could argue it
isn't HTML's fault.
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(at least in potato) of jserv.
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get
that to install). I see that this bug is now closed.
Perhaps, if this is what delayed the new version of ssh being
packaged, it will soon happen...
Then again, the current version of openssh does everything I want
except Kerberos (or SASL) authentication...
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for the diskdrive? I couldn't find
any config files though...
- the operator is faulty and needs replacement?
The disk drive is a standard 14.4kbps drive.
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the standard, that might tell me more ;-)
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this FAQ item. Still, the error is similar, so
hopefully this will help.
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don't consider this a test kernel myself (I assume you
mean 2.3.x, or is that 2.4.x now?).
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in the X-Server?
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Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jason On 25 Jul 2000, Brian May wrote:
when upgrading to the latest helix-gnome debs from within
helix-gnome, often weird things happen to my X-Server. Often,
for instance my computer constantly beeps at me, until I push
terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. )
Session halted.
The SQL looks valid to me...
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, but something global like the
above would also be sufficient.
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to decimal.
2. Note: Some newer versions of LILO appear to work with those hex values,
if you set the 0x in front of the numbers.
so, I would say, this problem has been fixed.
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it stopped.
So, I would be interested to know if anybody has had similar problems?
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Sean == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sean if you compile a kernel once with all the odd devices as
Sean modules you get the equivalent of how windows works.
... except you don't need to reboot just to load/unload a driver.
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of user
level processes.
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Felix == Felix Natter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Felix Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I get a mailing list that prefixes subject lines with
[Cocoon Devel], how do I remove it?
In earlier versions of Gnus, this worked:
(setq gnus-list-identifiers
.
...except fortify does not work with Netscape 4.73 or above.
(unless this has been fixed...)
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will soon emerge from its
montefin Pre-Release lockdown.
When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change:
stable -- potato
unstable -- woody
If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details
I missed ;-).
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(and other files)
twice. Yuck.
Tom I don't know if there are any plans to package the 128 bit
Tom version
I hope so...
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to specify. This should happen
without affecting private replies (so reply-to can't be used).
As a side affect, this would eliminate the need for the debates of the
form: but I really do have an email address called nobody!
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isn't yet packaged for Debian,
either.
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never tried it myself though (and I am a bit skeptical too, for
instance, I am not sure how well it would work with an existing http
proxy). However, the concept seems to be good.
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never used it myself.
If you use Maildir, I would recommend courier-imap. However, it
doesn't support mbox format...
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of the qmail
Damon package. It's the only pop3 server that I know of which
Damon works with maildir.
heimdal-servers also comes with a POP server that supports Maildir
format.
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is not hidden... Perhaps this is unrelated bug.
However, I suspect your problem is that emacs doesn't expect cvs to
require any input, hence it doesn't bother setting up a proper ptty.
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. However, I can't find out how to access
that anymore.
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Olaf == Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Olaf BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package
Olaf sources. How do you get it to move packages from both
Olaf Debian and Helix?
Use the apt-move from woody... ;-).
However, see bug #71500 first.
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)
Anyone confirm or deny?
As for AARNet - problems seem to come and go all the time. It should
get fixed soon.
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to wonder what
you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric
encryption is better.
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Samuli == Samuli Suonpaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Samuli Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still
the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt
with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken).
Samuli
:
Samuli Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still
the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt
with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken).
Samuli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric
17 Feb 10 2000 S70nviboot -
../init.d/nviboot*
Also, it might be important that this directory has the correct
permissions and ownership:
[562] [snoopy:bam] /etc/rcS.d ls -dl /var/tmp/vi.recover
drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Oct 16 19:38 /var/tmp/vi.recover/
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with the setup you
already use, depends on if you copy passwords over an encrypted
connection or not, and what software you use for NIS or openldap.
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would be
/var/lib/dpkg/info/package-name.config
and the file with the error would be:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/package-name.templates
but like I said, only after the package is installed.
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(running as root)
Carel intercepts the magic Ctrl-Alt-Del and tells init to
Carel shut-up. The keyboard handler knows to do this as that is
Carel what it was told by the /etc/inittab entry for the
Carel Ctrl-Alt-Del key combo.
Correct.
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Ethan == Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ethan On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:56:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Wrong - shutdown.allow has no affect for ctrl+alt+del. You can
press this even if you are not logged in.
Ethan Wrong, the existance of /etc/shutdown.allow means
afraid you have lost me here...
You can only have one version of the alsa- and pcmcia-packages for
each kernel {version,flavour} combination. (at least that is my
understanding). Perhaps that is what you meant?
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the kernel needs
to be patched (and only the top-level Makefile). Apparently, the
patch applies cleanly to 2.2.17, not sure about 2.4.x
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is
disconnected. How can I lower DTR from the shell (or chat) script?
Any suggestions/ideas for improvement?
Thanks in advance.
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Robert == Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Of yourse, the sshd processs has to be able to read the
Robert files, so ~, ~/ .ssh and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys have to
Robert accessible for world.
sshd runs as root...
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S == S Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
S drwxr-sr-x 20 ssahmed ssahmed 4096 Oct 26 18:02 /home/ssahmed/
Perhaps it is getting confused with the s bit? If so, file a bug
report (I don't think the s bit matters security wise).
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the kernel to a disk (use
the dd command), and change the boot device using rdev (procedure not
tested).
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