Hi all,
Yesterday my fetchmail+exim setup to retrieve mail from my pop3 server
was workign
without a hitch. Today I dialup and now fetchmail will not download my
mail. I
have not changed a thing! Below is the transaction between the two
machines. Can
anybody shed any light on what is going
Will Lowe wrote:
This DOES work:
1) make some windows thing (ie. MS Word) print to a file
2) ftp the file to the linux host in BINARY mode
3) killoff lpd
4) become user lp
5) do cat filename /dev/lp1
it prints just fine this way (even with all the crazy control characters
at the
Corey Miller wrote:
I'm trying to compile the module for joystick support, but when I
make joystick.o and try to load it with insmod I get this error:
mstie# insmod joystick.o
joystick.o: kernel-module version mismatch
joystick.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.32
*- On 24 Mar, Jonathan Guthrie wrote about Re: The GNU thing
Okay, so emacs is a religion, I can deal with that. I use emacs the
editor quite a bit. However, I can't get xemacs-20 to suspend with
CNTRL-Z on my computer so I either have to use multiple virtual terminals
or do everything
*- On 24 Mar, Matthew Cocker wrote about VMware again
The install script for vmware installs a /etc/rc.d/init.d directory with
a vmware init script for setting up and loading the required modules.
When I reboot my box the vmware moddules did not load. My guess is if I
make a link from
*- On 24 Mar, James D. Freels wrote about cannot compile v 2.2.4 of kernel
with standard Debian 2.1
Today, I patched my v 2.2.3 source (which compiled fine) with
the new v 2.2.4 kernel source. However, it compiled with error as
shown below. I issued
make mrproper
make oldconfig (no
*- On 25 Mar, Fred Perry wrote about Idle xwindows disappear
On a PC running Debian Linux 2.0, xwindows disappear after being idle for
a certain amount of time. Anyone have any ideas? Is there some setting
in a config file that can cause this? Thanks in advance.
Make sure the
*- On 26 Mar, Will Lowe wrote about Re: How to Email a Binary file from the
command line
I am wondering if anyone knows how to send a binary (.tar.gz) file from
the command line? I am trying to write a batch (Sorry my old DOS
how 'bout:
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] foo.tar.gz
*- On 28 Mar, Marc Haber wrote about Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on
Debian?
On 28 Mar 1999 11:02:24 +0200, you wrote:
Besides, /etc/rc.boot has been deprecated and will disappear.
How am I supposed to early load daemons (like scsidev which should be
loaded before any disks are mounted)?
*- On 28 Mar, Jason Dawe wrote about Netscape 4.51 won't start
I just installed Debian 2.1, and the installation went smoothly up until
netscape. If anyone has any advice, please tell me! Here are the details:
I downloaded and extracted communicator-v451.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz
from
*- On 28 Mar, Christian Dysthe wrote about Rewrite headers using
exim/sendmail?
Hi,
is it a (simple) way to get headers rewritten using exim or sendmail (would
prefer exim since I have it working now) to what an email client puts in the
From' field?
Lets say I send mail with: From
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on
Debian?
On 28 Mar 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
GB == George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
GB Because there are several commercial software packages distributed
GB in RPM format for the Red Hat layout
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on
Debian?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
You can always convert a rpm to a tarball.
You don't have to. Just get the src rpm
Read what George said, that doesn't work for things like Applixware
*- On 28 Mar, Marek Habersack wrote about Re: Where is /etc/rc.d/rc.local on
Debian?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
You don't have to. Just get the src rpm
marek
You are NEVER going to find a SRPM of HP FireHunter, or any
*- On 30 Mar, Sean wrote about Re: Using powersave Features on monitor
But does that really send it into powersave mode? When setterm blanks the
screen,
the CRT guns are still running, as the back of the monitor is still warm to
the
touch, whereas when Windows puts the monitor into
*- On 30 Mar, ktb wrote about xconsole placement
I have been working on this one for awhile and can't come up with an
answer. Xconsole is iconified when I start X and when I deiconify it,
it opens off screen. What I want is xconsole to be open and in view at
the bottom of my screen when my X
Does anybody have a working sources.list line for apt for the
unofficial X 3.3.3.1 debs at
http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1, if at all possible?
I have tried several including,
deb http://master.debian.org/~vincent xfree-3.3.3.1/
and I think this one should work according to the
I think the best way is to get a 'line in use indicator' box that plugs
into the phone line. A little diode lights up when the line is in use.
There are also devices that you can plug into the phone jack of each
phone on the line that shut that jack off if any other jack is in use,
great for
://master.debian.org/~vincent xfree-3.3.3.1/
Can anybody give any insight into why this is not working?
Thanks
Brian
Brian Servis wrote:
Does anybody have a working sources.list line for apt for the
unofficial X 3.3.3.1 debs at
http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1, if at all possible
*- On 1 Apr, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote about Re: where is ldd ?
:- Bob == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What version of ldso do you have installed. It should contain ldd (the
potato version does not, however, since it is now included in libc6 2.1.
Bob, I installed the
*- On 2 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about ip-up scripts [was: Re:
/etc/lynx.cfg ...]
Another issue ... I'm trying to add some actions to the ip-up script, ie.
just trying to get the queued mail sent and then have the mail in the ISP
fetched automatically right after connection. Also, I
*- On 2 Apr, Christopher Swingley wrote about Re: prog. end of the boot ?
rc.local
[excellent narrative of startup scripts]
There is one last directory named /etc/rc.boot that has a couple scripts
in it that run when the system first comes up. I've never messed with
it, but it's there for
*- On 2 Apr, David Nelson wrote about RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian
Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card?
Nope. See the bottom of http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml
--
Brian
-
Never
*- On 2 Apr, Pollywog wrote about Apt: WAS:: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?
On 02-Apr-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote:
So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian
package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already
*- On 2 Apr, Kent Andersen wrote about Exim Mail filters for Macro and other
VIRUS?
does anyone know or have an idea of what I need to put on EXIM to filter for
macro viruses and other pestelance like happy99? It would be really cool to
catch that at the transport agent and trash it then.
*- On 4 Apr, David Nelson wrote about TR: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian
Syrus and Brian (and whoever else),
I checked the page Brian recommended, and apparently ATI seem to have changed
policy and there may soon be support for ATI-TV...
That is amazing! That has been updated between
*- On 4 Apr, Kathy Miles wrote about netscape crashes on mail-to
Been away from the list for awhile and missed everybody. Running Debian
2.1 and everything is pretty stable except one annoying problem in
netscape, and it happens in every version of netscape (4.5, older, newer,
communicator,
*- On 5 Apr, Vincent Murphy wrote about file owned by what package?
netscape navigator 4.08 keeps dieing on me because of an illegal instruction
in libBrokenLocale (apparently).
i want to find out what package libBrokenLocale belongs to so i can (up/down)
grade and see if it fixes
*- On 5 Apr, John Hasler wrote about Re: ip-up for each user?
Robbie Huffman writes:
So how does fetchmail know who to run as? I'm supposing as the user who
called pppd, right?
It will run as root, because that is what pppd runs as.
Otherwise more hacking will be necessary.
The
*- On 6 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about Why was gs-aladdin removed as
recommends from magicfilter?
magicfilter 1.2-29 changed
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin
to
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33)
Isn't this carrying the free/non-free argument a bit far?
Just a
*- On 7 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as
recommends from magicfilter?
On 7 Apr 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33) | gs-aladdin
to
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs (= 3.33
*- On 7 Apr, Gergely Madarasz wrote about Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as
recommends from magicfilter?
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
*- On 7 Apr, Bob Nielsen wrote about Re: Why was gs-aladdin removed as
recommends from magicfilter?
On 7 Apr 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote
*- On 7 Apr, Gary Singleton wrote about What advantage; gs-aladdin vs. gs?
With all the discussion about these two over the last
couple of days I have to ask what the advantage of
gs-aladdin is (if any)? I read the FAQ on Wisconsin's
home for Ghostscript and in section 1.3 it states that
*- On 7 Apr, James Mastros wrote about Re: [q] XFree 3.3.3.1 available in
.deb?
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Jozef Skvarcek wrote:
Can somebody suggest a place I can download XFree 3.3.3.1 in debian
packages from? (If they exist...)
There are pre-release packages avaible at
*- On 7 Apr, Ferathonur Luthienell wrote about question regarding hardware
conflict and linux
Hello
After recently downloading Linux from the Debian website and
installing it on my machine, I had trouble connecting to my ISP
through Linux. After a little reading I realized my UsRobotics
*- On 8 Apr, R. Marx wrote about Installing X include/library files
Hello,
I've just installed Debian 2.1 and discovered that I can't compile
programs which require the header files such as Xm/Xm.h and X11/keysym.h.
If anyone could point me to the package containing these, that would be
*- On 8 Apr, R. Marx wrote about Re: Installing X include/library files
Thanks Pollywog, Brian, and James for helping out with this. So
far I've gotten the lib6g-dev installed and that took care of half the
problem, but I'm unable to find the lesstifg-dev package, so I still don't
have
*- On 9 Apr, Nico De Ranter wrote about [Debian] XFree86 3.3.3.1 ?
Howdy,
I have a FireGL 1000 which isn't supported by 3.3.2.3
Unfortunately the xglint server I once donwloaded from SUSE
doesn't work with the Debian 2.1 and there is no new server on
the SUSE site since the driver is
*- On 12 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Emacs
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to using xemacs on a terminal?
xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal.
--
Brian
-
Never criticize anybody
*- On 12 Apr, Vincent Murphy wrote about Re: Emacs
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:09:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/12/99 2:05:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
xemacs does colored syntax highlighting on a terminal.
Hate to sound like a broken
*- On 12 Apr, John Galt wrote about An idea...
Perish the thought--I'm going to originate a thread! I was just messing
with /etc/apt/sources.list for the umteenth time to make sure that I could
apt-get this package or that one, when it struck me: wouldn't it be nice
if there were a web page
*- On 13 Apr, Adam Shand wrote about vmware and kernel header mismatches...
hey.
i've compiled and installed my own kernel for ages with debian. currently
i'm running 2.2.5 with no problems until now.
i'm trying to install vmware which looks really cool (http://www.vmware.com)
but
*- On 18 Mar, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: help me to undertand GMT time
In reply to:Colin Telmer
Quoting Colin Telmer([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote:
Midnight is hours; there is no 2400 hours - after 23:59:59 it
changes to
00:00:00.
*- On 15 Apr, David Nelson wrote about Re: X windows and ModeLines
1) You won't get anything out of the mouse wheel. Don't think anyone
wrote a special driver for it, so...
Wrong.
From 'man XF86Config'
ZAxisMapping N M
Some mouse devices have a wheel or a roller. Its
*- On 15 Apr, Alec Smith wrote about Re: SMBMOUNT won't
Since you seem to know what's going on, there is a not-fatal error about
/etc/lmhosts not existing during the mount. What is the format of this
file and how is it used?
man lmhosts
DESCRIPTION
This file is part of the Samba
*- On 15 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about Screen capture program?
I'm putting together a Linux presentation for a communications class,
and I'd like to be able to show some images of my desktop running
several different apps.
Dows anyone know of any programs that will allow me to capture what's
Aaron
See if you can get the libdl, libXt, libX11, libXpm, libSM, libICE and
ld-linux libs that MATHWORKS compiled the MATLAB binary against and stick
them in one of the Matlab 5.3 directories, probably
/usr/local/matlab5.3/sys/os/lnx86, listed below in your ldd output.
The libs that it is
*- On 16 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 98 with
Xwindows
My graphics card is the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 98 which is not supported by
Xserver
version 3.3.2... , but is supported by 3.3.3.1, which is not listed in
dselect. I was wondering when and if it would be added
It means that someone who is subscribed to the list has a broken mailer
that does not follow the headers correctly when bouncing messages for
whatever reason. In this case a full mailbox. The bounce should go back
the list and get trapped by the listserver software. If you get
messages like
*- On 16 Apr, John Gay wrote about Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video
[NT stuff I don't know about]
Problem 2.
My system has an ATI Rage IIc video card. I have seen quite a bit of
discussion
concerning this family of cards. When I tried to set up X Window, the Mach 64
driver offers
*- On 16 Apr, Dan Nguyen wrote about Re: Debian vs. RedHat
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
: Luca Filipozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to
: :RedHat.
: In some ways, I actually
*- On 17 Apr, Sidney Brooks wrote about Debian 2.1
I have just installed Debian 2.1 from an official cd and had
problems.
1. The file README.multicd says that when you use dselect, you should
use disk 2 first. Unfortunately, dselect refuses this order. This left
me with a guess as to how to
*- On 19 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Help! More problems compiling
kernel
I'm having problems with compiling a new kernel 2.0.35 on a Debian 2.0
(2.0.34)
machine. I've tried downloading the kernel a couple of times, but after
`make config', `make dep', and `make clean', when I do
*- On 18 Apr, Thomas S. Howard wrote about Re: kernel question
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
If I compile something as a module rather than include
it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I
use something very often, such as ppp, should I
*- On 20 Apr, ktb wrote about dependencies
A few weeks ago someone posted a command that showed the dependencies of
a program. I must have inadvertently deleted it and can't find it in
the archives. Anyway I would like to know how to reveal what libs a
program uses or needs and once I find
*- On 20 Apr, Brad wrote about Re: Obsolete/local packages after update to
slink
were truly local packages (.rpm's that I ran though alien, Netscape
being one).
There're quite a few Netscape packages available in Debian. Wrappers for
installing 3 and 4 from the tar gzips off of
Is there a way to determine what parameters were passed to a kernel
module when it was inserted? Maybe some /proc file? As an example if
I insert the joy-analog module with 'joy-analog js_an=0x201,0x8f3,0x00'
is there anyway after the module is installed to determine that it was
passed the
*- On 20 Apr, Branden Robinson wrote about Re: dependencies
On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 10:00:58AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
#!/bin/sh
# findlibpkg: Find the libs that a executable depends on and what
# package they are in.
#
# usage: findlibpkg full path of executable
LIST
*- On 21 Apr, Chris Gray wrote about How do I do an ftp install?
I got sold on Debian after reading today's discussion on slashdot.
However, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Debian web site about
how one goes about installing from ftp. It only tells me that it is
possible. So what
*- On 22 Apr, Arcady Genkin wrote about Re: The case of the missing 64 meg...
Dan Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Linux won't recognize memory above 64 megs by itself. You need to add
'mem=128m' in your lilo.conf file. (or rather append = 'mem=128m'). Check
out the lilo.conf man page for
*- On 23 Apr, Ookhoi wrote about Re: Beep
Hi!
How to make beep?
I don't want to do peintf \a but i have a process which has no
controlling
terminal (from atd/cron)
Ookhoi:
I just echo \a to /dev/tty8 It doesn't bother me there, and it makes a
beeb (from out of a .procmailrc
*- On 23 Apr, Aaron M. Stromas wrote about removing old kernel packages
hi,
i upgraded my kernel from 2.0.34 to 2.0.36. then, using dpkg -r, i went
to remove kernel-[image|source]-2.0.34 but it complained about
/lib/modules/2.0.34 and a number of directories under
*- On 23 Apr, ktb wrote about xterm/top horizontal scrollbar
I have Top loading in an Xterm window in Fvwm2. I set Top to display
the command line instead of the command name and some of the command
lines are well off the right edge of the Xterm window. I can resize the
window to view these
*- On 24 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: the ~ files
Khalid EZZARAOUI dixit:
~
~ I would like to know if it is possible to delete all file ending by the
~ symbol ~
~ with the command without risk :
~ rm -R *~
~ I have more and more of them every day.
I guess it is (just
*- On 25 Apr, Mark Wagnon wrote about Re: apt sources line
George Bonser wrote:
Ok, so what is the line to pick up the slink-proposed-updates packages?
I dunno. I checked out
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/. There is a packages
file in that directory, but there are
*- On 25 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: xwin
Jason Winters dixit:
~ How can I get it so that xwin does not start up when I boot up?
From /etc/X11/config:
run-xconsole
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
use-sessreg
no-start-xdm
*- On 27 Apr, Helge Hafting wrote about Fixing dpkg database after disk crash
I had a filesystem crash that damaged a few files.
dpkg wouldn't run after this, complaining about
errors. (dselect was running at the time of the crash)
I was able to fix /var/lib/dpkg/info/available
because
*- On 28 Apr, Greg Scharrer wrote about Compiling xfstt
I downloaded the xfstt tar file, extracted it, and then tried to run
make. I got the following error:
xfstt.cpp:38: X11/fonts/FS.h: No such file or directory
xfstt.cpp:39: X11/fonts/FSproto.h: No such file or directory
make: ***
Ever since I have upgraded to the 2.2.x kernel on my slink, and bits of
potato, system ppp is very flaky over a dialup 56k line. Often I am
downloading a package or other large file and the download stalls. I
can stop and restart the download and it will continue for a bit longer
and the stall
*- On 28 Apr, Lazar Fleysher wrote about IRQ and PS/2
Hi everybody,
I have run out of IRQs.
Well, actually I have one left (IRQ12), but it is reserved for PS/2 bus.
I do not have a manual for my motherboard, so I do not know how to disable
the ps/2 bus. I have a regular serial mouse
*- On 29 Apr, Brian Schramm wrote about New kernel
I would like to know what I need to do to upgrade from my kernel of 2.0.36 on
Debian slink to kernel 2.2.x. If there is a web page dealing with Debian on
this let me know
http://www.debian.org. There is a link off of the main page about
*- On 29 Apr, Brian Servis wrote about Re: New kernel
*- On 29 Apr, Brian Schramm wrote about New kernel
I would like to know what I need to do to upgrade from my kernel of 2.0.36 on
Debian slink to kernel 2.2.x. If there is a web page dealing with Debian on
this let me know
http
*- On 30 Apr, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try going back to a previous version of ppp. I installed 2.3.7-3, and my ppp
broke completely. Going back to whatever version came with hamm or slink
fixed my trouble.
Avi
*- On 30 Apr, Richard Harran wrote about ftp of complicated directory
structure (with tmp simlinks)
I am trying to completely copy a complicated directory structure using
ftp. It has four levels of directories, all with lots of branches. I
Package: wget
Status: install ok installed
Priority:
*- On 30 Apr, John Hasler wrote about Re: help: ppp w/kernel 2.2.x
Brian Servis writes:
I do think it is a kernel issue though since I did not have these
problems with 2.0.36.
I'm running 2.3.7 with 2.0.36 and I also am not seeing these problems.
So then the question is...How do we track
*- On 30 Apr, Jason Murray wrote about What is gnome-stage-2 (was Re: Apt is
misbehaving)
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:01:40AM +, Stuart Ballard wrote:
snip My apt and dpkg seem to be very confused.
it appeared, and also added the gnome-stage-2 url (I don't mind a bit of
What is this? I'd
*- On 1 May, Eric S. Blau wrote about How do I upgrade slink-potato using
apt-get?
Hello,
I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to
potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly
new to Debian?
Thanks,
-ESB
I
*- On 2 May, John Hasler wrote about Re: .debs using /usr/local/
Michael Stenner writes:
I though that, as a general policy, .debs didn't put anything in the
/usr/local/ tree.
I believe I recall reading that it is ok for packages to create empty
directories under /usr/local.
From the
This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of
ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has
only been up just under 2 days.
PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND
352 ? 27095 98059 828 32744 114084
*- On 3 May, G. Crimp wrote about diskless box: fanless too ?
I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have
installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new
hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything
spinning in his office.
*- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have
a
peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course
but I do
know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a
*- On 3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about xhosts question..
Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account
and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use
xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses...
Anyway -- so I
*- On 4 May, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote about HOWTOs to txt..
Just wondering if anyone has printed off howto pages? Is there any quick
way to convert a full howto (ie.. all the pages) to a single file and
print it off?
I've printed them in the past but simply saved each page to text with
*- On 4 May, Christo Barnard wrote about Apt and non-standard directory
structure
Hi,
Yet Another Newbie Seeking Help.
I have a Debian mirror upstream from my ISP from which reasonable download
speeds can be achieved and the following directory structure:
*- On 4 May, Aaron Solochek wrote about power management
I have power management compiled in my kernel, but only the poweroff on
shutdown option. Is there a way to get the screen to stop going into
power saving mode? It happens both in and out of X.
-Aaron Solochek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*- On 5 May, Thorsten Manegold wrote about contens fo /etc/rc0.d
Hi!
Hitting return a bit too fast I deleted the rc0.d directory.
Now I know, that there are only links to the scripts in /etc/init.d
in there, so it should be easy to repair.
I copied the links from /rc1.d but that does not
*- On 5 May, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote about How to check the amount of
free disk space?
Hi,
This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the
answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk
space, just type dir and the amount
*- On 3 May, Havoc Pennington wrote about Re: X eating all my memory!!
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
This is crazy! Why is X taking so much memory? This is the result of
ps axmw trimmed to show only X and netscape(4.5glibc2). The machine has
only been up just under 2 days
*- On 7 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: Network and serial port
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 nodetach noauth proxyarp passive
asyncmap 0
192.168.1.2:192.168.1.3
done
Just curious. Why are you using an infinite loop and not the persist
pppd
*- On 7 May, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: Help with apt
Or if you do apt-get upgrade shudder
Add the potato link to sources.list and then just do
apt-get update ( to let apt dselect know about the potato Package
lists) then apt-get install apt.
Then I would comment out the potato
*- On 8 May, Alec Smith wrote about Re: Changing ownership for mounted fat
partitions
Take a look at the uid= and gid= options of mount. You can use them in
/etc/fstab as part of your options for these mounts. For example, if group
local's gid is 105, you could have a line something like
*- On 8 May, Jeremy C.Reed wrote about where can I get hamm packages?
I am running hamm but I don't have the cd; I do have the slink cds.
Where can I download hamm's apt-get so I can upgrade to slink?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/upgrade-2.0-i386/
--
Brian
*- On 10 May, Michael Beattie wrote about Re: hdparm
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
Hi!
try to put my hd in standby/sleep, but it dose not
work so well. When I type hdparm -y/Y /dev/hda I can
hear my hd spindown for 2-5 sec and then it goes back
to normal mode! Does anyone
*- On 11 May, bashir mudassar wrote about .fvwm2rc problem
Hi,
I am having a little difficulty customizing my .fvwm2rc. The
problem is the following:
I cannot seem to define the size or the geometry of my Fvwm
window. The window I am talking about is the one that holds all
*- On 12 May, Hans van den Boogert wrote about Off-topic: what is bogoMIPS?
I understand what MIPS is (Million Instructions per Second), but what does
the bogo stand for? My 486-33 measures 4 bogoMIPS during Linux boot-up, so
how is this calculated? -Hans
see
*- On 12 May, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote about Apt for bo
hi
Is there still a bo package for apt ? Where ?
I think this will work.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/upgrade-older-i386/apt_0.1.10_i386-libc5.deb
--
Brian
*- On 13 May, Pollywog wrote about Re: Display issues
On 13-May-99 Brant Wells wrote:
Howdy :)
You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by
going into
your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your
window manager
(usually the last
*- On 19 Jul, Gareth wrote about Bootup logo
G'day all,
I have heard its possible to display the linux logo on the
screen at startup, does anyone know where I can find out HOWTO do
this?
Besides the other linuxlogo packages that have already been mentioned
the 2.2.x kernels can also
*- On 19 Jul, Patrick Kirk wrote about Re: Adding users - two quick questions
Thanks. I didn't even know there was a command adduser! Why is it better
than useradd?
adduser is just a perl script that was written by Debian developers. It
ends up calling adduser as well as taking care of and
*- On 19 Jul, Gary L. Hennigan wrote about Finding orphans?
Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? For instance I
just ran an install script for a non-Debian piece of software and it
put some stuff in /sbin. It had a remove option that seemed to get rid
of everything but it'd be
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