Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My fix was:
ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1
Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11
dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that.
Safest is:
cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11
for i in XErrorDB XKEYsymDB
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
add : app-defaults
Yes, and I held down the shift key too long when typing XKey. So do:
cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11
for i in XErrorDB XKeysymDB locale app-defaults ; do
ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/$i $i
done
The next version of xlib6g
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Guy Maor wrote:
All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this
directory.
Then someone (me ?) should log a bug against xlib6 cause it doesn't. It
loads everything into /usr/lib/libc5-compat. First I'd seen of
/usr/i486
Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded
with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie!
Foul play!
No, Fowl play!!
Guy
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Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the
unstable stuff more stable than stable?
All the new bugs go into stable too. Sometimes they are very bad.
Guy
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On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it
is pretty much impossible to upgrade an old installation like mine
without re-installing.
That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to the
Ed Down [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in
total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was
happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have
bothered upgrading until the next release if
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people
take this things into account when deciding which distribution they
like best.
My mind is reeling.
Guy
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Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You probably have upgraded the timezone package.
This nice package has offset the PST timezone by one minute, and you probably
had (like me) your clock set to GMT.
The change wasn't arbitrary, btw. The timezone package used to come
with POSIX
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
#!/bin/sh
export LD_PRELOAD=libc.so.5.2.18
export MALLOC_CHECK_=0
MALLOC_CHECK_ is only meaningful on 5.4.20-1 and higher.
btw, for me, Netscape reliably crashes running Java apps under 16 bpp,
but it works ok under 8 bpp. Could that be the
Heikki Vatiainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently jumped from stable to unstable. Just a moment ago I thought about
installing TeX and it's friends in my system. However dselect lists many
packages that are not in the tex section of unstable tree. E.g. mflib, mfbin
are not in unstable
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes:
Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and
dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken.
io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall
perl.
bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory.
Pete Poff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are somefile that are like 7 meg, and take 1 1/2 hours to
download and the service I use kick me off after 1 hour. How could
I download it?
Either use reget command in ftp, or `get -r' in ncftp. Both do the
same.
reget remote-file
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ Yes, we should add a symlink README.PGP - README.non-US. ]
Yes, I did it yesterday, so mirrors are seeing it now.
I estimate that will cut the volume of debian-user by 50%.
Guy
John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have no entry for identd in /etc/services.
What is the well known port(tcp or udp)?
Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security?
It's in /etc/services
auth113/tcp authentication tap ident
and it's on by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Lever) writes:
Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7?
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/ChangeLog
Guy
Debian - Leander Berwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
correct this 'problem'?
The simplest way is with the reset command.
Guy
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This will strip the shortest suffix that matches .*
${var%.*}
This will strip the longest suffix that matches .*
${var%.*}
Oops. ${var%%.*} strips the longest. And using # instead of % will
strip from the beginning.
Guy
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just passwd, and has shadow
support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new
package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid.
Yes it is. I'll fix it.
Guy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes:
I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool
on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb
file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right
direction, I would
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods
I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain
length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but
can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any
I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one
with this fix also.
Guy
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The search engine works again. My apologies for the long downtime.
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I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem
is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and
converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror
programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait
a while for all ftp sites to get
Mail is being archived again. I inadvertantly left the crontab entry
commented out while I was away.
Bugs in glimpse are still keeping me from getting the search engine
fully working. I want to use 4.0B1 as it has some useful features.
I'll keep debugging it.
Guy
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On Thu, 2 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
Does gcc now have 'Provides: cpp'?
Yes. Now it's like this:
gcc - Provides: cpp, Conflicts: cpp
cpp - Conflicts: gcc
And they both have the /lib/cpp link.
Guy
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote:
For those following this thread, someone else has been helping me off the
list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my /etc/passwd file.
The problem was that nobody had a shell of /dev/null (check this in
your /etc/passwd to see if that's
On Mon, 6 May 1996, eckes wrote:
Why isnt the new dpkg simply stored into the stable Tree? Then a normal
dselect run would update it. Isnt the new dpkg stable or imrpoveed enough?
Upgrading any base package to ELF requires a dpkg that understands the
new 'Predepends' field. (Their preinst's
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
I am downloading debian 1.1 beta using ftp. I want to check that
the files have been downloaded correctly. One way of doing it would
be to manually do a md5sum on each file and check it against the
Packages file, but this would take a long time. Is
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses
is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer
wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a character
sequence that can be sent to restore the
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
The subject says it: none of these keys work with Motif apps on a
fresh installation.
I'm surprised neither of them work. The linux console is set up to
produce a delete when backspace is hit. XFree emulates this. Typical
behavior is both bs and del
On Thu, 9 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
xmodmap -e END
Oops, that line should be
xmodmap - END
Guy
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
I did a ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/X386
in order to get the motif application netscape running.
This way it will find the
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
for wihich netscape looks at
/usr/X386/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
That's a really gross solution. Here's a
On Fri, 10 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, one of the basics X package need cpp, and I had already
installed gcc so I didn't want to install the cpp package, I was not
able to do it with dselect.
Actually that was a bug that's since been fixed.
Guy
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
I don't even have it :-( Why? Was it removed from the latest base package
installation proc.?
Run ps as root, and you'll have it. See the ps manpage for details.
Guy
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
Two mistakes and an admonition:
You need
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
try my script and see if it makes any difference. Maybe the variables DO
have to be explicitly exported.
They do. Otherwise they're only seen in the shell and not in any
program or subshell. The environment is the same whether you exec or
run fvwm.
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
yeah, but isn't CFLAGS=-O2 make the same as export CFLAGS=-O2 ; make
as far as make is concerned?
yes.
Carlos' script should have worked because that was basically what he was
doing.
Oh, sorry, I didn't see the '\'s.
Guy
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Why don't you just make
/etc/cron.weekly/wuftpd be empty or not executable, and copy it to the
cron.daily directory ?
Don't make it nonexecutable, or run-parts will complain. Making it
empty is good though.
Guy
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
masca[~]$ xtet42
[1] 769
masca[~]$ xtet42: can't find library 'libX11.so.6'
Probably it's an a.out program. Type 'file xtet42' to find out. You
could recompile it or install xcompat.
Guy
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't
handle shell builtins like one would expect which would. For example:
which test
returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian
system.
ok, the next version of
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
No. Report it as a bug against base. Or better yet, write an updated
MAKEDEV script from devices.tex.
here's the diff to the MAKEDEV script:
Hehe, that's not what I meant. Take a look at devices.tex. There's
LOTS and LOTS of stuff that's not
On Sat, 18 May 1996, Jan Wender wrote:
after I installed 1.1 I noticed that /etc/termcap and the termcap libs are
missing. Is this on purpose or an oversight?
On purpose.
Should all programs now use ncurses/terminfo?
Yes.
In case you have nondebian binaries, termcap compatibility lib will
Argh! What a can of worms this has opened up. I've tested which on
several other systems and also looked at the source of the 2 examples
posted. The problem is that they all have DIFFERENT behavior.
What do you do given two arguments, which ls cat, for example? Print
them both out? Print
Package: syslogd
Version: 1.3-2
Note to anyone that reples to this - check the headers, and don't cc to
debian-bugs if you aren't adding something useful.
Files in /var/adm as daemon.log, messages, auth.log don't get updated this
morning. Here's the rest of a ls -ltr in /var/adm
I think I
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
I got a message from dpkg when installing cron:
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/savelog', which is also in package debian-utils
savelog has moved to debian-utils so that it may be in a base
On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison 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
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
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
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
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
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, David Engel wrote:
The MIT pthread library 1.60 beta2 seems to work. It passed most of tests
The latest pthread library is 1.60 beta4, released on 10/25/95.
Compiled seperately it works moderately well. It's a lot of fun to
play with. You can get more info at
On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
in the debian 1.1beta distribution, setterm does not seems to support
such options. (the -msg option dissapeard, also).
util-linux-2.5-4 will have a working setterm, making the setterm
package obsolete. It'll get installed into the tree tonight,
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General
terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I
still have problems.
Install ncurses-term, and use one of these terminal types.
$ toe | grep -i 'data
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get:
infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS.
toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the available terminfo
entries with a description.
If you ran it with no options and it gave
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo'
Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those
subdirs. Since I don't want an ls -R /usr/lib/terminfo in my mbox,
I'll reveal the magic incantation 'find /usr/lib/terminfo -name BUGS'.
I looked
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
This yields nothing. There is no BUGS file in and subs of
/usr/lib/terminfo.?
I'm only assuming there is because of your weird error. I got the same
error when I manually created a file called BUGS.
/usr/lib/termifo or /etc/terminfo? These are
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Brian Sulcer wrote:
You must exec login from the lowest level shell.
Connection closed by foreign host.
There appears to be some utmp corruption and login isn't checking for
it. login-1.0.5 should fix this (it just checks if the entry is stale;
there's still a race
On Sun, 9 Jun 1996, Paul Wade wrote:
Before installing Debian Linux, I was able to log in
as root over telnet. Now it is refused. I am simply
using a Windows system as a Linux console over
ethernet. How do I fix this?
man securetty
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
The Packages files not always up to date. This causes the dselect
tool to think version X of a particular package is available from the
ftp server, when in reality the package available is X+epsilon. This
causes dselect to try to retrieve a
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) Are there Debian packages for the following (as of 0.93R6, there
weren't)?
kermit
There is a kermit package, but we have to store it at Columbia U's ftp
site. Read /unstable/binary-i386/comm/kermit.README.
psfonts
There's gsfonts,
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
The Packages files in both the buzz/binary-i386 and the
unstable/binary-i386 directories STILL think the available xforms version
is 0.80j-2. In both cases the available version is 0.80j-3 Surely
it has been noon in PDT since
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
Hmm, please do not shuffle that much. Think about the traffic you are
I'm well aware of the mirror traffic I cause with moving files. But
with the new organization I'm advocating, this won't be a problem for
future releases. We'll just have to suffer
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
Things will calm down 2 or 3 weeks after release.
Then you can make your changes and nobody will moan.
Yes, I think that's what I'll do.
Guy
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Buddha Buck wrote:
Or, if you are desparate and foolish enough (and have a lot of memory),
you -can- run multiple X servers on different virtual consoles. I've
done this in the past. I don't recommend it.
I run multiple X servers (at different bit depths) on different
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
Still don't know where this termcap file comes from. It's also on my
Debian system at home and also belongs to no installed package.
It was a conffile of 0.93r6 base. It's not used by any package, and
it's safe to delete it. If you need termcap
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
The Packages file for 'buzz' still references all packages to the 'unstable'
directory. Is this a bug?
Being fixed.
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
Any ideas why there is still a tin package in the 'contrib' dir, when there is
already one in buzz/binary/news?
Fixed. Thanks.
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
1. How does TERM get set?
TERM is set from the kernel in init/main.c to linux. init, login, et
al, propagaate it.
When bash is the login shell for a user, it
seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console.
But when I changed my
Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by mutual
agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
(b) In free-of-charge distributions by for-profit concerns;
(c) Inclusion in a CD-ROM collection of free-of-charge, shareware, or
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
I see that the xforms library is listed in the Packages file under section
x11. But, when I look under the x11 subdirectory, I don't see it. Does
anyone know what happened to it?
It's in contrib. A decision was made that packages without source
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained.
The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for
linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh?
Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
cat
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM='
to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the
actual shell.
I did this - the environ file is empty!!! What could be
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
It really is empty!! I'll paste in what I did:
# pwd
/proc/3
# ls
/usr/bin/color-ls: exe: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/color-ls: root: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/color-ls: cwd: No such file or directory
cmdline environ fd/
Where is the included dpkg-ftp?? It doesn't appear to be in
dpkg1-2-6
It's in /debian/project/experimental
Guy
On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, David Gaudine wrote:
Will dselect ugrade everything, including dselect itself and the files
that were originally installed from the 5 disks?
yes
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
since I've experienced some problems when I used `Packages'
(.../binary/Packages) files which weren't in sync with the corresponding
*.deb files and since I asked twice for a tool to create these Packages
files from scratch and since I got no
On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Greg Troxel wrote:
Do I just
need to remove -ltermcap and add -lcurses or something like that
Close - remove -ltermcap and add -lncurses. The termcap-compat package
is for binaries you can't recompile, so it only has the shared lib.
Guy
I will add that `--color' is equivalent to `--color=yes', which is
probably not what you want. If you make any aliases, use
`--color=tty'. You don't want nasty escape codes if it's not a tty.
Try `ls --color | less' to see what I mean.
And fileutils does have a bug with regards to color-ls.
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote:
2. Install the XFree86 3.1.2E Mach64 Server Binary (this is only the
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 file!) over the old server.
Using the new server with the old libs/binaries works fine. I think it is
the best way to first install the old server and
On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Graham Williams wrote:
Apart from doing a diff on these config-? files, is there any
documentation on what each version of the kernel-image contains.
The script which creates them is buzz-fixed/disks-i386/make-floppes.
It has this blurb:
echo 0 - Almost standard
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Robert Van Horn wrote:
When I try to use ftp I get a message ftp: can't find library 'librl.so.2'
I also am not able to find this library any of the places I looked.
I believe librl is the old a.out readline library. Are you running
Debian 0.93r6? I highly encourage you
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Steve Gaarder wrote:
I am installing Debian 1.1.1 on a generic clone with an AMD 486 on an
Opti-based motherboard. If I have the internal cache enabled in setup,
I get the error invalid compressed format after the uncompressing
Linux message. If I disable the cache, it
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some way to force dpkg to reinstall (or remove) in spite of the
error it encounters attempting to remove the older package first?
Type `dpkg --force-help' for instructions on forcing options. I think
you want --force-remove-reinstreq. Be
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the try Guy, but no help there. Been there, done that. The
remove (or forced install) doesn't work either, for the same reason.
The prerem and/or the postrem script fails. Actually, I thought the force
option would be the answer, but I
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
dpkg -l *tex*
I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under
bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated
under the two shells?
Yes, there is a difference when the globbing doesn't expand to
anything.
On 8 Aug 1996, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
Type `route' and see what kinds of routes you have. I had to add the
following command to my /etc/ppp/ip-up script:
route add -net default ippp0
Putting `default' in /etc/ppp/options should also work.
Guy
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... Don't forget
to pop out and replace the floppy - the data could be read from a disk
block cache rather than the floppy if you don't do that. ...
Does this note mean that one can replace floppy disks without unmounting
and mounting in
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
- If I put quiet flags (\q) on both my username and password strings, it
only recognizes the first one, i.e., it puts my password into the log
file!
I have only one \q for my passwd, and it's in the log file too :-(.
The \q option is a toggle
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Gilbert Ramirez Jr. wrote:
Actually, cracking a unix passwd file is quite easy, even for those
with minimal computer knowledge. With widely available programs like Crack
(UNIX), Crakerjack (DOS), and root_crack(DOS) anybody with a CPU 386 can
crack the DES
On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
There is some new documentation that I think is essential for all
prospective Debian developers to read.
The documentation is also available at:
http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/policy.html/
http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ian/programmer.html/
Note the
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE wrote:
But, this method does not use the descriptions, or dependency lists,
either. I kind of like that information, as it allows me to see if I'm
trying to install something I don't have the extra files for.
It's fairly easy to generate your own
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
Is there a postscript version of the documents
Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/
you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript.
Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents which do *NOT* reflect current
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
package and I got a dependency error. Mosaic needs libpng
and zlib1. I have libgr installed. Although libgr does not
conflict with these two other packages, they conflict with
it.
libgr is an obsolete package. Its functionality is replaced
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Is there an environment variable that I can set to 24
(or even smaller) that will make joe and lynx handle the screen correctly?
The variable is LINES. resize(1x) will output code to set LINES and
ROWS correctly. I use it like this (this is a bash
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:
i am trying to print to /dev/stderr from within gawk
(print $0 /dev/stderr) but i get the following error:
gawk: cmd. line:30: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to
`/dev/stderr' (Permission denied)
That should work, for example
gawk
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:
i've tried:
echo test | gawk '{print $0 /dev/stderr;}'
and
echo test | gawk '{print $0 /dev/fd/2;}'
and both give me the same error:
gawk: cmd. line:1: (FILENAME=- FNR=1) fatal: can't redirect to
`/dev/fd/2' (Permission denied)
Check
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Alex Romosan wrote:
the links were okay, the problem is elsewhere. if i telnet into the
machine and log in as alex gawk works fine. what i usually do is to
rlogin from an sgi to a different account and then su to alex. under
these circumstances gawk fails with permission
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
It's the permissions of /dev/ttyp1 that apply here, not those of /dev/fd/2 .
Just like in a symbolic link.
Guy
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