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and then installing them with dpkg.
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heavy going - it depends on your
preferences in textbooks - and King takes it more gently.
Getting a Linux-specific book such as the one you found as well might
not hurt - it could provide a route into the documentation, and many
people prefer books for some things.
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I tried the dpkg -i /floppy/package.deb, and got the following msg's
nb: roots path should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin
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in
/etc/alternatives.
For example, there are several free implementations of vi. Each one
installs itself and tells the alternatives system that it exists.
The alternatives system then creates symlinks so that if you just run
plain vi one of the implementations is chosen.
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render fine, though. This is with
the tarballs distributed by Netscape and installed by hand.
FWIW, Mozilla appears to work round the breakage by substituting a suitable
font if none is found (certainly, qtscape does) but I don't know how ready
for prime-time it is.
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and a Quake
server simultaneously.
You'd need to make sure the machine knows it is allowed to forward packets
between the two networks if it's supposed to gateway.
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Kernel 2.2 requires an updated pcmcia-cs which hasn't been released
properly or Debianised yet. I don't have the exact URL anymore, but
take a look around ftp://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia/ for a file
called pcmcia-cs.09-Jan-99.tar.gz or later which works fine with pre6.
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the above in your script?
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version I tried, making
more sensible substitution when a Windows font was found.
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to upgrade was PCMCIA and DHCP (the required PCMCIA support
hasn't even been officially released yet, so problems are perhaps
unsurprising).
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On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:33:50PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote:
Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp
documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed
nslookup etc.)...
I've never had any problems with horowitz.surfnet.nl.
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such a
package, Debian can't provide one. It does, however, provide a package
qmail-src in non-free/mail which you can use to build it from source.
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this situation is remedied.
If I understand you correctly, you should run the passwd program as root
to set a password.
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from different addresses?
Your mail client should allow you to set the From: address as you
please. Some, like mutt, provide mechanisms for setting this based upon
features of the message being sent. Which client are you using?
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and I get asked for that account's password) but, how about sending
messages
from different addresses?
Your mail client should allow you to set the From: address as you
please. Some, like mutt
, it is
very slow. Does it come
from my ISP or from my computer ? Is there anyway to know it ?
Both of these can be caused by sendmail attempting to resolve the name
of the local machine. Does your machine have an entry in /etc/hosts
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you tried using the tectra boot disks? This is exactly what
happens when the fault that causes the regular versions to fail
manifests itself. The only reason they are called tectra is that that
was where the fault was noticed.
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- field that I use when sending email to
a lot of people.
Just include the the address or addresses in the BCC field - it achieves
much the same effect.
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:-) ).
It's a bit flakey in places but the default rendering is very nice. It
seems not to cope so well with pages using CSS.
AFAIK Netscape is the only Linux browser supporting Java. IME you're
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or the upstream sources and compile them. Install
all the .o files from modules/ and clients/ in the directory
/lib/modules/2.2.0/pcmcia and everything should be OK.
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the distribution proper. Since
man is in main and marked as important, everyone should at least see it.
I had thought it was selected by default for me last time I tried, but I
don't really remember.
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of
Linux development kernels is generally very good, you probably don't
want to be running them unless you know what you're doing.
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idea.
Use a CD. It'll cost you the equivalent of £2-3. It's *much* simpler,
quicker, and (with modern computers) much easier to get right.
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:12:08PM -0600, Eric wrote:
2. upgrade pcmcia-cs to the 3.0.7 version which is in potato
You need 3.0.8.
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the distributions I've tried.
They have a nice menu in the installer, but not once you've installed.
You could try looking at the boot-floppies package source to see if you
can figure out where it comes from. You could also try asking the
maintainer.
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itself. Look in the xdm package (the configuration should all be in
/etc/X11/xdm) to find out when it's being run and how to disable it.
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on your system. Putting a command in .xinitrc will mean that it only
affects you. Which one you use is a matter of personal preference.
.xinitrc is in your home directory - it is the script that run when
you start up X. The default one is IIRC in /etc/X11/Xsession.
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On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 03:44:55PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
Mark Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote:
1) No IDE for the compiler.
Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs
Hm, but there are people
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:06:43PM -0400, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
wrote:
Excuse me, but I have to do this in TeX, no LaTeX.
Look in the DVIPS manual - run info dvips or type M-x info RET m
dvips RET in Emacs.
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recently), and the last anyone told me the binary releases wanted
to be put into /usr. It's not much hassle to build from source.
[Reply-To: to me and the list, as the volume is killing me]
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the page put
together by Jeff Templon at
http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran.html
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upgrading them.
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glibc2.1 - they need you
to install glibc2.1, which is a bit dodgy in places at the moment.
Depending on how vital your system is, you might want to wait for that
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On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 09:41:10AM +0800, ivan wrote:
setterm -blank
Also xset and various options in XF86Config under X11 - X uses a
completely different set of settings to the console (what happens when
you use the fb X server?).
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On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 10:43:13PM +0100, scratch wrote:
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
You could download individual .deb files and install them by hand (dpkg
-i package.deb), or point apt at your friendly potato mirror and then
use apt-get install package to install and upgrade
- the structures of man pages and info files are
totally different, and automatically processing and arbatary texinfo
source into man is going to be messy.
everything-HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route for
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On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 10:24:29AM +0100, Holger Schauer wrote:
MB == Mark Brown schrieb am 23 Mar 1999 03:32:21 +0100:
MB everything-HTML conversion seems to be the most likely route
MB for those that want a standard interface at present.
I am strongly against having a _single_ interface
/fortune filename.dat
expecting it to just dump the whole file, but instead got
fortune:filename.dat not a fortune file or directory
Could someone please point me in the right direction to create a fortune
file from my own gibberish.
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- you need to install the package from
unstable. There is a debian-beowulf mailing list, although it is
somewhat quiet as nobody's really figured out exactly what it's trying
to do yet.
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It should be configurable, but I can't seem to see how to do it for
Exim. This is a real PITA when my dialin system decides to try to
deliver several hundred messages to the system where I read my mail.
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.
Also, is CR the only way to avoid broken words at the end of a line?
If you want to wordwrap automatically, then some of the vi variants can
do that for you. In vim, say :set tw=72 in command mode.
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to being stuck in windows in
the first place).
There are also DOS/Windows versions of vi. Why are you using vi?
Well, it's easier They're much easier to fit on a small disk or
quota, too.
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. -us
and -uc disable signing of the .dsc and .changes respectively.
Personally I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages,
but perhaps it's just me.
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I always found dpkg easier than RPM for building packages,
but perhaps it's just me.
IIRC all it took to build SRPMS is one single rpm command.
I know, but I never felt like I was in control. It also seemed very
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maintainers. The main technical argument against it would be
stability.
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-consuming to maintain an entire system with tarballs -
particularly if you use a packaging system of some kind (very important,
especially if major system components like the compiler are involved or
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not to have a shell account or FTP space. HTTP is normally
avalible, but something like 10-25MB space seems standard.
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normally and open a
login session out of that.
The problem is, as you say, figuring out which host incoming connections
should go to.
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bug against Emacs if it's
really important to you (search around to see if you can find
previous discussion first).
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The script is somewhat verbose, so it should tell you what's going
wrong. You do need to specify the list of domains to search.
The BFI method is to generate the file manually, but that doesn't scale
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reboots.
Use the tectra kernel.
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nonexistant domains will catch them, but
not interfere with any of the above cases.
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or some other current method.
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of Debian, though. It *is* documented in the
comp.lang.c FAQ, but that isn't packaged. I guess what's being looked
for is more like writing something in the appropriate man pages or what
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haven't found yet? Thanks.
Either of dhcpcd or dhcp-client-beta should do the job for you.
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to be sent - just
runq (== exim -q) won't try to send the mail if the last delivery
attempt was too recent.
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, including all X-whatever ones. It's not DejaNews'
fault - you should probably take it up with the administrators of the
gateway.
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that about it
There was a News HOWTO way back when when the world was young, but nobody
was maintaining it so it died a death.
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There is a comprehensive Fortran on Linux web page out there, but I don't
seem to have the URL handy.
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are very useful,
although you do need a shell account which will let you get your mail
with IMAP.
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. Just
./configure ; make bootstrap-lean ; make install should do the trick.
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of the screen (package details currently) to display a quick
usage summary. Anything else I thought of seemed to be loosing
functionality.
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be as well to ask the maintainer to turn off this
behaviour.
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for a long time, but
I think someone's now taken it over again. Personally, I always found
FAQ-O-Matics slow and hard to use, but they are a good way of making it
easy to keep a FAQ maintained.
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On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 02:00:30PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Mark Brown writes:
Personally, I always found FAQ-O-Matics slow and hard to use, but they
are a good way of making it easy to keep a FAQ maintained.
I say just the opposite: easy to use but insanely difficult to maintain.
I have
is that the upstream news server is rejecting them.
Do you need to authenticate to post? Do your posts contain a very small
proportion of non-quoted material? What error do you get if you try to
post directly to the server?
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generated by the mailing list (to
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, describing the
problem and the patch. The maintainer will forward it upstream.
FreeCiv does have it's own BTS - look at www.freeciv.org - but the
easiest thing to do is probably submit it to the BTS abnd let the
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of mirrors of
deb ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/debian slink main
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want to use exim, you should deinstall it. If you want to use
it, then you should configure it (use /usr/sbin/eximconfig to make
things easy). You probably want to have it set up.
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On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:21:49PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
I hope somebody can help me with this one: Why do my messages posted to a
newsgroup from slrn land up in /var/spool/slrnpull
dselect replacements in the works.
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that when people reply to you
your message will be improperly quoted (one mark at the start of the
paragraph) and often won't have context snipped properly.
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configuration tool) and not have RMAIL deal with it.
There are much nicer mailers than RMAIL - for Emacs ones, take a look at
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that you have created the articles correctly. Without seeing the
articles I can't say for sure, but it looks very much like the
Newsgroups: header contains your e-mail address, which should be in the
From: header instead.
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within vim. To make this the default for all vim sessions, put the
command (without the :) in a file called ~/.vimrc.
mutt simply uses the default editor - you can change this using the
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only 300K of
that is in physical memory (the RSS column in the process listing).
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I would not recommend it to anyone.
The trick is to keep the numeric UID and GID information in sync. NIS
is a wonderful thing.
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have been posting some references to aptable archives.
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of mine had the same problem untill he setup a proxiserver
It may be that the proxy is improving the downloads. It might pay to
investigate the quality of your network connection, or to try viewing
at different times of the day.
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a feature. The file in /etc/init.d is normally a conffile, which
doesn't get removed unless you do dpkg --purge on the package. As you
say, this is all about preserving configuration information. The links
should be removed when the conffile is, for similar reasons.
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package which all mail transfer agents provide. You can
tell dpkg that it's installed by downloading the equivs package and
using that to build a mail-transfer-agent package and installing that
(or just make an empty package by hand).
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get quick help that way. I've always
thought that this list should be replaced by a newsgroup, but I guess
that's already been discussed to death. I just wonder how much more the
volume can grow before the mailing list is considered impractical
It's already gated to a group.
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what I should be looking up or where.
To save you some pain, there is no real equivalent tool in Debian yet.
The next release will include Linuxconf (already in use on RedHat and
some other distributions), if you fancy trying that out from potato.
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will probably be to just partition the
archive randomly and then assemble it onto the hard disk when you want
to upgrade.
If you want to help fix these problems, the boot floppies and CD teams
are the people to speak to.
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and CD teams
are the people to speak to.
How do I get in touch with them?
There are mailing lists - look on the web pages.
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