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On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
Hamm includes both libbfd2.8.1_2.8.1-2.deb and
libbfd2.8.1.0.15_2.8.1.0.15-1.deb. Neither indicates and replaces or
conflicts. Are these two versions of the same package, or are they
independent?
They
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Timothy D.Webster wrote:
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, only i386, no source.
Did you mirror binary-i386 and binary-all? (You need both).
If you mirrored just binary-i386, did you use wget --retr-symlinks?
(You don't need binary-all if you get the files
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered
several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as
separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if
they
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On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered
several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as
separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if
they
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Tim Ferrell wrote:
I have begun upgrading my system to libc6 and am now wanting to upgrade
xlib6 to xlib6g.
You have first to upgrade xlib6 to the latest version in hamm, then you
should be able to install xlib6g and all the other packages that depend on
it.
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
Also there are some specific packages that depends in a particular
kernel version (eg: lsof), It should be also specified... don't you think so?
PD: should I send this criticisms to
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On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
I would like to know why cp -aR is not useful to replicate a disk
Since cp -a [*] is useful to replicate a disk, I think you are really
asking I would like to know why some people seem to prefer tar or cpio
to
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You might need to touch the files where the mail is supposed to go to
make an empty file for procmail to start storing the mail in.
procmail creates a new file if needed.
However, all directories where procmail is supposed to create those files
*should*
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On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
is there any plans for adding Qmail's Maildir support to the following
packages soon?
pine (there already is a patch, but I couldn't compile it)
The one in unstable has the patch already applied. You have to compile
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On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
David Maslen writes:
I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail.
qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your
procmail binary also uses flock, there should
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Hello.
This mail is intended for the user who is running the current Debian
unstable distribution (a.k.a. hamm).
I'm the Debian maintainer who removed the /usr/spool symlink and some
other symlinks that were part of the `base-files' package...
Not only the
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
Santiago: Will further future upgrades of base-files again remove the
link? I would think that would be a good thing as it will root out buggy
packages.
Actually, the package does not remove the symlink, it just
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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote:
In all fairness to the authors, is it accurate to call a program's
incorrect behaviour a bug when the incorrect behaviour is caused be the
standards being changed _after_ the software was released?
Hi.
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
How do you get pine to show all headers? I can NEVER get it to work...
Press the letter 'h' when viewing a message. Pressing it again turns it
off.
Moreover, for
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On 2 Mar 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
I have a hard disk that had gained a couple of bad blocks recently.
Linux (Debian 1.3.1) is having problems dealing with them
kernel panic ...
what can I do to mark the bad block in Linux?
Try e2fsck -c
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Note: This is an announcement for a new Debian list for spanish-speaking
people. [ That's why it is in spanish ]. Thanks.
*---
ANUNCIO
===
Conscientes del aumento en el número de usuarios hispanos
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr. Daniel Mashao wrote:
I have read all the man pages and HOWTO but I still have a problem
printing on a novel network laserjet. I have finally found a way to print
postscript documents but I cannot print plain text or dvi format. Any
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
Someone recently made reference, on this mailing list, to the i18n user
group in answer to a question about no English support with Linux. I
couldn't find a reference to this list on the debian web site, but
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
Does one have to compile extra support into the kernel in order
to be able to use accented characters, etc. ?
No.
Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ?
If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Lukas Eppler wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/setfont iso01.f16
There are a lot of fonts to choose from. See /usr/share/consolefonts
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
October, 6 was the beginning of the summer time here in Brazil.
Our clock was advanced an hour.
What is the best solution to this problem:
a- changing clock - how?
b-
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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
I was trying to install this package and came up with the following
errors:
mattyt# dpkg -i libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb
dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1:
libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgdbm1
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Mario Filipe:
Just made an update to my system, but now (among other things) gcc
refuses to work.
the simple helloworld program doesn't compile.
I do gcc -o hello hello.c and it tell's me :
as: can't load library
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On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, OS2LinuxGuide wrote:
# I just bought Debian 1.3.1, and for some reason the version I got on
the cdrom pretends to be every bit 1.3 Now I don't have a problem with this,
but do have a problem with the kernel level of the cdroms. The
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I saw this in a recent info-gnu posting:
Subject: Bash-2.01.1 available for FTP
[...]
g. Fixed a bug in the locale code that occurred when assigning a value
to LC_ALL.
Don't know which exactly was wrong, but I hope to see a Debianised
bash_2.01.1
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Donald R. Harter Jr. wrote:
I would like to know if there is a way to automatically unpack all the
source code for debian, give a script some CFLAGS(like -g or -m386),
compile all of debian, and then optionaly install all the binaries. I
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Aaron Denney:
Looking through the available documentation, it seems that the only way
to install source package
This is a contradiction. source packages are not installed.
is to use it to create a binary package, and
then install the newly created binary
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On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Obi wrote:
Am I the only one in trouble with this version? When I try to send a mail as
soon as I hit return the mail is gone but no body is actually sent: only the
header. Am I missing some dependencies?
No, that version is just
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
First LaTeX it, to create the .dvi. Then for a postscript printer:
dvips file
to print it directly to the printer, or
dvips file -o
to create the .ps file.
It may be worth to know that magicfilter supports
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Martin Bialasinski wrote:
I have two boxes running debian 1.3 ( +some stauff from hamm).
If I telnet from one box to the other one, I can't type in äöüß any more.
Try alias telnet='telnet -L'
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Martin Schulze wrote:
All the mailing lists that are served on lists.debian.org are now
documented in one file and this should reflect their actual state.
You'll find this file on your favourite Debian mirror in
/debian/doc/mailing-lists.txt. This
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello my debian user friends, I have just upgraded my hardware and was
doing a new install of slink. When it came to configure procmail is where
I ran into trouble.
These are the versions of procmail and smail
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Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite
painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the
version in hamm easily.
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Charset: latin1
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hell santiago,
[paul:~]$ mail -v paul
Subject: test procmailrc
test testing tested failed!
Cc: write_log:Received FROM:paul PROGRAM:send-mail SIZE:121
director user matched user paul
transport local uses driver
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On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote:
can I remove the 'base' package? it claims to be obsolete, and contains
mostly /dev/* and the root dir structure...
If it contains files in /dev/*, it is better not to remove it...
Devices are now created by the
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Chris R. Martin wrote:
I am having trouble installing libc6_2.0.7pre1-4. Here is the error
message I'm getting from dpkg:
libc6 conflicts with libc5 ( 5.4.33-7 )
version ( 5.4.33-3 ) installed
I have been unable to find
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
Sorry about the spelling, but when I spelt it correctly, the debian-user
server kept on thinking I wanted to unsubscribe, [...]
Hi. I am getting lots of messages like the one you quoted, but because I'm
*also*
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Keith wrote:
I have tried about three time to build a debian package from the Pine 3.96L
files that I downloaded from the debian server. I have all three files it
runs through the whole thing, but all I get is a tech-notes package.
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote:
Dialog segfaults dumps core after I upgraded ncurses.
Versions:
ncurses-base1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses-bin 1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses-term1.9.9g-8.8
ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-2.1
ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Paul Serice wrote:
I can't seem to upgrade one of the base packages.
My current setup is
ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs.
ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities.
[...]
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On 23 Jul 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
I keep a mirror of the frozen distribution (rooted at
/debian/dists/frozen) of Debian and was wondering how the directory
structure will change on ftp.debian.org after the release tonight. Do
they just rename/relink
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Jack A Walker wrote:
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple
way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase?
I would do this:ls | awk '{ system(mv $0 tolower($0)) }'
(But just
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Pere Camps wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is trying to subscribe to this list, but all
the email it sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not
answered.
The list server rejects subscription requests from suspicious user names
such as root,
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The new mountable dselect method (in package dpkg-mountable)
logs everything. Maybe this is what you are looking for.
On the other side, if you want to install a Debian system from scratch by
using just dpkg, you may use the new package pkg-order to write your
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On 5 Aug 1998, Dale E. Martin wrote:
Just curious if anyone had done it.
Christoph Lameter compiled some Debian packages for Solaris some time ago.
You may look in the debian-devel mailing list archives.
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, [ISO-8859-2] Pawe³ Sakowski wrote:
Debian 1.3.1
Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I
don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows
which packages need installation.
You are
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This is a message for all the Debian SmartList users:
I have just received an important bug report about the smartlist package:
Currently, if you *upgrade* smartlist (from rex to bo, for example), you
may lost all your list aliases in /etc/aliases. This is
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On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
I'm looking for the pgp encryption facility.
*
On the Debian mirrors, there is a file named README.non-US saying:
US laws place restrictions on
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
\sstanley, |/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on
The first \sstanley just makes sure the mail is copied directly to my
inbox before trying to run it through procmail. Otherwise, I think it is
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, A.R.(Tom)Peters wrote:
Whatever happened to the Debian pgp package? [ ... ]
In the Debian mirrors there is a file named README.non-US.
Please, read it. Thanks.
[ Yes, we should add a symlink README.PGP - README.non-US. ]
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On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
There are two regex packages... and there seems to be regex support in
libc5... which one should I use?
The one in libc5 allowed Debian fileutils and textutils to be much
smaller. See the debian/rules file of
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, hogendoorn r.a. wrote:
While playing with flex 2.5.4, I discovered that libfl.a was stripped.
Consequently, linking fails because the symbol yywrap is not defined in
the library.
You are right.
I have uploaded flex-2.5.4-2 two hours ago
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Magic wrote:
I have some computers in the laboratory with RH 4.1 One of tem is a nis
server, a the rest - clients. Now i would like to have one PC with Debian on
my desk :) and... i've a problem...
I instaled:
nis-2.10-1
other:
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
Can we get this list to set a Reply-to: header, like every other piece of
list software I've ever used? It's kind of a PITA to do a reply that goes
only to the list with the current configuration.
Please read:
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On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
Can we get this list to set a Reply-to: header, like every other piece of
list software I've ever used? It's kind
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Normally I have something like this in my .procmailrc file:
[ ... ]
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail/debian
LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/log/debian.log
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender.*debian-announce-request@
debian-announce
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender.*debian-user-request@
debian-user
[ ... ]
But
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
I D/L'd PGP 2.6 a few nights ago [ ... ]
If I remember well, PGP 2.6 was not ELF-ready yet. Please, use PGP 2.6.3.
Follow the README.PGP symlink on the Debian archives.
Thanks.
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Stan Brown wrote:
Is there a utility that I can use in Deban to decode base64 files?
Pine does it automatically.
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iQCVAgUBM0JPSCqK7IlOjMLFAQEz2gQAqZ/FNeinMWEqd0/87IW5EwJueZu1NAiM
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Kristian Nylund wrote:
I've insalled the wg15-locale package, but I don't know how to
use it.. :) The README says something about recompiling libc?
I'd like to use the settings found in /usr/share/locale/sv_FI.
Anyone know how?
This
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
the debian-*.config files and change the subject_prefix option to reflect
the appropriate list, then all of the filtering
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Hello Thomas.
Things are simpler than one might think at first.
You will receive this message twice:
One directly from me, another one from the list, since I have put you in
the To: field and the list is in the Cc: field.
The second one will have
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Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Is legal if I copy the full DEBIAN distribution in a CD (ftp.debian.org)
and I give the CD to my friend?
Short answer: Yes, perfectly legal.
Most programs in the main Debian distribution are covered by the GPL,
which states that if
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On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed Debian 1.2, Linux kernel 2.0.27, in my home PC and I
would like to migrate to Debian 1.3, I download the files from Internet .
As I am not very skilled in this matter, Could anybody give the
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Farzad FARID wrote:
Is the XFree86 3.2 provided with the soon to be released Debian 1.3 free
from the recently announced security hole?
No, but it is planned to include Xfree86 3.3 in Debian 1.3.x (maybe
1.3.1) as soon as it is available
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, iquest wrote:
I'd like to know if Hamm/ has really been frozen? I just check
the debian home site and the news did not mention about this.
I would not mind at all if the announcement is made several days after the
real freeze...
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Won-Ho Kye wrote:
Where can I obtain ar source?
First, we need to know where it comes from:
$ which ar
/usr/bin/ar
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ar
binutils: /usr/bin/ar
So ar is part of the binutils package.
Current (hamm) binutils source is in
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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
I don't know what crtbegin.o is, or where to find it,
I have a crtbegin.o file in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3
I'm using gcc_2.7.2.3-4. Which compiler are you using exactly?
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Norbert Pabis wrote:
I have one little question. What does GNU stands for?
GPL is General... and what is GNU
You will find the answer here:
http://www.gnu.org
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A. M. Varon wrote:
I have two files say, file1 and file2
file1 contains:file2 contains:
alpha alpha
bravo
charlie
What I want to do is compare the two files, and delete the contents of
file1
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
I want to download the entire Debian hamm distribution _for Intel only_
(just binary-i386, isn't it?)
Well, binary-i386, binary-all and disks-i386.
However, you might want to retrieve the files the symlinks
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Carroll Kong wrote:
[...]
Although it still says Debian 1.3 on the outside...once again, no big
deal to fix. /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, right?
Yes, but these files are conffiles.
dpkg should have asked you about keeping them or
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Vaclav Hula wrote:
I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I
have big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can
anybody tell me how?
What you need is probably:
cat mbox | formail -s
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
Can anybody tell me when hamm is expected to go stable?
Also, I am in the middle of installing a hamm system onto a clean drive,
however it seems alot of old packages are missing (ie. pine, etc). Will
these be included
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On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
debmake is kind of out of fashion now and has been
replaced by a different package called debhelper.
Well, debmake may be out of fashion, but perhaps replaced would not be
the right word here. They are just
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
As I understand it, the license forbids distribution of a modified
source or binary, but allows the distribution of patch files.
Adam Klein
Agreed, but is debian
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On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Michael Balcos wrote:
Hi! I'd just like to know if the 1.3.1 R6 release of Debian has all the
Debian packages.
Yes [*].
Should I buy the 1.3.1 release before buying the 1.3.1
R6 release?
No need.
[*] There were some packages (zip
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On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Donald Harter Jr. wrote:
I had bo installed. Then I tried to install hamm and my system became
unusable. (The hamm installs disks were the old libc version.)
I had files from hamm and bo on the system.
It is highly discouraged to
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Is there only the `stable' directory on the Official CDs?
Yes.
If so, then I'll have to ftp all the `contrib' and `non-free' stuff when
2.0 comes out.
No, when 2.0 comes out, there will be a stable main, a
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey the
right to redistribute derivative works, the University of Washington
encourages unrestricted distribution of patch files which can be applied
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On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic :
:0
* ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian
I would not trust the From line.
Why don't you just use the Resent-Sender field?
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
What is the real story with debian 2.0?
We don't want Debian 2.0 to be yet another Red-Hat 5.0.
We don't know for sure when it will be released, but we know that it
should be bug-free enough before it will be released.
On Mon, 4 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just an ignorant question, how often do new libcs come out? What's the
story with glibc (how is it different from libc6)?
[ Just to avoid confusion, glibc means GNU libc. glibc version 2 is
being called libc6 in Linux ].
Switching to libc6 from
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On 3 May 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
The latter First force the removal of e2fsprogs (IIRC
--force-remove-essential) and then install e2fslibsg. You need a
package named comerr2g too.
No. comerr2g and e2fslibsg are obsolete and should be removed from the
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote:
I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home
My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment.
I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span.
You may use
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
I'm having a problem setting up a mailing list with Smartlist. One
of the subscribers is being held hostage to an NT system ;-) and for some
reason it says Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Smartlist doesn't like it and
rejects
mails. The point
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail?
It depends on what you consider best.
When I receive a duplicate answer (through the list and Cc:ed to me),
I usually like to have them in separate folders (not a duplicate mail in
the
On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello everybody, and thankyou for all of the assistance to my recent
questions. I have yet another question. I am trying to download debian
packages from an ftp site with ncftp or wget. I am having a problem in
getting files that are symlinked to
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote:
I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm
(Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at
least they create directories there).
Well, our local system administrator is
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I
can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist
(undefined references to crypt) and other little annoyances.
The Debian source of pine 4.05 is available in
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Alexander Gutfraind wrote:
How are bugs cathegorized, numbered and bug reports
submitted?
See http://www.debian.org/Bugs
Most bug fixes are around bug #26600, does it mean that
26600 is the total number
of bugs discovered in all packages?
Yes, but many of them are
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
Anybody installed this package from project/experimental?
I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I
cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function.
Once more I have to say: Please, do not modify
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, D'jinnie wrote:
Where is the color file for the color option of ls? In slackware it's
/etc/DIRCOLORS but I can't seem to locate it on debian :(
Maybe you are looking for this:
dircolors --print-database
[ Complete details in info format ].
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Carl Flippin wrote:
I am attempting to comile Lynx 2.7.1. When it attempts to link in the
termcap library with '-ltermcap', The compile dies and says that
termcap isn't there. I looked in /lib and saw that a file beginning
with
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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Mathieu Legrand wrote:
I heard about 2 month ago about a french release of RedHat Linux.
Is such a release exist in Debian distribution? I know that a lot
of GNU packages (.tar.gz) are translated by a GNU translation team.
Why not put
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Adam Klein wrote:
I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all
manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages
in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as
a
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On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ted Okada wrote:
Hi.. After reinstalling pine and sendmail... I keep on getting
[Can't open mailbox lock, access is readonly]
in pine... I can't find the lock file and /var/spool/mail/user is 660
and is readable except for the
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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:
I seem to recall seeing .pine_debug{1,2,3,4} in my home directory on a
Debian 1.1 or 1.2 machine, but I never see them now (1.3 stable). If I
type
pine -d 1
I get the sort of output I might expect from pine
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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
For a production version, -DDEBUG is not appropriate.
If the documentation is wrong about this, please use the bug tracking
system. Debian maintainers are not always
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:
Anyway, since the current Debian pine release (3.96L-3) is source-only and
you have to compile it by yourself, you can do whatever changes before
compiling.
I thought Debian existed partly to avoid all that.
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, David Wright wrote:
Having got my debian pine 3.96 working correctly, the university has
upgraded their IMAP server from a beta version to a production version. The
effect is that my client can no longer read the inbox correctly. I get
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