Hi,
man 5 proc lists most of the entries, though it's a little out of date.
Surely there's a more thorough description somewhere, perhaps in the
kernel source?
HTH,
Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
Can anyone point me to docs/info on the /proc directory.
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to send this earlier, but i don't think anything got out.
After reinstalling, my .xsession file isn't run. I've looked in the man
pages for x and xdm, but they don't say anything about permissions other than
to be executable. I've
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
hey all,
i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
What problem in particular are you
On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
Using a different From-address is not the MTA's task but the job ob
the user agent. You can tell mutt, elm, pine etc. which from address
to use.
Hmm, I *think* the From: address is already correct, I set it in VM. I
sent my earlier mail from my
The install process formats the partition for Linux. You just need to
create the partition or empty space for one beforehand - it can be a Win95
partition or whatever. The install program will ask which partition(s)
you want to format for Linux, or even allow you to destructively
repartition.
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote:
robert havoc pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A local expert tells me that bounced mail doesn't go to the From: address
but to some other thing set by the MTA. I've tried sending mail to bad
addresses and I get nothing back. So something's
On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote:
i just wanted to know about compatibility.
I have a Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 GB, which has UDMA capability. The
current version of Linux just ignores the UDMA, and uses plain DMA.
It works fine for me. However, some people have had problems with
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Christian Hudon wrote:
Hi,
I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work.
Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that
(1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and
Mod4, which is nonsensical.
Well, I think
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, impale wrote:
What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ?
See the PPP HOWTO for one explanation. Essentially cua? is obsolete,
ignore it and use ttyS?.
Havoc Pennington
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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, John Kloss wrote:
It is NOT obsolete. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is
a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many times to connect to my
ISP through /dev/ttyS1, 2, 3 (it should be 1 because that is what the com
port is) and nothing happened.
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Abou Anber wrote:
who can I fixed the resoltion of Xwindows at begining?
Your preferred resolution should be the first one listed.
down you will find my XF86Config.
...
Subsection Display
Depth 8
# Omit the Modes line for the Generic
On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
I just noticed that a FREE Linux version of PerfectBACKUP is now available. It
is not crippled and does not expire.
Well, the c.o.l.a message says:
It has no timeout and is not crippled by any other means.
But every time I choose an option other
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
How does one turn off the console blanking so that the x-windows
screen saver is on all the time?
I think I did this:
xset s off#don't blank the screen
in my .xsession. At least, I have that in my .xsession and my screen
doesn't blank.
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote:
Can anyone direct me to a newbie FAQ or manual/guide to using (not
installing) X?
Hard to think of one... surely there ought to be one. In the meantime, try
reading the manual pages on your window manager, and there's a manual page
on just 'X' too.
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
The second thing to think about is the PC's somewhat dated partition
scheme. You can only have 4 physical partitions on a drive, but you can
divide those partition into logical partitions. All things being equal,
it's better to avoid logical
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Greg Green wrote:
When I used Red Hat Linux, all I had to do to get Xwindows to start at
login was to edit the /etc/inittab to go default to run level 4. Now, I
am running Debian 1.30 and do not even see a reference to xdm in the
/etc/inittab. I am obviously missing
On 23 Nov 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
Much of the spam aren't addressed to you directly.
Make a list of all the addresses and mailinglists to which you get
mail, filter that mail into list.debian, mail.private, and similar.
Leave the rest in mail.unsorted and take a look in that
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Today a new user was asking for basic help in using Linux. There doesn't
seem to be anything like that on the CD-rom, unless my copy is out-of-date.
I attach a document that might serve as a brief introduction, that could
be added to the files on
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Zach Wilkes wrote:
Is there any way to change the colors of Xterm? mine defaults to
black on white (which gets really annoying when you telnet to a
machine using really light ansi colors), and I would rather have it
white on black..
xterm -bg black -fg white
or
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote:
While we're on the subject, I've had an annoying problem with X anc
colsole switching forever: I can switch to another console fine, but when
I switch back to X, I see the underlying console instead of the graphics,
like when you quit X. What am I
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Janos A Csirik wrote:
I use Debian Linux on my home computer, and frequently need to log in to
some university machines which are running SunOS (4.1.3 and 5.5).
However these machines do not know about the terminal type 'linux', so I
have to use vt100, which results in
Hi,
I just got a new disk and mainboard (yay!) but I have to do some work
tonight. So I just put my old disk in the new system and booted, and
things are working great (and a whole lot faster - 386-16 to K6).
However, I'd love to have a fresh new install to my new disk going on as I
work. Can
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Liran Zvibel wrote:
I was able to configure X, the only problem is that if I
tell the Setup program that my Monitor is SVGA the resolution is too
small, and if I tell it I have non-interlaced the fonts are so small that
they are hardly readable. Is there a way to
Hi,
What's the best way to set things up to permit users to (un)mount
floppies and CDs? disk, floppy and cdrom groups? sudo? xvmount?
fstab options? other possibilities? If there's no best way, what are the
pros and cons of different ways?
Also, is there a document somewhere detailing the
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote:
Anyone know of any updated info on the release of gnome v.20 for
debian? I'm anxiously awaiting it's arrival. Is it possible to simply
install it using the tarballs on the gnome site? Or will there be mucho
configuration I need to do?
It's in
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote:
When I read the man pages, or any zip file that I have for that matter, I
use the command: 'zmore .tar.gz'. This obviously is not the right
command to view these files, in that the files have all sorts of control
characters in them.
.tar.gz is
On 23 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Compiling the entire Linux kernel to about 10 minutes.
You must be low on memory or something. I get less than 5 minutes on
my single PP200.
My 386SX16 just spent 12 hours compiling the kernel only to run out
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Maciej Koprowski wrote:
Hi!
I tried to install ( on my PC) too many packages using dselect.
Dselect quitted , because my Linux partition was full .
What can I do now to recover my system clean and well working ?
Go back into dselect and remove or purge some of
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well i got 1.2.2 installed and i was wondering about x
windows, could anyone tell me how much disk space i will
need to run this. i have an old 386 with 4m ran and 20mb
of swap space.
less than
Hi,
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do) but since each package has a predictable size it seems dselect
could
Hi,
I can run ppp as root, but as any other user it does this: (from the log)
May 31 00:58:56 havoc pppd[468]: Serial connection established.
May 31 00:58:57 havoc pppd[468]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not
permitted
May 31 00:58:57 havoc pppd[468]: ioctl(PPPIOCGDEBUG): Operation not
permitted
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote:
I am looking for a window manager to go with long term. I recently
installed kde and find it quite nice, but I'd like to look at other
options also. I understand the reason why debian has given some
support to gnome and would like to try it when
Hi,
OK, everyone's going to think I'm insane, but this has happened several
times. Sometimes running poff, either from an xterm or from the window
manager menu, causes my X session to die. This has happened using either
the window manager or an xterm as session manager, so it's killing the
There should be one in non-free (or maybe contrib?) - anyway, it's there
somewhere on the ftp server, I have it installed.
Havoc Pennington
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote:
I am looking for a debian package of PINE, does any one know where I can
get one?
thanks
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
No, I think someone is taking the politics of free software to an extreme.
It looks like someone in Debian decided that their patches to configure it
resulted in a derivative work and since pine does not allow derivative
works to be called pine, it
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
What is the name of the command in debian that shows information about
files? Things like last access time, last modification time and so on. I
could swear that I once used a command 'stat' for this purpose, but it
either wanished, or it never was
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Jeff Garey wrote:
Bravo! Couldn't have said it better myself! I seem to have the
same experience...several years experience with computers, and a
little programming, and a technical background in communications.
Unfortunately, Linux is not my full time job.
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Stefan Baums wrote:
I'll buy a notebook computer shortly, and one of my prime concerns is
that GNU/Linux will not only run on it somehow, but actually use the
available hardware features. At the moment, I'm considering the
If you really want to be sure your best bet is
The only problem with the K6 I've read about is with some made before
September of last year, they occasionally bomb in large compiles with over
32 MB of RAM in the machine. Do a web search and you should be able to
find out if your K6 is one of the broken ones by looking at the serial #.
AMD
On 23 May 1998, Bonard B. Timmons III wrote:
su -c 'cd /usr/local/bin ; ln -s ../../bin/egcc gcc'
There is probably a cleaner way, but this should work, since
/usr/local/bin is usually searched for non-root users before /usr/bin.
The Official way is to use /etc/alternatives, I think.
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote:
I have doenloaded gnome from slink and yes it I ran dpkg on it and it
seems to be well installed but how do I use it? I thought it would be like
the nice KDE desktop but it just seems to be eating my disk space. How do
I run it? Why is there no
On Thu, 28 May 1998, Tim O'Brien wrote:
I've been using Debian for quite a while now, and was wondering what sort
of support Linux/X has for cut and paste? Sure, there's the stuff with
GPM where things can be cut and pasted, but it's not very universal.
There is limited support. You can
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Jacob E Goodman wrote:
I just placed an order for a Dell Dimension XPS R400MHz system, which
includes a 16.8GB EIDE Ultra ATA hard drive, factory installed.
Will I be able to use Linux on this system, or is the disk too large?
I plan to partition the disk and install
Hi,
I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically,
kill $SSH_AGENT_PID) and I can't figure out how.
Xreset runs as root, and this should be run by the user.
fvwm2's ExitFunction also runs when you restart, and I don't want to do
this if I just restart the window manager,
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
[edited]
robert havoc pennington wrote:
I want to run a program when I log out of my X session (specifically,
kill $SSH_AGENT_PID) and I can't figure out how.
Then make your ~/.xsession as:
#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/X11R6/bin
On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
The Official CD will have a slower release schedule than the system
available via FTP. Those who wish the latest fixes should be willing to
update a few packages on their systems via FTP between each CD
purchase. Nobody can press new CDs every two weeks
On Fri, 29 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Absolutely. Linux also needs marketing, marketing, and more marketing.
I can only think of one business need that Linux based systems don't
support - OCR. Everything else is available.
Desktop publishing. A Quark XPress clone is not going to be
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