How is diald supposed to be set up in Debian 2.0?
I got PPP working with the pon script by setting things up with
pppconfig.
Now I'm trying to set up diald. I'm getting a PPP error message,
and it's not clear which way it should be fixed.
More generally, it's not clear how much of the pppd
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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:15:58PM -0600, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
Is it possible to create a file system on a tape drive ( like on
mainframes) and use it as a disk? I know it is very slow,
From: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem.
Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like
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/etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory
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I'm having
I wrote:
From: Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 I encountered a serious start-up-problem.
Some of the /etc/init.d/-scripts fail with messages like
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/etc/init.d/kerneld: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory
I wrote:
I just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to Debian 1.3, and am having a problem
with the scripts that are supposed to start kerneld.
The script /etc/init.d/kerneld doesn't start kerneld (when it is run
automatically boot time).
...
So, have I misinstalled 1.3, or ...
From: Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just volunteered to write a FAQ that will be specific to the Debian 1.3
release. Sue Campbell will put it on the website once I've written
something.
Why are we calling this a FAQ (actually, a FAQ _list_) instead of simply
an installation guide? (Or
Can GPM and X co-exist or not?
I recently tried GPM, and it seemed to work in text consoles and co-exist
with X. I could switch back and forth between text consoles and the
virtual console displaying X.
Then it crashed X. It seems that they co-exist as long as there is no
mouse activity
If you have the default system.fvwm2rc file active, it also
starts the pager at the end. To get the pager on all desktops,
you have to put
Style FvwmPager Sticky
somewhere in the initializaion. Putting it in post.hook works
for instance.
Thanks.
(I did finally figure out how to
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On Sat, 24 May 1997, George Bonser wrote:
Everything I have read has always said to be sure to DISABLE gpm before
using X.
On Sat, 24 May 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
Can GPM and X co-exist or not?
I have been running gpm
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel S. Barclay:
...
I just installed the fvwm2 package, but the application menu is pretty much
empty.
Do I have to reinstall every package that has a menu entry? ...
(I assume you're using frozen or unstable, not old debian 1.2. What I say
change this behavior (or is fvwm 2 that different)?
What do I need to do to restore this behavior?
Thanks,
Daniel
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* When I click in the pager to switch desktops, it does switch desktops,
but the pager disappears, so I can't use it to return to my original
desktop.
^^^
Actually, I probably don't mean desktop. I
it to return to my original
desktop.
Problem: It also needs + Style FvwmPager Sticky (because Debian
deleted the Style ... Sticky setting (from the original FVWM distribution)
that would have handled that.
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Supposedly, Debian packages install menu data for FVWM 2.x and Debian's menu
system.
I just installed the fvwm2 package, but the application menu is pretty much
empty.
Do I have to reinstall every package that has a menu entry? (I hope this isn't
Windoze.)
Or is there some way to re-run
From: Fran\gois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
Interesting. Where did you find information on that resource? (It's
apparently not in the manual page.)
In this mailing list. It was in the following message:
To: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Philippe Troin [EMAIL
From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be
slower ?
...
After the upgrade I noticed that my WM (AfterStep) took about 2-3 seconds
more
to load and the window drawing is also a bit slower. I didn't think
From: Fran\gois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpk wrote:
is there a package for color xterms for debian? if so, does anyone
know where it is? i have looked all over in the ftp site to find it
with no luck.
This has been asked recently. The color xterm package has been
abandonned
binaries. Where is information on the loading process for ELF binaries?
Thanks,
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens)
...
We will do this by producing a CD master (actually an ISO image file)
of each release ...
Excellent! (The quality of the CD distribution depends only on Debian, not
on CD manufacturers.)
Daniel
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Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
...
Workarounds are fine, but would someone _please_ report this as a bug so
it can get fixed permanently?
Are you allergic to bug reports?
Excuse me? I'm
: Unexpected EOF on command channel at
/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup line 163
Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in stable/binary-i386
This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link
...
Does anyone know what's wrong?
Thanks,
Daniel
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From: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at
1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time
I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times'
From: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian 1.2.3 is released and contains eight updated packages.
...
Here is the entire ChangeLog (debian/stable/ChangeLog on ftp sites),
...
diald (0.14-9) stable unstable; urgency=low
...
* diald fifo moved to /var/run. This is created/removed by the init
From: Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
...
Good. :-) I HATE that feature of Windows 95. ...
...
Oh...yeah; sorry. Okay.
#undef HATE_MICROSOFT_MODE
have you succesfully compiled anything after this? ...
No, although I do boot
From: Dr. Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I've experienced this too.
: It won't dump core if file is smaller (say a few KB) or the option M
: is not used.
...
overlapping files are lost. Reading it back with M-option makes the
first tape give a Segmentation fault at an offset
Is http://www.debian.org/Documentation/ being maintained?
It has nothing about version 1.2.x on it.
Daniel
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In Debian Linux, do files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ get read
or not?
The Debian FAQ says:
Debian's X11 installation expects you to leave the files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ unchanged. If you want to customise
X applications globally, put your
| Hypermedia, Internet,
Linux/GNU bumper stickers,indie rock,rants | Linux: http://dsl.org
^^^
Hmmm
Daniel
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From: Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
However, how are users supposed to find out about those things?
(Not to say your suggestion is bad, but to address how to make that
information easier to find.)
What about a Tip of the day package
From: John Labovitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
a related question -- has there been any thought of moving the debian
changelog entries into the Packages files themselves? when i run
dselect and it tells me there are updates, i would like to see what
the changelogs are before necessarily
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... the manual pages have fallen out of context... and there is
no index table to get a quick look at where to begin.
Not so!
Consider installing tkman, rman and glimpse, all in non-free.
This requires tcl/tk, too.
Of course, this is only
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
No, this is wrong. The new user should be provided with copious
documentation and be admonished to print it out and read it.
^^
don't forget _organized_ -- or they'll never find the right information
Daniel
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From: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
No, this is wrong. A new user should not have to read long documents prior
to installation. The configure scripts which runs directly after the
installation should make reading docs unnecessary.
I
From: Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look at Windows... and all the users running it, with its idiot proof=
user interface? You want to make a Debian shot at where Microsoft is fail=
ing
so miserably? All you will ever accomplish is a big bunch of helpless
users, that can't even
From: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note: You DEselect what you want to remove. When I first used dselect, I
unselected everything and then selected the packages I wanted to remove.
You can guess the rest...
That probably should be clarified:
You select for removal or purging those
From: Mark W. Blunier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe we should start a new mailing list, debian-dumb-questions.
It would cut my traffic down from debian-user.
Should there be a debian-newbie?
(I don't know how much debian-user is new-user questions and how much it's
other stuff.)
Daniel
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From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
I figured it out by reading the XF86Config man page and all the
keyboard description files, and working backwards. Perhaps I should
put a mini-HOWTO on my todo list...
=
Sounds
a package?
Daniel
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From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I figured it out by reading the XF86Config man page and all the
keyboard description files, and working backwards. Perhaps I should
put a mini-HOWTO on my todo list...
Sounds like an X or XFree86 bug (insufficient documentation).
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
My first Linux installation was Slackware 2.3. I did it with no access to
the net and no outside help. I installed Debian 1.1 on this machine with
no help (I tried to get help, but my questions to this list vanished
without a trace). However, just
From: Darren Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to Install Debian 1.2 and it seems to be getting killed by my
CD-ROM.
What do you mean by killed?
Daniel
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From: Don Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...I think it's sometimes valuable to do a couple of trial runs
with a new installation until you start to understand how the whole
thing works, if you can afford the time. I guarantee you, things
become a lot clearer on the third or fourth install!
Java.
Remember, I'm not saying Debian is bad, or free software is bad, just that
whoever wants more non-hackers (that is, not-so-experienced or non-so-
technical users) to use it better keep user needs in mind.
Daniel
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not a
specific Debian question.
P.P.S. And it's probably in somebody's FAQ list somewhere, or should be,
since it is asked once in a while.
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thought
I had (1MB vs. 2MB).
(Sorry I don't recall if it was SuperProbe I ran manually or something run
in the and package configuration--probably the latter.)
By the way, for me X works fine with the correct value in XF86Config.
Daniel
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From: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 11:51:34 EST JD Thomlinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Just a question -
Will cron ever relent without being forced?
IMHO, cron really doesn't require, recommend or suggest,
it demands!
No, it recommends. It means that
From: Judith Steve Hornett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just purchased the most recent version of the LDR a few days ago.
Having read so much about Debian being the superior versions of Linux,
and having been less than thrilled with previous versions of RedHat
and Slackware, I thought I'd give it
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Eckenfels)
Why dont u use the grafical setup tool XF86Setup? There is a menu point for
configuration of the keyboard. It will display the keyboards you may select
and allows you to use checkboxes for the options.
This tool should be started automatically if
From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
Control keys under X windows?
I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following
to the Keyboard section of XF86Config:
XkbRules xfree86
XkbModel microsoft
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What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
Control keys under X windows? =
It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
Thanks for the information, thought not for the possible attitude. (How
would someone know to look in xmodmap?)
..
When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
What might cause this difference?
Thanks,
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From: Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following
to the Keyboard section of XF86Config:
XkbRules xfree86
XkbModel microsoft
XkbLayout us
XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps
If you want the control keys _and_ caps lock to
From: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly
not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading
1.1
From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
Put those lines into a file, and then run 'xmodmap [file]' and the
Control_Left and Caps_Lock keys change places. With or without the
extension.
After some digging (through startx and xinitrc scripts), I found that the
_right_ answer
From: Daniel S. Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
What might cause this difference?
Never mind. It was running
for
the diald command-line option -- (to give options to
pass directly to pppd)?
Thanks again,
Daniel
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How do you find which package contains a file you need to install?
The dpkg manual page says that dpkg -S searches installed packages.
That has its uses--but it's useless for finding which package you need
to install to get a specific file.
Is there a convenient/standard way to search
From: Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daniel How do you find which package contains a file you need to
Daniel install?
...
The file Contents.gz is probably what you are looking for, it is
in the Debian archive in the stable or unstable directories if i am
not mistaken.
Yes. That's
?
(My Emacs rmail seems to be ignoring the Reply-To field. Am I missing
some standard setup information?)
Thanks,
Daniel
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clean, I'm loading default Debian configuration
files and then customizing them, instead of just trying to dump my
old configuration files onto the Debian system.
Thanks,
Daniel
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key map to set up the X key map.)
Thanks,
Daniel
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I'm using the InfoMagic CDrom set (Dec 96) to upgrade. Here are some notes:
...
3) several packages have 2 versions and dselect happily installs both
versions without trying to distinguish between them. And because of the
directory order (checked with 'ls -U'),
these
recent 1.2 bugs to Debian?
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somewhere?
(Unless it's posted repeatedly or maintained somewhere, we won't be able
to accumulate other problems as they surface.)
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