Hi all,
Using the nice desktop-base package, I prettified my two-head desktop to
greet me under kdm with the same theme as my laptop had.
Unfortunately, on a dual-head machine (using nvidia and twinview, if that
matters) the theme sticks only to one screen. I can't seem to find a hint to
On 10 November 2007 at 11:58, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
| On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 11:50:35AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
| Hi all,
|
| Using the nice desktop-base package, I prettified my two-head desktop to
| greet me under kdm with the same theme as my laptop had
On 23 June 2007 at 09:31, Ross Boylan wrote:
| On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
| I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons)
| with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a
| molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile
| with my installed
Dan,
First off, there is even a r-sig-debian list in the universe of R mailing
lists (c.f. the R FAQ). That probably provides a more focused readership
than the union of r-help (where many won't know Debian) and debian-user
(where many won't know R).
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:04:50PM -0500, Dan
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:49:15PM +0900, Victor Munoz wrote:
Hello. Lately I've had a problem with editing octave files with
XEmacs. I'm using Debian woody, and this may be an issue with the
distribution or with XEmacs. So I'm posting this to the octave help
and debian user lists, in
Version 0.3 of Quantian is now available.
o Now based on clusterKnoppix: this adds support for OpenMosix,
including terminalserver support for booting cluster nodes
off the machine running quantian
o Bowing to popular demand, we added the comedi control and
measurement device
overview page, including a recent paper, is at
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
Plans for future versions are not set in stone but may entail support for
OpenMosix clustering. Comments, questions, feedback are more than welcome!
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:32:10PM -0300, Jorge L. deLyra wrote:
I going nuts here. In June, I set up a scheme to have an old PC boot from a
local image (floppy and/or hd) and run of a nfs-root partition on my
server. Works very well with 2.2.20, and I replicated it with 2.2.21.
But
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:02:46PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
To point out the obvious...
are you sure you flipped the kernel-autoconfig bit in networking and
the allow nfsroot bit (somewhere else I forget, probably network
file systems)
Yes, I checked that:
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
Eaton for helping
debug some errors in the initial setup, and to Doug Bates for work on the R
package. Special thanks to Ben Collins for providing a patched ldconfig as
part of the libc6 package.
Initial version
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:37:15 -0500
First updated
(Please CC me on replies as I am currently unsubscribed.)
The more recent bbdb versions in testing seemed to have broken my setup. Did
anybody else experience a similar problem, and better still, fix it? I am
using bbdb_2.2-1 along with xemacs21-{bin,nomule,support}_21.1.10-5 as
currently in
[ Please CC me on replies.]
At work, and on a computer which runs Debian 2.2, I upgraded Matlab today.
The new Matlan version just some Java issues, which are probably libc6
interaction issues -- in fact, Matlab dies with a seg fault and leaves a
java.log.PID logfile. The Java runtime
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This might be a trivial questions with a quick No! as the answer ...
At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of
the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my
(vanilla NT 4.0) desktop at work which is set to let other 'share' its
files. I
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:44:01AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
At work, in a predominantly NT environment, I use Samba to mount drives of
the NT servers on the Lan. However, I'd also love to access files on my
(vanilla NT 4.0)
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:58:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Yes, as I wrote, that works fine for NT servers providing a share. I use
that with the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab so that I can simply say
mount /mountpoint
and the rest happens
(Please CC me on replies as I am not debian-user.)
Just had a first look at the koffice work-in-progress using Ivan's fine kde
archive, but there is something wrong with the dependencies:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ kword
kword: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.1:
on current (as of a few hours ago) upstream source.
Thanks, that sounds great! Guess I can stop scratching my head now, and send
some virtual beers over to you.
Dirk
Ivan
Ivan Ivan
Ivan
Ivan On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 04:24:04PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Ivan Content-Description: forwarded
I prepared the text below to announce this to the Debian dupload program,
but I think it was taken. CC'ed to the Octave list as well. Feedback by
Debian and Octave users on the new packages would be appreciated.
Announcing Octave 2.0 and 2.1 packages for Debian
This is to
Julio You're lucky - my current potato install doesn't even install
Julio StarOffice..
Feel free to send me your `dpkg -l' so that we can diff ours. It was really
no problem here (potato apt-get'ed up tp speed two days ago, SO51
re-downloaded yesterday).
--
According to the latest
(Please CC: me on replied. Thanks.)
I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of StarOffice 5.1
here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works fine, but just won't
print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and reinstalled, but no luck. The
machine is current potato with lpd
Dirk I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of
Dirk StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works
Dirk fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and
Dirk reinstalled, but no luck. The machine is current potato with lpd and
Dirk
Debian mirrors, sorts the result by ping
# time and output the 'n' (default is 20) fastest
#
# Written by Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] and released under the GPL
# $Id: debian-mirrors.pl,v 1.3 1998/02/19 02:12:02 edd Exp $
## Yes, Net::FTP is much cooler, but we don't want to depend on libnet
(Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.)
I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years, and as
XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I could migrate.
Doesn't work (yet).
Anybody have any idea? I use
ii emacs19 19.34-21 The GNU
Dirk (Please CC: me as I'm no longer on this list.)
Dirk
Dirk I'm scratching my head: Have been using VM with Emacs19 for years,
Dirk and as XEmacs20 supports VM as well (with its own copy), I thought I
Dirk could migrate. Doesn't work (yet).
Matthew It might well be that having
2.0.35 hangs on my plain vanilla Pentium (approx 3 yrs old, Asus board, AMI
bios). Right after
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 hdc5 hdc6
hdd: [PTBL] [621/64/63] hdd1 hdd2 hdd3 hdd5 hdd6
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
nothing happens.
[ You edited citations and appended/deleted material without showing that you
did so. That is considered to be very Bad Taste (TM) as it implies that the
person who you cited (ie, me) said things in a different context or order.
That is bad style. And I am not amused. --edd ]
Tim With
I am trying to set up a new machine for someone else. The machine came with
an ATI 3D Xpression 2MB card.
Using Debian 1.3.1, I can't get any X11 server other than vga16 to work. The
Mach64 server seems to splits the screen vertically a couple of times. X
-probeonly says
unknown ATI (82304x)
Jim Could you add the Resent-Sender header back onto the mailing lists
Jim again? It was much easier to filter e-mail with them rather than
Jim filtering by the To: and Cc: fields.
If you use procmail, consider the ^TO meta-expression which is *much* more
general. Works for me all
Ed I'm trying to configure my modem and, as recommended in the
Ed Serial-HOWTO, I've been using kermit to test it out. Problem is that
Ed /dev/ttyS1, which is the serial port my modem is on, seems to only
Ed allow root access.
Add yourself to the dialout group in /etc/group.
--
Dirk
Billy (other than the inflexible configuration, some features like
Billy previewing documents with ps fonts with xdvi are broken in Debian).
Not so. I am both LaTeX'ing and xdvi'ing with psfonts on Debian boxes with no
problems.
You just have to add gsftopk, and modify MakeTeXPK (I send a
James I was curious if it's possible to yank the Linux Kernel v2.0.20 off
James sunsite.unc.edu and install it on a Debian v1.1 (Kernel v2.0)
James machine.
Yes, that should work. Just untar it somewhere, have /usr/src/linux point to
that directory, install the Debian's kernel-package,
Nick I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer
Nick leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to
Nick /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of
Nick letter.
Correct. Also the app-defaults file for xdvi sets a4 paper and deskjet
Marcus Hightower writes:
Marcus Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing.
See the Debian FAQ (from the doc-debian package, or the ftp site)
7.4. How can I find out what package produced a particular file?
To identify the package that produced the file named foo execute
Susan I had another problem with the latest version of TeX which I could
Susan not seem to fix by adjusting dvips/config.ps. It was that an extra
Susan 1 seemed to have been added to the margins on all sides. I fixed
Susan this using vmargin, but that wasn't necessary before.
Weird.
Johnny I do not know why this happens, only that the same thing happend
Johnny to me when I tried to format my Quantum Sirrocco 2.5 Gig hard
Johnny drive. Around about the 2.1 gig it starts reporting errors. I can
Johnny only assume that the system cannot handle partitions over 2 gig.
Kevin what am I missing?!?!?!?
You didn't tell us what you were selecting for PPP in make xconfig. If I am
not mistaken, you need modules. I always use them where I can, and they work
great for me. I select:
#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
Chuma Anyway after make config , make-kpkg refuses to run telling me there
Chuma is nothing to make. What do I need to do to have make-kpkg rebuild
Chuma with the new config ?
Run
make-kpkg clean
*before* you do a
make xconfig
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
Marcus Hightower writes:
Marcus I need a header file named curses.h
Markus, it's documented in the FAQ as I wrote you some hours ago. So please
do use the Contents or Contents.gz file.
miles:~ [root] # zgrep curses.h /mirror/debian/rex/Contents.gz
usr/i486-linuxaout/include/bsd/curses.h
Kevin I've got an application I'm trying to install on my new Debian
Kevin system and it is giving me a warning about a missing script (called
Kevin newaliases).
[...]
Kevin Anyone have any ideas about where I can find this script?
miles:~ [root] # zgrep newaliases
Algirdas Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction
Algirdas on creating deb packages?
Vadik Please post it to the list,
New version of dpkg ( 1.4.0) or dpkg-dev (= 1.4.0) come with two html'ed
manuals in /usr/doc/dpkg/{programmer,policy}.html/ that pretty much
Michael How does one unsubscribe these lists?
$ echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Miro Torrielli writes:
Miro I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to retrieve
Miro all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I noticed
Miro that when installing a large number of packages on the system, the
Miro unpacking of some of them fail,
Casper I wonder if you might possibly translate that for the rest of us.
My excuses! That mail was not meant to also go to the list.
texbin fails to configure because version mfbasfnt-1.0-5 is missing the
file manfnt.mf (a special font for something in Knuth's book). Downgrading to
Todd Some friends and I all have a bunch of D-Link DE-250CT's, which are
Todd NE2000 compatible. They all work fine under Linux. I had to use
Todd their setup program (under M$-DOS) to set the IRQ, I/O address, BNC,
Todd RJ-45, and a few other things. After that, yer set!
Looking
David Do I have to completely remove TeX and then reinstall it?
Just downgrade to mfbasfnt-1.0-3 from the stable aka buzz-fixed release. It
contains a manfnt.mf so that TeX builds. dpkg --configure babel should then
set babel straight.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
Steve I like Bruce Perens's idea of splitting up the mailing
Steve list because, even if I did have a mail filter (which I assume
Steve parses the subject line),
Wrong assumption. Install the procmail package and see that it can parse
_anything_ from mail-header fields to actual mail
I can't help you there. While I use (and maintain) tob and afio, I never use
muti-volume backups as I do them off-line anyway. I just define my backup
volumes such that they will fit on one 170 MB tape. That holds /etc, /home
and /usr/local, which is all I need.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
I assume that Bruce meant
$ ls -l /dev | grep 10,
which yields:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l /dev|grep 10,
crw-rw 1 root sys 10, 134 Dec 31 1969 apm_bios
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10, 3 Dec 31 1969 atibm
crw-rw 1 root audio 10, 128 Dec 31 1969
My laptop doesn't boot Linux on hda3 anymore. I just installed a new system
by overwriting the swap partition on hda2. My first attempt of running e2fsck
gives:
The filesystem superblock is corrupt. Try running e2fsck with an
alternate superblock using the -b option. (8193 is
Dolgopolsky Igor writes:
Igor Hello. I have a problem with iBCS from 1.2.13 don't match 2.0.16.
Igor I downloaded iBCS 2.0 but cannot compile this.
You can just ignore the errors. I usually do make after un-tar-ing the
source, with no confih whatsoever and it works. The make breaks in
Miguel Cna anynone please tell me how do I mirror a site? Is there any
Miguel howto?
No, but I've put a README with some documentation, as well as an example file
for ftp.debian.org, into the Debian mirror package. The manual page for
mirror is quite good.
Miguel what are the procedures?
Miro I recently upgraded to the 2.0.17 kernel, although this problem
Miro occured with other non-debian kernels. I now get, on boot, and in
Miro my daemon log when use diald and pppd,
Miro Can't locate module net-pf-4
Miro -5
Boris it's aliases
Boris ignore
Giuseppe Vacanti writes:
Giuseppe The LaTeX in Debian seems to be broken. Revision 2e-4 didn't
Giuseppe seem to find the standard classes and packages. Revision 2e-7
Giuseppe dies on installation.
Giuseppe
Giuseppe Has anybody been successful with LaTeX?
I never had any problem
Giuseppe Vacanti writes:
Giuseppe I would like to try out the Advanced Power Management features
Giuseppe in my PC. However I haven't been able to enable APM in the
Giuseppe kernel. When I do make xconfig I do nt see any obvious switch
Giuseppe referring to APM.
APM is in the
Jean 1) Where/how am I supposed to install latex styles for all users?
Below /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/
As kpathsea searches recursively (see /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf), I
usually keep some subdirs (that match the CTAN structure).
Jean 2) Kpathsea is a nice and powerful thing.
Richard I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that
Richard includes it? I kind of liked it.
It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have
been new upstream releases. :-)
As for tape backups, we have tob which most people who tried it seem
Derek Hi I am contemplating installing debian on an IBM thinkpad 560 Dual
Derek scan. Are there any special things to do regarding this computer?
No idea, check the Linux Laptop home page (http://www.redhat.com/llhp/)
Derek Are there Linux utilities to test the battery level etc?
Yes,
Erik Can't really seem to figure out what is wrong. Indeed I do not have
Erik a /usr/bin/mail, could it be my use of sendmail instead of smail? If
Erik anyone has any hints on how to solve this one, I'll be very grateful!
Install the mailx package, it provides the simple /usr/bin/mail
Miro Does anyone know how to use procmail with popclient? When
Miro configured to use procmail, popclient exits saying that it can't exec
Miro a few things. Any hints? :-)
The two are unrelated. I use popclient as in
popclient -3 -P file_with_password hostname
to grab the mail.
Hakan Ardo writes: Sure it does, the only trouble with that one is
that it only uses half of the paper :) The rest is margins...
That's true. And I don't know how to solve it correctly. I just entered
a latex preamble:
I always use vmargin.sty which allows to define the margins
Todd Is there any chance you have checked the bootparm-howto?
Todd
Todd http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw ??
If you install Debian's doc-linux package, they are also at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/*
As the doc-linux package is updated monthly with the upstream HOWTOs, you
should always look for
Ken Gaugler writes:
Ken I had a nasty surprise using ftape to dump my filesystems for
Ken archival right before repartitioning my hard drive. I wanted to let
Ken people know about this in case they were not already aware.
Ken
Ken If you plan to dump several filesystems to one tape
Shaya Potter writes:
Shaya I just noticed that my linux box dosen't seem to be keeping correct
Shaya time.
File that under advantages of being IBM PC compatible :-)
Shaya Does anyone know of an efficient way to make my linux box keep
Shaya correct time?
I have these two lines in a
Bill Roman writes:
Bill Why doesn't `ifconfig dummy songdog' work? It tells me:
Bill SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
Try
ifconfig dummy0 hostname
route add hostname
and if you use kerneld to load modules, add this in /etc/conf.modules:
alias dummy0 dummy
--
Jay In addition to previous mail, would like to add that I've started
Jay receiving messages like this too:
[...]
Jay Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: NSTATS 840208291 840075082 A=102 PTR=2
Jay MX=3 ANY=3 Aug 16 16:11:31 named[145]: XSTATS 840208291 840075082
Jay RQ=110 RR=44 RIQ=0 RNXD=1
Ken Gaugler writes:
Ken I am getting lots of messages about the key symbols not being right.
Ken I remember from BSDI that you had to have the nls directory set up in
Ken a special place. Tried to hack this but still not getting the desired
Ken result (i.e. no more messages about
Christopher It took me a while to search this down, but the documentation
Christopher (thanks to LDP) is available at:
Christopher
Christopher http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2
If you install the doc-linux package, it is also at
/usr/doc/HOWTO/*
As
Chris 1. This question is more of a general bash question and if I
Chris shouldn't be posting it here someone let me know and I won't pester
Chris this group about it any more. All the following applies to the root
Chris account, I haven't checked it for an ordinary user yet.
[lots of
(Follow-up only to debian-user. Please don't write to debian-devel and
debian-user at the same time.)
Shaya Potter writes:
Shaya I just installed fileutils 3.13-3, and now my 'ls' is screwed up.
Shaya I removed color-ls as it said I was supposed to. I remember reading
Shaya about how
Tim Does anyone know how to get diald to work? I'm almost there; I can
Tim get it to do it's thing, dial, connect to my ISP, start sending data,
Tim but after about 30 seconds, diald kills pppd, and reports that it has
Tim timed out waiting for ppp to connect. :/ Since I was in the
Ricardo Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention
Ricardo of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be
Ricardo a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any...
It is meant to be used from within _dselect_. It gives you a new line in
Ricardo Hi! First, thanks for the pointers... But I'm still having
Ricardo problems. I've done an unpack and install on mirror-2.8-0.deb
Ricardo (that's the version that I have here for 0.93), but there's
Ricardo nothing under /etc/mirror (as a matter of fact, that directory
Ricardo
Dale Scheetz writes:
Dale The current way I manage my e-mail involves using popclient to get
Dale incoming e-mail from my ISP (mail.polaris.net) to dwarf's incoming
Dale mail folder on my machine (dwarf.polaris.net),
Same here. I advocate [EMAIL PROTECTED], which forwards to
[EMAIL
Robert hmm ok well i have checked 5 sites now and fileutils-3.12-4.deb IS
Robert the newer version. if i am wrong about this please tell where there
Robert is a newer version.
You have to look in the rex aka development aka unstable tree, not in
Debian-1.1-fixed aka Debian-1.1.3 aka
Hi Lamar
I hope you don't mind that I put this back onto the list as other people
might wonder about this too.
Lamar Hi, Dirk. I seem to be having some trouble getting posts to the
Lamar debian-user list, so I'm mailing you directly.
Lamar
Lamar You posted something about using
Dirk Oh yes, it was aliased to do that. Just start the dircolors (the old
Dirk one from the color-ls package, that is) from the shell and you'll
Dirk see.
Michael I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder
Michael why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is
Robert same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still
^^
Robert remains and wasn't removed
Dirk Sure, 3.12-4 is not 3.13-{1,2}. Try a newer version of fileutils.
Michael Sorry Dirk but
I never said that _you_ were
Dirk color-ls was removed here when I installed fileutils-3.13-1.
^^
Michael Strange. On my site it wasn't.
Robert same here. i installed fileutils-3.12-4. the color-ls package still
Guy I will add that `--color' is equivalent to `--color=yes', which is
Guy probably not what you want. If you make any aliases, use
Guy `--color=tty'. You don't want nasty escape codes if it's not a tty.
Those are the old style options implemented by color-ls (which is a patched
version
Michael I like to see that the standard ls is now colorized. But I wonder
Michael why the old one isn't removed automatically? Is there a reason for
Michael this?
Wichert Some monitors make text unreadable (cheap laptops for example)
Wichert when you use colors. Maybe a
John Cook writes:
John Does this mailing list offer the option of receiving periodic
John message digests as e-mail instead of every inidividual message?
No, but you can use mailagent or procmail (both available as Debian packages)
to filter you mail into different folders which IMHO is
Noam Rettig writes:
Noam Currently the default pager on my system is 'more'. I want to
Noam change it to 'most'. How should I do that?
Add this line to /etc/profile (or ~/.bash_profile)
export PAGER=most
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Noam Rettig writes:
Noam I have msdos on /dev/hda1 and linux on /dev/hda2. I know that lilo
Noam can be configured to boot with either one at startup by pressing the
Noam TAB key. How can I add the DOS image to my startup.
You have to read the LILO documentation in /usr/doc/lilo, or
Dale Scheetz writes:
Dale I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any
Dale more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel
Dale section. Anyone know what happened to it?
There never was one. Take your pick among
f2c with fort77
or
g77.
Dale I ended up making a link to g77 and things work better.
I wouldn't do that. Whenever I compiled octave here, ./configure was
perfectly capable of working with either f2c or g77, maybe with the help of
a --with-f2c argument, but that's about it.
If you make a link f77, one program one day
David M Cooke writes:
David Will the officially release Debian 1.1 include emacs-19.31?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ emacs --version
19.31.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ cat /etc/debian_version
1.1
Debian 1.1 is in official beta-test and can be installed safely.
David Where is the .deb file?
Oh, sorry, I must have taken emacs-19.31 from the developers system.
The public archive lags a little, mostly a day, sometimes a little longer.
Expect to see emacs-19.31 in unstable/binary/editors any time now.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
James 3) emacs was upgraded to 19.30 (another major enhancement!). when I
James upgraded to 19.29, I had the same problem, namely, emacs looks for
James the file /usr/lib/emacs/19.28/lisp/jka-compr.elc. This problem is
James easily fixed by creating the sym-link 'ln -s 19.30 19.28' in
Carlos Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-(
Narrr. I am quite happy with one simple entry in /etc/printcap, plus one
gs_filter. All I print is in postscript (generated by genscript or dvipsk)
and printed via gs. That I can simply say print in any application
Matthew To the point: unfortunately, the volume is very large. I'd much
Matthew prefer to get this mailing list in digest format. Does anyone know
Matthew if this is possible with the list server that debian.org uses? No
Matthew mention is made on their web pages, the place I signed up
Dale Miller writes:
Dale I am working on a package of Lclint which is the free lint for
Dale Linux. Unfortunately I am having problems with color-ls. When I try
Dale to do make test to compile the test cases I get the following error.
Dale dircolors: Unknown shell `csh '. This causes
Dale What is in your /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc file?
That is the usual plain text file that describes which colours are used for
which modes, extensions, ... I just didn't like the name DIRCOLORS or
whatever is proposed as uppercase is so loud.
Dale I have the eval `dircolors -b` in my
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
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 daemon.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0
Craig The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by
Craig root.ppp and it should be mode 1750.
Can we make that dialout, please? Something already present and used by (at
least) dip and efax.
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Dirk Eddelbuttel
Richard Dansereau writes:
Richard Hi! I'm trying to get minicom properly setup. When I try to run
Richard minicom as a non-priveledged user.. I get the error that /dev/cua1
Richard permission denied The default permission settings on /dev/cua1
Richard when you install Debian 0.93R6
Yves Arrouye writes:
Yves I can't find the name of the package maintainer, so here's the
Yves problem: when the timezone is incorrectly set (the default in my 1.1
Yves brand new installation), saying
Yves
Yves % date +%Z
Yves
Yves does something bad: instead of
Luis Is there any way of checking whether the network is responding so
Luis that I only run popclient when it is?
Here's my crontab entry. Every 5 minutes, fping tests whether we can connect
to the pop hosts. In case we are, popclient is called with the account
password on rosebud being
Keith XKeyCaps is a wonderfull X app that will generate those ugly xmodmap
Keith commands for you a-la Macintosh. Take a look at:
Already available for Debian, albeit in the development tree:
PACKAGE: xkeycaps
VERSION: 2.29-3
ARCHITECTURE: i386
MAINTAINER: Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bernd Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone
Bernd of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german
Bernd site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions?
That has been bugging me as well when I switched from ftp.debian.org to
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