OK I've setup my laptop up to a point that deserves backing up.
I'd like to be able to recovery quickly in an emergency. I have
my desktop machine which I can NFS to/from the laptop ...
Does anybody have any strategies for backing up a laptops installation?
The local Packages files reflect what
From: Johannes Plass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
too tight.
Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
[ snip ]
The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
any dependencies specified by package
From: Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?
Yes and no.
Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called efix and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.
No, because I
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:19:00 Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I want to try out imagemagic which is dependend on libtiff3-gif. When I try
dpkg -i libtiff3-gif_3.4beta035-1.deb I get the message libtiff3-gif
depends on libtiff3.
Imagmagick depends on libtiff, not libtiff-gif. You
I just repartitioned one of my drives to give Linux more space and Winbloze
less. Now I have four partitions: swap, /, /usr, and /usr/local instead of
three (/, /usr, swap) The system appeared to work OK when I tested it, but
(conveniantly :-) after I turned the usr partition into the usr/local
I'm trying to send faxes via either efax or mgetty's sendfax with no
success.
I started by using efax's efix to generate some group-3 files. Once upon
a time efax would try to send them... now it isn't even able to dial.
So, I went with sendfax. Sendfax dials, connects, and then starts sending,
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg *does* seem to sometimes
enforce some package dependencies, but that has only happened to me once.
That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies, but
dpkg only treats them as suggestions. See Programmer's Manul 8.2.
Guy
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From: Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you fax text etc in EFAX without ghostscript?
Yes and no.
Yes, because efax comes with a utility to turn text files into group-3 fax
images. It's called efix and an example usage is given near the bottom of
the efax man page.
No, because I
On 26 Oct 1996, Bill Vinson wrote:
I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
following error:
nc.c: module
From: Johannes Plass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion,
too tight.
Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point:
[ snip ]
The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override
any dependencies specified by package
I agree wholeheartedly! I am a beta-tester for XFree86 and update
by distribution about twice a week with new alpha releases.
Every time I run make Everythingl make install, I overwrite debian
libraries and binaries. I am going to have to d/load XFree86 3.2 in
debian form, even though I have 70+
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Tim Sailer wrote:
I think 0x320 it the 'standard' spot the ne2k cards live. At the prompt
for additional command line options (or what ever it is), add
io=0x320 and see if that works
anything from 200-360 usually is normal for a ne2000 board.
320 is the RECOMMENDED port
Hi all,
I noticed that some ps files gives error when using
gv -antialias
Does anyone know why? I looked at man and docs and couldn't not find
why.
Thanks for any information,
David
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What linux's have useradd?
It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
I know I have adduser
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I've noticed that all of the upgrades to packages usually go into
unstable.
What, exactly, does unstable mean? Does it mean that the packages haven't
been 'frozen' into a new release of Debian? Does it mean that the package
itself is flaky? or does it mean that the version number of the packages
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Matthew D Moss wrote:
I have a 1gig IDE hard drive in my Intel/Debian Linux machine. The machine
is up all the time, and up until now, I've had no problems with it.
Recently, the hard drive has starting making a weird ping noise that
I know I've never heard before.
I've made some packages (wine, joystick, mutt), and would like to know
where to upload them to. Also, I might try my hand at Acrobat. Does Debian
have the most packages of any distribution? It sure seems like it!
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Proudly running
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Vladislav Papayan wrote:
Neal R. Dalton wrote:
Has any installed a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B on a 2.x kernel? I
I had it working under 2.0.22 and couple of versions below
(that was under RH 3.0.3 distribution) -- are you having
problems or you are just stating
Neal R. Dalton wrote:
Has any installed a Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B on a 2.x kernel? I
installed Debian 1.1 and tried to get eepro100.c working.
How about other 100Mb cards?
Thanks,
I had it working under 2.0.22 and couple of versions below
(that was under RH 3.0.3 distribution) --
I mentioned previously that it's very difficult to compile modules
and things on Debian because /usr/include/linux is from libc5-dev,
and hence contains old version.h, and doesn't contain modversions.h.
This problem is even worse in that you cannot compile kernel 2.1.5
on Debian; it looks for
Zlatko Rek wrote:
I have problems with xterm. When it is opened the TERM and TERMCAP
environment variables are set to:
TERM=xterm
TERMCAP=co#80:li#24:
I use Jed editor and if I want to edit file the Terminal not powerful
enough for SLang. message appears. When TERMCAP is
David Puryear wrote:
I noticed that some ps files gives error when using
gv -antialias
Does anyone know why? I looked at man and docs and couldn't not find
why.
Okay, I play around with it some more. It's not gv problem but
ghostscript. When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core
Actually, it's really nice for me. It automatically notes new packages that
have been updated and lets me download and install them with less than 10
or so keypresses whether there are 2 upgraded packages or 200.
Sorry, I've been away for a while.
Dselect is nice, but I really think the
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
BUT... does anyone know how to make it run a custom script that I have to
produce a html file that gets uploaded to my ISP? (The script works
already... just want diald to automatically do it when I get connected)
Enable the ip-up script in
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 17:38:12 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
I mentioned previously that it's very difficult to compile modules
and things on Debian because /usr/include/linux is from libc5-dev,
and hence contains old version.h, and doesn't contain modversions.h.
Joe Emenaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes it does. You can hit Q to force dselect to accept things as you
have chosen.
Pressing Q causes dselect to momentarily forget about dependency
conflicts.
When installing the packages the user will certainly get lots of error
messages
related to
Guy Maor writes:
That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
Why?
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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Hi Daniel,
Try using the ip-up/ip-down scripts. See the man page for more info
Simon
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From: Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: DialD: Finally
Date: 25 October 1996 23:08
Ok!! Don't need help on this anymore!! It works.. finally...
BUT...
When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core dump. I
have gs-aladdin_4.03-2_i386.deb
Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
Also, since gs does not know the option -antialias (or -anitalias)
it should
Please does anyone have (or know of where I can find) as script/Macro I
can run which would check for the fonts installed on my system and write
out a
Hmm, a ls /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/MODE should give you a first hint
(MODE is the mode supply to mf; most probably cx; but this should be
On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
What linux's have useradd?
It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
I know I have adduser
I haven't seen useradd for at least a year. I think that useradd was
phased out. The release that I last remember seeing it on was a
On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?
Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10 days.
Dermot
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On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Stephen Pitts wrote:
I just repartitioned one of my drives to give Linux more space and Winbloze
less. Now I have four partitions: swap, /, /usr, and /usr/local instead of
three (/, /usr, swap) The system appeared to work OK when I tested it, but
(conveniantly :-) after I
When I try 'gs -anitialias *.ps' it gives me a core dump. I
have gs-aladdin_4.03-2_i386.deb
Are you sure gs dumps core or do you merely get regular gs error
messages (which usually almost look like a core dump) ?
Also, since gs does not know the option -antialias (or -anitalias)
it
There's nothing inherently unstable about non-free software, so I
think non-free and unstable should be orthogonal concepts. How
about a non-free/stable in which nothing depends on anything outside
of stable, and a non-free/unstable, in which anything goes?
Sure, that's the best. But a lot
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Arrigo Triulzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I seem to be unable to get ypxfr to receive
hosts.{byaddr,byname} from the main NIS host. My secondary server
(slave for purists) complains about a DBM error:
ypxfr: Local dbm operation failed
Hmm.. On the
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
This is a long story and it generated a lot of discussions here.
The consensus is that it's better for user-level programs to be compiled with
the same set of kernel file than libc was compiled with.
Obviously, if you want to compile your own
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes:
Guy Maor writes:
That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
Why?
See the Programmer's Manual, section 8.2.
Guy
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Daniel Stringfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 26 Oct 1996, Robert Nicholson wrote:
What linux's have useradd?
It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd.
I know I have adduser
I haven't seen useradd for at least a year. I think that useradd was
phased
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:52:32 CST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Philippe Troin wrote:
This is a long story and it generated a lot of discussions here.
The consensus is that it's better for user-level programs to be compiled
with the same set of kernel file than libc was
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], mike horansky
writes:
Stephen Pitts wrote:
I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom. Running
it as a user, the only error I got was that it couldn't modify
mtab. So, I guess you were right and a script only runs
semi-setuid.
You might want to
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Nicholson writes:
Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax?
Have you also considered to use mgetty+sendfax?
David
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On 27 Oct 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
I would recommend NOT using anything but adduser to add a user to your
Debian machine. The other script could very well add the user in some
incompatible way. Instead just read the man page of adduser and
figure out how to translate the call. I doubt it's
Guy Maor writes:
That's because dselect treats recommendations as dependencies,...
I wrote:
Why?
Guy Maor writes:
See the Programmer's Manual, section 8.2.
I don't have anything identifying itself as the Programmer's Manual. Where
is it found?
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
joost witteveen writes:
Sure, that's the best. But a lot of Debian maintainers don't really like
non-free to begin with, and don't like to give non-free the same
prefferential treatment the main system gets.
Then get rid of it. Do it right, or not at all.
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John
J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
If you don't like 'dselect', you can always use 'dpkg' (the lower-level
utility); 'dpkg' allows you to override dependencies.
(In fact, I've used dpkg since before dselect, and only learned to use
dselect lately (a SLiRP connection now allows me to keep stuff up to date;
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
Just to let everyone know, I'm finishing up Debian packages for
hylafax-server and hylafax-client. They should be ready within 7-10
days.
does it work with mgetty?
Craig
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is there a shadow passwd system available for Debian 1.1?
a strings /lib/libc.so.5.2.18 | grep shadow gives me ...
/etc/gshadow
/etc/shadow
@(#)gshadow.c 1.1 12:22:5113 Feb 1994 (GNU Shadow Library
Suite)
@(#)shadow.c1.1 12:23:0613 Feb 1994 (GNU
Joe Emenaker wrote:
I've noticed that all of the upgrades to packages usually go into
unstable.
What, exactly, does unstable mean? Does it mean that the packages haven't
been 'frozen' into a new release of Debian? Does it mean that the package
itself is flaky? or does it mean that the
Tim Sailer wrote:
In your email to me, Bill Vinson, you wrote:
I just decided to reinstall so I would have the chance to install modules
to work with the SN2000CT ethernet card. It says it is 100% NE2000
Ethernet compatible and when I opted to install the NE2000 module I got the
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Robert Stone wrote:
is there a shadow passwd system available for Debian 1.1?
It's not official, but you can find a debianized version of shadow
passwords at
ftp://serek.arch.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/shadow
This is the home of shadow passwords for linux. I
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.28 1996/10/27 23:29:58 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1.Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
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