> Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages
> (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just
> the short one-liner descriptions? ... I want to search ... by a keyword ...
dpkg -l
This produces a list of selected packages (in
> [When I mount] an Iomega Zip drive ... occasionally[,] I get the message:
> sda: Write Protect is off
>sda: sda4
> ... Is there a command out there somewhere to write protect/unprotect
> disks?
I am not familiar with Iomega drives but strongly suspect that the
message is
Hi,
When a site running MS Exchange Ver. 4.0.994.63 sends us mail, it gets
stuck(*). This is true whether we run smail or sendmail. We're a fresh,
updated Debian 1.2 site. (We didn't have this trouble when we were a
stale, ancient, Slackware 3.0 site.) I'm running kernel 2.0.29 with
the pre-2.
Hi,
could anyone tell me where to find and what file to get, that has all
the basic include files, like string.h, system.h, ect? The files
that most programs need to be compiled.
Thanks,
Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack
Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECT
Recompiling the kernel will get rid of the probing on boot along with
help your sound card, I recompiled a kernel and had sound with no problem,
yes you have the sound code just do a kernel recompile.
The stuff about switching mrb's every time you want a different os sounds
a little funny, ever he
Jason Costomiris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thought it appropriate to state:
>> I found a statement in the december RedHat (4.1?)
>> claiming that some, but not all Adaptec have problems
>> since 2.0.12.
>
>Hogwash.
To set the record straight: it´s in RedHat 4.0, in the unsupported
i386 images section.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm new to Linux, how can I be sure there is no way for others to get
> in to my machine when I am in a PPP session?
Disable inetd and rpc.portmap.
You might also want to disable sendmail, sshd, etc... depending on your
configuration.
To check if there are any proces
John Zachary wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experience with a particular brand of framegrabber
> under Debian that they would like to share?
>
> John
Sure.
John Bradley's 'xv' has a frame grabbing function, among many other
useful features.
--
Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California
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.
Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could modify the partition table with DOS fdisk, or with
Linux fdisk or cfdisk. I strongly recommend using Linux fdisk, since
it permits you to specify the partition boundaries on cylinder
boundaries, which the other two do not support. In general, any
operating system can define partiti
I would like to supplement Paul's excellent summary in respect to
Red Hat. Red Hat is heavily oriented towards Xwindows. The
installation program configures X very early, and the balance of the
installation uses Xwindow interface. They have several X-based
administration tools that they thi
Marisol Garcia Valls wrote:
>
> Could anybody tell me why does "rawrite" creates no files on
> the floppy disks? I use the command:
>
> rawrite2 -f rsc1200r.bin -d a:
> |
> |
> It doesn't matter |
> which file I puth e r e, it jus
rawrite simply transfers a "raw" image. If the image was a dos floppy, it
would have a dos directory.
Paul Wade
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone put EDO memory in a 486? ..does it work alright?
>
> thanks
>
> Jonathan
There are certain motherboards that accept EDO memory. Unless the board
specifies it will work, don't try it. It most likely will not work.
Nathan
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Is there a delay between the 'Escape' and 'Connection closed' lines? If
> so, it may be trying to resolve the names. However, if you
> deleted/recreated the hosts.deny fil
> Thought writes:
Thought> [...] Or better yet, is there a program that will search my
Thought> whole disk (or at least all the data in a directory tree)
Thought> for a word(s)? [...]
There's glimpse, which is a bit of grep-on-steroids. You run
glimpseindex once, give it a directory (
> Correct me & modify as needed. :)
Ok, I'll try :)
> The other problem I have currently is with sound. I have a Sound Blaster 16
> which is usually on Address 220, IRQ 5, DMA's 1 & 5, 330 for Midi, etc.
> I've read the Sound-HowTo document, and downloaded the VoxWare Sound drivers
> 2.5, but
From: Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What about systems without floppy disks? They do exist!
Put root.bin from the rescue disk under /boot. Add a "rescue" option to
the lilo.conf that boots your regular kernel with INITFS=/boot/root.bin .
You can now type "rescue" at the LILO prompt and boot
I'm new to Linux, how can I be sure there is no way for others to get in
to my machine when I am in a PPP session?
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
> Hi folks just wanted to pass along my suprise that the warez doodz have
> been trying to get into my *home* machine which is only connec
> Paulo Gustavo Raymundo Silva writes:
Paulo> [...] I would like to know if is possible to transform the
Paulo> second DOS logical drive at the extended partition (E: 504Mb)
Paulo> in two new UNIX logical drives (e.g. 64 Mb & 440 Mb) at the
Paulo> same extended partition where previo
> Thought writes:
Thought> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files
Thought> readable by everyone? I can't just chmod -R a+r dir
Thought> because then they won't be able to cd to the directories,
Thought> but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files
Thought>
There is a delay between the Escape character is '^]' and Connection closed.
Which log is "the log"? I'm looked throught last and auth.log but found
nothing.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Christenson [N3EOP] wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
>
>> I cant rlogin either but I do get mai
Marcus Brinkmann typed:
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Lars Hallberg writes:
> > > I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field.
> >
> > Putting
> >
> > from_field="From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname)"
> >
> > in /etc/smail/c
Matthew Tebbens typed:
>
> I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by
> someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even
> if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the
> file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> Lars Hallberg writes:
> > I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field.
>
> Putting
>
> from_field="From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname)"
>
> in /etc/smail/config works for me.
With some versions of smail, you cannot do any substitution. I suspect you
have a
Could anybody tell me why does "rawrite" creates no files on
the floppy disks? I use the command:
rawrite2 -f rsc1200r.bin -d a:
|
|
It doesn't matter |
which file I puth e r e, it just builds no image files on
the floppy in drive
Hi,
Does anyone have experience with a particular brand of framegrabber
under Debian that they would like to share?
John
Jason Costomiris wrote:
>
> I've got 9 or 10 2940UW's deployed, and I must say I'm quite satisfied
> with their reliability and performance...
we use two on a raid that is running 24x7 and they've have
produce solid performance. we like them!
m*
--
"The Shining One"
--
Hey
When compiling ssh-1.2.17, I get this error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ssh-1.2.17]$ make
cd gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2; make
make[1]: Entering directory /root/ssh-1.2.17/gmp-2.0.2-ssh-2'
for subdir in mpn mpz mpf mpq mpbsd demos; do \
target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//; \
echo makin
If you have a Dynamic IP assigned each time you log on, then most likely
someone else on your ISP ran or is running a FTP site, and his site was
advertized somewhere. I doubt it has anything to do with your wu-ftpd.
Note: Previous version of wu-ftpd have been known to have security holes,
but I s
The chmod a+rX did exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
I'd like to know where to get a base, self explainatory, do-it-all-at-once
XWindows installation too. Right now I only have the base zsh and
virtual-console interface going, but I kinda want to install X as well...
As for the partition problem, I'm not sure if you really need a swap file
at all.
Obviously most people here either are Linux EXPERTS or they have *WAY* too
much time on their hands! Hehehehe just kidding :) chmod a+rX actually
worked quite nicely. I know I know it may not do the exact same thing as
writing a script to do it, but sheesh! :)
On 20 Mar 1997, Graeme Stewart wro
m lunch..
er, um, sorry. my route there has been stable all morning...
. o (man, I'm hungry now!)
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
>
> Debianers,
>
> It's possible that there are problems with debian.novare.net, aka
> lists.debian.org. It's
Hi all, it's me again. First off thanks for the numerous replies to my
chmodding question :)
Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages
(installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just
the short one-liner descriptions? The reason I'm asking is
Is there a good writeup available that describes how to get the
xterm_color to work? My old Slackware system had that by default,
but I have never been able to get it to work under Debian.
--
Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng
"Th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Has anyone put EDO memory in a 486? ..does it work alright?
>
> thanks
>
> Jonathan
EDO memory support is MB-specific, not processor specific. For
lots of information about what EDO really is (and information about
lots of other low-level computer stuff), visit the
Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to convert some of the true type font to
> use in X11 fonts. Anyone know how to do it?
>
> Lawrence,
I know that someone (not necessarily within debian) is working on
something like this. I was reading somewhere that a project is in
progress for a progra
Correct me & modify as needed. :)
Right, we appear to have sorted the modem, problem, thanks very much. The
XFree86 problem still exists, but I'm working on that.
The other problem I have currently is with sound. I have a Sound Blaster 16
which is usually on Address 220, IRQ 5, DMA's 1 & 5, 330
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Though
t writes:
> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
> I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
> directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
> be executable...
Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
> I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
> directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
> be executable... Is there
I combined a 2.0.27 kernel with a 2.0.11 scsi folder,
and solved my problems for now. It seems that those
kernels that work access the wide scsi disk with 10.0 MHz,
while those that fail insist on accessing with 20.0 MHz
as scsi-2. In addition to a picky aic7xxx driver that
declines to fall back o
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Thought wrote:
> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
> I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
> directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
> be executable... Is there a w
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > did anyone done a performance comparison of buslogic 958 and adaptec
> > 2940?
>
> I don't, but I do want to say that I have a Buslogic BT958UW and I love it.
I've got 9 or 10 2940UW's deployed, and I m
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> I found a statement in the december RedHat (4.1?)
> claiming that some, but not all Adaptec have problems
> since 2.0.12.
Hogwash.
I've got 9 or 10 of these cards deployed. All of the machines are running
2.0.29 without a single problem. I've never
Debianers,
It's possible that there are problems with debian.novare.net, aka
lists.debian.org. It's also possible that I'm just losing it, or that my
employer's internet route to that site is out to lunch. I've contacted
someone at novare.net, and I'll pass word along as I find out more
Hi
==
I have instaled the gpc (GNU Pascal Compiler) with libgpc2 and
all seems ok, dpkg does not report any problem, but...
When I try to compile a program the message all I can get is:
bash$ gpc teste.pas
ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory
bash$
What is
>I installed debian linux a while ago from a cd, which contained the
>files from the release 1.1.3. This one worked great and I just had to
>add a kernel-parameter to be able to use my zip-drive. Last week I
>wanted to update my system to 1.2.8. I looked into /var/lib/dpkg/status
>to find out which
On Mar 20, Hamish Moffatt wrote
> > It is. Due to unclarity wrt ITAR for packages with hooks for crypto,
> > such as mutt, the Debian mutt packages resides on debian-non-US sites
> > nowadays. I've reported a bug against ftp.debian.org to get the old
> > package removed.
>
> Which is odd, because
Hi . . .
I'm potential Debian GNU/Linux user and I have some questions no covered
by this FAQ.
I would like to get some information about where I could find the XWIndows
files for the newest
version of the Debian linux (probably X11 R6.3) in the deselect .deb
distribuition pack.
Fol
A possible cause of this would be similar to the ppp setup where ip-up
and ip-down scripts are invoked. Sometimes the scripts get "customized"
by hard coding a device name in place of a passed argument. I have seen
countless examples suggested along the lines of:
(startup script)
export PPPDEV=/de
I've used cu as well. What I had to do to get it working properly is
change the permissions on the device file to crw-rw-rw. I don't
know if this is correct. I think it is incorrect however following this
change, cu connect to the device and I was able to that modem.
Regards
Peter Iannarelli
Following advice in messages in this list, I have changed my UUCP
setup to use /dev/ttyS0 instead of /dev/cua0.
I now get an error message on terminating a cu session which I did not
see before:
ops% logout<< Log out from remote machine, which drops the line
cu: Got hangup signal
cu: Can
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > /dev/cua devices are obsolete now. they are only retained for
> > backwards compatibility with old binaries.
>
> My system is still configured using /dev/cua. Is it necessary to
> change that? How do I do tha
Has anyone put EDO memory in a 486? ..does it work alright?
thanks
Jonathan
And for me too singing and dancing!!
Jonathan
I have just upgraded from httpd to apache and I have encountered
some problems with apache config files (as a matter of fact, apache
itself found problems with the config files...). So I would like to know
if there is anything about it that I should know that I don't.
Tha
>
> I'm installing Debian (1.2) for the first time. The base install didn't
> seem to have any problems, but my ethernet card isn't being configured
> properly after the system comes up. The card works in this machine
> under Freebsd and Windows 95.
>
> The card is an SMC 9332, it's a PCI card
Let me try to summarize the recent discussion about
Debian support of the Adaptec AHA 2940U/W SCSI controller.
There are three different opinions:
1. no problems at all
2. cable/hardware problems
3. problems with kernels above ~1.3.88
Can somebody sort this out?
Thanks,
Hi folks just wanted to pass along my suprise that the warez doodz have
been trying to get into my *home* machine which is only connected via
dialup ppp, and get this I use a dynamic ip.
Here is just some of the attempts...
Mar 17 19:52:02 joanrich wu-ftpd[788]: failed login from
lis1_p16.telepa
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> /dev/cua devices are obsolete now. they are only retained for backwards
> compatibility with old binaries.
My system is still configured using /dev/cua. Is it necessary to
change that? How do I do that? I am using Debian 1.2. Some of my
binaries ho
Not Debian only (was an issue with rescue problems, though).
I have a SCSI setup that runs perfectly with kernels
like 1.3.88. It includes an Adaptec 2940 UW, BIOS v1.23,
1996 (PCI), and an IBM DORS wide SCSI disk.
Repeat: the hardware worked for months,
this is NOT a cable/termination p
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 02:27:01 EST Matt Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> At 11:11 PM 3/19/97 -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> >Either:
> > find -type d | xargs chmod a+rx
>
> I'd use "find -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;"
This will spawn a process per directory, vs very few...
> (I'v
At 11:11 PM 3/19/97 -0800, Philippe Troin wrote:
>Either:
> find -type d | xargs chmod a+rx
I'd use "find -type d -exec chmod a+rx {} \;"
-- Matt (I've had problems with xargs)
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 23:00:18 PST Thought ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
> I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
> directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
How do I make a whole directory tree and it's files readable by everyone?
I can't just chmod -R a+r dir because then they won't be able to cd to the
directories, but I can't chmod -R a+rx dir because then all the files will
be executable... Is there a way to make the directories +x without making
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
> > Now this IS the answer. I just downgraded one of my systems to
> > sysvinit 2.69-1, rebooted, and the corruption seems to be gone.
>
> Few weeks ago, my corruption occured with sysvinit-2.69-1. I have been
> having this same package since December
On Mar 03, 1997 at 01:52:34PM +0100, J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> On Mar 19, Alexander Koch wrote
> > So you may see what Mutt is like. But you should be careful. I'd say:
> > stick with the Debian- MUTT- Package and you're fine. It's not as news as
> > the real MUTT but it _works_ (believe me, it's a bi
unsubcribe
I'm installing Debian (1.2) for the first time. The base install didn't
seem to have any problems, but my ethernet card isn't being configured
properly after the system comes up. The card works in this machine
under Freebsd and Windows 95.
The card is an SMC 9332, it's a PCI card based on the DE
Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
>
> > > It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed
> > > a package somewhere? Help!
> >
> > /dev/modem is usually a soft link
> >
> > for example my modem is on the 3rd port - COM3 in msdos/win
> >
> > ln -s
> Now this IS the answer. I just downgraded one of my systems to sysvinit
> 2.69-1, rebooted, and the corruption seems to be gone.
Few weeks ago, my corruption occured with sysvinit-2.69-1. I have been
having this same package since December 8. For some unknown reason,
few weeks ago my wtmp _s
Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I have in my /etc/init.d/network is
>
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
> Hi Peter, and listers, This is my /etc/init.d/network
>
> #!/bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 1
Alexander Poquet wrote:
>
> When will debian get support for BusLogic FlashPoint LT SCSI adapters?
> More specifically, I want to install Debian onto my computer at work, whose
> hard drive is SCSI (along with the CD-ROM).
>
> The disks-i386 directory for the current debian release doesnt have a
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> > It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed
> > a package somewhere? Help!
>
> /dev/modem is usually a soft link
>
> for example my modem is on the 3rd port - COM3 in msdos/win
>
> ln -s /dev/cua2 /dev/modem
>
> creates the soft l
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
> I've just downloaded the Gcc Compiler version 2.7.2.2. I currently
> don't have any other compilers that I know of. I'll I've done is
> installed the newest version of Debian Linux System. The Gcc Compiler
> has to be compiled but I can't because it's my fi
Hi,
I've just downloaded the Gcc Compiler version 2.7.2.2. I currently
don't have any other compilers that I know of. I'll I've done is
installed the newest version of Debian Linux System. The Gcc Compiler
has to be compiled but I can't because it's my first compiler. Can
anyone help me
Hi,
I want to convert some of the true type font to
use in X11 fonts. Anyone know how to do it?
Lawrence,
When will debian get support for BusLogic FlashPoint LT SCSI adapters?
More specifically, I want to install Debian onto my computer at work, whose
hard drive is SCSI (along with the CD-ROM).
The disks-i386 directory for the current debian release doesnt have a
Rescue disk compatible with that car
NOTE: Please respond directly to me! (or both to the list and me, since I
don't have time to subscribe to this list anymore)
I seem to be having a bit of trouble with getting X running on my server.
I'm running a Realtek 256k Video Card (Cheezy card, I know. but I don't
USUALLY use this box with
At 06:05 PM 3/19/97 -0600, Pete Poff wrote:
>Hi,
>well, I had someone download a large file and make it smaller for
>me. They used ARJ to split it up, and I read on the debian ftp site that
>there is only ARJ for MS-DOS. I have gotten unarj, and can't find out
>how to unarj it. It's in 10
> > What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware?
>
> Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age.
> Created as a "bugfixed" version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System).
> Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding); home site: Walnut Creek
> CD-ROM (www.cdr
> Hosted by CrossLink;
Beleive it or not we now have 73 FTP sites! Crosslink hosts the main
web site and one of the FTP sites. There are a number of secondary
web servers coming up now - for example there's one in Spain.
Bruce
--
Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502
Finge
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> I didn't know that Debian can use RedHat packages. Can dpkg do it or do
> I need something more?
It's the 'alien' package.
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
> I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other
> services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
Is there a de
I didn't know that Debian can use RedHat packages. Can dpkg do it or do
I need something more?
-=-
Daniel Robbins
School of Medicine Computer Services
University of New Mexico
[email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote:
> What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware?
Slackware: One of the oldest distributions, and is showing its age.
Created as a "bugfixed" version of SLS (Softlanding Linux System).
Maintained by one person (Patrick Volkerding
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> did anyone done a performance comparison of buslogic 958 and adaptec
> 2940?
I don't, but I do want to say that I have a Buslogic BT958UW and I love it.
-=-
Daniel Robbins
School of Medicine Computer Services
University of New Mexico
[email:[EMAIL PR
I know this problem too. I have even thought about making a wrapper with perl
to make unarj handle multiple volumes.
Anyways if you have file.arj file.a01 file.a02 etc. you can start by doing
'unarj x file.arj'. It will uncompress the first part of the big file. Let's
call the big file 'file.de
In your email to me, Paul Wade, you wrote:
>
> Robin Beckett wrote:
>
> > I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest,
> I read it several months ago, but when I switched to Debian ppp got a
> lot easier. I quickly edited the supplied chatscript and typed pon. It
> was
Hi,
well, I had someone download a large file and make it smaller for
me. They used ARJ to split it up, and I read on the debian ftp site that
there is only ARJ for MS-DOS. I have gotten unarj, and can't find out
how to unarj it. It's in 10 different files, and I need to put then into
on
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