Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories

Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their > documents? find ~/somedir -iname "*\.htm*" -exec grep -i "some text" {} \; -print morgan -- VVV >> M o r g a n

Re: general protection !!! (kernel 2.0.36, updatedb)

Ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED], > if you're running a stable kernel, that means you have something wrong with > your kernel, which can be due to bad hardware Thank you for the answer. Now I am back to 2.0.34, and it works fine. (mah! so it seems that it's not the hardware) Only for the 2.0.36 kernel I ha

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > > > A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi > > command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too > > lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. W

[drepper@cygnus.com: FTP site for crypt code]

On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 12:41:38PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Do you think you might be able to help with this? Personally, I can't. I have no net acess but through my phone line, and only little ftp space on my homepage. Maybe someone from the Debian community can help the gcc people here?

Re: using dpkg

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > >> > >> my version of dpkg is: > >> 1.4.0.23.2 > > > >Hmmm... same version as me. > > > >I wonder if your status file is fubarred. > >Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status" > > > >You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old > >that can

xfonts-75dpi

After installing the Xfonts-75dpi and the xfonts-100dpi packages, I've been getting errors on running mkfontdir. The tail end of running mkfontdir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi is at the end of the message... does anyone have an idea how to get mkfontdir to process these fonts? --Evan Van D

A downright wierd Netscape problem

When trying to open certain documents in Netscape--for example, the Printing-HOWTO at sunsite.unc--the document is not displayed right away but starts to download. When it's done a dialog box appears with this message: Netscape: subprocess diagnostics(stdout/stderr) Vim: Warning: Output is

Re: Bug in free?

> free -tos 300 >free.log > > I never get any output while it works fine to the screen. > > Does this work for anyone else? I tried it on my machine with the same result. Cheers, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\_

Re: using dpkg

>> >> my version of dpkg is: >> 1.4.0.23.2 > >Hmmm... same version as me. > >I wonder if your status file is fubarred. >Can you read it? "less /var/lib/dpkg/status" > >You should have a backup copy of it at /var/lib/dpkg/status-old >that can be used to replace status if it is corrupted. > >Also,

Re: Bug in free?

George Bonser wrote: > > On my system the following command does not work: > > free -tos 300 >free.log > > I never get any output while it works fine to the screen. > > Does this work for anyone else? I tried it and no go. I left off the -s 300 and it worked. What is the delay supposed to acco

RE:

On 05-Feb-99 Pawel Zawisza wrote: > is there a way to run debian (ie. v 1.3) on a 386sx system with ONLY > 2megz of ram? If no then what other linux version would you recommend > for this system? > thanx, > Pawel It is probably impossible to run any Linux with only 2MB RAM -- maybe just possible

Parallel printer no longer found

After upgrading to the 2.2.1 kernel on a Slink system my old NEC P6 printer is no longer found at boot or in /proc/devices. The boot messages reads lp: driver loaded but no devices found I'm using modules (parport and parport_pc) for printer support, which I also used successfully under a 2.

dselect/apt: Error 550: not a plain file?

I'm using the dselect/apt/dpkg combo to download and install new packages in potato from ftp.us.debian.org. My system is already slink/potato, from earlier downloads from potato. Yesterday I tried to download a large number of packages. Some were sucessfully downloaded, but a large num

Re: Dual Boot Woes

I don't know how you're booting, but hda2 must be your extended partition, which doesn't show up in cfdisk's main screen. It does (or should) if you choose Print - Table from the cfdisk menu. You'll see a type 0x05 or type 0x0F listed under ID for the 2nd partition. Linux fdisk will also show the

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Christopher R. Barry wrote: > A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi > command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too > lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this > behavior configured? > > Christoph

Re: [apache-ssl] Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

Chris Evans wrote: > Is there anything that suexec does if invoked from with a shell that > would reassure me it's compiled right? O.K. I guess not! Anything > I can do to quiz apache-ssl about its configuration and whether it's > HTTPD_ROOT is where I think it is (from the apach-dev headers in >

Re: [apache-ssl] Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

On 7 Feb 99, at 18:26, Ben Laurie wrote: > Chris Evans wrote: > > httpd.h:#define SUEXEC_BIN HTTPD_ROOT "/sbin/suexec" > > > > That has "HTTPD_ROOT" which isn't in the apache suexec html > > documentation but seems to point me to /sbin as the debian > > location for suexec. So I put it there, ch

Re: using dpkg

-Original Message- From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: rod peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:45 PM Subject: Re: using dpkg >rod peters wrote: >> okay, here's what I get. >> >> ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status >> --comes back as: >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42

Re: using dpkg

okay, here's what I get. ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status --comes back as: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 423826 jan 31 16:01 (don't ask) /var/lib/dpkg/status whoami; dpkg -i --comes back as: root dpkg: failed to open package info file '/var/lib/status' for reading: no such file or directory (sorry about the

Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories

*-Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their | documents? 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there | a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk? | When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multi

Re: using dpkg

-Original Message- From: Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 11:26 AM Subject: Re: using dpkg >Hi Rod, > >Cat you send the output of the following commands? > >[bash]$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/status >-rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

Reply-To: Ah, thanks; next time I'll remember to check the faq. -- Chris <- Visit Me At -> <--> Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with th

How to find files by text/subdirectories

What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their documents? 4DOS ffind is essentially what I am trying to do. Is there a way to pipe 'find'? Or do I need to use gawk? When I tried using gawk it would not allow me to search multiple directories. I find never used gawk before

Re: XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:11:03 CST, Chris Frost wrote: > I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to > my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86 > support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for > XFree. Answe

Re: suspicious connections

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I have a stand-alone machine, with dialup ppp connection (using diald). I > think someone was trying to hack me today, and I'd like advice on how to find > out whether they succeded, and what to do about it. I'd also appreciate > suggestions on the easiest way to

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

"Damir J. Naden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: | > > Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. | > > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I | > | > This happened to me, and .xsession-e

XFree86 Support for Muliheaded boxes

Reply-To: I have a Matrox Mill II and am thinking of buying a Matrox G200 to add to my box so that I could use two monitors on the same machine. Does XFree86 support this yet? I've seen talk of it for AccelX, but not really any for XFree. tia, -- Chris <- Visit Me At

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 10:09:53 PST, David Stern wrote: > Linux fdisk has another oddity: you can flag multiple partitions > active. Don't ask me why. What will happen if you do this is the > active partition will boot. Of course I meant to say: ".. the *first* active partition will boot." -- D

fvwm2 menu not working

Dear all, I use E, but one of my system's users uses fvwm2, and is complaining that the menu isn't working properly. Sure enough, the menu shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to be there, but a decent m

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

Hi Pete Harlan; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. > > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I > > This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says > > /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax e

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM

In a message dated 2/7/99 2:52:54 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Your email was formatted such that pine doesn't like it. However, I did > read the subject. qt1.42 is in potato (a.k.a. unstable). > and in the non-free dirs, I believe..

Re: Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > | Above asks it all ... will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to > | 2.1.xx? > | > | Sorry if it's been asked before. > > Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both > 2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36. The curren

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:12:39 PST, Kenward wrote: > Odd thing in the setup. WinNT was placed in as hda1, with a small DOS > logical following (hda4? IIRC). I partitioned the rest of the disk into 5 > logicals inc. swap. (Where are hda2 and 3?) 1-4 are primary, 5 and higher are logical. Linux f

Re: Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Above asks it all ... will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to | 2.1.xx? | | Sorry if it's been asked before. Debian frozen/slink is based on 2.0.34 but provides packages for both 2.0.35 and 2.0.36, so, yes it will work with 2.0.36. Most things in frozen

suspicious connections

I have a stand-alone machine, with dialup ppp connection (using diald). I think someone was trying to hack me today, and I'd like advice on how to find out whether they succeded, and what to do about it. I'd also appreciate suggestions on the easiest way to prevent, or at least monitor, such acti

Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

I wrote: > Most likely he needs to fix his /etc/hosts. ^^ That should read "/etc/resolv.conf", of course. Not enough coffee, I guess. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what y

Install Help! No CD, No make, no /usr/src/linux

Hi, Newbie that I am, I must be missing something fundamental in my growing install frustration--but I have no idea what. I've been trying to fully install Debian Linux for the past two weeks on a 5x86, 8 RAM, VESA local bus machine. Linux sets up nice on the machine, but I can't configure anyt

Will frozen work with 2.0.36 ?

Above asks it all ... will I have failings with that, or must I upgrade to 2.1.xx? Sorry if it's been asked before. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Turn your 586 into a Gameboy: Type WIN at C:\> --

Re: how do I use UID setting?

suexec can be a bear, as it tends toward security (and away from convenience). This is a good thing, but depending on your needs, cgiwrap may be another candidate for you.

Re: Dual Boot Woes

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:52:34AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition, > > then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible > > if you need to reinstall Windows later, because

Re: Creating Deb Packages

Take a look at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, which is available at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/. On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:33:20AM -0600, Sean P. Mason wrote: > Could someone help me out with creating deb packages? I can't seem to > find the procedure anywhere. . .

Suexec under Debian apache-ssl, was: how do I use UID setting?

To debian-user, debian-isp and apache-ssl as I think answers may be ssl and debian specific. On 7 Feb 99, at 10:01, Gerard MacNeil, having pointed me to suexec and continuing a correspondence that has been running with others' support on debian-user and debian-isp wrote: > > Ah, gcc. That'

Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

Tom Perkins wrote: > I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP > correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach > any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is > 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site exists because I

Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

MallarJ writes: > dpkg works fine, except in two cases. > 1) if you don't use dpkg (some things still come in gzipped packages) Use alien (or debhelper, if you prefer "real" packages). > 2) If installation scripts run after dpkg completes do more changes. File bug reports. No package should ev

apt-get and lockfile errors:xconvers

I'm concerned that I may have made my system unstable by mixing stable with frozen packages. Please see below. I've begun to upgrade my system in order to use the ax25-utils with 2.0.36. I've been running Debian 2.0 but recently decided to add some Frozen packages from the HAM RADIO packages. I'

Creating Deb Packages

Could someone help me out with creating deb packages? I can't seem to find the procedure anywhere. . . Thanks! --- Sean Mason

RE: general protection !!! (kernel 2.0.36, updatedb)

On 06-Feb-99, Paolo Pedaletti took time to write : > Hello, > this is what happen when I run updatedb (always! after some time) (kernel > 2.0.36) > > general protection: <..> > Anyone with the same problem? > > Should I worry? ;-) yes you should, if you're not running a development kern

Re: Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site

*-Tom Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP | correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach | any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is | 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site

netscape proxy configuration

Hello all, I have finally stirred myself enough to install Netscape but now I find I cannot use it :( When I try to enter manual proxy configuration info (http://proxy.vianet.net.au, port 80) Netscape tells me FTP proxy host "http://proxy.vianet.net.au"; is unknown. This happens for all proxy set

linuxconf experiences?

Hello, dear Debian users, I consider installing linuxconf on my hamm system in order to facilitate administration. Has anybody out there already got some experience with linuxconf? -- Stefan Gundel

[Fwd: HELP FOR A POOR FRENCH STUDENT WHICH TRY TO INSTALL LINUX]

--- Begin Message --- First I'd like to tell you that I'm a french student who use a "minitel" so I apologize for the bad page setting and for all the english mistakes I could make ; because I use a "minitel" please d'ont send me joined files with E-mail : I wouldn't be able to read them ! So I

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.

On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:56:46PM -0800, rod peters wrote: > where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.42-1.deb

Re: please help! recovery from e2fsck

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:24:25AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy. > typing mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system > crashing down to an automatic reboot; > Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given: > > err

Re: how do I use UID setting?

On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 01:19:22PM -, Chris Evans wrote: > documentation. So I edited suexec.h and ran cc suexec.c -o > suexec and I got: > > www:/usr/doc/apache-ssl# gcc suexec.c -o suexec > suexec.c:72: sys/param.h: No such file or directory > suexec.c:73: stdlib.h: No such file or directo

Re: how do I use UID setting?

Thanks very much to Gerard and several others who are helping out my newbie fumblings on this thread. I'm clearer now about setuid and might end up taking the suidperl route but for now I'm pursuing apache's own suexec: On 7 Feb 99, at 7:50, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > If I got this right this ti

Re: Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

Hello Tom: Sounds like your DNS is not setup correctly. install the bind package and run bindconfig. Peter Tom Perkins wrote: > > I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP > correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach > any ftp site (e.g

Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site

I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site exists because I can reach it via ftp from

Re: Dual Boot Woes

Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition, > then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible > if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just > change your active partition (even Windows'

Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site

I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site exists because I can reach it via ftp from

Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility. I have found > you have to be clever how you place your mouse to get the input ok. > > The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xc

Re: how do I use UID setting?

Chris Evans: > 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp > > Here's the program: > > #!/bin/sh ... Shell scripts can't be suid. Use sudo, or arrange it some other way. Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begi

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

> Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. > I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)' The bit of /etc/X11/Xsess

Re: Mailman not doing his work: smail won't deliver anything

On 06 Feb 1999q, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have smail set up on my laptop. Neither internal nor external mail is > sent. In /var/log/smail/logfile I find the reason for Xdefer is: > > router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection refused > > Also: > Xfail: reaspm: transport lo

Re: Help with smbfs?

> Eliezer Figueroa hat gesagt: // Eliezer Figueroa wrote: > > > I want to use a debian box to open a share in a win95 machine. Someone > > told me that in order to open shares I do not need samba, that I only > > need smbfs. Frank Barknecht: > I think you need at least the SMB client software cal

Re: Adding foreign keys

Dave Swegen wrote: > I will have to start writing the occasional document in swedish in the near > future (with a bit of luck), but since I have a UK keyboard I don't really > want to switch to a swedish layout. I would prefer to use or > somesuch to assign the extra 6 chars needed to the current

Re: how do I use UID setting?

On 6 Feb 99, at 21:40, Gerard MacNeil wrote: > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Chris Evans wrote: > > > 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp > > This line means any user can execute the program 'cp' Yes, I didn't mean to leave it that way. > > > The whoami reports "nobody" not "chris" (is t

RE: apt-get update failing

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several > > > times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... > > > > Are you -sure- you have the right version? > > > > Hehe.

Re: NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under >> slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :< > >Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... You don't nee

Re: How to Add User to Group?

It says, "oracle: oracle dba" We learn something every day. Thanks, Ole! It did not fix my problem here, but it indicates that the problem might well be revealed in the oracle script, "oratab.sh" I'll have a look at that and find out. ...did also notice that the group column in the fir

Re: possible apt-get problem?

Sorry, forgot to mention that the upgrade was from hamm to frozen. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows isn't crippleware: it's "Fuctionally Challenged" ---

Re: perl script

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [about CRLF at the end of a line] >vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't. vim -b file :%!col -b Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Re: using dpkg

I have been logged in as root. Now what? -Original Message- From: M.C. Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rod Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM Subject: Re: using dpkg > >> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) >> I alway

Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??

I want to thank Kent and David for their help and suggestions about putting Debian on a lab computer at school. Ghost is used at the school. Wipes out everything, as noted in the above posts to me. However, I worked hard to establish a relationship with the tech doing the work, and he said he'

Re: how do I use UID setting?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However, when I execute this program after su nobody the copy >reports it doesn't have the permissions to do the create side of the >copy built in. Here's the listing: > >1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp > >He

source-debs of qmail 1.03?

hi folks! i was searching for source-debs (debian packages) of qmail 1.03 but i only found the 1.01 and 1.02 ones. is there a 1.03 package? thanx in advance!

Re: using dpkg

> When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) > I always get something like this: > cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status You need to run dpkg -i as root. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/

Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC

ivan: > INT 10h is the video BIOS - I want to set the video mode directly. > > By using INT 10h I don't have to learn and programme the card registers - > the BIOS takes care of this. > > Why is the video bios not available from protected mode ? It's trying to protect one program from another; a

using dpkg

When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status what am I doing wrong? I have read the --help and the man pages but it doesn't give me any clues. thanx == 8?) _ DO YOU YAHOO!

Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications > > > where they shouldn't be. Jiri: > > Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately? ... > This doesn't have anything to with my system, I'm just repoting on what > tripwire does. I don't have permi

Re: Networking Debian and Win 95

Peter Ludwig: > I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have > run into a few major problems. I'm running a TCP/IP network over Ethernet between Debian and a Win95 box. > 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address > is not being used as t

possible apt-get problem?

Having installed Debian successfully on a school computer, I decided to use apt-get to upgrade the system. Ran an update, then dist-upgrade (after initial use of -s). All went smoothly until the unpacking/setting up of package "strace" where an "E: error returned by subprocess" message appeared.

Re: Tracking installs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Yes you do. > > > > alien -i file.tgz > > > > Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file? Interesting... > always thought alien just converted rpms to

Re: How to Add User to Group?

*-Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that | it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with | the Oracle oratab.sh script? What does 'groups oracle' say? -- A mathematician is a machine for converting cof

Re: windowmanager does not start

*-Stef Hoesli Wiederwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started | when I startx. | | Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be? Some things to check: Does /etc/X11/window-managers seem good? Incidentally, the first line in mine is bro

Re: gtk problems

*-Darknight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better | than the others i've tried. The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe, | so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org. This just caused more | problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK

RE: apt-get update failing

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several > > times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... > > Are you -sure- you have the right version? > Hehe. I logged in

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi > command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too > lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this > behavior configured? > > Christopher Mine is set in ~

Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher

Re: Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!

In debian-user, you wrote: > [snip poorly formatted message] Please do not post messages in html format. And also please do not post lines over 76 columns wide. It makes it difficult for most folks on this list to read/respond to your messages. Hope your next problem/solution goes as well for y

Re: svgalib

ivan wrote: > > I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble ! > I think you may need the svgalibg1-dev package. The *-dev packages seem to contain the header files and the static libraries required to complile your own programs. Note this packages depends on libc6-dev, w

Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote: There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility. I have found you have to be clever how you place your mouse to get the input ok. The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the crxvt window but to do a ctrl-z bg and then

Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!

Yes! Thank you.  That's probably the last directory I would have looked in.  Now I'm off to discover my next problem.   rod.

Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, rod peters wrote: > I can't find qt1.42 anywhere. What directory under potato is it in? Is that > only a partial file name? Is it in an archive file? If I wasn't wearin' my > good socks I'd smack my computer up side the head with my wiffle bat. I'm > gettin kinda desper

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!

I can't find qt1.42 anywhere.  What directory under potato is it in?  Is that only a partial file name?  Is it in an archive file?  If I wasn't wearin' my good socks I'd smack my computer up side the head with my wiffle bat.  I'm gettin kinda desperate.  Please, help me out.  Just give me th

Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM

Your email was formatted such that pine doesn't like it. However, I did read the subject. qt1.42 is in potato (a.k.a. unstable). Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept.

Re: Quicktime player for Linux?

Did you find any info yet ? Ryan, -- >From: Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Daniel Elenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org >Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Quicktime player for Linux? >Date: Sun, Jan 31, 1999, 5:49 PM > > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36

How to use 2.2.x kernel's nfsd ?

Is there a deb package which will replace the user-space rpc.nfsd and use a 2.2.x kernel's nfsd support instead?

NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)

> There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under > slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is :< Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... Will

Re: New User - Debian?

Date sent: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:35:39 + From: Allens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User list <> Subject:Re: New User - Debian? > Allens wrote: > > > > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > Leonardo Bermudez wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi >

Re: Mozilla Help!!! Wrap up

Just to let you guys know. Never got Mozilla working, but qweb and gzilla did work, but both are slow on my machine. 486dx with 12 MB and 33.8 3com ext modem. So know I'm looking for something with some speed to it -- if possible. I know netscape 4.0 ran under win95 with go results and speed so I

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