I am using XEmacs-20.4 on a Debian 2.1 box that has been
updated to glibc-2.1 (not all the way to potato). Since
then, XEmacs occasionally locks up on me and I think its
because of the glibc upgrade.
I have the Debian source CDs and was wondering if I could
rebuild the XEmacs-20.4 debs from all t
Some (like me) who need send/expect may also have to chown root:dip
/usr/bin/expect which is root:root by default (at least in slink). This way it
worked for me.
&rw
>Brian Servis wrote:
>> The default setup for Debian is to make everything for ppp use with
>> ownership of root.dip. So you sh
Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
> > According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of
> > date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat
> > /dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I
> > get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such devi
Taupter wrote:
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> >
> > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
> > daylight savings time in a tropical country?
>
> Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
> people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with
Kent West wrote:
> According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of
> date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat
> /dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I
> get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". Yet when I do an "ls -l
On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote:
> Ray:
>
> You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get & dselect say
> the "newest version" is installed. (textutils-2.01).
>
> Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says
> "id" not found. Whatever is miss
To fix this, do the following:
edit
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i38
6_Packages
with your favorite text editor (I use JOE), and search for aleph-dev and
aleph-doc. Correct the
spelling of the word optional in the priority fields of each package (the
*- On 1 Oct, Kent West wrote about "Re: Where's the HOWTO's?"
> Kent West wrote:
>
>> According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
>> in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
>> just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory t
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
> > According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
> > in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
> > just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOW
Kent West wrote:
> According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
> in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
> just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
> find. I went into dselect to look at the package descripti
Ray:
You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get & dselect say
the "newest version" is installed. (textutils-2.01).
Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says
"id" not found. Whatever is missing/not linked is elusive.
Eric Wolven
> Hi!
According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
find. I went into dselect to look at the package description, but it
doesn't indicat
debs,
is wvdial "hanging" when the cursor gets a blank line after: " - - >
starting pppd
@ (date/time) 1999"? or am i supposed to do something? shouldn't i
get some
sort of prompt?
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
//
Hello again,
I have a problem. I have two networks 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0,
they have a router joining them. What I want to do is put a proxy
server on one network (192.168.1.0) and have machines on both networks
have access to the Internet.
Can anyone tell me which proxy server to use
According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of
date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command "cat
/dev/sndstat" and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I
get "cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device". Yet when I do an "ls -l
\dev\snd*" I get:
crw-r
Thanks I've,
I've been using GTKICQ, it works but sometimes behaves a bit unstably... I'm
still looking for something better.
Thanks again
Bill
Rob wrote:
> Ive used them all (X versions) and have had the best luck with GtkIcq. Using V
> 0.57.
> Robert
> ICQ 815773
>
> On 23-Sep-99 Bill wrote
Is there any known problems with NIS and the current unstable (as of
9-30-1999)
I have a diskless machine booting that mounts another for it's root (it's
root is seperate of the server and has the latest unstable as of the above
date).
I have added the +: stuff to passwd/shadow, nsswitch.con
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote:
> i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is
> this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat
> match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT
There's a Linux HOWTO
I have installed debian 2.1 on an HP Vectra Xu
platform with the "HP 10/100 Mbps Network Interface".
When I try to configure the kernel module driver,
hp100.o, in the installation or later with 'modconf'
I get "Device or resource busy".
I temporarily inserted a LinkSys EtherPCI II card
and install
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is
this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat
match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT
always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with h
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated
> that Potato was fairly stable and that I could safely upgrade a Slink
> installation to Potato without problems. However, when looking at the
>
Ingo Reimann wrote:
> when i installed debconf, i was happy, when he asked my, whether to use some
> nice gtk-interface or not.
> I thought, this was a good idea, and so during apt-get update/upgrade, some
> windows pops up an vanishes, but I only see a black box. How do i get rid of
> this an swit
Hey there everyone,
is there a debianized pump around, for slink/2.2.5?
Cheers,
Derk
I am unable to optimally use my display card and monitor in Linux
X server works in 4 bit mode only.
Using the Quickstart Guide from XFree86 viz.
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/doc/QuickStart.doc
I figured out the use of XF86Setup. It runs fine (infact it runs using
a 800-600 resolutio
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Ben Collins writes:
> > Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage.
>
> Because it's too late? Sounds like I should have had debsums
> installed from the beginning.
Umm, wrong, most packages come with md5sum, please r
Ben Collins writes:
> Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage.
Because it's too late? Sounds like I should have had debsums
installed from the beginning.
--
-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://russnelson.com
Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schoo
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:05:32PM +0200, erasmo perez wrote:
> hi *,
>
> i made a mistake changing the owner for all the /bin subdirectory (i
> changed it for the user1 instead of root) and now i can't log as user1
> neither i can make su - logged as user2. when i type 'su -' i get the
> message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
>
> This is the type of information that should be linked to on the Debian host
> site.
Unfortunately, the Debian web page is pretty static except for
the dynamically generated package indices. Nothing mu
> http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
This is the type of information that should be linked to on the Debian host
site. One should not have to come to the Mailing Lists to find this. The
logical place to put this is with the Gnome Slink update link.
I can see that much of
hi *,
i made a mistake changing the owner for all the /bin subdirectory (i
changed it for the user1 instead of root) and now i can't log as user1
neither i can make su - logged as user2. when i type 'su -' i get the
message:
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permited
does any knows how to log
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I will, however, write up a Debian Update HowTo which
> lists those Unstable modules which people have ported to Slink so that
> every other person who wants to do this doesn't have to go through the
> agony of researching everything anew.
>
> I know
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on Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marshal Wong wrote:
> I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got
> this message while doing a "[U]date".
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Malformed Priority line
> E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:58:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rob,
>
> I'm no apt expert. Would you write up a section on Apt for a Debian
> Update HowTo? I will voluteer to edit and put it together as well
> as providing content. If need be, I will even host it on my server.
>
> The Ho
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:21:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone successfully patched and compiled a pgcc/egcs package for
> Slink? I was able to patch for Potato using the gcc source package and a
> slightly older gcc source tarball patched with the pgcc patches.
I've not built pa
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> I agree that makefiles are the way to go, but I often like to
> prototype unfamilliar language features before I use them in
> production code. I guess I'm still screwed if I need to specify
> unweildly include paths or such since a
Dean Allen Provins wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never
> experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line
> at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'.
> For the record, I use 'xterm's
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:17:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How are you doing this? Do you just go get the packages and 'dpkg -i' them
> > or do you use apt? There are a bunch of things I want to upgrade on my
> > system but I assumed that all of the potato packages would have depend
> When I asked a similar question a long time ago (but still when slink
> was stable!) it was explained to me thusly: if you start modifying
> "stable", then you might break it. That means that if one permitted
> regular modifications/upgrades to stable packages, one would have to
> go through th
Taupter wrote:
>
> John Hasler wrote:
> >
> > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
> > daylight savings time in a tropical country?
>
> Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
> people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with
> Well, it's a bit better than that - particularly if you keep up with the
> various lists (mostly -user and -devel) you should be all right. It's
> more a case of "pay attention and be prepared to fix things if they
> break" than anything else. I'd guess that a fair proportion of
> developers ar
Does anyone on the list know of companies offering remote servers
running Debian ? People like Verio, Webhosting.com, Concentric, and
Exodus seem besotted with Red Hat boxes.
Cheers,
--
Martin Oldfield.
Hi guys,
a maybe silly question:
when i installed debconf, i was happy, when he asked my, whether to use some
nice gtk-interface or not.
I thought, this was a good idea, and so during apt-get update/upgrade, some
windows pops up an vanishes, but I only see a black box. How do i get rid of
this an
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find
> GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages?
> --
> Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:5030/518.50
search the mail list archive(s) - someone announced unofficial
20.4 debs about a week ago
OK
Hi,
I just did an upgrade of the latest unstable branch, and ran into a
rather perplexing problem with the perl-5.005-doc package. Dselect
won't let me change the upgrade status of that package. In fact, it
won't even let me hold it! When I hold it and the main perl package, it
comes back with
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
>
> > Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find
> > GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages?
>
> In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*.
No, thanks. I want GNU Emacs, not XEmacs.
--
Alexander Zhuckov
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:17:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:47PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and
> > frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading
> > perl, because I've
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:38:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's
> > contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself
> > having to write perl scripts
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's
> contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself
> having to write perl scripts to coerce dpkg into releasing the
> information about missing files.
Hi,
When smbmount fails to mount a NT-share, the mount entry exists in
/etc/mount after failed mount anyway. This prevents mounting anything
else to that mount point. Is this a so-called bug or what? I'm using the
latest stable version (at least apt-get told me so...) on debian 2.1. df
doesn't kno
I wrote:
> I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
> daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Taupter writes:
> Brazil is not one immense rain forest, as some people would think.
What's that got to do with it seasonal variation in daylight?
--
John Hasler
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Some people just don't have the luxury of working with Unstable. However, much
>of the software released, like Gnome, GIMP, LyX and such *is* stable.
>Enlightenment 0.15.x is quite stable, albeit incomplete. It is no less stable
>than the 0.14.6 that ships
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interrested in filtering the incoming mail. On my opinion, my situation
> is quite
> different from the explained in this thread. I am the administrator of a PC
> K6-3
> 400MHz running Debian Linux. I use a ma
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:42:54PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam
> packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this
> in the log:
>
> Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unkno
On 1 Oct 1999, Alexander Zhuckov wrote:
> Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find
> GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages?
In unstable distribution in the packages xemacs20-*.
--
Jean Pierre
Dear Dr. Benham or to whom may concern:
I tried to download binary source through ftp on
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386
However, every time the transfer process will stoped at "devel" folder and
gave me the error message.
would you please have a look at it?
Sincerely,
Y
Hi, All,
I tried to back up my home directory today for the first time in
a month or so (I back it up to zip drvie which was dead; I got a new
one yesterday). I used the same command which I always do:
tar -cPvzf /zip/cdj.tgz --exclude-from=.tar_exclude .
.tar_exclude is a shor
Hi!
Tell me, ple-e-e-e-ase, where I can find
GNU Emacs 20.4 Debian packages?
--
Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:5030/518.50
Hi,
I used apt yesterday to upgrade some packages including some libpam
packages and now an incoming ppp connection fails with entries like this
in the log:
Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: check pass; user unknown
Oct 1 21:17:08 elm PAM_unix[25488]: authentication failure; LOGIN(uid=0)
->
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
: So who *knows* what I'm running now, and whether it corresponds to
: anything remotely resembling Official Debian 2.0. Somebody remind me
: again how .deb is the perfect packaging format, sublime in all the
: details of its creation, without flaw i
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:48:00AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have two, not unconnected problems I suspect, with printing.
>
> The first is directly from linux, in that when it comes out the printer,
> its stepped across the page and is unreadable. Is there an easy method
> to fix that?
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:54:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is what I've heard, but not what I see in the mailing list archive
> where people ask about problems with Potato and they are answered only
> "That's what unstable means." In other words, you're on your own, pal.
Well, it'
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:47PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and
> frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading
> perl, because I've seen all sorts of veiled references to possible
> hosage (although I've nev
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:04:56AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> The command "g++" (also known as "c++") exists to do exactly this job -
Thanks! This is what I was looking for. For whatever reason,
I was still laboring under the misconception that egcs and g++ were
not one and the same.
I agree tha
Hi,
I was able to find some info about daylight savings setting in
other Linux list.
Thanks for your concerns about Brazil. BTW, I think we'll have
daylight savings for while :-))
BTW again, zic(8) is the program which compiles the time zone and
somebody provided an update
Hi all,
today I'm trying to update my machines with apt and there is a strange
error:
Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/main Release
Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.br.debian.org unstable/contr
Hi All!
I need to detect the corrupted serial data in my program.
I have set the c_lflag to ISIG in termios structure, but no signals are
being sent to my program.
What signal does the serial driver send when parity or overrun error occurs?
How to manage these signals?
Where can I find more info?
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:44:06 -0500, eric k. wolven wrote:
> I'm getting this read-out from my daily cron but haven't a clue what is wrong
> or more importantly, how to fix it. Any ideas?
Your system doesn't have the "textutils" package installed, which is weird
as it's a required/essential p
Hi!
Newbie here
I'm getting this read-out from my daily cron but haven't a clue what is wrong
or more importantly, how to fix it. Any ideas?
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib
/usr/sbin/crack_mdict: tr: command not found
/usr/sbin/crack_mdict: tr: command not found
/usr/sbin/crack_mdict: line 23: 645 Bo
Hello,
I am interrested in filtering the incoming mail. On my opinion, my situation is
quite
different from the explained in this thread. I am the administrator of a PC K6-3
400MHz running Debian Linux. I use a mail server (mercurio.des.fi.udc.es) to
send and
receive mails.
[mercurio:/home/des/
Hi all,
Has anyone tried to make subj. with win98 comps acting as pptp-client
and linux-box as pptp server?
The problem is:
we have private ip LAN in one office. Another comp (win98) is
located in another far away office. It has it's own Internet connection.
The first office also has Internet co
John Hasler wrote:
>
> I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
> daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with "Coming
soon... Coca Cola!". B
> *- On 30 Sep, Stefan Blum wrote about "How to filter this list?"
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can I filter the incoming stuff from this list by using ''elm''?
> > My $HOME/.elm/filter-rules contains the following entries:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > if (from = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save
> > "/h
hello everyone!
i set up a debian mirror and want to install potato using the nfs
exported files from my mirror.
but when selecting install within dselect there are several problems:
1.) the first time dselect aborts when installing libc6. it complains
about apt which is already installed but wi
> I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer
> (ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely*
> distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine.
I switched to the VESA framebuffer, and now it works. But does anyone
I just installed Debian 2.2 after reformatting my old Slink partition. I
noticed that as root I had my fvwm 2.2 menus as I always had them with the
old version (2.0.46-BETA I believe) in Slink. However, if I ran fvwm 2.2
as a normal user, I got a menu that basically let me exit and nothing
else. Th
> I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and
> frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading
> perl, because I've seen all sorts of veiled references to possible
> hosage (although I've never seen a concise statement of the actual
> problem), but eve
Hi!
I just upgraded to a 2.2 kernel (from 2.0.38), running a virtual framebuffer
(ATI Mach64), and now my X Windows doesn't work, the picture is *extremely*
distorted. Console mode (which also is graphics now) works just fine.
I'm running on a PC, and my card is, according to SuperProbe:
First v
Tanks all wich replied to my question. I have solved the problem.
Joao
Joao Pissarro
Inet. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ampr: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AX25: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated
> that Potato was fairly stable and that I could safely upgrade a Slink
> installation to Potato without problems. However, when looking at the
> mailing list archives, it seems that it isn't so. For o
Hi,
I know that the basic issues of my question have been asked many times
here previously. But, time goes on and things change. Maybe this all
too important issue needs to be addressed again.
When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated
that Potato was fairly stable and
Has anyone successfully patched and compiled a pgcc/egcs package for
Slink? I was able to patch for Potato using the gcc source package and a
slightly older gcc source tarball patched with the pgcc patches.
I recently updated one of my testing machines to Potato, and the patched
gcc seems to be wor
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:39:02PM +, John wrote:
> > Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more
> > or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows?
> >
> > Some of the more interesting caracteristics of GoZilla are:
> >
> > * Restart donwload if connection f
It may not help, but I installed debian on my laptop using a laplink
cable and it was not too difficult to set up. I was planning on using an
ethernet card, but I couldn't get one right away... so I spent $10 on a
laplink cable instead.
Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have installed t
one solution is to build Apache and mod_perl from source, and linking
mod_perl static instead of a dso.
-Doug
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem where apache is segfaulting when I start
> it. The only time I get the segfault is when DynaLoader.pm loads an
*- On 1 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "g32pbm - gs - pbm2g3 - newslock"
> Hi
>
> where can i find the above files?? are they part of a utils package??
> they are used for fax conversion etc.
>
Use the 'Search the Contents ...' search at the bottom of
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Hi
where can i find the above files?? are they part of a utils package??
they are used for fax conversion etc.
Thanx
You can thank Microsoft for that one. If you have a webpage and use a
Microsoft tool
to edit it, it "exends and ebraces" the font scheme into one that only renders
correctly under Windows. All it really means, though, is that some MS editing
tool
was used sometime in the document's editing histo
It works just fine on my potato system. I suspect this is because the whole
thing is
statically linked to its own libraries, etc. The only gripe I have with it is
I have
a dual processor system, but as it was compiled under a 2.0.x environment,
there is
no SMP support. I really like the package
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 06:19:19PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote:
> What are all the components I need in order to setup a news server so that I
> can connect from a remote computer. I currently have the nntp and cnews
> packages installed, although don't know what else to do to configure them or
Th
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Kristopher Johnson writes:
> > Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country?
>
> If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight
> savings time in the tropics.
It isn't much better in the north, where daylight
Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's
contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself
having to write perl scripts to coerce dpkg into releasing the
information about missing files. And even then, I won't know if a
file is really undamaged.
It wouldn'
I was updating my page on installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Dell
Latitude CPi D300XT when it occurred to me that a lot of the material
there might be of interest in general. It's a log of how to install
Debian on this laptop (and maybe installing Debian in general) and
aims to be fairly descriptiv
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:01:10PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> This has been popping up for a couple of days now. Anyone know
> what it means?
> Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26739]: started
> Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26746]: request_thread: read(10, ..., 1023)
> failed: Connection
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:03:33PM -0700, bwarsing wrote:
[Please wrap your lines at 80 columns and put a blank line between
paragraphs - it makes your mail much more legible and easier to reply to]
> I'm a newbie, but I need to set up cron to grep the auth attempts from
> /var/log/daemon.log an
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:29:00PM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> Is there a way to set an environment variable with the args I want for the
> egcc line?
The traditional approach is to use a Makefile. However...
> For example, I like STL, and am always typing `egcc -Wall -lstdc++ foo.cpp`.
> It
Well, 100+ messages a day finally swamped me. I want to thank all of you for
bringing me into the debian fold so quickly and nicely.
I am unsubbing from the list; I am sure I will be back.
Thanks for all the help. :)
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Kristopher Johnson writes:
> Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country?
If there is anything dumber that daylight savings time, it is daylight
savings time in the tropics.
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I have two, not unconnected problems I suspect, with printing.
The first is directly from linux, in that when it comes out the printer,
its stepped across the page and is unreadable. Is there an easy method
to fix that?
The second is via samba. At the present moment the server is not
visible on
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