> On 09-Nov-1999, Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
> > vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
> >
> www.horde.org/imp/
I'm going to try it. I have heard there is a deb at
http://master.debia
Jan,
The first IP address worked fine for me. I did not try the second
one though. You can give it a try yourself. Go to the command prompt,
and enter this:
nslookup [ENTER]
server 193.189.224.2 [ENTER]
www.yahoo.com [ENTER]
The abovementioned DNS server (193.189.224.2) will
I bought hamm from Linux System Labs www.lsl.com when I started on Debian.
You can get slink for $4.95 or $9.95 with $5.00 going to Debian. I checked
their site and could not tell which release they have now.
> I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are NOT CD-Rs.
> CheapB
On 09-Nov-1999, Charles Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
> vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
>
www.horde.org/imp/
I have no idea how well it works under lynx (I would recommend twig, if
IMP doesn'
I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are NOT CD-Rs.
CheapBytes seems popular, but they sell R2...where can i get R3 while not
being ripped off?
-Scott
On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> This is working for me now:
>
> $ wget -r --no-parent http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/
>
> But the book should be a Debian package. (You do know there are
> other books packaged, right?)
No, but if you'd be so kind as to explain tha
Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm
> line305
>
> What do I need to (re)install to cure this,
> without (further) breaking my system?
Your system isn't broken at all, but installing libterm-readline-gnu-perl
will make this warning go a
>I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB
>IBM harddisk
>and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
>I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally,
>leaving the last
>4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato
>and I want to
>use the whole of the disk by extending the
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 02:24:54PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
> > and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
>
> Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation
Oh, right.
> >
On 09-Nov-99 Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to create myself a Debian package for the new netfilter tools (since
> there isn't yet one available to the best of my knowledge.)
>
> Which tools do I need and where to look for instructions? I thought that
> dpkg-
> dev was the righ
Hi there,
I'd like to create myself a Debian package for the new netfilter tools (since
there isn't yet one available to the best of my knowledge.)
Which tools do I need and where to look for instructions? I thought that dpkg-
dev was the right package, but the docs for dpkg-dev say to look in
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
> and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
Ok - a kernel 2.0 limitation
>
> I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, leaving the last
> 4GB for /home. No
On 09-Nov-99 Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote:
> Hola~
>
> I'm running into the same problems as reported in bug 34449. Man fails when
> I'm not root with "man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted". Is
> there a workaround??? Does anyone know if there is a scheduled or already
> known fix
Hola~
I'm running into the same problems as reported in bug 34449. Man fails when
I'm not root with "man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted". Is
there a workaround??? Does anyone know if there is a scheduled or already
known fix???
MO
--
Michael O'Brien
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all!
After installing Gnome with all dependencies and the
xserver-fbdev3.3.2.3a-11.deb and doing a 'panel' I get a "Gdk-warning:
Can´t open display". Same with 'gnome &panel'.
Can someone tell me what is wrong or where I can configure this. Is there a
configfile for Gnome-panel?
The XF86Con
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, aphro wrote:
[ snip ]
: michf >If not, how do I mount a windows partiton with write permision to
regular
: michf >users? (or a specific user), and is it posible to use a windows
partition
: michf >as the home directory for a user?
:
: you can, but i dont reccomend it.
I recently installed slink on a machine with a 15.2GB IBM harddisk
and it only recognised about 8GB of the drive.
I went ahead and partitioned the drive normally, leaving the last
4GB for /home. Now I've upgraded to 2.2.x and potato and I want to
use the whole of the disk by extending the /home pa
Thanks for the help, but still not working.
I've added the lpr_bounce stuff to the printcap
and it seems that the filter is being run, but
no conversion is taking place. For plain text
files, the control codes in the dj550c-filter
that should be used somewhere along the line
are being printed as
Well, I work for a company that has been replacing their stock of
passive-backplane-style rack-mount units with standard micro-AT boxen. I
was supposed to swap out the boards from the cases themselves and replace
them with micro-ATs as well. However, since much of the peripheral hardware
was stri
> I have my printer (Epson Stylus Color Pro) configured with magicfilter
> and it prints PS fine, but when it prints text it doesn't eject the
> final page. This means I have manually go to the printer and push the
> eject button. If I don't manually eject the page the next print job
> starts prin
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote:
lewisc >I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
lewisc >vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
webmail is free.. http://webmail.wastl.net/ and there are debian packages
for it. its not the greatest but
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, frenche wrote:
french >Is there a place where I can download
french >Learning Debian GNU/Linux?
buy it! support the project! i bought it..even tho ive been usin debian
for a while..its a good book..
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Micha Feigin wrote:
michf >i was wondering whats the larjest partition size that linux can deel with
michf >(and if there is still limitation on the size of the root (boot)
partition
slink is easily able to handle a 9gig drive, i recently installed it on a
10.1gig ibm drive a
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 9 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "ppp problem with 2.2.X kernel;
> ok with 2.0.36"
> >
> >
> > I had a slink system with 2.0.36 kernel, and wanted to update to 2.2.X
> > kernel. I
> > updated the suggested packages listed on the debian pag
> "Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure how the time on my system got so out of hand!
>
> I have been having a similar problem on my Debian system - the clock
> strangely loses a half hour or so a day. This has happened since I did a
> recent apt-get upgrade of unstable. I ha
John wrote:
> on 08 Nov 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
>
> >On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote:
> >
> >> Also, Pine depends on libc6 >=2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses
> >> 4 >=4.2-3.1 (I only have 4.2-3). Neither of these am I unable to find.
> >
> >I guess I should have made it clearer but
Hi all,
I did ask this a while ago but never got any real answers
so I will try again with some more information.
I am using fetchmail, exim, mutt to handle my mailing and
I have one .forward file to redirect all my debian list
mails to its own mailbox.
Lately I have been having problems that th
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
afo >I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink !! Too late ??
afo >hope not
never too late..
afo >Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any
afo >suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in
afo >once??
i'd do it all at once, i ran dftp
on 08 Nov 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
>On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote:
>
>> I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from
>> this web page. However, I've been unable to install and configure it.
>> Pine depends on libc-client4.6 and I can't find it - in another posting
>>
Pppconfig-2.0 has been installed in unstable. New features include support
for demand dialing. I also fixed (I hope!) some serious brain-damage in
the secrets-file code. I would appreciate some test reports, particulary
on the new features and on changing authentication methods.
--
John Hasler
i am running an excellent package called "twig" which is coded entirely in php3
and uses a mysql backend. it's very lean, and is even usable in a text-only
browser like lynx. i did have some configuration pains, however.. once i got
everything working however, i haven't had any complaints from my
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Charles Lewis wrote:
> I don't want to create a new email account somewhere, I just want to be able
> to read the mail that is arriving on my linux box. For instance,
> www.mailstart.com provides this type of functionality. Just type in your
I don't want to create a new email account somewhere, I just want to be able
to read the mail that is arriving on my linux box. For instance,
www.mailstart.com provides this type of functionality. Just type in your
full email address and password and you can view your messages. However, I'm
not sur
*- On 9 Nov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "ppp problem with 2.2.X kernel; ok
with 2.0.36"
>
>
> I had a slink system with 2.0.36 kernel, and wanted to update to 2.2.X
> kernel. I
> updated the suggested packages listed on the debian page that discussed known
> issues, and then updated the ker
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 05:34:46AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I
> should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least. There are
> just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that
> require 2.1 over 2.0. I know that it's been posted
> before, but I've
Charles Lewis wrote:
>
> I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
> vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
My wife has an account on altavista. She like it very much.
They allow attachments to your e-mail.
See http://www.altavista.com
for mor
I needed to upgrade to this package at some point when I was
trying install KDE. (kde required xlib6g and I think after a long
list of dependencied I ended up getting xbase)
What happened after I installed it? Main problem is my previous
window manager (wmaker) does not work, instead xsession
fir
I want to be able to read my mail from a web page while I'm gone on
vacation. What are you guys using to provide that functionality?
===
Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing
Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX
(817)556-4720 [EMAIL PR
I've a problem after the upgrade of the modutils package.
The system work correctly before this upgrade and the sound modules
were loaded on demand :-).
Now when the system try to load the sound modules appeare the following
message:
sgalaxy: io, irq, dma and sgbase must be set.
My system is a 48
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> > I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows,
> > but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me.
>
> Hi,
>
> are you sure
frenche wrote:
> Is there a place where I can download
> Learning Debian GNU/Linux?
>
> I got one download with:
> wget -r --no-parent www.ora/com/catalog/debian/chapter
>
> That doesn't seem to work anymore.
This is working for me now:
$ wget -r --no-parent http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/deb
You need to install xlib6.
then you have:
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
/usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6.0
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 03:45:24PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed slink using the CD that came with the New Riders
> book and seem to have a problem finding shared librar
I installed slink using the CD that came with the New Riders
book and seem to have a problem finding shared libraries.
When I try and run wordperfect I get -
xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
locate libXt.so.6 produces
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0
I check permissio
Is there a place where I can download
Learning Debian GNU/Linux?
I got one download with:
wget -r --no-parent www.ora/com/catalog/debian/chapter
That doesn't seem to work anymore. Lost my copy when
I did another install. Advice?
--
Jeff French, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a link to Eric S
I had a slink system with 2.0.36 kernel, and wanted to update to 2.2.X kernel. I
updated the suggested packages listed on the debian page that discussed known
issues, and then updated the kernel. No problems with that. Netscape seemed to
work ok, but when I tried to download any packages, it woul
I managed to install some packages manually but apt-get still complains when I
try to install esound or do an upgrade:
lilypad:/home/pollywog#apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the f
"Fethi A. Okyar" wrote:
> I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink
>
> The problem is I'm connecting via modem, so it will take
> until Y2K until I get all those new packages.
It'sd not that long, but you can buy a Slink CD cheaply.
> I know that upgrading those libraries is a major pain,
> f
Hello,
There was a recent thread in this list called "Alsa with audiopci1370"
which sort of concludes saying "For some reason /etc/init.d/alsa (start)
was not loading the drivers properly."
I want to add that this also happens with my AW64 sound card.
/etc/init.d/alsa simply doesn't work and I ge
Now that potato is delayed until next year I think I
should try upgrading to glibc2.1 at least. There are
just too many fine programs out on freshmeat that
require 2.1 over 2.0. I know that it's been posted
before, but I've lost the url... can someone repeat
the procedure to upgrade slink to glib
Well, there have been a lot of posting regarding resetting time. It must
be... a sign of the times :). My own problems are with my potato laptop.
It will not keep GMT time in the cmos and localtime on the system. It
always gets reset. I have compiled apm in and out; changed the apm config
opti
My suggestion is that you install apt which is in slink and use that to
install the packages you want. Apt will resolve dependancies and tell
what additional packages it has to install to install the package that
you have specified.
Example: apt-get install procps
Check the apt-g
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 08:27:53PM -0800, Dave Wiard wrote:
> is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
> of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
> activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
> would be aprecia
Hello all:
For the past couple of days I have been trying to install potato on a
system. I have encountered problems. The problem is with libc6.
I have tried to remove, -force-remove etc with dpkg without success.
I am running 2.2.12 on this PC.
Following is the command I have issued and the res
I am about to recive a new computer with a 9 Gb disk.
i was wondering whats the larjest partition size that linux can deel with
(and if there is still limitation on the size of the root (boot) partition
(I know that there was a 1 Gb limitation)
Also I need about hals the disk for windows (regratabl
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows,
> but in X I can't get it to work. Can anyone please help me.
Hi,
are you sure this resolution was 'plain' and not compresses, like on
LCD for projectors? If so
Hello Debian GeeKs !
I have such a problem :
weak machine i486/8MB RAM/2x200MB HDD/3com905B/512Kb video
I want to change the kernel on my slink machine from 2.0.36 -> 2.0.38 and as a
result of make menuconfig i have the following:
lfxdialog.o no such file or directory something like that.
T
Hi,
How can I define new Meta keys for Xemacs? I have two slink/i386
installations, on one I can use the windows key as Meta key, on the other I
can't, most of the time. I had the impression it worked for a short time
while editing a shell script, but then, I couldn't...
My .emacs and .xemacs-optio
I did a recent apt-get upgrade, and now atd fails. It used to work
fine. It seems to only process items when restarted, and leaves
defuct children around. I have "at" version 3.1.8-7 installed. I am
running various 2.3.x kernels with various patches, but atd isn't
working even if I reboot with an
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:40:08PM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote:
[...]
> Is there anyway to specify that a log file is to be a daily-rotated one
> rather than a weekly-rotated one?
[...]
See
man logrotate
and
/etc/logrotate.conf
Use the directive, "daily".
Art
Hi all,
I have overcome my syslog problem, now i have only one query.
The "sysklogd" script in my /etc/cron.daily directory uses the
"syslogd-listfiles" command to list what log files it should log.
However, this command brings up nothing.
"syslogd-listfiles --weekly" brings up all my log files
Browsers normaly default to pasv ftp, but the smartupdate
feature could be an exception. In that case you need
to load the ip_masq_ftp module.
Regards,
Onno
At 05:16 PM 11/8/99 -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to use the Netscape SmartUpdate feature to upgrade a few
Win9x boxes
On my windoze machine machine I use napster
to download mp3's.
If you don't know what napster is take a look
at http://www.napster.com, download the client
and install it. There are ---> 100.000+ <---
mp3's online.
My question: Is there a napster compatible
program under Linux?
Regards,
Onno
BTW, I was referring to the Nov. 1 issue of the magazine.
What bugged me the most was the author's declaration that Linux
is "...more likely to be on someone's mind than on someone's
server." The magazine is also distributed in San Diego.
Art
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:07:28AM -0700, Art Le
This is a bit off-topic but the sort of news that appears
on the list from time to time. It's about an article in
"Computer Edge," a free weekly that's distributed in various
offices of computer and network related corporations around
Denver, Colorado, US. It is also dropped at newsstands ar
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 09:49:30AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> Since the latest potato update to diald 0.99.1-0.1, I have found that
> after the link goes down, I have to kill diald and restart it before it
> will dial again. /var/log/ppp.log shows:
>
> Nov 5 07:05:36 nielsen diald[9081]: Clo
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 02:31:41PM +0800, Bal K. Paudyal wrote:
> Is anybody aware of accounting package (that calculates login-times,
> auto-generates account usage reports and mails the reports to individuals
> on the network)!
>
> Please kindly reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thanks
>
> Bal
On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 06:24:38AM +, john oakes wrote:
> Hello Debian.
> I was wondering if your latest version still covers Atari.
> At present I am using the KDE setup, but I seem to have some application
> missing for the Internet and kfloppy. I would be grateful for some help
Brian Servis wrote:
>
> It can be found at http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/.
> There are certanly better Xservers for Windows out there but this one
> cheap at $25. The Starnet one is really quite good but a little pricey
> at $200 for a single use license. See
> http://www.starn
Is anybody aware of accounting package (that calculates login-times,
auto-generates account usage reports and mails the reports to individuals
on the network)!
Please kindly reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks
Bal
Hello Debian.
I was wondering if your latest version still covers Atari.
At present I am using the KDE setup, but I seem to have some application
missing for the Internet and kfloppy. I would be grateful for some help.
regards--
john oakes :)
> Checked the "Background overrides theme" box in "Desktop background
> settings"?
Yes, I did and that is unchecked. It actually seems to be intermittent,
meaning some themes will show their background like, Boots or Shiny-Metal,
however most of the other ones do not. I looked at the themes cod
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jacob Schmude
> > I've downloaded the pine debs from the new web page. however, somehow
> > they seem corrupted. Pico and pine-tech-notes won't install due to a
> > corrupted filesystem tar
Well, It seems as though I got it working. I'm guessing that my problem was
with loading snd-ens1370 with modpobe, rather than snd-card-1370, which loads
all the drivers. For some reason /etc/init.d/alsa (start) was not loading the
drivers properly.
Thanks for the responses,
Ken
Doh... I thought you meant audio users group, as in a mailing list. Yes, I (the
user on the system) am a member of group audio. :)
Ken
Kecskemethy Zoltan wrote:
>
> there is an audio group for the users who can use audio devices,
> u need to add your user in it, u can do it in /etc/groups file
Kernel support of the es1370 chip works fine... I just really wanted to try to
get alsa working. Thanks though Ian.
Ken
Ian Stirling wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> I don't know if this will help but ..
> I have a Soundblaster PCI 128 which works perfectly on
> my system. I took the board out of the m
You might try giving it "rescue" at the boot prompt. This is
available with the Slink (2.1) disk. If the set-up is anything like
Slink, it won't overwrite anything until you tell it to do so.
--
++
| Eric G. Miller
I want to start upgrading hamm --> slink !! Too late ??
hope not
Anyway I dont want to do this all in one round? Any
suggestions? Should I do it step by step or all in
once??
The problem is I'm connecting via modem, so it will take
until Y2K until I get all those new packages.
I know that up
I installed Debian 2.0 (CheapBytes CD) on my second hard drive, but I didn't
install Lilo, and until now have been booting from the bootdisk. Today
the bootdisk failed. Can I get another bootdisk from the CD by skipping
the partitioning steps (so I don't wipe out my installed system) and go
to th
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
> However, I myself would do the following:
>
> 1. With computer booted, edit /etc/default/rcS and sent GMT as required:
>
> >Here is the relevant setting from my /etc/default/rcS:
> >
> ># Set GMT="-u" if your system clock
is there any way to force umount to unconditionally unmount a drive? one
of my cd drives is constantly touted as 'busy' when i know there's zero
activity, so it refuses to unmount and hence i cannot eject. any help
would be apreciated.
Dave Wiard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Nov, 1999 à 08:19:23PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> >> "LP" == Laurent PICOULEAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >LP> For your BIOS : simply set your CMOS clock to the GMT time :
> >
> >I am being a bit daft but do you mean that I should go
Hi,
Is vflib2 used for anything besides Japanese vector fonts? If not,
why would gs depend on it?
Thanks
MaryK
Greetings from Japan.
I have a DEC 200i with a Cirrus Logic GD5430 graphics card. According to
SuperProbe, I only have 512 bytes of graphic memory. This supposedly
means that I can only display 800x600 in 8 bpp, which I am doing now.
When I set the memory in XF86Config to 2048, X indeed displays
1
I am unable to get the esound package installed on potato.
Is anyone else having this problem?
--
Andrew
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GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681
*we all live downstream*
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Jacob Schmude I've downloaded the pine debs from the new web page. however, somehow
> they seem corrupted. Pico and pine-tech-notes won't install due to a
> corrupted filesystem tar ball and pine fails telling me there's a bug in
> my ld.so l
Hello
I've downloaded the pine debs from the new web page. however, somehow they seem
corrupted. Pico and pine-tech-notes won't install due to a corrupted filesystem
tar ball and pine fails telling me there's a bug in my ld.so linker. I've
downloaded these debs four times with the exact same re
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 10:05:42PM -0500, Andrew Pollack wrote:
>
>
> I've been working with the debian distribution for a bit now, and have almost
> completed removed NT from my environment (hooray!) --but suddenly run into a
> difficult problem. I have a vendor application that is certified o
I've been working with the debian distribution for a bit now, and have almost
completed removed NT from my environment (hooray!) --but suddenly run into a
difficult problem. I have a vendor application that is certified on several
dists, but not debian. When I try, it fails, as it can't seem t
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote:
> I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from
> this web page. However, I've been unable to install and configure it.
> Pine depends on libc-client4.6 and I can't find it - in another posting
> you indicated it was for the time being under /I
Nevermind. I ran 'apt-get check' and that seems to have fixed it.
--
Andrew
On 09-Nov-99 Pollywog wrote:
> I ran apt-get upgrade and I get this error, which I have never seen before.
> Is this a known problem with potato?
>
>
> 100% [Scanning packages]
> Configuring packages ...
> /tmp/fileik4
I ran apt-get upgrade and I get this error, which I have never seen before.
Is this a known problem with potato?
100% [Scanning packages]
Configuring packages ...
/tmp/fileik4MvE: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
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aphro writes:
> ...xntp3 might update the clock automatically...
Yes. So does chrony.
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
jybarb >Do you have a clue to use the log files from xntp3 to correctly
jybarb >setup time TICK & FREQ, in order to have quite a good time
jybarb >kept by the cmos clock on a machine which only works a few
jybarb >hours a day?
jybarb >
no sorry, i
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:03:30PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> It can be found at http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/.
> There are certanly better Xservers for Windows out there but this one
> cheap at $25. The Starnet one is really quite good but a little pricey
> at $200 for a sin
Why does scwm take forever to load? Do I have to byte-compile something here?
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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 05:16:06PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use the Netscape SmartUpdate feature to upgrade a few
> Win9x boxes that access the net through my Debian box using ipmasq.
> Everything goes fine until the actual download is supposed to start.
> The 'Sma
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:50:10PM -0800, aphro wrote:
>.
> my
> server's clock is never off by more then 0.01 seconds.
>
> nate
Hi nate,
Do you have a clue to use the log files from xntp3 to correctly
setup time TICK & FREQ, in order to have quite a good time
kept by the cmos clock on a
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:34:44PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> Try downloading the 2.2.13 ide patch from your favorite kernel.org
> mirror. They're under /pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick -- Andre Hedrick is
> the IDE maintainer. You'll want to enable the option that's listed right
> under IDE CD-ROM
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 06:23:25PM +, John wrote:
[SNIP]
> Also, Pine depends on libc6 >=2.1 (my slink has 2.0.7) and libncurses
^^^
Forget this version, lic6-2.1 is for potato, and it is almost impossible
to go back once ver. 2.1 is installed; use a former versi
I previously was able to install my Laser Jet printer by running
magicfilterconfigure. Things were working lovely. (This is all under
slink)
Today I, seem to have run into some problems.
I'm able to have root dump stuff to the printer (i.e. ls > /dev/lp0),
but when I use lpr I get the following e
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