Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Will Lowe writes:
> >I need to extract JUST ONE of the files in a .deb
>
> The only way I know is to use ar to pull the data.tar.gz from the .deb
> and then untar the file from that.
>
> [...]
>
> There may be others?
The 'official' way to do th
I'm sorry to post this message so widely, but I suspect that enough
people have been affected that the distribution is worthwhile.
For the past couple of months, one of the machines that I have been
using to process my outgoing E-mail has been silently discarding my
messages as spam due to a mail
The problem is that the installation script for 'gzip' wants to update
the directory of info files ('/usr/info/dir') to contain a reference
to the gzip documentation. When it is unable to find the file
'/usr/info/dir', it exits with an error. dpkg takes this to mean that
there was something wron
[ I posted this to debian-devel a few minutes ago, and just realized I
should have sent it to debian-user as well. My apologies to those
of you who are seeing it twice. ]
I'd like to thank all of the people who have been downloading and
testing the versions of dpkg I have been uploading to '
Brian N. Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is start-stop-daemon ?
> [...]
> I think that if it is enough of a Debian standard that virtualy
> all of the scripts that dpkg installs in /etc/init.d use it,
> we are due an explanation of what it does, how it is used, etc.
You're absolutely
> place to deal with passwords, rather than all 10 user machines. Even
> better would be to use kerberos to verify passwords through the current
> Project Vincent. Is this doable?
There should be debian versions of both Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5
available on the non-US site within the next week
Jim Pick writes:
> I believe the new Samba (in unstable) uses PAM (pluggable authentification
> modules). Klee Dienes (the maintainer) mentioned in debian-devel that
> the following lines need to be added to /etc/pam.conf:
Exactly. The new versions of Samba (1.9.16p11-2) and libpam
Oops, looks like I forgot to Cc: you when I sent the message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] closing out the original bug report by a different
user.
I belive the problem you were having (conflict between the thread
support and the Tkinter library) has been resolved (by temporarily
removing thread support)
> I just updated my home system to 'rex'. I wanted to play with the
> new GUI setup. Now, I have a manpage for XF86Setup, but no
> executable. Would some kind soul *please* tell me what I did wrong?
> I'm too tired to think anymore tonight..
It's in xserver-vga16. I'm inclined to consider this a
> Problem is, most of Arizona doesn't observe Daylight time.
> Good old Slackware used to let me select US/Arizona, which
> got things right.
You can get Arizona by using America/Phoenix (submenu 3 from
'tzconfig'). You should probably file two bug reports with the debian
bug tracking system (th
There's a preliminary packaging of fvwm95 in
ftp.sedona.com:/pub/linux/debian.
It works fine, but currently conflicts with the standard fvwm and
fvwm2. Perhaps you'd be willing to download my copy as a starting
point and take over maintenance of the package? You can find
information on register
> BTW, do you have a thread module for the new pthreads support?
Didn't know it existed. Send me a pointer and I'll include it in the
next release.
> I ran into this problem again today; python requires tk40
> and tcl74, which is fine if you want to use tkinter, but
> I don't, at this point. I would try to appease it, but
> unfortunately I only have tk41 and tcl75.
>
> [...] but it would be nicer if there was some system that could
> disable
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