> >I heartily agree with Daniel's plea. Eveb a simple listing of what
> >configuration files the package uses (and where they are), and where it
> >stores data (i.e., does it use space in /var) would be a big help.
> less /var/lib/dpkg/info/.list
>
> If you really care, write a nice wrapper
> Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25?
I'm doing exactly that.
Hi! I've bought a new HD and I'm having troubles with it. It's a Seagate
ST310232A (10 Gb).
Boot:
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, B
> > Well.. the libc maintainers don't want to add the locale for my country for
> >no reason, even if it is included in the package as source.
> I use a target in the glibc makefiles to generate the locales, if it
> doesn't generate the one for your country, there's nothing I can do
> about it.
> > > Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> > > so far.
> > I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
> > must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
> > information
>
> Hmm... the question is why we d
> Here's a revised version of the script taking into account all comments
> so far.
I guess Argentina isn't the only country that uses the SQL format. There
must be some others too. It would be great to find a source for this
information
>Style DateDatetime
>---
>ISO1999-07-17 1999-07-17 07:09:18+01
>SQL17/07/1999 17/07/1999 07:09:19.00 BST
>POSTGRES 17-07-1999 Sat 17 Jul 07:09:19 1999 BST
>GERMAN 17.07.
> > Is it legal to have multiple partitions marked as active (at work a machine
> > wouldn't boot untill I removed one of those marks)?
> > If it isn't, a bug should be filed against cfdisk.
> I don't know if it is legal have multiple partitions marked as active but
> if I understand correctly wh
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 11:33:49AM -0400, James A.Treacy wrote:
> For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the
> Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards.
> Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before,
> but am not adverse to any good publicity
> Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make
> sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but
> I
> didn't find anything like that.
You may use "dpkg -c package.deb".
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> Our protocol suport, theorically yet, half duplex and we use the serial
> and parallel ports. Because other caracteristcs, we need something like
> kbhit function defined in conio.h of C for MSDOS. This function is like a
> keypressed and we are looking for something like that because we must
> e
> So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What
> will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it
> just install side-by-side to Slackware.
What you can do is this:
1) Move every binary you think you should need from /usr/bin,/bin to
/usr
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>
> I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with
> the
> line
>
> /dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0
>
> in /etc/fstab
>
> I tried changing "msdos" to "auto", but no
> #include
>
> main()
> {
> execl("/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex",
> (void *) 0);
> }
Bad code. First argument should always be program name:
execl("/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex","octave_test.mex",
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> > I sangged the below from the Caldera mailing list. It describes a method
> > that Red Hat has come up with so that packages can add themselves to the
> > menus of different window managers when the package is installed. It is
> > GPLed and looks like a good idea.
> Debian already has the excell
> Now I notice that "cut" seems to buffer everything up.
You should file a bug against cut, it should do line buffering when output
is a tty.
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> > You can pipe the file through "tr -d '\r'". Ignore the other message
> > about mcopy. This is restrictive since it *assumes* that the file
> > is on a floppy disk (or other FAT volume).
>
> A much bigger problem of mtools is that when copying *to* an MS-DOS
> file system, it writes long f
> If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on
> filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable
> filesystem size was 2GB.
>
> Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size?
It changed a long time ago. I used a 9 Gb partition w
> I think his needs are far more basic than that. He seems to be wanting a
> list of utility-names, as most first-time Linux users (including me) want.
> There are not many things more frustrating than thinking "I know it can be
> done, but I don't know how and I don't even know with what utility,
original line editor (not friendly)
>
> vi [file]: full-screen editor (find a book about it)
? This is for newbies, isn't it?
I would list `joe', or even `ae'
I also think that we need such a document.
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> to the pre-windows age:)
With each software package you have installed you have a matching
/usr/doc/X directory. There you can find info about each package. And
for simple usage instructions you can just type `man utility-name' and read.
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from one of the ftp archives.
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r example:
> lftp ftp.corel.com
> ls
> and it just hangs. Same if I do "cd pub" instead of ls. Anyone spare a
> clue for the clueless?
lftp automaticaly retries if the connection fails, so that's what
happening there. Type `debug' before any other command to see what is
re
x27;
The new libc6 in the `unstable' distribution has new support for
extended chars. Check /usr/doc/libc6/NEWS.gz and the `info' documentation
in libc6-doc package.
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On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> where can I find a list of which signal numbers correspond to which
> error?
man 7 signal
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How can I output tabs with sed?
I need something like: `s//\t'
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through a connected microphone.
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mkdir /proc
mount -tproc none /proc
cd /proc/1/root
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> How can I change the program used to view the manual pages from more to
> less?
Add
export PAGER="less"
to your /etc/profile (for a system setting) or to your ~/.bash_profile
(for a per user setting).
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> how do I change the logon message?
Note that the first line of /etc/motd is automatically edited at boot
time to include system information. You may disable this feature in
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> startup time. Maybe there are a few tweaks I need to try.
Well... Maybe it's that I don't use perl.. =) I've always used compiled c
programs...
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On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> I would think that 16mb ram would be a minimum regardless of CPU.
8 Mb should be enough too.
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t and install the newest libreadline2.
And please: don't crosspost user questions to debian development miling
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On Fri, 16 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote:
> Also, does anyone know what website to check out to get a list
> of drivers available for Linux or a list of devices supported
> by the 2.1.** kernel?
Check http://www.linuxhq.com/ for info about the Linux kernel.
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n. So if this happens..
RETR 1
DELE 1
RETR 2
DELE 2
Messages 1 and 2 won't be deleted.
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have I would appreciate.
Debian 1.3 is just about to be released. I think that there is a small
risk, but it's very acceptable. Install 1.3!
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Ops.. I see them now... I should have searched better before posting..
sorry...
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On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Clint Adams wrote:
> They're in /usr/include/g++
> For container classes, you'll need to use /usr/bin/genclass
I saw that.. But genclass seems to be an ugly replacement for templates..
I want templates..! =)
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I couldn't find any include files... where are they?
(I know nothing about stl).
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I'd like to use/test the Standard Template Library. A GCC faq says that
it's included in libg++, but I couldn't find it? Where is it?
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ve with ugly colors, no dir in the bash promptm
no support for LESSPIPE...)
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Install the perl package, and then replace the files you want with the
newer versions...
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> I seem to remember someone speaking of a shell that prevented the
> user from leaving his or her home directory.
> Can someone point to the right Debian Package?
Try rbash (just bash with other name).
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m basically lost.
The next Debian release (1.3) will include shadow. You can download the
needed packages from that distribution (frozen). Those packages are login
and passwd. You will also need libc5 (>= 5.4.0).
After installing type `shadowconfig on'.
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Don't parse UserAgent! Lynx can ignore the tables... Like it does in
www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/
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nor Win95 understands.
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ste this to debian-devel, but noboy seeme to like it... and I
still think that it's something we MUST do...
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compile all the packages in some trusted
environment.
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We'll what
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one.
It depends... there are some things that doesn't change the
quality/personality of a distribution... And having different standards
for those things perhaps isn't a good idea... e.g.: the location of rc.d
per level scripts...
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Cygnus.
I didn't think about porting the whole environment. That wasy it would
make a lot of sense to have dpkg... Wow... that would be very good for the
people who uses linux but are forced to use Win95 at their job... =)
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ries. And if they do so, the depended
libraries are very few... VB*DLL, MFC*DLL, etc...
I don't know... educate the Windows people would be a huge task... =)
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ndows program.
> Also, there are basic DLL's you need for say... a program compiled with
> borland's compiler.
Of course.. every program uses system DLL's... but we should forget that
because MS isn't going to use dpkg.. =)
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braries than the
> "Windows way"... and is something that would do Windows much good, IMHO.
Yes, not many programs use DLLs... And how many Windows programs do you
know that can share a DLL's that provides some funcionality? In Linux
there are lots of things using libraries like
external libraries...
* Windows users like to move files... =)
* Would authors adopt dpkg?
Perhaps a more realistic goal is to port dpkg to other popular UNIX
variants, and `market' it as a piece of software independent of Debian.
(I was told that there is a SGI port being made!).
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't give the
ability to `cross-install' packages. The distributions differ in the
filesystem layout, and in the way many services are implemented.
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Wouldn't it be great to port dpkg to DOS/Win95? It then could be used by
shareware/freeware authors... And people would be biased towards Debian
when adopting Linux
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mailed the message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I
> don't have received any answer. Is this a problem of bug? Is this a problem
> of the bug tracking System?
Try reading smail logfiles to find out what happened with the mail...
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Which can be abbreviated with zsh to:
> comm -1 -3 <(sort searchlist) <(find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort)
> Hop ! No more cluttering, no more intermediate files.
> I love zsh's redirection !
Bash can also do t
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Rowan Deppeler wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how I can locate which debian package has a
> required dependancy??
> Ie. Perl5 requires 'Libdl1' but nothing seems to own it?
You may visit http://www.feedback.com.ar/debian/ and find out
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LBA mode with unusual values for heads and sectors,
perhaps cfdisk can't handle those higher values...
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ith SYSV IPC support? It's very important to
compile this..
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the rest should go smoothly.
The procedure you describe is perfect.. but.. I users asks I would
suggest: Moving everything to /usr/local and untar base*.tgz from root.
This should be much safer... I think...
Perhaps one very secure procedure should be chosen and included in the
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alias ls='ls --color -F'
alias l='ls -laF'
(and put it in /etc/profile or /home/your-user/.bash_profile)
> I already know pwd, ls, edit.
Uhh.. you should have told this before.. =)
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t is modified when setting compile time options.
You can change these options in the files in /etc/mgetty.
login.config is a file in /etc/mgetty.. =)
You don't need to search the WWW for docs..! You have them in
/usr/doc/mgetty...
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> on this machine was destroyed somehow. Thanks..
Run `strace command-to-compile-fortran 2> out' in the machine that
works, and in the machine it doesn't, and compare out.
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There are two regex packages... and there seems to be regex support in
libc5... which one should I use?
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Is this a new kernel feature?
/dev/cua shouldn't be used. They're there only for backwards
compatiility. You should configure all your software to use /dev/ttyS?.
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Linux is a 32 bit operating system, and won't run in a 286.
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On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote:
> Does Linux read/write to the new Win95 Fat32 filesystem?
You'll need to compile support for that into the kernel. The support is
still in alpha state.
Check http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
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a `' =) ). With good defaults, one can often adapt and reconfigure just
without even looking the manpages.
Don't think only at the developer. Think at one poor guy that works in an
ISP with Linux, he doesn't programm in C, he don't like to read manuals.
He's never touche
t position 6:
> --> Tue 21:17 on templinux : pwd is ~/files/personal
> tcsh>
Too custom... =)
The default prompt should only display the cwd, the host, and perhaps de
user...
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PS1="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\\w\\$ "
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/fvwm2$ _
Or the simpler...
newton:/usr/doc/fvwm2$ _
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote:
> does anyone know how big a ext2-filesystem can be? I think some time ago it
> has been about 2 GB?
I've successfully formated and used a 9 Gb ext2 file system. I currently
work in one near 4 Gb large.
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Gleb Arshinov wrote:
> IMO, it would be good publicity to promise 1/3 of potential prize to
> Linux International, 1/3 to FSF, 1/3 to keep for debian, and keep
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r's
shell is there.
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with NT'... I think I could push Linux there, and then: Debian =)
(I don't know if `push' is well used there... My poor English again...)
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote:
> I would also like to know if I really need any other software.
You should probably install Squid in the linux machine. It's a WWW cache
that can save bandwidth and improve performance...
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d, like x48 or doom or amaya. -- i could just add them to a
> totally unrelated package which happens to be installed, but that doesn't
> seem very proper... is there a file i can put in /etc/menu which will be
> read in even if there is no debian package of that name?
Of course! Read th
zsz (the package that contains
zmodem).
1) The .dsc file is a control file.
2) The .orig.tar.gz is the original tar file you can find in Sunsite
3) The .diff.gz is the patches used to transform the package in a
`Debianized' package.
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