> Stan Brown writes:
Stan> Can I do this? If so how? I need to set up a pixmap
Stan> path that will point to a place relative to the users home
Stan> directory.
(1) Use ~/foo to refer to a directory in your home directory.
(2) Use m4 or cpp to preprocess your .fvwmrc file and u
Our house was damaged by flood water - so far not very badly, but it
could get worse. I currently have no operating computers at home and
am busy cleaning up. I've asked the other Debian developers to fill in
for me. I'm speaking at USELINUX on the 9th, and I don't know how useful
I will be to the
On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Alex Lobkovsky wrote:
> Did you turn off power managment in the BIOS?
Yes, I've turned off the three items that TSETUP lets me get to. I have
found that I can run with an external display without any problem.
Last night, I was running DOS on the thing and the back of the di
Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting fork to work correctly in a cgi script.
Basically I have a time consuming process which I want to be done in the
background.
I have something like this:
unless (fork) {
# print out result html page
exit 0;
}
else {
# do time-intensive stuff
}
What's happen
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just curious... I also just noticed there is "1.2 fixed" at the Debian site,
> so I am about to re-install with those images...
The boot disks are the same though (for now). You can upgrade to
1.2.1 by just installing everything in 1.2-updates or by p
> "Terrence" == Terrence M Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Terrence> - how do I allow DOS to be booted
Terrence> from a LILO prompt?
I had this same question and remember having to do more than the
normal amount of manual reading to figure it out. Since the solution
is extremely
> "Tom" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Nathan L. Cutler writes:
>> By accident, I rebooted my box with an msdog partition mounted
>> manually (i.e. it is not in /etc/fstab). Now, msdog can't
>> access the partition, and linux says the superblock is corrupt
>> when I
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote:
> > > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
> > > Control keys under X windows?
> >
> > It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
>
> In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2
> you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and
>
> "Miller" == Eamiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Miller> I am brand new to the Linux operating system, and have
Miller> been trying to install XFree86 on my system. My first
Miller> question is, should I get 3.2 from Xfree86.org, or is
Miller> there a specific Debian packag
> > > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
> > > Control keys under X windows?
> >
> > It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
>
Absolutely correct...
remove lock = Caps_Lock
remove control = Control_L
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
add lock = Caps_Lo
Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
system installed here. Is there someplace I can look that will actually
tell me
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
> > Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir.
> > Does it moved to a new place.
> >
> The base package has been replaced by base-files and base-passw
Christopher E. Stefan writes:
>After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
>anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
I reported this as a bug a while back, don't recall the number. A bit
disappointing to see so little reaction.
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Do you have /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin in your path before /usr/bin?
Tim
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> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>> Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
>> Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir. Does it
>> moved to a new place.
>>
Dale> The base package has been
> Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
> I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
> something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
> system installed here. Is there someplace I can look that will actually
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
> Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
> I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
> something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
> system installed here. Is th
> Do you have /usr/i486-linuxaout/bin in your path before /usr/bin?
Yes.
... Stephen
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Ngo Bach Long wrote:
dragon >>what have i missed?
dragon >>
dragon >
dragon >I think it's supposed to be "make dep" (as in "dependencies"),
dragon >not "make deb".
Opps, your quite right:) but, when i did a make dep i get the folowing
make dep
gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote:
karl >Sure does - here's what happened while in the bounce while I was
experimenting:
karl >
karl > - Transcript of session follows -
karl >... while talking to mail.tower.net.au.:
karl MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2925297
karl ><<< 55
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Fundamental wrote:
>
> Opps, your quite right:) but, when i did a make dep i get the folowing
>
> make dep
> gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
> scripts/m
> kdep.c
> scripts/mkdep.c:1: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> [..]
You need
Hello all.
I now run both of my Linux boxes in runlevel 4 by default, so that I don't
use up excess getty's on the virtual consoles (runlevel 4 only provides
one console). I just took a look at Alt-F2 and saw this message:
Warning: dev (04:c2) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup
There's
> If you are doing an upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2, don't force-remove the
> base package even it is marked obsolete. The package still own files
> that the system need. Does Debian offer a systematic way to get ride
> of obsolete packages?
I have force removed the base and install the base-file and
On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Prashanth Mundkur wrote:
this is it exactly, thanks
mundkur >You need to install the libc5dev package, which has the requisite
header
mundkur >files.
mundkur >
mundkur >--prashanth
mundkur >
mundkur >
mundkur >
mundkur >
Peace
michael
Pilgram: "God, can you be merciful
I mentioned to someone a while back that KBackup was a very nice program
that I used to use when the system was using Slackware but a Debian
package of it did not seem to be available. After doing some looking
around, I see that it is Shareware and that might account for its
absence from Debian.
A
Does anybody know where I can get these? Bruce mentioned a bug
in the exisisting set, but didn't mention what the bug was. He's
off line for a while, so if anyone else could point me in the
direction of a working set of boot disks for a tecra for 1.2, I'd
appreciate it. I used make-kpkg to insta
[moved to debian-user@lists.debian.org; you were using debian-changes!]
Fundamental writes:
> I have installed the kernel source, and when i get to teh stage where i
> should make deb ; make clean i get the following error,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/src/linux]: make deb
> make: *** No rule to
Maybe it is a question specific more to "X" in general, but I believe
it has something to do with a *default* configuration obtained during
the Debian 1.2 installation:
I would like to copy lines across opened xterm windows: to select a few
lines with the left-button, then to go the another windo
According to Eloy A. Paris:
> > It means exactly what it says. Every day (by default at 3:00 AM) the
> > maintenance script "news.daily" has to run. This probably hasn't happened
> > for some reason or the other since a couple of days.
> >
> > If you fix that, the system will stop sending you mail
I must admit that only my second thought when I read Bruce's note was
for his family's and his property's safety, my first being, "Oh no!
There goes the new boot disks."
The problem is that on Tecra 710/720/730 laptops (I don't know about
the 500 series) lilo cannot load a bzImage. With the rescu
Hi Mike,
> > Was the time of the maintenance script changed from 6:42 AM in 1.1 to
> > 3 AM in 1.2?
>
> Yes, it has been changed to 03:08. However that is the setting in the default
> crontab. If you upgrade a working installation, the crontab will not be
> adjusted. You'll have to do that yourse
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote:
> I would like to copy lines across opened xterm windows: to select a few
> lines with the left-button, then to go the another window and paste the
> selected text pressing the right button (or the left+right together).
>
> Why I cannot do it ? Hints ?
It
Hello,
I've never heard about Lilo before and it seems to be something useful.
What is it ? Where is it ?
Thanks
Franck
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> If the 6:42 AM update time is a problem, just go into /etc/crontab and change
> the time to whatever you feel is best...
I know, I know. I just wanted to know if the default time was changed from
6:42 AM to 3 AM because I think it is a more reasonable time for
a dayly maintenance (at 6:42 AM I
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Terrence M. Brannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - install MBR on /dev/hda
> - how do I uninstall it so I can load DOS again?
> - how do I allow DOS to be booted from a LILO prompt?
To re-install an MS-DOS MBR, boot DOS from a floppy and type
'fdisk
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> According to Eloy A. Paris:
> > Was the time of the maintenance script changed from 6:42 AM in 1.1 to
> > 3 AM in 1.2?
> Yes, it has been changed to 03:08. However that is the setting in the default
> crontab. If you upgrade a working installati
According to Pete Templin:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > According to Eloy A. Paris:
> > > Was the time of the maintenance script changed from 6:42 AM in 1.1 to
> > > 3 AM in 1.2?
> > Yes, it has been changed to 03:08. However that is the setting in the
> > default
> >
>
> > ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running.
>
> Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request
> the network card has to have an assigned IP address...
>
> --
>
> Eloy A. Paris
> Information Technology Department
> Rockwell Automation de V
Hi All,
Happy new year to you!
I did an upgrade of my Debian box, from 1.1 to 1.2, using the
'bo' tree. After that upgrade, procmail didn't filter my mails anymore.
I guess that this is because the permissions of /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
are 0600, with user and group "$LOGNAME
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote:
> I've never heard about Lilo before and it seems to be something useful.
> What is it ? Where is it ?
LILO - LInux LOader - Loads Linux from the hard disk without a floppy.
This program will set up your hard di
Hi,
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> >
> > > ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running.
> >
> > Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request
> > the network card has to have an assigned IP address...
> >
> > --
> >
> > Eloy A.
Victor still can't post to the list, and I'm really swamped at the moment.
Could someone give him a hand?
Thanks,
Dwarf
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Flexible Software 11000
I tried to install my first Debian system on a Tecra 730 nootebook and
failed booting from the rescue disk - by now I know this is a known
problem. At the time, being in a hurry to get my new box up and running,
I installed Slackware instead.
Now the real question: Can I install Debian (from CD-ROM
> Yes, but I've seen it quite often. The symptoms are you can't connect with
> anything, rlogin, telnet or such programs; however the machine gladly replies
> to ping.
>
> I think the situation arises when an OS _has_ been running on the machine
> and then crashes or hangs; in this state the ethe
Hello. When writing papers, I have always used "idraw" to make my
figures - I like it alot more than "xfig" for various reasons.
Anyways, Interviews has been largely unsupported for the last year or
two, so I took one of my trusty old Slackware CDs and made an
interviews package. Note that the bi
> I've never heard about Lilo before and it seems to
> be something useful. What is it ? Where is it ?
A software that let's you boot many operating systems,
and/or many versions of Linux kernels. It's installed
with the boot disks, or as a standalone package (see it
in .../base directory in your
Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>
> Christopher E. Stefan writes:
>
> >After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
> >anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
>
> I reported this as a bug a while back, don't recall the number. A bit
> disappointing to
Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a hard time getting fork to work correctly in a cgi script.
>
> Basically I have a time consuming process which I want to be done in the
> background.
>
> I have something like this:
>
> unless (fork) {
>
> # print out result html page
> exit 0;
Isn't interview being replaced by Fresco? I remember seeing a Fresco
package for linux somewhere.
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> Hello. When writing papers, I have always used "idraw" to make my
> figures - I like it alot more than "xfig" for various reasons.
> Anyways, Interviews has
Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've never heard about Lilo before and it seems to be something
> useful.
> What is it ? Where is it ?
>
> Thanks
> Franck
>
If you have a debian system with the base packages then you have
Nathan L. Cutler wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Zenon Fortuna wrote:
>
> > I would like to copy lines across opened xterm windows: to select a few
> > lines with the left-button, then to go the another window and paste the
> > selected text pressing the right button (or the left+right together).
Hi,
Do you have the packages libc5-dev, and, if you are on an
intel box, bin86 as well? The missing stdio.h sounds ominous, though.
manoj
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Mobile, Alabama USA
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes:
> I experienced such situation when my nameserver was down for a
> warm reboot, so that I couldn't telnet to it, but ping got response from
> the machine during the reboot. I can't explain such situation, but it is
> quite strange to me.
Nothing strange ab
Most network cards are designed to releave as much load from the local
processor as possible. Thus, by only knowing the local ip address. The
card can forward packets down line, respond to pings, and do other
housekeeping chores without bothering the local machine. So, as long as
the card is not re
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> I have no desire to do anything other than the most minimal support
> for this package, but I was curious if anyone else would be interested
> in it. If so, I will look into uploading it somewhere.
I am in a similar situation with the MCA Debian 1.2 rescue
Hi,
Anybody out there? I've not received any discussion/comment
on this mailing for almost 1 month now. Has the list been
up?
BTW, if I'm no longer in this mailing list, how do I get on
it. I've tried to subscribe this list again a week ago from
www.debian.org but received no conf
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
> At http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/, Jens Maurer discusses the
> problem and gives a kernel patch which works around it, a patch which
> Bruce was going to incorporate it into the next set of boot disks. I
> would try it myself as a service to other Tecra owners
> Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
> I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
> something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
> system installed here. Is there someplace I can look that will actually
I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the
following error message:
mf: can't load library "libXt.so.6"
I've done some poking around and from Contents found that this file is
included in xlib6. I've both tried reinstalling that package and verifying
that the file is on m
"Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There should be a simple way for people to make available halfway
> complete or "one shot" debian packages. (You can make developer
> status necessary to get into the normal distribution directories
> if you are worried about nobody wanting to sign
> From: Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: kernel recompile
> Date: Friday, January 03, 1997 5:53 AM
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> > >> I just tried to recompile the 2.0.27 and everything seemed to go ok.
I
> > >> re
> Is there a debian package of wine? Seems like I saw this question a
> month or so ago & I thought I saved the response, but I can't put my
> finger on it at the moment.
Yes. You can find it under project/experimental. It isn't really
useful yet and so isn't kept scrictl
I reinstalled the Debian xbase package. My error returned. I copied over the
xrdb binary from the non-Debian build I made. The error went away.
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The system time on my Debian PC is 1hour ahead of local time. That makes
me think the timezone was not setup properly.
What is the command for setting the time on a running system?
Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should
I set CMOS time to GMT and use some
Hi
I did a little mistake typing "using the 'bo' tree". Indeed, I
used the Debian-1.2 tree, and after that, the bo tree. Okay, my system is
hybrid, some 1.2 stuff and some 'pre 1.3'.
Well, my problem persist. Even after downgrading to rex, using
netbase_2.06-1.deb,
> Hello. When writing papers, I have always used "idraw" to make my
> figures - I like it alot more than "xfig" for various reasons.
> Anyways, Interviews has been largely unsupported for the last year or
> two, so I took one of my trusty old Slackware CDs and made an
> interviews package. Note t
Hi,
Thanks for all who replied to my previous mail on the mailing
list. I think I'm back on it now. Cross my fingers.
I do not know whether I should post the following problems with
my 1.2 debian from i-Connect CD here or should I file bug reports.
Please let me know if I post these pr
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have been interested in interviews for debian so I could package up mxv,
> a rather good sound editing program. I've never gotten mxv to compile,
> though, but maybe I'd have more luck if I didn't have to compile the
> interviews stuff on my own too.
>
>
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