I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the
network. This computer has a new hard disk, so I partitioned the disk
with cfdisk, then started to put Debian on the second partition,
leaving the first partition for Windows NT. I went through the
dbootstrap procedure of configu
> > I can gain http access via a proxy. Is it possible to setup apt-get
> > to download stuff via this proxy?
>
> export http_proxy="http://myproxy:port/";
> apt-get foo..
Thanks for this. One other thing. At the moment if I do a df I get:
/dev/hda1 806757 574635 190443 75
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Thanks for this. One other thing. At the moment if I do a df I get:
>
> /dev/hda1 806757 574635 190443 75% /
> /dev/hdc2 479632 37145783404 82% /usr/local/store0
>
> I suspect there won't be enough room in
Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> As Deb becomes bigger, attracting more users, with some
> of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install
> problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes
> dselect? :-) ).
No, there's at least two of us :-) I think dselect, especially in
c
Folks,
After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, a whole bunch of X windows
stuff got replaced. (I'm running slink.) Now, when I start up, I get a console
window displaying various system messages. This shows up in the lower right
corner of my display when the log-in banner is running and
Hello,
Several years ago , I said that debian should use some of the tools of
marketing to increase the potential universe of users awareness of
debian. i received such flack that i realized that there was a
political bent in many free software users that was anti marketing or
maybe were totally
Hi
I want to use ttfonts in Netscape. I've been reading the back posts on
this nad need some
clarification. One post said to put "fontpath Unix/:7101" in the
xf86config file. Another said
not to do this, put it in .xinitrc. Which is correct?
TIA
J. Starr
p.s. I've looked everywhere I ca
Hello Debian,
I have tried to compile my kernel(2.0.34)for sound card support
using kpgk. During the comile I get the message that it cannot find
the command "dpkg-gencontrol", and no kernel image is created.
I put the kernel source in /user/kernelnew/linux/. the kpkg talks
something ab
Can you please send me your log when you boot up. I want to know if the kernel
identified your cd-rw.
Also look at your /proc/scsi. The file /proc/scsi/scsi should have something
like this :
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev
I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have installed
apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to
ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an
apt-get update followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade. While trying to
d/l, apt ga
>I think dselect, especially in
>combination with the apt access method, is terrific - it just takes some
>time upfront to get used to it.
Many people switching to Linux from the 'Other ' OS may equate spending time
to learn an install package, with difficulty of use and/or other nameless
difficul
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote:
> It appears to me dselect is more a sysadmin's install tool. Even Yast looks
> a little easier. for my $0.02 i would strongly suggest ywo install programs
> a simpleone with less choices and another for the more adventurous.
It's an interesting thought. The
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>>I think dselect, especially in
>>combination with the apt access method, is terrific - it just takes some
>>time upfront to get used to it.
>
>Many people switching to Linux from the 'Other ' OS may equate spending time
>to learn an install package, with
>> Also, I think Red Hat is a "linux virgin" distrib -- first time Linux
>> users have probably only heard of Red Hat, and a lot of people feel
>> the Red Hat installation is easier. Same way with me when I started,
>> but I had only heard of Slackware. Once I knew more about Unix
>> administrati
Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them
from a DOS partion with dselect?
Subject: newbie needs clarification
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 07:41:22PM -0600
In reply to:James E. Starr
Quoting James E. Starr([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hi
>
> I want to use ttfonts in Netscape. I've been reading the back posts on
> this nad need some
> clarification. One p
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote:
>
> If I want to write an install program, whom do I get in touch? I do know C
> fairly well and I would give this a crack. Will someone point me to areas of
> study, persons to contact?
>
There is already a big plan for this, you might start with:
http://w
[adjusted to look better on my screen:]
> After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, a whole bunch of X
> windows stuff got replaced. (I'm running slink.) Now, when I start up,
> I get a console window displaying various system messages. This shows
> up in the lower right corner of my display
rich wrote:
> Thanks to everybody who helped me to get TrueType fonts going...
> Netscape is using them right now, and it looks MUCH better anyway,
> the fonts are not "seen" ny Wordperfect... is there a way to get WP to
> recognize / use my nice new Arial font? (does anyone else think that th
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 08:55:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have
> installed
> apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to
> ftp://ftp.us.debia.org/frozen main contrib non-free. I then did an
> ap
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 03:03:13PM -0500, Ben Cornett wrote:
> A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian to be
> technically superior to the RH distribution. I was wondering if anyone
> would care to elaborate on that a bit for me. Currently I am running
> RH5.2, but I am
Subject: Problem with kpkg / dpkg
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 07:50:18PM -0600
In reply to:Christian Dysthe
Quoting Christian Dysthe([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello Debian,
>
> I have tried to compile my kernel(2.0.34)for sound card support
> using kpgk. During the comile I ge
Subject: Hamm -> Slink PROBLEMS
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 08:55:20PM -0500
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> I am having problems upgrading my new box from hamm to slink. I have
> installed
> apt for hamm. I did changed my /etc/a
/base/ncurses4. as for BX being the "right" irc client--I use it and like
it, but you're not me. Don't go by what other people say, make your own
informed decision by testing a few of them like ircII, epic, tkirc, etc.
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded bithcx_75-2.de
(massacaring Wimpy's saying)
I'd gladly party Tuesday for a Debian today? :)
On 27 Feb 1999, Kevin Dalley wrote:
snippage>
>
> Probably more people will be LinuxWorld on Tuesday than Monday. If we
> need to have a Monday party, it doesn't need to be near LinuxWorld.
> If the party is on Tues
I've just lived with it for the most part--try using a windowmanager with
less overhead, like FVWM vise enlightenment. I have almost exactly the
same setup as you, except I invested in 32M of memory, and I have the
exact same problem, mostly I've minimized it with afterstep and minimizing
system
Subject: Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 01:47:38PM +1100
In reply to:Brian May
Quoting Brian May([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> >>I think dselect, especially in
> >>combination with
Subject: Where are ms-dos filenames for Debian packages?
Date: Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 06:03:13PM -0600
In reply to:Keith Saxon
Quoting Keith Saxon([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them
> from a DOS partion with dselect?
>
Yup, that did it. I'm used to borland and ms c on dos and windows
that seem to pull in these lib's automagicly. I KNEW there was a
linker command to do this but couldn't find it. Where is this
documented, and what other lib's do I need to look out for?
Thanks for the help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, silly question:
How do I tell minicom to connect to a serial port (i.e. /dev/ttyS0) so
that I can talk to the serial terminal of a 3Com hub?
I have had no problem setting up and configuring minicom for the dial-in
modem for the main hub bank, but currently I have a need to pre-configure
some
Hey Guys,
Make sure you have the line:
append="hdX=ide-scsi"
in your lilo.conf, where X is the letter of the device your CD-RW is on
the IDE bus , e.g.
hda = primary master
hdb = primary slave
hdc = secondary master
hdd = secondary slave
If you have other problems, let me know and I wi
I'm using apt-get, which seems to be downloading stuff quite nicely,
but there is one thing which I am curious about.
On the right side of the downloading status line, it says:
7h2m21s
which presumably is the amount of time till it finishes downloading.
It is happily counting down the secon
I have just added a second linux machine on my network, and was
wondering about how to back it up.
I have a working backup script that back up my main linux box every
Sunday morning. However, I have no idea how to implement a remote
backup. Could someone point me towards some documenation abou
On 28 Feb, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> I'm using apt-get, which seems to be downloading stuff quite nicely,
> but there is one thing which I am curious about.
>
> On the right side of the downloading status line, it says:
>
> 7h2m21s
>
> which presumably is the amount of time till it finishes
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 09:44:20PM -0700, BOHICA wrote:
> OK, silly question:
>
> How do I tell minicom to connect to a serial port (i.e. /dev/ttyS0) so
> that I can talk to the serial terminal of a 3Com hub?
>
> I have had no problem setting up and configuring minicom for the dial-in
> modem for
Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> The showlog script
> is: date +"$0 started %c"; /usr/bin/tail -f /var/log/syslog
You can also do this by uncommenting some lines in /etc/syslog.conf:
daemon,mail.*;\
news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
*.=debug;*.=info;\
*.=
With the imminent release of Debian 2.1, and people asking how to make
Debian more visible, I've revamped a logo I created a while ago, and
put it on my web site. It's less than 2K as a GIF, but even so I
won't attach to an email to a public list.
The GIMP source for the picture is at:
http:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It seem that dselect and apt-get must use two different Package lists.
Right.
> I would have expected them to use the same one as they both use dpkg.
There's various levels to dpkg - apt just uses it to install packages,
dselect uses it to manage the available file t
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Keith Saxon([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > Where can I find Debian packages with 8.3 filenames so I can install them
> > from a DOS partion with dselect?
> >
>
> I have no idea! I doubt that you would or could find any!
If he's running a vf
At 10:58 AM 2/28/99 +1030, Mark Phillips wrote:
>I suspect there won't be enough room in the / partition to use apt-get
>successfully. I can probably empty out most of /usr/local/store0.
>
>Is there any way of getting apt to download stuff into store0?
I had a similar problem that I resolved by d
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> I'm still trying to install CD-RW, an HP IDE version. I've compiled the
> scsi emulation, scsi cd-rom. ./MAKEDEV sg-all, it won't do ./MAKEDEV sr.
> I can't mount /dev/scd0, /dev/sr0, or dev/sg0. I really want to make this
> ide cd writer work. Th
Wasn't gonna do it, but what the hell...
_My Linux Story_
In 1994, after learning of it from a friend, I purchased a 4 disk set
of Linux CDs from Infomagic. I soon threw in the towel in
frustration, never getting my proprietary cdrom hardware and that
distribution
Hi,
I have decided that since hard disk are cheaper then large volume backup devices
to get a 10GB Hard disc as my backup device. Is there any software
that is available for HD backups (including incremental backups and
compression). I mean higher level then tar.
Thanks
OZ
P.S. If you wonder wh
Alan
I'm not sure what you are refering to re: aversion to security, but in
any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you could be less
accusatory and more helpful; after all, we're all here to enjoy the benefits of
the global knowledgebase, rather than picking on others for
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Frankie wrote:
> OK, so the two leading distros are redhat and debian. debian, on the one
> hand, is run as a voluntary organisation etc, whereas redhat is (or is going
> the way of) a corporation, in the sense that it employs programmers, is very
> far ahead of any of the
Folks,
Well, I apologise: it seems I did indeed have the file mentioned.
I've changed the entry and it fixed the problem I had.
Thanks for the help; even though the reponse was less than friendly it
was still useful.
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[adjusted to lo
Stephen Pitts wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:38:08PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> >I'm still trying to install CD-RW, an HP IDE version. I've compiled th
>e ^^^
>> >scsi emulation, scsi cd-rom.
>> I can't answer your specific quest
My Linux system runs off of a small (170 MB) hard drive.
I added a larger (app. 700 MB) hard drive in order to load all the Debian
packages that I would like to get.
However, Dselect tells me that I don't have enough room to load the packages
(which total approx. 450 MB). My first thought was
It may be a bug, but I am not sure. You can fix it by using the http port.
That is, change your sources.list to
http://ftp.us.debian.org...
hope it helps...
Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _
On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> I am not sure how gaining market share improves Debian. I think you could
> say that Debian is better than Red Hat for servers. In other words, get
> the message over that Red Hat might be easier for the single-user desktop
> but Debian is the proper
Hello all,
I have been trying to burn a particular image to CD for the last 4
hours now. In the process, I have killed 5 CD's from the same bundle.
cdrecord gets about 25-30% done with the burn, and then it gives output
like this:
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input
I a very shortly going to be building the following linux box:
AMD K6-III 450 mhz
FIC-PA-2013 MB w/!28 meg PC100 SDRAM
I do alot of work with TeX/LaTeX
and the GIMP
I want to buy the best video card I can for 175 dollars or less;
I was thinking about the Matrox Millenium or Mystique
until ever
I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a
bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the
modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux
server but they are not permited to access the files from Linux
server.
This is my
On 27 February 1999 at 13:30, "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this
>message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log:
>
>[...]
>Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4e magic=0x30c5f
>b97]
>[...]
>
>As you see,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The file /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options probably has the line
> run-xconsole
>
> which, when commented out (#) will get xdm (the program that provides that
> "login banner") to stop starting and running xconsole.
If you use hamm this would probably be /etc/X11/config. See
Hello,
some time ago, I have asked on this list how to switch smarthosts in Exim
back and forth, since I use two ISPs. I didn't want to have two completely
separate config files, since they'd be likely to get out of sync.
I finally figured out how I can do it: using the ${lookup...} expansion. So
Andreas Rapp:
> I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time
> as a regular user, not as root
Try the `su' command with the -c switch.
> (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to
> my account)
You can set fetchmail to send the e-mail to another user (using
Bal K. Paudyal:
> As root, I typed the following:
>
> "chsh /bin/usr/tcsh" when I meant "chsh /usr/bin/tcsh".
>
> I just wanted to change the shell. But now because that shell file does not
> exist, the system does not allow me to log in as root. I tried to log as su
> but it does not work! There
Hello,
jelmar andree:
> I'v download some packages (.deb) and with dselect after , A, U, S and
> then I(nstall) i get the following message; "-no filename at -e line 12
> chunk18" .
That sounds like an error in a shell script. Which package is it installing
when it gives that message? Are there
On 26 Feb 1999q, Jean-Georges Carbonnier wrote:
> Hola,
>
> cuando instalo la ultima version de linux (debian) desde CDROM todo va
> bien hasta que llego a la parte de instalacion de los paquetes
> software. El programa dselect me pide la fuente, le digo CDROM, luego
> me pide el "block device ty
Hi,
After I upgrade my system to slink, my mouse is not working in the
consol mode anymore. Any ideas where I should start looking into the
problem??
Thanks.
Shao.
Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _
I've just gotten my mail down, so sorry for the lateness of this :)
A Short Linux History (by me)
In 1992/3 I was looking at getting myself a new operating system, well
after chatting to a couple of friends, I heard about "debian linux", now
I hadn't heard of linux before so when I found it was
I just managed to fix a similar problem myself. I could see the Samba server
from
the Windows machines, but couldn't browse the shares, although i thought
everything
was set up right.
I had to add encrypted password support for the Win98 boxen on the network.
Then I
added the following lines t
Hi,
I have had this problem for many many times, and it never happened
in windoze
When I do a search in Netscape, altavista or geocities, if I typed
two words, and press search, it is ok, when I press next ten matches, it
then truncated the second word, and returns no result fo
Hi!
What update procedure should I use in order to upgrade to slink
from hamm? Just point dftp to the new ftp directory and upgrade?
What are the main differences between the two releases (ie: smail
vs exim), that I need to look up to make sure they work after upgrading?
Matthew Cocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I
> get the following error message
>
> gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries
> /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions
Just a comment: On Debian (unstable
Hi,
I tried to run acm, and I got the following message.
Sound is not available for server virge:0.0
But my sound system works fine
Any ideas??
Thanks
Shao Zhang - Running
Hi!
Just a little question: I've just installed GNOME rpms, including gdm.
Have configured /usr/etc/gdm/gdm.conf, created all the dirs required and
mentioned in docs. Now: gdm uses PAMs, right? Si
I have a Linux server (Debian - slink) which must share files with a
bunch of Windows boxes. I've installed Samba on Linux and have made all the
modifications (I think) on Windows clients. Now they can see the Linux
server but they are not permited to access it. Not even to see the directories
shar
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:36:38PM +1000, Peter Ludwig wrote:
> Now, I have a few problems with it.
> 1) No "IDE" for the compiler.
Try Emacs or XEmacs. Don't be mislead by the fact that they call Emacs
an editor - it's far, far more than a mere editor. It has support for
compilation and intera
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:52:09PM -0800, Jesse Evans wrote:
> Calling up the man page on xconsole does not give me any clues as to
> how to prevent a user from having it appear in their logon. I've read the man
> page; what else would you expect of me?
xconsole is just a program to display
On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 10:06:21PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting James E. Starr([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > clarification. One post said to put "fontpath Unix/:7101" in the
> > xf86config file. Another said
> > not to do this, put it in .xinitrc. Which is correct?
> > p.s. I've looke
First, make an empty directory somewhere for your new file system to
live on top of. If you use an existing directory, everything in that
directory will be invisible until you unmount (softwarewise) your new
drive.
Edit /etc/fstab, any editor. Make a line that looks just like the one
for your oth
Hi.
I have been using X11/Fvwm95 with the default Debian color settings for
some time now. Recently, apparently out of the blue, the server has begun
failing to allocate some of the default colors - the most obvious being
the dark cyan background and the Fvwm pager.
I am also currently using up-
Ben Cornett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BC> A number of you have offhandedly remarked that you believe Debian
BC> to be technically superior to the RH distribution. I was
BC> wondering if anyone would care to elaborate on that a bit for me.
-- Debian packages only depend on other packages. AFAIC
I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files.
I moved pklin251.exe to /usr/local and, according to pkware's site:
# chmod 755 pklin251.exe
# ./pklin251.exe
result:
# can't load library libg++.so.27
eventhough:
$ dpkg -L libg++272
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2.8
/usr/
Hola /Hello,
Pienso que lo que ocurre es que durante la instalación no has cargado el
módulo correspondiente iso9660. En la etapa de instalación
correspondiente a la carga de los módulos seguramente vendrá un módulo
iso9660 o similar y otro vfat para montar particiones DOS/Windows de 32
bits. Es co
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 14:33:31 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files.
Any particular reason you're not using the "zip" and "unzip" packages from
non-free?
> result:
> # can't load library libg++.so.27
>
> eventhough:
>
> $ dpkg -L libg
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 02:33:31PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I downloaded pklin251.exe, to be able to work with .zip files.
> I moved pklin251.exe to /usr/local and, according to pkware's site:
> # chmod 755 pklin251.exe
> # ./pklin251.exe
>
> result:
> # can't load library libg++.so.27
>
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:44:50PM -0500, Matthew Cocker wrote:
> After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I
> get the following error message
>
> gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries
> /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions
>
> Any ideas
I am running fetchmail and procmail to get my mail off of a ppp. I am a
single user and I wish for my mail to go into a global directory I setup
for mail '/Mail.and.New/Mail/Inbox'. In the procmailrc I setup the
following variables:
MAILDIR = /Mail.and.News/Mail
LOGFILE = _logfile
VERBOSE = yes
I meant to say that everything keeps going to backup while nothing is
going into Inbox or the filters
Lance
On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:20:30 -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I also setup some filters
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*S-News*
^^
You probably want 's.*' here. 's*' only matches 'ss',
'sss' etc., no 's'[anything].
> /Statistics/S-News
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*SEMNE
Hey guys,
Finally have the perfect Linux box for me and what happens!? My two year
old unplugs the Box while I'm getting coffee (she's in hacker training)!!
Anyway, now I a gig or more of broken symlinks, directories and files.
Most are in /usr/lost+found but some are in /usr/lib/* and /usr/man.
> I've experienced the same with a supposedly ~4.3GB seagate, which both the
> BIOS and Linux read as 4.1GB... your guess makes a lot of sense, and its
> consequence is that we're being fooled by HDD manufacturers.
No, you're not.
You're just not paying attention to how we computer users use
> From: "Lewis, James M. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It depends on which def of 1k you use. I suspect the
> linux utilities use 1024=1k. Read the fine print to see what the drive
> manufacturer uses for 1k.
They don't need any fine print.
There's a global standard for what "k" and "kilo" mean.
Hi all,
Is there a default place to put this? and furthermore, is there an
update programme I need to run to get \latex to recognise it?
Matthew
--
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Selwyn College Computer Support
http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societ
There is a movement afoot to replace the imprecise usage of metric
prefixes. The three-power-of-ten usage would retain the regular prefix,
but the ten-power-of-two would be the first part of the prefix, with the
last syllable replaced with bi: thus kibibyte, mebibyte, gibibyte. It
sounds kludgy
Hi
Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all
advise and puting FontPath "unix/:7101" as the last line in my
XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz.
I got as far as "xfstt &" but I received the error msg "cannot open
TCPIP port 7101, better try
another
In a message dated 2/28/99 1:04:48 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> any case I seem not to have a xdm.options file. Perhaps you could be less
xdm.options is a file in slink. hamm used a config file in /etc/X11.The
change is the same in either case.
-Jay
I have configured Exim. Only one thing does not work the way I want it to.
When I send a message, my local username is filled in in the From: line instead
of my username at my ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Which setting do I have to change?
Thanks,
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
I have a quick question that I hope ya'll might be able to answer for
me...
I'd like to setup a second box as an X server that would allow me to treat
it like another desktop (ala workspace in window maker). I know of the
-display flags and such, but would like to be able to move a running
program
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, James E. Starr wrote:
> Thanks for all the help given so far, however, after following all
> advise and puting FontPath "unix/:7101" as the last line in my
> XF86Config file, I tried to run the test, as per the FAQ.gz.
> I got as far as "xfstt &" but I received the error msg
On 28-Feb-99, Mark Brown took time to write :
>> 3) No documentation on how to load/use the original programs that loaded
>> when installing. That is, can I load again the program that allowed me to
>
> Hmm... This problem seems to apply to all the distributions I've tried.
> They have a nice
Hi guys -
I'm a old linux junkie [slackware then Redhat], but new Debian user.
Looks like by default the audio devices are only accessible by root -
what's the 'correct' debian way to grant users access to them?
TIA,
dave
Dave Harden
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Phone: (412)688-8870x143
Pager: (888)643-07
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been trying to burn a particular image to CD for the last 4
> hours now. In the process, I have killed 5 CD's from the same bundle.
> cdrecord gets about 25-30% done with the burn, and then it gives output
> like this:
[err
Hello again,
I have remade the image, about five times or so. No luck :( I
was using Adaptec Easy CD Creator 3.01 to try and burn it from windows.
One interesting thing I noticed however, was the while in windows, it
didn't just kill the CD like normal, it hung at a certain point in the
hello,
I've downloaded libstdc++2.9-dev and g++ 2.91.61.
They Depend on each other.
When I run dpkg i libstdc++2.9-dev, it says depends on g++.
And when I run dpkg i g++, it says depends on libstdc... .
In other words I can't install them.
How can I solve this problem with dpkg.
Is i
Hi all!
My system is an HP Omnibook 5500 CT running Debian Slink and the Linux 2.2.2
kernel. The following are the sound modules I use (inserted by "modprobe
cs4232")
Module Size Used by
cs4232 2408 0
uart401 5904 0 [cs4232]
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Stuart Miles writes:
> On 27 February 1999 at 13:30, "Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this
> >message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log:
> >
> >[...]
> >Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id
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