Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

Some people responded to my question asking for more information concerning this error. I'll give it a try. I have purchased a Philips Vespa Pro Webcam, because it was reccomended for support by the Linux community. Indeed, it has some very detailed information on: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/web

gpm no longer function after upgrading

Dear all, After a recent upgrading, gpm (1.19.3-4) no longer functioned. I lost the mouse pointer in mc. It seems that /dev/gpmctl is lost although the gpm server did start at boot. I was told that it may be a pipe but "mknod /dev/gpmctl -p" did not work. Reinstalling gpm and libgmp1 also didn't w

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Olaf" == Olaf Meeuwissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Olaf> BTW, apt-move in potato can't handle multiple package > Olaf> sources. How do you get it to move packages from both > Olaf> Debian and Helix? > > Use the apt-move from woody

Re: MUTT + Procmail

On 2000-10-04 16:25:50, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:06:59PM -0400, Joel Dinel wrote: > > I store all mails from this list in ~/Mail/IN.debian-user. How can I go > > read those mails in Mutt ? I can't see anything in the man pages... > > mutt -f ~/Mail/IN.debian-user > > or

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

Richard Jeantheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My apologies if this has been covered -- I'm brand new > to the list and to Debian. > I am attempting to install potato on a Mac IIcx. Go to , you'll find the right kind of people there :) (But of course also stay subscribed here!) Installation o

Re: Basic Debian firewall

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Is the "ipmasq" package what one needs to install to get a basic > firewall up and running under Debian? I'm using PMFirewall now, and I > don't have any complaints with it. It was VERY easy to get a decent > firewall up and running w

R: Any knowledgeable Afio people out there?

i don't know if it HAS to be considered normal, but that's what i used to get when using tob+afio to do backups. usually a different tape fixed the problems so i guess afio keeps on writing even after errors, and get tons of other errors. Marco Frattola (Pianificazione processi) - Cubecom S.p.A.

Re: Big Problem !

Hiya all ! These words are to thank all the people who has dedicated a little time of their life thinking about my problem, related here a few days ago. I have solved the problem by myself but thanks a lot anyway. The problem was the qmail rc script, that was modified by me and it seems that it d

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:56:26AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > Installation on a Mac is usually hard -- the folks who complain > in articles on Linux installations on PeeCees should try _other > platforms_ before. But don't be discouraged, if your hardware supports > Linux (PMMU, FPU and so on)

/usr/share, why bother?

I am very much in favor of the strongly adhered to filesystem layout that Debian uses. Having all of the configuration files in /etc, means that when I got a new laptop the only part of the OS I saved from the old to the new was /etc. Stuff that changes is in /var, that is great, right where it s

Mailbox directory with Mutt

Hi, I have a little problem with mutt. When I want to change directory, everything is considered as if my mailbox directory is my current directory. For example, I have to start mutt in ~/Mail in order to change from a mailbox to another (Using: c + mailbox name). I've added : set folder=/home/fa

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes. in my setup i have /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just press "c" to change mailboxes. i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i remember it right it goes like this: mailboxes /var/mail/ ~/Mail/ HTH

Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

Randy Edwards wrote: >Has anyone seen Joe Barr's article in LinuxWorld at > ? >Anyone else have any thoughts on this article? Thanks for the pointer, Randy! It was so refreshing to know that I'm not alone in my Debi

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur." there are exceptions. -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

> things are more like they used to be than they are now. Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here.

ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

Do you have any other "serious" arguments which can confirm your professional approach to discussion about Debian installation tools? If not I suggest you send next e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is list for debian users. Best Regards Mariusz Przygodzki -Oryginalna wiadomość- Od: Pet

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation )

> > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > takers? > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, wing/flipper over each others shoulder! So cool!

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

I could see a person new to computers having some problems with installing Debian. It isn't the best install in the world. However, anyone who has a good understanding of computers (by this I don't mean Start->Programs->MS Word) should be able to install Debian with little trouble. I've installed

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is list for debian users. Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and update.

Re: problems with gnome

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel. > It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMake

Re: Dual NIC Problem

Sorry for the tardiness of my reply... Let me just give a run down of some stuff: /etc/network/interfaces: - iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.12.42 network 172.16.12.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.16.12.255 gateway 172.16.

Re: gnome won't start now

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > *sigh* I'm back to using icewm now, not that there's anything wrong with > that, but I'm confused as to why I can't get gnome to start. > Reading the gnome-session manpages, it would seem that gnome expects a > default session file, defau

Q: syslog-ng remote logging.

Greetings, sitting in my box, checking my logs... and trying to log from Host A to Host B with tcp i always get some strange "error" Messages when starting my syslog-ng with option "-d": "Error Creating AF_INET socket (Operation now in progress)" The log are setup up as in the demo configurat

Re: Sound Blaster

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:41:24AM -0700, Tino Ionescu wrote: > > Hi > > I'm trying to install the driver emu10k1 for Sound Blaster Live > > Driver's Makefile is complainig that it can't find "modversion.h" > > Can anybody tell me what should b

Re: mozilla & netscape

John Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > > decided to check out one of the nightly builds of mozilla, and it did a > > whole bunch of stuff on its first invocation, and from th

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes. in my setup i have > /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just > press "c" to change mailboxes. i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i > reme

Re: Q: syslog-ng remote logging.

Andreas Rabus wrote: > > Greetings, > > sitting in my box, checking my logs... > and trying to log from Host A to Host B with tcp i always get some strange > "error" Messages when starting my syslog-ng with option "-d": > > "Error Creating AF_INET socket (Operation now in progress)" > > The log

fonts scaling w/h xfstt

I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with nice TrueType fonts. Now, is there a way to scale those fonts ? Right now I can only seem to get one default size. I remember having scaled TTF under RedHat. I'm sure there's a way to do it in Debian, I just don't know how... Thanks !

ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

> Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, > and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but > I am lured by the idea of an OS that is rock-stable and easy to maintain and > update. If only it were easy to install, then Billy boy (n

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and > install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk). In my experience that's the only thing that more or less works? Try an older disk with a few badblocks - uaarg! Chr

ex/nvi keeps mailing me...

Hi, I have a pcmcia network card for which I have found a working kernel module, but I cannot connect to the wireless internet here unless I change some settings in the /proc/aironet/eth0 directory and run ifup. I have put together a small script (my first one like this) to do this automatically,

nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

Hi, I have a pcmcia network card for which I have found a working kernel module, but I cannot connect to the wireless internet here unless I change some settings in the /proc/aironet/eth0 directory and run ifup. I have put together a small script (my first one like this) to do this automatically,

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I expect from any Linux distribution (not just Linux as OS - you > mixed up distributions with systems) to be "easy to mantain and > update" so Debian it's my preffered choice. And I can "pay" very > small price for installatio

Re: installer won't boot on Mac IIcx

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:15:13AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > folks who complain about GNU/Linux installations should try and > > install Windows (on a blank unpartitioned disk). > > In my experience that's the only thing

Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you folks first... I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure I didn't log out. The only thing in syslog is a gnome-name-server[500]:

Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

Forgot to mention I've installed the latest Helix GNOME packages, and the rest is woody (still libc 2.1.3). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard "It might look like I'm doing nothing, but

Re: ODP: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Install ation)

Carl Fink wrote: > This is an unfair characterization. The criticism isn't that the > Debian installer doesn't have graphics. The criticism is that the > choices are both obscure and remarkably confusing in spots. Actually, I'm done criticizing Debian - I now know it's only meant for Linux gur

Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

Hi, On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, me wrote: > 3) If the reviewer had been a newbie, the complaints might have > been forgivable. Deb is not (yet) for newbies. It's getting there, > though. If the newbie is a fiddler, he or she can manage with a little help from (Debian) friends. When I started inst

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > > I've already tried this. > > Let me describe what I want: > All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/ > When you type c, you have: > Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig (Your current mailbox) >

Serial port tunnel...

Hi folks, I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Does anyone have any ideas where it may be located. I've been through freshmeat and there's software to forward to an IP socket, by not a device file. -Cheer

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

--On Thursday, October 5, 2000 11:22 am +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Glad to hear it. I've been trying to get Linux installed for about 5 years, and the only distribution I have looked at is Debian. Call me a masochist, but Trying to install an OS - any OS - for

Re: problems with gnome

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:40:20AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > > Try to change to enlightenment and then immediately change back to > WindowMaker. This helped with WindowMaker and sawfish here, when I > wanted to run sawfish and after some major upgrading Gnome didn't > recognize any wm runn

Cloning Debian/GNU

Hello ! I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile. I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose packages on each machine. If there is some kickstart install would y

Re: Serial port tunnel...

I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) l2tp is the protocol you´re looking for, l2tpd is the only implementation for *n?x I´m aware of http://www.marko.net/l2tp/>, although at the moment it seems to only support PPP as layer-2-protocol. hth, &rw On Thu, 05 Oct 20

Re: gnome won't start now

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > Well, in *my* gnome-session package (1.2.2-1) there is a gnome-session > file in /etc/gnome ... Maybe it helps if you try a reinstall of > gnome-session? Ok, it's not where the manpage says it's supposed to be, but it's ther

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:48:29PM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: > in your ~/.muttrc you have to tell mutt your mailboxes. in my setup i have > /var/mail/me and ~/Mail as locations for all my mailboxes and i would just > press "c" to change mailboxes. i'm not in my debbie box right now but if i > reme

Re: Mailbox directory with Mutt

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:11:28PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > Let me describe what I want: > All my mailboxes are under the directory /home/fayard/Mail/ > When you type c, you have: > Open mailbox ('?' for list): ~/Mail/callig (Your current mailbox) > And when you start to type a n

Re: Cloning Debian/GNU

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > Hello ! > I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile. > I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I > want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to c

Re: Serial port tunnel...

Robert Waldner wrote: > > I guess you want to tunnel layer 2, not the serial port itself ;-) Nope, I really want to tunnel the port, I want to have /dev/virtual-ttyS1 and be able to open that device and read/write to it. then have that data tunneled across a network to the real /dev/ttyS1 on the

neighbour table overflow

Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it happens when I access remote sites, for instance, when I ping my self, or mess about with

Re: problems with gnome

On 2000-10-05 11:40:20, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, so I install windowmaker, and chose it in the gnome control panel. > > It's listed as my current WM. However, I'm in enlightenment. > > Try to change to enlightenment and then immedi

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

"Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you > folks first... > > I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I > come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure > I didn't log out. > > The only thing

mysql location?

Hey list,sorry if this is a repeat. The original seems to have bounced off of someones full mailbox. (wierd)I have a couple of fairly easy ones, I think.I'm installing php. I have tried to add mysql both withapt-get, and by compiling it. I get a config error,"no curses/termcap library found", and I

base list ??

Hi From a new Debian user... I installed my Debian linux from a 3 cdset and all was uip and running ok.. I started with the base system and built it up gradually using dselect.. Today I thought I would put the Linux Gazettes on so I went to dselect and it told me..: failed to create basetext

Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

Hi, Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? Thank you. Francois

Re: /dev/video: Operation not permitted

what modules are loaded? run 'lsmod' and show the output. i dont have that webcam but i have configured a few hauppauge tv cards, for them you need the videodev module(among others) to get it to work. do u have this module loaded?(show lsmod anyways just incase) nate Erik van der Meulen wrote: >

Re: Basic Debian firewall

About this, In my linuxbox startup configuration, I don't know where are the initialization scripts for ipchains, or where can I put my own scripts, someone knows where is the right place?   -- Rogelio E. Castillo  

RE: Serial port tunnel...

> From: Max Lock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm sure I saw some software that will tunnel a serial port > over IP and make it appear as a local device on a remote machine. Closest I know of is what you probably found, in the Linux Modem Sharing mini-howto. Allows you to connect to a remote mo

Re: Cloning Debian/GNU

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:53:14PM +0300, Denis J. Cirulis wrote: > I want to make (of course if it's possible) some kinda instalation profile. > I want to add only these deb packages to be installed which i'll select, but I > want to automate this task cause too much time is wasted to choose pack

Unidentified subject!

Hi, I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my login? Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem, it doesn't give

Re: /proc/interrupts

Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:43:29PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > > If you need the number when it's not in use, get it from the > > intr line in /proc/stat (first number is total). > > Wow. How do I read that? Off to the proc manpage for me.

Re: neighbour table overflow

** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, > nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. > > I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the reason, it > happens when I access remote sites, for

Message: read_ahead not set in /proc/mdstat

Hi all, I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90. /etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage above. I didnt find any hints to this message has somebody a good Idea ??? Thanks & have a nice day, Gre

Re: printing to a windows printer

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Erdman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but >how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd? Create a character special file with major number 1 and minor number 3, like that: mknod /dev

Re: can xdm aquire a TGT on login?

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:03:19PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 07:40:54PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 10:22:44AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > > > > I want to make xdm get a

Re: ODP: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

George Bonser wrote: > > > > > I for one would buy a t-shirt with the chicken printed on it. Any > > takers? > > > > hmmm ... now that sounds really cool. Make the Debian mascot a > chicken! I kinda like it. How about a logo with a penguin and a chicken, > wing/flipper over each others shoulder!

Re: mozilla & netscape

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, John Travis wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2000, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > So, can these two coexist? I've done it with debian packages, but I > I am running Netscape 4.75, Mozilla M17-3 and the nightly mozilla builds > without incident. I didn't do anything to install the nigh

Re: machine lockups and kernel panic

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Christian Pernegger wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > Twice in the last week I've woken up to a locked-up dead potato machine > > and had to hit the power switch. > > I had the same symptoms, once or twice... > > > Does anybody

ISP mode connection (Sorry - Unidentified subject!)

Hi, I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it. So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my login? Another thing that is happening: When I send the AT commands to my modem, it doesn't giv

general linux questions

Would someone kindly help in the following questions? how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase letters? Something in the kind of: find -name "syncppp" ...but should be able to find "Syncpp" (even if it doesn't exist in reality) When searching for filenames using "

how can I add disk space?

Hello! I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very low, so I have to add new disk space. I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home (where all my samba datas are being saved). But the problem is now all datas are only written on the new HD instead o

how program can use more than 256 processes

Hello all, i have following problem maximum limit of processes is 256 for any user kernel supports up to 1024 (kernel 2.2) how i can make user to have more than 256 processes in fact i need it for mysql ulimit in shell and set it in /etc/limits.conf dont work. any ideas Best regards, George Chavda

Re: general linux questions

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: > Would someone kindly help in the following questions? > > > how can I search for filenames which only differ in upper & lowercase > letters? > Something in the kind of: > find -name "syncppp" > ...but should be able to find "

Message: ++read_ahead not set++ in /proc/mdstat

Hi all, I am running 2.2 with kernel 2.2.17 and raidtools2 0.90. /etc/raidtab is configured as shown in HOWTO and also the devices was made. After a mkraid /dev/md0 I get the errormessage above. I didnt find any hints to this message has somebody a good Idea ??? Thanks & have a nice day,

Re: New to Debian, boot problems

Quoting Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Now that I've got some time to think about this a bit (to tell the > truth, I've been avoiding thinking about it, the whole thing scares me > a bit), let me see if I'm understanding everything: Just make sure you have a working boot floppy, or rescue disk.

RE: Serial port tunnel...

Cool How-to. Does anybody now how to get access to a modem in a windows box from a linux machine? So I can use a f. winmodem on a windows machine. "Ingles, Raymond"

Printing problems

Hello, I am running Debian potato and have set up an SMB printer with Printtool (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was working fine until recently, I think a package update may have caused the problem. The problem is that when I send a print job, nothing

Re: neighbour table overflow

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Marek Habersack wrote: > ** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > Hello, I am a potato user, and I have setup my system fairly minimal, > > nothing but c/c++ dev, x with icewm, gnome-libs, and apache and exim. > > > > I keep getting the above message, but I cannot track the

Re: neighbour table overflow

** On Oct 05, Robert Lazzurs scribbled: > > > I have now compiled and installed a custom 2.2.17 kernel as I thought it > > > might have been a problem with the kernel image that debian provides, but > > > it is not! > > > > > > Any help would be vvvnice :) > > Check whether you have the lo networ

Re: bind and address rewriting

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Thomas Voss wrote: > Does anybody has an idea about that? Maybe I'm missing the point here, but why do you think you need to MASQ these packages? When a box from your internal network do a lookup, it checks with BIND on your boundary/firewall box. BIND

Re: Debian chicken (was: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation)

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:51:48AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > things are more like they used to be than they are now. > > Yeah, but if it wasn't for us, we wouldn't be here. > > Not to mention why we cross the road. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/nu

Re: Leftover .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives

On 5 Oct 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Setting delete=yes in apt-move.conf will delete old .debs from your > mirror (doesn't make much sense on a CDROM though), not from the apt > cache. That there are still .debs in that cache is probably due to > the fact that there are newer versions on your

Re: general linux questions

Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:22:06PM +0200, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: >> When searching for filenames using "locate" and displaying them in >> the order of their date something like "locate | ", >> (does the database include other parameters than just filena

[OT] Win ftp clients speed strangeness

My primary potato box is running the wu-ftpd in stable. I use it to copy files (mostly backups) to/from the Win boxen on my 100mbit/s LAN. Today I needed to copy 3 ~1GB files to the Linux machine. I started out with BulletProofFTP, which gave me a shocking 400KB/s. Then WS-FTP LE: 3000KB/s Then W

Re: Slashcode, Scoop

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:43:47AM -0400, Dr. Orange ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Are there any (unofficial) debs for slashcode, scoop or similar? Not that I'm aware of. I've forwarded your question to Rusty Foster of Scoop. Installation is largely trivial though -- you untar into a directory. I

Re: mysql location?

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:52:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey list,sorry if this is a repeat. The original seems > to have bounced off of someones full mailbox. This is a misconfigured mail transfer agent. Your post made it to the list. It was refused by a broken

Re: Printing problems

Ho-Kuo Chan wrote: > > Hello, > I am running Debian potato and have set > up an SMB printer with Printtool > (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer > is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was > working fine until recently, I think a > package update may have caused the > problem. The problem is

comments on dselect...not unreasonable

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > and I was impressed by how easy it was to go from > slink to potato, but getting started

Re: nvi/ex keeps mailing me....

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: <...> > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the > Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why?

Re: base list ??

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:52:15PM +0100, Ted Wager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed my Debian linux from a 3 cdset and all was uip and running ok.. > I started with the base system and built it up gradually using dselect.. > Today I thought I would put the Linux Gazettes on so I went to d

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:57:54PM +0200, Francois Fayard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, > info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? What exactly are you hoping to accomplish? - man can directly output to any listed groff device,

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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:45:46PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! > > I've got a samba-file-server whichs disk resources are getting very > low, so I have to add new disk space. > I've already tried to install a new HD and mounted it into /home > (where all my samb

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Re: Programms to convert Man pages-Mails in LaTeX

Francois Fayard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: FF> Does anybody knows if some programms that convert man pages, emails, FF> info pages, etc... in LaTeX ? Each of those is a little different; the basic answer to each is "no, not to my knowledge". But: -- Manual pages are formatted using 'roff. Runn

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