Re: networking script in Debian

"Wing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a simple question. In the boot up of the debian system, how and when > the /etc/init.d/networking script in debian get called? Check the /etc/rc[0-9].d/ directories. > I expect to find a S10networking in rc2.d directory but there > wasn't. Why? There

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:43:32PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I agree with you 100% -- except you left out a few points which explain how > they made the decision. > > a) there are 3 established dists that use rpm plus numerous small ones so? *ALL* dists include ar, tar and gzip. > b)

compiling samba source - not working

Hello again I'm trying to get samba 2.2.0a1 on a new potato box. i've added the line deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free to my sources list, run apt-get update then apt-get -b source samba the packages download and then i get: dpkg-buildpackage: source pa

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

> > these are not good reasons. proprietary software developers from what > ive seen make the WORST packages of anyone, even the crap you find in > /contrib directories. LSB would have been far better off defining > .tar.gz as the package format, and that proprietary crap go in its own > directo

Re: compiling samba source - not working

u lacks dpkg-dev -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "John Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: com

Re: [users] Re: mail server question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > and i propose postfix. then again, i would happily like to hear why > exim is better (or not). Exim (in my experience): * is easier to configure * is much more flexible > it looks to me

Re: first time deb user: how to tweak xserver fonts?

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:21:24PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote: > > I believe I have all the important fonts installed. > > xfree86 is version 3.3.6-11potato > > Here is the grep: > > /etc/X11/XF86Config: FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100" > /etc/X11/XF86Config: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/l

Re: compiling samba source - not working

At 09:37 AM 7/1/01 +0800, Lamer wrote: >u lacks dpkg-dev apt-get install dpkg-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, dpkg-dev is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I wish it was that easy, anything

Re: first time deb user: how to tweak xserver fonts?

Installed are: xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cryillic xfonts-pex xfonts-scalable. At least, that is what dselect seems to think. Thanks, everyone, for bearing with me. On Saturday 30 June 2001 20:31, Martin Maciaszek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:21:24PM -0500, Christoph

Re: Sony Minidisc recorder usb

You need a USB enabled kernel - 2.4.x and hotplug. Then the usblink is detected as an audio device - like a sound card, but with fewer features. Pat On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:31:46PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:31:46 -0500 > From: Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PRO

Printing Question

Hi all? I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al, installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems, however, when I print plain ascii text, the printer prints just fine, but I need to manually eject the page. I've tried to set my printcap up to send a form fe

Re: compiling samba source - not working

thickserver:~/samba-2.2.0.final/source/nsswitch# dpkg -S /usr/bin/dh_testdir debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_testdir therefore: # apt-get install debhelper -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP

Re: [users] Re: mail server question

Yeah, exim is much more flexible, but it lacks one very evil feature (oh, that is, lacking 'out-of-the-deb' support for ) "BCC to boss" feature.. :) -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP

Re: Printing Question

my 2 cents would be : "install progeny, it does all" and "then upgrade to woody" -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: "Mark Wagnon" <[EMAIL P

Re: compiling samba source - not working

AHA! making more progress now thanks for that! At 10:59 AM 7/1/01 +0800, Lamer wrote: >thickserver:~/samba-2.2.0.final/source/nsswitch# dpkg -S /usr/bin/dh_testdir >debhelper: /usr/bin/dh_testdir > >therefore: > ># apt-get install debhelper > >-- >k h a o s * lamer >new name, new look, new ftp:

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

Hi, > Frankly, I disagree with the subject. LSB allows the distribution to > use a different (i.e. dpkg) packaging format than rpm. More > importantly, rpm is the packaging format used by every other > significant Linux distribution. While I agree that a million flies may > be wrong, as far as I h

Re: browsing people.debian.org/~someone

and to most little debian (l)users like me, http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/ would be a really good place to get into, since he packages a lot of grafx intensive progees that we linux players (yes, players) like :) -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOU

Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

hi, it seems that the talk goes enlightened, it's good. > That said the LSB does not _FORCE_ any Linux dist to abandon their own work. > It simply requires the dist to allow rpms to be installed easily. alien does > this for most people. Yes, it does not _force_, but it does _imply_ that rpm i

dropping network connection

I just finished installing Debian on a Mac PowerPC G3 (beige, 266 MhZ processor, 128 MB RAM right now, ethernet etc...). It's on a University network, and has a statiic IP address and a full-time connection. The kernel I built from the 2.2.9 source...I probably need to build a new one from th

Broken Installs

I been trying to install ee and xcoral but when they are setting up they both bring back this error. update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.1.gz: No such file or directory I have tried apt-get -f install and that didn't help

Re: Broken Installs

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:59:37PM +1000, Steven Farrier wrote: > I been trying to install ee and xcoral > > but when they are setting up they both bring back this error. > > update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/man/man1/editor.1.gz.dpkg-tmp > a symlink to /etc/alternatives/editor.1.gz: No su

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Re: networking script in Debian

* Wing ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010630 18:01]: > I have a simple question. In the boot up of the debian system, how and when > the /etc/init.d/networking script in debian get called? I expect to find a > S10networking in rc2.d directory but there wasn't. Would you mind clue me in? $ ls -l /etc/rc?.d/?

Iomega CDRW USB

Anyone know of a driver or a way to get an Iomega usb writer to work in linux? -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia /^.{10}\ +\d+\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+(\.\d+|)(M|k|G|)).*/ - master ls!

Re: Screensaver doesn't work anymore ...

Sorry, I may not be able to offer specific help, but I have some general advice: Generally you don't want to mess with your system's file structure. What I mean is that copying/moving files around is usually a Bad Idea. Of course, the exception is stuff in /usr/local, which is intended for stuff y

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