Hah..
--purge :)
Thanks for the tip. I can understand that a carefully crafted
configuration file is something that you don't want to lose, but there
have been a lot of packages that I just wanted to download and try out
and then removed a few minutes later. ;)
I wish that Debian used /usr/local
S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way to pass the "-j " option to make when building
> kernels using make-kpkg ?
Yes. See kernel-pkg.conf(5) for details.
--
Leonard Stiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:46:50PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1 for potato are now available from
> > http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html
>
> i'm betting this was covered on-list somewhere but i've not
> found it--
>
> i'
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> Thanks for the tip though, I guess if I read through the man files again I
> might have picked that up, but I've found that I haven't had to use the
> advanced features of apt much, and really...I prefer tarballs anyways for
> some masochi
Hai,
Having a hard time figuring this out.
Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the
butt, but that seemed to scare you people:-)
I got myself a working kernel for the CompraQ
proliant 1000 in the form of a bzImage.
I copied it to a standard rescueflop renaming it to
linux.
Hintin
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:03:36PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:26:03PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > cd /usr/share/doc/menu. read contents. enjoy.
"man update-menus" is also a good starter.
> The Debian menu system is definitely your friend. However, I lik
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote:
> I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often
> using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine.
> Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT
> fonts?
>
> T
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:02:47AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Hai,
>
> Having a hard time figuring this out.
>
> Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the butt, but that seemed to
> scare you people:-)
>
> I got myself a working kernel for the CompraQ proliant 1000 in the form of a
Hi Joey!
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> [...]
> The best method I have been able to find is converting docbook to html
> with jade and then html to text with html2text. You can see an example
> in debconf's source package, in the doc/ directory..
In which package can I find "html2text" w
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> xlsfonts gives me -bunches- of output. Standard adobe stuff, b&h, bitstream,
> cronyx, ... KDE, for instance, uses a good font. The applications that suffer
> are gtk apps like gnome-apt, and other random apps, like the menus
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:02:47AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Having a hard time figuring this out.
>
> Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the butt, but that seemed to
> scare you people:-)
Maybe the problem is mostly that your return address bounces..
host hp14.ath.cx
hp14.at
Am 30. Jun, 2001 schwäzte Sean 'Shaleh' Perry so:
> RPM is not inherently bad. RH (and others) simply do not have a common
> standards set that must be followed like Debian does. There are a few
> places where each format (rpm and deb) surpass the other. However most of
Anyone want to summaris
Am 01. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Stig Brautaset so:
> dpkg --get-selections > selections
>
> then edit the file "selections" so that the word "hold" is replaced
> with "installed" for the package you want to hold, and then:
>
> dpkg --set-selections < selections
echo "packagename hold" | dpkg --set-se
Sorry if it was posted before, but my DynDNS
account just went out and I'm afraid I just might have missed
something
Hai,
Having a hard time figuring this out.
Previous subject was Proliant 1000 pains in the
butt, but that seemed to scare you people:-)
I got myself a working kernel
Hi,
I just installed zope via apt-get install zope. But I cannot get a
working tutorial and have problems with an example in the zope-book,
so I think that I am missing something. Which packages I shall install
to have a working base-zope?
TIA
juh
--
Vergewaltigungen unbedingt quittieren lassen
Hi,
It's solved.
Just tried patching until it worked
I did not have my kernel patched.why isn't it in the
kernelsource???
anyways. The following is what I usually miss when searching this
mailinglist. Solution:
read softwareraidhowto;
Get kernelsource; unpack
get kern
Is the G450 (Matrox millenium G450 card ) supported in xfree 4.0.3 (i.e.
xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb) ?
Looking at the release notes for xfree86 4.1.0
(http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES.html) it seems that g450 support
where first added in the 4.1.0.
If I need xfree86 4.1.0 then http://p
Will Trillich wrote:
>---snip---<
> # apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libpgsql2.1
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libpgsql2
> The following
I think you're looking for console-apt, aka capt.
The same package is being further developed as deity,
available either as deity-gtk or deity-curses, from cvs.
Nick
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:12:33AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> Sorry if it was posted before, but my DynDNS account just went out and I'm
> afraid I just might have missed something
Don't post with a flaky From: address. Just common courtesy to the
other net.users.
And you're giving us fr
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> It's solved.
> Just tried patching until it worked
> I did not have my kernel patched.why isn't it in the
> kernelsource???
Because 2.2 is stable. Because the new raid code is not completely
interface-c
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:12:33AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> > Sorry if it was posted before, but my DynDNS account just went out and
I'm afraid I just might have missed something
>
> Don't post with a flaky From: address. Just common courtesy to the
> other net.users.
I appollogize
Fl
is there a known problem with getting apache and
mod_php and mod_perl all working at the same time?
I can get apache to work fine, just by installing the package
I can get apache and php to work fine
I had a lot of trouble trying to get libapache-mod-ssl working,
so i just installed the apache-
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:36:46AM +0200, Frans Schreuder wrote:
> > It's solved.
> > Just tried patching until it worked
> > I did not have my kernel patched.why isn't it in the
> > kernelsource???
>
> Because 2.2 is stable. Because the new raid code is not complete
Hi!
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, der.hans wrote:
> [...]
> Yes, the RPM package management tools have always really, really
> sucked.
> [...]
As far as I understand, the LSB only states that the archive format
is supposed to be RPM in the future. Whether tools are bad or not, does
not necessarily have
Hi all
Where can I read about what all the different tcp flags mean, do, etc?
cheers
dc
Today people in droves hurry up past Heumoz to Villars
on the road to the ski hills, so they can rush down them
as fast as possible, so they can hur
hi ya vestor
yu get the "/etc/nologin" file created during shutdown ...
and upon reboot...or shutdown... it is NOT cleaning up after itself...
if you pulled the power on it or something odd... it is not yet
able to resync itself... gotta keep rebooting n-times till it works right
try init 6, sh
Hello people,
I've got a bit of a problem, I've just bought a new
motherboard with an on-board RAID controller (HighPoint HPT 370) and I wanted to
install debian potato, but I can't when using RAID :-(. When I boot with the cd
I can't partition the HDD, because debian can't find my HDD when
Dear Joost and Manoj,
thanks a lot for your help !
Joost,
unfortunately installing kernel and modules with the same dpkg
command leads to the same error messages and dpkg bailout.
best regards,
nicola
Manoj,
There is a point I really do not understand:
I know for sure I am not downgrading the k
Hello,
I'm have a server running Debian/GNU Linux in ext2 partition, I'm like
migration my partition ext2 for reiser-fs howto I'm make it?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is the G450 (Matrox millenium G450 card ) supported in xfree 4.0.3 (i.e.
> xserver-xfree86_4.0.3-4_i386.deb) ?
Yes.
> Looking at the release notes for xfree86 4.1.0
> (http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES.html) it seems that g450 support
> where first added in the 4.1
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Vos wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I've got a bit of a problem, I've just bought a new motherboard
> with an on-board RAID controller (HighPoint HPT 370) and I wanted to
> install debian potato, but I can't when using RAID :-(. When I boot with
> the cd I can't partition the HDD
Title: RE: Multiple IP addresses on one machine, and routing.
Two resposnes in one!
>Are adding routes into your system?
>for instance when I added 2 ip's to one card, I do it like this
>
>ifconfig eth0:1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>ifconfig eth0:2 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
>route add -host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx eth0:1
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Ross
wrote:
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/S3.html gives some useful info about S3
chipsets with Xfree86 3.3.6.
Thanks for the useful link. Now bookmarked!
> It would also seem to suggest that you don't need to specify a
RamDac.
>
> When in doubt as to th
I ran SuperProbe, as root and with X killed, and I got the error:
"Can't open /dev/console"
Why would that be?
--
Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
Salve a tutti,
sono seimesi che impazzisco per Linux lo trovo meraviglioso, finalmente
ho soptto le mani qualcosa che so come funziona,.
Ogni tanto ho un problema ovviamente perché non sono un programmatore e
malgrado mi leggo i man e le HOWTO non sempre trovo le soluzioni ai miei
guai.
Per adesso
G'morning everybody!
Here is my question, how can i connect to a http or
ftp server using GNU/Linux Debain 2.1 from the prompt?
This is what i'd run for now:
ftp ftp.us.linux.org
This didn't work!!!
So, if there's any instruction on how to do this, let
me know. I need to download GNU/Linux Deba
Hi!
I must say I love Debian! And I am verry anxious to see the new distro come
out. Does anyone know when woody is comming out? OR when the feature freeze is
going to be initiated?
THX in advance!
B.
--
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For my PGP key
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:19:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Salve a tutti,
Je hebt een veel betere kans op zinvolle respons als je je vragen
op debian-user in het engels stelt..
> sono seimesi che impazzisco per Linux lo trovo meraviglioso, finalmente
> ho soptto le mani qualcosa che so
Hi all
is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in
such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as
one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk
space errors because they are addressed as one?
If so what is this m
> Per adesso non riesco a capire perché quando faccio xstart o xinit per far
> partire X mi dall'avvio hostname: Host name lookup failure
ma alla fine X parte? e che succede se lanci il comando hostname?
ed infine, qual'e' il contenuto dei file /etc/hosts ed /etc/hostname?
> Devo dire che non so
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:32:35AM -0700, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
> Here is my question, how can i connect to a http or
> ftp server using GNU/Linux Debain 2.1 from the prompt?
For ftp, /usr/bin/ftp is the classic tool. For http, try wget
if you know the exact url, or links if you need a text-mode
Okay, I can't make it work and neither can xf86config so I feel at
least a little bit better that we get the same error :)
Here's my XF86Config-4:
=== begin /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ===
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
Font
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
> is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in
> such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as
> one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk
> space er
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Bostjan Muller wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I must say I love Debian! And I am verry anxious to see the new distro come
> out. Does anyone know when woody is comming out? OR when the feature freeze is
> going to be initiated?
Take a look at the latest issue of -
http
hi ya matt
> If so what is this method called? I want ot do some experimenting with it.
"raid"
- probably use stripping so that if you have 2 disks, you have 2x
capacity ...
"md-tools" in the old dayz
disks are huge nowdayz...( 80Gb for $300 ) you should think more along
t
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:18:53PM +0200, Vos wrote:
> I've got a bit of a problem, I've just bought a new motherboard with
> an on-board RAID controller (HighPoint HPT 370) and I wanted to install
> debian potato, but I can't when using RAID :-(. When I boot with the cd
> I can't partition the HD
hello all
I upgraded to kde 2.2beta. I start now to runlevel 5 and kdm.
My problem is that I dont know how to configure Xauthority that other users
(even root) can acces the display.
I get the following message:
--/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
Passwor
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
:> Did you know that there is even a help screen that explains the keys?
: Which is sorely needed, because the keys are opposite every other Unix
: program in existence.
Any clue why this has not been standardized
Hi,
Which package should I have to install to avoid that error?
TIA,
Juan José Velázquez Garcia
Web Development
www.htmlspider.com.br
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
^^^
Where is the '-'?
Never "su", alway "su -". There is a reason for it. It is not to
hassle you with having to change directories.
> Password:
> tim:/home/tim# xawtv
> This is xawtv-3.5
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:32:38PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
...
> but i don't have "dos2unix" on my debian potato, and i'm not
> having a great deal of luck finding it at packages.debian.org
> either... all i find is 'sysutils' but:
>
> $ apt-cache show sysutils
> This is a package
JK> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:37:56PM +1000, Matt Chipman wrote:
>> is it possible to have 2 or more disks in a debian box linked together in
>> such a way so that as a share over a network (using samba) thay appear as
>> one big disk? When files are dropped onto them, there is no out of disk
>>
* On 02-07-01 at 14:55 ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
+Here quoted text begins+
> Take a look at the latest issue of -
> http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/
> kent
>
> --
> From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted
> First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
>
+a
if the partition you want to convert to is root
partition, then take a look at http://www.namesys.com.
There, you will find FAQ that give you some
instructions to do so. For me, so far no problen, but
things would be much easier, if you have GRUB boot
disk in your hand.
san
--- amd <[EMAIL PROT
* Philipp Stawksi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-07-01 22:20):
> 1.When running XF86Setup or xf86config, I do not find my video card
> listed in the card definitions! (NVIDIA TNT2 Model 64)Thus, when
> selecting NVIDIA TNT2 and running the SVGA-Server, I can only run at
> 256 colors!
To get the best pe
Hi Folks,
I am trying to use pdflatex to convert one of my LaTeX files into .pdf,
however, when i try to use it, that's what i get:
" [olympus:~/work/cascv/random] > pdflatex rng.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
(Fatal format file
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
>^^^
> Where is the '-'?
>
> Never "su", alway "su -". There is a reason for it. It is not to
> hassle you with having to chan
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:38:59AM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
> Anyone know of a driver or a way to get an Iomega usb writer to work
in linux?
assuming you have core usb working, usb-storage kernel module should
do the trick. use cdrdao or cdrecord to talk to the generic scsi
device (proba
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:44:49PM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
>
> I get no apparent errors in my X startup logs except it gets to
> the end and says "(EE) No devices detected." and drops back to
> text mode.
>
> Here's my logfile, for reference. Anybody got ideas?
All I can think of is that t
Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Juan> Which package should I have to install to avoid that error?
'dpkg --remove xserver-xfree86' will cause you to not see that
error...but that's probably not what you wanted to do. :-)
Really, this:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 1
On Monday, 2. July 2001 15:22, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
>
>^^^
> Where is the '-'?
>
> Never "su", alway "su -". There is a reason for it. It is not to
> hassle you with having to change directo
Subject: iptables modules kill ppp
Date: Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:23:28PM -0500
In reply to:Matthew Garman
Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello:
>
> I posted not too long ago about PPP not working with my new kernel. The
> culprit turned out to be the iptables m
Subject: ppp and kernel 2.4.5
Date: Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 03:37:27PM -0500
In reply to:matthew neil garman
Quoting matthew neil garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Hello:
>
> I just upgraded my kernel from version 2.2.18 to 2.4.5. I am running the
> "potato" version of all my progra
Subject:
Date: Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:58:43PM +0200
In reply to:Philipp Stawksi
Quoting Philipp Stawksi([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hello! I`ve installed Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2 "Potato",basic system
> works great(!), but now I`m facing two problems:
>
> 1.When running XF86Setup or xf
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:57:21PM -0500, Me wrote:
> I totally agree with you. There's a LOT more to cross distro
> compatibility than the package format and manager! A
> whole heck of a lot!!
You do realize that there is a lot more in the LSB than package
formats... right?
--
Tom
"The chief d
Hi, I just apt-get installed Apache, and it seems to work just fine. I
then installed PHP4, and apache did not seem to recognize PHP files.
I've tried several extensions: .phtml, .php, ,php3, php4... none of them
work. The first three act really odd... when I click on them in my
browser on another
I have this problem since last week and I guess that something has changed
recently in unstable X config.
btw I believe also that the previous thread ".Xauthority and kdm" is
related to the same change.
Christophe
Le lun, 02 jui 2001 16:03:39, David Z. Maze a écrit :
> Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Jaroslav Knespl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am using testing version of debian + 2.2.19 kernel and I would like
> to use 2.4.5.
>
> But when computer boots, a folowing kernel panic message appears:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or 03:01
>
> Does anybody meat this problem, or can a
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:03:43AM -0400, User zos wrote:
> I wish that Debian used /usr/local more, but I guess its a case of where
> do you draw the line when deciding if something should be in /usr/bin or
> /usr/local/bin. For me, I generally reserve local for stuff that I install
> by hand to k
For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall
("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic
girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some
time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so
I stripped everything
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 10:17:33AM -0300, Juan wrote:
> Which package should I have to install to avoid that error?
The one that contains the X11 manpages.
man X
man XFree86
You are running a program that wants to connect to an xserver.
It failed with error number 111. Either the DISPLAY
But what about netscape and LyX. LyX is xforms, and I don't think netscape is
gtk
Anyway, I'll look into your suggestion.
On Monday 02 July 2001 01:49, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> > xlsfonts gives me -bunches- of output. Stand
Daniel Doro Ferrante wrote on Mon Jul 02, 2001 at 09:39:55AM:
> I am trying to use pdflatex to convert one of my LaTeX files into .pdf,
> however, when i try to use it, that's what i get:
>
> " [olympus:~/work/cascv/random] > pdflatex rng.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:06:40PM +0200, tim wrote:
> thanks for the typ. I was allways wondering why the shell is owned by the old
> user after su.
It isn't actually, just all the environment settings remained.
`
> > 1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root):
> >
> > $ su -
> > # e
Willing to use my laptop as a client of an oracle DB on an NT server
and network, to start with I've just begun to read the book by
Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce on "Perl & DBI".
Being at my very first steps on this field there's something somewhat
obscure to me and I wonder if someone could a
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:38:53AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:22:59PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:03:02PM +0200, tim wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
> >^^^
> > Where is the '-'?
> >
> > Never "su", alway "su -". There i
hello
I want to install xcdroast.
doing
"apt-get install xcdroast"
gives me:
---/
tim:~# apt-get install xcdroast
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be ins
There was a problem with a broken pam that got into sid
check the archives of the list, (1 or 2 weeks ago)
with some luck, that's your problem and soutions are everywhere on past
messages
At 12:39 p.m. 30/06/01 +0200, vester wrote:
hi everyone --
i fear i did something stupid.
i wanted to
Dear Debian People,
I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I do about this,
if anything?
Should I upgrade to a more recent version of
Hello,
I have recently recompiled my kernel (obtained from .deb source package,
2.2.19-6) to include support for agp
So I added CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_AGP_I810, CONFIG_MTRR, CONFIG_DRM,
CONFIG_DRM_R128 to my kernel config files, compiled, reboot, and the
boot hangs with a
"Unable to handle kernel n
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Matti Airas wrote:
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:33:18PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
dpkg -s | --status package-name ...
Report status of specified package. This just dis
plays the entry in the installed package status
database.
A better exp
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>
> Dear Debian People,
>
> I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
> Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
> most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I d
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
> Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
> most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I do about this,
> if anything?
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
> Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The
> most serious problem appears to be with ssh. What should I do about this,
> if anything?
>
> Should I upgr
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:57:54AM -0500, DvB wrote:
> How about: "Displays the entry in the installed package status database,
> which includes..." and so on.
Yes, that would be nice and dandy.
However, can anything be done about the conflicting use of "status"?
One of the more important rules
Hiya,
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but thought I would give
it a shot :)
I've been using FreeBSD for a few years now, and have heard great things
about
debian so I thought I would give it a try. Impressive btw :)
One thing I miss is the cvsup utility in FreeBSD, where I coul
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:07:09AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > The goal is to develop and promote a set of standards
> > that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions
> > and enable software applications to run on any compliant
> > Linux system.
>
> That's a nic
On 01 Jul 2001 21:15:14 +0200
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01 Jul 2001 11:42:41 -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > Interesting. I know RPM won't overwrite files that have been
> > touched. Then again RPM doesn't seem to distinguish between binaries
> > and config files
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> Dear Debian People,
>
> I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed
> Debian 2.2r3 on.
This looks like output from nessus. Take everything it reports with a
grai
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Alan Davis wrote:
> I have seen some instructions for improving fonts in Netscape, often
> using True Type fonts. I resist moving any MS products onto my machine.
> Are there philosophical or practical arguements for or against using TT
> fonts?
>
The
Faheem Mitha writes:
> I thought security vulnerabilities were supposed to be fixed in stable.
They are. In most cases it is done by backporting the fix to the version
already in stable. This was done to ssh some time ago.
> And does anyone have thoughts about the other warnings reported?
Alwa
On Monday, 2. July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:06:40PM +0200, tim wrote:
> > > 1st solution (lame, don't run x programs as root):
> > >
> > > $ su -
> > > # export DISPLAY=:0
> > > # export XAUTHORITY=~tim/.Xauthority
> > > # xapp &
> >
> > works! but dissapears after relog
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:25:08PM +0200, tim wrote:
> tim:~# apt-get install xcdroast
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distri
Hi all,
I want to build and install gcc-3.0 on my Debian "potato" 2.2r3. I have
downloaded gcc-3.0.tar.gz. If I simply type "configure", "make" and "make
install", would Debian realize that gcc has been upgraded? If not, what
should I do? For some reasons, I don't want to apt-get it from the
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:07:09AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > > The goal is to develop and promote a set of standards
> > > that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions
> > > and enable software applications to run on any compliant
> > > Linux system.
> >
>
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:30:12PM +0200, tim wrote:
> On Monday, 2. July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> > If you are the only user that will ever su to run an x app, you can
> > do another pretty lame trick by putting both variable assignments in
> > /root/.bash_profile. It is pretty bad actually, beca
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:37:49AM -0500, Me wrote:
> If this is all jokes piled on my original (the above is lifted
> from the LSB mission statement), then, well, ya got me.
>
> If instead I'm just getting myself into trouble, well, sorry!
Heh. This was my liking the statement and not realizing
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:51:04AM -0400, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote:
> I have recently recompiled my kernel (obtained from .deb source package,
> 2.2.19-6) to include support for agp
>
> So I added CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_AGP_I810, CONFIG_MTRR, CONFIG_DRM,
> CONFIG_DRM_R128 to my kernel config files,
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