hi ya
> I'm looking to purchase a laptop, probably used and I want to install
> debian linux on it. Can anyone point me to a good source or suggest a
> brand or particular configuration? I'm not so concerned about speed,
> but it might be nice to be able to hear/watch a cd.. I want to keep
> pr
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:49:10PM +0100, Eric E Moore wrote:
> Dave> Worse, though, is the case of a binary-only package which makes
> Dave> assumptions about running services based on runlevel. When it
> Dave> breaks because of customized runlevels, the admin _can't_ fix it
> Dave> except by goi
When I wanted to download some new programs, I noticed I didn't have enough
space on my usr partition. I went looking for ways to make space, and found
around 25M in the usr/share/locales folder for languages other than my own.
Is there a utility to eliminate locales other than the native locale
currently I have fetchmail being run at login from ~/.bash_profile.
this is fine for myself at login, however, I would like to have
fetchmail run as a daemon at boot time so it can poll for multiple
users. Where should I have fetchmail loaded from to do this?
thanks
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:45:56PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Is there a utility to eliminate locales other than the native locale from
> my machine? Or can I just delete the unneeded directories from the tree?
apt-localepurge
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Bimbo uccid
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:45:44PM -0400, D-Man uttered:
> I bet none of them (the management anyways) do -- they tell their IT
> department to make it work :-). Then the IT department pulls a
> NT=>Linux changeup under their nose and the need to reboot stops.
> (I've read of this actually happeni
Depends on how you connect to the network (either local
network or Internet, whichever applies). I use a dialup
PPP link so I put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/, but if you have
a cable/DSL/etc. connection, I'd write a quick init script,
put it in /etc/init.d/, and create symlinks (in /etc/rc*.d/)
to bri
And let's not forget, "How to get your ass fired
real quick when the suits *DO* notice."
j.
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-Original Message-
From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 3:23 AM
To: D-Man
Cc: Debian-User List
Subject: Re: netwo
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 20:09:52 -0400
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like xloadimage (xview), although xv is certainly nice.
I second that. I love the way xloadimage turns the cursor into a double
arrow where the image is larger than the screen and lets you move the
image around so you can
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:59:06 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> currently I have fetchmail being run at login from ~/.bash_profile.
> this is fine for myself at login, however, I would like to have
> fetchmail run as a daemon at boot time so it can poll for multiple
> users. Where should I have fetch
Hi!
I have two harddisks now. Master /dev/hda for my Debian Linux and slave
/dev/hdb for Win95, which i need sometimes. But i can't boot from my
second harddisk with my current settings in /etc/lilo.conf. Lilo tells
me: "booting win" and then nothing happens. What i have to do, to make
it possib
also sprach J.A.Serralheiro (on Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:03:59PM +0100):
> well it seems to me that you are erasing the tape every thursday at 14
> hours and 21 minutes. Do you backup in the tape? then you will loose the
> old backup. That's fine, but field 4 () day of month) matches every day,
> so you
I have installed Gnome1.4 and like to logout of gnome-session with an shell
script instead of the logout button on panel. Does anybody know which
kommand i have to use for this?
Timo
bewm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>where is the pre-removal script for gdm (gnome display manager)
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gdm.prerm
>also how do i make it NOT get executed on 'dpkg --purge'
You don't. You could edit it so that it doesn't fail, though (assuming
that's why you're asking ...).
Cheers,
Hello,
On 7 Jul 2001, Timeboy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have two harddisks now. Master /dev/hda for my Debian Linux and slave
> /dev/hdb for Win95, which i need sometimes. But i can't boot from my
> second harddisk with my current settings in /etc/lilo.conf. Lilo tells
> me: "booting win" and then
> Thanks. In my digging today I found the archtable - and it
> is indeed compiled in. I think the version I have doesn't
> have the right/full archtable in it.
>
I have cc to debian-user rather then debian-mentors since I believe -user is
more appropriate for this. -mentors is meant to help ma
Hi all,
I installed security manager for mozilla (Mozilla M18 under Potato,
normal direct modem connection-no proxies) a few days ago and am still
trying to run it as normal user. I have no problems running it as root,
but when I try requesting secure connection as normal user, connection
get
On 07 Jul 2001 12:57:18 +, Timeboy wrote:
>
> I have installed Gnome1.4 and like to logout of gnome-session with an shell
> script instead of the logout button on panel. Does anybody know which
> kommand i have to use for this?
man save-session
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I did not vote for the Austrian government
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:07:34PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Here's another quetion. The system I'm compiling on is
> > missing.
> >
> > /usr/include/floatingpoint.h
What's it? Anything like "float.h" in standard C?
> > /usr/include/math.h
libc
Hello,
Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but the following (at this is all i've found so far)
http://java.sun.com
http://www.chapters.ca
http://www.greyhound.ca
I've trie
On 07 Jul 2001 08:07:16 -0400, Kyle Girard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web
> pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but
> the following (at this is all i've found so far)
>
> http://java.sun.com
> ht
Hi!
What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
Timo
On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> ** On 07 Jul 2001 12:57:18 +, Timeboy wrote:
> ** >
> ** > I have installed Gnome1.4 and like to logout of gnome-session with an
> shell
> ** > script instead of the logout button on panel. Does anybody know which
> ** > kommand i have t
On 07 Jul 2001 12:57:18 +, Timeboy wrote:
> Does anybody know which
> kommand i have to use for this?
^^^
I thing kommands work only in KDE, try a gommand ;o)
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I did not vote for the Austrian government
On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
>From Gnome or from console?
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I did not vote for the Austrian government
Good morning. I have a ppp server on my house but I'm receivind an
error message from RADIUS:
PAM authentication not available
Anyone know what is this ?
Thanks a lot.
Mario H.C.T.
my system : radius + portslave + multiserial cyclades
On 07 Jul 2001 14:26:51 +, Timeboy wrote:
>
> On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > ** man save-session
>
> Thanx! save-session was a help for me!
>
> This saves my session
> But how can i logout, to start something like kde?
Hm, I meant you shoud /read/ the save-s
When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt
0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't
know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt
package. In the meanwhile, I'm afraid of installing more packages lest
I compoun
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 08:07:16AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web
> pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but
> the following (at this is all i've found so far)
>
> http://java.sun.c
Hi,
I don't know if it is quite the same, but I use "display" and "convert"
that comes in the "imagemagick" package. imagemagick is free as long as
you use the libmagick4g library instead of the libmagick4g-lzw (which
comes from non-free). I didn't make a concious effort to choose the
free versi
Sweet,
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
fixed my problem but here's another problem does anyone know how to configure firestarter do
not reject packets with ECN enabled ?
Kyle
On 07 Jul 2001 14:28:39 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On 07 Jul 2001 08:07:16 -0400, Kyle Girard wrote
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:51:25PM +, joe golden wrote:
> Debian has koffice in the testing branch>>
> this may be the answer to my need for a stable word processor and graphing
> spreadsheet for our small school network of 10 machines.
>
> Will the testing branch be so unstable as to crash r
"David H . Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt
>0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't
>know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt
>package. In the meanwhile, I'm
It looks like SI 3410 KS
As far as the keyboard is concerned, I've never counted the keys,
but for a lark, we ocutned them and I have 107 keys), now my keyboard
is set up using 101 keys. Should I go into mc and edited it?
Don't even know what ones I should include really. It's basically a UK
keybo
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:15:24PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
> Hi
>
> On my potato system I see:
>
> $ apt-cache check
> Bad prio eximon,3.12-10.1 == 0
> Bad prio elvis-tiny,1.4-10 == 0
> Bad prio cfingerd,1.4.1-1.1 == 0
> Bad prio rxvt,1:2.6.2-2.1 == 0
> Bad prio joe,2.8-15.3 == 0
> Bad prio n
On 07 Jul 2001 08:53:52 -0400, Kyle Girard wrote:
> here's another problem does anyone know
> how to configure firestarter do
> not reject packets with ECN enabled ?
Sorry, I don't use it
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I did not vote for the Austrian government
>
> Does anyone know why I wouldn't be able to connect to certain web
> pages while i'm in linux? I can connect to almost any webpage but
> the following (at this is all i've found so far)
>
Do these pages require Jave?
Require ssl?
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:56:43AM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 01:59:06 -0500
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > currently I have fetchmail being run at login from ~/.bash_profile.
> > this is fine for myself at login, however, I would like to have
> > fetchmail run as a daemo
Please CC copies of replies to me as I'm not a subscriber of debian-user.
Hi,
I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian mailing
list archives.
In the header of the message I have:
X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/91560
Can I put this as reference?
How
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
There are different ways...
One way is to use "sudo". Some people like it, others are scared of
it. Read the acrhives and you decide for yourself. Refer to the
current thread ab
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
>
> Timo
>
Hello Timo,
I do it like this...
su root halt
HTH,
Jim Richards
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2001, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
>I'd like to make references in some changelog to a message in debian
> mailing list archives.
[...]
>Can I put this as reference?
>How can I get the message in the archive with this reference?
Go to http://lists.debian.org, find the me
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> I like xloadimage (xview), although xv is certainly nice.
I tried that and didn't like it. For a series of pictures it destroys
and creates the window for each one instead of just resizing the window.
All that flashing is very annoying.
Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile.
First I had to manually define MAXFLOAT, which I think should have been
defined in /usr/include/math.h.Then it fails with the following error.
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/budr/src/snns-4.2/xgui/sources'
gcc -I../.. -
also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:18:32AM -0500):
> Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile.
>
> First I had to manually define MAXFLOAT, which I think should have been
> defined in /usr/include/math.h.Then it fails with the following error.
>
> make[1
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:10:23PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote:
> I installed security manager for mozilla (Mozilla M18 under Potato,
> normal direct modem connection-no proxies) a few days ago and am still
> trying to run it as normal user. I have no problems running it as root,
> but when I try
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:44:24AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Plus the fact that you have to give an option to tell it to shutup about
> what it's doing.
That doesn't bother me, but "alias" is your friend.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I-Con's Science and Technology Programming
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 03:49:40AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> And let's not forget, "How to get your ass fired
> real quick when the suits *DO* notice."
Please cite an actual occurrence of this.
--
Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better
Micromuse Ltd. | t
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:35:14AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> I've been using Mozilla as my primary browser for close to a year at
> this point, and with the current 0.9.x releases it absolutely blows
> Netscape 4 away in terms of performance, stability, and features.
Really? I find it abou
And speaking of Mozilla, how does one change the style or size of the
font that it uses for drawing menus, dialog box text, etc.?
I've heard there is a GTK version of Mozilla, but the mozilla-browser
package in unstable doesn't seem to be it. At least, it certainly pays
no attention whatsoever to
On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:22 am, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Bud Rogers (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 09:18:32AM -0500):
> > Anyone have SNNS working with Debian? I can't get it to compile.
> have a look at the SNNS page - specifically at the bugs and bugfixes.
> this is a common problem, whic
> I have the dvorak keymap loaded for myy everyday use in consoles, but
> after upgrading to X-4 it insists on using a qwerty layout. How do I
> set up X to use the dvorak keyboard layout?
>
Put this in your .xinitrc:
setxkbmap dvorak
// joey tsai
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:17:36AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> And is there any way to get Mozilla to stop offering me an unwanted
> "Netscape Search" pane when I type a URL into the address bar? Even with
> "smart" URLs turned off, it still slows typing down so much it's very
> irritating.
>
Yes.
When attempting to install postfix I get the following error:
postalias: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
dpkg: error processing postfix (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
postfix
The err
Hi,
I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal
modem under Debian.
I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze,
but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed
Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabil
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:20:54AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
|
| I believe that any attempt to assign standardized meanings to
| runlevels falls into this category: It makes it easier to setup a
| system that does normal things in a normal configuration and easier
| for third parties to set up
I have a quick question regarding the secure server package and scp.
I prefer not to use NIS to share the password file between two servers so
I wrote a script to push /etc/passwd to another server so they both have
duplicate copies when a user is added onto our system.
Of course I am using scp t
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:09:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| Hi,
|
| I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal
| modem under Debian.
|
| I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze,
| but suspected it was a crummy cable. Righ
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:31:21PM +0200, Timeboy wrote:
|
| Hi!
|
| What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
I use sudo from the console. I usually have gdm running now and by
changinge the line
SystemMenu=0
to
SystemMenu=1
in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (as the comment above it says) will
Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After install potato on my laptop, I realize that I would like to swap the
> partitions for /usr and / .. any idea how I can do this safely? I managed
> to swap /home and /usr with little hassle but I'm kinda more concerned
> about / and /usr.
If / c
Glenn Becker writes:
> I've installed ppp and pppconfig from my potato CDs,...
Actually, you already had them installed.
> ...and was following instructions I found in -Running Linux-,...
A mistake.
> "The remote system is required to authenticate itself but I couldn't find
> any suitable secre
also sprach Nick Furman (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:11:29PM -0400):
> I prefer not to use NIS to share the password file between two servers so
> I wrote a script to push /etc/passwd to another server so they both have
> duplicate copies when a user is added onto our system.
>
> Of course I am using s
> | What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
install appropriate entries into /etc/sudoers (assuming that 'sudo'
is installed:
User_Alias SHUTDOWNERS =
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN = /sbin/shutdown /sbin/halt /sbin/reboot
SHUTDOWNERS ALL = NOPASSWD: SHUTDOWN
martin; (gr
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:02:19AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2001 02:30, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
> > While digging thru a google queryresult on Mailclients i stumbled
> > across this archived mail . . . the birth of KDE ? It's pretty old
> > Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 15:19:00 +0100 (MET)
>
On 07 Jul 2001 14:34:34 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> ** On 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +, Timeboy wrote:
> ** >
> ** > Hi!
> ** >
> ** > What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
> **
> ** From Gnome or from console?
Conslole! Or: A shell script, that i can run without root permission.
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:37:08 -0400, David H . Silber wrote:
> **When I recently tried out aptitude, apt-get replaced apt 0.3.19 with apt
> ** 0.5.3. On the very next install (docbook-doc), I had problems. I don't
> ** know if it was a problem with the docbook-doc package or of the new apt
> ** p
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 14:31:21 +0200, i wrote:
> **
> ** Hi!
> **
> ** What can i do to use shutdown as normal user?
> **
> ** Timo
> **
Now i write:
how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a
shell script. No #su, password, etc. please!
Timo
On 07 Jul 2001 14:37:31 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> **On 07 Jul 2001 14:26:51 +, Timeboy wrote:
> ** >
> ** > On 07 Jul 2001 13:32:02 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> ** > > ** man save-session
> ** >
> ** > Thanx! save-session was a help for me!
> ** >
> ** > This saves my session
Am 07. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Timeboy so:
> how can i use the command shutdown -h now as user. Like to use it in a
> shell script. No #su, password, etc. please!
Set it up in sudo using the NOPASSWD option. I have that on my laptop. I
then stuck it in a script ( alias would work as well ). Now as a n
unfortunately, i *have* to use a font made available to me in TTF
(windoze) format. is there a way to convert it to a postscript or
type-1 font?
or, i guess, how could i use ttf fonts in my X installation (easily)?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\ echo mailto: !
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Font-HOWTO.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/FDU.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/TT-Debian.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc
I have been trying to get package management going since I installed Debian
a couple of weeks ago, but have had great difficulties. I am unable to
connect to the Internet from my Linux partition, so I decided to set up
apt-setup to use a file system and get everything set up so that I would
onl
D-Man wrote:
> I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent)
> because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
> computers in general) work.
OTOH, we've had debian developers who joined while in middle school
(though I think all of them are in high s
something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see
anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that
wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls
-l? Thanks.
--
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
/dev/sda5 182M 164M 9.3M 95%
we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync
run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and
still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all
workstations. however, due to the nature of rsync, whenever packages
on the server are updated, t
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:04:58PM -0700, Kevin wrote:
> something seems to be eating up space in /var. however i don't see
> anything taking up that much space. what could be taking space that
> wouldnt get counted in du, or be shown with find /var -pring |xargs ls
> -l? Thanks.
i've had progr
On 07 Jul 2001 19:18:10 +, Timeboy wrote:
> My mistake! I read this manpage. But i was very tidy at this moment and my
> mother language is german. I think i had a heavy blackout. Cause my english
> is not very bad.
:o)=)
Happens. Wia kennan a deitsch redn :)
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I did not vote for the Austr
At 21:19 Uhr +0200 7.7.2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
does anyone know a way to find what's doing it?
man lsof :-)
chj
ok now im completely out of space
i rebooted and nothing was freed up
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Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-Original Message-
From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:04:58 -0700
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: /var being eaten
something seems to be eating up space
also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 12:52:23PM -0700):
> ok now im completely out of space
> i rebooted and nothing was freed up
but can you write to /var, or is it only the df output which reports
100% usage?
which debian?
which kernel?
which e2fs?
martin; (greetings from the h
since certain time (few months) aptitude puts a huge number of
packages on hold - this time it's about 100. I can still hit '+' and
they are installed without any problems - there are no conflicts (most
of them, some packages are on hold for a reason).
why is it happening?
TIA
erik
cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different
partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again.
using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you
dont want 2.0 compat.
-Original Message-
From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just ran aptitude and it wants to remove package:
id libical
4:2.1-20014:2.1-2001
is there any way to find the reason why this package is removed? There
are some new packages installed but I don't see any that would replace
libical (implement
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:06:51PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> we are using a local debian mirror for several reasons. we let rsync
> run on one of the official servers once a week over the weekend, and
> still have security.debian.org in the sources.list files on all
> workstations. however,
also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700):
> cant write to it. ive moved /var/lib and /var/ache to a different
> partition and symlinked them. so i have about 8 meg free again.
>
> using woody/2.4.5 and erm whatever rev setup makes it if you say you
> dont want 2.0 compat.
did
its a 200 meg partition. i ran du -sh as root.
-Original Message-
From: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 22:25:36 +0200
To: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten
also sprach Kevin (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 01:10:47PM -0700):
> cant wr
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:32:23PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
> I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on
> www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them
> or remove them?
It should reinstall all packages with a ximian version, replacing
them wi
cool, i followed ray's advice, and now i seem to be able to translate
fonts. so i placed them into ~/lib/fonts:
fishbowl:~/lib/fonts> ls -l
total 32
-rw---1 madduck users 13264 Jul 7 22:05 internal.afm
-rw---1 madduck users2356 Jul 7 22:05 internal.enc
-
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:59:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
| > I guess you mean that you are in 10th grade (or your local equivalent)
| > because middle school is really young to be understanding how Unix (or
| > computers in general) work.
|
| OTOH, we've had debian developers who
Hi,
I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem
to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to
redhat with my problem, but I have not received any
answers yet. I also tried to sign-on to wvdial sig.
Again ,I have not gotten any responds. Can anyone
tell me how to get a message to the
> Apt-get, while developed for Debian, is already used on several
> RPM-based distributions (Conectiva, Mandrake) as well, so it is not
> really a packaging format issue. ... although I miss it every single
> second when maintaining any Red Hat server at work...
apt-get doesn't function well o
i just tar'd the dir, blew away the partition and recreated it. still
dunno what caused it but oh well.
-Original Message-
From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 13:27:55 -0700
To: "Martin F. Krafft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Re: /var being eaten
its a 200
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote:
> hi,
>
> i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> it downloads all the files like normal,
> but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm...
> this is what it said when it tried to remove it:
>
> Removing gdm ...
> dpkg: error pr
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> > it downloads all the files like normal,
> > but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm...
> > this is what
How to use fetchmail to connect to IMAP on a remote host while going
through a SOCKS proxy server (proxy.lafn.org:1080).
There were no matches in the Debian Mailing List Archive Search for:
"socket error while fetching"
Looking at the FAQ:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.h
also sprach Wayne (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 05:05:25PM -0400):
> I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem
> to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to
> redhat with my problem, but I have not received any
> answers yet.
big surprise. let me guess, you aren't responsible for five dig
You don't have a fonts.scale or fonts.dir file in your fonts directory;
I'm pretty sure you need to.
If you are using XFree86 4.x and a "testing" distribution of Debian, you
can use my doc to very easily install TrueType fonts, and you don't need
a font server to do it (XFree86 4 has built-in supp
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
cw> testing ignores the Recommends: (it's installable without it), and
cw> resolves the Conflicts: by assuming that you can remove debhelper
cw> in order to install the package. It's not optimal in this case,
cw> but is necessary in others.
OK.
Wayne wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a-heck-of-time trying to get my modem
to work on a new install of redhat 7.1. I did write to
redhat with my problem, but I have not received any
answers yet. I also tried to sign-on to wvdial sig.
Again ,I have not gotten any responds. Can anyone
tell me how to get a
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