boud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i cannot get any X server to start on the Debian 3.0r0 system i've
> just installed with the i386 option and bf2.4 flavour. i can only
> use the ALT-F[1-6] tty terminals.
...
> prompt>xf86cfg
> sh: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86: No such file or directory
> Failed to ru
Matthew Claridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. There's no /usr/src/linux directory. But I think thats normal
> because I've got a /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 directory with the
> kernel source tree underneath it
Yup, this is fine. If you want to put your source somewhere besides
/usr/sr
Zafer Dündar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an ide DVD-ROM (hdc) and an ide CD-RW (hdd) on my second IDE
> drive. I'm running IDE-SCSI for both of them. My CD-RW works
> fine.It seems DVD-ROM works fine too.But I want to know, there is
> any advantage or disadvantage of using IDE-SCSI on hd
"D.J. Bolderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running Debian unstable, i'm trying to upgrade my iptables to 1.2.7a-2.
> It's giving me this error message : "empty control file at
> /usr/sbin/install-docs line 629"
>
> Anyone having this problem to, or know how to solve it ?
While your question s
Phil Reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What needs to be set up in order to login to my home box from work? At
> home there is a cable modem, then a router, then two linux boxes, with
> mine running debian (sid). I have a 192.168.2.xx ip address.
Well, first off, you'll need a routable IP add
Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Will anything break if I dont have /dev/pts support compiled into my
> kernel?
If you have devfs enabled? No, I think devfs subsumes devpts
filesystem support. But if you don't use devfs, you probably do want
/dev/pts support (and make sure your /etc/f
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> LDAP: This is deffinitly a cool method. Its very simple and very secure due
> its high SSL encryption. And through the possibility of NSS_LDAP virtually
> every application will automatically support that and due the nature of LDAP
> you are able
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As the subject says: Where do I find my IP address after I connect to my
> ISP with a dial-up account? I am guessing that it is somewhere in
> 'proc', but I haven't figured out where.
You should be able to find your current IP address(es) by running
/sb
Robson Francisco de Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RFdS> I have been trying to upgrade a friend's system from Debian
RFdS> 1.3.1 to Debian 2.0 (hamm) and although every program compiled
RFdS> for libc6 are working fine, many, but not all, programs compiled
RFdS> for libc5 don't work. For those
Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK> suppose i have system where my shell is csh
OK> and i want bash.
OK>
OK> can i set bash as my shell without
OK> dealing with sysadm?
Yes; use 'chsh' to change your shell.
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Markus Lechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ML> i'm expieriencing a problem when compiling different packages
ML> which use Tcl/Tk. The problem is that make ends up with an error
ML> complaining about a missing tcl.h and tk.h. The paths are set
ML> accordingly. Do i use the wrong versions (Tcl7.6,
Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PP> I've got a bunch of files and dirs in one dir that I would like to
PP> use tar to make it into one file. Could someone tell me how? I
PP> know that tar -xvf will decompress it, I just don't know how to
PP> make one.
SUGGESTION: man tar
HINT: tar cvzf fi
David B Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DBW> When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules
DBW> such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30
DBW> kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice?
I'd suggest building and installing your kern
Mike Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MH> Is there something I can do to get around this error?
MH> dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install):
MH> error setting ownership of symlink
MH> `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory
This sounds like a problem that cam
Alec Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AS> I was wondering if any one had successfully built MIT Kerberos
AS> Version 5 under Debian? We've not yet succeeded so I would
AS> appreciate any hints/tips from anyone who has been successful.
It took some source tweaking to get 1.0.4 to build; krb5 1.0
Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ulisses> I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info?
Ulisses> (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much)
Look in the Emacs info, under "Version Control".
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Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ulisses> On 9 Apr 1998, David Z. Maze wrote:
DZM>
DZM> Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ulisses> I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info?
Ulisses> (the RCS Howto doesn't
Aria Prima Novianto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
APN> On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote:
JD>
JD> But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly
JD> configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled
JD> the parallel port and PC-s
C J LAWSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C> I say a chap the other day using emacs and he had the screen all
C> coloured up when he was editing some Fortran file or the
C> other. Does anyone know how this is done (Don't seem to be able to
C> find this out from the man pages)
In traditional GNU styl
Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tristan> fvwm95 won't work. It says it's installed but nothing happens
Tristan> and ovwm comes up instead. If I uninstalled ovwm would fvwm95
Tristan> take its place? I've installed fvwm95, fvwm-common and fvwm2.
Look at /etc/X11/window-managers. Uninstall
Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TD> Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program
TD> you want to install?
Only if you want to be able to deal with the program using the Debian
package manager later.
TD> Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 o
James Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JD> For some reason,
JD> post-install parport modprobe "-k" "-s" "parport_pc"
JD> doesn't work for me.
One thing I found (while trying to figure out why 'modprobe
char-major-14' would successfully load the sound driver but 'cat
/dev/audio' wouldn't) was
Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TD> I've got xemacs installed on my stable Debian 1.3.1, and it works
TD> just fine, but I want to use emacs for file viewing and
TD> manipulation in a normal console because I don't like vi. I tried
TD> to install emacs in dselect but it tells me I have to
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BP> AFAIK no version of Emacs come with a builtin postscript-mode. I
BP> think you will have to look for one as a third-party package.
The Debian xemacs20-* packages have one.
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Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LZ> What do you have to say about $SUBJECT?
LZ> I think that in that way the /usr partition cant get currupted.
It's probably a good preventative measure, in the same way that not
doing everything as root is. The system should still work properly.
The onl
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> Are you logged into the same box? I mean you start an Xterm on the same
S> box and then su root. It should work as shown. Try this: as the user
S> running X type 'echo $DISPLAY'. su to root and type what the other
S> display is set to. Also as the user r
hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> IF you are not running multiple X displays on your machine then a
>> simple technique is to 'su' in an xterm,
>> 'cp /home//.Xauthority /root'
>> which will then let root open things on your display.
h>
h> So does root get to keep my user's .Xauthority f
Tristan Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TD> Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux. It was in
TD> .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz
TD> bit.
Right, gzip only compresses a single file. Most commonly, people
wanting to bundle things up use the tar util
Christopher R Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CRB> I've installed gcc and all the packages that dselect recommends
CRB> to go with it but whenever I try to compile anything, like the
CRB> kernel, I just get a bunch of error messages about missing *.h
CRB> header files like stdio.h. Shouldn't gcc
Michael Stutz writes:
MS> Is it possible to view unstable packages with dselect? The Packages file
MS> never seems to be available.
If you're using dftp, tell it to look at hamm/non-free, hamm/contrib,
and hamm/hamm. (I've found that the order matters a lot, and putting
hamm/hamm first makes ot
cs51wcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
c> I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the
c> filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance
c> is appreciated.
Like 'pwd'? If not, why not?
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tmalloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
t> It is my understanding that you cannot use dosemu to access
t> partitions which use the lilo boot system.
Why not? The only rule I'm aware of is that you can't use DOSEMU
directly on a mounted filesystem -- though IIRC you can use lredir to
gain access to
The sound driver in the 2.1.72 kernel builds as a sound module, and
then separate modules for each individual device. On my system, I use
the "sb" driver, which then depends on the "uart" and "sound"
modules. This works fine with modprobe and appropriate options.
Is there any way to get this w
Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AW> Alan Woo wrote: You can still access your Win95 drive through
AW> Linux as long as the drive isn't FAT32. To do this, add the
AW> following to your /etc/fstab file:
AW>
AW> /dev/your_hd_partition /where_you_want_to_mount_itmsdos defaults
AW> 0
So I figured out how to substitute the sb module (depends on uart401
and sound) for the sound module to get useful results from kerneld
doing, say 'cat /dev/sndstat': I added
alias char-major-14 sb
to /etc/conf.modules. So far, so good.
Now, the problem I'm having is with the printer driver.
John Marter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> I read that and I was wondering what exactly the conflicts are.
JM> It mentions 'locales' and the 'format of utmp/wtmp'. What kinds
JM> of problems are caused by these conflicts?
libc6 has its own locales package, so there aren't any problems caused
b
rodrigue-joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
r> I am putting together a Linux system. Is there a reason why I
r> should prefer a serial mouse over a PS/2 mouse or vice versa? I
r> will get a Logitech trackball. Thanks.
A PS/2 mouse doesn't use up a serial port. That's the only
appreciable differ
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SC> * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that
SC> are selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only
SC> those packages (among the ones selected for installation) that
SC> are not already installed?
In my
John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> Here's what I think I understand so far.
JS>
JS> /etc/init.d/modutils
JS>
JS> says it "loads the appropriate modules in 'boot'". I suppose this
JS> means /etc/init.d/boot which seems to load modules in
JS> /etc/init.d/modutils. W
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PM> How can I send a message to the active console? For example, when
PM> a cdrom is mounted, mount (or the kernel) reports 'changing media
PM> type...', etc. to the active console - if you switch consoles,
PM> the text will finish on the new active consol
Gill Watkins writes:
GW> When I close my X session, one or more instances of the following
GW> message appear:
GW>
GW> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":0.0"
GW>
GW> Any ideas what causes this?
Your xterms were talking to your X server by some means, probably a
DAVID B TEAGUE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DBT> I counted the boots between max count fscks on my 1.3.1 system.
DBT> I got about 40.
You can change this number using tune2fs(8) (in the e2fsprogs package).
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Markus Lechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[About window managers]
ML> Which of them are not beta?
twm and mwm and a couple of variants have been around since the
beginning of time. Also, I would consider the older (1.24) version of
fvwm "not beta".
ML> Which of them are how stable?
Despite b
Xavier Bergade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
XB> you type ls& at the prompt.
XB> why the task is not complete until you press return?
XB> Is it possible to get the task done without any key press ?
It's not clear what you're asking here. Do you want to type "l s &"
(no RET) and have a directory li
Robert Ayotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RA> Now, I want to install X Windows.
RA>
RA> When using Dselect, I can't seem to find the XFREE86 package.
xf86 is huge enough that Debian has broken it up into several
packages. Most of these live in the x11 section. You at least need
the "xbase" and
Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RS> I would like to install a software package that requires
RS> xlib6g. dpkg is loathe to install xlib6g with xlib6 already
RS> installed. Can I safely remove xlib6 i.e. will packages depending
RS> on xlib6 accept xlib6g ... or? ...
If you install th
The lchown() function shows up in the most recent libc6 package. Is
this on its own enough for dpkg to work happily with the 2.1.81+
kernels?
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Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PP> Can someone tell me what file I need off of ftp.debian.org that
PP> contains all the .h files like, types.h, and time.h?
libc[56]-dev
PP> Can someone also tell me what command to use to see how much
PP> space I have left?
df
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Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK> What is The Debian Way to compiler the kernel?
OK> And how compiled kernel will fit into
OK> kernel-image package ?
Install the kernel-package package and kernel sources. Run "make
*config" as usual, then use make-kpkg to build the various kernel-*
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DZM> You can then install the new kernel with "dpkg -i
DZM> kernel-headers-_.deb".
umm, install the kernel-image package if you actually want to install
the kernel. Silly me.
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tmalloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
t> 1. Is is normally best to try something out in my home directory before
t> installing it as root? Will this always be possible?
It's often a good idea, though in the past I haven't necessarily. :-)
If you install things in /usr/local so that they don't
Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> I had some surprising trouble building this kernel. I (and indeed,
BL> make) could not as86 or ld86. I tried searching in the Packages files
BL> and even Packages-Master. I grepped the contents of several (likely in
BL> my opinion) packages but coul
Colin R Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CRT> Is the a file that a user can put logout commands similar to
CRT> /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset_0?
You can put things after your window manager in .xsession. These will
be executed after your window manager exits (user logs out) but before
the X server res
I have XEmacs 20.2-4 installed on my hamm system. I want to upgrade
some of the elisp packages included with the XEmacs distribution
(custom, gnus, w3); what's The Right Way to do this? (I strongly
suspect that mucking with /usr/lib/xemacs20/* is just wrong, despite
that being what I've already
Matt Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MT> did i hear that there are problems here? i have two dev kernels, one
MT> based on 2.1.59 and one on 2.1.65 and neither seems to want to print
MT> anything. as soon as i reboot into my 2.0.29 kernel, the jobs spooled
MT> start printing before the syst
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
HM> can anyone get 2.1.68 or 2.1.69 to compile?
I've been working on it, hopefully I'll get 2.1.69 to build sometime
today. :-) Thoughts so far:
-- linux/drivers/sound/Makefile is broken, or the Configure script
that calls it is broken. Add a line
"Philip Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next
> month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or
> sarge.
If you're new to Debian, I'd strongly suggest starting with the stable
distribution (so, in this case, woody
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
>> or use update-rc.d to remove them from the boot procedure.
>
> Damn. Now I find out. I always have done that by hand!
Using 'rm' to remove the boot-time links if you have a service you
sometimes want around is probably b
Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my
(x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start
up. For example:
{53} dmaze% xcalc
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_Op
Dan Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to make an ethernet connection to a university network.
...from your other message, using DHCP. What does
/etc/network/interfaces say? It should have a stanza that looks
more-or-less like
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
(If you have so
"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a working connection but when I try to telnet or ftp anywhere
> I get a unable to resolve hostname type error.
>
> I have my nameservers listed in /etc/resolve.conf as
> 206.13.30.12
> 206.13.29.12
Is that the actual content of that actual file?
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote:
>
>> I've been seeing a lot of discussions about various WM's lately, and
>> everyone seems to be extremely concerned about easy workspace switching.
>> I'm just wondering what exactly everyone uses workspaces for?
Rafael Osuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am an inexpert user of XFree86 running in a Debian testing/unstable
> computer.
(Which one is it?)
> I have some problems displaying several characters and, in order to
> trace the problem, I have run "strace konqueror".
I don't think that's actuall
"Lynn W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks, but how do I use
> find -maxdepth 1 -type d
> to just display the directories in the current directory, and not to
> recurse into subdirectories, *and* to display all the directories'
> permissions?
I'd chant something like
find . -name . -o -
Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm not sure if this is really proper or not, but I've been noticing a
> lot of newer houses using regular old CAT 5 twisted-pair cable for phone
> cable.
The house I lived in as an undergrad just did renovations, and now
each of the rooms has two cat
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use emacs as my main text editor, but vastly prefer to run emacs in
> an xterm (emacs -nw) over xemacs (xemacs is quite ugly, to the point
> of unreadability, as currently configured on my machine; and also I
> often write mail via ssh with X forwarding e
"sinapsi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I cannot uderstand why all the processes are forked.
> Any process I launch is duplicated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/eggdrop14$ ps aux
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> dopamina 344 0.0 0.7 7120 3844 ?S
Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Second, my WM of choice, enlightenment, seems to handle the monitors
> well. I have two identical desktop systems, and I can move through them
> independently. Example: I have 4 virtual desktops on each monitor, and
> can scroll through them with alt+f[1
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:24:57PM -0500, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
>> Two months later, I--like so many others before me--came crawling back
>> to Debian, my hands weary from long hours spent fighting RPM dependency
>
"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the
> source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which
> means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting
> kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was told it doesn't ex
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Starting sometime within the past week, something has broken on my
>> (x86 unstable) system, such that Xaw-based applications won't start
>> up. For example:
>
RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my
> install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times.
> Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many
> packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy
John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Or, if you want to get X out of the way, edit /etc/inittab , look for
> the lines :
> # The default runlevel.
> id:2:initdefault:
> and replace the runlevel 2 with 1.
...which will also conveniently stop your Web server, your ssh server,
your power-managem
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and
> revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm
> startup from all levels.
>
># update-rc.d -f xdm remove
>
> After you get back the monitor,
>
># update-rc.
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as
> xterm.foreground=white
> ...
> when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater
> when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for
> x-terminal-emulator doesn't s
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was just reading slashdot about the Debian distro and there was
> some discussion about the md5 signature of packages.
>
> Is there some way that this (is already or can be) implimented by
> default on package installations?
It's largely a matter of the
Vanh Phom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where can I find package Berkeley DB3?
Start aptitude, and search for packages that have both 'Berkeley' and
'database' in their descriptions, as in
/ ~dberkeley~ddatabase
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"bannack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I work in a company who has a NT net with a firewall closing a lot
> of ports, ips and key words, with a 2Mbps link to the Internet.
>
> I have inside this company a DSL channel to tests, that is
> disconnect from the main net, and is connect just to one alo
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8).
> I put them into /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/latex8 and ran texhash.
(/usr/local/share/texmf is probably a better pick; in this case, it's
easier to distinguish "locally installed"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes:
> I've installed XDM to get directly into X after starting but XDM
> doesn't allow for a shutdown. How can this be changed or are there
> better alternatives to start X without installing Gome or KDE?
X is X; using a single application (or display manager) fr
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How many people have apt-get their SID boxes since "the indicdent"?
> Everything seems to be back up... Is it sitnorm again?
I'm continuing to run aptitude ~daily, but my mirror hasn't seen any
updates since the compromise.
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UnKnown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a
> testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from
> woody.
...huh? Which one is it? If it's "woody upgraded to sid" it's
probably an unstable machine, not testing.
> Th
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:53:04PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I just installed the files for a new document type from cpan (latex8).
>> > I put them int
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I picked up on most of the syntax, but there are a few points, such
> as it appears that using XTerm. affects all exterms even if they
> were called through a link (x-terminal-emulator for example) while
> xterm. affects only when called as xterm or wha
Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 4. Any debs you built yourself will need manual sum generation with a
> command similar to step 2 pointing to the directory with the debs.
If you're going off building (or rebuilding) .debs yourself, and the
package is debhelper-based, it's easy enoug
"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned:
>> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy
>>> to disable the periodic checks, though:
>>>
>>> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, I haven't seen anyone else ask it, so I'll ask the dumb question I
> couldn't find an answer for. :-)
>
> Is the 2.2 kernel series affected by the bug found in the 2.4 and 2.6
> kernel tree? My assumption would be yes, but if not, it would save me
> so
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, does this mean that I can compile my kernel without initrd, and it
> will still not break on debian? I understand that this will involve
> editing /etc/lilo.conf and getting rid of the initrd line. Any other
> gotchas that I should know abou
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:43:43AM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
>>
>> Yes, that's right. The important thing is that you need to make sure
>> the drivers for your root disk and filesystem (probably "IDE disk" an
(Not speaking for Debian at all.)
"Dr. MacQuigg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) What is a "sniffed password", and how do they know the attacker
> used a password that was "sniffed", rather than just stolen out of
> someone's notebook?
It sounds like someone's personal machine got broken into,
"Bob Tilley (AT&T)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wish to use the expression "catl " to execute the
> commands "cat | less".
>
> Is it possible to use 'alias' in the definition?
>
> "alias catl='cat $0 | less'" seems like a good idea, but I don't
> know if the '$0' works in a simple alias.
I t
"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've received a number of suggesions for my X problem. Before I try
> any of them I'd like to disable my graphical login screen. It is
> either gpm or gdm. I can't remember which one is the login screen and
> which is the console mouse driver.
gdm is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sebastia Altemir) writes:
> My LINEX (Spanish Debian with 2.4.20 kernel) instaled ok,
> but the ethernet card was not detected, so nothing (eth0) was instaled.
>
> "lspci -v" says "02.0c.0 MYSON Tech Inc : unknown device 0803".
>
> If I run "modprobe fealnx", it runs OK (lsmod d
"Han Huynh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know this isn't a bash/korn shell script news group, but the fact is
> I can't find one. Since bash/ksh is the default linux shell, I was
> hoping someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
>
> Is there any way to export a variable for one par
"Geoff Bagley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My firewall captures the IP addresses of people who "ping" my TCP
> ports. They consist of the standard four eight-bit integers. The
> firewall "whois" command is able to back-track some of these, others
> not.
>
> Is there a programme, Linux or Windo
Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, in short, what I found by googling about for some time: The correct
> way seems to be to put the kernel-source in my (non-root) home
> directory, and then
> cd /usr/src/
> ln -s /home//kernel-sources linux
>
> and then, as non-root, compile the
Michael Montagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I use Grub as a bootloader. After making a kernel .deb using
> make-kpkg, I'm running dpkg -i Near the end you are asked to if
> you want to make a boot block. What is this? Is it just an entry in
> Grub or LILO? What I'm most concerned about
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the
> lm-sensors package.
The packages in Debian claim to support kernel 2.4 and not kernel
2.6. The upstream Web page (http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/)
claims that there's now userspace s
"Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Is the I2C support only in 2.4.x? I would like to use the
>> > lm-sensors
Marcos José Setim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please, which the function of make dep?
It depends on how the makefile is set up (search for a line that says
"dep:"), but usually what this does is look through the source files
for a particular program and generate extra Makefile lines such that,
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