zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.rev-local";
};
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xample showing :
# Also log via syslog (just for demonstration :-).
:global syslog=y
This may or may not do what you want - i.e it may not try a network
connecttion to syslog unless you give it an rlog_host definition.
experiment.
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herefore unreachable from
the internet. if you use some sort of Network Address Translation (NAT) or
IP Masquerading to get out to the net then this is the case.
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d in the United States and other jurisdictions. Netscape
Communications, the Netscape Communications logo, Netscape Navigator,
Netscape SuiteSpot, Netscape Composer, Netscape Messenger and Netscape
Communicator are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation.
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bed a perl interpreter as an alternative to javascript.
> 3. Would a UN*X developer add a feature that is unix specific. Or
> would he / she add a cross platform feature?
yes and yes.
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and end up with them
in another instance of the menu. there are probably ways for clever
users to get around this, but they all require the ability to execute
arbitrary commands...which is as good as having a shell anyway.
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copies the file and resets the permissions.
write a Makefile to do the copy and run that out of cron, so it only
copies the bookmarks file when it has changed.
#!/usr/bin/make -f
SOURCE=$(HOME)/.netscape/bookmarks.html
DEST=$(HOME)/public_html/bookmarks.html
$(DEST): $(SOURCE)
cp -f $
On 22 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Craig Sanders writes:
> > possibly re-use parts of netscape browser in mnemonic. and
> > vice-versa.
>
> I doubt that the license will be compatible with the GPL. They will
> almost certainly demand an unrestricted license on all
d
> > unauthorized distribution of derivatives.
>
> Craig Sanders writes:
> > ideas aren't copyrightable.
>
> > ideas on how (and how NOT) to do things can be re-used at will.
>
> And your point is?
the bleeding obvious:
mnemonic can derive some benefit
ill be setup before libc6 is installed.
- remove exit-on-error from installation of perl-base and perl
- configure --pending after perl installation.
- saved names of removed packages in a file
v0.13: (Craig Sanders)
- fixed globbing problem again for PKGS_LDSO and PKGS_LIBC6
- some co
version 0.15 of the script is now available from:
http://www.taz.net.au/autoup
changes in this version:
v0.15: 1998-01-26 (Craig Sanders)
- i should have checked rob's changes more thoroughly. yet another fix:
added $PKGS_LDSO to ALL_PKGS so that the script checks to see i
optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 20
Maintainer: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 2.1-4
Depends: libc6
Description: Removing the tags from a HTML file
This program removes all HTML tags from a HTML file and directs it's output
to stdout. It can be used as a filter for getting the text content of a HTML
file without the need of firing up a web browser.
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yet another version. changes are:
v0.16 1998-01-27 (Craig Sanders)
- really added localebin to remove list.
- defined $DATE variable.
- moved the changelong into a separate file
available from:
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This message will be the LAST ANNOUNCEMENT of
n edit /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc and add the following line:
eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe)
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#!/bin/bash
#
# lessfile/lesspipe
#
# Less filter for viewing non text files.
#
# Written by: Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Many Modifications by Darren Stalder
27;)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(taz.net.au)dnl
EXPOSED_USER(root)dnl
## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn')dnl
# dont accept junkmail
define(`_IP_LOOKUP_',1)dnl
define(`_DNSVALID_',1)dnl
define(`_
have a hacked and working autoup.sh for ftp in about 30 mins if
> the machine gets upgraded correctly.. :)
please make your changes to the latest version.
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s set to majordom.
>
> Here is a copy of my Makefile.
ok, you're obviously compiling your own version. save yourself some hassle
and install the debian package of majordomo. it works.
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make it dual boot debian. she likes the look of afterstep, and
enlightenment just blows her away :-). you can't do THAT on a 'doze box.
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ay or a day to do the upgrade if you've never
done it before. i get through it in a few hours now (most of which is
waiting for dselect to do it's thing) but i've upgraded a couple of
dozen boxes from bo to hamm by now, and have been using debian for a few
years.
> When is debian
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, George R wrote:
> On 01/30/98 at 05:16 PM, Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > i (foolishly) agreed to re-build a win95 system from scratch for a
> > friend. this process is annoying the hell out of me because you have
> > to hunt all
to /mnt.
try just
cp -ax / /mnt
or
tar clvf - / | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
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ail --backtitle "$BACKTITLE" --title "$BOXTITLE" --yesno "Yes or No" 7 40
the quotes will serve to escape the spaces in the variables, so whiptail
sees the whole string as one argument. it's got nothing to do with
whiptail, actuallyit's just standard sh usage.
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On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:45:04PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > cp -ax /* /mnt
> > > ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
> > >
> > that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt.
echo $j uses /usr/spool
done
done
btw, i agree with removing the /usr/spool symlink. programs that use
/usr/spool have to be found and fixed.
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>
> > But then: How will we know which programs do not use /var/spool yet?
> > The answer is very simple: Just remove the symlinks and see which programs
> > break. Of course
chines. over $60,000
could have been saved.
OTOH, it's nice to have some ultra sparcs to play withi may even be
able to rebuild one as a debian sparc box by re-arranging server loads
more efficiently :-)
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On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > Tim, from my experiences with (much smaller scale but still essentially
> > the same) mass-duplication of debian, all you need to do is duplicate the
> > hard disk and chan
files
and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and
permissions on files when collaborating with other users.
.
It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an
already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder
how you ever lived wi
t.
'script' is the command you are looking for (e.g. 'script /tmp/logfile').
it forks a sub-shell, and all input & output is logged to the logfile.
scripting ends when the sub-shell ends (e.g. you type "exit")
see "man script" for details.
cr
gor, can you send me a list of domains, IP addresses/nets, and spammer
email addresses when you confirm them. I'd like to add them to spamdb.
(yes, i also use RBLbut it doesn't block all spam. as mentioned
before, i have a multi-tiered spam blocking system)
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A: don't do that then.
in other words, if motif is causing you problems then don't use motif.
there are several GPL-ed alternatives available, including lesstif.
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n non-free stuff scores very high, not being completely
free scores extremely low. It's not the only factor, but it's a very
important one.
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text.
Unfortunately StarOffice 3 can't understand Word documents from office
97 so it's useless....it'll be one of the first things that get removed
next time i run out of disk space.
maybe StarOffice 4 can do it - i'll try installing it next time i need
to convert a Word doc.
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;t get that excited about it. Remember, Netscape uses
> Motif (and as any other decent Motif product, not only Motif, but some
> other add-on *commercial* widgets).
which is why porting netscape to gtk is at (or near) the top of the open
source netscape wishlist.
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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madom,
> I have servel question to ask.
>
> 1. How do I access my floppy drive? All I know is that it is fd0.
the mount command can be used to mount a floppy - but remember to unmount it
again before removing it from the drive!!
e.g.
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm happy that we have "experts" on this list to help us out of our
> ignorance. I've looked at the documentation of a Cisco and agree that
> configuring it runs a close second to my least favorite activity
> (going to the dentist).
configuring cisco
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
> In your email to me, Joey Hess, you wrote:
> >
> > Robert Stone:
> > > so am i the only one getting this?
> >
> > I'm getting it on two machines now. Both use ssh, if it's relevant.
> > The second is really bad:
>
> Bingo!! That seems to be the common fact
(cross-posted to debian-user because there's a thread on this problem in
there too)
On 5 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> It's a locking problem. From login's changelog:
>
> Version 1.45a (16-Dec-96)
> [...]
> Changed the wtmp locking scheme in login.c,agetty.c,simpleinit.c
>
On 6 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > mgetty and telnet/ssltelnet trigger it because they call login. ssh
> > & wu-ftpd don't trigger it because they don't call login - they do
> > their own thing. is that
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> This doesn't explain why the problems have only started occurring in
> the past few days. I've been using the same set A/set B mix for many
> months, and only started getting corruption this week. Something must
> have changed, and that should be fixed.
log
On 8 Mar 1997, Guy Maor wrote:
> Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I agree. I've got login 1.45a-3 installed and the problem hasn't appeared
> > - it's definately a problem in the rex-fixed/binary/base and bo/binary/base
> > because if I dpkg -i *.deb in either directory the probl
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Steve Izma wrote:
> I've been setting up Debian 1.2.4 (25 Jan.: Cheapbytes distribution)
> on two new Pentium 150 systems and I can't get network routing over
> ethernet to work.
>
> Installation of netbase and netstd seemed to go well using dselect,
> except for an unsurpris
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Mark Lever wrote:
> getty processed on ttyS1 block modem access to cua1. When a getty is
> running (getty, agetty, uugetty or mgetty) and I try to run kermit
> (or minicom or statserial) I get a can't open device error. Why? They
> didn't used to. Is this a new kernel feature?
On 7 Mar 1997, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> after upgrading (successfully) to libc5_5.4.20 and ld.so_1.8.9, the
> commands "dpkg -l" and "dpkg -i abc.deb" fail with the error message
> (i'm citing from memory as my machine is not connected to a network) :
>
> dpkg : cannot resolve symbol 'sysinfo'.
>
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Thought wrote:
> edit your /etc/hosts and put mybox on the line with 127.0.0.1
>
> it should then look something like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.quicklink.net mybox
this won't help nslookup at all. nslookup is specifically a DNS lookup
tool, not a generic
On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Gith wrote:
> > However, to get it to work with nslookup, add one of the following
> > lines to /var/named/named.local:
> >
> > [...deleted...]
> >
> > remember to update (increment) the serial number in both files, and
> > get named to reload its database with 'ndc reload'.
>
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote:
> > I set my system shell to zsh as well, and replaced all the /bin/bash
> > in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/zsh, but when I tried to move /bin/sh to
> > point to /usr/bin/zsh, all of the /etc/init.d/* scripts blew up.
>
> If those scripts actually require bash then w
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Okay, but how about this one. I'm on hamishpc.rising.com.au, accessing
> a web page (http://www.silcom.com/~tonkin/pointless/), but I'm IP
> masquerading via silly.rising.com.au, which isn't really called that
> at all because I'm on via my ISP who's g
Package: less
Version: 321-2
(bcc-ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Park Chu Yeon wrote:
> When 'PAGER=zless', system will not work properly, which seems to be a
> bug of 'zless'.
why use zless for your PAGER when less can automatically de-compress files
before displaying them?
t
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, val.tamarov wrote:
> I just install Linux on my PC and general purpose for that was to
> learn C++ in UNIX alike system. But I figured out that Linux does not
> have it ( or I can't find it).Please any suggestion. Any help. I'm new
> to Linux.
every Linux distribution that i
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm installing Debian 1.2.5 for a friend, on an EIDE disk (pentium
> 166). When the kernel was installed and LiLo set up, I indicated that
> I would like to boot from /dev/hda2. This was done, and Linux boots
> fine from /dev/hda2.
>
> After the fact
On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
> Subject says it all.
$ du -sck bo/binary-i386 bo/binary-all bo/source rex/binary-i386 rex/binary-all
contrib/binary non-free/binary non-us/binary-i386/
142941 bo/binary-i386
97531 bo/binary-all
243922 bo/source
127531 rex/binary-i386
58501 rex/bi
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> > Note that the order of the case statements is important...e.g. if
> > you don't have 'tar' before 'gz' then the gz line will "catch"
> > .tar.gz files and you wont get a listing.
>
> I'm not sure about this design.
The "design", if i recall correctl
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, d. nathan hood wrote:
> i am having some problems mounting a remote file system on my computer.
> i have PPP up and running and am having no problems with it, but when
> i try and mount a remote file system i get an "unknown file system error"
> the command i am using is
>
>
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Pete Poff wrote:
> I've just downloaded the Gcc Compiler version 2.7.2.2. I currently
> don't have any other compilers that I know of. I'll I've done is
> installed the newest version of Debian Linux System. The Gcc Compiler
> has to be compiled but I can't because it's my fi
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> > It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed
> > a package somewhere? Help!
>
> /dev/modem is usually a soft link
>
> for example my modem is on the 3rd port - COM3 in msdos/win
>
> ln -s /dev/cua2 /dev/modem
>
> creates the soft l
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
> > Now this IS the answer. I just downgraded one of my systems to
> > sysvinit 2.69-1, rebooted, and the corruption seems to be gone.
>
> Few weeks ago, my corruption occured with sysvinit-2.69-1. I have been
> having this same package since December
On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > /dev/cua devices are obsolete now. they are only retained for
> > backwards compatibility with old binaries.
>
> My system is still configured using /dev/cua. Is it necessary to
>
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> But that still doesn't solve the problem of viewing the Unix print
> queue from within Windows. That works with regular lpr, but not lprng.
i had no problems with the print queue when i used it on my system. this
was with win95, not win3 if that makes a
On 26 Mar 1997, Dale Martin wrote:
> The only "weird" problem that I have had with it is that I needed to
> make sure md and raid0 support were compiled into the kernel and not
> "modularized". After doing that, using "mdcreate" to make an mdtab
> entry, and adding a line to my fstab, everything
d.conf file?
e.g. if your nameservers are at 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2, then you
should have a line like:
option name-servers 192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2
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user preference, or just have aliases for some users.
In other words, THERE ARE BETTER WAYS OF DOING THIS :-)
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nvenience for CD ROM
manufacturers, it doesn't really have any significance.
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On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Christoph Martin wrote:
> - Purge all the old tex packages which are replaced by tetex. (E.g. go
> into dselect, select the tetex-packages, look which old tex packages
> are marked to be removed, purge the packages.)
>
> tetex replaces: amslatex, amstex, babel, bibtex, dvips
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> > This is perhaps indicitive of a problem with your ISP. It is strange
> > that it goes out but does not return.
>
> Gee, that's *&[EMAIL PROTECTED]& hillarious, since *I'm* the ISP and I
> configured
> the dial-up server exactly the way specified in th
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> So, looking at it all like this, it appears that the conversation goes fine
> until they agree on IP addresses. After that, the server doesn't see any
> of the client's echo requests. However, the client DOES see the single
> on that comes from the serve
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba,
> > will **NOT** work with lprng.
>
> This is nice to know
actually, it's completely untrue. samba works very well with lprng.
i'v
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> > i've got it running on my system, using lprng & magicfilter with .
> > samba no problems. it works.
>
> Not in my experience. I also tried lprng, magicfilter, and samba. I
> found the same "nonprintable" option
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote:
> > Linuxconf has some nice features but it has the serious drawback
> > that it replaces the sysvinit. This would break every single program
> > that needs to be started at boot time. Using Linuxconf would require
> > changing nearly every important pack
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:58:41PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > well, actually i had a few initial hassles getting the win95 box
> > to print with the PCL driver. Postscript worked fine (through
> > ghostscript to my HP4L), but P
On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
> Or you could just use the built in macros ^TO and ^FROM:
>
> :0
> * ^TO.*debian-user
> * ^FROM.*debian-user
> debian-user-l-inbox
>
> Since ^TO will match all the addressing mechanisms procmail can check,
> To:, Apparently-To:, Cc:, and any others it
1. what do you expect for free?
you are talking as if you have some RIGHT to DEMAND that things get
done according to YOUR needs. Nobody would mind if you politely
asked "how do i get this working?" - but you antagonise people by
demanding "your system is fucked, fix it for me!".
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> I do search and replace in Xemacs all the time. I'm fairly sure that
> regular emacs will do it too.
>
> My point is if Linux is moving forward in time why do vi-hards get
> up-in-arms about it being left out. vi is good for what it is. I
> think it should move
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, mike horansky wrote:
> vi is a modal editor, so has a much steeper learning curve than
> something like ae.
modal vs modeless isn't the only criterion for difficulty - there are
many other factors involved.
the more complex things about vi can be difficult to learn, but you
> What I missed most, and missed on years of word processors, is the
> trivially easy manner of making compound, repeated, commands.
yes, this is especially important when you consider that editing config
files often requires making substantially the same change to many lines.
the generic examp
On 9 Apr 1997, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> The ideal situation, I think, would be for dselect to have an option
> where by it can be told that certain directories are NFS mounted.
> It should then do the installation as normal, but not copy files to
> these directories (or attempt to delete them upon
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > > > lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
> > > > ppp0193.135.252.75 193.135.252.47
> > > > eth0192.168.101.1 192.168.101.2
> > [...]
> > > > The new setup should look like:
> > > >
> I use that fun awk stuff since my dialup is a dynamically assigned IP
> address.
>
why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
They are documented in the comments at the beginning of the scripts
included with the ppp .deb package:
# $Id: ip-up,v 1.1 1996/01/31 21:
On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
> I agree with Joey's original message: let's let the editor debate rest a
> bit, folks, or give it focus and a new thread name.
i disagree. I see two valuable results from the thread:
1. people get to show off neat tricks that they've learnt/figured o
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:35:15 MDT Jason Ish ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
>
> > This may be possible but I'm still getting a grasp on all the unix
> > utils. I would like dpkg to make a master list of everyfile that
> > it has installed, then have linu
.cf rules, has anyone else done
this?
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er than nobody.
also, locate can only do searches based on filename. The locate database
only stores filename and no other information.
If you do hack the /etc/cron.daily/find script, and you have more than
one person who uses the system then i'd suggest modifying the script so
th
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> > why not just use the arguments passed to /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down} by pppd?
>
> Sure, I could do that, but suppose pppd changes the order in which it
> passes parameters with the next pppd upgrade... I'll still be running,
> if I used $4, and didn't k
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > [ all my config info deleted ]
>
> Let me comment: Except for one minor flaw, those configs are working. The
> only flaw in there was, that in the setup for icemark, the route to
> firefranc
On Thu, 1 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> I updated to frozen bo and now I get email from cron saying
>
> /bin/sh: runq: command not found
>
> Anybody have this problem?
>
> When I did the upgrade I swithced from smail to sendmail.
runq is a part of smail, not sendmail.
with sendmail, just run '
On 4 May 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
> I again supplied insufficient information. When I ftp to the debian
> machine, I get an ftp prompt. If I enter a non-existant login-name, it
> then prompts for password and then refuses entry. If I enter a user
> whose name is listed via NIS, he is imme
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> panther# cd ../kdm*
> panther# pwd
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4
> panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
try putting quotes around kfdial*.
e.g.
find /usr -iname "kfdial*"
27;ll
get some more memory) . Costs a little more than the Gigabyte.
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If no option is given, then -f is assumed. Values are in 1024-byte
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some packages. There are other problems with adpkg as well.
adpkg shows a lot of promise, but it needs more work.
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there will be no
permissions problems.
The wrapper script is most useful when you have users dialing IN to your
system. diald is better when your system needs to dial out to connect to
your ISP.
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"head -6" is inadequate - sometimes there are more than 6 headers. I
don't think there is ever less than 6. Unfortunately, the 'header'
program which comes with deliver doesn't work on these fi
tenth of the time on
Linuxmostly because of the huge number of enthusiastic volunteers,
and partly because the development is driven by tech-heads who (mostly
:-) know what they're doing rather than by marketing-droids who probably
can't even set the clock on their VCRs.
C
t.
(i had a really obvious example here but decided it was better not to
post it - no point in making the clueless even more dangerous)
> to launch pppd.
>
> Note that you *can* use a wrapper script if you want, but you don't
> have to.
if you're doing it for reasons of se
On Mon, 12 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 May 1997, John Maheu wrote:
> >
> > > I'm in the market for a new motherboard. I want to run a P100 and
> > > eventually a P166. Any suggestions? W
ple less clear :-)
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aven't arrived on my mirror...maybe the intention is that altdev-libc5
provides libc5-dev to satisfy ncurses-dev's dependancy.
(*) 'stuff (noun): highly technical term meaning "thingies"' :-)
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easant and stressful.
Configuring Linux is nearly always a pleasant opportunity to learn
something new & useful about how the system works.
So, Linux is good for my health and my hair too. Less stress == more
hair. :-)
Sorry about the rant, everyone. I don't really know what relationship
thi
ften prettier than the
free stuff but usually not as stable).
Somehow I think that it would be nearly impossible to find Linux
versions of commercial s/w on the 2nd hand market.
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like:
/usr/bin/whoami >/var/run/$5
to /etc/ppp/ip-up, and add:
rm /var/run/$5
to /etc/ppp/ip-down
this is the bare minimum you need to get it working.
NOTE: these changes are untestedhowever, from my understanding of
the docs, they should work.
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