On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Igor Grobman wrote:
> I've recently installed Debian distribution. I really like it, so I'd
> like to get rid of my old slackware install, and make the Slackware
> and Debian partition into one. Is there a program out there that
> would do it.
why not just reformat the sl
I just upgraded my news box to the latest rex stuff (my mirror is freshly
updated every morning) and while doing so, discovered that i've had some
corruption on my news spool drive sometime in the last month.
i found the following files in /var/spool/news/control:
c---r- 1 8736 30054
does anyone know how i can set the default window size for netscape?
i'm getting very bored of having to resize every "new browser for this
link" window i open.
i know that it varies the size according to font chosen, but there's some
other factor involved too. While running fvwm2, i had the w
On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> ...but ever since i switched to fvwm95, new netscape windows open up
> to about 3/4 of the screen - way too big!
problem solved. The Netscape button in fvwm95's FvwmButton bar was
launching netscape with '-geometry 920x622+90+5'.
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote:
> Not that this is imoportant, but i have installed the mgetty package
> and wanted to purge the getty package, but I can't because getty is
> required. What do I need to do to get this to purge? I was hoping
> mgetty would replace agetty as the defa
Has the font used by xterm changed in the new xfree 3.2 release?
I upgraded to 3.2 from bo the day before yesterday and have found that
the nice solid font which xterm used to use has been replaced by a thin,
spidery font which is only readable in "Huge" mode on my screen.
I have the following i
There is already a postgres95 package for debian:
Package: postgres95
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Maintainer: Emanuele Pucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 1.01-1
Depends: libc5
Conffiles:
/var/lib/postgres95/pg_hba a7e0e850f5fc752d22b703c39b6eaf66
Descript
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
> Maybe I'm just spoiled by years of NEXTSTEP-- but, damnit, NEXTSTEP
> really is the most well-inntegrated user inrface *ever* built.
> Seriously.
i suppose that's a matter of personal preference.
I have to work with nextstep machines and can't stand
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
> No the point is that Qt will be used to make the Unix Desktop
> Environement. There is no goal so far to port the kde to none unix
> environments. Portability is not the issue, but nice look&feel for the
> unix desktop users.
>
> Most kde people do not
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Branden Robinson wrote:
> ./etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; ps -ax | grep syslogd; ps -ax | grep klogd
>
quick tip (totally unrelated to the syslogd problem, but useful anyway):
instead of the above line, use
./etc/init.d/sysklogd restart; ps -axc | grep syslogd\\\|klogd
my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists
writing symlinking article file -- throttling".
I've found a relevant section in /usr/doc/news/inn-faq-5, which
describes the problem and also has a fix (run 'ctlinnd renumber'), but
this is only a patchup job...in a couple of
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> You (Craig Sanders) wrote:
> > my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists
> > writing symlinking article file -- throttling".
>
> How's your disk? Do you see many ext2 erro
On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >> my news box is regularly throttling with the log message "File exists
> >> writing symlinking article file -- throttling".
>
> Try rebuilding your history file - IIRC this has worked for me (albeit
> under Solaris 2.5 rather than Linux).
yep,
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Michael Laing wrote:
> Caching works great but we also need proxy authentication. I
> am familiar with how to do this using Netscape Proxy but the
> functionality is not (yet) supported by Apache and is specifically
> excluded from the feature list for the next version (1.2).
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> use 'remote_user=.' instead. It works fine for me and I am doing
> exactly this kind of mirroring on several machines I have accounts on.
>
> The main problem I find is that the mirror program runs as root and
> therefore all the mirrored files are
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> What I need to know is, is there any magic order I need to do
> everything in? I know the last time I tried to futz with my libraries,
> my whole system *stopped* (because I "rm"ed the old libraries before
> copying in the new ones. I guess "cp" was linke
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Paul Christenson wrote:
> There is something that I've been wondering.. Why is everyone so
> fascinated with modules? I acknowledge that they have their uses, but
> how many people really need to UNLOAD a module once it's loaded?
>
> If you need it, compile it into the kernel,
I'd submit the following as a bug report, but i don't know what
package/version to assign it to.
IMO that should be documented on the installation disks, a notice saying
"if you find any bugs then send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the
following details:."
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, CoB SysAdmin wrote:
> I've got four modems that people can use to dial into my linux machine.
> I keep the standard defaults in a file called "options.std.dialin", and
> then I've got four files that merely read like so:
>
> --
> # Set IP address...
> :xxx.yyy.zz
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a
> > machine to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master
> > boot record.
>
> Can you figure out why?
no, the only thing remaining for me to try is to NOT use the Maximise
optio
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > > MBR doesn't work for me. No matter what I do, I can not get a machine
> > > to boot linux from the hard disk if MBR is in the master boot record.
> >
> > Can you figure out why?
>
> What BIOS do
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it
> > difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible
> > if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy
> > disk.
>
> Don't know what yo
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> I've been experimenting with the commercial Wingz product.
> They have a shareware version available at sunsite.unc.edu.
> Very nice!
yes, i'll second that. Wingz is very nice. it's very similar to the
original Macintosh Wingz too...
craig
--
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Ioannis Tambouras wrote:
> Is it possible to load two ne.o modules with different io=
> options ?
>
> This computer is multihomed to two ethernets. I like to be able to
> configure the interfaces like this:
>
>eth0 with ne.o io=0x240 , interupt 15
>and eth1 wi
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> Some people are against using linuxconf, personally I'm for it, but I
> don't have enough time to try to build the tools neccesart for it b/c
the biggest problem with linuxconf is that it replaces sysvinit.
Linuxconf has some really nice features and s
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Chad Zimmerman wrote:
> Was just wondering if there is a package out that does multiple file
> search and replaces? I have to go through my main html directory and
> make a lot of repetive changes. Was wondering if there was a package
> or a perl script laying arround to do th
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
> > the biggest problem with linuxconf is that it replaces sysvinit.
> > Linuxconf has some really nice features and seems like a
> > comprehensive configuration system BUT even if it was 10 times as
> > good it still wouldnt be worth losing sysvinit.
>
> W
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote:
> > wd io=0x280 irq=5
> >
> > This loads the driver module at boot time for my wd8003 card - they're
> ...
>
>Is there a syntax listing for the /etc/modules file somewhere? I'm
> running a 3c509.
co
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Matthew Stone wrote:
> Hmm.. I am having some problems with innd.. it seems that my innd when
> I try to run the daemon.. it doesn't stay in memory for some reason
> and there for when I run my news problem it can't connect..
read the logs in /var/log/news - innd is quite v
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was
> any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of
> sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends
> on bash (<<2.0.1). When using ftp I have c
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote:
> > > Any idea what i'd need? Right now, mine says:
> > >
> > > #auto
> > > 3c509
> > > sg
>
> > Try removing the '#' from the '#hash' line. See if that makes any
> > difference.
>
>What #hash line?
oops. sorry, i meant '#auto'
>Well, despite the fact
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote:
> > properly. Now I'm having a similar problem, except instead of not being
> > loaded, it's being loaded every five minutes. An excerpt from my messages
>
> > Okay, now does anyone have a good idea as to how to suppress it? :)
>
> The three ways I
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Seth Reinosa wrote:
> My church is building an intranet (Lord willing). We are going to have
> @ 5 macs with localtalk and the localtalk server connected to a PC
> runnning linux. Can I have the Linux beast connected directly to the
> Mac toy with a single rj45 cable or do I
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
> > I am currently using a debian system to masquerade all the traffic
> > from my high school's win95 lan to the internet. This is ok for a
> > temporary manner, but my school wants me to implement a way to track
> > where all the students are going, can't
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John T. Larkin) writes:
> >
> > > This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run
> > > since they couldn't find the libraries. They had installed a bunch
> > > of X packages, so one of the packages should have b
On 21 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Craig writes:
> > If you dont have a good net connection, I'd recommend getting a
> > freshly burned CD with unstable on it once a month and upgrading
> > from that.
>
> In other words, if you don't have plenty of money, don't use Debian.
not at all. 'i
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Lars Hallberg wrote:
> Do anyone know how to configur MH nowdays or how to get smail to REWRITE the
> From: field?
it's been a while since i last used smail but i think what you are looking
for is the "visible_hostname" (or is it "visible_name"?) field in
/etc/smail/config
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
> It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on
> pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What
> I mean is that after installation of RedHat you have a more or less
> pre-tailored system setup. You can start
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > If someone is going to evaluate an entire distribution on a prompt
> > (even if there are other factors), I'm not going to be upset if they
> > don't choose Debian.
>
> I'm no talking about just the prompt. We're talking about good
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Jim Fetters wrote:
> problem: modem on /dev/cua2 is slow. when you type, it takes 5-7
> seconds to get an echo back from the AT commands on modem.
>
> symptoms: modem works fine when i boot into windows 95, also modem
> worked great under Slackware 2.0 (my previous install).
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
> > > Debian comes up in a much "rawer" form after install - for
> > > instance, no prompt beyond the basic "#" for root and "$" for the
> > > user (RedHat gives you the now famous "username /home/username$"
> > > prompt).
> >
> > # and $ are standard/
On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ed writes:
> > ...once I had a working system of X/lesstif/latex/gcc and a lot of
> > utils I couldn't see the point in upgrading.
>
> That's fine if you never intend to add any new packages. If you do,
> eventually you will be forced to upgrade do to cha
On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote:
> *All* of this, except those things about default prompts,
> are done by the LinuxConf project, a very cool system manager
> for Linux. See at:
>
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/
>
> It seems that someone is packaging LinuxConf. This softw
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > actually, it's completely untrue. samba works very well with lprng.
>
> lprng has removed the possibility to automatically remove Files after
> printing. This is however necessary
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Solomani wrote:
> When i first initialise two brand new 4.5 gig IBM HD i get this error
>
> badblocks: cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
> writing inode tables: 256/265mkfs.ext2 cant resolve symbol 'llseek'
>
> ideas?
>
> suggestions?
>
> solutions?
hmmm. that's an old problem
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Scott Barker:
> > You might want to consider saving some of the junkmail (perhaps
> > a database holding about 5Meg worth of junkmail), and send each
> > spammer a copy of each o f those junk mails, just so they know
> > how it feels :) Preface each one
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
>
> > Lars Wirzenius said:
> >
> > > Don't do that. Mail bombing is worse than junk mail.
> >
> > But it's not a bomb. You're just helping the spammer along by
> > showing him a bunch of examples of other people's
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this:
> > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints
> > the entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with
On Wed, 1 May 1996, Brian K Servis wrote:
> When booting I get the following errors when calculating dependencies.
>
> *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c501.o
> *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/modules/1.2.13/net/3c509.o
> *** Unresolved symbols in module /lib/module
On Wed, 1 May 1996, David Engel wrote:
> > > The problem is that the links /usr/bin/cpp and /lib/cpp don't come
> > > with gcc. If gcc really gives everything, it should give these
> > > symlinks as well.
> >
> > I think they now do in the very latest version, released yesterday.
>
> That's right,
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Eggleston wrote:
>
> > For those following this thread, someone else has been helping
> > me off the list and figured out I didn't have a 'nobody' in my
> > /etc/passwd file.
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
> > what package does uugetty come with?
>
> uugetty is part of getty-ps which is not (yet?) available as a
> debian-package. I use version getty_ps-2.0.7h and had to fix some
> pieces to comply with the FSSTND.
Here's a suggestion:
If you're going to
On Mon, 6 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bernd> Hi, perhpas somebody can help me. How do I tell mirror the Tiezone
> Bernd> of the Remote Host? If I want to mirror master, ftp and a german
> Bernd> site mirror alway compares different times. Any good solutions?
>
> That has been buggi
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote:
> Try using `fping' on your network gateway host. e.g.:
>
> if fping -q $GWHOST
> then
> popclient ...
> fi
>
> Or, if you prefer compactness (also good for crontabs):
>
> fping -q $GWHOST && popclient ...
>
> Substituting $GWHOST with the nam
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> > "R" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
> R> and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter.
> R> Why do you want it to be able to run it not
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> > Maybe there should be an 'unsupported' directory for packages which
> > have been released but don't have an active maintainer...or is this
> > what 'contrib' is for? Also, allow any package in 'unsupported' can be
> > adopted by anyone who takes th
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> > This permissions problem just cost me over $44 (australian dollars).
> >
> > I upgraded pppd on the dialin machine at work on Friday night.
> > Forgot to change the permissions on pppd to make it owned by
> > root.ppp, perms=1750.
> >
> > When th
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Billy Chow wrote:
> On my 93R6, fmt (elv-fmt 1.8pl4-19) dumps core whenever I do `!}fmt'
> in vi (elv-vi 1.8pl4-19). Anyone else has this trouble? Any ideas
> how may I find out what's wrong.
I haven't seen this problem (I don't use fmt), but maybe you should have
a look a
On Fri, 10 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I've just tested netscape without the overriding translations and it
> works fine, with just keycode 22 = BackSpace.
>
> However, this is only true if I invoke it from the shell. If it's
> invoked from fvwm backspace doesn't work, with or without the
On Wed, 8 May 1996, Nick Busigin wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 1996, Rob Leslie wrote:
>
> > To receive mail directly from the outside, you need to have
> > a host or domain name for which mail will be routed to your
> > machine. Sometimes this involves an MX record pointing to your
> > machine. It assu
On 14 May 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> It's find that does the replacing. None of the {}s are in the find
> arguments, however. (And rm is not even in the xargs arguments!)
>
> Personally, I'd probably make a script for the split-and-remove, but
> it should also work with a shell function.
A fu
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> > 2. make fvwm run your script rather than netscape. Edit your
> > .fvwmrc and put in the full pathname to your netscape script.
>
> That's what I did.
Strange. It should work then.
> > #! /bin/bash
>
> I used sh, it's the same in debian.
Tru
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> > I installed fvwm2 but still get the xterm that comes as the default.
>
> If you start X with 'xinit' or 'startx' and do _not_ have an X startup
> script in your home directory, you will be punished by being presented with
> an X term that could
On Tue, 14 May 1996, eckes wrote:
> > Simply remove the S* links from the rc?.d
>
> I had a similar problem. If I install a package and move its cronjob
> from cron.weekly to cron.dayly, will the cron-file be replaced on an
> update? Wouldnt it be better to store all cron scripts in cron.d
> lik
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > try my script and see if it makes any difference. Maybe the
> > variables DO have to be explicitly exported.
>
> They do. Otherwise they're only seen in the shell and not in any
&
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > yeah, but isn't "CFLAGS=-O2 make" the same as "export CFLAGS=-O2 ;
> > make" as far as make is concerned?
> yes.
>
> > Carlos' script should have work
On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by
> > root.ppp and it should be mode 1750.
>
> Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and used
> by (at least) dip and efax.
I suppose that would do the j
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> > When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu
> > system? Is there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start
> > the xserver either as root or as a user, but I can't seem to do
> > both. Once root cranks up the xserver, how do
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> OK. This tells sudo that me and root (also me) can execute anything
> on any machine. Also, everyone can execute pppd. You could of course
> clamp this down to a list of users.
or just have a ppp group and configure sudo to allow users in group ppp
ex
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> I always thought that 'dpkg -l' was supposed to show you all *installed*
> packages, but, when I do a: dpkg -l 'ncurses*' on my system, I get:
>
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> I think `net' would be a good group name for this.
I don't like that. 'net' is far too general. A group name like 'net'
would be used by a sysadmin for something like making all net clients
(telnet, ftp, irc, etc) group net, and executable only
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Olaf Erb wrote:
> Ok, recompiling isn't a big job, but I'd like to know which other
> packages are still a.out. Is there a quick way to recognise them?
file /bin/* /usr/bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* | grep MAGIC
Will list all of the binaries which are still a.out. Then us
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> Craig Sanders said:
> > On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Can we make that "dialout", please? Something already present and
> > > used by (at least) dip and efax.
> >
> > I suppose that
On Fri, 17 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> > How are routing and/or arp table entries for the dial-in ppp user
> > handled?
>
> I use the 'proxyarp' option, and it seems to work just fine. No need
> to set up routes if the PPP address is on the same subnet as the rest
> of your equipment.
I thou
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Jeffrey Ebert wrote:
> I think you misunderstood Ian's statement. Once again, you are
> complaining (rather harshly, I might add) without volunteering to
> write code. Ian has a lot of responsibilities, and he performs them
> well. Like Raul, I think that you or others could
On Sun, 19 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
> I just installed the debianized tin version 1.3 on my system, and the
> executable was 1.4Meg! I stripped it, which reduced it to about 500k,
> but that still seems large.
I've already reported this as a bug against tin.
tin was statically linked.
S
ping
is the list still alive?
On Wed, 22 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This appears to contain the standard kernel release source tree but
> has a number of additional things (such as a nifty Tcl/Tk GUI for
> kernel configurations).
"make xconfig" and "make menuconfig" are a standard part of the linux
kernel now...has
On Thu, 23 May 1996, Fundamental wrote:
> where is this file kept?
/etc/lynx.cfg
Craig
On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried the procedure you (and a couple of others) suggested. I currently
> have debian 0.93R6 installed and am trying to compile the kernel from
> devel/source-1.3.64-0.deb
You've got the wrong kernel version. These instructions only apply to
On Thu, 23 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The hard part is doing the initial upgrade from 0.93r6 to 1.1 -
>
> Is doing a slow upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 a better idea than trying a
> clean installation of 1.1?
that depends on whether or not you've got data and config files you want
to kee
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Steve Preston wrote:
>
> Ok! We are narrowing the field.
>
> The above command locks up the terminal big time, but...
>
> stty cs7 cstopb
>
> fixes it!
>
> Now the question is: How do I get login to leave the stop bits alone?
> I
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Fundamental wrote:
> The only thing that could be the problem (?) is that i have a softlink
> from my mailbox in /var/spool to my home directory (because my / is
> full)
You probably should have partitioned the disk so that /var and/or
/var/spool were separate partitions. T
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rob Leslie wrote:
> > (2) Sendmail:
> > Something about file-locking conventions. Does the debian
> > sendmail package obey this? I remember something unconventional
> > about the debian package.
>
> The newest sendmail packages have been compiled to use flock()
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> I can't quite get nfs going for some reason. I had it going quickly
> under the 1.2 kernel (i have 2 machines sitting here).
>
> I uncommented everything in /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs. I added / to
> exports. I added ALL: .iastate.edu to hosts.allow.
>
>
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> I love the kernel-package thing; but the other day I used it to
> install a kernel and the vmlinuz.old kernel was not in boot (I deleted
> it accidentally).
>
> The system would not boot -- may I humbly suggest that the install
> process for the genera
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Noam Rettig wrote:
> I have msdos on /dev/hda1 and linux on /dev/hda2. I know that lilo
> can be configured to boot with either one at startup by pressing the
> TAB key. How can I add the DOS image to my startup.
in /etc/lilo.conf
other = /dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> This is the wrong forum, but you can use a skeleton key or credit card.
>
> There are many references for this game on the net such as the nethack
> home page: http://www.win.tue.nl/games/roguelike/nethack/. One thing
> worth mentioning on debian
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I've just upgraded (or tried to upgrade) the rest of my packages to
> Debian 1.1. and noticed that sendmail 8.7.5-4 still contains QMAGIC
> binaries.
>
> Does anyone know if this is intentional or should I report it as a
> bug?
Something went wrong wit
On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> this was also the case. there were a handful of files that somehow lost
> their execute permissions.
>
> I reinstalled from the latest version of the boot disks, changed the
> 127.0.0.0 problem, uncommented the daemons, and all was well.
>
> (hmm, how
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
> What are the sizes and times on your binary?
$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 235864 May 7 14:44 /usr/sbin/sendmail
$ file /usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail: setuid ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1,
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dermot Bradley wrote:
> > - Harvester Caching Daemon
>
> Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's
> a few version behind.
I hope to release a new version of squid sometime in the coming week.
> > - procmail with Full Sendmail Integ
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > - Harvester Caching Daemon
> >
> > Look at Squid instead - an old version can be found in rex/unstable. It's
> > a few version behind.
> Never heard of Squid. Speedwise I have seen no other software that could
> compete with Harve
On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Jimen Ching wrote in debian-user:
> And one more thing, I have a wish list. It would be nice if the install
> procedure does not waste it's time testing each an every package in a
> directory and displaying it. I.e. dpkg -iGROEB goes through the entire
> directory and displa
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Warwick HARVEY wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me how to _Permanently_ change the hostname on my
> > machine ???
> >
> > If I issue the hostname command: hostname newname
> >
> > the node name is set to newname - HOWEVER after a reboot the
> > original name returns.
>
> The ho
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of
> > pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate
> > through the list of selected packages.
>
> The information is already in dpkg's status areas.
>
> If you take the first
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Tim 'The Unslept' Sailer wrote:
> I recompiled the 2.0.11 to include the aic7xxx drivers and the PCI
> support, swapped everything over, watched as the system booted, and
> watched the errors scroll across the screen... [...deleted...]
>
> Does *anyone* have a clue as to what
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, David C Winters wrote:
> I've got approximately 50 machines I need to build. My best option
> for the initial system build, unless I've missed something, would be
> to run deselect on one machine, then take a deselect-generated file
> containing my selections and exporting tha
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
> I currently do not have an account on master.debian.org, but I have
> sent Bruce Perens the files, and he has been kind enough to upload
> them for me, so they should be appearing on the mirrors soon.
great! useful program...
does it do it's own sound
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote:
> Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single
> user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't
> get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original
> install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted
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