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>On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jean-Paul LACHARME wrote:
>
...
>> For example, it has been said that running a color Xterm (which is very conv
>enient) needs only to add the line 'Xterm*customization: -color'. OK. So, I c
>reated a .Xdefaults file into my home directory with this sing
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wro
>t
>e:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I just installed the unstable version on my computer. Everything seems
>>fine bu tthere is one problem . I have my innitab file sending the
>>contents of /tmp/messages to /dev/tty8 . Additionally I have
>>the syslog.conf file sending so
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>> "Elie" == Elie Rosenblum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
...
>>>
>>> Well, I know of this fatal sig 11 thing, but, $%!"#$"#$%"%", it
>>> worked before on
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I am about to buy a new machine. Gateway 2000 is attractive, but
>it uses a 2mb Matrox card (model not specified, and the salesman
>doesn't know) standard, and offers STB ViRGE /VX 4 and 8 mb cards as
>options. The latest Hardware-HOWTO I have found
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Slackware _does_ have a package tool (called, I believe, pkgtool :-)
>albeit simpler (less sophisticated, less capable) than those of
>Debian or Redhat.
>Also Slackware _does_ have interim upgrades, both for new software
>versions and to fix security ho
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
[ snip ]
Note also, that you are overlooking
>the possibility of upgrading a 1.2 system to bo. This is also a method
>that needs testing, and it doesn't depend on the installation disk
>directory.
Speaking of which, I've upgraded quite a few packag
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>Hi all,
>
...
>> Apr 1 21:05:52 zanzy pppd[351]: Serial line is looped back.
...
>What does this mean?(*) What can I do to prevent it?
Usually happens when
a) you forgot to send "ppp" command to your ISP (ie. common
login sequence is to to send username,
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
...
> If we use the "/usr/packages/*" method, though, we can separate
>installation into two steps. The maintainer supplies normal install
>scripts that handles everything under "/usr/packages//".
>It runs as, say, user "tool", group "bin". After that's f
I can't help you with the *.deb package nor 3.5.17, but I've used 3.5.18
for some time without any problems -- compiled from upstream sources and
installed in /usr/local.
It creates mc.hot, mc.hot.bak and mc.ini in my ~ -- no "10".
FWIW I just finished compiling 3.5.22.
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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>>Ok, the alternative is that the script uses the information provided
>>inside the package, which is precisely what we have now [...]
>
> With the exception that the package doesn't muck with the rest of the
>filesystem directly. It has to go through a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>>>>>> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an
>>> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks
&
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
>Everytime after I reboot, attempts to print via lprng's lpr will fail
>with the following message:
>
>Apr 8 23:57:43 raven Receive_job[226]: lp: Lockf: lock '/var/spool/lpd/lp/hfA
>225raven' open failed - Permission denied
>
Check the permissions on /d
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style
>authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
>guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* *
>password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now th
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Hi all,
I'va an annoying problem with exmh: it won't sign my messages.
After I change path to .signature in "Preferences" it [usually,
but not always] complains about "bogus execute permission on
.signature" once, and then just silently refuses to sign
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Adam Shand writes:
>> This is *just* to get newbies installed and working. I'd do something
>> like have 3 options.
...
>> ...and a full install ( the two before plus X windows).
>
>Thus the the true newbie, who wants most of all to dial up her ISP and u
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Pete Harlan writes:
>
> > * fvwm2 blew away my /etc/X11/fvwm2 configuration files with empty
> > ones, without asking or warning me.
I thought that was fixed long ago...
> My menus are all scrogged. It keeps changing my fixes when I reboot
>too, I think
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
>MOre than once I have tried compiling C source on linux, using gcc,
>that generated alot of error messages, including many concerning
>backslashes at the ends of lines.
...
>Can anyone provide the slightest clue? What's special about MSDOG
>source cod
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
> But now something keeps adding a DestroyMenu MainMenu to
>the "/etc/X11/fvwm2/menudefs.hook" file, so my premainmenu.hook stuff
>gets wiped out by it. It started after the last upgrade, to the BETA
>version. I have `bug` reported it.
That's one o
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
>In the booklet I got with my motherboard is stated that my board needs an
>extra "16K*8-15" chip to cache memory > 64 MB. You can rip this off any
>spare 486 board you have lingering around, I think... if you're looking
>for it in shops, stay looking
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>>>>>> "Dima" == Dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>Dima> Anyway, it also depends on the m/b chipset, eg. on pentium
>Dima> boards all three chipsets support >64M but only one (HX I
&g
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>On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Dima wrote:
>
>> Nope, you can't rip it off any board. It's a tag chip and they come
>
>oh :( When I bought my mobo I had the choice of spending $30 (50
>guilders) extra for 256KB cache plus the
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
... the file that he was looking for was probably autoconf.h --- it's
>required by files such as /usr/include/linux/config.h. autoconf.h is
>generated by the kernel as part of the "make config" process.
/usr/include/linux/autoconf.h is 56 bytes and contai
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
>crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
>I've noticed that when I do a "Make Xconfig" to build a kernel the
>selection to enable java support (CONFIG_BINFM
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
>4) Do some creative addition or multiplication to calculate how much
>additional space to alot in each partiton beyond present usage (crystal
>ball-land.)
In particular, think about apps that use /tmp -- gcc does, and if your /tmp
is on small root par
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Hi.
I've upgraded my box to hamm and now I've couple of questions:
1. I can see that module paths have changed in /etc/conf.modules
(modutils-2.1.34) but what am I supposed to do to make depmod
work?
2. I rather liked fvwm2's main-menu-post.hook --
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Jason Ish wrote:
>>
>> When you are installing Debian just make sure all your Linux partitions
>> are on hdb(whatever) then make a boot floppy, but don't try to make it
>> boot from the hard disk until you know more about Lilo. I've using
>> Li
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
>I ran into this too... are you getting an empty modules.dep after running
>depmod -a?
>
>The fix is to edit conf.modules like this:
The package installs new conf.modules with correct paths. With it
depmod -a says modprobe: error reading ELF header: N
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
...
>I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install
>session (appart from the possibly wrong error message)
... If the
>lock is held by someone else, this call returns
>-1 and sets errno to EACCES or EA
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>> modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
>
>The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files.
Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you
using?
Dimitri
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>Did you remove misc/NET_MISC_MODULES or whatever it is?
Thanks. I overlooked this one.
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>i just tried to make the modules by hand and then install them with
>'make modules_install' (instead of using make-kpkg) and none of the
>*_MODULES files were copied to /lib/modules/2.x.x. make-kpkg
>explicitly copies these files to that directory ...
Yes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would
>make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take
>any more steps.
Bruce,
are you sure you aren't asking about Yet Another Widget Set Project(tm)?
Dimitri
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> y
ou wrote:
>What's the best way to extract a dynamic IP for emailing to a remote site.
Have a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up. Local IP address is $4 to ip-up:
echo $4 > /wherever/MYIPADDRESS.
HTH
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you wrote:
>
>I'll be damned. If it was a snake it would have bit the shit out of me.
>I have skipped over that file I don't know how many times, thinking it was
>another connect script.
It's a great place to run stuff like netdate and fetchmail/popclient from
(i
You wrote:
>On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +, Sam Ockman wrote:
...
>> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
...
>It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
>disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
>should be a
You wrote:
>Rick Jones:
>>
>> Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I
>> wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would
>> be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of
>> that security hole? I know a programmer
You wrote:
>
>Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be
>called PNP by some.
Mine is a ESS, and Intel's pnptool won't configure it either, if that's
what you mean. I run its config utility from dos and then use loadlin
to boot linux.
In my case the problem went
You wrote:
...
>But everytime I start X I'm stuck with the 1284 mode and I want to use
>the 1024*768 mode.
1. CTRL+ALT+ switches X to next videomode, CTRL+ALT+
-- previous.
2. You can edit XF86Config by hand. Start X on one virtual console and
'ae /etc/X11/XF86Config' on another (ALT+F7 gives
...
>
>However, as Rick says, all it takes is one cracker.
^^
Oops, I think I mixed my sources
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You wrote:
>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>A colleague of mine is having some trouble installing ncsa on a dialup
>debian machine to use for dwww. Given it is a dialup machine and therefore
>has no valid DNS entry, how can he get around this? Any help is gratefully
>appreciated. Cheers, Coli
You wrote:
...
>Another strange thing I noticed after the upgrade was that, while
>booting, syslogd takes pretty long to come up (about 5 - 10 s). (That is
>after 'syslogd' has been printed on the screen it takes at least that
>amount of time until something happens and 'klogd' is printed. Any idea
You wrote:
>Well, it seems that the current Lyx package is still looking for Xforms,
>not Xforms0. As I said in my original message, I already installed
>Xforms0 but Lyx insists in having Xforms.
>
>Given that Xforms0 is already installed, is there a way to force dpkg to
>configure Lyx? (I tried --
You wrote:
...
> When I got all of my option files and connect script in place, I tried it.
> It
> has been failing miserably.
Q.1. Can you connect with 'pon'? If yes, the problem would be in
diald/pppd interaction, else it's in the chatscript.
I don't use diald, but I remember that with it
You wrote:
>I just upgraded to modutils 2.1.34, hoping it would correctly
>analyze the dependencies of my /lib/modules/misc directory (for example);
>instead depmod -a gives me
>
>modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory
>
>if the misc directory (from the kernel version, ie
>p
>Hi Gabriele,
>
>although I don't own a cdrom drive with a proprietary interface I think
>that the key might be to give the "coordinates" of the drive (i.e. io
>port and interrupt) at boot time.
>
>Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to be more precisely. Perhaps someone
>else can shed more light on
>>>"Civ Kevin F. Havener" wrote:
>A sort of novice question:
>
>I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and
>from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this?
Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course it
won'
>>>Brian White wrote:
>> >I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and
>> >from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this?
>>
>> Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course i
>t
>> won't tell you that
>>>Matthew Tebbens wrote:
>
>I'm using xinetd(xinetd.conf).
>In xinetd.conf I have the following defaults for all services:
>defaults
>{
>log_type= SYSLOG daemon
>log_on_success = PID HOST EXIT DURATION
>log_on_failure = HOST ATTEMPT RECORD
>}
>
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... With this config, gpm creates pseudo
>mouse data on /dev/gpmdata. Then I have /dev/mouse linked to
>/dev/gpmdata, and I can point all other programs (X, dosemu, etc) to
>/dev/mouse (configured as mouse systems).
My mouse is configured like that and I found
>>>I wrote:
>Sorry to rtmf, but `man 5 xinetd.conf` will tell you all you need.
Oops, a typo ^
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>>Jim Pick wrote:
>
>I've never done this myself (setting up PPP from just the base system).
>Does anyone have a no-fail recipe for doing this that would be suitable
>for the FAQ?
Probably not -- because there are 2 possible easy setups (pap & chap) and
lots of difficult ones (text logins.)
>>Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I sent this message several days ago, but saw no responses so I'm
>suspecting I mailed it improperly. If the original message was posted,
>then sorry for the double post.
I've seen it several days ago -- probably nobody knows the answer. :-(
Perhaps try
>>Ralph Winslow wrote:
>I've recently added a 1Mb memory module to my Trident TGUi 9440 vid
>card, giving a totla of 2Mb. I'd done this with the expectation that I
>could then use 600x800x2 (16-bit color = 2 bytes) = 96 which is <
>1Mb. But when I try this (forcing 600x800 in XF86Config)
>>Ralph Winslow wrote:
...
>> Did you try 24/32 bpp?
>
>Yes, I got them by default, but + and - (+ and -
>on numeric
>keypad) don't seem to be working.
They only switch screen resolutions, not colour depth. Colour depth is
in /etc/XF86Config -- by default it's 8 bpp, unless 8 bpp entry i
>>Anthony Campbell wrote:
...
>I REALLY don't what to start a flame war : ) ...
then cancel your posting
... but I'd like to know why
>people would want to do this...
Because they want to. People are free to switch from RH to
Debian whenever they want (errm, not sure about the other way
ro
Mike Patterson wrote:
>
...
> So my questions are:
> * Can I have two ne-2000 compatible cards in the same system?
You can stop other drivers from probing i/o ports and tell them which
port to use as well, so it doesn't have to be 2 ne2k's -- other cards
will do, too. Some ne2k's have
" Raymond A. Ingles" wrote:
>
> With the ESS 16-bit sound cards about $20 cheaper than the SB16 stuff,
> I'd consider getting one. How good is the ESS support under Linux?
ESS are supported by SB16 driver. They don't sound too well, especially
midi, but I suspect SB16 won't sound much bette
Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote:
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You gotta be kidding! Did you HAVE to CC install.html to the list?
Please consider sending a URL next time.
TIA
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Ms. Geek wrote:
>
> > Are there still any pitfalls to using Debian Linux with the K5 chip or any
> > of the other hardware I mentioned above? Eventually I plan on upgrading to
>
> I dont know about any other hardware, but I am running Debian o
Rob MacWilliams wrote:
...
> My ISP has a 10 min. no activity timer once I am logged in and have
> done something, so I just grab the mail every 9 min. Your ping should
> work fine and grabbing the mail every 10 sec. is a little excessive.
> If I were you I would contact your ISP and ask them
Bruce Perens wrote:
> Never mind my previous answer. Tell dselect:
>
> Enter Debian Directory: /pub/debian/dists/unstable
>
> Distributions to get: main contrib non-free
( this should probably go to developers list )
Bruce, it doesn't work. It'll either find packages files during Access
a
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
...
> Have you tried this one? Works for me (dpkg-ftp 1.4.9).
I think so [1]. It works now, thanks.
[1] What happened is new Packages.* files made it crosslink before
packages themselves did. So, I was getting heaps of "no such file OR
directory" messages during install
David Wright wrote:
> Perhaps there's some history here. I installed Debian 1.3 on a 1997
> pentium and setserial -a /dev/ttyS? all say that baud_base is 115200
> and Flags: spd_normal...
> Both mgetty and minicom will satisfactorily handle 115200, so all this
> messing with spd_vhi se
Peter Bodnar wrote:
...
>
> I know this, but learn key don't work correctly...but some weeks ago
> somebody wrote about patch on MC
>
You have to use terminfo file supplied with mc for xterm. It then breaks
all ncurses packages -- dselect, ncftp etc.
(RT mc docs, description of how to
JD Thomlinson wrote:
> Nuts! I'm damn glad that you sent what you sent to the list!
> Considering how much space is already wasted on irrelevant
> flame wars on who's in charge of what and in what manner,
> it's refreshing to see useful, detailed information about
> real code and what's goi
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Hi,
I've an interesting X problem and I'm out of ideas.
Any help much appreciated, TIA.
Problem: I install any xlib-3.3-[ > 5 ] (running hamm)
and I can't startx as a user. I can if I specify full
path to server (i.e. startx -- /usr/X11R6/bin/X) but
t
Karsten Bolding wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> When I start Netscape (v. 4.03) as root - no problems, when I do the same as
> an ordinary user I get a segmentation fault. I compared the output from 's
> trace /usr/local/netscape/netscape' the root started version links to /usr/
> lib/libc5-compat/*
Lance Levsen wrote:
>
> Oh yeah, on other thing. The last filter should be to your +inbox. and shoul
> d
> be generic:
>
> :0
> *
> |/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +inbox
>
> This allows anything that failed all tests to get dumped into the inbox
> instead of the bit bucket (or where ever el
Funny, I got one of those too last time I posted to debian-user.
What's up (and who tf is dodo)? Pete?
> >
> >|- Failed addresses follow: -|
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... transport smtp: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User
> > unknown
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Thalia L. Hooker wrote:
> Hi,
>
...
> I tried the kernel package and compilation went fine except it didn't seem
> to compile any of the new modules even though I requested SCSI support,
> SCSI disk support, and the driver AHA152x. I say this because when I
> noticed it had not detected an
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 1997 at 11:52:59AM +0100, Egon Schmid wrote:
> > > Ever since I upgraded to XFree86 3.3 (in unstable), netscape won't run.
> > > First it complains that it can't find XKeysymDB, so I set that
> > > environment variable; then I get a bus error.
> >
> >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How do I interpret this kernel debugging output?
> How do I learn to interpret kernel debugging output?
> How do I fix my system so I don't need to learn to interpret kernel
> debugging output?
By UTSL'ing; however
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at
Apologies to Raul and everyone who got bounces from me.
I upgraded fetchmail to 4.3.2-1 and did some rtfm'ing -- that
helped. New fetchmail wants to be told where to deliver mail:
add eg. "smtphost localhost" to your .fetchmailrc. Don't forget
to check if your MTA knows "localhost" is "this box
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I received this last night:
>
>Excessive lack of response to LCP echo frames
>connection terminated
In /etc/ppp/options there's a number of lcp-echo* options.
Comment them out.
>What does this mean?
ppp sends out echo-requests to see if the link is up
> Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>
>how do you configure Internet explore dialer? I understand you type in the
>phone number and what else? DO you specify it needs pap authorization?
>May be your ISP uses chap (hardly probable), not pap?
You also type in username and password. AFAIK it does PAP by default
> Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
>It just occurred to me that I haven't set anything for PPP to tell it an
>initial route to the world, other than including the nameserver IP's in
>/etc. Is there something I should be setting in /etc/options_out?
It sets up the route automagically. However, if you want i
> David Stern wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My fetchmail, sendmail, and procmail configuration has passed initial
>testing for use with ppp and imap (my isp recomends imap over pop3),
>though it's not been automated or tweaked as of yet.
>
>I have one important issue to resolve: when I view my email in exmh (57
>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> loading linux ...
> uncompressing Linux ... [there was nothing like "Done"]
> crc error
> --system halted
Same here. It seems that current rescue disk is broken
(I tried 2 flopies, checked 'em with ndd etc.)
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>>Dan Hugo wrote:
[ quantum fireball overheated ]
I've an older fireball that did the same thing: overheat and pack up.
I ended up putting a spare PS fan in the box (full towers have their
pluses :) to cool it down -- that fixed it.
(Spinning it down with hdparm also fixed it in linux; unfortunate
>>Dale Scheetz wrote:
>My ppp connection is to an ISP that is willing to provide me with a
>"static" IP address, allowing me to be the same address every time I
>connect.
>I have been asked by a friend to help set up his machine for ppp, but his
>ISP will only provide a "dynamic" IP address. I
>>joost witteveen wrote:
...
>:0
>exec /usr/local/bin/check_sender
>/dev/null
>
>(where /usr/local/bin/check_sender would be started with the current
>email as stdin, and if check_sender returns "true" (0), mail would
>be saved in /dev/null (or another file -- probably /dev/null doesn't
>wo
>>Rick Hawkins wrote:
>
>wow, that was fast :)
>
>I've downloaded it, and read the docs. I compiled the kernel with
>support for these devices.
>
>They will go on a machine with 3 200m ide drives, which will be a poor-man's
>server. My current thinking is to mount / on the first control
>> > stealth vram (#124), which is an S3. I've set it for 432 under 8 bits,
>> > and 32 under 16 (1mb vram).
^^^
Do you mean you have 1 Mb VRAM on the card? Then it can't do
better then 800x600x16 bpp (800x600x2 / 1024^2 = 0.92 Mb.)
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>>Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm running Debian 1.3 with some packages from unstable (aka hamm),
>eg. libc6, xfree 3.3 and several packages depending on it. I noticed
>the following (minor) problems:
>
>1) DOSEmu
>I installed DOSEmu 0.66.6
[ snip ]
>DOSEmu complains about missing "hdim
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Hi,
anyone knows what/where do I edit to change the font
exmh uses to display text/enriched?
-- it's not in on-line help and I thought I'd better
ask before going through the fine manuals...
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>>Paul Wade wrote:
>I have a problem in that spammers who got busted are trying for revenge by
>posting in usenet as [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.
>
>I am getting a lot of junk mail and complaints from people who can't read
>headers and see the obvious.
>
>I have 2 questions:
>
>1) Where can I a
>>John Foster wrote:
>On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
>> > > This is not readable by an editor. Is there something special about th
>e
>> > > .gz??
>> >
><>
>> (Funny how an non-Debian specific question still generates so many
>> responses on this list!)
>
>Not really
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I'm sure FIPS does a good job for a one off re-size of a partition, but
>> I've never used it, so I wouldn't like to comment.
>>
>I've used FIPS some a couple of years ago - I really liked what it can
>do. However, the is one caveat - when shrinking a parti
>>Shaya Potter wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Dima wrote:
>> Partition Magic OTOH does change cluster size and supports several
>> partition types, including ext2 (as of PM 3.0)
>>
>
>I don't think it support ext2, it just recognizes it. From check
>>David Puryear wrote:
>Hi,
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) wrote:
>
> > I am nearly certain that, some time back, I could put the cursor (in mc)
> > over a .deb file, press Enter and find myself "inside" the package. I ca
>n
> > do it right now on .tar.gz files, but with .deb
>>Dale Scheetz wrote:
>One posibility is that perl is somehow broken.
[Sorry, this is rather long-winded]
Ok, here's what happens (from MC_LIB/extfs/README):
... command should list the complete archive content in the following format
(a little modified ls -l listing):
AAA NNN GG
Hi
1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff:
I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for
/usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below.
Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to
2) Is there a function in Perl to conv
As Lindsay pointed out, the patch in my previous post will break
*.deb viewer for those who have tar-1.11. Be very afraid and
do `dpkg -l tar` before applying the patch. :)
(patch works for tar-1.12-1)
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>>Joost Kooij wrote:
... snip ...
>Why does (amongst other keys) not work in an xterm{-color} ?
It will if you patch your terminfo and X resources. IIRC the procedure
was explained somewhere in the docs for mc-3.xx.
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>>Alex Yukhimets wrote:
>How about:
>$Mon=(Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec)[$mm-1] || bad_thing;
>?
I did, patch's below. I'd rather use an existing function if there was one
-- must be a software engineer in me (типа внутренний шпион).
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>>BG Lim wrote:
>Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My
>question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the
>same server?
>
>I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in
>the man page but still I can't get it to wor
>>m* wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> jim writes:
>>
>> > I don't know debian well enough to know which process is running find at
>> > 7AM in the morning,...
>> > ...
>
>sounds like your system/cmos clock might be off an hour or so.
>
>anyone working at 7am needs a vacation...
>>Brandon Mitchell wrote:
...
>So you don't want your users (that is if you have any) to run perl
>scripts? Well why didn't you say so: "chmod go-x /usr/bin/perl". This
>won't break dpkg, and since the system is down during upgrades (on a
>different kernel), there's no race condition. Or
>>Lazar Fleysher wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to configure PPP... and after connection is established it
>hangs up in a short while. (I use MCI as internet provider )
>The tail of messages file is:
>
>send (ATDT)
>Serial Connection established
>Using interface ppp0
>Connect:ppp0<-->/dev
>>Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>Hello !
>
>I'm a happy Debian User and I live with unstable. I like Debian, because I
>can do everything very easy (killer apps for mail, web and so on).
>
>
>But I cannot find a good way to build web pages. How do you build web sites
>with Debian? Via SGML (with
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