On Mon Jun 7, 1999, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> it strikes me as odd that the standard potato doesn't seem to include the
> pack huffman coder or compress lzw compressor. while these are fairly
> obsoleted by gzip, especially as gunzip will read .z and .Z files, they
> still are mildly useful. am i
On Thu Jun 10, 1999, Judith E Bush wrote:
> I'm looking for what might be blanking out the screen on several linux
> systems. On all three systems, power management in the bios is set to
> 'always on.' All three systems have dramatically different monitors.
> I'm running metrox's Xwindows and hav
On Fri Jun 11, 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get
> grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line
> continue character, at least from the sh prompt)?
Put the expression in single quotes?
Noel
On Fri Jun 18, 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the email server (sendmail 8.9.3) so that it
> refuses mail coming from a specified address to a specific email. Let me
> clarify:
>
> My user A doesn't wan't to receive mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it
> possible
On Wed Jul 21, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 15:47:02- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I would not mind something that could:
> >1. Gives color coding
> >2. Be good for perl AND html AND cgi AND javascript (I doubt I'll get all 4)
> >3. Let me save to a web server.
> >4. The only
Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
>
> Hello,
> as i upgraded from bo to hamm (and on other machine I installed directly
> hamm), I miss the fdformat command... where's that gone ?
fdformat is obsolete; use superformat.
Noel
Mike Nachlinger wrote:
>
> Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on
> a Debian 2.0 system?
xfs is included in the xbase package.
Noel
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules.
>
> |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I
> |manually
> |give:
> | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0
> | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11
> |I
Johann Spies wrote:
>
> After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working.
>
> I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my
> .emacs - file:
> (setq TeX-auto-save t)
> (setq TeX-parse-self t)
> (setq-default TeX-master nil)
>
> I have re-installed auctex bu
Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
>
> > When I try to change the font size, using the control+rightmouseclick then I
> > get a menu showing me same font sizes. But this only happens if the user is
> > root. Otherwise I get a menu that is really smaller and I can only see the
> > first line of text in the menu
Default Debian Reader wrote:
>
> I have a question regarding RAM, does linux recognize anything over 64M
> of ram? I have 128M on my machine and this is what top reports...
> CPU states: 0.5% user, 1.1% system, 0.0% nice, 98.5% idle
> Mem: 63344K av, 62092K used, 1252K free, 32960K shrd,
On Wed Feb 10, 1999, Daniel Elenius wrote:
> I have a problem with the VM mail reader that has been annoying me for
> a LONG time. I use an exim filter to put e.g. the debian-user mail in
> a ~/mail/debian folder. Then when I open this folder, there will
> usually be new mail coming into the folde
On Fri Feb 19, 1999, Tallon wrote:
> Does anyone know what this means? I am trying to install Debian 2.0
> on a Cyrix MII 300 with 128Megs and 2 Fujitsu 4.3G drives. Has a
> Genoa 3d Phantom Video Card and a SMC Ethernet card 1211TX.
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
On Wed Feb 24, 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 24-Feb-99 Jesse Jacobsen wrote:
> > I missed the first part of this thread, but was wondering... do you have
> > separate /home/ftp/bin and /home/ftp/lib/ and /home/ftp/etc directories?
> > You need those under /home/ftp/ because the ftpd automatically c
On Thu Feb 25, 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle
> for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't
> recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how
> might I disable it?
If h
On Fri Mar 5, 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
> can I have unlimited clients conected to postgresql with no licese
> payment.
Yes. See http://www.postgresql.org for more info.
Noel
On Wed Dec 9, 1998, Keith Beattie wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> >
> > Ever since I started with Linux I've wanted a console-based graphical web
> > browser, but kept running into a brick wall. Then I read that emacs could
>
> Uh, isn't "console-based graphical " an oxymoron? How could
> your ever
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, ktb wrote:
> I've never attempted anything like this before so I really have no
> clue. What I'm trying to do is ultimately install the aol instant
> messenger program for unix. To do this I have to install Tcl/Tk. I
> don't know what they are for but I followed the dire
On Mon Feb 1, 1999, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> So, shall we take this opportunity to reopen the discussion about the
> debian-user
> trailer line? The evidence just keeps indicating that the existing one is
> useless to
> those who could benefit from it and ignored by everyone else.
>
> "Thomas
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote:
> Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening
> terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give
> similar messages. For example, if I use a pipe to less (ls |
> less) I get the following: WARNING: Terminal is not fully
> functiona
On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote:
> Immanuel Yap wrote:
>
> > On Mon Aug 9, 1999, John Carline wrote:
> > > Executing 'dselect' now gives me the error 'Error opening
> > > terminal: unknown', and in addition many other commands give
>
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Debian Mail wrote:
> I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a
> faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to
> authenticate a user. How do I do that?
You can't.
Noel
On Mon Aug 16, 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 16-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote:
> > This is what I have in my .bash_profile in order to get colors:
> >
> > export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
> > eval `dircolors`
>
> The last line is apparently superfluous, so I removed it.
It's useful if you want to change
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote:
> > > I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a
> > > faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to
> > > authenticate a user. How do I do that?
> >
> > You can't.
>
> So every user has to use passwd AND smbp
On Thu Sep 9, 1999, John wrote:
> Have installed 2.1 from Official CDs: this took 2hrs as program continually
> spent long periods searching sectors and 'resetting atapi' and made it
> difficult
> to recall what options I selected. After completion XF86Setup was run
> successfully and startx fv
On Fri Sep 10, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm about to compile 2.2.10 for my work machine, and as usual simply follow
> the Fine manual which comes with the package. This time around, though, I
> noticed no reference to linking /usr/include/{asm||linux||scsi} to dirs
> under the source. Is
On Fri Apr 30, 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work?
> I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then
> installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't
> come with the .class files for the plug
Bostjan JERKO wrote:
>
> I still have problem running X windows (Xfree86) on Debian 2.0 as ordinary
> user. It works fine if I log on as root.
> I use it on stand alone machine without network card and xdm is not running.
> The messages I get are :
>
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ... So
Ken Archer wrote:
>
> Came up with the following error trying to compile a development kernel. The
> same kernel compiled fine on my Suse partition.
>
> as 86 -0 -a -o bboot sect.o bbootsect.s
> make [1]: as86: Command not found
> make [1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
> make [1]: Leaving directo
Shaleh wrote:
>
> Hi, I just installed the postgreSQL packages. However I can not add users
> because
>
> foo# createuser
> Connection to database 'template1' failed.
> FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "root" is not in "pg_shadow"
>
> createuser: database access failed.
> foo#
>
> The docs are not he
Wilson Tuma wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install
> linux man pages so I can get help by typing say
>
> man rm
> man cp
Install the man-db package.
Noel
David Karlin wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up
> vncserver,
> it says:
>
> vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
>
> First I checked my hard-drive for "xauth" (find / -name "xauth"); the file
> does not exist on my drive. Then I c
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement:
http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104
Noel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a really strange font problem in Netscape. Some apostrophes(')
> appear as question marks(?). This problem as been around since bo and
> since Netscape 4.0 or so, I can't remember exactly. When I look at the
> source it shows question marks as
On Tue Nov 3, 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
> I've just got the basic Linux 2.0.35 working and have been busily
> adding packages. Among them is the olvwm package. When I try to
> invoke olvwm, I get a library missing error message. When I look
> in /usr/lib, the file olvwm complains about is
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
> On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
> drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
> format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?
ZIP drives are treated as hard drives
On Apr 28, 2000, Joseph Martin wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have xemacs21.1.9 installed. I cannot install AucTex as it
> conflicts with xemacs21. The description with the auctex says that
> auctex is included with xemacs. When I open LaTeX files the buffer is
> in LaTeX mode and the file is
Maybe dia will be to your liking. It's quite similar to Visio, if
you're familiar with that. There are both Debian and Ximian packages
for it:
Package: dia
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Installed-Size: 10836
Maintainer: Ximian, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version
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