Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-26 Thread John Henders
d that someone seems to decide to change how the linux console works every 6 months, makes uugetty's uugetty and normal console getty both pretty useless no anyway. -- John Henders - System Administrator - Mindlink!/Wimsey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsu

Re: Fixed! (Re: mgetty isn't answering the phone (ioctl problem))

1996-10-26 Thread John Henders
Nick Busigin writes: > > On 26 Oct 1996, John Henders wrote: > > > Maybe Debian should take the bold step of not creating /dev/cua* and > > making sure all Debian packages work correctly with /dev/ttyS*. This > > would mean making mgetty the only serial line getty, but

Infomagic CD - Review of fresh install

1997-01-06 Thread John Henders
ot the mere 50% it does now. This would allow you to at least see a bit more of the selection. As well, I think it's really annoying that it shows you a help screen every time it switches to a new mode. The first time is fine, but every time is annoying. Other problems with dselect appe

Re: X11R6 package in Debian 1.2 bugs (?)

1997-01-06 Thread John Henders
process. That, at least IMHO, is a valid bug report. -- John Henders - System Administrator - Mindlink!/Wimsey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with /etc/printcap

1997-01-07 Thread John Henders
remote. Is raw really the name the remote printer has been installed as ? rp in printcap is supposed to be the name of the remote printer, traditionally as it was known to the computer it is attached to. Also, lp is usually left blank in the printcap examples I've seen for remote printers. --

Re: A proposal to improve dselect

1997-01-08 Thread John Henders
ystem up that is roughly what you want. Then, after these base and extrapackages are installed and configured, you would use dmanage(formerly dselect) to tune the existing instal, add all the custom optional packages you want, and finally to help you upgrade all your installed packages as you need. -

Re: 1.1 setup for /dev/xconsole?

1996-05-13 Thread John Henders
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that >you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole fills up

Re: 1.1 setup for /dev/xconsole?

1996-05-14 Thread John Henders
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maarten Boekhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that >> >you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so >> >> Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole