Re: debian on a laptop?

1998-03-23 Thread Mark Boyns
On 23 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote: > > > > > It's not a lpatopt, but my Debian box is a 486/100 with 16M, and it > > > runs X just fine. > > > > Really, wow! I've never tried to run it on anything othe

Looking for Linux rplay testers

1997-12-08 Thread Mark Boyns
5 $ rplay cdrom:1-3 # play tracks 1, 2, 3 CDROM support only works on non-SCSI CDROM devices, I think. rplay 3.3.0 README Copyright (C) 1993-97 Mark Boyns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RPlay is a flexible network au

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

1997-05-30 Thread Mark Boyns
29 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Actually Bruce, although the ae imposter is still included, it has been > superceded by a tiny version of elvis. The worst part of it is that this > version refuses to let other versions of vi execute after they have been > installed. I haven't had the time

Re: sendmail question - virtusertable

1997-06-02 Thread Mark Boyns
2 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have the following setup in sendmail.mc, yet, sendmail is ignoring > /etc/virtusertable file. I am using tabs, not spaces in > /etc/virtusertable, and have made sure to restart sendmail to register > changes. (used the sendmailconfig program to convert th

man hangs with less and more

1997-06-03 Thread Mark Boyns
When I run: $ man ls it just sits there. ^C reveals: man: command exited with status 2: /bin/gzip -dc '/var/catman/cat1/ls.1.gz' | { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='ls(1)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm\:\$ix8mPm Manual page $MAN_PN ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\\%.."; less; } Running

What is the best way to install packages from their source?

1997-06-09 Thread Mark Boyns
I'm happy using binary packages most of the time, but certain packages like ssh and pgp I feel more comfortable compiling myself. So far I see that dpkg-source is used to create the patched source tree, but after that it only seems possible build a .deb file and install from that. Is this the "be

Re: Non-interactive HTTP retrival *with* POST verb ?

1997-07-13 Thread Mark Boyns
12 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I posted a few days back asking about a non-intercative way to fetch > stuff using HTTP. Some kind soul pointed me to wget. Neat stuff, but it > only took a couple of dys to reach it's limits :-( I am trying to fetch > a daily weather

Re: ssh

1997-07-18 Thread Mark Boyns
18 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I know this isn't related to debian, but I do run ssh on my Debian machine > and was hoping some other users out there encountered this... > > When I ssh onto machine, it displays the motd twice... any particular > reason why? You might want to set P