27;)
The CD's contents are visible under /cdrom.
You do not need to mount the CD to use it with dselect; choose the CD
installation method and dselect will mount it for itself.
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ears in dmesg, the SCSI drivers are recognising it. If no
device is assigned, the most likely cause is that you haven't got SCSI
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ately not. The reason is that there is a vast range of hardware
that might be used and its manufacturers don't provide Linux drivers as
they do Windows ones.
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God did not send his Son into the world t
annot get it from Incoming, get it
from <http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql>. (Unfortunately, I don't have
enough space on that server to upload the source, so these are just
the binary packages.)
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ng you are running fvwm2, look into its documentation and change its
configuration files. The most likely place to put your own preferences is
in /etc/X11/fvwm2/post.hook and /etc/X11/fvwm2/background.color
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= A message for East
to do with it (this is in my /etc/init.d/boot)
>.
Use tzconfig to set your timezone.
Then set your clock right with date.
Finally, use hwclock --hctosys --utc to set your hardware clock to the
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...
start-xdm
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Come to me, al
e end of the gcc command that the makefile runs.
If it's already there, I can't help...
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Come
Mark Phillips wrote:
>What is the difference between hwclock and clock, between xntp and
>netdate?
Remco answered that.
> And which package contains hwclock and xntp?
hwclock is in util-linux
xntp is in xntp
(This is on hamm.)
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be regarded as a bug?
Versions: vim 5.0-0.2
libc6 2.0.7pre1-4
ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8
linux 2.0.33
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amm still isn't released, it is, strictly,
for developers rather than users.)
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However, the documentation gives no example and I have not yet found a
combination that works.
How should I define this, please?
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1.01
libc6 2.0.7pre1-4
sp 1.3-1.1-5
gawk 3.0.3-0.2
perl5.004.04-5
libstdc++2.82.90.27-0.6
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Nuno Carvalho wrote:
> Now that I had installed, finally, my ISDN card (PCBIT) on Linux I want
>to make a connection
>to my ISP but I don't know what program to use!
You need the isdnutils package.
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find that X would also refuse to run your program for
authorisation reasons.
Alternatively, you are trying to run mosaic in a non-X environment, which
I would not expect to be possible. If you need a non-X web browser, use
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t sure what I am doing that is keeping the box from booting from the
>hard drive.
>
After you change lilo.conf, you must run /sbin/lilo. Perhaps that did not get
done.
Try doing it now.
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ude/asm/errno.h and /usr/include/linux/errno.h
#define ENOENT 2 /* No such file or directory */
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"calvin" wrote:
>everytime i try to compile something i get a error sayin cpp option not
>found or somethin like that..anybody know what my problem would be?
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for instance, I did not have the function of a
>right handed user's left button, on any of my buttons.
>
This setup works for me:
XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol"PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
EndSection
gpm.conf:
device=/dev/psa
d control characters can
hang the VDU, so that you have to do a power cycle of the VDU to recover it.
If you want to do this and also have VDUs, use the -i option to agetty
in the inittab file for the VDU connections; this will stop agetty from
displaying /etc/issue on VDUs that
"Erik Eriksson" wrote:
>3. Can you recommend any SQL based freeware for Linux, we would like to do s
>ome
>tests.
There are Debian packages for PostgreSQL, mSQL, mysql and nosql. (mSQL and
mysql are in non-free.)
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y because users failed to check the bugs system before they posted.
Bear in mind also that new releases sometimes take time to make it into
the distribution, especially into frozen.
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release 1.3.1 is new enough. Anyone else help on this?
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ro exit status. See if your system does the same.
If it doesn't find encaps but gives a 0 exit status, try doing
bash -c "hash encaps"
and see what error status that gives you. (I don't see why there should
be a difference, but there must have been some reason for making thi
Nathan E Norman wrote:
>On Tue, 5 May 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>: Presumably someone else was having some kind of problem with this
>: feature.
>
>But why is "-k" being passed to `objdump' at all? According to the docs
>I have, "-k&quo
ine does not terminate with \, so the `if' construct is not
terminated. All lines before the final `fi' need to end with \.
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K. do dpkg -L libc6 for a list of the package contents:
...
/lib/libc.so.6
...
I suppose that 2.0.7pre1-4 means that this is a pre-release to 2.0.7, so it's
not actually 2.0.7 yet.
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find the other parts of X.
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search for a.out
executables:
find / -type f -perm +111 -print | xargs file | grep '[QZ]MAGIC'
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eed to rework the design of the database; multi-valued fields
will have to be normalised. It's a big job.
> -Probably some way to keep both systems in parallel.
You will need to define input and dump routines for both systems (unless
the traffic is one-way only
ad to defragment a disk.
This isn't a Micro$oft product...
Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux?
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er, gcc? You
will also need that and several other things to compile the kernel. These
are in the Standard devel section in dselect.
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odules.
Have you enabled ethernet in the kernel as well as incorporating a driver
for your particular network card?
If you have configured these as modules, are you either running kerneld to
load them automatically when required, or else running modprobe at boot time
to load them once and for a
version (6.2.1-4) from:
<http://www.lfix.co.uk/postgresql>
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chmail > >&/dev/console
>
> This doesn`t work with xconsole.
Use `logger' to write things to the logs (including the console, which
displays some of them.) Full details in `man logger'.
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anyone recommend a decent three-button mouse (serial or
>ps/2). The middle button on my current mouse doesn't work.
The problem is probably with your configuration rather than with the
mouse. What have you got in the Pointer section of /etc/X11/XF86Config?
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If you have security concerns, transport the .Xauthority file from the Mac
to the Debian machine and run `xauth merge '.
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ld suggest something. The object is to see what command
in the script is failing. If you can't do it that way, check the
permissions of every command the script tries to run.
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e I am amazed at the quality...
>
>Maybe x86 HW isn't that bad after all...
It should be even better: you shouldn't have to hold that button down. Use
ClearDTR and ClearRTS in the Pointer section of XF86Config.
(See `man 5 XF86Config' for full details.)
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e got the best of both
>worlds.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I think you want the newsgroups
to be moderated? (Presumably the clueless can still post direct to the
mailing list.) Someone would have to filter the clueless postings out
before sending the rest on to the mai
st I edit to use it? (for example to
>listen CDs, etc). Must I have installed some special package?
rebuild your kernel to incorporate sound support.
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minfo database. Use similar methods to transfer the termcap
settings. If you want it to go into future Debian releases, send the
results to the maintainer of the appropriate package; no doubt he will
be grateful.
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George Bonser wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>
>> I don't know what dtterm is, but from context it sounds like a terminfo
>> or termcap setting.
>
>It is, I suppose, the destop terminal. In its default configuration, when
>you ri
quot;
>
>Drive C: has 1 Error
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debian is a Linux system and has nothing to do with any Micro$oft products.
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like a good terminfo entry. You probably need to
make a termcap entry as well, which should be added into /etc/termcap.
`infocmp -C' should produce a termcap listing from the terminfo entry.
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ng lis
>t.
Sorry, then, but in principle my reply stands. You're running a Microsoft
utility on a MSDOS partition. Surely the best place to ask is a Microsoft
list? If there's any way that Debian is involved, please give more detail.
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your question implies that
you have met and overcome this error in the past. Is that indeed the
case?
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ant commands `by hand'.
The relevant command for xbase is
/usr/sbin/xbase-configure
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for your root partition.
Can you boot from your CD or rescue floppy?
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The only other valid key which may be pressed is RETURN, which
continues booting with the default partition.
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contents of over the current user's
crontab file, destroying what was there before.
If you use this method to update your crontab, do it like this to preserve
your existing set of cron commands:
crontab -l >/tmp/crontab.me
vi /tmp/crontab.me
crontab /tmp/crontab.me
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being set or why xdm doesn't know that this machine is called linda.
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and SCSI CD-ROM, and am able to boot
from a Debian 1.3.1 CD.
I can't tell you the Adaptec BIOS version without shutting down, but
I bought this card about the beginning of 1997.
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se `du -sx /*', but I find that this does not
ignore other partitions; the man page leaves me uncertain about its
intended effect.)
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reate the directory bible-kjv-4.00 in the current directory,
containing the original source with Debian changes applied.
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lesstif provides libXm.so.0. libXm.so.2 is from Motif.
I see that there is a package gimp-dmotif (which conflicts with gimp). If that
is what you installed, it requires Motif. Install gimp instead.
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cumentation on the monitor or the video car
>d.
Look at /var/log/xdm-errors for anything that xdm may have produced.
Try using startx when you are already logged on, to see what messages appear on
the
(non-X) console.
Have you installed xbase? (Sorry - I hope that's a silly quest
ver given me any trouble over
paper feeding nor has it failed to print anything.
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x/5.004/auto/Pg/Pg.so: undefined symbol:
>PQconnectdb
>==
There was a problem in the build of libpgperl. Try loading release
libpgperl_6.2.1-7 which will be on master shortly (currently being
uploaded to chiark).
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ns; the directory has the ownership of its creator and the
permissions dictated by the owner's standard umask.
I can't identify the culprit, though...
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Lee Bradshaw wrote:
>I'm considering using exmh for my mail reader. I want to filter mail
>into different folders and be able to see which folders have messages in
>them. Suggestions of other mail readers with this feature would be
>welcome.
I use procmail to write
-
help screens, i seem to remember that there's a booting
option for specifying the CD-ROM.)
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c6 2.0.6-2
Is there anything I can do? Is it likely that this drive doesn't support
changing the block size?
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http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver/user.html
another section is at
http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/rhpennin/debian/files.html
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ce and make room
for Linux.
Then proceed with the installation.
Perhaps instead you could buy a new hard disk to put Linux on?
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s stored in /var/log/btmp, but only if that file already
exists. If it doesn't exist, create it (as superuser) with the command
`touch /var/log/btmp'.
See `man last' for full details.
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t;
>in the program to see if that will solve the problem, but it made no
>difference.
The message you are getting appears to be a PostgreSQL message, but the
syntax you are using works OK in psql. Is it possible that Python is
mangling the data being sent to the backend? Can you r
Johann Spies wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo
>> queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing.
>
>I also do not know how to do this. I will have to study some mor
/var/spool/mail should have these permissions/ownership:
drwxrwsrwt 2 mail mail 1024 Jan 28 18:06 /var/spool/mail
or the mail delivery program may not be able to create the file when
it has mail to deliver.
If none of this helps, you should review all the logs to look for mail
ha
thing at all happen, or just silence?
Basically, you must give more information or we can't help you.
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X server, so that it can share it. For example:
$ su
# xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority
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"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
>Check out xauth.
>
>You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the
>X server, so that it can share it. For example:
>
>$ su
># xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority
Only don't do this in your own ho
ibe to the LyX
users' mailing list.
The message address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I can't
remember the subscription request address, but it's in the documentation
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ough you are trying to
install a non-Debian version; this is not really a good idea.
>In my /lib/ I only have libc.so.5
>What«s wrong?
libc.so.4 is the aout format libc, which is out of date as far as the bo
(stable) distribution is concerned. You appear to be running bo (??)
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is not that simple. It is a fundamental
change which affects a lot of other things. Especially, don't force
anything or you may end up with an unuasable system.
Look at:
http://www.debian.org/doc/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
and
http://www.debian.org/devel/autoup.sh
t appear in stable (bo) unless there is some critical
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Britton wrote:
>
>On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>> Upgrading to glibc (libc6) is not that simple. It is a fundamental
>> change which affects a lot of other things. Especially, don't force
>> anything or you may end up with an unuasable s
e gpm or X =
>Windows where the mouse is actually at in /dev. I've read through the =
>manpages, the FAQ's and many of the HOWTOS and I'm at a loss. Any help =
>on this would be most appreciated.
The correct device name is /dev/psaux
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screen bandwidth necessary to drive the screen at at least
one of the sizes given on the mode line.
It sounds as if you need to run XF86Setup, which should get your X
properly configured for you.
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a
particular DTD?
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t;is its proven, in my case, low maintainability. Now isn't that a unique
> selling point?
It's why I've stuck with Debian. (It's also very satisfying to be able to
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n the kernel source
and merely need to be configured in when you build your own.
The standard Debian kernel contains support for IDE CD-ROM.
Even if you have something different, you will probably find a driver for it
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h contains `files' with information about the running process.)
Originally it was just devices like printers, disks, tapes and memory.
With the /proc filesystem, you also have things like lists of interrupts
and network parameters. All these things are presented as files, so that
you can use
nux.
My first thought was that you didn't include PS/2 support when you built the
kernel, but the fact that you plugged a different mouse in and it worked
seems to contradict that.
Have you confirmed that the trackball itself is not faulty?
Please tell us what the trackball interface is (
nfree0.99.18-2 GIF and TIFF support for the GNU Image Manip
hi libgimp10.99.18-2 Libraries necessary to run the GIMP
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rather than
as (ELF-libc[56])
libXm.so.0 is lesstif.
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ill show you what kernel functions are being
used and might help you understand what's happening.
You are on hamm, so the problem might be to do with mixed libraries:
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postgres: can't load library 'libbsd.so.1.0.0'
libbsd.a is present, but I can find no reference anywhere to the shared
library.
Where can I get this library, please?
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shutdown
/root/shutdown can be a script that runs shutdown with predetermined
parameters or else prompts for how long to wait, messages to send
to other users and so on. If this script were to disappear, the log-in
would fail rather than giving a root-access shell.
Oliver Elphick
s
>slirp and it has to be compiled. What can i do?
Use the reget command in ftp to continue a download from where it stopped.
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
>We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with
>all its disks connected to a
>
> Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3
>
>controller.
>
>Does anyone have experience with this controller?
>Do we have to expect any problems with the dr
nal
cu: Can't disable hardware flow control: I/O error
cu: write: I/O error
Does anyone know the reason for this?
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beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate
>being told what to do step by step.
>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:30:08 +
From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
First, try the command ifconfig
You should see something like:# ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
minimal set of files which demonstrate the bug.
I don't know if this is in fact a bug in the GNU compiler or in QT.
Version levels:
Debian Linux 1.2
GCC 2.7.2.1
libg++ 2.7.2
QT 1.0
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight
omplain:true
Xaccess:
* #any host can get a login window
* CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser
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