On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Dan Willard wrote:
> I've apparently hosed smail. Mail still comes in, but doesn't get put into
> my mailbox, it just sits in /var/spool/smail/input. I must have killed it
> while getting a Wascom tablet to work last weekend, played with libs. Can
> anyone point me in the r
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Jiri Baum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Allan M. Wind:
> > On 1999-07-04 20:22, Rolf Edlund wrote:
> >
> > > rm -i Backupfiles/--exclude=files.txt
> >
> > There are 2 tricks:
> >
> > 1. rm -i * (say no to everything that you want to keep)
>
> No, this doesn't work. The shell e
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Mike Brownlow wrote:
>
> > Jeremy Tregunna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody,
> > > >
> > > > I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and
> > > >
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Jianbo Zhang wrote:
> >
> > Hi Debians,
> >
> > When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it
> > says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I
> > installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Another idea, the simplest one I could think of: in your startx script, add
> the line ``cat ~root/.Xauthority >> ~/.Xauthority'' just after
> ``serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"''. First startx as root
> to
> create the ~root/.Xauth
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
> I have installed the new procps pakage and
> the killall command is lost.
>
> I tried dpkg -S killall and I could not find it.
>
> Does any one knows where is it?
killall is in the psmisc package. You could also take a look at the skill
command, which is in
On Tue, 26 May 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System
> Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the
> answers.
>
> Getting color with ls! I copied my /etc/DIR_COLORS from my old
> slackware system to
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Michele Comitini wrote:
> One great advantage is that you can combine any kind of partitions form
> different devices (even a combination of partitions from a mix of IDE
> or SCISI hard-disks!) and have different personalities (i.e. RAID-5 for
> filesystem partitions, RAID-0
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
> >. All you need to do is to get the xfstt package, create a /var/ttfonts
> > directory, copy the fonts you would like to have into it, add
> copy the fonts from where? from windows? from X11?
> Do I need a font dir file, if so how do I make it.
I belie
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Alain Toussaint wrote:
> check that your /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers look like this:
>
> # /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
[snip comments in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers]
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
>
> the last line is particularly important,also,check the location of X,it
> may be different on
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Leszek Gerwatowski wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 11:49:26AM -0500, David B. Teague wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Person, Roderick wrote:
> >
> > > I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I
> > > need to get the full access
> >
> >
> > Ro
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote:
> Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running
> hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard
> drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes
> impossible. Just now I
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Eric Wayte wrote:
> I was scanning the archives at www.debian.org and may have a solution
> for you! When installing Oracle on Solaris/SPARC, you have to edit
> /etc/group by hand and make sure that the oracle account is listed in
> the dba group:
>
> dba::101:oracle
Yes, t
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
> how do I can specify how many times a user can write a bad password
> before the system disonect that account. And of course after the account
> is lock, how do I unlock it.
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Sorry for the late
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Ted Llewellyn wrote:
> Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default
> SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade
> to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do
> that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote:
> > case $- in
> > *i*) # interactive shell only
> > echo "\n"
> > fortune -a
> > echo ""
> > ;;
> > esac
>
> Hm, this gives me an
> Illegal variable name.
> error...
What about /etc/profile or whichever file is us
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to
> /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within
> your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem
> to work
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Daryl Williams wrote:
> folks,
>
> i am building a new firewall machine and in the process
> discovered that courteny is no longer available as a debian
> package? can someone verify this, or did i miss something?
> also am looking for recommendations on intrusion detection
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions.
> > Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues.
> You will ne
On Sat, 8 May 1999, J Horacio M G wrote:
> Brian Servis dixit:
> ~>
> ~> To stop xdm from starting in Debian 2.1 you have several options:
> ~>
> ~> 1) remove the xdm package
> ~> 2) put an exit 0 at the top of the /etc/init.d/xdm script
> ~> 3) remove the symlinks in rc?.d to xdm with: update-r
On Sat, 8 May 1999, MR wrote:
> I have two network cards (1 Intel etherexpress 16, 1 NE2000) in a debian
> system. Both are detected on boot up and both are ifconfig'd. This system
> will be used to connect my little LAN through IP masq to the Internet. For
> various reasons, I am only able to hav
On 20 May 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP
> > with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional
> > sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and there
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> How should I mount a win9* system, so that I can read the full file name
> without the funny ~1 thing?
> I have tried "mount -t msdos ", but this truncates the name to *~1.
> I have a few linux files that I want to be able to recognize from the
>
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> I think the best solution would be to be able to mark packages in dselect
> and dpkg, just like we currently have them marked as 'purge', 'hold', etc.
> We would just add a way to mark packages as
> 'installed-but-not-wanted-on-its-own-merits-so-uninst
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to get an old mda (hercules compatible?) card going together
> with a Matrox Millenium on an ASUS P55T4P2 motherboard. On my quest, I have
> found two ways to do this, one of which almost works---a "multimon" kernel
> patch that has compi
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> On 1 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > IIRC, you will see this header real quick if you tell pine to show all
> > headers. Then you could use procmail to remove this header, I believe.
>
> How do you get pine to show all headers? I ca
[posting this to debian-user because it doesn't belong in debian-devel]
On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on debian-devel:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I am using dynamic DNS on perens.debian.org, a laptop with a radio modem.
> > It works _excellently_.
>
> From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTE
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like
> mingetty?
>
> I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not
> possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does wh
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote:
>
> : I am having trouble autoprobing more than one Ethernet card at boot
> : time. I have compiled support for the cards I am using (they are both
> : of the same type) but only one is detected at boot time. I
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
[question about CNAME records and MTAs rewriting the From: header when the
hostname is a CNAME]
> One thing to do is to make sure that you have the following in your
> own /etc/hosts file:
>
>
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David Morris wrote:
> My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing
> to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos
> games who it is very hard to say 'no' to).
>
> I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Albert Dorofeev wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I am wondering how big is the actual kernel
> of Linux?
>
> I cannot compile it with all options turned off
> for some reason, maybe someone can give me a
> ready answer?
>
> I would like to know what would be the size of
> the bare kerne
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> DO you have
>
> visible_name=blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl
>
> In your config file?
Yes.
Remco
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Rafael Castillo Mejia wrote:
> i want to setup xdm to start X11 since the first time. ¿how do i do that?
>
> thank for helping me...
Make sure that, in /etc/X11/config, this line:
no-start-xdm
is changed to:
start-xdm
Also, make sure that in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers there is
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
> Hi,
> Can anyone please tell me the difference between the files vmliniz and
> zImage ?
>
> I recompiled the kernel-2.0.32 and the new vmlinux file in the linux
> directory was 1087525 bytes
> while the original kernel-2.0.32 vmlinux file was 675524 bytes..
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Will wrote:
> Quick Newbie Question:
>
> What are *.gz files? And what can I do to read/print/view them?
They are files compressed with gzip. If they are compressed text files and
you have the less package from the unstable distribution, you can put this
line in your /etc/pr
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Martin Jackson wrote:
> Are there plans to include VIM 5.0 in the release version of hamm? It has
> been released for a while, but I haven't seen it in the update
> announcements. Does it currently have a maintainer?
A question related to this: Will XFree86 3.3.2 be included
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I know. This could mean that the problem lies on the receiving end.
I'll try to send mail between hosts running Debian smail tomorrow.
Remco
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course. But I doubt I will get any results.
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Stan Brown wrote:
> I have a Debian system, that is still at 1.2 (as verifed by
> /etc/debian.versio). I plan on upgrading to 2.0 as soon as it becomes
> stable.
>
> Should I first upgrade to 1.3 first?
No. There is a script that will do the critical p
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote:
> After running autoup.sh where do I point dselect to complete the hamm
> upgrade from 1.3.1.
Where you first used "stable", "contrib" and "non-free", now use
"dists/unstable/main", "dists/unstable/contrib" and
"dists/unstable/non-free". The rest is th
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape
> loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the
> newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is
> a bo (1.3.1)
table'. After that, run 'Update' in dselect. Then, enter the 'Select'
screen again and see what happens.
Remco
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utilities) is, if stdout is not a tty it will use a buffer for stdout. The
first example probably won't work good enough for you. But how about the
second? 'grep' will keep working as long as 'tail' doesn't close the pipe,
which it won't until it exits.
Remco
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, zhang xu wrote:
> hi,
> how can I install the 3c509b ethernet card on my
> Debian box?
The simplest approach is to use the program "3c5x9cfg.exe" that comes with
the DOS drivers to disable PnP support and then use the standard driver
for this card that comes with the kernel
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I'm not sure If my first attempt got through... probly mail server crash
> did it... *GRIN*
>
>
> In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of
> your hostname and domain name right?
>
> In that case, why to I get "omnic.(non
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, James Dietrich wrote:
>
> The subject fairly sums up the problem:
> Below is a snip of the messages that are displayed upon booting.
>
> [snip]
> Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
> /etc/rc2.d/S89cron: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> /etc/rc2.d/S8
On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > In that case, why to I get "omnic.(none)" ??? Where is this (none) coming
> > > from?
> > >
>
> IIRC, the glibc (or whatever is used to r
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> Are you running NIS ? The only domainname executable that I saw with a
> grep of hamm/Contents came from net/nis.
>
> My box returns elm.(none). I noticed this a year or so ago but had
> forgotten it. I am about to make your suggested mods but don't
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 01:24:33AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why
> > > when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This
> > > causes me some pain in the neck as I ca
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Adrian Monk wrote:
>
> I am having the problem that some mail (only the occasional message) is
> getting stuck in /var/spool/mail/input. Running mailq gives:
>
> ABCDEFG-HJKLMNO From: atheris (in var/spool/smail/imput)
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 22:35:35 + (
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
> When I installed Debian on my system, I had a VGA screen on it, so I set
> it up for colour.
> I have put the VGA screen on a different system, and have a mono text
> screen now.
> Most of my system is now setup for colour, is there a way to unset the
> mo
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
>
> > Use the hdparm package, which can instruct your drive to spin itself
> > down at a specified timeout (if the drive supports it).
>
> This is not what I want. That way the disks spin down too often.
>
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> Thanks... this works, but I had to make a hardlink to hostname... but I
> dont think thats a problem..
> And yes.. I am running stable.
I'm sorry I don't remember how things are in stable. I have been running
unstable since July and many, many things
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> On 18 Mar 1998, Andy Spiegl wrote:
>
> > is played. Is there a utility that allows me to set the mixer
> > via a command line program, so that I can put that into rc.boot?
>
> cam can do this, methinks.
I am very happy with aumix, which can do just what
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Agbaglo wrote:
> is there is nice way to have the DISPLAY-Variable automatically set to
> the host from where I logged in ?
The easiest way to do this is to use ssh instead of telnet/rlogin. ssh is
a secure shell, which means your password doesn't go over the network
On 18 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 17 Mar 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> > > If your /etc/hostname reads "omnic", then you should have a line like this
> > > in your /etc/ho
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dpk wrote:
> I previously had tried the steps of removing the wtmp, rebooting, etc
> without success. I tried the libc6 upgrade procedure again, without
> success also. It was due to the non-US package 'ssh'.
>
> The wtmp file remained readable until I ssh'ed to my machine
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote:
> "ldconfig" shows me, that it can not find some files.
> I think, its because of broken symbolic links
>
> How can I find these links?
You can find them with the symlinks command from the symlinks package. But
be careful when actually chan
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Ian Perry wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> On the Thursday, 19 March 1998 8:00 you said.
> >
> > but I feel that my mission to
> > bring free software to the masses really isn't compatible with Debian any
> > longer, and that I should be working with one of the m
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated
> purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each
> others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users.
>
> On the other hand, it also serves to monito
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 11:42:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Since hamm was frozen, I started the process of updating my bo system.
> > I've been running hamm now for a week or so, and using FTP to update all
> > of my out-of-date packages. Las
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm novice to RAID, and I want to try with it. I would like to know if
> hamm provices in its installation the tools to setup a RAID0 (stripping)
> installation. Also I would like to know if the menu for installation has
> RAID0 confi
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> All daemons in Debian can be stopped by calling the start-stop-daemon.
> An easier way is to look in /etc/init.d and call its script. for XDM it
> is /etc/init.d/xdm stop (start would restart it).
Yes, and change the line 'start-xdm' in /etc/X11/config into
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> Hello Remco!
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > &g
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mark Phillips writes:
> >
> >
> > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE
> > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up
> > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time.
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Leonardo Ruoso wrote:
> I want to install Debian in a RAID 5 w/ 4 9.1GB HDs server. Are there
> something that I must know?
Yes, you must know how to do that. :-)
Read the relevant HOWTOs and man pages. Documents you should read include
at least:
/usr/doc/HOWTO/Multi-Disk-
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > Hi all there!
> > I just set-up my .procmailrc (Many thanks to Oliver Elphick). But I have
> > big mailbox (/var/spool/mail/) I want to process w. procmail. Can anybody
> > tell me how?
>
> Try the procmail and procmailex (examples) man or info
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Stellar R'espree wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use a PC linux machine with 2 ethernet cards. (one for eth0, the other
> for eth1).
> And now, I want to add third ethernet card.
>
> It is recognized as eht2 at my machine, but when I tried to following
> command,
>
> /sbin/ifconfig
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't believe that is true
> > I am using pine under hamm obn my pc here at work
> > well..I have it installed...due to problems with firewall issues and DHCP
> > I can't seem to get mail
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA"
> > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the
> > > standard IDE drives and wil
On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > ...but... you have make a mistake ;-)
> > > in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools
> >
> > Yes, silly me. I knew that, I just didn't think of it.
&
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Petra wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe
> contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can
> even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of th
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Klas Lindberg wrote:
>
> > > Last I heard, transparent backgrounds were not possible (but this may or
> > > may not be true now, as I'm using X less and less...) But RxVT, which is
> >
> > Take a look at the enlightenment wm (www.e
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> On 15 Apr 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
>
> > Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > ...but... you have make a mistake ;-)
> > > > in hamm mdutils has been replaced by raidtools
> &
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > tzconfig - sets your timezone
> > date - sets your system clock
> > hwclock - sets your hardware clock
> > xntp - keeps your system time correct by reference to Internet
> > timeservers
>
> What is the difference between
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
> Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package?
I don't think so. X being big as it is, you'd need a large group of
developers to maintain and develop an XFree86-like port of X11R6.4. Those
people could spend their time much better and would probab
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a .DEB package for a 3Com Fast Etherlink
> 10/100mb bus-master pci adapter?
You don't need a .deb package for that. The driver is in the kernel. If it
is not in your kernel, you should compile your own kernel to get support
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Mike Holliday wrote:
> Thats fine and all, but seeing as I don't have any driver codes from 3Com
> how would I go about writing a driver for it?
I thought the driver code is already in the standard kernel source code.
You only need to turn on the support for your card, check
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have been using gimp to produce some overheads lately (in the
> hope that I can finally rid myself of the necessity of booting
> into and Windows product). However, when I create large text
> (like 50 pixels high), it looks pretty pixelated - even if
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> > Remco Blaakmeer writes:
>
> > > It is probably illegal to use the fonts that come with Windows.
> >
> > Why? If you bought a Windows license, you bought a license for
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> Remco Blaakmeer writes:
>
> > You can place the fonts in a subdirectory of /var/ttfonts . You can use
> > any name for that subdirectory. Where you get the fonts is another issue.
> > It is probably illegal to use
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > They have no license or the license is ill-formed or very ambiguous. You
> > get the idea.
>
> The gist of any Microsoft licenses I have ever read have been along the
> lines
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
> > What? Do they forbid sending e-mail with bogus To: headers? I am once
> > again baffled by the stupidity of USA laws regarding electronic
>
> (1) Why would anyone intentionally want to send email to a bogus header?
> to wreak havoc?? ... to bounce spam m
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
> > Yeah! Is there a good reason why xffst is not started in /etc/rc.boot
> > (or something)?
> I can think of a reason or two...no not really...
> there is a problem with trying to stop it (witho
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
>
> > Remco Blaakmeer writes:
> >
> > > If nobody objects to it, I'll file bug reports for the following
> > > annoyances I have encountered when X is misconfigured:
>
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> > Are you aware that among other things the patches to pine added since the
> > last binary package was released include things which are not merely
> > configuration but are purely bug fixes, feature e
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Paul Rightley wrote:
> I have installed xfstt, but it seems to be documentation-poor.
> I know nothing of fonts in X (or in Windows for that matter -
> I guess I am the prototypical luser). Where would I get some
> TTF fonts and where would I put them to use them? Are there
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Britton wrote:
>
> While trying to install or remove X programs with dselect, I often get
> whole slews of errors like these:
>
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout/libdb.so.1 (No such
> file or directory), skipping
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
> I see that popclient has been missing for sometime. I have a machine with
> popclient installed from some time ago (early days of bo). Just recently
> it has stopped working and I see no alternative package to get either the
> binary (popclient) o
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote:
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Why would any list accept an email message with the above in the To:
> header?
>
> Also, someone in the US State of Maryland might want to consider donating
> a mail server for Debian. That email would have been grounds for
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mario Filipe wrote:
> Hello
>
> This is not really a debian problem, but i think that the people here can help
> me.
>
> I need to create a program that shows how much of it's task has been done (in
> percentage maybe) and what is it doing currently. I could display this wit
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> I read this now and this reminds me of a point I have meant to bring to
> someones
> attention...
> the debian xfstt package soes not contain the original xfstt documentation!
> I installed it recently (again) and actually had to download the packag
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry).
>
> If my machine has the fullname
>
> newname.bf.org
>
> can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> using smail? How? Thanks.
You
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
> I have a linux machine here which is low on hard disk space
> my idea was to mount my "Windows NT home directory" here at work
> and use it for extra space (I can up my spcae by 2 gigs that way)
> o far I have mounted my home drive
> \\home5\sjc8$ on
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
> I've just started having a look at Xdm, and have decided I would like to
> use it if I can do two things.
>
> 1) How do you add another display (:1), I had a look at the Xservers file,
> and added a new line, but it died...
In the latest xbase packag
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote:
> What a interesting thread my PINE question created... OK I have found a
> Debian package for pine, pine3.96L-2
>
> the file is
>
> pine_3_9.deb
>
> its located on the root of /dev/hda7 , a MSDOS partition on my drive, which
> is not mounted by
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> > Have you tried tkman? still, good old man is great :)
>
> just installed the debian package and now i get this message...
>
> badger(larry)> tkman
> Elide patch not installed in /usr/bin/wish8.0.
> You must apply the elided text patch to Tk and rebui
On 25 Apr 1998, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Luka Pravica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > >From the installation error-file (from dpkg) obviosly some files are
> > missing, like texmf.cnf, language.dat...
> > I tried searching for those files but they are not on my hard drive.
> > Perhaps al
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Chris wrote:
> Just a point of note:
>
> If your brother has physical access to the machine there is no way you can
> stop him from getting root access.
>
> You can increase the difficulty by setting the bios to only boot from HDD
> and then locking the bios - but if he's
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