Hello,
I have installed Debian 3.0 on my Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop and have
posted some notes at http://web.utk.edu/~rmahurin/inspiron5100. At
this point essentially everything that I could want to use works,
though it was something of a struggle, especially the networking
hardware.
If this is u
What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and
disk space.
Please copy to me, I'm no longer on the list.
Rob
10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing escputil (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem wi
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:48PM +0200, VEGH Karoly wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:00:57PM +0200, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > What, exactly, is running out of room here? I'm fine on memory and
> > disk space.
> >
> > 10:43 $ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
> >
Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb.
Rob
23:53 ~ $ sudo apt-get install vncserver xvncviewer
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following packages will be REMOVED:
vnc-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xv
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> > Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb.
> >
>
> Because the old vnc and vnc-doc packages ar
The bug number is 40445.
Rob
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:38:05AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> *- On 29 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??"
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> >> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wr
Simple: I have an /etc/aliases but no virtusertable. I suspect this is
becuase I am using sendmail and you are not, but I have a bad habit of being
wrong and will put this back on the list so that someone can confirm/correct
that assumption.
Rob
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:07:40PM -0800, Chris W
Let's say that I have some program I need to run that will take several
hours, and that I want to end my login session so I don't have to worry
about curious passersby coming and doing terrible things while my account is
logged on. It seems that there should be some way to accomplish this. Is
th
I think that your ~/.fvwm2rc may override the system.fvwm2rc in /etc
somewhere; IIRC, it says in the man pages and/or the comments on the system
file that you should use ~/.fvwm2/*.hook for customization. I just copied
the one from /etc/ into my home directory to be safe and have never had any
pr
Thanks to all who replied. Just thought that I'd say David Zanetti pointed
me towards the program "screen", which is a little better suited for my
purposes, as it allows the process to be resumed and interfered with, while
nohup & renders the command inaccessible after i've left the
initial shell
I thought for sure he was asking to be pointed to /etc/motd and
/etc/issue[.net]. But I don't boot my machine every time I log in, so
I could just be wrong. They're handy things to know about, anyway.
Rob
On Sat, Feb 13, 1999 at 05:38:54PM -0600, KTB wrote:
> After you boot up
> dmesg | less
>
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 07:10:39PM +, Allens wrote:
> You have got to recompile the kernel, and enable apm support.
>
> Peter Allen
>
> Shao Zhang wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
> >
> > > With modern power-saving BIOSes, the thing can even turn th
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 11:03:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 09:35:26PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> > Hmmm, this thread died without answering the question I was lurking to
> > listen for. I have apmd up and running but can't figure out how
Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my
desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server. Is there an easy
way to do this? The only ways I can think of are to set it up to
check through fetchmail (though I don't want to download my mail;
that's why I set up IMAP in the fi
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my
> > > desktop, b
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 11:59:57PM -0500, Ben Frame wrote:
> I have 2 linux machines (486's) that I want to work
> together. They each have a single 325mb hard disk, so I
> would like them to share diskspace and filesystems,
> using NFS. Since I need to make the most out of every
> megabyte,
Hi all,
Out of the blue about ten days ago I started getting an odd error from
cron every morning. Looks like some kind of shell escaping error with
find (i've attached today's) in /etc/cron.daily/standard. However,
all of the find lines in that script are commented out. I imagine
there's some
I had my system choke and die a couple of times for no good reason
last week (after 51 days of uptime!). The first time was a blown
fuse. The second, I had both WP and staroffice open (dumb) trying to
read an excel spreadsheet some cretin sent me. Started hearing a lot
of disk activity, suddenly
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 11:12:06AM -0500, Sean wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
>
> > I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows
> > this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails.
> >
>
> Edit your /etc/fstab file so /dev/hdc (or whatever device your cdrom is) is
> m
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote:
[some stuff]
>
> However, How to remove user from groups (without VI) and is there a way to
> have all root permission without being root (UID 0) because some programs
> don't want to run as root ?
You should look into the sudo comman
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 10:08:15PM +, ktb wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 08:32:47PM -0700, Robert Kerr wrote:
> > > When I type plog I get this:
> > >
> > > tail: /var/log/ppp.log: Permission denied
> > >
> > > the attributes for ppp.log are
> > > -rw-r- 1 root
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 03:27:55PM +, Rich Harran. wrote:
> I've been trying to get a dos partition mounted in group 'dos', with
> read-write permissions for those in this group. I found an old thread on
> this, and now have:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat unmask=0002,gid=101,uid=0,showexec 0 2
>
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 03:27:55PM +, Rich Harran. wrote:
> rwx for group), but this doesn't work, and I can't even chmod the
> permissions as root. If I type
>
> chmod --verbose g+w /mnt
> it claims to have changed the permissions, but doesn't actually.
the vfat filesystem doesn't s
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 02:02:00AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Henning Makholm dixit:
>
> > Have you tried escaping the space in the shell? Either of
> >
> > cd "/mnt/win95/Program Files"
> > cd /mnt/win95/Program\ Files
> > cd /mnt/win95/Program' 'Files
> >
> > should work unless there is
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 05:54:41PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > There is a little program called switchvt... I hardly remember, but I think
> > it was just a single C file.
>
> That's about all I remember, too. (Although I was trying runvt, loadvt,
> launchvt.) Anyone have ideas on where
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Manuel Salinas wrote:
>
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
no problem
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 01:59:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm running the XF86_SVGA X server under Debian 2.0.
>
> I downloaded Staroffice31-common.tar.gz, StarOffice31-english.tar.gz and
> StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz to /usr/local. When untarred they installed
> to /usr/local/StarO
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +, ktb wrote:
[snip]
> Hey, "+ I exec xterm -geometry +154+137 &" worked! Now how do I get
> rid of
> my
> initial xterm window that pops up when I first log in? I copied my
> /etc/profile
> file to ~/.bachrc to get the new xterm window to behave like the
>
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:57:39PM -0200, Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi, Shaleh
>
> >
> > If anyone knows of a good doc, web site, etc. about configing XDM to look
> > and
> > act snazzy, please let me know.
> >
> >
> The better doc is the man page, just do :
>
>
Hullo,
I am trying to set up hdparm to put my hard drive to sleep after a certain
timout (the -S option, I think it is). I thought it would be prudent to go
through and make certain that my hardware reacted OK before I set it up, not
really expecting any problems. "hdparm -y /dev/hd[ab]" works f
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 11:31:13PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> If -y is ok, then -S should be ok.
>
OK. I think that's the reassurance that I was looking for, that I'm not
going to set this and find my system going down every ten minutes.
> > My third question (which is actually not a
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 05:33:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
> Hi,
>
> I do not recieve emails from debian-user, if you can read this, please
> email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks
>
> Ulisses
> -
> ---
Wow, that was easy. Thanks.
Rob
--
The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 01:41:57AM +, Dave Swegen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 16:59 -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> > Alfie Costa wrote:
> > >
> > > Question:
> > >
> > > Is there an easy way, such as a few keystrokes or a command, to switch
> > > between text terminals and X, and vice-versa
So here's another similar question: what's a good utility for editing ID3
tags? Or have I just not found it in bladeenc?
Rob
--
Applause, n:
The echo of a platitude from the mouth of a fool.
-- Ambrose Bierce
I had occasion today to be playing on a Sun Sparcstation which ran XDM with
the chooser. Out of curiosity, I entered my machine's address, and whoa!
it worked! So I was playing around on my own system from the Sun for a
little while, complete with the Sun's Unix keyboard, and discovered that
it'
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 05:36:17PM -0700, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | I think it would be really handy to change my keymap (either in X or the
> | console, or both) so that Alt is an Alt key and the useless Win95 Start key
> | is a
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 12:08:19PM +0100, Karl Erik Øyøygard wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been trying to get a choice of wich display manager i should connect to
> on login on a SGI. Is this possible? Could You give me a hint on where I
> should start to look? The info I find for chooser here seems to be
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 01:40:21PM +0100, Lars Steinke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 10:48:25PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have no idea how wine works, and I would like to have a try.
> >
> >
> > But my windoze is running nt4, and the file system is NTFS, will
> > wine
I think that the WP install script cleans up after itself when it's done; I
had to abort my first install and then had to re-unzip and -untar all the
installation files i had downloaded. Try that.
Rob
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 08:34:12AM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote:
> Since I was having so much trou
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Also, you must be able to access your windoze partition to run wine; mine is
> > vfat, so I'm okay, but I was under the impression that NTFS was unreadable
The program smbclient accesses windows shares in a very ftp-ish way and (I
believe) is part of the samba package. For my purposes, I use smb[u]mount,
so that "smbmount //adidas/unix /mnt/smb/adidas; ls /mnt/smb/adidas" will
show me all of adidas's unix goodies. If that's not part of samba, then
i
Hmmm ... I didn't know about this limit when I installed and used a
ten-character username and an eight or nine-character password. When I log
in, I have to use the full username (alphenglor), and my home dir is
/home/alphenglor, but files owned by me are shown as alphengl.alphengl (I'm
not at a t
I got the "bus error" message repeatedly some time ago for absolutely no
apparent reason. I moved my ~/.netscape/ directory to .netscape.screwed/
and ran it again, and it gave the "you haven't run netscape before" dialog
and set itself up again and worked fine. I never figured out what was
cha
Ummm ... I've just been creating the users and then doing "adduser
". Occam's Razor may apply here.
Rob
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:47:11PM +, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Would some of you please tell me how to add user oracle
> to group dba? ...don't know why I'm having so much trouble with
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:16:24PM -0800, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
> Ok, I removed the .netscape directory and now the script in
> /usr/bin/X11/netscape works
> fine. (This seems to start v4.05) This is when I get the "Aborted." error
> message.
>
> Now if I type /usr/local/netscape/netscape
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 07:52:34AM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >
> > This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition,
> > then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible
> > if you need to reinstall Windows later, because
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 07:40:59PM -0500, David Blackman wrote:
> I'm running netscape 4.6 on a celeron 366, 96 megs of ram, windowmaker
> 0.60.0, X 3.3.4 and a graphics blaster exxtreme.
>
> Netscape is stable except for when I browse in multiple windows, then
> closing any window may kill my ent
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 05:52:41PM -0700, Joe Bouchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using mutt, exim, and emacs.
>
> I would like to be able to just type long lines as paragraphs and have
> something break the line length off. I know this is a standard feature
> in most mail systems, and it must be her
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:45:37AM -0400, Steve Rothanburg wrote:
> Anybody know where I can find in.rexecd? I just ran dselect this morning
> and after the 8megs of updates rexecd is gone. It didn't get split off
> to a separate package did it? I'm running Potato with a 2.2.10 kernel.
>
I think
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 06:59:12PM -0400, Marshal Wong wrote:
>
> Could somebody send me the long listing of the root directory? I need
> the proper permissions for /tmp since I fiddled around with it, and
> now all the permissions are wrong. Thanks!
>
> Marshal
>
There was a discussion abou
What does "swapon -s" say? Where should your swap be and where is it?
Rob
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 06:15:37PM +0300, tf wrote:
> I'm cheating here with netscape, but on my own machine! yee haw.
> I don't seem to be swapping. the boot messages include "activating
> swap", and I have a swap par
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 08:49:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> [This message has also been posted.]
> I've just noticed that both Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3 and RealMedia's
> Realplayer G2 have an interesting behavior: if NumLock is activated,
> their keyboard shortcuts that require shifted keys, like
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:52:59PM -0400, Bill Goudie wrote:
> Rob --
>
> Tonight when I tried to load a web page with java on it I think it
> locked up my computer. Or at least I could not switch to another
> virtual desktop nor could I get back to the console. My mp3s were
> still playing and
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
> I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to
> know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why?
I use emacs when I'm in a text terminal (like right now) because I
haven't figured out how to use Xem
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:37PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> BTW, I use a 135x48 text screen, and I didn't find
> any command to wrap my lines @ 79 Cars, instead of
> the end of line - know some?
>
"fmt" wraps at about 75. You can even use it from mutt: if you get a
message that's too l
Are there any good, free spreadsheet programs out there? Anywhere?
I had thought that I might have finally decided to use gnumeric, but
it didn't use my NumLock key and I thought I'd grab the one from
unstable and see if it worked. So I got it with apt --- and apt
decided to install 18 new packa
I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot
is actually necessary. I know a reboot is necessary to load a new
kernel and that the power inside the box must be off to install or
remove internal hardware --- are there any other times when a reboot
is not optional?
For examp
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Fredrick Schmitt wrote:
> What system would be the cheeziest I could run it on?
Unfortunately, you cannot run Debian on a block of cheese. Work on a
cheese port is in progress, but is not even ready yet for the alpha
release. Until then, you must run Deb
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 07:32:38AM -0400, add|ct|on wrote:
> Greetings...
>
> I know I'm going to get a lot of responses to the tone of "read the
> how-to" or "check the archives" but I have to post my question
> anyway, as I have done both and I'm still clueless.
>
> My question is this: I do not
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 11:53:44AM -0700, j way wrote:
> Is there a way to transfer files between a Slink & Win95 machine using a
> serial null-modem cable?
> I don't want to tie up two phone lines with modems. Something similar
> to the (msft) "Interlnk" perhaps. Tnx.
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe?
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't
> get it to work:
[snip]
>
> However, I have an old sendmail.cf V8.7 file that works perfectly
> with /etc/mail/users.db (it sent this email).
>
> Any clues?
Nope -
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 10:42:01AM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> shell, not for login shell, ie. when you login the config file read is
> ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile
Or ~/.profile. I forget the precendence.
Rob
--
MY income is ALL disposable!
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 09:24:34AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > I'm behind a firewall, and I'm trying the same thing and can't
> > > get it to
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 05:22:43PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
>
> Sep 21 17:11:49 cambados in.telnetd[8102]: connect from 193.144.50.23
> Sep 21 17:11:49 cambados in.telnetd[8102]: error: cannot execute
> /usr/sbin/in.telnetd: No such file or directory
>
> Efectively, the file "/usr/sbin/i
Hurrah! $1000 for the FSF!
Rob
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 02:43:51PM -0700, Trenton Albarracin wrote:
> [spam]
--
Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really
know what we are doing.
-- E. Dijkstra
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 02:06:38AM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> network. I use ssh2 to login to sarnold, and export DISPLAY=amidala:0.0 --
ssh2? Is this a .deb? I've been getting messages in my logs like
"you need a newer ssh for this packet, you insecure lummox" and I'm
running the most recent
I had a problem with my clock drifting after I used hwclock to reset
my time after I moved to a new time zone: the box had been on 15
minutes, I set it back an hour, and when I rebooted, the /etc/adjtime
adjusted the clock by about four days. so I set it again. Now the
durn thing thought it was
So I'm trying to dub this CD for my roommate and I'm getting this
error message about once a frickin second:
hdc: packet command error: error=0xb4
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Aborted command -- (Sense key=0x0b)
Loss of streaming -- (asc=0xbf, ascq=0x00)
The failed "" packet command was:
"be 0
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:38:26AM +0100, Rainer Sand wrote:
>
> Does someone know a program or a procedure to convert .ra to .wav? I only
> found a win program
> (Ra2Wav, www.2bsys.com). Or is it possible to stream the output of the real
> player somehow into a converting program?
>
I think
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 09:16:57AM -0400, Jon Hughes wrote:
> I've been working on my Linux box here at work from my windows computer
> (easier to telnet into rather then move around and stuff). This is fine and
> dandy, but I've been told there is a way you can actually get the X
> server/KDE stu
Perhaps something like this (assuming the target drive is /dev/hdb).
(I'm going to emphasize that I'm JUST GUESSING and you should RTFM all
the suggestions I give here).
# mke2fs /dev/hdb1
# makeswap /dev/hdb2
# dpkg --get-selections > selections
# dpkg --root=/mnt --set-selections < selections
#
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:28PM -0500, Steve Doerr wrote:
> Could anyone help me with the difference between dpkg and other
> installs. I have installed netscape and wp8 w/o using dselect.
> Should everything be installed through dpkg to get the cleanest
> Debian system or does it matter? I al
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:39:54PM +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am interrested in filtering the incoming mail. On my opinion, my situation
> is quite
> different from the explained in this thread. I am the administrator of a PC
> K6-3
> 400MHz running Debian Linux. I use a ma
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's
> contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself
> having to write perl scripts to coerce dpkg into releasing the
> information about missing files.
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:17:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:52:47PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > I've been slowly upgrading my packages from slink to potato, and
> > frankly, have never had a single problem. I was nervous about upgrading
> > perl, because I've
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:58:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rob,
>
> I'm no apt expert. Would you write up a section on Apt for a Debian
> Update HowTo? I will voluteer to edit and put it together as well
> as providing content. If need be, I will even host it on my server.
>
> The Ho
I feel pretty silly about this ...
I was playing around with some of the programs in the games directory
and one (lincity) gave me some complaint about svga permissions. I
said Hmmm and tried it with sudo, and it got about halfway through
changing the video stuff and died.
Now I'm stuck with a h
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:02:12PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
>
>
> > Typing "reset" doesn't help. the man page for the console says that
> > it can be reset by echoing ESC c to it, but either that's not doing
> > anything either or I'm not doing that right (I'm blind typing "echo -e
> > \\033c
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:38PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote:
> >
> > Cool. :-)
> > So now we have:
> >
> > reset
> > stty sane
> > -v c
> >
> > to restore a messed up text interface.
> >
> > Groetjes, Ookhoi
> >
>
>
On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 06:56:00PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and
> post it to you. I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)
>
> Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ?
>
> Ivan.
>
That would be
OK, here is story to date:
1. I ran lincity and destroyed my VGA consoles. My pretty hi-res
textmode was replaced by strange static patterns. This was Wednesday.
2. I asked on the list for help and got several variations of the
reset command. All were nice but did not change my VGA mode back
On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 05:58:18PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> Apparently a .txt file written under Win95 can be chmod-ed, but not
> executed. I used ae to write a simple script from scratch under Linux
> and it worked no problem at all.
>
> That makes me wonder: I have to install so
My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long
it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. But
sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty much
at random. date and hwclock agree, but they're wrong. Some
John Foster wrote:
> Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that
> hold enough power to keep the hardware clock set to the correct time,
> when the system is powered off. It appears that your battery is
> degrading and may need to be replaced.
But it's right when it
, post your differences to the list and we'll
help you
out.
Rob
John Foster wrote:
> Rob Mahurin wrote:
> >
> > John Foster wrote:
> >
> > > Most modern Motherboards have a small rechargeable battery on them that
> > > hold enough power to keep the h
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 04:05:34AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote:
> I just installed Debian 2.2 after reformatting my old Slink partition. I
> noticed that as root I had my fvwm 2.2 menus as I always had them with the
> old version (2.0.46-BETA I believe) in Slink. However, if I ran fvwm 2.2
> as a norma
This might sound crazy, but have you tried reinstalling those broken
packages? Maybe if you gave them everything that they're looking to
delete then they might be removeable.
If any of the dpkg developers are reading this: "Errors were
encountered while processing " and "sub-process returned
err
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 04:07:53PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:
> How can I set my linux to display a banner before it prompts for login?
> I can do it in solaris by editing /etc/default/telnetd
>
The local banner is /etc/issue ; the remote banner is /etc/issue.net.
I think that yo
Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir
that began with "-", and now I can't read them and can't remove them:
15:30 ~ $ ls
total 80
-rw--- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:30 -011405
-rw--- 1 alphengl alphengl 226 Oct 10 14:33 -011485
-rw---
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 10:50:56PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Apparently about an hour ago something made a few files in my homedir
> > that began with "-", and now I can't read them and can't remove them:
&
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as
> a highligted and not hypens. What would be causing this? The
> relevant package versions are listed below. This is hybrid slink
> system with lot
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 07:48:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>
> Ok. Less is my pager. Setting LESSCHARSET to latin1 fixed the
> problem. But how do I fix this system wide without setting LESSCHARSET
> in all systemwide shell startup scripts. The less man page says that if
> LESSCHARSET is not
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:26:55PM +0300, virtanen wrote:
>
> I installed vncserver and xvncviewer.
>
[...]
>
> The second problem is that I cannot run xvncviewer on the local consoles.
> Basically the server is working (as 'root'), because I can run a viewer on
> a mswin machine to get an
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:07:08PM +, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> I have my linux box set to access files and receive messages from a
> netware server. When I get mail, I am notified if I have an xterm
> window open. Does anyone know of a utility similar to nwpopup for
> Windows that will pop up
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 02:57:54PM -0500, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately I have the feeling that dselect has gotten more resource hungry.
> After having retrieved packages CPU usage goes up to 100% for a "long
> time" while dselect prepares install. It also races up and down a lot
> whi
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 07:21:06PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> Anyone know of a kernel patch that basically lets any number of processes
> open /dev/dsp any number of times?
>
> Basically, a microphone splitter and a speaker mixer in one? I know this
> would take CPU time, but I'd lik
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:24:50PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> I have two potato systems. On the one I most recently upgraded,
> running dselect with the apt method, I get asked "Do you want to erase
> the downloaded .deb files (Y/n)?" On the other system, I am not asked,
> but I would like to cha
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 03:12:06AM -, Pollywog wrote:
> I just upgraded WINE (I had to make some symlinks in /usr/lib for Mesa to get
> it to work) but it appears to be broken, because it says that it cannot use
> this version of MSVCRT20.DLL. Anyone else have this problem? I installed the
>
On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:50:20PM +0300, tf wrote:
> I hate to plug a windows app, but notetab pro is great.
> Sure would be nice if someone would make a clone for linux.
>
have you tried wine?
Rob
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