Re: slink not updating ?

On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 14 h 53, the keyboard of "Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? > I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, > security warnings etc... http://s

Re: slink problems

On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 16 h 29, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, it's quite annoying to be constantly interrupted to interact > various programs during the configuration phase of a Debian install. It's the Mother of All FAQs and has been discussed (but not

Re: slink problems

[I'm not on debian-admintool and I hate posting on lists where I'm not.] On Thursday 5 August 1999, at 11 h 6, the keyboard of Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > create a hard link to their installers ONLY if the installer will > never ask questions. Give that link the same name prepe

Re: Anyone Read the Articles on Free Software In Forbes

On Thursday 30 July 1998, at 15 h 40, the keyboard of Allan Bart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just received the august 10th issue of forbes and guess who is on > the front page? Linus himself, in a semi hippie pose. the articel is International audience should note that, in the "global" editio

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

On Tuesday 19 May 1998, at 18 h 13, the keyboard of "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite a bit safer. It's still rather dangerous, as it doesn't see what > account on the remote host is accessing your display. It just lets all > users on that specific host display X apps on yo

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

On Wednesday 20 May 1998, at 11 h 47, the keyboard of Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The DISPLAY environment variable is local to my account, and I'll change > it when I'll be logging from home whis a dynamic IP, so it changes every > time I'm logging in. laureline:~/tmp/sgmltools-1.1

Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)

On Wednesday 20 May 1998, at 16 h 4, the keyboard of Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what do you suggest? I can't install any sonftware on the faculty's > server. echo "Please install ssh , thanks in advance" \ Mail -s "Humble request to install ssh" [E

Re: xfig not exporting

On Saturday 25 May 1998, at 15 h 33, the keyboard of Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to export something from xfig I get the message: Try with fig2dev, you may be have a better chance to see the messages: fig2dev -L ps file.fig file.ps ^^ Export to Pos

Re: ISDN and Debian.

On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 10 h 6, the keyboard of "Johan Berglund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But before I make my decision I need to know how > Debian handles ISDN, if it manages "Bandwidth On > Demand" and so on. Debian is Linux so just check the Linux documentation. The FAQ contains every

Re: creating simple interface for low-power users

On Tuesday 26 May 1998, at 20 h 2, the keyboard of "G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought it would be great if I could set up their accounts so that > when they logged in a button bar greated them. They could invoke xpat2, > logout, shutdown, or call up a graphic mail user agent

Re: X fonts

On Friday 17 July 1998, at 1 h 24, the keyboard of Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment I am selecting fonts from the list generated by xlsfonts, > however most of these do not appear to work for terminals (resulting in a > very distorted - usually streached - terminal). Also, the se

Beta-testing and the glibc 2.1 (Was: Missing ldd? Have libc6 on hold? Get ldso from slink...

On Sunday 14 March 1999, at 16 h 57, the keyboard of Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those of you who are tracking unstable but are too chicken to install the > new glibc 2.1 may have noticed that your ldd has disappeared. May be these chickens are people who have some work to do. T

Re: Perl without DB and NDBM

On Friday 6 August 1999, at 15 h 9, the keyboard of Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm needing a perl binary w/o -ldb and -lndbm in order to run > Sybperl. In short: don't. In long: there is no reason to use Sybperl: - it duplicates the Perl setup and libraries (

Re: HELP: Error: can't find libjava.so

On Monday 22 November 1999, at 17 h 24, the keyboard of Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, found a fix. but still i do not know what failed. > but as it seems it could be /bin/sh. BTW, you copied your message to many mailing lists and you forget debian-java, which seem

Re: Getting mail via POP3 (Filtering to correct user?)

On Friday 8 May 1998, at 20 h 36, the keyboard of Art Lemasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to take a look at the "Offline-Mailing" (or something like that) > HOW TO (in the mini-HOW TO's or one of the other special HOW TO's) Don't. The "Linux off-line mailing method" mini-HOWTO, while a good

[META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters

This list has a terribly high volume. More than half of the messages are non-Debian related (like Ethernet 3com problems) and should, IMHO, belong to other forums. Am I the only one which finds the amount of general PC/Linux/Unix questions unbearable (in that ca

Re: Help with in.pop3d

On Thursday 12 June 97, at 22 h 40, the keyboard of "Benjamin T. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in.pop3d seems to be running as root when it is invoked by inetd, so what > gives? The mail boxes exist, the connnection is made but no mail is > delivered Anyway, I seriously suggest you

Re: 2.1.30 and 3c900 module: Transmitter access conflict

On Wednesday 5 November 97, at 14 h 9, the keyboard of Francesco Potorti` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3c59x.c:v0.30-all 12/23/96 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ This is incredibly old. Check the Ethernet-HOWTO for the URL of the site where you can download a version (0.46somethi

Re: (sendmail || bind) help

On Tuesday 4 November 97, at 8 h 32, the keyboard of Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He is doing the following in /etc/sendmail.cf: Why tinkering sendmail.cf when Debian uses a nice configuration system, built over the M4 sendmail files? sendmailconfig and answer t

Re: long user names for POP mailboxes

On Tuesday 17 June 97, at 11 h 12, the keyboard of "Al Youngwerth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my setup: smail 3.2.3, fetchmail 3.9.8 and the standard in.pop3d > that comes with Debian. Drop it. Last time I checked (can anyone confirm this is still the case?), this thing didn't even log

Re: Emacs initialisation query

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:43:34PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > What should I put for ? [f9] Now, to tell you where I've read that...

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > routers and/or other Cisco gear. Everything is in Debian packages: m4 (to create configuration files) mrtg (to get stats

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

On Friday 19 May 2000, at 14 h 43, the keyboard of Dominic Blythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wml? like for wap? Of course not. The telephone moguls stole the name of an already existing free program, WML, Web Meta Language, , which is used by Debian (and s

A program to find which package(s) is eating your hard disk

gorets (which means 'greedy pigs' in French) is a small Debian utility to find out which packages are eating disk space on a given partition. For instance, if /usr/share is a separate partition: gorets /usr/share will tell you whose fault it is, if /usr/share is

Re: Wishlistitem: Place to look up Softwareproject <-> Debs packages that contain it

On Tuesday 30 January 2001, at 22 h 25, the keyboard of Matthias Wieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (you may say:) But that already exists somewhat, but there is no place > where to post the apt-get resources, where I can find a special package. > EG, Yes, there is: http://www.internatif.org/

Re: mod_auth_pam

On Thursday 1 February 2001, at 10 h 45, the keyboard of Ingo Luetkebohle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just consider the case on hand: Any > daemon has to be root to be able to use it. No, just member of the 'shadow' group. ezili:~> ls -l /etc/shadow -rw-r-1 root shadow 1415