On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:48:59 -0500 JonesMB writes:
>
> Thanks for the responses to my request. It turns out that I needed
> to add the dpkg-ftp package. Is it possible to upgrade/update
> individual packages on 1.3 systems or any upgrades that have to done
> must be preceded by the 1.3 -> 2.0
I didn't received the original message yet, so I answer to the
followup of Alexander.
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:04:47 -0500
>> From: the lone gunman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Debian/GNU User's List
>> Subject: emacs/xemacs conflict?
>> Resent-Date
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:53:10 +0800 (WST) Lindsay Allen writes:
>
> Have you any ideas on what this is trying to tell me?
> elm# smbmount //gum/h /mnt
> Password:
> SMBFS: need mount version 6
> mount error: Invalid argument
> Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons
>
> Runnin
On: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 00:39:01 -0500 Craig Slusher writes:
>
> I'm new to the LINUX world and need some help solving this problem.
> When I run dselect, and update, I get the message;
>
> Checking for Packages file... FTP ERROR - Cannot parse
> yeeaar-or-time at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DpkgFtp
On: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:45:58 -0600 David Karlin writes:
>
> I have two boxes; call them lin and win.
> hostnameip address netmask
> lin 192.168.0.5 255.255.255.0
> win 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
>
> I believe th
On: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 15:50:26 +1000 (EST) Chris writes:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if there is a way to configure samba to do the following:
>
> - Accept unencrypted login passwords
> - Update the smbpasswd file by encrypting unencrypted passwords
> - Accept enrypted passwords that are in the smbp
On: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 14:42:29 PDT Joseph Norton writes:
>
> I am having trouble with name resolution and non-root users. For
> non-root users, name resolution simply hangs.
>
> I haven't been able to track down the source of the problem. I'm
> sure that it is a simple fix, but I don't know wher
On: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:51:42 +0200 Max Lawson writes:
>
> There's sthg strange w/ the Xserver config. Some applications need
> to connect to the Xserver. The connection get refused till I add the
> box/host name to the xhost list!
If you are talking about the xhost feature implemented on user si
On: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:14:10 +0800 (PHT) Richard L Alhama writes:
> apacheconfig errors:
>
> httpd: cannot determine local hostname
> Use ServerName to set it manually
>
> /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful:http could not be started
>
> other info ---
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 etok etok.etik.com
On: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:41:23 -0400 David L Kocher writes:
>
> Hi, I'm coding for a mud and I've run into some problems porting it to
> Debian...
>
> The write functions seems to be different... my previous declaration
> gave it's vars as
>
> (( int fd, char *buf, int nbyte ))
>
> The Debian de
On: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:59:37 +0800 (HKT) jc writes:
>
> Hi,
> I have just installed hamm and StarOffice 3.1 but I cannot get
> 'setup' running as normal user.
>
> It told me Segmentation fault.
>
> I have installed libc5 in /lib and I have the environment variable
> 'LD_LIBRA
On: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 15:02:09 -0400 Hank Fay writes:
>
> Cool. Thanks.
> How would I hook this in to run whenever I come out of X?
If you call x using startx, just create a alias.
alias startx="/usr/bin/X11/startx; "
Torsten
On: 17 Aug 1998 12:02:21 +0200 Eric Marsden writes:
>
> This is a known bug with XEmacs running with gpm on the console.
> Uninstall gpm, or use Emacs (or X11!).
Or, even better, fetch the source package for XEmacs, extract it using
"dpkg-source -x xemacs*dsc", add the --without-gpm option to the
On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:18:00 +0800 (HKT) jc writes:
>
> I find that my system clock in debian is 8 hours more than that in
> my win98. know that my time zone should be +08:00. How can I correct
> this??
If your debian box is not correctly configured regarding to time zones
just run the tzconfig
On: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:43:23 -0400 Stephen J Carpenter writes:
>> Little endian = intel byte order = host byte order (if its an intel)
>> big endian = network byte order = host byte order (on 64 bit boxes)?
>
> I dunno if ALL 64 bit boxen are big endian.
> I know SUN systems are big-endian...I d
On: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:40:02 -0500 the lone gunman writes:
> Several of my emails are getting returned by the intended
> receiever's ISP. The emails are returned with "invalid hostname" --
> *my* hostname. Since I am currently only using PPP to connect to
> the 'net, I have a bogus hostname.
I
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:13:00 -0400 (EDT) Ossama Othman writes:
>
> Hi,
> Will CVS 1.10 be available in hamm?
Probably not. It will go straight to slink (unstable). Hamm is
stable now and no new package (except for security fixes or similiar)
are going there.
Torsten
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:45:36 -0500 Richard E Hawkins Esq writes:
>
> I noticed exmh stopped beeping over new messages. I've found the reason:
> 0 crw-rw 1 root 2914, 4 Jun 23 17:57 /dev/audio
>
> It's lost whatever group it was attached to. Could someone who
> still has th
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:14:14 -0500 Mark Panzer writes:
>
> Are system maintainers (su's) supposed to clean out the /var/log
> directory after a while? Mine is up to 15MB and I don't think I
> really need to see if I connected to the internet on June 2nd. Also
> is there a program which cleans t
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:12:57 +0800 Alex Kwan writes:
>
> Hi!
> After I completed the installation of the Base System
> of Hamm, I found that I need some modules which
> have not selected from Step "Install Operation Kernel
> and the Device Driver" of Installation Program, How do
> I install thes
I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash
precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some
scripts stopped working correctly. For example, /etc/init.d/rcS had
problems executing some scripts (e.g., loading the keymap). I changed
it to be #!/bin/bash instead o
On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:12:25 -0700 David Stern writes:
> I believe the procmail directive above is from root's .forward file,
> but how the message lands in /var/spool/mail/daemon remains a
> mystery. (nitro==mybox)
>
> --/var/spool/mail/daemon-
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 24
On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes:
>
> On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the
> sysV style init scripts and installs the /etc/runlevel.conf system.
> I did not see this package in my hamm install. Did I overlook it?
Yes, it's called file-rc an
On: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:57:37 + Kicco McCotten writes:
>
> Hello.
> I would like to use DFTP to get automatically new and updated packages
> from Debian during a PPP connection, putting its invokation in the ip-up
> script,.
> The problem is that dftp requires interactive mode,,but I would
> s
On: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:18:36 -0400 Shaleh writes:
>
> Yes, if it calls sh, it should only use sh features. Report a bug.
> Please show which line fails and if possible a way to make it sh
> compliant. I use ash as my /bin/sh w/o a hitch. apt has a small
> bug that is only cosmetic.
The probl
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:21:55 +0200 Remo Badii writes:
>
> Dear Debian users/developers,
> I have a few questions which arised during my (successful) installation of
> Debian 2.0 on a Thinkpad 760 CD. Please consider that this is my first Linux
> installation at all and have mercy.
>
> 1) When t
On: 27 Aug 1998 19:02:43 +0200 Torsten Hilbrich writes:
>
> On: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:18:36 -0400 Shaleh writes:
>>
>> Yes, if it calls sh, it should only use sh features. Report a bug.
>> Please show which line fails and if possible a way to make it sh
>> compliant
On: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:37:37 +0300 (EEST) Ionut Borcoman at lungu writes:
>
> Hi,
> On my old hamm frozen system I used to use stig-paren.el and
> pc-mode.el. Now, I do not find them anymore. Can anybody tell me
> which package they are packed in, please ?
pc-mode.el is part of the emacs_20.2
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:19:48 + Phillip Neumann writes:
>
> Hi,
> What sould i do to run an X session, and then changing to another
> console and make another X session, without linux saying me it canot
> do it??
I have written the following shell function to do this automatically:
x() {
On: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:38:39 +0200 Remo Badii writes:
>
> Thank you.
> I had "solved" the mtools problem by enabling rw for /dev/fd0 for
> oug. Is this wrong?
The group floppy allows finer control on who may use the floppy disc.
However, if everyone should be able to write to disk its not a big
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:17:05 +0200 (SAST) Johann Spies writes:
>
> Afrikaans is my language and because there are at the moment no
> hyphenation rules for it, I use a file ~/afkap.tex containing a word
> list with the correct hyphenation as an included file in all my
> Afrikaans documents.
>
> A
On: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:49:52 +0200 Rafael Cordones Marcos writes:
> To have my linux box set to GMT I first used the date command to set
> the system time and then used "hwclock --utc --systohc" to set the
> hardware clock to the same time as the system.
>
> By the way, (for anybody listening) w
On: 30 Aug 1998 09:07:49 +0200 Danny ter Haar writes:
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know why vim keeps leaving ~ files around everytime I
>> edit a file?
>
> The maintainer of vim changed the default behavior
> :((( edit /etc/vimrc
>
> search for the
On: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:38:56 -0400 (EDT) Chad Glendenin writes:
>
> Netscape 4.06 refuses to run on my fresh Debian 2.0 system. I
> installed the old (libc5-based) libraries that I think it needs. I
> tried using the netscape4_4.0-12.deb package and the standard
> 'ns-install'. Either way, Net
On: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:54:00 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser writes:
>
> I am trying to put some debian boxes in at work and one problem I
> keep running into when setting them up is that Debian's selection of
> groups and users is different than the NIS maps being passwd
> around. This results in owne
On: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:56:12 +0200 (SAST) Johann Spies writes:
>
> I am sorry to bother the list about this. My compose key is not
> working after upgrading to Debian 2.0. I do not know how to define
> it. All the documentation I have read simply supposes there is a
> compose key and that Linux
On: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:21:29 +0200 (CEST) Jens Ch Lisner writes:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
>> You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify.
>> See www.fortify.net. I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of
>> netscape, however it works fine on the libc5 vers
Is there is any place in /usr/local, where I can safely add
WindowMaker themes for all users? I already checked the locations
defined in /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker and the docs in /usr/doc/wmaker, but
could only find /usr/share/WindowMaker and
~/GNUStep/Library/WindowMaker. However, I would prefer a l
On: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:42:08 -0400 Hank Fay writes:
>
> Miquel,
> Is INN what I would use to set up a news server for my personal use
> (with clients coming over the net to use it, of course), with no
> usenets groups, sucking, feeding, etc? Or is there something else I
> should look at? Oh -- a
On: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 12:57:53 +0800 htyj writes:
>
> When I run defrag /dev/hdc1(ext2 partition) I get a error msg: "Bad
> magic number in super-block". What does it mean and how to solve
> this problem? TIA.
You need to use the e2defrag program. See the
/usr/doc/defrag/README.Debian for infos
On: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 02:36:02 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser writes:
>
> I need:
> Scatter plots
> Pie charts
> Bar graphs
> line graphs
>
> I would consider libraries for perl, python, tcl, or c.
>
> Any suggestions?
Look at plplot and its companion plplot-tcl (unstable/main/math).
Torsten
On: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 02:16:39 + Phillip Neumann writes:
>
> Hi,
> Im wondering if someone is running ``Inferno'' somewhere
> Its a network OS from Bell...
>
> If yes, what are the advantages ???
Take a look into the comp.os.inferno newsgroup. Maybe there are FAQs
or something similiar p
On: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 18:15:15 +0200 Pere Camps writes:
>
> Hi!
> Simple question:
>
> Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the
> passwords of a debian machine?
The only way I know would be running Samba as PDC. Go to the Samba
Homepage to read more about,
On: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:28:03 +0530 (IST) XRDLAB writes:
>> 1) As root run ldconfig.
>>
>> 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm).
>>
> I have it installed.
>
> Any other clue?
I had the same problem with 0.19.1. I upgraded to xlib6g-3.3.2.3a-1
(note the a in the version number) and th
On: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:29:00 -0500 Rick Knebel writes:
>
> Hi,
> Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the
> dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other
> xterm icon to this icon?
I have the following in my WMState:
Applications = (
On: Sat, 12 Sep 98 07:49 +0200 Johann Spies writes:
>
> I am trying to use afbackup on my pc which is not part of a network
> using the following command (resulting in an error):
>
> $ afclient -h localhost -X full_backup /dev/qft0
>
> Error: cannot get the port number of the backup service.
>
On: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:44:30 -0400 (EDT) Sebastian Canagaratna writes:
>
> I using Debian 1.31 and I ahve the following problem.
> Whenever I use emacs under X I get the warning:
>
> locale not supported by C library, locale not changed
>
> I am under the impression, though I may be wrong and t
On: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:13:40 +0200 (CEST) Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know if there is some kind of "source navigator"
> mode to browse C/C++ under emacs.
You might want to take a look at speedbar. Not exactly what you have
in mind, but you should give it a tr
On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:28 +0200 Horacio M G writes:
>
> Hi there,
> how can I make a key combo work?
> In etc/inittab I get the following line:
>
> # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
>
> which is ok for shutting the system down and
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:19:56 +0200 Dirk Melchers writes:
>
> Hi,
> I've just got my Linux box up and running with X-Windows and
> Netscape, but when I try to get Netscape 4.05 running, it just tells
> me that is cannot load LibXpm.so.4 even though the file is present
> in one of the X11 directori
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:40:50 +0200 Michael Schmidt writes:
>
> Hi fellow debian users (:-),
> Netscape 4.5PR1 (glibc version) gives strange errors for the
> XmTextFields:
>
> Warning:
> Name: Text
> Class: XmTextField
> Character 'h', not supported in font. Discarded.
>
> And
On: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:35:34 -0500 (CDT) Kent West writes:
>
> I'm new to Linux/Unix/Debian/Samba. I've got Samba installed on a hamm
> box, but when I try to connect to an NT share I always get connected as
> guest. My username on the Debian box is westk. My username on the NT box
> is West K
On: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:09:46 -0700 (PDT) Oz Dror writes:
>
> What is the MIME type for mp3
> what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types
My apaches mime.types tells:
audio/mpeg mpga mp2 mp3
The line in .mailcap should be similiar to this one (installed by the
xanim packa
On: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:13:36 +0900 (JST) Joe Marchak writes:
>
> Hi,
> I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like
> to automatically update from an ftp site. Is there a good way to do
> this?
I use the mirror program (main/net section) for keeping my home page
in sync
On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:05:46 +1000 (EST) Shao Ying Zhang writes:
>
> Hi debies,
> I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb
> package at all.
>
> Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so
> what pkg do I need??
The needed packages are (for
On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 02:52:56 -0400 Anatol Quabach writes:
>
> On 26.09.1998, at 14:37, Michael Beattie wrote:
>> Edit /etc/X11/Xserver, and set the first line to the location of
> XF86_S3,
>> like so:
>>
>> /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3
>>
>> This should have been done by the xserver-s3 package's insta
I currently investigating into using wmppp together with the isdnutils
package that comes with debian.
I use the following rcfile:
speed: /usr/local/bin/getmodemspeed
start: /home/torsten/bin/isdnon
stop: /usr/local/bin/isdnoff
ifdown: /usr/local/bin/isdnon
isdnon and isdnoff puts the ipppd in d
On: 27 Sep 1998 12:34:17 +0200 Torsten Hilbrich writes:
> Does anybody managed to get the following behavior?
>
> - if I press the checkmark, I want the yellow light to appear to
> indicate, that my connection is in dial-on-demand state (i.e., the
> default route is set t
On: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:36:25 +0200 jdassen writes:
> The .deb count is probably somewhere in the 2000-2500 range
> (calculate from debian/dists/unstable/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz for
> precise numbers).
I just counted 2479 in unstable main, contrib, non-free, non-US.
Torsten
On: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Bradley Bell writes:
>
> I need to print to an HP Laserjet 5Si printer which is hooked up to
> a netware network,
>
> Can anybody point me to any resources on printing to netware
> printers?
>
> I've studied and tried every trick in the IPX- and Printing-
On: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 09:43:42 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes:
>
> If I run netscape (or any color or font intensive app) I have
> problems starting other applications. I have to restart my Xserver
> to be able to start other applications. Does anybody know of a
> painless solution?
1. Use 16bit
On: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 22:37:01 -0500 (CDT) D'jinnie writes:
> Also - since logs get rotated every night, how can I change the
> group and permissions (group readable) for all log files? I would
> like to be able to view/edit them from my user account instead of
> root...
Add your user to the group
"G. Crimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry to keep pestering the list with my sound questions. I thought it
> would be better to send each one as separate message rather than dump only
> loosely related questions under one subject header.
>
> After having enabled sound in the ker
Kiyan Azarbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Everything just fried itself, then I found this in the syslog:
>
> May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at =
> virtual address e90833c4
> May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: current->tss.cr3 =3D 00299000, %cr3 = 00
> 2990
On: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:18:03 +0200 (SAT) Daniel Mashao writes:
>
> Any help how to get my emacs and fvwm2 to work.
Please check the output of ldd 'which emacs` and ldd `which fvwm2`.
If there are both libc.so.5 and libc.so.6 shown, you need to update
some of the other libraries. If the executab
On: Fri, 22 May 1998 14:14:24 + Ionut Borcoman at musa writes:
>
> Hi,
> Unfortunately, I've panicked and reinstalled all Win95. Fortunately,
> all my personal data and files are on a different partition (sda5
> and sda6) so nothing important was lost, excepting my time and
> yours. With this
On: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:18:00 +0800 Jonah Kuo writes:
> Now I make Na and Fb ping each other successfully, and am sure
> packet forwarding in Fb is enabled, but I can't ping Fa from Na, did
> I miss something?
Set the defaultroute of Na to Fb and let Fb forward these packets via
Fa into the inter
On: Sun, 24 May 1998 10:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Darren Benham writes:
>
> I accidentally overwrote /bin/more (using > instead of |), and
> dselect won't let me reinstall the package that contains it
> (util-linux) because it is already installed. I can't uninstall it
> because it is a required package.
On: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:47:13 -0300 Leonardo Ruoso writes:
> How do I might do backups with an IBM SCSI DDS2 TAPE?
Well, using tar, cpio, or one of the many other backup programs. Use
the device /dev/nst0 (I made a symlink named /dev/tape pointing to
this file) for accessing the tape.
> How do I
On: Tue, 26 May 1998 22:05:01 -0400 (EDT) Corey Miller writes:
>
> Warning:
> Name: textfield
> Class: XmTextField
> Character 'S' not supported in font. Discarded.
>
> This happens for all characters and numbers it tries to show. I
> have tried reinstalling the jdk packages a
On: Wed, 27 May 1998 14:04:34 -0700 Richard Sevenich writes:
>
> I just installed Hamm from scratch with kde as the desktop environment. When
> I start certain applications (e.g. netscape), they fail with messages of
> this sort:
> cant load library 'libXt.so.6'
> where the library is
On: 28 May 1998 21:27:31 - lgunman writes:
>
> Currently, when reading USENET news, I start up my ppp connection and
> read off of my ISP's news (NNTP) server. But, there are some
> newsgroups that are specific to my school, maintained on my school's
> NNTP news server. I would like to read
On: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Marcus Johnson writes:
> * I did ftp the Bryne jdk1.1.5-v5-glibc.tar files, untarred them and tried
> to set them up. Forgive my (perhaps appalling) ignorance, but I think I'm
> not sure if I need to set a symbolic link or add to my path or maybe it
> sim
Daniel S Barclay schrieb am Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:17:11 -0400:
> It's an (probably) unnecessary limitation somewhere in the system.
>
> I was able to make a file system on a floppy tape (with mke2fs, I
> believe). When I tried to mount the file system, mount complained
> that the tape wasn't a blo
In my old bo man-db package I was able to select the manual pages I
get using the LANG variable. For example, after installing
manpages-de and setting LANG=de_DE I was getting the german version if
available.
In the hamm version of man-db (2.3.10-63) this no longer works. Now
it seems that man
Torsten Hilbrich schrieb am 04 Jun 1998 12:25:49 +0200:
> BTW: I read about a tape filesystem in de.comp.os.linux.misc,
> unfortunately, I'm unable to find this article and the url right
> now. If I find it I will post a followup to this thread.
I have found the location
On: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 10:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Paul Miller writes:
>
> Some of my users' accounts are getting disabled by the system. I
> have not set any expiration dates, etc.. How do I re-enable them
> and prevent this from occurring again?
You should take a look at the values in the /etc/shadow f
On: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 14:21:37 +0100 (BST) M C Vernon writes:
>
> Dear all,
> How can I address more than 6 vts? I have X installed, and it
> usually runs on altf7, but when it's running, I get
> Warning: dev (03:03) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup
> Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.03
On: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 05:49:18 -0500 Ed Cogburn writes:
>> > drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 6144 Jun 6 14:07 /tmp/
>> >
>> > If this is not how it is do a 'chmod 1777 /tmp' as root.
>>
>> Thanks! I got it before, but whats the 't'?? (all execute bit)
>> typo, or what is it?
> 't' is a spec
On: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 13:52:47 -0500 (CDT) Matthew Myers writes:
>
> Is it possible to echo the display of another terminal to the
> current terminal you are on?
You can use the vcs* devices for that:
7 charVirtual console capture devices
0 = /dev/vcs Current v
On: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 09:57:10 -0500 Ed Cogburn writes:
> Is there a man page/info/FAQ that explains this? Is this why its
> referred to as 'sticky' or am I thinking of something else.
See the info page on Fileutils/File permissions/Mode structure. The
sticky bit is the t-bit for files and is pr
On: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:42:21 +0700 Michael Acklin writes:
>
> Hello,
> I have just installed Apache Web Server and keep getting the same
> message
> I try to start the server. What do I need to do get the server working.
> Here is the error.log
>
> [Wed Jun 10 13:59:35 1998] [alert] mod_u
On: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 16:37:34 -0400 (AST) timothy writes:
>
> Whenever I use vim to edit files, when I am done there is a
> "whateverfilename~" file in the directory. What are these files with
> the tilde for? If they aren't important, how do I make vim not leave
> them lying around all the time?
On: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 10:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Nick Moffitt writes:
>
> On 12 Jun 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
>> It is a very useful feature called backing up files ;-)
>>
>> You can convince vim to not create these files by either editing
>> /etc/vimrc (for all us
On: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:58:40 -0500 Igor S Livshits writes:
>
> Hello,
> Well, I left my hamm system half set up when other things distracted
> me. I had cron running, but no functional MTA fully installed.
>
> I was thus plesantly surprised that cron actually managed to get an
> email message to
On: 17 Jun 1998 23:17:51 +0900 Yamamoto Hirotaka writes:
>
> "Mark H. Mabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> Are you using the setting LBA in the BIOS? I think I do and I
Martin> have a 8.5GB disk with heads 255 sectors 63 and cylinders
Martin> 784. Those are not near any 1024 limit.
>>
>>
>
On: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:04:30 -0500 Jeff Noxon writes:
>> That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from
>> their site for absolutely nothing. It's not an evaluation copy and
>> doesn't require you to register or spend money in any way. Try
>> downloading it from their site and if
On: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:41:05 -0400 Brian Morgan writes:
>
> One more question on Staroffice (I finally found it and am currently
> downloading it.) It only comes in a tar.gz version for Staroffice
> 4. It says it's for OpenLinux. Anyone know anything about putting
> it on a Debian machine? I'
1994/06/29 Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Version: 2.6.3ia
-END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
> Do I have to go and get these where people say "Public Key
> A
On: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Micha Feigin writes:
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> I'm having trouble configuring the keyboard under x. It used to
> work ok once, i don't know what i changed but the delete and
> backspace keys don't work. The backspace sends ~ signs (or at list
> thats how they apear) and delete
On: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:49:55 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes:
>
> Hi,
> Though I had asked this before, however I did not received exact
> answers until now. The problem is that I have 1.3.0 version
> installed and I would like to know, should I upgrate it to 1.3.1 and
> then use autoup.sh for
On: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:07:42 +0200 (METDST) Stelios Parnassidis writes:
>
> Is the old (?) ps, the one with the PS_PEERSONALITY setting, to
> find under debian ?
>
> I'm running/poerting a huge package related to my job, which rely
> very heavy on the posix conform switches of 'ps'.
>
> On
On: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:18:18 -0700 Philippe BARBELET writes:
>
> Dear debian users,
> Do you know what are the good parameters to use whith the "dump"
> command for a 4mm DAT system ?
It depends on the tape and if your drive supports hardware
compression. I used dump for 90m (2GB) Tapes with ha
Gerd Bavendiek schrieb am Sun, 31 May 1998 17:24:30 +0200 (CEST):
>
> Hi,
> My box is connected to my ISP via an ISDN router (Ascend pipeline),
> which does dial on demand. I don't want sendmail to establish
> connections in the background. The mail processing shall be delayed
> until I explicitly
On: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 09:03:59 + Ionut Borcoman at debian writes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I use the cfortran header file from this location
>> ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfortan
>> to build prototypes for BLAS and Lapack functions.
> I've finally understood how to make the headers. Now I can m
On: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:40:01 -0500 (CST) servis writes:
>
> Hi all,
> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would
> prefer a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would
> like to use this to k
On: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 07:01:27 +0200 Hanno Wagner writes:
> boot:
> Loading root.bin.
> Loading linux..
> Uncompressing Linux...
>
> crc error
>
> --System halted
>
> I have read heard about problems with bad floppies. The same happend with
> the
On: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:30:57 -0400 (EDT) Keith Alen Vance writes:
>
> I was wondering which file loads apache and squid and everything
> else I install that needs t run at startup.
/etc/init.d/apache which is invoked by the symlink
/etc/rc2.d/S*apache. /etc/init.d is the directory for all start
On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes:
>
>>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using
>>> one or more scripts, such as
>>>
>>> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string
>>>
>>> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles.
>>>
>>> The
On: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:33:26 +1000 (EST) Chris writes:
> Hi,
>
> Just a question:
>
> I have an EXTREMELY important machine running debian 1.3. I can't
> afford this machine to be down for an extended period of time, nor
> for massive reconfiguring. I would, however, like to upgrade to
> 2.0
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