Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why don't you just check the X-Mailing-List: header instead of To:? It's
> better than trying to dictate how everyone replies to the list.
Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to see the personal copy if
someone also sent it to the list. And he'd lik
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Hi folks!
I just installed the new Debian Logo Page (v4) today. You can have a look
at it via
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The new page contains 9 new and 21 old logos and uses HTML forms to
make it easy for you to tel
Pete Templin wrote:
>
> Read the man page on ftpd, or simply add /usr/bin/tcsh to /etc/shells (the
> short answer to RTFM). The ftpserver checks to see if you have a valid
> shell before allowing you to log in.
>
People are sometimes quick to yell out RTFM! There's something
a little more subt
Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I get around this [forgot his root password]?
Boot off a floppy, mount your root partition, edit /etc/passwd to
remove root's password.
Use debian/stable/disks-i386/current/resq1440.bin if you don't have a
boot floppy.
Guy
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Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
> than a *qualit
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Norman Widders) writes:
> i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and
> debian distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian
> being too large. downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B)
I was also incredulous the first time I he
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes:
> ld: cannot open -lncurses: no such file or directory
Have you installed ncurses3.0-dev? You need the libncurses.so link
provided by this package to compile (among other things).
> both libs are in /lib:
> libncurses.so.3.0
> libtermcap.so.2
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> it as new? Do their machines use standard memory components, so they
> could be easily upgraded with parts from other vendors, etc? They don't
AFAIK, PBs use proprietary parts which means you usually have to
buy from them to get upgrade part
> I am writing my questions in between the text, if anyone can
> answer them I would appreciate it.
>
> Why are you not using hda and hdb? what determines which one
> you use?
I would use hda and hdb. I don't have an eide controller so I don't have
an hdc or hdd. Some might prefer to use hda
> Please, everybody: could you address your e-mails to the list, instead of
> sending them personally to somebody and cc them to the list? Many people (like
> me) set up filters to separate mailing lists from personal e-mail, and check
> the
> "To:" field in the message header. To have the fil
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Xinbing Liu wrote:
> (2). tcsh doesn't work properly: I can't ftp into my computer from
> another computer if my shell is tcsh (as specified in /etc/passwd). It
> gives me "user access denied".
> However, if I say csh in /etc/passwd, ftp works fine, even though the
> shell
Please, everybody: could you address your e-mails to the list, instead of
sending them personally to somebody and cc them to the list? Many people (like
me) set up filters to separate mailing lists from personal e-mail, and check the
"To:" field in the message header. To have the filter check f
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Joseph L. Hartmann, Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
> > > hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB.
>
> I have two HD's. Right no
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Xinbing Liu wrote:
> (2). tcsh doesn't work properly: I can't ftp into my computer from
> another computer if my shell is tcsh (as specified in /etc/passwd). It
> gives me "user access denied".
> However, if I say csh in /etc/passwd, ftp works fine, even though the
> shell
Why doesn't chfn let user's change their full name?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>chfn
Changing the user information for joey
Enter the new value, or press return for the default
Full name is Joey Hess
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>chfn -f "Joe
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Nathan L. Cutler wrote:
> > "Mikael" == Mikael Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Mikael> And by which device should I call my modem which is
> Mikael> connected to the second serial port? /dev/cua1 or
> Mikael> /dev/ttyS1? Where can I find out more
I installed X windows package from Debian 1.2 (ftp'd from
uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu, one of the mirror sites), here are some strange
things I noticed, I wonder if anyone else has it:
(1). rxvt doesn't work properly: backspace doesn't work, it types ~
instead. I can't set it by "stty erase" either
At 07:06 PM 1/4/97 -0500, Daniel S. Barclay wrote:
>
>> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
>> version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
>>
>> I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly
>> not a
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, ugs wrote:
> Before I tell you what I do to make a perfect and bootable copy of your
> current Linux setup, let me tell you how I have my hard drives configured.
on the one hand this sounds like a good system because your backup is
bootable, but some problems come to mind. mo
the tetex TeX/LaTeX distribution is available in rpm format at any Redhat
mirror for anyone wishing to install from a package format as opposed to
doing it by hand. and of course rpm is available in deb format for easy
installation.
i've been using the tetex distribution that i installed via rpm
With some help from Martin Stromberg I have built a temporary
replacement rescue disk for Toshiba Tecra 700 series laptops. (They
cannot boot a normal bzImage loaded by lilo.) It has the same generic
2.0.27 kernel as in the 1996-12-8 resq1440.bin rescue disk, but with
Jens Maurer's kernel patch.
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if i were u, i would:
obtain a boot disk, boot ur sys up with it, mount the root partition,
`vipw` and put a "*" for root's passwd.
reboot the machine and supply a passwd for root asap.
/ayn
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Chuma Agbodike wrote:
> When I installed Debian
I'm trying to install Debian and, after booting from the rescue disk, the
kernel hangs while initializing the "md driver" support. (Well, that's what
the last message was talking about anyway.) Any ideas? My setup:
SuperMicro P6DNF w/2 PPros
128MB ram
Adaptec 3940UW
IBM UW 2.1gig HD
Quan
> "Chuma" == Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chuma> Today I booted linux and it won't let me in. I log in as
Chuma> root and give it at password prompt. Keeps rejecting
Chuma> me.
Chuma> How do I get around this? I hate to think that I have to re
Chuma> install
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I agree strongly that the last disk in Debian 1.21 (if it ever comes
out) should include telnet and ftp, at the very least. I know that
EVER time I installed 1.1, I used the ftp that was on the base disks
to go and get telnet off another machine *grin* Now that w
I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I wonder
if someone could regularly post and maintain the . I'll
call it debian FAQ, for lack of a better term. It would be
very worthwhile to keep a list of unique debian questions and
answers.
Best Regards,
Joe Hartmann Tel: (60
> "Joseph" == Joseph L Hartmann, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> I have two HD's. Right now only one is hooked up -- it is
Joseph> my hda, a 1.6G Western Digital, running Redhat. I wish to
Joseph> hook up in addition a 340 Meg Connor. I would like that
Joseph> to be the
> "Andrew" == Andrew Martin Adrian Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> Help, I can connect to my ISP using pon as root: when I
Andrew> attempted to use this as user amacater, I got "cannot read
Andrew> /etc/ppp.chatscript" errors: chmod 755 cured this for
Andrew> /etc/ppp
> Instead, do "update-rc.d cron defaults".
>
> This is in the "Debian-1.2 installation problems list" posted here by Dale
> Scheetz.
OK. That worked!
Thanks for the tip.
--
John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org)
Custom Programming|
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have a m
I have just installed the Debian 1.2 Base System.
During booting from the rescue diskette and also from the configured
kernel boot diskette I get some misterious messages like:
mcd=0x300,11: init failed
mcdx ... no mcd device at 0x300 irq11
and some more messages lokking like an unsuccessful searc
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
> build vile.
>
> The gcc can not load -ltermcap nor -lncurses. Here are the
> two small programs that caused the problem:
>
> prog1.c
> char initscr(); int main() { initscr(); return 0; }
> $ gcc prog1.c
When I installed Debian 1.1 (linux 2.0) and later upgraded to 2.0.6
I did not give a password. I usually log in as root followed by a
at password prompt.
For some time now I have not logged into Linux. Been busy with several
other stuff. Close to 2 months or more.
Today I booted linux and it won
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> promised that this release will be a 100% uptodate as well. :-) Maybe you
> should really wait for the brandnew teTeX before you bother about
If it is just a week or two I'll rather wait. I like what I hear :)
Someone actually told me that I should install
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> Then I guess I should be installing teTeX as well. I need to do some
> TeX'ing but the standard Debian TeX package always seems to come up with
> a new problem once I fixed one.
>
Then you'll be really happy with teTeX! Today i had a notice by Thomas
Es
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else.
> However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished
> using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower
> power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, w
I recently updated some packages from the "bo" set. One of these was, I
believe, netstd or something. Anyway, I then found that POP wasn't running
any more. I looked in /etc/inetd.conf and found it commented out. I also
looked in /usr/sbin and discovered that in.popd had been deleted.
This follows
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Paul Seelig wrote:
> Very good idea! The advantage of teTex is that it is complete with all
> bells and whistles described in the LaTeX Book and the LaTeX Companion
> and that it is an implementation which adheres to the TDS (TeX Directory
Then I guess I should be installing
I wonder if anyone on the list may have experience with Packard
Bell machines, running Debian ? The reason for the question is, a local
store is selling excess stock that didn't sell during the holiday season
at a price that is very, very, tempting. Actually, the price is only a
little mo
In article <"4O0zt3.0.ru7.rpipo"@master.debian.org>,
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>For reasons I won't go into, I had to purge INN and reinstall. I re-installed
>from unstable to find that the program that controls the config,
>ctlinnd, is not on the system. Was it take
Check to see that the path for these libraries are included in
/etc/ld.so.conf
Then run ldconfig -v and it should load them.
Dick A.
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> I'm trying to install texbin (Debian 1.2 btw) and have run into the
> following error message:
>
> mf: can't load librar
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I hate to follow up to myself but here we go anyway:
>
>Robert Yetman, the maintainer of the original suck distribution, gave me
>the hint to check '/etc/news/newsfeeds' for the flags 'Wf'. It turned out
>that the flag 'f' w
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> I have recently installed Debian on a machine and for some reason cron
> doesn't start up automatically. As a temporary fix, I have put
> ``/etc/init.d/cron start'' in my /etc/init.d/boot file, but I know that this
> is
I believe that you must put a link in with `.so' , i.e. without
the version numbers, and, of course, run ldconfig -v to be
sure first.
-Walter
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
> build vile.
>
> The gcc can not
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
> than a *quality* tape system?
Before I tell you what
I've read all this stuff about PnP cards not being supported in the
kernel. I recompiled my kernel before I realized that I had a SB16 PnP
(atleast according to the model numbers at Creative Labs it's PnP).
However, it worked, and I get sound.
Jan 5 07:05:35 timberwolf kernel: Sound initializat
Help,
I can connect to my ISP using pon as root: when I attempted to use this
as user amacater, I got "cannot read /etc/ppp.chatscript" errors: chmod
755 cured this for /etc/ppp.chatscript and /etc/ppp.options_out but I
now get: "cannot execute /usr/sbin/pppd - permission denied". I know
that ppp
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
> Yes indeed! Fresco is the replacement for interviews. The
> development is sponsored by the X consortium. It breaks new
> ground by providing distributed graphics using the CORBA model.
That wounds interesting. Do you think you can tell us more?
In reply to the honourable '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' who said:
> Debian is already lambasted for needing more disks than anyone else.
i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and debian
distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian being too large.
downloading six
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> I tried searching around for teTeX whis morning, and I found a lot of
> FTP-sites carrying the files, I also found the maintainer's address and
> the mailing-list. BUT do you know if there is a teTeX web-page somewhere,
> where some general information, m
>Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo
> requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume
> that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does
> no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is wel
[This message has also been posted.]
Hello everyone,
I have recently installed Debian on a machine and for some reason cron
doesn't start up automatically. As a temporary fix, I have put
``/etc/init.d/cron start'' in my /etc/init.d/boot file, but I know that this
is not how it should be.
This i
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >
> > Christopher E. Stefan writes:
> >
> > >After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
> > >anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
> >
> > I reported this as a bug a w
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That hardwires your machine to run at a different time than the CMOS
> clock... which means you have two different clock versions on your
> system.
>
> The appropriate option, is to control the representation...
I'm not sure what you're saying her
Apparently, the problem with ICMP echo requests (aka ping) not bouncing
back from machine "dst" unless tcpdump is running, is NOT a problem with
"dst" but a problem on "spacewalker" due to diald. So.. it all points to
diald. hmm...
--
Daniel Stringfield
I am writing my questions in between the text, if anyone can
answer them I would appreciate it.
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
>
> On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
> > hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc a
I've been having this weird problem since this morning.
I can ping either machine from the other, but only if I am running TCPDUMP
on machine named "dst". I moved the modem to machine "spacewalker" which
is currently running diald, which I have finally gotten my setup to work
both the ethernet an
> I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
> with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
> been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
> me that all the problems I've encountered could have been easily
> detected if any test ha
Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo
requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume
that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does
no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is well
with
> One reason may be that I just don't have as many packages installed,
> but I was wondering if anybody had any other explainations as to why many
> small incremental upgrades over the months seems to be more stable (in the
> sense of installations not breaking) than making larger leaps from
> poi
Hello there,
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> I'm a new debian user and currently experiencing some problems
> with the debian 1.2 release. I'm wondering if any tests have
> been performed before each of the debian release. It seemed to
> me that all the problems I've encounte
One thing which really bothers me about Debian-1.2 is that it almost
takes ages for lynx to come up at my 486DX-33 with 20MB. Measuring time
for starting lynx with a locally served web page (apache) i get the
following result:
cut-here--
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> Given my current frustration in
> dealing with the demands/complaints from the users regarding the TeX
> stuff that is presently on this machine (standard Debian 1.2 packages),
> I want to try out TeTeX.
>
Very good idea! The advantage of teTex
>
> Thanks for the information, thought not for the possible attitude. (How
> would someone know to look in xmodmap?)
>
There was no attitude... apologies if I sounded that way.
--
Ørn Einar Hansen
Hi Jens:
In addition to not having the device files in /dev, I had the problem of
not having support for the CD Rom devices in the kernel. My kernel had
the decency to suggest insmod.
Locate your cdrom module, for SCSI it is sr_mod.o, or for (E)IDE, cdrom.o
Use insmod to insert these. If there
Hi ...
I have asked individuals this question and I have posted it, with RTFM as
the answer. Polite answers, but ... I have done the RTFM on all module
issues: insmod, modprobe, modules,...
The Problem: On my home machine, deb 1.1, 486-66, scsi hd and cd rom, 16
mb vlbus, I'm having trouble with
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> >
> > > Curiously, the base.deb is missing in the binary-i386/base dir.
> > > Where is it? It's used to be in binary-i386/base dir.
> > > Does it moved to a new place.
> > >
> > The
>
> # as root
> unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set it
> tzconfig # set the time zone
> date 0103143897# set the internal clock
> clock -u -w# write internal->CMOS
> vi /etc/init.d/boot# set the GMT variable to "-u"
>
That hardwir
> "Knight" == Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Knight> Ok Mr Newbie here again. I have been trying to get Debian
Knight> to connect to my local ISP threw an external modem. When I
Knight> issue the PON command it dials the connection fine, the
Knight> modems connect, but the
> From: "Daniel S. Barclay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
> mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
> emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
>
> What might cause this difference?
Never mind. It wa
>
> Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
> check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
> done first?
>
a 'shutdown -h now' to shutdown immediately and halt the CPU.
or...
a 'shutdown -r now' to shutdown immediately and reboot the CPU.
> From: "Daniel S. Barclay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
> > Put those lines into a file, and then run 'xmodmap [file]' and the
> > Control_Left and Caps_Lock keys change places. With or without the
> > extension.
>
> After some digging (through startx and xinitrc scripts), I found that the
> _rig
Well, I'm not one of the developers so I can't answer for them... but I
agree that its a great distribution.
I don't use dselect... I did as you and used dpkg straight from the command
line, for more or less the same reason... it was crying about dependancies
when I already had the package, l
Hi Eric --
You said:
> I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite
> ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error
> that says:
> "Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed
> successfully." And it won't
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On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
> than a *quality
At 05:08 PM 1/3/97 +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote:
> If you got no ftp, that means you don't have the netstd package... which is
>in section net. You need netstd, and netbase... if memory serves. If you
>do have the binaries, and the setup isn't working... try reading the HOWTO
>for networking NET2-
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
> Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
> check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
> done first?
What you could do is use the command 'shutdown -h now' to stop all
processes and cleanly un
This could be the result of the ARP cache in your router (or on your machine
if you are running some routed type thing...) not expiring before the other
server happened to come back up. I can't remember how long this is, and it
_may_ be vendor specific when it comes to the hardware side.
Regard
At 07:45 PM 1/2/97 -0800, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
>If you did not get the ftp binary, then you did not get a complete base
>system. It's included. Is your path okay? I think ftp should be in
>/usr/bin.
##
That's what I was thinking. No, didn't get it... Do I have
At 11:11 PM 1/2/97 -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
>What do you mean? If you can ping any host in the Internet then you have
>anything you want (FTP, Telnet, News, WWW, etc.) - unless you are
>behind a firewall or something.
>Any way, what's the specific problem?
##
That *is
Yes!
This is EXACTLY what happens to me when it tries to connect to the ftp site
using dselect. At least I know now that I'm not the only one :) The only
difference is that it DIDN'T work once for me...
Regards,
Kendrick
At 09:34 AM 1/3/97 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>Victor still can't post
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
> than a *quality* tape system?
I use the taper program
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd like to install Debian Linux into various partitions on 2 harddisks.
> hdb holds 400 MB, and hdc around 1.1 GB.
You bet. If possible, stick to hda and hdc. I saw a 10 to 1 performance
improvement in Win95 ScanDisk when I moved my second 1.2G We
> Well, the child is a zombie because the process which called fork
> did not wait() on the child process. This can be accomplished
> asynchronously by handling the SIGCHLD signal. The following (somewhat
> modified to remove unecessary SysV stuff) example comes from the
> perlipc manpage:
>
>
> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the
> version was 0.95r6 or something like that.
>
> I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly
> not all the problems that people are writing about when upgradin
> From: Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I just read the config files and man XF86Config. Add the following
> to the Keyboard section of XF86Config:
>
> XkbRules "xfree86"
> XkbModel "microsoft"
> XkbLayout "us"
> XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
>
> If you want the control keys _a
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper
> than a *qualit
On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Walter Tautz wrote:
> I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically
> I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary
> to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another
Tape is common.
> hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheape
I couldn't reach the ftp.debian.org site this morning either, here's a list of
the mirrors (from: ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian/README.mirrors):
Argentina
ftp.fceia.unr.edu.ar:/pub/linux/debian * - -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Australi
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Terrence M. Brannon wrote:
>
> Everytime I restart Deb 1.2, it says /dev/hda3 not unmounted cleanly,
> check forced. I exited. then turned off my laptop. What should I have
> done first?
You need to "CTRL-ALT-DEL" and reboot before shutdowning down. or as root,
you can type "
bob writes:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am setting up my home computer with Debian 1.2 and so far so good. My
> question concerns my desire to use Suck to pull down newsgroups that I am
> interested in. What package do I need to be able to allow Tin to read the
> articles that I have downloaded? I am a
Nathan L. Cutler writes:
> I'm running a modified 1.1 system. The whole question is moot now,
On a separate problem, I had 1.1 on my system and for whatever reason, 1.1
refused to shutdown cleanly. At first it was random, then it became constant.
Thanks to the redundancy in ext2, the boot up proc
Gregory Vence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where can I find resq1200.bin ? its not on ftp.debian.org.
I created a 1.2MB rescue disk, it is available from
ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/sr1/debian-boot/
You have to create an additional root disk; the README says:
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The file resq1200
When I run emacs as root, it works fine. However, when I run it as a mere
mortal (from a normal user account), I get the message:
emacs: can't find library /usr/lib/libXaw.so.6
What might cause this difference?
Thanks,
Daniel
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> From: "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
> > > > Control keys under X windows? =
>
> > > It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
Thanks for the information, thought not for the possible attitude. (How
would someone know to look i
Someone please send me there pppd files so i can see what i am doing wrong
with my setup... thanks..
On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Hello. When writing papers, I have always used "idraw" to make my
> > figures - I like it alot more than "xfig" for various reasons.
> > Anyways, Interv
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck,
> I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed
> something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless
> system installed here. Is t
> "Mario" == Mario Olimpio de Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mario> I'm using popclient to retrieve mail from my
Mario> server. It's working fine, after a reinstall it. I didn't
Mario> ask to remove it.
I was mystified by this, too. It appears that popclient has been
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On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> Well, my problem persist. Even after downgrading to rex, using
> netbase_2.06-1.deb,
> netstd_2.08-1.deb,
> popclient_3.05-3.deb,
> proc
Hi,
I'm running into another problem again with gcc while try to
build vile.
The gcc can not load -ltermcap nor -lncurses. Here are the
two small programs that caused the problem:
prog1.c
char initscr(); int main() { initscr(); return 0; }
$ gcc prog1.c -lncurses
ld: cannot op
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