I've installed version 3.33-3 of gs. Now when I print ps docs, the
quarter inch is cut off. I've dug around and haven't figured out how
to fix it. Anyone know?
Thanks,
Joe
Matthew,
> I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by
> someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me ...
> I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true
> even if the file is owned by root.
>
> Is this normal ?
Yes. Pe
I have installed the base system Debian 1.2.8 Linux kernel 2.0.27. What next? I
do not have a distributed CD-ROM. I installed from floppies! Only one went bad.
I have a Pentuim w/8M, mouse, soundboard-modem combo and SVGA.
I downloaded the XFree86 files needed for installation onto a Windows 95
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Brian Freeze wrote:
> I wrote this list last week with this question but I still have not found
> the answer.
>
> Problem: ftp out of the new system has major delays after username requested.
>
> All other services work fine on the system
A friend of mine is setting up Debian (and Linux for that matter) for
the first time. He has a T1 at work and only lowly 28.8 at home. He
got the base install done and then, having gained an understanding of
what a debian package is, said, "Ok, so now I've got my base system
up. I'm going to downlo
Hi,
Are there any stamp-* files in the top level directory? Please
try
# make-kpkg clean
# make-kpkg -r custom.A kernel_image
and see if that works. If not, please capture the output
(using script maybe) and also the listing produced by ls -als and
please file a bug report
Hello!
This (s. below at ~~~) is definitly wrong. SVGATextMode does not only
increase the number of lines on the screen. Setting kernel vidmode
results only in 80x25, 80x28 and 80x50 modes. There is no gain for
your eyes in that, but:
* With SVGATextMode you get all out of the expensive modern vi
well, i hate following up my own posts like this but i forgot to mention
that i have debian 1.2.6 distribution and the kernel version is 2.0.27.
sorry.
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, A. Sinan Unur wrote:
> hi,
>
> yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support
> and get rid
"Jonathan A. Buzzard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> now connected via modem. It delivers mail fine *except* the "From:" field=
> =2E
>
> Instead of reading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I get <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Having read
Just a thought, but what's your machine's entry in hosts? I have a
similar conf
Stig,
> I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and
> keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I
> just fdisk the thing and start all over?
I recently upgraded from slackware 3.0 (linux 1.2.13) to Debian
(linux 2.0.6) and still have both r
hi,
yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support
and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway,
after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some
unexpected diagnostics regarding the PCI bus. basically, before i built
the kernel
I'm using one for /home and /debian (location of .deb files). Works fine for
that, however I didn't take the time to try and boot from it since I have a
msdo$ partition on /hda1.
digger
> We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with
> all its disks connected to a
>
> Adaptec AHA 2940U/W
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
>
> What are the pro's & con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a
> module?
Smaller kernel, more memory for apps.
>
> Where could I find docs on topic?
>
why, if you are running debian with kernel sources installed and the other
linux docs, i
Hi Richard:
What I have in my /etc/init.d/network is
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0
When the system boots and I run a netstat, my lo network interface
doesn't show up. Why?, I don't know. However when I issue
a ifconfig, the lo interface shows
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> >About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of
> >bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting
>
> I think that's what's happening to me too... And I have no idea why, but I'd
> like to find a way to fix it. Any ideas?
> Yes, I own a copy of applix. I also happen to maintain alien. Alien can
> easily convert the rpm's that come on the applix CD into debian packages. I
> took it an extra step and added a special patch file to applix for alien,
> which should let it convert applix using less disk space and move the
Garrett Jost wrote:
>
> I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I've been of the mailing
> list for awhile and can't find the answer anywhere else.
>
> I am now using the unstable Debian release with a custom-built 1.0.27 kernel.
> A week or two ago, I somehow lost the module utilities (m
I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. So, if Your mail app is
adding a from: field smail will leave it unchanged. You have to make your
mail app add the right from: field (or non att all) to fix it. If You find
any other solution, please tell me
HTH /Lars
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote:
> 2.The pppd reports a netmask error once LCP negotiation is
> complete even if a netmask is provided in either of the options
> files.
>
> 3.The /etc/init.d/network file is not compatible between
> 2.1.2 and 2.1.28. A netma
I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I've been of the mailing
list for awhile and can't find the answer anywhere else.
I am now using the unstable Debian release with a custom-built 1.0.27 kernel.
A week or two ago, I somehow lost the module utilities (modprobe, insmod,
etc.) while I w
Hi,
After using Debian 0.93R6 for some 18 months, I took the opportunity of
installing a bigger hard disk in my laptop to install 1.2 from the cover
CD of Linux World. There where a few problems on the install, but most of
the ones I found seem to have been fixed, and everything is running
smoot
Matthew
You could use chattr to make the file immutable. It is documented as
chattr(1). Also see lsattr(1).
-- David
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by
> someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by
On 18 Mar 1997, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>
> I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and
> keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I
> just fdisk the thing and start all over?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Move any packages or libraries that you
ok.. update on how my system is going
i can launch remote applications (xhost + ) worked
the machines i am connecting to are in my research lab, so people
messing with my display is not a major concern to me
netscape 3.01 is up and running no problems
i still can't mount remote
Debians,
I just purchased a Texas Instruments personal organizer
(Model 6500) with kit (6555) for bidirectional serial communication (6155) to
a PC. Does anyone have experience or recommendations with this model?
Does anyone know of or have software to link this to Linux?
Is the
>
>About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of
>bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting
I think that's what's happening to me too... And I have no idea why, but I'd
like to find a way to fix it. Any ideas?
Tim
Leander Berwers,
> After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
> type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
> correct this 'problem'?
Don't more (or less) binary files. It's an "ASCII thing". The
American Standard Code for I
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Greg Vence wrote:
> What are the pro's & con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a
> module?
>
> Where could I find docs on topic?
Variously scattered I think. There's also the issue of loading with auto
or specifically. A few thoughts to get you started on a mini-FAQ
I wrote this list last week with this question but I still have not found
the answer.
Problem: ftp out of the new system has major delays after username requested.
All other services work fine on the system. I can ftp in with know delays. I
can telnet into and out of the new system.
Things chec
I also would like to hear.
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Richard Sevenich wrote:
>The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound
>very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list
>had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method
What are the pro's & con's of compiling into the kernal vs. loading a
module?
Where could I find docs on topic?
Thanx -- Greg.
--
Greg Vence | Debian GNU Linux
KH2EA/4 | Diamond 2000 (7npw 4cpw)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]| There is time for what's important
Debian - Leander Berwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
> type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
> correct this 'problem'?
The simplest way is with the reset command.
Guy
'Jason Gunthorpe wrote:'
>
>On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
>
>> 'Craig Sanders wrote:'
>> into less. Another bug in your script is that it doesn't support
>> uncompressing multiple files and saving marks in each of them and
>> hoping back and forth easily. Maybe someone can merge your
Thanks to all those who answered my call on the missing CDROM, I followed
the advice and it now works fine - briallant! It must have been an easy
question everyone came up with the same answer!
Cheers,
Chris Tipney
Hungerford, Berkshire, England
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:12:03 EST Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
ishkill.ibm.com) wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by
> someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even
> if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can ren
Richard Sevenich:
> The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound
> very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list
> had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so
> I'd like to hear how smoothly the installat
About twice a day, I get removed from debian-users because of
bounced messages. Is this happening to anyone else? I am getting
mail from the list (until I am removed from it). I am getting
tired of having to resubscribe over and over, and the other
list I am subscribed to does not complain. It see
I think that's "hdc=cdrom". Try that on the boot command line as:
boot: linux hdc=cdrom
- Bruce
--
Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502
Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key.
PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3
Hi,
Our local network has a mail server (ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr).
Any mail (sent directely or through pine) to an external server
from my PC with linux reaches its aim without problem.
However, any mail sent to a local user (such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc)
fails and generates a "[EMAIL PROTECTED] use
Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar,
that did a fairly automated security audit of one's Linux system.
Can't seem to find or recollect what it was. Anyone know of a
program to do this? Is it a Debian package?
Thanx!
--
Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California
e
Hi,
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Now it is possible to start programms that uses SLang in an xterm, but
>> they are still black an white.
JH> What you want is to set COLORTERM. Slang uses this to detect if
JH> terminal supports color, instead of trying to use termcap, becuase
JH> the a
Hi,
I just tried to install another network printer. After fiddling with
/etc/printcap I got problems. To make a longer story short: I decided
to dpkg -r lpr. This went fine. So I reinstalled lpr, using
lpr_5.9-12.deb.
After setting up rm and rp in /etc/printcap I tried lpr ...
This is what I go
Debian - Leander Berwers wrote:
>
> Hi list
>
> After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
> type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
> correct this 'problem'?
>
> Kind regards
> Leander Berwers
> Antwerp, Belgium
sometimes the c
Jens, Ken, and any other interested parties
Thank you for your able assistance with the mt(8). The secret was
the need to use mt erase on a tape. This works for linux 2.06, but does
not work for linux 1.2.13 (Operation not permitted). I understand that
patch 56(?) addressed this problem
At 10:39 AM 3/18/97 +0100, Debian - Leander Berwers wrote:
>Hi list
>
>After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
>type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
>correct this 'problem'?
Try hitting ^V ^O (CTRL-V CTRL-O) and it should gi
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Christopher C. Pitts wrote:
> Hiya Debian users!
> I just upgraded from Slackware 2.0 to Linux/Gnu 1.2.8 (read reformatted
> harddrive and installed Debian) So far things are great except
> for 2 things... I have a 8bit (old but stable) SoundBlaster
> (Factory default setup,
I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and
keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I
just fdisk the thing and start all over?
Any suggestions?
--
SSM - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Trust the Computer, the Computer is your Friend
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with
all its disks connected to a
Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3
controller.
Does anyone have experience with this controller?
Do we have to expect any problems with the driver?
Markus
I ordered the cdrom from cheapbytes and I made the disks and installed
the floppies (this is kinda dumb, why not install off of the cdrom?)
but I have not figured out how to get dselect to work. So at this point
all I got off of the cd is the disks. Is this normal ? If I must use
dpkg, where ca
Hi,
I'm the one who frequently asks questions about installing :-(.
I had have many trouble while installing Debian on a NFS-Server
(see many many different postings in the past). Now I solved one
problem and got two further problems :-(.
For the guys who helped me solving my old problem:
I moun
I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by
someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even
if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the
file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the file
is owned by root.
Is th
The recent Linux Journal review of Applixware makes that office suite sound
very attractive. It is, however, packaged for RedHat. Has someone on our list
had successful experience installing it via alien or whatever method? If so
I'd like to hear how smoothly the installation went.
Regards, Richa
Help!
Somehow I lost or deleted file "update-rc.d". I'm not sure whether it should
go in /sbin or /usr/sbin. Would someone be really kind and eMail me a recent
version of this binary file.
Dpkg won't install certain packages without this file and I'm really stuck.
Thanks,
Victor
We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with
all its disks connected to a
Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3
controller.
Does anyone have experience with this controller?
Do we have to expect any problems with the driver?
Markus
This is a related comment on X security.
> "dpk" == dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you are trying to run X applications between to machines
> you have to set the display and xhost variables.
Not to be overly picky here, but xhost is not exactly a
"variable". For details, see t
> "Martin" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> Hi, before I spend my time recompiling the kernel severel
Martin> times:
Martin> Does anyone have a SB16 with a wavetable daughterboard up
Martin> and working ?
Yes, Yamaha's DB50XG here.
Martin> Which
Hi list
After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I
type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I
correct this 'problem'?
Kind regards
Leander Berwers
Antwerp, Belgium
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> > Note that the order of the case statements is important...e.g. if
> > you don't have 'tar' before 'gz' then the gz line will "catch"
> > .tar.gz files and you wont get a listing.
>
> I'm not sure about this design.
The "design", if i recall correctl
Debianers,
Debian.novare.net (aka lists.debian.org) seems to be unavailable
at the moment. I will check with my contacts to find out more
information, but for the time being we cannot expect normal list mail to
be flowing.
--
Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717) 966-9656
Finger [E
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996.
..
> So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD.
This is unfortunately a FAQ. Someone was kind enough to write a little
document about it. Point y
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On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> So what should I download to fix this apparently bad organised CD.
I have TRI-LINUX from Linux Software Labs (I believe) and I had the same
problem (with the same three packages). Everything seems to work fine an
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
> I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december
> 1996. I've decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages
> can't configure after installation
Let me guess.. you installed all of the packages the first time you ran
Laurent:
To fix the broken packages add /usr/X11R6/lib to your /etc/ld.so.config
file and run ldconfig as root. You should then be able to install the
3 tex packages that break. MAKEDEV is broken on the December 1996 release.
You can download the fixed makedev package from the debian ftp site an
I bought InfoMagic Linux Developper's Ressource 6 CD set od december 1996. I've
decided to install Debian from it but a bunch of packages can't configure after
installation in particular LaTeX (and BTW lot of related packages too...) an
Pari which were of particular interest to me.
After readin
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> 'Craig Sanders wrote:'
> >
> >Package: less
> >Version: 321-2
> I'm not sure about this design. There could exist gzip files that
> don't have .gz endings and so on. I think a better approach is to use
> file(1) (and gzip?) to do this. And I someti
I reported that in recent beta gnuplots, a core dump occured in
response to "set locale ...".
After installing the debian package locale-bin, the problem has
apparently been solved.
Even if I use the configure switch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure
doesn't see -lvga.
Alan Davis
Pete Poff wrote:
>
> Hi,
> could anyone tell me all the steps of things I need to do and
> things to get to put my server on-line 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and
> make it so that I can telnet to it?
>
> thanks alot,
>
> Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack
>Per
'Craig Sanders wrote:'
>
>Package: less
>Version: 321-2
>
>1. set the environment variable LESSOPEN in your ~/.bashrc or in
>/etc/profile (modify as required if you use csh or zsh or something
>else).
>
>export LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s"
>
>
>2. create a shell script called lessp
Hi,
could anyone tell me all the steps of things I need to do and
things to get to put my server on-line 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and
make it so that I can telnet to it?
thanks alot,
Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack
Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECT
Hello,
I wonder if anyone read the article in todays new york
times about the highly paid circle of pros at ibm who are
paid very well for cracking into computer systems . there
was a picture of a seedy man with a parrot on his
shoulder- he uses powerfull computers powered by linux. so
what i
Hello!
Maybe someone can help me out...
I'm getting dropped packets. Is this normal ?
If not, can someone suggest where to look...
Here is some information which might help.
Matthew
Sun Mar 16 22:11:31 EST 1997
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