Hi,
May I remind people that Debian does not depend on any
de-install scripts written by package developers, which could have
bugs and throw the whole system into chaos (which is just one of the
reasons behind the desire to have a secure package installation).
So, deinstallatio
Hi,
>>"Civ" == Civ Kevin F Havener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Civ> On 4 Apr 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Manoj> --
Manoj> A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful
Manoj> software systems have been designed by committees and built as part
Manoj> of multipart projects, those so
could someone who is there aprise those of use who were too
unfortunate to go as to how today went?
m*
--
"The Shining One"
--
David B. Teague wrote:
> > On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change
> > to /etc/cron.daily/find:
> >
> > #cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null
> > cd / && updatedb 2>/dev/null
> BTW Please explain why the && is present in the script! I have never
> unde
I have an old PC that I want to Debianize. It has a Future Domain
ISA SCSI controller. The exact model is the TMC-1680. The disks as
some crufty old DEC RZ23's that I salvaged from some DECstations.
The DOS device drivers distributed with the controller will recognize
and access these drives.
Hi Rick:
On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> On my stand-alone machine at home, I get all files by making this change
> to /etc/cron.daily/find:
>
> #cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null
> cd / && updatedb 2>/dev/null
Many thanks, this will be useful.
A place where locate s
I have a machine that did not exit X properly. I can telnet to it and have
used kill on everything I could - even respawned all six gettys.
The screen is X with a partially cleared netscrape(sic) window.
The mouse is dead, ctl-alt-bs and all other keys do nothing.
The last time this happened, I t
The sound tool, sox, used to have a 'play' symlink that no longer works.
So.. how on earth do we get sox 12.12 to play (.au) files? Simply cat'ing
them to /dev/dsp sounds terrible! :-)
-!-
You could also add
DefaultColorDepth 16
to your Screen section of the XF86Config file.
Here's the relevant parts of my XF86Config:
. . .
Section "Screen"
Driver "Accel"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 16
SubSection "D
> > > Not of all files. Of files searchable by `nobody.nogroup'.
>
> > You can run updatedb manually to get a list of all files. Look at the
> > options in the info page for more information.
>
> Actually, you can run updatedb by hand and keep the database private to
> root in some other protec
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> > : updatedb generates a database of all file names on the system. (It
> > : only runs for a few minutes for my system.)
runs quite a while on my 468 33 ;)
> > Not of all files. Of files searchable by `nobody.nogroup'.
> You can run updatedb manuall
I see a couple of problems:
>From a users perspective the clourisation option for ls will be close to
useless, as almost everything under /usr will be pale blue. I think that
ls will have to be modified to set the colour based on the links source
- but then how do you identify the symlinks that yo
The Gardyan wrote:
>
> How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16
> bit color.
Try using the command line option: "startx -bpp 16". That should work
with any color depth like 24 or 32.
It should be "startx -- -bpp 16"
-alex
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Laudemiro Rabelo de Souza Neto [mariecurie] wrote:
> I created two partitions im my computer, one primary for using
> in dos and one extended for Linux. I re-installed DOS and after that
> the LILO option did not appear anymore.It goes straigh to DOS. What
> should I
Hi,
This is an FAQ. It is also covered in kernel-package's Problem
list, /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz. I am including an
excerpt.
Hope this helps,
manoj
=
d) make-kpkg goes into an infinit
The Gardyan wrote:
>
> How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16
> bit color.
Try using the command line option: "startx -bpp 16". That should work
with any color depth like 24 or 32.
Jim
--
Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went
There's been some discussion on the list lately about the possibility
of secure package installation, and whether it's possible, desirable,
or practical. Secure installation of Unix software can be complicated,
but there are some principles that can simplify things and make it
less error-prone an
> > someone could tell me what characters ( eg. ^[[2J^[[0;0H ) means ?? what
> > I know is, when I run it, two blue bands with the text wrote in red
> > in middle appeared...
>
> I believe these are ansi codes. Somewhere there exists documentation
> for it but I don't have some handy. You might
Laudemiro Rabelo de Souza Neto [mariecurie] writes:
> someone could tell me what characters ( eg. ^[[2J^[[0;0H ) means ?? what
> I know is, when I run it, two blue bands with the text wrote in red
> in middle appeared...
I believe these are ansi codes. Somewhere there exists documentation
for i
I created two partitions im my computer, one primary for using
in dos and one extended for Linux. I re-installed DOS and after that
the LILO option did not appear anymore.It goes straigh to DOS. What
should I do to everything
becames as it was before ??
Always I want to use Linux
This is my issue file
^[[2J^[[0;0H
^[[34;44m==$
Physics Departament
University of Paraiba
( PADCT )
^[[34;44m=
Hello again...
I have been noticing some error messages during boot, that I have
been wondering about. I wonder if someone can tell me whether or
not I should be worried about these. The thing that is odd about
this is that my system seems to be working fine, as far as I can see.
Here are the e
1997-03-16 boot floppies report.
A trial install here revealed some facts/errors as follows:-
1) The resc144 disk still claims to be 1.2 and build 1997-02-12.
2) Need to open up vc2 and:-
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.0.29
prior to running the item "Installing the Operating System", e
On 2 Apr 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote:
> I recently sent a message regarding a problem that I am having
> with my mouse on XFree86. The mouse is a PS2 style of Mouse Systems
> mouse. According to the documentation that I have found the only
> setting in the XF86Config file that will work in
Hi,
[light Suddenly dawns. This is a subtle bug].
Remove the hyphen from the command line, like so:
# make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 buildpackage
^
I'll add the following paragraphs to all the documentation I
can lay my hands on: Susan, c
Hi all
and thanks to Dimitri and Bruce Perens who showed me the way ..
> >> Apr 1 21:05:52 zanzy pppd[351]: Serial line is looped back.
> ...
> >What does this mean?(*) What can I do to prevent it?
>
> Usually happens when
> a) you forgot to send "ppp" command to your ISP (ie. common
> login se
Ok, last night I decided to put the "power_saver" option in my XF86Config.
It made sense since I had a power-saving monitor and a Number 9 Motion 771
Graphics Card. (In addition, windows 3.1 drivers did this automatically for
me, so I felt it was legal)
The next morning, I woke up. The monitor
I have a Cyrix P120+, M1614TA HardDrive, GoldStar 580B, and a Cirrus
Logic GD5430PCI, and Debian 1.2.4, Book Disk from February, and I
can't get the boot disk to work, it keeps choking on the md driver
(0.84 I think), says Max devices = 8, and the other number is 4.
HELP!! I have a working Sl
On Apr 3, Douglas L Stewart wrote
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that
> > will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a
> > thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but..
>
> li
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Richard Morin wrote:
>
> Hi listers,
> I would love to hear from someone who is using the Epson Stylus 600 or 800
> with their Debian box.
I have an Epson Stylus 800 connected to my PC running Debian Linux, and it
works. I use enscript and apsfilter for ordinary printing and
I've got two new computers which have Symbios Logic SYM8751SP cards with
the NCR53c875 chip. The installation disks I've tried (resq1440.bin of
4Jan97 19:39 and rsc1440.bin of 18Jan97 21:53) both fail to detect any
disks so I copied my custom 2.0.27 kernel from a previously new computer
(which
> Daniel Karlsson writes:
Daniel> AVAILABILITY
Daniel> This command is available with the OpenWindows
Daniel> environment. It uses the OPEN LOOK Graphical User Interface.
Daniel> Is it impossible to run OpenWindows programs in X? Or how
Daniel> can I get passed this?
Well, OpenWind
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, The Gardyan wrote:
> How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16
> bit color.
>
> Thanks.
>
startx -- -bpp 16
(if you have it configured in XF86Config)
I've been having a problem with "dump" hanging at 100% cpu hog during my
nightly backups and when run interactively. I've strace'd the dump
command that I use (strace dump 0udf 325000 /dev/rft0 / >&!
~root/dump.out) and copied it to my public ftp area. Would anyone be
willing to look at it and t
Hi,
I would like to know if Linux can emulate a windows NT server.
We will have soons 4 new stations on Windows NT and we woulk like to have
users accounts on these machines. To doing that, we can mount one of this
station on Windows NT server. However, all the users accounts (~80
accounts) are al
[ CC to debian-user left in, but I don't read it, so please preserve
a CC to me if you respond to it on there ]
On 3 Apr 97, Lars Hallberg Micro++ wrote:
> What do You think of a Wrapper Class Libary that makes it easy to
> write code that runns on diferent widget sets? If it makes it
> posab
Hi all,
i have some problems with the sound support in the
kernel-sources.2.0.9 package. I would like to compile my kernel with
CS4232 sound card support.
When i try to make a new kernel package :
$ make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image
...
CS4232 audio I/O base 530, 604, E80 or F40 (CS4232_BASE
Hi,
when I installed Debian 1.1 about 6 months ago I had filesystem corruption
problems during and after installation. My box had a NCR53c810 on-board
SCSI adapter so I had to use one of the special boot disks. After
fighting with the installation for a couple of days I realized that
the boot disk
I am gradually getting desperate.
Almost every time I turn on my linux box e2fsck finds massive errors.
Often times somewhere under /usr/lib/terminfo. I have no idea what
I could be doing wrong. I always shutdown my system with a proper
shutdown or halt command.
Here is a short description of
I have installed Debian 1.2.5 on a virgin system and want to configure
the PPP network device.
I have recompiled the kernel and get the right sort of messages during
boot up.
I can 'ifconfig dummy' and 'ifconfig lo' to install the dummy and
loopback, however a 'ifconfig ppp' gives me an error of
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Thanks for the info. I was wondering what the hell matt was for. It
didn't seem to do anything and whenever I tried it, to see if it did the
job, the window manager wouldn't open the xpm. Sometimes the xpm wouldn't
save to disk either. Actually that may have
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and it'll be a little while
> before any distribution includes it as a stable package. I'd suggest just
> getting a normal pthreads package and being careful t
On Thu, 03 Apr 1997 22:44:59 EST Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> What's the best X based program to use to view mpeg/avi etc... and where
> can I find it?
There is xanim in non-free, and mpeg_play in graphics.
Beware that mpeg_play is a little bit out-of-sync (still a.out !).
Xanim cannot play
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I put the appropriate section below. Another way is startx -- -bpp 16.
Have a good one.
# File generated by xf86config.
**
# Screen sections
#
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick wrote:
> Lastly. Are there any Real Player, shockwave etc.. hacks for linux?
I don't know about shockwave etc, but there is a Real Audio Player for
linux from the realaudio site, see www.realaudio.com. I think I got mine
from that location. Enjoy,
/**
How does one change the default color depth on X from 8 bit color to 16
bit color.
Thanks.
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
What i did was get the AfterStep-1.0pre6 as an rpm from www.redhat.com.
I then installed it in my debian box using alien, and... it worked
perfectly. You have to edit some configurations to suit your needs.
I'm really impressed with dpkg and alien...
a
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that
> will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a
> thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but..
libc 6 hasn't been officially released yet and
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Woodstock wrote:
> I was at the Debian homepages today, and saw mention of upcoming support
> for the Alpha archetecture... Is this still a reality, or has it been
> canned? Thanks.
If you look around in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/bo, you will get some
idea of where it stan
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
[Clip about glibc]
> 3) Fully MT safe.
Can we use glibc NOW along with the normal c lib? I have a program that
will require the use of pthreads and it might be a good idea to use a
thread safe C library, I can likely get by without, but..
Thanks,
Jas
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Sorry people. I've just started using this xfmail. I'm used to being
prompted for the subject when I hit send.
On 04-Apr-97 Rick wrote:
>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
>Hello all:
>
>A couple of things.
>
>What's the best X based program to use to vie
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Hello all:
A couple of things.
What's the best X based program to use to view mpeg/avi etc... and where
can I find it?
What program do I use to create shaped xpm files. Image Magik and gimp
don't seem to do it. They always put a backgroun in them.
Lastly.
> I don't understand you fuc**ng ppl!
Okay, let's all just take it easy. Yes, the original mail was a little
overbearing but this doesn't help calm the situation.
It's really easy to take what is said in email more seriously, more
condesending, and more rudely than the author intended (with blam
Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) :
> o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool
Actually, SWARM is a framework facilitation the creation of models for
any domain. It just so happens that a lot of models were done
f/art.life. There are
I was at the Debian homepages today, and saw mention of upcoming support
for the Alpha archetecture... Is this still a reality, or has it been
canned? Thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://131.238.95.31/woody- Woody
[EMAIL PROTECTED]SysAdmin of Wood
On 4 Apr 1997, Carey Evans wrote:
> APM support can be in a 2.0.27 kernel if it's compiled in.
> Recompiling your kernel isn't too bad, if you make sure you have all
> the information about all your hardware and use "make menuconfig" or
> "make xconfig". make-kpkg is supposed to make it easier to
On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > The release after that will be Debian-2.0 . The major difference in 2.0
> > will be that it is based on GNU LIBC, known in Linux circles as "libc 6".
>
> Two questions:
> 1. What's good about GNU libc?
A million things.
1) Full internationalization.
> > I do have one question about /lilo.conf/: I'd like Linux to use 480
> > pixels vertically rather than the 400 scans it seems to use by default.
> > So I read and read and read, and eventually came accross the 'vga=ask'
> > entry for lilo.conf. Only, it doesn't ask anything, just boots
> > up a
>
> Hi,
> I woul like backup our linux box. Our Exabyte is on a other machine, a Sun
> on Solaris. I have the permission to access the Exabyte on the Sun. But, I
> have some problem to backup our hardrive on the Exabyte with the tar
> command of Linux. Anyone can help me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
Nikolaj Richers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I do have one question about /lilo.conf/: I'd like Linux to use 480
> pixels vertically rather than the 400 scans it seems to use by default.
> So I read and read and read, and eventually came accross the 'vga=ask'
> entry for lilo.conf. Only, it does
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Morin) writes:
> I would love to hear from someone who is using the Epson Stylus 600 or 800
> with their Debian box. I don't have a printer yet...and this particular
> model seems to fit what I'm looking for at a reasonable cost. I know I
> could always use win95 but t
On Apr 3, Kevin J Poorman wrote
> Ok I think I have figured out what happened to my dpkg... I lost the file
> dir or dir.lock that is the database in /usr/info. does anyone know how I
> can force the creation/recreation of this file? Does any one know the
> format of this file??
You can't lose 'di
Fellow Linuxists,
I've just subscribed to this list after having installed Debian
on my laptop. I am very grateful that such an OS is available! It's
been a steep learning curve, but a worthwhile one.
I do have one question about /lilo.conf/: I'd like Linux to use 480
pixels vertically rather th
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