On Apr 14, Rick Macdonald wrote
>Ralph Winslow wrote:
>
>I beg to differ the emacs case:
>
>M-< ; go to beginning of file
>M-%; query-replace
>129.168.1 RET ; search for 192.168.1
>129.168.200 RET; replace with 129.168.200
>!
Yesterday, I booted up my buzz (Debian-1.1) box and surprise ! I in root
account with right away !
An `ls -l' on the root dir showed my that `/sbin/' is now a huge _FILE_
I can't read floppy, cdroms ... because I can't load modules since insmod and
co. are in `/sbin/' !!! :-((( (My Debian-1
Hello all:
As I'm sure everyone is aware a new project has been initiated
to replace the currenct dselect package maintainence facility
with the goals of enhancing its functionality and resolving
some of the existing package maintenance problems.
This thread is being issued to provide all individ
Ralph Winslow wrote:
> > emacs:
> >
> > M-< ; go to beginning of file
> > C-x ( ; start recording kbd macro
> > C-s 129.168.1 RET ; search for 192.168.1
> > M-b M-b M-b ; go back three words
> > M-d M-d M-d ; delete three words
>
Michael J Devine wrote:
>
> I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
> I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
> nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
> machine, the client does not recognize them as vali
Michael J Devine wrote:
>
> I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
> I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
> nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
> machine, the client does not recognize them as vali
Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
> > Craig Sanders writes:
>
vi looks to be about 1/2 the keystrokes (and no double strikes) and you
still haven't exited emacs. I think I'll stick with vi. I also like
:!cp % %.970415
> vi:
>
> Craig> 1G # move to start of file
> Craig> /192.16
Benedikt Eric Heinen wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've got a problem setting up routing for two linux boxes connected to
> the Internet.
>
> The setup used to be like this:
>
> ISP My systems
>
> lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
> ppp0193.135.252.
May be this sounds stupid, but how can I run/install ELF-files. Or should I
better ask: What should I do with ELF-files?
I have downloaded some version of kermit, with the filename ending in _ELF. I
didn't think about the meaning of this until I tried to run/install the
program. Now I have this
I am running debian Linux on a two machine lab... One server, one client.
I installed the nis, netbase, and netstd packages, and followed
nis.debian.howto to set up my net. However, when I add users to the master
machine, the client does not recognize them as valid users. Is there
something I need
> I'm sorry to be dogmatic, but I'm going to say one more time that I like
> things the way they are. If something depends on seperately maintained
> library xyz it is not good but *GREAT* to know about it from the start.
> The dependency structure sends this message to users load and clear, in
Hi there,
I've got a problem setting up routing for two linux boxes connected to
the Internet.
The setup used to be like this:
ISP My systems
lisa.thenet.ch icemark.thenet.ch firefranc
ppp0193.135.252.75 193.135.252.47
eth0192.168
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
>
> > the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
> > its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
> > any mention of the new list.
> >
> > could someone point me in the
Hi:
The specific 'editor freeze' problem that you have can be bypassed by
turning off 'version control' in the jws preferences.
The above was gleaned from http://httwww.blackdown.org.
ml
Benedikt wrote:
does anyone out there have any experience running the Sun jws on a
Debian GNU/Linux syste
Hello,
i am searching for an new mainboard. I thought of an Asus TX97
(Baby-AT). It has an Intel 430TX Chipset and there should be 32 MB
S-DRAM (DIMM) on it.
Are there any problems to expect with Linux (Debian)? (Kernel is
2.0.27)
Kind regardsbjs
> When I run less in an xterm, it seems to save the image of whatever is
> in the window, display whatever it's displaying, and then restore the
> image. On the Linux console, when I exit less, I get just the shell
> prompt on the bottom of the screen, and not whatever was on the screen
> when I ra
> Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
It takes forever because they both read the entire file and run every
single test condition they encounter.
The latest mime-support (2.12) will work much better with lynx since
it tries to use tests that lynx can recognize internally with
Something I've wondered about for a long time (ever since I first installed
Debian 1.1), and thought I'd finally ask...
When I run less in an xterm, it seems to save the image of whatever is in
the window, display whatever it's displaying, and then restore the image. On
the Linux console, when I e
-
Hi all,
I'va an annoying problem with exmh: it won't sign my messages.
After I change path to .signature in "Preferences" it [usually,
but not always] complains about "bogus execute permission on
.signature" once, and then just silently refuses to sign
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
> On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
>
> > the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
> > its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
> > any mention of the new list.
> >
> > could someone point me in the
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style
>authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
>guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* *
>password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now th
> "Herve" == Herve FLOCH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>> Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
>>
> Is your DNS working correctly, is it as long if you ask for an
> address with nslookup ???
> Netscape takes time to start because of its s
Why does it take so long for Netscape or Lynx to start?
--
Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR USA
Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t
You tell me and we'll both know.
On Apr 14, Alexander Koch wrote
> 6. File dependencies, some need tcl 42, some only tcl40 but not tcl42 ...
Could you check this out for every individual package and file a bugreport
against it?
> 11. I have a CDROM on which is non-free and non-us so there IS pgp in,
> though I was not getting o
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, P.A.M. van Dam wrote:
> > This is the real issue. If you could select the 'high level' groups
> > and only deal with the components if you want the option it would
> > be fine. But if I select a group I want it to mean 'install what
> > it takes to make this work', not 'tel
Hello,
I'd like to suggest that the "deity" team take into consideration the
open problem of installing and maintaining packages accross NFS-mounted
volumes (see the recent thread "debian in the lab" in this list).
I believe that making deity NFS-aware will take the debian packaging
system one fu
There is a define that you need to increase to allow more than 64 mount
points. We have run into this problem as well.
Change NR_SUPER in include/linux/fs.h to increase this. I use 128...
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Eko Fajar Nurprasetyo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My kernel keeps giving errors when mount
I'm new to Debian, so please tell me if newbie opinions are not welcome.
I think that after spending possibly half an hour or an hour selecting
packages it would be very nice to have the chance to _save_ the desired state
(installed/not installed/...?) of each package to a file, which w
On Apr 14, Ryan Shaw wrote
> the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
> its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't find
> any mention of the new list.
>
> could someone point me in the right direction and/or perhaps validate
> the claims made
greetings.
on comp.os.linux.misc i heard mention of a project underway to replace
deselect with a program called `diety' in the upcoming debian 2.0
release.
the poster also mentioned a mailing list to discuss to new program and
its development. however, upon browsing www.debian.org i couldn't fi
Hi,
I don' think this came up before. My ISP changed to a pap style
authorization and the only thigs I had to change was to add a 'user
guest' line to the /etc/ppp.options_out file and a line '* *
password' to the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. Now the modem does not
hang up if SIGINT is sent to pp
On 13 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes:
>
> > ...
> > ...
> Is this at all the kind of info you wanted? Feel free to ask more
> questions, but we should probably continue in private email.
> --
> Rob
>
Well, I would be glad to "hear" those info too. So m
Is the sendmail 8.8.5 package from rex-fixed compiled with -DTCPWRAPPERS?
I've been toying with augmenting my rules with some tcp_wrappers
action I was hoping to be able to leave the packages intact, that is,
not recompiling and replacing stuff not in /usr/local.
Jason Costomiris
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> > Why does your page still have this comment:
> >
> > "(There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but
> > it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.)"
> >
> > We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've q
Hi,
My kernel keeps giving errors when mount point exceeds 64.
Is it limitation?
Or is there any method to allow mounting more than 64 file systems
(including nfs)?
Thanks for any assistance.
--
Eko Fajar N.
Kyushu Univ. Japan
A warning to everyone trying to run new kernels: the current modutils
implementation does not work with the latest kernel recent. For the
stable kernels everything up to and including 2.0.29 seems to work
fine. 2.0.30 however does not work. For the 2.1 series there is a new
modutils snapshot (sour
> Craig Sanders writes:
vi:
Craig> 1G # move to start of file
Craig> /192.168.1 # search for 192.168.1
Craig> 5cw192.168.200 # change 5 'words' to 192.168.2
Craig> n # find next
Craig> . # repeat change
Craig> n
Hi!
I found that I can't delete special (i.e. hidden/system/readonly)
files on a mounted msdos partition, even as root. I tried to
change the permissions with chmod, but that didn't help either.
Am I overlooking something obvious?
Thanks a lot,
Andy.
PS: It's Debian-Linux 1.2.4 on a PC-based ma
> Jason Costomiris writes:
Jason> I get calls from users all the time asking "How do I search
Jason> and replace in my file?" 9 times out of 10, they are using
Jason> pico, which has to be the most brain dead editor ever
Jason> created. I always tell them, use vi, [...]
Well, vi is
When I run addftpuser as part of installing the current Debian wu-ftpd
package wu-ftpd_2_4-27.deb
I get the eror
Addftpuser: broken symbolic link. Invalid argument st /usr/sbin/addftpuser
line 232.
It turns out this means 'ls' is not set up for anonymous ftp. As a result,
users cannot see th
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> hi
>
> Ok I have heard from one source that the cua* devices are being kept
> up... and from this list that the cua* devices are not being kept up...
> and that we should use the ttyS* devices ... and comments ...
>
>
> -kevin
>
I think this matte
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Apr 14, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
>> Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
> What do you expect from such an image?
I remember seeing an announcement from (?) Bruce Perens saying that
there would be an
On Apr 14, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote
> Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
What do you expect from such an image?
Regards,
Joey
--
/ Martin Schulze * Debian GNU/Linux Developer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /
/ http://www.debian.org/ http://home.pages
Will there be an Official Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM image?
http://www.debian.org/vendors.html says:
There is no "official" Debian GNU/Linux CD-ROM. The core distribution
is freely redistributable (for commercial purposes too), which makes
it very easy to make Debian CD-ROMs.
Karl M. Hegbloom <[EM
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, P.A.M. van Dam wrote:
> It would be really nice to have some highlever package order, like
> some commercial UNIX vendors have. For example one might have the choice
> to install everything as it suits himself or choose some highlevel packages
> like a KDE environment using Du
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Why does your page still have this comment:
>
> "(There once was an official logo with a baby gnu on it (see above), but
> it has been dropped with the separation of Debian and the FSF.)"
>
> We kissed and made up long ago. Below I've quoted this page
I decided to set up my printer on my Linux box so I installed lprng
(3.2.1-1) and apsfilter (4.9.1-10) and installation seemed to go without a
hitch. But I can't print. Looking at the log in
/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-color reveals entries like the following:
tail: -d/var/spool/lpd/bj200-l
On Apr 13, Jason Killen wrote
>
> I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
> is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
>
> How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
> that I'm basically lost.
Start FTP and fetc
Hi All.
Due to my frustrations getting the Frontpage Server Extensions working
under Linux I have put up a page which goes through the steps I went
through to get it to work. It does *not* detail the security implications
of installing the extensions but M$'s document is not bad on this subject
a
On Apr 13, Bruce Perens wrote
: They don't seem to be changing the license. It's "free software" only when
: used with X. That was the story before.
:
Nevertheless I filed it to non-free. (qt-1.2 is out and will be
uploaded today.)
Heiko
--
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Jason Killen wrote:
>
> I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
> is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
>
> How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
> that I'm basically lost.
The n
i need a ps/2 mouse driver please send it to me please i need it for my
computer. please send it to me.
is nntpcache a debian package? thanks
SaHua,
michl
electric RAIN http://www.electric-rain.net/
"The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a nation
to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions."
- Anonymous ('Hacker's Law')
They don't seem to be changing the license. It's "free software" only when
used with X. That was the story before.
Thanks
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
I know that /etc/passwd must be readable by world but if shadow passwording
is used can /etc/shadow be set to only read/write by root.
How do I setup shadowing, I know there is the libpam package but other than
that I'm basically lost.
--
Jason Killen Questio
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote:
> The reason I put this copy up was for testing. For the first round of
> testing, people were picking them up from sites that only had modem
> bandwidth. Yes, ftp.debian.org is the authoritative source. If you want to
> play with the new toys before the store
The reason I put this copy up was for testing. For the first round of
testing, people were picking them up from sites that only had modem
bandwidth. Yes, ftp.debian.org is the authoritative source. If you want to
play with the new toys before the store opens, you can pick them up at my
site.
On Mo
I've installed bo today from scratch.
I found several bugs :
( a=annoying, B=bad, F=fatal)
I boot with the rescue disk,
install the base from msdos drive,
install the packages whith ftp (dselect/ftp). from 'frozen non-free contrib'
Here is the list of the bugs + what I did to solve them
B :
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