On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote:
> >
> >> So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 .
> >
> >Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know
> >that marketing is anathema to most of us, bu
On Tue, 19 Aug 97 12:35 PDT, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
>> So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 .
>
>Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know
>that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and
>I'm afraid the task fell
When I run dselect I can select an item but I can not de-select it if I
change my mind. It just beeps at me. This is before I install it (I am
just window shopping so to speak).
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I unpacked all the *.orig.tar.gz from .../bo/source, and did a little
counting.
du reports 1.7Gb in 773 packages. I did some line counts as well; we
have more than 52 million lines in total, of which over 18 million are
in *.c files and over 3 million in *.h files.
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on Tue, Aug 19, 1997 at 10:20:06PM + EDST, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
[Andy] wrote:
>
> I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring
> the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be
> selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd
> li
On 19 Aug 1997, Terrence Brannon wrote:
>
> Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to
> set it to PST. How can I do this?
>
as root, do
tzconfig
clock -s
Will
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Somehow the timezone on my computer is HST, not PST. I would like to
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I've managed to break my X windows: is there any way of restoring
the default so that xdm will boot and a windows manager will be
selected. I can do startx / xinit and get a single xterm but I'd
like xdm and a window manager back. I can reinstall xbase, but
the default postinst refuses to touch
Look at the bug reports for the gpc package on www.debian.org for a fix .
The one who took over the package has vanished appearantly. Anyone
volunteering to maintain the package?
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, nik w wrote:
>I am unable to compile schtuff with gpc, namely:
>
>godg# pwd
>/usr/doc/gpc/example
Hi,
How to remove the top line -> '*** Debian GNU/Linux *** ...'
In emacs, I can do: '(menu-bar-mode -1)'
thanks
-mlt
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Hello all!
I'm not quite sure what I did.. but, somehow I managed to remove
telnet and ftp from my Debian installation through dselect. Of course,
this is rather inconvenient. Which package can I find these
programs?
Cheers!
Richard..
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> I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the
> insmod driver thing.
>
> So I type "insmod /dev/cdrom"
Actually, insmod means "add a driver to the kernel". (Okay, it means
"load a module", but let's not get technical.) For instance, to use
my CD-ROM, I have to type
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>T.G.H. de Grunt wrote:
>I'm about to go through this process. I've noticed that many people
>treat the ISDN device just like a modem and skip all the other 'special
>stuff' from these help guides. I'm not sure if that is a locality issue
>though.
uh, th
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> [snip] The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know
> that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and
> I'm afraid the task fell on me. Feel free to call me up if you need a
> longer explanation.
>
> But maybe we should
I just installed the ghostscript package, and it's working great, except
for this: every postscript document I print ends up with its last line cut
off. How can I stop this? I'm using a Canon BJ-200e printer.
Adam Klein
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I am having a hard time getting Vim 5.0l to compile. It appears the
configure script is somehow broken, but I don't know anything about
autoconf or whatever this is generated from... It lists functions and such
which I know are availible and usable as not availible, and at the
conclusion of the pr
> bash$ cat /etc/debian_version
> 1.3
> bash$
>
> So I am running Debian version 1.3 - and yet the CD says Debian 1.3.1 .
Oops. My fault. The reason for two numbers is mostly marketing. I know
that marketing is anathema to most of us, but someone's gotta do it and
I'm afraid the task fell on me.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>And I selected my Teles card for support.
teles card ?
please use a current kernel (2.0.29 or 30) with the 2.0.30A isdn patch
(already included in debian kernels (-6 or -7 or so).
>/sbin/isdnctrl verbose 0
bad thing. use verbose 2 at least.
>
export PAGER=less
(that's from memory, possible typos)
Brandon
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> How can I change it so that less is used to view man pages instead of
> more?
>
>
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On Aug 19, Brandon Mitchell wrote
> On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to
> > read the cdrom.
> >
> > chose option a, saw the following
> [ error sniped ]
>
> Is it recognized at boot up (try "more | dmesg"
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
> I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to
> read the cdrom.
>
> chose option a, saw the following
[ error sniped ]
Is it recognized at boot up (try "more | dmesg" if you missed it)? If
so, just mount it before goi
> Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it.
> Nevertheless ...
This list is always off the topic. But that's ok, it's still educational
and linux related.
> I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that
> even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried
> "
Hi there!
Hum, Hum ! I'm not sure that's the best place to ask it.
Nevertheless ...
I would like to duplicate a msdos floppy in such a way that
even its mother won't make the difference.. I've tried
"mcopy", but the mother did the difference...
Thanks in advance, ml
P.S. what cou
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Alfonso E. Urdaneta wrote:
> I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to
> read the cdrom.
[snip]
> So I type "insmod /dev/cdrom"
> <<
> /dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device
> >>
You should get your cdrom recognized. What kind of cdrom do you h
> > > Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ?
> >
> > What hardware does it have?
>
> Sony CDU77e cdrom drive
> 3.25 Floppy
> 2 2.1 G IDE HD
> 32 M RAM
> Matrox Millenia graphics card
> Unknown ethernet card.
Is this the older `Deskpro XL 5133' model?
The following is
>I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but
>laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone
>help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4
Wow!!! I've never had my Debian system laugh at me! Guess I'll have to
install a sound card
Anyway, h
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but
>now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem
>of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a
>problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't kn
I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to
read the cdrom.
chose option a, saw the following
<<
If you make a mistake use the interrupt key ( ^C ) to abort.
I see that /dec/cdrom exists and is a block device
Inser the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dec/cd
Hi,
I just got my first debian installation done (1.3.1), but would have
needed only half the time if the following Problem hadn't occured:
I started from dos drive hda1 the rescue system and tried to configure the
drivers. My ethernetcard is a SMC 8216C, etherEZ says it is on io=0x220,
irq=10, m
hello,
i just changed to debian linux for the first time and have a small x
problem:
root can startx and everything works fine but when a user starts x no
windows manager is loaded. which startup files do i have to copy/create
for each user?
thanks a lot!
michael
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Frits Daalmans wrote:
> I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to
> libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user)
> I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1.
[snipped]
> My question is:
> In whi
Has anyone out there installed Debian on a Compaq Deskpro 5133 ?
Thanks,
Alfonso
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 10:51:22 +1000 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm.
> Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD
> from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already,
> the problem is that the mirror
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 07:29:11 PDT Kenneth Gaugler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
id.com) wrote:
> Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from
> Debian Linux 1.2 to
> 1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore.
>
> "startx > /tmp/x.out 2>&1"
>
> to capture the e
I can't get Debian to access my 6.4 Gig HD. It will access my 3.2Gig but
laughs at me when it reads the drive geometry from the BIOS. Can anyone
help. The HD is a Quantum BigFoot CY6.4
Logical Cylinders 13446
Logical Heads 15
Logical Sec/Track 63
Sectors 12706470
Thanks A Bunch
Shawn Fetterolf
Nico De Ranter wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable.
> My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ...
> Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA
> drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working
I concur. The next release of the stable tree should be called 1.3
Revision 2, not 1.3.1 Revision 1.
What problem has this solved for CD retailers? Will they still be bummed
when 1.3 Revision X+1 is released and they just got 1.3 Revision X on the
shelves? Did it make any difference that it
HI,
I unbale to use dump to backup my linux box. I receive the error message:
poynting{root}:3>dump 0ubdfs 126 54000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/rmt/1n 3000
/dev/hd
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Aug 19 12:03:14 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to
Hello,
I want to change the maximum username length, therefore I have to recompile
the shadowsuite. But I have a problem when unpacking the source:
I copied all three shadow*-files from my Debian 1.3.1 cdrom and tried it
several times (fiddling with the options -sn and -su and untaring if
manu
> Look for the processes nas and kill it.
Or, as root:
/etc/init.d/nas stop
You can later start it again with:
/etc/init.d/nas start
(whether you used kill to stop it or the init.d script)
Peter
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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote:
> I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part
> being that I
> can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get
> that /dev/audio
> is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about che
I have installed an apparently
incompatible ldso version 1.9.5-1 on a
libc5 debian system. Some library was
not found so I have decided to down
grade to the previous version of ldso
(1.8.x-x). But then rm could not be
found. In short I could not downgrade.
The end result is that nothing seems t
Felix Almeida wrote:
>
> I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a
> new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the
> Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know
> if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there
> I looked at the pine and netscape mail files and they appear to be in the
> same format, except netscape has a summary file for each file. Would it
> be safe to have procmail deliving mail to a shared mailbox file that
> netscape and pine are reading (and have netscape or pine open)?
I use proc
> Does anybody know how to use signify with pine? I've copied one example
> as my .signify in my $HOME dir., but I'm clueless on how to make it work
> with pine.
The easiest way to do this is to add a command like
sh -c "signify --fifo=$HOME/.signature &"
to your .login file. However,
For those who care, I thought I'd summarise answers to my mallinfo
question of yesterday, and what I came up with.
Frits Daalmans suggested that I try the dmalloc package from non-free.
However, when I installed it, there does not appear to be a mallinfo()
defined in dmalloc.h. I suspect dmallo
On 1 machine I have, I'm running hamm... updating daily. Real bleeding
edge. I have a problem with compiling a program that I don't understand.
Here is the error:
gcc -g -ansi -pedantic -Wall -I./../include -I../include -I. -I..-c
fcgiapp.c -o fcgiapp.o
In file included from ../include/fcgi
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> > > The next version of the system will be called "Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1".
> > > People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that
> > > we not change the version number of the system if we were onl
I have mirrored the debian bo, non-free, contrib, and hamm.
Now, my friend want to install it and ask me to burn a CD
from the mirror. I know how to creating the CD-image already,
the problem is that the mirror (*.deb files only) is around
840MB, a CDR can only store up to 650MB, how can I due wit
Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from
Debian Linux 1.2 to
1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore.
Normally I have xdm starting at boot time; now the screen never comes up
but the relays inside the monitor click about every second and there is
> I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but
> now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem
> of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a
> problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know.
You might just have kernel corrup
I had this problem a few days ago. An updated upgrade readme was
released a few days ago including the fix for your problem. I can't
remember the version numbers now, but, you need the latest libreadline
and libreadlineg (I think it ends in a -3). Everything worked great
after that.
Brandon
Hello,
I nearly crashed my system today when, after a successfull upgrade to
libc6 (according to the mini-HOWTO described in Debian-user)
I upgraded from bash 2.01-0.1 to bash 2.01-1.
I made the mistake of using dpkg-ftp; should maybe have done this one
by hand.
I do not wish to report this as a
Hi!
I have some troubles with Linux setup. Linux messaging "Ports not found"
after autodect of SCSI controller, then it trying reset controller and
locks up after messages "error 01" and "kernel panic". I'm using
Adaptec SCSI controller on HP NetServer.
Bye.
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Eric Waldman wrote:
> Any info available on when debian for the SPARCstations will be
> available. I use debian
> on all of my pentiums, 486's, and 386's. I have a sparcstation 1 and
> Sparc classic and
> would like to stick with debian.
There is something working.
There is a boot disk.
Th
T.G.H. de Grunt wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get my ISDN working.
> I already have my card recognized in Linux, also
> the ISDN utilities are working.
> So no I want to dial in to my provider.
>
> I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux:
>
> http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www
I thought I'd stop editing the password files directly, as soon I may have
some more users. I use shadowing. All that happens is
# vipw -s
vipw: /bin/ae: Bad address
vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged
vipw: /bin/ae: No such file or directory
vipw: /etc/shadow is unchanged
# vigr -s
vigr: /bin/ae: Bad
Hi there,
I'm trying to get my ISDN working.
I already have my card recognized in Linux, also
the ISDN utilities are working.
So no I want to dial in to my provider.
I checked some URL's for help on ISDN4linux:
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui16lab/www/isdn/setup_e.htm
http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/i
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but
now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem
of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a
problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know.
Some background:
The machine:
Mother Boa
Howdy,
I'm still having problems accessing my network from my portable.
My 3Com Etherlink II 3C589D (or C) adaptor is recognised as a ...
Anonymous Memory Card !!! I thought it was a problem with the PCMCIA
drivers so I copied the pcmcia sources from a working portable (same
network adaptor) a
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Joergen Haegg wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a
> Sun keyboard to a PC?
To be honest, I've never tried it.
> It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc.
Not very relevant here, I'm afraid.
> But maybe the hardware is completely differe
> > The next version of the system will be called "Debian 1.3.1 Revision 1".
> > People who make long-term products based on Debian requested that
> > we not change the version number of the system if we were only making a
> > few bug fixes. For example, X windows was rebuilt because Richard
>
> H
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 18 19:47:48 1997
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone has been able to connect a
> Sun keyboard to a PC?
>
Yes, I know of few people. They used a self made converter.
> It ought to be possible since Linux can run on Sparc.
>
> But maybe the hardware is completely
thanks for your help.
andreas
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Dima wrote:
> Assuming "runlevel" is roughly equivalent to "state", the above model is
> a stack of states. A state transition diagram would be a (potentially fully
> connected) graph of states. (Potentially) what a mess. :)
I don't think so. Just because it's potentially fu
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Does bash 2.01 solve the problem? We do update 'stable' - we're
> > currently debating that strategy on the debian-private (developers only)
> > mailing list right now. If bash
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:52:14 -0300 Felix Almeida ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a
> new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the
> Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to
I'm a sysadmin of a small network at my college and I'm going to buy a
new tape drive in order to do the back-ups. Some friends told me that the
Iomega Ditto 2GB (internal model) is a good choice. So, I'd like to know
if this drive works fine under Linux. Are there any problems with it? Does
the
I have a similar problem using kernel 2.0.27 with the really odd part
being that I
can play audio CDs using xplaycd. If something like saytime is run I get that
/dev/audio
is busy. In the kernel readme or sound howto it talks about checking that the
device isn't being
used by some oth
On Aug 18, Will Lowe wrote
> I have my machine on a dialup ppp linuk until I get back to school in a
> week, at which point it'll be full-connected all the time. Lately I've
> been getting the "Daily Usenet Report" (I suppose generated someplace in
> cron.daily) which _always_ has errors like the
On Aug 18, Joost Kooij wrote
>
> Um, I don't think it is a very healthy practice to use irq 2 for a serial
> port.
>
> Irq 2 is called the "cascade interrupt". Pc-xt's, which have only one
> interrupt controller, have 8 irq's, but in at's a second controller is
> cascaded from the primary interr
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