I agree with you, Britton. As I said in my follow up post, if you caught it: I
was being sarcastic to make a point (which apparently was very poorly done, as
it seems that it was pretty generally missed). I simply think that the things
that he is complaining about are really of no consequence at
Hi, I've just downloaded vubbs for Linux. I've extracted the installation
files to /vubbs as root. But my problem is when I try to run package (The
installation program) as root, bash says the file package does not exist.
I've tried running package as another user and it executes fine, but says
No I wasn't running wu-ftp, but I just installed it and it works fine.
Thanks anyway.
In a message dated 97-08-22 10:00:17 EDT, you write:
<< You are using wu-ftp?
The trouble is that the ls command in /home/ftp/bin is not statically
linked, but depends on a library which should be in /home/
I just came back from a week's work, and I've discovered that the nature
of debian-user has changed dramatically. That's unfortunate, since it
was previously an excellent forum for solving user problems. The
signal-to-noise ratio was superb.
Now it has been hijacked for use as a batteground fo
> > > > When is 31 going to be finished? There are already pre-31 patches
...
> > with it, the BEST thing you can do at this point is install 2.0.29 and
...
> Out of curiosity what's so evil about 2.0.30?
It is the first kernel I've tried since 0.99pl8 that I couldn't keep
running. We had immedi
> >There was no good reason for a corp to be formed. I kept quite. There was no
> >good reason to put out an 'Official' cd (which hurt a lot of our CD-R guys),
> >and I kept quite. Now for the most pethtic reason, the entire version control
> ^ ^^^
> >system (
Howdy!
Let's tackle the LILO question first. After we get your system booting the
way you want, then we can deal with X.
>
> I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know
> about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the
> partition so my System Commander
> > Every Linux production server I work on is 2.0.29. Not one single 2.0.30
> > in the bunch...
> what's wrong with 2.0.30? am i missing something?
I've accidentally deleted the message that talked about ip_masq being
fixed in 2.0.30. I think it is fixed by applying a patch to 2.0.30, n
> I agree with jon here. A few weeks ago i tried to compile and run a
> pre-release of 2.0.31 and had all kinds of problems. I went back to
> 2.0.30 and everything has been peachy so far.
There were two different threads of development for 2.0.31. For a few
months David Miller was doing the de
my isp provider is my college, the dial-in pool does not automatically
run ppp after connection. Local address is assigned dynamically. I log
in (Username: Password are the login prompts), and type "ppp" on a prompt
(prompt is "your destination >") to run ppp. So far, my ppp script is not
work
Carlo U Segre writes:
> One thing that strikes me about the change in the organization of the
> stable tree is that I have seen no simple instructions on how to make use
> of the updates in the bo-updates driectory since they are not linked to a
> version of the stable tree.
manoj writes:
> Do you
> I know that LILO exists, but all of the messages I've read so far seem
> to imply that I will have to format my drive. I really, really don't
> want to do this. Any other solutions short of buying Partition Magic?
>
> I have a 2.1 gig C: and a 1.1 gig D:. Win95 resides on C:.
Yes. You can for
Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I disable an /etc/passwd entry. Isn't there something I can place
> in the encrypted-pw section of /etc/passwd to disable the account ?
Type `passwd -l username' to do it automatically. Make sure there are
no other ways in like ~/.rhosts.
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Well, I put the old back in and it dialed out right ... gona check the
settingins on the new card ... it may have had a conflict there .. will
try the new card again in a couple of days.
Chad
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Chad D. Zimmerman
It works well to configure using magicfilter, as a laserjet 4.
And for color, you can configure another printer as a Deskjet 550c, though
it's not convincing---it does work though. There exists a driver for
dj 850, though I was unable to get it to compile (incompetence on my part).
Does Ghostsc
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Aug 21, Dave Cinege wrote
> > Rev each change and I'm happy enough to be quite. This is the only reason I
> > started yelling, I still feel it is a good one.
>
> Yes, well, I'm suggesting you should shut up regardless.
Everyone could stop beati
On Aug 22, Robert S. Ross wrote
> I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know
> about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the
> partition so my System Commander can call it?
> My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition,
> if
I didn't get a satisfactory answer before, so I will try again. I know
about LILO, it is on my boot diskette. How do I get it into the
partition so my System Commander can call it?
My Red Hat installation offers the option of booting from the partition,
if I wish. How do I get Debian to do that?
Un
Paul Serice writes:
> Suppose, Bruce is "going to drive tomorrow to Santa Cruz (from Berkeley)
> to participate in a meeting for Debian," and on the way he causes an
> accident. Before incorporation, no one knew how far the liability tail
> extended.
Are you an attorney? I'm not. I find it hard
At 01:28 PM 8/22/97 CDT, you wrote:
>jan vroonhof wrote,
>> Just wondering: If that was a concern wouldn't have been better to
>> have incorperated in a country where the legal climate is less
>> aggressive?
>
>I don't think it would have helped. They would still have the underlying
>individual
At 10:15 AM 8/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I don't really think there is much risk, though. Where's the duty?
>>
>> Has there ever actually been a negligence suit over free software?
>>
>
>This is a good question. I would imagine the answer is no, but .
I haven't had
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, jon torrez wrote:
> boy, your slighly behind :)
>
> Its up to pre7 -- its too bad that the pre's are having more trouble on
> the even note than the development i run 2.1.50 at home just peachy and
> here at LBJ High School we run 2.0.30 pre3 with a few little nicks here
> an
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes:
...
> This is very wrong. No matter what happens, a kill -9 should
> kill the process. Are there any other signs of a kernel malfunction?
> (You may want to reboot). If it happens again, could you supply the
> versions of the kernel and of mirror
Hi
I recently asked for help concerning PPP dial up and it was suggested
that I use DUNC for this. I already have unpacked the source code in my system
but when I ran "make" the only thing it did was move the source code to
/usr/bin; the code itself was not compiled. Am I forgetting to do
some
Hi,
Few Questions:
1: Star Office has a gallery of clipart, has anyone ever gotten it to
work ...
2: Has anyone gotten the Spell check functions of Star Writer to work?
3: I have an Epson LX-80 that was bought when we purchaced our first
computer (Apple ][ E) So far As I know this is a bare bon
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First, there is an easy way with the current stable version of dselect
to determine what effect the packages in bo-updates will have on the
typical system. When dselect asks for a local directory of packages,
simply give it the directory where your bo-up
Hi,
>>"Eloy" == Eloy A Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eloy> I think THIS IS THE PROBLEM with the new scheme: there is not a
Eloy> separate directory where you can get all the updates separately,
Eloy> you have to go to the stable directory because updates are
Eloy> merged directly into the main
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
>
> I had ppp working ... installed an eide controller card ... now it seems
> my dialup / modem doesn't want to work right.
>
> Here is what I get in my messages log file when I try to connect:
>
> Aug 20 21:05:12 localhost pppd[568]: pppd 2.2.0 st
Hi,
>>"Carlo" == Carlo U Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carlo> Hello All: I have been following the discussion of the past few
Carlo> days with some interest. One thing that strikes me about the
Carlo> change in the organization of the stable tree is that I have
Carlo> seen no simple instructi
Bruce Perens wrote:
> When you look at the size of our FTP archive it's clear we need to remove
> stuff eventually. I'd be happy to have a site where old stuff could remain
> for a much longer time - is anyone still keeping 1.2 on-line?
Take a look at ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian-old/
The
Hi,
>>"john" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
john> I understand that. I understand what they are and what they do.
john> What I do not understand is why you think that a newbie who just
john> installed 1.3 and has gone to the ftp site to upgrade it will be
john> able to make any sense out of
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From:David Neuer
Date:8/22/97 8:53 AM
I didn't mean to insult you David (well, maybe to tease a little). I just meant
to use sarcasm to indicate my frustr
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
> go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more difficult.
> We kept
Bruce writes:
> Have you tried dselect's FTP method yet? It does that update
> automaticaly. That's why I said it's easy.
>From the dslect "help" screen:
> ftp - Install using ftp.
> Installation using ftp, you must know a ftp site and the correct
> directory for a debian distribution.
But wha
Bruce writes:
> Hamm and Bo are code-names.
I understand that. I understand what they are and what they do. What I do
not understand is why you think that a newbie who just installed 1.3 and
has gone to the ftp site to upgrade it will be able to make any sense out
of names like bo-updates. IMHO
Bruce Perens writes:
> We don't need to purchase liability insurance as long as the
> corporation's total assets are small.
The lack of assets or insurance gives plaintiffs an incentive to try to
reach through to the individuals.
> Since the corporation has the liability, ...
It may not. An emp
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:52:34 +0200, Laurent Bonnaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>i'm using the latest adduser package from bo-updates and i found that
>it does not accept user names containing 8 bits chars. I'm talking
>about a user's full name (first name + family name), not short name
>(login na
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In addition, the packages in bo-updates are for use at the user's
: discretion--they have not been formally accepted as updates to the stable
: distribution AFAIK.
I think THIS IS THE PROBLEM with the new scheme: there is not a separate
directory wh
Behan Webster writes:
> For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow
> passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together.
> Can anyone with experience with using these two together please
> explain how to set it up properly? I'm stumped.
Yes, apparently the c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Volker Bauer) writes:
> Where can I get the latest Debian release on CD in Germany? How much is
> the value?
>
"http://www2.Germany.EU.net/shop/JFL/linux/debian.html";
> Is 500 MB free space only for a Debian filesystem on my hardrive enough?
> Can I run Debian with the Lilo b
Hi,
>>"Clint" == Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (3) The change in the revision name system is truly minor. You
>> guys have
Clint> I wouldn't say that. If it were truly minor there would have
Clint> been no cause for it.
Where *did* you learn logic? Only non-minor things hav
Hi,
>>"Clint" == Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A while ago we held a vote on the leadership of the project. The
>> developers strongly rejected the idea of a "Roman Senate" where all
>> decisions would be voted upon. They prefered to have an elected
>> executive and ratified me to
Cl
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Carlo U. Segre wrote:
> I have been following the discussion of the past few days with some
> interest. One thing that strikes me about the change in the organization
> of the stable tree is that I have seen no simple instructions on how to
> make use of the updates in the bo
OK Dave, here's a fresh one for you: remember LiGNUx? Here's what
made him do that:
> Note that FSF is the same kind of corporation, a non-profit with a 501(c)3.
:)
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jan vroonhof wrote,
> Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 3) Liability. The corporation is legally a person. If someone got
> >the bright idea to sue Debian (for whatever reason, including
> >frivolous), individuals would be liable without incorporation.
> >Incorporated, ind
Hello All:
I have been following the discussion of the past few days with some
interest. One thing that strikes me about the change in the organization
of the stable tree is that I have seen no simple instructions on how to
make use of the updates in the bo-updates driectory since they are not
li
Dave Cinege wrote,
> Yes you have. I'm saying the work done be the people outside the US is now
> asscoiated with a US entity. It's not 'theirs' anymore, while it is in the US.
this is not true, in any sense of the word. The difference between debian
unincorporated or incorporated makes absol
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> Does anyone know how to set up a Deskjet 870 Cxi with magicfilter (or
> anything else for that matter)? Cheers, Colin.
>
> Ps. I have no desire for color - could I just use the 550 filter?
The Ghostscript printer compatibility web page suggests the c
Hello fellow Debian users.
I propose that we fork the debian-user list such that there are one or two
lists whose content is limited to technical questions and answers. If we
had a debian-help list, we could have a rule to keep political/policy
discussions off the list. This could be accomplishe
bruce wrote,
> From: Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > However, were an individual programmer to incure liability (the only
> > way I can think of off hand is by deliberately caused harm, such as
> > sneaking in a disk eraser), the corporation won't protect that
> > individual.
> We would like
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Christopher Smith wrote:
> J. Paul Reed wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Dave Wreski wrote:
> >
> > > > When is 31 going to be finished? There are already pre-31 patches out..
> > > > all the way up to 5.
> > >
> > > They are up to pre-7 now. Looks like there's still a few
> (3) The change in the revision name system is truly minor. You guys have
I wouldn't say that. If it were truly minor there would have been no cause
for it. Clearly there was a reason, and it is this reason to which Dave
and Paul object, if I interpret correctly.
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Hi,
>>"Dave" == Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> Bull. It puts other at odds with the 'officials' in the
Dave> project. There is no reason someone couldn't have come up with
Dave> this 'stable' release CD on their own. There is no reseason
Dave> Bruce could not have done it, and offer
> A while ago we held a vote on the leadership of the project. The developers
> strongly rejected the idea of a "Roman Senate" where all decisions would be
> voted upon. They prefered to have an elected executive and ratified me to
As did I. However, I think it's slightly stretching the point to
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> Does anyone know how to set up a Deskjet 870 Cxi with magicfilter (or
> anything else for that matter)? Cheers, Colin.
>
> Ps. I have no desire for color - could I just use the 550 filter?
Should have tried the 550c before posting - it worked perfect
Hi,
I'm interested in Linux and Debian although I have just very little
experience in it. I have some questions:
Where can I get the latest Debian release on CD in Germany? How much is
the value?
Is 500 MB free space only for a Debian filesystem on my hardrive enough?
Can I run Debian with the
Does anyone know how to set up a Deskjet 870 Cxi with magicfilter (or
anything else for that matter)? Cheers, Colin.
Ps. I have no desire for color - could I just use the 550 filter?
--
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School of Policy Studies Buildi
Hi,
>>"Fire" == Fire Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Fire> I have to admit that I like 1.3.1 or 1.3.2 (or even 1.3.2.1)
Fire> better than 1.3.r1-fruit-files_your_mom.another-minor-change.
The last bit is a wee bit of FUD.
Fire> Mainly, pick a numbering system -- *then_stick_with_it*.
> >The presence of developers and servers in Germany does not limit the
> >ability of the American legal system to reach the developers in the
> >U.S. So, yes, despite developers in Germany, the government is, and
> >always has been, involved. Think of the loop-hole if all you had to
> >do was se
Hi,
Could the 3.0.30 sources have been corrupted? I don't get any
of these errors. Also, do you have the following packages installed?
manoj
from /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz :
==
Before you go any further,
Hi,
>>"Ricardo" == Ricardo Muggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ricardo> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a
Ricardo> mirror process that has been going for a long time. I would
Ricardo> like to kill it but it seems to be really stubborn. I have
Ricardo> tried : kill -9 pidhere
Hi,
For the record: The official CD is not an independent action
on part of Bruce Perenes, all the developers (which is another way of
saying Debian) decided that it was a Good Thing. I am getting tired
of people singling out Bruce for their ranting, and annoyed at people
who have not
boy, your slighly behind :)
Its up to pre7 -- its too bad that the pre's are having more trouble on
the even note than the development i run 2.1.50 at home just peachy and
here at LBJ High School we run 2.0.30 pre3 with a few little nicks here
and there and its buggy :(
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If that new eide card has serial ports, double check your io port and irq
settings for conflicts first. I have some cheap i/o ide cards and they can
cause all kinds of problems in some systems but work okay in others.
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> I had ppp working ... installed
Hi,
>>"Daniel" == Daniel J Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> Bruce Perens wrote:
>>
>> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's
>> currently difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to
>> upgrade to 1.3, because the b
Hi,
>>"Dave" == Dave Cinege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> keep their stock up to date.
>> AFAIK, people do _work_ on this _product_ in their free time. I
>> don't feel to have any moral right to tell them, how they should
>> spend it.
Dave> When they are acting as the official Debian entity you
Ricardo Muggli wrote:
>
> This may be off the debian-specific topic but.. I have a mirror process
> that has been going for a long time. I would like to kill it but it seems
> to be really stubborn. I have tried :
> kill -9 pidhere
> but nothing happens to the process. Does anyone have a suggestio
I had ppp working ... installed an eide controller card ... now it seems
my dialup / modem doesn't want to work right.
Here is what I get in my messages log file when I try to connect:
Aug 20 21:05:12 localhost pppd[568]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Aug 20 21:05:13 localhost chat[569]: abo
Hi Mark,
thanks a lot for your reply.
The 2 PCs are SCSI-only systems, HDs and CDROM are SCSI-2. Here are the
main hardware components:
- Mobo Shuttle HOT-419 (VLB with Opti chipset), AMD486/133, 32 MB RAM
- Adaptec AHA2842 (IRQ 11)
- ATI Graphics Turbo (Mach32 mit 2 MB VRAM)
- NE2000 compatiple
In your email to me, Dieter Rohlfing, you wrote:
>
> Tim Sailer wrote:
>
> > Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem,
> > and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek.
>
> It's revision B with BIOS 1.21
That's fairly recent I think..
> > The 2940 and it's chipset are c
I'm running wu-ftpd-academ 2.4.2.13-0 and I'm wondering if it can be
configured like this:
anonymous sees:
/pub, /bin, /etc, /users (can't decend), and /lib
users see:
/pub, /bin, /etc, /users, and /lib
I don't want users downloading my whole system.
-Paul
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Tim Sailer wrote:
> Do you have an early 2940 in the machine? I had this same problem,
> and had to get a BIOS upgrade from Adaptek.
It's revision B with BIOS 1.21
> The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best. I have a
> production system with a 4 month old 2940 in it that runs
> w
I keep getting these messages in X:
Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged
I have locales 2.0.4-1 installed
what can I do to fix this?
-Paul
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> The discussions have been lively and interesting, by the way. Flames were
> (needlessly) thrown.
Tell me :-) . I will indeed split the list pretty soon.
> Parenthetically, I am still confused by the fact that Debian has it's own
> way with kernel sources and headers
Our way becomes the stan
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Fire Brand wrote:
> Thanks Paul -
>
> Putting SPI's articles of incorporation and bylaws on the
> website sounds like a very good idea. That, and listing the
> officers and the board of directors will allow anyone that
> wants to know to check it out. If this information
From: "Alistair Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 1.Will it overwrite my execisting boot sector?
It'll ask before it writes the MBR. You can say no and boot with a floppy,
or you can install a boot manager and get it to boot Debian from the partition
boot block. Our MBR will also boot Windows 95
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
I understand y
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karsten Bolding)
> Just got a new PC and wanted to install Linux on the second disk. I succeded
> in installing the base system after disabling the Pioneer ATAPI CD (DR-A24X)
> since I realised it was PnP.
Isn't there a way to turn off PnP in your BIOS?
> Then I wanted t
Tim Sailer wrote:
> The 2940 and it's chipset are considered beta, at best.
True. I *always* install the latest driver which is rarely in the
current Linux kernel.
For example, the default Adaptec 2940U driver (aic7xxx) in 2.0.30 does not
do shared IRQs without a tiny patch to aic7xxx
In your email to me, Dieter Rohlfing, you wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> since 2 weeks I'm trying to install the debian linux distribution, first
> attempt was with 1.2.8, second with 1.3.1. Both resulted in crashing
> down during the boot process (look for subject "install problem: aic7xxx
> encou
Thanks Paul -
Putting SPI's articles of incorporation and bylaws on the
website sounds like a very good idea. That, and listing the
officers and the board of directors will allow anyone that
wants to know to check it out. If this information is
available to everyone it will kill some of the t
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> You could try lobbying Guy Maor (gently, please). But there has to be a
> date beyond even updates for an old release get purged. We want the mirror
> space for more current stuff, and with $4 CDs nobody has much of an excuse
> for missing upgrades any more.
> From: Joost
Shaleh wrote:
>
> Paul mentioned this and I have been wondering -- what is the best
> procedure to update from an ftp via dselect? How do I upgrade a package
> I already have installed? I have only seen an add and a remove option.
> Where is 'upgrade'? I am now a month old Debian user and I sti
Hi All !
Does anybody know how do I change colors in a bash prompt. I can
do it in tcsh, but no succes with bash... (even after reading the man).
Thanks in advance.
Daniel.
Dieter Rohlfing wrote:
> I can't imagine, that none of the debian users has an Adaptec controller
> in his PC. Where is the excellence of the debian distribution, when it's
> unable to install on a conventional hardware, where Caldera, Suse,
> RedHat and Slackware can without any problems.
>
> D
Here we are again today, true to our agreement of yesterday, with David
Dave Cinege and Paul Wade. For Homer says that all the gods, and
especially the god of strangers, are companions of the meek and just,
and visit the good and evil among men. And may not your companions be two
of those highe
On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote:
> Just got a new computer with 2 Quantum Fireball ST2.1A and a Pioneer ATAPI CD
> (DR-A24X)
I had a similar problem with a couple of Western Digital HDs and an ATAPI
CDrom. I had to phisically change their connection to the ide ports:
i have connected
Paul Wade wrote:
>
> You are way out of line. I only sell Debian and I only use Debian in my
> 'small' business. I'm beginning to think your resignation is what will be
> essential to Debian's survival, but maybe a public apology to *all* the
> Debian users is enough. You owe it to them because yo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I don't really think there is much risk, though. Where's the duty?
>
> Has there ever actually been a negligence suit over free software?
>
This is a good question. I would imagine the answer is no, but . . .
Suppose, Bruce is "going to drive tomorrow to Santa Cruz
( Re Message From: E.L. Meijer )
> > Hi all,
> > does anyone know which (and where) is the *system-wide* .bashrc file?
>
> Let me quote from the bash man page!
>
>
[ snip ]
> --
>
> > The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly
> > upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over
> > to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes,
> > have been an endless stream of smaller changes.
>
Behan Webster wrote:
>
> For the life of me I can not seem to get nis to work with shadow
> passwords. I can get each to work seperately, but not together.
> Can anyone with experience with using these two together please
> explain how to set it up properly? I'm stumped.
Is your server really a
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> I'm still confused as to why "locate" would report a nonexistent file in a
> directory which is empty, tho. Does it read the packages file or
> something?
It uses a database built with a crontab entry. If your system isn't left
on all the time, you may w
> I am driving about 100 (non-deductable) miles each way and am giving up
> one of my vacation days for this, just as I am giving up vacation days
> to speak at the IN Conference in Germany. I gave up vacation days to speak
> at Linux Expo, too.
I think you should give up vacation days to go to G
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote:
> Hi all,
> does anyone know which (and where) is the *system-wide* .bashrc file?
> Thanks in advances
> Bruno
Closest thing I can think of if /etc/profile. You can check for the
correct shell using a case:
case "$0" in
-bash | -sh)
# do stuff h
>
> Hi all,
> does anyone know which (and where) is the *system-wide* .bashrc file?
Let me quote from the bash man page!
INVOCATION
A login shell is one whose first character of argument
zero is a -,
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone who uses POV know why I cann't see http://www.pov.org/ ?
> Can you see it or not?
>
Yes, http://www.pov.org/ gets me there. It seems to be an alias
(if that's the right DNS term) for http://www.pbs.org/pov/index.html.
=
> Does anyone who uses POV know why I cann't see http://www.pov.org/ ?
> Can you see it or not?
>
Actually, http://www.pov.org is a web site for P.O.V. Interactive,
an award winning PBS series or something. I guess I should actually
look at the page before I report success. Sorry...
===
>
> The Debian watchword has been from early on, a system that can be painlessly
> upgraded. At least twice, this watchword has failed---when a.out moved over
> to ELF, and when libc5 moved over to libc6. In between these big changes,
> have been an endless stream of smaller changes.
>
For th
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