Adam Klein wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote:
> >
> > > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom.
> > > because i dont want to run apps in root account...
> > > what should i do.
> >
> > One of t
> perldoc perlsec is your friend! :)
>
> Bottom line is that globs are *always* tainted, as is anything that
> relies on shell processing (csh being how globbing is done).
Yep, I realise this, but what I didn't have is an alternative. There's
lots of info on de-tainting user input, but basicall
> Anyone notice that the Gimp available for Debian 1.3.1 is the old .54
> version? I have downloaded and successfully compile .99.15 on a libc5
> system, however if you want to get this version (actually .99.14 last I
> looked) from Debian you HAVE to install from the "hamm" area, and that
> requ
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Bossman Construction wrote:
> How do I setup pine to use fetchmail or vice versa. I can get fetchmail to
> download the messages, but do I now need to link pine to look in the inbox
> folder that fetchmail makes? Where is the downloaded mail stored when using
> fetchmail?
>
Hi folks!
I'm really happy that we finally have a logo for Debian GNU/Linux!
I've just updated the Debian logo pages at
http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/
The pages include all new submittions that I've received since the last
logo page, the old logo pages and th
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Adam Klein wrote:
> > > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom.
> > > because i dont want to run apps in root account...
> > > what should i do.
> >
> > One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option which
> > allows ordinary users to m
> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > ...and my ISP would rather that my machine doesn't continue to send out
> > messages to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
> >
>
> Well, even if you fix this particular problem, your machine will still
> generate messages to root from time to time, and they pr
In a fit of cleverness, I used a digital camera to take my daughters picture
to send in an email as an xface to her granparents. However, as I go through
the manpage for xfaces, and the help & preferences for exmh, I can only find
instructions for receiving, not sending.
Can someone point me
I'm not certain, but I think bash has some built in variables that affect
the behavior with respect to links.
On 29 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It doesn't understand that /raid/home/blp and /home/blp are the same
> directory. Either set your home directory in /etc/passwd to /raid/home/b
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Klein) writes:
> The problem with that is that you can only specify one filesystem type.
> I've got this problem two. Is there a solution?
How about two seperate lines in your /etc/fstab ??
> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
>
> > I have started getting these messages out of the blue:
> >
> > chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> > chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> > chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> > chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> > chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> > chgrp
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
> ...and my ISP would rather that my machine doesn't continue to send out
> messages to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
>
Well, even if you fix this particular problem, your machine will still
generate messages to root from time to time, and they probably shouldn't
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know where can I get a CRC-32 program?
>
> Thanks!
>
"cksum" from the textutils package computes a CRC (32 bit) check of files;
the documentation is a bit sketchy (even the info file) - this has the
same functionality as the Fr
> I don't "know" the answer to this question, but in your shoes I'd start by
> re-writing the above as:
That (with a couple typo's fixed :) does the trick beautifully! Thanks
for the pointer, I figured there had to be a way to do it.
Adam.
Internet Alaska
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:
> I have started getting these messages out of the blue:
>
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
> chgrp: invalid group name
Well cpio has parameters to swap bytes between big-endian and little
endian machines AND it understands gnu tar format. No special device
needed...
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, debian mail recipient wrote:
>
>Hi. We're having a problem un-tarring a tar tape in Linux that was
>made under Solaris. I rec
I have started getting these messages out of the blue:
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
chgrp: invalid group name `#-1'
Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C) 1987-1995 Bru
> Does anybody know of any reliable mirorrs? .
I use exclusively ftp.cdrom.com or sunsite.unc.edu.
Either of them always have very reasonable rates - and I'm on T1.
Later,
Kevin Traas
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Hi. We're having a problem un-tarring a tar tape in Linux that was
made under Solaris. I recall having the exact same problem when I tried
to untar a Solaris tape on an SGI. The problem was that one machine used
"little-endian" representations for numbers on the tape, while the other
used "big-
Hi,
I'd like to know where can I get a CRC-32 program?
Thanks!
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I had the same problem. It seems, that during installation, some of the
files in /etc/texmf get removed, but later packages depend on them. I
finally succeeded by installing the packages manualy with dpkg not with
select
1. base package
2. bin
3. extras
then
G. Kapetanios writes:
>
>
>Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I
>heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
>for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
>files by using the dvihp command. However the mos
Witold Grabysz writes:
> Dear Friends,
> it happened to me to use Polish as my native language. In general we use
>
> Latin alphabet plus some unique
> letters (the same do the German and French). It seemed to me during
> configuration I set my keyboard to
> support Polish signs:
>
>
On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 11:13:51 EST, "Jeremy Blonde" wrote:
> I'm trying to setup pine and so far I can't figure a couple of things out.
> I want it to download email from my isp. Right now I don't care about local
> mail (I'll work with that later). However I keep getting a imap error? I
> have t
In addition to the steps already mentioned to stop relaying (I use
sendmail, so I don't have a clue here...), you might want to do a couple
things:
-use ipfwadm to stop his host even touching your port 25.
-here's the fun part: invoice him for the cost of bandwidth, processor
cycles, diskspace an
You did compile firewalling into your kernel, didn't you?
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Mark Stone wrote:
> From: Mark Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 08:58:33 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: proxy server question
>
> I'm attempting to use one of my computers at
Hmm, looking at my last message I see my quoting wasn't real cool.
Sorry about that, I intended to snip all but the command about no audio,
not the "frustrated newbie" part. (been there)
Sorry.
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On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 12:46:47AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote:
>
> > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom.
> > because i dont want to run apps in root account...
> > what should i do.
>
> One of the options you can specify to mount
Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I
heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked
for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi
files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me
is t
Allen Burns wrote:
>
> Hi, it's me again, is this going through? The reason I ask is because
> nobody has answered me or my questions? But I have a Quantum UDMA drive
> along with a Gateway2000 UDMA controller card and when I try to insstall
> Debian it won't detect any hard drives, or it will det
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Claude Sisson wrote:
[ snip ]
:
: I hope this helps some other frustrated newbies out there.
:
Why can't you play audio CD-ROMs? The controller cable is exactly that,
a controller cable. Every CD-ROM I've ever installed has a seperate
audio cable that runs to the sound car
Hi!
I have a HP550C working under debian, just using apsfilter / lpr
It's easy to configure, it asks everything necessary.
note: apsfilter doesn't work with LPRng, there is a package named
magicfilter for it, but i haven't tried it.
here is my printcap:
## /etc/printcap: printer capability databa
Paul Miller wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> >
> > > how do I kill samba when it is loaded from inetd? .. smbd doesn't even
> > > appear on ps -aux unless a service is being used.
> >
> > If there are no processes running then samba isn't running. If you would
> > like to st
Hi ALL,
Is there some to have /dev/dsp, /dev/audio, /dev/pcaudio, and
so on, connected to the pc speaker?
That is, i would like to use, e.g., realaudio w/o sound card
[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is
Hi,
I have just installed a new HP 6L printer. It works fine under Windows. It
works under DEbian but only reacts when text files are sent to it. When ps
or dvi files are sent it does nothing. I am using the ljet4l-filter but
otherwise changed nothing in my printcap which worked fine with a bubbl
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Jeremy Blonde wrote:
> I'm trying to setup pine and so far I can't figure a couple of things out.
> I want it to download email from my isp. Right now I don't care about local
> mail (I'll work with that later). However I keep getting a imap error? I
> have the domain set co
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michael wrote:
> PPS. I installed the jdk stuff via dpkg as well. It took a while to
> figure out why Netscape was exiting by itself. I thought Java was
> included with it, why isn't it and why does it crash without it (because
> I've got Java module support installed in the kernel?)?
Eh, Commu
I'm attempting to use one of my computers at home as a proxy server for
the others. At a recent installfest I got everything set up with a great
deal of help from a couple of Debian gurus. Now, at home, things don't
seem to be working, and I don't know what I could have changed to make a
difference
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Jeremy Blonde wrote:
> I'm trying to setup pine and so far I can't figure a couple of things out.
> I want it to download email from my isp. Right now I don't care about local
> mail (I'll work with that later). However I keep getting a imap error? I
> have the domain set co
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote:
> I haven't been able to reach http://ipmasq.home.ml.org today at all - and,
> of course, the list of mirrors is on that site as well So much for fault
> tolerance
>
> Anyone know of an available mirror of this site?
http://www.indyramp.com
On Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 02:53:55PM +, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> I am attempting to get PPPD to work from my Debian Linux machine with a
> marked lack of success
>
> Nov 25 16:12:25 server pppd[140]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1
>]
> Nov 25 16:12:43 server last message repeated 6
Randy Edwards wrote:
>
>I'm running Netscape 4.04 with bo and have been having some trouble
> getting Netscape's internal mail to work. I've set Netscape's preferences
> to use its internal movemail function and have chmod'ed my
> /var/spool/mail/redwards subdirectory to 01777 like Netscape r
Hi,
I installed netatalk and it works well, but I cannot login as guest
user from the Mac, the Guest radio button remains grayed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
Francesco
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I'm trying to setup pine and so far I can't figure a couple of things out.
I want it to download email from my isp. Right now I don't care about local
mail (I'll work with that later). However I keep getting a imap error? I
have the domain set correctly (cardina.net, see email address below). A
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> I am attempting to get PPPD to work from my Debian Linux machine with a
> marked lack of success
>
> I have been firing up Minicom to dial and log on, then CTRL-AQ to drop
> out of Minicom without reseting the modem (as described in the PPP-
> H
On Monday, 1 December 1997, Mike Miller writes:
> > "jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Now i wanted to install it on my notebook at home; the
> > easiest way would be via my pcmcia network card and nfs; or
> > otherwise via zip drive. But i guess debian doe
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Albert Hurd wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 from CheapBytes disk on a new computer
> (and a newbie at Linux) which has a Matshita (Panasonic) CR-585 24x
> CDRom. At the point in the install where it tries to access the CDRom, it
> halts with the error message: mou
I am a newbie who was trying to install Debian from a CD-ROM that was
attached to a Soundblaster 16 PnP card. The problem: when I ran dselect,
I could never give it an answer to "block device name" that would find
my CD-ROM, so I was unable to get information off of the CD.
My solution:
- I opene
> "jan" == Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now i wanted to install it on my notebook at home; the
> easiest way would be via my pcmcia network card and nfs; or
> otherwise via zip drive. But i guess debian doesn't do
> either (i guess i could try to install debi
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Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> Yes, but there is more to this. The disk, floppy and cdrom devices
> (I mean the /dev/* files for them) have permissions 0660 on a default
> Debian system, so that normal users can't access them. The solution
> to this is _not_ to make the permissions 0666, but to make t
Bill Leach writes:
> The simplest and most direct solution is to add "users" to the list of
> options for each filesystem that you want your users to be able to mount
> (in /etc/fstab).
> So, your cdrom entry might look something like:
> /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 noauto
Ben Pfaff writes:
> I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default
> format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite,
> it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I
> could include more (or any, actually) details if requested.
Hello,
I recently purchased a notebook (166MHz, Vobis LeBook
Premium). After a bit of fiddling with the partitions
installed I managed to install Linux (Debian 1.3.1).
However, I'm having problems with configuring X (using
xbase-configure).
As far as I can tell (info coming from Win95 Display
Se
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, John Spence wrote:
> One of the required dependencies for the program tkrat_1.0.5-1.deb is
> the much mentioned libc6.
>
> Now I know that this isn't a dependancy for nothing but I also know
> that I had this program running under RH4.2 which doesn't have libc6.
>
> I don't k
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Ian & Gill Watkins wrote:
> I have been firing up Minicom to dial and log on, then CTRL-AQ to drop
> out of Minicom without reseting the modem (as described in the PPP-
> HOWTO) and then entering a command thus:
>
> pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS0 38400 &
>
> again from the PPP-HO
David Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> localhost# dpkg-source -x wwwoffle_1.3a-1.dsc
> dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./wwwoffle_1.3a.orig.tar.gz' contains
> object
> (wwwoffle-1.3a/) not in expected directory (wwwoffle-1.3a.orig)
The dpkg from hamm can now use the upstream
"James A. Abercromby II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have quite recently upgraded the following pkgs to my Debian 1.3.1
> Linux Box xtet42, xtris, xfig, xcontrib, emacs, xlib6g, xpostitplus,
> lincity etc. and all the associated/appropriate libs etc. from
> Hamm.
[snip]
> However, xephem-s
Dear Friends,
it happened to me to use Polish as my native language. In general we use
Latin alphabet plus some unique
letters (the same do the German and French). It seemed to me during
configuration I set my keyboard to
support Polish signs:
Xkbkeycodes "xfree86"
XkbTypes"default"
Hi,..
first of all: ThanX!
]First off I'd recommend cat'ing your /proc/module file and seeing if you
]indeed have an entry for your network card.
nope,.. doesnt seem so:
elif# cat /proc/modules
pcmem_cs2 0
ds 2 [pcmem_cs] 3
i82365 4 2
pcmcia_core 7 [pcmem_cs ds i82365] 4
seri
Hi
I've installed debian for the first time on a new machine, and i
like it al lot (except maybe for the deselect interface :^).
Now i wanted to install it on my notebook at home; the easiest way
would be via my pcmcia network card and nfs; or otherwise via zip
drive. But i guess debian doesn't
I am attempting to get PPPD to work from my Debian Linux machine with a
marked lack of success
I have been firing up Minicom to dial and log on, then CTRL-AQ to drop
out of Minicom without reseting the modem (as described in the PPP-
HOWTO) and then entering a command thus:
pppd -d -detach /d
Lawrence wrote:
>Oliver Elphick wrote:
>>
>> Lawrence wrote:
>> >What is the likely device name in the /dev directory for a SCSI tape
>> >drive? is it /dev/tape? Anyone using the Seagate Travan SCSI backup?
>>
>> SCSI tape drives are:
>> crw-rw-rw- 2 root root 9,
clif smith wrote:
>Hi,
> To begin, I'm a newbie to Linux and this is not the first time I've
>inquired about this problem.
> Simply put, from the time I installed Debian I got the following message;
>
>'ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libproc.so (no such file or
>directory),
Stephen Zander hat gesagt: // Stephen Zander wrote:
> Wintermute wrote:
> > Same problem here. Only I have been checking my mail constantly today..
> > and I stop for like 1 hour to hop out of X and configure some things,
> > come back, start up Netscape, check my mail..and I've got like 150
> >
Hi,
System: Debian1.3/Kernel2.0.30 (upgraded from Debian1.2/kernel2.0.27)
It seems that every time i boot from an upgraded rescue floppy and
run the network setup, my system doesn't initialize the network card
anymore. It sais: "cardmgr: loading failed. The module symbols (from
linux 2.0.30) d
I have upgraded Debian 1.2 to 1.3 (also upgraded kernel 2.0.27 to 2.0.30).
Should I upgrade the installation diskettes too ? (rescue, boot,
base-1/4, drivers). Or can I use the old ones ?
Regards,
marc
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I have been getting REALLY slow transfer rates on the Debian FTP site (like
0.22k/s) when I ussualy get AT LEAEST around 1.8K/s and seems how I screwed
up and downloaded the wrong stuff I have to mirror most of the msdos-i386
branch to my HD. Does anybody know of any reliable mirorrs? I tired the
o
>
> I can't seem to get Debian's teTeX to work at all ("can't find default
> format file" from tex). But when I downloaded it direct from sunsite,
> it worked fine. Has anyone had a similar experience? I suppose I
> could include more (or any, actually) details if requested.
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I just voited at http://www.slashdot.org and Debian is at 714 and Red Hat
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Hi,
To begin, I'm a newbie to Linux and this is not the first time I've
inquired about this problem.
Simply put, from the time I installed Debian I got the following message;
'ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libproc.so (no such file or
directory), skipping'
The file is there but when
I am trying to install Debian 1.3.1 from CheapBytes disk on a new computer
(and a newbie at Linux) which has a Matshita (Panasonic) CR-585 24x
CDRom. At the point in the install where it tries to access the CDRom, it
halts with the error message: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block
device.
The C
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 10:27:47PM -0800, michael wrote:
> The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael'
> user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of
> group pid and dialout.
>
> When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> > Some guy is relaying a huge lot of spam e-mail via my computer. My
> > computer is normally only used by myself and I do receive a lot of e-mail
> > through several lists, but this guy caused /var/log/smail/logfile to be 41
> > MB (that's right, fort
I wonder:
why is the a2ps package in the non-free section of the Debian
distribution? (Looking at their website it seems that they are
distributing their software under GPL!)
Volker
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The pon command works from the root account but not from the 'michael'
user account (mine's a single user system). Michael is a member of
group pid and dialout.
When michael executes pon the system issues the following complaint:
You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or
/etc/
Adam Shand wrote:
> How do I untaint the glob, or better yet access it so that it's not
> tainted to start with (if that's possible)? The files I'm accessing are
> safe as only root can write to them, but I'd like to do this the 'right
> way'.
>
> I can't find anything relevant to this in the docs
Wintermute wrote:
> Same problem here. Only I have been checking my mail constantly today..
> and I stop for like 1 hour to hop out of X and configure some things,
> come back, start up Netscape, check my mail..and I've got like 150
> messages.
>
> Whew...
My answer was a bit-bucket rule in mail
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> Some guy is relaying a huge lot of spam e-mail via my computer. My
> computer is normally only used by myself and I do receive a lot of e-mail
> through several lists, but this guy caused /var/log/smail/logfile to be 41
> MB (that's right, forty-one MEG
On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 09:29:00PM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
> In the BIOS, I turn the 'PnP OS' option off.
> In the 'PCI peripherals' section of the BIOS,
> I disable the two 'Onboard serial devices'
> (as these two 9-pin ports are currently unused).
>
> When I look into Win95, I look at the set
One of the required dependencies for the program tkrat_1.0.5-1.deb is
the much mentioned libc6.
Now I know that this isn't a dependancy for nothing but I also know
that I had this program running under RH4.2 which doesn't have libc6.
I don't know zip about package building but I assume that if I
In the BIOS, I turn the 'PnP OS' option off.
In the 'PCI peripherals' section of the BIOS,
I disable the two 'Onboard serial devices'
(as these two 9-pin ports are currently unused).
When I look into Win95, I look at the settings
for my modem and find that IRQ 4 is used for
address 0x3f8, with DMA
Is there a HotJava based Internet browser
that can run under linux with java kernel support
-Oz
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Hi,
Some guy is relaying a huge lot of spam e-mail via my computer. My
computer is normally only used by myself and I do receive a lot of e-mail
through several lists, but this guy caused /var/log/smail/logfile to be 41
MB (that's right, forty-one MEGABYTES) [1]. Does anyone know how to
prevent su
On 1 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> including SCO and so on. We're going to have to get a lot farther with 86open
> before that happens.
Thought it would be awhile... Hurd looks like it has some neat technology,
though.
Thomas.
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> Highest Score:
> Page v12 Debian Logo Draft: eb07 Yes 67% (140) No 32% (68)
Yes, indeed that has the highest score. Unfortunately, the criteria
for choosing it were not quite right. We can't register it as a
trademark and it's too easily confuse
On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Benoit Joly wrote:
>
> > i want to allow normal user to use mount for floppy and cdrom.
> > because i dont want to run apps in root account...
> > what should i do.
>
> One of the options you can specify to mount is the 'user' option
Oh, never mind. I thought this was addressed to me. I'll pull back into
my burrow now.
Bruce
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It's probably hair. I have quite a lot of it.
Bruce
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) writes:
> I've gotten them all twice today as well -- from what seems to be a
> usenet <-> debian-user gateway somewhere in Britain.
Looks to me like the gateway operator overlooked the Distribution: header in
his news/mail
From: Tommy Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Linux kernel?
I am not one of the people testing it. RMS is still running Debian on his
laptop :-)
What I would hope is that the HURD would support the 86open standard
(essentially GNU LIBC with
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> We've been having a logo contest for a long time. It failed to generate
> a consensus on a logo for the project. It got to the point where people
> were clamoring for me to hire a commercial artist and get the job done.
> I went over the candidates in the
Hi,
What is that on your head?! :-)
(I'm looking at your xface)
David
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I put `start-xfs' in /etc/X11/config, the font server runs (can see it
> with ps). I can't tell, though, if X is using the server... Are there
> any additional steps apart from the one change in /etc/X11/config?
Yes, there are. You have t
Argh, sorry to answer my own post - I'd recently migrated my
installation to another hard drive and I didn't run makedev to fix the
/dev special files; for some reason once I did that, XEmacs started to
work fine... I have no idea why...
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> This is the logo of "Debian GNU/Linux". Any future Debian system we do with
> the Hurd would obviously have a different logo. We could still use a logo
> for Software in the Public Interest.
On a bit of a tangent, how ready is the Hurd to replace the Lin
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