Ok.. this problem seems kinda strange to me, maybe one of you guys can
explain it.
I'm running (well -- trying) Accelerated X laptop edition. Those of you
who know about X, please don't stop reading there -- I don't think the
problem is AccelX specific.
When I try to run startx, X begins to s
When, having brought in kernel-source for 2.0.32 on my bo system, I:
cd /usr/src/linux;make-kpkg
a lot of compiling happens (after I answer the config questions)
and the command
ld -m elf_i386 ... -o vmlinux
executes, but aborts with
/bin/ls: invalid tab size: text
can any kind soul give ma a
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Gabriel Millerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone have NIS running with shadow passwords? Or care to enlighten me on
>how I might get that working?
It only works on libc6 systems, because libc5 itself has no support
built-in for shadow password NIS maps. So you sho
Fulgham, Brent/SCO wrote:
> I get the dread:
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111) unable to connect to X
>
try
xhost
in your .xsession
Hubert
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Received about a dozen replies clearing this /proc/kcore
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I've been doing ok using Linux so far, but I can't yet
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On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:13:07PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:42:12PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to
> > make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit?
> > I can't find it in the
Hi!
I'm looking for bash 2.01 for bo (1.3.1). Preferrably the source version.
I'd like to be able to use the Netscape's helpers [Netscape uses
the ((command ); command) syntax which is treated by bash as corrupted
arithmetic expression], but I don't want to upgrade to hamm.
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Anyone have NIS running with shadow passwords? Or care to enlighten me on
how I might get that working?
TIA
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Chi Wong wrote:
>
> > Hi, just wondering if there is an Xspim package for Debian. XSpim is the
> > MIPS assembly emulator.
>
> I don't see one, but recall someone saying they were working on it a while
> back (probably beginning
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Chi Wong wrote:
> Hi, just wondering if there is an Xspim package for Debian. XSpim is the
> MIPS assembly emulator.
I don't see one, but recall someone saying they were working on it a while
back (probably beginning of fall semester). I just grabbed the source and
compiled
Hi, at the bottom is my var/adm/messages file.
The problem is this:
When i boot to get the adapter recognized i have to append
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1.
The card is recognized and also the jaz drive. But no partition is
reported and a "scsi: detected total." is displayed.
/proc reports both the adapt
> Chris wrote:
>
> > Also every time I shut the machine off it releases the IP lease, which
> > results in the lease only lasting for the period in which the machine is
> > turned on. Why does it need to release the IP lease? Surely it should
> > hold onto it so that it can use the same IP on th
Hi
I'm trying out Debian 1.3.1 because I've recently moved from
Yggdrasil to RedHat 4.2, and wasn't completely happy with RH.
Overall, the installation went well, though the dselect user
interface seems almost absurd, it's so bad. (How does one find
out about Deity, and the plans for it?)
I'm
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:42:12PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to
> make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit?
> I can't find it in the docs. I'd like it to stay in the spool file.
add to .muttrc:
set m
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>What package sets up /etc/init.d/network ?
Only a new installation configures it in the setup.
>After a new install on a laptop (for which I might have replied that there
>was no network for some configuration questio
Hi,
I recently switched from sendmail to smail. Since then, I have problem with
my mailers :-(. Mutt crashes when it is time to send a message, wheter is a
reply or a new message, while comp (I use nmh) complains that
my email address is not legal (actually I believe is smail to complain).
The
( The following was filed as a bug, but doesn't really belong there since
it isn't specific to any package (except possibly kernel-image). Thus,
I'm forwarding it to debian-user to see if anybody can help this person. )
Dear Folks,
We have just loaded the most recent available versio
( This was originally a bug report. I'm forwarding it to debian-user. )
Package: Debian Installation
Version: 1.3
When I try to install Debian GNU/Linux to my machine, every time Debian
tries to write to my hard drive, I get an error. For example, when I am
following the installation program,
I'm pretty embarassed to be asking this question, since I'm sure there's
a simple resolution. But, here goes:
I have recently tried to follow a better security model, by creating a
user account for myself on my Linux box, instead of doing everything as
root. In doing so, I have somehow managed t
hi Bill.., I'll try my best to explain, I had no problem installing both bo
and hamm, several machaine running them, couple of weeks ago I downloaded
base2_0.tgz, drv1440.bin and resc1440.bin time stamped 2/1/98
^
from ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/I
Thanks to all of the people who suggested that this line:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X
was missing from the end of my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file. That was
indeed the problem. Is there a bug report out on this?
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[message shorted where approriate]
>
> I've been getting the following during the bootup for a while now,
> just got around to ask what this actually means.
> aha152x: ignoring spurious interrupt, nothing to do
>
> Is this a status/warning/error/panic message?
Accordi
I just 'poked around' looking for something that would describe the
command syntax for rawwrite.exe and nothing that I could find even
suggested that the program could 'skip' such as dd will do... if that is
true then of course it would be useless for what was wanted.
dd can copy from a rawwrite f
John Spence wrote:
>
> Does biff in bo work
> coz it biffin doesn't beep
> an if biff in bo is broke
> then biff in bo I will delete
>
> I've tried biff in bo with 'y'
> I've tried biff in bo with '-y'
> no biffin output does it show
> so poor wee biff is gonna go.
Heh.. thanks for the laugh.. I
Bleh... the default behavior of mutt changed. Can anyone tell me how to
make the latest mutt *not* move the read email to $HOME/mbox on exit?
I can't find it in the docs. I'd like it to stay in the spool file.
Tim
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David Wright wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:33:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > > >> I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical
> > > >> USR Co
What package sets up /etc/init.d/network ?
After a new install on a laptop (for which I might have replied that there
was no network for some configuration question), I'm left without even a
loopback configured. I could hack it in myself, but...
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I've just recompiled the kernel (2.0.33) to include ipmasq support and I now
can't connect to the Internet via my PPP dial-up connection :(
If I ping www.debian.org then I get unknown host name and if I ping a x.x.x.x
address I get "Operation not permitted"
I have installed ipmasq once before o
Please provide a little more information. Are currently running Linux?
What distribution, version? What sort of machine do you have (in
particular is it a laptop/notebook)? Do you have any PnP stuff in the
machine?
Otherwise, the direct answer to your question is Yes, at least a couple
of hund
Think I posted this before - I searched and found Linux_load95 (link -
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/dos/linux_load95.zip is the file
location I found). Uses loadlin and a small batch file to load your
Linux kernel. Has pretty good directions with it, too... I have a FAT32
partition (C:),
Anyone know where to find the latest fips.exe that can handle a fat32
partition?
Thanks,
Behan
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Does biff in bo work
coz it biffin doesn't beep
an if biff in bo is broke
then biff in bo I will delete
I've tried biff in bo with 'y'
I've tried biff in bo with '-y'
no biffin output does it show
so poor wee biff is gonna go.
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Kristian Strickland wrote:
> Are you running gpm? When I first installed debian, I installed gpm
> because it's amazingly handy. However I soon found that gpm and X on my
> machine didn't mesh. Solution? Since I only use the console for upgrades, I
> removed gpm. I
While the world no longer sets its clocks to GMT but UTC, GMT is still a
local timezone in the sense that EST is. Only its universality is obsolete.
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> You were told correctly...
>
> GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal
> Coordinate
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tommi Virtanen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
>
> > oskar:~# vigr -s
> > vigr: /bin/ae: Bad address
> > vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged
> > vigr: /bin/ae: No such file or directory
> > vigr: /etc/gshadow is unchanged
> > -
> > Is thi
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:33:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > >> I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical
> > >> USR Couriers AFIAK, and their configurati
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> Well, I went and used the autoup script for upgrading bo -> hamm.
> I ran into some problems, which, I suspect, were caused by my
> custom-compiled bash 2.01 package. As I know that some people on this
> list used that package, since I made it
Sorry for unnecessary fuss.
I've just solved the problem. It was necessary to untar the
gs-aladdin_5.10.orig.tar.gz manually, cut the ".orig" extension from the
directory name, create the debian and contrib subdirectories, apply
the diff maually, set exec permissions for debian/rules and
debian/ad
Hi, just wondering if there is an Xspim package for Debian. XSpim is the
MIPS assembly emulator.
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Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is fakeroot building the norm in hamm?
It is for me. Except that when you're working on a normal package, I
tend to do:
$ fakeroot debian/rules binary
during development, and then
$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
when I'm finishing up.
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Jan Vroonhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> iii) Doing it this way forces you to be root to do a kernel compile.
>
> I know this probably more of a problem with the packaging system
> itself. However it would be very nice if this could be changed. There
> should be no need to be root to compile a
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the
> sort of thing that "rawwrite.exe" does? If that is the case, then you
> can copy the files "in specified sized pieces" and then use either
> rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or
When netscape 3 crashed a couple of times, i figured I'd try 4. Which turned
out to lack the two things that I've disliked in other browsers: turning
autoloading of images on/off is a preference rather than a menu item, and the
alt-number to go back a page or two is gone. Not to mentions som
Just run a getty on the tty. Edit /etc/inittab and copy the line for tty1
and replace with the correct device name for your serial port. Then as root
do 'kill -HUP 1'.
Greg Green wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> Can any one give me advice on how to set up one of my serial ports for a
> direct terminal con
Paul McDermott wrote:
> whiptail from the incoming. My question is this how do I get to the
> incoming directory? Does anyone have any ideas in this particular
> situation.
> Paul
>
have you tried ftp://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/Incoming if it is not there I
had attached the one I had d/l .
go
Hi,
I installed GNU Pascal Compiler(gpc) and the Runtime Libraries
(libgpc2) from bo. (gpc_2.0-3.deb and libgpc2_2.0-3.deb)
And the other packages gpc depends on already installed
(libc5, gcc (>= 2.7.2.1-2), gcc (<< 2.7.2.2)).
When I try to compile a test program from /usr/doc/gpc/examples/test
(
Paul McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone, I am trying to install modconf but it depends on
> whiptail. Whiptail is not a package. I installed newt0.20 (gave me
> /usr/bin/whiptail) but that did not help. There has been discussion
> abot this topic but no one really knows what
Take a look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Check to make sure that
xbase-configure actually put the config line in there, and if it did,
remove the #.
Corey
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
>
> I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to
> chan
The subject says it all.
Chris
Setting up dpkg-ftp (1.5.1) ...
Unpacking linuxconf (from linuxconf_1.9r22-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linuxconf (1.9r22-2) ...
Cannot create /home/masoto/debian/linuxconf/debian/test/etc/hosts: No such file
or directory
dpkg: error processing linuxconf_1.9r22-2_i
I just did a fresh install of Debian 1.3.1, and have run across a
few problems.
First, I get the following two warnings (that appear to be
related). This one comes up when I try to install some new packages
(assumably the ones whose install programs use perl scripts).
perl: warn
Hello,
after I upgraded to hamm (on Dec 19, 1997) and now latest kernel
(2.1.86) -- I always have to hit Feed button to get anything out of the
printer. The same printer (Okidata laser 710e) works fine for NT.
Did something get changed in the settings of /dev/lp0 or may be
parport device driver th
> Can any one give me advice on how to set up one of my serial ports for a
> direct terminal connection?
> All I need is a terminal session at 9600 - 8 - n - 1 for this, and it
> will not talk to a modem. I will not be talking DTE to DTE, it will be
> DCE to DTE via a serial data connection. I lo
Hi!
I've tried to install the recompiled version of gs-aladdin_5.10-3.
I've downloaded the necessary files (gs-aladdin_5.10-3.diff.gz,
gs-aladdin_5.10.orig.tar.gz, gs-aladdin_5.10-3.dsc) from ftp.de.debian.org,
but when i ran the dpkg-source -x gs-aladdin_5.10-3.dsc
I received the error message:
When you look at the log do you see that your dhcp client is requesting an IP
address that it isn't being granted? It's probably trying to get its old IP
and the server won't give it.
I haven't read the RFC but I'll bet that releasing the lease on shutdown is
compliant behavior. What would be the
Close (probably even closer than it 'sounded' to me)...
/dev is a real directory and is 'normal' in every way. However, the
files in /dev are usually rather special in the sense that I think you
are referring.
/proc OTOH is not really a 'real' directory. It exists in the kernel,
gets mounted and
You were told correctly...
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal
Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So
the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged.
> A related timezone question:
>
> What is the difference between GMT and UTC ?
>
Hamish;
It seems to me that there are several good bbses that should work under
Linux. Though this is from somewhat distant memory two were RBBS and
CBBS and then there are a couple that were written for other
multitasking OSes by ham radio operators. These latter might be a bit
more difficult t
Take this with sufficient 'salt' as I have not done ANY Linux SCSI stuff
on PCs and have not even looked at the Linux code but while that seems a
bit verbose, I don't see anything wrong with what you are getting.
> I've been getting the following during the bootup for a while now,
> just got arou
Maybe someone can confirm this for certain but isn't this exactly the
sort of thing that "rawwrite.exe" does? If that is the case, then you
can copy the files "in specified sized pieces" and then use either
rawwrite on the target machine under DOS or dd under Linux (if dd is in
the base system).
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 01:57:38PM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> Is there a simple way of removing a user from a specific group (not knowing
> what other groups the user is in), or is there a debian package that will do
gpasswd -d user group
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/gpasswd
p
Hello everyone, I am trying to install modconf but it depends on whiptail.
Whiptail is not a package. I installed newt0.20 (gave me
/usr/bin/whiptail) but that did not help. There has been discussion abot
this topic but no one really knows what to do about this situation. There
was a possible re
On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 04:33:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 01:06:59PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> >> I have three dial-in modems on my hamm box. They are all identical
> >> USR Couriers AFIAK, and their configuration *appears* to be the same.
> >> But one port a
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:47:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Stuart Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Frozen mouse in X-Windows
>
> Hi. I have a(nother) problem. As implied by the subject line, my mouse
> is completely frozen in X-Windows, rendering it very close to
Alex Maneu Victoria wrote:
>
> IMPORTANT: PLEASE REPLY TO [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> How should I partition my disks? (let's suppose that there's nothing
> installed). How should I install Linux, after all? Should I create a
> partition for one disk, and then on the other disk another partition f
Hello all:
Can any one give me advice on how to set up one of my serial ports for a
direct terminal connection?
All I need is a terminal session at 9600 - 8 - n - 1 for this, and it
will not talk to a modem. I will not be talking DTE to DTE, it will be
DCE to DTE via a serial data connection. I
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does Debian M68K suppor HP 300/400 serries hardware?
I don't know if Linux/m68k even supports them; You might find more
information at
http://www.linux-m68k.org/>
If it's supported by Linux/m68k, Debian/m68k binaries will work.
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 01:13:52PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> > Ah yes. Welcome to the magic of telnetd/login and getty/login. The first
> > login: prompt is supplied by your getty/telnetd. When you type in your
> > login and hit enter, the gett
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On 19 Feb 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Is fakeroot building the norm in hamm?
No. The norm is just "being root" :-)
However, we tend to consider a bug when a package may not be compiled
fakeroot, because it means that the "make install" target is trying to
touch
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The checks are needed, because you have to be able to do a chown to
> root
I still do not like checks like these, I'd rather have it bomb out at
the chown. But that is just side-issue.
> But if you use fakeroot, make-kpkg will really believe you are ro
I have recently installed Debian 1.3.1 on my computer. After searching
the web for info, there are still some questions unanswered:
Is there a simple way of removing a user from a specific group (not knowing
what other groups the user is in), or is there a debian package that will do
this? If I mo
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On 19 Feb 1998, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You may use fakeroot, so iii) is not really a limitation.
>
> Aha..good. However I recall that make-kpkg puts explicit checks for
> root. Those should be removed then.
The c
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You may use fakeroot, so iii) is not really a limitation.
>
Aha..good. However I recall that make-kpkg puts explicit checks for
root. Those should be removed then.
Jan
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this discussion was recently mirrored by smbfs on debian-devel
result, IIRC, was to have scripts that dynamically branch on kernel
version
> [...]
>
> Also, packages ncpfs and ncpfsx have lots of
>binaries, not just the ncpmount and ncpu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can use the server with a lot of different mail readers, there is no
>problem with the transmission of articles.
>The problem is, I don´t see the "From:" line in the newsreader.
>First I was convinced that the problem was
Thanks for your quick answer...
I will test BIOS version and all the stuff about the hardware. I have also
another machine with Award BIOS, I will also test if there is some
difference about version numbers.
I'll do it as fast as I can!!
Regards...
Gerardo
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Christopher Jason Morrone writes:
>
>
> I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to
> change
>
> no-start-xdm
> no-xdm-start-server
>
> into
>
> start-xdm
> xdm-start-server
>
> abd then I rebooted. It said "starting xdm" but there's no X login
> screen. Whats up?
Hello.
I have installed a Debian 1.3.1 system om a server out on
the internet. The server acts as a http and mail server running
apache and smail on a Pentium 100.
I also have installed the INN package and the package maintainers
configuration is good enough for me because I want to run it all by
I have a huge quantity of mount point to manage (~200) and I get the message
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
pegase:/export/opt/SUNWdxlib,or too many mounted file systems"
I would know where it is possible to increase the number of mount point ?
A.Aubord
My address:
e-m
Hello all, had anyone succeded to install the new debian 2 installation?
I tried the new debian 2 installation with no luck, it just hang/freeze right
after selecting monitor type, both color and no color monitor freeze, can
anyone suggest me the correct way to do it? I had d/l the resc1440.bin sev
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, tony mollica wrote:
> I've found a file in /proc named kcore, with a size of about 67
> megabytes.
> Can someone tell me what this is and where it is generated from?
>
It is just a computers RAM mapped into the filesystem.
Wojtek Za
Hi,
I've just installed some new packages and for the following one, I
think a message like ``Press to continue'' is missing after
the important note.
Chris
Unpacking replacement modutils ...
Setting up modutils (2.1.85-1) ...
Starting kerneld, version 2.1.85 (pid 6944)
IMPORTANT NOTES
=
The more I think about this the more I wonder exactly what you lost.
The spool files of mail that are waiting to go to the uucp user are in
/var/spool/uucp/
Smail keeps all of its configuration information in /etc/smail uucp keeps its
configuration in /etc/uucp
There are no files having to do wi
As far as I know, smail keeps no uucp file in /var/mail.
On 19-Feb-98 Bill Belon wrote:
> Greetings! I have a major problem. I'm the co-owner of a small ISP and
> we're using Smail. Our uccp file was accidentally deleted from the
> /var/mail directory. We have customers who are very unhappy
> > And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
> > the moment.
> on my system dpkg --help | less works fine. The person who had trouble
> with it said it did not work for him/her. Now the problem would be because
> their dpkg --help writes to STDERR and not STDOUT. In w
"Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
> me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
> assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
> are created as a 'file' a
Dave Mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> where do i tell Xemacs about my mail and news server node names??
For Gnus reading news, (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.server")).
The easiest way to get mail working from a server is to download it
with fetchmail.
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>I believe that you really should have a swap partion
This is not true. To begin with, you don't need swap space if you have
enough memory. For linux, swap is just an extra bunch of (slow) memory
that can be used if need be. If it is not there, and enough RAM is
available, that is not a
Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What;s the best place to buy a curretn Debian CD? The people I was
> buying from seeem to have gone away?
if you've got access to a cdwriter and a good internet connection go
d/l the official set from the debian mirrors.
But these are somewhat
"Ian Perry" wrote:
>I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
>me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
>assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
>are created as a 'file' and are acted on ac
I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to
change
no-start-xdm
no-xdm-start-server
into
start-xdm
xdm-start-server
abd then I rebooted. It said "starting xdm" but there's no X login
screen. Whats up? (I tried putting xdm-start-server before start-xdm
too...)
I'm
Greetings! I have a major problem. I'm the co-owner of a small ISP and
we're using Smail. Our uccp file was accidentally deleted from the
/var/mail directory. We have customers who are very unhappy right now.
Can you tell me the lines that the file contains? Or possibly give me a
copy of
at some point around Wed, 18 Feb 1998 16:40:53 + (GMT)
David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> I don't see where UMSDOS comes into this.
i was giving a reference for an alternative way to get linux running
alongside w95 -- using loadlin. i should probably have worded my message
better
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 05:46:00AM +, Ian Watkins wrote:
> DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem
> DM> into
> DM> try
> DM> dpkg --help |& less
>
> DM> for tcsh
>
> And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
> the moment.
dpkg
DM> > IW> instance if I do a dpkg --help | less then less doesn't seem
DM> into
DM> try
DM> dpkg --help |& less
DM> for tcsh
And if I'm using bash? Sorry I can't try it out as I'm not in Linux at
the moment.
Ian W
Karachi, Pakistan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 05:13:16PM +0100, Pere Camps wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good piece of BBS software for debian?
> I'm looking for something like Remote Access for DOS.
Good luck, and let me know if you find anything. I've never been able
to find a BBS program for Linux that
I have heard it said that unix works entirely on files. It always baffled
me to hear that, being a hardware engineer, and writing mostly in low level
assemblers. Now I think I understand what what meant, and that all tasks
are created as a 'file' and are acted on accordingly, hence the /dev
direc
On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 08:28:52PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> > > I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report
> > > saying that remote printing does
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 03:16:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> > I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report
> > saying that remote printing doesn't work. Has anyone else had this
> > problem?
>
> Well, it works
kcore == kernel core memory. It should be the amount of mem you have or
close. It is not a real file, nothing in /proc is.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:08:28AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of the lpr package, and there is a bug report
> saying that remote printing doesn't work. Has anyone else had this
> problem?
Well, it works just fine here from 5.9-20.2 (client) to 5.9-20 (server),
and from 5.9-21 t
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