I know what a symlink is, but what is a "slave symlink"?
I upgraded today (potato using apt-get) and I got this:
warning: /usr/bin/wish8.0 is supposed to be a slave symlink to
/etc/alternatives/wish8.0, or nonexistent; however, readlink failed: Inva
gument
Leaving wish8.0 (/usr/bin/wish8.0) point
First of all x11amp is now XMMS www.xmms.org
Second of all potato has a nice .deb of xmms
Third of all StarOffice 5.1 (the 40 doller version on CD) gave me no problems
installing on a potato system, no I didn't even need to put thoes old libs
in to correct. Yes I had problems with the d
I know I've seen a few comments about X11amp before, but most of the suggestions
were to upgrade to 2.2. I tried installing the .deb from unstable, and had to
upgrade a few other packages before it would work, but this caused many, many
conflicts in my system, according to dselect. Everything see
I run a 486dx2 66 no soundcard (at list untill i can get my hands on
something better).
Problem is that when i try to start gnome aplications i keep getting a
massage that esound is looking for a sound card (which obviously it can't
find) and end with a massage sound device inadequate for Esound. f
Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried removing alsalib while freeing up some hard drive space (i.e.
> removing unused packages) and encontetered the following error:
>
> Removing alsalib0.3.0 ...
> argument missing for `remove' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 96.
> dpkg: error processing alsali
> "David H. Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line:
>
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
>
> mean "send everything addressed to IP's 192.168.1.* through default
> gateway"? But this way the kern
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:07:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> "David H. Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The default is for addresses whose routes are not specified by the
> > routing table. Packets destined for any computer with an IP in the
> > 192.168.1.0 network will be sent out eth0
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You have to enable experimental drivers when you run "make menu-config"
> then the realtek driver will show up as an available driver in the
> network section.
Hi, John:
Where do I enable experimental drivers?
Thanks,
--
Arcady Genkin
"... without mon
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line:
> >
> > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
> > eth0
> ^^^
> Don't let those 0s confuse you. That means there is not gateway defined
> for
You have to enable experimental drivers when you run "make menu-config"
then the realtek driver will show up as an available driver in the
network section.
--
John Foster
AdVance-Computing Systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ# 19460173
According to Max:
> After upgrading to the new 3.3.3 version of nis in potato, I started
> getting the following errors when logging in or doing an su on nis
> client machines:
>
> yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
That's an error produces by glibc.
> I also upgraded to libc6 2.1.2 recently, but
After upgrading to the new 3.3.3 version of nis in potato, I started
getting the following errors when logging in or doing an su on nis
client machines:
yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
The error doesn't seem to affect anything besides taking something
like 30 seconds to log in (while it waits f
Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> I still don't understand something. Doesn't the line:
>
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
^^^
Don't let those 0s confuse you. That means there is not gateway defined
for that route. Also look in the four
I remember someone saying something about a linux driver for SB live sound card
available.
but I'm not sure it was on this list or not
I will have to check my other list I subscribe to also...
Thanks
Harold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] < please reply to this address...thanks
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 04:46:25PM +0200, Andy Spiegl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've got a small problem with my MS IntelliMouse (no, I didn't buy
> it - I won it :-)
> When I use the PS/2 - Serial adapter and put this in my XF86config:
> Protocol "IntelliMouse"
> Device"/dev/ttyS0"
> ever
Paul writes:
> The pon command works much better but seems to disconnect if left alone
> too long, though it`s fine as long as information is being transferred
> constantly.
Either your ISP is dropping your connection when it is idle too long, or
you have somehow given ppp an 'idle xxx' option. T
"David H. Silber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on
> > the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple:
> >
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
> > If
"Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > > Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was
> > > available) built my kernels using "make menuconfig", nowhere in the
> > > network
> > >
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 05:50:03PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on
> the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS W
Hi,
I bougth recently a new computer with an S3Trio3D/2x graphic card:
Chip Type: S3LC2X
DAC Type: S3SDAC
Memory: 4MB
Unfortunally I only can get it to work with XF86_SVGA on 300x200
resolution! ;(
It doesn't work with the XF86_S3 accelerator server.
At XFree86 official site they say t
> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was
> > available) built my kernels using "make menuconfig", nowhere in the network
> > device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long t
Hi all:
I'm reading "TCP/IP Administration" by O'Reily, and have a question on
the routing table on my Debian box. It's quite simple:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
209.226.71.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0
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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote:
>
> I installed the NFS in the pentium. But when I try to use the pentium
> (obelix.whlnet) as a server for installing the operating system to the
> 486 (troubadix.whlnet) the troubadix gives me the message: "obeli
> Thank you. I get the same exits as you with failed passwords and
> closing windows.
no problem glad it helped. :)
> I did this, using navigator instead of communicator. The netscape4
> installer seems happy. But I've got a library problem that I can't
> figure out. I installed libg++27 and
My boot from the rescue disk hangs after the md driver. This problem was
discussed in Dec 1998 on this list, and a modified boot disk was posted as a
fix, but which I can not find at present. Does anyone have this disk or some
other way to solve the problem?
__
Wolfgang Hlawatsch
Goerresstr.12
D-69214 Eppelheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Linux is absolutely new to me. I managed to install Debian 2.1.
My problem:
I want to have a Linux workstation with a pentium machine, and a
print-server with an older '486 machine. It should serve both, my MAC
and my PC
> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nate> Anyone have any other ideas on how to catch what's happening
Nate> to it, or is this a known issue being discussed elsewhere, and
Nate> I don't see it because I only am subscribed to Debian-User?
I saw something about this in debi
Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> this is what you should do if you've been having problems with netscape
> crashing a lot and have a glibc2.1 system (crashes for me occurred either
> after password authentication or when closing a netscape window):
>
> * clean off all the netscape/nav
Thanks, worked too.
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> *- On 28 Jul, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about "Re: How to
> divide a .ps file in another .ps file with two pages by pages"
> > I think that enscript transforms text to ps. I want ps to ps.
>
Thanks, worked.
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>
> > TIA, Paulo Henrique
>
> Try the mpage package, it does a nice job
>
> Jason
>
*- On 28 Jul, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about "Re: How to
divide a .ps file in another .ps file with two pages by pages"
> I think that enscript transforms text to ps. I want ps to ps.
You just answered you
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> TIA, Paulo Henrique
Try the mpage package, it does a nice job
Jason
I tried removing alsalib while freeing up some hard drive space (i.e.
removing unused packages) and encontetered the following error:
Removing alsalib0.3.0 ...
argument missing for `remove' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 96.
dpkg: error processing alsalib0.3.0 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal s
I think that enscript transforms text to ps. I want ps to ps.
Thanks anyway, Paulo Henrique
Quoting Igor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> use a package called 'enscript'
> (get it if it's not installed already)
> there are options to send it straight to the printer,
> or to save it t
i don't know about icewm, but for fvwm (and similar),
put the 'xv -root -quit background.jpg' line into your
.xinitrc (or .fvwmrc or something like that...don't
remember right now...on a NT box :-(. that will load
it up automatically on start up of X.
afterstep has a different system, and remembers
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:29:37 -0700, John Haggerty wrote:
> However when I try to export the font to something I can use (psf) it just
> fails.
That's not a very informative description of your problem.
> Could someone recommend a fix for this
Please submit a detailed description of the probl
use a package called 'enscript'
(get it if it's not installed already)
there are options to send it straight to the printer,
or to save it to a different file.
something like '$enscript -2gR filename'
(i'm a little rusty on the options, but there's always
the 'man' command :-)
hope this helps
-ig
Hi Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira,
e.g. with psnup. Try this:
psnup -pa4 -n 2 file.ps > file2.ps
Bye,
Andy.
--
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de
Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key
o _ _ _
- __o
TIA, Paulo Henrique
Mike Carter writes:
> My ppp will put me online as xisp tells me my address but I can't connect
> with anything.
linuxconf may have hosed up /etc/ppp/options and/or /etc/resolv.conf. Post
them.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
After re-installing I find that when I use Wvdial to connect to my ISP
it connects fine but then disconnects again after a minute or two with
something like "ppp daemon has died. Error code =1". The pon command
works much better but seems to disconnect if left alone too long, though
it`s fine as lo
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:18:53AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to set things up to read most newsgroups off my nntp
> server, but have a few local groups on my machine. Is this possible with
> the default trn package, or will I need to add the nntp package?
You'll need to ru
I have been using potato for many months on a couple of machines but
unfortunately they have NOT been upgraded since the perl changes.
The machines have NOT crashed even once in many months of operation.
One has a 2.2.5, another a 2.2.6, and yet another a 2.2.10 kernel.
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at
> "egm2" == egm2 writes:
egm2> Okay GPL experts. The once free alpha versions of IglooFTP,
egm2> copyright by Jean-Marc Jacquet and released under GPL is now
egm2> in beta and being released *only* as a commercial product
egm2> for $$. Now, does this violate the GPL under t
Hello and good day. I have a problem that is just a little beyond vexing at the
present time. I am trying to convert a specific font (a bdf) into a console.
The
font file I am attempting to get is one with a 4x6 character set of standard
characters. I am using xmbdfed to take copies of the st
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:54:27 +0200, Johan Groth wrote:
> I wonder if there are any rumours when potato will be released?
Whatever rumours there are, their informational value is most likely zero.
Currently, we're not even in code freeze yet, and AFAIK, the release manager
is not considering c
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
>
> Is anyone but me trying to run the ipxripd 0.7-5 package?
>
> I'm trying to run it on kernel version 2.0.36, compiled for IPX.
>
> When I try to run it, it just goes away. I never see it as a process
> doing 'ps aux'.
>
> If I try to run it in non-daemon mode (-d o
Thanks for the answers on this. It seems the top problem is due to the NT
telnet client. Could someone recommend a decent telnet client for NT. It
needs to be something that the techies at work won't be horrified by which
usually means a proper uninstall routine for when I move offices.
Patrick
tboy wrote:
>
> I'm trying to set up a PPP server using mgetty with AutoPPP option enabled.
> But my user cannot establish a connection using win95 dialup client.
>
> Here's an excerpt of my ppp.log:
>
> Jul 19 15:28:51 hylx pppd[839]: pppd 2.3.5 started by a_ppp, uid 0
> Jul 19 15:28:51 hylx p
You can try setting the TERM environment variable to match your
terminal; this is definitely needed from the awful windows
telnet program.
If you don't know which ones to try, try 'vt100' or 'vt220'.
Carl
Hi!
I've got a small problem with my MS IntelliMouse (no, I didn't buy
it - I won it :-)
When I use the PS/2 - Serial adapter and put this in my XF86config:
Protocol "IntelliMouse"
Device"/dev/ttyS0"
everything works as expected. (Sidenote: if I add
Buttons 5
ZAxisMapping 4 5
I
Hi Patrick,
as Stephan told, the "MARK"s are written by syslogd.
top needs the "right" tty settings to work, because it uses
control characters to refresh what it is displaying.
I guess you invoked it in a somewhat misbehaving telnet
session (maybe on a Windows machine).
It should work in an xte
Mike Carter wrote:
>
> Hi team,
> Hi team,
> I installed linuxconf as per potato and now cannot use ppp.
[cut]
> My ppp will put me
> online as xisp tells me my address but I can't connect with anything.
> I could until yesterday.
[cut]
How are you trying to connect? pon? Try it if you haven't.
Wednesday, July 28, 1999, 7:29:10 AM, Shao wrote:
> Jul 29 00:14:43 localhost pppd[1154]: Serial connection established.
> Jul 29 00:14:44 localhost pppd[1154]: Using interface ppp0
> Jul 29 00:14:44 localhost pppd[1154]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> Jul 29 00:14:
Have you checked that the rhosts fields are:
1) named '.rhosts'
2) owned byt he user
3) mode 600 (not 644 or 664)
4) That the host you are coming FROM is listing in them
Carl
I am using magicfilter on a production environment Debian Slink system.
I have selected the ljet3 filter. The printer prints fine. The problem
is that noe of the paper loading seems to work. I can only print 1 page,
hand fed, at a time. This is a real pain. I have not tried apsfilter. I
want to fin
Hi,
I just changed my modem to a US robotics one. And I got a strange line
in /var/log/messages:
Jul 29 00:14:43 localhost pppd[1154]: Serial connection established.
Jul 29 00:14:44 localhost pppd[1154]: Using interface ppp0
Jul 29 00:14:44 localhost pppd[11
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:04:18PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote:
> See if 'convert' in the imagemagick package will do. Note that this
> is non-free, so you need to check the license also.
I don't think that it does. Direct-class 15/16-bit modes
(i.e. separate, absolute values for the R/G/B channel
*- On 28 Jul, Christian Dysthe wrote about "WmWare on Debian"
> Hi,
>
> I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the
> supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on
> Debian (I run potato)?
>
It's VMWare not WNWare, VM = Virtual Mac
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the
> supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on
> Debian (I run potato)?
I did, on slink. It wasn't that complicated, as long as you
Hi,
I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the
supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on
Debian (I run potato)?
TIA
--
Regards,
Christian Dysthe
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.bigfo
As with me it worked fine for a day or two. The I rebooted and I got the
error message that "mouse protocal not supported by server." I check the
vmware support page and it referred me to the xfree86 web page and there I
found a listing of the current xserver and what they mice they support.
Under
from http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/5200.28-STD.html
"The Trusted Computing Base (TCB) of a class (C1) system nominally
satisfies the discretionary security requirements by providing separation
of users and data. It incorporates some form of credible controls capable
of enforcing
Hi!
In Slink, I use this setup for /etc/kbd/config:
CONSOLE_FONT=lat1-16.psf
CONSOLE_MAP=lat1.uni
but in Potato, that doesn't work. So I changed it to
CONSOLE_FONT=lat1-16
CONSOLE_MAP=lat1.sfm
which doesn't seem to give the same results, especially not with regard to
the line drawing symbols.
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 12:02:53AM -0400, Shannon wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, egm2@jps.net writes:
>
> > What exactly is "clever" about the "Hat"? I got the jinni thing.
>
> Because that particular kind of hat is well known and it is the
> kind of thing that sticks in people's minds
Hmm, some bit errors in my memory dimms, found with memtest86.
Cool util, I believe I will keep it...
-dh
Dan Hugo wrote:
>
> I am seeing some very unstable behavior which I am trying to track down,
> and I would really really appreciate some input...
>
> Here is what I am seeing on t
** "Khalid" == Khalid EZZARAOUI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Khalid> i have a probleme when installing sgml :
Khalid> there is a confligt beetwin : sgmltools-2 and sgml-tools
Please file a bugreport on sgmltools-2 containing the output you sent
here.
Ciao,
Martin
I'm trying to set up a PPP server using mgetty with AutoPPP option enabled. But
my user cannot establish a connection using win95 dialup client.
Here's an excerpt of my ppp.log:
Jul 19 15:28:51 hylx pppd[839]: pppd 2.3.5 started by a_ppp, uid 0
Jul 19 15:28:51 hylx pppd[839]: Using interface pp
** "egm2" == egm2 wrote:
egm2> That's what I was thinking. However, is it copyright
egm2> infringement to take up the last GPL'ed version of the software,
egm2> modify it and release it under GPL?
Not if you are the copyright holder.
Ciao,
Martin
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 02:02:38AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote
> %% Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> cm> Who owns patches?
>
> The person who wrote it always "owns" it... sort of. The patch can be
> argued to be a derived work of the original, so in a sense the author
> might not
John Hasler wrote:
>
> > These hexdumps always start with a line
> > Jul 27 01:30:19 darkstar pppd[295]: rcvd [proto=0xfd] ...
>
> > Does anyone no what that means ?
>
> 0xfd is "compressed datagram". Your link is using compression.
>
> Everything here looks normal. What isn't working?
The r
Hi Patrick,
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:26:43AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> enterprise:/home/patrick# tail -f /var/log/messages
> Jul 28 07:14:11 enterprise -- MARK --
[ ... lots of marks removed ... ]
This is syslogd's way of telling you that it's still alive (you don't
have to feed it, though.
When I want to see error messages, tail -f /var/log/messages produces
this...am I doing something wrong?
enterprise:/home/patrick# tail -f /var/log/messages
Jul 28 07:14:11 enterprise -- MARK --
Jul 28 07:34:11 enterprise -- MARK --
Jul 28 07:54:10 enterprise -- MARK --
Jul 28 08:14:10 enterprise
Nathan Duehr wrote:
>
> Johan,
>
> The 2.2 kernel is available for the stable version of Debian today, and
> can be added, but there are some issues that a person needs to be aware of
> when doing it.
>
> See:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2
It is exactly those kind of
I am seeing some very unstable behavior which I am trying to track down,
and I would really really appreciate some input...
Here is what I am seeing on this machine:
Slink install, SMP kernel 2.0.36
Asus P2B-D MB, 2 PIII/450, 256M ram (2 PC100 128M DIMMs)
IBM 14GXP 14.6G drive, UDMA disabled (par
Johan,
The 2.2 kernel is available for the stable version of Debian today, and
can be added, but there are some issues that a person needs to be aware of
when doing it.
See:
http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Johan Groth wrote:
> I wonder if there are
Hi,
I wonder if there are any rumours when potato will be released? Debian
is the only (AFAIK) distribution now that doesn't ship with kernel 2.2.x
and glibc 2.1.x. This is the only reason I haven't Debian on my machine
right now and I would like to have it (getting tired of Red Hat).
///Johan
-
Bonjour,
i have a probleme when installing sgml :
there is a confligt beetwin : sgmltools-2 and sgml-tools
potato i386 ( all up-to-date)
i got this from apt during the install of sgmltools-2 :
Unpacking sgmltools-2 (from .../sgmltools-2_2.0.2-2_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cach
> this is what you should do if you've been having problems with
> netscape crashing a lot and have a glibc2.1 system (crashes for
> me occurred either after password authentication or when closing
> a netscape window):
> * make sure you have the needed libc5 packages:
The gl
The subject line contains the error message which I suspect contains the
reason for my gnome not working properly after apt-get upgraded some
imlib-libraries (imlib-base and imlib1 for slink).
How can I correct this?
I can temporarily repair gnome by downgrading the imlib-libraries, but
would lik
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Michael Merten wrote:
> and make sure .xsession is executable, then try it again.
Thanks. I did not know that. It is working now.
Johann
--
| Johann Spies Windsorlaa
I want to learn more about
minimum delay
maximum throughput
in ftp and telnet
there would be a way to make settings to provide them.
iphains TOS bit can do this ; i know ;
But HOW? and whats the logic?
Rgrds
Halis Osman ERKAN
Sophomore / Ege Unv.
Try turning on the "fix stairstepping of text" option that adds an LF to
each line in your printer setup...
Hopefully this gets you headed the right direction with this quick
reply. I don't remember where that setting is done, but the ghostscript
setup files come to mind.
You'll probably get a
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 05:56:21PM -0400, Jasmine Chan wrote
>
>
>
> Hi,
> My name is Jasmine Chan and I was wondering which packages of Linux is C2
> Certified. And if they are not, is there any steps taken to make Linux C2
> certified. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Jasmine Chan
Hello.
I have a PostScript printer connected via TCP/IP. Everything works fine,
excepting the printing of ASCII Text :
it prints only the first line. The printer is a Xerox NC60. I use the
ps600-only filter.
Anybody has an idea ?
Thanks.
--
Petru NOTINGHER jr.
Laboratoire d'Electrotechnique de M
>
>
> >> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Nathan> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> Nathan> : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix
> will
> Nathan> : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a
> Nath
>
>
> See if 'convert' in the imagemagick package will do. Note that this
> is non-free, so you need to check the license also.
convert is part of the imagemagick package, which is in main. The
license of imagemagick is very free. There are some related libraries
that also have non-free vers
Kent Howard wrote:
>
> 1) Is it just me or does su set the PATH to a default and forget
>the currently set one? Is this intentional?
it depends on invocation (and thoug is intentional): you may set a complete
su-environmen with "su -" or just change your effective user id with "su",
see "man
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday. I've always (since it was
> available) built my kernels using "make menuconfig", nowhere in the network
> device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long time
>
After a fairly painless upgrade to potato on one system here, I've been
doing the occasional update/upgrade cycle with either dselect or apt-get
and things usually go well. (After I got all the Perl stuff
straightened out... but that's why it's called unstable!)
Tonight, I seem to be having a rec
Account for Debian group mail wrote:
>
> Anyone using the Potato release on a machine that needs to be up. How
> stable is it at this point?
what do you want? uptimes, load meters? my potato goes down only when i
feel i need to reboot (installing new kernel image or beeing too stupid do
set som
%% Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cm> Who owns patches?
The person who wrote it always "owns" it... sort of. The patch can be
argued to be a derived work of the original, so in a sense the author
might not own it entirely.
cm> When a patch is integrated into the main product, do
G'day all,
I am trying to set Amanda on my new PIII potato system.
I discovered it isn't working because the rlogin keeps asking for a
password there is a .rhosts file and the entry is correct. I can rlogin to
my account just not into ~backup. I created a new user called
amanda and tried to
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
> AFAIK, the person who owns the copyright on the work is free
> to change that copyright as the code goes on.
> [deletia]
> The KDE people had this problem for a while, too. Their license
> required Qt to be gpl'ed, but qt wasn't, so no-one else could
>
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 03:29:40PM -0400, Chris Mayes wrote
> Hello, everyone. Well, I had hoped that the problem was a freak occurrence,
> but it's happening about 2-3 times a week, now. Unfortunately, there isn't
> much fanfare, no flurry of error messages. Nearly every time I've
> encounte
>> AFAIK, the person who owns the copyright on the work is free
>> to change that copyright as the code goes on.
>
>Well, there might actually be an exception here! The 0.9 code contains a
>patch by one Igor Lefterov. Unless Mr. Lefterov also agrees to the change
>in copyright, it might have t
thansk to hartmut posting the solution from debian devel i too now have a
working solution. because it took me a couple times reading through the
message to understand what to do i thought i would repost in case other
people were confused.
this is what you should do if you've been having proble
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, egm2@jps.net writes:
> What exactly is "clever" about the "Hat"? I got the jinni thing.
Because that particular kind of hat is well known and it is the
kind of thing that sticks in people's minds. It is actually valid
to call it clever.
> Furthermore, what's wi
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:30:25PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Still have many conficts/dependancy problems. Is there anyway to start
> > dselect from scratch? What I mean to ask is can I reset the selections
> > to what they were before I started to tinker with them?
>
> Not easily... Not aft
>That's what I was thinking. However, is it copyright infringement to
>take up the last GPL'ed version of the software, modify it and release
>it under GPL? Of course, the original copyrights would remain intact
>and be distributed with it.
If you receiveed (or downloaded etc) a copy of the code
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