I have been a Debian user for several years now. The first time I loaded it
was before the "Bo" version. I compared it to what was available at the
time and chose Debian mainly because of the installation control it offered
via dpkg and dselect. But I also preferred just about everything else
sp
Jim B wrote:
>
> What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can
> specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I
> think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out.
> There must be some program that will tell me this
"David Kanter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variable
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Low!
> Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than
> a second in a shell (bash/sh) script?
>
> sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2
>
> Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this?
>
> I rea
I have installed a NIS server at the server on our small network.
All the regular are now registered on the server so every user
can log in at every machine at home. How can I add a user to a
certain group at only one machine.
Wilco Greven
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 08:22:08PM +0200, Olaf Conradi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had proftpd installed (on the standerd port) and ftpd on a
> non-standard port. But the ftp daemons now have a dependency on
> ftp-server, which allows only one to be installed on a system at the same
> time.
>
> How can I
Hi,
I'm french and i have a problem to installation of Debian 2.1
the installation stopping after detecting my SCSI card, whit boot CD-ROM
installion or boot floppy disk using your binary image with rawrite.
I have finding in on the web at my SCSI constructor card some binary
image who detecte my
> Rob Mahurin writes ("Re: Num lock disables alt- and ctrl-key shortcuts?"):
[snip]
> In X windows, the NumLock key toggles a modifier bit, just like ctrl
> and alt do. So when numlock is toggles, every keystroke has another
> modifier bit tacked on to it. Run 'xev' and hit keys in the window,
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 07:59:35PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Low!
> Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than
> a second in a shell (bash/sh) script?
>
> sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2
>
> Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this?
>
> I rea
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote:
> I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people
> generally use as a mail client for this situation. Do people just
> default to Netscape? I was looking at Mutt, which looks a little
> confusing, but seems to be somewhat popular.
Netscape is
Low!
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:12:11AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I
> assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the options selected
> when viewing make xconfig), I was left with some questions.
>
> For i
Low!
Does anybody of you guys know a way to sleep for an amount of time less than
a second in a shell (bash/sh) script?
sleep refuses arguments like: 0.5 0,5 1/2
Maybe there is a nice perl command to do this?
I really don't feel like writing a my_sleep.c ...
TIA
Marcin
--
-
Well, I can't claim to know anything about mutt in relation to pop3 based
email, but if it is anything like directly-connected email, you have no
choice but to use mutt. :)
hehe. Seriously though, if you thought elm was nice, pine a bit gaudy but
liked the features, then mutt you will love. Elm us
I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use as
a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I was
looking at Mutt, which looks a little confusing, but seems to be somewhat
popular.
Dave
What command can I use to find out my drives' cluster size? I know I can
specify what I want to use when I [c]fdisk, and that the default is 2 KB I
think... but I would still like to know how I can find this information out.
There must be some program that will tell me this... no?
TIA.
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:03:46PM +0300, virtanen wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
>
> > Virtanen, a friend of mine has similar problems -- his pentium II needs
> > mounting brackets to hold it to the motherboard, and he hasn't bought them
> > yet.
> >
> > It might not help, bu
I filed a bug report against licq for this, and the maintainer told me he
had uploaded .7 to incoming, and now we just wait for Muoa (right?) the ftp
maintainer to move it around a bit, then apt-get upgrade should install it
for us -- possibly with the bugfix included. Keep an eye out for it. :)
O
Is something broke with the mirrors?
The only thing I changed -- I was worried my squid was preventing me from
seeing the updates on the servers, so I commented out the Proxy line in my
/etc/apt/apt.conf file, ran apt-get update, uncommented it again, and re-ran
apt-get update. This next time, it
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Stephen R. Gore wrote:
> Just trying to help out a user who was having probs with adduser, and
> noticed that adduser doesn't depend on anything but passwd, which only
> depends on libc6, which predepends on ldso, which doesn't list any
> type of dependancy. Nowhere is perl li
The security consultant here would like me not to run the RPC
portmapper. I suppose this is a known security issue, and I'm not
actually using the services that depend on it.
It seems to be started in /etc/initd/netbase, but looking at that
script, it's not obvious to me what the base way to disa
> > I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what
> > I assumed to be the current > kernel configuration (i.e., the options
> > selected when viewing make xconfig), I was left with some
> questions.
(slip)
Well... This may be either a stupi or naive question, but i
On 12 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> > I've attached the requested files (modified to remove my passwd of
> > cource).
> Those look normal enough. Does pppd run at all? Does the modem dial?
> Does pppd dump core?
Yes pppd runs, yes the modem dials, and no it dosn't core dump.
I was wrong eaili
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:37:34AM -0300, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc
> 2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem
> is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really ma
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:12:11AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I
> assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the options selected
> when viewing make xconfig), I was left with some questions.
>
> For instan
What happened to in.rexecd (and the rest of them)? They used
to be in netstd in slink. I upgraded this morning and they
went missing. I got the Contents-i386.gz from potato and they
were not in there. Were they dropped on purpose? split out into
another package? When will they be restored?
j
While starting the installation it says :
md driver 0.36.3
MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
You said to wait for a few minutes, well i left the computer
on for a few hours while i was at school , came back and it was still there, is
there any way of getting past this point in the installation ? Or
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Adrian Thompson wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which
: requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to
: put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws
: up because of
hi
> Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk???
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
or stick the floppy into a dos machine ( not winXX )
have fun
alvin
I have xemacs21 installed with auctex and x-symbol installed.
x-symbol gave some error messages during instellation (I couldn't keep up,
if needed I can reinstall it)
I tried to add to .emacs these lines in order to make the packages work:
(require site-tex)
(x-symbol-initialize)
(require site-te
Hello,
Linux fdisk doesn't see past 1024 cylindars, I have a 20.4GB HD which
requires over 2000 cylindars. As well I have win95 on hda1, I want to
put linux on hda2, however lilo doesn't sit well in a FAT32, or screws
up because of the HD size.
Hardware specs: MB =ASUS Flagship 1999
Someone asked a while back about sound fonts for the SoundBlaster
AWE32/64 cards. I followed a link from the SB HOWTO, and found
"http://members.tripod.de/iwai/awedrv.html";, the page of the person who
wrote the AWE driver. He has links to several places to get free
sound fonts.
Sincerely,
Ra
On 14-Sep-99 Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc
> 2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem
> is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as
> I'm running out of
Hi all !
Thank for your job !
I have some problem to boot Linux I've install on a Pentium Pro.
It has two SCSI disk :
/dev/sda : First is win98.->2GB
/dev/sdb : Second for Linux ->400Mo
I success to boot Linux via floppy disk but I want install Lilo on the
hard drive.
When I try, lilo say :
devic
On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote:
>
> How did you get the plugins to build? I got LIcq .70 (the stable
> version)
> to build, but couldn't get ANY plugins to build to it was basically
> worthless. What did you do to get the plugins to build? I am hoping
> that
> a new version will fix the proble
Am I missing something, or does the Mozilla browser that comes with Slink not
work?
After starting ppp, I can start Mozilla, and it goes to the Mozilla home page,
and that's about it. If I type a URL into the Web site box, then hit enter,
nothing happens. If I go to the bookmarks, I can't add a
> "Eddie" == wb4mle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eddie> The last 3 days potato upgrades seem to have a bad MC
Eddie> build. Get malloc and realloc errors trying to boot it. The
Eddie> "stable" build of mc will run, but the mouse doesn't work. The
Eddie> last 3 releases of aumix don't work with
> "Guilherme" == Guilherme Soares Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guilherme> Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk???
superformat
--
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
I am having trouble compiling the VMWare loadable modules. Every time I try to
compile, I get the following error:
In file included from /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.9/include/linux/smp.h:11,
from /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.9/include/linux/sched.h:20,
from .././
Hi,
I had proftpd installed (on the standerd port) and ftpd on a
non-standard port. But the ftp daemons now have a dependency on
ftp-server, which allows only one to be installed on a system at the same
time.
How can I get around this so that apt will install both packages and
keep updating then
> "Chanop" == Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chanop> On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:55:35PM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
>> I'm going to try out GNOME this weekend, but have read about many
>> problems regarding it's gpm. How can I avoid gpm from being
>> installed during the installa
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Virtanen, a friend of mine has similar problems -- his pentium II needs
> mounting brackets to hold it to the motherboard, and he hasn't bought them
> yet.
>
> It might not help, but ... one never knows. :)
>
What is this mounting brackets?
-hv
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Alvin Oga wrote:
This seems to a camplete description how to do it. Thank you very much.
I'll try it after a couple of days when I'll have time for it.
Thanks for the others as well, who responded!
-
hv
> > Is it possible to put lilo in mbr without installing the whole thi
> "Ingo" == Reimann Ingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ingo> Hi there, maybe a silly problem: After new installation of
Ingo> potatoe from scratch, i would like to use gdm for graphical
Ingo> logins instead of xdm (which already worked) So i threw out any
Ingo> S??xdm out of my /etc/rc2.d and tr
Is there a clean way to once and for always set the keyboard
autorepeat delay and rate on a Debian system? I mean something like
kbdrate -d 500 -r 10.0
somewhere in the /etc/init.d/* scripts. grep says no there is no
such thing -- do I have to add it myself, and if so, what's the best
place?
What do I need to do permission-wise (and otherwise?) to allow me as a
normal user to mount network systems via ncpmount?? I've set up a dir
/mnt/net with a symlink to /net to simply the mount point, with all
permissions to the dir set to 777, but permission is still denied. Do I
have to place th
What's the difference between the two? These are listed in my Window Manager
box under Window Maker. I also have Window Maker (Gnome), which is obviously
for Gnome. But what about those other two?
Thanks,
Dave
Hello
This is somewhat related to my previous question concerning make-dpkg.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but these are the steps I used to get
my laptop working with a 3COM pcmcia ethernet card. I am still somewhat
confused by this process and I would like to get confirmations on the
proces
hi,
i'm trying to find _any_ vrml viewer for my potato system (recently
upgraded from slink). vrweb was working fine, but now just segfaults. i
reinstalled it and have the same problem. i downloaded the source packages
from my debian mirror and used the debian scripts to try and compile it,
but th
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
>
> > I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq
> > just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online.
> > GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstab
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote:
> > I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running
> > LIcq
> > just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online.
> > GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for so
I thought I'd give glimpse a whirl to index a bunch of email archives,
but I get a segmentation fault:
% glimpseindex -o -B archive
This is glimpseindex version 4.1, 1997.
Indexing "/home/mjo/adamsarch/archive" ...
Size
Guilherme guided,
> Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The Debian Way' of doing it, but
> worked perfectly...
> I just installed the lpr & magicfilter DEB's via DPKG & RedHat's printtool (&
> control-panel, needed by printtool) via alien, and now my printing is just
> fine (probably
Sounds like you could be trying to run X out of your monitor's scan range. Try
running XF86Setup, as root, and reconfigure.
>>> "Simon Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/13/99 11:29:47 AM >>>
Hi all
I have just downloaded X onto my Linux box and this time I am determined to
get it up and running. The
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
> I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq
> just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online.
> GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason
> or another and would crash long
On 13-Sep-99 Robert Rati wrote:
> I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running
> LIcq
> just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online.
> GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason
> or another and would crash long compil
Yesterday I rebooted my machine, and now I am unable to initiate any network
connections. I can ping the box from the outside, and get web pages served
by apache, but I can't do anything from that box. (ssh doesn't work,
presumably because it tries to do a name lookup on the remote ip). dhcp
thanks, I'll give this a try. I'd sure like to avoid buying the disk
if possible.
Rick
--
I'm having problems getting any icq client to stay up. I was running LIcq
just fine, but recently, it crashes very shortly after I get online.
GTK-ICQ is the same way. I've had my machine be unstable for some reason
or another and would crash long compiles (qt, kernel, etc) and more than
once fsc
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> Surely I would appreciate a 2.4 [kernel] ready distribution.
Why?
Is the /usr/src/linux/.config file identical to the one used to compile
your existing kernel?
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:12:11AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I
> assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the o
As far as I can remember the old fixed disk controller used to be installed
at paragraph C800:. To do a low level format we used to use the debug
facility in DOS and do g C800:0005. I may be wrong, but this was 1986 on IBM
PS/2s using 20MB hard disks, but a lot of legacy stuff seems to have pul
You are missing /usr/bin/as86 and need to install the bin86 package.
Bob
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:04:40AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When
> I get to the "make-kpkg" part, everything works fine until I get this error:
>
Hi all
I have just downloaded X onto my Linux box and this time I am determined to
get it up and running. The configuration did not go by the book so I am now
wondering is there a FAQ or something that I can go to. I just get a blank
screen and when I try to change virtual console I get video back
I've been using my computer as an alarm clock
for a while, by using 'at' and 'splay'. But
I've been oversleeping a couple of times now
and found:
splay: Failed to open sound device.
in my mail.
I've added
'fuser -k /dev/dsp'
to 'at', but still it fails at times.
So does anyone know which /dev-fi
I agree. I tried Enlightenment out over the weekend and was thoroughly
unimpressed. It was very slow, and all those gibberish icons made no sense. No
offense, but it seemed like it was designed by some high school kid who likes
to play games all the time. Too much flash.
Window Maker isn't bad
I know this is documented somewhere. I've seen it. Unfortunately, I
can't figure out where I've seen it.
What patches are applied to the pristine kernel source to make the
distributed Debian kernel-source packages? And where do they come
from? And where is this documented?
--
I get my monkeys for
|> I have a slow machine (486, with 16 Mb of RAM) and I'm trying to
|> keep as faster as possible. Working in command line mode I've no
|> problem, but in X ... So I'd like to know what's the better choice
|> for a window manager on a system like mine. Now I'm using twm. Are
|> fvwm2 or BlackBox
* Ben Collins said:
> > > login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system to
> > > check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole
> > > password is verified?
> > Just take a look at the /etc/login.defs and read the description of the
> > MD5_CRYPT_ENAB. Sett
Bob:
My /etc/ppp/options also contains the following options:
+pap
-chap
Which requires the peer to use PAP and prevents it from using CHAP
to authenticate. I don't know how pppd handles defaults when these
options aren't present. Adding the "debug" option in the options file
will cause authen
Bob Billson wrote:
>
[cut]
>
> # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd
> #* molec3 "" *
> richmolec3 "" *<--the only user allowed to run ppp
Substitute a real username and your machine name here.
>
> # UserIDs that cannot use PP
David Kanter wrote:
> When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
> Also use
Hi,
I noticed this to when I have built new kernels, I didn't manage to fix it but
I had to run 'make-kpkg clean' first before it would do it. Hope this helps.
Graham
>Hello
>
>Why is that when I build a new kernel via make-kpkg, it doesn't make a
>new kernel rev.
>
>Scenario:
> Previousl
michael ottaway wrote:
>
[cut hardware question that someone else can answer better]
>
> Do you feel that there would be a need or desire for children's software? I
> am currently go to school and have completed an associates degree in Child
> Development. Though I may major in computers before I
> My printer, an HP694C, does the stair-stepping thing. When I set up Mandrake,
> there was an automatic fix for this during set up. What can I do with Slink
> to fix this?
>
> Also, I use lpr. Is this the preferred way for printing with Debian?
Well... The solution I found wasn't really 'The De
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 09:04:40AM -0500, David Kanter wrote:
> I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When
> I get to the "make-kpkg" part, everything works fine until I get this error:
>
> make[2]: as86: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
*- On 13 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "Error when building custom kernel"
> I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When
> I get to the "make-kpkg" part, everything works fine until I get this error:
>
> make[2]: as86: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [bbootsect.
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
: justin jabbered,
:
: > I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing
: > nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you
: > start printing.
:
: There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink
Gnome, after installing it this weekend, left a bad taste in my mouth. I'd
prefer to use a straight-up window manager.
What's the best way to uninstall gnome and its associated packages? I think all
I downloaded was task-gnome-desktop, but I'm not sure. Should I let dselect
remove this package?
Wvdial only works with root access. Currently, I su root, and then type wvdial.
Is there a way so that I, when a non-root user, can start wvdial securely? I've
read that suid will work, but is an insecure way of doing it. I want to do this
the right way. Perhaps just su-ing root is the best?
Th
I wanted to customize my kernel over the weekend, but after looking at what I
assumed to be the current kernel configuration (i.e., the options selected when
viewing make xconfig), I was left with some questions.
For instance, during boot-up I get the PPP messages. But in make xconfig, PPP
abil
My printer, an HP694C, does the stair-stepping thing. When I set up Mandrake,
there was an automatic fix for this during set up. What can I do with Slink to
fix this?
Also, I use lpr. Is this the preferred way for printing with Debian?
Thanks,
Dave
I followed all the directions for making a custom kernel the debian way. When I
get to the "make-kpkg" part, everything works fine until I get this error:
make[2]: as86: Command not found
make[2]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/arch/i386/boot
Rob Mahurin writes ("Re: Num lock disables alt- and ctrl-key shortcuts?"):
>On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 08:49:35PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
>> [This message has also been posted.]
>> I've just noticed that both Adobe's Acrobat Reader 3 and RealMedia's
>> Realplayer G2 have an interesting behavior: if N
When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use the `xhost' program to verify tha
The obvious (just to make sure):
Have you set up your modem/ppp -connection?
Use pppconfig, and have all the relevant information handy
(like IP-numbers, password to your isp, which port the modem is on, etc.)
It worked just super with my run-of-the-mill external modem,
although quite a while back
Subject: Re: ppp and kernel 2.2.12
Date: Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 10:08:29PM -0500
In reply to:John Hasler
Quoting John Hasler([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Levi writes:
>
> Mark Buda writes:
>
> I have a problem with kernels 2.2.10, 2.2.11, and 2.2.12 sending empty LCP
> packets. It occu
Hi, Christian
I think the series Epson Stylus Color exhibit several models at nice prices.
After
installing recode and magicfilter and using magicfilterconfig after deleting the
current /etc/printcap file and the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory which are
created by
default, the installation is very s
Hi All,
I have been running a 2.2.5 kernel on my machine and recently wanted to
upgrade the kernel. However, kernels 2.2.6 and above boot my machin. But the
machine hangs while processing init.d scripts. It hangs at differnet points in
init.d scripts. So I am not able to find out where it e
>>
>> > To run a script from the current directory: ./shell.script
>> > This is because the currect directory isn't in the path, for security
>> reasons.
>>
>> Can you elaborate? Should this be changed? How do I fix this?
>> Thanks,
>> bw.
You could make a directory $HOME/bin and put your shell
*- On 13 Sep, John Davis wrote about "make-kpkg doesn't make different kernel
source revs."
> Hello
>
> Why is that when I build a new kernel via make-kpkg, it doesn't make a
> new kernel rev.
>
> Scenario:
> Previously, I built a new kernel using:
> make-kpkg --rev Custom.1.0 kernel
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:56:02AM +0200, Arjen v. V. wrote:
> I've downloaded all the binary files for Debian Hurd, now i wan't to install
> them but i can't find anything to install it wit.
> I've momentarely no linux on my comp. installed. Does anybody know how i can
> install it, whitout first
Guilherme grunted,
> > But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary
> > any more since the 80's.
> More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something
> to do
> with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)...
I have an old one I'd like to
justin jabbered,
> I also get "no daemon present" with this command but printing
> nevertheless works. I think a second lpd daemon is spawned when you
> start printing.
There seem to have been ongoing problems with lpd in slink since day one. I've
observed it on three machines now, two of whic
william wailed,
> Anyway, 8 meaningful characters is plenty for adequate security provided
> that your password is a good one.
Unless, of course, it starts with "MyPassword" before getting to the good stuff
:)
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Hi there,
unfortunately, as every attempt to make my programs work under glibc
2.1.x (now I'm not even sure if it's a glibc problem or if the problem
is on PGI's most recent F77 compiler, but it doesn't really matter, as
I'm running out of time), I decided to downgrade my system from glibc
2.1
Hello
Why is that when I build a new kernel via make-kpkg, it doesn't make a
new kernel rev.
Scenario:
Previously, I built a new kernel using:
make-kpkg --rev Custom.1.0 kernel_image
This command built my kernel and put an file in my /usr/src
directory called. kernel-image
mirek mentioned,
> > But can someone tell me what causes IPX collisons? I get lots of
> >
> > Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: IPX: Network number collision 24899
> > Sep 10 12:49:53 hawkins kernel: eth0 802.3 and eth0 802.2
> >
> > messages. Is this me, or is there something wrong o
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 11:52:50AM +, Ingo Reimann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i just entered the debian-user mailing list, and wanted to ask for that.
> Thanks!
> But now i get the funny message:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/reimann > mc
> params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file "/e
> > > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
> > Some BIOSes lets you do this.
>
> But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary
> any more since the 80's.
More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Robert Maynard Rhyu wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
>
> > How do I change the ip address of my machine without rebooting?
> >
> > I did an
> >
> > ifconfig eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.255
> >
> >
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