How do make a symbolic link to a device, say if I want to make a
symbolic link between /dev/stylewriter and /dev/ttyS1, how would I do it?
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >
> > DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM.
> >
>
> Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ?
>
Let me rephrase my statement.
Don't forget to restart exim if you're running it as a daemon.
I'll leave the discussion of daemon vs inetd to someone els
hello everybody:
a humble question
is there any sotware that could enable me to make voice phone calls inside the
internet? pc-phone calls? pc-pc calls?
i only use my dos partition to make this pc-phone calls inside the internet,
using the vocaltec software, because it saves me money and i can
The only way to be sure you've removed all backdoors and compromised
files is is to disconnect from the net, format all of your drives
and reinstall from scratch. Once the system is running, apply any
security patches and lock down your box (/etc/hosts.deny = ALL: ALL,
/etc/hosts.allow = ALL: loca
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 05:39:01PM -0500, Kevin Heath wrote:
>[...]
> I'm probably forgeting lots of things.
Yup--you should probably first install the debsums package to see
what files don't match their original checksum:
"debsums -sa 2>&1 |tee -a dubsum.log"
Also, make sure root's .profile, .b
Sorry, I meant to say the network cards are 3Com HomeConnect 10Mb Phoneline
PCI NICs.
I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to
connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98
machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connec
I have a six-year-old 486DX with 24MB running Debian, and I'd like to
connect it to my home network, which currently consists of two Win98
machines connected by 3Com network cards. What is the best way to connect
my Debian box in? As I see it, I have two choices:
-- Use a null modem cable to hoo
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:22:54PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> I am getting emails from some fool saying
> Ifwewerehackerswedownyourdumbass
> which means "If we were hackers we down your dumb ass"
>[...]
> Any advice for me?
Physically diconnent the box from the network. Reinstall all th
> I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid
> information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run
> "startx" and it gave me this error message:
It would only happen if you dit not configure it ok (assuming that the
video board is supported by the XFree8
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Brian Schramm wrote:
bschra >I have a small network at home that I am running named on. I am also
bschra >using yi.org's free dynamic dns for my internet name. I have had some
bschra >trouble with my two machines on the prifate network. If I type
nslookup I
bschra >get the
I have a small network at home that I am running named on. I am also
using yi.org's free dynamic dns for my internet name. I have had some
trouble with my two machines on the prifate network. If I type nslookup I
get the address of the machine back with a message saying it cannot find
the name o
Thanks for the help.
I pulled the computer apart, and the modem (Com2) is set to IRQ 03, the
mouse port, which is set in the BIOS (Com1 -> TTYS0) is set to IRQ 04.
The boot messages seem to reflect this:
Nov 12 16:00:17 debian kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
options enabled
No
*- On 12 Nov, Adam C Powell IV wrote about "Re: stopping x from starting
automatically"
>
> Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and
> /etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by
> default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this
>
Anyone out there is using wml?
Why does the following construct print 'boo':
#if 0
boo
#endif
Here is the longer story:
wml is eating the #if stuff in the first pass (treating them as comment). If i
use wml -p3 directly then its ok, because eperl can see the construct. I can
use a with the sam
> What package are those in? I've been trying to find them.
[23:29:42 /tmp]$ dpkg -S libdf
libhdf4g: /usr/lib/libdf.so.4
libhdf4g: /usr/lib/libdf.so.4.1r3
[23:31:59 /tmp]$
--- Begin Message ---
What package are those in? I've been trying to find them.
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 12:54:43AM +0200,
I use a onboard 7890 right now. I have scsiII, ultrawide SE devices, and U2W
LVD
stuff all together with no problem. I think the one thing you want to check if
you
plan to mmix like that is whether or not you have the aic-38** maybe 36...
Anyways
its a small chip that works with the 7890 that
On 12 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
jorge. >hi
jorge. >
jorge. >I need your help, because I can`t copy the game KINGPIN LIFE OF CRIME,
it says
jorge. >that i need a cd longer than 74 minutes, and I don`t have this cd`s
here???
there are many companies that sell 80minute cds. www.americal.c
> I have yet to receive messages from this list, so I'm not sure if I am
> really on it or not.
>
> My question is, when using apt-get to update the system, does it
> download all the files to local disk, then attempt to install them (not
> enough space on most home systems like mine) or does it
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 10:49:05PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >
> > DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM.
> >
>
> Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ?
>
> [22:31:15 /tmp]$ ps axf | grep exim
> 5533 ttyp3S 0:00 | \_ grep exim
> [22:43:38 /tmp]$
Generally it runs
Has anyone ever used the Adaptec AIC-7890 or AIC-7986 with Linux?? They are
the Ultra2 SCSI chips that come mounted on motherboards (specifically the
Intel L440GX server board and the SuperMicro P6SBU). Also, does anyone know
if you can hook the Western Digital Enterprise 9.1GB LVD drive to these
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:49:05 +0200
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ?
It can, and the default potato install runs it that way, but it need
not and I would recommend running it aw as a daemon if you have any
sort of noticable mail load. Of c
hi
I need your help, because I can`t copy the game KINGPIN LIFE OF CRIME, it says
that i need a cd longer than 74 minutes, and I don`t have this cd`s here¡¡¡
please, answer me.
thanks
Get free email and a permanent address at
One other thing I've just noticed about my potato upgrade, rdist is no
longer around. It used to be part of netstd, which was broken up, but
I don't see a separate rdist package anywhere in potato. It didn't get
orphaned did it? I realize rsync has much of the functionality, but I
have a pretty big
You want to go into /etc/init.d and move xdm to /root (or some other
out-of-the-way) directory. Then run update-rc.d xdm remove to take care of
the rc.d symlinks.
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, pplaw wrote:
> debs,
>
> how do i stop x from starting automatically?
>
> ia, t.
>
> bentley taylor
>
> //
>
> DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM.
>
Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ?
[22:31:15 /tmp]$ ps axf | grep exim
5533 ttyp3S 0:00 | \_ grep exim
[22:43:38 /tmp]$
Hello Eric!
Am 10-Nov-99 schriebst Du:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:53:10PM +0200, Andreas Meyer wrote:
>> Hello all!
>>
>> After installing Gnome with all dependencies and the
>> xserver-fbdev3.3.2.3a-11.deb and doing a 'panel' I get a "Gdk-warning:
>> Can´t open display". Same with 'gnome &pan
Ramin Motakef wrote:
> Hi!
> Don´t know if this is our problem, but after a recent ubgrade of a
> slink box the +::: entryies in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on this box
> where missing.
>
> I didnt notice this at first, as i was logged in as root, so i dont
> know which package caused this (base-pa
Hello,
Is there some reason xdm and gdm are linked from /etc/rc.2 and
/etc/rc.3? I thought only runlevel 5 was supposed to start X by
default. I remove these links myself, but it seems like making this
default would be real easy, and would make Debian that much more
standard.
If no reason by Mo
"Kevin M. McLin" wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> You can stop xdm from coming on and giving you that little X login window by
> removing xdm from /etc/init.d. I just copy things into a subdirctory
> /etc/init.d/disabled when I don't want them to start up on boot. That way, if
> I ever change my mind, w
Hello -
I installed Debian on a SPARC IPC. I would like to install CLISP on this
platform. I can't seem to find a binary for this platform - it is not on the
Debian distribution for SPARC. I am trying to build a version from the source
but I am running into problems during the make.
1. If some
If you do a "man apt-get", you get several options. I think the command
is
apt-get -f dist
Of course, you'll have to make sure that somewhere in your sources.conf
file you have "unstable" as well as stable so that you can get potato
(the "unstable" release that runs several whole companies that I
Hi There,
You can stop xdm from coming on and giving you that little X login window by
removing xdm from /etc/init.d. I just copy things into a subdirctory
/etc/init.d/disabled when I don't want them to start up on boot. That way, if
I ever change my mind, which I often do, I can easily copy
update-rc.d -f xdm remove
as root
> debs,
>
> how do i stop x from starting automatically?
>
> ia, t.
>
> bentley taylor
>
> //
>
> "do things well. do them with heart"--linus torvalds, "linux journal"
> (11/1999).
>
> //
>
>
> --
> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
I just recently upgraded to potato and it's gone very smoothly. The
one exception is that xswallow appears to cause a Bus error in
navigtor. If I uninstall xswallow navigator works fine, install
xswallow and I get a bus error every time.
This was reported as a bug against xswallow (#45347 & #4461
Package: bootfloppies Version: 2.1
I am a beginner with LINUX, therefore maybe my problem is very simple
for experts.
I want to install Linux on an Intel PC on a SCSI harddisk, which is
connected to an Adaptec 1542 controller.
I booted with a rescue floppy disk, selected color display, German
key
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 01:25:49PM -0800, pplaw wrote:
> how do i stop x from starting automatically?
You remove it from /etc/init.d or more safely you remove the symlink from your
present runlevel. This is as default 2 on Debian whih meens the you will have
to remove /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm which is th
I can't get Gnus 0.96 parse my spool mail (the standard one) at start up,
or even remove mail from it when respooling (other mbox file work however.
I also has some difficulties with mailing. I have a
'recursive aliases detected: genesis <- genesis' but can't find why.
Note: I have a ~/.lists_a
Hi:
I was trying to upgrade from slink to potato and I got
this error and do not seem to be able to go beyond this:
Preparding to replace hostname 2.04 ( using /hostname_2.05_i386.deb)
..
Unpacking replacement hostname
dpkg: error processing ?var/.../hostname... ( --unpack):
trying t
debs,
how do i stop x from starting automatically?
ia, t.
bentley taylor
//
"do things well. do them with heart"--linus torvalds, "linux journal"
(11/1999).
//
On 12-Nov-1999 aphro wrote:
> I blew up anotoher 15" with similar results as yours by running 800x600 @
> 85hz when it only supported 75 or 80hz.
>
> ssahme >Anyways, I'd appreciate any information on this.
>
> it happens to everyone once :)
It almost happened to me when I installed RedHat; no
I am getting emails from some fool saying
Ifwewerehackerswedownyourdumbass
which means "If we were hackers we down your dumb ass"
The emails are generated from within my system. The problem started when I
logged into one of my old machines and ran "last -10". I was suprised to
see a user
Jeff Sciortino writes:
> There is a long delay before mouse clicks are registered and the cursor
> jumps when it does finally decide to move.) and the data I'm trying to
> get over the ppp connection stalls.
You have almost certainly got your mouse and your modem on the same IRQ.
--
John Hasler
After the latest slashem upgrade, X Slashem reverted back to using ascii
map/objects. Anyone know how to fix this?
Hello all;
I upgraded a few packages to potato and now I can't print via gs.
Nothing happens that I can see and there are no errors in any of the
logs that I am able to find. 'lpq' says there are no printable jobs in
queue. I am running mostly slink with only a few packages from potato;
sysutils,
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> 100% [Scanning packages]
> Configuring packages ...
> /tmp/fileIQpGZk: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
> E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
> E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
>
>
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Marcin Kurc wrote:
>
> > I was writing about earlier but everybody said thet NIS works fine :)
> >
> > It looks that nis 3.6 doesnt support shadow passwords.
> > I'm using 3.4-1 and it works fine.
>
> REALLY? Can you say, release-critical bug? The
Hello I am trying to find my way in this gigantic way of networking and
communications. I have recently graduated and I am looking toward
working
with some other product other than Microsoft. I have heard about Linux
and
I linked to your site. I am intrigued by what Debian is and would like
to find
I have had a persistent problem ever since I started using debian a few
months ago.
When I'm doing something with pppd up and moving data ... netscaping,
ftping, lynxing, etc. the mouse locks up (well it doesn't stop entirely
but acts like it is swamped. There is a long delay before mouse clicks
LiveAngel wrote:
> I have problems in installing debian 2.1.
> Everything is wonderfull untill de packages selection.
> Before dselect i make a profile choice, then in dselect i make the
> update,.., and finally the installation. When i choose to install the
> system tells me that needs one package
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Onno wrote:
> At 10:23 AM 11/11/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
> >At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote:
> > >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> > >
> > >alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
> > >
> > >I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there a
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote:
> We have a few labs here whith dual-boot. Windows is protected with
> Fortress. Some students with a bit more of knowledge enter linux with
> the init parameter passed to lilo and then remove fortress from windows
> so they can install anything
Hi
We have a few labs here whith dual-boot. Windows is protected with
Fortress. Some students with a bit more of knowledge enter linux with
the init parameter passed to lilo and then remove fortress from windows
so they can install anything they want.
Is there a way to prevent lilo from getting p
Peter Iannarelli wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the
> following:
>
> When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between
> /bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash.
>
> Following the loss of this sym-lin
I'm trying to install Debian Linux on an AST Ascentia 910N
laptop computer. Booting the rescue disk with no boot parameters
causes the machine to lock up while loading root.bin. Windows is
currently installed on the machine, and that boots up just fine.
I found a success story involving Slackwar
> Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps)
> hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer.
>
Here is my lprng printcap entry for an hp 8000 dn
lp1|tnp015|rm164_hp|Remote printer entry
:lp=
:rm=tnp015
:rp=raw
:sd=/var/spool/
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> > To the first part of the question:
> >
> > Change stable to unstable or potato in the /etc/apt/sources.list, which
> > makes apt-get aware of the newer packages...
>
> Right, I guess `potato' makes more sense as `un
El vie, 12 de nov de 1999, a las 04:44:56 +0200, Martin Fluch dijo:
>
> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
>
> > And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to
> > potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for
> > apt-get and sources.list, but
Damon Muller wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I posted this a week or so ago, and although I got a couple of suggestions,
> nothing seemed to help. I've looked around the net, and not seen anything
> else like it anywhere.
>
> I have a pretty vanilla slink install, with the update for netbase
> recommen
How do I use dselect to compile and build debian source files? Is there any
way to upgrade like i would usually, but all packages compiled from source?
james
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Damon Muller wrote:
dm-deb >Has *anyone* managed to get IP aliasing working on Slink? Surely someone
dm-deb >has.
i have, no problem on both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, make sure the route is
added for the aliased ips. I got about 50 aliased ips on this machine for
web hosting.
dm-
* peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package?
man 5 apt.conf
| Debug Options
|Most of the options in the debug section are not interest
|ing to the normal user, however Debug::pkgProblemResolver
|show
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >
ssahme >[oops! I forgot to attach the XF86Config file in question.]
from your config ..
# 1280x1024 @ 87 Hz interlaced, 51 kHz hsync
Modeline "1280x1024" 801280 1296 1512 1568 1024 1025 1037 1165
Interlaced
appears to be the only modelin
*- On 11 Nov, Michael Roberts wrote about "Icons not in color in Netscape 4.6
and 4.7"
> I'm having a problem with netscape and I've tried both versions 4.6 and
> 4.7 with the same results - all the icons on the buttons and elsewhere
> are in black and white, not color. This is a fresh install of
I'm having a problem with netscape and I've tried both versions 4.6 and
4.7 with the same results - all the icons on the buttons and elsewhere
are in black and white, not color. This is a fresh install of potato
I'm running on. All the shared libraries netscape needs are present.
What am I missi
*- On 12 Nov, Tam Ma wrote about "X window!!!"
> I configured Xfree yesterday and I have entered in all the valid
> information for my monitor, video card and so forth. But afterward, I run
> "startx" and it gave me this error message:
>
>
> System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote:
ssahme >I am just wondering if this happened because of me misconfiguring
ssahme >XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. The ADI's hsync is
ssahme >30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the XF86config program, I
ssahme >selected the monito
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Here's how I understand the license. It forbids distribution of binaries
made from modified sources unless permission is given by the University of
Washington. That makes it ineligible for inclusion in non-free because
Debian won't distribute things that are on
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marco Giardini wrote:
marco > nobody has compiled and released the new named for slink bug free?
marco >If yes, where is it available?
marco >thanks
setup a chroot'd enviornment for bind (named -t i believe) and you won't
have to worry too much about the NXT bug .. i also run
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, J C Lawrence wrote:
claw >
claw >Does anybody have a copy of the original netscape 4.05 tarball?
ftp3.netscape.com
/pub/communicator/4.05
nate
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--
Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetr
Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps)
hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer.
Thanks.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652
Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 05:51:35PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi bon
>
> Asumming your printer is hooked up to WinNT parallel port /dev/lp0 ( LPT1 )
>
>
> /etc/printcap
>lp0|hp5si|HP LaserJet 5si:\
> :lp=:\
> :rp=lp0:\
> :rm=hp5si.your_domain.com:\
> :sd=/v
Hello all:
I recently attempted to upgrade from 2.1 to potato and observed the
following:
When using deselect for upgrade purposes the symbolic link between
/bin/bash and /bin/sh was removed following the upgrade of bash.
Following the loss of this sym-link all upgrade attempts failed with
the e
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On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
> And just how does apt (or apt-get) work for upgrading from slink to
> potato? (I'm not trying to be lazy here, I do read the manual pages for
> apt-get and sources.list, but I'd like to get some help from someone who
>
On 12-Nov-1999 Martin Fluch wrote:
> Report it as a bug (wishlist items) ...
I just keep a backup copy of suid.conf and overwrite the new version after I
have done a Debian upgrade. That was the easiest way to deal with it without
editing the file after every upgrade.
--
Andrew
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 04:34:22PM +0200, Martin Fluch wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > Speaking of suidregister... I find it annoying that it resets the settings I
> > have modified by hand - for example I want the screen utility to be
>
> Report it as a bug (wishlist ite
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Martin Fluch said:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote:
> >
> > > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here:
> > > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about
> > > suidmanager?
> >
> > The suid
Hi guys, this is my second mail on this particular subject because I
didn't get any response in my first mail. Maybe because the people that
had encountered a similiar problem didn't have a chance to read this mail
yet, but anyway I giving this a second try so if you get two copies, I am
sorry.
OK
On 12-Nov-1999 Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Thanks to those who responded promptly to my pathetic cries for help with an
> IP aliasing problem. I have finally found the culprit.
>
> The ipmasq package obviously sets up some ipchains rules that prevent any
> connections to IP aliases. I'd
Hi folks,
Thanks to those who responded promptly to my pathetic cries for help with an
IP aliasing problem. I have finally found the culprit.
The ipmasq package obviously sets up some ipchains rules that prevent any
connections to IP aliases. I'd installed the package (not sure why), and of
cours
At 10:23 AM 11/11/99 -0600, Lyno Sullivan wrote:
At 08:44 AM 11/10/99 -0800, aphro wrote:
>On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
>alemas >Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
>
>I do not believe ICMP uses ports, there are TYPES of ICMP though, the
>'ping' command uses ICMP ty
At 09:52 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Jonathan Markevich wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:42:37AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> BC895 >I am looking for i place to buy reliable Debian CDs which are
NOT CD-Rs.
> BC895 >CheapBytes seems popular, but they sell R2...where can i get R3
while not
> BC895 >being ripp
* Martin Fluch said:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Hans Gubitz wrote:
>
> > Is suid.conf the right place to change permissions for files (here:
> > xcdroast)? Which scripts change suid.conf? Where can I read about
> > suidmanager?
>
> The suid.conf file is used to track programs with special permissions
>Yes its true! My ADI MicroScan 6P 19" monitor just
>died on me last
>night. It had been making a lot of clicking/cracking
>noises over the
>past couple of weeks each accompanied by a slight
>flicker/bounce/warp
>in
>the image. But last night it was just too much and
>there was a really,
>really lo
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:36:31PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Is pgp5 backward compatible with pgp2? I have an email which is
> encrypted using pgp5 with my pubring generated by pgp2, but I
> could not seem to open it using pgp2.
>
> If I upgrade to pgp5, do I need to gen
hi,
today i had a fsck run and for it looks like every socket type file
fsck reported:
set file type on entry `whatever' in /what/ever (inode) to 6
or something to that effect, I reran fsck again and it reported the
same errors again, I even tared the /var/ filesystem (most of these
files a
Your ls binary must be staticaly linked against its libraries, or you
have to put those under ~/ftp/lib
Cheers.
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Look your routing table.
# man route
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apologies, in my previous message I forgot to attach the list of
upgrade-to-be packages.
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Key fingerprin
> I've updated slink to potato one month ago or so. In general apt-get did
> its job very smothly, only a couple of packages (not more than 10) made
> some configuration problems, and due to this sometimes the
> dist-upgrade prcess got interupted, and had do be started again (after the
> problem wa
Well, I've partially solved my problem: It seems there is a bug in the
lpr/lpd 0.33.3 of the slink distribution (I checked the bug page on the
debian.org site) I downloaded the
lpr_0.46-1-0slink1_i386.deb
package, extracted manually and installed (after boackup of the old
files /usr/sbin/ lpd l
Thanks for your help, i could deblock 2 machines, now i am stuck with the last
one, which is in really bad shape.
trying the following:
yoda:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following
Hi, all
I'm trying to do a terminal-like application in perl5.
There is a serial-coupled box, which i try to handle.
I used minicom, works fine, but i have to set some filters and controls for in-
and output. So i tried following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use English;
my ($kidpid, $lines, $liner, $por
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 05:07:35AM -0500, matthschulz wrote:
> > But I do have a big monitor! I we used to run Pro/ENGINEER on this
> > machine!
> >
> > As I wrote in the first e-mail. SuperProbe reports 512kB. Is there a way
> > I can verify if this is correct or not?
> >
Like I said, you need t
"Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
>
> Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> > Howard Mann wrote:
> > >
> [cut]
> > > When I installed Python 1.5, a number of existent
> > > apps broke that required Python 1.4 and associated
> > > apps like "TLinker."
> > >
> > > This is obviously very frustrating. Is the upgrade
> > > p
> dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/debconf*
>
> (I'm not sure about the end of the filename). After that a apt-get upgrade
> should work.
thanks a lot, the systems are unpacking and configuring!
--
ciao bboett
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 12:50:34PM +0100, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:11:47AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> >>> I am sure my machine was displaying 1280x1024 when I was using Windows,
> >>> but in X I can't get it to work. Ca
On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 07:18:17AM +, Jens K. Olsen wrote:
> I have set up an anonymous FTP according to the guidelines in the ftpd
> man page. Everything seems to work fine, except ls. When I do ls, I get
> no information. pwd gives me the correct path. I have tried to give full
> permission t
Hi Folks,
I posted this a week or so ago, and although I got a couple of suggestions,
nothing seemed to help. I've looked around the net, and not seen anything
else like it anywhere.
I have a pretty vanilla slink install, with the update for netbase
recommended for 2.2 kernels. I'm using a 2.2.12
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, William Burrow wrote:
> OK, so I guess I have to bite the bullet. How is the general opinion on
> potato at the moment? Generally, I don't like going bleeding edge, but
> if it is overall stable as it stands, then I might go for it. I'm n
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> 100% [Scanning packages]
> Configuring packages ...
> /tmp/fileIQpGZk: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
> E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
> E: Failure running sc
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