*- On 5 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "kernel question"
> I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable.
> Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a
> regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way?
> I have done this bef
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote:
[ snip ]
: Now I am having some trouble with the SCSI CD. The kernel reports the
: SCSI adapter and the CD during boot up messages. But when I try
:mount -tios9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
: or to use a cd player, nothing---this is not known to the
On 05-Jan-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable.
> Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a
> regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way?
> I have done this before but I suspect the
I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable.
Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a
regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way?
I have done this before but I suspect there were some additional steps I had
to p
Recently, I shuffled some hardware on my working new Potato system;
mainly, I installed an SB Live sound card (compiled Creative's source
with both 2.3.35 and 2.2.13, and both worked, _nominally_).
Now I am having some trouble with the SCSI CD. The kernel reports the
SCSI adapter and the CD dur
by default, the current working directory (CWD) is not in your $PATH
so append a ./ to the command, so in this case ./removeCiv.sh
or you can modify your path, in /etc/profile (for bash and compadible
shells) add
export PATH=$PATH:.
although it is somewhat of a security risk to have . in your p
Cameron Matheson said:
> Then I type "chmod u+x removeCiv.sh" to add execute permission to myself,
> but when i type "removeCiv.sh" at the prompt i get the error "bash:
> removeCiv.sh: command not found"
Try
/removeCiv.sh
or move the script to an 'executables' directory, such as /usr/local/bin.
dont use the drivers in the kernel they are old and buggy. i believe your
card is a Bt848 based card.
go here and get these drivers:
http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html
the driver you want is
http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv-0.6.4h.tar.gz
as for a radio app, i dont know i cant stand listening t
* aphro said:
> i got that when my ulimits were too strict, try killing processes to free
> up resources (see ulimit for more info) either that or you may be out of
> memory..
I reported the problem to the packages' maintainers (su and sudo) but
apparently the problem of su and sudo not resetting r
Hey,
I can't get any of my scripts to work. I'm just trying to start simple, by
making a script to delete all my FreeCiv save files. I use 'vi' and type
the following:
# !/bin/sh
rm civgame*
clear
pwd
ls -l
Then I type "chmod u+x removeCiv
I'm trying to get the radio of my Miro Media PCTV pro to work. I downloaded
fmtools, but when running 'make' it comes back to me with
'linux/videodev.h: No such file or directory' and it exits.
Now I've compiled a kernel with modular support for the bttv driver and
video devices, so what am I doin
often when ripping from an IDE drive cpu utilization goes through the
roof, try reducing the speed at which you rip cds, i can rip and be online
with no problem..i can rip and be online and play quake no problem..course
my scsi drives seem to top out at 1X for reading CDA
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000,
I installed the alsa modules that came with the current stable
slink cd (alsa 2.0 pre 8 + 8.3 diff patch). I see that there have
been many versions since 2.0 alsa. What I wonder is, is there really
any reason to upgrade, especially in regards to the audiopci and awe32/64
modules? Have these new ve
Jens Günther wrote:
> I think it would be prudent not to use unstable development utilities
> in producing the next stable release, because it prevents users from
> building selected packages locally, although they might work well enough in
> their mostly stable environment. What problems might ari
i got that when my ulimits were too strict, try killing processes to free
up resources (see ulimit for more info) either that or you may be out of
memory..
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Marc D Chapman wrote:
chap00 >Recently I performed a apt-get dist-upgrade on my potato box. Since
then
chap00 >wh
> 2. For some time now when booting, I get the message
> 'SIOCADDRT - invalid argument'. It appears to cause
> no problem - nevertheless, I'd like to understand exactly
> what is referred to and make any correction needed.
> So far I've found no reference to meaning - there have
I've noticed that if my machine is connected to the Internet using
PPP, and I start to rip a CD using grip or cdparanoia (both use
libcdparanoia), the PPP link heavily drops packets and often the line
drops. This is A Bad Thing. It happens even wen cdparanoia is set to
priority 20 (top shows that t
Recently I performed a apt-get dist-upgrade on my potato box. Since then
whenever I 'su' I am unable to do anything from the shell prompt. It
always gives me an error like:
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
This makes life extremely more difficult for the purpose of upgradin
I just had this problem a couple hours ago, actually, on my Potato box.
I'm not sure what happened to break it (was working fine just a few days
ago) but a purge of all *curses*-dev packages and then a reinstall of
libncurses5-dev did the trick. Also let me remove a couple `legacy'
packages.
BTW,
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:26:14AM -0500, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
> 1. My mouse doesn't work after I boot and start X windows.
>I have to run gpm,gpm-mouse-test after I boot in to make
>my mouse work.
>Any ideas what I have to check in my init script so that
>my mouse driver is
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:31:05AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Was it chown --no-dereference? Perhaps that has been added to chown
> recently, though the changelog doesn't say what version I should depend upon.
Yes, that is it! I add some information below:
---begin quote---
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh
1. I found and installed a program, Vera 1.4a-1, which is
stated to list acronyms. There was no problem with
dselect and 'dpkg -l' shows it as installed, however, I
am neither able to locate any file of that name nor to
access the list. Anyone any ideas please?
2. For some time now
I've finally managed to install Debian 2.1 from floppy disks using images
downloaded from the Debian Website. Being a newbie to Linux, I have some
problems I cannot seem to resolve. I've gone through the any help files I
could find as well as Debian mail Archives to no avail. Here's
the list (fo
the system cannot talk to the modem, make sure the modem is configured
correctly, if this is the first time you installed linux on that
machine, you may need to use isapnp to configure it. use minicom to
manually talk to the modem, i suggest using the jumpers (if available) on
the modem to hard co
as far as i know the athlon requires kernel 2.2.13 to boot(or
newer) anything less will crash (i read that 2.2.12 works but from what i
remember on the kernel mailing list 2.2.13 was the one to use)
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Peter Schuller wrote:
scode >Hello,
scode >
scode >I'm in a desperate ne
I have a global deny to all to / (Everywhere)
then i specifically have to allow each virtual host, make sure to disable
symlinks (or use symlinksifownermatch i think is the directive
i strongly sugest not putting any data in a directory that can be accessed
by the www server, that is important, i
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 09:47:21PM -0800, Hagen Finley wrote
> I made a dry run at installing Debian using the cdrom as a dselect source
> this time and, although there were a couple of bumps along the way, the
> process looks promising. I have noticed that the Install notes and Debian
> FAQ don't
|> hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {busy}
|> hda: drive not ready for command
|> ide0: Reset: Success
This has come up more than once over the last year or two. If you
search the list archives (especially around April of 99, I think), you
should find discussion and opinions.
The consensus seems
Happy New Year!
I get a connect script failed when I try to use pon to connect to my ISP.
it used to work before. Here is the exact error message:
debian:/etc# ln sf /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
debian:/etc# pon x
debian:/etc# tail f /var/log/ppp.log
Jan 4 08:13:15 debian pppd[178]:Connect scrip
debs,
what's the config to backspace in xterm?
btw: i'm running dlinux on 2 lapboxes and 2 deskboxes. on 1 lapbox,
i can backspace in xterm; the other boxes, i cannot...
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
//
Hi,
at my school we are running a Linux server which serves as a
file-/http-server/internetgateway/WinNT-Domain-Master at the moment. In
the near future we will get about 20 new machines which will run Linux
(Debian of course).
To allow flexible usage the home direcories of all users should be
st
I am trying to get Exim 2.05 working correctly on my system. Everything
seems to be OK, so far, except that when I get more than 10 messages the
remaining messages are queued and the Exim log files report:
no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection
I have just been tr
Hello,
I have 118 msgs sitting in /var/spool/exim/input That are frozen, all with
the same error:
11oG5a-0006tw-00
::
1999-11-17 17:10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lookuphost router deferred:
lowest numbered MX record points to local host
*** Frozen ***
The master file in /var/named for
Hello,
I'm in a desperate need of assistence. I just a got my new computer
and I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on it (to be upgraded to potato after
initial install). The problem is that it won't boot during the installation
process.
The last thing printed is "md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAC_RE
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:20:12AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
...
> > represent intellectual property. There's far more to this than simply
> having
> > the tools to do the recording (or whatever).
>
> People willing to do it will by definition desire to give it away. I
> know that there is
On 4 Jan, Shaul Karl wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
>> in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
>> focus of it.
>>
>
> (1) I am not sure but I believe that it is the WM business and that
> Fvwm has an option to d
Ethan Benson wrote:
> >It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this:
> >
> >Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
> >Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a
> >temporary filename: Permission denied
> >
> >I don't know enough about how mandb
Hi!
I've got many directives in my main apache config.
Now I've got some VirtualHosts and I want them to be able to
access what I want... that is, deny everthing and tell them what they can
acces on a per VirtualHost basis.
I fond out that I had to make a "deny from all"
Hi evreyone,
Porblem solved. I inserted an ignore for netbios-dgm in diald's standard.filter.
Now all works fine.
Regards,
Klaus.
Hi
I'm running a local webmail site where the pages are served by
apache-ssl. Since there is no real need for a real certificate i've used
the ssl-certificate script to generate new certificates when the old
ones expire... until today.
Today i ran ssl-certificate, but now when i try /etc/init.d/a
does the remote site require PAP ? is PAP setup? run pppconfig and create
a new connection and tell it to use PAP if the remote end requires PAP, if
it does not then tell pppconfig to use a standard login(plain text)
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Ralph Winslow wrote:
rjw >For the last couple of wee
the subject is a little misleading :)
is the server you are testing from a local server? within your ISP's
network? what speed do you connect at(see /var/log/messages) and what kind
of file are you trying to transfer?(text? compressed? highly
compressed?) and what mode?(ascii/binary) and what clie
Just a few hours ago I also had a status timeout on on eof my harddisk,
accidentally I pulled out the power from my harddisk. You could check if
the powercable to your harddisk (little white connector) is well attached,
perhaps it sometimes fails and then goes on again.
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Larry S
Two solutions (not real handy ones, but better than keep changing the
configuration files):
1) For evey e-mail adress you want to send with you create a new user with
that mail adress.
2) Make a lot of configuration files and rename them everytime you want to
have another mail-address.
On Wed, 5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a
> complex chat script. Can someone help me out?
> Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window
> after connecting, so I can do the following:
> Login:
> Passwor
"Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I dunno about .pythonrc.py. The docs I read said to put startup code in
> ~/.python-startup.py and this is what I use successfully. In order to modify
> python's
> search path from python code you just need to manipulate the sys.path list,
> eg.:
I'm attempting to install debian on a Compaq DeskPro 5100 (P100). What
modules do I need to install for:
- the built-in LAN port
- a 3Com HomeConnect Phoneline PCI card
- a Cisco 605 DSL PCI card
- enabling getting the IP address via DHCP
Any help will be much appreciated!
u l
Steve Winston wrote:
>
> I get only a green screen in X with no icons. I configured X in slink for my
> voodoo3 card. When I type startx, I get a screen the color of a typical
> win95 green, nothing else. Any suggestions anyone? Help.
> thanks, sTeve W.
Is this the first time you use X or did you
Ralph Winslow writes:
> PAP authentication failed
Run pppconfig and set your system up to use PAP authentication. Your ISP
is using a too-clever terminal server that recognizes when you are using a
modem program and puts up a login: prompt but expects pppd to use PAP.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTE
Hi.
Did someone run quake/xracer or any other 3d game on riva zx with
hardware acceleration ?
Hi mail Gurus !
Having two or more ISP's smart hosts (and 2 or more e-mail addresses),
I need to choice which e-mail address to use for sending e-mail time by
time.
I usually use 'smail' on my Debian Linux box.
Is it possible to set smail/linux for managing multiple e-mails address,
without
chan
Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
> >
> > [anything]: nothing appropriate
>
> and when you try man [anything] what do you get?
man [anything] works (for appropr
I'm sorry to ask this question, but did you run mandb as root?
If anyone can explain to me as to why I am now seeing this message come
across my screen while Debian Linux is up and running, and if there is a fix
for it...This just started yesterday...
hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {busy}
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: Reset: Success
Thanks
Larry
I dunno about .pythonrc.py. The docs I read said to put startup code in
~/.python-startup.py and this is what I use successfully. In order to modify
python's
search path from python code you just need to manipulate the sys.path list, eg.:
import sys
sys.path.append('path-to-append')
In order to
On 5/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this:
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a
temporary filename: Permission denied
I don't know enough about how mandb wor
On thing you might want to set if it isn't already is AT&B1. This tells the
modem to use a fixed serial rate, not one that's adjustable based on
connection. Since you
showed that mgetty was able to communicate with the modem for setting it up
it's a little weird that when rings come in it gets t
Hi to all !
How can I customize my keyboard under X ?
I mean without X (bash), I can use 'loadkeys ' and all
works fine.
But under X, the keyboard's customization doesn't work.
I think X uses anything about Xmodemap, but I haven't further information.
Another problem under X, is Joe's (editor)
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 06:50:35AM -0800, Andrei Popov wrote:
>
> Accelerated X installs *only* an accelerated server.
> It will not replace the rest of you Xfree86
> installation, it willonly:
>
> - add a separate config file under /etc/X11
> - copy accelerated X server into /usr/bin/X11
David Teague wrote:
>
> You may have fixed the problem, and not recognize it.
>
> If you are getting 'nothing appropriate' that may be the correct
> answer. For example, on my system,
>
> elentari:~[1]man -k ls
> ls (1) - list contents of directories
> mkls-lR (8) - Make l
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:52:18PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote:
> I've recently got a copy of XIG's Accelerated X, and I wanted to give it a
> try on my Potato System, but before I do I wanted to check something.
>
> Currently I'm using the XFree86 3.3.5 packages to provide X. If I de-install
> th
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
>
> [anything]: nothing appropriate
and when you try man [anything] what do you get?
If you get a manpage then it is the db to be rebuilt (mandb -c from
root),
I've just done a fresh install of potato (from slink boot disks then
apt-get dist-upgrade etc). I installed exim, and mail works (sending
and receiving) using /usr/bin/mail.
I installed Pine 3.96 and built a debian package. I also compiled
the source myself to Pine 4.21 and 'hand installed'. Fo
For the last couple of weeks I've been unable to connect to work via
ppp.
When I run minicom, I see the host: prompt and enter ppp, then get the
password:
prompt and enter my password, then see the ppp garbage strings that
start the
protocol negotiation. I believe that this confirms that the pass
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brian Stults wrote:
> Ethan Benson wrote:
> > the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly:
> > /etc/cron.weekly/mandb
> > should make it run now, it takes a while.
>
> I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other
> suggestions?
Brian
You
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, jd wrote:
> hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i
> dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do
> than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would
> be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phil Dyer
*- On 5 Jan, David Wright wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> *- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Changing font size for xterm"
>> > What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc?
>>
>> On the command line:
>>
>> x
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> *- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Changing font size for xterm"
> > What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc?
>
> On the command line:
>
> xterm -fn
> emacs -fn
>
> Dynamically:
>
> xterm: Ctrl+Btn3
> (I use xemacs so
I've recently got a copy of XIG's Accelerated X, and I wanted to give it a
try on my Potato System, but before I do I wanted to check something.
Currently I'm using the XFree86 3.3.5 packages to provide X. If I de-install
these I'll end-up uninstalling all packages which depend on X. Not really
wh
Sorry, I meant to say TX in the subject.
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> when I ftp to a server, if I use the get command, I can get
> around about 4K/s. But with the same server, if I use the put
> command, I only get about 600bytes/s.
>
> I have checked /etc/
Hi,
when I ftp to a server, if I use the get command, I can get
around about 4K/s. But with the same server, if I use the put
command, I only get about 600bytes/s.
I have checked /etc/ppp/options, and tried to set both mtu and mru
to 1500, but did not solve
- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: education warehouse, sound-video player
> >Software that enables video recording of lectures, with the highest
> >compression and facility of use,
Hi
Has anyone been able to install jbuilder on a slink machine.
I'm trying to install it now, but after i select the VM it just dies...
--
Mario Filipe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
you need to compile your own driver for udma 66 check the archives for the
url, for maximum stability i suggest avoiding the dma66 controller (i have
bp6 too, but i am 100% scsi)
nate
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:
guyren >I couldn't get Corel Linux to work until I switched my drive fr
I couldn't get Corel Linux to work until I switched my drive from the
UDMA/66 port to the normal one (I have a BP6 mobo and UDMA/66 drive).
The benchmarks I've seen (eg on Thresh) show the /66 to be way faster.
Is there any way I can get this to work?
TIA
> "DZM" == David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DZM> Note that any Debian package will create a directory
DZM> /usr/doc/$PACKAGE (or /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE in Potato)
DZM> containing the package's documentation, including at the very
DZM> least the copyright file. So this
i add most of the modules i need in /etc/modules
that inserts them at boot for me, i still have kerneld but it has no other
modules to load since they are already loaded.
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Hans wrote:
hansfo >How can I automagically load modules with modprobe at boot (I don't
want to
ha
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote:
: I am diving head first into Linux, but have done very little work with Unix
: in my career except a tiny but at University.
Welcome - this is the place to be.
: My immediate problem is that I can't get network cards working under my
: Corel linux (o
Hi,
I have a CanoScan 630P (parallel port) scanner at home and it works
fine under windows but I have since looked around and found out that
scanner software such as SANE do not support such hardware. I was
wondering if anyone has had any luck with this particular scanner or any
parallel porte
I made a dry run at installing Debian using the cdrom as a dselect source
this time and, although there were a couple of bumps along the way, the
process looks promising. I have noticed that the Install notes and Debian
FAQ don't seem to zero in on configuring X during the installation. Is there
an
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
aphro> attached is the results of dpkg -S /usr
aphro>
aphro> it should list every package i have in /usr, there is a
aphro> craplaod of them, probably around 500,
Note that any Debian package will create a directory /usr/doc/$PACKAGE
(or /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE
I get only a green screen in X with no icons. I configured X in slink for my
voodoo3 card. When I type startx, I get a screen the color of a typical
win95 green, nothing else. Any suggestions anyone? Help.
thanks, sTeve W.
Get yo
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:50:17AM +0100, Pere Camps wrote
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to setup a virtual domain with exim. So far I've managed
> to make it able to accept emails for the virtual domain, but it now sends
> the emails to the local users. I'll give an example:
>
> The machine is
> I have removed the rc.d links for wwwoffle (using update-rc.d) but whenever
> the machine is restarted, up comes wwwoffle. Does anyone know how this is
> happening? I have looked at my other scripts and I am clueless.
Try
grep -r wwwoffle
in the /etc directory.
--
Carl Fink
I am diving head first into Linux, but have done very little work with Unix
in my career except a tiny but at University.
My immediate problem is that I can't get network cards working under my
Corel linux (or my sound card -- an inland Sound Card PCI 128 Wave Table --
but I'm prepared to leave th
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 10:43:07AM -0600, Ron Stordahl wrote:
> I am considering buying a Tripp Lite OmniSmart 450PNP. They claim that
> their PowerAltert V10.1.9 software supports Linux, however I would be much
> more confortable if I knew for sure that it worked, and ideally was open
> source.
>
Ethan Benson wrote:
> the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly:
> /etc/cron.weekly/mandb
> should make it run now, it takes a while.
I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian
> On 4/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
>
> >When I
This just started happening today after a service restart:
--->
501 yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"] []
<---
which is aparantly returned after a `newnews' command from trn.
Setting `NNTPSERVER' to my ISP's news server has no problem. A manual
connection to port 119 reveals my ISP's server to use a four-digi
jd wrote:
> hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i
> dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than
> to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be
> thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the easiest way to
*- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> Thanks for the tips. I tried them out and they worked as expected. The
> next step is to be able to change the default fonts. Would that be don
> in a .conf file?
>
>
Xterm uses the 'fixed' font as the default. The only
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Jens Guenther wrote
> Hi,
>
> I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed,
> because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the
> potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some comma
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:28:01AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote
> I recently did a apt-get dist-upgrade on Jan 2nd, which updated ncurses to
> version 5.0. I didn't notice any problems at first, but I went to build a
> custom version of Nethack and noticed that it failed to compile with curses
> error
Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
> package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
> the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.
>
> Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it.
>
> Reorga
I have removed the rc.d links for wwwoffle (using update-rc.d) but whenever
the machine is restarted, up comes wwwoffle. Does anyone know how this is
happening? I have looked at my other scripts and I am clueless.
thanks
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Andrew
Thanks for the tips. I tried them out and they worked as expected. The
next step is to be able to change the default fonts. Would that be don
in a .conf file?
*- On 4 Jan, Pann McCuaig wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote:
>>
>> To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the
>> xbase-clients package).
>>
>> To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote:
>
> To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the
> xbase-clients package).
>
> To get an interactive selection of all available fonts runt he command
> xfontsel(in the xcontrib package).
Wow. Thanks for the pointers.
Had
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:47:17PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Craig Coles wrote:
> > > 1: On a couple of boxes, while doing an update with dselect, I keep seeing
> > > the message
> > >
> > > Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 01:07:48AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> How can I automagically load modules with modprobe at boot (I don't
> want to use kerneld)? I once knew, but it's been a while.
Insert the names of the modules in /etc/modules.
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