hello
thanks a lot for you advices about the number of terminals
by the way, i have used kill -1 1 to rerun /etc/inittab
thanks a lot
You missed a few letters the command is '/sbin/telinit q'.
At 17:12 15.1.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think*
>> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at
>
>I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-rea
I was using my computer, and logged in as root
using su and I started getting the following
irritating message.
'bash: /root/.profile: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file'
I have no idea why this started to appear. I
been using debian 2.1 now for almost a year
and this is the first ti
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 01:56:51PM -0800, Michael Perry wrote:
> I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
> potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
> recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that
> develops fo
For some reason when I use ssh to connect to my machine at work the
backspace key no longer works in vim (nothing happens when I press
it). The backspace key works fine in all other situations, and works
even in vim when I'm at the console of my work machine. In vim I can
use Ctrl-h to do the sa
i use potato, so i may make an error and tell you something that doesn't
work in slink. If i do, someone should correct me.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 06:27:41PM +0100, Jose Alberto Lobo wrote:
>
> After the problem was solved I restarted the process,
> but saw that ALL non-installed files in the De
> and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think*
> you have to reboot - I could be wrong on that one. But this should at
I think you can just 'init q' and it will re-read the inittab.
--Ian Ehrenwald
I'm the previous poster of the Off-Topic Pentium MB thread. I identified
the MB as a Asus SP97-V. Upon booting, the screen states:
Award BootBlock Bios v1.0
Copyright (c) 1995, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ROM checksum error
There's no option to enter the BIOS setup, does this meant the BIOS is
hello,
I am using a bootdisk and I wish to know how can I install the kernel to the
floppy.
thank you.
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 10:37:58PM +0100, erasmo perez wrote:
> hello
>
> i remember some time having seen here the answer to how is it possible
> to have more than 6 terminals (tty), but i have forgotten the tip
>
> would someone be so kind to remind this fool this answer ?
Go into your /etc/in
Hi all-
I just got dsl here so have a system I would like to take from slink to
potato using the apt-get install dist-upgrade. Has anyone done this
recently? Any issues? Also would just like to say thanks to everyone that
develops for Debian and to the mailing list for all the great advice!
--
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:03:03AM -0800, Bradley Pursley wrote:
> I am doing a first-time installation on my
> computer (detailed below) and it hangs when booting to
> the installation program. The message it leaves is
> "Loading root.bin ..." and then it just hangs with the
> drive still ru
hello
i remember some time having seen here the answer to how is it possible
to have more than 6 terminals (tty), but i have forgotten the tip
would someone be so kind to remind this fool this answer ?
thanks a lot
erasmo
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 09:17:51AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:45:16AM -0500, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
> >
> > dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`linux') doesn't contain any digits
> > dpkg-deb: 1 errors in control file
> > make: *** [kernel-image-deb] Error 2
I would start by following the mkswap man page. However, I believe you have a
problem that I can not figure out from your mail because the installation
procedure should do it for you. Actually, I do not completely understand how
you were partitioning the disk. What exactly is a Linux partition? I
Has anyone else had experience with a 440BX board that incorporates ATA/66
support? Debian does not even realize that its there. Is there no support
for them yet?
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> Rick Macdonald wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> >
> > > I need to create a simple graphics application under X:
> > > open a window, mark some rectangular areas on it, than draw some curve
> > > lines among those rectangl
I started sshd with the -d (debug) option to try to
figure this out, and I think I have my answer, but I
want to make sure.
Am I correct in assuming that the encryption between
client/server is started before any exchange of data
takes place? Specifically, I'm wondering if the
username is passed
Hi,
We had the same problem here. Just edit /usr/sbin/suidregister, and add
the line at line 170:
my ($username, $groupname, $inode);
You will also need to edit the following lines so they look like this
(basically, just remove the "my" word out of each line:
-
# If a [ug]i
Hi,
Does anyone have a client for DynDNS.org deb'ed? Has anyone got that
working with dhcp-client? Do you just add calls to the hooks?
/Allan
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Hi,
Can you tell me how I can use ibcs2 ?
Is there a patch, or a module to charge with insmod ?
Is there a .deb for this program ?
Thanks,
Manu
On 2000-01-15 12:09:59, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get drivers for a Canon BJC-80
> printer for Debian 2.1 Slink. I went to Linux.com, but they only had about
> two printer drivers, and none were Canon.
Don't know what BJC-80 is compatible with, but did
Yeah, I get the same.
eric wolven
Try changing to the second VT (ALT-F2) and issuing a "swapoff" command,
then go back and "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition".
--
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an
> old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Per
I found the cause of my problems this morning, with eterm.
It appears that the suidmanager package is broken and this causes difficulties
upgrading other packages such as eterm.
suidmanager_0.41_all.deb is the broken version.
--
Andrew
I've been working at this for a little while now and here's what I've
found out.
I installed debian 2.1r4 over my redhat 5.2 firewall. The installation
worked well, and I was able to install packages via apt, upgrading to
potato, from http://http.us.debian.org and other sources without
difficult
Oops -- I looked a little farther on the web and found the
www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html
workaround.
Charles Hartman
Poet in Residence
Connecticut College
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey,
Thanks for the help. I had tried pppconfig before, but I had the com port
wrong (I had it set on 3, it should have been 2) and I couldn't remeber the
command to fix it.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
Hey,
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get drivers for a Canon BJC-80
printer for Debian 2.1 Slink. I went to Linux.com, but they only had about
two printer drivers, and none were Canon.
Thanks,
Cameron Matheson
(since I wasn't previously subscribed to the
mailing list, I can't see anyone's responses. So, I
am re-sending this message, but with more details.)
I am doing a first-time installation on my
computer (detailed below) and it hangs when booting to
the installation program. The message i
I have been asked to specify a hardware platform for a Linux system
for a commerical organization to function as a small departmental
server. I plan to install Debian. With the exception of a couple
system manufacturers, e.g., VAResearch, I find little or no statement
of Debian support. Redhat h
Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an
old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Perverse, but I'm doing it, and I
have the disk-image floppies.
As a first try, I made these partitions:
hda1 swap 16Mb
hda2 temp root 2Mb
hda3 Linux 98Mb
Problem: wh
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:59:47 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am installing Debian for the first time on my IBM PS/1 with 14MB RAM.
Isn't that a 286? No chance, you need at least a 386.
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Ok, since I'm now a little paranoid after this whole xfree86 thing (see
'Xwindows help needed') and between the time I first installed everything
and now I emptied this huge partition I can use for storage, is there an
easy way for me to tell apt-get 'ok, go get the .debs for everything I
have inst
I am installing Debian for the first time on my IBM PS/1 with 14MB RAM.
I have tried re-imaging the boot disk twice and have even followed the
documented recommendations for my machine, but when it starts booting into
the install program, it just says "Loading root.bin ..." and then the sy
Dear unknown colleague,
I have just installed in my desktop Debian 2.1 from a CD
a colleague here created from the net. I have been using
Linux for nearly four years now, and have always had
Slackware --lastly Slackware 3.3, kernel 2.0.30. Due to
a major hardware breakdown I've been forced
On 15-Jan-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> I don't understand how this happened:
>
> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> suidregister: /usr/bin/Eterm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.utmp 2755 changed
> to root.root 2755
> suidregister: /usr/bin/Eterm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 2755 changed
> to root.utmp
I tried to install the eterm package on another machine and I got this:
Leaving x-terminal-emulator.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/x-terminal-emulator.1.gz)
pointi
ng to /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz.
Unpacking replacement Eterm ...
Global symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at
/usr/sbin/suid
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 11:45:16AM -0500, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am creating the a custom 2.2.14 kernel using kernel-package. I gave
> the following command,
>
> make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image
>
> It went thru the kernel compilation process (after configure), and at
> fina
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 10:02:04PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> Hey everybody,
>
> Thanks for all the help you guys have given me. I now have my linux working
> good, with WordPerfect 8. I still don't have my modem working, and I am
> clueless. It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is i
I don't understand how this happened:
/etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
suidregister: /usr/bin/Eterm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.utmp 2755 changed
to root.root 2755
suidregister: /usr/bin/Eterm PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 2755 changed
to root.utmp 2755
What should the correct ownerships and p
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:56:18PM +1000, mike ber wrote:
>
> I just installed x11 using dselect. When I type in xdm it just skips
> onto the next line without giving an error message or any other
> information. Does antbody know what I could had missed or what's
> wrong.
Well, it used to say so
Rick gave we the following idea:
maybe it is easier to convert my data into a popular format and view it with a
standard viewer.
Any ideas about what format to use, where to find it's description?
I imagine that using `BMP' should be quite easy, but than I may need a
converter to e.g. GIF.
Blaz
Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote:
>
> > I need to create a simple graphics application under X:
> > open a window, mark some rectangular areas on it, than draw some curve
> > lines among those rectangles and that's all.
> >
> > Any piece of advice where to beg
Hi,
I am creating the a custom 2.2.14 kernel using kernel-package. I gave
the following command,
make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image
It went thru the kernel compilation process (after configure), and at
finally it gave me the foll error
test -f System.map && cp System.map \
Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> You might try the file or the strings commands in order to learn what kind of
> data these files contain.
>
> > I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these
> > type of files. I "THINK" they are some type of Microsoft proprietary
> > file format. N
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote:
> I need to create a simple graphics application under X:
> open a window, mark some rectangular areas on it, than draw some curve lines
> among those rectangles and that's all.
>
> Any piece of advice where to begin?
You might consider using tkpaint
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Alice M. Pinard wrote:
> I'm having similar trouble from what I can tell in the 3.3.6 slink
> xfree86 update xbase-clients and xserver-common conflict. (which means as
> far as I can tell with my very brief experience with x and debian packages
> that I can have my clien
Hello,
Help, please. I'm running kernel 2.2.14 i386, compiled with kernel
autofs and nfs support. When I try to start nfs-kernel-server, I get
dilbert# /etc/rc2.d/S20nfs-kernel-server start
Starting NFS kernel daemon: export nfsd nfssvc: Function not implemented
mountd done.
dilbert#
Are the nf
I need to create a simple graphics application under X:
open a window, mark some rectangular areas on it, than draw some curve lines
among those rectangles and that's all.
Any piece of advice where to begin?
I've never written any `windows like' application but I'm quite experienced in
C progra
I can't get xwindows to work after a recent reinstall.
"startx" file no longer exists, and I get numerous
error messages. Also, I ended up with xfree86 3.3.6 instead
of 3.3.5
Error messages include:
"update menus:
cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus: pid"
"Errors encountered while process
On 15 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote:
> Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and
> startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6
> instead of 3.3.5.
> I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk
> crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did
> apt-get update an
Horacio writes:
> So, providing the tablet works at all with Debian, what's the way to go
> to have them both working?
Write a script to link /dev/mouse to either /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/psaux as
required.
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
Hi,
I have Debian 2.1 (SLINK) succesfully installed on my Computer.
I wanted to try out GNOME which I didn't ever used so far. After
selecting some of the GNOME-packages with dselect I came to a
point where I had a really annoying interrellation-affect. Meaning
whenever I tried to select libgnome
Xwindows still doesn't work. It won't install, and
startx no longer exists. Somehow, I have Xfree86 3.3.6
instead of 3.3.5.
I had to reinstall debian after win98 on the same disk
crashed. Anyway, I reinstalled Debian (slink), did
apt-get update and ended up with Xfree86 3.3.6 to my
surprise. Whe
You might try the file or the strings commands in order to learn what kind of
data these files contain.
> I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these
> type of files. I "THINK" they are some type of Microsoft proprietary
> file format. Netscape, WordPerfect, Gnotepad,
On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, kari wrote:
> I have slink with exim (2.05-2) and imap (4.5-0slink3) installed. After
> upgrading the latestslink updates pine - which I use reading my mail -
> have started to tell me that "Inbox is in use by another process, access
> is read-only". This means that all my ma
For autofs stuff...
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html
For DNS...
- i like running a local secondary on each machine...
couple line entry for each...and accurate within reason
- i do NOT use /etc/hosts... for reasons stated earlier
For
Cuando: vie, 14 de ene de 2000, a las 06:05:42 -0600
Quien: Chris R. Martin
Que: upgrading multiple machines to 2.1r4
> I'd like to upgrade a few networked machines to 2.1r4, and since I have
> only a slow dialup connection to the net, I'd like to only download each
> package I need once. Howe
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote:
>
> After installing slink on my old 386, I salvaged a Pentium box from work
> that was to be sent to the trash. I have very little experience with
> Pentium motherboards since I've only owned a 486 and 386. The problem is
> the motherboard (and ASUS motherboard)was stri
"AU,SCOTT CHUONG" wrote:
>
> After installing slink on my old 386, I salvaged a Pentium box from work
> that was to be sent to the trash. I have very little experience with
> Pentium motherboards since I've only owned a 486 and 386. The problem is
> the motherboard (and ASUS motherboard)was stri
Bruce Sass wrote:
>
> dpkg --help | less
>
I must have been blind!
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 02:01:43PM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> >
> > Any idea ?
>
> I had the same problem with an Adaptex 2910C. I think your problem is
> a kernel issue -- the 2.0.36 kernel that is loaded from the Debian CD
> doesn't support the newer Adaptec cards. This is why
Cormac McGuinness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently got a DEC Multia and would like to install debian on it.
> Is there any way I can install (or at least prepare) a hard disk
> with all the necessary alpha binaries while the hard disk is sitting
> connected to an i386 box ?
You can prepar
I have slink with exim (2.05-2) and imap (4.5-0slink3) installed. After
upgrading the latestslink updates pine - which I use reading my mail -
have started to tell me that "Inbox is in use by another process, access
is read-only". This means that all my mail stays as 'new' all the time and
my inbo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
>drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB card. In thier
>documentation they want me to do the linking.
Change the module Makefile to add -I/
Hi,
I acquired a graphics tablet and a ps/2 mouse. I wonder if it's
possible to have them both working together, or whether there's another
solution to it.
The tablet & pen specifications are: 3-button cordless (cell powered)
pen and a tablet with a serial port connection.
I got the ps/2 mous
You have to have apt point to nonus site ie mirror.aarnet.edu.au
Chanop
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 07:50:24PM +0700, Louis Larry wrote:
>
> Where can I get ssh2 for potato?
>
> apt-get install ssh2 gets:
> Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database.
>
> Louis.
>
>
> --
>
Kent West wrote:
>
> Gateway E-4200 Pentium II-400, 4GB drive, 128MB RAM, VX700 17"
> monitor, 3COM 3c509c NIC, es1371 sound card, ATI Rage 128. I've
> had trouble getting my sound card to work 100% (not at all in
> VMWARE, and only about 40% in Linux), and I can't run VMWARE in
> full-screen mode
On 14/1/2000 David Grant Cheney wrote:
1. No floppy drive. Connectivity is no problem (ethernet/external
scsi/cdrom) but not having a CD or another linux system to make an image
has made things difficult. Though most of the difficulties I have had
could have been avoided if it weren't for:
2.
When I run top I get
{filp_open} {get_unused_fd}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.13 does not match kernel data.
printed to my xterm before having the usual data. Yet top seems to be working
as usual. I am using 2.2.13.
In addition to the above Warning, my ~/.xsession-errors also has
BgLostPid ps
Hi,
I installed debian 2.0 successfully. But when I tried to shutdown, the
machine apparently hangs with the following line.
Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron.
It has happened to me with another debian installation also. On some
installations, it has gone without any problems.
Any ideas
In attempting to install Debian on a G3 powerbook I have encountered a
number of minor problems:
1. No floppy drive. Connectivity is no problem (ethernet/external
scsi/cdrom) but not having a CD or another linux system to make an image
has made things difficult. Though most of the difficulties I
> It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get external
> PnP modems working?
"External PnP? The phrase makes no sense. If it's an external it should
just work. What have you tried and what happened? Give exact details.
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Dancing Horse Hill
El
Well, you can manually create an entry in the dpkg DB
(/var/lib/dpkg/status) with your favorite text editor. If the line
"Provides: mail-transport-agent" is in the entry then dpkg will stop
complaining. You will also need to put a .list file in
/var/lib/dpkg/info.
IMPORTANT
NOTE: dpkg will think
Where can I get ssh2 for potato?
apt-get install ssh2 gets:
Package ssh2 has no available version, but exists in the database.
Louis.
Hey,
A bunch of my programs (WordPerfect 8, most games included with Debian, etc)
don't fit on my screen. Is their a way to make it so they automatically
launch up no bigger than 640 by 480?
Info on my Computer:
Linux Distribution: Debian 2.1 Slink
Window Manager: WindowMaker
Resolution:
Hey everybody,
Thanks for all the help you guys have given me. I now have my linux working
good, with WordPerfect 8. I still don't have my modem working, and I am
clueless. It's an external PnP 3Com 33.6 Sportser. Is it possible to get
external PnP modems working? I'm using Debian 2.1 Slink.
Todd Suess wrote:
> I got the following errors after a apt-get dist-upgrade today.
> apt-get failed on setting up, so I ran dpkg --configure --pending to fix the
> remaining packages. Below is the output.
It's amusing to note the email that appeared right above your mail in my
mailbox that collec
Joey,
Why not accept "the sentence", "y", or "Y" as indicating an affirmative.
Don't change the excessivly verbose prompt, except to add an indication
that "y" would also work (hmm, maybe telling the user about the
shortcut after the fact, so they know next time, would also work). The
point gets m
Joseph de los Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Greetings!
>I would like to know if sawmill can be used with slink and if so, how do I
>do this.
>Thank you
Hi Joseph,
I am in fact using sawmill on slink as I write this. The .debs have
been kindly built by Devin Carraway and are available a
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > There is a way to obsolete essential packages. Dpkg itself already handles
> > this. If you install an essential package that conflicts with an already
> > installed essential packag
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:47:04PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote
>
>
> I just did an "apt-get install nfs-server" on my slink box. The only
> thing in my /etc/exports is "/mnt/mirror". When I do an
> "/etc/init.d/nfs-server start" I get:
>
> {0}:wally:/root>/etc/init.d/nfs-server start
> S
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:36:30PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote
> Ok lists, I desperatly need your help.
>
> I have been tasked with moving the company's email from a modem-based uucp
> to a tcp/ip based uucp. We will make the firewall our mx, and I have
> sendmail installed on it.
>
> uucp can co
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:37:36PM -0600, John Foster wrote
> I need an application or plugin for netscape to decode or convert these
> type of files. I "THINK" they are some type of Microsoft proprietary
> file format. Netscape, WordPerfect, Gnotepad,Lyx, StarOffice, and
> nothing else that I have
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:48:29AM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote
> This does nothing. I execute chmod 700 .xsession, and nothing happens. I
> just get the command prompt back.
>
Most probably the exec failed, perhaps because afterstep
isn't in your path or because it crashed.
Type
$ which afterste
On 15-Jan-2000 Jonathan Lupa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've caught discussions on the linking of /usr/include/[linux,asm],
> but have largely ignored them because my feeble programming doesn't
> touch on anything like that.
>
> But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
> drive
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> There is a way to obsolete essential packages. Dpkg itself already handles
> this. If you install an essential package that conflicts with an already
> installed essential package, that package will be removed without any sort
> of --force options. This i
I just installed x11 using dselect. When I type in xdm it just skips onto the
next line without giving an error message or any other information. Does
antbody know what I could had missed or what's wrong.
Thanks.
Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
Hello!
I've caught discussions on the linking of /usr/include/[linux,asm],
but have largely ignored them because my feeble programming doesn't
touch on anything like that.
But I've been considering giving the OSS (pay money version) audio
drivers a try since they support full duplex for my SB car
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:59:46PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.3.16
>
> Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
> > > You are about to do something potentially harmful
> > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad'
> > > ?]
> >
> > I can't believe this one! Pr
I submitted this question a while ago, and didn't get much of a response.
Here goes agai:
I am having a problem in that I am using qmail on my system, and the apt/dpkg
system does not recognize that it fills the dependency of a
mail-transport-agent. So, by default everytime I want to install some
Hi, I recently posted about a problem in changing the networking from one
configuration to another. It worked initially, but after changing
/etc/rc.d/network, /etc/networks, and /etc/hosts it didn't work. Upon
restoring these files to their previous state and moving it back to the
original network
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.16
Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
> > You are about to do something potentially harmful
> > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad'
> > ?]
>
> I can't believe this one! Programm behavior like this really sucks!
>
> One of the many small details th
I got the following errors after a apt-get dist-upgrade today.
apt-get failed on setting up, so I ran dpkg --configure --pending to fix the
remaining packages. Below is the output.
tsuess:~# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up eterm (0.8.10-7) ...
Checking available versions of eterm-pixmaps, u
Hi,
I recently got a DEC Multia and would like to install debian on it.
Is there any way I can install (or at least prepare) a hard disk
with all the necessary alpha binaries while the hard disk is sitting
connected to an i386 box ?
Since I have bandwidth at work, it would be convenient to say th
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 02:24:00PM +, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net):
> > Anybody have experience using a Jaz drive on a parallel port. I don't
> > have a SCSI card so it has to be ||-port. The Jaz HOWTO only talks
> > about SCSI. I'm guessing I need SCSI suppor
Okay,
I asked the question a little while back about how I can set my window
manager. So far I have been advised to edit, in different messages from
different people:
/etc/X11/window-managers
~/xinitrc
~/.xsession
I've also been advised to run register-window-manager --default, but when I
run it
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:36:54PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to print from Windows to a printer connected to a Linux machine.
just installed Samba, and printing is no problem
> What I have discovered, is that unless the spool directory has permissions
777, Windows cannot prin
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 08:56:27PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
> Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > Okee, so there is more overhead. So more bytes have to be transfered.
> > But almost doubling it seems a bit overdone, doesn't it. So I'm still
>
> Check the CPU-usage to get this answered.
Thought I
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