On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:27:52AM +, Geordie Birch wrote:
> THUS SPAKE Dale L . Morris, on Aug 24:
>
> > I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using
> > for a procmail receipe:
> >
> > :0:
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > debian-user
> >
> > Will it work?
>
> No. you need
I removed the underscore. It now reads
:0:
* ^To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
debian-user
The reason I used the underscore is it was shown that way on the
quickstart website. Of course, it didn't work that way.. It did work
when I sent myself to messages, one with procmail testing in the
header
A whole *20 minutes* between my post and the second high-quality
answer? Man, this list has really gone downhill ;-)
Thanks, Dan and Ray, I appreciate it.
one more: how do I specify the parameters for IO address and IRQ?
yomama:~# insmod /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/tulip.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/net/t
Can someone help this person, please?
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From: Karl Sackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Deb 2.2 - startx works, xdm and gdm don't
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:38:59 -0500
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered
Marko: First what I can do is apologise for missinformation.
If your so- file runs it should accept the -net suffix,and give you a net
install in your root directory as /office52.
I just went thru the install both ways to check.
The instructions in the pdf file refer to usin
mike wrote:
> I was wondering if there is some package archive somewhere I could add
> as a apt-get source so I can get all kinds of new and different
> packages. Right now i can only seem to get the ones from the debian
> distribution, which are very nice, mind you, but aren't everything. I'd
On 25-Aug-2000 Dale L . Morris wrote:
> I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using
> for a procmail receipe:
>
>:0:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^-why the underscore?
I would use * ^To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
--
Andrew
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:24:26PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote:
> Looks like it is a tulip card. Not 100% sure though.
Both the KNE100TX and the KNE110TX were tulips. I can't seem to find info
on the KNE120TX, but I'd assume you're correct.
> >I know this has to be covered in a FAQ or manual somew
THUS SPAKE Dale L . Morris, on Aug 24:
> I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using
> for a procmail receipe:
>
> :0:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> debian-user
>
> Will it work?
No. you need a colon, not an underscore.
Also, using the 'To' field is suboptimal (the word of the
i had a lot of install problems with apt-get on install
i succeeded in the end by only installing a few base packages. (X and gnome and
dial-up utils) and the using apt-get to fill in the gaps.
At 11:26 PM 8/24/2000 -0500, T. Tilton wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have tried to install potato 2.2 r0 from t
Looks like it is a tulip card. Not 100% sure though.
-- Original Message --
From: Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:12:30 -0700 (PDT)
>Hi,
>I know this has to be covered in a FAQ or manual somewhere, but somewhy I
>can't find it.
I was wondering if there is some package archive somewhere I could add
as a apt-get source so I can get all kinds of new and different
packages. Right now i can only seem to get the ones from the debian
distribution, which are very nice, mind you, but aren't everything. I'd
like to get kde fo
Hello,
I have tried to install potato 2.2 r0 from the official CD's
onto a completely new drive and am having problems with getting
the install to complete.
I booted from the binary CD #1 and went through the setup to install
the distro on the new drive. Then after hours of wading through and
s
Have I told you all that I love the Internet. Where else can a few people
complain and get results for a much larger group of people. This stuff rules.
I'm just happy and stuff.
-- Original Message --
From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EM
I'm wondering if the syntax is correct. This is what I'm using
for a procmail receipe:
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-user
Will it work?
--
"Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else."
--Tennessee Williams
Hi,
I know this has to be covered in a FAQ or manual somewhere, but somewhy I
can't find it. I have a Kingston KNE120TX 10baseT ethernet card which I'm
trying to get my system to recognize. Is there a standard 'net card
driver module? Or does each ethernet card need its own, specific
driver--in
Looks like they are now taking preorders for pressed cds.
-- Original Message --
From: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:26:59 -0700
>they emailed me saying they gave me a refund for my purchase on aug 26
>1998. Although they did not
ATTN: David Bellows
Once, from an unreachable email address, Dave Bellows wrote [in part]:
> 2. The firewall issue. I've never set up a firewall. Is there a
> Debian package that will help with this? Any advice? I'm a little
> surprised that this is any more of a problem with DSL than with
Does the BIOS support CD booting and if so is it set to boot from the CD? They
are not by default and many older machines do not.
-- Original Message --
From: Peter Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 20:05:24 -0700
>Hi all,
>
>1) I downloaded
yep, either they saw the list or someone sent it to em (doesnt matter to
me) they had a quote from one of the mails i sent out..today or
yesterday.
nate
Pollywog wrote:
>
> On 25-Aug-2000 Nate Amsden wrote:
> > they emailed me saying they gave me a refund for my purchase on aug 26
> > 1998. Alth
On 25-Aug-2000 Nate Amsden wrote:
> they emailed me saying they gave me a refund for my purchase on aug 26
> 1998. Although they did not tell me(until now) i'll have to take their
> word on it as i don't have records that go back that far.
>
Did they read your comments on the list? I had a bad
tried a boot disk?
At 08:05 PM 8/24/2000 -0700, Peter Hoff wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>1) I downloaded the i386 version of binary-i386-1.iso
> on a windows machine with a free, fast connection,
>2) burned the image onto a cd,
>3) and tried to use the cd to install debian 2.2 on my laptop.
>
>The pro
I said assigned because under RedHat they were 'generated' or 'assigned' in an
init script. I was looking for the Debian counterpart. Sounds like they just
exist...which is exactly what I wanted to hear. I am so tired of RedHat and so
glad I am onto Debian.
Bill
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I'm setting up procmail on my system. I've done this in the past
successfully using Redhat 6.2 and sendmail, but I have a couple of
questions about Debian and exim.
1. Do I need a .forward file? Or is .procmailrc enough?
2. Do I need to have mh installed?
Anything else I should know about? I'm go
Hi all,
1) I downloaded the i386 version of binary-i386-1.iso
on a windows machine with a free, fast connection,
2) burned the image onto a cd,
3) and tried to use the cd to install debian 2.2 on my laptop.
The problem is that my laptop (an "old" toshiba 440-cdt) doesn't
boot the CD-rom,
I wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they (eventually) acknowledged their
CD-Rs were created from corrupted ISOs. They told me they will send me new
Debian 2.2 CD-Rs for no cost, plus their "Applications and Games" CDs.
Problem solved.
chris
- Original Message -
From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL
assigned ??
issue and issue.net are just in /etc ..if they don't exist you can
create them/change them at will. im not sure exactly what you mean ..:<
nate
Debian User wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I've been snooping around /etc looking for the place that issue.net and issue
> are assigned. So f
On Aug 23, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:53:43PM -0700, brian moore wrote:
> > Huh? From a single source?
>
> Yes, a single source. Fetchmail.
>
> > Note that in my example (if you had bothered to read it), you would have
> > seen that ~/.procmail
Where can I find out more about nsswitch.conf and related subjects?
Obviously I did a man nsswitch.conf, but it doesn't go into detail
regarding the libraries it uses, i.e., libnss_*, what's in them or if
you need to build different ones for some purposes.
I see that I have a host.conf file on my
they emailed me saying they gave me a refund for my purchase on aug 26
1998. Although they did not tell me(until now) i'll have to take their
word on it as i don't have records that go back that far.
so, in good faith(trusting their word on this) i retract my negative
statements about cheapbytes.
Greetings,
I've been snooping around /etc looking for the place that issue.net and issue
are assigned. So far no luck, is there any documentation available from Debian
that would run a newbie type thru most of that 'good to know information' about
how the system is put together?
Bill
heheh.
They emailed me and offered to credit my account, i emailed them on
august 25, 1998 and they email me today.. almost 2 years to the day.
hopefully they pay more attention to quality control in the future.
good job cheapbytes, although i still don't know if i could risk buying
from you aga
Now that's customer service. Too bad all companies weren't like that.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:44PM -0600, Ray Percival wrote:
> I just got this from cheapbytes for one I applaud them for doing the right
> thing. Ray
>
> -- Original Message --
> From
Michael Banck wrote:
> Darkstar:~# nmap 62.244.87.10
>
> Starting nmap V. 2.12 by Fyodor ([EMAIL PROTECTED], www.insecure.org/nmap/)
> Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0 seconds
>
> OK. I am relieved. A remote portscan from grc.com didn't show up anything
> eighter.
>
I just got this from cheapbytes for one I applaud them for doing the right
thing. Ray
-- Original Message --
From: "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:30:55 -0600
>-- Original Message -
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:40:46PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > huh, my protscan shows this:
> >
> > Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1):
[a lotta interesting ports]
> > first of all, what are these "unknown" entries about? these ports are
> > not listed in /etc/services.
>
> What i do is
Running your own DNS and pointing everything to it may help, and/or add
entries for those hosts that netscape tries to resolve to /etc/hosts
(never tried it but worth a shot). beyond that..what version of netscape
are you running? can you print out the contents of ps auxw | grep
netscape to show th
I tried to install exim 3.10 and its dependencies
using dpkg over my existing debian os, which I assume is not at issue. However
in installing many of the components, a string of warnings were issued. Here is
the output from installing libc6_2.1.3-10.deb, which is typical:
ldconfig: warning
That's exactly it! It doesn't happen until it realizes there's an
interface, though, so if my dialup link is down, it doesn't happen, but if I
introduce a network card into the mix, and gateway through that, then it
grabs that interface and holds it hostage until it gets a DNS lookup.
I am on 2.2
unsubscribe
Kind Regards,
Firas Al-Fakhri
Paragon Solutions Ltd, PO Box 30-449
Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Ph: +64 4 570-3897; Fax: +64 4 570-3888
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I haven't been following this thread, so i gotta ask exactly where does
it hang? I have had many netscape hangs right after you click the first
time and it tries to load the "start" page. What happens in most cases
is netscape goes out to try to resolve 5 or 6 various domain
names(*.netscape.com s
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:16:53PM -0400, Daniel P. Katz wrote:
> I just finished installing Debian 2.2 on a box with a Seagate
> Tapestor8000 IDE tape drive and ran into a bit of a problem. When I
> boot up the machine, I get the following messages:
>
> hdb: Seagate STT8000A, ATAPI TAPE
To whom it may concern:
This is a sample of mails that have been on the debian users list over the past
two days. I have had exactly the same problems. I felt that you should have the
right to hear the complaints and do whatever you felt needed to be done to make
this right. As you can see I am
Nope, remember there's no startup page... the box is empty and the radio
button says Blank page. I also tried with localhost in there.
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> Fire up netscape, go to edit>preferences. Select navigator. There should be
> an
> option "Bro
Cameron Matheson wrote:
>
> Hey
>
> I got a problem that's probably kind of stupid, but I'm afraid I've RTFM
> way too many times, without results. I have a network going with my
> friend with our two linux's (both running slink, we're waiting for the
> 2.2 CD in the mail). Anyway, we want to d
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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 4:52:34 PM, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> There is no concept of "personalities". Click in the account you want to
>> use, click new message, it uses that account. The Bat
I would:
cd /etc
find . -type f | xargs grep "gateway"
see what comes up...something must be setting it and grep for
the IP of that gateway too.
nate
Damon Muller wrote:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I have a machine, running Potato, which has a permanent internet
> connection through the modem, b
Hey
I got a problem that's probably kind of stupid, but I'm afraid I've RTFM
way too many times, without results. I have a network going with my
friend with our two linux's (both running slink, we're waiting for the
2.2 CD in the mail). Anyway, we want to do a little file-swappin' with
NFS, but
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> There is no concept of "personalities". Click in the account you want to
> use, click new message, it uses that account. The Bat! offers the choice of
> changing which accout you use after opening the new message.
Personality, ac
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:35:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well apt-get upgrade did never finish OK. It started out more or less ok,
> but after a while it could not properly configure some packages
> (gimp-manual and libpaperg (here it never accepted any paper format like
> a4 and there
Subject: Looking for device drivers
Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:21:27AM -0700
In reply to:Godfrey, Phil
Quoting Godfrey, Phil([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
PGodfrey> I have been using idiot images from LRP ( Linux Router Project ) for
about a
PGodfrey> year.
PGodfrey> I just started usi
Hi gang,
I have a machine, running Potato, which has a permanent internet
connection through the modem, but also has a couple of ethernet cards,
one of which has about 20+ IP addresses.
I using the /etc/network/interfaces file to set up all my interfaces on
boot, which it a great Potatoism and us
I expect that you're receiving some packets over the network, with the
address family set to 18. I don't know what "ash" is in the networking
sense, but I'm certain that it's not related to the shell.
I'd just add "alias net-pf-18 off" to /etc/modutils/aliases, followed
by running /sbin/update-mo
Oliver Schoenknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> first of all I need to tell you that I have some kind of bet running -
> a friend of mine has put up a SuSE 6.3 linux-proxy and mail server and
> claims it to be safe although you can reach it via telnet and ftp from
> outside.
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:59:00PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
>
> > What ports did you scan? i usually specify -p 1-65535 when using nmap.
> > if it were my machine i would for sure firewall all those
> > services(except smtp).
>
> huh, my protscan sho
David Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm getting closer to
> understanding what's going on. So just a few more:
>
> 1. After installing an ethernet card and making sure the corresponding
> module gets loaded do I just runt the pp
Everytime I try and use wvdial it sits there and does nothing when it reaches
the point of launching pppd while the modem shows On Hold.
And since wvdial does not require any extra configuration other than that which
it asks you to enter at its configuration time, how do I stop pppd messing it
u
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:29:56PM -0600, cls-colo spgs wrote:
>
> curiously, what makes it "suboptimal"?--it moves the file out of the way,
> it keeps x at bay until desired, and doesn't hurt the system. what's
> missing?
1. Start the system in runlevel 2: no xdm
2. Change to runlevel 3: xdm st
>> I need to read a MS Word document. Are there
>> any other software in Debian for viewing a
>> MS Word doc?. I have a Debian 2.2 system.
>> Thanks
catdoc will transform it into text. No graphics, no structuration.
Ignasi
_
\
>
[snip]
>
> Someone posted to move the symlink into a user's home directory. While
> this would work, it's a suboptimal solution.
>
curiously, what makes it "suboptimal"?--it moves the file out of the way,
it keeps x at bay until desired, and doesn't hurt the system. what's
missing?
thx.
b
"(Ted Harding)" wrote:
> The point goes back to the very early days of UNIX, when the user
> was quite likely to be logging in from a very primitive teletype
> that could only do capitals (5- or 6-bit serial line).
>
> UNIX was set up to recognise login with capital letters and use
> capitals for
Ken Irving wrote:
>
> >
> > I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> > let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> > terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
> > Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't
Hello everyone,
Thanks for all the responses. I think I'm getting closer to
understanding what's going on. So just a few more:
1. After installing an ethernet card and making sure the corresponding
module gets loaded do I just runt the pppoe program and it'll do the
configuring? Probably more
It's like a car wreck, I just had to look...
Personal Quote:
"Then ingenuity of human stupidity will never cease to amaze me." -- Steve Lamb
http://www.dmiyu.org/~grey/morpheus.html
--
Jonathan Crockett "Once and Done" Network Engineer
GPG Key ID 1024D/EA788479
> > How do I stop linux/xdm from automatically starting XWindows whenever
> > it boots.
Yesterday when I was tinkering with a new installation of X I needed to
shut off xdm on bootup temporarily:
# mv S99xdm xS99xdm
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:45:11 PM, Daniel wrote:
> > Don't you guys think you have beaten this thing into the ground. Enough
> > already. Give it a rest. I don't think you are ever going to get throug
%% Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pr> Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 24/08/2000 (22:46) :
>> I think Karsten means console-apt, which is in unstable:
>> (http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/console-apt.html)
pr> Aha. It's installed and it looks very nice
Adam Scriven wrote:
> I'd like to switch my e-mail reading to Linux too, so that I can run VMWare
> for everything except games, and I'd ask what's a good, Eudora-like
> e-mailer for X is, but based on the other Mail thread, I'm frankly afraid
> too. I tried Pronto, and it was OK, but it really s
Hello everyone,
first of all I need to tell you that I have some kind of bet running -
a friend of mine has put up a SuSE 6.3 linux-proxy and mail server and
claims it to be safe although you can reach it via telnet and ftp from
outside... Recently he dared me to try to crack his password file so
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:53:22PM -0400, mike wrote:
> I have not been able to locate the md5sum program.
it's in the package 'dpkg'.
moritz
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:51:54PM +, Michael Tanney wrote:
> How do I stop linux/xdm from automatically starting XWindows whenever
> it boots.
If you don't want xdm at all, uninstall it. If you just don't want it to
start in the default runlevel, do:
# cd /etc/rc2.d
# mv S99xdm K01xdm
R
Michael Banck wrote:
> huh, my protscan shows this:
>
> Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1):
> PortState Protocol Service
> 9 opentcpdiscard
> 13 opentcpdaytime
> 21 opentcpftp
> 23 opentcptelne
At 14:11 2000/08/24 -0700, you wrote:
What's the deal with the email (from some users) coming from this list
that ends up with the body of the message coming as an '.ems'
attachment? If it's an email client option, I'd suggest deactivating the
option. I can't be the only one who can't read th
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:47:46PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
>
> I have problems in configuring exim using a remote server as smarthost,
> because I don't know how to tell exim my username and password on the
> smarthost.
>
> I have posed the question to the exim-users mailing list, and they
Fire up netscape, go to edit>preferences. Select navigator. There should be an
option "Browser Starts With:" Set that to "Blank Page". You might have to
restart
netscape for it to take effect, but you have to restart it anyway (you can go
file>new>browserwindow) to see if it worked.
Jonathan
Hi,
I've been following this thread for a while now, and I'm unsure of a few
things. Perhaps you can clear things up a little.
First, I'm unclear as to whether you are claiming that the traditional unix
methods for handling mail cannot handle your needs, or if you are saying
that you have a "
I'm trying to convert a spare old 486 into a freesco box (with diald), but the
problem is; I would like to be able to launch Netscape to administer the
thing (or read offline HTML pages) *without* dialing. Right now it hangs
for a few minutes before it gives up and lets me use it.
When I have thi
What's the deal with the email (from some users) coming from this list that
ends up with the body of the message coming as an '.ems' attachment? If
it's an email client option, I'd suggest deactivating the option. I can't
be the only one who can't read these without much inconvenience.
Hi Marco,
as Morten pointed out already, you just have to use the /net switch on
the binary.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:02:18AM +0200, marco frattola wrote:
> hi all,
> this is not debian specific, but maybe somebody can help me. i'm trying to
> install staroffice 5.2 using
> the 'net' switch, s
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 24/08/2000 (22:46) :
> I think Karsten means console-apt, which is in unstable:
> (http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/console-apt.html)
Aha. It's installed and it looks very nice! Unfortunately it doesn't look
like one can search descriptions
I have not been able to locate the md5sum program.
What is the source for this package.
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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 1:51:58 PM, Will wrote:
> where, in that mix, is there a problem?
Hmmm, maybe the fact that you don't mind the mixed-up mess that those
tools force you into?
- --
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm yo
>I don't like gnome-apt as one has to use the cursed mouse.
err, isn't that enough to file it as a critical bug? :)
hawk
--
Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Smeal 178(814) 375-4700
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:38:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> So there is another part of the process. You know what that is?
>
> Admitting there is a problem.
>
> Something that you, Brian, and loads others cannot admit. That there is a
> problem in the current spectrum of how mail
%% Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> but the info command - I much prefer man pages to be quite honest.
bb> Amen, brother. Whose bright idea was it to make everybody learn
bb> some mysterious set of keystrokes just to read documentation? If
bb> I'm enough of a newbie to need
> But that aside, I searched for capt, but I cannot find it do you have an
> URL?
I think Karsten means console-apt, which is in unstable:
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/console-apt.html)
Package: console-apt 0.7.7.2
Text-based user interface for APT
console-apt is an ncurses-ba
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 07:26:05AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 12:51:54PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > :What are the methods for converting multiple pages html document to other
> > :formats like single page html doc, ps, pdf, latex, anything else?
> > :That is,
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote on 24/08/2000 (19:20) :
>
> FAQ: dselect is being obsoleted. New tools based on apt (capt, etc.)
> are its replacements. Searching descriptions *is* supported.
Obsoleted it may be in the future, but it is still the tool one gets
when installing Debian 2.2
But that a
> but the info
> command - I much prefer man pages to be quite honest.
Amen, brother. Whose bright idea was it to make everybody learn some
mysterious set of keystrokes just to read documentation? If I'm enough of a
newbie to need the man pages, then maybe, just maybe, I'm enough of a new
On Thursday, 24 August 2000 at 13:01, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:45:11 PM, Daniel wrote:
> > Don't you guys think you have beaten this thing into the ground. Enough
> > already. Give it a rest. I don't think you are ever going to get through to
> > Mr. Lamb. I
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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:45:11 PM, Daniel wrote:
> Don't you guys think you have beaten this thing into the ground. Enough
> already. Give it a rest. I don't think you are ever going to get through to
> Mr. Lamb. If you are that unhappy about mail
On 23-Aug-00 Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a fe
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:19:06 PM, Will wrote:
> > maybe this is the snag you're caught on:
>
> Nope, it isn't where I am getting caught on.
>
> > in the unix paradigm (which linux inhereted/clo
Hi !
Well apt-get upgrade did never finish OK. It started out more or less ok,
but after a while it could not properly configure some packages
(gimp-manual and libpaperg (here it never accepted any paper format like
a4 and there was no list to choose from; therefore forcing a ctrl+c and
thereby ab
Is there any way to configure apt-get to open more than one (user
definable) sessions to a particular mirror?? Therefore speeding up the
process when I have many files to retrieve??? I have lots of bandwidth and
I want to take advantage of it.
Thanks
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:18:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Well, gee, if you'd open your eyes and READ.. I DID GIVE THE NAME! In
> fact, I gave it well before describing where it was but since people couldn't
> find it from the NAME I thought maybe giving the exact location of it in the
>
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Xconsole is supposed to show messages coming from syslogd(8). For it
> to work under linux, an entry has to be made in /etc/syslog.conf
> looking like this:
>
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # you must invo
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Thursday, August 24, 2000, 12:19:06 PM, Will wrote:
> maybe this is the snag you're caught on:
Nope, it isn't where I am getting caught on.
> in the unix paradigm (which linux inhereted/cloned) the idea is to
> make modules that serve a certain t
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Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 12:30:25 PM, Matthew wrote:
> This level of modularization offers far more power and flexibility, as it
> becomes easier to implement new features and capabilities (as the amount of
> code that has to be re-implemented from
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Wednesday, August 23, 2000, 5:33:38 PM, John wrote:
> *sigh* bosses, bosses, bosses. All other arguments in this thread
> aside, this one is a bit weird. Does your boss realise that any
> non-local mail you send via your work SMTP server will be hand
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