"David B. Harris" wrote:
>
> To quote Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # I know I can do it that way (for xdm or startx) but I don't want to
> # completely override nice debian system of startup... we have these
> # x-session-managers and x-window-managers etc. and I would like to
> learn
> #
RAID is vitally important for serious machines. This means all server-type
machines and workstations for people who do important work.
I would like to develop new installation software to allow Debian to be
installed to RAID1 arrays.
One problem with this is that the RAID-1 sync process (which o
To quote Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# I know I can do it that way (for xdm or startx) but I don't want to
# completely override nice debian system of startup... we have these
# x-session-managers and x-window-managers etc. and I would like to
learn
# how to work within this system, I now ho
To quote Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# 1) The package manager.
Speaking of packages, I think this should be raised.
In general, I find that the quality of Debian packages is better than
most others. Why?
With most distributions, managers are forced to make a compromise -
spend more time p
"David B. Harris" wrote:
>
> To quote Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # I would like to start up x-window-manager instead. How to properly
> # configure this in debian? remove all alternatives for
> # x-session-manager?
>
> If you're using 'startx', you can edit your ~/.xinitrc , and make it
To quote Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
# I would like to start up x-window-manager instead. How to properly
# configure this in debian? remove all alternatives for
# x-session-manager?
If you're using 'startx', you can edit your ~/.xinitrc , and make it
executable(if it isn't already). It's a
Well, I guess we're even: I never knew somebody could be so stupid as
to think that a list called debian-user wasn't specifically for Debian.
Que sera sera.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Michael H. Collins wrote:
>
>I never knew this list was for a specific distro?
>
>
--
I can be immature if I want
part of the kdebase is kde2 - kde session manager, which obviously
cannot be uninstalled if I want to keep kde (because it's part of
kdebase).
in X startup scripts: x-session-manager is started, if any exist:
if [ -z "$realstartup" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/x-session-manager ]; then
real
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 07:11:04PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> 3) The elegant boot scripts.
>
> Red Hat hides init.d in /etc/rc.d. It also doesn't seem to provide a
> full set of scripts in init.d either. There are a few other details
> in this realm, but I'm forgetting them now.
indeed,
What was the exact message you received?
Art Edwards
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:42:49PM -0500, John F. Davis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I did a apt-get upgrade which restarted ssh and now I can't ssh into
> my box anymore. I keep getting a invalid password response.
>
> I can however login to the box v
I've got this new ASUS CUSL2-C motherboard which supports suspending
to RAM function. In the manual, though, it says that one needs
Windows operating system to do that.
Is there any chance to utilize this functionality with Linux?
Many thanks,
--
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.
I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now
ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci
shows both nics.
Any ideas?
Thank you
I have two identical NIC's the both came up fine before reboot. Now
ifup eth0 works fine. ifup eth1 says no such interface. cat /proc/pci
shows both nics.
Any ideas?
Thank you
[Karsten, if you get fresh reasons, be sure to add them to your lists.
These lists, by the way, should also be on the Debian Web site.
Perhaps you can make this happen. PR is a good thing. See also the
recent thread: Why use Debian?]
What I tell folks:
1) The package manager.
You can tell
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:27:04PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > The question didn't involve xapps over the network, but a lazyman's
> > way to start a full xsession on the local machine from wi
Forrest English wrote:
> i have a pcmcia NIC that i want to use in my laptop, i managed to get the
> base system installed from floppies. but, now after the install, i need
> to setup my network connection.is there an application that i can use
> to do this?
>
> there was netcfg for redhat.
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried them all.
Getting the card to work with Windoze and Linux meant I needed to
retain PnP (for Windoze).
Using the 3-com utility, I set the card to its defaults IRQ 3 / IOBASE 0x300.
This allowed the card to work in both.
However, networking is not being init
on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:59:56PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
> The question didn't involve xapps over the network, but a lazyman's
> way to start a full xsession on the local machine from within a
> running xsession (for use with different display depth I belive)
I've
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:16:39PM +1100, hogan wrote:
:Windows machine acquires IP from Linux box automatically no probs
:DNS works fine
:Connections can be made, SSH connections seem to be ok - maybe a little
:lagged
:Web + Email connections drop out/require frequent reloading/time out
:No proxy
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:08:13AM +, Frank Copeland wrote:
:>there was netcfg for redhat. what do i use in debian?
:
:vi.
:
:Assuming the PCMCIA packages are installed, edit
:/etc/pcmcia/network.opts to suit your setup. Make sure the PCMCIA
:software is running with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia resta
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:28:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> * Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.01.01 19:52]wrote:
> > which packages and/or magic incantations are needed to be able to read
> > asian and russian web pages with netscape. I know for the former there
> > are the netsc
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:55:17PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
:Are you nagging your ISP's system administrator?
:
:I just found out that my exim.conf has the line:
:qualify_domain = sci.kun.nl
:
:which has the effect that every mail sent to 'root' (for example the
:output of cron jobs, etcetera)
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:54:36PM +0100, Torbjorn Pettersson wrote:
: Are the server a sparc? It seems that the ssh package from the
:security team is broken on sparc, at least it doesn't work for me...
I have ssh on 9 sparc 4m machines working fine, can you be more
specific about the problem?
Hi,
don't have much light to shed on this but here's a few walls to bang
your head on:
/etc/hosts.{allow, deny}
/etc/ssh/sshd_config #especially AllowUsers if that's there only
specified users can connect, and
"PasswordAuthentication yes" for obvious r
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:16:24AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
:
:From what I gather you don't even need to do that. The worm seems to
:have hardcoded offsets to specifically take advantage of the Redhat
:builds. So even if you're running a vulnerable version of the software
:you're not likel
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:42:41PM +1100, Matt Chipman wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies everybody, the problem is still there, and
> whatever route i put in /etc/network/interfaces still doesnt apply at boot.
>
> I am thinking maybe i have to have a package installed that makes the route
> stic
On Friday 19 January 2001 16:26, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hey. Well, you know things are good when you are getting pissed off with
> the problems I outline below, but hey, here it goes:
>
> 1) This is the most annoying problem. I just installed the 2.4 kernel,
> but this issue was present before a
To quote [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Möller),
# After rebooting the system, my computer restarts after the message:
# 'warning: unable to open an initial console'
I can't solve your problem, but I might be able to point you in the
right direction. The only time I've ever seen that error what when I
> marked as uninstalled by dpkg's status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
> but vmlinuz-2.2.17 and some other 2.2.17 files are in /boot. The
> /lib/modules/2.2.17 is also in place. There is also a /vmlinuz.old
> symlink pointing to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17.
Those might be considered "configuration" files a
Hi Svante,
Normally, I just click on the STOP icon and read the page, it typically
has something like "if transfer doesn't start automatically, click here"
link and I just right click on that link and select "save link as" ..
hth
On Friday 19 January 2001 14:24, Svante Signell wrote:
> What
on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:01:57AM -, John Conover ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> In potato and slink, I'm getting a slow login prompt for getty and
> mgetty over serial connections.
>
> Sometimes it waits 30 seconds, or so, to give the login prompt.
>
> Anyone found the same and fixed it?
Hm
Alternatively, you can just comment out the line in inetd.conf, then do an
/etc/init.d/exim start to run Exim as a standalone daemon (as I do).
On 20 Jan 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > In that case, what will happen to outgoing mail
I run potato 2.2r with the 2.2.17 kernel. My motherboard has a built in
Creative Labs VIBRA 16CL sound, which is working under Windows and OS/2.
I would like to put it to work under Debian too.
I did:
grep CONFIG_SOUND config-2.2.17
and obtained the output:
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM=m
CONFIG_SOUND=m
C
Hey. Well, you know things are good when you are getting pissed off with
the problems I outline below, but hey, here it goes:
1) This is the most annoying problem. I just installed the 2.4 kernel,
but this issue was present before and since that. I'm using fully
updated unstable debian with de
There is an /etc/cron.d entry in my exim installation, automatically
created, which runs exim every so often.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:27:35 Scott V. McGuire wrote:
> The exim start up script in /etc/init.d doesn't start exim as a daemon
> if it finds exim will be run from inetd. In that case, wha
Robert,
Thanks for your reply. What I'm really interested in is how to make
Netscape (and later on preferably Mozilla) choose between download
files to disk, i.e. by supplying a menu, or downloading the file to a
buffer by it's own. You don't always have access to pure ftp...
/Svante
Robert L. Y
* Scott V McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> In that case, what will happen to outgoing mail if it can't be
> delivered right away?
It will be queued, and the next queue-runner (see /etc/cron.d/) will
try to deliver it again, if the retry time has passed, until the
limit is reached (see /e
I downloaded and used the following files to make the disks and install the
drivers and the base system of the 'vanilla' kernel.
/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/
images-1.44/rescue.bin
images-1.44/root.bin
base2_2.tgz
drivers.tgz
After rebooting the system, my computer
Hey all,
I upgraded the kernel version to 2.4.0, using the debian method
(make-kpkg and then dpkg -i
kernel-image-2.4.0deb) but my old kernel (2.2.17, with came by
default on my system) is
marked as uninstalled by dpkg's status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status) but
vmlinuz-2.2.17 and
some other 2.
In potato and slink, I'm getting a slow login prompt for getty and
mgetty over serial connections.
Sometimes it waits 30 seconds, or so, to give the login prompt.
Anyone found the same and fixed it?
Thanks,
John
--
John ConoverTel. 408.370.2688 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
631
After upgrading from slink to potato the pppd persist option no
longer reruns the scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d after a connection
has been broken and then reestablished. Is there some way to
configure pppd so the scripts are rerun after persist reconnects?
If not, is it possible to change from per
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:15:35PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> I am interested in trying Win4lin on my Unstable system, but the company has
> kernel patches only up to 2.2.18 (I'm running 2.4.0). I also have a Voodoo
> 3000 and run X 4.0.
Heh. Sucks, don't it? I emailed Netraverse about tha
log on directly to their ftp site using ftp in your browser...
ftp://ftp2.3ddownloads.com/pub/
robt
Svante Signell wrote:
>
> What am I doing wrong trying to download files from
> eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using
> Netscape (4.76)?
>
> You don't get the possibil
I am interested in trying Win4lin on my Unstable system, but the company has
kernel patches only up to 2.2.18 (I'm running 2.4.0). I also have a Voodoo
3000 and run X 4.0.
Are there problems running the Voodoo card with 2.2.18 and X4.0?? Doesn't
2.2.18 require the 3dfx.o module (which I believe
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:01:53PM -0600, Michael H. Collins wrote:
>
> I never knew this list was for a specific distro?
You're right; it's named "debian-user" for no apparent reason
whatsoever.
* plonk *
Don't Cc: me on list mails, I get them already. Thanks
--
Nathan Norman - Staff Engi
I never knew this list was for a specific distro?
--
--
Michael H. Collins Admiral: Penguinista Navy International
http://www.linuxlink.comMigration
http://www.geekaustin.com Praise Bob! This ain't California
I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your s
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
> If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
> how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful
> metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
> distribution is for them.)
5-7. Packag
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
>my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
>guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
>sure I needn't, so can someone su
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:49:08AM +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Another apt-problem...
>
> I use dselect to maintain my potato servers and fetch my files via ftp.
from slink (2.1) onward, the recommended choise is APT-GET...
> At the moment, my list for the packages looks like thi
On 19 Jan 01 15:52:36 GMT, Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>i just tried apt-get install tast-x-window-system-core
>
>it broke debconf. it said it was upgrading debconf (sources pointing at
>unstable), and now all packages won't install. because debconf won't
>install because of apar
Wow a lot of interest on this subject. Sorry it took so long
to get back to you guys but I had to wait until I got home
from the office so I could check on things for you.
A few "dpkg -l" piped through "grep" shows what packages that
I have installed. "enscript" was on my 2nd CD, the rest were
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:13:59AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > dpkg --get-selections > foo does not create a full backup, it only
> > creates a backup of installed packages, NOT removed packages. =20
> >
> > dpkg --get-selections \* > full will give yo
Debconf problems sounds like an artifact of the perl 5.6 transistion.
Making sure that my perl was upgraded to 5.6 would be my first step.
On 19 Jan 2001, Forrest English wrote:
>
>i just tried apt-get install tast-x-window-system-core
>
>it broke debconf. it said it was upgrading debconf (sour
If connectiva is so great, why are you trolling other distro's user lists
to get users? It has been my experience that the more I'm pushed into
using a given thing, the more I'd HAVE to be pushed because it doesn't
stack up on technical merits. Now go away.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Michael H. Colli
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
'reset' will cure this. That's the command 'reset', not reset the system
:
* Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [15.01.01 19:52]wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> which packages and/or magic incantations are needed to be able to read
> asian and russian web pages with netscape. I know for the former there
> are the netscape-{ja|ko|zh}-resource-476 packages available, but is it
> s
The exim start up script in /etc/init.d doesn't start exim as a daemon
if it finds exim will be run from inetd. In that case, what will
happen to outgoing mail if it can't be delivered right away? For
instance if my internet connection goes down for a while.
Thanks,
--
Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL
What am I doing wrong trying to download files from
eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using
Netscape (4.76)?
You don't get the possibility to on the file, it just
starts downloading to the Netscape buffer!! Not as expected. I'm
moving to mozilla ASAP, but meanwhile, what
Greetings,
When installing 2.2r2, when presented with those sorts of questions
(blank
prompts asking for locations of files), I merely hit enter, and usually the
installation takes care of itself.
Brooks
> -Original Message-
> From: Vernon Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: F
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea.
I find it hard to be sympathetic
on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:35:38AM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:48:12AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:13:45PM -0700, Ray Percival ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> > > When I try to launch a X application as root it tells me
The CD boots and I get the partitions set and then it asks me what I am
installing from, I select CD as media and then it asks where the archives
are located on the CD I have chosen every directory then I select OK and
then it looks for rescue floppy which I don't have and don't think I should
need
On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:57, Colin Watson wrote:
> Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Ok, I'm on a potato system. Are the following what's needed to
> >successfully compile the new Gimp 1.2?
>
> OK, I didn't see this message before replying to your earlier one;
> repetition and maybe a
Quoting Jon Pennington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > I was wondering if there is a speed/operating difference when compiling
> > > > kernel daemons like knfs static in the kernel or in modules.
> It depends on what you're talking about. Take, for instance, the Intel
> EtherExpressPro100 (eepro1
Hello!
Hmm, as I said, a mass of those modules are just lying around here, so you
have to pay nothing for it... it would be good if you could pay the
transport fees (ca. $4 or something like that), and that's it. How many
modules do you need?
Kind Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
- Original Messa
I think the problem is a simple MIME type problem. Add 'php3' to the
application/x-httpd-php type.
-Ken
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> Shouldn't the Debian package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb
> handle *.php3 files?
> Through netscape http://localhost/test-jameson.php,
>
Hi!
I am running potato 2.2r plus ximian-gnome. The dial-up utility which appears
in the foot menu under the internet submenu is the gnome-ppp 0.99.0. When I
try to run it
(as an alternative to pon/poff) I received an error: "The ppp daemon died
unexpectedly", quite vage, isn't?
Any help will
I have created some .deb files for use in our department, they customise
our debian installs and allow us to automatically update files on our
machines through apt-get upgrade.
I have these files on our departmental ftp server, under a debian
mirror-like directory stucture, where our homebrew de
unsubscribe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Until newbie can connect to net under linux, he
> is stuck with having to use win3.1 machine to download
> .deb's from debian.org. But then, when puts floppy
> with .deb in linux machine, apt-get can't seem to
> understand simple directions. Migrate to floppy,
> type a
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:20:26PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> No. The lib(foo).so symlinks in Debian are generally installed by
> libfoo-dev packages. So you need to find the correct variation on
> libdb2-dev and install it to get a libdb.so.
That makes sense. But libdb2-dev installs the syml
It worked fine! thank you!
Marcelo
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:32:53PM -0800, David Steinberg wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>
> > I am running helix (now ximian) gnome in a potato 2.2r box together
> > with sawfish as window manager. I wonder why there are some windows
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:51:38AM -0500, David B . Harris wrote:
> To quote John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # Hi. I have two machines and I would like to avoid downloading the
> # same debian packages for each one since I have a slow connection. I
> # want to use apt-move to make a mirror out
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> I have just revamped a system by installing potato and then
BB> apt-get'ing to woody. I have some source code that wants to give
BB> gcc a '-ldb' but I have no 'libdb.so' on this system.
BB>
BB> Am I right to believe that lib[whutever].so symlinks shou
Shouldn't the Debian package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb
handle *.php3 files?
Through netscape http://localhost/test-jameson.php,
I can see php4 working, where test-jameson.php is
This common test properly displays a few pages
of PHP configuration information.
However, testing thru any
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 01:37:06PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
:On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:43:07PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
:[snip]
:| edit /etc/X11/Xserver, the file:
:Don't open up your X server, just enable X forwarding over the ssh
:tunnel. Then you can simply ssh in, then run any X apps.
:
:
Shouldn't the Debian package php4_4.0.3pl1-0potato1.deb
handle *.php3 files?
Through netscape http://localhost/test-jameson.php,
I can see php4 working, where test-jameson.php is
This common test properly displays a few pages
of PHP configuration information.
However, testing thru any
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:43:07PM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
[snip]
| edit /etc/X11/Xserver, the file:
|
| ---
| /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
| Console
|
| The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X
| server.
| The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
| Root
On Friday 19 January 2001 22:31, James Lindenschmidt wrote:
> Greetings everyone
>
> I am trying to install KDE 2.0 to my potato system, and I am
> getting errors. Here's what I did:
>
> added the following line to sources.list:
> deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato main crypto optional qt1
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 08:50:14AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
> how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful
> metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
> distribution is
Kenward Vaughan saw fit to inform me that:
>On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:59:18AM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
>> Hi Kenward,
>>
>> Kenward Vaughan saw fit to inform me that:
>> >Why not just get it in non-digest form?
>>
>> I will receive too many mails. I prefer to receive in digest form and th
I have just revamped a system by installing potato and then apt-get'ing to
woody. I have some source code that wants to give gcc a '-ldb' but I have no
'libdb.so' on this system.
Am I right to believe that lib[whutever].so symlinks should be created by
ldconfig when it is run from a postinst scrip
After a bit of luck, I managed to build debs for qmail 1.0.3 and its
counterpart ucspi-tcp for the powerpc. Installing was generally
successful except towards the end when the install told me that I
needed to set up /etc/qmail/control/me on my own. It is the absence
of this file which I belie
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:10:12AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> The only mogrify I know of _is_ part of ImageMagick.
Sorry, I meant to type that I like mogrify over *convert*.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CND OConnor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to
Hey Bill, glad to know you're using Debian!
> If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
Well, unstable varies in stability from 0 to 9 quite frequently.
The trick is catching it at the right time.
> how would you rate the testing distribution?
testing is meant
more /bin/more
then keep paging till the text clears up and quit works well also
I used to have a prog that just output the magical char that fixes the
console, but i cant find it and dont remember the character.
-Casey
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful
metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
distribution is for them.)
Also, it would be nice to just update /etc/apt/sources.
Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> > it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> > characters you didn't know you had.
>
> try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii,
> but
--- Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Knud Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have been looking for a rescue floppy image
>
> > on ftp.uk.debian.org
> > but i can't seams to find one.
>
>
> For a true rescue floppy, look at Tom's
> Root/Boot Disk at
> http://www.toms.n
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001, Jesse wrote:
> I got very frustrated trying to make everything work, read to many
> reviews saying Linux wasn't ready for mainstream, and scraped it.
I am really impressed with Debian, but still think that X has a LONG
way. It actually pisses me off how it is still pretty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii,
but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work
You wrote:
> > A number of libraries
> > are requested but i find it hard to figure out to wich package these
> > libraries belong. For the moment i have no info on these dependencies at
> > hand so i'm happy with any feedback on this issue.
S
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
> sure I needn't, so can some
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:55:17PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> I don't know how that line got there, but it never hurts to check
> what's in your exim.conf!
The line was put there when you ran eximconfig and told it that your
mail should appear to be coming from your schhol's domain.
The way t
Hi,
I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
guess, so I do. I can always make some tea. Its very silly though I'm
sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to do when,
1) you 'cat' a file you
> well i didn't bother, on a previous occasion it failed because the packages
> were to new ...
But trying can't hurt, can it? I'd try it myself, but IBM wants one to
register for the download.
Good luck!
Manuel
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 09:58:32 -0500 (EST), Christopher W. Aiken said:
> All you have to do is:
> 1) remove cupsys??
> 2) install lpd
You mean "lpr", right?
> 3) install enscript-letter
I cannot find that package
> 4) install ghostscript
Is the package called "gs"? That is what I have.
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