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Hmmm,
just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh.
I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where
I'm going from here.
I really liked the ispell interface.
Thanks very much for all the suggestions.
John
John Griffiths wro
Can't help, I'm afraid, but _nice_ subject line!
Glyn
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Hello,
Thanks for your reply, Elizabeth !
I checked - but the Second extended fs support was
allready on.
I attached the current filesystem supports.
I think I might need to set " Advanced partition
selection " on and select some
partition types there - but I'm not at all sure (I'm
just curious
Hi,
I downloaded the 1.1 Beta binary yesterday, and got it installed today.
I noticed problems on saving files; OOo couldn't save backup files. It's
pretty strange, why can't save the backups? BTW, when exporting to swf
format, the "cannot backup" dialog couldn't be dismissed, so the current
wind
Great! Thanks to you and to ronin2 as well!
I appreciate your help very much.
Maria
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--- "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Is there an easier way to do this even? Thanks for any help!
>
>dpkg --get-selections > somefile
>
>then
>
>
Hey all:
A while ago someone gave me the briefer than brief on how to get my clock
synced. I'm pretty sure they had me using ntp, but when I try to use it
now it says that my server is missing. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
The ntpdate docs suggest there should be an ntp.conf file to edit, b
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:19:36PM -0800, Maria Rodriguez wrote:
> I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test
> lab. I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections'
> and see if there were some way to parse it to just get the package
> names. I'm no progra
andy denton said:
> Hello,
>
> After adding some applications that use elements of
> gnome, the boot now
> starts xdm directly. Prior to changes the boot started
> a console, when
> needed the xdm gui could be started using Alt + F7.
> I wish to reinstate that process.
> So far I have found this on
>Is there an easier way to do this even? Thanks for any help!
dpkg --get-selections > somefile
then
dpkg --set-selections < somfile
apt-get dist-upgrade
should do what you want.
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Maria Rodriguez said:
> Hi,
>
> I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab.
> I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if
> there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no
> programmer and can't script worth a darn,
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:34:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > FOO=bar
> > BLAH=blarg
> >
> > for var in FOO BLAH ; do
> > echo $var = $"$var" #this part is messed up
> > done
>
> Try this, which I believe
Hi
tor, 2003-04-03 kl. 21:42 skrev David Z Maze:
> Søren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip looking for wlan hardware]
> My experience has been that brand doesn't matter; the only thing you
> really care about is that your 802.11b card is based on an Orinoco
> chipset, and most
Antonio Gutiérrez Mayoral wrote:
I have a cam too and when I want to connect it to the computer, I use
the /dev/sda1 device (scsi) like a vfat file system
I think you should have scsi support on kernel
I do believe that is set in my kernel config.
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
#
Olivier wrote:
scsi1 means it's /dev/sdb1 ?
mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
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Hi,
I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab. I was just
going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if there were some way to
parse it to just get the package names. I'm no programmer and can't script worth a
darn, so does anyone have any sugge
Hello,
After adding some applications that use elements of
gnome, the boot now
starts xdm directly. Prior to changes the boot started
a console, when
needed the xdm gui could be started using Alt + F7.
I wish to reinstate that process.
So far I have found this on google, seems relevant to
me.
¥¥
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 12:17:13AM +0200, The sky is the limit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after I changed ISP yesterday, my APache suddenly decided to totally
> ignore my virtual host directives and read from DocumentRoot
> /usr/htdocs, something I have never set it to do.
>
> I use dyndns for
Dear Debianers,
I have to write a partition scripts using the existing linux commands
so anybody as the idea how to approach this problem
Regards
Saurabh
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David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
Kent West wrote:
David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
Here is what Debian's fdisk reports:
Disk /dev/hdb: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
I then booted Knoppix, and it sees the whole
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:30:31 -0500 (EST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> it behaved perfectly. It just smply stopped working. I'm connecting
> right now through a Win98 box using Verison's PPPOE software for
> Windows.
I formerly used pppoe to connect to Verizon, but now I usually go
through a gateway
I have an Mpact2 video card by Chromatic Research and I have it running
in Linux using the framebuffer device, but is there an accelerated
driver for this card? I've not been able to find any info about this
card working in Linux other than with the FB device. I'm running Debian
stable, and it al
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 21:46:06 -0500
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sudo lpadmin -p Kyocera -E -v socket://192.168.0.100 -m
> Kyocera-FS-1900-Postscript.ppd
> lpadmin: add-printer failed: server-error-service-unavailable
> lpadmin: add-printer failed: server-error-service-unavailable
>
from TL:
> From a site concerning WP8 installation issues, I read that I should
> (temporarily? Does only installation need these libraries, or are they
> needed in runtime?) copy the older libraries in the place of the newer
Was this http://linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/?
I followed the instructions her
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:35:10PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> I've run into some minor glitches, but there are two of especial note. The
> first is that upon startup, the default icon theme doesn't appear to load.
> Instead, in nautilus windows and on the desktop, the same icon (a sheet of
> pa
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 06:12 am, jim wrote:
> Hello. I have been using Mandrake linux for about 6 months now. It has
> been a nice little intro into the world of linux and have learned tons.
> Not entirely satisfied with the RPM package management s
All.
There does not seem to be any jigdo files for the sid distro at the following site.
ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sid/jigdo/
same goes for sarge.
They were there a couple of days ago.
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Dan Hunt was roused into action on 2003-04-03 20:23 and wrote:
[snip]
On the plus side, the Canadian version of TurboTax, QuickTax, does not
appear to employ the strange things that its US counterpart. My father
installed it on his comp and I could find no trace of the rumored nasty
stuff (moreover
I have a stock Woody install, and I prefer the debian Menu structure.
I would like to use KDE without the KDE menu. I have failed in the
past to make the kde menu similar to the standard Debian Menu.
Would anyone care to offer advice on doing this properly?
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Kent West wrote:
> David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
>
> >Here is what Debian's fdisk reports:
> >
> >Disk /dev/hdb: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
> >255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >I then booted Knoppix, and it sees the whole 60 MB. Her
It still ain't working, and www.faqchest.org is not receiving digests
either. I have informed the listmaster of this separately. In the
meantime, I have subscribed to the non-digest version as well and
accepted the inefficiency of receiving hundreds of messages by SMTP on
a dialup. So no need to CC
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
> > inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
Score one more for don't-want-xdm-by-default
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 04:31:59PM -0800, Xucaen wrote:
> That annoying menu bar at the top of the screen..
> how do I make it go away?
Right-click, "delete panel".
> is there a way to check my current screen
> resolution while gnome is running?
Run a gnome-terminal; then issue xwininfo.
> are
Hello. I have been using Mandrake linux for about 6 months now. It has been a
nice little intro into the world of linux and have learned tons. Not entirely
satisfied with the RPM package management system that MDK uses and after
having done some research am considering switching to Debian(my fir
Quoting Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> You'll have to read the exim.conf documentation to find out how to
> customize the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section and customize the
> local_delivery transport.
>
> Note that these methods will only stop them from sending & receiving
> mail using
Craig Dickson wrote:
> echo $var=$(eval echo \$$var)
That works. Personally I prefer to eval the entire line. This way
you only use one layer of processing rather than the two in the above.
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
eval echo $var = \$$var;
done
For those following this scripting di
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On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 06:06:05 -0500
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I started to try this approach and died here:
|
| Setting up cupsys (1.1.15-4) ...
| Starting CUPSys: cupsd.
I have what is supposed to be a network printer with support for
JetDirect, Cups and
| > G'day Alex,
| > I found the installer great but while I'm new to linux
| I've been using
| > PC's since about 1982. It would probably be very helpful to the
| > developers if you could be more specific about the information you
| > think is lacking.
|
| That would be fighting the last
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030403 21:30]:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> | I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
> | me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
> | standard PC' and the computer a
I've been running a Woody-based NAT/firewall box as an uplink to Verison DSL
since Woody was released, and was using Potato before that. Until two days ago,
it behaved perfectly. It just smply stopped working. I'm connecting right now
through a Win98 box using Verison's PPPOE software for Windows.
Hello,
I'm trying to connect a usb Yamaha cdrw 3200 but couldn't find how to do it.
Could you direct me to a man/howto ...?
10x,
Yaron.
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David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
Greetings,
I am running a mix of testing and unstable. I am using the unstable version
of fdisk that comes with the util-linux package.
I recently installed a new Samsung 60 MB HD into a 1998 "vintage" Celeron
machine as /dev/hdb. The BIOS reports the drive as 30 MB.
I
G'day Antonio,
I don't know much about apache but this may be your problem. My isp like
many blocks port 80 so you can't host web sites on the cheap. The usual
way of working around this is to use a higher port like port 5000 the
https port xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5000 then on your router redirect port 500
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 11:59:35 +1000
"Lindsay Yardley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> G'day Alex,
> I found the installer great but while I'm new to linux I've been using
> PC's since about 1982. It would probably be very helpful to the
> developers if you could be more specific about the information y
Hi,
I am probably shooting in the dark here, but is there anyone out there
who has had success with FAI?
I keep running into a problem during fai-setup. It is able to run the
deboostrap program, get all of the debs', later it freaks out with
script ending like so.
init: timeout opening/writi
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:43:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| It bears noting in all this that when in CUPS you use "lp" commands
| they come from the cupsys-bsd package, which provides same-named
| replacements for traditional printing commands.
Close. The "lp", "lpstat", "cancel", etc. c
Greetings Alex
alex wrote:
The debian installation process is loaded with surprises that forces the
inexperienced to make critical decisions that can make or break the
installation. If there was documentation that describes what to expect
and the options, it should improve the chances of a go
G'day all,
I want to install Courier mailserver for POP and IMAP behind an already
installed and configured Postfix. Do I apt-get install just courier-imap
and courier-pop or should I install the lot somehow as I want the man
pages etc also configuring with debconf would be nice :-).
tia
Lindsay
bt
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
| I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
| me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
| standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
| screen when needed.
Not real
"Johannes" == Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Johannes> Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio
Johannes> PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the
Johannes> bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386" (to makte
Johannes> the pcmcia c
G'day Alex,
I found the installer great but while I'm new to linux I've been using
PC's since about 1982. It would probably be very helpful to the
developers if you could be more specific about the information you think
is lacking.
Did you read the installation howto?
http://www.debian.org/release
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:42:16PM -0800, Kris wrote:
>
> I recently had this same problem. Boot with your rescue disc and run lilo
> then run lilo a second time this time with the -b for boot option
> lilo -b /dev/hda
> or if ou put it on a partition set it to the partition
> lilo -b /dev/hda1
>
> [snip]
> On the plus side, the Canadian version of TurboTax, QuickTax, does not
> appear to employ the strange things that its US counterpart. My father
> installed it on his comp and I could find no trace of the rumored nasty
> stuff (moreover, Intuit denies that it exists in the Canadian
> ver
The debian installation process is loaded with surprises that forces the inexperienced to make
critical decisions that can make or break the installation. If there was documentation that
describes what to expect and the options, it should improve the chances of a good installation.
Current in
Talon declaimed:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to disable email for one particular account.
> How is this done? (Running woody and exim)
>
> I believe I can stop an account from receiving email
> by creating a sym link:
>
> # ln -s /dev/null /var/mail/username
This will (depending on how your system is
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Joris writes:
> In case you allready received this question (or even answered ??) I
> apologise, but I have seen no reactions, or my own question, so I
> guess something has gone wrong
>
> The thing is, I can't figure out what's option I should choose which
> is currently off. As I thought I migh
Glenn English wrote:
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:23, dave selby wrote:
Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it
now.
I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the
ftp site.
gftp?
apt-cache search gftp
http://www.gftp.org/
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> I am curious about where in the chain of delivery the truncation might
> be happening. Is there a standard for email that specifies a line
> buffer size?
>
> My software is fetchmail and mutt. I have already established that the
>
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Thanks to everyone who contributed.
Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient
perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a
happy return to my childhood.
(BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with Nea
some things seem to be a bit.. quirky...
That annoying menu bar at the top of the screen..
how do I make it go away?
I can play sound files but... I don't hear
anything. I think I need to turn up the valume
but.. where is the volume??
is there a way to check my current screen
resolution while gn
> > Has anyone experiences in installing WP8 into a system which normally
> > uses libc6 and other newer libraries?
> >
> > Teemu Luojola
>
> I run WP8 that came with Corel Linux so it is a .deb package. Woody has all
> the depends for WP8, libc5, type1inst if you have the fonts, and a couple
> mor
"Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
> > > inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instea
On Don, 03 Apr 2003 at 14:39 (-0600), Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
> Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that
> the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
2
Jan
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
> me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
> standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
> screen when needed. His softw
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:49:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:19:52 -0700
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> > And best of all nano is free software while pico/pine fails the DFSG
> > test.
>
> Wasn't that how nano came about? A free replacement for a non-free b
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
> me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
> standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
> screen when needed. His softw
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Roman Joost wrote:
> Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing
> partition?
>
> I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size
> of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write
> t
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:23:49PM +0100, dave selby wrote:
...
> I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the
> ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories
> to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it hangs with lots of GTK
>
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Greetings,
I am running a mix of testing and unstable. I am using the unstable version
of fdisk that comes with the util-linux package.
I recently installed a ne
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:09PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
> me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
> standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
> screen when needed. His softw
Thus spake Paul E Condon:
> I'm working on getting him to press carriage return from time to time
> as he types, but he is somewhat set in his ways.
You might try to find out what MUA he's using (check the headers), and
then find out where that particular MUA has an option for line wrapping.
Most
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On Thursday 03 April 2003 11:25 am, Roman Joost wrote:
> Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing
> partition?
>
> I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size
> of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:58:35PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> This isn't exactly a debian-specific question, but I'm not sure where
> else to turn.
>
> I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
> want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:39:02PM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
> Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab
> to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
You don't do anything with the runlevel. You disable xdm (or gdm, kdm,
wdm) by deleting the re
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
> > inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
>
> On a clean install, level 2.
Bzzt! Wro
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:18:48AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Yes, I can tell. :( I even have a special vim macro to get rid of that
> > damned emacs-style (SuperCite/PowerQuote) quoting, as it goes nuts once
> > you're a few levels deep ...
>
> Note that I use emacs as wel
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
The default run level is 2[ie /etc/rc2.d/]. So presumably you want to
do something like 'mmv "/etc/rc2.d/S99?dm" "/etc/rc2.d/K99#1dm"'...[
Corey Hickey wrote:
> I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
> want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
> to do would be like this:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> FOO=bar
> BLAH=blarg
>
> for var in FOO BLAH ; do
> echo $var = $"$var"
Em Qui, 2003-04-03 às 13:18, Gilberto Garcia Jr. escreveu:
> Someone can tell me if there is mysql-max package for debian?
>
> I means there is in anywhere a package like mysql-max.deb or something like
> this?
>
The debian mysql package is mysql-max (transaction support), you just
have to confi
Is there any way for it?
it seems theres no raw ethernet packet generator included in debian...
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> From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: SBS4.5 with Samba PDC
>
>
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> SBS4.5? My concern is that SBS4.5 is goin
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing
> partition?
>
> I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size
> of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i c
Hi,
I would like to disable email for one particular account.
How is this done? (Running woody and exim)
I believe I can stop an account from receiving email
by creating a sym link:
# ln -s /dev/null /var/mail/username
but how would I disable them from sending mail?
Thanks for your time,
Chee
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:19:52 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote:
> And best of all nano is free software while pico/pine fails the DFSG
> test.
Wasn't that how nano came about? A free replacement for a non-free but popular editor?
Kevin
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I recently had this same problem. Boot with your rescue disc and run lilo
then run lilo a second time this time with the -b for boot option
lilo -b /dev/hda
or if ou put it on a partition set it to the partition
lilo -b /dev/hda1
Mine is on /dev/hda and it rebooted correctly after I did this. K
It bears noting in all this that when in CUPS you use "lp" commands they come from the
cupsys-bsd package, which provides same-named replacements for traditional printing
commands.
They are not the same "lp" commands you read about in Linux books and other places.
Kevin
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I am getting email from an old friend who is not a Debian type like
me. He types his email into a window on what he calls 'just a
standard PC' and the computer automatically starts new lines on his
screen when needed. His software is, in his words, 'just plain mail
software, nothing special'. Som
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:39:02PM -0600, Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS wrote:
> Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change inittab
> to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
You don't play with inittab at all; this isn't RedHat. See
http://home.ix.netcom.com/~kmself/
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:49:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 08:47:54 -0600
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > mutt does line wrap, but the default is ugly and hard to read. Many
> > popular and useful MUAs don't do linewrap at all. Furthermore, how
> >
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:31:52 -0800
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Please turn your line wraps on to something more sensable like 72
columns per line instead of one paragraph per line.
This isn't meant to be picking on
Hi,
after I changed ISP yesterday, my APache suddenly decided to totally
ignore my virtual host directives and read from DocumentRoot
/usr/htdocs, something I have never set it to do.
I use dyndns for virtual hosts, and my apache vhost config is
NameVirtualHost foo.dyndns.org
Document
Hello,
This isn't exactly a debian-specific question, but I'm not sure where
else to turn.
I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
to do would be like this:
#!/bin/bash
FOO=bar
BLAH=blarg
for va
Hello there,
I've dist-upgraded my Sarge box today, and I see that fontconfig
has been installed. I've heard of it before, but I'd like to know
how it will interact withe my previously existing fonts
installation.
Here it goes:
In /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
=
FontPath
"Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
> inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
On a clean install, level 2. Look in /etc/inittab and there you'll see
a line like
id:2:initdefault:
T
To whom it may concern;
I have two IBM 43P's currently running some version of AIX. I would like
to install the Debian 3.0 PPC distribution on both boxes. Does anyone
have a HOWTO or advice on how to get the installation started?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Chris
[EMAIL
Has anyone made a Samba server the PDC for a Windows environment with
SBS4.5? My concern is that SBS4.5 is going to have problem with
relinquishing its PDC role. As I understand, SBS4.5 does not recognize
any other PDC. But that's with respect to a Windows environment. If I
raise the OS lev
Paul Johnson was roused into action on 2003-03-31 11:08 and wrote:
[snip]
I probably
won't be buying a house until I get a Canadian visa. I really wish
they hadn't changed the immigration requirements back in January, or
I'd have one right now instead of being basically at square one again
and an
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 at 9:02pm, Teemu Luojola wrote:
:A couple of years ago Corel gave free downloads of WordPerfect 8.0 for
:linux. I still have the original packet, and I'm trying to install it in
:woody. That is not, however, so simple. WP can only be installed with
:the Runme script provided
stan said:
> I'm trying to get squierrmail working on a fresh stable/testign install.
> I've installed exim, the various peices of courier that I think I need,
> and apache. I've run /etc/squierrelmail/comf.pl.
>
> It looks like I may need to edit some apache files by hand?
>
> A quick HOWTO on thi
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