Re: dangling symlinks - bug reports

2003-11-19 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
ot; and see what happens. Might be you sum up the answer of the package maintainer here. Armin -- Armin Joellenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://armin.joellenbeck.bei.t-online.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update trouble / serious dpkg problem

2002-12-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Sunday 22 December 2002 15:43, Hank Marquardt wrote: > I've exactly the same problem -- worse, dpkg doesn't work either so > you can't downgrade easily, or run update/upgrade again. I've posted > on devel as well to see what shakes loose -- > > I'm wondering if I can just copy over an old libc6

Re: update trouble / serious dpkg problem (solved)

2002-12-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Sunday 22 December 2002 13:55, Armin Joellenbeck wrote: > Hello all, > > I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc. > Now all apt and dpkg leads to: > > dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': > Function not implemented >

Re: update trouble / serious dpkg problem (more info)

2002-12-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:00PM +0100, Armin Joellenbeck wrote: > Hello all, > > I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc. > Now all apt and dpkg leads to: > > dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Function > not implement

update trouble / serious dpkg problem

2002-12-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello all, I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc. Now all apt and dpkg leads to: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Function not implemented Seems to be a libc problem because the command ls leads to: ls: reading directory .: Function not implem

Re: Reinstalling Debian

2001-07-12 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
> > I would like to reinstall all packages with > apt-get install "package-name" --reinstall > > Is there an easier way to reinstall all packages? > i.e. Instead of package-name use a text file which > specifies all my installed packages? > Might be something like this one: $ dpkg --get-

Re: Does Debian change permissions automatically??

2001-05-22 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, might help to take a look in the file /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd. Might be, you have another mechanism of rotating the logs. Armin

Re: ippp0 dials wrong number

2000-10-17 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:55:55PM +0200, Clemens Hermann wrote: > Hi, > > as told in the subject: My ISDN-Card always dials a wrong number. I am > in Germany and according to syslog my ippp0 always tries to dial to the > netherlands (I am looking forward my next phone bill ;-). > My environment i

Re: Default Route

2000-09-28 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 06:14:34PM +, Blair M. Cummings wrote: > It's not in the same subnet but works when I add a route of .. route add > -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev eth0 metric 1. > > Thats how I'm able to email you this email (grin) > > But I think you are right when it comes to the

Doubled mails / USENET gateway debian.org.hk

2000-08-25 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello all, there seem to be doubled mails. Can somebody stop the USENET gateway at debian.org.hk resending emails? The Headers look suspicious. Armin

Re: crontab

2000-08-14 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: > > i read many pages about how to set the crontab, which seems pretty > straight forward, but i seem to be missing something. this is what i > have done so far: > > crontab -e > > #test to make sure the dns is current > 30 6 * * *

Re: Stupid X question

2000-03-08 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:23:54AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been > using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but > what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux > documenta

Re: Emptying files

2000-02-16 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
> I need a utility that will take a list of files using standard wildcards > and empty their contents, but not deleting them. Has anyone stumbled on > something like this? Thanks a bunch. Try the shell command echo: echo -n '' > file This redirect the empty string into file. The option

Re: Finding left-over libraries

1999-12-10 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, You might try the program binstats contained in the package binstats, at least in slink. It's not exactly the tool you are talking about, but it might be useful. Armin

Re: "import"ing screenshots?

1999-09-04 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 01:19:25AM -0400, Harlan Crystal wrote: > I recently reinstalled my debian system, and the command > which i had been using to take screenshots > ("import thepicture.jpg") no longer works. > I seemed to remember that import was associated with > "xv" or "imlib" but I have bo

Netscape and gunzip

1998-10-28 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
Hello, I'm missing in Netscape the feature to gunzip downloaded files on the fly. I'm sure to have seen this in non-Debian installations. How it could be setup. Armin Joellenbeck