Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My lpd stopped several times with unknown reason. Command /etc/init.d/lpd
> restart will let it work again.
On a debian system, the canonical command is (as root, of course):
invoke-rc.d lpd restart
Regards,
Bob
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Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello
>
> Bob Hilliard wrote:
>
>> Selecting a default locale with "dpkg-reconfigure" does not make
>> that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the
>> system without rebooting?
Selecting a default locale with "dpkg-reconfigure" does not make
that locale effective. Is there any way to change the locale of the
system without rebooting?
Regards,
Bob
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Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone care to share any experiences with the 2.5 series kernels? I'm
> looking at moving my primary desktop and my laptop over to 2.5.75. Linus
> has said that 2.6 betas would be out this month, so I figure now's a
> good time to get a head start. Any
Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to change my email address immediately.
>
> Please advise me how to do it.
First, unsubscribe the old address (using the directions at the
bottom of this mail), then subscribe the new address.
HTH.
Bob
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> When I added the sourcelines for unstable and run an apt-get update the
> information about the packages was fetched, but when reading the
> packagelist, apt stoped with an error message saying, that it has not
> enough memory.
You didn't quote the exact error mes
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bob Hilliard wrote:
>> The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with
>> /bin/dash.
>
> Yes it is, and yes it does.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>dash
> $ perl -e 'p
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Care to enlighten us? I didn't see anything outside POSIX sh other than
> the use of echo escape sequences.
The redirection " 2>&1" isn't portable - it doesn't work with
/bin/dash. I have the impression the back-quotes for command
redirection aren'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes:
> You could eliminate all of the non-portable stuff in the above by
> changing the single 'echo -e' to 'printf'. This is functionally
> equivalent.
That isn't the only bashism in that script.
Regards,
Bob
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Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Probably both. Has anyone been interested enough to implement it
> themselves and send a patch?
I suspect the easy availability of script(1) discouraged people
from expending any effort on it. I finally got tired of editing out
all the bogus newlin
I am trying to get sid set up on a new Compaq Presario 2100
laptop. I have successfully installed from a woody CD, using the
2.2.20-idepci kernel. However, all the kernel patches I am aware of
for ACPI and the built-in modem are for 2.4 kernels. Since there are
no serial ports on the machin
"Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I know I will have trouble convincing her when it comes
> to removeable media.
>
> For example, "Mom" has been using a computer for a long time and has boxes
> and boxes of floppies. And she needs to find that letter to Aunt Edith
> written o
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # apt-cache search 'kernel*'
> # apt-cache search kernel\*
>
> Plain kernel* will do unexpected things if you happen to have any files
> in the current directory whose names begin with "kernel".
However apt-cache searches on a regex (does it use
Mark Laird Copper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This year I'm trying something radical: all the forms and instructions
> are available on irs.gov. I figured if I could install Debian, I should
> be able to work through the tax instructions. It's sort of like using
> the command line instead of
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i am trying to install debian stable, but once i get the option of
> choosing the langue ( english ) >> us eng , after i have done that
> it loops back to the langue page the first one i get where i choose
> en (english) ?? don't see anything about this on faq or help
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anybody provide a howto on scsi emulation in
> Debian ? I'm using a 2.2.20 kernel and I hope I don't
> have to compile a hole new kernel for this scsi
> emulation;
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz deals with CD-writing,
and in the proc
"Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2) Linux, iirc, requires a kernel driver for each individual ethernet
> card, meaning that if you have two or more identical ethernet cards, you
> need the driver twice. The only way to do that is to compile it as a
> module, rather than into the kerne
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you want 5 or more (usable partitions), you'll have to
> create at least one "extended" partition. Each extended partition can
> hold up to 4 more partitions.
An extended partition is not limited to 4 logical partitions.
>From /u
"Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a place from where i can ISO images for debian SID, and
> does SID have kde3.1 ?
Not ISO, but jigdo files are available (apt-get jigdo-file)
http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which
click on Unofficial jigdo files for the "unstable" distribut
Gianfranco Berardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I type
> $ startx
>
> and I get a message about setting a nice value to 0 instead of -10 as
> requested.
Run top and look at the NI column for XFree86. I think it will
show -10. I always get that message, but whenever
Brad Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I need to instruct Debian to *never* touch this file
> while doing updates, but I don't understand how to do this. Could someone
> point me to information that describes how to do this?
Put `force-confold' in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg. T
Michael Rudmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyhow, I just got my XWindows system running, but
> noticed that the Ethernet card is now not being
> recognized.
>
> I can briefly see some of the messages about this, but
> then it goes into GDM, so I can't see them any more.
>
> Is there some plac
Qian Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In /etc/rc6.d there is a link S30urandom. But run level 6 means reboot,
> which should stop (K) urandom, instead of start (S). More interesting is
> that "init 6" actually stops urandom. Another link is S35networking whose
> name means "start", but in fact "
"Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Bob Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:15 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Emacs Key Bindings
>>
>>
>
I like to indent the first line of each paragraph. By default,
emacs (in text mode) considers only blank lines and page delimiters as
paragraph delimiters, and binds the TAB key to "indent-relative". To
change this, I have the following lines in .emacs:
(setq default-major-mode 'paragraph-i
I have a cron job that runs every morning that includes:
apt-get -q update && apt-get -q -s dist-upgrade
Today it produced the following error message:
Fetched 6713kB in 28s (238kB/s)
Reading Package Lists...
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing asp
Johan Ehnberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are a few important steps. I did this on my little server and it
> worked just the way it should. Read
>
> http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
>
> and follow the instructions there. It's very straight-forward and not
> too difficult. Ta
Seneca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:07:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:49:06PM -0500, Erinn wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Previously, I had an all text Debian firewall. Everytime I would boot
>> > it, the number lock would turn off. I thought
Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> as root, i modified the "search" line in my new box's /etc/resolv.conf
> to include a few more domains i want searched. the changes persist
> anywhere from two minutes to two hours, but it always seems to get
> overwritten with the initial one! this i
How does rdate compare to chrony and nptd?
Regards,
Bob
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How can devfsd be removed safely? I have purged the package,
cleaned out /dev and reconstructed the device files with `MAKEDEV
generic', but the partition is then unbootable. On boot, fsck
reports: "fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open
/dev/hda6".
To recover, I hav
David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bob Hilliard writes:
> > But most Windows mailers make you read mail on-line, which is an
> > abomination.
>
> Outlook Express requires me to go online to download messages or to upload
> replies. It does not
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I seem to be making a habit of being misunderstood at the moment!
> Sure, Linux lets you do anything you want - that's why I like it - it
> just seemed that the general philosophy was "online all the time".
> That of Windoze seems to be "OK, we'll let you be of
Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Recently my machine (pentium, linux kernel 2.4.18, sarge), used
> used to blank after 5 min, suddenly stopped blanking. I looked
> around and found that I could set it with setterm -blank time.
> This presumable would have to be done ever
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Did you read make-kpkg documentation especially by Kent West?
> I think instead of reinventing wheel, suppliment existing good document
> as patch bug report.
>
> /usr/share/doc/make-kpkg/README.gz (last section is by Kent)
>
> For this, use unsta
jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> not too long ago, i posted the same question about converting to
> ext3. i had to see for myself exactly what was the big deal. as far as
> speed goes, i don't see much of a difference. but that wasn't my main
> concern. what was driving me nuts was the fsck eve
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just put in a new HD (80Gigs of which only 32G are used currently b/c
> my bios is old) and I put Win2k on the first 15 Gigs; then a Lin Swap
> drive of 512Megs; then my Debian install of Sarge on various partitions
> after that to consume the rest of
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, two other things I'm wondering about ifup/down:
>
> - when an interface is really down (as seen with ifconfig), why does
> ifup refuse it's operation saying "device already configured"? It
> could determine that
Sometimes ifdown will bring
David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Our University's Director of Security sent around a news article about a
> bunch of Nigerians being arrested in South Africa for involvement in wire
> fraud in connection with the Nigerian e-mail scam.
>
> I will forward it to anyone who asks by email t
"Antonio Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I do it? Both console and X.
For console - apt-get install console-tools
The program is setleds - use the -D and +num options
(I use a script in /etc/init.d to run it on boot.)
For X - apt-get install numlockx
(The package i
Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I have downloaded this unique program.
> (its a binary file of some sort that is used as a database)
> Anyway, I can launch it by typing the command
> # ./atrt.linux &
>
> I can run ps ax and see that the program is running.
> but to kill it,
Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:18:19AM -0400, Jeremy wrote:
>> I'm new to using grub for booting my OS's. I recently bought a new HD, and
>> I've dedicated that one to Linux and left Windows 2000 on the old one. The
>> new HD is /dev/hda. I have a Zip1
I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am
on vacation for the next several weeks.
I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my
XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor.
Is there any tool that will probe the monitor and de
faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> is there Any web site that teaches how to make LAN
> cable connection i mean like cross over & straight
> wires ? also you can ask question lelated to cabeling
> ?
apt-get install doc-linux-text, then see Section 5.2 of
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-
"Timothy R. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>If I wanted to read Mein Kampf (sp?) by Adoph Hitler, do you
> think I could get that at my library? I certainly hope not.
My local public library (a small county) has one copy in German
and 4 English translations listed in the c
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ulf Rompe, 2002-Mar-01 10:25 +0100:
> >
> > alias rm = 'mv --backup=numbered --target-directory=/tmp/Trashcan'
> >
>
> This is nice, and I'm starting to use this from my root and user
> account on my laptop.
>
> However, how would I delete from the Trash
David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> dictd is not really meant to be run by an end-user.
This is not true. There is no reason an end-user should not run
dictd, and many reasons why it can be desirable.
> Uninstall dictd, the 'dict' client will go out and look up dictionaries
> on
"Jeremy Vaught" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hello,
> I have been receiving list information at a number of email accounts. Some
> were deleted and so in the absence of those accounts they are sent to my
> admin account. Now I don't know the accounts that were deleted so I can't
> remove the
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | See the term bullschildt in the jargon file.
>
> I just did, on ESR's web site. It's not in the 'jargon' package.
The term was added to the Jargon File in version 4.2.2. The
version of dict-jargon in potato is based on jargon 4.0. Jargon 4.3.0
is in d
(This message was sent to Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and
the -devel list. I screwed up the copy to -user.)
> Too Many Acronyms? The Debian mailing lists are rife with Linux gurus
> and newbies alike. When a newbie wanders into a discussion the acronym
> and jargon ratio is usually mo
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I once found it when running dselect ; but now I need
> it and completely forget its name, poor me, pls
> remind. I need to make several deb packages from the
> running woody
apt-get install dpkg-repack
Bob
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Until recently, I could right-click on a URL in a mail message,
and my running copy of Netscape would access that URL. For some time
now this has failed to work. I'm sure the path to my Netscape must be
shown in some configuratiOn File, but I can't locate it. I would
appreciate being pointe
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>
> | This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past
> | week or two it returns:
> | rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused
> |
> | This message ret
on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:04:03AM -0700, Stephen Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
m) wrote:
> I am relatively new to Linux, and have a class that I am required to be
> a Linux Administrator for. I need to know some of the basic questions
> to ask in order to be effective. I am using Linux Mandrake. Thanks
I have the following command in a cron.daily script:
rdate time.mist.god
This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past
week or two it returns:
rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused
This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I
Is anyone using a Visioneer 4400 Scanner successfully under
Debian?
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Can some one give an objective comparison of the several
relational database managers in debian (postgresql, mysql - are there
any others?).
Bob
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ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could someone knowledgable about such things explain this to me?
> Makes me curious. Maybe I should be compiling my kernels without
> kpkg?
Debian was the first to get this right, and a lot of people
outside of Debian complained about it, but now even Lin
Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, does anyone have any experience with the Onshore Timesheet
> application?
bob:vc-/3:bob>apt-cache show onshore-timesheet
Package: onshore-timesheet
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 748
Maintainer: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTE
Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to make an old compiled application to work, but it is one of
> the 'olddays' compilations. That means that I need old library's. I know
> that there is a package under Slackware called oldlibs6, but I cannot find
> then under Debian. Anyone kno
"Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 07:20:17PM -0600, William Jensen wrote:
>
> :rm: cannot remove `/tmp/save.tar': Value too large for defined data type
> :
> :I was storing the save.tar in /tmp. I'm running stable version with kernel
> :2.4.0. I have tri
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I run emacs so that it creates an x-window to run in then
> the behaviour is different. In this case DEL and BKSP both
> work the same and delete the character to the left of the
> cursor).
>
> Any ideas?
I have the following i
"Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the differnce b/w compiling a kernel from tar form and installing a
> kernel-image.deb of the same version.
A kernel-image.deb has many more of the possible options
compiled into it than any one person would ever need, therefore it is
larger and
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any front-end GUI available for dict, or ways to access it via a
> browser? --hans
word-inspect
Bob
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Pap Tibor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for an English definition dictonary (I mean English to
> English) for Linux. I know there are some dictonary programs for Linux,
> but I haven't found yet English to English dictonary.
The dict client (apt-get dict) will permit accessing th
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I set in my bios, that it should enable Num Lock at Startup but Linux
> switches it of when it starts. How can i configure bash or anything other to
> enable Num Lock at Login? How can configure X-Server to switch it
> automatically to on?
/
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
> I'm looking for the URL to the latest Linux Filesystem Structure
> document. The best I have is:
>
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2/fsstnd-toc.html
apt-get debian-policy
The debian-policy package includes the (obsolete) fsstnd and th
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Something on my machine is periodically changing /dev/ttyS0's
> permissions to 640, whereas it needs to be 660 to use the modem
ppp changes the permissions to 640 on the device it is using, and
restores them when it exits. If it exits abnorma
"Rick Commo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Goal: Gain experience with two different distros yet maintain a "usable"
> machine under both of these distros.
>
> Plan: Install a 20GB hard disk and partition it as shown below:
-- Detailed partition layout snipped --
You should have n
Frank Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm wondering if it is possible to build the Packages-file that tells apt
> about packages in a directory-tree, on my own.
man dpkg-scanpackages
(dpkg-scanpackages is in the dpkg-dev package)
Bob
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James Di Toro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've looked through the help screens and man pages of both dpkg and
> apt-get and I can't find anything that will let me place a package version
> on hold using these tools. I'd like to avoid using dselect if possible
> since a) the structure of the cat
D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:22:36PM -0800, Mircea Luca wrote:
> [snip]
> |
> | My advice as a hardware tech,get a replacement drive from Maxtor,trade
> | it for
>
> Where can I trade it in? (assuming I can find the warranty info)
>
>
"Saqib Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so
> far is:
I believe it can be done with lilo, but I'm not familiar with
lilo. I do exactly what you want with GRUB. Following is part of
my GRUB menu.lst file:
# Boot a
Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> How do I detect packages on which nothing depends? I know I
> must have accumulated a number of these that I no longer want.
>
> Short of running dselect (or storm?) and performing a package-
> by-package examination, what can be done to detect this po
I wrote:
> My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive
> deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM
> PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze
> ("support" means they supply a driver).
>
> Is anyone successfull
Tom Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is getting away from the thread's original subject, but the new
> lilo package that did make it into woody (21.6-2) *is* broken as far as
> I'm concerned. It replaces your /etc/lilo.conf with it's own (wrong)
> idea of what should be there, even if yo
My local telephone company (BellSouth)is offering an attractive
deal on DSL service. They will supply a "3COM HOMECONNECT ADSL MODEM
PCI" (I think it is model 3CP3617), but they only support Windoze
("support" means they supply a driver).
Is anyone successfully using BellSouth DSL servi
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey people. What's the accepted way to upgrade everything on
> your system, except for an exclusion list? Looking at apt-get -s
> upgrade, I want to exclude a package or two but still have the
> convenience of upgrade. Is that possible?
Xucaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> what do you mean by "true"?
> I thought the "resuce" disk he was looking for
> was the boot disk for the debian installation.
By a "true rescue disk" I mean a floppy that has a bootable
kernel and enough utilities to repair a damaged system. I don't kno
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 you a true full backup.=20
>
> do both commands and then diff the two fil
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.net/rb/. It isn't Debian specific, but it works well
on my Debian s
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > dpkg --get-selections > filename
> > dpkg --set-selections < filename
> >
> > Bob
>
> Yes, but where would dpkg fetch those files? Can it fetch it, say,
> from my local mirror?
No. It gets the information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. You
should run d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote about system restores...
>
> ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to happen,
> what would be the best way of getting the same installed packages as
> before? Is it
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
>$ echo " hold" | dpgk --set-selections
If you don't want to remember the command sequence, Craig Sanders
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted the following script on debian-devel some time
ago:
---cut here---
#! /bin/bash
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bob> # For booting Windows95 title WIN95 on /dev/hdb1 unhide
> Bob> (hd1,0) hide (hd0,0) map (hd1) (hd0) map
Alec Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When trying to compile the dot-forward-src .deb for qmail on Debian 2.2, I
> get the following error:
> Press ENTER to continue...
> dh_testdir
> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
> make: *** [build-stamp] Error 127
dh_testdir is a debhelper comma
Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello!
>
> I have compiled a fresh kernel with serial console support and tried to
> connect my notebook with minicom to it. However I only managed to get it
> to work with a 4800 speed connection. A VT320 terminal works at 9600 and
> 19200. Any hints h
While of the GRUB gurus are listening, I have two minor problems
with GRUB. I have the following stanzas in my menu (linux stanzas
omitted):
# For booting DOS
title DOS 6.22 on /dev/hda1
hide (hd1,0)
unhide (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader
"Tom Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager?
I've always used loadlin, so I don't know much about lilo. Grub
is easy to configure and install, and has the capability to make a
partition bootable (active in MS terms), hide/unhide
uuenview/uudeview (from the uudeview package) will code/decode
base 64 and a number of other formats.
Bob
"David B. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> To quote Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> # Copy these lines into a file, e.g. "base64dec.pl", make it executable
> # and call it lik
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > it's because on a teletype you couldn't erase, so backspacing wouldn't
> > help in keeping things readeable:)
>
> Hm, ok, that makes sense. I was thinking in the context of dumb
> terminals; teletypes were slightly before my ti
I have just started using gnus 5.8.7-2. (This is the gnus in its
own package, not the one distributed with emacs.) If I click on a
highlighted URL, it beeps and displays this message:
Searching for program: no such file or directory, netscape
I'm sure there is a variable that can
Matthew Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this?
1. Read /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini/Cable-Modem.txt.gz (from
the Package: doc-linux-text package.
2. Get and install an ethernet card (often the cable ISP will
p
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I later sent the post below, showing my mirror.defaults file. The paths
> look correct to me, using the same server as you. If I run in debug mode,
> it does read and xfer the dir contents, but it hangs at the end. Perhaps
> i
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
>
> > ftp.jimpick.com seems to have disappeared. I was using it as a Debian
> > non-US mirror. Anybody know about this (or does it still resolve for
> > you)?
>
> apt-get update worked for me just now.
"Fox, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basically my question is, how do I make a deb kernel image, so that it can
> be transferred to other machines and used. Since all the machines are on the
> same hardware.
>
> And another thing I am curious about, is if compile something to my system,
>
sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. I tried
> adding it to loadlin and that didn't work.
> ~Sam
>
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>
> > > ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit
> > > lilo
Tolga KILICLI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> Hi,
> Do you know how to add random fortunes to the .signature file. (each mail
> with different .signature ?)
>
One of the following packages may answer your needs:
Package: signify
Version: 1.06-1
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Maintain
"Touloumtzis, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> 1. are you running with EST5EDT?
I thought so, but I see it is now "America/New_York". which is
equivalent. I don't know when it changed, or why. I think it
happened when timezones moved from its own package to libc6.
> 2. if so, what
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul writes:
> > Same problem here. Both of my servers and my workstation had to be
> > manually changed. (EST-EDT).
>
> No problems here. What versions of the relevant packages do you have?
No problems here, either, using up-to-date potato with lib
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