On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi,
I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being
continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess.
I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no
success, the same with the dhclient-script hook
On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi,
I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being
continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess.
I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no
success, the same with the dhclient-script hook
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote:
The easy way out is to boot from a rescue disk, fix the mdadm.conf
file, rebuild the initramfs, and reboot.
The Real Sysadmin way is to start the array by hand from inside
the initramfs. You want "mdadm -A /dev/md0" (or possibly
"mdadm -A -u") to s
On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Monday 31 January 2011 10:51:04 dav...@alcor.concordia.ca wrote:
I posted in a panic and left out a lot of details. I'm using Squeeze, and
set up the system about a month ago, so there have been some upgrades. I
wonder if maybe the kernel or Grub was
On 10-12-16 3:13 AM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, David Gaudine
wrote:
The temporary hostname is in each ARRAY line in mdadm.conf.
I've never seen a hostname value on the ARRAY line in mdadm.conf. Are
you confusing hostname and array name?
The array name is based o
On 15/12/2010 9:57 PM, Doug wrote:
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, David Gaudine wrote:
Sorry to answer my own question, but a power failure caused a
corrupted filesystem on another computer and gave me a free IP to
experiment with. So, I went ahead and renamed my computer. I did
edit the name
On 10-12-15 11:59 AM, David Gaudine wrote:
The temporary hostname is in each ARRAY line in mdadm.conf. As I
understand it, the temporary hostname is also in the superblock, and
these must match or I won't be able to boot. So, do I have to do
something about the superblock (how?), or
On 10-12-10 10:22 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:57 PM, David Gaudine
wrote:
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sda
grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sdb
grub-install /dev/sda
grub-install /dev/sdb
"--root-directory=/boot"
On 10/12/2010 8:11 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:57:09PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote:
Here I have a big problem. The guide said to run grub and do
root(hd0,0)
setup(hd0)
and repeat for the other disk. I don't have an executable file "grub".
grub-pc is installe
On 10-12-10 3:50 PM, Reiner Buehl wrote:
On 10.12.2010 21:15, David Gaudine wrote:
2) I put the SWAP partition on RAID. The first guide doesn't use
RAID for swap. The author emailed me his comments about the pros and
cons, and I think I want it on RAID for peace of mind. It shou
I'm trying to use RAID 1 for the first time. I've gone ahead and set up
a system to test, using primarily these two guides:
http://mikeoverip.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/debian-5-lenny-step-by-step-installation-with-software-raid-1-with-screenshots/
http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/
My system looks
On 10-12-10 8:04 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
Upgrading between releases is typically not just a simple
apt-get/aptitude upgrade (dist-,full-) run. The upgrade process and
things you have to consider when you upgrade are documented in the
release notes and it is a good idea to follow them, as ther
Sorry, that's "pg_upgradecluster 8.0 main", not 8.1
David Gaudine wrote:
I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is "local/obsolete" in Etch I want to
upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a
few warnings so I want to make sure I'
I use postgresql 8.0, but since this is "local/obsolete" in Etch I want to
upgrade to 8.1. I've already done this on a backup system, but I got a
few warnings so I want to make sure I'm doing it right before I do it on
my main system.
Here's what I did that seemed to work but gave some of warning
I have to set up a system that is totally reliable w.r.t. data
integrity. That is, if a disk (or anything else) fails, it's OK if the
system is down for a few hours, but when it comes back up it has to be
exactly as it was, i.e. I can't restore from the previous day's backup.
The obvious solu
> and if ththeresroblem with MTMTApgrade ?:)
True, now and then I have to count the subject lines to make sure all
systems are accounted for. But it's still better than logging in to all the
systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2
years, and haven't had a lot of tro
> I know that this is not recommended. But I often set up Debian machines
> for "friends" who have virtually no clue whatsoever and no intentions
> of changing this. The machines are obviously not very important but I
> want to provide at least a minimal level of security because if I do not
> it w
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks,
How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am
only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME.
Although the person who said you shouldn't is probably right, with Gnome
try (at the login screen) syst
On Friday, December 12, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Kent West wrote:
I've done business with TigerDirect in the past, but recently they've
added a pro-MS banner to their home page. I wrote this note to them,
and would encourage other Debianistas who have done business with them
to make your feelings kno
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 11:09 AM, David Gaudine wrote:
Is there supposed to be a desktop by default? If not, is there
something
simple to do to enable it? I'm looking through the documentation, but
I'm not doing very well.
(Replying to myself)
I received a suggestion
I'm trying to use gnome in Sarge. I've never used gnome before, so I
don't know what to expect, but I don't think I'm getting what I should.
I selected gdm as the default window manager. I get the login screen.
After I log in, I get a blank screen, but the mouse buttons let me
access a menu
I'm having trouble with sqwebmail. I'm using sarge, but a quick
attempt on a
Woody system seemed the same. I followed the instructions in
README.Debian;
-copied /usr/lib/courier/sqwebmail/html to /home/mywebmail
(I used cp -a, so the directory en-us and the link "us" were copied)
- Added "S
- Original Message -
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> Because of previous posts that the "stable" sarge netiso was not booting
> I downloaded the 11/15 version on Sunday.
>
> Very fast server: could do it easy on my 56kb line.
>
> It boots.
I'm not sure what you mean by "stable" sarge, but
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Greg Madden wrote:
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/i386/sarge-i386-
netinst.iso
This one works here, it is dated Nov 9.
Thanks. That's the one I used (I mistyped the link). Strange. As a
test
of my CD burning, and in a cl
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:25 PM, David Gaudine wrote:
Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso
?
I forgot to specify that I mean the one that's dated Nov 9.
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Has anyone tried making and booting to a CD using
http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/sarge-i386-netinst-iso ?
I get a CD that looks good when I browse it, but that won't boot. I burned
it on the same system and with the same software that I used to burn my
3.0R1 CD, and tried it on
Philippe Makowski wrote:
> is the official installation cd of sarge
> (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2
> chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ?
> is there a success story ?
I haven't had any luck with the network adapters. However, I'm s
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Carlos Sousa wrote:
Besides, an imap server doesn't really work with an MTA. It just sits
on
top of a few directories and distributes mail to connecting clients
according to a configured set of rules. So go ahead and use sendmail
and
courier-imap, no rea
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Micha Feigin wrote:
Exim's default configuration needs to be changed though in order to
support maildirs, and you need to either create one (don't remember the
command) you send yourself an email to create it.
From the courier-base README.Debian:
> Just ru
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:39 AM, David Gaudine wrote:
The only option I see for maildirs in the config file is for handling
aliases and .forward. My incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mail/david
and isn't seen by the imap client, and the maildirs option in the
config file doesn
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote:
Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I
currently
have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in
the config file and converted the mbox into a maildir with the same
name
in the same loc
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Also there are other problems with the CC approach. Take, for
example, a
> conversation between 20 people on the same topic (much like this one) all
> whacking reply-to-all. Ok, fine, why have the mailing list software at
all?
> By the time that 20th person hits reply-to-a
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Yup, the way I do this with KMail is to add a filter that checks if my
> domain is in the References-header and puts it in a special folder if
> it is.
There's an idea. I'll try it. Although personally I'd still rather
receiv
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header set on my outgoing
> messages, which should be a clue for some readers. (I was told that
> gmane would translate Mail-Copies-To to Mail-Followup-To
automagically.)
With this mail pr
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:39 PM, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> I searched on "size" in their FAQ and found nothing ... furthermore,
the
> INSTALL documentation shows an example procmail rule that contains no
> size limit.
>
> It may be the case that sa takes a while to process a large mess
Has anyone done a fresh install of Woody on an ASUS A7N8X? If so, did you
have to make your own installation diskette, and what kernel did you use?
I've followed the instructions in the installation guide to put my own
kernel on the rescue disk, but I can't mount the driver disk image to put my
ow
> Linux enigma:
> I recently tried to install SuSE linux on a workstation that does not
boot
> from CDROM. There is a suse utility that writes installation files to
a
> windows HD but alas suse could not install and put on Debian.
HOWEVER! the
> suse installation utility created several directorie
Here is a link to a pdf file that contains everything I know about
running remote X clients with and without ssh, and with and without xdm.
Since it contains everything I know, it's a very short download.
http://annette.concordia.ca/~david/X.pdf
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> I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home
> machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen.
> Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will
> some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM?
Here are
I use woody, and I have a few packages that came from an early
version of sid. For these packages, dselect always shows me that the
installed version is the same as the available version. For example, my
openssl and libssl packages show as installed version and available
version 0.9.6d-1. (Wood
> I did try that and it worked perfectly
Then it's kind of late for me to comment. But that never stopped me before,
so...
> > No it does not work, first when I choose GNOME session and do
> > ctrl+alt+del nothing happens, then when I log to KDE session and do
> > ctrl+alt+del I get system guard
> If you save the file for Word as an RTF, it's alot easier for any other
word
> processor or conversion program like unrtf to read it.
I tried that a couple of days ago. I lost all my figures and most of my
formatting.
- David
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I have tried printing to file from the Windows box, and it ouputs a .prn
file, which is apparently of type:
> steve@gashuffer:~$ file Resume.prn
> Resume.prn: HP Printer Job Language data
I'm more interested in what's in the file, rather than what "file" thinks.
I don't have a postscript driver i
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 require me to be online while reading or composing.
Neither does Eudora, as I recall. What
I got this spam today complimenting me on my web site:
> I visited annette.concordia.ca today and have the following comments.
> Your Images and Icons are creative and interesting. The content is
> informative and precise. ...
As much as this warms my heart, I can't take credit for the design of t
I have this line in inittab:
7:5:respawn:/usr/X11/R6/bin/X -indirect daisy
I have these lines in Xaccess on the same system:
daisy
daisy CHOOSER dewey daisy huey
The system has xdm installed, but I changed Xservers to not put a prompt
on the local system. This basically works, I can log in to
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Andrew Lindley wrote:
> I went for option 2 - ssh. I can ssh between the 2 hosts but the
> $DISPLAY variable does not get set on the server machine. I have
> ssh_config on both sides defaulting to ForwardX11=yes and can see the
> x11_get_proto line if I give ssh the -vv
I changed one of my systems to act as an X terminal by changing
one line of /etc/initab and adding another line as follows:
id:5:initdefault:
7:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query systemname
This seems to work. Is there anything "wrong" with doing it this way?
Is it appropriate to use run level 5
I use xdm, and I want other systems to be able to use X -query hostname to
act as terminals connected to my system. When they try, they get a blank X
screen and no login prompt. I don't know whether they're successfully
connecting and not getting the prompt, or not connecting at all. On my
syst
I have an application that runs fine on hamm and slink, but on potato
it says
undefined symbol: _fstat
The application was compiled with NAG FORTRAN 95, and the
symbol is referenced by a shared library that was provided
with the compiler. I've verified that _fstat is a system routine
of some s
I just installed Gnome today, without having any clue what I was doing.
I put "exec gnome-session" in the .xsession file, copying what
Matthew said. (I suppose copying someone who's having problems
may not be the best thing to do, but what the heck.)
My .xsession-errors tells me "gnome-session not
I just telnetted to my potato system and tried to su to root.
(I know I should be using ssh, but it's my ssh problem that
I was trying to fix, thanks Brad.) I got the message
su: incorrect password
Surely I didn't forget my own root password, but just in case,
I went physically to the system wh
I'm trying to install ssh (not ssh2) on potato. It can't find libgmp2.so.
That sounds suspiciously like something that should be in the
libgmp2 package, but that package is installed.
ssh is 1.2.27-1
libgmp2 is 2.0.2-1.2
Perhaps I should mention that I previously installed ssh2 and
had to remove i
My Slink systems can export NFS file systems to each other and to my Potato
system, and can mount remote file systems from each other. My Potato system
can mount remote NFS file systems from my Slink systems. But, my Potato
system can't seem to export a file system.
On the Potato system, I edited
I just upgraded from slink to potato. This seemed like the best way to get
support for my video card which has the "Rage 2 C" chipset. That works, but
the upgrade affected a few other things, including;
Where is smbmount for the 2.2 kernel? It seems to be present in smbfs but
not in smbfsx whic
One of my Slink systems, a fresh install, currently reports all times in
EST,
i.e. it doesn't acknowledge daylight savings time. My other system, which
was upgraded from Hamm, reports times in EDT. How can I control this?
From: Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through
>the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like:
>Skipping deselected package: bash
>Skipping deselected package: bang
>Skipping deselected package: beat
I rememb
> I've heard a lot about apt-get in slink but I have a question about
>it. In hamm, it was such a task to install a package in dselect because
>it rolls through every single package on the dist. Does slink resolve
>this problem and more specifically, is apt-get the resolution?
What exactly do y
I found the answer to my earlier question about why I could
use rsh from my own account but not from root even though
.rhosts and hosts.equiv were set. In inetd.conf it's necessary
to add the -h option to rshd. I don't know how big a security
risk that is, or if there's a good reason why -h isn't
I'm trying to use rsync from one Debian system to another.
It works fine for transferring files from my user directory
one one system to my user directory on the other,
while I'm logged in to my user account. When I su to root
and try, I get "permission denied". auth.log shows
Mar 19 13:02:19 fr
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dale Harrison wrote:
> Can someone else out there in Debianland confirm this?
>
> IMAP4-4.1 won't delete messages. It might be a new feature or something, but
> as there was no dox with it, it's hard to tell.
>
> I downgraded to IMAP4-4 and everything's hunky dory.
IMAP4-4
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> It's not rmdir, but just rm; "rm -r" is what you want - "rm -rf" does
> what you want without asking questions (Just plain "rm -r" will ask
> you about whether or not to delete files you don't have write access
> to).
>
> I hope I don't need
dselect was unable to upgrade my samba using samba_1.9.18p2-1.deb.
I then rather foolishly used "dpkg --purge samba" to see if a
fresh install went better, this was a mistake since it left me with
no samba at all instead of the older one. I have copied the
dselect messages to the end of this mess
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
>It worked fine with bo but when i start the server under hamm, my
> machine switches to video mode, blanks the screen, and stops talking
> to the console. The server output looks normal (looks like it's not
> aware there's a problem). I cant
> On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
>
> > Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
> > a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
> > which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
> > 'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.
I have the same (o
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, ADRIAN CLAYTON wrote:
> Having installed from diskimage floppies, I accidentally deleted some
> stuff (in the /dpkg directory) and decided to start over again. Since I
> reinstalled, LILO sticks every time I boot from harddisk. I then also
> imported LOADLIN~.DEB and configu
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded some packages, including smail. Coming in this morning,
> there was no new mail, which is more than a little odd. Apparently smail was
> no longer running; trying to stop the daemon failed. I restarted it, and mail
> begain app
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote:
> I have also had dselect "render" my system incapabile of a full boot a
> couple of times following an install session. The last being a couple of
> days ago and was an fsck check failure. Dselect had removed libcom_err
> which it seem caused e2fsck to fail to
On 21 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > - I compiled the kernel with ati bus mouse support
>
> Did you compile it as a module? If so then you'll need `insmod
> atixlmouse' or just add it to /etc/modules.
I didn
My ATI bus mouse doesn't work, with either GPM or X. But first, what does
"Wild interrupt detection" mean? While booting I get the message
Wild interrupts found: 5
The message is generated by setserial, in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial.
It's interesting that IRQ5 is the interrupt of the non-working
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
> I just totally give up with this. Running debian 1.3.1 from CD but now I feel
> I need to delve into unstable again (always happens). Thing is, unstable has
> moved dir`s in the distribution and I`ll be damned if I can get the right
> entries into dpkg-
I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that
has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition).
I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did
NFS mounts;
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/
Sorry if this is a rerun, I think the list rejected it the first time
because my email address was bad, which is sort of the point of this
thread.
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no
> effect.. I don't think I have the NIS
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote:
> it was set to (none) ... changing it to 3dillusion.com also had no
> effect.. I don't think I have the NIS package installed, what is it?
I have a similar problem; when I run pine I get the message
incomplete maildomain "annette"
Return address i
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Gaudine wrote:
> OOPs, "addgroup" only accepts letters and numbers, "root.dip" is invalid.
> So I edited /etc/group as follows:
>operator:*:37:
>root.dip:*:39:
>src:*:40:
Thanks to those who pointed out that "root.d
On 14 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> David Gaudine writes:
> > When I try to configure ppp I get:
>
> > Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
> > chown: root.dip: invalid group
> > dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure):
>
> I ran into that recently
When I try to configure ppp I get:
Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ...
chown: root.dip: invalid group
dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure):
Should I simply create the group using "addgroup"? What should the group
ID be?
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote:
> I just installed Debian Linux 1.2 from Infomagic Pack.
> I have a problem I can't fix, maybe you will help me :
> When I start Linux, xdm starts with the graphic banner
> login but I can't log in from it : it always replies
> "login incorrect". I
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote:
>
> > First and foremost - great going guys! But... It saddened me to see
> > no mention of Linus' name in the article. He is more than just a
>
> Neither of Richard Stallman or the GNU team...
Nor any su
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Kendrick Myatt wrote:
> Ok, so somehow I downloaded a lot of stuff I just don't want, like X, emacs,
> TeX, and a host of little things like the little calculator program... I
> fire up Dselect and go to remove, and then it comes back to the menu screen
> with Exit highlighte
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A text based installation of the BASE system (whatever it is) plus X.
> Later we continue the installation under X by just using something like
> xdselect or xdpkg (without cryptic spells, just checkboxes). Of course
> there should be an option for a
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Martin Konold wrote:
> > I have now installed:
> > gcc_2.7.2.1-2.deb
> > g77_0.5.18-2.deb
>
> > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `f771': No such file or
directory
As I understand it, f77 wants gcc 2.7.2 and not gcc 2.7.2.1
I don't know the "correct" solution, but I j
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
> I would greatly appreciate any information or patches. A bug
> report is in the process of being prepared for both the g77 developers
> and the f2c developers. Incidentally, should I send a bug report to
> the Debian developers too?
I should add
On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
> people here are having very serious problems with both g77 and
> f2c: the numbers which come out at the end are different from any
> other architecture we can lay our hands on, i.e. they have declared
> the boxes unfit for numerical calculations.
On 6 Sep 1996, Juri Pakaste wrote:
> Wouldn't comp.os.linux.distrib.debian.* or something similar be
> better? If users of other distributions decide that they'd like to
> have newsgroups too, things would be pretty confusing with
> c.o.l.{debian,redhat,caldera,slackware,craftworks,yggdrasil,wgs
On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> It is also easy to start reading a newsgroup. Many more
> people read a newsgroup than an average mailing list.
[snip]
> Subscribing to a list takes much more effort, which
> reduces the number of participants.
[snip]
> l
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Erik B Andersen wrote:
> XFree86 3.1.2F is out, according to http://www.xfree86.org. I am
> wondering if a
> Debian package of this beta software will be made available. Anyone
> have any
> plans to make this available???
> -Erik
I sure hope so; doesn't 3.1.2E expire Mon
ind it. There is only /usr/doc/copyright/mgetty.
Did you mean /usr/info? That seems to have the same information as Gert's
Postscript file, which is what I used for my successful Slackware
installation. Following that info is complicated a bit by not having
"policy.h".
> David Ga
I have mgetty working on a Slackware system, so I assumed I'd have no
trouble getting it working on a Debian system. Boy, was I wrong.
I have no idea what I'm doing, or why nobody else seems to have trouble.
I couldn't find any debian-specific instructions.
1) using "dpkg --contents mgetty_099.d
Kai Grossjohann writes:
>
> I suggest throwing away the Packages thingy completely and always
> telling dselect to update its info based on the actual contents of the
> directory. People have been hit too often by that problem, I think.
This could be combined with the "update" option in des
Bruce Perens writes:
> I ran a Packages file update yesterday but it apparently did not complete.
> I am running one now.
That should be a pretty popular download. What worries me is whether
the market is going to be flooded with CDROMs with bad Packages files.
With Slackware that always seems
I installed the beta a few weeks ago. I realize that there's a procedure
to upgrade from 0.93 to 1.1, but is there a procedure to upgrade from
the 1.1 beta to 1.1, or do I just grab the packages and Packages.gz?
Will dselect ugrade everything, including dselect itself and the files
that were orig
Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > psfonts
There's gsfonts, fonts for ghostscript. Is that what you mean?
I got some sort of "can't find psfonts" error, I forget the details,
when I was using a bad copy of one of the pack
From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
> packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
> you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall
I get this message daily:
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
Date: Tue, 28 May 96 06:42 EDT
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/find exited with return code 1
/etc/cron.daily/find is;
#! /bin/sh
#
# cron script
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