On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
>
> > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching
> > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse
> >
RedHat uses a different program.
But Suse uses the
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:06:33AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> At 05:19 PM 05/17/2000 +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> >On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> > > Why are man pages abandoned for info?
> >
> >Only FSF do that. Debi
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:50:43AM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Why are man pages abandoned for info?
Only FSF do that. Debian _requires_ manpages for all.
> Info requires emacs knowledge to navigate, and are text only. Man at least
> has xman viewer.
ever tryed man -X??
if it's too
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:24:51AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> While it may seem unbelievable to some, one of our dialup servers at
> work still requires SLIP, as opposed to PPP. So I was a bit disturbed
> to see that the "dip" package disappeared from potato upon my latest
> apt-get upgrade.
Bu
HI,
I need to set up an IRC proxy to go around firewall limitation.
On various irc sites I wasn't able to find any info.
Can anybody help me, maybe just pointing to TFM?
Thanx,
fab
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
>
> [anything]: nothing appropriate
and when you try man [anything] what do you get?
If you get a manpage then it is the db to be rebuilt (mandb -c from
root),
On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as
> > a highligted and not hypens. What would be causing this? The
> > relevant p
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:20:42PM -0500, EXT Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> I believe there is a limitation with the 2.0.X kernel which prevents dhcp
> from working
> if you have more than one ethernet card. There may be a work-around (other
> than
> upgrading your kernel and everything else) but I
Hi all,
anybody has a Compaq Prosigna 500, and can tell me what type of
network card is there?
I've tryed to install an "empty" one, but I cannot make the network.
Any hint?
thanx,
fab
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Hi,
is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the
mouse under X?
I have found it for gpm, but I couldn't find mention in the X
manuals.
thanx,
fab
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[please reply to me or to debian-devel, as I am subscribed only to it]
Hi everybody,
If I remember well, some time ago someone posted his results on a port
of dpkg to HP-UX.
Now I have to evaluate packaging systems for that platform, and I would
like to push a Free solution, a debian one specific
On 7 Jan, XRD Lab wrote:
>
> How do I update the database ...
man -u
(mandb should anyway run weekly at 6 am), but your problem 1) is related
to your solution to 2).
>
> 2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the
> following line to /etc/profile
>
> MANPATH=$MANP
Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
>
> > : export MANOPT=-Pless
> >
> > Is there an advantage to this way, as opposed to setting PAGER to
> > /usr/bin/less ?
>
> no, not really. i do this only because if i set PAGER, then elm
> will use $PAGER instead of it
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> Yes, but there is more to this. The disk, floppy and cdrom devices
> (I mean the /dev/* files for them) have permissions 0660 on a default
> Debian system, so that normal users can't access them. The solution
> to this is _not_ to make the permissions 0666, but to make t
Timothy Phan wrote:
>
> What do I suppose to put in the /etc/fstab so that any
> user can mount the floppy disk with just 'mount /floppy'
> and all user can access it.
>
I have in my /etc/fstab :
/dev/fd0/amsdos user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0/fd ext2
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
>
> Indeed. I never quite understood this strategy of putting things
> under /opt. Once I had problems on a SUN because the system
> couldn't handle the length of the PATH an MANPATH variables anymore:
> every package gets its own bin, lib and man directory. We should
Debian List wrote:
>
> Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got:
> dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains
> object (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory
> (mgetty-1.1.8.orig)
This version of mgetty is in "hamm", which needs an upgraded dpkg
Daniel Martin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Andrew Akins wrote:
>
> > Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in
> > @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38.
> >
> > Any idea what this means? Any suggest
David R. Kohel wrote:
>
> checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers
> /usr/X11R6/include
> checking for dlfcn.h... (cached) no
> checking for main in -lX11... (cached) no
> checking for main in -lXext... (cached) no
> checking for main in -lXpm... (cached) no
> checking for main
James Dietrich wrote:
>
> Sorry to answer my own post, but I figured out a solution to the
> problem:
> Put the following script in some directory such as /usr/bin and
> while you are at the messed up terminal, type
>cat /usr/bin/fixvt.sh
> if /usr/bin is the path to the file and fixvt.sh
Christian Leutloff wrote:
>
> Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops!
>
> me too - after upgrading from 1.3.1 to unstable. Have you upgraded
> too?? Do you know which package!? I've updated a whole bunch of
> packages 8-(
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Since last evening I have been getting segmention faults in man and
> in apropos. Can anyone explain to me what that means and how I fix
> it? Do I have to reinstall?
No need to reinstall.
One of your database files (indeb.bt on each subdir in /var/catman) went
corru
joost witteveen wrote:
>
> Being a Linux enthousiast, I also like to think that AIX has that
> additional field, because AIX actually does "wait for IO", i.e., while
> waiting for IO it doesn't do run any other jobs in the background.
It's the exact opposite: when a process is "waiting for IO" (f
Civ Kevin F. Havener wrote:
>
> Dave,
>
> I can appreciate the fact that you don't like Bruce's handling of the
> project. I do like the job that Bruce is doing, however. I'll stick
> with Bruce until the normal time for succession comes, and probably
> even after that.
>
> But please, by all
Andy Dougherty wrote:
>
> Groff-1.10 had a couple of problems in some of the macro packages.
> [...]
> (This may all be corrected in 1.3.1 -- I don't have access to a
> 1.3.1 system now to check. I know it's been reported to the groff
> maintainer, but I haven't checked whether the groff-1.11 fix
Andy Spiegl wrote:
>
> This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too.
>
> My problem is that - when running "man -a" as I always do - I often
> get to see man pages multiple times.
Yes, and if you skip one choosing Ctrl-D its entry disappear from the
next run (and from the whatis dat
Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger)
> > partition and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc.
> > The man page for mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2...
> > but I don't have i
Young wrote:
>
> I think it added xbooks but I don't believe I added xbase again which
> I would expect to change everything. It replaced many of the files X
> uses for configuration.
>
It shouldn't.
But under Debian all configuration files are in /etc (and those for X11
are in /etc/X11 ).
Did y
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> You might want to refer to bug reports #10483, #11278, etc at
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lman-db.html - the maintainer is
> aware of the problem, and I hope he figures out a fix soon.
>
I have all the reports, but I wasn't able to reproduce the problem in
any way.
I'
Dave Restall wrote:
>
> > Please enlighten me as to the meaning of "hamm" ?
> >
> Because this question or a variance on it is asked SO OFTEN,
> shouldn't the people who decide these things be thinking
> "Hey perhaps we're doing something wrong here ?".
>
Hamm, bo, rex are codenames.
These are "
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The purpose of /var/tmp is to unload the possible activity and
> space requirements from root.
/var/tmp was created after /usr/tmp, to let /usr be read only.
In fact /usr/tmp is now a symlink to ../var/tmp
/tmp is to be considered less persistent than /var/tmp : idea
Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> 2. create a shell script called lesspipe.sh in /usr/local/bin.
> ...[short and rich example]...
> this can be extended to cover many more file types.
>
I agree.
As a suggestion for including in the less package (maybe in example) I
attach my /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh, wh
--- Begin Message ---
The man package that Debian uses doesn't need the makewhatis command.
Debian 1.1.xx had a bug in apropos, that is fixed in Debian 1.2
You should upgrade, but I fear that this upgrade will affect a lot of
programs, not only apropos ...
I don't know anything about the other qu
Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> When I send a message via locally, over my own network, procmail
> seems to process the file, but when mail comes in via 'popclient'
> from my ISP, it doesn't seem to be running the .forward file.
> Does anyone have this same situation.
> Maybe I am beating my head aga
Heiko R. Selber wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>
> > On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote:
> > >
> > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it?
> >
> > It should be created automaticall
On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and
> the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages.
>
> (I use Debian 1.1.4)
>
> Look at this:
>
> BEGIN pretty good example
> rudi:~
Dirk Luetjens wrote:
> Hello
>
> I get an interesting error when using netscape in combination with the
> wg15-locale package and LANG set to de_DE.
>
> Does anybody has an idea, how to solve this, without losing the
> support for the german language?
If you don't need (as I think) the language
Sorry for being late, but I read debian-user-digest ...
I have also missed a post with a script, I suppose as reading Bernd's
reply on debian-devel.
Paul Seelig wrote:
> How do i generate a whatis database in Debian Linux?
>
the manpage for whatis says:
To produce an old style text wha
Raymond Penners wrote:
>
> Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several
> programs such as "vim" (3.0-5), "joe"/"jmacs" (2.8-4) complain about a
> missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga).
Here we are.
ncurses is termcap compatible but doesn't provide a termc
Raymond Penners wrote:
>
> I do have "/usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga". But it is not listed in
> "/etc/terminfo/a" (here only "ansi" is present).
I think it is there only because it is needed during the installation
(and it belongs to ncurses-base). /usr/lib/terminfo/a/ansi is a symlink
ti /etc/termin
Raymond Penners wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My newly installed Debian system doesn't seem to recognize less
> standard terminal emulations. For example, Amiga terminal emulation
> (export TERM=amiga) is not present.
You should install ncurses-term to get /usr/lib/terminfo/a/amiga
You should also NOT hav
Ezio Manini wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> > German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian
> > (manpages-it). (just to be precisian :-)
>
> Oh! where the italian one?
>
I wasn't so precisian, uh? :-)
ftp://ftp.debian.org/de
Christian Hudon wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there are French manpages coming up somewhere
> in the pipeline?
>
I have no news of French manpages on the table of translations that I
have on
http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/en/docs.en.html
this is probably my fault, because I don't speak
Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
>
> The man package is in section "doc".
> You'll also need to install the manpages (in English,
> German (man-NNN-de), and Spanish (man-NNN-es)).
German (manpages-de), Spanish (manpages-es), and Italian (manpages-it).
(just to be precisian
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