On Thursday 28 March 2002 19:20, Dale Hair wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 13:14, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > Before spending too much time reading dated docs, is their a
> > current Debian-specific howto/doc on setting up printing?
> >
> > I installed magicfilter, and now looking at CUPS, but not
> > s
On Monday 25 March 2002 22:07, Jerome Acks Jr wrote:
> Make sure ~/.gnome/sound/system reads:
>
> [settings]
> start_esd=true
> event_sounds=true
>
> Make sure that sound files you are trying to play for the
> different events actually are installed and that the user has
> proper permissions to rea
On Friday 22 March 2002 19:19, justin cunningham wrote:
> Hi Jesse, I just used your walkthrough to compile a custom
> 2.4.18 kernel and it worked great except you forgot to mention
> using fakeroot with the make files. Thankfully some helpful
> folks from the debian list stepped up to help out.
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:16, Chaz Kiser wrote:
> I'm totally and thoroughly new to Debian, is there any books
> out there that would be appropriate for a Debian newbie, or a
> Linux newbie in general?
>
> Any sites?
>
> Chaz Kiser
If your running testing:
apt-get install newbiedoc
otherw
On Monday 11 February 2002 21:22, Neal Lippman wrote:
[...]
> At a bash prompt, I can issue either:
> cp "/mount/windows/spaced name/*" target
> OR
> cp /mount/windows/spaced\ name/* target
> and all works fine.
>
> However, from within a bash script, something like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sourcedir=/moun
Does anybody know which package contains a symbol font with
greek letters? Here's what I have on my box:
dpkg --get-selections | grep font
freefontinstall
gsfonts install
gsfonts-x11
lib.tgz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 00:55, Jason Majors wrote:
> I have the following as my /etc/dhcpd.conf file:
> # dhcpd.conf
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> option domain-name "kwiqsilver.org";
> option domain-name-servers 68.2.16.30, 68.1.208.30;
>
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> default-lease-
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 22:40, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:38:38PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> > I have my network set up to use dhcp. The clients can
> > connect, ping, ssh, etc. to the server, but they can't
> > connect beyond my gateway. The only part of my static
> > netw
On Thursday 24 January 2002 20:29, Jeff Vincent wrote:
> I had our dynamic dns working a few weeks ago, but I'm not
> sure when it stopped and can't figure out what is failing.
>
> I have a subnet X.Y.A.0/22 (X.Y.A.0/255.255.252.0) with static
> DNS entries for each address I have available within
On Wednesday 16 January 2002 15:12, Charles Baker wrote:
> --- Camilux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi ppl, just wanted to know if theres a "Debian" way
> > of upgradind
> > the kernel as well.. or is it still manually
> > downloading, unzipping,
> > etc etc?
> >
> > thanks!
> > Camilo
>
> Debian
On Sunday 13 January 2002 23:40, Brian Lavender wrote:
> I configured my Debian box so it uses dhcp, but now I want to
> change it to a static IP. Is there a netconfig utility for
> Debian, or do I just have to edit /etc/network/interfaces
> manually?
>
> brian
If you're using Woody try installing
On Sunday 13 January 2002 22:03, Paul E Condon wrote:
> Sorry about original post. Fumble fingers sent message before
> it was finished.
> It should have contained a the following lines from the
> README:
>
>If you are unsure about the exact location of the files on
> the rsync server, you can
On Sunday 13 January 2002 02:35, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/examples.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/details.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html#tips
Oops. Sorry, wrong address.
Jesse
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/examples.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/details.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/dns-caveats.html#tips
On Thursday 10 January 2002 23:27, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at
> > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html
> >
> > I would appreciate it if the vim guru&#x
On Thursday 10 January 2002 19:21, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> --On Friday, January 11, 2002 00:19:57 +0100 martin f krafft
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[2002.01.10.1834 +0100]:
> >> Does the RPM build process have an equivalent of
> >> dpkg-shlibdeps?
On Thursday 10 January 2002 15:49, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:35:44PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> | I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at
> | http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html
>
> Is this a complete rewrite of Romain's Vi I
I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html
I would appreciate it if the vim guru's would take a look at it
and let me know if I've made any errors or have any suggestions.
What I really need is a co-author who can fill in the gaps. An
On Saturday 29 December 2001 18:19, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.30.0002
+0100]:
> i am not giving up. i can't, it's got no ISA slots. otherwise,
> i would have used the SB16 i still have (which, mind me, is
> still a very good piece of hardware from times
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:58, Sam Varghese wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 01:20:55PM +0100, Romain Lerallut
wrote:
> > Thus spake wsa on Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:56:06PM +0100:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm just trying to build my second kernel...
> > > Last time i did it, the kernel-how-to way
On Monday 24 December 2001 12:37, Martin Emrich wrote:
> Hi All !
>
> When newbies ask something, they are often asked to RTFM...
>
> But where do I find the Information ? Very often, neiter #man
> foo nor the contents of the /usr/doc/foo are very helpful.
> Where is aditional documentation usually
On Saturday 22 December 2001 14:19, Blake Thomson wrote:
> I am new to linux, so excuse any stupid, and obvious
> questions. I have downloaded all three of the Debian for
> PowerPC CD's, version 2.2, potato. either i made my cd's
> wrong, or something else, but i cannot boot off the CD. when i
> st
On Saturday 22 December 2001 14:02, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Dear People,
>
> I recently installed Debian Woody on a IBM Netvista 6792. The
> network card is the Intel 100 Pro VE. The standard driver for
> this appears to be the eepro100. I'm using the standard kernel
> shipped with Debian Potato/Wood
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 15:39, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:21:01PM +0100, Martin Emrich wrote:
> | Hi All !
> |
> | Today, something _really_ weird happened on my computer:
> |
> | I was writing some tex file in emacs, and suddenly, a little
> | blue Fish swam over my Display (no
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 17:05, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 16:38:44 -0500, Phoenix Dreamscape
wrote:
> > First of all, i should specify that i'm a linux newbie. I
> > can get around in linux, but don't know how to do any of the
> > complicated stuff (i.e. compiling a
On Saturday 15 December 2001 15:43, Paul Scott wrote:
> dman wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:01:22PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
> > | I'm building a new woody system. I just tried to add
> > | GnuCash using dselect, but searching for cash in dselect
> > | did not turn up anything.
> >
> > It us
On Saturday 15 December 2001 15:25, Paul E Condon wrote:
> This is the second to last sentence from
> /usr/share/doc/task-newbie-help/README.Debian on my newly
> installed Potato:
>
> All the standard docs are available if you install the
> task-doc package, so do a apt-get install task-doc now if
On Friday 14 December 2001 08:36, Matt Chapman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for using the wrong mailer earlier
>
> Does anyone have a working rsync.conf that mirrors only intel
> and sparc? If so can I get a copy? I have tried several but I
> still manage to download a whole bunch of stuff that I do
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 00:37, Gong Zeng wrote:
> Actually, I did both, i.e. adding the non-root user to both
> 'dialout' and 'dip'. The problem is still there. Could it be
> that I should not add the non-root user to the group manually
> and I should do it thru pppconfig instead? I couldn
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:10, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:52:55PM +0100, Jean-Philippe
Gu?rard wrote:
> > Le 2001-12-04 16:23:39 +0200, Johann Spies écrivait :
> > > I am trying to install X11 on a machine in preparation to
> > > show linux to other users. At the moment
On Sunday 02 December 2001 15:19, Robinder Bains wrote:
> > Run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 again, and when you get
> > to the section about "Frame Buffer Device" answer "No"
> >
> > Then try to startx again and see if it starts normally.
> >
> > --
> > -Brian Clark
>
> O.k now I get this...
On Friday 30 November 2001 18:02, nate wrote:
>
>
> > Hi List members,
> >
> > I have just finished a custom kernel the debian way (I
> > think, "make-kpkg", etc, "dpkg -i"). And now I want to get
> > rid of the old kernel (references). And I am not sure if I
> > should just delete them with o
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:36, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 November 2001 04:22, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> > > Looks like /var/lib/mailman/data got corrupted. The file
> > > was
> >
> > simply too big and I can't do anything about it. Delet
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 04:22, Chad C. Walstrom wrote:
> > Looks like /var/lib/mailman/data got corrupted. The file was
> simply too big and I can't do anything about it. Deleting
> doesn't work, etc. Anyone have pointers on how to recover from
> such a problem?
to delete it:
cp /dev/null
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato.
> Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After
> some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-(
>
> So, I thought I would just delete the
On Sunday 25 November 2001 19:18, John Griffiths wrote:
> At 07:07 PM 11/25/01 -0500, Chris Jenks wrote:
> >At 07:00 PM 11/25/01, John Griffiths wrote:
> >> >Look inside the directory. There should be a file called
> >> >INSTALL or README. Use "vi" to open it and do what it
> >> > says.
> >> >
>
On Sunday 25 November 2001 17:41, Phil Beder wrote:
> I downloaded Netscape browser 6.2 from the netscape site in my
> windows partition as I dont have any means to browse the web
> in linux yet. [snip to end of line, jg]
That you are aware of :)
> toward the directory in my windows partition wi
On Thursday 22 November 2001 14:46, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Jesse Goerz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> > On Wednesday 21 November 2001 20:11, Josh Everist wrote:
> > > Well I can take responsibility for the messages from
> > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', how
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 20:11, Josh Everist wrote:
> Well I can take responsibility for the messages from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however if the Debian User mailing
> list didn't send out viruses in the first place, there
> wouldn't be the automated reply.
I think you mean outlook express 5;
On Friday 16 November 2001 15:03, Patrik Modesto wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:16:37AM +1000, Jason Currey wrote:
> > A GUI installer might not make install easier, but it gives
> > first time linux users a much better feeling about
> > installing the product.
>
> Yes! But it makes it a bit e
On Thursday 15 November 2001 15:12, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 15-Nov-01 Glen Snyder wrote:
> > I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work,
> > which is running potato. If I try to open a pdf with
> > acroread, the text repeats itself and then wraps over onto
> > itself, making the docu
On Thursday 15 November 2001 11:19, Pawel wrote:
> Could sb help me and tell(write) where is HOWTO about makeing
> deb packages from source ?
Try these for quick reference:
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/build-source.html
http://people.debian.org/~mrd/deb-ref/apt-dpkg-ref.html
And check
On Thursday 15 November 2001 10:10, Glen Snyder wrote:
> I've only seen this problem on one computer I use at work,
> which is running potato. If I try to open a pdf with acroread,
> the text repeats itself and then wraps over onto itself,
> making the document unreadable (this is with any pdf file
On Saturday 10 November 2001 09:23, Stan Brown wrote:
> I've looked at the Progeny page on this, and it looks a bit
> scary to atempt on a machine that I need to keep working.
>
> Can anyone thta has atempted this give me some feedback?
> Sucess, _and_ failure stories apprecited. Also some cometary
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 15:31, Jason Machacek wrote:
> Is there any way to make the ls command permanently use the
> --color option?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Machacek
Usually the default install of debian already includes a bunch
of alias options in the file located at /home/you/.bashrc.
Here
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 14:10, David Z Maze wrote:
> ol1 writes:
> ol1> Also sprach Preben Randhol:
> PR> Which installer should I recommend to a beginner of
> Debian (and Linux?). PR>
> PR> I remember I saw somewhere on the web an article that
> covered a lot of PR> debian installers, bu
On Monday 05 November 2001 15:55, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to clone the root partition of a
> Debian Linux installation. The installation is pretty small
> and hosted on a small, PC-104 based system that has only a
> root partition and runs without swap. I would like to
On Friday 19 October 2001 03:59, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Check out Mondo. There is also a script that was written and
> put out on the list a few months back that tarred/gzipped to a
> directory and then burned the tars onto CD you you wished.
>
> Lance
>
> > > I would like to periodically (weekl
I'm getting a cache initialization error which is not allowing me to use
apt-get or any of the package tools unless my source lists only have local
entries. I tried doing apt-cache gencaches but that didn't work. After
reading the man pages I can't seem to find a hint as
how to fix this. Doe
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On Sunday 22 April 2001 08:13, David Raeker-Jordan wrote:
> Jesse
>
> In "Making sure you have everything you need," you wrote:
>
> "This should create a directory called kernel-source-2.2.19. Inside that
> directory you should find another called Docu
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I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies compile custom
kernels using kernel-package. I'd really appreciate any and all comments,
suggestions, additions, subtractions you may have. (constructive
welcomed, the rest accepted)
You ca
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On Tuesday 17 April 2001 11:08, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jesse Goerz wrote:
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> > I'm trying to recompile a kernel but keep
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I'm trying to recompile a kernel but keep getting this error trying to use
make xconfig:
storm:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts kconfig.tk
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-
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I wrote a basic document intended to help Debian newbies find ways in which
they can get information to solve problems they have with Debian. I'd really
appreciate any and all comments, suggestions, additions, subtractions you
guys may have. (funny
On Saturday 03 March 2001 10:02, you wrote:
> On Saturday 03 March 2001 13:46, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> > I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what
> > everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking
> > for somethi
I'm looking to buy a new video and sound card and I was wondering what
everyone recommends to get for Debian 2.2r2. Specifically, I'm looking for
something which is easy to install and setup.
TIA,
Jesse
P.S. I'm not on the list please cc me.
I'm trying to help a friend of mine install Debian 2.2r0 onto an IBM Thinkpad
365XD. It boots the rescue disk just fine using the default options, but
when I try to boot the second floppy (root.bin) it gives me the following
error:
VM: do_try_to_free_pages
and then something about modprobe f
will trillich wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 02:11:12PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
> > > I setup an rsync mirror of the kde2 site for my home network. I was
> > > wondering how to set it up so I can apt-get from workstations in my
> > > network the packages off my rsync mirror. Has anyone do
I setup an rsync mirror of the kde2 site for my home network. I was
wondering how to set it up so I can apt-get from workstations in my
network the packages off my rsync mirror. Has anyone done this? Any
pointers for me?
TIA,
Jesse
Does it matter what order if statements are in a .forward file? If not,
how is the priority of the conditionals determined?
TIA,
Jesse
I've set up fetchmail to grab mail from 2 ISP's and send the mail to exim.
The mail is then run through my .forward file. After that I've been
accessing the mail (which is on my server) from my workstation on another
computer. I'm currently trying both balsa (stable version) and Netscape
mes
I use the script here:
http://firewall.langistix.com
Download the script and read the README/INSTALL file. It's fairly easy
to setup. The page is even labeled firewalling for dummies.
Jesse
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:02:14 Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I have spent much of the day getting more and mo
This just happened to a guy on our local LUG list. It was an I/O or
interrupt port conflict. He just changed the setting by adding this line
in /etc/lilo.conf:
append="ether=IRQ,I/O"
where IRQ and I/O are your settings.
If you run:
cat /proc/ioports
cat /proc/interrupts
You ought to be able
http://kde.tdyc.com
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:47:18 Dale Kosan wrote:
> Hello,have been trying to install kde2 but apt keeps telling me I have
> an error in line 28.I put the line in that I seen posted here but no
> go.Can someone post the line or point me to the site where I can find
> out how to co
I have my two machines setup. One Debian server, one Debian workstation.
The server is called server.mynetwork.net and the workstation is called
ws.onmynetwork.net. I have pointed my email client (balsa) on
ws.onmynetwork.net at server.onmynetwork.net but for some reason exim is not
relaying
On Sunday 17 December 2000 14:08, Phil Brutsche wrote:
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> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
>
> > I have the same issues. I plan on using NFS and exporting my home
> > directory. Will this be a problem just using the defau
I'm using IMAP for my mail and had a few questions about exim.
I noticed in /usr/share/doc/exim/README.Debian has a short little example of
.forward files. Do .forward files have to be used on a per user basis or can
I put the files somewhere where it is globally used?
What are .forwared files
On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:57, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Sample config: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/exim.conf
>
I noticed my exim.conf is different than yours. Specifically, after the
received_header_text part you have:
sender_verify = true
receiver_verify = true
local_interfaces = 12
On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:57, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> > I'm trying to setup a server on my home network and I need some advice
> > on how to setup exim.
>
> Sample config: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/exim.conf
>
> > Here's my network config:
> > One Debian server, one debian workstation
Mein Name ist Deutsch aber Ich spreche nur ein bischen. Nicht genug fur
diese Gesprachsstoff. Es tut mir leid.
Jesse
On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:30, Walther, Christoph wrote:
> Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause.
> Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.:
> 06151/818-5593
I'm trying to setup a server on my home network and I need some advice on how
to setup exim.
Here's my network config:
One Debian server, one debian workstation, fiance's winbox. I use a 56k
modem to connect to the internet. (Currently only 3 users, root, me, and
fiance)
I'm trying to keep al
Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input
on how it is.
Jesse
On Sunday 03 December 2000 19:12, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> Anyone know where to get kde2.deb from? I added to my sources-list the
> line shown on the kde website:
> debian-user@lists.debian.org
> deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde2
> But this returns errors..
This error is the key! Either the web
Excellent. Thanks for the pointers.
Jesse
On Monday 20 November 2000 17:55, Colin Watson wrote:
> Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I downloaded the source of a program and did ./configure. I am ready to
> > do make on it but I thought I had heard you can make
I downloaded the source of a program and did ./configure. I am ready to do
make on it but I thought I had heard you can make a debian package out of it.
Is this true? If it is, how can I do it?
Jesse
On Sunday 19 November 2000 22:11, Timmy Douglas wrote:
> Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > * How about something explaining the mail system? Explain MTAs, MUAs,
> > the role of procmail. Or how about giving some explanations for typical
> > setups and how a newbie would configure thei
I'm trying to compile gnucash on a Potato system and I get this error:
debian-mobile:/usr/local/gnucash-1.4.8# ./configure --host=i386-linux
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether
Uhh... In my opinion...
>As a provocation it served its purpose. However I admit that I was unfair.
>But I still think that my question for a more in-depth HOWTO is a valid one
>
> Some people suggest that I should read the developer's or packaging
> manuals or even the source. But I am not a
Our local LUG is doing installfests once a month and it seems I'm the only
Debian user in the whole bunch (the damn heretics!;-)
I would like to get some advice on this:
I'm trying to create a bare bones system with all the things a new Linux user
would be semi-familiar with. (i.e. Netscape, K
===On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:15:55AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any servers (web hosts or the like) that run Debian?
> > I noticed most run RedHat, but I am not sure why exactly. Any
> > explanation?
>
> I kno
et on an isp i always drill their support and administrative
> staff on technical issues before i even consider using them. ones that
> don't measure up don't get my business and yes i will pay 2-3x+ more for a
> isp that is good then dirt cheap or free for one that is bad (sho
I'm trying to contact the sys-admin for my ISP because I don't like the
security they use for uploading personal web pages. (They use plain text ftp,
which is bad enough, but no, they have to do one better, they don't allow you
to even change your username/password so anyone on the network can sni
Try going to www.smoothwall.org. It's a firewall distribution. My local LUG
just had a class on how to install it. It is *amazingly* easy to configure.
The only catch is it "takes over the system" so you need an extra computer.
The beauty is it'll run on a 386 with 8 meg (so the web site claim
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote:
> Jesse Goerz wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a
> > variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've
&
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, David Z. Maze wrote:
> Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> JG> I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some
> JG> problems. When I type help it says:
> JG>
> JG> "Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt&q
I just installed the Vim editor but seem to be having some problems. When I
type help it says:
"Sorry, help file "/usr/share/vim/doc/help.txt" not found"
I tried typing help version5 and it says:
No tags file
Sorry, no help for version5
Am I missing a configuration file? I installed the v
I'm trying to write a script and as part of it I need to change the "/" in a
variable to a "." and then put it right back into another variable. I've tried
using sed but can't seem to grip these regular expressions 8-(. Here's what I
got so far:
echo $variable_before | sed s///./ variable_after
I've created a backup script and would like some feedback/help on it. Any tips
or
pointers would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to use/hack it on your own.
here it is:
<-- Begin Script -->
#!/bin/bash
# Many thanks to Robb Kidd who brought up the question of backup
# strategies on the Debi
apt-getable on CD
isn't a native .deb or you made a src package into a deb yourself)
The scripts are dpkg-scanpackages and dpkg-scansources. I believe they are
part of the dpkg-dev package.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> That was exactly what I was looking for.
>
> T
> I'll just have to learn how to install Debian the hard way -- I've
> tried 3 times so far : slink and now potato. With Potato I've gotten
> X-Windows up - but I can't connect to the internet (WVDial fails with
> my ISP) and I can't print (the LP module wouldn't install during the
> installat
Awesome. I've been trying to develop a good backup strategy for my own system.
This will help immensly. Thanks for posting!
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:08:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
That was exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks,
Jesse
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Robb Kidd wrote:
> Robb Kidd wrote:
> >
> > Jesse Goerz wrote:
> > >[...] What I really want to do is
> > > create "custom" CD's with the programs I
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Jesse Goerz wrote:
> > 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my
> > sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone
> > know or have a source of information for this?
>
> Yo
On the debian website there is a FAQ-o-matic which covers this. I just
checked and it seemed to be down but it might be up by the time you
get this. It's in the documentation section.
Jesse
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Marco Herrn wrote:
> I use the potato distribution from LinuxTag 2000.
> If I instal
I just upgraded to Debian 2.2 and...
1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my
sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone
know or have a source of information for this?
2. What exactly does the path structure have to be in order
to make "any" cd apt-g
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, George Bonser wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Mark Simos wrote:
> > I am looking to put together a Debian based firewall and a mail server
> > -how bad of an idea is it to host them on the same machine?
> >(please explain how dumb it is, if so)
> >
> > How much power would
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, P.J.Walsh wrote:
> dpkg is choking on some upgrades, showing libdb.so.3 missing... dpkg
> -S doesn't help. To what does it belong?
To find out which package it belongs to go to www.debian.org and go to the
packages page. You can look up which package it belongs to.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> I was walking my gf through an install of Debian (it didn't scare her,
> and she's no techie), and everything went fine until she tried
> installing some stuff.
>
> Installing task-x-window-system basically choked, and now she is left
> with a bunch of
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 07:37:28PM -0400, Jim Lisi wrote:
> > > Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > > Anyway, if anybody wants to give it a whirl, I'm open to some
> > > beta-testing.
> > >
> > > - Joe
> >
> > Sounds interesting, I'd be willing to beta-test it.
>
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