Re: Locale-related questions

In article Nicolas George wrote: > wchar_t portably. For starters, the i4s at microsoft decided that 64k > characters should be enough for everyone, so if your cross-platform includes > microsoftisms, you can not use wchar_t to represent an Unicode code point. > The i4s at sun had other interest

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

In article Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 06:54:34PM +, Brian wrote: > > There are still users (an example is in > > this thread) who believe ctrl-alt-backspace no longer works in Debian. > > It does. > So it does! Wonder why it didn't work for me on another machine. :( I

Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav

In article rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > I am attempting to recover data from a virus-damaged Windows machine. For > this work, I wish to run debianlive with xfce desktop and clamav. > I found at: > ttps://www.debian.org/CD/live/ > ISO images for Jessie with xfce desktop. > And debianlive incl

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

In article Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > [...] > > > >> No information on dual boot. > > > > If with not Linux, it won't work. > That's news to me. > I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora i

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

In article Richard Owlett wrote: > When searching for more information all I'm finding are > essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" > and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not". One good use is when you're encrypting / (and /home if it's own) and swap. I use luks t

Re: Charsets v grep

In article R. Clayton wrote: > and I've been getting a lot of this lately: > $ grep ^Subject: cbtm > Binary file cbtm matches > whereas before (a month or so ago) I used to get actual matches on std-out. > It's easy enough to work around like so > $ sed -n -e '/^Subject:/p' < cbtm >

Re: how execute a script

In article David Wright wrote: > As for script-file extensions in DOS, there was really only .BAT > wasn't there?, so the idea of distinguishing .bash, .csh, .py, .pl, > .sh, .zsh etc as being inherited from DOS is difficult for me to > understand. Perhaps it's because (MS)DOS begat WINDOWS tha

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

In article Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual partitioning. > > > On a 4k/sect

Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

In article Gene Heskett wrote: > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use 5% > of the disk as a boot partition. I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of 200 MB size. I

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

In article Curt wrote: > https://wiki.debian.org/Grub It seems that page is somewhat outdated/broken: 1. If I follow the "grub2 variants" link below "Up to Debian Lenny" I get "Error two or more packages specified (grub2 lenny)" 2. If I follow the "GRUB 2 variants" link below "Debian Sque

Re: debian-user list problem

In article to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:00:17AM +0200, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > In article Lisi Reisz > > wrote: > > > D'oh! I was forgetting that this list is not subscribers only

Re: debian-user list problem

In article Lisi Reisz wrote: > D'oh! I was forgetting that this list is not subscribers only. Really?! I hope this goes through. I sure have been wanting to reply to some things. I read this as the news group linux.debian.user on aioe.org with tin. Now I hope somebody can tell me if there's

Re: Partitioning questions.

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit prelude.] : How should I do the partition ? i've "read" the Partition : mini-Howto. Therefore I will anyway have: : : '/' <- a root partition, : '/swap' <- a swap partition (32Mo). : : -1- To achieve what I want

Re: 8 GB limit on cfdisk?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : : I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II : 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB. : I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max : number of sectors to 1024. Mine should h

Re: Automatic reply

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > Thanks for your email. This is an automatic reply. Me too. Throwing Muses, Limbo, MartinS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Sound with wine

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > I'm having trouble getting sound to work under wine. : > I've installd libwine0.0.971116_0.0.980601-1.deb : > and wine_0.0.980601-1.deb from slink. : > I downloaded the files ossfree38s9-linux20x.tar.gz and : > ossfree38s-linu

Re: startx giving error message

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : This might sound like a dumb question, but how do you check where a symbolic link : points to? I understand what you're talking about, and I can see X in the : /usr/X11R6/bin directory, but I don't know what to do from there to get it to point : to my

Re: Help w/ Linux install

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I have a question which I can not seem to find an answer from the online : documentation, FAQs, etc. : : I would like to install Linux on a PC which has 3, 2-GB partitions. : Partition C contains my required corporate (ugh) Microsoft Software. : : Parti

Re: user can delete kernel images

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in : /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that : after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments : concerning security. So I tried

Re: persist not working

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : : I use the "persist" option in my pppd to keep my link alive, and it : used to work very well, but lately, sometimes (not always) the link : goes down, and is not restablished again. Any clues why would this : happen? No. Turn on debugging with the de

Re: Compiling a kernel (fwd)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : avail. Who is Manjo? Manoj Srivastava. Maintainer of kernel-package (and perhaps other things as well). Right, MartinS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: How do I - Directory manipulation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : 3 questions : : How do I delete a directory with all subdirectories and files (similar to deltree)? "rm -fr directory". : AFter using emacs some mysterious directories have appeared that I cannot remove : #this dir# How do I get rid of these? This i

Re: Network routing

According to Nils Rennebarth: > On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 09:08:44PM +0200, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm running Debian 1.something. I've some trouble with my network > > setup. > > > > First a picture on my network: > >

Network routing

Hello. I'm running Debian 1.something. I've some trouble with my network setup. First a picture on my network: - eth0 - eth1 - I 192.168.1.2 I <> I 192.168.0.1 I <> I 192.168.0.2 I -I 192.168.1.1 I

Re: umsdos

kernel and what not. > > Thanks for any info or pointers to info. > Jason I've asked the same myself, and got some feedback: - Forwarded message from Giuliano Procida - >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 23 15:02:52 1997 To: Martin Str|mberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:

Re: Help me interpret error messages

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gerdoisa-no-spam wrote: : Also make sure the following directories are set to have a group of "man" : see: chgrp : : root>vdir /var/catman -d : drwxrwxr-x 14 root man 1024 Mar 21 1997 /var/catman : : root>vdir /var/catman : total 12 : drwxrwxr-x 1

Re: Boot Problems

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ Cook wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : I have built a custom kernel (2.0.30) to remove unnecessary file system : support, and add IP Masquerading. I've followed the instructions in : /usr/src/linux/README. I've made a boot floppy with the new kernel, and I : r

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

Hello. I think I see the problem with regard to setuid programs and nfs. It's in the kernel. It's in the file kernel-source-2.0.27/fs/nfs/proc.c. Alas the same code is repeated in several places, so I'm not sure how to fix it: there must be a reason for exact this coding. Does anybody here know

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

[Mailed to debian-user as well as this relevant (bug in my test program).] According to joost witteveen: > Are you sure you didn't have a typo there? didn't you mean > /var/clients/kant/var/spool/cron/atjobs/.SEQ > instead of > /var/spool/cron/.SEQ > > (there's at least a "atjobs" missing). Ah!

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

Oops. Disregard my last message, which didn't contain anything new. I slipped on the keys. According to joost witteveen: > And /var/spool/cron/atjobs is mounted over nfs? Yes, but it's /var that's mounted. On the client (kant, descartes is the server): kant:~> mount [...] descartes.dcd.se:/var/

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

According to joost witteveen: > > According to joost witteveen: > > > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > > > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > > > eighter. > > > > ??? I don't understand. As root: > > kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjob

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

According to joost witteveen: > I don't really think this has anything to do with setuid stuff > or anything, as "ls" running as root itself doesn't see anything > eighter. ??? I don't understand. As root: kant# ls -la /var/spool/cron/atjobs/ total 7 drwx-- 2 daemon daemon 1024 Sep 2

Re: installing twin and other questions

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tmalloy wrote: : I know someone asked about this recently. Sorry for not paying more : attention. I got twin from the caldera archive. It does not seem to have : compiled correctly. Can anyone tell me how they got it up and running? I : am trying to install it to

Re: NFS expert, please diagnose this

Thanks for the response, I've been feeling abandoned lately! According to joost witteveen: > > Appearently, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for > > root from a program that is setuid root, that is on a nfs mounted > > partition fails. > > Does adding a no_root_squash (like be

NFS expert, please diagnose this

I've mailed to debian-user twice earlier about this but I haven't gotten any responses at all. If you know NFS, please try this an tell me if it works for you or not. As it doesn't work for me and I think it wont work for you, I suppose I'd file a bug report but I don't know if it's the nfsd, lib

Re: dpkg & other assorted questions...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jd? wrote: : i have some .deb packkages and cant seem to install them because i get the : following error when i run dpkg -i filename.deb; : : dpkg: parse error, in file/'var/lib/dpkg/updates/0024' near line 1: : newline in field name '#padding" : : i have no idea w

Re: formatted floppy type??

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lucier wrote: : Howdy Will...thanks for the reply. :-) Seems it's just the four 1.44 b= : ase install disks : that don't respond to either: : : mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt : : or : : mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt : : VFS gives an error message stating "Can't

Re: Basic Debian hd mounting...

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lawrence wrote: : Carey Evans wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit.] : > % ls -l /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 269 Sep 12 10:26 /mnt/win95/autoexec.bat : : well not all people can execute/erase files but still not good enough, : peopl

Powerpc: how long until installation is possible?

I've got a friend that has been trying to install Red Hat on his Powerpc. No end of problems there. Anyway I though I'd check out the status of debian for Powerpcs. And perhaps convert my friend... Alas, there are no installation instructions, but there are a lot of debs - hurrrm, how does that co

alien: is it used to install or convert rpms?

Hello. I was reading about running software on clusters of machines. There's (at least) two different ways: PVM and MPI. Neither of them seems to be available as a debian package, but I have found a rpm package of MPI. Now my questions. Is alien supposed to install rpms, or to convert them to d

Re: ftp.debian.org mirror

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Timothy Phan wrote: : Hi, : : I've been doing mirror of off the ftp.cdrom.com for a while now. : Yesterday, I've just found out that this site was not up to today. : So I started to mirror from the ftp.debian.org. I found out that : there were a lot of fil

Re: dpkg-source error ?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marc Fleureck wrote: : Hi, : I ran dpkg-source (dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8) on 3 files: *.diff.gz, *.dsc and : *.orig.tar.gz, as you described in the readme (dpkg-source -x *.dsc). : : Its says: : : "Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC at /usr/bin/dpkg-source line 8. : " BEGIN f

Re: debian-disent

According to Arthur Jerijian: > Er...I immediately unsubscribed from that list because of all the negative > energy that it conveyed. Although I can't recommend it, you can try > sending subscription requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or if that > doesn't work, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I suspected

Problem stat-ing nfs directories (atd and nfs mounted var partition, part 2)

Hello. As some of might have read about a week ago, I thought I had a problem with atd and it's pid file. After recompiling at and hacking a little I've discovered that the problem is in at or perhaps with nfs. You see, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for root from a progra

Re: IP address and ipfwadm

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lawrence wrote: : I am using dialup PPP and need to run ipfwadm everytime I connect to my : ISP. I know that I can put ipfwadm into /etc/rc file. What is the : best/easy way to get the IP address other than using ifconfig or route : (they are not good because the ou

debian-disent

I remember a message saying that a new list debian-disent had been formed. Is that list archived somewhere, like the other debian lists at ? Right, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: configure network

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dada wrote: : how is the script name that Debian uses to configure network? : : ...the script that ask me about how configure network when I installed : Debian 1.3.1 and that create the file /etc/init.d/network. I dont think there is one. To find the files needing a

Re: Compiling TWIN

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Serice wrote: : Has anyone compiled TWIN successfully on a Debian system? : : I've followed the instructions (I'm pretty sure), but I : keep getting errors that ldconfig couldn't find libtwin : during the make process because it is trying to link with : the libr

Re: fdisk vs cfdisk to partition 3.1G drive

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit fdisk vs cfdisk question.] : Now I have /home on a very large separate primary partition, and /usr/local : on another fairly large partition. However, I linked /usr/src to the : directory (in a logical partition mounted as /usr2)

Re: 1st install, dselect error on "at" package, can't go further

[Posted and mailed. Eh - mailed and mailed.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Subject pretty well says it all... even tried both mini and full : installs. Yes but not in any way near enough to make us able to help you: you say what goes wrong but not the error messages. : Installing f

Re: Linux floppy disk problem

[Posted and mailed - erh! Mailed and mailed.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I'm trying to install Debian Linux 1.3.1 and everything works fine until : I try : to make a boot disk from the install menu. The installation program : prompts me to insert a blank floppy in the drive and I

atd and nfs mounted var partition

Hello. I seem to have a problem with atd and its pid file (/var/run/atd.pid). I have a client that mounts all directories from a server. I can't find any differences except that at's pid file seems to be empty on the client, while for example crond's pid file does contain something. Does anybody

Re: How to migrate a Debian system to another hard drive?

Bruce Perens wrote: [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > cd /old_partition > tar cf - . | (cd /new_partition; tar xvlpf -) > Watch out so you don't run into an infinite loop: Suppose that you mount the target disk on /mnt, then "cd / tar cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar xvlpf -)" would copy some thin

Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes

Hello. > > I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine > with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS > partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows: > > >Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1

Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug? + a note for the list maintainers

Hello. First a little note if you have seen this message already: I'm having problems getting the mail go futher than the network the machine I'm on, so sorry if you see this for the nth time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. > > I noticed tha

Re: which..

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Maor) said: > > Argh! What a can of worms this has opened up. I've tested which on > several other systems and also looked at the source of the 2 examples > posted. The problem is that they all have DIFFERENT behavior. > > What do you do given two arguments, "which ls ca

Re: which..

On the subject on which, why not use: -- which script for bash starts -- /bin/tcsh # or where-ever tcsh is which $* # or what-ever prints all input parameters in tcsh -- which script for bash ends -- As you all surely understand I'm not well versed in the writing of shell scripts, but hopefull