On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote:
>
> I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any
> documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any
> help would be much appreciated.
dpkg --install filename
while your at it have aread of http:/
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Both ftp1.us.debian.org and mirror.aarnet.edu.au seem to have
Have you tried purging the cache and apt-get updating again? It is not
the first time I have seen this with ftp.questnet.net.au
(mirror.aarnet.edu.au) if it continues email
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> > Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began:
> > I noticed that "startx" disappeared!
>
> I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this
> list that the slink X packages were severely broke
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Imran Geriskovan wrote:
> I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux
> Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc..).
> When it comes to "Install Base System" dinstall ask me the path of
> "base2_0.tgz", I provide it, then it
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote:
> Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better
> connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard
> another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only
> get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is t
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andreas Neukoetter wrote:
> is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ??
> i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on
> the last (official) cd.
> i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote:
> I´m having a problem in configuring a mail client, that we can resume
> this way: in a client machine i have to configure the mail client to
> access the mail server, so what are the files to check it out??
which Client? it make all the di
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape.
> Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if
> it was over 50% full?
>
> Do this instead:
>
> tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/thedirectory
>
> where /dev/st0 is the
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink
> thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me...
Nope, No problems here :) I did have some probs with the change from
1.1 to 1.2 (otherwise know as 2.0), they arose from the change in the
conf file. have you tr
> Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an
> ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed
> out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A
> 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me "no mail for root"
> but I don'
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote:
>
> I just wonder when a freeze is announced, a lot of people load up
> their systems from unstable to give it a good workout. You might consider
> this a wide but not ubiquitou
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote:
> That turned out to be the problem. I thought SURE I had that package on
> "hold" in dselect but I must have made a slip-up. For all practical
> purposes 1.3-29 should be considered FATAL. Maybe Debian was a bit
> premature in its freeze announcement ;)
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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Shin Ogino wrote:
> After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I
> am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its
> password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c
> to kill process.
This problem has been rai
On 18 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Nikolai" == Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Nikolai> This means that you will need to use the ipchains package
> Nikolai> (not yet debianisedq) to do firewalling/mas
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since
> 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use
> IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken
> ipfwadm it isn't possible t
While in the process of testing a little script I wrote to do system
updates via apt-get I found a curious little problem:
child process exited abnormally
now I did some investigating under the shell that the scrip is written
for (tclsh) and found that no matter what I did apt-get always causes
t
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote:
> I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have
> recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the
> scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run
> windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> I want to change the type of hda1 from hurd to swap (or hurd swap
> if such a beast exists). Will doing this erase all the data on my disk?
hell yes :) well changing the type ID won't but if you intend to use the
partition then you will have to do a
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> How should I proceed to get the Ethernet working? I would prefer to have
> it already during the initial installation, so I can install using FTP
> and NFS.
well the first question is do you know if there is any linux support
for the card at all? if the
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> Yes I did compile it w/ module support. I want to make it work, or find out
> why it does not work. No hacks please (-:
ahh yes you did module support, but there are 2 other options that go
with modules, allow me to past from a make menuconfig
[*] Ena
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:
> My work machine is unable to load modules via kerneld. The file /etc/modules
> has the "auto" line uncommented. What else can I do?
Do you have a kernel with support for the auto loading of modules?
Failing that just write a script whic will insmod the releva
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Bob Eidt wrote:
> I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non-
> linux partitions and have tried both using "pppconfig" and manually
> editing the provider files as indicated in "install.txt". FTP is the only
> method to my disposal of enhancing my in
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chesshome wrote:
> I need to istall the ppp kernel module can someone tell me how to do that?
insmod ppp
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Steven Udell wrote:
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.# netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> on each one.. but this is where I am
I'd add broadcast 192.168.0.255 as force of habit :)
> I need to edit /etc/ resolv.conf & hosts and then
> add route.. is this it? then is should be good
> t
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Collin Rose wrote:
> I have a very long subdomain for my computer (username.host.host.org)
> One of my friends has a domain name and a Linux computer. How could he point
> myusername.hisdomain.org to my long address?
an alias or Cname in the dns entry
Nikolai
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Robert Dominguez wrote:
> I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3
> running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question
> is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's
> directly affected but I had to ask. If you
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this?
> Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading?
> Please, please help!
This is not a problem it is a configureable behaviour.
Did you install idled? this would cause idle users to be logged off.
if yo
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote:
> >in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to
> Hmm Do I have to reinitialize LILO in some way? I did this and
> rebooted, but it still only gave me one option (Linux).
Do that and it reinitiali
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote:
> More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out.
>
> 1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error
> "mouse: fd: Invalid argument" or something like that. Fine, I'll go and
> reconfigure. But how? How can I run
Hello all,
I am having a slight problem. I run a squid proxy on my machine
to save me time when I revisit sites, as my dialup connection is
also firewalled my squid communicates with my ISP's squid on a
parent-child basis. My problem is that my squid will not pass on
c
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Aldinga Library wrote:
> I have a floppy with several text files on it,
> How do you list the filenames and file sizes on the floppy disk.
> How do you copy an individual file from the floppy disk.
> How do you save an individual file to the floppy disk.
> I cant seem to find h
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Christopher J. Stevenson wrote:
> Does isapnp work with PCI cards. (I have a PCI Network card that's PnP) Let
Of course isapnp doesn't work with PCI cards, it only works with ISA
cards. What you should do is set the irq's of the PCI slots in your
bios that will remove 1/2 of th
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as
> I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address
> e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I get a message saying there was a
> host lookup failure. This is not a ppp spec
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> I have been informed that these cards need a kernel patch to work.
> Someone here will (hopefully) email this to me in the near future. At the
> moment, I have the base system and no more, as I can't get at the net to
I don't know where you heard this
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
> What I am wondering is if at will wait for one job to finish before
> starting the next or will it start them at the appointed time? What these
> are are a series of jobs which start and stop a process at appointed times.
> One at to start the job, one
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote:
> bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured
>
> My question is, how do I configure /dev/dsp? MAKEDEV doesn't appear to do
> anything.
you need to compile sound support into your kernel, when yu do that build
in the support for /dev/dsp .
make sure you k
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote:
> How do I use color-ls?
man ls :)
ls --color=tty
ls --color=auto
I use =tty out of preference. just set the alias in you .bash_profil or in
/etc/profile
Nikolai
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
> The problem I get is that my user mail for local username "redwards"
> is put into root's mailbox. In my above-mentioned /etc/fetchmailrc I
> have the following entry:
try chowning thge script to the redwards user :)
Nikolai
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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output:
add the line:
smtphost localhost
to your .fetchmailrc file :)
Nikolai
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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote:
> I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it
> up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so,
> how would I go about doing that?
you can get a bare bones linux onto it but you'll have to put more r
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote:
> primary:
1) X MB linux native for booting linux
2) 1 GB fat16 for win95
3) extended:
4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM)
5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps
6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux
for ease I have indexed the par
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote:
> After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure
>
> I get the following response:
> Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone.
>
> What does this mean and how do I reconfigure xbase?
It usually means that there is no /etc/X11/XF86config file.
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote:
> editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible
> for the novice user.
I wouldn't say I'm a novice but I had much the same problem, I used to
have a great little .fvwmrc file and I wanted to do same thing with my
.fvwm2rc file but
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote:
> I think there are some IDE's for Linux, but none seem to be as popular
> as Emacs/Xemacs. Emacs is not an integrated development environment per
> se, but it has many of the capabilities of one plus other things.
latest vim has some similar featurs.
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized?
have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitmap, gif and jpeg
manipulation a couple of years ago and found it easy to use.
Nikolai
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote:
> I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another
> story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th.
try [machine#] rdate -s your.local.time.host
or adjtime or just set the bios clock to the right time :)
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote:
> Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm.
yes there is. Try the debian-non-US directory on your ftp.debian.org
mirror.
Nikolai
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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote:
> I haven't tried telnetting but by export
> http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx.
technically it should be
[Ukraine$] export http_proxy="http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80/";
> The error is generated fro FTP, http, goph
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in
> dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ?
netscape will not allow people to re-distibute their software. What is in
the dist is a debainized (I believe) instal
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote:
> Well, I thought I was really happy but I didn't tell my computer that the
> ISP I use uses a proxy server ( did I have the option ? ) The result of
> this is that I can't access the web from my Linux partition.
should this really matter? but AFAIK no you didn't
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On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Norbert Veber wrote:
> What probably happened is you compiled a custom kernel, and left behind the
> old modules in /lib/modules/[kernel-version], if these messages are
> annoying, erase that dir, and run make modules_install in the kernel s
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Carl Greco wrote:
> Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by
would you mean the LS120 drives?
> Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the
> linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver
if it is the devic
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