Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2023 #447

2023-05-14 Thread Richard Jones
Is the list software blind to language _and_ spam? On 14/5/23 11:59, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:

Re: Seamonkey

2022-11-18 Thread Richard Jones
Thanks for this, also for other replies. On 19/11/22 01:06, Richmond wrote: David Wright wrote: On Fri 18 Nov 2022 at 19:37:24 (+0800), Richard Jones wrote: There doesn't seem to be a seamonkey package for Debian stable. Am I mistaken? or is there a reason for it to not be supported?

Seamonkey

2022-11-18 Thread Richard Jones
There doesn't seem to be a seamonkey package for Debian stable. Am I mistaken? or is there a reason for it to not be supported? I'm presuming I can download and install from the seamonkey site but want to check whether that is a bad idea--compatibility, security, whatever Richard

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2006-10-12 Thread Richard Jones
I have just installed debian and am having problems login in. at the login screen which should i be putting in, root password, user account, user name or password. It has also timed out on me, can you please give me some help as im new to linux Regards Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

glibc using the GS segment register

2002-09-30 Thread Richard Jones
I need a version of glibc that uses the GS segment register to access pthread-local storage*. I've neither been able to find one for debian nor is it obvious to me from looking through the sources how to compile it to use %gs. Any suggestions welcomed. I currently have kernel 2.4.18, libc6 ve

USB Printer setup

2002-01-22 Thread Richard Jones
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >I'm having some trouble setting up an Epson Stylus Color >880 USB printer on my linux system. I've compiled a new >2.4.17 kernel since the 'older' 2.2.x kernels do not have >much in the way of USB support without a patch (

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-19 Thread Richard Jones
William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: > > > > &

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread Richard Jones
path didnt present the problems others have had with xterms and color ls, but maybe you could allow for the possibility that not everyone has a mirror of your system setup? I'd prefer not to receive an abusive reply as abuse was not my intention and I apologise if you read things differently. Richard Jones. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mongo.pixar.com - OS type?

1997-01-22 Thread Richard Jones
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stable rex v's devel bo

1997-01-14 Thread Richard Jones
I'm considering moving up to bo in order to gain extra stability, this is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x, yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here). Does this sound like a good/bad idea? Richard. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

stable rex v's devel bo

1997-01-14 Thread Richard Jones
I'm considering moving up to bo in order to gain extra stability, this is due to the recent rounds of updates that fix several problems in 1.2.x, yet have gone straight to bo (especially thinking of apache updates here). Does this sound like a good/bad idea? Richard. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Apache -- Regarding File Privileges

1997-01-10 Thread Richard Jones
Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snipped stuff from Paul] > What you did was exactly correct -- the improper permissions are a bug > in that release of apache. You may want to upgrade to the latest > package, apache_1.1.1-8, which fixes some other things as well. It's > available in b

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Richard Jones
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: [snip] > > > > Well a few problems were caused by me not deleting the old packages from the > > tree when I had moved across new ones. Also a few problems were caused > > by packag

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-09 Thread Richard Jones
> On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > ok, I installed Debian for the first time about 3 weeks ago (1.2), I've > > been running Linux for a few years and have previously installed slackware > > and > > two versions of red-hat. All in a

Re: Colour inkjet printers

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
used the printer (I switched to a laser jet), so I cant remember exactly which colour deskjet driver worked (there are about half a dozen from memory), but some quick experimentation should quickly show you. > Brian >

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > List of problems: > > You should probably report some of these as bugs using the bug tracking > system. > I figured I would get some feedback first, as due to the non-standard method of grabbing the 1.2.1 tree I figured some of the problems were due to my inco

Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-08 Thread Richard Jones
be put in place, preferably with links fat enough to handle testing completely fresh installs (unfortunately I don't fit this, I have a 28.8 permanent link, shared with others, but I'm happy to test incremental upgrades). Richard Jones -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..

1997-01-07 Thread Richard Jones
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > Yup, I think that maybe my original message wasn't too clear. What I > > was trying to get at was, when a new upstream release is made and this > > filters down th

ncftp bug (was Re: debian updates tree structure)

1997-01-07 Thread Richard Jones
Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > [snip] > > i then went back to caldera to grab the 1.2.1 release thinking that it > would be mostly links back to the 1.2 release (other than the updated > packages). > > however, all i got was a bunch of links. > > here's how i have my tree setup: > [

Re: Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..

1997-01-07 Thread Richard Jones
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Richard Jones wrote: > > > > > Hiya, i thought I saw someone mention that upgrades to existing > > packages were available via diffs to the source. Thus allowing the download > > of just the diff

Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..

1997-01-06 Thread Richard Jones
and a few other places and see no mention of this. If this feature is available can someone tell me where I can read about it, if it isn't is something like this (or perhaps even something similar to FreeBSD's CVS upgrade system) likely to become available? Richard Jones -- TO U

rex-updates/binary where can I find it?

1997-01-02 Thread Richard Jones
The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary, however I checked a few sites (including ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org), and this directory was either non-existant, empty or inaccessable. Whats up? Are these updates pl

Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread Richard Jones
Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error: g++ -O -I ./lib-c an.cc -o an.o In file included from /usr/include/features.h:134, from /usr/include/stdio.h:31, from an.cc:22: /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:118: parse error before `typede