Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1,
and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working.
The error message is
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
When I run 'strace nslookup', I see that the sequence of events leading
up to this is:
The documentation for cdrecord says it writes to /dev/scg*.
But I can't find anything about scg's in the kernel sources (or even
in a string search at Linux v2 Headquarters). So my questions are:
What is /dev/scg?
How can (or does?) one get a kernel driver?
How can one integrate this into ma
Hi Bernd --
You said:
> The current resque disk does not work with my Adaptec 2940 UW. This does
> not surprise me, as none of the Kernels above 2.0.12 (up to 2.0.27)
> I tried did work. An small remark in a README in an otherwise useless
> RedHat stated that Adaptec support is partially broken s
Hi Greg --
You asked:
> Is the 56kb USR upgrade compatible with linux? I tired of 14.4. :)
Almost certainly. I use a 56K ISDN 'pseudo-modem' all the time.
Even though this box isn't internally the same as the real USR modem
you're talking about, the software configuration under Linux would
b
> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are
> there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's
> something I've missed somewhere...
>
> What have/haven't I done?
On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining
markup, then
Me too.
Susan Kleinmann
>
> Every time I post to the debian user mail list I am getting 5-10 error
> messages saying the mail could not be delivered. Although, I do get a
> copy of the mail sent back to me from the list. I am wondering if this
> is related to the problems with the mail list,
Stan Brown said:
> I am looking for a general puropose conversion program for graphich
> formats. What I would really like would be sonething like xv that could
> be run ono interactivley by the lp interface script.
>
> Ultimetly II need the fiel is PCL3, but I have ghostsc
Lindsay Haisley said:
> The Debian FAQ lists the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the address to
> which to send corrections and suggestions regarding the FAQ. Mail to this
> address bounces with a "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name" message.
>
> Do the people who maintain the FAQ know this?
Yes.
Related idea:
I'm thinking about working on the FAQ this weekend, and one thing I'd
like to do is to break it up into at least two parts:
--one which is general, and
--one which focusses only on dselect and dpkg.
Of course, we could break it up further. For example, we could have
--an FAQ on in
Hi Chad --
You asked:
>
> Is there a way that I can get cron.daily to start running it's processes
> before 12am? I have a program in there that needs to run before the new
> day starts so that is can get the correct data.
The system crontab uses a file /etc/crontab. This is to be distinguished
Hi Joe --
You said:
> I have been reading this list for a few weeks now, and I wonder
> if someone could regularly post and maintain the . I'll
> call it debian FAQ, for lack of a better term. It would be
> very worthwhile to keep a list of unique debian questions and
> answers.
I'm one of t
Hi Eric --
You said:
> I've been trying to download some of the .debfiles from the sunsite
> ftp, and a few files will download, but most of them come up with an error
> that says:
> "Cannot open Internet Site at whatever whatever, Operation completed
> successfully." And it won't
Hi Martin --
You asked:
> Do I still need make-kpkg for generating a kernel package?
Well, not absolutely, but it sure is a handy tool.
> If so, where can I find it?
It's in Debian-1.2/binary-all/misc/kernel-package_3.03.deb
You can find out which debian archive file ('.deb' file) contains a ce
Hi Dan --
You said:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote:
> > The tapedrive is identified in win95 as a QIC3020.
>
> This is a SCSI tape drive. (I've seen it ONCE as IDE although..)
...
> Open up your case, and see what cable its attached too... Only use FTAPE
> if its hooked up th
Hi Guy --
You suggested:
> "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error:
> > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
> Do you have any packages inst
Hi Dale --
You said:
> I have had this same problem on my test partition. It was suggested (I
> think it was Steven Early) that one of the other packages in devel,
> possibly using dpkg diversions has clobbered things. If you look, you will
> find a 2.7.2 directory as well as the 2.7.2.1 directory
Hi Johann --
You said:
> Heiko wrote:
> >What does the last line before all this in '/var/adm/messages' say?
>
> I found the following sequence of lines:
>
> -
> Nov 4 07:55:43 Johann syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> Nov 4 09:15:24 Johann
Hi Stuart --
You asked:
> Did I forget to stick in Replaces: libelf and Conflicts: libelf in
> there somewhere? libelf0 and libelf0-dev are the current versions; libelf
> should be dead. (If I forgot to do the Replaces and Conflicts bit, bug me,
> and I'll fix it. Two minute job, and a good excuse
On a relatively recent Debian installation, I keep getting this error:
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
But when I execute:
# ls -l /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/cc1
I get:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot 1153181 Aug 14 15:23 \
/usr/lib/gcc-lib
Hi Pedro --
You said:
> whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following:
>
> [ Text on font metrics generation deleted]
>
> Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
> Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes).
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/s
Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to
reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply.
Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender),
exmh shows this message:
Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ...
But exmh doesn't s
Hi Leszek --
You asked:
> Can anybody tell me where can i find make-kpkg ??
If you execute
zgrep Contents.gz
in the top of the rex directory on any Debian mirror, you'll see
that make-kpkg comes in the kernel-package package.
Specifically, the answer is to fetch from any Debian mirror
rex
Hi Ricardo --
You asked:
> What is the price compared with Adaptec 2940UW?
I got one for $189.00 a couple of months ago at a computer show.
You might check out:
PricePages: http://www.ntek.com/cgi-shl/cgi_ivor.exe/index.data
which lists prices from Usenet postings or
PriceWatch: http://www.p
Hi Richard --
You asked:
> A new debian installer has asked me to inquire whether anyone has experience
> with the subject cdrom unit - his installation won't recognize it. At this
> writing I have asked him to determine more e.g.
> - is it IDE
> - is it ATAPI
> - what debian ver
Hi Kenneth --
You asked:
> How could that be if xman dose not exist in debian ??
It couldn't be. If you execute
zgrep xman Contents.gz | grep bin
you'd see that xman is part of the xcontrib package. The Contents.gz files
are in the top of unstable, stable, non-free, and contrib.
But it reall
Hi --
You said:
>make-kpkg -r kernel-image-2.0.21-Custom.1.i386.deb kernel_image
The -r flag takes the revision number as an argument, not the entire
package name. Try
make-kpkg -r Custom.1
or
make-kpkg -r Custom-1 if the '.' is causing problems.
BTW, make-kpkg expects that it wi
Hi Thomas --
A while ago you asked:
> Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do
> with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided
> to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle
> wit the broken tar (solved by downgrading), there's still
> Are there such tools in Debian packages?
Not that I know of.
> If not, what do you recommend me
> (I only known mapedit 1.1.2) that I could get and Debianize?
Here's a short list:
Glorglox: http://www.uunet.ca/~tomr/glorglox/
gd:http://www.boutell.com/gd/
(This is a C libra
Hi David --
You asked:
> I've problem with Netscape3.0 newsreader in Linux. When I do
> 'Show All Newsgroup', I don't get the complete(which I get when
> I do this in Windoz) list. I tried knews and had same problem.
Have you set up a value for NNTPSERVER? For example, have you set
export NN
Hi Richard --
You said:
> I am using fvwm2 as the window manager and have a 3 button logitech mouse
> (serial, mouseman). The icon triggered by the middle button sticks to the
> mouse arrow so that the arrow cannot select from that icon's menu. Is there
> a simple fix?
Check your /etc/X11/XF86Con
Hi Craig --
> My next step is to setup ftape, and
ftape is built into the kernel; perhaps you are talking about some kind
of configuration. (I don't use ftape so I don't know what is involved.)
> find out why most of the application and games do not work from
> xwindows' menu.
What have you
I request that users of this list try (a little harder) to keep their
language polite, pleasant, and professional. Though I too get mad at
my computers sometimes (which seems pretty funny when I think about it),
I think it helps keep the focus on the technical problems rather than
the frustrations
Hi Mike --
You asked:
> Is there any way of testing a block device in linux?
The test program is fsck. Every time you boot, fsck is run if there's
a problem with the file system. So this may be some help, but not
consolation.
Cheers?
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Michael --
zless buzz-fixed/Contents.gz
yields:
usr/lib/libgdbm.so libgdbm1-dev
usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 libgdbm1
usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1.7.3 libgdbm1
If you got libgdbm, may got t
Hi Rob --
If your modem is on COM3, then it is referred to as /dev/cua2 during boot-up
and as /dev/ttyS2 for most operations thereafter. If you are trying to get
it to work at high speed, then I think what you need to do is to change
a line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial. I suspect you have a line
Hi Richard --
You said:
> After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But, I see that
> after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I
> best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users? Where is
> it set anyway?
In looking over som
Hi Chris --
You said:
>
> I can't find kernel-package
> anywhere on ftp.debian.org... I found kernel-headers, and kernel-source,
> but I already have a tar.gz of the source.
It's in rex/binary/misc. It't not clear why.
> Do I even need the kernel-package? What benifits will it give me?
kernel
Hi --
You said:
> Currently, I have a DOS partition that takes up 25% of the
> total disk space and the rest is empty. My concern was if I would lose
> any data on the DOS partition if I create two Linux partitions using
> Linux fdisk on the empty disk space.
I suppose the installation notes are
Hi Boris --
You said:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>
> dwarf>If you only installed the base system then the only editor
> availabe is AE
> dwarf>(Andrews Editor). This was done because AE is small enough to fit
on the
> dwarf>base disks.
> I am sorry, but isn't vi d
Hi Richard --
You said:
> After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox. But,
> I see that after booting the TERM environment variable is set
> to cons80x25. How can I best set it to another value (eg linux)
> during boot for all users? Where is it set anyway?
It looks to me as i
Hi --
You asked:
> I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would
> still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition.
If you will be using memory-hungry applications (like X or httpd), then
you'll definitely need some swap space. A few tens of MBytes would be
a
>
> I just installed Debian 1.1 and I logged on as root. First thing I notice,
> there are no editors installed. Not one. You would think this would be a
> "required" thing...
'ae' comes with the base installation, because it is small and can
be used by anyone instantly. No traning required.
N
Hi Dirk --
> Susan> I had another problem with the latest version of TeX which I could
> Susan> not seem to fix by adjusting dvips/config.ps. It was that an extra
> Susan> 1" seemed to have been added to the margins on all sides. I fixed
> Susan> this using vmargin, but that wasn't neces
Hi Paul --
You asked:
> I need to create a custom installation boot disk to install Debian on a
> system at work. This is a custom server, with a SCSI main drive on an
> Adaptec 2940UW controller. Once I get the main drive supported and the
> base installed, I can finish it from there.
>
> I've
>
> Nick> I installed Debian 1.1 and found that my tex files were no longer
> Nick> leaving a margin at the top of the page. I traced it to
> Nick> /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps where a4size was set instead of
> Nick> letter.
>
> Correct. Also the app-defaults file for xdvi sets a4 p
Hi Derek --
You asked:
> How is the X authorization set up in Debian?
Lukas Nellen provided a nice answer to this a while ago. I'm just repeating
it here:
>
> I am running xdm and I discovered that only the login user can
> start an X window. There are 2 situations when I cannot start a
> X w
Hi Marcus --
(From section 5.7 of the FAQ:)
"Debian-1.1.x, a.k.a. "stable" and "buzz-fixed": A copy of the the
current release with the updates applied. The minor number is changed
whenever new updates are added."
I'd agree that a search engine front end to the FAQ would be helpful.
Good luck,
Hi Jean --
There are (at least) 3 counterarguments to the concern that Debian
maintainers could maliciously add dangerous commands to their
{pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts:
-- the same package system which is open to many for development is
equally open to many for testing.
-- by having both "stabl
Hi Boris --
Bruce suggested:
> bruce>ls /dev |grep "10,"
Try instead:
ls -l /dev | grep "10,"
Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Jan --
You asked:
> where did mkdosfs go?
It got swallowed up into dosfstools, which is in the rex (unstable)
distribution.
Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Paul --
You said:
> Well, i think it's time to compose some kind of an Debian-Installation-FAQ
> just for these kind of cases. An FAQ of this kind would have saved me and
> probably others lots of time and frustration. Anybody interested in
> contributing to such an FAQ? Let's see if i can mana
Hi Bruce --
You said:
> Supporting two terminal management mechanisms would not be a good idea.
It would probably be a good idea to remind folks (in the FAQ or wherever)
about the rationale for using curses vs. termcap. I tried to find one
using AltaVista and DejaNews, but I'll bet you can guess
Hi Danny--
In what are by now prehistoric times you said:
> I tried to compile kermit 5A(190) and the make failed,
> complaining that it couldn't find -ltermcap.
Bill Mitchell bequeathed to me the kermit package, and building a new one
is on my list of todo's. I'm hoping I get organized to do thi
Hi Tim--
You asked:
> Can some kind soul tell me if there is a libg++ for the aout compiler,
I have an old a.out system on a disk partition that I mount once in a while.
It has all the libg++ files on it. However, I do not have the old libg++
debian package. I can make you a tar file using the
Hi Jim --
You said:
> I tried adding the line to /etc/X11/Xmodmap -- It didn't work.
> I also tried creating ~/.Xmodmap and ~/.xmodmaprc files with the
> same data. These did not work either.
Did you run xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc after you changed it? If not, then the
edits you made wouldn't have a
Hi John --
You said:
> The kernel needed is the "special kernel 6: special NCR53C8XX." This special
> kernel is supposedly available from buzz-fixed/disks-i386/special-kernels
> at any Debian FTP site. However, when I go the Debian FTP site the only
> special kernels available are numbers 0 throu
Hi Hakan --
You said:
> I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like
> \"{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else
> moticed this?
As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX constructions.
I made a silly .tex file with
Hi Mark --
You asked:
> When using dselect, do I have to download from the ftp site, packages or are
> they on the install disks ?
The install disks only contain enough software to set up your system
so that it is *capable* of being used to fetch the major packages.
All tolled, the Debian softwar
The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires
libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a.
(How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file?
(Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.)
Thanks in advance,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Marcus --
You asked:
> Thanks everybody I didn't have the crt*.o in my lib directory. It should
> be in the libc-dev*.deb right?
No, it should be in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib.
You can see what directory a file will be installed into by looking at
the Contents file associated with the distribution
Hi Barid --
> I assumed that the logical approach would be to download the source to
> dpkg and dpkg-ftp, install them, and then install some of the more
> critical pacakges via ftp.
Well, the better thing to do is to
-- download boot1440.bin, root.bin,
base14-1.bin, base14-2.bin, and base14
Hi Dirk --
You asked:
> - I was used to have the /etc/profile for the bash and other
> configuration files to be more configured than they are now.
You might want to look in /usr/doc/examples/bash.
> (How to find a new programm, when you don't know about it :-)
This must qualify as a billion do
You can find a particular .sty file (or anything else in the CTAN archives)
by visiting:
http://www.shsu.edu/cgi-bin/ctan-index
Then enter the name of the macro you want, in this case, a4.sty, and you'll
be returned a page with links to sites that provide it.
HTH,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Mike and Candy --
You asked:
> Can anyone clue me in as to how to transfer package
> information to a floppy in a form that linux can recognize?tried:
> direct copy from mswindows file manager,
Does this mean you had an MS-DOS formatted diskette in your floppy drive?
i.e., After you made the c
Hi Marcus --
You asked:
> My root login, well I don't have one. When I boot from LILO I go
> straight to linux without going into a login and password prompt. I am
> the user root.
It's hard to see how this happened. In any case, if even root isn't
asked to log in, then add this line to /etc/pa
Hi Daniel --
You asked:
> Just one question...
>
> Does taper implicitly call 'mt'?
Well, no. In fact, taper does its own ioctl calls, which is why it
is behind the other general-purpose utilities in supporting a broad array
of hardware. I spent a long time studying both taper and tob, and I'm
Does anyone else get repeated messages from
"Manager, AlisaMail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
regarding "Undeliverable Mail"?
As far as I can tell, the only person whose address comes close to
"lockheed.com" who has written to the list is
Mark Rahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
I've gotten about half a
Hi Walter --
You asked:
> Has everyone been able to install x-windows with little pain? I have
> been trying to install x-windows for the last 3 weeks. Whenever I
> dselect xserver, etc, etc and select install it follows the entire setup
> procedure when it has completed all the steps it says
Hi Hakan --
You said:
> I tested to install procps 1.01a-1, but after that all I get out of ps is:
>
> ps: can't load library 'libproc.so.1.01a'
>
> The libriry I have is libproc.so.0.99, which package contains the new version
,
> and shouldn't the dependency infomation in procps have told me th
Hi Hakan --
You asked:
> I have latex 2e-7 installed, but I can't find a4.sty a4wide.sty, in which
> package are they?
I think the Latex-2e approach is not to use .sty files, but to use .cls
(class) files. Support for a4 letter paper is built into the article.cls
file, for example, but the opt
Hi Ken --
You wrote:
> I am having difficulty getting the xconsole to work running in
> fvwm (or any window manager). I use a .xsession file in my home
> directory. Here is that file:
>
> - begin .xsession file -
> #!/bin/bash
>
[snip]
> xconsole -exitOnFail -g 490x
Hi ReWt --
You asked:
> Whats wrong with the cron script to produce this error?
>
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>
> cfengine:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:23: parse error
> cfengine::23: Warning: actionsequence is empty
> cfengine::Execution terminated after parsing
Hi Steve --
You asked:
>Can someone point me to info for the quickest, easiest way to use procmail
>with Emacs RMAIL to separate, say, the debian list into a separate folder?
Below I'm forwarding a big hint on this topic given by Dirk Eddelbuettel
to someone else a few weeks ago. I found it quit
Hi Philippe --
You wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:14:10 PDT Philippe Troin (phil) wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 00:23:16 EDT renald loignon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > > Could someone knowledgeable in low-level kernel matters take a look at th
e
> > > following? I looked at the W
Hi Miro --
(I'm not sure of these answers, but see if any of them help.)
You asked:
> 1. After I recompiled the kernel, NAS loads fine at boot,
> but auplay et all tell me that they can't connect to audio server.
> Can anybody help??
I think that the error here may be that the kernel provided wi
Hi Brian --
Brian Mays wrote:
> Last time I checked, the popclient program simply retrieves each
> message from the server and mails it, using the generic `mail'
> program, to the user's local account. Then the MTA, such as sendmail
> or smail, actually delivers the message, sending it to mailage
Hi Timothy --
You asked:
> I'd like to know if there is any document/help info for me
> read on how to become debian-ized.
Look on http://www.debian.org.
> I'm currently run SLACKWARE and thinking about switching.
You'll get the unwelcome advice that you'll need to
(a) save your configurat
Guy Maor wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Shaya Potter wrote:
>
> > Is there a postscript version of the documents
>
> Yes, in the directory ftp://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/ian/dpkg-doc/
> you'll find various versions of the files, including postscript.
>
> Once again, these are *DRAFT* documents
Hi Charles --
>I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux:
>
> mkdir ./dos
> mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos
> cp /boot ./dos
>
Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible
under a Linux directory. That seems unusual.
If you j
Hi Fun --
You said:
> Hi i just grabbed the "unstable" apache package. I tried to install it
> and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these
> packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what,
> libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version lib
Hi Bill --
You said:
> One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run "mt -f
> /dev/st0 setblk 0" (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS
> and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the
> default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa.
>
Hi Todd --
You said:
> why does 'libc-dev' have a conflicting dependency with 'libc5' ?? It won't
> let him install libc5-dev for some odd reasion.
dpkg --info libc5-dev_5.2.18-9.deb
yields
.
.
.
DEPENDS: libc5 (=5.2.18-9)
CONFLICTS: libc (<<4.6.27-11), libc-dev, pthreads-dev
PROVIDES: libc-de
Hi Eddie --
You asked:
> is there a record of pcmcia packages that use 2.0.6 kernel. the new one
> expects the 2.0.7 kernel and I need the older one.
>
I'm not sure, but the general answer is:
> should I just upgrade my kernel?
Yes.
>is this hard to to?
No.
Go to any Linux FTP archive.
Hi Hamish --
You asked:
> Will dselect still work with nothing but a local directory,
Sure. Just specify the local directory with option 1, Access method.
> or should I just use dpkg by hand?
That would work too.
Regards,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Christian --
Your pe package sounds very interesting.
You asked:
>It would be nice if someone can give me some hints about how it can be
>included in the main distrib. Yes, I read all the FAQs/HOWTOs but they
>seem pretty old and I didn't find any information.
If you get any version of dpkg
Hi Larry --
You said (ages ago, sorry):
>
> Trying to install libtiff3-gif says it depends on libtiff3, but the
> dependency listing says libtiff3 doesn't appear to be available.
> What's the deal here and how can I fix it?
This means that the list of available packages in dselect's memory does
I discovered (more or less) what was happening, by a fluke experience!
I have another account at another ISP on which I had never previously
checked my mail til today. My user name at the other ISP is just "susan".
Now, the likelihood that they've had (in the past) another user named susan
is
A couple of days ago, I wrote:
>
> I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like:
> popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost
>
> This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't
> automatically refiled as a result of matching one of the rules are then
> stored in t
Hi Pedro --
> I need to buy and install an 8mm tape system for our debian systems.
> If you happen to have one up and running, could you drop me a note
> telling me things like:
>
> - Tape system brand name,
I have an Exabyte 8505.
> - Connection type (serial/parallel port, internal
Hi Michael --
You said:
> ... is it not true that by using mailagent wisely one should be able
> to avoid the use of inc altogether?
I've been tip-toeing my way forward with mailagent. My ~/.rules file
currently disposes of only a few of the mailing lists I'm on,
and only those for which I don'
I have just begun using mailagent, and am hoping for some enlightenment
regarding its behaviour.
I fetch mail from my ISP using a line like:
popclient -3 -P ~/.my_password_file my_ISPs_mailhost
This mail is processed by my ~/.rules file, and messages which aren't
automatically refiled as a resul
Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (renald loignon)
> > May I ask, in all seriousness, and without a trace of sarcasm, where in the
> > world (BUT preferably in the Debian installation instructions) one is
> > expected to find this information? I was used to the old
> > "cdu31a=0xPORT,I
Hi Charles --
You asked:
> I can't get my logitech serial mouse to work under X on any of the three
> machines where I've attempted to use X.
>
> Should I "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse" if my serial mouse is connected to
> the first serial port?
That ought to work.
I also have a Logitech seria
I've been having a lot of problems with my SCSI tape drive in the
past week or so ("Unrecognizable archive", etc.). Another user
also told me in private email that he'd also been having trouble with
his SCSI tape drive. (I have an Exabyte 8505; I do not know what kind of
SCSI tape drive the oth
I just noticed that my /var/tmp directory contains:
12784 base-tmp-6491
2 extract-tmp-10628
2 extract-tmp-10702
1 extract-tmp-6127
1 extract-tmp-6208
1 extract-tmp-6289
7676partial-tmp-6491
What creates those directories, and can I erase them?
TIA,
Susan Kleinm
Hi Eddie --
You can get the Debian pcmcia package from any Debian mirror.
ftp.caldera.com:/pub/mirrors/debian
is close to UCLA.
When you get there (i.e., when you get to pub/mirrors/debian,
which is where Caldera puts the Debian distribution -- this top level
directory is differ
Hi Hubert --
You asked:
> I have tried
> make xconfig
> to generate a new config file for the kernel but it gives an error
>wish not found
> Could somebody tell me what is wish and in which package it is?
To find which package contains a file, try something like this:
# zgrep wish buzz-fi
Hi Ervin --
You said:
> I have had a problem using ghostscript verisons 3.53 up through 4.00
> in the standard distributions.
...
> I have solved the problem personally by downloading gs 4.00 and
> compiling it with no gcc optimizations. However, I have to install
> it in /usr/local/ because
Hi David --
You asked:
> I've been searching all over my system and ftp.debian.org and I
> haven't found the kernel-package package. ...
> Anybody know where to find it?
kernel-package is in rex/binary-all/misc or rex/binary-i386/misc at
any Debian FTP site.
Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann
Hi Jens --
You said:
> Yesterday I tried to install the base-disks from buzz-fixed/binary-i386/disks
> (feivel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de).
>
[snip]
> - The $TERM Environment-Variable is set to "con80x25" on my system which
> caused dselect to print an error-message and exit - no possibility to i
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