the quotes is not there by accident :-)
> But I found that it can't handle parameters with spaces well:
>
> $ set -- -t 'test p 1' 2
[..]
> $ eval set -- `getopt -o t: -- "$@"`
>
> $ echo "'$2'"
> 'test
Hi debianers,
well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using
pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different
reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel.
Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that
I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at
h
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:40:09PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni scripsit:
> so there are women who use debian too???
> i'm talking about eleonora.
> what a wonderful surprise. sex equality and open source.
> that's the right philosophy
> freedom everywhere. the world is changing!
>
06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote:
>> The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering
>> asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this
>> will be adding softwa
Hi debianers,
I have a big problem in installing and configuring ALSA modules. At boot time
I got
the folowing message
Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd
failed.
I got the same msg when I try a /etcinit.d/alsa start
So I tried to compile alsa source
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:18:47AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit:
> I filed a bug report on this last night, um, no, that was this morning.
> Anyway, yes, I'm using testing, and I suspected perl 5.6 as one of the
> causes.
>
No, perl5.6 is not concerned, I was on stable and I had the same
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:06:24PM +0200, Daniel Mashao scripsit:
> Hi,
> I cannot install real player because the Debian install program says
> "You are running in non-interactive mode ..."
> What? I am running in an interactive mode I thought. Anybody see this
> error anywhere?
>
Hi,
I got the
Mike scripsit:
>Frodo Baggins wrote:
>> Hi debianers,
>> I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP,
>> using the one or the other depending on the time of the day.
>
>Is the time of day when you switch fom one to the other always the same ti
Hi debianers,
I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP,
using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Each one
of them has a smtp host to relay mail for. Obviously, each one of
these smarthosts is smart enough not to relay mail iussed by a machine
having
Hi debianers,
I got no answer on a preceeding mail on almost the same subject, so I
try again. The basic problem is that I have some problem with vm under
xemacs. More precisely, it does not handle well messages containing
accents: it always put a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
header.
Hi debianers,
This evening I saw the perfect self-gift for Christmas :) A mp3
portable player equiped with a hard disk og 7Gb... Wonderful, isn't
it? Only problem, they sell it with a interfacing software for M$ and
Mac. Do anyone know if the "Creative Lab Jukebox" can be interfaced
with a Debian
Hi debianers,
I'd like to upgrade some of the lisp packages shipped with potato's
XEmacs to their more recent version from http://www.xemacs.org Is
there any "standard" procedure to do it in debian in order not to
break the file structure?
Thanks for your help.
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Colin Watson scripsit:
>More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically,
>version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as
>well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it.
Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and
still have this problem... An
Viktor Rosenfeld scripsit:
>Frodo Baggins wrote:
>
>> [Pumping Lemma]
>
>> 1 w = xyz
>> 2 y is not empty
>> 3 x has less than n caracters
>
>That would be xy has less than/equal to n characters (|xy| <= n).
>
>> 4 for any inte
Peter Jay Salzman scripsit:
>
>recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to
>express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length?
>
>i've used some grey matter, and the answer seems to be no, but there's nice
>symmetry here. maybe i'm missing something...
>
Well, maybe you'r
urbanyon scripsit:
>isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really
>complaining...
>
>On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear IT Manager:
>>
>> Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your
>> e-commerce and software developmen
Robert L. Harris scripsit:
>
>
>
>Nope, but I bet that'd do it. You'd think part of it's install
>would be to check for a dictionary and say you need one, etc.
>
Why should it? what if I wrote my own dictionary? (I didn't do that,
and I bet I'll never do that, but debian is freedom, isn't it?:
Erik Steffl scripsit:
>
> read the last line of your post. it says how to unsubscribe, just send
>an email with subject unsubscribe to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmmm, problem is that not-Unix people may not be able to understand that:
mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
means:
send an em
Jonathan D. Proulx scripsit:
>Hi,
>you can just install by hand using `make install` or whatever, but
>then things can get confusing in the future. If you take the later
>route, make sure to install under /usr/local (usually the default when
>building from source), that way deb packages won't stom
Hi debianers,
I put my hands on a old 15" screen and scavenged a old PC to get a
S3 PCI graphic card which can be installed on one of the free PCI
slots of my current potato box. I would like to configure things in
such a way that the new screen is say tty8 so that I can use it to
display some in
Rob Hudson scripsit:
>I was curious how to not have all of the '-- MARK --'s in my log
>files. What are their intended purpose?
>
Why, just to say that syslogd is still there:
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Hi,
I use xemacs VM to read my email. I tried to install a .procmailrc
file into my homedir, but that give me some big problems. More
specifically, I told procmail to put my mail into ~/Mail/INBOX, which
is my vm-primary-inbox. But vm complains that INBOX has changed, which
is normal I think
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so
>that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC
>format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word
>on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, althou
Peter Jay Salzman scripsit:
>
>3. there's a webpage -- forget the guy's name, but his first (or maybe
>last?) name is colas and he's from france. he has an extensive page on
>wheelie mice. he has config lines you can put in .Xdefaults to take care of
>programs, like netscape, which do not sup
C. Falconer scripsit:
>
>Okay - we seem to have a group consensus that spam is bad.
>
>Now can a large group of intelligent and highly knowledgeable people come
>up with some useful advice for Mister Mann ?
Well, He'll can use bulk-mail perl module... Is quite effective
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Anderson, TimTL33E scripsit:
>
> >I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future.
> >How many files does one directory has?
> >
> >I am afraid of the performance,
>
> Do you really need to store Files as such? What kind of data are
>you keeping? Maybe you
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William Jensen scripsit:
>My experience is that some refuse to let you on until you install auth or say
>you are not authorized to use the server. That is why I wanted to get it
>installed.
>
>Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC
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Hi debianers,
I'm sure the answer should be in the doc, but I couldn't find it :)
Problem is, I use two different ISP, dependig on the time of the day
(no flat rate in france). Both of them have a smtp relay server and,
rightly enough, each one
Hi debianers,
In the dist/proposed-updates directory there is a README file stating
Debian is committed to providing security updates to the stable
distribution as quickly as possible, but we also need time to thoroughly
test such updates to ensure that they meet our high standards.
Updates
Timothy C. Phan scripsit:
>hi,
>
> is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks!
>
First, mIRC is the name os _a_ client for irc... and it has no Unix
version. However, if you meant "tehere exists a IRC client for Linux?"
the answer is YES. Try xchat (it comes with the standard de
Noah L. Meyerhans scripsit:
>On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote:
>
>> How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT*
>> start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx.
>
>'update-rc.d -f xdm remove'
>
This sould be on the FAQs :)))
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Hi debians,
Looking into the local package database with dpkg -l "*palm*" I
found two packages concerning palm, namel gcc-mk68-palmos anf
binutils-m68k-palmos. If I understand weel, they allows to install a
cross-compiler for palmos. Now, doing dsel
Christopher Mosley scripsit:
>
>Is the newsgroup "linux.debian.user" broke everywhere or just here?
>The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts?
>I'd much prefer a newsgroup than a mailing list.
AFAIK, there is not such newsgroup... linux.debian.user does not even
look
Patrick Dahiroc scripsit:
>On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote:
>> Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf
>>
>> Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/
>> ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc
>> ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. -
Krzys Majewski scripsit:
>Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile
>the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing?
>Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris
Well, stricly speaking kernel recompilation isn't mandatory. You cold
just compile a mo
KerstinKerstin Hoef-Emden scripsit:
>
>Hi,
>
>On 21 Jul 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
>
>> I had these problems too, but now the combination of X *and* gpm works
>> flawlessly with a logitech 3-button mouse with the following gpm.conf:
>>
>>device=/dev/psaux
>>responsiveness=
>>type=p
André Dahlqvist scripsit:
>On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote:
>
>>Is there an easy way
>> to allow non-root users to use pon?
>
>There sure is, just run pppconfig and choose to add a ppp user. Or you
>could manually add that user to the "dip" group.
Speaking about pppconf
Jon Hughes scripsit:
>What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there
>for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but
>it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is
>something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's
>just cause I'm lazy:b Can anyone recommend anything
>else, o
Dale Morris scripsit:
>How do I get rid of the graphic login that comes up when I log out of X? It
>makes it impossible for me to do anything from the command line. It's the
>yellow screen that asks for my username and password.
>thanks
Simply press Ctrl-Alt-Fn 1<=n<=6 and you'll get a term
login
Christian Pernegger scripsit:
>Hallo!
>
>I just stumbled upon the following. If I do
>
># cd /
># grep -r * stuff
>
>it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The
>last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device
>files, but maybe it's just me...
john smith scripsit:
>Hi!
> mind twister break?
>how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary?
>
>grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works?
You simply can't. period. palindrome (not palandrome) is a
context-free concept, that is to say you can't express
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Hans scripsit:
>So basically my question is 'how to translate one character into two and
>vice versa?' Anyone? Thanks for the input.
I forgot... to get the reverse transformation _file_name -> FileName
simply use
rename 's/_([a-z])\u$1/g' *
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Hans scripsit:
>Sorry, I'm full of questions today.
>
>I'm working on a script that can rename filenames. For now I want it to add
>an underscore before each capital letter there is in the filename and make
>the capital letter lowercase: e.g. FileName
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Hi,
since we are talking about sound I configured
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Jaldhar H. Vyas scripsit:
>Sarcasm? Hardly. I came to perl via Sanskrit. The way perl compresses
>such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied,
>say, the Vyakarana sutras.
Well, let me say that this will be saved in my
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virtanen scripsit:
>
>I'm deadly serious, not sarcastic. (Everything what I said is true. And I
>really liked the looks of that command.)
>
>But You probably know, where to get that script?
>There are so many perl packages, that I don't want to instal
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virtanen scripsit:
>
>This:
>
>***
>rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM
>***
>
>looks very very
>BEATIFUL
>to my eyes!
>
>(I'm an old matchematician, besides that
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Hi,
as perl people says, there is more than one way to do it, but perl
way is the right one:) In debian dist there is a perl scrip called
rename, which allows you to transform your filenames as you
please:). For instance, to transform ONE.HTM, TWO.HT
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Matthew Dalton scripsit:
>Frodo Baggins wrote:
>>
>> It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I
>> know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do).
>>[...]
>apt-get downloa
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Matthew Dalton scripsit:
>Frodo Baggins wrote:
>>
>> It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I
>> know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do).
>>[...]
>apt-get downloa
Matthew Dalton scripsit:
>Frodo Baggins wrote:
>>
>> It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I
>> know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do).
>>[...]
>apt-get downloads *.deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives, so you
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kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit:
>On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote:
>> Hi there ...
>>
>> I messed up some files on my system and needed to
>> reinstall everything again. When I was finished with
>> all my packages I wanted
Superband scripsit:
>
>
>Dear Sir /Madam,
> We feel greatly honored to have the chance to c
> We are one of China's leading manufacturers of automobile aluminium
> wheel moulds
Junk mail here??? w
Hi,
I run a (almost) pure potato distrib with 2.2.17 kernel. Problem is,
I have a Intel740 graphic card and a 17" monitor as standard output
device. But I also have a S3 card a 15" monitor from an old PC which
died sometimes ago. I would like to set up all this things such that I
have a dual mo
Dave Sherohman scripsit:
>Peter O said:
>> I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers
>> so I can play my CD Roms.
>>snip
>
>Grab some kernel source and rebuild it with support for your sound card and
>IP firewalling.
Hi,
sorry, but... why firewalling? could
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