I have come at the following but it doesn't work (and can't figger
out why not from the manpages).
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I am somewhat put off by the hodge podge of packages in the x11 section. I
know I need:
xserver_x I chose xserver_svga
xlib
xbase
xfntbase
xmanpages
fvwm2
Actually you don't need the xmanpages package; it contains the manpages
to do with X
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
The graphics card in my machine is a Trident TGUI 9440 AGI which the docs
say is not yet supported (as of June of 95) but that someone was working
on it. Has there been any news?
Get XFree86's latest beta, 3.1.2D. Use the SVGA server. I use the
Richard Kettlewell said:
Also, do someone know how to ask sendmail really not to make DNS queries?
This is somewhat that starts up diald when one does not want, and it is
really annoying.
In your m4 file, use the following options:
FEATURE(nodns)
FEATURE(nocanonify)
I have
Hi,
just to thank everybody for ansering my query about checking if the network
was up. I am using fping to my gateway and it works fine. I have as always
also learnt a lot from you all!
Thanks,
Luis.
I'm copying this to debian-user since others may be confused as well.
I found that installing tk41 in stead of tk40 will break several
dependencies. Packages exist that depend on tk40 and won't
be installed easily with tk41.
Another thing is that those packages are compiled with links to
Kevin M Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also someone suggested there be an installed size parameter in the packages
file... this probably wouldn't be a bad idea.
This is an excellent idea.
What would really be helpful is the following:
Size of current package
Total size
Scott Barker writes:
eckes said:
its a map between Minor/Major Device numbers and Device Names. This is
needed for programs like ps which want to print the device names for given
inodes. This table is created automatically, if you run ps (from the
procps package in the base) the
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
One of the joys of getting X up is that you'll get Netscape
up and then you'll be able to use DejaNews to answer every question under
the Sun!
Switching to a Cyrrus Logic card solved the major problem. Now I only have
a hand full of little ones
Ahh, I see. [I am copying this to debian user, since the answer maybe
useful to others as well.]
People using mailagent with popclient may want to run
mailagent by itself after downloading mail from the server9since
popclient delivers directly yo the spool file, not honoring .forward
Hi all,
this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
because it is very debian related too:
I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remove the package.
I have come at the following but it doesn't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus Therning) wrote on 12.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
When I try to compile my own hello world program I get these error
messages:
gcc -g -o hello -L/usr/X11R6/lib hello.o -lXaw -lXt -lX11
ld: Output file requires shared library `libc.so.4'
gcc: Internal compiler
I notice the Packages file for the unstable tree at ftp.debian.org is out of
date. I though it was updated automatically? Perhaps not...
We know about the problem and are trying to fix it.
David
--
David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using fvwm2-2.0.42-beta-0 on debian 1.1.
I have just discovered that there are some button functions missing.
The menu from the top-left corner does not appear when I click on the
top-left button. Also no list of windows when I click on the right mouse
button.
The raise and lowering
If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that
you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so
Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole fills
up on boot up before boot up is finished, which causes all kinds of
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
R == Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
R and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter.
R Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root?
two
Hi all,
this might be a more unix oriented question but I'll ask it anyway
because it is very debian related too:
I would like to find packages bigger than 459976 bytes and split them
with dpkg-split, if splitting is succesfull I'll remove the package.
I have come at the following but
I have a HP laser printer model LJ5P. I always use
gs as my filter for postscript files. Unfortunately the
drivers in gs only access the low resolution mode in
my printer (plain laserjet driver). Does anyone has
the driver for 600 dpi mode, for ghostscript?
Well, as far as I
Hi users,
I found the solution (with help from Steve Preston, Kenvin Dalley,
Ray Dassen and Jan Wender).
now I use the following:
find /home/ftp/pub/debian -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'| \
xargs -l -i sh -c dpkg --info {} /dev/null dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
This gives a lot of
The diald package removes all the hassle of starting and shutting down
network connections over a transient link, incidentally - you might
like to investuigate that.
Is there a debianized version of diald 0.14 out there? (ELF). With the
dctrl tk tool, too! (I can email it to the one
Richard Kettlewell said:
Also, do someone know how to ask sendmail really not to make DNS queries?
This is somewhat that starts up diald when one does not want, and it is
really annoying.
In your m4 file, use the following options:
FEATURE(nodns)
FEATURE(nocanonify)
--
Scott Barker
Linux
Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then
a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a
singe package to be installed/removed, and a method of seeing which package
(installed) is older than its archive version (and will therefore
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
Find only replaces {} with the filename under -exec. You have piped
the output of the
When I try to compile my own hello world program I get these error
messages:
gcc -g -o hello -L/usr/X11R6/lib hello.o -lXaw -lXt -lX11
ld: Output file requires shared library `libc.so.4'
gcc: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 6
make: *** [hello] Error 1
Compiling the
Hi,
Yves == Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yves Is there a debianized version of diald 0.14 out there?
Yves (ELF). With the dctrl tk tool, too! (I can email it to the one
Yves making the package if needed).
well, it's not out there, but I have one I built for personal
use (I
Craig Sanders writes:
On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
R == Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
R and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter.
R Why do you want it to be able to run
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:
I don't even have it :-( Why? Was it removed from the latest base package
installation proc.?
Run ps as root, and you'll have it. See the ps manpage for details.
Guy
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
I don't think you technically need fvwm2, (but it's nice.) Also rxvt is
supposed better on mem than xterm, and xcontrib probably has neat stuff but
I've never uninstalled it to see what disappeared. Most people will use
xkeycaps eventually since
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Dselect proposed interface (was Re: 1.1
installation notes.)):
...
Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then
a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a
singe package to be installed/removed, and a
On Mon, 13 May 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {}
I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
Two mistakes and an admonition:
You need
Jean Orloff writes (Re: disabling daemons from init.d ):
[Ed Donovan writes:]
like to conserve as much memory as I can. My question is, what's the best
way for me to disable the services started by the init scripts like
netbase netstd, etc, while not deleting the files? At first, I moved the
Is anyone out there using 3D graphics cards with Linux? The only one I
know about is the Matrox Millenium that works with Accellerated X.
I need X support and Open GL, and as much rendering power as possible.
Thanks
Bruce
With the zsh package version 2.6-beta13-2, there is something really
strange happening when root uses zsh: if I do a
% su
I get a new shell that is *not* a root one, where when I do
% su -
I effectively get a root shell. This is especially strange as the su
command works
The search system has not responded tonight while I was searching
for a solution to this problem.
I have just installed the root and base diskettes and performed
a basic configuration of v 1.1 on a raw system. I have a 3com 3c503
ethernet card that is apparently not recognized. I seem to
On Tue, 7 May 1996, Steffen Mueller wrote:
Maybe there should be an 'unsupported' directory for packages which
have been released but don't have an active maintainer...or is this
what 'contrib' is for? Also, allow any package in 'unsupported' can be
adopted by anyone who takes the time
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you try bringing up xconsole and see nothing, then it's possible that
you've already been logging messages for a while and the pipe filled up, so
Has anyone noticed that with recent kernels, the pipe to xconsole fills
up on
The search system has not responded tonight while I was searching
for a solution to this problem.
has not reponded is a very vague description. Can you give a better
one please?
another question(s): what good is an extensive mailing list archive if the
search system does not work? Also, why
What DOS-Client do you use? I had success some time ago with XFS, a
ftp-able DOS-Client. You selected the pcnfsd-Option in linux-kernel
too? Just suggestions.
- Andreas.
--
Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009
Andreas Wehler; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am unable to configure my system with a EtherLink III ( 3C509B-TP ).
Does any body had this kind of problem before.
Thanks for helping me,
Patrick.
In Debian 1.1 beta, there seams to have no man page installed for the gs
package, there is a directory /usr/doc/gs full of ghostscript documents
though. Do one really need the gs man pages? If so, how to install one?
This is a major bug indeed!
It is caused by the gs-makefile not
Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then
a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a
singe package to be installed/removed, and a method of seeing which package
(installed) is older than its archive version (and will therefore
I installed fvwm2 but still get the xterm that comes as the default.
If you start X with 'xinit' or 'startx' and do _not_ have an X startup
script in your home directory, you will be punished by being presented with
an X term that could only be read by people under the age of 20.
You can
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