On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote:
About the interface, it'd be nice to have something mc-ish. (mc = Midnight
Commander; get it and take a look if you don't have it, there's a Debian
package for it). It's got pull-down menus and dialog
During a fresh install of 1.1 beta, I had problems configuring
my network. I have an older Western Digital (wd.o) card.
There were three problems:
1. The network card was not detected by the boot floppy. After
installing the base system, I was able to switch to vt2 and
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote:
About the interface, it'd be nice to have something mc-ish. (mc = Midnight
Commander; get it and take a look if you don't have it, there's a Debian
package for it). It's got pull-down menus and dialog boxes... it's very
nice, supports gpm mice and
Hi,
My new /dev/sndstat in debian1.1 differs from an old one I installed
myself in an old kernel (without modules). There appears to be several
drivers missing. and Midi device is not set up.
At the moment, I include sound.o in /etc/modules. Am I missing some
modules, or do I have to
Is there a reason debian does not ship with /dev/random and /dev/urandom
mknodded? (mknod /dev/random c 1 8 ; mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9 and they work
fine however)
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal, well-meaning but without
I am unable to configure my system with a EtherLink III ( 3C509B-TP ).
Does any body had this kind of problem before.
I have heard several times that this is due to the card's support for
Plug'N'Play. You can get around this either by booting to DOS first
and loading the drivers for the card,
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
It is recommended you copy system.fvwmrc to ~/.fvwmrc to have a private copy
and edit that.
Not if I don't like the system default and I want to have my own for all
the users!
Cheers,
Carlo
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Patrick Hernaelsteen wrote:
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,
The 3COM Etherlink III card is supported but it may not be in the base
system's kernel. In that
I have been to locate the instructions to upgrade from v0.93 to v1.1. I
would appreciate someone pointing me in the right direction or a reposting
of the scripts/instructions. Thank you.
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?
It's find that does the replacing. None of the {}s are in the find
arguments, however. (And
Hi,
I can't get octave-1.1.1-2 to work correctly on my 1.1 system. I get
the following error messages:
octave
error: failed to load symbols from `/usr/bin/octave.bin'
Octave, version 1.1.1.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
try my script and see if it makes any difference. Maybe the variables DO
have to be explicitly exported.
They do. Otherwise they're only seen in the shell and not in any
program or subshell. The environment is the same whether you exec or
run fvwm.
James == James D Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James I have just installed the root and base diskettes and
James performed a basic configuration of v 1.1 on a raw system.
James I have a 3com 3c503 ethernet card that is apparently not
James recognized. I seem to recall a
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
yeah, but isn't CFLAGS=-O2 make the same as export CFLAGS=-O2 ; make
as far as make is concerned?
yes.
Carlos' script should have worked because that was basically what he was
doing.
Oh, sorry, I didn't see the '\'s.
Guy
Hi,
I always thought that 'dpkg -l' was supposed to show you all *installed*
packages, but, when I do a: dpkg -l 'ncurses*' on my system, I get:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/
hi for us people in the US
can you explain what Minitel is?
Thanks
Charles
(intriguing name)
It's a little hard to explain this... But i'll try to add
a small explanation in the next xtel released package...
(in 2 words, Minitel is a 80's, 75bauds, 5FF/mm, alphanumeric French Web!)
You
Is the command which available in any of the debian releases?
I haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything
installed so I may have missed it.
Cheers!
Richard..
-
Richard Dansereau
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 May 1996, eckes wrote:
Simply remove the S* links from the rc?.d
I had a similar problem. If I install a package and move its cronjob
from cron.weekly to cron.dayly, will the cron-file be replaced on an
update? Wouldnt it be better to store all cron scripts in cron.d
like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 15.05.96 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
Edit /etc/group and add yourself to the dialout group.
I believe the easiest way to do that is to do, as root,
# adduser yourself dialout
MfG Kai
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that
cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on
at the specified time?
(clip)
For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per
day. How could I make
unsubscribe
I spent several hours last night looking through the various docs I have
on X, looking for a remembered reference to the key strokes necessary for
changing the display mode while in X. I was unable to find the reference.
I did find hints that the default mode could be changed but can't figure
out
I have noticed two more problems with 1.1
First, after upgrading from 0.93R6, I'm left with a file /tmp/base.postinst
(I assume the base package didn't clean itself up properly -- I removed the
auto cleaning of /tmp and /var/tmp from the crontabs and boot scripts).
Second, the '-' used in
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
try my script and see if it makes any difference. Maybe the
variables DO have to be explicitly exported.
They do. Otherwise they're only seen in the shell and not in any
program or subshell. The environment
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
OK. This tells sudo that me and root (also me) can execute anything
on any machine. Also, everyone can execute pppd. You could of course
clamp this down to a list of users.
or just have a ppp group and configure sudo to
The following is the latest of my upgrade notes. The UpGrade script is
slightly improved (it can now handle # comment lines). I have also
included the, as yet not completely fixed, devel section list at the end
of this document. It will upgrade you to a development system that will
build a new
Hi,
a couple of weeks ago I reported a problem with the web site:
I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/
The Name, Description, and Maintainer fields of some of the packages are
empty, trying to download such a package results in an Unknown URL error.
Ray responded
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
Hi,
I always thought that 'dpkg -l' was supposed to show you all *installed*
packages, but, when I do a: dpkg -l 'ncurses*' on my system, I get:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Gerry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know of an easy way to make it so that
cron.daily/weekly/monthly jobs get executed even if the system is not on
at the specified time?
For instance, I typically only run my home system an hour or two per
day. How could I make it so that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin M Bealer) wrote on 15.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
'pico' is good for a unix newbie. If you are used to the ancestral wordstar
command set that many dos editors use (even windoze borrows from it ^V=paste
etc.), joe (which is my editor of choice) is good. joe is one
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
yeah, but isn't CFLAGS=-O2 make the same as export CFLAGS=-O2 ;
make as far as make is concerned?
yes.
Carlos' script should have worked because that was basically what he
was doing.
Oh, sorry, I didn't
On Tue, 14 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by
root.ppp and it should be mode 1750.
Can we make that dialout, please? Something already present and used
by (at least) dip and efax.
I suppose that would do the job, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the command which available in any of the debian releases?
I haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything
installed so I may have missed it.
Cheers!
Richard..
Here's a simple shell script I've installed in /usr/local/bin to perform
the same
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu
system? Is there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start
the xserver either as root or as a user, but I can't seem to do
both. Once root cranks up the xserver, how does a
We have a print server just upgraded to 1.1. When we submit jobs from
another machine it prints is fine. However, if we try to lprm job
from the machine where we issued the lpr, we get
print_server: strange name: permission denied
(one more line with permission denied)
Even root cannot remove
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
OK. This tells sudo that me and root (also me) can execute anything
on any machine. Also, everyone can execute pppd. You could of course
clamp this down to a list of users.
or just have a ppp group and configure sudo to allow users in group ppp
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Dan Halbert wrote:
I am unable to configure my system with a EtherLink III ( 3C509B-TP ).
Does any body had this kind of problem before.
I have heard several times that this is due to the card's support for
Plug'N'Play. You can get around this either by booting to
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
(clip)
Is it possible to get xdm to put a login prompt on more than one vc?
e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
so i can login on vc3 but let other people share my machine in X windows
without having to log out...just press ctrl-alt-F4 to
Craig Sanders wrote:
The ppp package should have a 'ppp' group, pppd should be owned by
root.ppp and it should be mode 1750.
Can we make that dialout, please? Something already present and used
by (at least) dip and efax.
I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
When I try xdm as a user (with the server up and running via root) I get
told:
Only root wants to use xdm
Have I got some permissions wrong? Or have I just missunderstood...again.
You have misunderstood. When it is set up correctly, xdm can be started
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Olivier Abad wrote:
Hi,
I can't get octave-1.1.1-2 to work correctly on my 1.1 system. I get
the following error messages:
octave
error: failed to load symbols from `/usr/bin/octave.bin'
Octave, version 1.1.1.
Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 John W. Eaton.
no problems using the 3c503. All I had to do was to list the driver in
/etc/modules. Also, when you try to load the driver by hand, make sure
you use modprobe, not insmod, as the 3c503 is layered on top of
another module. And make sure you run depmod at least once - the new
/etc/init.d/modules
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Craig Sanders wrote:
i don't use xdm at the moment, just startx.
Is it possible to get xdm to put a login prompt on more than one vc?
e.g. have xdm login screens on vc 3,4,5,6
so i can login on vc3 but let other people share my machine in X windows
without having
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
I always thought that 'dpkg -l' was supposed to show you all *installed*
packages, but, when I do a: dpkg -l 'ncurses*' on my system, I get:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
I just noticed that /usr/tmp was a link to /var/tmp with /var being part
of / of course I was working in /usr/tmp :)
All fixed theres 30megs in there now :)
Matthew S. Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdm runs the server for you. Kill your X server, and run xdm as root.
It starts the server, gives you a login greeting and prompt, and then runs
the appropriate window manager and so on after you log in. When you
log out, it kills the server and starts a new one with the login
greeting.
Bill
Does anybody know what happened to dpkg-ftp? I can't find it
anywhere. I have looked in all the directories on ftp.debian.org and
have searched the ls-lR file with no luck. I am wanting to look into
doing an 1.1 upgrade over a ppp dial-up connection during the middle
of the night. This brings
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Is the command which available in any of the debian releases?
I haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything
installed so I may have missed it.
'which' is in debian-utils-1.0-1.
In general, you can find programs by doing:
zgrep proggy
R == Richard Dansereau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
R Is the command which available in any of the debian releases? I
R haven't seen it yet in 0.93R6 though I don't have everything
R installed so I may have missed it.
I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
release is out
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: disabling daemons from init.d):
Simply remove the S* links from the rc?.d
I had a similar problem. If I install a package and move its cronjob from
cron.weekly to cron.dayly, will the cron-file be replaced on an update?
Wouldnt it be better to store all cron
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I
get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server.
A. I can find no xdm process either with ps a or top. Is it hiding?
No, it should be there. You should be able to kill it
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