After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the
quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of
decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided
to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory will set me
back, but
Tim == Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tim You might also want to link /etc/issue with /etc/issue.net
I found that it's not just that simple. I use a `figlet` logo in my
issue files, and the /etc/issue has to have all '\' characters
doubled up, while the /etc/issue.net does not.
Marco == Marco Verhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Marco Excuse my ignorance if I missed something obvious but hey,
Marco I'm new to all this! [g]
Have you found the manuals yet? Hmmm... I guess once you get X
running, you'll have an easier time reading them. :-) Install tkman
when
Rick Jones:
Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I
wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would
be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of
that security hole? I know a programmer would have no
Ralph Winslow:
Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I
try to login, I get the message:
ksh: Cannot determine current working directory
I do get a $ prompt, and when I cd /home/rjw; ls -l, I see my directory
and it's content (largely stuff placed there by me as root).
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
This is somewhat of a bizarre question for this group, but you can
assimilate it. I've just encountered a gentleman from Beijing who has
a mac program which he would like to run on a Intel PC platform. I've
heard mention of a mac software emulator that runs
Thanks to Steve McIntyre and Joey Hess for the info on Executor 2
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At 09:20 AM 4/21/97 +1200, Richard L Shepherd wrote:
Yes I have read that too. However it does see the memory (when I put
mem=128M on the boot line). I'm not sure that cache isn't the problem,
though. It went so well for 3 weeks, then started to go downhill. This
w/e it killed itself
Joey Hess wrote:
Ralph Winslow:
Having used adduser to add me as a user to my system, when I
try to login, I get the message:
ksh: Cannot determine current working directory
snip
I might be completly off base here, but I think I saw someone report this
once and it turned out they
I assume you tried building it from the debian sources? ie. postgres95
1.09? I have looked at your make-output, and am puzzled. I have build
postgres95 version 1.08, 1.09 6.0 and 6.1beta several times on my system
from the original sources, and never had any problems, certainly not like
find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount
I have used this under Dgux, Sunos, Solaris and Hpux, and it has
always worked correctly (although under Sunos and Hpux the switches
are slightly different). I have used it to move root /usr and
Oracle database volumes under Solaris. Time
It could be a lot of traffic on the network or it could be a
hardware problem. I have seen both cause that kind of response.
--Brian
Jesse Goldman wrote:
Hi,
One of the debian PC's in a cluster here is having some minor nfs problems
which, while not catastrophic, tend to slow down the
hello debians
i have a new mouse here and can not get gpm to find it. the new
mouse is called 'Mouse in a box' by Kensington. it is a 2 button serial /
ps2 mouse. (it comes with a serial connector and a ps2 adapter). it runs
fine in dos/windows3.11 with the Microsoft, or IBM PS/2 drivers.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote:
i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and
i just get /dev/xxx no such device.
try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2
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Hi there--
My latest excursion has been into the realm of Kahn, a variation on
Kali. Of course, I'm having some problems, and the answer doesn't seem to
be obvious to other Kahn users, so I'm guessing that it's a problem with
my network.
The setup is this:
1.1.1.1 is a linux machien
David S. Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote:
i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and
i just get /dev/xxx no such device.
try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2
And don't forget to include support for bus mice in your kernel.
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Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like
xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows
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Hello,
I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to
do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default
(nice to have a colored mc :-)).
But what to do to make BackSpace work as BackSpace and Del work
as Delete??? In xterm this works as I want it to
Hello,
I installed the tmview_96.05-1.deb package which I got from
bo/binary/tex some days ago.
At home it works fine at home but in the university
it produces only a very strange vertical pattern.
There aren't any error messages.
The demos of svgalib work well.
Does anybody have a clue
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote:
Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like
xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows
97?
Hmmm, screen-savers should be activated when there is no activity, in
other words when no one is near the
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
When I first subscribed to debian-* lists, I was required to
agree to a number of anti-spam restrictions before being allowed to
post to the list. Violation of this agreement would result in being
removed from the list of authorized
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give
me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't give me any useful
information. Reply soon.
Paul
Ps. read your mail.
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
Would that include the SB16 software configureable
This is more rude then that nice 'find' usage, anyway I moved an old
Slackaware from the partition where I originally installed it to another
partition just doing this:
tar -cSpf- . | (cd /mnt/.; tar -xvSpf-)
Then I replaced two characters in /etc/fstab and everything was working
absolutely
So far Windogs screesavers aren't but a pain when compared to the
ones I see in Linux, to me. I don't hate CPU-time consuming screensavers,
just I use blank if anything has keep running or simply when actuall I'm
not here... But I *like* things like hyper or bouboule or simply laser...
And
Hi,
Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to
another harddisk of 3.5 gb?
I've used ftptool and it works, but it's not so elegant.
thanks,
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Andre M. Varon Lasaltech,
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
David S. Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, System Account wrote:
i have tried gpm -m /dev/mouse -t just_about_everything_i_could_find and
i just get /dev/xxx no such device.
try gpm -m /dev/psmouse -t ps2
And don't forget to
Ralph Winslow wrote:
After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the
quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of
decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided
to spring for the $20 that another Mb of Vidcard memory
Mike Patterson wrote:
Hi there--
My latest excursion has been into the realm of Kahn, a variation on
Kali. Of course, I'm having some problems, and the answer doesn't seem to
be obvious to other Kahn users, so I'm guessing that it's a problem with
my network.
The setup is this:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote:
Hi,
Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to
another harddisk of 3.5 gb?
I've used ftptool and it works, but it's not so elegant.
This was just discussed on the list ;-)
Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and:
Andreas Tille wrote:
Hello,
I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is able to
do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has colors by default
(nice to have a colored mc :-)).
But what to do to make BackSpace work as BackSpace and Del work
as Delete??? In
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote:
Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to
another harddisk of 3.5 gb?
Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and:
cp -a -x / /mnt
If you really
On Tue, 6 May 1997, you wrote:
I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x
option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like
user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be mounted as
before on the new system.
cp -ax
I get the same error. The error is a hda error. So, yes I have a WD
1.2GB IDE on hda.
What am I looking for in my mail?
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
if you are getting hda errors. What kind of hardrive do you have. give
me your hardware specs. I can't help you if you don't
Hi,
I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has
been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail.
Thanks a million.
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
I have looked at your make-output, and am puzzled. I have build
postgres95 version 1.08, 1.09 6.0 and 6.1beta several times on my system
from the original sources, and never had any problems, certainly not like
these. The only thing I consistently
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has
been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail.
give lilo the option (e.g. for 96MB)
mem=96M
when starting, or put
append= mem=96M
in /etc/lilo.conf, run
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?
Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system?
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
Isn't /proc a mounted file system, even if it is a pseudo file system?
Doesn't that make x option (which prevents other mounted file systems
from being copied) the solution to this problem?
yes
Actualy, I'm a lot
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actualy, I'm a lot more concerned with the problem of recursive copy in
something like.
cp -ax / /mnt :(
So just do
(cd / cp -ax `ls | grep -v mnt` mnt)
or something similar.
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Hi ,
Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config
for the matrix millenium graphics card ?
Thank you
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, you wrote:
I agree with Rick M. on this one, although I would suggest adding the -x
option. This way if there are any additional mounted file systems, like
user, or home, then they will be left off the copy and can be
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote:
After X has run for awhile, I notice a substantial degradation in the
quality of the .gif images that I display. There might also be a bit of
decline iin the image quality of the .jpg images as well. I've decided
to spring for the $20 that another Mb
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote:
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote:
Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to
another harddisk of 3.5 gb?
Mount the new disk on, say
Hi,
When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm.
Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to change the default configuration of
gpm at boot time. How could I do this ?
Thanks
Franck
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On Wed, 7 May 1997, David B. Teague wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
cp -ax certainly is much simpler than using find and cpio. Is
there any option to cp (I can't find one) that would keep it from
copying /proc, like the -prune option in find?
Isn't /proc a
Some time ago it was rumored that cp cannot copy files with holes, it
just fills the holes :-( There's even a package to work around this,
perforate. Is it still true that cp -a cannot preserve holes?
Carlos
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Sam Ockman:
Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like
xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows
97?
KDE has a screen saver setup program that is pretty much a clone of the MS
screen savers I've seen -- a picture of the monitor, you
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote:
Hi ,
Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config
for the matrix millenium graphics card ?
Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up
for you.
On Wed, 7 May 1997 18:36:00 +0100 (BST), G. Kapetanios wrote:
Hi ,
Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config
for the matrix millenium graphics card ?
Make sure you are using at least XFree 3.2.this should all be set-up
for you.
You wrote:
Rick Jones:
Yes. I saw the posting to the kde list by Alan Cox, I believe it was. I
wonder if you, or another Debianite, could tell me just how easy it would
be to attach to a tcp port and send/recv commands to take advantage of
that security hole? I know a programmer would
Jens == Jens B Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jens Andreas Tille wrote:
Hello,
I use rxvt instead of xterm because I read it is smaller and is
able to do all things I want it to do. Additionally it has
colors by default (nice to have a colored mc :-)).
Roughly two months ago I did this exact same thing, three times!
Without regard to the options I passed to cp, it *did* do a recursive
copy of /mnt, hung on /dev, and I don't remember what happened to /proc.
What *did* work for me what this (I think):
in root directory,
cp --archive /dir1 /dir2
That would be in the /etc/gpm.conf which is read by /etc/init.d/gpm script
at boot time.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/PIH wrote:
Hi,
When I installed Debian, I made some errors while configuring options of gpm.
Now, I know what to do, but I am unable to
Hey
I thought you might be interested in this message from David Miller.
Apart from the link that is mentioned in the message, for European users it
might be faster to download from
ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/test-kernels/pre-patch-2.0.31.gz
Good luck!
// Remco van de Meent
You wrote:
Would that include the SB16 software configureable card? What used to be
called PNP by some.
Mine is a ESS, and Intel's pnptool won't configure it either, if that's
what you mean. I run its config utility from dos and then use loadlin
to boot linux.
In my case the problem went
You wrote:
...
But everytime I start X I'm stuck with the 1284 mode and I want to use
the 1024*768 mode.
1. CTRL+ALT+Grey+ switches X to next videomode, CTRL+ALT+Grey-
-- previous.
2. You can edit XF86Config by hand. Start X on one virtual console and
'ae /etc/X11/XF86Config' on another
Anyone have the XF86Config monitor settings for the Dell UltraScan? Namely the
Section Monitor Modeline
settings for 1024x768. Thanks.
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On my laptop which has a PS/2 compatible pointing device, the device I use is
/dev/psaux. I had to compile support into the kernel. HTH.
Paul Rightley
On 07-May-97 Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote:
If you have ps/2 mouse support compiled in the kernel it's /dev/psmouse
...
However, as Rick says, all it takes is one cracker.
^^
Oops, I think I mixed my sources
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John Ferguson wrote:
Anyone have the XF86Config monitor settings for the Dell UltraScan? Namely
the
Section Monitor Modeline
settings for 1024x768. Thanks.
John,
I use a Dell UltraScan 15ES at 1024X768 with a Number9 Trio64 card
(2MB), and the following settings work just fine
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Pete Templin wrote:
Was that on the -user list? I didn't catch it. I've been on and off of
the user list, due to a 1.5 week vacation/training session and the job
pressures that result. Now that life is settling back down, I'm planning
on keeping up with -user regularly.
Tan Wee Yeh wrote:
Hi,
I'm terribly sorry as I understand this question has
been answer just a few days before but I lost the mail.
Two option:
1.
say you have 96M,
put the following line in you lilo file
mem=96M
2.
download a kernel patch from http://www.linuxhq.com/
Lawrence,
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Hello,
I'm sort of new at this, so if this has already been discussed before
i'm sorry. I've recently installed Debian (i've used RedHat before...)
and i've
been trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP. I recompilied my
kernel (2.0.27),
making sure it included support for PPP. But,
If you set it as a module in the config you have to do: make modules ;
make modules_install.
Also make sure you have the TCP/IP in the kernel.
It's best to put these in the kernel instead of making them modules.
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Regina O'Rear wrote:
Hello,
I'm sort of new at
This is likely not the right address to be sending this to, but I'm not
sure where else to send this to.
My problem is pretty simple.. I need removed from the mailing list
immediately. I tried to do this automatically from the website, but I
received an error. I *MUST* cancel the mailing list
Franck --
You can run gpmconfig as root, and it will ask you all the relevant
questions.
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