> What I'm looking for is the absolute minimum /etc/smb.conf that will
> allow me to share a directory, say /tmp, on the Linux box with the
> Windows box.
Have you looked at /usr/doc/HOWTO/SMB-Howto.gz?
It contains a starter /etc/smb.conf as follows:
-
[global]
; Uncomment this if
> "jghasler" == jghasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jghasler> However, the fact that Patrick couldn't figure it out
jghasler> should be taken as a sign that something is wrong with
jghasler> that lovely documentation.
Hm. Well, I always make it a point to read the big README t
On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Are there any compilers for various languages such as C/C++, Java,
> > Ada, LISP, and Perl?
>
> C/C++: yes/yes++ (and Objectively yes, too :-)
>
> Java: yes, we have both the JDK and freeware java co
Ben Gertzfield writes:
> Look in the stable/disks-i386 directory. There should be a lot of lovely
> documentation in there. Also the README at the top of the CD should help
> :)
However, the fact that Patrick couldn't figure it out should be taken as a
sign that something is wrong with that lovely
I should add, in spite of previous (and often vehement) arguments against
it on this list, that installing the packages f77reorder and f2c will
allow debian to compile fortran77/fortran90 quite well.
J. Goldman
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I've installed 1.3.1 on a machine at work. It's on a (physical) network
with a bunch of Windows boxes running NT, Win95 and WFW3.x. I've added
TCPIP stacks to one NT machine and one Win95 machine, set IP addresses,
and the two Windows boxes and the Linux box can all ping one another
at will. :-)
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are there any compilers for various languages such as C/C++, Java,
> Ada, LISP, and Perl?
C/C++: yes/yes++ (and Objectively yes, too :-)
Java: yes, we have both the JDK and freeware java compilers/tools like
guavac. i don't think that anyone has pa
> Hello,
>
> Are there any compilers for various languages such as C/C++, Java, Ada, LISP,
> and Perl?
Sure, we have gcc/g++ for C/C++, perl, probably something for LISP, not
sure about Ada.
There is also Sun's JDK in non-free.
Alex Y.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Joseph Kulakowski
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> I, on behalf of the Debian developers, apologize for the inconvenience
> caused.
Thank you for admitting that the inconvenience exists. Perhaps the
developers could make an effort to avoid using the names outside the
developer list? It's not clear to me that anyone but the site m
joost witteveen wrote:
> As a data-point: I've got a audible bell here, and I've got less 332-1.
>
> (Still, I don't here anything usually, as I've got XTerm setup to
> translate all bells into visual bells. But if I switch that off,
> I can heare it loud and clear).
Aha, I had set less to use -
> >>joost witteveen wrote:
> ...
> >i.e., mount and cp arn't bash internals. But cat is, so that's why I
> >suggested the use of "cat ..>".
>
> (Somehow I was sure cp was a builtin) cat isn't listed in the docs as
> a builtin either; type cat says "cat is /bin/cat".
Hey, you're right. I am ra
Hi gang,
Well first let me start by saying I love what I see so far (so much
that I am trying to figure out ways in contributing, ie Mirror
Site, codeing as soon as I learn more about Qt etc.). I have two
identical machines. One with Redhat linux and the other with Debian.
I downloaded the dis
Hello,
Are there any compilers for various languages such as C/C++, Java, Ada, LISP,
and Perl?
Thanks for your time.
Joseph Kulakowski
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> "PATRICK" == PATRICK DAHIROC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PATRICK> Hi I recently obtained a copy of Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a
PATRICK> CD, however there were no instructions accompanying it
PATRICK> and I looked in the Debian website for instructions for a
PATRICK> CD installati
On %M %N, Richard Morin wrote
> Hi folks, I'm receiving the following error when I try to do anything with
> lprng. I did have a working printer setup for awhile, but in one of the
> upgrades (I track unstable) something has gone amiss.
>
> Get_local_host: hostname 'joanrich' bad
I have a frien
>>I want to get my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some
Debian packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my modem to dial
out. I'm using the ppp.chatscript with the appropriate modifications but my
log says that the chat script is failing. I can't even hear my modem make
an at
> "larry" == larry ives <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
larry> I have just installed Debian off of disks. During
larry> installation I did set up the basic loopback for my network
larry> even though my machine is not on a network. I want to get
larry> my modem to dial up my ISP so
At 10:33 PM 7/24/97 +0200, you wrote:
>I just intalled the "bind" pakage,answer the cuestions it made me in the
>installation, but how can I say it the IP address and names of the
>network machines?
Check out the DNS Howto at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
I just setup my on do
Hi
I recently obtained a copy of Debian Linux 1.3.1 on a CD, however there
were no instructions accompanying it and I looked in the Debian website
for instructions for a CD installation. Could someone please send me some
instructions on how to begin the installation. Do I still need the floppy
re
Hi
I have an debian linux box as server in an local area network, where
all clientes machines are in Windows.
I have not an DNS server, thus all IP/name translations are doing
through the "/etc/host" file that I have in every machine.
I want install an DNS server in my linux box to avoid
I have just installed Debian off of disks. During installation I did set up the
basic loopback for my network even though my machine is not on a network. I
want to get my modem to dial up my ISP so that I can install some Debian
packages off of the ftp site. I can't seem to get my modem to dial
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Norris Preyer wrote:
>
> > "Jorg" == =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg Delker?= writes:
> Jorg> Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a
> Jorg> mystirious dump error:
>
>
> Are you using e2fsprogs 1.10-4? I got weird errors with dump when I
> "upgraded" fro
> "Jorg" == =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg Delker?= writes:
Jorg> Can anybody help on this? All of the sudden I get a
Jorg> mystirious dump error:
Jorg> - mfg Joerg Delker/2 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Jorg> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP publickey available on
Jorg> demand)
Are you
On 24 Jul, Pure Energy wrote:
> Having thing set with these perms keeps local users from looking
> at your things yes but keep in mind that a local user can look at your
> url, know fairly well that there is an index.html, index.htm or
> index.shtml there. even with these permissions they ca
I found the rc directories in /var/backup along with the file rc.symlink
there. I put them back where they belong. It still seems important that we
figure out what caused this (maybe this belongs in Debian developer...I can
never tell...)
Anyways, another file that was in /var/backup was rc.syml
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:48:35 BST "=?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Delker?="
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Can anybody help on this?
>
> All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error:
>
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP:
Alessandro Barbieri ,
Your email system is severely misconfigured (Actually, I think that that's
part of why you have problems with nfsroot, but see later).
As I didn't want to waist those good 8 minutes I spent chewing up an
answer to your email, I'm now sending it to debian-user. I've already
t
> > do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is
> > not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it
> > by hand?
>
>I've wondered about what exactly bo-updates is too, along with
> if/when/how one should install these packages and/or integrate t
Hi:
My disk space is full while I am installing packages by using
"dpkg -i package.deb".
Then, I cannot access my original status, that is,
"dpkg -l" shows nothing.
The disk full is due to the log file created by configurating package.
After I delete the log file to get back my disk space,
the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all
>manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages
>in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as
>a bug? In the meantime, what should
I've upgraded to less 332-1 and now it has a visual beep. I think it used to
have an audible beep. How can I get the audible beep back?
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable
> When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However
> stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev
> contains th
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, David M wrote:
> Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages
> including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to
> compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted!
>
On 24 Jul 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> > Even if the users home directory is o-rw, and the public_html
> directory is o+rx, any other user can still read the files in the
> public_html directory. (try it)
>
> manoj
Ok this is how i have things setup.. No one can see
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Adam Klein wrote:
> I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all
> manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages
> in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as
>
Antti-Juhani writes:
> No. The name of the current product is bo.
Then why is it not being labeled and advertised as such?
> If stable pointed to unreleased, it would make people confused.
Why would casual visitors ever notice that "stable" and "internal-1.3.1"
point to the same directory?
Let'
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:49:15 -0400, Igor Grobman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> The packages in bo-updates are there for testing by everyone, namely
> the testing group, [...]
I'd be glad to help test these packages, but downloading and installing them
by hand is a hassle (mainly given that I don'
Hi,
Even if the users home directory is o-rw, and the public_html
directory is o+rx, any other user can still read the files in the
public_html directory. (try it)
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava mail
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, David M wrote:
> > > Plug and Play SCAM support
> > > --
> > > The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if
> > > enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices
> > > that support SCAM. Those that don't
> I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment
> on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was
> already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since
> my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already
> had the fix inc
Hi,
>>"Dave" == Dave Restall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dave> This is essentially the point. As an end user I find the names
Dave> confusing. It would help me as an end user if instead of
Dave> posters saying :-
Dave> "I'm using package XYZ from bilbo(or whatever the codename of
Dave> the rele
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just to let you know that I (finally) got my 'SB16 plug & play'
> soundcard working under debian.
> I only was asked for one range ?). Probably nothing to worry about
> since my CD's play fine.
Actually, that's not necessarily an indication that
Hi
We have a DellDimensionXPSPro200n in the lab and it's running
Debian 1.2 . It's an EIDE computer, but we need to connect
Exabyte 8500 tapedrive to it and I was looking for some
not-expensive SCSI adapter on pricewatch.com. I've found that I
can get Adaptec 1505 for just $40. It's listed in
Just to let you know that I (finally) got my 'SB16 plug & play'
soundcard working under debian.
I basically followed what was suggested by Will --> make menuconfig
Plugged in the IRQ parameters and stuff which I previously obtained
from my Window$95 partition.
I must admit that I am still not
at boot the printer daemon always takes too long to load is there anyway
to fix this, i am using debian 1.3
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, James D. Freels wrote:
> do not show up automatically with dselect. Apparently, bo-updates is
> not intended to be in the dselect tree unless the user incorporates it
> by hand?
I've wondered about what exactly bo-updates is too, along with
if/when/how one should install
Hi,
I am trynig to upgrade my libc5 to 5.4.33-5 from unstable
When I do dpkg it tries to replace libc5-dev with libc5-altdev . However
stuff dependes on libc5-dev and dpkg doesn't know that libc5-altdev
contains the same stuff as libc5-dev . So it crushes I tried to remove
anything that depen
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, W Paul Mills wrote:
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady Seekcomplete DataRequest}
> > hda: drive not ready for command
> > ide0: reset: success
>
> I suggest that your try adding the folowing to your /etc/lilo.conf file,
> then rerun lilo:
>
> append = "ide0=noauto
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaya Potter wrote:
:On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
:
:> [1] I've recently started using HP 2 gig Fast SCSI-2 disks. This box has
:> the C3325A in it. Runs nice and cool at 5400 RPM. Much better than the
:> Barracuda I used to have (before it melted in my case
We are not currently mirroring master due to the 5 user limit and the
fact that we are not an "official" mirror site. Lately I cannot get in
to master, no matter what the time. So we are mirroring ftp.debian.org
again, which I'm not totally happy with as it's sometimes behind - but
it's that or n
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and
> neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look?
>
> Also, I'm curious about the trailing "g". What should it be telling
> me?
libre
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> [1] I've recently started using HP 2 gig Fast SCSI-2 disks. This box has
> the C3325A in it. Runs nice and cool at 5400 RPM. Much better than the
> Barracuda I used to have (before it melted in my case with two huge
> fans).. You can fry eggs on t
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> even. I had posted about the Enlightemment WM -- is no one using it? I
> have seen very few responses. Any other nice WM's out there? My only
> (minimal) experience is with fvwm a year and a half ago on Slackware
> 2.0.
Re: the swap question, I've got 64 M
I was notified this morning about the recent CIAC security announcment
on ld.so. I went to my Debian mirror and found that the fix was
already available under bo-updates directory. I *thought* that since
my system was up to date [i.e., v 1.3.1 + ] that I probably already
had the fix incorporated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (tyc) writes:
> My Midnigth Commander don't work well.
>
> F1,F2,F3, and F4 don't make their functions. Why?
>
> What can i do to solve this problem in my spanish keyboard
>
I suppose you run Debian-1.3.1 with XFree86-3.3!? If this is the case
then you have to manually replac
Hi again,
Guess what? I used dselect to install a few (well quite a few) packages
including the kernel sources and utilities. As it requested me to
compile the new 2.0.30 kernel I replied yes. All went ok till I rebooted!
Now just as I get to the lilo prompt all I get is
01 01 01 01
f
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> I've got a fully pnp system, with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative
> Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel. I've been letting
> the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for, anyway ... :) ),
> and sometimes, at seemingly ran
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Paul Serice wrote:
> The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and
> neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look?
>
> Also, I'm curious about the trailing "g". What should it be telling
> me?
>
That it's for 'g'libc.
Shaya
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Hi,
firstly :-
Sorry about perpetuating this thread.
Secondly :-
Thanks for a well cool system to all the people who made it possible
whatever the name is :-)
> I have yet to hear a developer say they are confused. In fact,
> this is the first time I have heard *anyone* say they are
>
Paul McDermott wrote:
>
> hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the
> package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib,
> stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please.
> Paul
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hi folks, I am trying to install pine-pgp package and it depends on the
package pgp. Does anyone know where it is? I have looked in contrib,
stable, non-free, unstable, hamm. Can some one help me please.
Paul
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On Jul 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> I thought that the name of the current "product" was Debian 1.31.
No. The name of the current product is bo. It is also known as Debian
1.3.1 (there is no such thing as Debian 1.31). It's like my name is
Antti-Juhani, but some people have the (irritating) habi
Hi!
I'm running Debian 1.2 with some 1.3 packages. One of these bo
packages is teTeX. I installed all the other tetex packages just fine
-- not counting the hours-long search for old TeX packages [sic].
tetex-extra gives me something unusual. Here's a transcript:
Script started on Wed Jul 23 00:2
On Jul 23, Robert D. Hilliard wrote
> The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly
> illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more than 24
> mb, while one with 97 mb probably doesn't need any.
IMHO, if you *need* swap space greater than two times your physica
The nifty search feature doesn't know where libreadlineg2 is, and
neither do I. Would someone mind letting me know where to look?
Also, I'm curious about the trailing "g". What should it be telling
me?
Thanks
Paul Serice
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Can anybody help on this?
All of the sudden I get a mystirious dump error:
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Jul 24 12:41:50 1997
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/sda3 (/) to /dev/null
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [direct
"R. Wayne McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
this is a problem with the old tex installation. Try this:
cat > /usr/sbin/install-fmt-base
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
^D
chmod +x /usr/sbin/install-fmt-base
dpkg --purge --force-depends babel
dpkg --purge --force-depends latex
rm /usr/sbin/in
Alex Romosan wrote:
> ftp.cdrom.com mirrors master's Incoming.
>
> --alex--
>
Thanks. I didn't realize that this mirror existed for master's Incoming.
Victor
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> Make sure, that the permissions on the public_html are set to o+rx :
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 elmarmartinb 1024 Jun 23 00:54 public_html
You only need to set o+x for public_html with apache 1.2.1
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On 23 Jul, Paul Miller wrote:
> is there a way I can prevent users from looking at other user's dirs and
> still have the public_html function of apache (v1.2.1)?
>
I think you can do this:
If you have:
drwxrwxr-x 6 elmarelmar1024 Jun 23 00:48 elmar
(this is the homedir of user
Hello Lindsay,
have you read my latest good news! :-] BTW thanks alot for all the help
on the NIC problem. I really appreciate it :-)
> I remove all reference to drive C in the bios - Linux finds it anyway.
Yep I did it and it worked! :)
> Set to Only or Master - it will not work as a slav
> > Plug and Play SCAM support
> > --
> > The default setting is disabled. They mention in the manual that if
> > enabled than SCSI ID are automatically assigned to those SCSI devices
> > that support SCAM. Those that don't usually are not affected (except
> > some olde
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Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> anyone have the setup to view deb files with mc (Midnight Commander) as
> it can with tar.gz, rpm, etc..?
yes, you need the latest mc (4.0.4) or change the mc.ext in the
following way:
# deb
regex/\.deb$
Open=%
Dear friends,
I finally got my NIC card and Linux "happily married"! ;) Well at least
during the "honeymoon" (well I only tested pinging thus far! I hope I am
not celebrating too soon... :-o Anyways it *is* a step forward!)
I would like to thank everyone out there for their support. Without
>>joost witteveen wrote:
...
>i.e., mount and cp arn't bash internals. But cat is, so that's why I
>suggested the use of "cat ..>".
(Somehow I was sure cp was a builtin) cat isn't listed in the docs as
a builtin either; type cat says "cat is /bin/cat".
Just curious
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Hi,
I have upgraded my 1.2.x (kernel 2.0.30), to 1.3.1.
I have used the old kernel and modules (2.0.30)
the boot process is "missing something"
Modules are not loaded correctly for examples vfat is not
loaded ( because it fails to recognize and load fat before vfat ).
two lpd processes are start
At 09:27 AM 7/24/97 +0300, Mikko Väkiparta wrote:
>How I can run some script on every day (clock 00:00) automatically?
Use Cron check the manpage for context see also crontab
Cron wakes every minute and checks /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly,
/etc/cron.monthly and all user crontabs. the cronta
How I can run some script on every day (clock 00:00) automatically?
Mikko Väkiparta
Ananda Communications Oy http://www.ananda.fi
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1. Note
I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.
Hi,
>>"Robert" == Robert D Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM.
Robert> The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly
Robert> illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more
Robert> than 24 mb, while on
At 06:13 PM 7/24/97 +1300, Adam Shand wrote:
>And when I try and uninstall shadow-passwd it is of course a required
>package. Is there a nice way to overcome this which won't end up with
>duplicate packages installed?
>
># dpkg -r shadow-passwd
>dpkg: error processing shadow-passwd (--remove):
> T
I installed the three shadow packages from experimental quite a while ago.
I now find that when I try to upgrade them to the latest version of passwd
that I get this message:
# dpkg -i /debian/passwd_961025-2.deb
dpkg: regarding /debian/passwd_961025-2.deb containing passwd:
passwd conflicts wit
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Jakob Borg wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I want to enable the users of my webserver to use certain CGI-scripts
> (provided by me) by using mod_include.
> To do that, one would use the tag ,
> but one could also use the .
> That last possiblity is what I want to eliminate. One way would be
Hi!
I have just installed my first Linux system on a Cyrix200-based
computer, using Debian 1.3.1/1.3.2. I have now got it up and running --
except for the mouse and the modem.
I have an internal 33.6 BOCA modem and a serial, two-button mouse
with the Microsoft logo on it. The BIOS
Thanks for all the help -- this list has been great to me and many
others. In the weeks to come I hope to be able to give my own time to
helping others in this group. I need to get Debian running first ;-)
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I agree that the 3x swap rule makes little sense on high end systems. A
guru friend of mine explained it as "if the kernel needs to swap out
your memory it might have to swap the whole thing so you should plan for
that". He believes you should use 1.5x your RAM on high end sytems ( >=
32 MB). I
I've read some of the Debian policy information, which says that all
manpages should have 'gzip -9' run on them. However, some of the manpages
in my /usr/man directories are not gzipped. Should this be reported as
a bug? In the meantime, what should I do?
Adam Klein
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> anonymous ftp users can't see any directories.. they can change to them,
> but can see anything...??? I used the package defaults.. what could be
> wrong?
>
> -Paul
Did you try the addftpuser script? I can't seem to find the docs on it right
now, but
I had a similar problem and this fixed i
Robert D. Hilliard writes:
> Another criteria for code names - they should be short enough to be quick
> and easy to type, thus minimizing typos. IMNSHO hamm is at least one
> letter too long.
Ah. Well, that's easy, then. Just call them "a", "b", "c",
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On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Rafael Castillo Mejia wrote:
>
> hello all...
>
> well my question is:
>
> i want to settup my modem, but i can get that linux start my modem.. this
> one is on COM3 how do i do for settup my modem
>
>
> thank
>
>
> RAFEL CASTILLO MEJIA
>
>
who kno
Well since this seems to be such a "hot topic" ;) I felt I should give my
opinion.
Well here it goes
I think the current naming convention is fine. :-)
Of course the symlinks *have* to be there to make things clear to everyone.
And despite not being a developer I still love to know w
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I installed the StarOffice 3.1 tarballs on my brand new Debian 1.3.1 system and
I can't get the spell check to work. I changed the line in the sd.sh file that
said:
LANG=us to
LANG=en_US
in case that has anything to do with it
Everything else seem to work fine
ftp.cdrom.com mirrors master's Incoming.
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> How about Taurus, Accord, or Jetta? Do they mean anything about cars?
> No... They're just names of products.
> It's the same for Debian.
I thought that the name of the current "product" was Debian 1.31.
> Not to mention that the codenames used in Debian are supposed to keep
> people away fro
ON Wed, 23 Jul 1997 19:26:54 -0400, Victor Torrico wrote:
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> Hello All,
>
> Once in a while I need a file or two from the /debian/Incoming directory at
> master.debian.org. Since they only have a five user anonymous ftp limit it's
> very hard to access the site. Most of the time you can't get
> I have 96M of RAM, I use swap space of about 3 times my RAM.
The rule of thumb of three times RAM has always seemed highly
illogical to me. A machine with 8 mb probably needs much more than 24
mb, while one with 97 mb probably doesn't need any.
Bob
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Another criteria for code names - they should be short enough to
be quick and easy to type, thus minimizing typos. IMNSHO hamm is at
least one letter too long.
Bob
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This was covered in the list some time back. If you
ldd /home/ftp/bin/ls
it will tell you what version of libc it is linked against.
elm# ldd ls
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000a000)
Then ls -l /home/ftp/lib and see if you have the right version.
elm# ll ../bin
total 583
-r-xr-x
> > Well I just disabled the BIOS and it worked... Is this ok to do?
>
> yup, i do just the same on my setup - i pretend to the bios that i dont
> have any ide disk, so that i can boot on my scsi drive.
>
> of course, this does not work for people who use a so-called operating
> system that depen
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, David M wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I have just added a master IDE drive (primary IDE) to my linux setup. Now
> it is trying to boot from it rather than my SCSI HDD (the one where Linux
> is). Can I change this? I had my drive setup as a slave b4 (without a
> master) and e
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