Rob,
I still haven't got ftape reinstalled here, so I don't have any new
suggestions other than that you might want to ask for help on the
'linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu' list. Claus-Justice Heine, the ftape
author, is quite active on that list. I understand that he has
just released a kernel
Hi there,
I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.
Thanks,
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Running well on Debian ver 1.3 Kernel 2.0.27
Jens wrote,
Mark, making this sort of remark is probably unethical (if you have only
hearsay rather than person experience on which to base your accusations) and
just plain uncool. Did you order a cdrom and never receive it? I did. And as
soon as I sent him an email about it he sent me out
No wait a minute here, I do not know any of the people involved with this
company but, I received a message from paul asking me if I wanted to wait
1 more day for some additional files and I said yes. The the weather hit
and I have not heard any more from them. He answered every message I send
I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.
Sure. Netscrape is not particularly well-written software. It
crashes fairly often, under Linux or Windows or
What makes RH that much simpler to use?? I find dselect simple, and
linux == linux so config files are fairly standard. Yet I have heard
I have been using Linux for about 5 years and am currently administering
an ISP (running Linux). I did not expect much trouble installing debian,
however
There is work being done on improving the installation. The
problems do arise from the great flexibility of debian. I agree that
not trying to install everything in one pass is the way to go. It makes
things much simpler. In the end, I think the debian packaging system does
a good job
I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.
Happens here too, especially while I started into hamm, but seemed to get
better as I installed more hamm packages
I finally tried 'xanim' and that's one slick package. While the command line
interface is fairly easy to work with, has anyone designed a menu interface so
that like 'mc' (midnight commander), one can use the arrow keys and such to
select a movie for display?
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On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 06:49:33PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote:
My 'plog' command has stopped working--by that I mean that when I type 'plog'
nothing is printed. And possibly related is the fact that my ppp.log files
are empty. I'm running the latest from hamm.
Any ideas?
For some
On 19-Jan-1998, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it is because of the conflict resolution screen and the fact that
Debian offers more alternatives than Red Hat. Maybe there are TOO MANY
alternatives offered for a new install.
Example ... try selecting cnews on a clean instll
Hi,
I'd like to know if there is any Debian/Linux support for Sony VAIO
Notebook
in term of special kernel/X11/modem/etc of anykind?
Thanks!
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On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Mark W. Blunier wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
Has anyone heard from greenbush, I ordered a cd and then when the bad
weather hit up north, have not heard from them. I hope everyone is ok
up there in snow land.
Does anyone know why the free command would report that the swap space
used is growing? A lot? Is there a swap leak bug?
For example, no swap is being used immediately after booting the box. This
is good. Then after using various and sundry applications, AND EXITING OUT
OF THEM, the free command
On a related note -- what is the best way to install Accelx4.1 on a hamm
or bo system?? Last time I tried (I was running bo) it overwrote xfree's
xkb and a few other things.
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.67 1998/01/20 04:59:47 johnie Exp $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/.
1.2. Purpose of
Tyson Dowd said:
At the moment, Debian seems to be more popular as a second system --
once you've tried a different Linux first, or used other Unix systems
you appreciate and enjoy the flexibility of the Debian system.
I would definitly agree with that observation. I am currently setting a
freind
Regarding Updating the kernel via patches of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I
used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files
patch-2.0.31.gz
patch-2.0.32.gz
patch-2.0.33.gz
The
I started with an up to date bo distribution, and used the 'upgrade'
script (version 0.11) that was posted to the list a few days ago.
It mostly worked, but there were three problems.
After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont
work with vi keybindings, even if i
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On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 11:55:42PM +0200, Robert Moody wrote:
I was wondering if any of you have come across Netscape 3.04 exiting
with a Bus error. It is not a critical problem just every now and again
it decides to exit for me.
What files do you have under (from memory) /usr/linux-libc1/X11?
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Any ideas? I want to install buzz to test the auto-upgrade.
Might have to use rex disks. All the hardware I have is an IDE
hard drive, a floppy drive, an ISA IDE controller, a Trident 8900CL
video card, and a 486DX2-66 overdrive chip, and 16mb RAM.
It doesn't seem to be
[snip]
Joost wrote:
When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a
486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide
interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom.
IIRC it hung while the md driver was probing, but
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 02:48:42AM -0500, Rick Jones wrote:
That's a ways back. I had that happen. *If* I remember correctly it
had to do with using the dma channels to access the EIDE. I believe I
got the error from not allowing the PCI BIOS to handle the interupts for
the EIDE. It was
Hi !
After I installed Debian-Linux on my system there is still one
problem with xman - xman does'nt use the same quantity of manpages
like man !
e.g. man scanf shows the manpage of scanf but xman says: no manual
entry for scanf.
How can I update the uses database from xman so that it uses all
I am trying to install Debian for the first time. When I try to
boot the Rescue Disk, it stops and stalls at the Hard Disk Partition
Check. That is while booting you will have something that looks like:
Partition Check.
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
and then it should continue
Hallo,
Since upgrading to Debian 1.3.1 lynx would not show the cursor on a tty.
I then tried to solve the problem by putting
show_cursor=on
in both my ~/.lynxrc and /etc/lynx.cfg files, but that did not make any
difference. Why?
I solved the problem by putting
alias lynx=lynx -show_cursor
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What files do you have under (from memory) /usr/linux-libc1/X11?
Some missing symlinks will stop Netscape from starting properly,
with a bus error or segfault.
Not the infamous xlibc bug again! :)
The path is /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11. It needs
Since so many people complain about Greenbush Technologies delivery
record, here's a success story:
A friend ordered cd's from Paul Wade' company and he got them delivered
pretty fast (in days), considered that the cd's had to be sent to Europe.
So, at times, they do get it right.
The cd's
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Joel Klecker wrote:
Regarding Updating the kernel via patches of 5:14 PM +0100 1/19/98,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
recently I tried to update my kernel (2.0.30) to version 2.0.33. I
used the script patch-kernel (I hope the name is right) and the files
patch-2.0.31.gz
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
Hi, Craig!
I updated libc5 to libc6 on 2 computers (Debian 1.3 was installed in
Nov-97 and Feb-97) using your script. Worked fine for me.
glad to hear it.
Updating the rest of the packages with dselect is still quite painful.
worse than
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 10:05:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
worse than ever now :-). there are over 1700 packages in hamm (counting
main, contrib, non-free, and non-US)...several hundred more than in bo.
Just FYI, there are only 460 odd in main in buzz!
That's progress ...
Hamish
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Here's a pretty kettle of fish:
the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
ftp user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dselect doesn't seem to be designed
Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to
check when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the
like? I think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and
wanted to check out the possibilities.
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On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 08:32:30AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to check
when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the like? I
think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and wanted to
check out the
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Andrew wrote:
Here's a pretty kettle of fish:
the method recently recommened for ftp proxies with dselect doesn't work,
because my lovely isp requires you to login to the proxy using your
username and password, and to get to the site by issuing a
ftp user [EMAIL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally tried 'xanim' and that's one slick package. While the command line
interface is fairly easy to work with, has anyone designed a menu interface so
that like 'mc' (midnight commander), one can use the arrow keys and such to
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 08:32:30AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Can someone point me to the webpage that gives a list of things to check
when you get sporadic segfaults from kernel compiles and the like? I
think I might have a defective RAM chip (ECC RAM at that) and wanted to
check
Michael Sicher hat gesagt: // Michael Sicher wrote:
i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6.
are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think
there is a faq available somewhere.)
or is it better to compile the mysql source instead of upgrading to
libc6?
I
Hello again,
everything works! Now my Linux-computer starts from HD and can
communicate (by using its ethernet-card). Thanx to everyone who helped me
(especially: Stephen Gregory, Sten Anderson, Craig Sanders, Laurent
Picouleau. I hope I didn't forget anyone...).
My last problem I had (the
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I would recommend doing the upgrade. If you strictly follow the HOWTO
in http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html there
should be no grave problems. There even exists an automatic upgrade
script that was discussed on this list some
Greetings Debian Users,
I am in the middle of installing Debian 1.3.1 from a cd I made from the image
files. Unfortunately, my graphics card is a Diamond Viper V330, which has the
NVidia Riva 128 chipset. The XF86 FAQ pointed me to the SuSE web site, where
they are developing a driver.
The
I am trying to install X windows X11R6.3 on a PC running debian 1.3.
Could you
tell me the correct configuration for installing it. Each operating
system has its own configuration file, but the Linux one is based on
Slackware?
Steve Beer
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Dale Smith wrote:
The install is basically untaring the server and xf86config binaries from /.
This is a perfect job for alien, it should make a deb for you. Note, I
have no first hand experience.
Brandon
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At 15:06 Uhr +0100 20.01.1998, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Michael Sicher hat gesagt: // Michael Sicher wrote:
i need to install mysql but the package needs libc6.
are there any problems when removing libc5 to install libc6? (i think
there is a faq available somewhere.)
Hold it! As of today, a
I am trying to install X windows X11R6.3 on a PC running debian 1.3.
Could you
tell me the correct configuration for installing it. Each operating
system has its own configuration file, but the Linux one is based on
Slackware?
The easiest way is to also install the vga16 package, and run
I untarred to /tmp, them copied over the files. Be CAREFUL -- otherwise
you will overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards and
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config -- both of which yu need to configure
XFree86. I made a Cards.deb and Cards.suse and symlinked the one I
wanted to Cards. I switch back and forth
1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: after all,
linux is linux. I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files,
etc... are all notably different; similar but different.
This is like the differences between ATT/UCB unix. Yes, they are/were
both Unix, but... I
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:58:21 -0600, you wrote:
1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup differences: after all,
linux is linux. I disagree, the networking files, setup files, PPP files,
etc... are all notably different; similar but different.
This is like the differences between
I don't remember the original question, but . . . [for that matter, I don't
remember which one was buzz. That was 1.1, wasn't it?]
Anyway, with the paticular hardware we were using, the default kernel for 1.1
would hang on alternate boots. The solution was to hit reset (not power)
after
Addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)
debian-user@lists.debian.org
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Fri, 16 Jan 1998
22:03:55 -0500 (EST)
I believe it is desirable for debian to provide a painless
upgrade route from rex to hamm,
2) It was also noted that:
Newbies also tend to install too much in the initial dselect menu
causing a lot of time in conflict resolution.
The first time I installed debian I installed way to much. I am hardly
a Linux newbie. I found that it was a problem with the individual
packages.
I am running Debian Bo, kernel 2.0.30. I recently recompiled my kernel,
making some changes related to my sound card. I used the kernel-package,
and all went smoothly. I have noticed a minor glitch, however, and I need
some help.
My XWindows system seems to be working well, except for Xterm.
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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debian-user@lists.debian.org
** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) Fri, 16 Jan 1998
22:03:55 -0500 (EST)
I believe it is desirable for debian
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fairly newcomer to Linux here, so hope you (or anyone else) wouldn't mind
answering a couple of basic questions for me:
Nothing to be ashamed! I'm a newcomer, too.
does rex = rexx (script language found in
Hi All,
I'm new to this, just installed debian Linux from the CD for the first
time yesterday. During the installation, it prompted me for my Ethernet
Card type. Unfortunately, I have the type of card listed in the subject
line, and this card was not in the list of available options. Does
anyone
You can use the 3c59x driver for this card.
Rob wrote:
Hi All,
I'm new to this, just installed debian Linux from the CD for the first
time yesterday. During the installation, it prompted me for my Ethernet
Card type. Unfortunately, I have the type of card listed in the subject
line, and
Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade my hamm installation through dselect's FTP method
of retrieving packages. Here are some comments.
* Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are
selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages
(among the ones selected for
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Stephen Gregory wrote:
packages. There are a bunch of packages (in 1.2) that were listed as
required but weren't really. There are also some dependecies that
bug me. Some of the mime stuff complains if you don't install a
I've been installing and reinstalling debian over
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC * Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that
SC are selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only
SC those packages (among the ones selected for installation) that
SC are not already installed?
In my
Hello all,
I have a Debian 1.3.1 box running kernel 2.0.33 up and running. Not
too long ago I added Diald so that I would not have to stay
connected 24-7 to the internet. I am also using IPMasq All seems
to work fine. Diald starts the connection when it is needed, but
there are a few problem
Does anyone know of a `Total Cost of Ownership' study (for government or
industry use) listing Linux?
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This is actually a problem with your ISP's equipment. Well, you may not
even be able to call it a problem, just a quirk of the protocol. Nothing
about ppp says that IP will only come up once per session. In most
configurations the LCP only comes up once per session but that's the only
guarantee
Hello,
Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.
I use X-ISP package to connect (it displays 31.200 connected speed).
I know that when I use the same modem connecting to the same ISP
only running WinNT -- it connects at 56K.
I made
I receive bounces from e-mail this list is trying to deliver. When I
send mail to this list and somewhere it can not be delivered -- I get
the bounce. Why is this?? Why does the listserv not get the bounces.
BTW usually qmail is the other ends mail program.
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got un-made.
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My question is how will this interact with Debian's idea of =
who/what/where my
x-server is? Has anyone used this (or other) server from SuSE? What =
problems
did you have?
I'm using the XSuSE Matrox Millenium II server. Basically no
problems. However I did have to make a link
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Shaleh wrote:
I receive bounces from e-mail this list is trying to deliver. When I
send mail to this list and somewhere it can not be delivered -- I get
the bounce. Why is this?? Why does the listserv not get the bounces.
BTW usually qmail is the other ends mail
Last I heard, SEUL _will_ base on Debian. E-Linux was having a vote on which
distribution to use, and I asked them to remove Debian from consideration
because we can't offer a project with non-free core components the same sort
of cooperation we are giving to SEUL. They can still derive from
What is dselect passing to my ftp proxy???
I can go through the firewall manually but I need to figure out exactly what
commands dselect is generating.
Can I monitor this somehow
I do not have man pages or anything to help me because I can not run dselect
from ftp and I do not
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
* Why does dpkg-ftp insist on downloading all of the packages that are
selected? In other words, why doesn't it download only those packages
(among the ones selected for installation) that are not already
installed?
I've never had a
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:57:45 -0500, you wrote:
I untarred to /tmp, them copied over the files. Be CAREFUL -- otherwise
you will overwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards and
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config -- both of which yu need to configure
XFree86. I made a Cards.deb and Cards.suse and symlinked the one
In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For
example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really
prefer a password system with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to read data from a DAT tape written on a foreign
machine (probably a Sun). I use dd to read from it, but invariably
get 0 blocks.
I am able to read a tape written by a SCO machine, but the SCO machine cannot
read a tape I write.
Following the SCSI
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
These issues are being addressed. For instance, developers are
considering various , typical installations. The next version of debian
should see improvements in installation.
1) Recently someone said regarding all the setup
I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my debian gunzip
to get the first part of it unzipped. I have no idea what to do with the
Thanks!
Bruce
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On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I would really
prefer a password system with more than 8 significant characters in my
passwords.
libc6 supports MD5 passwords (almost) transparently. There may be some
stupid programs that do
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think about
adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One such program
came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use my debian gunzip
to get the first part of it
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
In BO with libc5 I had trouble with a lot of programs that they don't
recognize any other password system than no-shadow and shadow. For
example, su and xlock didn't worked with md5 activated.
Will these problems has been gone with hamm and libc6? I
Looking at debian-faq, I see that it seems to be possible to set
aside a section of disk under /usr/local for unpacking deb
packages. Is this feasible? I have RH 5.0 working well and don't
want to ditch it, but I should like to experiment with debian as
well.
What I am really asking is, whether
Looking at debian-faq, I see that it seems to be possible to set
aside a section of disk under /usr/local for unpacking deb
packages. Is this feasible? I have RH 5.0 working well and don't
want to ditch it, but I should like to experiment with debian as
well.
You might want to
Hello !
I'm trying to use local printer on my server. Every time I want to print
using lpr -Pascii name_of_file or lp -dascii name_of_file I get following
message:
Connection refused
job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts
I already checked
Hi,
I took a look at the FAQ. I think you should change the way the menu is
sorted, e.g. About the FAQ in the middle of the list isn't very useful.
Also newbie question are asked before questions concerning the
installation, etc.
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The answer to this is not as simple as it seems. First of all, I have
observed that in both Win95 and NT, the connect speed reported can be,
interchangeably, the DTE speed and the V.34 speed. What's the max DTE speed
you've got your modem set for? I bet it's 56K, right? Now, since with
wonderful
The ppp setup for PAP neglects the need for user username in the
ppp_options file (or where ever /dev/modem and what not is). And watch
out -- hamm's ppp is rather different.
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On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, IBMackey wrote:
I've been using debian for about 5 weeks. I'm just starting to think
about adding some programs, not in the packages, to my system. One
such program came in the form of program.bin.gz. I figure I can use
my debian gunzip to get the first part of it
Hi,
I took a look at the FAQ. I think you should change the way the menu is
sorted, e.g. About the FAQ in the middle of the list isn't very useful.
Also newbie question are asked before questions concerning the
installation, etc.
Yea, I know, I've created categories as I thought of them,
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
On 20 Jan 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
For the most part, shadow aware libc6 programs should recognise md5
passwords, since libc6 includes a transparent crypt function that
recognises a md5 salt and does the crypt accordingly. Programs that
don't
Vladislav Papayan x285 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.
What else do I need to do to get it going at 56K. And may be I am
connecting at 56K -- but how do I verify it for sure (my modem
is
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Bostjan Jerko wrote:
Connection refused
job 'cfA206debian' trasfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1
attempts
I already checked hosts.lpd (ALL and localhost), hosts.allow (ALL, debian
and localhost) and hosts (localhost, debian).
/etc/printcap
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
how do you convert a passwd/shadow file to md5 passwords?
say i've got a shadow file full of old-style crypted passwords, how do i
convert them all to md5crypt (without having to know what the plaintext
password is)?
I dont think that is
Is chroot broken or something? ... I just noticed that all my users can
access the whole file system over ftp. I had it setup before so that
anyone in the 'ftponly' group was considered a guest by wu-ftp and the /./
in the home directory string denoted the root directory. Now it doesn't
work!
On Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:49:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
does rex = rexx (script language found in OS/2 amongst others)
No.
What are hamm and bo?
They are code names for versions. Debian normally has two (three
for a brief period after the release of a new version) distributions
Hi Craig,
Two problems with autoup to hamm from buzz. Mostly it works well.
Firstly, buzz (1.1.11) has dpkg 1.2.14, which doesn't have --get-selections.
Short of writing a script to do the same thing in perl, the best solution
seems to be to just upgrade dpkg beforehand to 1.4.0.8 from bo,
which
Hello,
Has anyone had any success running TurboTax on wine?
I have wine_0.0.980104-2 installed on my hamm system.
I was able to use it to install TurboTax. Installation
seemed to go smooth and when I start it up under wine, it
almost looks ready to run, but not quite.
All the menus look fine,
The Not-So-Bad Distribution page is at
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nsbd/
I don't know if this has been discussed before. Are there problems with
rolling something like this into dselect?
S.
--
Singing is the lowest form of communication.
-- Homer J.
does anyone know of a perl module to parse config files as used by gated
or the new bind 8.1?
e.g. /etc/named.conf:
options {
directory /var/named;
forward only;
forwarders {
203.16.167.1;
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