On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, James A. Treacy wrote:
http://www.debian.org/mirror.html
For some reason, there doesn't seem to be a link from the rest of the
site to this page.
There is, but it's buried. Guess it should get a link from the developer's
page.
Yeah, that'd make sense. Maybe under
Ralph Winslow wrote:
The Debian distribution is very large - you're far better served to
install
the base system only for an initial installation, and then choose e few
packages
at a time to install. If you take this approach, your chances of
success will
improve ... vastly.
Sounds like
I've had to repair a system whose filesystem was slightly corrupted.
It's in good shape now, except that, from the console, a login for root
does not request a password, it just logs you in.
And tty0 does not even prompt. It just logs in as root.
I believe that the installion script did not
Timothy M. Hospedales wrote:
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup.
It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died.
Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message?
Try adding -lcrypt to the gcc command line. Libc6 breaks this out into it's
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote:
Dear Nick,
Read your reply to Daniel Mashao and it was very
informative. I too am setting up a e-mail server and have the
following question? To have a smtp mail server set up on the linux
machine do i need a
Am I getting this digest correctly. It comes as several attachments, which are
kind of cumbersome to open one at a time. Plus, I'm not getting all the
messagesonly 5 out of 16 this go arounddo I need to reconfigure
somehow?
Thanks
Henry Hollenberg
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David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds like very good advice. Since I don't have a backup system for the
Win95 partition, I have to move very, very carefully. I think if I can
once determine 1) the best boot method for this system, and 2) figure a
way to install a bootable Win 3.1
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote:
Hi,
I like to have personal web space turned on (ie http://server/~tim/), so I
can easily access files (such as lynx bookmarks - point the bookmark file
at /~/HTML/bookmarks.html, I can then pick this up on any remote system).
What I want to know is,
On 30 Jan 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's
probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to
reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran
ldd and strace and the output is attached here. I
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
I'm trying to install GNOME (from the source distribution, I'd like to
work on it). However, obviously I need to install the gtk library, so I
went to my local Debian FTP site to retrieve the gtk library as a debian
binary package. However,
On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Richard A. Guay wrote:
Hi,
This is a strange problem. I have an old debian system being used as an
router. It is Debian 0.98. Evidently, the getty program must be corrupt
because I can not get access to the system from the console (nor remote since
I
disabled the
Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently I am runnning netscape on win 95 -- my distribution CD
debian linux had a corrupted netscape package and I cant install it
-- and am wondering if there is any way I can download netscape (in
win95) and then - boot up linux and install it?
The Netscape
Finally I decided to retry RedHat since it had been successful in the
past, but this time at the LiLo prompt I took a wrong turn and tho linux
would boot after that, I couldn't boot into the Win95 partition anymore.
Will it boot anything?
If it will boot linux and not win95..then you probably
Cheng-Chang Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My other editors can handle arrow keys well, but ae can it only under
text mode, not under X. it prints ^[[C when I press left arrow key?
I've found it works if I select Application Cursor Keys after
starting it. I've never bothered reporting a bug on
Here's a couple of tricks I worked up for using fetchmail and signify as
daemons. Put these in your .login or .profile .
First, I wanted to make sure fetchmail was running; answer, just run it
from the .login, right? But I didn't want to bitch about waking up to
grab mail that it was going to
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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
I tried to implement these solutions using the start-stop-daemon, but I
encountered a number of difficulties with that approach, not the least of
which was that the --help option lied to me; if you give
Check it out. Henrik says Filerunner is now GPL
software. Has the Debian development staff seen
this?
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/HISTORY
Art Lemasters
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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
Here's a couple of tricks I worked up for using fetchmail and signify as
daemons. Put these in your .login or .profile .
First, I wanted to make sure fetchmail was running; answer, just run it
from the .login, right? But I didn't want to bitch
Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS.
I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home.
Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with
chown and chmod, I still do not have access to the
device (/dev/hdc1 mounted in /home). Do any of you
have any ideas as to the cause
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS.
I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home.
Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with
chown and chmod, I still do not have access to the
device (/dev/hdc1 mounted in /home).
Hi!
Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can
build own binary packages from self-compiled source code?
Thanks.
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Would anyone know how to verify that I am connecting to
Internet at 56K. I run Debian hamm + 2.1.78 kernel.
I also have an USR 56K modem, and I am getting the following connect messages
Feb 1 11:23:08 pequod chat[310]: CONNECT 33600/ARQ/x2/LAPM/V42BIS
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Hello world,
Are there any packages/programs/whatever that provide nice, readable
summaries for the various logs in /var/log? Things along the lines of
the daily Usenet summaries that inn produces, but for things
such as apache, inetd, mail, the ip paranoia
How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files
of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks
to them?
Now I've got:
package=debian-hamm
site= ftp.nl.net
local_dir=/home/joost/debian/hamm
remote_user=anonymous
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I'll create a section called Debian Tips in faqomatic, and put this as the
first one to start it all :-).
Sounds good?
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Here's a good one that wired did because of netscape, but went into the
benefits of free software. It talked about redhat a fair bit, but
included debian when refering to popular linux distributions.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/9966.html
Brandon
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Brandon
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Kirstin S. Reese wrote:
I've had to repair a system whose filesystem was slightly corrupted.
It's in good shape now, except that, from the console, a login for root
does not request a password, it just logs you in.
And tty0 does not even
joost witteveen wrote:
How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files
of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks
to them?
Now I've got:
package=debian-hamm
site= ftp.nl.net
local_dir=/home/joost/debian/hamm
remote_user=anonymous
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes:
How do I mirror hamm-only, so that mirror actually gets the files
of the packages that still reside in bo, rather than only the symlinks
to them?
This works for me:
$ mirror-master /etc/mirror/mm/Hamm
where
/etc/mirror/mm/hamm --
I have just compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with make-kpg but I get a final
error 'sync' not found.
I am using libc6...
I have searched my disk, and the latest Packages file and cannot
find a reference to 'sync'
Can anyone help?
Thanks, frere Roy
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On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 04:30:33PM +0100, Frere Roy wrote:
I have just compiled the 2.0.32 kernel with make-kpg but I get a final
error 'sync' not found.
I am using libc6...
I have searched my disk, and the latest Packages file and cannot
find a reference to 'sync'
it's in fileutils
On Sat, Jan 31, 1998 at 10:28:32PM +0100, Your Name wrote:
Ich bin Anfänger und möchte gerne eine grafische Oberfläche aus der Debian
Distribution installieren. Aber wenn man mit Dselect arbeitet muß mann
einen Device Block angeben oder das CDRom Laufwerk lit dem Befehl 'mount'
montieren. wie
On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 07:40:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Branden Robinson wrote:
I tried to implement these solutions using the start-stop-daemon, but I
encountered a number of difficulties with that approach, not the least
Does anyone use the .tin/attributes file of tin?
I do not manage to make it work, even if I use the example given in the
man page. I already sent a bug report about this (#17588) and the new
version does not solve the problem. (whereas it should work)
Am I the only one in that case?
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hi
i have the following ModeLines:
# 640x480
#ModeLine 640x480 31 640 664 704 832 480 489 492 520
# 800x600
#ModeLine 800x600 45 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
# another 800x600
#ModeLine 800x601 50 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666
# 1024x768
ModeLine 1024x768 75 1024 1048 1184 1328 768
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On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Sebastian Kaps wrote:
Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can
build own binary packages from self-compiled source code?
Take a look at the Debian web site http://www.debian.org and it will have
a link to
Hopefully I understand your problem correctly. If I don't please let me
know.
The Modelines just specify parameters for various video modes, they don't
pick what mode you actually use. The Modes line in the Screen section
is what you want, e.g.,
Section Screen
Driver Accel
Hi,
I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work.
Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that
(1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and
Mod4, which is nonsensical.
I filled a bug report about that, but in the meantime how do I make
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Christian Hudon wrote:
Hi,
I'm running xemacs20 instead of emacs now, and my meta key doesn't work.
Each time xemacs starts up, it complains that
(1) (key-mapping/warning) XEmacs: Meta_L (0x73) generates both Mod1 and
Mod4, which is nonsensical.
Well, I think
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ftp ftp.rediris.es no works, linux saids I can't resolve ftp.rediris.es
(If I do ftp www.xxx.yyy.zzz things go fine).
I've resolv.conf in the form:
nameserver www.xxx.yyy.zzz
Do you have
order hosts,bind
multi on
in your /etc/host.conf
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Die Sprache dieser Liste ist englisch.
Just as a addition (quote from the debian site):
There is a seperate mailing list for the German speaking users of
Debian. To subscribe to the list send subscribe debian-user-de
your_email_address to [EMAIL
hi
1) could someone comment on the relative merits of emacs vs xemacs??
2) where is xman?? can't find it on the debian binarys cd-rom.
thanx :)
dave
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po box 520; ramah nm 87321
running Debian GNU/Linux.Free at
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
your home directory can be drwx--x--x and the ~/public_html directory can
also be drwx--x--x . Then, no other user will be able to see any files in
your home directory, but any user that knows you have a pub_html directory
can do get a file listing
Sebastian Kaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any document available which describes step-by-step how one can
build own binary packages from self-compiled source code?
You should install the developers-reference package from hamm. Then you
could also check www.linux-magazin.de for a
Note that you definitely should try to write the mode line manually,
because
you want to use the highest refresh rate possible with your monitor and
video card.
My First problem is that I have an ET4000, and it does not read modeline's
in
svgalib (It does in X), it reads
I downloaded hamm at University and our computer dude kindly wrote it onto
a CD for me. The directory system was a bit of a mess, and the CD was
vanilla iso9660 (no Rockridge extensions or anything, eight dot three
filenames), but after installing the first package (I think it was
dpgk-perl)
I downloaded the beta version of the browser, and liked the new look
feel. However, it said it had expired, and wouldn't allow me to link
anywhere but netscape to download the new version. I'd like netscape 4,
but I'd also like to avoid the 10 Mb download and especially the huge
expanse of disk
any chance you could compile exim v1.82 that would work under
devian 1.3.1 ? the 1.3.1 tree only has v1.60 now...
I don't currently have any of the libc5 development stuff on my machine, and
I'm not sure how to do it. There are people who have compiled a few packages
so they will work under
On 1 Feb 98 at 11:18, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 1998, Art Lemasters wrote:
Now, for the reason this is coming from my M$ OS.
I mounted a second, older hard drive to use as /home.
Although I set permissions for the one user (me) with
chown and chmod, I still do not have
Steve,
Thanks for the note, I've put comments interspersed in the quoted text
below, as that seems to be the pattern with members of this list.
Dave
Stephen Carpenter wrote:
Finally I decided to retry RedHat since it had been successful in the
past, but this time at the LiLo prompt
On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 01:03:02PM -0700, Dave Mallery wrote:
1) could someone comment on the relative merits of emacs vs xemacs??
Sure. Use vim. :)
2) where is xman?? can't find it on the debian binarys cd-rom.
xman is in xcontrib.
Package: xcontrib
Status: install ok installed
Priority:
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello -
I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the
command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please?
Thanks
Jerry
http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=58showEditCmds=1
This one reached the Faq-O-Matic. I said
Carey Evans wrote:
David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sounds like very good advice. Since I don't have a backup system for the
Win95 partition, I have to move very, very carefully. I think if I can
once determine 1) the best boot method for this system, and 2) figure a
way to
Hi,
My other editors can handle arrow keys well, but ae can it only under
text mode, not under X. it prints ^[[C when I press left arrow key?
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