Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Hello:
I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never
experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line
at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'.
For the record, I use 'xterm's under
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Jonathan Lupa wrote:
I agree that makefiles are the way to go, but I often like to
prototype unfamilliar language features before I use them in
production code. I guess I'm still screwed if I need to specify
unweildly include paths or such since all
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:21:29PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone successfully patched and compiled a pgcc/egcs package for
Slink? I was able to patch for Potato using the gcc source package and a
slightly older gcc source tarball patched with the pgcc patches.
I've not built
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 09:58:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob,
I'm no apt expert. Would you write up a section on Apt for a Debian
Update HowTo? I will voluteer to edit and put it together as well
as providing content. If need be, I will even host it on my server.
The HowTo
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on Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marshal Wong wrote:
I was just using dselect to try to update my potato box, when I got
this message while doing a [U]date.
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Malformed Priority line
E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will, however, write up a Debian Update HowTo which
lists those Unstable modules which people have ported to Slink so that
every other person who wants to do this doesn't have to go through the
agony of researching everything anew.
I know of no
hi *,
i made a mistake changing the owner for all the /bin subdirectory (i
changed it for the user1 instead of root) and now i can't log as user1
neither i can make su - logged as user2. when i type 'su -' i get the
message:
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permited
does any knows how to
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
This is the type of information that should be linked to on the Debian host
site. One should not have to come to the Mailing Lists to find this. The
logical place to put this is with the Gnome Slink update link.
I can see that much of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/
This is the type of information that should be linked to on the Debian host
site.
Unfortunately, the Debian web page is pretty static except for
the dynamically generated package indices. Nothing much
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:05:32PM +0200, erasmo perez wrote:
hi *,
i made a mistake changing the owner for all the /bin subdirectory (i
changed it for the user1 instead of root) and now i can't log as user1
neither i can make su - logged as user2. when i type 'su -' i get the
message:
Ben Collins writes:
Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage.
Because it's too late? Sounds like I should have had debsums
installed from the beginning.
--
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Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | Government schools
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
Ben Collins writes:
Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage.
Because it's too late? Sounds like I should have had debsums
installed from the beginning.
Umm, wrong, most packages come with md5sum, please read
I am unable to optimally use my display card and monitor in Linux
X server works in 4 bit mode only.
Using the Quickstart Guide from XFree86 viz.
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/current/doc/QuickStart.doc
I figured out the use of XF86Setup. It runs fine (infact it runs using
a 800-600
Hey there everyone,
is there a debianized pump around, for slink/2.2.5?
Cheers,
Derk
Ingo Reimann wrote:
when i installed debconf, i was happy, when he asked my, whether to use some
nice gtk-interface or not.
I thought, this was a good idea, and so during apt-get update/upgrade, some
windows pops up an vanishes, but I only see a black box. How do i get rid of
this an switch
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I talked with some Debian folks at Linux World, they indicated
that Potato was fairly stable and that I could safely upgrade a Slink
installation to Potato without problems. However, when looking at the
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is
this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat
match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT
always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with
I have installed debian 2.1 on an HP Vectra Xu
platform with the HP 10/100 Mbps Network Interface.
When I try to configure the kernel module driver,
hp100.o, in the installation or later with 'modconf'
I get Device or resource busy.
I temporarily inserted a LinkSys EtherPCI II card
and installed
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote:
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is
this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat
match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT
There's a Linux HOWTO
Is there any known problems with NIS and the current unstable (as of
9-30-1999)
I have a diskless machine booting that mounts another for it's root (it's
root is seperate of the server and has the latest unstable as of the above
date).
I have added the +: stuff to passwd/shadow,
Thanks I've,
I've been using GTKICQ, it works but sometimes behaves a bit unstably... I'm
still looking for something better.
Thanks again
Bill
Rob wrote:
Ive used them all (X versions) and have had the best luck with GtkIcq. Using V
0.57.
Robert
ICQ 815773
On 23-Sep-99 Bill wrote:
According to the howto I'm following (sortta - it appears to be out of
date, maybe?), I'm supposed to be able to give the command cat
/dev/sndstat and get a list of info on my sound card. Yet when I try, I
get cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device. Yet when I do an ls -l
\dev\snd* I get:
crw-rw
Hello again,
I have a problem. I have two networks 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0,
they have a router joining them. What I want to do is put a proxy
server on one network (192.168.1.0) and have machines on both networks
have access to the Internet.
Can anyone tell me which proxy server to
debs,
is wvdial hanging when the cursor gets a blank line after: - -
starting pppd
@ (date/time) 1999? or am i supposed to do something? shouldn't i
get some
sort of prompt?
ia, t.
bentley taylor.
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According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
find. I went into dselect to look at the package description, but it
doesn't
Ray:
You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get dselect say
the newest version is installed. (textutils-2.01).
Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says
id not found. Whatever is missing/not linked is elusive.
Eric Wolven
Hi!
Kent West wrote:
According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
find. I went into dselect to look at the package description,
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO
*- On 1 Oct, Kent West wrote about Re: Where's the HOWTO's?
Kent West wrote:
According to the FAQOMATIC I'm reading, I should be able to find a howto
in /usr/doc/HOWTO if I have installed the doc-linux-text package. So I
just installed it, and there is no /usr/doc/HOWTO directory that I can
To fix this, do the following:
edit
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.br.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i38
6_Packages
with your favorite text editor (I use JOE), and search for aleph-dev and
aleph-doc. Correct the
spelling of the word optional in the priority fields of each package
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:39:02PM +, John wrote:
Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more
or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows?
Some of the more interesting caracteristics of GoZilla are:
* Restart donwload if connection fails
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