On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 07:01:52PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hello,
how can I change the default colors for xterm?. I need that the command
xterm open a xterminal with the desired colors, instead using xterm -bg
color, for example. I didn't find this information in the man pages.
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 08:31:50PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to install some software that I downloaded as a .deb file,
but it did not come from a Debian mirror. Instead it came from a ftp
download from a developer's web
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:16:45PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote:
When have both icewm and gnome on my machine, and want to be able to
start up icewm without gnome starting up, so I have used
update-alternatives to set my default x-window-manager. However when I
start up icewm gnome also starts up,
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 06:46:45PM +0100, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
[...]
check ~/.xsession for gnome-relational entries and uncomment them
^
Sorry, of course I mean 'comment out' ...
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
begin Andreas Hetzmannseder quotation:
dpkg -i blah.deb
[...]
If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into trouble?
One may create a 'Packages' file for some extra deb-package:
localhost
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:39:23PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
Andreas Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:04:01AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
dpkg -i blah.deb
[...]
If you decided to uninstall 'blah.deb', wouldn't you run into
trouble?
Of what sort
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla.
Nothing I've done seems to work.
I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614.
Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory:
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 05:36:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
For months off-and-on I've tried to add Java and/or Flash to Mozilla.
Nothing I've done seems to work.
I'm currently running Mozilla Build ID: 2001032614.
Here's the contents of my /usr/local/mozilla/plugins directory:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:04:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
I have a dos partition which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access
this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This
partition
is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:04:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
I have a dos partition which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access
this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This
partition
is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:04:21PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
I have a dos partition which belongs to a win98 disk. I need to access
this dos partition from linux, in order to write some stuff on it. This
partition
is mounted automatically at startup trhough the appropriate
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
Hi,
I wondered if there is an easier way to view .dvi.gz files than to unpack
them first to /tmp.
I looked through the optionlist of xdvi, tried pipes, but found nothing
usefull.
[...]
Hi, Sebastiaan,
You may want to try `see
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:31:28PM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
[...]
I mean, I know about logrotate and I ass-u-me that the logs in /var/log
are rotated using logrotate... no?
When I look in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate I see an invocation of
logrotate with the config file /etc/logratate.conf.
Hello, debian-users,
Well, groff's manpages are ...interesting... right?
So I would like to read the documents that came with the package
in /usr/share/doc/groff, but I don't know how to display them correctly.
The best solution I found was something like:
groff -Tascii meintro.me | less
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:50:52PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Actually, no, try:
zcat meintro.me | groff -me -Tascii | less
which will actually translate it. If you're trying to learn groff, reading
groff source probably won't help :)
Yes! This works perfectly.
I didn't even know how to
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
Hi,
I don't have my box on 24hrs a day and cron never worked its magic until
I loaded anacron. But I noticed on boot that both cron and anacron are
loading. Do I need cron if I have anacron? Or do they complement one
another?
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:30:03PM -0300, Martin Marconcini wrote:
Hi, I have indicated syslog to log kernel msgs onto /var/log/kernel
Now Since i use ipmasq with some loggin the file will is growing fast... 2mb
per day.
I'd like to set a cron job that keeps a couple of days back logs and
Dear debian-users,
In spite of the sysklogd scripts in /etc/cron.daily and
/etc/cron.weekly my system's log files keep growing and growing.
In fact they never have been rotated since potato's installation
in October 2000...
Here are the relevant entries in my /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd:
#!
Thanks very much, D-Man,
Sorry for my late reply, I was on a holiday.
I have no experience with C/C++ yet, but I will keep your explanations,
as I am willing to learn.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:18:04PM -0500, D-Man wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:43:04PM +0100, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:03:14PM +0100, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
Hi debian-users,
For the time being I would like to compile some kind of HelloWorld
application, be it with gcj, jikes or kjc. All of the three give me
error messages, and I have no idea how to fix them. Here
Hi debian-users,
For the time being I would like to compile some kind of HelloWorld
application, be it with gcj, jikes or kjc. All of the three give me
error messages, and I have no idea how to fix them. Here they are:
with gcj:
/usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
Dear debian-users,
This is really stupid, but I don't know any further.
Every time I try to compile some java source code - actually the HelloWorld
example from the Debian Java FAQ - I get error messages:
with gcj:
/usr/lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18):
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -, John-Mark wrote:
[...] what is my visible mail name [...]
The visible name should be the name you gave to your computer.
I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail.
When exim asks for your smarthost, enter the name for your
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:51:25PM -0500, Paul T. McNally wrote:
[...]
I suspect XF86Setup and xvidtune will pop up but are not really doing
anything.
You have to be root to make changes via xvidtune effective.
If I select the option to start from scratch I get the errno=11
message as if
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 07:56:48AM -0500, Bob Edwards wrote:
[...]
The line in the /etc/gpm.conf file
reads : type =PS/2, so I changed
the same line to type=PS/2 in
the XF86Config file.
I just did the same thing yesterday, and I also got into trouble...
In the /etc/gpm.conf file there
Markus Fischer schrieb:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote :
However I want to be able to use /dev/hdb as well, as it is a
CD-writer. Do I have to install a specific module to make it work?
Depends, what kind of manufactor, model, etc ? You know
Carel Fellinger schrieb:
[...]
You see, shutdown really needs root privilege, soit.
So either you use the suid trick on /sbin/shutdown (better not, and if not
then there is no need to have shutdown (/sbin) in your path either),
or signal some process running with root privilege to call
Chris Gray wrote:
[...]
Try
# echo 0 /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock
as root.
Cheers,
Chris
P.S.: This works for me, but I have a 2.4.0-testX kernel, so YMMV.
[...]
Well, that's funny: CD remains in jail again :)
I checked /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/lock: It did contain '0' (zero).
I have
Ethan Benson wrote:
[...]
normally anyone whether anyone is logged into the console or not can
press control alt delete and reboot the system (if you have that line
in inittab) adding shutdown.allow changes this so that
control-alt-delete only works when a listed user is logged into any of
Jason Lunz schrieb:
[...]
I've seen it happen where the gnome panel CD player somehow locked the
tray when you put in a non-audio disc, and only its eject button would
work. Try using it, or killing it and using something else.
[...]
I haven't got X installed yet.
Regards,
Andreas.
Hello, Carel!
You should have received the following message earlier, but somehow it
was lost. Here it is again:
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
Hello, debian-users!
There are two users on my debian system, who I want
Hello, debian-users!
There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
/etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names. Now when I press
Ctrl-Alt-Del the system will reboot as expected - although I have to be
Hello, debian-users!
I have two CD-drives: one for regular use and one for additional
writing.
I have been experiencing problems, when I tried to read burned CDs
in the regular drive - well, that wouldn't matter much to me, but I
wanted to try it out anyway. Here is what happened:
$ mount
Kasatenko Ivan Alex. wrote:
Hello Andreas,
Monday, October 16, 2000, 8:26:20 PM, you wrote:
AH There are two users on my debian system, who I want to be able to reboot
AH and halt without being root. For this purpose I created
AH /etc/shutdown.allow with the corresponding user names.
mike wrote:
Try /usr/bin/eject /cdrom or /dev/hd?.
I did so, but with no success :(
I think the problem is, that the CD remains in a twilight status:
neither mounted nor unmounted.
Thank you very much anyway.
Andreas.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 18:47:23 +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder said
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
[...]
Please can you show me a way to make sure that my /tmp-files will be
going to /var?
[...]
Big thanks to all of you: Bruce Sven Ethan Mike ...
Sorry for my late reply. I was completely offline yesterday.
Cheers,
Andreas.
Dear debian-users,
The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB
for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp,
which resides in the root partition, to /var.
This was my plan:
1. Copying /tmp to /var/tmp.root (with /var/tmp.root being created)
2.
Claude Aeschlimann wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem installing Debian 2.2 on my system [...] :
- The first part goes well (both my CD-ROM and CD-Recorder are
recognized) and I can install the base system.
But after the reboot, the installation procedure loops no ends on the
root password
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
[...]
I am attempting to install Debian from a set of official potato-CDs.
Well, the installation process for the base system was rather painless
up to the point when it asked me for configuring 'apt':
Choose the method apt should use to access
Dear debian-users,
I am attempting to install Debian from a set of official potato-CDs.
Well, the installation process for the base system was rather painless
up to the point when it asked me for configuring 'apt':
Choose the method apt should use to access the Debian archive...
Of course I
Michael Tanney wrote:
Everytime I try and use wvdial it sits there and does nothing when it
reaches the point of launching pppd while the modem shows On Hold.
And since wvdial does not require any extra configuration other than
that which it asks you to enter at its configuration time, how
Phillip Deackes schrieb:
I posted some information on this recently. I am sending it again:
I'm sorry. My attention was completely captured by another thread...
My machine's name (hostname) is scgf. If I look in /etc/hosts I see:
127.0.0.1 scgf localhost
In /etc/hostname:
scgf
Lehel Bernadt wrote:
On 26-Aug-2000 Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
Dear debian-users
I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account
on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server
Dear debian-users
I tried to send a test message to my friend who has an e-mail account
on the same PC and from the same provider as me, let's say
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should have gone to my provider's smtp-server named smtp.netway.at.
I edited just a little text using mutt, hit the key for
Morten Liebach wrote:
[...]
My /etc/inetd.conf looks like this:
#:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/sbin/leafnode
#:INFO: Info services
finger
Morten Liebach wrote:
[...]
_IS_ exim running and listening on port 25?
If not, ``SMTP Transaction error'' would be the error message, since
fetchmail speaks SMTP to exim on port 25 (fetchmail says ``Hi, I've got
mail for you'', and exim says nothing, so fetchmail times out and tell
you
Morten Liebach wrote:
[...] I don't have any mda defined in my ~/fetchmailrc,
delivering to port 25 on localhost is the default.
Does this mean /var/spool/mail/... ?
My fetchmailrc:
set postmaster local_username
...OK...
set bouncemail
set properties
Fetchmail complained about these
Florian Friesdorf wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 02:32:49AM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
[...]
My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this:
poll pop.netway.at
proto pop3
user my-remote-username
password my-password
is andy here
mda
Dave Sherohman wrote:
Andreas Hetzmannseder said:
The following domain(s) will be recognized as referring to this
system: woof
Unless your incoming email is addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim will not
recognize
it as being for a user on your system. You need to give
Eric G . Miller wrote:
Your description of fetchmail opening an elm display does not jibe
with my experience in using fetchmail.
The reason for this was probably the following entry in my
~/.fetchmailrc:
mda /usr/bin/elm
fetchmail --version gave me the following explanation:
Dear debian-users,
I ran fetchmail, it read the first incoming message, but then it stopped
and told me the following:
..exim: neither action flags nor mail addresses given.
fetchmail terminated with signal 13
My ~/.fetchmailrc looks like this:
poll pop.netway.at
Dear debian-user,
After running elm (version elm-me+_2.4pl25ME+65-0.slink.0) for the
first time yesterday it created the following file in my home directory:
drwx--S--- myusername myusername 1024 Aug 19 18:29 Mail/
which is supposed to be for incoming mail. Please note the capital S.
null void schrieb:
Suddenly...dselect now shows all packages pending removal...this is
dangerous...Can I make dselect somehow correct itself?
Highlight the corresponding header for your packages and press the key
of your choice, e.g. '+' for installation.
Regards,
Andreas
Christian Pernegger wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I've skimmed the German_HOWTO, played with console-tools and generally
familiarized myself a bit with keymaps and the like - here's what I've
come up with...
The default loaded keymap is de-latin1-nodeadkeys which
Dale Morris wrote:
[...]
If I download a file from the net, where does it go? [...]
The best thing is to create a directory tree like the one on the ftp-
server: /debian/dists/stable/main/... etc. You just need to build the
paths that are important to you.
Put the downloaded files along
with dselect, but there seem to be
some hidden dependencies, especially on recode, xfig and transfig.
I found this out when I checked my filter-file as you suggested.
For the moment I'm happy with magicfilter - Thank you very much.
Andreas
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote
I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
well with it.
I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
Attempting to print a simple text file with lpr filename on my
Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line:
Unknown device: escp2
Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and
over again, so that I have to remove the paper to stop the printer.
I also
I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
well with it.
I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
I'm used to RedHat and am having problems with LILO...
LILO: No changes allow me to select which OS to enter on bootup. I can
change it to Windows or Linux, but not to choose between them. I do this
by editing lilo.conf and then running lilo.
Concerning your LILO-Problem:
If you changed
I've grown a long grey beard (no, not really :) ...) about the
following problem: Attempting to print a simple text file with
lpr filename on my Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line:
Unknown device: escp2
Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and over
I have an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer and I could not get it to work with
apsfilter. I used Magicfilter instead, and the printtool and both
worked for me.
Thanks for your recommendation. I would like to give apsfilter a
last chance. If I can't find a way to make it work, I will gladly
Is there somewhere where I can download man (the manual
command) from the Internet?
You can download man-db, manpages and manpages-dev(as well as any
other package) via ftp (e.g. ftp://ftp.xy.debian.org - for xy insert
a country-code). You find these files in the
./debian/dists/stable/main
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