handlers don't take kindly to this!
Thanks,
Brian Servis
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because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
otocol "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Device"/dev/psaux"
SampleRate 133
Resolution200
Buttons 6
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
I haven't had time to debug or track it down. So I am not providing a
solution here but just
not logging out of X but just restarting the window
manager. It is amazing but I can reclaim 128M/256M of swap by doing this
sometimes.
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lout4, 64 Jun 10 1999 /dev/ttyS0
Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a
character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom
serial card'. Where is this file? You didn't list its path. If it is
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I w
ad out over several
different sites.
# nslookup http.us.debian.org
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:http.us.debian.org
Addresses: 209.249.97.234, 141.213.4.21, 63.209.15.252, 207.69.194.216
24.220.0.13
HTH,
Brian Servis
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' . Ash is a POSIX complient shell and supports all 'sh'
functions. I have had sh -> ash for several months now and have not had
any problems.
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ngs that you do in your scripts. Some people prefer to
use su to change the user away from root for these tasks for security
reasons.
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*- On 8 Jan, Joseph de los Santos wrote about "where is the command line
options for the X server located?"
> Hello!,
>
> I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I
> may change the display resolution in dots per inch.
>
/etc/X11/x
option smt_accept_queue_per_connection
to 0 and it will process each mail as it comes in without waiting. The
default is 10. Read the exim spec file for more info on this and other
smtp_accept_* options.
Brian Servis
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*- On 7 Jan, Mark Wagnon wrote about "Re: cron reports re: suidregister"
> On 01/07/00 02:22PM, Brian Servis wrote:
>>
>> If you have emacs20 installed and movemail is not there then something
>> is wrong. Movemail is included in the emacs20 package and should be
ss you have emacs20 installed and you your system by
putting movemail back in place. Then the mode of the file will not be
checked for possible root exploits via the permisions.
Brian Servis
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oppies.
Does anybody know the fundemental reasons why the x86 platform has not
adopted such a setup?
Thanks,
Brian Servis
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Pur
he option is local_domains and is a colon separated
list of machine names that considered local. My local machine is
called(fake name on localnet) brian.servis.snet so I have the following:
local_domains=localhost:servis.brian.snet:servis.snet:brian
This works
lude this info. I think it was even suggested to place the
info in the package control file.
I agree that it would be nice to have a link on the Debian Packages page
to the upstream source to facilitate finding out more about the package
if desired.
Brian Servis
--
soon, Thanks.
>
The latest info from the Release Manager is in the following post to
debian-devel-announce.
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9912/msg00010.html
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*- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Re: Screen black"
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Brian Servis wrote:
>
>> *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black"
>> >
>> > Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can p
*- On 5 Jan, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: Screen black"
> *- On 6 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "Screen black"
>>
>> Does anyone on this mailinglist happen to know how I can prevent my sc
>> screen to go completely black after 10 minutes???
&g
each for more options.
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;default' ncurses thus moving libncurses4 to oldlibs.
The bash package probably hasn't been uploaded to reflect the change. I
just filed a bug report on bash(#54165) for this issue.
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f you
have in internal network that uses the modem as its internet gateway
then make sure and set mtu of the network port to the same thing.
IPMasquerading and other protocols tend to choke if the mtu/mru's of the
different links in
; pollywog.1. Since 2.2.14-1 is
"(l)ess-(t)han" pollywog.1 it returned without an error code in the
second example. The --compare-versions I think was originally ment to
be used in package scripts but it can be handy for things like this.
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kernel version number
then you will be fine.
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[EMAIL PRO
*- On 5 Jan, David Wright wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> *- On 4 Jan, Brian Fuller wrote about "Changing font size for xterm"
>> > What is the best way to change the font size for xterm,
e(XTerm for
xterms, Emacs for emacs, again see the man pages).
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*- On 4 Jan, Pann McCuaig wrote about "Re: Changing font size for xterm"
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 19:41, Brian Servis wrote:
>>
>> To get a list of all available fonts run the command xlsfonts(in the
>> xbase-clients package).
>>
>> To get an intera
f all available fonts runt he command
xfontsel(in the xcontrib package).
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*- On 4 Jan, Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote about "Removing ttyS"
> If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and
> after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the
> command to use to remove it...???
&g
filesystem is mounted in the S35mountall.sh
script.
But for some reason I feel like I am missing something as to why it is
setup the way it is. Anybody else care to add a comment on this?
Brian Servis
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Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
in X? It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
focus of it.
Thanks,
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g. There is a c
library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900,
also used in perl's Time::Local. Authors were using that as the two
digit year or just appending it to 19(not adding), so you are either
seeing dates like 1/1/100 or years of 19100.
rl's Time::Local. Authors were using that as the two
digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing years of
100 or years of 19100.
Brian Servis
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kind of FAQ for bash on Debian/GNU\ {Linux,Hurd}
--
1. How can I make /bin/sh point to something else?
Type
dpkg-divert --add /bin/sh
and then point it to whatever you want. Upgrades to bash won't upgrade
the /bin/sh symli
I have been reading everything I have but can not
> determine if this is a Software or Hardware problem. Any one else ever had
> this.
>
Sounds like a hardware problem, most likely bad memory. Take a look at
the Sig11 page and see if the info on there helps you fin
on't get the warning, =).
See the bug report at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/53/53247.html.
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e. You probably want to run 'apt-get
dist-upgrade' and not 'apt-get upgrade'. The upgrade option will not
remove or change other packages status(i.e. packages will be held back).
Or start dselect, select [U]pdate, select [
estion about dpkg-dev I assume you are using
a version prior to 6.26. Just to make sure, do you have dpkg-dev
installed? In slink dpkg-dev was only a Recommends dependency for
alien, in potato it is a Depends dependency.
Brian Servis
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you can either make the link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux or just
tell it to use /dev/psaux and forget about the /dev/mouse link. If you
want to use the /dev/mouse link then do the following as root.
cd /dev
rm mouse
ln -s psaux mouse
Brian Servis
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12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 1289kB of archives. After unpacking 4247kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
That would have taken a full day to track down all those dependencies!
Brian Servis
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-user and debian-devel for problem packages
before you do an update once you have potato installed. If you don't
have a pressing need to upgrade and are nervous about it then don't and
wait for the release to happen in late Feb.
Brian Servis
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wishtoreporta bug in apt, please see
/usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the bug(1) command.
AUTHOR
apt was written by the APT team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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notes once potato
is released.
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free
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et
> the latest kernel first configure it and then run the apt-get commands.
>
No, the kernel will not automatically upgrade. This topic has been
hashed out before on this list, check the archives. You will need to
grab t
7;s host and playing: my ftp, telnet, and SMTP
> ports are all open.
>
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rt/signed; micalg=pgp-md5;
>> protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx"
>> User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i
>> Organization: I just...
>> Resent-Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>&g
ges
Then add the following to your sources.list,
deb file:/ /
Example:
All my locally compiled debs are in /usr/local/Debian-Src/Debs
cd /usr/local/Debian-Src
dpkg-scanpackages Debs /dev/null > Debs/Packages
echo "de
rt/signed; micalg=pgp-md5;
>> protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx"
>> User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i
>> Organization: I just...
>> Resent-Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>&g
he matching Package lines.
# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | tail -1
321:Package karchiveur version 0.52-1 has an unmet dep:
# apt-cache unmet | wc -l
322
# apt-cache unmet | grep -n ^Package | wc -l
148
Brian Servis
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*- On 29 Dec, William Burrow wrote about "Re: slink --> potatoe?"
> On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>> *- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about "slink --> potatoe?"
>> >
>> > Ok,
>> > I hav
d configure the packages. Note you will need ALOT of
space in /var/cache/apt to hold all the packages so make sure you have
space available. Before apt-get starts the download it will tell you
how much it is going to download so use that as
from
earlier this year(May onward) for all the discussion.
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iority and the
swap files are lower priority. See swapon(2) for more details.
/dev/of/swap/partition none sw,pri=1
/path/to/swapfilenone sw,pri=0
HTH,
Brian Servis
--
Mechanical Engineering |
t version of this doc somewhere?
Check your local Debian mirror in the doc/package-developer/ directory:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/
> 2) On my system, a bug with html2ps does not seems to
the man page and then try,
alien
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ing the Atari version of Debian m68k kernel-image-2.0.36 on a Falcon
> 030.
>
You need to recompile the kernel to include support for this character
set. You can have it as a module as well which works well. The exact
op
configuration
> or other Debian Linux program that will facilitate this? I am
> running Potato here, with kernel 2.2.13.
>
Have you looked at wget? It has mechanisms for mirroring web sites and
sucking in all the appropriate links, etc. This would be used by the
user
n that the maps were GPLed as well.
>
Nope, the maps are not GPLed. See the discussion on Slashdot with posts
from John Carmack himself on the issue,
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/21/2210251.
Brian Servis
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.
I would just use apt-get to install libncurses4-dev and it will pull in
libc6-dev and whatever else it needs:
apt-get install libncurses4-dev
HTH,
Brian Servis
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them on any CD then
those CD's can not be sold at all in those countries.
Third, there are Debian developers working on it, be patient.
Brian Servis
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g
the GPL. This is one of the solutions that was mentioned in the Debian
page in regards to the KDE issues.
Brian Servis
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Pu
n. See
http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008 for all the details.
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or docs in
/usr/share/doc) and netdate is no longer available.
Similiar functionality is obtained from ntpdate in the ntpdate package.
Brian Servis
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*- On 23 Dec, Oki DZ wrote about "Next codename"
> Hi,
>
> What would be the name of the next Debian version after potato? Wheezy?
>
Woody
Brian Servis
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s. Once
your new package is built and installed you can use dselect to place it
on hold so that newer Debian packages don't install over the top of it.
HTH,
Brian Servis
--
Mechanical Engineering |
an hour!
>
> Vendor, anyone?
>
http://www.outpost.com has several of them with free overnight
shipping(I assume US only on the shipping though).
Brian Servis
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vt).
> I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there
> is any particular reason debians xterm set TERM to this and if there
> isn't, how do I change it so that it doesn't anymore.
>
FAQ: Read
start 41 S .
This will place the appropriate links in the /etc/rcS.d and other
directories, you need to at least start it after the network is
setup(S40).
If you want, install the ipmasq package and look at its startup script
for an example that is probably mo
t tried it as I don't have time to deal with a change in MTA
config right now. But it does look interesting as it is meant to work
with ppp and the ip-up scripts.
Brian Servis
--
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but i'll
> leave that to someone else.
>
> the key is when using tar use the -p switch !! :-)
>
>
cd /var; find . -mount | cpio -dumpv /home/var
has done the trick for me several times.
--
Brian Servis
--
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such device
> bash: /dev/lp3: No such device
>
> This is a kernel I compiled myself. I would like to recompile it
> if I knew what options to select.
>
This isn't a kernel issue. For some reason you do not have the lp
devices in your /dev directory. Do the following to creat
grade
You will of course have to configure all the packages that are
installed.
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I usually use psnup to print 2-up or 4-up from netscape as in:
Print Command: psnup -q -pletter -n4 | lpr -Plp
HTH,
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Purdue Univ
o top, X is taking up 60megs right now. Yesterday I think
>> it was even more. This is Accelerated X 5.0.3, looks like a big memory
>> leak to me, anyone have any experience with this?
>>
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-
ere is also a package called Wingate. It is shareware. I used it for
a while but it has been a few years. Try winfiles.com, they should have
it.
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> see /usr/doc/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz for more information.
>
Not always true. I have an AOPEN AX6B motherboard with recent bios
updates and I still have to add the mem line to get all memory
recognized.
Brian Servis
--
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rnally).
>
> And the floppy that I had fed into the Mavica was a brand new never-used
> one straight out of the box.
They are the index files that it uses to display on the on-camera
screen. The Mavica's also create an html file that
r before you build the package. Not sure what is the
best versioning scheme, maybe follow the NMU rules of adding a .X
version to the last version.
Brian Servis
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*- On 11 Dec, Jianbo Wang wrote about "vmware"
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know where I can find demo license for vmware? Thanks!
>
http://www5.vmware.com/forms/Download.cfm
Brian Servis
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is a Debian package called cruft that can do some system searching
and can give you a very rough idea of file usage.
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ersion number then you will need to put the package
on 'hold' in dselect so that the official version does not re-install
over your copy.
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ected his Neomagic chipset and set it up perfectly.
Slink uses X 3.3.2a which does not have support for the Neomagic
chipsets which are popular in laptops. Corel upgraded X to 3.3.5 which
does have support for the Neomagic chipsets. You can get the X
3.3.5 debs for slink under http://www.debi
estion is: when I
> 'make install' does something wrong? Which new programs will be installed?
> Then can I remove any previous package? ( like Xserver-svga )
>
I assume you are using Debian 2.1(slink). Save yourself the trouble and
grab the X 3.3.5 debian packages
atest Release" search
engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html for this kind of
search. That is how I just got this info.
Brian Servis
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> URI?
>
Check the debian-user archives first. This is 3rd or 4th time this week
this question has come up. None the less her is the URI:
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
Brian Servis
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to explicitly have "potato" or "slink" or
>> whatever in my sources.list. After all, slink is always slink, but
>> "unstable"
>> can mean different things at different times.
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>
>
Brian Servis
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#x27;m in this loop.
>
Ctr+Alt+F1 will take you to the first virtual console. Login as root
and issue the command '/etc/init.d/xdm stop'. This will stop xdm until
you reboot or restart it. If you don't ever want xdm to start just
remove it, 'dpkg --remove xdm'.
--
ence of the two phrases. The
'"-- " notice the space' phrase makes not reference to the line
termination. The '"--" with a blank following it' phrase makes no
reference to the line termination. Thus *IMO* the two are the same.
I do agree that the
uot;--" with a blank following it.
^^
>
> Actually, it's "-- ". Notice the trailing space. Mutt, slrn, and
> Netscape all do this correctly. I'm sure most other software does as
> well.
>
To me the phra
one help me?
>
Slink comes with XFree86 3.3.2, you need to upgrade to XFree86 3.3.5
which can be found at http://www.debian.org/~vincent.
Brian Servis
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otatoe,
> or at least for potato-cdroms.
>
A developer has compiled 3.3.5 for slink. See
http://www.debian.org/~vincent.
So you are not forced to upgrade to potato, although it is really quite
stable now.
Brian Servis
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There are other methods of 'opening' a gz file so if
you provide an example of the filename and location then others can
point you in the best direction.
Brian Servis
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usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 x11/xlib6g
usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3x11/xlib6g
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 oldlibs/xlib6
usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6.3
ring. For example, the pattern
`131.155.ยด matches the address of (almost) every
hoston the Eindhoven University network
(131.155.x.x).
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g around
> somewhere?
Try the Xfree86 3.3.5 for slink packages at
http://www.debian.org/~vincent/.
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#x27;. All I had to do was restart the font
servers and then restart X. Try running '/etc/init.d/xfs restart'.
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tree. And from what I can
tell trying to poke around in gdb(I don't speak C or tcl) is that the
line #407 'busyPtr = (Busy *)calloc(1, sizeof(Busy));' seems to cause
the SIGSEGV.
Thanks,
--
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s
an example. Openssh is a potato package so if you are running slink you
could download the debian source, diff and dsc files and build a debian
package on your slink box(search these list archives for the details).
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st;
> - `add' said file to apt.
>
> has anybody done this before? ideally i would like to get a list of
> absolute URLs for the Package.gz files which i can give to wget. i can do
> this for a `apt-get upgrade' by doing
>
> apt-get -yy --print-uris upgrade
less demanding dependency.
.
Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used
might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please
note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing
with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead.
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** [menuconfig] Error 2
> westk03:/usr/src/linux# exit
> exit
>
>
> Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks!
>
>
apt-get install libncurses4-dev
Brian Servis
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talled because it is too big to include on
the base system. This topic has been discussed before on many of the
debian-* lists, check the archives.
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