> can anyone reccomend a good book so i can start the task of learning perl
> ? :)
Go with the O'Reilly "Camel" books - you can't go wrong with them.
try: http://www.perl.com
and: http://www.oreilly.com
-Dave
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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote:
> I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig".
> When I try, I get the following:
I'm going to make the connection and presume you're trying to compile the
kernel. It'd normally help if you say which kernel you're compiling since
t
This should be an easy one but I've spent a few weeks on and off digging
about in the archives and haven't run across the answer.
When I upgrade slink->potato my keyboard mapping broke so that now Delete
acts the same as Backspace (deletes to the left). I can fix this manually
for xemacs with a
> What i wanna do ..is 2 things
>
> find all files in a directory tree and chmod them 644
>
> find . -exec chmod u+wx {} -type f
>
try this:
find . -type f -exec echo {} \;
I've replaced the chmod with a painless payload so you can test it out
first. the \; is required to mark the end of the
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >
> > DON'T FORGET TO RESTART EXIM.
> >
>
> Does exim run as a daemon on a desktop machines ?
>
Let me rephrase my statement.
Don't forget to restart exim if you're running it as a daemon.
I'll leave the discussion of daemon vs inetd to someone els
> I have a problem confuguring exim.
> When I write mails that are delivered over my ISP, they have
> my local username and local hostname as return-path, reply
> and s an.
[snip]
> Has anyone an example how to do this ? I think this is nothing
> unusual - but I am quit new to exim an the rest w
> Sometime, when i installed mysql ( don't know why exatcly ) the configure
> script advised me to set a root password. I yelled for the ghosts ( is it
> correct? ) and set one with
> myswladm password XXX
> ok, so far so good.
>
> Every time when some apt script touches the database, it tries it
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote:
> Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade
> to fix a security problem. This was in august. When I run "apt-get update"
> it appears to run correctly. When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing
> happens.
>
> Here is t
> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set
> up for use by non-root users.
was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program?
> When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have
> access to /dev/ttyS1. That's bette
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Richard Weil wrote:
> How do you restart exim after changing exim.conf? The manual says to
> send the daemon process a SIGHUP signal, but I can't find the daemon
> process pid.
I use:
# /etc/init.d/exim restart
Alternatively, you can try:
# kill -HUP `pidof exim`
or even
#
Browsing my fairly recently updated potato system I find a file named '1'
in the root directory.
It contains the following lines repeated many times over.
Elements moved to a different document
Elements moved to a different document
Elements moved to a different document
Elements moved to a diff
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > Not being able to distribute your changes, is not free speech. It's crap
> > and they
> > are only hoping to capitalize on the hardwork of others without giving them
> > anything truly worthwhile in return.
>
> Hi, what about a free off
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Richard Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
> Could somebody please suggest to me how I can use APT and lynx when
> I have to use a http proxy with my university.
>
set environment variables http_proxy and (if needed) ftp_proxy
that'll do it for lynx
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> I currently use smail which works well with fetchmail.
>
> I thought I'd try exim since this is becoming standard in potato, but
> although local mail works I can't get any mail via pop3 and fetchmail.
> There's a fetchmail error message saying somet
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Todd Suess wrote:
> I was brave, I just did apt-get dist-upgrade and waiting about 10 hours
> for it to download everything and upgrade. Have had very little trouble
> with it.
>
> -Todd
>
> ps. for this to work, you of course have to have apt installed and
> a entry in sou
> Recently, the GNOME project stopped mirroring the debianized packages of
> GNOME because GNOME has been included in the main Debian distribution.
> This is fine for potato users. However, I have Gnumeric 0.25 installed on
> my slink machine. I would like to use 0.38 because of many improvements.
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote:
> "David J. Kanter" wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partit
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Greg & Heather Vence wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to install Communicator 4.5 today. I installed the two packages
> but don't see where or how to run them. What do I need to type at the
> command prompt? What do I still need to install?
>
> TIA -- Greg.
>
Hi Greg,
Y
On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, dyer wrote:
> Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > Silly-Newbie questions:
> > 1. How do I read what is in a floppy - Cdrom? I have tried "ls -F
> > /dev/fd0" but shows nothing?
>
> You must first mount the device--either floppy or cdrom. read the mount man
> pages.
> Man pages a
> > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to
> > root.root
> 4755
> >
>
> this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means?
>
This means that suidmanager found a problem with the sendmail executable
and fixed it.
Having
I've been trying to get KDevelop installed for a few days now. The
kdevelop.org homepage seems to be offline, and previously when I was able
to connect the .deb file I found did not download correctly.
Installing from tarball, ./configure complains about not finding giflib30
which should be part
>
> 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?
>
wvdial stays in the foreground after connecting.
either run it witha & on the end if you want to do some
> Hello all,
>
> I have isntalled two distributions of Linux (Reh Hat 6 and Debian 2.1) on
> two hard disks, just like the following:
>
> hda1: Win98
> hda3: Debian
> hdc5: Red Hat
>
> I have the joined lilo.conf file, and when I run "lilo" I get the message
> "/boot/bzImage-2.0.37 not found". L
The debian homepage: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable talks about the
new version of apt being available from netgot.net's home page. Clicking
the link gives a 404 and searching through the site doesn't show it
anywhere.
Does anyone know where this can now be downloaded from?
Also, does an
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