Hi there,
I'd like to know what happened to the "filters" package that was in hamm
but is not in slink. It contains some funny text filters like jive. Please
Cc: me as I'm not on the list.
Fabio
( Fábio Olivé Leite[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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Hi there,
I need help on understanding and using the ptrace syscall. I've been
rtfming for some days, and still can't produce even a simple program that
will print "ops!" everytime the traced process does a syscall.
This is obviously not my objective, I actually need to code a special
purpose "de
Ola!
] 2) Use a null modem cable to connect to a desktop and piggy back ride on
] that systems CD-ROM.
] Q: I don't know if the Linux base system supports null modem connections.
It does since a long time ago, as I installed myself my first debian
system on an old notebook with no cdrom or any p
Ola!
] I just bought a new 3 button mouse for the convenience of better cut and
] paste,
] and find that I can't seem to make it work. When I first got it, I just
Most likely your mouse is (like mine) a dual mode mouse. Check if it
doesn't have "PC" and "MS" written somewhere around the ball hol
Ola!
] > I have noticed lately when I look at my server when it has been idle there
] > is multiple lines that say "Unable To Load Interpreter"
]
] Maybe something ran out of memory, or your processtable was full so bash (or
] another shell) couldn't get loaded.
Maybe you have some script as a c
Hi!
] I checked /var/spool/mail and all folders are either root/mail or srgore/mail
] with rwx rw rw.
The last rw allows any user to read and write to the files (mailboxes),
what makes it a horrible security hole. Quickly run
chmod 1770 /var/spool/mail/*
to get things back to normal.
HTH
Fabio
Ola!
> My question is:
> if the path is
> /dists/slink/main/binary-a/
> do I use the first '"/" ?
> do I use the last "/" ?
> Do I need to include the "Package" file inside "binary-a" ?
IIRC, if you are installing from official CDs you don't have to set
anything special on this path. The install
Hi!
> I just sent a message to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and it made it through
> to the list straight away, but I also go this reply from somewhere else.
> I SENT the message to and only to debian-user, it was not a reply or else.
> What does this mean?
This means this user from .hu is a sub
Hi!
] the README for Linux 2.0.36 kernel tells me, that
/usr/include/{asm,linux,scsi}
] should be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/{asm,linux,scsi}, respectively.
] They aren't. They are normal directories. That's wrong, isn't it? The
] installation of Slink has done so.
That's an old Linux is
Hi there,
] (the ttyS* and cua* devices are hardware-equivalent, but if I'm
] not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which
] you might want for a modem).
Whoah! cua devices have been dropped from Debian (and Linux itself, so to
speak) long ago and their use nowadays is _str
Hi there,
] What I'm doing is running a pipe between two background processes. Opening
] pipe for reading and writing both fail "illegal seek". Does this qualify
] as "special requirements" ?
Not at all. Probably your program is trying some funny file-oriented
syscall on the pipe, so it fails.
Hi there!
] I am trying to make a boot floppy. I downloaded the boot-floppies*
] package. But during the installation it craps out due to dependency
] problems. The packages that dpkg complains as not been installed are
] actually there (eg teTeX) since I built those myself from sources with
Hi there!
I've noticed some problems with ndisasm really long ago (maybe even as
long as debian 1.2), but I never bothered to complain. It's just that when
I try to disassemble something, it just doesn't recognise the automatic
sync points it should (using -a). When I try to set fixed sync points
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Hi there,
> However, I get the LCP problem where they are being sent but not
> received. I put LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE 30 in my options file and have
> upped it all the way to 150, but I still don't get any LCP's received.
> Finally after 30 - 60 seconds the modem s
Hi there,
) > how do I set up Lynx to use my ISP's www proxy server? There's nothing
) > obvious in either the man page or the online help.
)
) Open up /etc/lynx.cfg (the system-wide configuration file) and search
) for "proxy".
I learned the hard way that you can also set the http_proxy enviro
Hi there,
) bell or do something to alert me when the five minutes is up. There
) are many programs such as rclock that can alert me at a specific time
) on a specific day but I want to be able to say "five minutes from now"
) without a lot of hassle.
I recall a program named "leave" that does e
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Hi there,
I use a Debian notebook, and recently upgraded from pcmcia-* 2.9.5 to
2.9.6, recompiled the modules and was very confused when I noticed the card
manager would allocate _only_ already used IRQs...
It was real funny: The pcmcia controller sits on IRQ 1
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Hi there,
> In which debian package lurk the conversion utilities 'todos' and 'fromdos'.
> Thanks, Richard
which todos: /usr/bin/todos
which fromdos: /usr/bin/fromdos
dpkg -S /usr/bin/todos: sysutils
dpkg -S /usr/bin/fromdos: sysutils
Install the sysutils pac
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