On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:00:17AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote:
So anyone out there who uses debian now who used to use one of the
distro's, I would appreciate if you could tell me what you like about it
better.
I used to use Slackware -- no real package management system at all.
I did
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:46:38AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
I recently installed an other shell than bash as /bin/sh (ash
precisly) just to test the systems behaviour and noticed that some
scripts stopped working correctly. For example, /etc/init.d/rcS had
problems executing some
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:19:34AM +0200, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
On: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:11:30 -0500 the lone gunman writes:
On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the
sysV style init scripts and installs the /etc/runlevel.conf system.
I did not see this package
I've got hamm installed on my system, and naturally I have libc6
installed. I did not upgrade, but rather did a fresh install from cd,
so libc5 is nowhere on my system.
I'd like to run quake on my system. Is there any of the following
avaible:
xquake/squake source that can be compiled with
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 01:05:42AM +0200, Peter Granroth wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:02:18PM -0500, the lone gunman shared with us the
following words of wisdom:
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:52:26PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
The netscape license (until this past january, and no releases
I moved back to school, and now must use a different news server than
the one I used at home. Where do I change where the NNTPSERVER
environment variable is originally initialized? Changing
/etc/nntpserver doesn't seem to do it.
Thanks
On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 02:17:50AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
the == the lone gunman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the What is the correct procedure for building a home-grown custom kernel
the with make-kpkg? What are the steps from installing the kernal source
the package
What is the correct procedure for building a home-grown custom kernel
with make-kpkg? What are the steps from installing the kernal source
package to installing the new, roll-your-own kernel?
Thanks!
On my Debian 1.3 system, I installed the package which removes the
sysV style init scripts and installs the /etc/runlevel.conf system. I
did not see this package in my hamm install. Did I overlook it?
I ask, because I would like to enable bootpc on my computer at
startup. All I need to do is
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 02:52:26PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
The netscape license (until this past january, and no releases have been
made since then) didn't allow us to redistribute the netscape binaries.
You have to download them from ftp.netscape.com. Put them in /tmp,
download the
On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 10:34:43PM +0200, Michele Bini wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, the lone gunman wrote:
Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the XView program
by John Bradley.
Do you really need xv?! Have you ever tried GIMP?
If you only need to put an image on the background
As per my Debian 1.3 fvwm2 configuration, I could move windows by
clicking and holding on any part of the border and title. That is, I
could click and hold on the handles that surround a window, or the
title bar and move my window around. I could only resize the window
by explicit command or by
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On Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 02:04:41AM -0700, Dan Hugo wrote:
I am thinking about getting a CD-RW drive to archive things, and maybe
even to maintain an up-to-date Debian CD set.
Does anyone have any experience with these drives?
I have no experience with CD-RW, but do own a CD-R...
Or, I could
A few messages back, I posted questions about changing my hostname and
some emails not going through. I figured out how to fix this problem,
perhaps this post will help someone else with a similar problem.
During the Debian 2.0 installation, I was asked for a hostname -- I
entered sewage for my
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 11:46:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses
Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated
that since the source code was available that it was very unsecure.
I have trouble with this
Is there an xv package for debian? By xv, I mean the XView program
by John Bradley.
When migrating from Debian 1.3 to 2.0, I just backed up the important
stuff, and did a total reinstall. (Too many upgrade problems posted
to this mailing list scared me :). Anyway, I had xv on my Deb 1.3
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 01:02:14PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Michele Bini hat gesagt: // Michele Bini wrote:
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:37:15 PDT , phillip Neumann said:
Unfortunatley SLab refuses to work with my old and dusty Mozart soundcard,
so I can't say anything regarding its
On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 11:42:25AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:21:37 -0500, the lone gunman wrote:
only to the Microsoft programmers. In my mind, it just seems that the
more folks there are looking at code, the better the chances of
discovering bugs, security concerns
Several of my emails are getting returned by the intended receiever's
ISP. The emails are returned with invalid hostname -- *my*
hostname. Since I am currently only using PPP to connect to the 'net,
I have a bogus hostname.
I believe, though, that some mailers reject my name because of spam
Is there a qmail package for debian? I've installed it on my
slackware system in the past, and would like to install it on
debian.
I believe it is supposed to be one of the safest mail programs... but
is Debian's default smail secure enough? In other words, is it worth
the trouble to migrate
I have a pretty vanilla Debian 2.0 setup as of now. I installed smail
as my mta (or is it mda?). I would like to change the default inbox
from /var/spool/mail/user to /home/user/Inbox.
I've never used smail at all, and I find mail systems very complex and
daunting. Any hints?
Thanks!
My xemacs 20.4 has a nasty characteristic when I hit Ctrl-Z to
suspend it. The cursor jumps to the bottom of the screen, and
everything moves up one line. Typically, as with plain emacs, I get a
prompt, but with the xemacs I have installed, this does not happen. I
can type away, anything, to
I did some recording on my own of some songs, and then compressed them
to mp3 files for storage reasons. I want to burn them on to a cd, and
make an audio cd.
I did the following:
mpg123 -s mysong.mp3 mysong.raw
Can I use this raw sound file with cdrecord to make an audio cd? Or
do I have to
On Mon, Aug 17, 1998 at 05:32:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Yes, you can use it with cdrecord, but I think you have to use a switch to
say it is in intel byte order.
Does that mean that intel byte order is the same as host byte
order? The man page for mpg123 says its output with
When I do a man something the man command works okay, and displays
the information I am looking for, but only after several pages of
errors. Here is a copy of the last page of errors; errors coming
before this are of a similar nature:
man: warning: /etc/alternatives/b2m.1.gz is a dangling
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 08:16:59PM -0400, Howard wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good book for new Linux users? All the books in my
local bookstore are Red Hat specific--I would like a good Debian or general
Linux book. Thank you.
_Running_Linux_ by Matt Welsh, published by O'Reilly. It's
I'm still running the crusty ol' bo (1.3.1) Debian release. I'd like
to install the Enlightenment window manager, but the only .deb package
I can find is libc6-based (and bo is libc5).
I tried installing from scratch, but that just didn't work.
Any hints?
Thanks!
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I have some nice images that I have setup as the default desktop
background in X (the default image for the root window) on my system.
I was wondering if anyone knows the correct, FHS-compliant place to
store these? I was thinking something as in /usr/local/lib or
something of sorts.
Any
I have LPRng installed on my Debian 1.3.1 system. I had magicfilter
installed, but it did not filter ps files (or I dind't set it up,
which is more likely).
Anyway, I removed the magicfilter package and installed APSfilter,
because it has that neat-o setup script. After installing that, I
I removed the magicfilter package from my system, and installed
apsfilter instead. I have used apsfilter in the past with success on
my slackware system.
However, after I installed it, I cannot print anything.
For instance, if I type lp file.txt, I get the following message:
no printcap for
I have some snazzy pictures that I have setup as default backgrounds
for x (root window) on my system. I am curious, though, as to where I
should store these for a FHS compliance. I'm guessing something like
/usr/local/lib, but I'm not sure.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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Why do the emacs and xemacs packages conflict under debian? I wanted
to try xemacs, but had to dpkg -r emacs before I could dpkg -i
xemacs
Since I no longer have GNU emacs on my system, is it okay to make
/usr/local/bin/emacs a symbollic link to /usr/bin/xemacs?
Also, I got a few warning
On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my
printer setup correctly. I could print text files without the
staircase effect, and simply type lp somefile.ps and postscript
files would print out automatically.
On Debian, now, I have magicfilter (not APSfilter) installed,
Where would I look to find out what speed my modem connects when I use
ppp?
Thanks!
Matt
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On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 08:38:44PM -0500, scott hussey wrote:
At 08:39 PM 7/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
Where would I look to find out what speed my modem connects when I use
ppp?
Thanks!
Matt
It should be contained in your connection log. Just type 'plog'. If it is
not visible, you can
Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I
can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer
one that does military time, and perhaps the date, too :)
As always, big thanks!
Matt
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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 06:30:28PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 Jul, the lone gunman wrote:
Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I
can swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer
one that does military time, and perhaps the date
On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:32:54PM +0100, C.J.LAWSON wrote:
Hi,
I have just got the new version of emacs (which I have never used
before) and would like to enable colour highlighting of my C \ tex
screens. Please could someone in the know aquaint me with the proceedure
for this or to
Is there any way to have the equivalent of Meta-X font-lock-mode in
emacs from the console (versus X)? That is, maybe an addon package of
sorts, where I can have emacs in color and not have to be in X.
Especially for coding, it's nice to have the different things
colorized as they are with
Hello:
I've got my Sound Blaster AWE32 pnp ISA soundcard working under Linux,
with ISA PNP and the AWE32 patch (custom kernel).
But, the wavetable isn't apparently working, because all midi sounds
crummy -- it's obvious the wavetable is not in use.
It's been a while since I've doinked around
Hello:
Are there any folks out there using Linux to do sound recording? If
so, what approaches have you taken?
I've got a cheap hack of a sound studio on my pc -- only under windows
now, though, and I'd rather do this under linux.
I do multi-track guitar recording in the following way: record
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:47:31PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager?
Also is there some kind of uninstall manager?
Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can
install and uninstall packages,
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:25:37PM +0800, Jieyao wrote:
I was trying to do a clear screen after I logout from the console before the
login
prompt appears.
Any idea how this can be done? I tried some escape sequence but doesn't
work.
TIA.
Many folks suggested adding the clear
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz
with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the
box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and
I'm unsure of what backup media I should go with for my Linux system.
I have a 4 gig harddrive.
I'm thinking about CD-R or Travan-4 tape backup. I'm pulling hairs,
though, trying to determine which is better (for me, anyway). I'd
like to go with DAT, but the drives are too expensive.
There are
Is there a simple way to save copies of messages I've sent with the
mutt email client, other than Cc:'ing myself?
Thanks!
Matt
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On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:18:40PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gang,
Been having some trouble getting mutt to work in colour in rxvt under X
(rxvt 2.20-3.1, according to 'dpkg -l|grep rxvt'), and I worked out that
the problem was that the TERM variable is set as 'xterm'. When I
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
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Ok I got debian running but I want to get ppp working I have a modem on com 2.
I type pon and it wont do anything I tried reading the man pages but they
just didnt help me.
On Mon, Jun 01, 1998 at 08:41:17PM +0800, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote:
Hello all,
I try the command to test my email connection 'telnet localhost 25', but
it gives me the error:
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
However, I have '127.0.0.1
In my DOS days, I had this program called rdir. It displayed a
Relative Directory size for first level directories off of the
root in the form of a pie graph.
For instance, if I have a 100mb drive, with three directories as
follows: \dos\, 25 MB; \apps\, 50mb; and \util\, 25mb; and I used
rdir,
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 07:56:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which I got out of a book on Linux networking. Previously I was using
/dev/ttyS1 for outgoing connections. Is there any reason to use the cua
devices?
On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Paul McDermott wrote:
hello everybody, i have a question, who doesn't on this list right? ok
here it goes. I have a computer at work connected to the net via
eathernet. I have all of my networking working great. My question is
when i bring it home
On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 04:30:22PM -0500, Matthew D. Myers wrote:
I have been running my linux with approx. 100 MB swap partition, all how to's
and books say no swap partition bigger than 16 MB.
What's the story, does linux REALLY not use any more that 16MB swap?
I've also heard it's a
Hello:
I just installed Debian/GNU 1.3.1, I've got pretty much everything
going as I want it.
On problem, though, is as follows:
I'm using fvwm2 as a window manager under XFree86. When I
click and hold the left mouse button on a window handle or title
bar, and move the mouse the window
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System
Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the
answers.
I installed the system by booting from a floppy and installing the
base system from cdrom. (My cdrom is bootable; the cd is bootable,
but for
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System
Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the
answers.
Getting color with ls! I copied my /etc/DIR_COLORS from my old
slackware system to my new Debian system. In my /etc/profile, I have
dircolors -b
Hello:
I recently installed Debian 1.3.1 that I purchased from Linux System
Labs. I have had several problems, and cannot seem to find the
answers.
I have ppp successfully running, but cannot get fetchmail (or
popclient) to work.
Here's the commands I've tried:
fetchmail -k -u my username my
Hello:
I just posted three messages to the mailing list:
A question about being unable to mount my root-partition, a question
about colorizing ls, and a fetchmail question.
I did not provide a (correct) return email address.
It is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry.
Thanks for your help!
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