On 2014-01-05, Mike McClain wrote:
> Some program, I presume mandb keeps recreating /var/cache/man/cs/ etc.
It looks like a bug!
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=23522
Colin Watson says:
Version 0.0.20 or greater of the 'localepurge' package now allows the
sysadmin to purge
Some program, I presume mandb keeps recreating /var/cache/man/cs/ etc.
after I delete them.
1) Is there any use to have such extra directories cluttering up the
drive on a single user system when the user doesn't read or speak any
of those other languages?
2) Is there any configuration I can do to
Hello
Paul E Condon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I have a set of CDs for 30r1 (woody) on i386.
> I see in dselect that there are several packages that
> use the 2.4.18 kernel. I have a classic pentium, which
> seems to referred to as i586. There seem to be two
> packages that provide kernel-ima
I have a set of CDs for 30r1 (woody) on i386.
I see in dselect that there are several packages that
use the 2.4.18 kernel. I have a classic pentium, which
seems to referred to as i586. There seem to be two
packages that provide kernel-image for this chip:
kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2 and
kernel-image-
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1:
When I connect to the Internet in Linux, 'xconsole' shows the following
message:
ppp-compress-1 module not found
I have compiled and installed Kernel 2.2.5 for Linux (Debian 'slink').
The PPP driver was compiled as a module. Is this correct?
2:
I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.6 (download
> > 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition,
> > since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented?
>
> Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag
> it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have
> to do some more w
1. [snip]
> 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem,
> /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI
> 64,
> and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I
> workaround this?
Those devices, some of htem, are just sym
José María Pongilioni López writes:
> I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I
> workaround this?
Don't. You should use /dev/ttyS1 directly: /dev/modem is a bad idea (and
it isn't a device file: it's just a link to /dev/ttyS1).
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John Hasler
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions:
>
>1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot
>time, my screen shows the following message:
Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions:
1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot
time, my screen shows the following message:
SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument
I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd
I have 3 questions:
1) I installed Scilab (mathematical package) and I'm having problems with
Backspace and Delete key. In Xwindows they work, but in Scilab I only get ~3.
How to change setup. I know I can add Xdefaults, but don't know what to insert.
2) Is it possible to start X
Thanks a lot Scott. Now it's much clearer.
Dennis
> -Original Message-
> From: Scott Ellis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 1:36 PM
> To: Dennis Dai
> Cc: Debian User list
> Subject: Re: 3 questions
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 199
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dennis Dai wrote:
> 1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink?
Slink will eventually become Debian 2.1. It contains those packages which
either aren't ready for prime time yet, or which contain additional
features past the freeze date of Debian 2.0.
> 2. Wher
1. What's the difference between hamm (frozen) and slink?
2. Where is the xload package in hamm (frozen)? Several weeks before I
could find it but when I selected, it gave me some kind of dependency
error. And I can't even find it in my newly updated package list (in
dselect).
3. I've read discus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Starke) writes:
> 1.) i can`t find a file called 'man.config' on my debian 1.2.6. So
> what should i do? (i need it for configuration stuff)
There doesn't seem to be one. But dpkg -L man suggests
/etc/manpath.config.
> 2.) Normal users (members of the group 'ppp') shou
Hello,
1.) i can`t find a file called 'man.config' on my debian 1.2.6. So
what should i do? (i need it for configuration stuff)
2.) Normal users (members of the group 'ppp') should be able to start
a dialup internet connection via pppd. What groups must they be in?
I have added them to the follow
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> It really is empty!! I'll paste in what I did:
>
> # pwd
> /proc/3
> # ls
> /usr/bin/color-ls: exe: No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/color-ls: root: No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/color-ls: cwd: No such file or directory
> cmdline environ f
>On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
>> >
>> >cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM='
>> >
>> >to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the
>> >actual shell.
>>
>> I did this - the environ file is
>>One could make the uid of the account zero to achieve this without
>>making pppd setuid, though I can imagine this making people jump up
>>and down about security - can anyone think of an attack on this?
>
>If the user figures a way to change their shell, you're dead.
Quite so. Similarly if th
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> >Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
> >
> >cat /proc/xxx/environ | xargs -0n1 | grep '^TERM='
> >
> >to see what tcsh was passed as the TERM. It should be the same in the
> >actual shell.
>
> I did this - the environ file is empty!!!
>On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained.
>> The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for
>> linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh?
>
>Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
>
>cat
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> No - I checked, plus I even removed .cshrc and the problem remained.
> The strange thing is that TERM is set okay for xterms, but not for
> linux consoles. Could there be a bug in tcsh?
Maybe - do this on a running tcsh whose pid is xxx:
cat /proc/xxx
Thanks for your help.
>> When bash is the login shell for a user, it
>> seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console.
>> But when I changed my shell to tcsh, TERM no longer gets set to linux
>> as it should. Why?
>
>Perhaps your .tcshrc or .cshrc is messing with it.
No - I
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
> >>a ppp group would be in order.
> >
>
> Personally I find that the diald package is an excellent way of
> avoiding this whole issue. However:
>
i've been using kerne
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 1. How does TERM get set?
TERM is set from the kernel in init/main.c to linux. init, login, et
al, propagaate it.
> When bash is the login shell for a user, it
> seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console.
> But when I changed
>>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
>>a ppp group would be in order.
>
>I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification.
>
>If you need to have non-root users execute ppp as root, take a look
>at the 'sudo' or 'super' packages. They allow yo
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
> a ppp group would be in order.
I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification.
If you need to have non-ro
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 1. How does TERM get set?
>
it is set by login(1).
> P.S. Is there any advantage to using bash instead of tcsh? Does bash
> have all the features that tcsh has?
>
well, being a LONG time tcsh user, no, bash can't do everything tcsh does.
tcsh can do
I have 3 problems I would appreciate help with.
1. How does TERM get set? When bash is the login shell for a user, it
seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console.
But when I changed my shell to tcsh, TERM no longer gets set to linux
as it should. Why?
P.S. Is there any ad
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