On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 02:57:10PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:40:05AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > > On 05/03/2019 04:43 AM, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> > > > AFAIK in Stretch Mutt actually means Neomutt. There was a flamewar...
> >
> > I f
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:14:57PM +, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 14:03:09 +0100, David Jardine wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > When I ran machines containing two identical ethernet
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
[...]
>
> When I ran machines containing two identical ethernet cards, it
> was lucky dip as to which card got which name. That alone would
> have made the new method far preferable, had it been available at
> the time.
But don't entri
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:10:11AM +0100, Vincent Truchseß wrote:
> Since upgrading to stretch my system keeps hanging on shutdown with only
> a cursor visible, but no output. tty0 still shows output from the
> previous boot.
>
> There is no error-message, but SysRq-Keys still work.
>
>
Faced wi
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:47:28AM -0700, theh...@gmail.com wrote:
> This is exactly what I'm referencing. We can do mental gymnastics for it
> to make sense, but remove the `break` in your code and what happens? The
> logic goes away.
Quite. What would the code mean? Why would you use "else"
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:30:38AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Script started on Mon 11 Jul 2011 05:27:38 AM EDT
> jude@md:~$ ls -l [K[K[K-dl /var/games/nethack
> d-wx-ws--x 5 root games 4096 Jul 10 08:13 [0m[01;34m/var/games/nethack[0m
> jude@md:~$ ls -l /var/games/nethack
> ls: cannot
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:55:00PM +0200, lee wrote:
> David Jardine writes:
>
> > I have version 275.09.07 in wheezy running fine - although I think I
> > did have to remove some mesa-related packages that broke things on an
> > update a few days ago.
>
> You me
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 07:13:39PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:44:26 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> Hello Ralf,
>
> > No it isn't, here 173.14.30-1 is ok with kernel 2.6.39-2-amd64 from the
>
> Okay, I'll qualify my statement; 275.* nvidia drivers are currently
> broken
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:56:30PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > (see original message)
> >
> > Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display
> > turned
> > off.
> >
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 01:34:54AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> I don't think the "no white spaces" and "no accented characters" "rule"
> is valid in the 21st century. But if some one can put up an
> authoritative, and recent, reason I'll reconsider.
>
You won't get anything auth
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 01:29:11PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 13:21, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear guys,
> >>
> >> her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet:
> >>
> >
> > We do appreciate you think
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Steven Sciame wrote:
>
>
> I am attempting to upload files onto my webserver using sftp. As far as I
> can
> tell from reading the man pages and searching online, the correct syntax
> once
> connected via sftp is:
>
> put -r *
I'm no expert
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:20:10PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Windows keyboards come with a Menu key to the right of the spacebar.
> Is this key used for anything in Debian? I can find no use for it
> whatsoever so I am considering mapping it to something more useful.
In _text_ mode I have it map
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:44:30PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> I know very little about apt-get, but according to Aaron, who
> clearly does know about it, apt-get upgrade is equivalent to aptitude
> full-upgrade.
Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that
aptitude's s
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:32:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 05:02 PM, David Jardine wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> I don't know if England had its own xenophobic
> >>>equivalents,
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/03/2011 02:54 PM, David Jardine wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:08:55PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> >>
> >>Thank God there is no "English Academy."
> >
> >As a native English s
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:08:55PM -0400, Doug wrote:
>
> This is grossly off topic, but since it's here, i _must_ answer:
>
> Thank God there is no "English Academy."
As a native English speaker I entirely agree, but I can understand the
frustrations of others who are effectively forced to us
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:40:55PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> I don't consider a debian-user subscriber a "typical desktop / laptop
> user" :)
A typical debian-user subscriber may not be a typical desktop/laptop
user, but a typical Debian desktop/laptop user may well be a
debian-user subs
I recently bounced a foolish user's reply to a spam message to
report-lists...@lists.debian.org, but then began to wonder whether
I wasn't being just as foolish myself.
Did my action achieve anything or just make matters worse?
Cheers,
David
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:26:37PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> > I've looked at the man pages for xterm an
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:05:53AM +, T o n g wrote:
>
> I checked my log, the following is what I had in squeeze in on box, but I
> don't have either of them in my current box:
>
> $ amixer | grep -ie 'Beep|Speaker' || echo no
> no
I think you would need 'Beep\|Speaker' to make that work a
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
>
> Having made
>
> aptitude -t testing full-upgrade
>
> and therefore having squeeze installed and not lenny any more, what
> should my sources.list be pointing to?
>
> - before it was pointing to stable and testing. Now, a
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> >
> There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose"
> key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out
> of something that's there already, like the right ctrl key, or the right
> Microsoft key, which is sel
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote:
> > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can.
> > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English.
> > But come to think
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 01:13:39PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> [...]
> The script kiddies are those who abused the Debian packaging
> system to make sysv-rc REQUIRE the harmful and unnecessary
> insserv.
By the way, apt-cache shows me for sysv-rc:
Priority: required
Depends: ... insserv ...
And
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:16:11AM +0800, gulfstream wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I want to execute some script file in usb storage media with fat32 format,
> but I can not set execute permission to them with "chown +x". What shall I
> do?
Well, "chmod +x" might be a bit more likely to succeed.
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:31:03AM +0100, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> Hi, Tom:
>
> On Friday 10 December 2010 12:04:33 Tom Furie wrote:
> > On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote:
> > >> As others have mentioned, though you might not
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:30:06PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
> > But using CUPS web interface and set the default printer from there
> > should have the same effect. Didn't that work for you? :-?
>
> That's the first thing that I tried. but I go
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 08:38:32PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 07 dec 10, 18:07:33, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >
> > you may want to use dselect instead of synaptic.
>
> I'm not sure this is good advice for new Debian users, AFAIU dselect is
> quite difficult to use. I'm even reluctant to
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:39:28PM +, T o n g wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web
> >> interface. Also, I did
> >>
> >> lpadmin -d new_printer
> >>
> >> on my client host, either as root and
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:45:02AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>
> I tried unsubscribing by putting a mail twice over a period of 2.5 hours
>
> debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org
>
> with the subject:unsubscribe
>
> and still have been getting unwanted mail.
>
> Now tried the web-interface
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:41:05PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 07:22 AM, Regid Ichira wrote:
> > Consider the following:
> >
> >$ man bootlogd | grep -A4 DESCRIPTION
> >DESCRIPTION
> >Bootlogd runs in the background and copies all strings sent to the
> >/dev/console devi
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:38:34PM +, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 November 2010 12:22:57 Regid Ichira wrote:
> > Consider the following:
> >
> > $ man bootlogd | grep -A4 DESCRIPTION
> > DESCRIPTION
> > Bootlogd runs in the background and copies all strings sent to the
> > /dev
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:09:46AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> Hello. Failed to google a result (keyword: MIPS FLOPS Linux) here I ask
> in the list. Wikipedia mention MIPS (million instructions per second)
> and FLOPS (similar but calculate float point) for some of CPU
> performance indicators. I
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:55:53PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:23:27 +0100, Rob Gom wrote:
>
> > [cut]
> >>
> >> I'm also getting that behaviour (locale set to "es_ES.UTF-8") so I
> >> understand that my locale setting dictates "underscore" ("_") comes
> >> first than "comma" (
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:26:38PM -0700, post id wrote:
>
>
> --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine wrote:
>
> [...]
> I can't find a setting with this web mail
> that affects line length. I'll do manual carriage returns until
> I find a solu
Could you please wrap your lines (70 or so characters per line)? It
makes it easier to read and to reply to.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 02:49:03PM -0700, post id wrote:
> I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login
> manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to sta
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 02:45:44PM +, #ZHAO LINA# wrote:
>
> I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions?
>
> Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf within iceweasel time and time again
> would love to share how they handle it. I did not encounter that problem
> before when
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 10:11:17AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> > Bob Proulx writes:
> > > Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> > >> In Squeeze, despite I removed the comment prefix of
> > >>
> > >> s/keycode 58 = Caps_Lock/keycode 58 = Control/;
> > >>
> > >> line, neither "/etc/init.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 08:41:46AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-09-29, David Jardine wrote:
> > [...]
> > You could add
> >
> > alias gcc='gcc -lm ' (note the last space)
>
> What's the significance of the last space?
>
> >
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> hi,
> by default I have to add option -lm to the command gcc -lm file.c
> when I use math functions. Where can I configure gcc to add it to the
> default gcc, after what I don't need the option -lm , just gcc file.c
>
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05:59AM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
>
> Thanks! I have had very spotty customer service experiences with 1und1 in
> the past - that wasn't a problem for you?
>
My web hosting contract with them is a pretty minimal one. All I can
say is that I've had no trouble o
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual
> server running debian with >=75GB HD space, full root access and backup
> management. I'm with strato.de right now and happy, BUT they will NOT a
> > Connection closed by 216.239.138.216
Haines, I have the feeling you've got this all wrong. Your site is
being hosted and any connection to it goes to the webhoster's site.
All your local hosts are unconnected to this site. You are trying
to log into your site on the webhoster's server.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 04:36:48PM -0400, Doug wrote:
> Tried to run a program from command line needing admin
> capability.
>
> Input su /usr/sbin/synaptic
>
> Get message Unknown id: /usr/sbin/synaptic
>
> Logged in as root, put in password, ran
> /usr/sbin/synaptic
>
> and the file ran fine.
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 03:38:04PM -0400, brownh wrote:
> Sorry that I didn't make myself clear. I've got two situations: a) my
> present sitution in which I communicate between hosts on my local LAN,
> b) a future situation (to which I'd like to arrive in a day or so) of
> taking a laptop into the
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:57:53PM -0400, brownh wrote:
> David Jardine writes:
>
> > That ALL: LOCAL entry is there by default. I don't know much about
> > this myself, but
>
> That would explain its presence on my lenny box, but my newly
> installed sqeeze box
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:00:12AM -0400, brownh wrote:
> David Jardine writes:
>
> > Have you got /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny configured to allow
> > access from outside your local network?
>
> David, good question. I had understood /etc/hosts.allow onl
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 07:15:53AM -0400, brownh wrote:
> Claudius, thank you for troubling with my problem.
>
> The problem, again: I have no trouble logging a client host
> (bro...@teufel) [you are not old enough to remember Fritz and Rainer]
> with a server host (hai...@engels) over the LAN, bu
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:23:05PM +0200, Atu wrote:
>
> On Thursday 09 September 2010 09:16:07 pm James Stuckey wrote:
> > I want to say that there's scripts that do stuff like this, but
> > unfortunately I don't know exactly how to do this. Hopefully someone who
> > does will speak up. I would l
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> David Jardine writes:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured
> >> ou
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>
> Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured
> out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD).
AltGr and the keypad. For a-f work round the outside of the keypad from
top left to bottom right.
--
To U
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:20:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 11 June 2010 11:52:42 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > Details: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGeoMirror
> >
> > What's the main interesting of using a server which is as near as
> > poss
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:57:04PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 23:22:46 +0530, emigrant wrote:
>
> > thanks.
>
> It has not been released yet! :-)
>
> ~2 years after it gets released, AFAIK.
I think it's one year after the following release makes squeeze
oldstable - probably n
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 04:00:39PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
> P.S.: My surname is actually `Luca' but that does not matter. This is my
> fault: I misconfigured the client some years ago, and then, to be
> logical with my error, I kept with it.
Are you sure you mean "surname" (= family name)
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 05:29:18PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:32:01 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote:
> > Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well.
> >
> > It contains only commented lines from previous
> > experiments. Hasn't change
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 06:49:35PM +0300, Jason Filippou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to set my PATH and CLASSPATH environment variables so that
> they point to my JDK's bin and some Java source files respectively and this
> is what I've written in my .profile file:
>
> # PATH should also in
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:13:14PM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:46:53PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > "Enter" ("carriage return") _is_ a control character. A pc keyboard sends
> > keycodes which Emacs under X can intercept and decipher, allowing it to
> > distinguish "E
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:45:15PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Hey. Please see:
>
>
> http://www.debian-news.net/2009/04/29/mutt-exim4-debian-ubuntu-and-bcc-fail-fix-included/
>
> Do any of you out there have any more details on this problem? I've
> tried the fix suggested, and on my first te
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:10:41PM +0100, Christian Koerner wrote:
> David Jardine wrote:
>> When logging into a console under squeeze, a false user name is now
>> rejected immediately. Up to recently there was no reaction to a false
>> user name until the pass
When logging into a console under squeeze, a false user name is now
rejected immediately. Up to recently there was no reaction to a
false user name until the password had been entered.
Although I personally find the new behaviour more convenient, it
seems to me less secure to give an intruder f
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:00:19PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at doing some remaps on my system with the keymap. After
> reading man dumpkeys, man keymaps and man loadkeys, briefely, I was just
> wondering if someone could tell me where the default keymap is stored so
> I ca
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 03:30:32AM -0700, Maurice Guerrier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 17 files that I want to rename at the same times. I would like to give
> to the new name, the original name.old
>
> For exemple : document, presentation and reading.txt I want to rename then
> like this : docum
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:09:12AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-04-10 01:00 +0200, Nick Lidakis wrote:
>
> > May I ask how you managed that superscript 1 after the word problem?
>
> With a German keyboard layout, it's on AltGr-1 (only under X). Don't
Not only under X :)
> know about ot
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:29:31PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> I lost a hard drive and am attempting to restore it.
> In a new bare installation of Sarge I can browse the web
> with no problems. I can fetch my mail with this entry in
> ~/.fetchmailrc:
> poll "66.63.128.171" protocol pop3
>
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:24:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Consider the following file.
>
> > cat junk.txt
> a(i)1b
> a(j)1b
> a(ij)1b
> a(ji)1b
> a(ijk)1b
> a(jik)1b
> a(ikj)1b
> a(jki)1b
> a(kij)1b
> a(kji)1b
>
> In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now,
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-03-04 13:21 (UTC), Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>
> > Not on Debian mailing lists:
> > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
>
> On 2009-03-04 08:22 (-0500), Michael Marsh wrote:
>
> > If you go to lists.debian.org and
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:05:20PM -0500, marca...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and
> trust it. Each time I install, I get the aptitude warning, which is
> fine with me. But I wish aptitude would tell me which repository the
> package was comin
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0100, josep wrote:
> How can I set Icedove to fetch the mails to root on a local computer
> [/var/mail/user]?
>
> It's a normal Debian install, no "email server"
>
> I didn't find any docs about it :S
>
> Thank you!
Do you really want to do that? It's normal
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:20:04PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Has there ever been an official 16 bit linux kernel?
>
> I could be wrong but I think the closest would be Minix '87 running on
> 8086, Linus was not doing his thing until '91 or maybe later, he may
>
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:42:18PM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
> > In the interests of satisfying my curiosity:
> >
> > vm-linux2:/# rm -rf /
> > rm: cannot remove root directory `/'
> > vm-linux2:/#
>
> That's rather annoying. If I wan
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 05:17:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> [...]
> No, I think the much better idea would be to ditch timezones and put the
> whole world on UTC. Get rid of DST and 12-hour clocks, too, while
> you're at it. There is absolutely no real benefit to having the clock
> say "7a
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:10:23PM -0800, John Magolske wrote:
> Mostly I use the framebuffer console with screen. When I start up
> Xwindows on occasion, it resets kbdrate to slower settings than I
> like. My solution so far is to start X with this script:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> startx
> # s
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
> Barclay, Daniel wrote:
> > [...]
> > Doing it the second way does _not_ have to compromise any quality
> > standards.
> > (Why do you (seemingly) think it does?)
>
> Perhaps I wasn't understanding you correctly the first time around.
>
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:07:35PM +0100, Tomas Kral wrote:
> dear list,
>
> it seams as if syslog & messages files are not rotated, at least not in
> my installation of Etch,
> is there a setting that I need to change to get syslog or mesages files
> rotated?
Is the machine on all day? If not,
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:30:09PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > Only a few hours, actually. The next britney run after the release will
> > flood testing with hundreds, if not thousands of new and updated packages
> > that had been kept back during the freeze.
> >
> > Sven
> >
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:52:02AM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently installed Debian Lenny onto an EeePC 701. I installed
> "firefox" with apt-get, which I believe is just a wrapper for
> installing iceweasel.
> However, if I try to launch either "iceweasel" or "firefox" from a
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 07:06:56PM +, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Lenny,
>
> - What are the (standard) devices names and mount point names for CD/DVD,
> the Debian way?
> - Is there any tools to build fstab entries for me according to my CD/
> DVDs?
> - If not, how can I know which (d
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 03:14:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Are you any the wiser?
>
>
> Sorry, my English is not very good. What do you mean?
I mean: "Have I told you something that you didn't know a
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
> >> no textual browser I tried allows me to view my
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they said
> >> it was because w3m doesn't handle
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:24:23PM -0800, Robert Caruso wrote:
> [...]
> I have ceaselessly attempted to
> unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working.
You really must learn how to spell "unsubscribe" ;)
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:21:18PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I 've just install Linuxmint close to ubuntu, (I know this is not pure
> debian, the question is general)
>
> I tried to configure the epson printer 6200, (on paralelle port), it is
> detected, it seems running correctl
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 07:48:23AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TD> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 07:30:17AM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away.
> wrote:
> >> Configuration file "3D3D/tmp/lynxcfg22579" is not available.
> TD> That's mime-encodin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
> 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file
> > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why?
> > >
> > >
tc.
>
> s/put away/executed/
s/executed/kneecapped, pilloried, sent to Guantanamo Bay, sentenced
to read aloud every email message he caused to be sent,.../
But if he's done for money laundering, fraud, etc, it will be like
Al Capone being done for tax evasion.
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sk=002
>
> and in neither case does the umask get properly set. It remains 0022,
> which is the login default.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
Couldn't you just edit /etc/profile:
if [ "`id -ur`" -eq 1234 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
where 1
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:47:38 +0200
> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I see your point about offens
the rest of
the community carries on ranting, reminiscing, joking - and
requesting and receiving expert advice on using their debian systems.
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:21:46 +0200
> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > kernel /vmlinux root=dev/hda2 ro
> > ^
> > Oops, missed t
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:25:33PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:10:02 +0200
> David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, yes menu.lst is correct, the typo was in the email
>
> Steve
>
> > >
> > > root(hd0,0
modules
>
> installed into grub
>
> root(hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinux root=dev/hda2 ro
That should be root=/dev/hda2
^
> [...]
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ng "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and if all else fails try using
> the vesa driver.
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leaves is alone.
>
> Likewise, another scenario using the same packages as above: I'm done
> with dep3, not realising meta1 depends on it, I remove it. This breaks
> meta1, so meta1 gets marked for removal as well cascading to dep1 and
> dep2 (which stays because meta2 uses it)
but nothing depends on the
meta-package. Removing it would therefore have no side-effects.
Or have I got it wrong?
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ple like hand holding, and want a
> confirmation after each little baby step, but as everyone knows a mailing
> list really isn't the place for hand holding. Heck you hand might fall
> off just waiting for a touch.
I've heard of OT, but this is ridiculous ;)
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between 'new' and 'mail'.
> Anyone know how to correct this? Thanks
I can't help you, but I'd be worried about this. It looks as if
a file in a security-sensitive area has been tampered with.
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petence in all my years with Debian, but I see that it won't
be long now! Mmm. Or will it?
Cheers,
David
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out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce
> > the error again.
>
> you can always recover the contents with cat /dev/null > oldlogfile
> and just wait for it to finish...
>
> ;-P
But why not just use logrotate?
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ask?
With ftp the "rename" command should do it, if I understand you
correctly.
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ebian is ready to help those who are not with packages such
as aircrack, airsnort... ;)
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