On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:32:46PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
>Run this:
>apt-get --reinstall install \
>$(cd /var/lib/dpkg/info; grep -l '^/bin/' *.list|sed 's/.list$//')
Thanks for this ingenious solution; there are still a couple of things to iron
out though: for some reason the command
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 21:18, Kent West wrote:
> My guess is that you need to modprobe some keyboard module, such as
> usbkbd, etc. I'd ssh in and run modconf, and look for any promising
> keyboard-related modules.
I did as you suggested. installed modconf and then I looked for some
keyboard-re
Hallo thinkpad user!
I using Debian Sid on my T43. And like all other of that laptop they
do not have the M$ keys on the keyboard. But I want the context key
back. It was very easy to use this key because it is faster as finding
the trackball or the touchpad. Does anyone have changed this shortcut
I am using LANG='ta_IN' (Tamil-India). Gnome Terminal displays each
double-width character in two columns while Mutt apparently expects each to
take one column. Due to this, the display is gets garbled. How can this
problem be solved?
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http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/
pgpO1Hskyd3U0.pgp
De
I'm using Debian for PowerPC.
I am looking to add quota support.
This isn't my first time using Linux, but it is my first serious
attempt, and my first time with Debian.
I love Debian's package management stuff. It makes installing and
managing software so easy, but I digress... I am looking to
Hi, last question (at least for now :-P :-) ), does the Debian Sarge installer have the megaraid driver so I can install Debian Sarge onto my servers HD RAID array which is connected to a embedded HP NetRAID which seems to work fine with the megaraid driver? Thanks! :-)
Simon wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> We are seeing a large spike in load average on our web server (from
> 0.xx to 10-15.xx) but there does not seem to be anything hogging the
> CPUs or anything... Am i missing something here? What can i do to
> check other issues.
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> top -
Hi There,
We are seeing a large spike in load average on our web server (from
0.xx to 10-15.xx) but there does not seem to be anything hogging the
CPUs or anything... Am i missing something here? What can i do to
check other issues.
Thanks
Simon
top - 15:33:25 up 5 days, 5:28, 1 user, load
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 17:41 -0500, Foote, Bruce (OFT) wrote:
> However, can I use mail to mail a log to a system user? That is, a
> user specified in /etc/passwd?'
Yes, just send it to the username:
$ cat /var/log/syslog | mail root
You might want to look at the logcheck package, if you just
Sir,
Back in 5/2002 you wrote a question on a listserve that went with out
answer. It was as follows:
'I have a question regarding the use of logrotate.
I rotate syslog, apache/error.log, and auth.log weekly. I would like to
have
the old logs e-mailed, then compressed.
As such, I am using the '
Mitchell Laks wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am playing with sid on fresh system install.
>
>I installed sarge standard desktop install. Sarge standard installer.
>I added sid main non-free contrib to apt/sources.lst.
>I did apt-get dist-upgrade.
>Then I added in linux-2.6.15-1-k7-smp kernel.
>(I disable
Sullivan,Deric [CMC] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Debian "testing" from a set of CDs that I
> created from the jigdo ISO image files found at
> "_http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/_";. The
> install process starts fine, but I run into a problem when t
Walt Sullivan wrote:
> How can I tell Postfix to either authenticate sucessfully or to not try to
> authenticate at
> all?
>
> Here's a snippet from /var/log/mail.warn that may help
>
> Mar 14 12:58:11 orbit postfix/smtpd[14670]: fatal: no SASL authentication
> mechanisms
> Mar 14 12:58:12 orb
Andrei Popescu wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:09:07 +
>Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
>>After my laptop is booted, I can get driver modules:
>>
>>orinoco_cs
>>orinoco
>>hermes
>>
>>loaded just by typing `modprobe orinoco_cs`
>>
>>
>>Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 16:50, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:52 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > This is a dual 2400 AMD MP system. with m$ft internet keyboard.
> >
> > what is wrong? What can I try. the system ignores the keyboard. Why? What
> > to do. I would like to use debian sta
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;)
I'm curious about this. I've bee
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:32:06PM +, Arnór Kristjánsson wrote:
> > How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
>
> If you want to disable all shell access (including local) then set the
> user's login shell to
Hi: I am using unstable, with gdm as the display manager. After
upgrading yesterday, I find that in the gnome terminal, typing does not
produce any english characters, but arrows and other characters. I
thought that under terminal --> encoding I could change this, but I
tried Unicode as well as We
On 2006/03/14-20:32(+), Arnór Kristjánsson wrote :
> How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
>
You can use the AllowUsers directive in your sshd_config to specify
allowed users.
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:59:08 +0100
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> >>I would go so far as to say that "Debian Unstable" is an oxymoron.
> >
> >
> > From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
> >
> > unstable
> > ...
> > 6: subj
Title: How to install testing from CD with no network
Hi,
I'm trying to install Debian "testing" from a set of CDs that I created from the jigdo ISO image files found at "http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/jigdo-cd/". The install process starts fine, but I run int
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:09:07 +
Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> After my laptop is booted, I can get driver modules:
>
> orinoco_cs
> orinoco
> hermes
>
> loaded just by typing `modprobe orinoco_cs`
>
>
> Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get them loaded automatically at
Joey Hess wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
I would go so far as to say that "Debian Unstable" is an oxymoron.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
unstable
...
6: subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with
uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following t
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 18:06:19 -0500
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have this package installed, but as this is my first HP printer I
> wasn't sure how to use it or if it was even needed since I wanted to
> set this up with CUPS.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show hplip
Descri
How do I configure Postfix to authenticate with SASL?
Since I replaced my hard disk and installed Debian Sarge, plus Postfix/TLS,
I've been
unable to send mail through mail.magma.ca (Magma is my ISP). Here's what I get:
Mar 12 19:45:59 orbit postfix/pickup[5775]: 263BD49249: uid=1000 from=
Mar 1
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I would go so far as to say that "Debian Unstable" is an oxymoron.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
unstable
...
6: subject to change; variable; "a fluid situation fraught with
uncertainty"; "everything was unstable following the coup"
[s
Hello.
I have an odd problem with software RAID on Etch.
My computer has 4 disks IDE). Two on the motherboard's controller and two on
a separate PCI controller card.
The disks are (correctly) labeled hda/hdc for the motherboard disks and
hde/hdg for the PCI card.
All disks have one partition (
After my laptop is booted, I can get driver modules:
orinoco_cs
orinoco
hermes
loaded just by typing `modprobe orinoco_cs`
Now I'm trying, unsuccessfully, to get them loaded automatically at boot
time. If I put any or all of the modules in /etc/modules, I get an error
message in th
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Laurent CARON wrote:
>Magnus Therning a écrit :
>>I know there's a tool that will let me run "make install" and then
>>creates a .deb (or .rpm, or .tgz, or ..) of it so that I can remove the
>>package cleanly later and take a nice .deb to install on other m
On Tue Mar 14, 2006 02:55PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:37:41 -0500
> Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Trying to get this printer installed using CUPS, but don't see the
> > model/driver listed in the CUPS web admin printer setup wizard.
> >
> > Anyone usi
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:45:31PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:39, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:16:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
[..]
>> Step two is to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. This is the relevant part of
>> mine:
>>
>> deb http://ftp.uk
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > I would like to recover the /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh script that came
> > with it's package, which according to 'dpkg -S' is initscripts. I hid
> > the current checkfs.sh and ran
> >
> > apt-get --reinstall install initscripts
> >
> > seemingly success
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:32:48 -0500
Winston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I would like to recover the /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh script that came
> with it's package, which according to 'dpkg -S' is initscripts. I hid
> the current checkfs.sh and ran
>
> apt-get --reinstall install inits
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:37:41 -0500
Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trying to get this printer installed using CUPS, but don't see the
> model/driver listed in the CUPS web admin printer setup wizard.
>
> Anyone using this printer and know of the correct driver/model choice
> to use?
I
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> problem 3)
>
> imap folders. right now i have procmail filters setup on the imap server
> to put debian-user mail into the file ~/Mail/lists/debian-user. reading
> mail in my inbox works just fine; here are the settings i have for
Hi.
I would like to recover the /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh script that came
with it's package, which according to 'dpkg -S' is initscripts. I hid
the current checkfs.sh and ran
apt-get --reinstall install initscripts
seemingly successfully, but no new checkfs.sh was created.
I also tried 'dpkg-reco
Trying to get this printer installed using CUPS, but don't see the
model/driver listed in the CUPS web admin printer setup wizard.
Anyone using this printer and know of the correct driver/model choice
to use?
Thanks.
--
Cheers,
Trey
Teamwork is essential -- it allows you to blame someone
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:10:11 +0100, cga wrote:
> Paul Romero wrote:
>
>>Dear User Group:
>>
>>Is it possible to install Linux on a Dell Inspiron 4000
>>
>>
> I suppose you mean get 'X' to work?
>
>>using the vanilla stable Sarge 2.6 CD set without significant
>>special procedures ?
>>
> I have w
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:05:56 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:27:07 +0200
> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I think many from this list recalls the yaird issue which made an
> > unbootable initrd. I got "hit" directly :) Though I l
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:38:58 -0500
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about
having a Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the
development part.
No it's not, all releases
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:27:07 +0200
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think many from this list recalls the yaird issue which made an unbootable
> initrd. I got "hit" directly :) Though I learned to *always* keep a second
> kernel installed it still counts as a break.
Good point,
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:52 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> This is a dual 2400 AMD MP system. with m$ft internet keyboard.
>
> what is wrong? What can I try. the system ignores the keyboard. Why? What to
> do. I would like to use debian standard kernels.
>
> Mitchell Laks
>
>
Just plug in a d
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:38:58 -0500
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about
> > having a Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the
> > development part.
>
> No it's not, all releases since at l
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about
> having a Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the
> development part.
No it's not, all releases since at least sarge have had a functional
desktop with only CD 1.
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signature.
Johan Daine wrote:
[...]
Hi,
I found a solution to my problem.
# find /etc/X11 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep nolisten
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc:exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
gave me the clue
After reading the document , I stopped gdm, played a little bit with
xinit and a cus
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:42:47 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
> Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
> > problems and avoid doing unattended update
On Monday 13 March 2006 21:34, Hex Star wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering, since Knoppix is a live CD based off Debian, if my
> graphics card and monitor work fine with the GUI does that mean that it'll
> also work fine with regular 'ol Debian? Thanks! :-)
Unless some truly strange forces are at work,
On 3/14/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A quick peak at debian-cd shows that there are discussions about having a
> Desktop install with as few CDs as possible. This is the development part. The
> site developers should present this accordingly. Something like: "For a
> Desktop > i
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:26:53 +
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Not everyone has a fast internet connection. If you were downloading
> isos on someone else's broadband, I would think that you would probably
> manage with just the first 2 CDs to start with.
[snip]
> I do remem
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:32:06PM +, Arnór Kristjánsson wrote:
> How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
If you want to disable all shell access (including local) then set the
user's login shell to something not in /etc/shells (/bin/false is a good
choice).
If you wa
anoop aryal wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:32 pm, Arnór Kristjánsson wrote:
>
>>How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
>
>
> "/bin/false" in the last field of /etc/passwd for that user should do the
> trick.
>
Better yet, add something like this at the end of /
Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> ive been running sid for 4 to 5 years and there have been glitches
> (maybe severe ones once a year), but by-in-large if i want to try new
^^^
The term is actually "by and large" and it is actually a nautical term.
Though, t
Hi.
On Saturday March 25th, 2006 the Latinamerican Free Software
Install Fest [1] will be held in about 100 cities spanning at
least 12 countries [2]. We need Debian experts to help installing
Debian (and free software) in the computers that users will bring.
If you can help us in some way, you
Hi,
I am playing with sid on fresh system install.
I installed sarge standard desktop install. Sarge standard installer.
I added sid main non-free contrib to apt/sources.lst.
I did apt-get dist-upgrade.
Then I added in linux-2.6.15-1-k7-smp kernel.
(I disabled gdm mv /etc/rc2.d/S99gdm to /
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:32 pm, Arnór Kristjánsson wrote:
> How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
"/bin/false" in the last field of /etc/passwd for that user should do the
trick.
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:13:41PM +0100, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> Pol Hallen wrote:
>
> > i'd like block the internet connection on these programs ;-)
> >
> > which better solution of this problem?
>
> Create an additional user account and run those programs with that
> user's rights only. Then
How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users?
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Title: Configuring network printer using gnome/foomatic on Debian
I have a HP laserjet 8000 DN printer attached to network directly with ip address say 142.xx.xxx.yyy.
I want to send print jobs from Debian 3.1 system running 2.4 smp kernel.
I tried from gnome window : system tools; printer;
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:15:10PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not
> understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other
> distros/OSes is that you don't need to download EVERYTHING.
This is certainly the case for my U
Egor Tur wrote:
Hi folk.
I have two identical usb mouse which pluged to one comp with two head.
I use Xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 and udev 0.086-1 and kernel 2.6.15.5
In xorg.conf I write rules for this usb mouse as
Driver "mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (14/03/06 10:42), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
I'm curious about this. I've been running pure sid for over a year
and have never had anything break .
What is people's experience with
Hi folk.
I have two identical usb mouse which pluged to one comp with two head.
I use Xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 and udev 0.086-1 and kernel 2.6.15.5
In xorg.conf I write rules for this usb mouse as
Driver "mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:42:47AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
> Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
> > problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something
On (14/03/06 10:42), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
> Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
> > problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;)
>
> I'm curious
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> problem 1)
>
> after composing a message it shows up as an attachment in the preview
> screen before it can get sent out. i have tried putting the following
> line in my .muttrc file:
>
> attachments +I text/plain
>
> though this
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:45:31 +0100
Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> because SID breakes. period. you must know what yu are doing, how to fix
> problems and avoid doing unattended updates or something like that ;)
I'm curious about this. I've been running pure sid for over a year an
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:02:17 +1100
John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In an unfortunate (beer-related) incident, I rm'ed /boot and /bin from my
> etch
> laptop. I had /boot backed up, but not /bin, so I copied that from an oldish
> Mepis CD.
I did this once to /etc, same circu
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:14:42PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> Now is this
> (i) spam as in unsolicited commercial/bulk email,
> (ii) noise as in clueless user looking for eg. windows help,
> (iii) noise as in clueless linux user "how do I ...",
> (iv) noise as in "that was asked and answered
Mike McCarty wrote:
Using my "measured tone" voice...
One of the pros of Debian is that I'd only have to become
more-or-less expert in one distribution.
Why? Not true. There are plenty of us out here that learn the
DIFFERENCES between distros and then Linux is Linux. (One friend takes
th
Steve Lamb wrote:
Kent West said:
I've been subscribed for several years, and have not felt abused by the
list managers.
"He doesn't abuse me, I needed to be punished!" I used it to convey the
fact that they are fully capable of closing a hole that spammers use to
abuse the list t
Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> Kent West said:
> > I've been subscribed for several years, and have not felt abused by the
> > list managers.
>
> "He doesn't abuse me, I needed to be punished!" I used it to convey the
> fact that they are fully capable of closing a hole that spammers use to
> ab
Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> Tim Connors said:
> > That's a good way to get your bogus opinions across.
>
> No, that was a way to get my frustration across since the limst managers
Your obvious frustration is the only reason why I'm bothering to enter
this mess. No offence meant, but you're b
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:14:42PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> Now is this
> (i) spam as in unsolicited commercial/bulk email,
> (ii) noise as in clueless user looking for eg. windows help,
> (iii) noise as in clueless linux user "how do I ...",
> (iv) noise as in "that was asked and answered
Steve, how about you propose debian-susubscrbers-only which you
would moderate?
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Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:03:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
However, I am still doing the destination sorting via kmail, so I could
pick d-u off before it checks the headers SA adds, but I see little or
nothing to be gained by that in the real world.
But that is on
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:58:32AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Debian is, bar none, the major source of undesired e-mail for me.
I just took a look through the debian-user archive for March at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ and saw maybe half a dozen spam
emails at most. (I did not spend
On 3/13/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Sherohman said:
> > You can attempt to convince the listmasters or the project as a whole
> > in public without abusing them. (And it would be nice if they also
> > replied to you in a calm, levelheaded manner as well...)
>
> Have I not
Robert Kopp wrote:
--- mslinuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Another impatience question.
I've configured my box to connect to a shared
printer on a windblows98 box.
Setting up is done on CUPS,
Info
Location
DeviceURI smb://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sharedprinter
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobShee
hello,
(i know this isnt a mutt user list, however from the chatter on the list
it seems that there is a large portion that uses mutt)
i am test driving mutt and enjoying it. i dont know if ill revert to
evolution, but i'd like to try and get mutt up and running on all
cylinders.
problem 1)
af
On 3/14/06, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:>Hello list>>Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)>>I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you don't need to download EVERYTHING. They probab
Magnus Therning wrote:
I know there's a tool that will let me run "make install" and then
creates a .deb (or .rpm, or .tgz, or ..) of it so that I can remove the
package cleanly later and take a nice .deb to install on other machines.
I know this exists, I just can't remember the name of the tool
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 06:24:13PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:08:03 +0100 (MET)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Thanks so far.
> >
> > So my chipset is the following:
> >
> > NVIDIA nForce4 SLI and Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller.
> >
> > I know that there is a w
Jude DaShiell wrote:
What would the steps be to go from sarge stable to sarge unstable
using apt-get? For now I'm restricted to console mode until or unless
I figure out how to get debian's xwindows interface talking.
you put two questions. the first is: how to get xwindows working; and 2.
Indraveni wrote:
Hi All,
We are creating one Linux distribution based on
debian. Our distro is ready but the problem is : the
auto-mounting of the CD is not working. We need to
mount it externally. Which package we need to modify
in order to make our distro auto mount the CD.
Thankyou for any
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
Why is this OT? It is related to user's of debian. So very much relevant
on this list.
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences betw
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you don't need to download EVERYTHING. They probabl
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 12 March 2006 22:43, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:11:16PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
OK, that's a different story. Why are you complaining about missing
ide-scsi then?
Because ide-scsi is missing, and now cdrecord doesn't wor
> Create an additional user account and run those programs with that
> user's rights only. Then use the iptables "owner" module to
> restrict outgoing connections made by that user.
>
> See "-m owner" and "--uid-owner" in the iptables manual page for
> details.
Very very thanks! ;-)
Pol
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you don't need to download EVERYTHING. They prob
[KS] wrote:
Damien Solley wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:13 -0600, Paul Stolp wrote:
* Damien Solley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-23 21:15]:
Greetings,
I am trying to write single session DVD+R discs under Debian Etch (and
previously also in Sarge). I have tried Nautilus CD/D
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:08:03 +0100 (MET)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks so far.
>
> So my chipset is the following:
>
> NVIDIA nForce4 SLI and Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller.
>
> I know that there is a way to make a S-ATA hdd work in Linux but i just
> know it from suse linux (a friend
Hello list
Maybe it's a bit OT, but we do want new users, or not? ;-)
I have noticed that many newcomers to Debian often seem to not understand that
one of the big differences between Debian and other distros/OSes is that you
don't need to download EVERYTHING. They probably get the impression t
Laurent CARON wrote:
You can build your array with the following command
mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/sda1 missing
for example
when you get another drive just partition it, and add the partition to
the array with
mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdb1 for example
Thanks very much Laurent.
That s
Tony Heal wrote:
I have a file named 'custom' in /etc/cron.d and the first line in this
file is MAILTO=/dev/null.
I have a file that is run every minute that tests permissions on a
file and emails me it they have changed. This script is to
troubleshoot another problem.
* * * * * root
Quoting Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:32:46PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:02:17PM +1100, John O'Hagan wrote:
> To my surprise, most things seem to be working; but I'm wondering if I
> can expect problems, and if there's a way of restor
On Monday 13 March 2006 22:13, Michael Schurter wrote:
> I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking
> the same questions over and over.
>
> Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to
> install Debian Linux onto. The main thing is WiFi support an
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:27:40 -0800
"Hex Star" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alright thanks guys for your replies, I've ordered a set of debian CDs to be
> mailed to me due to the amount of CDs this distro has and I lookforward to
> using this distro on my HP NetServer LH3R :D
You don't need ALL of
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:39, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:16:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> >For now I'm restricted to console mode until or unless I
restricted ? I see no restrictions here. Just a little less eye candy *lol*
>
> First off, Sarge is the stable release
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 16:33, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> I am running a debian derivative system
details ?
> with fluxbox
> window manager. The screen does not blank and I have failed
> in finding how to do it?
you may want to install Xscreensaver and start it in your ,xsession . I
believe blanki
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