Hello everyone,
I'm trying to become a new debian user, and am still kinda fuzzy on
where the best place to go for FAQs and help are, so bear with me...
I'm trying to set up my laptop with debian on an encrypted / partition
(and I'll have encrypted swap, too). I would like the encryption key
to
On Dec 7, 2007, at 4:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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John Miller wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Bob wrote:
Sorry for the OT post but I know a few round here are well informed
on the storage industry.
I'm just about to migrate a bunch of PCs to SATA from IDE as the IDE
drive caddies are failing [0] and I already have my server and a few
PCs u
Joe Emenaker wrote:
John Miller wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Bob wrote:
... what I'm looking for is a drivebay / backplane
manufacturer that has 5, 4, 3 and 1 slot internal bays available
that use the *same* tray / housing / caddie.
I've got about 4-5 rackmount servers using the Ad
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2007-12-04 12:02:44, schrieb David:
Greetings all.
I'm about to attempt configuring my first ever file server.
It's based on an old HP E200 with three equally old SATA drives.
I've done package searches on package descriptions and got a plethora of
package names tha
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:35:46PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Michael Pobega wrote:
>> tar cvvf foo.tar bar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > foo.tar"
>>
>> Or am I doing it wrong (I most likely am)? I've neve
> Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
> Does "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" do
>the same thing?
can't answer this one, i only use apt-get source
--download-only and that only rarely
> Does it get through the whole upgrade process and
>then reboot, or is
>it rebooting while
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aumnayan D'Letti wrote:
> I am installing the latest stable version of Debian (40rl) and am
> having an issue with how it's seeing my primary HD.
>
> It's set up as the master on the primary IDE chain, which t
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:18:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> lsdvd does a good job of dumping the name of the disk, and the
> titles on the disk, but is there any tool to list the chapters? If
> there were any CLI way to see title names, that would be great too.
>
> I've pored over
I've been using the HHKB Lite 2 keyboard (also known as the "Happy Hacker
Lite") for a couple of years now. It has a firm touch but is fast and easy
to type on. I switch keyboards frequently to try to avoid carpal tunnel but
with this keyboard I haven't felt a twinge...
They have draw backs... It
David Brodbeck wrote:
Yeah, but for $40 they take the thing apart and clean it before they
sell it to you. That might just be worth every penny, given how
disgusting those things get. I hope the guy who cleans them gets extra
danger pay for the biohazard he's exposed to. ;)
I read some
I saw many "how to xxx card..." post on linux forums. Im gonna check ebay to
buy new wireless card.
which one is most/best easy/supported wireless card by Debian. (54G, pci,
WPA-eap-tkip )
I need recommendation. brand, model, version?
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Hi,
lsdvd does a good job of dumping the name of the disk, and the
titles on the disk, but is there any tool to list the chapters? If
there were any CLI way to see title names, that would be great too.
I've pored over the mencoder man page and goog
On 08/12/2007, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a datum point, I'm fairly familiar with Windows Small Business
> Server, which has a broadly similar collection of software and requires
> an absolute minimum of 1GB RAM and preferably at least a 2GHz machine to
> run with comparable performance to
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:43:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> >
> > If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
> > this year, check out www.click
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:35:41PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2007 09:54, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:27:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > Many people seem to think that ftp.debian.org is the canonical location
> > > > of Debian packages and t
Scott
Per your subject and attachments. Hope this will be helpful.
I don't think your problem can be resolved at the current time because
of your kernel patch.
Below find correspondence and URLs which explain why.
* Brian Almeida:
> I've been unable to find an official debian kernel which
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>
> If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
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> keyboards. Mine just arrived and I'm in heaven.
tekant ozer wrote:
Hi
Im a Windows user. just bit acquaintance with Linux from Univ years. My
computer background is not bad. Ive been usin it since Commodore64 and DOS
years.
Couple of times attempted for Linux but its very confusing..
Last year I wanted to setup a personal Web server in my a
On 07/12/2007, tekant ozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> Im a Windows user. just bit acquaintance with Linux from Univ years. My
> computer background is not bad. Ive been usin it since Commodore64 and DOS
> years.
> Couple of times attempted for Linux but its very confusing..
>
> Last year I w
On Dec 7, 2007 1:22 PM, tekant ozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No problem with Hardware except wireless card. godd**n Airlink 101 card .
> There was a limited wireless no support for this card at that time. I tried
> some generic drivers which I found on some linux sites. I dont know how is
tekant ozer wrote:
The system is old. Dual PIII with 440M/B. Dual Hotswap PSU. about
730Mb ECC. Dell Perf Quad 64bit Raid with 128Mb daughterBrd. 5 SCSI in
Hotswp Cage. TapeDrv, DVD, floppy etc..
No problem with Hardware except wireless card. godd**n Airlink 101
card . There was a limited wire
On 2007-12-07T13:22:28-0800, tekant ozer wrote:
> -is there any easy to use remote admin desktop solution which accept
> me to reach from windows platform to Linux ?
If you want a desktop then I think you would be happy with vnc. On the
other hand if it is just a server, and you only need cmman
"Bob Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>What exactly IS exim?
>IOW: when I setup sendmail, I'm working with bash scripts.
>when I setup an exim conf file - what exactly runs it? perl?
The exim configuration file is written in an Exim-specific language
parsed by nothing but Exim.
Ed Curtis wrote:
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13
lines --]
ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
ASW> If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yo
John Miller wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Bob wrote:
... what I'm looking for is a drivebay / backplane
manufacturer that has 5, 4, 3 and 1 slot internal bays available
that use the *same* tray / housing / caddie.
I've got about 4-5 rackmount servers using the Addonics 3-drive uni
Hope this is the right mailing list to send this to... if it's not,
point me to the right one please.
It's been a number of years since I have worked with linux, so some
items I believe to be true are not necessarily the case. Keep that in
mind when I say something asinine.
I am installing the la
Is anyone using offlineimap? I am trying to sync 2 accounts from the
same server. One account works fine but 2 causes problems. I've posted
my config info to the offlineimap list but no response. If anyone has an
example rc file that works with more than one account I would be very
grateful if you
2007/12/7, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > go over the old 500 limit, as the history file can't magically recover
> > 500 previously deleted lines.
> > This isn't Windoze, you know. :-)
>
> I should clarify the above. What I mean is, Windows'll tell you
> something's gone, even when it is
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:10:00PM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
> i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
>> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines
>> --]
>> ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
>> ASW> If
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:40:16PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 07 Dec 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> > > strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands from the command
> > > line
> > >
> > > aptitude update and aptitu
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Ed Curtis wrote:
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii,
13 lines --]
ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
ASW> If you need that amazingly
> go over the old 500 limit, as the history file can't magically recover
> 500 previously deleted lines.
> This isn't Windoze, you know. :-)
I should clarify the above. What I mean is, Windows'll tell you
something's gone, even when it isn't. In Linux, deleted means
deleted. In Winders, it s
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:31 AM, David Brodbeck wrote:
One obvious problem with removing permissions on all this stuff is
there are sometimes situations where an ordinary user legitimately
needs to run, say, mount.
Seems to me like setting up
On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
It is BSD not Linux. Linux is a bit of SysV and a bit of BSD.
Permission of files inherit a bit of the directory they're in (I
forget the details). Initscrips are rc NOT SysV. If you add a
package you have to
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:02:49 -0600
"Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Sergio,
> I closed all my terminals, reopened them, execute . .bashrc without
> success. In .bash_history are only 500 lines.
> What is wrong ?
You need to log out, then back in. Merely shutting down all
i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines --]
ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
ASW> If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
ASW> this y
>Which packages are to be upgraded? What is the
>output of
>
> aptitude -F "%p %30v %30V" search ~U
this was today's package list
The following packages have been kept back:
k3b
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkpathsea4 texlive-base-bin
2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 t
>I've never heard of the full-upgrade option; what
>does it do?
>
>(other than cause your computer to reboot?) :)
following is from the man page for aptitude...
full-upgrade
Upgrades installed packages to their most
recent version, removing or installing packages as
necessary. This com
>From what I remember you're generally not supposed
>to run any sort of
>updates while in an X environment; If I were you I'd
>quit X and change
>to TTY1 before administering any changes (Especially
>if the changes are
>X.org or libX related)
>
fair enough, though this was just an update to TeX
(w
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:06:00PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines
> --]
> ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
> ASW> If you need that amazingly
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ASW> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines --]
ASW> Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;)
ASW> If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone (yourself?)
ASW> this year, check out www.clickykeyboards.com
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:51:55AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> andy writes:
> > OK - but according to RUTE sbin = "Superuser binary executables.
>
> The "s" is for "system", not for "superuser".
>
> > These are programs for system administration only. Only the root will
> > have these executables
Hello,
I want to increase the number of saved lines in .bash_history. So I
added the lines:
export HISTSIZE=1000
export HISTFILESIZE=1000
to my .bashrc.
But I see no change in the number of lines saved, only 500. I searched
for files in /etc that maybe were setting this parameter, but I found
n
On 07 Dec 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> > strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands from the command
> > line
> >
> > aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
> >
> > lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:47:12AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Do you realy need 15 partitions on a singel drive?
in some cases it's possible (see below).
However that was not my point: my point in that post was that if I have
to look at a disk that someone gives me [or some old disk of min
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On 12/07/07 07:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:55:55AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> On Thu December 6 2007, Bill Smith wrote:
>>> I am pleased to announce LiveCD/LiveDVD image updates: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
>>> ? ? ? 4.2-rel
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
> from the command line
>
> aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
Does this happen every time you run an upgrade?
Does "apt-get update && a
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:43:19AM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> > strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
> > from the command line
> >
> > aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
Hi,
I see your frustration.
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:26:38PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Dec 5, 8:00 pm, "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > 2007/12/5, Bob Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > What exactly IS exim?
> >
> > > IOW: when I setup sendmail, I'm worki
Am 2007-12-04 12:02:44, schrieb David:
> Greetings all.
>
> I'm about to attempt configuring my first ever file server.
> It's based on an old HP E200 with three equally old SATA drives.
>
> I've done package searches on package descriptions and got a plethora of
> package names that may or may
Am 2007-12-03 19:25:01, schrieb Ron Johnson:
> And *none* will have SATA.
AsusTek A7V600-X has two PATA and two SATA ports...
Unfortunatly my Hitachi 320 GByte (SATA2) does not work in the VIA
Controller but my 4 SATA1 drives.
Q: Anyone with 2 Socket A CPUs here which do not need them anymore?
Am 2007-12-03 08:08:33, schrieb Nevruz Mesut Sahin:
>
> I have problem with installing Courier Imap . when I try to install
> courier-imap-pop3-1.5.3-5.i386.rpm but it conflicts Cyrus Sasl and needs
I can not recommend the installation of a FC rpm on a
Am 2007-12-04 09:26:46, schrieb NN_il_Confusionario:
> yes, this is useful. But for mounting drives this is also solved without
> udev by mounting filesystems by labels, uuids [or by lvm devices since
> it is very likely that one uses LVM evms or similar on scsi drives,
> since (apart other advanta
Am 2007-12-03 14:15:10, schrieb Michael Pobega:
> Perhaps that would be a better approach, how would I go about doing
> that? I've no clue how to grant rw access to the SDL framebuffer, which
> is why I didn't try it that way (That was the first thought to cross my
> mind)
as root:
chmod 750
Am 2007-12-04 01:24:16, schrieb Ron Johnson:
> udev is very important to modern SCSI-heavy kernels, since the SCSI
> subsystem has always had the irksome habit of renaming existing
> devices if a new devices is added.
Yeah... I had to replace a broken Raid1 using hotfix and now my
/dev/sd?xx are
Am 2007-12-03 12:26:04, schrieb Michael Pobega:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:10:44AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > 2. There's the (very) slight psychological reminder that you're potentially
> > doing dangerous things when you have to take the extra step of typing
> > "sudo" before a command.
>
>
Am 2007-12-01 03:20:25, schrieb s. keeling:
> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Usenet News has plenty of non-X related groups. comp.unix.shell might
> > > be to your liking, or one of the Debian related alt groups.
> >
> > The problem is, that NOT ALL users can read usenet...
>
> htt
Which packages are to be upgraded? What is the output of
aptitude -F "%p %30v %30V" search ~U
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 07:55:55AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu December 6 2007, Bill Smith wrote:
> > I am pleased to announce LiveCD/LiveDVD image updates: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> > ? ? ? 4.2-release for i386 is now available. ?There is a bug with the XFCE
> > image, so that is still 4.1
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
> from the command line
>
> aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
I've never heard of the full-upgrade option; what does it do?
(other than cause your computer to reboot?) :)
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:12:49AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands from the command
> line
>
> aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
>
> lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i shouldn't say
> crashes, the system goes through its
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:52:28AM -0500, John Miller wrote:
> Nate Duehr wrote:
> >> Bob wrote:
> >>> Sorry for the OT post but I know a few round here are well informed
> >>> on the storage industry.
> >>>
> >>> I'm just about to migrate a bunch of PCs to SATA from IDE as the IDE
> >>> drive cadd
On Thu December 6 2007, Bill Smith wrote:
> I am pleased to announce LiveCD/LiveDVD image updates:
> 4.2-release for i386 is now available. There is a bug with the XFCE
> image, so that is still 4.1. amd64 architecture will follow within the
> next few weeks. www.jggim
>Further to the attached post, I now discover that I
>can no longer open
>in Konqueror any html files. What I get instead of
>a document in html,
>
>format I get a plain text document including all the
>html codes.
>
>I discovered that this fault and the inability to
>open tabs with ctrl-t
>
>o
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David Fox wrote:
> On 12/6/07, Cassiano Bertol Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> All -cd directories under
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/ are empty... The
>> - -dvd ones are there. Are the CDs not being generated?
>
> I j
strange, every morning i run two aptitude commands
from the command line
aptitude update and aptitude full-upgrade
lately on running the full upgrade x crashes, well i
shouldn't say crashes, the system goes through its
normal reboot (first time it left me going huh), no
error message in system lo
Currently I have this installed on the host, running etch:
ii xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd643.0.3-0-4 The
Xen Hypervisor
ii xen-ioemu-3.0.3-1 3.0.3-0-4 XEN
administrative
ii xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-vserver-amd64 2.6.18.dfsg.1
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