On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:31:26PM +0100, Toby Satchell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with
> it as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to
> go for, Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with
> for a server, bu
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:42:15AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:03:06AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> >
> > Apparently the BSD folks decided in retrospect that mixing binaries with
> > configuration was a bad idea. But why not put them in /bin?
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:53:31AM +0200, Achim Stumpf wrote:
>
> So I read the installation manual and in chapter 5.3.5 Bug Reporter is
> written:
>
> If you get through the initial boot phase but cannot complete the
> install, the bug reporter menu choice may be helpful.
[...]
> So what do
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from
> XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start.
[...]
> No core pointer
>
> The problem seems to be the mouse or touchpad. The computer is a laptop
> (Compaq Presario 21
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:42:47PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote:
> The stock kernel of sarge does not work with my sb16,
> so compile 2.4.27 and use it and it works:
>
> modprobe sound
> insmod uart401
> cd /lib/modules/2.4.27/kernel/drivers/sound
> insmod -f ./sb_lib.o
> insmod -f ./sb.o io=0x220 i
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:32:51PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:22:06AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
>
> > The only reasons for having a separate /sbin are historical, and even
> > then they are unclear. They certainly have nothing to do with security,
>
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> IMO ifconfig is a system function, and the normal user has no need
> for access to it, none, nada, zip. As the admin, the admin should be
> responsible for that, with those configs locked down for normal users.
>
> Heck, I'm using t
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:28:42AM +, Ramsay D. Seielstad wrote:
>
> Greetings all, seems the kernel-images have recently been updated
> and I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm running an IBM dual xeon 2.4 ghz
> system on the stock kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp with no problems.
>
> Now kernel
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:16:46PM +, Terry Burton wrote:
[...]
> In a typical configuration httpd overrides the main CustomLog
> settings with those found in virtual hosts. What I need is a way to
> specify the main CustomLog such that it is not overridden, but rather
> complemented, by furt
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:53:02PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Robert Harris wrote:
> > I have a system that runs root on raid. There are currently 2
> >kernels installed in the system.
> >
> > 2.6.15-1 and 2.6.10-1. If I boot up on 2.6.16-1 the system will
> >say it can't find my root files
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:54:43AM -0500, Luis Finotti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently tried to install the linux image 2.6.15 from backports.org.
> I noticed that it would bring other files with it and remove some. My
> question is: will this make the stock 2.6.8 kernel not work? Since it
> actuall
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 05:20:47AM +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> I'm in the process of setting up a server with 2 disks that I want
> to mirror. I'm using a Promise Fasttrack S150 Tx2 plus SATA card.
> I've gotten the system to boot stating it has the 1 logical volume,
> however, when I use the Sarg
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
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
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:34:17AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> Andrew Cady wrote:
[...]
> >This should be perfectly safe so long as you don't use both machines
> >to apt-get at the same time. If you do, though, one apt-get could
> >try to resume downloading a fil
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 restoring /bin to the
> > correct state for a
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:12:36PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote:
> As I'm just trying it out, I figured, if I chattr -R +A on a folder,
> will it apply to new files as well?
# lsattr -a
- ./.
- ./..
# chattr +A .
# touch x
# lsattr -a
---A- ./.
---
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:56:45PM +0100, Marco Calviani wrote:
> Hi list,
>i'm asking if there is some way to change the default compiler
> and related variables in a consistent way to another version. In
> particular i would like to change it, due to some incompatibilies,
> from 4.0 to 3.4. I
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:52:33AM +0100, Jim MacBaine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> one of my hard drives seems to be dying. To me as a layman this looks
> as if the disk should be returned to the shop where I bought it. Is
> this right?
>
> ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0x3/1
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:11:45AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote:
[...]
> The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened
> automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the
> installed kernel image is now "kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386") and changed
> the entry in /etc/
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:36:57PM -0700, Scott wrote:
> I've decided I'd like to try pinning.
>
> I read through apt_preferences(5) and the howtos on the web and I've
> still got a question.
>
> In the following example. I got "Unofficial Multimedia Packages" from
> the release file (http://ft
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0100, . wrote:
> Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote:
>
> > I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs.
>
> Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated.
> *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition
> table befo
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:15:40PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
> Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or
> > /dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the
> > so
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its
> > environment when starting privileged processes. To get X working, you
> > will wa
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:20:57AM -0500, Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote:
> 1. How to recognise the device file for RAID5 ?
RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or
/dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the
software RAID driver in linux is c
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:08:35AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
>
> $ env | grep DISPLAY.
> DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> $ sudo env | grep DISPLAY
> [nothing returned]
>
> Why do I get inconsistent results?
As others have pointed out, sudo does not by default preserve its
environment when start
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:25:09PM -0500, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote:
> I'm using testing, with no packages from unstable. I'm also using
> gdm.
>
> First, while upgrading a bunch of packages yesterday I got an error
> upgrading the x11-common package. Second, after rebooting I get some
> nasty lo
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:53:28PM +0100, Yannick Patois wrote:
> - IT USUALLY CRASH WHEN OR JUST AFTER I SWITCH X SESSION
Using nvidia's drivers, by any chance?
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:12:25AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> If a user account is added to the dip group that user on reboot
> can use pon dsl-provider. That same user though cannot use poff
> dsl-provider, it has to be used by root. I just found this out so
> those using roaring penguin with
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:25:09PM +0100, Jan C. Nordholz wrote:
>
> Ok, tried...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tty
> /dev/tty1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /dev/tty[01]
> crw--- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-03-29 21:30 /dev/tty0
> crw--- 1 jcn tty 4, 1 2006-03-07 19:52 /dev/tty1
>
> ... doesn't change
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:45:06PM -0500, Bernard Fay wrote:
> vgcfgrestore lnxvg
> Incorrect metadata area header checksum
> Restored volume group lnxvg
It said it's restored, but it's still not working? Not good...
> Something else we could try.
Well, I don't know what. Try asking on an
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:24:34PM -0500, Bernard Fay wrote:
> For any LVM commands I run I receive the following message:
>
> Incorrect metadata area header checksum
>
> and/or
>
> Volume group mapper doesn't exist
Either your metadata has gotten messed up or you're using the wrong
device.
I
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:42:04PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
>
> > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a
> &
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 05:52:46PM -0500, pinecone wrote:
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Slink loads and finds the nic. I want to upgrade the version and get a
> text mode gui with an internal external mail capapbility for the house.
> The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site
> d
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian
> repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would
> like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet
> card is sis190, for which the dr
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> I have all the packages downloaded in my /var/cache/apt/archives
> directory. I don't want the notebook to have to download them all
> again
[...]
> After reading the man pages on apt, apt.conf, aptitude etc, and googling
> around
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:14:11AM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> On Friday 03 March 2006 22:20, Andrew Cady wrote:
>
> > How grub names and finds drives is completely unrelated to how linux
> > does it. If your problem is with grub's behavior, then /dev/sd? and
>
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:25:52PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote:
>
> I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year
> now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing).
> At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default
> config except for turning on a c
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:54:07PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The other problem is colors. I know that the 'rxvt' xterm clone
> > allows each ANSI color to be set to an arbitrary RGB value using X
> > res
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote:
> I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date.
[...]
> Setting up postgresql-common (42) ...
> dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
[..
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:33:12PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> I want my computers to boot from the SCSI drive and mount the big
> SATAs in /usr for video and audio work. When it boots, the BIOS
> presents the SCSI to grub as (hd0), but by the time grub goes to load
> the kernel (fro
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:55:55PM -, Tom Northeast wrote:
> After a short while i get an error from each runlevel:
>
> INIT: id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
[...]
This means that the inittab entry labelled "1" is exiting right away
every time it starts. To see the entry:
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:37:21PM -0500, Chris Roddy wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is
> suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that
> was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's.
>
> Based on what I could find o
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:23:20AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in
> bash/posh/dash?
>
> benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c
> benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c
> foo bar baz
>
> If I try the same with bash (or other sh-
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:02:59AM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote:
> Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Please re-read my post. I know you don't want the resources cleared.
> > That's why I told you how to avoid it!
>
> I am still not sure
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:18:15AM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote:
> Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote:
> >> I did forget to mention that if I run
> >>
> >> xrdb --query
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:41:08PM +0800, LUK ShunTim wrote:
> if [ -z "$AAA" ]; then
>cat <>outfile
>EOF
> fi
Remove indentation before EOF or use <<" EOF".
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:29:15PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 19:24, Andrew Cady wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:56:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:25, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
> > >
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:56:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:25, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
>
> > Windows is very expensive *UNLESS* you get some sort of volume
> > discount or you purchase it with your computer. I have heard of
> > places where windows co
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote:
> I did forget to mention that if I run
>
> xrdb --query
>
> I do see the emacs and rxvt stuff , and if I exit emacs and rxvt and
> start them up again, things are fine.
>
> I can't think of anything else, though.
The problem
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote:
> >because you forgot the missing drive
>
> Lets change that theory. Lets say I want to growthe array as I move data
> over. And I need to grow it in several stages. Then I can not use
> missing, since I then I effect have >1 missing d
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:08:16AM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Every few days, I get the kernel error "hdX: lost interrupt" where X
> is usually c or g.
[...]
> Any suggestions for how to go about diagnosing the problem?
Unfortunately, hardware may be at fault. If possible, try a
different
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:25:49PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> hi ya
>
> > Rylan Vroom wrote:
> >
> > Hello, How do you tell debian to use a local dns server before going
> > to = the ones maintained by my ISP?
>
> you can't ...
You sure can.
> vi /etc/resolv.conf
> localhost
> dn
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:17:39PM +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Saturday, 25 February 2006 17:38, Andrew Cady wrote:
> > Did not. (No bother).
>
> From the headers of your messages: [...]
Oops. Misconfiguration.
> You are certainly not the only one to find the OP qu
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:52:25PM +0800, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> (CCing you because you request it.)
Did not. (No bother).
> Saturday, 25 February 2006 15:40, Andrew Cady wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:27:02AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > > On Saturday 25 Februa
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:46:30PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I think I was not clear in my statements. Two machines A and B are
> in lan coonected to DHCP server which gives random ip addresses on
> each boot. They are not constantly on. Each machine has only one
> user. Both ids are different. I
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:27:02AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:14, Andrew Cady wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote:
> >
> > > I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any
> > >
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote:
> I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a
> psychiatric facility.
[...]
> After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't
> installed it for over five years, I finally got it installed the way I
> wanted
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:53:15AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X
> session is running on?
grep 'using VT number' /var/log/XFree86.(whatever).log
> Alternatively, is there any way to specify which tty an X session
> is started on.
>Fr
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:36:52AM +0100, Guillaume Membré wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to have 2 independent X on which I can have a normal
> desktop on the fisrt one (called D) and on the second one with Mythtv
> (called M). I would like to be able to restart my server D without
> interferin
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:51:57PM +, Richard Gaywood wrote:
> Hello list.
>
> I'm looking for a little tool that will provide me with, say, daily
> summaries of how much traffic was on each TCP and UDP port. A bit like
> the rather nifty iptraf but not real-time.
The tool you want is iptable
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote:
>
> What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a
> key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor
> position in my aterm when connected to a remote host.
>
> Is there something that will do this?
Y
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:21:29PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my
> server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the
> client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of
> the read-only exported one??
>
> T
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able
> to respond to postings from Mutt but without success.
If you just want mutt to work like mozilla, look at the package 'msmtp'.
Alternatively, if you want
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote:
> > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives
> > you symlink the line:
> | www-browser to something link
> > /usr/bin/mozilla
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:49:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and
> what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I
> click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server,
> logged in as
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:15:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:54, Andrew Cady wrote:
> >Not all distributions even use sysv style init. It is faulty
> >documentation that assumes any particular runlevel for any particular
> >software. That i
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:08:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> I can understand this is more flexible, but it can be confusing
> for someone new to Debian. All Linux doc's state runlevel 5 is for
> multiuser with X, while Debian gdm installs itself to runlevel 2...
> and this is not so obviou
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:23:49PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Alex Malinovich,
> > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 17:26 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > > "As far as I know, Debian is the only distribution with its
> > > own constitution... but what really sold me on it was its
> > > phenomen
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:22:27PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
> On 12/12/05, Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > You could try putting a sulogin immediately before the mythbackend
> > script in your runlevel then running mythbackend manually. If it
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:11:44AM -0700, Mike wrote:
> I'm baffled I can start this by running
> "/etc/init.d/mythbackend start" after the computer starts but when
> its starting up it just says its starting but never does.
>
> How on earth would I trouble shoot something like this if it is
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:21:42PM +0100, martin jakubik wrote:
> Hello, I'm a newbie.
>
> I've got wireless working on my Debian, but I have to log in as admin
> to start it. I'd like to know how I can get it to load on bootup.
>
> I've got a Linksys WPC54G card. I'm using ndiswrapper to run my
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 07:01:50PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> LPI - then, potentially, RHCE if you can find someone to stump up for
> you once you've a proven track record.
Do either of these actually mean anything to anyone?
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:59:34AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> you know I had/have the same problem ...
>
> I finally broke down and wrote my own init script that I run in
> runlevels 2-5 that basically has
>
> mdadm -A -s
This is supposed to be run in /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid. Check that
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:18:12AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:07:02PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> > Seriously though, shell scripting sucks. Perl! It's on every
> > debian system with debconf.
>
> I absolutely agree with you here. I lo
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
>
> > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS"
> > ls: 'file\ 1 file\ 2': No such file or directory
>
> in this case you probably want
>
> $ DIRS='file\ 1 file\ 2'; eval ls -l
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