Re: dselect first impressions

2002-06-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
ink. Works fine, too. Specific problems with it should be directed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], non-specific fluff should be ignored. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial C

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
it if started as root. It should then be started from an init.d script that runs it as a suitable user, which then need not be static. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpWtM03TC5um.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hard disk - smart failure predicted??

2001-06-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
ackup & replace H.D" > what is wrong, do I run get a new H.D?? Good idea. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpPOOZ8MyK5c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: csh [was: Using tar saving Disk-space]

2001-05-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
Idea[tm]. It has been obsolete for years, and may it's fetid corpse never surface again. I suggest you try bash script or perl or something... -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgp31JtWvPyKX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I've been getting scanned...

2001-05-27 Thread Andrew Suffield
to do, ie: not allow any non-essential updates to stable. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK pgpHXWlantrW6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re-installing everything.

2001-05-17 Thread Andrew Suffield
rectories, grab a boot floppy, and redo it from scratch. Failing that, try piping the output of dpkg --get-selections through grep, possibly something like this: dpkg --get-selections | grep "\\S*\\s*deinstall" | cut -f 1 Then feed that list to apt-get --reinstall install. -- Andr

Re: I'm so lost

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
ace (or use the info browser in emacs ;) ) -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpvR4A87dhHs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody release date

2001-05-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
gt; releases, and FreeBSD is high quality like Debian IMO. Debian put a stable update (2.2r3) out in the last couple of months. It's not that uncommon for this to happen more often than rh/friends... (I know, it's not a full update. The reasons are somewhat obvious, and discussed elsewhere

Re: How the average guy gets mail...

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
e command. Is their a way to download mail, while in > mutt? ! fetchmail Mutt has pop3 capabilities, but fetchmail is much more powerful, imho. If you're so bothered by typing all those letters, make an alias or write a script. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0AUvFsdCLQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Creating an initrd

2001-05-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
ferent types of hardware. Mostly, it's better to include the offending drivers in the kernel itself. A more sensible use of an initrd is to preconfigure things that are needed to load the root filesystem, like the lvm... -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpRtp5rHDZcw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: two apt sources

2001-05-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:12:16PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > It is possible to have two sources in /etc/apt/sources.list? Yes, most people have several lines. apt will pull packages from everywhere in sources.list to get the latest versions it can find. -- Andrew Suffield <

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

2001-05-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
programming list > :0: > * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mail/sdl > At a rough guess, the second two lists don't add "X-Mailing-List: <...>" to the mail headers. Open a mail from one of them in your mail client and look for a suitable header added

Re: downgrading

2001-05-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
lling, but that's a bit of a pain. Yeah. Oh well... -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp4iYw3uf1kB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
e processing: > irda-common The post-removal script will be /var/lib/dpkg/info/irda-common.postrm Edit to taste, removing anything that it looks like you can do without (or take a risk and stick exit 0 at the top). Then try again. (Need I remind you to back the file up first, just in case?) -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp18BLSWS5oY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
ly ok for this package, especially since you've never actually installed it properly. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0zZ47qYmwa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Downloading of Debian

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
tallation Manuals -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp5xyeev30RN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Send You A Message

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:11:42PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > > 1) they're not ... Yes they are, read the list rules. Flat fee of $1000 is charged per message, posting a message signifies acceptance of this. :) -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpZyve02QQjz.pgp

Re: diald trouble

2001-04-30 Thread Andrew Suffield
gain, and look at that log. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgphStCTYjdsF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Partitioning prior to dual boot installation of Debian and Windows ME

2001-04-29 Thread Andrew Suffield
and use cfdisk (part of the install process) to finish partitioning. -- Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpRdHeoKzB8S.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Transferring Debian

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:36:42AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've set up and tailored a terrific potato 2.2r2 + KDE2 on my laptop and now > I'd like to replicate this same installation on my desktop via NFS. > My question is: How can I copy a Debian installation from one partition of my

Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ via-rhine.o module

2001-03-19 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:15:29AM -0800, David Carlile wrote: > Hi, > > I am extremely new to Linux and I hope I am not wasting bandwidth here, but > here goes. > > I have a D-Link DFE-530TX+ nic card that wasn't in the list when I > installed. A source file was included on the floppy that came

Re: Testing upgrade and consequences

2001-03-14 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:40:29PM +, Martin WHEELER wrote: > > > He upgraded > > from a Potato 2.2r2 system to current "testing" and most things broke in > > serious > > ways, such that he swears he will never again move from stable releases. > > And *how*. > > NEVER again. (Certainly n

Re: Installing kernel sources on alternative partition problem

2000-11-09 Thread Andrew Suffield
On 8 Nov 2000, Hubert Chan wrote: >Kieren Diment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have a slightly obscure problem recompiling my potato >> kernel-source-2.2.17 on a P100 laptop. >> >> I have a disk space problem and therefore tried to unpack the kernel >> sources on my other part

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: >"make bzImage" helped to create arch/i386/boot/bzImage as you stated. >I used before make zImage which in fact had put the file in >arch/i386/boot/compressed/. So the size of about 0.6MB is valid. I was >just wondering because the 2.0.38 kernel I rec

Re: Soundblaster PCI 128

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
>> The last days I've read some messages that I should use the es1370 or >> es1371 >> driver for that card. lsmod identified my card as es1371 so I've loaded lsmod shows you what drivers you have got loaded - it doesn't identify hardware. I have succesfully used es1371 with an SB PCI 128. >> this