I did the switcheroo with an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to kill/dispose of a few packages and reload them, but (thanks to dselect pointing out "obsolete" packages) it wasn't all that difficult. A final cleansing using debfoster, a replacement kernel to get rid of the malfun
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago, and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently purchased an additional hard drive and attempted to put Debian on it (as God intended). Sarge didn't want to recogniz
| This is in fact correct, it has got to do with the new threading model
| called NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library) that is now used if kernel 2.6
| is present. Under this new model threads are classed as Lightweight
| Processes (LWP) and ps only shows them if you use it with the -L or H
| (i.e. p
rooks
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upgrade it in a couple of weeks. Save yourself some headaches and
go Sarge now.
My $0.37, but YMMV,
Brooks
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| > This year I'm trying something radical: all the forms and instructions
| > are available on irs.gov. I figured if I could install Debian, I should
| > be able to work through the tax instructions. It's sort of like using
| > the command line instead of a GUI. You answer all the same questio
r your return and signs
off on it. It's real easy to hire cheap, temporary, semi-trained labor to
do the returns. Make absolutely sure you get what you pay for.
IMHO,
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| I expected to see all sorts of messages here about difficulties with
| testing after the migration of glibc 2.3.1-14.
|
| Hardly anything, though.
|
| I've been holding back from the upgrade till things settle down.
|
| Are there any brave souls who went ahead and upgraded and have the
| time to
>I cant seem to get Debian to see the hard drives. I have a Smart Array
>controller and that is setup correctly but I cant get Debian to see it.
>Any Suggestions?
Look for a module under Block Devices for something about Compaq Smart
Array. Load the module. Debian will see what volumes you have
| I'm encountering a few problems with this product - on two different
| machines (with the same kind of video card)
|
| In MODCONF, there's an option for framebuffers. If I choose to install
| the Rage 128 - my screen goes "nuts". If I memorized the keystrokes, I
| can remove the framebuffer mod
Greetings,
When I do some programming, I like to login to several virtual terminals,
so I can compile without exiting [1]nano, read a man page, view other code,
etc. Is there a somewhat safe way to login to several vt's at once from say
a script?
Thanks,
Brooks
1. Yes, I said nano, get
| How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US
| citizens live below the poverty line amazes me.
The ideology of capitalism puts people with money into power. Benevolent as
the may want to be, power corrupts, and they are corrupted by power. From
this point of view,
| How do I re-download copies installed .deb packages that are already on
| my system? apt-get won't download a package that is already installed.
IIRC, apt-move creates a local "mirror" of the packages installed on a
particular machine.
HTH,
Brooks
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| That doesn't sound at all like the Brooks Robinson I'm familiar with
| ...
Well the story goes like this
Circa 1968/1969 my (then 10 year old) brother was watching a marvelous third
baseman. He turns to my mother and asks that if she has another child,
could they name it Brooks. My mother
| I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
| why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
| all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
| long that you have advanced your knowledge of Linux/Debian to these
| levels that all of yo
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:21:23PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> I just created an ISO with jigdo-lite.
> Are jigdo created iso's bootable?
If they are official isos, then they should be bootable. Each disk has a different
kernel to boot with.
HTH,
Brooks
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On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 06:30:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> >>Anyone get the doom package working?
> >>I'm having sound problems with OSS (like there isn't any sound).
> >
> >apt-get install lxdoom lxdoom-sndserv lxdoom-x11
> >
> >lxdoom -width 640 -height 400 -iwad ./Doom/DOOM.WAD
>
> I tried
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:36:36AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Anyone get the doom package working?
>
> I'm having sound problems with OSS (like there isn't any sound).
> --
> If you're happy, you're successful.
apt-get install lxdoom lxdoom-sndserv lxdoom-x11
lxdoom -width 640 -height 400 -iw
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:46:12AM -0600, Sonny Kupka wrote:
> I have ntpdate installed on woody.. and it's not automagically keeping my
> system in sync..
>
> I have to run ntpdate restart manually to get the clock updated.. Anyone
> have a clue as to what I need to do to fix this situation?
I
| | Randy Orrison writes:
| | > Is it likely to be just a poor modem,...
| |
| | Yes. My Zoom modem does it too. Very irritating.
|
| Anyone have any ideas whether it can be fixed via a setting, or
| recommend an external hardware modem available at a reasonable price in
| the UK that won't dial
to adopt. I
haven't tried any other windows ssh clients to see if this is true or not.
Otherwise putty isn't making a clean connection as other have said.
HTH,
Brooks
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| So, anyone knows where are the pthreads man pages?
IIRC, there are none.
apt-get install glibc-doc
file:///usr/share/doc/glibc-doc/html/chapters_34.html#SEC670
HTH,
Brooks
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Greetings,
Here is a sampling of my pci data for comparison. In my kernel config, I
have CONFIG_NET_PCI=y and CONFIG_EEPRO100=y. What I find odd about your
setup is that the IRQ for the two ports are different. On mine they are
both on IRQ 11, but you seem to have one on IRQ 10 and one o
| Is there anyone out there who is currently and successfully using the
| Intel Pro/100 S Dual Port Server Adapter (NIC) with Linux. I've been
| trying to get it working first under Kernel 2.4.19, then Kernel 2.4.18
| (thinking that 2.4.19 was too new and therefore not supported by the
| driver on
| So, I have a few users I want to add to my web server, but I have a
| question or two.
|
| So with apache installed, I am not sure where I should store all the web
| data, previously I was storing in /var/www.
|
| I wan't users to be able to upload their content easily without hassle.
|
| Problem
| On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0800, ian wrote:
| > can an entire directory be deleted without deleting its
| contents first? if
| > so how?
|
| rm -r
|
| BE CAREFUL! I'm sure a few people can tell horror stories of having
| to rebuild a box either they or some other adminluser did rm -rf
| Cox Cable did the same thing with port 80 soon after Code Red
| struck. Yet another reason why I hate MSFT and lusers.
|
| At the same time, they decided to be really anal and block port
| 25, too. Bah!
|
>From the COX support pages FAQ
Question:
What ports do you block?
Answer:
We blo
Greetings,
My I.T. cohort wants to switch our email system around (mostly to start
filtering spam). He's nervous about doing any kind of linux implementation
because he's mostly a Microsoft junky and feels "safe" with those sorts of
products. He wants to go to a maildrop or a domain mail
| * martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-10-2002 15:14]:
| > > If I buy an X-Box that cost $300 to make for $200, then MS `loses'
| > > $100. If I don't buy one at all, then they lose $300.
| >
| > Where did you learn economics?
|
| I should resist, but sorry.
|
| More Xboxes sold, is more deve
| Hello All
|
| At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there
| are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does
| anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does
| one have to compile pine.
|
Have a look at pine-tracker (non-free).
HTH,
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| I have to mask a "&" in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html;
| charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; "&" doesn't work.
| You can mask special characters a la "%20" in HTML. What encoding is
| this, and where can I find a listing?
IIRC, this is hex. the %20 would be 0x20 (am I doin
| Can someone point me to a website that covers advantages/disadvantages
| of a dual processor machine over a single processor machine, especially in
| linux?
http://2cpu.com http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html
Try a google search for smp and linux...
HTH,
Brooks
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| > > This makes it imperative to patch systems with security patches asap.
| > > If
| > > i'm under the understanding, virus/worms have been on an increase in
| > > the
| > > past 6-12 months on Linux systems. Do people think this is because of
| > > the
| > > more widespread usage of LInux now,
| Hello list,
|
| Is there any instructions on how to create a self-made Debian LiveCD?
|
| Any info. is highly appreciated.
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apt-get install bootcd
HTH,
Brooks
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| it would be cool if there was(maybe there is?) a utility that could
| scan every file on the system and identify those which are not
| part of a package, would make for easy backups! or even better compare
| the md5sums of the ones against the packages, and mark those as well
| to backup changed
| I have an idea for a cool GUI that would be intuitive, if nothing
| else. It
| would be based on a Doom interface, where you "walk" from directory to
| directory. In each Directory, there would be a room. In the
| back wall of the
| room (as you enter) would be the door to the parent directory
| check for this . I looked in the /proc directory and did a cat of cpu
| but it only showed one processor at 500MHZ.
|
| Am I looking in the wrong place???
Greetings,
A cat of /proc/cpuinfo should give a listing for each cpu. I get two
for
the two on my box.
HTH,
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| Uh huh. And get cracked tomorrow because security updates are *not*
| being made for woody at this time. There is a list of approximately a
| dozen *known* security problems with woody that will be dealt with
| *later*. Updates are not propogating from sid to woody at all right
| now, even for
| Are you really named "Brooks Robinson" or is that a nom du net?
Yes this is my true and given name. Long story short: my brother was a fan,
my mom agreed to something she never thought would happen
| > My conclusion is that Woody is effectively released already.
|
| So, Woody changed to a 2.4
| With hindsight, it's clear that trying to
| support too many architectures was a mistake.
| Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly
| said that he who never made a mistake, never
| made anything.
Is it a mistake to try and reach every everywhere? If
so, then the Christian Church and t
| There used to be a pine source package, but it was dropped, IIRC. I
| don't remember why.
|
It was dropped and replaced with pine-tracker. This source was still
available, and when a new pine tracker package was available, it reminded
you to build yourself a new package with the following comman
| there is another way to do a basic check?
apt-get install nmap
HTH,
Brooks
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| On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote:
| > I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my
| > notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off.
| >
| > Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to:
| > --enable xscreensaver (w/ & w/o password
| Hi,
|
| I upgraded from potato to woody and now I would like to use the new
| version 4 x windows software. It seems that it all installed everthing
| but version 3 is still running when I do startx. I didn't see anything
| in the release-notes. Other than that the upgrade went well.
|
| Wha
| Does anyone know if Debian supports Dual Port nics.
I have a box with a Compaq 3122(?) dual port nic which IIRC is basically a
dual 3121 (which uses the eepro100 drivers). It finds both ports just fine.
Dual port nic support is probably driver specific. In the case of the
eepro100, it is.
HTH
| Hi i have a question about writers.
| I have just added a cdwriter to my pc (running sid)
| I have also built a new kernel with scsi emulation support, but
| my drives are
| still detected as hdc (cdwriter samsung) and hdd (toshiba dvd)
| ("cdrecord -scanbus" doesnt detect it).
| So does someone
| Hi, I am looking for an answer to a query from early April. The list
| archive search does not return any hits on any query in April. When do
| those messages turn up in the archive?
Well, since the archive uses the lists-archives package, IIRC, they should
show up overnight. Maybe it's a proble
| However,
| - may I know what happened during the slink-potato switch period?
I had a slink box that upgraded to potato just fine.
| - was there a sufficient grace period before slink was deleted
| from the mirrors?
IIRC, potato will be moved to archive.debian.org and remain there like other
| I am going to have to use an old, undocumented machine while I am
| on vacation for the next several weeks.
|
| I plan to bring my own hard disk with Debian installed, but my
| XF86Config-4 will not work with this undocumented monitor.
|
| Is there any tool that will probe the
| hi
|
| my first custom kernel was yet another 2.2.20 and was perfect.
Congratulations!
| i have now made three 2.4.18 kernels and none of them will "work" meaning
| that none of them gets gdm to start, or has any virtual terminals to log
| into (ctrl/alt/f1), cannot connect via ssh and cannot r
| Some time ago, I've read somewhere about a tool that can find installed
| debian packages that are not used, based on atime of files that belong to
| the packages.
|
| Could someone please point me to this tool ?
I think everyone has missed debfoster. It will run through what packages
(and depe
Greetings,
Okay, so I'm trying to transition off of pine and Microsoft Outlook and
move to mutt. I've got most things tweaked the way I like them, but the I
can't seem to find a configuration that works for changing my 'from' email
address. I use a dyndns.org hostname for my machine, but
| Remember that's what's supposed to be occurring during
| postremoval. If the
| postremoval fails, how do you expect to get rid of files that might have
| been created during preinst/postinst?
cruft
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| On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:17, Mattias Berg wrote:
| > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't
| work.. totally
| > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with
| unstable...
| > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server...
|
| Quite apart from the offensiv
| I expected the config file to be in the kernel sources package
| (RedHat habit). Now that Woody is due out soon, I think I'm
| going to scrap my 2.2r5 plans and start over with Woody.
Why? Just load up 2.2r5 (or is it 2.2r6?) and wait for the official release
or jump straight into Woody now.
| On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 03:31:32AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
| > on Wed, Apr 03, 2002, fti International ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| > > Hello All,
| > >
| > > A basic question, what is the right pronunciation of "Debian"?
| > > dee-bean? da-bean? or something else.
| >
| > "The one true w
| Is there some way I can get ls to report sizes in say M, or K?
|
Try "ls -lh" it gives the long version with "h"uman readable format.
HTH,
Brooks
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| I am a newbie at all this, but thought this might help someone else
| get started. I have not been able to get the -depth option to work.
The vnc defaults can be set and overridden per user. This is my ~/.vncrc
file:
$geometry="800x600";
$depth="16";
Give it a try.
HTH,
Brooks
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| For certain reasons, I must use a RedHat system for a certain task.
| However, I need software that is more recent that RedHat provides. I
| could try and build from the upstream source packages and spend a lot
| of time checking the configuration, or I could build from debian's
| source package
| Obviously the /proc directory has something to do with the malfunction of
the program.
| I have Reiserfs, Kernel 2.4.13
Okay, I'll bite. Is /proc mounted? Can you 'cd /proc'? If not the
/etc/fstab entry needs to be something like this:
#
proc/proc procdefaul
| when I try to rip the CD I get the following messages and the ripping
| is VERY slow (few hours per one song):
|
| Mar 24 04:10:09 localhost kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
| the situation is the same regardless of whether I use scsi emulation
| or not.
Greetings,
I had the same problem
| Potato had a special version for ide adpater cards.
| It looks like woody does not yet. I get about
| half way into the boot process and the woody
| kernel stops just about where it is recognizing
| the hard drives attached to the card. Looks ominous.
| Is woody going to support these cards?
I
| 1: I have a 133MHz pentium, 1Gb disk and 32Mb ram. I want to use this
|as a firewall.
|
| 2: Also an 400MHz AMD K6-2, 6Gb disk and 80Mb ram. This is to be a
|name server and an email server
|
| Neither of them will have X on them, so what I need to know is;
| a: they are not up to
| > If you sell me a piece of kit you very legally own, and I pay you in
| > cash, that's black market : no trace, no taxes paid. The property traded
| > is not necessarily illegal, it's just that the transaction is not
| > visible to the State.
|
| Am I a business, or just a regular Joe?
|
| If I'
| hi
|
| are there any program that will log/monitor who are using root
| privigies ?
IIRC su usage get logged into the /var/log/auth.log. I think logcheck picks
up this, and will email it to whom you choose.
HTH,
Brooks
| I tried to install Debian in my laptop, but it has swappable
| floppy/cd drive, so I can only the CD drive.
| How can I bypass the floppy boot disk setup?
| There is no skip button, it just have a continue/OK button.
You should be able to boot directly from the CDROM. It will pop up what
looks
| On my favorite woody machine...
|
| cyberanarchy:~$ apt-cache search freeswan
| freeswan - IPSEC utilities for FreeSWan
| kernel-patch-freeswan - IPSEC kernel support for FreeSwan
Oops, I forgot that I have a touch of sid in this box... It is in unstable
only, or so it seems.
Sorry,
Brooks
| Hello,
|
| I'd like to install freeswan on a woody machine,
| but a package search for it cam up with nothing.
|
| Is there a freeswan package at all?
| Do I need a 2.4 kernel? (if so, any issues
| upgrading from a 2.2 kernel to a 2.4 kernel on
| woody?)
| Is there a noddy guide to isntalling it
| I've installed two ethernet cards to my debian server and they work fine.
| I want to give some services to one IP and other services to the
| other, so:
| How can I deactivate the routing option betwen cards?
|
| There have to be some kind of routing now because I can connect
| to my apache
| ty
| > me thinks you would like make-kpkg (kernel-package)
| >
|
| IIRC, kernel-package asks if you want the symlinks. I may be wrong, it's
| been a while since I've needed a new kernel :)
|
Last I ran it (a couple of days ago) out of woody, it didn't ask about
symlinks. It just does them as if the
| Hello everyone. This question is not meant that serious, but
| nevertheless with interest:
|
| in my LAN i have running a gateway, a workstation and a laptop. The
| workstation is equipped with a TV card (BT878) and works just fine.
| Is there a way to view TV on my laptop by using the PC and th
> On a multi-user system, how can I "turn off" an account? Not
> remove it, though, since at a later time, it will have to be
> re-enabled? While we're at it, how to you re-enable a disabled
> account?
How disabled do you want it? Edit /etc/passwd and change the shell to
/bin/false to disable l
| But now my syslog gets to much logging from postgres. In
| postgresql.conf I have:
|
| debug_level = 0
| log_connections = on
| log_pid = on
| log_timestamp = on
| syslog = 2
| # if syslog is 0, turn silent_mode off!
| silent_mode = off
| syslog_facility = LOCAL0
| trace_notify = off
Try these
Greetings,
I have compiled 'CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y' into my 2.4.17 kernel and I have
a
'/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/' directory. However, I do not have a 'register'
or a 'status' file in that directory. When I try to echo something to these
files, bash complains that they do not exist. I hav
| I am trying to use my InfraRed port in my Debian box (HP Omnibook Xe3,
| kernel 2.4.4) but without any sucess:
|
| It seems that the port it is not recognized by the system.
Okay, I'll go for the standard questions...
1) Do you have the IR enabled in the BIOS?
2) Do you have IrDA (infrared) sup
| Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes
| and whether the program has to run at boottime
| to have the setting take effect? does it belong
| in an rc script?
They are not persistant after a reboot. IIRC, there is no startup script
for hdparm, however; the hwtools package includes
| This may sound like a stupid or minor question but i'd really like to
| hear from all of you why do you think Debian is great, in
| comparison to ALL of the other Linux distributions out there!
Greetings,
Back in the day, when I first installed Bo, it MADE me LEARN about Linux
instead of
| connection is not something I can afford, at least not now. Would
| it be possible
| to tar all of the new/different packages in a realease point so
| that I could download one file and untar them in some directory
| for use with apt-get off-line?
I don't think that this is realisticly feasible.
| Does anyone know how far the kernel build is from being able to
| write to a
| ntfs-partition? Even though I do compile my own kernel, I get the message
| 'mount read-only' because ntfs is win2k+
| (If this is not a relevant place to ask - could someone advice
| where to go
| next then?)
I sugge
| I finnally got Xine running on my laptop, but it plays everything
| except DVD's. Any one know what package I have to add for this?
You need to search for a package called xine-css. There are debs available
on the net.
HTH,
Brooks
ding to woody anyway, just do it to start with.
Hope this helps,
Brooks
Brooks R. Robinson
ERP Systems Administrator/Accounting Manager
Chance Industries, Inc.
4219 Irving
Wichita, Kansas 67207
Work: (316)945-6555x2632
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| I would suspect a broken /var/cache/debconf/config.dat (error code 10 in
| this context usually means a missing question, and if it isn't just an
| isolated case it often means the database is corrupt). What version of
| debconf do you have, and if you set DEBCONF_DEBUG='.*' in the
| environment
Greetings,
I am having some annoying woody problems. I've got several packages that
won't configure, and they are all giving me the same error:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
the packages are:
ash
xdm
xplanet
xserver-common
I think that it might have to do wi
| Crushing realities like, "Am I typical? Does using Debian separate me
| from the rest?"
|
| IT? Artsy? Young? Old? Bitter? Socialist or CrewCut? Utopian or realist?
|
31 year old european-american male, wife, 3 kids, mortgage. I am employed
with dual purpose as Accounting Manager and ERP Syste
| I would like to know if anyone in this list is using VMWare
| Workstation in
| order to run flavours of Windows with Debian GNU Linux as the
| host machine.
Greetings,
I had been using VMWare v2 with potato, but then I upgraded to Woody.
When
I upgraded to a 2.4.x kernel, v2 died. I t
| I tried to install quicktime with it from the .exe a few days
| ago, and it just
| hung.
Well that's not surprising, I've tried to install it in native Win2K, and it
hung. Bug for bug compatibility!
Hee, Hee,
Brooks
| Yes, that is exactly what I did by upgrading my debian
| dist... as well...
| awesome! It is funny what will trigger one to look in
| the rite direction... I had assumed when I installed
| pkg 'kde' and 'evolution' that I would get an xserver,
| but of course not! Silly rabbit:
| apt-get ins
| > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
and here I thought they were "Men In Black"
Greetings,
Okay gang, I need help again. I'm doing the vpn thing with secvpn.
I've
got routing issues. Let me first run down the systems:
System #1 (foo)
--
Linux foo 2.4.12 #1 Wed Nov 21 08:34:48 CST 2001 i686 unknown
running on fairly recent woody
eth1 Link
| Is there a Debian package to set up a VPN? Or am I going to have
| to go down the
| Free SWAN route?
I am using the secvpn package, but I am having some routing problems that
I'll probably be asking the list about after a few more days of beating my
head against a wall. Documentation is a littl
| Greetings,
| I am trying to set up the secvpn package between two boxes
| (one potato, one
| woody). I have the secvpn.conf figured out, no problem. My problem is a
| little more basic. I can't get ssh to connect without a
| password. On both
| boxes, I did a 'ssh-keygen' which created
Greetings,
I am trying to set up the secvpn package between two boxes (one potato,
one
woody). I have the secvpn.conf figured out, no problem. My problem is a
little more basic. I can't get ssh to connect without a password. On both
boxes, I did a 'ssh-keygen' which created my '.ssh/id
| -Original Message-
| From: Daniel Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Monday, 19 November, 2001 04:23 PM
| To: Debian-Users List
| Subject: Problems with eth0 and 2.2R4
|
|
| Hey all,
|
| I am having problems with my ethernet card after installing 2.2R4 on my
| laptop. I have t
| quickest way is probably change their shell to /dev/null
| add /dev/null to /etc/shells(so ftp servers will allow the
| user to login) and add the user ..
Greetings,
I thought that it was more appropriate to use /bin/false.
HTH,
Brooks
| In this case X is not a problem, just the tty consoles. I can't
| get them to
| fill the entire screen. I do get all 80x25, 80x34, or whatever
| resolution,
| just in a reduced screen size.
|
| Any ideas?
How about using frame buffer. There was a discussion about the various
tweakages back in
| >| linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember
| >| correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library
| >| binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that
| >| the policy should be to not use '-g' in the stable distribution.
| >
| c
| linked code). (Does anyone have benchmark results?) If I remember
| correctly, it is debian policy to use '-g' and then strip non-library
| binaries. I'm sure I'll get howls for suggesting it, but I think that
| the policy should be to not use '-g' in the stable distribution.
Greetings,
| Just curious how long people have left their system running
| without reboot.
| I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran
| fine. In
| three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash.
|
| I have rebooted about once every 3 to 4 months (guessing average) after
| m
|
|
| Heh, its still trolling. The new and improved spam-flavored kind.
|
Is spam to a spammer really spam?
| Aethera is another client for kde (currently no debs, AFAIK).
|
Aethera is available in testing and up. There are debs available from
kde.debian.com for potato!
Brooks
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