Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread Corwin Grey
> > Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which > > Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is > > the first election RedHat Linux? I work for a Network Operations Center and ISP and we run almost everything off of debian servers. We have a couple

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Corwin Grey
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X > starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot > up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a soluti

Broken Debconf::Question on woody after -u upgrade

2001-03-20 Thread Corwin Grey
After performing an apt-get -u upgrade today, I have a broken debconf, which is keeping me from configuring a number of packages. I haven't done an upgrade for about three weeks. Everything in the upgrade appeared to go normally until it started to install debconf. I get the following error: Se

Re: bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
Bad hard drive. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:12:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > > when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by that i mean i > run fsck on the drive and there are errors. as soon as the fsck is finished > i run it again and there are errors again. its now

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
> > 'chattr - /sbin/lsmod' listing the appropriate attributes > > which are shows by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly > > +a. > If it would be so, would that really be a problem for root-apps? > Isn't the user root a Superuser so that he's able to do everything even > damaging the

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
tributes which are shows by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly +a. -------- Corwin Grey "What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Corwin Grey
dpkg -S portmap will tell you that portmap is included in the netbase package. If you need other contents of netbase, > Question --> what is the best approach to stop > portmap from running on a Debian system? If you are hesitant to remove the symlink, edit the portmap script and put an exit a