Re: Questions about SIGHUP behavior

2013-11-12 Thread David F
On 11/12/2013 07:35 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: Debian 7.2 with /bin/bash as login shell (via /etc/passwd), shopt huponexit off (as by default), bash run via SSH from other host. When closing shell with CTRL-D, "sleep &" continues to run. I had expected I had to use nohup, setsid, disown or a com

How to start using a free OS (was: Why Debian)

2013-11-11 Thread David F
On 11/10/2013 10:17 AM, thomas aylward wrote: how does a novice begin with debian? Tom I think there is some confusion that is introduced when we call a distribution like Debian an "operating system," which used to be a term used for the software that interacts with hardware, loads and runs

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 12:47 PM, Bill.M wrote: > But is there anyway to specify both eth0 and wlan0 as equally valid > interfaces on my laptop depending on whether it's in my dock or on the road? > > For example, -i wlan0,eth0 or -o wlan0,eth0 > Is something like these possible? * You can avoid specifying

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 04:09 AM, darkestkhan wrote: > Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I > have to reboot > into recovery mode? System itself works correctly - /boot is on sda2 > and everything > else is on LVM at sda3 If I understand you correctly that you can boot and us

Re: [oclug]Re: pppoe and dsl on debian

2003-01-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Eduard Bloch wrote: > adsl-start is Redhat-specific. No, it's not, and I think you can trust me on that. :-) -- David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure

1996-11-21 Thread David F. Phillips
When I start up NIS, 'ypwhich' gets: can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure and 'ypcat passwd' gets: YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain lcinc.com No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain domainname is set correctly from /etc/defaultdomain, and at o