Re: Question: How do I recover /var/lib/dpkg/info/

2004-07-21 Thread Doug Holland
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 3:35 pm, Stephan Witoszynskyj wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem: somehow my /var/lib/dpkg/info/ got corrupted (it > seems that there were some file system problems). Now I need to restore > the files that were in there. I know which debs were installed, so in > principle

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 9:05 pm, Tim Connors wrote: > Now, there's a thought. > > You better destroy that drive afterall. If the drive had any bad > blocks, and these were transparently remapped (as they do), then you > can't tell that there have been remapping events (maybe SMART will > tell you...

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 4:25 pm, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:10:39 -0600, Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > > > I a

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:52 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:02:17PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > > I am in a situation where a computer is to be given away and prior to > > that it's hard disk needs to *thoroughly* cleaned (data consists of > > financial information, reports, class

Re: alt key is sticky after upgrading sid today.

2004-06-19 Thread Doug Holland
On Friday 18 June 2004 01:34 pm, Paul Scott wrote: > > ok, I had this: > > $ xmodmap | grep mod1 > mod1Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x7e) > > I don't remember having Meta_L there any time, i.e. before dfsg.1-5. > So after doing: > > $ xmodmap -e 'clear mod1 -e 'add mod1 = Alt_L'

Re: Netscape 4.7x, unstable and XFree4.3

2004-02-28 Thread Doug Holland
On Friday 27 February 2004 11:49 am, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Andreas Bach Aaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040227 05:32]: > > I need this old outdated version of Netscape, as my homebanking > > requires it. > > Hi Andreas, > > Sorry, this is another post which does not answer your question. > > But IMO, t

Re: libGL.so.1

2004-02-27 Thread Doug Holland
On Friday 27 February 2004 05:54 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:35:41 -0500 > > Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After some small disaster in my system I am still recovering. From the > > prompt: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psi > > psi: error while loading shared libr

Re: watching DVD movies on Linux

2004-02-08 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 08 February 2004 06:40 am, TTH wrote: > Sorry, I already have xine installed; I am watching VCDs with no problems. > So I am inquiring about additional packages that I need to install for > DVDs. > > So, with xine and libdvdcss, I don't have to worry about RPC-1/2 DVD > players. This i

Re: question on xfree 4.3

2004-02-01 Thread Doug Holland
On Sunday 01 February 2004 02:40 am, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:03:18PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati said > > > Hi, > > was looking to upgrade xfree 4.3 . After looking around, find that its on > > debian mirror, but some patching is on. > > > > does anyone know when it will be made

Re: udf writing in sid

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Holland
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:52 am, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > I'd also be interested in UDF for Linux, but it doesn't really seem to be > implemented. I used to use it to do incremental backups in Windows. > > Chris > > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:00, Toshiro wrote: > > Is it possible

Re: limited diskspace

2004-01-25 Thread Doug Holland
On Saturday 24 January 2004 10:47 pm, David wrote: > I've got limited free diskspace (~700MB) on my debian workstation, with ~ > 2GB consumed. Would it be a bad idea to do an apt-get upgrade? > > Didn't know if this command causes a lot of data to be downloaded to > disk. apt-get should tell you

Re: udf support in 2.6

2004-01-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sun 18 Jan 2004 10:18 pm, Toshiro wrote: > Anybody tried udftools in debian 2.6? > > My CDRW device is /dev/hdc, I add to /etc/default/udftools: > DEVICES="/dev/hdc" > but when I try to execute /etc/init.d/udftools start I have the following > error: > Starting support for udftools p

Re: checking whether partition mounted as ext3

2004-01-18 Thread Doug Holland
On Sun 18 Jan 2004 1:16 pm, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Dear People, > > Just wondering if anyone knows of a easy and definitive way to > determine whether a specific mounted partition is ext2 or ext3, and if > ext3, whether is mounted as "ordered data" or "journal". Currently, I > look at the boot messa