On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:18:27PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:19:01 +0100
> Jan Minar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The `bridge' is your only gateway to the Internet, right? Then the only
> > thing you have to do is:
> >
>
Hi, Chris.
Not a DD, but...
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 04:01:18PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> I'm curious what the etiquette is about inquiring into the status of
> an ITP. On one hand, I'm reluctant to ask because I don't want to seem
> like I'm prodding the developer who posted the ITP, especia
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Hagg, Wilhelm wrote:
> i had the same problem with /var/log, it disappeared suddenly. I boot SuSE,
> debian and gentoo from my box, however the last time i only used SuSE. My
> first idea was that the problem could have to do with software suspend
> package
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:38:44AM +0930, Ben Minton wrote:
> I have an 80 GB HDD that I wish to install Debian 3r1 onto. As I
> originally learnt howto Linux via RedHat I do not want to make this an
> exclusive Debian system (sorry, not yet).
No problem. Or rather ... your problem -- see below.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:59:12AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I just got my wireless internet this morning, and have run into a
> small problem.
>
> The wireless bridge, attached to my nic has been assigned a static IP
> (for the time being), and to get my nic (eth0) to find it, it was also
>
Hi there.
I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed.
Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate between the accounts in
.procmailrc. There has been some partial progress, though:
(0) I can have two fetchmails running concurrently when I rm
~/.fetchmail.pid manually
(1) the trac
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
> Did Jan forget to change the file system type in /etc/fstab?
Why would you think so?
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:58:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Less likely to suffer catastrophic data loss in the event of a crash.
Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3. His
understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is
today. Days passed, severa
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:09PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:38:30AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 20
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of
> ext2?
Because 3 > 2.
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es your RAM size.
> another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition?
No, but splitting the load across several disks/controllers might
improve the performance.
HTH
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On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote:
> > > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it.
> >
r copy around
-> resize a partition, whatever.
> to do that I think I need to create a custom install CD.
I don't think you'd need a custom CD, anyway.
[...]
> How do I stop apt-get from trying to install openoffice?
Download the .debs, and use dpkg proper. There might be a bet
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:04:13PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get
> > stripped in the pager... and I can't see it being an xterm thing, so what's
> > up?
My mutt displ
SCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at startup.
| FSCKFIX=yes
HTH
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ff-disc, when cron comes in
place. Try playing to a null device first.
(6) I'd like to have the .wav -- would you please post a link/send it to
me offlist, if it's reasonably small (say <300KB)?
HTH
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:55:22PM +, steven noble wrote:
> im running a mac with dcgui version 0.2.19, and because a mac only has a
> single click mouse i cannot
AFAICT, there MUST be a way to emulate all the 3 mouse buttons. If not,
tons of apps would be broken.
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to get rid of blank
consoles once.
HTH
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; > produce different results:
>
> Yes, /proc is quite different from other filesystems in many ways. :)
Is it documented? I wasn't able to find anything. Particularly,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt is moot here. I
imagine there are other hidden features...
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:22:53PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
> yeah, ripping the whole cd just doesn't see the negative space. i
> don't even know how they recorded this, let alone how i can get it off
They probably used a microphone? Seriously, this might be yet another
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:03:06PM -0500, Tim Otten wrote:
> file (because the filesystem was mounted, and the man page doesn't say
> whether it's safe to edit a live filesystem), but the 'dump' command worked
> fine in a test that I just did.
It's not. You d
The file descriptors are inherited
when forking. So all you'd have to do is to add a fork at the beginning
of the callee code. The parent would continue normally, and the child
would copy the deleted_file (on the inherited descriptor) to a
recovered_file.
HTH.
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on the console. For example
> "program | tee file" will log only the stdout, and "tee file | program | tee file"
> will log at first the stdin and just after the stdout into the file, so in a
> separated way.
man sh
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CD, or a part thereof, and cut the piece
of interest in a sound editor (e.g. audacity(1)).
HTH.
Jan.
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:23:22PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Shaddy.Baddah wrote:
> > Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like
> > dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down
> > if they are
d this useful:
| nameif (8) - name network interfaces based on MAC addresses
HTH.
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le your favourite app in fact has a SSL
support, possibly disabled at compile-time.
HTH,
Jan.
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. If
you do backup, you do backup, and therefore you *do* have backups.
Cheers,
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specially crafted xterm approach, it would be probably both much
fragile, and ugly.
HTH.
Jan.
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- 1,
which is 65535. 102725 > 65535.
I guess the error isn't fatal, and the files untar just fine, only the
group ownership is bogus?
HTH.
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in/gzip, or unpack it from the gzip*.deb (don't forget the
libraries it depends on).
(4) Install the real gzip, from your chosen distribution flavour.
(5) Compare the two binaries, find the problem, fail a bug possibly.
HTH.
Jan.
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gt; and/or that sound daemons like esound or artsd can handle it. But I'm
Yes, only you'd have to configure them to accept requests from both
users in question.
HTH
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Management (APM) support are
configured, whichever is loaded first shall be used.
If ACPI can't do for you what APM can, something like acpi=off on the
kernel command line should do, or simply don't load the ACPI module(s),
and the APM module shall load ok.
HTH
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the top half,
> it points in another.
Hi, Matt.
The windows resizing/moving is the Window Manager business. Consult
your twm/fvwm/enlightenment/sawfish/ratpoison/whatever documentation.
And btw, did you mean or rather
?
HTH.
Jan.
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HTH.
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The GRUB Manual is your friend
(apt-get install grub-doc; info grub). Just to give you something to
start with, here is my menu.lst snippet:
| title Linux 2.4.24-jan #8
| kernel (hd0,4)/bzImage-2.4.24-jan.build8 root=/dev/hda6 video=neo
| boot
HTH,
Jan.
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:48:27PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> If a user wanted to hide a subdirectory, couldn't they just change the
> group on it? IIRC, group access only goes one level deep.
Have you tried it, monique? ;-)
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On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:39:32AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> tracks of the bugs...
>
> #224223: reportbug: Crash when /etc/email-addresses is not readable
> #224231: reportbug: `&' in /etc/passwd gecos field means `User' for any user `user',
>
> ... speak for
t's recommended?)
You could do something like ``chroot /home'', but as rootshells go,
escaping the jail would be trivial, AFAIK.
HTH.
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e app
window. I considered it a feature, and simply played it on a separate X
display, or closed the app when I wanted to do something different.
Minimizing helped, too, maybe. I really can't remember quite clearly.
HTH
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:07:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:21:07AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> | On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:12:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> | > Who uses /etc/email-addresses?
> |
> | reportbug(1) does, for exam
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated:
> > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > > which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get
> > &
aying that the
> program can't open my -vo option... i tried almost every -vo option that
> i can... and none of them works...
So you've tried the invalid ones so far, haven't you? What about trying
some of the valid ones?
Useful answers require useful questions. Google
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:12:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> Who uses /etc/email-addresses?
Hi, Nano!
reportbug(1) does, for example.
HTH,
Jan.
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nother font?
HTH
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NEW Packages", I don't want these added, and I have removed them
> already, and have searched for any lingering remnants, and do not see
> any.
Hmm, the aptitude is waay too long for my taste, anyway. Have you
tried to run aptitude interactively?
HTH.
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Short one: traceroute/ping
Long one: RFCs usually won't give you the whole picture. A good intro
book on TCP/IP will.
[No, I didn't read your mail in lenght... ;-(]
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:28:43PM +0100, David Baron wrote:
> Yes, some of those games eat the mouse and you can no longer use it outside
> the game's window. How does one configure to keep the cats off the mice?
Perhaps you could be more specific, David?
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Jan.
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he Linux Networking HOWTO.
And someone should write a real documentation for all these tools.
Cheers,
Jan.
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:03:05AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Do you know if your program will work with Mac OSX 10.3.2?
Sure I do! What would you expect?
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7;d be most happy if you wrote a decent HTML tables -> ASCII art
converter. And frames. Text browsers in Debian suck, simply.
Some tables just can't be shrinked anymore. It would be hard to fit the
following in less than 28 characters, for example:
123456 foobarbaz 67859.34566
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ork like we expect Linux to
work. After all, it was just a DOS. This is not to start a flamewar,
but rather to inform the reader the real meaning of the words sometimes
isn't the obvious one.
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:59:04PM -0600, Colin Keefe wrote:
> * Paul M Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-26 19:00 -0500]:
> > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:49:26AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> > > &
killed, and, we actually
ceremonially bury even our enemies, and we tend to kill people before
burying them!
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l off of it,
then setup network access, and install the rest off the network. The
more CDs you have, the more convenience you'll get when the network is
down/slow/f up.
HTH
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and installing it again from scratch?
AFAIK, ``apt-get install --reinstall sysklogd'' should do.
HTH,
Jan.
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of paste(1) ;-)
> Are there tools for that?
Surprise, surprite: cut(1) ;-)
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priv.none-/var/log/syslog
| #cron.* /var/log/cron.log
| daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
Or have you uncommented it yourself, and forgot to mention it in your
post?
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memory is OK.
dict -djargon unix ;-)
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eneral Audio Compres
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 2.95.4-11woody1 The GNU stdc++ library
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kind of logfile instead?
man iptables && man syslog. You might consider disabling logging
temporarily, by removing the LOG entries (iptables-{sav,restor}e(8))
might be of some help, here), if the cadence is unbearable.
HTH.
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box?
man interfaces
HTH
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cat the appropriate
/dev/vcs*
HTH.
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a similar parameter then.
But when you need a module to access the disk, then you should be able
to obtain a rootshell _before_ the module is loaded, and/or issue the
hdparm command.
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tzerland 0.9 7.3 123.29
| U K 4.7 60 78.33
| USA 12.9290.3 44.44
As any person capable of reading can see, The US *are* the worst!
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; everything in rc2.d via /etc/init.d xyz start and discovered that
> /etc/init.d/tpconfig hangs. In the shell I could kill it with Ctrl-C,
> but during boot up there was no chance to kill it.
Hi, Jan (heh! :-)
You haven't file a bugreport, have you? Please do ``reportbug
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:51:29AM -0600, matt zagrabelny wrote:
Is nameif(8) what you want?
> filename:/lib/modules/2.4.21/pcmcia/pcmf502r.o
Oops: Don't you have your kernel patched? At least 2 local root
exploits were reported since 2.4.21 that I _know_ about.
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ast for kernel-image-2.4.18-686. The postinst messages are quite
verbose, it's rather a ``wizard'' ;-) -- even a complete newbie
shouldn't feel lost, doing such a wizardy thing as a kernel
installation.
If you run GRUB for example, as I do, however, you'll have to edit the
bootlo
ccess your usb mass storage device - not just when using rm. If you
> recompile your kernel (or perhaps just the module), I'm guessing you see
> these extra messages disappear from your logs.
Recompilation shouldn't be a needed -- man syslog.conf for details.
HTH.
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 02:26:49PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote:
> There's no need for a script. Just use wget -> man wget.
Or ncftp.
HTH.
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inux 2.6 port for an MMU-less architecture is what you call for ;-)
apt-get -y kernel-image-2.6.1-v850 crashme && echo \
$'#!/bin/sh\n/usr/bin/crashme&' > /etc/rc2.d/S99crashme && reboot # ;-))
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:30:31PM -0500, Rajesh Menon wrote:
>[...] not sure where to add these
> lines.
Either among the /etc/rc?.d/* scripts, or as a post-install in
/etc/modules.conf (man update-modules).
HTH
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:07:05PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:40:02PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:30AM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > > Is there significance to the Return-path value?
> >
> > Basically,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:37:05AM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:18:55PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:04:49PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> > > > At the boot: prompt, try "linux single root=/dev/hda2" (replace
4.18-686/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
Apparently, i830.o wasn't in the Linus' tree in the 2.4.18 times, but is
a part of it now. Go get the 2.4.24. And it's a window system called
``X'', not a system called ``X Windows'', by the way.
Cheers,
Jan.
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:47:07AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Jan Minar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: ddt-client error " ld.so:
t's not the server, but the client where the problem lies?
(5) Debugging both sshd & ssh with strace(1), you can get a really
detailed picture of what's going on; combine with (3).
HTH,
Jan.
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have no problem with this.
HTH,
Jan.
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xecuted/parsed
-- easy: exec/exit statement, if-clause spanning whole the file,
etc.
(2) break the syntax
-- maybe, I cannot come up an example
(3) the file might not exist, and maybe some (fixed) header should be
prepended then?
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t;-> :eth0:[decent OS + decent HW]:eth1: <-> [DSL]
You should be able to use the fax email feature, and sniff with tcpdump
on either of the eth[01] interfaces.
HTH,
Jan.
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> up.
Section 3.1., I believe: the code uses errno without including errno.h
before. The code isn't standard compliant, and will probably not work
with a standard-compliant C library apart from certain versions of
glibc. The support for this type of code might get dropped in the
fut
make a sense, maybe. Separating the system is probably a
good idea anyway, should a fs corruption occur.
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ted among the Function-keys switchable
helpscreens--just append ``acpi=off'' to the kernel commandline there.
HTH
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for details.
[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822
Is this what you asked for?
Jan.
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Hi.
What is the simplest/most ellegant way to skip the console upon which X
runs, when switching through the consoles using Alt-LeftArrow or
Alt-RightArrow respectively? Would that be simpler than hacking the
kernel code?
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Nonono! Not another OT thread! Not this week... OK, why not ;-)
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:47:47PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:09:47PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:15:49PM +0100, Iwan van der Kleyn wrote:
> > >
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:09:33PM +0100, Alex Bartok wrote:
> > From: Jan Minar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > xmms(1) visualization plugins.
> >
> Whoa, those give even me the creeps sometimes, that's gotta work ;)
You could even hook a microphone and/or a mechani
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:50:30PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Jan Minar writes:
> > pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1
> > each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom.
>
> Pppd should restore the permissions unless you kill -9 it
ths-old
to watch TV -- or is this just another urban legend?
> colourful wheels seem to attrect her attention like a magnet. So
> therefore my question. Are there any other programs, demos like
> glxgears, which display some sort of big, animated figures??
xmms(1) visualizatio
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Check the file permissions. Are you in the dialout group?
pppd tends to reset the permissions, so I have to chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1
each time I want to switch from pppd to minicom.
HTH, YMMW.
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 04:21:45AM -0800, Ralph Bacolod wrote:
> Hi! I have a knoppix hd installed on a laptop. I want to view images in the
> console. I can view images as root. How can i do it as an ordinary user? I
> already added myself to group tty.
Which program do you use?
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Why do you want 80x25 anyway, I wonder?
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g the shell
> .) mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /mnt
>(corresponds to /dev/hda2)
> .) chroot /mnt
> .) lilo
>(it complains that it can't find /proc/partions but nevertheless
>it's working)
``mount proc -t proc /proc'' beforehead would do.
hda2.
Read the original post again, more carefully. Especially the part in
the parentheses. /dev/hda2 is the first IDE harddisk, 2nd primary
partition.
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 05:25:54PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:25:51AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:18:58PM -, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote:
> > &
;, the packet-writing mode.
HTH,
Jan.
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:37:36AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:24:34PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> > Just be aware that telnet is a security disaster. Use ssh instead.
>
> Not if you're using IPSec.
Ah, yes. I have to look into IPSec at las
where I could boot my system just to run lilo and then reboot regularly.
Maybe you'd be even able to use this; I tend to use the Debian Binary-1 CD.
HTH, YMMW.
Jan.
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et root.
Just be aware that telnet is a security disaster. Use ssh instead.
IIRC, securetty(5) is what you should read; do ``tty'' at the command
prompt, to get the name of a tty you are currently working on. Also,
some people prefer sudo to su; it fits some tasks better.
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