at an
Internet cafe will let you plug in a USB disk, and then you have a
nice set of programs to work with.
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opendir(DIR, system('pwd'));
Sorry, that should be:
opendir(DIR, `pwd`);
` returns output. system() does not.
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Or, in Perl (might as well):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
opendir(DIR, system('pwd'));
my @files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
my $new_name;
foreach (@files)
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$new_name = lc($_);
$new_name =~ s/\ /\-/g;
system('mv -i $_ $new_name');
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$ tail < /var/log/exim4/mainlog
2007-02-24 12:06:31 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address
2007-02-24 12:06:33 1HKgol-Tw-CA ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host
ariel.fayettevil
I am using Exim. The addresses do appear in /var/log/exim4/mainlog.
Using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, I made blank the fields regarding
mail relaying, but the problem happens anyways.
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Hello,
I recently set up a mail server in my home network as an experiment.
We have a dynamic IP given to us by Comcast, but I registered with
DynDNS for a DNS name, and told my router to update it when the IP
changed. The idea was that one could send an email to
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, especially on servers, Debian has always proven to me that
it is *much* better.
Again, just my two cents.
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Well, another person was nice enough to send me 3c5x9cfg.exe off-list,
but I'd love the source code for the set up program as well.
At this point, the more resources I have for the damn thing, the better!
So, yes, 3c5x9setup.c would be much appreciated.
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Does anyone have that utility. I could not find it. All I found out
was that it is called 3c5x9cfg.exe.
I found out that the card has an IRQ of 5 (as printed at startup).
However, it says nothing about IO. The IRQ is shared by no other (PCI,
there are no other ISA devices) device.
However, I rea
if you believe in voodoo, move the nic to a different pci slot.
Oh, right, that's the other thing I forgot to mention.
I do not think that this is a PCI card. I remember someone telling me
on a Debian IRC channel that it is AT, and, also, lspci is not
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ng that it got no DHCPOFFERS.
I am at a total loss here. It is clear that the card is working,
because, at the very least, the MAC Address is being transferred.
However, I cannot connect anywhere, including to 192.168.1.1.
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OK, several things:
Perl does NOT encourage bad behavior. It simply makes it easier to code poorly.
Perl is not as difficult to learn as people say it is.
The best place to start would be Google. That is how I learned it. The
package ``perl'' will have the interpreter. The package perl-doc will
So, when I wrote the email I was at MIT. I am currently at my house,
and it appears to be fine now. Perhaps it was something with their
network...
Anyways, if it happens again, I will post.
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Also, it does not appear that any other sites are affected (those I
have checked seem fine), but it appears that it is an isolated
incident to my site.
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Hi,
I encountered a very strange problem in Firefox today. I use firefox
2.0, Mozilla package (not the repository one).
Firefox, when loading my site (lgrinberg.org) is displaying an old
version of the site. Now, when I say old version, I mean an *old*
version, one that I cannot imagine to exist
I assume that you mean that upgrades do not break your system. Testing
is always better at this than Unstable. Etch is a particular example,
because it will become stable soon.
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I remember reading somewhere that there is a way to set up a
configuration file which Debian-Installer can read (so, essentially,
you pre-select all of your answers). I have never done this myself, so
I cannot tell you anything else. I think I read it on debian.org, if
that helps.
I am not sure t
Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that
someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your
mail and take your TV while you're at work?
See, it does not really hurt me if they use my network, other than
bandwidth. That is why I want to be able to monitor
something better
than what comes on the router in terms of port sniffing. Ideally, I
would love for the router to redirect all traffic to my Debian server
(Etch), so that I can analyze it using Wireshark. What would be the
best way of going about doing this?
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Huh? Switches don't have IP addresses. (Well, ok, managed switches
do, but that's only for managing them...)
OK, that's what I thought.
My LAN is configured like you want yours to be: PCs plug into
switch, and the switch plugs into the router.
What might be
Thank you for your support, everyone! After some experimentation, I
realized that the problem was that the computer was not realizing that
it was on a switch. Connecting it directly to the router fixed the
problem. However, I would still like it better on the switch. The
problem I think is that it
Hi all,
I am trying to install Debian Etch on a Pentium III machine. It is
connected to a switch which is connected to a router. Both switch and
router are confirmed to be working perfectly. Debian, however, is
acting strangely with the network.
The machine sees the network hardware. That is, ls
My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore
compiled, or will I need to recompile?
I run Debian Etch. Although it is the testing distribution now, it
will be the next stable, version 4.0.
$ /sbin/modinfo soundcore
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
Hello,
I have obtained the proper module for the 2.4 kernel and my ethernet
card (3c509), but modprobing it results in
insmod: Unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rdae0a386
Google does not find any pages with that symbol. Any ideas?
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Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry.
If you could send me one, that would be great!
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I downloaded a CD image of SmartBoot Manager, but upon loading it, the
only options are:
Reboot
BIOS
Harddrive
Floppy
No CD.
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After some work, I have discovered at least one reason for the
failure: The ethernet card is actually 3c509 and not 3c59x. The Debian
floppy does not have 3c509 with it.
The version of Linux on the harddrive has the 3c509 module, but it
used the 2.2 kernel. Will it work? The only thing that I can
I have tried installing Debian and ran into some problems.
The machine has both a floppy drive and a CD drive, but the BIOS does
not recognize the CD drive as a drive, and does not allow me to boot
off of it, let alone USB. That leaves only floppies. I burned boot.img
root.img net-drivers.img and
way? I would prefer to run Testing, but considering the
cirumstances, I may have to settle for something else.
I would just like to get some advice about the project.
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Several things:
1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a
window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish.
2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and
LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine.
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I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a
script or program.
What I usually use is
# /etc/init.d/ restart.
I use GDM, so I use
# /etc/init.d/gdm restart.
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created
after the SSH (I use gnome-terminal, not the virtual terminal). The
old ones work fine.
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I was sure, but it starts up now. Instead, it says that there is an
error in the configuration of the login manager, and that it will use
the ``default command''. Is this /etc/gdm/gdm.conf? Should I post its
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If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may
help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg04086.html
Although GNOME is the display environment being used, it is not the
one that's crashing. It's definitely X.
Oh, I'm sorry. No, the person is using xorg, and the command we ran
was dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. I accidentally typed xfree86.
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, but it is not working.
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working. I do not have any way to provide you with the X log file.
Does anyone have any ideas based off of this pathetic information?
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I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet
connection, both running Linux.
How to transfer files between them?
Wait, these are going through a router, right? I suggest using either
SSH with SCP (man [ssh|scp] you will need sshd (package)) or FTP (you
will need ftp-server. You can al
up a decent spam filter, than I suggest switching to
Gmail. If you want, I'll even get you started by giving you an
invitation.
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install many extensions? I had random combinations of
extensions do the most bizarre thing to my browser. Especially when
these extensions were not from the official website.
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> Why do people do this? If they're so upset about topic drift or thread
> length, why do they insist on making it longer by being a loudmouth baby
> about it? Seems counterproductive...
It is basic psychology, and if you look at it from the point of view
of one person, you will see.
Every pers
This sounds stupid, but still... make sure that Metacity is actually
installed and in the correct place relative the entry in gconf-editor
(probably /usr/bin/metacity).
you want to use graphical emacs, there is a line that you can put
into your .emacs file that says to talk to X about the clipboard.
Unfortunately, I forgot what it is. (x-select-enable-clipboard, I
think). Does anyone else know?
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> Добрый день! Подскажите где можно найти diff.gz для сборки gcc 4.0.1, glibc
> 2.3.5, MySQL 5.0.12 ?Существует такой ресурс где хранятся все diff.gz для
> всех версий исходников?
I am not actually sure for myself, but perhaps someone else is. Here
is a translation of what was written:
Good da
> With respect Leonid, what I find incredible is that anyone would humour
> any of these {kiddiwinkies|misplaced comedians|abject morons} with any
> kind of response, let alone submit four paragraphs of carefully
> considered reply.
Just to tell you, it was an outburst, and not a carefull consider
Sorry, please disregard that message...
People: PLEASE,
The Expo is in 4 days. Please, it's not very difficult... just write,
"yes, I am coming on $day" or "no, I cannot come on any day". That's
it! We will figure out the rest.
At the moment we have:
Jonathan - Tuesday
Leonid (me) - Tuesday
Sergei - Tuesday
Vassilly - Can't go
Osho -
Ok, I said it before and I will say it again:
This is incredible! I know so many immature people, that I am strongly
considering writing a book called "The Height of Immaturity". This
will have a chapter to itself.
The one about addressing people was just an uneducated person
(uneducated in the w
> My interest is piqued on just how much bandwidth has been used on these
> threads!
>
> Doing a quick tally of the respecive threads:
> "How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?": 17kb (not
> including this message)
> "how to pick fresh fruit": 63kb
> Total: 80kb
>
> Time to download the
> but are we configuring X for debian? what about X in general?
> what if i have a question about firewalls. this is not a debian specific
> question, but a general computer question.
>
> the point is, what should be posted and should not be posted is a grey
> and fuzzy line.
Sure, but still, at l
> it has been discussed that the is a list for debian user and has
> discussed many, many OT things. We like to talk about stuff once in a
> while. This is not allow on strictly techincal lists.
Sure, but I still think that such random questions are not appropriate
here. I mean, if we can allow th
is.
Furthermore, at the risk of sounding like a typical RTFM-screaming,
angry geek, let me say that this sort of information (about how to
address people) is readily available online, and if the original
writer would have only asked Google, this entire thread would not be
in existence.
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I am not sure if you did this, but it needs to be enabled on both
client and server for it to work. Is it?
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> Today at 7:37am - Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> > The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere
> > similar) h
u just install the Debian package?
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> You are conflating things, I do believe. I said nothing about
> this list being open or closed. I said nothing about how much
> spam I get a day, week, or month. I said that this list
provides me with more spam than all the rest I subscribe to.
> Do you dispute this?
> Or what?
No, no, you're
> This list is the number one source of spam for me. I'm subscribed
> to eight mail lists[*], and this one generates more spam than all the
> others combined.
I don't know... I use Gmail myself, and so almost all of the spam I
ever get goes to my spam folder where it is deleted with two simple
cli
following:
1) Install window manager via apt-get
2) Find path of window manager (probably /usr/bin/)
3) Open gconf-editor
4) Go to Desktop -> Gnome -> Applications -> window_manager
5) Edit the values
6) Restart X (log out and in again, or run /etc/init.d gdm restart as root).
Cheers,
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Hello and thanks for all of the replies!
>From what people have posted so far, I must say that Unstable seems
pretty nice... I do not mind messing around with my system, but I do
not want that to be the norm, like it is in Gentoo.
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problem. So I am wondering, how
unstable is it? I might be getting a new computer within a few months,
and am considering installing Debian Unstable on it. But what should I
expect? Will it crash a few times a month, or a day? How much work is
it?
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s the
server can be configured to not send that email..?
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> just a thought... maybe the "Computer" icon is automatically created, > much
> like the "CD" icon for a freshly inserted CD. The WM has to place them
> somewhere and arbitrarily chooses a location based on the > default grid?
> Just a hunch as I dumped gnome for IceWM a while back and don't re
it either have part of it be cut
off, or overlap the nearest icon. Any ideas?
I have an IBM A21e, with GNOME 2.12.2, and Debian Testing.
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It is a Gnome Panel widget... I myself use USA and Russian Phonetic.
Just create a Keyboard Indicator widget, right click, add whatever
keyset, you want, and then change the key. I know for a fact that you
can use Alt and Shift (although on one of my computers, it is a little
faulty and refuses to
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Sorry about that they got messed up...
$ grep -i acpi /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_A
Yes, I do have acpid installed.
Here are the commands you asked for:
$ grep -i acpi /boot/config-2.6.12-1-386
# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_AC
newbie question, but I have never compiled/configured
the kernel before?
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sources
for it. Unfortunately, debian-installer does not come with the
sources.
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Yeah, you need to enable it in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Then, use ssh -X host.domain -l username
(note: it has to be enabled on both sides, and you actually have to
have X on both sides.)
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> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:49:52AM +0100, Juraj Fedel wro
Thank you for your reply.
I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the
"auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that
the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the generic
syntax for the other wireless ones?
Thirdly, is there a progr
)?
Also, how do I configure the wireless card to go to a certain hot
spot? For example, if it needs a password. My school has a free Wi-Fi
service without a password, but at home, my router is secure.
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Hello,
This is not my area of expertise, but just in case:
A) Are you sure the disk is being mounted? Try the command 'mount' (no
quotes) to make sure.
B) Check /etc/fstab and make sure you have permissions to read the
disk as a normal user.
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ne, kernel 2.6.
The status message shown is:
Paused: Unable to open USB device "usb://6540?serial=": No such device
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Sorry for not providing this information (I wrote this message a while
back but nobody replied and I forgot to include the information this
time around)
I am using GNOME on Debian Testing, with window manager Metacity (I
had used Sawfish for a while but I ended up preferring Metacity). I
obtained
Hello,
I usually keep my Firefox window maximized fully when browsing and all
other windows non-maximized (xterm, emacs, etc). However, recently, I
have noticed that if I open a new tab in Firefox, it unmaximizes the
window. If I maximize it again it seems to work for a little while but
not for lo
Hello,
I am running Metacity/GNOME on a Debian testing machine. I usually
keep my Firefox window maximized and the rest of the windows
unmaximized (gnome-terminal, emacs, etc.)
Recently, however, whenever I open a new tab, the Firefox window keeps
getting unmaximized. Also, if I maximize it again
Hello,
What do you mean "i load char". What is char? What exactly are you
trying to accomplish? You mentioned that you want to start a game in
the subject line. What game is this? How are you loading it? What are
the specifications of the computer that you are using?
Please provide more informati
> Are you allowed to boot the computer off your usb disk? If yes, you
> could try installing something like FeatherLinux
> (http://featherlinux.berlios.de) on your usb drive and boot the
> computer off it. It would have ssh and X for you, along with a few
> other Linux programs.
Probably yes, but
Hello,
I have a somewhat unique situation.
You see, I have a fairly large USB Disk (512 MB), on which I placed
PuTTY. Then when I am at school (which uses crappy Windows XP), I
simply plug in the USB drive, fire up PuTTY and SSH into my Debian
"Testing" server at home.
This is all well, except f
, I know. Sorry.
Leonid Grinberg
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) is on?
Leonid Grinberg
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I am sorry for being such a newbie (I have barely worked with Linux
with anything in regard to hardware), but...
would apt-get (or aptitude) install ndiswrapper-module
ndiswrapper-utils wpasupplicant suffice? I imagine I would need to do
something else like
# modprobe
and
# echo >> /etc/modul
I will try those packages. Thank you!
Am I then right to conclude that Debian probably does not have the
drivers/modules packaged?
Sorry about the lateness of the reply...
Finally, here is the output of lspci on my friend's laptop:
:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760
Host (rev 03)
:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Sys
Ok, thank you. Judging from the commands that you just told me, I take
it you are trying to find the wireless card type. Am I right?
In general, do you think that it is a package that Debian has that is
not installed, a module that is not loaded (in /etc/modules), or a
module not installed?
Leoni
rection? I suspect that a driver and/or kernel module is not
installed or is not being started.
Thank you,
Leonid Grinberg
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If you want modules to be loaded at boot time, enter in their names in
/etc/modules (you will need root permissions for this.)
I think that this is probably a problem with the mirror of the Debian
repository that you are using (i.e. something on their end). In any
case, I am not getting any errors (I too use Debian Testing with
repository debian.lcs.mit.edu).
syslogd message goes by a lot quicker which means
that it is getting stuck somewhere in the file.
The file is uncommented at present but can anybody tell me why it is
getting stuck and what I can do about it? Is it OK to comment it out
like I did?
Thank you,
Leonid Grinberg
I agree, using a powerful text editor as opposed to a full-featured
IDE is probably better. If you really want and IDE, I recommend using
Anjuta (for GNOME) and (I guess) KDevelop for KDE (I use GNOME,
myself, but then again, I also use Emacs)
Hello,
I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me
about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell
me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't
know).
Thanks,
Leonid Grinberg
does not like Debian (he does)
but because Debian can easily run on slow machines. Therefore, when
someone installs a pretty big piece of software (Firefox), it runs
pretty slowly.
In any case, I apoligize for sounding so inconsiderate of a high
quality piece of software that now has a successor
Leonid Grinberg
> > > Debian Sarge, kernel 2.4.27-2-686
I also suggest you update your kernel to 2.6.8
Just install kernel-image--
> X configuration tool = dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Do this as root.
Cheers,
Leonid Grinberg
I do not have this problem. In any case, I suggest you use Firefox as
opposed to the old mozilla.
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> Sorry about that...
>
> On 7/18/05, Jeff Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> >
I meant to send this to the list. Sorry:
I do not believe I am using gpm, in any case, I could not find
gpm.conf (/etc/gpm.conf is nonexistent).
The following is the mouse section of XF86Config-4
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
ening?
Thanks,
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