Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-22 Thread MPR
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: >> >> Log in as root? > > Effectively that's what I want. > BUT neither 'root' nor 'superuser' is recognized by Gnome login screen :< Edit /etc/passwd and change the UID and GID for your login to 0 (which effectively ma

Re: How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

2012-06-25 Thread MPR
Thanks, Pelle, for both the command and the output. That's just what I needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/can3v7brh155kkongbhj1oyqxtjt1ztp-bwq1w2

How to find list of backports for Debian squeeze?

2012-06-25 Thread MPR
How can I find a list of all available backports for Debian squeeze? Google and DDG turn up nothing relevant. I searched this list's archives and also didn't find anything. Leaving the search field blank on http://backports-master.debian.org/Packages/ only returns an error. The backports FAQ doesn'

Re: apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread MPR
it! Thanks for the help and explanations everyone. MPR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAN3V7BQ4n5jcS44LWLqrHYa635TL4+rkzR=kyeyj9zpp2x7...@mail.gmail.com

apt-get update error with volatile.debian.org

2012-04-06 Thread MPR
Last year I started getting errors when running apt-get update. The errors look like this: W: Failed to fetch http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile/dists/squeeze/volatile/main/source/Sources.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.148.13 80] W: Failed to fetch http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volati

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-08 Thread MPR
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:51 AM, marc wrote: > Please switch off HTML. Please join the 21st century. It's not 1990 any more. Mail clients have come a long way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de