askar k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As I understand when we do apt-get update, the system stores
> information on available packages. Where it's stored?
In /var/lib/apt/lists.
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"James C. Hall, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At the point I run make, it errors out complaining that several X11
> includes are not found. [...] After going through my system a bit, he
> felt that several files were missing from my X Windows setup.
Install the package(s) which contain(s) the
vineyard saker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) during my install I was not connected to the Internet (I had
> ordered the 14 Debian CDs from budgetlinuxcds) and I therefore did not
> configure my network card. Now I would like to connect my computer to
> the rest of my computers on a home networ
"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Just got the following warning:
>>
>> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in
>> your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
>> Earlier results may have failed to include directori
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 03:45:31PM +0200, roberto wrote:
>>
>> --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:
>>
>> > > i encounter the following problem when i try to mount my usb pen on
>> > > debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8
>> > >
>>
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book
> "The Debian System",
Congratulations, I'll order a copy soon! :)
> The hardcover edition will be available in stores in the beginning
> of July. A list of online shops stocking it i
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody out there printing .ps files with a2ps successfully?
Yes.
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> Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>>> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
>>>> c
Phil Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin Dickopp said:
>> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Martin writes:
>>>> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
>>>> can only be run successfully if at
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin writes:
>> Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which
>> can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is
>> provided to them.
>
> That's true of Unix and Linux as well.
Can you cite a Unix or GNU/Linux co
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:41:35 -0400
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following
>> message printed on it:
>>
>> Only in the World
>>of Microsoft
>>
Jeremiah Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I thought I heard about a web site that talked about moving from Red
> Hat to debian once, anyone remember that link?
http://www.google.com/search?q=moving+%22red+hat%22+debian
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Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Sarge machine on which there is a 60GB HD
> I use it to run simulations. About 30GB on HD is some
> useful results, but it has suddenly become somewhat
> inaccessible because the ext3 journal became corrupted
> during the outage. By mounting the
"R. Armiento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin Dickopp wrote:
>> IMHO, the main reason for having /usr on a separate partition is that
>> it can be mounted read-only.
>
> Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write
> access
"R. Armiento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The reason to put /usr on an own partition would be that IF the
> semi-frequent changes of this partition somehow would screw up the
> filesystem, you could still bring your system up in a semi-useful state
> using only / and repair things.
IMHO, the ma
Dalibor Straka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my /var/log/syslog is rotated but there is nothing in
> /etc/logrotate.conf nor in /etc/logrotate.d/*. How is syslog rotated?
It is rotated in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd. (See also
/etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd).
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David Roguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yesterday i wanted to print a pdf book, but i didn't find any app in
> gnome2.8 in wich i can print the odd and even pages. i tried with
> gpdf, xpdf and evince.
I usually use pdftops (part of the xpdf-utils package) to convert to
PostScript and psselect
ll us the exact command line you have used
to invoke gcc.
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in a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d/.
I have a slightly different solution which is also based on udev:
http://www.zero-based.org/debian/usbmount.html
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lls". An MPEG still is essentailly an MPEG video with a single frame,
and can also contain audio which is played while the picture is shown.
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st record the information in which sectors the
kernel is stored, so they don't have to interpret the filesystem in
order to load the kernel.
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know of a Linux tool for this.
There's a tool "pdfjoin" (in the "pdfjam" package) for this purpose.
I've never used it myself, but according to the documentation, it can
do this.
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f you put the line
encrypt-to "your-key-id"
in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file.
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ut, read the manual page; for example, if
you're using netkit-ping, use the -c option.
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> There is no debian package for jpegtran
Huh?
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=jpegtran
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) works:
user_pref("print.postscript.paper_size", "A4");
(Of course, this sets the paper size *to* A4, so you should replace "A4"
with whatever paper size you want to use.)
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pager which you also tried with "man".
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nteresting parts are the hyphen in "bug-coreutils"
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(bytes c2 a9).
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>> strange chars, e.g.:
>
> AFAIK, 'man' does not support UTF-8. Bad luck. :)
It supports UTF-8 just fine here (Debian unstable).
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install the libjpeg62-dev package.
The general answer to this kind of problem is
<http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents>.
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Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin Dickopp wrote:
>> Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>>>Hey I used reportbug from a new sarge install a few days ago. I did
>>>not have exim4 configured. The bug report made it to my inbox (this
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226443
Under bug number #226443, I see a bug reported in January 2004. Why do
you presume that your bug should have number #226443?
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27; can never be executed.
Just leave out the `exec', or use it as the last statement in a
subshell:
( sleep 1 && exec urxvtc ) &
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; lacks a "main" function, and it also references, but does not
define, a function "forked". Most likely, the file "parser.c" does not
contain the complete source code.
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> I'm working on some socket code for a project I share with someone.
>
> The strange thing is that the accept() call returns '0' (zero) with
> no error. This of course is a invalid socket descriptor,
No, this is of course a perfectly valid file (or socket) descriptor.
"Paul Akkermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to use the library forms.h and forms.c and buf.h but my Debian system
> says that it can not find these files. Does anybody know which package I have
> to download (via apt-get) to get these libraries included in my Debian system?
http://www.d
count yourself lucky. :)
I receive dozens of spam and virus mails with forged, but existing
sender addresses daily.
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ch file or
> directory
> find: /home/peanut/.netscape/cache/16/cache412BB9D602B129E.gif: No such file or
> directory
This can happen if these files are deleted while find is running.
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in fact ext2?
> hda5 is the root ext2 partition
> have hda1 ntfs still for now.
> hda3 fat32
> hda6 swap
> hda7 an ext2 linux partition (/backup)
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asible to maintain such a list of created
files for each package. :)
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possibility would be that the maintainer script which
creates the file stores the filename in something like
"/var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.createdfiles".
> It's a stupid and pointless exercise.
I don't agree.
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we could possibly imagine?
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`-. Debian, a variant of t
ibncurses5-dev from testing/unstable, so most
likely your /etc/apt/sources.list file is not set up correctly. Make
sure it refers to stable, but not testing or unstable. Then issue the
command
apt-get update && apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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at it must never be recovered no matter what
> cost; you would have to destroy the drive.
If your opponents are able and willing to spend an /infinite/ amount
of money to get at the data on the disk, it must be assumed that they
already have it. They have likely already used vario
e problem. Sending mails with 8 bit characters is
generally not a good idea; some MTAs munge them. Try to disable
"allow_8bit" in mutt.
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see the Debian changelog for details.
> any ideas to solve that ?
Perhaps you need a newer version of mkinitrd, but since I don't use
initrd myself, I'm not sure. Otherwise, report a bug against mkinitrd
that asks to reflect the module-init-tools changes.
ipt (~/.profile).
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>
> Other than someone on PPC there haven't been any problem descriptions
> so I don't see how you arrived at this conclusion.
See my posting to the thread "postscript-enabled mozilla package
anyone?".
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ng, but I simply don't have the pile of
money I would have to spend on toner in the process.
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/bin/wall?
> /root/ctrlaltdel looks like:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] sds]# cat /root/ctrlaltdel
> Aiai - The three finger salute
>
> [...]
> Honestly, I'm a bit pissed of
So would I be, if all non-root users could send text to all my
(pseudo) terminals, even those in "mesg n&q
Wasily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any idea to disable ?
Include
Option "DontZap" "yes"
in the "ServerLayout" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file.
Also see the XF86Config-4 manual page.
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C++ forever. ;-)
> ~/cpluscplus\% gcc page23.cpp
This is not supposed to work. Use "gcc" for C programs and "g++" for
C++ programs.
^
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Sounds like libc6-dev is not installed.
(If you encounter an error message like the one I underlined,
you can find out which package contains the file at
<http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_cont
whois" in its command
line. You might want to look into pidof and/or killall.
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myself.
I have
eval `lesspipe`
in my ~/.profile to set this up.
> I have the word "lesspipe" in my head as the way I set this up, but
> I'm not apt-caching up anything that looks encouraging.
lesspipe is part of the less package. You should already have it if you
have
s is that user 'nobody' has done a
> 'su' - become root.
No, it's the other way around: 'root' has used 'su' to become 'nobody'.
This is probably part of a script (run by a cronjob?).
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ts to an addressee, you have received this document in
> error and are strictly prohibited from reading or disclosing it.
How am I supposed to know that I'm strictly prohibited from reading it
without reading it?
SCNR,
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epancy between the underlined timestamps very strange.
Does your clock run monotonically, or could it step (possibly because
you run tools which synchronize it to some external reference time)?
If you run `date' and `date -u' from /etc/crontab, what do they show?
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:56:05PM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote:
>>
>> You want to run `mkreport.deb' at 1:00am, and if the timezone in your
>> email header is correct, you appear to be 6 hours western of GMT. This
>>
refore,
presumably something is wrong with your timezone configuration.
- Is the environment variable `TZ' set? If so, to what? Is it already
set when cron is started?
- What's the content of /etc/timezone?
- What does /etc/localtime (a symlink) point to?
You might need to run `tz
is different from the syntax of
/etc/crontab), see "man 5 crontab".
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How can I make this work?
You need to run dpkg-scanpackages. Read the Debian Repository HOWTO
<http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/repository-howto.html>.
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ion come from - its not in the man pages? Why is
>> it needed when using the Debian gcc and g++ packages?
>
> 30sec google search suggests it should perhaps be
>
> -DGNU_SOURCE
Care to elaborate? A Google search for GNU_SOURCE turns up 1,680 hits
for me, while _GNU_SOURCE is f
es?
It defines the preprocessor macro _GNU_SOURCE. If this macro is defined,
the standard library headers adhere to certain standards and enable
GNU extensions. See the comments at the top of /usr/include/features.h
for how to make the standard library adhere to various standards.
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Werner Mahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 06:27 schrieb Mike M:
>
>> main()
>> test.cpp:4: warning: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `main' with no type
>
> void main(void) and you have a type.
You'd also have undefined behavior then. The main function *must* return
in
Tim Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> /proc/PID/fd seems to work just fine; see transcript below.
>
> OMG. That does work. I didn't try it because the file looks like a symlink
> in 'ls' -- a similar process with symlinks on a normal filesystem will
> produce different results:
Yes, /proc is q
Tim Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other day, I did something really stupid. I started a download with
> BitTorrent, and, half-way through, deleted the file it was downloading.
>
> The file still existed because the torrent client had it open. I could use
> 'lsof' to get an inode number -
Darin Strait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello.
>
> I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the
> tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac.
>
> I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I want to move
> files t
"Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running Debian Testing, and have noticed that my syslog, kern.log, and
> debug.log files are too large (over 100Mb).
I don't have a "debug.log" file on my system. Do you mean "debug"?
> I looked in logrotate.conf and logrotate.d, but did
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 02:28:50PM +0100, Hans Steinraht wrote:
> I have upgraded to postgresql 7.4 on my debian unstable computer.
> Reloaded the databases and all seems to work fine (can connect to
> postgres with psql)
>
> The only waht not is working is that I cannot connect to postgresql
> th
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:33:23PM -0500, Brett Carrington wrote:
> The GPL should be accepted in any case though,
No, it states that the user is not required to accept it in Section 5:
"You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed
it."
> otherwise a user can not be sure
cape
and restart Netscape.
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ch is running, the old executable file
is not actually deleted until the last instance of the program has
terminated. Therefore the file system cannot be remounted read only.
If you kill or restart all such programs, you should be able to
remount /usr read only.
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On 30/11/99 Martin Dickopp wrote:
>
> >Read the section "Restricted Shell" in the bash documentation; this
> >might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can
> >control what commands bash can execut
uot; in the bash documentation; this
might be what you're looking for. In restricted mode, you can
control what commands bash can execute, so you could limit them
to telnet and ssh.
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of file
The function definitions have to end with a semicolon, e.g.
l() { dir $*|less; }
Otherwise, the } (and everything that follows) is considered a part
of the function definition, and therefore the file ends before the
definition ends. :)
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