The whole utmp stuff is flaky, a best effort system that might give
some resemblance to reality.
All who does is read the database. It is up to all of the other
systems that might write to it to do the correct thing with regards to
adding and removing entries.
man -s 5 utmp
Goes into more detai
Amusingly, "listserv" was the name of one of the original email
implementations on IBM Mainframes on BITNET. Names were limited to
eight characters, hence that particular abbreviation. (JUGGLE-L was
one of my first subscriptions back then.)
Many modern conversation systems use both email and web
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Mentioning dselect - that will give you all the obsolete packages it
> can't find - usually at the top of the interface but it does need
> some degree of expertise to unravel what it shows.
>
> (I just used dselect to find obscure packages
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 08:12:42 -0800, Mike Castle wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater
> > wrote:
> > > apt list '~o'
> >
> > Where is '~o' document
On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> apt list '~o'
Where is '~o' documented? apt(1) mentions dpkg-query, but I couldn't
find it mentioned there either.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere, but I couldn't find it when I
saw this command mentioned previously in this thread
Also, I don't think there should be any need to run it as root.
And sorry for the bad line wrapping.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM Loren M. Lang wrote:
> Basically, I want to identify any software that I couldn't reinstall on
> a fresh install of Debian from the official Debian archives.
Will this work as a starting place for you?
comm -23 <(dpkg-query -W -f '${Package} ${Version}\n' | sort -u
On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 11:27 PM Loris Bennett
wrote:
>keeping them in your wallet can be
> safer than sticking them with a post-it to you monitor.
Just brought back memories.
When I was in college in the 1980s/1990s, in my OS class, the
instructor told of a time when he was walking down a hallw
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 4:12 AM wrote:
> No, this has been from the installation of Debian 12 to this Laptop.
> Before that, I had Xubuntu 20.04 (Ubuntu with XFCE) on another Laptop
> that has crashed (broken mainboard). I also run Xubuntu 18.04 in a
> VirtualBox on a Windows host. Both also con
Out of curiosity, how do you raise windows?
Anyway, I was unable to reproduce this with FF 1.333.0 and Debian 12.
However, I normally do not run with these settings, so perhaps I do
not have them set up correctly.
Perhaps some screen shots of your settings might be in order to verify
I tried corr
A feature of markdown (.md) is that it is plain text.
Bring it up in your favorite text editor, save just the bits you need,
print with plain old lp(1).
No "reader" necessary.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:06 PM Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
>
> The question is if Firefox for some reason believes that network state
> is changed. A simple test (unrelated to downloads though) is to try in
> dev tools console
>
> window.addEventListener("onl
For what it is worth, I've had the same trouble with all versions of
Debian and FF for a "while" now, and have spent time trying to
investigate it off and on during that time.
A "while" is possibly a couple of years? I didn't have any desktop
computer for a while, and when I did set one up, I end
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 4:31 PM David Wright wrote:
> Irrespective of the time taken, that could trigger the OOM killer,
> couldn't it. Very risky, unless you're using two swaps as mentioned.
I was actually surprised to see this happen in a test right now. I
*thought* that swapoff() would fail i
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 11:45 AM David Wright wrote:
> I'm not convinced. Finding out what needs copying back and locating
> somewhere to put it is AIUI a slow process. What's much faster is
> when processes themselves demand something be paged back in from
> swap. I think there are "tricks" avai
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 5:45 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> How 'bout checking the success of `cryptdisks_stop`?
Does cryptdisks have the ability to display what is in use at the
moment? Maybe polling that before executing the stop?
I suspect that the race is that, when the the swapoff() syscall
re
On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 5:16 AM songbird wrote:
> not that i would want that,
>
> but it would be possible for various terminals to save to
> their own unique history files based upon terminal pty or
> tty or anything else you'd like and to reload those upon
> starting up again.
Yes.
Setting
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 11:23 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 12:25 AM Mike Castle wrote:
> > * I keep history under source control (currently git) and regularly
> > (well, for some definition of "regularly"), merge them across machines
>
> Thi
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 11:04 PM mick.crane wrote:
> If I've "su'd" I type "exit".
> To close the terminal I click that X in the virtual terminal's top right
> hand corner.
Depending on settings, that may or may not save that invocation's
history. You'll likely want to test to verify that it doe
On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM mick.crane wrote:
> Is this something that can be changed so history is shared between
> virtual terminals?
Yes.
There are all sorts of settings that can control how shells save
history. Most shells are capable of doing whatever you want, but the
default configur
In addition to what everyone else has said about env(1), there is the
fact that Korn derived shells also supports some of the same features.
env VAR1=foo VAR2=bar random-command
VAR1=foo VAR2=bar random-command
If running a Korn-like shell (ksh, bash, zsh), both would set the
envvars VAR1 and VAR
At my new job I've been using 115.12.0esr for about three weeks now,
with no crashes. However, also XFCE.
At home, I use Mozilla's debian repo as described at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions
for a while now, c
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:57 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> That's why I find it frustrating when someone claims that this bug is
> so severe that Debian has to *change their policy* without even describing
> how this bug is affecting them in real life.
I did not feel like the OP was saying the bug wa
bash is still 10x larger than dash:
$ ls -l /bin/[bd]ash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1265648 Apr 23 2023 /bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 125640 Jan 5 2023 /bin/dash
I would not be surprised if that impacts things like initrd and other
resource constrained environments.
Generally speaking, standa
Even shorter:
apt autopurge
Apropos to my recent message regarding system configuration, I keep a
personal metapackage around that lists the packages I really want.
About once a quarter I do the following (as root):
# apt-mark showmanual | grep -v mrc-mars | xargs apt-mark auto
# apt autopurge
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM Mike Castle wrote:
> Thanks for all of the commentary so far.
>
> Once I get something working, I will *try* to remember to follow up
> here with what I've managed to cobble together.
I have done quite a bit of research and experimentation and fin
Hah!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00042.html
Thanks for all the suggestions so far.
Like Alex, one of my physical machines is a laptop that is not always
on the home network. Though I'm usually connected to *something*.
I'm still debating whether to bother with a VPN or trying something
like a tailnet.
Heck, before I adopted Debian and ran
For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a
hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various
machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and
I'm golden.
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config
files that I c
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM Alain D D Williams wrote:
> We seem to be told that this must be done by those who will not be doing the
> work.
Was that explicitly stated anywhere? Or is the lack of any type of
explicit "I'm willing to help drive this" statements leading to that
conclusion?
mr
On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 2:07 AM Alain D D Williams wrote:
> It is "fixing" an issue for today's English speakers. Should we scour our
> systems looking for similar issues in other languages ? Then in, say, 20 years
> time when different words will then be considered offensive, by some, do this
> a
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM Jeremy Nicoll
wrote:
> And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so
> you can remember how you did it.
I actually have a quarterly reminder for myself to review my various
systems and take notes on changes. Installed packages, make sure
c
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 10:57 AM wrote:
> Yes, the main reason for the separation of /usr has more or less
> disappeared with the arrival of initramfs, but still... why.
To some extent, it will make it easier for packaging.
Look at any package built using autoconf, for instance, you run:
./confi
On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:53 AM Andy Smith wrote:
> น There was another use-case which is "sharing a read-only /usr
> between systems by NFS, etc." but at the time this was widely
> regarded a lost cause as so many other things violated the
> premise.
I did that for years.
Then again, when
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> What's not really stated anywhere is *why* these library functions
> exist. I don't see many practical application for a library function
> that reads a text file full of MAC addresses and hostnames, looks up
> one of them, and spits out the o
I use Evince probably once a week or so from the command line. I do
not see that error, though I think I have in the past. I suspect that
if you are seeing those issues with the current bookworm release, it
is likely a problem local to you.
You could be missing a package that evince expects to b
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 5:14 PM Van Snyder wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 19:40 +, piorunz wrote:
> On 30/10/2023 18:56, Van Snyder wrote:
> Firefox, in every version I've used so far, appears to have memory
>
> leaks. If I kill it, not by clicking its little "X" or Alt-F4, but with
>
> "kill
rsync supports hardlinks.
--hard-links, -H preserve hard links
Though, in general, the purpose of something like darcs is to
*provide* the syncing.
mrc
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 6:11 AM wrote:
> Gah, no. As a user I hate those with all my guts. Page "state" is
> distributed in some intransparent way across client and server and
> there is no way to refer to "something" via an URL.
Many modern SPAs track state via URL, so they can be referenced. A
Something I played with recently was
https://packages.debian.org/stable/vcs/git-filter-repo
But you definitely want to run tests on real data before you decide
that deleting old data saves your anything, particularly with respect
to time.
If git is so efficient at storing this kind of data, then
Oops. The 'grep -v -F' should be 'grep -v -f'. Well, 'grep -v -F -f'
would probably be appropriate as well.
mrc
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 7:58 PM Mike Castle wrote:
>
> Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show".
&
Some tools I've been using lately are apt-mark and "dpkg-query --show".
The following UNTESTED commands (ran as a normal user):
(apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F
apt-thinks-you-installed.txt > rest.t
I just tried this in a VM and it seemed to work.
>From a command line:
xfce4-panel -q
find ~/.config | grep panel
Remove the xfce4-panel.xml (I also removed the empty directory just
named panel.)
The lack of panels seems to have survived a reboot.
I don't know if it is sufficient for every va
I think it is kind of like buying a new ANYTHING.
Some folks will buy a new model as soon as it comes out.
Some will wait a few months to see if anyone else is having problems with it.
Whether it is a vehicle, electronic device, refrigerator, MS-Windows,
new online service, etc.
As more folks u
7: 2013-05-04 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130504
7.1: 2013-06-15 https://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130615
42 days
8: 2015-04-25 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150426
8.1: 2015-06-06 https://www.debian.org/News/2015/20150606
42 days
9: 2017-06-17 https://www.debian.org/News/2017/2
I was just researching this myself a couple of days ago, and spent
several hours going down a rabbit hole.
It seems that many folks are going the way of using an open source
solution, Home Assistant (aka, HA), (https://www.home-assistant.io/).
Even to the point where I found that folks that used t
Nvm, confused 2G with 4G.
Sorry for the noise.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Mike Castle wrote:
>
> It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet:
>
> $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE
> UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
>
It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet:
$ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE
UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP.
USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP 4.x Deflate64(tm) supported)
LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (large files over 2 GiB supported)
ZIP64_SUPPORT (a
On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 10:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Merged-usr is officially mandated for bookworm, and upgrades to bookworm
> will do the merge, if it hasn't already happened.
End of an era. My first Linux system (predating the existence of
Debian), mounted /usr over NFS over PLIP.
I couldn
Depends on your desktop/window manager, most likely.
For me, with XFCE, it is ctrl-alt- by default. And they appear
to be configurable in the Settings -> Window Manager -> Keyboard section.
mrc
I would not be surprised if the version number indicated the module in not
Pure Perl, but rather includes some C source code. Which would then need
to be compiled specifically for the version of Perl installed.
mrc
You could run into issues where the value of 'pwd' does not equal the value
of 'readlink -f .'.
For myself, I use autofs with autohome. It's been a while since I've
looked at the details, but I believe it simply does with bind mount
described elsewhere in this thread. My main machines happen to
I took rendering video to be an immediate example, but not necessarily
the only thing of interest.
Down to it's basic, rendering videos is nothing more than a simple
map-reduce, partioning a workload in a bunch of identical bits of
processing. That could be done with N machines and a few simple shell
scripts. Not really any need for anything fancy. What the fancier
software gives you is stuff
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> My experience has been that this whole "MTP" thing, instead of just mounting
> phones like they used to, as a storage device, has been a real horror show,
It's less of a horror show than having two operating systems trying to
write to the sa
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> That's Shumway from Mozilla.
Google's Swiffy fits into this domain as well.
mrc
I believe that cached images will still load.
mrc
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 6:59 PM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
> So I just
> might remove google-chrome and live with chromium for now. An install of
> 64-bit Debian is not in the cards for now.
At some point, there may be 64-bit only code introduced into Chrome
that could cause subtle bugs on 32-bit s
Besides switching to 64-bit or chromium or keeping the browser open?
(Actually, does chromium issue the same warning?)
mrc
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Neal P. Murphy
wrote:
> When you reply to and critique an essay, you would likely reply in top-post
> form and leave the essay at the bottom so that readers, whom you may safely
> assume have already read it, may conveniently reference it.
I don't think you can
Installed by default, meh.
But I'm pretty sure it is enabled by default.
cat /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter
# /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90unclutter
# This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
if [ -e /etc/default/unclutter ]
then
. /etc/default/unclutter
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/unclutte
Well, -idle 0 will hide it right away. But it'll get lots of false
positives about thinking you've stopped moving the mouse.
And unclutter has been around for just over 23 years now.
mrc
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Lev Lazinskiy wrote:
> 1. It is very approachable to anyone since a lot of people have already
> used Stack Overflow.
>
> 2. It has better search tools.
>
> 3. Actual Answers float to the top (instead of having to read through en
> endless stream of threads or foru
With VirtualBox, one has the option to install a bunch of guess
additions that help the guest and host work better together.
Is such needed/useful with KVM and friends?
FWIW, I use vbox as it comes with the installation, mostly because I'm
too lazy to download the upstream version. Seems to wor
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Jape Person wrote:
> Brings up another point. I've always wondered how the sticky fingers crowd
> could manage all the key-presses necessary for arranging proper security.
One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings.
mrc
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On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> LG Germany answered quickly and stated that the drive is
> not known to show this behavior under MS-Windows.
> (Linux is not on their compatibility list, they say.)
Has the drive displayed this behavior since you turned on the machine,
o
For xfce, you might try this:
Settings Manager > Session and Startup > Application Autostart
Scroll down and uncheck Screensaver.
There may be additional things you need to do to make sure session stuff
isn't loading screensavers through some other mechanism (i.e, squirreled
away in a saved sessi
I'm using i386.
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Darn.
It happened to me on three different machines. Though they're all the
same arch.
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I just filed a bug on this, but I'm wanting a sanity check on this:
If I do something like:
less /usr/share/dict/words
then do this search:
(a|b)(c|d)
it crashes with a double-free error.
I'm not doing anything terribly funky there, am I?
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On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Randy Kramer wrote:
>
> Maybe it can be done readily in lynx and I just haven't spotted how to do it?
I have ~/.lynx/external to which I just added this line:
EXTERNAL:http:echo %s | xsel -i:TRUE
Then I can navigate to a link and hit the `.' key. If there are mo
This is mostly a laptop question, but probably general enough that I
want to post it here instead.
So one thing that I think Gnome2 had over XFCE is better multiple
monitor support. I could plug in a new monitor and the right thing
would just happen. More importantly, I could unplug the monitor
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mike Castle wrote:
> In addition to the Gnome 3 stuff, I just experienced another issue
> with upgrading my laptop on the testing track.
>
> Something whacked my /etc/network/interfaces.
>
>
> Fortunately I happen to have a backup of the /
In addition to the Gnome 3 stuff, I just experienced another issue
with upgrading my laptop on the testing track.
Something whacked my /etc/network/interfaces.
Fortunately I happen to have a backup of the / partition, so I'll be
able to walk through multiple installs to try to identify the culpr
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
wrote:
> just a word of warning: on absolutely no account, not for any reason,
> should you buy WD "Green" drives.
>
> i've just spent a hair-raising 6 weeks discovering that these drives,
> when pushed above a mere 40 Centigrade, become
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote:
>
> What I'm using now is liferea which is okay but could be more minimal
> and mainly, is way too slow to enjoy using it (search for the fsync
> issue).
Sounds like you may need to tune your filesystem. If fsync() is
causing a problem, it
Did some more testing. All of the problems seems to be client side.
Dropping back to 2.6.32, both automounts and the flock $0 script work over NFS.
But did discover something interesting.
After a fresh boot, the follow both work with 2.6.32:
$ ls /share/images
$ ls /share/images/
With 2.6.39,
I am running debian/testing across a number of machines, all mostly up
to date (usually any given machine is no more than a week behind).
Some time ago, maybe a couple of months, I started noticing some
problems with my automounted NFS mounts, and wondering if anyone else
has noticed something sim
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan
wrote:
> How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up
> several times for me, most recently with
> ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Depending on how long since boot, you can often explore the output
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because Google has
> figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country. But I want the
> results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra mouse click on
> 'Google.co
Just sharing something that happened to me.
After a recent upgrade with debian/testing, I noticed that ssh would
pop up a window asking for my password, and this would be AFTER
running ssh-add.
Turns out that I needed to read this bit in
/usr/share/doc/gnome-keyring/README.Debian:
"""
The GNOME
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Didar Hossain wrote:
> Personally, I would not recommend converting, but, rather creating a
> separate partition
> for ext4 to test it out.
For my use case, in order to get the benefits for using ext4 over
ext3, it worked better to create a new filesystem with ex
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:42 PM, T o n g wrote:
> This is the first time that I found the NAME variable missing from the
> environment. How common is this?
Not present on my Debian/testing system.
I have USER, USERNAME and LOGNAME, but no NAME.
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Alan Ianson wrote:
> Any ideas on what I need to change?
I just switched to not using any xorg.conf at all, which I think is
the ``new'' recommendation. I put new in quotes because I think I saw
someone at work the other day say something like ``You've not needed
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
> Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and cons
> of the various filesystems?
Google is switching (has switched by now?) all of it's servers over to
ext4. A web search will turn up more details on the subject.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
> Gnash is a noble effort. Gnash sucks. I want choice, and my choice is
> Adobe Flash. Installing Gnash screws up Flash. Right now, I can refuse to
> update GNOME on Squeeze any further, but the time will come when that will
> not be a viable
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Celejar wrote:
> My problem was that I hadn't realized that d-m had a
> non-free section at all.
I get the feeling the non-free section is new.
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Mike Castle wrote:
> Oh ... I just remembered... / on the ldap server was full, and I ended
> up nuking a lot of stuff on that partition. I wonder if I got overly
> zealous and deleted something important. I hope not.
Not sure if I deleted too
Has anyone else noticed that autofs has stopped working on testing?
I'm really just digging into the debugging process, so may not have
read all of the necessary docs quite yet.
I've had autofs working for /home and a /share hierarchy for quite
some time now, and haven't had too many problems with
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Maybe your terminal is not in Unicode mode?
Good possibility, but, I thought that would only matter when non-ascii
characters came into play.
Oh... ok.. I just found the UTF 8 item on xterm and there actually is
a minor difference:
$ LANG
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Mike Castle wrote:
> So, what's the proper solution to this? Do I need to install
> something? Or rebuild a locale database somewhere? (if the latter, I
> would have thought that it would have been done automatically upon
> appropriate insta
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah
wrote:
> Could you please try running LC_ALL=C gcc -Wall -Werror t.c and let us
> know if that solves the issue?
Yup. That did it. Thanks for the quick analysis.
LANG= gcc ...
had the same effect.
That's what I get for letting it set the darned
I typically keep my environment pretty stripped down, and so it may
turn out that I'm missing some package that causes the following
problem. But I've not yet been able to figure it out. I'm hoping the
masses out here will immediately recognize the problem as ``Oh yes,
you need ... ''
Running
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I have a long binary file (about 12 MB) that I need to extract the
> text from via "strings". Naturally, there are a lot of junk lines such
> as these:
> pDuf
> #k0H}g)
> GoV5
> rLeY1
> TMlq,*
>
> Is there a way to grep the output of strings in
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, David Goodenough
wrote:
> In the old Grub1 days if I had a bootable disk die and I copied its contents
> across to a new disk and wanted to make it bootable I followed a procedure
> that ran grub, looked for /boot/grub/stage1, set root to that hd, and then
> setup
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rodolfo Medina
wrote:
> I installed clive in my Lenny partition with: `aptitude install clive', but it
> seems that it does not manage to download the video I installed it for:
I believe that youtube has retired some support for a variety of
formats, so maybe the
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> dr.hugo.z.hackenbush:
>>
>> Hi, I am having trouble mounting the floppy in lenny .Can mount as root
>> but wont let me mount as user? Tried #adduser (name) floppy in
>> terminal but still wont let me in? any clues please?
>
> You need
You might also consider find -printf and stat as other options.
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisi wrote:
> *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?*
rungetty takes a different set of command line options than getty.
>From reading the man page, it looks like you only need one argument:
the tty. This doesn't seem too surprising since it looks like
runge
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:56 AM, niclasw wrote:
> I have a 1500G hard drive, encrypted.
> Different commands shows different usage:
>
> As root, from root directory:
> df -m
> Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted
> on
> /dev/mapper/d 1390840 1284525
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