Re: LILO

at happened when you tried it. > How can I edit LILO or erase the mbr or something so I can start all over? Once you can boot from a rescue disk with root=/dev/hda1 or similar you'll be able to edit lilo and run it. There are other ways too, but first try a rescue floppy or CD until you c

Re: FreeS/WAN patch compatibility with freeswan package?

piling (if possible) the testing or unstable source on your woody system, which is also good of course. Actually, looking now, you may need to recompile it (not difficult). This better answer to the second question, from the archives of this very list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Re: Re: no devices or drivers dir under /proc/bus/usb

one. Also there's some information in Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt in the kernel source tree that might help. Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no devices or drivers dir under /proc/bus/usb

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:07:00AM -0600, Vale Kenny wrote: > According to linux-usb.org, after I've mounted usbdevfs and > loaded the necessary usb modules, I should have two directories > under /proc/bus/usb, devices and drivers. I have naught. > I completely out of ideas. Here are the logs a

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

ogging levels. You could put it in a startup script or just run it when you feel like it. Have a look at that file to see what it is now. There are much nicer ways though! It would be better for instance to redirect all that stuff to one virtual console. Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Menu maker

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 06:22:32PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Is Menu maker part of deb? I can't seem to find it. I searched for > menumaker, menu-maker, mmaker, menmaker. Perhaps you mean the "menu" package. Also, wmaker provides "WPrefs", which lets you customise the wmaker menu. --

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:46:56AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > My favourite file was the last one ... I mean, the crontab one. > Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:29:48AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:25:13PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > unable to make backup link of `./bin/login' before installing new ver

Re: kazaa

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 10:41:50AM +, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > Hello, > Last night I was at a friends house and he showed me Kazaa lite. I > found this morning it is possible to run it on my Debian machine using > wine. Can anyone tell me how to do this, pls? Unless you really want wine and

Re: console login fails

:36:03.0 +1000 Change: 2003-10-09 09:36:03.0 +1000 Nothing else is playing up, the system seems fine apart from this. Thanks very much for your advice. Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: console login fails

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. > > I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then > it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, > and brings up another login prompt. Ha

console login fails

Hi, I'm having trouble logging into tty1-tty6. I get a prompt, put in my username and hit enter, and then it hangs for 10 seconds without asking for a password, and brings up another login prompt. Has anyone seen this? I'm having trouble finding relevant hits. thx, Patrick Lessli

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:46:16PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:05:44AM -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: > > Which PDF readers allow blocking and cut-&-paste? > > > > Also, which allow searching for text and phrases? > > xpdf allows

Re: PDF & cut-&-paste ???

, it might be enough to use pdftotext | grep I don't know which other ones allow searching. Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a distribution

rs a small customised root partition taken from an existing installation, and runs lilo (using chroot I guess). Patrick Lesslie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]