Re: Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Smith
> Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: > > XKBLAYOUT="us,at" > XKBVARIANT="," > BACKSP

Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Smith
Hi, I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard Specifically I did: I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: XKBLAYOUT="us,at" XKBVARIANT="," BACKSPACE="guess" XKBMODEL=

Build environment failing

2011-04-01 Thread Peter Smith
I am using debootstrap, fakechroot and fakeroot on Debian Squeeze to create a build environment for Firefox 3.6: fakeroot -s fakechroot.save fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze /tmp/debian-squeeze http://ftp.debian.org/debian fakeroot -i fakechroot.save fakechroot chroot /tmp/debia

Re: Compiling Firefox

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Smith
On 3/25/11, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I believe you'll have better luck getting an answer from: > pkg-mozilla-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > Thank you very much. I did not know that list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Compiling Firefox

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Smith
I want to compile Firefox 3.6 on Debian Squeeze and place everything in the /opt directory. I want the compiled browser to have some security modifications. The first thing i have added to mozconfig is the following three lines: export CFLAGS="-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all" export CXXF

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-17 Thread Peter Smith
On the adress ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakechroot/ i found a newer package that i tried to install on the Squeeze system and now everything is working as expected. Now i am wondering if the package was built on a Squeeze system or if the packages in these directories get security up

Re: Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Seems to be #561991š which is fixed in wheezy/sid, but not in squeeze. > > Sven > > > š http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561991 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "un

Debootstrap

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Smith
Hello I have some trouble getting debootstrap, fakeroot and fakechroot working together. Any suggestions on what i am doing wrong? $ export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin $ fakeroot -s fakechroot.save fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot squeeze /tmp/debian-sq

Re: Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Peter Smith writes: >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 > > noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? So far no applications have been malfunction as a result of the noexec flag on /t

Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
I want to mount following folders as tmpfs in my Debian Lenny 5.0.6 installation: /var/cache/apt/archives /var/tmp /tmp I have added the following lines to fstab: tmpfs /var/cache/apt/archives tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1

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2002-03-18 Thread Peter Smith

Solved: HP 9694 & Accton 1207D-TX nic

2001-03-13 Thread Peter Smith
A few days ago I sent a post to this list looking for help configuring the Accton 1207D-TX netword card that ships in (some?) HP Pavalion 9694C systems. Unfortunately no one on the list was able to help me. For the sake of the archives I thought I should post the solution I found. I happened to b

HP 9694 & Accton 1207D-TX nic

2001-03-11 Thread Peter Smith
Hey folks; Yet another one of those pesky Redhat/Mandrake convert-wannabe's here. I have an HP Pavilion 9694C. The machine comes with an HP OEM network card. I tracked this down and it appears to be an Accton EN1207D-TX/WOL card. The Debian installer doesn't seem to have a module for this card (at