On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:42:05AM BST, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> As I mentioned above and in the listed previous threads, this was a
> new install, but the home partition that is acting strangely s from a
> previous install.
That sounds simply like a permissions issue.
To rule it our mound the filesy
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 10:52:53AM GMT, Camaleón wrote:
> I'm sure memorizing the keys or using a blank keyboard is an easy task
> for professional typists :-)
I disagree, you don't have to be a professional typist to memorise the
keys on your keyboard. As long as you use a keyboard daily there's
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:37:21PM GMT, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2012 18:44:22 Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > What's wrong with simply re-arrange the keys on your existing keyboard
>
> How do you do that? I know that there used to be IBM keyboards on which you
> could
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:37:16PM GMT, Camaleón wrote:
> That using a printed keyboard with a different layout (other than the one
> printed) is a completely mess unless you can memory the full keymap in
> your head and type without looking at the keyboard.
That's why I suggested a blank as it
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:32:06PM GMT, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 06 January 2012 18:22:35 Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > What's wrong with simply using the existing keyboard with Dvorak layout?
>
> Because you wouldn't know where the letters are? I think that Weaver means a
>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 05:39:03PM GMT, Weaver wrote:
> Hello all.
> I've been interested in this subject for some time, because of the greater
> typing speed potential and lowr incidence of RSI and have even delayed
> moving from two finger typing with an idea of implementing a Dvorak
> keyboard i
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:29:06AM GMT, Jeff Gordon wrote:
> Hi, Folks --
>
> Along with my normal 'work' computer, I've also installed Debian on my old
> iBook laptop (PowerPC) where some different problems apply. Is there a
> separate list for Debian on PowerPC or is this the one for that? (I
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:25:31PM GMT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 01 ian 12, 22:51:05, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > 4. root has /bin/sh as its $SHELL
>
> Nope
>
> $ grep root /etc/passwd
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
True, I've changed both to /bin/zsh some time
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 09:30:55PM GMT, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> > ... executed with /bin/sh which is not bash by default.
>
> Understood; but why does the installer put these and no .dashrc?
>
> peter@joule:~$ ls ~/.*ash*
> /home/peter/.bash_history /home/peter/.bash_logout /home/peter/.ba
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:19:20PM GMT, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> To answer the question in your subject I think the correct command to
> use is 'man' :)
Well put, sir! +1 ;^)
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:57:55PM GMT, lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two questions, wish to get advice,
>
> Question 1:
>
> For a series of files:
>
> cat a_*.o* | grep "WARNING"
It's one of the useless uses of cat[0].
Use:
% grep WARNING a_*.o*
instead.
> some file like a_1.o12 has WARNI
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 05:18:47PM GMT, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> CDROM tray will not respond to "eject":
>
> [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject
> eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device
> eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no blo
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:03:29AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> On 22/12/11 20:55, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:57AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> >>On 22/12/11 11:39, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >>>As the drive is owned by root should it be run as sudo?
&
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:57AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> On 22/12/11 11:39, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >As the drive is owned by root should it be run as sudo?
>
> Yes, or as root (su -c 'chown blah blah').
What's the point of running "su" as root?
Your example will only change user "blah" permis
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:35:34AM GMT, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I've just tried to create a folder on the external h/d which failed.
> This is the error report;-
> ~~~
> mkdir /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test
> mkdir: cannot create directory
> `/media
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:34:27PM GMT, T o n g wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:09:19 +0000, Raf Czlonka wrote:
>
> > % man 5 crontab
>
> I guess I assumed someone would be thoughtful enough to find out in OP
> that I said I know it works for crontab.
File in /etc/cron.d
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:32:44AM GMT, T o n g wrote:
> Let me explain with an example.
>
> Say I have a file under /etc/cron.d/ with the following entry:
>
> 42 4 1 * * user1 echo "This command is run 4:42 am every 1st of the month"
> 01 * 19 07 * user2 echo "This command is run hourly on the
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:56:48AM GMT, perlj...@gmail.com wrote:
> After a manual entry in /etc/hosts.deny
>
> ip didn't blocked
>
> ALL: 151.12.xxx.xxx
>
> I wonder why?
What do you mean by didn't get blocked?
Using what service/port?
Does your service support tcp_wrappers?
> I use denyhost
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:41:30AM GMT, lina wrote:
> such as for file in
>
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers,
>
> how do I know which .so file installed by which package?
apt-file
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 06:45:29AM GMT, lina wrote:
> Can someone provides some links/tutorials about how to build a debian
> package from a .run file.
There's no such thing as a .run file - it's a non-standard extension used
(sometimes) by companies to redistribute proprietary (non-free) software
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 02:55:03PM GMT, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
> For a non-gnome-specific alternative, take a look at xdg-open.
Or if you're using a shell which sucks less ;^) - ZSH[0].
You can simply use:
% alias -s pdf=mupdf,zathura,etc.
and then:
% file.pdf
[0] http://www.zsh.org/
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:14:20PM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Sthu Deus wrote:
> > I can not run two applications w/ gksu:
> >
> > chromium and
> > qbittorrent
>
> Why do you want to run those applications as root? You should not do
> this. Neither of those applications are designed for being run
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:01:00AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Thank You for Your time and answer, Raf:
>
> >> I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history.
> >
> >The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell
> >usually means something else :^)
>
> Ahh. Seems
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:54:27AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day.
G'day.
> I try to escaping saving double commands in shell command history.
The subject is somewhat confusing - escaping in regards to shell usually
means something else :^)
> env shows among other things:
>
> SHE
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:57:47PM GMT, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I have never been able to mount my ipod as a block device. When
> connected to a usb port the message "configuration #1 chosen from 4
> choices" appears. What are the other three choices? Are they of any
> use?
Which version of i
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:29:35AM GMT, John W. Foster wrote:
> > See LaTeXMLFyOem3/ltxmlimg.log
^^
> Since this is a straight forward setup from debian stable, I'm wondering why
> latex can not find the file it needs. Is this a bug, maybe?
Have you had a look i
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:31:06AM GMT, Brent Clark wrote:
> Hiya
>
> Does anyone know when support for Debian Lenny will come to an end?
> Has there been notice on Debian Announce?
Support for old-stable usually ends a year after the now stable has been
released (Feb 2011) so it'll probably be
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 03:53:53AM GMT, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Squeeze AMD64, apt-mirror seems to always run even after configured with
> below config in crontab
>
> # crontab -l
apt-mirror comes with it's own cron entry - no need to set your own.
> # m h dom mon dow command
>
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:29:03PM GMT, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:12:01PM GMT, Ismael Scalcon wrote:
> >>
> >> To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic):
> >>
> >> Red Hat Linux
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:12:01PM GMT, Ismael Scalcon wrote:
> To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic):
>
> Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is the supporte
To clarify things, Red Hat Linux _was_ a distro available as a free
download with or without commercial support.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 06:44:30AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> It was the permission problem - I did not set it to be executable. Now
> it seems to work.
>
> Thanks, Raf, again, for the point.
No worries mate. Most problems are usually easy to fix.
However, sometimes you need someone else to ask the
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 06:41:37AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> w/ the following content:
I assume that the script has got the shebang?
#!/bin/sh
> # /etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus
> [...]
> Now, after suspending/resuming I see that nothing was done: after
> resuming top shows me the same data about the pro
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Dan B. wrote:
> > I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
> > the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
> > said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
I presume y
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 01:50:50PM GMT, John Caveman wrote:
> Please if possible write me all the steps I need to follow in order to get
> my network driver up and running. Thanks!
% aptitude install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer b43-fwcutter
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On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 12:50:22PM GMT, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 04:46:04PM +0530, Muhammad Fahad wrote:
> >Hello
> > How to install ip package for debian, apt-get install is not working
> >kindly help me to download the ip package for debian
>
> If you are look
On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 04:46:42AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good time of the day.
Any time of the day is good ;^)
> I'm looking for a Debian package/program user popularity rating list on
> the WWW. Can You share one w/ me/us?
Look at "popularity-contest" package.
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 09:57:15AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:08 +
> Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote:
> > > How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from
> > > grub2 ?
> >
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 07:32:43AM GMT, J. Bakshi wrote:
> How can I directly boot debian net installer iso directly from
> grub2 ?
You haven't even looked, have you? ;^)
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/25/boot-an-iso-via-grub2/
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 01:45:43PM BST, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote:
> >> Given your posts, you're clearly confused...
> >
> > Would you care to elaborate?
>
>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:22:00PM BST, Brian wrote:
> > You don't, for simple setup that is indeed enough.
> > If you have several wireless networks you can keep your interfaces file
> > tidy and organised, not to mention that roaming mode won't work without
> > wpa_supplicant.conf file.
>
> Yes,
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 08:39:58PM BST, Camaleón wrote:
> > If it's not available through easy install system, e.g APT, then yes.
>
> Only Windows system lacks for a ssh client on a default install and this
> can be easily solved with one of the mentioned programs that don't
> require even inst
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 05:12:20PM BST, Camaleón wrote:
> > Too many 3rd party software programs required, most of them don't
> > integrate with the rest of the system nicely or at all, e.g. explorer,
> > cmd.exe.
>
> "One" program is "too many" for you? ;-)
If it's not available through easy ins
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:50:05PM BST, Tom H wrote:
> Given your posts, you're clearly confused...
Would you care to elaborate?
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:15:09PM BST, Camaleón wrote:
> SSH is still the winner, IMO: Solaris and linux include ssh client
> facilities and windows has WinSCP or FileZilla that allow SFTP
> connections.
Too many 3rd party software programs required, most of them don't
integrate with the rest o
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 04:33:55AM BST, yudi v wrote:
> Samba looks like the best option as I will be adding windows clients and a
> solaris file server.
You hadn't mentioned Windows previously.
Had you provided that information at the beginning I would've suggested
Samba as well.
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:46:54PM BST, Arno Schuring wrote:
> > SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network.
> That depends. If you're running a wireless setup, even with WPA2
> protection, I'd still advise security.
Let's not get paranoid - firewall + RSN should be enough o
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 04:39:28PM BST, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> >SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network.
>
> That at least explains the millions of bots out there. Of course you
> need security on a home-only network, even if it is not accessible
> from the internet. And
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 06:39:42PM BST, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I have been using debian as a border router, and using
> iptables to "drop" connections to various IPs which hit my honeypot.
>
> I am wondering, if there is a point where too many iptables rules
> impede the speed of the network?
>
>
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 06:12:37PM BST, Tom H wrote:
> I'm sorry that I've confused you. I was just pointing out that the
> demarcation line between mdraid and dmraid isn't as straightforward as
> you made it out to be because mdadm (which is an mdraid tool) can be
> used to manage dmraid arrays.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:46:51AM BST, green wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote at 2011-10-27 12:16 -0500:
> > I have two servers A and B, where both knows the IP address of itself
> > and the other. Assume A goes down (that is, A is not reachable via
> > ping), then B temporarily takes the IP address o
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:04:10AM BST, J. Bakshi wrote:
> How can I remove the wpa related entry from rc.local and add directly at
> /etc/interfaces ?
Please read /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz - you can find
all the answers there.
A couple of hints:
wpa-driver nl80211
wpa-conf
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:46:25AM BST, Brian wrote:
> As Raf Czlonka has already said, using /etc/network/interfaces and its
> integration with wpa_supplicant is the way to go. You do not even need a
> wpa_supplicant.conf file.
You don't, for simple setup that is indeed enoug
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 07:51:02AM BST, Johann Spies wrote:
> > I tried to check the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
> > But it's not there.
> >
> > Why is there no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, then what configuration file is
> > the X
> > using?
>
> I dont't know and would also like to know.
Since quite
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:45:38PM BST, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
> [...]
> configure wpa_supplicant as a next step. When I try to invoke it I get a
> message saying the ipw driver isn't supported, although the man page for
> wpa_supplicant states that ipw _is_ supported...(for now I am running
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:50:53PM BST, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:23:51PM BST, lina wrote:
> > a quick question, are there some tricks to go deep directories quickly,
> >
> > such as cd Atheone/
>
> As long as "theone"
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:23:51PM BST, lina wrote:
> a quick question, are there some tricks to go deep directories quickly,
>
> such as cd Atheone/
As long as "theone" is a unique name and you're using zsh:
% cd **/*/theone
will work.
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:49:52AM BST, Thorsten Sperber wrote:
> 100 1000 100 ext3 \
> $lvmok{ } \
> method{ format }\
> format{ } \
>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:07:32AM BST, Darac Marjal wrote:
> Given the usual naming conventions, I would expect it to be either
> debian-user-engl...@lists.debian.org or debian-engl...@lists.debian.org
> (I'm not sure why there is debian-user-$LANG and debian-$LANG, but it
> may just be that, for
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 01:52:14PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I don't understand why a few people have passed over ssh as being
> overkill.
SSH (Secure Shell) - you don't need security on home-only network.
> Its easiest of all to setup. (well excepting the nautilus suggestion)
IMHO, it's not -
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:25:16AM BST, yudi v wrote:
> I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have
> this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection.
> Internet connection works fine.
Let me recap:
Internet over mobile <---> Debian PC <-
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:28:07PM BST, Max Tsepkov wrote:
> Laptop display is not powered on after resume.
> All other systems is fine, I managed to blindly reboot the machine.
> Kernel log doesn't show anything obvious.
> I was wondering, how to debug such cases? Where to begin?
1. What's the gr
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29:14AM BST, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> >
> > dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing.
>
> Except for the fact that you can manage a dmraid array with mdadm
> (IIRC, you have to have "contai
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 07:39:16PM BST, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> a) user jane on one system transfers her public DSA key to account john
> at a given remote host. it works. jane accesses john's account without
> typing a password.
Since you got the answer to your problems, the only thing I can
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:37:23AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> Hi there,
> Sorry for the delayed reply. I am using grub on x86_64. And
> regenerate initramfs (default configuration) did not help.
> Only way to work I know is to change root bootflag to
> "/dev/mapper/vgroot-lvroot", uuid
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 06:31:16PM BST, Doug wrote:
> >|_|0|_| |
> >|_|_|0| "Heghlu'Meh QaQ jajVam" |
> >|0|0|0| kuLa - |
>
> What the heck is that, Klingon?
> What does it mean? --doug
http://en.wiki
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 09:29:35AM BST, Jesus arteche wrote:
> I want to create a script to change some words in some sonf files at the
> start up of the system...do you know the command in bash for search the word
> and replace it??
You don't need bash for it, sed's your friend, e.g.:
% sed -i
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 06:04:28AM BST, lina wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to download a software, which only provided the below options
> except Windows:
>
> 1] RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (64 bit)
> 2] RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit)
> 3] Suse Linux Enterprise 10/11 (64 bit).
>
> I am not sure whic
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:13:14PM BST, Léa Massiot wrote:
>iv) "pxelinux.0" is a binary file. I can't create it myself or edit it.
> I don't even know what it is.
> So now obviously my other machine doesn't PXE boot.
Others already answered your questions regarding your 64-bit
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:14:58PM BST, Bartek W. aka Mastier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got two drives in RAID1 matrix, each one got 2 partitions, first
> boot also in raid, containg grub and such
RAID or RAID array, not matrix.
> My question is, what if I connect the new drive and it will appear
> as
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:12:00PM BST, Camaleón wrote:
> > 1. does the HD need to be exactly the same as the one its being paired
> > with ?
>
> Not necessarily, but you will lose the remainder difference space between
> the smallest and the bigger of the disks. If you were referring to the
> b
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:18:54AM BST, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Thanks Raf!
No worries.
Just to recap, what was it in the end?
Was the account still in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow?
Were you logged on with the account name and used sudo to remove it by
any chance?
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On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 01:12:12PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I run then the commands:
>
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install $(dpkg -S LC_MESSAGES | cut\
> -d: -f1 | tr ', ' '\n' | sort -u)
>
> I get after that - without reboooting my system - Hungarian menus in
> Midnig
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:23:25AM BST, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
> The error was "cannot find root $UUID" specified in root bootflag.
> I thought something wrong so the uuid of the root was changed. So in
> busybox, I `ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid`, I got two items: dm-1(I am not
> quite sure now
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:17:14PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Thanks, Cameleón, I might take a look at LDA and/or NIS, although I
> have no experience with them. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to just
> change around the UIDs on some of the systems, which may well be the
> path of least resistan
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:03:21PM BST, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> > Do you know of a good reference that teaches people how to post I could
> > point to in my signature?
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMailingLists would be appropriate.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html is also a g
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:14:59PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Not too long ago, just wks, .inputrc worked on another system. That
> was also recent bash.
Is it by any chance related the recent ncurses library split[0] to which
libreadline links?
[0] http://enc.com.au/2011/09/ncurses-library-sp
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 07:04:14AM BST, Zachary Uram wrote:
> so i deleted a user account using "deluser foo" and then i had to "\rm
> -r /home/foo" but my tiger auditing report is telling me:
You could have combined it into a single command:
% deluser --remove-home foo
or
% deluser --remove-al
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:24:46PM BST, Glenn English wrote:
> I don't do php on my web server because I was told of huge security problems
> in it -- and until I turned off the php interpreter in Apache, I got many
> break in attempts involving phpAdmin and such.
>
> Do any of you know of a sim
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:02:11PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I went ahead and compiled it myself and installed in /usr/local
>
> Is there anyway to do that and still allow pkgmanager to keep track of
> the install?
Apart from rebuilding the package from source packages,
would 'checkinstall' fulf
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 09:49:05AM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> I tried to run mc, ekiga, bluefish:
> $ LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 mc
> $ LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 ekiga
> $ LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8 bluefish
>
> Neither mc and ekiga nor bluefish gives to me Hungarian menus. :(
In that case are the actual locale generated at
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:49:24PM BST, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I read a text about bash that mentions a difference between "login
> shell" and "interactive shell".
>
> I'm affraid I don not know the difference. Can anyone enlighten me ?
Login shell is the shell executed at l
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:43:44AM BST, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you switch window/session managers with gdm3?
> You get lots of hits with googling 'switching window manager' but it
> is all outdated.
Non-DM specific
% update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:50:16PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm still managing to confuse myself.
>
> When I look at some of the drivers that nearly positive I do not need
> with `aptitude why' It appears to be saying they are needed:
>
>aptitude why xserver-xorg-video-mach64
> i task
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:30:08PM BST, Celejar wrote:
> At the bash prompt (user@new-host). For a while I thought there was
> something messed up in my bash profile, until I finally realised that
> typing 'hostname' was yielding the wrong result ...
OK, since it's not the 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 03:45:19PM BST, Harry Putnam wrote:
> And how can I know at a glance which xserver[s] are in use? It appears
> the original installation routine has installed a heard of them. 37 in
> fact.
These are not different xservers - they're xserver-related (the main X.org one)
pa
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:02:34PM BST, Victor Nitu wrote:
> You have replied to the wrong thread, please re-send this message
> where it belongs.
> Thanks.
I had indeed - all done, resent.
Ta,
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in
> /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6
> client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only
> static for
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 02:37:40PM BST, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if you have any expirence how to set up a interface in
> /etc/network/interfaces to pick up IPv6 address using wide dhcpv6
> client. It seems that I can have static and DHCP for IPv4, but only
> static for
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:22:38AM BST, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> So could I just unload the module to save power?
Yes, unloading modules for devices which you don't want to use will
reduce power consumption, e.g. bluetooth, wifi or even usb.
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 08:23:57AM BST, karunakar medamoni wrote:
> Hello.
>
> This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package
> into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the
> error when i install that package. it saying this package needs
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:39:26PM BST, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> 8.10.2011 4:09, Mark Panen kirjoitti:
> > Which command do i run to find out on which date i installed my Debian OS?
>
> uptime
Have you read the question?
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On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:59:33PM BST, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-10-09 13:47 +0200, Matt Harrison wrote:
> > Are you running apt-get as root? I don't have my box right in front
> > of me, but the errors you describe sound like you are trying to run
> > apt as your user account.
>
> No, in th
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:13:42PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Raf Czlonka writes:
> > What's the content of /etc/default/locale and what does "locale" say?
>
> The content of /etc/default/locale is:
> LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
Last but not least, try running:
% LANG=hu_
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 11:45:02PM BST, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> Searching Google and this list archives haven't come up with anything on
> this.
> Running apt-get upgrade, base-files and a number of other packages are being
> held back. Doing a dist-upgrade or manually upgrading base-files giv
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 01:44:57AM BST, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently purchased a Dell vostro 3350 laptop, and to save battery,
> I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old
> laptop I could use the rfkill package like so:
> rfkill block wifi
What does "rfk
I'd check more dmesg messages, not just the last 10 lines.
I'd also have a look in syslog as suggested when mount fails.
Apart from the obvious - a possible hardware fault - I'd check if this
bug report[0] applies to you.
[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583949
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On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:30:33PM BST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> ${WEBDRUID_BIN} -Q -n "${HOSTNAME}" -o "${REPORT_ROOT}${NAME}"
> "${LOG_DIR}/${NAME}/access.log.1"
Initially I thought that your mailer broke the line but after installing
webdruid I noticed that you simply copied it from an examp
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 04:58:54PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote:
> >> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error
> >>
> >> debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
> >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 09:12:28PM BST, Steven Sciame wrote:
> I tried to manually mount the volume and got the same error
>
> debtop:/# mount -r /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:46:30PM BST, Peter Brüel wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I have a box that dual boots Debian Squeeze and Wheezy. In Wheezy I have
> found that the console font in X (I use Xfce as DE) is about 17% wider
> compared to Squeeze. (The height is the same.)
>
> I have made a screenshot
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