Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
, but that's rarely the case where computer components are concerned. They're mechanical, like most things, so they're bound to wear out eventually -- especially if they get used all the time. It could be that you get unlucky with your particular drive. -- Thomas Adam

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
ith the command you've tried using, along with any output would be a start. Indeed, at this stage, I'd use dpkg: # dpkg -P --forget-old-unavail exim4 -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next cat

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > if [ ... ]; > then command; > else other_command; > fi I much prefer: [ ... ] && { foo } || { bar } -- Thomas Adam ___

Re: oom-killer

2005-11-27 Thread Thomas Adam
ns when a resource is out of control. The OOM-killer steps in to preserve the kernel, since without that, nothing runs. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just sav

Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

2005-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
eady a search feature to this list, although I suspect it might not be as comprehensive as to catalougue URLs. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins

Re: Synaptic Package Manager vs. RPM

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas Adam
kages you're going to need to install. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a .deb file of an RPM already in existance, for most packages. -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've

Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?

2005-10-05 Thread Thomas Adam
the exact refresh rate of ttys? > I want > to make sure it indeed worked. What makes you think the value you have is wrong in the first place? Indeed, why do you even _care_? -- Thomas Adam ___ Does your mail provide

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-23 Thread Thomas Adam
s. That's why the user has the freedom to use ~/.x{session,init} --- let the user do it for themselves. The easy work around, even without it is, is to get your teminal emualator to spawn a login-shell. -- Thomas Adam _

Re: Java installing

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
bject You probably need to set the "CLASSPATH" environment variable. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.ya

Re: Replies to echo difficult

2005-09-21 Thread Thomas Adam
of the time when I reply I want the list to see it. This list > causes me to have to paste in a CC: or another To: in order > to get the response onto the list. Search this list's archives, going back, say nine months or so. You'll find it was discussed in more d

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
Is it a security risk? No -- it's just a symlink to the actual device. It's fine, as long as the necessary and correct ("correct" in terms of the policy you're enforcing on your system) permissions are there on the device the symlink points to. >

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
quot; ... if these lines are stored in a file already, that you're wanting to append to some other file, then using cat is your best bet. I am not sure if this answers your question or not. I'm having trouble understanding it. -- Thomas Adam __

Re: [gnome art] I cannot identify a program

2005-09-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Andrea Ballatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want absolutely to install the application in top-left corner. Can > you > tell me which is it? gaim. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo!

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Adam
I suspect that it's more a routing issue on your part. Certainly the output from the commands I've requested will help. -- Thomas Adam ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new

Re: How to detect that runlevel switch is done

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > is there a standard way how to detect that switching the runlevel has > finished? Yes, see the "runlevel" command: man 8 runlevel It tells you the previous and current run

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Adam
ay all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > when i type y, bash lists the files using /bin/more. > > chase `which pager` says that /usr/bin/pager points to > /usr/bin/less. As root: update-alternatives --config pager -- Thomas Adam Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messen

Re: twitchy mouse

2005-08-04 Thread Thomas Adam
e using ext3, the journal is being saved. By default (unless you change it with 'tune2fs') the journal is committed every five seconds. The other, perhaps less obvious idea, is that you need to change your mouse settings v

Re: screen scrolling

2005-06-25 Thread Thomas Adam
ide some context with this? I assume based soley on the way the key-binding is written, that you're referring to some aspect of Emacs? -- Thomas Adam. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday

Re: gnome-control-center vs kde - side effects on font sizes

2005-06-19 Thread Thomas Adam
t's because the gnome application will start up 'gnome-settings-daemon' if it isn't started. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with

Re: Mouse config

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Adam
the only thing that did not work, the touchpad worked. You should ensure that for your configured mouse in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that you're using "/dev/input/mice" as the correct Mouse location. Also, assuming you have everything picked up by hotplug, you'll w

Re: Three short apt/dpkg questions

2005-06-16 Thread Thomas Adam
here a way to determine the name of the (non-installed) > package > which owns a particular (non-installed) filename? e.g., which package > > will install the file printf.1.gz? apt-get install apt-file && \ apt-fi

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Thomas Adam
;s by no means deprecated when you compare the weaknesses aptitude has over apt-get. But that has been discussed to death already. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC call

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
fast) internet connection, most just download one of the following (depending on your needs): http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current/ ... the "netinst" iso comes with base -- whereas the business card one does not. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weeke

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
graphically, I don't just mean a drop-down list, with a mass of text then appearing detailing the option. To depict anyone of those options would be quite a challenge. As a semi-example of a

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
one would hope the WM fell back to some internal defaults. -- Thomas Adam. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
- especially if they need to use or set it up quickly. So I thought the comments helped. Unweildly? Perhaps. > Sure are acting like it. Welcome to a text-based medium. Ambiguity, anyone? -- Thomas Adam.

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
king to. If you can't get to it, none of the options would work -- simple. That's not something neither you or a WM could do anything about. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal cle

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
s one of those things you'd realise, if you used the WM in question. Trying to explain it otherwise, is tricky. -- Thomas Adam ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! P

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
-- nano, jed, vim, emacs, etc. > configuration inside the application itself, readily accessible does > not > preclude text file configuration. If you think it does, go try > configuring I never said it did. -- Thomas Adam. _

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
vwm that you just couldn't represent graphically. fvwm has hundreds of style options, and many focus policy hints. You can't enumerate these easily in such a way that the user could understand or know what they mean. Fv

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
o use a text editor to change a menu entry -- I see it as just another means to achieve the same goal. Just because that means might not be how you wanted, that is not lacking; the functionality still exists. -- Thomas Adam __

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
click this button or that button, an action is performed. Whether that action is what you were expecting or not, depends. But like all good WMs, they can be changed -- as to how this happens, depends on the WM, and t

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
> D: in a manner which fits about 80% of my needs? Sure -- but it's still subjective. Which is not a bad thing, but it cannot be applied across the board. If that's what works for you, then that's nice. -- Thomas Adam.

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
XFCE. > Hrm, which WMs did I use in the past? FVWM2, WM, BB, a few > others that > were supposed to be the kitty's titties but I uninstalled in about 5m > flat > because they were completely lacking. IceWM was

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
#x27;s the exact, and proper definition. > > And yet it performs hardly any of the fuctions attributed to DEs > like > KDE/GNOME or Winders. It still provides inherent look and feel across those applications that XFCE supports. -- Thomas Adam

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
nt. > Configuring > that portion for most WMs is a PITA. The other portions they are Configuring that aspect is usually what makes the whole process fun, IMO. I am curious though which WMs you feel were "lacking" in that regard. I'd have s

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
t; Also calling XFCE a desktop environment is pushing it a little. No, it's the exact, and proper definition. -- Thomas Adam ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Pho

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
and good. When I used it, it seemed to crash a lot, and offered not a lot in terms of focus or placement policies in comparsion to other WMs (and some DEs). But I can see why people like it. -- Thomas Adam _

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
haps. But XFCE4's only good thing is that it has plenty of eye-candy. You can't do a thing with it other than that. -- Thomas Adam. "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
When was the last time you tried to load KDE or GNOME? They take an absolute age, pulling in I don't know what -- and whats more, the case of KDE that loads a lot of libs for applications, whether you use them or not. But then, this discussion doesn't change the difference betw

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Thomas Adam
, like there is with DEs. It certainly provides a great deal more flexibility. So in that way, WMs are much faster, and most WMs are damn good at managing the windows mapped to them. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Thomas Adam
hell-bent on running. But then they're DEs and not WMs. Perhaps the best place to look would be here: http://www.xwinman.org it has to be my most favourite website. -- Thomas Adam. ___ Yahoo! M

Re: Preventing apt from storing too much locally

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Adam
nces to pkgcache and srcpkgcache. You can turn these off if you wish, in favour of using apt-proxy, or apt-cacher or whatever. But I'd be more inclined to run: apt-get {auto,}clean every so often. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor&quo

Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-09 Thread Thomas Adam
emical formula and equilibria chemtool - Chemical structures drawing program xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems "chemtool" is

Re: Installing a program from source

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas Adam
://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/CompileFromSource -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -

Re: Can we define a Key Binding for mouse click in FVWM

2005-05-19 Thread Thomas Adam
; command in 'man fvwm'. -- Thomas Adam "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The e

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > several times Is it possible then that you're using some mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list that have fallen by the wayside? I'd certainly check that. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http:/

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem you referenced is stated as being closed on 12/29/2004. It's > > occurring *NOW*. Have you done: apt-get update since then? -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http:

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
nyway. It's only a question of time before he's left lying on his back, legs twitching in the air. Don't take it personally, but this is the second time within the last few days where we (as in the sense of debian-user) have had to play the BTS-frontend, for an otherwise simple operatio

Re: More woes from earlier upgrade

2005-01-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael Satterwhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/fr/man1/cups-config.1.gz', which is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287609 *sigh* -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linu

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed sylpheed-clasws using apt-get and want to remove it. > > # dpkg --purge sylpheed-claws You want: apt-get --purge remove sylpheed-claws -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread Thomas Adam
;t know what the BTS is [1]. The Bug Tracking System is useful when things like this happen. Look here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229540 -- Thomas Adam [1] Whether you knew it existed or not is irrelevant. If you did, then you'd surely have looked there. = "T

Re: User environment and gdm/xdm

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
iles: [ -f ~/.bash_profile ] && . ~/.bash_profile #Add any other programs you want to start here #in the form: # # program & # program2 & # Start the window manager exec /path/to/my/window/manager -- Then just: chmod 700 ~/.xsess

Re: Maple 9.5 interfaces on Debian box

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
ack to yourself. There's nothing near the correct amount of information needed to answer it. Specifically you need to say *what* issues you are having with the Motif interface. Knowing your WM (Window Manager) would help, too. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic"

Re: Some questions from new debian user

2005-01-04 Thread Thomas Adam
c, how I can set "cyriilic" alias to be "main"? The order that the fonts are searched in is dependant on the order that the font lines are listed in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- change them around. > - setserial sets my internal modem speed to 9600 on every reboot. >

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I change their permissions to root:cdrom and reboot, the permissions > again are set to root:disk. Remove 'discover'. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazett

Re: run levels 1 and S

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any differences between the run-levels 1 and S? I know > that S10single is not executed for S, but init spawns sulogin > directly. Any functional differences? Other than what you have said above, no. -- Thomas Adam =

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-12 Thread Thomas Adam
d have made do quite happily with XFree86. :P -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when y

Re: xserver

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
ur logs to the list, but providing a URL to them (at the worst case, a pastebin). -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish

Re: X.org <-----> Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Thomas Adam
assumes that highrt version numbers of programs must be good because they'll work "better". -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your s

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deinstall xdm, gdm and/or kdm, depending on which you've installed. echo false >> /etc/X11/default-display-manager Is probably "better". -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic"

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Thomas Adam
se, I use neither)? login into the (gasp!) console, and use 'startx'. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and pun

Re: automated script with login into x

2004-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
;kdm" have to be coerced into using it. See the following page for details: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/StartX -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net

Re: nohup command

2004-11-25 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Olive Esseret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes I knew this command but it does not works in all > case: try (in X) > nohup emacs& This works fine for me, and does what it is supposed to do. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http:/

Re: strange error message when trying to upgrade

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any idea how to correct this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281601 -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http:/

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Pascal Bonesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How about konqueror with the fish:// or nautilus with sftp:// protocoll? > > Or am I mistaken? Isn't that going through ssh and using scp? Sort of. Fish is a filesystem via ssh. Although for such things, I prefe

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > are there any SCP GUI clients for Sarge? xterm -e "scp ." :) gftp can be coaxed into using ssh2 as one of its supported protocols, so I would imagine that can do it, at least. -- Thomas Adam = &q

Re: Where can I find the program supervgatextmode

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Adam
bin/ClockProg /usr/sbin/STM_reset -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you ge

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 +0000 (GMT), Thomas Adam > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. > > If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cu

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Adam
ncurses interface, then you are probably using it wrong. :) I also find the fact that aptitude's difference on the CL to the ncurses interface to be worrying at best. I'm sticking with apt-get. At least until the bugs for aptitude are reduced... -- Thomas Adam = &q

Re: Please help: Sarge+KDE terribly slow!?

2004-11-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Mirek Stefanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But one day I decided to upgrade to Sarge - after one day battle it was > done. Now I have to wait about 10 minutes to start KDE desktop, and This is normal for KDE. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend

Re: Redirecting stdout and stderr into a file

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Blake Swadling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > grep 2>&1 logfile grep 'whatever' > ./file 2>&1 is what you meant. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linux

Re: how to debug a random freezing problem?

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
would have a look at your memory chips, identify them, google for the specs, and compare their heat tolerant levels against the temperature the CPU is at. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgaze

Re: XMMS: playing CDROM through software, no cable link

2004-11-09 Thread Thomas Adam
es anyone know how? xmms -> preferences -> Audio I/O Plugins -> CD Audio Player (doube click on that). Ensure the "digital audio extraction" box is pressed in. That's it. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Ed

Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Adam
ually change all the files to DOS format. There's many, many ways you can do this. I happen to use a nice program called "flip" (which is apt-gettable). You use it thus: flip -m *.txt Which will convert all .txt files to msdos CR/LFs. That way, when they're burnt to CD, it'

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- RituRaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any approx dates? When it's ready. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Tho

Re: Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Thomas Adam
you don't care for portability, the command above is the same as: thescript &> /dev/null ) HTH, -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins

Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

2004-11-06 Thread Thomas Adam
in a similar way to No can do -- the license of AAR is such that it cannot be shipped with Debian officially. You could use xpdf instead. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net &qu

Re: ignoring dependencies

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Adam
ckage you install will work. If it is the case that youhave versions of packages B and C that are already installed, you could use 'equivs', but I don't think it will help you here. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TA

Re: number of files in directory?

2004-11-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get a count of the number of files in a directory? > directory + subdirectoies? Crudely: ls -1 | wc -l (note the "-1" option to 'ls' is hyphen-one, NOT lower-case L, which is what the option to '

Re: bash_logout & xsession help needed

2004-11-02 Thread Thomas Adam
org/debian-user/2004/10/msg02163.html -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when y

Re: Getting rid of "rc" packages

2004-11-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:03:30PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote: > > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages

Re: Getting rid of "rc" packages

2004-11-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What's the best way to remove Remove Config-file packages? COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't work. Can you be any less specific? Please give details, about *what* didn't work, expected outcomes, any errors produced, etc. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http:/

Re: Save/restore ALSA mixer settings

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What two calls should I put in here to get the mixer setting saved and > restored? alsactl store alsactl restore -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: mounting a local directory over another directory

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > possible (I seem to recall seeing an option for this somewhere but not > sure about it and I can't find it). mount --bind -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG

Re: oddity with find -exec grep -i

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/find /usr/lib/ecartis/lists/ -name users -print \ > -exec grep --ignore-case "$1" {} \; | grep -B 1 "$1" Odd, it works fine for me. Are you sure there is no other factor? -- Thomas Adam

Re: xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't be the first person to want to do this, so how do I do this? apt-get install gvidm -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://l

Re: squid async-io with debian-unstable problem

2004-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
squid -D -sYC proxy 1318 0.5 23.3 18592 14532 ? SOct16 80:26 (squid) -D -sYC -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and

Re: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-25 Thread Thomas Adam
unconv(8) to 'decode' the file and pwconv(8) to recode it again. Be *very* careful that you don't clash any UIDs. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We&#

Re: CAnt'reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file"

2004-10-24 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Adam Felix Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hdb: irqtimeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} > ide0: reset: success > ... You could try passing the kernel parameter "nodma" at the grub/lilo prompt, although I'd be much more inclined to say

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Adam
nds you want to launch here #Now launch the window manager xfce-mcs-manager xfwm4 --daemon xftaskbar4 & xfdesktop & exec xfce4-panel == Save that as ~/.xsession. chmod 700 ~/.xsession -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic&qu

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm starting X through startx so again I'm missing the .xsession . I > know there is a sample somewhere but I can't find it. http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/StartX -- Thomas Adam = "The

Re: Sounds off in bash

2004-10-20 Thread Thomas Adam
X: xset b off For the console you can add that to ~/.bash_profile For X, add it to ~/.xsession -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Th

Re: Where are mistyped "name" logins stored?

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Adam
n't just delete it unnecessarily. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Adam
ti-user linux? What's that? If it is a kernel version, I certainly have never heard of it. Although one thing you could try is pressing ^L at the console. But again, I can't be any more specific. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net &q

Re: How to configure apt to retrieve Packages.bz2?

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Adam
Why is there no mention of bzip2 > support for {Packages,Sources} in any of the example configs, or package It also begs the question "who cares?" given that the size decrease would be negligable. [..snip egotistical bull..] -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechani

Re: connecting computers

2004-10-18 Thread Thomas Adam
urpose. Two tin-cans and a piece of string. Just make sure you shout loud enough; the commands into the can. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up you

Re: Serious problems after "apt-get dist-upgrade"

2004-10-11 Thread Thomas Adam
x27; | xargs apt-get --reinstall install -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get bette

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will I, or some kind of disconnnect at the ISP, ruin > the whole thing? Can I then issue the command again > and will it recognize the packcages it already got? If apt-get is interrupted, it'll continue from where it left off. Note that you might f

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