Archive of past Debian packages

I once remember hearing about an (unofficial) archive of past Debian packages that have moved their way out of testing and unstable, so that people can work their way around bugs by downgrading to earlier versions. Does it exist, or was I dreaming? Please CC me on replies. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: odd gpm behavior

John Foster writes: > I have a similar (actually the reverse) problem since I recentely > upgraded to the 2.2.17 kernel. Now the mouse runs only in cut & paste > mode, not as a pointer. Any ideas where to start. I tried the -R options > and that did not work. PS2 mouse on plain potato. Not a ne

Gnome takes a while to start up

I log in to Gnome from xdm. Most of the time, after giving me an xterm, it pauses for a few seconds before starting Gnome proper (i.e. giving me the panel, background and icons). I know this is something to do with esd because when it pauses `Unable to bind port 16001' appears in ~/.xsession-erro

Office software - and printers

I'd like to introduce some of my friends to Debian. However, they expect an OS to be simple to set up and use, and to look very nice. I am quite happy to set it up for them, I'm sure that they will have no problems getting used to the Gnome desktop environment. However, there are two things that

Re: GNU Emacs - smaller font

Hedi Berriche writes: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Huckstep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> How do I make my font size smaller in GNU Emacs? > > (set-default-font "lucidasanstypewriter-14") Excellent, thanks! That works fine in GNU

Removing print spooler

I don't have a printer attached to my (standalone) potato machine. Is it a good idea, and safe, to remove the lpr package, given that its priority is standard? Is it easy to add lpr again if I do get a printer in the future? Are there any other printing packages that I might need to remove? Tom

GNU Emacs - smaller font

I would like a slightly smaller font for use in GNU Emacs. I currently have (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:family "Courier" :size "10pt"))) t)) In my .emacs file, which I imaging was put there when Emacs was configured, because I didn't put it there. It may have been made by XEmacs, because

SSH

Adam Langley writes: > sshd isn't started by default. run `/etc/init.d/ssh start` (as root) to start > sshd. Link it into /etc/rcx.d as normal to start the service at boot time. /etc/init.d/ssh is linked to in /etc/rc?.d on my system. It contains a line though which checks for a file named /etc

Getting ssh to work

What do I need to do to ssh to get it to work. After installing it I tried: 11:25 ~$ ssh localhost Secure connection to henry refused. `henry' is the name of my system. Do I need to edit some configuration files? Tom

debian 2.2 CRASHES often & easily

Folken Lacour writes: > I'm a Linux newbie, but I know this should not be > happening. I can't get an uptime > 36 hours -- Linux > just freezes in X. Occassionally, I'm able to switch > over to another VC, where I see > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ... I had exactly this problem wh

Group `disk'

--- Begin Message --- Ekkehard Kraemer writes: > Yup, you can write on /dev/hda, format it, whatever you like, if you're > in "disk". This seems a big security risk just so I can play audio CDs. Is there a better way to give a user the ability to play CDs without giving them permissions to wipe

The apt sources.list

I have the full set of 6 potato r0 CDs and my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this: deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official Source-3 (2814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official Source-2 (281

Group `disk'

I added myself to the `disk' group because I wanted to be able to play audio CDs. However, I noticed that this gives me write access to all my hard disk device files. Does this mean I will be able to format them with fdisk and write arbitary data to them by doing e.g. cat > /dev/hda? That would