On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ryans wrote:
> Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08:
>> drop database Live_database;
>>
>> Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P
>
> You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of "fortune bofh-excuses" and
> most users woul
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 03:15:13PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote:
>> Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst
>> administration mistake and how did you recover?
>
> My worst administration mistake w
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> jacques wrote:
>> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-(
>
> Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have!
Not me! Though I did chmod -R /usr once. I noticed it immediately
and cancelled. Most of the
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:35:43AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Try
> dpkg --purge exim
> instead.
Thanx.
That seems to have done the trick.
t-irvine
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:37:24AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> there are few things that reside on your system when you install
> something:
> a) the deb package (use rm to delete)
> b) the cache (where the package is unpacked)
> c) the binary files (use apt-get remove pkgname)
> d) the config file
Hei
I didn't read all of your email but will recommend the following link anyway.
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1
Just in case I pasted the link incorrectly go to www.linuxorbit.com, click on HOWTOs,
go to the bottom
Osamu Aoki kirjoitti 23.11.2002 kello 08:37:
> > Where is the best place to find information on installing X under
> > debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig to get X working under
> > debian. Just thought I'd try and prepare myself b4 I begin.
>
> "Debian Reference"
> http://www.debian.or
I have a base system installed.
Now I would like to install X.
Where is the best place to find information on
installing
X under debian. A friend of mine says that it's a pig
to
get X working under debian. Just thought I'd try and
prepare myself b4 I begin.
tia.
iruum
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Rogier Wolff kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 09:43:
> It looks as if you crashed your system badly by playing with hdparm.
You got that right!
> That usually doesn't happen.
Hope your right. Next time (if I'm brave enough to try again) I'll follow the
instructions given in the articles that I was
Gary Turner kirjoitti 19.11.2002 kello 03:44:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:14:53 +0200, Ulla Russell wrote:
>
>
> >
> >When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops
> >with the message:
> >
> > "kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel"
> >
> >I rebooted and
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 08:24:01PM +0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> is it possible to put Debian on a 386 or 486?
> where to found information on this?
I suppose the answer is yes it is possible.
You should really say what type of processor the 386 (SX or DX) is
and how much memory both
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:59:40PM -0400, lameth wrote:
> Does anyone have a link for a How-to on permissions. I understand the
> need for them and the idea behind them but what I want is a "Everything
> you wanted to know about permissions but were afraid to ask" type
> document. Coming from w
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 03:39:47PM +0200, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> The second part is from my theme.cfg. You should look for your own
> (probably /usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm/theme.cfg), look for the part
> which I described in my fragment and insert the line starting with
> 'term_name
Hello
Having problems compiling pine. I am a mutt user myself but
I installed debian woody on a friends computer and he insists that
he wants to use pine.
I decided to practise on my home machine first and did the
following.
1. Create a directory /usr/src/pine
2. Changed to that directory
3.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 02:09:39PM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> | Hello All
> |
> | At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there
> | are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does
> | anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does
> | one have to compile pine.
>
Hello All
At http://www.braincells.com/open/ I notice that there
are binaries for sid and potato but not for woody. Does
anyone know where I could get binaries for woody or does
one have to compile pine.
t.irvine
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Thankyou to all who responded.
Seems to be no consensus - which ain't a bad thing
BTW. I suppose that all that remains for me to do
is to fire up apt-get and start trying out the
newsreaders.
Thanks again.
t.irvine
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Hei
I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows.
I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice
some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux.
I here that gnus is very powerful but I am a vi man - I suppose
I could learn emacs.
Saw s
Hello Again
thanks again for all the suggestions.
I haven't quite found out what the processes generating those lines
in netstat were but I have I think got closer to an answer.
I looked in the netstat manpage and it mentionned the file
/proc/net/raw.
I looked at this file and found the fo
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:04:39PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> This means that you have a process that's listening for anything
> for that protocol. Usually this is a firewall with rules
> specific to icmp and tcp in this case.
I had read something similar to that before.
My problem is finding whic
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 07:10:15PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:
> > Do an "lsof | grep raw" and post what you find.
>
> Have you tried netstat -ap ? It'll show you process id and program name
> of the corresponding process. You may need to be root to see all of
> them.
Actually I have (sorr
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:25:34PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation:
> >
> > raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7
> >
> > raw0 0 *:tcp *:* 7
> >
>
> Do an "l
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:18:43AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'd probably do it the hard way. Start in single mode, and manually bring
> up services one-by-one and see when they show up.
Thanks for the idea.
I was searching the web and found the following:
*re: raw socket *:6
*
*David
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:53:51PM -0700, craigw wrote:
> maybe the xserver?
> try:
> ps aux | grep tcp
> ps aux | grep icmp
Thanks for the reply.
I tried that but it didn't help.
t.irvine
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Ale
Hello All
I ran $netstat -a on one of my machines and got the following
*** output of netstat -a *
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp0
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:25:40PM -0500, debianlist wrote:
> I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very slow..at
> least much slower than other linux distr...how can i improve the speed based
> on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware problem)
> i have a 2.2r4 boot flop
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:26:41PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> > 1) what is the minimal package install to send emails from the shell ??
> > (mailx, zmailer-ssl ?) imperative is : SMTP daemon on port 25 must NOT be
> > running.
>
> install mailx + exim, then comment out the smtp line in /etc
Hello all,
I am a little confused about subnetting. I read an article
in the linux journal. I later bought a book and it seems to
give quite a different picture of subnets.
First a quote from the book:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed
snip-
When subnetting, it's important to note that th
Hello all
I have 2 questions that relate to tcp
wrappers.
1) How exactly are the files hosts.allow
and hosts.deny read.
>From what I have read, it works as follows:
hosts.allow is read first.
The first rule that applies to the host
trying to make a connection is applied.
If no rule
Quoting Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I need to be able to capture the start up messages issued when my woody
> system boots.
>
> dmesg only gives me up to the point control is transfered from the
> kernel,
> and I'm seeing erros after that, that flash by to quickly to read.
I am not sure
Hello all
Can someone give me someadvice on how I
would use dd to copy the contents of one
harddisk to another hardisk on the same
machine.
I want really to copy my linux stuff to a
new harddisk and get rid of the old hd.
T:Irvine
Hello all.
I wanted to use a small script that I found on the
internet, and it says that I would need to have
the following modules inorder for it to run:
Net::Telnet;
Mail::Sendmail;
Getopt::Std;
Text::CSV_XS;
1) How would I check whether I have these modules or
not,
and
2) what packa
Thanks to nate and jerome.
I followed your suggestions and have
another problem.
When I:
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386
I get the following (I haven't include
the whole text)
Sorry but the following packages have unmet
dependencies:
kernel-image-2.4.9-386: Depends : init
Hello all
I recently installed debian potato 2.2
and quickly discovered that I would need
to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could
get the computers network card working.
I read through the mailing list archives
and decided to do the following.
1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
As pointed out by others inorder to mount a Dos partition you
need to use the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /MY_MOUNT_POINT
Where 'MY_MOUNT_POINT' is the directory on which you want to mount
the partition. Of course, if the partition is really just a Dos
partition you ca
>Mine is this:
>
>smtpstream tcp nowait mail/usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
Thanks alot Michael. I actually inserted that
line myself - hence the mistake :-).
Your suggestion was spot on.
Thanks a million.
T:Irvine
Thanks I found the info I needed in
the man page.
T:Irvine
At 14:40 9.1.2001 -0800, you wrote:
>on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:45:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>>
>>
>> I was recently using a computer (not my home computer) from which I have
access
>> to a linux account
Hi all
I was reading that there is a netscape
version 6 available for Linux. Has anyone
tried it out? Can anyone foresee any
problems in me downloading it and installing
on my computer.
I'm using debian 2.2.
T:Irvine
Sorry for getting back in touch so late and, of course,
thank you for replying to my mail.
>Is IceWM actually running ??
Yes it is.
The problem is this. The very first time that I started X,
it started with icewm as this was the only window manager
that I had installed.
The default
Hello all.
I recently installed X window and decided that I
would use icewm as the window manager.
My problem is that when I change the theme from
the default to something else I am no longer able to
get a cursor in the xterm window - that is I am no
longer able to type anything there.
I
Just a final note on the problem that I was having.
I tried recompiling the kernel yet another time and
finally it worked. I suppose the problem with the
memory still persists, but it didn't rear it's head
on this occasion.
Strange!!! Or maybe not.
Anyway, thanks again.
T:Irvine
>to test copy the /boot/config-2.2.17 file to
>/usr/src/linux/.config (or wherever you put the kernel
>source) and run
>
>make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage
I tried a slight variation on this idea. I ran menuconfig
again, made a few changes and saved the configuration file
before it had ti
Hello!!!
I recently bought and installed Debian 2.2r0.
I installed it and decided to compile a new
kernel.
PROBLEM:
I used 'menuconfig' but after a while
it exits suddenly. The message
'make: *** [menuconfig] Segmentation fault'
is appears and the command prompt returns.
I was trying to
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