Re: scripting

Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (th

Re: PATH question

not? 2. what is the order used in the path? Thanks Tony You can use 'which' to find out which ls is being called, but it goes by first come first serve: echo $PATH /home/jeffd/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch ~/bin/ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod 755 ~/bin

Re: Procmail recipe problems

Arlie Stephens wrote: Hi All, I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made some stupid error I just can't see. The goal - filter all mailing lists into their own mailboxes, particularly lists like this o

Re: Cannot ping localhost

Bruno Delalleau wrote: Hello debianers! For some reason I can no longer ping localhost: ping -c 3 localhost PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- localhost.localdomain ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2000ms I saw that wh

Re: ssh

Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi All: Is anyone aware of a friendly openssh (including server) that installs on Debian etch and allows interactive connections secured by pubkeys? I installed ssh and openssh-server from debian. OK using password, though I met problems in configuring for pubkeys (ssd_co

Re: Second time on hostname

Haines Brown wrote: I'm having some difficulties (From: line missing in header of outgoing newsgroup mesaages) and worry their cause might be due to what I put into /etc/hostname when I installed. I had done some reading, got inconsistent answers, and ended by using as hostname my FQDN, teufe

Re: Cellular Data Service

Nate Duehr wrote: Rhomboid wrote: Anyone have a working laptop/cellular phone (or cellular wifi card) combination running on Linux on a US provider (Cingular/Verizon EDGE network or similar)? Someone asked me recently if I'd done any work to figure out how to get special information out of

Re: routing

Khanh Cao Van wrote: cvkhanh:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination---Gateway---Genmask--Flags--Metric---RefUse--Iface 10.0.0.0---0.0.0.0255.255.255.0-U0-0---0-eth0 192.168.60.0-192.168.60.2--255.255.255.0---UG-

Re: Newbie: Setting up different Window Manager's

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've just installed linux on my machine for the first time, the sarge dist, and since i haven't any experience with the differents window managers i was thinking in installing a couple of them and play with them for a while until I decide. My problem is, how can I from th

modules fail after apt-get upgrade

Hi, I just rencently did an apt-get upgrade on one of my machines and afterwards none of my devices would work. All the modules appear to load, but I am unable to get any of them to work. I found this in the system log Aug 4 12:18:42 build kernel: 3c59x: no version for "struct_module" foun