Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-03 Thread Alexander Fitterling
No it does not, so I complain about Debian. I am sorry. Debian is my only loved one :) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Alex Fitterling wrote: ... I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it you want cron. it runs number of tasks that are crucial for desktop sys

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Alexander Fitterling wrote: Everyone :) I am using Debian testing/unstable. I wished to get rid of klogd,sysklogd, cron/anacron - I did so. ... /var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if considering to ru

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:03:44 -0700, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote: > > Everyone :) > If you answer, "I don't know. I turned all that off." , you will > likely not get much useful hel

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-01 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 07:18:44 +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote: [snip] >> music, tex. that's it! So CAN i use it without logs?? why gentoo users can >> do and not debian? the packages depencies are almost everytime connected >> with unnecessary server stuff as I don't want use. I like to use my debian

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-01 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi, I assume you desktop system is not powered on 24 h per day. So you possibly want to install anacron and logrotate. anacron will make sure that a daily job is run daily --- even if you power up only for an hour a day. logrotate will backup and compress your logfiles and remove the old ones

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Alex Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 07:18): >I like to use my debian system as one would use M$ windows (they >can!) exept the crashes or nowadays worms... Maybe that is the root of the problem: Debian is not Windows without blue screens, it is an entirely different operating system. Don't ac

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Alex Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 07:30): >Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 02:04 schrieb Thorsten Haude: >> My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > >except my english - what else would matter... I don't understand. >(couldn't you guys do any way better to commend

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Nano Nano wrote (2004-02-01 07:42): ># aptitude purge cron >Reading Package Lists... Done >Building Dependency Tree >Reading extended state information... Done >The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: > logcheck logrotate >The following packages will be REMOVED: > cron logche

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:30:43AM +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote: > I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do > I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do > not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it > alex # aptitude purge cron

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Alex Fitterling
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 02:04 schrieb Thorsten Haude: > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an except my english - what else would matter... :) (couldn't you guys do any way better to commend on several questions per one mail, rather than answering whole bunch o

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Alex Fitterling
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 07:18 schrieb Alex Fitterling: > Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2004 06:03 schrieb Paul E Condon: > > Computers do fail from time to time. When your computer fails, and you > > come to this list asking for help, there will likely be a question: > > What do you see in the log? >

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote: /var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if considering to run the system without logging capabilities? That sounds

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 01:44:36AM +0100, Alexander Fitterling wrote: > Everyone :) > > I am using Debian testing/unstable. I wished to get rid of > klogd,sysklogd, cron/anacron - I did so. > > Every damn service pointing to scheduled tasks got uninstalled, too > (slogrotate, and so on). My ques

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:32:54PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > > important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing > > what you might be up against

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Adam Aube
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:04 pm, Thorsten Haude wrote: > My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it at all. Logging ist an > important base functionality and shouldn't be given up without knowing > what you might be up against. Agreed. The best solution for the OP would be to just configure

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Alexander Fitterling wrote (2004-02-01 01:44): >/var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to >get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if >considering to run the system without logging capabilities? My advice: If you have to ask, don't try it a