Re: Query

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:25, dhiraj kiran wrote: > Hello, > I have a query pertaining to Debian Linux > installation. > For the complete installation of Debian Linux(on line > installation), is it a must that I have a LAN internet > connection? The installation manual clearly indicates > that the ess

Re: Rationale

on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:01:35PM +0100, John Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > > checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a > usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). > > What is the rationale behind the PATH environment variable? > Running wood

Re: Can't play audio CDs

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Re: bind and dynamic ip

Lucas Bergman írta: LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have registered a domain name to that server, and I want to use a hostname for my dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it would be like, connecting to the remote dns server, and then update t

Re: bind and dynamic ip

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:06, LeVA wrote: > Lucas Bergman Ãrta: > > LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have registered > >>a domain name to that server, and I want to use a hostname for my > >>dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it wo

Re: Nvidia

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 01:10:13 +0100 Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 18:06, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > ##~'##'@'### > > // > > . > > . > > Well said, sir. Thank you. I wasn't sure to start with, but felt it summed up the situation at the time more than words e

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

Karsten M. Self wrote: > Your kernel, in general, isn't upgraded unless you specifically request > it, though stock kernels updated for security reasons may be > updated (or recommended). I'm still a little foggy on this, corrections > welcomed. The installer bootstraps the system with a bootstra

Re: Xterm only -- umlauts, accents in (x)emacs

Matt Price wrote: > just a note -- accents & umlauts display just fine, and typingthem > also seems to work fine when xemacs is run without the -nw switch -- > that is, when it opens up its own x-based 'frame' or window. I can > also type them from the console. But in an xterm, emacs seems to > i

Any news from the server side?

Dear all, without the intention to start a huge thread of emails: does anybody know what the status of the servers is? On , I have not found any further news. TIA! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Wanna know anything about raw | | IP? -> <

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

Walter Dnes wrote: > I have a DVD (hdc) and a CDRW (hdd) on a machine. The only defined > mount is /cdrom, which is actually the DVD. In Redhat, I simply added > append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" to lilo.conf, ran lilo and re-boot > and both of them worked as did cdrecord. This does not work

radeon and X: was X won't start

After asking about why my X won't start I got a couple of responses indicating that it is probably the video driver. Appearantly: 1)the vesa driver doesn't work well 2)the ones from ATI A)are crap B) intended for Mandrake c) available as binaries only 3)a dedicated debian one isn't

Re: Re: Re: ebay slow

I have the same problem I have brodband and dont know how to fix the problem .I try everything

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:31:52 -0800 (PST) "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2)the ones from ATI > A)are crap > B) intended for Mandrake > c) available as binaries only > 3)a dedicated debian one isn't available yet. Can it be used via alien? - Richard -- Richard Kimber ht

Re: SA, Debian Woody, Exim3, help

Yes: more /etc/default/spamassassin # /etc/default/spamd.conf # Duncan Findlay # November 2001 # WARNING read README.spamd before using. THERE ARE SECURITY RISKS! # Change to one to enable spamd ENABLED=1 # Options # See man spamd for possible options. The -d option is automatically added. OPT

RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

Request For Comment on: Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, and deactivating debian-user. Summary: 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptimally served with the existence of the current debian-user list. 2)

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:19:46AM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:31:52 -0800 (PST) > "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2)the ones from ATI > > A)are crap > > B) intended for Mandrake > > c) available as binaries only > > 3)a dedicated debian one

Troubles with creating fd0 bootdisk

I want to create single bootdisk minidistribution on my fd0 but I have some problems. Probably I don`t understand some things in how-to, because however hard I tried (lilo,syslinux,dd) the boot proces halted after message: Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kernel. and with blinking leds c

Re: zsh completion for CVS

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:18:31PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2003-11-27 10:04:43 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> Yes, I know. I still remember the good old days when I had a working CVS >> completion in zsh. I am trying to add not-previously-added C-files :( > >I have no problem here, with

Re: bind and dynamic ip

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:20:53 -0600 Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 02:06, LeVA wrote: > > Lucas Bergman írta: > > > LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > >>I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have > > >registered>a domain name to tha

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

On 01 Dec 2003 02:12:01 +0100 Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But then the disappointment: > > > > $ modprobe amd74xx > > > > $ hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > > using_dma= 0 (off) >

Re: creating password for a shadow file

Hi Daniel, Here in my company I have proftp with other password file (/etc/passwd.ftp). This file content: user::IDU:IDG:: I did a script to add users in this file with htpasswd, but you can use makepasswd. My script add the user in passwd.ftp, create the home and set the correct permissions (IDU:

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

Hi there, --On Monday, December 1, 2003 2:28 -0800 Hereon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 3) The Debian community would be much better served a) by the creation now of two new mailing lists, called: 1) debian-user-woody, or possibly debian-user-stable, or possibly debian-user-3

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800 "Hereon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. I can see what motivates the proposal, and I can see th

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800 "Hereon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. > And the people running mixed systems? I'm running sta

Quake 3 Arena is buggy

Hello! I've recently installed Xfree86 4.3 running on Debian Woody. And the graphics is very very buggy right now, is there anyway I can fix this or do I haveto downgrade to Xfree86 4.1? Quake3 worked without problems with Xfree86 4.1. (I've downloaded Xfree86 directly from Xfree86:s homepage) M

Re: APT::Default-Release doesn't seem to affect upgrades

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:59:44 -0700 Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:25:06AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > ... > > APT::Default-Release "testing"; > > in apt.conf. I do not have an apt/preferences file. > > > > When I tried apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade) it wanted to upgrade

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

I disagree with this request. See below for my reasons. Hereon wrote: Request For Comment on: Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, and deactivating debian-user. Summary: 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptima

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800, "Hereon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. > > Summary: > > 1)

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:30:25PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > Galeons. Galeon refuses to execute, claiming that it can't find a gconf > schema. I followed the instructions in the Galeon FAQ, but there are no > gconfd processes running, nor any lockfiles to delete. It seems that > the gconf2

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

- Original Message - From: "csj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 18:25 Subject: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications) > On 1. December 2003 at 7:51AM +0800, > "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

"Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi list! > > I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with > mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed > (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. > However... > After the installation

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:21:25AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "csj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 18:25 > Subject: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project > Emergency Communications

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:52AM -0800, Hereon wrote: > 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptimally served >with the existence of the current debian-user list. Howso? If you're going to make those claims, back it up. > 2) The de

Re: problems installing java

> > Strange that it works, actually, because it *is* a bug. Firebird > > simply crashes; others have had the same problem. I believe they've > > worked out a fix for it, but ... > > > > So, wonder how come it works for you? > > ... or why it doesn't work for me... Firebird needs jre1.4.2 or later.

Re: Troubles with creating fd0 bootdisk

Joxny wrote: > I want to create single bootdisk minidistribution on my fd0 but I have > some problems. > Probably I don`t understand some things in how-to, because however hard > I tried (lilo,syslinux,dd) the boot proces halted after message: > > Uncompresing linux...ok, booting the kerne

Re: I have xp 2000-and aol as my carrier-

Replying to the message sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:40:24 EST, received at 15:23:19 on 01/12/2003. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My cd movies I can't hear,my you've got mail,no longer >works-goodbye-when logging off--What is the problem? What? I think you h

Re: Install problems on Asus A7V333

On Sunday 30 November 2003 2:01 pm, Chris Gumm wrote: > I'm trying to get debian installed on an asus A7V333 and I am > running in to a problem. Now, I didn't think debian supported the > RAID controler so I disabled it with a jumper setting. Now when it > gets to the partition hd, I have 3 choices

..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

Hi, ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined about read errors down the /usr/XFree86 tree, so I moved my tree to another disk, and figured apt-get --reinstall or some such should fix it for me. ..the "some such" is the problem; how do I get "apt-get --re-install" to overwrite

Re: nvidia vs ati

Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:15, Frank Thomas wrote: Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am planning on getting a new video card. I have a nvidia geforce2 right now and it works great under linux. I have not had any problems. I have noticed that some of the Ati cards seem to have a bit

Re: problems installing java

Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 15:03, tripolar wrote: it didnt work. mom just tried to access her pogo games , yeah she is addicted ;-) and got java not working error. I was trying to get it worked out for her before I went out of state :-( no such luck. will have to try again when I

Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

Patrick Beard wrote: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list! I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line. However... After the insta

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

On 30. November 2003 at 8:15PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1 ] > on Mon, 01 Dec 2003 08:50:10AM +0800, csj insinuated: > > On 30. November 2003 at 4:03PM -0800, > > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: >

Re: Modem detection and installation problems

On 1. December 2003 at 5:22AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:15:16 -0800, > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:17:41PM -0500, Eric Dickner wrote: > > > I have a BCM V.90 56K Modem (PC

Re: Getting CDRW to work in Debian

On 30. November 2003 at 9:39PM -0500, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > > > Create a file in /etc/modutils containing the following: > > > > options ide-cd ignore=\"hdc hdd\" > > alias scd0 sr_mod > > alias scd1 sr_mod > > pre-

unscribe tj@tower.com

Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.J. -Original Message- From: Gilberto Villani Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: creating password for a shadow file Hi Daniel, Here in my company I have proft

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Monday 01 December 2003 04:28, Hereon wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. I say leave well enough alone. I like being able to get all my answers in one

Re: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

- Original Message - From: "Hereon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 04:28 Subject: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-use

Re: SA, Debian Woody, Exim3, help

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 10:22 GMT, Scott Ehrlich penned: > Yes: > > more /etc/default/spamassassin # /etc/default/spamd.conf # Duncan > Findlay # November 2001 > > # WARNING read README.spamd before using. THERE ARE SECURITY RISKS! > > # Change to one to enable spamd ENABLED=1 > > # Options # S

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start

Mark Healey wrote: After asking about why my X won't start I got a couple of responses indicating that it is probably the video driver. Appearantly: 1)the vesa driver doesn't work well 2)the ones from ATI A)are crap B) intended for Mandrake c) available as binaries only 3)a dedicate

unsubscribe tjreed@towerrecords.com

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Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

Hereon wrote: Debian stable releases have been approximately 1-2 years apart. During this period of time, many Debian users make active use of the testing/unstable system. Currently, user questions about testing/unstable are likely to be asked in the debian-user list. But, that is definitely not t

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:35:02AM -0600, Stewart Jenkins wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2003 04:28, Hereon wrote: > > Request For Comment on: > > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > > and deactivating debian-user. > >

Re: Can't play audio CDs

scripsit Michael D. Crawford: > I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for > PowerPC, but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port. You might try debian-user-powerpc. IIRC there is something strange about some Mac architectures -- no connection between the CD-ROM

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Re: lp print queue unclearable

scripsit Nori Heikkinen: > i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine. but > now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious print queue > appears to be full. i /etc/init.d restart lpd several times, making > sure there are no zombies; i lprm *; yet whenever i turn

[OT] Posting unnecessary quotes! (was: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy)

First off, sorry for top-posting. Look at the e-mail below. Is it necessary to include 85 lines of quotes just to say one sentence? This happens all too often in my opinion. Olle On Monday 01 December 2003 15.41, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:21:25AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800, Hereon wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user. > > Summary: > > 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptimally

Re: tar question

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:04:37 -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote: > I'm trying to create a compressed backup of my home directory in the > following location: > > /mnt/back > > When I try it uncompressed with > > tar cvf /mnt/back/20031130 ~ > > it succeeds. > > But when I try to do it co

Re: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Serge Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > try compiling into the kernel (not module) and check the logs. I > remember having similar cases, can't remember how I > solved them :/ Thanks. Compiling the chipset support into the kernel solved the problem. That would qualify as a kernel bug, wouldn

Re: Now We Are Rollin'

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:18:38 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > Heh. The only time I ever screwed up a UNIX box (and I've been using > UNIX for a _LONG_ time), it was actually because of Linux. > Me too. Where the heck's /etc/bin gone? :) > > Of course, to write the image to the floppy from a Sun

Re: [OT] Posting unnecessary quotes! (was: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy)

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:18:19PM +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > First off, sorry for top-posting. > > Look at the e-mail below. Is it necessary to include 85 lines of quotes > just to say one sentence? This happens all too often in my opinion. > [snip] Like you just did? Yeah, my bad, I notic

Re: bind and dynamic ip

> > > I have a dynamic ip, and a server which runs bind. I have > > > registered a domain name to that server, and I want to use a > > > hostname for my dynamic ip. Can I do this? I thought it would be > > > like, connecting to the remote dns server, and then update the > > > zone file, and then re

usenet gateways (was Re: tar question)

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:10:17PM -0800, Ralph Alvy wrote: > After I noticed that, I deleted my message from the > server to not waste anyone's time. Apparently it stayed on long enough for > your patient answer. Thanks. Interesting, you are using the GMANE gateway... of course since this is a

unable to generate core file

whenever a program crashes with a segmentation fault, the core file is not getting created on my system. i checked the "ulimit -c" and it says "unlimited". can anyone tell me what could cause the core files to not get generated ? i'm running knoppix 3.0 hard disk install, with 2.6.0-test9-mm4. let

dpkg database corrupted, with a twist

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Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 06:41:04 -0800, Tom wrote: > > I'll agree Fox is for the stupid, but it's better than 40 movies being > made about the president getting some poon on the side :-) > I have this persistent vision of a retired World Leaders' cocktail party, with a conversation whcih goes some

passwordless ssh-login

Hi everybody Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: I have my notebook, where my user account is called "jorg". On the university network, I have different user names on several Unix machines. I'

dpkg database corrupted, with a twist (correctly formatted)

Sorry for the junk characters in the previous message. This repost is easier to read. Hi. I'm running last week's sarge. I unfortunately had to reboot my box in the middle of an aptitude dist-upgrade. Now I am having getting errors installing and removing packages. From the error messages,

Re: allowing root to ftp to localhost

* Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031127 18:55]: > How do I allow root to ftp to localhost but not allow it to ftp in > remotly? Which FTP daemon are you using? You might find (depending on your daemon) that the easiest way of accomplishing this is to run two separate instances of the daemon ru

dhclient

I'm running a testing laptop and I'm trying to use dhclient (as I have in previous incarnations of this testing laptop). When I invoke dhclient, I receive a message saying: socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel configuration. So I lo

Re: unchecked 31 times

Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to > disable the periodic checks, though: > > tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6 That's a very bad idea. As the manpage says: You should strongly consider the consequences of disabling mou

Re: renaming file names beginning with -

Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The -- means something along the lines of "don't try to interpret > anything after this as an -option or --option". A much better method is to put "./" in front of the filename, like rm ./-help ./ will work with all programs. Only some programs interpre

Re: lp print queue unclearable

on Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:09:29AM -0700, Thanasis Kinias insinuated: > scripsit Nori Heikkinen: > > i haven't used my printer in a bit, but usually it's just fine. > > but now, trying to print a letter, i find that some mysterious > > print queue appears to be full. i /etc/init.d restart lpd several

Re: xterm title bars

* Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031128 14:06]: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:20:43PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > You can do it if you're willing to switch to zsh as your shell, though, > > > because it has PRECOMMAND (or whatever zsh calls it). > > > > > ee... I don't think Im ready for

Re: unable to generate core file

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 09:43:31 -0800 (PST), "Nagaraja S. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > whenever a program crashes with a segmentation fault, > the core file is not getting created on my system. > i checked the "ulimit -c" and it says "unlimited". > can anyone tell m

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: > Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to >> disable the periodic checks, though: >> >> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6 > > That's a very bad idea. As the manpage says: > >

Re: passwordless ssh-login

* Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 09:52]: > Hi everybody > > Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in > combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: Yes, the key setup is completely independent of the username. If it's not workin

Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody over the weekend. Part of the switch was changing from Galeon to Mozilla. Now, when I ctrl-click on a URL in Mutt I no longer get the URL opened in the (new) browser. How can I re-establish the linkage? TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Rationale

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:01:35PM +0100, John Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a > > usable answer (can't find any use of /etc/login.defs). > > > > What is the

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:17:42AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: > > Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to > >> disable the periodic checks, though: > >> > >> tun

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Hi, > > ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined about read > errors down the /usr/XFree86 tree, so I moved my tree to another disk, > and figured apt-get --reinstall or some such should fix it for me. > > ..the "some such" is

Re: Rationale

scripsit John Smith: > Two other os-es that I'm thoroughly familiar with, Netware > and Windows, insert for this exact reason the system paths before the > local paths. One good reason why that behaviour is evil is that I may want to install custom versions of utils without messing with /bin o

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:59:34PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined about read > > errors down the /usr/XFree86 tree, so I moved my tree to another disk, > > and figured apt-get -

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:44:38 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody over the weekend. > Part of the switch was changing from Galeon to > Mozilla. Now, when I ctrl-click on a URL in Mutt > I no longer get the URL opened in the (new) browser. > How can I re-establish the l

Re: Rationale

* Thanasis Kinias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 11:03]: > BTW, if someone has compromised your system to the extent of being able > to put a trojaned passwd in /usr/local/bin, he can put it in /usr/bin, > too. Not necessarily. In order to put something in /usr/local/[s]bin, I just need to get an ac

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

* Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 10:45]: > I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody over the weekend. > Part of the switch was changing from Galeon to > Mozilla. Now, when I ctrl-click on a URL in Mutt > I no longer get the URL opened in the (new) browser. > How can I re-establish the linkage

Re: Rationale

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:49, John Smith wrote: > thanks for your remarks, they answer most of my questions, > as did a thorough grep session on debian-policy, (thanks Paul). What > I'm bothered with is that convenience takes precedence over security > in this case. The example of an [evil/co

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: >> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to >>> disable the periodic checks, though: >>> >>> tune2fs -i 0 -

Re: problems installing java

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that didn't help. Firebird still crashed. I hope that it was just me being stupid, after I read your mail, but it still seems to be the case that it's a bug at work. They *have* identified some kind of bug that could have something to do with this, and fixed

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:59:34 -0500, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined about > > read errors down the /usr/XFree86 tree, so I moved my

Re: Rationale

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 19:49:16 +0100, John Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 08:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:01:35PM +0100, John Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> >checked google, asked this before on irc, didn't get a >> > usable answer (can

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:52:12PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:44:38 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I dist-upgraded to Sarge from Woody over the weekend. > > Part of the switch was changing from Galeon to > > Mozilla. Now, when I ctrl-click on a URL in Mutt > > I no longe

Re: unchecked 31 times

"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a > journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by > disabling boot-time fsck? It's a good thing to disable boot time fscks most of the time, because it speeds

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 18:53 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: > >>=20 Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a >>journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by >>disabling boot-time fsck? =20 > > I guess there's no free lunch. But is there some way to s

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:53:26 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I guess there's no free lunch. But is there some way to schedule fsck > at some regular time when you know you won't be needing the mounted > file system? e.g. at 3am local time, or maybe 3pm for night owls? cron --

Re: Rationale

scripsit Paul Morgan: > The key in any case is to protect your /usr/local... from anyone > except root writing to it, and also not to put current directory in > root's path. /usr/local... doesn't exist so non-admins can put > commands in there; they should be putting them in somewhere in their

Re: unchecked 31 times

"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: >> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy >>> to disable the periodic checks, though: >>> >>> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6

Re: Switch to Sarge lost browser link in Mutt

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:16:28AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Mutt knows nothing of "clicks". Tell us more about your desktop > environment. Gnome, I presume? What terminal are you using? > gnome-terminal, I presume? > I run Mutt in a Multi-Gnome-Terminal window. When I use the mouse to pa

Re: ..how do I tell apt-get | dpkg about bad files off a bad disk? Clue Whack, Please!

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:59:34 -0500, Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ..on remastering a wee knoppix derivative, the disk whined about > > read errors down the /usr/XFree86 tree, so I moved my

Re: unchecked 31 times

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 19:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: >>> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to >

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