having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-14 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages download from the internet. After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded package files should be deleted. I answered no in the hope

Re: having 2 debian installations...

2001-11-15 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, thanks to all who responded. I successfully updated the other machine without downloading the .debs again... regards, chris

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 3/15/21 10:47 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 mar 21, 20:24:56, Sven Hartge wrote: (I still vividly remember using memmaker and manual ordering the drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat to shave another 2KB from the lower memory so the IPX driver would fit so Doom would run.) For me it

how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-03 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using gdm3. regards, chris

Re: how to prevent sleeping when sitting at the login screen?

2021-05-04 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/3/21 7:57 PM, Floris Renaud wrote: Christian Groessler schreef op 2021-05-03 19:19: Hi, where is the setting where one can disable sleeping when the computer is at the login prompt? I found the setting for my user, and for root, but not for "login screen". I'm using

Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

2021-07-14 Thread Christian Groessler
On 7/14/21 5:02 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange wrote: > here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure > you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether > they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtua

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Christian Groessler
On 8/6/21 2:01 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: find . -type d -exec chmod -v 0644 '{}' \; to change the folder find . -type f -exec chmod -v 0755 '{}' \; to change files Pah. Use 'xargs' :-) $ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644 $ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod

Re: Bash script problem

2021-08-05 Thread Christian Groessler
On 8/6/21 2:52 AM, David wrote: I was commenting on how I have always been puzzled why someone made the effort to give 'chmod' an '-R' option, but never made it actually useful for common cases. As it is, it seems that it's really only useful for modifying the write attribute. Hmm. "chmod -R go

11.2 sometimes wrong /etc/resolv.conf

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, when I boot my laptop with Debian 11.2 and LAN cable connected, I'm sometimes getting a wrong /etc/resolv.conf. The resolv.conf is not in fact wrong, but it's the one from the Wifi network. But when booting with network cable connected I want to have the resolv.conf of the cabled network

Re: Printing the old way

2022-06-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 6/14/22 23:11, Klaus Singvogel wrote: Additional you needed printer specific drivers, if you don't have a PostScript capable printer. You could use ghostscript as filter if you didn't have a PS capable printer. (Which was normal because they were expensive). regards, chris

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote: On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is there ever. Nice to write, but it's next to impossible to understand other people's code. Python, IMHO, seems to be creeping up to replace it. I'm typica

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-24 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/24/19 10:03 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 5/24/19 7:28 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: On 5/24/19 6:51 PM, john doe wrote: On 5/24/2019 6:14 PM, ghe wrote: Perl is happily off on it's own. "There's more than one way..." Boy is there ever. Nice to write, but it

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-03 Thread Christian Groessler
3000 Lire? Did you mean 3.000,000 Lire? regards, chris On 2020-07-03 19:17, Davide Lombardo wrote: Good evening Debian User, I have found an old PC with these specs: CPU: Pentium III 700 Mhz; DRAM: 64 MB SDDR GPU: RIVA TNT-2 HARDISK: 10 GB FLOPPY DISK DRIVE MODEM 56K In the receipt is written

what's the difference btw. libelf1 and libelfg0?

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Groessler
The subject says it all. $ apt-cache search libelf libelf-dev - libelf1 development libraries and header files libelf1 - library to read and write ELF files libelf-freebsd-1 - library to read and write ELF files libelf-freebsd-dev - Development files for libelf (FreeBSD version) libelfg0 - an ELF

Re: what's the difference btw. libelf1 and libelfg0?

2014-11-13 Thread Christian Groessler
On 11/13/14 02:09, Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Christian Groessler wrote: Ignoring the freebsd version, I'm wondering what's the difference between libelf1 and libelfg0. They seem to be built from the same sources, 'apt-get source' retrieves the same files. T

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-08 Thread Christian Groessler
On 12/08/14 09:44, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-08, Stefan Monnier wrote: Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or "7 months ago", and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay set to 172 days vs

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-08 Thread Christian Groessler
On 12/08/14 12:04, Mart van de Wege wrote: Christian Groessler writes: On 12/08/14 09:44, Curt wrote: On 2014-12-08, Stefan Monnier wrote: Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or &quo

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Christian Groessler
It seems the discussion revolves around methods to disable an automatic fsck when it is not wanted. It went away from an obvious solution (^C a running fsck) and suggests compilcated and/or convoluted workarounds, which have to be implemented or enabled proactively. I want to get back to the

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Christian Groessler
On 12/10/14 14:10, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Christian Groessler writes: > To get the machine to boot again, I had to enter the BIOS, disable the > network card there, Hmmm... you could have tried with a single user mode bootstrap, that could have avoided you going to the BIOS. Th

dd statistics output

2014-07-15 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". Example: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=65536 count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0.0248346 s, 10.8 GB/s $ Is there a switch to displ

Re: dd statistics output

2014-07-15 Thread Christian Groessler
On 07/15/14 16:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:14:47PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote: the final output of 'dd' is in "SI mode" (or how to call it). It uses 10^6 instead of 2^20 for "megabyte". ... Is there a switch to display in "t

Re: MESS (MAME) on debian - bios roms path?

2014-08-08 Thread Christian Groessler
On 08/07/14 14:17, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anyone use MESS and have it working? : $ /usr/games/mess c64n -sc|egrep -i path # CORE SEARCH PATH OPTIONS rompath /tmp/bios $ ls -l /tmp/bios/901226-01.u3 -rw--- 1 me me 8192 Dec 24 1996 /tmp/bios/901226-01.u3 $ /usr/games/mess

Re: Maximum RAM

2013-12-12 Thread Christian Groessler
On 12/12/13 08:32, Jean-Marc wrote: Like PailNM said, not implemented in Microsoft O/S. How come, everyone is thinking so? Of course, it's implemented. regards, chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Christian Groessler
On 01/09/18 04:49, Jason wrote: This I'd guess is important, if you have several users. I don't, except for amanda and nut, and thats only on this machine. All the rest have one user, me, known under various aliases because the idiot installer is now set to give the first user the machines name l

Re: UID 1000 on Raspberry Pi (Was: Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd)

2018-01-09 Thread Christian Groessler
On 01/09/18 16:01, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Don't forget about occurrences of 'pi' in the group files (use 'vigr' and 'vigr -s' to catch those). Yep. Forgot to mention that. regards, chris

problem with kermit

2016-08-08 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I'm running Debian 8.5 and I'm getting this when starting kermit (ckermit): -- $ kermit tmp/casoc-kermit ?OpenSSL libraries do not match required version: . C-Kermit built with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 . Version found OpenSSL 1.0.1t 3 May 2016 OpenSSL versions prior to 1.0.

Re: Suitable text editor [NOT word processor] or workaround?

2017-03-16 Thread Christian Groessler
On 03/16/17 15:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I did, and I didn't ;-) That was on the order of 15 years ago. Problems that I can remember centered around fonts, font sizes, readability, and compatibility with my past experiences (which, by that time in my life, were mostly Dos / Window edit

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Christian Groessler
Why not just keep the original name, "sc"? I don't think it's actively developed elsewhere, so the new improved version could be distinguished by the version number. regards, chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Christian Groessler
Why not just keep the original name, "sc"? I don't think it's actively developed elsewhere, so the new improved version could be distinguished by the version number. regards, chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Christian Groessler
On 02/23/15 13:00, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 09:01:22AM +0100, Christian Groessler wrote: Why not just keep the original name, "sc"? I don't think it's actively developed elsewhere, so the new improved version could be distinguished by the version numbe

Debian on Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite?

2023-09-12 Thread Christian Groessler
Hello Group, is there a Debian version which could be installed on mentioned Edgerouter? regards, chris

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

2023-10-23 Thread Christian Groessler
On 10/23/23 07:29, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 1:24 AM ghe2001 wrote: How about a /29 or so, named "here.", hosts named 2 or 3 letter abbreviations of what you call the computers, with unroutable IPs, DNS'ed in /etc/hosts (with shortcuts). Whatever you come up with for ,

Re: sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward [was: How to run automatically a script as soon root login]

2024-05-13 Thread Christian Groessler
On 5/13/24 18:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Now share your ideas :-) $ su - Password: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # ^D logout $ I don't need no stinkin' sudo :-) regards, chris

Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)

2024-09-14 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi Tim, On 9/14/24 6:32 PM, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sat, 14 Sep 2024, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 14 Sep 2024 16:15 +0100, from debianu...@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall): Is there anywhere I can download really, really ancient debian images. I need potato or older (i386). I'd like a mountable disk

Re: debian kernel compiler

2025-01-05 Thread Christian Groessler
Istvan, I suspect you've got a bad memory chip. Try running a memory test. regards. chris On 1/4/25 20:58, Istvan Toth wrote: Hi Marko, thank you for your detailed and thorough advice. I implemented them, everything ran without errors. But unfortunately the error persists, Building module: