On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:11:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:52, Joris Huizer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the program to use when I want to know which
> > programs are running ?
>
> $ ps -ax
> $ ps -axf
> $ ps -axf --cols=`echo $COLUMNS`
I hate to nitpick, but al
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:27:33PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Overcoming your typical limitations of watches, the Debian GNU/Watch is
> a new, open source solution to portable timekeeping. A multi-user
> solution, multiple people can elect to wear the same watch, and for one
> person, it could b
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:12AM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-26 08:29]:
> > * David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030125 20:14]:
> > > So while bash and zsh have aliases, you can't actually do much with
> > > them.
> >
> What's the problem with tcsh?
>
>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote:
> will trillich said:
>
> > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times no later than
> > september 2000 -- pre-ext3 by a long shot. and i'm *positive*
> > i've never even tried reiserfs, certainly not two-and-a-half
> > years ago. wasn't ext2 t
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> I tend to use terms like "quid" or "pound" because I still expect
> pound (£) signs to be turned into hash (#) signs by non-British
> equipment. To make matters worse, Americans sometimes call hash signs
> pound signs, so asking "did my poun
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:37:50AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:17:03AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:20:40PM -0800, nate wrote:
> > > will trillich said:
> > > > files on /dev/hdb2 have modification times n
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is
> incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it
> for months.
>
> Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash an
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though.
>
> let us say, i have done ls -l , etc etc
> then i have done a few more commands at the prompt.
>
> now, i want to use that ls command again
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:28:56PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> > You know that without knowing anything about your cdrecord
>
> (pts/8)jason@marsala:~$ dpkg -l | grep cdrecord
> ii cdrecord 1.10+11a34-1 A command line CD/DVD writing tool
>
> > or Debian version
>
> (pts/8)jason@marsala:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> A pound sterling is so-called because it was originally the value of a
> pound of "sterling" silver. sterling comes from Easterling which is what
> German Hanseatic merchants were called during the middle ages.
I need to read less
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:00:47PM -0800, nate wrote:
> On systems with a single SCSI cdrom I have never seen the device assigned
> a /dev entry other then /dev/scd0.
Uh, here it's /dev/sr0 (you're still on 2.2.x IIRC).
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Avoid gunfi
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:36:01PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:15 pm, Michael Wardle wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've only recently subscribed to debian-user, and I notice that I
> > receive messages sent to the list 4 or 5 hours after they have been
> > sent. Among other
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:06:10PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> AARGH!
>
> Just ran the test suite on the "real" gcc-2.95, ie. the precompiled
> binary from the woody .deb ...
>
> IT GIVES THE SAME NUMBER OF UNEXPECTED FAILURES!!!
>
> So it looks as though I might as well go ahead and install the i686
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 05:37:09PM +, Sean Burlington wrote:
> Nathan E Norman wrote:
[ snip ]
> >I'm sure if someone donated a more powerful machine and more
> >bandwidth, it would help.
> >
> >I've some opinions for slowness:
> >
> >1) Overall
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:42:22PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Matt Price said:
> > hi there,
> >
> > can someone help me figure out what exactly initrd is, and why
> > kernels use it? I have looked through the docs, and I understand that
> > it's thefile used for an initial ramdisk in some cases, but I
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:59:13PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> >Donald Spoon writes:
> >
> >-Snip- <
> >>It uses the presence of this file as a "trigger" to decide whether to
> >>start the pppd program in the demand mode at boot time or not.
> >
> >
> >No. It uses the presenc
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:13:03PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
[ snip ]
> The problem is that yesterday, my root file partition started booting
> up read-only. Because /var and /tmp are on that partition, my system
> is virtually useless.
[ snip ]
> A while ago, I had changed my /etc/fstab by
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ...
>
> Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted o
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:20:46PM -0900, Andy wrote:
> > OTOH there's no argument that the debian list server is probably in
> > need of an upgrade. I've no idea what they've got right now, but I'm
> > sure donations will be accepted :-)
>
> WellI will be the first to step up to the plate!
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:29:53AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > >
> > > [ ... ]
> > >
> > > So ... now that things are so
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:28:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I am in the process [6th attempt] of trying to install/configure Debian
> 3.0 - this particular attempt is via LXF Cover disk but even with my previous
> attempts; using both DVD and CD-ROM media the outcome has
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:13:02AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We're now farther away from 2001 than Arthur C. Clarke
> and Stanley Kubrick was in 1968.
I really don't see how that can be true (though where is that orbiting
hotel, anyway?)
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAI
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:00:11PM +0100, Joakim Hove wrote:
> Another tip when you are battling X startup problems:
>
> bash% startx 2> /tmp/x.error
>
> will send standard error to a file, so you can view this in peace.
What will this file contain, that /var/log/XFree86.log does not? I've
se
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:35:32PM +, Jason Lunz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > I realize that Debian still defaults to 2.2.x for installation, but I
> > would be also be curious to know you're supposed to bind multiple IPs to
> > a single interface `the Debian way' without IP aliasing (w
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:55:04PM -0500, Radek [Debian] Z wrote:
> Looking for a person coordinating translations of Debian website and docs. I
> can begin translation into Polish from English, but need a little guidance.
> I am not completely new to Linux, but I never volunteered for open source.
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:55:26PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
[ snip ]
> Thorsten
> --
> A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a swimming pool.
> - Unknown
They have these sections, they're called "wading pools".
:-)
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:32:54PM +1100, bob parker wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:39, Levi Waldron wrote:
> > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote:
> > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam powered dial up
> > > connection.
> > >
> > > I started on 27 January.
> >
>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:04:27PM +, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> On 05 Feb 2003, 13:53:27, Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
> > That remarkable Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> > > On 04 Feb 2003, 21:58:58, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:14:36PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:50:43PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > So: the main box is 192.168.1.1, the modem box is 192.168.1.2. I add
> > "gateway 192.168.1.2" to /etc/network/interfaces on the main box and
> > run /etc/init.d/networking restart.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in
> > poverty in America. Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise
> > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, A
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:42:52PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:19:33PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It's from scanner.abuse.blueyonder.co.uk, in fact. I guess this is the
> > original poster's ISP; certainly it seems highly unlikely to be
> > malicious.
>
> By the kin
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > >
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:16:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:46:12PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> > Where the hell do you think the money came from? If an investor can't
> > expect a return, why should he put himself at risk?
>
> It's basically gambling picking a stoc
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:51:25AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > DvB wrote:
> >
> > >Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >> Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just wor
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:41:01AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:37:53PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > Pigeon writes:
> > > It would be under tension, because the upper station is outside the
> > > geosynchronous orbit. So the bit above the break would fly off into
> > > space,
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:18:47PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:40:36AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > Once again, if cutting taxes is going to put the government $300B in the
> > hole, they need to cut some programs and I don't think there're many
> > that can be justified being
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:08:17PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Haha, wow. I would love to see one of those on Cape Cod, where a
> single, normal "rotary" can back up traffic all the way to Boston
> (because most Americans can't figure out how to drive in a circle,
> apparently).
s/in a circle//
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:41:20AM -0900, Andy wrote:
> That is good stuff to know but I still believe spam needs to be reported to
> the source network. If the ISP's don't know how they are being used by the
> spammers then how can they help stop the SPAM? Of course there will always
> be com
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case,
> where there isn't a convenient command like make-kpkg.
>
> My particular case is X 4.2.0, which I downloaded the source of and
> compiled for slink, then for woody when I
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:05:36AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 06:19:36PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > Install DNS caching software on the gateway (the modem box). Have all
> > internal machines use the gateway as their nameserver (use a static
> > r
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:59:12AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 06,
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:16AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:51:25AM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > DvB wrote:
> &
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only
> > place I know of that still uses it).
> >
>
> mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:59:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:02:46PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > > >(By the way, where is that message header defined? I just searched
> > > >through all the IETF RfCs but couldn't find it.)
> > >
> > > Whatever the RFCs say, ...
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:05:27AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:09:04AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case,
> > > whe
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:26:11PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +0100, Christian Arthaber wrote:
> > would exactly do you want? you're save-hook should make mutt to save
> > the message into folder debian as soon as you are on the message and
> > press 's'. if y
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:14:47PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post. It struck me
> as a near perfect example of how to do it. Interestingly, ESR, of
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html fame was the first
> respondent :)
Consi
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Yven Johannes Leist wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 10:28, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.10.0354 +0100]:
> > > > Nobody said to drop features. You are adding. We are not even going to
> > > > start to
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:03:38AM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:06:50AM -0500, iggy wrote:
> > I tried running it several times.
> > I think I know what my error is.
> > I'm probably inputing the
> > incorrect address for the
> > video card. lspci -vv states
> > tha
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 03:39:41PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> * Kesav Tadimeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 15:37]:
>
> > I am thinking of installing Debian. I do not, however, want to spend too
> > much time doing that. I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 before, so I'd like to
> > know if Debian (Woo
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:10:14PM -0800, Ric Otte wrote:
> I downloaded 2.4.20 from www.kernel.org and am trying to compile it with
> hfs file support (so I can read disks given to me written on a mac).
> When I type 'make menuconfig' I do not get the option of compiling hfs
> file support. It ha
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:52:58PM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Fer'had Erdogan:
> > I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now.
> > Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I
> > still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to dea
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:46:15PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:42:42AM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> > I am looking at the new Apple displays (the 23" 1920x1200 display).
> >
> > What would I need to make this work on a Intel Pentium III box with an
> > ASUS P2B-DS MB?
>
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:38:39AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:34:39PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > It would be very useful to have some script that would ask you what
> > services you intended to run, and generated scripts for iptables etc.
> > that ensured that only the mi
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:18:39AM -, Pedro Ruivo (TRQV-DSI) wrote:
[ please don't top post. ]
> Thanks for you msg.
> What i'd like to would be to use hardware raid, i'm used to Compaq (HPAQ)
> servers whith smart array controller i thought i would get the same kind of
> functionality (limi
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:00:20PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just discovered something interesting - when I view docs for
> my installed packages via apache, there are some files I don't see.
>
> I _think_, this is because apache treats files starting with
> "README" special
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
>
> "Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest
> democracy","-Apparently Mr Powell is not aware of the Hellenic/Greek
> Democray, dated around 300 BCE; when "we" coined the term. His grasp of
>
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:22:58AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > If I now reboot nestie and try exim -qf again, all the mails are
> > forwarded to pigeon quite happily, even though there are probably many
> > more than 40 (the number at which I f
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 04:41:13PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
>
> Hi All & Nathan,
>
> who typed
>
>
>
> >On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:31:01PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
> >
> >
> >>"Mr Powell said he was representing "the newest country and the oldest
> >>democracy",
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:01:40PM +1300, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
>
>
> Hi All & Norman,
My name is Nathan. I don't mess with your name, please return the
favour. Also, please learn to quote. I've fixed your quoting below.
> whom typed
"who" typed ... sheesh.
>
>
>> Mi
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 12:59:20AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:09:55AM -0500, Joseph Barillari wrote:
> > AFAIK, manually updating symlinks will work fine. The `debian way' is to
> > use update-rc.d(8) to adjust those symlinks.
>
> update-rc.d is a pain enough in the as
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:07:15PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh:
> >
> > > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my
> > > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dse
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 06:41:28AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
[ snip ]
> I'm not familiar with XFS, but reiserfs (which I usually use for large
> directories) uses a hash table to store entries. Insertion, deletion,
> and searches are therefor largely independent of directory size, and
> perf
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:49:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:52:33PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > There's one problem: dselect is retarded WRT "Recommends".
>
> You mean "was", nowadays. dpkg 1.10 fixed this long-stan
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:14:15PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:44:06PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:22:58AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 06:09:08PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> > > > If I now reboot
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:54:03PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> Windows advocates complain that there's no innovation coming out of
> Linux. When they can manage to run their OS on a CD, I'll believe them
> :-}.
Hmm. I wonder where windows folks think the icon bar next to the
start button came f
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:03:12AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
> > Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2.
> > I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my
> > XF86Config both times. Pretty an
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:54:07AM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
[headers]
From: Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What the heck? You Bcc:ed the list? This makes it difficult to use
most sane email programs to respond to you.
> Quoting Mike Egglestone
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:08:12PM -0400, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:46:37PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
>
> > It's being done, frighteningly enough. See http://freshrpms.net/
>
> According to their examples, being done quite well at that. Surely
> there must be lim
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:12:24AM +0100, Paul Lewis wrote:
> I would like to install cdtoaster / cdroast to burn CDs, but whenever I
> try to 'apt-get install cdroast' it reports no such package. Trying
> 'cdrecord' tells me there are unmet dependencies.
>
> liblircclient0, libunicode0, libzvbi
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:33:54PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> I've run into a really interesting piece of spam here.
>
> If you notice, there is a tagline: X-Spam-Status
> which is very much like those delivered by spamassassin.
>
> Here's the interesting thing.
> I don't have spamassassin activ
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:54:09PM -0500, Sven Heinicke wrote:
> With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel
> in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make
> up to /dev/hdl:
>
> ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl
> ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm
> ./MAKEDEV: do
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:47:50PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> "Michael D. Schleif" wrote:
> >
> > Having never done this with linux, I'm asking this at the lowest
> > possible level to facilitate very exhaustive research:
> >
> > What do I need to know to design a debian fileserver att
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:15:08PM -0500, Try KDE wrote:
[ nice real name, Señor KDE ... ]
> Hi,
>
> I've just observed something interesting on my PC. My machine is a
> AMD1800+ with 1GB RAM, kernel 2.4.18. I have a floppy disk:
>$ mkdosfs /dev/fd0 1440
>$ mount /mnt/floppy
>$ cp
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 02:39:33AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote:
> > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the
> > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the
> > hack had done its work, then make Windoz
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 09:21:26PM +0100, Helgi Örn Helgason wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:16, Pigeon wrote:
> > You haven't got a bootable partition on the hard drive, and it sounds
> > like your BIOS is set to boot from the hard drive and not the floppy.
> >
> > Go into BIOS Setup (press DEL
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 10:34:35AM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bob> If you are logged in across the network then likely the TCP
> Bob> stack is idling you out. You may need to set a keepalive.
>
> Bob,
>
> I'm curious to know if
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:39:51PM -0500, Joshua Lee wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:19:53PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> > Just wanted to know, does debian linux include the Bourne and C shell? In
> > redhat, they are a symbolic link to bash and tcsh respectively.
>
> You can install ash, the
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:01:01AM -0800, Jeff wrote:
>
> The .deb file is 3.8MB, I don't know how much total space it adds but
> I'd guess at less than 15MB.
$ apt-cache show xfc
...
Installed-Size: 9892
I'm guessing that value is kBytes (KiB, whatever :)
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Network
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:16:32AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I just added a volume manager, and now that I can I would like
> separate out my filesystem into different chunks (volume; these are
> just virtual partitions if you're unfamiliar with the concept).
> Currently my system consists of a s
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:54:51AM -0600, Mark A. Bialik wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > This may sound callous, but those "some people" - or at least those
> > people who *can* fix it, perhaps not trivially easily - are the only
> > people who should be using unstable.
>
> ... and there are s
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:54:23AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> Michael Heironimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:02:14PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> > > is there something to clean up perl code similar to other "lint"
> > > type applications?
> >
> > The -w fla
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:17:33PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote:
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>
> Very nice writeup.
>
> Question, what if you want foo from unstable and it requires a version
> of bar in unstable but your existing bar is from testing? What if bar
> isn't installed at all and the requirement is going to
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:51:05PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> that brings up a question i've been wondering: is the FHS merely a
> guideline that debian packages follow, or is it something that debian
> users are also strongly recommended to follow as well? granted i might
> be a hypocrite for n
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 11:07:44AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-18 11:45:01 -0600]:
> > > this problem, but generally using a journaling file system on a laptop
> > > is a Bad Idea (TM).
> >
> > Because of battery drain?
>
> Yes. One way to reduce battery d
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
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> At 2002-11-18T18:12:13Z, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > ...if security is *the* major concern in a DNS installation it's probably
> > a good idea to stay away from BIND altogether.
>
> I'd disagree for one main
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:59:37PM -0600, Steve Waterman wrote:
> Glenn:
>
> Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice?
Nah, let's give them etch-a-sketches instead. Think they'll notice?
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source.
> > Perhaps you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ?
>
> They originally meant the same th
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:28:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
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> At 2002-11-18T21:11:23Z, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Uh, of course tinydns (sic; it's really djbdns) is open source. Perhaps
> > you meant to say _DFSG Free_ ?
>
> N
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:24:22PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:11:23PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:38:13PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > >
> > > At 2002-11-18T18:12:13Z, "Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:41:12PM -0500, 'sean finney' wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:53:08PM -, Mikael Jirari wrote:
> > Thank you :)
> >
> > But you're not using qmail are you ?
>
> nope... i just assumed that qmail also paid attention to .forward
> files. was i wrong with that assum
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:50:18PM +, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Which brings me on to another little gripe:
> Does anyone else find that files >100MB (requiring more than 8 digits in the
> size column) break the alignment of ls -l's output? Example:
>
> drwxrwx--x2 glyn glyn 40
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:38:07PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Joe Riel wrote:
>
> > How do I determine what packages are installed?
> > Or determine whether a particular package is installed?
> > I can use deselect to check a particular package,
> > but there probably is a better way.
>
> dp
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:45:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:55:46PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> | Hello list,
> |
> | Is it possible to build a pptpd on Linux and make some Windows client to
> | use pptp to connect to the pptpd server and connect to each o
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:39:32AM +, Pigeon wrote:
> OK, but what about the hard drive? In both cases the head has to track
> over the preceding sectors and switch into write mode when it gets to
> the right sector to be written. OK, so one's magnetic, one's optical,
> but the head servos are
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Carlos Ross wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an 8.6Gb hard disk and my BIOS suports large disks, but my
> version of Debian can only see 2Gb. I have installed Windows 2000
> by itself and it is able to use the entire 8.6Gb disk space; I then installed
> QNX 6.1
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:58:01PM -0500, Carlos Ross wrote:
> Nathan,
> I ended up using Debian fdisk. However, first I had to boot DOS
> and create a small primary partition, and then boot Debian.
> This is how fdisk was able to detect 4095 cylinders. But
> cfdisk kept reporting 2Gb space, and it
On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:46:18PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 19:41, Sebastian Schinzel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i just installed woody on a Compaq ML370 and it works perfekt except the
> > tape drive. /proc/scsi/scsi shows only "Attached devices: none".
> > "Compaq S
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:57:28PM -0800, Mike wrote:
> Hello everyone, first time poster long time troll :)
I think you mean _lurker_
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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:21:04PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
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