ad only as many
> partitions as I can.
>
> What's The Right Way (tm) to have / mounted read-only?
I did mount / with the sync option on a server of mine. So the danger
of data loss is reduced a bit. Since / is not that big a fsck is quite
fast.
Peter Palfrader
--
main(i){putchar(354
you have to
typeset HISTCONTROL=(ignorespace|ignoreboth)
see also bash(1)
Peter Palfrader
--
Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]?
Hi Bryan!
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> Hello,
> I have what is probably a very simple question for this list. How
> can I add commands to the Debian Program Menu. For example, imagine that
> I install a program called "binary" to my computer. I can run it by
> typing "bi
Hi Jeronimo!
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> I have built console-apt and gnome-apt from source here, because I
> needed the debs (and that seemed much easier to me than browsing
> ftp.debian.org -- besides that, I like to compile things... :)
>
> Anyway... I found that apt
Hi Mark!
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Mark Simos wrote:
> 1.
> I am trying to install vim on a really bare installation of Debian. I
> have internet access that routes and resolves names fine.
>
> When I type "apt-get install vim vim-rt" or just about any other package
> name i see listed on Debian's si
Hi alice!
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [PP's cut] Is there way to indicate to apt-get
> which packages I now have in /var/cache/apt/archives so that it doesn't try
> to re-download them and starts with the files it doesn't already have?
apt should b
Hi Glyn!
On Sat, 02 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> I'm a user and not root. At the moment I'm using wvdial (or pon
> poff) as root to log on to my ISP and then zipping over to another
> console to do what must be done on the net - mostly mail.
>
> I don't like this! and don't like the
Hi William!
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote:
> I just talked my cable company into going from a dhcp connection (dynamic ip)
> to a static IP. Since I've always used dhcp before I'm not quite sure what to
> do. Is there a quick how-to that will say, put your ip, gateway, blah blah
> i
[Sorry for the late jump in, I found this thread because of Seth's X-Post]
Hi Oliver!
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> "Kurt Seifried" wrote:
> ...
> >Problem: user can enter Lilo commands at the Lilo prompt
> ...
> >Additional solution: remove/replace password in lilo.conf after
Hi Kai!
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Kai Weber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way, how I can find unused library packages which no package
> needs longer? If I install a new package (e.g. for testing) sometimes a
> lot of new libs are installed. But when removing the package, the libs
> stay on system.
>
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > |> I hope it works with potato, too?
> I just installed the deborphan .deb file from woody with apt-get and it
> ran without any problems on my potato systems.
>
If a future version of deborphan does not install cleanly in potato,
somebody please
Hi Preben!
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> As there is no search utility on the Debian web pages (I hope there soon
> will be one), I wonder if somebody can point me in the direction of
> documentation on how to make .deb files.
Check out the devel section of the website. There you
Hi Sven!
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
> Given a source tarball, how to best install that into the system?
>
> My suggestion would be to create a .deb archive and to then install that
> using dpkg -i. Now, I have never created my own .deb apart from doing this
> with make-kpkg and a
Hi!
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I suppose the moral of the story is, "Don't leave root logins unattended."
> (But wouldn't it be simpler to have, as a possible line in
> /etc/shutdown.allow, "none"?)
May I quote the man page[1]?
[...]
If shutdown is called with the -a argument
Hi Preben!
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I'm trying to setup exim and spruce (e-mail client) so that I can use it
> for a dial-up (ISDN) system.
>
> What I do now is that all messages are sent from spruce to exim on
> localhost, and then I want to open the connection to the intern
Hi Preben!
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
> Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/07/2000 (00:48) :
> > exim -qf and/or exim -qff will send all mail from the queue. If I remember
> > they both are blocking, i.e. will only return when all messages go
Hi Henry!
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Henry White wrote:
> After the latest apt-get update/upgrade/check (using sources woody and
> kernel 2.2.17) when i ran deborphan I got an on screen message
>
> VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> Segmentation fault
>
> Any ideas or suggesti
Hi Henry!
[Henry]
> > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...
> > > Segmentation fault
[me]
> > deborphan prior to 0.1.11-3 had big mem leaks
[Henry]
> No go :-[ Now I'm getting those error messages immediately after the
> fetch. Stopped the process with CTRL-C and tried dpkg --pur
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Damon Muller wrote:
> I think you mean ms-chap, not ms-chat. Debian does seem to have ms-chap
> already built-in to it's pppd
> Of course, I've never got it working myself, but that doesn't mean it
> isn't there :)
If we're talking about MS Chap 80, then I can say that in fa
Hi elouafi!
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, elouafi bessem wrote:
>
> hello
>
>
> I have a problem, I have a default route whene I delete it,the
> operation succeeded and the route disappears, but every time that
> I reboot the Pc it appears againe. how I can resolve this problem.
On slink aka Debian 2
Hi Peter!
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> BTW, is there a conversion tool to go from slink format to potato
> format?
Sure, just use apt-get.
Detailed information can be found at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes
HTH
Hi Peter!
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Sure, just use apt-get.
> >
> > Detailed information can be found at
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/Release-Notes
>
> Hmmm. On the contrary, that file only mentions the old network script:
>
>
Hi Mathew!
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote:
> I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd,
> Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a
> masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver
> remotely (on the other xwindo
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> From: Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Linux Kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Cause of mysterious lock-ups with 2.2.x kernels discovered!
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry, also dropped the Date line
Dat
Hi pollywog!
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, pollywog wrote:
> I downloaded the source package (and dsc and diff) for Licq and then modified
> debian/rules and then built Licq with my own config options.
> The problem is that I have QT installed from source, and no Debian packages
> for
> QT were found:
E
Hi User!
debian-mentors:
| This list is for newbie maintainers who seek help with initial
| packaging and other developer-related issues. Those who prefer
| one-on-one help should also post to the list, and an experienced
| developer will volunteer. This list is not meant for users
| questions but
Hi Horburapa!
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Horburapa Mongkol-Q13382 wrote:
> I am quite new to Linux Debian.
> I have Debian 2.2r2 on my machine and upgrade it with Progeny Linux image
> package.
> If I want to upgrade the kernel to 2.4, what should I do?
> Or please point me to the doc I can follow.
-
Hi Steve!
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Steve Rudd wrote:
> The actual file name is:
> f-10com-Hus&Wifes.htm
>
> Are there certain characters that one should avoid in file names?
In general you should avoid everything but A-Za-z0-9 and '.'.
All other characters have to be replaced in urls with %.
Space
Hi Andreas!
Andreas Goesele schrieb am Mittwoch, dem 11. Oktober 2000:
> Hi,
>
> The apt-get manual tells us:
>
> "APT itself does not allow broken
> package dependencies to exist on a system."
>
> But there are cases, where one wants to have a package installed
> even if some dependencies ar
Hi Jason!
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Seth Cohn wrote:
>
> > It would be useful, Jason, to understand what the message means:
>
> It means an error that is not understood by the code was generated by the
> lookup. An error that is not 'name not found' or
Hi Christopher!
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> 9 0122 100x30
> BTW... I have tried all the modes and they all work for me.
> I just want to automatically start in "mode=9".
If you had read the docs carefully, you would have read somewhere, that
this "0122" is hex but lilo
Hi Christopher!
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:56:36AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> -|vga=290 should work.
>
> Thanks !!! That worked. Where did you find docu on this stuff?
> I must have tried "man" on everything I c
Hi Gregory!
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Can I change my /etc/apt/sources.list from:
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
>
> to
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
>
> and it will be the same for now,
Hi Michael!
Michael Mertins schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 30. November 2000:
> I have a large problem getting umlauts to work since I upgraded to woody.
If you are who I think you are, then we solved this problem by
setting the LC* variables in /etc/environment, right?
also see man locale (not esp
Hi Patrick!
Patrick Schnorbus schrieb am Samstag, dem 16. Dezember 2000:
> Hey folks,
>
> is there any HOWTO or other good instruction for creating deb-packages?
Check out the info on http://www.debian.org/devel/>. You might
be interested in the stuff below "Packaging Information" esp. the
"New
Hi Jesse!
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Jesse Goerz wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2000 17:30, Walther, Christoph wrote:
> > Zur Zeit bin ich nicht im Hause.
> > Herr Yaldiz (Tel.: 06151/818-5562) und Herr Grießmann (Tel.:
> > 06151/818-5593) werden mich während meiner Abwesenheit vertreten.
> >
> > C
Hi Anthony!
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
> deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free non-US
> deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free
>
>
> It doesn't get non-US (perh
> ---
> ^X^C
> q
> quit
> :q
> ^C
> end
> x
> exit
> ZZ
> ^D
> ?
> help
> shit
> .
ed is a fine editor, isn't it?
yours,
peter
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PGP signed and encrypted messages preferred.
http://www.palfrader.org/
Hi jfclinux!
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Along with kdebase-crypto, you'll need kdelibs-crypto.
>
> Oops! -- You'll also need OpenSSL (apt-get install openssl)installed prior to
> the crypto modules.
apt will handle this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show kdebase-crypt
Hi Maury!
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Maury Merkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start X.
Is X already running, i.e. the xdm on VC 7?
> [3] What command will I use to dial-in to my ISP? Ditto for hang up?
> How do I set it up so that my user (again, no
Hi Marshal!
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
> > "Maury" == Maury Merkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [1] My user (i.e. not "root") does not have permission to start
> > X. I have no idea which file(s) is/are actually forbidden to me
> > and, before I sta
Hi Aaron!
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> $ ssh 170.1.36.137
> Connection closed by foreign host.
My wildest guess is that the box the sshd runs on cannot reverse
resolve the machine the client runs on.
yours,
Hi Antonio!
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:42.
> This is happenning after compiling a new kernel. I can still access the
> system through an old kernel.
> Any ideas to solve it?
> Thanx
Did you compile ext2 (or whatever your root
Hi Aaron!
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> Thanks to a wonderful source of help (I deleted the email, and the poster
> didn't cc debian-users), this problem has been solved. The 10.20.0.2 machine
> had a line in /etc/hosts.deny which looke like:
>
> ALL: PARANOID
>
> which would pr
Hi Maury!
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
> I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which
> update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb
> packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.)
>
> But I have several importan
Hi Daniel!
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> Does the 'su' command expire after a certain time? If it doesn't how do
> you 'go-back' to a normal user?
others have already pointed out how to `exit' su :)
However I'ld like to tell you why you need to exit or logout. su does
not give
Hi Miguel!
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Miguel Wooding SF Ten.Union wrote:
> When I run apt-get install ssh (after first having run apt-get install
> update), I get an error message saying that there is no available
> version, but the package exists in the database. What's up with that?
> my /etc/sour
Hi Jay!
On Fri, 02 Jun 2000, Jay Kelly wrote:
> Hello All,
> Quick question. When I compile my kernel 2.2.12 I use "make dep" the "make
> clean" then "make bzimage or make bzdisk" and I receive an errror at the end
> of the compile:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
Hi Igor!
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000, Igor Mozetic wrote:
> As far as I understand, these are not DNS queries since they
> are UDP.
DNS queries usually are UDP actually.
yours,
peter
--
http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad
Hi Igor!
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Igor Mozetic wrote:
>
> Peter Palfrader writes:
>
> > > As far as I understand, these are not DNS queries since they
> > > are UDP.
> >
> > DNS queries usually are UDP actually.
>
> Well, this is my point. DNS
Hi Mario!
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> I put some lines in /etc/init.d/networking, like these:
> ---
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo
> --
No, no, no. You don't
Hi Aaron!
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> Now I have it aliased to interactive mode, which is annoying at times, but
[ ^^ rm -- PP]
> I haven't made a mistake like that again.
Does not work for me. After 2 days I started using -f with rm all the
times. Even more dangerous
screw up while configuring mutt?
TIA
Peter Palfrader
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Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/
PGP/GPG encrypted messages prefered. See my site or finger -l ppalfrad
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Yes means No a
erhaps you don't know about chmod. it allows you to change file
permissions. have a look at the manpage and/or the info pages.
You might want to try to fix the permissions of you SOffice install:
in /usr/local as root assuming the StarOffice net stuff is located there:
chmod -R go+r SO
Hi Ethan!
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > chmod -R go+r SOffice
> > find SOffice -perm -100 -exec chmod go+x {} \;
>
> or you could use chmod -R go+rX SOffice and dispense with the annoying
> find command ;-)
And I was so proud of my find ;)
Tnx, I did not
, how can I change the "look" of package configuration? I would like to
> use the menu interface enstead of the text interface.
try
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
it will ask you all the questions you want :)
HTH
Peter Palfrader
--
Weaselhttp://www.co
Hi ulla!
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a site to
> which I can point apt and download a newer
> version of X. I presently have the servers
> that ship with Debian 2.1 and they don't
> support my videocard.
Try http://www.debian.org/
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, |{.f|. wrote:
> subscribe
Would it be possible to setup filters that intercept mails containing
a command like subscribe or unsubscribe in the first line of the body?
and something different: Is there a reason the default Reply-To
address is _not_ the list itself?
Dere Ramin!
Ramin Motakef schrieb am Donnerstag, den 16. März 2000:
> You have to tell wich device you want to remove, ie:
>
> echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
>
>[ Host Channel Id Lun ]
>
> this is "documented" in /usr/src/linux/drivers/s
Hi Percival!
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Percival wrote:
> I am looking for some help with cron. I have read the man pages, but I still
> cannot figure out how to schedule a job and NOT have the stdout emailed to me.
Quoting from the crontab(5) manpage:
If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), m
Hi Oki!
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether it'd be useful to keep track of Debian users who
> download the packages via apt-get (from the main site)? I think it would;
> The purpose is, well, nothing but statistics. (Hey, some people like
> seeing statistics, yo
Hi Hilary!
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
> As a rule I'm very happy reading my mail in Pine through a shell
> account. However occasionally I receive an attachment that I need to use
> another program to view. Can somebody recommend a good mail program
> similar to pine that can h
Hallo Viktor!
Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Samstag, dem 08. April 2000:
> Brendan Cully wrote:
> > > - Can Mutt automatically move incoming mail into different folders?
> >
> > sort of. usually that's done with procmail. but you could probably use
> > the "push" command and folder hooks to move t
On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> uucp:
> HELP: Presumably used for UUCP, which I know nothing of.
> dialout:
> HELP: Is this used for /dev/cua devices or something?
The uucp user and group is used by the UUCP subsystem. It owns
spool and configuration files. uucico, a binary o
On Fri, 02 Apr 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Anyway, it seems no tool keeps users alert that some of their packages
> are "no longer". Perhaps it should appear when one does
> dist-upgrades, or maybe a deb orphan-like tool that one could run from crontab.
You mean like dselect?
--- Obsolete a
noise.
In short, please don't. Use a proper debian package version.
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|
d now I'm back to an IUse% of 4%
> (which sounds about right, I don't store any non-OS data on / ).
Maybe you want to make your /tmp a tmpfs? Edit /etc/default/tmpfs and
set RAMTMP to yes, then reboot.
Cheers,
--
| .''`. ** Debian **
> > > see such a warning.
> > >
> > Even worse, the ssl certificate on https://archive.debian.org is invalid
> > too.
https://archive.debian.org/ is not at this time available over https,
not was it ever advertised as such.
--
|
non with a USB mouse directly connected to the laptop.
> I have no clue what could be going on...
Probably a USB autosuspend issue. Do you have laptop-mode-tools
installed? If yes, can you get rid of it and re-test?
--
| .''`. ** Debian **
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
>
> Hi,
> It worked but when I turn power on. It boots and tell me that there
> isnt Win95 installed.
> How I installe Windowze in my machine? I dont have normal Windows
> here.
> Thanks,Paulo Henrique
Well, you need a lincense of
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Hi there. I'm currently using netspace's messenger but it does not
completly meet my needs.
I'm looking for a mail client that has nested folders and good filters
for moving incoming messages to dedicated folders (reply-to
filter!). Another must is PGP support.
I thank everybody for their great help.
I think I will go for mutt since the PGP stuff works really fine now.
However, I have some questions regarding procmail.
Is it possible to have it run automatically when new mail arrives
without the need for every user to have his .forward set to
|/usr/bin/
Eberhard Burr wrote:
> > I've two SCSI harddisks and what I'm looking for is a tool/kernel patch
> > that spins down those drives after some idle time and up again when
> > needed.
>
> what makes you believe that spinning down drives is needed at all?
The reason that the fans to keep the disks coo
this may be a stupid question however I cuold not find the answer:
How do I set my From: address in mutt?
If I use the my_hdr From: thingie, my fcc-hooks don't work any more.
my fcc hooks look like this:
fcc-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+OUT.10.people.baron.dieter
changing the sendmail variabl
Hi!
I'm playing around with firewalling a bit and would like to know if I got this
little (not real world) task right:
I tried to setup the ipchains so that the only thing 'marvin' should be able to
do is using smtp with host 'laus'.
Is the following correct for my wish?
ipchains -P input REJ
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote:
> | ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ...
> |
> | When I use cu on Debian I get the message"pppd permission denied". I can
> | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get i
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On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12:14:30PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> shaul wrote:
> > I want to set up a *dynamic* PPP connection over an Ethernet connection (at
> > least, that is what I think).
> > Can you tell me what are the available tools ?
> It might help
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940
> SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy)
> the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the
>
Hi there!
I ran into a problem today where xcdroast crashed several times when
reading a cd image off a cd and I wanted to kill it. No big thing I
thought, send it a SIGTERM, if this does not work, use a SIGKILL.
Well, I did so but after I sent it a SIGTERM using
kill -s 9
`ps` still showed the
On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 09:31:07PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> - at LILO prompt I typed linux init=/bin/bash. This failed because the /
> partition mounted read-only
just a thought:
mount -o remount,rw /
or did I miss something?
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Hello everybody.
I set up a mail server last week in our office and stumbled accross a
few items wher eyou can perhaps help me.
1) exim
---
I check every 5 minutes wheter there is something in exim's queue ( if
(exim -bp | grep -q '.*'; ); then...) and if this is the case I go
online and for
gt;
cultimate Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I signed Dillo's key after we'd exchanged passphrases and since I
trust my own signature ultimately Dillo's key is completely
valid. I usually trust dillo to do a good job when certifying
signatures.
Now there&#
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 10:08:09PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> You exchanged passphrases?? I don't think you should do that.
> Your passphrase is for your own use when you encrypt or sign something.
oops, fingerprints :)
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PGP e
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On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 10:24:17PM +0100, Steve George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a script to check if ipforwarding is running on my
> access box but I can't work out how to check for an integer in a script. It
> may be clearer what I am trying to
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 08:27:57AM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I used the power off switch...
> risky, but it worked.
Compile 'Kernel Hacking' into your kernel.
Now you can use Alt-SysRQ-S to sync your disk and Alt-SysRQ-U to
mount everything read only.
This way it's more likely to avoid
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:55:09PM -0700, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> :) But, does anyone know a way to umount / and so forth before powering off?
I would assume this is not pssible since at least one process always
uses / or a directory below.
If you look at your /etc/init.d/umountfs script, you can
Hello out there!
I recently set up a mail server in the office running slink.
The mail is fetched from one pop address using fetchmail. I then use
exim & procmail to delicer the mails to several mail folders.
Mail is read using imap. (I installed the imap package from
main/mail). The clients ar
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:12:57PM +1200, Tim Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to write a script, that gets the local ip address, and does a
> reverse ns lookup, then sets the hostname to the dns response.
The Trinity OS uses these lines to get the IP and the Point-to-Point peer (if
any)
where E
BAK again, after the weekend :)
Today I had some time to try further things and I succeded.
I'm using the imapd that comes with slink (imap_4.5-0slink3.deb).
procmail, which I use to deliver messages to different folders can
write to directory folders. There are (at least) three different
direc
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:46:11PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> By the way, if you are using exim, then it supports Maildir directly, no
> need to use procmail for this.
TNX for the hint, I did not know this. But I need procmails mail
processing cpabilities anyway :)
--
Weasel
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote:
> hello everyone ...
>
>i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
> subdirectories using wget ...
>is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
> scatered all throughout ???
I'm not sure b
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:19:36PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Easier even:
> wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/
Actually, I prefer
wget -r -l inf -np -k -t 0
retry if error
^^ convert absolute links to relative ones
Hi gurus -
For a few days now I get some error message when using pgp. (but I
doubt it's pgp's fault)
[...]
Enter pass phrase: cannot open tty, using stdin
[...]
this happens at the (virtual) console as well as in xterms. The
permissions for /dev/ttyp1
On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 10:43:46PM -0700, AzCaPpY wrote:
> try Sniffit. I don't know if there is a Debian package for it but the
> standard .tar.gz works great with Debian.
there is:
debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-i386/admin/sniffit_0.3.5-3.deb
for i386s.
--
Weasel
Any ideas how I can get rid of this process?
Thanks In Advance.
PS: Yes, I could reboot the box but I don't want to.
Peter Palfrader
--
Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/
PGP/GPG encrypted messages prefered. See my site o
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:59:23AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> again a question form someone how has changed from SuSE to Debian:
>
> - after building my RAID-Array I need to know how to mount it
> automatically at bootup? In SuSE there is a file in
> "/sbin/init.d/boot.local"
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:44:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need a utility that will take a list of files using standard wildcards
> and empty their contents, but not deleting them. Has anyone stumbled on
> something like this? Thanks a bunch.
how about
for i in
do
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 12:25:42AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I was wondering which is the stablest 2.2 kernel curently
> I am never shure if it is the even or uneven numbers ( is it 2.2.13 or
> 2.2.14 ?)
> I am using kernel 2.2.9 , is it worth the update?
2.2.x
\-- 2 is even -> stable
2.
not from within X might be an idea :)
you can switch to your virtual consoles with Ctrl+Alt+F1 trough
F6. Back again with Alt+F7.
the
/etc/init.d/ start|stop|reload|restart.
method works for many other things too, like the inetd, the lpd, et
alii.
FYI
Peter Palfrader
Hi Kent!
> <..> Debian 2.0 was based on the Linux kernel 2.0.36, and I believe
> Debian 2.1 is
> likely to be based on the Linux kernel 2.4, but I don't keep up with that so
> I'm not
> for sure.
Now I'ld really like potato comming with kernel 2.4 but I doubt that
they change such a critica
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