Having been a fairly long-time Slackware user, since 8.1, and being
somewhat unhappy with some compatibility problems with Gnome apps and
that distro, I decided to see if Debian would work for me. I don't
have high-speed internet access and so used a work computer which I
have access to periodical
* Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> alsaconf will load the modules that you need but it won't add them to your
> /etc/modules file to have them load after a reboot. Do "lsmod" before and
> after alsaconf and put the modules that were added by alsaconf in
> /etc/modules.
Yes, that worked. Af
* Colin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> I'd suggest putting in snd-pcm-oss and snd-mixer-oss if it isn't there
> already.
Thanks for the heads up. I will do that.
patrick
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I recently have begun using the console much more on a slower machine
and have noticed that setterm does not seem to work. I had set it in
rc.local with "setterm -blank 15" and "setterm -powerdown 45", and
while the screen will blank, it will never powerdown. I also tried
doing it manually, just
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Anyway, voluntary abortion is legal in most countries, including the
> USA, so voluntary abortion does not meet the statutory definition of
> "murder".
>
I am obviously inserting myself into another person's conversation,
and for that I apologize, but
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Ask a pro-lifer whether she'd euthanize a pregnant cat.
>
> Then you'll know when she *really* thinks life begins.
>
Well, I don't think I could euthanize a pregnant cat. Do you think
many people could? Seems a bit cold for me.
Patrick
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* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I was just having this discussion the other day. Legal killing is
> *not* murder.
I would certainly say that lawful killing is not murder, but might not
agree with the specific choice of legal. Legal would imply the laws
of the land, whereas lawful woul
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> Name five American national-level politicians in your lifetime that had
> >> moral fortitude. You can't get that far in US politics without being a
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> He was a full-fledged supporter of McCarthyism, never saw a war he didn't
> like, was very much anti-labor-rights, and verbally abused Eisenhower for
> having a moral compass on those issues. His only saving grace is he turned
> libertarian in retire
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Just where did Jesus claim to be God? I've heard lost of people say
> that Jesus was God, but I haven't seen the place where Jesus himself
> claims it.
>
> -- hendrik
I think the clearest place is in the Gospel According to St. John:
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 08/06/2007 01:53 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
>>
>> I want to capture streamed video from a youtube
>> link...
[snip]
>
> Maybe the '-dumpstream' option to mplayer can capture such streams.
>
> If you're using the Firefox web browser, the "Fast Video Downlo
I have been having a couple of odd developments lately which I think may
be traceable to my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19" LCD monitor. It started
when I noticed I was not getting consistent reactions to my DPMS
settings. In my xorg.conf I have the following:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> wrt dpms:
> Until you get a more knowledgable reply, man xset (especially, the 's'
> option) and man xscreensaver-command (-time) may help.
Many thanks. I will read up on these right now.
> I use the nv driver, but have a crt.
I have gotten to thinking
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 08/09/2007 09:12 PM, cothrige wrote:
>
>> I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does?
>> Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could
>> help with LCD monitors, or th
I generally use a tiling WM (xmonad, ion, stump, etc.) and listen to
music with mpd. With that setup I can keep a small text monitor in the
status bar, or other such place, for seeing just what is currently
running. Every once in a while though I will actually play a cd and I
would like to have
I have two dvd drives, hdc is a standard drive and hdd is a cd/dvd
writer. The problem is that all the cdrom symlinks always point at
/dev/hdd which is not my primary drive. I like cdrw and dvdrw as they
are, but would like to have cdrom and dvd to point correctly to hdc. In
trying to do this I
Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated
> by the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if
> you set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file).
>
> HTH
>
> Wackojacko
>
Many thanks for the tip,
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about
> streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular,
> if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing
> the address of the real audi
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm trying with this one
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml
>
> and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by
> Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site?
Well, neither cou
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> well that somehow makes me feel better, 'cause I was starting to feel
> stupid since I wasn't able to find no such links ;-)
>
If you go to the home page for BBC radio 2 and click on Listen at the
top right, you will see the "Listen using stand-alone
I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs,
and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my
accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did
was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I
could find nothing at all
* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or
> somesuch) that may need an adjustment.
>
I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them
all just in case. I find the same result for gnome-www-browse
* Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple
> of things that kopete doesn't.
I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens,
but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see the menus and
choice
* Mirto Silvio Busico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006.
>
> When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the
> left; so it is unusable.
>
> Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour?
Yep, same here. Bu
Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Orestes Leal wrote:
>> Hi Folks, I need a 'direct' download (with suport for resume) for download
>> de Linux version of doom3, I have the original 3 CDs so the only thing
>> that I need it´s the .run? or whatever
I have an HP Deskjet printer which I have set up using CUPS. It has
always functioned fine, and I can use lp to print without any problems,
and openoffice, browsers and such work just fine. However, I use Emacs
and would like to be able to print from within that app, and it uses
lpr, which I hav
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> cupsys-bsd package provide /usr/bin/lpr. you should not need to
> install an additional package to get lpr functionality.
>
Well, there you go. I did not have that particular package installed,
rather having only cupsys and so on. This fixe
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:35:15PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> that's better than the typical "cups sucks" flamewar we get... cue in
> 3..2..1..
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Hasler wrote:
>>
>> I don't see that you provided any useful information.
>
> Then it wasn't directed at you.
>
> There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux
> to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was
> directed at
"Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
>
> fluxbox
> icewm
> pekwm
> fvwm2
>
> You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
> fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with
> 512M main, and 64M at
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What about stumpwm?
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
>
> Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it
was kind of hard to get going. You may have already set it up, but just
in
d so this works well for me. Just export SBCL_HOME in your
.bashrc with something like
"export SBCL_HOME=/home/cothrige/lisp/lib/sbcl" and then `source ~/.bashrc'.
I then started sbcl and typed the following one at a time at the prompt,
to install clx:
* (require 'asdf)
* (req
"Pál Csányi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have you read /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/README.Debian [3]? It contains
> information about how to start StumpWM.
I tried this too, and I think it takes a great deal for granted. There
is just too much assumed about what you know for this stuff to work,
IM
Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and
it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no
user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or glitch
was really nice. And the files sounded great (256K bitrate) and there
was actually a
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1951219
> http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/1748213.shtml
> http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/0
I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that
should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google
has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed.
Is there a way that I can list other installed packages which have that
first one, i
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> 'debfoster' is a neat program to find cruft and remove it.
> If pkgx is install and has dependencies a, b and c, then 'debfoster'
> will show you this
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 10/05/2007 02:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> And apt-cache rdepends . $ man apt-cache
> Look at deborphan as well.
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
Awesome. Now I have several tools to look into. Isn't that just the
way it is, so often when it seems hard to do som
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:52:43PM +0800, Kenlen wrote:
>> recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. .
>>
>
> I tried w3m but I couldn't get it to work. IIRC its just that its a
> different key commands so its a new learning curve. Since I didn
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some cons that annoy me frequently:
>
> * Stack-based interface: mutt's interface is organized around
> doing a task which may have sub-tasks, and once you're in a
> sub-task you can't get back to the main one without "quitting".
>
steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web
> crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived
> all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine
> you'll see quite surprising results if you post re
I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages.
Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished
upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop.
Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this.
Here is what has been coming
"Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> you could try running,
>
> #dpkg --configure -a
>
> But likely I suspect it will fail.
Yes, it appears to have changed little. Still failing.
> Another option is possibly to pre-empt it and go ahead and delete:
> /usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png
Actu
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for that Ron, but the camera mounts again on /dev/sda1 and when I want
> to write the udev rules for it they won't write but choke on the attributes
> of:
>
> * ATTRS{serial} command not found
> * ATTRS{model} command not found
> * ATTRS{modalias} com
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for that very extensive explanation Patrick. It is much appreciated
> and
> though I was going to leave the whole thing as is till another time. I am
> prompted by the time you have taken to explain this to write more.
You're very welcome. I only h
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> /sbin/blkid will also tell you what a device's UUID is.
Very cool. I was not aware of this one.
Patrick
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I recently took a look at the headers of some of my mail I sent to my
yahoo account from my ISP mail account, and saw some odd stuff which
made me wonder if perhaps my setup is goofed up. I am curious if
perhaps something like this may cause my mail to be seen as spam or the
like, and thought I w
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Have a look at my headers, should be the same (I am using a similar
> setup with postfix). Didn't have any troubles so far (though I am
> subscribed to the whitelist for Debian lists).
Cool. I guess I picked the wrong week to clean out my mailboxes
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that
> statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's
> projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards
> the penguin/snarky-devil side of the
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI
> installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large
> project. Here's a link to it:
>
> http://ubuntu.com.
>
> (I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it
Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>> Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8
>>
>> Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UTF8?
>>
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
>> Michelle Konzack
>
>
>
Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know about
>> trademarks. I know about property laws. I know of contract laws. I
>> am not aware of any intelectual property laws.
>>
> "intellectual property law" = pa
"Telaman Consultancies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> The ever persistent issue of software patents for example, when
> dealing with programming - which is essentially a language - and
> shouldn't, as a means of transmission of knowledge, even have
> copyright attached to it.
Doesn't this pro
Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There's a difference between:
>
> - what makes sense (for some definition of "makes sense")
>
> - what's "right" (for some definition "right")
>
> - the legal and regulatory issues involved (there's a lot of dispute
> about whether software should be p
KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> laura eznarriaga wrote:
>>
>> *
>> *convert video to adio*
>>
>> how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio
>> is their a program for this ?_
>> *
>>
>
> Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:12 -0300
>
> With mencode I used the following command (using PAL in my country):
>
> mencoder tv:// -tv
> driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:
> freq=775.25:adevice=/dev/dsp1:forceaudio:audiorate=32000 buffersi
Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jamie Griffin wrote:
>> Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
>>> You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home
>>> directory (or create it if it does not exist).
>>>
>>> Put the following lines in the file:
>>>
>>> xterm*VT100*foreground: green
>>>
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other
> terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very
> small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the
> HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults:
> >
> >xterm*font: 10x20
> >
> >Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my
> >fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work
> >so well for yo
I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
/usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier
it was even worse taking over 10 seconds. It is a very big difference
in usage, and if
There has always been a thing about Mutt which has bugged me, and
lately it has nagged at me even more than usual. Perhaps somebody
on this list will know of a way to change this.
In the index screen if I mark a message to be deleted it will cease to
be accessible in any way, and if I scroll to
* Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Just hold the shift key and use j or k (i.e., J or K) to go up or down.
> Without shift deleted messages are skipped, but not so with the shift key.
>
> Ken
Many thanks for that. I obviously overlooked that somewhere along the
line. It is surely a l
Not too long ago I was going to upgrade my kernel, I am currently
running 2.6.18.1, and downloaded the latest 2.6.20 tarball. I went
through the usual steps. I configured it carefully and then
compiled it via make-kpkg. Lastly I installed it with dpkg. When I
rebooted everything seemed okay, bu
* Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige:
> > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
> > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
> > /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I
> > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that was pretty
> > awful.
>
> But at the same time
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> scrolling is one place to measure, but there are several (font choice
> is another, e.g., Xft is notoriously slow). Older versions of rxvt
> would stop refreshing while they were getting input, and then paint
> the final screen (usually faster, but w
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> One more question is: how to get a font that is larger than 12x24? I
> remember having seen a nice SUN console font that was quite big. I
> want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger
> fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that
* Stephan Seitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Marty wrote:
> >license, which *is* considered a free license. In my opinion, all the
> >analogies fall short because documentation is not software, regardless
> >of Debian's dogmatic claims to the contrary.
>
* Nic James Ferrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea
> > getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that
> > Debian is being petty and f
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100, Nic James Ferrier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years
> > of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I
> > am so angry wi
I have a strange thing happening when I try to login immediately after
boot. It only happens once, and then everything is fine, but it still
bugs me. After booting, which seems completely normal, the first time
I touch the keyboard this pops up on screen:
"input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as
* Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from Debian, by
> default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add them back in
> themselves. Looking at gNewSense, I got the impression that they only
> removed things a
* Romain Francoise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in
> Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository.
>
> See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/1:20070529-1
>
Thanks for that info. Does that then m
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:21:36AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> Is this a stock Debian kernel or a self compiled one?
> Is this from the CLI or from a GUI? (i.e x or no x)
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am running a 2.6.20.12 k
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> > Well, not that I can see. But, I will admit that I am likely
> > overlooking something. The complaint, "input: AT Translated Set 2
> > keyboard as /class/inp
* Frank McCormick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!
I believe the Gimp has a pretty straightf
I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a
cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then
added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there
ready to go. However, this is not working in Debian. Cron is
installed and running, but w
* Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Which editor are you using? Please do a
> ll /etc/alternatives/editor
Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are
both set to emacs, which is that which I use generally. And that is
what was invoked with crontab -e both
looked like nothing. It was just a
mangled prompt, but that was because it was printing a very short line
from crontab -l without the newline, and then another prompt. For
some reason I still don't understand, overtop of this on the same line
it would print yet another prompt, giving s
* Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> As said by michael in another reply, the alternatives are overriden by
> EDITOR or VISUAL.
Yes, that would make sense, but I had unset these in trying to get vi
to work with crontab. I guess I had assumed that vi would be the
standard editor
I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d
nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What
is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is
somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am hesitant to go
in there willy-nilly.
Also,
* derek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello
> create the script in /etc/init.d/
> lets say its named myscript
> make it executable
> then do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaults
> that will create a sym link in all the run levels
> Derek
That sounds straightforward enough. Many thanks.
Patrick
* Dekxter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> GDM is disabled by running:
> # update-rc.d -f gdm remove
Thanks a lot. I can't believe how much trouble I was having just
trying to figure that little item out.
Patrick
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* Serban Udrea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello,
Howdy,
> I am on Slackware 10.1 box right now and the man page for crontab states
> that crontab -e will use /usr/bin/vi or VISUAL. It does not mention
> EDITOR. On this box if VISUAL is not set, vi is run. If I set VISUAL to
> something els
* Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Install the Debian Reference (debian-reference-en) and read §§ 2.4.2 and
> 2.4.3 and 8.1.4 from /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz .
I am hoping to sit down this weekend and read through the reference.
It looks to be a rather complete c
In reading online it seems that the standard practice to apply
security patches would be to run 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get
upgrade'. I am curious if this really is the best way and if so, how
often should it be done?
I use Fluxbox, and quickly switched from the default Gnome when I
first
* Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Moving this back on list so every gets the benefit.
>
Very sorry. I hit the r instead of L. I tend to do that when I am
not thinking, and that is too often.
> With Etch there will be more updates. I also recommend against having
> them automat
* Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
Hello Kevin,
> the best option if you want stability and (little or) no breakage is to
> run 'stable'. This is what Debian releases. Although there is now
> security support for testing also.
I had actually intended initially to install Stabl
* Steve Kemp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> > I am not familiar with apt-listbugs and apt-changes. What are those?
>
>http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/44
>
>They show you outstanding bu
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable
> text-based user interface, use 'aptitude'.
> after it's started in a text console (very useful if your X is broken)
> the command 'u' updates its package lists, 'U' then does the
* Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:36:20AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> Scenario1: You install stable (now sarge) and the entry in your sources.list
> is 'stable'. When etch will be released the next dist-upgrade will upgrade
>
* Ben Breslauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> T wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I am using Debian testing, I read that the ls is able to sort
> >alphabetically, but mixes uppercase and lowercase together i.e. 'Pearl'
> >comes before 'pearl' but after 'otter'.
> >
> >otter
> >Pearl
> >pearl
> >
> >I want that be
I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in
Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave
instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for
iptables in init.d and this does not exist. At least not in my
system. Can anyone give m
* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> isn't iptables part of the kernel and therefor up by default when the
> kernel starts executing?
>
> A
Yes, iptables as far as I know is part of the kernel, but the rules
must be loaded. In Slackware I would create a script and put it in
r
* Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> Use shorewall.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
I was just looking at a howto on this. I have never used any of these
tools before as I already had a firewall script which worked. But,
maybe now is as good a time as any to learn how this works.
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Patrick writes:
> > I suppose that I could do something similar with Debian, but would like
> > to make sure that there is not some more correct way to handle it first.
>
> No more correct but more sensible would be to install one of the several
> package
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Well, my custom firewall script does take start, stop and restart
> arguments and so I could call it using the rc method. However, I have
> thus far used it by calling it with a pre-up line in the stanza for my eth0:
> pre-up /etc/myfirewall/firewall.sh restart
* Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> Hi Patrick,
> most folks just run 'shorewall'! And you can add more rules if you need
> to.
> =Kev
This does seem to be the consensus here. However, as I have never
used this tool it is a bit intimidating. And the documentation is so
vast it may be
* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> read this
>
> http://www.shorewall.net/standalone.htm
>
> A
Well, there you go. I was completely on the wrong side of the docs.
Thanks for this shortcut. It seems pretty straightforward too. Took
me about five minutes to follow it and ge
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> As I see it, you have two choices. If you just want something that
> should do what you want and don't want to have to set anything up, just
> install ipmasq. It determines what the untrusted network is by where
> the default route or gateway po
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