nate wrote:
[something about Suse]
Here in Germany some people (especially Debian geeks) call Suse
"Nuernberger Windows"... ;-)
(Nuernberg is the name of the town where Suse comes from.)
cu Ruediger
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avnathan said:
> i)How to config a local printer (I dont find /etc/printcap file) ?
for both local and remote printers I use cups. apt-cache search cups,
you'll need some print filters too. I use these packages:
cupsys install
cupsys-bsd
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:10:52PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote: As for your
> earlier post about the auth not working, have you checked to
> see if you have libpam-pwdfile installed? I just set up SMTP
> plain auth last night following the direct
Hi,
after a power shortage, I now have a problem with
/var/lib/dpkg/available.
When I run dpkg, it finds a parse error at line 1 : EOF after field " "
I cannot install any new package and my system was left in an unstable
state (some libs seems not to be available anymore, so gdm or
firestarter
yip, I also run 2.4.20, with the Con Kolivas' ck2 patch, and without any
problems.
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 01:23, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> > Greetings-
> >
> > I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machin
Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> A colleague of mine is RedHat nut, but regardless, he has compiled
Samba
> + LDAP to act as a primary authentication server for his company. When
he
> tried to apply it to our Debian environment, he was stumped. So we
turned
Debian is the best environment for this, see:
h
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:07:55PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote:
> >anybody got a pointer to an english version of how to set up
> >smtp authentication via exim 3.3?
>
> I won't pretend to own a clue, myself. Maybe you should try
> the O'Reilly book, _Exim_, "Official Guide For Release 3", by
> Phili
sounds like a problem with either the bios on the boot machine, floppy
disk (I'd check this first. just recently bought a 20 pack of s h i t t y
disks, pardon my french), or a bad drive possibly on either machine
and most likely the booting one.
Either way, you're on the right track with gettin
> As a consequence (or so I think), I am able to play the audio cd with
> both cdplay and gcd, but not xmms. Even cdparanoia rips the tracks.
I bet if you go into the xmms config, you'll be able to get audio off of
/dev/dsp instead of the oss defaults.
Just config it through the ~ on the upper l
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to ... have a Debian server
> provide all authentication for Windows clients, regardless of whether
> they are just logging in to a computer, VPNing, obtaining
> mail (through
> an Exchange Server and a Postfix Server). I would also like this
Greetings, all.
I'm running Woody on an old Pentium box as my
gateway/firewall/fileserver for my LAN here at Castillo del Lago (my
home). Life is good here, and I'm really enjoying Debian, but I'm kind
of stuck with the demand dialing thing.
If I comment out the "demand" and "persist" stateme
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:20:30AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> I'd especially like to use pine because I really like
> that prog but it doesn't handle smtp - so how should I
> do this ?
Once again, have a properly configured MTA (mail transport agent) like
exim running. eximconfig will set exim
> -Original Message-
> From: Jason Pepas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:52 PM
> To: Grant Bowman; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Backup Consensus?
>
>
> On Sunday 26 January 2003 03:32 pm, Grant Bowman wrote:
> > Is there a place where a general consensu
I am a new debian user although dabbling in it for more than a year. First i was interested in installing successfully especially dual booting with W2K which i have accomplished to certain degree of success. Now i am looking into configuration for effective use. My doubts:
i)How to config a local
I am a new debian user although dabbling in it for more than a year. First i was
interested in installing successfully especially dual booting with W2K which i have
accomplished to certain degree of success. Now i am looking into configuration for
effective use. My doubts:
i)How to config a l
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:49:27PM -0800, Rick Schultz wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:11:36PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a way to make a network backup of an install, and
>> restore that to another box with a different size disk. tomsrtbt
>> would work fine if it suppo
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> The motherboard specs say that pc100 ram should be used and I've
> installed pc133. Is this a problem ?
This would be a question better suited for your motherboard
manufacturer, but I wouldn't see this being a problem.
> Else, ho
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:14:36PM +0100, Roman Joost wrote:
> Is there some howto available for seting up a MX record?
The DNS Howto, or the bind documentation. Talk to your DNS
administrator if you do not do the DNS for your domain.
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:15:29AM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
| 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.
It varies over time. Sometimes the list is processed very rapidly,
and sometimes there
No, still no luck... list of all the FAILs attached in case anyone can
say "AH! *That* problem..."
in hope,
Pigeon
gcc-2.95-2.95.4.ds13.testsuite.fails.bz2
Description: Binary data
Eric Nelson writes:
> Yea, free copies to just those in the UK won't cut it. You need to send
> to the us as well =)
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 06:22:11AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Missing dependencies perhaps? Maybe you should do as root first:
> apt-get build-dep gcc-2.95 [or whatever your version's packages
> is called? For my part I use apt-get only to download the source,
> and either dpkg-buildpackage
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:06:43PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> I've had alsa installed without problems on a different computer, and
> went to install it on this one due to some advice I'd read regarding my
> soundcard. It works fine, but for some reason my mixer settings aren't
> stayi
Andrei Smirnov wrote:
a black screen
and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such
Here the situation:
Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X
craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen)
...
i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all
on the o
Curtis Vaughan said:
> A colleague of mine is RedHat nut, but regardless, he has compiled Samba
> + LDAP to act as a primary authentication server for his company. When he
> tried to apply it to our Debian environment, he was stumped. So we turned
http://howto.aphroland.de/HOWTO/LDAP
has quite
will trillich wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
>> | On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
>> | > SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate.
[...]
>
>no
* On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:20:52PM -0800 Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
->On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:42:29PM -0800, Harshu wrote:
->> I am running session at 1024x768 resolution with hysnc and vsync to be
->> 3-50 and 50-150 that I entered during xserver-xfree86 configuration.
^^^
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 10:12:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> The attachment is a segment of the /var/log/cups/error_log beginnig two
> lines before the first "false" result and continuing to the Ghostscript
> exit. This was generated by trying to print a single line of text.
>
> If an
Sounds fun, I think this is a great idea.
You won't be able to share any partitions aside from proc, swap, dev, and
home partitions though, and you are going to want to have seperate user
accounts for either distro if you're going to run gui's like kde, gnome
etc.
Maybe it'll be a good idea to m
> Have you paid the required fee for posting advertising to this list?
Yea, free copies to just those in the UK won't cut it. You need to send
to the us as well =)
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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 things, this typically results in several identical
> responses to a ques
>On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:18, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> Anybody got some recommendations for Debian books - books that have good
> coverage of Debian-specific topics like APT and MODCONF?
My favorite is:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed
by Mario Camou, Aaron Van Couwenberghe, John Goerzen
Av
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:35:31PM -0300, Gabriel Menini ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Hello, there.
>
> Something strange is happening when I try to change the system's root
> password.
> I tried with both commands, chpasswd and passwd without success.
>
> The system is keeping something like a
Hello again.
I tracked the problem, and it appears there wasn't anymore the file
/etc/X11/default-x-manager.
As a consequence the postinst-script reached a get_db call which seemed to
exit the script with an error.
It's the following passus.
Excerpt from /var/lib/info/dpkg/gdm2/postinst:
vvv
A colleague of mine is RedHat nut, but regardless, he has compiled
Samba + LDAP to act as a primary authentication server for his company.
When he tried to apply it to our Debian environment, he was stumped. So
we turned to a Slackware nut, who was also stumped, but decided to
forget the RedHat
on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:27:59PM +, Miguel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> hi,
>
> last night I decided to format a partition to fat32 and I used window$
> to do this (bad decision...). Aparently, all went ok but, today, when I
> rebooted the machine to linux, my home partition has been erased!
Hiya,
I just bought a swish new cd-writer which claims to have Mt Rainier
support. Does anyone know of some good docs to get this working under
linux?
cheers
dc
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Hello,
I've just installed Debian 3.0 on my new PC and I'm having a dreadful time
with X.
I had to install the drm-trunk-module-src_2002.12.05-5_all.deb and
xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2002.12.05-4_i386.deb from
http://dri.sourceforge.net for my Radeon 9000, which seems to have gone ok
since I do
Thanks to everyone for suggestions. There is something funny going on in
my system which I am not able to identify.
Sometime since yesterday morning I could not get any sound out of my
speakers. Changing volume levels, etc did not help. Suspecting some
screwup, I just deleted the asound.state fil
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:53:24AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
<
--snip fix from previous post -->
> >
> > > By the way, if you're actually printing man pages to paper (I'm not sure
> > > from your post if you mean printing to screen or prin
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> ref:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.luck
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:11:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Note this bit from the "apt-get --compile source ${pnam}${pver}"
> command:
>Need to get 647kB of source archives.
>Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org sarge/main gqview 1.0.2-1 (dsc)
>
The kernel don't want to know if your mouse has a wheel, but just on
which port it is plugged (ps/2, uart, usb ... ?)
X system has to do with mouse wheel.
Fred
florin gheorghiu wrote:
Hi,
How do I set-up a mouse-wheel logitech in my box sid, kernel
2.4.18-bf2.4 ?
Thanks !
_
It is almost certainly trying to upgrade dpkg on top of itself while
running. The instructions at
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9
helped me.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Margaret Toews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Last week I did an apt-get upgrade on my 2.2.17 OS re
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 02:36:43PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> As far as I understand, once I've set up 2 networks with a VPN, there
> are no firewalls between them. Is this right?
Not necessarily. It is most "probably" the situation, but it is not a
requirement.
> The reason I ask is bec
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:09:10PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > | well it sounds good. isn't that what exim already does? (i guess
> > | not. lead on, mcduf
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:02:42PM -0600, Margaret Toews wrote:
> Last week I did an apt-get upgrade on my 2.2.17 OS release which
> error-ed out with "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly".
That's essentially a summary which means "An error has occurred. See
above for the details".
>
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 things, this typically results in several identical
responses to a question, as subscribers are unaware that somebody has
already responded.
Anybody got some recommendations for Debian books –
books that have good coverage of Debian-specific topics like APT and MODCONF?
Daniel
Curtis Vaughan said:
> As far as I understand, once I've set up 2 networks with a VPN, there are
> no firewalls between them. Is this right?
>
> The reason I ask is because I have 2 networks VPNed. I can gain access to
> their computers, but when I try to gain access to a specific
> computer ove
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote:
--snip--
> right. here's why people (read as 'non-geeks') insist that
> documentation is lacking in the linux world:
--snip--
>
> no clue given HOW to determine which "available authenticators"
> are supplied, WHAT they might be called, nor HOW TO
I'm runing xsane on a Debian machine, using a FreeBSD machine as the
scanner server. On the FreebSD machine, all is well, on the Debian box, I
can preview scan OK, but the actual scan looks like a TV that has lost
synch.
Any sugestions as to what to try?
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Thanks very much Mark and Nate,
Yes that "free" output is a bit confusing, and the man page is not very
enlightening...
Chris
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Pigeon wrote:
Where was this article? I could do a plausibility scan on it if you
still have it
Long lost, but I appreciate and agree with your every comment.
Debian-user is my main source of general PC-knowhow, not just Debian usage.
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* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030131 07:39]:
> Greetings-
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> ref:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.lucky.linux.ker
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +, debian parisc wrote:
>> Friends,
>>
>> forgive me for my ignorance, but I see a lot of emails on this list with
>> PGP signatures. Exactly what purpose does it serve having PGP as part of
>> your signature? The
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> ref:
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.luck
I have used both "woody" (xfree 4.1) and now "testing" (Xfree 4.2) with
the wireless logitech keyboard and mouse. I have had no problems which
were not resolved by pushing the reset switch on the keyboard, mouse,
and control unit. Each of these buttons looks different and fooled me
for some
I'm not sure if this is the right list, but I'm gonna try here (I'm also
subscribed to several other of the Debian lists, including debian-boot,
so if this question belongs there, please excuse my faux pas).
Currently I'm running RedHat 7.2 on my main machine. I want to install
Debian on a seconda
Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote:
>>
>>> OK, Just to make things more complicated British money changed
[...]
>>
>> Some more wacky fun facts about British money.
[...]
>>
>> [ ... ]
>
>Here's some more:
What a wonderful
Thanks to all for your help.
Indeed, options or a conf are both valuable after
a test.
mess-mate
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:10:24 -0500
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
|
| Move the file from .gnupg/options to .gnupg/gpg.conf, they changed the
| location of the file a bit back.
|
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 11:20:30AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
| I've got Mozilla configured successfully
That's a start -- at least you have the information necessary to
| - but it's a
| bit silly to use such a big program for just sending a
| mail
If you say so. (I use mutt anyways).
| I th
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote:
> that go on a bender. :-) I suspect it of taking exponential time so
> it's quicker to test each DIMM separately rather than all three
> together, though I am prepared to be corrected on this.
It uses an ultrasonic sensor buried in all computers since 1984 to
d
* Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030131 07:38]:
> Lars Jensen wrote:
> > How do I re-download copies installed .deb packages that are already on
> > my system? apt-get won't download a package that is already installed.
>
> apt-get install --reinstall
> (It'll use the cached .deb's in /var/c
I'm looking for a way to make a network backup of an install, and
restore that to another box with a different size disk.
tomsrtbt would work fine if it supported reiser filesystems, because I'm
using them too -- I would boot the floppy, mount and copy to device from
nfs.
rsync seems an important
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, nate wrote:
> Courtney Thomas said:
> > Nate,
> >
> > Thank you for your interest.
> >
> > This motherboard is about 4 yrs old. I don't remember the brand but the
> > manual indicates that it is a M5SAB, if that helps. The RAM is Kingston
> > which I bought yesterday at Office
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).
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Op do 30-01-2003, om 09:38 schreef nate:
> I've run a lot of linux and unix versions over the years.. last year
> I took a liking to SuSE, it has a lot of bells and whistles. My first
> real experience with it was 7.3, very impressive.
My introduction into linux was a SuSE 7.2. that i bought. I w
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:49, nate wrote:
> Andrew Perrin said:
>
[snip]
> spin down for 10 seconds per 12 hours). There are up to 6 ext3 patches
> for 2.4.20 which are probably a good idea to apply if you plan to use
> ext3.
I wonder if the package kernel-source-2.4.20 (which is currently at
vers
As far as I understand, once I've set up 2 networks with a VPN, there
are no firewalls between them. Is this right?
The reason I ask is because I have 2 networks VPNed. I can gain access
to their computers, but when I try to gain access to a specific
computer over port 3050, there is no access
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:32:06PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I'm re-installing Debian on a system.
>
> I tried this last month and ran into trouble with the video card (ATI Radeon
> All-In-Wonder). It turns out the version of X in the current stable branch
> does not support my card well. Th
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:57, Dan Hunt wrote:
> Oh fellow debian-users, if you could have just one dead tree book
> what would you ask for?
Here's a few of my favorites:
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment - Stevens
- Programming Perl - Wall
- Red Hat Linux Survival Guide - Kabir
Of co
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:43:06PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I know, somehow off topic, but a student I am supervising uses RedHat
> -- for reasons I do not know.
>
> Compiling iptables-1.2.7a locally on that box there results in a very
> strange error message when trying to launch
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:57:27 +,
Pigeon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Desiring to build gcc-2.95 optimised for my woody/k7 system, I set CFLAGS and
> CXXFLAGS to "-O2 -march=i686" (seems the closest we can get to "k7" at
> the moment) and did an apt-get --compile source gcc-2.95.
>
> Reading the output
does anyone know what happened to the linux hardware database (lhd.zdnet.com)?
-jason pepas
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Everytime I try to start kde3 (version 3.1.0) it reaches the inititialize peripherals
stage and then it appears that the xserver crashes.
I had the same problem with kde2 (version 2.2.2-13.woody.5). I tried uninstalling and
reinstalling xserver-xfree86 and associated packages. I also tried unin
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:12:13PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> On 25.01.2003 19:33 Jonah Sherman wrote:
> >> Any ideas why `cdrecord` is not working for me. Debian Woody, kernel
> >2.4.18bf
> >> thanks.
> >[snip]
> >> hdb: R/RW 4x4x24, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> >> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 o
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:37:32AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 08:48:17PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> | On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:59:40PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> | > SMTP Authentication sounds like a prime candidate.
> |
> | well it sounds good. isn't tha
a black screen
and i didint found any solutions on winehq and such
Here the situation:
Debian 3.0 with 4.1.0 X
craft runs under wine with sound but without graphics (with a black screen)
...
i tried to change bpp, resolutions ... on bpp 8 640x480 it not work at all
on the other hand, heroes4 runs
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:01:43PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> The sender verify callout operates by attempting to deliver a bounce
> message (but stopping before actually sending the message) to the
> sender. The sender is given in the MAIL FROM: command, and in this
> case is [EMAIL PR
On 29 Jan 2003 15:54:32 -0600,
Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:28, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > 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 s
> apt-get install --reinstall
> (It'll use the cached .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives when it finds
> it, though)
>
> If you really want to _download_ new, rm that deb from the directory
> and run the above command.
you might try this in combination with -d (download only).
-jason pepas
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re-install anything using apt-get without getting the same error. I
re-installed Apache fre
> a bootable cd collection as a backup. now that's *cool*.
you might check out mondo as well.
apt-cache show mondo
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On Sunday 26 January 2003 03:32 pm, Grant Bowman wrote:
> Is there a place where a general consensus has been reached on exactly
> what is necesary to backup a Debian system? I'm sure this has been
> asked and answered many times before, so I am looking for URLs to where
> this has been discussed
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:00:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> >
> > After I drop in the cd and close it, the lights do come up for a couple
> > of seconds. It happens even the 'cd' is just a piece of plastic. That is
> > the end of it. gtcd/kcd/xmms/etc say that there is no cd in the drive.
>
Hello
> Buy some really cheap headphones.
> Cut off the headphones from the cord.
> Stick the plug into the laptop's audio jack.
Make your own audio jack on smith plug and play (without sound :)
> That should shut it up for good and not damage the machine.
So don't make your jack when plug on y
-- florin gheorghiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> How do I set-up a mouse-wheel logitech in my box sid, kernel
> 2.4.18-bf2.4 ?
In your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, have the InputDevice section read as
below:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "
Ntpdate and ntptrace are over TCP connections.
Normal ntpd traffic is over UDP connections, I believe.
Check your firewall.
Run ntpdc and enter dmpeer
>dmpeer
remote local st poll reach delay offsetdisp
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Courtney Thomas said:
> Nate,
>
> Thank you for your interest.
>
> This motherboard is about 4 yrs old. I don't remember the brand but the
> manual indicates that it is a M5SAB, if that helps. The RAM is Kingston
> which I bought yesterday at Office Max.
>
> The documentation indicates pc100 but I
Op di 28-01-2003, om 08:32 schreef Emma Jane Hogbin:
Very good post. I'll grab for it when i have my new pc.
It will sure come in handy.
Thanks!
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Benedict Verheyen
Linux 2.4.20 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
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Is anyone else using the cyrus21 packages able to use cyrdeliver? I have
been unable to make it work on my setup, it can't connect to lmtp because
of "sasl_setprop" errors. It'd help to know if it's a problem in the
binary or if it's just my configuration.
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| How do I re-download copies installed .deb packages that are already on
| my system? apt-get won't download a package that is already installed.
IIRC, apt-move creates a local "mirror" of the packages installed on a
particular machine.
HTH,
Brooks
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Courtney Thomas said:
> Nate,
>
> I already tried the append="mem=384M". Didn't help.
>
> BTW, it is kernel 2.4.17.
Does the BIOS detect all of the memory? I've never encountered
a board in which the BIOS could see all the memory but the kernel
could not with the append option(I've only used syste
Clouded Reality said:
> Anyone know if there's some way to get some sort of verbose logging out of
> ntpd in Debian testing without recompiling my own copy?
I am no ntp expert but these commands that big brother runs may provide
some more info:
you can see the commands and the output it generate
Andrew Perrin said:
> I discovered this while trying to get sound working on my desktop
> machine. Basically, a SCSI CD-RW that once worked has simply stopped
> working, as far as I can tell.
> 1.) The small question: how can I tell what device (/dev/*) a given SCSI
> device is attached to?
> 2.)
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> But I don't want to upgrade to testing or unstable in general. How crazy
> is it to do this? What will I break? (I'm comfortable self-compiling
> kernels.)
I su
At 2003-01-30T17:57:50Z, Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh fellow debian-users, if you could have just one dead tree book what
> would you ask for?
"Programming Perl, 3rd Ed." by Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant. No question.
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Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 25.01.2003 19:33 Jonah Sherman wrote:
>> You need ide-scsi emulation to use an IDE CDRW drive. Add
>> SCSI(CONFIG_SCSI), SCSI Generic(CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG), and SCSI
>> CDRom(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR), and SCSI IDE
>> Emulation(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI) to
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