On 2003-11-05, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to add apt-get update, and apt-get -qqy dist-update to my crontab
> to run daily att 6 am and have it send its output to a text file.
> my crontab entries look like:
> 0 6 * * * root apt-get update
> 1 6 * * * root apt-get
Werner Scharinger wrote:
Am Montag, 3. November 2003 09:00 schrieb Matt:
Bruce Sass wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote:
hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a
reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the
shop-vac and c
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:52:38 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>[Snipping most]
>
>On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 06:45 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
>>
>> I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it
>> would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
>> hardware I have
I tried to read the docs to see how the ifconfig in inetutils-tools is
different from the one in net-tools, but saw nothing.
Is it okay to have both? Should I pick one or the other?
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I've got it narrowed down to this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python2.2
Python 2.2.1 (#1, Sep 7 2002, 14:34:30)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import socket
>>> socket.getfqdn()
Segmentation fault
So I
While installing an updated fvwm2 from source, I decided to include gnome
support using apt-get to install libgnome-dev and I got the following
response:
debian:/home/sttng359/fvwm/fvwm-2.4.17# apt-get install libgnome-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The followin
I am trying to add apt-get update, and apt-get -qqy dist-update to my crontab
to run daily att 6 am and have it send its output to a text file.
my crontab entries look like:
0 6 * * * root apt-get update
1 6 * * * root apt-get -y dist-upgrade | less >> ~/distuplog.txt
It doesnt seem to work.
An
stan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:05:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
stan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
stan wrote:
Is there a version of X available for Debian that supports rotating my
LCD
screen into portrait mode?
#Op
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:52:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk said
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:48:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's
>
> Err, I mean the "discover" package...
Yah, 2.6 has differently named modules to 2.4, so it'll have
Hoyt Bailey wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 08:41
Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
I do not dissagree on any point. However it should be my choice. Should I
do something so stup
Hi
I cant get hotplug to start. I am using a debian kernel. Hot plug says
it "can't synthesize input events - /proc/bus/input/devices missing"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/paulb# cat /var/log/boot | grep hotplug
Wed Nov 5 16:20:19 2003: Starting hotplug subsystem: input** can't
synthesize input even
Hi
I cant get hotplug to start. I am using a debian kernel. Hot plug says
it "can't synthesize input events - /proc/bus/input/devices missing"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/paulb# cat /var/log/boot | grep hotplug
Wed Nov 5 16:20:19 2003: Starting hotplug subsystem: input** can't
synthesize input even
Ok, maybe I'm REALLY missing the signal in all the noise, but whyinhell are
people having a problem with this?
If an application needs kernel headers, whyinhell isn't it USING them?
That, after all, is why you put a kernel source tree in place on your
system. Any number of packages depend on havi
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:05:15PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> stan wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>stan wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is there a version of X available for Debian that supports rotating my
> >>>LCD
> >>>screen into portrait mode?
> >>>
> >>
> >>It dep
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:40:02PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> You've got to be kidding me. Hm, let's base the stability of our system on
> whether or not someone bothered to report a bug? With no way to go back?
> Right...
You mean let's NOT, as potentially useful input, evaluate whether or not
a
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:04:58PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> So my first question is, what is debian's equivalent to "clock". All
> it did, with the -w option, was to set the hardware clock from the
> system clock. I presume the former is GMT, and so there is a time
> offset invoved.
hwclock -
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:04:58PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm a RedHat refugee, and sometimes I can just transfer things to
> debian, and sometimes not.
>
> I have an executable script, "time.rc" which has:
>
> #! /bin/bash
> rdate -s time-b.nist.gov
> clock -w
>
> I installed rda
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:48:14PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hmm, detect doesn't seem to work fully on 2.6 kernels, but maybe it's
Err, I mean the "discover" package...
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:01:49PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> Configure X by hand? Why? The Debian X packages have a very
> sophisticated configuration system which walks you through the
> configuration. With a little googling, you'll even find that installing
> "hotplug", "mdetect" and "read-edid
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:24:21AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> [Please wrap your lines! It makes it much easier to read, and thus more
> likely that you'll get a response. Anywhere between 70 and 80 is
> acceptable; 72 seems to be a nice value.]
>
> On
Haines Brown wrote:
I'm a RedHat refugee, and sometimes I can just transfer things to
debian, and sometimes not.
I have an executable script, "time.rc" which has:
#! /bin/bash
rdate -s time-b.nist.gov
clock -w
I installed rdate, and that seems to work fine to set the system clock
(or at l
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:42:34AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2003-11-04 15:42:40 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned:
> > > In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system, I
> > > wouldn't have lost mail.
> >
>
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:03:52 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Try going to Sid.
I am on Sid and have exactly the same issue as Motyle.
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On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 01:42:34 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2003-11-04 15:42:40 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned:
> If you're stupid enough to type 'rm -rf' in your root directory, it's
> your problem. *You* are t
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:08:11AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> Ok for us stupid newbies. Why is it dangerous and stupid. RH and Caldera
> support an item in their login screen called I believe "Consol" which dumps
> you back to prior to startx and I
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:46:47PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> DynDNS.org accounts are free? I didn't realise that - I thought there
> was an annual fee (albeit sufficiently minimal that remembering to pay
> it would be more of a problem than finding the mo
I'm a RedHat refugee, and sometimes I can just transfer things to
debian, and sometimes not.
I have an executable script, "time.rc" which has:
#! /bin/bash
rdate -s time-b.nist.gov
clock -w
I installed rdate, and that seems to work fine to set the system clock
(or at least the system clo
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:06:46PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> Hi!
> I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal
> speaker?
Haven't solved this one, but...
>
> My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new
> motherboard, and everything is work
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Is there some GUI to define, revoke, update passwords for Apache(2)
> users ???
>
> Tried Apache Webmin but it does not and I would like to avoid using the
> htpasswd command line for this (many users and quite dynamic).
>
webmin 1.120 includes an htacc
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 00:19 GMT, Hoyt Bailey penned:
>
> - Original Message - From: "Roberto Sanchez"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 08:41
> Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
>
> I do not dissagree on any point. However it sho
Hi,
i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do the same
by NOT using the smarthost option and use my exim4 to do this?
Also, i've have always wondered how one sets up a "real" mail server:
if you had a domain
Paul Scott wrote:
> Motyle wrote:
> >Is there any easy way to force kdebase and depending packages installation
> >ignoring libsensors-1debian1 problem at the moment?
>
> Go to http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianKDE to read more and to D/L a deb
> for libsensors-1debian1.
OK, I have found it, and at
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:51:45PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > If testing is what is supposed to be the next release, then it seems
> > > pointless to even bother. "Testing" still has Mozilla 1.0. That's what,
> > > 2 years old?
> >
> > We're working o
On 2003-11-04 15:42:40 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned:
> > In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system, I
> > wouldn't have lost mail.
>
> And if I hadn't typed 'rm -rf' in my root directory, I wouldn't have
> lost
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:48:59AM +0800, csj wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:37:04 +,
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:47:17AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > > Maybe it's time to file a serious bug report against
> > > linux-kernel-headers. IMHO there should at least be two header
>
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:00:32PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:37:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > That hierarchy [/usr/include/{linux,asm}] is chiefly for glibc's
> > internal use; applications were never supposed to use it directly.
>
> If these are supposed t
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:01:49 +1100
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
RW> > When I got to the boot loader options, I was surprised to find
RW> > only lilo.
RW>
RW> You need a default bootloader during the install. lilo works. If
RW> you don't like it, change it after the install.
RW>
RW> > I
After the most recent apt-get dist-upgrade I can no longer use the gnome
windows manager. If I start gdm it allows me to login but then displays
the Failed to activate:'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon' message. If I
start kdm instead it allows a choice of windows managers. icewm works
but some t
- Original Message -
From: "Roberto Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 08:41
Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
I do not dissagree on any point. However it should be my choice. Should I
do something so stupid as download as r
hi andres
yup, you're right :-)
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:19:18PM -0500, Andrés Roldán wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
..
> > root# grub
> > grub> uninstall ( i think it works donno )
> >
> > -- or --
> >
> > root# lilo -U
> >
> > -- or --
> >
> > #
> > # important ... dont
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:59:16 + (UTC)
Marco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
MC> Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what
MC> is the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in
MC> particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different
MC> func
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:36:14PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > cpp doesn't seem to depend on g++, where I believe cc1plus is installed.
> >
> > Is this a broken package? And if so, which one?
>
> There have been on-going reports of cpp being broken in weird ways, but
> this doesn't sound like tha
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, at 09:25 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote:
> I know you cannot predict this 100 % accurate but what do you think
> how likely will XFree86 4.3 be included in stable Sarge?
>
> I need XFree86 4.3 due to a bug in DRM in prior releases.
>
> I it is not very likely for it to be inclu
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, at 09:44 +, John Peter wrote:
> I stand corrected, Damien !
> As I mentioned I just pasted the info and did not verify it - just
> tried to give,those who needed it, a push!
> A litlle search before asking doesn't hurt annyone ...
No problem at all. Branden's XSF page a
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003, at 09:29 +, John Peter wrote:
> Put this on your sources.list :
> # XFree 4.3
> deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./
> deb http://www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby/ ./
First off, this is for sid ... I believe the original poster in question
was looking for packag
I'm testing out exim4-daemon-heavy and I have this ACL:
deny message = $found_extension files are not accepted here
demime = com:vbs:bat:pif:scr
I created a mail attachemet with mutt and I'm testing like:
# exim4 -C test.conf -bhc .1234
and then I paste in a message that has an attach
Motyle wrote:
I have done as usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
It has told me that many packages will be removed, but I have proceeded
anyways (I just trust Debian).
Well, the resulting system does not have KDE at all (see bug 210276 for
ksysguardd - kdebase depends on ksysguard which
- Original Message -
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 09:52
Subject: Re: hdparm script
> Alfredo Valles wrote:
> Take a look at the Debian Reference section on the boot process:
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-boot
>
Thank yo
> - Original Message -
> From: "Manolis Tzanidakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:49 PM
> Subject: Re: devfs and lvm
>
> [20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>
> Hello
>
>> currently my server (2.4.21) is run
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:52:38AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 06:45 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
> >
> > I've decided to try to recompile the latest kernel. I figure that it
> > would be nice to have the latest kernel with support for only the
> > hardware I have (or thi
With the recent launch of Red Hat's Fedora, it seems to me that we now
have three major options for people looking for a community-based Linux
distribution for x86: Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora.
I'm currently using Woody, mostly because of the community aspect (just
"feels" right to me) and the p
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
>
>> "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I have a machine where I want to cleanly install Debian, but the
>> > MBR has remains of grub. I searched the net, but all hits I got
>> > involved a DOS diskette
Hi,
Please Cc: me! Thanks!
I'm using Debian unstable. There is a bottom menu entry tagged "Debian
menu" in the pull-down of the "Applications" button in the gnome-panel.
It's empty there under the "Debian menu" ! There's nothing as sub-entry
below it.
How could I have anything under this menu
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:32:50PM +0100, Marco Cecconi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >
> >Karsten M. Self wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Marco Cecconi wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it, it reads and
> >>>writes the clock wrongly... Dammit!
> >>>:-)
> >> apt-
- Original Message -
From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 01:28
Subject: Re: GUI login screen.
Guess I will have to.
Regards;
Hoyt
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On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned:
> On 2003-11-04 10:41:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> That's because fetchmail didn't lose the mail; the delivery system
>> did.
>
> In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system, I
> wouldn't have lost mail.
An
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Z Maze wrote:
> "W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a machine where I want to cleanly install Debian, but the
> > MBR has remains of grub. I searched the net, but all hits I got
> > involved a DOS diskette or similar. I don't have such a disk,
> > b
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 15:33, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am using Debian unstable with the kernel that came with Knoppix 3.3
> which uses kernel 2.4.22-xfs. I have mounted /dev/hde6 as /usr,
> /dev/hde5 as /home and /dev/hde8 as /var. When I shutdown there is
> always a mess
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:51:45PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > > If testing is what is supposed to be the next release, then it seems
> > > pointless to even bother. "Testing" still has Mozilla 1.0. That's what,
> > > 2 years old?
> >
> > We're working on it, but the mozilla package is buggy, whi
- Original Message -
From: "Raymond Gree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: EXIM & SPAM filtering
> Hi,
> as most of you I receive undesired email -spam-
> I run my own mail server Exim on a Debian Woody
> is there a way to use
- Original Message -
From: "Manolis Tzanidakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: devfs and lvm
[20031030] Benedict Verheyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
Hello
> currently my server (2.4.21) is running LVM. All partitio
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How-to Install kickstart (Red Hat) in debian:
> Como instalar kickstart en debian
> (English & Spanish)
> (Ingles y Español)
>
> I need a machine with red hat for use redhat-config-kickstart? NO !! :-)
[...]
This is timely. I just got
> -Original Message-
> From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Malinovich
> Subject: Re: What's the best package manager for
> single-package upgrades?
> Let me rephrase. Either the US mirrors are screwed, or ther
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:52, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
[...]
> Knoppix's ability to detect stuff is nothing short of amazing to me.
[...]
> And did I mention Knoppix is sweet?
Just love that Knoppix CD. Take it everywhere with me...
Come to think of it, I never have to use it, so it obvious
(/me looks up thinking when will i not be noob anymore)
These are the kinda things i tend to learn the hard way, as in today
running into a full partition under linux for the first time ever,
except for the boot partition but that one is so small it's easy
to keep an overall view.
I never knew
Hi
This seems similar like the problem i head with several daemons:
some services (and it seems from what you wrote also telnetd) try to
reverse-lookup the connecting IP address, first in /etc/hosts and then
in DNS with the standard config and so if you do not have the IP of
Box-2 is not in /etc/ho
I try to use it through the server to clean mails just after receiving them
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 20:12 GMT, Raymond Gree penned:
Hi, as most of you I receive undesired email -spam- I run my own mail
server Exim on a Debian Woody is there a way to use spamassassin ,
m
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:52:17 +,
Karsten M. Self wrote:
[...]
> A large part of the problem was that Galeon's former lead
> developer, Marco Presenti Gritti drifted from "a browser for
> power users" to "a browser for the masses". One of the best
> things to happen to Galeon was that it's been
On 2003-11-04 10:41:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> That's because fetchmail didn't lose the mail; the delivery system did.
In some sense, yes. But if fetchmail didn't use the delivery system,
I wouldn't have lost mail.
> You're absolutely right -- a misconfigured MTA is dangerous and can
>
stan wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
stan wrote:
Is there a version of X available for Debian that supports rotating my LCD
screen into portrait mode?
It depends on your video driver (and I suppose, whether your LCD panel
can handle it). For example, if you have
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:37:04 +,
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:47:17AM +0800, csj wrote:
> > Maybe it's time to file a serious bug report against
> > linux-kernel-headers. IMHO there should at least be two header
> > packages, one for 2.4 and another for 2.6. One could be
"W. Borgert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a machine where I want to cleanly install Debian, but the
> MBR has remains of grub. I searched the net, but all hits I got
> involved a DOS diskette or similar. I don't have such a disk,
> but I can boot the machine using Knoppix or other Debian
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:36:21 +1100,
Rob Weir wrote:
[...]
> > Xine also fails to compile (ditto nvrec, a low overhead
> > recording program). My conclusion: all video applications
> > are affected.
>
> Eh? The only things that could possibly be affected are those
> using kernel headers because
> > If testing is what is supposed to be the next release, then it seems
> > pointless to even bother. "Testing" still has Mozilla 1.0. That's what,
> > 2 years old?
>
> We're working on it, but the mozilla package is buggy, which makes it
> difficult to make the testing management scripts happy
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:26:15PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> The general answer is "downgrades are not supported". It is often
> possible to just install the previous versions of packages with "dpkg"
> (look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for old .debs), but there are no
> guarantees. Installing "apt
Can someone explain to me why this happens:
I have a two system LAN connected by a 4 port 10/100 switch. One box is
used exclusively as an Internet gateway. I have a dialup connection and the
connection is managed through this box (call it Box-1). Since this is a
dialup connection, it does N
Gary Hennigan wrote:
"Malcolm Box" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, that looks like it might fix things. But can anyone tell me how
to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get
don't work at the moment? Is there some way to manually unpack the
files from the .deb into
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:19:49PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:03:00 -0500
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a setting in Mozilla to eliminate popups? I am running testing
> > and have the latest release of Mozilla for testing but a search of
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 20:12 GMT, Raymond Gree penned:
> Hi, as most of you I receive undesired email -spam- I run my own mail
> server Exim on a Debian Woody is there a way to use spamassassin ,
> mailfilter or other to kill these mails the only information I have
> been able to find is when using
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:12:01AM +1100, Damien Solley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 01:03, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > Is there a setting in Mozilla to eliminate popups? I am running testing
> > and have the latest release of Mozilla for testing but a search of the
> > index finds nothing reg
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:37:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> That hierarchy [/usr/include/{linux,asm}] is chiefly for glibc's
> internal use; applications were never supposed to use it directly.
If these are supposed to be private, why are they now
provided in a seperate package?
--
Jon Dowl
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003, at 11:07 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Marco Cecconi wrote:
> > > It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it, it reads
> > > and writes the clock wrongly... Dammit!
> > > :-)
> >
> > apt-get install ntp
>
> apt-get install ntp ntpda
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:12:07PM +0100, wsa wrote:
> Every time i start to think 'i'm getting the hang of linux' things
> like this happen...lib stuff...compile stuff...at times i think i need
> spiked mountain shoes to climb the learning curve ;)
if you run unstable, you can get exactly what
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:32:30AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> stan wrote:
> >Is there a version of X available for Debian that supports rotating my LCD
> >screen into portrait mode?
> >
>
> It depends on your video driver (and I suppose, whether your LCD panel
> can handle it). For example, if you
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:21:28AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Many of the free games available in main will give you the same
> feeling when compared with commercially developed games like
> Quake and cousins. All I'm looking for is a first person
> perspective game that doesn't strap you on to a seat
Motyle wrote:
> I have done as usual apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> It has told me that many packages will be removed, but I have proceeded
> anyways (I just trust Debian).
>
> Well, the resulting system does not have KDE at all (see bug 210276 for
> ksysguardd - kdebase depends on ksy
Karsten M. Self wrote:
Marco Cecconi wrote:
It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it, it reads and
writes the clock wrongly... Dammit!
:-)
apt-get install ntp
apt-get install ntp ntpdate
:-)
If the clock is very far off when ntp starts up then ntp won't be a
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:57:02PM +, Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:35:20 +
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > IRC channels are the best you're likely to do for running guidance. If
> > there's really serious hose-your-syst
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:14 GMT, David Jardine penned:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:09:53AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>>
>>
>> PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top.
>> Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!!
>>
>
> You know, it must be so o
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 19:42:08 -0500,
Mental Patient wrote:
[...]
> Last time I broke libc, I fixed it by booting off my rescue
> (knoppix) cd. Mounted all the filesystems under
> /mnt/debian. It looked like
>
> /mnt/debian
> /mnt/debian/boot
> /mnt/debian/usr
> /mnt/debian/var
>
> etc...
>
> I
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:28:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages t
> From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [Could you attribute the person whom you're quoting, please?]
Sorry - this not working yet, and it sometimes slips my mind to copy a
line from from the header.
> To copy from xterm, highlight the region you want to copy with the
> left mouse button.
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600,
Kent West wrote:
[...]
> If you have an X session going, and you switch to a VTx, you
> can then log in as a different user and start a second X
> session with a command like "startx -- :1". Go to a third VT
> and start a third session with a command like "star
Hi,
as most of you I receive undesired email -spam-
I run my own mail server Exim on a Debian Woody
is there a way to use spamassassin , mailfilter or other
to kill these mails
the only information I have been able to find is when using
a fetch software
thank you very much for your help
Raymond
--
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 17:46 GMT, Pigeon penned:
>
>
> DynDNS.org accounts are free? I didn't realise that - I thought there
> was an annual fee (albeit sufficiently minimal that remembering to pay
> it would be more of a problem than finding the money, even for me :-)
> ) debian-user scores agai
Hello,
I have a machine where I want to cleanly install Debian, but the
MBR has remains of grub. I searched the net, but all hits I got
involved a DOS diskette or similar. I don't have such a disk,
but I can boot the machine using Knoppix or other Debian rescue
CDs. What is the magic command li
Please CC me on all replies since I'm not currently
subscribed to the list. I start talking about Debian
specifically around paragraph 7. You might consider
the rest to be slightly OT.
I just got Verizon DSL last week and have yet to
manage to get online. I was unsuccessful with my
roommate's WinX
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:09:53AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>
>
> PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top.
> Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!!
>
You know, it must be so obvious to you experienced people, but
there are some of us out her
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:28 am, Nicolas Kowalski wrote:
> # hdparm optimization
> # Switches on interrupts during transfers and does multi sector transfers
> if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>hdparm -q -d1 -c3 -a4 -m16 -u1 -W0 /dev/hda
>true
Thanks Nicolas, Dennis and every
Hi!
> on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:26:46PM +1300, Jochen Daum
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a debian woody machine which I installed via FTP.
> >
> > I would like to dump the names of all installed packages
> into a file,
> > so that I can install them automatically with dpkg.
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