How do I recreate the file /var/lib/dpkg/available ?

I "accidentally" deleted the files /var/lib/dpkg/available and /var/lib/dpkg/available.old (they were huge), now I need to recreate them again, becasue I can't install anything without them, even 'dpkg -l' turns up with nothing. I've looked into the different man pages of dpkg and apt, but hav

Make users belong to indivdiual groups.

I have 60-70 users on my system, all have been added with the useradd -m command, which I realize now made them belong to the same group 'users', had I used the command adduser instead then they would have ended up belongig to individual groups, which is what I need... My problem commes from the f

Re: procmail recipe not working

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: > > I've been thinking of making a similar thing, just so I can list each > > spammer on one line instead of 4. > > FYI, if you do something like this in your procmail recipe file: > > SPAM=SPAM > SPAMMERS=$HOME/procmail/spammers > > #

Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub

#this is to boot W95 from a slave/second harddrive, with GRUB title WIN95 boot menu map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 GnuPG v1.0.6 Fingerprint:67E6 1D18 B2C4 4F8A 3DA3 5C6D 849F 9F5F 26FA 477D Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics/www.astro.uio.no

Re: kernel compile problem

> hi! > > I tried to compile the kernel of my potato distro (kernel is quite old: > 2.2.17) and I got the following error message: > as86: command not found; > or something like that. The main problem the as86 is seems to be missing from > my machine. > Does anyone some guess what the hell is th