I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another
machine. Let me explain more clearly:
If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package
mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into
directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.
That's fine, but I have
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 08:09 am, Ed wrote:
> As a rather "newbie" myself, I suggest reading the docs, this list, and
> remember "Google is your friend". I normally let Debian install the
The best Debian reference manual is called "The Debian Reference Manual." It's
free, and can be downlo
On Monday 13 June 2005 21:21, Chris Searle wrote:
> Old woody system - the bayes files for spamassassin give the
> following:
>
> $ file *
> bayes_seen: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
> bayes_toks: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
>
> New sarge system - per
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:42:04PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> > Usually, I can play .wmv files with mplayer. But it is not able to play
> > certain wmv files, for reasons that I am unaware of. The image looks
> > garbled up when I run mplayer. I have tried aviplay, xine, mplayer,
> > kp
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41PM +0800, Marc wrote:
> > Ever since upgrading to kernel 2.6.8 on Debian (sarge) I've had a problem
> > with keys auto-repeating in X Windows.
> >
> > The problem only shows up in X windows. While typing in a terminal window
> > (for example) the key auto-repeat k
On Saturday 11 June 2005 05:27, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:19:12 PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:05:04PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > > I would like to always sign my emails, but I always worry that people
> > > will dislike the extra over
I believe that K6 is compatible with 486 and even 586. However, I don't have
one here to test it, so you'll have to try it yourself.
regards,
Robert
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 06:34, Marc Auslander wrote:
> I'm running a now out of date stable system - the sarge prerelease.
>
> When I upgraded to
Using lsattr, see is the immutable flag has been set. Normally, no flags
should be set:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> lsattr *.txt
- 34sp-userguide.txt
If the immutable flag has been set, you can unset it with
chattr -i filename
See "man lsattr" and "man chattr".
While this will (hop
I set up Fetchmail quite awhile ago, and it has worked well. But yesterday, I
went to check my messages and about a dozen were skipped. Repeated attempts
to fetch these messages failed, even though at least a hundred other messages
came through fine. I finally got the "secret messages" by using
Are you using Konqueror to log into Webmin? If so, don't. Use Firefox. I had
the exact same issue. Konqueror would not let me log in as anybody but root,
but Firefox was OK. I probably should report this as a bug.
cheers,
Robert
On Monday 30 May 2005 08:47, John Fleming wrote:
> - Original
What kernel are you using? I think this will work only with 2.6 kernels
(because those don't need scsi emulation).
One test - what happens when you type "eject /dev/hdc" - Does the CDR
tray open.
cheers,
Robert
On Sun, 15 May 2005 00:11:58 -0400 (EDT)
Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2
If it still doesn't work, please post the output of "ifconfig" and I'll
get back to you.
By the way, when you ran "pppoeconf", did it give you any error
messages, or did it accept your username/passwor
Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread. But I know how to set up
pppoe. Assuming that your Ethernet card is already being detected (as
indicated by ifconfig), do this:
1) As root, run "pppoeconf"
2) When asked for your username, you probably need to put the whole
thing, like "[EMAIL PROTECTE
Despite what some people have told you, it wasn't necessarily a waste of
time to download all 14 CDs. But true, most people will just need the
first CD and then do all the apt-get magic online.
If you want to use the CDs as your apt repository, then change name of
file /etc/apt/sources.list (maybe
On Tue, 10 May 2005 11:05:54 -0700 (PDT)
Charles Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just use knoppix to do a HardDrive install, which
> uses lili, over a fedora install which uses grub.
> Now, when I boot up, it hangs and I only see the word
> GRUB. How do I fix this?
What's happened is th
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:33:02 +0530
Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have AMD Sempron 2200 processor on ASRock motherboard. my linux box
> is debian-sarge. I have found some utilities to cool down the
> processor temperature. some utilities warn having a performance loss
> l
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:07:39 +0530
Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Apr 2005 6:43 pm, Kent West wrote:
> > Jpydeep Bakshi wrote:
> > >I have just checked *ping 127.0.0.1* and have found *network
> > > unreachable*
> >
> > What does "/etc/network/interfaces" look like?
>
Dear Michal,
I don't know if this is exactly what you want, but here's my idea. If
you are starting X with the "startx" command, there is a switch
available for color depth:
startx -- -depth 16
So in file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, you could define different resolutions
for different color depths
Dear John,
I don't have any experience personally, but a close friend just bought
an AMD64 box. He says that at the moment, biggest problem is that most
binaries are compiled for i386, though 64-bit stuff is slowly coming.
Debian's work-around is to install these applications into a chrooted
envir
Most likely you've messed up your XF86Config-4 file. As root, try
running "xf86cfg" and see if you can reconfigure it.
regards,
Robert
> Dudley Cooke wrote:
> > Since doing
> > apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > this morning my display has been ugly with horizontal streaks in X
> >
I've heard from a security expert that one pass of /dev/random won't be
enough. Seven passes is said to be sufficient that even the most
sophisticated equipment won't be able to recover the data.
Darik's Boot and Nuke runs three passes over the entire hard disk, so
running it three times would be
Use DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke), available here:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
Superb piece of software!
regards,
Robert
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:02:57 -0500 (EST)
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please cc me on responses as I'm not on the list.
>
>
>
> Just wondering how one can ac
Is a firewall employed on either end of the system? Is the firewall
allowing port 22 connections?
regards,
Robert
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:56:10 -0800
Chuk Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid
> > >=248641
> > >
> > >
> > >>Does
You can make Mutt work directly with SMTP, no need for Exim, by
installing "msmtp":
apt-cache show msmtp...
Description: light SMTP client with support for server profiles
msmtp is an SMTP client that can be used to send mails from Mutt and
probably
other MUAs (mail user agents). It forwards mai
Just out of curiosity, have you tried booting a Knoppix (or Kanotix, my
preferred) CD? I know the purists might not be amused, but that's a
pretty good way to find out if your hardware is Debian compatible
without having to go through configuration hassles. Not to mention that
I see nothing wrong w
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:35 +
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 22 Nov 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I've been reading man pages of hwclock, xclock, adjtime, and so on,
> > but cannot see how to adjust the time shown on teh icewm clock,
> > which is steadfastly 56 minutes
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:35:48 -0600
Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, if you are going to have all these filesystems on the same set
> of drive spindles, there really isn't any use to carving up /usr and
> everything else at all.
There are security issues - some experts think it's a r
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:05:03 -0500
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this may be a problem with the rendering of text onscreen. In
> particular I notice that Bitstream Vera Charter (which was the default
> font when I first installed OOo) Bold does not look any different
> ONSCREEN than the
I won't attempt to tell you just how big each partition should be or on
which drive you should locate it, but a fairly standard and secure
configuration for hard disk partitioning would be to put each of the
following in its own partition:
/
swap
/boot
/home
/tmp
/var
/usr
Not every
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:08:32 -0500
jwyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. Nothing will seem to poweroff my PC. I have tried various
> commands, all with the same results. shutdown -h now
> powerdown
> halt
> $ su -c '/sbin/halt'
Try passing this option to the kernel:
apm=power-off
You d
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:25:36 -0500
Shawn McCuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yet another question from me. I have two maxtor hardrives, but, debian
>
> isnt even showing that I have a second hard drive. I want to format
> the second hardrive to EXT3 so its compatible with the OS, but, if its
> no
Glad the problem was solved, but another neat trick for getting bigger
fonts in your application menus is to start X like this:
startx -- -dpi 100
I like it so much that I even made this an alias in my .bashrc and
.bash_profile:
alias startx='startx -- -dpi 100'
You don't have to use a dp
Worst-case scenario is a bad motherboard. But try Henrique's suggestions
first, you might be lucky.
And yes, let us know how it turns out.
regards,
Robert
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:08:54 -0200
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Dan McCullough wrote:
> >
There's no simple solution for recovering the data you've already lost.
However, there is a very good way to prevent such a thing from happening
again. Install Libtrash. It makes a trashcan which works no matter how
you delete files (either from command line or with some point-and-click
utility). Y
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 13:48:18 +0100
Christian Christmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I actually mean is that you get the movie on the fullscreen just
> like on TV. When I use the -fs option, I see no other windows but the
> playing movie itself is still in a small window in the middle of my
>
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:03:01 +
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The good news is that there are many ways of dealing with spam using
> Debian, even so far as blocking it at smtp time and so most of it
> never reaches your machine. Below are a range of packages that deal
> with spam
As you probably know, there are quite a few distros based on Debian. I'm
actually using Kanotix myself. The great part is that all these
Debian-based distros can (for the most part) make use of the vast
archive of Debian packages that you can install with apt-get. With
something like 15,000 package
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:30:11 -0500
Michael Z Daryabeygi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Good advice Rob.
> But If he has no router, ie no subnet of his own, then using
> 192.168.0.1 won't work. He should call tech support to find out what
> IP and subnet mask to use. I would be surprised if he had a
Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Rick,
I think the replies you're getting are making it sound more complicated
than it really is.
> My hesitance comes with configuring the network. The installation
> attempts to configure the network with DHCP. It then returns a message
>
> saying:
Hi Adam,
If heat is the problem, I strongly suggest installing powernowd. It
requires a very recent kernel (I'm running 2.6.8-1). After installed,
you enable it on bootup (you can use rcconf). That's all, just set it
and forget it. I'm not sure if it will work on every laptop processor,
but does f
Not sure if you can do exactly what you asked, but you could put the
following in a script and run it once a day on the necessary /home
directory:
find ./ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
regards,
Robert
On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:05:00 +0100
Matthias Eichler
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:10:45 +0545
Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Monday 08 November 2004 05:08 pm, Vijaya S wrote:
> > sorry my doubt is i have sarge cds
> > i already have woody on the machine so how do i go about
> As for t
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:38:25 +0100
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote:
>
> > It's now 2 weeks later, I've asked in 2 different newsgroups, poked
> > around every possible place on the net and still don't know how to
> > permanenty disable the sound in X. How can Linux ever become a
> > conten
Hi all,
I'm trying to use CUPS to print in a client-server setup.
There is no problem at all getting the server computer to print - printing
from the client is proving problematic, yet it ALMOST works. I can print a
test page from the client machine, but when I try to just print a regular
page fr
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:42:40 -0500
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> note I'm having the same issue
> it says
> lrwxrwxrwx for access 1 root root 3 (date) /dev/cdrom -> hdc
> I had a harddrive hooked up to the same place previously could this be
>
> the reason it isn't mounting?
Do you have scs
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:51:10 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, mozilla should (finally!) be upgraded to 1.5 in
> testing as of the next mirror pulse.
Also for what it's worth, I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird 0.7 - it is
so much faster than Mozilla that I ma
I've always had bad luck with CDBakeoven. Things have worked much better
(for me at least) with K3b and XCDRoast.
That having been said, before you can get any atapi CD drive to work
with cdrecord, you need to enable scsi emulation. It's a (minor) pain,
and I've heard that this won't be necessary
Questions about GRUB get asked a lot. I usually refer people to this
article, which is still a pretty good primer even though it was written
a few years ago:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html
GRUB is really good, and it's worth your time to learn how to install it
and use i
Dear Paul,
Did you trying setting /usr/sbin/pppoe as suid root?
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppoe
regards,
Robert
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:02:53 -0700
paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sorry about the thread but this is the first time I'm sending mail
> from my Debian box, and clicking the reply t
I'm not sure I can answer your question, but I would guess that maybe
it's a firewall problem (that is, if you're running a firewall). Or
maybe TCP wrappers is misconfigured?
I can tell you that running Unstable with the 2.4.22 kernel I am having
no trouble at all pinging other hosts. I didn't upg
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:15:52 +
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, I had a helpful suggestion from someone on alt.os.slackware,
> viz to do startx -- -dpi 110 (or whatever). Should have thought of
> this myself, I suppose...
Dear Anthony,
I also saw that suggestion on alt.
Dear Rafael,
For normal users to be able to start "pon dsl-provider", /usr/sbin/pppoe
has to be suid root. You can set that like this:
chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppoe
After you've done that, permission levels should look like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ls -l /usr/sbin/pppoe
-rwsr-xr--1 root di
Dear David,
For all the trouble you'd have to go through to upgrade Corel, I'd just
grab a Knoppix CD and install that to the hard drive - it has worked
very well for me. This assumes that you want to run Unstable
(recommended, unless you're running a mission-critical server).
When the boot promp
As someone else pointed out, "apt-get install grub" will install the
grub package. To install it in the mbr, your run "grub-install /dev/hda"
(assuming you are installing it on /dev/hda). However, once you do this,
when you go to reboot, you'll simply be presented with a prompt that
says: "grub>".
still highly recommend Guarddog.
regards & happy holidays,
Robert
On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 13:22:14 +0100
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Robert Storey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> > Just recently, I'm getting a most peculiar message pop
By default, Debian doesn't do a good job of auto-detection. There are
two tools you should install:
apt-get install discover
apt-get install etherconf
After you've done that, run "dpkg-reconfigure etherconf" and it should
find your ethernet card and prompt you for the proper configuration
informa
> If that's what you really want, you can edit your XF86Config file (or
> use 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86') to not use higher-resolution
> display modes. I personally generally go for using larger fonts on
> higher-resolution displays.
Another thing that will give you big fonts sizes in yo
Just recently, I'm getting a most peculiar message popping up on my
screen about once every 30 seconds or so:
DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=192.168.0.255 LEN=129 TOS=0x00
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=631 LEN=109
I have three machines on my network, and only this machine (192
Dear Paul & Greg,
Thanks for the kind response. I'm almost certain now to go with the
Dlink.
best regards,
Robert
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:49:52 -0600
"W. Paul Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Works fine. Configures via your web browser.
>
> Paul
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:44:31 -0900
Greg Madd
Being paranoid, I'm considering purchasing a cheap hardware router to
use as a firewall on an ADSL line.
I've looked around, and I'm leaning towards buying the Dlink DI-604
which is priced at around US$50.
I'm wondering if anyone here is using this, and finding it to play OK
with Linux?
TIA,
Rob
Dear Stephen,
It's very odd that you can't change this file as root. The only thing I
know of that would cause this is if the immutable flag is set. The way
to find out is with the lsattr command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc> lsattr resolv.conf
s---c resolv.conf
As you don't see an "i" th
If I understand correctly, you've created a grub floppy? If not, you can
download a floppy image file
(http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html) and use the dd command to
create the floppy. With the floppy, you should be able to boot. You'll
have to manually type the commands (unless you can use
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:02:16 +0800
Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Stephen,
I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it anytime:
Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this:
pon dsl-provider
You can use the "plog" command to see what effect this had,
Dear Boudewijn,
It's been awhile since I used dosemu, but as I recall...
The "C: drive" is an image file that you specify, or you could specify a partition.
You make this setting in file /etc/dosemu.conf, for example:
in file /etc/dosemu.conf: $_hdimage = "/dev/hda1"
In the above example, I've
2003 at 06:47:01PM +0100, Robert Storey wrote:
> > For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message:
> >
> > "spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7"
> >
> > I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what
>
> Mark Healey wrote:
>
> >Have no sound. What tool do I use to get it?
> >-
Something like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-get install sndconfig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> sndconfig
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> adduser mark audio
mark must log out and log back in f
For some reason, when I logged on today I received this message:
"spurious 8259A, interrupt: IRQ7"
I'm not sure if this is anything to worry about at all. Anyone have an idea what it
means?
regards,
Robert
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou
Dear Stephen,
You didn't say what kind of broadband you want to connect to. There would be a
difference between adsl and cable, as well as pppoe and adsl with a fixed address.
I'm not an expert, but I just yesterday connect to adsl (using pppoe). If that
describes your situation, try running "p
I've had my LAN working well for a long time using static IP addresses
(specified in /etc/hosts).
Now I would like to play with dhcp, but I found the info in the Debian
reference manual pretty minimal and I admit I don't really know what
I'm doing. But this is what I've done so far:
On both mach
I'm having trouble getting the newsreader Pan to work. The funny thing
is, first time I used it, it worked fine - I was able to grab a list of
all the groups on the news server. After that, I've been unable to get a
connection even though I've changed no settings. It's baffling. Here is
a portion o
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:01:43 -0600
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > To be more specific, Xemacs has more beautiful fonts and lets you
> > change default font size.
>
> I don't see why you can&
> > But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to
> > do is do 'cat ~/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner-
> > readable(like .fetchmailrc).
> >
>
> Sure, but that can be fixed, as you say, with permissions changes.
> You can't fix the fact that superusers can read your
Try Animail. I don't see it on the list of Debian packages, but you can
download it from Sourceforge as a .deb binary or source tarball. It is
much easier to use than Fetchmail, and it can delete spam from the mail
server without having to download.
Another option (which I haven't tried yet) is Ma
Try Animail. I don't see it on the list of Debian packages, but you can
download it from Sourceforge as a .deb binary or source tarball. It is
much easier to use than Fetchmail, and it can delete spam from the mail
server without having to download.
Another option (which I haven't tried yet) is Ma
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:24:11 -0400
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 04:22, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more
> > > graphical than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, bu
A few days ago somebody had a question about ftp, and I accidentally
lost that message. But anyway, the gist was that the original poster
could use ftp in Windows but not in Debian, and couldn't figure out why,
and he was getting a lot of advice about passive vs. active mode.
A thought occurred to
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 21:23:47 +1200
cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought DOS could only handle partitions of up to ~500MB (512?
> 528?). I must be wrong, it happily formatted 600MB, at least for
> partition 3.
DOS (that is, FAT16) can handle partitions up to two gigabytes in size.
And
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:43:12 -0400
Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does that Winsock reference mean that only software running under
> Windows can get through??? I've used Kbear and Konqueror successfully
> to ftp to other sites...
I encountered something like this once. Somebody
I'm writing an article about Debian which will be published in a few days (on a
well-known GNU/Linux web site). I'm trying to work out the best way to recompile a
kernel. I don't want to give out an misinformation, so I need to be sure about the
following...
To compile a kernel, I originally t
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:49:35 -0400
Bradley M Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:57:18PM -0400, Luc Lefebvre wrote:
> > Hi Bradley,
> >
> > I know that for Woody there is a meta package fore kde called "kde"
> > which Description: The K Desktop Environment
> > A met
Dear All,
I know the issue of TrueType fonts has been covered many times before,
but I
looked in the archives and didn't find the solution to my specific
problem.
Which is:
I upgraded to Sid. Mozilla, which previously had bitmapped fonts, now
has
TrueType fonts - apt-get dist-upgrade" seems t
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:29:15 +0200
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 21:50, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:
> > My computer doesn't switch off upon 'shutdown -h now', so I looked
> > around on the net and found:
> >
> > To switch the power off on shutdown in Linux:
> > -
On 26 Aug 2003 23:54:06 -0400
Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for this.
>
> My apologies to all for broadcasting my frustration. It's not the
> best way to handle things.
>
> Bret
For what it's worth, I also found iptables pretty murky as well. I
cheated, I installe
> > Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account
> > where the user was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the
> > user would not even be able to change directories.
>
>
> Try googling for "chroot user"
>
> Rgds
>
> Rus
Thanks Rus. It turns out that what
Dear All,
Sometime back somebody told me there was a way to add a user account where the user
was very limited in what he could do. As I remember, the user would not even be able
to change directories.
I've been trying to figure out how to do this, and a few Google searches did not turn
up wha
> I found out that after debian 3.0r1 installed,
> try to login as root and passwd at the GNOME Desktop Manager
> and it said " The system administrator is not allowed to login form
> this screen"
> How to login with root account to run some utility from graphic mode
> ???
I know that most Debian
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:37:29 +0200
Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that 10 years after its creation, Unicode is not as used as it
> should be (my opinion) and so, I am not sure many software
> (communication software) are "aware" of Unicode stuff. Except bloated
> piece of s
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 03:03:36 -0700
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:23:04PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> > I just realized that I've never heard of a hard drive defragmenter
> > for Linux (ext2/ext3). Do
Dear all,
The "eject" command (which opens the CD tray) works as expected if I run
it as root. But as a common user, typing "eject" on the command line
brings up this error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> eject
eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
I took a look at the permissions
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:11:14 +1000
"Andre Volmensky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have to put forward an argument to management regarding setting up a
> firewall on some of our clients networks.
>
> What are the advantages of a linux firewall over something like
> Windows with W
On 28 Jul 2003 02:44:23 +0300
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I get man pages to show in color?
> used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured
> out how to enable it under debian.
>
> thanx
As others have said, "most" is what you want. To install and co
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:35:17 +0200
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> echo $LANG
> I get "hu_HU".
>
> That is why I can not understand this problem. It seems,
> that I am using hu_HU locales, but the kde programs, and other (for
> example Xchat, or Licq) programs doesn't recognise the hu_HU local
> > Is there any way to get some information about the cd inserted in the
> > cd-rom drive?
> > I want to know the creation date, and the volume label etc...
If you have XCDRoast installed, you can view this information when you
click on the "Read CD" tab, it will also show you the session inf
Dear All,
When I start X, the whole screen image is displayed slightly too far to
the right. Although I could use the buttons on the monitor to adjust the
image further left, that would create problems because I have other
distros installed on this computer, and these distros have the image
proper
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 12:52:02 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Dear Debian community,
>
> My requirements are pretty specific.
> I don't need much bandwidth at all.
> I don't need anything faster than 400 MhZ
> I don't need more than 128Meg
> But I want my own server, not sha
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:10:59 -0400
ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 09:45:43PM -0400, xavier renaut wrote:
> > |Wanting to replace my prehistoric 10base-T card with something that
> > |can do 100, I bought myself a D-Link DFE-530TX and stuffed it into a
> > |free PCI s
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 16:46:02 +0100
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:25:15AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:12:36AM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> > > Thanks, that's useful to know... so presumably when it does get going
> > > again, I'll receive 100
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000
"Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to.
> It was created this morning, so it is not backed up.
>
> is there an undelete util ?
Although it's too late to help you recover the data you've already delete
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:14:08 +0200
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition.
> Unfortunatly it won't work.
> Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where
> the configfile is
>
> configfile /grub/me
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:16:28 -
"Andrew Pritchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking through the logcheck on one of my machines, and I've seen
> a lot of these types of messages:
>
> Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Mar
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