nmap package obsoleted?

Hello, I'm trying to install nmap, and so I did "apt-get install nmap", but I get this: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package nmap is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, ha

Re: init.d startup script does not exit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you! It worked! So, what does that & mean? - - Rex Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2008 08:35:13 rex wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a script that launches a program. If I launch this program

init.d startup script does not exit

not exit. If this was in the startup, I would never get to the user login. And, if I press Ctrl-C, then the program terminates, but then webserver is dead. Any suggestions please? Thanks! - - Rex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

magiciso .uif files

hi people. my question is very simple: is there a way to get into a .uif file from linux. i have tried installing magicdisc under wine. the install fails. can a native linux prog do the job? thanks for your answers, rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Usb multimedia keyboard not working

ddress 4 hub.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (errno=-110) and a few more wondeful: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout after each disconnect... Anybody know where to find out what this means? -- Rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

Re: Mutt, different index format for sent and inbox

Hey, > > How do you adjust muttrc to have different formats of its index, the one > > for inbox or folders containing incoming mail looks fine, but the > > "sent" folder, where the sent ones are kept, would be better to have > > showing the 'To:' field instead of the 'From:' field, since obviously

Re: Motherboard compatibility

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Re: branding debian releases

- Simmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-16 14:18:37 +0200]: > May sound lazy too, and yes I'm a lazy guy. If my boss tells me to setup an > apache server and tells me to use debian because the cust would like to have > especially this distri well heck I'm stuck in the installation routine for > hou

Re: System clock GMT or not

On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:54:49PM +1000, James Steward<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian has a system configuration tool but I can't remember exactly what it's > called..something like base-config. > > Basically, in the file /etc/adjtime on the 3rd line there's either UTC or > LOCAL. > > Be a

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

> It sounds as though the lease times on the DHCP server are not long enough. > > A simple solution is to use a static IP address but this will depend on > your ability to manually assign an IP address at the server end. > > HTH > > Clive Well, one of my friends had the same problem, he wrote a

Re: Sound Config Asus A7V8x-x with 2.4.22-pre10

On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:32:06AM -0600, Dan Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 03:35:05PM +1000, Rex Chan wrote: > | Hi Dan, > | > | I'm just wondering if you were able in the end to get sound > | working on your motherboard. > > Thanks for asking Rex, not y

Re: Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

ion bootleg Rubin fissionable Subversion lynch NASA Thanks mate! -- Rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fluxbox, Bash and LANG

he LANG option is set for the bash shell. I wouldn't mind but I often open up mutt in these xterms and it causes weird characters to appear when scrolling up and down... Anybody got any ideas of where to look to set the LANG variable? -- Rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Modconf and no modules after kernel upgrade

age hasn't helped restored any of them either. Anybody know how to get either old modules back or add new entries for modconf? -- Rex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Evolution to expand a threaded message list in unstable

> I'm not sure since exaclty when, but recently I noticed, I can't get > evolution to expand/collapse a threaded message view. > > I have searched the menus, where I used to find this option, and the > online help to no avail. Could anyone help me, or has the feature > simply been removed? Ctrl

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:50:21PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Everything I've ever read indicates that a hardware-based firewall is > more secure and reliable than an PC operating system, be it Linux or > Windows. A PC OS has to be complex because it has so many functions to > perform, but that

Re: mozilla, utf-8, and Japanese fonts

1. Hi, I have the same problem with Chinese fonts. No idea how to fix it, yet. I guess that's a problem of fontconfig. -- -Rex, geek by nature linux by choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]