On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 19:10:53 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + Mark Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > > regarding whether a new bullseye in
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:10:53 +
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
> > Mark Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > > regarding whether a new bullseye
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the
> > testing installer at this time, or
On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 11:48 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 07 dec 20, 18:06:43, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
> > Mark Fletcher wrote:
> >
> > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is bett
On Lu, 07 dec 20, 18:06:43, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the
> > testing installer at this time, or by first inst
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 +
Mark Fletcher wrote:
> 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice)
> regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the
> testing installer at this time, or by first installing buster and
> then upgrading?
In general, you are bette
On Sat 19 Sep 2020 at 14:09:07 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote:
> > The fuse documentation is so fragmentary, scattered and sparse that
> > I haven't really got a good feel for what is is or how it works.
> > I'm always thinking that I've missed some opti
On Sb, 19 sep 20, 09:57:37, David Wright wrote:
>
> Do you know if fuse exFAT is a stopgap, and support in the kernel is
> eventually coming, or was a fuse implementation necessarily chosen
> to support exFAT on account of some particular problem. It seems odd
> that pmount, for example, doesn't s
On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
If I change the mode of the mount po
On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> > > On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> > > If I change the mode of the mount point to :
>
> > > Is the
On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
If I change the mode of the mount point to :
Is there some advantage other than making a long listing visually
distinctive when the mount
On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote:
> > >
> > > Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to
> > > $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it
On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote:
Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to
$HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work
correctly but they will not be encrypted! If you don't move the
On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote:
>
> Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to
> $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work
> correctly but they will not be encrypted! If you don't move the files out
> of $HOME/Private/ before y
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 at 01:10, David Wright wrote:
> Create a permanent mount point with the permissions set to ugo=
> ie nothing.
I do this for all my permanent mountpoints and then set the
immutable bit on them.
This prevents accidental writes and the bonus is that
ls -l /mnt
shows clearly w
On Sat 12 Sep 2020 at 12:10:48 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem
> within
> a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons).
>
> I have two questions about that:
>
>* if I don't have that LUKS filesy
Thank you!
(Nothing new below this line.)
On Saturday, September 12, 2020 06:14:33 PM David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem
> > within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for
On 2020-09-12 12:14, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS
filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a
few reasons).
Why do you want a file system inside a file?
On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within
a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons).
I have two questions about that:
* if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS
> filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a
> few reasons).
Why do you want a file system inside a file? The only reason I can
think of to do tha
On 9/12/20 12:10 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within
a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons).
I have two questions about that:
* if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr
Am Samstag, 12. September 2020, 18:10:48 CEST schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com:
Hi,
> I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem
> within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons).
>
> I have two questions about that:
>
>* if I don't have that LU
On Tue 12 Apr 2016 at 20:16:05 -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
> First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso,
> containing
> 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408
> bytes.
> Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksum
On Tuesday 12 April 2016 20:16:05 Alan McConnell wrote:
> First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso,
> containing 4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso,
> containing 4649361408 bytes. Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I
> know I should use checksums or som
Alan McConnell composed on 2016-04-12 20:16 (UTC-0400):
First, about my .iso downloads. I have debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-2.iso, containing
4560861184 bytes, and debian-8.4.0-i386-DVD-3.iso, containing 4649361408 bytes.
Are the byte counts correct? [ Yes, I know I should use checksums or something
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
[...]
vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100
scale.
I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80.
On 22/02/13 05:49, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
>> [...]
>> vm.swappiness controls the balance of RAM/swap used, on some 0 to 100
>> scale.
>>
> I am not sure how or where I set it, but, from memory, I had set it to 80.
It's a sysctl, so you adjust it like thi
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Tudod Ki wrote:
...
> > - Can anyone sniff the traffic of computer "B"? e.g.: B computer is at a
> > - server farm [others in the farm can see the traffic?] - I think yes, but
> > - I'm not sure :O
>
> Yes, that's possible. However,
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:13:11 -0800
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
...
> I believe when you use SOCKS, your browser stops doing DNS resolution and
> just hands the hostnames directly to the SOCKS server. So all they would be
> able to sniff is your encrypted SSH session, which they (hopefully) can't
> d
Tudod Ki wrote:
> but what's with cam attack?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_Table#Attacks
>
> they could attack a switch, and it will act as a hub? and then they can
> set promiscuous mode on their cards and sniff
Hmm. I didn't know about that one! I suppose it's possible. Of course, i
but what's with cam attack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_Table#Attacks
they could attack a switch, and it will act as a hub? and then they can set
promiscuous mode on their cards and sniff
--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
From: Tyler MacDonald
Subject: Re: two questions
Tudod Ki wrote:
> if I:
>
> ssh -fND localhost:6000 someb...@192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER
>
> from computer "A" to computer "B" [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the SOCKS
> proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use "localhost:6000" on computer "A". Ok. I can
> surf the web through "B".
>
> But:
> - Can
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Jochen Schulz writes:
> Merciadri Luca:
>>
>> I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny
>> with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two
>> questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lu
Merciadri Luca:
>
> I am a fervent user of your `F.lux' program. I am running Debian Lenny
> with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 on various computers, and here are two
> questions whose answers could enhance the next version of F.lux:
Since F.lux isn't distributed by Debian, you are probably better off
aski
On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:33, Figaro wrote:
> (2): I notice that the SID kernel -image packages do not seem to be
> getting the frequent updates that I remember was the norm a year ago or
> so ago. Any ideas? Or do I need a special apt repository?
> Thank you,
> matthew
It is probably due
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:57:25AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d
> nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What
> is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is
> somewhat intimidating to a Slackw
* Mumia W.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Install the Debian Reference (debian-reference-en) and read §§ 2.4.2 and
> 2.4.3 and 8.1.4 from /usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/reference.en.txt.gz .
I am hoping to sit down this weekend and read through the reference.
It looks to be a rather complete c
On 10/13/2006 10:57 AM, cothrige wrote:
I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d
nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What
is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript system is
somewhat intimidating to a Slackware user, and so I am he
* Dekxter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> GDM is disabled by running:
> # update-rc.d -f gdm remove
Thanks a lot. I can't believe how much trouble I was having just
trying to figure that little item out.
Patrick
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou
* derek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hello
> create the script in /etc/init.d/
> lets say its named myscript
> make it executable
> then do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaults
> that will create a sym link in all the run levels
> Derek
That sounds straightforward enough. Many thanks.
Patrick
GDM is disabled by running:
# update-rc.d -f gdm remove
On 10/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.d
nonexecutable. I feel, though, this was likely the wrong way. What
is the right way to do it? The whole Debian bootscript s
Hellocreate the script in /etc/init.d/lets say its named myscriptmake it executablethen do /usr/sbin/update-rc.d myscript defaultsthat will create a sym link in all the run levelsDerek
On 10/13/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't particularly like gdm and so I made the script in init.dn
On 8/29/05, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine. Two things are ratherproblematical:The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet. If it is one, canI add to it the values I want for CC & CFLAGS so they are tied to a
particular build confi
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote:
| At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote:
| >A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they
| >can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple
| >programs to be combined to perform comple
At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote:
A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they
can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple
programs to be combined to perform complex and unique operations quite
easily, once the learning curve of the utiliti
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:57:46PM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote:
| At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
| > > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for
| > > dpkg, sort of like a dselect for X. Any suggestions? I'm using potato
| > > and don't want to upgrade to
At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
It probably didn't show any matches because the string "dpkg frontend
for X" didn't appear in the archives. Try separating the words with ;.
Thanks. I'll try that.
> Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for
> dp
Vitor Silva Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on
> http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the
> Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter
> of the selection? I se
* sheine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011015 12:09]:
> 2. Is there a linux equivalent to presizer, a way change a partition
> size non-destructively?
check out GNU ext2resize and parted. Both are packaged for all of
{{un,}stable,testing}.
for future reference, also try http://www.google.com/search?q=ext
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:07:34PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Here's another quetion. The system I'm compiling on is
> > missing.
> >
> > /usr/include/floatingpoint.h
What's it? Anything like "float.h" in standard C?
> > /usr/include/math.h
libc
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> > Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 6:36 PM
> > To: David R. Van Sandt
> > Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Two questions
> >
> >
> > > We are using dpkg on Solaris to manage packages. I am having a
> > >
On (08/06/01 17:29), Vittorio wrote:
> I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs.
Me too! I use mutt-alias.el and post.el which are both available from
http://www.davep.org/mutt/
post.el is a mail mode for Emacs that contains various functions
including automatic line wrapp
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> > > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char?
For accents put
(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
in .emacs.
To wrap text mode lines at 72, try
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fi
John R Lenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> > 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char?
>
> I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is
> set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you.
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:29:26PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72 char?
I don't know how you'd put it in your .emacs, but C-x f is
set-fill-column, so C-u 72 C-x f would do that for you.
--
John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortu
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've installed Mutt and am using as my pet e-mail composer emacs.
Why don't you use one of the emacs mail tools? :)
> 2) Is that possible to configure emacs to wrap lines at, say, 72
> char?
Add to your .emacs:
;; for mail modes and text modes, turn on a
Make a boot floppy:
As root, issue
mkboot /vmlinuz
(see also man page for mkboot). this will make a faster booting floppy.
Lars
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
> Hi, this is my first message to the list.
> I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.
>
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
> - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have
> the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to
> compile the kernel. Where can I find the list of packages needed to
> do it?
see /path/to/kernelversion/Documentation/Change
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
>
> Hi, this is my first message to the list.
> I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.
> The questions are:
> - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have
> the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to
GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
>
> Hi, this is my first message to the list.
> I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.
> The questions are:
>
> - when the installer ask me where to put the boot loader,
> I choose floppy, because the computer is shared with other OS.
I've never
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:58:36AM -0600, Ray Percival wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a Intellimouse (I know I know I bought it before I knew the
> one true way) In any case I can get it to work right as a ps2 mouse
> but using xf86setup I can not get it to work right as an
> intellimouse. It will jump
[2000-10-09] Ray Percival wrote:
> I have a Intellimouse (I know I know I bought it before I knew the one
> true way)
Mouse wheels rock, though...
> In any case I can get it to work right as a ps2 mouse but using
> xf86setup I can not get it to work right as an intellimouse. It will
> jump around
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP?
Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and
get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There
On 28-Feb-2000 Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do I have to install additional packages to use XFMail with IMAP?
Nope, you shouldn't. But if I'm wrong, post to the xfmail list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also want to head to xfmail.slappy.org, and
get the latest release of xfmail (1.4.4). There
Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PDN> I'm running a debian system where I have an X server. I want to
PDN> conect to a unix SCO System V host , and conect some X clients
PDN> running on that host to the X server on my debian host.
Right. Various techniques for doing this are in the Rem
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Lowe, Jessica wrote:
> I was wondering if debian has NT 4.0 server and also if It can be used on
> windows 95 ?
Debian Linux is a replacement for NT and Windows 95. It is not an
application.
Read this page: "http://www.uk.linux.org/WhatIs.html";, or
"http://www.linuxlinks.
"Lowe, Jessica" wrote:
> I was wondering if debian has NT 4.0 server and also if It can be used on
> windows 95 ?
I'm not sure you understand what Debian is. It doesn't "have" NT 4.0 Server
and it isn't "used" on Windows95. You can think of it as a replacement for
either/both of them. Just as you
Hi!
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:28:12PM +, David A. Lee wrote:
> > Does Debian 2.0 come with Netscape on the CD's, or do I have to download
> > it?
>
> Netscape is not part of Debian, therefore it can't be on the official CD.
> Some vendors do include it on the Debian CD's they are selli
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:28:12PM +, David A. Lee wrote:
> Does Debian 2.0 come with Netscape on the CD's, or do I have to download
> it?
Netscape is not part of Debian, therefore it can't be on the official CD.
Some vendors do include it on the Debian CD's they are selling, though.
> When
Maybe I can help with the boot problem. Debian doesn't use LILO
as a MBR boot manager. They use a program known just as MBR. (At
least this is true for the bo release, is it true for hamm?) I'm
not quite sure why LILO isn't used as the MBR boot manager, because
it appears to be superior to MBR in
>Tim O'Brien wrote:
>
>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there is a problem with the
>> Diamond card. If memory serves me well, Diamond does not publicize code
>> to drive their cards without signing a non-disclosure agreement. Since
>> Linux includes all source code under GNU, this wo
Dan Bergman writes:
>
> 1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95?
> Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
Try this lilo.config:
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
compact# faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga=extended
ramdisk =
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
> 1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95?
> Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
>
> 2. How do I change the diplay mode in XF86 from 8bit to 16bit
> color? I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM w/ 2MB and use
> 16bit co
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
>
> > 1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95?
> > Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
>
> Check out loadlin in the tools path. You will need to set up config.sys
> with a menu,
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> >2. How do I change the diplay mode in XF86 from 8bit to 16bit
> >color? I have a Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM w/ 2MB and use
> >16bit color in win95 so there shouldn't be any probs to get
> >it in X too..
>
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I th
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Dan Bergman wrote:
> 1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95?
> Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
Check out loadlin in the tools path. You will need to set up config.sys
with a menu, so you can choose between Linux and Win95. Then set up
>1. How do I set up a boot so I can boot Debian or Win95?
> Now I have to use a boot disk to get debian to boot...
I believe there's a command line linux loader you can use to boot linux.
I suppose the easiest thing to do would be set a batch file to present
you a menu and allow a selection of
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