> PS/2 mice - those with the mini-DIN plug - use a different device. You want
> /dev/psaux for the Device and probably PS/2 for Protocol (for a plain
> 3-button mouse) or ImPS/2 (if it's got scroll wheels).
OK, I'll try that. I thought if the manufacturer supplied it with a
RS-232 9 pin adapter,
How can I make the left speaker a copy of the right with amixer?
Sound is coming out of the left, I want it to come out both [i.e. mono].
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As a faithful Debian user, I must keep abreast of all latest advances.
# apt-get --print-uris -y dist-upgrade|awk 'NF==4{print $3,$2}'|grep apt-|sort -rn
300030 apt-howto-ru_1.8.5-2_all.deb
258682 apt-howto-pl_1.8.5-2_all.deb
257092 apt-howto-de_1.8.5-2_all.deb
249416 apt-howto-fr_1.8.5-2_all.deb
2
> apt-howto is a metapackage; you install it to get the apt-howto
> in all its various translations. Once you've decided on the
> translations you need, and remove the rest, the apt-howto
> package will be removed as well because its dependencies are
> no longer satisfied.
regarding "remove the r
# apt-cache show fileutils
Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package)
Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.
# apt-get remove fileutils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7 fileutils kernel-doc-2.4.18 kernel-doc-2.4.19
What is the command to see how much non-free software I have
installed? I.e. those with Section: non-free... in Packages.gz
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I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the
last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't
easy... I suppose one could plaster something together with apt-get
--print-uris|...|xargs wget --spider ... bleh, on a modem too.
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$ apt-cache show mozilla
Description: Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package
This is a dummy package that depends on the main components of the
mozilla web browser. It is here to ease upgrades, installations, and
provide a consistent upgrade path from previous versions.
It can safely be removed wi
The apt-get --download-only is neat, but what about now later when you
want to install them? No single command to then install all you've
recently downloaded, without editing each history entry or scanning
ctimes of files in /var/cache/apt/archives/?
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> Keeping the /etc/apt/sources.list in a reasonable state is something
> that Debian can't help the admin with.
[Rural modem users have lots of CDs.]
Ron> Why not use "-t"? I have a "mostly sarge" system with some sid.
Ron> The "-t" makes it very easy to do this:
Ron> # apt-get -t testing upgrad
Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the
only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be:
set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print|
sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@
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Here is a simpleminded listing of packages in the GNU directory but not in Debian yet.
$ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/|
perl -wnle 'if(m@/GNU/.*.html@)[EMAIL PROTECTED] q{[./]}; print lc $F[$#F-1]}'|sort -o
/tmp/gnu
$ COLUMNS=222 dpkg-query -l \*|awk '/===/,EOF{print $2}'|sort -o /t
Does anyone use pdnsd on sid with resolvconf installed?
If so what did you have to change to get it to cache anything?
Is just uncommenting resolvconf and adding the semicolon in /etc/pdnsd.conf
enough for you?
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Blemishing my spartan image,
for i in mail nail; do echo $i|mail $USER;done
seems to append an extra newline to the end of each message.
Why again is this newline invisible when doing
$ mail #[nail doesn't have the following problem]
p
or even
| cat
but shows up when one does
s file
q
$ cat fil
How does one get ssh to not wait?
ssh somewhere <
My electric company has entered the paperless age, but with
"vbscript", https://wapp8.taipower.com.tw . Any hope of me clicking
further without departing Debian?
$ apt-cache show gb
doesn't sound like part of a browser.
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I'm wondering just when it's OK to pull in and out those mobile disk
racks. (Where you can slide in and out one of your PC's IDE hard disks
with "the ease of a floppy"). It see
I have a file in the root directory, /.journal, big, but it hasn't
been written or accessed in years. I suppose this must be an early
ext3 artifact and today's ext3's journal is hidden. I suppose I'll
remove it. My other ext3 partitions have no such file.
While we're at it, there's an empty file,
Weeks ago I installed and started using kernel 2.6.
As all was well, I decided to
apt-get --purge remove alsa-modules-2.4.26-1-k7
apt-get --purge remove kernel-image-2.4.26-1-k7
as I hadn't used them weeks, right.
Well, now I can't call out on my modem with ppp:
pppd: This system lacks kernel suppo
I can now compute what packages a low bandwidth computer needs, right
there on the high bandwidth computer. This surpasses some of the
capabilities of apt-zip and apt-rsync.
http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offline/
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So we see that something alsa left in /etc/modprobe.d knocked out ppp etc.
# pppd ...
pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because
the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a
module, tr
> "F" == Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
F> I note that you post to "linux.debian.user" and get your postings
F> listed. Something that I have yet to achieve.
F> I have no wish to subscribe to the list and get 200 emails daily -
F> most of which are well beyond my understanding and
> My messages were posted, but they didn't show up in the proper place
> in the threads in Mozilla. References and In-Reply-To looked correct
> so I don't know what happened
Note how you are currently reading uncorrupted Message-ID
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at gmane.org, and
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
http
On the Debian mirrors, each day there is a period, perhaps a few
hours, between the time the Packages files arrive, and the time
packages themselves arrive.
This is not a problem, because it happens early in the morning when
all Debian users are of course asleep... except for me.
It would seem to
egiance, Mary had
a Little Lamb, etc. Remember Rocky and Bullwinkle on TV? No no no
don't deport my email
Me? I am careful not to deliver faces slaps no matter how swarthy:
http://jidanni.org/comp/spam/index_en.html At worst they would get no
reply, auto or not.
Oh, the message:
From: Dan
The problem is an ursine.ca user reads the debian-user list and sees a
message by from a jidanni.org user and sends an offlist comment
directly to that jidanni.org user. When the jidanni.org user tries to
email a response back to the ursine.ca user. His mail is blocked,
greatly disturbing the jida
Recently in webland I was asked
> What is your OS?
I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux,
$ uname -a #no "Debian"
Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux.
testing/unstable
$ grep free /etc/motd #kin
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=2CGZM-La-1%40gated-at.bofh.it
says Debian is your OS, Linux is your kernel. So does http://www.debian.org/ .
However
$ uname --help
-s, --kernel-nameprint the kernel name
-o, --operating-system print the operating system
$ uname -s -o
Linux GNU/Lin
What is the right handheld computer for a Debian user?
$ apt-cache search palm
$ apt-cache search pda|grep PDA
$ apt-cache search handheld
Seem to say the Palm brand is best supported.
But I suppose one could run Linux directly...
I will check The Linux PDAs Quick Reference Guide
http://www.linuxde
> What's the right handheld computer for this particular person?
I was just thinking of copying some documents onto the handheld to
finish reading them there, to reduce wear and tear on the desktop
computer.
I understand handheld computers have no moving parts to wear out etc.
and don't fear ligh
It's several minutes thru my modem connection, and the icewm ppp
traffic meter is still quite high even though my wwwoffle fetch is
over, noffle is over, exim, fetchmail are over, and mozilla is quiet.
How frustrating not to know what all they bytes streaming into my
computer are all about, or if
I was unable to figure out the right combination from the ippl.conf
man page to show me just what all the bytes streaming into my modem
were from, and nothing else.
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With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to
produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I
don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill
a CDROM).
So I beg someone in town, where there is lots of Windows machines, to
download the f
I bet there is no Debian tool to read this kind of file:
$ file wget.hlp
wget.hlp: MS Windows Help Data
Not that there is a burning need.
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What are the minimal fields needed in a dpkg status file,
grep-status -vF Status 'purge ok not-installed' -s ??? >/tmp/status
for
apt-get -o Dir::State::status=/tmp/status dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq
to give the same result as
apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris -yqq
(These are my first steps at
[Say] we can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem. We must go to
town to burn the files onto a CDROM and take them back to install it.
Sure, we could do apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or use apt-zip,
but that creates a list that gets stale in the few days it takes us to
get to town..
#Makefile
#We can't do apt-get dist-upgrade over our puny modem,
#we must go to town to a pal's Debian machine and burn the
#files onto a CDROM to take back and install.
#Apt-zip like idea, without ignoring newer packages that
#appeared while our list is in transport.
#On one's poorly connected m
Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5.
What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get
the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use
dpkg-scanpackages later.
Hopefully the URLs are OK on Windows and CDROMs too, which I might
need to
How can one tell if anything evil is lurking in an .xls file?
Gnumeric, openoffice, etc. have selections to show properties, but
that doesn't give me confidence about all the mess that less(1) shows
exists. I wouldn't want to pass an evil .xls along to my MS buddies.
Also how can one reduce the b
Perhaps someone can resubmit http://bugs.debian.org/231776 so the
strategy behind
$ man apt-get
--print-uris
Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file
name on the remote site!
can get documented somewhere.
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But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the "=..." formulas of the
spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what
it looked like on the face of it.
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> You could save it in the native format of Gnumeric or OpenOffice.org Calc,
> then convert it back to xls.
> That will likely strip out any nastiness hiding in the original xls file.
< You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right?
All along there is no tool to view all
> Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris
> gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can
> either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading,
> or rename things to the correct filename afterwards.
In http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offl
What package creates /var/log/faillog?
What is the recommended way of finding out next time without posting here?
$ strings /var/log/faillog
tty1
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tbm> [tempest] has been removed from Debian unstable because it has
tbm> never released with stable, upstream is dead, and there was only one
tbm> single upload.
Hmmm, BTW this brings up that if one just does apt-get dist-upgrade,
one will accrue lots of removed packages as the years pass.
Indeed
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More from me, Dan
What file can one put "unalias ls", or anything in fact, in for it to
get read on the remote system upon interactive ssh? .bashrc,
.bash_profile are apparently not read.
At most I can do now is
$ ssh porky.simonds.net
porky$ unalias ls
I don't want the dotfile read on batch jobs preferably.
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The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents
instead. Unfortunately, the info document describing tar is licensed
under the GFDL with invariant cover texts, which violates the Debian
Free Software Guidelines. As a result, the i
Say, would the least bandwidth package updating system be one where
the user just does
rsync mirror:Packages /var/...
then for $(each package that needs updating)
rsync mirror:uncompressed_package /var/...
Hmmm, but then it's not usually just documents that have changed...
OK, then how does ubuntu
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4
Severity: wishlist
Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and
then only keep one week of diffs in it?
Doesn't the song go "on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave
to me"...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole
*/
How many
usb 3-2: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2's
is normal per day for you card reader users, as seen in dmesg?
I use udev and hal on sid.
Resets are just normal and don't mean files are going to get
corrupted, right? If files were going to get corrupted then cp(1) e
$ curl
curl: relocation error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: symbol
SSLv3_client_method, version OPENSSL_1.0.0 not defined in file
libssl.so.1.0.0 with link time reference
Yes I see lots about it in the bug tracker. What is the workaround?
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Which web hosting company would a Debian user (not developer) choose
for his personal website (jidanni.org)?
Got by with no ssh or cgi and only 1Gb/month bandwidth and 25Mb
disk usage at affordablehost.com for US$20/year, but would like more
bandwidth. True, no Debian relevance, but might as well g
dmesg(8) mentions some modules etc. (?) that I probably don't use but
are perhaps included in the stock 2.6 kernel:
ata1: no device found (phy stat )
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x1001
codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0xfe]
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
/etc/modules is for adding modules at boot.
What is the file for taking away modules at boot?
e.g. tsdev. I don't have a touchscreen, so I suppose I should remove it.
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Looking at the hwclock docs, I suppose this is unsightly but harmless?:
# grep rtc /var/log/boot
Sat Jan 14 00:38:28 2006: Setting the system clock:modprobe: WARNING:
Error inserting genrtc
(/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-k7/kernel/drivers/char/genrtc.ko): Device or
resource busy
Sat Jan 14 00:39:21 2006
For the locales stuff, should I use
zh_TW.UTF-8, zh_TW.Utf-8 or zh_TW.utf-8?
My guess is the latter, from locale -a.
Should I report bugs if I see mentioning of the others?
How about for web pages? charset=utf-8 like tidy or UTF-8 like Google?
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http://home.no.net/david/i18n.php and locale -a says use LC_ALL=zh_TW.utf-8
but /etc/locale.gen and /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED seem to say zh_TW.UTF-8.
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I just want to sometimes get around my ISP's transparent proxy which
intercepts all port 80 traffic to anywhere, as sometimes it has too
old caches. Mostly very fast, but sometimes one wants a second view
without its help.
Do I need to install and learn e.g., "tor",
or is there some proxy someone
These days in sid, I get lots of
"Package x has broken dep on y"
from apt-get, where x =
odbcinst1debian1 libjack0.80.0-0 openoffice.org-bin
gnome-control-center libgc1c2 libaspell15c2 xserver-xorg libenchant1c2
libaiksaurus-1.2-0 aspell x-window-system-core libplot2c2 plotutils
libwpd8c2 libaiksau
Announcing my new script,
http://jidanni.org/comp/debian/dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs
from installed packages.
(Useful only if we are on an non networked island and want to install
packages onto machine B that exist on machine A, but the .debs are
gone.)
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A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its
A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard"
A> package managing tool.
ok, if it is so standard then it should be installed by default in the
tasksel phase. no mention of it is made from the time we pop in the
fir
[Debian's default installation gives 2 year old emacs and 6 year old
non-GNU awk, while sporting the "GNU/Linux" branding]
Summary: Dan says the debian install process should at least
ask/inform the user that he is not getting current official GNU tools
despite the GNU on the box, and in some case
poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, "shutdown -h now" does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not
adjusted?
By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a
comforting sequence of mes
Lots of /usr/share/doc's are in .gz format. What does Joe Average do
to read them, zcat, zless, etc. over and over? (Nifty me of course
uses emacs' dired's "v" with auto-compression-mode on. Seems to be
ideal. However then one encounters patches of HTML docs, which seem
best suited for galeon,
I hear some configuration files shouldn't be edited by hand, but
should instead have dkpg-reconfigure run on them. Will such files
have warning messages every time in them saying how one should edit
them, and also if the next time I update the package if they will get
overwritten or not?
E.g. som
I wish you experts would take a look at this from the point of us new
users. A new user is faced with capital letters from the system
saying something dear to him will be removed.
On the other hand we have lower case letters from a person in the
newsgroup saying it is not what it seems, as there
>>>>> "C" == Chris Kenrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> poweroff just does the same as "shutdown -h now" for me: turns off the
>> disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, &quo
Sure I've got a lot of bugs I could report, however I recall when I
reported a perl bug once to the perlbug people. It was like I had
adopted a child when alls I wanted was a one night stand: I found a
workaround. I am was just reporting the bug for the public good and
wished to move on. There's
I'm scared s*itless about wafting about my real e-mail address on my
posts here, as I've already seen account after account of mine get
buried in spam and now all's I got left is my real ISP address-- all
from posting to "little known mailing lists".
Anyways I tremble in my boots each time one of
Anybody written a Mandrake to Debian migration guide? It's been half
a month and I'm only 1/2 way thru migrating from Mandrake 7.2 to
woody. Perhaps due to encrusting myself with scripts that have this
file moved or that service closed on debian and need rewriting.
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indeed, booting with append=" apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437"
causes the second line not to appear in /var/log/messages anymore:
Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version
1.13)
Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: disabled on user request.
and allows shutdown -h no
Oh great, I chose the woody home user installation setup, and after
putting
exit #until i know what it does
as the first line of many of the /etc/init.d/* files, then notice
[using "nmap" which I downloaded] all these things listening to open ports:
discard,daytime,ftp,telnet,smtp,time,fin
How to stop console cursor blink? We're talking tty[1-6] here.
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Sorry for being extra dumb but do the 8 debian woody CD's come with
source code? I just grabbed one (#7) and all I saw were .deb files.
If source are not on the 8 CD's, how many more CD's would it take?
It must be on there because don't the rules say the source comes
along?
Maybe it isn't other
I have a question about "floppies". First, quaint, aren't they? OK,
In /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
But doesn't that mean that if I insert a "unformatted" or "scrambled"
floppy, it will fail auto detection as to what file system type it is
and one will not be abl
I have two CDROM drives. This is apparently not noticed upon debian
woody installation. Swifteax. Neateaux. I suppose the distributions
of the pros consider that a personal issue or something.
OK, so I must do this myself. OK, I make a link in /dev from hdd to
cdrom2 then I make a directory in
Say, will in /etc/fstab putting
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto,iocharset=cp950 0 0
cause problems one day for the 99.9% of the time when the cdrom I'm
reading doesn't have Chinese filenames on it?
To read Chinese chars on vfat and iso9660 drives, should I in
/etc/fstab use both
Did I do something wrong?
# eject
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
huh, I didn't use any arguments
# eject -v
eject: using default device `cdrom'
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdc'
eject: `/dev/hdc' is
Deep in /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/README.Debian.gz it says
Fetchmail does not like to be started without a DNS server, so PPP
users will probably notice that fetchmail fails to start on boot
up.
Mine does start up and I wish it wouldn't. Were you depending on this
as the check of if to s
If one sometimes uses aptitude sometimes uses synaptic sometimes uses
dselect, and in each sometimes quits out after making his selections
and then not following thru and installing the packages, can this lead
to an utter state of confusion?
If one is going to mix and match these must one remember
My new computer works fine, Linux debian 2.4.18-k7 is fine, just lilo
gives these warnings
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x80
Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
hea
Back when I used some other leading brand of GNu/Linux, boys were
boys, girls were girls, and awk was gawk. Now switching to the
debian world, awk is mawk. I'm worried that the scripts that I've
been writing for years and years will break. So I installed gawk.
However unlike when one installs p
I see the checksecurity program makes lots of records of all the
"setuid files" in /dev, and puts them in /var/log/setuid.*
Mainly I'm not to happy about having my disks given a workout after
each daily power up. But who knows, maybe a little exercise is good.
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I notice upon shutdown -h now I miss all the neat messages about what
its shutting down, because I am sent to tty1 instead of remaining on
window 7, the xwindow, and I must manually do alt ctrl F7 to go back
and see them.
I suppose this is for my own good, in case I want to type any last
words or
How does one get a beep unconditionally from that little speaker be it
from a batch job or whatever. Assume I can give a valid $XAUTHORITY.
I used to do the below, but now:
$ echo -e \\a > /dev/console
bash: /dev/console: Permission denied
Now only root can make it beep. Without resorting to ro
How kind of you all to offer your "beep" and "ditty" solutions, I will
have to try them next time I break out the 8 woody CDs.
However your suggestions of print(1) and echo(1) do not fill the bill
as I want a way to get the little speaker to beep due to #2:
1. with standard tools
2. from a batch s
Do it do much good for /etc/cron.d/exim to run the queue every 15
minutes while one is offline?
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During boot (2.4.18-k7) I see something about hit RET by 5 seconds for
shell. So I did and there's this shell that you can't do much more
than "set" in. After I typed exit the kernel couldn't find root and
I had to hit the reset button.
So what is this "shell" for? We are on the virtual disk p
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to news.groups,google.public.support.general as well.
I see the news professionals on google have a hard time dealing with
all the PGP SIGNATURE stuff that is all the rage say on
"muc.lists.debian.user" there. It's like f
Fellas, are these dmesg's no big deal or indicative of impending tooth
decay etc.?
cramfs: wrong magic
cdrom: open failed.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:11.1.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
that last one I did a search on and I read that it is probably due to
me not having my
So I made a link called "Hardware and operating system used by Dan
Jacobson" to http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt to explain the
issue. In a makefile I do
system_report:
{ echo Dan Jacobson\'s computer set-up as of `LC_TIME=C date`;\
for i in dmesg lspc
The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to
read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must
drive the original package off the system to install the new package
just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops? Assume I've got the 8
woody CD's and no net
> Do you mean something like this:
>
> --- thing.sh ---
> sleep 3
> echo -e \\a
> --- thing.sh ---
>
> # nohup ./thing.sh &
No I mean something like
$ echo ./thing.sh|at 2:12 pm
and having it ring a bell instead of sending a flashing/beeping
"letter bomb", and all with standard tools of course.
Is it true that there's no way to control the Mozilla geometry?
Mozilla*geometry: 800x547+-6+-6
Netscape*geometry: 800x547+-6+-6
mozilla*geometry: 800x547+-6+-6
don't work
mozilla -geometry ..
don't work
all I want to do is the +-6+-6 part to keep it from being so shoved to
the right.
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I installed noffle but emacs' gnus still connects to leafnode. Why
aren't leafnode and noffle marked as conflicting packages?
OK, I suppose I will manually have to disconnect leafnode from the
NNTP port and connect noffle.
BTW I still haven't met an offline reader that can handle the simple
idea
Well, it's been a month of me editing various files turning my virgin
woody system into one that actually works :-) , and now boy do I
regret not keeping a captain's log of at least the names of the files
I changed. I was thinking that there would be some automatic way to
detect this --- and you g
has to hit alt ctrl F7 to see those
final messages. Perhaps the monitor parameter affects the initial
messages, but not the final ones. Anyways, post your tried and true
results here.
>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> I notice upon
Regarding Rusty's Really Quick Guide To Packet Filtering
/usr/share/doc/iptables/html/packet-filtering-HOWTO.html#toc5
where are we supposed to put that? /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/somefile
I suppose.
If you tell me to put it in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d I will tell you that it
only needs to be run once...
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