On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:51:17PM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> If I put the CONCURRENCY_LEVEL := 2 in my root environment variable will
> it be useful in allowing all of my compiled applications to run with
> maximum efficiency on my dual processor system?
No, it will only affect the (one-time) co
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 05:15:13PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> hey,
> do you guys know of a smart way to access random lines in a file? so
> if a file had lines 1-5, 5 random reads would return something like
> line3, line1, line2, line5, line4? you get the picture... oh, and that
> preferably
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 01:46:29PM -0400, Steven Smolinski wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:24:40PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:15:38PM +0200):
> > > perl -e 'print map {$_->[1]} sort {$a->[0]<=>$b-&g
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I've got 512MB of RAM, and I wanted to see how much of it is free. So I
> ran gtop, which showed me that ~84MB are used (mainly X and apache-ssl).
> OK so far, but cat /proc/meminfo tells me that ~480MB are in use, and
> only 32MB fr
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:30:46PM +0100, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> hi, how do i use apt-get to upgrade from stable to testing?
First change /etc/apt/source.list and change the "deb" lines to refer to
"testing".
Then start dselect. Run "update" from the menu. Then choose "select".
It will prompt yo
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 02:33:29PM +0200, tim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 02:12, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > Especially since dselect doesn't, in fact, handle dependencies
> > superior to apt, since they both use the SAME dependency mechanism.
> >
> > Something else is at work here. Did you, perh
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:12:20PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If someone could show me how to get ISDN working, that would be a
> great help. As the places i find on the net tell me different stories,
> and just give me a head ache.
Just install isdnutils-doc and read the documentation. Fe
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:47:19PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> I looked at the kernel source, and I found that the initrd code does
> not recognize a cramfs file system.
>
> Is there a specific patch for this?
Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/outback/linux/ ?
Cheers,
Joost
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:35:25PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> I am new to Linux (especially Debian), please help me out.
>
> 1. Does anyone can tell me how to extract *.deb files? And where can I find
> Debian's special commands?
These will tell you a little about .deb:
man dpkg
man deb
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:40:18AM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
>
> > As far as extracting Debian package files ("*.deb's") goes,
> > I've found the easiest way is to use "alien" (apt-get install
> > alien) and convert it to a tarball ("*.tar.gz").
> >
>
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:21:19PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> >>>>> "Guy" == Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joost> Maybe http://www.escape.de/users/out
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:59:40PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I did an upgrade tonight and decided to take a look at GNOME after a
Did you use dselect?
> brief stint with KDE. Anyway, I noticed that things were pretty slow
> when it came to GNOME-ified apps
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:57:42AM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote:
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 05:25:01PM +0200, Guy Geens wrote:
> Google gave me this page:
> http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/unofficial/index200107.html
>
> Which points to the patch I need. (And some other interesting things.)
Good luck. :-)
Cheers,
Joost
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 09:20:29PM +0200, C?dric Hugon wrote:
> I have problem with installing Debian 2.2. He doesn't see my hard disk
> (ATA100). What may I do ?
Hit enter after +/- 70 characters, to start.
Then tell us what motherboard your system has. What type of
ide controller is the disk
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:17:58PM +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q? Georg=20Wei=DF ?=
wrote:
> why depends the package isdnutils on xfree86 ?
>
> yes i know there is a program (xisdnload?) in isdnutils
> that requires a xfree installation.
>
> but why is this program in the package?
>
> i think it should
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:57:22PM -0700, Xucaen wrote:
>I have searched thru the Debian user archives
> and read alot about soundblaster PnP cards, but I
> have an old sb16 with jumpers. I know all my
> card's settings and I have already installed sb.
> My confusion is regarding adding my user
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:10:13AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > My confusion is regarding adding my user name to
> > a new group and changing the group of the sound
> > device. between usermod, chgrp, chown, I'm
> > confused. what do I need to do to get my user
> &
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:16:19PM +1000, Stephen Jiang wrote:
> > If you could set your mailer to wrap to 72 characters it would be much
> > appreciated.
>
> How? At the moment, I have MS Outlook Express.
Well, won't the author accept a patch to fix that? Get your money
back, then. ;-)
You
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 05:47:46AM -0400, John Bacalle wrote:
> > the meanwhile just type "startx" to start the x windows system.
>
> Well, that restarts an X session for root only, as I have things
> presently configured. How would I restart Xdm again, so all users can
> login as before? Doing a
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:49:58AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> "J.A.Serralheiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >a few weeks ago, I enabled bios APM, which has a bug and I didnt knew
> >about. I had crash, and some files in /lib/something disapeared.
> >
> >The problem was not a big deal, because I
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:07:08PM +0200, C?dric Hugon wrote:
> I have an asus A7v socket A motherboard with a western digital 30Go 7200
> ATA100 and it's the only drive I have. I guessed the ide controller for
> ata100 is from promise
> Linux doesn't see any harddisk in my computer
> When I try
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:24:45AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote:
> MFK> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.6
> MFK> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6
>
> 'dpkg --install ../*.deb'
This conveniently also put the config in /boot, so you never have
to look far when you need to know if
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:22AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> I've got a few new Dell systems that I'd like to install Debian
> on. They're pretty generic systems, e.g, AIC-7892 SCSI, 2 SCSI disks,
> IDE CD/RW, etc., but they are dual processor and so I want a 2.4.x
> kernel installed and though
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:18:44PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> what is the preferred method of loading modules? i guess /etc/modules
> will be the answer because of tool like modconf, but i don't generally
> use debian kernels or modconf, so i am interested on what you have to
> say.
There is
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:28:37PM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote:
> I must be being thick...
>
> alonzo:~# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt
> alonzo:~# dpkg --get-selections >/mnt/tmp/slns
> alonzo:~# chroot /mnt
> alonzo:/# dpkg --set-selections alonzo:/# dpkg --get-selections >/tmp/slns2
> alonzo:/# diff --bri
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:18:50PM +1000, David & Leanne Wiener wrote:
> When I apt-get an application, the new packages download fine but then
> apt-get unpacks another package that was left from a previous session. This
> package is lilo, I use grub as my boot manager and don't want to change t
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:25:29PM -0700, Thomas Merritt Draney wrote:
> I did very well I must say for a new user to linux. I got debian installed
> to the point i am sitting there with a command prompt.
Congratulations.
> But i am now lost. Where is Gnome or how do I start up into it?
>
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:09:02PM -0300, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am a Debai (2.2 rev 3) user
>
> I am trying to configure a Webmail
>
> I am connected to a ftp server to get packages
>
> Someone knows how can I do that ?
>
> What packages I need
>
> what the procedures ?
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:30:20PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
> I wanted to remove all the ximian files from my system since they are
> giving me a lot of problems. I also wanted to change to Progeny since I
> have a vidio card that works better under xfree 4.x then xfree 3.x. So, I
> followed t
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:43:42PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> I need in-depth help for configuring my PPP.
> Manuals are useless. Online help non-specific.
> And where are the pictures?
The problem is, there is no depth in the pictures.
I like manuals. I like howto's. Try google.com
Try linuxdoc.org
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:06:50PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> I bring up pppconfig which in it's wonderful ReadMe file says it does
> everything for you basically, but it just shuts itself back down.Duh! Where
> did it go?
It went to read the pon(1) manpage: "man pon".
Cheers,
Joost
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 install. I
> have the kernel source downloaded from kernel.org (as this isn't for my Debian
> install - I have also tried the sources from Debian with now luck), but when
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:42:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all:
> Did an apt-get dist-upgrade using testing and at the end had an
> error of:
>
> 'errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-
>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:27:17AM +0200, Florian Fritze wrote:
> Hi, the VGA16 seems not to work correctly when I start it via startx or
> XF86Setup. The server gives the following output and displays a coloured
> pattern:
Setup the xserver using XF86Setup, after that use startx.
> XF86Config: /
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:47:31PM -0600, Patrick Klee wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install Debian Potato, on my PC. But, when I enable plip
> (parallel port support), I get an error with lpr saying device or resource
> busy.
Perhaps the lp.o module is still loaded while you are trying to l
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:43:06PM -0800, ftrk wrote:
> I was trying to install debian GNU/Linux on a pc previously been running
> rh6.2 & later rh7.1. I backed up my files and deleted old partitions and
> trying to make fresh installation using the CD (Potato, kernel 2.2.17
> released March 200
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:44:53PM -0700, Dan Cox wrote:
> I'm currently trying to network a windows box and a debian box. I'm
> using ethernet cards and am able to ping both boxes respectfully. I use
> the windows box for the internet and mail (although once I am comfortable
> with Linux I will be
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:57:03PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> Does that mean I have to install something else if it doesn't? Should I try
> dpkg -i? What is the correct app. name?
No, it means that you have to read the pon manpage. It should be there
if you were able to run pppconfig, because it depend
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:56:13PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> Am using pppconf in root by doing pppcong& and it's brought up the menu.
> Unfortunately it does not want to use the up and down kjeys properly at this
> time.
> We had problems with this configuration of the keyboard at various stages.
> Is
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:33:33PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> To be in root, am I not supposed to be opening it through the apps pull down
> menu in Gnome? And it appears to open and swiftly close itself down but like
> I said, I'm choosing it from the apps menu.
This explains a lot. Normally in linux,
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 08:09:28PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
>
> I had to reconfigure my printer port from IRQ 7 to IRQ 5 (because I?ve
> got a soundcard which is hardwired to IRQ 7 ).
>
> Luckily I had compiled lp as a module, so I thought a simple change from
> `modprobe lp irq=7` to "irq=5
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:14:15PM -0500, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was wondering if someone could look at this crontab file and tell me
> if I've got it right.
> 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev / |cpio --create >/dev/st0/root.cpio
> 0 2 * * 6 find -xdev /boot |cpio --create>/dev/st0/boot.cpio
> 0 2
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:46:52PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> So, basically, I want the system to reside on SCSI and the
> not-so-valuable data on IDE. Does something like
>
> SCSI:
> sda1 /boot 25 MB
> sda2 / 100 MB
> sda3 /usr 1200 MB
> sda4 /var 840 MB (/tmp -> /var/tmp)
>
> ID
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem'
Can you show us the contents of that file? It is not clear why this
is not working. It may be that /dev/modem is not actually pointing
to a valid serial device, such as /dev/tt
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:23:52PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> My keyboard just pooped out in tty2 so I have no idea
> if my configurations are okay , plus I also notcied upon bebooting that it
> does not have "any ports found", now I wonder what this is? Is this why it
> could not find the modem?
It cou
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:33:20PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote:
> I would like to stop X-window login after reboot
It's called xdm. You can remove it completely, if you don't
like it. Use dselect. After that, you can still start x windows
manually with the "startx" command.
Alternatively, you can
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:24:52PM +0100, Keri wrote:
>
>
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:00:52PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> > > /etc/ppp/peers/provider: unreconized option ' /dev/modem'
> >
> > Can you show us the contents of that file? It is not clear why this
> > is not working. It may be tha
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:34:20PM +0100, Keri wrote:
> Am in the case and the modem isn't telling me much.
> What serial numbers would I look for to indentify it?
> It's an Athlon 500 machine and am starting to know
> it intimately. Spent hours last week mucking inside
> looking for what kind of m
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:38:10PM -0500, Leonard Leblanc wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently running Kernel 2.2.19pre17. I recently recompiled it to
> support Generic SCSI devices (this is the only thing that I added). I then
> restarted and from some reason (which I don't even have the slight
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:47:04PM -0400, R Ransbottom wrote:
> Using woody with unstable DB stuff I get the following error. What file
> or link am I missing?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so'
> for module
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> The features I really want are:
> 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were great in XV)
> 2. Intelligent scaling (I liked the zoom maxspect feature of XV, where
>it would zoom as close as possible to the screens
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 11:42:12PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> > > I'm trying to compile a driver from scyld.com on my Debian 2.2r3 install.
> > > I
> &g
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:32:23PM -0400, Brian Schramm wrote:
> I did a apt-get update. Acually I followed the instructions on
> www.progeny.com web site. For your instructions, would that install them
> or remove them?
It should reinstall all packages with a ximian version, replacing
them wi
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote:
> hi,
>
> i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> it downloads all the files like normal,
> but for them to install it had to remove a package called gdm...
> this is what it said when it tried to remove it:
>
> Removing gdm ...
> dpkg: error pr
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:06:15PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +1200, bewm wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i typed in, apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> > it downloads all the files like normal,
> > but for them to install it had to remove a
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:35:44AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> also sprach Bart Szyszka (on Sat, 07 Jul 2001 07:28:50PM -0500):
> > On my computer I have root of course and then a normal user. If I go to
> > /wind as a normal user and try to delete a file, it gives me a permission
> > denied e
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:59:46PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote:
> What is the different between debian and suse?
There is less trolling on the suse mailing lists.
> How are the security and stable?
Yes, stable is very secure, if you put the security deb uris
in your sources.list, fixes are available
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:39:34AM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> I have a weird problem with grep. Let me give you an example:
>
> dpkg --list | grep emacs
>
> now gives the following output:
>
> (standard input)
>
> It worked perfectly until a few days ago. Does anybody know what
> is happ
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:29:20PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > No. It appears to work fine, here.
> >
> > $ type grep
> > grep is hashed (/bin/grep)
>
> This is it ! Some days ago, I put an alias in my .bas
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 06:36:08PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote:
> but anyway, a question for all debianers: how do you get the default
> permissions back on the / tree?
If you have a clean host with very similar filesystem contents, try this:
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "find / -regex '/\(mn
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 07:48:46PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've got four Sid-images (from may) and wanted to update some proggies.
> But there weren't any updates for gpgme (lobgpgme0) that doesn't installed
> a config-file that is needed to compile my mua with gpg-suppo
[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.]
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer,
> and I'm having some difficulty with the package manager (dpkg) that came
> with it. The problem came up
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:03:07PM -0400, Dale Miller wrote:
> I accidentally deleted my status file in /var/lib/dpkg. Is there any way
> to rebuld this?
That would be quite hard.
Instead, just pickup the most recent copy from /var/backups.
Cheers,
Joost
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 08:06:28PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> 1. Early in June, Noah Meyerhans gave me advice on how to make a .deb
> using 'apt-get source -b ' in conjunction with 'deb-src http://
> debian. ' in /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> 2. I needed to do things that way since the onl
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:28:48PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> "Jeffery B Maxson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >This past weekend I upgraded to woody using dselect, and everything seemed
> >to work out well. However, I seem to be missing some rather important,
> >basic stuff now. For example, "t
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:48:18PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > "jdalton" == jdalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> jdalton> Does anyone know how to process a docbook article,
> jdalton> containing MathML, under Debian (please)?
>
> No, but if you find out, could you please let me kn
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:55:23AM +0100, Russell wrote:
> or at least I assume it's about apt-get. I just want to know if a
> particular package is installed on my system, and I can't seem to find
> that kind of option in the man pages for apt-get, dpkg or dselect.
Then you did not read the dpkg
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> I've been trying to get NFS locking to work on a small network of two
> computers, but completely failed on it. Does anybody have experiences on
> that?
> I have tried all kinds of things and read a lot of documentation but found n
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Toshinao Ishii wrote:
> Thank you for reply. I've just removed all the PCI cards and
> reboot from the rescue.bin. However, situation does not change.
> The kernel stop just after saying "PCI: Probing PCI hardware".
>
> I also tried RedHat7.1. It looks rh7
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:09:15PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote:
> I tried to install Debian 2.2r3 from 3 floppies (rescue.bin, root.bin, &
> driver-1.bin) to my old computer which used to
> have Debian 2.0 in it. Because I wanted to change some
> partitions, I started fresh from 2.2r3. Everything went
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:40:12PM -0400, Shaji N V wrote:
> I am facing a problem in connecting to a website from my linux box. I use
> dialup connection through my ISP or log on to my work(via dialup). The
> strange thing is that all machines at work are able to access the website
> (sun or wi
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:08:34AM -0400, Jenner Almanzar wrote:
> How can i install debian 2.2r3 from hard disk?
You must first read the installation documentation. Then, post
again with your questions about it.
Cheers,
Joost
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:04:55PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote:
> moin moin Joost!
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write:
>
> [...]
> > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1
> > > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/mai
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:54:11PM -, Tommy McDaniel wrote:
> That doesn't seem like to me like what I want to do, but it could be.
> Basically, I downloaded the basic files to install Linux on my Windows
> partition and now want to use dselect to install packages, which will also
> have to
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joost> You are using openjade, perhaps? Try jade, it does work.
> Joost> I got it to work once with the plex86 do
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0500, hanasaki wrote:
> I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file.
> Originally, only the first rule was present but it does not seem to
> ignore entries as the 2nd and 3rd do < Probably I need a lesson in regex
> >. Input would be appreciated.
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine
> is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is
> often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a
> log entry at a cra
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:23:23AM -0700, abram olson wrote:
> 1. I prefer my machine to boot to a command prompt
> not to boot into X. Its set up to be using gdm.
> Where do I change this? Can someone point me to a
> good explanation of how debian boot scripts are
> organized? Which init leve
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:21:46PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote:
> Mr. Kooij,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion but I still can not complete the installation.
> Can someone out there tell me what does the Warning message mean?
> And tell me why my computer keep booting itself?
You should provide more in
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:44:54PM +0200, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote:
> Hi there
>
> It should be kettle of cause. There were more fun, I hope :).
Or a cattle of cows. ;-)
Cheers,
Joost
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:47:41PM -0700, Owen G. Emry wrote:
> Yes, it's just got the default .deny and .allow files. Can't see anything
> wrong there. And all other services besides ssh and telnet seem to work
> fine. Very frustrating! Thanks for the suggestion, though.
What does "netstat
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I've built myself a 2.4.5 kernel with parport support, but it appears
> to be broken, as any attempt to print (whether to /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2,
> par0, par1, or par2) results in the error "No such device".
> /var/log/syslog records the
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >
> > You need to apply the patch before building the deb, obviously.
> > Don't use the '-b' option to apt-get.
> >
> >
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:24:15PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote:
> Why do certain peoples' posts to this
> list show up as attached text files in
> my mail client (OE)? I get a blank
> message with two attachments:
> .txt and .dat. The text file contains
> the actual message.
Maybe these are multipa
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:33:47PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > For the relatively uninitated amongst us, could you spell this out
> > quickly. What does dselct do that apt-get doesn't? I remember
> > hearing on a list that it doesn't handle suggests
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:14:08PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> I've recently been encountering some HDA errors/warnings that might be
> serious. I'm using the following hdparm script:
>
> hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda
>
> This script is executed on startup. I see the following errors in
>
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:35PM +0200, Matthias Pitzl wrote:
> Hello Jost,
>
> i've read the man page, but this doesn't help me. I tried to use different
> logging levels for the kern facility, but
> i don't had had any succes in filtering the ipchains output sole in the file.
> But thanks for
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:11:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #66 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :
> Do you know WHICH SHELL YOU'RE RUNNING? If not, you can find out:
> ps T
> The first item listed is most likely to be your shell.
> (Valid shells are listed in
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:47:39PM +0100, Eric E Moore wrote:
> >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joost> Apt-get is generally much cooler when run as a dselect method.
> Joost> It will save you many pains if you take 3
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:30:57PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> but i certainly did forget to mention how to get back IN to the
> X arena. eesh! (thanks!)
Did you know that on the console, you can also use leftalt+cursor{left,right}
to change vt's? Going back to X from vc1 is as simple as leftal
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:01:30AM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> I use Outlook because I find it to be better than
> any piece of shit MUA that I can run on Linux. I
> happen to find Linux rather lacking when it comes
> to the desktop arena and when I actually have to
> do work instead of playing,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:18:21AM +0200, thomas wrote:
>
> > So my idea is: I open the power supply, flip the fan so that it blows
> > cool air from outside into the case, voila, much less noise. Is this a
> > good idea or rather stupid?
>
> bad idea. you will move all the hot air in the case. i
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:04PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> here are some relevant tips from my collection--
When all else, like "reset" fails, I can (literally) blindly type:
echo -e \\033c
It fixes most cases of terminal state corruption.
Cheers,
Joost
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:24:17AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> How do you determine WHICH NETWORK SERVICES ARE OPEN (active)?
> Try "netstat -a | grep LISTEN". To see numeric values (instead
> of the common names for services using a particular port) then
> try "netstat -na" instead. For more inf
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:41:53AM +, Frank Copeland wrote:
> On 12 Jul 01 06:55:28 GMT, Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> "Sunny" == Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >Sunny> hey, I have a 3c509 NIC.
> >
> >Sunny> I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I use
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:42:49PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote:
> I made a very stupid mistake. I didn't read the installation manual very
> carefully. The manual states that do not partition /dev but this is what
> I exactly did. I am so embarrassed. Now, every thing looks ok.
> Sorry to waste your
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:03:50PM +0100, Jamie Wood wrote:
> Hi - I'm a little confused by apt and wonder how I can best make use of
> it...
>
> Basically I can download packages for free from work and then bring them
> home on ZIP to my computer there. What is the best way of maintaining an
> ar
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:39:50PM +0900, Toshinao Ishii wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 2001.07.10, at 21:31, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > Your machine has an uncommon pci setup, it seems, that may need a
> > newer kernel to deal with properly. What kernel is on redhat 7.1?
>
> T
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