> Is there anything that will let me just download what has changed (on a
> daily basis) so I can put it on zip disk to bring home? I need to do
> this without maintaining a mirror on my parent's computer.
There are plenty of solutions for mirroring Debian, e.g.
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/c
> mount: mount point /mnt/point does not exist
>
> Any clues?
That looks like a clue.
It says you're trying to mount it on a directory
that doesn't exist.
You probably mean '/mnt' instead of '/mnt/point'.
Alexis
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> I am having a problem. I had lilo set up and booting fine, then xp on my =
> main /dev/hda partition got trashed and I had to reformat it and =
> reinstall xp, which wiped out the mbr. I am having trouble getting lilo =
> to redo the boot sector. Where does one get a mbr.b file or how does it =
>
On 2004-12-30, Choy Kho Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Now signing changes and any dsc files...
>> signfile dri-trunk-sid_2004.02.28-2.dsc Michel Daenzer
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gpg: skipped `Michel Daenzer
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>': secret key not available gpg: [stdin]:
>> clearsign failed: sec
As someone else suggested run 'ntpq -p' or quicker is
'ntpq -pn' and look for a '*' in column 1 of any row; if
none then you're not synced with the server.
Another common problem is that if your collection
of machines are on a private LAN and their gateway
machine has only a transient connection
>> before, but if i have used a command several times, the up arrow key wil=
> l=20
>> display the same command several times, this is not welcome. =20
>> ~/.bash_history contains the commands used before, can the shell display=
>=20
>> the same command just once?
Hi, I've got a potato test installation running 2.2.14. I'm trying
to get a serial line configured as the console on this very old 486DX2/50.
I've:
added 'serial = 1,9600n8' to the global section of lilo.conf.
added 'append = "console=ttyS1,9600n8"' to the relevent kernel
> i m new to Debian. I managed more or less to install debian successfully.
> My problem is that i cannot change the resolution of my screen.it keeps the
> size 800x600.
> i would like to use the resolution 1027x768.
> I configured many times the x server using the command:
> dpkg-reconfigure xser
> 1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time
> that my debian box has been connected?
You can find the last connection time by grepping for "remote IP address"
in /var/log/messages. Then you can use 'date -d +%s' to
convert this to seconds since 1970, you can also ge
> at the end nothing worked. I think the problem is again with x-windows.
>
> What does one do?
Start by explaining in a lot more detail what "nothing worked" means:
what commands did you run which didn't work?
If you cannot get the X server running, or it just didn't start on its
own at boot-t
> from a little time a have the notebook from $subj. i installed on it
> debian but i think i am a little stucked - couldn't find with google
> or on the hp.com site the HorizSync &
> VertRefresh for the display and i'm using those reported by knoppix
> but i'm not so sure they are the right one.
> First time as i used to run startx it used give error
> about display name "hostname:0". But now after adding
> DNS entry for my new hostname, it just does not give
> any error. Whenever i run startx the screen flashes X
> and mouse cross icon...then dies.
So then you're back to the text console
> For the 2.4.27 kernel there are a variety of
> sub-releases, such as kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 that
> match up with header packages.
>
> Where is the source that these are compiled from?
> There is only a generic kernel-source-2.4.27 package
> available. And if I am interested in using the sour
On 2004-10-19, RituRaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In which deb package can i get DIG utility in sarge.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents
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> mysql-server. How can I tell apt-get that I have an MTA installed even
> though there is no package for it?
One way is to create a dummy package using the 'equivs' package; you
basically tell it the name of the package and it creates a totally
empty package, which has the specified name.
Alexi
> Currently I have a few jobs I run at boot time using @reboot in my
> crontab. I would really like to be able to run some jobs just before
> shutting down as well (alternatively when I log out of GNOME). How can I
> do that?
How about just calling them from a new script in /etc/init.d with 'K'
li
> partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just
> want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it
> is being done as root.
Be sure to reboot the system after using cfdisk to modify
the partition table and using mkfs to make the filesystem
on it. Despite the message cfdisk produces
On 2004-10-20, Olle Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/*
> $ sudo chmod o-rwx /home/username/.*
>
> After that, all hell broke lose. I couldn't start any new KDE application,
> existing applications complained about insufficient rights, no temporary
> or sess
> How do I interpret 03:04? If I boot off the boot floppy, everything is
It's /dev/hda4 (the 3 and 4 are the major and minor numbers; do 'ls -ld
/dev/hda4' to see this).
> fine. Have poked around for answers in the archives, but haven't
> figured it out.
>
> boot drive:
> hda1 - /boot
> hda2 - sw
> I partitioned my hard drive in such a way that i can
> install 2 OS. The partition goes like this:
>
> /dev/hda1 - Linux (ext3)- Bootable
> /dev/hda5 - Linux Swap
> /dev/hda3 - Linux (reiserfs)
>
> /dev/hda1 has Knoppix3.3 (LiveOIO) and /dev/hda3 has
> Knoppix 3.6. I configured /dev/hda3's lilo.c
> There was a problem in 2.6.8 kernel where a normal user could not burn
> CD's using cdrecord. I experienced that problem and installed 2.6.7,
> which did not suffer that problem. I am wondering, is that problem fixed
> now? I am planning to compile the 2.6.8 kernel source package from Debian.
> I have installed the stable version of Debian. However, I
> really need a more current version of Exim. I'd like to
> install the exim4-daemon-heavy package which is in the
> testing tree. I added:
Bad idea. You may wind up upgrading to newer versions of
exim4-daemon-heavy's prerequisites and
On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> taken for rote. I was told back when I first started working with Unix that
> the swap space needed to be at least twice the size of physical memory in
> order to ensure a stable system.
I believe this was just a rule of thumb when memo
> I just wonder why mplayer is not on the debian apt package list? and how
> can i find a easy way to install myplayer on deiban? :)
Check out the mplayer website (Google for it) and somewhere under
the downloads page there is a reference to some good soul who
has prepared debs (I think his name i
> My /etc/profile is not being run when I reboot and log on. Can anyone give me some
> advice about how to figure out what is wrong? What should be calling it and when?
> Would any failures get logged someplace?
How do you know it is not run?
Is the user's shell one that *should* run /etc/pr
> For quite some time now, I've been searching device driver for my V90
> HCF Conexant winmodem. The linuxant site demands a fee for its
> acquisation. Are there any alternative sites where its driver is
> available?
I believe this is the same as the LT winmodem isn't it? Take a look
at http://dio
On 2004-10-26, Mark Schonfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why is the list not relaying my emails? I'll send an email, but never
> see it show up on the list. It seems like 30% work.. the other 70%
This happens every few weeks. Accept it. (Previous attempts to
investigate causes and/or wake up
> Though I didn't change anything on purpose; just the usual upgrades, I
> lost my sound a few days ago.
> Only today is the time to check it:
>
> esd doesn't start any longer (it always did):
>
> $ esd &
> [1] 28425
> $ /dev/dsp: No such device
Can you show the output of:
ls -ldL /dev/ds
Hi, here's some results from aptitude's search command:
dione$ aptitude search \!unmatchable | egrep -v '^[piv] '
i A amd64-libs - ...
dione$
The 'testing' of three weeks ago produced no output with
this command; indeed I have been using it as a way
> i810_audio 21248 0
> ac97_codec 9568 0 [i810_audio]
> soundcore 3236 2 [i810_audio]
What kernel version is this?
How recent is the alsaconf package?
If you try unloading all OSS modules (including all three above)
and then run alsaconf does it w
> How to install my own conffiles like /etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/screenrc
> with a debian package without conflicts with the real package ?
They are *conf* files, so the package installer framework will not
overwrite your modified versions of these files with the versions found in
newer versions o
> I was browsing through my file system one day on my linux partition and
> noticed somthing that i never did before in the /proc directory. firstly what
> is
> this directory I now that it has somthing to do with the procedure file
> system
It is not a real "file" system, but provides a fi
> I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of
> reporting errors.
>
> I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as
> possible.
>
> The thing is, I'd rather work with a project than roll my own.
Take a look at ADE (http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/sof
> after i upgraded a few weeks ago some packages on testing, i cant login
> anymore to the text-console (tty). The graphical login is still working.
"cant login"? Are you getting a error message? If you give more detail
maybe we can help more.
Did you check the various log files? Run 'sleep 60; d
> As stated in my OP, my console mouse works fine.
>
>> Step three - Configure X to read from /dev/gpmdata.
>> [...]
>
> So I googled/read/did. But as I said, it didn't work -- in fact after
> startx, my console mouse is destroyed (there is an extremely long delay
> when starting X).
So if gpm i
> I'm running Debian/sarge (kernel-2.4.26-1-686) with gphoto-2.1.4-2 and
> libgphoto2-2-2.1.4-5.
>
> fine with my "pen disk"), but apparently 'gtkam' can't find an
> appropriate driver/module.
Does the version of the gphoto libraries support this camera? Verify
this.
And if you use 'gphoto -P -R'
> ...
> type=autops2
> ...
The only difference I have here is the type is just 'ps2' and
I have an a non-empty 'append'. These will both affect the
'input' side of gpm. So I think these differences are ok.
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver
> I tried two (almost identical) entries in the map dataset for autofs, but if
> the first one is not successfull, it doesnt even try the second entry.
I'm am not sure if doing this is possible with the kernel-based autofs
automounter.
What I am sure about that this is possible using the AMD a
Yes, comment out the 'ca' entry in /etc/inittab and get init
to reload the config file with the command 'telinit q'.
You need to be root to do both.
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> As far as I can tell, the problem is that the new kernel cannot mount
> the root filesystem and I have no idea why, as it is ext3 and ext3 is
> built into the kernel.
Are you sure? I mean are you sure it's in the kernal *and* not a module?
The symptoms you describe would indicate it is in but
> The mail server 's date and time has gone one day ahead and it has
> debian unstable installed on it.
> it shows Wed Aug 18 10:25:59 IST 2004
> but the actual time and date now is Tue Aug 17 12:21:04 IST 2004
> how do i get it right
Use 'date' as root to set it in the OS. See date(1).
Use 'hwclo
> System is Kanotix-bug-hunter-07-A (debianunstable based).
>
> Call this box machine A
> I want to run xterm from machine B
>
> Steps tried:
>
> on A --> xhost +B
> loggged into B(via ssh) and --> export DISPLAY=A:0; xterm
>
> results in
> ... Can't open display "A:0"
Try sett
> When using the 'apt-get install' command to install a program, a kind
> of 'blue screen' will appear for user to config the program. Is it
> possible to re-do this configuration process after installation?
dpkg-reconfigure
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> Can somebody know how can I configure
> my LILO in order to load my Solaris
> partition? I got a document and
> followed it step by step. But a
> problem has been occuring when Debian
> tries to install LILO at /boot (first
> partition of my IDE 0).
This is on a Debian system, right?
What did y
> I find this script useful on small LAN's, etc.:
I also have a script for doing this at
http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/computing/rsdeb/
But there must be some more official non-Debian-specific and
non-Linux-specific way do do these things, right? I just
don't know what it is.
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> where does the domain name of a debain stored?
> is there anyway to change it?
I presume you mean DNS domain, not NIS domain.
I think it is derived from looking up the name of
the host, which is in /etc/hostname.
E.g:
my /etc/hostname contains 'dione'.
my /etc/resolv.conf s
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get write access to the mount
> bellow as a regulare user. Its a windows 2003 server with signing off.
> Everything seems to works well as root.
> smbmount //downtown/sysback /mnt/smb/downtown/ -o
> username=username/servername%'!password' gid=100 uid=1000
> After installing TeX-Live on my system, I seem to have ruined
> my access to info files. Typing "info" or "info " gives
> "/usr/bin/info: No such file or directory". I can't do absolutely anything
> with the info command. On the other hand, everything in TeX-Live works Ok.
So presumably /usr/
> What is wrong?
I didn't see anything Debian-specific or even the mention of the word
in your post. Posting to the Subversion mailing lists would seem
more appropriate, don't you think?
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On 2004-09-01, Joshua Y. Stabiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anytime I do a make-kpkg with modules as the target
> (modules_image, modules, modules_config, modules_clean ete.)
> I get the following output (and no .deb file):
>
> for module in ; do \
This line should say:
> when i write http://127.0.0.1 no apache test page display
> but the daemon is running as following.
So what is displayed?
What is in the log files (access+error)?
What is in your httpd.conf (don't post all of it, use
some editing sense).
Come on, help us to help you.
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>>Can you have two /home directories on separate disks? Do I need another
>>partition on the second drive as swap? I'd appreciate any help regarding this
>>matter.
How about, after partitioning, mounting the partition of the
new disk with a filesystem as /home-extended. Create directories
under t
> I've got a collection of a bunch of debian packages. They're not organized in any
> way, just a directory full of .debs. How can I make apt recognize this repository?
> I tried adding
>
> deb file:/home/dh/download/debian/
>
> to the apt-sources file, but of course apt balks at this as it
> I have several computers sharing a modem through a
> gateway computer, the modem is activated through
> dial-on-demand and connection is drooped by means of
> timing out. I would like to activate and deactivate
> the modem with a command from the clients. In theory
> it would seem simple to ac
> my lilo seems to be screwed up, it
> boots and I get some OS/2 thing, I even tried reinstalling debian from net,
> it ejects the disk and reboots and same thing. What do I do?
You're not giving potential helpers much to go on! :-) What's in your
/etc/lilo.conf? What commands did you run that p
> I have an ISA card CS4236, using ALSA driver-latest one, which otherwise works
> fine, the microphone does work fine, but can't make any sound-recording program
> to work with it - ecasound, arecord.
>
> Both programs generate output, programs end recording fine, but no sound
> is recorded.
>
>
> I'm wondering if any of you know a good mirror, preferably from Canada to
> download sarge, the isos or the network image? if the mirror is in the US
> I wouldn't mind either.
Look at http://www.debian.org/mirrors/list for a list of mirrors.
Look at packages 'apt-spy' and 'netselect' to help fi
On 2004-03-02, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but...
>
> Suppose foo has already been removed without the --purge option, and I
> later want to purge it.
>
> # apt-get --purge remove foo
> gives the error that foo is not installed and therefore takes no a
> I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving, but . . . What
> application includes the "startx" command? I realize I can install
> xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on the older computers.
> Anyway, I have x configured, I bet it'd display Fluxbox grea
> apt-get install xlib6g
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>
> When I'm using konsole, the and keys don't work in bash.
> The keys work fine in bash in xterm and console. Also, they work using vi in
> konsole.
My guess is that 'TERM' is set either (a) wrongly, or (b) to something
that is not meant to be able to understand HOME and END.
There are alterna
> i'm having 'strange' problem with my sshd. i'm running woody. and
> here is info about my sshd.
>
> virgo:~# dpkg -l | grep -i ssh
> ii ssh3.4p1-1.woody. Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH)
>
> my sshd can accept from anymachine but my machine. i can ssh my debian
> box v
> I have debian unstable up-to-date and a kodak dx3500
> I download images and they get corrupted, while I see them fine on the
> camera.
> moreover, I had an onld memory card with pictures (I previously
> downloaded) and when downloading them now
> they are corrupt (images haf gray, bad colors).
> Can anyone give me any clues as to why I need to run "ifconfig xxx down"
> in order to use pon and modem? I haven't had a network until recently
> but now that I do it would be nice to not need to turn the network off
> in order to use my dialup connection.
Well, if you told us what sort of m
> Is it possible to retroactively label debs as having been automatically
> installed by apt? I'd like to be able to install package dependencies
What are you using to install debs that *isn't* keeping track of
dependencies then? Can you give a specific example of what you
want to do (what comm
> and whenever I try to mount floppy
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> I get a mess a message:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/fd0
It says 'bad superblock', which means it didn't recognise it as a
DOS floppy. So what *is* on the floppy then? How did you make it?
> Regardless of kernel, I see this:
>
># cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>Attached devices:=20
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L812
> Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
>. . .
>
Just because the devi
> Things seem to work fine sofar, but several times during the upgrade,
> I got the following error:
> devconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC(
>
> and now I see the same error when installing other packages
> Anyone Have any ideas about this?
>
> Is it s
> the loopback interface and to my surprise eth0 was working as well! I
> could not find which module the kernel is using for eth0 anywhere. Is it
> possible that it is not using any module? The output for lsmod is:
>
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 7276 1 (au
> Hi i'm new to this list and i just want to know a couple of things to be
> sure to configure my computer correclty. First, i have a serial mouse type
> Com-2 or serial. I just want to know which selection im supposed to choose
> in the xfree86 configuration generated by debconf ?
Install 'gpm
> in windows, it shows Generic SoftK56 Data Fax Voice Speakerphone as a
> modem on COM3. PCI slot2 (bus 2, dev 10, function 0).
COM3, ok, that's ttyS2 in Linux-speak.
> ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 2400 baud, next try: 4800 baud
> ttyS0<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- failed with 4800 baud, next try:
> I've setup SpamAssassin via CPAN but it comes with no init.d startup script.
>
> Could someone send me its debian startup script for spamassassin ?
Download the .deb, and extract it yourself.
.deb files can be unpacked with 'ar x ' and then do
'tar xzvf data*'.
Alexis
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> i live in China, and my ISP blocks many Web sites. how
> to use Debian to search for free proxy server?
Have you tried searching, if you can, Google? What have
you already tried? What FAQs have you looked at that were
not helpful?
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> I have just baught some 90 min 800mb discs so I can copy my home video
> to which is a total of 794mb but I tried to burn it to cd and it wont let me
> it keeps telling me will not fit to cd so please can you help me i will be
> most appreciated
What software are you using to try this? Wh
> The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary items so it
> should be able to boot from a SCSI disk. My thought is to do this:
>
> - Install the new SCSI drive
> - Mount partitions as necessary and move files to their new locations
> (probably using tar cf - . | (cd /newdrive ; tar
> I'm trying to join a Debian(Woody) machine to a NIS network.
Did you look at /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz ? Did you
follow it ? :-) Are you trying to add it as a client or a slave server?
What OS is the NIS server?
> I'm getting the "YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound" error on start
> ppp is not starting on bootup. I can pon at will afterwards but this has
> stopped coming up on boot.
>
> Is there a script that might have been lost along the way?
Post the results of running these commands:
grep default /etc/inittab
ls -ldL /etc/*.d/*ppp* /usr/sbin/pppd /etc
> ls /mnt/debian
> or
> cd /mnt/debian
>
> I don't get anything mounted - only the empty directory. I can do the
> mounting manually without any problems.
>
> Linux orca 2.6.3 #1 Thu Feb 26 20:06:44 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
I've not used 2.6 series kernels yet, but, assuming it is the same as
2.4
> I'd like to have a script/program that changes the background between a
> set of images (jpgs, pngs, etc) at either a set interval or login. Is
> there anything like this already? I did a quick google, but found
> nothing. I'm sure I could bash a script out to do this, but would rather
> not
> I've just found that if I install Debian (Woody) and use the default install
> flavour (idepci - I think) - the one you get if you just hit return at the
> boot prompt - I do get support for my network card, all works fine. If I use
> vanilla, I don't. I have an old network card.
>
> So, I've got
> In the last few days I've been changing some configurations on my
> computer. I've been using some initrd scripts to preconfigure my system
> for two different environments successfully for quite some time. When I
> added the third one, the problems started. It might be, that I simply
> made a mi
> Hi guys,
>
> I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get install
> once a week to do security updates.
>
> I get the following:
>
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `updat
> hi I have this script:
Try posting to comp.unix.shell.
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> Where can I find the config for 2.4.18-bf24 kernel?
Install it and look in /boot/. There should be a file
called something like config-2.4.18-bf24 there.
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> FATAL ERROR: inserting ext3
> (lib/modules/2.6.4-1-386/kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko) : Invalid module format
> *snip*
Sounds like a mismatch between kernel and module versions. Are you
sure you installed the modules? Are you sure you are booting the
new kernel and not the old ones? Trying moving /etc/
> Dos anyone know where or how in the kernal does the machine time gets
> converted to local time? I'm most curious as to how DST gets
> figured.
> For example, the machine runs on UTC, but I can set my TZ=EST.
>
> When I get my local time, it tells me if I'm in DST or not (the kernal
> must
> also
> I can connect and ping IPs, but DNS does not resolve. /etc/resolv.conf exists and
> the
> ISPs servers are added automatically.
> Now have no clue what to check. Any ideas?
Move /etc/host.conf to /etc/host.conf.off and post the contents of
running 'grep hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf'.
Alexis
htt
> I am wondering how to write simple shell script of "more" equivalent:
>
> 1. read from stdin
> 2. write to stdout
> 3. this loop is paused by key
>
> Of course, I know this can be dome by other means but when I was making
> a bit more complicated shell script, I could not find an easy way to s
> I just switched over another PC to Debian (Sarge) and the install was
> absolutely painless.
Sarge is not released yet, so I guess you mean the pre-sarge
testing or unstable, right?
Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
and stick in 'amule'. From the Distibution pulldown
rectly
from the CDROM ???
11) then do an installation from network using either Germany
mirror or local mirror of 'testing'.
If anyone can offer any advice, it'd be appreciated! Many thanks!
Also, can anybody confirm: at the moment it is not possible to
install with
>> Hi, I'm attempting to install 'testing' on a very
>> old PC which will not boot from CDROM, and does not
>> have a "common" NIC (it's an SMC something). I have referred to
>> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/cu
>>rrent/doc/INSTALLATION-HOWTO and have tried to in
> that had a form of fall back for autofs. It was configured for homedirs
> so that if you cd ~home it would try to mount server1:/home/foo, if that
>
> Anyone have anything setup similar or know how to work it? "multi-map"
> isn't the same thing.
I have this setup so that I can disconnect my la
> I've got a problem accessing a NIS-Server (running on Suse) with a
> NIS-Client (Debian testing).
> After doing a 'su - user' or simply logging in as user I get a
> 'I have no [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$'.
>
> My yp.conf and nsswitch.conf are the same like on the other
> Suse-NIS-Clients.
> In /etc/pa
On 2004-03-28, Dafydd Blaidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I switched from a system on Red Hat using Sendmail/Cyrus to a
> system using Exim/uw-imapd and I'm looking for a replacement for the mail
> command. Specifically, I'm looking for a command line mailer that allows
> Subjec
> When I start installing ut2k4 everything goes ok. When it asked me for
> the second cdrom. I cant unmount the cdrom. I cant force unmount it and
What error message do you get when you try to unmount it?
> any ideas?
My guess is that some process is still using the device when you try to
unmo
> Would it be possible to setup, say, my desktop machine, or any other
> Debian machine, to be a router for *just* port 113? So I could forward
> port 113 on the WAN to that machine, and then that machine could
> automatically share port 113 with any machine on the home LAN? This
> would includ
> I'm asking myself what the impacts of this are? Will Debian lose a lot of
> users since the current stable release contains software which is somtimes
> terrible old? What are the reasons for sarge taking so long to become
> stable? Were there any such release problems with the previous rel
> I am using acpi in place of apm because it allows me to press the power button
> to shutdown the computer. I can easily accidentally press the power button, so
> it is good to have it go through the shutdown sequence or even do nothing instead
> of powering down without performing the shutdown a
ROOT_DIR=`df / | xargs echo | awk '{ print $8 }'`
echo $ROOT_DIR
Alexis
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> 1) I have already downloaded debian from one the mirror site listed on
> debian.org website (complete folder on windows appears as 1.16GB with
> 2836 files). I want to know is this correct approximate size for
> debian installable files.
> 2) If above is not correct can some-one guide me where i
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