Fellows, it's time for a dist-upgrade, but
The following packages have been kept back
python-gtk2 python2.3-gtk2
Could it be a fault of mine?
# apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true dist-upgrade
Package perl-modules has broken dep on libcgi-pm-perl
Considering libcgi-pm-perl 0 as a solution
How do the mirrors work? Are the Packages files always copied last,
to ensure all the versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk
when you try to get them?
In what cases could an hours old Packages file mention packages that
apparently haven't been copied to the mirror yet? E.g.
http://d
P> Possible. Could be a bad copy of files. Could be anything. Try manually
P> browsing the mirror using your webbrowser or lftp etc. to see if the
P> files are there.
Yes, http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/pool/main/f/file/ shows no Oct 03
additions, whereas
http://debian.linux.org.tw/debian/dists
Gentlemen, I have been send a CDROM with a television show on it.
What might be the right tool to view it? The CDROM's structure is:
$ tree -s
|-- [ 27] autorun.inf
|-- [ 2048] cdda
|-- [ 2048] cdi
|-- [ 2048] ext
|-- [ 155648] mpeg2dmx.ax
|-- [ 2048] mpegav
| `-- [
After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new
thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user
Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search
isn't as good yet.
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I notice there are Packages.bz2 and Packages.gz on the mirrors. How to
tell 'apt-get update' to get the smaller .bz2s?
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Assuming
$ apt-cache policy twlog
twlog:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3-2
Version Table:
1.3-2 0
500 http://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw sid/main Packages
500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary-4
(20021010)] unstable/main Packages
How can I
Is it true that the apparently 1000+ different levels of priority
mentioned on the apt_preferences(5) man page are actually just a
handful?
If one manages to make 'apt-cache policy' report one item with
priority 504 and another with priority 506, there are still other
factors that override this an
Even though /etc/mozilla-*/prefs.js has
// XIM style
pref("xim.input_style", "over-the-spot");
but I still can't use it. I.e. forget about typing Chinese into
mozilla-snapshot, etc.
Apparently that how life is for the last few months, bug reports or not.
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LILO version 22.5.7.2 says
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
The kernel was compiled with DEVFS_FS, but 'devfs=mount' was omitted
as a kernel command-line boot parameter; hence, the '/dev' directory
structure does not reflect DEVFS_FS
What is the URL these days to just get a changelog?
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=somepackage
doesn't work. Aptitude's "C" won't work. Is
http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/somepackage.html and then browsing
news items there the best one can do without downloading any extra
fil
Announcing apt-mature, which should supposedly tell you how long
upgradable packages have been on the mirror so you can pick older ones
etc., all offline. http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-mature
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Regarding seeing obsolete Suggests fields when doing apt-get installs,
it turns out that just doing a daily apt-get update isn't enough,
one should instead do a dselect update, it turns out.
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Just curious, why doesn't this make output every run:
$ ps axu|grep grep
jidanni 1163 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
$ ps axu|grep grep
jidanni 1171 0.0 0.2 2376 608 pts/1R02:26 0:00 grep grep
Is
Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed
until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low
bandwidth users to use.
Mail is accruing on the secondary, but not yet cleaned of spam, nor in
a mailbox fetchable. We copy our latest .procmailrc, and
.spamass
>> Let's assume it's Friday and one's primary mx server cannot be fixed
>> until Monday. Maybe I can write a standard procedure for other low
>> bandwidth users to use.
S> It has been around for years, and is called uucp.
and how does one use uucp to manipulate the exim queue on a remote
machine
Dear fellas, outgoing mail should be sent thru my ISP's SMTP server,
so my exim.conf has
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* ms46.myisp.com bydns_a"
end
But let's say now I have and an additional ISP that I sometimes
connect to, with its different SMTP serv
In December a friend will burn 9 debian CDs for me to upgrade my
poorly networked 'woody of may 02' system.
Shall I have him burn sid or sarge?
I'm basically a wimp user but need fresh software so I don't sound too
silly in my many bug reports.
What are the chances my system will come to a scree
Just curious what the debian user does if he wants to browse like his
microsoft counterpart when encountering flash, java, etc. 'enhanced'
web pages. These cause mozilla 0.99 to ask me to download some
'plug-ins' in some wacky fail prone way on my frail costly modem
connection. Why can't we 'plug
http://www.cliffshade.com/dpfwiw/cd-r.htm#multi says each time you add
another session (more data) to a disc you loose 10MB of space to the
needed header files for the new session.
Is it that serious on GNU/Linux with cdrecord, and if so, I don't
think I saw it in the docs.
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I updated to sid and now have a wget failure:
--06:52:39-- ftp://ftpsv.cwb.gov.tw/pub/satellite/s1q2002-12-10_06.jpg
(try:20) => `s1q2002-12-10_06.jpg'
Connecting to ftpsv.cwb.gov.tw[163.29.179.241]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.==> PWD ... done.
> "E" == Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
E> Blind?
E> # zgrep overhead /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.multi.gz
E>overhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the
E>overhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the
E> The t
Is part of deborphan's job to clean up for sloppy package maintainers'
bad Depends: etc. fields? Or during normal usage does a debian system
accrue useless packages?
In /usr/share/doc/deborphan/README.gz :
REMOVING ALL SUGGESTED PACKAGES
---
deborphan -p4 | xargs
I recall I at one point "removed kde from my system", however I still see
# dpkg -l kde\*|grep ^i
ii kdeaddons-doc- 3.1.2-1KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format
ii kdeartwork-the 3.1.2-2icon themes released with KDE
ii kdebase-data 3.1.2-1KDE Base (shared data)
ii k
I never use fortran, so
# apt-cache show libg2c0
Description: Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77 applications
# apt-get --purge remove libg2c0
The following packages will be REMOVED:
atlas2-3dnow* libg2c0* pdl* r-base* r-base-core* r-base-html* r-base-latex*
After unpacking 56.1MB di
Looking at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ I see the names
of various languages in their native fashion.
Everything is hunky dory, except the Korean (Hangul), I see squares
with hex in them for the 한국어
Did I forget to apt-get something, or is Mozilla Debian Package
1.3.1-3 deficient? (
Gentlemen, my /var/lib/dpkg/available file always seems a day behind apt:
$ grep-available -s version -XP zsh
version: 4.0.7-6
$ apt-cache policy zsh
Installed: 4.0.7-3
Candidate: 4.0.7-6
$ grep-available -s version -XP base-config
version: 1.67
$ apt-cache policy base-config
Installed: 1
How can one tell if I still need to set
APT::Cache-Limit 16777216;
for the current version of apt?
$ apt-config dump
doesn't say if the default value has been increased.
$ which apt-get|xargs strings -a|grep -i limit
doesn't help.
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I notice nntp postings via gmane.org's gmane.linux.debian.user
to this group never get posted, even though NNTP returns 240 OK
and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ says
"This list is not moderated, posting is allowed to anyone."
On gmane.discuss they have no further solutions.
I don't know if
# apt-get install c-compiler
Package c-compiler is a virtual package provided by:
gcc-3.0 1:3.0.4-13
tcc 0.9.19-1
gcc272 2.7.2.3-18
gcc-3.3 1:3.3.1-1
gcc-3.2 1:3.2.3-7
gcc-2.95 1:2.95.4-17
gcc 4:3.3.1-1
bcc 0.16.3-2
altgcc 1:2.7.2.3-2
You should explicitly select one to install.
#
Ladislav> apt-get install ttf-baekmuk should solve your problem.
OK, now looking at Japanese, I occasionally notice boxes with "9A28",
"6CA2", etc. I must be missing a few chars. What would the
mozilla user of today be sure to have apt-gotten in order to be
prepared for almost any language?
Do
Greg> It is needed. If you have a ba-zillion deb and deb-src lines and all
Greg> three/four Debian tick-marks. (stable, testing, unstable, experimental).
I see. Can one tell what APT::Cache-Limit value is without resorting
to the source? apt-config dump doesn't tell default values. Would
adding
EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
M> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:11:17AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 0.5.9
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
>>
>> Consider the case of netbase 4.11, a package with a broken script that
>>
Just curious. If a
$ apt-get install some_package
gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst
what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available?
At this point restoring ones system to the previous state is now
beyond the ability of apt-get and will take
>> $ apt-get install some_package
>> gets stuck in some bug in /var/lib/dpkg/info/some_package.postinst
>> what is the proper way to back out until a newer version is available?
C> Usually, edit the postinst script until it doesn't get stuck.
I assume if one does not want to hack the system, the
t
get one's POP box buried with extra copies of messages one normally
reads elsewhere.
>>>>> "D" == Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
D> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
D> #206959: lists.debian.org: no option
In dselect, hitting O gives me:
- All packages -
@-- Installed packages ---
- Installed Required packages -...
Say my cursor is on the @, how do I jump to the end of Installed packages?
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non-root offline users? If so, maybe someone can give me an account
so I can set up camp to get my email back into shape.
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I am fortunate to have an account on debian.linux.org.tw, I.e. a
mirror. Maybe I can make a script to just do a diff of the Packages
file and then just download this diff over my modem?
I hate downloading megabytes just because I want to upgrade some puny
package without resorting to dpkg.
I wou
$ wget http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/download/apt-rsync
$ chmod +x apt-rsync
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./apt-rsync", line 58, in ?
f=PrivoxyWindowOpen(SOURCES)
NameError: name 'PrivoxyWindowOpen' is not defined
Now what? I do in fact use privoxy BTW. Of course the aut
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.unix.shell as well.
If I do "cat dir/file", why is the access time of dir not changed, as
seen with stat(1) or ls -ul? Only if we do "ls dir" will dir's access
time be changed. Maybe it is on purpose to avoid too
Dear sirs, I have connected speakers to my system
(http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt), done
# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
# play file.au
But nothing happens and I have to hit C-c to get my prompt back.
# dmesg
Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (ALC200/200P)
v
Apparently I can forget about sound as the Sid CD of 20021010 that I'm
[rural modem user] using has Alsa versions clustered around a flurry
of changes and
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=541&page=1
says I have to compile from alsa-sour
How kind of you to help me find the simplest way to make my
system give even the littlest bleat. I did
# modprobe ac97
# modprobe ac97_codec
# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
# cat bleat.au > /dev/audio
# tail /var/log/syslog
Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x414c:0x4710 (AL
|It sounds like you just don't have sound.
I confirmed that if the jack is pulled out of the Epox 8KHA+ 'speaker'
jack in the manual's photo, and stuck into a radio, there is sound.
|First make sure you're in the audio group (" addgroup dan
|audio" - then log out and back in as "dan" -- type "gr
I have apparently now gotten beep(1) to beep thru the speaker, [as
well as the tiny PC speaker like it used to.] This I did by aumix's
Vol and Spkr controls.
How then can I make play(1),cat $file > /dev/audio, splay, mpg123,
mpg321,mpg123-oss etc. also make the speaker come alive? they do
notin
Just to install gocr,gocr-gtk,gocr-tk,gocr-doc I had to insert three
different SID CD's. Is that normal? I wonder what if I wanted the
other parts of it...
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Let's say a file is bothering me and I want to report it to its
parents or owners or anything
$ locate sndstat
/dev/sndstat #no similarly named brothers
$ apropos sndstat
sndstat: nothing appropriate.
$ dpkg -S /dev/sndstat
dpkg: /dev/sndstat not found.
$ reportbug -f /dev/sndstat
Finding package f
> "H" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
H> Any thoughts as to why my system would be beeping? Its the speaker
H> inside the case. The speakers are off and the Linux sound control is
H> muted. When mute is off, the beeps come from the speakers.
My problem is ever since I turned u
I'm about to buy a smartmedia card reader for my
http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt . Can I get away with just a $15
single reader, or must I get a 5 in 1 with onboard memory at 4 times
the price to avoid coming all the way back home and it won't work?
I suppose USB is the best bet these days?
Gentlemen, what is the deal when one can make C-g beeps also come out
one's speaker that is plugged into the speaker jack, with
modprobe -v via82cxxx_audio
aumix -v 88 -p 88
modprobe -rv via82cxxx_audio
echo -e \\a > /dev/console
as well as the PC board speaker, and even after the modules are
remo
Just curious, we see a security bulletin that fetchmail should be
upgraded to avoid a malformed hostname threat.
I could wget the new fetchmail .deb with my flimsy modem but I see it
depends on libc6 that is newer than the one on the sid cd set of
2002.10.10 that I have installed.
If I also get t
I long ago stopped using the older kernel, 2.2. However in
/lib/modules/ I see 2.2.20/ 2.2.20-idepci/ 2.4.18-k7/ .
What is the recommended way of cleaning up the older ones? Is the
user supposed to just rm -r?
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Fellas, what do you think of my exim filter file filtering
spamassassin results... I first give 'em a pass-word in case they're
real. [You see, I don't operate spamassassin, just have access to its
results.] I do the best I can with the paltry exim user assignable
variables available, numbers.
Did anybody ever get sound to work on your EPOX 8kha+ board?
I have 10/10/02 sid cds. I tried everything. I can make the console
beep out of the speaker only. Alsaconf doesn't have the card.
http://jidanni.org/comp/system.txt is my sorry system. I can use
kernel -18 or -19.
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I can't believe this is still not solved. I boot the system. I see
some ominous warnings. They scroll by so fast and are gone.
E.g. something about mtab. Ok, cd /var/log; grep mtab * */*
Nothing.
You will answer "oh, mtab, don't worry about that".
But the general problem of messages that appear
Dear Debian Sirs, a few months ago I want to town and my friend made
me 10 cd's: _Sid_ - fsn.hu unofficial i386 Binary (20021010)]
Now if I go to town again can I say, have him use the "jigdo"
mechanism to make just a few cd's that hold only the changes to sid
since 20021010, avoiding the embarras
What are the 4 wires from "analog" prongs of my CDROM unit to the
"CD1" prongs on my motherboard for? Is this an old fashioned way of
listening to music? How about the headphone jack on the front of the
CDROM unit? Old fashioned too?
Take my "RICOH CD-R/RW MP7080A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive", whic
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.epox as well.
>> Did anybody ever get sound to work on your EPOX 8kha+ board with
>> debian? I have 10/10/02 sid cds. I can make the console beep out
>> of the speaker only.
Rico> Would you
I do pstree and I see "khubd". "What could that be about?," I say. I
try locate, man, apt-cache search, looking in /proc/{it's pid},
everything I can think of. After removing the "k",
find /var/tmp/kernel-source-2.4.18/|grep hubd
finds some uncommented files that may have something to do with i
> Isn't there something that I can turn on to capture all these, or are
> we too early in the startup?
< Try using dmesg (or less /var/log/dmesg)
i wanted to see the ones that dont go in there
> when booting the machine, hook up the console to another system
> if you only have 1 system, I'd sugg
.
then somehow make CDs of just those.
then use apt-cdrom to register them.
>>>>> "R" == Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R> Hi Dan,
R> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:58:01AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Now if I go to town again can I say, hav
[add a ftp mirror to sources.list and run]
F> apt-get update # a few megabytes
hmm, this would have permanent effects... but then I can just restore
sources.list back to just my listing my current cds to make those
effects go away later? Apparently all it does is add files to
/var/lib/apt/lists I
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Regarding sound on debian, indeed, I followed Colin Keefe's advice
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030107020013$64eb%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=6
with initial success after
> "R" == Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
R> Hi Dan,
R> hmmm, there's one more possibility: apt-zip. You first do an "apt-get
R> update" on your machine (will take closer to 15 than 10 minutes, I'm
R> afraid!-), choose the packages you want and run apt-zip. It outputs a shell
R>
$ man apt-get
--print-uris Instead of fetching the files to install their
URIs are printed. Each URI will have the path, the
destination file name, ... Note that the file name to
write to will not always match the file name on the
rem
One problem with the methods discussed is that we are only bringing
home a CD with updates to installed packages, thus will miss out on
the next kernel sub version, alsa etc. drivers for it, "emacs22"
etc...
>From studying man 5 apt_preferences etc., it seems to avoid the deadly
libc6 2.3.1-9 in s
ackage.
It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is
unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
message then please contact the developer, by replying to this em
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting does not show how to find who are
the top bug reporters for the past month, etc. statistics. Also top
bug reported packages and top bugs themselves... how to know these?
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Just look at me,
$ id
uid=1000(jidanni) gid=1000(jidanni)
groups=1000(jidanni),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),1004(scanner)
My latest addgroup was disk, so I wouldn't get error messages when
eject(1)ing USBs. However
$ find /dev |wc -l
5142
$ find /dev -group disk -perm -20|wc -l
4006
th
Dear Sirs [great spam phrase, actually. Thought I was really
renaissance, but just added to my SpamAssassin score by using it,
probably.]
Anyway, Dear Sirs, I have an officially approved "great question",
i.e. I wouldn't send a normal question to the list, only great ones
> "M" == Mark Symo
Summary: "freshen my sid CDs" probably worse than "get fresh CDs" or
"dist-upgrade via apt-zip".
Recently I posted on
http://lists.debian.org/deity/2003/deity-200301/author.html
about ideas for modem users on how to freshen their sid CD set:
1. not like apt-zip, which is gets fresh versions of wha
It seems if I want to get any new things from sid over my modem, I
will have to get a new libc6. This shouldn't be too big:
# apt-get install libc6
The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev locales
Need to get 9348kB of archives. After unpacking 279kB will be used.
Do you want to
Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10
minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be.
With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes,
but with the monitor off, the UPS can last 20 minutes. (No, I have the
most basic UPS with no
Just thought you might like to see how I append files to my CDs, a
multitrack backup CD. My hair is turning grey in no coincidence to
the trial and error involved. I step thru it and it actually works.
You know what's neat? How the windows users just pop in the disks
like on the Nero screen, wh
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Problem: the electric company often cuts power here either for 10
> minutes or for the whole day. One can only guess what it will be.
> With both my monitor and computer on, my UPS can only last 5 minutes,
> but with the monitor off, t
$ touch -t 2000 a
$ touch -t 2011 a
$ touch -t 2111 a
touch: invalid date format `2111'
Oh great, can't deal with dates in the next century. Hope this isn't
a deep routed problem for all of Unix or something.
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I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily
power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody
configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's
some cleaner program that is going to come along every 1/2 a year
etc. when I least expect it.
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Just curious, here we have a MS executable
http://members.fortunecity.com/d140738/M3-E.exe
that I remember contains a excel file that I can deal with with
gnumeric, etc. But now that I have removed M$ from my system, how to
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Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows,
etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported
total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be?
P.S. is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one
wants just to use the humble console
>> is that the usual way to get rid of X windows if in case one
>> wants just to use the humble console? I know there is a startx
>> program, but no stopx.
Preston> "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server.
Indeed it does, with no questions asked.
But then it just springs back to life again,
To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or
whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled.
debian-announce had one message on the 21st, five days ago, saying for
more information, see www.debian.org.
Nothing special there, so I checked http://www.debian.org
M> I'm trying to get rid of a package here
M> or at least put it on hold, or just get apt
M> to shuttup about it already, and I'm at
M> a loss. Any ideas?
M> # dpkg --purge --force-all sysadmin-guide
M> dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
M> Package is in a very bad inco
to get there we could likely loose all along the way,
plus mom needs to use it while we are gone.
>>>>> "G" == Giacomo A Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
G> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Package: apt-zip
>> Version: 0.13.2
>> Severity: wishlist
&
Any package for converting the average bloated webpage into slim and
trim HTML for a turn of the century browser on a weakling black and
white PDA?
"tidy" even with all options turned on isn't aggressive enough. Maybe
I will just end up doing lynx -dump|txt2html.
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Constructive me says: Debian's at(1) is so bad, one can't even do
$ at next year
parse error. Last token seen: year
Garbled time
$ at now + 12 months #Sigh. Must use instead.
No wonder. Not genuine GNU parts. Say, Stallman to the rescue. What
do those cool GNU people use? Don't tell me they don't
A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" &
Yeah, never rebooted where you live.
Out with it, what at(1) command do they use at GNU?
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> "Jack" == Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> Now, a question. Does anyone know of efforts to develop a DWG
Jack> library that is compatible with GPL, LGPL or a similar license?
Jack> The Open Design Group's OpenDWG library (a misnomer in its own
Jack> right), is seriously problema
is possible with existing tools
Date: 02 Mar 2001 00:01:03 +0800
How I got my mail out of Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express 5 into GNU/Linux
without special tools By Dan Jacobson 3/2001
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Below is me commenting on my earlier [D>] discussio
It is with extra large pleasure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] has
given me permission to announce the uni-directional read-only, no posting
allowed availability of lots and lots of debian, free-bsd etc. mailing
lists, via NNTP server news2.sinica.edu.tw . Any mail regarding this
should be sent to him and
How does one use one's floppy under kernel 2.6?
$ mount /floppy
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
I tired /usr/share/doc/fdutils/Fdutils.html#SEC7 's idea:
for i in /dev/fd0*; do dd if=$i of=/tmp/foo count=1 && break; done
I tried modprobe floppy ide-floppy.
I didn't change fstab from 2.4
Can't use my floppy drive in Linux 2.6.
G> As root in /dev type: MAKEDEV floppy
./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "floppy"
G> Another piece, is "udev" installed?
OK, I installed it and rebooted.
G> If it is, it should create those auto-magically.
No it didn't. ls /dev/f* shows none. Now tr
Say if we spot a file,
# ls -l /root-n
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2004-03-24 00:31 /root-n
and we can't tell what package(s) made it,
# dpkg -S /root-n
dpkg: /root-n not found.
nor is it mentioned in debian-policy/fhs,
how do we know it is safe to remove it,
or must we just let it sit there for eter
Upon boot, one sees
"ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx".
But upon reading e.g.,
http://storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/modesUDMA.html
one feels their computer sounds more like the 100Mhz kind.
How can one tell if one is taking full advantage of t
I slide in a mobile disk. I then do
$ mount /mnt/backup/
mount: /dev/hda5 is not a valid block device
Does this mean that mobile IDE disks need a full reboot to be recognized?
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Any last words before I
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7
on my home (sid) PC?
Will things break that used to work in 2.4?
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It's my first DVD, and
# mplayer dvd://1
libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.5 for DVD access
libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd
Does this mean the physical device,
# cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/m*
cdrom
Where is the mysterious HZ=100 documented that I see in the
environment of some accounts after login, and always after doing su?
# env|grep HZ
# su - nobody
No directory, logging in with HOME=/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ env|grep HZ
HZ=100
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Dan> Because of the broken Last-Modified, I am unable to get fresh
Dan> copies of
Dan> http://marillat.free.fr/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Dan> from my ISP's cache!:
Cristian> Please read my home page.
http://marillat.free.fr:
Since yesterday all packages uploaded got the nice 17
In XF86Config-4, these work fine for my Trackman Marble+:
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
Option "Protocol" "IntelliMouse"
But when I instead attach the most common simplest 3 button mouses,
I get no response from the mouses at all. mdetect doesn't detect them,
moving around the mouse or not, yes with
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