Łukasz Rożej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anybody tel what should I do to get my X Window working?
> Here's what it says when I try to run it:
>
> (...)
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list
>
> Fatal server error
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> (...)
What
"s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make
> en_CA locale work. "dpkg-reconfigure locales" everybody said, but
> that didn't do it. Once I edited /etc/locale.gen and
> /etc/locale.alias, then ran locale-gen, it was finally fixed.
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to switch the active user in X without actually logging
> out using the graphical interface( (x|g|k)dm ) like with the change
> users option of m$ XP ?
Not as such. A common thing to do is to switch to an X console
(Ctrl+Alt+F1), log in a
gmorais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> when I use free in command line I get:
>
>total used free shared
>buffers cached
> Mem:449300 219144 230156 0 5560 149084
> -/+ buffers/cache: 64500
"Ritesh Raj Sarraf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
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> i'm a newbie to Debian. I just shifted from RedHat. I've got two lan
> cards on my debian system. one connected to the internet and the
> other t
"Dave's List Addy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install the latest Debian with the ISO
> bf2.4-3.023-netinst. I am doing this with Virtual PC 6.1 on an Apple
> iMac 17 " Flat Panel with a G4 1.25 MHz. I can get the install to
> boot and start, my problem is on selecting the correct
"0debian user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi I am running Debian unstable with kernel image 2.2.18
(! But I guess if you installed woody from a non-bf24 kernel and then
updated, you could legitimately have something this ancient.)
> 1) What kernel should I install (a 2.4.24 stable kernel or
"Cosmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
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(Summary: external router machine has external address 82.77.83.33/27,
with routable internal network 81.196.166.97/29 and internal NAT
network
Tony Baechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello all. This is my first post to the list, so sorry if this is
> off topic. I have a Dlink di604 hardware router. I am running
> Debian Woody. Is there a way I can get Linux to listen to multiple
> ip addresses (not the internal 192.168 block, but
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if {the first word of "uname -a" is Linux}
> then echo "You're logging into Linux"
> else
> echo "You're logging into something else, probably Solaris"
> fi
For yet another approach:
case `uname -a` in
Linux*)
echo "You're logging into Linux"
;
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Ramasubramanian Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Often one is not sure of the choices and strength of
> packages/utilities and tend to install multiple utilies for the same
> purpose. For example I have about 3 or 4 cd players and assortme
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone know how to change the font size in the following line:
> rxvt -fn "-*-trebuchet ms-medium-r-*-*-*-*-100-100-*-*-*-*"
That's a font spec requesting a non-bold non-italic font named
"trebuchet ms" at 100 dpi, at any size. Adding a point size mig
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How to setup a dhcp client? My computer connected to an another(server)
> the server act as a "dhcp server". If I put the following lines to the
> /etc/network/interfaces
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> Is it enough or should I start a client pro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes:
> Recently I looked into setting up my laptop so that it could switch
> between static and dhcp. I looked at an article on this group and
> tried the suggestion and it didn't work. I restored my interfaces
> file back to normal (i had commented out what I h
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (enantiomer) writes:
> David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> My laptop's /etc/network/interfaces file looks very loosely like
>>
>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>
>> iface n
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to know where to get information about how to make
> aliases like in /etc/modules.conf for non modules (i.e. compiled
> in the kernel).
Mostly you don't; the only way to configure drivers built into the
kernel is by passing the right command-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am trying to rsh to my server. I am using kerberos authentication. I
> believe I have configured everything correctly, but rsh simply
> complains: "hostname: Connection refused".
That message generally implies that nothing at all is listening for an
rsh server, at le
glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Firstly just because I used the tla MTU doesn't mean I undertand it,
"Maximum transmission unit", it's the largest packet size that can be
sent out over some particular interface. For Ethernet the standard
MTU is 1500 bytes; you can apparently get better inter
Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:49:59PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:10:49AM -0500, Timothy M. Spear wrote:
>> >If I choose to install the current Sarge Release, when Sarge
>> > becomes the stable release, how do I change t
Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just installed Debian (woody) on a new box. Whenever I invoke X11
> (kdm) the keyboard stops working. When configuring xserver, I have
> tried both pc101 and pc104 (I think it starts pc). But the same
> results. I have also tried xserver-xfree86 an
Pedro Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004,
> Pedro >
>> Debian stable aims for well, stability so the old packages are
>> known to be secure and work. If you want newer versions have a look
>> at things
> Ok. I can buy that.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forest Fisher) writes:
> I'm trying to upgrade from the 2.4.18 kernel that installs with the
> bf24 flavor to hopefully a 2.6.1 kernel but at the very least, a
> 2.4.24 kernel. I put the zipped source code (i.e.
> linux-2.6.1.tar.bz2) into the /usr/src directory, checked to mak
Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure
> Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such.
>
> Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it?
>
> I noticed that this will also u
Danilo Raineri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to get to work i2c and lm-sensors on my Debian testing/unstable.
>
> I downloaded and installed i2c-source and lm-sensors-source; then extracted
> them, and proceeded to build the modules like I did with ALSA and nvidia,
> with a line like t
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Z Maze wrote:
>
>>Both KDM and GDM offer the concept of "sessions"; you want to make
>>sure that you're using the "Debian" session, not one that goes
>>straight into GNOME or KDE without readi
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently downloaded, and using "make-kpkg buildpackage", built a
> complete new kernel headers...etc. from a tarball( linux-2.4.21)
> downloaded from www.kernel.org. It installed with no problems,
> including running lilo. I rebooted and crapped out at
Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sid"
> isnt 3.1 [or 3.0r1 possibly?] woody?
3.0 and 3.0r1 are woody. There is no such thing as "Debian 3.1"; I
don't think sarge (current testing) has even been g
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
What does 'echo $DISPLAY' say on okidz when you start?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh bdg2
> Linux bdg 2.4.18-evms-lkcd #1 Thu Dec 19 10:03:08 WIT 2002 i686 unknown
> unknown GNU/Linux
> ...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY
> localhost:10.0
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then I tried to compile a module for that kernel:
>
> make-kpkg --append-to-version
> -diamond-grsec-1.9.10+freeswan-ext-1.99+preempt-20030617-2
> --rootcmd fakeroot --added-modules nvidia modules_image
Kernel modules' support for 'make-kpkg --r
Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> menuconfig works fine with kernel 2.5.xxx, but xconfig needs Qt.
> From curiosity, what package I must install, in order that xconfig
> works fine ? (libqt2 or libqt3 are not suitable) Why to use Qt
> rather Gtk ?
My impression from this list is that th
Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In a for loop which runs through all files, as in:
>
> for file in `ls`
> do
> #stuff
> done
ITYM 'for file in *'...
> ...will do just a fine job, so long as none of the file names have any
> spaces in them.
because it gets around this. In ge
Tod Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> apt-get remove
...
> Is there a way to purge the conf files that's quicker than
> reinstalling and then purging the packages?
Just running 'dpkg --purge packagename' should DTRT, no need to
reinstall. You should be able to find packages with only
configur
"Robert Soricone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wndering if someone could tell me where I could find the file
> that contains all of the possible window managers under gdm. I
> looked under /etc/X11, and couldn't find it. I'm running woody,
> with kernel 2.4.21.
gdm tends to leave its con
Thomas Gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why does dselect update packages from unstable even if I put
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
>
> in my apt.conf?
Because dselect isn't terribly cognizant of APT; dselect was written
first, and doesn't really understand why one would have multiple
avai
Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the correct manner of changing a symlink file belonging to a
> Debian package? Is it sufficient to just rm and re-link, or should I
> use any of the package-handling tools?
You can't. (Well, you can, but the next time you upgrade the package,
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) Dual head text console. A keystroke combination switches the focus
> of the keyboard from one monitor to the other; the usual Alt-F then
> switches between VTs on that monitor.
>
> 2) Dual head, text console and X. The PCI card is used for the text
> console
Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (I prefer Gtk because it is free, wehreas Qt ?
Got over their licensing issues a long time ago. Looking in
/usr/share/doc/kdebase-bin/copyright, the various bits of KDE are
under differing DFSG-free licenses.
> And, when I used Mandrake with an old ma
nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i want to ssh to a remote machine (firewall), and then immediately
> upon success, ssh to another remote machine. i don't want to put this
> in my .login, because i don't want it to always happen -- i want to be
> able to *just* ssh to the first box, t
Vesselin Kostadinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had to mess around with few packages, one of them being devfs. It
> looked easy:
>
> apt-get devfs
>
> So apt downloaded and configured it. I thought I was done with it
> and I can concentrate on the other (more important to me)
> packages. Not s
Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know if I don't use dpkg, the depence may be broken,
> many programs such as j2sdk, u can't get the deb package( I want to
> use the latest and don't want to use blackdown's)
>
> How should I do??
Install it under /usr/local; the packaging system won't
Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. I'm now getting a "choose networking interface" option at
> bootup. How can I disable this?
You must have installed a package that provides this; you might look
through the list of installed packages in something like aptitude.
Looking through the link
Zhao YouBing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> for install programs?
In Debian, I'd always use /usr/local and never /opt.
> There are some difference anyway, /usr/local is for local group access
> and /opt can be made globally sharable,
...huh? /usr/local is just as globally sharable as any other
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
> full screen?
Almost every window manager out there ("not twm") supports a concept
of "workspaces" or "virtual desktops". My current setup uses openbox,
but I've previously used sawfish and fv
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Short update: just now I tested with a vanilla kernel-source-2.4.21 from
> a kernel.org mirror and it worked, the kernel-image, modules-image and
> kernel-headers processed fine.
>
> So something in the debian kernel-source seems to break compilatio
steve downes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got evolution on my system & working fine as far as I am concerned.
> It wants to download libpisync0 which is for palm sync ( don't have a
> palm device). It tries then fails & apt-get stops at that point. How do
> I get apt-get to ignore this non p
Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I thought that the text and the dashed line would confuse gnuplot, but
> they are just ignored. Thanks, Nick, and sorry for the noise...
> (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out the first
> six lines of text...)
I'd use "sed -
"Ahmed Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've found myself with allittle problem and I was wondering how to
> remount /(root) read-write instead of read-only after booting with
> "init=/bin/sh". This would help allot, thanks.
You need to use mount(8) with the 'remount' option to change the m
"wsykes.lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am would like to use apt-get upgrade, but with the ability to choose which
> packages i can upgrade. For example when i type apt-get upgrade i get a huge
> list of packages most of which i dont care to upgrade.
>
> Is there a way to do a selective a
Paladin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to run a 8 bit color application in X with depth set
> to 24 bit?
If a given program will only support a PseudoColor visual and your X
server doesn't support that, you'll probably lose. (But there's
nothing to be hurt by trying.) The X serve
"Tit \"Black\" Petric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> im running latest sid (regularely updated), and i installed lm-sensors just
> now. the sensors-detect report that i should load "i2c-viapro" which is
> quite right, but that module doesnt exist under the installed kernel.
>
> is there any way to
Jimmy Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I have recently installed Debian and I love it so far! I'm currently
> trying to secure it as much as I can...
>
> I'm reading debian-security-howto as I go along. I'm currently trying to
> remove unneeded daemons from /etc/rc?.d/
Why not uninstal
J F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> TekMate wrote:
>> tom wrote:
>>>OK, I finally got my potato distro connected to the
>>>internet. I want to upgrade to Woody over the internet. I forgot how to
>>>do it.
>>>
>>>Anyone remember?
>>
>> Apt-get dist-upgrade
>> remember to change your sources in /etc
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A simple question: gdm, kdm and xdm: which one uses minimum runtime
> memory?
Almost certainly xdm, since it doesn't have to pay the memory cost of
a major widget set. (It might use Xt/Xaw, but I'm pretty sure that's
strictly cheaper than Qt or Gtk2.)
Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just started using xdm rather than loggin strigh in on the console.
> One thing I have found is that instead of calling ~/.xinitrc and starting
> sawfish
xdm generally runs .xsession, xinit (startx) runs .xinitrc. It seems
to be fairly common to syml
Dougie Nisbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I upgraded to sid running KDE 3 last weekend. Now I find I can't display X
> apps from other hosts onto my PC.
'ssh -X remotehost.example.com' has always worked just fine for me...
> Running 'xhost +'
*NEVER EVER* do this; you've now made it possibl
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby
> enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any
> suggestions?
I suspect you're not really writing postscript documents by hand; what
is producing the files? T
"Asim Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i want to use CVS commands such as update, checkout and checkin
> remotely... i used the command:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/product/b/cvs/srcRepositiory login
> to logini enter my password and i get in...
Do you, in fact, have a CVS p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) writes:
> Today I built my own kernel 2.4.21 and when I run lilo, I get the
> following message:
>
> Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
>Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disk' -> '/dev/hda'
>The kenrel
Francisco Castellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I am wanting to be able to use SSL on my current apache installation
> (version 1.3.26). However I was doing some reading on
Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I'm trying to install Debian
What version?
> on a PC as a server for my school, and the administrator decided
> that he
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:17:58AM +0100, David selby wrote:
>> I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that
>> script could change my pwd to that directory.
>>
>> Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> # 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.
johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello! I have problems upgrading to debconf 1.3.4. I get the
> following error message:
>
> Setting up debconf (1.3.4) ...
> python2.2: invalid option -- O
> Try `python2.2 --help' for more information.
> dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
> subproce
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g
> desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to
> login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut
> down, leaving me with a 'Enter root p
To add, in somewhat more gory detail, to what Todd said:
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) When using an afs client, the command `klog' fetches tokens from
>the campus server. Am I correct in thinking that this fetching
>involves use of kerberos on the campus server?
There's
(Some of this is my personal opinion; I don't claim to be a security
expert.)
Andreas von Heydwolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My home dir contains no database files but lots of proprietary
> WordPerfect docs, pdfs, oggs/mp3s/wavs and jpgs and my mail
> archive.
The thing you're mostly worrie
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to do a batch rename for a bunch of files with spaces in the
> name (in order to remove the spaces actually). I tried to use bash's for
> .. in command but it splits up the lines on spaces and not on line ends.
> Any ideas?
>
> The files are n
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> $ 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
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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...
This sounds like you're looking for the testing distribution, aside
from that the cutoff is generally 10 days
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm running Gnucash version 1.8.4. My system is sarge, except Gnucash
> and its dependencies are from sid. I have three accounts: 'Checking',
> 'Imbalance-USD', and 'Opening Balances'. I am able to open the last
> two just fine, but can't open the
(You seem to have sent your message three times to the list...)
"Jianan Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot
> from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the
> floppy. I use D drive for my Linux.
Note that
Joydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i
> * at the time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian
> . how to get the same thing in Debian ?
...what does it do? What effect are you actually after?
--
David Maze
"J. Zidar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any difference in Debian if you install from debs or rpms?
You can't directly install RPM files in Debian. Use 'alien' to
convert them to .deb packages first, then use 'dpkg -i' to install
them.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt
Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted
> it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February
> will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore,
> I decided to run cron on the first day of every month usin
(This is a FAQ, as much as it's a question. See the archives of both
debian-user and debian-devel about this.)
tripolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently tinkered with another GNU/Linux distro Gentoo. I was
> impressed with several features- especially having everything run
> super fast c
"DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man
> apt.conf' for all the details.
>
> The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to
> pick which version of a particular package I want to install when
> multip
Rich B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This has to be an easy one, but I'm lost. I don't know the correct
> way to force a kernel module to load at boot.
Add it to /etc/modules...
> I got a new PCMCIA network card for my laptop. The old one loaded the
> correct module automagically, but the new o
Raffaele Sandrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm thinking about creating a central managed user and data system
> here. It should use AFS (OpenAFS) as virtual filesystem and LDAP
> (OpenLDAP) as User and Comuter info Database. I tried this earlier
> but it ended in more than one user database (
Jacques Haubensack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a "circular" dependancy problem with installation of debian packages/
> I try to install the alsaplayer sound modules
> But
> alsaplayer-alsa depends on alsaplayer-common
> and
> alsaplayer-common depends on alsaplayer-alsa
...installing wi
David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have logged onto ftps before, but never an anonymous one. I need to
> log into ftp://archive.progeny.com/
> I don't think the error is "real" I can loggin mozilla no probs. Is my
> "anonymous" user ID correct ? do I need a password ?
I don't use ncftp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the
> usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run
> at every boot.
>
> Is there such a place in Debian?
Put the file in /etc/init.d (copy /etc/init.d/skeleton if you need
to; it s
user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error.
>
> Removing gnome-control-center
> dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
>
> Any insight would be appreciated.
Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Slrn is gone a long time ago on my small server, but cron.weekly
> complains it is not there. I could rm the script, but that's not
> 'clean'. I'd like to do a 'apt-get remove --purge', but apt-get
> doesn't want to. Any way through the standard to
"stan & nin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
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> I have a question for you my system comes up with operating system
> not found i h
"vinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
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> Why can I not access my linux server as the root?
It's easier to tell who did what, and is slightly more secure (
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> One of the authors in this thread seems to suggest that Debian 3
> already comes with 2.4.20
Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 03:56:13 +0100, knoppix wrote:
>
> Kernels work differently than other debian packages. Each kernel revision
> is a *different* package. So, do:
>
> apt-get update
> apt-cache search kernel-image
> apt-get install kernel-image-whateve
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to
> manipulate with regex's:
>
> sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile
>
> But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take variable values
> as input. I can do the following:
>
> FROM=`f
Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I cannot get X to work properly.
>
> "startx" runs but shows in a 320x200 mode
> even though I select a higher mode in the configuration.
>
> Also, it shows only in the bottom half of the screen.
>
> The input devices seem to work. The problem is ju
hanasaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Running sarge (+ xfree 4.3 from unstable) and kernel 2.6.1
> Is there any lmsensors client available? xsensors doesnt run and
> results in the following in syslog
>
> kernel: xsensors: numerical sysctl 7 2 1 is obsolete.
You'd need to get lm-sensors 2.8.2 o
Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2:
> libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-port0
>dpkg: dependency problems pre
Karol Czachorowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way I could recompile existing packages in my system?
> apt-build has no documentation and seems not to work...
You might look through some of the generic Debian developer
documentation...
> And if I use apt-get source and build manua
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> What is the preferred way to add or remove a /etc/init.d/ service
> from certain runlevels?
'ln -s' and 'rm', respectively.
> The Debian Policy Manual and man pages suggest I should use
> update-rc.d rather than manipulate the symlinks directly.
They suggest that *De
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There have been a number of postings about fonts over the last few
> months. But the discussion seems to me to miss the point.
Since this is kind of a meta-rant, a meta-answer seems to be
appropriate...
> If you install Windows, you don't have to know anything about
Martin Dickopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> U N T E S T E D :
> -
>
> find olddir -type d | while read d; do mkdir "`echo \"$d\" | sed
> s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done
> find olddir -type f -name \*.mp3 | while read f; do mv "$f" "`echo \"$f\" | sed
> s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done
I thi
Abdul Latip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Once in a while, users are asking me about the compatibilty problem of
> Linux. They reasoning that M$Office can be installed anywhere like
> Win98, WinME, WinNT, et. al. Whereas it is hard to install a
> RedHat package into Debian, and so on.
...and it's
Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for a "step-by-step" HOWTO for creating a .deb package.
Have you looked at http://www.debian.org/devel/? There's links to
lots of official documentation there, including Debian Policy and the
Developers' Reference. The debian-mentors list m
Joel Konkle-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For some reason I had thought that fsck wasn't needed if I was running
> ext3. I installed Woody using ext3 for my main partition, but still,
> every 32nd boot, the system runs fsck.
>
> Is there some setting I'm missing that tells it that I'm runni
"Francois Lachance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to keep my PC clock set to the right time based on a time server. I
> think that this should work, but I get the following:
>
> phoney:~# apt-get install ntpdate
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn
Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a server that is dedicated to doing backups via Amanda. I have
> recently purchased a Intel Pro 1000 Server adapter for this machine.
What kind of an adaptor is it? A network card? More recent 2.4
kernels should include a driver for this, as "
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