I have a hldt-st gce cd burner and though cdrdao scanbus finds the device
at 0,1,0 cdrdao cannot set up the device since it claims the device isn't
ready. I'm about to put an already existing data cd into that drive then
mount it and then see if cdrdao might be able to find it once mounted.
Be
hu, 18 May 2006, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
On 5/18/06, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The examples in the man page don't appear to cover this job unless I'm
reading something and it's just flying by. How could cdrdao be used to
burn an already existing iso
7;s Bureaucracy story.
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:
On 5/18/06, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The examples in the man page don't appear to cover this job unless I'm
reading something and it's just flying by. How could cdrdao be u
chkrootkit has detected three packet sniffers that were loaded onto this
machine by unauthorized external parties since Monday morning of this
week. A packet sniffer was also loaded onto this machine last saturday
and I took the machine off line; uninstalled dhclient which was infected
reinsta
How would one adjust debian so when ifconfig runs to bring up a network
interface card it does so only in nonpromiscuous mode? This is not a
Linux default and as such offers would-be packet sniffer installers an
open invitation to install their tools on systems of this type.
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Before anyone puts their money down for any DVD writer it's required to
read the hardware requirements closely and know how fast in mhz their
intended machine for this writer runs. I work over at http://smartco.org
Wednesday nights and we hear about many technohorror stories. One of them
that
The auto statement needs to follow the card whose parameters were just
defined.
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
2006/3/24, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,
I have a Debian testing. I am experiencing sme problmes with ethernet
cards ip configurations. My /etc/network/interf
Linux has its problems with packet sniffers certainly; I've got the logs
to prove it. I don't know that there's any solution to this problem
either. You can reinstall the hacked software but without additional
protection of the system the dhcp software just gets hacked again as soon
as the or
Another factor needing consideration is the quality of the manuals and
associated documentation themselves. If an adverse review has no problem
proving documentation short-comings that ranks higher over here. That
having been said, systems like dapper drake based on intended audience do
not a
Why not uncomment line 19 in /etc/hosts.deny? Then use /etc/hosts.allow
specifically to allow certain ips. The /etc/hosts.allow is checked first
and anything not found in it that's covered by /etc/hosts.deny is supposed
to be blocked. Even so, I'd be looking at the system with last and lastb
distro is lenny and packages in question are screen; clamav,
nethack-console and nethack-common. I spent quite alot of time trying to
install these with no luck. The post-install scripts for whatever reason
all couldn't get locks. Other than the accounts that were open on this
machine no oth
So far as I can tell, the firewall package is only installing itself after
the network has already come up. From what reading I've done, this is the
wrong order. How can I correct that order after the package has been
installed so arno-iptables-firewall runs just before the network
connection
Install and run arno-iptables-firewall and tell it your internet port like
eth0 or ppp0 and leave the rest of the defaults alone. Port 113 will be
closed once this is done since one of the defaults with
arno-iptables-firewall is to first deny all portsthen only open up those
you specifically c
Has anyone on this list running lenny succeeded in installing any or all
of the following packages who is not running any of the speakup
distributions? I'm trying to find out if what happens here is speakup
specific or not. The packages could be installed using a command line
like: aptitude -
Earlier I was having problems installing podracer; clamav, and nethack on
lenny. That version of lenny was built with upgrades starting with etch.
Earlier I downloaded mini-beep.iso which only installs a current lenny
system and kernel on my computer. There were no problems installing any
of
Several times I've tried to configure X and failed. The complaints now
are that a device is missing from the /etc/x11.xorg.conf file at least one
must be present and another part of the error message says no screens can
be found. It makes no difference whether I use the frame buffer or
monito
When I did X -configure as root the X command appeared to terminate
normally but still left me with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. wc just
returns 0's on that file when asked about it. So what package am I maybe
missing that would allow this to happen? Correction, I probably had some
kind
The mach64 module wasn't found so X can't run on this machine that one was
fatal. I did tasksel and selected desktop environment so as to have a few
things for X to run but not quite enough things apparently.
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When I did aptitude install xserver-xorg -r earlier today I was told no
packages would be installed or removed so it's there.
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Out of curiosity, what video card makers can debian sid just use out of
the box without all of this aggravation? I had a trident vga with this
machine earlier and if that's a good one, it will be easier to replace a
monitor and change out a video card than what's going on over here now.
The co
Earlier I tried upgrading from kernel 2.6.12-speakup-686 to kernel
2.6.17-speakup-686 and was told I'd need to purge hot plug. The kernel
upgrade failed one of the things that ended up happening was all of the
kernel's downloaded modules were deleted as the install errored out. I
don't yet kn
I want to be able to run X with debian. Older monitor died and had an ati
card with it that does work the new monitor. The new monitor is an Gateway
ev910 crt which was also known as a sony trinitron with single gun so is
very cool in temperature when it runs. The ati card will not work in X and
First read the contents of the paniclog file. If that problem still
exists go and correct it. Then use touch on the paniclog file to make it
have a 0 length and continue with your upgrade.
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After recent Exim4 setup on a new Debian 4.0r3 install
Script started on Sat 05 Apr 2008 12:22:24 AM EDT
ns:~# aptitude -y install emacs -r
Reading package lists... 0%
Reading package lists... 100%
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree
Does anyone know what format change was done to
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros? In order to use verizon.net we needed
something like: 'AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORD = true' in the file in
the past. Now the only way that gets past update-exim4.conf is by
stripping the apostrophes and that
There's at least one broken pipe error in those packages. I'm about to
remove the system from this machine and wait for a fix to this version.
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gcj could be causing problems undercover. I read over on the
gnome-accessibility list that for accessibility at least the applications
that do accessibility were all tuned to the sun java packages and not gcj.
If all else fails it may possibly help to do a replacement and check out
results.
In order to fix evince when it broke on me in the installation, I
uninstalled the entire desktop environment then reinstalled the
environment. When I did that, the evince failure went away. Now before I
wipe out openoffice exclusively, I'm wondering if a repeat operation might
just fix openof
latex2 writer unopkg fails and that prevents openoffice from being
configured at least by dpkg. The reason I got a broken pipe error was
desktop environment had to be removed in upgrade process to preserve
certain gnome packages that had already been installed. Interestingly
this time dexconf
It appears emacs 21 and dictionaries-common have a fight going on and dpkg
is caught in the middle. This is the second time I ran into their
squabble. Does anyone know what the back story is and if there's likely
to be a treaty signed in the near future?
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I remember when installing bsdgames package on a command-line-type system
very early in the installation openoffice's dictionary directories were
updated. Later those for emacs were updated. That was in earlier
packages chronologically. What was downloaded that would have given
dictionaries-
First, RedHat has a business product which is more stable than Fedora
deliberately. Second, unless I'm much mistaken RedHat also offers its
business customers phone support for fees. Third, RedHat was the first
distro in Government and business took note of that decision and followed
along wi
Using unstable distribution installing bsdgames and emacs does not work
completely successfully. It's either one package or the other but not
both on the same machine. Probably both packages dependencies need
updating on the debian repositories so that whenever one is installed it
automatical
maybe aptitude autoclean then mandb then aptitude -f install might work.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, laura eznarriaga wrote:
Software index is broken
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"Software index is broken
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package
grml has xwindows components too provided you can figure out how to get
them installed and talking. Since I have grml on a laptop and myself am
totally blind that's the next project I have in mind. The orca package
may or may not be in the grml archives, I'll have to check or perhaps
gnoperni
Why is it ddpart has to be used to get dictionaries-common off of debian
systems?
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If you don't mind specifying your reference file on the command line as a
shell script parameter, you can use $1 inside the shell script to pick its
name up and do things with it.
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The conflict is wider than that since dictionaries-common and dpkg are
also involved in the fighting here. For some reason dpkg persists in
trying to get a lock when it fails the first time. Probably some
misconfigured dpkg default I'll find later can help me abbreviate future
output in simil
http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/typescript
dpkg loops lots too unfortunately too.
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should now be readable. Those 600 permissions work okay for sensitive
files but not for public consumption.
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Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions?
On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility
there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions
against a known default set and repair if necessary. It could be the
pro
dpkg troubles referenced earlier hit those packages too when I tried doing
a dist-upgrade. I cleared the broken stuff off the system afterwards too.
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For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has
lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation.
Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual
installation choices made? The instructions I followed are in the debian
installation m
I'm surprised anyone is able to use emacs let alone emacspeak on anything
later than the sarge distribution of debian given my own experiences.
I'm happy for whoever can manage to do this though. Things to try.
First install ircII on your system and get out and connected to a known
irc address
I have a few bones files from playing nethack by now and installed the
hearse package. I played those games as a system user not as root.
Whenever I run hearse as a user I get told that user token file
/etc/nethack/hearse.user-token file exists but cannot be read permission
denied. However wh
I'm about to do a bit of emacs research here. First I'm going to
downgrade the system to sarge stable and see if I can install emacs and
bsdgames and emacs add-ons and do it successfully. If that fails, one of
two possibilities exist a) the hardware is failing it's close to 9 years
old now, o
Check this out, I downgrade to sarge which was the highest form of sarge
before everything moved along into etch and later lenny. The aptitude
package was uninstalled and so I try repeating that operation where
bsdgames and emacs21 get installed together. Emacs21 has aptitude as a
dependency
I'm going to have to replace my current typescript file with a new one
evidently. I distinctly heard the dpkg installer trying to call aptitude
repeatedly during installation and repeatedly hitting errors as a result
of aptitude not being on the machine. The new typescript file will
probably
I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got
the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting
order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to
try and mount this drive with:
Script started on Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:03:35 AM E
I think I figured out what I'm going to need to do to use emacs on a
debian system upgraded beyond sarge. On the sarge level, everything I
have tried builds and installs successfully connected to emacs. As soon
as I attempt to upgrade beyond sarge the new emacs packages fail to do
their insta
The etch versions of emacs don't have problems running on etch. When an
upgrade is done from etch onto lenny with emacs pre-installed on a machine
though emacs cannot finish its installation and throws dpkg errors. I
checked the version of the iso I used to install debian and it came up as
et
why doesn't aptitude offer a check option like apt-get offers?
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What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc
server I don't get the message Ident is disabled?
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Dell is the only computer I've had the pleasure to break down for reuse
and recycling that has its hard drive close to the bottom of the front
panel screwed onto that panel from the outside with the cabling into the
drive inserted into the drive from below the bottom edge of the drive. You
don'
I'm trying to get getmail to work and am needing to have the incoming
e-mail filtered through clamscan which last night had clamscan throw
several errors one aout executing root commands. All I want to do with
the filtering is have clamscan inspect incoming messages and have it
dispose of mess
The discussion on dell and linux was what prompted me to make that post.
When I bought this Dell back in August of 1999 the only way Dell would
install linux was if you were a business. I got a bad combination of
win98se and office2000 that crashed the system regularly because
c:\windows\win38
I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive.
For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so
drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far
as I now know. There is all of that lvm stuff on the system running so
it'
If memory serves this might be a western digital drive. postgresql
recommends disabling drive cacheing if it's on when it's installed or
upgraded so that if the data base is in use and a power failure happens
you don't loose the data in the cache that didn't manage to get saved to
disk before
When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input
they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user
exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on
gnome-accessibility-list needs some output so we can get a screen reader
debugged. A
Thanks much!
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Jude DaShiell wrote:
When script is run to catch what other commands output and what input
they're given, does script delay writing any of typescript until a user
exits from the script command? An accessibility situation over on
I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for
podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast
under the date directory and put the actual mp3 files into that directory.
I don't know if it's changes in python or some subdirectories creation
l
I have a key in place that allows me to log into shellworld.net using ssh.
However attempts to use that key with sftp and scp and probably also
stelnet get a response from shellworld.net that received message is too
long. Is there some problem with debian or my configuration on the local
end?
The file is actually an mp3 file.
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When I run aptitude dist-upgrade for the last few days I'm getting an
error 404 back for the latest version of mysql-common package. That's the
first time I've had that happen and I regularly run aptitude update before
running aptitude dist-upgrade. Was that package withdrawn and the
external
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On 04/17/07 04:51, Jude DaShiell wrote:
When I run aptitude dist-upgrade for the last few days I'm getting an
error 404 back for the latest version of mysql-common package. That's
the first time I've had that happen and I regularly run aptitude update
before running aptitu
pen drives if I'm not mistaken need sg and sr-mod in your /etc/modules
file. Those need the scsi drivers installed.
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There is no root partition. There is a root account but if memory serves
is located in the "/" partition. So if that's correct, it's the slash
partition you want to enlarge.
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When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I
get asked for the password for verizon.net and then get told the message
wasn't sent because no mail from command was sent. Is exim4 needing some
configuration repairs for this to work?
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server and at
least read usenet messages but haven't tried posting anything since pine
wasn't working yet.
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:49:46AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account w
The script used to generate the log appears first followed by the partial
preserved log.
#!/bin/bash
# file: cs - clamscan script
clamscan -l clamscan`date -I`.log -r --bell --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc
--exclude=/pts --exclude=/tmp -i --detect-broken --block-encrypted --block-max
--max-files
Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is it
only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location?
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What user modifiable variable holds a user's email address in mutt? That
is the address once a message gets sent a reader will find on the from:
line? The x-sender field may need control too in my situation. The home
network has got a hostname and domain on it that not only don't exist
anywh
Mike,
We both have the same kind of sound card. Things to do if those haven't
yet been done. Understand first Debian is a light traveling operating
system; what packages you didn't download beyond a basic set will not be
on your system. Contrast that with say slackware where all packages
s
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It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on
another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and
burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all
hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had
burn
I think it would have purged successfully if you had been running 2.6.15
at the time of the attempted purge. I think you were running 2.6.16 and
debian doesn't like to purge a running kernel. Suggestion would be to
comment out the kernel line down toward the bottom of menu.lst for kernel
2.6.
i, 22 Sep 2006, Fred J. wrote:
Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it would have purged
successfully if you had been running 2.6.15
at the time of the attempted purge. I think you were running 2.6.16 and
debian doesn't like to purge a running kernel. Suggestion would b
What can be done to update the certificates lynx uses so when trying to
log in to a google account you don't get "Can't find common ssl
certificate continue (y/n)?" message?
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What's the real deal with the --split-output option? The man page says
the subsequent files made will be under a gig but it would be far more
useful to know if those files will be no larger than the first file made.
I don't want to do a multi disc backup and find I can't burn subsequent
discs
Does some way exist using debian tools to get a list of package names
stripped of version information where all package names in that list have
no form of parent by recommended dependencies or suggested dependencies?
If I can build and maintain that kind of list in the future it should be
possi
The apt-cache utility is a little more helpful, apt-cache pkgnames strips
the version information off the package names. So that's probably the
starting point for a listing.
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see if you can find alsa-config on your system and run that program first.
If that fails to provide satisfactory results, set stuff up the way you
had it then run alsa-ctl store, then reboot the computer and see how
things run after that. You may want to put a alsa-play soundfile command
in yo
Always external otherwise it's time to buy a new computer after the next
lightning hit. Internal modems allow lightning inside computers.
External modems have a little wire and that can get hit and taken out and
give you a chance that lightning stops with modem and doesn't go inside
computer.
What's the advantage of using apf as opposed to lokkit? One of them might
be lokkit downloads so many packages in order to work, but I'm interested
in additional advantages if any. My idea of a firewall is very simple and
has very few rules. Rule 1, deny all incoming traffic. Rule 2, allow f
as root, dmesg | grep -i "hdd" | less should do it for you. dmesg doesn't
store everything, I've had error messages speak that later were nowhere to
be found after running dmesg but hdd information is preserved. If debian
doesn't speak, I can't use it and you do need to have speech temporarily
hmmm, have you tried chattr +i on a list of the offending files once all
configurations are set correctly? There's a trick I'll do on my next
debian installation in which you get the lcap utility aptitude install
lcap and you set chattr +a on log files you don't want tampered and chattr
+i on
The theory behind dirsplit is appealing. However it isn't documented well
enough to bet data on it over here. A couple incidents may help explain.
A directory tree with mp3 files in the branches exists. So I try dirsplit
-s 700M -e4 /home/jude/podcasts and the utility does its calculating and
What happens when a directory contains more content than will fit on a
single cd when using this package? I sent it at a directory with 1.4g in
it on simulation and wasn't prompted to insert a second cd. Might that be
a defect in the simulation mode or must directory sizes be kept at or
under
A friend and me used linuxprinting.org and openprinting.org and have
foomatic and cups and the ppd file for this printer on my machine. I got
new ink cartridges for this printer from databaazar.com and we can make
the printer do the self-test externally but even after foomatic is given
the loc
B42641D59!32413.entry
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and
ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page.
What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect
1, 2009 at 2:31 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I put together a .gotmailrc file as documented in the gotmail man page and
ran gotmail. The message I got back was no action specified on form page.
What would be doing that? So far as I can tell, there is a connect that
does happen before this message
A last resort possibility to fix this problem would be to get and use a
dban cd from dban.sf.net on the hard drive. That will return everything
on the hard drive to the way it was before any data was put on it though.
It's known as stacking the deck and getting to a known state but all that
is
At the boot: prompt I usually key in autostart 5 then hit enter. A 200GB
disk takes about 8 hours to clean so figure your timing accordingly if you
decide to use this.
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Was there a firmware update released for the KXP-1123 during its history?
It could be the ppd file that's available for that printer needs that
firmware update installed if such exists.
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This is getting interesting now and I have some good news. I hooked the
printer up to a real dos box that never had any other operating system on
it and used a file manager to print a file. This time, the file came out
legible with no garbage. So, I'm thinking printing with this kind of
prin
Appear to be broken and prevent the installation of mysql-server.
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I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of writing on
a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point type. I have
emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in emacs might help or
might there be something else I have to use?
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The script couldn't install because it doesn't know what to do with the
--skip-federated option being passed. Apparently a new option being used
by mysql.
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Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage
on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux
and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real dos
computer? I have a printer queue set up which allows lpr and lp both to
print g
g 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:22:51PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Could unicode be the reason my Panasonic KX-p1123 printer prints garbage
on sveral pages when I try printing out a 13 line long text file on Linux
and that same file gets printed perfectly when done with a real d
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