Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24:
> Ben,
> I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do
> gnome.
>
> Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome, start a
> download and get poor network components but if you do a gnome network
> setup
Thilo Six wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:43:
> hmm wait
> may it be network manager?
> What when you stop it Ben?
>
> sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/26NetworkManagerDispatcher stop
> sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop
But this would only apply to releases after d
Marty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:22:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>
>> what gives you
>>
>> $ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
>>
>> ?
>>
>> It should be 0
>
> It's 1 on my system.
>
> From ip-sysctl.txt:
> tcp_windo
Joe Hart wrote the following on 18.03.2007 21:11:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 18.03.2007 20:24:
>
>>> Ben,
>>> I've been following this thread but not commenting since I don't do
>>> gnome.
>>>
&g
Joe Hart wrote the following on 19.03.2007 07:30:
>>> What is this supposed to mean?
>> Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
>
>> is like a smart way of saying Ubuntu GNU/Linux
>> 2.6 refers to linux kernel and kde is obviously not ubuntu
>
>> although when it was "created" it was a mistake by a newcomer
>> i like
Anuj Singh wrote the following on 25.12.2006 06:28:
> I have eth0 connected to my adsl router and eth1 to my local network.
> I configured my adsl with pppoeconf, logs shows me I am connected, and
> ifconfig gives me ppp0 address too.
I you use a router to connect over dsl, this router will do
Aleksei wrote the following on 30.09.2007 14:12
<<-snip->>
> My internet is through pppoe, but at no point netinstall asks
> login and parol. So apparently I should install just base system, then
> configure pppoe and then go on with apt-get.
You need to enter:
install modules=ppp-udeb
at the
tom arnall wrote the following on 03.10.2007 21:12
> I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out
> of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices
> sudo: /etc/sud
John Stumbles wrote the following on 06.10.2007 17:39
<<-snip->>
> But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R /
> (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it?
It depends on your partitionlayout.
Apart from that:
tom once i 'rm -rf *' without recognizing i am in the wrong
tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:13
<<-snip->>
> Indeed. From now on, I am not going to work as root without first making an
> entry in my system log as to what I'm going to do.
sudo will do that for you without extra modifications from you.
*But* sudo will only make syslog entri
tom arnall wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:30
> Realistically, is there any way I can fix my system so I can log in as root,
> without reinstalling the OS?
>
> Thanks,
>
> tom
Well see:
in /etc there is mosly everything 644 *BUT* there are specific files that are
440 or 755.
And there may
David Fox wrote the following on 06.10.2007 20:52
<<-snip->>
> Or, boot a rescue cd/environment such as knoppix, mount your root
> partition and do a chroot into there, do whatever needed to clean up.
You mean something like checking each and every directory´s and file´s
permission compare them
Michael Biebl wrote the following on 05.10.2007 18:17
<<-snip->>
> I noticed that this happpened since the upgrade of xserver-xorg.
> Can you confirm that?
I can´t confirm it is because of xserver-xorg since there were to much
updates at that time here.
But i can confirm this bug and allready su
Hello
I have very happily read in recent dwn that online installation with
pppoe works out of box with debian-installer.
I got the netinstall image from 25th jan. 2007 and tried it today.
Basically it works - yay ;)
but i got the error message that "release file could not be retrieved"
(transla
Hello
I am on the way to try/test debian etch.
During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for
partition
My question:
I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions.
Is it a good advi
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 20:13:
> See the excellent Securing Debian Manual, especially this section, and
> the one following.
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10
Thank you.
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Roberto C. Sanchez wrote the following on 27.01.2007 21:02:
> There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
> executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
> because it is trivial to work around.
Yes that´s what the harden howto also say.
I am just wondering
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 23:51:
>>> There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
>>> executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
>>> because it is trivial to work around.
>
> At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work
David Baron wrote the following on 30.01.2007 17:38:
> My /etc/alternatives directory is chock full of dangling symlinks.
>
> Is there any neat way of servicing this or must I manually rm each one?
$ man update-alternatives
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David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 18:52:
> I was trying to install Debian Etch RC1(x86 version) using
> netinstaller. It downloads all the packages successfully
> but while installing one of those packages my computer
> hangs for indefinite amount of time. It displays the
> foll
David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 21:59:
hi ;)
> this is just a thought(please forgive my ignorance).
no problem, you are welcome.
> is it possible to install debian EtchRC1 without using
> the dhcp assigned ip address?
Yes it is, but not with netinstall image.
Since i use pppoe
laura eznarriaga wrote the following on 09.03.2008 20:48
> Hi All,
>
> I have just made a fresh install of ubuntu 7.10 on my computer.
> Wifi connection is working great through the Network Manager panel
> applet but I must start it manually each time I open a session.
>
> I've checked System ->
Alexander Rozhkov wrote the following on 21.03.2008 11:09
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:DC:30:0F
> send dhcp-client-identifier 1:00:0D:56:DC:30:0F;
seems like a typo in the MAC-Address?
> Alex.
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Alexander Rozhkov wrote the following on 21.03.2008 11:09
> #more /etc/dhclinet.conf
^^^ dhclient.conf
> Alex.
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Ron Johnson wrote the following on 24.03.2008 07:50
> I'd just copy the Sea Cork image from the Windows partition over to
> your home directory and then to set the desktop image:
> System->Preferences->"Control Center"->Appearance
heh funny
I think OP isn't refering to a 'Sea Cork' but to 'see
Siju George wrote the following on 24.03.2008 11:00
> Hi
>
> When will Security updates to Sarge stop?
> I have some servers running it well?
> I wnat to upgrade to Etch but want to plan it accordingly.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Siju
http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg1.html
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Ivan Glushkov wrote the following on 24.05.2006 09:04:
>> On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok:
>> Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 &
>> Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 &
>>
>>
> That would mean that
Rick Reynolds wrote the following on 05.06.2006 14:40:
As it seems you allready found the answer i just want to give a hint.
Have a look at /etc/iftab:
---
# This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.
# See iftab(5) for synta
Peet Grobler wrote the following on 13.07.2008 18:28
> apt-get install xmms
> Should I log a bug somewhere, or where can I check to see if it's
> already reported?
Have a look at:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms.html
and
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xmms/news/20080310T223933Z.html
Shachar Or wrote the following on 20.07.2008 17:47
> Hello!
>
> How do I set the locale for a user to something other than the one set by
> debconf in the locales package?
>
> This should be the user's default in X sessions.
>
> I was told that gdm has a feature for this but I'm using kdm.
>
Shachar Or wrote the following on 20.07.2008 21:02
> Hi!
>
> Using etch. Using kdm.
>
> I've found that I can put stuff in ~/.xsession. I put 'export
> LC_ALL=he_IL.UTF-8' there. That made the xserver start and quit, putting me
> back in kdm.
in kde you can use a shell script like (chmod 700)
Alexander Fortin wrote the following on 24.07.2008 10:03
> Yep, using usermod instead of passwd seems to work fine!
> So, to report a bug or not to? Which mailing list?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389183
> Alex
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Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 18:28
<--- man 1 passwd -
-l, --lock
Lock the named account. This option disables an account by changing
the password to a value which matches no possible encrypted value,
and by setting the accou
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 24.07.2008 22:04
>> well here it does. Tested with both Debian lenny and Ubuntu hardy.
>> Which version do you use?
>
> I'm not the OP.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
I think that doesn't matter in this regard. You have said your passwd doesn't
behave as mentioned
Alexander Fortin wrote the following on 24.07.2008 23:09
hi
want to comment on the bugreport be my guest:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492307
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote the following on 25.07.2008 01:30
> Hi,
>
> I want to make the page scroll speed in iceweasel 3 with my mousewheel
> more responsive. It's way too slow now. I sit twiddling the wheel and
> nothing happens.
>
> Browsing the forums brings no solution.
>
> Anyone have a sug
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote the following on 25.07.2008 17:17
Hi Hugo
> mousewheel.withnokey.action = 2
> mousewheel.withnokey.numlines = -1
> mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines = false
>
> And if I change them then the second top wheel does not work to go
> back/fore a page.
just found this which mi
Dale wrote the following on 25.07.2008 17:49
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone here have a idea what the eta is on Debian getting the
> 2.6.26 Kernel into unstable?
>
> Regards
> Dale
There has been a discussion about that this week on -release.
Search for :"imminent 2.6.26 sid upload" and "2.6.25-2 te
Celejar wrote the following on 25.07.2008 21:02
> I don't understand; .26 is not yet in Sid.
yes the whole thing is bit more complex. That's why i posted the direction to
gain a bit more authoritative information on that matter.
for your convenience:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.
Patrick Wiseman wrote the following on 27.07.2008 04:55
> I want to be able to click on that right down-arrow and get
> the list of recently-visited sites (without regard to tab) I used to
> get. Is there any way to do that, or did some geek or other decide to
> change the user experience irrev
Bob Cox wrote the following on 27.07.2008 11:49
> STRG (Steuerung) is German for CTRL (Control), AFAIK. CTRL-H open the
> history pane anyway.
oops yes. I meant CTRL, sorry.
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 06.04.2007 02:34:
> a partition lable and a mount point are two totally unrelated things,
That´s absolutly correct.
> almost. Almost because there is a way (I don't do it, so I'll be vague)
> to use disk lables in fstab to refer to partitions instead
Joe Hart wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:08:
>> this paragraph is self-contradictory; Are your problems limited to the
>> world wide web ? If so, have you tried using a different web browser ?
maybe ipv6 activated in browser config?
>> Thomas
>
> Exactly. If ping works, then internet wo
Thilo Six wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:30:
> Joe Hart wrote the following on 06.04.2007 13:08:
>
>
>
>>> this paragraph is self-contradictory; Are your problems limited to the
>>> world wide web ? If so, have you tried using a different web browser ?
>
William wrote the following on 08.04.2007 06:11:
> This looks fine too.
>
> ,
> | ~$ telnet google.com 80
> | Trying 64.233.167.99...
> | Connected to google.com.
> | Escape character is '^]'.
> | GET / HTTP/1.1\r
> | GET / HTTP/1.1\r
> | ^D
> |
> | ^Z
> |
> | Connection closed by foreign h
William Xu wrote the following on 09.04.2007 14:22:
> This doesn't work for me.
hmm
let us summarize
you are able to establish http connections via telnet?
(you received the plain html code in terminal?)
you said you can ping google.com?
-> name resolution works
your mtu looks fine
..but yo
Greg Folkert wrote the following on 09.04.2007 20:27:
>> you said you can ping google.com?
>> -> name resolution works
>
> I doubt it. Unless he has a /etc/hosts entry for it.
>
> I believe his /etc/resolv.conf is screwed.
After thinking about it that would explain this curiosity but then he
Michael Kerwin wrote the following on 09.04.2007 22:45:
> I am trying to upgrade a computer from sarge to etch
afaik
> Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free
^^^ ^^
| | |
William Xu wrote the following on 10.04.2007 07:09:
> | net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1
this might be worth a try.
http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/
Do the working machines have the same value in net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling?
> Oh, his machine is unreachable for me currently..
>
>> ...and just
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:37:
> I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to
> TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a
> happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when
> is the best ti
Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 11.04.2007 19:49:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html
>
> From there, I get:
> < the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live
Michelle Konzack wrote the following on 18.04.2007 19:46:
> Am 2007-04-09 23:35:38, schrieb Thilo Six:
>> afaik
>>> Deb ftp://ftp.usdebian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib. non-free
> ^
> This S
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote the following on 21.04.2007 02:02:
> Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
>
>> How can I replace SU with Sudo (like Ubuntu), in Gnome and other
>> applications?
>>
>
> I will mention this since sooner or later (I think) you will hit this.
>
> su - gives you a root shell so you
Joe Hart wrote the following on 21.04.2007 21:02:
> Note that doing things with sudo the way Ubuntu does it is dangerous
> because if someone hacks into your computer (not likely if you have good
> security set up) or someone happens to come by your computer while sudo
> still keeps the password
Joe Hart wrote the following on 24.04.2007 18:28:
> I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the
> new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so
> for normal hard drives remains a mystery to me.
First
I had used the LABEL in fstab even before
Kushal Kumaran wrote the following on 12.05.2007 10:26:
> This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried
> installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set
> up.
pdnsd is neat. thanks.
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Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 18:26:
> Right click on the menu item in question and choose edit item. That
> will launch KDE's menu editor. There you can change the name. While
> you are there, you can change any other menu item, you don't have to
> endlessly right click on each
Joe Hart wrote the following on 13.05.2007 20:58:
> I don't see how that could be easier, but I guess there's more than one
> way to skin a cat. There are some people that probably think the best
> way to go about it would be to run kmenuedit from a terminal (or by
> pressing alt-f2) and be don
Carl Fink wrote the following on 18.06.2007 19:19
> I've noticed that if I open multiple tabs in iceweasel, firefox-bin bloats
> significantly, but xorg bloats ENORMOUSLY. I mean, it bloats from 200 megs
> or so to 1.7 gigabytes of RAM footprint. Three times now, after very large
> numbers of tab
José Pablo Fernández wrote the following on 03.11.2006 21:43:
Hello
> I've connected thru SSH and it seems that file is not loaded. I've set a
> prompt there and it is not used. Sourcing /etc/bash.bashrc made the prompt
> look like I wanted, so the code on the file is right.
Once i had the s
Hello
I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable.
Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen
when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be loaded.
With linux-image-486 no problems.
Is this a bug and should it be reported?
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote the following on 05.11.2006 19:26:
Hello
First thanks for the fast and helpful replies.
>> Hello
>>
>> I have installed Debian and upgraded to unstable.
>> Then i installed nvidia-glx on linux-image-k7 but i get an error screen
>> when gdm starts that Xorg can´t be lo
Bob Bosiljevac wrote the following on 10.11.2006 18:12:
> Is there a way to tell when a particular package was installed or
> upgraded or a way to look at the install/upgrade history of a package on
> a particular machine?
>
> Bob.
less /var/log/dpkg.log
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JoeHill wrote the following on 25.10.2008 22:14
> When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, they are in
> offline mode.
>
> I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I cannot get
> Firefox to change even by setting 'online' to 'true' in about:confi
Thomas H. George wrote the following on 03.11.2008 21:28
> I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I
> installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
> kopt=root=/dev/sdb1
> groot=(sdb,0)
<- *snip* ->
> Help,
> Tom
$ cat /boot/gru
Nigel Henry wrote the following on 01.12.2008 18:09
> Hi Folks.
>
> Does anyone know where Synaptic saves it's history?
/root/.synaptic/log
<- *snip* ->
> Nigel.
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Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 07.12.2008 00:47
>> For maximum compatibility, that needs to be:
>> VAR=; export VAR
>>
>
> Compatibility with what?
csh, mksh, busybox, dash, zsh, ash and probably more...
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Rene Engelhard wrote the following on 15.12.2008 00:14
> Hi,
>
> sal...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote:
>> i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's working ok,
>> but
>> my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be presistant i.e i need to
>> run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every
<- *snip* ->
> <---
> $ grep -C 3 vboxdrv etc/init.d/virtualbox-ose
> case "$1" in
> start)
> # try to insert module but do not fail if not possible
> if [ "$LOAD_VBOXDRV_MODULE" = 1 ]; then
> /sbin/modprobe -q vboxdrv || true
> fi
>
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 27.01.2009 23:05
<- *snip* ->
> My machine:
> $ apt-show-versions > /media/thumb/package.versions.txt
>
> Their machine, when in a minimal state:
> # apt-get install \
> $(cat /media/thumb/package.versions.txt | cut -d/ -f1)
Just a lillte heads up.
At lea
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 28.01.2009 05:42
<- *snip* ->
>>> # apt-get install \
>>> $(cat /media/thumb/package.versions.txt | cut -d/ -f1)
>> Just a lillte heads up.
>> At least since lenny then you might be interessted in:
,[ man 8 apt-mark ]
When you reques
Thilo Six wrote the following on 28.01.2009 06:23
<- *snip* ->
> In the case above all packages are not marked as "auto"
^-non
sorry for the writing error
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Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 06.02.2009 10:15
<- *snip* ->
> I have no idea if Gnome has a mechanism to override that
> once it starts.
That's posible with:
,[ $ grep LANG ~/.gnomerc ]
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
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Paul E Condon wrote the following on 10.03.2010 19:17
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> I'm aware of an issue with naming devices in Squeeze, but you say
> Lenny. Are you sure you are using Lenny, i.e. stable, as opposed to
> Squeeze, i.e. testing?
There is a libata transition coming down the road. But AFAIK that trans
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote the following on 05.04.2010 21:29
> Hi,
>
> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>
> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
> No kidding!
>
> How do I get back to what I had?
> Anybody?
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 05.04.2010 22:26
> On 2010-04-05 14:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from
>> 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.
>>
>> And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
>> No kidding!
>>
Darko wrote the following on 10.11.2007 18:02
> I'snt better to convince some one from debian.org to make news grop
> debian.user on server debian.public.org rather then this overcapacity's
> mailing list
you mean s.th. like:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user ?
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Pál Csányi wrote the following on 10.11.2007 11:12
> I use
> GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)
> in Debian Etch and I get this when I use history:
>
> cd "`echo -e '\057'`"
>
> What is this and how can I get rid of it?
i had problem in past.
I solved for me with:
alias mc=
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 12.11.2007 19:26
<<-snip->>
> I have seen this in the past when running mc, but not latelly (maybe the
> bug was fixed in unstable?).
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
you are right it´s seems to be fixed now - good to know.
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote the following on 09.12.2007 08:01
> I am using gmane to read the Debian mailing list discussions. I am using
> knode 0.10.5 on unstable for this purpose. The problem I have is that
> whenever a message is sent to multiple lists I am not able to see the other
> groups on
Dave wrote the following on 12.12.2007 18:51
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
> non-free
deprecated since sarge (oldstable) iirc
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Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 07:58
> I changed the "alias net-pf-10 ipv6" line to the following two lines.
>
> alias net-pf-10 off
> alias ipv6 off
>
> After rebooting, I checked: lsmod | grep ipv6. Sure enough it is gone
> and the command gives nil output. But when I use b
Amogh Hooshdar wrote the following on 15.12.2007 14:10
> Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the
> ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box.
>
> Now see a sample output for aptitude update:-
>
> # aptitude update
> 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (1.
Hello
i have observed a to my (limited) understanding a strange behavior regarding
limits settings. I would like some hint if i am doing s.th. wrong or if i
encountered a bug.
i have the following:
/etc/security/limits.conf
---
Hello
Excerpt from Bob Proulx:
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> # rsync -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
> # rsync -n --delete -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
> # rsync --delete -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
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I believe this not to be a good idea. When you do this you mess around with
config files under the control of
Hello Bob,
Thank you for your answer!
Excerpt from Bob Proulx:
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>>> # rsync -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
>>> # rsync -n --delete -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
>>> # rsync --delete -av /mnt/backup/etc/ /etc/
>>
>> I believe this not to be a good idea. When you do this you mess around wi
Hello sirquijote
Excerpt from sirquij...@lavabit.com:
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> The usercommands script is just a simple one-liner that I inserted to turn
> off my laptop's screen on boot, just before login:
>
>>> CODE<<
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # /etc/init.d/usercommands
> #
>
> # Turn off the display on boot
> vb
Hello
Excerpt from sirquij...@lavabit.com:
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> Setting up nfs-kernel-server (1:1.2.2-4squeeze2) ...
> insserv: Service nfs-common has to be enabled to start service
compare this with yours:
,[ head -n 14 /etc/init.d/nfs-common ]---
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN
Hello Bob and Paul,
Excerpt from myself:
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>> * Exclude /etc/fstab
>> * Exclude /etc/lvm
>> * Exclude /etc/mdadm
>
> + /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
It just crossed my mind that you also need to take care of everything where your
MAC adresses are reused. For certain that is:
Hello
Excerpt from Jose Manuel Pérez:
>> How do I migrate my
>> 1] email
>> 2] filters
>> 3] mailboxes
>> 4] address book
>>
>> from Icedove to Thunderbird?
>
> If you are migrating in Linux, just copy .icedove directory to
> ..thunderbird
i suppose this to be a typo as it should be '.thunder
Hello Bob,
Excerpt from Bob Proulx:
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>> Let me tell you why i suggested etckeeper.
>> Here i use it to commit /etc into $VCS on a regularly basis. This helps me to
>> keep track of what is going on in /etc.
>> Being able to compare my modifications with the original is a feature you
>> su
Hello Bob,
Excerpt from Bob Proulx:
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> I will pull back to the safer higher level tool "dpkg-reconfigure"
> which runs the postinst scripts.
>
> root@junk:~# dpkg-reconfigure nfs-kernel-server
> insserv: Service nfs-common has to be enabled to start service
> nfs-kernel-server
> ins
Hello binary,
Excerpt from binary dreamer:
> Hi. I am running debian 6.0.7 and i am facing a problem with slow
> response when asking to ssh. once i do a ssh root@192.168.1.77 then the
> prompt for the passwd it takes around 30 secs to respond. after that
> everything is fine. is there a way
Hello Guido,
Excerpt from Guido Martínez:
> I can confirm this. I wasn't sure if it was expected behaviour so I
> did a quick google search and came to this
> http://www.chrissearle.org/blog/technical/increasing_max_number_open_files_glassfish_user_debian.
>
> If you want 'su' to set the user l
...in debian has been no pleasure for some time now.
Hello readers.
Well the reason i write this, is i found a solution that works for me which i
would like to share with you.
Following goals had been set:
1) Do not clash with existing system tools.
It is notably that it has even been said o
Hello Bob,
Excerpt from Bob Proulx:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>> Subject: administration of initscripts
>> ...in debian has been no pleasure for some time now.
>
> Sorry to hear that. Why not?
I was looking for the "offical" way of dealing with initscript for so
Hello Roger,
Excerpt from Roger Leigh:
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> update-rc.d foo disable|enable
>
> is one method.
Thank you for sharing this!
It might be a nuisance but running the stop part of the initscript isn't the
same as not touching it all?
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> Getting rid of all the /etc/default disable options
Hello Siard,
Excerpt from Siard:
> Thilo Six wrote:
>> gentoo has a rather nice API for an administrator to handle
>> initscripts s.th. i always missed in debian.
>
> Isn't sysv-rc-conf what you are looking for?
Thank you for your help. I am aware of the existents o
Hello Yaro,
Excerpt from Yaro Kasear:
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> Systemd has "assimilated" udev,
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> Related to the above two downsides, systemd is not really a crowning
> example of a developer following the UNIX Philosophy of "one simple task
> and do it well."
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> Administrators might not like
Hello Kevin,
Excerpt from Kevin Chadwick:
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>> libreoffice | 1:4.0.2~rc2-2 | experimental | source, amd64,
>> armel, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386
>>
>> And yes, 4.0.x will also be in wheezy-backports when it's time for that.
>> Using it from "unstable" is bad, becaus
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