On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:39:41PM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> I want to know how to change the paper size for this command.
> I have tried to put the folloiwng line in ~/.emacs but the bevaiour does
> not change:
You can use 'paperconfig' from the 'libpaper-utils' p
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:32:28AM +, Richard Cavell wrote:
> Where is kde being started?
You mean KDM. The easiest thing to do is:
echo false >> /etc/X11/default-display-manager
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:34:13PM +0100, Justin Cassidy wrote:
> Could somebody please attach and email me /etc/init.d/mysql?
>
> I accidentaly deleted it
apt-get --reinstall install mysql-server
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:32:25PM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote:
> How can I tell which Linux kernel is running on my Debian machine? Thanks.
uname -r
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n is it? If 2.4.X you'll need
scsi-emulation still, and ide-scsi.
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:22:53PM -0500, Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> Hi List,
>Till last week, my Debian/Testing installation was working very well.
Please search the back archives for the past day for this list [1],
this question has been answered at least four times now.
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:46:07PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote:
> and I haven't seen it yet.
This one spammed us just fine. ;) I suggest you resend your original
post.
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:17:42AM -0400, Loki wrote:
> But your local libraries & executables should all be in /usr/local.
> autoconf-based configure scripts default to installing in /usr/local, so I
Which is why utilities such as 'stow' and 'checkinstall'
other machines use that file and do: "dpkg
--set-selections < ./selectionfile && apt-get dselect-upgrade".
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e/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections"
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> "apt-get upgrade"
No, you *must* do: apt-get dselect-upgrade.
> (man dpkg for more information.)
Heh, yes, it *is* worth reading.
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ve to change it for the codenames.
Stable is *always* Stable, but woody != Sarge when things change.
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> apt-get dist-upgrade
Basically, yes.
> Or would a fresh install from a netinstaller be more advisable?
This isn't windows.
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That's where you're wrong. Although a dist-upgrade does imply an
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:52:50PM +0200, diego wrote:
> Which files should I backup before it all, so that if hardware
> autodetection or manual configuration fails I can leave everything
> related to the network as before?
/etc/network/*
/etc/resolv.conf
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re-start X, to see if that loads your mouse. If you find that
works, but your mouse flutters like a trapped moth, then change the
mouse protocol in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to either IMPS/2, or
ExplorerPS/2, or PS/2, until you hit the right one....
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 07:56:53PM -0500, Don wrote:
> I did the modprobe and now have mouse action. Thanks a million Thomas for the
> immediate and accurate response!!!
You're welcome. If you want to make it permenant for each boot, add
the two module names to /etc/modules
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:20:48PM -1200, bdee002 wrote:
> As you can Imagen, when doing delicate work with a mouse like this, it
> would drive anyone MAD!
'man xset' - this is probably your best bet.
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:02:07AM -0700, James Vahn wrote:
> "du" for the old school text mode.
"Old school"? Text Mode? Oh, please!
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cs that appear in HTML in /usr/share/docs, and
> docs that appear via the "help" command (the data for which
> is stored somewhere where I haven't found it yet, although
> I haven't really looked...).
man bash-builtins
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:34:07PM +1000, Clement wrote:
> So what should be the sequence:
If you have to ask, you shouldn't. :)
/me runs.
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lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
Although personally, I would just use cfdisk and mke2fs to do it.
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:09:49PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Does anyone know what's going on here?
Use equivs.
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actually _do_ have apache1 installed. Equivs just provides dummy
packages to fufill dependencies. You can read up on it, from
the 'equivs' package, oddly enough.
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raher than using Exim?
Interesting... any reason for this?
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:35:39PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I quote:
> Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used,
> it might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please
Drugs are bad, too, but that never stopped people
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re asking here.
> 3. /home, /var ... others ( /local, /usr/src)? SIze recommendations? I recall
> seeing very detailed recommendations somewhere a few months back.
Depends...
/usr (3GB has been *ample* for me)
/home (10GB?)
/ (5GB/rest)
/{var,tmp} (optional)
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You can probably get away with using 'dpkg-scanpackages' on the FTP
server to create the Packages.gz file, and then use debootstrap to
install from, pointing to your FTP server...
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 08:29:57AM -0400, Victory wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to update all the packages and patches ?
> I installed Debian 3.0r1 and want to update up today patches.
apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Is there some way to split a large-format PDF file into several A4-sized
> pieces to print it?
Several ways.
pdftotext
pdftohtml
pdftops
convert (from imagemagick)
(They all have manpages)
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:35:20PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
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Yes, "me too". But I filtered it to /dev/null. Trivial, really.
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e $DEBIAN_MAIL_SERVER is given
> extra work.
Oh yes, the poor server must be really struggling. I just found it
much easier to deal with it this end. You can do the same. At the
bottom of this e-mail, you'll see a list-appended .sig about whom to
contact for list queries. I suggest you ask th
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update && apt-file search libXp.so.6
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an MTA you knew nothing about? I certainly wouldn't want to start
learning sendmail. A good "middle ground" would be postfix.
[..snip..]
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was probably what you were thinking of, no?
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run sshd (the daemon) on
machine B, and edit the file:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config
Find within that:
X11Forwarding no
and replace 'no' with 'yes'. Then restart sshd on machine B. From
machine A, do:
ssh -X machineB
login, and then run xterm. Voila.
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:26:56PM +0200, NiL SpaaR wrote:
> I've added this line to my /etc/fstab "/dev/hdb1 /home/nil/redmond
> vfat defaults,user 0 0"
What does:
ls -l /dev/hdb1
produce? You should ensure that it is set with perms 660.
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minutes. What is the the
> significance of such entries?
This is described in "man syslog" oddly enough, and all it means is
that syslog is still running and monitoring. It's useful if you find
a long delay in your logs, and want to ensure syslog is still alive.
It cam be turned off. See
p. Please send me the information in order to set it up.
> Thank you for your time and energy,
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
selecyt i810. If that fails, repeat the dpkg-reconfigure command,
and select VESA.
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Two programs to do the same thing:
fuser
lsof
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er installation?
>
> dpkg-reconfigure
Maybe the package 'configure-debian' would be more useful, here.
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:30:36PM -0500, Roger wrote:
> At this point I'm looking to remove postfix 100% and start clean.
dpkg -P
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shift-ctrl-alt-meta combinations
% apt-cache search record X11
xmacro - Record / Play keystrokes and mouse movements in X displays
Looks like something you could use.
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> Should it not be apt-get --purge remove packagename?
No, since the package has long since been removed. But dpkg (the
actual workhorse, and slogger behind the apt-get 'front-end')
retains the information about where the various files are. So you
need to use it.
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five
seconds.
What about using APM, or hdparm?
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y problems. Get a rescue CD such
as 'lnx-bbc' and run memtest86, just to check the memory on the
machine is OK. If it is (runninf it for 12 hours is a good idea),
then it is probably down to poor coding, or you simply do not have
enough RAM. :)
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install 'build-essential' and anyother -dev libs you might want to
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:00:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.stardivision.calc.desktop', which is
Yet another person not checking the BTS. Sigh:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265875
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> if i'm wrong, could someone confirm???
Umm, can you be specific please. I have no idea what it is you're
asking. Can you provide examples of what it is you're trying to do?
Also, RTFM: man apt-get, it contains lots of useful information and
actually answers one of your questio
l. Although, with Sarge's immiment release, why would you
*want* reinstall to Woody?
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quot;: "reset\C-M"
> Now when you need a quick tty reset, just press F1 at the command
> prompt. Try "info rluserman" for more options.
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Your .sig's are *huge*. It's generally considered inpolite and a
real
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:16:26PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> It /is/ possible, just highly recommended. So you'll have to
^^^
Woops. I meant "unrecommended". :)
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> image=/vmlinuz?
Yes.
> 3. I have no file /etc/kernel-img.conf
That's fine. Ignore it. When you have edit /etc/lilo.conf. run
'lilo -v', note that there should be no errors, and reboot.
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If I understand you correctly.
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n grep" doesn't seem to have an "-o" option.
What version of grep have you got, and which version of Debian are
you using?
ii grep 2.5.1.ds1-3GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
If you're using woody's version, then it won't have it, it seems.
There's plen
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20 at 01:09PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:35:53AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 19 at 10:06AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > > > You can also
erent action if
> it's not, in a bash shell script?
You won't need to read the file, use "getent passwd":
getent passwd | grep tuber
If 'tuber' is the username, you can shorten this to:
getent passwd tuber
or even:
[ -n "$(getent passwd tuber)" ]
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:41:11PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> but for readability, don't use back-ticks. Instead
> WORD=$(sed -ne 's/^.*\(icewm\).*$/\1/p' < /home.local/snert/.xinitrc)
$(..) is not as portable as ``.
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way to do it?
No, looks good to me.
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> I'd be really grateful for any tips or pointers.
Get a copy of lnx-bbc, and run memtest86 from it. These sorts of things are
almost certainly memory or CPU-related.
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> Now when I start, say, FVWM, instead of the usual large black "X"
> cursor, I get a small white one. How might I fix this?
> Thanks
As root:
update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
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known length of the number of lines in the file:
sed -n $[ $RANDOM % $(wc -l < $FILE) + 1 ],$[ $RANDOM % $(wc -l < ./foo) + 1 ]p $FILE
Where $FILE is the filename. If you want to control the number of lines it
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off the top of my head. You can do all
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:44:13PM -0700, John Floren wrote:
> MadMan and id3ed show the tags as correct; is this an xmms issue?
No, it's an inability on your part to not check the BTS
(Bug Tracking System):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=260168
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> For the life of me I cannot remember.
eximconfig(for exim3)
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (for exim4)
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several times on this list, in fact.
You can find the d-i here:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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> Fatal server error:
> > no screens found
> >
>
> Wish I had an answer for you. I have the same problem.
> I am not sure why it's like this, but "dumb problem" comes to mind.
As root:
dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xfree86
Say: 'No' to framebu
new version sarge, it is still
> complicate for new user
> !!!
Granted it is not without its faults, but it isn't so bad that it doesn't
work, or is unintuitive.
> is there any reason ? or is there a new installer in
> project
Not that is based on anaconda, thankful
whatever config you want to /path/to/kernel/src/.config, and 'make
oldconfig'.
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remove the 'discover' package.
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> I tried "apt-get install ncurses" and was told it was obsolete and not used
> anymore. Is there a way around this or will I require ncurses source
> compilation and install.? Many thanks..
If you're compiling you want '-dev' packages, in your case, spec
at you asked of it. Remember that dpkg -S will only
work for files that were *in* a package initially and not ones that were
*created*. /etc/apt/sources.list is created by apt-setup from 'base-config',
but does not reside in any package.
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with shells only.
If you invoke X via 'startx' your ~/.bash{profile,rc} files are read anyway,
and if you login via a DM, then you can either source your login files from
~/.xsession, or set environment variables there.
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Sometime ago, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I find the list of packages reconfigurable with dpkg-reconfigure?
>
> Craig Jackson
The 'configure-debian' package is probably what you're after.
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he creating program, other than *possibly*
debconf's database.
If you want to search for files in packages that you do not have installed,
then apt-file is your friend.
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> When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error
> message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is
> being used.
Hmm, try adding the user to the 'tty' group.
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:23:16AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Thomas Adam writes:
> > As I have said, if the file was created by an application, then it
> > clearly cannot belong to a package.
>
> The question was about files created by the maintainer scripts.
Was it no
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:45AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote:
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> > > dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
> > >
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:33:09AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:28:09PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> > > Is it fairly common, then, that packages only create their config files,
> > > an
E: Package apache2 has no installation candidate
>
> i am halted with this problem plz solve it.
What's printed there, pretty much says it all.
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ilesystem(s).
> Let lilo run this time and it produced error log :Fatal: open
> /initrd.img: No such file or directory
> Have I missed something ?
You probably need to run mkinitrd, but I have no idea without seeing your
.config and lilo.conf file.
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lies to this particular question, thanks.
You may find the following page of use, although you will have to make minor
path changes to firefox and not mozilla-firebird. :)
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/MozillaFirebirdJava
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nothing in /usr, go with this option.
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> - how to make it turn itself off now?
Some BIOSes have an option of this, but generally enabling ACPI in the kernel
will solve this -- it did for me.
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> I have just installed Debian 3.0r2 i386. The wvdial connects and but
> wont let me surf the internet. What do i need do to fix the problem
Check /etc/ppp/resolv.conf is created with adequate nameserver IPs in them.
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Resend whatever you sent in plain text, please. HTML e-mails are evil.
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work for you at that kernel
version.
> Maybe anything wrong with the compiler version ?
Nope.
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As to the IP you use, that depends on your ISP.
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 02:00:23AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> to the /vmlinuz line of lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.list, depending on your
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