Mike McClain wrote:
But something is sending 'You have mail in /var/mail/mike' often
in the middle of me typing a commandline or editing a file which can
be most disconcerting annoying. I get these messages even when the
mail is old mail I just haven't thrown away yet.
Can someone
Patrick Strasser wrote:
Ich have a nagging problem: After loggin in throuh gdm, LC_MESSAGES is
set to a locale that is not configured, and I can not find where this
happens.
I configured (dpkg-reconfigure locales) locales for de_AT.UTF-8 and
en_US.UTF-8. Still after logging in with gdm and
Zach Crownover wrote:
What does it take to get an @debian.org email address?
An @debian.org address is available to any Debian Developer. Some DDs
use those addresses to show their involvement with the project while
some use their normal email address.
Here is a good place to start reading
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
Gary Dale wrote:
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my
confusion will be cleared
mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1
mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3
The first set of commands should give you
Patrick Strasser wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Patrick Strasser wrote:
Ich have a nagging problem: After loggin in throuh gdm, LC_MESSAGES is
set to a locale that is not configured, and I can not find where this
happens.
I configured (dpkg-reconfigure locales) locales for de_AT.UTF-8
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Is there a way to find all the Debian packages that depend upon libslang2?
Like I know that mc and slnr do, but how does one find them all?
man apt-cache shows:
rdepends pkg...
rdepends shows a listing of each reverse dependency a package has.
And
lina wrote:
When I tried to ssh, it's chocked without warning:
$ ssh badapple -v
Unfortunately -v on the client side rarely returns the critically
useful information to know what is happening. It is -v on the sshd
side that is more interesting. But of course it is hard to set up an
'sshd
Mike McClain wrote:
I've a cron job run daily from /etc/crontab,
Instead of using the BSD-style interface let me strongly encourage you
to start using the newer Vixie-cron-style interface of /etc/cron.d/
where they can be separate and individual files. That way the file
can be dropped into
macondo wrote:
/etc/apt/apt.conf is empty. I get this: no such file or directory
That is fine.
W: failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/In Release
Could not resolve 'ftp.debian.org'
That is a DNS problem. It could not resolve ftp.debian.org. That is
the problem.
: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
### END INIT INFO
#
# Written by Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com
#
# update-rc.d chroot-nullmailer defaults
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
NAME=nullmailer
CHROOTS=sid
set -e
for ROOT in $CHROOTS ; do
rootdir=/srv
Mike McClain wrote:
... and haven't seen any way to get files in /etc/cron.d/ run at
specific times.
The format of the /etc/cron.d/ files is the same format as the
/etc/crontab. Whatever lines you would put into /etc/crontab you
would simply put into a file in /etc/cron.d instead. No
Wayne Topa wrote:
vykuntam srinivas wrote:
hi all,i have upgraded to wheezy.Its looking awesome and nice
gdm.Actually i have alloted 10GB of disk space to debian,when i do
upgrade it's showing only 644MB free space.How much disk space wheezy
takes? or do i have any backup files on my
Bob Proulx wrote:
# Run mylocalscript every hour.
0 17 * * * root /usr/local/bin/mylocalscript
That is what I get for constructing an example in a rush. Obviously
that comment doesn't match. Oh well. You get the idea.
Bob
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First I should say that schroot appears to have a lot more
functionality than I previously realized. I had thought it was just a
fancy suid chroot similar to 'dchroot' adding a security layer around
chroot(2). But it looks like it can do much more including building
chroots on the fly and other
Mike McClain wrote:
man cron says:
'In general, the admin should not use /etc/cron.d/, but use the
standard system crontab /etc/crontab.'
I can only most strongly disagree with that sentiment! :-)
I hadn't ever seen that message before. Considering the fact that
Paul Vixie hasn't released
macondo wrote:
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search cpe.cableonda.net
nameserver 200.75.200.2
nameserver 200.75.200.3
ping: unknown host ftp.debian.org
It really looks like something in your dns resolver system is broken.
There are several pieces of it. All must work. But it is unusual for
them
Charles Kroeger wrote:
I'm thinking my firewall 'Shorewall' encompasses an extensive enough design to
cover any attempts of intrusion that may occur, I do notice notwithstanding,
that
although ports 0 and 1 are closed, they still show up on test like grc.com's
'shields-up' port scanner.
I
Charles Kroeger wrote:
PORT STATE SERVICE
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
111/tcp open rpcbind
631/tcp open ipp
6566/tcp open sane-port
That seems pretty reasonable. Except if you aren't using NFS and
don't need the portmapper (rpcbind) then I would uninstall it.
0/tcp
Nick Lidakis wrote:
Celejar wrote:
Nick Lidakis wrote:
How does one reply to a thread on this list if I accidentally erased the
threads or the thread was never in your inbox to begin with? I want to
reply
to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/07/msg01613.html
Just
Gaël DONVAL wrote:
Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program?
tar preserves permissions, time stamps, etc. and this is great in some
cases. But in other cases, one just wants a simple way to concatenate
files.
The old 'ar' archive is fairly lightweight. Couple that
Mark Allums wrote:
cortman wrote:
Is this a bug?
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not
causing any problems. It is just suggesting that if you don't want
gnome
Jeff Grossman wrote:
I just did a grep source * from the /etc/cron.daily directory to
figure out what file is causing me the problems. But, it came back
empty. How would I figure out where that source file is to fix it?
The e-mail is my daily cron.daily cron job e-mail that is giving me
the
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I go through and mark the high level packages as manually installed by
running the install command again. Since they are already installed
it won't do anything but mark them as being wanted. For example:
apt-get install libreoffice
Just
Mark Allums wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
No, it's dependency hell.
No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that
are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not
causing any problems. It is just suggesting that if you
Jude DaShiell wrote:
Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb
hard drive automatically?
Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I
can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian
installation?
It
T o n g wrote:
My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/
I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong.
I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing stations, so
previously, prior to using
Brian wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Brian wrote:
used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can
be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most
That depends. Are you using any dictionary words or easy character
Mike McClain wrote:
If a password is any place but in your head I question its
security but here's a scheme for secure passwords that are not
subject to dictionary lookups and are easy to remember.
Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll
remember forever like
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Glenn English wrote:
Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely
lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was
no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box.
If you can't remember the
T o n g wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
T o n g wrote:
My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
A pet peeve of mine is share. Windows has shares. Unix has
filesystems. NFS is itself a Network File System. So saying
Network File System Share feels like saying a Personal PIN Number
Alex Robbins wrote:
I have a directory that looks like this:
.
├── dir
└── file
dir is a directory and file is a regular file. I execute:
find -type d
Here you are using the GNU find extension which allows the path to be
omitted. In GNU find the path is optional. In the standard find
Yaro Kasear wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Teemu Likonen wrote:
Titanus Eramius wrote:
My 2 cents on this is, that once packages is installed from Debian
Multimedia it's very hard to go back to stable. But if one keeps using
Debian Multimedia there are rarely any problems.
Now
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test find \( -type d -print \) -o \( -name file
-printf %s %p \) -o \( -name anotherfile -print0 \)
.
./anotherfile./dir
0 ./file%
abdelkader belahcene wrote:
I wrote a program which have to change proprieties
for the serial port via the termios commands, but it not saved.
When I ran the program it gave the old values then after changes
gave the new, that seems correct, but when i ran again i got
same value,
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Bob Proulx:
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test find \( -type d -print \) -o \(
-name file -printf %s %p \) -o \( -name anotherfile -print0
\) .
./anotherfile./dir
0 ./file%
martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test
Tom H wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
A pet peeve of mine is share. Windows has shares. Unix has
filesystems. NFS is itself a Network File System. So saying
Network File System Share feels like saying a Personal PIN
Number. It would make me happier if people just referred to
them
Fnzh Xx wrote:
root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k
11447+1 records in
11447+1 records out
120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s
root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid
...
why /dev/sda6 uuid don't equal /dev/sdb6 uuid?
I expect the kernel cached the
Joao Roscoe wrote:
Ok, I really mixed things up. I'm sorry (and I'm also very sorry for
the *huge* delay in answering to this thread).
There was quite a long delay in that message! But what is a year
among friends? :-)
I meant that **ypbind** fails to bind to ypserver.
A critical
Richard Owlett wrote:
I will, initially, be doing only manual installs using preseeding to
avoid entering fixed data - keyboard, time zone, user name/password,
no networking etc.
I see that you are using preseeding. That is good because it sets you
up to do automated installations very
Nelson Green wrote:
OK, another quick question, completely off subject, but hardly worth a new
thread.
That's debatable. :-)
When I look at my previous post through a browser, there are no line breaks,
Yes. Very annoying. And unfortunately not uncommon when using
Microsoft mail user
Chris Bannister wrote:
Huh? Since when? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
A crossposted message takes up less server storage space, and creates
less network traffic, than if individual messages had been posted to
multiple newsgroups.
Of course that applies to usenet newsgroups but
Chris Bannister wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Of course that applies to usenet newsgroups but does not apply to
mailing lists such as debian-user. Mailing lists will generate a new
message with the same message-id for every message regardless of
whether it is crossposted to several mailing
Tony Baldwin wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
Okay, Tony, before going any further into this, are you sure that your
hard disk and partitions are all fine? Were all the scary messages
finally went away? How about the SMART test?
There are no NEW such messages in dmesg.
I was really worried
dAgeCKo wrote:
I wanted to use reportbug to report several bugs.
But when reportbug does not crash, it does not send the bug report
via email.
...
I configure it with standard, gtk2,
Some time ago Camaleón and I had a huge misunderstanding concerning
reportbug. (It is in the mail archive.)
Joao Roscoe wrote:
Seems reasonable. I still use the broadcast protocol instead. But
what you are doing is supposed to work okay and I can only assume that
it does.
Tried the broadcast protocol. Unfortunately, no deal :-(
Don't know. Works for me. I like it since that way any of the
Roger Leigh wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I haven't submitted a bug yet but I always have problems with sysvinit
postinst depending upon ischroot and ischroot getting it wrong and
that leaving a broken /run - /var/run behind. You might hit that too.
If this is still happening, please file
Roger Leigh wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665827
Note that this is a bug against initscripts, not debianutils.
Yes. But both are buggy! I also filed a bug against ischroot.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685034
Roger Leigh wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
There are two issues. ...
So one key question here: do you have /proc mounted inside the
chroot?
No. I only do that if the task and applications I am running in the
chroot require it. But for my typical chroot these are rarely
required. Sure
shawn wilson wrote:
J. B wrote:
Though I'm little confused now. As per the tutorial /boot should be
un-encrypted. But I got some doc at net where /boot is also encrypted.
Can you please help me to solve the puzzle ?
I'm following http://kirriwa.net/john/doc/lvm+raid1.html#step3
you
J. B wrote:
I have bought a new HDD. Created 2 partitions.
An un-encrypted 1 GB /boot as a separate partition on the Disk.
One gig for /boot? I know you are probably planning on using it for a
dropbox but that still seems excessive to me. If I wanted a dropbox I
would use an additional
Camaleón wrote:
Gary Roach wrote:
I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to
change to the digest form.
If you want to post replies, I wouldn't do it :-/
Agreed strongly! Please do not post replies from a digest.
Can I just re-subscribe to the digest form
Nate Bargmann wrote:
This has bugged me on and off most of this year since for some reason
that I can't find, the shorewall/shorewall6 startup scripts have a pause
of about a minute before the system start/shutdown can continue. Right
now this affects both my desktop and laptop running Sid.
Lisi wrote:
lina wrote:
Chris wrote:
Anyone else getting this?
I got one before.
From: debian-user joe1assis...@gmail.com
Oh dear! Now someone else has quoted it.
This isn't spam to the mailing list. This is spam from a subscriber
to the original posters. So it doesn't matter if
Mike McClain wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
People using digests usually don't know how to reply using them and
cause a lot of problems. Please don't be the source of problems.
Using a digested mailing list is hard! You need special tools in
order to burst the digest to read and reply
Nate Bargmann wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
I assume you have something like this in your /etc/network/interfaces:
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
My laptop has exactly this stanza along with the lo stanza below in the
desktop's interfaces file. As WiCD is used, I wonder
Ross Boylan wrote:
I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev
Why did you choose rbind over bind. Just curious. My reply is
the one I would give if you had used bind. I have never used rbind.
The result may be wrong for rbind. But it would be
Ross Boylan wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Why did you choose rbind over bind. Just curious.
It's certainly not something to take as a model; it's just what sort of
worked for me.
Understood. We are all pragmatic when need be. :-)
# umount /srv/chroot/sid/dev
The corresponding command
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
After studying the headers a bit more I wrote an e-mail to a specific
support@ address (which I will not reproduce here) and I even got an
answer :)
You are truly living a wondeful life to have gotten a response! :-)
I discussed it with the Debian listmasters but there
David Cho-Lerat wrote:
Google returns:
http://superuser.com/questions/289678/du-vs-df-output
I will also mention the GNU faq entry for it. Perhaps then it will
rank higher in the search engine space. :-)
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#df-and-du-report-different-information
David Cho-Lerat wrote:
I've done some RTFM, but can't yet find where the helper
scripts to use in maintainer scripts (preinst/postrm/..) are
described.
How does one automate the following in the preinst scripts,
for instance :
It sounds like you are trying to use a package installation in
Mike McClain wrote:
Since the digest is broken and the maintainer wouldn't even answer my
messages I no longer subscribe but will go back to it when I hear it's
fixed.
Even though I campaign against digests I think it is lamentable that
it is broken. I know there have been attempts to
Gary Roach wrote:
OK, OK
I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list.
:-)
I just needed to get used to the difference.
I am so very used to seeing threaded message discussions that not
having those would drive me crazy.
I quit the digest because it broke for me.
This form takes a little
Nelson Green wrote:
I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would
like to have one large screen spread across the two monitors.
I usually do this with a single graphics card. So my suggestion might
not be useful to you. But...
I am not sure where to start. One thing I
Jon Dowland wrote:
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
xz: tar Jcf
I'm using a distro that packages with xz.
I'm sure that there never was a big difference between
gz: tar zcf and bzip2: tar jcf for the length of the files, but the
time for packing and unpacking does
lina wrote:
Once I used the wget to download one file from debian repository, on
another terminal I with to use the wget to get another file at the same
time from the same repository.
And if you needed both files then that seems fine to me.
I was discouraged to do that, and was also told
Jon Dowland wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 78M
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 99M
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 65M
linux-3.6-rc2.tar.lz 66M
I think lzip is worthy enough that it should have a mention too. It
has gotten less attention than xz
Stephen Powell wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
As long as the PSU has the 4-pin CPU power plug, and it should being a
Xeon board, you shouldn't need to replace anything else. And you've
basically got a brand new system, sans drives, for $110-135.
I don't see the 4-pin CPU power plug to
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Most newer motherboards now require this addtional power connector.
But if your power supply does not provide one then you can add an
adaptor and convert one of the 4-pin power connectors to the ATX12V
4-pin motherboard power connector. That works
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
You could probably get away without connecting the 4 pin aux CPU power
on the Foxconn board if using a 65w or lower CPU. I've never tried it.
But I don't find anything in the manual that says the board won't post
with it disconnected. Many newer boards won't power up
Gaël DONVAL wrote:
Bob Proulx a écrit :
There is a problem with the mashing and reformatting. It makes lzip
appear to be 66M against xz being 65M and so xz is better, right? But
wait the above says that gz is 99M. But ls says 100M. So the listed
sizes are not 100% correct. So 66M
Gary Kline wrote:
Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my
debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and
until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian]
computer to its original state.
You can do this for yourself. Backup your
Tom H wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Gary Kline wrote:
Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my
debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and
until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian]
computer to its original state.
You
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
I'd ask you to keep in mind that even unused swap (meaning, you do
not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable.
Agreed.
Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the
system. The kernel will not allow the process to run
Gaël DONVAL wrote:
I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk.
The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock.
When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails:
Any idea?
Any disk errors in /var/log/syslog? I have had terrible luck with the
reliability of external
Erwan David wrote:
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
- Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line
with a carriage return.
but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like
(g)vim).
I wonder if
Gaël DONVAL wrote:
It does not occur when I use debootstrap but some times after that. I'm
very disappointed: the device was not cheap...
I have had varied reliability with external usb disks. External SATA
have always worked flawlessly for me. But usb works, sometimes for a
long time, but I
Brian wrote:
Miga wrote:
Basically what I'm asking is, can somebody help me confirm that
redeclipse-data is actually non-free? If so, what's making it non-free?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651752
Stated in that ITP log:
This will go in non-free due to missing sources
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 8/24/2012 1:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
In actuality I have only used these adapters on low power Atom
motherboards. I am down in the 20 watts of power envelope area. So
for me the single rail is more than enough.
4 pin aux CPU power plug on at Atom board
r...@aarden.us wrote:
I am trying to implement the preseed information contained on:
http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linux/autoinventory.htm
In the section debian installer preseed file' there is a command
sequence:
TARGET=/root/inventory
debconf-get-selections --installer
Mauro wrote:
I'm using debian sid.
When I try to update the system I have the error:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libqt4-sql-sqlite:amd64:
libqt4-sql-sqlite:amd64 depends on libqtcore4 (= 4:4.8.2-2+b1); however:
Version of libqtcore4:amd64 on system is
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
At Joe and Bob. Do you use multi arch? It seems to be a problem for
multi arch.
I do because multiarch is now a capability of dpkg and I use dpkg.
But I haven't used it explicitly. I am running a pure 64-bit amd64
installation without any explicit ia32 packages installated.
T o n g wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
In any case with all packages locally available it speeds things up
considerably for doing repeated installations. It is actually kinder to
the upstream file servers because I have many machines and am often
doing many installations in rapid succession
Stephen Powell wrote:
By the way, there's something I don't understand. A 32-bit processor can
only access 4G of real (extended) memory, right? So why are there
motherboards available for 32-bit processors that support installing
more than 4G of RAM? What good is memory that the processor
T o n g wrote:
Interesting. What is systemd? (apt-cache search systemd shows me nothing)
'systemd' is an alternative 'sysvinit' system.
How can I tell if I'm using systemd or not?
If you don't know then you are not using it. You are using sysvinit
if you haven't manually taken action to
Richard Owlett wrote:
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Can someone point me to detailed instructions on setting up a client
and server on a single physical computer. As a primary motivation
for this whole project is learning Linux, I foresee lots of related
reading :)
Most (if
James Allsopp wrote:
I'm trying to learn more about networking and set up BIND, LDAP and
Nagios on a KVM virtual machine. The VM works great and I can ssh into
it from the host, and view the nagios pages from the host. However the
VM gets the address 192.168.1.x and the host is 192.168.1.2.
James Allsopp wrote:
Just restarted everything and the address of the virtual machine is
192.168.122.216 so on a different subnet.
The VM is on 192.168.122.216. Okay.
Looking at the output of ps aux | grep network, I found this:
ja@Hawaiian:~$ ps aux | grep network
nobody6157 0.0 0.0
Yuwen Dai wrote:
I downloaded the latest Wheezy AMD64 version DVD iso image, trying to
install it on a HP notebook with a RTL8169 NIC. When the installer
detects network, it hangs. I could switch to other ttys and open a
busybox shell, but it's useless, the installation could not resume
Nelson Green wrote:
So, my final question is, where is my X11 start-up file?
There are several different ways to start up X11. Probably the
simplest for you is to create a $HOME/.xsession file. The
xdm/gdm/kdm/lightdm processes will use it if the file exists. Create
it with the following
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
exec x-session-manager
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink handle that
always points to the currently configured window manager.
Isn't that 'x-window-manager'?
At least, I don't have an 'x-session-manager' on my system
Bret Busby wrote:
The problem is that the computer runs out of RAM.
The RAM usage increases, until it runs out of RAM, then, as at
present, the system becomes morbidly slow, and takes a few seconds
to respond to key presses or mouse moves, then, after a while, it
just crashes.
What you are
Bret Busby wrote:
opera web browser.
Each window of it shows as using 14GB of virtual memory.
Yowsa! So if you exit Opera as a test then suddenly a lot of memory
is freed up and the system is suddenly back to its normal speedy
state? Any other processes hiding behind it that are the second
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
The 'x-session-manager' is a Debian package specific symlink
handle that always points to the currently configured window
manager.
I guess I did say window manager there. That isn't precisely
correct. I should
bobg.h...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:30:02 PM UTC-5, jiang lei wrote:
is there any difference between /usr/bin/X and /usr/bin/Xorg?
On my debian box, /usr/bin/X is not symlink to /usr/bin/Xorg, and
i can start X server with /usr/bin/X but fail with /usr/bin/Xorg?
i
Glenn English wrote:
Let's see if I've got this straight...
Debian squeeze gets the host's domain name from the first
non-comment or non-empty line of /etc/hosts?? If it likes
that line??
No. That is incorrect. Debian sets the hostname from /etc/hostname.
This is done at boot time in
Camaleón wrote:
Frank McCormick wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
Frank McCormick wrote:
I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I
haven't used Nvidia for a couple of years. What could be hanging
around from those days ??
I have much egregious noise in that file. It
lee wrote:
how come that failed logins aren't recorded in /var/log/faillog? The
file exists and is from July this year. When I run faillog -a, it
lists entries like:
I haven't researched this in detail so take it as conjecture only
but... It seems likely because your system hasn't had any
Glenn English wrote:
What happens, apparently, is that nothing ever sets the
domain name at boot.
But a domain name isn't really important to the server kernel itself.
A domain name is a piece of information that *others* need. But it
isn't needed nor really used by the local server. The
Camaleón wrote:
But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was
archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status:
This was the message that closed it. It was sent to 617940-done and
so the bug was marked as closed. The other bug was forcibly merged
Bob Proulx wrote:
Glenn English wrote:
And it expects to find the machine-name and the FQDN, on one
line. Maybe near the top -- I haven't looked into that.
The format of the /etc/hosts file is a line by line linear search from
top to bottom for the desired information. Reading
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