On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
I'm not sure that original post was as much
spam as inappropriate or a troll..
I agree. It was mostly just inappropriate. And it lacked a lot of the
key signs of spam so even a well trained spam filter would likely have
missed
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:46:03PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
Quoth Tzafrir Cohen:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad
It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends
on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer
won't bother
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm
trying to get my keyboard shortcuts to work properly under Xfce, and I
can't figure out what is going on.
I created a new theme and added some keyboard
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:34:03PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:18:15 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
Hi,
I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm
trying
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:08:58PM +0100, Robert Cates wrote:
Hi all,
I've got a general question concerning apt-get - what would be the reason(s)
for the below message when I upgrade my packages?
That message mean that a newer version of the package is available but
for some reason it
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:28:21 +
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Celejar on 29/01/08 01:02, wrote:
I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm
trying to get my keyboard shortcuts to work properly
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
...
I'm running XMonad and that's all this is pretty easy, just one line in the
config. But as this is really very specific to your WM I'm afraid there's no
way
of handling all this in a generic way.
Hey Aleks, I'm
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:46:57PM +, T o n g wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:53:56 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a sample of each
font on the system without manually writing them all out? tia.
Both answers so far seems to me
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:29:18AM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working
fine for the past year an a half.
This weekend I upgraded (which included both X and kde) in unstable/sid and
now I find that my X session is being
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:04:32PM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:29:18AM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been
working fine for the past year an a half.
This weekend I upgraded
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Debian Etch on a white box AMD machine with 1GB RAM, I cannot
update the system. This is what I get:
myhome:/home/zeev# apt-get update
...
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/non-free Packages
Fetched 6861kB in 1m33s (73.1kB/s)
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:32:38PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Jan 26, 2008 8:03 PM, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering
what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering
switching to it at some
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:23:10PM +, T o n g wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:59:35 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Instead of complaining pointlessly, maybe you could have said
something like: . . .
Sorry about my attitude, I was very disappointed that I carefully wrote
the OP
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:04:50AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Most, if not all, cable modems are easily configured for use with Linux
So please check me if what I think is right:
1. The box has an (presently unused) ethernet port and lspci shows it:
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote:
Hello,
Due a to an error in my /etc/exim4/passwd.client, quite a bit of mail was
refused by the remote SMTP relay host. I now fixed it but can't find the
messages any more. Does exim dump them? I still have them in my sent-mail
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:05:38PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst several
months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1 but it was
not recognized as a block device when I tried to mount it.
well, if the
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse buttons instead of the
keyboard, or if the same problem exists there
what does xev use?
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:48:18PM +, T o n g wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:47:15 -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls.
source ~/.bashrc
Guess that I am having bad lucks now, having two people replied without
even reading my
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:58:11PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:48:22PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
Hello,
When the fetchmail demon starts running, it often gets large amounts of mail
in one bunch an tries to shove it into exim for local delivery. However,
exim
to demonstrate more appropriate responses below:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:40:12PM +, T o n g wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:32:57 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls.
Ken said:
source ~/.bashrc
Guess that I am
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:19:10PM +, Barry Samuels wrote:
I would like to get a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 adapter which I
understand works with Linux.
Unless they've changed recently, this card should work. It has onboard
mpeg2 compression which means that you can capture on it with a
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:12:39AM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
...
I have a Desktop Debian GNU/Linux Etch with network connection,
and a laptop with installed only Debian GNU/Linux from netinstall.iso,
but laptop has not network connection.
Is it a method how to copy some more debian
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:28:26AM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
Hello,..
I would like to get the life time of hard disk (how much he worked in
hours or speens or whatever)
i tried using hdparam but it didn't show this info.
try smartctl
smartctl -a /dev/hdb
SMART Attributes Data
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
...
But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of
X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year,
unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is
nothing you can do but pull
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote:
On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
(8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3?
no to either
/boot should not be a single partition by itself..
it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Mr Shunz wrote:
...
If with Verizon's SMTP works, to me is just a sign that gmail simply
blocks your ip.
This is highly likely if you're trying to run a mail server from
within a dynamic ip block. And more and more big providers are doing
this because
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:59:35PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote:
Back to my first problem, debconf doesn't reconfigure itself after the
purge. Here is the sequence of events,
pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs
* pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2
pvalex:~# apt-get --purge remove pvrfs
Reading package
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote:
Hello!
I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to
use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I
can create md RAID devices from the partition tables I set up
identically on the
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:21:12PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your answer.
I had been playing with the debconf configuration changing priority
values, to no avail.
The current configuration is:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
*
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote:
Hello!
I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to
use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:57:39PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote:
On Jan 17, 2008 11:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package
configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions
on install?
I'm sure there is a way to do the second, and there is a debconf-doc package
you
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote:
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are
close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over
first, you aren't
:
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
...
It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole
movie.
and apparently, one can recover from being turned into a
newt. ;)
Only if 'es not dead yet.
Or been eaten by a swallow
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting
ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy.
I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some
kind of RAID 5
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:58:09AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy
trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Two. No, seven!
Arg. You made me lose count!
oh come on. Everyone
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:24:52AM +, I.E.Broadbent wrote:
blimey ... what's next folks, arguing Gulliver-style about which end
of the egg to open?
oh please. Don't start that old flame-war again!
Everyone knows it's the small end.
...
Can we kill this OT subject now please?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:36:26PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:34:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
There's probably a reason I'm not a traffic engineer.
my thoughts as well
;-)
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Jozef Peterka wrote:
Hi there,
I would like to say some of my very humble opinions.
1. We should concentrate our efforts on Wiki pages, cause they seem to
me unmaintaned and outdated :/... and on other ONLINE resources as
well
I don't disagree with
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote:
Paul Csanyi wrote:
Hello!
I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1.
I am using for this two sata drives.
Is it possyble to turn this system to non software raid?
Doing so I wish to get the first sata drive to use
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:23:53PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
2008/1/15, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote:
Paul Csanyi wrote:
I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1.
I am using for this two sata
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/15/08 16:46, Alex Samad wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:28:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval
philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made by one of the
peasants. Small rocks float. So though she may
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:33:01PM -0500, KS wrote:
Henry Luciano wrote:
*sigh*, multiple times. The hardest thing is removing the old caps and
desoldering the holes, but all in all it's not that bad. Keep the iron
hot enough to melt the solder but not hot enough to damage the trace.
2008/1/13, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Osamu gave a suggestion about how to get more useable output by
changing the language to english. This would make it easier for this
list to help.
He(she?) also asked a couple of relevant questions that could point to
a solution to the problem
On Sun,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:44:57AM +0900, Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
Ok. Fine. Until you guys grow up this list is going to /dev/null.
If people don't stop complaining and leaving this list, then I'm going
to complain and leave!
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On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:06:33PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote:
snip
Only if the lines are also reversed, kind of like how STOP AHEAD is
painted on pavement with the word STOP first, then AHEAD after so you
pass over the first word in the statement before the second.
Well put! :-)
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:58:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hi, Debian users.
In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also
`emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should I
install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 16:09, Joel Roberts wrote:
I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully
supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of
spam e-mails weekly to pursue this
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:21:08AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote:
A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote:
Hi list
I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year
ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a
Buffalo
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:31:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote:
Nigel Henry writes:
I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that
occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works
fine
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:04:15AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.01.06.2351 +0100]:
OP is building a deprecated (I think that's the term) array.
degraded, actually.
I new it was something like that. Thanks madduck
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On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:59:29PM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote:
Hello.
I need help with gnucash 1.8.10 in Sarge. I have a gnucash file (written
with the same gnucash on the same system) containing one year of data.
And I can't open it. Gnucash says 'Segmentation fault'.
you really need
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote:
I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it
(and will add the second disk later)
but when I run mdadm I get the followng:
$ sudo
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:34:24AM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote:
Thanks for your answer.
But no scheduled transactions.
I know I won't get much help with such an old version. That's why I
asked on debian-users if someone has similar problems. Security updates
where the only changes to
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote:
Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary
school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of open office
running on that machine.
Is the XO GUI
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote:
Hello,
I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch.
On this machine, I have 3 network cards.
2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network
cards and it is SMC1233A-TX.
On Sarge, everything worked well.
The issue is
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote:
dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi:
I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is
updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the
same kernel that was installed during the
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a
question
mark in the place of
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:08:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Jan 2, 2008 4:09 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think there *is* a DVD driver, per se. There's the UDF fs
driver, though. You might mean that.
To be hornest, I am not clear how the DVD system works. Is the DVD
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ...
Setting 1M through
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:08:20PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
...
Hardware has scarcity which software lacks. There's no economic
reason to sell software. Programmers should sell their service since
trying to sell the product is, by
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:52:16PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:08:20PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
...
Hardware has scarcity which software lacks
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:07:51 + (UTC)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all:
On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find
something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 06:53:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140903-c,netscape/article.html
yeah, it's kinda sad, but at the same time, my memory of Netscape is
always kind of unpleasant. I remember struggling to get it to work
properly and convince others
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:05:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Your Xorg.0.log looks fine to me. So what exactly happens when you
type startx? maybe you don't have a window manager selected? How have
you selected your window manager
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
WHat window manager do you want to use?
I want to use Window Maker.
What is the output of (as root):
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager
There is only 1
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:05:58PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote:
...snip confusing quoting...
yes i am a total newbie to the linux world, the reason i chose debian is
because the cnc system is debian, after doing some minor research into it i
decided to keep it simple {yeah right} i will make
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Paul van Gelder wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 and get this as output:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) ...
Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic
link /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/source
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:06:52PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:40:53 -0800
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/27/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may or may not be related to your problem, but you would
probably be better off using
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:10:58PM +, Paul Csanyi wrote:
Hello!
My displaymanager is wdm on Debian Etch system.
Because my X Window crashes frequently
(nvidia driver woth GeForce 7600 GT card and Intel Core 2 Duo CPU),
I must to investigate the reason.
I must to start X Window
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:18:34PM +, Paul Csanyi wrote:
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:49:41 -0800 keltezéssel Andrew Sackville-West azt
írta:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:10:58PM +, Paul Csanyi wrote:
...
I must to start X Window with:
startx -- -logverbose 6
but can't. I can only
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 10:09:09PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
2007/12/27, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:18:34PM +, Paul Csanyi wrote:
Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:49:41 -0800 keltezéssel Andrew Sackville-West azt
írta:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:10
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:34:08PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Wed December 26 2007, Michael Pobega wrote:
I've never seen this screen on the other login, and they are setup
identically ( by me). My screensaver is turned OFF, and it doesn't have a
password for the screensaver.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:08:07PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:35:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
But now that the damage is done, I don't have much advice. Probably
your best bet is to move up to sarge manually replacing packages as
needed to remove
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:36:58AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:44:00PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On 2007-12-20 07:55:21 -0600, Kent West wrote:
Is not screen another solution? (I'm not terribly familiar with
screen, but I
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 03:55:16PM +0800, H.H. Ding wrote:
hi list
I ssh to remote host, then run a program and put it to background,
then I try to logout, but bash paused and wait until the program
finished. How can I logout immeditaly?
nohup perhaps?
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:34:20AM -0800, epic winter wrote:
Ok, but how do i get out of the deadlock? I can't use apt at all right now.
probably take stable, testing and unstable out of your sources.list
and apt* update would do it.
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putting this back on the list. please don't reply to me
directly. you'll get much more help if everyone can see what's going on.
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:43:56AM -0800, epic winter wrote:
Back in hell.
sorry to hear that.
i thought that fixed it, but now it seems that the gcc/libc version
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:50:49PM -0800, Jeppe wrote:
Hi there,
First of all, I´m new to Debian and especially the apt-thing.
hi welcome, etc. DOn't worry, you'll soon be fully indoctrinated ;)
I was going to try to enable apache2 with mysql. I already have a
Postgres-DB but now for
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:01:54PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote:
On Nov 29, 2007 9:18 PM, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I rebooted and then once I went into the filesystem I saw that the
system recognised it, but did not automount it. This is something that I
have noticed in the last while -
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:54:49PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:
The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity.
I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean
find . -name foo -print
mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img
ooh, interesting. I wouldn't have
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:37:42AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:57:15 -0500
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Douglas,
Anybody remember the Timex/Sinclair 1000? It has a pure membrane
AKA the Sinclair ZX-81, in the UK. First computer I owned.
I
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:56:53PM +, Nick Boyce wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote:
(Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum
behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:36:42PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:
Marc Auslander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO
I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the
2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5
The install produced a
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote:
On 12/13/2007 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
the command will be something like
mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch
be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using
lilo, make
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:09:16AM -0500, Dave wrote:
Hello,
Newbie to Debian. I've got a 4.0 system with two nics in it, one a
realtek 8139, the other a 3com 3c905. One is configured via dhcp, the other
will be via static. I read that /etc/modules contains the names of kernel
drivers
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Robert Bond wrote:
I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+
packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared
to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down
to
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:03:29PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
nevermind - I finally figured it out...
do tell Bob!
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote:
In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found
that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum
behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various
failure situations, which
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:50:26PM +0100, strawks wrote:
I just experienced my first ever system lockup. No mouse, no keyboard
with an Iceape screen open.
I had saved a posting regarding SYSRQ and I tried Alt-Sysrq k then
Alt-Sysrq i and the Alt-Sysrq b with no response.
Did you
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:13:49PM +0200, wanderlust wrote:
Hello.
I'm trying to install Debian/etch on Acer Aspire 5520G, but the problem
is, that kernel 2.6.18 doesn't support Marvell netcard 436b. I found it
is supportable in 2.6.23.9, so I decided to compile it. I used default
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:24:07AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
Benjamin Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command find
/ -print Instead use tar, like:
tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/*
Im running sid on my LinuxCertified lappy. It came with ubuntu
installed, which I wiped and replaced with debian on top of enxrypted
lvm. Works great. Everything works but suspend2ram. I could probably
make it work, but it's not worth it. I just shut it down.
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:36:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
To enter GNOME, I type startx. I tried entering KDE by typing
startkde which I what I remember doing a couple of years ago when
I last tried it. But it can't start X.
startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session. In case
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:31:40PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
startx uses ~/.xinitrc to start up the X session. In case it doesn't
exist, then debian has some default stuff that starts whatever the
default window manager is. Look at `update-alternatives --config
x
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:18:55AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Dec 7, 2007, at 10:27 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
Humbug. If you learned hot to type *properly* on a real IBM Selectric
(hint: you never pushed the key down past the click, certainly never to
the stops), using a clicky keyboard
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 11:16:47AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
How about the Atari 800 (or was it the 400?) that had the bare
membrane. ugh. now that was crap!
Fortunately I never had the displeasure of using one of those. I did
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:52:10PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:43:38AM -0500, Scott Lair wrote:
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so its not strictly etch. Also, these cards include hardware mpeg
encoding which can be a blessing and a curse, depending on your
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