Hello cortman,
cortman c0rt...@gmail.com wrote:
So I ran apt-get purge empathy from
the command line, which uninstalled it just fine- but now when I run
apt-get for any other reason it returns a long list of packages that
were automatically installed and are no longer required. Below is a
Hello lina,
this is a rather strange name :)
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW, why need allow ping? from outside?
59 # Allow ping
60 -A INPUT -p icmp -m icmp --icmp-type 8 -j ACCEPT
It doesn’t help to block ICMP echo requests:
- if you block them by dropping them, the other party
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Hello nyuszika7h,
nice name, btw.
nyuszika7h litemininyusz...@gmail.com wrote:
This unfortunately does not work though. How could I prevent APT from
upgrading to wheezy/sid?
Try something like
APT::Default-Release squeeze;
in
Hello Benimaur,
Benimaur Gao benim...@gmail.com wrote:
OK.
1. I dd the netinst iso to a flash disk boot the machine with it.
2. I try to rsync the whole system to my new machine
by rsync -av /* --exclude={/home/user/*,/sys/*,/dev/*,/proc/*,/mnt/*}
If you simply want to copy your old system
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
init-+-exe
|-rc---startpar---sendsigs---pstree
|-rpcbind
Could you, on a running system, check whether an ‘exe’ process is
running and to whom it belongs? rpcbind belongs to NFS, IIRC (also a
possible service to disable), and the
Hello David,
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote:
The warning target sda2_crypt uses a key file, skipped doesn't make
sense -- /dev/sda2 does not use a key file:
2012-07-10 17:18:38 root@i72600s ~
# cat /etc/crypttab
sda2_crypt UUID=c020df80-6439-4e9e-a70e-0ff303d61180
Hello David,
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote:
Loading Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Loading, please wait...
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay=
Hello Ramon,
Ramon Hofer ramonho...@bluewin.ch wrote:
/dev/sdi1 jfs1.9T 1.9T 3.9G 100% /mnt/recordings
/dev/sdk xfs1.9T 1.9T 3.3G 100% /mnt/recordings_temp
Is there a reason why one should use a partition spanning the whole disk
instead of creating the filesystem
Hello Stan,
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
As I replied on XFS, there's ZERO reason for putting one partition on a
dedicated mythTV recording drive. And since this is an Advanced Format
drive, you instantly misaligned XFS by creating that partition. None of
the Squeeze
Hello Tony,
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote:
Hi,
I have a script (non gui) which I want to run each time I log in. Which
is the correct way to do this?
Log in on a TTY/console or into a desktop environment? KDE, Xfce and
GNOME all have autostart settings, other non-DE graphical
Hello Tony,
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote:
On 01/07/12 13:01, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Thanks, Claudius. This is primarily for KDE, but I would expect it to
work for a console login as well. Does KDE try to run ~/.bashrc or
~/.profile?
I doubt that it runs .bashrc, but it may well
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:45:08 +0200, Denis Witt wrote:
I like how MacOS handle this, nearly every application designed for
MacOS is using the built in Keychain. Of course, if the keychain tool
isn't secure this is a big problem.
That's
Hello francis,
francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU
andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote:
I've just learned Filezilla is a security risk. It stores saved
passwords and the last used password
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:20:05 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
It works quite nicely over here on a testing/sid system with the
^^^
In the Spanish mailing list, a user reported a few days ago
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote:
You can check with
# cryptsetup luksDump device
Hmm .. well thanks for that command (I'm a novice) ... which confirms what
you
say - my single encrypted raw disk partition (containing the LVM mapped
system
volumes) does indeed
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote:
If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old
passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the
new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use
Hello Hans-J.,
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are still 32-
bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others.
So, as my old configuration is still working fine, but I am always intending
to
improve my
Hello Nick,
Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote:
The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS
system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass-
phrase, rather than storing the encryption key in an on-volume header
protected
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Hello Merciadri,
that looks all quite good. You are using direct rendering, no errors
show up in the log file and although the screen is quite large, that
shouldn’t be the problem. But maybe you could try to install a newer
nVidia-Driver, if
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Hello Merciadri,
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote:
1) scrolling a little bit in the page,
2) waiting 2 or 3 (!) seconds, then scrolling the rest.
That is, scrolling is slow and freezes for 2-3 s after having scrolled
a
Hello Merciadri,
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote:
$ free -m
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 4053 2002 2050 0340832
- -/+ buffers/cache:829 3223
Swap: 5938
Hello José,
José Luis Segura Lucas josel.seg...@gmx.es wrote:
In one (and only one) of then, when I open a terminal or connect by SSH,
my bash load the default system configuration from /etc/bash.bashrc,
instead of reading, as usual, ~/.bashrc.
I can think that I don't really have a
Hello José,
José Luis Segura Lucas josel.seg...@gmx.es wrote:
I don't remember to write or generate by hand this ~/.profile. Is it
created automatically?
It should be created automatically from the files in /etc/skel/ if
you are using useradd or adduser (the former with the --create-home
Hello Gary,
Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote:
It doesn't help testing since the point of packages in sid is
to get them to work with the current testing environment, not the
current unstable environment.
This is more or less obviously absolute bullshit. Running sid,
testing applications
Hello Gary,
Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote:
Again, the art of testing is to change one thing at a time. You can't do
that when all the packages are in flux. Pulling particular packages from
sid and testing them in the relative calm of testing is a much more
easier way to isolate bugs.
Hello Artifex,
Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote:
Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names versions.
# dpkg --list | wc -l
2481
Why don’t you use the output of dpkg -l? Also check man 1
Hello Artifex,
Artifex Maximus artife...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you. dpkg -l writes out all installed packages but not the
relations between them. I did similar comparison between systems but
seeing the differences in a tree makes this process easier because I
can cut leafs if I know there is
Hello Sthu,
Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Claudius worte:
You are, of course, right. I have to admit I didn’t check the content
of the wine64-bin package and was unsure whether Multi-Arch wine was
already in a working state :)
So, am to wait? - Am I to move to 386 arch?
You
Hello ~Stack~,
~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com wrote:
We are using it for specific services but I don't see why it would be any
different setting up pidgin or opera. I have only deployed SELinux to a
single Debian system and that was under Lenny. I don't recall it being
problematic or anything.
Hello Sthu,
Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I have read the discussion on the matter at the link that was provided
here, though understood not much... could You please answer me in short,
Will it be the near future for 64-bit arch - to install those i386
packages w/ its gazillion lib.s -
Hello,
I am running Testing/Sid amd64 with Multi-Arch enabled (i. e. Acrobat
Reader and Skype from i386) on a single-user machine and here’s what
I want to achieve:
- Programs that process data ‘from the internet’ are only allowed to
access the files they strictly need to access, plus a
Hello Sthu,
Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote:
What should I install - for amd64 arch then?
http://packages.debian.org/sid/wine lists a package for amd64, and so
does apt-cache show wine. Having a look at this package then gives you:
Depends: wine-bin (= 1.4.1-1) | wine64-bin (= 1.4.1-1)
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:14:03 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
And I share the same feeling for SELinux, I mean, a tool that can be very
helpful when it is properly configured and you know well about its
possibilities but its setting up
Hello Ralf,
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
Sorry, who exactly plans a conspiracy?
Err, what?
Regarding to the answer AppArmor
might be helpful, if not, it just spam shutdown messages with crap, as
it does for my self-build kernels.
It works quite nicely over here. :)
Joe
Hello Sven,
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote:
The wine64-bin package is rather useless by itself, it only contains
instructions how to enable multiarch and install the i386 wine-bin
package.
You are, of course, right. I have to admit I didn’t check the content
of the wine64-bin package and
Hello Ralf,
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote:
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 18:45 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
AppArmor doesn’t add a single thread to a running Linux system.
So it's a voodoo-ghost and doesn't need resources?
It runs directly in the kernel, where any access control
Hello Neal,
Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
Installed the https transport package to try https: in sources.list. But now
I
see a few Failed to connect to 2001:500:61:28::70: Network is unreachable
(or address 2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595). Why are any IPV6 addrs
Hello Neal,
Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
Aptitude also reports W: GPG error on security.debian.org squeeze/updates
Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2
So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to reinstall. Or maybe just
install wheezy to keep
Hello Neal,
Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote:
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non-
free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz Error reading from server - read (104:
Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80]
Looks like a connection problem. Is your
Hello Miles,
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote:
Or is entering a new key a manual process (type in the 50 hex digit
key)?
Something like that, yes. Either via an already-signed update at
runtime or manually at something like the current BIOS interfaces.
Can there be multiple keys (I vaguely
Hello Doug,
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:
I think you understand this INcorrectly!
He does not.
If _I_ understand it,
You don’t.
the
machine will not boot anything that is not signed with the key,
You can add any keys you want to that. UEFI is simply a framework,
and because most
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
IMO, Fedora did *the wrong thing*
Why? They get their release to boot on most/all computers. That’s a
good thing, isn’t it?
(since when blindly following what
Microsoft -or any other company- does is the correct way to achieve a
Hello Jimmy,
Jimmy Thrasibule thrasibule.ji...@gmail.com wrote:
VirtualHost *:80
Directory /var/www/test
IfModule mod_rewrite.c
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
For years, we've (the FLOSS community) been avoinding to be always
Windows dependant and now it seems we are going back to the darkest ages.
Repeat with me: we-don't-need-Windows-anymore.
This does not depend on Windows but on something
Hello Doug,
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:
I read the referenced post. It looks to me like Fedora will boot
without hassle, because they paid off Microsoft, and obtained a key,
but everything else, not having a key, will not.
Yes. More precisely, they want to get a small piece of
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
Microsoft (I can't tell for the rest of the hardware manufacturers
because their position is not mentioned in detail in the blog post) is
forcing a needing for something I (and I guess others) _don't need_, like
TPM modules, using a
Hello Roger,
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote:
This depends upon the hardware. You might not be able to disable it.
In fact, Microsoft *require* that it can't be disabled on ARM hardware
carrying a certified for Windows 8 (or whatever) badge. This
hardware will only be capable of
Hello Fred,
Fred Zinsli fred.zin...@shooter.co.nz wrote:
I am attempting to create a script (#!/bin/sh) that searches for files
created on the first day of the week, then on the first day of the month,
then the first day of the year. as seperate events. All the files are in
one directory so
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Hello Aubrey,
Aubrey Raech aubreyra...@gmail.com wrote:
1. Not a proper server (http, ftp)
2. No usernames? (scp, rsync)
3. Preferably does not require a chat protocol (XMPP, IRC's DCC)
- From what I can find it seems like XMPP would probably
Hello Brian,
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Sat 02 Jun 2012 at 12:41:22 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Do you have a have public IP address (either IPv4 or IPv6)? If
that is not the case, you will need a third party in order to
establish the connection.
A third party is not required
Hello Lisi,
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
file/folder/application libklashpart.so anywhere, so cannot delete it.
Did you try something along the lines of
# find /usr -name libklashpart.so
# find /home -name libklashpart.so
(the latter mostly because some browsers keep plugins in the user’s
Hello Frank,
Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote:
Am 30.05.2012 14:17, schrieb Csanyi Pal:
Fetched 570 kB in 10mp (56,8 kB/s)
W: GPG hiba: http://code.bitlbee.org ./ Release: Az alábbi aláírások
érvénytelenek voltak: KEYEXPIRED 1338072862
Somewhere at bitlbee.org as it appers you
Hello Hans-J.,
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read,
most
people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives.
Is this really recommended?
ext4 provides shorter recovery/file system check times, which I
really
Hello David,
I am a bit confused about your actual aim: Do you want both screens
in clone mode all the time, or in clone mode during boot and span
mode within Gnome?
Frankly, I wouldn’t care about grub or early boot and then use
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote:
# cat
Hello David,
David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote:
My goal is at least one monitor displaying during POST, GRUB, boot, and
login,
I think you already achieved that?
and then span mode 2 x 1600x1200 on the desktop. The Nokia 445Xi
can do 75 Hz and the 445XiPlus can do 87 Hz
Hello Thomas,
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
Ran a dist-upgrade, Wheezy, and now starting Calibre fails with a
segmentation fault.
Probably http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668314, try
to install the version from unstable.
Best regards,
Claudius
--
The absurd
Hello Uttam,
Uttam amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am currently generating a custom deb file and distributing it over
http. What are the options to verify the integrity of .deb files on the
machine where I have installed the .deb?
Do you want to verify the downloaded .deb or do you
Hello Rob,
Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote:
Further experiments on printing on the Canon printer through CUPS:
The printer has stopped working! I'm suspicious of the
dependency-based sequencing since that was the only upgrade which
mentioned the printer, but another one of the
Hello Lisi,
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I know. I shouldn't be using Lenny, and had in fact already tried to
change to Squeeze, but had trouble with my mail, and reverted.
But I am soon going to be installing on a new box, so am waiting until then.
That's the excuses out of
Hello Pedro,
Pedro Alexi Perez ppe...@lets.es wrote:
$ uname -a
Linux linuxpc 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 5 03:03:41 UTC 2012 x86_64
GNU/Linux
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1
20120128-12:53]/ squeeze contrib main
You can have a 64 bit kernel
Hello Tony,
Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org wrote:
What is the benefit of such a signature?
Those who know him now can verify the signature. In addition, if at
any later stage someone else claims to have posted this message, the
OP can prove that it was indeed him who posted it. Everybody
Hello Denis,
Denis Witt denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote:
[fail2ban not banning]
Is there any information in the fail2ban logfile, for example a line
like:
2012-05-08 00:46:23,587 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 134.255.242.165
(though with ssh instead of sasl)?
Is there any
Hello Martin,
Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu wrote:
Is there any way to make safe-upgrade at least attempt
to go to the next task or at least report why it is stuck?
Your error description is a bit obscure, so I’ll have to ask for more
information:
Currently running jobs:
-
Hello Martin,
It is usually appreciated not to format copied content at all (i. e.
the output of dpkg etc.), since most people can do that themselves
when necessary and forcibly formatting it might lead to even uglier
things than lines longer than 80 characters :)
Martin McCormick
Hello Stephen,
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote:
It is my understanding that,
assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition
should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the amount of RAM.
Suspend/resume will consume a RAM's worth right out of the
starting gate. The rest is then
Hello Darac,
Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote:
If the swap space is available during normal usage, then it's entirely
possible to have no space to suspend to.
Yes. However, this is rather unlikely when the computer is used as a
desktop/laptop, don’t you think? The only times when I
Hello Lisi,
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 02 May 2012 12:12:31 Sian Mountbatten wrote:
As a rule, your swap
partition should be the same size as your RAM.
We used to be taught it should be twice as big as your RAM - but even that
wouldn't get you to 40GB!! And, of
Hello Muhammad,
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote:
ata3.01 : status: { DRDY ERR }
ata3.01 : error : { UNC }
ata3.01 : exception emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata3.01 : BMDMA stat 0x64
ata3.01 : failed command : read DMA
This looks as if either the hard drive or the
Hello Muhammad,
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote:
at least there should be a way to reach the command prompt. is there
any way to ignore this error and reach the command prompt so i can
just copy the necessary data.
Probably not, because this error means that accessing whatever is
Hello Jens,
Jens Tobiska jtobi...@gmail.com wrote:
C: 139.80 GB NTFS, logical, boot
D: 139.65 GB NTFS, primary, system
In debian installer they appear as:
#2 primary 149.9 GB ntfs B
#5 logical 150.1 GB ntfs
I would guess that #2=D and #5=C based on relative size and
logical/primary.
Hello Richard,
Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com wrote:
I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It
appears to contains files of unlikely interest to me (C
compiler and header files, firewire, traceroute, etc).
The business card CD images contain even fewer packages, but you
Hello Richard,
Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com wrote:
That led me to assume that the business card image would
just go ahead and download the rest of the netinst image.
I think it downloads less, but I cannot guarantee that.
How much control does user have over what it downloads?
You
Hello Jon,
Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
You don't have to install every package that is in the netinst image. Indeed
if you do a basic install (including the 'standard system' task, which
defaults
to selected) you don't get GCC, for example, despite it being on the CD.
Of course not,
Hello J.,
J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked and the is no more /sbin/shutdown :-(
Did you remove sysvinit? This happens, for example, when you install
upstart, as it conflicts sysvinit.
To reinstall sysvinit, try
# apt-get install --reinstall sysvinit
This will also fix it if
Hello Brian,
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 15:34:10 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked and the is no more /sbin/shutdown :-(
Did you remove sysvinit? This happens, for example, when you install
upstart
Hello Csanyi,
Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote:
Get: 35 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B]
Get: 36 http://dl.google.com stable Release [1347 B]
Get: 37 http://dl.google.com stable/main amd64 Packages [765 B]
In my sources.list I have lines:
Must I worry about of those
Hello Csanyi,
Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed, I find there a file: 'google-talkplugin.list'.
APT also checks this directory. You will probably find dl.google.com
listed in this file. If you don’t like that behaviour, remove the
file :-)
The functionality is meant to provide
Hello Vincent,
Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote:
On 2012-03-28 18:32:25 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
FYI, Firefox/Iceweasel uses /tmp for that. For instance, click on
a link to a PDF file to view it with a PDF viewer; the file is
stored in /tmp. It isn't even removed after the
Hello Mika,
Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote:
On 31.03.2012 12:04, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
Especially when inline responding (bottom) and your loosy style is
mixed?
I already changed to bottom posting in Iceweasel and K9 mail.
Thanks. Though one should also take
Hello Peter,
PMA peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu wrote:
Take a vote,
That vote already happened many years ago.
asking, Which is more important:
seeing the current message immediately (Top),
or keeping the flow in one-direction (Bottom)?
Neither. Interleaved style is the way to go.
Best
Hello Mika,
Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thank you for providing explaining to bottom post. I have now
configured Icedove and K9 Mail to do bottom posting instead of top
posting.
Just to do some more nitpicking: You should also remove everything
you are not referring
Hello Mika,
Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote:
1. K9 Maill can only verify inline signatures.
Hrm. Report a bug? :)
2. Inline signature is easier to verify when reading mailing list archives.
Most archives have an option to download the ‘plain’ mail including
all MIME
Hello Pierre,
Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote:
I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places
that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it.
My question: is it better to also revert to apt-get for package management,
or is
Hello Jochen,
Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
apt-get install sl
alias dir=sl
Doesn't work for root because /usr/games/ is usually not in its path.
Nothing stops you from providing the full path :-) Try
$ which sl
to get it.
Best regards,
Claudius
--
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Hello Baruch,
please respond to the list rather than me personally. Please also
don’t top-post (cf. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html ).
I took the liberty to quote the relevant part of your answer in case
someone else finds this thread:
Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote:
#
Hello Camaleón,
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:08:00 -0700, Mike Alborn wrote:
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list.
I can't CC, sorry :-(
At least Claws-Mail supports an additional To: Header when posting
via Gmane.
Best regards,
Claudius
--
Hello Baruch,
Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote:
My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and
that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser
installed.
Probably not.
Against what package should I file the bug? (FWIW - debian
Hello Bilal,
Bilal mk bilalh...@gmail.com wrote:
The following script is working fine executing from shell. But does not
work running on crontab.
How to fix this crontab issue?
Check the output of
$ env
when run in the crontab and in the shell.
Best regards,
Claudius
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BOFH excuse
Hello Daniele,
Daniele Guerrieri d.guerri...@gmail.com wrote:
Every time I START the system, just before the prompt for passphrase, there
are some complaints about the / filesystem: something like Cannot find
harpsiRoot volume and also mobprobe: unix module not found. So it
The ‘modprobe:
Hello Sian,
Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
Hello All,
AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to
complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does
anybody know what it is?
time
for example
# time dd if=/dev/urandom
Hello Frank,
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
sid:/home/frank# aptitude full-upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded:
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
Hello Gary,
Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote:
Hi
I have two systems running Debian Squeeze and have essentially the same
setup. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 5450 on my main system which has
good readable print on both the desktop icons and on the bottom panel.
My other system
Hello Csanyi,
Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I downloaded wxdesigneru from here:
http://www.wxdesigner-software.de/wxdesigneru_2.20-2_amd64.deb
and tried to install it but failed.
Now I'm trying to purge this debian package with command:
sudo dpkg -P wxdesigneru
(Reading
rcb r...@beco.cc wrote:
Simple stated, my question is: will my first machine that is runing Debian
installed from scratch work smoothly after I simple change its processor
from a DualCore to a Core2 Quad?
If you are still using the default kernel, i. e. did not recompile
your own and threw out
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote:
Abou Al Montacir wrote:
Maybe create a new groups trusted and do the following
cd /bin
chown root.trusted *
chmod 750 *
for ff in $ {TRUSTED_BIN_LIST} ; do chmod o=rx $ff ; done
With this users can still create files and copy the programs they want
to run
Mitchell Laks ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote:
however putting
PAGER=less -q
alone seemed to set the variable (ie echo $PAGER
responded less -q)
but it did not change the behavior of say man pdl
That’s because you only set this variable to your shell and did not
export it. Observe:
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
-
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that $@ (including the quotes) is safer in such
situations.
That’s also what keeps lingering in the back of my
Dom to...@rpdom.net wrote:
On 01/03/12 20:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jo, 01 mar 12, 18:02:40, Claudius Hubig wrote:
-
#!/bin/sh
/bin/less -q $*
I've read somewhere that $@ (including the quotes) is safer
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
An executeable script /home/peter/Desktop/script.sh appears
as an icon in the LXDE desktop. A double-click on it,
starts it executing. In a Fedora system I use, a double
-click on such an icon produces a dialogue offering choices:
[Run in Terminal] [Display] [Cancel]
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude
/proc --exclude /sys
Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686
it seems my backup is running forever
I would suggest also excluding /dev,
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