Re: Linux in the company

2001-03-26 Thread Corwin Grey
Does somebody use Linux professional in the company? If yes, which Distribution? Does Debian be used also in the professional area or is the first election RedHat Linux? I work for a Network Operations Center and ISP and we run almost everything off of debian servers. We have a couple of

Re: How can I start from a terminal instead of gdm

2001-03-23 Thread Corwin Grey
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:20:40AM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how I can start from a terminal instead of gdm? When X starts it's locking up my keyboard and mouse so I need to disable it on boot up. I don't have a boot disk (of course) so I'm looking for a solution

Broken Debconf::Question on woody after -u upgrade

2001-03-20 Thread Corwin Grey
After performing an apt-get -u upgrade today, I have a broken debconf, which is keeping me from configuring a number of packages. I haven't done an upgrade for about three weeks. Everything in the upgrade appeared to go normally until it started to install debconf. I get the following error:

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly +a. Corwin Grey What does this tell me? That if Microsoft were the last software company left in the world, 13% of the US population would be scouring garage sales

Re: Pakages in a very bad inconsistent state

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
'chattr -attributes /sbin/lsmod' listing the appropriate attributes which are shows by lsattr. I'm guessing it is set +i, +u or possibly +a. If it would be so, would that really be a problem for root-apps? Isn't the user root a Superuser so that he's able to do everything even damaging

Re: bad hard drive?

2001-03-19 Thread Corwin Grey
Bad hard drive. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:12:14AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: when copying files over to this drive, i always get errors. by that i mean i run fsck on the drive and there are errors. as soon as the fsck is finished i run it again and there are errors again. its now to

Re: Getting rid of portmap

2001-03-16 Thread Corwin Grey
dpkg -S portmap will tell you that portmap is included in the netbase package. If you need other contents of netbase, Question -- what is the best approach to stop portmap from running on a Debian system? If you are hesitant to remove the symlink, edit the portmap script and put an exit as