On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:05:21AM -0800, Richard Weil wrote:
> How do you logout "leftover" sessions? For example, I
> ssh'd into my debian box, the connection went down
> because of line problems, and when I log back in the
> old session is still there. I don't know how to kill
> it. This happene
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:57:41AM +1100, Richardson, Martin wrote:
> Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning?
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foobar.html
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
Innoc
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:04:03AM +0100, Alexander Steinert wrote:
> I am the owner of mydomain.tld which is currently hosted by an ISP.
> Would it be possible to set up a nameserver at a.b.c.d that will be
> authoritative for mydomain.tld given that the ISP allows a custom
> nameserver?
Sure. Y
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:46:26PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> Which is a PITA, meaning I will will have to reproduce all the mount
> points on the client computer if I implement NFS.
The standard way of dealing with that is to use an automounter and
have it read its automount maps from NIS, which
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:13:08PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> So let's change tack. How would I go about mounting the entire contents
> of a remote computer's filesystem and only be able to access the remote
> computer's files within subdirectories of that mount point? There would
> be no confusio
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:31:21PM +1300, Adam Warner wrote:
> I can mount the remote filesystem on my client machine no problem. But
> if I try to change to a remote symlinked directory I get, for example:
>
> bash: cd: backup2: No such file or directory
>
> Because that directory doesn't exist
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote:
> (Whatever happened to the very intelligent policy of configuring
> programs in /bin in /etc, configuring programs in /usr/bin in /usr/etc,
> and configuring programs in /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc?!)
Wouldn't really help any, giv
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 09:11:21PM +0700, hero wrote:
> # test.pl
> !#/usr/bin/perl -w
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print "Test cgi\n";
>
> # /var/log/apache/error.log
> [Sun Nov 17 20:32:31 2001] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script
> headers: /home/hero
With postgresql 7.1.3-4 (the current woody version as of last Friday),
I'm getting a large number of messages logged by postgres at 4:00
every morning, most of them prefaced with "DEBUG:". This strikes me as
rather odd, given that /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf explicitly states
"debug_level = 0"
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:52:58AM -0500, Paul McHale wrote:
> Just curious how long people have left their system running without reboot.
> I once left my server at a co-locate for over 3 months and it ran fine. In
> three years, I have never had to reboot because of crash.
If this sort of thing
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 05:44:02AM +, root wrote:
> this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies
> staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can
> we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself?
*sigh* You seem to have comp
On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 11:09:48AM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote:
> i) What database would you use (server will be debian but
> there will be at least one windows machine off of it).
Postgres.
> ii) In what language would you write the administrators
> screen for data entry and sales reports.
Pe
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:45:58PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> - I currently have ONE static IP. If I choose this to be the name server
> for all my domains, do I NEED/have-to-have a backup?
Yes. Most (all?) registrars require you to submit at least one
secondary name server.
> - Does a
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:12:52PM -0500, Deedra Waters wrote:
> I'm trying to use abcde to turn songs into mp3 format, but am having a
> problem. my problem is this.
> Getting CD track info... Grabbing entire CD - tracks: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 11 12Looking up CD nameGetting CD info...got it.
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:18:35PM +, Aniartia wrote:
> Adding a 2nd swap file on a disk seems counter productive as you've not got 2
> stores and unless the swap priorty is the same will jump between then making
> things slower. I don't understand swap priortys but to say you can tell linux
>
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:19:59AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Reading the manpage, it would seem that the clear-screen behavior is a
> terminal configuration issue. I've noticed that, for example, console
> less sessions don't clear the screen on exit, but rxvt sessions do.
> Presumably, poki
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:11:39PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 07:10:08PM -0600, Dave Sherohman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > How do I change it back globally? `export LESS="-X"` fixes it
> > per-user, but I want the old default back.
Previously, when exiting less, the displayed document remained on the
screen. Since an apt-get upgrade (in testing), however, less now
restores the prior display to its window when it exits.
How do I change it back globally? `export LESS="-X"` fixes it
per-user, but I want the old default back.
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 06:58:32PM -0500, Patrick Mahoney wrote:
> Since Mutt since to be a hot topic, might as well...
> I'm looking for a way to put my outgoing mail in a month-dependent-mailbox so
> i could retrieve a sent mail more easily. I would have mailboxes of the form
> Sent/Oct-01 , Se
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 04:38:59AM -0500, Bob Koss wrote:
> If I'm already tracking woody, should I be routinely using "upgrade"
> or "dist-upgrade" ?
You can always use dist-upgrade or you can routinely use upgrade and
only dist-upgrade when packages are listed as having been held back.
Either wa
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:02:38PM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote:
> IIRC, some have suggested a cycle of "upgrade" followed by "dist-upgrade"
> when moving from one distribution to another. Is there an advantage to this
> as regards split/packages, changed directory structures, etc.?
I'm one of th
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:47:21PM -0700, Mike Fontenot wrote:
> Is my interpretation correct, or have I misunderstood
> the man page? (My main concern is that I don't want to
> accidentally upgrade to woody).
You are correct.
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorist
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote:
> I just wonder if there is a way to use menu in wmaker
> ; as if I start the wmaker preference ; click the menu
> options, it says the current syntax is not supported
> and ask if I overwrite and use new one, Or keep the
> current one, Wh
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 07:36:41PM +0200, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
> > calypso:/home/stephen# ls -al /dev/mixer0
> > crw-rw1 root audio 14, 0 Oct 24 11:44 /dev/mixer0
> > calypso:/home/stephen#
> >
> > to my untrained eye, this appears normal. anyone have any ideas as to
> > wha
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:02:02AM -0600, John Purser wrote:
> I can ping 127.0.0.1 but not telnet to it. I'm guessing telnet connectivity
> is turned off by default.
You guess correctly.
Standard warning: Telnet sends all data - including your password -
across the network in plain text, makin
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:06:29AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote:
> Dave Sherohman writes:
> > faster than a quicksort.) If you are required to use a small data
> > set, just perform more repetitions to get measurable data.
>
> This also allows you to obtain statistics like st
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:53:03AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 25-Oct-2001 Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > I've got a laptop with potato installed on it which has been
> > exhibiting a strange behaviour for a while now: After resuming from
> > a s
I've got a laptop with potato installed on it which has been
exhibiting a strange behaviour for a while now: After resuming from
a suspend-to-disk, it will frequently (I'd say somewhere around
2/3rds of the time) wake up with /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp*, and
/dev/mixer* all chmoded to 000. Ownership i
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote:
> Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a
> nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to
> output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers
>
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each
> machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may
> not be a requirement in your situation, however.
Not sure whether this is the best w
I've decided to enforce idle timeouts on one of my servers and, to
implement this, I've installed timeoutd on it. Unfortunately, it
seems that timeoutd doesn't like usernames in excess of 8 characters.
Is there an available patch to work around this problem? Or maybe an
alternate program to prov
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Piet Knoester wrote:
> > On my potato box with kernel 2.2.19 most things work fine but not the
> > cdplayer. When I try to use a program to play an audio cd it gives an
> > error. When I do this as root my
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:44:50PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> [Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:36:38AM -0500] Dave Sherohman :
> > ntpdate sets the time to be correct now.
>
> ntpdate sets the system time after syncing with the time server. Now
> you have to update the hardw
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:17:20PM +0200, Timo Blazko Boewing wrote:
> a new version is just a number change or complete code rewrite? As far
> as I know, if you release something under the terms of the GPL, just
> that piece is "forever".
Yes and no. The GPLed release is out there for good and i
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Mike Missett wrote:
> Remove that defaultroute and ppp shoul work."
>
> I think this is what I need to do, my question is, how do I do it?
route del default
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reveri
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:27:08AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> In /etc/ntp.conf. Still ntptrace says it's not synched. What's different
> about debians ntp setup?
>
> How can I make this work?
Have you tried running ntpdate before ntpd? ntpd just slews the
clock so that it eventually synchs. ntp
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:30:36PM +, joe golden wrote:
> We have used it a little bit here at our school. My students were quite
> surprised to see words like whore, suck, prophylactic and hooker for words
> for them to type.
Uh - when did "suck" become a 'bad' word? (Not that I think the
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:58:35AM -0500, Alexander Wallace wrote:
> Hello there, is there an alternative to regular ftp server? does it
> require special client? Any sugestions???
Provided that you have ssh installed on both sides, check out hsftp.
It's not _really_ ftp, but it gives you an ftp-l
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:58:24PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Oh well, learn something every day, as they say... ;-)
>
> I recently set up NFS on a box and read the relevant parts of
> 'man mount' and 'man fstab' but didn't recall that.
root_squash doesn't have anything to do with mount or fs
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > /dumpdisk2phse7(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
>
> I don't know what the option 'no_root_squash' means, but I
> might assume it's either ignored or not valid.
No, it's valid. root_squash causes root (on the client) to not h
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Rogier van Gemert wrote:
> Just add something like:
>
>
> DocumentRoot /location of the webpage
> Servername subdomain.mydomain.com
>
>
> and all worked well... NOT with Debian.
Before the first VirtualHost block, you need to add:
NameVirtualHost my.i
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 02:50:39PM +0200, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Starting portmapper... Mounting remote filesystems...
> mount: RPC: Program not registered
>
> I would much appreciate any hint or pointer.
Have you started the portmapper (/etc/init.d/portmap start) and
statd/lockd (/etc/
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:38:03AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to use a potato machien as an NFS server. I have installed:
>
> nfs-common
> nfs-server
>
> And I have no /etc/exports file, nor nfsd, at least "which nfsd" doesn't
> find it.
>
> Do I need some other package?
No. /etc/ex
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 11:43:02AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
> 2001-10-12 15:24:06 15s9mo-0001Yp-00 Neither the system_aliases
> director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery
> of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd workbench
Sounds like you might not have read the stand
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:55:46PM -0400, dman wrote:
> | Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I
> | connect to it from another machine on the network??
>
> I guess it listens to port 25 (SMTP) by default. This can surely be
> disabled, or firewall rules can be
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 01:40:31PM -0700, MRZ wrote:
> Do these types of solutions work bothways a-la pcAnyWhere? I'm thinking of
> looking into
> that VNC option but want to be able to control the Win box from Linux and
> not necessarily the other way around.
VNC will let you control the window
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 08:30:34PM +0200, Morbo wrote:
> Unfortunatly I have only space for one screen and keyboard. I could use some
> switch, but they usually degrade image quality at high resolution (or cost a
> fortune), so I found it's much more convenient to telnet/ssh into the linux
> machin
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 10:06:56AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> However, to answer your question more directly, it can really go anywhere you
> want. There's no right/wrong answer on where to put those kinds of files.
> (There are some conventions, but nothing set in stone) /home or /usr would b
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 07:45:08AM +, john smith wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem. I want all my outgoing emails to pretend to
> come from @hotmail.com (bec. I can't leave it blank since my system's
> hostname won't work; dialup machine) so I set my qualify_domain in exim to
> @hotmail
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:44:53AM -0400, Timothy Ball wrote:
> I would like to tone down repeative disk usage and would like to share
> /usr/share via nfs... can anyone think of reasons this would be a bad
> idea?
This would be a good idea (why do you think it's called _share_?),
but it won't wor
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:02:46PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote:
> ls -las /home
> total 100
>4 drwxr-sr-x6 root root 4096 Oct 10 19:03 .
> 60 drw-rw 24 root root57344 Oct 10 18:46 ..
Oops... Looks like I missed a big one last time... If I read the
above line corr
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> As I recall from a past discussion/arguement/debate over this,
> it had something to do with mutt actually doing something
> wrong... Or was it a misconfiguration on some user's part in
> their mutt config ??
None of the above, IIRC
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 06:58:06PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote:
> ls -ld /home
> drwxrwxrwx 11 root users4096 Oct 8 23:55 /home
That shouldn't be a problem, but /home is normally owned by
root.staff with permissions 2775 (rwxrwsr-x). With your current
permissions, anyone could create ne
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:07:32PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > Is there any way to exit completely from X? When I
> > choose logout or pres Ctrl+Alt+Backspace I return to
> > the login prompt but don't exit X.
Actually, yes, X does exit. Then xdm immediately restarts it.
> As part of your i
When using wdm, is there any way to set up a per-user default window
manager? update-alternatives only allows for a per-system default,
AFAICT.
I'm setting up a network with the old NFS-shared /home scheme, which
lets most of your settings follow you around to different machines, but
there's just
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:02:57PM +0200, Paul Fischer wrote:
> I'have xdm and severar Window Managers installed,
> how can I make Wmaker the "default" Window Manager
> at startup, now it is icewm,
update-alternatives, as has already been mentioned.
> I want to keep my other Window Managers as
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:43:59PM +0200, pirmin2 wrote:
> cedar:~# ls -ld /home
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home -> /mnt/home
>
> cedar:~# ls -las /home
> 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root users 9 May 4 02:54 /home -> /mnt/home
First off, to save karsten the tr
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Justin Vu wrote:
> I down load the package f2c_19991025-1.diff to convert a Fortran77 file to C
> but I don't know
>
> how to use it. Please give me a direction. Thanks.
Judging from the filename, I'd say you've downloaded a patch, not a
package. Under
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:33:04AM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote:
> True, that would be the correct netmask if he was in the old 170.85.0.0
> class B, but doesn't the network address take precedence in determining
> the netmask (as far as the configuration scripts go, not as far as IP
> addressing goes)?
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 10:44:45AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> Heres what I have IP 170.85.109.24 netmask 255.255.255.128 I put in
> 170.85.109.0 for a netwokr number, but this must be wrong based upon what
> the broadcast adress of the interface becomes. It should be 170.85.109.127,
> but instead i
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:54:55PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> I want to avoid having steps in my logs at boot time.
Don't know that you can do that... Logging starts before the network
does, so you're not going to be able to get time from the network
without the activity being logged.
> The
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:17:20PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a new machine this weekend, and i'm in trouble.
I know you needed a solution by Monday, so this is a bit late, but I
haven't seen anyone else post an explanation of what the error
actually means, so...
> Now, I hav
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 03:07:36PM -0600, Michael Fontenot wrote:
> I tried to install CUPS from my debian 2.2r3 cd's, but apt-get says
> it's not there. Is there a version somewhere that is compatible with
> debian 2.2r3?
You just need the right package name(s):
$ apt-cache search cups
apcupsd
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:04:10PM -0400, dman wrote:
> Neat, thanks. (I want to switch from procmail to exim, but haven't
> tested by rules yet). Say, how do you use maildir folders with exim
> filters?
IIRC, if you save to $HOME/Mail/foo, it goes into mbox format and if
you save to $HOME/Mail/
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Using exim. In .forward
>
> if $h_MBOX-Line: contains "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> then
> save /dev/null
> finish
> endif
You don't have to actually (pretend to) save the message anywhere.
Just
if ... then
seen finish
endif
--
W
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:47:19PM -0500, Rory O'Connor wrote:
> Somehow i managed to blow away my windowmaker menus for myself. but if i
> start X as root i see that the structure is there for root. Does anyone
> know what file the wm menus are stored in for root...and where i'd put them
> to re
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:46:03PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do
> hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x.
>
> The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the
> 3d screensavers that can be built with
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:10:36PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I
> tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it
> looking at the places in sources.list?
You don't. apt-get primarily handles the
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 08:10:38PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> The default web root will be /var/www/default. There must be no files in
> /var/www; as a temporary measure, a daily cronjob may be implemented to
> move all files from /var/www to /var/www/default.
If you really feel that this is nec
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a
> server into /var/www.
Because it can change during normal system operation (rules out /usr
and anything that typically resides on the root device), doesn't
belo
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:23:22PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote:
> I recently accidently sent an attachment from a Windows user to another
> Windows user.
>
> I use Mutt as a client and an Exim as my mail server.
>
> Could I have accidently passed on a virus?
Yes. Forwarding an infected attachme
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:04:06PM +0100, P Kirk wrote:
> Computers are tools, not philosophical statements.
Perhaps, but that still doesn't excuse the "Unix guru wanted. Must
dream in sed and/or awk. Will never be allowed to pass within 100
meters of hardware with Microsoft products installed.
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:27:45PM +0100, Andreas Obermaier wrote:
> Perhaps I should do some research to find out if xml/xsl can do rtf?
> After looking into an RTF file, it looks like one could even write rtf
> in an text editor? i.e. I should by able to write my own xsl stylesheet
> for rtf out
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Theodore Knab wrote:
> What is being done to protect against this ?
apt-get and security.debian.org. When a new exploit is announced,
security.debian.org almost always has an updated deb available within
a day and this update is announced on the debian-an
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:59:21PM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Sounds good! Can anyone tell me if apt-get dist-upgrade minds being
> interrupted? My ISP cuts me of after two hours and I need to redial -
> will that foul up the process?
Nope. apt doesn't care. It's smart enough to not downlo
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:44:33PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Some lines beginning with 'From' are rewritten as '>From'. Needless to
> say, this utterly borks things like GPG signatures.
>
> I have no idea where this is happening (I run exim, fetchmail and mutt),
> or even if it's characteri
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:59:28AM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote:
> I have a small mutt question. I have my mailing lists I am subscribe to all
> listed as subscribed in my muttrc and everything. It all seems to work fine
> with the follow-up-to etc. The problem is that when I open the say
> 'debia
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> >From the ntpd(1) man page:
>-x Ordinarily, if the time is to be adjusted more than 128
> ms,
> it is stepped, not gradually slewed. This option forces
Also from the ntpd(1) man page:
-g Normall
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:44:34AM -0400, Andrew Dixon wrote:
> I'm trying to run ntpd here to both set the clock and then keep it
> synchronized with our ntp server. My problem is that ntpd seems to be
> trying to slew the clock instead of setting it.
Well, yes. That's what ntpd does.
First ru
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I
> experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the
> server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power.
Well, yes... scp is an encrypted p
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 08:00:15AM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 04:44:49PM +0200, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote:
> > I'm experimenting a little with Mutt, and noticed the following problem:
> > while browsing through a mailing list, I tend to mark messages as "to be
> > delet
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:44:05AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried to use scp, but I guess it was caching the info somewhere because I
> was getting the same transfer speeds as from HDs.
That's a good possibility. Your test could easily be corrupted on
either side - the send-from-disk
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:48:12PM -0400, Giulio Morgan wrote:
> I am trying to modify and "reload" my exim.conf file. The beginning of the
> sample conf file says "...you change Exim's configuration file, you *must*
> remember to HUP the Exim daemon". I am unable to determine how to HUP a daemon
>
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:04:44AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Is there an easy way to force apt to download a deb again?
Yup.
> I seem to have got a corrupted one:
>
> (Reading database ... 131943 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 (using
>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:48:55PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
> Could not open lockfile /var/cache/apt/lock, open (13 permission
> denied)
> Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt, another process is using
> it
>
> Is this fixable? What should I do if I lose the connection next time
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:05:20AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> If /etc/fstab is not world-readable, will users still be able to mount
> things? Without having to supply all the details of what to mount where,
> using what filesystem?
Users can't mount things by supplying all details of from wher
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:58:24PM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> Is there any way to remove all the packages at a stretch using apt or dpkg
> ?
>
> When we do apt-get remove the configuration files are retained. Now say I
> want to remove all these packges permenantly along with the configuration
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:11:08PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Eric Boo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm using sid's nis package. I noticed that when changing a password
> >using yppasswd, it seems to truncate the password, even if one keys in a
> >pas
On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:57:02PM +0100, Yago Alvarado wrote:
> > I chose not to upgrade XFree. One problem at a time.
>
> Can you do that?
> I mean... can you unselect the packages you don't want to install? :-?
No. The reason you can choose to leave X behind is that the
packaging has changed.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:51:26PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote:
> Do you know how to to build the Release files? I cannot do a fresh
> install from my partial mirror because debootstrap barfs on
> dist/sid/main/Release.
Weird... I don't use a Release file at all and apt just skips it:
Get:1 ht
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:22:30AM -0700, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote:
> with the systems we have here at work, telinit'ing to 1 then 5
> hangs the system at the nfs-kernel-server rc script (nfsd),
> presumably because the portmapper is stopped, and not restarted
That should work. It doesn't, th
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:17:19AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> My question is this: effectively, each time they upgrade, I'm downloading
> three copies of each package separately. Is there a relatively easy way to
> archive the files locally and have the two boxen behind the ipmasq'ed
> computer
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:29:29PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:
> i have debian2.2r0 and using exim. how can i change the default mta
> to postfix? i will be installing postfix from sources and doing "dpkg
> -r exim" won't allow me to remove exim.
If you're OK with building postfix from the Debianiz
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:18:47PM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> On Thursday 13 September 2001 03:57 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> > I've got two machines here, one running stable (apache-perl 1.3.9)
> > and the other on testing with an unstable apache (apache 1.3.20 with
> &g
I've got two machines here, one running stable (apache-perl 1.3.9)
and the other on testing with an unstable apache (apache 1.3.20 with
libapache-mod-perl 1.25 - these were on the testing versions and I
upgraded them to try to fix my CGI problem). I also have a minimal
CGI script:
---
#!/usr/bin/
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:31:22PM -0400, Steve Gran wrote:
> Well, the subject really says it all, doesn't it? I've RTFM, and all I can
> find is how to set the display line wrap, but not the send line wrap. I
> suppose it should be done through the editor?
You are correct. Mutt just takes wha
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:06:01PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:38:58AM +1000, Andrew Nesbit wrote:
> | Hello. I am still preparing to install Debian, but I am not sure of what the
> | default MTA is. I get the impression that it is exim,
> Hmm, ... default ... I guess whatever
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:40:51AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> This morning, I found my harddrive swapping like crazy on this find
> command.
>
> find / /boot /tmp -xdev ( -type f -perm +06000 -o -type b -o -type c ) -printf
> %8i %5m %3n %-10u %-10g %9s %t %h/%f?n
>
> My root cro
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:38:07PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> So you're saying that things that go into the security updates site
> don't also appear in unstable? And this isn't just because the security
> fixes are against stable packages that are already superseded in
> unstable?
As I underst
On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:09:04AM -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> potato most stable
> sid (unstable) next most stable
> woody (testing) "least" stable
You've got unstable and testing backwards (at least in theory). New
stuff goes into unstable and then gets moved into testing once it
appears t
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