Dear all,Has anyone encountered something like this? When I type a text which contains some kind of pattern to another Yahoo! IM user on GAIM, the other party does not receive it. The pattern is some two or more letters followed by a dot and followed by two letters. For example, "
aa.hd", "I'm send
I found out about par2 a few days ago and I think it's absolutely
great. And I think I've grasped the basic concept. But does anyone
know how to use par2 to accomplish the following:
Suppose I have 5000MB of data. That's a bit over 7 CDs (or 1 DVD). Can
I backup this data to, like, 10 CDs or alter
I intend to suggest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about adding a tar-like
-T / --files-from option to du. But does anyone agree that such option
is needed/desirable? Suppose I have 9000 files and I want to know the
total disk usage of 4500 of them. The file names don't have any common
patterns (so we can't
Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:42 am, David Garamond wrote:
>
>>Dear all,
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>>I'm having a repeatable system freezes with Firefox 1.0.4 on my new
>>system (Athlon64 3000+, Abit AV8, Sarge/Sid mix). By freeze I mean
>>screen,
Dear all,
I'm having a repeatable system freezes with Firefox 1.0.4 on my new
system (Athlon64 3000+, Abit AV8, Sarge/Sid mix). By freeze I mean
screen, keyboard, and mouse pointer suddenly stop responding (and no
lights at all on the keyboard LEDs, even when Caps Lock etc are
pressed). If some au
I was trying out VMWare Workstation today on my Debian Sarge desktop to
run Windows XP, because I just got a printer (HP Laserjet 1000) which I
couldn't get to work with CUPS. And qemu doesn't support USB yet.
Whenever the printer is turned on and USB cable plugged in, the
'printer' kernel module
Can I prevent/protect a package from being accidentally removed? By
'accident' I mean answering Yes in apt-get remove prompt or just
clicking Apply in synaptic without realizing that an important package
is being removed. For example, I want to prevent mysql-server (which
depends on mailx) from bei
Mark Roach wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:35 +0700, David Garamond wrote:
I'm using Sarge with GNOME 2.6 (haven't updated to 2.8). There's a
'shrinking box' animation when you minimize a window. How do I disable
it? It gets pretty annoying after a while.
You'
Alexander Schmehl wrote:
* David Garamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050107 09:44]:
/var/cache/locate/locatedb is world readable. Is this the correct
default? Can it be made so only certain users have file-level access to
it? (In Redhat there's 'slocate' group and the locate comma
I'm using Sarge with GNOME 2.6 (haven't updated to 2.8). There's a
'shrinking box' animation when you minimize a window. How do I disable
it? It gets pretty annoying after a while.
Regards,
dave
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Carl Fink wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:33:45PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
Sorry, a followup question. I deleted /etc/cron.daily/find several days
ago. How do I get it back? Reinstalling the findutils package (using
synaptic) doesn't bring it back.
Do I have to purge and install?
Hav
Jon Dowland wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:30:01PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
I think you think I said 'world writable'? I don't want normal users to
be able to _read_ that file (unless through the locate command, which
will not allow other users' files from being prin
David Garamond wrote:
/var/cache/locate/locatedb is world readable. Is this the correct
default? Can it be made so only certain users have file-level access to
it? (In Redhat there's 'slocate' group and the locate command is setgid
to that group.)
Sorry, a followup question.
-r--r-- 1 root root 1489507 Jan 7 06:29 locatedb
lusig1:~#
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:44:46 +0700, David Garamond
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
/var/cache/locate/locatedb is world readable. Is this the correct
default? Can it be made so only certain users have file-level access to
it? (In Redhat t
/var/cache/locate/locatedb is world readable. Is this the correct
default? Can it be made so only certain users have file-level access to
it? (In Redhat there's 'slocate' group and the locate command is setgid
to that group.)
Regards,
dave
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Travis Crump wrote:
Ctrl-Alt-+ :),
That's font scaling, not optical zooming :)
No, font scaling is Ctrl-+, Ctrl-Alt-+[and for me only the + on the
keypad works not the += key] zooms the entire desktop while keeping the
same virtual desktop size[as opposed to xrandr which adjusts the virtual
desk
David P James wrote:
- when middle-clicking on a non-link area it pops an error "Invalid
URL" (I misclick often, so that's very annoying)
Good grief, that's one of the best features of *nix-based browsers that
doesn't really exist elsewere - highlight a url-like block of text, say
www.debian.org
Travis Crump wrote:
- No optical zooming (is it possible with gecko?)
Ctrl-Alt-+ :),
That's font scaling, not optical zooming :)
Thanks for the tip on middle-click thingy.
Regards,
dave
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I found these gecko-based browsers in the repository.
mozilla-browser
mozilla-firefox
kazehakase
galeon
epiphany
Any others that I missed?
I wonder if there's a browser with different/alternative UI. All of the
above are basically "more of the same". The UIs are similar to the
traditional Mo
Sam Watkins wrote:
In what package is the 'mail' system account defined and how do I find
this out? I've seen 'mail' even in the most minimalist installations
(without exim or mailx), but I'm not sure that if I put stuffs in
/var/mail it won't get deleted when some package removal include the
r
Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process
information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process and
what are their ports/hosts/etc. I used to write a little script that
parses /proc/net/{tcp,udp,unix} but needs more info/convenience, e.g
Dear all,
Anyone knows of a program (command-line or GUI) to display process
information, e.g. which TCP/UDP/Unix sockets are used by the process and
what are their ports/hosts/etc. I used to write a little script that
parses /proc/net/{tcp,udp,unix} but needs more info/convenience, e.g.
displa
Dear all,
In what package is the 'mail' system account defined and how do I find
this out? I've seen 'mail' even in the most minimalist installations
(without exim or mailx), but I'm not sure that if I put stuffs in
/var/mail it won't get deleted when some package removal include the
removal of
John Hasler wrote:
Everytime I connect to the Internet, the 'nameserver' entries which are
originally in /etc/resolv.conf are replaced with the ones from the dialup
connection (they are restored after I hang up).
How to prevent this? I want to preserve 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' since I
serve some int
Everytime I connect to the Internet, the 'nameserver' entries which are
originally in /etc/resolv.conf are replaced with the ones from the
dialup connection (they are restored after I hang up).
How to prevent this? I want to preserve 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' since I
serve some intranet zones on m
Ollie Acheson wrote:
I guess my first question is why do you want to stop using qmail? It's
highly secure and robust, plus you have already climbed its learning curve.
The reasons are partly convenience and partly a political decision. We
try to use only packages from the official main Debian arch
Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:48:53PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
Why does the mysql-server package depend on mailx? I don't see something
like this on Redhat's package, for example.
Because of the checks for corrupt database tables that the initscript for
it make
Cristi Banciu wrote:
We are planning to migrate a bunch of hosting servers from RH73 +
qmail + vmailmgr to Sarge and I'd appreciate on the comments of the
choice of MTA to use.
Oh, I should add that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to other MTAs.
I've used qmail ever since I've used Linux (aro
David Garamond wrote:
We are planning to migrate a bunch of hosting servers from RH73 + qmail
+ vmailmgr to Sarge and I'd appreciate on the comments of the choice of
MTA to use.
Oh, I should add that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to other MTAs.
I've used qmail ever since
We are planning to migrate a bunch of hosting servers from RH73 + qmail
+ vmailmgr to Sarge and I'd appreciate on the comments of the choice of
MTA to use.
Requirements:
- Maildir support;
- Software binary packages are in the main Debian archive (so we are
guaranteed prompt security updates wh
Why does the mysql-server package depend on mailx? I don't see something
like this on Redhat's package, for example.
Regards,
dave
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Hi,
I'm new to Debian, planning to install Sarge probably after Sarge
becomes stable. (But I do have access to a Woody box, so I have started
familiarizing myself with Debian.)
Speaking of Sarge becoming stable and starts getting security updates,
what will happen to Woody? Will Woody still get
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