I am making some use of posix messages queues, and in order to
interactively view/manipulate these queues on my Debian squeeze system it
is necessary,
as described in mq_overview(7), in to manually:
mkdir /dev/mqueue
mount -t mqueue none /dev/mqueue
after each boot
I am looking for the best
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:42:57AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Rico Secada wrote:
Hi.
Why is Debian not setup to be secure be default?
Not everyone is a security expert so imho the system should be fully
secured out-of-the-box.
Please elaborate on what you consider to be the
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:06:05AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
On Sat May 17 2008 09:34:21 Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-05-17 17:35 +0200, Digby Tarvin wrote:
One thing that I find rather hard to justify is that even on an Etch
system installed from scratch just a few weeks ago,
/etc/pam.d
I have just performed an 'apt-get install bitchx' on a debian x86 Etch
system, but there seems to be a problem with with the package configuration.
The install finishes with a warning:
Warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist..
This is understandable, as it seems that the installation
n Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:00:39AM -0500, Jordi Guti0xe9rrez Hermoso wrote:
So when I installed Debian, I told d-i to wipe the hard disk and
encrypt my lappy's hard drive. My tinfoil-hatted heart loves it.
They'll never take me or my data alive.
I am curious, though, as to the exact nature of
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:30:27AM -0700, Oliver wrote:
I just installed Debian with a netinstall CD.
uname -r tells me that I am using the kernel 2.6.18-6-686.
Now I am installing a driver (Diva for Linux) and this driver needs
the kernel sources to compile a .deb package.
(Instructions on
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:06:02AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:06:55PM +, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.org was heard to say:
.
.
Perfermance is definately way down the list, as I'm not really planning
in implementing support for fancy acceleration features
n Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:53:58AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
.
.
Can anyone explain what happens hardware wise when a second adapter is
present? For example, adding a PCI adapter to a system that already
has an AGP card.
Just put the second one in xorg. conf:
.
.
I
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:29:29PM +0800, Antony wrote:
I have a Debian system on really small Flash memory like an embed system. A
hard drive is mounted onto the system. I want to add more processes to the
system like mail server. But the problem is /usr, /var, /etc are running out
of space
I am thinkng of adding a second display adapter to experiment with. I'm not
really interested in dual head X (I'd use single dual head
adapter for that). I am more interested in having some display hardware
that I can experiment with without effecting my console/X display.
Can anyone explain
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:16:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
My new /etc/resolv.conf is coming up as:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
This is correct if you have bind9 installed. Since this is
automatically detected then I assume that you do have bind9 installed
in order to see
Another little niggle from my recent install which doesn't seem to be
as straight forward as it should be... I hope someone can point me
at what I am doing wrong...
Immediately following my Etch 40r3 netinstall my /etc/network/interfaces
had a pretty standard looking
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:00:12PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:16:13PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Any suggestions? I do like the idea of having any static nameserver
information in the /etc/network/interfaces file with the rest of
the network config, so
Combining the responses to the previous to posters...
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:37:30PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 05:08:08PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Not quite. I only want the static information in the interfaces file.
I still want the nameserver address
information here:
http://debiansystem.info
.
.
Excellent! Very glad to know about that we site. Thanks! (and to Martin
for setting it up)
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:05:33AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:52:41AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Can anyone shed any light
My personal system is connected to the Internet via an ADSL router which
doesn't give me any information about what doesn't get through.
However I recently helped a friend setup a Debian box to act as firewall/router
between his cable modem and local LAN, which has given me access to a lot
more
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:23:59PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
On 15-Apr-08, at 11:42 AM, Digby Tarvin wrote:
The problem I am having is that the messages from the firewall really
flood /var/log/messages to the point where I am concerned they may
cause
me to miss other important things
Just been chaseing up some post install loose ends, one of which was
getting the 'automatic power off on halt' to work...
The steps required turned out to be:
a. apt-get install apm
b. echo apm /etc/modules
c. echo 'options apm power_off=1' /etc/modprobe.d/apm
which seems to have done the trick
n Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:04:31PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 03:12:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't *need* things read-only. I would just rather not *need* to
have my root filesystem read write.
I gave some reasons above for why I would like to be
Can anyone shed any light on the differences between the
various kernel source packages in the repository, and which is
the best choice for just being able to reproduce the running kernel?
The example in my Martin Kraft book refers to:
apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.8
but I can't find
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
snip
The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard
utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root
filesystem to be modified any time they want..
No. The user isn't modifying
I have installed Etch using a recent netinstall on a Dell Precision 410,
and had a lot of trouble initially with mysterious frequent
'segmentation fault' errors and total system freezes which required a
reset.
After some trial and error and some advice from the net I discovered that
if I
I am having a problem getting audio functionality to stick in a
newly installed Etch system on a Dell precision 410 MT.
There was no sound device immediately after install, so I ran
alsaconf, selected:
legacy Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips
told it to probe cs4236 Cirrus Logic
That did it - Thanks!!
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 14:28:27 +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I am having a problem getting audio functionality to stick in a
newly installed Etch system on a Dell precision 410 MT.
There was no sound
Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system
after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't
seem to have helped.
I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old
version of Ubuntu I tried before Debian (5.04).
The machine is a Dell
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:44:38PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system
after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't
seem to have helped.
I know
Hi Doug,
Many thanks again for your help and suggestions..
I've moved your comments around to intersperse them for easier reading.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:40:27PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05
Some progress...
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 03:55:24PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
It seems that the kernel used during the initial install was stable,
but the kernel it installed on the hard disk is not.
Model: Dell Precision Workstation 410 MT
BIOS revision A08
OT:
I've never had a SMP box. Do you find for normal desktop use that top
shows the second processor actually doing anything? (I know you can't
answer this for Etch until this problem is solved, but what about
previous versions or other OSs (e.g. BSD).
Doug.
I have BSDI running on a
I hope there are some experts out there that can offer some suggestions
regarding a problem I am having installing Debian Etch (40r1-386-netinst
downloaded on 23/10/07) on a Dell Precision 410 MT...
Everything goes fine through the initial install, up to the point
where I have to reboot using the
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 07:40:27PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:30:49PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I hope there are some experts out there that can offer some suggestions
regarding a problem I am having installing Debian Etch (40r1-386-netinst
downloaded on 23
Just when I thought I just about had a Debian system that
was complete enough to develop on without needing access
to my older distros
Does anyone know how to fix:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/audio$ man gcc
No manual entry for gcc
I have tried installing the gcc-4.1-doc package,
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:18:07PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Just when I thought I just about had a Debian system that
was complete enough to develop on without needing access
to my older distros
Does anyone know how to fix:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/audio$ man gcc
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 03:03:59PM +, Mark Crean wrote:
If wonder if anyone's got experience or advice to share about a good way
of using file encryption on Debian Etch? There seem to be a lot of
different methods, but which one might suit the following:
I only want to encrypt a single
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:20:56PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
I just wanted to thank everyone who has contributed to this thread. I was
about to start evaluating alternatives for virtual setups for two of my
boxes, and you've collectively made my job much easier.
--
Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:37:20PM +0100, Robert Tom??ek wrote:
Hi.
Is there somebody, who have ReflectionX connected to Debian. I was
install Debian for placing developed web pages only, and without
monitor. I can connect by Reflection for Unix and Digital via telnet,
but if i try X (on
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:59:59PM +0100, Robert Tomek wrote:
I tried it once more and here is error log:
debian:/home/rtomasek# cat .xsession-errors
Xsession: X session started for rtomasek at ??t led 18 13:50:31 CET 2007
startkde: Starting up...
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:00:53PM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
I use vga=0x303 and that looks exactly like Knoppix's fonts on my
terminals. However, I think this also depends on the kernel
configuration options related to the console fonts. Here is what I have:
$
I have a 2.5 Toshiba MK1032GAX hard drive in a USB powered
enclosure which doesn't seem to work properly with Debian.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen anything similar, or
has any ideas about what might be happening...
The curious thing is that I am fairly sure that the drive is
ok, because
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:09:08PM -0400, David Garcia wrote:
To my it happens to me the same. I have a card pci USB 4 ports with chipset
VIA model VT6212L, and after of several days investigating I could not
determine if is bug of kernel or is problem with the model of chipset. In
the end I
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +, Mihira Fernando wrote:
On 1/15/07, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 2.5 Toshiba MK1032GAX hard drive in a USB powered
enclosure which doesn't seem to work properly with Debian.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen anything similar
Has anyone found any good references on multimedia programming
applicable to a Debian/Linux system?
I have the O'Reilly Linux Multimedia Guide, but having been
published in 1996 is getting a bit dated now, and for audio
only covers OSS and not ALSA. I have found using the online
documentation a
It looks like the X.org display driver for the AMD Geode LX I am
installing on hasn't made it into a deb package yet - though I
have found it in the list of requested packages here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400748
and what looks like the sources here:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:44:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:40:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:08:42PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hi list,
I've got to put in an additional system at work with a high-level
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:38:35AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I have been using the A4F machines which are also mini-ITX based
computers:
http://www.mappit.de/a4fsite_englisch/
Plus points were that they were available in a solid state configuration
(no flash, fans or other
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:18:45PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 08:55:33PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Of course what I meant to say there was 'no HDD, fans or other moving
parts'...
The iBox that I have is the same way, except that I opted for two small
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:59:40PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Digby Tarvin wrote:
So what puzzles me is why it is no longer in 'non-free', and if
it was removed because of some objection to the licensing terms,
surely there should be something documenting this?
It may have been removed
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:56:07AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Is there any way to check the origin of an deb archive in my
/var/cache/apt/archives?
You could try
dpkg-deb --info /var/cache/apt/archives/name-of-the.deb
As far as I know there is no standard field to denote the origin
Further to the loss of 'xv', 'xearth' and 'xlock' after my recent
'apt-get dist-upgrade' of my etch system
I tried adding
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
restricted
To my '/etc/apt/sources.list', and this does give me an 'xv' package to
try to install.
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 07:31:04PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 17:37 +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Here is what it says:
[...]
Maintainer: Fabian Greffrath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That says it all, doesn't it?
Afraid the name doesn't mean anything to me.
I have tried
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:55:38AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Its not so much the removal of a package that disturbs me - it is
the apparent lack of warning or explanation.
well, since it was removed from the official repositories in 2001:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:05:27PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 05:31:59PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
It makes me rather reluctant to upgrade if some package that I have
come to rely on might unexpectedly disappear - perhaps unnoticed
until it is urgently needed
../xearth_1.1-10.1.diff
chmod ugo+x debian/rules
3. edit debian/changelog and add an entry such as
xearth (1.1-10.3) unstable; urgency=low
* increment version number (10.1 - 10.3) to reflect recompile and avoid
* conflict declaration in x11-common package
-- Digby Tarvin
I did this only yesterday - but in my case I wanted a mirror
image of the entire system, not just the root partition.
The simplest most bullet proof procedure I could come up with was:
1. dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda
2. vi /etc/fstab in the copy and 1,$s/hda/sda/
3. either
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:41:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:50:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:23:27AM +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:28:55PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
And xv
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:37:01PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
So what puzzles me is why it is no longer in 'non-free', and if
it was removed because of some objection to the licensing terms,
surely there should be something documenting this??
Are you quite sure it was in the official
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Misko wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:21:35PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
What's the difference between a display manager and a window
manager?
Maybe Rick wanted to ask (if not him than I am :)
What is the difference between a desktop
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:47:20AM -0500, celejar wrote:
On 12/28/06, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
The page which I found indicating the removal of xearth from testing is
http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xearth.html
but it doesn't give any explanation of why, and I
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:06:38AM -0400, E0x wrote:
i asking it because i was thinking in use lvm in desktop setup , and i can
live with a harddisk lose and the data on it , but not with all data lost
pd: i have some small HD
On 12/29/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:33:14AM +, Roger Morgan wrote:
The problem is that I ssh to a server, and then try to run a program that
requires an X display. I want it to use the X server on my workstation. It
doesn't. It just does nothing.
Details: Three machines on my LAN are relevant.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 23:14:23 +, Digby Tarvin wrote:
[...]
I'm still stuck with the big red warning box complaining about the
missing public key for multimedia.org after an update, and I'm still
not clear
One other thing that I am unsure about is that aptitude reports a number
of packages being 'held back'. I havn't intentionally asked for this,
could it have occured automatically or have I unintentionally done
something when initially learning to use aptitude?
Hugo is right, just
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:04:52PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
Reading package lists... Done
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
A70DAF536070D3A1
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following
signa
tures couldn't be verified
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:42:13PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html
Actually I had read through that FAQ - that was where I got
the (non-working) instructions on obtaining the PGP key for
validating the multimedia signatures..
What was it you were trying to
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:36:10AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Maintaining a system properly is, of course, subjective. If you use a
volatile system and don't regularly upgrade, then you will have to face
a massive upgrade and be prepared for the consequences. I bet those
consequences
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:02:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
as you know, running apt-get and aptitude can cause a database to get
out of sync...
Actually I have only recently become aware of this. I had previously
just thought of aptitude as a menu based front end for apt, so I
'plain old X11' included 'xdm' as the display manager, and 'twm'
as the window manager.
The 'display manager' is responsible for giving 'users' access
to 'displays' - although in this context you could probably
replace 'display' with 'X-terminal' as it really includes
screen/mouse and keyboard as
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:45:56PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Is that last line what is needed to get aptitude back into
sync? If not, how is that achieved?
no, it won't. there are a variety of ways to do this. I prefer the
method below where you watch for problems and fix them as
One of the things that bothered me about what aptitude wanted to do
was that it included several packages it threatened to remove because
they were 'no longer used'. I don't know how it decided this, as the
list included packages like 'xv' and 'xearth' which I explicitly
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:28:55PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
It seems I am not out of the woods yet. I just tried executing
apt-get install libx11-dev
which is the package I needed to install in the first place when I
got distracted onto upgrading my system..
was this
I'm now trying to work out why
apt-get install libx11-dev
results in apt wanting to delete a large number of X related
packages...
I noted that 'gnome' was one of the packages to be removed
rather then upgraded to the latest version, so I tried
to force an upgrade to see if there was
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:50:34PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
was this before or after a successful upgrade?
After a successful upgrade, but I haven't yet attempted
a 'dist-upgrade'..
you might do that and see what it says.
I was trying to find a way to ease into the
I am trying to get up the courage to update my debian etch system
after a few months of neglecting to do so, but am dreading the thought of
some mishap leaving the system unusable.
The system was installed back in April, and is on a Fujitsu P7120, and
aptitude produces quite a long list of things
I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for
(or sites I should consult for this information)...
I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed
or heavy duty construction.
It is mainly for CD/DVD labels, and the occasional print of a
digital photograph.
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:32:50PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote:
deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ testing main
contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable main
contrib non-free
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I installed
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
In my house, I have two linux machines, both running debian.
One, a server, acts as the firewall /gateway between my internal network and
the external internet and runs sshd. I have a logon account on this machine.
The other
Another fairly easy approach I forgot to mention would be VNC, but in that
would involve opening the appropriate port on your router, and replacing
cygwin/X with a vncviewer on the laptop.
Regards,
DigbyT
--
Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:07:06AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Every USB to serial adapter I've seen so far is using these Prolific
drivers.
Seems it's same thing as for the USB to Bluetooth, a great majority is
using the very same hardware.
How many have you tried? I have tested
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I have just tried connecting a USB serial adapter to my Debian Etch
system, and happily it seems to have been recognised and worked right
out of the box
But these things seem to come with very little documentation, and what
I
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:14:34AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I have only 10 CD-RW disks that I use for mondoarchive.
But I wanted to try Grml-0.7 on one of them. So I needed to save the
contents of one of them and use that.
So I found this site:
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:31:19PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]:
Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on
a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted
filesystem?
It
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:17:33PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:
* Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]:
In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a
dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted
when really needed. If you
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -0500, John Mason wrote:
unlink is not really a link... it's the name of the command. The
unlink command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it
unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a
hard link OR a symbolic link
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 06:36:55AM -0400, Gary R. Leaf wrote:
hi
I find that in many cases I need my background tasks to be executed in
sequence. Ie, I need background task-b to start right after background
task-a has properly started.
So far I haven't found a good way to do it. I used
I have just tried connecting a USB serial adapter to my Debian Etch
system, and happily it seems to have been recognised and worked right
out of the box
But these things seem to come with very little documentation, and what
I havn't yet discovered how to interrogate it to find out what
baud
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:47:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
...
And -both- gdm -and- kdm can be told to start up either kdm or gnome.
(xdm doesn't seem to have this feature.)
Back when I first tried using it (around 2001) KDM presented a login
box with the following items:
Text
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:28:15AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Michael Ott wrote:
Hello Marco!
What's the safest way to run a command on every shutdown?
Create an init script and create a link into rc0.d
rc0.d or rc6.d?
If you look at
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:45:20AM -0700, Greg Ryman wrote:
I would say to do a reboot and possible a file system check once a month
to avoid corruption and unintended loss of data. Other then that, you
don't need to reboot.
I would also suggest a reboot any time you use apt to do an upgrade,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:00:56PM -, Anonymous wrote:
I'd like to keep some of the data on my computer's hard drive
encrypted, but not necessarily all of it. But I also need to be able
to reboot the computer remotely and log into by SSH without the
encrypted FS mounted, then mount the
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 08:19:42PM +0200, heba wrote:
2006/7/11, helices [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
man ps
Read this section:
PROCESS STATE CODES
thanks very much. But I've a question. Is it possible change the D
state in other state that it is possible to kill the process?
Leading on from the earlier posters question about configuring an
encrypted filesystem that does not interrupt the boot process with
a password prompt...
Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something
(in this case 'cryptdisks') from runlevel 'S'?
The relevent links are:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:26:57PM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 12:18, Michael Marsh wrote:
On 7/11/06, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Win32? Huh? This is a Debian system. Proftpd is locked (won't accept
connections, even though it shows listening
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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belahcene abdelkader wrote:
Hi, every body
I am using a set of thin client (neoware) connected to
a llinux server, I want to redirect the audio to the
client. It
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:35:53PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Bob Smither wrote:
This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other
Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with
local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian box, doing
site where the proper editing of xorg.conf file was given i did add and
delete according to that but still the x server coudnt find my screen i
tried a lot but in vain i cudnt succeed.could somebody explain me
step by step
Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Fujitsu
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need
a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the
length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed
python-pyogg and
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:43:04PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:55:01PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
snip about DAE
That seems to explain my playout problems. The remaining issue, which
seems to be unrelated, is my inability to rip...
have you tried using
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:02:17AM +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote:
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 23:17 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
Anyone know the reason for this mysterious behaviour?:
I am writing a little application which has to wait for a CD to be
loaded into the drive, obtain some data from
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:04:39AM -0400, Brent Clark wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:
At 1149839151 past the epoch, Brent Clark wrote:
I seem to be experiencing problems booting up (Thank goodness for Knoppix)
There are a host of errors, but the end message is:
Target filesystem doesn't
I am experiencing a strange problem accessing audio CD's on Fujitsu
P7120 running Etch using the internal CD/DVD drive. Kernel is 2.6.15.
I just tried playing an audio CD, which I wasn't expecting to have
trouble with because I know my audio is working (I have been playing
WAV files using xmms
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