Jeffrey, don't take it as a personal attack, but...
Take a clean design: everything is a file, one tool does
one thing only, every tool has a clear and concise manual
page, etc.
Let nice and well-meaning people embrace and extend it for
about 25 years, and you end up with
Perhaps you need
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 08:17:09PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
...
It is already considered a serious bug for a package to overwrite a
configuration file without asking when the sysadmin has changed it, so
you can stop ranting about Debian
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation:
*Boggle* Which part of USER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK PARTS OF
HIS SYSTEM AS ``MAINTAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCK WITH THIS
NO MATTER WHAT'' do you still not understand?
man chattr
Search list archives
* Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation:
*Boggle* Which part of USER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK PARTS OF
HIS SYSTEM AS ``MAINTAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCK WITH THIS
NO MATTER WHAT'' do you still not understand?
man chattr
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 16:17 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:04:30PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:05 pm, Joey Hess wrote:
I strobgly sugest you file a bug; debian packages should not behave in
this fashion at all.
I strongly suggest
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 04:41:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
...
According to dpkg(8) those tools consider unpacked (but not
configured) and half-configured as package states. That tells me
that package configuration is, indeed, part
* Sridhar M.A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
Just today when apt-get upgrade installed the new version of
xfree86-xserver in testing (4.1.0-16), I could not start X. It was
looking for Nvidia chipsets. This appeared strange and on checking I
found that the installation script
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:48, Mark Janssen wrote:
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 10:42, Patrick Kirk wrote:
I have a Proftpd ftp server with a user called ftp whose password is
given to clients who need to get drivers, etc.
Just realised that
* Jaye Inabnit ke6sls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Wednesday 17 April 2002 11:29 am, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
yup, snipped it all
Greetings Jamin:
I built a box for a young friend as a gift. It is back on my bench now.
Seems
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
In a contribution to the Samba alternative discussion:
I have heard on beachmark tests, Samba, however, is much faster than
NFS. In fact, as I understand this person recommends using SAMBA over
NFS even in pure Linux environment for this reason
* Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:58:24PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Grant Edwards wrote:
I notice that woody installs a 2.2 kernel instead of a 2.4
kernel. Are the reasons behind that decision?
2.2 was
* Rick Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I'm starting to get very frustrated.
I acquired a new computer with a 17 Flat Panel Monitor (a Gateway
FPD1700). Installed Woody on it, and the fonts all looked quite
horrendous. I followed all of the font-deuglification tricks with the
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I assume you're talking about X and Gnome? Unless someone
comes up with a better advice, ditch Gnome and install KDE.
On my LCD I get ugly fonts in gtk applications only, KDE ones
are OK (though
* Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
Somebody once told me that if you come to the table with complaints and
no ideas for solutions for your complaints then you're part of the
problem, not the solution.
I heard it's precipitate rather than problem.
The problem is that there's
* Lars Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
My system hangs at bootup after a crash (my son pressed the reset
button). When I boot up the file check fails, and a message appears to
run fsck without the -a and -p arguments. As root, I issued the command
fsck /dev/hdb8
and the system
* Mattias Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally
fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable...
didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server...
What the hell are you doing over there? Debian
* Matt Frazer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
I must say as a long time debian user and advocate, it breaks my heart to
see this foolhardy anything that is Microsoft should be banned attitude
proposed and accepted on a list whose purpose is to provide help to debian
users. Seems to me
* Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:51:36 -0700
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last paragraph is indicative of the masses: I am not interested in
telling web designers ~. Simply multiply that by your local census,
and soon it
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
hi
i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner
last night.
i think the real symptom is that the epson 1650 works under potato's
2.2.19 and not under 2.2.20 in woody. i had the same problem in r/h where
it
* adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
It wasn't my choice and I have no say in the matter - if the means that I am
not welcome on this list then I will (reluctantly) unsubscribe.
You can always read the list via usenet. Posting is a bit of a PITA if
you do that, but I hear they are
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:24:58 AM, Shawn McMahon wrote:
And does it give Bytes transmitted/received, or just the sheer number
of packets?
Both. Do an ifconfig now and look at the output.
Here's my output:
eth0 Link
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
i compared the two config files. there is an additional usb entry in the
2.2.20 config:
config_hotplug=y
everything else in usb is identical.
...
so does anyone have any suggestions? this is the first real thing i have
found so far.
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:16:06 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
net-tools 1.60
ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13)
AHH! Much better. I was running net-tools 1.54, so I upgraded that and
now I can see how many Mb I've transferred.
Have a look
* Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
if you are sitting on a machine called foo and ssh into westek
foo:/home/westk xhost +westek
westek[westk]:/home/westk export DISPLAY=foo:0.0
westek[westk]:/home/westk gqview
#
# should disply on the machine foo
#
See if you have $DISPLAY set on EnJaeLove first, and on westek
after you ssh to it. Also check $XAUTHORITY on westek.
Dima
--
Tlaloc: What was Elrond's second name?
Gruber: Hubbard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of
* Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Save yourself the pain, set up winders in VMware and run Orrible
there.
That won't work. We can't link to libraries under vmware.
Here's a tip: don't. Tell management about this exciting new technology
called Java and JDBC instead.
Java
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Here's three question about configuring Samba as a PDC.
1. Can the Samba server be configured to force users to periodically
change their passwords?
Not according to smbpasswd(5).
3. This question may be unrelated to Samba. We have a mixed
[snippage]
ROTFL. I thought this was a call for armed response to 419 scams.
Dima
--
One distinguishing characteristic of BOFHen is attention deficit disorder.
Put me in front of something boring and I can find a near-infinite number
of really creative ways to bugger off.
* Hanspeter Roth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Apr 04 at 22:57, Hans Ekbrand spoke:
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:53:52PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Can one get security updates for the testing distribution?
No. There is no such thing.
Can one switch back to stable without
* Jason Majors ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Where I work we need to use oracle 9i (I'm pushing for mySQL conversion) on
Linux boxes to communicate with oracle 8i on a Solaris box.
Our DBA tried to do the 9i install (when he looked for a d drive I got
scared), and keeps having problems
* Markus Grunwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi!
I would like to say a few words about ipv6 handling of some few
programs.
Are YOU using ipv6 ? No ? Well, me neither. It's a nice thing and I will
use it if I have to, but up to now, everything here is ipv4.
Some programs (I only
* Bob Thibodeau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
Sometime between midnight and 10am,
while powered off, the W98 box
at work lost its primary partition.
While *powered off*??? That usually
means a) peecee was hit by lightning
and is fried, or b) disk is dead. By
lost its primary
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Vincent Lefevre quotation:
In fact, you don't need parentheses for sumple expressions like the
above one:
1+2*3= gives 7
1+2=*3= gives 9
Fair enough. So perhaps the distinction is whether or not the calculator
is designed to
* Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember, we are working with hand entered calculations that go into the app
in a certain order, and *that* is the order that it should be calculated...
There should probably be a preference option
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi! I am using woody and kernel 2.4.17. I am trying to get alsa running for my
soundblaster live card.
I am not using the debian packages; I am using the source from
alsa-project.org
for 0.9.0beta; I have all packages, drivers, libs and utils
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
I responded to a similar letter a while back concerning the civil
unrest in Nigeria and the plot of smuggling funds into the United
States, but the recipient failed to respond.
They probably added your e-mail address to one of those
* Shawn Yarbrough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
What everybody seems to be telling me is that because IP is routable,
ARP replies are also routable, and the kernel is free to mix and match
IP addresses with Ethernet interfaces however it likes according to
it's IP routing
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:29:39 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:12:56 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Didn't you read Sven's rely? It says DNS problem right there.
Make
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 09:57:13AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Curiosity just bit me in the butt. Where does the .in-addr.arpa come
from?
From the way bind works. See e.g. O'Reilly's DNS and Bind.
Well, er, it's
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Monday, March 25, 2002, 1:00:38 PM, John Cichy wrote:
Now for the dark side... how hard can it be to connect a digital out
on the cd player to a digital in on a computer and ...
I was just thinking the same thing.. why not use a home
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:32:37 -0600, you wrote:
[ Note: I read the list. I don't need nor do I want copies of mail
sent to the list. In this case you sent a copy to me with a different
message id than what went to the list; something is
* David Gardi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi to all,
I am in posession of this small router device that has 1 ethernet and 1
ISDN plug. By sticking this device onto my network it can perform
various services such as NAT, dialout(ISDN) and some routing. It is
configurable by
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:46:00 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:09:37PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
My question now is this: do I need to make these hosts_allow entries into
each of my linux computers? I still
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I have two woody machines, that I want to be able to use ssh to login from
one to the other without having to enter my password every time.
I added the contents of ~/.ssh/identity.pub on the machien I am loging in
FROM to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 13:12:56 -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Gary Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 08:46:00 +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote:
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 01:09:37PM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
big
* Noah Sombrero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:29:59 -0600, you wrote:
Apt installs there because that's where the FHS
(http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) says things should go.
Was not disputing that there might be authority behind how
it is done.
Rather than
* Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Ok, I restored everything as before as far as the partition permission and
/etc/fstab and rebooted to be sure, then used chmod a+rw /var/lock. That
worked. The output of ls -dl lock is now
drwxrw-rw- 2 root root etc.
I relogged in.
Ran
* Angus D Madden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Peter Whysall, Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +:
...
Networking configuration. Or the complete and utter absence thereof. For
a distro that wants to install off the internet, not detecting,
configuring and using an absolutely
* curtis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I would like to ask people what they think is the best solution for
networking a windows/linux network.
Keeping in mind that the ultimate goal is to develop a linux only
network (but that that will not be accomplished anytime soon), I see 2
* Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I recently started with a new company and they are using lots of Linux
systems, mostly RedHat and SuSE. We are in the middle of upgrading a
bunch of the machines and I very much want to figure out a way to
present Debian to them as an
* Gustavo Noronha Silva ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:33:10 -0600
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Why do you want to advocate running a beta OS on production systems?
You want your sysadmin to hate you?
what beta OS did he mention?
I'll repeat
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 22:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've an old Pentium 90MHz. The CPU is probably about the only
notable component with a brandname on it. I want to put another drive in
it, but am wondering about the ability
* Adam Majer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 15-Mar-2002 Jonathan Matthews wrote:
Does anyone have idea why, after dist-upgrading my 486/25 router from
stable - testing, ssh'ing in takes massively longer than
* Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Friday 15 March 2002 22:55, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
[ argument snipped ]
You know Manoj, I've come to believe that moral majority people,
even if they look decent and clueful
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
[ argument snipped ]
You know Manoj, I've come to believe that moral majority people,
even if they look decent and clueful otherwise, are simply incapable
of understanding this kind of argument. Or any other kind, for that
matter. Must be some
* Duncan Findlay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
Mr. Long,
I don't know how old your daughter is, but I'm 100% sure that she will be
exposed to more content that you deem inappropriate than you could
possibly control. Perhaps instead of trying to protect your daughter from
the
* Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:46:40PM -0600, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
...
You wouldn't be suggesting that opposing opinions should be expressed,
would
you?
Errm, 'scuse my poor English but... what's that in plain language?
Are you
Do not feed the troll.
--
Surely there is a polite way to say FOAD.-- Shmuel Metz
Fornicate Off And Decease. -- Rik Steenwinkel
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C.
You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be...
Luck has nothing to do with it
1. No array bounds checking (Fix
* François Chenais ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during
the tar ?
You may end up with a slightly b0rked system (but you knew that
already).
If your /var was on the root drive, you'll have to delete its
contents before
* Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
One thing I wondered about, though. You are using the technique of taring up
the entire directory tree and then untaring it into the target partition. Why
not just use cp -a source target instead?
Tradition, portability. cp -a is a GNUism,
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver?
Drop the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/your_printer_name.ppd
I like that place better than /usr/share/cups/model, but
unfortunately, cups
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Ben Collins quotation:
I strongly suggest using CVS over SSH. It's easy to setup. Just make
sure the server that your CVS repo is on has sshd installed. Then on the
client do:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d
* Bill Wohler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
I also see cdj970 in the output of gs -h. So, the driver is
available, but there isn't any ppd file for it, which CUPS seems to
need.
Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver?
Drop the ppd into
* Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
Anyway, it was interesting. this was not my document but quite
thought provoking for me
Good. Then my ranting was not entirely in vain.
Dima
--
We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. -- Chris King
* Axel Boyrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
I am using Woody. I mount NFS directory from Solaris 2.8 where files are owed
by nobody.nobody
once NFS mounted on Woody, with the kernel 2.2.20 files appear as own by
nobody.nogroup
But with kernel 2.4.17 files appear with a uid
* Charles Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
... I've been told it's
usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because
it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and
things will likely break.
This is usually the case with DeadRat, but --
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
* Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors,
16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays?
If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)?
Errm
* a ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
(sorry! if you know any other mailing list i should send, pls tell me)
why the program below is wrong?
Because you and your teachers should seriously consider
a career in lawnmoving.
using namespace std;
class t
{public :
string p;
};
Does anyone
* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
...
I fail to understand why you came up with the example above. No one
have suggested or commented any such thing.
I wasn't subscribed when the first post came in so Im exempt. But I
* Dimitri Maziuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
* Crispin Wellington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 18:13, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
...
I fail to understand why you came up with the example above. No one
have suggested or commented any such thing.
I wasn't
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation:
Does anyone know about a school that teaches people to use
vector, auto_ptr, basic_string and references?
I have no idea what they teach in school these days, but I should think
they would have to teach
* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation:
Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C.
1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector or equivalent)
Of course, the behavior of vector::operator[] is undefined if the index
is invalid, which
* Ulf Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi Debianicans.
Thanx to all!
It still doesn't work,
but the message is a different one now.
See the very end of this mail.
Finally I made it to this distribution.
Great.
Although there is more to do to set up Debian,
it feels
* Richard Weil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Yet another ALSA question ...
Problems are with a maestro-2 (es1968) soundcard
running on 2.4.18-ac3, ALSA compiled from source on an
up-to-date Woody system.[Same problems occurred with
other kernels, but I never fixed them.]
In a
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On 06-Mar-2002 Michael Marziani wrote:
I've poked around dselect and can't find chkconfig. Is this included in
some larger package of handy admin utils? If no chkconfig, is there a
package that does something similar?
* Paul DeHerrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Will debian work on my Sun Enterprise 4500 server, which has 8 processors,
16GB of RAM and 8 D1000 StorEdge disk arrays?
If so, what is the latest release (kernel version)?
Errm. Not that I know the answer, but... Is there something wrong with
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:22, Kent West wrote:
Camilo Olea wrote:
Hello!
I want to know, what can i do to have a linux network equivalent to
a windows one? This meaning, here at my college, the computer
lab network is
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the
client, do this:
client# export DISPLAY=client:0.0
client# ssh -X server
then once you're logged
* Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:36:15AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the
client, do this:
client# export DISPLAY
* Matthew H. Ray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I have a small cluster of Woody machines (fresh install) and I've run
into problems running apt-get with SSH. While trying to install
packages on all the machines with dsh, I started getting apt-get
problems, so I tried it with just ssh on
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
At 11:23 AM 03/03/02 +1100, Davor Balder wrote:
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision=your_kernel_name kernel_image
dpkg -i your_kernel_image.deb
This was nice as it moved my existing kernel to .old, but that made me wonder:
Say I rebuild
* Alan Kerry Shrimpton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
At work we have one file server with NT4 I think as the OS. One mail server
firewall running Linux. (Hence why I am playing around with it at home).
We have 3 other computers connected to the network running Windows98. The
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Just bit the bullet and ordered a nice flat panel LCD display for my wifes
new Debian testing workstation.
I presently have that machine set up in my lab area, thru a kvm switch to a
19 monitor.
How can I configure X to work with the new display?
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:29:29AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Just bit the bullet and ordered a nice flat panel LCD display for my wifes
new Debian testing workstation.
I presently have that machine
* Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi everyone,
I've been trying to compile a custom kernel to use the Linux Progress Patch
Gordon Fraser was nice to provide me with, and also to optimize the kernel
for my Pentium II processor.
However, I seem to have a kernel
* Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi Dima,
Of course, if it refuses to boot without fb, the problem is
somewhere else.
It seems to refuse to boot even without fb. :-( As with the last kernel, I
get the following in kern.log:
---
Feb 28 11:59:21
* Daniel Pecos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hello!
Time ago I compiled the 2.4.16 kernel version without any
problem, but some days ago I had to modify the configuration
and tried to recompile it. This is the output:
(linking the kernel)...
* sam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Rather than go into a lot of detail on my problems, I would prefer to get
a reliable reference to a comprehensive discussion about the installation
and trouble shooting of mice. I am currently using Woody (Debian 3.0), a
ps/2 modem, AMD 500 Mhz cpu --
* Kurc, Marcin A. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
read about NFS, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html
or samba (if you also want to share files accross windows and linux)
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html (or visit samba.org)
NIS is very commonly used for server
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Em Seg, 2002-02-25 às 18:11, Dimitri Maziuk escreveu:
Note that NIS security is an oxymoron, you may not want to use NIS
at a college lab.
It is not worth than the Windows network he was speaking off.
Yes, there's that.
Dima
* timothy bauscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I am planning on building a firewall
here. There is a lot of hype about
Freebsd being great for firewalls,
and books regarding Linux firewalls.
I love Linux, but I believe in
finding the best solution for a
problem. My question is not
* Cam Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I have been trying to get my Canon BJC-4000 running, with no success. CUPS
doesn't work, despite some assistance form this list. Printtool tells me
that I do not have parport compiled into the kernel, which is not the case
(yes, I verified
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
i haven't heard much on people using
linux to do bridged stuff, so i didn't
investigate it when i made the decision,
i knew a lot of folks who used free/open
bsd for bridged networking.
Apparently it can be done on Linux, with appropriate kernel
* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steffen Evers wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote:
several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that
it is most probably a kernel bug.
Well, I installed windoze on
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea...
I just found a user with username -
on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd)
NIS should not be running,
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Kurdt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
does anyone know how to undelete some files?
i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded
in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :)
tnx Pauwel
There is a book
* O Polite ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
I'll be building a new development machine soon. It's been a while since
the last time, and it's seems to be a lot harder today than the last
time I did it a few years ago. There are so many CPU slots and memory
types to choose from.
First I
* Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi all,
My laptop has a 4MB vid card, 64 MB RAM, 120MB swap and a Pii 400
celeron processor.
I'm running enlightenment with konqueror for file management, galeon for
web and evolution for mail.
Performance is appalling. Konqueror takes
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hi,
On a multi-user system, how can I turn off an account? Not
remove it, though, since at a later time, it will have to be
re-enabled? While we're at it, how to you re-enable a disabled
account?
File a bug against passwd, tell them to
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