Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)

2018-01-12 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:49:05AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating for me, > and > I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy Story names, > and then the testing, stable, old stable, old old stable is

Re: Bug#665426: base: USB drive spins up every hour

2013-02-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Stefan, On Samstag, 24. März 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: Package: base Severity: normal My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5 drive, it's almost always idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a

DebConf8 video streams

2008-08-10 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, in seven hours DebConf8 will officially begin, you can participate by watching the live video streams as described on http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams - have fun! The schedule for tomorrow/today is available at https://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/day_2008-08-10.en.html -

Re: Automatic debiian installation

2008-06-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Tim, thanks for sharing your experiences. On Wednesday 11 June 2008 12:18, Tim Cutts wrote: However, FAI usually depends on NFS -- yes, I know about fai-cd -- and so isn't very appropriate for installing machines which are not part of the same network (FAI: -1) This isnt really accurate

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Rick, On Saturday 14 April 2007 19:33, Rick Thomas wrote: 1) How do I import the public key for volatile? (If it's in the fine manual, then please point me to it so I can RTFM) To be executed as root: gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de --recv-keys AC583520 gpg --fingerprint AC583520 #

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-09 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, first I'd like to thank Kevin for his nice diagram! On Wednesday 05 January 2005 20:38, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Very nice! I expect to use it at some conferences (BTW: Looks like a nice addition to Debian Eyecatcher[1], I'll add it :) ) but then I also got one concern, especially if this

Re: update-alternates

2004-12-23 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 23 December 2004 01:56, Randolph Kahle wrote: I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to install Java. The instructions tell me to use the program update-alternates. It is not installed on my machine and

Re: mirror a debian mirror...

2004-12-14 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 22:31, Joao Clemente wrote: What's the best way to do it? I've read recently about FAI on LinuxToday, maybe I should follow FAI procedure for setting up the mirror? It suggests the use of mkdebmirror script

Re: debian installer, uml, kernel 2.6

2004-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried to install debian sarge rc2 into an uml system. the host is if you don't get an answer from debian-user@ you should possibly try debian-boot@, the mailing-list dedicated to the

Re: PowerPc 5300 compatible?

2004-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Monday 13 December 2004 05:06, sasha shkolnikov wrote: I am new to Debian. I have an old Apple Macintosh 5300 PowerBook (PowerPC chip). Does anyone know if I can run Debiac on it? ..and how. Really don't want to waste it. A quick google

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-08 Thread Holger Levsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 07 December 2004 21:59, Michael Madden wrote: Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can run from the command line?

Re: Probleme mit devfs

2004-11-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, als ich von Kernel 2.4 auf 2.6 umgestiegen bin, habe ich mich auch kurz mit devfs beschäftigt. Weil der neue Installer devfs nutzt, dachte ich, daß devfs das Mittel der Wahl für 2.6 sei. Dann hatte ich aber auch Probleme mit CD-Brennen (ibook, ide) und mußte lernen, daß devfs schon wieder

proposed updates - part of Debian or not ?

2002-12-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hello everybody! I've got a simple question: are the proposed updates part of the official Debian distribution or not ? Proposed updates to the stable distribution: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/proposed-updates In Debian