Thanks to all who helped with this. I don't think it's a Debian
thing, but something closer to the metal. I'm sometimes getting this
message with cp.
But certainly, the Debian way won't work on this computer at present.
I'll probably do a virgin install on another partition, and in the
meantime
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In , Miguel Obliviemo
wrote:
apt-get remove postfix:
Processing triggers for man-db ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3: 6289 File size limit
exceededperl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $&l
I have a problem with Postfix not working but manual SMTP works. So
I'm at the point of uninstalling and reinstalling Postfix the Debian
way and can't do a thing because of this error.
"File size limit exceeded"
I've seen the message in other contexts. I forget the details, but
just walking aw
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In , Miguel Obliviemo
wrote:
I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the
HOWTO directory
I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a refer
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In , Miguel Obliviemo
wrote:
I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the
HOWTO directory
I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to a
similarly named anything o
I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the
HOWTO directory and I wonder if it is intended that this competition
will remain open for the lifetime of the Lenny distribution.
Also, is it only open to professional printers, or can anyone enter?
Or is Debian a sponsor of the
After installing arno-iptables-firewall (not on this site):
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall$ grep -r IPTABLES *
firewall.conf:IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
/etc/arno-iptables-firewall$
Where are the rules?
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Has anyone noticed any problems with Lenny's gcc 4.3.2? Okay, I know
it's impossible.
But I'm imagining that I see a ${SOMETHING} in CFLAGS in the Makefile
not being expanded on Lenny amd64 when it is set in the environment,
but the identical code working (oops, being expanded) on an older
non-D
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Miguel Obliviemo:
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
I may be completely wrong here, but I *
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Ma,12.mai.09, 17:22:35, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
You install the WM/DE you want (by using your preferred package manager)
I don't understand. I used apt-get, and it (fvwm) is on the machine.
I don't know what "preferred package
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change
I wanted to know that so I
On Tue, 12 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,12.May.09, 16:32:53, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
What is Lenny's default window manager?
Depends on how you installed. The "normal" CD1 installs the Gnome
Desktop Environment, but it is also possible to install KDE, Xfce or
LXDE i
What is Lenny's default window manager?
How do I configure gdm to use a different one?
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On natted lenny connected (or not) directly to a nice new Billion DSL
router by a nice new cable. The first pair of ifconfigs connected,
the second disconnected.
Dropping 125,450,950 packets per second received from connected network.
Dropping 125,484,878 packets per second received
What is the significance of this message, when installing from a
downloaded (with Jigdo) Lenny DVD?
"WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
postgresql-pltcl-8.3"
(I went ahead and installed it.)
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I would set 'FirstVT=24' in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and then edit /etc/inittab
to add as many consoles as needed if this is what you want (personally
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,12.Apr.09, 17:08:16, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24?
It depends on how you start X. Also (not what you asked for), but did
you ever try 'screen'?
Well, I asked, H
How can the association between X11 and tty7 changed? E.g. to tty24?
#
# Note that on most Debian systems tty7 is used by the X Window System,
# so if you want to add more getty's go ahead but skip tty7 if you run X.
#
Why? How can I get it out of the way?
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I'd like to install glibc-doc-reference.
I see:
Get:7 ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au lenny/non-free Sources [48.7kB]
Hit ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au lenny/main Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au lenny/contrib Packages
Hit ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au lenny/contrib Sources
Hit ftp://ftp.netspace.net.au
I don't understand "distribution may also contain a variable, $(ARCH)
which expands". (In sources.list(5) man page.)
Does this mean $(ARCH) is predefined and you just have to include
"$(ARCH)" in the distribution string, or do you have to define it
earlier in the file, or somewhere?
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Yeah, there a lot of Debian packages. If you have some time, you might help
out some of the ones that you use that need some TLC. Install devscripts and
run wnpp-alert.
Done. I'm not sure why, though.
It is in the non-free repository (bec
Dear list,
I'm new to Debian. I downloaded the first Lenny DVD and booted it and
installed it. I'm staggered that there can be _five_ DVDs. That's
quite a lot.
In installing, I chose the "desktop" complexion because I wanted to
have a working graphical user interface. Maybe that was a mistak
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