On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:09:00PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:04:34PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
The hosting provider I mention above offers 600 MB space and 25 GB/month
(for the $70 plan) or 800 MB space and 35 GB/month (for the $100 plan).
That should
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 03:47 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
I think we would end up with much better software if all developers
were forced to use old, slow computers :) I remember how good and
fast the software was on my old RISC OS Acorn with 4MB RAM
(Impression, Sibelius, Artworks). Something
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:57:49PM +, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:
Oh ok, now I got it... Well it IS a problem with gcc...
Even 'gcc -v' gives me a segmentation fault...
I'll try to reinstall it...
How can this be done actually with apt-get ?
It can't really, AFAIK.
I would download the
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:32:48PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
Look in the apt-get manual for the --reinstall option, if you want
only to download some packages use the --download-only option...
ok, so:
apt-get --reinstall --download-only foo
will fetch foo from the archive even if
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:21:30PM +0100, Pierre A. Damas wrote:
So I suppose that finding where I could get ipchains.o and insmod it
would do the trick ?!?
But in which package is it ?
All the kernel modules should be in the kernel package
(kernel-image-2.2.20-386 or something like that),
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:31:10PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
I got hold of 128MB RAM from a friend. Now there is a total of
128+16=144MB RAM. Don't you think that is enough for OO.org and WM when
he's prepared for a slow machine?
FWIW I installed OO.org on my pentium MMX 200MHz with
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 03:26:47PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
So I do another apt-get update and install llibc6 and at the end of
the install a message appears that says I should stop services(with
your hands) on kdm gdm, postgresgl and xscreen saver and then come
back and install libc6.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on
the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's
Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while.
I recommend to use offlineimap,
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Pierre A. Damas wrote:
Since I installed the woody distribution, I am the happy owner of a
kernel 2.2.
I would like to use ipchains, but it is not supported in this
Kernel, so I searched everywhere to find an ipchains.o module to
insmod for 2.2 (I
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:19:58PM +1100, Adam Bogacki wrote:
following the last mozilla upgrade in unstable I've lost
cursor menu function in Epiphany and Galeon - my most used browsers.
Please bring this to the attention of the respective
maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can I
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:32:35AM -0500, Aldebaran wrote:
So I think I managed to patch at properly, and in man dpkg I learned that all
I need to do is dpkg -b at-3.1.8 and dpkg would kindly package all that stuff
up into a nice pretty .deb and within minutes I would be doing important
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 04:09:20PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
So Sam,
could you be so kind to comment/complete the complete toolchain ?
Glad to see you didn't have me killfiled yet ;)
1) ISP IMAP Server
I use FastMail.FM. They provide a good email service for free, and more
space and some
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:34:54AM -0800, Brian wrote:
As a longtime Debian user, I really appreciate the
community that makes Debian the best. My question:
What is the best way to track down a possible
memory leak that I have no idea which program is
causing it even? Here is the problem:
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 05:35:50PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Changed monitor and am back running X after a dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86.
Problem is the windows are way too big for the 1024 x 780 resolution,
and the desktop does not fit into the screen.
does the screen scroll when
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:09:02PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
every time I start my PC the printer start again.
you can use the programs lpq and lprm to show the printer queue and
remove jobs from it respectively.
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:03:20PM -0800, Umar Draz wrote:
hi Deear memberrs!
i have a user devish with zsh shel i want when this user access my
sever remotly through ssh or telnet a zsh script run which i have
already copy in /home/devish home directory. script name is
Hi there, database people. I have persuaded my database munger program
dbischema to work properly again, written some manpages for it, and
put it in a .deb The company I wrote it for has given me permission to
release it under the GPL.
http://nipl.net/dbischema/
Dbischema lets you
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:56:01PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote:
I have the public keys placed in remote machines under the correct user
account .ssh/ etc.. both sshd_conf files are identical (machines A,B).
machine A will automatically ssh login (without password) and rysync doesnt
ask for
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
The worst terrorist is America, with your depleted uranium
dirty-bombs which you throw around at every opportunity,
Cite? Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I don't recall a
detonation of any atomic or nuclear device on any
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
The difference is this:
1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the
teachings of Mohammed and Islam.
2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to
the Bible and the Word of God.
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to
Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now
he doesn't because they messed up. God used to like Christians, now
he doesn't because they
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 04:10:26PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote:
Question from a newbie. I am currently using 3.0r1(Woody) and would
like to move to Sarge soon. I had to use a specific xserver-mach4 for
my ATI card.
If I use Apt to do the upgrade to Sarge, do I need to re-do my xserver
or that
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:54:37PM +1300, YH wrote:
1. The displayed characters flicks on konsole of X11 screen. My monitor
is a VE710B LCD and my video card is S3 Trio 3D/2X. I could not found
the driver for the Trio 3D/2X video card during installation, so I
selected S3virge driver. I am
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:48:11PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have
no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I
did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d.
Strangely enough I have the same thing
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:57:38PM +0100, talie-18 wrote:
I want to instal colinux with debian could you please help me I am
using a windows 2000 pro it seems like the image file doesn't load I
want to use linux I have been trying for 2 weeks now this sucks but I
am not giving up
What version
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:05:32PM -0500, Jim wrote:
What must I do in order for my 3 button mouse to work properly?
Thanks
Section InputDevice
Identifier Configured Mouse
Driver mouse
Option CorePointer
Option Device /dev/ttyS0
Option Protocol Microsoft
Option ZAxisMapping
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:53:47PM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
Hai,
I need to remove perl for security reasons.
What's insecure about having perl on a machine?
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:43:32AM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
The money trail might prove interesting. Clearly, the founders of the
ubuntu linux project could not have been unaware of the dubious
political connotations of the term. Who pays for all those free cd's?
Mark Shuttleworth, I
I need to remove perl for security reasons.
What's insecure about having perl on a machine?
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:54:39AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
Refer the url for more details
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/doc/securing-debian-howto/ch3.en.html
They say that having perl
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he
obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if only
semantically -- with so-called revolutionary movements known for their
terrorist agendas.
In what way
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:02:49PM +0700, David Garamond 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
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 15:19 +0700, David Garamond 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.
Probably the best you're going to get is the output of netstat
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:59:48PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
/var/mail isn't a system account, it's infrastructure.
By system account, I meant a Unix account which has UID 1000 (or is
it 500?).
Ok, I see what you mean. There is a mail user defined with a home
directory of /var/mail.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:09:43PM +0100, Jon-Eirik Pettersen wrote:
What would you recommend of software to do simple directory-based
backups to an FTP-server?
I like lftp, it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R).
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The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named
_ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, Ubuntu.
I think Ubuntu is a great name. Meaningful!
Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:03:31AM -0800, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
I have an old IBM Aptiva that has an onboard ATI chip
with a measly 2MB of video RAM. This is enough for me
to run X with a resolution of 800x600, but no more.
If you set the color depth to 16 bits instead of 24 bits, you should
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:59:12PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
Thats not what I meant. What at the file access rights and owner/group of
the /etc/resolv.conf file?
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 144 Dec 24 16:53 /etc/resolv.conf
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
Sarge NetInstall is great for installing Sarge, but it
appears not to be usable as a live CD for booting onto
a system that has a broken installation.
It is usable, but not exactly convenient, as a rescue disk. As it says
in the
google ssh reverse dns debian
turned up this as the first hit:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2002/03/msg00081.html
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 04:56:05PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My system cannot go into kdm after I upgraded from 'stable' to 'testing'.
do you have the kdm package installed? what about the kde-core and
kde packages?
does /etc/init.d/kdm start work?
After what seems like ages following
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:04:01AM -0800, Jedi Knight wrote:
Anyway, whenever I get connected to my ISP, I get the
message that the ip-up script has started and a little
while later, that it has finished. However, If I check
iptables -L, there's no rules at all.
For starters, I'd change
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 02:52:17PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I decided to unsubscribe and subscribe again to see if it would help. I
then found that I had some how become unsubscribed without my knowledge,
so I subscribed and am now getting mail from the list again. No idea how
that could
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:02:48AM -0800, alireza faryar wrote:
When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display.
What am I missing,
X !!
You can't run fvwm from the Linux console, you have to start X first,
and then fvwm. There are several ways to make sure fvwm gets run
automatically
On Dec 26 2004, Sam Watkins wrote:
I do it the second way (more or less). If you start X with startx you
need to call the script ~/.xinitrc, if you use a display manager (gdm,
xdm or kdm) you need to call it ~/.xsession
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:09:27PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote:
I usually
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:29:41PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote:
I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling
some software, and then got into conflicts with
different versions of the C libraries (or at
least that's what I think went wrong).
I've got both gcc-3.3.5 and gcc-3.4.4 installed
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 08:33:50PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
I view/listen all kinds of multimedia, but don't expect to get
entirely away from the megahertz requirements. While Linux is much
more resource friendly than Windows, movies still require at least
800MHz to be viewable while
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
1. I am still a Linux newbie. Most of the install issues, both with
the OS and with applications, have been taken care of for me with the
slick install wizard and the RPM-based installations. How much of a
learning curve would
I think you'll find that in Debian at the moment, grub is a better
bootloader if you want things to just work when you install new kernel
images. Try installing grub and see if that helps.
If you want to keep using lilo, and want help to fix it, please post
your lilo.conf and the output of:
Well, not to follow up to my own post but ... something as simple as
apt-build install top doesnt work.
Well you'll also find that apt-get install top and dpkg -l top don't
work either, for the reason that top is not a Debian package!
Try dpkg -S `which top`, which will tell you that top is in
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 09:29:07PM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
Wasn't it Larry Wall who said Do we need 10 ways to do something?
I think it was Larry Wall who said there's more than one way to do it
and invented an insane language (perl) in which there are 15 billion
confusing ways to
I've noticed if I suspend aptitude with ^Z, then fg it again, then press
the up or down arrow key, it tries to run reportbug and then when I
get back to aptitude it's forgotten all the selections I made since last
saving. This can be a real pain if you've made a lot of selections!
Can some one
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:39:41PM -0800, cfk wrote:
I'm trying to get jdk downloaded to satisfy a couple of apt-get demands
with
sid. I keep getting the message with mozilla (and a couple of other java
dependent programs) pointing me at www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux to obtain
the
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:30:39PM -0800, cfk wrote:
I did an apt-get of apt-build and it appears I need to create an
apt-build.list. Can someone tell me what should be in this file please.
take (another) look at that new article on apt-build:
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 07:12:17PM -0800, Syed Huq wrote:
It Worked !!
Downloaded the xserver-mach4 using apt.
Last question, how do I toggle between the various resolution modes.
Right now, it's set to 640X480 and I want to toggle to the 1024X768
1. make sure the right resolutions are
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 08:35:30PM -0800, cfk wrote:
To see what happens. How do you do it.
apt-get install '.*'
(this won't work, it will output a great list of conflicts - it's
worth reading that list of conflicts to get an idea of the magnitude
of what you are proprosing to do.)
If
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:56:16PM -0500, stan wrote:
Would I be beter off wiping and doing a complet reinstall, or perhaps
doing an apt-ge dist-upgrade?
My opinion is that you would be better off with Debian Sarge or Ubuntu.
If the end-user of the computer is not very experienced, try Ubuntu.
I use screen for cut and paste in a terminal.
I wrote a front-end to screen called splish which makes it much easier
to switch between screens, and does other stuff, I get a splish prompt
instead of a bash prompt when I log in / open an xterm.
http://nipl.net/hacks/splish
In screen ^A^[ puts
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:01:29PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and
press M to unmute the main volume.
Why doesn't this get remembered across reboots ?
There is a gorgeous little program called setmixer that I use to set
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:18:38PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Ah! That'll definitely cause problems. I would recommend running
apt-get autoclean.
Speaking of apt-get autoclean, I think it would be nice to have an
option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that
have been
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:54:29PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
However, I personally did chmod -R 770 on the basis that there aren't
usually executables in people's data files (at least not the users I'm
catering for). Nevetheless I can see the desirability of eliminating
the possibility of
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:51:27PM +0100, Richard Kemp wrote:
I tested all outplug of xmms :
OSS ... doesn't work
ALSA ... doesn't work
eSound work ..
why eSound works and alsa doesn't and what it is ?
I think esound is the elightened sound daemon, esd, which provides
sound mixing
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
There's also a Debian package, IIRC 'si', which gleans data out of /proc
and other sources.
There's a package called hardinfo, is that what you meant?
Karsten's script is available at Rick Moan's very helpful linuxmafia
site,
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:44:22PM -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote:
I have both Debian 3.1 and Fedora Core 3 on this computer, and FC3 is
using an LVM filesystem. I can mount my Debian filesystem in Fedora
because it is a simple ext2 partition, but in Debian, I am not sure
how to mount my Fedora
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:38:56AM +0100, Ngawang Dorjee Gelek wrote:
My Keyboard layout change when shutting down.
I use swedish, 105 keys but when i restart I cant write ?, ? and ? and
the layout then is 104 keys but still swedish.
Are you talking about the keyboard layout in X?
If
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:56:42AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:
Perhaps I didn't explain properly. I know cron is running (ps ax | grep
cron), but don't know how to check if it's doing what it's supposed to.
Apparently something's not doing what it's supposed to do if your logs
aren't getting
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 11:18:24PM +1100, Robert Parker wrote:
Speaking of apt-get autoclean, I think it would be nice to have an
option that does what autoclean does, but also deletes any packages that
have been installed on your computer. If it's installed ok already, we
don't need the
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Julien Danjou wrote:
I have translated a french article about apt-build. This is a quick
introduction about its usage.
I hope this could help some people to use this software and to make it
better by sending patches, for example. :-)
Julien, thanks
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:15:36PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
So I went to the subversion mailinglist and posted this problem and
they gave me two urls which I added into my source list
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On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:57:53AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
What is the best way to apt-get update a classroom full of debian
sarge machines.
I tired using
apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:22:45AM -0500, JerryN wrote:
Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled?
I don't think any of the default debian kernels are 4GB enabled,
are they? Their package names don't mention it, anyway. You may have
to build your own. Is there someplace to download highmem
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
Sam Watkins([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
I just noticed there are some dpkg options that cause it not to ask
these questions.
--force-confold and --force-confnew
I wouldn't use --force-confnew, but --force
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:36:51PM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
As I understand it, the 686 is only for Pentium 4's. I've seen
several emails about that.
686 is for any Pentium-based system and above, not just P4. Unless your
system is *very* old, a 686 kernel should be OK.
686 is for
ok, I'll quit saying I want and write it :)
here is a slow perl version:
http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.pl
and the fast version which you won't be able to build as it uses some
libraries and stuff that I'm too lazy to post yet:
http://nipl.net/hacks/apt-clean.bb
JerryN wrote:
Intriguing! So many words in this track being said but nothing really
of any value whatever...
we need a global jerk database for people like this
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM +, Joao Clemente wrote:
Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular
script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily?
If any cron script outputs anything on stdout or stderr, the output is
emailed to you
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:22:33PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
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install build-essential, and devscripts if you want to be able to
build debian packages.
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:46:26PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
Hi.
I'm in the process of setting up a warm backup for a server I run. I was in
the middle of hacking together scripts to keep them in sync, but then it
came to me: what if Debian has a package that does that *for* me?
So does
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Mateusz ?oskot wrote:
I'm running Debian and looking for some tools and solutions
which could help me with merging external snapshot of some project
into my own local version of it in the CVS repository.
There is a progam called cvsup,
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:41:40PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote:
have both drives in, boot with rescue cd, then
cp -a /mnt/hda/* /mnt/hda.new/
Ew. Splitting hard links is a bad thing.
doesn't cp -a preserve hard links?
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:15:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
The issue is that links are automagically updated by the cp command.
Ron, can you give an example of this, with ls -l output,
I've never experienced this don't understand what you mean.
thanks
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:24:31PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost
by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites
(e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time.
www.apple.com
you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly:
dig www.apple.com
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:42:36PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:
My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting
massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are
listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC
me, I'm not
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:53:35PM +0700, Muhammad Reza wrote:
how do i upgrade my package, (ex:KDE), should i switch my source to
debian package repository ? and if yes, what repository should i use ?
If you have broadband, or are prepared to wait for a while, you can
update to testing
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:54:01AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
/usr/bin/br: error: [Input/output error] ioctl
if you're not sure what user it's running as, try running whoami in
the crontab. although if it's root's crontab it should definitely be
running as root.
I assume if you run this
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:31:32PM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote:
What is the best way to apt-get update a classroom full of debian
sarge machines.
I tired using
apt-get update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -uy dist-upgrade
Nevertheless I was asked some questions as follows:
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 03:24:27AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
However, the liveCD had errors during boot, because some files
apparently have to be writeable during boot. For example, I guess,
/etc/mtab. Does /etc/fstab have to be writeable? What other files
need to be writeable?
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:28:28AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
The points concerning the mbox file are taken (in fact I knew as
much). Do you think that Linux might stop to respond or get stuck
for a while as a result of the big file.
One problem would be when mutt rewrites the file on exit
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:29:28AM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Sunday, 19.12.2004 at 09:16 +, Jeffrin Thalakkottoor wrote:
How To Configure It On The Server Side ...
Configure The Server That A File On The Server Can
Only Be Viewed But Not Downloaded.
In order to 'view' you *have*
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:56:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
ifconfig
eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:2D:56:0C:29
inet addr: 192.168.1.101 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MUT:1500 Metric:1
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:18:14PM +0100, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
Since you're into KDE, I suggest kdm. Though, being a GNOME geek, I
also have to point out that GDM is much better ;-)
maybe we need an uber-display manager that lets the user choose what
display manager they want to use before
I've been given permission to release this package dbischema under the
GPL, I'll tidy it up a bit and post in on my website in a few days.
Sam
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:24:16AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
I am playing around with dfsbuild; specifically, I am trying to create
an image that will fit on a mini CD and that will be useful for
day-to-day sysadmin tasks like backing up/repairing file systems and
debugging networking
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:17:18PM +0100, Laszlo Szathmary wrote:
I have this problem since yesterday. If I want to launch kvim for
example, I get this warning:
QSettings: failed to open file '/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc'
Are you using woody, sarge or sid?
I can't find that file in sarge,
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:30:24AM -0800, hcheney wrote:
I have a rather large collection of files and there is a great deal of
duplication in the tree. What I would like to do is replace all of the
identical files with hardlinks - which I can't seem to do with fdupes.
Here's another way to do
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:39:29PM -0500, Tong wrote:
I'm looking for such a tool (Database Comparer). Any suggestions?
I wrote something in perl that does this, it's called dbischema. It can get
the database schema from an existing database, save it in an xml file, and
update a database to
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:00:21PM +0530, Ashish wrote:
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:58:30PM -0800, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
I want the default font of urxvt to be xft:Bitstream
Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=17 (which works fine when I
pass that to the -fn argument).
I put the line
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:39:37PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
In SQL you join tables. If it's indexed it's fast.
Can you do this using text files from the prompt?
Example:
I'd like to investigate the most popular RSS readers Debian offers.
$apt-cache search rss | cut -d' ' -f1 rss.txt
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I
could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96
KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to
optimally fill a mini
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:24:27AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will be out of the office starting Monday, December 20 and will
return on Tuesday, January 4. I will not be checking email regularly
during this time.
Have a great holiday break!
Can we globally plonk this guy until he
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