* Doug MacFarlane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021116 21:30]:
I thought apt-get dist-upgrade would take you from woody to sarge, or sarge
to sid, and so on?? I'm obviously missing something here . . . .
Not exactly. dist-upgrade is mostly like upgrade, except that it
handles handles dependencies
* Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021115 23:26]:
moreover, i have spell, ispell and aspell installed. is there a way i
can use them while in vi?
If the file has been saved, just run
:!ispell %
I think there is a way to spell check an unsaved file, but I can't
recall it at the
* Darryl L. Pierce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 15:16]:
I want to upgrade my boot floppy to support 2.4.19 kernel and Ext3. Can
someone point me to a HOWTO for doing so?
I think mkboot will do exactly what you're looking for. Try the manpage
first, make a boot disk, and test it to see if it's
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 14:32]:
This is a rather non-specific question:
Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks?
Does the CD Burner have any buffer underrun protection? If so, you
should produce good burns on even heavily-loaded systems.
* Bill Moseley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021117 16:11]:
At 04:33 PM 11/17/02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
I think Clemens said something to the effect that there is nothing
more annoying than the presence of an example. Your best bet would be
to load up this old box (actually pretty nice hardware!)
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021113 19:07]:
nate said:
perhaps something to convert to motion jpeg? or mpeg? or avi?
(would prefer mpeg-1 due to it's portability but i'll take
anything).
well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can
convert a bunch of images(even jpeg)
* nate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021108 20:09]:
Matthew Daubenspeck said:
After having a mess of connection problems that caused my ssh sessions to
drop, I noticed that the 'w' command still thinks there are users logged
in that I know are not.
check the process table to see if shells for
* Sven Heinicke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021104 11:54]:
With woody, I got a system with 20 IDE drives (5 IDE cards). The kernel
in finding all of them but /dev/MAKEDEV seems to only know how to make
up to /dev/hdl:
ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdl
ds2:/dev# ./MAKEDEV hdm
./MAKEDEV: don't know how to
* Lance Simmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021021 08:28]:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:28:54AM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
Paul == Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Go into /etc/rc2.d and mv S99gdm K99gdm and this should
Paul prevent gdm from starting up.
IMHO this is
* Billy Bump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021021 12:28]:
I have just completed installing debian3.0 on my laptop. The touchpad does
not work so i use a microsoft usb trackball. this trackball worked in my
previous linux mandrake install. When i try to startx it fails and most of
the error messages
* Rich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021021 11:51]:
Howdy all,
I want to change the default permissions of files in a FAT partition. I
understand that FAT file systems have no concept of permission or
ownership. When I mount the partition ownership is set to root and
permissions are set to 755.
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021016 08:52]:
i regularly get mails alerting me of my expired GPG key. but i have
a new (sub-)key uploaded to the keyservers since the day the old
expired. now i do realize that everyone who obtained my key from the
keyservers last year has that one
* Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021015 22:40]:
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:00:33AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
and yes, is there any method of changing the display manager? say from
gdm to wdm to xdm to kdm etc?
I believe the program is called update-rc.d.
(Assuming that apt-get
* Setyo Nugroho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021011 09:47]:
Hi all,
how is it to uninstall a package which is install from a non deb package
(eg. source in tar.bz2 format)?
That depends entirely on the package. Many have a make uninstall, but
many do not. Assuming you still have the build tree,
* Franck Bui-Huu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021011 10:06]:
Hey
I'm currently try to launch dhclient in order to get an IP address at
boot, but
I don't know in which file I should put it. I tried in
/etc/init.d/networking but
kde crashed during its initialization.
man interfaces
You just
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021011 10:20]:
* Franck Bui-Huu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021011 10:06]:
Hey
I'm currently try to launch dhclient in order to get an IP address at
boot, but
I don't know in which file I should put it. I tried in
/etc/init.d/networking but
kde
* Mark Carroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021009 10:37]:
Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my
machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections
Leave that belief behind. You're using debian now! =)
A good backup strategy is always
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021009 15:26]:
First off the search facility does not seem to be working at Debian.org
just now, so I could not check there...I did check the mail archives but
they also seem to be handicapped. Oh Well!
Here's the problem...
I wanted to try some new
* Robert Wilhelm Land ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021008 00:02]:
In both cases, mutt overrides these settings in .muttrc and uses vi for
composing mail.
Does mutt read anything else in your .muttrc ?
When running mutt, what does it give you if you type
:set ?editor
? Also, try issuing
:set
* Patrick Hsieh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021006 19:37]:
Hello list,
I'd like to execute a certain command upon someone connect to my server
with ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I will not authenticate the visitor in
the ssh session, that is, anyone can do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] in
order to execute my
* Sandip P Deshmukh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021005 03:31]:
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:28:56AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:3C:C0:93
inet addr:192.168.1.21 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST
* Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021006 12:27]:
Similar here, but looking for a more drastic solution: I want to
re-install gnome for a specific user in a box (several users have
access to same box) due to several reasons, without affecting the
settings for any other user. What
* damar thapa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021002 00:05]:
Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
damar thapa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but when I try mozilla localhost or mozilla ipAdress, I get
connection refused message.
Does apache listen on port 80?
Yes, it is listening at port 80, at least as per
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021002 09:32]:
Install mplayer :)
here : http://mplayer.nmeos.net/
It's good that somebody made debs available because mplayer is the
opensource project from hell, at least it was last time I looked.
The mplayer team reminds that any precompiled
* Jeff Maxson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021002 19:31]:
gotten to the point where ifconfig gives me...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:5A:87:11:5E
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:358 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
* David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021002 20:05]:
interest in checking it. What I would like is to have Mutt default to
opening up Mozilla's mbox at
~/.mozilla/default/.slt/Mail/pop.my.isp/Inbox . I can force mutt
To specify your spoolfile, put set spoolfile=~/.mozilla/... in
* Robert Ian Smit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 06:58]:
I know that some programs react differently depending on how they
are called. When you create a symlink to a program, does the program
know that it was started by using a symlink?
For instance when I create a vi symlink to vim, will vim
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 21:30]:
okay, apt-get is wonderful and all that -- but when sticking
with a tried-and-true potato setup, it's hard to get feature
updates without some extra-apt activity...
such as
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Bundle::HTML::Mason
* Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 00:44]:
but how can I change from ext2 to ext3 without breaking my actual
installation and how to do this ?
tune2fs -j /dev/hda1
(for example.)
good times,
Vineet
--
http://www.doorstop.net/
--
http://www.aclu.org/It's all about
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020929 18:24]:
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If it's still just not working, how about downloading the debian package
source (apt-get source everybuddy) and looking at how it's done there?
That makes me think of something, and pardon me
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020927 23:29]:
Hello.
I'm having a bit of trouble building this package, and I was wondering
if anyone on the list has built it for Woody. It barfs during make
like this:
proxy.c:34: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: ***
* Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 15:35]:
I am wondering how stable people are finding testing for use on their
workstations. I am running woody, and very happy with it. However, I
would like to be a bit more up to date with some of my software - for
instance, I'd like to be using
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020928 08:48]:
I did the search for the files sought by configure, and found them, but
not where it expected them. My attempts to convince it to look in the
correct place (/usr/bin) have so far failed.
I take it you mean gtk-config and glib-config, yes?
* Ricardo Fitzgerald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 09:56]:
Hi to all,
Recently I had a very bad news one of my clients mail server was blocked due
to spamming !!! Well, the thing is they are not spamming at all, but their
ip was used by some unscrupulous spammer, now I have the task to write
* Bob George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 11:40]:
I'm using bash on Debian 'testing'. I've created a symlink /bin/rbash
that points to /bin/bash, and prior to upgrading to 3, it worked as
expected. Users could not do cd .. and other restricted functions as
described in the manpage. I only
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 03:36]:
How can I change a deb name in a consistent manner without building
it from source? Will it be easier then building it from source? For
example, can I extract it with dpkg-deb, modify a few files and
repackage it?
The problem I have
* martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 04:57]:
i would like to implement a service in the LAN which pops up a window
on a workstation computer in response to an event generated on
a central server. ideally, the popup window should be displayed for
a configurable amount of time before
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 12:00]:
I did a chown +x test. From my home directory (/home/westk), I can run
test and I get no output. However, if I specify bin/test, I get the
expect message (This is a test). If I do a which test, it reports
/home/westk/bin/test.
Yet another
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020926 13:59]:
Actually, that gets me to an even better idea: create a new FIFO just
for this purpose, have syslog send just those messages to that FIFO, and
start xconsole with -f pointing to it.
After consulting xconsole(1), I realize I meant '-file
* Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 00:30]:
I tested the following: As a normal user i crated a file in my homedir.
% touch test
I changed it to a exec file.
% chmod 700 test
No i set the superuser bit
% chmod +s test
It worked(!). That means that a user can download
* Holger Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 00:47]:
Hi!
I admit that this is off-topic since it's a general shell scripting
question, but what alternative commands instead of ls can be used to sort
files by modification time? I'm not interested in the modification times,
just the file
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 09:24]:
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--zOcTNEe3AzgCmdo9
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:33:15AM -0500,
* Robert Vazan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 09:29]:
If they are all-from-MS, then ask them if they could kindly provide
Microsoft Linux distro. :-) It's possible, it's legal, it's going to
be popular, then why not?
Well, they've been telling managers for years now that Linux is
anti-business,
* Holger Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 01:07]:
[...]
processing the list, i.e. with xargs? It's hard to make suggestions
without seeing what you're trying to do...
You're right ;-) What I'm doing is
FILES=`$LS -lt1 $BACKUP_DIR/arc/*.arc | $TAIL -$NUM_OF_FILES`
for i in $FILES;
* Mark L. Kahnt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 10:55]:
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 13:34, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020925 09:24]:
link(k, y) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
I'm going to toss in a *wild* question, but given
* Joyce, Matthew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020916 22:50]:
Out of the available Deb'd emailing solutions can anyone recommend a good
SMTP-IMAP combo ?
I have heard good things about postfix, although I seem to have got exim
doing pretty much what I want.
But which IMAP package is favoured ?
* Michael Olds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020920 15:08]:
OK I think I know what will do it. Go to modconf which is the module
installation dialog you saw when installing, go to scsi modules and find the
ide-scsi module which should have a plus beside it. Select it and click ok.
You should be asked
* Bram Jessen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020917 11:27]:
hey,
my network card won't work in debian (the card itself works under
redhat/mandrake and windows) so I was wondering if I have to anything
special to make it work under debian (it ain't on the driver module
list, at least, I can't find it)
* Peter Hugosson-Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020917 11:38]:
I have just purchased a complete set of 14 Woody CDs (7 binary, 7
Does anyone have a suggestion of how to check the integrity of the
complete set? I first thought of a recursive directory listing, which
can't figure out a foolproof
* Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020831 20:30]:
Do you use midnight commander? You can read compressed .gz
text files without having to first unzip them.
less can do this as well from the commandline, given that the
environment is properly primed with eval $(lesspipe). It can view
many
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020902 10:56]:
Hei
I have only ever accessed newsgroups using netscape under windows.
I was wondering whether anyone would be so kind as to give a novice
some advice on what clients are worth looking trying under linux.
If you're familiar and
* Steve Juranich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020628 10:49]:
ls -ad ~/.[^.]*
I prefer:
ls -ad ~/.??*
Many less keystrokes, but to each his own.
... but not quite the same effect. This shell glob won't catch a file
called, say .g -- it requires 2 characters after the '.' . That's
probably
* Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020626 21:42]:
Vineet Kumar posts :
since upgrading to the woody/updates ssh package (3.3p10.0woody1)
^
As of now `ssh_1:3.3p1-0.0woody4_i386.deb' has come up in
security.debian.org
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020627 00:09]:
* Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020626 21:42]:
Vineet Kumar posts :
since upgrading to the woody/updates ssh package (3.3p10.0woody1)
^
As of now `ssh_1:3.3p1
* Ralf G. R. Bergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020627 00:44]:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 00:23:57 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
I just upgraded to 3.4p1-0.0potato1, though, and it seems fine there.
Did you compile it yourself, or where did U get it from?
came from stable/updates/main on security.debian.org
* Angel L. Mateo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020626 23:40]:
El jue, 27-06-2002 a las 07:54, nate escribió:
i dont think SSH's compression should affect security either way.
I use it mostly out of habbit, it can sometimes improve the responsiveness
of a connection.
I would expect if
Hey everybody,
I've noticed that since upgrading to the woody/updates ssh package
(3.3p10.0woody1) My logs show Accepted hostbased instead of Accepted
publickey whenever a user logs in with a public key. This is using
protocol version 2, with clients of the same version (running on sid),
and also
* Ralf G. R. Bergs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020626 11:47]:
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 11:28:29 -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
I'll file a bug; I was just curious whether anyone else saw something
similar.
ACK. I'm seeing the same on several different systems (Debian 2.2 and
pre-3.0.)
Thanks
* Geoff Ludwiczak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 22:11]:
I'd like to know about what you people use for monitoring logs. Like
for instance, I know in Debian, that all logs are put into /var/log.
So I have a shell script that does sudo tail -f /var/log/*.log to keep
track of changes. I'm
* Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]:
On 24 Jun 2002 15:01:47 -0500
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've heard that NIS isn't very robust. Might LDAP be a better
choice? Or is there an important integration between NIS NFS?
Funny... I think I've heard something about
* Carel Fellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 02:49]:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:05:38AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 16:00]:
..
BTW, what's more secure? Putting everything in the firewall PC or on
The general answer to this is that it's more secure
* Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 05:03]:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:41:42AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
Could you avoid posting to a mailing list by doing a reply to a current
thread and changing the subject ? I don't know for pine but on MUA able
to display the threads, it's
* Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 05:51]:
Here's my alias, which I believe works like I want it to:
alias dolsa='ls -la --color | more ; echo ---; echo `ls
-la | grep ^d | wc -l` Directories; echo `ls -la | grep ^- | wc -l`
File(s) ; echo `ls -la | grep ^l | wc -l`
* Vikki Roemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 09:37]:
My version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 .
From my /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
Section Pointer
ProtocolIntelliMouse
Device /dev/mouse
BaudRate1200
Emulate3Timeout 50
Resolution 200
EndSection
Was that
* Sivea Key ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 09:45]:
[additional efforts]
I did some further research and typed: set DISPLAY hostname:0.0; export
DISPLAY
That looks like a mixture of csh-style and sh-style syntax. try isntead
DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY
That's the matter of syntax. As for the
* justin cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 11:31]:
Hi list, Please respond to the email address in addition to the list.
I just pulled this package down via apt-get upgrade on a testing machine
though, on the stable boxes, after dselect update, dselect shows the
1.2.3 version for
* Sivea Key ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 11:42]:
Now, how do I set the DISPLAY (and other variables I had to set for this
program) permanently? And do I set them as root, su, or my normal user
account?
Put them in your ~/.bashrc . Although this will make the apps display on
the other machine
* Jakob Fix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020625 15:18]:
Hi, I am relatively new to debian ...
I would like to upgrade my apache server to 1.3.26.
I do:
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade apache
That's not the right way. You want 'apt-get update' followed by either
'apt-get install
* Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 08:55]:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:21:58PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
Looks like pam_listfiles can do this...
I can't find pam_listfiles on my system using locate, auto-apt search
-f or apt-cache search.
What is it? Part of which package?
* Paladin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020624 11:38]:
Is it possible to have a centralized /etc/passwd (plus all necessary
MD5 password files) as well as the home directories in a network?
What you're looking for is NIS. Start out by reading the HOWTO:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nis+howtobtnI=I
* Patrick M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 22:00]:
My machine wont power off when shut down from Linux. Yet, it will do
so properly when shut done from Windows.
I tried 2 things:
1- I insmoded APM module, ran apmd, and gave apm=on parameter to
the kernel.
2- I compiled a new kernel with
* Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020623 14:19]:
You were using /bin/ash not /bin/sh. I know nothing about ash, please
Well, you're not going to find the real /bin/sh Free anywhere, so
that's about as close as it gets.
educate me. Is ash ever a possible /bin/sh? Does ash claim POSIX
shell
* Rainer Ellinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020622 01:06]:
Is there anybody out there having exim (woody) running with smtp auth
based on PAM (pam_unix.so)? It seems not to be possible without
recompiling exim, using a special pam_exim.so or some other hacks.
I have exim 3.35-1 working with PAM,
* Michael Heldebrant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 20:51]:
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 22:30, Paul E Condon wrote:
What is the stuff about minimum uid? Explain what considerations affect the
value I choose for this. Must I choose? Or may I ignore?
I have no idea what that means. I didn't use it.
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 19:43]:
price doesn't seem to play a factor in, and the last thing I want is a
device I plug into a line I know goes to the top of telephone poles
subject to lightning strikes slapped directly on my motherboard.
Another advantage with externals is
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 20:43]:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 07:57:17PM -0700, ben wrote:
| On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:56 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| Is linux a system that requires root access to use PAM? If so, then
| pam can't be used directly by exim. You
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 23:28]:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:24:50PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
You should be able to find a surge protector with RJ11 jacks on it for
around $9.95 at circuit city...
These tend to introduce a considerable amount of line noise and you end
* Rick Pasotto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 13:16]:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 06:02:30PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ potato/updates main
contrib non-free
deb
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020621 00:17]:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:44:21PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
Where's the misunderstanding?
On my part, to be sure. (Re-reading this I realize that I didn't word it
so as to imply that that was my guess; apologies if it sounded rude
that requires root access to
use
PAM?
As Vineet Kumar said it is.
Well, actually I said just the opposite: it can be done on linux without
running as root, but I think you understood that to be what I meant,
just said it wrong.
So what is wrong? As I see exim uses correct strings
for username
* Carlos Sousa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020621 15:18]:
I'd rather my lines mentioned stable instead of potato. Would that be
OK?
Just watch out for when that symlink changes to point to woody instead
of potato. I'd say it's probably safer to keep them saying potato, at
least right now, when that
* Ernst-Magne Vindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 09:18]:
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 16:32, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
I had the same prop. Can you run it as root? if so
just do chmod a+x /dev/dsp
better still:
# adduser user audio
and leave the permissions alone:
crw-rw1 root audio
* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020621 15:46]:
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to news.groups,google.public.support.general as well.
I see the news professionals on google have a hard time dealing with
all the PGP SIGNATURE stuff that is all
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 15:59]:
Lo, on Thursday, June 20, Colin Watson did write:
If you care about dpkg's available file being up-to-date, you need to
run 'dselect update', which runs 'apt-get update' for you. You don't
need to run 'apt-get update' as well.
Pardon
* Erik Mathisen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020620 16:06]:
Hello,
I made a post yesterday, but I still have not been able to resolve
this issue. I am putting a brand new hard drive into my system. I
would like to totally remove my my original drive. I have copy and
successfully made /home and
* Nick Traxler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020618 17:32]:
Subject says it all. I listed gaim, gaim-common, and gaim-gnome.
None of them seem to have any sounds, so am I missing a package, or are
they not in the debian version? I'm using unstable.
They're built-in. they come in a sounds directory in
Hi,
I'd heard that it's better to use dselect update than apt-get update
because the former also updates dpkg's available database (which seems
to me is pretty important).
I've started using aptitude, but have gotten myself in the habit of
running deslect update, and wonder if this is still
* Dan Jacobson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020619 15:15]:
I notice upon shutdown -h now I miss all the neat messages about what
its shutting down, because I am sent to tty1 instead of remaining on
window 7, the xwindow, and I must manually do alt ctrl F7 to go back
and see them.
I suppose this is
* Florian Struck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020617 13:54]:
On Monday 17 June 2002 22:44, Steve Juranich wrote:
Have you tried just playing the .ogg files with ogg123? Do you have any
KNOWN GOOD-type of .ogg's? I'd test with those first to see if it's a
problem with your player or with the
* Ronald Castillo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020617 16:45]:
Hello..
I currently have Exim installed but I have a script that needs sendmail
(so it can mail me the results for a web-page form).
Is there any way I can make the script work without having to install
sendmail? It calls sendmail
* umidori kamome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020615 16:54]:
Hey Yo Hoh!
Sound doesnt work with xine here (its an es1371, does
work under kde, xfce and progs like mpg321).
In the setup window, audio the default driver is
null - not too cool! But even changing it to dsp or
/dev/dsp (is the device
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020613 15:54]:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the
kernel. Check up on this as well as
* Jeronimo Pellegrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 14:52]:
Two banks on which I have accounts, for example... One of them will only
allow IE or Netscape 4.*, and the other just won't work with Gecko (the
browser just dies after a certain applet is used).
Bank #2 just doesn't care.
Well, when
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 20:40]:
I need to force the users to change their password on first
logon. How can I do this on a Debian Box?
Taken from passwd(1):
If you wish to immediately expire an accounts password,
you can use the -e option.
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 22:10]:
[2002-06-07 23:55:40]: emerg: cannot get docroot information
(/home/dman)
drwx--x--x 92 dman dman 4096 Jun 8 00:13 /home/dman
These 2 lines seem to make me think the problem is somehow related to
not having +r on
* Thomas Kral ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020608 00:53]:
hello there,
i use potato as a production system on my box, and i have just
installed woody 3.0p8 unofficial in a seperate partition for testing.
i switch between these two using lilo, they both have boot images in
the common /boot
* Bruce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020607 09:01]:
I am running Debian Woody/SID. I generally use Konqueror for browsing, though
for some sites, I use Netscape v. 4.77, as Konqueror doesn't work well with
them.
I had Mozilla 1.0RC-2 installed, but had never run it until today. Looks
great.
* prover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020604 10:56]:
I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS.
(...ad nauseum)
I gotta say, I'm disappointed in spamassassin's default config in this
case. I blacklisted the moron and the mails keep coming through. It
seems he's managed his way into my auto-whitelist, and
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020604 12:53]:
In the same vein, a question: What's the easiest way to remove this
joker from my AWL?
Nevermind. I had spamassassin(1p) open in another xterm as I was writing
this email; I should have finished reading it first!
-R Remove all email
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020603 08:34]:
iptables just confuses me at times.
I'm trying to figure out how to forward all packets hitting this machine
on one port to a port on another machine inside my network. I'm kinda
stumped.
$IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXT_IF -p tcp
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