Greetings fine free software people.
A number of years ago, the little arrows at the top and bottom of the scrollbar
to the right of my "message list" view in thunderbird (I'm currently using
debian stable) disappeared. As I have a huge number of emails in my work inbox
(not this account),
Hi again everyone,
Having gotten an excellent (and quite simple) response to my query about
automatic homedir creation upon ssh login, i'm going to push my luck (expecting
@ any moment to receive responses with RTFM or somethings close to that
sentiment in them).
Our goal is to allow not just
Thx so much, Stanislav!
pam_mkhomedir works like a charm (and it didn't even take me too long to figure
out how to set it up)
best,
~c
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Greetings everyone,
i'm not subscribed to the list (but will check back via the web archives for
responses that don't get CCed or BCCed to me).
Given that fact, do feel free to loop me in directly via (B)CC if you wish
(though again, it's not necessary).
i've been using debian for ~25 years,
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m...@neidorff.com wrote:
> This may or may not be helpful to Charlie, but others might find it
> helpful
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For the sake of others with a similar problem with the stock kmail
from within debian 9 stretch,
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Apologies if this turns out to be a duplicate message. I tried to send
to the list using my problematic Kmail client (and a message appeared
in my sent mail folder) but so far I don't see it having posted when I
look at the web archives for
Greetings,
I'm not subscribed to debian-user anymore, so would appreciate a CC on the
response if someone has an idea about how to
solve the below.
I have a friend who has used debian GNU/linux (with the help of others) for
many years. After his most recent upgrade
to stable, everything is
Florian Kulzer wrote:
dibble:~# dpkg -l xkb\* x11-\* xserver-xorg-input\* libx11\* | awk '/^i/{print
$1,$2,$3}'
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6
[...]
The other packages listed were up-to-date for Sid, but your libx11-6 is
way too old. (Even Etch/oldstable has version 2:1.0.3-7 already!)
Upgrade
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
Try to change the above section (and restart gdm):
Section InputDevice
Identifier Keyboard0
Driver kbd
Option CoreKeyboard
Option XkbRules xorg
Option XkbModel pc105
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
The
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 20:56:03 -0400, charlie derr wrote:
I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running
as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago, after upgrading
a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg
I have a machine that's quite old and underpowered that I've been running as Debian unstable for several years. A week or so ago,
after upgrading a bunch of packages (including lots of xserver-xorg* and the kernel) I found that my keystrokes were not being
properly registered (but only in X --
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/26/2009 07:41 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
What applications or usage scenarios get more out of your hardware as
with 32bit / 64bit kernel?
How much better are those on amd64?
If you have over 3 GB of memory then you need 64 bit.
I really think that's myth.
I'll
Kent West wrote:
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
I've been using Debian for more than three years now, but always using the
official DVDs of the most current stable version: first Sarge, and then Etch.
Recently, many times I've been needing to use a testing/unstable Debian version
for many applications
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Ignacio Mondino wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote:
[snip]
Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El
Salvador and without any dude i am American.
The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to
Michael Pobega wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote:
Michael
overwritten
I don't think there's any way to confirm that categorically).
~c
charlie derr wrote:
Hi,
I was fiddling with bzr last night for the first time and on one of
my debian sid workstations pulled in the bzr-svn from experimental
(because the one in sid was segfaulting
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
A while ago i asked for advice about upgrading--i wanted more up to date
packages on my Lenny laptop. Thanks to some helpful suggests, i concluded that
it was safe to go to unstable. I change /etc/apt/sources.list from lenny to
sid, and away i went.
Since then
Hi,
I was fiddling with bzr last night for the first time and on one of my debian sid workstations pulled in the bzr-svn from
experimental (because the one in sid was segfaulting when i tried to pull from a svn repo that wanted http auth). After noticing
that there were some 500 or so
Jeff Soules wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge.
Preferred by whom, for what reason? I've always been much happier
with apt-get when I want precision, aptitude when I want to browse.
When I
David Bernier wrote:
Dear Debian users,
I use the Icedove mail-client for my email. Icedove works like Thunderbird.
I continue my subscription so that I can send mail to the list.
With the high volume on this list, it's necessary for me to sift through
lots
of headers to separate the List
Mark Phillips wrote:
I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to
solve this problem??
thanks!
Mark
aptitude update
aptitude install apt-file
apt-file update
and then
apt-file search filename
will tell you what packages filename appears in
good
Stackpole, Chris wrote:
Is there a version of Firefox 3--or, i guess, Iceweasel 3--in package
form yet, or is it still in some kind of testing form where you have to
compile it yourself?
It is only in Sid right now:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=iceweasel
Of course there
Jochen Schulz wrote:
Hakan BAYINDIR:
P.S. I cannot send a config.gz since the kernel is prepackaged.
You'll find the configuration of the currently running kernel in
/proc/config.gz. At least Debian kernels have that feature enabled by
default.
J.
It would sure be nice if that were the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
I guess the defaults are very conservative settings regarding
reliability of your data and were implemented at a time when there was
no journalling for data protection.
Actually, kernel bugs, memory problems,
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Hello everybody,
My favorite radio station is not working correctly and I just run a ping
on it and surprise! Have a look at the following:
,[ time ping live.eliberadio.ro ]
| PING live.eliberadio.ro (80.86.106.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
| 64 bytes from 80.86.106.3:
I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working
fine for the past year an a half.
This weekend I upgraded (which included both X and kde) in unstable/sid and now I find that my X session is being rendered
(according to xvidtune) at 1680x1050
What's odd is that
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:04:32PM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
snippage
Section Monitor
Identifier Generic Monitor
Option DPMS
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection
I'd start by commenting out
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:29:18AM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working
fine for the past year an a half.
This weekend I upgraded (which included both X and kde) in unstable/sid and
now I find
Rick Dooling wrote:
On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer.
You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer
version of?
Most of them :-[ It looked to me like icedove 2.0.0.9-3 is available
steve wrote:
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charlie derr wrote:
|
|
| I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a
| routine update and everything breaks.
? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem
with anything breaking
An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at it at least as long). He's got a machine that's
running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs, cups, and a bunch
more often-used apps). He's really eager
I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years probably). Over the last 18 hours (it's a pretty slow old beast) I've
gotten most of the way towards an updated system, but ran into a problem late that I'm unsure how to address. I'm trying to avoid
uninstalling texlive-base-bin
kdegraphics
kde
latex-xcolor
texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-pstricks
prosper
tipa
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
charlie derr wrote:
I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years
probably). Over the last 18 hours (it's a pretty slow old beast) I've
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-01-13 17:23 +0100, charlie derr wrote:
I'm upgrading a sid machine (that's not been upgraded for years
probably).
Generally speaking, this is risky business, but you probably know that.
Leaping over the last stable release is not supported.
Thanks for that hint
I missed this message until just now, thanks so much for all the info I snipped
out, I'm going to try to understand it now.
aptitude-create-state-bundle doesn't apparently exist on my system -- was this a relatively recent addition to aptitude? (it may
have been a year or slightly longer
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Daniel Burrows wrote:
It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
linux-gate.so.1
putting that off for a week or so to see if it works better after available packages are built on the other end). I really
appreciate all the assistance,
~c
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:09:53AM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
aptitude-create
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-01-02 17:42 +0100, charlie derr wrote:
After continuing through a few more upgrades (actually, I got the word
that I should now be using safe-upgrade, so was using that when I
remembered), I'm now almost fully up to date (kde wants to uninstall
itself when I try
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote:
[snip]
Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME
terminal window.
you're just chicken :-]
Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use.
Yeah, I
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie
It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still
possibly catch something I haven't)
my working assumption at this point is that last night either
Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing aptitude
upgrade) and ended up with:
Errors were encountered while processing:
The interesting thing
Thanks much for the help.
gzopen64 should be defined in /usr/lib/libz.so.1; something is wrong
with this on your system. Post the output of the following commands:
dpkg -l zlib1g
ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz
ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 | grep libz
nm -D /usr/lib/libz.so.1 | grep
Charlie,
In this kind of situation, I would # apt-get --purge remove the
problematic package(s), then # apt-get update and try again.
as Daniel and Florian have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my problem is with libxml2 being completely borken at the moment
(I think) and aptitude is
ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz
libz.so.1 = /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7be)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$
[EMAIL
It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing aptitude
upgrade) and ended up with:
Setting up debhelper (5.0.63) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libgnomevfs2-extra
libgnomevfs2-0
libedata-book1.2-2
libedata-cal1.2-6
libgnome2-0
gnome-about
The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in
the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?)
It is better to use aptitude install -f if aptitude is your package
manager of choice.
Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-gconf-defaults,
which
charlie derr wrote:
The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in
the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?)
It is better to use aptitude install -f if aptitude is your package
manager of choice.
Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
emacs (comes with a free operating system)
Me don't understand.
The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre operating system. Most often pitted against its
I'm pretty sure the option is HIGHMEM -- grepping a 2.6.18 config file that I used to build a working kernel (that allows the
ability to access more than 885M of RAM) finds
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
hth,
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
On Apr 24, 12:00 am, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so if something does not work
you either misconfigured your browser or the specific site just sucks.
Well, so I would have thought. But then why does Firefox 2.0.0.3 on
Windows XP have no problems
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
You never really run just Sid. If you run Sid, then you run
testing/unstable (or lenny/sid in this case). This is because as
packages propagate from unstable to testing, then they are no longer in
unstable. If you only have unstable in your sources.list, you will
Randy Patterson wrote:
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 07:05, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
snippage
Also, please don't thread-hijack.
I had another response about needing to start a new thread and now this one. I
am the one that started this thread with the subject titled Using Etch to
resize NTFS
Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:07:54 -0700
charles norwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet
connection.
Work provides internet with no linux.
is there any way to aquire
At the very end of the process (after signing in with my username/password to the applet in either iceweasel or epiphany), I get
the following error from totem:
Totem could not play
'mmsh://a1518.I2280061804.c22800.g.lm.akamaistream.net/incredibly_long_url_truncated.asx'.
Any clues on how I
charlie derr wrote:
At the very end of the process (after signing in with my
username/password to the applet in either iceweasel or epiphany), I get
the following error from totem:
Totem could not play
'mmsh://a1518.I2280061804.c22800.g.lm.akamaistream.net/incredibly_long_url_truncated.asx
snippage
I'm thinking now that
the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does
that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop)
~c
It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even have totem.
I don't only use KDE, I have a lot of other stuff
jef e wrote:
charlie derr wrote:
Any clues on how I would get totem to play this apparent .asx file? Is
there a different application that would work better? I assume there's
lots of ugliness involving non-free codecs or some such, but I just
wondered if anyone else had this working
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder
or mailbox. I have seen such a thing.
does that mean I have a problem?
A
For whatever it's worth, I'm writing this
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder
or mailbox. I have
T wrote:
Hi,
Do you use yahoo mail, its web interface, regularly?
Do you use firefox for that?
Have you notice any problems?
I access my yahoo mail web interface using firefox almost every day. But I
bumped into problem from time to time. Sometimes I have
Sorry, Bad Request.
Your
On one of the machines that I oversee there is an issue with the df output that
I don't understand.
here's a part of the output from df -h
/dev/sda1 440G 420G 0 100% /backup
if i don't use the -h it looks like this:
/dev/sda1461293804 440335112 0 100%
Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:14:03 -0500
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I'm going on very hazy memory here, but it might give you enough info
for googling. If I recall correctly, the system wants at least 10%
free for system overhead; as 20Gig is only about 5% of your
Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
Hi there
I'm trying to use LDAP to administer the users on our
department network. So far, Kerberos works fine, and also
storing the user data into LDAP seems to work.
However, if I set in an LDIF file the uid attribute to, for instance
testuser and add the LDIF
Kevin Coyner wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote..
I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home
of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo.
Great idea but way too heavy of a website for me with all that Flash
and music.
Kent West wrote:
Mr Mike wrote:
snip
Actually I had no idea what would be relevant and absolutely no idea where to
even start.. Thanks for the help... I'll look into these and see if there's
anything noteworthy..
snip
I'm unsure what he's trying to accomplish with the zcat
Chad wrote:
I just installed Debian 3.0 r3. I'm a newbie and looking for some
anwers to some of my questions...if someone can anwser one, some, or
all Please
1. I know that apt-get is the main utility to add and remove programs
(in Debian anyways), also to veiw what is installed on your OS.
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Paul Stolp wrote:
* dircha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-22 21:48]:
Scarletdown wrote:
| == K
== X
| == P
Anyone else care to add to this little list?
0 == O
$ == S
|-| == H
|_| == U
|_ == L
\/\/ == W
/\/\ == M
|V| == M
|\| == N
|-o-| == tie fighter
{-o-} == tie interceptor
Good plan, I need to
Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2004-06-16T06:03:14Z, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another issue is that more gui and more memory mean more power which
translate to less battery time on the laptop.
OK, that's a valid point that I won't dispute. I've always bought used
laptops and I've yet to
Adam Funk wrote:
On Saturday 05 June 2004 13:20, Nicholas Lativy wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:33:46PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
...and they're tied with AOL users.
http://funroll-loops.org/
All that page does is quote a few stupid things that *some* Gentoo
users have said. Considering the
Hector Scaramelli wrote:
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 19:26, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Hector Scaramelli said on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:02:42PM -0300:
Hi,
Can anybody recommend an updated backport site to add to the
sources.list file so as to be able to upgrade the kernel and some
packages.
I am using
stan wrote:
I'm fighting a rather strange problem that I trigered when I built a new
kernel. I've got a amchien that I was running gdm on, and loging in
through that I got a Gnome session. Now GDM crashes. But strangley enough
startx does not (scratches head). IBut start starts a KDE session.
My recommendation (I didn't see this in your extensive littany of steps
taken) is to add the following line to /etc/postgresql/postgresql.conf
and then restart postgresql)
tcpip_sociket = 1
good luck,
~c
Danny O'Brien wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the helpful replies (my
Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:02:16PM -0500, Dan Weikert wrote:
Any suggestions from those more experienced? I'll be happy to provide
any further information but don't be shy about giving explicit
instructions. :)
After updating I always use the '-s' option to apt-get first
P.Racec wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install a kernel 2.4.24 on HP Proliant ML330. After
'make-kpkg kernel-image' I get the following error
make: [stamp-debian] Error 1 (ignored)
echo done stamp-debian
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules INCLUDE_KERNEL_MAKEFILE=yes conf_vars
make[1]: Entering
Leonardo Custodio wrote:
Has anybody tried to run Debian on a Toshiba Tecra S1?
I'm thinking over removing the old OS and placing a 'real' one.
Appreciate your response.
Sure. I'm answering you right now from mine. The ati radeon mobility
9000 in this model requires X4.3 (from experimental),
Mark Maas wrote:
Hi All,
I've been using Putty (Windows) to remotely connect to my Debian box as
long as I can remember. Recently though i'm getting tired of the way it
works...
Does anyone use a program that can handle cut and paste, handle ascii
art better etc?
Thanks!
Mark M
Putty will
Stephen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:37:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Adam Aube wrote:
snip
Could you post the full line in question from httpd.conf?
Sure, does this help?
Sure does.
Try instead using:
ServerName barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org
---
#
snip
#ServerName
Vikki Roemer wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:13:55AM -0500, 0debian user wrote:
Also I wanted to run my own web server and mail server but my machine is
not always online so how can I do it?
Go to http://www.dyndns.org/ and sign up there. They give you up to 5
hostnames for free, you just
Raquel Rice wrote:
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 08:47:36 -0800
Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 07:45:12PM -0800, Raquel Rice wrote:
I'm running Woody. Soon after I installed Debian, I installed
PHP4 with MySQL support but not with PostgreSQL. Now I want to
include support
Governments don't have as much power to fuck my life up as corporations.
Perhaps true in some situations, but from my point of view (as a usian),
it's getting harder and harder to tell the two apart.
~c
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sid$ apt-cache search xtree
ytree - A file manager that looks like Xtree Gold(tm)
cool, i remember xtree
~c
Gruessle wrote:
Somebody told me about a software like xtree gold (msdos software)
I used it before but I don't recall it's name or how to install it.
xTree Gold is a dos based program
Debian User wrote:
maybe i missed something in a previous post... isn't it the purpose
to soecify hosts you are allowing to relay w/ the host_accept_relay
setting in exim.conf? this will allow you not to be an open relay
eventhough you have a dynamic IP address.
I think what you missed is that
my email also to the users to delete all my emails? It will
be a greate help.
thanks
Sreelal
-Original Message-
From: charlie derr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:30 PM
To: Sreelal Chandrasenan
Subject: Re: FW: Audio quality testing with Nero
Hi Sreelal
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
Okay, so after some googling and help I've installed alien, discover,
xserver-common and x-window-system-core, used apt pinning to get XFree86
4.3 and re-ran xf86config
'startx' still fails as does 'kdm'
What can I do?
for what it's worth, here's what i use for X4.3
Tom Vier wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do you like a
seperate boot partition?
yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only read ext2.
I don't think this is completely true. I'm using
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 at 02:41 GMT, Tom Vier penned:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:39:16PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Is there any need for a /boot partition on modern hardware? Why do
you like a seperate boot partition?
yes, many bootloaders (aboot, silo, lilo) can only
It seems the correct course of action is right there.
dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ...
For me, something like this worked:
# apt-get remove python
(or maybe it was apt-get remove python2.3)
Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file before you
apt-get install grub
good luck,
~c
Victory wrote:
Hello all,
How to install GRUB for Debian 3.0r1 in conjunction with kernel-image
and kernel-source. By default it's LILO.
Regards,
Victor,
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I've been using Daniel Stone's X 4.3 packages for some time with no
problems. Well, actually the machine would lock up periodically when I
was using X but that hasn't happened since I stopped using kde on my
desktop (more than 2 weeks now, i still use konqueror and konsole from
fvwm2 with no
It's probably not a full and complete answer to your question, but I
find what works for me is to log in to the graphical user environment of
your choice as a regular user and then execute su in one of the
terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, whatever...) inside the gui
(not su -). I
Thanks very much for the very informative post. We also use
postfix here.
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Tom Allison wrote:
If I install openLDAP, what tools do I use to configure the various
databases?
If you're converting accounts from an existing machine, you'll probably
want to check out the migration tools from padl.com. For
administration, it's pretty essential to understand the command
Hi,
Often I find myself executing the following:
$ dpkg -l '*foo*'
to find all packages with foo in the name.
When instead I look for only installed foo packages as follows:
$ dpkg -l '*foo*' | grep ii
the output is truncated, and if there's a foo package with a
particularly long package
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