On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:36:43PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I need to mount diver devices (sd*, hd*, mmcblk*) on diver mount points
(/mnt/hdd* /mnt/dvd*). Yet as I do not have to mount them all at once, I do
not
want to have a lot of mount points in /mnt - therefore I can not
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:58:59PM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote:
We've been increasing in numbers of debian lenny servers and they has
a cron.hourly as follow:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/ntpdate -u swisstime.ethz.ch
We're planning to setup our NTP's servers only to serve our local
boxes. I've
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:22:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am sure that this is an easy question for those people who do any
reasonable amount of scripting. I'm just not one of them.
How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name being
the old name stripped of its
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19 -0300, Tiago Saboga tiagosab...@gmail.com
wrote:
whollyg...@letterboxes.org writes:
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, thveillon.debian
thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hi,
I've just installed cups to manage
Hi,
I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web
interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select
a driver and click on Add Printer. At that point I am
prompted for a username and a password.
root login is disabled on the box, so I can't use root/password.
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:48:30AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Thing is, I ran memtest86+ last night but it the computer froze midway
through test #3 of the first pass. I assumed it was because I was running
a 32 bit version of memtest on a 64 bit architecture, but
Hi,
I'm trying to install 5.0.1, amd64 to an MSI motherboard with and Athlon 64
processor. I get as far as installing the base system, then at 27%,
extracting login the system hangs. Any thoughts?
The iso image passed and md5 check sum, and I tried burning it three times,
so I'm pretty sure
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:11:22AM -0500, Victor Padro wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:16 AM, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install 5.0.1, amd64 to an MSI motherboard with and Athlon 64
processor. I get as far as installing the base system, then at 27%,
extracting login
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:03:19AM -0400, Ronnie McMaster wrote:
I just loaded Debian on my PC and everything seems fine other than not being
able to set the resolution other than 800X600. I am used to having it at
1240X940 (or something close to that) but I only get the options for 800x600
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
Hi list,
Made a new unstable install from daily build, using business card image from
2
days ago. Everything went OK during the process, but the reboot was more
trouble:
No way to enter the system as a user, login failed;
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 08:49:19AM +0930, Miguel Obliviemo wrote:
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$
Don't know anything about arno-iptables but for
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 06:00:14PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with
su - another_user
another_user$ oowriter
I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display.
How this can be overcome?
take a look at
Hi all,
I finally got enough of a grasp on xen to create a guest
system. But I think it didn't get created properly because
I can't log in to it.
I tried xen-shell expecting a prompt but only got what looks
like an unfinished sequence of boot args:
begin excerpt
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:27:18PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:43 AM, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hi all,
I finally got enough of a grasp on xen to create a guest
system. But I think it didn't get created properly because
I can't log in to it.
I tried
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 01:18:09AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to use xen for the first time. This box is running a recent
install of Lenny.
# time xm create -c config.mabelle_vm
/ramdisk=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
Using config file /etc/xen/config.mabelle_vm.
Hi,
I'm trying to use xen for the first time. This box is running a recent
install of Lenny.
I've reading web howtos, the man pages and user.pdf, so it could be that I
am mixing and matching too much and not following the debian way, but here
goes:
# time xm create -c config.mabelle_vm
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:26:27AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
Hi,
On the standard console (alt+ctr+f1), no x session running, is it
possible to run a command after a certain number of minutes where no
keys have been pressed? Like the gnome screen saver, except for the
console. I want to be
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:56:57AM +0400, Olive wrote:
My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in
the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an external hard
drive (and I boot from a CD since this is an old laptop not being able
to boot from USB). I
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Some folks around here consider myself, Ron, Paul, Andrew and some of
the others to be experts.
Though you don't state so explicitly, the underlying assumption in that
statement is that by being knowledgeable you can do whatever you please on
the
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:08:40AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
I type crontab -e and add a line that have 6 fields,
but it does not work.
Is the last line of your crontab file a blank line, no characters on it?
Can't remember why crontab requires this, but it does (or it used to). See
man 5
Hi,
I've been hardening a box (woody installation upgraded to sarge) by
following along the Securing Debian howto.
I added the following two lines (which aren't exact copies of those in the
hwoto) to /etc/pam.d/common-password:
password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlength=12 difok=3
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:45:29PM +0100, debian user wrote:
Translation follows.
Bonjour,
debian-user est une liste en langue anglaise. Il existe un homologue en
français où vous aurez peut-être plus de réponse, debian-user-french:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/
Cependant,
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Greetings all;
Need quick answer folks, I'm burning paper by the ream here.
I have gv, running on a BDI-4.30 install, printing the docs for a piece
of the emc2 software package. I told it to print odd pages only as I
normally
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:57:35PM +0100, Alessandro Pluchino wrote:
hi all,
i'm want to install debian on a very old system (pentium 1),but the bios does
not support cdrom boot.
how can i install debian ?
Smart boot manager on a floppy. It's worked well for me on machines that
won't
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:02:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I just did a security upgrade with Sarge and got installed
sudo_1.6.8p7-1.3_i386.deb. But when I use sudo to get to synaptic I get:
(synaptic:25937): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
When I then reinstalled the
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:27:27PM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 16:48 -0800, nuno romano wrote:
--snip--
-Java: I don´t know which Java Runtime Environment,SDK
is the most effective,the blackdown.org or the
Gnu classpath,gcj,or other.For example,I want to
(with the dist-upgrade), then upgrade my
kernel. But that's just me.
I don't think Sarge has been officially released. Woody is still the
official stable release. I think you meant Sarge in all above instances
where you made reference to stable.
GCrimp
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 08:58:30AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
[snip]
I was able to get the scsi emulation turned back on easily enough. And
it did burn one CD, the one I needed. But now I need to access the
stupid thing and I have no idea which device it really is.
sr1 (according to
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:23:42AM +1100, Robert Parker wrote:
When the user starts an app such as a mail client or web browser I need to
ask if an internet connection is wanted or not.
If yes, then it needs to invoke something like pon or wvdial to make the
connection.
Look for diald,
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:57:05AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whether or not this is related to debian is not clear, but it's possible.
I've currently set fsck to run pretty much on every other boot.
And just about every time it runs , it informs me that it fixed file
system errors
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:19:43PM +0100, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
Hi ghcbc,
VARIABLENAME=$(mawk 'whatever') .
Hi,
Thanks. I can get this to work on the command line, but not in a bash
script.
bash$ Myvar=$(mawk 'gsub(/,) { print }')
The shell will then wait for input. I type
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