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> > >=20
> > > I was looking at /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. In the 2.2.x kernel docs, recomm=
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> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:42:47PM +, David Wright wrote:...
> > Thanks - I've had to modify it slightly for a Sun because touch isn't
> > so clever, and it becomes either
> wonder what happens of you go to f
g in.
I've never bothered with a display manager except when I had a machine
with an Avance graphics card that was a pain to switch back to VCs
(corrupted the font). In particular I would avoid them until you've
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. lp queuename
In lpr, for example,
. the first paragraph in /etc/printcap
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don't get autocleaned (removed), e.g. sound.
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not try pppconfig and pon/poff instead.
That way, pppd will just do the Right Thing.
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[I did notice that you posted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups
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AFAIK a /dev/cdrom link is only useful for playing music CDs.
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lpr etc. until you can cat a file to the device.
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files of ppp/ippp for a parameter "huptimeout" or so.
>
> there is no (i)ppp installed to that machine. it connects with 10baseT
> ethernet to a micro device, and we are connected (masquaraded) through it.
You might try something like
echo 120 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepali
t;A" or install "B" ??
Priority: important lines in the Packages file.
For who decides, see the Debian Policy Manual in
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forgot
to make unix.o built-in in the potted kernels.
Were you to build your own kernel, it would disappear (assuming
CONFIG_UNIX=y
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on configuring printer packages before you have managed to cat something
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o be made before a distribution is released
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kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,11 status change on irq 11
cardmgr[174]: starting, version is 3.0.5
cardmgr[174]: watching 2 sockets
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hem), i.e. master/slave.
Hopefully it isn't that you killed the data interface with static
when you were exchanging boards and stuff.
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post-potato: dpkg --purge portmap
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> -| -|
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words, if there's no package to remove, then stop the service
(first line) and prevent it from being started again by renaming the
file which starts it, so that the system can no longer find the file
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If they're correct, then maybe there is a problem with syslog-ng.
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It may be different from 3.
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setting them smaller than max res.); not that I'm
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of the dialout group being able to snoop while pppd is running.)
Why not try pppconfig, pon and poff...
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have to do the same sort of thing. Debian will not
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a kernel that happens to be called "stable": this would destroy
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he serial port while a PPP connection was in
progress, perhaps changing its speed or other characteristics for
example.
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A reference to your reference would help. I'm not going to plough
through all the X docs on the off chance that I see something that
I think might be what you don't understand!
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I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University.
The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult
to maintain software synchronization across machines. Any tips?
I already use LDAP to distribute user and group information and NFS to
share /home dir
When troubleshooting on RedHat, I often log in to a X session as a user,
then su to root in an xterm and run ethereal (a packet-sniffer with GUI)
to watch the network traffic that results from my actions as a user.
I would like to do this on Debian, but when I try to start ethereal, I get
the err
Several posters have pointed out that I can get DHCP to assign IPs based
on MAC, which goes a long way toward solving my problem. I guess if I
share hosts using ldap, I can still give each machine a unique name, too.
Now the only problem I can think of with sharing /usr and /etc is that my
file s
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Kelley, Tim (CBS-New Orleans) wrote:
> I would say if you're gonna go ahead and share /usr you may as well go
> diskless.
I think you are probably right about this.
> OR: run a centrally managed group of apps over X remotely (this could
> get messy tho) this way they all run
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:52:34PM +0100, Mirek Dobsicek wrote:
Hi,
I'm in trouble .. I'm trying to run Matlab6, but it doesnt want to
start in
GUI mode
and in /root appears file log.java..
It starts only in command mode, if i use -nojvm option.
We had the same problem on a Red Hat sy
I have 3 computers running a debian "distros" and another running Windows
2000.
I am losing time when i execute a programs (waiting a lot of time and i not
have a time).
i use a lot of programs, nearby to ten or eleven, and my CPU is hot. ;)
Your best bet for clustering under Linux is Mosix
On session start the user sends his login name and the password for the
remote account. I want to check the authenticity by something like
trying to ssh into the remote account and immediately logout again. The
unix user doing this is the owner of the apache process.
If this is the only time
So I decided to let them install Debian from our local ftp-server for a
start. I am preparing for this, but find it not so easy to do.
I use and apprecite Debian daily, so I hate to say this, but it's true:
if you want to impress them with an easy Linux installation, don't use
Debian! Grab
I am running testing with kernel 2.4.12. Get this...
debian:/home/ichbin# apt-get install tar
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
build-essential cpio debhelper debmake devscripts dh-make dpkg-dev
initrd-tools kernel-image-2.
Hi, I want to benchmark my desktop system running in Linux (Gnome, XF86 v3.x,
2.4.5 kernel) against itself running Win98se. Is there a benchmark program
that will work in both enviornments to give me an accurate benchmark?
No, of course not. Different systems do different things well and
poor
I really don't need the preaching. I wanted a straight answer.
Au contraire. You got a rather information-packed answer that is as
straight as possible, dosed up with a bit of good-natured joshing. You
now know:
Process-cyclingUnix
Threads manipulation Windows
FP Arithmet
Does anyone know the status of drivers for Creative's Audigy sound cards? I
would like to buy one and use it with Debian.
Does Alsa 0.9.x support it? If so, how to I use the Alsa drivers on a Debian
(Linux 2.4.x) system? If not, can someone point me to a development site/list?
How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just
starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to
centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck.
The etherboot tutorial says to
cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0
> How can I let a normal user use the "halt" or "shutdown" command?
All the responses to this query have been ugly hacks. The right way to do
this this (put on flame-retardant suit here) is the way RedHat does: make
the halt binary call up pam for authenticaton and authorization and allow
the
Now, would you like /sbin/halt to also show a "Are you really really
sure (Abort/Ignore/Retry/Fail)?" dialog a few times and then count to
10 (so we could press ^C) before doing "telinit 0"?
If the sysadmin wants his users to go through this: yes, that's exactly
what I want. If he wants his u
Stuff like this doesn't belong in sysvinit. It belongs in an
optional package that can call shutdown, not in shutdown itself.
Let alone in the halt binary!
Fine, I wouldn't object.
But I would point out that (1) you don't loose any modularity with a pam
layer, since you can configure pam to
I am running CUPS 1.1.14 on Debian (sid), and printing to a Tektronix
Phaser 850 (postscipt laser printer) which is attached directly to our
LAN with its own IP. I configured it using
lpadmin -p ColorLaser -E -v lpd://111.222.333.444/ps
-m Phaser_850-Postscript.ppd
I can send it postscript f
I have a hard time believing that a package as important as kde being
broken wouldn't generate a flood of bug reports. What am I doing wrong?
# apt-get install kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
re
the thing that is holding you up is that the current kde packages
> depend on libglib1.3-12 which is no longer in the debian archives
Wow! This is a major bug! Thanks for the tip; I found the relevant bug
reports under the libkmid package. The fix has been "pending" for 20
days now; let's hope
Now that KDE is working on sid again, I'd like to let my users choose
between Gnome, KDE, and None. Is there some way to let users override
/etc/alternatives/x-session-manager at the graphical login?
27;s a security risk because
obviously the group owner of your files is not root (which it
should be).
$ ls -l /etc/ppp/*secrets
-rw---1 root root 2296 May 15 2000 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
-rw---1 root root 1524 Oct 19 1998 /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
is correct.
Ch
nvest in a real
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in its memory,
it's being sent from the computer's print queue. You should remove
the job(s) from the printer queue (lprm).
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always get hold of a file if you're unfortunate
enough to be near only non-linux machines by leaving a copy of
unzip.exe on each floppy.
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ou asked for), ignoredups or
ignoreboth (also ignores successive duplicate command lines).
Then add a space at the beginning of the line when you you type
things like rm -f * or shutdown.
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and running update-modules.
The buffer needs to be allocated to < 16MB so getting it modprobed
early ensures that. This problem might arise with a new mobo/more
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board trick at home where there's no permanent
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out in June, with 2.4 stuff.
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s mistake and inserting
silences into continuous music CDs. That's the player's fault, not the
fault of using tracks.
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tions, you'll have the
experience to decide just what size you ought to make them (different
for everybody).
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ey replace each year.
Or has the new administration already decreed that the costs
of disposal must be borne by users, who are expected to throw
them out of their car windows when on the freeway? :)
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the same sequence of commands) may depend on the output
observed from some of those same commands. You can't do that with pipes
and streams.
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audio tracks.
BTW when splitting wav files, Jake, it's important to make sure they're
broken at 2352-byte boundaries so you don't get gaps between them.
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apt-get
(which also only satisfies Depends, and does not bother with Recommends
or Suggests). Dselect will give you everything that's Required,
Important or Standard, IIRC.
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ally running faster or slower because
it thinks it lost/gained an hour.
The script to look at is /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh and has
some comments for guidance. Oh, and before you start, make sure
that M$ has completed its alteration after the last DST clock change.
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#x27;t
type rm -i whatever/ *), press ^C, recall the command and precede
with yes |
(the assumes that this will prevent the line going into your
history).
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quot; > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
would suffice to set your hostname and NIS domainname.
so it seems you need to tell it.
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was written (it's newer right?)
Take a look at http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
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c/modutils/modules.conf can contain all sorts of redundant info
without any noticeable effects.
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it will have bizarre Date: headers anyway).
OTOH man formail's example uses the Date: header, partly as an excuse
to warn of the dangers of using the -a switch which writes From_
lines in what is probably going to be a format that mailers can't grok.
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disappearing when you next boot, or just a subdirectory in your home
directory would be adequate. (I use a vfat zip-disk which makes sure
it gets taken home for my machine there.)
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alls,
installed kernel-image packages that you downloaded, or built using
kernel-package.
Whether and where you unpack the tarballs, patch them, build them,
etc. is up to you, does not have to be done as root (use fakeroot),
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isplay manager (*dm).
The user concerned should be able to kill the X server,
gdm might need root - I don't know.
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nge -r to -h
in the /etc/inittab entry for Ctl-Alt-Del.
If you're worried that it halts but doesn't power off, then compile
a kernel with APM enabled and "Power of on Shutdown" selected.
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modem has just answered an incoming call but fails
to call back, other times I just decide I want to dial out and it
won't. And, yes, it's common to all my USR modems (3 x 33k, 1 x 56k).
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> >
> > If you process email usin
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script, and how do I make
> >> it run during bootup?
Writing scripts is just fine for something that Debian doesn't cater for,
but you are making work for yourself by not playing the Debian way.
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.txt in the kernel source.
I guess you might be able to debug something with it.
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ort and parport_pc installed first, so I guess
imm (the more modern ppa) might do too.
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quot; queue so that
you can have a separate entry in printcap:
:rm=999.888.777.63:\
:rp=raw:\ groks PS
:rm=999.888.777.63:\
:rp=text:\ groks text with any old line-ending char
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Can anyone suggest a scientific graphing program that can do histograms.
* i don't know if guppi can, but there is no debian package
* grace claims it can, but it lies. it wants you to import a list of
(X,Y)s and then generate a histogram of Ys.\
A histogram-generator imports a list of Ys (i.
The newest sid xemacs crashes at start. No problem, I think, that's the
price of using unstable -- I'll just downgrade to testing. But it
doesn't work!
> apt-get install xemacs21/testing
complains about unmet dependencies (isn't apt-get supposed to resolve
depndencies?! it works with the sid
Are there any plans to make a stand-alone guppi package (currently only
libguppi exists, essentially for invocation by gnumeric and gnucash)? As a
sysadmin for a scientific lab, it would be a nice tool for my users, but
given the hell that is compiling bonobo applications, I won't
realisticall
I'm going to have to compile a custom kernel (need built-in nfs in order
to etherboot) for the first time, so I am looking for advice. I would
like to start with all the options set as for kernel-image-2.4.17-k6 and
then just change the few options I need; is there a way to do this?
Also, is
I'm relatively new to Debian, and I just discovered that I have
accumulated over 1G of .deb's in /var/cache/apt/archives. Can the
contents of this directory be regularly wiped? Why isn't their a cron
job to do this by default -- does one loose something?
The revised Debian CD pages (http://www.debian.org/CD/) are very
frustrating. Click on "Download a minimal bootable CD image" and what do
you get? A page telling you about how much better it is to use a minimal
bootable image -- and no link to one! So -- where do I obtain a minimal
bootable im
frustrating. Click on "Download a minimal bootable CD image" and what do
you get? A page telling you about how much better it is to use a minimal
bootable image -- and no link to one!
I followed the links to here:
http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/20011227/
Ah, I understan
I am using an AGP nVidia GeForce2 MX video card and am experiencing video
problems. The screen, even in text mode, shows lots of flickering, horizontal
lines.
The monitor is a 1600 x 1200 19" LCD; I can plug it into another machine and
the image is beautiful, so I don't think the problem is in
I am currently preparing a new multiuser system. Previously I have just
let users configure their desktops as they like, starting from the
distributions defaults, but now I would like to customize our default
desktop. So...
How do I create system-wide defaults for sawfish and gnome?
Can I jus
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