Incoming from Adam Fabian:
> Email and newsgroups aren't intended to be real-time communication
> mediums. Sometimes they are, if they're working optimally, but if
> not, it wasn't the intention of the protocol anyway.
Besides, what happens when some box between you and the destination
only runs
Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> >
> >>Just yesterday, I started having problems with kate. It will start up,
> >>and then give me errors about not being able to start the DCO
Incoming from Mirko Parthey:
> According to the glibc reference manual, LANGUAGE can contain a
> colon-separated list of locales to indicate their order of preference.
>
> However, the behaviour I observed is different from what I expected.
> (tested with "cat -h", which produces a short error mes
Incoming from Sean Davis:
>
> disk I/O. If I understand your argument correctly, an accurate analogy would
> be leaving your car running 24/7 just so that you don't have to start it the
> next time you want to drive somewhere. Would you do that? no.
I'm not sure how relevant it is, but this is ho
Incoming from Lei Kong:
>
> I like the consistent look across kde and gtk applications offered by
> this feature, but with this enabled, gnome doesn't start any more.
The first thing you should be offering people who might be able to
help you is error messages. Does ~/.xsession-errors exist? Wi
Incoming from Charles Read:
>
> I currently run sarge (debian testing that is) on a few important
> servers, how should I handle sarge going from testing to stable? Is it
> like at an instant all the testing repositories will be labeled stable
> and from that moment forward everybody with wood
Incoming from Roberto C. Sanchez:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:39:25PM +1200, Simon wrote:
> >
> > How do i start figuing out this issue?
>
> Step 1. Switch to Postgres.
Life's far too short to waste time reading replies like that.
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Incoming from Paulo M C Aragão:
>
> How do I discover which device drivers are built into a given kernel
> image, not accessing the sources ?
Check the config file that came with it?
cd /boot
ls -l config*
uname -a
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Incoming from Paulo M C Aragão:
> Hi Keeling, Jacob and Peter,
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:52:58PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> > If it's enabled in the kernel, you can also do
> >
> > zcat /proc/config.gz
> >
> > It's been a long time since I've used a stock Debian kernel, so I don't
Incoming from Chris Robinson:
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me? I am trying to "VI" a file that appears
Hopefully you mean "vi"?
> to have control characters.
> They appear as bold "~U|" and bold " | |", without the ".
>
> I have tried seaching for these characters, with ":/~U" and :/| and
Incoming from Graham Smith:
> Alex Malinovich wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's
> >>boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little
> >>confused about how to go ahead an
Incoming from Patrick Wiseman:
> On 6/2/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 Jun 2005 01:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > I _had_ planned on just staying with 'testing' in my sources.list. Is
> > > that a bad idea?
> >
> > I think Patrick might be referring to switching f
Incoming from xxx xxx:
>
> I've installed Debian Woody v3 r2 and everything works fine. The problem
> is, that I cannot connect to the Internet when I'm an oridnary user(I have
Add yourself to groups dialout and dip (/etc/group). Logout then log
back in. "pon"
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Incoming from Graham Smith:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Incoming from Graham Smith:
> >>
> >>kopt=ramdisk_size=16384
> >
> >I don't use it but mine has a comment:
> >
> > # kopt_2_6_0=ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/hda9 ro acpi=yes
>
> T
Incoming from Andreas Hatz:
>
> Thanks for the tip re the chkrootkit. There are a couple of warnings:
>
> Searching for t0rn's v8 defaults... Possible t0rn v8 (or variation) rootkit
> installed
> Checking `lkm'... You have 3 process hidden for ps command
> Warning: Possible LKM Trojan instal
Incoming from David Witbrodt:
> This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other OSes
> onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have started
> configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering whether an email
> application exists that would allow
Incoming from mess-mate:
>
> I backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde
> backup utility). I've to delete manually older backups of these.
> The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz
> Is there a utility to delete oldest backups automatically or must it
>
Jan Leewe Behrendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 21:18 schrieb Jacob S:
> > On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:34:53 -0400
> >
> > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote:
> > > > be getting out of hand :)
> > > > us a lecture on
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday 09 June 2005 05:26 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> >
> > So a top-poster is concerned about him or herself not doing extra work.
> > A bottom-poster is concerned with improving the quality of reading for
> > others.
>
> That's the most self-serving, se
Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > thing is a pain in the but. At least on the Linux machines it is
> > straightforward and I set those up when I can to use keys instead of
> > passwords.
>
> May I introduce you to ssh-agent and ssh-add.
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> David Jardine wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >>>Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> >>>by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
> >>>want to move from sarge to etch autom
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:57:56AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems
> > to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing".
>
> I am not a Debian developer. I am a user. But I know e
belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I want to send a file from one remote machine to another one like this
> scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/dsl-1.2.iso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/debian
...^^^
> Password:
> Host key verifica
Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, s. keeling wrote:
>
> > And if anyone can get at your console, they can CTRL-ALT-Backspace to
> > get to a logged in shell prompt. They may not still have your ssh-add
>
> No they can't. A sessio
Chris Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Old woody system - the bayes files for spamassassin give the
> following:
>
> $ file *
> bayes_seen: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
> bayes_toks: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order)
>
> New sarge system - perl's T
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Michael Martinell wrote:
> > Does anybody have any suggestions for this?
>
> Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is the
> killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin task which
> implies to some degree having
James Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> For some reason my ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bashrc are not being executed
> by bash. Is there some way I can fix this problem? I tried to add a
What problem exactly? What symptoms?
What happens when you "xterm -ls"? That tells xterm to start up as a
I'm having a bit of trouble here. My employer's op. is based on a vpn
running on Ensim (Pt!), within which is running a MySQL database.
I've looked at several things (mysql-navigator 1.2.4-1, OpenOffice
1.1.4, ...) in order to connect remotely, to no effect. mysqladmin
doesn't appear to exist
I popped my mail last night, and still there were ca. 180 waiting for
me when I got home this evening. I cannot keep up at that rate. Many
questions were repeats of questions I've been answering for years.
Then again, I've asked questions here that never were answered.
In that spirit, I'd like t
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:39:59PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > In that spirit, I'd like to suggest that this list needs a FAQ list.
>
> You have a faq.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
This one is useful. I've seen it before, but lost i
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:19:47PM -0600, montefin wrote:
>
[yada yada snip]
>
> When every other site worth a damn has a basic, simple,
> clear-up-the-obvious, Search Engine, http://www.debian.org/search
> complains it has not found a Search Engine worthy of itself.
I don't need a search engine
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote:
> I would like to get some color in emacs, from checking the emacs ng it
> looks like .Xdefaults entries are the way to go, but I don't have an
> .Xdefaults file, just .xsession.
> Could someone post the 'color' portion of their .emac
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 05:04:57PM -0500, luke b wrote:
> I am having problems with my Logitech PS2 mouse in X. GPM is set to use
> /dev/psaux for the mouse and it works perfectly. In X, I set the mouse to
> use /dev/psaux as well. I can move the mouse, but it moves really fast at
> the very
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:15:52PM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote:
>
> I recently exchanged my MSI-6167 board with a new MSI-K7pro. Since
> then I seem to have a problem with the Power Management.
>
> I chose "Enable console blanking using APM" in the kernel setup
> (2.2.17pre20) and with the old b
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:17:01PM +0200, Atila Nemet wrote:
>
> Where and how can I set up the fonts under X? I finally managed to
> make xterm use a little bigger fonts than the usual ones, but when I
> start some other consol applications (namely the fte editor) it uses
> the default little fon
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:31:33AM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
>
> echo "nameserver IP_OF_NAMESERVER" >/etc/resolv.conf
>
> to create a basic resolv.conf
Basic is right. I've always seen it in the form of:
hostresorder local bind
search your.nameserver.hostname
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:08:43PM -0500, Debian Ghost wrote:
>
> D Ghost here. Have a quickie.
^
That is becoming *very* irritating.
> How can I tell if I installed gnome or helix gnome?
> I can not remember which I installed.
What does dpkg -l | grep gnome say? If you go to th
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:52:15PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote:
>
> Hey guys. Under RedHat, I just added the smarthost feature, and
> the masquerade envelope, and I could tell sendmail to use mail.storm.ca as
> my relay. I've tried doing that with Debian, but I'm getting "user
> unknown" er
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:11:11AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 08:27:32PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > ... this has nothing to do with Debian! Why aren't all
> > these non-Debian specific questions filling my mailbox sent to where
>
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:37:03PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Bruce Sass writes:
> > > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> >
> > I'm not convinced that you can write a special b
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 12:51:52PM -0700, Daly Gutierrez wrote:
> Hi again, everyone.
>
> I forgot to mention that after compiling my new kernel, I now get many
> modules-related error messages. If I remember correctly, I did the
> following:
>
> make mrproper (cleaned everything right out)
> ma
On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 12:50:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> Your message cannot be delivered to the recipient because his/her mail box
> storage limit has exceeded.
Is everyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
is it just me? I assume it will eventually
This used to work. I became annoyed that the listing header was
printed as "Printed by from" instead of "Printed by $USER from
$HOSTNAME". Discussing it on apsfilter.org, the solution appeared to
be replace lpr with lprNG. lpr + apsfilter + a2ps was failing on
perms in parsing the lpd lock file.
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:52:53PM -0700, Dale L . Morris wrote:
> I'm thinking of getting a cd writer for my system. Any suggestions on
I've seen recommendations for Yamaha 8424SX (CDRW). That should get
you started.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within.
- The man page for alien says not to use it on source packages. I
understand apsfilter is mostly sh source. Can I use alien on it
(a .tar.gz archive)?
- Is there a better way to do this? I'm apparently fighting a known
problem with lpd's; apsfilter runs under UID daemon, lpd con
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 12 2000, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > I rolled out my first Debian installation on a similar
> > > configuration, though I had about half the disk.
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:35:51AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> This used to work. I became annoyed that the listing header was
> printed as "Printed by from" instead of "Printed by $USER from
> $HOSTNAME". Discussing it on apsfilter.org, the solution appeared to
>
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:18:11PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:50:33PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 03:12:13PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:52:27AM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:49:57PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
> hi all
>
> Does anyone know how to set the number of characters per line & number of
> lines per screen for the console??
Assuming you use lilo, man 5 lilo.conf. See the vga= line.
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:27:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have debian/gnu linux 2.1 setup on my i-486 machine but I don't have a
> printer yet.
>
> I want to make sure that the printer I get will work, but since I've
> never even had anything connected to my parallel port, I'm no
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote:
> Hello,
> Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian.
> I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the lan.
> I think I have this thing correct, but I get an error when I try to send
> anything to t
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:10:41PM -0700, Alexander Poquet wrote:
>
> hi, im installing (or trying to) potato on an older p100
> i have and everything was going well. i chose the
Bizarre! I have never had a problem installing the base system, as
long as I was using floppies I'd ensured were for
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:20:55PM +0800, Gary Lee wrote:
> AS title, thanks
Careful with those titles (floopy?).
mount -t fstype /dev/device /mountpoint
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0u1440 /mnta
Or put the relevant info in /dev/fstab, then:
mount /mnta
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 12:52:18PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote:
> I've recently got a copy of XIG's Accelerated X, and I wanted to give it a
> try on my Potato System, but before I do I wanted to check something.
>
> Currently I'm using the XFree86 3.3.5 packages to provide X. If I de-install
> th
Incoming from Erik Jakobsen:
>
> How do I install the Mozilla's irc to a running Mozilla.
>
> Running Debian Sarge.
apt-get update
apt-get install mozilla-chatzilla
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Incoming from Geoff Thurman:
>
> I'm running woody on one hd, and have recently installed sarge on
> another by upgrading everything over the net after installing from my
> original woody cds. Tonight on the sarge hd, chkrootkit gives about
> twenty lines of
>
> /proc/1544/fd/1 : value too lar
Incoming from Adi Linden:
> In Debian/Sarge, where is the appropriate place for some iptables rules to
> deny access to some local ports?
Dunno about sarge, but there's a /etc/network/if-up.d/ here. If
you're using a modem, there's /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/
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Incoming from Adi Linden:
> > On my system I put a firewall script in /etc/init.d and have it loaded on startup.
> > But this is on a LAN. You may want to do things differently for dial-up.
>
> It's on a LAN. Sounds like everyone just rolls their own then, no standard
> place to stick iptables r
Incoming from P P PRASAD:
>
> Can you guide me in following case :
> We are having a System having 2 HDDs C & D . On C Windows 2000 Server
> is installed and on D Red Hat 9 is installed. Now D is nearly full.
> We want to format C and extend it for Linux.
> My hitch is if I delete partition of C,
Incoming from Clive Menzies:
> On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the
> > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running
> > woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will
>
> In
Incoming from Clive Menzies:
> On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Clive Menzies:
> > > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the
> > > > big switchover c
Incoming from Joost Witteveen:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> >># this doesn't:
> >>deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib
> >>non-free
> >
> >Ah! Well this does here:
> >deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main
>
> [snip]
> Anyway http://www.debian.org
Incoming from Justin Guerin:
>
> Are you sure this isn't just an aptitude problem? Aptitude doesn't seem to
> like it when you change sources.list. Have you tried apt-get update first?
That is nuts. Not only that, it worked! Thank you very much.
> I find that when I add a new source, I ha
Incoming from Kevin Mark:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 12:57:00PM +0200, Robert Golovniov wrote:
> >
> > What is the best way to configure fetchmail to regularly check for new
> > mail on a dialup account? I tried doing it with a simple cron job like
>
> I have a small script that checks the machi
Incoming from Eric Dickner:
>
> "wvdial" seems to be doing the wrong thing; instead
> [snip]
> Am I doing something wrong? Or is there another
> dialer program?
I never liked wvdial myself, but there's not really anything wrong
with it.
Instead, you can fiddle with /etc/chatscripts and /etc/p
Incoming from David A. Cobb:
>
> PROB: While I'm working (TTY1 as root) I get interrupted every minute or
> so by about 10 lines of:
>
> PAM_unix[12345] (cron) session started for user [root, mail,
> amvis-stats] . . .
> and
> PAM_unix[23456] (cron) session ended for
>
> I guess the infor
Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Emacs Gnus rocks the house, as does mutt.
>
> But IMO the configuration sucks.
Gnus or mutt? mutt is ~/.muttrc. What could be simpler?!? Punch F1
(mutt manual).
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Incoming from Olav Sindre Vik Støylen:
> Hi :)
Hi. Please use a better subject line next time. Thanks.
> I've just installed Debian on my computer laptop, but the screen size is
> disapointingly small..
> What can i do, i've searched all over the web for drivers, but cannot find
> anything.
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs:
>
> I am running a debian woody box for a long time now on my laptop.
> I want to install it now with the (nearly) same configuration on my PC.
> Can I transport the laptop system (for example via tar) to my PC or won't
> this work.
You can make Debian package manageme
Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
>
> I've just purchased a laptop and will install debian onto it. I just
> wanted your generous suggestions regarding installation.
>
> I am planning to use the following partition structure:
>
> /boot -- 150mb
> /home -- 10GB
> /usr -- 15GB
> /usr/local -- 5GB
Incoming from Rodney Richison:
>
> >Top posting leads to a big mess. Every non-technical person does it
> >and it ends up with them saying "let's use a forum or something"
> >because they can't follow the thread any longer. Surprise surprise, a
> >forum works with bottom posting and everybody seem
Incoming from Ian L:
> I'm trying to install kernel 2.6.8 and during the apt process it says i
> need to configure lilo to use initrd.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/07/msg00582.html
See down at the bottom.
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Incoming from Marion Hall:
> I'm trying to stop a wget process after a set amount of time with the
> following command from a crontab.
>
> start-stop-daemon --stop -n wget
>
> When this command runs, I get the following error and it doesn't stop wget:
> /bin/sh: start-stop-daemon: command not fou
Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
>
> I have a problem scp'ing to and from my school's computer science
> department server. When i try to scp something all i get is the
> timestamp. I'm not sure if the problem lies on my side or on they're and
> [snip]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp -r -v
> [EM
Incoming from s. keeling:
> Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
> >
> > I have a problem scp'ing to and from my school's computer science
> > department server. When i try to scp something all i get is the
> > timestamp. I'm not sure if the problem li
Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
> I'll try it with a single file:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch test
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l test
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jule jule 0 Oct 6 17:22 test
You shouldn't call anything you make "test" in Unix (though it
shouldn't matter here).
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scp -v
Incoming from Jule Slootbeek:
>
> What's the story about not making anything called test?
man test (or info test)
It already exists and it's rather important. There's a long history
of people compiling their first program (gcc -o test test.c), running
"test", and it not behaving at all like the
Incoming from Oliver Fuchs:
>
> I cannot use my ppp configuration anymor - trying to pon my provider gives
> me alway: chat alarm, chat Failed, pppd Connect script failed.
In /etc/ppp/peers/provider is the line:
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/provider"
Stick a "-v" in after /usr/
Incoming from Arjen Dragt:
> I am trying to determine the best category under which
> to file a Debian bug report.
> The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying
> to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not
> work, insteat causes my screen (console - Gnome
> session) to go reall
Incoming from Beans:
> Vijaya S wrote:
> >
> >You dont have to reinstall Sarge for that..
> >stop X server and then type
> ># dpkg--reconfigure xserver-xfree86
> >
> >Follow the wizard and enter the correct value.
>
> As the xserver worked, we can edit the configure file
> (/etc/X11/XFree86-4)
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I want to reach my office PC from home. Both the computers are
> window xp.
You're in the wrong mailing list. see http://www.debian.org for more
information.
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Incoming from Leif W:
>
> I'm sorry if this question has been asked or answered before, but I
Ignoring all your insults to the apt maintainer, I'll just tell you
what you need to do:
- edit /etc/apt/sources.list
I use stable/woody. These are what I have in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://
Incoming from Leif W:
> From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Incoming from Leif W:
> > >
> > > I'm sorry if this question has been asked or answered before, but I
> >
> > Ignoring all your insults to the apt maintainer,
>
&g
Incoming from Otto Wyss:
> In bash rather many time the speaker sounds. Unfortunately my speaker is
> so loud I had to disconnect it. Since that isn't a permanent solution is
> does anyone know how to disable any sound in bash?
There's a few ways:
xset b 0
will tell X not to use it. You could
Incoming from Eric Scott:
> Yo, I just installed Debian 3.0. During the setup I set my graphics driver
> to VGA just 'cuz I didn't know what to use. After the install, X wouldn't
> start with a 'VGA can't support 24 bit" error or something like that. How do
> I change my video driver? I
Incoming from xucaen:
>
> Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; then
> /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi
> X-Cron-Env:
> X-Cron-Env:
> X-Cron-En
Incoming from Toshiro:
> Anybody knows if there is a way to execute some command(s) before logging out
> from a gnome session?
Create a ~/.bash_logout
(0) keeling /home/keeling_ cat .bash_logout
(cd ; date ; uptime ; echo " ") >> /home/keeling/dox/uptime.txt
This will be run for every inst
Incoming from Matt Price:
>
> # ximian...
:0<
> * ^TO_evolution
> $MAILDIR/.evolution/
>
>
> # ximian...
:0<
> * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $MAILDIR/.evolution/
>
> # ximian...
:0
Incoming from Matt Price:
> David Clymer wrote:
> >
> >perhaps you need to add the customary :0 line prior to each
> >rule:
> >
> >:0
> ># ximian...
> >* ^Subject: .*Evolution
> >$MAILDIR/.evolution/
>
> god I'm such an idiot. thanks everyone for the help! Obviously I'd be
> *toast* without th
Incoming from William Ballard:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:16:21PM -0700, Gilbert, Joseph wrote:
> > session and found that KDE had autodetected my sound card. You may want to
> > have them give Sarge a try. It may be a lot easier than even you suspect...
>
> This isn't a technical thing, so mu
Incoming from Otto Wyss:
> Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm starting X through startx so again I'm missing the .xsession . I
> > > know there is a sample somewhere but I can't find it.
> >
> > http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/StartX
> >
> Creating the above
Incoming from Scotty Fitzgerald:
> I've noticed that a lot of software comes as "tar.gz" and I have a cookbook
> method of installing these, but I wanted to know if doing this could screw
> up the database that apt-get, dpkg, and dselect use. What do I need to
> know as a newbie about this, sho
Incoming from Shawn Robinson:
> Could some please direct me to a good source on the net to learn how
> to use debian linux please?
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't
Incoming from Stephen Touset:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Jim Hall wrote:
> > > On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think
> > > I need things like libs, just the package names.
> >
> > I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you
Incoming from Eduard Breuer:
> I searched the web first and also googled the debian site and here is
> the resource I got:
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html
> to start with the possible source of my troble.
> I followed the instructions and did:
> 1) ap
Incoming from Greg Trounson:
> Gidday,
>
> Is anyone getting this message? So far no messages I post end up on the
Yes, it's getting through. d-u has been suffering through some
intermittent latency glitches in past months. Something about
problems with large receivers and long timeouts fouli
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph:
>
> > If you are worried about security and stability issues,
> > install stable. period.
Correct!
> I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very concerned
> about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to make
> it into stab
Incoming from Gilbert, Joseph:
>
> From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > I do not think stable is necessarily the best if you are very
> > > concerned
> > > about security. Packages with recent security fixes can take time to
> > > make it into stable.
>
> > Stable gets backported s
Incoming from Robert Vangel:
> I do not know the complete ins-and-outs of how SBL/XBL blacklists how,
> or even how to configure a MTA/spam filter to use them, which is what my
> email is about.
>
> Basically, I have seen a bit of discussion from other lists about
> SpamHaus, and how good their
Incoming from J. Hannemann:
>
> > I find the debian tool dselect is too hard for me,
> > a debian newbie, :) .
> > Is there any other tool that can do such the
> > things that dselect can
> > do. If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
>
> You can bypass dselect and use apt to instal
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