This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be
no web browser it could be configured with? Or can you confure CUPS
with w3m? :-P
It's
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote:
This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote:
Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works.
What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts
Then don't use it.
Sigh. My point is, that's far easier said than
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote:
Then don't use it.
I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results
Previous to this non-DE install, I did a full Etch install just to see
what it was like. I had CUPS working. It printed one
JWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
S. Keeling wrote:
So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
I've never liked it from the first time I saw
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote:
Damned near
everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and
foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just
Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concerned? I
Larry Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng.
My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises.
1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc...
That's one of the best reasons I can think of for not installing it in
the first place.
So! If you want
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system
and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-*
packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters
and foomatic-filters-ppds both recommend
yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly help me or
give me some suggestions to fix the problem.
I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x kernel. I
converted its installation package from the .rpm format to a .deb
format using alien
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
[copious output snipped]
I rest my case.
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode
octogenarian! You're probably also running NetBSD on a VAX 11/785
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may
not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
least 144
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get
foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have
any GNOME
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
try to blow away lprng:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it
always has.
And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff.
That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an
xscreensaver
Incoming from Daniel Burrows:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages
installed (I don't use a desktop environment) but apt
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
Ben wrote:
I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian
Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting
ever more sluggish.
Others have suggested disabling pango if you've no need for foreign
language support. export
Jhair Tocancipa Triana [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
pol writes:
I would like to display running processes together with their time elapsed
since they were launched (real time, not the time spent by the cpu) and
sort them with time.
ps -eo pid,comm,args,etime
Wow. :-) Nothing he couldn't
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many .s in
By /root/, do you mean root's $HOME (~root), or do you mean root
of the filesystem, /?
the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the
system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to
shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way:
1 - To do a backup of all files in the
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of
this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a Dell monitor.
Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
Good thought, but acpi=off did not make any (noticeable)
difference. It still hung during boot with an
L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
--=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline
T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kbyA8Zy5wYXJyb25kb0BnbWFpbC5jb20+IHdyb3Rl
j j [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there
See /etc/default/rcS
Please don't post html to mailing lists.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux
Steve Kleene [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:13:55, I wrote
Is there a way to make the iceweasel window consistently pop up at the same
position every time?
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:18:09 +0100, Liam O'Toole replied:
That's been a bug in firefox/iceweasel for as long as I
Incoming from j j:
See /etc/default/rcS
rcS is supposed to check /etc/localtime or
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern. I dont have those files. Can I
generate those files with a text editor?
Weird. No, those come in (or are created by?) the tzdata package.
aptitude update aptitude
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For ancillary computer uses (e.g. a firewall), having an install option
that focuses on a small footprint would be usefull, eg. no man pages,
AFAIK small regular debian packages include the man pages and docs and
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter
form mbox files being updated almost daily. I think the clutter would
be reduced by switching to maildir (true?), but I wonder about other
consequences of such a switch. In particular,
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 10/27/2006 05:50 AM, HXC wrote:
I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/
and/or
man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the
available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc
David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I
was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly
by SMTP to the machine which has my personal mail store. Do a 'dig
tonix.org mx' (my domain) and you'll get
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The package chain is as follows:
INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP -- getmail4 -- maildrop --
[maildir] -- mutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fetchmail -- procmail -- mutt
Does
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 2006-11-02, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Hello:
It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight
savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last
weekend.
/etc/timezone contains:
Canada/Mountain
David Clymer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Someone has been trying to convice me that advising someone to use
sysctl or sysctl.conf to query, or set kernel parameters is dangerous,
or unsupported in Debian. In particular, enabling/disabling ip
forwarding. I happen to think this is BS.
'Sounds like
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:15:54PM +, s. keeling wrote:
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The package chain is as follows:
INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP
T [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What is the recommended way to 'aptitude update' daily and update the
files in /var/cache/apt/archives/ as well (without actually install
anything)?
Or, anywhere I can read up about it?
man aptitude:
-d, --download-only
Download packages to the
Andrea Ganduglia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must
convert those in UTF-8. How?
man recode
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292
- -
ochnap2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sunday 12 November 2006 10:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote:
Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must
convert those in UTF-8. How?
convmv
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude show convmv
...
Description: filename encoding conversion tool
Debeselis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is an excellent way to get yourself killfiled. Potential
spammers do this sort of crap all the time. It doesn't fool anyone.
There are many, far better, venues with which to test email transport
functionality. Flooding tens of thousands of mailing list
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
One day, I noticed one of those attacks starting. What
Much simpler:
% /etc/init.d/ssh stop
sshd is only necessary to ssh *in* to the box. If you've so far
managed to remain ignorant of the sshd attacks going on, you might
need to reconsider
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
My guess is postgres is what you need.
PostgreSQL, to be exact. The package in Sarge is postgresql. Sid
Thanks.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and
dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, .
There is only one package manager in Debian: Dpkg. Apt is a
dependency-resolving library that runs on top of Dpkg.
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[very entertaining discussion snipped]
the automatically remove unused packages option. When in doubt, run
aptitude install -sf, check what it wants to do and smack it over the
head with keep-all if you do not like what you see.
(0) heretic /home/keeling_
Sami Liedes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wondered if anyone can help me fix things. I think I might have
misconfigured something.
You have not.
I clearly remember getting big warnings and a _question_ that allows
me to break off when installing a kernel that replaces the currently
running
Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been looking on linuxprinting.org for help finding a driver for my
Epson D88 that doesn't like being configured at the moment.
The site says that the driver for the D88 lives in the Gutenprint package.
Going on the sourceforge site to dow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some
live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the
Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello. I set up a computer in a homeless shelter, with access to the
Bravo. :-)
One problem, though, is some people feel that to press the mouse more
will speed up the opening of an application (like Firefox, for
example.) They'll repeatedly press
celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 12/21/06, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note mv doesn't work between filesystems. cp -a or tar/untar (or any
other archiver) is the right way.
Are you sure this is true? I think I use mv to do that all the time.
I stand corrected. It was that way
David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:55:43AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Michelle Konzack writes:
Passwords long as a rat-queue are realy secure...
What is a rat-queue?
It could be what lines up along the rail of a sinking ship,
but I think she meant rat's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
hope something starts to work soon. It has before. If you are on
adial-up, I hope you have a package caceh somewhere so you won't have to
repeatedly download the same packages as you try different approaches.
The various package managers are all
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Default User wrote:
IMHO, the idea of paying privileged, pet, mercenary developers, while
others work for free, was a VERY BAD IDEA!
Well, that's your perogative. However, who said they were
privledged or pets or mercenaries?
With all respect to the
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old
workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I
can't print to file / PS / PDF.
I can't see anything visibly wrong with the configuration. I tried
deinstalling and reinstalling,
Kees de Koster [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday
I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd:
cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.'
If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warning - lp: cannot stat lp
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
David Brodbeck wrote:
To me it always smacked a little of me-too-ism, too ... the GNU
folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their
own kernel.
The GNU Hurd has existed long before Linux existed. Hurd has been in
development
Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
From: Tommi Asiala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Fothergill wrote:
I suggest you should try this new thing called Searching the web. It
can give you nice links to web pages such as:
http://wiki.debian.org/PDFViewers
Don't suspect, read the web
Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:57:11 -0500
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you actually _need_ acroread? Xpdf isn't good enough?
IIRC, Xpdf doesn't have the ability to do form filling. With acroread,
you can fill out forms (they have to be set up to
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 07/28/07 13:46, Michael Fothergill wrote:
I was wrong. As Jesus said in the Bible O, ye of little faith. I
Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic.
You spelt $DEITY wrong. I spell it Murphy.
--
Any technology
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7/28/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic.
You spelt $DEITY wrong. I spell it Murphy.
*starts popcorn in the microwave*
Uhhh ...
That means
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
That means Your comment contains negative information value, and I'm
going for a walk? As in, So, what do you think about goldfish?
No. It means A flamewar is about to start and I am going to sit back, eat
popcorn, and watch the show
graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote:
Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do
when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer).
So why run cups? Use LPRng and
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 2007-08-06 15:13:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
because breakage due to python occurs too frequently), it is important
I still don't have any evidence that python breaks frequently.
This is based on personal experience. Unfortunately I haven't kept
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm sure anyone with responsibility for spam filtering has seen
messages, many of them, which meet the following criteria:
HTML formatted
empty body
one attachment, which is a pdf file
Is there a spamassassin test which would score such messages
Glennie Vignarajah [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Le Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) disait:
The default settings for vi have been changed. Display looks weird
in terms of colors, etc. Can't figure what vi/vim file needs
changing. I have backups of course of all pre-upgrade
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Where except on the local machine can I find Debian man pages?
http://manpages.debian.net/
is not very informative I'm afraid...
FWIW, I've always considered a *nix box which doesn't have manpages
installed, a clumsily installed *nix box.
Newbie:
ss11223 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Aug 10, 10:30 am, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set
the tab width to something reasonable like 4.
E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Where except on the local machine can I find Debian man pages?
http://manpages.debian.net/
is not very informative I'm afraid...
[snip]
And, if the online manpages does not work, why link
Orestes leal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi folks, 2 weeks ago I began to learn C, my advances are very
good, my question it's that, The topic sounds funny but it's mostly
serious,
QUESTION: Studying C 'every day' 4 hours with good understanding,
writing at least 10 programs to test this
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set
the tab width to something reasonable like 4.
E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me happy for emacs:
C-x h# mark entire buffer
M-x untabify # replace
Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello. I'm using Debian Etch. My machine does not completely shutdown
-- I'm required to manually press the button (it's like being back in
Check /var/log/messages for anything mentioning ACPI. The kernel may
have decided your mboard is too old and has
Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to
bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been
a linux user for over 10 years).
Fourteen here. :-)
Here's an example of what this message is about: I've been reading
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As you all know, Debian Etch released with Iceweasel instead of
Firefox. This is totally okay, but some applications (like X-Chat or
Gaim/Pidgin) still uses firefox %u command instead of iceweasel %u for
Never had this problem. The only problem I bumped
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old
BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the
I
Manu Hack [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would still like to know whether your system hangs if you try to
switch to a terminal without shutting down gdm.
If I have a graphical login prompt and press CTRL + ALT + Back I can
go to a text mode
dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The original problem was:
However if I run snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.36 system on the
stable box, with 192.168.1.36 the IP address of the testing box, i get:
Timeout: No Response from 192.168.1.36
snmpd is up and running, I can ping both ways, there
Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For your video problem, you can try :
dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver
Just a nit; that should be xserver-xorg.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292
- -
Thomas Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
According to top, the xorg process uses ~25-40% of my AMD 3000+ CPU
several times a minute for several seconds at a time. I suspect some
other program uses xorg to execute its code for it.
How do I find out what process uses the xorg process to do its
Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
vivek shah wrote:
I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running
fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on
[snip]
Please note I did no upgrade or package install when this problem
occured. It just
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote:
This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms
that are incapable of sending out normal emails. They insist on sending
blank messages with an html attachment only. Of course this is usually
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Joerg Schily's original cdrecord works perfectly.
Apparently I have a box of bad blank cdrw disks, 100 of them unfortunately.
I tried cdrw disks from another box and cdrecord ran the Lite-On drive at
25x with no problems.
fwiw, I've heard a lot
Peter Teunissen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, September 18, 2007 04:39, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Such a system is implemented by spamcop (www.spamcop.net). Their block
list,
For directly blocking mail however, you'd be better of using the
zen.spamhaus.org combined blocklist wich
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:35:15PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cupsys-bsd package provide /usr/bin/lpr. you should not need to
install an additional package to get lpr functionality.=20
Well,
Lo'oris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was really believing I was posting to the debian/Italian mailing
list, sorry for bothering you twice.
Have a good work.
Belissimo? I've no idea what you're talking about, but non-native
English speakers with your ability with English are welcome here.
Your
Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
etch use kernel 2.6.18
where is its kernel header?
I've been trying compiling driver for rt2500-based card, Certainly,
the card does not work out of the box on etch as some said. I've
been taken in.
aptitude update aptitude search $KEYWORD
spits
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:17:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty, 09/22/07 17:24:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote:
i run debian etch with exim4 (smarthost configuration) for
outbound emails.
Is it
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Last night I installed, and then removed, the ftpd and proftpd debs,
Glad I don't use 'em.
in that order. Now I cannot by hook or crook get 'ls' to behave as it
did before those ftp experiments. 'ls' now sorts strictly by filename
-- including directories
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 9/23/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
namely, an 'ls' that sorts directories first, and
ordinary files afterwards? Do others actually see that behaviour in
terminals?
Sure. That's how it works for me.
Not for me. I get all dotfiles
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
THe binaries you download from debian repositories are built using an
automatic system. THat system must be stable and reliable. So, it uses
and older, more tested and stable version of gcc to compile.=20
No, the debian
pietia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Joey Hess pisze:
No, the debian buildds run unstable (except for the buildds used to build
updates for stable).
for whitch architecture are optimized ?
less /boot/config-$(uname -r)
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Sid Arth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Im sorry if this isnt the best place to voice such a question, but I
Perfect place.
am a bit new to mailing lists and so on. I was wondering how to
reply to a message but in a way so everybody in the list gets it,
but without starting a whole new thread.
Hit
pietia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling pisze:
pietia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Joey Hess pisze:
No, the debian buildds run unstable (except for the buildds used to build
updates for stable).
for whitch architecture are optimized ?
less /boot/config-$(uname -r)
No, probably
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mark Phillips wrote:
Mike, you have to realize that support is provided by volunteers who
have lives (families, children, jobs, little league, etc.) outside of
supporting the software. There is no guarentee of any support when you
install Debian. But it
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mike Bird wrote:
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event.
We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess
some of us would appreciate your posting links to
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Martin Marcher wrote:
Why is it that simple statments, preceded by disclaimers
indicating that they are not complaints, get treated as
complaints?
Hello,
I'm interested in the job offer you posted on
Sarcasm is unbecoming, especially since I
Roger B.A. Klorese [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Kent West wrote:
Like he said, he's not complaining, or asking for help, or asking for
information; he's just saying that we have room for improvement.
Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this
room for improvement. A
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc
contains the line: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap. which has worked for many
months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not
being
Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007 Sep 26 04:27 -0500]:
Btw, THIS IS ALL VOLUNTEER WORK HERE. fyi.
Yup. And I for one appreciate our Debian Volunteer Overlords. ;-)
Ah geez. You made me laugh. I even considered typing LOL ... Crap!
--
Any
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nate Bargmann wrote:
keeling:
Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any
bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat.
How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports
found. Huh? What
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is
whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a
goal.
I'm satisfied to leave that up to the individual. It's none of my
business. Caveat emptor
101 - 200 of 1481 matches
Mail list logo
