Michael M. wrote:
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
Yes, I know this is not Sid, but I read with interest the many posts
covering the Xorg upgrade. I could practically hear the yelping.
But I think you did not hear from most of the legions of Sid users for
whom the Xorg upgrade
Gil Citro wrote:
[...]
My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line,
but when I give the command lpr file or lp file the output starts
at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to
the physical page boundary, some of the output is cut off. [...]
Willie Wonka wrote:
[...]
Oh - and I use Mozilla Mail - but this list (and others) have w-a-y too
much mail for me to d/l and sort through
Create a filter that sends the mail-list messages to a special folder.
It is very manageable this way.
[...] plus I do NOT use
javascript in my
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
[...]
If you do use ext3 in data-journalling mode (mount -o data=journal)
that yes, it will be a lot slower than ext2. That's why the default
is data=ordered. You can make it even faster, and still more safe than
ext2, by using data=writeback. See man mount.
Mike.
Ron Johnson wrote:
[...]
Besides, you can't wipe files on a journaling fs. So, you re-
mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re-
mount as ext3.
[...]
Huh?
Are you suggesting that you can't permanently delete a file's data by
overwriting the file before deleting it?
Andreas Rippl wrote:
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:46:56PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
[...]
Hi Sumo,
Hi Andreas,
I have gone through the update (without giving much thought I have to
admit) and there was no trouble here. I guess I didn't give a second
thought because
I'm using Sarge.
I just did an aptitude update, and now when I attempt to upgrade,
aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev.
I know that those are pretty critical to the functioning of the system,
so I've temporarily put them on hold, and I'm not upgrading yet.
My question is
Florian Kulzer wrote:
You can use
aptitude changelog libc6 libc6-dev
Thanks, this'll be useful to me. I know it's in the man-page, but I
didn't think about it.
to see the changelogs for the new packages. Maybe that will tell you
what is up. If that does not work (I often have problems
Joris Huizer wrote:
I don't know exactly why libc6 is upgraded, but the upgrade seems to be
part of the 3.1r2 update (see http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/)
I got it too, just tracking sarge too
HTH,
Thanks Joris, it does help.
Wow, we're going to get another point release. This
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:31:23AM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
I just did an aptitude update, and now when I attempt to upgrade,
aptitude says that it wants to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev.
[...]
Again if it's the stable version, it should
lmyho wrote:
--- Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
lmyho wrote:
Can anyone help me [know] how to auto start the firestarter?
[...]
No, I can't ;-)
I had some problems with firestarter, so I decided to write my own
iptables script.
I'd suspect that one of your network interfaces
gianni wrote:
Ihave problems installing W4L,cuse rpm file is not posible to convert to
debian. [...]
You could install the rpm package and use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm
file into a cpio file. From there, you could extract the files from the
cpio file and copy them into the correct
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
Your problem boils down to the fact that Thunderbird does not provide
any convenient commands to make use of that information. When I was
getting increasingly annoyed by this myself (with Mozilla Mail), I came
across the following Thunderbird extension:
Joey Hess wrote:
Alien is program that runs rpm2cpio on a rpm file and generates a deb
file from it.
I know.
Suggesting that it would somehow be safer to to this by
hand makes no sense at all.
Yes it does. If I did it by hand, I know that the right thing got put in
the right place.
Deephay wrote:
Greetings all,
I am wondering that if it is safe to using the testing distro (now
Etch) as the server's OS.
Any comment is appreciated very much.
thx!
Deepahy
If your server is going to be exposed to the Internet, it should be
Debian/stable. Security updates are made
Gregory Seidman wrote:
% apt-cache show doxygen
[...]
And
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
try doxygen
Gregory, Frank, thank you. I knew someone had probably already written
this.
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I'm looking for some opensource software that will allow me to embed
documentation into C source files--similar to the way javadoc allows
documentation inside of Java source files.
Cweb, funnelweb and noweb are not what I'm looking for because they
require that the programmer write in a language
Maxim Vexler wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm trying to configure the default application to be used when
opening pdf files from FireFox. The current (default) application is
/usr/bin/gpdf, I wish it to be /usr/bin/evince.
[...]
Place these lines in your ~/.mailcap file:
application/pdf;
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties.
However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox.
Any way to persuade this to work?
Anthony
If the fonts are located in one of the standard locations, fc-cache -f
-s -v should
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi
:)
anyone know that
how can i set var,
to display the newline symbol like \n \t all of them(can't print symbol)
whit vim;
thanks any advance,
:set list
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Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
In according to:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/security.html#FIREWALLS
one way to force statd to fixed ports is with the -p and -o options.
So I added
STATDOPTS=-p 854 -o 856
to /etc/init.d/nfs-common.
[...]
Did you add that line before the invoking of
Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Hello,
on a sarge system I created a link
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
After reboot it is gone.
[...]
It's probably related to udev. I'd imagine that you can either create a
udev rule for /dev/mouse or use a boot script to create the link on each
boot.
Caveat: I'm
Marco Prandini wrote:
[...]
1) I'd like to find which files of a package have been altered with
respect to the original version, in the same way I did with rpm -V.
2) I'd like to instruct apt-get upgrade to leave them alone
For 2) you can use dpkg-divert to tell dpkg (the low-level
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch
spellings mid-text.
[ plus 22 messages from other people ]
Boy, am I glad I
Pascal Hakim wrote:
Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as
easy as possible for people to contribute. [...]
That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the
difference between spam sent to their inboxes and spam sent the list.
Some
Mark Grieveson wrote:
Try to adduser yourusername audio and restart gnome.
I have the exact same problem. And, I get this result from the advice
given:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
Password:
debian:/home/mark# adduser mark audio
The user `mark' is already a member of `audio'.
So, what do I try
Adam Hardy wrote:
[...]
I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I don't know which
facility.priority it is being logged with.
How can I find out?
I recently had much fun (sarcasm) doing this. The only way I could find
was to create separate logfiles for each facility:
auth.*
Mike McCarty wrote:
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
[...]
My e-mail address is rather uninviting to spammers :)
Apropos of this, it could be done better.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
has a valid domain,
Which is perfectly acceptable and necessary.
which results in actual sending
debianista.deb wrote:
hey
Can anybody tell me where gnome sets the window manager (metacity) ?
please
My gnome runs without metacity how can I fix it ? please
You might use the gconf-editor and go into
/desktop/gnome/applications/window-manager. Unfortunately, when I've
tried
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
I am counting the number of key strokes and/or mouse clicks to set up a
filter. In kmail all I had to was Message - Create Filter - Filter on
Mailing-list debian-user and almost all the stuff is already filled up.
Are you sure Tbird has List ID field? I could not
Rick Reynolds wrote:
[...]
I see that in my boot log [...]
What is the boot log? I'm using Sarge, and I don't see a
/var/log/boot.log or anything similar.
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jlmb wrote:
[...]
1. replace stable for testing on /etc/apt/sources.list (*optional,
many people would recommend against this for a newbie). [...]
I'm one of those people. Stick with stable if you're a newbie. You
have to know more of what you're doing to deal with testing or unstable.
Rocky Ou wrote:
[...]
1. Which package should I download so that I can browse webpages as
how I'm doing under Windows? This is very important as lots of webpages
will give me how-to instructions. Do I use apt-get x? Or something
else? [...]
I would start out with lynx--a
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I think this is from the zerconf package which may have been
inadvertently installed. You can probably purge it.
Is it possible to permanently blacklist a package from being installed?
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M A wrote:
Details thats all the ISP gave me,
Surely there must be a way to detect this is happening, or the source of it,
I have since removed all my secondary IP's,
Does IPtables need to have rules for all my secondary Ips?
I have no details of your situation, but I'd suspect that you
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
[...]
I have the DVD set, and it's on disk 2.
Sumo, how did you get the DVD, bought it or jigdo-file'd it?
I bought it. I see you found it on CD #14. Jigdo time!
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This whole libc6 problem puzzles me. I thought that Linux libraries
were version-numbered in such a way that the linker could distinguish
compatible from incompatible versions. Why does this mechanism not work
for libc6?
-- hendrik
I don't know the answer to
Adam Hardy wrote:
I'm using testing and debian has got itself in a bad way now.
I upgraded several packages 3 days ago and have been trying to sort it
out since - I think the offending packages may be udev or libusb.
I also added a line for usbfs /proc/bus/usb to my fstab.
You probably
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
You're on Debian3.1r1 *CD's*? Or are you on 3.1r1 using the security
updates?
If you're on the CD's you are on a level of December 19 2005 and that
library is not on it when I do a search!
$ grep libapache-mod-php4 md5sums.txt
38cc33f1a4c6a70af7f6749cdf9694f6
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote:
Herby I am posting the solution, which worked for me.
Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy, but
I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task.
Syslinux is much easier to set up, and although LILO is hard to
Serena Cantor wrote:
--- Robert Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Serena Cantor wrote:
I want to customize sarge kernel 2.4.27-2, so I
install kernel-build-2.4.27-2, then
[...]
scripts/Configure: line 556:
arch/i386/config.in
Derek Piper wrote:
[...]
I want to upgrade a couple of machines to kernel 2.6.16
Apparently you need a later version of udev than is in the debian stable
branch (0.056). [...]
:O
You just explained my problems with 2.6.16.1. Since the mirrors in my
sources.list didn't have 2.6.16, I went to
Mike McCarty wrote:
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
[...]
Thanks, I saved your message in case I ever need a grub boot floppy,
but I think that you'll find syslinux and LILO more suited to the task.
To what task? [...]
Oops, I should'be read the OP more closely
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
For some reason libapache-mod-php4 is not on any of the Debian3.1r1 CD's.
Can anybody verify that?
Thanks!
H
No, I can't.
I can't verify that it's not there, because it is:
$ aptitude search libapache-mod-php4
p libapache-mod-php4 -
Serena Cantor wrote:
I want to customize sarge kernel 2.4.27-2, so I
install kernel-build-2.4.27-2, then
[...]
scripts/Configure: line 556: arch/i386/config.in: No
such file or directory
make: *** [config] Error 1
What's wrong? Your reply will be appreciated!
It sounds like you need the
H.S. wrote:
[...]
So, to put it in very approximate terms, I am enquiring if my memory
card maybe seen as a camera with an application in the same way as gtkam
sees a camera through the USB port.
-HS
Probably not. If it were me, I'd put each group of files into its own
directory, then use
Gregory Baker wrote:
[...]
I need to mount the XP partition in Linux so that I can point apt-get to it
and load the packages from the .iso s. Could someone suggest a mount syntax
that should allow me to do this?
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,ro /NTFS/disk1.iso /mnt
[...]
I'd also like to know -
Jon Dowland wrote:
At 1143895291 past the epoch, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi? [...]
Yes.
$ zless +5/ide-scsi /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz
That document is 6 or more years old now. You no longer
Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm just trying to run a simple test set up, [...]
Directory /perl
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
/Directory
[...]
The root server directory is /var/www and I have a perl script
in /var/www/perl. [...]
Then perhaps you
Xiyan Lon wrote:
I just install debian sarge with kde desktop (from minimal install).
Everything work ok but I need font luxi sans on my kde desktop.
Where I can find luxi sans font? Which package I must install?
Best,
Xiyan Lon
The Luxi fonts are in the non-free section of your favorite
Pascal Hakim wrote:
Some people leak headers into the body of their email.
For example, the first email in this month's archive:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg0.html
Don't worry about the body. It's the posters' responsibilities to
protect other people e-mail addys
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
[...]
(I personally suspect that the email address I use confuses a lot of
spam apps. Hrm, remove the word spam ... but wait, that's not a
legal address, toss that. I do check this address, but it's pretty
easy to identify the fake amazon/chase/ebay/paypal/etc phishing
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Monday 03 April 2006 19:14, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
[...]
Then perhaps you want Directory /var/www/perl
Thanks, but, as I said in the post, I tried that as well. If you're
sure that's all it needs, I'll try it again.
Hal
Re-enable PerlModule
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Monday 03 April 2006 21:59, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
Re-enable PerlModule Apache2. When it aborts apache, report what
apache says in its log file.
Thanks for the tip.
[Mon Apr 03 23:22:56 2006] [error] Can't locate Apache2.pm in @INC (@INC
contains
Michelle Konzack wrote:
[...]
But on linux4michelle between 200 and 8000 per day depending
on the day of the week
[...]
Use a better e-mail address such as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The +spambuster part is a comment field that throws off the spammers
(who don't like to send to spam-traps).
Take a
G.C.H.M. Verhaag wrote:
[...]
By the way, I use grub as boot-loader. In the file /boot/grub/menu.lst I
added hdc=scsi at the end of the following line:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda3 ro
Should that perhaps be hdc=ide-scsi?
[...]
Yes.
$ zless +5/ide-scsi
Anthony Simonelli wrote:
Hey there, just upgraded to kernel image 2.6.8-3-686 and now all of the
blocked connections from firestarter are logged in syslog and displayed at
the console such as the following:
Mar 27 21:25:25 debian kernel: ABORTED IN=wlan0 OUT=
listrcv wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
[...] If you
see the beauty of the seperate files for what it is intended to do, its
like magically everything comes into view.
Hm, I don't see it with exim-config. What I see is only a mess of files
and two large, unreadable files (template and config),
will trillich wrote:
we haven't figured out how to get past this apt-get snag:
[...]
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
xfree86-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by
T wrote:
Hi,
the command printf seems to be ignoring the ending '\n' that passes to it:
[...]
It's an interaction between the echo command and the shell that's
causing the trailing \n to be removed. Printf is working just fine:
$ printf hello\n | od -t x1 -
000 68 65 6c 6c 6f 0a
B.Hoffmann wrote:
Hi there,
Yo
tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system
[...]
Hit Control-Alt-F2. (This brings you into a text-mode VT).
Log-in as root. Fix the problem.
There are probably another couple-dozen ways to solve this problem.
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B.Hoffmann wrote:
Hi there,
Hi there.
tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system
[...]
Boot into runlevel 1 and undo what you did. When booting with LILO, you
do this by placing a 1 on the boot command line.
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B.Hoffmann wrote:
Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what
I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse
ln -s /home/insert your username here/.themes /root/.themes
And what would it be? Ta.
If /root/.themes never existed before, I imagine this:
# rm
Florian Kulzer wrote:
pedro lopez wrote:
My PC do can with the X-way, and the system generates an error when
initiating, my interest not to repair that error, if to unistall or
to desible the X-way completely. It is the first time that use
linux, and not like doing that.
I think the fastest
Chris Lale wrote:
patrick bourne wrote:
From: Patrick Bourne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: help with installation
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:23 AM
Hello, I have recently downloaded the businesscard
image for the stable release of the debian OS.
[...]
Levi Waldron wrote:
[...] I ran the stable install disc again,
specifying linux vga=ask at the boot prompt. It offered me the
choice to scan all available vesa modes, and *nothing* showed up on my
screen during the scan.
This seems to be equivalent to a bug that has been reported and
resolved
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
After closing a Gnome session or rebooting the computer, this alsaconf
results seems to be lost as I get to the starting point (i.e. distorted
sound for Gnome events and no sound for other applications).
In other words, the work of alsaconf seem to be lost after
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sumo Wrestler wrote:
Did you ever try alsactl store? You should do this after you've
gotten sound working to store the settings.
Yes. I was suggested to do so in this list because I was getting an
error message stating something about a state not present (check
What is the difference between holding a package this way:
# aptitude hold htdig
and holding a package this way:
# echo htdig hold | dpkg --set-selections
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:30:18 +0100, Kaffe wrote:
Hi
In order to disable bell on tab completion I have
uncommented the line set bell-style none in
/etc/inputrc. But I still have bell on tab completion.
If I put the line set bell-style none in my
~.inputrc, the bell on tab completion is
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