Jonas Bofjall wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote:
Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it...
Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your
Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these.
still think that the
Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
daniel == Daniel Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, ok, the penguin's a jewel thief, and he's evil. But he
has funny little beady eyes, and that's got to count for
something.
I think Gromit
Hakan,
You don't need special X servers for laptop displays. You need only
concern yourself with the chipset used to control your display (eg:
Mach, Cirrus, etc). XFree86 servers for many chipsets are available as
Debian packages from ftp://ftp.debian.org or local mirrors.
TFT stands for Thin
This is an interesting issue. You might use similar justification for
leaving all but the essentials out of the distributed kernel. This would
encourage users to learn how to recompile the kernel, and demonstrate in
doing so that it's surprisingly simple.
On the other hand, new users might think,
Guy Maor wrote:
Truly cracking a passwd file would take more than a bit of time. Or
Maybe you're an extremely patient person.
It may take a while in general, but poor maintenance and naive password
choice often leads to surprising results - besides, the increase in
low-cost high-power CPUs
Quite true, but by all accounts crackers dislike the name. You won't
succeed without a majority adopting the new term, and I'm afraid that
involves the cooperation of the culprits themselves. Otherwise, I'm sure
this long-running debate would have concluded long ago.
I think we should just accept
If the max passwd
length is 8 bytes, then at a quick estimate it seems that there are
256^8 * 4096 different possible passwords...?
Fewer than that. The range of ASCII characters used in passwords is
quite small: perhaps ~= 110, optimisticly taking into account control
characters and
Thus, I propose a new word be adopted to describe the clever
and benign inventor of quick technical fixes. Rasher, from
Shockwave Rider usage, is a possible candidate, except
Brunner's rashers seemed to operate too much outside the
boundaries of ethics, delving into industrial espionage and
Someone (I know you will) correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the CD
simply send audio directly to the sound card, rather than via a device
file?
This would not require a sound module, or kernel support for sound, to
be present. It would also suggest your problem lies in the card's
What you need here is to set the setuid bit. Run this command as root:
chmod +s filename
Then when you run ls filename you should see something like:
rws--s--x 1 root root 4304 Aug 16 13:51 filename
Now when a normal user runs the command, it executes as root. Be careful
-Cummins.
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Subject: Re: How do I allow users to run a single command as root?
Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What you
Absolutely right. Don't go for one of these cards. I spent the best part
of a weekend trying to configure one of these things (including all of
Sat/Sun night), and failed quite dismally. Although it could fall back
to a VGA configuration, the server ran unusably slowly (don't know why).
The
Todd,
Do you disagree? Aren't you simply saying that you'd go down the 'pared
down kernel route'? (Note: when I say pared down, I don't preclude the
possibility of using modules.)
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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From: Todd Tyrone Fries[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 August 1996 21:06
To:
MR. ENERGY,
THERE SEEMS TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY CAPS KEY!
CASPER BODEN-CUMMINS.
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From: Pure Energy[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 August 1996 03:54
To:Debian Users
Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
Subject: a problem with screen
hello all,
well not
method was selected. It would also make the steps more distinct, as you
say.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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From: Sherwood Botsford[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 19 August 1996 17:07
To:Casper BodenCummins
Subject: RE: kernel size
That's part of the point. More to the point
-Cummins.
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From: David J. Evans[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 16 August 1996 14:12
To:'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.
Subject: Re: kernel size (was: How do I get GATEWAY2000 PS/2 mouse to
work?)
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:04:04 +0100 Casper
On a similar note, if you have the modelines option set for vi (in
EXINIT or .exrc), the first and last 5 lines of the file can be executed
as vi or ex commands. Try the following for some fun:
echo vi: :!ls -lR ~ : tmp.file
EXINIT=set ml vi tmp.file
and wistfully watch all those
?
Probably confused,
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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Sent: 21 August 1996 05:45
To:Casper BodenCummins; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: configuring packages as a separate step
From: Casper BodenCummins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like your
Hamish,
One thing I find a bit annoying with dselect/dpkg is the way it checks
the version of EVERY package when you pick Install. Last night I did
an NFS installation (and the remote source was from CD-ROM), and this
step was very slow. Can anything be done about this, eg trusting
the packages
If you like, I'll email you a script to run through a file containing
filenames and permissions as set on my system and set the permissions
similarly on yours. This would cure most of your files. My installation
is quite new and I've made no radical permission changes, so it's safe
enough, I
I'm unfamiliar with filter and elm, so this may be on the wrong track.
Anyhow, I had a similar problem trying to use two mail user agents
simultaneously (on a Sun, as it happens). The first program had placed a
lock on the mailbox while the second program, using the same protocol,
saw the lock
Dashes are allowable, but you'll probably be refused the new name
because it's too similar to the old one. If it confuses a mail reader,
the mail reader's author should be shot.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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From: Gerry Jensen[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 August 1996 20:43
To:
Download the debianised version from www.columbia.edu.
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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Sent: 23 August 1996 01:55
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Subject: gcc can't find termcap library
I recently
Dale,
What I was looking for was more like what Gerry suggested.
I also tried your suggestion on the LINES environment variable with little
success.
This is a REALLY DUMB terminal.
Have you tried stty rows 24?
Is the syntax for this structure documented in the bash manual page? Can I
put
Ian Jackson wrote:
Stoyan Kenderov writes (/dev/audio /dev/dsp Device or resource busy
???):
...
The sparing comments in the source point to an IRQ or DMA conflict when one
gets constant Device or Resource busy mesages on each:
cat blabla.au /dev/audioor
cat uuhuu.wav /dev/dsp
I'm surprised this important question has run for so long. Is it in a
Linux FAQ?
Anyhow, here's my contribution ( hopefully this'll wrap it up ;- ):
cd /; find . -path ./mnt -prune -o print | cpio -pdxm /mnt
This copies the whole disk to the mount point /mnt, avoiding the
recursive traversal
If there are 500 posts a day to comp.lang.c++, it strikes me that this
group is *begging* to be split up. Besides the
wading-through-heaps-of-stuff-you-'re-not-interested-in factor, some of
us have to pay to receive news articles and suchlike, and a better
targeted audience would save us lots of
Brian C. White wrote:
People love to complain about there being too much information, but they
overlook the fact that the reason they can get information and fast
responses is because there is so much going on there. If you split
the list, many people will not subscribe to some of them and thus
Not all files will be listed in the Contents and related files. Some are
created during package configuration, some later. Almost all the files
you listed are normal. However, I'd check these:
/usr/lib/texmf/ini/core
Not sure if this should be here. Run a `file /usr/lib/texmf/ini/core'.
If
Max Hyre wrote:
Dear Andreas:
Casper BodenCummins wrote:
/usr/bin/[*
This is junk. Blow it away.
DON'T DO IT!
Whew---sorry for shouting, but: This is indeed a file named ``['',
and it's executable (hence the ``*'' in what must be an ls -lF
listing).
``['' is a synonym for the ``test
Lazaro Salem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The -print flag is not really needed as is executed by default.
This isn't true of all systems. If you want portability, include the
-print.
Certainly it would be nice to have something like:
$ find . -type !d
to match files which are not directories,
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a
directory from the search. I tried
cd /scratch find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print
but it doesn't work. Any clues?
Move the -atime condition to just before the -print (then have a
Dirk.Eddelbuettel writes:
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Miro Torrielli writes:
Miro I installed debian 1.1.8 on another pc, using dpgk-ftp to
retrieve
Miro all necessary packages, from stable unstable. Firstly, I
noticed
Miro that when
Gerd Bavendiek wrote:
I just installed Debian 1.1 on a system with a PS/2
Mouse. Unfortunately I'm missing
/lib/modules/2.0.0/misc/psaux.o. There is a descriptive file in
/usr/lib/module-help/modules/psaux. Additionally I took
kernel-image-2.0.0-0.deb and kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb. But there
Martin Stromberg wrote:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
BTW, if you look in the archives, you should find _tons_ on this topic.
:-)
Casper Boden-Cummins.
So where are the recent archives you're talking about, or are you joking
(the smiley)?
And before you say
Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to
addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs
(but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time).
Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to
Hi,
Yves Arrouye said:
I'd like to know, too, how I can arrange things so that when I mail to
someone outside my domain diald does not try to dial.
If you're using sendmail, you can instruct it to queue your mail and
attempt to deliver it next time you connect. Local mail will still be
Joe Emenaker wrote:
Okay, I sent this to the list once already, but I'm not sure it got
through.
I was hoping someone else would answer this, because I only have vague
details in my head. (If we only used Debian at the office...) Can't help
with the IP aliasing, but:
So, I've resigned myself to
Joe Emanaker said:
A file called '.config' is generated at the top of your kernel source
tree
This file will still be there after you've compiled the kernel, so all
you need to do is copy it to a safe location and drop it back in when
you want to generate the same kernel.
Which only
Zlatko Rek wrote:
I have problems with xterm. When it is opened the TERM and TERMCAP
environment
variables are set to:
TERM=xterm
TERMCAP=co#80:li#24:
I use Jed editor and if I want to edit file the Terminal not powerful
enough
for SLang. message appears. When TERMCAP is unset
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I run Netscape 3.0 on Solaris x86 2.5 over a DP 4.0 based PPP
link and let me tell you it crawls on my 288k modem. So much so that I
seriously suspect a problem either with dp 4.0 or solaris. Basically
NS 3.0 continually stalls whilst it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have found the problem, it was the environment Variable TERMCAP
it was set to:
TERMCAP=co#80:li#24:
as soon as I remove this TERMCAP variable all is ok.
But who is responsible in setting TERMCAP?
It seems that xterm (and xterm_color) are doing that. It doesn't
matter
Alexandre Lebrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem :
when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is
erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft
environment). It's very disturbing, and
Leander Berwers wrote:
Situation:
Next week, I have to install a few pc's with Debian. Since I do not have
the CD with 1.2.1 (and my pc's do not contain a cd-rom player), I would
like to do it via ftp. However, to off-load the site, I would like to copy
it once to a local Windows machine with
Darren Klein wrote:
Doy uo know of a WORKING nfs site for a Debian installation. I have
been trying to find one.. but getting connection refused.
Thanks.
| Darren Klein | Internet Service Providers | (718) 962-1725
Leander Berwers wrote:
I mean how can I copy from a mirror site to my Windows machine. I do have
a ftp server on Windows.
Have a look at the mirror package (optional, in the net category). From
the Packages file:
Description: Perl program for keeping ftp archives up-to-date.
Mirror uses the
Leander,
I said:
Have a look at the mirror package (optional, in the net category). From
the Packages file:
Sorry: forgot to add that I have no idea how you can do this purely from
Windows. I can only suggest getting a minial Debian machine with
networking running, and controlling your
Jason Goldschmidt wrote:
Hi, does anyone have any experience getting a US Robotics Sportster
28.8-33.6 PnP modem to work with linux? Or any PnP modem for that matter.
I've done all the common setup stuff for the modem. I found that if I want
to use the modem under NT, I have to disable PnP in my
Hamish Moffat wrote:
thanx to U all, who helped me. Debian rules...:-)))
I deactivated html mail, I hope that now no html mail will be sent to
the mailing list, BTW how can I find out about this?
Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
Real PITA to read with plain
Hamish Moffat wrote:
Good. Any chance you could not send all messages as MIME, either?
Real PITA to read with plain jane elm on a character terminal.
Couldn't you pre-filter your email with procmail and a MIME extraction
program? Maybe the packages mime-support (which `can be used to turn
Thomas Kocourek wrote:
Larry Clayton writes:
[snip]
3. When I call man, for example man 9wm, I get the response, What
manual page do you want from section 9wm? So I try man 9wm.1 and get
the same response. What is the appropriate answer to such a question?
It looks like it's interpreting
Jan Camenisch wrote:
There might be a problem with the execution
of the cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly :
An machines that don't run all day, these cron jobs get
rarely executed.
For instance, I usually use my maschine only in the
evenings at home (i.e. later than 6 pm). But all
A friend of mine has donated a logo to the Debian project for
consideration. It's sketchy, but we think the idea has some potential.
Only thing is, where do we send it?
If anyone's interested, there's a copy at
www.wollery.demon.co.uk/penguin.gif.
Thanks,
Casper Boden-Cummins.
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