Thus spake Zenaan Harkness:
# The thing with this is that it terminates the backgrounded process.
#
# Eg:
#
# ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# # # run a long-running process, background it:
# # apt-move mirror
# # CTRL-Z
# # bg
# # # disconnect ssh:
# # ~.
#
# All looks fine, except I go back in and
I have an 11wave WaveBuddy PCMCIA wireless network card, and I want to use it
with the 2.6.6-1-686 kernel on Debian Sid. I have the kernel-source-2.6 package
and hav untarred it and symlinked the resulting directory to
/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1-686, which is apparently where it is expecting to find
Thus spake Rob Benton:
# Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info
# pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Is it out
# there somewhere in a package?
It is part of binutils. The filename is /usr/bin/as, but it definitely is the
GNU assembler
Thus spake James Hosken:
# lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Nov 26 2003 cdrom1 - hdc
# lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Feb 12 21:34 cdrom2 - scd0
#
# I'm a member of the following grups
# james cdrom audio www-data src
#
#
# In the Xmms Preferances, I've gone to CD Player
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
# What's a typical partition table look like for a Debian box?
#
# I thought that the minimum would be:
#
# /boot around 100-200 mb
# swaparound 1-2x RAM (in this case, 2 gig)
# / everything else...
This is typical, but not the minimum requirement. All
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Thus spake Kevin Mark:
# gcc works with C programs.
# but c++ programs cant find the libs.
# =
#
# ~/cpluscplus\% cat page23.cpp
# #include iostream.h
# int main() { cout Hello, World!\n; return
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I am trying to have a little fun with fbgetty. I want it to play a beep sound
whenever I switch to a new tty that has a login prompt. However, I keep getting
permission denied errors on /dev/dsp or connect failures in alsa instead of
beeps. I tried
Thus spake dircha:
# Paul Johnson wrote:
# What's wrong with, Make me a Debian package or lose a customer?
#
# I'd venture to guess:
# We're sorry, but we can not presently justify the costs of maintaining a
# Debian port. Perhaps if one of our larger customers express an interest
# in it...
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I am using mingetty to run login in my virtual terminals.
As of last night, whenever I boot the system, mingetty refuses to allocate the
virtual terminals. I tried using rungetty, and it will open the ttys, but it
refuses to run login or any other
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Thus spake Rick:
# #rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm
# the program will prompt: myproduct need perl 5.6, and the bash must be installed
# In fact,the 2 debian packages has been installed,I think rpm command will read info
from only rpm DB on debian.
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Thus spake Douglas Pollard:
# I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files on cd and
floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied.
# How do I give myself as user permission to use these drives.
Be sure your user name is
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Thus spake Chris Metzler:
# No. Instead of disk, you meant to say group cdrom. Assign users
# to group cdrom so that they can access the cdrom device.
#
# Group disk has write access to all the raw disk devices (/dev/hd* and
# /dev/sd*). Assigning
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I did the latest upgrade earlier this evening, which installed a new version of
locales. All was fine for about an hour or so, until my keyboard locked and
the scroll lock, which had been blinking for new mail messages I hadn't read
yet, (mailleds),
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Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
# The Traps Of Linux...open Source Software
# A scandalous book published on-line
# Just look at this...
I looked at this, and it is clear that the author doean't grasp the concept of
Open Source at all. He makes this
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I have just recompiled the latest 2.6.5 kernel to use the pktcdvd patch.
The patch works great. However, my framebuffer is totally disabled. If
I try to use vga=791 on the kernel command line, I get a blank screen.
I know that it is still
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Thus spake Kirk Lowery:
# I am exactly where you are in this process. The word is that packet
# writing support in *not* in the main kernel source tree for 2.6.x and
# that you must patch the sources and compile a custom kernel.
Which raises one of
Hi. I have an Artec WRR-4048 CDRW drive at /dev/hdc (linked to by /dev/cdrom.)
This drive supports packet writing mode according to cdrecord. However, when I
try to setup udftools, I get an error message that says:
prince:~# /etc/init.d/udftools start
Starting support for udftools packet
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Whenever I go to a secure site in lynx I get the following seemingly harmless
error:
SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y)
I say that the error seems harmless because if I hit y or any other key except n,
it continues and
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Thus spake Phil:
# Is there a way to install RPMs on Debian?
Two ways I can think of:
1)
apt-get install alien
alien --to-deb package.rpm
2)
mkdir /var/lib/rpm
rpm --initdb
then install the package with
rpm -i package.rpm --nodeps
If you have
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Thus spake CW Harris:
# Strange. I guess because the (vfat,msdos?) module is loaded it will try
# that type as a normal user? I am guessing that msdos is a loadable
# kernel module.
Well, after mounting a floppy as vfat, lsmod showed vfat, msdos
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Thus spake Paul E Condon:
# I'm curious about this advice. I'm running Sarge. I don't find a file
/etc/filesystems
# on my computer. Is there a package that I failed to install? Which one?
I don't think it's part of a package. I had to create it.
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I am trying to mount an MS-DOS floppy disk. I get the following error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /floppy
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
Here is the relevant info from
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Thus spake Michael Satterwhite:
# There seems to be more spam showing up in the debian lists than I've seen in
# others. Does this list allow non-subscribers to post to it - or is it just
# that the spammers are joining mailing lists?
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I am using acpi in place of apm because it allows me to press the power button
to shutdown the computer. I can easily accidentally press the power button, so
it is good to have it go through the shutdown sequence or even do nothing instead
of
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Thus spake Andreas Janssen:
# What exactly does still trying to use apm mean?
Well, I am guessing that's what it's doing when it prints to the console and
dmesg the following error message:
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
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Thus spake Alexis Huxley:
# How did you remove apm? (precise commands please).
apt-get --purge remove apmd
# How do you know that the system is still trying to use apm?
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by
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Thus spake Rajesh Menon:
# did you remove the apm packages? u have removed the apm argument from
# lilo, and since you have built it in as a module, is it still there in
# /etc/modutils (i'm not sure how this would make a difference if apm is
#
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Thus spake Kevin Mark:
# So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a
# debian package?
# If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it.
The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use
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I tried to add mentors.debian.net to my apt sources.list. I followed the
instructions which said I need to add
deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib
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Thus spake Colin Watson:
# Ign http://mentors.debian.net unstable/main Release
#
# That shouldn't be a problem, should it?
It looks like one. All the other sites in my sources.list say hit at the
beginning of the line. And no package in
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Thus spake Colin Watson:
# A missing Release file is still not usually a problem. What does it say
# for Packages?
Packages always says get at the beginning of eadh line. I think I found the
problem. I was trying to download libvorbis-header-perl,
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Thus spake Phil Edwards:
# Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it.
A little Googling indicated that your shell may look at it after /etc/profile.
But from what I can see, no package actually creates it. It may have been
created by a script invoked by you
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Thus spake Kent West:
# I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP
# (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian.
#
snip
# I'm running sid, with a stock 2.6.3-1-686 kernel.
snip
# ide_scsi 15236
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Thus spake Haim Ashkenazi:
# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237193
Thanks very much for the pointer to this bug. It worked like a charm.
PRINCE
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Thus spake Haim Ashkenazi:
# If you hadn't done so already, install apt-list-bugs. this will show you
# the bugs (if any) of every package you install.
I just went to the debaday livejournal page posted in an email that arrived just
before this one.
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Thus spake Roland Dunn:
# - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop
# apache, samba, etc where is this on Debian?
/etc/init.d
# - Also on RedHat you could use chkconfig to setup such a script to restart
# on
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I have installed mldonkey-server on my Sid system. I followed all the
steps in the package configuration and told it to run as a ystem service
at startup. However, I can never access either the web or telnet
interfaces. All indications are that
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Thus spake Remi Vanicat:
# Everything seem normal.
Seems perfectly normal when I start the system service. No indication
of any errors. No indication that anything at all may be wrong except
that there is never a pid for mlnet or mldonkey_server.
I am having problems with my tty's. For some reason, most of my tty's, except
tty1, are slow to recycle after logout. Tty3 is especially slow, and sometimes
doesn't recycle at all. It just hangs and I get an error message every 5minutes
that says:
INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5
I have setup Proftpd as an anonymous ftp server. However, only telnet and the
ftp command seem to be able to connect to it. I have tried lynx, lftp and ncftp
and they all give me error messages like delaying before reconnect, alert,
can't access document and other such cryptic errors. I simply
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