Re: Escaping @ in apt.conf
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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On 09/26/08 12:27, Cassiano Leal wrote:
Hi list!
Is it possible to escape an @ in apt.conf?
I have a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/60proxy with the syntax to use apt
through a proxy:
ACQUIRE {
http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3128/
}
but since my password has an @ in it, aptitude thinks that the server
address starts right after this @. Say this is the real thing:
Change your password?
http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@proxy.server.com:3128/
I get an error saying that it could not resolve the hostname
@[EMAIL PROTECTED] !
Is there a way to escape the @ in the password?
You must use URL encoding. (i.e:
http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3128/
)
If that fails to work then it is a bug in apt, and should be reported with
reportbug.
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Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Well that never would have occurred to me... Well, AFAICT that was only a fix for the underkying issue that caused him to want to switch drivers. Since that fix made the original driver work, he no longer needs to switch drivers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that never would have occurred to me... Thats probably because that solution was related to his original problem, causing him to want to switch drivers, rather than being the reason why the driver would not switch. (At least that is what it sounds like to me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cpufrequtils
Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kalessin wrote: You should stay with the ondemand governor, you will not see any difference, except on yout electricity bill (and on the environnement too). Anyway, just edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and it should work. (as root : echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor) You may need sysfsutils to set it up at boot time : edit /etc/sysfs.conf and write : devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = performance Best Regards. The folks over in #vmserver on freenode say that the frequency scaling messes with the timing of the vms. I can say from my tests so far, this seems to be true. With ondemand my vms seem very sluggish taking up to 30 sec just to run a single ping command on the local net (not timing out, but just to run one ping and get a response) With performance, they are merely slow. So, I think I really need to switch to userspace and manually switch to full throttle when I need to get vm work done. I can confirm that this is a problem with vm software in general. I'm not sure I've ever seen that ping problem, but I find a real problem with the virtualized kernel's clock skewing if the host's processor frequency is changed. This is because the client kernel never gets properly informed of this change, so it cannot adjust the clock system properly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some fonts in kde / iceweasel not anti-aliased - but not all
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Florian Kulzer on 23/04/07 20:40, wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 20:04:58 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Got a wierd problem that I can't find any viable solution for in google. I set up a new machine with etch, running kde and iceweasel. Most of the main fonts are not anti-aliased in iceweasel. I downloaded firefox and tried that, same result. The funny thing is that I am running etch on another machine and I upgraded everything to the same level, but it's not affected. Does anyone else here know what the problem could be? Compare the fontconfig settings on the two machines, for example by running this command on each system: awk '/fontconfig/,/^$/' /var/cache/debconf/config.dat My guess is that the enable_bitmaps setting is responsible. You can change all the settings by running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config. (Restart X after that to be sure.) By the way, this would be a xorg thing, would it? Rather than KDE, gnome or xfce etc? Well it is general to X yes (rather than specific to some windowing environment). But in fact fontconfig can be used by other apps. Indeed fontconfig is likely being used because your system is using Xft for fonts. If a different mechanism were in use for fonts, then that change would likely have had no effect. (I'm pretty sure Xft is the default on Debian, but am not 100% positive on that). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A very simple documentation framework.
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So far my personal doc system amounts to a patchwork of notes and cheat sheets in ascii files that I grep when I need to find some piece of information or other. I would like to switch to something a little more ambitious where I would be able to generate my docs in the usual popular formats, namely pdf, html, ps, txt, and possibly dvi. [snip] I am not concerned about typesetting .. the only requirement is that the contents of tables and samples should materialize in a non-proportional font in order to be legible. My only other requirement is that this documentation system should not require the implementation of complex gui tools. I want to do it in vim and use command line tools to generate the various formats. Would anyone have any recommendations as to how I should proceed? I'm pretty sure what you want is ReStructuredText. It is developed for python. It uses a syntax VERY similar to what you showed. It does do proper formating. It is also designed such that it is easy to read the original text files. To avoid having email corrupt my example file I have posted it at http://monoport.com/1758 The example file does not include the line number. If you try to copy the text you will notice that the line numbers are not copied. That is correct. Anyway, to view the example output, copy that file and paste it into the text box on http://www.hosting4u.cz/jbar/rest/rest.html and push the render buton. I think you will find that the HTML output is very nice considering how simple the syntax is. If you are interested I suggest reading http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html Which will explain a few more features. The main page to find more information is http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html If you have any questions, feel free to contact me off list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local webserver for testing, needed
Niels Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] swm wrote: On Debian Etch you would need to install apache2, php5, mysql-client, and mysql-server, and possibly others that you find helpful. In fact, if you are not using MySQL then save yourself some work and don't install it. -Steve Well thanks for all the hints, but someone have directed med to this: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html Which is exactly what I wanted :-) It works perfectly here! All I want is something simple just to show if my php-sites has the perfect setup before uploading it, thats all. I dont have all the knowledge in setting up a webserver from scratch and this one works very well for me :-) That is understandable. It may be worth it to try setting one up sometime. If just for the practice. I am also surpised that XAMPP properly intsalls itself in /opt/ rather than spewing itself everyware and confusing the package management system. (A common problem with installing pre-compiled software for Linux by a means other than the disto's package management system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?
Alan Ianson wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or the stable release of 3.1 ? A few concerns: 1) How long will security updates be maintained for 3.1 once 4.0 becomes stable? Around 1 year, woody was supported for that long after sarge was released. Etch will be supported for 1 year or untill the release of etch+1: Lenny, whichever comes first. (Wither way, it should be around a year) 2) If I do choose 3.1 for now, will I soon find it necessary to move to 4.0? Once the security support has stopped I would upgrade. Yes, although It is likely that a reasonable end user would want to upgrade sooner, especially considering that backports to old-stable are quite uncommon. 3) Any particular reason why it may not be good to pick 4.0 at this point? Not really (in my view). I'm running etch now and I couldn't be happier. It is still testing so it's possible stuff could happen but etch has been downright stable for some time now although there are still rc bugs being worked out. Agreed. There is a slight possibility things could break. But Etch is still far more stable then the stable versions of most other distros. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to create a debian-Cd like a standard
abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I create a debian Cd from a selected packages for my own purpose, so I have 2 cd's, the first official one ( a bootable cd) and the second built with dpkg-scanpackage. Instead of this a want a Cd like the official standard ( to respect the tree of directories). To do it manually it is hard ( the copy and sort for alphabetic order, the md5sum,), I want the script which create the official. thanks in advance for any help If I understand you correctly you want the script that generates the offical CDs. You want to provide a list of packages and have the script generate a binary CD containing those packages. You want the format of the cd to be compatible with apt-cd so that the cd acts just like any of the official cds as far as installing packages goes. Is that correct? If you have a proper working mirror of the debian archive (must include at a minimum the packages you want, but can be generated in any manner), then you can use the official cd creation scripts. (I belive the mirror must be added to apt's sources.list) To get the scripts see the question I have a local Debian mirror and want to create my own CDs. How do I do this? on http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/. Now on to how to use the scripts: You will need to edit CONF.sh The lines you will need to change are: export MIRROR=... export TDIR=... #Must be on same partition as mirror export DEBVERSION=... #might already be correct export CODENAME=... #might already be correct export OUT=... export APTTMP=... If any of the packaqges come from Non-free uncomment # export NONFREE=1 If you have local packages you wish to include on the cd take a look at LOCAL and LOCALDEBS Now, you must create the package list. Put it in the tasks directory. Lets call it 'mytask'. (It is a simple text file containing the names of the packages you want on the disc). Good. Now we just run: make distclean make status make list TASK=tasks/mytask COMPLETE=0 make bin-official_images If you have any problems, please contact the CD team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building a Static Local Mirror fro CD images
John Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a 3 cd set of Debian Sarge 3.1 for I386. I want to create a local apt-mirror to install my systems from using only the packages on the CD. The systems I am building are very picky about the packages that are installed. I do not want any updates as I have certified the applications to work with the stuff that comes on the CD's and a handful of other packages. I have managed to create a small repository for the additional deb packages which works fine. I have also used apt-cdrom and apt-move to create a mirror that works for the .deb files on the cd. The problem is that I can not install the os using a minimal boot cd and then pointing it at my mirror. I can install with CD1 the base image and then point at my local mirrors to finish the install (stage 2 after the first reboot). Ultimately I would like to preseed the installation from a network file but my understanding is that does not work unless you do a network install. The network install disk works fine with the public mirrors however this will not work for my environment. With Redhat you simply mount the cd images and copy them into a directory (/mirrors/fedora-c5/) and then either export it with NFS or make it available with apache. What is the easiest way to make the Debian CD images available on my local net for installation? I must be missing something... Um.. Does loopback mounting the images and exporting them over the network not work? (Point the installer to each of the cds as though they were seperate mirrors.) I have not tried it, but I belive it should work. It sounds like you are trying to merge the CD's into one repository, whcih is a bit harder. It can be done, though if the individual cd's don't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: thinkpad value for money?
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:50PM -0300, Tyler Smith wrote: So my question is: is a 'low end' thinkpad worth the mark-up over what Dell and Toshiba have on offer? Consensus among people I know who have used several brands is that IBM is the last top-tier laptop maker with reliably good customer service. There is no IBM PC business anymore. It was purchased in full by Lenovo. So anybody using the phrase IBM-compatible PC has a serious problem, as not only has IBM not set the Specs for many, many years, but no longer builds PC's at all! Thinkpad has been a Lenovo product for quite a while now. (early 2005) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing unstable?
Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:38:01AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: I don't see an unstable installer on the web site. Is the standard way to build an unstable system to build a testing system, point /etc/apt/sources.list to an unstable repository and update+upgrade? Or is there something more common that I'm overlooking? See http://wooledge.org/~greg/sidfaq.html#3 The way I used most recently was to use a stable netinstall CD and boot it in expert mode. You'll be prompted which branch you want to configure apt for (stable, testing or sid). Choose sid. Then I skipped taskselect and went straight into aptitude and started choosing packages. This took a little longer but I had an unstable system on first boot with little cruft. The alternative is to install a testing system, change your apt sources and dist-upgrade to unstable. This latter way may be safer for new debian users and is I believe the recommended method. Correct. Using any net-inst CD from sarge or beyond should allow you to directly install unstable. This is almost never tested, so there is some chance it could fail. Intsalling testing and upgrading is recomended in all cases, unless bandwidth is a major issue. (For example slow dialup connection). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp.debian.org amd64 packages
Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tanel Kokk wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Mirror with debian-amd64 are from the past, and I guess, not updated. Thierry If so, then why ftp.debian.org's pool contains amd64 packages at all? Tanel That's a good question, and also, I did not notice that the packages have exactly the same name, therefor they should be identical. Thierry The explanation is simple. When amd64 was added to sid, all the packages were re-compiled. So they are not going to be the same. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to redirect sound
Lubos Vrbka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi, every body I am using a set of thin client (neoware) connected to a llinux server, I want to redirect the audio to the client. It exists probably the way to do that in same way as the image. i mean the user logs on a thin client on the remote server, and he receives the graphics on his terminal, ( the xdm does this in fact). the question is : there a procedure to redisrect the sound to the sound devices on the thin client instead of running it on the server? i am sure you can use esound (enlightened sound daemon) to perform this task. i have, although, never done that. so my only advice would be to I can confirm this. I have used ESD under cygwin for this porpose. Actually the remote machine was a VMware virtual machine running on the client computer, so I don't rember why I did not just let VMware take care of the sound, but I can definately confrim that it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 1147164438 past the epoch, Art Edwards wrote: On Friday night I updated a stable box to a testing box. Afterwards: What upgrade method did you use? 1. Lilo was promoted to the default boot loader With a stable install (sarge) lilo should not be installed in the first place, let alone upgraded. I should also point out that stable installed exim, instead of exim4 so I had forzen messages for 8 weeks under mutt. This is under stable. Sarge (stable) defaults to exim4 for your MTA. These two things lead me to believe you have some kind-of hybrid or partially updated woody system rather than sarge - etch. I think he may have accidentally skipped sarge entirely, trying a woody-etch transition. That may explain some of these problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Determine system ver (Debian vs. other Linuxes) at runtime?
OxyOss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried to use the contents of /etc/issue ? Typically for RedHat/Fedora this will have the release in it, and (for Sarge at least) this is also the case for Debian. I've done a dist-upgrade on this box and the file shows the correct version number at least... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l The problem is that that is almost certainly a conffile. It is the system logon message, and sysadmins are free to change it at will. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gmailfs wont work !
Zouari Fourat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
gmailfs.py:Gmailfs:named mount options: {'username':
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'password': 'gmailpassword'}
what should i do to get it working ?
Use a real account name and password? ;)
Actually my best guess is that one of the many gmail changes has broken
gmailfs. Check to see if you can find a newer version.
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] using secure apt with the testing security archive
Joey, Because this is of interest to a very large portion of Debian's user base, this posting might have been better posted on debian-user-announce. I know that mail to that list should be minimal, but a proper announcement of this to that group (to which ALL debian users really should be subscribed), would certainly be very helpful to the many current users of testing who don't regularly read debian-user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QQ about apt.
Scott Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (noob) I would like to know if and how it is possible to do a non-interactive install of an .deb package. The pages I have read talk only of a 'yes to all questions' option which is obviously useless if the package you are installing has questions other than yes/no and so on. The docs also speak of being able to set *arbitrary* options in the command line. This seemed to be more related to the apt-get program rather than the packages. Two examples I want to do are Apache2 and PostgreSQL which require some additional prompting. The purpose here is to create a set of steps which can quickly install a Debian system from scratch, limit down-time and remove some of the human element. Is there a way of doing this? I'm at about a 3 bananas out of 5 on the howler monkey scale. How about debconf pre-seeding? Most programs use debconf to ask the questions. However if debconf already has answers to the questions then it does not bother to ask them. In fact the config script is apparently sometimes run in both the pre-inst and the postinst so ignoring questions which have answers already is almost critcal. The following is one way to pre-seed debconf. With this method it is very important that you not pre-seed for any packages that will not be installed, because otherwise those values will rot in the database forever. Anyway lets say the package name is 'foobar' From a system where it is already configured you should run: debconf-get-selections|grep ^foobar foobar.preseed Then to load that into the database to avoid the questions, simply get the file onto the system and run: debconf-get-selections foobar.preseed Note thatyou can concatonate a bunch of these file together if you want. This will then let you use only one line to pre-seed a whole bunch of packages. There are also other ways to pre-seed, but I don't know about them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reduce write access to hard disk
Jonathan Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycles before the cells wear out and therefore I'm looking for ways to reduce the number of write cycles. First of all, it is obvious, that swap partitions have to be avoided and replaced by real ram, so currently I'm planing for 2 maybe even 4 GB of memory. The kernel is less than perfect in terms of memory management and a knoppix user noticed that creating a ramdrive for a swap partition actually increased speed. (The problem might not actually be in the kernel, but rather in programs requesting that memmory be placed in swap, and running slower if swap is not available, but it has the same end effect). Rather than using flash memory consider using SSDs which are dram-based, battery backed-up drives. I'm not sure of the cost comparison to similar sized flash drives. What is nice about flash though is that compact flash uses IDE. So you can just buy a simple ide to Compact flash adapter to plug your CF cards into. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: any idea if this works on Debian?
If it is seen as a 'usb-storage' device, it will, most likely, work. The page does not detail... One thing: 16MB flash internal for video? If this memory is unremovable, and the device can't accept newer and bigger modules, this camera is quite limited... 99.99% of cameras these days support usb masstorage mode. In fact just about all these camera's are nearly identical. The 16 MB internal memory is either just an sd card that is integrated into the circuit, or more likely an mmc card (compatible, but cheeper). What happens is that this is seen by the device normally. However if a card in inserted into SD slot, the camera can no longer 'see' the internal memory and uses the external memory instead. WARNING: I have the exact same camera, but it is packaged in a different form factor. I'm 100% certain the the camera is otherwise identical. It may be 3 MP actual resolution which it can upgrade to 4 MP via interpolation, but even the 3 MP image quality is horrible. It is really the equivelent of a 1 MP camera. The video is mepeg-4 but has some very nasty articfacts, and the actual image is tiny. It is something along the line of 128by64. It does support mass storage mode, and can be used as an SD card reader. I have not tried the voice recoding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Anderson writes: Any ideas? Just give up and plug in an old junker keyboard. I've got one that will boot with no keyboard but insists that it must have a mouse. Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. The keyboard thing was to prevent somebody from booting into the computer, but then having no way to control it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Semi-OT: need to fake keyboard and mouse...
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith writes: Now that is bizare. Not even windows insists that. Nothing to do with the OS: it's the BIOS (too old to be writeable). I know that it would be the BIOS. But this is idiotic as no reasonable operating system insists on having a mouse. I cannot imagine that that bios needs a mouse for its cmos setup program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Downgrading a system to a particular distribution
Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Alf wrote: Now my system is no very stable, and some applications crash now and then. Because of this, i'd like to return to a more stable state. Is there a way to uninstall all packages from unstable branch? I'd like to get my system back to testing, say, or stable. Downgrading in general isn't supported by Debian. Although if none of his installed non-sarge apps are 'essential', he should be able to just purge the packages from etc/sid, and then install them again from sarge. By guess is that his system got hit by the C++ transition, which would be a nightmare to downgrade from. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] C++ Compilation
Of course, you can always use gcc if you remeber to link against libstdc++ (I think). gcc is the universal front-end. It will compile and link anything supported by the compiler collection. However that said g++ is better for both compiling and linking c++ code, because it uses slightly different depencency tracking etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to list all files that are going to be installed when doing apt-get upgrade?
I know how to list the packages that are going to be installed, like with
apt-get -s upgrade or apt-show-versions -u, but I would like to know
which files included in these packages are going to be installed. I have
tried grep when doing apt-get -s upgrade and apt-show-versions -u,
and thought of piping the output trough dpkg -L, but my knowledge is too
limited for this.
something like this should work:
for i in $(apt-show-versions -u|awk '{print $1}'); do dpkg -L $i;done
The awk '{print $1}' outputs the first collumn. I don't rember what column
apt-show-versions shows the package name, so you may need to change this.
To sort the output do this instead:
sort (for i in $(apt-show-versions -u|awk '{print $1}'); do dpkg -L
$i;done)
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Re: Runing 2 squids
Perhaps, if squid does get confused (two squids on one IP address) you could run the second instance on a fake IP address/alias but I don't know much about that. And I know all to much about that. IT is done by creating a new loopback ethernet device, and briging it to your real device. to get an ip addess for this device you send out a dhcp broadcast on it, which loops back, crosses the bridge and enters the real network. (unless your computer is the DHCP server). The exact same thing happens with outbound packets. Inbound packets might not need to cross the brige and loop back. I think linux is smart enough to realize that the addressed ip is the same ip as a device to which it is bridged, and tus insert it directly in the virtual device's incomming queue. A lot of work, but certainly intersting. [Unfortuantely this knowlege is Windows based, and linux may need some coaxing to accept it] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responses to the list (oops)
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Ron Johnson wrote:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Using what he recommends ruins threaded reading, because
the reply goes to the originator of the message, and the
list gets CCd.
That sounds like a problem with you mailer's threading.
Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what
newsgroups were invented for. These days mailing lists are used for exactly
what newsgroups were originally used for. This is supposed to be to reduce
spam, but in reality just as much spam comes to mailing lists as come to
newsgroups.
Mike
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Re: Jabber
Fred OGrady Said: On the same line, I installed the jabber server on my box. Now what? I know I need a client, but I can't figure out what to aptitude install for a jabber client. I run gaim, for internet chat, but that doesn't have anything to do with my jabber server. can anyone fill me in? You don't need anything. Gaim *is*a jabber client. So to connect to your jabber server you use your hostname or 'localhost' as the server. But, if you could not figure that out yourself, you may want to rethink running a jabber server, and just use one of the existing ones like jabber.org. Again you should be able to to gaim for that. -- Fred OGrady (Linux+ Certified Technician - whoda thunk - better not show this g) my blog is at: http://vs6.resco.kicks-ass.net:8080 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responses to the list (oops)
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith writes: Rember that email was not designed for threading. Threading was what newsgroups were invented for. No. News was invented to reduce traffic. There used to be a rule of thumb on how large a mailing-list should get before it was replaced by a newsgroup. Based on the history of unix being slowly posted to groklaw, Usenet long predates modern email. In fact AFAICT e-mail was a spinoff of usenet. (although usenet of long ago was quite different than it is today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Responses to the list (oops)
Mike said: Threading is based on message IDs. The mailer threads properly. The message ID should not change based on whom the message is sent AFAICT, so who is in the reply feild does not really matter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux
Chuk Goodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/22/05, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Mc Cool wrote: Get to lift his head and look out at the real world. What is this real world of which you speak? And from where can I download this mod? It's that big room with the blue ceiling and the really bright light. I try not to go there -- the climate control doesn't work right. Also, The sprinkler system is known to malfuction. -- chuk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory Black Hole
S3GFAULT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SUMMARY: Files or chunks of files from the root (reiserfs) partition are being inserted into memory at the rate of 4-16k/5 secs (2.4.18) or 60k/5 secs (2.6.8). This memory is never freed. This insertion is not being caused by any user space program. If the only programs running are kernel processes, getty, bash, and top, it will still occur. Memory will be eaten up until about 5k is left, and then it stabilizes. Swap space will not be used. This behaviour occured under Debian Woody and Sarge. Sarge was tested with kernels of version 2.4.18 and 2.6.8. Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be causing this? Even advice to other references would be greatly appreciated. Sounds like an overly enthusiastic file cache. I'm betting either physical defect in ram, or more likely something kernel related is messed up. Try posting the output of 'free', once it stabilizes. It might give a clue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux
- Original Message - From: Rishi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 11:03 PM Subject: Re: Game like Road Rash on Linux dgen will run the Sega Genesis / Megadrive versions of Road Rash, RR 2, and RR 3 if you've got the rom images. What does rom images mean? Rom images are copies of the data from the chips of a video game console. They can be used to play the game on an emulator. The only legal way to obtain them is by making them yourself from a cartridge. That said they can be downloaded off the internet. While not legal in any case it is in general accepted if you own the original. In the case of old game systems like genesis people generally turn a blind eye toward downloadng the roms. If you want to download them go ahead. As for downloading dgen. I think it is available only in debian's non-free section. -- Rishi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: runlevel policy
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: Can anyone explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed so far from traditional System V? Why is xdm/gdm/kdm etc. in runlevel three, for example? Debian, as a distribution, really doesn't use runlevels 3-5, but it does set them up in skeletal fashion as a convenience to a local sysadmin who wants to use them for local purposes. Mostly what is there is just what Debian puts in runlevel 2. It saves a bit if copying by the sysadmin. I don't think it is governed by policy. The policy is that 3-5 are for local use. Basically the debian point of view is that runlevels are the wrong solution to the problem. If you need to be able to interactive decide what services and subsystems start up automatically, then you should use a truely interactive booting system. Part of the reason for the trditional system is that packages are qquite hard to remove in RedHat-style systems. If a debian sysadmin does not what a display manager (Funny name, as they are more like a login-manager) they can just uninstall it. The vast majority of the time a 'traditional' system is booted into either runlevel 5 or runlevel 3. So often in fact that making all debian runlevels equivlent to that makes good sense. Basically it makes life easier on the end user. In the quite rare case that some of the services are unwanted the services can be stopped by hand or 'init=/bin/bash' can be used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postscript/ghostscript
linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] hello all i have a mac and am sick of mac osx i can't buy a new machine but i can move over to linux i would like to install debian (ppc) my problem is, i don't know if my printer/scanner will work its a canon pixma MP-130 multifunction i can't find it in any of the compatibility lists but i've read a bit about postscript/ghostscript and was wondering if the printer might be supported by these technologies i don't know enough about postscript/ghostscript to be sure about the compatibility let alone how i would set the printer up once linux is installed if my printer will not work with linux i will stick with mac osx its cheaper to purchase the latest version of osx than it is to replace my printer with a linux compatible one Postscript technologies are for postscript printers. Ghostscript can create DVI files which can be converted into printer commands by a printer driver, but you should probably print directly via CUPS. It seems to me that the odds are that you will be able to find a working printer driver by simply trying a bunch of different Cannon printer drivers. Also because OS X is a Unix and uses CUPS internally, i suspect it may be possible to just use your current driver directly. I have no experience with this. As for the scanner part, I have absolutely no idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any of the national mirrors have the security archive mirrored in the debian-security/ directory You can use them. They should contain the same thing as security.debian.org as they are both just copies of ftp-master's repositories. However Debian does not offical support the use of any security repositories other than security.debian.org (Although ftp-master would theoretically be even better, that server is already taxed enough.) The offical security team faq says: Q: Why are there no official mirrors for security.debian.org? A: The purpose of security.debian.org is to make security updates available as quickly and easily as possible. Encouraging the use of unofficial mirrors would add extra complexity that is usually not needed and that can cause frustration if these mirrors are not kept up to date. Official mirrors, however, are planned to be implemented in the future. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bash script
I was unclear. Sorry bout that. However, you hit the nail on the head! Looks like an execellant way to achieve what I was wanting to achieve! Can I give points in here for the winner. :) Well of course you can, but you first need to have points to give. I don't recall anybody granting you points to distribute. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reinstall lilo after windows
I do not have idea why this very useful option is removed from sarge. Now i always need 2 cd's, sarge and woody with xfs. In my opinion it's the worst change from woody to sarge. Full rescue support was not integrated into d-i by the time sarge was released. The latest Installers have a rescue option: Rescue with post-Sarge daily built images The post-Sarge daily built images have a new rescue boot option. This will use the first part of the installation process to set up a working system, ask you to select the device that holds your root partition, and will then mount that partition and chroot to it. Note: you will need to mount any other file systems (including proc) manually, despite what 'mount' will tell you. It should be available for etch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg database rebuild
Hello People, If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages installed ? If you copy the filesystem and it includes /var then dpkg should be perfectly happy. Regards, rrs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request for the list of your installed packages
We want to survey how often each package is insalled. Might http://popcon.debian.org/by_inst have the information you want? Popcon is a volentary system allowing debian users to report the packages they have installed. Thus the values are not perfect, but ware at least as good as the values you will recive. The page I linked to has a list of packages sorted by number of users installed. One you remove all lines that begin with #, the 2nd feild is the package name, and the third is tyhe number of popcon users that have the package installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Official CD Images Stable or Unstable?
- Original Message - From: pnguine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 2:41 PM Subject: Official CD Images Stable or Unstable? I just d'l'd the first 4 'Official torrents for the stable release on CD' CDs and 'installed' them using apt-cdrom. But the apt sources.list file is pointing to 'unstable'. Does anyone know why? Do I have the official stable release or the unstable release. If it is unstable how do I 'back-up' to the stable version? If the lines look like they have anything to do with the cds,then this is normal. On a CD all of 'stable, testing, and unstable' are linked to each other. This was a design decision. therefore the cdlines can refer to unstable without being a problem. In theroty they could have said stable, so I do wonder why they don't. Never-the-less If a cdline says unstable there is nothing to worry about. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grub-md5-crypt
My understanding is the hashes returned should match. Is this correct? I may be barking up the wrong tree but I think this is my problem. The the hashes are salted, which helps deter cracking of the passwords. For that reason the same password may yeild different outputs. It may be possible that 'grub' (the shell) is broken, which could cause the problem. Try this: Disable the password and reboot. Press 'c' at the menu and type md5crypt. Enter a password. Write the hash down. Press escape to return to the menu Boot. Put the hash in the config file. Reboot. If that hash does not work then there is a serious problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?
Len, let me clear this? Are x86_64 and AMD64 the exact same thing? Can they run ordinary x86 apps? Yes, both refer to AMD64. The can both run 32-bit apps. In fact if running a 32 bit kernel it should behave identically to a normal 32 bit x86 processor. If running a 64 bit kernel, 32bit programs can be run. However by default the debian AMD64 port does not support this because it would require 32bit libraries which are a major pain. But most users of Debian AMD64 would have no reason to run 32 bit programs unless they wanted to run certain non-free programs, or one of the few programs that currently don't compile/run right on AMD64 such as WINE and OpenOffice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?
- Original Message - From: Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso? Well, as a last resource, one can dualboot the two systems in the same machine? Of course. You can use the same swap partition, of course. ;) Actualy, I recently helped somebody set up a system for dualbooting i386 and AMD64. But perhaps it would be simplier to just create an i386 chroot. This is quite easy, and can be used to run any i386 program. The 64-bit kernel will work just fine with the 32-bit programs. I reccomend doing the chroot. Here is a full walkthrough based on unofficial howto guide, which will install the chroot as '/i386' (short and simple name). As I say below, if you have any questions feel free to email me. [Warning: all of the walkthrough steps are to be done as root, however the utility dchroot will be used to let regular users run programs found in the chroot] [Warning2: The chroot should really be on the same partition as /etc]. First things first: use aptitude or apt-get to install 'dbootstrap' and 'dchroot'. 'mkdir /i386' 'debootstrap --arch i386 sarge /i386 ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian' You can change sarge in that line to any distribution you like. I would reccomend that if you use 'stable' for the main system you use stable for the chroot, likewise with testing, and unstable. You can also choose the mirror you want. Ok, now enter the chroot using: 'chroot /i386' Install any 32 bit programs you want and the libraries you need. You will probably want X11 libs, openoffice, etc. You can install them using apt-get or aptitude. Leave the chroot using 'exit' 'mkdir -p /i386/tmp /i386/proc /i386/home' Now you must add these entrys to /etc/fstab: /home /1386/home none bind0 0 /tmp/i386/tmp none bind0 0 proc/i386/proc proc defaults0 0 Now do something to make sure these commands are run every time the system boots (like add them to /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh): mount /i386/home mount /i386/proc mount /i386/tmp Run those mount commands before continuing. create hard links: 'ln /etc/passwd /i386/etc/passwd' 'ln /etc/shadow /i386/etc/shadow' 'ln /etc/group /i386/etc/group' Ok. Now you should be able to run applications in the chroot. Try running this: 'chroot /i386' 'su - username' #replace username with your non-root username 'export DISPLAY=:0' 'openoffice' openoffice should open. If so close it. 'exit' If all went well you can now setup dchroot so that you can run openoffice without requiring you to switch to root, and manually enter the chroot. To set up dchroot: simply add this line to /etc/dchroot.conf : i386/i386 Ok. Now to run a 32bit program as non-root run 'dchroot -c i386 -d programname' For example to run openoffice you run: 'dchroot -c ia32 -d openoffice'. Pretty easy right? Well we can make it even easier. Create an executable file named /usr/local/bin/do_dchroot that contains: #!/bin/sh exec dchroot -c i386 -d $(basename $0) $@ Ok. Now for any program in the chroot that you will commonly run, simply create a simlink to that script. For example: 'cd /usr/local/bin' 'ln -s do_dchroot openoffice' 'ln -s do_dchroot oowriter' 'ln -s do_dchroot oocalc' You can pass command line arguments to these symlinks just like with the real programs. If you have any questions feel free to email me. ADVANCED: The following steps might let you run some 32 bit applications without chroot or dchroot: Add these lines to /etc/ld.so.conf : /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/X11R6/lib /var/chroot/sid-ia32/usr/local/lib Run these commands: 'cd /lib' 'ln -s /i386/lib/ld-2.3.2.so ld-linux.so.2' 'ldconfig' THE END -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: support for amd64?
- Original Message - From: Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:09 PM Subject: support for amd64? I was trying to figure out how good is debian support for amd64. Will it stand, in the long run? I do regular internet/email/writing stuff, as well as multimedia editing with marillat's software. I enjoy having a huge software archive, as is the x86 case. Will I suffer under amd64? Any insights? Why is there a 'pure64' dir on debian archives? Is it different from amd64? Thanks! Well, the sarge AMD64 port is 100% supported. It is for all intents and purposes 'official' except for by name and true integration into the archive. That said backports, security team, volatile all fully support it. Also soon (i hope) it will be part of the main archive, which means that 'official' sid and testing versions will be available. pure64 was the name used for development of a pure version of amd64. The idea was that needing /lib64 etc was stupid as all packages would be compiled in a 64 bit version. So pure64 had no support for running 32bit applications unless the package 'ia32-libs' was installed which would allow for many (most?) but not all 32 bit programs to be run. The default archive at amd64.debian.net (the one in the debian directory) is pure64. I have no clue what debian-amd64 is, but i'm pretty sure it is not what was released next to sarge, and i think it will not be the one intgrated into the debian archive, but I really don't know. I personally would like amd63 to be integrated into the archive ASAP so that we can just point people to etch, unless they want the extra stability of stable. Pure64 note: For workstations, you still need a 32bit chroot for OpenOffice.org, wine, MPlayer with win32 codecs or mozilla with flash plugin, to name the most common. But nonetheless a growing number of people use these ports on their desktop system, and are really happy with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7
ext3 is set but ext2 is a module. I think I muss check it as well. But I'm not sure. Yes. ext3 is very much dependent on ext2. In fact I would personally compile all filesystems I might use directly into the kernel in case I some day need to do some sort of weird booting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hacked: can't delete files
If you want to press charges and if the attack had anything in anyway related to thed United States then contact the US FBI. Why? I don't know, but that is what the news companies here in the US suggest. The fact that you have the attacker hotmail address is nice. Belive it or not the cracker may be more than willing to discuss the break-in. On the other hand, trying to contact him or her[1] may make it harder to ever procecute him/her simply because it could scare him/her into hiding. If the breakin was on a machine with nothing too important, i would persoanly try contacting the cracker, but that is just me. [1] I'm not sure I have heard of female crackers, but I'm fairly sure they exist, or at least could exist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?
- Original Message - From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive? Defragging on a Linux system is generally unnecessary; therefore there's no utility for the task. Wrong. (About no utility) From http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition.html#FRAGMENTATION: None of these habits should be carried over to Linux and ext2. Linux native file systems do not need defragmentation under normal use and this includes any condition with at least 5% of free space on a disk. There is a defragmentation tool for ext2 called defrag, but users are cautioned against casual use. A power outage during such an operation can trash your file system. Since you need to back up your data anyway, simply writing back from your copy will do the job. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows xserver client
Brent Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Would anyone know of a good and / or it using a windows xserver client. I googled and I came across this site. http://x.cygwin.com/ Ok let me explain this one: cygwin is a complete (nearly) Posix environment in windows. If install it and run it you come to a bash promp where most familar utilitiesare avilable. If you install X you can use the x server. I use it on my windows box to run GNU emacs. (I could use NT Emacs, but the cygwin Emacs works correctly,for just about everything, whereas those parts that depend on external utities often do not work right on NTEmacs.) If you use cygwin's ssh with x tunneling you can get to your desktop of your debian system on your windows box. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: position independent executables (PIE) on Debian?
So is there a way to get PIE executables with random addresses on Debian? Yes, download the debian kernel source, and apply either the PaX, or Exec shield patch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost Labyrinth
Markus Döbele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! Looks nice. Thanx! I also created a rpm version of the game. I don't know right now how to build a deb file. But it should be easy to install the game with alien. Alien is not a nice way to creat debian packages. Please take a look at our New Maintainers Guide [1] which explains how to do that. After that you might be interested in reading the additional documentatio at [2]. You may ask more questions about the creation of debian packages at our debian-mentors list [3]. Maybe you like to include our game in your distribution? Probaly if you change your license... currently you just state your game would be freeware, which is not enough according to our Debian Free Software Guidelines [4] to be part of the main Debian archive. Its gpl! The page is also for Windows where freeware is a lot more popular. The Linux Version which a completely new version is using the gpl. I am just using the same graphics, sounds and most of the ideas. Ok. Then if you would like to maintain the debian port, read the new maintainers guide and discuss any questions on the debian-mentors mailing list. If you are looking for somebody else to package your game plese use the command: reportbug wnpp choosing 5 for RFP (request for package) In the message indicate that you are the upsteam maintainer. That might increase the odds of your package being accepted because the debian maintainer will know that upstream supports the port. (That can sometimes be a problem with relatively unheard of packages.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend
echo 3 /proc/acpi/sleep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: image partition of 30G to 20G ?
Hello, 1) Exact copy of hda1, hda2, hda3 onto hdb1, hdb2, hdb3 the problem here is that I am shinking the partition sizes beacuse 1) I don't need all the space and 2) I trying to make room to create a test AMD64 system setup. I only use WinXP for games and don't need all that space/ Will a simple dd if=/dev/dha2 of=/dev/hdb2 work even if the partition sizes are different? All info on /dev/hda2 will fit onto the shunken /dev/hdb2 (hda2 is only using about 10G). No. That would involve resizing. (While copying I might add). The best you can do is repartition hdb3 to allow the partitions to fit. The partitons should be the same size if at all posible. If the new ones are larger the filesystems will stay the same size, but dd will complain if you ever try to copy them back. As for resizing the ntfs partition, The latest ntfsresize will resize partions even if they are fragmented. Thus you can shrink the partition down to just a little bit more than the the space in use on it. Please explain exactly why you are doing this.It will help me assist you in this. From what I can see you wanted to play around with amd64. you tried resizing partitons on hda and eventually gave up. So now you want to put the partitions onto the second disk which you have sized to the desired sizes. Your end goal is to use hdb as your main disk, eventually being used as the first harddrive. Is that correct? If so, I know how to make this *VERY* painless, without any risk at all to hda. In fact no changes will be needed on hda. If not, please email me in private explaining exactly what you have already done, and what you are trying to do. I should be able to help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My Grub/MBR went bye bye
Boot your live cd and get a root shell. mkdir /mydisk mound /dev/hda1 /mydisk chroot /mydisk install-grub reboot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is dircolors file?
I have inlined a basic DIR_COLORS file (this is actually the used by default by dircolors [do not confuse that with the default colors of ls]). Make a file sismilar to this in your home directory, and name it something like '.dircolors'. Then add 'eval `dircolors -b ~/.dircolors`' to .bashrc -- # Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the # LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option. # The keywords COLOR, OPTIONS, and EIGHTBIT (honored by the # slackware version of dircolors) are recognized but ignored. # Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable TERM linux TERM linux-c TERM mach-color TERM console TERM con132x25 TERM con132x30 TERM con132x43 TERM con132x60 TERM con80x25 TERM con80x28 TERM con80x30 TERM con80x43 TERM con80x50 TERM con80x60 TERM dtterm TERM xterm TERM xterm-color TERM xterm-debian TERM rxvt TERM screen TERM screen-w TERM vt100 TERM Eterm # Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init # string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes: # Attribute codes: # 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed # Text color codes: # 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white # Background color codes: # 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something. FILE 00 # normal file DIR 01;34 # directory LINK 01;36 # symbolic link. (If you set this to 'target' instead of a # numerical value, the color is as for the file pointed to.) FIFO 40;33 # pipe SOCK 01;35 # socket DOOR 01;35 # door BLK 40;33;01 # block device driver CHR 40;33;01 # character device driver ORPHAN 40;31;01 # symlink to nonexistent file # This is for files with execute permission: EXEC 01;32 # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string. # (and any comments you want to add after a '#') # If you use DOS-style suffixes, you may want to uncomment the following: #.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green) #.exe 01;32 #.com 01;32 #.btm 01;32 #.bat 01;32 .tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red) .tgz 01;31 .arj 01;31 .taz 01;31 .lzh 01;31 .zip 01;31 .z 01;31 .Z 01;31 .gz 01;31 .bz2 01;31 .deb 01;31 .rpm 01;31 .jar 01;31 # image formats .jpg 01;35 .jpeg 01;35 .gif 01;35 .bmp 01;35 .pbm 01;35 .pgm 01;35 .ppm 01;35 .tga 01;35 .xbm 01;35 .xpm 01;35 .tif 01;35 .tiff 01;35 .png 01;35 .mov 01;35 .mpg 01;35 .mpeg 01;35 .avi 01;35 .fli 01;35 .gl 01;35 .dl 01;35 .xcf 01;35 .xwd 01;35 # audio formats .ogg 01;35 .mp3 01;35 .wav 01;35 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Bit OT]: Latex Gurus?
A nasty hack, but if there is at least one margin note per page then this
might work:
\marginpar{\rule[-2000cm]{1mm}{4000cm}Text goes here}
(I've never used LaTeX before so no clue if it will work). The idea is to
make the line next to the paragraph so long it covvers the whole page.
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Re: how to check if its system bootup
LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I wonder if there is a way to check at an init.d script, if it is system bootup, or the user just executing the the script from a console, while the system is already up. Any way to do this? Thanks! Why would you want to do this? In general if a user is running the script with an argument of start it is for a very good reason such as manual booting, and should be treated the same as automatic booting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re:SOLVED- *.deb *.udeb files
More information just to explain the scope of udebs: Micro-debs are used by the installer to create a mini-debian system on the ramdisk so that utilities needed to partion the disk, create filesystems, and install the real packages are available. Under normal circumstances the contents of a udeb are never installed to a harddrive. dpkg is used by debian-installer to install real debs to the hard drive. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian CD Reseller
Hi all. I was wondering what I would need to be an OFFICIAL seller of Debian CDROMs. I currently have 12 available (either in sets or netinst CDs) in my eBay store and was wondering what I would need to do to get myself on the OFFICIAL CD (re)seller listing? First read this: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info Then read this: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/legal (if you do not comply with this (sell source cds with your others, or provide the written offer), you could be sued) Then PLEASE verify your iso files with the md5sums found at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-cd/ (Replace the i386 with the architecure(s) you sell discs for). If your iso files are correct then this is the page for you: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding For type of cd you are: Official; Netinst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: script to run on startup
Yeah, I created /etc/init.d/local and put S99 slinks to it in rc2, 3, 4, and 5.d, copying some of the other startup scripts. Doesn't strike me as particularly elegant, and it's (probably) going to get wiped by Debian sometime in the future. But for the time being I have a /dev/tape without having to learn the udev rules... That is correct, and should be left alone by debian. however there is a utility that should be used rather than making the links by hand. You should use update-rc.d like this: update-rc.d local start 99 2 3 4 5 . (note the dot) This prevents the possibility of having two links to the same script in a single rc directory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need to disable laptop touchpad completely: 80+ year old debian user touches it by accident
I assume that there is no disable button on the touchpad itself. Try using 'tpconfig --sleep=1'. On many touch pads it will disable it. If it works, to make it permanent do the following as root: 1. Create file named /etc/init.d/killtouchpad The file should contain: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/tpconfig --sleep=1 2. chmod +755 /etc/init.d/killtouchpad 3. update-rc.d killtouchpad start 98 S . (note the dot it is important) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: use second hard drive to boot from?
Hello, I use Debian 2.1. I have recently run out of space on my hard drive and am considering buying an additional one but am unsure if I can install it into my box to boot from. Is it possible to install a second hard drive into something like the floppy drive bay? Thanks Yes you can install a second HD on your computer. There usually is a bay for it, your existing HD cable should have two connectors, one for each of your drives. Then there is the connector for the power. You have to make sure the jumpers are set correctly on the new drive also. How exactly do you want to set this up? Are you going to run Windows only on the first drive and Linux on the new drive? Or Windows and Linux on the first drive and distribute some of Debian onto the seconddrive? hth,kent --- Actually, I was planning on creating my own linux distribution on the second hard drive. So far on my existing hard drive, I use Debian and Windows. My new distribution will only take up maybe 2 gigs, so the rest of the hard drive will probably be used for storage. So I'll probably end up creating a 2 gig ext2 partition, maybe a 125 MB swap partition, and and then one or two vfat partitions (so that Windows and Linux can see it and write to it). Physically, I have a CD drive, a CD-R drive and a 3.5 floppy. I have a bay right under the 3.5 drive which is the same size as the 3.5. Could I fit the second hard drive in there? Thanks again, Andrew PS. Sorry, this is a bit of a long message. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
non-contiguous vs Fragmentation
Hello everyone, This is a question I've had for a while. I know Linux uses the ext2 filesystem which is supposed to be anti-fragmenting. Once in a while, when I boot up, I get a message saying I have reached maximal mount count and I have to sit and wait a few minutes before I can continue with the boot up. I have recently noticed that, during boot up, I see my hard drive is 9.7 % non - contiguous. I'm not sure what this means. According to webopedia.com: fragmentation - Refers to the condition of a disk in which files are divided into pieces scattered around the disk. Fragmentation occurs naturally when you use a disk frequently, creating, deleting, and modifying files. At some point, the operating system needs to store parts of a file in noncontiguous clusters. This is entirely invisible to users, but it can slow down the speed at which data is accessed because the disk drive must search through different parts of the disk to put together a single file. What then is the difference between non-contiguous and fragmentation? Is one worse than the other? How can my hard drive be 9.7 % non-contiguous if the ext2 filesystem is supposed to be anti-fragmenting? Is there a way to make my hard drive contiguous again? I thought that there were no linux defragmenters. Thank you for reading this email, I know it's really long. Well, I'd like to hear your responses. Andrew Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
use second hard drive to boot from?
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SIOCSIFFLAGS error
Hello, I get an SIOCSIFFLAGS : Device not found error when I try to boot up. It happens right after: Startingportmap This happened all of a sudden. It was working fine before. It freezes the entire system. I can't even Ctrl+Alt+Del. I have to manually reboot. I booted w/ Debian Rescue Disk and the boot went fine but whenever i try to boot from my kernel (2.2.14) I get this error. I should mention that this happened once before a while ago. I think I just used the Rescue Disk and then next bootup, the error went away. It didn't work this time. Thanks In Advance Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger
Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
cheapbytes debian 2.0 installation
I am having some problems installing debian 2.0 with 3 archive CDS from Cheapbytes. I installed base packages off the debian binary cd. Basically, now what? i have to say : /dev/hdc as my cdrom then, i have to say that /debian is my top directory it finds .../binary-i386/Packages.gz and something else but cannot find contrib, non-us, non-free, and local. how do i tell it to use the other cds. I cannot tell it to use the /RedHat/contrib on the Archive CD1. by the way, i can find contrib, but i cannot find non-us, non-free, or local. where on the other cds are they? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
