Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns

Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-23 07:50 +0200, Paul Scott wrote I have a new install of sid on a laptop with a new hard drive. The wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the DNS is not set up correctly. I work around this by adding useable nameserver addresses to /et

Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 08:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-07-23 07:50 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > > > I have a new install of sid on a laptop with a new hard drive. The > > wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the > > DNS is not set up correctly. I work aroun

Re: How do I setup wireless network

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:07 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: _ More than messages–check out the

Re: migrating mantis 1.0.6 to 1.1.6

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:48 AM, 3b4rc0<3b4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > How to can I migrate mantis 1.0.6 mysql db to mantis 1.1.6 mysql db? > The database tables are not the same. Take a look in /usr/share/dbconfig-common/data/mantis/upgrade/mysql/ There are scripts that helps to upgrade. It is

Re: compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns

On 2009-07-23 07:50 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > I have a new install of sid on a laptop with a new hard drive. The > wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the > DNS is not set up correctly. I work around this by adding useable > nameserver addresses to /etc/resolv.conf

compensating for dhcp which only provides useless dns

Hi, I have a new install of sid on a laptop with a new hard drive. The wireless works fine except at one location where my guess is that the DNS is not set up correctly. I work around this by adding useable nameserver addresses to /etc/resolv.conf. I don't have resolvconf installed but I h

Re: APT configuration file

Kc9EYE writes: >Following the thread on apt defaulting to install recommends, I would >like to turn this option off. A previous poster stated to add this >line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I >would love to do that but I am unable as yet to find a file named >/et

Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft

And what of the ideas contained therein? -- Sent via Cricket Mobile Email --Original Message-- From: lee To: Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:05:12 PM -0600 Subject: Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 03:41:06AM +, bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: > [unreadable st

Re: linux articles / howto's

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Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft

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Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:40:08AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > How did it solve the problem of authenticating with the smarthosts? > > You're not using open relays, are you? > > I simply added yet another line with smarthost:user:password to > /etc/exim4/passwd.client

Re: How do I setup wireless network

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:57:07 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: >> >>> _ More >>> than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. >

Re: Sadly...

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the > > beginning of the quoted text so that you can > > > > - cut parts of it which are not interesting for your rep

Re: How do I setup wireless network

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, thirstyh2o wrote: On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: _ More than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ I wonder why you last 2 pos

migrating mantis 1.0.6 to 1.1.6

Hi, How to can I migrate mantis 1.0.6 mysql db to mantis 1.1.6 mysql db? The database tables are not the same. I have mantis 1.0.6 on linux rpm distro. thanks! 3b4rc0

FWD: Re: Network email draft

Sending both parts of my question if clarification is required feel free to comment. This unfortunately went through a mobile phone -- Sent via Cricket Mobile Email --Original Message-- From: bouncy...@gmail.com To: "bouncy...@gmail.com" Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:34:25 AM +

Re: How do I setup wireless network

> I wonder why you last 2 post are empty? > > Is it only me or others cannot read them either? I read all other posts > just fine. What do you use as your newsreader? its not just you. i thought it was gmail and did not want to get a maillist freakout in my direction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: [SOLVED] new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:46:46 +, thirstyh2o wrote: > font rendering in Ubuntu is way easier on my eyes than in Lenny SOLVED. Since I did it long time ago I totally forgotten that I installed under Ubuntu MS TrueType fonts and configured X to use them. All I needed in Lenny was to install

Debian Lenny amd64 hangs when loading parport module

Hi all: I recently bought a new PC like this: Printer: HP Deskjet 920c (connected via USB cable) Mainboard: MSI K9A2 Neo2 (This mainboard doesn't have a parallel port) Processor: AMD Phenom X4 RAM: 8 GB OS: Debian Lenny 5.0.2 amd64 After installing some base packages I installed cups and when it

Re: How do I setup wireless network

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:56:51 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: > _ More > than messages–check out the rest of the Windows Live™. > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/ I wonder why you last 2 post are empty? Is it only me or others

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

Hi, root writes: >> They are recommends, and recommends are installed by default. But you >> can change this > > How can this be changed? > I looked through the man pages for apt-get and the config file > but didn't see any way to do so. Just add APT { Install-Recommends "false"; }; to

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:36:34 +0200, Giuseppe Marinelli wrote: > This is something I have been coping with since my switch to Linux. I > tried multiple font types (DejaVu, Bitstream, Liberation) and multiple > configurations but I have not managed to get a decent font rendering > yet. > > The pres

linux articles / howto's

Hi Guys, I'm running a website http://www.linuxconfig.org/ where I'm trying to promote a Linux operating system to beginners but also to intermediate linux admins, with step by step guides on how to configure, install and use software on Linux platform - for free ! ( free as a beer and also free a

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:22:06 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > The proprietary driver improves performance even for other stuff though > it is more likely to crash, especially during suspend/resume. Installed the proprietary driver but did not have a lot of improvements (if any) with it either.

RE: How do I setup wireless network

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Re: APT configuration file

Kc9EYE wrote: Following the thread on apt defaulting to install recommends, I would like to turn this option off. A previous poster stated to add this line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I would love to do that but I am unable as yet to find a file named /etc/apt/

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > i do think that the configuration facilities have great advantages over > > plain conffile editing for unexperienced users. but they're not always > > an option for complicated setups. > > > > in my case the facility does exactly what I would like it to do: it > > take

APT configuration file

Following the thread on apt defaulting to install recommends, I would like to turn this option off. A previous poster stated to add this line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf" file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I would love to do that but I am unable as yet to find a file named /etc/apt/apt.conf. I do h

Re: How do I setup wireless network

Get a computer witha wireless card and configure it. On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Ogya Chief wrote: > > > _ > Share your memories online with anyone you want. > http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/windows/windowslive/products/pho

Re: Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

> They are recommends, and recommends are installed by default. But you can > change this. How can this be changed? I looked through the man pages for apt-get and the config file but didn't see any way to do so. TIA, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:27:05PM EDT, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm not sure the GNU project produces the majority of Debian, by > > any metric. > > I'm pretty sure it doesn't, because by and large "the GNU project" > doesn't produce any software. It provides technical, philosophical, > ethical

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

In <2009074953.ga29...@codelibre.net>, Roger Leigh wrote: >On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:19:51AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> Debian doesn't *create* much software.[1] They do a lot of packaging >> and bug-wrangling, but Debian depends on upstream being available to add >> features, wr

RE: How do I setup wireless network

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Re: [OT [OT] ] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:25:00PM EDT, Charlie wrote: > Then should GNU go before Debian or after? Big apple, green apple, bad apple.. they're all basically apples.. or are you talking about oranges..? Sorry about about going one up on the OT. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 07:04:21AM EDT, David Goodenough wrote: [..] > Several programs (the first was the new Eclipse Galileo, then IceWeasel and > now a locally compiled version of zenmap v5) have started to come up with > an error:- Since you compiled it, you have the source, right? For star

Re: Moving to Sid (was Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?)

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 22:20 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:30 -0400, Damon wrote in message > <1248190050.3741.40.ca...@dam-main>: > > > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-07-21 08:46, Soren Orel wrote: > > > > But where can I download SID?

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:19:51AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200907221325.01147.aries...@clearmail.com.au>, Charlie wrote: > >I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering > > correctly on someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told that > > my signatu

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:12:54 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > Big props to GNU, but when I'm talking about my OS, I use "Debian" or > "Linux" and not "GNU" to describe it, and I don't have any problem > with others doing the same. I do try to use to official name in > writing or formal p

Re: OpenLdap manual howto available

Great article. I must have a look at that ! thanks On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:35 AM, gn643202 wrote: > Lukasz Szybalski wrote: >> >> Just an FYI. >> I'm working on openldap howto for Debian. >> >> http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/OpenLdap > > This is great, but: > >   Under "Connect to openldap" with

Re: Open Office question.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:40PM -0400, I Rattan wrote: > > I did dist-upgrade and the new openffice (3.1) > and it does display a .php file (goal is to convert > to .txt), the older version did do this function. What's the difference between a php file and a text file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: liable NIC for kernel 2.6.18

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Florian Kriener wrote: > On m...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: > > I'm looking for a PCI NIC with one or two RJ45 connectors that is known > > to be supported 100% from the Linux Kernel 2.6.18. > > Try the Intel cards. They work very well and are quite cheap (the

Re: Chroot can't find /sbin/getty

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM, John wrote: > On (20/07/09 23:49), Javier Barroso wrote: > | Hi, > | On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, John wrote: > | > I've run a chroot of stable, starting with sarge, currently etch, for > several years. The relevant line in /etc/inittab has been > "8:23:respa

Re: MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:03:01PM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > Here's the question again: which one of the abundance of MTAs in > Debian is capable of address rewriting depending on destination? Exim4 can do this. If I understand you right, you want to rewrite the addresses of mail that i

Re: Font (or color) problem on current unstable x86 box

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:16:41AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > If you read the rest of my original message, it would appear to be a font > that is missing, not a color. My real question however is how I find out > WHICH font (or color) is missing. You're right, it can also be a font. Which f

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:17:57PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > hello, > > On 21/07/2009 lee wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? > > > > Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts in

Re: [Semi-OT] Need advice on AMD mobo

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:31:23AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > Did you ever try to proceed like this: > > "Would you please give me your name again, I forgot to note it. If > $STATEMENT is the official position of $COMPANY, i'll cite it on my > web page." No, but nobody cares what I might pu

Re: Moving to Sid (was Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?)

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:30 -0400, Damon wrote in message <1248190050.3741.40.ca...@dam-main>: > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-07-21 08:46, Soren Orel wrote: > > > But where can I download SID?? I just can't find an e.g.: > > > "download amd64cd for sid"...:(

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

In , Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I'm not sure the GNU project produces the majority of Debian, by >> any metric. > >I'm pretty sure it doesn't, because by and large "the GNU project" >doesn't produce any software. It provides technical, philosophical, >ethical, and political support to help and enco

Re: Chroot can't find /sbin/getty

On (20/07/09 23:49), Javier Barroso wrote: | Hi, | On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:47 PM, John wrote: | > I've run a chroot of stable, starting with sarge, currently etch, for several years. The relevant line in /etc/inittab has been "8:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/chroot /[chroot] /sbin/getty 38400 tty8" and

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

> I'm not sure the GNU project produces the majority of Debian, by > any metric. I'm pretty sure it doesn't, because by and large "the GNU project" doesn't produce any software. It provides technical, philosophical, ethical, and political support to help and encourage the development and use of F

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

On Tuesday 21 July 2009 03:52:06 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > thirstyh2o wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > > > I'm coming from Ubuntu crowd where I spent last couple of years. Finally > > decided:"Why 'Debian based', why not Debian itself". > > > > So to be. I've installed Debian 5.0.2 on my Dell Latitude D8

Re: Keyboard layout problem in Debian Lenny

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:51:01 +0200 Wim Herremans wrote: Hello Wim, > Where does xserver-xorg get its information about the keyboard layout? Unless overridden, Xorg makes a "best guess". > It is not coming from /etc/X11/xorg.conf. That file exists, but is > empty. Specify which layout you want

Re: Squeeze update broke brasero

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Matteo Riva wrote: > Last update of testing broke the brasero package -- the package was > removed and can't now be installed: > >  The following packages are BROKEN: >    gnome-desktop-environment >  The following NEW packages will be installed: >    brasero >  The

Re: Sadly... (was Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?)

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:47:50 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 2009-07-21 09:59, Tim Tebbit wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> Please keep a handle on top posting. >>> >> >> This is a lost battle, thanks to The Evil That Is GMail. >> > > You don't HAVE to top

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:05:24PM +0200, Xan wrote: > >> In Debian stable "lenny" apt automatically installs recommended >> packages. If you want to select packages manually you can do so using >> the aptitude front-end or by using "apt --no-install-recommends". > > Wow!!. Why that? I previous use

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

In Debian stable "lenny" apt automatically installs recommended packages. If you want to select packages manually you can do so using the aptitude front-end or by using "apt --no-install-recommends". Regards, Kapil. -- Wow!!. Why that? I previous use debian and apt only install needed p

Re: Open Office question.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 13:56 -0400, j j wrote: > Still can't open .php > but Bluefish editor can. > http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ Last time I looked OOo tried to be a browser too (a horrible one), maybe it is trying to run php on the code? If so, somewhere in the Preferences you probably can di

Re: Open Office question.

Still can't open .php but Bluefish editor can. http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM, I Rattan wrote: > > I did dist-upgrade and the new openffice (3.1) > and it does display a .php file (goal is to convert > to .txt), the older version did do this function. > > Any id

Re: gotmail oddity

hotmail allows pop3 access now. > *POP server:* pop3.live.com (Port 995) > *POP SSL required?* Yes > *User name:* Your Windows Live ID, > for example yourname@ > hotmail .com > *Password:* The password you usually use to

Keyboard layout problem in Debian Lenny

I have a fresh Debian Lenny installation. During installation I chose the Belgian keyboard layout (an azerty layout). After installation I only have a Belgian keyboard layout in the console, but in X it is the default US keyboard layout (a qwerty layout). I can easily change the layout in GNO

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

Hello, On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Xan wrote: > PS: Please, CC always debian-arm list (I'm just only subscribed here) or > CCme directly. None of the bugs you describe are specific to the arm architecture so you should really be sending your future reports about this to debian-user and _not_ debian-ar

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

On Qua, 22 Jul 2009, Xan wrote: Maybe other person could enlight us really c-compiler or subversion are needed? They aren't really needed. $ apt-cache show ikiwiki Package: ikiwiki Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 5880 Maintainer: Joey Hess Architecture: all Version: 2.53

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

En/na Sven Joachim ha escrit: Note that if you install them at the same time, you must list php5-cgi _before_ php5 at the command line, because otherwise the apt resolver would still bring in libapache2-mod-php5. See bug #122304¹ and its siblings for details. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

En/na Andrew Sackville-West ha escrit: look at apt-cache show php5, you will see that it is a meta package that depends on the following: ... Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8+etch13) | libapache-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8+etch13) | php5-cgi (>= 5.2.0-8+etch13), php5-common (>= 5.2.0-8+etch13)

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

On 2009-07-22 18:06 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:11:43PM +0200, Xan wrote: >> apt-get install php5 -s > > look at apt-cache show php5, you will see that it is a meta package > that depends on the following: > > ... > Depends: libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.0-8+etch

Open Office question.

I did dist-upgrade and the new openffice (3.1) and it does display a .php file (goal is to convert to .txt), the older version did do this function. Any ideas? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:57:28AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Granted, this would require the modification of debian/rules files to > > be sensitive to the environment variables, but I was still hopeful > > that if we can formulate a standard to adhere to, we could propose > > this to some pac

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 05:11:43PM +0200, Xan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. I > cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured properly but > it's not the story. > > I have two possible bugs of too much dependencies: > > > 1) Whe

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos > > copysrc experimental lenny-backpo

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wednesday 22 July 2009 09:18:11 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an > > "experimental" dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos > > copysrc experimental lenny-backpo

Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

Hi, I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. I cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured properly but it's not the story. I have two possible bugs of too much dependencies: 1) When I want to install php5, apt install me apache2 packages. I think t

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:09:52PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,22.Jul.09, 09:18:11, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > [rebuilding packages with different flags/options] > > You might be interested in this: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00044.html > > The thread (is quite

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

In <200907221325.01147.aries...@clearmail.com.au>, Charlie wrote: >I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering > correctly on someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told that > my signature "Linux Debian" should read "Debian GNU/Linux" because: > "considering that th

Re: sudo logging

Berthold Cogel writes: [...] > We're doing somthing like this in /etc/sudoers: > > > Cmnd_AliasSHELLS =/bin/sh, \ > /bin/bash, \ > /bin/bash2, \ [...] > TRUSTED_USR ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL ,!SHELLS, NOROOT This works well f

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed,22.Jul.09, 09:18:11, Kumar Appaiah wrote: [rebuilding packages with different flags/options] You might be interested in this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/05/msg00044.html The thread (is quite big) starts here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00732.html Reg

Re: resize2fs: Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt!

In <4a665bf5.2090...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2009-07-21 11:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <4a655762.6020...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and >>> /usr/local into their own partitions. >> >> /usr is managed by the distribut

Re: liable NIC for kernel 2.6.18

On m...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: > I'm looking for a PCI NIC with one or two RJ45 connectors that is known > to be supported 100% from the Linux Kernel 2.6.18. The system is > intended to run 24/7, but the data rates are not too high, so 100MBit > should do it. At the moment, a Marvell/Yukon based on-

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:02:09AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > > > > I need

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:02:02AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > > I was also thinking about an automated dch to increase the version to > > something like ${VER}~mybpo1, or some such thing. I leave it to you to > > suggest some sane method my which this can be achieved. > > > using ~ decreases the

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:56:25AM -0500, Joseph Rawson wrote: > Using reprepro makes it easy to upload the new packages to an "experimental" > dist for testing, then call "reprepro -b /path/to/repos copysrc experimental > lenny-backports $srcname". I had to learn this the hard way, because > o

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:02:09 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for > > > > > which I need to par

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Monday 20 July 2009 19:55:30 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > If you are looking for small private archive: > > > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_small_ > > >public_package_archive > > > > > > Also

Re: sudo logging

Mag Gam schrieb: > We have many users at my university engineering lab. Some professors > need commands for root and of other users, so we decided to setup sudo > permissions. I was wondering if there is a way to log all commands > when they sudo into an account or root account. > > I would like t

Re: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.dep: No such file or directory

On 2009-07-22 14:17 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 'lo > > When trying to apt-get install -t experimental wine, I got the > following error: > > > Setting up cups (1.3.8-1+lenny6) ... > Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdFATAL: Could not load > /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.dep:

Reliable NIC for kernel 2.6.18

Hi, I'm looking for a PCI NIC with one or two RJ45 connectors that is known to be supported 100% from the Linux Kernel 2.6.18. The system is intended to run 24/7, but the data rates are not too high, so 100MBit should do it. At the moment, a Marvell/Yukon based on-board NIC is used that unfort

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:33:36PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > > > I need to parse the sources file. I have to think of an elegant way to > > >

Advices regarding hdparm multcount option

Hello My Gygabyte motherboard (SB700 with AMD4400+) has poor SATA performance. Any disk I/O leads to high system CPU percentage. And the AHCI interrupt is about 1000/s even for low disk usage. Using hdparm, I've found that all my sata disks have multcount set to 0: $ sudo hdparm /dev/sdb /dev

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 06:32:43AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:14:32AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > > determine some file names usin

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.dep: No such file or directory

'lo When trying to apt-get install -t experimental wine, I got the following error: Setting up cups (1.3.8-1+lenny6) ... Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdFATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/modules.dep: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.26

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

Charlie wrote: > first so should be first, that without it there would be no Debian? Or > as I asked my correspondent, who never replied, would there have been > an OpenBSD Debian or something like that? Then should GNU go before > Debian or after? Or Nate Bargmann already replied about the offic

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

* Charlie [2009 Jul 21 22:26 -0500]: > I'm just interested and imagine there will not be a definitive answer to this > at all. Without all the silliness, the proper name of the distribution from the main Web page is "Debian GNU/Linux X.x". Beyond that the rest is personal preference. - Nate >

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:14:32AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > > I need to parse the sources f

debian Tags integrated into apt-get?

I found there's Tag section in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages. Does this mean debian tags is integrated into apt-get and I need not run "debtags update" to update the tags? and "debtags update" is obsolete? Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

On Wed,22.Jul.09, 13:25:00, Charlie wrote: > > Just a general off topic query. > > I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering correctly > on > someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - The delimiter () is ok, but then you have an empty line and some more text. At least

Re: Sadly...

On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote: > > The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the > beginning of the quoted text so that you can > > - cut parts of it which are not interesting for your reply > - easily scroll to a position in the text where you want to start

Re: Maintaining personal backports

On Tue,21.Jul.09, 20:51:24, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > And Andrei suggested that I use apt-get source. But I still need to > determine some file names using the version of the package, for which > I need to parse the sources file. I have to think of an elegant way to Maybe it's easier to parse the