On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 10:05:38AM +, Lisi wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2010 03:54:42 Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Rob Hurle wrote:
> > > Does anyone have advice on the best way to handle a .deb package?
> >
> > The easiest way is to not handle .deb files at all. Instead allow
> > apt-get to instal
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 07:31:20PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote:
> If you boot up a fresh install of Debian & after you boot up, plug in your
> Ethernet cable & try to add software,
> Debian asks for the install disk. If you plug in Ethernet BEFORE you boot up
> it will look online for software.
>
Th
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 01:12:36AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:53:20 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >
> >> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> >>> If you don't
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:14:04PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 31 May 2010 03:07:05 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > > elfie...@aol.com :
> > >Hi! The following 2 posts (pages) contain my name. Can you please
> > >remove them or make them unsearchable?
> > >http://lists.debia
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When booting my computer this morning, fsck was not happy. Here is what
> it said:
>
> ==
> # cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs
> Log of fsck -C -R -A -a
> Tue Jun 1 09:00:07 2010
>
> fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> /dev/sdc5 has bee
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:48:31AM +0200, godo wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 04:25 AM, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >Just one question,
> >
> >Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new
> >iso and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final rel
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 08:58:59AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > >
> > > But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Ron Johnson put forth on 4/8/2010 9:58 PM:
> > On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
> >>
> >>Give a man a fish and you feed him for a da
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:26:22AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
aptitude remove exim4 && aptitude install postfix
should do it (if you want to install postfix).
One MTA conflicts with the other and removes its packages.
You may, exceptionally, need to dpkg --purge the exim4 components
and there's no g
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:17:29PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
> Two pc's:
>
> 1 - router
> 2 - logger
>
> Situation: someone tries to bruteforce into a server, and the logger
> get's a log about it [e.g.: ssh login failed].
>
fail2ban
> What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforc
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:42:16PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works
> nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much inferior way when
> I switch to Squeeze.
>
> In particular:
>
> The screen is 1366x768 according to the user ma
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:00:45PM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
>
> > If you can, please post any results / error messages.
> > Also, you don't say what country you're in : it may be that support
> > resources are available closer to hand :)
> >
>
> #apt-get install ethereal
>
> But it cannot f
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:55:12AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
>
> Thank you . I modified my Lenny settings as the followings :
>
> - under /etc/network/interfaces
>
> auto lo
>
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> allow-hotplug eth0
>
> iface eth0 inet static
>
> address 192.168.10.114
>
> netmask
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:13:26AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
>
> > > It is now running version 5.0.4 . But
> > > surprisingly I cannot connect it to Internet , as I did previously . I am
> > > trying as the followings :
> > >
> > >#ifconfig eth0 ip-address netmask netmask-bits up
Herewith a cor
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:10:45AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:58:47 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:57 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:41:04 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> >>> My Debian server got hung and when
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 18:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-01-06 18:13 +0100, Freeman wrote:
>
> > But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's?
>
> Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture, for instance.
> It will be fun when all those embedded devices break.
>
> Sven
>
An
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:00:11PM -0800, Freeman wrote:
>
> LOL. The perpetual human problem. One can only hope to know less. Yet I wish
> I knew more.
>
Ars longa, vita brevis est - There's a lot to learn and life is short :)
>
> I am forever struggling to keep posts brief, to be expeditious
[Copied also to Debian user - this is another FAQ]
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:49:41AM +0100, Paul Chany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux Lenny (32bit).
>
> Here I want to install on my VirtualBox the Debian Testing ia64.
> Because of the ia64 architecture, I don't know whether is th
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:30:24PM +, amka wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 01:56 -0600, Mark Allums a écrit :
> > On 12/12/2009 6:32 PM, amka wrote:
> > > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits.
> > > AMD or Intel ?
> > >
> > > Could someone give me plea
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to
> copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on
> another machine via network.
>
> I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 02:11:19AM +0100, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
> On Saturday 21 November 2009 18:44:47 John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked
> > inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user.
>
> By you own accord you are not a suit
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:58:56AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> Please be informed that I couldn't find the screen command package for my
> Debian 3.1 server . I really need it to manage multiple screens just from
> one login session . I tried to update my Debian repository list , as th
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:32:42AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me
> know what is the equivalent of Linux "/etc/rc.local" bootup script in Debian
> ? In Linux , I put the "crontab crontab.txt" in /etc/rc.local bootup script
>
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:31:18AM +, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> Can you please do me favor and let me know how can I set my Debian server to
> be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times each day ? Please be
> informed that my Debian server version is read as "/proc/version : Debia
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:36:34PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2009-11-01 10:33 +0100, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >
> > > It appears to be correct now. One question though... shouldn't my
> > > hwclock be set to UTC, which in my case
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:21:28AM -0400, Tom Clark wrote:
> I have a dual boot system (windows on one drive for web development
> tools I owned) and LENNY on the other drive.
>
> I had a consultant do the initial system. For the last 6 months, I have
> been asking on how to upgrade to the stabl
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:13:42AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> Can you please let me know how can I totally wipe out the entire of my hard
> drive under Debian OS ?
> Thank you in advance
> Regards
> H.Motamedi
If you want to wipe out a portion (say the contents of one home
directory
nstructions
given in good faith - otherwise you will annoy people, be ignored and get
less help as a direct result.
All the best,
AndyC
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater <
> amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 0
Where are we at the moment with KDE installability in Squeeze?
All best,
AndyC
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:04:21AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > From: Vasanthra Devi S [mailto:vasanthrad...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:46 AM
> >
> > can you help me to install Debian 5.0(Lenny) on RHEL 5 (kernel is 2.3)
> > on x86 machine.
> >
> >
Install Debian first, o
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 01:49:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-16 11:35, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>> On 8/16/09, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> In the Section/EndSection wrapper. That's what I'd try.
>>>
>> Should such syntax avoid breaking anything? Inspired from here [1].
>>
>> Section "InputD
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:13:22PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> Please,
> I said : I used full CD1 lenny 5.02.
> Ok, thanks,
> Pratically I want to stop all processes using the access to internet like
> for example:
> rdate which tries to adjust the time from remote servers
>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:14:36AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mi,08.iul.09, 21:15:08, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> > I hereby release this and any further wiki items that I write for
> > wiki.debian.org under the licence terms above.
>
> Sorry for being suc
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:59:36PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:55:01 -0700
> Daniel Spisak wrote:
>
> >
> > This is not a flippant question, but one I'm curious to hear an
> > answer to.
> >
> > Is Ubuntu just Debian but with a prettier look to it?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Ubuntu i
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 04:42:46PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> This concerns the 5.02 amd64 DVD #1
>
> Yesterday I downloaded the debian-502-amd64-DVD-1.iso file from debian.org's
> site. It was 4.4 Gb, but it failed sha1sum verification, so today I again
> downloaded it, but it is now 2.0 Gb
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:34:58AM -0400, Damon Chesser wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 11:16 -0400, Damon Chesser wrote:
> SNIP
>
> I tried to modify xorg.conf to read this:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Default Screen"
> Monitor "Configured Monitor"
> Su
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:43:35PM +0800, 明覺 wrote:
> >
> > What about XML, YAML, HTML, javascript, and such? No more browser? No
> > more internet? :-)
> Of course I will use all of them, I even use windows vista everyday
> for playing games, that's my user role; for my programmer role, I will
> u
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:13:29AM +0800, 明覺 wrote:
> Thank you, my plan is to first learn C/C++, then learn other
> languages, I learn other languages in order to extract out their
> advantages into C/C++, not for using them, of cause, before I have the
> ability to modify the g++ compilers as I l
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 04:08:54PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> >>Has been happening quite a bit lately:
>
> >>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800
> >seconds ... that is 30 minutes.
>
> >>The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complai
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:54:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Curt Howland wrote:
> >
> > So, I'm stuck creating my own screen/modline, and I could use a bit of
> > help.
> >
> > The values I want to use are 1360x768, 47.7KHz h., 60Hz v. 24/32 bits
> > of course.
> >
> > Anyone want to ta
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 03:50:49PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> I know it's a silly question with a simple answer, but i can't find
> the culprit. I've checked /etc/init.d/ and rc2.d/ and there's nothing
> that would change the time. However, every time i boot the system
> always defaults to one
All,
There are various poor documents out there if you Google. Do I need to
fetch non-free code to get this card to work.
Any ideas when this is likely to be supported in the mainstream kernel -
I think I saw 2.6.30 hptiop may support it - do I need to wait for
Lenny and a half?
Many thanks i
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 06:56:18AM +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 00:29:17 +0200, Sven Hoexter (s...@timegate.de)
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:56:58PM +0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> > > Or I can install Debian - I know there
Have brought one of these and successfully hosed Linpus Lite (which is a
Fedora derivative) by attempting update.
I can restore the original Asus stuff tomorrow once I've bought a large
USB stick :(
Or I can install Debian - I know there's a Wiki page but can anybody
give me clear advice on su
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 06:25:28PM -0300, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote:
> Hello, I'm not sure this is the correct list to ask this but I was asked
> to install Debian on a Sparc machine but not all CDs/DVDs are available
> to download under main download server.
>
> Take a look at: http://c
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 09:36:17AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 2009-03-29_06:07:29, Thorny wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:01:17 -0600, Paul E Condon posted:
> >
> > > I see a list of rsync mirrors for an install CD at www.debian.org. I am
> > > running Lenny and have rsync installed. I hav
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:07:54AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 2009-03-29_09:59:49, John Hasler wrote:
> > Strong and Humble writes:
> > > Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that has no
> > > winter time shift whole year?
> >
> > Sure. Many time zones have no "dayli
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:39:20PM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear Andrei Popescu
> Thank you very much for your reply . But the server is halted and when I
> press its power on key it will be lit just for a moment and then goes off
> (without any message on the attached diplay) . But the attach
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:14:57PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote:
> 2009/3/20 hadi motamedi :
> > Dear Sudev Barar
> > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please let me know from where I
> > can download the Debian Linux 3.1 and burn the CD for this purpose ?
> > Looking forward your reply
>
>
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:18:28AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In , Stefan
> > Monnier
> > wrote:
> >>> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> >>> available?
> >> You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommen
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:08:48PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:14:59PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote:
> >
> >> P.D.: Does someone know what debian version included MySQL Server 3.x?
> >
> > http://archive.debian.
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:45:35PM -0700, ghe wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Raleigh Guevarra wrote:
>
> > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites?
>
Not to host dozens of websites - but to host crucial servers.
Minimalism: a Debian base in
Am I the only one who can't resolve Planet Debian today?
AndyC
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:48:55AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> In the message below, is the part
>
> "In addition to the regular installation media, Debian GNU/Linux can now
> also be directly used without prior installation. The special images
> used, known as live images, are availabl
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:48:41AM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
> 2009/2/18 Rick Thomas
>
> > Same sort of thing for the weekly page
> >
> >http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/
> >
> > It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > On Feb 17, 2009, at 6:
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:23:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/28/2009 07:52 PM, Glenn Becker wrote:
>>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I should probably admit that I haven't been booting my Debian install
>> lately, and it has mainly been due to irritation with Iceweasel and not
>> doing anything const
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:56:53PM +, Sam Kuper wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It's quite late where I live, and I've had a very long day, so I'm not
> thinking at my best right now, which is why I'm asking for help sooner
> than I'd normally like to. (Normally I'd try to do quite a bit more
> researc
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:42:27AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> This is not a Debian questionbut I am running Sid.
>
> I am about to install a Sony DVD writer in my machine and would
> appreciate some advice.
>
> I already have a DVD rea
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 04:11:35PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > > lee
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > lee wrote:
> > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access
> > > them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk,
> > >
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:52:24PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> With the RAID array I am planning to use RAID 5 so my data is still
> protected. My confusion is going with RAID striping (picking the right
> size). Also, Does the filesystem layout need to be specific when I do
> striping? If I am using 1
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 07:41:32PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:12:49 +
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Wireless didn't work immediately - following the advice on the wiki
> > exactly and downlo
All,
This is probably exhaustively written up somewhere - but I can't find a
concise source. Following advice on the Wiki for KDE and sound hasn't
helped. [Alsaconf/Kmix/alsamixergui all appear to work and the volume
icon sometimes comes up on the panel as "muted" but no sound at all :( ]
Hard
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> I expect this has been covered before, but people undoubtedly have more
> experience with it now, and it won't hurt to discuss it again.
>
> What variety of Linux is installed on the EeePC? Does it bear any
> relationship to Debi
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:01:44PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> >From Hitachi, WD, other venders. Of course, ship with windows drivers.
>
> Anyone used this stuff with Debian?
> Possible to use as normal HD, i.e., partition it, some for compressed
> backups,
> i.e. squashfs or images, some for re
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:05:24PM +, andy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive.
> I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was
> fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There
> is noth
Following Martin's suggestion as to how to use grml
[Example instructions set out below for the clueless as to how to
recover/panicked people/those who need this in a hurry from finding
this as a desperate Google search]
grml will recognise an existing mdadm array if given
mdadm -A /de
Subject should say it all. Updated a box to Lenny from Etch - boot on
one partition, root and everything else on an mdadm managed raid5.
Booting now drops you to initramfs - attempts to use mdadm fail with a
segfault. Have used a Knoppix which establishes that there is still a
boot partition. N
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:47:09AM +0200, szélpál ági wrote:
> A gépem amd sempron 2200+, 256 mb ram, 80 gb hdd, 64 mb video ram dvd író,
> hangkártya. Milyeb debian linuxot javasoltok telapíteni? Hogyan kell és mit
> kell hozzá letölteni? Eddig xp-m volt. Válaszotokat előre is köszönöm
>
I'm ve
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:21:56AM +0100, andy wrote:
> andy wrote:
> >andy wrote:
> >>Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >>>As root
> >>>
> >>> tzconfig
> >>>
> >>>Set the time to UTC (probably under 12 - other tim
On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:06:38PM +0100, andy wrote:
> >
> >>Greetings Debianistas
> >>
> >>My wife's machine (Debian Etch, clean install) is consistently showing
> >>Europe/Guernsey (BST) in its clock settings
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:14:37AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:45:30AM +, rocky wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I got a very old PC which was purchased 6 years ago. I use Debian
> > netinstall CD installed the base Debian etch system. I have been
> > trying to install basic G
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
> I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web pages.
>
There are anonymizing routers and web servers set up which may allow
users to circumvent government censorship in countries where this is
prevalent. Co
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:02:17PM -0400, S C wrote:
> It's better, I'm awake now. Responses:
>
> #aptitude install k3b
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... done
> E: Un
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:08:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:
> Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the
> books that doesn't let you leave it.
>
man bash :)
Invaluable (at various times): Running Linux - Matt Welsh et. al.
Esential System Administration - Aileen Frisch
DNS
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote:
[Reformatted below to a screen width and with line endings.
Please try to wrap your lines at 72 characters or so.
Suggested commands indented below by one tab stop for
legibility.]
> For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
>
> I think you missed Amy's point. It's great that there are
> technical solutions to the OT problem. However, if we take that as
> license to continue posting messages that are far, far removed from
> the world of Debian, we are going
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
>
> We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into some
> serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not one
> person was being disrespectful or calling names, but there were a few
> people that ne
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote:
> > There is a serious point [about proprietary formats] to be made
> > to your college. Archiving, readability, public record. I've only
> > been dealing with co
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:33:45AM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:
>
> Oh well. Well, in that case, I stand by my original position: I do
> not want to get used to depending on decoders if I can't have some
> degree of assurance they'll be available later.
>
[For one meaning of decode]
The US gover
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
>
> Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove
> 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right
> to me so I don't use it.
>
aptitude keep all ; aptitude install -sf
for a start. Then
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
>
> But I would not recommend people new to GNU/Linux to run Sid. I still
> only have less than a year's experience. It's only been a couple of
> months since I formatted my ntfs partition.
>
> Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid.
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 06:23:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm new to linux, debian and etch. I've loaded etch onto another computer and
> am lost. I used the gui loader and expected to get to a place that was
> helpful but no way. When I power up I get what appears to be a
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> why I'd never use it. So I'd be for one of these two:
> -removing the public link to 'stable'
> -putting a strong warning in the Debian reference about the hazards of
> using it.
> So if someone uses 'stable', do tell. And if so, would
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM -0700, Colin Andrews wrote:
> I just did a clean install of etch (congrats and thanks to all those who
> made etch happen)
>
> but I seem to have this problem:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/06/msg02838.html
>
For the ISA 3C509 - you need a DOS boot
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
> it registere
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:00:09PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>
> >>
> >No, it isn't too obvious to bother writing anywhere: it may be obvious
> >to many that some users don't bother _READING_ anywhere.
> >Google is your
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:51:02PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I added the lines:
> >
> >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-1
> >20070407-11:40]/ etch contrib main
> >Deb cdrom: [Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r0 _Etch_ -Official i386 DVD Binary-
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:51:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> >>similarly, if i type a command like "lynx" into my panel aplet, nothing
> >>happens. I have to type it into terminal. so what is the point of the
> >>aplet (xfce, default aplet).
> >>
>
> >
> >Lynx
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:41:53AM +0200, Daniel Palmer wrote:
> Christian Matschke wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am a linux newbie, sort of. After upgrading from
> >Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04, I suddenly experience a problem
> >
> I might be wrong but I don't think the Debian mailing lists support
> Ubuntu q
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:31:21AM +0200, "Peter Valdemar Mørch (vol)" wrote:
> Douglas Allan Tutty dtutty-at-porchlight.ca |volatile-lists| wrote:
> >I use aptitude (this is not a troll, please), and I use it interactivly.
> >I have only those pacakges that I specifically _want_ installed marked
>
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:44:17PM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anybody Successfully runing any Debian ( based ) Distribution with "Xorg"
> on a
> "Dell Latitude D820"
>
Yes, run at work. No particular problems - but not tried wireless.
> Etch?
>
Yes: from a couple of months ago, not y
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:14:00AM +0100, andy wrote:
> So, for the benefit of this newbie:
>
> If I change my sources list to reflect "testing" rather than "etch",
> will my system just automagically continue to upgrade itself? Will this
> system - as it upgrades to Lenny - remain stable enoug
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:26:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
>
> I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now,
> following the release notes and letting it replace
> devfs with udev. All worked fine.
>
> The fifth machine was
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:29:51AM +0200, Peter Teunissen wrote:
>
> I'm a happy Debian user and will not move to RH. But. As I wrote in
> my question, I'm _forced_ to use RHEL4 at my job.
>
> Since more debianites will have been in this situation, I think it's
> not inappropriate to ask on t
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:10:42PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:01:37 -0600
> Ted Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > First: as I understand your guideline I am not to use the reply key but
> > simply address my reply back to the list and it will be automatically added
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote:
> Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch
> did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave
> the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on
> boot, as well
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:49:24PM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Soon I'm going to install Debian 4.0 on my brothers computer
> and I want to know if Debian supports WindowsXP partitions
> so I don't get problems with the LILO bootloader. Do any
> know if it works?
>
> Greetings
>
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:44:33PM -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and
> /var/tmp/raw directories do?
>
> My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of
> the suspicious files. How
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:40:31PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0100, andy wrote:
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I have, since installing Etch, been downloading packages with regard for
> >>fu
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