Dangling man page sym links

G'Day everyone, I have an issue when I try to do a man on a particular command I get a, warning that 'man ctags.emacs is a dangling sym link' and 'man ctags.emacs no such file' ( you have to excuse me.. Im not on my Debiam box right now) . I have found the symlink and deleted it, an

foobar

Does anyone know where foobar originates from, and its meaning? Thanks, Martin :-)

Video for Linux

Hello everyone, I am having some trouble setting up my cam in Debain Stable. It is based on the omnivision chipset and is producing a screen full of jumbled garbage. I get the impression that the problem may be from the video 4 Linux module, by looking at dmesg and from stderr from

kernel .config

Greetings everybody, is there a template or a default .config for compiling a Debian kernel from source, keeping the binary's defaults. What I mean to say is, when I run make xconfig/menuconfig, is there a template with the Debian binary default options set? This will just m

Telnet

G'Day all, I would like to set up ssh and to disable telnet for security reasons. Is this just a matter of installing the ssh components, and to disable telnetd? in inetd.conf? TIA, Martin :-)