Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

Hi, is it OK to forward your mail to debian-devel. I don't think mailing to debian-user will have any effect on this issue? On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 16:31 -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > > > But in any case, given that merged-usr-via-aliased-dirs is not > > > really > > >

Re: Libre graphics could become the standard if we push right now

On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 04:57 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2016 5:11 PM, "Zlatan Todoric" wrote: >  > > > So I think it is very important that we support AMD right now on what we > > > can, and ask manufacturers to include AMD graphics in those products. > > > > > >

Re: Re: octave-forge in debian

On 5 February 2010 12:31, lc redbl...@alice.it wrote: I want to install the package octave-specfun in debian unstable, This isn't a question particular to Octave, but it's about Debian packaging. Please direct questions to Debian mailing lists or support channels. At any rate, I'm CC

[Fwd: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration?]

Forwarded Message From: Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration? Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:39:46 +0200 Dear Debian-users I'm hoping for some pointers or help on how to set up a combined WAN

Re: Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

-nic.rules linked to /etc/udev/rules.d/025_static-nic.rules does not seem to be run at startup anymore :-( This issue should probably be an FAQ by now. Any pointers?? Thanks, Svante On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 12:10 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Thank you for your advice and scripts

Re: Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

Florian Kulzer wrote: Svante Signell wrote: The solution given below has been working for some time now, until udev 0.085-1 from Feb 19 was installed. Then the behaviour is wrong again, eth0 is associated to the 8139too driver and eth1 is associated

Re: Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

, eth0 external I/F and eth1 internal I/F. On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:52:26 +0100 Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14

Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

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Re: Best way to back up a disk?

Accidentally sent to debian-users instead of debian-user On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 01:16 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: I have a hard disk that is about to crash any time now. does anybody got suggestions how to best back up to another already installed disk, remove the faulty disk, install a new

Re: Security warnings from pam_securetty?

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 08:55, Svante Signell wrote: Is the bug #243698 in libpam0g really resolved in version 0.76-20? I still get the security warnings in my logfiles. What is referred to in the changelog.Debian for the null password check: passwd, shadow etc? How are these related to the /etc

Security warnings from pam_securetty?

I find these messages in my logfiles. What has changed recently? The access to the tty devices is crw-rw and owned by root.tty. sshd[4196]: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty 'ssh' is not secure ! xscreensaver: (pam_securetty) access denied: tty ':0.0' is not secure ! Please cc: me since I'm

Re: lilo-22.3.2-3 trashed my SCSI disk

Maybe a hardware fault happened, in this case unfortunately at the same time as a rewrite of the lilo boot information. I was just about to file a bug report... Still there are some open issues remaining. Russell Coker writes: On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:44, Svante Signell wrote: After upgrade

Re: ssh and X11Forwarding

--- debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol. ... How to find out of the different authentication protocols used for X11? The local box is running redhat/rawhide and the remote box debian/unstable. Svante Signell writes: When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN

ssh and X11Forwarding

When ssh-ing to a computer in my small LAN as a normal user and using X applications, such as emacs, everything works OK. Howver, with su to root on the remote box X is refused: Connection lost to X server`host:11.0' Is the solution to be found with the X server or ssh/sshd? X11Forwarding is

swapping partitions including /

Hi list, Anyone has a good solution to exchange / mounted on /dev/sda5 and /tmp mounted on /dev/var. I have due to space problems with / I've moved around partitions earlier using cp -a, but not /. What about unmounting / etc? What about the boot sector? Svante

hosts, resolv setup?

Can someone explain to me how to set up /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf for ssh (and similar programs) _not_ to search for my local network host names using the external nameservers in resolv.conf? The local network is built up with NICs. I'm not using bind on my debian host. It's installed on

net-pf-10?

My log files are full of complaints on this module: Jan 29 22:52:39 host modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10 Where to find more info about it? It is not found in .../linux-2.4.0/Documentation/devices.txt or ...linux-2.4.0/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt! Or is it described

netscape ftp vs http

What am I doing wrong trying to download files from eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using Netscape (4.76)? You don't get the possibility to shiftclick on the file, it just starts downloading to the Netscape buffer!! Not as expected. I'm moving to mozilla ASAP, but

Re: netscape ftp vs http

. Yelvington writes: log on directly to their ftp site using ftp in your browser... ftp://ftp2.3ddownloads.com/pub/ robt Svante Signell wrote: What am I doing wrong trying to download files from eg. http/:www.fileplanet.com or http://www,3ddownloads.com using Netscape

Re: Grub vs LILO

Sorry for stepping in at this point, but this is really amazing. I've counted 20 postings with the subject lilo vs grub. When posting recently to the mandrake list I did get _two_ replies( relevant ones though), and earlier on fewer than that (with the same subject). What do you think of the

ntsysv/tksysv equivalent in debian?

Is there some program in debian corresponding to ntsysv in RH and MDK, where one can enable/disable startup of service daemons, without having to remove or purge the package containing the program? /Svante

Re: StartX error

I think it should be in /etc/X11/ william Elling writes: i have read about 5 different online scripts trying to tell me the easiest way to get the x windows to start and have tried a couple but i keep coming back the problem of Could not find config file! - Tired:

Port 12345?

Anyone knows what port 12345TCP is used for and which OSes are vulnerable? (my guess is w9x) I'm getting portscanned every now and the on this specific port. Other (known) ports are 31337UDP Back Orifice, 20034 NetBus Pro etc. but which one is corresponding to 12345? Ports being attacked the last

Usage of echo

How to echo the current date and time to a log file? echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? file.log

X4 DRI works on my G400!??

the resources between the video and the sound card? 7. Running gnome and eg. xosview is reducing the frame rate for Q3A. Is there a way for the kernel and/or X4 to lower the priority for processes not visible on the screen? Thanks, Svante Signell

OT?: How to enable my Linux network for W98 machines?

Hello, Does someone have a hint on how to set up W98 machines to work in my (small) Linux (eth-based, 100Mbps) network. One Linux box is used as a gateway, the others have their traffic routed using ipchains. Setting up the ipchains rule and the gateway entry in the othe boxes Linux is

Re: unbootable 2.4.0-test10 (solved)

i686FXSR (What does FXSR mean?) Now if I only could get DRI to work on my G400 :( Moritz Schulte writes: Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Loading 240-smp1 Uncompressing Linux, OK, booting the kernel NOTING HAPPENS AFTER THIS POINT, reset or power toggle is the only

X4 DRI refuses to go direct

Hi, After successful installation (some problems remain) of kernel-2.4.0-test10 on my Woody SMP machine the hope was for X4 to start up with direct rendering enabled. But this was not the case :( Another attempt was to insmod agpgart.o and mga.o manually before starting X: startx x016.log 21

unbootable 2.4.0-test10

, for testing purposes? 6. Since the configuration order in the .config files have changed between 2.2.x and 2.4.0 it is not so easy to compare them. Any hints? Hoping for help. Svante Signell

Print filter/tool recommendations?

Anyone who can recommend good print filters for ordinary text? lpr gives lousy output: pages are too long and wide, the font is too large. lpf or pr is not much of use either. man -k print|grep filter gives: lpf (1) - general printer filter magicfilter (8) - automatic

Re: RFC grrokay, i hereby volunteer./grr

OK W. Trillich, I'm listening. Was just away for the weekend. Since I started the discussion about the Debian home page content I'll try to assist you wherever and whenever I can. Svante Signell w trillich writes: from the private support i've gotten over my 'HFTFMADBUFE' rantings, i can

Why is the Debian home page so boring?

regards, Svante Signell

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

Couldn't agree more with Gary. (I don't think this message was sent to any of the lists, only me. Gary, do you mind that your reply is forwarded? If so please send me a private mail.) Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Looking

RE: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

. As written earlier, I appreciate Debian more and more for every day. Why not telling the Linux community (and potential new users) that it is one of the best distributions? Svante Signell Chris Mason writes: But what's really missing is some of that ever-popular BLINKing text, some large

Fooling apt-get about new kernel?

Hi, How to temporarily trick apt-get not to try to install the new kernel 2.2.14-3 until I have got the time to build a new one based on the most recent sources, 2.2.14-4? I have an smp system, patched for gart, and my current kernel is based on the 2.2.14-2 source, version 2.2.14-2smp. Since

Re: Sound Blaster Live

Does any of the Live driver versions support SMP? Haven't installed mine yet due to this. Colin Marquardt writes: * Mars Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? One option is a current ALSA: http://www.alsa-project.org Or

Re: Is there a kernel-image-2.2.14 that is compiled with SMP on

I think you have to compile it yourself. At least I had to do this to make my SMP system work on Potato/Woody. Just download kernel-source-2.2.14 and follow the instructions. Rajesh Radhakrishnan writes: Hi, I downloaded 'kernel-image-2.2.14.deb' after seeing someone post here.

apt-get logic?

During a recent update with apt-get my installed wmaker-[plain,kde,gnome]_0.6.1.1-1 was REMOVED since in wmaker_0.61.1-4 all these packages were merged into one bigger package. What is the loqic behind removing my wmaker installation instead of proposing the new package? I had to 'apt-get install

Re: Debian SAMBA

According to the mail headers you are sending this message from a Windows95 box. Attached to this mail came also the virus Happy99.exe!! Please remove the virus from your machine!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am going to set up a debian linux box and I want to run the samba server. Obviously

Re: Allowing users to shutdown

At last somebody has an acceptable solution for this use of GNU/Linux!! This question has been sent to the gnome, debian, redhat and suse lists in December with no answer like this, see the summary in the gnome-list or the debian-user list dated December 14 1999. The closest was to use sudo or

Fast serial port for modem?

Having an ISDN external modem and the possibility to use two channels simultaneously, gives the theoretical speed of 128 kbps. However, the UART's 16550A on the motherboard have a maximum speed of 115.2 kbps. Including overhead the transfer speed is further reduced. Measured speed are 62 kbps for

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No more nvidia!

In response to the press release by VA, SGI and NVIDIA and commenting mails on the utah-glx list. No open source drivers resulting from this cooperation!! I'm very disappointed wrt VA Linux Systems. SGI and NVIDIA position is more expected. I've had it. I'm replacing my TNT2 32MB card with a

Booting kernel with module SCSI support?

Having built my first GNU/Debian kernels with SMP support (2.2.13-2 and 2.2.14-1 for i686) an experience drawn was that the kernel had to have the SCSI module aic7xxx.o compiled into the kernel for the kernel to boot. The boot disk is /dev/sda. The machine I'm writing this on is running

Need advice on USB/fast serial port!

Having an ISDN external modem and the possibility to use two channels simultaneously, gives the theoretical speed of 128 kbps. However, the UART's 16550A on the motherboard have a maximum speed of 115.2 kbps. Including overhead the transfer speed is further reduced. Measured speed are 62 kbps

How to enable åäö?

After upgrade from slink to potato the Swedish characters åäö are not displayed any longer either in console or in X. The keyboard is a Keytronic with Swedish layout. The Swedish keymap has been loaded: loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/se-latin1.kmap.gz. Also this keymap has been made the

Booting kernel with module SCSI support?

Having built my first GNU/Debian kernels with SMP support (2.2.13-2 and 2.2.14-1 for i686) an experience drawn was that the kernel had to have the SCSI module aic7xxx.o compiled into the kernel for the kernel to boot. The boot disk is /dev/sda. The machine I'm writing this on is running

Re: Proposal: Source file package format (summary)

, a gnomified version!? DS. Happy New Millennium to everybody! Best regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Svante Signell writes: Greetings, What do you think of the following proposal: I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file

Re: lo on potato

/Documentation On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 12:33:57AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: Yes, I had the same problem. The solution was to add netmask to the route command in /etc/init.d/network: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo Also netmask had to be added to my eth0

Summary: logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user, gnome logout button?

] Best regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Svante Signell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have been running redhat rawhide with enlightenment and gnome for some time now. Recently another machine got debian slink installed, upgraded to potato. In rawhide an ordinary user can log out of X, reboot

Re: lo on potato

Yes, I had the same problem. The solution was to add netmask to the route command in /etc/init.d/network: /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo Also netmask had to be added to my eth0 interface: /sbin/route add -net 192.168.x.y netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth0 Maybe the new

lo disappeared after 2.1-2.2 upgrade

Has the network interface scripts changed from slink to potato? After upgrading my loop interface is not working any longer. ifconfig shows both my lo and eth0 interface, but route does not report lo. Trying to activate results in: route add -net 127.0.0.0 SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument ifconfig

lilo.conf for boot from hda and sda?

Hi, It would be nice if someone could help me on this: I have suse-6.3 om my hda and debian-2.2 on my sda. My bios supports booting from either one, by changing boot order. However, it would be very convenient to boot the other Linux version without changing the bios settings! Curreent status

Re: emacs20 apt-get upgrde problem

I managed to solve this problem by the following link: (parts of a mail sent Dec 3 to this list. I don't know if this problem formally has been reported as a bug.) Upgrading from slink emacs or xemacs resulted in an unfinished configure phase. This was solved by: ln -s

How to disable xdm

Howdy, When installing Xwindows the default setup is to start X using xdm. Obviously initialization was not placed in /etc/inittab, it was placed in /etc/rc[2,3,4,5].d/S99xdm and /etc/rc[1,6/K01xdm. If I want to start in text mode and move to X by startx, is it sufficient to remove the scripts at

How to enable logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user?

Hello, I have been running redhat rawhide with enlightenment and gnome for some time now. Recently another machine got debian slink installed, upgraded to potato. In rawhide an ordinary user can log out of X, reboot or halt the computer, just by supplying the user password. How to enable this

Q: Where to configure things in slink/potato

Hello, Having installed slink (twice) and upgraded to potato (twice) I'm wondering if somebody can give pointers to the appropriate tools/files to change for configuring different utilities. I have been running redhat since 5.0 to 6.1+ with rawhide. For rpm-based distributions I am rather

HELP, my installation is broken!!

In an attempt to upgrade from slink to potato the installation got broken. The following I need help with. 1. Networking using eth0 and another computer as gateway is no longer functional. How do I reconfigure networking?? I have the 2.1 CD and downloaded protato files available. 2. The

Proposal: Source file package format

Greetings, What do you think of the following proposal: I order to simplify for package authors/maintainers and to reduce duplication, distribute the source file packages in .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) format. This avoids the need to provide both .tar.gz, .src.rpm and debian source files. Included in

Help after upgrade to potato!

Hi all, 1. After upgrade to potato from slink the ethernet card is not working any longer. How do I reenable it? 2. The old kernel is still there, how do I upgrade to 2.2.x? Hoping for help, Svante Signell

Newbie: slink-to-potato upgrade

it arrives, but I feel a need to start learning debian-based distributions as well. I have the corel distribution newly burnt but not installed it yet.) Hoping to be as fluent in .deb as in .rpm Svante Signell

Suggestion for distribution of source file packages.

subscribing to. I'm currently running Rawhide-19991117, Redhat 6.1, Debian 2.1, Suse 6.2 and Mandrake 6.1 on different computers and disks. Comments? Svante Signell