On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:19:50PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
tasks-xfce-desktop is a meta package that includes xfce, and also a set
of additional packages that are typically used on a desktop system,
like libreoffice and iceweasel.
Those packages should be part of an OS install,
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:04:46PM +0200, Slavko wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
Here, have a wrapper script
--8x
#!/bin/sh
xhost + si:localuser:root
sudo $@
xhost - si:localuser:root
--8x
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 04:30:11PM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop.
Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do
about it
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:19:59PM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 05:46:36PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
'xhost +' allows anyone anywhere access to your X server. If you must use
xhost in this situation it would be much safer to use 'xhost +
si:localuser:root', this would
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:16:32PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Thanks for your replies.
No problem, glad I could help.
I guess I'll have to submit some reports, for example that the man
does not says explicitly the order of the arguments. I'll do some
other tries before to
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 08:29:45PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 29/04/14 20:22, Paul Lane wrote:
Searched archive and found nothing regarding any discussion of it
being removed. I did find it available for Squeeze. However, as I
stated it is not found in the package lists for Wheezy. Has
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:27:20PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Hello.
I am trying to update some iso images ( I have downloaded ISOs last
week, but it seems that there were an update since, my images are in
7.4 and last debian stable is 7.5 ) through jigdo, and wanted to
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 05:00:03PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
The URI needs to be the last element of the command. You will find most
of the required files if you mount the iso and pass the mount point with
--scan, passing the iso file finds 0 files. Using --scan causes jigdo to
not ask
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:41:52AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 29/04/14 23:53, Tom Furie wrote:
What does apt-cache policy doc-linux-text show?
doc-linux-text:
Installed: 2008.08-1
Candidate: 2008.08-1
Version table:
*** 2008.08-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 09:49:18PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 15:12 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Kinda seems like the (de) evolution of cars, doesn't it? As a kid,
I could tune up my beater flat head 6 1959 Plymouth in 20 minutes with
a 10 inch adjustable and a gapping
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:06:41PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
I'm writing a bash script that runs several routing commands. I would
like these commands, on a part of the script, plus run, are saved to a
log file.
I'm having trouble processing this paragraph. Are you saying that you
want to
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:22:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Ma, 22 apr 14, 22:56:27, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Unfortunately this may not have the desired effect with at least Gnome,
due to circular Depends/Recommends of the installed packages. Besides,
recently[1] meta-packages have been
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:05:09AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
This seems an odd choice to make. If I installed a meta-package because
I couldn't be bothered to investigate which individual packages I
wanted, or just
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 09:37:50AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
In your example above, while gnome depends on openoffice, openoffice
cannot be removed without also removing gnome and thus anything that was
pulled
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:38:13AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
Those concepts are fine for concrete packages. My MUD client Gypsum,
if I were to package it as a .deb, would Depend on Pike and GTK, would
Recommend the latest Pike (if it's possible to depend on one version
and recommend
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:43:31PM -0500, c. marlow wrote:
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 19:50 +0100, Brian wrote:
You have joined your mail to an existing one and your topic has nothing
to do with the one you have added your mail to.
This doesn't benefit the person who sent the original mail
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:06:00PM -0500, c. marlow wrote:
What the heck
Sorry I'm new to the whole group email / NEWSGROUP thing.
It was spam. Sometimes it gets through the filters. Best course of
action is to not reply to it, and *never* quote it.
Cheers,
Tom
--
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 02:33:43PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 19/04/14 07:55, Joe wrote:
As is the light originating inside peoples' homes and passing out of
their windows. In which case it is arguable that it is perfectly
acceptable to collect and record that light with a camera
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days
will no longer be gratis.
I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog.
Are there other free alternatives?
This news disappointed me too, given
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep my
dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says:
Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Penguinpowered
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 07:32:37PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
I apologize. I should have vetted these before posting them. Best as I can
tell, ez-ip, penguinpowered, and hn seem to be gone, dhs, ods, easydns are
no longer free, tzo got acquired by dyndns (thus under the 30 days left
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:04:31PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain
pkgs installed concerning X.
Tail of output
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 12:35:39PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
One thing should be mentioned... I've allowed my debian system to fall
badly behind in updates and general maintenance. Now face a bit of a
job getting back on track. But doubt that is the cause of my troubles.
What version of
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:57PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
What version of Debian are you on?
Much of what I mentioned about falling behind has been corrected in
the course of this problem.
jessie
Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll load up a jessie vm
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:19:25PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
Ah, I tested with wheezy. I'll load up a jessie vm and test again. In
theory it shouldn't make any difference, but that's the difference
between theory and practice :)
With a fresh install of Jessie plus xorg-dev, libgif-dev, libtiff
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain
pkgs installed concerning X.
Tail of output:
[...]
checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes
checking for long file names... yes
checking for
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 02:12:15PM -0700, ray wrote:
Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be
able to tell you how to switch.
I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything.
I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the
terminology. Please
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 12:20:34AM +0300, Dalios wrote:
Hi all,
A few weeks back while I was still following Stable (wheezy) I used
gdebi to install a package (minitube if that matters). Later I
upgraded to Testing (jessie) and now I used the command apt-get
purge minitube to uninstall the
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:05:09PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
First of all, you've broken the thread. The thread was broken once
already by the March / April forced break at the end of the month.
You can't help that. But this time, you've broken it yourself by
starting a new thread.
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 08:43:51PM -0700, ray wrote:
Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a change.
For example, I understand the Gnome has the date and menu at the top
and KDE at the bottom of the screen. After switching to KDE and
rebooting, I see a new log in window,
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 07:05:28PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
Uberto Lauri has been a source of great help, And so far I've
gotten this far towards a multiscreen screensaver
by running one directly like this:
ric@iam:/usr/lib/xscreensaver$ ./glschool -geometry 5440x1024+1
...for four
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more'
is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list
with the 'less' pager.
There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:40:13PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what
your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than
'more' in the alternatives system, so...
Oops. No there aren't. That should teach me to read more
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:50:49AM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote:
Is there a tool that would take down and disable a service based on a
configurable criteria?
Depending what your configurable criteria are, there are probably
several tools that could be used.
Cheers,
Tom
--
Hand, n.:
A
Aimed primarily at Ralf and Hans, but may be of interest to other
parties.
MX lookups for loop.de and alice-dsl.de both resolve to
megamailservers.eu, I would suggest that your mail problems lie there.
Cheers,
Tom
--
Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty
dining
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:29:23AM +0100, basti wrote:
SRV1 - Node 1
client --|(shared IP) \/
| /\
SRV2 - Node 2
:
Node n
Can I use a
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:51:25PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
Since reading your post I discovered that the latest kernel now
available is 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 which I will now install. There are
other kernels mentioned in wheezy-backports labelled pae. Since I
don't know what that means I will
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
pecondon writes:
I tried to access cdimages.debian.org on it using FireFox, and could
not.
There is no such site. Try https://www.debian.org/CD/
There is no such site as cdimages.debian.org, but there *is*
cdimage.debian.org.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages?
Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in
latex packages. The package doesn't 'depend' on latex though, it's only
a 'recommends' relationship,
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 01:43:59PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:21:52PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
Why does texstudio as editor need to install latex packages?
Since texstudio is a LaTeX editor it makes sense that it would pull in
I forgot to mention the --no-install
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:58:01PM +0100, Oliver Kranz wrote:
Last question is there a way to set this option by default or should i just
set an alias?
That's all covered in the apt man pages.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password,
is there some way I could have gained access as root?
The classic approach to this problem is to pass 'init=/bin/sh' to the
kernel. The method for doing so depends
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 10:09:33PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 15/03/14 21:45, Richard Owlett wrote:
If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password, is
there some way I could have gained access as root?
# passwd `grep 1000 /etc/passwd | cut -d : -f1`
That doesn't
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
password, is there some way I could have gained access as root?
If you remember the root password, than I don't
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:58:59PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Tom is smarter than we are, it's likely that his guess is correct. The
OP confused the term for
I am far from it, and Lisi and Scott have both made excellent points
that illustrate that.
no root account, but the first user has got
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:21:27PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
It does seem much more likely that Scott is correct and root logins are
only disabled at the graphical login - as Scott says, that is the
default configuration - in which case Richard should be able to
ctrl-alt-Fn to a virtual console
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:45:14AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
The complete hard drive is wiped at least once a month. I
consistently use my name as the login on the first install of any
series. The login of any subsequent install will be a mnemonic
associated associated with the current
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:25:41AM -0400, Steve Litt of
Troubleshooters.Com wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:01:15 + Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
The classic approach to this problem is to pass 'init=/bin/sh' to
the kernel.
Do you think this is going to continue working when we
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:35:18PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
I could write what ever I want to send to this list, but as soon
systemd is part of the subject, my mails are delayed or won't come
through the list.
It isn't only you this happens to. *All* messages with systemd in the
subject get
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:44:14PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 3/14/2014 9:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
I would expect they go somewhere under /usr/share/.
^
/usr/lib is not a subdirectory of /usr/lib/cgi-bin. A web user can
access anything in the
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:49:34PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 02:41:02PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
both servers show similar in mail.warn:
Mar 11 13:52:16 myownsite postfix/smtpd[16685]: warning: SASL
authentication failure: Password verification failed
Mar
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:22:45PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
They both use mysql (well, mariadb) auth for both dovecot and postfix.
I have confirmed that I can connect to the DB on either server with the
mail admin account configured in postfix.
Yet, I can not send mail.
Do they connect
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
Information in manpage convinced me that the problem is a bug in
Aptitude, and search of bug reports shows that it is already
reported. In bug reports, what I called 'interactive', is referred to
as 'visual'. I'm sure it will be
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:36:55PM +0100, Tazman Deville wrote:
There are few users on either server, and all I've tested are unable to
send mail.
In both servers, there is 1 mail DB for both dovecot and postfix, yes.
If both dovecot and postfix are using the same authentication mechanism
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:02:46PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20140311_205250, Tom Furie wrote:
how often do you see that purple when you aren't in aptitude? If it
^^^
Every single time I do whatever makes it happen, I cannot
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
This is what we ended up doing, rolling back to an older version of
mariadb, libmysqlclient18, etc.
I posted the relevant instructions (where to get the older pkgs, etc.)
earlier.
Both Taz' server and the other are both sending
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 05:11:05PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 07:24:36PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
This is the snippet from my .procmailrc for handling Debian mailing
lists. Each list gets sorted into it's own directory.
:0
* ^List-id: debian-.+\.lists\.debian
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:51:52PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 3/8/2014 2:18 PM, Patrick Alouidor wrote:
Hello all. I'm not sure if it me but I have a fresh install of Debian 7
on laptop Toshiba C-55A5310. and For some reason I cannot enable my wifi
switch. I have been pressing the F
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:08:03AM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
I use Procmail to do my mail filtering for me. The recipe I use is:
# Debian list processing
# Look for the list address here and put them in their own file
:0:
* ^TO_ .*@lists.debian.org
$MAILDIR/debian/
This is the snippet
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:06:47PM +, Brian wrote:
There is a thread at present on -user:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg00279.html
Its Subject: is Read-only rootfs on systemd
Hmm... I now suspect that any message with systemd in the subject is
being delayed by the
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:31:23PM +, Tom Furie wrote:
I honestly thought I was joking when I mentioned them being intercepted
en-route.
Yep, there's the delay. My confidence is shaken, and my curiosity is
piqued.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:53:24AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 07/03/14 01:59, lina wrote:
Hi,
From syslog, it shows me:
Mar 6 10:47:05 debian NetworkManager[6729]: Error: Can't parse
interface line '#015'
# cat -n interfaces
1 # This file describes the network
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 02:44:42PM +0800, lina wrote:
I have never realized that until you pointed out. Thanks,
No problem, I see my good deed for today is done :)
BTW, did you delete line 12, the 'allow-hotplug eth0' line? If so,
you'll probably want to add it back in, or replace it with an
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 04:29:52PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
The device had available, a software suite, named the Samsung
Unified Print Driver.
That worked with Debian Linux 5.
It apparently does not work with Debian Linux 6.
Something changed from Debian Linux 5, to Debian Linux 6,
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 10:06:17AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
PS: I'll set up msmtp ASAP and then replace Evolutions SMTP thingy, to
see if I get information about the issue.
If you look at the headers on your posts (or anyone else's for that
matter), you can track the progress from origin to
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:24:26PM +, Brian wrote:
The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a
mail is accepted.
1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission?
Could be any of many reasons. System load, SMTP transmission failure,
routing
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:44:33PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
I was just wondering something. How much effort would it take for me,
personally, just me, to make my Debian Stable start all its processes
with DJB's Daemontools. I know Daemontools, I understand it, I know how
to work with it and
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:53:35AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Actually, you just need to pass the proper 'init=' parameter to the
kernel.
That works too, but by default the kernel will look for /sbin/init. For
testing purposes passing the parameter would obviously be the safer
choice.
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote:
BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a
slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid
array /home. The differences besides the raid array are:
- new user configuration with almost no files
-
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
My apologies, I'm aware that no test mails should be send to the Debian
user mailing list. If I reply (several times) I don't come through the
list anymore. Some time ago I needed to reply 3 or 4 times and then one
reply did came
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 01:41:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
My apologies, I'm aware that no test mails should be send to the Debian
user mailing list. If I reply (several times) I don't come through the
list anymore. Some time ago I needed to reply 3 or 4 times and then one
reply did came
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 08:20:50AM +, Dom wrote:
From the original post, Long Wind seems to have used the original
method of creating crontabs:
crontab name of file to use as new crontab
The usual sequence (on the old Unix systems I used to admin) was:
crontab -l mycronfile
vi
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 03:22:08AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I find that shutdown can take a time argument
so why do I bother with cron
Thank Raffaele Morelli and Tom anyway!
Cron would be useful if you want to regularly shutdown or reboot the
machine on some definable interval without
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:26:38AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I want to shutdown at some time,
so I create a file named cmd with a line below:
3 5 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now
I run the command : crontab cmd
but it doesn't shutdown
Why?
Where did you create the file? Are you
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:56:50AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
I want to shutdown at 5:03
I check with crontab -l
it seems OK
Depending on how you created the file the format may or may not be okay.
Did you create the file in /etc/cron.d, or as a user with 'crontab -e'?
Given that you say
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:35:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.4.104
netmask 255.255.248.0
Just in case it makes a difference - that's a /29 network
i.e. 192 possible hosts (32 subnets with 6 hosts each) unless that's not
Easy mistake to
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:21:18PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote:
I have 2 classes of users - SFTP users (customers), and SFTP managers
(company users that manage customer data).
I want a highly secure and privacy safe SFTP server. But I also want it to
appear to users as simple and easy as
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:40:03AM +, Артур Истомин wrote:
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:21:30PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
So is there a way to boot an entire 4gb dvd-iso from a server, so that I
can install it on PC connected on a network??
You can create local mirror of repos.
A
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote:
I wanted to see if I can rejuvenate this thread or if should I start a new
one.
My debian stable (now is sid but no new behavior) ps2 keyboards keep
maniacally repeating keys.
occasionally it seems almost spontaneous but
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 12:22:15PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Better presupposes good. If something doesn't approach good, e.g.
someone misses the target by 10 metres are they better than the person
who missed by 20 metres? Or less worse. To call the 10 miss better
is a version of newspeak.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:24:13AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
The package is already installed. (JFTR I installed KDE before I
installed JWM, perhaps it was installed with KDE. The KDE menu is ok.)
How do I use update-menues and install-menu? I couldn't find a howto.
Did you look at
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 04:04:37PM +0530, Balamurugan wrote:
Do you mean there is no such package like libstdc++?
That is correct, there is no package libstdc++
I have just ran the commands on a fresh install of Debian 7 (Wheezy) 64-bit
system.
root@debian:/home/user# apt-get install
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:06:23PM +0530, Rupesh Reddy wrote:
Sir please explain what's the process going on and why the remaining seven
DVD's are not released yet.
If you *really* need DVD images beyond the first three, you can produce
them using jigdo.
Cheers,
Tom
--
QOTD:
I'm
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
What the f...
I got this, after sending my reply (to the list only) to the request
from Pol Hallen m...@fuckaround.org:
I received the same error replying to an unrelated thread, so I don't
think this is a problem at Pol's mail
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:03:14AM -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote:
Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image:
1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update.
2. On WinXPSP3 laptop, the same document prints perfectly with the
same
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:27:06AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
Is there an archive that I can simply build a
sources.lst file for which then makes aptitude or apt-get work to
pull in the Lenny files? This would be quicker, easier and less
of a possibility for human error on my part
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:28:47AM +, T o n g wrote:
Can I use something like root=ID=ata-IBM-DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952? I
remember nothing worked well, so I reverted to the (now troublesome)
safe /dev/sdXn.
I think the idea is to replace /dev/sdXn with e.g.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 02:46:07PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
*QUESTION:* Is there a way to defeat/disable OS_PROBER(sp?) during
installation?
Os-prober is at most a 'recommends' of grub. You can quite easily not
install it if you wish.
I'm not sure if os-prober can be skipped if it's
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:43:53PM -0300, francis picabia wrote:
I am beginning to think this system is glitchy when PS/2 is detached
and reattached.
That's entirely possible. PS/2 was never designed to be hot-swappable.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 07:38:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
These days it is != :) (I think was not equal to, was it?)
Technically, it's less than or greater than, but I suppose it amounts
to the same thing :)
Cheers,
Tom
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 05:47:02PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote:
i also tried a different approach, found somewhere with google, that is
more in line with my understanding of the problem.
basically, it marks the packets so they can be routed back to the same nic
they came in:
ip route
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 07:54:25PM -0300, Roberto Scattini wrote:
~# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
Iface
XX.220.XX.176 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth3
YY.20.YY.0 0.0.0.0
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 05:10:45AM -0800, Mark Ford wrote:
I am hoping someone can help show me where I'm going wrong.
I have iptables setup in the following way, basically, I am
using the chain pests to drop data from certain IPs.
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:09:32PM -0800, Vaibhav Niku wrote:
pdf2ps, which is a frontend to gs, inserts a copyright notice in all PS files
it produces. I am using `GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)'. Files look like
this:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
...
%%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 871 (pswrite)
...
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:37:09PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
informations. With apt-cache if I am running my debian, or with
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=foobar if I am not using
A shortcut for this is http://packages.debian.org/packagename
Cheers,
Tom
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The
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:28:19PM +, Amit wrote:
Thanks for the reply. I was looking for block level write protect. That
is, nobody can write a simple C program and use the open call and write
garbage to the device.
Tweak the udev rules to remove write permissions on the USB bus?
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote:
root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base
It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't
determine what they are or where they are. Some help, plese.
Install-docs belongs to package
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 05:41:08PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Apologize!
As a point of reference, I think the word you were looking for there was
apologies, as in Please accept my apologies.
Cheers,
Tom
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The hater of property and of government takes care to have his warranty
deed recorded,
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:22:10AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Not needed by a newbie and quasi obsolet for many distros.
Ok, I didn't comment everything, you mentioned several commands that IMO
are only confusing a newbie, those are also two commands that are
unimportant.
The OP didn't ask
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:18:48AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 21 November 2012 08:53:38 Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:43:16PM -0500, Fred White wrote:
Hello List,
It is considered (well, actually it is) rude to hijack threads on
mailing lists.
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