On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:50:20AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 593 # mount -t ext3
/dev/ad0s1 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad0s1 : No such device
[root@opty165a:/etc, Sun Nov 11, 11:44 AM] 594 # mount -t ext3
/dev/ad6s1 /mnt
mount: /dev/ad6s1 : No
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 02:17:19PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
On 11/12/12 11:10, Tom Furie wrote:
Are you able to mount those filesystems as ext2? Any ext3 filesystem
should be mountable as ext2.
Tried it:
[root@opty165a:/etc, Mon Nov 12, 02:12 PM] 802 # mount -t ext3
/dev
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:10:55AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
That RHEL/Fedora dont' use /usr/src might, on its own, not make it
good practice, but since they're following kernel documentation
perhaps it does!
The kernel documentation does not say not to /usr/src, it says not to
use /usr/src/linux.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:34:36AM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
*Acck* So it's a typo ?!?!?! I was using
ext2/3/4, not ext2/3/4*fs* I just tried it mounted
when I try ext3fs, it is *nogo* Sooo ext3/4 apparently
*not* supported under
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:59:41AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
The documentation says
- If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory)
which basically means don't use /usr/src since a regular user
doesn't have write
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 09:31:57AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
Hi, Lisi. My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a member
of group src? (Issue the groups command and see if src is one of the groups
listed in the output of the command.) Here is a summary of the permission
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 07:46:11PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:15:55 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
On Thursday, November 08, 2012 11:58:33 AM Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:26:23PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I've started getting messages like the
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:50:30PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
Were I a paranoid type, I might think that someone was inventing a new
attack,
where they try to induce two large sites to DoS each other, or try to clog a
trans-oceanic cable.
Reminds of a line from a film, Strange Days, I
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:10:13PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
Choices are nice :-)
http://www.youtube.com/html5
(let youtube/google know *you* would prefer a choice).
Thanks for the link, didn't know about that.
Cheers,
Tom
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Bernie:
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:46:32AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
Look in your crystal ball and from my many previous posts you will
see that i use Squeeze 6.0.2 amd64
Couple of points. How are we to know that your totem issue is on your
regular system? Why should we go searching through archives to
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 01:44:08PM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
in that case there should be separate mailing lists for stable, testing, etc
Why?
Cheers,
Tom
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On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:12:58PM -0700, T Elcor wrote:
Is there a way to write a single Javascript regex that would match all of the
following three patterns:
a.domain.tld
b.domain.tld
domain.tld/c/
You could try /^[ab]\.domain\.tld$|^domain\.tld\/c\/$/. If you don't
mind also
On 05/10/2011 14:30, Raf Czlonka wrote:
Can you kindly run reportbug and put in the package totem if you
are running Squeeze? and tell me what happens?
Here I get the following list of options:
1 totemA simple media player for the GNOME desktop based on
GStreamer
2
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:55:45PM -0400, Doug wrote:
The liquid measure is liter, used here only in medical labs and liquor
stores, altho some bottled products have both ounces and liters, so as
to placate the Canadians, who gave up ounces and quarts, etc., some
years ago. (Some year, no
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 09:52:17AM +0100, Clive Standbridge wrote:
Now I wounder, if pissed in British English already means not to know
where you are ... in what condition is somebody who isn't pissed, but
totally pissed?
He or she would be pissed as a newt.
And there lies a whole other
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:07:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote:
I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other
Are you from Windoof? You sucker!
And I deserved this
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:29:37PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
And what have I done to be called a liar? You must be pissed (in the English
sense).
Nothing, he's still talking to Klaus.
Cheers,
Tom
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NullC I've never seen code that made be
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:30:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:51:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote:
PPS: You idiot, the coders call this software version 3.x.
I'm using alpha and beta software aka 0.x, if this software should fail,
it would be ok, but if a version 3.x fails for
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:37:21PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
I was put in the distribution list and it arrived in my personal inbox. The
same applies to all three. I was deliberately sent a private copy.
Here is the relevant part of the first header:
quote
Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:44:41AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote:
In England, tea means a full meal.
Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. I don't know how the
numbers pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote:
In /mnt/deer i know have hundreds of files and folders which i rsynced
on 22/09/2011.
I need a command line option to put them all In one shot in /mnt/deer/zebra.
What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk writes:
What's wrong with 'mv /mnt/deer/* /mnt/deer/zebra'? Sure, it'll
complain about trying to move zebra to itself, but it works.
The other catch is that it won't consider the filenames
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:30:05PM +0800, lina wrote:
What's the recommended reserved size for the /var/log partition. I can
jotted down and take reference in future.
As with most partitioning schemes, this very much depends on your
requirements. For a desktop/workstation type situation
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 05:02:56PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
Tux:/var/log# du -h | sort -n
1.4M./apache2
4.0K./news
4.0K./ntpstats
8.0K./exim4
12K ./fsck
48K ./apt
88K ./cups
144K./clamav
312K./installer/cdebconf
330M.
852K./installer
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:58:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Using sed is a good tool for this but if you want to append then you
should use the 'a' command.
$ printf one\ntwo\nthree\nfour\n | sed '/two/a\
- foo'
one
two
- foo
three
four
This doesn't quite work for me in
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 05:24:52PM +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
linbobo:~/sedtest# sed 's_\npre\n_\npre\n\n_' original.txt new.txt
linbobo:~/sedtest# less new.txt
You want to change the regexp here. In regular expressions '^' matches
start of line and '$' matches end of line. Your sed
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 03:27:26PM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:06:16 +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
gnome-terminal and echo $SHELL returns /bin/bash. It also works in
tty1. And just tested on xterm and works fine.
Use case: dmesg|less
Ah, then that's less you're in rather than
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
I wonder though, just out of curiosity, why you have your environment
set up as en_GB, if you're left-pondian.
Heh, like it. Never heard that one before.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:10:12AM +, Camaleón wrote:
Bash manual provides home/end replacements but I also looked for page
up/page down key combos because my netbook lacks for them. While
searching for a good way to mimic the keys, I also found -by pure chance-
these combos:
ctrl-v
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote:
I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine.
And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Windows, but
can't resolve names. What is the situation with Debian?
Cheers,
Tom
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was
installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries:
error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
were found. You should install the
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:32:28PM +0200, lee wrote:
Perhaps the OP can figure out which devices he has, which is which, make
appropriate entries in /etc/fstab and hope that the order of devices
doesn't change?
Or perhaps edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules so that the
devices get
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:55:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
Let's see:
sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 jun 28 07:56
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c6454fe5-20a5-4a58-bbdd-2f2c52dd5ca2 - ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 jun 28 07:56
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:07:23AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
I feel old because squeeze is the fifth Debian release I have used. 8-)
Whippersnapper :)
The first Debian I started using properly was Bo. Until then I was a
Slackware user, but first experienced Debian in its Buzz incarnation.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 03:20:13PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 25/06/11 10:16, lee wrote:
To give a silly example, a file named -rf * or rm -rf *
I defy you to create a file with those name ;-p
NOTE: I've tried. No point in it just being an untested opinion.
You can't have tried very
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 08:09:41AM +0200, Boblitz John wrote:
I subscribe to the digest and my client lists each entry as a separate mail
as an attachment,
so obviously it is possible to do that.
I can then chose which which topics are of interest and read only that entry
as a single
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:44:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net writes:
Re: posting Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1198
instead of
Re: posting
is breaking the thread?
Yes, your threading is broken, and you need to learn how
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
wrote:
Not being funny but, both Thunderbird and Google mail auto trim the emails
for me... If your mail client can't support that, then sucks to be you?
Interesting. How do they know what you don't want to include
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:33:39AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
you need a header message-ID for mailing list replies? Pardon, but
IMO this is strange.
Why is it strange? That is the header that allows threading to work
properly. If anything, Message-ID: is more important on-list than
off-list.
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 07:26:02AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
aha, I did this :
which x-terminal-emulator
and got this :
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
which is a script.
Hmm, I would expect that to be a link to
/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:24:52AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
It takes just some minutes to restore a complete install from an
archive, IMO it makes no sense to make a deafult install and then to
copy back configs and data and to install additional stuff. And what
is
Fair enough. Whatever
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:15:37AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
You're much better off simply changing sources.list right
before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends,
oddly enough
Oddly ?
It's another of the strange idioms of the
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:03:18AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
It's also very time consuming to compile all the apps again, that need
to be compiled, the kernel, jack2 from svn etc.. Just saving the data
isn't an option.
So, backup your configs, data, and prebuilt source trees ready for a
sudo
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:24:15PM +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
I don't know about this as I'm one of the lucky ones that uses Vim, but I
should suspect that those should be in main anyway?
Regards,
You would think so, but due to invariant sections in the documentation
they're stuck in
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 01:27:55AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote:
Wrong person - meant Aaron. (Note to self - call someone out, confirm the
name)
s/Aaron/Aart/
Ahem, don't you mean Jeroen? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
All I had to do was edit a line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf relating to the mouse.
Section InputDevice Generic Mouse
Option SendCoreEvents true
I changed the above line from true to false, as
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
All I had to do was edit a line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf relating to the mouse.
Section InputDevice Generic Mouse
Option SendCoreEvents true
I changed the above line from true to false, as
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:54:28AM +0300, George wrote:
On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote:
You can authenticate to an OpenSSH server using a password, or using a
keyfile. On the client side, simply run 'ssh-keygen' to create a
keypair.
So the attacker needs to guess
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 07:21:22PM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 05 May 2011 18:12:47 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote:
For certain things like removing OpenOffice and replacing it with
LibreOffice this approach works but is time consuming. For other
packages it just results in disaster, for
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 01:08:22PM +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Unfortunately, there are many posts on the Internet affirming that
such a configuration can't and won't work, because a switch can't
give out two IP's if your ISP just gives you one. So, in doubt, I
This is the crucial point. If your
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:04:12AM -0500, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com
wrote:
AFAIK this is the 64bit version. I had no issues with it, but I'm not a
heavy flash user.
ia32 =! ia64 nor is it amd64 ... it is Intel
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:35:26PM -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote:
Original:
Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi
Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi
Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi
Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi
Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi
Feb 27 2011
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:20:04PM -0800, Mark wrote:
Thank you, Rob. This is very very helpful. In step 2, you not only changed
lenny to squeeze but also debian-volatile to squeeze-updates in the
following lines? Or did you do something else? Sorry for the extra
question, this is not
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:50:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
I think the implication was that the release notes doesn't tell you how to
edit the lines that refer to volatile.
Well, there's an example squeeze-updates entry in the release notes.
That along with the statement that
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 06:32:07PM +, Camaleón wrote:
But I din't reply to anything about that. I started participating in this
thread by replying to Chris, mainly for explaining the expert install
and what that option was for.
Then perhaps you should change the subject header when the
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:15:02PM +, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:02:22 +, Tom Furie wrote:
Then perhaps you should change the subject header when the subject under
discussion changes from what it originally was.
Yes, I should have done it but I forgot it.
That's okay
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 03:35:59PM -0500, Doug wrote:
that way--I haven't looked. (Altho I have Deb installed on a
machine, I frankly don't like its politics, and I don't use it.)
Okay, I know I should ignore it, but I can't. If you don't like Debian's
politics and don't use it, what are you
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:00:02PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Sorry for the noise. I read your sentence as 'squeeze becomes stable'
not as 'change your apt.sources another time'.
That's okay, it always gets confusing when referring to different things
by different names in different
On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote:
As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if
you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze'
now as they are currently the same thing
On 10/12/2010 11:42, Michael Fothergill wrote:
I think the grub update idea might have worked. Now Windows boots
when I start up the PC however, F8 allows me to alter the disk boot
order using the BIOS and then the other disk fires up and I get GRUB
which gives me a nice menu with the Debian
On 09/12/2010 22:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if you
weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze' now as
they are currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable you could
change to 'stable',
On 09/12/2010 18:46, shirish शिरीष wrote:
I know it probably is still a long road but want to know when should
one change from testing to stable so that one is living in squeeze and
not go into wheezy.
As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if
you weren't CC'd
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 08:33:01AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
To find out infrequently accessed file you need accounting. To find
rarely accessed file you only need to look at atime.
How do you determine the atime without accessing the file, or keeping
some sort of accounting? How do you update
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 07:05:14AM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote:
Hi all,
This question may be repeated in this mailing list.
So you didn't bother checking then?
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run out of air to push against.
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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:56:59PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
What do I need to modify in /etc/rsyslog.conf to stop mail system logging
from
going into /var/log/syslog? Currently it goes to both /var/log/mail.log and
Hi Martin,
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Martin Kraus wrote:
Is there a way to find circular dependencies in apt? Meaning groups of
packages that aren't used by any programs and are installed only because a
depends on b, b on c, c on d and d on a?
I don't know about other apt
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:12:40PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Huh? There isn't a difference. Or, at least you are going to have
to be a bit more explicit about what you want told to not-new users.
The partition containing your file system mounted at '/'
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:55:32AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:30:52 -0500
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
Marc Shapiro put forth on 6/24/2010 9:47 AM:
I am getting lines
like:
tcp0 1 192.168.1.2:49526 59.120.141.34:22
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:02:47PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
On 15/06/10 12:44, Alan Chandler wrote:
The real magic command is cp -alf which essentially merges a shorter
term store with a longer term one, making new entries where the shorter
store has a file that isn't in the longer term
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:46:12PM +, Camaleón wrote:
find /directory/to/find/* -type f -exec grep -H 'text' {} \;
For that application, wouldn't you be better just using grep alone?
i.e. grep -r 'text' /directory/to/find/
Cheers,
Tom
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 04:55:03PM -0700, ABSDoug wrote:
Thanks a BUNCH for all the responds! If I'm repeating myself, forgive,
I'm not sure what you've read so far (had some posting issues, now
resolved). I'd like to explain my desire to use Debian stable so as to
get some education here,
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:09AM -0400, H.S. wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Now, after doing this, I still have this kernel in /boot:
$ ls -1 /boot/*trunk*
/boot/config-2.6.32-trunk-686
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686.bak
/boot/System.map-2.6.32-trunk-686
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:47:26AM -0400, H.S. wrote:
On 02/06/10 11:19 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
Since they are stale files, not associated with any installed package,
why not simply delete the files?
Yes, that is one option. But how do I make sure I got all the stale
files? If a package
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:09:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
On 02/06/10 12:36 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
As far as I can tell, generally linux-image* puts files in /lib/modules,
/boot, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/bug. Now given that -trunk should
I have tried dpkg -L with installed kernels to see
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:32:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's why whomever came up with the complete idiocy of breaking up 52
weeks into 12 irregularly-sized months, days starting in the middle of
the night and years in the middle of winter, should br brought behind the
barn and
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:12:18AM +0700, Alexey Salmin wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote:
On Sunday 23 May 2010 18:46:29 Tom Furie wrote:
Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a bad thing?
Surely if you put a file
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 10:38:48AM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
Setting the *directory* noexec seems very bad, since the exec bit
on directories controls the ability to cd to it, and turning that
off would make it largely useless.
Just for the sake of argument *why* is setting /tmp rw- a bad
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 02:59:19PM +0100, Chris Austin wrote:
These two mice are the only genuine 3-button mice with 3 genuine
buttons rather than 2 buttons plus a scrollwheel / button that I could
find.
Do you have some reason for not wanting to use a scrollwheel?
The three buttons now
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:03:50PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
When compiling any .tex document using the route latex - dvips -
ps2pdf, I get a PDF. Normal, but the problem is that if I the PDF is
already opened (e.g. because I was reading the version of the
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 01:34:28PM -0700, Abraham Chaffin wrote:
What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys Admin
/ Security Admin training or certification for Debian?
Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you all
suggest?
I have the
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
# update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \
/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote:
Attached for you convenience!
sourced from: Debian Lenny
Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a .txt so
that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:58:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-10 21:42, Tom Furie wrote:
Because he's using the aptitude tui (should that be c(urses)ui?). If a
referenced package is not available, then it shows (UNAVAILABLE) next to
the package name.
How would aptitude know about
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:35:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-10 16:47, Martin wrote:
I downloaded 5 DVD Lenny 5.0.4.
As I was browsing packages with aptitude I noticed that there
is angband-doc but angband is (UNAVAILABLE).
Why wouldn't it be this?
r...@haggis:~# apt-get install
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 04:04:09PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Mark writes:
...is it a correct statement to say that these spyware/malware/virus
.exe type files that try to install on a given machine, are virtually
useless against Debian systems unless the user logs in as root to
allow
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:22:03PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Maybe you misunderstood my example shell prompt code. Or maybe I'm just not
understanding what you're saying. Here, copy/pasted from a Putty terminal
session. Not a doc-file, but demonstrates your example nonetheless.
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
I must confess I never even thought to check that. The next time
it happens, I'll give it a try. Have either of you come up with
a consistent scenario that always reproduces the failure? I'm not
explicitly stopping and
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log tells you what console it started on, and the flags
indicate that the option is supplied on the command line. For example,
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:02:30PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
I have been having trouble lately with losing access to my graphical console.
The basic symptom is that I am in the graphical console, I switch to a text
console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, do some stuff in the text console, then when I
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 03:42:57PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
A more practical approach : what should the average user do in order to get
his/her Debian back after this GRUB bug?
One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever),
chroot into Debian and revert grub to an
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:47:17AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:18:30 -0500 (EST), Tom Furie wrote:
One option would be to boot from a CD (installer, liveCD, whatever),
chroot into Debian and revert grub to an earlier version.
As has been addressed in other recent
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 02:09:42PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
If you can *find* it, yes. For example, if you are running sid, and
a new upload breaks, you may be able to find an older version in
testing that still works. But if you are running testing and an
upload breaks, where are you
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:58:35PM +, Adam Hardy wrote:
Not allowed to do that - apparently it would foobar the local network
where the host server of my vserver sits. I've got to use the public IP
address if I configure this, but I'd feel happier if I didn't have to
listen on port 25
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:49:34PM -0500, S. Fishpaste wrote:
I'm pretty sure it has, (been taken care of) as my mutt (Sid) only
downloads the headers on IMAP and downloads the message only when I
open it.
What does it do about attachements, though? The OP wants to download the
body, but not
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
Ken Teague wrote:
[501]it...@iceland:~$ ls -ld $HOME
drwx-- 16 itsme arpa 1024 Oct 21 18:39 /arpa/nl/i/itsme
[502]it...@iceland:~$ ls -l html
lrwx-- 1 itsme arpa 16 Jan 26 2009 html - /www/am/i/itsme
Hi Arthur,
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:16:05AM -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote:
I've figured out how to modify the colour scheme of the unlock dialog for
xscreensaver, though I'm wondering if it only supports a certain colour
palette. The one thing I can't change, however, is the god-awful
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, so any
pointers to the right place would be welcomed.
Since switching from the stable to the unstable branch of the
debian-multimedia repository a few days ago in order to get MythTV 0.22,
whenever I run mythfilldatabase, the
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:45:43PM +0200, Soren Orel wrote:
thank you, but i don't need regex, I'm just searching, that is there a
shorter way in the find command to search for e.g.: two filenames
Yes you do, regex is short for regular expression. It is used for
pattern matching, which is
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:16:10AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:33 +0100
Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:11:31PM +0800, 明覺 wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Micha Feiginmi...@post.tau.ac.il
wrote:
is far from simple
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:11:31PM +0800, 明覺 wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Micha Feiginmi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
is far from simple. There are things you can do in python in one line that
you
would need 100s of lines of code with c.
100s of lines of C code? how about drop
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