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/
Cheers,
Tom
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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?
Ch
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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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 doc
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.
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
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 ha
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
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/lin
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
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
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 permiss
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 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 t
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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> 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 totem-coh
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
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 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 t
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 lie
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 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:
>
>
> Re: Wow, Evolution left me with egg
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 fai
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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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 deser
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
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 05:00:47PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >>>>> Tom Furie 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 ot
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 c
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 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 proba
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 wor
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 05:24:52PM +0200, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> linbobo:~/sedtest# sed 's_\n\n_\n\n\n_' 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 instruction above
should be
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 $SHELL" returns "/bin/bash". It also works in
> tty1. And just tested on xterm and works fine.
>
> Use cas
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:10:12AM +, Camaleón wrote:
> Bash manual provides "home/end" replacements but I also looked for "page
> up/page down" key combos because my netbook lacks for them. While
> searching for a good way to mimic the keys, I also found -by pure chance-
> these combos:
>
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> I wonder though, just out of curiosity, why you have your environment
> set up as en_GB, if you're left-pondian.
Heh, like it. Never heard that one before.
Cheers,
Tom
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 03:48:14AM -0400, hadi motamedi wrote:
> I have set the same DNS on both my debian firewall and windows macine.
And that would be what? You can ping an IP address from Windows, but
can't resolve names. What is the situation with Debian?
Cheers,
Tom
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 06:55:22AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I got past that now... apparently finally got whatever it was
> installed. But now ./configure complains about X libraries:
>
>error: You seem to be running X, but no X development libraries
>were found. You should install
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:07:23AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> I feel old because squeeze is the fifth Debian release I have used. 8-)
Whippersnapper :)
The first Debian I started using properly was Bo. Until then I was a
Slackware user, but first experienced Debian in its Buzz incarnation.
C
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:55:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> Let's see:
>
> sm01@stt008:~$ 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
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/cabbc0
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 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 t
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 singl
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 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 Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:44:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Ralf Mardorf 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 ho
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 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
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 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
"su
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 non-fr
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" t
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" t
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:54:28AM +0300, George wrote:
> On 5/6/11, Jochen Schulz 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 my private k
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, f
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
> 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 Architecture, 32-bit.
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 2
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 s
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
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:15:02PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:02:22 +0000, 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 do
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
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 co
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 a
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
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 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', thi
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 updat
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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On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:56:59PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner 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
> > to /var/log/sy
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 ap
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 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
> > > SYN_S
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 longe
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 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
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 th
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/Syste
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 fl
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:12:18AM +0700, Alexey Salmin wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Andrew Reid 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
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 ba
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 vers
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
>
> ># update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \
> >/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
> >update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it
> >s
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 t
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,
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
>> th
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...@hagg
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
> > a
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.
>
> [11
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 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 rest
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 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
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 be
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 ear
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 no
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 2
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