in anticipation
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 23:50, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi Eric
Sorry for the late answer. But I don't have the time to check the
messages on debian-user more often.
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 15:03, Eric Dickner wrote:
I am trying to compile some foo.src.rpm files. When
I try to do
Hi Eric
Sorry for the late answer. But I don't have the time to check the
messages on debian-user more often.
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 15:03, Eric Dickner wrote:
I am trying to compile some foo.src.rpm files. When
I try to do this they look for headers under the
/usr/src/linux link. I installed
.
[ ... ]
Basically all (more or less) you have to do is to type passwd in what
I call rescue-mode.
Details here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/08/msg00659.html
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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Hi Ed
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:20, Ed Sutherland wrote:
Does anyone know when the correct Mozilla-Firefox be available for the
PPC? I have 9.0.1, but it still crashes when I choose Print Preview or
try to print. (I prefer the Linux version to the OSX, but need a working
printing function.
Hi Adam
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 15:41, Adam Funk wrote:
I just did an apt-get upgrade and it kept a lot of packages back.
I tried to apt-get install a few of them and it threatened to remove
packages I need. So I tried apt-get install all the packages kept
back and it thinks it can do it:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:41, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Adam
!root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade
dist-upgrade should be used here.
Sometimes in these situations I do a
apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade
(more
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 22:28, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 18:41, Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Adam
!root! /home/adam # apt-get upgrade
dist-upgrade should be used here.
Sometimes in these situations I do a
apt
Hi Fernando
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 22:41, Fernando Cardenas wrote:
I am still new to linux, can somebody suggest me books on debian?
[ ... ]
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
You'll find there a book on Debian, too. From 1999, might be dated ...
don't know ..
I have here
Unix Primer Plus -
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 06:52, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
I am using Debian/sid.
Same here, on ppc ... :)
Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to
unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal:
umount: /cdrom: device is busy
umount: /cdrom: device is busy
[ ... ]
Hi All
System on unstable here; Gnome; openoffice.org1.1.1;
I can't load dot files in Open Office:
In /usr/bin/oowriter I click 'File' -- Open.
The GUI that's then presented to me let's me access the files in my
~/HOME directory, except the dot files being in there.
I tried the trick that
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:51, Colin Watson wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:04:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Problem for me, as I said: no docs that I found so far on which file in
/etc/pam.d is used by which service. Which currently renders the whole
PAM system close to unusable
Hi All
there seem to be some new files on debian:
/etc/pam.d/common-account /etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/common-auth /etc/pam.d/common-session
Anybody out there who can tell me which services on the system use the
different files?
Especially I'd like to know which of these files
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 22:24, William Ballard wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:14:57PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi All
there seem to be some new files on debian:
/etc/pam.d/common-account /etc/pam.d/common-password
/etc/pam.d/common-auth /etc/pam.d/common-session
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 23:12, William Ballard wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 11:04:41PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Problem for me, as I said: no docs that I found so far on which file in
/etc/pam.d is used by which service. Which currently renders the whole
PAM system close to unusable
Hi All
... what I found so far was this:
$ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less
009fd9f616bab38a4fd2dda384741433 rc.spam
07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrc
07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrcdeleteit
15cc86b4a7a272d7b6aa1b43702e4395 .xinitrc
303a55356735e00975272fbe0e387cff
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 02:16, Chris Lowe wrote:
I am running debian base 3.0r0 and I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.3.
I would like to use menuconfig to build the kernel. I am new to
debian and have never compiled my own kernel before. What tools will I
need to install/update before I can build
Hi Toshiro
I'm on ppc Debian.
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:50, Toshiro wrote:
I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to
startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't
have any problem using a normal user.
Anybody know what's the
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi Toshiro
I'm on ppc Debian.
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 00:50, Toshiro wrote:
I'm running sid and I can login to root from the console but when I try to
startx if fails, the same happens with the graphical login manager. I don't
have
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 00:34, Matthew Joyce wrote:
Dear Debian-users,
An future project here will use Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL on a Dell server.
The vendor will advocate Redhat, but Debian is the only linux I have
used so that would be my choice.
I will be supporting the box and os, they will
On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:12, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Nick Lidakis wrote:
Running unstable debian here, and after a dselect update, dselect install:
marvin:/home/nick# dselect install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:12, Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear friends:
[Using Xandros 2.0/Debian]
I have installed and uninstalled a number of programs -- all of them either
from XN (with only the two XN sources) or else by recompiling source tarballs
(all of which go into /usr/local -- which
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 14:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
/usr/share/doc/rss-glx/README.xscreensaver:
regarding *running* rss-glx
^^^
sorry: but the line above is mine. It's not in README.xscreensaver
**
EITHER
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 22:07, CW Harris wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:54:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (27/02/04 13:00), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:18, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (25/02/04 17:23), Alisdair wrote:
snip
Here's the URL for CUPS where
they work ...
HTH
Nice week-end.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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Subject: Re: No printing at all!
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 22:27:05 +0100
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:18, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (25
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:29, Andreas Bach Aaen wrote:
Hi,
I have sucessfully used Netscape Navigator 4.7x from stable in my
othervise unstable installation. After upgrading unstable to XFree4.3
it removed netscape as it couldn't provide the needed dependancies.
Is there any way to solve
What am I doing wrong?
Bug in find/grep?
grep 2.5.1.ds1-2
findutils 4.1.20-3
I'm on unstable, powerpc, 2.4.22-ben2.
Thanks in anticipation.
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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Hi Vineet
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 21:10, Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Wolfgang Pfeiffer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040218 11:59]:
What am I doing wrong?
does the output of
find /var/log -type f
look correct?
yes
How about
find /var/log -type f | xargs echo grep kmod
yes, looks OK
I
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 21:29, Greg Folkert wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 14:42, bob wrote:
I have custom compiled and installed the midnight commander package to
include mcserve. My version of the package is 4.5.55-1.2woody2. I
used the latest sources from security.debian.org. Now, whenever
Hi,
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:19, Quartenoud Francois wrote:
Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake
during
the typing, I cannot retrieve the password.
I try to reboot with typing linux single on Lilo, but the system
ask the
root password.
I try to type
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 05:51, MJ Inabnit wrote:
Greetings:
http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/unix/
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
Thanks so much.
Jaye
Wishing you well.
_
Linux.Net --Open Source to everyone
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 21:53, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 05:51, MJ Inabnit wrote:
Greetings:
http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/unix/
.. and it seems the scanner only works on x86 machines:
http://www.f-prot.com/support/helpfiles/unix/linux_ws/sys_req.html
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 08:44, Gruessle wrote:
I am new to Linux and for 2 1/2 days I been trying to install Debian.
Well I have the very basics installed but that is really all I got.
Now I have Redhat and that is easy to install.
Somewhere I read that it is posible to convert a Redhat
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 13:34, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
[ ]
Did you have a look a Lindows?
www.lindows.com
... and this might be important, too, when mentioning Lindows:
http://www.lindows.com/lindows_news_pressreleses_archives.php?id=91
Excerpt:
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MICROSOFT BLOCKS
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 10:57, Wayne Sitton wrote:
I myself am not a pure-ist. But, I no longer use windows, and Boot
Debian Sid for my OS of choice. I have long promoted Debian, even while
my colleagues were Red Krap freaks because they thought it was cool to
like linux, but not really
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 17:28, David Z Maze wrote:
Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, in short, what I found by googling about for some time: The correct
way seems to be to put the kernel-source in my (non-root) home
directory, and then
cd /usr/src/
ln -s /home/someuser
Hi all,
Either the Kernel How-To, as it is available from
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zriinfo/linux/howto/English/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2
is completely outdated, maybe even dangerously wrong, or ideas I found
in postings from
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:12, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
Hi all,
Either the Kernel How-To, as it is available from
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zriinfo/linux/howto/English/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2
is completely outdated, maybe even dangerously wrong, or ideas I found
in postings from
http
My apologies, Greg:
I actually wanted to send this mail to the list, so with the private
mail I accidentally sent you, you'll probably have it now a second time.
Best Regards,
Wolfgang
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On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:55, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 at 11:53 GMT, Cristi Banciu penned:
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt
So, is there some sort of history log kept on my machine that tells me
when I last updated what?
I think
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 19:31, Fraser Campbell wrote:
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:46, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
I haven't found yet a way to gather information about the date I installed
(or even uninstalled) Debian packages in the Debian package
management system ...
I help myself
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:44, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (20/11/03 10:42), Knut Willy wrote:
I am a novice at Linux. Never used it, but want to teach myself.
1. Have a Windows-98 PC, which has internet connection.
Do not intend to use Linux on this one.
Afraid of having two operating
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:17, Armin Joellenbeck wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2003 16:01, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
hi,
Cron is telling me I have a lot of dangling symlinks.
symlink | dpkg -S
--+
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:57, John Hasler wrote:
jigga writes:
this time is still one hour off ..its says local time is 11:44 when its
actully 10:44 here ...
Use the 'date' command as previously explained to set the time.
Sorry: I already deleted the first messages in this thread, so I
Hi all,
Since several days I'm trying to run gliv, and all I get is a Segmentation fault.
I've already been at the the powerpc list with the problem ... no solution so far ..
System:
Debian 3.0. r1, testing/unstable on powerpc
gliv:
Installed: 1.7.1-1
I already downgraded gliv to 1.6-2, which
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as
root graphically, and also that
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:27:22PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
OTOH: Yesterday I was told by Linux folks that the sound problems on
Linux that I have from time to time might need a simple restart
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Mike Mueller wrote:
On Thursday 06 November 2003 14:27, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
So, yes: It seems it makes some sense what the RedHat chief executive
said.
If your brother or sister starts a new venture, you wouldn't use the local
newspaper to say that their venture
Hi all,
System is testing/unstable
# dpkg-checkbuilddeps
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: cannot read control file debian/control:
No such file or directory
And when I open a dselect window, most packages are set for purge.
Gnome,only one example of many I could give:
In the dselect window this
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, ScruLoose wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:27:11PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
See my post in another thread. Different people have different visions
for the future of linux. Not all of us care whether or not it becomes a
desktop leader. Not all of us want it
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