On 16/12/13 12:59, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
even after failed amavisd start, where 'ls socket_file' fails:
# ls /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock
ls: cannot access /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock: No such file or directory
'lsof' still shows /var/spool/amavisd/clamd.sock as valid ?
Sounds like a
On 09/06/11 12:12, K L wrote:
Just thinking about it. I thought IDE HDD's were always recognised as
/dev/hdx. But liveCD (in fact any boot program I use) is recognising this one
as /dev/sda.
What's going on there?
This changed some time back (I can't recall the specifics, but it was in
a
Voytek Eymont wrote:
AFA05B44845 3085241 Thu Feb 11 10:07:31 s...@hotmail.com
(host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing,
id=21117-12, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method binmode
via package IO::File at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/MIME/Body.pm line
437.
jam wrote:
Along with all the cute benefits that LVM offer is a much higher disk failure
rate. Is the windows-linux convert going to pay attention to needed backup
regime?
And how exactly does LVM offer a much higher disk failure rate ?
Cheers,
--
Daniel Bush wrote:
That sounds fraught.
Are you sure I can't just go with the alternate cd which will walk me thru
lvm and still give me a desktop kernel/system?
Indeed you can. You can even download the alternate CD with jigdo!
Cheers,
--
Steve
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:10:36 +1000, Timothy White uttered
Thanks a lot. Much appreciated. I can travel to pick it up, but as we
are also down a GPS, the closer to Wentworthville/Parramatta the
better.
I've organised with Tim to drop off a Feisty amd64 CD on my way home.
Cheers,
--
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:16:04 +1100, Peter Hardy uttered
I'm a little puzzled by this:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:50050844816352 188732 0 1566443165540
-/+ buffers/cache: 14941683510916
Swap:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:50:11 +1100, Luke Yelavich uttered
I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file,
for use with a community website I am working on.
I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of
whitespace. I am wondering whether
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:00:57 +1100, Nick Croft uttered
Wondering if anyone has any idea why Opera for Ubuntu (ppc) can't be found
on any of the sites that everyone recommends.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main
In this repository, opera is only built for i386.
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:29:21 +1100, David Gillies uttered
This will only build the binary packages, no source stuff will be
spat out
before you run this, make sure that package-name/debian/control is
executable
I suspect you mean package-name/debian/rules here. debian/control
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:46:58 +1000, Ben uttered
doh! I meant PCIe, but that's probably what you mean anyway. and it
was just last week I was scoping hardware sites and laughing at the
ones who labelled the PCIe cards PCIx.
PCI-X and PCI-E are very different.
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:58:48 +1000 (EST), Voytek Eymont uttered
h, I think maybe this is the one:
# grep crit 21-error.log
[Thu Sep 21 07:52:10 2006] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock:
could not bind to port 443
[Thu Sep 21 07:52:44 2006] [crit] (98)Address already in use:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:36:01 +1000, O Plameras uttered
Example of list and select:
$man sort | grep order ,
man sort | grep -w order
I find that a bit easier.
Cheers,
--
Steve
bob2 joy hasn't spoken on IRC in 45 seconds, he must be MIA!
--
SLUG -
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:18:05 +1000, Craig Dibble uttered
Er, sorry to nitpick, but 993 is actually IMAP SSL.
POP3S is 995
I realised that after I bashed C-c C-c to send the message. :-/
Cheers,
--
Steve
I'm a doctor, not a doorstop
- EMH,
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:12:37 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson uttered
2. find someone who can host a SMTP AUTH outbound on port 993 (SMTP+SSL)
which probably won't get blocked by any of your ISPs outbound.
Port 993 is POP3S, whereas SSMTP is port 465.
Cheers,
--
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:44:45 +1000, James Gray uttered
I'm running a Courier IMAP server with Postfix MTA for my own
personal network (with a handful of POP3 users). The problem is that
I often use different mail clients. Some support automatic archiving
(deleting), others don't. So it
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:20:25 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered
https://launchpad.net/distros/baltix/+bug/50741
Unfortunately, I screwed up an logged it under Baltix (wtf is that?)
instead of Ubuntu. Is there some way I can fix that?
I just had a look at the bug, and it looks like you
On Wed, 03 May 2006 21:53:06 +1000, Charles Myers uttered
Damn... I'll try compiling it myself and see what happens.. dont know
about that lib that I'm missing though :/
Do you have the multiverse repository enabled? That's where mplayer
and some of its dependencies live.
Thanks,
--
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:11:22 +1000, Michael Lake uttered
I'm trying to get correct keys into the debian keyring so that I can verify
packages from apt-get sources
and I'm having some problems. The procedure below was worked out by googling
on the warning message from apt-get.
Basically one
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:31:33 +1100, Ken Caldwell uttered
Err http://mirror.optusnet.com.au breezy/main Packages
Could not connect to mirror.optusnet.com.au:80 (211.29.132.173). -
connect (111 Connection refused)
Hrm, I noticed that on Monday while debugging an apt-proxy problem at
work. If
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:51:58 +1100 (EST), Phill O'Flynn uttered
I am aware that existing files are not affected.
One thing I found in my playing around that if i set the umask in
a console window any files or dirs created after (in that window) have the
permissions i expect. However if i
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:49:43 +1100, O Plameras uttered
Then do a # make menuconfig and figure out which ones to activate or
deactivate. Or #make config, if you are unable to run X.
menuconfig requires ncurses, not X.
Cheers,
--
Steve
I may be love's
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:21:58 +1100, Howard Lowndes uttered
They shouldn't be feeling the heat from Xen yet because Xen will not run
Windows until the new Intel chips ship.
I have a problem with VMware after 2.6.13 kernel - it won't compile on
2.6.24 and later, which is why I am looking at
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:12:07PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
IIRC, ANSI C[1] makes no guaranty as to the lifetime of literal
^^^
Not that I'm trying to get involved in this Gospel according to Oscar
thread, but Crossfire, you forgot the footnote, and now I'm interested!
Cheers,
--
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:21:33 +1100, Peter Rundle uttered
Did anyone get any joy on this?
I've tried to run VMware 5.0.0-13124 but as others have found out the
network modules panic the kernel. Tried the old VMware 2.0.4 but again
same issue. (I'm running kernel 2.6.11-smp) Don't feel like
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:36:03 +1000, Adam Dawes uttered
[most the output snipped]
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o
_norm.o
_xform.o
NV: No matching device section for instance (Bus ID PCI:2.0.0)
There is your problem. When your changed your motherboard, the
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:04:58 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered
This time the compilation provides the message:
Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel:
insmod: error inserting '/tmp/vmware-config1/vmnet.o': -1 Unknown symbol
in module
There is probably a slight
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:04:31 +1000, Michael Lake uttered
I have a server running Debian stable where perl is v5.6.1. I need 5.8 for
installing a library application.
I have never done/used mixed systems before or done apt pinning. Am I going
to do this right?
The following procedure was
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:33:06 +1000, Michael Lake uttered
There is no -V but I presume you mean --no-act.
I did that i.e. apt-get --no-act dist-upgrade
and it listed 120 packages that will be upgraded !
Perl is amoung those to be upgraded.
so I presume that I'll go with the above. It's a bit
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:10:34 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered
Thanks. I've had a look at '/usr/sbin/syslog-facility' .. the only
modifiable part is the line
my $conf_file = '/etc/syslog.conf';
I've unsuccessfully looked for a default version via Google, man page,
and text [Debian GNU/Linux
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:02:06 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered
Sorry for the delayed reply,
You were right about syslog. Two lines had been deleted in the 'action' part
of the default syslog.conf file. Problem solved.
But ndtpd still won't install, output below.
But it's still the same
On Fri, 27 May 2005 14:08:37 +1000, Simon uttered
HI all,
Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R?
You can. Except just cp -R won't cut it. The one way that springs to
mind is using find with -prune and -exec cp {} \; dest
Cheers,
--
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:46:16 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered
Apparently it's an apostrophe out of place .. but which one ?
No, it isn't an apostrophe out of place. Post install scripts need to
be called with 2 or 3 arguments. I'd suggest you edit
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ndtpd.postinst and change set -e
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:13:10 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered
I've attached the output below. I'm also getting a lot of syslog
messages appearing in gnome-terminal together
with beeping and a red light flashing on the midi-tower.
I daresay that syslogd is badly miconfigured on your machine.
On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:56:56 +1000, Rick Welykochy uttered
$ echo This is fun!
-bash: !: event not found
Bash uses ! as a shell short-cut character. For example:
!! Execute previous command
!n Execute nth previous command
!string Execute previous command starting with string
!?string?
On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:19:52 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered
Any ideas on how this can be done - is it something that is done in iproute?
You want to add 'src IP of eth0' to the end of the ip ro command
that brings up the route to the remote end.
Cheers,
--
On Tue, 24 May 2005 09:19:42 +1000, Howard Lowndes uttered
I've always wondered how you get a list of .bash-history so that you
know the value of n.
Run 'history'.
Cheers,
--
Steve
If it (dieting) was like a real time strategy game, I'd have loaded a
On Thu, 19 May 2005 14:52:49 +1000, Terry Collins uttered
What entry do people have in their /etc/apt/sources.list for debian
stable(sid)?
Heh. Stable is woody, not sid. :-)
I am trying to upgrade/? from woody to sid and changing stable to
unstable produced a pile of error messages about
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:52:18 +1100, Phill uttered
So, as an experiment, I deleted the printer on windows xp and tried to
re-install the printer as a new printer but the status of the printer now
is access denied, unable to connect
For what it's worth, my wife's Windows XP machine shows the
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:06:24 +1100, Sonia Hamilton uttered
YASGQ (Yet Another St George Question):
I can't get St George internet banking going, has anyone got this
working? Pointers on how to do it?
Sure, I got it working on my wife's machine fairly easily.
Install java-package, download
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:56:04 +1100, James Gray uttered
Indeed - 3 boots with no shutdowns or reboots. Normally this is a result
of
kernel panics. Have you changed anything recently - new kernel perhaps?
Have you added any new equipment that might be loading a buggy driver?
It could be
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:39:52 +1100, Kevin Saenz uttered
The other thing is that you could install a program called vmware if
feel nervous about installing linux on your computer.
Or use one of the LiveCD's such as Knoppix or Ubuntu ...
Cheers,
--
Steve
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 20:16:10 +1100, O Plameras uttered
No one can load kernel codes other than loadable kernel modules(LKM)
that are
'enabled'. If you try to load an LKM that is not configured the Kernel
will not
allow it. And because only a dozen or so LKMs are enabled instead of,
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:32:14 +1100, Rod Butcher uttered
Anything else I should study to do this properly ? - I'm finding things
like foo.xs which are used to generate foo.c for instance, so is there
some tutorial on typical methods used for generating C sources
modules ?
A .xs file is a
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:12:11 +1100, David uttered
I guess this is the point of the question. Is there a way of prioritising
so that the effect of tar running is minimised.
Sure. Start tar and then renice the process to 20 (it will only run
when nothing else wants to), man renice for more
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 02:05:01 +1100, James Gray uttered
So compared to setting up individual display + monitor sections in the
config file, the TwinView route is pretty easy and performs better. Plus
accelerated OpenGL Fireworks screen saver on both heads looks neat :)
However, the TwinView
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 10:43:51 +1100, Michael Fox uttered
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050115/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Note the date in the URL:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/i386/20050203/sarge-i386-netinst.iso
Cheers,
--
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:22:09 +1100 (EST), Voytek uttered
whilst fdisk still calls in 'unknown'
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 4340 44431365 Extended
/dev/sdb5 * 2 4340 4443120 35 Unknown
That's just because
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:01:15 +1100 (EST), Voytek uttered
# fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 4340 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 4340 4443136
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:44:15 +1100, Ken Foskey uttered
I got an off list from peter suggesting:
dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1 | xargs apt-get install
--reinstall
gave me this:
dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1 | xargs dpkg -L | grep
-v \'| xargs -n 1
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:49:17 +1100, Ken Foskey uttered
Bowling with laptops next month :-)
That sounds expensive.
Cheers,
--
Steve
Why does everyone say 'Relax' when they're about to do something terrible?
- Ensign Harry Kim, USS Voyager
--
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:14:12 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered
Do you have a line above that somewhere in the file
with a NOPASSWD: entry? Where do you get your sudo
from and what version is it?
If the user that is using sudo is in the sudo group, then sudo will
never prompt that user for a
On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:44:27 +1000 (EST), Voytek uttered
Apache restarted 7 hrs ago..?
is that telling me that Apache stopped 7 hrs ago..?
What is more likely to have happened is that Apache was restarted
after its log files were rotated.
Cheers,
--
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:14:45 +1000, Terry Collins uttered
What do people use to encode mp3s on debian?
I use LAME. (It isn't in Debian proper due to the Fraunhofer patent
madness.)
This link explains it quite nicely:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/12/msg04123.html
These days, I will
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:47:11 +0930, Trevor Tregoweth uttered
I was wondering what people can tell me and help me with DNS setups.
What i would like to know, is that when you specify an secondary DNS for a web
site, when the primary site goes down, how does the secondary site take
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 19:27:38 +1000, Martin uttered
$quoted_author = Adam Bogacki ;
Tux:~# ls -l /dev/hdd
brw-rw1 root disk 22, 64 Mar 15 2002 /dev/hdd
change the permissions on /dev/hdd to 666 or add yourself to the disk
group.
Or chgrp /dev/hdd to cdrom, which is a
On Wed, 05 May 2004 19:04:03 +1000, Ken Foskey uttered
I have three machines connected:
M1 == M2 == M3
M2 has two NIC's and will not act as a router so the network around M3
is secure.
I have an NFS mount from M1 = M2 with no-root-squash,ro as /data on M2.
When I try and mount M2
On Tue, 4 May 2004 19:13:49 +1000 (EST), David uttered
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxv1
The following NEW packages will be
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:04:46 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo uttered
Is anyone using a scroll wheel PS/2 mouse with a 2.6 kernel? Does
clicking using the scroll wheel work for you?
Yes, it does. Have you loading/built into the kernel psmouse and mousedev?
Cheers,
--
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:09:26 +1000, Adam W uttered
I didn't realise apache needs execute permissions!
Apache itself doesn't need execute permission, but if a directory
doesn't have execute permission, you can't cd into it.
--
Steve
In the beginning was
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:54:00 +1000, James Gray uttered
The /etc/init.d/networking script wont work - ifup and dhclient both
complain about the kernel version and refuse to work. pump is ok though.
Module names could have changed? Without seeing the errors, I couldn't
tell you.
The nfs stuff
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:03:43 +1100, Nick Croft uttered
But not from the desktop machine directly using a gui browser.
I now have all the cups packages on both machines. I wonder why I can't
access the config gui from the desktop.
It's part of the default CUPS config. It only allows
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
The major problem seems to be in the post-removal script:
cat: alsa: No such file or directory
The closest Google match I can find is
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg81130.html
and I've made sure
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 11:41:30 +1100, Hanratty, Michael uttered
My problem is this:
Hardware P4, 512 ddr Distro Mandrake 9.2 Problem samba won't start,
error reported in log file reads something like this- failed to bind
to port 139, reason - port already in use
Any suggestions
What is
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:22:14 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson uttered
I'm damn sure I have no java support on my laptop and I use CBA netbank
at least twice a week.
On any Linux machine I use for netbank, it is Java-less, and I've
experienced no problems at all.
--
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:53:05AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
In Debian Woody - I have two window managers installed. How does Debian
determine the default when I startx?
Using the alternatives system.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo update-alternatives --display x-window-manager
Password:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:47:46PM +1100, Chris Deigan wrote:
mttr or cricket might be of interest, it will give you nice purty graphs
I think you mean mrtg. MTTR is something very different. :-)
--
Steve
I've lost my sig!
--
SLUG -
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:34:58AM +1000, Mike Kraus wrote:
Their ppp0 device often goes down by itself, and fails to restart.
I used to get that with my DSL. The fix is to put 'maxfail 0' into the
options file for the link, and restart pppd. Well, it worked great for me.
Cheers,
--
At 10:02 pm, Tuesday, October 21 2003, Ken Foskey mumbled:
The following code behaves the same under K 2.4 and K 2.6 so there is
something different for SEGV to SIGINT. Can anyone explain?
Of course. POSIX Says that behaviour after catching a SIGSEGV is undefined.
Anything could happen. If
At 12:19 am, Saturday, September 13 2003, Voytek Eymont mumbled:
how do I pipe into 'convert' to resize an output image from another tool?
I have
tide -l sydney -f p -m g tide.png
and
convert -resize 480x120 tide.png small_tide.png
but I'm not having much success pipeing one into the
At 1:09 pm, Saturday, September 6 2003, Adam Bogacki mumbled:
dpkg --pending -configure
Setting up alsa-base (0.9.6-3)
Wrote ALSA configuration to /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9
ln: creating symbolic link to '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa' to
'/etc/alsa/modutils/0.9': No such file or directory
dpkg:
At 4:17 pm, Wednesday, September 3 2003, Nicholas Wilcox mumbled:
It's actually saying to make sure you have the initrd=blah line in the
kernel definition in your lilo.conf. Sometimes you can update the image
parameter but forget to change the initrd parameter.
Well, I use GRUB, but having
At 8:04 pm, Thursday, September 4 2003, Adam Bogacki mumbled:
Setting up gconf2 (2.2.1-2)
find: missing argument to 'exec'
dpkg: error processing gconf2 (--configure)
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status (1)
[...]
I don't know if this is unique to my
At 3:41 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled:
So, would some kind soul please tell me:
o If the kernel I'm trying to install is a reasonable one to go for?
Indeed. 2.4.21-4-686 (or 2.4.21-5-686, at a pinch) is okay.
o Why I got the bonus SMP kernel?
I'd need to see the
At 7:25 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Del mumbled:
My load average hit 273.
System still going, a tad slow mind you.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
Running zinf (an audio player) on my workstation:
broken:~# uptime
23:53:45 up 2 days, 22:59, 4 users, load average: 551.83,
At 10:43 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled:
wally:~# apt-get -d install kernel-image-2.4.21-4.686
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp
The
At 8:04 pm, Wednesday, August 6 2003, Matthew Palmer mumbled:
If you want official (real, true official) Debian CDs, I'm sure there'd be
no shortage of SLUGgers who'd burn them for you. I'd offer, but I'm not
exactly in the area...
I'm in the area (live in western Sydney, work in inner
At 12:49 pm, Wednesday, August 13 2003, Dave Airlie mumbled:
my Nvidia 3ds away fine, the other card of course doesn't.. I'm not sure
you can get a secondary card to do 3d and Xinerama... I might be getting a
PCI radeon soon.. not sure..
Radeons completly refuse to do DRI when Xinerama is
At 11:40 am, Wednesday, August 13 2003, Pete de Zwart mumbled:
NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia cards, if you can
prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it.
I had a GeForce4 AGP and a Radeon 7000 PCI hanging off my workstation,
working just fine. Using the
At 2:28 pm, Tuesday, July 29 2003, Angus Lees mumbled:
The Debian ALSA (user-space) packages don't yet cope with
modprobe.conf transparently either (/me pokes stevenk)
Support for module-init-tools is coming as I find time. Linda 0.3 is being a
harsh mistress is demanding lots of attention
At 6:50 pm, Monday, July 28 2003, Kevin Saenz mumbled:
Just wondering if anyone has started playing with
2.6.0 kernel? What's it like?
I have. It's ... different. It uses modprobe.conf, rather than modules.conf,
PCMCIA requires tweaking, and X doesn't work. And I've panic'd it twice. Oh
well.
At 7:27 pm, Monday, July 21 2003, Phillipus Gunawan mumbled:
The problem is on user home's folder. When we do 'adduser' the folder
has id of 700, and I want to make it into 711 everytimw I add new user.
Set DIR_MODE=0711 in /etc/adduser.conf
Cheers,
--
At 6:39 pm, Saturday, June 28 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mumbled:
I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of
Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager.
apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on
Jason Gunthorpe, and others.
At 2:16 am, Thursday, June 26 2003, Crossfire mumbled:
Does anybody know what the status of support in X for the Radeon 9500 and 9600
is? ATI seems to have done a very good job of being as vauge as possible when
the 9[268]00 is involved.
A 9200 is a rebadged 8500 or close to it, so
At 4:51 pm, Tuesday, June 24 2003, Erich Schulz mumbled:
I have been sent some photos in .art format, does anybody know what
these are and how to view them in Linux, tried gimp, but not very
sucessfull so far.
What does 'file' tell you?
--
Steve
At 9:57 pm, Monday, June 9 2003, Ken Foskey mumbled:
I did try to run tcpdump (not installed) I am kicking myself as this is
classic NFS debugging, I should have remembered that.
You should also check hosts.{allow,deny} for portmap.
Cheers,
--
At 3:39 pm, Sunday, June 8 2003, Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] mumbled:
I'm looking into setting up a samba PDC. I've got a help file that I'm working
through. It mentioned adjusting users using vipw. So I've been trying to do
that. I've found the vim documentation on my system and I've
)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which ed
/bin/ed
$() is a subshell, so that sets VISUAL to /bin/ed.
Now, to answer your question, it's not a permanent change. You need to do
something like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep export .bash_profile | head -1
export MAILNAME=Steve Kowalik
Cheers
At 4:36 pm, Friday, June 6 2003, Daniel Harper mumbled:
What are the modules af_packet and unix that are in /etc/modules, this is on
a Debian Woody install.
Taken from Documentation/Configure.help on a 2.4.20 Debian kernel:
unix.o:
Unix domain sockets
CONFIG_UNIX
If you say Y here, you
At 4:38 pm, Wednesday, June 4 2003, Bill Bennett mumbled:
I'm not sure about how to mount this burner. The reader mounts
automatically when I put in a disk. But I don't know whether the
system will wear a second CD device.
Has anybody any experience with this situation?
Yes. As long as
At 9:17 am, Monday, June 2 2003, Jon Biddell mumbled:
3. There must be NO DISCERNABLE INTERRUPTION TO SERVICE when one
fails. Doing a shift-reload in the browser is NOT an option. It
must be TOTALLY TRANSPARENT.
You're going to get one anyway. If the machine falls over, you're not going
At 8:55 am, Sunday, April 13 2003, Chris D. mumbled:
2: try running 'killall esd' -- this is the gnome sound daemon (stolen
from enlightenment), and apps that dont use it (which is a fare few -- i
find even gaim doesnt use it), and then run 'esd ' afterwards.
I find I dislike esound, since it
At 8:21 pm, Friday, April 4 2003, Kevin Waterson mumbled:
I am using RedHat 9 now.
Why not just download it?
Presumably, Mick does not want to wait the 2 weeks it would take to download
over 56k. Either that, or wants the convience of CDs. I know I like having
Debian CDs around my room.
At 10:05 pm, Friday, April 4 2003, Geoffrey Cowling mumbled:
Yes, I can ping 137.111.7.4 (or 5 as the case may be..)
and the number assigned to me.. but not the DSNs .. or any named URI.
If I use gpppon instead of pon, it works much the same just more
logging),
except the off button gives
At 9:35 pm, Wednesday, April 2 2003, Roger Salisbury mumbled:
I'm trying to install a
Nvidia: Diamond Viper 770 . RIVATNT2
Video Adapter.
on a Woody debian system. The $5 disk at the SLUG AGM.
No Joy getting it to work above 800/600 resolution with vga or nv drivers.
OK then: load
At 3:20 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Mick Boda mumbled:
3. I recieve the following message from apt-get re sound
Sorry, alsa-base is already the newest version.
Okay. You probably want the latest alsa-base, too. (Which is currently
0.9.2-1)
E: Couldn't find package
At 7:18 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Steve Kowalik mumbled:
Run 'dpkg -P diald' as root. It looks to be in a fairly bad state, so you
have have to do evil things.
Er, that should be 'so you may have to do evil things.'
--
Steve
[14:06] * vorlon
At 8:06 pm, Monday, March 31 2003, Mick Boda mumbled:
deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/
Three fields! Three!
deb http://people.debian.org/~stevenk/alsa/ ./
And I hadn't apt-ified the directory. I have just now, so please try again.
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At 6:40 pm, Friday, March 28 2003, Mick Boda mumbled:
I select edit sources list by hand
I type http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386/./
I recieve the following error message E: Type 'http, etc,etc,/i386/./'
is not known on line 9 in source list /etc/apt etc, etc.
If I change
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