| CVS server installation Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:19 PM PDT I demand that John Hasler may or may not have written...
Mercurial has less of a learning curve, particularly if you're already
reasonably familiar with cvs or svn.
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| + Burn less waste. Use less packaging. Waste less. USE FEWER RESOURCES.
Memory is a thing with which we forget.
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| Linux from scratch 5.5.1: Installation of GMP and MPFR Posted: 04 Apr 2009 08:15 PM PDT Mark Hobley <donottypethisbit.com> wrote:
I forgot to say that the switches may differ from the LFS manual ...
cd gcc-build
../gcc-4.4.0/configure --build=$BLD --target=$TGT --prefix=/tools \
--disable-nls --disable-shared --disable-multilib \
--disable-decimal-float --disable-threads \
--disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp \
--disable-libgomp --enable-languages=c
Regards,
Mark.
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| Intel Chipsets and Fedora Core 2 (FC2 - X86-64) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:04 PM PDT On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:45:55 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, karthikbalaguru
<com> wrote:
That message is information about resource assignments. It's moved on from there
and the last thing you listed is
Linux Plug and Play support V0.97(c) Adam Belay
This is issued by the ISA plug and play driver so at a guess your problem
resides in some ISA device attached to your system. You might try BIOS upgrades,
disabling legacy devices in the BIOS or removing ISA cards from the system.
On my system, following on from that message I get
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
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| vsftpd chroot to a place other than home directory Posted: 26 Mar 2009 06:05 AM PDT On Mar 26, 9:05am, Jistan Idiot <com> wrote:
Think carefully about what you're doing. FTP is an old problem, for
firewall configuration reasons and the fact that it transmits
passwords in the clear. I strongly, strongly prever WebDAV over HTTPS
because it works well with LFTP and curl in the Linux scripting world,
it works well with Windows using 'Network Neightborhood', and it uses
HTTPS for safety. Apache supports it well, and it's seriously
configurable to provide a shared repostitory, any kind of password
handling you want, and chroot cages.
For what I described, I'd set up a shared WebDAV repository for a
group, and allow standard password access to ~/public_html for WebDAV
uploads. Does that work for you?
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| Assigning virtual Interfaces to Debian 5 Posted: 24 Mar 2009 07:38 AM PDT In article <motzarella.org>,
wisdomkiller & pain <com> wrote:
Will try.
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| Custom kernel refuses to mount any disk Posted: 23 Mar 2009 04:01 PM PDT On 2009-03-25, Ryan McCoskrie <com> wrote:
I give up -- no idea.
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| Routing Debian 5 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 05:38 AM PDT "The Doctor" <nl2k.ab.ca> wrote
You are correct that this should have been set correctly at installation - I
was merely hoping to establish the nature of the problem.
To fix it permanently, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces. You need to
find the stanza which defines eth0 and add the line
gateway 204.209.81.2
- this should result in the default route being set up when eth0 is
activated.
If the gateway line is already present in /etc/network/interfaces then the
problem is more serious.
CC
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| Which architecture for dual core celeron processor? Debian lenny. Posted: 22 Mar 2009 03:18 AM PDT On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:31, someone identifying as *The Natural
Philosopher* wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
Excuse me? :p
Then this is a flaw in the distribution you are using. AMD64 distributions
for desktop use normally come with 32-bit compatibility libraries for lots
of stuff, and some 32-bit browser plugins can be made to work
using /nspluginwrapper./ For most of them however, 64-bit versions are
already available by now.
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| assign more RAM to apps in Wine Posted: 03 Mar 2009 02:01 PM PST Lionel B wrote:
Not my thread
not did I see any answer there
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| limit upload/download file size in SFTP Posted: 28 Feb 2009 09:30 AM PST On Mar 1, 4:00am, Bill Mar <net> wrote:
Thanks for the answer.
There are many users on that system . So , I want that some users
will not be able to upload/download files beyond 500M and some users
beyond 2G.
Is it possible to set quota of different size for different user
groups.
@Zaman
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| GeForce 8400 (the results) Posted: 27 Feb 2009 02:18 PM PST
"Moog" <com> wrote in message
news:individual.net...
Problem is it's not that simple...
a new kernel needs to be compiled...
one I had the kernel development library installed...it was simple enough to
to in Fedora...
but for various reasons I ran into a number of snags in Debian...
I installed Debian on another 4 gig drive...so may fooe with it more later
Though I am an old timer who started out taking a Fortran IV class
back in 1968 ...with punch cards...
but 1982 I got out of computers entirely
(ironic, as that's the year thr PC came out)
However in July 1999 my girlfriend gave me her old P1 and I got hooked.
Within six months of learning my way around win9x and dos...I decided to
give Linux a try.
It took me a long time to catch on...
but I learned more with the RedHat 5.2 cd than I did in 4 years of
college!!!!
Yep...that's what I said in 2001:
I have finally entered the 20th century
of course it was then the 21st !
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| Booting into a read-only drive Posted: 24 Feb 2009 06:18 PM PST On 25 Feb, 03:58, galapogos <com> wrote:
Besides being stuck with LILO instead of grub?
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| fedora 10 GRUB and continuous beeping on boot Posted: 23 Feb 2009 08:18 PM PST
Ill have a look when I get back home to be sure which one worked.
However in the 20 minutes before I left the house I was able to try
(via rescue and the shell) to change the 5 kernels and try each with
the same results. I dont think its a kernel issue but rather a grub
issue.
I suppose I could try re-writing the grub...I seem to remember seeing
an article on trying that for another problem. I dont think its my
disk starting to go, but I wouldnt rule that out at this point either.
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| 64 v 32 Posted: 22 Feb 2009 06:11 PM PST On Thursday 26 March 2009 10:42, someone identifying as *Matt Giwer* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
I apologize if my reply came across to you as berating or condescending. I
can assure you it was certainly not intended that way. Instead, I was just
being very technical and explanatory. ;-)
I am aware of the fact that people sometimes take offense (in whatever way)
to my writing style, but I must admit that I usually don't pay any
attention to any unintended negative connotations people might construe
from my scribbles. If it clarifies anything, I am an adult autistic
person, and I know I do tend to sound a bit "mechanical" or cold
sometimes. ;-)
As the matter of fact, I had already registered earlier on and so I had a
lower number, but I had forgotten my password to log into the Linux Counter
and so I chose to re-register. Hence the higher number. ;-)
Also, FYI, the Linux Counter drops your registration if you do not check in
once a year. This used to be two years, but they have shortened the
interval now. They do however send you an invitation to log in now, with a
link through which you can log in without even having to use your password.
I suppose that if they had kept all the old entries, the registered amount
of GNU/Linux users would by now be far higher, but of course, there is no
telling what people will do. I for one know several people who were
dualbooting between Windows and GNU/Linux and who had registered there,
only to kick GNU/Linux off of their hard disks again a while later and
stick with Windoze.
Or, people would simply buy a new PC with Windoze and no longer install
GNU/Linux as they weren't using it much in the first place. In this
consumerist society, PCs aren't designed to last very long, and people are
also far more inclined to ditch a perfectly good machine for "the latest
and greatest", which - as we all know - usually comes with Micro$oft stuff
pre-installed for the consumergrade market. ;-)
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| GeForce 8400gs support Posted: 21 Feb 2009 12:28 PM PST
<n262.z110> wrote in message
news:n262.z110.linuxnet.ftn...
Follow-up
just downloaded and installed Debian
it runs very well...
very responsive...reminds me of Slackware
Though I was not able to get the desired 1440 x 900 resolution
I was able to keep the same aspect ration and go with 1680 x 1050 which is
just fine
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| Where is Grub Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:43 PM PST Bryce wrote:
!!!!!! Danger Will Robinson!!!!!!!! -> dangerous command follows:
Use at your own risk :)
zero MBR but leave the partition table alone:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> bs=446 count=1
zero MBR and the partition table:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> bs=512 count=1
Change <drive> to the hard drive of choice hda or sda etc.
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| Running LILO on a secondary drive Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:58 PM PST Bit Twister <com> writes:
Of course you have to know that manu.lst is what you have to edit.
And then you have to figure out the totally arcane stuff to figure out what
you have to do at that point.
Why should I "spend a little time"? It is simply supposed to boot up my
operating system. It is not some marriage I have committed to.
And I have never spent more than 1 min changing lilo to the way I want it.
What the hell do I want colour for? A boot loader is a boot loader. It is
not an art class exercise. That is the problem. Grub is a whole computer
language, with arcane rules and infinite choice. All I want is my operating
system to boot. I do NOT want to spend my life figuring out how to get it
to do so. Remember KISS? Keep It Simple Stupid.
Just yesterday I had to help someone whos system refuesed to boot ( postfix
was taking an infinite timeout because the network did not work). Trying to
figure out how in the world to tell grub to boot into runlevel 1 rather
than runlevel 5 was an exercise in frustration. Now I know lilo, so knowing
:Hit tab type linux 1: was ingrained. But of course tab did not work in
grub. Hit F2 Then hit e Then figure out how in the world to edit the boot
line. Then ..... Sheesh. It is a program written by programmers that has
completely lost its way.
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| library.os.n problem: "cannot open shared object file: Error 40" Posted: 16 Feb 2009 08:55 AM PST I demand that Alan Mackenzie may or may not have written...
Yes. Somebody wants to read strerror(3) and/or perror(3).
[snip]
More likely something up with that particular package.
"libedit.so.0" will be in the file. (You probably want to read up on sonames
and their uses.)
[snip]
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Any Microsoft product is indistinguishable from hardware failure.
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| System Administration with explanation of the concepts behind (devicemapper, e.g.) Posted: 15 Feb 2009 04:28 AM PST On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 04:28:38 -0800, Harry wrote:
Caveat: I am not using LUKS.
Note, it is possible to use cryptsetup in a native mode, also.
man cryptsetup
Some of the basic device mapper concepts are explained in this article:
http://linuxgazette.net/114/kapil.html
The typical way that I use cryptsetup without LUKS is by using this sort
of syntax:
# cat key | cryptsetup -h $HASH -c $CIPHER -s $KL create sdb1 /dev/sdb1
This creates a device mapper object, /dev/mapper/sdb1 based on the
real device /dev/sdb1. The encryption will be setup using the key and
other parameters (i.e. the variables as predefined by HASH, CIPHER, KL.).
Note also that some big improvements have been made to the HASH and CIPHER
modes recently.
The LUKS project works at a higher level, designed to hide some of the
"nasty" details. Personally, I don't mind working with the base level, but
some extra caution is in order. Be careful not to expose your keys. I
usually setup and work with these parameters using a ramdisk, and I work
with a fully encrypted system when necessary, etc.
I can also achieve the functionality similar to LUKS (AIUI) to allow
multi-user access to containers is to use GPG directly to encrypt the key
and other encryption parameters as a message addressed to the authorized
users. To me, this follows the unix philosophy of "one tool -> one
function" better than "handing off" responsibilty to LUKS. YMMV.
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| How to change password on multiple hosts (can use ssh) Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:01 PM PST Nico Kadel-Garcia <com> wrote:
Which is why I recommended both.
Which is why I mentioned a method that uses Makefiles.
If the accounts in question are human users, NIS continues
to be the better choice by far.
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| Intel 82915G graphics chip not working on Dell Optiplex Gx520 withnVidia RIVA TNT2 64 & FC6 Posted: 06 Feb 2009 06:33 AM PST powah wrote:
Probably none of them, 'intel' driver is orders of magnitude better than
the 'i810' driver. Try to find a package of the 'intel' driver for your
version of Fedora, even if you borrow it from FC10.
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| booting Linux directly from NTFS? Posted: 05 Feb 2009 05:21 AM PST On Thursday 05 February 2009 21:34, someone identifying as
*com* wrote in /comp.os.linux.setup:/
Your question is ambiguous. Either you mean "Can the kernel be loaded from
an NTFS filesystem by a bootloader?", or you mean "Can a GNU/Linux system
be brought to running off an NTFS filesystem natively?"
In case of the former, you can use /fuse/ with /ntfs-3g/ to mount the NTFS
partition on */boot* with write support, copy the /vmlinuz/ (and if so
required the /initrd/) file(s) to it, and then use LILO as your bootloader,
because LILO hardcodes logical block addresses in the master boot record,
unlike GRUB, which needs and uses a realmode filesystem driver to access
the files. The LILO bootloader must then also be installed in the master
boot record or in the root partition for the GNU/Linux system, because if
you install it in the NTFS partition it will overwrite the Windows
bootloader.
But still, then there is the second interpretation of your question, which
is that GNU/Linux requires a filesystem that supports UNIX file ownerships
and permissions, and that even with the Linux kernel image living on NTFS
would require that the entire Linux-specific UNIX file hierarchy (with the
exception of */boot,* for which you would be using the NTFS partition in
this case) be on one or multiple other partitions than the NTFS volume.
The only operating system I know of which can be made to run from a
filesystem that does not have any kind of security implementations is
Windows, which can be made to run off of a /msdos/ or /vfat./ UNIX does
not support this, and for good reason, as it's perverse. ;-)
There used to be /umsdos/ support in the Linux kernel - but this has been
removed in the meantime - which allowed a GNU/Linux system to be installed
on an /msdos/ (FAT12/16) filesystem, but this was an unstable construct
which saved the UNIX file ownerships, permissions and case-sensitive long
filenames inside files which in DOS would appear as hidden files. So in a
sense, it was like the loopback thing, but with the difference being that
it was only the case-sensitive long filenames, the file ownerships and the
permissions which were inside image files, while the files themselves were
on the actual /msdos/ filesystem itself.
This too was a perverse construct, but still not as perverse yet as Windows
is. ;-)
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| Best binary newsgroup/usenet reader and downloader? Posted: 04 Feb 2009 12:46 PM PST On 2/11/2009 1:17 PM PT, John Hasler typed:
I am a nzb newbie and just installed and ran into a weird glitch (bug?):
$ su
Password:
# apt-get install nzb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test nzb
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 200kB of archives.
After this operation, 475kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? \
Abort.
ANTian:/home/ant# apt-get install nz
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package nz
ANTian:/home/ant# apt-get install nzb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt4-core libqt4-test nzb
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 200kB of archives.
After this operation, 475kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libqt4-test 4.4.3-1 [59.8kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libqt4-core 4.4.3-1 [30.3kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main nzb 0.1.7-1 [110kB]
Fetched 200kB in 3s (50.8kB/s)
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-test.
(Reading database ... 157630 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libqt4-test (from .../libqt4-test_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libqt4-core.
Unpacking libqt4-core (from .../libqt4-core_4.4.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package nzb.
Unpacking nzb (from .../archives/nzb_0.1.7-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libqt4-test (4.4.3-1) ...
Setting up libqt4-core (4.4.3-1) ...
Setting up nzb (0.1.7-1) ...
I run nzb for the first time, configure (Tools -> Options), but saving
and closing the options doesn't work. I have to close nzb program to
exit. I relaunched it and see my settings were saved.
Does anyone have this problem too? I am using KDE v3.5.10 in Debian.
Thank you in advance. :)
This one doesn't seem to have nzb support.
Python scripts, seems to use a lot of stuff, and seems outdated (last
updated in 3/26/2007).
This was a good program that I used for a while, but recently
uninstalled because it crashes every time I try to go to open a file
(haven't even told it to use a specific file) to get a nzb even as a new
profile (deleted old configurations). The developer was stomped and had
no idea what was going on. It started late last year too. The project
also seems dead too.
Don't forget Tin for text based newsreader. It doesn't do nzb though. I
like nzbget a lot. I am old school and love text based UIs.
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| Is auditd needed to run? Posted: 03 Feb 2009 08:07 AM PST On Feb 4, 12:47am, Allen Kistler <moc> wrote:
The reason I ask is don't know why auditd is disabled in CentOS4, but
now enabled by default in CentOS5. Surely we don't use SELINUX. Also
in CentOS4, we don't have
problem by setting it off - so wonder why it is on in CentOS5 if no
program need it...
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| Compliling kernel on Fedora 10: No rule to make target `missing-syscalls' Posted: 02 Feb 2009 09:50 PM PST Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Nope. The kernel devel package.
Any way I downloaded more recent code off of www.kernel.org
and that compiles fine.
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