Debian

Clearing SWAP
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:20:57AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun May 4 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: the login is automatically done. automatic with passwords? see man login, option "-f" If you do not want fully automatic logins, consider something in /etc/inittab like 3:23:respawn:/sbi... 6 May 2008 23:27

Illegal locales?
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:26:40PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: I noticed that my locale definitions are not defined in the available system locales: hardy2(a)hardy2-laptop:~$ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" ... 6 May 2008 21:27

Can't resolve ftp.us.debian.org
On 5/6/08, NN_il_Confusionario <pinkof.pallus(a)tiscalinet.it> wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:11:46PM -0400, wa9als(a)gmail.com wrote: strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update Any other ideas? - John yes, post (or, better, make it avilable on a web server) the file /tmp/apt-get.log where str... 6 May 2008 21:27

sound?
On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: Since some of your programs produce sound and some don't, it could be a configuration problem with them.  Perhaps they are pointing to something that doesn't exist? that is a possibility.. though why they would have changed is another issue... Other than that la... 6 May 2008 21:27

usb to serial
On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ron Johnson engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} On 05/04/08 02:44, Charlie wrote: --} > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Ron Johnson engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} >> --} On 05/04/08 00:54, Charlie wrote: --} >> --} [snip] --} >> --} > --} >> --} > I have used a USB ... 6 May 2008 22:23

Debian Installer Hangs on MacBook
Hello Kent, you may want to visit the mactel site: www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page and more specific ones: wiki.debian.org/MacBook www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook#head-e4a1f2cde8ad66bc01c97bfdadc85996ad80f688 hth, Jerome Kent West wrote: So I reconfigur... 6 May 2008 21:27

Debian 4.0 - NFS Install
Michael Madden wrote: Is there a way to perform a NFS install of Debian 4.o on x86 or x86_64? From what I can tell, HTTP is the preferred network install method. Ideally I'd like to copy my install DVDs to a NFS share and perform an installation via NFS. How are you planning to start the installation... 6 May 2008 21:27

How To Find Which Sound Device Is Used?
This could be an issue with Darkice, but I think at this point it's more that I'm not sure what sound device I'm using. I have a system running Sarge (yes, it'll be updated to Etch, then eventually Lenny in my copious amounts of free time!) and I have a radio hooked up to it through the sound card inputs. I h... 25 Apr 2008 02:58

First time ssh user needs help, getting authentication failures
So I aptitude ssh and set it up according to this document: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s5.1 I get authentication failures. I am using Etch completely updated on my home computer and was using the Ubuntu 8.04 live CD at my mothers house. coming home and ch... 25 Apr 2008 01:23

Fwd: switch from LILO to grub failed
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rafael Fontenelle <rffontenelle(a)gmail.com> Date: 25/04/2008 01:50 Subject: Re: switch from LILO to grub failed To: Fabrizio Lippolis <fabrizio.lippolis(a)aurigaspa.com> 2008/4/23, Fabrizio Lippolis <fabrizio.lippolis(a)aurigaspa.com>: I have switched the boot mana... 25 Apr 2008 01:23