Debian

iostat -x 2 only prints out 0!
Hello, Recently, I am monitoring a storage for high concurrency IO, to tune it. While I am using iostat to see the speed per second, and await value. I found out that sometime, when the machine is working, iostat just gives out all 0 values for a few times, then return normal, or never until I reboot. Any i... 6 May 2008 23:27

Rdesktop users?
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I've put this question on the rdesktop list, but there seems to be only a post every couple of days (in other words, no reply). Anyhow, I have a problem using rdesktop. I know I have read a solution for this problem before, but now I can't find it. Basically, when I try to con... 6 May 2008 23:27

Why's this look like gibberish
> * From: Rich Healey <healey.rich(a)gmail.com> Eterm sounds like what you're looking for... or xterm? I have already tried all the debian x-terminal packages available since debian 1.1 (evenb the "indecent" ones). For my eyes the are all _MUCH_ worse than the linux console (and in any case their look is alway... 6 May 2008 23:27

stty settings
I would like to pipe raw straight data through a terminal without any special characters, null character conversion, carriage return/newline conversion, or echo. 'stty raw' and 'stty sane' seem to approach this, but not exactly. Before I start guessing more with all the individual options in 'man stty', I though... 6 May 2008 23:27

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more ash/dash/bash questions
Otavio Exel wrote: Hello List, I've been writing shell scripts to be run as root lately; I'm not aware of any security-risk involving bash but I'd much more rather run those scripts with ash or dash instead of bash; What sort of security risks do you have in mind other than human error? Particularl... 7 May 2008 15:04

Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:29:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Also while we are at it, any suggestions on what I can use in place of gasoline in my car :)? Of all the fuels that are liquid at room temperature (and thus easily transportable and storable without special equipment) gasoline and pe... 6 May 2008 23:27

debconf dependency problems
I am trying to dist-upgrade my sid machine and am getting a dependency error: ====== $ apt-get -d --print-uris --ignore-hold dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Failed The following packages have unmet dependencies: ... 6 May 2008 23:27

apt-get wants to uninstatll grub
Hi, I did an 'apt-get update/upgrade' from sarge to etch. Everything went fine. Then I wanted to upgrade my kernel. This command: apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 caused apt-get to want to uninstall grub and then install lilo. Why is that happening? I'd like to keep grub. So, how do I prevent lilo fr... 6 May 2008 23:27

Printing from user www-data
Hi all, I have LedgerSMB up and running (version 1.2.13) and it works great except for one little problem. When I print a batch report I get the following error in my apache log file: lpr: Error - scheduler not responding! I believe this is a permissions problem. When I print using lpr from the command lin... 6 May 2008 23:27