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logging failure Whenever I run /etc/init.d/sysklogd, it gives me: * Starting system log daemon... * usage: syslogd [-drvh] [-l hostlist] [-m markinterval] [-n] [-p path] [-s domainlist] [-f conffile] [-u user] [fail] so it looks as if it's invoked with the... 6 Aug 2008 23:08
/dev/zero vs /dev/null Hi, what exactly is the subtle difference between /dev/zero and /dev/ null ? the following is what i got when i gave the command man zero on the terminal Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded. Reads from the null special file always return end of file, whereas read... 7 Aug 2008 07:17
NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 6 August NYCBUG: Matthew Burnside on bad interaction of ssh and sudo, and a fix, Public Key sudo <blockquote what="official NYCBUG announcement"> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:31:21 -0400 To: announce(a)lists.nycbug.org From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce(a)lists.nycbug.org> Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Wednesday on Public Key sudo August 06, 2008 Public Key sudo 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant ht... 5 Aug 2008 17:20
Centralized configuration. Ignoramus830 wrote: On 2008-08-05, Kees Theunissen <theuniss(a)rijnh.nl> wrote: Ignoramus22807 wrote: Installing it on all machines was done with one command $ ForAllProductionMachinesAsRoot bash -i -c ainstall acpid Are you using some existing centralized configuration tool for that (li... 5 Aug 2008 17:20
Gentoolkit equery has screwed up following emerge world I tried to update my gentoo system using emerge world, as follows: emerge -uDN world The update abort as follows: * Messages for package www-client/seamonkey-1.1.11: * Pango is not built with X useflag. * Please add 'X' to your USE flags, and re-emerge pango. * * ERROR: www-client/seamonkey-1.1.11 ... 9 Aug 2008 15:37
Exim Problem I have a little problem with exim : sending emails to big providers like gmail.com, yahoo.com .. I have no problem. But when I send email to my company account ( where I work ) from mutt/exim, email does not arrive. And no errors come back. I thought it can be some filter they have. I discovered that, while mutt ... 6 Aug 2008 03:35
how to move partitio data I would like to move a distro instillation from a smallish partition to a larger partition on the same hard drive. Could some one tle me how to do it, or point me to some docs? Any and all help appreciated. -- Rick ... 5 Aug 2008 17:20
recode I convert files from one charecterset to another using recode. I used recode msdos..latin1 *.txt. Unfortunatly the original files contain danish characters like oslash (ΓΈ). I found, that this character belongs to danish und norwegian codepage 865, but I couldnt find a suitable recode paramter using this codepage,... 5 Aug 2008 18:22
Centralized configuration. (was: Re: Power button does not shut machines down?) On 2008-08-05, Kees Theunissen <theuniss(a)rijnh.nl> wrote: Ignoramus22807 wrote: Installing it on all machines was done with one command $ ForAllProductionMachinesAsRoot bash -i -c ainstall acpid Are you using some existing centralized configuration tool for that (like cfengine for instance),... 5 Aug 2008 09:05
Centralized configuration. (was: Re: Power button does not shut machinesdown?) Ignoramus22807 wrote: Installing it on all machines was done with one command $ ForAllProductionMachinesAsRoot bash -i -c ainstall acpid Are you using some existing centralized configuration tool for that (like cfengine for instance), or are you developing your own scripts? Regards, Kees. -- ... 5 Aug 2008 08:04 |