Hi
how would I start? I need to get my Asus dvd-rw drive working so that
I can do back ups and things. it is a deskTop with win2000 and debian
which I use the most. any pointers to some overview and gentle intor
to step by step thing.
I have testing 2.6.15, I don't have either discover or hotplug or devfs installed.
is there a dvd-howto, I could only find "CD-Writing HOWTO" on my box.

fred@debian:/dev$ ls | grep dvd
dvd
dvdrw
fred@debian:/dev$ ls | grep cd
cdrom
cdrw
ptycd
ttycd
fred@debian:/dev$

thanks

Hi,

I have 4 machines(M0,M1,M2,M3) on a LAN. I have used M0
as NIS server and others as NIS clients.

When I give command:
ypcat passwd on server, I do not get any error.
But when I get the same command on clients, I get
message:

No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Internal NIS error.
____________________________________________________
/etc/defaultdomain has nisdomainname.
/etc/yp.conf has the NIS server IP address, which is
also present in the /etc/hosts.

/etc/nsswitch.conf has:
passwd: compact
group: compact
shadow: compact
netgroup: nis

I added: +:::::: to /etc/passwd, +::: to /etc/group,

The wiki.debianhelp.org site has an anti-spam password to hopefully deter spammers from filling the wiki with spam. To edit and/or create a wiki page on wiki.debianhelp.org you must use a password.

Presently, that password is "debianhelp" -- all lower case, without the quotes. (Complex, huh?)

Note: It is possible for this password to be changed in the future. In the case of changes, please check back with this forum topic thread.

2nd Note: If you do see any spam or suspected spam in the wiki, please remove it yourself and/or post a new topic in this forum with the URL of the spam. Thanks.

QANA, Lebanon (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed 54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, on Sunday, prompting Lebanon to tell U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice she was unwelcome in Beirut before a ceasefire.

+++++++

Lebanon's PM thanks Hizbollah for its 'sacrifices'
Reuters
Sunday, July 30, 2006 20:23 IST

BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora thanked Hizbollah on Sunday for its "sacrifices" in its war against Israel.

"We are in a strong position and I thank the Sayyed for his efforts," Siniora said when asked about a Saturday statement by Hizbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah calling on the government to take advantage of Hizbollah's steadfastness against Israeli military might.

This article shows how to install a LAMP system with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) from the perspective of an absolute newbie. It was written with hopes of aiding other Linux newbies on the steps necessary to create such a basic Linux, Apache2, MySQL5 and PHP5 system with FTP.

http://www.howtoforge.com/lamp_installation_ubuntu6.06

I'm using a Windows 98 system.
I want to make it Linux dual-boot.
This will require a repartition of my primary DOS partition.
I read that parted does this pretty well.
I need to create a parted boot disk.
I found a parted book image on Demian and downloaded it.
I now have a .deb file on my Windows 98 box.
Windows 98 does not know what to do with .deb files.
I download the parted documentation, but it too is a .deb file.
After scouring the Debian site VERY THOROUGHLY for an hour -- tried to read the FAQ (which is a broken link), read the Wiki, the FAQ that the Wiki points to, skim the online manuals, search the manuals (no reference to .dem at all), skim DebianHelp topics, search DebianHelp -- all to no avail.

How do I permenently remove exim from my system?

For some stupid reason, it keeps squarking about configuring it.
WTF is is part of a base install?
I gather some total fuckwit decided that the current logging system wasn't good enough for his application and insists on wanting to mail error messages and that this is what drives the installation of exim. If I wanted a brain dead fscking system, then I'd install windows[1]

I have tried apt-get remove, etc but the stuff keeps coming back.

[1] actually, after 12 years, I still have windows systems running because "Linux" is so frust

I am installing a new debian system with sarge.
Installed xdm, xserver-commonand xserver-xfree86 and it doesn't work

Error messages are:
1) something about missing symboles for glcore

2) (EE) no devices detected

3) fatal server error:no screens found

WTF is going on?
I have been through /etc/X11/XFConfig86-4 and section "screen" is defined.
I have also compared it to another debian system and everythign is close. It is a nvidia videao card and the faulty machine is a S3 86c368 TNT3D/2X card.

Nothing wrong with hardware. It was running RH on a scsi hard disk, which I have dropped out for debian sarge on a ide hardware

1

Ok the system is a Dell Inspiron E1505 running Debian testing with a self-compiled 2.6.17.7 kernel. Dell doesn't believe in using linux-friendly hardware so we must jump through dozens of hoops before getting a working wireless card. (Ah Dell... I have thousands of things to say about them, none of them good.)

The wireless card is (from lspci)
Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

The full run down on the card (from lshw) is
description: Network controller
product: PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation

Debian GNU/Linux is arguably one of the best documented distribution currently available not only because of the extensive documentation available for the 18000+ Debian packages on the distro itself, but also thanks to the many high quality Debian books available in various languages. I decided to take a closer look at what was out there in English, German and French. Most of the books I evaluated are recent publications, but some older but still useful ones are included in this review.

July 21st - - Agence France Presse - Lebanese army faces no-win situation

Following is a brief summary of the military strengths of Israel, Lebanon and the Hezbollah militia, according to experts' estimates, notably the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the defence group Jane's:

ISRAEL:

Troop strength: 168,000, made up of 125,000 army, 35,000 air force, 8,000 navy. Also 408,000 reservists.

Equipment: 3,630 tanks, 470 warplanes, 15 warships, 3 submarines, 200 nuclear warheads, Patriot missiles.

21 July 2006: AFP

Following is a brief summary of the military strengths of Israel, Lebanon and the Hezbollah militia, according to experts' estimates, notably the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the defence group Jane's:

Supposedly this is doable but I have now tried every option I have found on the web.

The soundcard is: (from lspci)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

The full information from lshw is
description: Audio device
product: 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1b
bus info: pci@00:1b.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list

Hi

I use emacs with gnus to read nntp newsgroups. I fire it up with M-x gnus and all works.
BUT
$ dpkg -l gnus
No packages found matching gnus.

is this possible? how can you explain it?

thanks

http://blog.giyus.org Wednesday, July 26. 2006

Just basic conventions and terminolgy often used in Debian and Linux.
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Note some terms and symbols have different meanings in different contexts. A living language changes over time so legacy (recent history) terms may have different meanings to different people, please add yours. These are only based on what I have come across and understood so I may have been completely wrong, as always corrections and additions most welcome this is a book (community) page so just hit the edit tab and leave a comment on what you fixed.

Dear friends,

Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel’s image. It’s time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.
Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.
We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel’s supporters.

Help more people speak like us!

...various topics

Hi all!
Now I must complain. I'm feel lost on this site. I don't like the anti chronological tree style that the threads tends to be. On the old site every thread was easy to follow but here I must go up and down, and up and down again, to follow the dialog.
And I don't like the blog style anti chronological time line ether. I learned to reed from the top of the page to the bottom. As it is it is confusing, at least for me.

The stakes are high for Hizbullah, but it seems it can count on an unprecedented swell of public support that cuts across sectarian lines.According to a poll released by the Beirut Center for Research and Information, 87 percent of Lebanese support Hizbullah's fight with Israel, a rise of 29 percent on a similar poll conducted in February. More striking, however, is the level of support for Hizbullah's resistance from non-Shiite communities. Eighty percent of Christians polled supported Hizbullah along with 80 percent of Druze and 89 percent of Sunnis.

Lebanese no longer blame Hizbullah for sparking the war by kidnapping the Israeli soldiers, but Israel and the US instead.

Hi,

My father-in-law is a Windows user, and has approached me with regard to a firewall.

In the past, I have briefly looked at Smoothwall, but I was wondering whether anybody can recommend a firewall that can go on an old PC, that will hang-off a Windows box? My main concern is that the firewall should require minimum attention after it has been installed. The intended user knows nothing about linux sys admin.

Many thanks,

Chris.

How many muslims would sell al-Zawahiri's head for a billion dollars? Bush's 25 million hasn't done the trick.
One billion should buy an awful lot of Merc's willing to risk their life.

Al Qaeda calls on Muslims to fight Israel
Al Qaeda No. 2 tells Muslims in Lebanon, 'We will stand with you'

DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- With a poster of the burning World Trade Center behind him, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant appeared on tape Thursday calling on Muslims to join the fight against Israel and "rise up seeking martyrdom and attack the crusaders and Zionists."

The video of Ayman al-Zawahiri aired on Al-Jazeera.

I have a set of Sarge installation CDs,
(my former installation)
and I would like to retrieve some particular
wallpaper files from them.

What is the name of the package that contains wallpaper files?

.

I have installed Debian 3.1 Sarge r1 from a pair of DVDs and, apparently, some modules have not been properly configured by the installation process.Please find below the complete boot log file. It corresponds to the kernel 2.4.27-3-686-smp that I have downloaded/installed a pair of days ago. The initial installation was made with the default kernel 2.4.27-2-386, and the same errors occured already with this one.

Some comments on specific lines:


Wed Jul 26 22:21:59 2006: Loading modules: ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk psmouse modprobe: Can't locate module psmouse


The installation made an entry "psmouse" in /etc/modules, but there is no psmouse.o in my system. Before realizing of this fact, I have managed to make the mouse work, both under console and X. I wonder whether I should install psmouse.o anyway (how?), or I should delete this entry in /etc/modules.