Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2002 #718
On Thursday 01 August 2002 1:00 pm,
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2002 : Issue 718
>
> Today's Topics:
> Re: Mutt/Tin/GNUMACS v. gnus/GNUMACS [ Paul Johnson
> <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: [DEB-USER] Re: *** I BADLY WANT [ Colin
> Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ] Re: [Still is] Re: Full-screen edito [ Paul
> Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: [DEB-USER] Re: ot -- Re: Full-sc [
> Stein Stromme <stromme@mi.uib.no> ] Messages when startup and shutdown [
> "Q. Gong" <q.gong@tue.nl> ] permidia 2v [
> ernst-magne <ernst@bluezone.no> ] dpkg [
> Cristi Banciu <c.banciu@bucarest.fi ] Re: File system with errors, fcsk, G
> [ Adam Galant <agalant@telestar.com.p ] Re: How to build an apt-repository
> f [ ernst-magne <ernst@bluezone.no> ] Re: dpkg
> [ Suraj Kumar <suraj@symonds.net> ] Re: dpkg
> [ Cristi Banciu <c.banciu@bucarest.fi ] Re: dpkg
> [ Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> ] Re: Linux at work for a corporate
> de [ Derek Gladding <derek_gladding@alta ] Re: dpkg
> [ Cristi Banciu <c.banciu@bucarest.fi ] Re: dpkg
> [ Suraj Kumar <suraj@symonds.net> ] newbie question (wireless)
> [ "Patrick Griffin" <pat@spacelink.co ] Re: Searching for Paul
> Johnson [ Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: Spam Filtering
> (was Re: Searchin [ Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.o ] Re: File system
> with errors, fcsk, G [ "Q. Gong" <q.gong@tue.nl> ] is booting (a SW RAID1)
> from a secon [ Vinai Kopp <vinai@netzarbeiter.com> ] Re: *** I BADLY WANT
> OUT !!!!!!!!!** [ "Carlos Bergero" <rak@burst.fcien.e ]
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 11:33:53PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > Excellent analysis.
> >
> > I just sent a "which paulf@quillandmouse.com" command to:
> >
> > majordomo@lists.debian.org
> >
> > I got back a response that confirms this list is running on majordomo.
> > That being the case (and assuming no one has massively hacked the
> > program), it is correct to send majordomo commands in the _body_ of
> > emails, _not_ the subject. Majordomo for the most part ignores the
> > subjects of emails.
>
> I was under the quite strong impression that the Debian mailing lists
> ran on smartlist. Certainly, when I subscribed to a couple of lists
> recently, I used the subject line and the only thing in the message body
> was my .signature.
>
> That said, I agree that duplicating the subject in the message body
> would be one of the things I'd try if I were having problems.
> hi,
>
> Cristi Banciu wrote on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:11:30PM +0300:
> cb> Is there any away to find out not using dselect or synaptic what
> cb> packeges depands on a given package ?
>
> 1. Use apt-cache depends <package name>
>
> 2. Crude/stupid way... (but nice to learn about this file).
>
> Use /var/lib/dpkg/available itself... This shell
> script might help..
> **
> #! /bin/bash
>
> if [ -n "$1" ]; then
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep -E "^Package: ${1}$" -A 12 | grep
> -E "Depends: "
> else
> echo "Usage: `basename $0` <package>"
> fi
> **
>
> for more fun cd into /var/lib/dpkg
>
> HTH,
>
> -Suraj
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:01:44PM +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote:
> > Cristi Banciu wrote on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:11:30PM +0300:
> > cb> Is there any away to find out not using dselect or synaptic what
> > cb> packeges depands on a given package ?
> >
> > 1. Use apt-cache depends <package name>
>
> That shows forward dependencies. For reverse dependencies, try
> 'apt-cache showpkg <package name>'. It doesn't distinguish Depends: from
> Recommends:, Suggests:, and Conflicts: (!) though, so you'll have to
> continue by hand.
>
> It's easier to install grep-dctrl and, after running 'dselect update',
> use:
>
> grep-available -FDepends '<package name>'
>
> There are lots of switches to control the searching and the output.
> hi,
>
> Cristi Banciu wrote on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:58:03PM +0300:
> cristi> this script helped me build the script I needed :)
> cristi> cat /var/lib/dpkg/available | grep -E "^Depands: ${1}$" -B 7 |
> grep cristi> -E "^Package: "
>
> oh yeah.. simple application of logic. didn't strike me tho'. :-) Nice
> one there.
>
> -Suraj
> Hi list,
>
> I believe this is a BIOS limit but I hope I'm wrong. Here is my setup:
>
> two small harddisks (2 and 3G) on /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc (I want to remove
> them if I get this working)
>
> two larger harddisks on /dev/hde and /dev/hdg (40G each)
>
> BIOS only supports Harddisks up to 32G, so I can't use these disks on
> the motherboard controller.
>
> I got a PCI IDE Controller (EXSYS PCI EIDE 4HDD RAID 0/1 DMA 100
> EX-3305) to work around this problem (much faster, also).
> I don't use the RAID options of the controller.
>
> I setup a software RAID 1 using partitions from hde and hdg.
> Here is my mount setup:
> /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md6 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md3 on /var/spool type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/md7 on /usr/local/www type ext3 (rw)
>
> The controller and the raid on the disks work fine, but I can't seem to
> find a way to boot from these disks.
>
> This is on a woody box using lilo.
>
> The BIOS only lets me set the harddisks C, D, E, F (Windows naming
> convention) as boot devices.
>
> I don't want to have to use a boot floppy.
>
> Any idea how I could manage to make this possible?
>
> Thanks for any pointers!
>
> Greetings,
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