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After spending about two days struggling through this, and not being able to find a reliable guide online, I wrote up a post on how to join Debian jessie to an Active Directory with realmd. If anyone would like to review it and give me feedback, the post is here: http://www.alandmoore.com/blog/2015/...

I was just looking for a simple way to have it start up only when we want to get on and play, without having to manually ssh in and start it. Not a big deal, I guess; right now I have it running from rc.local, and it doesn't seem to use up much when nobody's connected.

OK well part of my problem is that minetest uses udp, not tcp. So I changed inetd.conf to: 30000 dgram udp nowait minetest /usr/sbin/tcpd /home/minetest/bin/bozbarland Now when I try to connect, it starts and stops the script about a million times until I exit the client. I never actually get connec...

I have a script on my debian box that starts up minetestserver with a world called "bozbarland". It looks like this: /usr/local/bin/minetestserver --world /home/minetest/.minetest/worlds/bozbarland It lives at /home/minetest/bin/ I can run it just fine from the command line on the server a...

Just setting up a new DB/web server and I was wondering if there's a recommended way to create regular postgresql backups easily. I could write a little bash script with pg_dump pretty easily, but it just seems like I'm reinventing the wheel here. Is this standard practice or am I missing something ...

AN0NYM0US wrote:The original post was from October so I suspect the problem was solved or the user gave up.

Well... I guess so. Shux.

Yeah usually the best approach in situations like this is to remove the problem packages and reinstall them after the upgrade is done. If APT won't remove them, sometimes this command is useful: dpkg -r --force-all <packagename> Though sometimes even that fails, and you have to do something silly to...

This link is something interesting for those interested in OS design:

http://mikeos.berlios.de/

It's a simple OS written in assembly with a tutorial on how to create something like it. Probably a good introduction if you want to work with low-level things.

Maybe you can provide a little more context on what software you're using.

Does it make any difference if you insert those dm modules that Mint is using? e.g.: modprobe dm_raid Alternately, you could try adding those modules to the initramfs by adding their names to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and then run: update-initramfs -u That's all assuming that missing modules are ...

Maybe you want this:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Thanks admoore, the few "unsafe" additions are for vlc (likely from the multimedia repo), and they appear to be downgrades, so I can figure out that I'll avoid them. For something like Firefox, though, in which a new version will replace the old version, I'm guessing I should go ahead and...

The packages installed by that task can be seen by running this command: aptitude search ~pstandard ~prequired ~pimportant -F%p If you're really trying to crunch Debian into a tiny space, you can probably skip it, but you'll probably end up installing a lot of those things explicitly to get a functi...

The biggest concern with a "full-upgrade" is that you're going to run into some kind of package conflict that will require something important to be uninstalled. This is where those "I ran an update and it uninstalled my desktop environment!" horror stories come from. At worst, y...

Do i go here and download the other disks (debian-7.2.0-i386-CD-2.iso.torrent, debian-7.2.0-i386-CD-3.iso.torrent, ect)? Yeah, you could do that; but it's a boatload of CDs (67 in all) these days to download all of debian. Seems an awful chore and waste just for one package. There's probably a way ...

This is definitely digging their own grave, in the world of free software, customization and variety of user choices is key. Not only that but they're dragging GTK3 down with them. They even requested that apps bundled with Gnome, removed the status icon options and references, since it wasn't on t...

My preferred method of installing things from unstable is to download the sources (using apt-src, e.g.) then compile them against my stable install.

Do you have multiarch enabled on your system?

cups packages would be on CD1 wouldn't they? If the install CD is still in sources.list, you might be able to slip in CD1 and use tasksel to install the "print server" task.

One of the reasons Microsoft and Apple are who they are is because they bend over backwards to provide what’s called backwards compatibility. I have software that I bought in 1998 that still runs on Windows 7, 8 etc. Since we're talking about a desktop environment, let me see if I understand you: I...

I can't resize a partition when it is mounted? I think on windows is possible (I know this because I'm studying windows server and local administration). I can't say for sure; I know you can expand a drive when it's mounted, but shrinking may require unmounting. I'm not an expert on LVM, though, ju...