Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 10:22:14AM +0530, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > > But the fact is the cdr

Re: cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 22 May 2004 3:04pm +1000 from J.S.Sahambi: > I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to > unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: > > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > umount: /cdrom: device is busy > > But the fact is the cdrom i

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Matt Price wrote: > > > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use t

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts of pri

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Brent Bailey wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G driv

cdrom does not un-mounts

2004-05-21 Thread J.S.Sahambi
I am using Debian/sid. Some times when I mount a cdrom and try to unmount it immediately, it gives the following error on the terminal: umount: /cdrom: device is busy umount: /cdrom: device is busy But the fact is the cdrom is not being used by any of my terminals or programs (as I have not used

New kernel, network problems - solution?

2004-05-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
There have been several posts lately from people having post-upgraded-kernel network problems. I recently experienced a similar problem after installing a new kernel (network unreachable, Linksys device refusing connection, etc). When I tried unsuccessfully to 'ifup eth0' it was suggested that I

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hasler: > s. keeling writes: > > Mine is trapped (by procmail + spamassassin) at my ISP's shell account > > and deleted there unseen. > > I have no shell account nor any possibility of one. I have to download it > all and filter it here. I've heard of a few things that let you

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > >>Matt Price wrote: > >>Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector as a > >>second head, and configure X as a dual-head setup. > >>

Re: Sarge Install --> LOCALES

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Tom Allison wrote: I'm getting a lot of errors regarding LOCALES, especially in Perl modules when upgrading. Example (one of many): Setting up xprt-common (0.0.9.final-2) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), L

external firewire problem

2004-05-21 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm running debian Sarge I have an external firewire hard drive, which I use to keep my music on. Easy to move between machines that way. The problem, when the firewire bus/scsi emulation (?) freezes, the whole computer freezes., and 50% of the time after a reboot, the drive is inaccessible, givi

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Mine is trapped (by procmail + spamassassin) at my ISP's shell account > and deleted there unseen. I have no shell account nor any possibility of one. I have to download it all and filter it here. > Even at %65 (according to Economist/Brightmail) of overall traffic, spam > i

Editing faxes in Linux

2004-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm looking for a pointer to a program that will let me edit faxes under Linux. Basically, each fax is a TIF file -- I just need something that will let me open the TIF, add text and simple line drawings, and save the TIF. I'm not looking for OCR or anthing like that. (For instance, under Wind

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Tom Allison: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/spam_king_vs_spamcop/ > > It's articles like this one that leave me in doubt. They did get > repealed shortly after, but the fact that they made enough progress to > block spamcop is something. Re-read the article. All th

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread John Hasler
James Buchanan writes: > I've often thought about refusing to use email at all, and communicating > with people I know with IRC on a server I host... IRC is not a replacement for email. I couldn't use it if I wanted to. > Maybe the Internet community needs to get together and write a new RFC > f

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread David P James
On Fri 21 May 2004 08:36, Tom Allison wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: ... > > > > The only solution is education, but unforuntalely, 50% of the > > population are just too god damn fucking stupid to get it - witness > > the spam for some kind of drug with plenty of spelling errors, that > > advertises

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
> If nothing changes email will soon be unusable. I've often thought about refusing to use email at all, and communicating with people I know with IRC on a server I host, and sharing files with good old FTP. Maybe the Internet community needs to get together and write a new RFC for spam free emai

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread John Hasler
Katipo writes: > This is the scenario now, where if some clown steals your car and has a > fatal accident, you are legally liable because you are the registered > owner. This may be true where you live but it most certainly is not true in the USA. > One man's spam is another's information, and we

Re: D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-21 Thread David Purton
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:59:14AM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but > treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid > this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration > path one needs to fo

nmap / netcraft os detection

2004-05-21 Thread cldavis99
Hello! How can I modify debian so the system does not identify itself as a debian box? Thanks! Christopher Davis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Katipo said on Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:43:58AM +0800: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Uh, it is open source, and copyleft: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ The only reference to possible patent issues is the general "if we have a patent on it, you get a royalty-free license" sta

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 20:23, Tom Allison wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: > > Tom Allison wrote: > >>Spam RBL's are being attacked on the legal front which puts black > >> lists in jepardy. The idea being that businesses have a legal > >> right to solicit their customers and a third party cannot block >

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 18:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Brent Bailey wrote: > > Man, I hope that I don't have to re-format the whole thing... > > Nope. Just use resize2fs to shrink /home and then use the free > space to create a new partition. Move your data around as > necessary. Yes, make a much

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 18:56, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > richard lyons wrote: > > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. [...] > > learning one of the lighter languages that I keep seeing mention > > of. So the question is, which do you people recommend? [...] > > A lot of languages are suited for thi

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Katipo said on Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:43:58AM +0800: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > >Uh, it is open source, and copyleft: > > > >http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ > > > >The only reference to possible patent issues is the general "if we have a > >patent on it, you get a royalty-free license" statement

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Tom Allison
Adam Aube wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Spam RBL's are being attacked on the legal front which puts black lists in jepardy. The idea being that businesses have a legal right to solicit their customers and a third party cannot block that. Spammers will never win a case against RBL operators, because

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Turns out to be a two year old bug. This colors my opinion of aptitude very negatively: http://bugs

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Mark Ferlatte wrote: richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote: Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys So, what's everyone take on this? Another software patent. Any really good idea that is to become the new

Sarge Install --> LOCALES

2004-05-21 Thread Tom Allison
I'm getting a lot of errors regarding LOCALES, especially in Perl modules when upgrading. Example (one of many): Setting up xprt-common (0.0.9.final-2) ... perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (un

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-21 Thread Victor Munoz
> > > Has this been bug reported, do you know? > > Search:http://bugs.debian.org/ > There's a related bug, for gnome-applets (#233702). Using gkb disables switching to text consoles. I don't use .Xmodmap, so I currently can use Ctrl-Alt-F1, but I do like using gkb, so I've had this problem

I can't modprobe ipsec!

2004-05-21 Thread Nicolas
Hello, I try to connect my laptop to a VPN freeswan gateway. The laptop is running Debian unstable on x86. However, when I try to modprobe ipsec on my laptop, here's the message I get: /usr/share/doc/freeswan-modules-source# modprobe ipsec /lib/modules/2.4.24/kernel/net/ipsec/ipsec.o: init_modul

D-I to SATA (hda) but move to 2.6 kernel (sda) fails

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Williams
The current beta 4 debian-installer will install to SATA okay, but treats the disk as IDE (/dev/hda). In moving to kernel 2.6.6 from sid this uses SCSI (/dev/sda) and the reboot fails. Is there a migration path one needs to follow? Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DVD+RW gone missing on moving to kernel 2.6.6

2004-05-21 Thread Graham Williams
My "_NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive" that is easily identified under 2.4.25 (as /dev/hdc) goes missing under my 2.6.6 kernel. dmesg has no hint at all of the DVD. This is my only IDE device (using a SATA hard drive). Is this a matter of finding the right module? The machine is sid, u

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
richard lyons wrote: > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. > > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as > many fields as possible. > > I could do this by exporting to cvs, importing to gnumeric (or any > spreadsheet), shuffling the columns around, re-exporting to cvs and

Re: Sarge Install

2004-05-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
>- Original Message - >From: Chris >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 9:17 PM >Subject: Sarge Install > > >Hi all, > >I've run into an error on the debootstrap program during install. I have successfully installed Sarge before on a newer machine and >it works great. > >This

anyone use pdnsd?

2004-05-21 Thread Dan Jacobson
Does anyone use pdnsd on sid with resolvconf installed? If so what did you have to change to get it to cache anything? Is just uncommenting resolvconf and adding the semicolon in /etc/pdnsd.conf enough for you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Brent Bailey wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote: >> On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: >>> A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I >>> kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user >>> set-up, which set up / with 13546

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Brent Bailey wrote: Man, I hope that I don't have to re-format the whole thing... Nope. Just use resize2fs to shrink /home and then use the free space to create a new partition. Move your data around as necessary. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: so, question: Is it actually possible to run a different X session on the projector? Having never had a laptop I could experiment much with, I don't know. I came across something last week that led me to believe that a laptop essentially has a "second video card" which it uses f

Re: DHCP slow renewal, actually times out but mysteriously still gets an IP

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Stalks wrote: I have a small network with 6 public IP addresses. The debian server runs a DHCP server. I've tried with the 'apt-get install dhcp' and am now using 'apt-get install dhcp3-server'. When my XP SP1a machine (PC4800 Deluxe with onboard 3COM Gigabit Ethernet) attempts to get an IP via

Re: Compilling Kernel 2.4.25 on Debian 2.0r3

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Federico Petronio wrote: Hi, maybe somebody can help me in this: I recently compiled the 2.4.25 linux kernel (downloaded from kernel.org) on Debian Woody 2.0r3 (kernel 2.4) (all from stable branch) because I need support for some SCSI controller that is not build on the 2.4 stable kernel (2.4.18

Re: Kernel 2.6 reboot turns off the hard drives

2004-05-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrei Badea wrote: On 21.5.2004 0:58 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrei Badea wrote: just upgraded to the 2.6 kernel (2.6.6) and when I reboot, the hard drives are turned off. They are then powered on during the boot Kernel bug. I hope it will be fixed in 2.6.7. Th

Re: Archives of prior testing/unstable packages?

2004-05-21 Thread Paul Johnson
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought these were at archives.debian.org, that site's down. Or was > it somewhere else? snapshot.debian.net is where it's always been, AFAIK. -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more. pgplLMd0emO

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Brent Bailey
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: > > A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I > > kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user > > set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. No

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: As I stop to think about it, I can't figure out how MS-Office could accomplish this without treating the projector as a second monitor. It seems to me that Office would be sending the same signal to a single video "chain", which then gets split by the laptop into the separate d

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Matt Price wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obv

Re: 'Applications -> Preferences -> Font' not working.

2004-05-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 05:34, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hm... 'libmetacity' does not seem to exist on my system. > > > Tux:~# apt-get remove metacity > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Package metacity is not installed, so not removed > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly in

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I > kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user > set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is > full, and every other partition is hardly used.

aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread John covici
It seems that Debian and the apt-get utilities have different places where they keep such information -- I had the opposite case a few weeks ago, where something I had put on hold in Deboian was not honored by dselect. Could the authors get together and straighten out the situation? on Frid

Re: Archives of prior testing/unstable packages?

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: I thought these were at archives.debian.org, that site's down. Or was it somewhere else? Desperately seeking the last best Galeon 1.2.x release. Peace. snapshot.debian.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Brent Bailey
A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is full, and every other partition is hardly used. I can't mount a cdrom to burn a copy of my files from hom

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:39:35PM +, Brett Carrington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:25:24PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > > And about the idea that Bill Gates floated out there, about solving > > a computer puzzle that would require 10 seconds or so of CPU time to > >

Archives of prior testing/unstable packages?

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
I thought these were at archives.debian.org, that site's down. Or was it somewhere else? Desperately seeking the last best Galeon 1.2.x release. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Do not throw p

Re: Screen won't work after 'su non-root-user'

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:33:43PM -0700, Sean O'Dell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If I ssh into a machine as root, then su to a non-root user, then try to run > screen, I get this error: > > Cannot?open?your?terminal?'/dev/pts/0'?-?please?check. > > I also get this error if I log into my

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 13:40, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400: > > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote: > > > Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys > > > > > > So, what's everyone take on this? > > > > Another software patent. An

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Clyde Wilson wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts of printers at http://lin

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Turns out to be a two year old bug. This colors my opinion of aptitude > very negatively: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-21 Thread Carlos Hanson
On Fri, 21 May 2004 14:55:35 -0400 richard lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm asking for a bit of advice here. > > I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as > many fields as possible. > [ ... ] > > I could probably do it in perl - but I've never really learn

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just found my Galeon install inadvertantly updated (I can't say > upgraded) from 1.2.x (9ish?) to 1.3.14a-1. This despite its being > listed as "hold" in dpkg --get-selections: > > galeon

aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
I just found my Galeon install inadvertantly updated (I can't say upgraded) from 1.2.x (9ish?) to 1.3.14a-1. This despite its being listed as "hold" in dpkg --get-selections: galeon hold I've got major reservations with where Galeon's gone in the

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > >In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, > >which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't > >passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obviously). >

Sarge Install

2004-05-21 Thread Chris
Hi all,   I've run into an error on the debootstrap program during install.  I have successfully installed Sarge before on a newer machine and it works great.   This machine though is an older Compaq Presario 6200.   I get entirely through the setup to the point of:   Setting up base-confi

from header class btwn mutt and mailman?

2004-05-21 Thread matt . price
hey folks, I've just realized that mutt has been sending out messages using a private address (matt - at - derailleur - org) instead of the 'form' header set in my .muttrc: set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried grep -ir derailleur /etc/* ad the only relevant entry I could find was: mailman/

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:49:24AM -0400, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > / Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > [...] > | I started a thread on this a few weeks ago. The consensus was that if > | you are using xmodmap the above command doesn't work. I have to live > |

DHCP slow renewal, actually times out but mysteriously still gets an IP

2004-05-21 Thread Stalks
I have a small network with 6 public IP addresses. The debian server runs a DHCP server. I've tried with the 'apt-get install dhcp' and am now using 'apt-get install dhcp3-server'. When my XP SP1a machine (PC4800 Deluxe with onboard 3COM Gigabit Ethernet) attempts to get an IP via DHCP, windows a

OT - trivial programming language

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
I'm asking for a bit of advice here. I wish to convert a kaddressbook database to abook format saving as many fields as possible. I could do this by exporting to cvs, importing to gnumeric (or any spreadsheet), shuffling the columns around, re-exporting to cvs and importing back to abook.

Re: logical drive limitation

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:57:13AM -0700, Ken Guo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please tell me the drive size limitation of debian Linux. We > have a customer who create a 2.8 TB logical drive, but the debian > Linux host only see 0.34TB. For more information: http://www.gela

Re: fun Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-21 Thread Richard Weil
Sorry to be stupid, put I can't find much documentation on the udev/links.conf file. Would I add the following to links.conf in order to create /dev/md0? M md0b 9 0 I'm not sure of the distinction between L, D, M in the file, though I assume L is link, D is directory and M is some sort of mak

Re: Samba and network printing

2004-05-21 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:28:01AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya john > > On Thu, 20 May 2004, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to log in > > > > > > You may be having your account ma

Re: Samba and network printing

2004-05-21 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:24:38PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to log in > > > > You may be having your account mapped to you guest user. > > IIRC the things that are required are: > >

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Ferlatte
richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400: > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote: > > Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys > > > > So, what's everyone take on this? > > > > Another software patent. Any really good idea that is to become the > new standard _h

Question about Exim

2004-05-21 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
Greetings everyone, I set up an Exim mail filter file containing the following: # Exim filter if $h_X-Amavis-Hold contains " " then freeze endif Is there a better condition that will test just for the existence of the header? I have tried def: without any luck. If anyone knows how, that wo

UPS Package Tracking Information

2004-05-21 Thread customer . service
Sorry, a valid UPS tracking number was not found in your message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another shell scripting question

2004-05-21 Thread David Piniella
Is it just more efficient in resources to use plain #! /bin/sh rather than bash? No, it just makes your script more portable to systems that might not have bash. Some systems that /do/ have bash installed have /bin/sh linked to it, but some don't have bash by default or choice (Solaris, Fre

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:44:51PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm running Sarge with a 2.6.5 kernel. I'm trying to > > create a RAID 5 array of three disks (though for > > initial setup I'm only using two of three). When I > > reboot, udev does

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
Joris Huizer wrote: Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts of printers at http://linuxprinting.org/ Also

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
welly hartanto wrote: --- Clyde Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? Are you using udev ? which kernel

[SOLVED] No sound in Gnome

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
Sorry list, problem solved. Symlinked /dev/dsp0 to /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to /dev/mixer0. Didn't have speaker volume turned up :) D'oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No sound in Gnome (Sarge, SoundBlaster card, Gnome 2.4.1)

2004-05-21 Thread James Buchanan
So far Google reveals only that SoundBlaster cards sometimes misbehave. I couldn't find anything specific about not getting any sound out of Gnome with a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card. I have the correct modules loaded (2.6.3 kernel, snd-emu10k1, snd/sound/coundcore, ac97-codec), fixed permissions o

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Kent West
Matt Price wrote: Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Adam Aube
Tom Allison wrote: > Spam RBL's are being attacked on the legal front which puts black lists in > jepardy. The idea being that businesses have a legal right to solicit > their customers and a third party cannot block that. Spammers will never win a case against RBL operators, because the RBLs th

Re: Problem with Debian bootup

2004-05-21 Thread Loki
On 5/21/04 12:09 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a box that today experienced a power failure. When I rebooted, it > wasn't even pingable. I brought it upstairs (no minotor in the basement) > and noticed that I was always pausing during the boot sequence at a root > pr

"presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop

Re: print to a hp lj 5l through tcp/ip

2004-05-21 Thread LeVA
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:36:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > | Hi! > | > | I have a hp laserjet 5l printer in my network, and listens on tcp port > | 9100. A few month ago (when I used woody), I could use the socket:// > | protocoll to connect to it. But after I've upgraded to sarge, I can > not >

Re: Linksys Router Setup Failure - Fixed

2004-05-21 Thread Thomas H. George
The victory is not particularly satisfying as I don't know how we fixed the problem. On the plus side,the Linksys tech support was alway immediately reachable and worked tirelessly in four long phone sessions to find and fix the problem. On the negative side I had to do all this on my gr

Re: Number of Loop devices

2004-05-21 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:52:24PM -0500, david wrote: > I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is > permited by the kernel). Hi david, you can pass the max_loop= option to the loop device driver; if you're loading it as a module, pass it as a parameter to insmod - i

Compilling Kernel 2.4.25 on Debian 2.0r3

2004-05-21 Thread Federico Petronio
Hi, maybe somebody can help me in this: I recently compiled the 2.4.25 linux kernel (downloaded from kernel.org) on Debian Woody 2.0r3 (kernel 2.4) (all from stable branch) because I need support for some SCSI controller that is not build on the 2.4 stable kernel (2.4.18-1). Everything works we

Re: Number of Loop devices

2004-05-21 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 20.05.2004 um 22:52 schrieb david: > I would like to know how to mount more than 8 loop devices (if this is > permited by the kernel). You probably have loop loaded into the kernel as a module. The loop module has a parameter to specify the number of available devices. To set this option perm

Re: Dynamic DNS Setup

2004-05-21 Thread David Cunningham
There is an open source solution for this called DHIS. http://www.dhis.org/r5/downloads.html You can install their server and client software so that *you* get to run the nameserver. If this doesn't do what you need then it shouldn't be too hard to write a script to handle this for you. I use a s

Re: Mozilla remote control not working

2004-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Is there some setting I've frobbed? Could this be related to the | tabbrowser extension? Yes. I removed the tabbrowser extension and the problem went away. Sorry for the noise. Be seeing you,

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: [...] | I started a thread on this a few weeks ago. The consensus was that if | you are using xmodmap the above command doesn't work. I have to live | with it at present. Bleh. That's it alright. I removed my .Xmodmap and the problem went aw

Re: Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hello Björn, I had the same problem with SID. First of all I had to update /etc/modules: (Commented entries were working with kernel 2.4) #usb-uhci uhci-hcd #input #usbkbd #keybdev psmouse mousedev e100 #ide-scsi usb-storage With kernel 2.6 PS/2 mouses have an own kernel module. My active mouse

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Tom Allison
Tim Connors wrote: Gates' idea is being put to use every day on this very mailing list. Notice those GnuPG signatures lots of us seem to use? Try assigning higher "non-spam" scores to GnuPG signed messages. So spammers will simply write their own pgp signatures. After all, PGP only tells you that

Re: Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)

2004-05-21 Thread Björn Wolter
Nico De Ranter wrote: I had the same problem after upgrading the kernel to 2.6. Mouse was gone completely in X, no way to get it back. I recompiled the kernel and everything works fine now. I'm not sure which change did the trick (I made a lot of changes to the kernel config). Nico i think i hav

Re: Suexec path wrong?

2004-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:49:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [2004-05-11 12:16:14]: error: command not in docroot > (/home/site.tld/perltest.cgi) > It is in the document root, No it isn't. > its in the folder apacheis set up for that useer DocumentRoot, Sure, but suexec doesn't care abo

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Friday 21 May 2004 03:38, Tim Connors wrote: [...] > So spammers will simply write their own pgp signatures. > > After all, PGP only tells you that the person who signed the > message was the one who wrote it. Unfortunately, PGP doesn't come > with an evil-bit. > > Reemember, anything the anti-s

Re: Mozilla remote control not working

2004-05-21 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Michael Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Norman wrote: |> After an upgrade last week (on unstable), remote control no longer |> works. |> I can start firefox just fine, but if I attempt to load another |> window, nothing happens. A little debugging revealed that the remote |> contro

Re: USB card readers that work?

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:52, Walter Tautz wrote: > I would imagine almost anything would work but I'd like > a list of models people have used with debian and which > they may have also used with their digital cameras. My intent [...] As far as I can see, anything does work. I have an Olympus C

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-05-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:06:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:03:18:20:05:40-0800] scribed: > >> Your best bet if you don't want to reinstall is watch closely after > >> sarge goes stable for a new unstable

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