Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:33, cenapad wrote: > Does anybody know how to configure /etc/init.d/postgresql to accept > TCP/IP conections? > In redhat was simpler (just modify the line was started with "su -l > postgres"). But in debian, filhe is completely different . > I know that a flag -i should

system resource monitor

[ Please CC replies to me. Thanks! ] Hi folks, I've perused the package listings, and had a brief look at netsaint, but am not sure it's what I need. What I do need is a system that will reside on a hosted server and let me know if it starts to run out of resources, or if any important systems

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

Hello Michael B Allen (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Andreas Janssen said: >> You should go to . Get j2se-package, convert >> your JRE to a deb, download the matching *debian-deb for your Java >> version, and install both the downloaded package and the converted >> JRE. The

Re: locale not set, how do I set it?

Jerry wrote: I have 3.4 installed to the hard disk. Trying to install software with KPackage. It succesfully get the packages but when it tries to install I get the following: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_

Re: locale not set, how do I set it?

I believe you want to ask a knoppix forum, as debian has not released version 3.4 yet. But generally speaking, your question is answered in the "locales" manpage. L On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:24:01 -0700, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 3.4 installed to the hard disk. Trying to install sof

locale not set, how do I set it?

I have 3.4 installed to the hard disk. Trying to install software with KPackage. It succesfully get the packages but when it tries to install I get the following: perl: warning: Setting locale failed perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = "en_US"

Re: ok, here goes nothing...

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:49:03PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > Ok, I got my toshiba libretto. No cdrom. What do I need to do to be able > to install this thing? I am guessing I could wipe the system and just > install dos. But I'd like to install the needed files on my 32 meg usb > thumb drive and cop

Re: How to get dependent report

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:25:50PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > How can I get a list of dependent packages and their versions without > going through the reportbug? > > Something like the following: > > Package: gedit > Version: 2.4.1-1 > > Versions of packages gedit depends on: > ii liba

KDE printer interface problem

Dear Debian users, I had a Canon BJC-1000SP printer running on my Redhat 9.0 KDE system, and I recall that setting it up was fairly straightforward. ... but I have lost it on my Debian Sarge/testing KDE system. It is quite perplexing. dmesg tells me that my printer has been detected; parport

Re: PERL

Elaine Boothe wrote: I want to know how to create a question and marking program using perl, calling questions from a text file I'd recommend asking this question on the perl-beginners list: http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=beginners -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

Joost De Cock wrote: Is there any way to pick up where I left? No, nor should there be. When your SSH session dies the shell you were running dies with it. Someone else mentioned screen. It works well. Really though, you need to find out why your SSH sessions are "timing out". I can leave SSH se

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

Apparently, _Michael B Allen_, on 07/08/04 21:24,typed: Andreas Janssen said: You should go to . Get j2se-package, convert your JRE to a deb, download the matching *debian-deb for your Java version, and install both the downloaded package and the converted JRE. The package ma

Re: squid advice pls

--- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone point me at or suggest good staring points for the squid > configuration pls? www.squid-cache.org is the main site. You might want to look here as well: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue78/adam.html (very very very brief) > Worthwhile

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:02:04 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gnome-help has not worked for me in two years. Works trivially for me -- "help" off the GNOME main menu -- but the best source for this sort of thing is the online GNOME docs. See http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-g

squid advice pls

Hi all, I have a Dell 1650 with 2 gig of ram, 2 x 36 gig scsi drives Can anyone point me at or suggest good staring points for the squid configuration pls? Worthwhile tweaks to Debian to get the most out of it? I need to build this box on Monday so I am starting from a clean slate, For Dis

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:14, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:01:23 +1000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zenaan Harkness) wrote: > > > > How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click > > on one side button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". > > > > It frustr

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall which > will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites for my kids > as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of squidguard and > dansguardian, but don't know of other

Re: personal crontab entry

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:43:17 -0500 Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 2004-07-08 02:28 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of > >personal> cron jobs, but I can't seem to

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:48, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:24:09 +0200, Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:00, LeVA hurled the following on the wire: > > > 2004. július 8. 13:54, > > > Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -> [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: tmda (was Re: Attach filter)

On 2004-07-08, Karsten M. Self penned: > > > Jason Mastaler accepts criticism so graciously he's banned me from any > mail access to his domain. Go figure. That's adult, open, honest, > and principled. Maybe because you've repeatedly proven yourself incapable of holding up your end of a civilize

Re: A7N8X Integrated NIC

Which version of the installer did you use? AFAIK, the new Debian Beta installer supports that NIC out of the box. See http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ for the ISOs. Luke Reeves http://www.neuro-tech.net/ Raymond Kim wrote: Hi Everyone, I've installed Debian Linux via the

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:01:23 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zenaan Harkness) wrote: > > How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click > on one side button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". > > It frustrates the hell out of me: I want an instant on/off thing, not > a

Re: Ugly firefox icon

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, another consequence of Mozilla.org and especially Firefox's > > newfound focus on Windows users. Since Microsoft is unlikely to > > distribute a copy of Firefox (much less modify it) with Wind

Sluggish Ripping speeds

I have a problem: Whenever I try to rip CDs, I get extremely sluggish data rates (0.1x-0.3x). I know it is not a CDROM drive problem because it transfers my UT2004 cd in its entireity in about 2 minutes. Is this normal/what could be wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

--- Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall which > will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites for my kids > as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of squidguard and > dansguardian, but don't know of o

[OT] squidguard, dansguardian, other?? on a 486?

I'm searching for a good system (squid + add on) for my firewall which will do a reasonable job knocking out obvious problem sites for my kids as they use the Web. So far I've seen mentions of squidguard and dansguardian, but don't know of others to consider, if there are any. Does anyone have th

A7N8X Integrated NIC

Hi Everyone, I've installed Debian Linux via the network installation CD, however Debian does not recognize the integrated NIC on the A7N8X motherboard. So now I am in a pickle. I looked on the NVIDIA site for the drivers but the ones for Debian needs to be compiled and that requires the Kernel So

Re: acme

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages. Acme is gone from the GNOME 2.6 packages. It's been replaced, I think, by "Keyboard Shortcuts" in "Desktop Preferences."

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 10:01, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click on one side > button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". > > It frustrates the hell out of me: I want an instant on/off thing, not any Windows 98 > style try-ha

gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click on one side button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". It frustrates the hell out of me: I want an instant on/off thing, not any Windows 98 style try-hard hope-the-user's still like me today! Bullshit, that's what

Re: stuck on 1 shell variable, not re-updating.

thanks for your help thomas. As i could not get it to work with shell scripting i did try it on PHP. ## code ## for ($i = 1; $i <= 92; $i++) { $random_password = makeRandomPassword(); $sql = "update random set password = '$random_password' where id = $i"; $q = $db->query($sql); } ## code ## than

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

Thanks! Yes, that's essentially what I'm after. I don't have an "apt.preferences" file... I'll generate one as you suggest. I read what docs. I found on the "apt.preferences" file, and couldn't figure out how it would fix my priority problem with the CD-ROM for the stable release, since the CD-

Re: Fonts are larger

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:48:17 +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> As I said, the cause of the problem is beyond my wild >> imagination. Is it the DPI of X? The interpretation of fonts? ... >> puzzled. > > Look here: > > http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/adam.html Ha, as I read along, I repeated to mysel

RE: KDE freeze on sarge

Hmmm, Well, it was just taking a REALY long time to do thing, no actual lockup as such. I did have no loopback, which incidentally caused problems with my digital tv card streaming, but I still had the problem after I configured the loopback. Having said that I am new at all this so I guess i

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

Andreas Janssen said: > You should go to . Get j2se-package, convert your > JRE to a deb, download the matching *debian-deb for your Java version, > and install both the downloaded package and the converted JRE. The > package management will take care of the symlinks in /etc/

dpkg returns 'uninitialized values' in debconf perl5 modules

Hello, (please cc to me, i'm not on the list) I can't remove the dictionary 'wamerican' nor can i reinstall or upgrade it. Two examples: / r: dpkg -r wamerican (Reading database ... 50317 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wamerican ... Can't call method choices on an undefine

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:15:13 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, yes, I had read that... several times. (Not that the answer > may not be in there and I'm staring right at it and not seeing it, > *but...*). > > I'm able to make "apt-get" work from either CD-ROM or from the > archive. I've go

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

Brad Sims wrote: > Nope, but thats why the fine folks at GNU made screen Screen has me so spoiled I wish I could do the same with individal X programs. I know I can do a whole session with VNC but I'd love to be able to start a program on one X session (say my VNC session) and then eventuall

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

Well, yes, I had read that... several times. (Not that the answer may not be in there and I'm staring right at it and not seeing it, *but...*). I'm able to make "apt-get" work from either CD-ROM or from the archive. I've got all the entries for the CD-ROM and the archives correct. The problem is

Re: KDE freeze on sarge

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 11:41 pm, Aaron Robertson-Hodder wrote: > For some reason KDE seems to freeze intermittently on my new sarge > installation. It takes ages to load up and then freezes when I load apps > and click the menu. I have read a post that suggested the priority for > KDE might be

RE: KDE freeze on sarge

You guys were correct, I replace the RAM and everything looks much better. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Joost De Cock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: KDE freeze on sarge On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:03, Thomas Adam hur

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 8:45 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Well I believe that xprint outputs postscript. It just does it in a > different way. I believe is xprint is like an x server. Mozilla or > whatever program sends it whatever you want to print as a series of > x-thingamabobs and it converts

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

On Thursday 08 July 2004 1:25 am, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > Nope. I just installed all the build-depends packages required to build > it and then built the package after adjusting the rules file to sort out > postscript and xprint. > > It was only afterwards that I noticed that previously I'd had

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

On Thursday 08 July 2004 6:54 am, Joost De Cock wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible to pick up a shell session that was running > over a ssh session that timed out. Nope, but thats why the fine folks at GNU made screen I use it all the damn time, over a ssh session that goes down at rand

Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > (I think a bogus copy of this went out... my apologies) > > I'm on a dialup, and I have the Woody CD-ROM distribution, > so I want "apt-get" to first try to find packages on the CDs > before using the remote archive entries in "sources.list". > But as soon as I add an

Re: is it possible to change apt-get

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Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

I was looking into the /etc/init.d/postgres. As I see, the postmaster is declared into the POSTMASTER environment variable: POSTMASTER=/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster But it's not used in the script... So I had looked the line ERRMSG=$(/sbin/start-stop-daemon --pidfile $PGDATA/postmaster.pid --

Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:47:06 -0400, * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:23:29 -0300, Filipi Vianna wrote: > > >> I know that a flag -i should be added, but i dont know where. > > > > There is how I do it on Slackware: > > I was wondering that too. Any Debian solutions? In

is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?

(I think a bogus copy of this went out... my apologies) I'm on a dialup, and I have the Woody CD-ROM distribution, so I want "apt-get" to first try to find packages on the CDs before using the remote archive entries in "sources.list". But as soon as I add an "http" entry to "sources.list", it ins

Re: Fonts are larger

--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I said, the cause of the problem is beyond my wild > imagination. Is it the DPI of X? The interpretation of fonts? ... > puzzled. Look here: http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/adam.html -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linux

Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:23:29 -0300, Filipi Vianna wrote: >> I know that a flag -i should be added, but i dont know where. > > There is how I do it on Slackware: I was wondering that too. Any Debian solutions? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: About extra features of less

Hello * Tong* (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can > use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc. > I can't do it now in Debian. > > Anybody know how they did that? No, but on Debian systems there are some preconf

Fonts are larger

Hi, This is the question I hesitate to ask, because the cause of the problem is beyond my wild imagination. You see, I migrated from RH8 to Debian recently. Under X in Debian, I noticed that some of my fonts are a bit bigger. I use fluxbox, and its configuration is the same for both systems,

is it possible to change apt-get

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Re: About extra features of less

Thomas Adam wrote: > Change it then. :P Those that use Zsh (I'm one of them) should know how > to, since they've had more insight to change their default $SHELL Bah, just tweakin' your nose on the presumption of bash. ;P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

Re: About extra features of less

--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Adam wrote: > > add: > > > eval $(lesspipe) to ~/.bash_profile > > Won't do much here. Darn that pesky zsh edging out bash. :P Change it then. :P Those that use Zsh (I'm one of them) should know how to, since they've had more insight to c

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:17:16PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Jacob S._, on 07/08/04 14:51,typed: > >On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:36:17 -0400 > >"H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>In my Testing distribution, I noticed that I have javac already (new > >>install a couple of months back

RE: log in limbo

From: "JOHN WALL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: log in limbo Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:04:02 +0100 After trying to get an E-mail through to the lists for three days I was more than happy when I finally got through today. problem is looks like all the problem solvers have

RE: log in limbo

From: "JOHN WALL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: log in limbo Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:04:02 +0100 After trying to get an E-mail through to the lists for three days I was more than happy when I finally got through today. problem is looks like all the problem solvers have

Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:59 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > - Bad drive? I'm not an expert by any stretch, but I think it quite likely. One of those old reports you read might have been mine. I don't remember the model number I had, but if yours is one of the ~5400 RPM 40 GB Maxtors, the on

Re: About extra features of less

Thomas Adam wrote: > add: > eval $(lesspipe) to ~/.bash_profile Won't do much here. Darn that pesky zsh edging out bash. :P -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: About extra features of less

--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can > use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc. > I can't do it now in Debian. > > Anybody know how they did that? add: eval $(lesspipe) to ~/.bash_profile

Re: About extra features of less

* Tong* wrote: > Anybody know how they did that? Same way that zless/zgrep/et al work... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} cat /bin/zless #!/bin/sh PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH"; export PATH LESSOPEN="|gzip -cdfq %s"; export LESSOPEN exec less "$@" -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your

Re: About extra features of less

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:22:19PM -0400, * Tong* wrote: } I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can } use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc. } I can't do it now in Debian. } } Anybody know how they did that? See the documentation of the LESS

Re: About extra features of less

* Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can > use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc. > I can't do it now in Debian. Put the line eval `lesspipe` in your shell startup script (~/.profile). Martin --

Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

Sorry if this is beating a dead horse since you've already checked ... I believe there are (at least) three different "speed" 80-conductor ide cables -- ATA66, ATA100, and ATA133. They are not always labeled, so it can be hard to tell. My "slow" cable was a left over from an old machine and it was

About extra features of less

Hi, I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc. I can't do it now in Debian. Anybody know how they did that? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: spinning down disk when needed

Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a second hard disk /dev/hdb which has nothing installed on it > and is used only for video data. So I uses it only a few hours a week. > > I am wondering if I can spin it down when it is not mounted or when > not being used and spin it up when ne

Re: personal crontab entry

"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal > cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. /var/spool/cron/crontabs, probably. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. "Up yer shaft!"

Re: Music Services

Hi Ryan http://www.emusic.com is good. Especially in jazz music but they also have pop &c. You must pay, but IMO it's not too expensive and you get .mp3 files - no DRM. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:22:43PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: > I was wondering if there were any music services (napster, rhapsody

Re: Getting no sound from ALSA under 2.6.7

Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is, I'm not really getting any error messages I'm able to > see. Everything seems quite nice, it is just that I'm not hearing > anything... Did you unmute the channels? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

Hello H. S. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Apparently, _Jacob S._, on 07/08/04 14:51,typed: >> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:36:17 -0400 >> "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> In my Testing distribution, I noticed that I have javac already (new >>> install a couple of months back). Earlier I used

Re: personal crontab entry

On Thursday 2004-07-08 02:28 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal >> cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. > /etc/crontab Huh? Try /var/spool/cron/cronta

Re: udev question

John L Fjellstad wrote: > Sam Halliday writes: > > i would very much like to have a symlink set up by udev > > (/dev/input/mousemain or similar) which points to the /dev/input/mouseX > > unless it has been removed, in which case it should be pointed to > > /dev/input/mouse1. > > > > unfortunately t

Little app checks for framebuffer/DirectFB

I've written CheckDFB which checks if the framebuffer and DirectFB is correctly installed. It runs either from the console or from an xterm and it simply overwrites the screen but that's rather harmless. CheckDFB shows everything fine on a correctly setup system but I don't know what it shows on ot

Re: My eth0 is gone

On Thursday 08 July 2004 13:25, * Tong* wrote: > Hi, > > Hysterically, after I reboot Debian, my eth0 device is gone. > > % networking start > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > % ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.0.99 up > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth0: ERROR while getting

Re: Music Services

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:01:14PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Also, where can I find a media > > player that can play .wmv files? > The mplayer packages from Christian Marillat are able to handle that. Also Xine, vlc (gvlc, wxvlc), and avifile-player, and probably others I haven't thought o

Re: Music Services

Try iRATE radio, I believe there is a debian package for it: http://irate.sourceforge.net/ You should try the free, legal downloads many artists provide a way to promote themselves. I give many links in my article "Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads" at: http://www.goingware.co

Re: My eth0 is gone

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:25:45 -0400 * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Hysterically, after I reboot Debian, my eth0 device is gone. > > % networking start > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > % ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.0.99 up > SIOCSIFADDR: No such devic

Re: My eth0 is gone

--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Hysterically, after I reboot Debian, my eth0 device is gone. > modprobe sis900 > depmod -a echo sis900 >> /etc/modules and that will get loaded on each reboot. No need to do depmod -a at all. that command does something completely different a

Re: Music Services

Ryan Waye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if there were any music services (napster, rhapsody, > itunes, etc) that work on linux. Also, where can I find a media > player that can play .wmv files? I know that they are horrible (All > my ripped stuff is oog), but I have to use them

Re: spinning down disk when needed

>packages in Debian > that can do this? hdparm (assuming IDE/ATAPI disk) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My eth0 is gone

Hi, Hysterically, after I reboot Debian, my eth0 device is gone. % networking start eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device % ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.0.99 up SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting int

Re: spinning down disk when needed

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:01:31PM -0400, H. S. wrote: > I have a second hard disk /dev/hdb which has nothing installed on it and > is used only for video data. So I uses it only a few hours a week. > > I am wondering if I can spin it down when it is not mounted or when not > being used and spin

ping not working

I have 3 linux machines. 2 of the machines can ping each other with no problem. One machine is unable to ping either. The machine that can't ping has 2 NIC's in it. The 2nd NIC is not configured. ifconfig shows: eth0 and lo I tested the NIC by pinging 127.0.0.1 and the given ip address of 19

Re: Recompile source after error

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Bijan! Good and helpful guys like you make this mlist a friendly learning environment. So newbies will not feel so pathetic and be driven away by some unprovoked harsh words. You set a true and good example to distinguish between a "helpful" respond and a truly helpful one. T

Re: personal crontab entry

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:14:14 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal > cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. > > can anyone point me in the correct direction? I don't know about kcr

Re: startup/boot links

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:30:10 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- mixo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a tool similar to redhat's chkconfig managing startup scripts > > > > for debian? > > I've answered this in some many other threads, this has to be *the* most >

Re: personal crontab entry

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:14:14PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal > cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. > > can anyone point me in the correct direction? Hm try crontab -l, if that lists your j

spinning down disk when needed

I have a second hard disk /dev/hdb which has nothing installed on it and is used only for video data. So I uses it only a few hours a week. I am wondering if I can spin it down when it is not mounted or when not being used and spin it up when needed. Any wepages or packages in Debian that can d

Re: Music Services

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 03:22:43PM -0400, Ryan Waye wrote: Hi, wow someone who even uses gmail against all privacy concerns ... > I was wondering if there were any music services (napster, rhapsody, > itunes, etc) that work on linux. I heard about a perl script able to use Apples itunes shop. Use

Re: Convert Solaris userids to Linux-Debian

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:43:20PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids > from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian. > > Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users > losing their passwords? Some awk/sed/perl/

Re: personal crontab entry

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:28:29 +0100 (BST) Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of > > personal cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this > > info to. > > /etc/cront

Re: Could not find kfmclient executable.

Hello cenapad (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > That message is showed when i click over home icon in KDE. Does > anybody know how to solve ? Try apt-get install kdebase to make sure all necessary packages are installed. Looks like the konqueror package is missing. best regards Andreas J

Re: Slow disk - hdparm, S.M.A.R.T, badblocks, what else?

on Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 07:28:19AM -0700, Richard Weil ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to find out why my disk performance is so slow -- 150x > > worse than a comperable system -- and what I can do to improve it. > > > > I've got a syst

Re: Convert Solaris userids to Linux-Debian

--- John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids > from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian. > > Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users > losing their passwords? I assume you'll be using shadow pa

Re: Debian's javac vs Sun's new installation of j2sdk

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:17:16 -0400 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, _Jacob S._, on 07/08/04 14:51,typed: > > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:36:17 -0400 > > "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>In my Testing distribution, I noticed that I have javac already (new > > > >>install

Convert Solaris userids to Linux-Debian

Hi all, in a few weeks I need to convert a couple of hundred userids from a Sun Solaris 5.8 box to Linux-Debian. Does anybody know of a way to do this without the users losing their passwords? Sincerely, Jan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: personal crontab entry

--- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been experimenting with kcron, and setting up couple of personal > cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to. /etc/crontab -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor"

Re: libc no longer executable in testing/unstable, was in stable (matlab)

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:47:13PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> On a stable system, libc is executable and returns version info: >> [...] >> But on testing (same package in unstable) libc is not executable. >> [...] >> Ma

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