Re: Mame

2004-07-13 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:13:06 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mame is an emulator for playing classic old hoakie games like Pacman and > such. > > I took two versions of the auntie from Sid. Both are expecting a bunch > of files that were not installed along with the package. How d

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....

2004-07-13 Thread Alexander Sack
I did. Please, always think of the not-newbie (I am not); who still is not quite up at your level. "please suggest to rename your profiles chrome directory" is - sorry - incomprehensible to me. What to do ? Just delete ?? What ?? sorry for the laziness in typing. Your profile directory can be fo

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....

2004-07-13 Thread Uwe Dippel
Alexander Sack wrote: try: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/faq.html#q4a I did. Please, always think of the not-newbie (I am not); who still is not quite up at your level. "please suggest to rename your profiles chrome directory" is - sorry - incomprehensible to me. What to do ? Just delete ?? What ?

Re: Routing Question

2004-07-13 Thread Robert William Hutton
James Sinnamon wrote: Also '/usr/sbin/tcpdump eth0' (or '/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth1') (don't think it will work with ppp0) is another debugging tool. Ethereal is another tool, similar to tcpdump, which gives more readable output. tethereal is the termial (command line) version of ethereal if you d

Re: Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> $ apt-cache show equivs > Package: equivs > Priority: extra > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 51 > Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Version: 2.0.4 > Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot > Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_

Mame

2004-07-13 Thread David Baron
Mame is an emulator for playing classic old hoakie games like Pacman and such. I took two versions of the auntie from Sid. Both are expecting a bunch of files that were not installed along with the package. How does one get this working? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

xscreensaver & xplanet

2004-07-13 Thread Faithful John
I have xscreensaver, when I got xplanet and I tried to center the view of the earth on xplanet on my current location using the settings, the xscreensaver settings indicated that i hadn't install xplanet ... which I already had. Xplanet seems to start fine, when i start it using an xterm ... and

a policy question about stable

2004-07-13 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Users, I'm using Sarge and installed "gaim" to log on to MSN, Yahoo messengers. I wasn't able to log on to Yahoo. Looking up at Gaim's IRC channel, I found that the problem had been fixed in Gaim 0.79. I kno

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....

2004-07-13 Thread Alexander Sack
a) open thunderbirds profile manager: mozilla-thunderbird -P b) selecte create profile ... -> Next c) select a name of your profile (e.g. default) and d) choose folder ... select your old profile folder (e.g. /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/vc3zm897.slt) e) finish the profile creation

php5 package

2004-07-13 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
Since Php5 now is stable, when can we expect to see a package in testing and unstable? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using dd to copy a cd. Accuracy of the obtained image.

2004-07-13 Thread bob parker
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:55, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have encountered different problems when trying to copy CDs in > /dev/hd? to an image in the hard disk. Some times a whole 650 mb > becomes just 500 kb. I've been doing some reading and googling, and > among other things found the thread that

Partition problems with 2.6 and udev

2004-07-13 Thread Luke A. Kanies
Hi all, I'm running the 2.6.6-1-k7-smp kernel on a fresh install of Woody, with udev. Most things are now working (although for some reason I can't seem to get udev to create the nvidia devices for me, even though I've patched the driver and the device shows up in /sys...), but my first IDE dri

file descriptor 0 (zero)

2004-07-13 Thread leela
Can any one tell me why do u get a file descriptor 0 (zero) even after not closing the stdin. Here is my code (partial code) #define FIFO1 "/tem/fifo1" #define FIFO2 "/tem/fifo2" ReadFd = open(FIF01, O_RDONLY, 0); WriteFd = open(FIF02, O_WRONLY, 0); When i tried to print ReadFd and WriteFd; i go

Re: apt-get install = remove?

2004-07-13 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Jul 13 at 01:10PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:18, Will Trillich wrote: > > thought this was weird: > > > > # apt-get install webmin-ssl > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following packages will be REMOVE

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-13 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:38:04AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > > > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > > > gutenbergs tests with go

Re: Routing Question

2004-07-13 Thread James Sinnamon
Until someone more knowledgeable replies ... On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:02 am, David Purton wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a routing question. This is the setup: > But that didn't work either. > > > Can anybody explain to me what is going wrong or how to fix it? I have done something similar, but don

Re: document archiving w/ scanner

2004-07-13 Thread Mark Roach
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 01:14 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.10.0041 +0200]: > > Search the archives for my and other's discussions about project > > gutenbergs tests with gocr and other open source OCR programs. > > great pointer. I guess t

Re: OpenOffice doesn't update ! Attention !

2004-07-13 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:12:56 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: The existing, latest, profile is under ~/.openoffice/1.1.1/ The 'new' profile sits under ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/ It is unclear, why it lives here. How to solve it: cd ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 rm -Rf * cp -a ../.openoffice/1.1.1/* . This copies

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-13 Thread James Sinnamon
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:29 am, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Any last words before I > # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > on my home (sid) PC? > > Will things break that used to work in 2.4? I tried to install 2.6 on my desktop system, but I could not get it to run. The system crashed and re-booted a

OpenOffice doesn't update ! Attention !

2004-07-13 Thread Uwe Dippel
With the last apt-get upgrade on SID I was getting OpenOffice1.1.2 yesterday. Now, with usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice I get the 'Install-Script' Screen and a question if I wanted to install a fresh profile or update the 1.1.0. Firstly, the question is 'wrong', because the previous version - I

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 08:13 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > Is this correct? >check_sender_access hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/sender_access >check_sender_access hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/recipient_access Nope. Good eye - I made an error when transcribing changes in my local config to

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird wierd .....

2004-07-13 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:27:57 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > There is an instruction on howto manually migrate your old profile in > /usr/share/doc/mozilla-thunderbird/README.Debian Pretty incomprehensible, though. I found a better one in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258741

Re: Re: Re: Xserver aborts when idle

2004-07-13 Thread disciple
Very strange My laptop uses an ATI Mobility M6.. I hope someone has an answer. This is a total pain... Why only about 20 minutes??? Why not 10 minutes...??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modprobe.conf missing

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:24:02PM +0200, Matthijs wrote: | On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:50:12 +0200, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > It must be out of date. The current module-init-tools don't use | > /etc/modprobe.conf any more. | | I'm sure I had everything up to date at that p

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-13 Thread John Summerfield
Dan Jacobson wrote: Any last words before I # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 on my home (sid) PC? Will things break that used to work in 2.4? In those instances where 2,6 didn't work for me, 2.4 was just a boot away. Be brave Be bold Be brash -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [E

Re: Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:06:05PM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: | I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error | messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows | but I wasn't able to capture any process output, the window of the exec | sample always stay

Re: Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:41:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have installed the newest version of Postfix from | source (not Debian source). Why? (see below) | I don't want the Debian/Woody version of Postfix. Ok, so rebuild the sarge version on your woody machine. # aptitude instal

Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/13/04 12:20, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have posted before about this problem before but have still not been able to get sound to play when running flash. Sound does work for everything else, just not flash. I can cat a .au file to /dev/dsp and it works (as root, or a user, since I am in the

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Winischhofer wrote: My wheel mouse-s calibration seems to have changed. When I run TVTime under 2.4, one click of the wheel setting equalled one channel changed. Under 2.6, every click changes the tuner by two channels. I bet you have two mice configured in your XF86Config-4, don't you? R

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-13 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 July 2004 07:29, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Any last words before I > # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 > on my home (sid) PC? > > Will things break that used to work in 2.4? depends on your hard- and software. In my case, vmware 3.2 doe

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread John Summerfield
Bradley M Alexander wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 July 2004 08:22, John Summerfield wrote: _Which_ 2.6.7 kernel are you using? If you're not using a Debian kernel, then try kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 or so as appropriate to your CPU. A particular point to using

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know > about t

Re: dpkg segmentation fault

2004-07-13 Thread Christopher Parker
--- Christopher Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently compiled perl from source on my Debian system, unknowingly breaking > debconf (and > probably other programs). > > It seems as though merely moving DebianNet.pm into one of the directories in @INC > temporarily > fixed this problem.

Re: make xconfig not working

2004-07-13 Thread Yohann Desquerre
Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to install/compile the kernel 2.6, but when I issue the 'make xconfig' command I get a whole bunch of errors. Here is just a sample: make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Makefile'. HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x2

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread John Summerfield
Kirk Strauser wrote: I've been following the thread about TMDA with some interest, mainly because I recently started rejecting about 99.9% of incoming spam *without* using challenge-response or other load-increasing methods. For details, read: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd

NFSroot install arm on x86

2004-07-13 Thread Nicolas
Hi, I'd like to install a debian/arm distribution on a x86. I have something like 32 megs on a flash on the arm and I thought I could put the kernel on the arm and everything else (distrib + development env) on a x86 (pentium 4). Is it possible to install debiean/arm on the x86

Routing Question

2004-07-13 Thread David Purton
Hi all, I've got a routing question. This is the setup: +--+ | Provider 1 | +-| Analog Modem | Internet | | |

Re: Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed the newest version of Postfix from source (not Debian source). I don't want the Debian/Woody version of Postfix. My problem is my system doesn't think it has a MTA on it unless I install Exim with dpkg, but I don't want Exim. How do I make my system know

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread Steven Satelle
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote: > > Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal > {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the I've always found that unless I stick to one package manager - synaptic at the moment, they resolv

Re: Getting sound-juicer to rip Mp3?

2004-07-13 Thread Mark C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even better, I made a better .deb based on the alienated package. Ignore the above, and fetch gstreamer0.8-lame_0.8.2-2_i386.deb at http://henrik.synth.no/deb/ Just got it, it works perfectly... Thanks Mark (now, just wish they would add quality support for sound juicer)

Re: [Solved] startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Matthias Czapla
Stupid me! I'm an idiot!!! I am sooo dumb... I was running startx with "nohup startx & exit" and nohup increases the priority of the command by five! Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Voyetra Sound Card--lound squeal, hiss

2004-07-13 Thread Gregory Pierce
Success! I finally have sound! Since others may be having or have had similar problems I would like to note that Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 works perfectly on Debian with kernel 2.6.7-1 running. My previous sound card installed by Dell on my Dimension 8100 (a now 2-3 year old computer with a 1.2 GHx

RE: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:54, Scott Thompson wrote: > The box is connected to a cable modem and no other network. The freezes > have never occurred when using the web browser or email, but with a variety > of other programs, such as synaptic, mplayer, kwrite. Last night, the > flying toaster scree

make xconfig not working

2004-07-13 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Hi guys, I am trying to install/compile the kernel 2.6, but when I issue the 'make xconfig' command I get a whole bunch of errors. Here is just a sample: make[1]: Nothing to be done for `Makefile'. HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf scripts/kconfig/qconf.o(.text+0x2b): In function `ConfigView::initM

Re: dpkg returns 'uninitialized values' in debconf perl5 modules

2004-07-13 Thread mi
Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It's a recent debian sarge, with: > > ii perl 5.8.3-3 > > rH wamerican 5-4 > > ii dpkg 1.10.22 > > ii debconf1.4.25 > ^--^ > The current version of debconf in s

Re: Changing hostname

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:29, * Tong* wrote: [snip] > Paul Johnson's comment makes me think that changing the hostname > is far from simple: > > ,- > | > 127.0.0.1 cxmr.dyndns.org localhost > | > | 127.0.0.1localhost > | cxmr.dyndns.orgcxmr > `- > > That'

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread ricktaylor
> From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that > > > > How's that? > > Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with thin

Re: How Might I Help?

2004-07-13 Thread anlace
Good Evening, You guys have all given me fantastic advice for going in all kinds of different directions. From places to research where help is needed to inspiration to buck up and learn the new stuff better. Thank you very much! Gail PS The next time that I am actually sitting at my compute

libcupsys2-gnutls10 breaks printing of text on HP 920c deskjet printer

2004-07-13 Thread Joe Potter
Package: libcupsys2-gnutls10 Version: 1.1.20final+cvs20040 I have a HP 920c deskjet printer. It has worked fine with Cups for a long time. It works fine with libcupsys2, but upon using libcupsys2-gnutls10 it will no longer print text. On printing the CUPS "printer test page" you get the graphics pa

The making of the DVD "Sarge": Directed by Micheal Moore

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:50, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I'm looking for advice on burning a bootable DVD - I have the > image... what software will work? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:greg]$ apt-cache show dvdrtools Package: dvdrtools Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Installed-Size: 332 Maintainer: Julien D

Stable kernel packages to fix the most-recent problem?

2004-07-13 Thread Mac Mason
I'm curious if anyone knows if kernel packages for stable have been released that address the issue described here: http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004/06/11_kernel_crash/ I would have thought that Debian would have released an update by now, but my perusal of http://www.debian.org/security/2004/ se

Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored)

2004-07-13 Thread Steven Satelle
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:28:56 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Same behavior (I am using wdm and no xdmcp and the no listen on tcp > switch). It seems like /usr/X11R6/bin/X is whats causing the trouble, > running tcpdump when X startx shows the name lookup BTW: > you know, I think we're barking up the

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:00, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 2004-07-13 11:49 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > I like your attitude Kirk. I have used many of your snippets/pages to > > make things more workable in the WWOIT (Wonderful World Of Information > > Technology) > > Thanks, Greg! I appre

Re: How I killed^Wdecided Kirk is a good guy.

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:00, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 2004-07-13 11:49 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > I like your attitude Kirk. I have used many of your snippets/pages to > > make things more workable in the WWOIT (Wonderful World Of Information > > Technology) > > Thanks, Greg! I appre

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-13 Thread vadik
Greg Folkert wrote: I turned off FAMD temporarily and got a tremendous number of those messages in the logs, and got many server disconnect errors. Turned FAMD back on, restarted the mail pieces, the problems went away. Let me try it. I will know tomorrow if this works -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:13, vadik wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:33:37 -0700, Vadik wrote: > > > > > >>I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts > >>at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely > >>no

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that > > How's that? I am subscribed to D-U. Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with things that way dselect does, in its ne

Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-13 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Sound does work for everything else, just not flash. I can cat a .au > file to /dev/dsp and it works (as root, or a user, since I am in the > audio group). I can also play music CDs with XFreeCD with no problem. > When I run a flash program, however, the speakers are

Re: How to restore serial modem access after installing Ethernet router

2004-07-13 Thread John Hasler
David Jarvie writes: > I access the internet via a serial modem. This worked until I installed > an Ethernet card connected to an ADSL router. And created a default route via ethernet. Add replacedefaultroute to /etc/ppp/options. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill

Postfix from source: changing the MTA

2004-07-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed the newest version of Postfix from source (not Debian source). I don't want the Debian/Woody version of Postfix. My problem is my system doesn't think it has a MTA on it unless I install Exim with dpkg, but I don't want Exim. How do I make my system know it has an MTA on it so ma

Re: modprobe.conf missing

2004-07-13 Thread Matthijs
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:50:12 +0200, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:29:58AM +0200, Matthijs wrote: > | Setup: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.7, on a Via EPIA M1 board. > | > | The biggest problem I'm having: > | modconf wasn't installed by default, h

Re: startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:46:34PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > Matthias Czapla wrote: > > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login > > at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs > > inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx e

Debian i386 binaries for Mozilla 1.7 with PostScript available

2004-07-13 Thread Paul Seelig
Hi all! Due to security reasons i was in need of Debian binary packages for the latest Mozilla 1.7. Unfortunately though, PostScript has been dropped by the official Debian packages so i recompiled with PostScript enabled again. For the benefit of my fellow maintainers and users i made the result

Re: startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:49:58PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I > > login at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console > > programs inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx > > everything from the

How to restore serial modem access after installing Ethernet router

2004-07-13 Thread David Jarvie
I access the internet via a serial modem. This worked until I installed an Ethernet card connected to an ADSL router. I don't yet have an ADSL account with an ISP, so I need my serial modem connection to work. I can still log on to my ISP, but I can no longer browse web sites. I used etherconf t

Samba codepage problem

2004-07-13 Thread Ian Macdonald
Hello-- I quick question, to see if anyone could help me out. I have a home network with two nodes, my laptop and my girlfriend's. I have Debian sarge on my laptop while on my girlfriend's machine is the Latin American Spanish version of Windows ME. I am trying to use Samba tools to allow me to m

Re: startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Matthias Czapla (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I > login at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console > programs inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx > everything from thereon and including t

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread Thomas Winischhofer
My wheel mouse-s calibration seems to have changed. When I run TVTime under 2.4, one click of the wheel setting equalled one channel changed. Under 2.6, every click changes the tuner by two channels. I bet you have two mice configured in your XF86Config-4, don't you? Remove one of them. Mouse eve

Playing around with exec sample

2004-07-13 Thread Otto Wyss
I want to start a process in my app and capture its output and error messages. Therefore I played a little with the exec sample under Windows but I wasn't able to capture any process output, the window of the exec sample always stayed empty. I.e. I just called a process which prints its help. Does

Re: postfix + mysql

2004-07-13 Thread august macbeth
try this.. change the location for mysqld.sock location under [mysqld] and [mysqld_safe] (in /etc/mysql/my.cnf) to /var/spool/postfix/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock .. ln /var/spool/postfix/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock to /var/run/mysqld/ ... your going to have to create /var/run/mysqld in /var/spool/p

Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:48:16PM -0400, Mike Fieschko insinuated: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:19:57 -0400 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > a friend pointed out that the first thing galeon (or opera, i > > guess) will try to do when you open a flash movie will be to see > >

dri

2004-07-13 Thread spac
Anyone has DRI for sys 741? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Fieschko
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:19:57 -0400 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > a friend pointed out that the first thing galeon (or opera, i guess) > will try to do when you open a flash movie will be to see if it can > access the sound device. if something else has been using it, for > w

Re: startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Sam Halliday
Matthias Czapla wrote: > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login > at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs > inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx everything > from thereon and including the shell that is executing the

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread ricktaylor
> From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that How's that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 2004-07-13 01:17 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > As for my comment about false positives, here's one for you. > Literally. Check your logs for this message I'm sending right to you (I > normally trim out copies to the author) and see what it says. :D You just encouraged me to make a long-ove

startx setting the nice level to 5?

2004-07-13 Thread Matthias Czapla
Hi! I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx everything from thereon and including the shell that is executing the startx script has a nice

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-13 Thread vadik
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:33:37 -0700, Vadik wrote: I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely no problem from home, but from the work I often get "server disconnect"

Re: Not installable package ?

2004-07-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:16:35PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Florian Ernst (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Hm, I wouldn't trust apt-get's regex matching any further than I can > > throw it; ever tried a "apt-get install 'emacs21*'" and wondered how > > xemacs20 could be matched...

Re: making a DVD of Sarge

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 02:33:04PM -0500, C. Tresenriter wrote: > > Thanks for the responses. > I'll have a look at both. > > cj > the advantage of growisofs is that it is gpl, and is as simple as: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=dvdimage.iso ^^

Re: Statistic reports

2004-07-13 Thread Thomas Adam
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to do it by-monthly, so that it would not be that > annoying (comparing to having it weekly). > > If you have any concerns, please follow up to this message or the > statistic reports. To what end? It is a nice idea, and Hugo Mills (my LUG

Re: help with usb network

2004-07-13 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Glenn On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:30:29PM +1000, glenn wrote: > > > If I exclude hotplug from the debian side of things, then I > > > can make a usb ethernet connection fine, but debian seems to drop the > > > connection after any thing from 5sec to 5min. I only assume debian does > > > the drop

Re: Boot Flavours

2004-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Tony Godshall wrote: > By the way, don't go hog-wild and install > everything you might ever need. That way lies trouble. You > can always get more later, so get what you /need/ and get > comfortable with it, then get more. It's just an apt-get > away. s/apt-get/aptitude/g Reason being

Re: Not installable package ?

2004-07-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Florian Ernst (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hm, I wouldn't trust apt-get's regex matching any further than I can > throw it; ever tried a "apt-get install 'emacs21*'" and wondered how > xemacs20 could be matched...? ;) Looks like apt-get uses the regexp as a a subtring of the names of pos

Re: Using dd to copy a cd. Accuracy of the obtained image.

2004-07-13 Thread * Tong*
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:55:00 -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Does anyone have anything to add to this (pointers, howtos, etc)? ... You may have known, the normal tool is cdrdao. # to make a bin/cue image cdrdao read-cd --device $CDR_DEVICE --datafile $iname.bin $iname.toc tong -- To UNS

Re: starting up

2004-07-13 Thread Kent West
Stephen Cradock wrote: Hi all - I am trying to get Debian Linux working as an alternative to Windows XP. Uo to a point everything works fine - starting from floppy images and basedeb and drivers.tgz I can get linux 2.2.0 running. The problem is getting X11 going - my Intel 82845G video chipset i

Statistic reports

2004-07-13 Thread * Tong*
Hi, This is a really helpful mlist. I'm thinking to run some statistic report on it so that we can see who answer/post questions more often than others -- to give credit where it is due. I'm planning to do it by-monthly, so that it would not be that annoying (comparing to having it weekly). If

Re: making a DVD of Sarge

2004-07-13 Thread C. Tresenriter
Thanks for the responses. I'll have a look at both. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot Flavours

2004-07-13 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Ralph Crongeyer, > Ryan McGregor wrote: > > >Hi, I would like to download and try Debian as my operating system and > >I don't know which of the 7 cds I need. Could you please explain to me > >which Cd's I will need for each of the boot flavours and how this > >process works. Than

Re: any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-13 Thread Ryan Waye
Good Luck. Have fun *Snickers Devilishly* Actually, in all seriousness it shouldn't cause that many problems. When I did that command, only thing that failed was my sound system. After some tinkering with ALSA, I will never turn to OSS again. The pros outweigh the cons in 2.6 Again, Good Luck!

Re: Occasional freezing / need help diagnosing

2004-07-13 Thread Kent West
Scott Thompson wrote: Scott Thompson wrote: <>Occasionally Debian just locks up. The same box has WinXP and SuSE 9.1 and Debian Sid. Each OS has its own hard drive. I have not experienced any locking up with the other two OSs. I've looked in the logs in /var/logs but can't find anything th

Re: Still no sound in Flash

2004-07-13 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hi marc, on Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:17:56AM -0400, Marc Shapiro insinuated: > I have posted before about this problem before but have still not > been able to get sound to play when running flash. i've been having a similar problem [in galeon, both with and without alsa], and haven't really solved it

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Kirk Strauser wrote: > I feel badly that your ISP has taken on a spammer as a paying customer, > and that it is causing problems for you and their other legitimate > customers, but it seems as though the blacklist is returning accurate > information. Technically, yes. It is returning a broad

any last words before I install kernel 2.6?

2004-07-13 Thread Dan Jacobson
Any last words before I # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 on my home (sid) PC? Will things break that used to work in 2.4? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: courier-imap-ssl "server disconnect" error behind firewall

2004-07-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:33:37 -0700, Vadik wrote: > I use courier-imap-ssl and I have mozilla connection to a few accounts > at the same time, so my MAXPERIP=40. With this setup I have absolutely > no problem from home, but from the work I often get "server disconnect" > error. I think that

Re: Configuring X-Windows in Woody (Novice help)

2004-07-13 Thread Kent West
Janjs Jangori wrote: Many thanks Kent. The magic number PCI:1:0:0 worked!!!. For the first time I saw the GENOME desktop on my own PC :-). However, the writings are blurred and the mouse pointer is big, but at least I can click and something happens. Oh! my God I have a lot of fiddling to do. I

Re: Where are CUPS Brother drivers?

2004-07-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 11:35:35AM +0100, boo wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 00:47 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I installed the CUPS drivers for a Brother network printer on a Debian > > machine the other week, and it worked *perfectly* using the driver for > > the HL-1670N, even though the print

Re: How I killed spam without TMDA

2004-07-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 2004-07-13 01:17 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > As well as legitimate mail. :) Very little. Most of the filtering magic is via greylisting which has proven to be remarkably effective. > But that's only 1/2 the equation. False positives are far more > destructive than false negatives. How

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread Bradley M Alexander
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 July 2004 08:22, John Summerfield wrote: > > _Which_ 2.6.7 kernel are you using? > > If you're not using a Debian kernel, then try kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 > or so as appropriate to your CPU. > > A particular point to using a Debian kern

Re: making a DVD of Sarge

2004-07-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:50:21PM -0500, C. Tresenriter wrote: > I'm looking for advice on burning a bootable DVD - I have the > image... what software will work? > thanks > growisofs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

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