Re: recent Canon printers and Linux

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Justinas wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:48:50 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone had any success at all with Canon I-series printers and Linux? The requirement is not to print from Linux itself, but to a) Attach the (USB-only) printer b) Share it c) Use it from Windows a

Re: recent Canon printers and Linux

2004-07-27 Thread Justinas
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:48:50 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any success at all with Canon I-series printers and Linux? > > The requirement is not to print from Linux itself, but to > a) Attach the (USB-only) printer > b) Share it > c) Use it from Windows and Ma

Re: starting second md device at boot time

2004-07-27 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:30, Richard Marshall wrote: > Hello, > > I have built a debian sarge system on a dell poweredge with a pair of > SCSI disks, but no Raid controller. I have sucessfully configured one md > raid 1 device (/dev/md0, mounted as the / partition) using the sarge > installer and

KDE 100% CPU usage - kio_thumbnail - Excel fault

2004-07-27 Thread Prasad Pimple
Hello sir i am also facing the same problem.So can u plz hel me regarding this matter.Coz when ever i open the Microsoft Excel my cpu usage of excel.exe is goes to 100%.Then i have to endtask that exe then my cpu usage goes properly in windows 2000 professional. So please Can u help me regarding

Warning: Possible Bug in BIOS DELL Latitude D400_A06 !

2004-07-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
Serious Warning - Possible Bug in BIOS update ! A06 will not support any UNIX-/ LINUX-GUI (at least on this machine). I tried Debian-Linux ('testing'); and tried OpenBSD 3.5 (multi-boot). Both will inevitably fail with a light yellow screen and an unresponsive keyboard (no Ctrl-Alt-Del; neither C

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? Kent West wrote: Vijaya S wrote: lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map menu-title=" Demo machine" delay=20 vga=normal default=debian Right about this area, add the two lines: pro

I/O Card on Debian (model Enter)

2004-07-27 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, i have got a I/O Card which is a PCI to 2 Serial Port Card and the Model is "Enter". I have inserted into the PCI slot on the MB . But i am not able to get it working or how do i configure it The machine is having Debian 2.4.25 kernel on it lspci -v output: :00:0a.0 Serial controller:

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:00:34PM +0200, Andrei Badea wrote: > It is just my impression (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that there > are two definitions for window manager today: There aren't. There's only one. A window manager manages windows. It may bring aditional eye-candy to the s

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:35:44AM +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > I believe Ricky/Mark are correct. The metacity package indeed installs a > window manager (and just a window manager). The WM/Fluxbox packages are > actually simple "desktop environments", because they bundle panels, etc. I wasn't a

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Vijaya S wrote: > Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? add the prompt back in and also wait 5 seconds before booting ( delay and timeout is interchanged sometimes ) c ya alvin > > >Demo:/home/vijaya# cat /etc/lilo.conf > > >lba32 > > >boot=/dev/hda

Re: Samba as a PDC

2004-07-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: > Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: > > > > > > > >>Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read >

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Vijaya S
Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? Kent West wrote: > Vijaya S wrote: > > >Hi kent, > >Could u pls help me in this > >I am nt able to get he lilo options of debian and mandrake although i have the > >entries in lilo.conf. > >I get no errors when i run lilo > >Demo:/home/vijaya#

mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > Please explain how grub/lilo/mbr gets accessed when the first disk is not there? > From experience most intel based bioses are not bright enough to go searching for another disk if 0x80 is not present. your bios already have the otion built in .. boot

RE: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
This must depend on the bios, all the ones I have seen did not allow this. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:52 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install On

RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, > so the machine will not be bootable anyway. when the raid disks and kernel and grub/lilo are configured properly, than it will boot of either/any number of disks in raid1 whe

Re: recent Canon printers and Linux

2004-07-27 Thread Mark A. Garland
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:48:50AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Has anyone had any success at all with Canon I-series printers and Linux? > > The requirement is not to print from Linux itself, but to > a) Attach the (USB-only) printer > b) Share it > c) Use it from Windows and Macs. > > It's

RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
? Please explain how grub/lilo/mbr gets accessed when the first disk is not there? >From experience most intel based bioses are not bright enough to go searching for >another disk if 0x80 is not present. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

2004-07-27 Thread Tim Connors
CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:56:44 -0600: > I believe I'm starting to know more about CUPS than I really want to. > If the following solves your problem, we both need to RTFM better ;-) > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:09:56PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > [...] > > Nothin

Re: trouble with CUPS

2004-07-27 Thread Uli Paul
Hi Florian, I had and I still have problems with CUPS - although not more, but simply different problems from the lpr, apsfilter & Co programs I used before. After some weeks into the CUPS domain I still run into mysteries. Some mysteries were there with BSD printing, but now some new appeared

RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, so the machine will not be bootable anyway. It will probably stay up provided the disks are on sepearate channels, if they are on the same one there is a good chance when one disk dies it will lock out the ide channel it

kde konsole & unicode not working

2004-07-27 Thread chymian
hi, using sarge and kde 3.2.3, trying to set up the konsole to display german charset does not work. when i type umlaut a u o, get a twobyte output like: Ã: ÃÂ Ã: Ãâ ... have set unicode font in setup of konsole. unicode is working at console and uxterm, as well as in other applications. ~/.kde/

danger - Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya wanda On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > > mount 2omiles-away:/somedirectory /mnt/clone ... > Boy do I feel confused. I'm blanking out on how to > mount the distant hard drive when I can't network to > it. (Dialup at home, NO permission at work) on the 20miles away machine:

recent Canon printers and Linux

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Has anyone had any success at all with Canon I-series printers and Linux? The requirement is not to print from Linux itself, but to a) Attach the (USB-only) printer b) Share it c) Use it from Windows and Macs. It's not the kind of Q&A I usually find at Linux Printing Dot Org. -- Cheers John -- spam

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin and Thomas, Boy do I feel confused. I'm blanking out on how to mount the distant hard drive when I can't network to it. (Dialup at home, NO permission at work) That wasn't in the problem description. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://po

subdomain NS, making another subdomain on a subdomain

2004-07-27 Thread Louie Miranda
I been given a subdomain, is it possible to make this as another NS? and is it also possible to manage this subdomain NS and make another subdomain like sub.subdomain.example.com with-out adding entries on the main example.com domain? Would a "NS" record for bind work on a subdomain entry? --

Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install

2004-07-27 Thread Jason Bleazard
Sorry for asking this when I know there's a lot of documentation out there already, but I'm getting in to information overload and I'd appreciate any suggestions or opinions on the "best" or "easiest" or "most efficient" or "most reliable" way to do what I want. I write these things in quotes beca

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
I don't know just when the hfsplus driver first appeared: I "just assumed" it's not in the Woody kernel coz it's too new and so I just went for the newest kernel I thought would be easy, without going to backports. I used it somewhere around 2.4.20, don't remember exactly which one (2.4.23

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
James Foster wrote: The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__ It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for example. I regul

Re: Samba as a PDC

2004-07-27 Thread Clement
Debian Users wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: C> Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read C> the docs and sample configure to no success. When connecting a W2k C> client, I get this error: C> C> "... Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." Maybe

RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
You could run a squid proxy on the box and redirect http requests, this will log. Assuming you only want http of course. I just looked at my squid logs, for 1 squid server (we run 2 in parallel with DNS round-robin) the log is 350meg to 1.3gig per day per serverthats just http regards

Re: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > current# mount target:/mnt

Re: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > current# mount target:/mnt

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-27 Thread Erik Steffl
John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: The 2.6 kernel I'm running here looks like it will work. THere's a 2.6 kernel there too, but it's in a different box. If I have to go onsite, I might as well use OSX on the powerbook. However, I _can_ build a S

RE: Samba and OSx

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
thanks. Will experiment tonight. regards S -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 1:18 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba and OSx Steven Jones wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a debian 3.0 box runnin

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread James Foster
> The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__ It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for example. Of course, on a broadband conne

Re: mailaccount manager

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Justinas wrote: Hi list! I have one woody system working as a mailserver (sendmail+ipop3d). Does anybody could recommend any web-based mail server management tool(adding/removing users, editing aliases and so on) Take a look at webmin. I don't know whether it addresses _your_ particul

Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > current# mkdir /mnt/clone > current# mount target:/mnt/hdb3 /mnt/clone .. > I have 2 different machines. I want hdb4 on one machine > cloned to hdb3 on the other machine. The machines are > about 20 miles apart (home and work). mount 2omiles-a

Re: Mysterious entries in daemon log, mail.log; should I worry?

2004-07-27 Thread Uli Paul
Hi Ralph, what does your /etc/inet.conf file look like? Are the entries for imapd and the others commented out (# sign at the beginning of the line)? Did you run any mail client at that time? Uli PS Please CC to me, as I do NOT regulary read the list. -- Ulrich Paul Paul Elektronik, Erlenweg 18,

Re: IBM F50 RS/6000 PPC PowerPC

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:30:16 +0200, Francisco Ernesto Teixiera escreveu: When I try to install the Debian on this machine, this return "Unable to mount Rescue Disk." You will want to send this to debian-ports-powerpc instead. Actually,

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want a basic log file containing the source and destination addresses for all traffic in and out of via PPP, so that I can keep track of what connections to outside IP addresses are made, and from where (externally, or from something running on my system) they origin

Re: Samba and OSx

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Steven Jones wrote: Hi all, I have a debian 3.0 box running samba, it has been running for 2 odd years and is fully patched. Win2k, NT4, Win98 clients can talk to it and read and write to the common "share" directory without issue. I have just added an iMac running OSx (which is fully patched etc

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb. You'll want to read this, then: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother This needs a littl

Re: How do I read a Mac disk on Linux.

2004-07-27 Thread John Summerfield
Erik Steffl wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: The 2.6 kernel I'm running here looks like it will work. THere's a 2.6 kernel there too, but it's in a different box. If I have to go onsite, I might as well use OSX on the powerbook. However, I _can_ build a Sarge 2.4 kernel. Maybe.

Re: Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:49:43 -0700 Eric Walstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm having trouble trying to apt-get update/upgrade my debian unstable > machine with the latest security fixes as advertised in the > debian-security-announce emails. When I do: > > apt-get update > apt

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #716

2004-07-27 Thread Eric Walstad
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:49, Eric Walstad wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm having trouble trying to apt-get update/upgrade my debian > > unstable machine with the latest security fixes as advertised > > in the debian-security-announce emails.

Re: Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:52:54 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:49, Eric Walstad wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'm having trouble trying to apt-get update/upgrade my debian unstable >> machine with the latest security fixes as advertised in the >> debian-security-an

Re: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:03:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine [snip] current# mkdir /mnt/clone current# mount target:/mnt/hdb3 /mnt/clone # let's assume /dev/hdb3 is mou

Re: Problems with lstat() and large files

2004-07-27 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hehe, talk about your well composed mail. That's what I get for sending it off in a rush... Anyway, I've tested with both glibc 2.2.5 (from woody) and glibc 2.3.2 (from sarge) on the same system, with both kernel 2.2.20 (from woody) and kernel 2.4.26 (vanilla kernel, self-compiled), and I figure d

Re: PPP Failing - Unsupported Protocol

2004-07-27 Thread Kenneth Jacker
>> * Lost compression sync: disabling compression >> Jul 25 13:16:55 localhost pppd[4004]: \ >> sent [CCP TermReq id=0x5"Lost compression sync"] >> * Jul 25 13:16:55 localhost kernel: PPP: VJ decompression error >> Jul 25 13:16:56 localhost last message repeated 3 times >> * Jul 25

Re: DSA-533 - Courier CSS

2004-07-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Lucio Crusca (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm the admin of a mail server running woody and Courier. Last week I > applied the DSA-533 patch. After that, the authenticated SMTP relaying > stopped working. > When I try to send an email using SMTP auth, the logfile shows > "/usr/lib/courier/

Re: newbie apt-get question

2004-07-27 Thread Mikael Magnusson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:26:26AM -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > Thanks. You are right - I'm using stable. But, I thought that I could > override the version of Samba (or other packages) included in the > distribution by using the syntax in my original post (i.e., > samba=3.0.5-1). Am I mistake

Re: lost my 'c' key in X

2004-07-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.07.27.0902 +0200]: > A problem sounding suspiciously similar to this afflicts U.K. keyboard > users who had specified "uk" as their XkbLayout rather than "gb". > > The XKB layout names are based on ISO 3166 country codes, which means that > th

Re: Re: Re: Re: Xserver aborts when idle

2004-07-27 Thread Uli Paul
Hi, I had the same problem some time ago and it was fixed after I turned off any power management in the BIOS. There the time to go to suspend mode was set to 20min (default value). I completely turned BIOS PM off and handled that with xset at startup of X. The computer is configured to boot st

Re: Samba as a PDC

2004-07-27 Thread Debian Users
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: C> Tried to setup Samba 3.0.4-5 on Sarge as a PDC. Tried very hard to read C> the docs and sample configure to no success. When connecting a W2k C> client, I get this error: C> C> "... Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password." Maybe a stupid question

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Wanda Round wrote: > Since the new machine already boots hda1 (Windows), with choices > for hdb1 and hdb3, how do I get the hdb4 original to use hdb3? > The original machine uses lilo, the target machine already uses > grub. current# mkdir /mnt/clone current# mount target

Re: X Setup Question

2004-07-27 Thread Kent West
Raquel Rice wrote: I've gotten the Gnome login screen to come up. I can even login. Thank you everyone for your help. There's a problem though. The screen is way too large. I've edited configuration using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but it doesn't change what the screen looks like. I've

Forgot Password

2004-07-27 Thread LOISML
Dear Sirs; Please send me my AOL password by email. Thank you.[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which IMAP server should I use

2004-07-27 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:02:28AM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > Hello. > > Which IMAP server would you recommend? > > I use Postfix as SMTP server. If you operate a small site and don't want too much setup time, I'd go with UW-IMAP (http://www.washington.edu/imap/). If you want more comple

Re: X Question

2004-07-27 Thread Kent West
Raquel Rice wrote: Thank you! [X is] running. Now the problem I'm having is that I get only a corner if the screen ... what's there is too large to see all of it. Change the screen size in the configuration? It sounds like your screen resolution is too low, but that the virtual screen size sett

Re: cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb > total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb. You'll want to read this, then: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux

cloning hdb4 to another machine

2004-07-27 Thread Wanda Round
Just a tiny bit past total newbie here-- I have Debian testing on one machine set up exactly how I want it on hdb4 (1.5 of 5.5 gb used), swap is hdb5 (512 mb). Entire hard drive is 15 gb. Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10

Samba and OSx

2004-07-27 Thread Steven Jones
Hi all, I have a debian 3.0 box running samba, it has been running for 2 odd years and is fully patched. Win2k, NT4, Win98 clients can talk to it and read and write to the common "share" directory without issue. I have just added an iMac running OSx (which is fully patched etc) It finds the w

Re: X Setup Question

2004-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 16:09, Raquel Rice wrote: > I've gotten the Gnome login screen to come up. I can even login. > Thank you everyone for your help. There's a problem though. > > The screen is way too large. I've edited configuration using > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but it doesn't c

Re: newbie apt-get question

2004-07-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:11:02PM +0200, Allan Rasmussen wrote: > Samba 3.0.5 is only available in unstable as far as I can see. Take a look at > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search for samba in all distributions. So > if you aren't > running unstable you can't install it (just use

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Moin! * Alexandros Papadopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040727 21:48]: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xhost +root > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: No protocol specified > > > > xhost: unable to open display ":0" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > > > Suggestions? > > As the user who

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-27 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 22:25, John van Spaandonk wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 18:06, James Vahn wrote: > > rich wrote: > > > I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've > > > su'ed to another (not root), I want to be able to use gvim, but > > > it tells me it's not allowe

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top but IS reported by gnome-system-monitor :)

2004-07-27 Thread Luke Anderson
I saw this question on an archive and as there was no solution I thought it best to share mine. Although top does not report any process as eating the CPU, a program called gnome-system-monitor does :). If you are using kde and having high CPU usage problems, as some of the boxes I've installe

Re: IBM F50 RS/6000 PPC PowerPC

2004-07-27 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:30:16 +0200, Francisco Ernesto Teixiera escreveu: > When I try to install the Debian on this machine, this return "Unable to mount > Rescue Disk." You will want to send this to debian-ports-powerpc instead. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (44)

Re: burning a VCD with xcdroast

2004-07-27 Thread csj
On 27. July 2004 at 11:35AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, if this is not really a Debian question, but I am > getting really frustrated trying to figure this out. > > I have created an mpg file (MPEG1) and authored it for vcd. > After authoring it, a second mpg file wa

How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread listcomm
I just want a basic log file containing the source and destination addresses for all traffic in and out of via PPP, so that I can keep track of what connections to outside IP addresses are made, and from where (externally, or from something running on my system) they originated. I've turned on the

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-27 Thread John van Spaandonk
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 18:06, James Vahn wrote: > rich wrote: > > I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've su'ed > > to another (not root), I want to be able to use gvim, but it tells me > > it's not allowed to use the X server. > > > > How can I get this working? > > Try

Re: filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Meggs
Actually, I have been using filename completion in all of the examples contained in my original email. I even tried tcsh to double check that it wasn't a problem with bash's autocomplete. /tom On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:35, Thomas Meggs wrote: > > Here i

Re: filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Thomas Meggs wrote: > ... > File can't be mv'd (here it is quoted): > # mv "egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3" test.mp3 > mv: cannot stat `egotrippi_-_?\346l?\346_koskaan_ikin?\346.mp3': No such > file or directory > ... > I've also tried removing the fil

Re: filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:35, Thomas Meggs wrote: > Here is example output: > > # ls -i > ls: egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3: No such file or directory > [ output does not contain the inode/file listing ] > > /tom > > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > Maybe you can try, > >

Re: Converting Exim4 to quasi-satellite

2004-07-27 Thread Tim Otten
Nevermind. It's taken care of. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:49, Eric Walstad wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having trouble trying to apt-get update/upgrade my debian unstable > machine with the latest security fixes as advertised in the > debian-security-announce emails. When I do: > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > dpkg -l | gre

OT: Dedian used at Radio Observatory

2004-07-27 Thread Lourens Steenkamp
Hello Everyone, Posted on my local LUG - thought you may be interested? "I was at the Hartbeeshoek Radio Observatory on Friday evening. They have a 200 ton aluminium dish searching for pulsars etc. dumping in excess of 1 TB of data per day ! Running Debian :) controlling everything on the dish, f

Re: Samba as a PDC

2004-07-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:25:16 +1000 Clement wrote: > >On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Clement wrote: > > > >>[global] > >>workgroup = WORKGROUP > >>... > >>invalid users = root > > By the way, what is the "DOMAIN" name for the Windows clients? There is > not "DOMAIN" name parameter in the sa

Re: filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Meggs
Here is example output: # ls -i ls: egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3: No such file or directory [ output does not contain the inode/file listing ] /tom On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Joris Huizer wrote: > Maybe you can try, > ls -i > and then, > find . -inum -ok mv '{}' myfile \; -- To UNSUB

burning a VCD with xcdroast

2004-07-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Sorry, if this is not really a Debian question, but I am getting really frustrated trying to figure this out. I have created an mpg file (MPEG1) and authored it for vcd. After authoring it, a second mpg file was created along with a xml file. Now originally I thought I just had to burn my fir

Re: trouble with curses.h

2004-07-27 Thread rawat
Hi, thanx for the tip...actually some weeks back i had used sarge for some package upgrade...at that point i must have installed libncurses5 from sargeafter that i had gone back to stable...hence today morning when i was trying to install libncurses5

Re: filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Joris Huizer
Thomas Meggs wrote: Hi - I have a few files on my system which I'm having issues dealing with. Here is the story: File can't be ls'd: # ls -l ls: egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3: No such file or directory total 135800 [ The error is generated, but then the file isn't listed with the rest of th

Re: Need an older version of Perl on Debian for WebCT

2004-07-27 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:21:03 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > ... That's it, I'm switching to Gentoo, or Mandrake. I can hold my own on the bleeding edge, but Debian is really becoming too much for any sane man to handle... ;) -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: procmail file locking broken?

2004-07-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Robert L. Harris([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I just got a couple calls from some people I work with and have been > bouncing emails it seems. I think I tracked it down to a problem with > procmail trying to lock files. In my procmail log I get this: > > procmail: No ma

Problems with lstat() and large files

2004-07-27 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hi, I'm having some problems with lstat() on debian stable and debian testing with 2.4 kernels. A program that tries to do lstat on a file bigger than 2gb gets an error. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm running third party software that requires a functional ltrace(), and doesn't handle this

Apt-get upgrade for security announcement

2004-07-27 Thread Eric Walstad
Hi All, I'm having trouble trying to apt-get update/upgrade my debian unstable machine with the latest security fixes as advertised in the debian-security-announce emails. When I do: apt-get update apt-get upgrade dpkg -l | grep I find that the installed version of the package doesn't match

cdrecord severly drags system time on woody/2.4.18-bf2.4

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Adler
I'm investigating what causes the System Time to become inaccurate on some of our servers. In brief, cdrecord seems to cause a rapid slow down of the System Time. It occurs with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel packaged with woody, but not with a 2.4.22-xfs kernel packaged with (some version of) Knoppix. I

Re: trouble with curses.h

2004-07-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi all, > I have debian 3.0 woody on a linux box.. > i am getting the following error while complining a program... > > menkar >> make > cc -c galfit.c > galfit.c:15: curses.h: No such file or directory > make: *** [galfit.o] Error 1 > > i undersatnd tha

Re: DNS

2004-07-27 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:05:28AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Thanks to all the folks who replied to my original posting. I really do > appreciate it. What I was looking for was the /etc/resolv.conf approach. > > Unfortunately, I just realized that's not what I needed. :-) > >

IBM F50 RS/6000 PPC PowerPC

2004-07-27 Thread Francisco Ernesto Teixiera
When I try to install the Debian on this machine, this return "Unable to mount Rescue Disk.", in all installation modes.   But, when I go to console mode (Alt+F2), and do mount -o loop rescue.bin /mnt, this mount...   How I do?

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello rich (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 16:45, Joost De Cock wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 17:35, rich hurled the following on the wire: >>> I start my X session as one user, then from a terminal where I've >>> su'ed to another (not root), I want to be able to use gv

Re: Cups can't start with error 98

2004-07-27 Thread CW Harris
I believe I'm starting to know more about CUPS than I really want to. If the following solves your problem, we both need to RTFM better ;-) On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:09:56PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: [...] > Nothing interesting, but I did notice one more line of output that I > didn't before: >

Re: Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-07-27 Thread Raylouha
Please remove all aol art files from my pc  raylouha

Re: Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-07-27 Thread Raylouha
Please remove all aol art from my pc  raylouha

filename problem

2004-07-27 Thread Thomas Meggs
Hi - I have a few files on my system which I'm having issues dealing with. Here is the story: File can't be ls'd: # ls -l ls: egotrippi_-_??l??_koskaan_ikin??.mp3: No such file or directory total 135800 [ The error is generated, but then the file isn't listed with the rest of the output. ] File

Re: aol art files:

2004-07-27 Thread Raylouha
Please remove files from my pc  raylouha

Re: Need an older version of Perl on Debian for WebCT

2004-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:29:24AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Not a version issue. This is a matter of having the proper CPAN modules > added to Perl. You can find out what CPAN modules are installed in the > RH 7.3 machine. When you get that list, look ing the Debian archive for > those modul

Re: Need an older version of Perl on Debian for WebCT

2004-07-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:40:42AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:21:03PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > The problem is that (we are trying out sarge now) the perl version > > (5.8.3) cannot open the Berkeley database files of WebCT 3.8. I > > suspect it needs perl 5.005 w

authentication errors

2004-07-27 Thread rich
I'm using sarge with Gnome and always get this GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. when launching an X app from the terminal. The apps still w

Re: Did that. Now no net.

2004-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:17:13AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > > begin quotation of Hendrik Boom: > > > > > This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and > > > upgrade, or new install. > > > > New install

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