RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Joyce
Just buy a new drive Dave, there so cheap, why waste your time fiddling about with an old 40gb. I'm joking of course, you should check cables, and check nothing is shorting out. ..then buy a new one. Matt > -Original Message- > From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 2

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Silvan wrote: Before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd see if there's already something cooked up. What I want to do is look at my disks and gather statistics about what is eating the most space. Where the biggest files are, which directories are the largest, etc. I'm running out of room, a

How does exim4 format bounce messages

2004-07-29 Thread Alan Chandler
I am running a "Sarge" based Exim4 mail server for the domain chandlerfamily.org.uk. The highest priority MX records point directly at this server, although I have a backup route which involves routing the messages via pop3 mailboxes at my ISP and picking them up with fetchmail. Whilst uncover

Re: data replication how to

2004-07-29 Thread Ioannou Ioannis
On Thursday 29 July 2004 19:09, Yohann Desquerre wrote: > > i think i would plug the 2 storage product and the debian into the > switch and then use unison to replicate the data (or do a snapshot)... unison is good for bidirectional replication (i.e. changes are happening in both storage devices

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Griffin Palmer wrote: The actual binary is named something different, but it's symlinked to exim. I just ran the same lsof syntax on the machine on which exim *is* receiving mail properly, and it also results in no output on that machine. On the old box lsof -i -n -- Cheers John -- spambait [

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
Silvan wrote: I'm running out of room, and I'm sure I must have gigabytes of stupid junk laying around, but I'm not sure where I left all of it. - Every month or so I inspect my non-stable systems using the "cruft" package. - For packages not already managed by aptitude, repetitive applications

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script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-29 Thread Silvan
Before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd see if there's already something cooked up. What I want to do is look at my disks and gather statistics about what is eating the most space. Where the biggest files are, which directories are the largest, etc. I'm running out of room, and I'm sure I

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Griffin Palmer wrote: Hmm. When I try the syntax with 'post,' as in your example below, I get output similar to what you show below. When I try lsof -c exim -a -i, I get nothing. That sounds like a problem. Unless the exim program has some other name (I don't use it) then it's not running.

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Griffin Palmer
Hmm. When I try the syntax with 'post,' as in your example below, I get output similar to what you show below. When I try lsof -c exim -a -i, I get nothing. --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Griffin Palmer wrote: > > >OBTW -- when I try to telnet to port 25 on the new > box > >

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Griffin Palmer wrote: OBTW -- when I try to telnet to port 25 on the new box from the old box, I get "connection refused." That's your problem. Here's how to use lsof for this prob: ns:~# lsof -c post -a -i COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME postmaste 691 postgres3u IP

Re: How set the assoications in Firefox?

2004-07-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
> Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-30 03:29]: > > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:37:18 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > > > >I cannot set any association in Mozilla-Firefox! How and where > > >can I find the right option > > > > > > > > > > > I believe

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Griffin Palmer
Attempts to telnet to port 25 result in a "connection refused" message. --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For starters: > See what addresses exim is listening to > lsof -c exi -a -i > > If that checks out. from outside, see what really > happens: > > telnet Griff.example.com 25 >

Re: none

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
"Eric Haii Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmm, smells like spam. How many Eric's have the login "angela"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2004-07-29 Thread Eric Haii Lee
hi ,sir   I hv looked your article on the internet,but i don't have any good idea of how to carry out the 9738 sound card , do you have the design or chipset? if so ,we 'd like to hv its price and driver.   many thanks Eric

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Griffin Palmer
Thanks for the suggestions. I need to study up on the lsof syntax. I'll put the new machine on-line tomorrow & hit it from work to see what the 'host' command shows. gp --- John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For starters: > See what addresses exim is li

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Griffin Palmer
No. I've still got my old server running. When I set port forwarding on the router to point again to the old box, it gets mail just fine. In fact, a lot of the messages languishing on my ISP's MTA find their way to the old box, no problem, when I reset the router's port forwarding to it. (I even

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
For starters: See what addresses exim is listening to lsof -c exi -a -i If that checks out. from outside, see what really happens: telnet Griff.example.com 25 If that checkes out, from outside host -t mx Gruff.example.com Griffin Palmer wrote: This may be one for the firewalls list, but I'm not e

Re: What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Griffin Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > This may be one for the firewalls list, but I'm not > entirely sure this is a firewall issue, or, at least, > *entirely* a firewall issue. I'm pretty sure it's not > an exim issue. > > I thought I'd see if

What's blocking Port 25?

2004-07-29 Thread Griffin Palmer
This may be one for the firewalls list, but I'm not entirely sure this is a firewall issue, or, at least, *entirely* a firewall issue. I'm pretty sure it's not an exim issue. I thought I'd see if there are any troubleshooting suggestions from this obviously very experienced user base, before tryin

switches Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > I seem to recall some BIOS-flashing program I ran recently claimed to be > able to turn it off. However, I don't know any way in _linux_ to do > that. Besides, most of my boxes don't have reset buttons. because they are trying to save $2.oo switch

Re: can't read my mail

2004-07-29 Thread David P James
On Fri 30 July 2004 00:00, dircha wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > my screen is half the size of normal. this ha[ppens every nite > > Are you running X? Please elaborate on what you are doing leading up > to the time you encounter this problem. No, Lololube is not running X. Lololube is on L

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, Paul Johnson penned: > --=-=-= > > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: >>> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >>> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >>> roadrunner is not

Re: can't read my mail

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my screen is half the size of normal. this ha[ppens every nite Are you running X? Please elaborate on what you are doing leading up to the time you encounter this problem. Is either APM or ACPI involved? In the past I've had problems where after resume when X is running

can't read my mail

2004-07-29 Thread Lololube
my screen is half the size of normal. this ha[ppens every nite

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Micha Feigin wrote: The reset will force a reset, thats true (I am not sure it even goes through the bios). I seem to recall some BIOS-flashing program I ran recently claimed to be able to turn it off. However, I don't know any way in _linux_ to do that. Besides, most of my boxes don't have re

Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Tim Connors
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:36:34 -0500: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:37:08PM +0100, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > > I've had something very similar to this before. My HDD is > > ``S.M.A.R.T.'' and it never warned me of immanent destruction so I was > > very concerned.

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
M Correct. - hitting the power switch ... will power off the box immediately or delay 5 seconds before power off .. more bios code .. Conditionally wrong. Machines I install now do a graceful shutdown. - you can't "remap" the bios code to something e

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread dircha
Steve Witt wrote: I used beta4 and it ROCKS! I really wanted to install woody on this machine but the woody installation couldn't deal with the IDE configuration of this computer, so I tried the new installer with sarge and it worked great. Is there an advanced option in the new installer to instal

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread Steve Witt
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Harshwardhan Shashikant Nagaonkar wrote: I just wanted to say thanks to the d-i guys, I used it today to install some new systems and it was just great... autodetecting everything (on a new hp-compaq d530 no less, with a broadcom network card etc.). I eventually did put wood

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Micha Feigin wrote: > The reset will force a reset, thats true (I am not sure it even goes > through the bios). its sometimes connected to the nmi on the cpu and/or the power switch is connected to it or both .. just depends every low level thingie goes thru the bios if

Re: help

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Lukovszki Csaba wrote: > help > "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different." (sorry) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:55:10AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > >hi ya > > > >On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote: > > > > > > > >>>- 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody > >>> > >>>- anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:22:03PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote: > > > > - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody > > > > > > - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot > > > :-) > > > > But as ano

Re: DIR_COLORS

2004-07-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael B Allen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Thomas Adam said: > > --- Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would anyone happen to know why? > > > > eval `dircolors -b` > > > > has always been what has worked for me: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ unset LS_COLORS

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:15:16AM +0800, csj wrote: > On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I create an audio cd image on disk? > > > > I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, > > burn, mp3burn and a bunch of other consol

Re: Locking of sound card...

2004-07-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Alex Derkach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! Is there any way to prevent programs from locking the sound > device (so other programs can play sound at the same time)? > > I've googled around but only found answers for OSS, I'm using ALSA 1.0.4 > with a C-Media CM8738 (on board). Thanks! ht

Re: Upgrading Perl

2004-07-29 Thread Mike Ward
Yeah, after looking about a bit I came to the same conclusion, that it's best not to mess with it. It's up to date for a debian stable machine, so eh. Really, the only reason was that we've been using Cache::SharedMemoryCache to track user logins and such, and that module is just painfully slow. S

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-29 Thread John Foster
On Thursday 29 July 2004 02:17 pm, Miernik wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I got them to install from the site you gave me, but apparantly there is not a menu section in the config files for debian yet. At any rate my KDE3 did not recognize it not even when I ran update-menus as root. So the next

Re: DIR_COLORS

2004-07-29 Thread Michael B Allen
Thomas Adam said: > --- Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Would anyone happen to know why? > > eval `dircolors -b` > > has always been what has worked for me: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ unset LS_COLORS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ eval $(dircolors -b) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]

Re: How set the assoications in Firefox?

2004-07-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:37:18 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >I cannot set any association in Mozilla-Firefox! How and where can I > >find the right option > > > > > > > I believe (but am not certain) that you want the MozEx extension. > >

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Michael Madden wrote: Has anyone has any success using USB memory sticks on Debian 3.0? I am using kernel I can mount real disk drives in USB enclosures on Woody. I don't recall that I did more than install hotplug. I use standard Woody kernels. When I plug the drive in, I mount it as root as I

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-29 Thread Lance Simmons
* Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040729 18:49]: > > I always thought some kind of menu system was a requisite for a > desktop environment until I started using ion. You're part of the way there, but what you really need is ratpoison! :) -- Lance Simmons signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: D-Link DWL-G510 NEWBIE

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
matt zagrabelny wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:34, Roger Creasy wrote: Hello, I just installed the sarge base system. The installer did not recognize my WiFi card, D-Link DWL-G510. Does anyone know what I need to do to get this working? Please remember that I am a newbie and need very basic ins

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Gear wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Paul Gear wrote: Hi folks, Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the debian-user arch

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote: - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot :-) But as another poster said the buttons could be remapped to initiate a graceful shutdown.

debian-installer

2004-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
I've been spying on the d-i team, and I note they've sent the package off to the build q. They've not decided whether this is a new beta or the first rc. If you have a machine you want to install Debian on, or one you _can_ install on, this is a really good time to do it. While you're waiting

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:16:11 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-07-29, John Summerfield penned: > > > > Somehow I thought the Red Hat tools were working spectacularly well in > > Knoppix which most see as a debian derivitive. > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't thin

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:15:33 -0700, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > > I don't think there is any way in metacity to launch apps though > > (except by loading gnome-panel) which is something all aforementioned > > window manager

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, csj wrote: > > - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody > > > > - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot > > :-) > > But as another poster said the buttons could be remapped to > initiate a graceful shutdown.

Re: DIR_COLORS

2004-07-29 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would anyone happen to know why? eval `dircolors -b` has always been what has worked for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ unset LS_COLORS [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ eval $(dircolors -b) [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ echo $LS_COLORS [..output sni

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 1:06PM -0500, John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get Rekall 2.0 to compile on Debian sid. It > seems to crap out saying that there are no headers or libs > installed. I have qt3-mt installed, & am wondering if the 'mt' > is the problem. I ran into a similar

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread John Hasler
Dave Hathaway writes: > I did look briefly at leafnode during a moment of despair. cnews+suck > looked so easy to configure that I thought I would stick with it. I even > dselect'd leafnode, but ultimately didn't grab it. Maybe I should have. > Maybe I will. I use cnews+suck on Woody, but I do

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I create an audio cd image on disk? > > I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, > burn, mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools, and it seems > that there is no problem to write audio dir

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread csj
On 29. July 2004 at 2:19AM -0700, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands > > requiring root (i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What > > choices do are there? If you can stand Gnome or KDE tha

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Dave Hathaway
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: > > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when > > roadrunner is not jam packed. > >

Saving Desktop Configuration under Gnome

2004-07-29 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Gnome under Sarge. I use multiple copies of gnome-terminal. I configure the font and color scheme in the Edit menu at the top of window. I think that these config changes should be saved when I quit X and restart, but they are not. What should I do to get them saved (and installed at s

Sarge breaks some HP deskjets

2004-07-29 Thread Joe Potter
Hello all, Is there anyway that the Debian team could make it so I could use libcupsys2 in Sarge rather than libcupsys2-gnutls10 ?? The latter breaks my HP 920c in that I can no longer print text --- but graphics still works. With libcupsys2 it works just great. Can we put back the library th

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
The root hub should at least show up in /proc/bus/usb/devices What USB modules do you have loaded? modprobe usbcore modprobe usb-uhci Your post led me in the right direction. I didn't have the uhci module loaded. After loading it, it worked great. Thanks for your help. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

2004-07-29 Thread Vittorio
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:50, Kevin Buhr wrote: > zcat /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz | >   perl -ne 'm,home/vic/, && do { ++$count[($l + length($`)) % 512] }; >   $l += length($_); END { for (0..511) { printf "%3d %5d\n", $_, >   $count[$_] if $count[$_] } }' | sort -nr +1 | head -20 For the t

Re: Small fonts

2004-07-29 Thread Alejandro Matos
You will solve the problem istalling this: # apt-get install xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base-transcoded I had the same problem when i install debian. Saludos Alejandro Matos > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >Tim Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>I hav

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:54, Michael Madden wrote: > > What does 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' return? > > > > I use a memory stick on my box... > > Linux debiantosh 2.4.22-ben2 #1 Sun Dec 28 15:18:36 PST 2003 ppc GNU/Linux > > > > What type of reader are you using? The memory stick is generic, it'

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
What does 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' return? I use a memory stick on my box... Linux debiantosh 2.4.22-ben2 #1 Sun Dec 28 15:18:36 PST 2003 ppc GNU/Linux What type of reader are you using? The memory stick is generic, it's the reader that needs to be recognized. /proc/bus/usb/devices is empty. The

Re: Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:21, Michael Madden wrote: > Has anyone has any success using USB memory > sticks on Debian 3.0? I am using kernel > 2.4.26 with the following needed options > compiled into my kernel, but I cannot see my > memory stick. > I've also loaded the usb-storage module > and moun

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid

2004-07-29 Thread James Miller
This refers to Mozilla 1.7.1-4 (have had problems with all 1.7.1) and Firefox 0.9.1-5. When I start them from a console, the try to go to the problem page (e.g., Google), the browser crashes. In the console appears: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla selected UILocale: en-US selected ContentLocale: US

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Kent West
Otto Wyss wrote: I want to setup a desktop system where the current user can do anything he needs and that means also commands like halt (since he started the system he should be able to stop it). There are many more such commands but halt is rather typical. Such a user may never know the root pass

Re: I/O Errors

2004-07-29 Thread CW Harris
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:04:07AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest > the disk is stuffed. > I could be wrong, but isn't dev 0b:00 /dev/scd0 ? So it's having trouble reading a scsi cdrom? -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL

DIR_COLORS

2004-07-29 Thread Michael B Allen
The dir_colors info page reads: NAME dir_colors - configuration file for dircolors(1) DESCRIPTION The program ls(1) uses the environment variable LS_COLORS to determine the colors in which the filenames are to be displayed. This environ- ment variable is usually se

Using a memory stick on Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone has any success using USB memory sticks on Debian 3.0? I am using kernel 2.4.26 with the following needed options compiled into my kernel, but I cannot see my memory stick. SCSI support * CONFIG_SCSI scsi_mod.o * CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD sd_mod.o File systems * CONFIG_FAT_FS fat.o * CONFIG_M

Re: Ever solve eject problem?

2004-07-29 Thread Eric M. Monsler
Steven Jones wrote: try fuser, it should show if someone or something is in the directory in question. so man fuser eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fuser /mnt/ (gives no return) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cd /mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# fuser /mnt/ /mnt/: 16337c [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ps au

RE: I/O Errors

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest the disk is stuffed. regards S -Original Message- From: Michael G. Morey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 8:50 a.m. To: Debian User List Subject: I/O Errors All, I'm running Debia

Re: Small fonts

2004-07-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:26:15 +0200, Tim Raats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have small fonts in programs like XMMS, Audacity, Amule and more. I > think its because the system font, or am I wrong ? > > How do I fix this ? There's no easy answer to font problems. First, check your X config and mak

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 15:20, Otto Wyss wrote: > I want to setup a desktop system where the current user can do anything > he needs and that means also commands like halt (since he started the > system he should be able to stop it). There are many more such commands > but halt is rather typical. Suc

I/O Errors

2004-07-29 Thread Michael G. Morey
All, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1. I've recently had to restart GNOME 2.2, and found the following errors on the console (tty01) prior to rebooting: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 Are these disk

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Gear
John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying >> to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message >> below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the >> debian-user archiv

RE: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
did you try modconf to load it? I use these cards and have had no issue. Once inserted with modconf it should be there on reboots. regards S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 3:30 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Ether

RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
keep an eye on it but this looks bad. Check something like advanced power manager in the bios is not active that could be shutting down the hd, but biggest likelyhood IMHO is the drive looks to be failing. regards S -Original Message- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: Ever solve eject problem?

2004-07-29 Thread Steven Jones
try fuser, it should show if someone or something is in the directory in question. so man fuser eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fuser /mnt/ (gives no return) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cd /mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# fuser /mnt/ /mnt/: 16337c [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ps aux |grep 16337 roo

Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-29 Thread Harshwardhan Shashikant Nagaonkar
I just wanted to say thanks to the d-i guys, I used it today to install some new systems and it was just great... autodetecting everything (on a new hp-compaq d530 no less, with a broadcom network card etc.). I eventually did put woody on those machines (using systemimager) but I need something

Re: Re: configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2004-07-29 Thread Daniel Flick
I know this is old, but since I did not see a final answer, I thought I would post so others could find the answer more easily. I was getting the same problem with compiling GAIM and it turned out to be that although gcc was installed, that gcc did not include c++ support. In Debian, I had to inst

Re: Metacity window manager

2004-07-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > I don't think there is any way in metacity to launch apps though > (except by loading gnome-panel) which is something all aforementioned > window managers seem to have. I think most people expect at least this > functionality in a wm.

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:57:57PM +0200, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing? You might want to look at http://backports.org, which contains many of the Sid packages backported for use with Woody. If that doesn't work, you might use apt

Re: How to set time

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David P James had the gall to say: >> Considering that the user is (1) on ALO and (2) using a Windows >> mailer (ALO it looks like) I have my doubts that the above is much >> help... > > Agreed. Does anyone else find it easy to filter out such obv

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Otto Wyss: > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more > > > user friendly? > > > > Be careful with 'user friendly'. It is not quite clear what you mean here, but > > I want to setup a desk

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:11, Paul Johnson wrote: >> What's wrong with discover? Nobody has answered that. What is wrong >> with discover? Why does everybody ignore discover? > > Well, Visa and MasterCard are accepted more places than Discover. Plus > t

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-29 Thread Miernik
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to get Rekall 2.0 to compile on Debian sid. It seems to crap out > saying that there are no headers or libs installed. I have qt3-mt installed, > & am wondering if the 'mt' is the problem. I ran into a similar issue a while > ago with perl-mt

apt-listchanges

2004-07-29 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I installed apt-listchanges. And now see during an apt-get or in synaptic that the changelogs are being read. But I don't see see the changelogs. From the man pages I know that I have to change /etc/apt/listchanges.conf and I mucked around a bit but still do not see anything Can anybody advic

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Otto Wyss
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:36:39AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more > > user friendly? > > Be careful with 'user friendly'. It is not quite clear what you mean here, but > often it means that a system can easily be damaged - by a ca

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid

2004-07-29 Thread cjackson
Micha Feigin writes: On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:29:49AM -0500, James Miller wrote: Is anyone else having problems with Mozilla and/or Mozilla Firefox under unstable? For the last tow weeks, despite numerous dist-upgrades, I've been unable to get either to run without frequent crashing. At first

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Paul Johnson
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: >> I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of >> news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when >> roadrunner is not jam packed. > > I can't answer your actual configuratio

Re: AnyOne got "Rekall" working on Debian

2004-07-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:06:05PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > [...] > this application. Any thoughts or experiences. BTW 'Rekall" is a KDE database > frontend similar to ms Access in function, but it currently has no Debian > developer--anyone interested??? Some people are already worki

data replication how to

2004-07-29 Thread Yohann Desquerre
hi all, I 'd to promote the free software at my job, i 'am trying to make my bosses trust in a free sofware solution to replicate 7TB from an hitachi storage product to a STK one. Here is the things i had to do that : 1 x86 server (debian for sure !) 1 fc switch brocade 3800 2 fc pci board (qlo

Re: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0

2004-07-29 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks to Kent and Matt's response. It turns out that the module is not there and I have to what, compile the module or recompile the kernel. What would be the steps in both the cases? Any documents that I can read if this is a long process? Also, the Ethernet card t

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

2004-07-29 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:10:10 +0200, John Summerfield wrote: > If you are running Sarge (or Sid) you can configure acpid so that you > can shut down the system by pressing the power button. You can do it on > Woody too (with a 2.4 kernel), but you need to build your own kernel for > that. Or you

Re: How to set time

2004-07-29 Thread Jonathan Matthews
David P James had the gall to say: > Considering that the user is (1) on ALO and (2) using a Windows > mailer (ALO it looks like) I have my doubts that the above is much > help... Agreed. Does anyone else find it easy to filter out such obvious "noise" solely on where the text versus the heade

ew-7128

2004-07-29 Thread spac
Someone configured ew-7428 pci wireless card in 2.6.7 kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any chance of Debian adding YaST

2004-07-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 14:11, Paul Johnson wrote: > What's wrong with discover? Nobody has answered that. What is wrong > with discover? Why does everybody ignore discover? Well, Visa and MasterCard are accepted more places than Discover. Plus the Retailer fee much higher than the Visa or Master

Re: newbie Usenet config question

2004-07-29 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-29, Dave Hathaway penned: > I am trying to configure suck and cnews to provide a local copy of > news, so that I can pull it at night or during the times when > roadrunner is not jam packed. I can't answer your actual configuration questions, but have you looked at leafnode? It seems t

Re: Mozilla/Mozilla Firefox problems on Sid

2004-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:29:49AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with Mozilla and/or Mozilla Firefox under > unstable? For the last tow weeks, despite numerous dist-upgrades, I've > been unable to get either to run without frequent crashing. At first, > Mozilla would

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:08:57PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2004 15:06, Micha Feigin wrote: > > How do I create an audio cd image on disk? > > > > I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, burn, > > mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools,

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