Re: woody -> installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 15 at 09:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > > $ sfdisk -d > > # partition table of /dev/hda > > unit: sectors > > > > /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, bootable > > /dev/hda2 : start= 192780, size= 1959930, Id=82 > > /dev/hda3

ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf

2004-08-15 Thread Dave Harrison
Hi All, I'm pondering moving my dhcpd.conf file into LDAP. The only tool I've found so far that could help me with it is ldaptor-ldap2dhcpconf. However it seems undocumented as to the schema it requires or the way that it works. Can anyone enlighten me about how this tool expects the directory to

Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 13 at 08:52PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0400, James Herschel wrote: > >>What should I do next time? > > > >Not use reiserfs. > > What's wrong with reiserfs? > I've been running it for three years without a hiccup. i'd still love

Re: woody -> installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > (yes, i'm also working on getting them to "tune2fs -j" this > puppy as well.) good .. ext3 or reiserfs or xfs or jfs > $ sfdisk -d > # partition table of /dev/hda > unit: sectors > > /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, boo

Re: I have broken apt-get Panic!

2004-08-15 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Dave Whiteley wrote: > I have an old system that has been running "stable" for ages. I am now > truing to upgrade it to "testing" but somehow I have got myself into a > deadlock position. > > debconf is dying because:- > >deb

Re: Websphere MQ on Debian ??

2004-08-15 Thread Simon Kitching
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 01:38, John Foster wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2004 07:41 pm, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > > Has anyone here ever installed WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) on Debian Linux? > > Any special tricks or pitfalls? Thanks. > - Hi, Yes I have installed

Re: Debian PPC Console?

2004-08-15 Thread Loki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Ed Sutherland wrote: > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not > text in X) is clipped on the left edge of the screen. ("Linux is printed > "inux" on my iMac monitor.) This clipping doesn't happen in O

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:40:42AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on > Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. > Hi Bill, the current Linux Journal has writ

woody -> installed on DUAL-PROCESSOR software RAID!

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Mon, Aug 09 at 04:15PM +0200, Hans Wilmer wrote: > Thus, at least one of them will be dual CPU systems, but I´m > lacking experience with multi processor machines. Both should > have SATA RAID controllers from 3ware, thus mainboards > providing 64bit PCI slots make sense. i've got a client whos

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > I've answered the config questions of course > But I'm not sure if I answered it right... > > Here is my "sendmail.mc" > Is there any thing wrong? you didn't answer the "domain questions" properly ... and supported virtual hosts - it'd be e

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > ... > I've answered the config questions of course > But I'm not sure if I answered it right... I think the Debian sendmail package maintainer has already contacted you about this matter.

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: > Here is my "sendmail.mc" > Is there any thing wrong? > > ... > LOCAL_CONFIG > FEATURE(`nullclient', NONE)dnl > > LOCAL_CONFIG > ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved) This appears to be the configuration for local mail only.

Re: Kernel panic (customizing kernel 2.6.6)

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 15 August 2004 01:13 pm, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Guys, > > I am trying to customize my kernel 2.6.6 but it fails to boot. I have > a theory of why it is not booting, but I don't know how to fix it. > > Let's see, I first downloaded and installed kernel-2.6.6-1-386 and > ins

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Shu Hung (Koala)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos Sousa wrote: | The sendmail package asks you a few questions upon installation, so | as to configure it properly for your machine. Don't you remember | answering them? You really should take software installation a lot | less lightly... I've ans

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - > John if you're using the sar

AIDE warnings following kernel upgrade

2004-08-15 Thread dmargoli
Hi, I'm writing regarding some strange behaviour on a machine of mine. The machine: Debian stable, previously running Debian sources 2.4.18, just upgraded to a grsecurity-patched vanilla 2.4.27. Apache1.3, Postfix, Mailman. Fairly typical setup. What happened: As I said, I upgraded from the Debi

Re: problem installing Sendmail

2004-08-15 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what > > you don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may > > need to be in something like "Custom Install Mode" or something > > to get this, but that's just

Re: kdeinit

2004-08-15 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:09:44 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:25:20AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:07 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > I see funny heavy process. > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > > 4240 osamu

Re: don't remove kernel 2.4 or bye-bye ppp, alsa

2004-08-15 Thread Dan Jacobson
So we see that something alsa left in /etc/modprobe.d knocked out ppp etc. # pppd ... pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a module, tr

Re: kdeinit

2004-08-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 02:25:20AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:55:07 +0200 Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I see funny heavy process. > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > > 4240 osamu 25 0 23104 11m 21m R 98.4 2.3 25:28.06 kdeinit > >

Re: Kernel panic (customizing kernel 2.6.6)

2004-08-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 03:13:39PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > My theory is that the problem relies in the file called > initrd.img-2.6.6-1-386. Since the make process didn't create a > initrd.img-2.6.6 I kept the same one. You might look at mkinitrd. You might also wonder (as

Re: apt-get upgrade doesn't honor my rebuilded packages

2004-08-15 Thread Travis Crump
Tong wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:23:05 +0200, Koos Vriezen wrote: ... CVS, I needed to recompile some c++ dependent packages like fam. ... Now if I do 'apt-get -s upgrade', I get ... so it wants to replace it again what I just build. How can I prevent this? What's puzzling me most is that this s

Re: Debian PPC Console?

2004-08-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:31:39AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Ed Sutherland: > > Any PPC users lurking about here? I just finished tinkering with > > OpenDarwin, but think I'm returning to the Debian nest. A question, though: > > > > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text

mirrorservice.org not mirros.ac.uk

2004-08-15 Thread Jim Bailey
I am not too sure if this is a bug or not but, http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US shows: ftp://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/ Currently this is correct but possibly not for long since this stopped be

Re: Simple packet fowarding?

2004-08-15 Thread Tony Middleton
put ip_forward = yes in /etc/network/options stan wrote: I'm setting up a test rig using a Debian unstable system as a server for some LTSP clients. The Debian machine has 2 NIC's, one to the "eal" network, and a 2nd 192,168.x.x one for the LTSP clients. The long term plan is that the 2 networks w

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 07:02 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > ... > >>>Too bad. MD Raid is tough for a bootable setup with automated tools. > >> > >>This is part of what i don't understand. As Alvin Oga and i were > >>discussing a while back (see archives), it is a supported config

"screen" saves life, all in a day's work

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
okay, it's a bit of hyperbole. but MAN i don't remember what life was like a few weeks ago without "screen"! there i was, minding my own business... i noticed my /home partition filling up, so i started a laborious copy sendnig the files to another box across town so i could reswizzle my partitio

Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

2004-08-15 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Paul, What I don't get is that it works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. That's why I doudt it is an issue with the proxy. Unless it is blocking just me and not other IP's. :-) Interesing, I am going to try with another IP. Just for the heck of it. Thanks, -Marvin - Mensaje Original -

Re: apt-get upgrade doesn't honor my rebuilded packages

2004-08-15 Thread Tong
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:23:05 +0200, Koos Vriezen wrote: > ... > CVS, I needed to recompile some c++ dependent packages like fam. > ... > Now if I do 'apt-get -s upgrade', I get > ... > so it wants to replace it again what I just build. How can I prevent this? > What's puzzling me most is that this

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Paul Gear
WA9ALS - John wrote: > Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would > someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the > simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - It's not supported on / or /boot - see the thread "Ran

Kernel panic (customizing kernel 2.6.6)

2004-08-15 Thread Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar
Guys, I am trying to customize my kernel 2.6.6 but it fails to boot. I have a theory of why it is not booting, but I don't know how to fix it. Let's see, I first downloaded and installed kernel-2.6.6-1-386 and installed it just fine. I have a directory called /lib/modules/2.6.6-1-386. Then I dow

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Paul Gear
Greg Folkert wrote: > ... >>>Too bad. MD Raid is tough for a bootable setup with automated tools. >> >>This is part of what i don't understand. As Alvin Oga and i were >>discussing a while back (see archives), it is a supported configuration >>by the kernel, and Red Hat have supported it since 7.3

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 20:14 +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > Jacob S. wrote: > > >On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 > >Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: > >>>I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on >

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Rthoreau
> Date: Today 09:04:28 > > Greetings, all. > > I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series > for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to > work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's > release appearing increasingly immi

Re: Fonts, What Else

2004-08-15 Thread John Foster
On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:11 am, Brian Pack wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:01, John Lowell wrote: > > I'm having some trouble understanding the Debian way with fonts. > > > > I've installed the base packages plus X window system, fluxbox, and > > firefox. Firefox does not show in its menu cert

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: > The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the "unknown mass > storage controller" line above) that has another two controllers on it. > I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I > may attempt that later

Re: Debian PPC Console?

2004-08-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/08/04 01:24), Ed Sutherland wrote: > Any PPC users lurking about here? I just finished tinkering with > OpenDarwin, but think I'm returning to the Debian nest. A question, though: > > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not > text in X) is clipped on the left

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-08-15 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:02:19PM +0530, gopalakrishnan wrote: > I have intel D845GVSRL board and 2.4 GHZ processor. I installed Debian > linux 3.0 (Woody), during installation it is > not detected the onboard network card (intel 10/100 chipset) and also not > supporting GUI , all in xdm,Gdm,and

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Laurent CARON
WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread stephen parkinson
Jacob S. wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. I curr

Re: Filing an RC bug: vis5d ?

2004-08-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 17:07:06 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > I don't think sarge should release this thing. Any comments? Seems to make sense. Please file an RC bug against the package. Ray -- I keep pitching my epic space opera about alien robots who infest our planet and live off celebrities

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Jacob S.
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on > > > > Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. > > > > I cur

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 12:47 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:18:14AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > As far as Knoppix. I use it for hardware detection and to make sure > > machine are able to handle it proper, for those odd pieces that aren't > > quite able to be used by linu

Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Sunday, August 15, James Vahn did write: > Richard wrote: > > I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series > > for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to > > work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. > > > > The hard drive is a Seaga

Re: Fonts, What Else

2004-08-15 Thread John Lowell
Brian Pack wrote: I'm not sure, but I'd love to see the answer to this one as well. I've been in the habit of running gnome-control-center as soon as I start flux to get the font size I want. it's not as bas as when I was running SuSE, but GNOME fonts outside GNOME were always much larger t

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:18:14AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > As far as Knoppix. I use it for hardware detection and to make sure > machine are able to handle it proper, for those odd pieces that aren't > quite able to be used by linux yet... or never will be (some Video cards > for instance...

Re: /proc/partitions (was: Get a list of hard disks)

2004-08-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tong (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:59:09 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > >> What, exactly, did you want to know? > > Hi, I just want my /proc/partitions to be of traditional format, or an > sfdisk/fdisk that understands the new format. To get the traditional format,

Re: Debian PPC Console?

2004-08-15 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ed Sutherland: > Any PPC users lurking about here? I just finished tinkering with > OpenDarwin, but think I'm returning to the Debian nest. A question, though: > > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not > text in X) is clipped on the left edge of the s

Re: Fonts, What Else

2004-08-15 Thread Brian Pack
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:01, John Lowell wrote: > I'm having some trouble understanding the Debian way with fonts. > > I've installed the base packages plus X window system, fluxbox, and > firefox. Firefox does not show in its menu certain fonts that I would > think would be available to it simply

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-08-15 Thread Didar Hussain
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:02:19PM +0530, gopalakrishnan wrote: > I have intel D845GVSRL board and 2.4 GHZ processor. I installed Debian > linux 3.0 (Woody), during installation it is > not detected the onboard network card (intel 10/100 chipset) and also not > supporting GUI , all in xdm,Gdm,an

A trick to make xprint work much better in Mozilla on Debian

2004-08-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
The problem with xprint (on Debian) seems to be that it cannot always find its fonts. If a web page says explicitly which fonts it wants to use, xprint works OK; but if it doesn't, you get the weirdest results, especially after doing anything with (or even just looking at) the Preferences, Appearan

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:44 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > ... > >>>Just for laughs, how does FC go on that box? > >> > >>Nothing to laugh about - it just works. Perfectly, straight out of the > >>box. No mucking about, just create the partitions i want (RAID 1 on > >>everythin

Filing an RC bug: vis5d ?

2004-08-15 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I've tried to use vis5d a few days ago and it looks nice. Looking on the net for the home page, I've noticed that vis5d is quite dead [1]. Also, the project which was to continue development, vis5d+ [2], appears to be dead. And what's worse, the version in sid is not even the latest vers

apt-get upgrade doesn't honor my rebuilded packages

2004-08-15 Thread Koos Vriezen
Hi, This is probably a stupid question, but I did a search on this list with 'apt-get source dpkg -i upgrade' and there was no answer, so here it is. I've upgraded gcc from 3.3 to 3.4 and, since I always build KDE from CVS, I needed to recompile some c++ dependent packages like fam. So, I got fam

Simple packet fowarding?

2004-08-15 Thread stan
I'm setting up a test rig using a Debian unstable system as a server for some LTSP clients. The Debian machine has 2 NIC's, one to the "eal" network, and a 2nd 192,168.x.x one for the LTSP clients. The long term plan is that the 2 networks will b isolated from one another, but during the test & de

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 20:32 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:53:21PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 00:06 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > Knoppix, Gnoppix, Progeny > > > > So, then Carl... you base all of your Servers on HUGE-MON-GOLLY-GOUS > > packa

Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4

2004-08-15 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's release appearing increasingly imminent, I need to try to get this reso

Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread WA9ALS - John
Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases that are over my he

Re: connection timed out errors

2004-08-15 Thread Kent West
Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: What's causing all these connection timed out errors? [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.ie

Re: Websphere MQ on Debian ??

2004-08-15 Thread John Foster
On Saturday 14 August 2004 07:41 pm, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > Has anyone here ever installed WebSphere MQ (MQ Series) on Debian Linux? > Any special tricks or pitfalls? Thanks. - I had IBM WebSphere Site Developer installed a while ago. It was a trial version

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on > Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. > > I currently have P43.2 1GB, and it's overclocked. But video encoding > still takes hours and

Re: Deleted root account in passwd

2004-08-15 Thread Kent West
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Roy Pluschke: On August 14, 2004 17:04, Simon Kitching wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 11:55, Simon Kitching wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 06:14, Pete Clarke wrote: Hi there, I managed to delete the root entry in /etc/passwd whilst playing on a te

Re: connection timed out errors

2004-08-15 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Is there a connection to outside world? The servers may be down? -ishwar On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote: > What's causing all these connection timed out errors? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update > Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.ie.debi

Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:40:42AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I currently have P43.2 1GB, and it's overclocked. But video encoding > still takes hours and mozilla compile still takes a while. The expert group that appears to be behind me in this moment suggests you just use some faster for

[OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System

2004-08-15 Thread William Ballard
I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. I currently have P43.2 1GB, and it's overclocked. But video encoding still takes hours and mozilla compile still takes a while. I'd like something with 2-4 CP

I have broken apt-get Panic!

2004-08-15 Thread Dave Whiteley
Hello, I have an old system that has been running "stable" for ages. I am now truing to upgrade it to "testing" but somehow I have got myself into a deadlock position. debconf is dying because:- debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (IO object version 1.21 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.

Re: When Sarge becomes stable - upgrading?

2004-08-15 Thread Tony Middleton
In my sources I quote "sarge", not "testing". Thus when "sarge" becomes "stable" there would be no change necessary. I also quote the "sarge" version of security. John Fleming wrote: Consider the case of someone running testing when it becomes the stable release. At that point, can they chan

RE: sid Tetex upgrade fails

2004-08-15 Thread David Baron
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Re: synaptic warning

2004-08-15 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-08-15, Lance W. Haverkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does this mean comming from synaptic (warning)? > > Couldn't stat source package list > http://ftp.us.debian.org ../project/experimental/main Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_m

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 08 at 09:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Unless you have something like "snapshot" running, you > > > will invariably lose whatever it is that you've just been > > > working on, backups or not. > > > > So go use Solaris. > > Solaris is not optimized for the X86 architecture

Re: Linux help system (Was: -=> Re: I hate it when that happens...)

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Aug 13 at 05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Documentation is a much-ignored standard. > > Some is in man format: > man man > THe GNU project likes info > info info > Some projects prefer HTML: > links /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/index.html > Others think postscript is cool

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-15 Thread Will Trillich
On Sat, Aug 07 at 12:07PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And *always* use 'set -u' in shell scripts. :-) > > What does that do? I looked in bash manual, and couldn't find > anything... (always ready to learn something new:-) ) man bash it's in "sh

Re: Confusing sound issues (ALSA, jackd, etc.)

2004-08-15 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 14 August 2004 06:46 pm, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote: > Haven't tried recording yet. So I installed Ardour. > > Ardour won't work unless jackd is running, which it wasn't: > Hm. Found out I needed the LSM realtime module. Alternatively, you can just run JACK and Ardour as a regular

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:36:21PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each > > message. > > > > - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? > > > > - if as a daemon, is smtp_