Re: Proftpd: change permissions during the upload

2004-10-26 Thread Kam-Ming Siu
Hi, You have to change the umask from 022 to 006. Following is the steps: 1. Modify /etc/proftpd.conf. 2. Search Umask 3. Change "022" to "006" 4. Save the file 5. Remember to restart proftpd. Regards, Ming On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:26:04PM -0300, Eriberto wrote: > Hello, > > I need change f

Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....

2004-10-26 Thread Ben Cox
shoutcast? On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:06:57 +0200, Kevin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, list, > > I'm thinking about if it is possible to let another Linux box to sound > remotely. > > Any thought? > > Kevin > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubs

Re: creating debian "branch"

2004-10-26 Thread Nathan Kroll
I'm sorry. I did a little more searching and found a nice description and howto on debian.org with exactly what I need. I'm sorry for wasting anyones time. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 01:08:22 -0500, Nathan Kroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a private local debian mirror to be able to update o

Re: creating debian "branch"

2004-10-26 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 01:08 -0500, Nathan Kroll wrote: > We have a private local debian mirror to be able to update our entire > server farm without stealing masive amounts of bandwidth from someone > else and we would like to figure out how to put the .deb packages we > make on the local mirror so

Re: can anyone explain this?

2004-10-26 Thread Roberto Winter
Yes, you are right Only loggin' in again got me into the group, apening a new shell does not do it! ...mmm... I knew it was smething DUMB!... Thanks, anyway. Roberto. On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:57:25 +1000, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once upon a time Roberto Winter said... > >

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:17:14PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? > > alex > > -- > Alex Polite > http://polite.se > Debian

creating debian "branch"

2004-10-26 Thread Nathan Kroll
We have a private local debian mirror to be able to update our entire server farm without stealing masive amounts of bandwidth from someone else and we would like to figure out how to put the .deb packages we make on the local mirror so that we can have the servers recognize them as regular debs an

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name > to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their > lines to /etc/modules. Yeah, modconf is one of the more useless things Debian has ev

Re: can anyone explain this?

2004-10-26 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 02:20 -0300, Roberto Winter wrote: > Hi all, I already got great advice from this list, so here I go again: > the thing is I can't get "groups" working here and, honestly, I don't > know anyone who can (I have a couple of friends using debian as > well...). > breaks down like

can anyone explain this?

2004-10-26 Thread Roberto Winter
Hi all, I already got great advice from this list, so here I go again: the thing is I can't get "groups" working here and, honestly, I don't know anyone who can (I have a couple of friends using debian as well...). breaks down like this, I'm user "rhwinter" and I want to join group "camera" that ro

Re: booting install cd

2004-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 05:52 +0200, jacob wrote: > Hello > > Downloaded CD image and created installation CD configuered BIOS > to boot from CD drive but cannot boot. > Have no problem booting Windows Installation CD's Ummm, ok. That's nice. You do realize that a statement without details is use

Re: Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 23:22 -0400, William Ballard wrote: > I have an external USB 2.0 2.5" hard drive, shows up as /dev/sda, with > an ReiserFS partition. If I yank it with it mounted ReiserJS panics. > I have the fstab entry marked as sync, rw. > > I don't have PCI Hotplugging installed, but I

booting install cd

2004-10-26 Thread jacob
Hello Downloaded CD image and created installation CD configuered BIOS to boot from CD drive but cannot boot. Have no problem booting Windows Installation CD's Regards Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:46:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you could always do apt-get source and build your own debian packages with your custom-made Makefiles. How to do this for anything other than the kernel package is a bit beyond me, though, as sof

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:26 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Brian White wrote: > > As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with > > IDE as a module instead of including it in the kernel proper. Is > > there something I still need to do to allow this module to

fail to load module on linux2.6.8

2004-10-26 Thread lihuasheng2008
Hello, I wrote a atm driver module similar to the src/drivers/atm/nicstar.c. But when I load the module, it always complains the below error message: insmod nicstartbcn.ko insmod: error inserting 'nicstartbcn.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module I checked the dependence of the module. It needs suni,

Re: Can't Boot 2.6 Kernel -- IDE is a Module

2004-10-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Brian White wrote: > As far as I can tell, it's because the 2.6 kernel is compiled with IDE > as a module instead of including it in the kernel proper. Is there > something I still need to do to allow this module to be loaded? a) either compile your own kernel ... or modify

Yanking a USB Hard Drive/ReiserFS causes Kernel Panic

2004-10-26 Thread William Ballard
I have an external USB 2.0 2.5" hard drive, shows up as /dev/sda, with an ReiserFS partition. If I yank it with it mounted ReiserJS panics. I have the fstab entry marked as sync, rw. I don't have PCI Hotplugging installed, but I do a lot of USB hotplugging. Has anyone had any experience with t

Re: New User

2004-10-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Shawn Robinson: > Could some please direct me to a good source on the net to learn how > to use debian linux please? http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/ -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-26 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:40:00PM +, Nick Smith wrote: > i use gentoo primarily now because i like the feeling that every piece > of software on my system from the bootstrap up is compiled for my > hardware aka p4, every debian binary is built for a 386 machine to keep > compatibility! and

Re: Maintaining group ownership of new files

2004-10-26 Thread Mark Lanett
chown :GROUP DIR chmod g+s DIR ~mark Upayavira wrote: :: Hi, :: :: I've used a freeBSD server where, when a file is created, that file :: becomes owned by the group who owns the containing folder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-26 Thread Nick Smith
Original Message Subject: Re: USE flags ?? Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:11:58 + From: Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is alright b

exim envelopes

2004-10-26 Thread richard
Hello, I have run into a problem where a remote mail server is not accepting any mail from my machine, which is running exim 3. Here is the error message: > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more

Re: Control another Linux box to play mp3s....

2004-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 23:06 +0200, Kevin Wang wrote: > Hello, list, > > I'm thinking about if it is possible to let another Linux box to sound > remotely. Well, boxes don't control other boxes. The s/w on each box "talks" to the other. But I know what you mean. There are a number of ways for a

Re: xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/26/04 18:50, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't be the first person to want to do this, so how do I do this? apt-get install gvidm -- Thomas Adam I use: $ xrandr from xbase-clients package. There's also gnome-randr-applet. Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRI

OT, dvd player playable jpeg pictures

2004-10-26 Thread Tong
Hi, Anybody know what kind of jpeg pictures are playable in normal dvd player? I burned some, but it seems that DVD players are very picky about the pictures they can show. My DVD player manual can't help me with this. I've looked everywhere, but didn't find any relevant information. Anybody

New User

2004-10-26 Thread Shawn Robinson
Could some please direct me to a good source on the net to learn how to use debian linux please?   Thanks Shawn.

Turbo LED

2004-10-26 Thread Greg Trounson
Gidday, I have an old 300MHz debian testing machine running on (I believe) an i430tx motherboard. I have found at different times that the turbo led on the case seems to turn on and off at seemingly random intervals. It might be on for a day and then off the next two. At first I thought perha

Re: printing black & white on a colour printer

2004-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like: 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart. This leads me to be

Re: X settings not applying?

2004-10-26 Thread Justin Guerin
On Sunday 24 October 2004 22:17, Eric Scott wrote: > Heya, I've got a new woody installation. My Panasonic E15 monitor > diplays up to 1024x768. 800x600 works with the default settings on > basically any operating system, but to get 1024x768 to purr I had to > tweak the refresh rate(s). Firs

I can not see these pages from my machine

2004-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I have tried konqueror, mozilla, firefox, and i can't get to see anything except the the source code. I noticed that the pages don't have the '' closing tag. Is this the reason, or there is more than that? The site: http://ecenow.com/ Then click on any of the left panel. Source code alone! -

Re: why are me e-mails not sent to me ??

2004-10-26 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why are you whining to the list instead of asking the listmaster? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBfs47UzgNqloQMwcRAlZGAJ9NswFTkPjLC98dAuWrrZsoyZPPbACgqzmL uhYWVaMIsPyYF/O8Q+Gh

Re: xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Scotty Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't be the first person to want to do this, so how do I do this? apt-get install gvidm -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just save

Re: DHCP questions...

2004-10-26 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 25 October 2004 09:08, Kevin Wang wrote: > Hello, all, > > PS print a line as below: > > 318 ?S 0:00 /sbin/dhclient-2.2.x -q eth0 > > I've referred to man page of dhclient, see no argument of 'q', however. > What does it affect after all? > I don't have a stable box to check,

Debian Chown Problem

2004-10-26 Thread Scott Johnson
Hey Everyone! I am having some trouble with a debian mirror. We setup a debian mirror a while back here at UND Aerospace. The problem comes when the system copies the files to ouor current debian mirror. The script I wrote uses the debmirror script to copy files via rsync from archive.progeny

Re: CUPS Printer Sharing Problem

2004-10-26 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 05:43:50PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Haven't really done much with CUPS via ipp so I could be wrong here but: >hp HP DeskJet 930C - Foomatic/hpjis (recommended) >Description: DeskJet 940C >Location: Study >Printer State: Idle, Accepting Jobx >"Unab

RE: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-26 Thread Steven Jones
Old Red Hat and new Red Hat / Debian use a different system to create the encrypted passwords if I recall correctly. So you cannot simply copy the users line in shadow over, it wont work, hence the need to de-crypt and re-crypt (I assume). regards Thing -Original Message- From: Miquel

xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
I JUST WROTE How would I manage multiple settings with xfree86? I read a bunch of manpages but don't see what I want to do. When my system boots, I want it to default to 640x480 mode, even though my card supports 800x600 and 1024x768. Then, if I want, I want to get to a console prom

Proftpd: change permissions during the upload

2004-10-26 Thread Eriberto
Hello, I need change file permission 644 to 660 during the upload (or after). How to make this with proftpd? Thanks, Eriberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getifaddrs: Connection refused

2004-10-26 Thread Mike Ward
Hi, Both ethereal and tcpdump are giving me this error, and I'm not finding much on google about it. sbdcid222:~# tcpdump tcpdump: getifaddrs: Connection refused I also get this error upon starting Ethereal. Anyone know what the problem might be? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xserver-xfree86 managing different settings

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
How would I manage multiple settings with xfree86? I read a bunch of manpages but don't see what I want to do. When my system boots, I want it to default to 640x480 mode, even though my card supports 800x600 and 1024x768. Then, if I want, I want to get to a console prompt, and somehow restart

Re: Forms data entry software recommendations needed

2004-10-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:46:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I imagine that there exists software that will bring up an image of > the printed form on which they entered the original data, but with > data entry possible on the computer screen at just those places that > are filled in on the pap

Re: Setting encoding for application

2004-10-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:33:27PM -0400, Jean-Francois Lefebvre wrote: > I installed Debian two weeks ago, and everything is going good. Welcome to the club. :-) > But when I use LaTeX, the output is erronous, in the sense that all > my french accents are gone, or misrepresented. What I want is

Re: Read AAC (.m4a) with xmms [SOLVED]

2004-10-26 Thread Christophe Courtois
> I'd like to know if there is a way to play AAC file (.m4a from CDs > ripped on a Mac for example) with XMMS. Is something already packaged Christian Marillat was kind enough to build the xmms-m4a package as soon as I asked (THAT is service! ;-). It is in in its well-known repository. (Sour

Re: printing black & white on a colour printer

2004-10-26 Thread Levi Waldron
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in > the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like: > > 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart. > > This leads me to believe

486 Instruction Emulation

2004-10-26 Thread Dustin Moore
I am stuggling to get a kernel that will let me upgrade my 386 to the new libc. I compile my kernels from scratch because I need weird things and I like to keep the number of modules low. Can anyone verify if CONFIG_CPU_EMU486 is a valid option for the kernel package kernel-source-2.4.27_2.4.27-5_a

Re: user creation ??

2004-10-26 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, thnx for the hint ... but when i try #adduser --force-badname 88jed then it says: adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of a letter or underscore followed by letters, digits, underscores, and dashes. For compatibility with Samba machine accounts a

Re: X settings not applying?

2004-10-26 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Scott wrote: Heya, I've got a new woody installation. My Panasonic E15 monitor diplays up to 1024x768. 800x600 works with the default settings on basically any operating system, but to get 1024x768 to purr I had to tweak the refresh rate(s). First I figured out on Windows that it only

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joerg Rossdeutscher (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I tried it, since I have an AMD64 and I am not happy with > Debian-pure64. > > Ubuntu was not bad, but I do not like it's "I-decide-for-you"-style, > i.e. it asks not enough questions during installation, has no > "modconf" (doesn't compil

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2004, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Alex Polite: > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? This is a personally opinion: I tried it, since I ha

Proftpd: change permissions during the upload

2004-10-26 Thread Eriberto
Hello, I need change file permission 644 to 660 during the upload (or after). How to make this with proftpd? Thanks, Eriberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

exim envelopes

2004-10-26 Thread Richard Cochinos
Hello, I have run into a problem where a remote mail server is bouncing back all mail from my machine, running exim 3. Here is the error message: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipient

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On (26/10/04 15:17), Alex Polite wrote: >> So what's with this Ubuntu thing? >> >> I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. >> >> How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? > > I also use unstable

Re: using scp to move files

2004-10-26 Thread diego
I bet the issue is already solved, but I just read the thread and wanted to give my 2 cents ;-) I searched for the move option in scp not few moths ago and I read somewhere (googling around) that scp -u did this, **if you had ssh v2**. But if you still have v1 ... you'd better simulate it as descr

Subversion version 1.1

2004-10-26 Thread Alan Chandler
I tried to find out why subversion 1.1 is still sitting in experimental rather than making its way into unstable, but I was unable to find out any reason, despite seaching development and this mailing list for any discussion about it. Anyone any ideas when we will see it. -- Alan Chandler [EMA

Re: greek characters...

2004-10-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Sorry to be so lame as to not find this doucmentation on my own, but a > quick google didn't find the answer. Don't worry, I wondered about this myself (though for French, not Greek characters) for ages before I finally asked and got an answer on Usenet. > I want to be able to type in Greek

Re: user creation ??

2004-10-26 Thread debi
Hi, thnx for the hint ... but when i try #adduser --force-badname 88jed then it says: adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of a letter or underscore followed by letters, digits, underscores, and dashes. For compatibility with Samba machine accounts also $ is supported at the e

Managing Disk Quota with emails

2004-10-26 Thread debi
Hi, I have quota enabled for my users like /home/jed, which is working good. In ths same system sendmail is installed which stores emails like /var/spool/mail/jed . This way the users emails keep on comming with the junk and thats fills up my /var/spool/mail directory. Is there a way to mange

Re: Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/10/04 15:17), Alex Polite wrote: > So what's with this Ubuntu thing? > > I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. > > How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? Hi Alex I also use unstable and am very happy with it. However, we've been tryin

Re: pcmcia

2004-10-26 Thread Curt Howland
Then the sources.list had better not say "testing". Once Sarge is finalized, "testing" will be. a battleground? Hmmm, not sure what kind of phrase to use here. Usually I would have said "unstable", but "Unstable" is already taken. :^) Had the original writer *said* Sarge, I would have agree

Re: keyboard problem in graphical login

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Graham
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:54:01 +, jeroeng wrote: > Forgot to mention, tried that too. Also checked the config file manually. > Thanks for thinking though. Besides in gnome after startx everything is > fine again. Does gnome override the xserver keyboard settings? It overrides xkboptions, you ne

Re: pcmcia

2004-10-26 Thread Eddy Petrisor
Curt Howland wrote: Tom, First of all, "testing" is not really a distribution to trust. There are always things going on that sometimes mean things don't work. Actually, at the present moment the state is not quite that bad as sarge is expected to be released and there is official security suppor

Re: greek characters...

2004-10-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Oct 2004, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry to be so lame as to not find this doucmentation on my own, but a > quick google didn't find the answer. > > I want to be able to type in Greek characters in various places > (gedit, openoffice, terminal window perhaps). I already know that > ge

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around here, the play command s contained in the sox package. HTH - --j Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail | server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize. | | Back on SuSE, I co

GForge install in Debian

2004-10-26 Thread Rakhmad Azhari
Hi All, Could somebody teach me how to install GForge system in debian (sarge) ?? I've tried many times, but no success.. Please help me Thanks in Advance.. -- --Proud GNU/Linux Debian User-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: vmware cut and paste

2004-10-26 Thread Dave Howorth
Douglas G. Phillips wrote: I'm running VMware (4.5.2 build 8848) on Woody, with a Win2K guest. Everything I've tried works fine except for cut and paste between host and guest. If I make a primary X selection in an xterm, all the VMware Edit menu items stay grey. If I make a selection in Windows (C

Re: 82815 graphics controller config in debian 3 woody

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:47:32 +0530, VRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i have an integrated 82815 graphics controller >> i tried using the vesa driver >> it was working well for [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> for higer depth 16 and 24, the screen was flickery... >> pls help >

installation debian-30r2-i386-binary-5.iso  on IBM blade hs20

2004-10-26 Thread smorel1521
hello I have difficulties to install a linux debian on a hs20 ibm blade server wheras with a redhat it works fine. After boot on CDROM, and language & keyboard definition it can't install kernel and modules. After language definition I try a second virtual console with  ALT F2  to add  /etc/fsta

console boot and kernel 2.6.9

2004-10-26 Thread Jonathan Gonzalez
Hi, Since kernel 2.4 am unable to dump all boot messages to the console port COMx. I'm using a kernel 2.6.9 and i can only see through the console the beginnig of the boot and then the prompt. The rest of the messages do not appear. How can i fix this ??? I'm waiting for your comments to solve

Re: Manual vs Automatic install for software newbie qustion

2004-10-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scotty Fitzgerald: > I've noticed that a lot of software comes as "tar.gz" and I have a cookbook > method of installing these, but I wanted to know if doing this could screw > up the database that apt-get, dpkg, and dselect use. What do I need to > know as a newbie about this, sho

Re: Not happy with Woody's Kmail and Konqorer Web Browser

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
David P James wrote: > On Tue 19 October 2004 19:41, Mateusz ?oskot wrote: >> User Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:: >> > Kmail because there seems to be no way to read just the email >> > headers and then deleting spam on the server and loading only what >> > I want. >> >> Did you try Thinderbird (Mozill

Re: page allocation failure

2004-10-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 07:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Eric Gaumer wrote: 2 Yea there were a few more posts this morning (LKML) so definitely check out those archives. I applied the patch that was in LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/23/75 The errors h

Audio on Shuttle SB65G2

2004-10-26 Thread Marion Hall
I've put Woody on a new computer and I'm having trouble getting the audio to work. The sound drivers should be a AC97 or I810, but when I modprobe i810_audio I get the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can

Re: keyboard problem in graphical login

2004-10-26 Thread jeroeng
Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> Now i do not know what to check anymore, i hope one/some of you can >> help me solve this. > Try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 > > HTH > > Clive > > Forgot to mention, tried that too. Also checked the config file m

Inactive Account: Delivery reports about your e-mail

2004-10-26 Thread Support
This account is no longer active. If you need to contact Technical Support, please do so through the appropriate form in the support area of our web site, http://www.cesoft.com/support -- The original message was received at Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:27:33 -0700 from lists.debian.org [19.129.74.5] --

greek characters...

2004-10-26 Thread Matt Price
Hi, Sorry to be so lame as to not find this doucmentation on my own, but a quick google didn't find the answer. I want to be able to type in Greek characters in various places (gedit, openoffice, terminal window perhaps). I already know that gedit and Openoffice support the display of Unicode

Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound

2004-10-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: | I've attached two files which may shed some light when I try to play an | amp3 file with mpg321. No I don't know if my sound system even works. | Discover detects the es1370 as my sound card and I've installed the os | modules into the k

Audio on Shuttle SB65G2

2004-10-26 Thread Marion Hall
I've put Woody on a new computer and I'm having trouble getting the audio to work. The sound drivers should be a AC97 or I810, but when I modprobe i810_audio I get the following error: /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/sound/i810_audio.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can

Re: SourceForge.net moving to Fedora Core from Debian [SourceForge.net PR-Web Upgrade Notice.]

2004-10-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote: > SourceForge.net is moving to Fedora Core from Debian!!! > This is a huge backoff for the Debian community. > Please do something to help SourceForge.net not take this step!!! > We need to hear why they are moving to Fedora Core and what problems > need

Re: ACL inheritance, group supervisors, rwX access

2004-10-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.26.1257 +0200]: > Instead of applying ACLs recursively, I would like to be able to say > that admin-a gets rwX rights to the directory group-a and all its > subdirectories and files. This can be done with default ACLs. However, the user can

Re: vmware cut and paste

2004-10-26 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running VMware (4.5.2 build 8848) on Woody, with a Win2K > guest. Everything I've tried works fine except for cut and paste > between host and guest. > > If I make a primary X selection in an xterm, all the VMware Edit menu > items stay grey. If I ma

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:42:52 +0100, Jim Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 09:56, Paul Johnson wrote: > > WARNING: Unsanitized content follows. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Is there a poss

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-26 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Sunday 24 October 2004 04:18 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 the mental interface of > > Michael Satterwhite told: > > Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "play file" from > > the command line. I liked this for script end notifications. Play isn't > > insta

Re: losing vc cursor

2004-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Vincent Lefevre([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 2004-10-25 20:09:43 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > I wasn't losing the curson in xterm or rxvt, it was on any og the > > consoles (F1-7 in my case). Reset had no effect on it but doing > > echo -e '\033[?86c' > > as suggested in this

Re: MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Eric Dickner([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello, > > I am able to download the Packages file from > "http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib > non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. > When my version of apt tries to process this list it > gives this error: > >

Manual vs Automatic install for software newbie qustion

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
I've noticed that a lot of software comes as "tar.gz" and I have a cookbook method of installing these, but I wanted to know if doing this could screw up the database that apt-get, dpkg, and dselect use. What do I need to know as a newbie about this, should I try to restrict myself to *.deb pa

Re: pcmcia

2004-10-26 Thread Curt Howland
Tom, First of all, "testing" is not really a distribution to trust. There are always things going on that sometimes mean things don't work. If you have a non-pcmcia network connection available go back to zero and install "Unstable" if you want the latest kernels. Autodetection for pcmcia is w

Reccomend best Window Manager & Theme for Hard-Of-Sight

2004-10-26 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
Wow, I am so amazed at the choice of windows managers on Woody, I thing FLWM is the best for me, I really like zipping around! But I can't seem to set large fonts and high contrast in a way that it will remember the settings between sessions. My girl is hard of sight, any reccommendations for

Re: SSH host-based auth in a cluster

2004-10-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.18.2355 +0200]: > What is it doing to indicate that it is not working? > > If it is still prompting you for a password, you could try disabling > challenge response in sshd_config: > > ChallengeResponseAuthentication no The problem was in the

Sound card troubles

2004-10-26 Thread debian
Hello, Sound or no sound, that's the question! I have a computer :) with debian and kernel 2.6.9 There is also a SB PCI64 in the computer so i compiled the kernel for that card. (Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373 When my computer boots i see this with dmesg: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture D

Debian unstable vs Ubuntu

2004-10-26 Thread Alex Polite
So what's with this Ubuntu thing? I've read some reviews but they're all geared towards Mandrake users. How does it compare to the Debian unstable that I'm used to? alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: UML and debian

2004-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:17:23 +0200, Ronald van den Blink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have an Ahtlon Classic (800 mhz) with 384 MB memory. I installed > Debian Unstable on it and want to try to install user-mode-linux. I'am > able to load root_fs'es made by the user-mode-linux.sour

Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound

2004-10-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:41:04 -0700, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've attached two files which may shed some light when I try to play an > amp3 file with mpg321. No I don't know if my sound system even works. This is a bit of a wild-guess; but check the permissions of '/dev/audio' - on my sy

Re: keyboard problem in graphical login

2004-10-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/10/04 11:49), jeroeng wrote: > Hello, > > Ik have a weird problem i hope you will be able to help me with. > > Problem: > After upgrading my sarge-system (lots of packages, no idea which causes the > problem) suddenly i cannot type letters in de kdm-login window. Numbers and > other keys

why are me e-mails not sent to me ??

2004-10-26 Thread debian
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keyboard problem in graphical login

2004-10-26 Thread jeroeng
Hello, Ik have a weird problem i hope you will be able to help me with. Problem: After upgrading my sarge-system (lots of packages, no idea which causes the problem) suddenly i cannot type letters in de kdm-login window. Numbers and other keys work just fine, just no letters. In a console login

Re: reconfiguring exim4

2004-10-26 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 18:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I am trying to go beyond local delivery only with a mail server. > I remember setting it at installation time, but dpg-reconfigure exim4 > does nothing. > > Anyone knows how to change the exim4 configuration? > dpkg-reconfigu

Re: Need direction on alsa/oss sound.

2004-10-26 Thread robin
Randall Smith wrote: I'm running Debian Unstable and am very confused about how to set up the sound properly. Sound generally works, but it seems a mess with OSS this and ALSA that and esd and arts and so on. When I pull up the gnome mixer, it has an oss tab and an alsa tab. Do I need both?

Re: vmware cut and paste

2004-10-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Seems like cut and paste between host and guest is touch and go for me as well. I think it has worked here and there but I also remember cut and pasting into a file in guest, saving file, and then opening file in host as a work around. It is not a feature I use that much but I do remember having

Re: Sound card troubles

2004-10-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
You might try cat /proc/asound/cards to see if your card(s) are identified. Did you compile ALSA with OSS emulation? ALSA, by default has all volumnes set to 0. Have you tried alsamixer or gmix to increase sound? Try playing a mp3 or ogg with mplayer to see if it will play them. what does mod

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