Re: Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 27 November 2004 05:20, Shawn McCuan wrote: > What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning > programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? > > (Im a newblet - sorry) > Need some more details 1) What cd burner do you actually have,

Re: Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Shawn McCuan wrote: > What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning > programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? as s keeling said .. search the archives .. and/or search google/yahoo/et.al - what is the output of dm

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Lian Liming
newbin shang wrote: the following is content of my grub booting script: --- color cyan/blue white/blue title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7-1-386 root(hd0,0) according to your fstab, i think the root

phpmyadmin Erroring out after upgrade

2004-11-26 Thread Trev Thorpe
Hey guys, Debian Sarge Running apache2 on port 8080 Used phpmyadmin as recently as earlier this week with no errors. I've done upgrades via apt-get upgrade this week. Currently if I try to goto my website http://websiteurl/phpmyadmin I am brought to login screen, I login and err

Re: Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Shawn McCuan: > What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning > programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? Search the archives at lists.debian.org -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Burning Fedora CD's

2004-11-26 Thread Shawn McCuan
What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do? (Im a newblet - sorry) Shawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mac user/ needs assistance

2004-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:04:49PM -0800, Bill Mullen wrote: > I am running Mac OS X 10.2.8, want Panther 10.3 etc , have attempted > to use the SUPRNOVA.org web page with out success. Two things... one, this is a Debian Linux mailing list, not a Mac OS X one, so you're not likely to get much

Re: Pam Errors

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Aube
Simon Collyer wrote: > Quoting Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Those settings also look fine. This does not appear to be a >> misconfiguration. Try reinstalling the PAM libraries (all one line): >> >> dpkg -l | grep "libpam" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get install >> --reinstall >> >> This wo

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-26 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:06:05 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote: > Runs fine here on Sid. I also compiled a PPC/GTK version that works fine > on my PPC. In fact the version I built has more features than the x86 > version I downloaded. Windows users report that there are numerous nice features which are si

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:37:17PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: } Patrick Wiseman wrote: } >On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:02:29 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } >>I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program } >>should I use to combine them? } > } >I've had success

Re: Relationship between "discover" and "hotplug"

2004-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Convey wrote: > I'm using Sarge with a 2.6.9-1 kernel. Can anyone help me understand the > relationship between "discover" and "hotplug" in my system? > > The reason I'm confused is that both seem to be involved in making the > system aware of connected hardware, but I'm not sure how t

Re: Firefox 1.0, mailto, and mutt

2004-11-26 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Jim McCloskey wrote: > I asked earlier: > > |> I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in > |> response to clicking on mailto links. > |> > |> Does anyone know of a way of doing this also with Firefox 1.0? > > Thanks very much indeed to all who respond

Re: Pam Errors

2004-11-26 Thread Simon Collyer
Quoting Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Those settings also look fine. This does not appear to be a > misconfiguration. Try reinstalling the PAM libraries (all one line): > > dpkg -l | grep "libpam" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs apt-get install > --reinstall > > This won't help you figure out what

Re: usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:35 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into a > Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the following? > > When I plug in the camera, I assume there are three devices that must be

usb camera / filesystem question

2004-11-26 Thread Christian Convey
Hi guys, I'm curious about the way a USB camera gets set up when plugged into a Sarge / 2.6.9 system. I'm also using 'udev'. Anyone know the following? When I plug in the camera, I assume there are three devices that must be created in the /dev directory, no? #1 : a device for the camera's plai

Relationship between "discover" and "hotplug"

2004-11-26 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, I'm using Sarge with a 2.6.9-1 kernel. Can anyone help me understand the relationship between "discover" and "hotplug" in my system? The reason I'm confused is that both seem to be involved in making the system aware of connected hardware, but I'm not sure how they fit together in 2.6

Re: Serious problem after tetex-security update

2004-11-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andreas Goesele wrote: Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX in

Re: Serious problem after tetex-security update

2004-11-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my > LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a > LaTeX file I get: > > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > > What can I do to get a working LaTeX installatio

Re: Serious problem after tetex-security update

2004-11-26 Thread Elwood
apt-get -f install apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade (if you messed up sources.list is good sometimes) dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin --- Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi! > > After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my > LaTeX installation doesn't

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Roel Schroeven
Alfredo Cole wrote: El Vie 26 Nov 2004 12:15, Roel Schroeven escribió: (...) -- "Codito ergo sum" Roel Schroeven If you are trying to quote Descartes, then it is "Cogito ergo sum". Otherwise, forget it. Yes and no: it's supposed to mean "I code therefore I am", instead of Descartes's "I think th

Re: Mac user/ needs assistance

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Aube
Bill Mullen wrote: > I am running Mac OS X 10.2.8, want Panther 10.3 etc , have attempted > to use the SUPRNOVA.org web page with out success. I did download > Python, but either I am not using it properly or I did not download the > correct package. When ever I attempt to open the Bit-Torre

Serious problem after tetex-security update

2004-11-26 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a LaTeX file I get: I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently need it! Thanks a lot in advance

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:02:29PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program > should I use to combine them? You can try the package mp3wrap. From the man file: USAGE mp3wrap [options] OUTPUTFILE MP3FILE1 MP3FILE2 [MP3FILE3]...

Re: su: Permission denied, (Ignored)

2004-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.23.1442 +0100]: > >stat64("/root", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=116, ...}) = 0 > >stat64(".", 0xba00) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > >brk(0) = 0x80ec000 > >brk(0x80ee000)

Re: Upgrading from woody to ? sid

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:39:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have woody installed but I'm starting to find packages are older than > (for example) kernel 2.6.9 seems to require. I'm not sure what to do - do > I upgrade to sid? You could do that, or you could use one of the backports

Airlink+ wireless card

2004-11-26 Thread stan
I'm spending the holiday in Atlanta with my parents, and much to my pleaseent suprise, Fryes has opened up a store ehre! I bouthg a Airlink+ wireless card for $9.99 and I'm wondering if I can make it work with Debian on my laptop. Iy's got 00E098 DE1DC on the sticker. Any pointers to get this wo

Mac user/ needs assistance

2004-11-26 Thread Bill Mullen
Hello: I am running Mac OS X 10.2.8, want Panther 10.3 etc , have attempted to use the SUPRNOVA.org web page with out success. I did download Python, but either I am not using it properly or I did not download the correct package. When ever I attempt to open the Bit-Torrent, the icon appea

Re: Firefox 1.0, mailto, and mutt

2004-11-26 Thread Jim McCloskey
I asked earlier: |> I used mozex with earlier versions of Firefox to bring up mutt in |> response to clicking on mailto links. |> |> Does anyone know of a way of doing this also with Firefox 1.0? Thanks very much indeed to all who responded. I ended up using the `launchy' extension. This proved t

Upgrading from woody to ? sid

2004-11-26 Thread joebosak
I have woody installed but I'm starting to find packages are older than (for example) kernel 2.6.9 seems to require. I'm not sure what to do - do I upgrade to sid? How? Or is this what 'unstable' is about? If I want to use unstable packages, do I just change stable to unstable in my sources

Kernel - not syncing

2004-11-26 Thread joebosak
I've compiled a few kernels using 2.6.9. ONe worked but I did not keep the config. None of the ones I've done the Debian way (ie. through a deb file) boot. The error message is: Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Any ideas? I do have one 2.6.9

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Spang
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:02:29 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program should I use to combine them? I've had success with a simple 'cat file1.mp3 file2.mp3 > file3.mp3', but I'm sure there's somethi

Re: debian cd boot parameters

2004-11-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:44:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You boot with the rescue CD, mount your partion RW, chroot your > > partition, cd to the chrooted partition and then you can try to fix > > the MBR. > > that's exactly the question, how to do it... >

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:02:29 -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program > should I use to combine them? I've had success with a simple 'cat file1.mp3 file2.mp3 > file3.mp3', but I'm sure there's something wrong with that!

about loading / blacklisting / ... modules

2004-11-26 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi "With a little help from" this list I am now able to view the boot-messages on my laptop. After reading through this I realise I still have much too learn and that there might be some problems with my current config. Could you please take a look at these warnings/errors and let me know if and

Installer for Woody hangs

2004-11-26 Thread Rothwellc9
  Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I am totally new to linux and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4, an Intel D915G motherboard,1 hard disk and a CDROM .   The last

Re: combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 16:02 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program > should I use to combine them? apt-cache is your friend! $ apt-cache search join mp3 mpgtx - Toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and audio) quelcom - Comma

Re: Installation problem with Woody

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 15:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I > am totally new to linux > and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the > installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4, > an

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 21:42 +0100, Bram Mertens wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > with non-i386 you probably refer to AMD etc.? This laptop is an i686 > and I had no problem

[OT] Splitting multipage TIFF files

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Tait
Hi all! A client has landed us with a bunch of CD's containing several large multipage TIFF images. I ran them through our usual conversion tools (namely a find script that passes the images through tiffsplit), and all seemed fine and dandy. However, on inspecting the output, it seems that half

combining mp3s

2004-11-26 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have serveral mp3s that really should be a single file. What program should I use to combine them? -- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -Alexander Pope, poet (1688-1744) Rick Paso

Installation problem with Woody

2004-11-26 Thread Rothwellc9
Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I am totally new to linux and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4, an Intel D915G motherboard,1 hard disk and a CDROM .   The last few

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Eduard Bosma
hi, I had the same problem once..It turned out the fan of the processor gave out, so the heat of the processor caused the same symptoms..So my 2 cents: check the hardware... Eduard On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:04, Lian Liming wrote: > Hi all, > I just have problem of compiling kernel. The standa

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-26 Thread Bram Mertens
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 11:53, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bram Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the > >machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I > >can't find any

Re: debian cd boot parameters

2004-11-26 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:41:37 -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I am willing to install a second operating system on one of my > partitions and am afraid that it will scramble my disk boot sector. > In case this happens, how can i recover it later? > I c

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Spang
Lian Liming wrote: Perhaps you need to compile an initrd and you forgot to give the --initrd option to make-kpkg... This is something confusing me so long. Is it neccessary to make the initrd file? I just remember that i have read quite a lot articles about compiling kernel on Linux, a lot of

Re: How do you make mkinitrd work!?

2004-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Spang wrote: Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Good point. So what's the reason that debian kernel images come with an initrd? An example I can think of is vesafb: in order for that to be used it must be either builtin or in initrd. Right? H. The kernels Debian provides n

Re: d-i rc2: boot linux26 vs. default

2004-11-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joey Hess wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! I have problems with the Sarge d-i freezing on my system using the "linux26" boot option. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=277177 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278254 Yesterday tried rc2: same thing. Freezes at

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-26 Thread housetier
Moin! > Hi... Does anybody else have the feeling that simply no linux icq > client that is available nowadays fits your needs? I have found that bitlbee fits my needs. It might be worth a look at, it might be a waste of time. Just wanted to show one more "client" :) -- Lasse -- To UNSUB

Re: disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-26 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:58:49PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > licq, gaim, kopete, they all have this strange interface... > nothing is simple to do or to find... I don't find them the least bit strange. Perfectly intutive. Enter connection parameters, connect, talk. Goes b

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Alfredo Cole
El Vie 26 Nov 2004 12:15, Roel Schroeven escribió: (...) > -- > "Codito ergo sum" > Roel Schroeven If you are trying to quote Descartes, then it is "Cogito ergo sum". Otherwise, forget it. Regards. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC www.acyc.com - www.clshonduras.com - SolCom - www.acycdomains.com

Re: xserver cpu load on 2.6 kernels

2004-11-26 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:13:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:13:32 -0600 > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: xserver cpu load on 2.6 kernels > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:48 +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > > > > I

disappointment with linux icq clients

2004-11-26 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi... Does anybody else have the feeling that simply no linux icq client that is available nowadays fits your needs? licq, gaim, kopete, they all have this strange interface... nothing is simple to do or to find... i wish there was a miranda port for linux... that would be nice -- F

Re: xserver cpu load on 2.6 kernels

2004-11-26 Thread Martin Hauser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helllo Alexei, > I'm running Debian testing on Acer travelmate 354 laptop. When running > on 2.4 kernels, cpu load is about 0% when windowmaker is loaded and > idle. But, when running kernel 2.6.9, wmcube and wmtop shows me, that > xfree86 eats about

Re: Help: dselect screwed up!

2004-11-26 Thread David Mandelberg
Can you boot KNOPPIX or another livecd and see if it's a filesystem problem or a software problem? If it's a software problem, just reinstall the dpkg, apt, and dselect deb's using the livecd. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB++

Help: dselect screwed up!

2004-11-26 Thread MagicWind
I am using debian sarge, and i use dselect to install softwares. However, when i tried to install the mysql-server component and followed all of the suggestions to solve dependence conflicts, (which added about 5 or 6 other components). When it proceeded to the configure step, the screen rolled

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:44:07PM +, Stephen Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:50:10 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > This may be wrong, but it seems to work. If I add INBOX to folder, then > > when I try to navigate back to the inbox from elsewhere, and [tab] on > > the IMAP item in t

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 19:15 +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:20 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >>I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I > >>downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat >

debian cd boot parameters

2004-11-26 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
Hi. I am willing to install a second operating system on one of my partitions and am afraid that it will scramble my disk boot sector. In case this happens, how can i recover it later? I could boot into my linux through the cd and run grub-install to reinstall my boot sector... Unfo

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Roel Schroeven
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:20 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat 6.0, which is not available for Linux. Earlier versions, and also xpdf, show "

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> > Can the root remove h[i,e][m,r]self from the system? > > Of course - just remove the entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. > However, I would strongly recommend you NOT do this (unless you want to > cripple your system). > > Adam I wouldn't do it, I am trying to understand better the gu

Mosix and Open Mosix package in sarge/sid

2004-11-26 Thread UnKnown
Hi, ppl This mail is just to find out if anyone knows what happend with the *mosix packages in the feuture releases of debian, sarge and sid. I found they are not part of the distribution, and wontet to know if that was "terminal" or they were being held for some reason. cheers, rak -- To UNSUB

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Shan Mignot
I'v tried several things. First of all, I added: Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontVTSwitch" "false" Option "DontZoom" "false" Option "DisableVidModeExtension" "false" EndSection to my XF86Config and checked that these options were recogniz

Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Nov 2004, David Dorward wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:20:45 +, Anthony Campbell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat > > 6.0, which is not available for Linux > > So Canon sell you a print manual. You lose it. You get

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread David Dorward
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:20:45 +, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat > 6.0, which is not available for Linux So Canon sell you a print manual. You lose it. You get a free electronic replacement, and it doesn't wor

Re: Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:20 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I > downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat > 6.0, which is not available for Linux. Earlier versions, and also xpdf, > show "COPY" on ev

Re: Pam Errors

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Aube
Please stop top-posting (which is putting your reply above the original message), as it makes the thread difficult to follow. Simon Collyer wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >> These PAM settings look fine. What's in /etc/nsswitch.conf? > # /etc/nsswitch.conf [remainder of file snipped] Those settings

Re: problem during boot-up

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Aube
jack kinnon wrote: > Starting system log daemon : syslogd > syslogd : cannot create /dev/log : address family not supported by > protocol I'm going to take a wild guess that you are running a custom kernel that is missing Unix socket support (CONFIG_UNIX). Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: > > > Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your > > > system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc? > > > > What do you mean by "registered user"? > > Good question, hmm, the ones that you can unregister with deluser?

Re: Script to Set Environment Variable?

2004-11-26 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do I write a script to set an environment variable? > > I feel like I should know this. I want to set my PATH in pbuilder & > the author suggested using an "A" hook. However, I can't create a hook > - an executable - which sets an enviro

Re: Script to Set Environment Variable?

2004-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > How do I write a script to set an environment variable? Understand that you're trying to define something that will be available to the current process, and all children of that process. Already existing processes won't know about it, and after that process exits

Re: freetype "xfontsel"

2004-11-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/11/04 04:44), Olive Esseret wrote: > Does anyone know if there is a utility analog to > xfontsel but which allow to choose freetype font and > show their name in the fontconfig format. This allow > me to configure the fonts that icewm use for its > interface. Hi Olive I've got xfontsel here

Re: exim4 on sarge can't resolve hosts

2004-11-26 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I'm building a Sarge machine to replace a Woody, and I can't persuade exim4 to do host lookups. All attempts at sending outgoing mail fail with: R=dnslookup defer (-1): host lookup did not complete. Running exim4 -d -bt says that DN

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Chris Halls
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:16 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > In printer settings, paper the field for the paper size is blank Aaah, that's a known problem, caused by a bug in the native CUPS backport in 1.1.2. You have two options to try: 1. Try removing any extra CUPS instances that you have fo

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:16 am, Thomas H. George wrote: > In printer settings, paper the field for the paper size is blank and the > duplex setting is . > > For documents created earlier the paper size is US Letter and the duplex > setting is Simplex. > > Neither File/Printer Settings/Proper

Canon cameras shaft Linux users

2004-11-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have a Canon A40 digital camera. I've mislaid the user;s manual so I downloaded a PDF version from Canon. This can only be read with Acrobat 6.0, which is not available for Linux. Earlier versions, and also xpdf, show "COPY" on every page. Thank you, Canon. I shall _not_ but another Canon camera

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Aube
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Adam Aube wrote >> Antonio Rodriguez wrote: >>> Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your >>> system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc? >> What do you mean by "registered user"? > Good question, hmm, the ones that you

Re: Laser Printer

2004-11-26 Thread Merlin, the Mage
oix, I agree with Jeremy and Chris. Samsung is doing it well. I have a ML-2151N, and i'm already on my 4th 8000 pages toner (plus the initial 4000 pages one). The printer was really a good surprise to me. Mine have the extra of PS and Network, and that made it even easier to install, since i

Re: Laser Printer

2004-11-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:44 am, Jeremy Turner wrote: > I second the support for Samsung. I recently bought the ML-1740, and on > the side of the box it actually states support for Linux. I saw the > other day on some site like BestBuy.com or something that it was selling > for $100 with a $

Script to Set Environment Variable?

2004-11-26 Thread ms419
How do I write a script to set an environment variable? I feel like I should know this. I want to set my PATH in pbuilder & the author suggested using an "A" hook. However, I can't create a hook - an executable - which sets an environment variable. I tried: #!/bin/sh export PATH=

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:06:29 +0100, Shan Mignot wrote: > > All right, here is how things behave: > > * as a normal user (shan): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 2 > Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console > zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 1 > Couldnt get a

Re: login script & xterm

2004-11-26 Thread ms419
On Nov 17, 2004, at 5:10 AM, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:12:46 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where should I put commands to be executed when I login, & when I open an xterm, but not when a shell is run on other occasions? I want some commands executed when

Re: Laser Printer

2004-11-26 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:03:52PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Samsung support Linux better than some. My ML-1450 came with out-of-date > drivers on the CD, but I downloaded The latest Linux driver from the > website and it installed OK. This was with Woody. I second the support for Samsung. I rec

Re: Problem of compiling kernel

2004-11-26 Thread Lian Liming
Perhaps you need to compile an initrd and you forgot to give the --initrd option to make-kpkg... This is something confusing me so long. Is it neccessary to make the initrd file? I just remember that i have read quite a lot articles about compiling kernel on Linux, a lot of them do not tell t

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:03:09PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > The latest testing dist-upgrade of openoffice.org (1.1.2) will not print > newly created documents. Documents created before the dist-upgrade > continue to print with no problems. > > Tom George > In printer settings, paper th

Re: xserver cpu load on 2.6 kernels

2004-11-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 17:48 +0200, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Debian testing on Acer travelmate 354 laptop. When running > on 2.4 kernels, cpu load is about 0% when windowmaker is loaded and > idle. But, when running kernel 2.6.9, wmcube and wmtop shows me, that > xfree86 eats a

Re: network & laptop

2004-11-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:20:41 +0100, Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Debian testing on a laptop, and I'm always moving with my > computer in different laboratories, with different networks. > > In order to manage the net configuration I'm now using quickswitch, > which is not

Re: Apache2 'SSLEngine on' not working in testing

2004-11-26 Thread Victor Ng
Did either of you guys manage to get this working in Debian testing? I'm running Apache2 2.0.52-3 and I there's definitely no SSL going on on port 443 - I can do a plain http://myhost:443/ and load the page without any problem. My error log shows the following: [Fri Nov 26 10:09:24 2004] [inf

Re: maxtor harddrive firewire usb

2004-11-26 Thread Christophe Broult
Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:45:03 -0500) writes: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:09:20 -0500, Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:39:37 -0500) >> writes: >> > I am sorry I dont have an answer fo

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Shan Mignot
All right, here is how things behave: * as a normal user (shan): [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 2 Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev > chvt 1 Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console zsh: exit 1 chvt 2 * as root t

network & laptop

2004-11-26 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all I'm running Debian testing on a laptop, and I'm always moving with my computer in different laboratories, with different networks. In order to manage the net configuration I'm now using quickswitch, which is not bad, but it's not a Debian package :-( Is there a way to have the same functi

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:50:10 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > This may be wrong, but it seems to work. If I add INBOX to folder, then > when I try to navigate back to the inbox from elsewhere, and [tab] on > the IMAP item in the list it offers me imap:.place.net/INBOX/INBOX > which is to say it a

Re: mutt pop configuration

2004-11-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 15:00:23 +0100, George Iordanou wrote: >> It will ask for your password. I do not know whether the outgoing mail >> server can be configured via mutt. > As i've seen i have to configure smtp through sendmail. Unfortunately > mutt does not support smtp. mutt needs a configured

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:55:15 +, Joao Clemente wrote: > > I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an > I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every > boot > So I headed to /etc/inittab to change it to runlevel 3... but I was > amazed t

Re: Switching from X to ttys

2004-11-26 Thread Micha Feigin
At Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:35:41 +0100, Shan Mignot wrote: > > Hi, > > For some time now I have not been able to switch to other ttys. Pressing > Ctrl-Alt-F1 ... F6 simply does not result in anything. I've seen somewhere > that > it may be related to the console-tools, console-data and console-commo

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Joao Clemente
Martin Fluch wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, newbin shang wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:55:15 +, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every boot So I head

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:55:15PM +, Joao Clemente wrote: > So, do those standarts of 5 = multiuser + X, 3 = multiuser - X, ... > stoped being used in sarge? Why? They couldn't have stopped, because they had never started. The default run-level for Debian is two, and has been so since pre-P

Boot problem: Hang up on synchronising system clock to hardware clock

2004-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a machine we recently installed (testing) we have this problem at boot Hang up on synchronising system clock to hardware clock Then if you Ctrl + C the boot procedure goes ahead. It stops again with the same message. If you Ctrl + C again, the boot procedure goes ahead successfully and compl

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, newbin shang wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:55:15 +, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every boot So I headed to /etc/inittab to

Re: [OT] local-only webserver for web app. thttpd or ??

2004-11-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:06:46 -0800, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to set up a series of apps to run together for > computational chemistry work at home. A Java-based front-end app I > want to try is called WebMO, which uses a web interface requiring CGI. > I have no serv

Re: debian architectures

2004-11-26 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:41:42 +0100, Mauro Darida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 at 09:27:55 +, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > > > * ia64 - Intel's 64-bit Itanium series of workstations. Not doing too > > well in the marketplace. > > > Do you mean we will have a debian sarge for

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