Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:54:47AM -0600, John Foster wrote: > systems. It does provide online downloads for many different types of > financial institutions and of course for banks. If for some reason your bank Wow, that's slick. MSMoney 2005 is the first version that does automatic integratio

df reports incorrect space usage

2004-12-02 Thread Anand N
Hi, I am facing with this weird problem. df is reporting incorrect disk space usage! Running du instead, reports correct space usage. I have listed the outputs of both the commands. I have 40 GB HDD with 4 ~10GB partitions. I have setup the linux part on the last 10 GB, with 4 partitions namely

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-12-02 Thread John Foster
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 12:33 am, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:21 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > >>The only other things I really care about working under Linux are: > >>- Quicken, which sufficiently well under Wine that I have no complaints, > >> an

Re: data-entry GUIs & python

2004-12-02 Thread Dave Thayer
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:33:40AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:53:41PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > > > OpenOffice has a lot of cool database features that you might not > > expect, and is programmable in StarBasic > > > > http://dba.openoffice.org is a useful, if clutte

data-entry GUIs & python

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:53:41PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > > OpenOffice has a lot of cool database features that you might not > expect, and is programmable in StarBasic > > http://dba.openoffice.org is a useful, if cluttered resource > http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf is a helpful ove

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-02 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I didn't realize that sending the attachment raw over Outlook Express would cause this confusion. I read it with notepad before sending to be sure it was readable. I guess everone on the list is using linux software to send mail and I would have but it's not working right. Sometimes I can receiv

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-02 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Chris. Thanks, I'll try your suggestion and report back on results. FYI, the url's were copied verbatum from the Debian mirror list. If they are formatted incorrectly, I'm not aware, and why would the Debian site misformat there own links?. - Original Message - From: "CW Harris" <[EMAIL

Re: difficulty starting mysql server

2004-12-02 Thread bcml
> $ mysqld_safe --user=mysql & > [1] 687 > $ Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 300: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission > denied > /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 1: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permission denied > tee: /var/log/mysql/mysql.err: Permiss

Re: http Traffic Anayalsis

2004-12-02 Thread bcml
> It's a little unrelated to Debian but I'm looking for a package that > will allow me to sniff http traffic and give me some traffic > anayalsis. > > Essentially I've got a Squid proxy server dishing out cache web > traffic and a big difference in traffic from the bill from our ISP to > our Squid

Re: k3b won't fully ackowledge a friends CDR/CDRW

2004-12-02 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:45:44 -0500 Douglas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > >On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:31:11 -0800, Rodney D. Myers > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have an elderly woman, whom I installed debian sarge for. > >> > >>She now has a cdrwriter i

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:47:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thus, an Access replacement should do all those things, but w/o > being buggy. Certainly you could have figured that out Since my data is stored in XML, I can do everything and more I can do with Access queries and reports using xslt

Re: gdm and reboot

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Spang
Sean O'Dubhghaill wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 8:02 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/01/2004 02:10 PM, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Isn't there an option on GDM to enable normal users to shutdown and reboot the machine? It always requires the root password to do it... -- Fred Yes. Thi

Error with C++ preprocessor

2004-12-02 Thread Rick Friedman
I'm running Sarge and I have the cpp-3.3 package installed. Whenever I try to build *anything*, I get the following messages when running ./configure: checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check I cannot figure out

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:00 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > > > like (from firsthand experience)

Lost console after kernel upgrade

2004-12-02 Thread Bill Moseley
I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.9 today -- I used the debian kernel-source-2.6.9 package and copied the 2.5.6 .config file into the 2.6.9 directory before building to retain my old config settings. I no longer have my vesa (framebuffer??) screen on boot. The screen is blank from after the lilo promp

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:00:57PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > school district). That being said, they threw the kid that wrote Code > Red in jail, let's do something about those Access bastards. We were talking about Access clones, not Access. But Access does relational integrity. Funny stor

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 3:14 pm, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > > like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data if > > the slightest thing

Choppy sound when playing MP3s with arts

2004-12-02 Thread icebiker
Hi, 'm using sarge with KDE 3.2.3. MP3s sound dreadful when I play them through juk and artsplay, but sound fine when I play them through noatun or realplayer. On the other hand, WAV files play fine in juk and artsplay, so I'm guessing I've got some sort of problem with the mp3 encoder. All I d

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Huston
Where do I put this in at without a prompt? I can't get one to come up during the boot. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: stopping xserver from loadi

Re: Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Huston
Where do I put this in at without a prompt? I can't get one to come up during the boot. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: stopping xserver from loadi

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Adam Aube
Joao Clemente wrote: > Ronald van den Blink / 106075 wrote: >> Why don't you change the runlevel? Just boot into single mode, change >> the runlevel in inittab and u're ready to boot to the cli > > Now that you mentioned it... > How does one adds boot parameters to grub? > > With lilo I would ju

Re: syslogd problem

2004-12-02 Thread Jan Nordholz
> HI, > > I'm still stuck with this problem. > > syslogd : cannot create /dev/log : address family not supported by > protocol I didn't notice that you have asked before, so I don't know what has already been suggested... but if the _address family_ is unsupported, then you should compile your

network fragmentation

2004-12-02 Thread bcml
Greetings, Recently I have setup my home netowrk (with a server running sarge) to dialin to my work server (currently running gentoo (porting to sarge when released)). The work network in turn is connected to the net with a NAT'ing modem. Everything worked well until I changed the mtu and mru valu

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deinstall xdm, gdm and/or kdm, depending on which you've installed. echo false >> /etc/X11/default-display-manager Is probably "better". -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- ht

OT: lmtp forker

2004-12-02 Thread ocl
Hi, [I am sorry this is somewhat off topic, but could not find any information about this enywhere else] I am looking for something, which I dont know what to call, that does this: It receives mail from postfix (through smtp/lmtp) and then delivers that mail to _two_ IMAP servers on (through smtp/l

syslogd problem

2004-12-02 Thread jack kinnon
HI,   I'm still stuck with this problem.   syslogd : cannot create /dev/log : address family not supported by protocol   The whole system is working only in basic command-line mode. Someone suggested downloading the 'Debian Installer' but that would eat into my monthly subscription volume which I

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Joao Clemente
Ronald van den Blink / 106075 wrote: Why don't you change the runlevel? Just boot into single mode, change the runlevel in inittab and u're ready to boot to the cli Now that you mentioned it... How does one adds boot parameters to grub? With lilo I would jus get to lilo command line and type "mylin

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 20:38 -0500, Huston wrote: > Is there a way to stop the system from loading before getting > to windows and getting just the command prompt to come. I > screwed up xserver, and now it freezes when it loads. I need > to stop the system before it loads. I don't think I am

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Ronald van den Blink / 106075
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Huston wrote: >>Is there a way to stop the system from loading before getting to windows and >>getting just the command prompt to come. I screwed up xserver, and now it >>freezes when it loads. I need to stop the system before it loads. I don't

stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Huston
Is there a way to stop the system from loading before getting to windows and getting just the command prompt to come.  I screwed up xserver, and now it freezes when it loads.  I need to stop the system before it loads.  I don't think I am using the right terminology on my search for it becau

Re: Audio streaming

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Gabriel Granger wrote: I'm want some audio files to be streamed from my webserver. I'm not after a playlist, I really just was the ability to stream audio so when someone click on a audio on my webserver it will stream rather then download and play. I'm looking into mod_mp3 for apache but i lo

Re: changing default os in grub

2004-12-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/12/04 20:34), john gennard wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >>[snip] > > >Hi John > > > >You need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with a text editor. I have a > >rather complex grub set-up (which was an interesting learning > >experience) on a spare windows machine in our office which has tw

Re: Can I setup my computer to print off of a windows network?

2004-12-02 Thread Micha Feigin
At Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:18:10 -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:09:07PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > > Right now i do not have a printer attached to my computer. But, I am > > networked with another computer in my house that IS connected to a > > printer. However, that comput

Re: Xorg and apt-build

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Didier Caamano wrote: Hello, I just installed debian testing, and went to install xorg and I apt-cache search didn't find it, went to the debian site and looked for packages and didn't find it there either. Is it xorg supported in Debian? if it's so, do I need to add any line to my source list? if

Re: Network down, reboot fixes, update

2004-12-02 Thread Carl Fink
The problem was solved by issuing ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 Shouldn't that happen automatically? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: rescue with rescue floppy - Debian testing

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:12:22PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > = Use the proper syntax for signatures: "-- " on a line by itself. I don't want to read the crap in your signature block. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

rescue with rescue floppy - Debian testing

2004-12-02 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
I was "dist-upgrade"-ing and during the process I was adviced that I was re-installing the existing kermel-image-2.6.8-1-386, and that I was to reboot as soon as possible, which I did as soon as the next item (Lilo) started being upgraded. To no avail! During the start up I get message "Error -

Change gnumeric splash screen?

2004-12-02 Thread Victor Munoz
I recently did an upgrade of my sid system, and got gnumeric 1.3.93. Fine, except that I don't really like the splash screen. I usually don't mind, but in this particular case, it is a "stock market" image, with "Kennedy assassination" references... I'm not in business, I'm Chilean, none of the sy

Re: xine error

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:23:22 +, Lei Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I kept on have xine engine error > > "There is no input plugin available to handle 'dvd:/' Maybe MRL syntax > is wrong or file/stream source doesn't exist." How are you trying to access the DVD? Are you starting xine and then

How do I use openoffice.org-gtk-gnome?

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
When I install openoffice.org-gtk-gnome OpenOffice looks exactly the same. I've tried googling "vclplug" or seeing how to enable them, but no luck. How do you use this feature? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: xine error

2004-12-02 Thread Jim McCloskey
Lei Yu wrote: |> I have tried what you said below for the mouse, but I can only use |> the touch pad, the ps2 mouse is disabled, I could use both on Suse |> 9.1 before, do you know a way to do this? Well, I'm glad that the touchpad is working. To use the PS2 mouse in addition, you need to inclu

Re: k3b won't fully ackowledge a friends CDR/CDRW

2004-12-02 Thread luigi
without cd writing problems in my 2.6.9 kernel cd writer is not recognized, and so i must use kernel 2.6.7. why?? there is anyone that knows answer? thanks ciao Luigi On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:45:44 -0500 Douglas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > > >On Thu, 25 N

Re: cue2wav

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Roberto Winter wrote: Hi all, I recently ran across some cue+mpc files and found out that there is no program on debian to burn them to disc. This is why I made a (fairly poor, I admit) script to be able to get the information from the cue file and split the mpc file into wavs so that I could recor

dist-upgrade > broken modem

2004-12-02 Thread Eric
I'm at a bit of a loss here and looking for recommendations. A few days back I did a dist-upgrade (2.6.7 --> 2.6.8-1) on SID and now I can't get my modem to work. I use the wireless Ricochet service with a USB Metricom modem. Currently /dev/modem is symlinked to /dev/ttyACM0, which worked just fin

Re: k3b won't fully ackowledge a friends CDR/CDRW

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:31:11 -0800, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an elderly woman, whom I installed debian sarge for. She now has a cdrwriter installed on her computer, but it fails to full recognize it. it shows the writer as a reader under all user

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:45 pm, Thomas H. George wrote: > If oopadmin is started on Box #1 the add printer option apparently > looks in the /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer directory - at > least the only choices it offers are found in that directory and > DeskJet drivers are not among these choi

Re: Why no NTP client in default install?

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:21 -0500, Douglas Ward wrote: > Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I installed Debian Sarge system with a Samba server and that went great. > > But I was just wondering, why is an NTP client not installed by > > default during such an install to make sure the time

Re: CD/DVD writer successes anyone?

2004-12-02 Thread [KS]
Dean Allen Provins wrote: Hello: I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and have been looking at LG GSA 4160B units (which allegedly `do it all'). I'm sure that there are alternatives, but I'm still in the infancy of my search. I'm aware only that the LG GSA 4040B (a

Re: OT: down with memory protection!

2004-12-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 02 December 2004 17:26, Ron Johnson wrote: > I'm pretty sure that they are distinct features, i.e., it's possible > to do mem prot w/o VM , and vice versa. I should've said "virtual memory as implemented by modern Unix systems". Sam, to clarify: since the VM abstracts physical addr

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:08 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, André Carezia wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process > to > > > be runn

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Brian Astill
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:45 pm, Thomas H. George wrote: > If oopadmin is started on Box #1 the add printer option apparently > looks in the /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer directory - at > least the only choices it offers are found in that directory and > DeskJet drivers are not among these choi

Re: Why no NTP client in default install?

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hi, I installed Debian Sarge system with a Samba server and that went great. But I was just wondering, why is an NTP client not installed by default during such an install to make sure the time is in sync? It's more secure to provide a default install with no services run

Re: partition magic?

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
belahcene wrote: Hi every body, I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of mandrake on debian), either on windows or on linux ( to run it from knoppix) to create a new partition without loosing the co

Re: CD/DVD writer successes anyone?

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:46 -0700, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and > have been looking at LG GSA 4160B units (which allegedly `do it all'). > I'm sure that there are alternatives, but I'm still in the infancy of my > se

Re: OT: down with memory protection!

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:38 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:30, Sam Watkins wrote: > > > Current mainstream OSes like Linux implement memory protection primarily > > to prevent buggy or malicious processes trampling on each-others memory > > and memory-mapped devices,

Re: evolution 2.0.2 and news feed

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:11 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I've installed evolution after a while, and as i'm seeing there is not > "Summary" on the top as used to be in previous versions. Now i'm running > version 2.0.2 on sarge. I can't find how to setup the news/rss feed > reader. Is it removed

Re: Can I setup my computer to print off of a windows network?

2004-12-02 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:09:07PM -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Right now i do not have a printer attached to my computer. But, I am > networked with another computer in my house that IS connected to a > printer. However, that computer is running WinXP Home. Can I set up > Debian Unstable (with

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems > like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data if > the slightest thing goes wrong... You wouldn't use it for a 3-tiered or web app or anythi

Re: Can I setup my computer to print off of a windows network?

2004-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:09, Shawn McCuan wrote: > Right now i do not have a printer attached to my computer. But, I am > networked with another computer in my house that IS connected to a > printer. However, that computer is running WinXP Home. Can I set up > Debian Unstable (with 2.6.9) ke

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:13 am, André Carezia wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > > be running but it uses SQL. [...] > > Just curious: in which ways is this

Can I setup my computer to print off of a windows network?

2004-12-02 Thread Shawn McCuan
Right now i do not have a printer attached to my computer. But, I am networked with another computer in my house that IS connected to a printer. However, that computer is running WinXP Home. Can I set up Debian Unstable (with 2.6.9) kernel to print off of that printer like you can using windows

Re: Keyboard keys

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas Ruschival
well first I would use "xev" to see what events are triggerd when you press the keys that don't give the character they are supposed to print. then build your own .Xmodmap file and test it with "xmodmap .Xmodmap" . when you are satisfied write at the beginning of your .xinitrs and/or .xsession

CD/DVD writer successes anyone?

2004-12-02 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: I'm interested in adding a CD/DVD reader/writer to my meager system and have been looking at LG GSA 4160B units (which allegedly `do it all'). I'm sure that there are alternatives, but I'm still in the infancy of my search. I'm aware only that the LG GSA 4040B (an old unit) was supported

Re: Keyboard keys

2004-12-02 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Stefan Fredriksson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > But the other problem is worse. One of the key on my keyboard does not > work. It is the key with "greater than" and "less than" and the > "straight vertical line". In gnome, I have tried setting the keyboard > to be what I use (Swedish keyb

captive-ntfs

2004-12-02 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Does anyone know if captive-ntfs will ever be added to Debian as a .deb package? TIA, Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Keyboard keys

2004-12-02 Thread Stefan Fredriksson
Hi, (if this is the wrong list, please piont me in the right direction) Im using debian (unstable) on my Acer Laptop and things seems to work fine except of two things. My printer does not seem work with CUPS. Its unsupported, Brother HL-5040 Laser Printer, and purchased before installing debian

Re: OT: down with memory protection!

2004-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm uncertain as to how to answer this, but I'll give a few comments: On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:30:10AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > I have this somewhat crazy idea about systems design which is highly off topic > here but maybe someone would be interested. (I'm not subscribed to any more > appro

Re: vpn tunneling

2004-12-02 Thread Adam Aube
Harland Christofferson wrote: > I am trying to construct a tunnel but have not been successful and > have only found the howto at > www.linux.org/docs/lpd/howto/Firewall-Piercing/x189.html > > Is there a more descriptive howto out there? What sort of VPN software are you using? Adam -- To UN

Re: dccproc error

2004-12-02 Thread Adam Aube
Vadim wrote: > Adam Aube wrote: >>Vadim wrote: >>>I started to have dccproc errors in my syslog: >>>Dec 2 06:02:26 host dccproc[27454]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission >>>denied >>>Dec 2 06:04:24 host dccproc[27464]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission >>>denied >>>I run dcc from spamassassi

vpn tunneling

2004-12-02 Thread Harland Christofferson
I am trying to construct a tunnel but have not been successful and have only found the howto at www.linux.org/docs/lpd/howto/Firewall-Piercing/x189.html Is there a more descriptive howto out there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: OT: down with memory protection!

2004-12-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:30, Sam Watkins wrote: > Current mainstream OSes like Linux implement memory protection primarily > to prevent buggy or malicious processes trampling on each-others memory > and memory-mapped devices, or spying on other processes. No, they don't. Memory protection

RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread james derry
Title: RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250 thanks for the info! -Original Message- From: Steven Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 12/2/2004 3:12 PM To: james derry; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250 Looks like a fault, Im 99% sure the yellow ligh

Re: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread Mike M
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:48:17PM -0600, james derry wrote: > i've recently taken over sysadmin duties for a sun enterprise 250 running > debian. the 250's has frontpanels LEDs, and one on this machine, the general > fault LED, burns constant yellow. online documentation for the hardware at > h

RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread Steven Jones
Title: debian on a sun enterprise 250 Looks like a fault, Im 99% sure the yellow light is a m/board thing and not OS dependant.   Its not likely to be a hd failure, so check the back, see if the psu(s) have a yellow as well (I think they do from memory, I only have 450s here in my new job),

Re: dccproc error

2004-12-02 Thread Vadim
Adam Aube wrote: Vadim wrote: I started to have dccproc errors in my syslog: Dec 2 06:02:26 host dccproc[27454]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission denied Dec 2 06:04:24 host dccproc[27464]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission denied I run dcc from spamassassin (3.0.1), but dcc

Re: evolution 2.0.2 and news feed

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:11 +0200, George Iordanou wrote: > I've installed evolution after a while, and as i'm seeing there is not > "Summary" on the top as used to be in previous versions. Now i'm running > version 2.0.2 on sarge. I can't find how to setup the news/rss feed > reader. Is it removed

debian on a sun enterprise 250

2004-12-02 Thread james derry
Title: debian on a sun enterprise 250 i've recently taken over sysadmin duties for a sun enterprise 250 running debian. the 250's has frontpanels LEDs, and one on this machine, the general fault LED, burns constant yellow. online documentation for the hardware at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handb

evolution 2.0.2 and news feed

2004-12-02 Thread George Iordanou
I've installed evolution after a while, and as i'm seeing there is not "Summary" on the top as used to be in previous versions. Now i'm running version 2.0.2 on sarge. I can't find how to setup the news/rss feed reader. Is it removed from the package? If yes, is there any plugin or alternative? Th

Re: Woody and kernel 2.6

2004-12-02 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Thomas Beresford (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Is it possible to install a 2.6 kernel on woody? > > Yes, if you install the necessary userspace utilities. This includes > module-init-tools, and newer versions of a

Re: changing default os in grub

2004-12-02 Thread john gennard
Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] Hi John You need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with a text editor. I have a rather complex grub set-up (which was an interesting learning experience) on a spare windows machine in our office which has two drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdb; hda has windows 98 and hdb has a vf

MIME-type icon associations in Gnome 2.8

2004-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
The new MIME handing system in Gnome 2.8 is great. While the upgrade path was a bit bumpy at first, on a fresh system it works wonderfully. One major feature that is missing and that I'm not even sure is there at all, is editing the icons for file types. While creating new associations works perfec

Re: compiled nvidia module fails

2004-12-02 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Collet Brunel wrote: | Check if the nvidia-kernel-source version matches with | the nvidia-glx package version.. there may be a | conflict there.. Not in my case; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l nvidia-kernel-source Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hol

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-02 Thread Gayle Fairless
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: are not syntax issues. I have attached the sources.list if someone wants to look. Pleasee note that any thing above the ftp: lis

Re: http Traffic Anayalsis

2004-12-02 Thread André Carezia
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:56:31 -0500 Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Thursday, 2 December 2004, JB Hewit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >It's a little unrelated to Debian but I'm looking for a package that > >will allow me to sniff http traffic and give me some traffic > >ana

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-02 Thread CW Harris
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:51:21AM -0600, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:55:39PM -0600, Steve Block wrote: > > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > >On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > >You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file?

Re: xine error

2004-12-02 Thread Lei Yu
I have tried what you said below for the mouse, but I can only use the touch pad, the ps2 mouse is disabled, I could use both on Suse 9.1 before, do you know a way to do this? Did what you said for the dvd, still got error, it cannot find dvd. I kept on have xine engine error "There is no inpu

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 17:13 -0200, André Carezia wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > > be running but it uses SQL. [...] > > Just curious: in which ways is this a goo

Re: Microsoft Access

2004-12-02 Thread André Carezia
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:24:45 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The nice thing about Access is it doesn't require a server process to > be running but it uses SQL. [...] Just curious: in which ways is this a good thing? -- André Carezia Eng. de Telecomunicações Carezia Consultor

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a > > generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If, > > instead, I comment out exp

Re: offlineimap, fastchecklite

2004-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
Sam Watkins wrote: > A while ago I wrote an ugly hack called "fastchecklite" to check for new mail > on my imap account, and the other day I changed it to invoke offlineimap to > sync my mail. So now I have an "almost perfect" imap / mutt setup :) :) :) > If anyone else would like to use my ugly h

Re: dccproc error

2004-12-02 Thread Adam Aube
Vadim wrote: > I started to have dccproc errors in my syslog: > Dec 2 06:02:26 host dccproc[27454]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission > denied > Dec 2 06:04:24 host dccproc[27464]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission > denied > I run dcc from spamassassin (3.0.1), but dcc was not called before

dccproc error

2004-12-02 Thread Vadim
I started to have dccproc errors in my syslog: Dec 2 06:02:26 host dccproc[27454]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission denied Dec 2 06:04:24 host dccproc[27464]: open(/var/lib/dcc/map): Permission denied I run dcc from spamassassin (3.0.1), but dcc was not called before. Apparently yesterday aft

Re:[linux-audio-user] Finale in Linux

2004-12-02 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, I'm new here. i don't know if it is ot, but i risk... > Does anybody know how to make finale 2000/2003 work with wine? > I tried, it works, shows all the buttons ok, but the notes are still > symbols. I believe the problem is that

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:59:57AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > hi folks, > > ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the > most knowledgable group of people I know... > > I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. > I want to end with late c.20/ ear

Re: Noisy cooling fan

2004-12-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with > kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the > cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high > activity; it is very noisy). I don't know about the activity, but to reduce the nois

Re: [OT] booting through RTC wake-up

2004-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Alban Browaeys wrote: But if I put a timer between the power and the voltage regulator and pop the timer at 1AM, it does NOT work. I add the same problem years ago. I do not shut the power off with a timer behind the pc now , but nvram-wakeup (on sourceforge) led to think the BIOS Did not know ab

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > puttingthe lecture together I realized I don'trelaly understand why > it's important for computer networks to have fine-grain > synchronization. So I thought I'd ask some geeks (as my sig says, I'm > only a hemi-geek): why does a network nee

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:56:44 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modern timekeeping systems have primarily been put in place for the > benefit of the humans using the computers, not so much the computers > themselves. The reason that things like NTP are so accurate is not > because

Re: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread John Hasler
Icebiker writes: > If clocks are wildly out of sync, some software ... will hiccup on the > time warps. Make, for example. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDF-Writer printer?

2004-12-02 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hi: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:20:14AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:06:58PM +0100, Arrizabalaga, Saioa wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I need a pdf-printer: I have tried with the cups-pdf package, following the > >

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