Re: ftp question

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:34:34 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you transfer an entire directory using ftp? The directory that I'm > trying to transfer has a lot of "subdirectories" in it. These directories > also have several types of files in them... ie.. text, vi

Re: dist-upgrade broke srage

2004-12-07 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:50 -0800, Xucaen wrote: > This really should not be this difficult. Either > lilo or grub should be working. The kernel should > work. What am I missing? You're not declairing your root partition.. ie: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-386 root=/dev/hda2 ro -- Rodney Gordon II

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:41 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The f

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:26:54PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > > (IMHO) of main is that these are pac

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:52:38 -0500 Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks so much for your thoughts. > > Ben What kernel are you running? Hopefully not the 2.6.8. It's known not to work . -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHO

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:28 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > > who have undergone a peer review

Re: cannot ssh into my own machine

2004-12-07 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:58:27AM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Why am I not able to ssh into my own machine using the external IP > address? Is this a limitation of Debian or the defect in the router or > a configuration hiccup? Some routers won't do port forwarding from the internal netwo

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread ocl
Joe wrote on 2004-12-08 01:16: I have to admit this is one of the few mods I make to Debian. I've set up an iptables script which starts, stops, clears and checks status. Iptables is not, of course, a daemon, but start installs rules and enables ip forwarding, stop clears them and disables ip fo

Re: dist-upgrade broke srage

2004-12-07 Thread Xucaen
I was finally able to get lilo working again, but kernel panics (image 2.6.8-1-k7) VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block(3,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1) I have no idea what this means, but this is as c

Fw: Fw: Fw:Mewbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-07 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Well. finally achieved partial success. Modem, ppp,wvdial and gnome GUI now working without error messages except Mozilla mail client still gets mail from the wrong account. Contacted Mozilla tech support on this but they haven't responded yet. However, the only success so far was to totally rein

cannot ssh into my own machine

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Running debian sid. Let's say my machine's external IP is 69.212.23.215 and internel IP is 192.168.0.101. I am connected to the internet through DI-514 router. I do port forwarding to get ssh functionality. >From this machine (192.168.0.101), I can do ssh 192.168.0.101 -l username I cannot do s

Re: Questions on Conffiles

2004-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:23:48PM +0800, ?? wrote: > >Just replace them with the original files. You may have a > >/etc/deconf.conf.dpkg-dist file--this is the unmodified file from the > >package. > > I am sorry I did not find such file, this means I have to backup first > next time. Bu

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:20:58PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > 'Debian' consists of the packages in main. The fundamental essence > (IMHO) of main is that these are packages put together by individuals > who have undergone a peer review process before getting commit rights to > main. Knoppix, ubun

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Ehn wrote: > I'm using ddclient 3.6.2-3 in Debian Sarge in daemon mode to keep my > DynDNS.org hostname updated. I have configured it to check the IP > address of eth0 every minute, but for some reason ddclient uses 10 to > 20 % of the CPU all the t

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the > debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > > searches for knoppix return with many references to de

RE: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hello, > > No. kde is a meta package. It just depends on things. > > To get rid of All Things KDE, I'd remove kde-core. > > # apt-get --purge remove kde-core > > Of course, since removing KDE is a Big Deal, test first: > > # apt-get --simulate --purge remove kde-core > Thanks for the info

RE: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:18 +0530, Toufeeq Hussain wrote: [snip] > > I have both GNOME and KDE on Sarge. > I have never used KDE and I want to remove it. > > Will `apt-get --remove kde` completely and leave the system intact? > I don't want GNOME affected in any way. No. kde is a meta package.

Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Bettin
I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols). I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the follo

RE: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Toufeeq Hussain
Hello, > And I'm the opposite to Peter. > I don't use KDE at all. > But then, I don't use most of Gnome either. > I just install what I want, they drag in their minimal > dependencies on > install, and that's all I carry. > From Gnome, all I need are abiword and gnumeric. > I've also installed

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 16:24 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > > > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. > > > > Then don't use Evil Aptitude. Good, solid apt-get won't

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-07 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > 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 sp

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Katipo
Ian R. Meinzen wrote: I am currently running sarge with both KDE and Gnome installed. I'd like to remove the games from my system (*WAY* too much temptation for someone who is already far enough behind), but I noticed that the kde and gnome-desktop-environment packages depend on the games pack

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:07PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: > >> > >>>I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI > >>>Radeon 9600, so I installed the dri

Re: File-->Quit doesn't work any more: A firefox bug?

2004-12-07 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maurits van Rees wrote: | On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 11:01:06AM -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: | |>Testing debian: |>After I upgraded mozilla-firefox from 1.0 to 1.0-2(or maybe 1.0-4 as |>told by dpkg -l), File-->Quit doesn't work anymore. Sure I can close |>a

Re: java2 on debian

2004-12-07 Thread Cathayan
3 ways: 1. use Blackdown.org's deb package: blackdown.org or if you are mainland china, find source at debian.ustc.edu.cn 2. use sun's bin installation package, it works on debian too 3. download sun's bin pack, then apt-get install java-package, then use: make-jpkg jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin dp

Re: installing nagios removed other programs (was: Command line network monitoring tool)

2004-12-07 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:49:34PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > > So you had "stable" there before, and switched them to "sid" to install > nagios? If that's the case, then that mixing of stable and sid (unstable) > is probably what caused the problem. > > The best way to fix this is to run "apt-get

java2 on debian

2004-12-07 Thread Lian Liming
Hi all, I am not familiar with java. A software in my box need java2 environment. Using aptitude search, i find there is a package java2-common(i am using debian unstable). After installation of that package, i find the java environment is still not available. I can find only that packa

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/07/2004 04:20 PM, Otto Wyss wrote: I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show any menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window of my app but the Alt-TAB didn't work at all until t

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 4:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Knoppix is not Debian - > > depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen > has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed > searches for knoppix return with many references t

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 4:23 pm, Richard Lyons wrote: > The only ones that list (on that website at least) unix first and include > linux in the list of required OSs is the Netgear. That suggests that > the DG834G is the one to go for. But I am not the first to travel this > road, so I wou

Re: ip address and netmask

2004-12-07 Thread Harland Christofferson
Harland Christofferson wrote: I am slowly working toward a vpn between the office and home. I now have to change my lan at work so as not to conflict w/ the lan at home. at work, i reconfigured my eth1 interface: eth1 192.168.2.1 255.255.254.0 eth1:0 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 the

Re: Using AutoCAD 2005 on linux:

2004-12-07 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
1. Try www.vmware.com - intel hardware emullator, works like a deam. 2. Google for BRL-CAD to search for the web site and see if it can be used. Have a look at On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:33, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:25 -0800, Mike wrote: > > I use autocad frequently. Is ther

Problem with installing fam on a remote host using apt-get over ssh.

2004-12-07 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
I need to install fam on a linux machine remotely. If I login to a remove host using ssh and run command apt-get install fam everything works perfectly. However I experience a problem with installing FAM using a script that runs installation command on remove host via SSH. Remote session gets

wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Apologies if this subject has been overworked lately. There have been several threads on wireless lan kit, but I am still hesitating... There are a number of combined adsl-modem/router/lan-switch boxes around. Looking on one well known UK hardware website, I see the following, which all meet tha

Re: PyUNO

2004-12-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Hans, hello list! On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:05:33PM +0100, Hans Gubitz wrote: > why is there no PyUNO in Debians-OO? | It is built but not packaged yet, yes - that is because there | were/are(?) problems with using the system python 2.3 (which builds) and | using a internal python 2.2.2 co

Dallas Semiconductor Thermochron iButtons and tempature logging with Debian/Linux

2004-12-07 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is there anybody on the list using or experimenting with Dallas Semiconductor IButtons? I recently ordered the DS9490B 1 wire USB bridge and a DS1921G-F5 Thermocron temperature logger. I am going to use the device to log temperatures throughout the duration of a few backpacking trips, with atten

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
> > Knoppix is not Debian - depends what you mean by "not" ;-) When the OS boots the splashscreen has the debian spiral logo and the word debian prominently displayed searches for knoppix return with many references to debian near the top of search results for knoppix + list I find [EMAIL PR

Re: installing nagios removed other programs (was: Command line network monitoring tool)

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
p wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:11:17PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: >> p wrote: >> > i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it >> > removed a lot of my good programs >> > why would a "network monitoring tool" need to >> > decimate a system? >> > i was running sid. >> I am running Sid as

showimg filenames are not displayed fully

2004-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Using debian sid, latest showimg, kde versions. In the left panel of window where the file names are displayed, the names of the files are not displayed fully. For example if the actual filename is hp_scanDS_361815215438.jpg I see it as hp_s... which makes it very tough to distinguish it from oth

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 04:40:28PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > Sounds like you had a different problem with your system that you didn't > notice until you tried to install nagios-common. > > I am running Sarge, not sid, and I didn't actually complete the install, > but running "apt-get install nag

Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-07 Thread cga2001
I am in the process of switching from RedHat to Debian and I installed woody in a chrooted environment environment using debootstrap and the basedebs.tar base system as advertised in section 3. of the woody Installation Guide. I searched the "testing" repository (which I understand is the soon-to-b

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah > /var/log/mplayer.log 2>&1 This command will create a new log every day, and keep

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I am used to using RedHat, whereby I make sure I have the iptables package installed and I can use "chkconfig" to see if iptables has system-V runtime setup to be on or off, and the iptables-save data goes into /etc/sysconfig/

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:19:08PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > p wrote: > >i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it > >removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine, > >mplayer that doesn't even begin to scratch > >the surface. (i'm still trying to access the > >totality of what it remov

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > 3 4 * * * rm -f /var/log/mplayer.log; mv /var/log/mplayer.log > /var/log/mplayer.log.yesterday; mplayer -command -options blah blah > > /var/log/mplayer.log 2>&1 > > This command will create a new log every day, and keep yesterdays log

Re: installing nagios removed other programs (was: Command line network monitoring tool)

2004-12-07 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:11:17PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > p wrote: > > > i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it > > removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine, > > mplayer that doesn't even begin to scratch > > the surface. (i'm still trying to access the > > totality of what i

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Ben Russo wrote: > What is the "Debian" way of doing this? There are many debian ways to do it. Personally mine is: aptitude install shorewall Whole lot easier to deal with Shorewall's syntax and let it deal with iptables than to mess with iptables directly, IMHO. :D -- Steve

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 12:09 pm, Michael Spang wrote: > Heh, true. It is important to note that many of the questions are > "optional." It might be helpful if this was made more clear to users. Not even Windows points out something that obvious, though... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:54:30 + p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:58PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 > > Andr?s Rold?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Are there any network m

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
p wrote: i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine, mplayer that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. (i'm still trying to access the totality of what it removed.) from what's left, i may have to rebuild the box. (mplayer won't even

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-07 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 08:58:29PM +0100, Yevgen Reznichenko wrote: > Martijn Bosch wrote: > >do you have support for scsi disks installed in the kernel? if not, you > >should to be able to mount an sda device. > > > > SCSI is enabled (see .config below). And I can mount most USB keys but > not

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. My problem (small one) was that since there is no shell, where is the output? Gues what: it gets sent to root! Yes, output from cron processes is sent via e-mail to the owner of the process using local mai

Re: installing nagios removed other programs (was: Command line network monitoring tool)

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
p wrote: > i just tried to install "nagios-common" and it > removed a lot of my good programs--gimp, xine, > mplayer that doesn't even begin to scratch > the surface. (i'm still trying to access the > totality of what it removed.) from what's left, > i may have to rebuild the box. (mplayer

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
Ben Russo wrote: I am used to using RedHat, whereby I make sure I have the iptables package installed and I can use "chkconfig" to see if iptables has system-V runtime setup to be on or off, and the iptables-save data goes into /etc/sysconfig/iptables for reload on reboot (or change of SysV ini

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:42 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > > > someone able to make screen shots showing the menu? > > Works great with File -> Acquire -> Screen Shot in Gimp. Sorry, I'm not > that familiar with ImageMagick's import tool. > H

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scrot is : > Nice, it only should have a -w option which captures the top window. O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-designed applications:

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
Keith O'Brien wrote: > For information on setting up iptables under /etc/init.d/ you can check > out the file under "less /etc/default/iptables". > I choose to ignore all of his warnings and use it. The machine its > running on is Woody. Not sure if the init.d script is provided in later > versio

Re: cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:17:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I found out something that was of interest: You run mplayer from a cron job. You kill mplayer from a cron job. A mail with details gets mailed to root. Okay. Interesting. Was there a question I missed? -- Maurits

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread p
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:58PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 > Andr?s Rold?n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability > > > of network resources (HTTP

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread matze
El Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:09:58PM -0600 Jacob S ha dit: > On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 > Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability > > > of network resources (HTT

Re: input core

2004-12-07 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 09:51:30PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Hi group, > > I have a compicated question. I am analysing the input core. My question is > if it is so that the functions and procedures which are defined and exported > in input.c can be overridden in other modules (other than i

cron jobs + (some?) output

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I found out something that was of interest: I run mplayer from a script in the early morning as a cron job. It start a script that forks and runs execve mplayer to record KUSC for 3 hours. Then 3 hours later I start another cron job that kills the former. My problem (small one) was tha

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 21:57:42 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That > worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show > any menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window > of my app but

Re: Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 21:57 +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That > worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show any > menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window of my > app but the Alt-TAB didn't

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Keith O'Brien
For information on setting up iptables under /etc/init.d/ you can check out the file under "less /etc/default/iptables". The writes own general feeling can be seen in the first q/a: # Q: You concocted this init.d setup, but you do not like it? # A: I was pretty much hounded into providing it. I

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread William Ballard
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. > > > > aptitude remove kdegames > > > > will remove all dependent packages > > > > I once used apt-get to remove kde, but all

Creating screen shot with import (ImageMagick)

2004-12-07 Thread Otto Wyss
I tried to create a screen shot of my appliaction with import. That worked somehow when I clicked into the window. This way I can't show any menu so I added a "-delay 500" and tried to switch to the window of my app but the Alt-TAB didn't work at all until the picture was taken (of course too early

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 16:01:07 -0500 Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability > > of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, > > RSYNC) that I can run from

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote: > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. > > aptitude remove kdegames > > will remove all dependent packages > > I once used apt-get to remove kde, but all kde components were left > untouched. After that, every time I used aptitud

Re: Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
Nagios may help. Michael Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability of > network > resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can > run from the command line? Right now I'm using a shell script that checks

Command line network monitoring tool

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Madden
Are there any network monitoring tools that monitor the availability of network resources (HTTP, IMAP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, NNTP, FTP, DNS, RSYNC) that I can run from the command line? Right now I'm using a shell script that checks if the machine is pingable, but I'm finding that often the service has

input core

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi group,   I have a compicated question. I am analysing the input core. My question is if it is so that the functions and procedures which are defined and exported in input.c can be overridden in other modules (other than input.c). I mean inheritance? Can somebody answer this specific quest

Re: Spamassassin 3.0 not in testing

2004-12-07 Thread Andreas Barth
* Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041207 21:30]: > MrVanes wrote: > >I've been watching the spamassassin package page > >(http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/spamassassin.html) for a while now, hoping > >for spamassassin 3.0 to enter testing but it's being held (for 23 days) by > >some 'aba'. > [...

Re: Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-07 Thread Felixk Karpfen
On 2004-12-04, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:42 pm, Felixk Karpfen wrote: > >> - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be >> understood by amateurs. > >> > > Here's a newbie oriented, step-by-step, set of docs for just that purpos

Re: Can't eject CD

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Spang
Gerard Ceraso wrote: Steven Jones wrote: do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it. man fuser for details regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: John Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Can't eject CD

2004-12-07 Thread Gerard Ceraso
Steven Jones wrote: do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it. man fuser for details regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: John Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't e

Re: Spamassassin 3.0 not in testing

2004-12-07 Thread Travis Crump
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I've been watching the spamassassin package page (http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/spamassassin.html) for a while now, hoping for spamassassin 3.0 to enter testing but it's being held (for 23 days) by some 'aba'. SA has no dependancies (as far as I can see) that need to be fulfill

Re: M$ USB-key

2004-12-07 Thread Yevgen Reznichenko
Martijn Bosch wrote: do you have support for scsi disks installed in the kernel? if not, you should to be able to mount an sda device. SCSI is enabled (see .config below). And I can mount most USB keys but not this one though it should be supported by Linux :( Yevgen $ cat .config | grep SCSI C

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Michael Spang
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: Hello everyone, I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as suggested in the HOWTO. When I run dpkg-reconfigure --prior

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:22 -0500, Ben Russo wrote: --snip-- > Also, I installed Webmin and the webmin-iptables module. But when I go > to the webmin interface there is no iptables module being shown (yes I > restarted apache, webmin and my browser). Any hints? Not sure about the other bits as

Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Russo
I am used to using RedHat, whereby I make sure I have the iptables package installed and I can use "chkconfig" to see if iptables has system-V runtime setup to be on or off, and the iptables-save data goes into /etc/sysconfig/iptables for reload on reboot (or change of SysV init level). What i

Spamassassin 3.0 not in testing

2004-12-07 Thread MrVanes
Hi, I've been watching the spamassassin package page (http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/spamassassin.html) for a while now, hoping for spamassassin 3.0 to enter testing but it's being held (for 23 days) by some 'aba'. SA has no dependancies (as far as I can see) that need to be fulfilled before ent

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Adam Aube
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I > installed on a K6 500 box. Knoppix is not Debian - it is a LiveCD that is a mixture of Stable, Testing, and Unstable that does not correspond to any actual Debian version. If you want an actual version

Re: devfs_mk_cdev question

2004-12-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:13:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > > Where can I find this documentation? > > A: No. > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > The one above is a good piece to show the inconvenience of top postin

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Andreas Ehn
tis 2004-12-07 klockan 13:50 -0500 skrev Ben Bettin: > I'm using Sarge as well, and have a DynDNS.org custom domain. I've > only been using it for a few days, but the package I'm using is > "ez-ipupdate". It was very easy to setup, and seems to be working > fine. I used ez-ipupdate before I reg

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Xinjiang Lu
If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you. aptitude remove kdegames will remove all dependent packages I once used apt-get to remove kde, but all kde components were left untouched. After that, every time I used aptitude, it would prompt me to remove a bunch of packages. ;) -Xinjiang Peter

Re: ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Ben Bettin
I'm using Sarge as well, and have a DynDNS.org custom domain. I've only been using it for a few days, but the package I'm using is "ez-ipupdate". It was very easy to setup, and seems to be working fine. Ben On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:17:46 +0100, Andreas Ehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I

Re: new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of > h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files > I'm looking for in there? How do I access them? Knoppix is not Debian. You'll probab

new to debian -- a few questions

2004-12-07 Thread gl34
Hi all, I migrated from slack8 to debian? via a knoppix3.4 livecd which I installed on a K6 500 box. I apologize if these seem obvious to you. Where are the drivers? the c files? I looked everywhere. Found lots of h files, no c's. On the CD there's a big knoppix file. Are the files I'm lookin

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: Hello everyone, I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as suggested in the HOWTO. When I run dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low xserver-xfree

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 07 Dec 2004 13:07, Ian R. Meinzen wrote: > I am currently running sarge with both KDE and Gnome installed. I'd > like to remove the games from my system (*WAY* too much temptation for > someone who is already far enough behind), but I noticed that the kde > and gnome-desktop-environment

Re: devfs_mk_cdev question

2004-12-07 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Where can I find this documentation? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? Look in the kernel source tree, that is your best location to figure out what the code is doing, and to read any documentation that is prese

[Fixed] Re: File-->Quit doesn't work any more: A firefox bug?

2004-12-07 Thread Xinjiang Lu
Thanks. It was caused by an extension "duplicate tab". -Xinjiang Adam Aube wrote: Xinjiang Lu wrote: After I upgraded mozilla-firefox from 1.0 to 1.0-2(or maybe 1.0-4 as told by dpkg -l), File-->Quit doesn't work anymore. Sure I can close all tabs by clicking "X" button, I am just curious if thi

ddclient uses an unreasonable amount of CPU time

2004-12-07 Thread Andreas Ehn
Hi, I'm using ddclient 3.6.2-3 in Debian Sarge in daemon mode to keep my DynDNS.org hostname updated. I have configured it to check the IP address of eth0 every minute, but for some reason ddclient uses 10 to 20 % of the CPU all the time. Is there anything that can be done about it? I don't know

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi Christian, Christian Convey: > > Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file. No problem. /etc/apt-move.conf (comments stripped): APTSITES="/all/" # include whole sources.list # (except file­URLs) LOCALDIR=/

Re: devfs_mk_cdev question

2004-12-07 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:34:16PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: > Can you also tell me what "class_simple_device_add() " does then? To quote the documentation (why do I write it if no one even reads it...): /** * class_simple_device_add - adds a class device to sysfs for a character driver * @c

Re: devfs_mk_cdev question

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Akkermans
Where can I find this documentation? - Original Message - From: "Greg KH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Akkermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "kernel newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:13 PM Subject: Re: devfs_mk_cdev question On Tue, Dec 07

Re: AGP

2004-12-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 8:30 am, Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm in trouble in the installation of the x-server. I have an ATI > Radeon 9600, so I installed the driver radeon as suggested in the > HOWTO. When I run > > dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low xserver-xfree86 >

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: > Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. > > > Why don't you use dis

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

2004-12-07 Thread Christian Convey
Thanks; I'll take a look. At the moment I'm trying to disturb the existing system as little as possible, since until recently it worked. However, if I'm not successful, I'll definitely consider DpartialMirror. - Christian Otto Wyss wrote: Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FYI, the loc

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