Re: Automating DebConf answers

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:12:18PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > I'm aware that a "text" frontend for DebConf is available, where one can > simply provide keystrokes to DebConf on stdin. > > Is there a frontend that informs me "which" package is being configured, > and lets me decide what answ

Re: Sound problem.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:00:26 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > On a Debian system, don't edit /etc/modules.conf. Your changes will be > overwritten sooner or later. Instead edit a file in /etc/modutils, in > your case I recommend /etc/modutils/sound, which is the file alsaconf > would create. Add the

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I'd like to know the tricks available in the unix console - I mean raw > console, > no Xterm or whataver X console. One exemple: a lot of you do some screen > output > copy in their messages. Copy & paste, sort of..

Re: [OT] Anyone have a gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 deb?

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 07:18 pm, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I'm getting an Epson printer for my wife for Christmas, and know it > works best with the gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 drivers. I am very > uncertain about trying to compile the gimp.org package myself (since > unstable has only the 4.2.7 re

Re: creating a c: filename

Paul E Condon wrote: The fact that mkdir c: works for ext3 (which is what I have) and not for fat32 leads me to believe that there is a rule against colon in file name that is part of the fat32 standard and is being enforced by the fat32 implementation. I am not optimistic about you finding what y

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:46:16PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Mepis Printer package onto my system. Hopefully, it will only require > adding whatever repositories Mepis uses other than the Debian ones and > doing a simple apt-get install. It's not smart to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: xv

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:54, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:09:46PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > > > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. > > > Just apt-get it and you

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:59, John Hasler wrote: > Robert Parker writes: > > Does it give the user the option of connecting or working offline when he > > runs a mail client or web browser? > > Demand-dialing brings up the connection automatically if and only if > something such as a browser

Re: And Now for My Next Frustration - The Printer

Matt Weber wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:14 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Since I am still stumped on the TV Tuner problem that I posted about earlier, I decided to start working on getting the printer up and running. I really thought that this would be a fairly easy one too, since it's just a si

Re: Console Password Manager?

I actually had a palm, and used yapps password manager. The problem is, palms arn't extremely reliable. Occasionally batteries will die, it will get shaken the wrong way and reset, etc. When that happens, you're screwed and lose all of your usernames/passwords (upwards of 80 when it happened to

Re: Majordomo

Brian Nelson wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: Em Ter, 2004-12-

[OT] Anyone have a gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 deb?

I'm getting an Epson printer for my wife for Christmas, and know it works best with the gimp-print 5.0.0-beta2 drivers. I am very uncertain about trying to compile the gimp.org package myself (since unstable has only the 4.2.7 release--understandably), and have been unable to Google any reference

Re: Console Password Manager?

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:10:38 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:15 + > > Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > asg on #debian (freenode) mentioned using gpg + a text file + wi

Re: Console Password Manager?

on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:16:15 + > Ben Bettin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > asg on #debian (freenode) mentioned using gpg + a text file + wipe > > (for the tempfile). Seems like there should be an easier, more > >

Re: Console Password Manager?

on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 10:08:25PM -0500, Ben Bettin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone know of a good Password Manager that can be run in the > console? I know there are many GUI ones, but I need to run this > remotely via ssh so I need a console one. I use a gpg-encrypted file, edited in

Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: | On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: | |>A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I |>could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 |>KB/s). The file is pr

apm and apic errors. debian sarge

Hi. I am a debian newbie. I did an install of debian sarge and I am getting kernel errors. They say: apm: BIOS not found APIC: error on CPU0: 60(60) There are many of the first error and an occasional second one. I was not exactly clear about what apm and acpi are. I am not even sure that I ne

Software for managing mailing lists (was: Re: Majordomo)

On Dec 21 2004, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > It certainly seems that mailman is the only way to go when it comes to > > dong mailing lists these days. > > p ezmlm-src I have used DJB's ezmlm quite sucessfully for a looong time (in con

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > If you really desperately need saslauthd, you will need Postfix 2 and > SASL2. You can get them for Woody from backports.org: Too bad that someone, in a moment of utter *in*sanity, decided that postfix 2 from backports.org should *NOT* use SASL2. Arg

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

Robert Parker writes: > Does it give the user the option of connecting or working offline when he > runs a mail client or web browser? Demand-dialing brings up the connection automatically if and only if something such as a browser tries to connect to the Net. The connection goes down after a con

Re: OT Debugging PHP "Error 500" errors

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:41:15PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain > > operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same > > operation offline doesn't

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 08:10, John Hasler wrote: > gcrimp writes: > > Look for diald, a demand dialing daemon. > > That's doing it the hard way. Configuring pppd for demand-dialing via > pppconfig is much easier. Thanks. It looks vey much easier. Does it give the user the option of connec

Re: OT Debugging PHP "Error 500" errors

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:41:15PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain > > operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same > > operation offline doesn't

Re: xv

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:09:46PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. > > Just apt-get it and you will, probably, never worry about xv :-) > > Does qiv have a

Re: Majordomo

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: > >Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu: > >>Em Ter, 2004-12-21 ??s 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > >>>Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: > Em Ter, 2004-12-

Re: Majordomo

Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: did u try the postfix? did u try mailman

Re: Sound problem.

Hello Felix Karpfen (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > The relevant output (now produced by KDE) reads: > > Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v 1.04 emulation code) > Kernel Linux 2.6.8-1-386 #1 > Installed drivers Type 10 ALSA emulation > Card config No soundcard > > [...] > > The package do

Re: no konsole text with kernel 2.6.8

> I notice the blank screen (with vertical lines) occurs after the line : > "Calculating modules dependencies" during the boot process ... > I use vga=ask in lilo.conf but this change only affect the text mode > before > the switch (blank screen) after "Calculating modules dependencies" > And yes,

Re: Majordomo

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:20:28PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Uh... > what mailing list software is available from debian? > I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb > founded. I've been very happy with Mailman for years now on my own server (iconsf.org). -- Carl

Re: Majordomo

Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 20:23 -0200, Franz Gustav Niederheitmann escreveu: > Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > > Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: > > > Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > > > > > did u try the postfix? > did u try mailman ? -

Re: Backup with versioning

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:51:11PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the f

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > lsmod > lspci > dpkg --get

Re: Majordomo

Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 17:08 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: > > Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > > > >>Uh... > >>what mailing list software is available from debian? > >>I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of d

grub error 15 with Promise TX2000 Raid Controller

OK I didn't choose the hardware so I can't do anything about that part. I'm trying to use Sarge with a net install and it is recognizing that the drives are there. I went through the entire install, had to partition the drives individually with a 50 meg boot partition on each drive that is not mir

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:51 +0100, Christian wrote: > Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 22:16 schrieb Ron Johnson: > > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:33 +0100, Christian wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 14:36 schrieb Darryl Clarke: > > > > Hi, > > > > [snip] > > > > > Make a filesystem on the new

Re: Majordomo

Franz Gustav Niederheitmann wrote: Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: Uh... what mailing list software is available from debian? I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb founded. see them at Http://lists.debian.org Not the mailing lists of De

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

You can look projects up at http://freshmeat.net and follow the links back to the home pages, some of them will have links to Debian repositories or provide Debian packages that can be downloaded. For unofficial sources for your sources.list you can have a look at http://apt-get.org for Mplayer

Re: Majordomo

Tom Allison writes: > I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb > founded. Majordomo is not Free Software. See . -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sarge Upgrade Brole Everything Except Terminal

Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Well, no one responded to my posting on how to get apt-get to upgrage to Sarge so took matters in my own hands and installed the virtual kernel-image 2.6.8-10-i686. Even so, lilo wouldn't boot it up until I ran MKINITRD and that didn't run without error. The setup didn't

KDE Arts and JACK

Hi! I'm trying to configure KDE's sound system ARTS to use the JACK Audio Connection Kit. It works fine if I launch JACK manually and then after that change the ARTS setttings (in KDE's Control Center) to use JACK, but I was not able to get ARTS launch JACK automatically when KDE is started. Has

Re: Majordomo

At Tuesday, 21 December 2004, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Uh... >what mailing list software is available from debian? >I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb >founded. > >-- try http://lists.debian.org/ ---

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

Am Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2004 22:16 schrieb Ron Johnson: > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:33 +0100, Christian wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 14:36 schrieb Darryl Clarke: > > > Hi, > > [snip] > > > Make a filesystem on the new partition (i'd choose reiserfs or ext3) > > mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/s

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:48:05AM -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default > sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been > able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, > and what about e

Sarge Upgrade Brole Everything Except Terminal

Well, no one responded to my posting on how to get apt-get to upgrage to Sarge so took matters in my own hands and installed the virtual kernel-image 2.6.8-10-i686. Even so, lilo wouldn't boot it up until I ran MKINITRD and that didn't run without error. The setup didn't mention this. Is it requi

Re: Majordomo

Em Ter, 2004-12-21 Ãs 16:20 -0500, Tom Allison escreveu: > Uh... > what mailing list software is available from debian? > I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb > founded. see them at Http://lists.debian.org > > -- []'s --

Re: Majordomo

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 1:20 pm, Tom Allison wrote: > Uh... > what mailing list software is available from debian? > I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of > dumb founded. I'm a fan of Sympa, though if you don't want to go through the trouble of setting up your ow

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

gcrimp writes: > Look for diald, a demand dialing daemon. That's doing it the hard way. Configuring pppd for demand-dialing via pppconfig is much easier. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xv

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:09:46 -0500, Mason Loring Bliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. > > Just apt-get it and you will, probably, never worry about xv :-) > > D

Majordomo

Uh... what mailing list software is available from debian? I was expecting to find majordomo and didn't, which has me kind of dumb founded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: best IRC client for Debian

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 05:10 +0800, Katipo wrote: > Peter Nuttall wrote: > > > > > That is too much info, examining the AOL page, it will not let you > > have 1963 but will let you have 1973, so my advice would be to knock > > twenty years off your age and go from there. > > > > > Known as the t

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:33 +0100, Christian wrote: > Am Sonntag, 19. Dezember 2004 14:36 schrieb Darryl Clarke: > > Hi, [snip] > > Make a filesystem on the new partition (i'd choose reiserfs or ext3) > mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 > > Mount the new filesystem > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/new_disk > >

Re: /etc writeable [was: etc writeable blah]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:30:12 +0100, William Ballard wrote: > My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc need > to be writeable." See http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root.html, and especially the README files linked from it, for answers. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: best IRC client for Debian

Peter Nuttall wrote: That is too much info, examining the AOL page, it will not let you have 1963 but will let you have 1973, so my advice would be to knock twenty years off your age and go from there. Known as the target audience. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

Depends, US or non-US, woody, sarge or unstable, linux or hurd, etc. Standard urls for "woody" (the most commonly used distribution) with US pkg's are: (The deb & deb-src must be included before the http). deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.us.deb

Re: OT Debugging PHP "Error 500" errors

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain > operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same > operation offline doesn't throw error. A larger PDF (running > different code) succeeds. > > H

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

Charles Read wrote: OK, so I got the postfix-tls package, didn't know about that thanks! But still cant find saslauthd... don't I need to start it? Now an ehlo over telnet shows AUTH and STARTTLS like expected and I created /usr/local/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf with the line 'pwcheck_method: pam' (a

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:06:20PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:52:13 -0500, Charles Read > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to run a postfix with sasl support on my Debian box. I > > have tried apt-getting all sasl packages and saslauthd is nowhere to be > >

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:57 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:23:42AM +1100, Robert Parker wrote: > > When the user starts an app such as a mail client or web browser I need to > > ask if an internet connection is wanted or not. > > > > If yes, then it needs to invoke s

Re: creating a c: filename

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:57:35PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >mkdir c: > > > >also works for me. Some console messages are a bit tricky to interpret, > >but directory is named as you wish without any quoting. > > > Paul, > the problem was that I tried creating the c: file

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

OK, so I got the postfix-tls package, didn't know about that thanks! But still cant find saslauthd... don't I need to start it? Now an ehlo over telnet shows AUTH and STARTTLS like expected and I created /usr/local/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf with the line 'pwcheck_method: pam' (although shouldn't it

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 19:29 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > You're GREAT Ron. Thank you so much. I know... (You're waiting for a smiley, aren't you???) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

What kind of encryption (WEP, WPA) will it be able to do? Would the card control this? bp At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:03:30 +0100, Frederik Dannemare wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 15:10, Bruce Park wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point? > > Yes, it's cert

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:52:13 -0500, Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I am trying to run a postfix with sasl support on my Debian box. I > have tried apt-getting all sasl packages and saslauthd is nowhere to be > found on my system... how has everybody else done it? A

Re: Sound problem.

On 2004-12-18, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > If it is a sound card and ALSA drivers are installed,. > There is the problem! Regrettably, the solution is not clear to me from studying the supplied documentation. > The relevant output (now produced by KDE) reads: Sou

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:52:13 -0500, Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I am trying to run a postfix with sasl support on my Debian box. I > have tried apt-getting all sasl packages and saslauthd is nowhere to be > found on my system... how has everybody else done it? A

nvidia and mesagl in sid

Is there any compelling reason why xlibmesa-gl is a dependency for much of KDE and x-window-system? If you have an nvidia card, mesa *willL* break your GL, and forcing aptitude not to install GL when it tries seems to work fine using nvidia GLX. So can we get rid of the bogus libmesa depends i

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

Andrew Konosky wrote: I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, and what about extra packages and stuff? There is a list of mirr

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:23:42AM +1100, Robert Parker wrote: > When the user starts an app such as a mail client or web browser I need to > ask if an internet connection is wanted or not. > > If yes, then it needs to invoke something like pon or wvdial to make the > connection. > Look for di

saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

Hey everybody! I am trying to run a postfix with sasl support on my Debian box. I have tried apt-getting all sasl packages and saslauthd is nowhere to be found on my system... how has everybody else done it? Also, I know postfix has to be compiled with sasl support for it to work... how can

Re: Re: make-kpkg modules_image

On (21/12/04 08:22), Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Unidentified subject! > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:22:15 -0600 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham > version=3.0.1 >

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:41:40PM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > have both drives in, boot with rescue cd, then > > cp -a /mnt/hda/* /mnt/hda.new/ Ew. Splitting hard links is a bad thing. If there's a Reiser dump/restore suite, that would be my preference. I don't see one at the moment... A ta

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:30, Bob Alexander wrote: > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > lsmod > lspci > dpkg --get-select

System freezed with kde3.3 and kernel 2.6.9

hello i am running sarge with kernel 2.6.9 on my laptop. i was happy with kde 3.3 and all the fonction of my laptop working till i get my system freezed... The problem is that it hapen from time to time. i have check /var/log/syslog and kern there were so large (about 140 Mo each) i always have

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:30:35PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > lsmod > lspci > dpkg

Re: xv

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images. > Just apt-get it and you will, probably, never worry about xv :-) Does qiv have a function like xv's -maxpect? I really miss this in other programs. I'd be happy

Re: swap space size

on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:33:45AM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:21:20AM +, Alexis Huxley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think about it, if you want to dramatically improve the

Re: Preserving /etc/resolv.conf when dialup connection is active

John Hasler wrote: Everytime I connect to the Internet, the 'nameserver' entries which are originally in /etc/resolv.conf are replaced with the ones from the dialup connection (they are restored after I hang up). How to prevent this? I want to preserve 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' since I serve some int

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

Ron Johnson wrote: 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.MMDDHHMM.txt where MMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I obtain such value ? $ date +%Y%m%d%H%M How do I create the required backtick

Re: balsa and SSL

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:08 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear debianners, > > I am using woody + exim + balsa 2.0.12. I use balsa from home trough a > dialup connection. Everything was going fine, i.e. I was sending and > retrieving emails normally. But now my internet provider change the

balsa and SSL

Dear debianners, I am using woody + exim + balsa 2.0.12. I use balsa from home trough a dialup connection. Everything was going fine, i.e. I was sending and retrieving emails normally. But now my internet provider change the configuration of the email server, and now I have to use SSL in order

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 18:30 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. > > Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that > would build a file with useful information. Here it is: > > lsmod > lspci > dpkg --get-

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

Bob Parker writes: > When the user starts an app such as a mail client or web browser I need > to ask if an internet connection is wanted or not. > If yes, then it needs to invoke something like pon or wvdial to make the > connection. Why not use demand dialing? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRI

Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file backups. Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that would build a file with useful information. Here it is: lsmod lspci dpkg --get-selections sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda df uname -a Now the questions: 1) Other

Re: apt-get screwed ? please help

Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Bob, hello list! On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: [...] dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 [...

Re: creating a c: filename

Paul E Condon wrote: mkdir c: also works for me. Some console messages are a bit tricky to interpret, but directory is named as you wish without any quoting. Paul, the problem was that I tried creating the c: file on a FAT32 filesystem. On ext2/3 etc it works fine. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-get screwed ? please help

Bob Alexander wrote: > In an attempt to mount /usr normally and then remount it ro to upgrade > packages I must have screwed something. > /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 ^^ Those scripts that dpkg can't execute- they are in /var/lib/dpkg/info/. -- T

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

Olle Eriksson wrote: What exactly is the problem with the wireless routers? I was just about to buy one and would like to know more about you experiences. Loose settings, crash? That doesn't sound good. I was hoping to make it easier for myself by having all that stuff separated from my linux ma

Fwd: Re: LILO HANGS-Linux Nor Windows Wont Bootup

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: LILO HANGS-Linux Nor Windows Wont Bootup Date: Friday 17 Dec 2004 20:06 From: "Leonard Chatagnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Nuttall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Merry Christmas to you Peter, I downloaded the floppy boot program from TOM.net,

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:48:05AM -0600, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default > sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been > able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, > and what about

Re: Need urls for apt sources.list

On Tuesday December 21 2004 16:48, Andrew Konosky wrote: > I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default > sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been > able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, > and what about extra packa

Re: only root can start X,

Hello Smith a (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > i have installed xserver-svga, but only root can start X, others > can't, error message says wrapper should be used. Install the wrapper? Try apt-get install x-window-system-core If you also want a login manager, install xdm (or kdm/gdm/wdm). By th

Re: creating a c: filename

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:37:33AM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called > dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem. > > These symlinks must be called c: d: etc > > I am not able to understand how can I cre

Re: NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

Hello! On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:15:58AM -0800, BigCoupe wrote: > I got hit myself. I believe I have narrowed it down to an exploited > PHP as well as phpBB. Apparently it's only a bug in phpBB, a fix is known for some time, see or update

Re: creating a c: filename

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:37:33AM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called > dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem. > > These symlinks must be called c: d: etc > > I am not able to understand how can I cre

Setting up a low resource graphical environment (was: Re: GUI)

On Dec 21 2004, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > 20.12 2004 r., on 09:33 Mike wrote: > > Fluxbox, google it and there should be plenty of info > > Right, I also recommend fluxbox. Let me also add my voice to the choir regarding fluxbox. It's the window manager that I've been using for a long time. I use

Need urls for apt sources.list

I have my system up and running, but I am still using the default sources.list and I want to add some more repositories but haven't been able to find any through google searching. What are the standard urls, and what about extra packages and stuff? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

I got hit myself. I believe I have narrowed it down to an exploited PHP as well as phpBB. BigCoupe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PATH problem

When I download a compressed file and select "Extract Here" in Konqueror, I get an error that the operation is not in my path. How do I fix this? Ark is installed and I can open compressed file, but I have to open each file individually and extract them one at a time rather than just selecting

Automatic dial out for a modem

When the user starts an app such as a mail client or web browser I need to ask if an internet connection is wanted or not. If yes, then it needs to invoke something like pon or wvdial to make the connection. Google never got me anything useful. I'm quite happy to write a daemon if I must. Tha

custom headers in apache

Hai I am using apache(1.3.26) on woody and I have enabled mod_headers, 1) Header set Server "test" But the header response gives still Server as 'apache'.even unset also not working. 2) When I add like Header append Author "joe" This has been added in header response. Why 1) is not

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