Re: Rotating mail.log

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:42:36PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: >My server just ran out of space due to mail.log and mail.info getting >massive. I have run syslogd-listfiles --weekly, and both files are >listed in the output. Any ideas on how I can debug this? (Please CC >me, I'm not subscrib

Re: Some packages disappeared from unstable

2004-12-22 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 18:59 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Just curious as to why these packages disappeared from unstable today: > > < apps-wrappers [...] > < python2.3-hamlib2 You missed a few. Anyway, as far as I can see, all of those packages were removed as they are no longer built by any s

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly: dig www.apple.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:24:31PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost > by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites > (e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time. www.apple.c

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:15:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The issue is that links are automagically updated by the cp command. Ron, can you give an example of this, with ls -l output, I've never experienced this & don't understand what you mean. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Strange problem: Cannot update password

2004-12-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Sid: zsh % passwd New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully zsh % But it did not! The old password is still active. And that is the case for all users on the system - root included. I have never seen this before on another machine. Some time ago

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-22 Thread Don Werve
Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: 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. doesn't cp -a preserve hard

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:32:13PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > 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. doesn't cp -a preserve ha

Re: HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:20 pm, Ian Meyer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get our system to boot using > kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp > with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't > cut and paste anything since I'm working

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-12-22 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 08:16:03PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:39:34PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > > >> - With grub, the

LDAP + Kerberos = Bloody Nightmare!

2004-12-22 Thread Don Werve
I'm setting up an authentication system backended by OpenLDAP and Kerberos, and want to stick with as much in the way of Debian-packaged software as possible. Getting LDAP and Kerberos to work hasn't been difficult, but getting LDAP to authenticate against Kerberos has proven to be all but impossi

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Michael Marsh wrote: > If I understand what you mean correctly, then it should be easy. Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you can just move one mbox file in place of another. For instance, if you have myBackupInbox, you can move that to Inbox and be ready to go. If you're trying to merge, the

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

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Paul E Condon wrote: I've been lurking on this thread. When I saw mention of Karten's system-info script I googled it and downloaded it without any problem. Your problem is probably temporary. Maybe, try again. Paul, the link is really 404. Googling did not get exactly Karsten's script but some oth

LDAP + Kerberos = Bloody Nightmare!

2004-12-22 Thread Don Werve
I'm setting up an authentication system backended by OpenLDAP and Kerberos, and want to stick with as much in the way of Debian-packaged software as possible. Getting LDAP and Kerberos to work hasn't been difficult, but getting LDAP to authenticate against Kerberos has proven to be all but impossi

Fellow TILP users, please help!

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew Konosky
Okay, I have followed the instructions in the manual, but I still can't get TILP to work on either my Fedora installation or my Debian installation, but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. In Debian, I have USB support and the tiusb kernel module present, and I even see that the SilverLin

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-22 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:29:51PM -0500, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: I'm sorry. Here it is again in plain text I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA card. I read a lot during the past few month to get this card working but everything I tried didn

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Bruce Park
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 certainly possible. Get a card which supports the hostap driver. I have some notes which you may be able to use. <

Need help mounting an LVM partition in fstab...

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew Konosky
I have both Debian 3.1 and Fedora Core 3 on this computer, and FC3 is using an LVM filesystem. I can mount my Debian filesystem in Fedora because it is a simple ext2 partition, but in Debian, I am not sure how to mount my Fedora filesystem. It is on /dev/hdb2, which is a 74gb physical volume in

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:39:34PM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Jonathan Byrne wrote: > >> - With grub, the boot process will never freeze at LI > > > > Sure, instead it'll freeze at stag

editing the GNOME2.8 menu

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, i have my panel to show a "main menu" applet in gnome. i wish to edit the entries here... specifically, i wish to remove the "Run Application", "Search for File", spacers and "Recent Documents" entries and have my own custom "Applications". while googling for the answer, i came across

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-22 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:52:58 +0100, Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have translated a french article about apt-build. This is a quick > introduction about its usage. > I hope this could help some people to use this software and to make it > better by sending patches, for ex

HP DL380 G4 and kernel 2.6.x boot problems. (testing)

2004-12-22 Thread Ian Meyer
Hello, I am trying to get our system to boot using kernel-image-2.6.8-1-i686-smp and kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp with no luck. Both panic with the message very similar to this (can't cut and paste anything since I'm working on the console) pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init

Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

2004-12-22 Thread Ben Bettin
Well, I believe the "red screen of non-death" as you put it behaves exactly as it was intended in the interactive side of aptitude. From the command-line, the error message makes sense as well. Aptitude is recognizing that your sources don't match up with what packages that are currently listed,

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 22 2004, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: I think he means (optionally) replacing the GNOME menu with the Debian menu; that would save having two separate menu heirarchies. I meant exactly that. Anyone who doesn't use GNOME would be unaffected. Exactly, I personally use fluxbox

Issues with Gnome-2.8

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Halliday
hi there, i have been a long time blackbox user, but recently decided that maybe a full blown desktop would be nice for a change. so i installed gnome-2.8 from testing/unstable. it looks very sweet, but i have several issues which i hope some people can help me with: - gnome overrides .Xmodmap (e

[SOLVED] Re: dhcp not starting since a couple of days

2004-12-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/12/04 20:40,typed: Apparently, _Darryl Luff_, on 22/12/04 18:17,typed: I found that after running an update last night, my laptop network interfaces changed this morning. eth0 used to be the firewire interface, and eth1 was the network. This morning, they are the opposi

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Marcel Weber wrote: Well most consumer access points are crap: I tried the following devices: [snipped] Agreed. I for my part would recommend a decent access point WITHOUT any routing functions and a seperate router (best would be a linux box). Overkill. Linksys WAP11 or similar. No routing, no

Re: dhcp not starting since a couple of days

2004-12-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Darryl Luff_, on 22/12/04 18:17,typed: I found that after running an update last night, my laptop network interfaces changed this morning. eth0 used to be the firewire interface, and eth1 was the network. This morning, they are the opposite. Yup, happened with me too couple of days a

Re: update-alternates

2004-12-22 Thread John Hasler
Randy writes: > I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to > install Java. > The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". Do you mean "update-alternatives"? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

SDL sound not working (ALSA, kernel 2.6.1)

2004-12-22 Thread Dan Lenski
I am running Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.1 and having trouble getting sound output to work with programs that use SDL. I have installed the libsdl1.2-debian package. Alsa sound output works fine from xmms or through gstreamer. But no luck with SDL. I have scoured the web for info on this an

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Vangel
Just found out it's a WMP54G (Linksys) with a 24dBi grid antenna. Which is also what we have (as well as a 15dBi omni) Robert Vangel wrote: Clients range from ~50m to about 2k's away, with 2k's away (not exactly sure of equipment) get around 40Mb/s. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Si

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Vangel
We are using the Linksys WRT54G at home, but with a different firmware (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wifi-box/) and haven't had any problems with it. It's been up around 2 months now (last reboot was the firmware upgrade) and everything is good. Clients range from ~50m to about 2k's away, wi

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Marcel Weber wrote: > I for my part would recommend a decent access point WITHOUT any routing > functions and a seperate router (best would be a linux box). > Alternatively, for the adventerious building a dedicated Linux WLAN box. > You could take a mini-ITX-system like

Re: No net, kernel recompile

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 17:40, Ted Parks wrote: > I just recompiled a Debian 2.4.18 kernel in Woody. Before, my Orinoco > Silver card was working fine. Now, no network connection. > > In the recompile, I also built new modules from pcmcia-cs for the > kernel. Upon bootup, I hear two high-pitched b

Re: update-alternates

2004-12-22 Thread Xinjiang Lu
Searching files on debian.org gives base/dpkg Randolph Kahle wrote: I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to install Java. The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is not installed on my machine and I've done a search of the Debian web site

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

2004-12-22 Thread hdv
On 2004-12-21 @ 15:26:54 (week 52) 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.

update-alternates

2004-12-22 Thread Randolph Kahle
I am doing a fresh install of Debian and I following instructions to install Java. The instructions tell me to use the program "update-alternates". It is not installed on my machine and I've done a search of the Debian web site and I cannot figure out which apt package to install to get this c

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

2004-12-22 Thread Marcel Weber
Olle Eriksson schrieb: 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

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 22 2004, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > I think he means (optionally) replacing the GNOME menu with the Debian > menu; that would save having two separate menu heirarchies. I meant exactly that. > Anyone who doesn't use GNOME would be unaffected. Exactly, I personally use fluxbox (it's somethin

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

2004-12-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:36:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > Se

Some packages disappeared from unstable

2004-12-22 Thread William Ballard
Just curious as to why these packages disappeared from unstable today: < apps-wrappers < clipbook < gambas-gb-qt-kde < gambas-gb-qt-kde-html < gnumail < gworkspace < gwremote < hamlib2 < hamlib2++ < hamlib2-perl < hamlib2-tcl < ion3-doc < libdockapp1 < libluminate5 < libmysqlclient-dev < libresid2

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Clive Menzies said... > > I've never really understood what the first digit does but > having reread the chmod manpage it falls into place almost. Setting > the group ID at 2, means any file or directory created by someone in 'group' > will apply the same attributes? Not q

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

2004-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 14:13 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > > [snip] > > Search Google for a script called system-info by Karsten M. Self. He > > post

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/12/04 09:51), Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > On (22/12/04 20:19), Juhasz Sandor wrote: > > > > > > I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. > > > I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting > > > umask > > > on console, and on terminal

Re: dhcp not starting since a couple of days

2004-12-22 Thread Darryl Luff
H. S. wrote: Hi, DHCP seems to be giving some problems since a couple of days. The problem started when I noticed that it wasn't starting on boot up and I was getting this in my syslog file: # dhcpd: No subnet declaration for eth1 (192.168.1.1). dhcpd: P

Re: lib Glibc and NWN?

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 15:00 -0500, Robert Harris wrote: > I've happily been playing NeverWinter Nights on my Debian Unstable > Linux system for quite some time. In the last month I've started > having a problem I can't trace down. The 3D world just turns black, > grey or whatever the background c

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

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 14:13), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: > > > > > Slowly building my "disaster assurance" strategy on top of the file > > > backups. > > > > > >

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Cameron Hutchison said... > > To prepare a directory hierarchy for group use, I do the following: > > # chgrp -R $group $dir > # find $dir -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 2770 > > (I usually use mode 2775, but I think you wanted 2770 from your > description) > > # find $dir -t

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 17:37), David Mandelberg wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > For existing directories: $ chmod -R 775 should do the trick > That will work for the directories themselves, but all files in them will be > executable. > > I wrote a (very basic) bash script that will recursively make normal

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Cameron Hutchison
> On (22/12/04 20:19), Juhasz Sandor wrote: > > > > I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. > > I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask > > on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile, > > ~/.bashrc, /etc/bas

RE: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Steven Jones
I have noticed some funnies when seting a restrictive umask, mozilla seems to freak out and the ssl stuff no longer works. one to watch for... regards Steven -Original Message- From: David Mandelberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:37 a.m. To: Clive Menzi

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread David Mandelberg
Clive Menzies wrote: > For existing directories: $ chmod -R 775 should do the trick That will work for the directories themselves, but all files in them will be executable. I wrote a (very basic) bash script that will recursively make normal files one permission and directories another.[1] Just do

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/12/04 20:19), Juhasz Sandor wrote: > Hi! > > I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. > I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask > on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile, > ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bash

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

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:25:57PM -0600, J.A. de Vries ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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 t

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:04:42AM -0500, Ben Bettin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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: > > > The only problem I have with it is I can't carry my passwords with

Re: kmail and address book

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 13:48, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 09:06, Peter Nuttall wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 Dec 2004 08:44, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > Although I have been using kmail for a long time, I have only > > > recently started to look at using the address book. > >

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Except that those of us that do not use GNOME (WindowMaker, in my case) > Only see the apps from the Debian menu system. That is, unless I bother > to build my own entire menu heirarchy. Personally, I think it is fi

Re: KDE Arts and JACK

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Tuesday 21 Dec 2004 21:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 abl

KDE 3.3.2 packages now available in experimental

2004-12-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello all, [Sorry for the crossposting, please follow-up to debian-kde only.] KDE 3.3.2 in experimental = As you may have noticed, many KDE 3.3.2 modules have been uploaded to experimental during the last few days. These packages include numerous fixes to

Re: Article about apt-build

2004-12-22 Thread Barrett Dillow
really quick question, as I haven't used apt-build yet and am on a ms box at work... I've just read the pdf howto here: http://www.mozilla.org.br/~cbegotti/apt-build.pdf If I set up apt-build for my system and run "apt-build world" (let's assume it's set up correctly and doesn't bomb), will that

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-22 Thread Richard Kemp
Richard Kemp wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Richard Kemp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I've the same but more odd problem. I've sound whith totem or other video soft but not with xmms and alsaconf doesn't find any soundcard :/ What outplug plugin does xmms use? Maybe you need to switch t

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu be *the* Gnome menu. Now, that would be a good thing, IMO. Seeing the applications separately isn't that intuitive for the new users that I've been using as "guinea pigs" fo

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-22 Thread Richard Kemp
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Richard Kemp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: I've the same but more odd problem. I've sound whith totem or other video soft but not with xmms and alsaconf doesn't find any soundcard :/ What outplug plugin does xmms use? Maybe you need to switch to the ALSA output p

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: > You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu be *the* > Gnome menu. Now, that would be a good thing, IMO. Seeing the applications separately isn't that intuitive for the new users that I've been using as "guinea pigs" for deploying Open

Little script to list packages nothing depends on

2004-12-22 Thread William Ballard
I thought you might find this script useful: apt-cache rdepends `ls /a/l | cut -d_ -f1` | tr '\n' ';' | sed -r \ -e 's/Reverse Depends://g' \ -e 's/;; //g' \ -e 's/;+/\n/g' | \ egrep -v '^ ' | egrep -v ' ' | grep -v '|' | sort | less Given a set of packagenames, it returns the ones for wh

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:31:33PM +0200, David Baron wrote: modprobe.conf -- where did it go? If it is not there, how did everything get To bed, I hope. ;-) /etc/modprobe.conf doesn't exist anymore. Debian uses the directory /etc/modprobe.d/, where you can put your module configuration files. Sha

lib Glibc and NWN?

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Harris
I've happily been playing NeverWinter Nights on my Debian Unstable Linux system for quite some time. In the last month I've started having a problem I can't trace down. The 3D world just turns black, grey or whatever the background color is but the overlay HUD, the chat boxes, etc are all there.

Article about apt-build

2004-12-22 Thread Julien Danjou
Hello, I have translated a french article about apt-build. This is a quick introduction about its usage. I hope this could help some people to use this software and to make it better by sending patches, for example. :-) apt-build: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/apt-build French: http:/

Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Juhasz Sandor
Hi! I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc way.) Any program started from X window manager (for

Umask 002 policy

2004-12-22 Thread Juhasz Sandor
Hi! I have to implement default umask 002 for my users on my Debian server. I use KDM login. I searched the net, and I found tips only on setting umask on console, and on terminal emulators. (The standard /etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, /etc/bash.bashrc way.) Any program started from X window manager (for

Re: kmail and address book

2004-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 18:19, Adam Aube wrote: > > I have the current KDE in Sid, and I do see "Recent Addresses" first. > > However, if I scroll up the window I see "Other Addresses", which lists the > addresses in kaddressbook. It seems to remember the section I was in last > when I compo

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:10:31 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a CD with the /home backup. On the cashed system I kept a ToKeep > folder into my Thunderbird's local folders with mail I wanted to keep. > How do I reimport that and the old address book ? If I understand what y

Re: Sarge Upgrade Broke Everything Except Terminal

2004-12-22 Thread Kent West
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Leonard Chatagnier wrote: [System brokenness on upgrade] I'm just coming into this, but it sounds like you've tried upgrading both your system to Sarge, and your system to a new kernel. This warning is a little late, but next t

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 12:13 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I just got another email that brought to this list. > > I know that there are a scattering of projects which are based upon > Debian (ie: knoppix, ubuntu) but I've heard of a few which are more what > I'm looking for (ie: k12). > > But I'm

Re: ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-22 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:01:29 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and > press M to unmute the main volume. > > Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ? > > Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. > Ha

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:39:45PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Why are so many more applications listed under > Gnome's->Applications->Debian menu that directly into Gnome->Applications ? The former uses Debian's menu system. The latter uses its own mechanism and makes its own decisions about

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

2004-12-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 21 December 2004 11:15 pm, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:12:21PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > 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

Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Why are so many more applications listed under Gnome's->Applications->Debian menu that directly into Gnome->Applications ? For instance the installed k3b is only in the former list under Debian menu->Apps->System and not where I would have expected it Gnome->Applciations->Multimedia (for instan

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
I don't know specifically, but I set myself up a little while ago to copy my thunderbird files from my laptop to a workstation. When I open thunderbird on the workstation after copying the files, everything matches with the laptop. So no explicit import necessary, just put it back where you copie

Re: kmail and address book

2004-12-22 Thread Adam Aube
Alan Chandler wrote: > kaddressbook has been set up with a few entries in it. > > If I go to kmail tools menu and select "address book", I open kaddressbook > and can select entries from it and use it to send a message. > > However, when I compose a message from scratch, I would expect to hit th

Re: Sarge Upgrade Brole Everything Except Terminal

2004-12-22 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leonard Chatagnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade Brole Everything Except Terminal > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > >Well, no one responded to my posting on how

LVM warning at boot

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Can I get rid of the following errors/warning at boot time regarding my LVM setup ? TIA, Bob Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Creating device-mapper devices...done. Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while

Re: No net, kernel recompile

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Ted Parks wrote: Ifconfig lists eth0 for the Orinoco card. The first three lines: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (then the MAC address . . .) UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Can

No net, kernel recompile

2004-12-22 Thread Ted Parks
I just recompiled a Debian 2.4.18 kernel in Woody. Before, my Orinoco Silver card was working fine. Now, no network connection. In the recompile, I also built new modules from pcmcia-cs for the kernel. Upon bootup, I hear two high-pitched beeps, just as before. Running lsmod shows that the proper

ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and press M to unmute the main volume. Why doesn't this get "remembered" across reboots ? Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. TIA, Bob ii alsa-base 1.0.7-2ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss 1

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:22:56PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in E

Alsa paramaters, Woody

2004-12-22 Thread Ted Parks
I appreciate the help some members have given me with a soundcard on a Toshiba Tecra 8000, running Sarge. I am now working on the card in an older Toshiba, a Portege 660CDT, running Woody. It is the same soundcard as the other machine, an OPL3SA2. The BIOS yields these figures: WSS I/O Address=53

Re: Sound problem.

2004-12-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Richard Kemp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've the same but more odd problem. > I've sound whith totem or other video soft but not with xmms and > alsaconf doesn't find any soundcard :/ What outplug plugin does xmms use? Maybe you need to switch to the ALSA output plugin, or activate the

Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-22 Thread Tom Allison
I just got another email that brought to this list. I know that there are a scattering of projects which are based upon Debian (ie: knoppix, ubuntu) but I've heard of a few which are more what I'm looking for (ie: k12). But I'm having a very hard time chasing down any details. I'm looking for a

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:22:56PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ?? > > > Hi Vincent, links running in a

Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI problems on latest alsa from Sid

2004-12-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 17:13, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:43:56 +0200 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 16:11, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > possible solution: > > > > > > modprobe snd_seq_midi > > > > This indeed go MIDI going! T

Wayward syslog items

2004-12-22 Thread David Baron
My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

[SORTED] Re: 'ls' caching?

2004-12-22 Thread michael
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 16:02, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:37, michael wrote: > > > Is there some caching going on for 'ls'? > > Not in the sense you mean, no. > > > See the example below where I deleted files in another window and then > > re-exported from CVS, but the

Re: how to mount a scsi scanner

2004-12-22 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:30:58PM +, Rob Clack wrote: > I'm running Debian (3? Don't know how to tell) with an Agfa snapscan > scanner attached to a scsi card. Provided the scanner is switched on > when I boot the linux box, all is well and Gimp can scan stuff in fine. > I have xsane inst

Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
After moving/resizing my /var,/usr/tmp and /home ext3 filesystems, Partition Magic ferociously disfigured my / partition (on which there also was the .15 stage GRUB loader so I could not even boot to XP anymore). After some 9 hours I am mostly back and this time with all but / on LVMs :) Now a m

Re: aptitude: modifying sources.list

2004-12-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ben Bettin wrote: I see, didn't realize you were using it on the command-line. I usually use it interactively. When I adjust my sources.list and run 'aptitude' from the command-line, a big nasty red window pops up and lists the errors you describe. At the bottom is an 'ok' button or some-such, yo

Re: 'ls' caching?

2004-12-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:37, michael wrote: > Is there some caching going on for 'ls'? Not in the sense you mean, no. > See the example below where I deleted files in another window and then > re-exported from CVS, but the listing doesn't appear unless I cd out and > back in again. Ar

Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

2004-12-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 04:01:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ?? > Hi Vincent, links running in a terminal under X responds to mouse > actions. This is a result of mouse su

how to mount a scsi scanner

2004-12-22 Thread Rob Clack
I'm running Debian (3? Don't know how to tell) with an Agfa snapscan scanner attached to a scsi card. Provided the scanner is switched on when I boot the linux box, all is well and Gimp can scan stuff in fine. I have xsane installed. However, if the scanner is switched off when the computer

Re: Automatic dial out for a modem

2004-12-22 Thread Colin
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 tries to connect to the Net. The connection goes d

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