Re: Limiting ssh scans

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday May 10 2005 9:56 pm, Bill Wohler wrote: > What sort of precautions have folks taken against ssh scanners? Already answered this month. Please search the archives. Summary answer: Don't allow logins from networks no legitimate users will be coming from. -- Paul Johnson Email and I

SATA and a Plextor PX-176SA DVD R drive

2005-05-10 Thread Mike
I don't really know what is going on here so excuse me. I can't seem to get my SATA optical drive to do anything for me with sid under kernel 2.6.11. If I lsmod I get sata_nv and sata_sil loaded on from my Asus A7N8X-E deluxe motherboard. But I don't seem to be getting any /dev/sd's showing up

Re: spyware

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:43 am, Brandon Richards wrote: > >>Anyone on this list still running windows might want to check it for >>spyware. I got about 8-9 hits on mine which is not good. I think it >>came from the woman who asked about the windows key. She definitely

Re: Limiting ssh scans

2005-05-10 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2005 06:56 schrieb Bill Wohler: > What sort of precautions have folks taken against ssh scanners? > [...] > A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian > system. There has been long thread on this list about this topic a few days ago and you will find po

Mgetty, new_fax and sender ID

2005-05-10 Thread Ludwig Meyerhoff
Hallo! I would like to know whether there is a way for new_fax to get the sender's ID ("Foo Company Ltd") instead of the fax number. I think the ID is sent separately, or is it simply put on top of the page? In the second case I could lookup the (known) numbers in a database, but in the first ca

Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
Emmanuele BARBARO wrote: >Have you received my e-mail? Any news? > > > You got one reply: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/05/msg01131.html You'd probably get better results if you'd separate the two problems into two separate threads, and use a meaningful subject line on each (people t

best way to implement disk mirroring in Debian Woody 3.0

2005-05-10 Thread Siju George
Hi all, Could someone please tell me the best method/practice to implement "Disk Mirroring" RAID with two 40 GB hard disks on Debian Woody. I would like to know which package or software I should install to support RAID. Please also kindly note that I donot have any RAID hardware but will have t

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Walter Hoolwerf
On 2005-05-11 06:50:08 +0200, Robert Vangel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jon Roed wrote: I recently compiled my own kernel (2.6.10) on my debian system. Now when i try to boot it i get the error message that says : VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "r

Re: gnome-terminal --title and enlightenment icons

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Wohler
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I start "gnome-terminal --title foo" and turn it into an icon, the >> icon's text still says "Terminal." > >> Interestingly, if I use the xterm escape characters to update the >> titlebar (echo "^[]0;foo^G"),

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2005-05-10 Thread bpier2005
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Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 En/La Jonathan Kaye ha escrit, a 10/05/05 21:42: | The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security | vulnerability of Firefox. | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm | I checked on the "From other news sites" section of th

Limiting ssh scans

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Wohler
What sort of precautions have folks taken against ssh scanners? I think I'd like to deny an IP address access to my ssh daemon (or my entire network for that matter) for 24 hours if upon the third incorrect login, or something like that. a scumbag at a particular IP address fails 3. Are there ssh

Re: spyware

2005-05-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:43 am, Brandon Richards wrote: > Anyone on this list still running windows might want to check it for > spyware. I got about 8-9 hits on mine which is not good. I think it > came from the woman who asked about the windows key. She definitely > needs to check cuz her

Re: spyware

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Please don't hit reply to start a new thread. Use Post to Mailing List or compose a new message to debian-user@lists.debian.org instead to start a new thread. On Tuesday May 10 2005 9:43 pm, Brandon Richards wrote: > Anyone on this list still running windows might want to check it > for spyware

Re: On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rogério Brito: > > And the thing that prevents me fro using blackbbox is, among other things, > the need for bbkeys. I think that this functionality should (as is done > with fluxbox) be included in the basic window manager. And bb's author disagrees. bb was designed to be a fast,

spyware

2005-05-10 Thread Brandon Richards
Anyone on this list still running windows might want to check it for spyware. I got about 8-9 hits on mine which is not good. I think it came from the woman who asked about the windows key. She definitely needs to check cuz her system is messed up major big time. Actually I am running dua

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Robert Vangel
Jon Roed wrote: I recently compiled my own kernel (2.6.10) on my debian system. Now when i try to boot it i get the error message that says : VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Cannot open root devi

Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

2005-05-10 Thread Jon Roed
I recently compiled my own kernel (2.6.10) on my debian system. Now when i try to boot it i get the error message that says : VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or un

RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Emmanuele BARBARO
Have you received my e-mail? Any news? -Original Message- From: Emmanuele BARBARO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 15:22 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'; 'debian-italian@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM Importance: High Hi, I'm an italian bran

Re: On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 10 2005, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Rogério Brito: > > P.S.: As you can see, I am willing to experiment with many window > > managers (but not with Desktop Environments right now). > > blackbox, fluxbox, wm2. > > The first two have a dock. If blackbox, get bbkeys as well. For any

Re: gateway 2000 solo bypass password

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday May 10 2005 7:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey I need windows 98 bypass code for the reg. do you have one? No, but if you're in the kind of situation where you need a CD key for windows and don't have one, you might find this to be a far better, longer lasting solution to that p

Re: gateway 2000 solo bypass password

2005-05-10 Thread Brandon Richards
[KS] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey I need windows 98 bypass code for the reg. do you have one? Everyone on the list would have one! Microsoft gives it to every Debian GNU/Linux user. lol that is great i am roflmao on that one! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: gateway 2000 solo bypass password

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hey I need windows 98 bypass code for the reg. do you have one? > Everyone on the list would have one! Microsoft gives it to every Debian GNU/Linux user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re: gateway 2000 solo bypass password

2005-05-10 Thread DestinyDazz
hey I need windows 98 bypass code for the reg. do you have one?

Re: Login KDE style as Root

2005-05-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Fear not, my little ones, I'm not even connected to the Internet. The odds, any way, of my doing this much while connected is small. AN,d I'm probably going to have to re-install Debian soon. So, I'm not too concerned. Yet.On 09/05/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David R. Litwin wrote:> Le

Re: Re: alsa

2005-05-10 Thread hja
thanks, that fixes the problem. playing the vcd is a cpu-intensive activity. i was monitoring things w gkrellm, it shows a lot of cpu activity and the chip temp goes up fast. probably because i don't have a plug-in video card and relies on the on-board intel extreme graphics. hja -- To UNSUBSC

OT Enable/Disable Javascript in Firefox [Was: Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?]

2005-05-10 Thread Colin Ingram
Gerhard Gaußling wrote: Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature. Try the PrefBar 3.1.0 extension*. ** Author:* Aaron Anderson *Version:* 3.1.0 *Size:* 167KB *Date:* 2004-02-08 *Compatibility:* ( 0.9 - 1.0+)

Re: Kickstart for Debian

2005-05-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday May 10 2005 5:41 pm, MJang wrote: > But I can't find any packages in the Debian trees - will Kickstart > be limited to Progeny Linux, or is there some version of Kickstart > in test for Sid or Sarge? Or is everyone still focused on FAI? A better question is, what is MJang doing to bring

Kickstart for Debian

2005-05-10 Thread MJang
Folks, Every now and then, there's a bit from Ian Murdock about getting Kickstart working for Progeny Debian: http://debianplanet.com/node.php?id=1084 But I can't find any packages in the Debian trees - will Kickstart be limited to Progeny Linux, or is there some version of Kickstart in test for

Re: /dev/psaux deleted; mknod helps but not permanent

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Speas, MLIS
Dude, you rock! I added psmouse to my /etc/modules file and renamed my modules.conf to modules.conf.bak (I never throw things away unless I know I no longer need them) and everything works as it should. Thanks again. If I were there right now, I'd buy you a beer. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: alsa

2005-05-10 Thread Colin
Robert Vangel wrote: > hja wrote: > >>Got alsa working, able to play vcd w sound now, but only in root. 'no >>sound' for evertyhing in non-root. working on it. i think it is a matter >>of setting the permissions of alsa dir/files right. > > Try adding your user to the `audio' group. Then log out

Re: Re: Mount behaving oddly under sarge

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:50:19PM +0100, Matthew Roberts wrote: > > /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 > instead of "auto" change to "vfat" on your fstab. > > But this is only ok if all floppies are vfat's, isn't it? are they? > You can create different fstab entri

RE: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread james derry
Title: RE: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine? yes, the vulnerabilities exist and the new candidate builds have been released: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/008121.html -Original Message- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue 5/10/2005 5:47 PM To: deb

Re: php problem with gallery

2005-05-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 11:25, Jon Dowland wrote: > Which debian strand? I can then try and reproduce your problem. sarge I have actually fixed it a few moments ago, via the forums at the gallery web site You need to change session.save_handler user to session.save_handler files in php.ini

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 18:47 -0400, [KS] wrote: > > >>Here is the official security advisory link from mozilla.org >>http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html >> >>You should be fine as long as you haven't added any website to the >>whitelist to install softw

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Gerhard Gaußling
Am Dienstag 10 Mai 2005 21:42 schrieb Jonathan Kaye: > "Mozilla has changed its update web service and advises people to > temporarily disable JavaScript." Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature. regards Ge

Re: change dma mode?

2005-05-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Burgess wrote: > Hey, > > hdparm -I indicates that my hard drive is running in udma2 mode: > > > >># hdparm -I /dev/hda >> >>/dev/hda: >> >>ATA device, with non-removable media >>Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS >>Serial Number: 52QJ1027T >>Firmware Revis

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread David Burgess
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 18:47 -0400, [KS] wrote: > Here is the official security advisory link from mozilla.org > http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/mfsa2005-42.html > > You should be fine as long as you haven't added any website to the > whitelist to install software except the official upda

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 23:44, Lee Braiden wrote: > Something like icewm along with gkrellm might be your best bet. Actually, I think I remember that icewm does have basic applets for things like displaying emails and cpu usage, so if you can learn to live with icewm alone, that should leave you

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread [KS]
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm > I checked on the "From other news sites" section of the article for > possible sources and found this. > http://software.silicon

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 08:41, Rogério Brito wrote: > Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and > that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to > "auto-hide". Something like icewm along with gkrellm might be your best bet. Windowmaker (

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread grey
Rogério Brito said: > Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and > that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to > "auto-hide". Persinally I use xfce on my Laptop. It's only a PII(?)-667 w/192Mb RAM. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ps ux | gre

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread grey
Frank Copeland said: > If you want to set it up as a desktop system you will be pushing your > luck. It can be done but you will learn to live with swapping. A desktop system with a GUI? Sure. A desktop using just the TTYs and maybe screen? He's golden. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

change dma mode?

2005-05-10 Thread David Burgess
Hey, hdparm -I indicates that my hard drive is running in udma2 mode: > # hdparm -I /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > > ATA device, with non-removable media > Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2018GAS > Serial Number: 52QJ1027T > Firmware Revision: Q2.02 A > Standards: >

tailored kernel cdrecord problems

2005-05-10 Thread David Rio Deiros
Hi, I debian running in this system: # P4 1M L2 Cache 2.8 FSB 800Mhz HyperThreading # Intel D865GLC # 2Gb of 400Mhz DDR memory # WD ATA 200Gn # intel Ethernet Pro 100 82557/8/9 # ATA DVDRW device 3,0,0 300) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW SOHW-1633S' 'BS0K' Removable CD-ROM Two weeks ago I decided to tailor

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 20:10, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/11/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs > > within a user's own unix account. But who am I to argue? ;) > I guess that since Bill thought "personally", he also sent t

Re: default niceness

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:53:59AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > as superuser, how can we set up the default niceness for a given user ? > You can set it in /etc/security/limits.conf. -- Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread John Fleming
I don't know how big your system is, but I have been very happy recently with Mondo. I recently had occasion to test the bare-metal restore, and it worked perfectly, to a different machine even! In less than an hour, I had a clone of the other box - everything - OS and data. I'm on esting/Sa

Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible

2005-05-10 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Gail LaForest wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 12:49:54 -0700 > From: Gail LaForest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: patrick.m.lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user > Subject: Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible > Resent-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:06:10 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From:

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/11/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:51, Bill Marcum wrote: > > You might also try "killall firefox-bin". I sometimes wonder, does > > anybody really use profiles in Firefox? > > Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within

Re: OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security > vulnerability of Firefox. > I've just has a look around the Mozilla Firefox site and can't find > anything about it; Front page of http://www.mozilla.org, the May 8 Security Advisory link, takes you to

Re: CUPS: client-error-not-possible

2005-05-10 Thread Gail LaForest
> I'm getting this error: > client-error-not-possible > when trying to print a test page via the cups web based admin tool. > I'm using sid, completely updated. I have no experience with CUPS, can > anyone give me a hand? > --Patrick Greetings Patrick, I'm having this problem too, nothing wi

Problem with NTFS drive

2005-05-10 Thread Some Person
Hello, Summary: NTFS drive corrupted in unknown way, seeking advice and perhaps a recommended data recovery/analysis tool or other next steps. Long version: I recently rebuilt my Debian box and included a second hard drive I scavenged from my old Windows system. The drive was 160GB NTFS formatte

OT Firefox security leak: bogus or genuine?

2005-05-10 Thread Jonathan Kaye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The BBC website is now carrying a story about an alleged security vulnerability of Firefox. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm I checked on the "From other news sites" section of the article for possible sources and found this. http://sof

Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]

2005-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/10/05, H. S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently, _Deboo ^_, on 05/10/2005 01:06 PM,typed: > > > > > I figured this out (or RTFMed). It was simple: ddclient -use=if ppp0 . > > That's all that was needed and I put this in a script that scarts ppp > > at bootup (a script under /etc/rc.boot)

Re: /dev/psaux deleted; mknod helps but not permanent

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Eric Speas, MLIS (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks for the input (sorry about the pun ;) I think I am running > udev on my system. I'll try modprobe and while I'm at it, I'll check > the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory and /etc/modprobe.conf on my systems at > work (which also run Debian

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
Bob Freemer wrote: > I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then > simply copy over appropriate files and do apt-get dist-upgrade or > something like that. Modifying /etc/fstab might be required but other > than that any other issues to concern myself with? I usually bac

Re: gnome-terminal --title and enlightenment icons

2005-05-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I start "gnome-terminal --title foo" and turn it into an icon, the > icon's text still says "Terminal." > Interestingly, if I use the xterm escape characters to update the > titlebar (echo "^[]0;foo^G"), and then turn the terminal into an icon, > the ico

[SOLVED] Re: cups print to samba host

2005-05-10 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
did the windoze way, restarted. /ernst-magne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 01:51, Bill Marcum wrote: > You might also try "killall firefox-bin". I sometimes wonder, does > anybody really use profiles in Firefox? Personally, I think profiles have no place in a webbrowser that runs within a user's own unix account. But who am I to argue? ;) -- L

Re: compiling 1 unstable package on testing

2005-05-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting "Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have a testing box, but on a sparc arch. The mldonkey package is only found in unstable and only for x86 and some others but no sparc. I would like to build a testing package for my testing sparc box I would like to modify the s

Re: /dev/psaux deleted; mknod helps but not permanent

2005-05-10 Thread Eric Speas, MLIS
Thanks for the input (sorry about the pun ;) I think I am running udev on my system. I'll try modprobe and while I'm at it, I'll check the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory and /etc/modprobe.conf on my systems at work (which also run Debian Sarge) for added information. Hopefully I can get this fixed b

Re: Screen: How to copy paste between ttys?

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:18:37PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > On 5/8/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:12:28PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > > How do I copy/paste between different screens running on different > > > ttys? > > > > I suggest using the mous

Re: Firefox: Selected profile is already in use

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:03:03PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > > I changed the username of a user with the usermod command and also > > changed the home dir name to the new username, as well as any > > permissions etc. Now when I ru

upgrading kde

2005-05-10 Thread roberto
Hello, i want to upgrade kde 3.1 to some newer release via aptitude but if i make "u" i do not find it among upgradable packages, only among installed ones. How can i achieve this? Thankx Roberto ___ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più diverte

how to fix grub loader

2005-05-10 Thread Charles Li
Hi, I just use knoppix to do a HardDrive install, which uses lili, over a fedora install which uses grub. Now, when I boot up, it hangs and I only see the word GRUB. How do I fix this? Thanks, Charles Li __ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail

cups print to samba host

2005-05-10 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi, I got some problem printing to a windoze server with a local connected hpdeskjet 920. the printer is default shared as "hpdeskj" On my laptop I have cups installed, both client and server for locally installed printer/scanner and to be able to print to this hp920. Some days ago I had to reins

Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]

2005-05-10 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Deboo ^_, on 05/10/2005 01:06 PM,typed: I figured this out (or RTFMed). It was simple: ddclient -use=if ppp0 . That's all that was needed and I put this in a script that scarts ppp at bootup (a script under /etc/rc.boot) The only thing now is that most of the times, pppd hasn't yet got

Re: X session error

2005-05-10 Thread Jay Zach
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my regular users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to log in as a regular user I get a message which states the following,"Xsession warning: unalbe to write to /tmp;xsession may exit wi

Re: /dev/psaux deleted; mknod helps but not permanent

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > [...] > mknod -m 644 /dev/psaux c 10 1 > mknod -m 660 /dev/input/mice c 13 63 > > I was then able to run kdm and X without problems. However, once I > rebooted the computer, the device files I created where gone again. This looks

Re: On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread mess-mate
s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Incoming from Rogério Brito: | > On May 10 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: | > > Rogério Brito wrote: | > > | > > >Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and | > > >that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set th

compiling 1 unstable package on testing

2005-05-10 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hello, I have a testing box, but on a sparc arch. The mldonkey package is only found in unstable and only for x86 and some others but no sparc. I would like to build a testing package for my testing sparc box I would like to modify the sources.list file to do that. Do you think the best way is t

Re: About boot scripts and pppoe [was Dydns service]

2005-05-10 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/10/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:53:57PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > > I have configured ddclient to update dyndns and when I type ddclient > > -ip my.ip.add.ress, the address gets updated at dyndns in mintes but I > > want to make ddclient do this a

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Re: octave under testing: big problem (workaround)

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But when I use a plot command together with legend, I get the follwing > warnings and errors: > > warning: in graw near line 150, column 3: > warning: graw is deprecated and will be removed from a future > warning: version of Octave. > warning: You sho

Re: Mirroring problem with sarge

2005-05-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach UnKnown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.10.1914 +0200]: > gpg: Firmado el lun 09 may 2005 16:32:57 UYT usando clave DSA ID 4F368D5D > gpg: Imposible comprobar la firma: Clave pública no encontrada Import it from http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc or key ID 0x4F368D5D off any s

gnome-terminal --title and enlightenment icons

2005-05-10 Thread Bill Wohler
If I start "gnome-terminal --title foo" and turn it into an icon, the icon's text still says "Terminal." Interestingly, if I use the xterm escape characters to update the titlebar (echo "^[]0;foo^G"), and then turn the terminal into an icon, the icon's text then shows "foo." Is this a bug in gnom

Re: On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rogério Brito: > On May 10 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > >Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and > > >that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to > > >"auto-hide". > > P.S.: As you can see,

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 10 2005, John Moore wrote: > Thanks. Can I tool around trying to learn X with the 64M configuration > or is that going to be too painful? I actually think that you can, but you'd have to use lean graphic applications. Well, Linux used to be useable on a 486DX33 that I had with 8MB of RAM

On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 10 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > >Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and > >that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to > >"auto-hide". > > pwm, ion{1,2,3}, Well, pwm doesn't seem to be an option to me

Mirroring problem with sarge

2005-05-10 Thread UnKnown
Hi ppl, I got a mirror install in a sarge box that is replicated with debmirror, I started to have troubles while making the update the log shows the following error message gpg: Firmado el lun 09 may 2005 16:32:57 UYT usando clave DSA ID 4F368D5D gpg: Imposible comprobar la firma: Clave pública

Re: ps printing: font problem

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed some additional type 1 fonts which I use to produce > (via latex and dvips) ps files which I then would print on a ps > printer. > > Under woody this all worked fine, but now the last step fails: I can > produce ps files which use the

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2005-05-10 Thread Brice
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/dev/psaux deleted; mknod helps but not permanent

2005-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
am running Sarge on my wife's computer and everything installed and ran fine from the CD install, including X and kdm. Over the weekend, I updated all the packages, installed them and shutdown the computer. Yesterday, when I booted the computer, X failed to start. The error log said that /dev/ps

Framebuffer via rivafb

2005-05-10 Thread ice.dp
Hellow! How do I turn on framebuffer via rivafb module? It's always vesafb module loades instead. I need rivafb to have bigger refresh rate in console. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help recovering from a power outage [solved]

2005-05-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:30:10AM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a Sarge machine on which there is a 60GB HD > > I use it to run simulations. About 30GB on HD is some > > useful results, but it has suddenly become somewhat > > inaccessible be

ps printing: font problem

2005-05-10 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! I recently moved from Debian stable to testing doing a new install. I have installed some additional type 1 fonts which I use to produce (via latex and dvips) ps files which I then would print on a ps printer. Under woody this all worked fine, but now the last step fails: I can produce ps fi

Re: Need help recovering from a power outage

2005-05-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:12:37AM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Mon, 9 May 2005, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Any ideas? > > Have you tried remaking the journal with tune2fs -j ? I tried this suggestion. I got a message that the fs already had a journal, so none was needed. -- Paul E Con

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Re: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
Emmanuele BARBARO wrote: >I've installed the latest TESTING version and I've found some problems: > >MY SOUND BLASTER wasn't found. > >AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO audio card. > >For audio card I've found in INFO CENTER that the card is recognized >but, in section SYNTH there'is nothing and, I belive,

RE: INSTALLATION PROBLEM

2005-05-10 Thread Emmanuele BARBARO
Hi, I'm an italian brand new Debian user. I've installed the latest TESTING version and I've found some problems: MY VGA CARD wasn't found; MY SOUND BLASTER wasn't found. I've a PCI EXPRESS vga card (SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON X700 PRO 256MB) and AUDIGY 2 ZS PLATINUM PRO audio card. To remedy the VGA

Re: install sarge to boot on lvm on raid5 ???

2005-05-10 Thread Michael D Schleif
* On 2005:05:07:10:08:30-0500 I, Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, scribed: > I downloaded sarge-i386-1.iso on 2 May 2005. I was happy to find > installation options for BOTH RAID5 and LVM, right there in the disk > partitioning menus. > > They weren't totally intuitive to me; but, I managed

Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Freemer
I've got a server that's running great, but it's on an old AMD 300MHz machine and I'd like to transition to an entirely new system (with different SCSI etc.). What's the best way to go about copying? I've heard I can repopulate /usr/bin with some apt-based method so I don't need to back all that

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread John Moore
Thanks. That seems to be the general consensus. From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is 64MB enough? Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 19:50:34 -0400 John Moore wrote: > I'm a total Linux newbie who'd like to install Linux on my really old > PC. It has 64MB of RAM and

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread John Moore
Thanks. Can I tool around trying to learn X with the 64M configuration or is that going to be too painful? From: "J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Is 64MB enough? Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 10:06:32 -0400 John Moore wrote: I

Re: Broken part of ram -- 100% broken?

2005-05-10 Thread Alexander Toresson
On 5/9/05, ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2005 12:44:25 -0700 > Alexander Toresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running > > windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really > > unstable on it,

Re: mdadm RAID array disappears on reboot

2005-05-10 Thread Gene Resnik
In my case I had to move /etc/rcS.d/S04mdadm-raid further down on the list somewhere between modules and mount. S04 was to early. But my RAID5 doesn't have any systems files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X session error

2005-05-10 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having problems logging into my gnome desktop environment as my > regular users. I can however log into it as root. When I attempt to > log in as a regular user I get a message which states the > following,"Xsession warning: unalbe to write to /tmp;xsession may ex

Re: logout trouble with GDM and LDAP+Krb5+AFS

2005-05-10 Thread Marcio Scheibler
By switching to another vt and running ps, I see just ssh-agent and gamin still alive for logging-out user, but they quit soon and a single X process remains running (owned by root). Even alone, X does not exit by its own, I need ask it by pressing CTRL-ALT-Backspace. What's worked for me, it's

Krita package?

2005-05-10 Thread Lee Braiden
Anyone know when krita will make it into debian (powerpc, specifically)? Googling brings up mentions of krita binaries back in 2003, in debian-devel, but that seems to have got waylaid. I'd really like to give up GIMP soon :) -- Lee. Please send replies to the list, not to my email address.

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