password protection

2005-06-22 Thread Anton Antonov
Dear Debian, My name is Anton Antonov and I’m a system administrator in Neterra Bulgaria. In our office we have LAN including Linux and Windows desktops. We have server running under Red Hat Linux 7.2 with kernel 2.4.28. On this server we have Samba v.2.2 for Windows based Desktop Machines a

Rewire

2005-06-22 Thread Ranjiv Topaz Paul
Hi there Hey if you have connected the New and the old machine directly using a network cable it will not work until you have rewired the cable to have a cross link.Orelse you have to use a hub. Visit the student portal @ http://www.studentvuw.vuw.ac.nz

Re: Scroll lock stuck on.. Darn it!

2005-06-22 Thread Simon
Simon wrote: Kent West wrote: Simon wrote: I remember seeing a thread some years ago about a "stuck" shift key. Turns out there was some command or keystroke that caused the terminal to interpret everything in upper-case. The purpose of this capability was to work with some older (antiquated) d

Re: Scroll lock stuck on.. Darn it!

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
Simon wrote: Hi There, I have a debian sarge box that i have just installed into our rack space, networking is currently OFF (so no ssh access). It is controlled by an IP KVM switch, so i have direct access to the screen and keyboard. The problem i have is that the scroll-lock is on so i can

Re: Scroll lock stuck on.. Darn it!

2005-06-22 Thread Simon
Kent West wrote: Simon wrote: I remember seeing a thread some years ago about a "stuck" shift key. Turns out there was some command or keystroke that caused the terminal to interpret everything in upper-case. The purpose of this capability was to work with some older (antiquated) devices/systems

Re: mirror sites with sarge

2005-06-22 Thread Siju George
On 6/22/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > >On 6/21/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Siju George wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>To start with. > >>> > >>>I have a set of folders "A" on a computer "Sarge1". > >>>I have ano

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-22 Thread Siju George
On 6/22/05, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Siju George wrote: > > Thanks for the reply rick :-) > > > > could you please suggest some DVD writers that works well with Sarge?? > > > > Knd regards > > > > Siju > > Well, I use an HP dvd

Re: Scroll lock stuck on.. Darn it!

2005-06-22 Thread Kent West
Simon wrote: > The problem i have is that the scroll-lock is on so i cant login etc, > but the shift key seems to be stuck somehow, as when i toggle scroll > lock off, it prints meminfo to the screen (This is normally > shift-scrolllock). I remember seeing a thread some years ago about a "stuck"

Re: (OT) Gnome Mailing List?

2005-06-22 Thread Ms Linuz
Paul Smith wrote: >%% Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rf> Is anyone else subscribed to that list? > >Yes. > > rf> If so, have you received anything from it in the last day or so? > >No. It gets traffic very rarely: I've received 5 messages in the last 5 >days, and none since Monda

Scroll lock stuck on.. Darn it!

2005-06-22 Thread Simon
Hi There, I have a debian sarge box that i have just installed into our rack space, networking is currently OFF (so no ssh access). It is controlled by an IP KVM switch, so i have direct access to the screen and keyboard. The problem i have is that the scroll-lock is on so i cant login etc,

Re: What is device 03:4c?

2005-06-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:36:29PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:36:04PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > >The original system can read and write the reiserfs, so I presume the > > >copy would have the same drivers. > > > > > >Unless, of course, some bo

Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection

2005-06-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Brendon Lloyd Higgins_, on 22/06/05 21:16,typed: > I'm afraid I can't really help, but... > > H. S. wrote (Wednesday 22 June 2005 5:12 pm): > >>player to obtain it's lossless wma version of the tracks. Do I have to > > > ... isn't "lossless wma" a contradiction in terms? > > Peace

RE: apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/

2005-06-22 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Okay: It was me that moved the directory to the wrong place: /apache. When I put it back, it does recover fine. Here's the diagnostic when I take it away: # apt-get install apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: apac

Re: installing tomcat4

2005-06-22 Thread Craig Russell
Adam Hardy wrote: On 21/06/05 03:42 Craig Russell wrote: > I've run into a problem. In the course of making configuration changes > to tomcat4 (can't use 5 with opennms) I completely screwed up the tomcat > installation. So, I removed that package and attempted to re-install. > Unfortunate

Re: apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > Not only that, it seems to have deleted the one I stowed in /etc/old which I > was gonna use to recover from. > The exact error message would be immensely helpful. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanch

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Simon Kitching
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:21 +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:05 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > > > > For the record, the static typing in Java is acknowledged as one of the > worst imaginable (in short : it is mandatory but you have to go through > its backdoor (re

Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection

2005-06-22 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
I'm afraid I can't really help, but... H. S. wrote (Wednesday 22 June 2005 5:12 pm): > player to obtain it's lossless wma version of the tracks. Do I have to ... isn't "lossless wma" a contradiction in terms? Peace, Brendon pgpU7PySfTzFb.pgp Description: PGP signature

apt-get install won't recover from removal of apache directory in /etc/

2005-06-22 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Not only that, it seems to have deleted the one I stowed in /etc/old which I was gonna use to recover from.  xc   Truth before Power!  

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Oliver Elphick writes: >Does your /etc/apt/sources.list reference woody or stable? > >They used to be the same, but now there is a new stable, sarge. So if >you reference stable, a lot of your packages are now regarded as >obsolete. You should either reference woody explicitly or do a complete >u

apt-get install => waiting for headers

2005-06-22 Thread Metz, Thomas (IRRI)
I am trying to install a new version of bash on my system and get stuck after apt-get install bash with a "waiting for headers" message. I can install other packages using aptitude or apt-get. When I tried to access/download the bash package on the Debian site with a web browser, I get a timeou

Re: xorg package

2005-06-22 Thread Colin
camp lear wrote: >>I use this packages: >>deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main >>deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main > > I use these as well. Would you imagine that once xorg gets > into the official debian repos that we would be able to track > those x-window-syst

in complete solitude

2005-06-22 Thread Doug Larson
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Re: About blackdown

2005-06-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 05:21 pm, Tong wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:01:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible > > I've noticed that many of the answers for this thread suggest to avoid the > blackdown. Any justification for that?

I need help from webmin-samba users

2005-06-22 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
If you use webmins' samba module I need your help. There's a few bugs on webmin-samba which have been open for a while and I am eager to fix them but not being a regular samba user anymore, its not that easy. Take a look at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=webmin-samba If you

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi > > If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script > will error and it won't continue on. > Is it possible to pound

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-22 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-22, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On 6/21/05, Valeriu Cerchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine >> what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my >> internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine >> that by request. >> >> I would greatl

About blackdown

2005-06-22 Thread Tong
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:01:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible I've noticed that many of the answers for this thread suggest to avoid the blackdown. Any justification for that? The reason I'm asking is that I asked a similar quest

Re: (OT) Gnome Mailing List?

2005-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
%% Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rf> Is anyone else subscribed to that list? Yes. rf> If so, have you received anything from it in the last day or so? No. It gets traffic very rarely: I've received 5 messages in the last 5 days, and none since Monday. rf> Is there a better m

Re: Sarge problems with MySQL and DBI / DBD::mysql

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Stassen
John Trammell wrote: #!perl use strict; use warnings; sub foo { warn "wantarray() in foo() is: ", wantarray(), "\n"; my @r = 3 .. 8; return @r; } my @x = foo() or warn "in ... or warn() #1\n"; warn "[EMAIL PROTECTED]: @x\n"; my $x = foo() or warn "in ... or warn() #2\n"; warn "\$

Re: Kde-KNotify Problem

2005-06-22 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
David Martínez Moreno wrote: El Martes, 21 de Junio de 2005 19:43, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier escribió: Background-After an apt-get dist-upgrade from woody to sarge-stable encountered many dependency issues. Xserver-xfree86, kdm and many others were not installed. Ater manually installi

Re: Is this tidy converting correct?

2005-06-22 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:42 -0400, Tong wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:11:39 +0100, michael wrote: > > >> I have this file: > >> > >> $ cat test | od -t u1 > >> 000 181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169 > >> ^^^ ^^^ > > > > Maybe I've missed

[Solved] New xterm title setting

2005-06-22 Thread Tong
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:02:22 -0400, Tong wrote: > Thanks for the reply, but ... I don't want > the [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/pwd title, I want my own. > > Another thing that I forgot to mention, another reason that I think some > system files have been changed is because that the xterm title stays > an

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have to have something for the shell to run. Try setting a new variable to 1 or some such silly-ness and it will work. Or else you have to comment out the entire if statement. I guess I could just add an b

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Guillaume Pellerin
Hi ! You can also try ctorrent 1.3.4 (http://ctorrent.sourceforge.net/), a shell bittorrent client that i've packaged for debian... It is placed here : http://yomix.org/debian Check there if you want to use the /etc/apt/sources.list: http://www.yomix.org/blog/?p=29 Regards, yomguy -- To UN

Re: Is this tidy converting correct?

2005-06-22 Thread Tong
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:11:39 +0100, michael wrote: >> I have this file: >> >> $ cat test | od -t u1 >> 000 181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169 >> ^^^ ^^^ > > Maybe I've missed something, but why are you piping this through `od`? > And, belo

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread michael
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have to have something for the shell to run. Try setting a new variable to 1 or some such silly-ness and it will work. Or else you have to comment out the entire if statement. I guess I could just add an blank echo command? Someth

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi Try the following: if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home : fi If you comment out the ta

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread kevin . kempter
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 14:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi > > If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script > will error and it won't continue on. > Is it

Re: Setting MAILTO to various address in the same crontab?

2005-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:00, Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: >> If I want the output of various cron jobs sent to more than one >> e-mail address, is there anything wrong with doing the following? >> >> # beginning of crontab >> */10 * * * * /p

small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread michael
Hello, I have an if statement, something like: if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home fi If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script will error and it won't continue on. Is it possible to pound out the tar command and still leave the if statement intac

(OT) Gnome Mailing List?

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A few days ago, I subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thought that would be the list for users who have problems and/or questions concerning Gnome. I received a confirmation email for my subscription. Since then, I have received nothing at all from the

RE: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Martinell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:20 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart > > Anyone have any suggestions for an easy to setup & easy to administer > sho

Re: Is this tidy converting correct?

2005-06-22 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 15:24 -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I have this file: > > $ cat test | od -t u1 > 000 181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169 > ^^^ ^^^ > Maybe I've missed something, but why are you piping this through `od`? And, below,

xsel bug with emacs?

2005-06-22 Thread Tong
Hi, There is an excellent tool -- xsel in Debain. I've been using it ever since I used Debian. However, there is one anoying bug in it (I beileve) -- it can't paste string from what's highlighted in Eamcs. $ xsel See, the result is empty, But, using any other ways, I can "see" the highlighted

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread dbp lists
I thought the info given at this site was useful: http://mst3k.booyaka.com/bittorrent_guide.shtml In particular - I'm a big fan of the "headless" downloads. -- Regards, dbp

Re: Available printers

2005-06-22 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:50:07 +0200, David A. Cobb wrote: > When my wife tries to print from her desktop, the choices of printer are > * scx5400_5400@:64 > * xp_ps_spooldir_HOME_xprint ... @:64 > * xp_pdf_spooldir_HOME_xprint ...@:64 > * Postscript/scx5300_5400 > And everything she tries to print co

Re: Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: > Hi > > I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). > > So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required > to > get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I

Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required to get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I can install Sarge (3.10) fine but then I get to the question of where to in

Is this tidy converting correct?

2005-06-22 Thread Tong
Hi, I have this file: $ cat test | od -t u1 000 181 220 210 221 149 132 163 168 183 189 193 166 201 234 163 169 ^^^ ^^^ When using tidy, it gives wired result: $ cat test | tidy -quiet -numeric [...] µÜÒÝ•„£¨·½Á¦É꣩ ^^ [...] Not

Re: X Font size

2005-06-22 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Jeff Elkins (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's > great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. > KDE apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so > tiny as to be near-unreadable. > >

Re: postfix-tls status on sarge testing?

2005-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bernd Prager wrote: > I just installed sarge and try to get postfix up and running again. > The postfix-tls installation brakes with: > > My sources.list contains: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free > deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ stable main >

Re: run into a roadblock

2005-06-22 Thread Kent West
Silverweave Web Solutions wrote: > Hello > > I’m installing linux for the first time and I’m having an issue when > it preconfigures the packages. It’s hanging and not doing a thing. i > need to know if it processes through the CPU for a very long time or > it’s hanging cause there’s no hard drive

postfix-tls status on sarge testing?

2005-06-22 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, I just installed sarge and try to get postfix up and running again. The postfix-tls installation brakes with: > apt-get install postfix-tls Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requ

Re: One time deal: Backup of raid5 to set of removeable hard drives on another machine?

2005-06-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 10:10 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > If I understand correctly, the problem is that you have 2 removeable > drives and you can't mount them both at the same time, and one isn't > sufficient to contain all the data right? > that is indeed a much simpler way of saying it! i al

Re: Setting MAILTO to various address in the same crontab?

2005-06-22 Thread Adam Funk
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:00, Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: >> If I want the output of various cron jobs sent to more than one >> e-mail address, is there anything wrong with doing the following? >> >> # beginning of crontab >> */10 * * * * /p

Re: ethernet/network problems in new sarge install

2005-06-22 Thread Øyvind Lode
John Anderson wrote: Hello, I have just upgraded my server PC which is a Pentium III 1 ghz to Sarge. The machine is used as a router/firewall for 2 other computers. The problem that I'm having is I installed etherconf to configure eth0 used for the router and now it changes the name to miniker

Re: [solved] CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Martin D. Weinberg ha escrit, a 22/06/05 19:40: > > Well, now that it works with CNN, I realize that I'm not missing much. > But my main motivation is that we should make the Linux desktop > work everywhere that Windoze one does. > And lots of places where windoze doesn't. Yes, I can live

Re: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart

2005-06-22 Thread Piero Piutti
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyone have any suggestions for an easy to setup & easy to administer > shopping cart system so I don't have to re-invent the wheel? > > Thanks in advance for your input OS Commerce http://www.oscommerce.com/ It is also embeddable in Mam

Re: ethernet/network problems in new sarge install

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
John Anderson wrote: Hello, I have just upgraded my server PC which is a Pentium III 1 ghz to Sarge. The machine is used as a router/firewall for 2 other computers. The problem that I'm having is I installed etherconf to configure eth0 used for the router and now it changes the name to miniker

OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart

2005-06-22 Thread kevin . kempter
Anyone have any suggestions for an easy to setup & easy to administer shopping cart system so I don't have to re-invent the wheel? Thanks in advance for your input -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X Font size

2005-06-22 Thread Jeff Elkins
I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so tiny as to be near-unreadable. In /etc/X11/fs/config I changed: #default-resolutions =

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
Martin McCormick wrote: In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly wha

Re: [solved] CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-22 Thread Martin D. Weinberg
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:57:40 +0200 Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En/La Martin D. Weinberg ha escrit, a 22/06/05 17:02: > > > Hi Jonathan, > > > > Nope. > > > > I *had* been using the Plugger plug-in (fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html). > > Based on your question, I tried the mplayer

Broadcom wireless driver

2005-06-22 Thread Phil
I got a brand new Dell laptop with a Broadcom BCM 943056 wireless card. I was told they (broadcom) put out a linux driver for it but then pulled it back. because I can't use it under linux, I'm stuck using windows more than I want to. does anyone know where I can find this driver?? -- To U

ethernet/network problems in new sarge install

2005-06-22 Thread John Anderson
Hello, I have just upgraded my server PC which is a Pentium III 1 ghz to Sarge. The machine is used as a router/firewall for 2 other computers. The problem that I'm having is I installed etherconf to configure eth0 used for the router and now it changes the name to minikerr.minikerr everytime I

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 18:29, Alan Chandler wrote: > Have you done this? It doesn't appear to be working for me - the error > below is the same for > > jre-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin > j2sdk-1_4_2_08-linux-i586.bin > jdk-1_5_0_03-linux-i586.bin > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev $ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_

Re: Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:49 -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of > user's environment vars, specifically PATH? > > Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute > commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a te

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:06 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Today, here at work, I was going to install bittorrent on ta > Debian system and I used dselect to list the packages in order to find > bittorrent. It found it and I started to install from there except I > saw that dselect was als

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:28, Graham Smith wrote: > > As for installing Java I recommend using java-package. It's quick and > easy and seems to work with all the modern VM packages. > Have you done this? It doesn't appear to be working for me - the error below is the same for jre-1_5_0_03-l

Re: dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/06/05 12:06), Martin McCormick wrote: > In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay > some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message > is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly > robust. Like anything, there are gotchas.

dselect and a Recent Experience

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
In the spirit of helpfulness on this list, I want to repay some of the assistance I have gotten from others, here. This message is a warning, not a gripe. I think Linux software is astoundingly robust. Like anything, there are gotchas. I am not sure exactly what happened, but I last wee

[Fwd: Re: test]

2005-06-22 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: test Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:54:46 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Langnickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PR

Gnome doesn't see user's PATH

2005-06-22 Thread Forrest Smith
Hi all! Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of user's environment vars, specifically PATH? Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a terminal window, I can. The same goes for Emacs. I'm using Gnome 2.8.

Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-22 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Martin D. Weinberg ha escrit, a 22/06/05 17:02: > Hi Jonathan, > > Nope. > > I *had* been using the Plugger plug-in (fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html). > Based on your question, I tried the mplayer plugin from sourceforge and > now everything works fine. In addition, the mplayer plugin seem

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Sven Hoexter writes: >Look out for btdownloadcurses.py and the other btdownload*.py programs >installed in /usr/bin Thank you and also thanks to the person who recommended apt-get install bittorrent. I actually had tried that but what was truly wrong was that I hadn't updated the package

Re: sata device position and SW Raid

2005-06-22 Thread Hannuman Bull
Try using udev to assign permanent device names to each drive. http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html --Hannuman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 4 SATA (sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1) hard drives in a software raid 5. I have 1 other SATA drive (sde1) just mounted seperatly. I noti

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 17:20 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:24, Adam Hardy wrote: > ... > > I use JBoss, Tomcat, Sun JDK, Eclipse, ant (or > > maven) and I have no issues. > > > > I am beginning to get a picture. But one thing is still confusing me on the > ser

run into a roadblock

2005-06-22 Thread Silverweave Web Solutions
Hello   I’m installing linux for the first time and I’m having an issue when it preconfigures the packages.  It’s hanging and not doing a thing.  i need to know if it processes through the CPU for a very long time or it’s hanging cause there’s no hard drive activity at all.  I’m stumped c

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Caleb Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin McCormick wrote: > Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? No, but it will > .deb package. I figured this was a good time to learn about > BitTorrent so I downloaded the package and nothing much else really I think it was alread

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 09:59 -0600, Glenn English a écrit : > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:01 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > 2) What run time environment Don't try anything other than Sun JDK (especially *not* the blackdown javas). > > I'm using Sun's JDK 5 (or whatever they're calling it t

sata device position and SW Raid

2005-06-22 Thread michael
Hi, I have 4 SATA (sda1, sdb1, sdc1, sdd1) hard drives in a software raid 5. I have 1 other SATA drive (sde1) just mounted seperatly. I noticed that on a reboot, and one of the raid drives dies, the other drives just fall into place. For example: If sdc fails, or is powered off, then sda1 stays

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-22 Thread Rick Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Siju George wrote: > Thanks for the reply rick :-) > > could you please suggest some DVD writers that works well with Sarge?? > > Knd regards > > Siju Well, I use an HP dvd writer dvd420i. It supports DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW & DVD+RW. It works perfect

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 16:05 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > On Wednesday 22 June 2005 14:48, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > > Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 à 08:01 +0100, Alan Chandler a écrit : > ... > > > I am a complete newbie as far as java is concerned. > > > > Then, allow me to question your choi

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have a large text file (humongous.txt) with the following structure One more Perl script to add to the mix, below. It's perhaps paranoid and verbose in its error reporting, but I hope it helps you to write your own scripts. Y

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12:24, Adam Hardy wrote: ... > I use JBoss, Tomcat, Sun JDK, Eclipse, ant (or > maven) and I have no issues. > I am beginning to get a picture. But one thing is still confusing me on the server end. What is the difference between JBoss and Tomcat. The JBoss web site s

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:02:46AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? > > I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in > .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a > .deb package. I figured this wa

Re: mirror sites with sarge

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Boot
Siju George wrote: On 6/21/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Siju George wrote: Hi, To start with. I have a set of folders "A" on a computer "Sarge1". I have another computer "Sarge2" with a copy of the same set of folders "A".. The contents of the set of folders "A" o

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Lee Braiden
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2005 17:02, Martin McCormick wrote: > Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? > > I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in > .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a > .deb package. Next time, try apt-cache sea

BitTorrent Clients and X

2005-06-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a .deb package. I figured this was a good time to learn about BitTorrent so I downloaded the package and

Re: sarge security

2005-06-22 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:26:50AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > It's curious that firefox 1.0.4-3 in sid has a security patch for the > frame injection spoofing bug, but there is no security release for > 1.0.4-2 in sarge. > > >From http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mozilla-firefox/news/1.

Re: Setting up a Java development environment the debian way.

2005-06-22 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 08:01 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > 1) What tools do I need to develop the application. This includes code > editiing, build environment, unit testing, I tried to setup eclipse on my > workstation but there are unsatisfied dependencies (java runtime?). On sarge, I'm usin

Re: gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade

2005-06-22 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _H. S._, on 20/06/05 15:49,typed: > Hi, > > I am having this strange problem. I recently upgraded a laptop running > Debian Unstable and a dektop running Debian Testing. Both machines now > have a faulty Gnome session sounds(login sound, logout sound, system > sounds). The sounds seem

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> This is just the beginning... > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html > http://www.eff.org/Infrastructure/trusted_computing/20031001_tc.php > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Thanks. This is pretty dismal stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-22 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 6/21/05, Valeriu Cerchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > that by request. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. > Thanks, Val. Su

Re: mirror sites with sarge

2005-06-22 Thread Siju George
On 6/21/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Siju George wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >To start with. > > > >I have a set of folders "A" on a computer "Sarge1". > >I have another computer "Sarge2" with a copy of the same set of folders "A".. > > > >The contents of the set of folders "A" o

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-22 Thread Siju George
On 6/22/05, Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Adam Hardy wrote: > > Does anyone backup to DVD? How many gigs can you fit on a DVD? > > > I backup certain files and directories to DVD all the time. DVD will > hold 4.7GB. Of course, if y

Sid DVD .jigdo Files Discontinued?

2005-06-22 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: Can someone tell me where I could download the jigdo files for unstable(sid)? For the past month or so, I have been unable to find the dvd jigdo files for unstable in the usual mirrors, e.g., ftp.fsn.hu. In fact, I can't find even the cdrom .jigdo files for sid. Is it that jigdo

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-22 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any tool which will split the above file and give me three > smaller files 1-1-2005.txt, 1-2-2005.txt, 1-3-2005.txt etc., where perl -pe 'open STDOUT, ">$1.txt" if /^date (.*)/' the-big-file -- Dave Carrigan Seattl

RE: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-22 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 02:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > that by request. gethostip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: sarge security

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/21/2005 02:50 PM, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:09:38PM -0600, yo mero wrote: > >>So can I ignore this : >>http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 >> >>as it its from the same guy who sends the security advisories >>worried me a LOT > > > Ac

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