Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Tim Connors wrote: > It's not that clear! It's clear enough for people who are interesed in finding an answer to be able to do so. I agree it could provide more information. But that does not mean it isn't clear. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm you

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La kamaraju kusumanchi ha escrit, a 21/07/05 06:59: Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html I have indicated the areas

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html Looks real good as a start. Thanks. However,

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La kamaraju kusumanchi ha escrit, a 21/07/05 06:59: > Hi > I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following > document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html > > I have indicated the areas where I need he

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-20 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 21:24:07 -0500 (CDT) "Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, July 8, 2005 8:45 pm, Cybe R. Wizard said: > >> > > Yes, that makes perfect sense and reiterates what I have said; that > > if a thing has dropped in price 2000-fold /someone/ should now be > > pa

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: > Tim Connors wrote: > > Or what about > > automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again > > (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing > > this)? > > Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount

Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following > document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html Looks real good as a start. However, you are aware of the "Code of Condu

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Tim Connors wrote: > Or what about > automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again > (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing > this)? Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process uses. I mean which is better, a

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:50:07 +0200, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthijs wrote: > > > I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab > > according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according > > to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!). > > > >

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Shark Wang
I thought / shuold be the first partition in your case. -Shark On 7/21/05, Matthijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:40:08 +0200, michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > > > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a

guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I would like to hear input from fellow Debianites on the following document titled "guidelines to post on debian-user" hosted at http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html I have indicated the areas where I need help by comments similar to "Explain why this should be so", "pr

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:40:08 +0200, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a > > 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. > > > > I thought I should

Re: mysql problem

2005-07-20 Thread Gilbert Wong
> I am going to assume that mysql has been configured to run as socket > only. Check for `skip-networking' in the [mysqld] section of > /etc/mysql/my.cnf Yes. you're right my new setting: #skip-networking bind-address= 127.0.0.1 then restart mysql .. and it's okay now Thanks a lot.

intel graphics driver - FYI

2005-07-20 Thread Uwe Dippel
Tried the Intel Graphics driver; i915Graphics.tar.gz; on a DELL D400; with :00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) :00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) Not much success, though. Du

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:17:46AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (19/07/05 17:38), John Hasler wrote: > > Clive Menzies writes: > > > I'm am online 24/7 but the process (as I understand it) by which mail is > > > collected (fetchmail) is via smtp. > > > > The originating host connects to your I

Re: exim4 -> local mailboxes

2005-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:18:05PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 09:39:17AM -0400, Steve ? wrote: > > > > You shouldn't need any reference to SMTP in your procmailrc. All you have > > to do > > is simple. Have a procmailrc and a fetchmailrc in your local user > > directory.

Re: mysql problem

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Gilbert Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm running mysql-server 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. Everything is okay > except i cannot see my mysqld from the output of > > # netstat -tlnp > or > # netstat -tna > > BUT, i can successfully login: > $ mysql -u p > > > what can i do to make the mysqld visible in

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Tim Connors
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Adam Aube wrote: > Will Ness wrote: > > > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works > > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very > > end it says: > > > > Error! > > Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > > I did some googling an

mysql problem

2005-07-20 Thread Gilbert Wong
Hi all, i'm running mysql-server 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. Everything is okay except i cannot see my mysqld from the output of # netstat -tlnp or # netstat -tna BUT, i can successfully login: $ mysql -u p what can i do to make the mysqld visible in the output of `netstat` it used to be seen lis

Re: Sound is clipping - alsamixer isn't working

2005-07-20 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 08:02, Lars Stokholm wrote: > On 2005-07-19, Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Version of Linux. > > 2.6.10-5-386 (default in Ubuntu 5.04 - Hoary). I've tried 2.6.12-3-686 > also, but it didn't make things better. > > > Relevant hardware-specifications.

KDE Control Center Module Problem

2005-07-20 Thread Charles Muller
After recently reinstalling Debian as Unstable, I tried to run Control Center >> System Administration >> Font Installer It crashes with the message: > There was an error loading the module > > The diagnostics is: > /usr/lib/libkfontinst.so.0: undefined symbol: FTC_SBit_Cache_Lookup > >

LVM error

2005-07-20 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello, I have installed Debian Sarge on a system with 2 sata drives and LVM. For every LVM command I run, I have the error: Incorrect metadata area header checksum Does someone know the meaning of this error and how to fix it? Thanks, Bern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread Filipus Klutiero
However, I think the software powering it (kwiki) is horrible for the end-user: It's slow and the UI is bad. I'm not alone, see Since I started the page, I guess I'll agree :) Most likely, the particular limitation you raise comes from the

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Sattler
hacker (of golf) wrote: > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > I'm trying this: > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed > `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps" > kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0 > > b

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-20 Thread Matias Rollan
Hola ! On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: > I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. > > I'm trying this: > > root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed > `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps" > kd

Sound configuration

2005-07-20 Thread MJang
Folks, I'm familiar with alsamixer, and how alsactl store saves default settings in the /var/lib/alsa/asound.state file. But I can't figure out where gnome-volume-control saves settings. I'm assuming it's one of the individual user's config files, but can't find it. Does anyone else here kn

Re: Sound Configuration

2005-07-20 Thread ankur . kumar
can you send /etc/modules file entries...after doing alsaconf. what does alsaconf say, did it work correctly? which debain version are you using? if itsn't sarge, then you might need to update it or rebuild kernel. which sound card do you have? Check whether hardware is detected properly or not?

Re[2]: apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread Stefan Gourguis
at Thursday, July 21, 2005 , you wrote: > On (20/07/05 23:04), Johan wrote: >> >> I did the following.. >> apt-get install clamav >> >> now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. >> apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about >> another 20 files refering

howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-20 Thread hacker (of golf)
I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. I'm trying this: root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox "Connection Speed `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps" kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0 but, as you can see, it won't connect to

Re: Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >As long as I boot into Debian, no problem, but if I boot into Windows, >the next time I reboot, grub just goes into an infinite loop of >rebooting. I briefly see a mention of grub stage 1.5, then reboot. > > I gave up on grub and installed lilo; it works fine. -- Kent West Te

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Marty
Matthijs wrote: I've followed the Debian harddisk-upgrade HowTo, changed fstab according to the above, installed grub on the new harddisk according to a posting here by Mitchell Laks (thanks for that!). Then I switched the machine off, removed the old harddisk, switched the new harddisk from sl

Re: apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Clive Menzies wrote: On (20/07/05 23:04), Johan wrote: I did the following.. apt-get install clamav now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about another 20 files refering lying around. Kindly please is ther

X-windows Problems with firefox install connections???

2005-07-20 Thread Will Ness
Hello List! I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. After I got help to fix my previous apt problem, I went ahead and installed firefox. Now my X-windows will not work, and I am hopelessly over my head as to why. I have tried remaking the XF86config-4 file, and the end result is that i get

Re: Kerberos+LDAP+NIS?

2005-07-20 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:41 pm, Nils Erik Svangård wrote: > I cant! I dont have the authority to do that. > I have setup NIS which authenticate via the Kerberos server. I guess > it would be easiest to just add a group in NIS but LDAP is the future > and there is such nice GUIs. > Where do I pr

Re: /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed (SOLVED)

2005-07-20 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Thomas Hood wrote on Jul, 20: > > fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I > > figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* > > the interface was up, placing a script in /etc/network/if-post-up.d/. > > The solution is to install resolvconf. Thanks for the t

Re: Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread michael
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Matthijs wrote: > I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a > 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. > > I thought I should take the opportunity to set up the system to use > several partitions instead of

Re: apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/07/05 23:04), Johan wrote: > > I did the following.. > apt-get install clamav > > now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. > apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about another 20 > files refering lying around. > > Kindly please is there a way t

Re: Is my card reader supported?

2005-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:33 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:30 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: [snip] > Hi Glen, > IIRC when I went the UB in 1985, I learned USCD pascal on a CDC 6000 > although we used termi

Re: apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread brockz
at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 , you wrote: > Hi, > I did the following.. > apt-get install clamav > now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. > apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about > another 20 files refering lying around. > Kindly please is there

apt-get to remove all files

2005-07-20 Thread Johan
Hi, I did the following.. apt-get install clamav now I want to get rid of it and I mean all files connected to it. apt-get remove clamav.. does remove clamav but there is about another 20 files refering lying around. Kindly please is there a way to remove/uninstall software and remove it totall

Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
I have a Dell Optiplex 170L desktop machine, set to dual-boot Sid and WinXP, using grub. As long as I boot into Debian, no problem, but if I boot into Windows, the next time I reboot, grub just goes into an infinite loop of rebooting. I briefly see a mention of grub stage 1.5, then reboot. I can

Re: Good GUI for essid selection?

2005-07-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > Windows has a nice feature* where you can write down a list > of preferred ESSIDs: if you're in range of a given hotspot, > Windows will associate with it. Does Linux have such a > thing? I've not found it, if so. Ubu seems like the most > likely distro to innovate on this

Migration to new HD: "unable to open an initial console"

2005-07-20 Thread Matthijs
I'm in the process of migrating my server to a new harddisk - from a 3.5inch IDE to a new 2.5inch notebook IDE to save power & less noise. I thought I should take the opportunity to set up the system to use several partitions instead of one big partition. The new partition scheme should be as sugg

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-20 Thread Mike
> > I'm not much help here any more, but here's my suggestions for what > they're > worth: > > 1. Plextor hardware lists: > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/support_compatability.html > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/media_712SA.htm > http://www.plextor.com/english/support/PX-716SA mo

Re: Is my card reader supported?

2005-07-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:30 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > > > > There's no way a card reader will fit into a la > > > > > > > > Never mind. Showing my age again.. > > > > > > Damned, you know, when I saw that subject, I t

Re: notification email header [was: Separate subnet no pring]

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Adam Dobrin on 20/07/05 15:00, wrote: I'm having trouble using backuppc from a separate subnet. I have a VPN connection from an offiste location to my network; and while the remote machine *can* ping into the internal network, and perl's gethostbyname functions fine; bpc is still returning a '

Re: /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:38:20 -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I > figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* > the interface was up, placing a script in /etc/network/if-post-up.d/. The solution is to install resolvco

Re: Unable to add scroll-wheel mouse to xfree86

2005-07-20 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Vegard|drageV ha escrit, a 20/07/05 20:47: > Hi list, > from a previous thread I got hints on how to add a Logitech Mouse with > a scrollerwheel to the xfree86 system by running 'dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86' or by manually editing /etc/X11/XF86config-4. > > I've tried both, and eithe

Re: Let me Introduce Myself to your Church or Ministry

2005-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 11:01 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 06:09 +, NetBob4Churches wrote: > > > My specialty is helping Ministries to send email to their > > readership, members and web mailing list members. Many Churches & > > Ministries call this a Monthly Newsletter. >

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Will Ness
AWESOME!! It worked!! Thank you all for helping me out!!! This msg is getting archived!! LOL Thank you again!! -Will

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Will Ness wrote: > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very > end it says: > > Error! > Dynamic MMap ran out of room > I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache > memory li

Unable to add scroll-wheel mouse to xfree86

2005-07-20 Thread Vegard|drageV
Hi list, from a previous thread I got hints on how to add a Logitech Mouse with a scrollerwheel to the xfree86 system by running 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' or by manually editing /etc/X11/XF86config-4. I've tried both, and either way the new mouse still doesn't work. Using dpkg, I used th

Re: How to check ARP cheat in Lan.

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2005 15:15, wrote: > > i am sorry that my english is poor/ > > in our company ,we have a software controling and Loging the Lan > > activity. eg : we deny computer from factory mailing and using web ,and > > loging it. the softeware is bebind t

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Josh Battles
brockz said: > > at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 , you wrote: >> Michael Ott said: >>> No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS >>> >>> CU >>> >>> Michael > >> Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? > >> -- >> - Josh >> www.omg-stfu.com > > > > Check that out http://

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
Maurits van Rees wrote: >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Will Ness wrote: > > >>Dynamic MMap ran out of room >> >> >(snip) > > >>I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache >>memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave >>a solution

Re: Kerberos+LDAP+NIS?

2005-07-20 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
I cant! I dont have the authority to do that. I have setup NIS which authenticate via the Kerberos server. I guess it would be easiest to just add a group in NIS but LDAP is the future and there is such nice GUIs. Where do I prelogin scripting? Lets say a user enter a username and a password: Firs

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
Will Ness wrote: >Hello List!! > >I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works >except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very >end it says: > >Error! >Dynamic MMap ran out of room > >(Package name) > >Package lists or status file could not be parsed o

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Will Ness wrote: > Dynamic MMap ran out of room (snip) > I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache > memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave > a solution suggested to look in and edit apt.conf. One prob

Re: NFS problems

2005-07-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 18:43 20/07/2005, you wrote: At 22:02 19/07/2005, you wrote: No, kernel NFS can be either compiled or loaded as a module into a custom kernel. Does anyone know which NFS server I *should* be using? Does anyone know why lockd fails to run? But the userspace daemons (/sbin/rpc.lockd an

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:23 -0400, Will Ness wrote: > Hello List!! > > I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works > except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very > end it says: > > Error! > Dynamic MMap ran out of room > > (Package name) > > Pack

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-20 Thread roach
On Monday 18 July 2005 10:30, Mike wrote: <...> > I read things that imply that Fedora supports SATA ATAPI. Whats wrong > with it that prevents Debian from doing it but allows Fedora to do it > with it's stock kernel? I don't know, maybe I'm just confusing myself > even more. <...> I'm not much he

Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Will Ness
Hello List!! I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very end it says: Error! Dynamic MMap ran out of room (Package name) Package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened _

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread brockz
at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 , you wrote: > Michael Ott said: >> No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS >> >> CU >> >> Michael > Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? > -- > - Josh > www.omg-stfu.com -- brockz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBS

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread brockz
at Wednesday, July 20, 2005 , you wrote: > Michael Ott said: >> No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS >> >> CU >> >> Michael > Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? > -- > - Josh > www.omg-stfu.com Check that out http://samba.org/cifs/ -- brockz mail

deskjet 5740: 5 minute pause between jobs

2005-07-20 Thread Tom Vier
I'm using the hplip driver with cups, and running into an anoying problem. Something is getting hung at the end of each job. Here's some data points: o there's no pause between pages, only a pause between jobs (a multipage job doesn't hang between pages - only after the last page) o the pow

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Josh Battles
Michael Ott said: > No. SMB can only until 2 GB. For more use CIFS > > CU > > Michael Can you point me to some good resources to learn more about CIFS? -- - Josh www.omg-stfu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Mail content filtering

2005-07-20 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > I like procmail, but if you're allergic to code that looks like modem > line noise, try http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/ There is a Debian mailfilter package. You might also want to look at mailagent (also a Debian package). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: NFS problems

2005-07-20 Thread Stephen Tait
At 22:02 19/07/2005, you wrote: No, kernel NFS can be either compiled or loaded as a module into a custom kernel. Does anyone know which NFS server I *should* be using? Does anyone know why lockd fails to run? But the userspace daemons (/sbin/rpc.lockd and /sbin/rpc.statd) don't seem to

off topic: http expires header and page info in firefox

2005-07-20 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, (apologies for off topic) i am trying to get a cgi to be expired using the http 'expires' header. below is a simple cgi file: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n"; print "Expires: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:04:19 GMT\n"; print "\n"; print "expired"; and when i view the page info (c

Re: Let me Introduce Myself to your Church or Ministry

2005-07-20 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 06:09 +, NetBob4Churches wrote: > My specialty is helping Ministries to send email to their > readership, members and web mailing list members. Many Churches & > Ministries call this a Monthly Newsletter. Others call it spam. I'd like to thank the list manager(s) for fi

Good GUI for essid selection?

2005-07-20 Thread Stephen R Laniel
Windows has a nice feature* where you can write down a list of preferred ESSIDs: if you're in range of a given hotspot, Windows will associate with it. Does Linux have such a thing? I've not found it, if so. Ubu seems like the most likely distro to innovate on this sort of usability feature. Other

Re: /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed

2005-07-20 Thread Robert Vangel
Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > Hi, > > I run Etch on a laptop and cardmgr to configure the PCMCIA ethernet > card. fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I > figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* the interface > was up, placing a script in /etc/network/if

Re: XFree86 to X.Org: Console colors change

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Aube
Michael Marsh wrote: > On 7/20/05, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adam Aube wrote: >> > After switching from XFree86 to X.Org on Sid recently, I discovered >> > that everytime I used Ctrl+Alt+F[n] to switch between the console and >> > X, the background and text color on the c

Issues with CD burning (invalid CDs)

2005-07-20 Thread S. Massy
Hi all, I have a Toshiba Satellite 1110 (which comes with a cd-r/w burner) with which I have burnt countless CDs in the past without so much as the shadow of a problem. Now, however, things have changed for the very worse. First, of course, there was the whole ide-scsi issue in 2.6 and the necessi

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Cam on 20/07/05 15:17, wrote: > >try openbox. You can switch w/ openbox --replace. It's fully > >GNOME-compliant so it should be a pretty seamless switch (it was for > >me). > > That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as th

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Markus! > While running a backup we were astonished that the samba client seems to > have a 2GB limit (debian testing): We can copy files of any size from > windows to a windows server without problems. But when we mount a share of > this server via smbmount, cp or dd stop at the 2GB limi

Re: smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi, On 20/Jul./2005 17:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote .. > While running a backup we were astonished that the samba client seems to > have a 2GB limit (debian testing): We can copy files of any size from > windows to a windows server without problems. But when we mount a share > of > this server vi

smbclient has 2GB limit ?

2005-07-20 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, While running a backup we were astonished that the samba client seems to have a 2GB limit (debian testing): We can copy files of any size from windows to a windows server without problems. But when we mount a share of this server via smbmount, cp or dd stop at the 2GB limit. I would con

/etc/network/if-post-up.d/ scripts are not executed

2005-07-20 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi, I run Etch on a laptop and cardmgr to configure the PCMCIA ethernet card. fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* the interface was up, placing a script in /etc/network/if-post-up.d/. I noticed that /etc/ne

Re: On using Mozilla instead of Firefox

2005-07-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rogério Brito: > On Jul 19 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > And it is not only memory usage. I rarely use Mozilla these days (and > > only the browser part), but when I use it I always notive that it feels > > generally faster than Firefox. > > I am back to using the suite (actually, the latest

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
Mitja Podreka wrote: Kent West wrote: You might also try a different color depth, screen resolution, or even video driver. Why then everything is OK in Gnome? Color depth, screen resolution and video driver is defined in X-window so it is the same for Gnome and KDE. It's not that I don't se

Application Performance Monitoring

2005-07-20 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
Hello, What of this soft (see below) could be the best to do Application Performance Monitoring? Is there a great difference between APM and Network Monitoring??? My selection of soft : What is the best? -OpenNMS -RRDtool -Nagios -ntop thank u a lot to help me.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Separate subnet no pring

2005-07-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 09:00, Adam Dobrin wrote: > I'm having trouble using backuppc from a separate subnet. I have a VPN > connection from an offiste location to my network; and while the remote > machine *can* ping into the internal network, and perl's gethostbyname > functions fine; bpc is st

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: The way I am currently using the wiki is as follows: Let's say I solved a small problem by posting a question on debian-user or IRC. I will write a brief description of problem and solution on the wiki so that the users need not read whole threads when they face

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
The way I am currently using the wiki is as follows: Let's say I solved a small problem by posting a question on debian-user or IRC. I will write a brief description of problem and solution on the wiki so that the users need not read whole threads when they face the same problem. If every us

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial >PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode >IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off interrupt processing completely when

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-20 Thread Mitja Podreka
Kent West wrote: You might also try a different color depth, screen resolution, or even video driver. Why then everything is OK in Gnome? Color depth, screen resolution and video driver is defined in X-window so it is the same for Gnome and KDE. It's not that I don't see the text, it just dis

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:15:28AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:33:13AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > This brings up an interesting point. First of all, I do not know the > > officialness of the wiki. What I mean is that I am not aware of a > > psuedo-package name whi

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 10:55:30AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:05:48AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > >>I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian > >>base grows continuously. > >> > >> > > >

Re: replacing window manager in gnome

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Cam on 20/07/05 15:17, wrote: try openbox. You can switch w/ openbox --replace. It's fully GNOME-compliant so it should be a pretty seamless switch (it was for me). That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as the default window manager, and x-windows is still taking 5 times as long

Separate subnet no pring

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Dobrin
I'm having trouble using backuppc from a separate subnet. I have a VPN connection from an offiste location to my network; and while the remote machine *can* ping into the internal network, and perl's gethostbyname functions fine; bpc is still returning a 'no ping'. nmblookup is not functionin

replacing window manager in gnome

2005-07-20 Thread Adam Hardy
I am trying to replace metacity in gnome with something else such as sawfish but I've got problems. Now that I installed sawfish, blackbox and enlightenment to try them out, x-windows takes 5 times as long to start, pausing for ages on the 'window manager' stage (according to the debian splash

Re: Kerberos+LDAP+NIS?

2005-07-20 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Nils Erik Svangård wrote: Hello! I recently got my debian box to authenticate user logins with kerberos! Now I have created a group in LDAP and I want that only users who is members of that group are allowed to login. The problem is that no information of shell or home directory is stored on the

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:51:27PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > btw Benjamin, when wanting to reply to a thread and you no longer have a > message from that thread, you can do so from the archives. Find the > message (such as > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg02273.html), and near th

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:27:44PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > It also reflects poorly on the person who couldn't be bothered to take the > time to see how the locals do things. Isn't that something that Americans are > always blasted about in good ol' Europe? Going over expecting everyone

Reiserfs V4 backport

2005-07-20 Thread Asim Jamshed
Hi everyone, I was just wondering whether there is any backport package of the ReiserFS version 4 for linux-2.4.20 available in the net. Can anyone forward me a link? Asim

Re: Mail content filtering

2005-07-20 Thread Peter Simpson
On Wednesday 20 Jul 2005 13:38, Ms Linuz wrote: > TreeBoy wrote: > >I can recommend MailScanner. > > > >Plays nicely with Exim, Sendmail or Postfix. > > > >Cheers, > > Sorry for not very well explained to what I really wanted. > What I want is to detect attachment and do control action to it. > Act

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:55:26PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > (when a previous post is required to continue the same thread and they > don't have one) This one has annoyed me, too. Perhaps a technical solution is appropriate here? Some way of creating a reply from the mailing-list archive?

Re: Disappearing text in FireFox

2005-07-20 Thread Kent West
Mitja Podreka wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Interesting. Seems to work fine with FF 1.0.4 & GNOME 2.10. >> >> Does the text reappear if you minimize/resize the window? >> > I remembered that I have Gnome installed, so I tried it out. FireFox > works OK, so I guess it is something to do with KD

Re: Mail content filtering

2005-07-20 Thread Ms Linuz
TreeBoy wrote: >On Wednesday 20 Jul 2005 07:25, Ms Linuz wrote: > > >>OK, folks ... >>So, which package you guys suggest me to do email content filtering ? >>Links, experiences, guidances will be much appreciated. >> >>Thanks, >> >>--w.h-- >>Send instant messages to your online friends >>http://

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