Re: missing gnome menu items

2005-09-03 Thread Seeker5528
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 13:20:17 -0400 Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I tried it out, but it still didn't seem to correct the > problem. I am still missing gnome sessions and screensaver settings. Usually the next steps I would take would be to check the file system for errors

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-03 Thread paslist
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:57:47PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:23:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > Seriously, what problems are you having with TBird? Let's get that > > running so you don't have to suffer the horrors of an MUA stuck in the > > 1990s. > > This

Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:23:07PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I > > miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since I > > have three different email addresses that I send messages from. ...

Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE)

2005-09-03 Thread Kent West
rs wrote: >>Double-check that the pull-down menu that allows you to select which >>window manager/environent you want is set to KDE; it sounds like it's >>trying to start a wm/environment that doesn't exist. >> >> > >You mean the "Session Type"? Under the "session type" I have four (4) options

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > # debian-user > :0: > * ^Resent-Sender.*debian-user > debian-user > And, for Mailman lists, you can use the "Sender:" header. Not very > different, but on rare occasion, TO and TO_ have failed on some lists. I'm partial to List-ID myself. Let the sender be mangled

Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE)

2005-09-03 Thread rs
> Double-check that the pull-down menu that allows you to select which > window manager/environent you want is set to KDE; it sounds like it's > trying to start a wm/environment that doesn't exist. You mean the "Session Type"? Under the "session type" I have four (4) options: Default, Custom, KD

Re: PLease help

2005-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin James wrote: > As a result of the KDE problems I have re-installed my system, only > thing is I need to have quanta plus working as I use it for work. can > you tell me what I could do is there a sources.list I can use to revert > back to the last working version of KDE that I can use. I

Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE)

2005-09-03 Thread Kent West
rs wrote: >Debian / Sarge / main > >Hi, > >Just installed KDE. It works but, for some reason, I can't login when using >kdm. When kdm login window appears, I enter my local user id and password, the >screen flickers a couple of times and goes back to the login window where I >can enter Id and p

Re: Re: support for device

2005-09-03 Thread hja
Or if someone had already done it, then all the questions will be answered. That would be for this particular device. More generally, a list of supported device is useful. There are such lists for Linux on the net. hja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Can't login when using kdm (KDE)

2005-09-03 Thread rs
Debian / Sarge / main Hi, Just installed KDE. It works but, for some reason, I can't login when using kdm. When kdm login window appears, I enter my local user id and password, the screen flickers a couple of times and goes back to the login window where I can enter Id and password again. I

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:15:31PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > :0 > * ^TO_.*debian-user > debian-user Just a tip: you might be better of trying to check the Resent-Sender header for SmartList mailing lists: # debian-user :0: * ^Resent-Sender.*debian-user debian-user And, for Mailman lis

Re: testing and unstable packages?

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:02:26PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > Does it make any sense to mix testing and unstable > packages in updating the system (using apt-get)? > Any potential problems?? It only makes sense if you know what you are doing and you are trying to accomplish something specifi

Re: apache2 configuration question

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:22:00PM -0400, Scott wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Today I switched my server from running apache to apache2. I have been > > wondering about something that I was never able to get working quite > > right in apache and thought there might be a way to do it with

Re: testing and unstable packages?

2005-09-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ishwar Rattan wrote: Does it make any sense to mix testing and unstable packages in updating the system (using apt-get)? Any potential problems?? -ishwar Please do not hijack other threads. If you want to ask a question, open a separate thread of your own. For posting guidelines to debian

Re: apache2 configuration question

2005-09-03 Thread Scott Schreiber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Today I switched my server from running apache to apache2. I have > been wondering about something that I was never able to get working > quite right in apache and thought there might be a way to do it > with apache2. The D

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: > > images makes simple "cat $html" not work either, otherwise, > > cat $html | lpr -Ppostscriptprinter - > > > wouldn't this just print the text that is contained in an html file (as > opposed to a rendered/formatted html page? good point, probably .

testing and unstable packages?

2005-09-03 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Does it make any sense to mix testing and unstable packages in updating the system (using apt-get)? Any potential problems?? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hp dl360 and smart array 6i

2005-09-03 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, Have anyone successfully installed debian on a hp dl360 with the smart array 6i controller. It seems like the smart array 5 is supported but not the 6 and I havent found any success stories either. And I would really like debian on it and not the damn redhatstuff. Can anyone give me any

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Price
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: ... wget -m -k http://some.website.com/ and then: #! /bin/bash find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read file; do html2ps -gn $file > "$file".ps ; done find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read psfile;

Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2005-09-03 Thread Jim
What happened to gunsamerica.com?  __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: apache2 configuration question

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:17:34PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > Well I haven't tried the "unless I have a subdomain defined" part but I think > it would work something like this: > A vhost for your domain > A vhost for each subdomain you want > A vhost for *.domain > > But they have to go i

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:42:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Kai Grossjohann wrote: > >I am very fond of doing "nohup somecommand & sleep 1; tail -f > >nohup.out" to start a background job and then watch its output. Then > >I can stop watching the output and log out and the job c

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:00:39PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >>>Personally, I was rather disappointed when I first made this discovery > >>>in apt/preferences. I thought I had figured out a neat lazy-man's way > >>>to handle the transitions from one stab

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread Peter J Ross
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For some reason (maybe a lock of some kind) Thunderbird is not > running on my system so I have taken this opportunity to get > more familiar with mutt, exim and fetchmail. > > I seem to have gotten most important things to wor

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Paul E Condon wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:09:39AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 02:48:33PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: "Don't use release code names in configuring the apt system." seems to me to be a good general rule. As a comment to those who have used co

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > One thing I > miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since I > have three different email addresses that I send messages from. In the "REWRITE CONFIGURAT

Re: Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-03 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:06:41AM -0700, Martin Burger wrote: > [...] > PuTTY is a client program running on Windows for the SSH, Telnet and > Rlogin network protocols. Plink is a command-line interface to the > PuTTY back ends (comparable to ssh executable, I think). > [...] > plink runs in a Do

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:11:04PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:09:39AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > > > Paul, I think you were one of those (forgive me if I'm wrong) who > > > shot me down a coup

linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading

2005-09-03 Thread Matthias Leopold
hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcompiled 2.6.12.5 kernel, compiled the linux-

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:19AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > So, until some time in the far future, people should not say to > > newbies that release code names and release status names ('stable', > > 'testing', etc.) are in

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread John Schmidt
On Saturday 03 September 2005 01:10 am, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: > Hi >I have tried for some time to compile modules with module-assistant. > Both alsa and nvidia fail with the comment: Too many levels of symbolic > links. Similar description to the following message. > http://lists.debian.o

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:09:39AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > Paul, I think you were one of those (forgive me if I'm wrong) who > > shot me down a couple of months ago for suggesting that such words > > as "stable", "testin

Flush DNS cache?

2005-09-03 Thread Adam
I had my DNS in /etc/hosts by mistake for my machine 192.168.1.101 but then later removed it but now, not matter what I do, it still thinks my DNS is always 192.168.1.101. Not even a reboot helps. Did I forget to do something? I just installed nscd and constantly tried to restart that. Only way I

RE: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Joseph H. Fry
> I am the network administrator for one school of my > university and I am considering migrating our Windows 2000 > Server to Debian due to some stability issues and of course > the financial factors. > > We only have one windows server in the network and it is > providing nearly every serv

Re: PLease help

2005-09-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi Alvin, Alvin James wrote: As a result of the KDE problems I have re-installed my system, only thing is I need to have quanta plus working as I use it for work. can you tell me what I could do is there a sources.list I can use to revert back to the last working version of KDE that I can use. A

speedtouch

2005-09-03 Thread Américo Rocha
Alguem tem ideia de como configurar um speedtouch da Thomson, o 330, em Debian "sarge" ? -- _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] américo rocha

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Just curious, is kernel-source-2.6.12-1 available somewhere ? Thanks, Jerome Steven Noble wrote: Just dealt with the same problem. For some reason purging the header packages, deleting the archived copies, and then reinstalling them fixes the problem. At least it did for me. Steven On 9/3

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > > Thanks to all of you who have responded so far! > > Right now I am trying to decide how I will migrate from a test server I will > be setting up to to the production server. I always work a project > backwards when planning, that

different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread paslist
For some reason (maybe a lock of some kind) Thunderbird is not running on my system so I have taken this opportunity to get more familiar with mutt, exim and fetchmail. I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > have three different email addresses that I send messages from. > With Thunderbird the From: address was set automatically > correctly depending which folder I was in. Using Esc-F still > requires that I type the complete addre

Re: Re: Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-03 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:18:20PM +0300, Simo PW Kauppi wrote: > > > > > > No, the /etc/mailname is used to resolve the domain part of the email > > > address. If you send mail to e.g. paul (without any @something), then > > > whatever is in your /etc/mailname is appended to the username with @.

Re: Executing remote commands via ssh causes zombie process

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Burger
Martin Burger schrieb: > So, it's not relevant whether I use plink or ssh. It's a general > problem: If I execute a command on the Debian box remotely via ssh > protocol, a zombie process occurs. Could that be a bug in bash? Or in > the ssh daemon? Or... I tried csh as shell. The zombie processe

Re: apache2 configuration question

2005-09-03 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Today I switched my server from running apache to apache2. I have been wondering about something that I was never able to get working quite right in apache and thought there might be a way to do it with apache2. The DNS for my domain has an entry for *.familiasanchez

apache2 configuration question

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Today I switched my server from running apache to apache2. I have been wondering about something that I was never able to get working quite right in apache and thought there might be a way to do it with apache2. The DNS for my domain has an entry for *.familiasanchez.net making it a CNAME to santi

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread mess-mate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | For some reason (maybe a lock of some kind) Thunderbird is not | running on my system so I have taken this opportunity to get | more familiar with mutt, exim and fetchmail. | | I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I | miss

Re: different From: addresses with mutt, etc.

2005-09-03 Thread Allan Wind
Paul, On 2005-09-03T11:07:44-0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to have gotten most important things to work. One thing I > miss that I need is a quick way to set the From: field since I > have three different email addresses that I send messages from. folder-hook . my_hdr From: folder-h

RE: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Joseph H. Fry
> > Interesting. I am getting ready to setup a network (20 > workstations + > > 2 > > servers) for my church and was going to use OpenLDAP. I would be > > interested in some alternate suggestions. > > NIS+ :) > > I am not sure about alternatives. I am determined to use > postgresql the next

Executing remote commands via ssh causes zombie process

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Burger
> I'm trying to execute a command on my Sarge box using plink (Putty) on > Windows XP. E.g.: plink -A -2 -ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried to execute the command "ls -l" using the ssh executable on the Debian box: [EMAIL PRO

quanta and bluefish project files sharing

2005-09-03 Thread H. S.
Hi, I have been using quanta for the last week to see how it performs. It looks quite impressing and so far it is going pretty well (though I haven't looked at all it's features). One little quirk I have noticed is that quanta doesn't auto indent .php files (or I am missing something). I am goin

Re: Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Burger
David Jardine schrieb: > Preamble: I don't know if I'll be able to help you on this since > I know nothing about plink except what I've just discovered with > apt-cache show putty-tools :( PuTTY is a client program running on Windows for the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin network protocols. Plink is a co

Re: missing gnome menu items

2005-09-03 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Seeker5528 wrote: I have had this happen on occasion. Usually opening a terminal window, typing: su : giving your root password, then typing: update-menus : takes care of it. Thanks, I tried it out, but it still didn't seem to correct the problem. I am still missing gnome sessions

Re: Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-03 Thread Martin Burger
Roel Schroeven schrieb: > I'm sorry, I can't really help: when I try that, it works perfectly. At > least I guess it means that your syntax is correct. > > For the record, I did it between from a Windows box to a Debian box on > the same LAN. The Windows box runs Windows XP SP2 and Debian is Sarge

Re: Seeing a wierd behavior with Sarge, Gnome, Thunderbird, Firefox, and to an extent, KDE.

2005-09-03 Thread Thomas Jollans
Andy Peed wrote: My problem is this: I would like to click on a link in a message I am reading in Thunderbird and have it opened in a Firefox browser window. (I'd prefer a new tab in an existing Firefox window, if there is one, but I'd settle for a new Firefox window.) However, any link I c

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeroen van Wolffelaar: > Fact is though that libc6 has been in Debian stable for over 7 > years, since hamm was releaed mid-1998, This suggests that we should give it three more years or something like that. However, if the packages aren't covered by security support anyway, it probably doesn'

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Greg Norris wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > > background: > > > > command & > > > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > > machine blocks. > > This is often caused because the process

Re: fetchmailing with procmail for mutt

2005-09-03 Thread Preben Randhol
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:51:10PM +0900, BUYO-BUYO-IGOR wrote: > am switching from osx to demudi > on osx was running fetchmail with procmail > to prepare files for mutt > so tried the same setups but when doing > > fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" Why do you do it so difficult? In Lin

Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Adam Funk
On Saturday 03 September 2005 16:30, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Roel Schroeven wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>>I had it in the middle of the night last night. It seems to have >>>stopped. It was rather weird. Mine as also trying to use the same >>>IP >>>as yours, 87.202.40.197. Do you use

Re: Problem with xdm

2005-09-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/09/05 20:37), Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:09:21PM +0100, Tim Bedding wrote: > > However, the words Login and Password seem to be in a smaller > > font than I would expect. > > What kind of silly statement is that? Did you perhaps LOOK to see what > font xdm was configur

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links in linux-headers-2.6.12-1-amd64, k7,...?

2005-09-03 Thread Steven Noble
Just dealt with the same problem.  For some reason purging the header packages, deleting the archived copies, and then reinstalling them fixes the problem.  At least it did for me. StevenOn 9/3/05, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi   I have tried for some time to compile modules w

Re: distcc problem - Gentoo client - Debian sarge server

2005-09-03 Thread Thomas Jollans
Tony wrote: Attempting to speed up my laptop Pentium II emerges. Set up distcc as specified in the Gentoo guide: Bear in mind that this is a _debian_ list. Now, back to gentoo. I personally speeded up my emerges by switching to debian and apt-get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/09/05 20:33), Joseph H. Fry wrote: > 7. Finally, other than the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, which I understand > is the best resource for all things Debian... Are there any other texts I > shouldn't go without in this quest. There are good books, as mentioned already, however, it is likel

Re: Seeing a wierd behavior with Sarge, Gnome, Thunderbird, Firefox, and to an extent, KDE.

2005-09-03 Thread Bruno Buys
Andy, My problem is this: I would like to click on a link in a message I am reading in Thunderbird and have it opened in a Firefox browser window. (I'd prefer a new tab in an existing Firefox window, if there is one, but I'd settle for a new Firefox window.) However, any link I c

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and > > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a > > few old commerc

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > So, until some time in the far future, people should not say to > newbies that release code names and release status names ('stable', > 'testing', etc.) are interchangeable. They are not. Existing support > for release code names i

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a > few old commercial programs (such as wordperfect and so) > which depends yet on it. I a

Seeing a wierd behavior with Sarge, Gnome, Thunderbird, Firefox, and to an extent, KDE.

2005-09-03 Thread Andy Peed
I'm wondering if any of you have seen anything like this, and if so, how you solved it. On my Linux box, I have installed (amongst other things but I think only these are relevant): * Debian stable (Sarge), kernel upgraded to version 2.6.8-16; * Gnome version 2.8; * Mozilla-Thunderbird, versi

Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
Roel Schroeven wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I had it in the middle of the night last night. It seems to have stopped. It was rather weird. Mine as also trying to use the same IP as yours, 87.202.40.197. Do you use checkip.dyndns.org to get your address? That is where I get mine. I ha

Hope you did not eat chicken

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Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, I am observing similar things here: I use checkip.dyndns.org , which seems to give wrong information. Any idea ? Thanks, Jerome Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: Starting at 06:58 this morning (BST, -0100) my ddclient has "gone funny

distcc problem - Gentoo client - Debian sarge server

2005-09-03 Thread Tony
Hi all, Attempting to speed up my laptop Pentium II emerges. Set up distcc as specified in the Gentoo guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml Installed distcc on the Debian (galaxy) machine and started the daemon. Kicked off the emerge, and got the following: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHA

Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Roel Schroeven
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: Starting at 06:58 this morning (BST, -0100) my ddclient has "gone funny" several times an hour. Here is a typical group of syslog entries: Sep 3 11:25:21 garcia ddclient[2045]: SUCCESS: updating ducksburg.

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-03 Thread Richard Otte
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:55:43PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Please try: > $ hpmount /dev/hdc2 > $ hpumount > $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS > > and don't worry about warnings and errors. > > Elimar Elimar, thanks for the suggestion. But when I learned I could mount hfs+ drives contai

Re: PLease help

2005-09-03 Thread Kent West
Alvin James wrote: >As a result of the KDE problems I have re-installed my system, > That's a Windows way of thinking, but oh well, it's done. > only >thing is I need to have quanta plus working as I use it for work. can >you tell me what I could do is there a sources.list I can use to revert >ba

Tuning tripwire - stopping logs being flagged up

2005-09-03 Thread Rich Stanton
I'm trying to tune tripwire (under debian testing) to give me less unneccessary errors. At the moment /var/log/syslog and files in /var/log/cups, exim4, tiger are all being listed as being modified. Obviously this is fine, since they're logs, so I don't want to be notified of this. In the st

Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:30:35AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Starting at 06:58 this morning (BST, -0100) my ddclient has "gone funny" > several times an hour. Here is a typical group of syslog entries: > > Sep 3 11:25:21 garcia ddclient[2045]: SUCCESS: updating > ducksburg.homelinux.com: good:

Re: help: self compiled kernel reboot problem: unable to mount root fs on unknow

2005-09-03 Thread weiyun lv
Thank you first, I posted this question on debian-boot mailing list too. and I think I got the answer: # make-kpkg --append-to-version=.0901 kernel-image I use the above command to compile the kernel, then install it. and I should add --initrd as argument for make-kpkg. From: Joachim Fahnenmü

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.03.1527 +0200]: > Interesting. I am getting ready to setup a network (20 workstations + 2 > servers) for my church and was going to use OpenLDAP. I would be > interested in some alternate suggestions. NIS+ :) I am not sure about altern

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:10:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.03.1502 +0200]: > > I don't use it in nearly such touch environment, but everything I have > > seen/read about it leads me to believe that it can handle large setups > > ve

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-03 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 5:47 AM Subject: Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine John Fleming wrote: I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to make a bootable DVD

Re: unsupported package in Sarge?

2005-09-03 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> Bernhard Fastenrath wrote: > > update-grub is unsupported¹ but used in 3.1 r0a "Sarge"? > > How can a package that is used in the current release be > unusupported and how can I submit a bug report? > update-grub is not a package. It's part of the grub package. see 'dpkg -L grub' or 'dpkg

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.03.1502 +0200]: > I don't use it in nearly such touch environment, but everything I have > seen/read about it leads me to believe that it can handle large setups > very well. I would talk to the alioth admins about it. Maybe I am just inc

Re: support for device

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:24:00PM +0800, hja wrote: > Hi, > > Where do I locate the info to determine whether a device is supported by > Debian? Specifically, i need to know if Debian will support the Graphire > Bluetooth, a wireless tablet-pen from Wacom. Its spec says it can run > with MacOS 10

Re: mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
Sorry to follow up with added information. The "FIFO stuck" is actually more widespread than just when trying to mount a usb drive. It also occurs when I try to print: When I do: $ echo "hello" >> /dev/lp0 The command just hangs. In /var/log/debug and in dmesg I get: teufel kernel: pa

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:32:21AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.09.03.0311 +0200]: > > I seem to recall on an episode of MacGyver where MacGyver took > > some duck tape, > > Please watch your words! It would be more politically correct to

mounting USB drive: "FIFO stuck"

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
I lost my ability to mount and external USB mirror drive because "FIFO stuck": # mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /media/mirror mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg |

Re: Pulling out the new EPOX EP-8VTAI motherboard

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Debian! This is for info in case anybody googles for this motherboard, by chance. I bought an EPOX EP-8VTAI 2 months ago with an Athlon XP 2700+ Thoroughbred CPU. (combo less that $100) I am pulling them out and returning to the old Abit KT7A. Reason: unexplained k

unsupported package in Sarge?

2005-09-03 Thread Bernhard Fastenrath
update-grub is unsupported¹ but used in 3.1 r0a "Sarge"? How can a package that is used in the current release be unusupported and how can I submit a bug report? ¹) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=""> -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fasten/YHVH_language_desc

PLease help

2005-09-03 Thread Alvin James
As a result of the KDE problems I have re-installed my system, only thing is I need to have quanta plus working as I use it for work. can you tell me what I could do is there a sources.list I can use to revert back to the last working version of KDE that I can use. As I had it working did an apt-ge

New method for multi-user Debian

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Previously in order to get a multi-user Linux system (multiple monitors/keyboards/mice + 1 PC) you had to patch the Kernel. Now Aivils Stoss has created a new method to do so and it does NOT involve a kernel patch, so you can get a multi-user Debian system (but with a recent 2.6.x kernel

Re: Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Adam Funk wrote: Starting at 06:58 this morning (BST, -0100) my ddclient has "gone funny" several times an hour. Here is a typical group of syslog entries: Sep 3 11:25:21 garcia ddclient[2045]: SUCCESS: updating ducksburg.homelinux.com: good: IP address set to 87.202.40.197 Sep 3 11:25:31 ga

ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-03 Thread Haines Brown
At present, the sound interface gives access to anyone in audio group, of which user (brownh) is a member. I apparently have a permission problem, but it does not seem to involve /dev/dsp0: Here is the setup: $ ls -l /dev/dsp0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Aug 20 19:53 /dev/dsp0 # cat /et

Re: Mounting XFS with user_xattr on Debian linux-image-2.6.12-1-686-smp not working?

2005-09-03 Thread Chris
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I tried to remount an LVM volume and another partition - both > formatted as XFS - with the user_xattr option, but mount reports that > it's not a valid option, e.g. > Is the user_xattr flag disabled already for XFS in Debian's 2.6.12 kernel > image? Hmm - seeing

Re: Re: Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-03 Thread Simo PW Kauppi
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:45:52AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > From: Simo PW Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 9/3/2005 2:20:56 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Re: simple exim configuration > > > The is value should be your local username i.e. in your case I guess > > 'p

Re: help: self compiled kernel reboot problem: unable to mount root fs on unknow

2005-09-03 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi, On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:31:26PM +0800, weiyun lv wrote: > VFS: cann't open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option. > Kernel Panic -not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown > -block(0,0) > ... An idea: Did you compile the drivers

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Fleming wrote: I'm using current Debian Stable (Sarge). I routinely use mondoarchive to make a bootable DVD of my whole system on a Dell 600SC with an IDE drive. This DVD is capable of restoring to bare metal if necessary. I've never tried it on the 600SC because I've never had to. Howe

update-grub in 3.1r0a assigns wrong root device, cannot boot with 2.4

2005-09-03 Thread Bernhard Fastenrath
Two boot problems I ran into with the 3.1 r0a release: 1. My only drive is /dev/hde, /dev/hda is a cdrom, /dev/hde6 is the Linux root partition: /dev/hde6 78626 15878540400608+ 83 Linux update-grub wrote (hd0,0) as the root device into the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST in /boot/

Anyone else having trouble with ddclient and dyndns.org today?

2005-09-03 Thread Adam Funk
Starting at 06:58 this morning (BST, -0100) my ddclient has "gone funny" several times an hour. Here is a typical group of syslog entries: Sep 3 11:25:21 garcia ddclient[2045]: SUCCESS: updating ducksburg.homelinux.com: good: IP address set to 87.202.40.197 Sep 3 11:25:31 garcia ddclient[2045]

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of Ric Otte told: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hmmm, try: > > $ hpmount /dev/hdc2 > > *** bla > > *** blo > > y > > $ hpumount > > hpumount: destroy: bli > > $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS > > > > Elimar >

test, please ignore

2005-09-03 Thread Paul Scott
test, please ignore -- Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: simple exim configuration

2005-09-03 Thread Paul Scott
From: Simo PW Kauppi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 9/3/2005 2:20:56 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Re: simple exim configuration > The is value should be your local username i.e. in your case I guess > 'paul' in all three accounts (if you want all three accounts to deliver > ma

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