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2005-09-19 Thread Eric P
Hi all, An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. It says: udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. The 'Mark All Upgrades' process did finish i

Re: Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On tirsdag 20 september 2005, 08:34, David Harrison wrote: > I've been googling around to find out which HW RAID cards work best > with Debian and from what I can see the LSI cards seem to do best. I recently went through the same thing, but probably with a different objective than you, I just wa

Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On tirsdag 20 september 2005, 06:15, Joe Smith wrote: > Q: Why are there no official mirrors for security.debian.org? > A: The purpose of security.debian.org is to make security updates > available as quickly and easily as possible. This policy is quite understandable, but as an aside: Anybody kno

Re: exim4-light vs exim4-heavy

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 19 September 2005 11:36 pm, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Would someone know the différence between light and heavy for this > package? Light is for easy stuff that requires just the most common stuff, whereas heavy is a complete install of exim, as I understand it. > I have the lig

Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

2005-09-19 Thread David Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've been googling around to find out which HW RAID cards work best with Debian and from what I can see the LSI cards seem to do best. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with either of the following cards (do they work, do they suck

exim4-light vs exim4-heavy

2005-09-19 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, Would someone know the différence between light and heavy for this package? I have the light one installed, but want to do virtual hosting. -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs dédiés: http://www.google.fr/search?q=aspo+infogerance+serveur

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Rodney Richison wrote: Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? It's possible using a rescue floppy or knoppix. Again, easy/quick way to restoe ent

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:50 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > Rsync? > > rsync is extremely bad idea because: I think rsync is an extremely good idea for data backup. > - whatever caused your main server to die will propagate > itself on your backup server when you use rsync Huh? >

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rodney On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. backup plan ... i always run 3-5 duplicate servers at the same time .. just change the ip# and the backup machine would be live > Tar? find | tar | grep -i

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:28 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? > > Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? > Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire

backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Rodney Richison
Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire debian server? Unfortunatly, I've found mondo unreliable for bare metal

Re: installing debian

2005-09-19 Thread steef
Ian wrote: First off, I don't recommend installing Debian to a USB drive, if that's what it is. Those may be substantially slower than and IDE drive. If you do however decide to install to that drive, usually it will be recognized as /dev/sda if there are no other SCSI devices. I've also se

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Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

2005-09-19 Thread Stefhen Hovland
Feh should be what you are looking for, it is command line based and full featured. http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/wiki/FehFeatures http://packages.debian.org/feh [1] Yes. [2] I think so. [3] Yes:"feh -R 1 " Reloads image every 1 second [4] I think so. Thanks, Stefhen

USB2 Video/TV capture?

2005-09-19 Thread Ephemeral root
Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first result I got on a Google search for "linux video usb2 capture" is a link to somebody's Linux *in*compatibility list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

2005-09-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Any of the national mirrors have the security archive mirrored in the debian-security/ directory You can use them. They should contain the same thing as security.debian.org as they are both just copies of ftp-mast

Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

2005-09-19 Thread Miles Bader
say "libpng error: Read Error", and fail to display the image. eog, on the other hand, displays the partial image (which is what I want). kuickshow is a bit more verbose; here's what it says: libpng error: Read Error IMLIB ERROR: Cannot load image: /home/soft1/miles/src/snog

Re: ldconfig responds with Illegal Instruction, cannot

2005-09-19 Thread Chris Purves
On 10/09/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recent upgrade with aptitude on testing exited halfway through with the > following error: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up libpam0g (0.76-23) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst: line 3: 31771 > Illegal instruction

Fwd: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-19 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/9/18, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is it just me or is this mailing list useless? > i posted my question ages ago and have recieved nothing but heaps of > responses to other questions that i don't understand > are mailing lists meant to work like this? how do i get better results > out of this

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-19 Thread Kent West
Fritz Brown wrote: >OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for >all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, >the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the >default settings (this is Woody, BTW - may try

Re: Mirrors for security.debian.org?

2005-09-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:18:47PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > I'm trying to do a rather sizable security upgrade of Xwindows from > security.debian.org, and it's rather slow. I always find security.d.o > to be slower to respond to apt-get update than my primary server. > > Can I use a mirr

Mirrors for security.debian.org?

2005-09-19 Thread William Ballard
I'm trying to do a rather sizable security upgrade of Xwindows from security.debian.org, and it's rather slow. I always find security.d.o to be slower to respond to apt-get update than my primary server. Can I use a mirror for that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: strange files

2005-09-19 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 15:23 +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across something odd this morning on a Sarge production server I > manage remotely. The machine runs a self-compiled 2.6.12.2 kernel and I > keep it up to date with security fixes. (I run upgrades and > dist-upgrades w

Re: runlevel policy

2005-09-19 Thread Ron Peterson
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:45:19PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > >>On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > >> > >>> Can anyone exp

nzb package

2005-09-19 Thread Tong
Hi, I noticed that recently there is a nzb downloader available in unstable and testing. I gave it a try, in testing, but couldn't get it going. It stops at the stage "connection", and last forever. Anybody has the same problem? thanks PS. I believe my option setting is correct. -- To UNSU

atftpd problem

2005-09-19 Thread Tobias Niemann
I've got a problem with the atftpd, any help is apreciated. While trying to connect to my tftp server I get this messages in syslog: Sep 20 02:32:14 localhost in.tftpd[21631]: connect from Grandstream (:::192.168.10.35) Sep 20 02:32:14 localhost atftpd[21631]: Advanced Trivial FTP server start

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-19 Thread Fritz Brown
OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the default settings (this is Woody, BTW - may try to get Sarge a little l

Re: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-19 Thread Fritz Brown
Mailing lists are an inefficient way to get an answer to a single question because you will get loads (I'm on 1,000 since I signed on here) of responses to things that don't even remotely relate to your question. However, it is also a GREAT way to really get into a subject. And, to get a good

debian + egroupware + LDAP ?

2005-09-19 Thread Mohammed Sameer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to get egroupware to play nice with openldap. I want to store the accounts and do the authentication through ldap. Everything is fine in the setup page, But when I try to create the admin account I get: Error in group-creation !!! Se

Re: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:21 pm, linux wrote: > is it just me or is this mailing list useless? It's you. > i posted my question ages ago and have recieved nothing but heaps of > responses to other questions that i don't understand are mailing lists meant > to work like this? Yes. There is

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-19 Thread Jon Roed
On September 14, 2005 09:55 am, antgel wrote: > Jon Roed wrote: > > I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. I have an > > AMD Athlon 64 2800+. The chipset according to the manual that came with > > the motherboard is a SiS746 Northbridge and SiS963 Southbridge. I can't > > f

Re: network traffic monitoring software/switch

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:29 am, hakim wrote: > I am looking for twi things: > > 1. A tool which shows me the whole traffic of one interface, and from > the interface of the lan, it should show the traffic by ip-addresses. sniffit sounds like what you're looking for. > 2. Does anyone know a

Re: rs6000

2005-09-19 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 15:13 +0300, Ömer TELLİ wrote: > Merhabalar elimde bir adet ibm rs6000 43p model 150 server bulunmakta > fakat üzerinde aix 4.3.2 bir işletim sistemi var ben bunun üzerine > debian'ın herhangi bi sürümünü kurmak istiyorum fakat hangi sürümünü > kuracagımı hangi versiyonunu kur

Re: How do you "move to testing/etch"?

2005-09-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-09-15 13:04:37, schrieb marc: > To move to testing - and presuming my understanding that non-US is now > void - is this the appropriate sources.list? (mirrors to be changed per > user.) > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-19 Thread Romulo Sousa
On 9/19/05, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Bayrouni wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I need nice software for my digcameraital . > > But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, ... > > all enabled info and data on the c

Re: mutt rocks: but how to...

2005-09-19 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:48:14AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > Hey David, > > On 2005-09-19T17:06:32+0930, David Purton wrote: > > What I want to be able to do is print the email - two pages per A4 > > page, with the picture tacked on the bottom of the email text at some > > suitable scale factor.

Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Marty wrote: Thanks for your kind reply. Mike McCarty wrote: Recently, my girlfriend decided to try the jump to Linux. I helped her build a dual-boot system with Windows and Debian on it. She has run it fine for a couple of weeks, except that her mouse goes "crazy" sometimes. This occurs both

Re: Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Mike McCarty wrote: Recently, my girlfriend decided to try the jump to Linux. I helped her build a dual-boot system with Windows and Debian on it. She has run it fine for a couple of weeks, except that her mouse goes "crazy" sometimes. This occurs both with Debian and with Windows. So I suggested

Re: .xsession problem

2005-09-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Andras Lorincz wrote: > Maybe this helps: I'm using kdm and if I want .xsession to be executed then > at the session menu choose default, maybe it's similar in gdm. Yes. The .xsession file is only used with the default session. If you pick kde or gnome then it avoids the user's personal files e

Re: OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:50:05PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) > > It has come to my attention

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

2005-09-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:59:59 -0700 Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I am in the process of doing this myself (same card). I had to > > compile my kernel, but only because it seems that the debian kernel > > has removed the qla2300 module (could someone explain

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Peter Coppens wrote: All, I have installed the 'latest stable' Debian version on an (old) Dell laptop Cpi D300XT. The initial install was done with the laptop in a docking station and using the network adaptor that comes with that docking station. Everything went fine. Later I removed the

Apologies for Reply Request

2005-09-19 Thread Mike McCarty
I sincerely apologize for sending a message to the list with "reply requested". The other mail echoes I use strip such requests before forwarding. Now that I know that this echo does not do that, I shall endeavor not to burden you all again with that. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);

Re: problem writing udev rules

2005-09-19 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:39:28PM +0100, Adam Mercer wrote: > Hi > > I'm having a problem writing a udev rule for my printer, I want it to > always be setup as /dev/optra and have the following rule in > /etc/udev/rules.d/010-udev.rules > > BUS="usb", SYSFS{serial}="6033190", NAME="%k", SYMLINK=

OT [Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs]

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:55:31PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > > Dear Sirs, > > There are some Madams here as well. :-) It has come to my attention (thanks Mike McCarty) that in English, "Sir" can mean "Sir or Ma'am" (though tha

Re: installing debian

2005-09-19 Thread Ian
First off, I don't recommend installing Debian to a USB drive, if that's what it is. Those may be substantially slower than and IDE drive. If you do however decide to install to that drive, usually it will be recognized as /dev/sda if there are no other SCSI devices. I've also seen it shown as /

Re: Spammassassin Problems

2005-09-19 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:42:46PM -0400, Cipher Trust Support wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to Debian, I have been using SuSE since 5.3 and have just move > to Debian. Welcome aboard :) > I am having a problem getting Spamassassin to work correctly. It's running. > > I have turn it in default and

Re: Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-19 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:37:09 +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:11:15AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> I suspect that there is a missing cron routine and would welcome >> the needed pointers in order to persuade the "tmp" directory to live >> up to it

Re: Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

2005-09-19 Thread John
Thanks everyone. It took a little trial and error, but I got it working. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 23:12, Mike McCarty wrote: > However, Debian no longer recognizes her keyboard. It sees the > mouse fine, but not the keyboard. Windows still sees and uses > both the mouse and the keyboard with no problem. Weirdness. With my job computer, a Dell box, the order of whic

Re: postscript/ghostscript

2005-09-19 Thread Joe Smith
"linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] hello all i have a mac and am sick of mac osx i can't buy a new machine but i can move over to linux i would like to install debian (ppc) my problem is, i don't know if my printer/scanner will work its a canon pixma MP-130 mul

Re: vncserver

2005-09-19 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Florian Ohnimus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the quick replies. I managed to solve > the problem by downloading vnc4server with aptitude. > It created a 'xtartup' script in the $HOME/.vnc/ > directory automatically, and also uses it. This file > can be edited for different conf

Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Recently, my girlfriend decided to try the jump to Linux. I helped her build a dual-boot system with Windows and Debian on it. She has run it fine for a couple of weeks, except that her mouse goes "crazy" sometimes. This occurs both with Debian and with Windows. So I suggested she has a hardware p

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

2005-09-19 Thread Nick
Cameron Matheson wrote: Hi, Nick wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has installed and/or has any documentation or materials regarding the installation of a qlogic 2340 HBA on a debian box. We would like to connect some debian hosts to a SAN in the near future. Is this a pretty straight f

Re: Advice needed about submitting bugs

2005-09-19 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alberto Zeni wrote: > Dear Sirs, There are some Madams here as well. :-) > So, I wanted to submit all that to Debian bugs tracking system but they > sent my message back saying that I hadn't specified the bug affected > package and asked me to submit it

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

2005-09-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Nick wrote: Hello, I was curious if anyone has installed and/or has any documentation or materials regarding the installation of a qlogic 2340 HBA on a debian box. We would like to connect some debian hosts to a SAN in the near future. Is this a pretty straight forward installation? Or wi

Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-19 Thread Peter Coppens
All, I have installed the 'latest stable' Debian version on an (old) Dell laptop Cpi D300XT. The initial install was done with the laptop in a docking station and using the network adaptor that comes with that docking station. Everything went fine. Later I removed the laptop from the docking

Re: New Tutorial: Creating custom Linux firewall/routers with Debian

2005-09-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/09/05 03:20, wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:30 -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: For some time now, I've been experimenting with the implementation of Linux as a cheap yet powerful routing and firewall solution. I've found that a basic Linux platform can be rather easily customized

Re: o.t. sugestions for entity modeler

2005-09-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Chris Parker on 18/09/05 18:17, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Chris Parker on 18/09/05 16:28, wrote: What is a good database entity modeler? Database is mysql 4. new to sql so im just looking for something to show relationships for setting up queries easier. Also which is better for an online

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Rick Pasotto on 18/09/05 17:18, wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:58:17PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: how does totem run? I don't have it installed. I'm not going to install it since doing so would REMOVE: gnome-applets, gnome-core, & gnome-desktop-environment. ! I beg to differ. I am runnin

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Matthijs
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:40:42 +0200, Jared Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My backup network will only use a laptop and a desktop, and shouldn't > ever suck more than 300 watts. I'm looking for a cheap UPS with a usb > connection that is compatable with Debian. > > I guess all I really need is

Re: Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

2005-09-19 Thread andreas . sumper
Hi Nick! Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19.09.2005 20:58:30: > Hello, I was curious if anyone has installed and/or has any > documentation or materials regarding > the installation of a qlogic 2340 HBA on a debian box. We would like to > connect some debian hosts > to a SAN in the near futu

Advice needed about submitting bugs

2005-09-19 Thread Alberto Zeni
Dear Sirs, A few days ago I have installed Debian 3.1 r0 "Sarge" on my PC. Everything went all right except X-server which didn't start. In fact at the end of the process the system tried to start it twice but unsuccessfully, then I recived a message asking me to submit such bug to Debian bugs

Re: Re: open /dev/sequencer: No such device

2005-09-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 09:47:09PM -0400, Tzanko Matev wrote: > I have the same problem after I installed wesnoth-0.9.7 There is no > sound and a message "open /dev/sequencer: No such device" displays. > However when I run the game as root the same message shows, but the > sound is fine. I suspect

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, John Hasler wrote: > Alvin Oga writes: > > and keep your car battery outdoors, not indoors ... > > Not necessary (though you may want to keep it in a plastic container.) the other kinds of batteries is the "gel-cell" ( same type as the commerical ups ) but cheaper and more

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
John Hasler wrote: You _might_ get a bang if you stick a spark igniter inside a cell while the battery is being heavily overcharged. Actually now that you mention it, how will the battery get recharged if it's used? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: cron + ldap = disaster?

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Smith
Natxo Asenjo wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully deployed a single sign on solution with openldap, it > works great. But, there is a little problem with cron. Everytime one of > the users' or system's crontab changes, cron stops working. The number > of cron processes skyrockets (within minutes y

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Alvin Oga writes: > and keep your car battery outdoors, not indoors ... Not necessary (though you may want to keep it in a plastic container.) > and do not light a cigaratte near the car battery in a closed enviroment You _might_ get a bang if you stick a spark igniter inside a cell while the ba

Re: vncserver

2005-09-19 Thread Florian Ohnimus
Thanks for all the quick replies. I managed to solve the problem by downloading vnc4server with aptitude. It created a 'xtartup' script in the $HOME/.vnc/ directory automatically, and also uses it. This file can be edited for different configurations.     - Original Message - Fr

Qlogic Fibre Channel Controller

2005-09-19 Thread Nick
Hello, I was curious if anyone has installed and/or has any documentation or materials regarding the installation of a qlogic 2340 HBA on a debian box. We would like to connect some debian hosts to a SAN in the near future. Is this a pretty straight forward installation? Or will I be required to

Re: xdebconfigurator output to file

2005-09-19 Thread Louis Woods
Thank you. "less" is exactly the program I was looking for. However, when I use the following command: xdebconfigurator -x | less it looks like the content gets loaded into less, but as soon as I use for example the arrow-keys or 'b','f','y' etc. the content disappears and I get a bunch of

Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

2005-09-19 Thread garaged
> (1) Supports PNG files (even better would be EXR files, but that's > probably pretty rare) > > (2) Happily displays partially-written files, without screaming on stderr > > (3) Has an "auto-update" function, where it watches the file modification > type and re-reads the file w

Re: Suggestions for Debian Harware Vendors

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Jason Martens wrote: > I'm not talking about official support from Dell, i'm not either we provide "unofficial" support on just about any hw > I think this is a valuable resource if one is forced to run Debian on a > Dell. There are very helpful people

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > >car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely .. > Sounds good to me. But I'm kind of new to this. Could you provide a > link or two to the atx adaptors that one might consider? google: dc-dc a

Re: Re: open /dev/sequencer: No such device

2005-09-19 Thread Tzanko Matev
I have the same problem after I installed wesnoth-0.9.7 There is no sound and a message "open /dev/sequencer: No such device" displays. However when I run the game as root the same message shows, but the sound is fine. I suspect that Wesnoth or the SDL library need write access to some file or devi

Re: lightweight iconbox - SOLVED

2005-09-19 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 9/19/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ganeshram Iyer: > > > > i am using a very slow PC with Debian Sarge with low HD and RAM. Can > > anyone suggest a lightweight iconbox that I can use with icewm-lite? i > > currently use "rox -t=PANEL" which uses about 15MB of RAM. can > > anyth

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jared Hall wrote: I would have to look at the code to see if this sort of logic is being used. which I guess I could if really wanted to, but I don't, because it works really well and there is no need to. I would discourage working around the system that Apache has set up for Debian. there ar

Re: network traffic monitoring software/switch

2005-09-19 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 10:29 -0700, hakim wrote: > 1. A tool which shows me the whole traffic of one interface, and from > the interface of the lan, it should show the traffic by ip-addresses. iftop -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs dédiés: http://www.google.fr/search?q

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 10:12, Bayrouni wrote: > I need nice software for my digcameraital . > But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, > ... all enabled info and data on the camera. If you use KDE, I can recommend digikam. Even though there are many features on m

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On mandag 19 september 2005, 18:13, Jared Hall wrote: > No, httpd.conf is not obsolete.  Anything you stick into it will > still operate as it did before (default configuration). Yep, you're right, and indeed it is Included. I also found that I enabled RewriteEngine in there... :-) It might look

Re: xdebconfigurator output to file

2005-09-19 Thread Craig M. Houck
the redirection will work for sure. Try xdebconfigurator -x | more as well and of course xdebconfigurator -x | less for the less fans At 08:03 PM 9/19/2005 +0200, Louis Woods wrote: >I have just installed xdebconfigurator to get some clues about some of >the hardware in my laptop. When I ru

Re: image viewer which supports auto-refresn and partial images?

2005-09-19 Thread Stephen Patterson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:10:06 +0200, Miles Bader wrote: > [This is so I can get some sort of progress view on a raytracer, which > only slowly produces its output image, without having to deal with > writing X color allocation code myself... sigh...] G

Re: problem with automatic upgrade (changed conffile)

2005-09-19 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Now that the original poster has found is answer, I guess an aside is ok, On mandag 19 september 2005, 17:56, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > But if the is compromised, won't they also have > the key? No, they would have to get to joey's (or another member of the security team's) secret key, and comp

xdebconfigurator output to file

2005-09-19 Thread Louis Woods
I have just installed xdebconfigurator to get some clues about some of the hardware in my laptop. When I run "xdebconfigurator - x" there is so much information returned that I can't read all of it; I am on the command line and can't (or don't know how) to scroll back up to the beginning of th

Re: lightweight iconbox

2005-09-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ganeshram Iyer: > > i am using a very slow PC with Debian Sarge with low HD and RAM. Can > anyone suggest a lightweight iconbox that I can use with icewm-lite? i > currently use "rox -t=PANEL" which uses about 15MB of RAM. can > anything get lighter than this? What exactly is an iconbox? Do you kn

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread Jared Hall
On 9/19/05, David Huemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer httpd.conf too, but deleting the apache2.conf is no good idea. > The only good thing about the apache2.conf is, that it includes the > httpd.conf so all user defined configuration can be done in the > httpd.conf and they can be seen ver

Re: runlevel policy

2005-09-19 Thread Joe Smith
"Paul E Condon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > Can anyone explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed > so far from traditi

Re: eth0 problem

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Deephay Z wrote: Greetings all, since I need to install the wireless device driver for the Debian system, so I compiled and installed the 2.6.13.2 version kernel, but the eth0 (wired-ethernet card) now cannot be found using the newer kernel. Some kinda ":eth0: no such device" is displayed on t

network traffic monitoring software/switch

2005-09-19 Thread hakim
Hi, I am looking for twi things: 1. A tool which shows me the whole traffic of one interface, and from the interface of the lan, it should show the traffic by ip-addresses. 2. Does anyone know a switch, which has an API or webinterface, where I can read out the traffic by the ports of the switch

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-19 Thread David Huemer
I prefer httpd.conf too, but deleting the apache2.conf is no good idea. The only good thing about the apache2.conf is, that it includes the httpd.conf so all user defined configuration can be done in the httpd.conf and they can be seen very easily. But that is also possible if you include a complet

Re: installing debian

2005-09-19 Thread Thomas Jollans
steef wrote: hi all, a friend of mine asked me to install debian_sarge on his machine: with the netinstaller; for the first time. he is getting fed up with xp.he has got an empty hd on a usb-port. my question: does the installer recognizes: sees this usb_harddisk? or is this something for

apache-ssl ssl.log

2005-09-19 Thread Brian Smith
I am trying to log the ciphers being used for apache-ssl. I've uncommented the line in the httpd.conf file: CustomLog /var/log/apache-ssl/ssl.log "%t %{version}c %{cipher}c %{clientcert}c" and I only see in the ssl.log: [19/Sep/2005:12:40:21 -0400] + + + Any suggestions on how to get the loggi

Re: eth0 problem

2005-09-19 Thread Deephay Z
sorry for this dupicate post, I just thought the post through the usenet is not going to sucess.. On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:38:51 +0800 Deephay Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > since I need to install the wireless device driver for the Debian system, > so I compiled and instal

lightweight iconbox

2005-09-19 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
hello all, i am using a very slow PC with Debian Sarge with low HD and RAM. Can anyone suggest a lightweight iconbox that I can use with icewm-lite? i currently use "rox -t=PANEL" which uses about 15MB of RAM. can anything get lighter than this? >From top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %

eth0 problem

2005-09-19 Thread Deephay Z
Greetings all, since I need to install the wireless device driver for the Debian system, so I compiled and installed the 2.6.13.2 version kernel, but the eth0 (wired-ethernet card) now cannot be found using the newer kernel. Some kinda ":eth0: no such device" is displayed on the screen during bo

Re: KDE font size changes randomly

2005-09-19 Thread J F
SOLVED At least I think it is solved. I won't know for sure until I log on and off a few more times. Thanks to Brian Nelson for the idea. root:/etc/kde3/kdm# diff Xservers Xservers.20041211 13c13 < :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 100 --- > :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/

mozilla-browser

2005-09-19 Thread mess-mate
Hi, i've few problems with the last sarge2 mozilla-browser :) In the mozilla windaw, at the bottom there are messages like: menuitem label="&ldbCmd.label;" Anyone get it also or solved that problem ? Thanks in advance mess-mate -- You worry too much about your job.

Re: Suggestions for Debian Harware Vendors

2005-09-19 Thread Jason Martens
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya jason On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Jason Martens wrote: Hey all, We are currently a Dell shop my condolences :-) but are getting frustrated with the lack of debian support available for our Dell servers. and where is the "debian support" supposed to come

Re: Hauppage ImpactVCB PCI Video Capture Board?

2005-09-19 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 02:03:39PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Can you post the exact link to the card, so we can see it? > > If you're talking about this card, with the 878 chip, linux can use it > fairly well. > (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_impactvcb.html) > > The driver is the

installing debian

2005-09-19 Thread steef
hi all, a friend of mine asked me to install debian_sarge on his machine: with the netinstaller; for the first time. he is getting fed up with xp. he has got an empty hd on a usb-port. my question: does the installer recognizes: sees this usb_harddisk? or is this something for the bios opf h

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