how to start php

2005-10-01 Thread Eric P
Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now php4 doesn't start when I restart Apache or even reboot. I reinstalled php5, but no luck with that either now. Currently, I have the following installed on testing: libapache2-mod=php5 php5

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-01 Thread David R. Litwin
iwlist scan reports the networks within range.  The "Mode: Master" it reports refers to the access point's mode of operation.  On the other hand, yourwireless adapter is correctly configured to run in "managed" to be a clientto the AP.That would explain the discrepancy. Thank you. 1. Get the nic a

Re: iPodder wont start

2005-10-01 Thread Jules Dubois
On Saturday 01 October 2005 20:36, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > OK. I do get the following: > > basement:/usr/bin# iPodder > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "iPodderGui.py", line 22, in ? > import wx > ImportError: No module named wx > > However, this

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-10-01 Thread sqrt
Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:12:27AM +0100, Jon Dowland написал: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:21:49AM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (By the way , "# telnet localhost 3049" returns "conection refused") Of course , i am ashamed , but why this takes place ? It may not be bound on the loopback interfa

Re: Responses to the list

2005-10-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Bannister wrote: > Sorry if it seems OT, but all talk is about Thunderbird, KMail, mutt ... > but not Gnus. Too esoteric? Generally speaking when one talks about mail clients one doesn't include text editors in the conversation. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: bayesian filter training question

2005-10-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Finally, I found that SA, in it's default 3.0-form was much too > conservative about the assigned scores, so I have a bunch of rules that > I have adjusted the score of. You'll get some experience about that in > time, I guess. Also note that SA 3.1 has been released ups

AMD64 with Debian

2005-10-01 Thread Jacob
Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64 with PCI Express & Gigabit Lan I really would like to see some documentation or a tutorial so I can get this stuff all up and running Hardware AMD64 3200+ 1 Gig 400 MHZ RAM Ati/Diamond x300se - 128 MB PCI Express Marvell Gigabit Lan (I

Re: iPodder wont start

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Creasy
OK. I do get the following: basement:/usr/bin# iPodder Traceback (most recent call last):   File "iPodderGui.py", line 22, in ?     import wx ImportError: No module named wx However, this does not help me. Is there anyone out there who can help? TIA Roger

Bandwidth by port

2005-10-01 Thread Gawd Amighty
Hi Debian users, Can anyone suggest a method to track bandwidth usage by port number? As far as I can tell, MRTG will only track bandwidth usage by interface. Google isn't giving me any hints. -WG

Re: XFree86 with i915 chipset fails with the i810 driver

2005-10-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:08:10PM +0200, G Christiansson wrote: > Dear Debian people, > > I can not get my XFree86 to work with the i810 driver, and tried for > hours with various Google-based tips, so now I ask you. I have never got it to work with my i915. I use xserver-xorg, and it workd now.

Re: Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread jjluza
Ok, I will try that. Thanks for the tip. Le Samedi 1 Octobre 2005 23:37, Greg Madden a écrit : > On Saturday 01 October 2005 03:45, jjluza wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to install OpenOffice.org2 on Debian Stable. > > After a lot of research I don't succeed in finding such packages. > > Do yo

Re: Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread jjluza
Experimental packages are built against Debian Sid and use lots of Sid packages, especially the libc6 one, so it will not installable. Thanks anymore. Le Samedi 1 Octobre 2005 21:53, Ganeshram Iyer a écrit : > On 10/1/05, jjluza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I would like to install Op

Apt-build world problems

2005-10-01 Thread Fredrich Legnemark
Hello y'all! I'm trying to apt-build world but seem to be coming up with lot of errors, and i haven't been able to locate a solution. Sorry, can't find aalib1, is it already installed? (Remove it first, or try running 'apt-get clean') Sorry, can't find adduser, is it already installed? (Remove it

Is there a problem with debian-user-digest?

2005-10-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
I recently moved. Since I knew that I would not have time to read all of debian-user while packing and cleaning, and would be unable to check my mail frequently, if at all, for several weeks while moving, I unsubscribed from the digest. Now that I am situated and have a new ISP I tried to res

Re: This seems impossible, but this formala is on the bottom of page 471 in CRC SMTaF...

2005-10-01 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Well, I wanted to insert a file and send it, but Thunderbird on Debian is S BRAINDEAD that the pulldown doesn't have that option. Sht! Bill Warner wrote: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StatisticalMedian.html Xeno Campanoli wrote: CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 29th E

Re: iPodder wont start

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Roger Creasy wrote: > Howdy! > > I just installed iPodder. It will not start. When I click on the > desktop icon, it bounces about for a while, but nothing happens, no > error messages or anything. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? Try running it from a command line; you may get some error m

Re: GNOME "other" menu

2005-10-01 Thread Titus Barik
Thomas Jollans wrote: How long ago are you talking about ? I do have an 'Other' menu, but it contains only Celestia (which I have installed in the gnome version) Hi Thomas, For example, when I use Fluxbox, I have an Apps menu, a Games menu, a Shells menu, a Programming menu, and so on. Most

iPodder wont start

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Creasy
Howdy! I just installed iPodder. It will not start. When I click on the desktop icon, it bounces about for a while, but nothing happens, no error messages or anything. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong? TIA Roger

Microphone Problem

2005-10-01 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, My microphone is not recording any sound. I have a soundblaster live! 5.1 I am using alsa. It works under windows xp. I am using kernel 2.6.8. with kde. Thanks -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Looking for a way to check for status of DHCP connection

2005-10-01 Thread Arjen Verweij
Hi, I have an annoying problem lately. Sometimes my cable internet (DHCP) breaks down. It is usually fixable by: sudo ifdown eth1 sudo ifup eth1 For now I have written a small perl script that runs as root, to do this for me in case the connection seems to be gone. Is there a more elegant way t

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-01 Thread David R. Litwin
In the continuing saga to try to get my WiFi to work, I have notived some thing interesting: iwconfig says that the mode is managed, as does KWiFi Manager. But, iwlist (when I do ath0 scan) says that it is master. Could this be what is causing the internet troubles (id est, that most pages take a v

Re: Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 October 2005 03:45, jjluza wrote: > Hello, > I would like to install OpenOffice.org2 on Debian Stable. > After a lot of research I don't succeed in finding such packages. > Do you know if there are somewhere ? > Thanks. I dl the tar.gz file from OOo.org. There is a howto on the sit

Re: login, path and ~/.profile

2005-10-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Benedict Verheyen wrote: > This might differ on your system as I: > * source /etc/bash.bashrc from /etc/profile Note that other Bourne lineage shells such as ksh and zsh such also source /etc/profile at login time. If you place bash specific syntax there you will break use of other shells. Bob

Re: XFree86 with i915 chipset fails with the i810 driver

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
G Christiansson wrote: >Dear Debian people, > >I can not get my XFree86 to work with the i810 driver, and tried for >hours with various Google-based tips, so now I ask you. > I don't know about your Fujitsu PC, but I've seen similar issues with i810-based Dells. I find that if I go into the BIOS,

XFree86 with i915 chipset fails with the i810 driver

2005-10-01 Thread G Christiansson
Dear Debian people, I can not get my XFree86 to work with the i810 driver, and tried for hours with various Google-based tips, so now I ask you. Problem: Only the VESA driver loads, and I can only work at 1024x768, while my LCD screen is a 1280x1024. Details: I have a relatively standard comput

DHCP problems after system update

2005-10-01 Thread Stefan Salewski
Hello, I am using Debian-Linux testing (i386). Since two weeks my computer is connected to internet by DSL (1&1, german provider) using a Fritz!Box configured as router. Configuration was done under Windows2000, and its works very well under Debian-Linux until yesterday. Yesterday I made a softw

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >In X, the server is the basic GUI "engine". As a general rule, it would >sit on your local computer where the user sits. The "X server" is kind >of like the blue screen on a Windows computer that appears just before >the Start Menu and Taskbar and "My Computer" appear. > >The "cl

Re: Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 10/1/05, jjluza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I would like to install OpenOffice.org2 on Debian Stable. > After a lot of research I don't succeed in finding such packages. > Do you know if there are somewhere ? try http://packages.debian.org/openoffice.org2 or try this link http://packag

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Kent West
Janeque Peterson wrote: > > Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window > (although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) The X Window System has been the traditional windowing system (Graphical User Interface - "GUI") for Unix/Linux based systems. Apple de

Re: Audio i/o

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Creasy
Interesting... I was following the advise of  someone on a forum...Should I undo my changes to permissions? If so, how? What is 'join #debian'? I ran the command that you suggested and got: basement:/home/roger# adduser roger audio The user `roger' is already a member of `audio' What else can I

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Matt Price wrote: >On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>What version of sysvinit do you have installed? There's a bug that's >>been in sysvinit since 2.86.dsl1-1 which affects bootlogd. See the bug >>report at >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327865

Problem upgrading glibc, help appreciated

2005-10-01 Thread Roland Swingler
This might be quite a basic question. I've Just done apt-get upgrade, and there seems to be a problem with installing libc6. This is what I get: Unpacking replacement libc6 ...dpkg: error processing /mirror/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.5-6_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to create `./lib/tls/ld

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:38:40AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Price wrote: > > > that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about > > > shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the > > > origi

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Janeque Peterson (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window > (although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) with the > "startx' command, also I tried 'start kde'. I got a command not found > to both. Then, to make sure m

Problem synchronizing with IPAQ

2005-10-01 Thread Ivan S. Dubrov
Hello, I'm trying to synchronize with my iPaq (rx3715) and get the following error (in dmesg): usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9 ipaq 1-1:2.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.c: active config #2 != 1 ?? ipaq: probe of 1-1:2.0 failed with erro

Re: Running a mixed system

2005-10-01 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
Thanks Andreas, I've run mixed stable/unstable in the past without problems but it looks like I won't be able to for now.-- swk

Re: ripping audio cd (sarge)

2005-10-01 Thread Robert Epprecht
Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Epprecht (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of >> the music title. >> I'm not really clear, how it is supposed to work. Do I have to run >> these programs as root? (wouldn't like

Re: x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 10:04:10AM -0700, Janeque Peterson wrote: > >Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window >(although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) with the >"startx' command, also I tried 'start kde'. I got a command not found to >

Re: Audio i/o

2005-10-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
Roger Creasy wrote: Hello: I am trying to use an audio editing/recording program named Audacity. When I start the program, I an error saying that it failed to initialise the audio i/o error. I changed the ownership of /dev/dsp to the user and set permissions to 666. Now if I first run 'killal

x window / starting the desktop

2005-10-01 Thread Janeque Peterson
  Needless to say I'm very new to this. I tried starting the x window (although I don't have a very clear idea what it is exactly) with the "startx' command, also I tried 'start kde'. I got a command not found to both. Then, to make sure my x configuration is right, I did 'dpkg-reconfigure x

Re: player for AVI and other video files?

2005-10-01 Thread Pollywog
On 10/01/2005 04:36 pm, askar k wrote: > I use debian sarge. > I didn't install kde, use Fluxbox. > KDE has its own media player for video files. > Now I need to install a player for AVI movie file. > In dselect search for "player", but couldn't file the needed package. > My installation uses only

Re: backup compress on the fly

2005-10-01 Thread debian
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:03:16AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > find /my_dir \( -type f -o -type l \) | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T - what are the safe kind of things to exclude ? I was thinking of: -i zip -i cpio (both these are already backups of other data) /proc

Re: teaching debian...

2005-10-01 Thread askar k
> > > "The book also aims to satisfy the requirements for course notes for a > > > GNU/LINUX training course. Here in South Africa, I use the initial > > > chapters as part of a 36-hour GNU/LINUX training course given in 12 > > > lessons. The details of the layout for this course are given in Appen

Re: backup plan for home server

2005-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/10/05 08:47), Michael Perry wrote: > After doing backups to tape for a long time using things lika Amanda, I > finally settled on my own approach which actually works decently for me. I > have a primary Linux server here at home which does samba, vpn, apache, nfs. > I setup a second linux bo

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED-UNSOLVED!

2005-10-01 Thread debian
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:06:20PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > > Please, > > > > sarge, 2.6 kernel, alsa > > > > I can get sound from neither rosegarden4 (wow, _what_ a program, > > thanks a lot) nor kmid. I can play midi files fine

Re: teaching debian...

2005-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/10/05 22:11), askar k wrote: > On 10/1/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have a look at Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition: > > http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz > Thanks. > > > "The book also aims to satisfy the requirements for course notes for a > > GNU/LINUX training

player for AVI and other video files?

2005-10-01 Thread askar k
I use debian sarge. I didn't install kde, use Fluxbox. KDE has its own media player for video files. Now I need to install a player for AVI movie file. In dselect search for "player", but couldn't file the needed package. My installation uses only 14 disks of debian. Please tell me the name of the

Re: teaching debian...

2005-10-01 Thread askar k
On 10/1/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (01/10/05 17:45), askar k wrote: > > Is there anybody teaching debian for newbies? > > I'm thinking to make a debian course for those who don't have linux > > experience at all. > > I would be grateful if someone could share with his teachin

Re: Responses to the list

2005-10-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 01 October 2005 08:19, John Hasler wrote: >Chris Bannister writes: >> So, do people use Gnus to read the debian-* lists from usenet, or are >> {quite|very} happy using Gnus as a mail client. > >I am very happy using Gnus to read both news and email. Thats not the first time I've heard

Re: backup plan for home server

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Perry
On 10/1/2005 2:20:06 AM, Chris Purves wrote: >On 01/10/05, Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scenario 1: >> - configure the two drives for software RAID >> - weekly backup of unreproducible data (such as pictures) to the network >> (tar or rsync?) > >I don't have any experience with R

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Matt Price
On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about > > shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the > > origin. Unfortunately cna't post my bootlog b/c bootlogd doesn't seem > >

FX86C.onfig-4

2005-10-01 Thread Daniel Hernandez Marquez
Tengo inconvenientes con mi tarjeta gráfica. En la instalación elegí simple, como driver quedó sis. Veo muy bien con windows xp, resolución 800x600, pero en Debian aunque le he modificado, no da más de 640x480. Utilicé como dvriver VESA pero sale error. Envio archivo, gracias. __

Package configuration blocked by double free error

2005-10-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Below I am re-posting part of a message from the archives because it exactly describes my problem. I have done a google search and have found this problem in debian and other distributions and have found bugs filed but have found no solutions. It was suggested on another list that I set MALL

Multiple apps playing sound (xmms,vmware etc) on Sarge

2005-10-01 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, I want to share sound between apps (e.g. 2 VMware session with Windows playing sound while listening to my favorite MP3's with xmms). I have followed the instructions from the alsa site and I can play multiple MP3s with alsaplayer and mpg321 at the same time. But I cannot start a VMWare sessi

Re: teaching debian...

2005-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/10/05 17:45), askar k wrote: > Is there anybody teaching debian for newbies? > I'm thinking to make a debian course for those who don't have linux > experience at all. > I would be grateful if someone could share with his teaching plan. Have a look at Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition: ht

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-10-01 Thread Mitja Podreka
Žáček Kryštof wrote: This is not just your first impression. GIMP sucks even after long term usage in terms of usability - windows scattered over the whole desktop, overlapped toolbox windows, incredibly stupid archane file dialog, the gtk slowness etc.. Try GimpShop. It is still Gimp but the

Re: Responses to the list

2005-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Chris Bannister writes: > So, do people use Gnus to read the debian-* lists from usenet, or are > {quite|very} happy using Gnus as a mail client. I am very happy using Gnus to read both news and email. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Audio i/o

2005-10-01 Thread Roger Creasy
Hello: I am trying to use an audio editing/recording program named Audacity. When I start the program, I an error saying that it failed to initialise the audio i/o error. I changed the ownership of /dev/dsp to the user and set permissions to 666. Now if I first run 'killall artsd' Audacity starts

Is there some openoffice2 packages for Sarge somewhere ?

2005-10-01 Thread jjluza
Hello, I would like to install OpenOffice.org2 on Debian Stable. After a lot of research I don't succeed in finding such packages. Do you know if there are somewhere ? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 3.1 Sarge with IBM ServeRAID 7e problem

2005-10-01 Thread valentin_nils
Hi John, The same question was asked 7 days ago, you might find all replies in the mail listing archive, did you try this ? This was my reply: Hi ..., I dont fully remember how we did that (was 3 months ago). We used Red Hat 9 for the customer, but I am sure it works very similar for Debian Sar

teaching debian...

2005-10-01 Thread askar k
Hello! Is there anybody teaching debian for newbies? I'm thinking to make a debian course for those who don't have linux experience at all. I would be grateful if someone could share with his teaching plan. thanks, askar

Re: vsftpd and umask

2005-10-01 Thread hakim
Hi, Problem solved. It is anon_umask=0022 Then it works fine... Thanks... Achim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Running a mixed system

2005-10-01 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Wu-Kung Sun (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > With the major changes in sid I'd like to know if running a mixed > stable/unstable system is ok. No, this will give you a lot of trouble. Ustable changes quite quickly, and you will run unto dependency problems and incompatibilies if you try to i

vsftpd and umask

2005-10-01 Thread hakim
Hi NG, I try to change the umask on file uploads on my ftpserver, but it doesn't work. file_open_mode=0644 The umask on the system is 0022 If I upload a file the permissions on my system are: -rw--- 1 virtual www-data 161 Oct 1 12:26 test.txt Directories: drwx-- 2 virtual www-data 4

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

2005-10-01 Thread Jim Ottaway
> g r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's a pity people have to ask around before they can > draw a rectangle with a graphics program. I had the > same question. I haven't come across a less intuitive > windows program than GIMP. I know I am commenting > based on my quick first impression and c

Re: ps ax output and screen

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:14:59PM +0200, Jan Steding wrote: > Hello NG, > > i use two different linux server with debian on it. one with kernel > 2.4.20 and the other with 2.6.12. > with the 2.6.12 kernel i get the right output from ps with screen: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ ps ax|grep -i screen >

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:14:45PM +0800, rosetta wrote: > Yes..But I didn't install the sudo. > And I want to reset the root password without "rescure CD" or some > else. Because the debian reference say single user mode can reset the > password. Hi Rosetta, There is usually more than one way to

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:15:22PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: > > --- Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... > > > > Official name of the next version of Windows, previously called > > Longhorn. It is due to be released i

Vista/Longhorn [was Re: What is the different between ...]

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: > --- Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: > > > --- Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- h

Re: Installing without CD

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 08:11:28PM -0400, Mike S wrote: > >I'd rather not buy anything... > mmm, now thats why we use Linux :-). But ... surely even a cheap computer can be had for practically nothing. Check out your local schools and see if they have any old hardware. Make them an offer.

Re: Installing without CD

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:56:30PM -0400, Mike S wrote: > >Oh, I forgot to mention I don't have net access in Linux, incompatible >modem. The hard way first eh? . . . mmm how about: The woody floppy install - 20 disks, and that is just the base system. Don't know if sarge has floppies, b

Re: console font

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:44:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9/24/2005, "Angelo Bertolli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hi there, > >>my default debian installation gives a console with 25 rows and a > >>huuuge font. I feed vga=ask as boot paramete

Re: Printer

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:52:12PM -0700, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > When I send a print command, I get the following message in dmesg: > parport0: FIFO is stuck > parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio > DMA write timed out > > Do you have any idea what this means or wh

Re: reboot with fsck and bad block check

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:07:15AM -0700, Seeker5528 wrote: > I see that the badblocks man page has a big fat warning: [..] > This can be overridden using the -f > flag, but should almost never be used --- if you think you're smarter > than the badblocks program, you

Re: Responses to the list

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 05:44:20PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > >>Doesn't T-bird have a "Reply to list" option? > >> > > > >It does NOT. > > > Neither Thunderbird has the reply to list button nor there is an > extension which enables this behavior. > > I have com

Re: SOLVED: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:43:03AM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: > I installed epiphany-extensions 1.6.4-2 from unstable, which installed > libosp4c2 and removed libosp4. The "Tools" menu then appeared in > Epiphany the next time I started it, and with it access to the > extensions. Thanks! Great!

[SOLVED] Re: unable to install from CD: failure to mount once kernel installed

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > > From: Wackojacko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 5:56 AM > > <...> > > > Googling this error (google is always your friend :) ) suggested that > > > > - you may want to turn DMA off for the drive ' hd

Re: backup plan for home server

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Purves
On 01/10/05, Bogdan Calmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scenario 1: > - configure the two drives for software RAID > - weekly backup of unreproducible data (such as pictures) to the network > (tar or rsync?) I don't have any experience with RAID, but I have been using backuppc for managing bac

Re: permissions below /dev/ across reboots

2005-10-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:50:55 +0200 Hanspeter Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > How does one set the permission of /dev/net/tun so that they remain > across reboots? I wasn't succesful when I tried to do it for use with qemu. I did however find a script on the net named qemu-ifup-sudo

Re: gnome upgrade in testing

2005-10-01 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 02:15:04 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're using testing you should expect this type of thing to > > happen. > > No, I shouldn't. It makes no sense to upgrade the data for an > application if the application itself is being removed. It's not that unc

Two upstream connections

2005-10-01 Thread Tim
Does anybody have a simple script for two upstream connections? I have ADSL as primary and wireless as backup. I don't need load balance just an active/backup scenario (with automatic failover). The DSL has dynamic IP via DHCP the wireless can use either static IP or DHCP. The intranet runs NAT.

Re: GNOME "other" menu

2005-10-01 Thread Thomas Jollans
Titus Barik wrote: Hi all, A long time ago, GNOME used to have an "other" menu or something similar in the 'start menu' that had non-gnome applications in the list. Sometime ago, this had dissapeared, and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it back. I'm running Debian unstable. Regards,