Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-17 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, No, you're confusing kernel modules with X modules. You can't load X modules into the kernel and vice versa. ok, thanks for clarification. firstly, i get this in my dmesg ... Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset. agpgart: Detected 8060K sto

Re: fqdn no more

2005-10-17 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, After I finished configuring apache2, I run /etc/init.d/apache2 restart and I got the following: "Forcing reload of webserver: Apache2 apache2: could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" I have my webserver's ip

fqdn no more

2005-10-17 Thread nano
Hi all, After I finished configuring apache2, I run /etc/init.d/apache2 restart and I got the following: "Forcing reload of webserver: Apache2 apache2: could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" I have my webserver's ip address and domain name in

Installing Xen on Debian Sarge

2005-10-17 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
I have the following machine: System: - Debian Sarge, stock debian kernel, fully updated pkgs. - uname -a: Linux debian 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux - Nvidia drivers built with module-assistant: nvidia-kernel-2.6.8-2-386_1.0.7174-3+2.6.8-

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-17 Thread Byron Hillis
Thanks all, I have something to look for now. Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Johan Kullstam
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > That sounds more like a religious statement. > > Gnus is a message reader, i.e. news, mail, local files, ... > > And to run it I need to insta what? No "test" editors are involved. -- Johan KULLSTAM -- To UNSUBS

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Yeah, back in the day, vi users would say, "why use Emacs, I've > already got an OS". "Back in the day"? You say that like non-emacs users don't say that today. :D -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

set from: address in standard command-line mailer (/usr/bin/mail)

2005-10-17 Thread Miles Bader
When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail, the From: address is wrong; it's apparently just prepending my user-id to my domainname. How can I tell mail to use a different From: address? I've trawled through the docs, but not found an answer... [the docs are pretty weird to tell the truth -- they're a

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Max writes: > I have an old clunker that wouldn't take a big HDD so, being utterly > penniless I with great trepitation flashed the bios. If it has a flashable BIOS it isn't a truly old clunker. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-17 Thread m
Check out cacti, it will do SNMP pulls on the host. Both bandwidth and process. Its not a simple app, but very useful. Also if you have firewall setup on the box, you should be able to get stats on the ports/protocol. Have you ever used very basic snmp? I recently discovered the snmp comma

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-17 Thread ryv
Hornet wrote: On 10/17/05, Byron Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anybody know a simple network monitoring utility that I can use to determine what individual processes on my Debian Sarge system are continually using up my bandwidth? Thanks, Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-17 Thread m
Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond about 128 gig, tha other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G. I have an old clunker that wouldn't take a big HDD so, being utterly penniless I with g

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-17 Thread Hornet
On 10/17/05, Byron Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know a simple network monitoring utility that > I can use to determine what individual processes on my > Debian Sarge system are continually using up my bandwidth? > > Thanks, > > Byron > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: General linux question.

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Porter
Take a look here, this should help: http://wiki.debian.org/WhyDebian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:32 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > marc wrote: > > No one expects a mail reader to be a word > > processor - except M$ - nor a wordprocessor to be a mail reader - except > > M$. QED :-) > > You're wrong on the second one. EMACS was trying to wrangle a mail reader > out o

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-17 Thread Ms Linuz
Charlie wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:19:54 -0700 (PDT) J Merritt considered, crafted and sent: |--- I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever yo

Re: cannot umount an vfat partition "kidnaped" by aMule

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Porter
Joaquin CARABALLO MORENO wrote: > That's a good idea, thank you. I read in the man that after umount -l > the partition isn't accesible from the fs, and it will actually be > unmounted when current references end. > > In this way at least any other attempt to access to the partition won't > be s

Re: kde dead after update

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Porter
Enrique Morfin wrote: > Now i'm working without ksplash. Glad you figured it out. You might want to file a bug on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing D-Link DWL-650 (16-bit) on sid w/ 2.6.12 kernel

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Scott
Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: Paul hello, I found your posting using google, I have the DWL-650 card too and I have no idea how to install it. I have debian installed and not much experience with linux. I was wondering if you have found the solution? I'm CCing you so you won't miss my reply t

Network Bandwidth Monitoring Utility

2005-10-17 Thread Byron Hillis
Does anybody know a simple network monitoring utility that I can use to determine what individual processes on my Debian Sarge system are continually using up my bandwidth? Thanks, Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-17 Thread Marty
golfer wrote: The only way I seem to be able to get packages installed is to go back on line and do the 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. For one or two packages, this may be ok, but it's not something I want to waste time doing routinely. The dist-upgrade option is not intended for routine use. Unless

Re: Locales and LANG

2005-10-17 Thread Dalibor Straka
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:58:52PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya dalibor > Hi, > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dalibor Straka wrote: > > > this always worked fine with me > > LANG=cs > ... > > LANG=czech ./whatever > .. > > LANG=cs_CZ > > the value you pick for LANG should be listed in > > l

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:19:54 -0700 (PDT) J Merritt considered, crafted and sent: >|--- I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or eject DVD/CD me

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Steve Lamb
marc wrote: > No one expects a mail reader to be a word > processor - except M$ - nor a wordprocessor to be a mail reader - except > M$. QED :-) You're wrong on the second one. EMACS was trying to wrangle a mail reader out of a text editor long before Microsoft got the idea and ran with it.

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-17 Thread J Merritt
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  >Do you have automount installed? I don't think that it is installed by>default. Automount is not installed. Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.

Re: /dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 04:19:54PM -0700, J Merritt wrote: > I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used > Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the > DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or > eject DVD/CD media. It has other issu

/dev/cdrom mounting

2005-10-17 Thread J Merritt
I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or eject DVD/CD media. It has other issues, however.   I like the way k3b works on the Debian side. Better

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-17 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Matheson wrote: | Hi, | | On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:27:53PM +0100, Carlos Correia wrote: | |>Can anyome tell me where does Kopete keeps his user info? I've been |>googling araund and notice that it seems to keep that info in a file |>called '

Re: udev trouble: no /dev/sd* devices

2005-10-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Cameron Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: >> George McNinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > gm> On the third, I now have no /dev/sd* at all (no /dev/sda1 >> > gm> e.g.) >> > >> > modprobe sd_mod >> > >> > fixed

Re: Locales and LANG

2005-10-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya dalibor On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Dalibor Straka wrote: > this always worked fine with me > LANG=cs ... > LANG=czech ./whatever .. > LANG=cs_CZ the value you pick for LANG should be listed in locale -a | grep -i cz you might also want to define bothLANG and LC_ALL c ya alvin --

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:36:54 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- John Hasler said... >|--- > Marc writes: >|--- > > Any suggestions on how to improve things? >|--- > >|--- > Run pppconfig as root, answer the questions, and start ppp with 'pon' and >|--- > stop it with 'poff'. Po

Re: BitTorrent

2005-10-17 Thread [KS]
Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have Debian box at home acting as a firewall/gateway for my DSL. It runs > sarge, with all updates applied. I also use this box to download stuff, > especially torrents that take long. Every now and then I come across a > torrent which causes my adsl rou

Couldn't download adduser

2005-10-17 Thread housi mueller
I downloaded the last stable netinst image (i386). When I now try to install Debian, I get always the error „Couldn’t download adduser“! What could I do to avoid this error and make a netinsall of Debian???    Thanks in advance for helping.. Housi Mueller Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access ove

BitTorrent

2005-10-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi all, I have Debian box at home acting as a firewall/gateway for my DSL. It runs sarge, with all updates applied. I also use this box to download stuff, especially torrents that take long. Every now and then I come across a torrent which causes my adsl router (Netgear DG632) to stop forwa

Re: Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:27:53PM +0100, Carlos Correia wrote: > Can anyome tell me where does Kopete keeps his user info? I've been > googling araund and notice that it seems to keep that info in a file > called 'accounts.xml', though I couldn't find one in my system, at least > not in '~/.*

Re: Re: color ls

2005-10-17 Thread Tim
Dear Jason:   Did you attend Riverside City College in the early 80’s?     Sincerely,       Tim Teffeteller Matco Components, Inc. 949-951-4626 949-951-4610 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.matcocomponents.com  

Where does Kopete keeps accounts info?

2005-10-17 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm transfering my system to a new PC and I'd would like to copy Kopette account settings to that machine, so I don't have to fill all the info again, as I will probably need to do it on other users machine. Can anyome tell me where does Kopete

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Smith
%% marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe this would be easy to answer if I could find any usable >> documentation ,,, m> The perennial Linux weakness :-( Depends on where you look... Emacs and Gnus have pretty good docs :-). --

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Smith
%% marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You can run Emacs in X mode and it's basically text but with useful >> windows stuff (you can select articles with the mouse, popup menus >> for odd things, etc.) m> GUI !=> mouse use m> a lot of folk imply that, but I don't understand why. Well,

Re: gmplayer not working (solved)

2005-10-17 Thread Jay Vollmer
On Monday 17 October 2005 16:47, Andy Streich wrote: > On Monday 17 October 2005 10:08 am, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > PS: I can't connect to: > > > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ > > > > since saturday. Anyone else have the same problem? or > > just me? > > me too me three -- JAY VOLLMER [EMAIL PROTE

Re: gmplayer not working (solved)

2005-10-17 Thread Andy Streich
On Monday 17 October 2005 10:08 am, Enrique Morfin wrote: > PS: I can't connect to: > > http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ > > since saturday. Anyone else have the same problem? or > just me? me too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: Cups and smbspool - SOLVED

2005-10-17 Thread Hornet
I figured it out, I didn't have smbclient installed :\ Didn't hit me until I walked away and then re-read this post. On 10/17/05, Hornet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > >I have a windows PC that has my only printer connected to it. I > wanted to be able to print via smb to that printer

Locales and LANG

2005-10-17 Thread Dalibor Straka
Hello World!\n this always worked fine with me LANG=cs ./whatever but now it stopped and after some investigation i've found LANG=czech ./whatever As far as i remember, i used to use LANG=cs_CZ ./old_one Is there some systematic explanation for the debian LANG and locales policy? Thank u all a

Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-17 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 17 October 2005 08:45, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > i decided to move my notebook from windows to linux. so far everything > works fine (i haven't tried suspend and similar things yet). i was just > wondering whether it's possible to get direct rendering on the > integrated graphics

Re: Network module options in Debian Sarge

2005-10-17 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:43:56PM -0300, Federico Petronio wrote: > Hello, I write to you because after lot of trying I could not found a > solution for this: > > I need to force 3 NICs (3Com 905C) to use "100baseTx-FD" mode, and I > found that the correct way to do this (if I use mii-tools it do

Network module options in Debian Sarge

2005-10-17 Thread Federico Petronio
Hello, I write to you because after lot of trying I could not found a solution for this: I need to force 3 NICs (3Com 905C) to use "100baseTx-FD" mode, and I found that the correct way to do this (if I use mii-tools it does not work Ok) is using modules options (i.e. modprobe 3c59x options

P4 HT doesn't work

2005-10-17 Thread Debian
I have a P4 1.6 GHz with HT. It is enabled in the Bios and i'm using the linux-image-2.6.12-SMP kernel. wheter x86info not /proc/cpuinfo are knowing something about 2 virtual CPU's. What is going wrong? greetz me

Re: Brain transplant - SOLVED

2005-10-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a moral to this story. I don't recall your original post, but > it is one good reason _not_ to compile a kernel, but rather to use a > (kernel|linux)-image. Or have the standard linux-image as an alternative in grub/lilo -- John L. Fjellstad

Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-17 Thread cmetzler
> This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird. [ snip ] Various other people have written you helpful messages about the specific issues you've been facing. I'd like to write instead and make a suggestion I hope you'll take to heart: give your posts subject lines that indicate what the content of t

Re: udev and hotplug status in unstable

2005-10-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:26:47PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Since the last few days when I have tried to use dselect for upgrading > my unstable box, it wanted to uninstall hotplug in order to upgrade > udev. Now I know that there have been some changes in udev and it has > almost taken over hotplug's

Re: udev trouble: no /dev/sd* devices

2005-10-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > George McNinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > gm> On the third, I now have no /dev/sd* at all (no /dev/sda1 > > gm> e.g.) > > > > modprobe sd_mod > > > > fixed the problem. > > Please share how. I believed he inse

Re: Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

2005-10-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Further Reading of The Fine Manual reveals that that way to quote $ in a makefile is to say "$$": test: testexec for test in $(TESTS); do ./$$test ; done I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say "mak

Re: new users

2005-10-17 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net. My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access it

Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

2005-10-17 Thread Michael D. Crawford
I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say "make test" to have them all built and executed. The "testexec" target builds the unit test executables without running them. I started with something like this: TE

Re: postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Tony Heal wrote: I have just upgraded my distro from woody to sarge and postgresql's encoding got messed up. Is there a way to change the encoding of a database without dumping and recreating it? I also need to change the default decoding of postgresql. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change

RE: dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

2005-10-17 Thread Mark Coetser
Well depending on how many dependencys you have on libreadline5 you could do the following apt-get -y --purge remove libreadline5 and then reinstall libreadline5 and all the other packages that were removed if any I only had gnupg depending on libreadline5 Thank you, Mark Adrian Coetser [EMAIL

Re: dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

2005-10-17 Thread phyrster
On 16:53 Mon 17 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > phyrster wrote: > > > > --- > > #dpkg -i libreadline5_5.0-11_i386.deb > > > > Preparing to replace libreadline5 5.0-10 (using > > libreadline5_5.0-11_i386.deb) ... > > > > install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more info

Re: dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

2005-10-17 Thread phyrster
On 11:50 Mon 17 Oct 2005, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 10/17/05, phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi debianers, > > > > When I performed a dist-upgrade from sarge to testing, the upgrade process > > was not completed when I ran out of disk space. > > > > apt-get clean > apt-get update > apt-ge

Cups and smbspool

2005-10-17 Thread Hornet
Hello, I have a windows PC that has my only printer connected to it. I wanted to be able to print via smb to that printer. Reading http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#PRINTING_OTHER It looks like I just need to make a symlink to some smbspool app. I have samba installed but can not find this

Re: postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 12:08 -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I have just upgraded my distro from woody to sarge and postgresql's encoding > got messed up. Is there a way to change the encoding of a database without > dumping and recreating it? I also need to change the default decoding of > postgresql. It

Re: apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-17 Thread golfer
On 10/17/05, golfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used 'apt-get -d <>' to download updates and new packages > over my dialup and then gone off line and installed with 'apt-get > install <>'. However, now I'm unable to do this on apt-0.6. > > It will do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get -d d

Re: gmplayer not working (solved)

2005-10-17 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! Now is running with any problem! I just erase the directory (rm -rf MPlayer-1.0pre7) and reunpack it (tar -jxvf MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2), recompile it and now is working. I guess it was and old file (even if i made a "make clean" or "make distclean") Bye. And thanks to everyone. PS: I can'

udev and hotplug status in unstable

2005-10-17 Thread [KS]
Hi all, Since the last few days when I have tried to use dselect for upgrading my unstable box, it wanted to uninstall hotplug in order to upgrade udev. Now I know that there have been some changes in udev and it has almost taken over hotplug's functionality but I thought it would be better to ask

Problem setting up amavisd-new and f-prot

2005-10-17 Thread Jim Seymour
Following the readme in /usr/share/doc/amavisd-new I have not been able to get f-prot to scan any email. I am using exim4 and the f-prot-installer package on a Debian Etch box with all current updates. The output from amavisd-new debug: Oct 17 13:16:40 nuthatch amavisd-new[24909]: starting. amav

forwarding DNS

2005-10-17 Thread Tony Heal
I have a DNS server that I want to move to a co-location facility. The co-lo facility has a different ip address and I need to reduce the downtime of my DNS server to a minimum. I am going to look into using iptables on another server we have here that will not be moving to forward all traffic for

apt-0.6 off line usage

2005-10-17 Thread golfer
I've always used 'apt-get -d <>' to download updates and new packages over my dialup and then gone off line and installed with 'apt-get install <>'. However, now I'm unable to do this on apt-0.6. It will do 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get -d dist-upgrade' ok, but after going off line, and trying 'a

Re: Weird Sendmail problem

2005-10-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya gabe On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Gabe Granger wrote: > I've got a weird problem with sendmail, the stuck in mqueue-client is probably a submit.cf problem that you'd need to replace(fix) -- use the one from sendmail.org sendmail works out of the box, if you replace some broken distro-modified

Re: new users

2005-10-17 Thread Bruno Buys
Darren wrote: Hello. I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network. I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net. My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access i

Re: Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

2005-10-17 Thread Oliver Lupton
Adam Funk wrote: I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this command: mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration RealPlayer radio shows to .wav to listen to them later. But I'd like to r

new users

2005-10-17 Thread Darren
Hello.  I'm a new user of Debian and I'm looking to setup a file server on my network.  I want the ability to access it like a ftp server from any pc on the net.  My friend told me to setup an ssh server rather than ftp for security reasons and due to the fact I want to access it from an web

Anyone know how to do a "timed program" with mplayer?

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Funk
I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this command: mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration RealPlayer radio shows to .wav to listen to them later. But I'd like to record a specific sho

postgresql encoding

2005-10-17 Thread Tony Heal
I have just upgraded my distro from woody to sarge and postgresql's encoding got messed up. Is there a way to change the encoding of a database without dumping and recreating it? I also need to change the default decoding of postgresql. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change it to UNICODE Ton

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-17 Thread Marty
Freddie Witherden wrote: Hi, none of those worked. It seems to be because it can not remove (--purge) a package which does not have ant files and when I try to reinstall it apt tries to configure the packages which need it. I need a way of totally nuking those packages from apt's list so that i

Re: dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

2005-10-17 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 10/17/05, phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi debianers, > > When I performed a dist-upgrade from sarge to testing, the upgrade process > was not completed when I ran out of disk space. > apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equa

dpkg error, can't install and can't uninstall libread*

2005-10-17 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, When I performed a dist-upgrade from sarge to testing, the upgrade process was not completed when I ran out of disk space. After that, I can't install or uninstall any packages and it is always the libread* packages that caused trouble: --- #dpkg -i libreadline5_5.0-1

Re: gmplayer not working

2005-10-17 Thread Enrique Morfin
> vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 24 and 32 bpp > (":0.0" => local display) > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h > from libpng-1.0.18 > libpng warning: Application is running with png.c > from libpng-1.2.8 > libpng error: Incompatible libpng version in > application and li

Re: gmplayer not working

2005-10-17 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > Hi! > > > > I tried to compile mplayer, and it worked. mplayer > > runs flawlessly. Unfortunately gmplayer don't. > > > > > Any ideas? > > Use the packages from the Mariallat repository. try ./configure --help did You read README ? Of course. Do you read my original post? If You want to

listing ISO content, need development package

2005-10-17 Thread Dennis Chua
I've got Woody loaded on a PowerPC emulator that doesn't have any connection to the Internet. This is only the basic system and I need to load the Debian development package. The emulator allows me to mount ISO files to /cdrom. My problem now is to find the right ISO to download from the Debian r

Re: hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Andrew Nelson
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:32:34 +0200 Nikolai Hlubek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone :-) > > On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should > only be accessible from my LAN so I set: > > hosts.deny > ALL: ALL > > The hosts.deny manual states: > This denies all servic

Re: hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Adam Funk
Nikolai Hlubek wrote: > On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should only > be accessible from my LAN so I set: > > hosts.deny > ALL: ALL ... > Ping and ssh connects are refused but the web services provided by zope > are still accessible from the outside. Is this a bug or

Re: kde dead after update

2005-10-17 Thread Enrique Morfin
>It's been a couple days; try updating again. Maybe some >bugs snuck in to the versions you updated to. I did that. In fact, i remove all kde and reinstall it. Same problem. :( Then i began to run all manually (xinit, dcopserver, kbuildsyscoca, etc.) and discover the program who is making all th

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-17 Thread Bruno Buys
Nikolai Hlubek wrote: Hi everyone :-) Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why use a modern machine, which uses 3

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-17 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hi, none of those worked. It seems to be because it can not remove (--purge) a package which does not have ant files and when I try to reinstall it apt tries to configure the packages which need it. I need a way of totally nuking those packages from apt's list so that it forgets that they even

Re: hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Nikolai Hlubek napisał(a): On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should only be accessible from my LAN so I set: hosts.deny ALL: ALL The hosts.deny manual states: This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted access by entries in the allow file. Ping

Re: hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Nikolai Hlubek (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should > only be accessible from my LAN so I set: > > hosts.deny > ALL: ALL > > The hosts.deny manual states: > This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted > acc

Re: How to make an Alarm-Notice with X/Fvwm

2005-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Tannert wrote: Hello, my problem is not so difficult to solve I think/hope. I use gkrellm and I want to use the battery plugin to warn me if my notebookbattery is running out of power. Therefore I need a command that opens a X-Window only with a Frame and a Text inside. How can I

Re: prevent dhclient from exting

2005-10-17 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:09:55PM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > Well, I am at a loss then. This is my /etc/network/interfaces: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system > # and how to activate them. For more infor

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

2005-10-17 Thread Matt Price
OK, finally got this ironed out -- the problem was not with gpg, which I was using correctly (if blindly) but with my script, which put the Release file in the wrong spot. In any case, for hte archive, here's a wiki page describing how to do what I was after: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallCDCusto

direct rendering on i845G chipset

2005-10-17 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i decided to move my notebook from windows to linux. so far everything works fine (i haven't tried suspend and similar things yet). i was just wondering whether it's possible to get direct rendering on the integrated graphics card that is on the board. the chipset is Intel Corporation

hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi everyone :-) On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should only be accessible from my LAN so I set: hosts.deny ALL: ALL The hosts.deny manual states: This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted access by entries in the allow file. Ping and ssh conn

updade process, bzflag

2005-10-17 Thread David A.
Hello, I'm rather new to debian, I wonder how the package update process works. I run update && upgrade once a day - works great. Unstable feels stable enough for me. Now I've found that bzflag is updated - cool. I've looked here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzflag.html OK - so it is updated

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-17 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi everyone :-) Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > >>On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: >> >>>You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why >>>use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just fo

Re: How to list all files that are going to be installed when doing "apt-get upgrade"?

2005-10-17 Thread Sonixxfx
A bit late but I still wanted to thank you for your response Paul. I did not have time to reply earlier.   I am quite happy with the command we ended with last time. To find the differences of the output from this command and from the output from "aide -C" I redirect the output from these commands

Re: prevent dhclient from exting

2005-10-17 Thread Arjen Verweij
Well, I am at a loss then. This is my /etc/network/interfaces: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo ifa

Re: prevent dhclient from exting

2005-10-17 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:43:29AM +0200, Arjen Verweij wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I'm looking for a way to keep my box connected. Sometimes the > connections drops for various reasons: > > - cable removed from modem/nic > - power outage > - booted without cable > > The problem is, that dhclient just

TSClient question...

2005-10-17 Thread Opus
When using the VNC client there is a way to toggle from using the full screen to having a scrollable window (IIRC). Is there a way to toggle the Terminal Server Client window similarly? I use TSClient to log in remotely to WinXP machines from my laptop. My laptop has only a 1024x768 screen, as

Re: CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK not working in Debian !

2005-10-17 Thread Mariusz Kruk
supermega napisał(a): Funny thing: when the "ip rule fwmark" is added then the next rule - with lower preference - is checked, too (it can be main or "ip rule from" or anything). If the routes set by these 2 rules are the same then packet is accepted. If not then it's dropped. I don't understan

Re: Kernel Questions

2005-10-17 Thread Aurelien Ricard
There are a lot of docs about that. Take a look a the kernel How-to (http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO.html) FYI, 2.4 kernels already has modules, modules.conf... in /etc... Aurélien PS: 2.2 too, by the way ;) Paras pradhan wrote: hi: I am running Debian Sarge. under /etc/ i s

Weird Sendmail problem

2005-10-17 Thread Gabe Granger
I've got a weird problem with sendmail, I can send and receive emails fine normally to/from external sources, I can tenet localhost at 127.0.0.1 etc and send email internally and externally. But for some messed up reason i get connection refused in the logfile if logcheck tries to send ema

Re: apt-get install without internet connection

2005-10-17 Thread Marc Brünink
On Montag, Okt 17, 2005, at 13:25 Europe/Berlin, Marc Brünink wrote: Hi list, I've a pretty trivial question: I've a computer without any internet access. But I want to install a specific package which is not included on my debian CDs. So I used "apt-get clean" and "apt-get -d install " t

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