Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya bruno On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:13, Alvin Oga wrote: > Thanks Alvin for all these details. > I decided to 'keep it simple' and will try a Knoppix. simple is most always the best way to go c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:13, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya bruno > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > > proceedure .. "think" :-) .. > - find out what hardware chipset is in your pc > - find out what kerne

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-24 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is there a way to list files by filesize? A program, or command

Re: slow 3D game performance

2005-10-24 Thread Lubos Vrbka
CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_VIA=y CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_RADEON=y I'm not sure if this will help, but what about CONFIG_AGP_ATI ? isn't this "key" (CONFIG_AGP_ATI) supposed to be used for ATI mobo chipset? For ATI, you have a couple of options: you can use the open-source DRI drivers, or you can

OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark I doubt that the "unofficial" Debian distribution is any smaller. The OOo2.0 distribution takes ~284MB (OOo2.0 shipped with stripped executable files) compared to ~219MB for OOo1.1.5 (which was

printer trouble

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I am trying to set up an Epson Stylus Photo 890 at my workplace, but thus far I've been unsuccessful. I have installed cups, and gimp-print for the drivers. I used the browser, with port 631 via the localhost, to set it up. However, it won't print anything. After sending it a test p

Re: CUPS- HP JetDirect 170x

2005-10-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:56:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. Click on add printer and put in Name, Location, Description Fine. > 2. It then asks for "Device". I choose AppSocket/HP Jetdirect > Is this correct? If you intend to talk to it via the JetDirect, it is. > 3. It then asks f

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
> > I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't > > worth the disk space. > > Depends on howmuch disk space you have, and how much you read the > documentation in /usr/share/doc. I just read with zless instead of less, and zgrep instead of grep, zcat instead of cat... th

Making X handle an IBM Scrollpoint Pro optical mouse

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, I have an iBook2 and an IBM Scrollpoint Pro optical mouse. I'd like to use the pointing stick in X, but I can't figure out how to do so. I've verified that it generates output on /dev/input/mice when I move the stick, but when I move the stick in X, I don't see anything happen (i.e., the c

Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

2005-10-24 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:59:08 +0200 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about unzipping them all, but I figured it wasn't > worth the disk space. Depends on howmuch disk space you have, and how much you read the documentation in /usr/share/doc. > But if you think that

Re: Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-24 Thread Jules Dubois
On Monday 24 October 2005 19:30, Iain Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have a problem with Emacs. After installing it, it wouldn't start so I > tried starting it from bash but it keeps reporting > Undefined color: "black" and dumping me back to bash. emacs --debug-init

RE: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread J F
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RE: Kmenu logoff quit powering off computer

2005-10-24 Thread J F
Somebody suggested looking at this file, but it appears to be ok: $ /etc/default# more halt # Default behaviour of shutdown -h / halt. Set to "halt" or "poweroff". HALT=poweroff $ /etc# more modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of ker

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:43 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > > > > > >>How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > >> > >> > >>frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > >> > >>/dev/sda: > >> Timing cache

Re: CUPS- HP JetDirect 170x

2005-10-24 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to print to HP LaserJet 1300 via HP JetDirect 170x > > I go to http://localhost:631/admin > then: > > 1. Click on add printer and put in Name, Location, Description > > 2. It then asks for "Device". I choose AppSocket/HP Jetdirect

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Teemu Ikonen wrote: > The ones I've checked are either too simple (nullmailer, ssmtp) or > too complex (exim and everything else). Nut sure why you say the above. > 1. The MTA is not a daemon and does not receive mail from the network Nullmailer. > 2. Mail is sent to external addresses

Re: phpBB-alike

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Robert Waldner wrote: > I'm looking for an easy-to-administrate web forum, something like phpBB > (though with a tad less security holes if possible ;) ). > Any suggestions? Peruse here: http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Also take a look at FUDForum. All in all though I generally find php

Re: Timeline for 3.1r1 release?

2005-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > You see, I ordered a new 250 GB IDE disk and a new IDE cable (cross > fingers) today, and I'm going to do a clean install, and my bandwidth > at home isn't _that_ good Just remember that bandwidth on an infinite timeline is infinite. IE, no matter how slow ya are in

Emacs - Undefined color

2005-10-24 Thread Iain Stephen
Hi all, I have a problem with Emacs. After installing it, it wouldn't start so I tried starting it from bash but it keeps reporting Undefined color: "black" and dumping me back to bash. I'm assuming Emacs can't find /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt to get the color names. I've checked and its a link to /etc/

Re: xine in textmode

2005-10-24 Thread amalgam.swhe
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:00:22PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a textmode interface to xine, like with a ncurses interface? > To play mp3 streams: no video needed. It does it well in X, but I prefer i've no idea with xine,:( if u just want to play mp3 streams,why not try

Re: OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I know it probably goes without saying but OOo 2.0 will be compatible with > the 1.x saved files; and not in the way Micro$oft Word sense of compatible. I > just started a project in OOo 1.13 and am mildly concerned about switching > ov

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-10-24 18:57:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Except that it is now linked against the libraries from gcc-4.0, g++-4.0 > and gcj-4.0. Those libraries are not compatible the libraries currently > in Sarge. I see. So, isn't it possible to build a backport statically linked with these li

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > Hi all! > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the "magic > keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor >

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 02:35:19AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-10-24 18:57:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Except that it is now linked against the libraries from gcc-4.0, g++-4.0 > > and gcj-4.0. Those libraries are not compatible the libraries currently > > in Sarge. > > I s

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Michael Epting
> > > On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > > > > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > > > > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are > > > > eit

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: Bruno Buys wrote: How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seco

kppp error

2005-10-24 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Previously using same phone line and same isp, I used to connect. Of late last few days I am unable to connect. I get the following error. Oct 25 05:40:34 localhost pppd[10292]: pppd 2.4.3 started by lvgandhi, uid 1000 Oct 25 05:40:34 localhost pppd[10292]: using channel 2 Oct 25 05:40:34 localhost

OpenOffice.org 2.0 installed?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
I installed OpenOffice.org 2.0 from one of those brazilian mirrors in http://www.openoffice.org.br/saite/, where someone already alienized them. OOo does run correctly, and I'd like to keep it on my sarge. Now, apt-get keeps trying to remove it. How do I tell apt-get to forget these 'unmet' depe

Re: slow 3D game performance

2005-10-24 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
On 10/22/05, phyrster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > I tried to play 'Enemy Territory' under linux but the graphic speed is > unbearable. ... > ... > Under windows, with same hardware configuration, the performance is OK. > > My card is radeon 7200 and I have the following kernel configuration:

Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-24 Thread Christian Convey
You need a project, that you'll tenaciously work on until you complete it. In the process, you'll encounter various problems. Learning how to solve those problems will improve your understanding of Linux and/or a programming/scripting language. When you encounter these problems, first use Google

Re: mail protocol question.

2005-10-24 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:44 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone direct me on where I can find information on what Should and > Must be included in an email message that is a Reply, Forward, > Replay-to-All type of message? > > I'm not sure what the correct RFC is for this or if there really

Re: CUPS- HP JetDirect 170x

2005-10-24 Thread Malcolm Lalkaka
On 10/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to print to HP LaserJet 1300 via HP JetDirect 170x > > I go to http://localhost:631/admin > then: > > 1. Click on add printer and put in Name, Location, Description > > 2. It then asks for "Device". I choose AppSocket/HP Jetdirect

Re: Cinelerra: did someone install it?

2005-10-24 Thread MJD
Try aptitude install cinelerra, sometimes apt-get doesn't do good dependency tracking.On 10/23/05, Bruno Buys < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:David E. Fox wrote:>On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:46:45 -0200 >Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>>I am following this page:>> http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/

Re: Debian hibernates...

2005-10-24 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
That's usually a function of either APM or ACPI, depending on what you have installed. Check the config in /etc/apm or /etc/acpi. - Ryan On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:04:11PM -0500, Marc Lehner wrote: > After installing Debian on a new PC, I noticed that the system falls asleep > after a few hours

CUPS- HP JetDirect 170x

2005-10-24 Thread disciple
Trying to print to HP LaserJet 1300 via HP JetDirect 170x I go to http://localhost:631/admin then: 1. Click on add printer and put in Name, Location, Description 2. It then asks for "Device". I choose AppSocket/HP Jetdirect Is this correct? 3. It then asks for "Device URI". I have no clue as

non constant SYSFS info for the same device

2005-10-24 Thread Matteo Semplice
Hi. I am investigating the issue of writing a udev rule for my usb pen, read tons of doc on the web, tried in vane lots of suggestions from people on this list (thanks!) Today I noticed that the output of udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda) varies each time I plug in the usb stick.

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-10-24 06:51:27 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:32:18AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2005-10-23 13:36:20 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > It will not work in Sarge as the new OpenOffice packages depend on newer > > > versions of kaffe and on gcc-4.

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon October 24 2005 03:49 pm, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:31AM +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > > > Thanks. > > > Bruno >

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-24 Thread Angelina Carlton
Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I downloaded the net install CD from Debian but my feeling is that it don't > contain 'rescue' but only 'installer'. Is it possible ? > The net installer doesn't have a rescue image, but there is a way. http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianInstallerFAQ (

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:52:36AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-10-24 06:51:27 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:32:18AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2005-10-23 13:36:20 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > It will not work in Sarge as the new

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:31AM +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > > Thanks. > > Bruno > > Download either the full CD1 or the net install CD from the Debian

mail protocol question.

2005-10-24 Thread Tom Allison
not exactly debian related... Can someone direct me on where I can find information on what Should and Must be included in an email message that is a Reply, Forward, Replay-to-All type of message? I'm not sure what the correct RFC is for this or if there really are any specific requirements.

Debian package management puzzle

2005-10-24 Thread Ephemeral root
How useful is grep-dctrl? Having nothing better to do, I did some informal tests of the program. The results have left me even more puzzled about the relation between dpkg, apt, aptitude and the other upcoming or obsolete Debian package managers? Can somebody account for the anomaly below? There ar

Debian hibernates...

2005-10-24 Thread Marc Lehner
After installing Debian on a new PC, I noticed that the system falls asleep after a few hours of non-usage. This is a server which should be available 24/7.   Can anybody tell me how to turn that feature off? It is driving me crazy – I tried everything I could think of.   Thanks in adv

xine in textmode

2005-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Is there a textmode interface to xine, like with a ncurses interface? To play mp3 streams: no video needed. It does it well in X, but I prefer vc's. Thanks H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-24 Thread csj
On 23. October 2005 at 7:53PM -0700, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a > robust system out of the box that includes a ready-to-go > backup/recovery procedure. It's always something left to the > user. It's like selling a

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:25 -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > > > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 sec

Re: IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Bruno Buys wrote: > How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? > frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda > /dev/sda: > Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.56 MB/sec > Does anybody have a

Debian - packETH installation

2005-10-24 Thread RSiffredi
I am trying to install packETH on my Sarge DEebian linux box, but the comlier fails with main.c errors and gtk error's. Does anyone have experience installing this tool on Debian? I would appreciate the help?   Thanks Rocco  

Re: rpm -qp --scripts ... dpkg/debian equivalent?

2005-10-24 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Lenz wrote: > is there an equivalent command for dpkg to: rpm -qp --scripts .. which > prints the contents of the post/pre-[un]install scripts ? dpkg-deb -I foo.deb config preinst postinst prerm postrm -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread anoop aryal
On Monday 24 October 2005 03:28 pm, Philippe Grenard wrote: > Hi all! > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor > uninstall

Re: OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 10:02 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:20:54AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:15:39AM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > > > Does this mean that if I touch an OpenOffice version 1.1 file with > > OpenOffice 2.0, its file format will

rpm -qp --scripts ... dpkg/debian equivalent?

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Lenz
is there an equivalent command for dpkg to: rpm -qp --scripts .. which prints the contents of the post/pre-[un]install scripts ? -Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IDE hdd faster than sata? How come?

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
How good is hdparm benchmark for sata? What am I missing here? frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2368 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1183.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.56 MB/sec frank:/home/bruno# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hd

Re: Confused by modules

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 21:20 -0700, Cam wrote: > My ultimate goal is to run patched versions of modules hermes, orinoco > and orinoco_cs so I can run kismet or prismstumbler. I am presently > running 2.4.26 that came with Sarge but Debian doesn't offer 2.4.26 > kernel sources so I apt-got 2.4.27 ker

Apache/PHP/Oracle 9i on Debian Sarge

2005-10-24 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server running Apache/Apache-SSL/PHP (Sarge standard releases). I need to add Oracle support to this box so that I can connect via PHP to an Oracle Server (Solaris 9 box) across the network...is this a simple thing to do? I have tried Googling, but nothing useful

Apache/PHP/Oracle 9i on Debian Sarge

2005-10-24 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a Debian Sarge server running Apache/Apache-SSL/PHP (Sarge standard releases). I need to add Oracle support to this box so that I can connect via PHP to an Oracle Server (Solaris 9 box) across the network...is this a simple thing to do? I have tried Googling, but nothing useful cam

Re: email components faq?

2005-10-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:28:41PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: > I would like to catch up on some mail component techniques and vocabulary. > I am getting confused with meaning and interaction of all the different > things like: > > - mail user agent (like mailx) > - mail delivery agent (like maild

Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread Philippe Grenard
Hi all! well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor uninstall. (xserver-xorg to be precise) So after somme googling, I tried to ed

Re: email components faq?

2005-10-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/10/05 15:28), Bernd Prager wrote: > I would like to catch up on some mail component techniques and vocabulary. > I am getting confused with meaning and interaction of all the different > things like: > > - mail user agent (like mailx) > - mail delivery agent (like maildrop) > - mail transpo

Re: Downloading .m3u or .mp3 with Firefox

2005-10-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Hello, > > when I click a .m3u or .mp3 link in Firefox in the Debian > installation the mouse-pointer shows the busy-pointer for two > seconds but else nothing happens. I have no chance to specify a > download directory or to choose

Timeline for 3.1r1 release?

2005-10-24 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I'm wondering if anybody has heard something about the timeline for the next stable release, 3.1r1? There is http://people.debian.org/~joey/3.1r1/ but the "proposed timeline" link there is 404. You see, I ordered a new 250 GB IDE disk and a new IDE cable (cross fingers) today, and I'

Re: Debian sarge doesn't support > 30 GB harddrive ?? (+Workaround)

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Maxim Vexler wrote: On 10/24/05, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you positive these hdd's are bad? If these hdd's that you lebeled 'failing' are really bugged, get rid of them. Sarge is absolutely able to use 30GB without any special parameter. With only the 10GB and the 6.4GB in t

Re: Why need Debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 October 2005 05:07 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Is it the avoidance of effort duplication or is a matter of maintaining > compatibility or...? Yes. The Debian-based world is trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of the RPM based world. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Mes

Re: email components faq?

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 October 2005 12:28 pm, Bernd Prager wrote: > I would like to catch up on some mail component techniques and vocabulary. > I am getting confused with meaning and interaction of all the different > things like: > > - mail user agent (like mailx) This deals exclusively with the end-user

Re: Debian sarge doesn't support > 30 GB harddrive ?? (+Workaround)

2005-10-24 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 10/24/05, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you positive these hdd's are bad? If these hdd's that you lebeled > 'failing' are really bugged, get rid of them. Sarge is absolutely able > to use 30GB without any special parameter. With only the 10GB and the > 6.4GB in the machine, you w

Kernel 2.6: Complete system freeze on `ifup eth0`

2005-10-24 Thread Ivo Marino
Hello folks, I've recently upgraded from kernel version 2.4.19 to 2.6.12 on my K6 development workstation running up to date Debian sid. Since I've performed the kernel update the system completely freezes during boot while the network comes up (/etc/init.d/network start). I've investigated

email components faq?

2005-10-24 Thread Bernd Prager
I would like to catch up on some mail component techniques and vocabulary. I am getting confused with meaning and interaction of all the different things like: - mail user agent (like mailx) - mail delivery agent (like maildrop) - mail transport agent (like postfix) Does anybody know a somehow co

Re: Debain Questions...

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Patrick Mccall wrote: I downloaded the first debian cd to install the os and try it out. After going through the install process and rebooting with no errors I get a dos-like system.. Is this all debain is?? I didnt even get a gui!!!. __ Yahoo!

Re: Debian sarge doesn't support > 30 GB harddrive ?? (+Workaround)

2005-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Maxim Vexler wrote: Hi I'm installing debian sarge (either linux26 or linux24) on my P4 1.6 pc, and failing to do so. Receiving 2 different (probably unrelated) errors that will be detailed as follows. The current situation is that I am unable to finish the base-system installation phase for la

Re: ssh chroot scp and sftp

2005-10-24 Thread anoop aryal
On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:13 am, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian on a production box, and I look for a Debian package > to install that would make easy to chroot an user that tries to > scp/sftp. > > What is available? Thank you :-) rssh might be worth looking into

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-24 Thread anoop aryal
On Saturday 22 October 2005 07:14 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi >We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to > collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are > as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim, Man pa

Courier-pop3 failed

2005-10-24 Thread Lars
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I'm running a postfix mailserver on Sarge Debian with MySQL and the Postfix part runs flawless. It's the Courier part... This is the syslog: courierpop3login: LOGIN: DEBUG: ip=[:::84.186.69.225] I'm running log-level 2 and in the log i can also

Re: backup scheme install [was Ready to join the club..]

2005-10-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 October 2005 12:10, Andy Streich wrote: >On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:20 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: >> > AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust >> > system out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery >> > procedure. It's always something left to th

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Tony Godshall
According to mikepolniak, > On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct , mikepolniak wrote: > > On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > > > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > > > suit

Re: Hello I'm new to Linux, anybody can tell me the best way of learning it. I'm interest in realtime applications

2005-10-24 Thread Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo
May be: 1.- Interest 2.- Time 3.- Read, read, read, read :-D > Thanks > > > - Original Message - > From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: < >> > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 9:11 PM > Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: Ready to join the club.. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Why need Debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:07:11PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > A few times I have statements in the ubuntu website that there can't > be Ubuntu if there's no Debian. This statement seems to me like it's > only relevant to Warty No, it was very much still true for Hoary and Breezy, and wil

re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Carl Greco
Alternatively, you could just download your favorite non-free JDK (as long as it is Sun's) and OOo from their home page and install it yourself from the upstream RPMs. -Roberto I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark I doubt th

Debian sarge doesn't support > 30 GB harddrive ?? (+Workaround)

2005-10-24 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hi I'm installing debian sarge (either linux26 or linux24) on my P4 1.6 pc, and failing to do so. Receiving 2 different (probably unrelated) errors that will be detailed as follows. The current situation is that I am unable to finish the base-system installation phase for large disks, and those li

Re: just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Lenz
yeah that works great. someone else mentioned the -s (simulate) parameter and that seems to work as well. I like the output of apt-show-versions better much cleaner looking, thanks! -Matt On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:34:19AM -0500, Ma

RE: Kmenu logoff quit powering off computer

2005-10-24 Thread J F
I think I have an useful error message that was the last thing on my video monitor when I used Kmenu to logoff last night. Unknown option '-h' usage: halt [-n] [-w] [-d] [-f] [-i] [-p] INIT: not more processes left in this runlevel. So, I assume this has something to do with /etc/rc0.d ? Does y

Re: cupsaddsmb, rpcclient

2005-10-24 Thread Mankuthimma
> > Which package is rpcclient from? smbclient: /usr/bin/rpcclient Rgds, m

Re: just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:34:19AM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to > just output which packages have updates available? i'd like something > like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all > questions. But -n

Re: Sarge+Kernel 2.6.8 -> Why not 4GB of heap memory for Java?

2005-10-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:27:28PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > With Debian (Sarge+2.6.9) on a machine with 4GB RAM, I cannot get SUNs > Java (1.4.2-02) to allocate >1GB of heap RAM. > > This works on a RedHat machine though. Now our customer wants > this to be fixed, if we don't

[Fwd: Re: just show which packages have updates available?]

2005-10-24 Thread Wackojacko
OOPS sorry for the direct mail Matthew. Matthew Lenz wrote: is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to just output which packages have updates available? i'd like something like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all questions. But -n doesn

Re: Default background color of xterm

2005-10-24 Thread Robert Glueck
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:00:54 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using KDE as window manager. > Where can I define the default colors for a xterm session which > is started by clicking on the xterm icon in the KDE bar? > > Thank you. > > Chris Open a console > Settings > Schema, a

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread mikepolniak
On 11:56 Mon 24 Oct , mikepolniak wrote: > On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere.

backup scheme install [was Ready to join the club..]

2005-10-24 Thread Andy Streich
On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:20 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > > AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system > > out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure. > >  It's always something left to the user.   It's like selling a car > > without a spare an

Re: Why need Debian?

2005-10-24 Thread Serg B.
Debain sarge is what ubuntu generaly is I think, hence need Debian. Also, Ubntu being a debian derivative for a desktop Debian is required to basicaly avoid reinventing the wheel and keeping things consistant. If not you will get something like Fedora to Mandrake to Suse (not sure about Suse) almo

Re: OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-24 Thread [KS]
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:15:39AM -0400, [KS] wrote: > >>But before doing anything with your 1.x project I would advise that a >>backup should be in order! >> > > > I take it you don't like living dangerously? > I use my seat belt while driving but it doesn't mean

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Teemu Ikonen
On 10/24/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:41:25PM +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > 4. No local delivery of mail (mail sent to local accounts is either > >discarded, or sent to the users external address found from a mail > > alias file) > > Not sure I unders

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:41 Mon 24 Oct , Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are > either too simple (nullmailer

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 07:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: > I just upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2-k7; now my network is mostly broken. what version were you running before? > > I can access another box on the local home LAN (ping, ssh, sftp, etc), > but I can't ping or otherwise get to my USRobotics wi

just show which packages have updates available?

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Lenz
is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to just output which packages have updates available? i'd like something like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all questions. But -n doesn't exist from what I can see. :) -Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:41:25PM +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > 2. Mail is sent to external addresses via an smtp relay Indeed: with roaming networks, work and home configurations etc., I'd quite like to have this be non-static, too. > 4. No local delivery of mail (mail sent to local accounts is

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Dick Davies
the Exim package asks you a few simple questions and then does what you ask - why not just use that? postfix on ubuntu does the same thing effectively, too. Both have a jaw-dropping array of features, but neither particularly force you to understand them before using them On 24/10/05, Teemu

A simple MTA?

2005-10-24 Thread Teemu Ikonen
Hi all, I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are either too simple (nullmailer, ssmtp) or too complex (exim and everything else). I thi

Sarge+Kernel 2.6.8 -> Why not 4GB of heap memory for Java?

2005-10-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello With Debian (Sarge+2.6.9) on a machine with 4GB RAM, I cannot get SUNs Java (1.4.2-02) to allocate >1GB of heap RAM. This works on a RedHat machine though. Now our customer wants this to be fixed, if we don't want to switch to RedHat :-( Any ideas what this might be? Missing Kernel feature

re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
Alternatively, you could just download your favorite non-free JDK (as long as it is Sun's) and OOo from their home page and install it yourself from the upstream RPMs. -Roberto I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark -- To UNSUBSC

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