Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-05 Thread blah
> - How comes that pykota is not known to apt? > pcm3080:~# apt-cache search pykota > pcm3080:~# > regularly run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.. PyKota is not known to apt because it isn't part of Debian. You can purchase Debian packages for PyKota for a small fee on a yearly subscription b

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I Watch your attributions! I DID NOT WRITE THAT! never said you did ... "watch for > >>>" etc

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Evolution and Emacs mail

2005-12-05 Thread Paddy Hackett
Hi Why is it if I send mail via Emacs through the sendmail device it goes to Evolution rather than Emacs mail.There may be thE odd case in which it goes to Emacs mailing devices first. Secondly why do the messages from the Evolution and Linux mailing lists arrive in the Evolution inbox and are rare

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:12:50PM -0200, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote: > Andy, are you using testing or unstable right? > Sorry, should have said. This is using unstable - which in this instance Just Works. if you use module assistant Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > >>>e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I > > Watch your attributions! I DID NOT WRITE THAT! never said you did ... "watch for > >>>" etc..

Re: Partitioning error on installing Debian sarge installation

2005-12-05 Thread steef
John Galatti wrote: Hi I am trying to install debian linux on a HP machine that has a 2 raid 0 disk drives. The installer is not able to find partitionable drives on the hard drive Sorry for multiple mails I did not receive my last posting John hi john, you might want to g

Educational software...

2005-12-05 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Does anyone have specific pointers and URLs for useful Debian educational software, specially for primary and pre-school children? Many thanks, FN -- Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Ind

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I Watch your attributions! I DID NOT WRITE THAT! Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I download the kernel files from kernel.org wget http://www.kernel.org/your-favorite-kernel.bz2 or use scp both tellls you how fast you are .. if you know the size of the fil

centericq and sarge

2005-12-05 Thread Mike
Is anybody able to use centericq with MSN on sarge? I get segmentation faults whenever MSN connects. -Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Nathan Zabaldo wrote: Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody? e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I do not have a browser. I went to that site, and I don't see how it

Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Nathan Zabaldo
Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody?   e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I do not have a browser.      

Re: Delay in receiving emails

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:51:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fellow debian users-- > > I recently setup a box to act as a mail (qmail) and DNS (bind9) server. > Because I only have one external IP address, this machine is accesible > through a main server by means of forwarded ports using

Re: 3rd party Madwifi packages for Debian Sarge won't build

2005-12-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Ed Young wrote: > I'm trying to install madwifi to get my dwl-g510 wifi card working. > Atheros chipset. > > I can't find madwifi packages when searching the stable branch, so I > downloaded the file madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb from > http://madwifi.sf.net that's ( so

Delay in receiving emails

2005-12-05 Thread axolx
Fellow debian users-- I recently setup a box to act as a mail (qmail) and DNS (bind9) server. Because I only have one external IP address, this machine is accesible through a main server by means of forwarded ports using iptables. For example, if you telnet into port 25 of my main server, you are

RE: Windows Domain Authentication

2005-12-05 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
> > Is anybody using the Windows Domain Authentication for his Debian > > Machine? > > > > I had it once working, but since I reinstalled the system, > I can't get > > it work. > > wbinfo -u > > and > > kinit > > works without errors, so I think krb5.conf and smb.conf are correct. > > > > Ho

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Marcello Di Marino Azevedo
Andy, are you using testing or unstable right? From messages Ed has sent he appears to be using stable, so unless he uses packages from another branch he cannot use madwifi-dev, madwifi-source and madwifi-tools. I have a dwl-g510 too and to make it works I have had to install madwifi from tarball

Updates from tux.org fail

2005-12-05 Thread John O'Hagan
About a week ago, attempts to apt-get update my etch system stall with the following message: Err ftp://ftp.tux.org testing Release.gpg Connection timeout When I comment out the tux.org line from my sources.list, updates work normally, although obviously without updating any java package

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving 'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question will ls normally, permissions are ok, etc, and I can even cat the file. This happens only with certain files, for ex

Re: does anyone know the status of

2005-12-05 Thread Hodgins Family
Good evening! In the past few days, it seems that http://mail.sinetsrl.it has gone missing. Visiting that web site, that link no longer exists. Any idea what happened? Thanks A login page? Popped right in Opera. I got the login page as well in uh, uh, well, uh.

Re: 3rd party Madwifi packages for Debian Sarge won't build

2005-12-05 Thread Marcello Di Marino Azevedo
I don't use this deb package from madwifi site, it is out of date. Use the last snapshot tarball at http://snapshots.madwifi.org/. Marcello Em Seg, 2005-12-05 às 16:50 -0700, Ed Young escreveu: > I'm trying to install madwifi to get my dwl-g510 wifi card working. > Atheros chipset. > > I can't f

Re: does anyone know the status of

2005-12-05 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 13:55:10 -0800 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past few days, it seems that http://mail.sinetsrl.it has gone > missing. Visiting that web site, that link no longer exists. > > Any idea what happened? > > Thanks > A login page? Popped right in Opera. Cy

file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I've been away from this list for a while, so: hello everybody. It's nice to be back. I've installed sarge on a new box but i am getting strange 'file not found' errors. Not sure whether to suspect hardware or hardware drivers. Or something else. The setup is: cpu: AMD64 Athlon 3200+ m

Re: Graphire3 under debian sarge

2005-12-05 Thread Henk Boom
On 12/4/05, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henk Boom wrote: > > > I'm having trouble installing my Graphire3 Wacom Tablet. I've installed > > wacom-kernel-modules-2.4.27-2-386 after having it compiled by > > wacom-kernel-source, and I have installed wacom-tools, but even after a > > r

3rd party Madwifi packages for Debian Sarge won't build

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
I'm trying to install madwifi to get my dwl-g510 wifi card working. Atheros chipset. I can't find madwifi packages when searching the stable branch, so I downloaded the file madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb from http://madwifi.sf.net This package won't install because of dependency problems (se

root's directory corrupted

2005-12-05 Thread k l u r t
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi there, this is a strange one and i can't seem to find an answer through google and etc. when i log into my desktop as root, i get the following message: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ when i view the contents of / i see that root's direc

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Nate, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Dec, 5: > Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an > Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody? Try iftop. It doesn't upload/download anything: you'd have to start that apart. It continuously shows, top-like, the upstre

apt-get purge (was Re: Why did Debian bundle exim...)

2005-12-05 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:15:50PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >I'm not sure that postfix does have license issues: I tend to apt-get > >install postfix && apt-get remove exim as one of my configuration steps > > You could change "remove" to "purge" if you're not going

Problems installing multiple Adaptec RAID controllers with Debian 3.1

2005-12-05 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi List, I've got this friend who's got this problem, I'll make it as short as I can. I've installed Debian 3.1 onto a SCSI RAID5 provided by an Adaptec AIC-7899. The system boots and runs fine. I'm able to access the array via the I2O subsystem. To increase my storage capacity for a cheaper pr

Internet Connection Speed Test

2005-12-05 Thread nate
Is there a package or a way to test upstream and downstream speeds of an Internet connection from a terminal in Debian Woody?   e.g. www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ , but I need to test from a terminal as I do not have a browser.      

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-05 Thread Gerorge Reece-Howe
Note: I am reposting this to the list where I guess you wanted to reply to. I hope you don't mind. Please don't send copies to me directly, I am reading the list. Not at all. Thanks for your time. Gerorge Reece-Howe: "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am running debian sarge, current

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
David, thanks for the pointers, but I'm still not there yet. I followed the instructions in the link you sent me and it's helping, but not solving yet. Here's what I've done: I installed the wireless-tools, ndiswrapper-utils, and ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.8-2-686 for my kernel (the stock 2.6.8-2-68

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I need some help getting this wifi card working under Linux. I have it > working ok under Windows. > > lspci returns > :00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: > Unknown device 001a (rev 01) > > I believe I need t

Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread David Castor
Ed, I'm basically a rank amateur at this, so not sure how much help I can offer.  The wiki guide did mention that some cards require more than one file.  Also, the .inf driver file might have to be unzipped.   I'd double check the driver files to see if you can get rid of that error first.  Mayb

Re: Changeing capslock to control

2005-12-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:20:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Is there an userspace application to change the capslock to control? > > In the old days it was the xf86Config file, but doesn't seem to be now. > > Please advise and thanks, If you use them, KDE and Gnome both have options for this, s

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-12-05 Thread Christian Folini
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:34:37 + Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Then you can add them to the wheel group and give them a root >> shell that way. Meanwhile you can update the root password >> without any problem. > What would be the point of updating the root password in this case? In

Re: Color Laser

2005-12-05 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:54:45PM +0100, Lars Juul wrote: > Hello all, > > What would be a good chocie in Color Laser Printer for use with Debian ? > Haha. How much money do you want to spend? :) The Xerox Document Centre engines seriously *rock*. Postscript Engine - just about press quality

Re: installing a nic

2005-12-05 Thread Marty Landman
At 03:10 PM 12/5/2005, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:07:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I've got Woody installed from the mini-iso and owing to problems with the > old nic which never got recognized have swapped in a Linksys LNE100TX which > will take the tulip driver iir

Re: Will Debian supports Intel 64 bit processor?. How to set mirroring.

2005-12-05 Thread Greg Trounson
Colin wrote: Ryan Nowakowski wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:06:44PM +0800, Muthukumaran Saravanan wrote: Will Debian supports Intel 64 bit processor. Yes: http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/ I don't think Muthukumaran means Itanium. The amd64 architecture is probably what he means.

WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
I need some help getting this wifi card working under Linux. I have it working ok under Windows. lspci returns :00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc.: Unknown device 001a (rev 01) I believe I need to use ndiswrapper to get this card working. It's listed as supported in th

kernel reboot failing with MODPROBE error

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
First of all, is there a good Debian kernel building howto? When rebooting with a new kernel I get an error something like kernel panic MODPROBE /lib/module/2.6.8/modules.dep no such file or directory. This file exists the the above directory. I installed the debian package kernel-source-2.6.8 an

does anyone know the status of

2005-12-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
In the past few days, it seems that http://mail.sinetsrl.it has gone missing. Visiting that web site, that link no longer exists. Any idea what happened? Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_

SMP kernel - modem support

2005-12-05 Thread jb701
I have a dual processor system running sarge with an SMP kernel. It cannot find my modem. When I run the system with a uniprocessor kernel, the modem works fine. The SMP kernel I am using is 2.6.8-2-686-smp. What I would like to know is: does this mean I need to compile a kernel with modem

VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP: Can't get better than 800x600

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
I know it's possible to get higher resolutions, since it used to work before re-installing debian recently. when running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 I select either via or s3 and then all resolutions from 1280x102 on down. I can provide any info to help diagnose things. Thanks and Please

no response to post

2005-12-05 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have posted a couple questions about vblade and ata over Ethernet, but haven't had a response back on them.  Would anyone suggest any other areas for help?

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-05 Thread Raphael Brunner
I have added this line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main and all went fine with installing mplayer and libcss... etc... libdvdread ... (apt-get update) Raphael Am Montag 05 Dezember 2005 18:37 schrieb Gnu-Raiz: > On 14:53, Mon 05 Dec 05, Antho

K3B & etch

2005-12-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Any ideas when K3B will be re-introduced back into etch? -- Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty no

RE: Changeing capslock to control

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
fixed it with Option "XkbOptions""ctrl:swapcaps" in XF86Config-4 Ed On 12/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2005 : Issue 2882 > > Today's Topics: > Re: file-max is only 4

Partitioning error on installing Debian sarge installation

2005-12-05 Thread John Galatti
Hi   I am trying to install debian linux  on a HP machine that has a 2 raid 0 disk drives.  The installer is not able to find partitionable drives on the hard drive   Sorry for multiple mails I did not receive my last posting   John

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-05 Thread Nate Duehr
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I'm not sure that postfix does have license issues: I tend to apt-get install postfix && apt-get remove exim as one of my configuration steps You could change "remove" to "purge" if you're not going to ever need the exim4 configuration files. ;-) Nate -- To UNSU

Re: Assistance

2005-12-05 Thread Katipo
Antony Gelberg wrote: Paddy Hackett wrote: I wish to express my thanks to all of you who went to the trouble of responding to my queries. It has been of great help especially those who assisted me with the matter of machine language and the creation of the alphabet. I am new to the list and

Re: Changeing capslock to control

2005-12-05 Thread Gina Haeussge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Ed, Ed Young wrote: > Is there an userspace application to change the capslock to control? Take a look at xmodmap, that should do what you want to achieve. HTH, Gina -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Us

ext3 & bad blocks error

2005-12-05 Thread Patrick Mulder
Hi, my power supply switched off suddenly last week while I was doing some update of system files last week. Since then, I am not able to boot the 2.6.13.4 kernel (with udev support) anymore, more specifically, my /home parition cannot be mounted and booting stops with the message: "fsck.ext3: No

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Peter Nuttall wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:47:36AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Peter Nuttall wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:19:25AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Perhaps one good effect of this is that I am encouraged to send messages only when I really want to, because it is such a PI

Debian 1.1

2005-12-05 Thread Marc Schneider
Hi,I need the Debian 1.1.x files. I know that there exists an copy on ibiblio, but I have some problems to download the files. Is there someone who has a copy on CD (I read that iConnect has produced some Gold CDs)? It would be nice, if I could download the CD as ISO via ftp...Marc

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 06:00 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:36:32AM +1000, Gerorge Reece-Howe wrote: [snip] > from the maximum size of a file. The maximum size of a file is ~2GB on > 32bit systems and much larger on 64bit systems. > > I think that this limit will not ever

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-05 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:47:36AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Peter Nuttall wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:19:25AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > >>Perhaps one good effect of this is that I am encouraged to > >>send messages only when I really want to, because it is such > >>a PITA to

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:13 +, Dick Davies wrote: > On 05/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:36 +1000, Gerorge Reece-Howe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I wanted to make an application that would create many thousands of > > > databases in MySQL. > > > > Sp

Changeing capslock to control

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Young
Is there an userspace application to change the capslock to control? In the old days it was the xf86Config file, but doesn't seem to be now. Please advise and thanks, Ed

Re: printer and web camera.

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 04:45:20PM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: > Hi , > "testing" kernel = 2.6 > Since there is so much documents , I wonder > What is the best document for me to read in order to make my webcamera > (Logitech USB ) and my Lexmark (parallel) printer to work ? > Is it from the tlpd doc

Re: [Cygwin <-> Debian]: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs

2005-12-05 Thread H. S.
On 12/5/05, Ryan Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you could eliminate variables from the equation to see if this isa cygwin problem or a debian problem.  Some suggestions:1. What if you initiate rsync from the cygwin host?  Does it still hang? 2. What if you rsync from the cygwin host

Re: mounting /tmp as executable or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:32:16PM -0500, Bernd Prager wrote: > I was wondering if there's some security or other benefits in mounting > /tmp with a "noexec" option. Even if scripts there can still be executed > but - binary programs should not, right? At least something, I thought. > When I was ch

Re: Dumb DNS

2005-12-05 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 12/5/05, Ben Sagal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a lan wich connects to the internet (only web sites, nothing > else is allowed) via a transparent proxy. Does anyone know of a light > DNS server that could be set up that whatever request is made, the > address of the server is given (It wo

Re: [Cygwin <-> Debian]: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:09:06PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am not able to see what could be going wrong with my rsync method. I > > am trying to back up a Windows XP box (running Cygwin and sshd and > > rsyncd) from my Debian Testing box. The following command hangs bef

Re: Dumb DNS

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:14:25PM +0200, Ben Sagal wrote: > I have a lan wich connects to the internet (only web sites, nothing > else is allowed) via a transparent proxy. Does anyone know of a light > DNS server that could be set up that whatever request is made, the > address of the server is gi

dvd films and K3b

2005-12-05 Thread martellif
I did many dvd film copy using K3b dvd data option resulting now in dvd not play using common dvd player such mplayer or xine. Is there a way to play that dvd film? I tried to play using m$ windows apps (don't remember which) and that works g. I'm running Debian Sarge amd64 unofficial p

Re: installing a nic

2005-12-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 09:07:44PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I've got Woody installed from the mini-iso and owing to problems with the > old nic which never got recognized have swapped in a Linksys LNE100TX which > will take the tulip driver iirc. How do I go about installing though? > > An

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Computer manufacturers have gotten together and agreed on a standard (or standards), for example, ASCII. This standard specifies that 8 bits arranged in a certain sequence stand [snip] ASCII is a 7 bit co

Re: file-max is only 4096 with 1 GB mem

2005-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jacob S wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:20:34 +0100 Dieter Faulbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a small problem under Debian etch with a (vanilla) kernel 2.6.14.3 on a AMD 64 (32-bit) system with 1GB memory: often I see error messages about running out of file handles. 'cat /proc/sys/fs/fil

mounting /tmp as executable or not?

2005-12-05 Thread Bernd Prager
I was wondering if there's some security or other benefits in mounting /tmp with a "noexec" option. Even if scripts there can still be executed but - binary programs should not, right? At least something, I thought. When I was checking it out, unfortunately some apt-get updates started failing, lik

Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-05 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Roberto Nunnari wrote: > I'm new to Debian and am currently busy trying to set up > a print-server based on Debian, cups, hplip and pykota > (and maybe samba). (snip) > - What is your experience with cups? Works fine with just my single computer and printe

Re: [Cygwin <-> Debian]: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs

2005-12-05 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to see what could be going wrong with my rsync method. I > am trying to back up a Windows XP box (running Cygwin and sshd and > rsyncd) from my Debian Testing box. The following command hangs before > really transfering any files: > > rsync -R --delete --delet

Re: installing sarge on a notebook, resizing ntfs partition

2005-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Søren Christensen wrote: > I'm going to install Sarge on a notebook, I need to retain Win XP, so I > must do a repartition, where do I find "ntfsresize" ? It's built into the debian installer which I assume you plan to use to install sarge. Simply select a partition in the partitioning program and

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Computer manufacturers have gotten together and agreed on a standard (or standards), for example, ASCII. This standard specifies that 8 bits arranged in a certain sequence stand [snip] ASCII is a 7 bit code. D'oh! It has indeed

Re: file-max is only 4096 with 1 GB mem

2005-12-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 09:11:24AM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > > Maybe an obvious question, but have you checked to make sure Debian is > recognizing all of your ram properly? I have an AMD Athlon XP 2200+ > (32-bit) with 1GB of ram and /proc/sys/fs/file-max shows 102249. > Interesting. I have an

Re: Color Laser

2005-12-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:54:45PM +0100, Lars Juul wrote: > Hello all, > > What would be a good chocie in Color Laser Printer for use with Debian ? > > Thanks in advance. > > /Lars I use a Samsung CLP-550N. It natively speaks postscript, has a builtin network card and is very inexpensive. I

[Cygwin <-> Debian]: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs

2005-12-05 Thread H.S.
Hi, I am not able to see what could be going wrong with my rsync method. I am trying to back up a Windows XP box (running Cygwin and sshd and rsyncd) from my Debian Testing box. The following command hangs before really transfering any files: rsync -R --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=1

Re: CUPS and samba intergration problem

2005-12-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 22:12 schrieb Tom Vier: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Did you try without the last three command lines? Ususally, you do not > > need to set anything like that for cups, there is special support for > > cups in samba and it wo

Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?

2005-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bruno Buys wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Thanks! I switched from Origin to gnuplot and never regretted it. It's a bit difficult to

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-12-05 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:09:59 +0200 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > audio editor: > * audacity (7) > * audacious, gnusound, xfmedia Just a little correction, audacious is an audio player, not an editor. It was forked from beep-media-player :) -ol -- I will live forever, or die

Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: > Hi there, > > I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm > pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under > Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in > the following way: > > dd

Re: printer and web camera.

2005-12-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rafi Gabzu wrote: What is the best document for me to read in order to make my webcamera (Logitech USB ) and my Lexmark (parallel) printer to work ? For printing: http://www.linuxprinting.org/ Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-05 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On 14:53, Mon 05 Dec 05, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Dec 2005, Piszcz, Justin wrote: > > Wrong way. > > > > 1) Install mplayer from Debian-mar* > > 2) Run: mplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://1 > > > > [snip] > > I spent quite a long time recently trying to find a version of mplayer > that

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Peter Nuttall wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:19:25AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Perhaps one good effect of this is that I am encouraged to send messages only when I really want to, because it is such a PITA to send them here. Mike If your mail goes though procmail at some point, you co

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Scott wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [that using Thunderbird with this mail echo is a pain] I use Thunderbird and find it easy to choose "Reply All" and the remove the other user(s) from the To:/CC: list. Yes, but I also use *other* mail echoes, and it works the other way with them. I must

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: [that ASCII is 8 bits] ASCII is a 7 bit code. D'oh! It has indeed been a while. Thanks for the catch. Happens to all of us, especially me! Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message ma

RE: Debian 3.1 on 915 mother board... problems

2005-12-05 Thread Piszcz, Justin
You should try the latest kernel, 2.6.14.3 and see if you can reproduce the problem. -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:54 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Debian 3.1 on 915 mother board... problems My

sarge security upgrade wedged on smsclient

2005-12-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've had various problems with this upgrade in the last few days, all having to do with smsclient. Yesterday I tried again, using script to make a log so that I could report the exact messages that occurred. As usual, I used aptitude interactuively to do the routine security updates. I typed

Re: Firefox Broken After Extensions Update

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Of course, all the extensions are disabled ... Whenever firefox wigged out it was always the same extension for me, SwitchProxy. The author decided to put his own auto-update in which hangs whenever his web server is not available to serve the current version number.

Debian 3.1 on 915 mother board... problems

2005-12-05 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
My Debian 3.1 Sarge, which otherwise works fine, tends to reboot the system approximately twice every eight hours. Any idea what the message below, recorded immediately one such reboot, indicates? Does it imply a hardware or software fault? Thanks in advance. FN Dec 3 15:43:52 localhost -- MARK

dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I made the copy in the following way: dd if=/dev/hdd of=dvd_file.iso then dvdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 -d

Re: ext3 filesystem: superblock not found

2005-12-05 Thread johannes
johannes wrote: I somehow broke the data partition of my server when preparing for backup. e2fsck can't find superblock, but finds 'bad magic number...' ---output of e2fsck: srv:/var/log# e2fsck /dev/rd/c0d0p3 e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fs

Re: qt dependency problem

2005-12-05 Thread Joris Huizer
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:11:53AM +, jpdrawneek wrote: I am trying to compile an app called DJplay. I think i have downloaded all the correct packges but i am still getting this error: Any ideas where to find qobjcoll.h and which package its in. I am usi

Re: Firefox Broken After Extensions Update

2005-12-05 Thread Kenneth Jacker
cm> I assume you looked at the documentation/man page. Did it have any cm> useful suggestions? What happened when you tried them? With Steve's suggestion (command line option) , I was able to bring up 'firefox' fine. Of course, all the extensions are disabled ... -Kenneth -- To UNSUBS

Re: installing sarge on a notebook, resizing ntfs partition

2005-12-05 Thread Keith O'Brien
I used KNOPPIX 4.0 to do my partition resizing. ntfresize and fdisk. Just check out google for exact instructions. http://www.google.com/search?hs=UXH&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=ntfsresize+xp+windows+dual+boot&btnG=Search Thanks, Keith. On Mon, 2005-12-05

installing sarge on a notebook, resizing ntfs partition

2005-12-05 Thread Søren Christensen
Hi, I'm going to install Sarge on a notebook, I need to retain Win XP, so I must do a repartition, where do I find "ntfsresize" ? /Severino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file-max is only 4096 with 1 GB mem

2005-12-05 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:20:34 +0100 Dieter Faulbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a small problem under Debian etch with a (vanilla) kernel > 2.6.14.3 on a AMD 64 (32-bit) system with 1GB memory: > often I see error messages about running out of file handles. > 'cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max' s

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-05 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Computer manufacturers have gotten together and agreed on a standard (or >> standards), for example, ASCII. >> >> This standard specifies that 8 bits arranged in a certain sequence stand > > > [snip] > > ASCII is a 7 bit code. D'oh! It has indeed been

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