Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Brian C
Warning to archive readers. I believe a typo in one of the commands below will destroy your data. Read on... Alvin Oga wrote: [snip] - if you want to leave bad data behind mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/new-disk HERE IT COMES tar cvfp old-disk-paritions /mnt/new-disk DON'T TYPE THE ABOVE.

Problem

2005-12-06 Thread Paddy Hackett
Hi There seems to be a problem with the subject heading of the mailing list. Neither the subject nor the name of the mailing list is appearing. Instead it appears that the addreses of the authors of the postings is in the subject area. Paddu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: New messages in thunderbird

2005-12-06 Thread Nate Duehr
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: two computers. Now that I have switched back to thunderbird, however, I don't see the emails that have been delivered to the various folders. Is there a way around this? Imap? If so you have to tell TBird to check fo

Re: New messages in thunderbird

2005-12-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>two computers. Now that I have switched back to thunderbird, however, I >>don't see the emails that have been delivered to the various folders. >>Is there a way around this? > > > Imap? If so you have to tell TBird to check for new mail in

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 05:25 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote: > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow.  I > have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to > move), and it's lost power a few times.  When it reboots, it cannot > communicate with

Re: New messages in thunderbird

2005-12-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > two computers. Now that I have switched back to thunderbird, however, I > don't see the emails that have been delivered to the various folders. > Is there a way around this? Imap? If so you have to tell TBird to check for new mail in folders you wish for it to che

Re: [Solved/Thanks] Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-06 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
To all of you, thanks! I've tried some of the methods, and all of those I tried worked! Cheers, VegardOn 05/12/05, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Nowakowski wrote:> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:>>>Hello list,>>I have three movies, all in the .mov form

Re: postfix + osCommerce problem

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:30:48PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: > I am creating an osCommerce-based webshop and am having probems with > postfix. the mail below gets returned by the mailer. (things in square > brackets were left because they are unimportant and/or to protect my and > other's pri

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
good email addy On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Brian C wrote: > /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions. > /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions. > > /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to > the new drive, remove the old drive, move new dr

New messages in thunderbird

2005-12-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have decided (for a number of reasons) to switch back to thunderbird as my primary e-mail client. However, I no longer see new messages unless I explicitly travel to the folder containing the new messages. In the past, I had used thunderbird's filters. When I switched to mutt I started using ma

Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-06 Thread Brian C
Hi, /dev/hda is the Debian Sarge system, w/ 3 partitions. /dev/hdb is a new slightly larger drive w/ no partitions. /dev/hda may have a bad block or two, and so the plan is to clone it to the new drive, remove the old drive, move new drive to /dev/hda (primary master) and then run from the new

Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-06 Thread Josh King
Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. I know the general advice from this list and other Debian-* lists has generally consistent through the years I have followed

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 23:46 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I > >>chose xfs for these because they

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:22 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: means it can be found at: /proc/bus/usb/001/004 Does that mean that changing the ownership of this device will be definitive? I would like to know how to do so. Yes, changing ownersh

Re: my email vanished

2005-12-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Hendrik, > > Am 2005-12-01 10:55:10, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > > Everyone else's email in in

BOOST program options and libstdc++5

2005-12-06 Thread Pierre THIERRY
I got the following problem with libboost-program-options1.32.0 on my system: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../lib/libboost_program_options.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.6 And indeed, it segfaults when trying to run the program (

Re: Purging mailboxes in mutt

2005-12-06 Thread rir
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:15:23PM +1300, Greg Trounson wrote: > However when I go to quit Mutt and it prompts me to purge the deleted > messages, if I answer 'no', then it will always un-mark any messages I > have deleted in that session, and there seems to be a 50/50 chance it > will also un-

Re: Dumb DNS

2005-12-06 Thread rir
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:14:25PM +0200, Ben Sagal wrote: > 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 Dnsmasq is simple to use. You aim it at your "outside" dns servers, use a "hosts" file, and it c

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:19 pm, Robert S wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. > > I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things > > to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it c

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:06 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Hal Vaughan writes: > > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? > > Remove the resolvconf package. > -- > John Hasler It's not installed! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:23 pm, mikepolniak wrote: > On 17:25 Tue 06 Dec , Hal Vaughan wrote: > > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. > > I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things > > to move), and it's lost power a few

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

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:59:50PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > If both approaches fail to work, try bugging whoever you paid for the > > license to supply a true 64-bit version. Or, if you don't need the > > "professional"

Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:07:02PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > > > > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS" > > > ls: 'file\ 1 file\ 2': No such file or directory > > >

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerorge Reece-Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Jochen Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I >>chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of >>files (the already mentioned Maildirs an

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 22:22 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > means it can be found at: > /proc/bus/usb/001/004 Does that mean that changing the ownership of this device will be definitive? I would like to know how to do so. -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengrou

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 23:12 Tue 06 Dec , Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. > I am running "unstable" > I installed sane and xsane. > When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as > root. > The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scan

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Robert S
Hal Vaughan wrote: During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread mikepolniak
On 17:25 Tue 06 Dec , Hal Vaughan wrote: > During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I > have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to > move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot > communicate with the netw

Re: /etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Hal Vaughan writes: > So how can I stop this from happening at reboot? Remove the resolvconf package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Purging mailboxes in mutt

2005-12-06 Thread Greg Trounson
Gidday, I'm running a Sarge server with Postfix/Procmail/Dovecot and Maildir style mailboxes. I have a number of users that want to use a local text-based mail reader from time to time. Pine is no longer an option, so I've shifted to Mutt. I almost have it working, but can't figure out one

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

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library > > > > So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may > > perhaps > > be

/etc/resolv.conf replaced!

2005-12-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
During the past two days I've had power flickers and outages from snow. I have not yet been able to attach a new system to a UPS (too many things to move), and it's lost power a few times. When it reboots, it cannot communicate with the network. I checked, and /etc/resolv.conf is no longer t

Re: scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running "unstable" I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may scan

scanner device ?

2005-12-06 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I have an HP 2200C USB scanner. I am running "unstable" I installed sane and xsane. When I turn the scanner on, sane-find-scanner finds it when launched as root. The problem is when I launch xsane as root, I find the scanner and may scan, but when doing it as a simple user no device is found.

Massive load average, can't log in

2005-12-06 Thread Greg Trounson
Hi there, This morning I noticed that my Etch box wouldn't let me start up a web browser window. Odd I thought, so I took a look at the load average, which was sitting at 210! Some processes such as vi or firefox can no longer launch, but some simpler ones such as ps or top can still be run

Re: alien and --patch

2005-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Nelson wrote: > How do I generate a patch file that will work with alien's --patch option? /usr/share/doc/alien/gendiff.txt -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Error message when stopping /etc/init.d/dcc-client

2005-12-06 Thread Robert S
I get this message when I try to stop the dccifd daemon: # /etc/init.d/dcc-client stop Stopping DCC program interface daemon: dccifdstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 5645: No such process . Despite this, "ps ax" reveals the dccifd daemon is running (prior to running the stop script).

Re: thunderbird as mailto in mozilla

2005-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, We have the other side of the coin now. I managed to open mozilla tabs from thunderbird. But how to use thunderbird for the mailto links in *mozilla*, not firefox. The two seem to do it differently. Googling found holgermetzger's tips http://www.holgermetzger.de/e

Re: bash and variable holding directories with spaces

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:11:22AM +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:58:28PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > > $ DIRS="'file\ 1 file\ 2'"; ls -ln "$DIRS" > > ls: 'file\ 1 file\ 2': No such file or directory > > in this case you probably want > > $ DIRS='file\ 1 file\ 2'; eval ls -l

alien and --patch

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Nelson
Hello all, I'm creating .debs of the oracle-xe rpm. Currently I'm able to create a .deb package by asking alien to generate (--generate) the package directory, modifying the oracle scripts to work with debian, and then running debian/rules binary within the alien generated directory. This all wo

thunderbird as mailto in mozilla

2005-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, We have the other side of the coin now. I managed to open mozilla tabs from thunderbird. But how to use thunderbird for the mailto links in *mozilla*, not firefox. The two seem to do it differently. Googling found holgermetzger's tips http://www.holgermetzger.de/etips6.html but that does

Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?

2005-12-06 Thread Bruno Buys
Philipp Pagel wrote: Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Depending on your needs there are plenty

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-06 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Paddy Hackett wrote: I am new to this list. Among my chief reasons for an interest in Linux is in relation to AI and the relationship of human intelligence to machines such as computers. Consequently I want to establish a clear understanding as to how the computers works. The canonical referen

rsync: SRC=/, include a few directories and exclude everything else

2005-12-06 Thread H.S.
Hi, I am currently backing up a few Linux boxes, and a Windows XP box, using rsync (through a cron job). Regarding the Windows box ( Windows XP (running Cygwin) <--> Debian Testing), so far I specify a few directories as sources in the rsync command line. I then use an excludes file to include ce

Re: Problem running Corel WP

2005-12-06 Thread Kent West
Hodgins Family wrote: Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. I

Re: Re: Problem running Corel WP

2005-12-06 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! I am using Corel WP Office 2002 But WP is the one I want. I do not like MWord. It will not communicate with the printer and I don't know how to tell George (my computer) to be friends with the printer. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated. If I need to buy new sof

Re: Re: Problem running Corel WP

2005-12-06 Thread Nonnemacherd
I am using Corel WP Office 2002 Last week I started having a problem.  When I sent something from WP to the printer - I received a Printer Error Message b80769ec.  Turn printer off and turn back on.  Which I did several time.  I thought it was my printer.  I have a HP OfficeJet G55.  Checked out t

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

2005-12-06 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > # ls -l /lib/ld-linux* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-11-26 09:24 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.3.5.so > > so I did: > > # ln -s /lib/ld-2.3.5.so /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > > after which > > # ./qcad > bash: ./qcad: Accessing

postfix + osCommerce problem

2005-12-06 Thread Thomas Jollans
I am creating an osCommerce-based webshop and am having probems with postfix. the mail below gets returned by the mailer. (things in square brackets were left because they are unimportant and/or to protect my and other's privacy. [EMAIL ADDRESS] signifies a proper and existant email address) I

Re: How should this procmail-rule be to work?

2005-12-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-02 08:56:33, schrieb Søren Christensen: > Hi, > :0: > * ^FROM_netavis > nyheder :0: * ^From:.*netavis@ nyheder but better is :0: * ^Sender:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nyheder because viruses and spamers my send you Messages with forged From:. Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with

Re: my email vanished

2005-12-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Hendrik, Am 2005-12-01 10:55:10, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > Everyone else's email in intact. > > I read my mail with mutt. Hehe... Do you have a Directory $HOME/m

Re: Shell Script (If and Else) problem

2005-12-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-12-01 15:23:32, schrieb Louie Miranda: > if [ "$CAT_XML_CHECK" -gt "0" ] here you need a "then" > echo "more than zero" > > fi > > if [ -d "$XML_NETWORK_SHARE" ] > then > cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.xml $XML_FOR_TRANSFER > cp $XMLPARSEDFILES/*.x

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

2005-12-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-30 16:04:22, schrieb Dick Davies: > On 30/11/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/passwd >/etc/passwd.tmp > > mv /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd > > > > grep -vE "^root:" /etc/shadow >/etc/shadow.tmp > > mv /etc/shadow.tmp /etc/shadow

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

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 17:42:35 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Try reinstalling libc6 and see if that works. > I did apt-get --reinstall install libc6, which should achieve that. But no change to the results. Perhaps if I compile qcad from source the problem will disappear. (If I manage

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Arafangion wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:35, Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: [that ASCII is 8 bits] ASCII *is* 7-bits. [snip] Precisely what I said. Watch your attributes. Also, read the reply Kent wrote, in which he acknowledged the

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

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try reinstalling libc6 and see if that works. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3

Can't install VOMIT on unstable

2005-12-06 Thread Muhammed Halawah
Hello friends, I am having problem when trying to install VOMIT (Voice Over Missconfigured Interent Telephones) I took the source from vomit.xtdnet.nl  .when I try to run ./configure I get this error message "configure: error: dnet-config not found" and the confugration process stops even wh

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

2005-12-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Ralph Katz wrote: Thunderbird uses mbox formats. In thunderbird: Edit -> Account Settings -> Add Account -> Movemail ... Detail and Screenshots: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Creating_an_Account I use thunderbird for all mail including system mail and mail from account

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

2005-12-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Peter Nuttall wrote: [snip] with a procmailrc including a bit like :0 c: ^(From|To|cc): debian-user formail -R "Reply-to: *" "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" That code doesn't work and needs fixing but should give you an idea about how to do it. You will have to find out how to get thunderbird t

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-06 Thread Olleg
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: That said, what happens when e.g. the rsync stops halfway? I make experiment, kill rsync server on transfer. Does it update the files it already has? No Does it keep the files delayed and resume on the next run? Does it remove the updates and start fresh the next

Upgraded to testing, broke X, can't open /dev/input/mice

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Young
My upgrade to testing broke X. It seems that the mouse device can't be found Here's the transcribed error from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (EE) XF86OpenSerial: cannot open device /dev/input/mice no such file or directory (E) Preinit failed for input device "Configured mouse" Couldn't load XKB keymap

NFS mount

2005-12-06 Thread Tony Heal
I have set up an NFS mount point using this as a reference. http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3183.pdf The server running nfs-kernel-server has sarge (upgraded from woody) and a 2.6 kernel. My problem is that after a couple of days the server stops responding completely. No ssh, no ping, no n

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-12-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/5/05, Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > fo

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

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Young
Yes, I'm running stable However, I just issued Apt-get -u dist-upgrade install testing And I am in the process of "upgrading" to testing. I did this because I needed to upgrade libc6 to 2.5.8 for madwifi-tools and because I got confused by the hand rolling of madwifi using tarballs. Once it's

[Fwd: RE: Hard drive issue]

2005-12-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Could someone elaborate on just how to do all this? I know how to use fsck, but how to re-map and do a full surface scan? The drive may have re-mapped the bad sectors, a full surface scan & fsck would probably be a good idea. -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

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

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 14:20:08 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad > >/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > >ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unk

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

2005-12-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/06/2005 04:40 AM, Peter Nuttall wrote: > It appears that thunderbird doesn't handle local mail (mboxes and > maildirs) very well. > You will have to find out how to get thunderbird to > talk to a local mailbox to make such a idea work. Thunderbird uses mbox formats. In thunderbird: Edi

Problem with INN

2005-12-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, I've recently started to see a problem with INN whereby the news.daily script doesn't successfully complete, and leaves the server reserved. Further investigation shows the following errors in the news.daily report: expire begin Tue Dec 6 13:47:03 GMT 2005: (-v1) expire: dbzsync: putcor

RE: Hard drive issue

2005-12-06 Thread Piszcz, Justin
The drive may have re-mapped the bad sectors, a full surface scan & fsck would probably be a good idea. -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:12 AM To: Debian-User List Subject: Hard drive issue Using a debian sarge system,

Hard drive issue

2005-12-06 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Using a debian sarge system, with postfix and courier-imap. Yesterday morning I started having IMAP connectivity problems with this mail server. Going to the box itself I discovered that the following error was occurring repeatedly: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 61870207 ker

LogWatch + Postfix = TMI

2005-12-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running an almost pure sarge system with logwatch 5.2.2-5 and postfix 2.2.4-1.0.1. All is well, except for the fact that logwatch produces a bit too much output for my taste in the postfix section. Specifically, all the statistics that Anvil prints are added to the report as unmatched

Re: Educational software...

2005-12-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/12/05 11:12), Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > Does anyone have specific pointers and URLs for useful Debian > educational software, specially for primary and pre-school children? > Many thanks, FN You may want to check out: http://moodle.com/ http://www.edubuntu.org/ Regards Clive -- ww

Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On 12/5/05, Gnu-Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 i

Re: root's directory corrupted

2005-12-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:03:58PM -0800, k l u r t wrote: > 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 directory is not > present with the exception of a file "root": > - -r-s-w--wt 5

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

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:00:24 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] $ ./qcad bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory [...] Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuc

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

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:00:24 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > $ ./qcad > > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory [...] > > Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [1]. Try ldd, or if > that doesn

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

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:10:38 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >>On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> > >>> > >>>The problem is that installed software sometimes re

Re: Desktop Publishing

2005-12-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/12/05 07:15), Michael Satterwhite wrote: > What software packages are available for Desktop Publishing on Linux? > (similar to Pagemaker) Preferably FOSS, of course. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search desktop publishing cenon.app - Vector graphics tool for GNUstep kword - a word process

Re: centericq and sarge

2005-12-06 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6 Dec 2005 03:32:01 -0800, David A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use centericq on unstable. I also use it on unstable. If you use sarge, you could install the version that comes with unstable. > I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on > MSN I see no MSN-contacts

aMule can't be installed because of unavailable libraries?

2005-12-06 Thread All Nicks Are Taken
Hi, I'm trying to install the amule package on Unstable and there is an unsatisfied dependency, with a package name `libcrypto++5.2c2' . I have installed amule before, but I've recently reinstalled debian and now there is this dependency thing. I have searched aptitude for this libcrypto++, and the

Re: One stage rsync

2005-12-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Olleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all. > I am working on debian and debian-amd64 mirror. There are two > recommended mirror scripts. In both two stage rsync, first to download > packages, second to update index files after download. > I use one stage, here example: > rsync --verbose --recursi

Desktop Publishing

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Satterwhite
What software packages are available for Desktop Publishing on Linux? (similar to Pagemaker) Preferably FOSS, of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

sent mail timing out

2005-12-06 Thread ljmoore
I'm running a Mac Quadra 610 using Debian Woody being upgraded to Sarge. I've mis-configured sendmail so that every outbound message from the linux system times out at the receiving end. Does anyone have suggestions on where I pooched? (I'm composing this at work on my ISP servers' webmail, succ

Re: Educational software...

2005-12-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:12:23AM +0530, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote: > Does anyone have specific pointers and URLs for useful Debian > educational software, specially for primary and pre-school children? > Many thanks, FN http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http:/

Re: Strange hard lock

2005-12-06 Thread Graham Smith
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > * snip * > > > >>What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help > >>in identifying the culprit. > >> > >>This is no help. :-( >

Re: Lynx

2005-12-06 Thread Arafangion
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 23:17, Duncan Anderson wrote: > If you want to use a text based browser why don't you use "links" which > can handle frames and background downloads. I like lynx, but it's a > little bit limiting in terms of what websites one can access. > > cheers > Duncan lynx can do

Re: Lynx

2005-12-06 Thread Duncan Anderson
Thomas Dickey wrote: Paddy Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. However despite what I do there is no adequate response. The current version of lynx is 2.8

Re: playing DVDs from hard disk or CD

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to everyone who told me where to find mplayer for Debian (I'd deleted the thread by mistake so have just found the replies in the archive). Thanks to being pointed to the link to Marillat's site I have now got mplayer, though at present I'm getting better results with DVDs using ogle. Anth

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

2005-12-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: 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

Re: Strange hard lock

2005-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Graham Smith wrote: On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: * snip * What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help in identifying the culprit. This is no help. :-( H It's running Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GN

Re: centericq and sarge

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
I use centericq on unstable. I know MSN protocol has changed recently. And althogh I am online on MSN I see no MSN-contacts online - eve thogh I know they are online... :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-12-06 Thread David A.
Hi, I've had some problems too but with the right configure it will work. I run unstable and xorg. I use a kernel with via-module/driver enabled - I do not know if this is a requierment. Snipps from kernel config; -- CONFIG_DRM_VIA

Re: Lynx

2005-12-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
Paddy Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding > information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. > However despite what I do there is no adequate response. The current version of lynx is 2.8.5 It's available at

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

2005-12-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dieter Faulbaum 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' shows: 4096 This seems very sparse for 1GB memory. Looking at Do

Raid 5 detects but doesn't start on boot

2005-12-06 Thread hank
New sarge install. System is on hda under lvm, works fine. Created raid 5 device after system was built dmesg shows autodetect of the array Array doesn't start (nor lvm on top of it) during boot though. I've kludged it by adding a S49mdadm and S50lvm script to rc2.d but this is after fstab has be

snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.180

2005-12-06 Thread Fisher, Jason
Title: snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.180 After googling my subject line, I found references to bug #329989 and its reported closure after a fix to gcc.  I'm still having this problem with kernel 2.6.12-1-686.  I've updated and upgraded, re-run alsaconf, and even rebooted,

Re: Strange hard lock

2005-12-06 Thread Graham Smith
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 10:39, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: * snip * > > What kernel version? I had something similar and oom-killer was no help > in identifying the culprit. > > This is no help. :-( > > H It's running Linux compost 2.6.12-1-386 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:41:08 JST 2005 i586 GNU/Linux the m

Re: Color Laser

2005-12-06 Thread Lars Juul
It is for private use.Once we tried a HP laserjet 2550L, it works fine but the noise level every time it changes to a new color where not acceptable in my gf ears.So a single pass laser printer or something like that, I'm looking at the Lexmark C522n but it is price level is in the high end o

Re: apt and hplip

2005-12-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005, blah wrote: > PyKota is not known to apt because it isn't part of Debian. And most DDs who thought of adding it to Debian refrained from doing it, on the express wishes of pykota's author. We are not *forced* to keep it out of Debian, we could make packages and upload them at

gnomemeeting logitech quickcam pro 3000

2005-12-06 Thread Fisher, Jason
Title: gnomemeeting logitech quickcam pro 3000 Hi all.  I have a logitech quickcam pro 3000 webcam which works fine with camorama.  When I try to use gnomemeeting, I end up with a very distorted video feed.  I can tell that it is working to some extent because as i move my hand in front of th

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