Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm > expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM > NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that > means), but rather whi

Re: apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:41, Daniel Webb wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get > > source will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source > > = to get other versions. > > > > From

Re: one last little step...

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 04:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I have apt-key already installed: > #apt-key > Usage: apt-key [command] [arguments] Thanks. You must be running testing or sid. I found it... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Install from usb-stick

2005-12-19 Thread jlquinn
Installing from a usb-stick using either of the 2 way on this link: http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html I have the following problem: Boots is OK, I can choose language, keyboard, but then the netinst.iso which is on the stick is not founded by the installer. I tried on 2 diff

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2005-12-19 Thread Richard DeVillier
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quicktime4linux

2005-12-19 Thread kangja
I am running a Debian 'testing' with kernel 2.6.8. I downloaded quicktime4linux2.1 and libmpeg3 and extracted the files. Following instructions in the README file, I ran 'make' in the libmpeg3 dir. No problem. But when I next ran 'make' in the quicktime4linux dir, I encountered in the beginning a

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread roach
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 05:06, Curt Howland wrote: > Recently, in Kmail, I had to do a "Check What The Server Supports" > under the POP account settings, because there had been a change with > Gmail. The scan set the changes and it's worked perfectly since. Are > you using Kmail, or can your so

Re: Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD

2005-12-19 Thread J Merritt
--- J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded 4 floppy images and wrote them. The > boot > process was going just fine until I came to the net > detect part. I tried to detect with DHCP, which > normally works without a hitch. This time, it said > the > autoconfig failed. I tried a manu

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:29, Michael Marsh wrote: > > I've had no problems with Gmail POP. > Could you, please, tell me which mailer your using, your settings and your > Gmail POP setting. I might be missing something. I hope I'm missing > somet

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread roach
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:29, Michael Marsh wrote: > Could this be your problem? > https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10289&topic=1511 No, thats not my problem. :-( > I've had no problems with Gmail POP. Could you, please, tell me which mailer your using, your settings and

Re: fusefs + smbfs

2005-12-19 Thread Noah Dain
On 12/19/05, fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everybody. > At the moment i'm using smbmount and smbfs utilities, but i'm not satisfied > with this tool, cause using gnome with nautilus and browsing dirs or shares > is really slow and not efficient. > so i'm looking at fusefs + smbfs. is s

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Felix Miata wrote: > The default (passive) choice to a public discussion list should always > be to the list, requiring no more thought than choosing to reply at all. > Choosing not to reply to the group should require an active choice, not > a passive choice. Private replies add nothing to the dis

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread CaT
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my > preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian > right this moment.) Oh well. I didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'Neither' or 'Other

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have mypreferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian right this moment.) Oh well.--Kent It says that because Debian doesn't have a preference or default. It would claim that Debian doesn't have Gnome either. Ke

Problems with nfs server

2005-12-19 Thread Matt Jerdonek
Hi Everyone, I'm struggling getting the NFS server to work properly. I've tried it with the nfs-kernel-server package as well as the nfs-user-server package. I'm using the Sarge release. I'm trying to boot an embedded linux box from NFS. However, the embedded box reports 'read-only file system

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: > Gabriel wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> Chinook wrote: > I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that > I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to > install. I AM NO

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread Curt Howland
Recently, in Kmail, I had to do a "Check What The Server Supports" under the POP account settings, because there had been a change with Gmail. The scan set the changes and it's worked perfectly since. Are you using Kmail, or can your software do the same sort of scan? Curt- -- September 11t

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Tom Allison
Ed Paris wrote: Hi There, I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? Thanks. Take care, Ed zless -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD

2005-12-19 Thread J Merritt
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can boot from floppies and do a net-install, no > CD at all. Of course you can also use the CD if you > want. > > Debian should run just fine in 2 gig, just select > packages carefully (don't use the Desktop task, do > the manual package select

Re: apt-get openoffice dependency problems

2005-12-19 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:15AM -0800, Caleb Walker wrote: > Hello all, > Perhaps because my subject was not specific enough, I did not get a > response. I really need to get this computer up and usable but for now, I > cannot get over this dependency issue. I dont even want openoffice > insta

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:24:37PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the > exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... > > Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? Yes. Like others said, though, you really have to try it to be c

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:17:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical > backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another > machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the > fi

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2005/12/20, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2005/12/20, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Heimdall Midgard wrote: > > > I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim > > > installation when editing generic config files. The > > > syntax highlighting colors appear wrong. Could > > > somebo

Re: Simple cron.daily script problem

2005-12-19 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:48:51PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have something like > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro > clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory > umount /mnt/clamscan > > The mount point is not the fstab mount point and the disk is not mounted to > its normal mount poin

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Heimdall Midgard wrote: Note how addition of a pair of parentheses to Line 3 of the second file "causes" Line 4 to be displayed in the right "comment" color. I can reproduce the behavior you were talking both in vim and gvim. But I do not know anything about udev syntax, so cannot comment

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote: > I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano > and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? > Thanks. If you use an editor much, it's in your best interest to learn Vim. I still ki

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:39:35AM -0500, Brenden Eng wrote: > I just bought a Thinkpad T43p (2668-H8U) and I am currently running Debian > Unstable on it. > Everything works, bar the odd SATA->PATA converter that IBM stuck on. I am > happy with it. > > There are plenty of resources for thinkpad

Re: one last little step...

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:43:41 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up local partial mirrors. Debmirror keeps telling me that > the repository can't be confirmed. Evidently I need something called > apt-key to 'install' these key files. > > But where is apt-key? > > Google

Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Andrew. First of all, thank you very much for giving vrms a try. On Dec 20 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you purge a package, could it please disappear from the vrms > listing? Yes, this is already fixed in current vrms. I think that you may have an old version of it installed in your

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 20:40 -0500, Roby wrote: > Gabriel wrote: > > > Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer > > from gnome?... > > I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. > > > > > > Any idea? > > > I don't use gnome, but here's one way.

Re: Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:29:25 -0800 (PST) J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old laptop I wanted to try to get to work. > It came with Win 98, which I removed and replaced with > XP. However, the machine has these specs: > > PMMX 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 gig HDD > > and the HDD was too

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-19 Thread Roby
Gabriel wrote: > Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer > from gnome?... > I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any. > > > Any idea? > I don't use gnome, but here's one way. If /etc/sudoers includes: username ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt and

one last little step...

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn English
I'm setting up local partial mirrors. Debmirror keeps telling me that the repository can't be confirmed. Evidently I need something called apt-key to 'install' these key files. But where is apt-key? Google finds many hits on apt-key, all telling me that all I have to do is... It's not in Martin

Re: apt-get source picks the wrong repository

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel Webb
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get source > will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source > = to get other versions. > > From the apt-get manpage > >source source causes a

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
Steve Lamb wrote: >> Felix Miata wrote: > >> This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers > >> list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies > >> private. > And it is up to the individual on how they wish to reply. Quite frankly > if s

Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD

2005-12-19 Thread J Merritt
I have an old laptop I wanted to try to get to work. It came with Win 98, which I removed and replaced with XP. However, the machine has these specs: PMMX 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 gig HDD and the HDD was too small to install SP2 onto the machine. As a result, I am convinced that Linux is the way to

How do I make xhost changes stick?

2005-12-19 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using Etch with x.org, xdm, and fluxbox. I've discovered that I can't open an X windows after I log into root using su, as when I try to open emacs to edit a config file. I have to use 'xhost local:' first. Not a big deal, but I have to do this everytime I log in. Is there a way to ma

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that

Apache in chroot jail - Log rotation.

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Bellears
When logrotate rotates the apache logs (/var/chroot/apache/var/log/apache/), it appears to not be able to stop/start apache, therefore there is no further logging performed until I manually stop then start apache (/etc/init.d/apache stop then /etc/init.d/apache start) Any suggestions as to what I

Re: Sound card problems

2005-12-19 Thread Colin
Cian Phillips wrote: > I'm a complete newbie at this so bear with me. I have recently upgraded > my machine to testing/unstable and have lost sound. I have played with > alsaconf but it reports "No supported PnP or PCI card found.". As you > can see from lspci below I have an onboard ali card a

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-19 Thread Pete Hicks
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: >Hi folks, > >as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd >player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo >component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a >pretty big hard drive (30 m

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:27 -0300, Gabriel wrote: > http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/ Wonderful test. It says I should be using Debian :-) -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Oh, one piece of advice I forgot to mention: Never take the advice of people who use spellings like "kewel", "n33t", and abbreviate "you" to "u", etc. Could you please explain me why? Just to know And what does kewel means? :-P am I very ignorant

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can't find someway to get around this problem I'll have to abandon Gmail > and pay for mail. I don't even know where to start with that, most have too > small a capacity. > > Please somebody. Suggestions. :-( Could this be your problem? https://

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Gabriel
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Chinook wrote: I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that means), but rat

Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:49:17PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi Clive and everybody else that replied. > > On Dec 19 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I use it and it seems to work well :) > > Nice that you have vrms installed. :-) > > > I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you're thinking in term

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/12/20, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Heimdall Midgard wrote: > > I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation > > when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting > > colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if > > this is really a bug or just a mi

Re: apt-get openoffice dependency problems

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:56:15 -0800 (PST) "Caleb Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > Perhaps because my subject was not specific enough, I did not get a > response. I really need to get this computer up and usable but for now, I > cannot get over this dependency issue. I dont even w

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-12-18, Felix Miata penned: > > That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html > > This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private > answers list. You can't have a public discussion when people make > th

Re: [OT] Gmail POP fails

2005-12-19 Thread roach
On Friday 16 December 2005 03:06, Jacob S wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:55:58 +0200 > > roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > > +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will > <...> > It looks like there's not anything yo

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Kenni
> You need to copy the .disk directory too. Cool, I missed that one, it fixed my problem :) Thanks a lot.. -- Kenni -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi Clive and everybody else that replied. On Dec 19 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > I use it and it seems to work well :) Nice that you have vrms installed. :-) > I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you're thinking in terms of > development; ie. what more one would want it to do unless you're > think

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug > filed against it for failing to do so. How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly and newer clients (of

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does anyone on the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114 controller? What have you encountered? Bad question. You need to k

[Solved] Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Søren Christensen
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:40:35AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > One thing to look for on these machines: if you replace the MBR > with GRUB or LILO or the like, they like to go into "system recovery > mode" where they undo the changes you made. With these machines > it is better (IMO) to let the

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread Joris Huizer
Heimdall Midgard wrote: I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if this is really a bug or just a misconfiguration on my end? To do the test, create two files bo

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Chinook wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Chinook wrote: ... [snippy] I wrote the article: http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.htm Hmm, browser couldn't find that URL... [more snippy] One possibility (and one I recommend, actually) is to get LiveCDs and run off them for a while. That

PyGTK not building for the correct unicode version on Python2.3

2005-12-19 Thread Peter
Hello, I attempted to install pygtk via "apt-get install python2.3-gtk2". However, when i type: import pygtk pygtk.require("2.0") import gtk It gives me: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 33, in ?

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 19 December 2005 11:44 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > It looks like you also don't have /backup on there. What > else did you not mention that you don't put on your backups? Nothing else /backup is a mountpoint for /dev/sda1 > "Can I, starting with a bare-metal machine, do a standard > ins

(G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-19 Thread Heimdall Midgard
I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if this is really a bug or just a misconfiguration on my end? To do the test, create two files both named "udev.rules" (per

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Chinook
Sorry Mike - I left an "l" off the end of the link I wrote the article: http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Chinook
Mike McCarty wrote: Chinook wrote: ... Hmm, just looked this over. I hope it isn't overkill/too long/ confusing. I might point out that as far as *using* Linux, there's very little difference between distros. It's in *system admin* where they differ from each other, mostly. ... Not at all -

Re: hd error after kernel upgrade

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote: I've already solved this problem with yaird. I've been receiving those messages after booting the new kernel. sorry, my bad. i didn't read closely enough A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

[PATCH] solution: Fails to close session for DVD+R on some PIONEER drives

2005-12-19 Thread T
Hi, Sorry to send the patch here because my ISP does not allow me to send email to bug report. This patch is similar to bug #323602, but fix another problem. It may solved the problem raised at the end of message of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323602 which is: ,- | T

Re: hd error after kernel upgrade

2005-12-19 Thread Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-12-2005 13:46]: > > > > > >Am I missing some configuration or boot parameter? > >Any hint? > > Currently 2.6.14 and yaird are broken. see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343042 > > there are a number of solutions, but IMO the

Re: find/replace in place

2005-12-19 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: } I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do } this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step } using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl. } } SED } #!/

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > >I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the > >exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... > > > >Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? > > > >Also can you think of anything

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 12/19/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent West wrote:> Chinook wrote:am trying to decide which Linux to install.1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication.  I'm sure>>OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird >>and Firefox for co

Re: etch install partitioner fails, no CD

2005-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter Nuttall wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:52:07AM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: You might want to send this report to debian-boot@lists.debian.org (I think) so they can fix the problems mentioned above OK. But also do as here: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.h

Re: find/replace in place

2005-12-19 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do > this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step > using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl. > > SED > #!/

Re: find/replace in place

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do > this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step > using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl. [...] > PERL (single lin

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/19/05, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. > > This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! Could be worse. You could have written: The .B sender gets to choose. -- Michael A. Marsh http:

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose. This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa! -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of soul

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-19 Thread Vicki Stanfield
> Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >> I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. I have apache >> configured with a default virtual host, and even when I get Wordpress to >> install, the Debian docs that come with it seem insufficient for getting >> it up and running in my environment. >> >> Does

find/replace in place

2005-12-19 Thread Tony Heal
I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl.     SED #!/bin/bash echo -n "Please enter the name of the new database: "

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > Felix Miata wrote: >> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior: >> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html Felix (I know, I'm replying to Mike but attribution is corerct here), this page is simply outdated. It references 822 and was wri

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. I have apache configured with a default virtual host, and even when I get Wordpress to install, the Debian docs that come with it seem insufficient for getting it up and running in my environment. Does anyone know of a

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote: am trying to decide which Linux to install. 1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she sa

Re: starting wireless connection on boot

2005-12-19 Thread martin jakubik
On 12/17/05, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > did you include > > auto wlan0 > > ? No - I did now, and it works! Thanks a lot. > ls /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel you're interested in. each symlink > has a S or K and a number in the front of the name. such as > > S35networ

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Joey Hess
Kenni wrote: > The problem has nothing to do with my changes - even if I take an > original Debian cd, and run a "cp -a * /test1/", and afterwards creates > a image of the files, I receive the same error. You need to copy the .disk directory too. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: Monitor daemon for exim4 logs

2005-12-19 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Monique Y. Mudama wrote on Dec, 15: [...] > > Would anybody have recommendations of lightweight monitors for exim4 > > logs, something appropriate to a standalone machine with a single > > user ? [...] > Not a daemon, but I have this in my crontab: > @daily /usr/sbin/exim4 -bp | /usr/bin/mail

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Szakacsits Szabolcs
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off > virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two > items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition > from being pr

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. open mouth, insert keyboard. on reviewing some of my other posts, I see that I've been doing a lot of top-posting since I came back to this list. ah well... not for lack of good intent. ;) A I'm

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I generally hate top-posting too, unless I'm replying to nothing specific in the previous post. the idea being that people don't have to wade through the rest of the message thread to see that my po

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/12/05 10:17), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical > backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another > machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the > fire only burn half the

Re: Partitioning problem -- no writepermission to partitiontable

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
You may find that it all works better if you boot into windows and turn off virtual memory. also maybe turn off system restore. In the past, those two items have written unmoveable blocks on the disk and prevent the partition from being properly resized. Its been a over a year now, though, so t

Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?

2005-12-19 Thread David R. Litwin
> Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice> it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. >> How do I get it back?in knoppix, you first have to mount all your debian partitions tosoewhere, e.g.:/ to /mnt/debian/usr to /mnt/debian/usr/home to /mnt/debian/h

Re: ext3 trouble

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: BTW, I'd prefer it if you didn't top-post. I'm just back on this list, so missed the beginning of this thread. is this the same problem I'm getting with fsck errors on reboot? I don't think so. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,

Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/12/05 08:35), Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there, people. > > I'm currently one of the maintainers of the "virtual Richard > M. Stallman" package (vrms), whose purpose is to indicate to the user > which packages installed in his system are not Free Software. > > The package had active develop

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this messag

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the fire only burn half the office? why would the thief only take one of three machin

Re: reply-to munging

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Felix Miata wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this

Re: popt Isn't Quite Right

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
don't forget to cc the list. Umm... I'm saying you have to pass a flag to configure telling it where popt is or you have to edit configure and change the location it uses to find popt. I'm not up on my configure flags but there should be on like --include-path or something like that. try conf

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Kenni
> How are you burning the iso? Are you sure that it's > not a "raw" iso on > the CD and not a true iso image? > Thierry K3B, Nero, mounted as IDE/SCSI device in VMWare, it doesn't matter, the file structure on the CD is equal to the filestructure I want to burn. The bootloader works correct and th

Re: Simple cron.daily script problem

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
does it work running the script from a shell? that is, have you tested it outside of cron? maybe mount -t vfat,users? or some umask? chmod your /mnt etc etc etc A David Baron wrote: I have something like mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory umount

Re: reply-to munging (Re: Shutdown w/o root password.)

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:43PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: And please, I know sometimes happens, but send the replys to the list. That's why we all should add a reply-to field on the messages we send to the list. (although I forgot to do this with this message :-P) No, we sh

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... It looks like you also don't have /backup on there. What else did you not mention that you don't put on your backups? :-) Is it possible do a bare-metal restore usi

Re: cant start gaim, amule and bluefish etc.

2005-12-19 Thread Paras pradhan
Yes using etch. I got the error while installing some packages. but don't know exaclty which one. Paras. On 19 Dec 2005 06:04:45 -0800, Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paras pradhan, > > Thanx a lot, the programs could be also started by valgrind, eg. > $ valgrind amule & > > i dun noe y, ma

Re: Automatic Debian Installation - Problems on creating the image

2005-12-19 Thread Thierry
Kenni wrote: Hi, I'm doing a custom Debian CD, not remastered, just a edited image with information on how to install. However, I'm not able to create a *.iso file that the Debian Installer will accept. The bootloader works fine, so does the installation untill it searches for the cd, which it

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