Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Webb
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:01:04PM -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > One thing to consider is that it's safer to use a LVM snapshot while > copying a mirror. That way it won't matter if the files change during the > mirroring. This issue won't keep the system from booting, since libc6 and > such never

Re: PAM Authenication problems

2005-12-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
comparing to backup, /etc/shadow change for a few users (I made the change). /etc/passwd did chance, It is empty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:31 +0100 MrVanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make > as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD > spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour

Re: mountvirtfs

2005-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:45:27AM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > Hi, > > I just did an apt-get upgrade and I got the following message: > > Configuration file `/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated ver

Re: PAM Authenication problems

2005-12-20 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:57:23PM -0800, Vadim wrote: > I updated my box today morning (I am using testing), and I lost my > authenications. Seems like PAm is not using shadow passwords. My > common-password contains only one live (default): > > password requiredpam_unix.so nul

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread David Kirchner
On 12/20/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being > capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would make it appear more like a regular > email address after all. IMO, it would be a good

Re: segmentation fault in Mozilla browser

2005-12-20 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: Hi, While reading the Slashdot news on the pirates bay, I noticed that when I click on this link: http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php it starts to load but before finishing Mozilla browser crashed. The message on the std out is "segmentation fault". The above link is on this page: ht

Re: How to record with onboard sound card?

2005-12-20 Thread Carl Johnson
LMa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > > I am a relatively new Linux user. > I have the following major problem: trying to record with Audacity > (among others) doesn't work with my on-board VIA ac97 sound card. > > I know Audacity prety well (I wrote a User's manual for specific ta

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:51:31PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:42, Almut Behrens wrote: > >Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being > >capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using > >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would make it appear mo

Re: HELP

2005-12-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:07:30 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all , > > I'm very sorry for disturbing you but I had a serious problem when I tried > to installing qt3-3.0.4-3.1mdk.src.rpm . > I digited "rpm -i qt3-3.0.4-3.1mdk.src.rpm" and then it compaired : There's a Mandrake / mandri

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 00:01, Carl Fink wrote: >I assume you mean OE? Yup, not being a winduz user, I get them mixed. >In any case, anyone with half a brain would save the message they get > on subscribing. >-- >Carl Fink                                         [EMAIL PROTECTED] >   "Patrio

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:51:31PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > A lot of email agents do NOT show the line beginning with "-- " as the > sig marker, or anything below it. Having that stuff appended to the > end of a message does no good whatsoever for the folks using IE IIRC, I assume you mea

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 22:40:31 +0100 MrVanes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make > as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD > spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour

Re: How to record with onboard sound card?

2005-12-20 Thread Robert Kopp
--- LMa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a relatively new Linux user. > I have the following major problem: trying to record > with Audacity (among others) doesn't work with > my on-board VIA ac97 sound card. > > I know Audacity prety well (I wrote a User's manual > for spe

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: >On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: >> > Why don't you mirror /dev/? >> >> I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my >> knowledge > >Oh, I am behind the times on that issue, that makes sense. > >(pull

Internet Connection

2005-12-20 Thread Ed Paris
 Hi There, I had to reinstall Debian from my cd-rom.  In the earlier install (from the same cd-rom), I could connect to the Internet through my Windows XP laptop with no problem.  They are connected by a Cat5 Crossover cable between their Ethernet cards.  Now, after the reinstall, I canno

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:25, Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: >> Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in >> understandable language; but on the other hand, I think that >> whereas it's okay to scold the offender slightly, we should not >> knee-jerk react by marking his in

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:42, Almut Behrens wrote: >On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:49:19 -0700 >> >> Richard DeVillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > unsubscribe >> > >> > PLEASE! >> >> Maybe a pretty please will help :))) >> >> Don't

Why are online drugs popular

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Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 21:15 -0300, Gabriel wrote: > So you mean that whenever I use Gnome I'm running with root > permissions? No. When you log in, you're you. It's gdm that runs as root. Do 'ps aux | grep gdm' and look at the username. > That's not possible, I cannot think about a worst secu

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I have, in the past, with rdiff-backup to my fileserver (located in the > same room), but that is not a great solution as the fileserver is > subject to the same failure modes as my main machine (fire etc), but > worked fine for recovering from my own fubars. Its p

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 17:08 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > >What's the command to stop a service like gdm? > > Killall. Or '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' -- Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/20/05, C. Chad Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4session?  Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal)will just reload with the same state if I log out and choose "Save session" with them open.  Firefox doesn't d

Re: debian print server

2005-12-20 Thread Arafangion
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:53, Clive Menzies wrote: > Well, you don't need X; use lynx as a browser and use cups and if you're > serving windows clients, samba. I have a suspicion that windows no-longer requires samba for IPP printing, but have yet to confirm this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Arafangion
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:40, MrVanes wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make > as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD > spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. You could tr

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Arafangion
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:25, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable > > language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold > > the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his

Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread Angelina Carlton
"C. Chad Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 > session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will > just reload with the same state if I log out and choose "Save session" > with them open. Firefox doe

Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
Roberto Sanchez wrote on Dec, 20: > >Hello, > >Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 > >session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will > >just reload with the same state if I log out and choose "Save session" > >with them open. Firefox doesn't d

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 08:25 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable > > language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold > > the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking hi

Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

2005-12-20 Thread Richard Hector
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 08:35 -0200, 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. How hard would it be

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Webb
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:48:43PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > > Why don't you mirror /dev/? > > I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my knowledge Oh, I am behind the times on that issue, that makes sense. (pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time). --

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Webb
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:05:15PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote: > Now in theory, (I have done the bare-metal restore using mondorescue before... > so I /know/ that works) the procedure would be restore the system to a working > state via mondo, log in as root, rsync everything back from rsync mirror. N

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-20 Thread Dave Whelan
Thanks Andrew. I should have written "...but cannot access the nic". I do have the driver installed, but the syslog files don't show the NIC. Regards Dave. -Original Message- From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dave Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable > language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold > the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his > input as unworthy of attention. I disagree. Simply put

Re: reinstalling config files

2005-12-20 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Steve Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051220 19:01]: > I was having trouble getting php4/apache2 to play nice on Sarge, apt-get > removed then, which left the apche config files. stupidly I rm -rf'd > apache2 & can't install apache2's config files. apt-get install --reinstall > apche2 does n

Authenication problems

2005-12-20 Thread Vadim
I updated my box today morning (I am using testing), and I lost myauthenications.  Seems like PAm is not using shadow passwords.  Mycommon-password contains only one live (default):passwordrequiredpam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 Are there any other parameters which co

PAM Authenication problems

2005-12-20 Thread Vadim
I updated my box today morning (I am using testing), and I lost myauthenications. Seems like PAm is not using shadow passwords. Mycommon-password contains only one live (default): password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5Are there any other parameters which could contribute to

Can't install Etch on SuperMicro 370DE6

2005-12-20 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
I just got a used computer with a supermicro 370DE6 motherboard and am having problems installing with Etch netinst iso. I first tried with the 11-NOV-2005 beta 1 iso. On the first reboot after removing the cd it hangs at "Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones". I tried a different video ca

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-20 Thread Gabriel
Arafangion wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:01, CaT wrote: 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 r

Re: routing problem

2005-12-20 Thread Lucas Barbuto
On 21/12/05 4:28 AM, Enrique Morfin wrote: All 192.168.1.1 packets MUST go in and out throught eht0. And all 192.168.1.10 packets MUST go in and out throught eth1. How can i tell the routing table this? If both interfaces are on the same subnet, then you aren't routing. Perhaps you should ret

mountvirtfs

2005-12-20 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I just did an apt-get upgrade and I got the following message: Configuration file `/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Webb
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:08:40PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've got a personal account at earthlink and it comes > with 10(?)MB of storage that sits there unused. so far as I know its ftp > only access, though, hence my question earlier in the thread -- is there > a way to automat

Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
C. Chad Wallace wrote: Hello, Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will just reload with the same state if I log out and choose "Save session" with them open. Firefox doesn't do this. I'd like to hav

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-20 Thread Gabriel
Glenn English wrote: 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 do

Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread C. Chad Wallace
Hello, Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will just reload with the same state if I log out and choose "Save session" with them open. Firefox doesn't do this. I'd like to have Firefox load on sessi

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Colin
Teilhard Knight wrote: > What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Formally it's: invoke-rc.d gdm stop But everybody (including myself) uses: /etc/init.d/gdm stop To stop it permanently use: update-rc.d gdm remove -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: segmentation fault in Mozilla browser

2005-12-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
For me it didn't crash On 12/20/05, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > While reading the Slashdot news on the pirates bay, I noticed that when > I click on this link: > http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php > > it starts to load but before finishing Mozilla browser crashed. The > message on t

Re: custom rescue/boot cd? (trouble with intel sata raid ICH6)

2005-12-20 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Hola! > > I just built a server which is using the Intel SE7221BA1-E motherboard > which uses the ICH6R/ICH6RW sata raid chipset. > > I've built a vanilla 2.6 kernel and included all the drives i need, but > I need to create a boot cd which uses this kernel, and starts the > install process

Re: wacom graphire4

2005-12-20 Thread p
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:13:39PM +0800, kangja wrote: > Hi, > thinking about getting a Wacom Graphire4. > I am using 'testing' with kernel 2.6.8 and XFree86 4.3. > Getting the pen/tablet to work would be a staightforward process? > > kangja > // i don't have experience with the graphire4,

custom rescue/boot cd? (trouble with intel sata raid ICH6)

2005-12-20 Thread jack
Hola! I just built a server which is using the Intel SE7221BA1-E motherboard which uses the ICH6R/ICH6RW sata raid chipset. I've built a vanilla 2.6 kernel and included all the drives i need, but I need to create a boot cd which uses this kernel, and starts the install process from there.

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Arafangion
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 10:26, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Also, if you roll your own kernel and are using Sid or Etch, make sure > that the version of gcc has not changed since compiling your kernel. > VMware's make script doesn't like that sort of thing. I'm sure that that wouldn't be a prob

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:14, Chris Sutton wrote: Dear Sir/Mam, Is it possible to install VMware-for-Linux on Debian? Thx! -- Chris VMware does not ship modules compiled for any Debian, as they do for many other distro's. Just make sure you have a compiler installe

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:19 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've always worked with the idea of two different kinds of backups. > > 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets > etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of > corruption or accid

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 19 December 2005 9:01 pm, Daniel Webb wrote: > Why don't you mirror /dev/? I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my knowledge -- "Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that was sticking up your ass."- John Novak, rasfwrj -- To U

Re: how to-slow down boot up time

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
uniqx wrote: I made the mistake of installing 'etch' and having lots of problems with eide--need to boot from a cd but cannot because etch boots too fast! How can I slow down the process so that I have time to choose 'cd' boot option? usually this is setup in your bios by either the delete

Re: nvidia problem?

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Enrique Morfin wrote: Hi! I have a problem wiht 1 box and nvidia card! kernel 2.6.8 and xfree4.3 When the box boot 1 of 5 times it do it correct, any problem, but 4 og 5 times, the X doesn't start. In XFree86.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! (EE) NVIDI

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Block
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:08:33PM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: What's the command to stop a service like gdm? Killall. Seems like a bad idea, unless the service is hung. Using the proper init script would make more sense. To simply stop the service, /etc/init.d/gdm stop as root would do th

Re: How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. The problem is that both system (single HD) seem to wr

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:14, Chris Sutton wrote: > Dear Sir/Mam, > > Is it possible to install VMware-for-Linux on Debian? Thx! > > -- > Chris VMware does not ship modules compiled for any Debian, as they do for many other distro's. Just make sure you have a compiler installed along with t

How to record with onboard sound card?

2005-12-20 Thread LMa
Hello everyone, I am a relatively new Linux user. I have the following major problem: trying to record with Audacity (among others) doesn't work with my on-board VIA ac97 sound card. I know Audacity prety well (I wrote a User's manual for specific tasks with Audacity). I tried all the setting

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Kent West wrote: Aaron Stromas wrote: On 12/20/05, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I've known plenty of "kids"[1] who speak leet who are [ otherwise ;-) ] very smart. choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public forum doe

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Jason Martens
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: in response to the whole preceding chain. I've always worked with the idea of two different kinds of backups. 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of corruption or accide

how to-slow down boot up time

2005-12-20 Thread uniqx
I made the mistake of installing 'etch' and having lots of problems with eide--need to boot from a cd but cannot because etch boots too fast! How can I slow down the process so that I have time to choose 'cd' boot option? Any help will be appreciated! tie, gere -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Simple question

2005-12-20 Thread David R. Litwin
>What's the command to stop a service like gdm?Killall. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Daniel Webb wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:19:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of corruption or accidental deletion and the like. These are just copie

How to bring HD activity to a minimum

2005-12-20 Thread MrVanes
Hi, I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so. The problem is that both system (single HD) seem to write to (or read fro

Re: udev and usb

2005-12-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:48, Richard Lyons wrote: > This is driving me potty. I have two sid installs with udev. One has > carried on as before (before udev, that is). WHen I unplud the usb > mouse and plug it back in, I get > > Dec 20 19:33:41 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, ad

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Re: Probs with netboot/NFS

2005-12-20 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi! > Hello all, > > Am trying to boot a diskless client with the following spec: > > And the messages found in the bootup list that I think are important are: > > = > Kernel command line: auto rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/nfsroot > ip=192.168.1.18:192.168.1.2:192.

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Webb
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:19:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets > etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of > corruption or accidental deletion and the like. These are just copies, > in my case,

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:49:19 -0700 > Richard DeVillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > unsubscribe > > > > PLEASE! > > Maybe a pretty please will help :))) > > Don't send this to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-20 Thread Vicki Stanfield
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:19:49PM -, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > >> Have you looked at the readme.html file that comes with the package? >> On my testing system, it is found in /usr/share/wordpres. It gives >> simple instructions, and that might be all you need. > > The readme is worthless. It

Probs with netboot/NFS

2005-12-20 Thread Piers Kittel
cksize 512 Block 4183 ok Starting image... Linux Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.9.8 (netboot) (copyright notes) Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. Linux version 2.4.32-pk-20051220 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Tue Dec 20 17:51:1

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Dave Whelan wrote: I have the driver but cannot access the driver. The setup utility for the NIC gives me: 3c5x9setup.c:v1.00 6/19/2000 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html No interrupt sources are pending. 3c5x9 found at 0x300. Indication enable is , inte

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
in response to the whole preceding chain. Arafangion wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 23:01, Alvin Oga wrote: automated backup is worthless for that precise reason about corrupted main systems and there's hundreds of reasons/problems that causes the main system or backup system to have bad

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ishwar Rattan wrote: It sure is. confirmed. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Ishwar Rattan
It sure is. -ishwar On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Chris Sutton wrote: > Dear Sir/Mam, > > Is it possible to install VMware-for-Linux on Debian? Thx! > > -- > Chris > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with nfs server

2005-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Matt Jerdonek wrote: << snipping >>> debian:/home/matt# mount 192.168.0.201:/opt/eldk/ppc_8xx /mnt/home mount: mount point /mnt/home does not exist Anyone have an idea what I'm doing wrong? mkdir /mnt/home you need to have the mount point in place before the mount command. A Thanks, --

Re: samba won't dance

2005-12-20 Thread Scott
Marty Landman wrote: First thanks for the advice on using Apt given earlier. I managed to get Samba and dependencies installed this way after connecting to my LAN gateway. Now having trouble with Samba . Tried Tango or Cha-Cha? -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder™ &

udev and usb

2005-12-20 Thread Richard Lyons
This is driving me potty. I have two sid installs with udev. One has carried on as before (before udev, that is). WHen I unplud the usb mouse and plug it back in, I get Dec 20 19:33:41 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Dec 20 19:33:55 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed

Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Chris Sutton
Dear Sir/Mam, Is it possible to install VMware-for-Linux on Debian? Thx!  -- Chris

Re: Wordpress

2005-12-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:19:49PM -, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > Have you looked at the readme.html file that comes with the package? > On my testing system, it is found in /usr/share/wordpres. It gives > simple instructions, and that might be all you need. The readme is worthless. It does *not

samba won't dance

2005-12-20 Thread Marty Landman
Got it - turns out I had my smb.conf on the wrong path. Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387 Webmaster's Bulletin Board: http://bbs.face2interface.com/ Web Installed Formmail: http://face2interface.com/formINSTal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: (G)Vim Oddity

2005-12-20 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-12-20, Heimdall Midgard penned: > > But surely in *n*x you can't assume what a file is on the basis of > its extension? > Well, sometimes it's a good starting point. For example, one of my vim configuration files has: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.java call JavaBuildEnv() -- monique Ask sma

firewire, reboot, /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

2005-12-20 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Debian users, My workstation's inputs (keyboard and mouse) froze today for the second time in 6 years and I had to hit the reset button. Everything came back up fine (thanks, journaling!) but when I try to mount my external firewire drive which I use for backup, I get this: ~# mount /fwbackup

Re: Need help with backing up a Windows 98/2000 computer using rsync on a Debian Server running ssh

2005-12-20 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Incase you want a simpler solution which could work on both Linux and Windows, use unison. rrs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Install from usb-stick

2005-12-20 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 12:06:24PM +0100, Thierry wrote: > Yes he is right, and the problem is: How to copy it over the stick? > Thierry Just mount the iso as a loop-back file and then copy the files over as normal... e.g: mount -o loop -t iso9660 netinstall.iso /mnt/cdrom cp -R /mnt/cdrom/*

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

2005-12-20 Thread D. Michael McFarland
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:27:12AM -0600, D. Michael McFarland wrote: >> I've found no bugs on this topic newer than the July 2005 bug I cited >> in my original post, although it's certainly possible I overlooked >> something. I'll be happy to file one if

nvidia problem?

2005-12-20 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I have a problem wiht 1 box and nvidia card! kernel 2.6.8 and xfree4.3 When the box boot 1 of 5 times it do it correct, any problem, but 4 og 5 times, the X doesn't start. In XFree86.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** W

reinstalling config files

2005-12-20 Thread Steve Mallett
NewbieQ:I was having trouble getting php4/apache2 to play nice on Sarge, apt-get removed then, which left the apche config files.  stupidly I rm -rf'd apache2 & can't install apache2's config files.  apt-get install --reinstall apche2 does not work. Help appreciated in advance.-- Steve 

Re: unsubscribe

2005-12-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:49:19 -0700 Richard DeVillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unsubscribe > > PLEASE! Maybe a pretty please will help :))) Don't send this to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye Andrei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: SATA disk driver for an HP ML110G3 server?

2005-12-20 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Hello List, I'm currently evaluating an HP Proliant ML110G3 server. It's small, silent, clean inside and cheap. Really, a nice box. I stuck a testing boot CD into the drive (dated mid-November) and fired it up. Unfortunately, it wasn't able to auto-detect what disk driv

Re: problème vidéo

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Jollans
Pueblo wrote: > Bonjour, > j'ai une vidéo en mpg sur laquelle j'ai un petit décalage entre le son > et l'image. Aprés quelque recherches infructueuse autour de mencoder, > je n'arrive toujours pas à resynchroniser le son et l'image. > Quelqu'un aurait-il un tuyau ? > Merci d'avance. > > demandez à

routing problem

2005-12-20 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! i have 1 box, with 2 eth cards, both are in the same lan. eth0 192.168.1.1 eth1 192.168.1.10 i want to use it as dns server (eth0) and webserver (eth1). And ssh on both interfaces. bind conf: listen-on {148.247.153.1;} apache conf: Listen 192.168.1.10:80 #netstat -rn Kernel IP routing

Re: APT::Force-LoopBreak

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
Christian Stalp wrote: I got some problem while my notebook-installation. I got an error concerning the failure of deleting a essential parcel "e2fsprogs". While the installation apt told me that this parcel has to be deleted. But when I confirm this I got this dump: E: Internal Error, Could

OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

2005-12-20 Thread Kent West
Aaron Stromas wrote: On 12/20/05, *Kent West* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I've known plenty of "kids"[1] who speak leet who are [ otherwise ;-) ] very smart. choosing to communicate in an incomprehensible way on the wide public forum doesn't strike me as pa

again: hplip + sane

2005-12-20 Thread Bernd Prager
To my total surprise I found that xscanimage works. Unfortunately I need the command line front-end. Does anybody have an idea what the issue could be or what else I can do? Thanks, -- Bernd > I have an HP OfficeJet connected via HPLIP. > "scanimage --help" reports: > List of available devices:

Re: Need help with backing up a Windows 98/2000 computer using rsync on a Debian Server running ssh

2005-12-20 Thread H.S.
TAC Forums wrote: > Hi > > I have a Debian server running ssh which performs the job of a Backup Server. > > All the GNU/Linux workstations / servers on the network have a bash > script that run in the cron to rsync the data folders to the main > backup server at night. > > However, I am having

Re: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: Hi, On 12/20/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. "sux" is working fine but while using "sudo" I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emacs Password: nipra is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Use visudo to put nipra i

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

2005-12-20 Thread belbo
Thomas Jollans wrote: > belbo wrote: > > >>Peter Nuttall wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: >>> >>> >> >>[...] >> >> >> Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How can I put value down? Which value can I try?

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