modemu + minicom

Hello list, I'm trying to get minicom + modemu to work for file transfers over telnet. I was given this command by a friend but it doesn't seem to work for me.. modemu -e "AT%B0=1%B1=1&W" -c "minicom -8 -p tty%s modemu" I've seen this same command in all the modemu howto's I've been able to fin

RE: 5th day using Linux and cannot get Dynamic IP clients to work on PPP

I am answering my post for the 3rd time here :) I have been doing more troubleshooting. Now on hour 15 of trying to resolve this... I am attempting to see if somehow my ppp0 connection is filtered. I have no GUI, but I did discover by browsing through aptitude that I have wget installed. I tried

Re: Hearts again anyone?

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:53:27PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop > > > I've got all the important issues satisfied for now. That is except for > the Synaptic "Not Authenticated" issue - ha

Re: Re: Philips webcam pcvc 720k support??

is there a driver for pcvc720k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim using incorrect hostname [SOLVED]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Chris Howie wrote: > Daniel Webb wrote: > > I had to make my /etc/hosts file like this before exim4 worked right in this > > respect: > > > > 127.0.0.1 foobar.com localhost > > > > not > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost foobar.com the corrrect way should be: 127.0.0.1 lo

Re: Exim using incorrect hostname [SOLVED]

Daniel Webb wrote: > I had to make my /etc/hosts file like this before exim4 worked right in this > respect: > > 127.0.0.1 foobar.com localhost > > not > > 127.0.0.1 localhost foobar.com Thanks, that worked! This might be a good addition to exim's debconf or something. It shouldn't do it aut

RE: 5th day using Linux and cannot get Dynamic IP clients to work on PPP

Ohh yes, I am using wvdial to make my PPP connection. I thought I would try the more standard pppd, but I have not been able to find a good instruction set on how to configure it. Where is a good place to get basic help like this? I tried searching linux from scratch, but could not find anything ha

fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade

I get these boot messages on a cold start or reboot after doing an # aptitude upgrade -t testing that is still not completely finished. Checking root file system fsck 1.39-WIP(current date) /dev/hda1: Superblock last write time in future /dev/hda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY;run fsck MANUALLY withou

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > device (/dev/dsp) and another > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > What can I do it share the sound device?? Make your other sound program use ALSA or get a

Re: Hearts again anyone?

Chinook wrote: Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop Good. Most people do not provide this (vital IMHO) information when posting this kind of question. Anyway, I'm back to putting up the hearts card game for "She who must be obeyed." Installing the download balks at n

5th day using Linux and cannot get Dynamic IP clients to work on PPP

Hi All. I have Debian Linux 2.6 Kernel (no GUI) with a Kyocera KPC650 modem PCMCIA card under Verizon. I for the life of me cannot get any Dynamic DNS service to work on my box! They work just fine if I point them to post my Eth0 IP but do not work on my ppp0 connection. I have tried ez-ipupdate,

Re: Streaming video

You might try KMplayer, which is a KDE frontend for MPlayer. If you open the stream in that, you can easily use full-screen. It's not in Debian, but you can Google for the repo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:29:03 -0600 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > if I stop the application which is using the sound device and then other > > application can use the sound device... > > its more like exclusive access to the sound device by ALSA > > >

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:43:08 -0600 Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > > device (/dev/dsp) and another > > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > > > Wh

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

OT, but how come you want to prevent it from loading? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to use initrd command

On 1/4/06, Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade Debian 3.1 kernel version 2.4 to the latest 2.6 > version. I understand I need to add a initrd command somewhere in this. How > do I pass this command and when (a link to a document would be a big help). If you just

Hearts again anyone?

Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop I've got all the important issues satisfied for now. That is except for the Synaptic "Not Authenticated" issue - having tried the suggested solutions without success I'm waiting fo

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I have a Debian stable install that runs smoothly; uptime is seventy > three days. Just lately I am getting these system emails: > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log > /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql.e

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > if I stop the application which is using the sound device and then other > application can use the sound device... > its more like exclusive access to the sound device by ALSA > > even if there is a warning sound from Anti-virus program, sound device get > locked an

Re: about vlc and libmodplug0

Sinan Nalkaya wrote: > hi, > I am using Debian Etch, i want to install vlc, then i got this error > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > vlc: Depends: libmodplug0 (>= 1:0.7-1) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > after that i try to install libmodplug0

Re: / suddenly Read-only

on Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:59:41PM -0700, jonathan ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self" > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > >> For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > >> running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (wit

Re: Moving a Debian install in to new hardware?

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:30:25 -0800 "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know the incantations for fixing LILO in the MBR using a > rescue/live > disk? usually you mount the / of the system your trying to save, chroot into it and run lilo from in there. check the arch

Reiser FS hosed?

So I'm doing an 'mplayer -dumpfile', and before I know it I've completely filled the last 10GB of my hard drive (total 80GB). It wasn't were the OS resided; just a HD used for a file holding space. Anyway, after reaching 100%, the folder I was working in became non-working. When I would do 'ls'

Re: Querying packages about installed files

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 01:11:32AM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:57:59PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I'm not much further ahead of you, so let me give you one last tip, if > > you didn't find it out by yourself already: apt-cache searches also by > > package descript

Re: Tripwire and /proc

on Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:52:06AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The amount of data that tripwire reports on /proc is a bit overwhelming, > and strikes me as not particularly useful most of the time. After all, > most of the info in the root of /proc is PID info, so while cert

re: Start legitimately making a couple thousand a week consistently

It took me about a week to get the hang of it, but this was actually pretty simple. There's a moneyback guarantee, and the guy is really helpful, so you might as well check it out. http://www.800weekly.com -Jen

Install of 2.6 kernel with sata drive

Is there a way to install Debian using the 2.6 kernel with a SATA drive? So far it goes through the install then when the CD is removed it boots up to a "Diskboot failure enter system disk" message. Is there a way to install Debian using the 2.6 kernel with a SATA drive? So far it goes thr

NIS & Samba

I've noticed a problem where workstations configured with NIS have a problem mounting Samba shares. Apparently the passwd/group table is not loaded prior to the share being mounted via fstab, so the share is mounted with unknown user/group. Executing a "mount -o remount sharename" fixes it af

Re: / suddenly Read-only

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self" (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to > mount read-write the r

Re: Exim using incorrect hostname

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:12:27AM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > When I configured exim (with `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config`), I told it that > my system mail name was "foobar.com" (actually I didn't, but we'll pretend > that's what I called it). /etc/mailname contains "foobar.com" as well, but >

Context menues and editing styles in OOo 2

Hi, OOo 2 just made it to testing, and most is ok though I haven't used it much yet. It looks a lot nicer now. Anyway, I cannot figure out how to edit a style. I used to open the styles dialog and right click on the one I wanted to modify and select "Modify" on the context menu. I could

Re: xscreensaver + kde

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 06:07, Yuri Pakhomov wrote: > I had installed debian with gnome and xscreensaver. Then installed kde. > In gnome xscreensaver works fine. In kde i enter control center > > appearance...> screen saver and see blank screen saver only. > > When i enter settings> screensaver

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" ch anges working directory

Hello, > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- ... > > That's how the script is right now. I thought it would be nice to use > a few extra features of bash, changed the first line and found this > "change of directory" problem... I thought it was funny, since in the > Linux machines (

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" ch anges working directory

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You've got it: > > babbage[~/tmp]% echo $BASH_ENV > /home/finotti/.bashrc > > This is set in the default ".bash_profile" here (at work). I've never > changed it. So, that is not the usual case? What is the usua

Re: ssh communication issue

Larry Irwin wrote: All i/o is either normal (i.e. almost immediate) or frozen for a while. Frozen for a while could mean that the Debian box is busy doing other things, or an underlying network problem that's showing up as a loss of individual packets... then SSH (TCP actually) has to re-sen

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Luis writes: > /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash, so I was expecting to see no difference > with the change... When called as sh bash attempts to be POSIX compliant. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Luis writes: > That does answer my question, but it did not work, likely because I have > $BASH_ENV set to my .bashrc.. Why? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 eth and boot

Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > i found in the martin f krafft debian system book: > > (i havent tried it though, so i cant comment if it works or not) > > # grep eth /etc/udev/rules.d/local-netifaces > KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:00:de:ad:be:ef", NAME="eth0" > KERNEL="eth*", SYSFS{address}="00:00

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Luis Finotti writes: > I have > ... < ... You have this in what file? Post all of whatever file it is in. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

steef wrote: Ken Heard wrote: To "Wackojacko": I don't know how I missed the "Tools>CD>Burn CD Image" selection. I thought I had looked at the Tools menu: either I did not, or I did but did not see the obvious. I was able to burn the image as desired using that option. Thanks. To Björn L

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

Ken Heard wrote: To "Wackojacko": I don't know how I missed the "Tools>CD>Burn CD Image" selection. I thought I had looked at the Tools menu: either I did not, or I did but did not see the obvious. I was able to burn the image as desired using that option. Thanks. To Björn Lindström: I sai

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear Wesley, On 1/5/06, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:16, Luis Finotti wrote: > > I have > > > > --- > > AUTOHOME=$PWD > > > > # Clean up stupid automounter directory > > case $PWD in > > $AUTOHOME*) cd $HOM

Re: ssh communication issue

Larry Irwin wrote: Our ssh connections work fine on all our servers when we connect via the local network. But, when we ssh from the internet, there are long pauses where i/o is not displayed/echoed to the screen on our Debian servers. We experience 10 to 30 second pauses after a screen or 2 of

Re: difficulty connecting to SAN storage with qlogic 2200

getting closer. my initial problem seemed to be on the san disk side. but i'm not quite there yet. i'm getting this in my dmesg: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 qlogicfc0 : Loop Reinitialized qlogicfc0 : Link is Up scsi0 : QLogic ISP2200 SCSI on PCI bus 05 device 48 irq 18 base 0x1000

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear Michael, > You could change > > #! /bin/bash > > to > > #! /bin/bash --norc That does answer my question, but it did not work, likely because I have $BASH_ENV set to my .bashrc.. Thanks! Luis

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Hi Jan, Thanks for the reply again! > > open("/home/finotti/.bashrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3 > > There it is. From the bash manpage I gather that a non-interactive > bash doesn't read _any_ startup files, except for any file that > is mentioned in the environment variable $BASH_ENV. Does this

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

Richard Lyons wrote: On Friday, 30 December 2005 at 21:55:27 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: On Friday 30 December 2005 09:24, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: [...] SCSI emulation is not required

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

On Thursday 05 January 2006 13:16, Luis Finotti wrote: > I have > > --- > AUTOHOME=$PWD > > # Clean up stupid automounter directory > case $PWD in > $AUTOHOME*) cd $HOME${PWD#$AUTOHOME} ;; > esac > PS1='\h[\w]% ' > - > >

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

On 1/5/06, Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe is the issue with my .bashrc, as it's been pointed out... But > is there a way around it? You could change #! /bin/bash to #! /bin/bash --norc -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear Jan, > Hm, this is a bit redundant - it's not necessary to wrap pwd into > process substitution and echo the results... (...) Thanks for the comment! It was just something to show the change... > Besides, the snippet is procuding the desired result here ($pwd, not > $HOME). AFAICT, bash d

Streaming video

Hello. I use Debian Sarge, with a high speed adsl connection. In trying to view the site http://www.cpac.ca/asx/cpac2e.asx, and/or any "asx" site, using either Mozilla or Firefox, I was unable to with mozilla-plugin-vlc. I then tried mozilla-mplayer 2.70-1, and I have been able to view video

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Hi Luis! > > strace -eopen bash -c "echo 'X'" > > Many repeated lines, but, after "uniq": > > open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3 > open("/dev/tty", O

Re: Solved: Etch is not installable

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:59:58PM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > This may well be, i did not know about that. At installation time i > would expact this to work "out of the box". It usually does, but for the bug in apt (see yesterday's post from Joey Hess at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear Wesley, > The script you've shown works fine, just the way you want. Nothing in there > is going to change the working directory. > > For example: > > $ pwd > /home/wjl/tmp > $ cat #!/bin/bash > echo $(pwd) > EOF > $ chmod a+x test.sh > $ ./test.sh > /home/wjl/tmp > > If you think

Re: ssh communication issue

Larry Irwin wrote: Our ssh connections work fine on all our servers when we connect via the local network. But, when we ssh from the internet, there are long pauses where i/o is not displayed/echoed to the screen on our Debian servers. We experience 10 to 30 second pauses after a screen or 2 of

Re: Openoffice 2.0 user interface font

MrVanes wrote: > Today I found OpenOffice 2.0 trickled down into testing, yay! > The first annoyance however smacked me in the face when I saw the default > userinterface font. I allready found out how to change this using font > replacement for 'Andale Sans UI', but I don't understand the foll

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear David, > Do you have some sort of "cd $HOME" type statement in your .bashrc or > .bash_profile or .profile file (or similar)? I have --- AUTOHOME=$PWD # Clean up stupid automounter directory case $PWD in $AUTOHOME*) cd $HOME${PWD#$AUTOHOME} ;; e

Tripwire and /proc

The amount of data that tripwire reports on /proc is a bit overwhelming, and strikes me as not particularly useful most of the time. After all, most of the info in the root of /proc is PID info, so while certain system processes shouldn't change all that often, most of the stuff in there is pretty

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Hi! On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:25:10PM -0500, Luis Finotti wrote: > Dear all, > > I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that... > > I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: > --- > #!/bin/bash > > echo $(pwd) > Hm,

Re: Remote administartion via email

--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:24 -0500, Marty Landman > wrote: > > At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote: > > > > I'm looking for an application to do remote > administration of my > > > > Debian box

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

On Thursday 05 January 2006 12:25, Luis Finotti wrote: > Dear all, > > I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that... > > I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: > --- > #!/bin/bash > > echo $(pwd) > > I always get $HOME

Re: Solved: Etch is not installable

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I tried installing etch today, but the installation of the base system fails to install initrd-tools, lilo and grub, thus leaving the system unbootable. The package installation fails with "The following packa

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

On 1/5/06, Luis Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that... > > I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: > --- > #!/bin/bash > > echo $(pwd) > > I always get $HOME, no

[Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

Dear all, I realize that this should be "way off topic", so sorry about that... I've been working on a bash script, but when I run something like: --- #!/bin/bash echo $(pwd) I always get $HOME, not the current working directory. I'd need to continue in the working

LVM can't find devices after adding new disks

I have two systems which both use LVM. I recently added disks to both systems and my system now has problems finding physical volumes at boot time. Only my sata drives are affected by this. On one of the systems I have no useful log messages or outputs since the /home, and /var are located on the

httrack query

Hi, While using httrack to get all the contents of URL http://foss.in/2005/slides/,I couldn't retrieve a few files.Details are as given below: - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Ne

Re: Solved: Etch is not installable

Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I tried installing etch today, but the installation of the base system fails to install initrd-tools, lilo and grub, thus leaving the system unbootable. The package installation fails with "The following packages cannot be authenticate

ssh communication issue

Our ssh connections work fine on all our servers when we connect via the local network. But, when we ssh from the internet, there are long pauses where i/o is not displayed/echoed to the screen on our Debian servers. We experience 10 to 30 second pauses after a screen or 2 of display on Debi

Re: Remote administartion via email

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:24 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote: > > > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > > > Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably > > > authe

Re: about vlc and libmodplug0

2006/1/6, Sinan Nalkaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi, > I am using Debian Etch, i want to install vlc, then i got this error > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > vlc: Depends: libmodplug0 (>= 1:0.7-1) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages > > after that i try to

Re: i8253 count too high! resetting..

2006/1/5, Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am getting the following error during the install of 3.1r0a. > > The error is: i8253 count too high! resetting.. > > > I am installing this in a virtual pc environment. I am pretty sure that the > emulated hardware is causing the problem. Any

Re: unsubscribe

Il 05/01/06, Alberto Luigi Piccoli<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > > > > Alberto Luigi Piccoli > > -- > > E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio possono essere di natura > riservata e confidenziale e sono indir

hardware probs.: your opinion

Hi, For the likelihood that someone on the list has a better idea than I with what to do: I bought hardware that isn't working right: 1. A wd800jd sata drive hangs in post on the EPoX ep-8vtai motherboard. any ideas of what to do next? Returning merchandise is difficult from where I am prese

Re: apt-get update public key problem

Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fetched 2972kB in 1m10s (42.4kB/s) > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures > couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > 07DC563D1F41B907 > W: Bizarre Error -

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/4/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> this is a problem I've struggled with for a long while. Basically, >> you can set up alsa to share the sound device by doing its own >> software mixing. If you google > > I've been pondering a

Re: Remote administartion via email

At 12:54 PM 1/5/2006, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote: > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably > authenticating via pgp / gpg keys) and execute commands contained > therein.

Re: Remote administartion via email

Ron Johnson writes: > Didn't [UUCP] get retired along with 9600bps modems? UUCP over TCP/IP works fine and is useful for many purposes. toncho/~ 1 apt-cache search uucp cu - call up another system grunt - Secure remote execution via UUCP or e-mail using GPG grunt-uucp - Handler for incoming UUCP

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 16:11:49 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > >What I have in mind is that the new installer could rewrite the welcome > >text to say something like > > > >This is a new install of > >Debian GNU/Linux stable thisbox tty1 > > > >

Re: Remote administartion via email

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:27 -0500, celejar wrote: > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably > authenticating via pgp / gpg keys) and execute commands contained > therein. The box connects to the internet intermitt

i8253 count too high! resetting..

I am getting the following error during the install of 3.1r0a. The error is: i8253 count too high! resetting.. I am installing this in a virtual pc environment. I am pretty sure that the emulated hardware is causing the problem. Any idea what needs to be reset? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Remote administartion via email

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:00 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > celejar writes: > > ...I assume someone has already done this... > > Why not use UUCP? Didn't that get retired along with 9600bps modems? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA U

Re: Remote administartion via email

celejar writes: > ...I assume someone has already done this... Why not use UUCP? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solved: Etch is not installable

Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, I tried installing etch today, but the installation of the base system fails to install initrd-tools, lilo and grub, thus leaving the system unbootable. The package installation fails with "The following packages cannot be authenticated" i also tried using d

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

On 1/5/06, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who > arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a > good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from > fedora and suze to debian. Bu

Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:59:24 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I submitted a bug against e2fsprogs a couple weeks ago due to similar > > issues on boot up. the developer got right on it and apparently fixed it. > > S

Remote administartion via email

I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my Debian box via email. The app should read mail (presumably authenticating via pgp / gpg keys) and execute commands contained therein. The box connects to the internet intermittently to download mail, but does not have a persistent con

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > if I stop the application which is using the sound device and then other > application can use the sound device... > its more like exclusive access to the sound device by ALSA This isn't correct. ALSA allows concurrent access by multiple programs. However, OSS e

Re: Sound Device Not Shared

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound > device (/dev/dsp) and another > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already in use. > > What can I do it share the sound device?? Try and configure the programs to use ALSA ins

USB problems

Hi I have a little problem with the way USB and hotplug/udev are (not) working on my laptop (It's a Gateway, but i really don't know the model, hopefully I will provide enough info for someone to help me). The thing is that if I boot the machine with the USB devices already connected, they are re

cannot mount cdrom/dvd drive

I've managed to get Debian 2.6 installed on my system using a Pioneer DVD/CD-ROM Drive. After the install I wanted to use the DVD/CD as a source and found that the system does not recognize the drive. I also have a SATA drive 200GB installed. Seems that the 2.6 kernel treats the SATA as a sd

about vlc and libmodplug0

hi, I am using Debian Etch, i want to install vlc, then i got this error The following packages have unmet dependencies: vlc: Depends: libmodplug0 (>= 1:0.7-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages after that i try to install libmodplug0 but i am noticed that, apt wants to remo

Openoffice 2.0 user interface font

Hi, Today I found OpenOffice 2.0 trickled down into testing, yay! The first annoyance however smacked me in the face when I saw the default userinterface font. I allready found out how to change this using font replacement for 'Andale Sans UI', but I don't understand the following things: 1. Wha

Etch is not installable

Hi list, I tried installing etch today, but the installation of the base system fails to install initrd-tools, lilo and grub, thus leaving the system unbootable. The package installation fails with "The following packages cannot be authenticated" i also tried using different mirrors, but to

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

Richard Lyons wrote: The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from fedora and suze to debian. But there is a real danger of scaring

Re: debian installer complains about missing modules

On (05/01/06 12:12), gregory duchesnes wrote: > I'm trying to install Sarge 3.1r1 (downloaded this file > :debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso > ) > > on a homebrewed server based on a SC813MT supermicro chassis

Re: 2.6.15 with dynticks: special power savings feature

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, For those of you with laptops: Latest version of the dynticks patch. This is proving stable and effective on virtually all uniprocessor machines and will benefit systems that desire power savings. SMP kernels (even on UP machines) still misbehave so this config opt

Re: Boot in console not X [Was]Re: X server problem

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:35:40PM +, David Pead wrote: > > Now however, in my fumbling around trying to fix the Xserver I've messed up > the keyboard mapping. I need to get back to the command line to reconfigure > but can't use the usual alt-F1. normally, from within X, that would be ctrl-a

Re: apt-get update public key problem

Worked for me as well Thanks! --- Begin Message --- On Wed January 4 2006 11:41 am, John Biederstedt wrote: > Today I ran apt-get update and got this: > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 > Binary-1 (20051107)] etch Release.gpg > Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linu

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jan 03 23:29 -0600]: >> Edward C. Jones wrote: >> > I am getting the following message from synaptic: >> > >> > W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release: The following >> > signatures couldn't be verified because the publ

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

Richard Lyons wrote: The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from fedora and suze to debian. But there is a real danger of scaring

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