Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 1:50:52 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:39 am, David Kirchner wrote: > > On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > > > trivial you think they

Re: unsubscribe

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
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Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 10:06:20 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: [...] > > >> Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: > >> http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html > > > > That is a good resource. Pity it's not subthreaded, so to speak. But > > very useful anyway. > > > >

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:39 am, David Kirchner wrote: > On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > > final corrected version w

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting > the in

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread David Kirchner
On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guideli

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Kent West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. Looks very good. 5. As questions tend to be referred to debian-user and due to the dilemma of "appropriate mailing list to

RE: unsubscribe

2006-01-10 Thread Matthew Joyce
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Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:49:02 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. First of all, if there is a newcomer list, think about who its > subscribers will be. It will most probably be newcomers who are > having some problems and need advice/suggestions/pointers > etc., .

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2006-01-10 Thread Thomas Lenon
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modelines in new Xorg: (Was Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000)

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:28 -0800: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:49:18 +1100 (EST) > Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > G'day all, > > > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV > > under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x.

FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The final corrected version will be uploaded to http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html . I am posting the initial version for your kind consi

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:23:51AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > J.Moore wrote: > > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. > Yo

Re: DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000

2006-01-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:49:18 +1100 (EST) Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G'day all, > > I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV > under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > snipping some of this - as I have etch running xorg 6.

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-10 Thread swm
If I'm not mistaken, Debian 3.0 (Woody) used 2.2.20 (according to http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian). I located a list of mirrors at: http://iso.linuxquestions.org/version.php?version=14 Also, some of the CD vendors listed at http://www.us.debian.org/CD/vendors/ allow you to

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-10 Thread Felipe Sateler
J.Moore wrote: > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. You need a 2.2 kernel, not a distribution with that version number. Either f

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:13:03 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root. > > > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > > > then select dialog. > > > If only it were that simplex! > > I changed the dialogue to KDE which mean

Re: aspell error in sarge

2006-01-10 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:09:42 -0500 Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both gaim and sylpheed-claws have been rebuilt with security updates. > Do the pre-security-updated-versions work? > > Also, what architecture are you using? i386, aka x86? Now that we're through the holidays. Any fur

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root.dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog.If only it were that simplex!I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. It won't let me reconfigure any thing.Does that make sense? It's not obvious what

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 19:59:57 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it > didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, > no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't w

Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-10 Thread J.Moore
I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. I finally located the 2.2 distro on archives.debian.org, but have not been able to find the inst

Policy Violation

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dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to rei

yaird problem with kernel-image-2.6-686-smp

2006-01-10 Thread Joshua Swink
When I try to install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp, the package fails to set up. I get the following errors: Setting up linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (2.6.15-1) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: '/dev/hda1' not found (/etc/fstab:

Re: Local --> apt

2006-01-10 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:26:27PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting > dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the > application being compiled. Look at checkinstall. signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: gvim window activated by mutt doesn't get focus in xfwm4

2006-01-10 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:33:19AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Simon Huggins wrote on Jan, 9: > > > With KDE, when I edited a mail in mutt, a new buffer was created in > > > gvim, its window was raised and got focus. With xfwm4, the window is > > > raised but doesn't gain focus. I t

Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade

2006-01-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Greg Norris wrote:>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:>  >>>I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages>>involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts >>different. There is also the following error message:>>    This co

Problem mounting 2GB SD card in USB card reader

2006-01-10 Thread Steven Flintham
Hi, I'm running Debian 3.1 and have been using a couple of 512MB SD cards in my USB card reader without any problems. I'm running the standard 2.4 kernel and have the following in /etc/fstab: /dev/sdc1 /media/mmc vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 When I do: mount /media/mmc the SD

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
David,Am I mistaken or did I see a recent post from you about some sortof flakiness in your wireless internet connection?  Could a lost connection be causing firefox to reload the page?You know, I never considered that. I some how don't think that is it, but it is an interesting theory. The reason

Re: Logrotate don't route

2006-01-10 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote: > David Jardine ha scritto: > >On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: > > > >>Hi all, > >> > >>I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate > >>my backup's log. > >>This is the text in my file: > >>/

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? > > There is xmessage, but from crontab? Set your $DISPLAY variable appropriately. DISPLAY=:0.0 xmessage "My message" ... shou

Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt

2006-01-10 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: > Mache ich was falsch? Ja: du solltest mal nach die deutsche debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Liste mailen. :) Siehe: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ Die Liste wohin du jetzt gesendet hast, ist eine englische Liste.

display popup message on X with crontab

2006-01-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How would I popup an informative message on X from a crontab entry? There is xmessage, but from crontab? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: an advice about security.

2006-01-10 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 2006-01-10 1257, Mauro Sanna wrote: > Hello. > My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a > develop directory that is /home/develop. > Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. > Now they want to connect directly to /var/www/final to avoid th

Re: Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting

2006-01-10 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:07:10PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. > > This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine > if I start it with startx. > > BUT kdm will not start, and in the file

Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 1/10/06, Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an > older > post by someone else who had the same error... > Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, maybe > it'll > work ;) No biggie; A for ef

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:27AM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > > > > Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? > > > > > > > > > As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use > > GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few s

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread Matthew Lenz
i know thats not possible with my JVC which has USB .. you should be able to do it with the firewire port just fine though. also Jay he's using an smp kernel because its a hyper-threaded cpu. AFAIK at some point there wont even be a separate smp compile it'll just assume smp and not use it if its

Re: Logrotate don't route

2006-01-10 Thread Marco
David Jardine ha scritto: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: Hi all, I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate my backup's log. This is the text in my file: /var/log/backup { rotate 4 monthly compress delaycompress missingok

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-10 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Brian Clark wrote: Yes, although it will work, surely that isn't the best solution. It is a common thing to do, but... Unless I've done something else wrong, I'm starting to think it's a bug. ...I have just read the documentation and tested this method. It does indeed not work. I seems th

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Litwin wrote: > I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 > Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba > laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB Off-Topic

Local --> apt

2006-01-10 Thread David Baron
Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the application being compiled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nforce2 and temperature monitoring

2006-01-10 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 10 Janvier 2006 11:04, Andras Lorincz a écrit : > Hi, > > I have an Asus A7N8X-XE mobo. Things work well: networking, audio, IDE > drivers are working with 2.6.14.4 kernel, the only thing is that I > cannot monitor the CPU and case temperature; is there some module that > I didn't compile,

Re: Continuing problem with updates

2006-01-10 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg00291.html . On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:21:50AM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > For the past few days I keep getting a "public key" warning when I try > to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says > "NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F"

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Tue, January 10, 2006 11:08 am, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: >> > the "help he

Re: cups - samba - frustration! - LIKE SOLVED

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
Angela Gavazzi wrote: Hi Clive, the last 2 hours I set up a new (about the 10th) pure! sarge (doing all testing in vmware), installed all the necessary stuff, joined to domain, installed a printer test under cups and tested it. then I went on a w2k client, connect to the printers share, uploa

Re: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.

2006-01-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:56:12AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:18:21AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > > > >>Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > >>> > >>> > Paul E Condon wrote: > >

change from ide to scsi drive keep system

2006-01-10 Thread Rodney Richison
I've seen asked before and googling does not help. Here's how I just switched over a server from ide to a compag dl380 with smart array 3200 scsi card. Install base system on target machine. Install webmin On running server, install webmin. go to system/file-system backup make a backup to the loca

Re: cups - samba - frustration! - LIKE SOLVED

2006-01-10 Thread Angela Gavazzi
Hi Clive, the last 2 hours I set up a new (about the 10th) pure! sarge (doing all testing in vmware), installed all the necessary stuff, joined to domain, installed a printer test under cups and tested it. then I went on a w2k client, connect to the printers share, uploaded the windows driver

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-10 Thread Will L (sent by Nabble.com)
Richard Lyons wrote: > > Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > > ... > > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the > > archive of gmane.org, > > ... > > Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html That is a good resource.  Pity i

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:35:22 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Rewriting the welcome message coupled with some scripts to quickly install > a GUI (for the ones who missed the option) or get rid of the newbie welcome > 3. Have the 'Desktop' task selected by default (and maybe

Continuing problem with updates

2006-01-10 Thread Arthur Barlow
For the past few days I keep getting a "public key" warning when I try to update packages from two different mirrors. The warning says "NO_PUBLIC 010908312D230C5F" It seems as if the packages are missing a checksum key or some other problem. Could you please check thanks. -- Arthur Barlow <[EMA

Problem with xserver-xorg_6.9.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.deb with ATI X700

2006-01-10 Thread Halestino Pimentel
Hi all, After updating the packages and upgrading my system, xserver-xorg upgraded to version 6.9. After that I couldn't start X anymore. I know that downgrading to xserver-xorg_6.8.2.dfsg.1-11_i386.deb solves the problem, but since packages.debian is down for a few days, I can't get the xserver

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
Angela Gavazzi wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html I will have a look at it. When I try to prepare the printerdrivers for the windows clients with cupsaddsmb "nothing" happens: no error

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: > > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to > > stop) s

Problem with the latest ffmpeg from nerim.net

2006-01-10 Thread T
Hi, Christian: I've been using the nerim.net repository ever since I started to use Debian long time ago, and had never had any problem before. I was happy to find out that the transcode and ffmpeg all updated to the latest version recently, however, I found that the latest ffmpeg package is un

lm-sensors

2006-01-10 Thread Chris
Just upgraded an old P3 machine to a new Athlon 3500 on an Asus motherboard (sarge). sensors-detect advised to install the modules i2c-isa it87 Now - sensors gives the following (as does sensord): it87-isa-0d00 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore 1: +1.44 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.57 V) ALARM V

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On 1/10/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.html > and another yester-eve when I was signing up for a new account. It was an > https, so now we know that this refresh is a Firefox-in-general problem and > not a Firef

Re: Openoffice 2.0 user interface font

2006-01-10 Thread MrVanes
MrVanes wrote: > 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

Re: Possible Firefox Bug?

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark th

nvidia drivers

2006-01-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is bug #346246: ... > beside the error message beeing *crystal* clear, we don't support > closed source binary drivers > > closing > I know it's crystal, it's all about compiling for rivafb support! And don't tell me that i can make my custom kernel! This rivafb support on Debian kernel start

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

2006-01-10 Thread Angela Gavazzi
Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 12.10 schrieb Clive Menzies: > On (10/01/06 08:53), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > > I think I'm doing some idiot error, but I can't find it - or it's a > > library problem or something else. > > Not sure this will be much help but here goes ... > > > I have a sarge system, sa

Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome

2006-01-10 Thread Brian Clark
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:14:12PM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Brian Clark wrote: > >After upgrading to OpenOffice.org 2.0 in testing, it doesn't seem to > >pick up and use GTK widgets, themes, et cetera, unless I run it from a > >shell (see below). > >I have this: > >~$ cat /etc/openoffice/

Re: .ape files

2006-01-10 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:29:19AM +0200, Meni Shapiro wrote: > What player plays .ape files? > Which pkg should i install? It's a lossless codec called Monkey's Audio. There is no official package in Debian that plays it as far as I know. You can find Debian packages that handle it at http://www

Re: window manager.

2006-01-10 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
... > Ok. > But...why using hurd with mach kernel instead of linux? > It's for your trial ok, but supposing hurd became stable, why use it > instead of linux? ... That's for anyone to find out: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd At the end everything comes to a personal choice and taste. I di

Re: mysql & logrotate not behaving post Etch dist-upgrade

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
s. keeling wrote: > I received this this morning: > >From: Anacron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on infidel >Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:37:47 -0600 >X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.00, version=0.96.2 > >/etc

problem with snapshot.debian.net

2006-01-10 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Hi all, I need to retrieve an older version of a package from unstable, which is not in sarge (plib1.8.4-dev_1.8.4-1_i386.deb). I tried to get it from snapshot.debian.net, but while it says packages since 2005/03/13 are available, I couldn't access packages earlier than 2005/11/01, and cou

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
Jay Zach wrote: > 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.

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-10 Thread Jay Zach
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.er

Re: Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:42:36AM -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > > Didn't one come with the camcorder? > > Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a > pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. > Quite true from what I've seen, but their

Re: Can't detect CD-ROM in IBM T43

2006-01-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote: > I still keep having similar problem even with the latest debian installer > (kernel 2.6.12). Having SATA disk and IDE CDROM I am unable to install > Debian. Installer reports that CDROM was not found. I am able to make it > installed using the trick with

Re: Please don't laugh...

2006-01-10 Thread cmetzler
Graham Smith wrote: > > Ok, you can maybe have a bit of a chuckle. I won't laugh at your expense. But I will suggest that in the future, you might want to be more courteous to the people from whom you're asking for help by using an informative subject line for your message. This mailing list g

RE: Can't detect CD-ROM in IBM T43

2006-01-10 Thread Žáček Kryštof
I still keep having similar problem even with the latest debian installer (kernel 2.6.12). Having SATA disk and IDE CDROM I am unable to install Debian. Installer reports that CDROM was not found. I am able to make it installed using the trick with manual loading the ide-generic ... But after re

problem making kernel - infinite loop

2006-01-10 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi all, I have problems making a 2.6.15 kernel on a debian unstable machine, more precisely Linux seneca 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux The problem is that after saying make, everything that happens is: seneca:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15# make CHK include/linu

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [...] > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to > stop) so what can we do? > Installing Linux on ones computer requires a conscious deci

Re: Setting up a netboot server

2006-01-10 Thread Pete Clarke
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris >> machines, >> it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. >> I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot >> CD image to boot x86 an

Problem with kdm 3.5 not starting

2006-01-10 Thread David Goodenough
I have a sacrificial machine which I keep fully up to date with unstable. This morning KDE 3.5 arrived, so I installed it. It seems to work just fine if I start it with startx. BUT kdm will not start, and in the file /var/log/kdm.log there is an error saying the on the X command, the -br opti

Re: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.

2006-01-10 Thread Chinook
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:18:21AM -0500, Chinook wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:24:24PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 10:18:35PM -0500, Chinook wrote: Mac OS X a

DRI and XV gone to the doghouse -- inspiron4000

2006-01-10 Thread Tim Connors
G'day all, I have an Dull Inspiron 4000, which always used to have working DRI and XV under kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.x. The video card is a Rage 128: > lspci -vvv ... :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsys

Re: ultra320 controller suggestions

2006-01-10 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 1/9/06, Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to get some suggestions for some ultra320 controllers that are > very debian friendly for purchase from ebay. LSI Logic SCSI controllers are quite good. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting up a netboot server

2006-01-10 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:10:35PM -, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, > it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. > I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot > CD image to boot x86 and Sparc wo

Setting up a netboot server

2006-01-10 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I currently have a netboot server (tftp) for setting up Solaris machines, it is an Ultra 10 running Solaris 9. I have a local mirror of the Debian archive, and currently use a netboot CD image to boot x86 and Sparc workstations before installation over the network. Solaris netboot/install

version of libglib2.0-0 too high

2006-01-10 Thread gab gab
Hi, I have a package problem i cannot solve : In order to build a gtkmm GUI project, I must install the package "libgtkmm-2.4-dev", but there are dependencies that i cannot satisfy. when i run "apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-dev", i find that : libgtkmm-2.4-dev depends libgtk2.0-dev, which depe

Re: an advice about security.

2006-01-10 Thread Mark Lijftogt
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:57:22PM +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > Hello. > My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a > develop directory that is /home/develop. > Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. > Now they want to connect directly to /var/

an advice about security.

2006-01-10 Thread Mauro Sanna
Hello. My users connect via a samba server to their home directories and to a develop directory that is /home/develop. Then they copy all the data from /home/develop to /var/www/final. Now they want to connect directly to /var/www/final to avoid the copy. Can I share /var/www/final with samba or i

Re: Cups & Samba with Print problem

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (09/01/06 21:33), Don wrote: > I am a newbie at Linux and got CUPs running with Samba to print to my > Windows printer over my home network. This was running well for several > weeks and then nothing. Following a power outage > my printing from the Linux box simply

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

2006-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/01/06 08:53), Angela Gavazzi wrote: > I think I'm doing some idiot error, but I can't find it - or it's a library > problem or something else. > Not sure this will be much help but here goes ... > I have a sarge system, samba 3.0.20 from testing (also tried samba version > from sarge) an

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 4:35:22 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > > It seems pretty clear that subscribers of this list don't > want/need/... a debian-newcomer list. > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: the > "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't wa

Kapcsolatfelvétel

2006-01-10 Thread Vadas Csaba
Tisztelt Hölgyem, Uram!!   Engedje meg, hogy bemutatkozzam, Vadas Csaba vagyoka Dreamworld Entertainment Kft.munkatársa.   Hozzájárulását szeretném kérni, hogy egy bemutatkozó e-mail-t küldjek a cégüknek, melyben röviden bemutatom tevékenységi köreinket.Kérem írja meg a munkatársuk nevét aki

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday, 9 January 2006 at 16:27:23 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > > Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > > > > ... > > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the > > archive of gmane.org, which as of now contains more than 200.000 posts. > > With number

nforce2 and temperature monitoring

2006-01-10 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I have an Asus A7N8X-XE mobo. Things work well: networking, audio, IDE drivers are working with 2.6.14.4 kernel, the only thing is that I cannot monitor the CPU and case temperature; is there some module that I didn't compile, if yes then which is that?

Re: logwatch and imap

2006-01-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joe Mc Cool wrote: >Please, > >logwatch is reporting: > > > >> - IMAP Begin >> >> >>[IMAPd] Connections: >>= >> Host | Connections |SSL | Total >>-

Where to alter vertical padding in menu bars?

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
After an apt-get upgrade for unstable today, the vertical padding in all menu bars in gtk/gnome related applications seems to have increased. That is, the menu bars, menu lists and item lists have increased in size vertically, but the size of the font within them hasn't changed. Frankly, I find i

logwatch and imap

2006-01-10 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, logwatch is reporting: > - IMAP Begin > > > [IMAPd] Connections: > = > Host | Connections |SSL | Total > -- | --- | | -

Re: Firefox error following recent Sid upgrade

2006-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2006, Greg Norris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:17:06PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I just did a large upgrade in Sid, with xorg among other packages > > involved. Firefox now looks odd: large spaces between lines and fonts > > different. There is also the following error mes

Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
See January 2006 Linux Journal for quite an interesting article about this sort of thing. Where can I find this?Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
Didn't one come with the camcorder? Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. >  But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim.Good luck.  Tell us if you get it working...I'll need some good ski

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:52:10AM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: > > From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:35 PM > > <...> > > > 4. incorporate the hardware detection of derivative distros > > (like Knoppix). This would probably be possible only for the

.ape files

2006-01-10 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi guys,What player plays .ape files?Which pkg should i install?i'm running debian 3.1 with gnome 2.xi've tried xmms,totem,vlc all failed.10x for the help-- --Meni Szapiro

Re: window manager.

2006-01-10 Thread Mauro Sanna
> Hurd is not a kernel, mach is the uKernel over which hurd runs, and > debian is in top of hurd, :). I have it for trial. Console is OK, > but with X I experienced file system corruption. In general it's OK, > but I wouldn't trust it reliably. That's just my opinion though. > Remember the whol

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