Re: Scripting again...

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:40:48AM +0100, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... > anything that's available in the installation environment) > > "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" > > The trick is in the new

Scripting again...

Hi All, how do you change (from the command line) with (sed/awk/... anything that's available in the installation environment) "text:\n someothertext" to "text: someothertext" The trick is in the newline of course. I now do with cat output.txt | tr '\n'

How do I find a floppy drive in /dev (not in /dev/fd!)?

I have purchased a Mitsumi USB (external) floppy drive, and, having attached it to my computer, I am trying to find where it is located in /dev. I would like to use the udev system, and the command udevinfo, but it seems I have to specify the location of the floppy drive in /dev first, and I do

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

CaT wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:26:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: This response almost makes me angry. I said specifically A PROCESS. I didn't say what kind of process. The file system should not generate writes out of nothing. Somewhere there is A PROCESS (an instance of a running progr

Re: / suddenly Read-only

On 1/17/06, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors. > > Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro' > > option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs. > >

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:42:38PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Thanks to Stural Holm Hansen and Steve Kemp for answering my post. > Unfortunately I my problem is still not solved. > > I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler, > as it did not require use o

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:26:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > This response almost makes me angry. I said specifically > A PROCESS. I didn't say what kind of process. The file system > should not generate writes out of nothing. Somewhere there > is A PROCESS (an instance of a running program, may

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Marty wrote: [snip] I agree with the previous poster that hardware stress is not an issue with a hard disk, although I've read of concerns about flash drives. There are only a limited number of times the drive will successfully seek, but bearing wear is not really something to worry about.

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 12:00 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at.bofh.it: Matthias: I am searching the source of some every 2/3 seconds happening harddisk read/write operation. If yo

Re: Content Management Recommendations?

On 1/17/06, Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good content management system for me to set up. I > want to have a News section, a photo gallery, a blog, some articles, etc. > > I used to use PostNuke, but I don't see it as a Debian package anymore. > > I'd prefer PHP/My

net boot file for potato?

I need a netboot file for Debian 2.2 (potato); i.e. a file that I can use to bootstrap a Soekris box. I understand (think, not know) that current versions of Debian contain a file called 'netboot.tar.gz' that can be used for this purpose, but I suspect that this file is release-specific (e.g. can

Content Management Recommendations?

Title: Message Can anyone recommend a good content management system for me to set up. I want to have a News section, a photo gallery, a blog, some articles, etc.   I used to use PostNuke, but I don't see it as a Debian package anymore.    I'd prefer PHP/MySQL but it's not a requirement.

Re: cross compiler for stable

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 00:49 +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to build a cross compiler for stable? I've running a > server with stable on i386 and I have a powerpc with unstable. Is it > possible to cross compile packages on the unstable ppc for the stable > i386? Can anyone giv

Re: group callander program

> Rodney Richison wrote: > > >I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. > >Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. > > >I seen thunderbird callendar. > >kdepim > > >These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would you use to > >connect in a multi-platfo

Re: Kickstart floppy Debian

> What I do: > - on 'golden client' save package information: >$ dpkg --get-selections "*" >myselections # or use \* >(This is a file with lines like `packagename installed` etc.) > - on 'golden client' save configuration information: >$ debconf-get-selections > configselections >

ndiswrapper

just installed deb 3.1 sarge, trying to insstall the ndiswrapper i find that /lib/modules/2.6.8-386 does not have the build link to the linux headers thus cannot install using the 1.8 source from sf.net. as far as i can see this is a bug, anybody knows a fix? cannot go wireless otherwise. thanks

Re: ktuberling

Kent West wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: "Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting." The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load for

Re: ktuberling

Elmer E. Dow wrote: Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: "Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting." The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load for her. Since this is

Re: Connecting to net with Debian 3.0

Shane Clement wrote: > I have used pppconfig to set up for connecting to the net as via > "provider". After entering > >pon > > he plog listing says that the connect script failed but > does not say where. Is there a way I can find where the > script failed? Post the relevant pa

Re: Connecting to net with Debian 3.0

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:30:06 +0100, Shane Clement wrote: > I have a Toshiba Satelliite A30 laptop with a 40 Gig drive, > half of which is given to Debian. I have used pppconfig to > set up for connecting to the net as via "provider". After > entering > >pon > > he plog listing s

ktuberling

Greetings: My four-year-old ktuberling user is getting the following message when trying to load the program: "Fatal error: Unable to load the picture, aborting." The program works fine for the other three users on the machine, but won't even load for her. Since this is the case -- and every

Re: / suddenly Read-only

Karsten M. Self wrote: This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors. Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro' option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs. This particular option is at the moment causing me considerable

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

Thanks to Stural Holm Hansen and Steve Kemp for answering my post. Unfortunately I my problem is still not solved. I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler, as it did not require use of a live CDROM. He warned me that the command "mount -n -o remount,rw /" might not

Re: Power down

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says something like "

Re: gpg keys, secure apt

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:17 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > It appears that you have debsig-verify installed. Unless you have some > reason to be wanting dpkg to check internal gpg signatures of packages, > which are not widely or consistently used in debian, you can remove it. > This has nothing to do

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

Thanks for the advice, I managed to get the system booting off either disc without further swapping of the drives around though. I set "raid-extra-boot=mbr-only" in lilo.conf. This forces lilo to rewrite the mbr of each disc in the raid1 array and not to the first sector of the raid1 partition.

Re: Fetchmail problems

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 22:50 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Latest versions from Sid seem broken: Since you didn't mention exactly which version that it, I'm guessing it's v6.3.1-4? (I upgraded on Friday, and it still has version 6.2.5.4-1. > 1. pid files are not created > 2. EHLO syntax errors so c

Re: Replacing KDE shutdown dragon

Hi, I'm curious, which picture did you choose from http://www.kde-look.org . I would have thought, it would come pre-labelled as shutdownkonq.png . -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Why display the entire window contents when moving it?

arden wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:11:40 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: When dragging a window around, why isn't only the border displayed during movement, instead of all the details. ... Is this really a problem? what do you want to do with t

Re: Net-Install Problem, AMD 64 "Etch"

Roni Rachi wrote: I have the net-install Debian "Etch" AMD64 version. When I select any of the US servers, it will download some files but then stop and say Could not find security updates at security.debian.org , so then I continue and it asks me if I want to be in the Debian popularity grou

Re: gpg keys, secure apt

Glenn English wrote: > dpkg: error > processing /var/cache/apt/archives/anjuta-common_1.2.4a-2_all.deb > (--unpack): > Verification on > package /var/cache/apt/archives/anjuta-common_1.2.4a-2_all.deb failed! > Authenticating /var/cache/apt/archives/anjuta_1.2.4a-2_i386.deb ... > debsig: Origin Sig

Re: xdm & ctrl+alt+backspase

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:34:44 +0200 "Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folk. > > When I do several times ctrl+alt+backspase in X (I want ot restart X > session), than xdm kill. > How can I solve this problem. Or how can I manage it is working xdm or not? > If xdm not works, > then restar

Re: strange outbound connection

johannes wrote: Magnus Pedersen wrote: johannes wrote: The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port 1054 to a strange IP. How could I determine which process matches this connection? How could I determine if this is something worrying? Thanks for any help and links.

xdm & ctrl+alt+backspase

Hi folk. When I do several times ctrl+alt+backspase in X (I want ot restart X session), than xdm kill. How can I solve this problem. Or how can I manage it is working xdm or not? If xdm not works, then restart it. Thanx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Power down

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:02:58 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vincent Smeets wrote: > > > Hallo, > > > > I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does > > find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says > > something like "... bios too

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

Joris Huizer wrote: Greg wrote: which device do you write to ? (there's a reason I ask, I'll elucidate when sober...^hic)};) I call cdrecord as follows: cdrecord --force dev=ATA:1,0,0 that means, the ATA:1,0,0 device hmm, as I think of that, I guess that's a scsi naming scheme; I think I

Re: Crashes and lock-ups in Sarge

Felix Karpfen wrote: Since October 2005 I have been experiencing repeated crashes and lock-ups - of varying degrees of seriousness. Initially, I attributed these to some software incompatibilities and sought advice in the relevant "users groups". And was advised that it sounded like a "hardwar

Net-Install Problem, AMD 64 "Etch"

I have the net-install Debian "Etch" AMD64 version. When I select any of the US servers, it will download some files but then stop and say Could not find security updates at security.debian.org , so then I continue and it asks me if I want to be in the Debian popularity group, I say no to this and

Re: strange outbound connection

Magnus Pedersen wrote: johannes wrote: The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port 1054 to a strange IP. How could I determine which process matches this connection? How could I determine if this is something worrying? Thanks for any help and links. Johannes nets

Fetchmail problems

Latest versions from Sid seem broken: 1. pid files are not created 2. EHLO syntax errors so connections not made, fail not fetched Any information on this? Fix? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.6.15, pcmcia and make-kpkg

Hi! I'm trying to build 2.6.15 (from stock kernel.org sources) with make-kpkg on my laptop. Everything works out fine, except for PCMCIA/ PCCARD support. I have all the relevant options set in the kernels .config as modules, but make-kpkg binary just won't build them. No yenta_socket.ko, n

Re: Power down

Vincent Smeets wrote: Hallo, I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my AC

Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

evert wrote: Hallo Steef, Bij het zoeken naar mijn probleem : Linux Sarge, Frozen mouse kwam ik jouw vraag /antwoord tegen. Ik ontmoet momenteel na een Debian sarge installatie hetzelfde probleem. Wat mij bevreemd is dat ik niet ergens een afdoende oplossing of antwoord op het probleem vind.

gpg keys, secure apt

OK. I give up. My apt keys are all screwed up. I think. 'apt-get install anjuta anjuta-common' says: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm2.0-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomemm2.0-dev devhelp-books glade-2 glade-gnom

Re: Power down

Elmer E. Dow wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the above instructions with no success. Any further ideas? Are you shure that power down is supported by your bios? On rather old hardware it might not be

Re: for the lllovvve off gggood

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:17:49PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > theo wrote: > > thanks for your answer... > > in the meantime i figured myself that "xset r off" would help but "xset > r rate 200 50" doesn't fix it... > > it's like my old post above.. the repeatition of keys is random if not > turned off

Re: Power down

Noah Dain wrote: On 1/16/06, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? Andrei On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Noah D

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Re: Power down

Hallo, I have an old (1999) computer too. dmesg showed that the kernel does find my ACPI but doesn't use it because my bios is too old. It says something like "... bios too old (1999 < 2001)". I now use the kernel parameter "acpi=force" and now the kernel is using my ACPI. Poweroff does now r

(Solved) Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

The file /var/dpkg/available became corrupted. debconf, dpkg, apt-get and synaptic could not work. The fix:  My suggestion, rather than messing around with editing and such, would be to do:dpkg --clear-avail: to clear the available list, then do:apt-get update: to repopulate it. Ta.-- —A watched br

Re: for the lllovvve off gggood

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Re: for the lllovvve off gggood

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Re: Power down

On 1/16/06, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? > > > >Andrei > > > >On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 + > >"Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Noa

Re: renice equivalent for network traffic

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Re: strange outbound connection

johannes wrote: The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port 1054 to a strange IP. How could I determine which process matches this connection? How could I determine if this is something worrying? Thanks for any help and links. Johannes netstat -plant | grep 1054

Re: strange outbound connection

> Von: Tim Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port > > 1054 to a strange IP. > > > > How could I determine which process matches this connection? > > How could I determine if this is something worrying? > > Netstat will help you find whi

Re: Power down

Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? Andrei On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Noah Dain wrote: My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from

Re: group callander program

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:13 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. > Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. > > I seen thunderbird callendar. > kdepim > > These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would you use to >

[Fwd: Re: strange outbound connection]

Sorry meant to send this to whole list: Original Message Subject: Re: strange outbound connection Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:38:48 + From: Tim Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> johannes wrote: The gui of my firewall re

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

hi ya drbob On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: > I use mdadm to manage my array. The command was > > mdadm --set-faulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 --remove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 i'd think there might be a short cut version, but i'm being lazy to go look it up - i'd set it faulty first, if the sys

Re: Enabling kinput2-canna

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 02:32:34AM +0800, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > Aside from the key combinations in vim and emacs, I've never really > used an input method. But I now have canna and kinput2-canna installed > and nothing seems to happen. > > Besides the raw installataion of the two packages and

Re: Debian Etch DVD download help

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:18:54 +0530 ahsan baig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to download the DVDs for latest debian distribution ( code named etch). From the website I could locate ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch-dvd/, where there are li

Enabling kinput2-canna

Aside from the key combinations in vim and emacs, I've never really used an input method. But I now have canna and kinput2-canna installed and nothing seems to happen. Besides the raw installataion of the two packages and their dependencies, what else do I need to do (install or configure) to use

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

Greg wrote: which device do you write to ? (there's a reason I ask, I'll elucidate when sober...^hic)};) I call cdrecord as follows: cdrecord --force dev=ATA:1,0,0 that means, the ATA:1,0,0 device hmm, as I think of that, I guess that's a scsi naming scheme; I think I read writing to /dev/

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:21:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: > Ah, good advice. I was thinking of /var/lib/dpkg/status for some reason, > which of course can't be regenerated so easily. Thankfully this will be backed up automatically on most Debian systems and can be found in: /var/bac

Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion, rather than messing around with editing and such, would be to do: dpkg --clear-avail : to clear the available list, then do: apt-get update : to repopulate it. Later, Seeker Ah, good advice. I was thinking of /var/lib/dpkg/status for some reason, wh

Re: Power down

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the above instructions with no success. Any further ideas? Are you shure that power down is supported by your bios? On rather old hardware it might not be supported at all. Then

strange outbound connection

The gui of my firewall reports a strange outbound connection on port 1054 to a strange IP. How could I determine which process matches this connection? How could I determine if this is something worrying? Thanks for any help and links. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: group callander program

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodney Richison wrote: > I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. > Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. > > I seen thunderbird callendar. > kdepim > > These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would y

Re: Gimp does not work because of Fontconfig version

Mauricio Lin wrote: [...] I searched by libfontconfig.so.1 version under /usr directory in my system: # cd /usr # find -name libfontconfig*so* ./lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 ./lib/libfontconfig.so.1 ./lib/libfontconfig.so ./X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0 ./X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 ./X11R6/li

Re: Power down

Do you have "apm=power_off" passed to your kernel? Andrei On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 11:06:26 + "Elmer E. Dow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > Noah Dain wrote: > > > >>> My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from > >>> kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in

Re: Power down

Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the above instructions with no success. Any further ideas? Are you shure that power down is supported by your bios? On rather old hardware it might not be supported at all. Then you just have to turn the swi

Re: Power down

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Noah Dain wrote: My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown automatically. What should I do to fix this? I had a bunch of crappy dells (is there any other kind?) th

Re: APT-GET Upgrade problem

On Monday 16 January 2006 10:18 am, Don wrote: > Ok so I had issues with my Debian system and got myself into a bind. > Reloaded from woody CD's and ended up with mouse issues I could not fix. > Threw in the towel and reloaded once again. Mouse works fine but now I > have a problem in APT. When a

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

drbob wrote: I'll post here if the changes I suggest above have any effect. regards, drbob Before I did this I tried a few different settings in lilo.conf and had some success :-). Setting raid-extra-boot=mbr-only avoided the error I was seeing previously: :/etc# lilo -v LILO version 2

Re: APT-GET Upgrade problem

Don wrote: dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. when I do as root: which update-rc.d I get: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d What do you get? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

On 1/16/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, you could look at it that way. I was 'Grr'ing because I can't > seem to remember to replyall instead of reply when responding to a > list that's setup as debian-user. I have yet to switch back to mutt > as I want to keep messages' read/unre

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Re: Debian Etch DVD download help

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:18:54 +0530 ahsan baig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to download the DVDs for latest debian distribution ( code named > etch). > >From the website I could locate > ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch-dvd/, where there > are links to the IS

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

On 1/12/06, Joshua Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Gabriel S. Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > > > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for > > > the direct reply Andy. > > > > Ar

group callander program

I find many programs as I'm googling for a simple callendar program. Would like advice on what you guys find usefull. I seen thunderbird callendar. kdepim These are easy to install. Work with a group. What would you use to connect in a multi-platform 10-user office. Also offering the ability to s

Re: mouse freezes after reboot (Sarge)

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: evert wrote: Hallo Steef, Bij het zoeken naar mijn probleem : Linux Sarge, Frozen mouse kwam ik jouw vraag /antwoord tegen. Ik ontmoet momenteel na een Debian sarge installatie hetzelfde probleem. Wat mij bevreemd is dat ik niet ergens een afdoende oplossing of antwo

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

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SOLVED RE: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice: No Such Device

Chris, Thanks for the reply. I solved the problem. It was a matter doing a modprobe mousdev and then md5'ing the config file. -Original Message- From: Chris Bannister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 4:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: (EE) x

Re: Re: [GLUG-tech] squid + transparent proxying + ssl prots ?

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Qmail install guide with samba 3 and Ldap 3

Hi Guys I hope somebody could help me with how to install qmail. I need qmail install with ldap and samba version 3 it must also have kerberos. Please can someone help me on this topic.

Re: renice equivalent for network traffic

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:57:07AM -0600, David Berg wrote: > How can I set upgrade or backup traffic to the back burner so that web > browsing or audio streams don't suffer? Basically a renice equivalent > for network traffic. > > A man page or proper search terms is sufficient, I just can't see

renice equivalent for network traffic

How can I set upgrade or backup traffic to the back burner so that web browsing or audio streams don't suffer? Basically a renice equivalent for network traffic. A man page or proper search terms is sufficient, I just can't seem to come up with appropriate terms. Thanks, Dave

Kernel for Dell 6850 Quad-Dualcore-HT (16 CPU), 8GB RAM server?

Hello I have to install Linux on this pretty cool server described in the subject but sadly all tried kernels fails with Softlockups, messages that only 8 CPUs are supported, not detecting the full 8GB of RAM or the RAID controller or just halting without any error message. As Dell only supports

APT-GET Upgrade problem

Ok so I had issues with my Debian system and got myself into a bind.  Reloaded from woody CD's and ended up with mouse issues I could not fix.  Threw in the towel and reloaded once again.  Mouse works fine but now I have a problem in APT.  When attempting to upgrade to the latest versions of

Gimp does not work because of Fontconfig version

Hi all, I started my gimp but the following dialog is displayed: ** The Fontconfig version being used is too old! The GIMP requires Fontconfig version 2.2.0 or later. The Fontconfig version loaded by The GIMP is 1.0.2. This may be

Re: KDE3.5

On Sunday 15 January 2006 23:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have it working off a konstruct build. > > About 2 weeks (?) ago (I run etch) was only able to get kde3.5 via > konstruct - only a few files refused to build - krita, kaffeine and > some others. But kde3.5 was mostly compiled. Still h

key repeat problem

Why do I have to disable key repeat in X after the last update (testing)? It worked before but now when i press a key there appear sometimes 1 sometimes 10 chars at once(!)... however.. who has the same problem can disable keyrepeat with xset r off Don't give me this "Because testing is" b

Re: Kovacs,Levente

HI   my mother has a couple of his paintings  if u are interested .Let me know    Judy    

Re: How to show iowait in top?

Bart wrote: > On my debian box, which is running sarge, top does not display the > iowait in the cpu states. Various posts on the net however, indicate > that it should be possible. And yes, iostat also gives me the iowait, > but i'd like to monitor it all the time in top. > > So what should be don

Re: Power down

Noah Dain wrote: My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown automatically. What should I do to fix this? I had a bunch of crappy dells (is there any other kind?) that did this. I disabled acpi s

Re: Loadable kernel modules not unloadable

Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:08:13AM -0800, hillbilly wrote: > > Well, that works brilliantly! > > I created /etc/modprobe.conf/local and added to it the following > > lines... > > > > install parport /bin/true > > install parport_pc /bin/true > > install lp /bin/true > > We

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:03:20AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: } On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 06:41:52PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > 1) procmail -- I still don't properly understand how to write my own } >recipes; all of mine are cut and paste or modified from cut } >

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Re: Kickstart floppy Debian

TAC Forums wrote: Our company needs to install Debian 3.1 across several computers which are not connected to each other and reside on separate locations. But, the configuration of each of these PC's need to be the same. FAI , which is a tool to install several machines automatically, not requi

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