Re: Does NVIDIA 128 MB RAM (Pine) AGP Card support 1280x1024 and play mpeg videos in X windows?

>Rishi > But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution. >So therefore I wanted to know if I buy this video card: Pine, 128 MB >NVIDIA AGP Card, FX model, that it would work on my Debian Sarge >system - meaning get high resolution and play mpeg videos? You really need to tell us a li

permissions - is this the best approach?

I've set up a Linux and Mac zeroconf (netatalk) LAN. On the Linux box (Debian Etch) I have a shared directory for passing files to/from the Linux box, that is accessed from the Mac (while AppleTalk/zeroconf allows a peer-to-peer network model, netatalk only provides for a Mac to "see" a Linux s

DHCAST128 source

When I first put up netatalk, I just used plain passwords - one step at a time :-) Now I wanted to use a UAM of DHCAST128 but I can't find it anywhere :-( I found a reference while googling of deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sarge misc and I've tried it (varying sarge, etch, testing) in my Synapti

Re:

  Dowdy Teddy

firefox printing: extraneous printers, removing xprint and dependencies

Greetings list I have several extraneous printers in my Firefox (1.07) print dialog in my pure sid system. They each end @:64 (such as hppsc1200@:64). The archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00282.html suggest this is caused by Xprint being installed. I really don't care

Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

On 1/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to set up an array of two hard disks as a software RAID in > and AMD64 box. TO have some flexibility, I'm also planning to use LVM. > How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the > other way around? >

Re:

  Carlson Pedro

X-system X.org Ctrl-Alt-Func key terminal switching

One of the things I liked about woody and sarge was the Ctrl-Alt-Func keys that could get me to a text prompt. When I used the the etch beta installation CDROM on a new box, X.org (and kernel 2.6.12) got installed. The Ctrl-Alt-Backspace works just fine! But the Ctrl-Alt-Func Keys don'

setting proper resolution on my lcd

Hi folks, just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, though. Instead I seem to have it at 1162x1054, which would be fine, but the fonts look a little bit unsharp. I've messed around a bit with my xorg.conf, (I'm run

Does NVIDIA 128 MB RAM (Pine) AGP Card support 1280x1024 and play mpeg videos in X windows?

Hi I have a VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 5598/6326 (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) But I'm unable to play mpeg videos in 1280x1027 resolution. I need to change to 1024x768 resolution and then I am able to play videos I posted a message on the SiS forum here to

Re: su/sudo cannot X

Lei Kong wrote: > As about the security concern, why is it more secure not to let root log > into X than otherwise? why is not letting root start X client after > su/sudo by default a good policy? Because neither X nor any X applications are secure. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:33:33PM -0400, BTP wrote: > I did not remove the gnome package or fam, just out of the init scripts. > >From what you mentioned I imagine we should blame the fam. Incidentally, you can install "gamin" if you want the functionality of fam without the portmap dependency.

Logical Volume Manager and RAID

I'm planning to set up an array of two hard disks as a software RAID in and AMD64 box. TO have some flexibility, I'm also planning to use LVM. How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the other way around? Or am I worrying unnecessarily: Is it possible to mix them arbi

Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 08:55:58PM -0500, Lei Kong wrote: > thanks, sux works beautifully. > but still I don't understand why sudo -s has problems, > and on my desktop, on problem at all, and I don't remember > doing special thing on it. > > As about the security concern, why is it more secure not

Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 20:55 -0500, Lei Kong wrote: > thanks, sux works beautifully. > but still I don't understand why sudo -s has problems, > and on my desktop, on problem at all, and I don't remember > doing special thing on it. > > As about the security concern, why is it more secure not to > l

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Ah, what I did was: 362  apt-get --purge remove portmap -s 370  update-rc.d -f portmap remove 412  update-rc.d -f fam remove 443  apt-get --purge remove portmap -s So either the removal of portmap from boot sequence or the removal of fam from boot sequence affected GNOME related package dependenc

Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X

$xhost + $ sudo -s #kedit kedit: cannot connect to X server Leave off the xhost line when using sudo. It inheirets the parent shell's environment. I did try it without xhost+ first, didn't work. The inherit thing is default, or I need to configure it? On my desktop, sudo -s does allow

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

BTP wrote: Sorry, I don't know where, but I must have made a mistake somewhere regarding this. I checked my bash history and I looked where i could have done this but saw nothing... I again simulated the removal of portmap with apt-get and things seemed normal this time... no removal of GNOME.

Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X

thanks, sux works beautifully. but still I don't understand why sudo -s has problems, and on my desktop, on problem at all, and I don't remember doing special thing on it. As about the security concern, why is it more secure not to let root log into X than otherwise? why is not letting root start

iptraf is not reporting all UDP packets

I haven't been able to find anyone else with this problem after searching Google and others. I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong. I have two hosts, connected via crossover cable, and I am running: dd if=/dev/zero bs=131072 | nc -u 10.0.0.3 8000 on one and nc -l -p 8000 -s 10.0.0.3 -

Re: Re: su/sudo cannot X

I tried it, and it works with su, but not su - or sudo -s then I removed these lines, and guess what, it still allows me to open a window with su, and su - and sudo -s still fail, mysterious, huh? In summary, sudo -s never allows me to start an X client. On my another machine, I never had any pr

Re: its cold here

Rich Thomas([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hey how are you guys doing? Its cold as hell down here. How's it up > in God's country? Hope you are all doing well I can't wait until > April I need a weekend away. Being an educator is very stressful. > Kiss Linda and all the puppies a ki

Re: gtk-gnutella

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:40:42AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Hi, > > If you are using gtk-gnutella in Debian stable you may be aware that the > program is no longer functional. Worse you'll be actively performing an > active on other participants on the network. > > While I won't point out th

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

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:56:31PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > > >Copy /etc/fstab to /tmp/fstab and fix your "drfaults" typo in there. > > I copied /etc/fstab to /var/fstab and fixed the typ. > > >Then patch a temporary copy of /bin/mount and libc.so to use /tmp/fstab

Re: Workarround for "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:24:31PM -0300, Jos?? Pablo Ezequiel Fern??ndez wrote: > I am tring to install Debian Sarge in a computer with two SATA HDs and one > IDE > CD-ROM, I get the error "No common CD-ROM drive was detected". > I believe it is this bug: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2

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

Mike McCarty wrote: I think the easiest would be to use a LiveCD, like KNOPPIX, and edit the fstab that way. That is impossible for the reasons stated in my post of 2006-01-16 19:42 EST. -- Ken Heard Research Associate

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Sorry, I don't know where, but I must have made a mistake somewhere regarding this. I checked my bash history and I looked where i could have done this but saw nothing... I again simulated the removal of portmap with apt-get and things seemed normal this time... no removal of GNOME. Put that i

Re: Where to find... NOW: update - 2.6.15 on sarge: the problem is with kmix

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:30:47PM -0500, I wrote: > ... > Hopefully some tweaking of kernel options and manual setting of > IRQs will fix this. Does anyone have any settings that work with > the SB Audigy cards and kernel 2.6.15 (or any other 2.6 kernel)? > Or should the kernel allocate properly

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

Almut Behrens wrote: Copy /etc/fstab to /tmp/fstab and fix your "drfaults" typo in there. I copied /etc/fstab to /var/fstab and fixed the typ. Then patch a temporary copy of /bin/mount and libc.so to use /tmp/fstab instead of /etc/fstab. To do so, create this little script, make it

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:41:02PM -0400, BTP wrote: > apt-get --purge remove portmap reported a required removal of GNOME > which I did not want, so I instead used the "update-rc.d portmap > remove" alternative. Interesting. I've got gnome installed (although I currently use xfce4 :) with port

Problems with Sarge/mISDN/asterisk

Hello, I have a (some) problems with a debian sarge/mISDN/asterisk configuration. Here is a summary of what I've done and where are my problems with this:. I have the following: Debian Sarge 3.1, with the following Kernel: >asterisk:~# uname -a >Linux asterisk 2.6.14.4 #4 PREEMPT Thu Dec 15 21:5

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

> And during this whole process I am still trying to learn as much as > possible about administration and security.. Not overwhelmed yet? :) I've found these useful: Securing Debian Manual http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing System Administration Tips and Resources http://www.debian

Mutt & Exim4 Setup Problem Solved

On the 9th Sridar M. A. wrote (in a message I printed out but erased): "The passwd_client seems to be Debian specific but it did not work. I edited /etc/exim4/conf.d/30_exim4-config_examples to include the login id and password. Just including below the relevant section: plain: driver =

Re: Persistent superblock on software RAID

On Wed 18 Jan 2006 19:01, Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:50, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > > I have a software RAID that has wrong persistent superblock information, > > when I try to boot it tries to assemble the array with hdc1 and hdd1, but > > the array really is sda1 and

Re: Persistent superblock on software RAID

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:50, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > I have a software RAID that has wrong persistent superblock information, when > I try to boot it tries to assemble the array with hdc1 and hdd1, but the > array really is sda1 and sdb1. > I am able to mount with a live CD and ass

Persistent superblock on software RAID

I have a software RAID that has wrong persistent superblock information, when I try to boot it tries to assemble the array with hdc1 and hdd1, but the array really is sda1 and sdb1. I am able to mount with a live CD and assemble the RAID by hand (using sda1 and sdb1). How can I update the superb

Re: gtk-gnutella

Anand Kumria wrote: Hi, If you are using gtk-gnutella in Debian stable you may be aware that the program is no longer functional. Worse you'll be actively performing an active on other participants on the network. While I won't point out the futility of shipping stable but non-functional soft

Re: gtk-gnutella

Hi Steve, On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:09:20PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:40:42AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > wget > > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b.orig.tar.gz > > wget > > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnut

Re: You have been successfully unsubscribed from "Small Cap Reports"

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

Halestino Pimentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 > pack

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

Bill Wohler wrote (18-01-2006 22:04): Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello Kevin! I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40

Re: alternative to packages.debian.org

icmp wrote: Hi, is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? I miss it too :( -- http://www.axeltabs.com/ http://roundhound.com/ http://linuxarcher.net/bb/ http://divx-subtitles.org/ http://guitar-tabs-lyrics.com/ -- Ch

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

On 1/18/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: If you are paranoid, you should also install/activate a firewall... Yes, I am looking into firewall software. Although, I am behind a linksys little router I bought from future-shop, but I think it might have been tampered with it if they

Re: Xorg eats my CPU

Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Kevin! > >> I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a >> Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing >> the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% >> and in some cases 99%. > T

Re: You have been successfully unsubscribed from "Small Cap Reports"

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Re: rpc.statd paranoia

My solution was "apt-get --purge remove portmap"... apt will let youknow if you have any packages installed which actually require it. apt-get --purge remove portmap reported a required removal of GNOME which I did not want, so I instead used the "update-rc.d portmap remove" alternative. However

You have been successfully unsubscribed from "Small Cap Reports"

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Re: linux 2.6.15 and overheating

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:50:31PM +, Martin OConnor wrote: > >Check your setup and configuration of your custom kernel to see if the >acpi modules are loaded: >do an lsmod and look for: >ac >battery >fan >processor >thermal > >If they are missing, but wer

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

BTP wrote: Hi All, This is my first time posting to the list as I am a beginning my journey into the realm of Linux. One of the first things I'd like to establish is the security of my system. If you are paranoid, you should also install/activate a firewall... If you are new to linux, it's n

Re: Workarround for "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"

On Wed 18 Jan 2006 16:37, Joe User wrote: > Do you need the 2.6 kernel also during the install? If you get past the > basic install you can 'apt-get' the 2.6 kernel... I do, because it seems the names of the devices of SATA drive changes between 2.6 and 2.4 (am I wrong ? in 2.4 they are hdc and hd

Re: Workarround for "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:24:31PM -0300, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > I am tring to install Debian Sarge in a computer with two SATA HDs and one > IDE > CD-ROM, I get the error "No common CD-ROM drive was detected". > I believe it is this bug: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/200

Re: strange outbound connection

Thanks for all replies; they all were usefull in providing tests as to make me believe that quite probably this is something 'harmless', maybe a bug in firestarter. Well, if johannes really have a rootkit installed, it may be hiding from netstat, ps etc. So I'd suggest him to boot from a liv

Workarround for "No common CD-ROM drive was detected"

I am tring to install Debian Sarge in a computer with two SATA HDs and one IDE CD-ROM, I get the error "No common CD-ROM drive was detected". I believe it is this bug: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00351.html Any workaround to install Debian 3.1 with Linux 2.6 on that machine (Li

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:29:59PM -0400, BTP wrote: > Does anybody know the correct procedure for eliminating this daemon from > booting? Should I be using update-rc.d or do I have to manually edit config > files? My solution was "apt-get --purge remove portmap"... apt will let you know if you h

Re: quickly add jfs support to kernel?

Matt Price wrote: >add jfs support without recompiling the whole kernel? > > You can configure jfs to be compiled as module. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

Does anybody know the correct procedure for eliminating this daemon from booting? Should I be using update-rc.d or do I have to manually edit config files? I use "sysv-rc-conf" to edit runlevels (there are also other tools that do the same), but the best solution is, of course, to uninstall the

Re: gtk-gnutella

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:40:42AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > wget > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b.orig.tar.gz > wget > http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnutella_0.96b-1.diff.gz > wget http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/g/gtk-gnutella/gtk-gnut

quickly add jfs support to kernel?

Hi folks, when I made my current kernel I had never heard of jfs &, since I was having trouble ocmpiling, unchecked it in make xconfig. Now I want to use jfs for storing large (video) files. Is there a way to quickly add jfs support without recompiling the whole kernel? I use a couple of out--o

gtk-gnutella

Hi, If you are using gtk-gnutella in Debian stable you may be aware that the program is no longer functional. Worse you'll be actively performing an active on other participants on the network. While I won't point out the futility of shipping stable but non-functional software, I'll instead try

rpc.statd paranoia

Hi All, This is my first time posting to the list as I am a beginning my journey into the realm of Linux. One of the first things I'd like to establish is the security of my system. nmap revealed the following: 779/tcp  open  unknown 789/tcp  open  unknown and I think I tracked it down correct

Curso Conexão

Olá,   Quero informar que estão abertas as inscrições do Processo Seletivo do Curso Conexão (em Curitiba) que é um curso pré-vestibular voltado para pessoas de baixa renda. É um projeto voluntário promovido pelo DCE da UTFPR. O curso é realizado na própria UTFPR (ex-CEFET) e está trazendo resultad

Re: system requirements for debian

Bob Hynes wrote Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:58:18 -0600 (CST): > I have debian running on a 500Mhz box with 256MB ram. It's pretty > slow...slower than windows would be. Is there anyone who know what I > could be doing to speed things up? turning off services, adding ram? I'm > also considering tying ano

Re: linux 2.6.15 and overheating

On 18/01/06, John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did some more investigation, added a temperature measurer in one ofthe superkaramba themes.  Seems like, if I don't close the lid of thelaptop, the temperature never goes above 75 C (in 2.6.15).  The reason I close the lid is because I put

Re: xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:07:49PM +, David Goodenough wrote: > Well although I asked Google, I did not ask Google groups. The problem > is apparently that xkbdcomp does no error checking on the writes that it > does, and thus fails to notice when you run out of disk space (as I did). > Does a

Re: xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

On 18/01/06, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:23, David Goodenough wrote:> I have a sacrificial machine which I update to the latest sid every> morning. This morning is pulled in bunch of X updates, and after the> upgrade startx complains that xkbcomp foun

Re: linux 2.6.15 and overheating

I did some more investigation, added a temperature measurer in one of the superkaramba themes. Seems like, if I don't close the lid of the laptop, the temperature never goes above 75 C (in 2.6.15). The reason I close the lid is because I put my laptop in a docking station, and I connect a bigger

Re: Bacula backup configuration in debian

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:01:45 + (GMT) david robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > >I am planning to install bacula backup in debian.I have checked >the bacula debian packages and those are quite old ones current >version is 1.38.4.Is there anyway i can get debian packag

Re: about scp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > hello friends I am to trying to server ssh -p 19666 www.myservername.com > and I am connecting sucsacfully to server. but if I try to copy some > file from server or server to my computer scp does not work may be I am > usi

Re: about scp

Can you be more specific? What command are you using? What does it do or not do when you try? -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _S

Re: xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 14:23, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a sacrificial machine which I update to the latest sid every > morning. This morning is pulled in bunch of X updates, and after the > upgrade startx complains that xkbcomp found an error as above. Any idea > what to do to fix thi

about scp

hello friends I am to trying to server ssh -p 19666 www.myservername.com and I am connecting sucsacfully to server. but if I try to copy some file from server or server to my computer scp does not work  may be I am using wrong command. could you please help me about command .not: I  am  using dsl 

Re: How to disable this PPP message

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 04:34:46PM -0800, Lewis Carroll wrote: > Hi Folks, Hi, > How do I disable the following messages? These aren't doing me much good; I'm > getting more info about blocked packets from Firestarter. > > Jan 17 15:14:04 epiktistes kernel: Inbound IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=xx.xx.

Re: alternative to packages.debian.org

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:55, icmp wrote: > is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? Not sure what feature from it you want a replacement for, but you know about packages.qa.debian.org, right? -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #134

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 14:17 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:11 -0300, Michael Fernández M. wrote: > > > i want to buy a Debian Book, Someone can recommends a good Debian book? > http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0764576445.html Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web co

Re: su/sudo cannot X

> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:17:27AM +, Martin OConnor wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:29 -0500, Lei Kong wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a strange problem with my thinkpad z60t, running debian testing. > > > I ran these commands in konsole or xterm under kde: > > > > > > $xhost + > >

alternative to packages.debian.org

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Re: su/sudo cannot X

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:37:25PM +, Noah Dain wrote: > On 1/18/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want > > this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer disables all access control, I'd > > be interested in hearing the new

Re: su/sudo cannot X

On 1/18/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want > this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer disables all access control, I'd > be interested in hearing the new way to it. > > Thanks, > -Peter > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:17:

Re: su/sudo cannot X

Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer disables all access control, I'd be interested in hearing the new way to it. Thanks, -Peter On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:17:27AM +, Martin OConnor wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:29 -050

Re: Photo collection management

Have you tried f-spot? /nisseOn 1/17/06, Piotr Kopszak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear list,Couple of days ago I decided  (evidently too late!) that the amount ofpictures on CD-ROMs  and on my disks has attained  critical mass and Ino  longer   am  able   to  get  any   orientation  whatsover   in 

Re: renice equivalent for network traffic

> You may also want to take a look at iproute and especially tc (traffic > control). > I noticed that option after I came up with some search terms. Can that be configured for userland changes? Dave

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: but webmin is packaged for debian (package webmin) http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin --at least for stable that I am using. I recently asked that it be removed from unstable (and hence future releases) because the packages were b

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passwd: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

Hi all, I have a network running (mainly) Debian Sarge on both i386 and Sparc. This network uses NIS (currently) for user/password authentication. If I change the password for a user with yppasswd it's all fine, if, however, I use the passwd command I get: passwd: Authentication service cannot

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060118 13:49]: > but webmin is packaged for debian (package webmin) > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/webmin > > --at least for stable that I am using. Yes it is in stable, but webmin (as well as usermin) has been removed from unstable recent

xkbcomp - bad length in Geometry

I have a sacrificial machine which I update to the latest sid every morning. This morning is pulled in bunch of X updates, and after the upgrade startx complains that xkbcomp found an error as above. Any idea what to do to fix this problem? Which file has geometry for xkbcomp defined in it? I t

apt-get source

Having failed to get apt-build to work, I tried this. I can easily compile and install stuff that the kde packages will not due to dependency problems (around qt3 and kde) and I get the Debian version (versions posted on kde-apps, sourceforge had unrelated compilation problems!). A few kudos he

Votre commerce

Bonjour, Je me permets de vous contacter car j’ai vu que vous vendiez différents produits. Avez-vous pensé à les vendre sur Internet ? : les achats en ligne représentent aujourd’hui plus de 8 % de la consommation des ménages. Disposer de votre boutique en ligne vous permettrait d’augmente

Bacula backup configuration in debian

Hi Guys,    I am planning to install bacula backup in debian.I have checked the bacula debian packages and those are quite old ones current version is 1.38.4.Is there anyway i can get debian packages for bacula.Currently debian package version for bacula is 1.36.3   I need installation guide or

backport of Kmail

Hi, Anybody done a backport for Sarge of Sid's Kmail? On the build-dep I get: E: Build-Depends dependency for kdepim cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package debhelper can satisfy Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

Mike Fedyk wrote: Michael Bellears wrote: I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I looked at gosa, but it is ldap centric and didn't seem to provide the general purpose web config interface that webmin doe

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Nautilus thumbnailers for html,doc,OOo1.1,OOo2 files

Where I can find Nautilus thumbnailers for html files and also for doc,OOo1.1 and OOo2 files thanks in advance

Re: dpkg / apt problem

A little more information (possibly), in case it helps: the problem appears to be with dpkg specifically, not apt-get. This from trying to uninstall one of the problem packages, using aptitude: """ Removing klickety ... dpkg: error processing klickety (--remove): subprocess post-removal script ki

desktop environment removal

I'm using a screen reader on debian sarge current release and must have provided some incorrect information when installing the debian desktop environment packages. Whenever gdm starts it just beeps and attempting to do a login just gets a beep with no other indication of success. When I use

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

On 1/17/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Jan 2006 01:15:05 -0800 > "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I realy want a quiet PC in my bedroom. My experience is that journaling > > file systems generate mor disc activity than ext2 for example. > > > > I run ext2 and noflu

Re: strange outbound connection

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Justin Guerin wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:28:55 -0700 > From: Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: strange outbound connection > > > > What about `lsof -i`? > > > > nothing: > > llserv:~# lsof -i @217.9