Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chinook
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:15:34 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A recap and progress update so anyone interested can get a quicker picture: I have browsing on on the Linux box and I can see the Linux printer from the CUPS interface (even see it in app pr

Re: squid related question

2006-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 22 January 2006 22:37, askar k wrote: > On the router pc, I have installed shorewall and squid. > I want all computers in the lan to make access to internet only > through the squid. Using dwww on my site, I was able to find the howto for exactly that in one try. http://ursine.ca/cgi

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-22 Thread seeker5528
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:38:19 +0100 G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a > file has "6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s)" > so i can't boot linux. There are six different parts in the file where it points t

Re: squid related question

2006-01-22 Thread askar k
Hello! Thanks for reply. After I sent my thread I found out that the transparent proxy is what I need. Thanks for link. Now I'm reading. regards, askar On 1/23/06, Edward Shornock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:37:20AM +0500, askar k wrote: > > Hello! > > > > On the route

Re: squid related question

2006-01-22 Thread Edward Shornock
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:37:20AM +0500, askar k wrote: > Hello! > > On the router pc, I have installed shorewall and squid. > I want all computers in the lan to make access to internet only > through the squid. > How can I do this? Currently I can access with/without squid to the > internet. I w

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:25:55 -0700 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The instruction from Aby happen to be totally incorrect for Debian. > Debian does not use runlevels to control the GUI/window stuff. In > Debian, GUI is started in a couple of ways: > > 1) when you want, without rebooti

Re: Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:49:34PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 1/22/06, K MS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > >The DNS server addresses are worrying because the address reported > >in the log as secondary is exactly what I supplied to pppoeconf as > >the *primary* DNS address.

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:15:51 -0600 Patrick Meade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thank you for the link to the fglrx-installer document. I have a > question about kernel options. From Section 2.1.1: I think kernel options is probably the wrong road for you at this point. From your initial descri

RE: Content Management Recommendations?

2006-01-22 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: apt-cache can tell you what Debian packages are available: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search content | grep management diogenes - web content management system drupal - fully-featured content management/discussion engine egroupware-jinn - content management system

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:08:24PM +0100, Sonixxfx wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. > > Thanks

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:15:34 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recap and progress update so anyone interested can get a quicker picture: > > > I have browsing on on the Linux box and I can see the Linux printer from > the CUPS interface (even see it in app print dialog) on my Mac. Tr

squid related question

2006-01-22 Thread askar k
Hello! On the router pc, I have installed shorewall and squid. I want all computers in the lan to make access to internet only through the squid. How can I do this? Currently I can access with/without squid to the internet. I want to make a restriction, so that all computers in the lan will not be

RE: perl based web site in a can type reccomendations?

2006-01-22 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Britton Kerin wrote: > I would like to be able to put together something like what is seen > on the linksys routers, i.e. tabs for configuring a system, popping > up help, etc. without having to monkey around with the details of > html and CSS any more than strictly necessary. Perl i

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

2006-01-22 Thread Paul E Condon
The instruction from Aby happen to be totally incorrect for Debian. Debian does not use runlevels to control the GUI/window stuff. In Debian, GUI is started in a couple of ways: 1) when you want, without rebooting by typing the startx command. 2) by installing and configuring a 'display manager'.

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Patrick Meade
Thank you for the link to the fglrx-installer document. I have a question about kernel options. From Section 2.1.1: - 2.1.1 Recommended kernel options CONFIG_MTRR=y The fglrx driver needs MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support # CONFIG_FB is not set CONFIG_FB_VESA=y is supposed to work,

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chinook
A recap and progress update so anyone interested can get a quicker picture: I have browsing on on the Linux box and I can see the Linux printer from the CUPS interface (even see it in app print dialog) on my Mac. Trying to print anything though first resulted in my Mac saying it can't can't r

Re: SELinux

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
I would also like to know what is trying to mount this partition and why? Why does selinux want to mount a partition anyway? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Content Management Recommendations?

2006-01-22 Thread [KS]
Ed Young 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/MySQL but it's not a requi

Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting

2006-01-22 Thread ABY C JOY
hai you have to do the following steps for avoid X login 1. edit /etc/inittab 2. fine the line id:5:initdefault: 3. chage the 5 to 3 ( it will change runlevel 5 to 3) 4. save and exit 5. reboot the syste with regards aby c joy chowattukunnel narianganam

grub master boot record problem

2006-01-22 Thread Mike
Bear with me on this one... I have 3 hard drives, hda is a ntfs drive for extra space on windows, hdb is supposed to be a debian etch drive... And the kicker, sda is the windows drive with the master boot record. When I install debian testing it see's windows on sda but installs the mbr on hda

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Neil Dugan
Joseph Smidt wrote: I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together. My question is how do you d

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Patrick Meade
- :00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 48 Memory at 9800 (32-bit, prefetchable)

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:30:11 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the > "auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that > the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the ge

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Deephay
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html have a look.. - Original Message - From: "Patrick Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:51 AM Subject: Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2 >I think it's an ATI Raedon. Do you know a

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread James Bubeck
Patrick: lspci -v should do the trick James Patrick Meade wrote: I think it's an ATI Raedon. Do you know a/the command to verify this under Debian? Patrick Deephay wrote: what is the type of ur display card? - Original Message - From: "Patrick Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: mounting DVDs via NFS problem

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:04:25 + Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Am trying to mount a DVD drive via NFS and am having problems. For > note, 192.168.1.2 (hostname - destiny) is the client and 192.168.1.15 > (hostname - mythtv) is the server. > > I have this in my /et

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Patrick Meade
I think it's an ATI Raedon. Do you know a/the command to verify this under Debian? Patrick Deephay wrote: > what is the type of ur display card? > > - Original Message - > From: "Patrick Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:26 AM > Subject: Graphics prob

Re: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Deephay
what is the type of ur display card? - Original Message - From: "Patrick Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 11:26 AM Subject: Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2 > > Hopefully this is the right list to ask these questions. If not, gently > refer me to the

Graphics problems with X on iBook 2.2

2006-01-22 Thread Patrick Meade
Hopefully this is the right list to ask these questions. If not, gently refer me to the proper list. :-) I've just installed Debian 3.1 r1a on my Apple iBook. I bought it in 2002, so from what I've been able to gather from online docs, it's an iBook 2.2; although I'm not sure that's the case nor

Re: Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Dan Martins
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:52:19PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:00:21 +0100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > > > Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a > > similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is > > to create a group f

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Thank you for your reply. I do not quite understand. First of all, am I right in saying that the "auto eth0" line means that eth0 (wired, I presume) is the one that the laptop tries to log on to first? Also, what exactly is the generic syntax for the other wireless ones? Thirdly, is there a progr

Re: VPN server connection problem

2006-01-22 Thread Deephay
the routing table contains a route that using the pptp interface but how to make it default? - Original Message - From: "srg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian_user" Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:06 PM Subject: Re: VPN server connection problem > try to add a route through your pptp i

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread leon
Joseph Smidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked | together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the | others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office | computers all tied together.

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-22 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:09:13 +0100 Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is my memory statistics: > 1295184k total, 664740k used, 630444k free,85144k buffers > and every day my free memory decrease. Normally, this is a good thing, since "free" memory is unused memory (Don't you think

Re: gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 23:26 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never > about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome: > > I want to click on a link in Thunderbird emails, and see the Firefox > browser pop up a new br

Re: utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Patricio Rojo
Try 'wget', it can even handle passwords On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:16 -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:44:57PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large > > web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplis

Re: Printing out a large volume of email

2006-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 15:43 -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Dear group, > > I would like to print out a mailbox containing about 1,000 emails. The > mailbox is in mbox format currently. > > One option is to write a short Perl script which extracts each email and > produces a long text file conta

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Joseph Smidt
On 1/22/06, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marty wrote:> Joseph Smidt wrote:>> I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked>> together.  Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the>> others.  Multiple computers running the same system, like at offi

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Joseph Smidt wrote: I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together. My question is h

Re: Build a own mail server

2006-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 01:56 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:08 +0100 > G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hello > > can i build on my ubuntu a smtp server? > > which are the most used solutions? > > thanks > > You should ask on the Ubuntu forums. We can only tell yo

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Randy Belk
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: On 2006-01-22 19:08:24, Sonixxfx wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards.

Re: Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread John Hasler
Glenn Meehan writes: > It seems to me that a users group would be a more logical way to go. But > I'm sure that "the powers that be" have a good reason for configuring it > this way. One group per user is the Debian default because that provides the most privacy. > I suppose that the only reason

Re: Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:00:21 +0100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a > similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is > to create a group for each user name that is created. I don't know why > it does this. It seems

Re: mysql database location

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:41:30PM +, david robert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have installed mysql server from debian package and everything is working > now > i need to take a backup of databases.I want to know the location where it will > store all databases.I guss it is in /var/lib/mysql/mys

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:16:45PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > 1) cdrecord (for music and cd-rom isos) > 2) cdrdao if I need to burn vcd's > 3) growisofs for dvd's > > Of the three, cdrdao is more perplexing because I have to remember the > options each time - or simply use cdr (ctrl-R) in bash t

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:36:26AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > I've got my AppleTalk/zeroconf LAN setup working for file sharing - > with netatalk and task-howl on the Linux box. > > > When I had my printer connected to my Mac I could print to it from the > Linux box with just CUPS whether the Ma

Re: Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 1/22/06, K MS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4727]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4728]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0 >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4728]: PPP session is 7279 >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[47

Re: partition problems

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:56:17 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at > explaining things. > > /dev/hda1 is winxp > I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition > Then comes Debian: > /dev/hda5 is swap > /dev/hda7 is /

Firefox DNS lookups

2006-01-22 Thread Tom Cook
All,I'm running firefox 1.5.dfsg-4 on an unstable install.  Whenever firefox is running it sends almost constant DNS requests (3 or 4 requests per seconds).  This traffic stays constant for hours at a time. Anyone know what causes this, or how I can stop it?Tom

Re: Trying to upgrade libc6: aptitute wants to remove the kernel.

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:51:04 + Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a mixed stable/testing system which I've been trying to upgrade > and dist-upgrade for a while. Whenever I try to `aptitude install > libc6` to testing or unstable, with various options, I get this ominous > warnin

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Marty
Joseph Smidt wrote: I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together. My question is how do you do i

Re: Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is to create a group for each user name that is created. I don't know why it does this. It seems to me that a users group would be a more logical way to go. But I

Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Dan Martins
Which group should 'own' the files in my home directory? I just noticed that most sub-directories and files in my home folder are owned by dan:dan. dan is the user account i use on my pc, it is the only account i log in under other than root (this is a home pc, i'm the only one that uses it).

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:46:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before going any further, I should mention again that this is *not* > the best list for solving AMD64 issues. The debian-amd64 list is. Indeed. I know that. In fact, I had an ongoing thread on the debian-amd64 list about t

How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Joseph Smidt
I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together.  Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others.  Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together.  My question is how do you do it?  I have two compute

Re: [OT] Mozilla/Java: xpicleanup.dat files wanted

2006-01-22 Thread Rob
Here is the problem. When you close the browser it goes through some sort of cleanup process. When you are logged on to a limited user account you cannot launch the browser. Every time you try to you get a message that a previous installation has not finished. And if you try to click on the

Re: Build a own mail server

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:08 +0100 G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > can i build on my ubuntu a smtp server? > which are the most used solutions? > thanks You should ask on the Ubuntu forums. We can only tell you about Debian Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't unders

SELinux

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am getting the following error in my start up messages: "failed to mount /selinux" Why am I getting this message? I don't need SElinux or it's associated mandatory access controls. How can I opt out of SElinux? Thanks -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:22:15 +0100 Sonixxfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards > installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards > so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can s

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

2006-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
Curt Howland wrote Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:14:25 -0600 (CST): > Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will > > tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). > Indeed yes. The included "nv" driver uses 75 dpi,

Re: writing huge files on DVD

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:48:58 + (GMT) Joanne Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey i have problem i hope u could help... do u know how to write files to > dvd?? i don't want to burn it i just want to write it on but the computer > won't let me.. If you don't want to burn it try with a marker

gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-22 Thread Adam Hardy
I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome: I want to click on a link in Thunderbird emails, and see the Firefox browser pop up a new browser window in the foreground. Currently the link opens in

Re: gs-esp, gs-gpl or gs-afpl?

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:38:27PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > While reading another post here, I noticed gs-afpl was giving smaller > PDF files of these gs-* options to a user. > > Which of the three is 'better'? Or, which of the three makes 'best' PS > or PDF files? Any recommendations? Unfortunate

Re: utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Edward Shornock
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:44:57PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large > web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and > automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the > directories with the files and

utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Haines Brown
I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the directories with the files and images from the site? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Firefox Configuration

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:50:19 +0100, Winton Roseland wrote: > I recently installed Debian after running Knoppix for over a year. I > have installed Firefox as it was not added automatically. I am trying > to get a correct action when using this mailing list. When using > Windows, I can double

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:20:40 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 > PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a > bug which will soon be squashed). > > Anyways, as I am going to be using this lapto

perl based web site in a can type reccomendations?

2006-01-22 Thread Britton Kerin
I would like to be able to put together something like what is seen on the linksys routers, i.e. tabs for configuring a system, popping up help, etc. without having to monkey around with the details of html and CSS any more than strictly necessary. Perl is the lang I know so I like it over php o

Printing out a large volume of email

2006-01-22 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Dear group, I would like to print out a mailbox containing about 1,000 emails. The mailbox is in mbox format currently. One option is to write a short Perl script which extracts each email and produces a long text file containing a series of formatted header/body pairs, which I would then send th

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:17 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, > > Thanks very much for this. It when mostly as planned. There were two > problems that I hit. > This is why downgrades aren't officially supported. But you found your way, so good. :) > The only question that I have at th

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Sonixxfx([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. > > Thanks for

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

2006-01-22 Thread Curt Howland
Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will > tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). Indeed yes. The included "nv" driver uses 75 dpi, the non-free "nvidia" driver uses 111 dpi. /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (==)

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or > > temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the > > /d

Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread K MS
Hi,     Kindly help me get my first browsing experience in Debian linux. I have tried various list-archives recommended by Google still have not been able to get around fixing this.     Email below is rather long. I have explained my installation and shown the logs before asking my questions at the

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-22 Thread Yani Copas
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Kn

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Wackojacko
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certai

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sonixxfx: > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? aptitude logs its actions. apt-get doesn't. But may may already be happy with dpkg's logging mechanism. Caveat: dpkg in unstable doesn't log yet. I don't know about aptitude in stable. > I occasianall

Re: System administration question

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:33:47PM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > hello > > As I'm very new in system administrating and not an old Debian user > either, I would like to ask you for some suggestions about system > administration. > I have six identical networked computers running Debian. All the

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-22 Thread Klaus Pieper
This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're trying to *read* from your memory stick here, not write to it. If you want to blank the memory stick, you need to use the prior command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb Andrew, Just wanted to backup the mbr before overw

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-01-22 19:08:24, Sonixxfx wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. I don't know about apt-get, b

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:17:14PM -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, ... > > The only question that I have at this point is should I remove the > preferences from /etc/apt? I don't really understand what I did here. Can > you point me to a document that describes what you suggested? >

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chinook
Adam James wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 02:49 -0500, Chinook wrote: Chinook wrote: The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the

How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-22 Thread Sonixxfx
Hi,I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can someone tell me how I should configure those cards to achive this? I actually already

Re: Saving menu-accessible preferences?

2006-01-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, I use kpdf under KDE (in Kubuntu 5.10) quite frequently. Please use appropriate mailing list. This is debian-user mailing list. kubuntu is not Debian. It is based on Debian but not Debian. Is there a way to make kpdf automatically start with the "Watch File" and

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devi

Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a bug which will soon be squashed). Anyways, as I am going to be using this laptop with Wi-Fi, I decided to just buy a wireless card seperately. I have

Build a own mail server

2006-01-22 Thread G-Point
hello can i build on my ubuntu a smtp server? which are the most used solutions? thanks

Re: Gmail & Maildirs [Was: Re: GMail like offline email client]

2006-01-22 Thread David Berg
On 1/21/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be an interesting (and probably not too difficult) task to > implement this with procmail and a couple scripts to hardlink emails > into different Maildir directories. Then pick your client of choice. > In my case I'd pick mutt, whic

[SOLVED]Re: firefox printing: extraneous printers, removing xprint and dependencies

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:19:17 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:13:46 + > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On (18/01/06 21:35), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I have several extraneous printers in my Firefox (1.07) print dialog >

Saving menu-accessible preferences?

2006-01-22 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, I use kpdf under KDE (in Kubuntu 5.10) quite frequently. Is there a way to make kpdf automatically start with the "Watch File" and "Fit to Page Width" options enabled? The man page does not indicate any such command line options. However, there's a lot about KDE and sessions I don't understan

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread David Koski
I don't see the original post so I might be missing something but I did an install of AMD64 and it too did not boot. I found that grub was using (hd0,0) where it should have been (hd0,1). I edited the line with grub interactively and it booted. Regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:52, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Am 2006-01-08 12:26:27, schrieb Gene Heskett: >> Hi All; >> >> I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list >> again this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails >> filtering, neither of which seem to work. > >I

Re: apache2

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:53:45, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hall, > > ich habe per "apt-get install apache2" apache installiert und der > Server is auch erreichbar. > Nur wenn ich den Dokumentations-Link der dummy-apache page anklicke > wird diese nicht gefunden. > > - > Not Found > > The requested

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:58:00, schrieb Haines Brown: > I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on > the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump > downloaded photos. > > I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: > > # env LANG=C gphoto

Re: Enterasys CSIBD-AA wireless pcmcia card.... where to get drivers...

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
At the manufacturers website! Am 2006-01-11 09:26:59, schrieb Steve Duggins: > Where you able to find drivers for this card I am in the same boat > > Notice: This email is a "DRAFT Working Document" and intended for "Internal > distribution only." > > Steve Duggins > Utah State Agency for Surpl

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
apt-get install mpack and/or apt-get install mime-construct Am 2006-01-11 15:49:22, schrieb Don McLaughlin: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the

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

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:53:51, schrieb Andy Hawkins: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude update > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/

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

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 09:19:30, schrieb Matthew Dawson: > Also there are things that apt can do aptitude can't. (Seen in the apt-build > script.) Yes:apt-get moo (Try it out ;-) ) Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul, I am creating a TByte Archive Server of Debian and I am searching for older Official Debian-CD-Images. Generaly I am looking for 2.2.r7 but yours 2.2r5 are better ethen nothing. Do you have the binarys only or with sources? I am interested in a full copy of it (any architektures) bu

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Angela, Please do not Hijack Mailthreads of others. If you want to ask something, please write a NEW message instead of replaying to another thread. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with

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