Shell script question

2006-03-21 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi,   What I want is this: I have a file in which a list of files or directories are present, like below (let's name this file input_file):   /mnt/hda6/File1 /mnt/hda5/Directory1 /mnt/hda6/File2 /mnt/hda6/File3 /mnt/hda6/Directory2 ...   In a shell script I want to read this file line by line an

Re: DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Tell you ISP that you have a computer running Windows 98 and that it has a NIC but no USB ports, which will clue them in that they need to provide you with a DSL modem that has an ethernet plug on it. After that, you c

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Hex Star wrote: Really? I don't remember getting any spam from the list nor seeing any in the archives...:-/ This list is the number one source of spam for me. I'm subscribed to eight mail lists[*], and this one generates more spam than all the others combined. [*] List names available upon re

RE: best CMS system

2006-03-21 Thread David Christensen
> what's the best enterprise class content management system(CMS)? I've been beating my head against that one for a couple of years now, and still don't know the answer. (Must be brain damage... ;-) This web site is very helpful: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ It has a search page: http

Re: 2.6.16 and DVD drive

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > I updated two days ago my laptop (Thinkpad T43) from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.16. > Since then suspend-to-ram works but: > > First my dvd did not work. After remove the parameter ide1=noprobe from > menu.lst it works again but is dedect as atapi drive (/dev/hdc not > /dev/sr0) and has no dma supp

2.6.16 and DVD drive

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! I updated two days ago my laptop (Thinkpad T43) from 2.6.15.1 to 2.6.16. Since then suspend-to-ram works but: First my dvd did not work. After remove the parameter ide1=noprobe from menu.lst it works again but is dedect as atapi drive (/dev/hdc not /dev/sr0) and has no dma support. My ker

Re: Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread lmyho
Hi Hex!  Tahnks for the info!  I am downloading  It's big!  Will have to read and get to know it and use... hope it's good!  Also any othe ridea?    By the way I responded to Thierry about my graphic card info but forgot to send to the mailing list, here it the info of my card:   Just copi

how to install bugzilla

2006-03-21 Thread Indraveni
Can anyone tell me how to install bugzilla and how to use it. giving apt-get install bugzilla is installing it to me but i am not knwing how I can use it. Can any help me in doing this Thankyou Defeat the defeat before defeat defeats you... Regards, K.Indraveni, Project Engineer, CDAC - Chenna

Installation: esd and latex?

2006-03-21 Thread Lachlan Patrick
Hello, I've been installing a Debian 3.1r1 system, burning CDs as necessary. So far I've only used CD 1 and 2 from the set. I'm fairly new to Debian 3.1, and I've some questions, and general feedback about the installation process. NB: I had some trouble getting sound to work on my Soundblast

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Nate Lundquist
Oliver Jato wrote: I actually changed the password while using phpmyadmin. did you select password in the function drop down box when editing the entries? passwords are not stored in clear text. but please, like tat said, check your ports and the bind-address in my.cnf. if you really m

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Mankuthimma wrote: > In this case apt is your friend :) > $ apt-cache search apache limit > libapache-mod-limitipconn - module for Apache which limits simultaneous > connections per IP And Apache was an example. Now for the other applications I am running? -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
Well I've been told that in the event that the Debian installer fails to properly detect and configure the graphics card/monitor simply copying Knoppixes X config over the Debian one should clear things up so perhaps giving that a try would be a good idea ;-) :-) ...you can download Knoppix for fre

Re: Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread Kent West
lmyho wrote: Dear all, I am totally newbie to Debian. I heard a lot about it's so good, so I tried to install it on my Dell Dimension 4550, with Win XP home, using mini CD install through network. The installation seemed OK, however it was all text sceen during and after the installation.

Re: Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread thierry
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:09, lmyho wrote: Dear all, I am totally newbie to Debian. I heard a lot about it's so good, so I tried to install it on my Dell Dimension 4550, with Win XP home, using mini CD install through network. The installation seemed OK,

Re: Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 00:09, lmyho wrote: > Dear all, > > I am totally newbie to Debian. I heard a lot about it's so good, > so I tried to install it on my Dell Dimension 4550, with Win XP home, > using mini CD install through network. The installation seemed OK, > however it was all text

Debian newbie -Please help!! X server problem!

2006-03-21 Thread lmyho
Dear all,   I am totally newbie to Debian.  I heard a lot about it's so good, so I tried to install it on my Dell Dimension 4550, with Win XP home, using mini CD install through network.  The installation seemed OK, however it was all text sceen during and after the installation.    I didn't f

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-21 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi,On 3/22/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> google is your friend.Not in this case.  Not in many cases.  Have you googled Netlimiter to seeIn this case apt is your friend :)$ apt-cache search apache limit libapache-mod-limitipconn - module for Apache which

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > google is your friend. Not in this case. Not in many cases. Have you googled Netlimiter to see what I was asking about? Wondershaper and other tools don't equate to that tool. All of those seem to be a good basis but the configuration is a wee bit above "this

Re: best CMS system

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18:13, linux china wrote: > hi, > what's the best enterprise class content management system(CMS)? hi, what's the best computer out there? (Yes, your question is that vague). -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time

Does the Preload Essential Modules from Floppy option still exist in Debian Sarge 3.1r1 installer?

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
Hi, in my continued venture to get my embedded HP NetRAID controller to work with Debian I came upon this article: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Load_RAID.shtml which references there being in what seems was the woody installer a option to Preload Essential Modules from Floppy which would

Re: select packages list for "apt-get install"

2006-03-21 Thread John O'Hagan
Sed Nivo wrote: >When in /var/lib/apt/lists is packages lists from various sources, >cd-rom, http etc. How i can select specific source to use by apt-get? The file that controls this is /etc/apt/sources.list. You can edit it by hand (type "man sources.list" in a terminal for how) or use, say, sy

Re: 2.6.16 and nVidia closed source

2006-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > I found that for *7* series drivers, the patch reported here: > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62889 > works. It is: > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-8178-1444349.diff.txt Thanks a lot for sharing this information! I just tried to install 2.6.16 and was too lazy to googl

Where are GNOME icons?

2006-03-21 Thread Bill Wohler
I'm confused. When I look at /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/stock/navigation/stock_left.png the arrow is blue. However, all the arrows in Galeon, Nautilus, and so on are green. Looking harder: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:718]$ locate stock_left.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/stock/navigation

Re: OpenOffice.Org and Icewm workspaces

2006-03-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 09:43:06AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:47:23 -0500 > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:43:05PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > hmm... yep, I'd say that's some buggy performance there... unle

Re: How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 03:40 +0200, Mark Niven wrote: > >> I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband > >>internet > > >access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a simple way > >>(not > > >for example squid which would use a lot of resources unnecessar

Re: best CMS system

2006-03-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > linux china wrote: > > hi, > > what's the best enterprise class content management system(CMS)? > > Whichever one best meets your enterprises requirements. more precisely, the best is the one "the company" wrote for it's use to work with all of i

Re: best CMS system

2006-03-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
linux china wrote: > hi, > what's the best enterprise class content management system(CMS)? Whichever one best meets your enterprises requirements. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

best CMS system

2006-03-21 Thread linux china
hi,what's the best enterprise class content management system(CMS)?

Re: How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Niven
>> I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband >>internet > >access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a simple way >>(not > >for example squid which would use a lot of resources unnecessarily) to > >disable access to the internet for some users (that

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:13:59 -0600, Brad Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some > point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of > re-creating that deb from the existing installed version? > I presume I am most likely

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:13, Brad Sims wrote: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed > version? > > I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I

Fwd: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
-- Forwarded message --From: hugo vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mar 21, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing elseTo: Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>So if you install lilo, have it installed, you get ascript "mkrescue" with it. (It's in /usr/sbin in

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
Really? I don't remember getting any spam from the list nor seeing any in the archives...:-/On 3/21/06, Alvin Oga < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:hi yaOn Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Hex Star wrote: > :o you can post to the list without subscribing??? doesn't that mean that> this list is potentially a open relay f

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:13, Brad Sims wrote: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed > version? > > I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I

Re: Simplest way to share deb packages across network?

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > I am going to install debian sarge on a computer which is networked with > > my own debian desktop. I'm trying to figure whats the simplest way to > > reuse my /var/cache/apt/archive, through the lan, in the new insta

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Hex Star wrote: > :o you can post to the list without subscribing??? doesn't that mean that > this list is potentially a open relay for any spammer who realizes this > fact? :-( it is not an openrelay ... the list is the end target of the spam openrelay is sorta like

Re: Simplest way to share deb packages across network?

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:38, Bruno Buys wrote: > I am going to install debian sarge on a computer which is networked with > my own debian desktop. I'm trying to figure whats the simplest way to > reuse my /var/cache/apt/archive, through the lan, in the new install. Is > that apt-cacher? apt-pro

Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Brad Sims
I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed version? I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I would ask. -- Remember: Every time a criminal gets his sku

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Hex Star
:o you can post to the list without subscribing??? doesn't that mean that this list is potentially a open relay for any spammer who realizes this fact? :-( I'd certainly hate for this list to turn out like Suses general mailing list...archive: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2006-Mar/ (

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Nate Lundquist
Oliver Jato wrote: I actually changed the password while using phpmyadmin. did you select password in the function drop down box when editing the entries? passwords are not stored in clear text. but please, like tat said, check your ports and the bind-address in my.cnf. if you really m

Re: Simplest way to share deb packages across network?

2006-03-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bruno Buys wrote: > I am going to install debian sarge on a computer which is networked with > my own debian desktop. I'm trying to figure whats the simplest way to > reuse my /var/cache/apt/archive, through the lan, in the new install. Is > that apt-cacher? > > apt-cacher certianly works, thoug

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-21 Thread John Hasler
Joachim Fahnenmüller writes: > Is the card reader connected directly to the pc or via a hub? Every time I see the subject of this thread I visualize an IBM 1622 with a USB cable hanging off it... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Simplest way to share deb packages across network?

2006-03-21 Thread Bruno Buys
I am going to install debian sarge on a computer which is networked with my own debian desktop. I'm trying to figure whats the simplest way to reuse my /var/cache/apt/archive, through the lan, in the new install. Is that apt-cacher? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Firefox segfaulting on pages w/java applets

2006-03-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Sarge with the stock Debian kernel 2.6.8-2-k7. Until recently I was using Sun's j2re1.4.2_01, but I have recently installed jdk1.5.0_06, since I want to teach myself some java. I think that somewhere, something is confused over the version to use. I have had Firefox simply die o

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
> I actually changed the password while using phpmyadmin. > did you select password in the function drop down box when editing the entries? passwords are not stored in clear text. but please, like tat said, check your ports and the bind-address in my.cnf. if you really messed up your root passw

Re: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Fx won't switch between virtual consoles after Sarge->Etch

2006-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
Finally sorted this one: Denis Barbier responded to my post to the bugtracker: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345454 The solution, in my case, was to replace the deprecated 'uk' with 'gb' as the keyboard layout in xorg.conf Switching consoles now works. Thanks to all for hints/

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread tat
> Hello everybody, I recently setup a web server on Debian Sarge. > > After setup there was the debian-maintinence account for mysql that I > haven't touched. There was also a root account with no password that I > did change. But there was also another root account with no password > that I chang

Re: How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 22:00 +0200, Mark Niven wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband internet > access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a simple way (not > for example squid which would use a lot of resources unnecessarily

Re: R: ATI RADEON 7500C

2006-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
Cesare Porta wrote: I've installed Debian on a laptop VAIO model PGC-GRV516G with graphical board ATI mobility RADEON 7500C I can see Debian at just at 800x600 resolution or less. If I set at 1280x1024 I see the screen divided in three parts not in sequenze and I can't use the mouse. What can

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Lale
Micha Feigin wrote: I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary clinic software so I don't think that there

select packages list for "apt-get install"

2006-03-21 Thread Sed Nivo
When in /var/lib/apt/lists is packages lists from various sources, cd-rom, http etc. How i can select specific source to use by apt-get? I need it. Because i have downloaded packages list by "apt-get update", because i want to work apt-zip correctly. But i want to install packages by "apt-get inst

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:29:16AM +, Wulfy wrote: > Thanks to all who answered. Much appreciated! > > (...) > > > Progress! well, some. > > I did "mkdir /media/card" so that there'd be a directory there to attach to. > > I tried each of the possibilities: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a-d] /

Re: DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Lale
Wolfgang Lonien wrote: Hi, my brother installed Ubuntu for a friend. Now that friend just wants to change from a modem connection to a DSL (also modem-, so pppoe) setup, and they're having a hard time. Since it's a bit too far away to go and help the guys, and the machine is not yet connected,

Re: How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:00, Mark Niven wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband > internet access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a > simple way (not for example squid which would use a lot of resources > unnecessarily) t

Re: DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Mike McCarty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Tell you ISP that you have a computer running Windows 98 and that it >> has a NIC but no USB ports, which will clue them in that they need to >> provide you with a DSL modem that has an ethernet plug on it. After >> that, you can just setup DHCP

How to restrict user access to internet ?

2006-03-21 Thread Mark Niven
Hello all! I have a single box running sid with effectively always on broadband internet access through ethernet and adsl modem, using pppoe. I need a simple way (not for example squid which would use a lot of resources unnecessarily) to disable access to the internet for some users (that is sm

R: ATI RADEON 7500C

2006-03-21 Thread Cesare Porta
I’ve installed Debian on a laptop VAIO model PGC-GRV516G with graphical board ATI mobility RADEON 7500C I can see Debian at just at 800x600 resolution or less. If I set at 1280x1024 I see the screen divided in three parts not in sequenze and I can’t use the mouse. What can I do to have 1

snort: dropping packages from skype

2006-03-21 Thread Romulo Sousa
Hello folks, I have a network in which a lot of users are using skype and, in this way, causing slowness on the whole network. iptables doesn't help me since some articles i've seen google this subject told me that there is some kindda dynamic ports for each call done by the skype. I've heard tha

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Nate Lundquist
Oliver Jato wrote: hi, i'm not sure if the error message is related to what you have done with the password or to mysqld's networking setting. anyway, how did you change the password? did you use mysqladmin or did you change the password field in the mysql user table without using the passwor

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Smith wrote: I'd prefer you not to top post. Hmm... Doesn't the hard drive's MBR have the disk size on it? Yes, but the MBR is not part of any partition. Using dd on /hda1 uses the partition, not the physical disc. (I know that's the case with floppy disks - I made Windows think a 1.44

md5sum?

2006-03-21 Thread Eric d'Alibut
/usr/bin/md5sum belongs to dpkg, not coreutils. The latter's is renamed md5sum.textutils. The two behave differently wrt '-v': the older, dpkg version requires it to see output of the '-c' option, while the newer coreutils version, does not. Why doesn't Debian default to the newer version? Best r

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
Hmm... Doesn't the hard drive's MBR have the disk size on it? (I know that's the case with floppy disks - I made Windows think a 1.44mb floppy was 33.6 mb once. The power of a hex editor ;-) )  On 3/21/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Philippe De Ryck wrote:> Well, according to me a dd o

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:40, John Fleming wrote: > >> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not > >> > just > >> > partition. > > Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone > else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's th

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Smith
Well, I did change my filter that was sending those antispam UOL messages to the trash to send them to her email.   Anyone else want a Gmail invite? Anyone? *crickets chirping in background*  On 3/20/06, Hex Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :P I don't think you can setup a forwarder for spam in gma

Re: Re: Printing under Sarge is messed up.

2006-03-21 Thread Georges de Sablet
I have very recently the same problem on fedora FC4 with cups. I just had a crash on my hard disk, I changed it, reinstalled Fedora on the new one, and now I can lpr a file but can't use a pipe to lpr and have the same diagnostic. Mozilla or firefox can't print any more. Did you fix the problem

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Users, I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8 MB VRAM, I hear). Now, I would like to install Sarge on to that machine for internet browsing and word processing. I would like your

Re: Someone get rid of this stupid thing.

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Jason D. Clinton wrote: I completely agree with everything you said but thought I might add a reference to a request in English and Spanish politely asking the gentleman to stop spamming us: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/03/msg00334.html I don't believe this would help. It's begin

Re: MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Dienstag, den 21.03.2006, 12:46 -0600 schrieb Nate Lundquist: > Hello everybody, I recently setup a web server on Debian Sarge. > > After setup there was the debian-maintinence account for mysql that I > haven't touched. There was also a root account with no password that I > did change. But

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread John Hasler
Nate Lundquist writes: > I no longer recall, but doesn't this list require that you respond to a > confirmation email to prove that you control the address you are > subscribing? You can post to the list without subscribing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ATI RADEON 7500C

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Cesare Porta wrote: This is an English-only list. However, since I speak Spanish and Italian is pretty close, I'll make a stab at a translation... Ho provato a installare debian su un laptop VAIO modello PGC-GRV516G con scheda grafica ATI mobility RADEON 7500C. I've installed debian on a VAIO

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Philippe De Ryck wrote: Well, according to me a dd of a live system is a really bad idea. The safest way is just boot with a live linux CD (knoppix for instance) and dump the partitions from the HDD. Do NOT dump a mounted partition. This was my thought on the matter as well, use Knoppix or Kano

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Micha Feigin wrote: I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary clinic software so I don't think that there

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:41:57 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this is bugging me immensely. I'm getting tired of applications on my > linux box hogging all my BW. Unfortunately most of 'em haven't wised up to > the whole self-limiting of bandwidth. The primary culprit right

Re: SMB connection error.

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:58:46 +0700 Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use debian testing and gnome 2.12. When I connect to window file > system sharing via nautilus (smb:///) the error message is shown > following > Couldn't display "smb:///". > I am already install smbclient.

Re: a question on motherboard replacement - audio problem

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:50:24 + Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > > After I run alsaconf, all the above mentioned applications present a > > satisfactory sound, however, Gnome events sounds do not play anymore. > > I don't run Gnome so I cant help here. Maybe you need to re

Re: Save stream (http://video.google.com)

2006-03-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > i'd like save a internet stream from http://video.google.com but it's very > hard.. > > i used wget and several ports but nothing.. > > Can i help me pls?! Thanks ;-) There are some pointers here: http://aigarius.blogspot.com/2005/12/catching-up-with-unread-b

Re: OpenOffice.Org and Icewm workspaces

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:47:23 -0500 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:43:05PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > hmm... yep, I'd say that's some buggy performance there... unless... do > > you have a winoptions setting for OOo? check ~/.icewm/winoptions for l

MySQL won't start....

2006-03-21 Thread Nate Lundquist
Hello everybody, I recently setup a web server on Debian Sarge. After setup there was the debian-maintinence account for mysql that I haven't touched. There was also a root account with no password that I did change. But there was also another root account with no password that I changed, and

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Nate Lundquist
Seth Goodman wrote: On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:59 AM -0600, Jon Dowland wrote: At 1142755284, Hex Star wrote: Well by her signing up to this list and posting to it, since her address isn't obfuscated in the archives she's now one step closer to getting spam ;-) :P It's quit

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:20:37AM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: } On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:59 AM -0600, Jon Dowland wrote: } } > At 1142755284, Hex Star wrote: } > > Well by her signing up to this list and posting to it, } > > since her address isn't obfuscated in the archives she's } > > now o

RE: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:59 AM -0600, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1142755284, Hex Star wrote: > > Well by her signing up to this list and posting to it, > > since her address isn't obfuscated in the archives she's > > now one step closer to getting spam ;-) :P > > It's quite possible that a malic

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1142755284, Hex Star wrote: > Well by her signing up to this list and posting to it, > since her address isn't obfuscated in the archives she's > now one step closer to getting spam ;-) :P It's quite possible that a malicious third-party sent that message in order to inconvenience the "real" Sa

Re: i want spam

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1142764380, Chance Platt wrote: > He received no spam. Turns out, his email address > included the string "spam" in it, and it made the email > address nearly immune to receiving it (evidently, spam > distribution is smart enough to search for it). You know, the same thing has happened to me

Save stream (http://video.google.com)

2006-03-21 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) i'd like save a internet stream from http://video.google.com but it's very hard.. i used wget and several ports but nothing.. Can i help me pls?! Thanks ;-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PATH issues

2006-03-21 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1142931908, ChadDavis wrote: > I want to know if there's a single place to put PATH admendments that > will count for everything on my system whether you login via the > terminal or via gnome. This seems like a fundamental issue, no? Not an answer to this question, but specifically for GNOME:

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Doofus
Dmitri Minaev wrote: >On 3/21/06, Robert Brockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>There may be a way around this limitation or to fix it after >>>performing dd. >>> >>> >>Following a reimaging from dd the options to expand the filesystem are: >>1. Resize the filesystem using suitable too

Re: System hangs at boot

2006-03-21 Thread Leo Britto
Thanks for all suggestions. After a fresh reinstall it worked fine. The only problem is that it takes forever to update the system :( --- Luis R Finotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leo Britto wrote: > > Unfortunately nothing of these worked. I will try > to > > reinstall the system from scratch

ATI RADEON 7500C

2006-03-21 Thread Cesare Porta
Ho provato a installare debian su un laptop VAIO modello PGC-GRV516G con scheda grafica ATI mobility RADEON 7500C. In modalità grafica funziona solo alla risoluzione 800x600 e inferiori. Se scelgo la risoluzione nativa del display (1280x1024) l’immagine viene divisa in tre semiquadri non

Re: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2006-03-21 Thread Xavier
David Jarvie wrote: > On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:47, Joey Hess wrote: >> David Jarvie wrote: >> > Permissions on root directories: all have as a minimum, 755. /tmp/ >> > and /var/tmp have 777. >> >> Have you checked the permissions of / ? Having it not world readable can >> definitly cause this pr

2.6.16 and nVidia closed source

2006-03-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, 2.6.16 causes problems for the *closed source* nVidia drivers. There is already a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357992 But that does little for older, legacy type video cards. I have a TNT2 and could use 7167 on pre-2.6.16. I found that for *7* series driver

PATH issues

2006-03-21 Thread ChadDavis
Hello.  I posted a similar thread earlier.  However, I related my PATH issues to the specifics of java and all of the replies on that thread just explained how to install java.  BUT I'm actually interested in PATH issues on debian. Can someone explain to me where the PATH is set in debian?  Does d

Re: Re: direct rendering on i845G chipset

2006-03-21 Thread moti
Hi I need Intel brook dale - g i845g disk driver   Thanks a lot   Moti      

Re: DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Wolfgang Lonien wrote: Hi, my brother installed Ubuntu for a friend. Now that friend just wants to change from a modem connection to a DSL (also modem-, so pppoe) setup, and they're having a hard time. Since it's a bit too far away to go and h

DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Hi, my brother installed Ubuntu for a friend. Now that friend just wants to change from a modem connection to a DSL (also modem-, so pppoe) setup, and they're having a hard time. Since it's a bit too far away to go and help the guys, and the machine is not yet connected, could someone help (and C

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 07:40 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > >> > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not > >> > just > >> > partition. > > Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone > else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it

Gnus: forcing a charset for posting?

2006-03-21 Thread Dmitri Minaev
Hello, I used to post articles to NTTP servers using Emacs and Gnus. Until recently I used Gnus from the package 'emacs21-common' and it just worked -- I could post articles in the encoding koi8-r. The problems started, I think, when I installed the package 'gnus' (Debian stable, Version: 5.10.6-0

Re: DSL Howto?

2006-03-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Wolfgang Lonien wrote: Hi, my brother installed Ubuntu for a friend. Now that friend just wants to change from a modem connection to a DSL (also modem-, so pppoe) setup, and they're having a hard time. Since it's a bit too far away to go and help the guys, and the machine is not yet connected,

problem with SATA on 945p motherboard

2006-03-21 Thread Javier Bernal
Hello debian-user, I have a server with a Giga-byte 8i945p-g motherboard and 2 Maxtor 200Gb SATA disks. I have the backports' 2.6.15 kernel installed. The server is running fine, but suddenly, it writes errors on dmesg and it locks. I thought the problem was the disk, but lspci poorly ident

Re: fsck problem and remounting / read-only

2006-03-21 Thread Soyez Grégory
> After an unclean halt, fsck found duplicate blocks on my root partition. > Unexpectidly, it continues the boot process with root partition mounted > read-write (instead of asking for root password for maintenance). running tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 learned me that the "Error behaviour" is set to "Con

Re: How unstable is Unstable?

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:36:03PM -0300, loos wrote: > Unstable is very unstable: > On average my desktops need some 300MB updates/week. eeek! Sort of rules out those on dial up where other people like to use the phone now and then. :-( I am updating this machine to unstable from Sarge, initia

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