I keep getting the attached message from cron today... any idea what
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B.Hoffmann wrote:
Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what
I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse
ln -s /home//.themes /root/.themes
And what would it be? Ta.
If /root/.themes never existed before, I imagine this:
# rm /root/.themes
If you really need to
Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:16, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:46:14AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
Giving everybody access to ifconfig and its ilk sure sounds like a
big security hole to me.
That's ridiculous. If adding ifconfig to your users' PATH i
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:18:48PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> Thanks for the help.
Hi Hugo,
first, list ettique is to always keep your post on list so that everyone
can see the info and potentially help. Unless its something
personal/off-topic.
> As I think I can see from the outpu
Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> Debian etch/testing.
>
> My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I
> can burn the + with no problem using;
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-video /home/rodney/dvd/BK
>
> I've also tried;
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-compat /home/rodney/dvd/
hi guys,
some time ago i reported here problems with rainbow ikey3000
cryptographic token and openct - the device wasn't added to the list of
available tokens when inserted into the usb slot (except the situation
when it was present during the boot time, when openct daemon was started).
a solution
B.Hoffmann wrote:
Hi there,
Hi there.
tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system
> [...]
Boot into runlevel 1 and undo what you did. When booting with LILO, you
do this by placing a "1" on the boot command line.
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Yo
tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system
[...]
Hit Control-Alt-F2. (This brings you into a text-mode VT).
Log-in as root. Fix the problem.
There are probably another couple-dozen ways to solve this problem.
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http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Desktop_EyeCandy
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Hi there,
tonight after a bit of hacking managed to lock myself out of the system
and unfortunately have no other DE/WM present on that machine.
Machine was set up to prompt from standard greeter and its input field's
now greyed out, can't type in user name or passwd.
This happened after applyin
Peter Stoddard wrote:
>> If not, your best bet may be to download the source and
>> build it yourself. Last time I installed pine on Solaris, that's what I
>> did, and I don't recall that it was too difficult.
>
>
> Good idea, but I really want to get to the bottom of this 64 bi
Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:31:32PM -0800, Steve Garcia wrote:
>
>>I'm setting up a Dell server with Etch-AMD64 and I can't find any of the
>>ntp family of packages. Neither ntp-server, ntp-simple, nor ntpd seem
>>to be available.
> It certainly still appears to be avai
On Sunday 26 March 2006 10:06 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:35:41 -0500
> "Dan L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Now! /etc/network/interfaces is still the same as before, except running
> > ifconfig gives this output
> >
> > __
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:44:47 -0500
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Right now, etch = testing. At some point, etch
will be released, at which time etch no longer = testing, but
instead etch = stable. The original poster's statement was
perfec
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:24:50PM +0200, oscar wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian in a new Dell M70. I first used a CD with the
> testing installer, but although it was able to boot from the CD, later it did
> not recognize the CD. I have read in other places that it have to do with
> SATA
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:00:47PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> "Testing" is not YET "etch" because "etch" isn't done.
No, ``testing'' *is* ``etch.'' The Debian website makes that very
clear. ``etch'' is a codename for the current ``testing'' branch,
which, when released, will be titl
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 19:01:09 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:44:47 -0500
> Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Right now, etch = testing. At some point, etch
>> will be released, at which time etch no longer = testing, but
>> instead etch = stable. The orig
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:35:41 -0500
"Dan L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Now! /etc/network/interfaces is still the same as before, except running
> ifconfig gives this output
>
> __
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:87:D1:11:CC
> inet ad
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:44:47 -0500
Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right now, etch = testing. At some point, etch
> will be released, at which time etch no longer = testing, but
> instead etch = stable. The original poster's statement was
> perfectly fine.
I should stay out, but...
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:07:06 -0500
Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:31:25PM -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:11PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
I just installed etch.
>>>
>>> Et
I have a working LAN running Debian Testing updated 2 or 3 times a week, with
samba connecting to a WinXP machine. I also have a working ipmasquerade setup
using this firewall script.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/firewall-examples.html
This allows the Winxp machine to get its i
On Sunday 26 March 2006 16:19, Winston Smith wrote:
> Could you post a link to the bug report you're referring to.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358510
That they already know about it: first one on
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, steef wrote:
> thanks! got the 1402_scanner working with *unfree* software. of course
> i prefer the debian way. give your advice a try.
Try hplip from backports.org. Or wait a few weeks until I deem 0.9.9 good
enough for backporting, if the one in backports.org is too old
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I
> can burn the + with no problem using;
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-video /home/rodney/dvd/BK
>
> I've also tried;
>
> growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-compat /home/rodney/dvd/BK
>
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, steef wrote:
> as far as i know is hpijs kind of *built in* in hplip: hplip is a
> follow-up for hpijs.
As a project, yes. As an utility, sort of. HPIJS works without the HPLIP
system in reduced capabilities mode, but it is still part of the HPLIP
project.
And it has nothin
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 21:42 +0100, pedro lopez wrote:
> and i do this too
>
> imtest -u cyrus localhost
>
> and the result was
>
> connect: No route to host
> failure: Network initialization.
>
> then i make ping to mi localhost and nothing not recive any packet
>
> pedro lopez <[EMAIL PR
Before I report this bug, I'd like to hear an opinion on whether this
is likely to be:
(1) a bug in grub
(2) a bug in some kernel
(3) a silly user error (in which case I'll go fix it and pretend this
never happened!)
Brief summary:
I have Debian testing installed on /dev/hda2, which is my def
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:44:23PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> The installer sets up disk names and labels one way, then the boot process
> names them so they don't match. SATAs are hd's at one point, sd's at another.
> And something moves them ahead of real SCSIs in /dev.
>
> Things seem to w
Dear Debian users,
I have been using debian for several days now and I like it very much
but the problem is that every time I wish to use it, i must swap back
and forth from my normal video card to my junky built in one. This is
because my video card (an X800XL for the record (and its a genuine ATI
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:31:25PM -0600, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:11PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
> > > I just installed etch.
> >
> > Etch has not been released. you are using 'testing' which is the
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:39:39 -0700, Justin Guerin wrote:
> module that isn't referred to by another module. If it removes, then it
> wasn't being used. If it is being used, you won't be able to remove it.
At times my DVD drive will spin forever, it happened in rare cases, eg, I
broke out with ^
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:19:11PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
> > I just installed etch.
>
> Etch has not been released. you are using 'testing' which is the
> development stream to produce 'Etch'.
>From http://www.debian.org/releases/
can u help me install my devices
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:31:12AM -0800, Peter Stoddard wrote:
> Good idea, but I really want to get to the bottom of this 64 bit amd problem,
> because I know it will keep coming up.
Are you actually experiencing any issues?
If the only ``problem'' you are having is that dpkg --print-architect
Hi,
Sarge just updated the lm-sensors library.
That's a bind because I modified that library to support my mobo, which
has an unsupported sensor chip.
This has probably been told many times, but where can I find out what
the update consists in?
Thanks!
H
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:54:46PM +0100, Doofus wrote:
> Chance Platt wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:19 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> >>
> >>I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than
> >>640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various
> >>website
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:24, oscar wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian in a new Dell M70. I first used a CD with the
> from root=/dev/hda1 to root=/dev/sda1. No result. Still kernel panic.
> Moreover, I try testing distribution to see what happens. Now not only with
> kernel 2.6 but even wit
Hi Hugo,
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:54:38PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
> I just installed etch.
Etch has not been released. you are using 'testing' which is the
development stream to produce 'Etch'. To double check, see what
/etc/apt/sources.lists show: either stable,testing,unstable,sid,etch, or
I just installed etch. i do most of my
development ssh'd into my linux box using the
macintosh X11 xterm package.
After installing etch and setting up ssh for
trusted forwarding etc, i note that the mac X11
program no longer displays the single opening
quotation mark correctly. Instead it send
H.S. wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
H.S. wrote:
Hi,
If I click on a wav file link in m-w.com, the sound is not played back
100%; it is clipped at around 60% -- the trailing part never gets
through. Also, once I click on the wav file link, Mozilla hangs. It
appears that the place where the soun
Hello,
I am trying to install Debian in a new Dell M70. I first used a CD with the
testing installer, but although it was able to boot from the CD, later it did
not recognize the CD. I have read in other places that it have to do with
SATA controller for the CD and the HD.
Then I tried the stab
Toshiro wrote:
>> > Anybody know which packages should I need to install to be able to use
>> > the ati drivers? I'm trying to use the ati installer
>> > (ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-x86_64.run) in sid and I'm always getting
>> > errors; I suspect I'm missing some packages.
>> >
>> > Thanks in ad
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> But I cannot find where I have to configure what locale in the OS to
> get UTF8 as default encoding for the databases. (I read
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/multibyte.html but that did
> not give me that info). Can you tell me this or give me a pointer to
>
Toshiro wrote:
[...]
the problem is that the 32bit packages that page mentions are
for RedHat/SuSE, I don't know the names of the corresponding Debian packages;
I've installed some packages with similar names, but obviously I'm missing
something, that's why I'm asking for help :)
Regards,
David Baron wrote:
Untarred the -2 onto the linux-source-2.6.16 directory already populated by
-1. The make-dpkg showed no compilations per se other than the first few
script checks. It then pronounced the image ready, did LDs on the modules
(All of them?? Maybe not).
Change logs did not state w
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Untarred the -2 onto the linux-source-2.6.16 directory already populated by
-1. The make-dpkg showed no compilations per se other than the first few
script checks. It then pronounced the image ready, did LDs on the modules
(All of them?? Maybe not).
Change logs did not state what was changed. S
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 03:22:06AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > IMO ifconfig is a system function, and the normal user has no need
> > for access to it, none, nada, zip. As the admin, the admin should be
> > responsible for that,
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:16:30PM -0500, Jay Zach wrote:
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>
> Drake Mobius wrote:
> > Well it of course FINALLY hit me that I should have just used
> > dpkg-reconfigure instead of apt-get remove et al. Attempts to do this
> > fail with the same
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Drake Mobius wrote:
> Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had with
> EXIM.
>
> I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config,
> attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable
> server
Just thought I'd share a fun little experience I recently had withEXIM.I had been having some trouble navigating the exim multi-file config,attempting to change my local mailserver into a real internet-capable
server. Exim4 came installed already when I first installed debian, andI wasn't sure how
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
>> OK, but how is it derived? As far as I know, I did not change
>> anything in the locales since the previous time I installed
>> PostgreSQL.
>
> If your locale is POSIX then it will choose SQL_ASCII. So there is
> nothing wrong in PostgreSQL,
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> OK, but how is it derived? As far as I know, I did not change
> anything in the locales since the previous time I installed
> PostgreSQL.
If your locale is POSIX then it will choose SQL_ASCII. So there is
nothing wrong in PostgreSQL, it's just that your locale is not w
Hello!
I live in the Netherlands and I would like to buy a laptop. The problem
I have now is:
How do I buy a laptop without buying a WinXP license?
There are loads of pages about (Dell|Acer|HP|etc) compatibility but
almost no practical info about evading "MS tax".
I could find this ""Earl
I had the same problem and it was driving me crazy. I decided to experiment
and finally it worked. What I did was untick all the low resolutions and it
worked.
Roy
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From: "Doofus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 6:54 PM
Subject: Re: Resolutio
Chance Platt wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:19 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than
>>640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various
>>websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I
On Sun, March 26, 2006 14:32, Daniel Garcia said:
> Hi,
>
> I have bought a 200Gb usb disk drive, in order to share information
> between windowsXP and linux. I have formated it with FAT32 with linux
> because with windows it is not possible.
>
> Does anybody used a so big FAT32 disk partition, w
Thanks for the suggestions to my post:
> I am running sarge and kernel 2.6.14.3-smp. I have a pentium 4 dual core >
> processor.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ uname -a
> Linux paris 2.6.14.3-smp #1 SMP Fri Dec 9 13:21:36 CST 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> But dpkg thinks its an amd:
>
> paris:/usr/sha
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:44:36PM -0800, Peter Stoddard wrote:
> Someone else installed this os, and I don't know how they got dpkg to think
> it
> was an amd system. Is there any way to get it dpkg to report the proper
> architecture so I can install the pine package?
Dpkg *is* reporting the
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 11:03:16PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Missing symbol has crippled all gnome-related installs not to mention
> programs
> using pango (I do not use gnome itself). A few days now--need it fixed :-)
Gee, that's descriptive. What symbol? What version of the package? Which
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 26 March 2006 02:16, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:46:14AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Giving everybody access to ifconfig and its ilk sure sounds like a
> >> big security hole to me.
> >
> >That
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 17:19 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than
> 640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various
> websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I have an
> IBM E50 monitor an
> > Anybody know which packages should I need to install to be able to use
> > the ati drivers? I'm trying to use the ati installer
> > (ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-x86_64.run) in sid and I'm always getting
> > errors; I suspect I'm missing some packages.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> Did you fol
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:06:33PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 08:55:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > If you specify "stable", though, the always changing system really moves
> > hardly-at-all most of the time, and then has huge, stability-destroying
> > quantu
Thanks
I will await 10.037 migrating to testing.
Regards
John
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steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > Debian etch/testing.
> >
> > My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I
> > can burn the + with no problem using;
> >
> > growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-video /home/rodney/dvd/
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:50:35 -0800
David Koski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 25 March 2006 06:17 pm, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > Debian etch/testing.
> >
> > My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I
> > can burn the + with no problem using;
> >
> > growisof
All right, seems I can go either way with this, guess the next time I
have a reason to shutdown, I'll reboot with a different kernel, install
and reboot (almost sounds as inconvenient as a M$ product we all know
and hate!)
Again, thanks all to answered for the wisdom and advice.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:31:32PM -0800, Steve Garcia wrote:
> I'm setting up a Dell server with Etch-AMD64 and I can't find any of the
> ntp family of packages. Neither ntp-server, ntp-simple, nor ntpd seem
> to be available.
It certainly still appears to be available in the x86 archive. And
Kumar Appaiah said:
> I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than
> 640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various
> websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I have an
> IBM E50 monitor and an Intel 845 graphics board.
What happens
Hi,
I have bought a 200Gb usb disk drive, in order to share information
between windowsXP and linux. I have formated it with FAT32 with linux
because with windows it is not possible.
Does anybody used a so big FAT32 disk partition, will it be slower, is
it risky to use a so big disk partition wi
Hello!
I am using Sarge and my monitor is not giving better resoultion than
640x480. I have tried all the suggestions given in the on various
websites and wikis in this regard, but none of them worked. I have an
IBM E50 monitor and an Intel 845 graphics board.
Thank you,
Kumar
(P.S. Please CC me
On Saturday 25 March 2006 09:57, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> I just want to sometimes get around my ISP's transparent proxy which
> intercepts all port 80 traffic to anywhere, as sometimes it has too
> old caches. Mostly very fast, but sometimes one wants a second view
> without its help.
Call your ISP
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:20 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> It's derived from the locale, so make sure all your locales are set up
> correctly.
OK, but how is it derived? As far as I know, I did not change anything
in the locales since the previous time I installed PostgreSQL.
My locales are:
[E
Toshiro wrote:
Anybody know which packages should I need to install to be able to use the
ati drivers? I'm trying to use the ati installer
(ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-x86_64.run) in sid and I'm always getting
errors; I suspect I'm missing some packages.
Thanks in advance.
Did you follow
Rodney D. Myers wrote:
Debian etch/testing.
My dvd writer, BenQ DW1620, which is supposed to write dvd + & dvd -. I
can burn the + with no problem using;
growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-video /home/rodney/dvd/BK
I've also tried;
growisofs -Z /dev/hda -dvd-compat /home/rodney/dvd/BK
Yet with the s
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> How can I change that? Why did the Debian encoding change?
It's derived from the locale, so make sure all your locales are set up
correctly.
> Can I
> still use the Debian deb files or must I manually initdb PostgreSQL?
These options are not exclusive.
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:39:51AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> IMO ifconfig is a system function, and the normal user has no need
> for access to it, none, nada, zip. As the admin, the admin should be
> responsible for that, with those configs locked down for normal users.
>
> Heck, I'm using t
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Subject:Re: Subject: Re: scanner hp psc1402
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Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
On Sat, March 25, 2006 13:19, steef said:
hello folks,
samebody out there who can tell me how to get the scanner of a hp
psc1402
working?
(tried out sane, xsane and the like already: without success and
googling
was of no help. pr
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