Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Arafangion
Martin J. Hillyer wrote: >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:26PM -0400, Dov Oxenberg wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time >> Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. >> >> Today I tried using the suggested

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:26PM -0400, Dov Oxenberg wrote: >Hello, > >Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time >Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. > >Today I tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reas

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > I have no experience with the LVM snapshots. I've been using rsync > snapshots as described at > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/. Or one could skip doing all of that manually and just do it with dirvish. Description: Filesystem based backup system u

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-12 Thread Arafangion
Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > On 5/12/06, Grant Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I would use the snapshot functionality to create a snapshot of a live >> system, and then backup the system using the snapshot instead of the >> actual system. >> > > I have no experience with the LVM snapshots. I'

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Richard wrote: > Thought I would re-explain myself I'm not sure why, people address both of your concerns adequately with several solutions all of which work just fine. Instead of reexplaining yourself take a moment to actually examine the solutions people have offered to see if they fit your

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-12 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 5/12/06, Grant Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would use the snapshot functionality to create a snapshot of a live system, and then backup the system using the snapshot instead of the actual system. I have no experience with the LVM snapshots. I've been using rsync snapshots as descri

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
> >>>I listened to it for about an hour. > >>> > >>>Runing most recent sid and xine. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Are you kidding me ? I also try Xine, right now I was, and I see the > >>same problem. I only hear the first song, "Mind Trick" from Jamie Cullum > >>and after it

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 12 May 2006 19:35, Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Hello, > Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time > Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. Today I > tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reason it is not > working for me.

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread thierry
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello, Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. Today I tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reason it is not working for me. I downloaded the ISO file, and

Re: smp kernels and xorg

2006-05-12 Thread Grant Thomas
On 5/12/06, Luis Fernando Llana Díaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have just installed a new debian box (etch version). Everything runs perfect until I have installed a smp kernel, I have tried 2.6.15-1-686-smp and 2.6.16-1-smp. It has a hyperthreading (or something similar) pentium and i

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Hex Star
I'd recommend you use burnatonce: http://www.burnatonce.com/ to burn the iso to cd since it's free, small, and easy to use :-)On 5/12/06, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dov Oxenberg wrote: >> Hello,>> Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long> time Windows user) and

Re: Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Kent West
Dov Oxenberg wrote: > > Hello, > > Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long > time Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. > > Today I tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reason > it is not working for me. I downloaded the ISO f

Re: install with lvm and striping

2006-05-12 Thread Grant Thomas
On 5/12/06, Bram Biesbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, The debian-installer allows to format disks using LVM, but it doesn't offer the opportunity to use striping. Is there a way I can do this during the installation process. If not, how do I re-partition my volumes using striping? Bram

Newbie trying to install Debian...

2006-05-12 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello, Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running. Today I tried using the suggested netinst method but for some reason it is not working for me.  I downloaded the ISO file, and extracted the file with W

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-12 Thread Arafangion
Grant Thomas wrote: > My main issue is using snapshots to backup a system implementing LVM2. > > The LVM howto, section 3.8, states that any filesystem that is to have > a snapshot taken of it should be in a consistent state. I do maintain > databases that reside on the testing server, and I a

Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:47:59AM -0400, Eric Mohler wrote: > It took a bit to understand the need to add > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main (and its deb-src corollary) > to /etc/apt/sources.list in order to access non-local packages. > > Discovering the power of apt-get and aptit

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Arafangion
Steve Lamb wrote: >Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>Even sub-folders? >> >> > >Not sure, never had a server that did subfolders so never really cared. >OTOH I did care that I tried prior to Thunderbird seemed capable of storing >sent mail on the server. Seemed dumb to me to force local folders

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-12 Thread formless void
More thoughts are coming to my mind are: When we raise the web usability issue, actually there are two aspects need to be addressed, one from web design perspective and another from browser compatibility perspecitve. Currently, the industry is mainly focusing on the web design standardisation but

Re: Problem with mono 1.1.13.6

2006-05-12 Thread Brad
I fixed it by installing the libmono-corlib2.0-cil package. Package dependency issue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread gustavo halperin
Dale Hair wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 02:04 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Dale Hair wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote:

Re: Mind Mapping Tool

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Perry
On Sat, 13 May 2006 00:30:13 +0200, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I guess many people here might be using one or the other Mind Mapping tool. > > In Debian, we have freemind, vym and kdissert. > > Can somebody share their experiences abo

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Even sub-folders? Not sure, never had a server that did subfolders so never really cared. OTOH I did care that I tried prior to Thunderbird seemed capable of storing sent mail on the server. Seemed dumb to me to force local folders for sent mail, drafts and other such sto

Re^2: sb and 3c509 drivers in etch

2006-05-12 Thread petereasthope
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html Hello Andrew, Since your reply I've read several reports of a problem between 3c509 and SB16. Appears that PnP fails to assign them distinct IRQs. as> anything in dmesg or other logs about it? The

LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-12 Thread Grant Thomas
My main issue is using snapshots to backup a system implementing LVM2. I'm using LVM2 on a testing server, using ReiserFS as the filesystems for the partitions. The system is running 2.6.15-1-k7 as the kernel. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I would use the snapshot functionality to create a sn

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 02:04 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Dale Hair wrote: > > >On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread gustavo halperin
Dale Hair wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http:

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 15:38 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Evolution, T-bird, Mutt, Sylpheed & Outlook, Web Mail are all IMAP- > > capable MUAs. I've read, though, that T-bird doesn't have good > > IMAP capabilities, though. > > Thunderbird has one of the best IMAP impleme

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>Hello > >> > >>There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for > >>example the next one: > >> http://2

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Evolution, T-bird, Mutt, Sylpheed & Outlook, Web Mail are all IMAP- > capable MUAs. I've read, though, that T-bird doesn't have good > IMAP capabilities, though. Thunderbird has one of the best IMAP implementations around. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who de

Mind Mapping Tool

2006-05-12 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I guess many people here might be using one or the other Mind Mapping tool. In Debian, we have freemind, vym and kdissert. Can somebody share their experiences about what is good in which software and which they have found to be the best and mos

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 15:18 -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop/courier-IMAP > > Ron, Thanks, > which one of these application would allow me to read and reply to emails? None. They are not MUAs (Mail User Agents). Evolution, T-bird, Mutt, S

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, > >> the following error message appears: > >> > >> $ rm -vr to-be-removed > >> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. > >> This almost certainly

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread gustavo halperin
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the "winmedia" we hear an in

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:43:50PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > > > > > >>Hello > >> > >>There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for > >>example the next one: > >>htt

smp kernels and xorg

2006-05-12 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hello, I have just installed a new debian box (etch version). Everything runs perfect until I have installed a smp kernel, I have tried 2.6.15-1-686-smp and 2.6.16-1-smp. It has a hyperthreading (or something similar) pentium and it seems that in order to take advantage of that feature I have

Unidentified subject!

2006-05-12 Thread petereasthope
In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html In-Reply-To=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/05/msg01284.html Hello Andrew, Since your reply I've read several reports of a problem between 3c509 and SB16. Appears

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for > example the next one: > http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx > If you put the above address in the "winmedia" we hear an introduction > of a radio

sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the "winmedia" we hear an introduction of a radio and then the music, but with "mplayer" or "aviplay" we just hear the introdu

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:18:05PM -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop/courier-IMAP > > Ron, Thanks, > which one of these application would allow me to read and reply to emails? > none of those are mail clients (programs that read and reply to

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
Ron Johnson wrote: fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop/courier-IMAP Ron, Thanks, which one of these application would allow me to read and reply to emails? Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:06:10PM +0300, Fourat Zouari wrote: > >> >On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:59:01PM +0300, Zouari Fourat wrote: > >> >> :( > >> >> ubuntu didnt start X, didnt detect anything in my laptop > >> >> really i dont know what should i do > > > >Umm... you say it didn't detect anything

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, >> the following error message appears: >> >> $ rm -vr to-be-removed >> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. >> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. >> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGE

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, >> the following error message appears: >> >> $ rm -vr to-be-removed >> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. >> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. >> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGE

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, >> the following error message appears: >> >> $ rm -vr to-be-removed >> rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. >> This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. >> NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGE

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:08:28PM -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron, > What components would I need to make this work for pop3 accounts ( no imap) pop3 accounts on which end? We've already suggested fetchmail for collecting mail FROM pop3 accounts and various solutions to put them into maildir format.

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:40 -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > How many clients are we talking about? Just you, or a company > > full of people? > > Just me fetchmail/postfix/spamassassin/maildrop/courier-IMAP Works like a *champ*. My wife and I have been using it for two years w

Re: Debian Menu in Gnome from testing / SID

2006-05-12 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:58:49PM +0200, Michael Ott wrote: > Hi! > > I installed alacarte and realise that there is a menu point Debian. But > i do not see this point in the menu. Where i can change it. > > The checkbox is set so normally i have to see it. Do you have the 'menu' and 'menu-xdg'

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I do: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > , then > > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all right; but the effect of `export PATH' > is not pe

Re: Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, >> all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate >> that suffix from all of them. >> Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, >> that can do so? Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > rename 's/\.tx

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
Ron Johnson wrote: How many clients are we talking about? Just you, or a company full of people? Just me for now... Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:04 -0400, Richard wrote: > Rich Johnson wrote: > > > > > On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: > > > >> Thought I would re-explain myself > >> > >> Regarding Mail, > >> What I wanted to do, if possible, > >> is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) (

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:08 -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:58 -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > > > > On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Thought I would re-explain myself > > > > [snip] > > > Ron, > What components wo

Re: How to restore corrupted initscripts?

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John O'Hagan wrote: Hi, When shutting down my etch laptop of late, it stops just short of power-off with a message along the lines of "No more processes in this runlevel". I then have to power-off manually. I looked in /etc/init.d and noticed that the "halt" script was no longer a script, b

Re: samba domain controller suggestions

2006-05-12 Thread Dexter
tool - samba gui - webmin Works fine. Dexter Rodney Richison wrote: > Would like suggestions on setting up a "preferably debian" domain > controller. In particular, good tools, gui's, to manage it. > > Or should I look at something differant like sme server? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 12, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:What you're doing differently is that you're _keeping_ the messages   (255K of them) whereas I purge any mailboxes with >10K messages.  If   you choose to use Maildir, I'd advise that you configure your system   to limit the number of messages maintai

samba domain controller suggestions

2006-05-12 Thread Rodney Richison
Would like suggestions on setting up a "preferably debian" domain controller. In particular, good tools, gui's, to manage it. Or should I look at something differant like sme server? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020 Phone: 9

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:58 -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: Thought I would re-explain myself Regarding Mail, What I wanted to do, if possible, is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) ( th

Debian on line...

2006-05-12 Thread Giorgio Bonfiglio
Buongiorno, Questo inidirizzo mi sembrava il più appropriato per esporvi la mia idea: per provare le distribuzioni linux sono stati creati i live cd, ma, con una connessione normale ci vuole 1 ora per scaricarne uno e poi, si deve aggiungere la spesa del cd e se non piace si cestina... Quindi r

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
Rich Johnson wrote: On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: Thought I would re-explain myself Regarding Mail, What I wanted to do, if possible, is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) ( thousands ) avg 2800 per day and have spam filters applied and rules applied, and mo

Multiple IPs on single interface

2006-05-12 Thread Henry
I am adding multiple IPs with different subnets to my single interface on this machine. Everything works fine except whenever I issue an `ifup eth0:1` command I get this... # ifup eth0:1 SIOCADDRT: File exists Failed to bring up eth0:1. And it's the first time I try to bring it up. But despi

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:58 -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: > > > Thought I would re-explain myself > > > > Regarding Mail, > > What I wanted to do, if possible, > > is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) > > ( thousands ) avg 2800 per da

Re: clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-12 Thread S t i n g r a y
Sorry dennis, but i didnt get it ... --- Dennis Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S t i n g r a y wrote: > > > Well i cant seem to find a way to clear all the > > records in arp cache ... > > in other unix versions this commands works > > > > # arp -a -d > > > > but here it isnt working

Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 12, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Richard wrote: Thought I would re-explain myself Regarding Mail, What I wanted to do, if possible, is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) ( thousands ) avg 2800 per day and have spam filters applied and rules applied, and move into folder, as p

Re: etch network install iso images with latest kernel version 2.6.x

2006-05-12 Thread Georgi Alexandrov
Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > At the beginning of the year there was a 150 MB file on Debian.org > to create a network installation CDROM for etch. I can't find that > anymore although I did find the multiple iso images. > > I was interested in the etch network CDROM because it contain

Re: Gnome works KDE does not

2006-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 16:44:58 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi > > I have one problem with the installation of debian on my PC that I hope you > can give me advice on how to solve. My PC is a standard P4 with 256 ram and > 80GB hd. > > I have installed debian sarge on my laptop (Dell Latitude) su

Mail Issues (pt 2 )

2006-05-12 Thread Richard
Thought I would re-explain myself Regarding Mail, What I wanted to do, if possible, is to have the mail fetch from pop3 accounts (several) ( thousands ) avg 2800 per day and have spam filters applied and rules applied, and move into folder, as pure text messages, with header intact. This woul

Re: setup ODBC data source

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I am trying to connect MSSQL from debian system. The > reference which I was following, used Redhat's ODBCConfig. > As that is not available on Debian, so I could not succeed > there. Which is the equivalent to ODBCConfig in Deabin? > > I have file /etc/odbc.ini which has at its end: > > Nam

Re: Gnome works KDE does not

2006-05-12 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 16:44 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > However when I use KDE and as soon as I open Konqueror, the harddrive > comes on and it sits there accessing whatever on the drive. The system > seems to "hang" - no response from mouse or keyboard. I then have to > reset. Sounds like some kin

Re: howto autosave email attachments?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > We have a shiny new printer/copier/scanner. It sends scanned pages as email > attachments. Instead of manually selecting individual email adresses on the > cumbersome telephone-like local keyboard, it would be handy to mail all of > them to the same e-mail address a

Re: emacs - Cannot open termcap database file

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Mohler
It took a bit to understand the need to add deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main (and its deb-src corollary) to /etc/apt/sources.list in order to access non-local packages. Discovering the power of apt-get and aptitude. I decided to go with the binary for the moment and will compile as

Gnome works KDE does not

2006-05-12 Thread Mark Panen
HiI have one problem with the installation of debian on my PC that I hope you can give me advice on how to solve. My PC is a standard P4 with 256 ram and 80GB hd. I have installed debian sarge on my laptop (Dell Latitude) successfully. I used the installer that installed a desktop configuration wi

Re: clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-12 Thread Dennis Stosberg
S t i n g r a y wrote: > Well i cant seem to find a way to clear all the > records in arp cache ... > in other unix versions this commands works > > # arp -a -d > > but here it isnt working ? > > what can i do ? for host in `arp -n | cut -f1 -d' '`; do arp -d $host; done Regards, Dennis --

Re: Network's freezing

2006-05-12 Thread Fourat Zouari
On 5/12/06, Fourat Zouari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/12/06, Fourat Zouari < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/11/06, Matt Zagrabelny < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 network adapters, eth and wifi.> How to know wich hardware is used as eth0 and ath0 (wifi)> Why is it saying 'Unknown device

Re: Network's freezing

2006-05-12 Thread Fourat Zouari
On 5/12/06, Fourat Zouari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/11/06, Matt Zagrabelny < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 network adapters, eth and wifi.> How to know wich hardware is used as eth0 and ath0 (wifi)> Why is it saying 'Unknown device' ? lan and wifi are working fine.$ dmesg | grep eth0

Re: Mail issues

2006-05-12 Thread Stephen
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:48:20AM + or thereabouts, p wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:17:43PM -0400, Richard wrote: > > Looking for a simple method of doing this: > > Main reason for the changes, lost 255,000 email in a mbox format. > > corrupted. > > > however, i just wanted to add tha

clearing all arp records ?

2006-05-12 Thread S t i n g r a y
Well i cant seem to find a way to clear all the records in arp cache ... in other unix versions this commands works # arp -a -d but here it isnt working ? what can i do ? thanks *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Stingray *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ __

Re: Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:13 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, > the following error message appears: > > $ rm -vr to-be-removed > rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. > This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:13 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I do: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > , then > > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all right;

Re: debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-05-12 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Thu, 11 May 2006 22:42:00 +0200 Christoph Nenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could try to install the ones missing on your box. > Another thing that could be is some messed up sdl related config file in your > home dir. > > hope that helps > > Christoph I believe it's some config some

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I was sure, but it starts up now. Instead, it says that there is an error in the configuration of the login manager, and that it will use the ``default command''. Is this /etc/gdm/gdm.conf? Should I post its contents here? -- Leonid

Re: The New SpamAssassin sa-update

2006-05-12 Thread listrcv
David Baron wrote: Did you file a bug report? No, I did not. If Debian maintainers are responsible for this, I will. Hm, who sets up the dependencies if not them? > Easy enough. Poster says that this is no longer a problem in 3.1.1 and that the site is simply off line for now so I will wa

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-05-12 Thread Fourat Zouari
On 5/2/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:49:26PM +0300, Fourat Zouari wrote:> ok thanks for your help anymore> i dont understand you saying 'don't top-post', can you explain to me so i'll> not repost something like that you are posting your replies ABOV

usb 1-5.4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

2006-05-12 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i've had big problems with my via onboard USB 2.0 controller, it gave thousands of messages like the following to the console: usb 1-5.4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 after someone told me, that the via USB 2.0 controllers are known to be bad quality, i bought

Re: Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 11:58 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, > > all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate > > that suffix from all of them. > > Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, > > that can do so? > >

Debian Menu in Gnome from testing / SID

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I installed alacarte and realise that there is a menu point Debian. But i do not see this point in the menu. Where i can change it. The checkbox is set so normally i have to see it. Thanks in advance CU Michael -- ,''`. Michael Ott, e-mail: michael at

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-05-12, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all right; but the effect of `export PATH' > is not permanent: after a while, or in another terminal, again: > > $ e

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:13:15AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I do: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > , then > > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all

Re: Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:57AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, > all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate > that suffix from all of them. > Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, > that can do so?

Re: Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/05/06 11:13), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I do: > > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games > > , then > > $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" > $ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin > > and everything all right; but the effect

install with lvm and striping

2006-05-12 Thread Bram Biesbrouck
Hi all, The debian-installer allows to format disks using LVM, but it doesn't offer the opportunity to use striping. Is there a way I can do this during the installation process. If not, how do I re-partition my volumes using striping? Bram -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, > all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate > that suffix from all of them. > Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, > that can do so? > rename 's/\.txt//' *.txt -Roberto --

Pendrive corrupted filesystem

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. When I try to remove a certain directory from my pendrive, the following error message appears: $ rm -vr to-be-removed rm: WARNING: Circular directory structure. This almost certainly means that you have a corrupted file system. NOTIFY YOUR SYSTEM MANAGER. The following directory is part of t

Effect of `export PATH' not pemanent?

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I do: $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games , then $ export PATH="$PATH:/sbin" $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/sbin and everything all right; but the effect of `export PATH' is not permanent: after a while, or in another termin

Unix command(s) to eliminate file extension?

2006-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. Suppose I have in a directory a certain number of files, all terminating with `.txt', and that I want to eliminate that suffix from all of them. Is there a Unix command, or perhaps a set of commands, that can do so? Thanks, Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Mime Support

2006-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 08:49 +0100, Indraveni wrote: > Hi, > > we are working for a distro. For that we are using a debian installer > for installing the deb packages with a double click on a deb package > and also incorporated into our distro. But the problem is: > > At the first time when we try

Re: Network's freezing

2006-05-12 Thread Fourat Zouari
On 5/11/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 network adapters, eth and wifi.> How to know wich hardware is used as eth0 and ath0 (wifi)> Why is it saying 'Unknown device' ? lan and wifi are working fine.$ dmesg | grep eth0 $ dmesg | grep ath0will tell you which drivers (modules

Re: Network's freezing

2006-05-12 Thread Fourat Zouari
On 5/11/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 18:26 +0300, Fourat Zouari wrote:> Am having network problems on my laptop, the computer freezes when> downloading or uploading a big file (over 500Mb) via scp or ftp> to/form other computers in the network, other symptoms

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-12 Thread Chris Lale
Leonid Grinberg wrote: If your friend is using Gnome in Etch (testing), my previous post may help: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg04086.html Although GNOME is the display environment being used, it is not the one that's crashing. It's definitely X. Are you sure? I was able

Re: How to restore corrupted initscripts?

2006-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 12 May 2006 15:22:31 +1000 John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > When shutting down my etch laptop of late, it stops just short of > power-off with a message along the lines of "No more processes in > this runlevel". I then have to power-off manually. > > I looked in /etc/in

Re: another font problem in xorg

2006-05-12 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Hi, Arne. You wrote: > When I use X applications which don't use fontconfig, but the > plain old X method to find fonts (e.g. fontforge), I get > complaints like this: [..] The X font locations have changed. Instead of /usr/lib/X11/fonts they are now in /usr/share/fonts/X11. /etc/X11/xorg.conf sh

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