Re: How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?

2006-07-19 Thread H.S.
Angelina Carlton wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to install the first font on this page: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download My system is Debian Sid, xorg, with defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf installed. I created a folder 'proggy' in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and unzipped the fi

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Jerry Quinn
Eduardo wrote: Sorry man, I forgot: du:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network

Re: USB Key Drive

2006-07-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:11:10PM -0400, Patrick Ester wrote: > I am having a problem with my USB key drive, Etch will not recognize it. > I just installed Etch today from the netinstall disk. The following > programs are installed: > Gnome Volume Manager (it says to auto mount removeable media)

Emacs keybindings in gnome?

2006-07-19 Thread Jerry Quinn
Hi, all. I'm running etch. At some point, my gnome emacs keybindings disappeared. So, I went to do the simple thing and tried to use the Keyboard Shortcuts utility to switch it to the appropriate setting. However, this setting seems to have disappeared. Do I really have to grub through wi

Re: USB Key Drive

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* Patrick Ester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 19:11:10 -0400]: > I find that I am alone in this problem. Does anybody have any > suggestions? Do you need some more information? > Open a terminal and run (as root): tail -f /var/log/messages Insert and extract the key. You should see some

USB Key Drive

2006-07-19 Thread Patrick Ester
I am having a problem with my USB key drive, Etch will not recognize it. I just installed Etch today from the netinstall disk. The following programs are installed: Gnome Volume Manager (it says to auto mount removeable media) PMount USButils I find that I am alone in this problem. Does anybody h

Re: netatalk: uams_dhx_pam.so missing?

2006-07-19 Thread Aaron Hall
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Peter Teunissen wrote: > I'm probably overlooking the obvious, but why is the authentication > method uams_dhx_pam.so missing from /usr/lib/netatalk? Has this > something to do with the gpl incompatability with openssl or should > the file simply be copied from another (undocu

How do I install a non packaged font in Debian?

2006-07-19 Thread Angelina Carlton
Hi everyone, I would like to install the first font on this page: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download My system is Debian Sid, xorg, with defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf installed. I created a folder 'proggy' in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ and unzipped the files there, then ran the c

Re: Editing run level S

2006-07-19 Thread Willie Wonka
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:19:08PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Leading on from the earlier posters question about configuring an > > encrypted filesystem that does not interrupt the boot process with > > a password prompt... > > > > Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way'

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Eduardo
Sorry man, I forgot: du:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto

gnuplot: set terminal pdf

2006-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello I was wondering if anyone manage to get 'set terminal pdf' to work on there debian machine. Apparently there is a licensing issue: [Bug#248426: set terminal pdf doesn't work] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_frm/thread/b7637b115e19b025/b98c9bc765a0b895?&hl=en#b

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:01:53PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > >hope this helps > >Kev > > H, for some reason, it seem to only accept users with a UID >1000. I > changed the UID of mythtv from 108 -> 1003, and then all was well. This sounds like some kind of security check where low UIDs a

Re: proprietary kernel modules w/ kernel-package?

2006-07-19 Thread Kit Peters
Please excuse the lateness of my reply. I don't think this is going to work for me. A wrinkle that I failed to mention earlier is that I'm compiling a custom kernel for these machines, and the driver needs to be compiled against that kernel. Ideally, I'd like to use make-kpkg to generate the cus

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Like I asked before: What's in your /etc/network/interfaces file? Eduardo wrote: > I tried first with 8139cp and ran : > > du:~# modprobe 8139cp > du:~# ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.221 255.255.255.0 up > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth1: ERROR while

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff D
Michele Della Marina wrote: Yes, but I would like to install a personal gateway server, so I'm looking for documentation On 7/19/06, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could try using an email-to-sms gateway service -- many ISPs and telecommunications companies offer such a service. Mi

exploit fix

2006-07-19 Thread Felipe Tornvall
hello list proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0 add to the first line ... create a file 100 mg in the home of any user yes > xxx then compile. gcc -o archivo source.c ./archivo xxx under amd64 dont work.under sarge it work but any netinstall on the last

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Michele Della Marina
Yes, but I would like to install a personal gateway server, so I'm looking for documentation On 7/19/06, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could try using an email-to-sms gateway service -- many ISPs and telecommunications companies offer such a service. Michele Della Marina wrote: > y

RE: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
>hope this helps >Kev H, for some reason, it seem to only accept users with a UID >1000. I changed the UID of mythtv from 108 -> 1003, and then all was well. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Can't ping

2006-07-19 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > after an update of my Etch system yesterday, I can't connect to the internet > properly via my DSL connection. > > After running pppoeconf and entering my user data and password and > then connect to my provider with

RE: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
>Hi Jan, >I was looking into setting up a kiosk mode with gdm/gnome and I read >about gdm having 2 options (not sure they are in the gdm in >etch/testing) in Sid. It has autologin and timed autologin. You edit the >/etc/gdm/gdm.conf. > >this autologsin the kiosk user >- >[daemon] >Autom

Re: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff D
Iuri Sampaio wrote: I erased the directory /etc/postgresql and now I get this error message every time I run a pgsql command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -l /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: line 2: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory List of databases Name | Owner |

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:40 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] I followed Mr. Keeling's suggestion and, at the end of dpkg-reconfigure, I got an warning message: > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has > been

/etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory

2006-07-19 Thread Iuri Sampaio
I erased the directory /etc/postgresql and now I get this error message every time I run a pgsql command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -l /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: line 2: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding -

Re: Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugo Vanwoerkom) writes: > So I did: > 1. mount /cdrom > 2. mkisofs -r -o 11.iso /cdrom [...] > Guess what? That CD-RW does not boot. > > What's wrong with the scheme? > The boot portion of the CD contents needs special treatment. To create a valid bootable image of

Can't ping

2006-07-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after an update of my Etch system yesterday, I can't connect to the internet properly via my DSL connection. After running pppoeconf and entering my user data and password and then connect to my provider with "pon dsl-provider", with ifconfig I can see that my ppp0 has a dynamic IP address. W

Bug? xxdate.exe missing from tex/hevea

2006-07-19 Thread T
Hi The helper script xxdate.exe is missing from tex/hevea in the testing/unstable release: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searchword&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386&word=xxdate.exe http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searc

Re: debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread nicolas(yahoo)
El Mié 19 Jul 2006 12:35, Pol Hallen escribió: > ope anyone can help me - either to tell it' s just > > > fakeraid -, or help. what i have found with sata it's that the debian kernels don't work. i compile and install the kernel 1.6.16.18 from http://www.kernel.org and it's work form me with a si

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:55:08PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > > Hello! > > I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. > > But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created > during initial install of the system. None of the users created after > install

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Chris Jones
You could try using an email-to-sms gateway service -- many ISPs and telecommunications companies offer such a service. Michele Della Marina wrote: yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hi Everybody, I want a program that will allow me to capture video from my TV Tuner card AND at the same time show (in a window) what I am capturing. It should be able to capture both video and audio (audio via the line in of my on board sound card). Could you please

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Eduardo
I tried first with 8139cp and ran : du:~# modprobe 8139cp du:~# ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.221 255.255.255.0 up SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth1: ERROR while g

Re: Playing with backported kernel

2006-07-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:08:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is a good idea to install the 2.6.16 kernel from backports. But apt-get told me it would need to remove hotplug. I'd also like to keep my current setup (with 2.6.8-2-k7 sarge stock, whic

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible? Well, in the US, each mobile phone provider has their own email-to-SMS gateway (http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm), and

DLink DFE-530TX network card slower than other computers

2006-07-19 Thread DC A
I've 3 winxp and 1 debian sarge computers. All of them are behind a router. all of my windows computers' internet speed is 4.1 mbps and debian's speed is 3.4 mbps. Is there anyway to find out what is slowing down my debian box? And then speed up my debian box from there. Any help will be appreci

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Michele Della Marina
yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible? On 7/19/06, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michele Della Marina wrote: > Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sen

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sending text messages to people's phones via email, or something else? - Joe smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Michele Della Marina
Hello all! Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? I have no knowledge about it, but my desire is learn something ... can you send me a link or a good tutorial? Thanks -- Michele Della Marina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:26, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond > the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. No, nor would you want to if you could. Video RAM is typically considerably faster

Re: [OT] How do I make my computer act like a telephone?

2006-07-19 Thread Hex Star
Why not just use Skype which lets you call any landline or cellphone over the internet (needs a high speed broadband internet connection to work properly though)?On 7/18/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Preamble:Hello list. This is rather not Debian related, but I simply can't find t

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 13:14:42 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Eduardo wrote: > > I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. > > I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in > > /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to > >

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:12:01 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add > >users in there > > > Will certainly do when I get home, thanks! > > But, would GNOME use KDE3 config files? Nope. Gnome will have it's own c

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > process to delete that pid file. Once I did a dumb thing and did a > "chown -fR someuser:someuser /" and my entire disk was then owned by Glad I'm not the only one. I didn't do it. The student I was training at the time must have, and it was quite a shock f

Make an updates disk?

2006-07-19 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got three friends who installed 3.1r2 from CD. They're on dial-up. I'd like to make an update CD for them from the files in my /var/cache/apt/archives. It would be nice if they could use apt-cdrom add to bring it in. (Otherwise I'm jus

Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-07-19 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. I thought I could use videoRam with xorg.conf, but I couldn't, and when I read the man page, it seems that one can't use it for that purpose. I think one poss

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo wrote: > I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. > I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in > /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to > use? And if Debian has

Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Eduardo
I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to use? And if Debian has it compiled? The card is (listed with pci.ids) : 1904 Hangzhou Si

APT Black Magic Solved...

2006-07-19 Thread Redefined Horizons
My thanks to Ron and T.J. for their earlier posts about my problem. With their suggestions and a little more trouble shooting I was able to solve the problem. I wanted to post the solution to the list so others might find it when searching the archives. The original problem was that APT and Synap

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -0500, John Mason wrote: > unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The > "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it > unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a > hard link OR a symbolic

Re: Read/Write files from a script

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0530, Anil Gupte/k.e.e.n., inc. wrote: > BlankIs there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text > file, loop through each line and parse the line of text. while read line do echo "processing line: $line" done < input_text_file -- "Artificial intel

Re: dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:29:51 -0600 John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are > quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 > partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. > I get t

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:17:33PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: > > > In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a > > dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted > > when really needed. If

Re: Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:47:47PM -0400, Noah Dain wrote: > >OK. There are "ufs" items on the kernel sources and apt shows union-fs > >packages. How do these relate and what needs be installed to make use of > >this? Configuration? What happens to fs-tab? Build the source with "module-assistan

Re: Editing run level S

2006-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something (in this > case 'cryptdisks') from runlevel 'S'? One way is by installing and running sysvconfig. > Finally, I tried using 'sysv-rc-conf', and it seems that it did allow > me to deactivate cryptdisks - although

Re: Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread Noah Dain
On 7/19/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may well be the most useful and powerful "new" puppy around. Used by Knoppix and others to "merge" the CD image file system with the operational ramdisk FS and with a user's FS (no longer restricted to a /home/user). Magic. A normal mount re

Re: little project

2006-07-19 Thread Felipe Leon
Thanks Kevin, Ron, and Thibaut for their ideas and input. I'll get in contact with this people from the dominican republic and see what happens. Thibaut made me think on taking mor care of the hardware and have a strong back up system, which definetively I will take into account, thanks for this. W

dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error messages from dmesg: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs:

Re: Search for text string in files

2006-07-19 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:49, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Cool, thanks! I will log this command in my memory. > Alas, the string "jack" is not in any of my rcn.d files or init.d, so > I'm lost again. > -Chuckk > > On 7/18/06, Fred J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $grep -FHrn jack /path/ > > > > >

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hi Mike, Before we proceed, please pardon me if I'm rehashing, but I don't know your level of skills. > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,ho

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED ?

2006-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:40 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > > > I followed Mr. Keeling's suggestion and, at the end of > dpkg-reconfigure, I got an warning message: > > > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has > > been > customiz

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: > In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a > dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted > when really needed. If you are really paranoid, you can remove your > network connection whenev

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-19 Thread Art Edwards
The rewritable media actually use phase change materials that are locally melted by the write-laser. Depending on the shape of the laser pulse, the material is left in either an amorphous or a poly crystalline state (polycrystalline is more conductive and, hence, more reflective.) The read senses

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:03:26AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 04:46, Rick Pasotto a écrit : > > I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to > > run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run > > resize2fs /var needs to be unmount

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread John Mason
unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a hard link OR a symbolic link will remove the link/file. Anyhow, the error means that the p

RE: APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Should take a look at reprepro http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 > -Original Message- > From: T.J. Duchene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:20 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: APT Black Magic > > Be sure to actually check the listed paths in t

Re: creating incomplete mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Guillaume
Pol Hallen a écrit : I want to create an incomplete mirror of debian sarge in my own hard drive from a debian mirror site, in case I don't need some of packages. How can I do it? I remember that in www.debian.org (but don't remember exact link) for do it. Maybe, with "apt-cache search mirror" (

Re: creating incomplete mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
> I want to create an incomplete mirror of debian sarge > in my own hard drive from a debian mirror site, in > case I don't need some of packages. How can I do it? I remember that in www.debian.org (but don't remember exact link) for do it. Maybe, with "apt-cache search mirror" (or the equivalent)

Re: Editing run level S (was encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?)

2006-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:19:08PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Leading on from the earlier posters question about configuring an > encrypted filesystem that does not interrupt the boot process with > a password prompt... > > Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something > (in th

Re: debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
> My question is that is here anobody who has experiences with this card? > Is it a real hw sata card, can i use it for HW sata raid, or not? If > yes, then how? I downloaded a driver (modul) from promise.com, and > after i loeded it,  i saw the same. > > Thanks for your help, i hope anyone can hel

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED ?

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
s. keeling wrote: Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four res

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:31:19PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: > > > Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on > > a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted > > filesystem?

eth manual setting of speed and duplex

2006-07-19 Thread Hakim
Hi NG, I would like to set manually the speed and duplex mode of my nic. I know there are tools like ethtool and mii-tool, but those ones are not working with my 8169 Realtek card. Thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:14:34AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have only 10 CD-RW disks that I use for mondoarchive. > > But I wanted to try Grml-0.7 on one of them. So I needed to save the > contents of one of them and use that. > > So I found this site: > http://www.yolinux.com/

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 22:54:31 +0800]: > As I recall, this broke for me in going from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. > > Clayton > Yup, it did - my solution was to install a stock kernel, and used it's .config as the basis for my custom kernel's config, then remove the stock k

Re: large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Look at sql-ledger. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Be sure to actually check the listed paths in the Packages.gz file to make sure that they are pointing to the deb files in question. It sounds like you have the Packages file written in the proper format so that it can be added to the package tree via APT or Synaptic (frontend to apt), but that

RE: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
>look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add >users in there Will certainly do when I get home, thanks! But, would GNOME use KDE3 config files?

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread LeVA
2006. július 19. 16:31, Mladen Adamovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian User ,: > Tony Terlecki wrote: > >> Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, > >> loop through each line and parse the line of text. > > > > Depending on what you want to do: > > > > man sed > > man aw

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:55:08 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. > > But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created > during initial install of the system. None of the users created

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:31:54PM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I want a program that will allow me to capture video from my TV Tuner > card AND at the same time show (in a window) what I am capturing. It > should be able to capture both video and audio (audio via the line

Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
Hello! I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created during initial install of the system. None of the users created after install (more specifically, I would like to auto-logon the user mythtv) is displayed i

Re: File manager for creating relative symbolic links

2006-07-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:09 +0100, Tony Terlecki wrote: > Can anyone suggest a file manager where I can create links that are > relative symbolic links? With konqueror I can drag and drop files but > when I specify 'link' as the drop option it creates absolute symbolic > links. > > Alternatively i

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread claytonk
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:11:08 +0300 chavdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I am running Debian unstable. My current kernel is 2.6.12 and it is my > own custom build. Following the recent security advisories, last > night I decided to upgrade my kernel. I downloaded the Debian source

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Tony Terlecki
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:19:30PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: > bg image(cid:014e01c6ab29$652db160$6400a8c0@Aum) > Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, loop > through each line and parse the line of text. > Depending on what you want to do: man sed man awk Regardl

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: > Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on > a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted > filesystem? > It depends on how you want to do this. If you want a completely encryp

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: > >> > >>I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. > >> > >>The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x10

debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread A B
Hi! I want to install a debian onto an amd64 machine, and i have a promise fastrack tx4310 sata raid (II) controller. In the fastrack bios i set up raid5 for three devices (three hardisks [each are 320GB]), and everything looked fine, but when i boot into with knoppix (2.6.17), or debian sarge i

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Tony Terlecki wrote: Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text. Depending on what you want to do: man sed man awk Yeah, but he asked about shell commands which read files, and that is 'cat' so my addon to

Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have only 10 CD-RW disks that I use for mondoarchive. But I wanted to try Grml-0.7 on one of them. So I needed to save the contents of one of them and use that. So I found this site: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html So I did: 1. mount /cdrom 2. mkisofs -

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a > > problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~

File manager for creating relative symbolic links

2006-07-19 Thread Tony Terlecki
Can anyone suggest a file manager where I can create links that are relative symbolic links? With konqueror I can drag and drop files but when I specify 'link' as the drop option it creates absolute symbolic links. Alternatively is there a tool which quickly converts absolute to relative symbolic

Re: large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:23 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > The web-site of Gnucash defines it as a personal and small-business > accounting software. Is there accounting software for the large > enterprise in Debian? Is Gnucash the most advanced in its class? If you haven't checked out

mailserver backup (hardware change)

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I must change my hardware server. I use debian sarge. In my machine i have several services, but the only I had better backup is mailserver (with whole users's configurations, etc.) - i use courier with pop3 with pam autentications. How I do it? Is it sufficient backup /etc/passwd

large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, The web-site of Gnucash defines it as a personal and small-business accounting software. Is there accounting software for the large enterprise in Debian? Is Gnucash the most advanced in its class? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread anonymous
Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted filesystem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1153318438 past the epoch, George Borisov wrote: > Try executing the following: > > modprobe ip_tables > modprobe iptable_filter The OP's first post indicates he has enabled the ipfilters stuff as built-ins (Y) rather than modules (m). So, modprobe will not help. You may need to upgrade your

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread George Borisov
chavdar wrote: > On ср, 2006-07-19 at 13:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> >> Obvious, but have you checked to see if these modules are loaded? >> >> ip_tables >> iptable_filter >> >> If not, then load them. > > Which options in the config file are these, because I answered with Y to > all options

Read/Write files from a script

2006-07-19 Thread Anil Gupte/k.e.e.n., inc.
Is there a shell command to read files?  I want to open a text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text.   Also, as I am in learning mode, is there a way to write text files from a script?   Thanx, Anil Gupte  

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: Dear Srs, I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see al

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread chavdar
On ср, 2006-07-19 at 13:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > chavdar wrote: > > > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables > > who? (do you need to insmod?) > > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > Obvious, but have you checked to see if these modu

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-19 Thread Manon Metten
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: ... Over time I collected nine drives that stopped working: some wrote bad disks, others got read errors. Took the cases off and cleaned the lenses carefully with aqueous isopropyl "rubbing" alcohol on cotton swabs. Eight of the nine work perfectly now. Try it. The key

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