Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 08:24:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:04:02PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Indeed, I avoided SATA drives because they are so new on my AMD64, > > though I have all the sockets for them on my motherboard. I still > > eventually

cdrecord problems on sarge - status and alternatives ?

2006-10-01 Thread B Thomas
Hi, I am unable to burn cds using either a SCSI cdrw or an ATAPI DVD/CD RW. I am using Sarge and have tried kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.18. cdrecord prematurely terminates the write with the error message "OPC failed". (I'll post the detailed log if needed). This seems to be related to bug 381137 ( ht

Re: debian forum

2006-10-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > c) Cannot use vim to compose emails. > If I am using a mailing list interface, I can use kmail to read my emails, > and > vim to write replies. In forums I cannot do that. I am being restricted by > their st**id editor. Know what I can never wrap my brain aroun

Re: Cannot change hostname permanently

2006-10-01 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: Chris Lale wrote: or by using the hostname command. All is well until I reboot. During boot, hostname is reset to the value I supplied during installation. Kent West writes: That seems slightly odd to me. Not at all. From /etc/init.d/hostname.sh: # Shor

Re: Cannot change hostname permanently

2006-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Chris Lale wrote: > or by using the hostname command. All is well until I reboot. During > boot, hostname is reset to the value I supplied during installation. Kent West writes: > That seems slightly odd to me. Not at all. From /etc/init.d/hostname.sh: # Short-Description: Set hostname based o

Re: exim4: avoiding "retry time not reached for any host"

2006-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-01 23:42:47 +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote: > Part of the Exim configuration file are Retry rules wich govern how > often Exim (guess what) retries failed deliveries. You shoul'd adjust > that to your needs > > http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html Where do I wri

Re: printing problem - spurious characters printed randomly interspersed in printout - since Sarge/kernel update

2006-10-01 Thread Marty
Daniel B. wrote: Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and kernel 2.6.8 (2.6.8-2-k7-smp), I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts. The error pattern is that at multiple, seemingly random positions in the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character, and frequentlyright after

OpenLogos install problem

2006-10-01 Thread Manuel Souto Pico
Hi Curtis, ,I'm having the same problem. The instructions say For 'configure' probably you have to set the path to your Java installation:./configure --with-java= I've searched for my java installation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/openlogos-1.0.2$ sudo find / -name javaPassword:/etc/alternatives/java /etc/

e2fsck repeatedly "fixes" the same errors.

2006-10-01 Thread Carl Fink
So a partition on an external (USB) drive reported problems. I ran e2fsck on it, repeatedly. I unfortunately didn't capture the output, but it moved and cleared many inodes. Now when I run "e2fsck -y /dev/sde6" I get the same problems reported and "fixed" over and over. Makes me doubt they were

Re: X doesn't work after apt-get upgrade (unstable)

2006-10-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-01 15:50:58 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > After apt-get upgrade (unstable), startx fails with the message: > .. > Could not init font path element unix: 7100, removing from list! > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > X10 fatal IO error 104 Connection re

configuration of Firefox and Thunderbird

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Easthope
At the end of a message in lists.debian.org is something such as this. Reply to: * debian-user@lists.debian.org * Peter (on-list) * Peter (off-list) A click on one of these lines, temporarily produces a mailto string in the strip at the bottom of the viewer. There must be a way to

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Marty
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: apt-get turns out to be mostly the same. I started using aptitude since I thought it was supposed to replace apt-get when sarge went stable. Now both apt-get and aptitude want to remove aptitude. It's a hint I think. Yes, I think maybe it's a hint. Maybe you should take i

printing problem - spurious characters printed randomly interspersed in printout - since Sarge/kernel update

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel B.
Since I upgraded to Debian Sarge and kernel 2.6.8 (2.6.8-2-k7-smp), I've been getting lots of errors in my printouts. The error pattern is that at multiple, seemingly random positions in the middle of the printout, there is a spurious "d" character, and frequentlyright after the "d" there som

Re: AVIDemux Oddity

2006-10-01 Thread Carl Fink
Pardon my piggybacking. On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:39:00PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > >I'm trying to remaster a set of DVDs, and AVIDemux is giving me a > >strange problem. > > > >After ripping the disks to my hard drive using vobcopy, I renamed the > >VOB files, changi

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
apt-get turns out to be mostly the same. I started using aptitude since I thought it was supposed to replace apt-get when sarge went stable. Now both apt-get and aptitude want to remove aptitude. It's a hint I think. Thanks everyone for the advice. # apt-get -s dist-upgrade Reading Package Lis

Re: vt >= 12

2006-10-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 the mental interface of cga2000 told: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:32:21PM EDT, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > since a while I can't success vt's greater than 12. My inittab > > provides > > 13:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty13 > > > > > > Usually I switched via

Re: Cannot change hostname permanently

2006-10-01 Thread Kent West
Chris Lale wrote: I want to change the hostname on my Etch box. I can change the name by editing /etc/hostname This is the correct way. or by using the hostname command. All is well until I reboot. During boot, hostname is reset to the value I supplied during installation. That seems slightly

RE: Professional Developer Wanted

2006-10-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
It means someone with a resume of Custom Linux development...professional or their own stuff. Mainly, we need a seasoned Linux developer. We have several seasoned C/C++, VB, C#, .NET, Java developers (they do this day in and day out) but no Linux folks. I am the closest we have to a linux guy an

Re: Professional Developer Wanted

2006-10-01 Thread s. keeling
["Followup-To:" header set to linux.debian.user.] Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My firm is looking to hire a [professional] Debian Developer for > some very fun, custom work. > > Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look for > someone with HIGH [caliber] Debi

Re: [Way OT] Re: Not a query, but an observation.

2006-10-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:18:12AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I like both characterizations, though the former is an insult to pigs. > That reminds me of a great teaser I heard I heard for the Neal Boortz show once. He said something to the effect of, "That newspaper is a hard left rag and I w

Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:04:02PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Indeed, I avoided SATA drives because they are so new on my AMD64, > though I have all the sockets for them on my motherboard. I still > eventually gave up on sarge because so much if the hardware was not > supported, and we

[Way OT] Re: Not a query, but an observation.

2006-10-01 Thread s. keeling
Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > [schnip] > > > > Kent, there is a nice sociology/anthropology term for your attitude > > toward Microsoft; for you (and me), Microsoft is 'ritually unclean', > > like pork to Musl

SPF in DNS's and mail servers

2006-10-01 Thread Alejandro
Dear all, I need to know if the SPF protocol used in DNS's and mail servers to avoid spam is used by a lot af administrators or it's just a new protocol without future in Internet. I'll go to edit my zone files in the DNS's with the SPF fields in order to let other mail servers check them to

making a huge fileserver

2006-10-01 Thread Hernán Freschi
Hi folks, I know this may be not the right place to ask, but I thought I'd give it a try. I'm trying to build a fileserver. A small, but extensible one. I plan to start with 500GB and grow from there. Obviously, I want redundancy, so I want it to be a software RAID. I don't care too much abou

Re: vt >= 12

2006-10-01 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:32:21PM EDT, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi, > > since a while I can't success vt's greater than 12. My inittab > provides > 13:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty13 > > > Usually I switched via to vt15 but doesn't work at all. > > Any hints? What happens when you iss

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread rodney myers
On 10/1/06, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:41:02PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:40 +0200 > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers

Re: bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:14:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:40:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a bittorrent proxy? I'd like to put it on the machine on my > > LAN that is always on and has a huge disk. The proxy would take > > requests from

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:41:02PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:40 +0200 > David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Now the query. What program(s) would ma

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to follow

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:45:25PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. Attached (since > it's long) is the output of "aptitude -s dist-upgrade." Why are so > many things being removed? Why are so many things being held back > when updated versions are

Re: pyzor times out {Scanned}

2006-10-01 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Robert S wrote: I have just installed pyzor: # apt-get install pyzor Then I ran the discover command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pyzor discover downloading servers from http://pyzor.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/inform-servers-0-3-x [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .pyzor/servers 66.250.40.33:24441 Then I tested

Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:50:39AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:37:59PM -0700, chikaku wrote: > > i am installing the debian sarge 3.1 on my sata Hd. > > > > i've started @8pm but till now(4am) i still on checking the swap > > space?! > > Is the Sarge release has the rece

Re: bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Colton
hellohendrik, Have a look at torrentflux its in testing. Package: torrentflux (2.1-3) web based, feature-rich BitTorrent download manager TorrentFlux is a PHP based BitTorrent controller that runs on a web server. It can manage all of your BitTorrent downloads from anywher

RE: Professional Developer Wanted

2006-10-01 Thread David Christensen
Stephen Yorke wrote: > My firm is looking to hire a profession Debian Developer for some > very fun, custom work. > Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look > for someone with HIGH caliper Debian Development skills? Ideas: 1. Check the terms of use for this list and pos

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread David Christensen
Stephen Yorke wrote: > I will repost this tonight and undo these minor annoyances as well as > put a README in the ZIP with pertinent information about the > image...this was just a quick and dirty, someone needed it and I > created it type of thing...also I will include the VMTools but will > not

Re: Professional Developer Wanted

2006-10-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Stephen Yorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061001 23:46]: > Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look for > someone with HIGH caliper Debian Development skills? http://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/ http://www.debian.org/consultants/ Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http:

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to following this thread. Damon

Professional Developer Wanted

2006-10-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
Hey all…   My firm is looking to hire a profession Debian Developer for some very fun, custom work.   Does anyone on these lists know of any REAL GOOD resources to look for someone with HIGH caliper Debian Development skills?   Thanks in Advance, Stephen Yorke

Re: exim4: avoiding "retry time not reached for any host"

2006-10-01 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
Part of the Exim configuration file are Retry rules wich govern how often Exim (guess what) retries failed deliveries. You shoul'd adjust that to your needs http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch32.html 2006/9/28, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, In /etc/default/exim4, I'

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:40 +0200 David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 > > > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Not a query, but an observation.

2006-10-01 Thread Marty
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:13:59AM -0500, Kent West wrote: DonDashGuitar wrote: >Boot method: Net install. I've done four of them so far. > snip... >created the file with no problems if it was named "cddr.img" and, happily >enough, the Linux installer wasn't picky about

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:01:32PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > >I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. > > [...] > Perhaps a > better approach would be: apt-get upgrade (change your sources to > testi

Re: stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. Attached (since it's long) is the output of "aptitude -s dist-upgrade." Why are so many things being removed? Why are so many things being held back when updated versions are clearly shown? (I've never manually set anythin

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Now the query. What pro

stable to testing: aptitude wants strange things

2006-10-01 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
I want to start tracking testing instead of stable. Attached (since it's long) is the output of "aptitude -s dist-upgrade." Why are so many things being removed? Why are so many things being held back when updated versions are clearly shown? (I've never manually set anything to "hold.") Why d

Re: [OT] Thank you for your email.

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 1-okt-2006, at 22:34, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PR

Re: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:39:57 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jan, > Killing off /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset fixed the issue. Thanks for > the help anyhow! You're welcome, Jan. Not that I did much. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: Thank you for your email.

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida Errr, your welco

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: I to, have seen this issue. I did not pursue it as it was a total surprise to me to even seen it work at all! I just kept using my pcmcia Proxim Gold card. I look forward to following this thread. Damon

Cannot change hostname permanently

2006-10-01 Thread Chris Lale
I want to change the hostname on my Etch box. I can change the name by editing /etc/hostname or by using the hostname command. All is well until I reboot. During boot, hostname is reset to the value I supplied during installation. Any idea where this original hostname is saved, or how I can mak

Re: --root flag to apt-get (to install packages elsewhere) - possible?

2006-10-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Osamu Aoki wrote: Have you read "man apt.conf" about "HOW APT CALLS DPKG". You can pass options to dpkg. So it may work without chroot. I've read "man apt-get", but not "man apt.conf". Thanks for the suggestion, I'll see if I can come up with something. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.o

Re: bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:40:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there a bittorrent proxy? I'd like to put it on the machine on my > LAN that is always on and has a huge disk. The proxy would take > requests from any user on my LAN and carry out the request for them. > This way, they wou

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home > > > directory/partition, and st

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 21:42 schrieb Damon L. Chesser: > I to, have seen this issue.  I did not pursue it as it was a total > surprise to me to even seen it work at all!  I just kept using my pcmcia > Proxim Gold card.  I look forward to following this thread. Damon, why have you been surpri

Re: Thank you for your email.

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida Errr, your welcomed? -- Damon L. Chesser

Re: bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, I installed a US Robotics MAXg PCI Adapter in a Debian etch machine with a 2.6.17.12 kernel. grieve:~# lspci -n |grep 4318 00:08.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) grieve:~# 00:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN

RE: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Jan Johansson
>Further to my previous, it appears that character set for the server is the >issue. Since you've told the and & new servers to use different character sets, >that might be part of the problem. Killing off /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset fixed the issue. Thanks for the help anyhow! smime.p7s Descri

bittorrent proxy

2006-10-01 Thread hendrik
Is there a bittorrent proxy? I'd like to put it on the machine on my LAN that is always on and has a huge disk. The proxy would take requests from any user on my LAN and carry out the request for them. This way, they wouldn't have to remain logged in themselves during the download, and could j

Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5

2006-10-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chris Willard wrote: Hi All, I have a pc with 3x40GB IDE drives. I have 2 RAID 5 devices setup- /dev/md0 = 3 x 38GB as / /dev/md1 = 3 x 2GB as SWAP Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub installation I get a "Fatal Error" message. I am telling Grub to install on /dev/md0 but it w

Re: Postfix configuration (mail to root)

2006-10-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 22:55:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [..] > >Ok, but it works for me. If I send mail to root (without @localhost), > >then my user receives it (according /etc/aliases). If I send mail to a > >real internet address then postfix

pppd errors with (UK) Demon internet

2006-10-01 Thread michael
Things had been going nicely until about Thurs 28 Sept 2006 when my connection to the Net via Demon broadband started going very slow from my Debian box. I get (very!) numerous of the following in SYSLOG... anybody else using Demon and have noticed anything or can otherwise help? It's such that som

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
I will repost this tonight and undo these minor annoyances as well as put a README in the ZIP with pertinent information about the image...this was just a quick and dirty, someone needed it and I created it type of thing...also I will include the VMTools but will not install them in a directory on

Re: Problems installing BRUB with RAID5

2006-10-01 Thread Chris Willard
Hi All, On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Chris Willard wrote: > Debian base installs OK but when I get to the Grub installation I get a > "Fatal Error" message. Thany you for the advice. I will have a go at installing again. Regards Chris -- /* _\|/_ (o o) +oOO-{_}-OOo-

Re: clocks

2006-10-01 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Peter. Please answer directly to the list, your Thunderbird is able[0] to do so. Peter Easthope, 01.10.2006 20:40: > m> Really on the desktop or only in the panel? There is no panel. Just > the bare desktop with icons > for the terminal viewer and the Skype. How shall I configure so that

Re: capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

2006-10-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/01/2006 10:28 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/29/2006 10:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: anybody know how to capture the contents of a terminal scrollback buffer? i've got about 1000 lines of debug stuff from a network problem that I want to save, but its just sitting

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home > > directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? > > faubackup if it's configured that way.

keyboard doesn't work under X, but works fine in console

2006-10-01 Thread Tyler
spent like 4 hours banging my head against this today. this happened today after i accidentally unplugged my mouse during an X session. i have done this many times, and my mouse is dead until i pop into a virtual terminal (C-A-F1) then back. except today i did it and my mouse *and* keyboard stoppe

Re: Mystery backup filling partitions

2006-10-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home > directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? faubackup if it's configured that way. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp7azQwc3bj

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread David Christensen
Stephen Yorke wrote: > Actually...to get around #1 edit the VMX file... I copied the following lines from another virtual machine: ide1:0.fileName = "auto detect" ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-raw" After I ran the virtual machine, mounted a CD-ROM, listed its contents, unmounted it, and shu

Re: why...?!

2006-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:37:59PM -0700, chikaku wrote: > i am installing the debian sarge 3.1 on my sata Hd. > > i've started @8pm but till now(4am) i still on checking the swap > space?! Is the Sarge release has the recent enough kernel to support SATA drive? I do not know but... > what's wro

Re: --root flag to apt-get (to install packages elsewhere) - possible?

2006-10-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:56:18PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > >Þann 2006-10-01, 12:39:21 (+0200) skrifaði Tomasz Chmielewski: > >>I have another Debian system mounted in /mnt/system2. > >> > >>Now, I'd like to install some new packages there, or upgrade the w

Re: clock in xfce

2006-10-01 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Peter. Peter Easthope, 01.10.2006 18:08: > Etch is running here with kernel 2.6.16. > Xfce is working; the desktop contains only > the icons for Skype and for the terminal viewer. > > A small viewer on the desktop showing the > date & time would be helpful. Really on the desktop or only in

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread David Christensen
Stephen Yorke wrote: > Sorry... NP that's why it's good to have somebody else test your work. :-) > user :: Pa55word > root :: Pa55word I suggest that you put the above information into a README file and include it inside the zip file. > As for #1...I did not remove the CD ISO before I zippe

friends / being filled

2006-10-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
A friend that is running stable, had a problem this weekend with the / partition being filled up. In perusing the archives, found places to look, and found 3 files that were HUGE. removed them, and problem went away. Doubt my friend, computer illiterate could change anything, and it was a default

Re: AVIDemux Oddity

2006-10-01 Thread José Alburquerque
Scarletdown wrote: I'm trying to remaster a set of DVDs, and AVIDemux is giving me a strange problem. After ripping the disks to my hard drive using vobcopy, I renamed the VOB files, changing their extensions to mpeg. When I bring up one of the mpegs in XINE, it looks fine, full screen. Howeve

Re: debian forum

2006-10-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-25 17:03:36, schrieb John Kelly: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:54:55 -0700, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> I'll never give up my trusty old mail/news client. It's ten > >> times faster than using a web forum. > > >Forums are searchable where many email lists archives are not. >

Re: "weird file"??? [NOT SOLVED, BUT GONE ...]

2006-10-01 Thread John -
On (01/10/06 12:39), John - wrote: > This morning's cron run of aide and chkrootkit turned up some things I > don't understand. Here's a sample: > > AIDE produced no errors. > Output of the daily AIDE run (165 lines): > File /lib/modules/2.6.16-lapdog/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko in databases > +h

Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me

2006-10-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-25 14:14:49, schrieb Paul E Condon: > amount of filter fiddling will protect against this. What to do? Are > there new filtering techniques beyond spamassassin? If you use "procmail" add following recipe: 8<-- :0 * B ?? ^

clock in xfce

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Easthope
Etch is running here with kernel 2.6.16. Xfce is working; the desktop contains only the icons for Skype and for the terminal viewer. A small viewer on the desktop showing the date & time would be helpful. Is that possible? Please hint at what should be installed and configured. Thanks,.

"weird file"???

2006-10-01 Thread John -
This morning's cron run of aide and chkrootkit turned up some things I don't understand. Here's a sample: AIDE produced no errors. Output of the daily AIDE run (165 lines): File /lib/modules/2.6.16-lapdog/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko in databases +has different attributes, 16317,4029 Something i

vt >= 12

2006-10-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, since a while I can't success vt's greater than 12. My inittab provides 13:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty13 Usually I switched via to vt15 but doesn't work at all. Any hints? Elimar -- "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." -Friedrich Nie

Re: apt failure

2006-10-01 Thread Jay Zach
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-10-01, 08:56:58 (+) skrifaði Francesco Pietra: >> With Debian etch i386 I am faced by a known issue that I met for the first >> time after an apt-get upgrade: >> >> Unable to parse package file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1) >> >> To my apt.conf >> APT::Auth

Re: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread Russell Ost
All, I have posted two VMware images for download. One for Sarge, another for Etch. They both have VMware Tools loaded. They were built using the default desktop installation. The last time they were built was 9/10. You can find them at "www.netliving.com". I will post a fresh image every two

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-01 Thread John Hasler
Ottavio Caruso writes: > Can you imagine when all the packages containing the "any later version" > string will come into an effect... When you receive a copy of such a package you are being offered a GPL2 license. The string just means that if you redistribute you may specify GPL3 if you so choo

alsaconf needed on every boot

2006-10-01 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I am running Etch now and my soundcard doesn't configure properly on bootup. It is a SB Live and loads up with the snd_emu10k1module but the master volume control does not do what it should. Instead it controls the levels of the surround speakers (and not the master volume). Sometimes running

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
Actually...to get around #1 edit the VMX file... Below is the one you have for this VM...remove the file name or replace the file name in the section "ide1:0" * config.version = "8" virtualHW.version = "4" scsi0.present = "TRUE" scsi0.virtualDev = "lsilo

Re: capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

2006-10-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/29/2006 10:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: anybody know how to capture the contents of a terminal scrollback buffer? i've got about 1000 lines of debug stuff from a network problem that I want to save, but its just sitting in the scroll back buffer of an aterm. argh!

Re: Does WD driver support MaxMultSect=16, and is it safe for a mysql server?

2006-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/30/06 07:15, linuzboy wrote: >> [snip] > I know DMA is excellent, and multsect is also very impressive. > > see http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/punk.html Note the date of this issue: Published in Issue 79 of Linux Gazette, June 2002 - --

RE: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Jan Johansson
>Further to my previous, it appears that character set for the server is the >issue. Since you've told the and & new servers to use different character sets, >that might be part of the problem. > Hello! First, I'd like to say that I have not seen a previous post from you in the thread. Could you

Re: Empty syslog

2006-10-01 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dissabte 30 Setembre 2006 17:43, Liam O'Toole va escriure: > It's probably an effect of this bug: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388260 Thanks! Definitively I am not skilful looking in bugs.debian.org O:) Now I have $ ls -l syslog* -rw-r- 1 root adm 16445 2006-10-0

Re: Does WD driver support MaxMultSect=16, and is it safe for a mysql server?

2006-10-01 Thread linuzboy
OK. Thanks for your words. I just decide not to change anything leaving the disk with udma5, and not let my data and disk in dangerous. At least, I have learnt how to use hdparm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 10:10:22 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jan, > Old server: > Content-Length: 3832 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1 > New server: > "57aac-ef8-41eb318268700" Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 3832 Connection: close Co

bcm43xx support in Debian etch

2006-10-01 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I installed a US Robotics MAXg PCI Adapter in a Debian etch machine with a 2.6.17.12 kernel. grieve:~# lspci -n |grep 4318 00:08.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02) grieve:~# 00:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) I i

Re: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 10:10:22 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jan, > But, I ran into a problem: > I tried moving my wifes page over, and I get encoding problems. Below > is a copy of the header. [snip] > How can I make sense out of this? This same problem has recently come u

X doesn't work after apt-get upgrade (unstable)

2006-10-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, After apt-get upgrade (unstable), startx fails with the message: .. Could not init font path element unix: 7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' X10 fatal IO error 104 Connection reset by peer on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 kn

RE: Apache2 and Encoding?

2006-10-01 Thread Jan Johansson
>You may try using a more standards-compliant charset, for example ISO-8859-4, for >Northern Europe. Or try UTF-8, it should contain all your special characters. >This is the best way if there are a few pages only. Well, yes. But I can't really change everyones pages, because ther prolly is 50-60

Re: Does WD driver support MaxMultSect=16, and is it safe for a mysql server?

2006-10-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> >afaik multsect is only suported when DMA is not in use. DMA speeds up > >transfers much mode, so you should focus on it. On 30.09.06 20:15, linuzboy wrote: > But I found the message below in mysql manual >> optimization >> Disk Issues > . > On Linux, you can get much more performanc

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Oleg Verych wrote: > IMHO, true GPLed software is The Linux Kernel, not part of GNU project and > FSF copyright. Lovely PITA of mister RMS. Incidentally, this might be one of the reasons the FSF'ers need a GPLv3 that screws Linux over. Can you imagine when all the packages containing the "any l

Re: lynx and ssl

2006-10-01 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Jude DaShiell wrote: > What can be done to update the certificates lynx uses so when trying to > log in to a google account you don't get "Can't find common ssl > certificate continue (y/n)?" message? As root, edit the /etc/lynx.cfg, edit this line: #ENABLE_LYNXRC:force_ssl_prompt=OFF to: ENABLE

Re: --root flag to apt-get (to install packages elsewhere) - possible?

2006-10-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-10-01, 12:39:21 (+0200) skrifaði Tomasz Chmielewski: I have another Debian system mounted in /mnt/system2. Now, I'd like to install some new packages there, or upgrade the whole /mnt/system2 system. How can I do it with apt-get? dpkg has "--root" opt

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