Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/06/2006 12:00 AM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: Hit Control-Shift, and urxvt (rxvt-unicode) goes into Unicode digit acquisition mode. Release Control, and it goes into "keycap insertion mode." Jason, perhaps some keys you press in one of those modes cause ^P or something similar to

Debian, GIS || GPS

2006-10-05 Thread Will Parkinson
Hi,I was wondering if anyone has any idea if it is possible to provide a location mapping system using debian (or any other flavour of linux) using GPS or GIS?  i currenty do now have any GPS devices so am experimenting with Google maps With data generated with GIS, but since google information is

Re: ntfs disk partition backup

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Friday 06 October 2006 07:02, Fred J. wrote: > Hi > I was reading the man pages for partimage and it said that it supports > ntfs(experamintal). is there another which know to work well with ntfs as > well as the other linux know fs types? I have used partimage's ntfs support in the past, and i

Re: top panel objects

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
Try adding "Menu Bar" rather than "Main Menu". -- Liam Thanks for your help. That's perfect. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cinelerra error

2006-10-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I installed Cinelerra. It gives me the following error when I run it: The following errors occurred: MWindow::init_shm:/proc/sys/kernel/shmmax is 0x200. It should be at least 0x7fff for Cinelerra. I use Debian Etch, on a Pentium III. Is there a way I can fix this error? Than

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/5/06, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/05/2006 09:34 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: >>> On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console >>> was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the >>> console. The text is printed out just like it's shown

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Mumia W.. wrote: Hit Control-Shift, and urxvt (rxvt-unicode) goes into Unicode digit acquisition mode. Release Control, and it goes into "keycap insertion mode." Jason, perhaps some keys you press in one of those modes cause ^P or something similar to be generated. I use rxvt-xpm nowadays bec

Re: Auto start

2006-10-05 Thread shell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillipus Gunawan ™S: > Hi there, > > I recently installed NTOP in my box. Just to see how good this package. > The problem is, somehow I have to run it as root user even though if I logged in as root > Something like ntop -u root then the password. >

Strange problem with apt

2006-10-05 Thread Carlos Picazzo
Full disclosure: This is on my laptop which is running Dapper.  While I know that "ubuntu isn't debian", the error is actually coming from dpkg so I think it's relatively appropriate to ask here :)I just tried installing the gpsd package but it apparently had some issues installing. Now any time I

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/05/2006 09:34 PM, Lubos Vrbka wrote: On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands and their output. I

xine and subtitles

2006-10-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have several avi files with corresponding .sub files but I can't get xine to display the subtitles. When the .sub files are plain text then the subtitles work fine but these particular .sub files are in some binary format. Is there some way I can get the subtitles to display? -- "Aided by a lit

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands and their output. I use urxvt as my X console, and I run several

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/06 19:58, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console > was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the > console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the cons

RE: Moving "setup" from one computer to another?

2006-10-05 Thread Micha Feigin
> -Original Message- > From: Erik Persson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:34 AM > To: Debian Mailing List > Subject: Moving "setup" from one computer to another? > > Hello! > > I have a server running sarge. > Now I want to install another computer with de

security problem: console text gets sent to printer

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On two different occasions over the past month, text from the console was sent to the printer. It prints 3-4 copies of 2-3 pages from the console. The text is printed out just like it's shown in the console, with both the commands and their output. I use urxvt as my X console, and I run several

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:58, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > > Compiled!? I didn't know we could compile shell scripts. Does it compile > them to machine code or some other intermediate form? > I did not know ipset was a shell script. http://shorewall.net/ipsets.html did not indicate th

Moving "setup" from one computer to another?

2006-10-05 Thread Erik Persson
Hello! I have a server running sarge. Now I want to install another computer with debian sarge and the same packages as the first one. How do I do this the easiest way? That is, how do I generate a list of installed packages from the runing server that I can use in an automatic way to install

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:37:25 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nevermind > > I used the source from Sid and compiled it, even in Sarge. One thing to keep in mind about Shorewall. Since Shorewall development is much faster than the Debian release process and the author of Shorewall does

Re: Bug#391290: apache should automatically detect extra periods/commas at the end of URLs and fix

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:32:59PM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote: > > Why shouldn't Apache ship with a RewriteRule to correct such a common > error by default? It's very uncommon for webmasters to post files > whose names end with a period or comma anyway. > Perhaps this is not such a good idea. The

HOWTO - use KLIPS instead of the backport of NETKEY to enable ipsec0 adapter with openswan.

2006-10-05 Thread Kenneth Grande
# # HOWTO written by Kenneth Grande 6 oct 2006 # # send comments/questions to kenneth (at) aspit (dot) no # # Scenario: # When using openswan on a box providing multiple VPN tunnels you need KLIPS support to get an ipsec0 adapter for firewalling # # Problem: # Debian ships with a backport of

Re: Bug#391290: apache should automatically detect extra periods/commas at the end of URLs and fix

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Spiro
2006/10/5, Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:15, Jason Spiro wrote: > Many people type in URLs with extra periods or commas. For example, > a user may type: > http://www.jspiro.com/wiki. > when they actually meant to type: > http://www.jspiro.com/wik

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:37, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:31, Pollywog wrote: > > On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:31, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my > > > firewall/gateway and was planning to make it pure

Re: APT question

2006-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) > > > > I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, > > and I w

Re: Default file access permissions on /tmp

2006-10-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, what are default file access permissions on directory /tmp ? (Note: I just inadvertly change them and would like to restore as original setup.) Cheers, Bruno As root: chmod 1777 /tmp Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS

2006-10-05 Thread P. Johnson
ES-SI Billing wrote: > I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS running and I would like to know how to > go about changing the IP address. Is there a web document I could consult? http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=runman&location=interfaces/5 Remember, after editing /etc/network/interfaces, you will n

Re: APT question

2006-10-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Hi All... On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:17:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) > > > > I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of

Problem loading firmware during boot process (qla2xxx)

2006-10-05 Thread Anders Nordby
Hi, I'm running Debian Sarge, with linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp kernel from www.backports.org. I'm trying to get a QLogic 2300 series fibre channel adapter working. If I load the qla2xxx module after booting, it loads fine: qla2xxx :06:01.0: Found an ISP2300, irq 185, iobase 0xf88ba000 qla2xx

Re: APT question

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: > Hi all... > > I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) > > I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, > and I would like some way of getting that exact bunch of packages > in

Re: Default file access permissions on /tmp

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:49:42PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > what are default file access permissions on directory /tmp ? 1755 If you have a working/normal system you can use "stat" to list the permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ stat /tmp File: `/tmp' Size: 245760 B

Re: APT question

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:29AM +1300, Matt Parlane wrote: > I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) "duplication package setup across machines" ? > I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, > and I would like some way of getting

Default file access permissions on /tmp

2006-10-05 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, what are default file access permissions on directory /tmp ? (Note: I just inadvertly change them and would like to restore as original setup.) Cheers, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

APT question

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Parlane
Hi all... I couldn't think of an appropriate subject, so that will have to do... :) I have a couple of servers each with a bunch of packages installed, and I would like some way of getting that exact bunch of packages installed on a fresh Debian install. Is there any way to get some list of in

ntfs disk partition backup

2006-10-05 Thread Fred J.
HiI was reading the man pages for partimage and it said that it supports ntfs(experamintal). is there another which know to work well with ntfs as well as the other linux know fs types?thanks __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best sp

Auto start

2006-10-05 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi there, I recently installed NTOP in my box. Just to see how good this package. The problem is, somehow I have to run it as root user even though if I logged in as root Something like ntop -u root then the password. My quiestion is, how can I make this command and the NTOP running on backgroun

Re: wired or not wired, that's the question

2006-10-05 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:16:42PM -0700, wimpunk wrote: > I'm running debian testing on my laptop and I have a question about > choosing a configuration. > I use my laptop on wired and wireless environments. At this moment I > switch manually but I want to get it done automaticly: if there's a >

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS

2006-10-05 Thread Kent West
ES-SI Billing wrote: Good day, I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS running and I would like to know how to go about changing the IP address. Is there a web document I could consult? This sounds like you have a static address you'd like to change. As root, just: 1. /etc/init.d/network stop

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS

2006-10-05 Thread ES-SI Billing
Good day,   I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS running and I would like to know how to go about changing the IP address. Is there a web document I could consult?   Thanks.

Re: Yes! a free legal source for downloadable music!

2006-10-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:14:17PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > That's an interesting service, thanks for the link. For some Creative > Commons licensed music (also film and audio books), try > http://legaltorrents.com. You need a bittorrent client. I missed some messages in this thread, so par

report problem

2006-10-05 Thread Alex New
Apt-get has just sudenly stoped working, it used to work fine and nothing has changed in my network settings.   I am using Debian-3.0r0.ext3.1gb in co-linux; what can be the trouble?   Regards Alex Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail.

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 17:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my firewall/gateway > > and was planning to make it pure stable when etch gets released. But I > > could make an ex

RE: Yes! a free legal source for downloadable music!

2006-10-05 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:46 PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do i get some music > > This may not be what you were looking for, but it's an interesting > find for legal, free downloads: > > http://www.irateradio.com/ That's an interesting service, than

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread David Watson
On Thursday 05 October 2006 18:16, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my firewall/gateway > > and was planning to make it pure stable when etch gets released. But I > > could make an ex

startx question -- Etch & Xorg vs Sarge and XFree86

2006-10-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am currently running Sarge with XFree86. I have done a chroot install of Etch with Xorg. When I boot into Sarge I run X with the command: startx -- :1.0 vt07 (through an alias) and my wife uses startx -- :0.0 vt08 That way we can each have seperate X sessions open at the same time, with

Re: firefox won't start

2006-10-05 Thread mathieu
Mumia W. (using mozilla) wrote: > On 10/04/2006 06:15 PM, mathieu wrote: > > Mumia W.. wrote: > >> On 10/03/2006 08:07 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >>> For some reason I cannot get firefox to start... > >>> Here is the output of : > >>> $ strace firefox (*) > >>> > >>> I am sending this email fr

gdb taking up all cpu

2006-10-05 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, Since a couple of weeks I have had issues with gdb. Almost every time I step into a function gdb start taking all cpu. Is there anything I can tweaks so that it does not take too long. By default I use shared libs, and $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20060901 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:00:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Hhmm, I am running stable (with a bit of testing) on my firewall/gateway > and was planning to make it pure stable when etch gets released. But I > could make an exception for a good cause :) My setup is pretty simple > though, I'

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:33, George Adamides wrote: > hi > how do i delete directories in linux? i used rmdir but when a directory has > other subdirectories its a mess. is there an easy way around? rm -rf will remove a directory even if there are other directories or files within. --

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:15:53PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Jeff Zhang wrote: > > > > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > > > > report and 3.0.7 is

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:15:53PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jeff Zhang wrote: > > > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > > > report and 3.0.7 is also very lag of official stable version(3.2.4). > > > Does any

Re: set domain name

2006-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Kenneth Grande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think he means that his resolv.conf gets overwritten by the information > provided by the dhcp server as discussed here (with solution): OP: [...] could this be because there is a dhcp server running [...] It is not very clear were this server is r

Re: Printing woes - Lexmark Z53

2006-10-05 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELP ME TO GET MY PRINTER WORKING http://www.linuxprinting.org/lexmark-faq.html -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SV: set domain name

2006-10-05 Thread Kenneth Grande
I think he means that his resolv.conf gets overwritten by the information provided by the dhcp server as discussed here (with solution): http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7239 Regards, Kenneth Grande -Opprinnelig melding- Fra: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 5.

Volumes no longer appear on GNOME desktop

2006-10-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Is anyone else seeing this in sid using gnome? I "downgraded" my openoffice.org packages to the ones from testing because I ran into some problems opening files. I had to install an old 'libdbus' (1.2) to be able to install 'openoffice.org-gnome' (which depends on 'openoffice.org-gtk') so I e

Re: set domain name

2006-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server? Use the command 'hostname'. If you want to preserve the change over reboots edit /etc/hostname > Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something else, > could

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/05/2006 09:43 AM, Stephen wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:12:12AM -0500 or thereabouts, Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/05/2006 09:02 AM, Stephen wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:13:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Clarke wrote: I need a copy of netscape 4.xx Where can I get it? http://browse

switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session most of the time, but optionally log in to an x server running with a

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount options for removable devices

2006-10-05 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:08:38 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: >When not adding mount options to /etc/fstab for my removable devices, >once plugged they get mounted properly under /media, but unfortunately >they don't get mounted with the sync option and it's a must when trying >to put ima

X won't startx on Etch (was: Etch won't install to /dev/hdax)

2006-10-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just bought 6 DVD's (sources and binaries) of Debian Etch Official, but > don't manage to install the GRUB boot loader [...] I tried to work the problem out this way: I installed the Sarge base system, then with `apt-cdrom add' I added the 6 Etch

Re: Is shorewall abandoned in sid?

2006-10-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
"David A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeff Zhang wrote: > > The BTS of shorewall has a little long time between responses to bugs > > report and 3.0.7 is also very lag of official stable version(3.2.4). > > Does anybody maintain it? > > I like shorewall. But I too am worried by to big lag. I

Re: libXinerama in Sarge...??

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:03, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, Brad Brock wrote: > > Hi, I need libXinerama.so.1. What package should I install? > > It looks as though you can get it here: > > http://packages.debian.net/stable-backports/libxinerama1 > > I don't think it is

Re: Printing crashes firefox

2006-10-05 Thread RParr
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However, nearly all thes

Re: libXinerama in Sarge...??

2006-10-05 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 05 October 2006 11:33, Brad Brock wrote: > Hi, I need libXinerama.so.1. What package should I install? > It looks as though you can get it here: http://packages.debian.net/stable-backports/libxinerama1 I don't think it is in the official Sarge release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

set domain name

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Critchlow
What's the best way to set the local domain and a debian server? Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface is configured to accept dhcp?                       thanks

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-05 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:12:12AM -0500 or thereabouts, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/05/2006 09:02 AM, Stephen wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:13:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Clarke wrote: > >>I need a copy of netscape 4.xx Where can I get it? > > > >http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/linux

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-05 Thread Guillermo Mulliert Carlín
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Mumia W.. wrote: |> On 10/05/2006 09:02 AM, Stephen wrote: |> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:13:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Clarke wrote: |> >> I need a copy of netscape 4.xx Where can I get it? ftp.funet.fi look at /.m/mirrors2/ftp.netsca

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/05/2006 09:02 AM, Stephen wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:13:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Clarke wrote: I need a copy of netscape 4.xx Where can I get it? http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/linuxx86 I would feel safer getting Netscape 4 from ftp.netscape.com. If it's not ther

SV: klips/netkey

2006-10-05 Thread Kenneth Grande
Hi agian, Looks like i have figured this out now. My assumptions were right, I had a backport of NETKEY in my kernel. I had to patch and reconfigure my kernel to enable klips etc etc.. I will publish a howto later tonight as it seems like others are struggeling with this and are changing distro

Re: Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-05 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:13:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alan Clarke wrote: > I need a copy of netscape 4.xx Where can I get it? http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/linuxx86 -- Regards Stephen + "You have been in A

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount points

2006-10-05 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Sven Arvidsson escribe: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:11 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > Can I use that file also for telling gnome-volume-manager to mount at > > /media/phone instead of at /media/PHONE CARD? That whitespace messes > > some of my scripts. > > I don't think hal has anything

Debian Packages Archive (Downgrading to a past version of a package)

2006-10-05 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi, I am having some trouble with my fonts since a recent update (aptitude upgrade) of my debian sid system. It's all in bug # 390681. I am trying to get my hands on xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.1.1-8 (latest is 2:1.1.1-9) as I don't keep old packages. I stumbled upon a website or ftp server

Re: Problem install tomcat5

2006-10-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 03:01:56PM +0200, Dende wrote: >I'm trying to install tomcat5 in Debian and all install perfectly but when >i try to open jsp-examples (or other) i receive a blank page and in the >logs i have this errors: Under Sarge, installing tomcat4, I always forget these:

Re: Debian Packages Archive (Downgrading to a past version of a package)

2006-10-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Hello Ibrahim, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:26:20AM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > I am trying to get my hands on xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.1.1-8 > (latest is 2:1.1.1-9) as I don't keep old packages. I stumbled upon a > website or ftp server a while back that had all past versions of > almost

Re: Debian Packages Archive (Downgrading to a past version of a package)

2006-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/06 06:26), Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > I am having some trouble with my fonts since a recent update (aptitude > upgrade) of my debian sid system. It's all in bug # 390681. > > I am trying to get my hands on xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.1.1-8 > (latest is 2:1.1.1-9) as I don't keep old pack

Re: Configure to share Window XP printer (before it was set up samba)

2006-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/10/06 20:08), rocky wrote: > I installed cups and ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb > > After that I use http://localhost:631/admin to add your printer > add printer > Windows printer via SAMBA (as device) > smb://server/SHARPAR- > Raw > I suspect you need to install a drive

Re: Printing crashes firefox

2006-10-05 Thread W Paul Mills
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote: In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However, nearly all these s

Problem install tomcat5

2006-10-05 Thread Dende
Hi everyone!I'm trying to install tomcat5 in Debian and all install perfectly but when i try to open jsp-examples (or other) i receive a blank page and in the logs i have this errors:INFO: Instalando aplicaciones web en trayectoria de contexto /jsp-examples desde URL file:/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/j

Re: installing mysql and php

2006-10-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Please also be aware that there is hardly ever a reason to compile from source, when using Debian. What you *should* do is (as root): apt-get update apt-cache search apt-get install Finally: RPM's are for Red Hat installations (or RedHat-based/inspired). Installing an rpm on a Debian mac

Re: installing mysql and php

2006-10-05 Thread Manuele Vaggelli
If you need to install Apache2, PHP5, MySQL5 perhaps you can find useful this article: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/357 Manuele On 10/5/06, George Adamides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello I have installed apache2 and now I need to install mysql and php. Can someone please pro

Re: NSS and PAM - What's the relation?

2006-10-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On 10/5/06, Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Just what the title says. What is the relation between NSS and PAM? > > > >I understand that NSS basically tells C libraries where to get information. > >What's confusing is that two of the entries in the nsswitch.conf file are > >"passwd" an

Re: Newbie ask for recommendation

2006-10-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mitja Podreka wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie for debian. I've searched throught the web, but I'm not sure what reference is suitable/good for me. Could anyone suggest some links/books which are good? You can start with "Debian reference" apt-get install debian-referenc

installing mysql and php

2006-10-05 Thread George Adamides
hello I have installed apache2 and now I need to install mysql and php. Can someone please provide instructions from where to download a stable source and how to install `em? I am confusing what is a source and what is an RPM or a distribution...With apache it was really easy. I followed the instru

Re: kernal gone? not booting

2006-10-05 Thread Julien Barnier
> It does not boot. I remember when installing lynx it said it was > going to remove a kernal, how do I find out where the kernal is and > how can I boot from it to get my system up and running? Strange... I don't really see how you could uninstall your kernel by installing a web-browser. There i

Re: kernal gone? not booting

2006-10-05 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Hello Andrew, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:01:28PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: >When I load up the machine I get grub> Grub as a nice commandline interface. Try: - grub> help -

Re: gxine and real on BBC radio

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 00:04 -0700, libre fan wrote: > Many thanks for the tip! Does it mean that if you install ffmeg you could > listen to BBC4 RealAudio streams with Gxine instead of Mplayer? > > I like Mplayer for its versatility but the sound doesn't seem as good as in > VLC or Gxine. I'd lik

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount points

2006-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 14:11 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Can I use that file also for telling gnome-volume-manager to mount at > /media/phone instead of at /media/PHONE CARD? That whitespace messes > some of my scripts. I don't think hal has anything to do with naming mount points, I t

Re: apt-get unmet dependencies

2006-10-05 Thread Julien Barnier
> Does anyone know when you enter say deb-src > ftp://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main part of it is the > directory on the web server, what does the "testing main" part > indicate? testing : this is the debian flavour you're connected to. It could be stable (sarge), testing (etch), unstable

Re: SMP with ACPI disabled

2006-10-05 Thread Scott Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Madden wrote: [[snip]] > > I don't have an answer.I thought ACPI was for power management, esp > laptops, a heavily used server doesn't seem to me to need power > management. I have a smp PIII Gz that gives me fits, IRQ allocation on > the pci sl

gnome-volume-manager mount points, was Re: gnome-volume-manager mount options for removable devices

2006-10-05 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Sven Arvidsson escribe: > Try editing /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, there is a section > about "how to put sync and noatime on for devices smaller then 1Gb and > off for device larger then that". > Can I use that file also for telling gnome-volume-manager to mount at /media/phone instead o

Re: libXinerama in Sarge...??

2006-10-05 Thread Julien Barnier
Hi, > Hi, I need libXinerama.so.1. What package should I install? This doesn't seem to exist in Sarge. It is available in Etch. You can check the following or use "apt-file search" when youare looking for a specific file : http://packages.debian.org/ -- Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: top panel objects

2006-10-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:54:19 -0400 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. When the default menu items from the top panel are deleted, > that being the listings for "Applications", "Places", and "Desktop", > how does one go about replacing them? I've tried right-clicking on > the pane

Re: gnome-volume-manager mount options for removable devices

2006-10-05 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Sven Arvidsson escribe: > Try editing /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi, there is a section > about "how to put sync and noatime on for devices smaller then 1Gb and > off for device larger then that". > That worked with no need to restart any service, thanks a lot! Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael

kernal gone? not booting

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Critchlow
When I load up the machine I get grub>   It does not boot. I remember when installing lynx it said it was going to remove a kernal, how do I find out where the kernal is and how can I boot from it to get my system up and running?         please help, yelp!     many thanks again

RE: C manual

2006-10-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm not near my machine at the moment, I will check the exact packages later, but under linux you have 3 options Traditionally, there is the man page option for all c functions. The two commands are man and appropos. Appropos will give you a list of man pages containg to requested search value, c

RE: apt-get unmet dependencies

2006-10-05 Thread Andrew Critchlow
That worked, thank you very much,   Does anyone know when you enter say deb-src ftp://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main part of it is the directory on the web server, what does the "testing main" part indicate?           thanks all. > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/06 13:24), Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote: > > > >>hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want > >>to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that? > >> > >> > > as root or sudo: > > > >#

libXinerama in Sarge...??

2006-10-05 Thread Brad Brock
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Re: apt-get unmet dependencies

2006-10-05 Thread Julien Barnier
> All I have in my sources.list file is: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > deb-src ftp://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ testing main Try to add the following : deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib then re run apt-get update and apt-get install lynx

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-10-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Clive Menzies wrote: On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote: hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that? as root or sudo: # aptitude purge mysql4 see man aptitude Regards Clive

Re: Unidentified subject!

2006-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote: > hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want > to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that? > as root or sudo: # aptitude purge mysql4 see man aptitude Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategie

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