Firefox: Help > Report Broken Website

2006-10-12 Thread KS
Hi, I upgraded my unstable box a few minutes ago and noticed that Firefox also got an upgrade. The current version is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2) While I was checking the new build, I noticed that the Help > Repor

problem playing vcd with totem

2006-10-12 Thread Basanta Shrestha
Dear list, I am turning to this list expecting a small help. I am using debian etch. gnome 2.14, totem, totem-xine 1.4.5 .. I have a vcd/dvd drive. when I insert dvd, it automatically opens up totem movie player and plays movie -no problem! But when I insert a vcd, it opens up totem but fails to p

Problems with apt-listbugs

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I got the following error during upgrade: Fetched 7301kB in 54s (134kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: unsupported proxy `false' Error retrieving bug reports Retry downloading bug information?[Y/n]? W: unsupported proxy `false'

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:39, Mike Bird wrote: > Agreed. 2.0.4 rc has serious regressions. Took 8 hours to make it accept > the top three levels of my outlining and I still can't get fourth level to > appear as anything other than 0.0.0.a. Those styles had worked fine since > 1.1.n. These

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
T What is the best way to print from a chroot? I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. or, you may be able to solve the problem the other way round. - disable host cupsys and start chroot cupsys. print from chroot. this I've proved to be working fine. - use chroot wrapper for host lp/lpr, t

Boosting AC3 volume (or converting AC3 to WAV)

2006-10-12 Thread Todd Pytel
I've got some video clips (AVI's with XVid + AC3) that have very low volume levels. I would like to boost the volume, preferably doing as little transcoding as possible. I've used "normalize" in the past to serve this purpose (after demux'ing the AVI), but it only works for WAV's and MP3's. Is it p

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread s. keeling
["Followup-To:" header set to linux.debian.user.] HXC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > HXC wrote: > > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so > > where do I start / who do I contact? > > I also wondered wh

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-12 Thread T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:49:16 +0200, HXC wrote: > There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I > gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly > my username has the same UID as the computer computer thus my username > becomes the username of th

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:04 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > What is the best way to print from a chroot? > > I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. or, you may be able to solve the problem the other way round. - disable host cupsys and start chroot cupsys. print from chroot. this I've proved

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread T
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:58:04 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > What is the best way to print from a chroot? > > I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. IIRC, the solution is to setup a local print server. in chroot, lp/lpr talk to the local print server. HTH -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

Locales broken after Xorg upgrade

2006-10-12 Thread H. S. Teoh
[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to this list.] After the latest Xorg upgrade (unstable), my locale settings don't work anymore. Currently I'm using en_US.UTF-8, and it was working perfectly with the last version of the Xorg packages. After the latest update, I get this message every

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:51:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: I guess I could do that, it's just that I use certain commands almost "instinctively" and sometimes I forget. A lot of times I'm running certain processes one after the other in several shells. It

Re: 'stty sane' in insane

2006-10-12 Thread Lubos Vrbka
$ stty sane $ asdsf^H^H^H I.e., my BS key is producing ^H instead of erasing previous letter afterward. So what should I do? I still like to use 'stty sane' to reset my tty, and I still want my BS key to be configured as ^H, instead of something else. stty erase ^H, perhaps? regards, --

Re: Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
HXC wrote: > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where > do I start / who do I contact? A starting point could be to send bug-reports against the www.debian.org (or similar: bugs.debian.org, li

'stty sane' in insane

2006-10-12 Thread T
Hi In my script, I always use 'stty sane' to set my tty to a sane stage, after temporally changing any tty attributes. But for recent month or two, my BS key often stop working, only today did I finally track it down to the 'stty sane' statement: $ stty sane $ asdsf^H^H^H I.e., my BS key is

Need Help Installing KDE on Debian

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I have Sarge installed and would like to install kde. However, the kde package seems to be broken (as well as the gnome package). These appear to be my options 1. Install from source. But then I loose the advantage of apt-get upgrade 2. Upgrade to testing - that kde package seems to be OK.

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:29:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:36:43AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi Roberto, > > I did 'Oct 11 22:06:01 miami /USR/SBIN/CRON[19062]: (root) CMD > > (/usr/sbin/getimage' > roberto.txt and used the regex that you did on > > the text

Re: Broken KDE package

2006-10-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/12/2006 02:51 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: I wanted to install KDE on sarge, and it seems that the kde package is broken. The testing package is ok. beagle:/usr/src# apt-get install kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. Th

PostgreSQL Missing Function Error

2006-10-12 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi All. I was wondering whether someone could help me explain a weird PostgreSQL error I've encountered. I have two machines running Sarge stable, the first has been operating as a database server for some time and the other I have just set up identically to run as a backup database. Both mach

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Thanks a lot. > I need some other help. > > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > >> I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > >> How can I do this? [ ... ] > > With luck it is as simple as (for exam

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If it is always the same commands, then consider setting them to use the time command as an alias. For example, if you always want to know how long a dd took, then use something like `alias dd='/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/dd'`. Of course, you will need to use dd and not /us

Re: (no subject)

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:40:50PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > I have just installed debian and am having problems login in. at the > login screen which should i be putting in, root password, user account, > user name or password. It has also timed out on me, can you please give > me some help

(no subject)

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Jones
I have just installed debian and am having problems login in. at the login screen which should i be putting in, root password, user account, user name or password. It has also timed out on me, can you please give me some help as im new to linux Regards Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:51:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > I guess I could do that, it's just that I use certain commands almost > "instinctively" and sometimes I forget. A lot of times I'm running > certain processes one after the other in several shells. It is after > I've run them

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt se

Trouble with kernels 2.6.16 and 2.6.18 (486)

2006-10-12 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm running (somewhat uptodate) unstable. I had been using kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6.12, which both worked fine. I recently added 2.6.18 (-1-486), and Bad Things are happening: a) kernel oopses, and b) occasionally (sometimes pretty often) keypresses are multiplied into dozens of themselves. T

Is ACPI on nx6125 safe with 2.6.15-1-486?

2006-10-12 Thread Michal Simovic
hi guys, i've recently obtained HP nx6125 notebook with AMD Sempron processor. i registered that there was an issue with APCI not handling thermal events correctly. i didn't want my CPU to overheat and so used the "acpi=off" boot parameter not to use it at all. currently i'm using debian testing

Re: logcheck regexp question

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:36:43AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Roberto, > I did 'Oct 11 22:06:01 miami /USR/SBIN/CRON[19062]: (root) CMD > (/usr/sbin/getimage' > roberto.txt and used the regex that you did on > the text and it matched[0]. That leads me to look elsewhere. Is this > supposed to mat

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute > the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the > prompt of a bash shell. > > Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displa

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex

Re: dokuwiki problem

2006-10-12 Thread Stefan Bellon
Chris Brotherton wrote: > This is a known problem in the version of dokuwiki available in > debian. Take a look at: > > http://bugs.splitbrain.org/?do=details&id=938 > > You need to make a small change to your common.php file. I believe > this problem will be fixed in the next release. Thanks

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Thanks a lot. I need some other help. Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > > >> I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. >> How can I do this? >> >> If you ask why, because oo impress chrashes when you try to add 2 >> clipart from gallery (I've sent

RE: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Grok Mogger
Thanks for the replies everyone, it really helped out. I appreciate it, - GM -Original Message- From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:44 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux and Newest Hardware On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread M-L
On Friday 13 October 2006 07:31, Peter Hillier-Brook shared this with us all: > I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The > installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear > why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only > option left w

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:38:09PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > > OK, let me tell you why I believe I'm not mixed up ... at least on this. > I actually said commodity hardware. I meant the stage where hardware > and drivers are stable, there are multiple mainstream suppliers and they > are priced

Re: "Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-12, 22:31:43 (+0100) skrifaði Peter Hillier-Brook: > I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The > installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear > why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only > option left was to abort

"Testing" Installation Headache

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I've just installed Testing on an old 800MHz Pentium III. The installation seemed to go fine until the final 2 steps: I wasn't clear why a shell was invoked and then, having exited the shell the only option left was to abort the installation. Booting the new installation went well until the re

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/06 15:38, Seth Goodman wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on > Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:58 AM -0500: > >> Seth, >> >> I think you mix up two different things: >> - if you want to by recent hardware, as a good rule, it

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:43:18PM +, Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > With such a tiny amount of RAM, I think you need DSL (D*mn Small Linux). > > The main problem is the Linux kernel's swapping. It is slow regardless > the distribution and kernel (2

Re: How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:49:16PM +0200, HXC wrote: > There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I > gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly > my username has the same UID as the computer computer thus my username > becomes the username

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-12 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> With such a tiny amount of RAM, I think you need DSL (D*mn Small Linux). > > The main problem is the Linux kernel's swapping. It is slow regardless > the distribution and kerne

Re: printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:58:04PM -0400, James Richardson wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way to print from a chroot? > > I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. > Using CUPS. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc D

RE: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Seth Goodman
Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:58 AM -0500: > Seth, > > I think you mix up two different things: > - if you want to by recent hardware, as a good rule, it is not cheap. > - if you settle for not so recent hardware, it will be cheaper and it > will be

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hi, I personally dislike the colors of this particular website and I like cooler colors. The problem is that, I think this way and many may think alike (or not) but IMHO a color scheme is just too subjective to  ask a person's opinion.-- Luis"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." - E

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
HXC wrote: I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Grtz. HXC I also wondered what the community finds about the colours and layout used for the website Does

How to activate PHP5 with latest apache2.2.3 on Debian unstable

2006-10-12 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, after the upgrade of apache 2.0 to latest apache 2.2 euphrat:~!54> dpkg -l apache\* | grep '^ii' ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers ii apache2-mpm-prefork2.2.3-2 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD 2.1 ii apache2-utils 2.2.

Re: Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-10-12, 21:43:39 (+0200) skrifaði HXC: I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Hi HXC, have a look

Re: Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-12, 21:43:39 (+0200) skrifaði HXC: > I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor > degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where > do I start / who do I contact? Hi HXC, have a look at this page: http://www.de.debian.org/devel/websi

Broken KDE package

2006-10-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I wanted to install KDE on sarge, and it seems that the kde package is broken. The testing package is ok. beagle:/usr/src# apt-get install kde Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. The following packages have unmet dependencies:

How to synchronise NFS uid

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
There are folders in my NFS share that I would like to keep private. I gave the same permissions as my home folder (my username). Unfortunatly my username has the same UID as the computer computer thus my username becomes the username of the clients computer. How can I prevent this? In other wo

Help offered

2006-10-12 Thread HXC
I would like to help with the debian.org website. I have a bachelor degree in communication management. Is there help needed and if so where do I start / who do I contact? Grtz. HXC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-12 Thread Evgeny M. Zubok
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With such a tiny amount of RAM, I think you need DSL (D*mn Small Linux). The main problem is the Linux kernel's swapping. It is slow regardless the distribution and kernel (2.4 or 2.6). Win98 with FireFox 1.5, AutoCad, Office (running together!) works w

eth#_rename

2006-10-12 Thread Githogori Nyangara-Murage
Did I miss something? What is this eth1_rename stuff? Why won't my regular specification for my second NIC work anymore - i.e. plain eth1? Tanks. .g. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.ya

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread cothrige
* Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > As said by michael in another reply, the alternatives are overriden by > EDITOR or VISUAL. Yes, that would make sense, but I had unset these in trying to get vi to work with crontab. I guess I had assumed that vi would be the standard editor

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread cothrige
* michael ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip...] > > > > Okay, I think I figured it out. In typing this email I was going to > > yank in the output of crontab -l as it is odd. > > hang on, I thought you said it had *nothing* before Yes, that was my mistake as it looked like nothing. It was

Re: Install on HP Pavilion DV6119US?

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:06:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Secondly, when I try to resize the 65.5 GB NTFS partition at all, the Debian > > Installer (Etch Beta 3) accepts my input (either 50%% or 30 GB, or various > > other numbers I tried), but then returns instantly to the previous screen >

printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread James Richardson
Hi, What is the best way to print from a chroot? I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?

2006-10-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:55:48 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > These three, and maybe Xorg, seem to not like each other... > > I am running etch at the moment, with Xorg as my X server. During an > apt-get update last week or so, openoffice-org and ttf-opensymbol were > upgraded. Things starte

Re: X not working, can't apt-get upgrade, and other problems (fwd)

2006-10-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 18:33:23 -0400, Rebecca K. Lambert wrote: > A few days ago, X stopped working correctly on my laptop. Normally, it > automatically goes to a graphical login, but it started just going to a > prompt. I logged in as root and ran kdm, and it gave me the error "apm: > disabl

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
cothrige wrote: * Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Which editor are you using? Please do a ll /etc/alternatives/editor Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are both set to emacs, which is that which I use generally. And that is what was invoked with cr

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Which editor are you using? Please do a > > ll /etc/alternatives/editor > > Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are > both set to emacs, which is that which I

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread cothrige
* Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Which editor are you using? Please do a > ll /etc/alternatives/editor Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are both set to emacs, which is that which I use generally. And that is what was invoked with crontab -e both

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Seth Goodman wrote: Yes, if you have an extra $100 and you don't mind buying previous generation hardware. If you want current generation hardware, you're going to spend more than that. [...] The bottom line is that unless you have too much spare time, or are willing to use obsolete used machi

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 18:37 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > cothrige wrote: > > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a > > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then > > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:51, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:37, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > > > I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > > > How can I do this? > > > > > > If you ask why, because oo impress chrash

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
cothrige wrote: I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there ready to go. However, this is not working in Debian. Cron is installed

Re: Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:58 -0500, cothrige wrote: > I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a > cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then > added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there > ready to go. However, this is n

Re: non-free

2006-10-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Thursday, 12. October 2006 13:13, Roger Johansen wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please tell me the difference between: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > and > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > > I have the last one in my source

Trouble with cron

2006-10-12 Thread cothrige
I am a Debian newb, coming from Slackware, and am trying to set up a cronjob as a user. In other systems all I did was crontab -e and then added the job. After if I ran crontab -l it was listed right there ready to go. However, this is not working in Debian. Cron is installed and running, but w

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:37, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > > I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > > How can I do this? > > > > If you ask why, because oo impress chrashes when you try to add 2 > > clipart from gallery (I've sent a mes

Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. > How can I do this? > > If you ask why, because oo impress chrashes when you try to add 2 > clipart from gallery (I've sent a message to the package mantainers) With luck it is as simple as (for

RE: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Seth Goodman
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:22 AM -0500: > Really? I spent about $400 on a small form-factor PC from iDotPC (not > including monitor). They "support" Linux (their default OS unless you > choose something else is Linspire). There are also tons of

Re: dokuwiki problem

2006-10-12 Thread Chris Brotherton
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:19:47AM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi! > > I am using Debian unstable and have set up a dokuwiki and it worked very > well in the past. But since a recent update, I get the following errors > displayed in the browser window after changing and saving a page: > > > >

dokuwiki problem

2006-10-12 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! I am using Debian unstable and have set up a dokuwiki and it worked very well in the past. But since a recent update, I get the following errors displayed in the browser window after changing and saving a page: Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: repeated subpat

Re: [OT] could i use acer recovery from cd after parttion and mbr change ?

2006-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jabka Atu wrote: Hello.. this is Off topic but : I'd like to install Debian 64 on my acer 5102wlmi(notebook). by that i will change the parttion structure and i don't know if i could restore the system after crash. did anyone tried this ? . or how could i do disk image from live (i have only 5

Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade

2006-10-12 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3. How can I do this? If you ask why, because oo impress chrashes when you try to add 2 clipart from gallery (I've sent a message to the package mantainers) Regards Mirto -- __ M

Re: [OT] could i use acer recovery from cd after parttion and mbr change ?

2006-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/06 16:31), Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > this is Off topic but : > I'd like to install Debian 64 on my acer 5102wlmi(notebook). > by that i will change the parttion structure and i don't know if i could > restore the system after crash. > > did anyone tried this ? . I've got a 1524WLMi w

Re: Intel policy wrt OSS [was: Re: cvs.openbsd.org: src]

2006-10-12 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 30.09.2006 at 12:43:00 +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't ignore them and don't buy their products? this is easier said than done. > I have already a list of vendors I'm not buying products from anymore, > like Adaptec. I also have such a list which eg

[OT] could i use acer recovery from cd after parttion and mbr change ?

2006-10-12 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello..this is Off topic but :I'd like to install Debian 64 on my acer 5102wlmi(notebook).by that i will change the parttion structure and i don't know if i could restore the system after crash.did anyone tried this ? . or how could i do disk image from live (i have only 5 gb of data on it)

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:13:33AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote on Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:12 AM -0500: > > > The short answer is to only buy systems or components from vendors who > > support Linux. > > Fine if you have enough money to make a statement, but that le

RE: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-12 Thread Seth Goodman
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote on Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:12 AM -0500: > The short answer is to only buy systems or components from vendors who > support Linux. Fine if you have enough money to make a statement, but that leaves out most vendors of affordable hardware. It's much cheaper, even wit

Re: pdfedit compilation problem

2006-10-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Was a little bit to quick there, I managed to compile it by setting the QTDIR to /usr/share/qt3 instaed of /usr/share/qt4 like it was before. Oli Þann 2006-10-12, 12:10:18 (+) skrifaði Olafur Jens Sigurdsson: > Hi, I am trying to compile pdfedit (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/) but > havnt been

Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?

2006-10-12 Thread Alle Meije Wink
These three, and maybe Xorg, seem to not like each other... I am running etch at the moment, with Xorg as my X server. During an apt-get update last week or so, openoffice-org and ttf-opensymbol were upgraded. Things started going wrong when it came to installing openoffice-org, which was unco

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Critchlow wrote: > How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is > sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access? > I can't seem to find sudoers in apt? > > Greetings Andrew: The package name is sudo. You

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/06 12:29), Andrew Critchlow wrote: > How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is > sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access? > I can't seem to find sudoers in apt? The package is called sudo dpkg -l | grep sudo ii sudo

custom linux kernel in debian sarge

2006-10-12 Thread csokasr
Hello, I have a ABIT UL8 motherboart (uli M1689 chipset)and 2 SATA hard disk. I like install the debian sarge in this machine on the SATA hard drive. But the running the installer not recognize the hard drive, it say not disk in this machine whereof install the system. I detect in the kernel 2.

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread michael
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:29 +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is > sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access? > I can't seem to find sudoers in apt? > > no that's "su" not "sudo" given apt-cache search sudoer re

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Critchlow
How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access? I can't seem to find sudoers in apt?             thanks

pdfedit compilation problem

2006-10-12 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, I am trying to compile pdfedit (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/) but havnt been successful so far. I have tried it on two machines (both running unstable) and have gotten two different errors. On one of them (using libqt3-dev) it doesnt find the /usr/include/qt3 directory and thus cant include an

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Scott Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Does anyone have any information on the package "sudoers", such as what > it is and why and what? > > > > > thanks Greetings Andrew: You can use the sudo program to give regular users the rights to run certain progra

Re: sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/06 11:14), Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Does anyone have any information on the package "sudoers", such as > what it is and why and what? $ apropos sudoers sudoers (5) - list of which users may execute what visudo (8) - edit the sudoers file then use man $ man sudoers

Re: sid-shipped-eclipse crashed on startup

2006-10-12 Thread amateur
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:50:47AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:58 +0800 > amateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I just upgraded my sid, and installed a fresh new eclipse. > > But it gives a fatal error when I start it in a term using > > /usr/bin/eclipse > > > >

sudoers

2006-10-12 Thread Andrew Critchlow
Does anyone have any information on the package "sudoers", such as what it is and why and what?         thanks

Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adam C Powell IV wrote, On 2006-10-12 03:55: Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to

Re: non-free

2006-10-12 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 12:13:18PM +0200, Roger Johansen wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please tell me the difference between: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > and > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/up

Re: OpenSSL

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Johansen
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:36:52 +0200, Roger Johansen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > system: debian 3.1 with 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > > > > > > I am using openssl and i am wondering if it is secure to use it. When > i do a: > > > > "openssl version" it displays

non-free

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Johansen
Hi, Could someone please tell me the difference between: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free and deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib I have the last one in my sources.list, should i change it to include non-free too? Regards, Roger Joha

Re: OpenSSL

2006-10-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:36:52 +0200, Roger Johansen wrote: > Hi all, > > system: debian 3.1 with 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. > > > I am using openssl and i am wondering if it is secure to use it. When i do a: > > "openssl version" it displays: > > OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 > > > isn't this packa

OpenSSL

2006-10-12 Thread Roger Johansen
Hi all, system: debian 3.1 with 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. I am using openssl and i am wondering if it is secure to use it. When i do a: "openssl version" it displays: OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 isn't this package very old? if i go to the openssl homepage i can see serveral security issues since 20

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