Bind problem rndc fails to connect

Having updated my bind config files, I try and reload them, but the rndc program fails to connect as shown below [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/bind9 reload Reloading domain name service...: bindrndc: connect failed: connection refused failed! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# I have been running bind for

mkisofs question

What's the real deal with the --split-output option? The man page says the subsequent files made will be under a gig but it would be far more useful to know if those files will be no larger than the first file made. I don't want to do a multi disc backup and find I can't burn subsequent discs

Re: how to start the sound system

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:18:13AM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:43:01PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:17:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 17:17:36 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 a

Re: In search of Helvetica

On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a crafted bitmap available. I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect, an

Re: how to start the sound system

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:43:01PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:17:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 17:17:36 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:35:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

Short summary: It turns out that I must have formatted three of the drives, which is why I only got one listed when I scanned them.  It turns out the one command line: mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdf1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdh1 did it perfectly.  I had been doing it without the "1" on th

Re: nvidia-xconfig and xserver-xorg-video-nv

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:11:08PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The source of the problem might be confusion between the "Driver" entry > in the "Device" section and the "Device" entry in the "Screen" section. > (Unless the above excerpt from the config file has a typo and you meant > to write '

how forward netbios requests across networks?

How do I setup the firewall (using shorewall) to forward netbios requests across two subnets? I have a windows laptop on wireless and desktop on wired on different subnets and I want to see network computers between them. tcpdump shows a netbios broadcast call on the subnet that obviously doesn't

Re: Starting iptables

* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, my custom firewall script does take start, stop and restart > arguments and so I could call it using the rc method. However, I have > thus far used it by calling it with a pre-up line in the stanza for my eth0: > pre-up /etc/myfirewall/firewall.sh restart

Re: password problem in kde

On 10/18/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:> As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login in > kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed the> locale to en_US to rectify problem

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:20:31PM -0700, Adam D wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I > > now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at > > frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to con

Re: Starting iptables

Patrick writes: > There it recommends putting a script in > /etc/network/if-up.d to run iptables-restore. This is similar to the > Gentoo way, except that was somewhat automated with a script in init.d > which, oddly, Debian is lacking. The various firewall packages install appropriate scripts. -

Re: Starting iptables

cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and this does not exist. At least not in my >

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and t

Re: wireless network configuration

On 10/17/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:25:43 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:[ snip: earlier discussion about different wireless hardware ]> I am having broadcom chip 94306 for wireless (dell trumobile 1300) in my> dell inspiron 600m. In sid I used to work withou

Re: How many DDs are there?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/17/06, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I always wondered why I would be motivated to leave Debian :-) > > >- At times, Debian can look like "OS by committee." Eeww. > > I don't

Re: How many DDs are there?

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > >- Why did /usr/bin/grep disappear ? > > A better question might be, when did it disappear? Certianly before the > release of woody. If you can find the release of Debian that removed it, A script I was running in Woody was using /usr

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I > now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at > frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to connect > to my email and possibly my desktop from multiple locatio

Re: Starting iptables

* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Patrick writes: > > I suppose that I could do something similar with Debian, but would like > > to make sure that there is not some more correct way to handle it first. > > No more correct but more sensible would be to install one of the several > package

Re: Re: Configure Login Manager

On 10/17/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > I've just finished installing 3.1r3 from the daily-built images. Later There are no daily build images for 3.1 (Sarge). If you used daily images, then you installed Etch. T

Re: Finding hard links

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:46:46 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >> Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the >> above finding into same file groups? > > find . -type f -links +1 -ls | sort -n -k 1 > > This command line will [...] Bingo! thanks a lot. -- Tong (remove undersc

Re: Sound via ssh

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:44:07PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play > > mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with > > ssh from another machine (

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

Jason Spiro wrote: > Does such a thing exist? Emacs has a semi-interactive tutorial. Fire up emacs and hit Ctrl-h then hit t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System maintenance

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:42:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:14:32PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable > > > text-based user interface, use 'apt

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:21:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > > > > > > > Does anyone have experience rebuilding a mdadm RAID when the config > > > info has been wiped out? (I wouldn't th

Re: Debian installer that support Asus Marvel Gigabit ethernet and sata HD

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:32:59PM -0300, Javier Viegas wrote: > Hi, im a happy debian user, but im trying to install stable version 3.1 on a > new pc that has the Asus PWD5 deluxe mother on it wich has 2 onboard Marvel > Gigabit Ethernet adapters and it have mainly support for sata drives, if i >

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and t

Still fontconfig (and Xorg and Defoma, ...)?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 22:36:42 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote: 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 un

Re: mail not shown after several days, should I wait or resend?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:08:02 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Did the debian.user mlist experience some problem lately? I sent several email several days ago, but none is shown yet. should I wait or resend? >>> Do they show up in the archives? >> >> where is the archives? >> the

SOLVED! Re: NTP weirdness

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 03:35:09PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tuesday, > October 17, 2006 2:25 PM -0500: > > > $ ntpq -p > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > > =

Re: Laptop recommendation

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 17:19 -0700, K7AAY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10/17/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to get a laptop, but don't know where I should > look... > > It would be really great if it was fully supported by the > Linux

Miguel Albalat wants to chat

puta ya te inscribr ahora has tu lo mismo --- Miguel Albalat wants to stay in better touch using some of Google's coolest new products. If you already have Google Mail or Google Talk, visit: http://mail.google.com/mail/b-2768ca

Re: Starting iptables

Patrick writes: > I suppose that I could do something similar with Debian, but would like > to make sure that there is not some more correct way to handle it first. No more correct but more sensible would be to install one of the several packages that do exactly what you want. I like ipmasq. --

Re: Starting iptables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:08:47PM -0500, cothrige wrote: >> * Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>> isn't iptables part of the kernel and therefor up by default when the >>> kernel starts executing? >>> >

Re: Starting iptables

* Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Use shorewall. > > Regards, > > -Roberto I was just looking at a howto on this. I have never used any of these tools before as I already had a firewall script which worked. But, maybe now is as good a time as any to learn how this works.

Re: Configure Login Manager

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > I've just finished installing 3.1r3 from the daily-built images. Later There are no daily build images for 3.1 (Sarge). If you used daily images, then you installed Etch. > versions of the installer allows you to disable the root acco

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:15:19PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:08:47PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > * Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > isn't iptables part of the kernel and therefor up by default when the > > > kernel starts executing?

Configure Login Manager

I've just finished installing 3.1r3 from the daily-built images. Later versions of the installer allows you to disable the root account during installation, and I think I that I might have found something that's impacted by disabling the root user: Once GDM has started, and the login screen is pre

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and t

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:08:47PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > isn't iptables part of the kernel and therefor up by default when the > > kernel starts executing? > > > > A > > Yes, iptables as far as I know is part of the kernel, but the r

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

Seth Goodman wrote: Tyler wrote on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:42 AM -0500: Michael M. wrote: I don't think Debian does the same thing with its "Official Use Logo." The logo indicates that the project officially has been approved by Debian, but it doesn't imply any sort of control over

slow printing in openoffice-calc

hi, anyone else seeing REALLY slow printing in openoffice-calc? If I print a selection to either printer, it pegs the cpu for 15-30 seconds. top says it soffice.bin that's doing it. once soffice.bin frees up pages spit right out. its frustrating. I had seen this behavior before (maybe 2-3 months

Re: Starting iptables

* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > isn't iptables part of the kernel and therefor up by default when the > kernel starts executing? > > A Yes, iptables as far as I know is part of the kernel, but the rules must be loaded. In Slackware I would create a script and put it in r

Re: password problem in kde

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login in > kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed the > locale to en_US to rectify problem with audacity menus appearance. I tried > to dele

Re: Sound via ssh

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play > mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with > ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X > forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts p

Re: gid option on ext3 in fstab

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:28:14PM +0200, Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > Hi > > I want all files on a partition, used as a nfs-share, to have > "utysket" as group. Earlier I had a script to run every second hour > to set the right group. But then i remembered the gid option in fstab. > /dev/hdc1

Re: Finding hard links

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:45:05PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > How can I find hard linked files? > > Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the > above finding into same file groups? > Use stat or 'ls -i' to find the file's inode number, and 'find -inum' to find other fi

Re: Starting iptables

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and t

Re: NTP weirdness

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:12:23PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:23:15PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > > Any NTP drift above half a second means something is completely

Sound via ssh

Hi, I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts playing the mp3. However, the sound is not forwarded to my headphones connected to

Re: Finding hard links

T wrote: Hi How can I find hard linked files? Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the above finding into same file groups? thanks find . -type f -links +1 -ls | sort -n -k 1 This command line will find all regular files (-type f) that have 2 or more hard link

Starting iptables

I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for iptables in init.d and this does not exist. At least not in my system. Can anyone give m

Re: ls sort order again

The environment variables LANG and LC_COLLATE control sort order and regex pattern matching expansion. See files: /etc/environment and possibly /etc/profile (if edited...) LC_COLLATE is set via LANG (or LANGUAGE) unless overridden via the shell. Use the command "locale" to see the current values.

firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

Hi list, I need some advice. My work situation has changed such that I now have to get out of my chair and climb out of my basement at frequent but irregular intervals. I live by email and need to connect to my email and possibly my desktop from multiple locations. So, obviously, IMAP to the rescu

Re: mail not shown after several days, should I wait or resend?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > Did the debian.user mlist experience some problem lately? > > I sent several email several days ago, but none is shown yet. > should I wait or resend? In my archives, I see several from you on Oct 12: 368 Oct 12 T (

Re: [SOLVED] choppy sound with via ingame, sb resets on reboot

B. Hoffmann wrote: Never mind, not sure what went on but eventually the configuration stuck to the SB card instead of the via onboard chip. Seemed to need a full power down instead of just a reboot. Are you using a 2.6.18-x kernel? H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Request: Old Debiab Blue Background

Daniel Baumann wrote: Curt Howland wrote: Ok, never mind. I found a Knoppix disk, and sure enough it still had the file. (good thing too, being a CD...) or for those who don't have your CD: http://debblue.debian.net/ Where do you put the user png's for the gdm user-list theme? The FAQ doesn

Re: Finding hard links

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:45:05PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > How can I find hard linked files? All "regular" files are hard links. See the stat(1) command tells you how many files point at a given inode (so, if "Links:" > 1, you have two filenames and one

Re: Debian Weekly News?

Nate Bargmann wrote: * Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 16 12:42 -0500]: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:50:41AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: >From the September 26 DWN: As Debian experiments with funding, the author of DWN is going to experiment with spending le

Re: Finding hard links

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 22:45, T wrote: > Hi > > How can I find hard linked files? Hi, using for example: [ "`stat -c %h filename`" -gt 1 ] && echo hard linked > Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the > above finding into same file groups? AFAIK it's not possib

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 17:34, michael wrote: > > In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > > > I als

Re: Finding hard links

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:45:05PM -0400, T wrote: > Hi > > How can I find hard linked files? > Anything that is a file is a hard link. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: video cards, the mouse, Xfree86 and Debian installation.....

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:55:05AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >Depending what you want as a window manager etc.. You have to scan 10 > > OK. I will now reinstall and scan the pants of the entire > distribution. STOP! You don't have to reinstall. You've got a working CLI right? y

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

> In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > I also like to run / from a raid array. /boot is a mirror, > >

gid option on ext3 in fstab

Hi I want all files on a partition, used as a nfs-share, to have "utysket" as group. Earlier I had a script to run every second hour to set the right group. But then i remembered the gid option in fstab. /dev/hdc1 /Lager/01 ext3gid=utysket,noexec,defaults 0 2 But it d

Re: AVG anti-virus

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:21:15AM +0200, steef wrote: > hi list, > > AVG (www.grisoft.com) has a in their opinion 'free' anti-virusprogram > AVG. does debian (i.c. sarge and or etch) really need such a program? > and, what is free? i cannot find their source-code on their webpage. > > your com

Re: nvidia-xconfig and xserver-xorg-video-nv

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 23:06:11 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I just set up Debian on my HP laptop, as mentioned in two previous threads. > With the help of kernel package developer Frans Pop (thank you!), I was able > to get past the previously-reported problem and boot into Linux. > > I have xorg r

Re: Debian Weekly News?

* Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 16 12:42 -0500]: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:50:41AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > >>From the September 26 DWN: > >> > >>As Debian experiments with funding, the author of DWN is going to > >>experiment with spending less t

Re: NTP weirdness

On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Any NTP drift above half a second means something is completely broken, so *none* of your client machines are working fine. The two servers seem to work ri

Re: mail not shown after several days, should I wait or resend?

T wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:45:27 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0400, T wrote: Hi Did the debian.user mlist experience some problem lately? I sent several email several days ago, but none is shown yet. should I wait or resend? Do they show up in the ar

Re: mail not shown after several days, should I wait or resend?

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:45:27 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:43:36PM -0400, T wrote: >> Hi >> >> Did the debian.user mlist experience some problem lately? >> >> I sent several email several days ago, but none is shown yet. >> should I wait or resend? > > Do they show u

Re: ls sort order again

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:11:12 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Ben Breslauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> T wrote: >> >Hi >> > >> >I am using Debian testing, I read that the ls is able to sort >> >alphabetically, but mixes uppercase and lowercase together i.e. 'Pearl' >> >comes before 'pearl' but after

Finding hard links

Hi How can I find hard linked files? Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the above finding into same file groups? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: changing the MBR for a dual-bootup system

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 06:48 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andreas Glaeser wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 18:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> I am running Debian Etch 2.6.15-1-686 on an Asus motherboard with an > >> AMD64 chip. Etch is running on /dev/hda. I wanted to tr

RE: NTP weirdness

Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:25 PM -0500: > $ ntpq -p > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter > > yauco.connexer. .INIT. 16 u- 1024

Re: security problem: console text gets sent to printer

On 10/5/06, Jason Dunsmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: how to start the sound system

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:17:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 17:17:36 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:35:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 18:28:41 +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > > > > Howdy,... > > > > i own acer 51

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:47:29PM +, Jason Spiro wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for an interactive Bash and Vi tutorial that runs in text > mode. There is none in Apt. I looked at the first few Google hits: I > found a Java-based tutorial but it is pretty fake: if you make a > mistake, you

Re: Package documentation

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:48:07PM -0400, Kit Peters wrote: > I've noticed on the Debian homepage how every package has a neat little > webpage, all to itself. I'd like to do something similar for my local > Debian repository at work. What software do I use to generate those > package-specific pa

Re: NTP weirdness

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Any NTP drift above half a second means something is completely broken, so > *none* of your client machines are working fine. The two servers seem to > work right. Make sure to also configure the two servers to *pee

Re: In search of Helvetica

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:37:17 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rick Thomas wrote: > > Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look > > *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a > > crafted bitmap available. > > I use them as menu font, ed

kernel 2.6.17: hostap_cs does not even try to load for my wireless PCMCIA card

Hi, I have a couple of wireless cards that I have previously used under Debian Sarge/kernel 2.4 to create a wireless access point using the hostap_cs driver. I have several older Linux thinkpads all running Debian, and I have recently been in the process of upgrading to the 2.6/udev/pcmciautils wo

Package documentation

I've noticed on the Debian homepage how every package has a neat little webpage, all to itself.  I'd like to do something similar for my local Debian repository at work.  What software do I use to generate those package-specific pages? KP

Etch and OpenOffice.org 2.0.4

I was delighted with a recent upgrade to discover that a Quickstarter had been incorporated with OO.o However, with one of two systems it doesn't "stick". Running on an elderly Intel PIII the Quickstarter works fine under the kernel 2.6.17-2-686. On an AMD Athlon64 3200+ with kernel 2.6.17-2-

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #2204

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 22:36:42 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > Hi Florian and others, > > Thanks for you suggestions! > >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,

Re: questions about your product

On Tue October 17 2006 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > good afternoon... i'm new to the Linux OS (i've used windows my entire > life), and was curious if your latest version available for download could > be supported by my PC. my PC contains: Asus A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard > AMD Athlon 64 X2

RE: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

Tyler wrote on Tuesday, October 17, 2006 6:42 AM -0500: > Michael M. wrote: > > > > I don't think Debian does the same thing with its "Official Use > > Logo." The logo indicates that the project officially has been > > approved by Debian, but it doesn't imply any sort of control over > > the proj

questions about your product

good afternoon... i'm new to the Linux OS (i've used windows my entire life), and was curious if your latest version available for download could be supported by my PC. my PC contains: Asus A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 Processor GeForce NVIDIA 7600 GT < soon to add

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > > > I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it > > and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard > > drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. > > >

Re: how to start the sound system

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 17:17:36 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:35:24PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 18:28:41 +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > > > Howdy,... > > > i own acer 5102wlmi and im unable to start the sound system : [...] > > > im using >

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it > and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard > drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. > > The system drive crashed and I restored it. The problem i

Re: wireless network configuration

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:25:43 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: [ snip: earlier discussion about different wireless hardware ] > I am having broadcom chip 94306 for wireless (dell trumobile 1300) in my > dell inspiron 600m. In sid I used to work without any problem with > ndiswrapper. After reinstallin

Re: In search of Helvetica

Rick Thomas wrote: > Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look > *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a crafted > bitmap available. I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect, and they're definitely my favorite for this purpos

Re: nvidia-xconfig and xserver-xorg-video-nv

On Tue October 17 2006 03:49, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:38:09PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I use the nvidia drivers also for my FX 5700LE. There is a pre built > > module for it in unstable and it seems to be working great here. > > > > What are you running there, i386/amd64

Re: NIS configuration

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:38:42AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote: > Hi, I want to activate NIS in my network. I've > installed NIS pakcage on my Debian. Where can I find > the configuration example and explanation? This is my > first time using NIS. Thanks. > Please don't. Use LDAP instead. NIS should

Re: Sound via ssh

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play > mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with > ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X > forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts p

Re: NTP weirdness

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:23:15PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:02:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > Any NTP drift above half a second means something is completely broken, so > > *none* of your client machines are working fine. The two ser

Re: System maintenance

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:14:32PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable > > text-based user interface, use 'aptitude'. > > after it's started in a text console (very useful if your X is br

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

On 2006-10-17, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea! Thanks for the compliment. If anyone is interested in helping out, please reply here or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let me know you're interested in helping. Cheers, Jason -- The church is near but the ro

Re: Sound via ssh

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 14:57 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play > mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with > ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X > forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts playing > the mp3

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