Re: doing jobs at an remote machin, how to do it in an cshell scripts ?

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Use the following (small) c program which will generate an xml feeed with pretty much everything you need to know about each machine.. very easy to parse to see which is "fastest" / etc. The output looks like this : http://dev1.netkinetics.net/xmlpulse/xmlpulse.xml The source itself is here htt

Re: unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

2006-10-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 21:50:13 -0400 "Digvijoy Chatterjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/22/06, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: [...] > > I just now upgraded mplayer on my Etch system using: > > > > # Acroread, Mp

Re: How many DDs are there?

2006-10-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/21/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:15:46 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 10/17/06, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:46:50 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >

Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

2006-10-22 Thread Wulfy
Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, Wulfy. On Oct 16 2006, Wulfy wrote: In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status

Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

2006-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Wulfy. On Oct 16 2006, Wulfy wrote: > In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; > > /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: > vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! > pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] > vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1603! >

Re: doing jobs at an remote machin, how to do it in an cshell scripts ?

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, you *can't* run local binaries on a remote machine. Maybe you could rcp the local script to the remote machine and then execute it. On 10/22/06 22:26, Aidan Shaw wrote: > Thank you Ron ! > definitely, the resean I want to ask this question is t

Re: doing jobs at an remote machin, how to do it in an cshell scripts ?

2006-10-22 Thread Aidan Shaw
Thank you Ron ! definitely, the resean I want to ask this question is that, we have 50 linux computersWhen I want to run an CPU intensive job, I need to find the load average of each machine first. surpose remotePC05's load is very low, then I log on to that machine to do the job. is I login to Re

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Advanced Policy Firewall is good for the home user, http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php Its a very simple one file configuration with some optional perks. Define the untrusted IF, its egreess, ingress, tweaks (default values are already sane) and such stick it in init.d - done. I believe it now has

Re: help needed: after recent dist-upgrade, openoffice 2.0.4rc3-1 hangs with FUTEX_WAIT

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Michael Vishchers wrote: Hello, after I dist-upgraded my system a couple of days ago, I noticed that the new openoffice 2.0.4 hangs on opening files if called from a user whose home directory is NFS mounted. I've tried to downgrade openoffice back to 2.0.3-6 and even

Re: help needed: after recent dist-upgrade, openoffice 2.0.4rc3-1 hangs with FUTEX_WAIT

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Michael Vishchers wrote: Hello, after I dist-upgraded my system a couple of days ago, I noticed that the new openoffice 2.0.4 hangs on opening files if called from a user whose home directory is NFS mounted. I've tried to downgrade openoffice back to 2.0.3-6 and even started an older kernel (c

Re: unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

2006-10-22 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
On 10/22/06, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: > Hi , > I run Debian-testing i386 , > I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics , > and this is what I got back !!.. > > mozilla-mplayer: > Depends: mplayer (>=1

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 04:14:03PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > > > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run >

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/06 19:14, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: [snip] > the meubar on > the top of the screen bin Gnome is

Re: Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Thomassen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using > > $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > initrd's are especially useful for distros, because a kernel with all > stuff compiled in is not an option (too big), but you still need some > of the modules very early in the boot process, when the root filesystem > is not accessible yet. For your

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run > dialog box is . Also imho Debian is not for a newbie or even > less so a windows convert, hence Ubuntu. > Good catch on the Alt-F2. I hardly use GNOME, so I tend

Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi, I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps For this to work, I have to press return for each page. I googled around a bit and found out that the PostScript showpage command seems to be missing. (Omitti

Re: Rsync and different sizes

2006-10-22 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
This really cleared things up, thanx! Just one more question: Do you know of a reliable method of comparing sizes in this scenario? Sturla On Fri, October 20, 2006 11:33, Daniele P. wrote: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 23:19, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: >> Hmm, just wondering, would hardlinks repor

Re: Any dash fans out there?

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recall DD's thinking about making init scripts of the Debian > system use only certain interpreters in 'Essential:' and maybe > making them use 'dash' (to speed things) instead of expecting bash > but it did not reach a consencus. > cheers, > Kev One can

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:31:53 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > > > We in Linux heavily use the command-line. > > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome > > interface WITHOUT A

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Petteri
Florian Kulzer kirjoitti su 22. lokakuuta 2006 17:57:38: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:05:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > BTW, can I assume Debian named this project after the Matt Groening quote? > > I think the name originated within the FSF; their gripes with the > Mozilla foundation have a longe

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-22 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:27:40 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > > > I'm fairly certain that you know enough to keep it from being a > > > problem, but the schemen y

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-22 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:48:35 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:58:27AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > This sounds like you don't have your routing setup properly. I use a > > vpn regularly for work and

Re: getting a list of manually installed package

2006-10-22 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 14:25 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:56 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get > >> the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally.

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:54:24PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > I'm fairly certain that you know enough to keep it from being a > > problem, but the schemen you describe is a hair's breadth away from > > makig your company's VPN open to the public Internet. I just thought > > I'd point that out.

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
cothrige wrote: * Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). If using GRUB, remember by default the selecti

Re: Chastity-list is not for Debian Etch

2006-10-22 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061022 04:55]: > People, I'm using Debian Etch and I'm installing Squidguard with Squid > in order to filter web sites, and I want to use the chastity-list > package (it's a blacklist of web sites) I used with Debian Sarge...but > I've been at Debian web sit

Re: TV-out with XFree86 and nv - possible?

2006-10-22 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 11:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The description of 'nvtv' suggests it is possible: > > Description: tool to control TV chips on NVidia cards under Linux > This is a program to control the TV encoder chips on NVidia cards under > Linux, in order to get tv-out with a wid

Re: unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: > Hi , > I run Debian-testing i386 , > I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics , > and this is what I got back !!.. > > mozilla-mplayer: > Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplay

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have never used initrd, at least not when I have compiled a kernel. > To be entirely honest I have never fully understood just what it > does. I was under the impression it was for things like booting from > reiser fs and having to load modules to do it. H

Re: unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 17:21, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: > Hi , > I run Debian-testing i386 , > I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics , > and this is what I got back !!.. > > mozilla-mplayer: > Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or > mplay

Re: Error after change MySQL datadir

2006-10-22 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Diumenge 22 Octubre 2006 11:01, Tim Post va escriure: > If the service is starting and DB's check out OK, I don't think you have > anything to worry about and you can safely ignore it. > > Does placing an empty /var/lib/mysql directory cure it? Again, if its > working, its not broken, and no nee

Problems with latest and greatest kernel source

2006-10-22 Thread David Baron
Build ends with: exec debian/rules DEBIAN_REVISION=2.6.18-davidb-10.00.Custom APPEND_TO_VERSION=-davidb kernel_image .config:3217:warning: trying to assign nonexistent symbol SECURITY_SECLVL debian/ruleset/misc/version_vars.mk:123: *** Error. The version number # # configuration written to .c

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John L. Fjellstad writes: >> shorewall creates pages of iptables rules and that is considered a good >> thing? > > You'd rather write them all by hand? You think creating "pages" of rules is Keeping It Simple? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjells

unable to install mozilla-mplayer plugin

2006-10-22 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Hi , I run Debian-testing i386 , I was trying to install the Mozilla mplayer plugin using Synaptics , and this is what I got back !!.. mozilla-mplayer: Depends: mplayer (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or mplayer-custom (>=1.0-pre5) but it is not installable or mplayer-386 (

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:22:24PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > If you look at the number of lines of rules you make, and compare it >> > to the number of lines (pages!) of iptables rules it makes, you see >> > that shorewall is e

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:06, Steve Lamb wrote: > Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been > meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people > would stop replying to spam, quoting spam or otherwise legitimizing spam to > my bayesian filters. T

Re: Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Thomassen
Cameron L. Spitzer schrieb am Montag, 23. Oktober 2006 02:02: >> I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using >> >> $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps > > Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET Thanks! I now also found it in the manpage, but I couldn't bef

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run > > dialog box is . Also imho Debian is not for a newbie or even > > less s

Re: Getting rid of ghostscript message

2006-10-22 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Thomassen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to convert a dvi2ps-generated file to TIFF, using > > $ gs -q -dNOPROMPT -dBATCH -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -sOutputFile=file.tif file.ps Try -dNOPAUSE and -dQUIET -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

mga error after upgrade to xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge2

2006-10-22 Thread D G Teed
Hello, Debian Users of the World... I did have XFree86 working well with dual monitors, 2.6.16.18 kernel and the prior xfree86 (stable sources) from the spring and summer of 2006. A recent apt-get upgrade brought in newer xfree86 server, and when I recently rebooted, I found X would not start. I

Re: installing netfilter ipsets

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > It might be possible to use checkinstall to build a .deb package for > your self-compiled version of iptables. This can then probably act as a > drop-in replacement for the standard iptables package on your system. > I was not sure how to g

Re: Chastity-list is not for Debian Etch

2006-10-22 Thread Mark Grieveson
People, I'm using Debian Etch and I'm installing Squidguard with Squid in order to filter web sites, and I want to use the chastity-list package (it's a blacklist of web sites) I used with Debian Sarge...but I've been at Debian web site and I see chastity-list is not present in Debian Etch repo

Re: installing netfilter ipsets

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 13:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > It might be possible to use checkinstall to build a .deb package for > your self-compiled version of iptables. This can then probably act as a > drop-in replacement for the standard iptables package on your system. > I think that might work

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Steve Lamb wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: Taking down the botnet is another way to fight the spam. It doesn't always work as planned: Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people would stop replying

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Installing the kernel-package generated by make-kpkg will automatically > detect > and update grub, and add itself to menu.list. How easy is that? Now that it is a nifty feature. I suppose there is certainly something to be said for the Debian appr

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Gilles Mocellin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This modprobe.conf is modularized in several files (you can add one) > in /etc/modprobe.d/. Ahh yes, I see that. I would think I could run 'generate-modprobe.conf > ~/modprobe.conf' and then split the info up as I need it. Shouldn't be too impos

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after > a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , > make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). > > If using GRUB, remember by default the selection menu is hi

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:05:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > BTW, can I assume Debian named this project after the Matt Groening quote? I think the name originated within the FSF; their gripes with the Mozilla foundation have a longer history than Debian's: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ Th

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-22 Thread Pollywog
On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:41, Florian Kulzer wrote: > If your package manager lists these packages as upgradable then you > either have not run "update" in a while or the progeny mirror is > seriously broken or you have found a bug in the package manager. > I had the same problem in Etch a few

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 08:08:28 -0500, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > >>So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > >>upgradeable? > > > > > > Because the packages file lists it, but t

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
depmod should be called by the makefile upon make modules_install after a successful build. Its really as easy as make, make modules_install , make install and a mkinitrd (if you need one). If using GRUB, remember by default the selection menu is hidden. You'll need to comment out the "hiddenmenu

make-kpkg: Missing required parameter 'Old' at ...

2006-10-22 Thread Kay Smarczewski
Hello, if i do make-kpkg kernel_image and then dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.18kay-wlan2_2.6.18kay-wlan2-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb there is an error: Missing Required paramater 'Old' at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18kay-wlan2.postinst line 393 Using a revision tag don't work around this. I have t

Re: TV-out with XFree86 and nv - possible?

2006-10-22 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 11:35:01AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > The description of 'nvtv' suggests it is possible: > > Description: tool to control TV chips on NVidia cards under Linux > This is a program to control the TV encoder chips on NVidia cards under > Linux, in order to get tv-out wit

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Carl Fink
BTW, can I assume Debian named this project after the Matt Groening quote? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

2006-10-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 17:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > It is defined in /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/prerm which is sourced > by /usr/share/dbconfig-common/dpkg/prerm.mysql. Seems to be part of a > general system to help with packages that use databases. Do you have the > latest version of p

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread John O'Hagan
On Monday 23 October 2006 00:36, cothrige wrote: > * John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>[snip summary of Debian kernel compilation] > Will I still have to configure grub? And will update-grub work or > will I have to manually edit menu.lst? [...] Installing the kernel-package generated

Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 15:18:21 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:57 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > dpkg: error processing postfix-policyd (--remove): > > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 > > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > >

Re: Fim Scanner Device - Scsi - Minolta Dimage Dual Scan

2006-10-22 Thread Bill Smith
ableape wrote: Using DEBIAN 3.1 I am having trouble figuring out how to add a film scanner. Using deb/linux 3.1, I am installing SANE but it fails to find the scanner device. This is being connected through an Adaptec scsi AHA2940UW which is listed as compatible by Minolta. This device is

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Mumia W.. wrote: > Taking down the botnet is another way to fight the spam. It doesn't > always work as planned: Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people would stop replying to spam, quoting spam or

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le dimanche 22 octobre 2006 16:43, cothrige a écrit : > * Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > [snip] > > > Then make your initrd if needed and tweak as needed, verify /etc/modules > > is what you want it to be and you should be good to go. Cross your > > fingers and reboot. > > T

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/06 09:36, cothrige wrote: > * John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hi Patrick, > > Hello John, > [snip] >> If you are recompiling a kernel with the same version name, you must >> move /lib/modules/[$KERNEL_VERSION] out of the way (yo

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Tim, [snip] > Then make your initrd if needed and tweak as needed, verify /etc/modules > is what you want it to be and you should be good to go. Cross your > fingers and reboot. This makes me think. Recently I have gotten in the habit, after installi

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/06 08:34, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: >> We in Linux heavily use the command-line. > > Hi Jameson, this is not entirely true today. Linux is moving > towards the desktop, so when that f

Re: Any dash fans out there?

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Dash is coded quite well, and makes it semi-easy to "plug in" more functionality as it isolated built ins like printf, test, etc .. so a collection of patches that let you pick what functionality you wanted would be the goal. Its widely used...but not many enhancements have been made since Herbert

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread cothrige
* John O'Hagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi Patrick, Hello John, > I always compile my own kernels the Debian (testing) way like this: > > -Install the latest Debian linux-source package (currently > linux-source-2.6.17); or you can use vanilla source as you describe > -Make a symlink /usr/

catalyst plugin

2006-10-22 Thread linux china
hi, apt-cache can't get the a full catalyst plugin list, like Catalyst-Plugin-Authentication isn't in the list, does Debian plan to include this plugin and other catalyst plugins in near future? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Any dash fans out there?

2006-10-22 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-10-22, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to build some more functionality into dash, and take out some > stuff that isn't needed to have it act pretty much just as a very > lightweight script interpreter. [] > I've done some, but my C is absolutely nowhere n

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote: > > We in Linux heavily use the command-line. Hi Jameson, this is not entirely true today. Linux is moving towards the desktop, so when that fully happends, it will be expected to be fully gui like MacOS X. > So, I was dismayed wh

Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

2006-10-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:57 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > dpkg: error processing postfix-policyd (--remove): > > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > postfix-policyd > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I read that iceweasel will replace firefox but sudo apt-get install iceweasel gives nothing. What about iceweasel ? tia The answer is in your question: *will *Thierry* * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing {Scanned} {Scanned}

2006-10-22 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being upgradeable? Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely updated. Use another mirror or wait for the mirror pulse to

Re: installing netfilter ipsets

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 00:46:54 +, Pollywog wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 23:57, Pollywog wrote: > > I have a Sarge system on which I am installing ipsets, in order to use > > ipsets with Shorewall firewall. > > > > I am following the instructions here: > > http://ipset.netfilter.org/in

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 07:06:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 22 06:43 -0500]: > > Hello, > > I read that iceweasel will replace firefox but > > sudo apt-get install iceweasel gives nothing. > > What about iceweasel ? > > It hasn't hit Sid yet. I j

Re: HOW2 resolve "apt-get install kernel-image" error ?

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 16:39:54 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote: > When I > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7 > > I get an error to the effect that: > kernel-image-* needs > initrd-tools >=0.1.48 > but, > initrd-tools-0.1.12 is in place, > according to >

Re: Any dash fans out there?

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 06:34:07PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to build some more functionality into dash, and take out some > stuff that isn't needed to have it act pretty much just as a very > lightweight script interpreter. > > I'd also like to play around with fcgi a

Re: can not install 'xfce4-utils'

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 13:08:21 +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Using testing, when I try to install the xfce4-utils package, it tells > me this: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > kdelibs4-dev kdepim-dev kspy libfam-dev libfam0 libkcal2-dev > libkdepim1-dev libkgantt0-dev libkleopa

Re: iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 22 06:43 -0500]: > Hello, > I read that iceweasel will replace firefox but > sudo apt-get install iceweasel gives nothing. > What about iceweasel ? It hasn't hit Sid yet. I just did an update in Aptitude and while IceDove has been there for a few days

Re: kdesu woes

2006-10-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:02:52 +0200, HXC wrote: > I recently installed Debian Etch with kde. Kdesu unfortunatly has an > serious bug. It won't accept the password. Is there a known workaround > for this bug? In most cases it should be possible to open a konsole terminal, su to root and run th

iceweasel

2006-10-22 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I read that iceweasel will replace firefox but sudo apt-get install iceweasel gives nothing. What about iceweasel ? tia -- Gérard

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Oh, yeah? open "$" ,8 :P On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 05:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/22/06 05:21, Tim Post wrote: > > A really bad joke is brewing if this thread keeps up. Ah heck, why not. > > > > How many sysadmins does it take to list t

Opening a file from Kernel space

2006-10-22 Thread hagit
Hi, I want to open the serilal driver (/dev/ttyS0) from the kernel space. I need to write a character driver in the kernel (the requirements of the project insist that it will be inside the kernel) that gets special strings from user and pass them to the serial. In order to implement that I though

Re: kdesu woes

2006-10-22 Thread Magnus Pedersen
HXC wrote: I recently installed Debian Etch with kde. Kdesu unfortunatly has an serious bug. It won't accept the password. Is there a known workaround for this bug? No, but it is a known bug and as i remember kdebase is at 3.5.5-1 in etch right now and the fix is in 3.5.5-2, so, you could ei

Any dash fans out there?

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Hello list, I'm trying to build some more functionality into dash, and take out some stuff that isn't needed to have it act pretty much just as a very lightweight script interpreter. I'd also like to play around with fcgi and dash, so it doesn't have to fork each time and can more or less be us

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/22/06 05:21, Tim Post wrote: > A really bad joke is brewing if this thread keeps up. Ah heck, why not. > > How many sysadmins does it take to list the files in one directory? In OpenVMS, it's very easy: DIR :== DIREC/DA/SIZ=ALL DIR SYS$LOGIN:

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:12:48 -0400 "Jameson C. Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We in Linux heavily use the command-line. > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome > interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) > and not even any immediate panel op

Re: hp-info no longer works

2006-10-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:05:03 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evidently some recent upgrade caused the hp-* programs to no longer > work. I get error messages like: > > hpiod: invalid product id string: Operation not permitted > io/hpiod/system.cpp 491 hpiod: invalid serial id stri

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
A really bad joke is brewing if this thread keeps up. Ah heck, why not. How many sysadmins does it take to list the files in one directory? ... [ ducking ] On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:19:20AM +0200, Bj??rn Lindstr??m wrote: > > Ron Johnson

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:55:32 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you are a newbie, you should not have > terminal popping up in the top level of the menu. If you are a power > user, you will know where to find it. > That sums up the approach of the GNOME project, i

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-22 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:19:20AM +0200, Bj??rn Lindstr??m wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > To get *only* (well, *mostly*) hidden files), try: > > > > ls -aFl | grep " \." > > That's quite a bit more complex than necessary. > > ls -d .* But again, that also gives you the . and .

kdesu woes

2006-10-22 Thread HXC
I recently installed Debian Etch with kde. Kdesu unfortunatly has an serious bug. It won't accept the password. Is there a known workaround for this bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread John O'Hagan
On Sunday 22 October 2006 18:02, cothrige wrote: [...] > In the past, as a Slackware user, I never installed an OS where I > didn't immediately compile a new kernel. Slack uses a 2.4 kernel, and > I use some peripheral items which seem to require, or at least greatly > prefer a 2.6 kernel. The pr

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
Patrick, Its relatively easy .. and you can make it a bit easier on yourself. Untar from kernel.org in /usr/src be sure ncurses-dev and ncurses are present make menuconfig and configure your kernel now make (or make -j xx, where xx = # of cpu's if > 1) [ fancy gcc hacks go here if your brave

Re: Error after change MySQL datadir

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Post
MySQL looks in a "default" place for its data directory prior to processing my.cnf , so if my.cnf is not present the default values are kept (and tried) and there's no need to re-malloc() new configuration paramaters. I think this is just a bug (debug bug) that wasn't squelched, which lets you kn

già varie volte vi ho contattato

2006-10-22 Thread Vincenzo Manzi
MA LA TOGLIETE STA ROBA VECCHIA DI 10 ANNI??? Grazie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to access primascan

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got my usb scanner to work only yesterday but I don't think I'll be much help! You need to find the 'backend' for sane for your scanner. Unfortunately I've googled and I can't seem to find one for your model scanner (if you try using www.google.com

TV-out with XFree86 and nv - possible?

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hello all, The description of 'nvtv' suggests it is possible: Description: tool to control TV chips on NVidia cards under Linux This is a program to control the TV encoder chips on NVidia cards under Linux, in order to get tv-out with a wide range of resolutions and sizes, including "overscan"

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Seweryn Kokot
For more than a year I compile my kernels the way you described (universal vay) and I have no problems. Of course there is a debian way but it's not a must. Regards, Seweryn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sure this is a really stupid question, but having read through > the reference and searched online (some searches involve such common > terms they never return anything useful) I have really been unable to > find a clear answer. I hope someone here can h

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-22 Thread Björn Lindström
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To get *only* (well, *mostly*) hidden files), try: > > ls -aFl | grep " \." That's quite a bit more complex than necessary. ls -d .* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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