Re: debian burn package

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 07:49:47PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What happens when a directory contains more content than will fit on a > single cd when using this package? I sent it at a directory with 1.4g in > it on simulation and wasn't prompted to insert a second cd. Might that be > a def

Re: package from unstable to testing + tracking testing and unstable

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 01:47:26AM +0100, Rob Wilco wrote: > Hello, > > Debian is cool because it is transparent, you can get answers. I now Hi Rob, that is one of the founding prinipals of Debian - dont hide stuff from our user: 'Open' bugs, 'Open' source, etc. If only this point could get made

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have > > formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay. > > No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as muc

Re: i need ur help

2006-11-03 Thread Tim Post
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:32 +0800, meisam sarabadani wrote: > dear Debian People > > its been long time im using ubuntu, breezy, dapper, and edgy the last > one, im ganna change it to debian for a while, would u please tell me > which distribution is better? i need to know it and i need to make up

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:34:03PM +, Tyler wrote: > Max Hyre wrote: > > Tyler, you might want to try emacs-snapshot. I've been > >following it (and unstable) for months now, and have had no > >problems > > Thanks, that's very interesting. Having already manually installed the > manual di

i need ur help

2006-11-03 Thread meisam sarabadani
dear Debian Peopleits been long time im using ubuntu, breezy, dapper, and edgy the last one, im ganna change it to debian for a while, would u please tell me which distribution is better? i need to know it and i need to make up my mind what to do, tell me the differences please, is is a good idea t

Re: erading MS word files

2006-11-03 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Ferenc, On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:44:39PM +0100, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > I might have forgotten to include a smiley with that message; Sorry, I forgot to include one myself ;-) That is why I used the word evil with and without the quotes ('evil' vs evil). > it was certainly a joke. I thoug

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

2006-11-03 Thread Rick Reynolds
Many thanks for posting this! I just got bitten by the same problem. I have had a decently customized xorg.conf file for some time now, and I'm guessing the configuration of the new xorg stuff wasn't able to figure out what to do. FWIW, I'm finding that I can comment out more and more of my

Re: cd-rom iso image with /etc/apt/sources.list, local repository

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:48:57AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I would prefer to switch from DVD images to a Debian i386 "testing" > repository within the LAN. Can a local repository be updated as easily > as CD-ROM and DVD images can be updated with jidgo-lite? Is there a > simple HOWTO

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:27:42PM +, michael wrote: > I've been trying to do this with 'awk' but am hitting probs (not used > awk for ages!) so all offers welcome! > > Given a multiple line file, IN, that contains the word Processor > (possibly split over 2 lines) I wish to output the field

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread cothrige
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > edit /etc/apt/apt.conf > in there, there is a line that has something like: > > blah blah proxy= false > > just remove it leaving the first line > Cool. I just did that and so hopefully the next upgrade will go more smoothly. Thanks for that ti

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 03 08:55 -0600]: > On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse > > Linux. > > I wonder what that means... ;-) > > Interesting but when you sup with the devil,

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:32 -0800, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: The simplest case: awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i~/Processor/) print $(i-1)} }' file I don't think that will pick up the case where the required output is on the line before Processor, but thanks, M I didn't catch

debian burn package

2006-11-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
What happens when a directory contains more content than will fit on a single cd when using this package? I sent it at a directory with 1.4g in it on simulation and wasn't prompted to insert a second cd. Might that be a defect in the simulation mode or must directory sizes be kept at or under

package from unstable to testing + tracking testing and unstable

2006-11-03 Thread Rob Wilco
Hello, I wanted to try fastcgi with either apache or lighttp, under etch. And on my way I learn more on using debian. As libapache2-mod-fastcgi, lighttpd seemed to be unknown from aptitude, I turned my browser to the http://packages.debian.org/testing which has the list. * no version of li

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, it's not that synaptic is particularly bad or anything -- there have been other attempts at improved package managers in debian, like "console-apt" and "gnome-apt", and synaptic at least seems more polished than they were. There's a lot of information to present to (or hide from) the user, an

Re: Permission Denied

2006-11-03 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 15:09:34 -0800 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I try to send email using web software being run on that same > server, I get the following error. > > NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www-data):can not > chdir(/var/spool/mqueue-client/): Permission denied > > Can anyone point me in

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Miles Bader
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have > formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay. No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as anyone), and gave up after a while. > Synaptic is aware of depend

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 17:06), cothrige wrote: > Unfortunately I have not gotten listbugs working yet. It exits with > an error and some complaint about a proxy. I will have to look into > its configuration, I use no proxy and so can't imagine what the > trouble is. I should have copied the error and so I

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread michael
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:32 -0800, Aleksei Dzhulai wrote: > The simplest case: > awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i~/Processor/) print $(i-1)} }' file > I don't think that will pick up the case where the required output is on the line before Processor, but thanks, M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: the look of the bash

2006-11-03 Thread Kay Smarczewski
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:16:31PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:40:28 +0100 > Kay Smarczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:26:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 10/28/06

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
Miles Bader wrote: "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic. For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control for package management in Debian. That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. S

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-03 Thread KS
Seeker5528 wrote: > On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:51:10 -0500 > KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which >> came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The >> 80GB hard disk contains the Debian u

Yes, I really did it!

2006-11-03 Thread Name Withheld
rm -rf / Yep, I really did it. I was pretty angry at the time, about ready to take a very large hammer in hand and reduce that old, obsolete i386 box to scrap. I've had some time to cool off, only took 3 years, so now I want to bring it back from the dead. The first time I put Debian on i

Permission Denied

2006-11-03 Thread Raquel
I've gotten one other mail problem figured out and fixed, but there's still one that's giving me problems. When I try to send email using web software being run on that same server, I get the following error. NOQUEUE: SYSERR(www-data):can not chdir(/var/spool/mqueue-client/): Permission denied C

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread cothrige
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Others have mentioned Synaptic, I found when playing with Ubuntu it was > very easy to use but it seemed to do strange things and I inevitably use > aptitude to upgrade and install. Aptitude is a steeper learning curve > but well worth the effort. I

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread RParr
michael wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is m

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 12:47), cothrige wrote: dd> * Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmmm. Sounds like perhaps 'aptitude upgrade' is a little safer for > the newbie. Would you agree? I think I will stick with that for now, > and perhaps start using the UI for installing individual packages as I

(OT) Can't get upstream Thunderbird to send http:// to upstream Firefox

2006-11-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Sarge and have the Sarge packages for Thunderbird and Firefox installed. If I click on a URL in an e-mail the link opens in Firefox. I just DL/d Firefox 2.0 because my wife used it at work and really liked it. I untarred the file in my home directory to try it out. It picked u

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 13:12), michael wrote: > On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote > > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and > > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of > > removing these, once I have established stability with later

Re: Prompt

2006-11-03 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:43:33PM -0300, Jos?? Pablo Fern??ndez wrote: > On Friday 03 November 2006 17:24, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hello Jos?? > > > > Jos?? Pablo Fern??ndez, 03.11.2006 21:07: > > > What are the right files in Debian to set up the Bash prompt system-wide > > > and per-user. > >

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread Aleksei Dzhulai
The simplest case: awk '{for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {if ($i~/Processor/) print $(i-1)} }' file "michael писал(а): " > I've been trying to do this with 'awk' but am hitting probs (not used > awk for ages!) so all offers welcome! > > Given a multiple line file, IN, that contains the word Processor > (pos

whitelist for Debian servers?

2006-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Does anybody have a list of the IP's of Debian servers that might send email? Our mail server uses spamcop, which blocks some of the IPs from time to time. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] De

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Miles Bader
Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sounds as if this effort includes a significant attempt to > reinvigorate the rapidly-cooling ``you can get sued for using Linux'' > FUD. > > As part of the agreement, Microsoft said it would > not file patent infringement suits against customer

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Miles Bader
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Aptitude was an advance over apt-get, but now there is synaptic. > > For most users, synaptic provides a better interface and better control > for package management in Debian. That seems like a pretty dubious assertion. Synaptic's interface is "

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:27:42PM +, michael wrote: > I've been trying to do this with 'awk' but am hitting probs (not used > awk for ages!) so all offers welcome! > > Given a multiple line file, IN, that contains the word Processor > (possibly split over 2 lines) I wish to output the field

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread michael
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of > removing these, once I have established stability with later > versions, or is my first thought of 'rm'i

Re: Debian on an Asus A6JM laptop

2006-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Firas Kraiem wrote: Hi folks :) So that's, I've installed Debian on my Asus A6JM laptop and some things just don't work, most importantly the NIC and the video. The NIC is a Realtek 8168 Gigabyte and the video crd is an nvidia GeForce Go 7600. Both of them work fine in Ubuntu - I know Ubuntu

Re: mutt, gnome terminal, xemacs, gnuserv, debian etch

2006-11-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: In "~/.bashrc" I put the line: export EDITOR=/usr/bin/xemacs Now mutt starts xemacs after I enter a subject for the message, but when I save the message and exit xemacs, mutt treats the text of the message as an attachment, rather t

Re: Prompt

2006-11-03 Thread José Pablo Fernández
On Friday 03 November 2006 17:24, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello José > > José Pablo Fernández, 03.11.2006 21:07: > > What are the right files in Debian to set up the Bash prompt system-wide > > and per-user. > > System-wide: /etc/bash.bashrc I've connected thru SSH and it seems that file is not l

quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-03 Thread michael
I've been trying to do this with 'awk' but am hitting probs (not used awk for ages!) so all offers welcome! Given a multiple line file, IN, that contains the word Processor (possibly split over 2 lines) I wish to output the field immediately preceeding Processor. eg for junk info 18 Pro cessor

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
cothrige wrote: I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like to get so

Re: Prompt

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello José José Pablo Fernández, 03.11.2006 21:07: > What are the right files in Debian to set up the Bash prompt system-wide and > per-user. System-wide: /etc/bash.bashrc Per-user: ~/.bashrc > I don't want a list of the different files, but the best one, […] What is „the best one“ for you?

Re: x.org and unplugged hotplug devices

2006-11-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 04:49 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: >Is there some way to tell X, "hey, don't worry if you don't have a mouse > right now, just keep an eye on /dev/input/mice and if it decides to show up > you can use it"? Hi, From the xorg.conf man page: Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "

Prompt

2006-11-03 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, What are the right files in Debian to set up the Bash prompt system-wide and per-user. I don't want a list of the different files, but the best one, I know there are a lot of files where I can put it and it'll kinda work. Thanks. -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]

x.org and unplugged hotplug devices

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, I'm having one usability issue with a debian workstation FAI image I'm trying to set up. The "/dev/input/mice" device only exists when a mouse is actually plugged in. When X is running, you can unplug/plug the mouse back in and things will still work. But when the mouse is unplugged a

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2006-11-03 Thread VLBI Proposals
Your e-mail was received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt, gnome terminal, xemacs, gnuserv, debian etch

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Russell L. Harris wrote: > In "~/.bashrc" I put the line: > > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/xemacs > > Now mutt starts xemacs after I enter a subject for the message, but when > I save the message and exit xemacs, mutt treats the text of the message > as an attachment, rather than as an integral pa

More symptoms re The crippled resurrection of the moribund etch.

2006-11-03 Thread hendrik
Rebooted to etch today, single-user mode, it seemed to work, ran aptitude, did a general upgrade, which had a few problems, but upgraded almost everything. The following packages did not configure properly: udev initramfs-tools hal kdebase I reran it using script, and this seems to be the im

Re: Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?

2006-11-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:28:02 -0400, Mauricio Lin wrote: > Hi Alle, > > Have you solved that problem? > > I have a similar problem as follows: > > Updating fontconfig cache... > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: failed to write cache [ snip: t

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my first thought of 'rm'ing the relevant files and editing menu.lst

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread cothrige
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > When you 'aptitude upgrade' aptitude will upgrade those packages for > which all the dependencies are resolved and won't break anything. When > you use aptitude interactively and press 'U', you will see every package > that can be upgraded to a highe

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the > > kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your > > running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want > > rid of. If you mark t

Re: X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-03 Thread Matt Miller
> > > > Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. > > > > > > please post the output of the following commands: > > > > > > lspci | egrep -i 'video|vga|display' > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | egrep -i 'video|vga|display' > > 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVid

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Clive Menzies wrote: > You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the > kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your > running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want > rid of. If you mark the with '_' both the package and the

Re: hi..i need ur help

2006-11-03 Thread meisam sarabadani
im sorry to send my mail to a wrong mailinglist...anyway thank u, u really helped me.On 11/3/06, Wouter Verhelst < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Side note: next time, please choose your subject line and the mailinglist to which you're sending your email more carefully. I*almost* filed this message as sp

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Kent West wrote: > That's nuts! I made this change also, and now superformat worked without > complaining, and the one floppy I've tried (which previously I could not > format to save my life) seems to be working fine. Even though I was > telling some of the utilities I was trying to use what file

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 17:24), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing > these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my > first thought of 'rm'ing the relevan

howto properly stop dhclient, after interface is down?

2006-11-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I temporary ran my wifi card and brought it down: dhclient eth2 ifconfig eth2 down - all from the command line. Now, I realize that dhclient is still running [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux |grep dh[c] root 11352 0.0 0.1 2672 524 ?Ss 18:17 0:00 dhclient eth2 What is worse i

Re: A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote: > In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references > to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for > "Upgradable Packages" and so I started nosing around in there, > thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this en

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Nate Duehr
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my first thought of 'rm'ing the relevant files and editing menu.lst

Re: Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Peter. Peter Hillier-Brook, 03.11.2006 18:24: > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing > these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my > first thought of 'rm'ing the relev

Removing redundant kernels

2006-11-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my first thought of 'rm'ing the relevant files and editing menu.lst good enough? Peter HB

Re: laptop install and drivers

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 08:56), ChadDavis wrote: > On 11/3/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If you have a wired ethernet connection, I wouldn't worry about the > >wireless card until you've completed the install. You can then have the > >advantage of an x-window environment to get wireless sor

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Max Hyre
Gentlefolk: It sounds as if this effort includes a significant attempt to reinvigorate the rapidly-cooling ``you can get sued for using Linux'' FUD. From the NYTimes article: (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/business/03soft.html?ei=5070&en=d4fb3a0a5a8877ae&ex=1163221200&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&

pci_set_power_state reasserting

2006-11-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Since upgrading to the latest kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 during an apt-get upgrade from Sid I have received the following message hat scrolls on my virtual terms and is logged in kern.log. Any idea of a fix for this or what it means? Nov 3 06:27:00 Dam-Main kernel: pci_set_power_state(): :01:09.

Re: Etch/Cupsys/Gutenprint - failure to communicate

2006-11-03 Thread Matthew Krauss
George Borisov wrote: Matthew Krauss wrote: Anyone? (..crickets chirping..) If all else fails, get hold of the PPD file and copy it into the "/usr/share/cups/drivers" folder. That should ensure that Cups can see it. Thanks, I tried that, but it still does not show up. Is there an

Re: timezone and clock error

2006-11-03 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-02, Dean Allen Provins wrote: > Hello: > > It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight > savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last > weekend. > > /etc/timezone contains: > > Canada/Mountain > > Anyone know how to fix them? If it really is, t

Re: grub choices

2006-11-03 Thread Roby
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently >> > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not >> > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a >> > menu >> > choice for

A Question About Aptitude

2006-11-03 Thread cothrige
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like to get some idea of how the

Re: laptop install and drivers

2006-11-03 Thread ChadDavis
If I go with the testing or unstable version, how unstable is the system?  This is intended to be a work machine, so I can't really afford to suffer many crashes.  On 11/3/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On (02/11/06 13:31), ChadDavis wrote:> Hey.  This may be a dumb question, but . .

Re: compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-03 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you for the answer Ron. Marcelo On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 16:27 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/02/06 15:05, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I am running sarge, and I am going to compile a program which is not in > > sar

Re: compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-03 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Steve, thank you very much for the detailed help! I will follow the suggested links too. Marcelo On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 22:48 +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 04:27:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Thanks in advance for the help > > > > $ wajig show debian-builder > > Packag

Re: Font Config, TTF-OpenSymbol and OpenOffice?

2006-11-03 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi Alle, Have you solved that problem? I have a similar problem as follows: Updating fontconfig cache... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts: failed to write cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi: failed to write cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi: failed to write cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID: fai

Debian on an Asus A6JM laptop

2006-11-03 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi folks :) So that's, I've installed Debian on my Asus A6JM laptop and some things just don't work, most importantly the NIC and the video. The NIC is a Realtek 8168 Gigabyte and the video crd is an nvidia GeForce Go 7600. Both of them work fine in Ubuntu - I know Ubuntu is not Debian but s

Re: Log File Permissions Issue

2006-11-03 Thread celejar
On 11/2/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:39:44PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed Awstats on my machine (running Sarge) and everything > seems to be working except that it seems to have trouble accessing the > Apache log files

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler
Aha! After enabling the unstable repositories I found the new emacs21-non-dfsg package. So all my problems would have gone away if I'd waited a few weeks for the docs to make their way down into testing. Sorry for the bother, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-03 Thread cothrige
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I went pretty much the same way, but then one day I thought fluxbox was > > kind of slow to draw menus etc... And I found openbox! It's fast, looks > > just like fluxbox, except that it doesn't have the extra fluff. :-) > > You may want to give it

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:04:39PM +0100, steef wrote: } Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: } >Hi, } > } >Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on } >Suse Linux. } >I wonder what that means... ;-) } > } >H } > } > } yes. one of our (dutch) regional papers writes about this deal. thei

lockd problems

2006-11-03 Thread hendrik
Now I get a lot of these messages On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:02:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Nov 3 07:30:07 lovesong kernel: nsm_mon_unmon: rpc failed, status=-13 > Nov 3 07:30:07 lovesong kernel: lockd: failed to monitor 172.25.1.11 It would appear that my lockd is not configured

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse Linux. I wonder what that means... ;-) H yes. one of our (dutch) regional papers writes about this deal. their (novell and m$) aim is a 'collaboration' of software between window$ and linux

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler
Max Hyre wrote: Tyler, you might want to try emacs-snapshot. I've been following it (and unstable) for months now, and have had no problems Thanks, that's very interesting. Having already manually installed the manual directly from gnu.org I'm ok for now, but I will investigate this for

Re: erading MS word files

2006-11-03 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 16:21 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:09:00 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > > On 10/31/06, Zoran Kolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse > Linux. > I wonder what that means... ;-) Interesting but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long spoon. MS has a history of signing agreements with poten

Re: Antwort: Re: Xen 3.0.3 and VLAN

2006-11-03 Thread Tim Post
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /etc/network/interfaces: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > auto eth0.94 > iface eth0.94 inet static > address 172.17.94.48 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 172.17.94.254 > broadcast 172.17.94.25

RE: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-03 Thread Stephen Yorke
OWA definately supports meetings... Click on your Calendar folder...click on New and BANG...all your meeting options are in there. -Stephen From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/2/2006 11:03 PM To: Liam O'Toole Cc: debian-user@list

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Max Hyre
Gentlefolk: >> it maybe that some of the manuals were reclassified as >> non-dfsg free and were moved out of the main >> repositories. Many GFDL documents were reclassified for >> etch. > > That appears to be the case, as confirmed in > /usr/share/doc/emacs21-common/copyright: It appears to

Re: How to disable auto-shutdown screen?

2006-11-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 03.11.06 17:21, gniuxiao wrote: > Thanks, I changed these variables to 0, but how to let the kernel know > these changes? Do I have to reboot? /etc/init.d/console-tools start should work. sorry for forgetting. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I w

[OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse Linux. I wonder what that means... ;-) H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-03 Thread Miles Bader
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In this case it means that the processes are trying to use more memory >> _actively_ than will fit in RAM, and you end up with a very high page >> fault rate, meaning your system spends much more time doing disk I/O >> to the swap area than it d

Re: hi..i need ur help

2006-11-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Side note: next time, please choose your subject line and the mailinglist to which you're sending your email more carefully. I *almost* filed this message as spam. I'd say questions such as this one would belong on the debian-user mailinglist, not debian-project. Please send any replies there. On

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from > > KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I > > may get bored and try someth

Re: orthography corrector in gaim

2006-11-03 Thread João Schmutz
Now it is certain, the problem was that it was incapacitated: "Highlight misspelled words"-- AttDebian UserJoão SchmutzGeek by nature, linux by choice

Re: laptop install and drivers

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/06 13:31), ChadDavis wrote: > Hey. This may be a dumb question, but . . . No :) > I'm doing my first install on a laptop. I have found that I need to track > down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards. I already found them, > I think, but I am curious as to how I make them

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-11-03 Thread Deephay
On 11/2/06, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deephay wrote: > I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow > tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB > size). > The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port > w

Re: a CAD program for building a house?

2006-11-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both > are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and > both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my > house... > > > neverthe

problem with building kernel module

2006-11-03 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I wrote a "hello world" kernel module ( very simple, only printk() ), when I trying to build the kernel, an error will happen: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 127 make: *** [modules] Error

Re: udf maximum file size 1GiB ?

2006-11-03 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jamil Djadala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm use debian testing(etch), amd64 and i386. > for my usb mass storage i use udf, according to specs, udf have maximum > file size 16EiB > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems > > But i cant create file more that 1GiB: [snip] > dd if

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-11-03 Thread David Hart
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:37:46AM +, s. keeling wrote: > David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I didn't explain that fully as it didn't seem relevant to the point I > > was trying to make. I receive the vast majority of my mail directly > > by SMTP to the machine which has my personal m

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-03 Thread David Hart
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:12:11AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the sum of all > > >> programs' RSS exceeds your RAM size, your system will thrash, and > > >> thrashing is not go

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