Re: error compiling Mono in debian etch

2006-12-06 Thread igor Guerrero
You are missing something: using Mono.Unix; using System; public class test { public static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine("Random Number: {0}", Mono.Unix.Native.Stdlib.rand ()); } } see "Mono.Unix.Native.Stdlib.rand()" and in compile time: mcs test.cs -r:Mono.Posix.

error compiling Mono in debian etch

2006-12-06 Thread Brad Brock
I want to use stdlib in Mono. This is my source code using Mono; using System; using System.IO; class yoursourcefileclass { public static void Main(String[] Args) { Console.WriteLine(" Random Number: {0}", Mono.Unix.rand()); } } I've some trouble when I compile my source co

Re: a sound question

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should be able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device at th

Re: following recent upgrade

2006-12-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:03 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:39:02PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > ntpd returns a permission denied error! > > > > > > All the files are ntp owned... > > > What is the exact message from the logs? What happens if you stop it > and sta

Re: Smtp auth

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Ross
> Am trying to get my postfix to send via relayhost > > Here's what I get from hughes.net site > *** > When configuring your SMTP server information, enable SMTP > authentication then enter your email account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and > your password. Passwords are case sensitive

Re: reinstalling Sarge 3.1 r4 from a DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:22:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I couldn't get the DVD mounting stuff fixed so I decided to reinstall the > OS from scratch. just a word to the wise. once installed, unless you totally bork the system somehow, you should never need to

Re: How do I configure debootstrap from within the businesscard cd? (Ultra minimal install)

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:05:25PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > something like: > boot computer with live cd > go to a terminal > partition the hdd > format the hdd > mount the root hdd partition as /mnt > use 'debootstrap .' to download the packages you want > chroot to /mnt > add kernel and

Re: using bootchart

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:42:29PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found > > S40hotplug > > took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, and

Re: a sound question

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:20:01PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a > couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound > out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should be > able to use b

Re: Odd Gnome behavior

2006-12-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:13:28 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 22:35 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:41:54 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I have run across an oddity in Gn

a sound question

2006-12-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should be able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device at the same time (chat with

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:40:33 +0100, hendrik wrote: > > If you want to be able to recover data despite damage, it is in general > not wise to compress it, since different parts will be damaged > independently, and the undamaged parts will still be readable. > Squeezing out redundancy makes diff

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data A little Further Along

2006-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Bill Marcum writes: > Try this: > echo "$songfilename" | od -to1z It suddenly hit me that you suggested I put the "'s around the variable name when I did the test so I did and I think we've got the culprit though I am not sure what to do to fix it. This time I tried echo "$songfilename"

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data

2006-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Hmm. Bill Marcum writes: > How does your script create the file names? It initially gets it from the index number of the audio file that cdda2wav generates plus the Tracktitle= line that appears in one of the audio_NN.inf files. In this case, audio_01.inf which contains many information

Re: using bootchart

2006-12-06 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 12/5/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found > S40hotplug took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, > and installing some mod

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/12/06 19:27), Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. I like cdrbq - it's a GTK program and is pretty intuitive (one I realised the cdrom is /dev/hdc) Regar

Re: IRC server level recording

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:16:06AM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I am looking for a way to record specific channels on my IRC server. I would > like to have a searchable, postgresql based database. Anyone have any > suggestions? I tried using drone but it does not support logging into a > passworded se

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > > > Today the best

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > >>Question: how likely is it that both disks develop bad blocks, while > >>none of them is damaged? I'm no expert on this, but I

Re: using bootchart

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:34:09AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > When I used bootchart to benchmark booting of Debian sarge, I found S40hotplug > took nearly 15 seconds. S40hotplug calls {pci,usb,isapnp}.rc, and installing > some modules. Is there any way to reduce this time? Thanks in

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:57:15PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:39:44PM -0800, Baz wrote: > > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about > > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks. > > Sebastian > > > I

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote: > Hi, > > I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver > relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP. > > However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication. > > So d

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:10:45 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Florian Kulzer writes: > >More likely, however, there is just a synchronization problem with > >the MIT mirror. You can get the "bad signature" error if you update > >while the mirror in the middle of its synchronization proce

Re: OS may not have recognised my DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:55:00PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > >> > >> I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also > >> have a CD drive in my machine. > >> > > >In *nix there are many different types of files: > >directories, data files, symbolic lin

Re: How do I configure debootstrap from within the businesscard cd? (Ultra minimal install)

2006-12-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:22:01AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > --- Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > > [Initially posted on alt.os.linux.debian, no replies.} > > > > I believe that one can trim down a standard debootstrap > > installation > > (currently 180MB for sarge and over 230 MB for etch) ha

reinstalling Sarge 3.1 r4 from a DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I couldn't get the DVD mounting stuff fixed so I decided to reinstall the OS from scratch. I tried booting from a DVD. This worked at the start but eventually ther OS wanted regular CDs which it gave the numbers for and would not accept DVD images as an alternative.

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 12/6/06, Ben Breslauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason Dunsmore wrote: > My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a > couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor > suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient > myself by movin

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-06 Thread Miles Bader
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >More likely, however, there is just a synchronization problem with >the MIT mirror. You can get the "bad signature" error if you update >while the mirror in the middle of its synchronization procedure. If >you get this message all the time

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-06 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 00:00 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:05:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > > David Baron writes: > > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medi

Re: Symlinking /etc/passwd?

2006-12-06 Thread Edward J Shornock
Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I'm setting up a box that is mostly going to be chroot environments, stored > in a partition in /var. I would like to move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to > /var so that I can hardlink them into my chroot environments. Is it safe to > do this, and make /etc/passwd and /etc/s

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:45:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > If you have it working, then, why bother to change it? > > However, with the scheme I propose, all Debian packages would be taken care > of. Other stuff like qmail, systemimage, stuff that one needs a repository > other than Debia

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Angelina Carlton
"Brian Durant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not really sure where the bug is in [0]. This looks a little > complcated for me [1]. I was hoping that there was maybe a backport, > but I see now that backports usually don't include unstable. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335459 T

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael Fothergill([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. If you running gnome then nautilus or if your running kde then k3b or if your burning

Re: adding multimedia on debian etch testing

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Shrinivasan T wrote: Friends. I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs. Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs. and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff. so added the debian-multimedia.org repository. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this. ---

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed December 6 2006 11:27, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. The nautilus-cd-burner package is what you're looking for I think, it add cd burning to nautilu

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 22:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:26:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 06 December

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 19:27 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. Also available in Debian, but if you want other alternatives, try gnomebaker or brasero.

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:26:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 0

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 21:48, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > David Baron: > > > > >

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:17:14PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > David Baron: > > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not > > >

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > >>Question: how likely is it that both disks develop bad blocks, while > >>none of them is damaged? I'm no expert on this, but I

Re: Odd Gnome behavior

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi All, > > I have run across an oddity in Gnome's behavior when running admin tools > from the gui. > > If I run any of the tools found in the Desktop -> Administration menu, > explicitly from that menu, Gnome asks me for th

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm > > > upgraiding. > > > > > >

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:27:27PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? > > On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. then why not use Nautilus in debian? try apt-cache search cd burn | grep -v dev

recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel htt

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am working on a shell script that generates file names > to use with bladeenc. Everything works right except that every > single music file the script creates via bladeenc has a ? or > question mark preceding the words of

Symlinking /etc/passwd?

2006-12-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm setting up a box that is mostly going to be chroot environments, stored in a partition in /var. I would like to move /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to /var so that I can hardlink them into my chroot environments. Is it safe to do this, and make /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow symlinks to the new locat

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Question: how likely is it that both disks develop bad blocks, while none of them is damaged? I'm no expert on this, but I guess a better strategy might be to rotate backups on two disks, and use (

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to see if it applies on my system. Often, the bugs are for different architectures or are things that aren't critical to me and I can safely ignore them. I

Re: Etch status..?

2006-12-06 Thread steef
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-11-26 11:45:02, schrieb steef: i do not understand. what is the problem?? quote: *SMP images merged with non-SMP*. After the release of linux-image-2.6.17-2 the SMP and non-smp images where integrated into ^^^

Re: apache2 memory footprint

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Yeatman
->>In response to your message<<- --received from Roberto C. Sanchez-- > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:42:35AM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi, I've recently noticed that two of the four apache2 processes I have > > running are consuming about 240Mb of memory each. I'm not doing > > anything fa

Re: Bad mirror error during network installation

2006-12-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Today the best one [1], for me, keeps dropping out while I'm > > upgraiding. > > > > [1] debian.fifi.org > > > I use debian.midco.net and it always works gr

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/06 12:51, Brian Durant wrote: > On 12/6/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Baz wrote: >> > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) >> about >> > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Lin

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:58:35PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Speaking pedantically, if the probability of error is greater than 50%, you can complement every bit and gte a probability less than 50%. No, not so. Because on the channels we are discussing, the bits have

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Baz wrote: > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks. > Sebastian Please don't cross post! aptitude install rutebook Where does

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:08:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If the drive electronics fails, for example, or a piece of abrasive > dirt is on the head during a seekm you lose all three partitions. > > Better to have one partition on each of three separate drives. > > My strategy? > >

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Baz wrote: > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks. > Sebastian Please don't cross post! aptitude install rutebook -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > if the chance of a disk failure is (say) 1% in the time alloted, then > the chance of having a failure with disks is 2%. THe change of any one > particular disk failing is still 1%, it the odds of A failure in the > system as a whole that goes up. So with more disks y

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:57:15PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:39:44PM -0800, Baz wrote: > > Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about > > fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks. > > Sebastian > > > I

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:35, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > David Baron: > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not > > > want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors

Re: Hi from Bulgaria

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 06.12.2006, 17:43 +0200 schrieb .::<-::AMP::->::.: > Hello, I have some problem installing Debian 3.1r4 on my PC the > problem is that I have SATA2 HDD HITACHI on my MSI K9N Ultra > motherboard > ( > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=731 >

Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data

2006-12-06 Thread Martin McCormick
I am working on a shell script that generates file names to use with bladeenc. Everything works right except that every single music file the script creates via bladeenc has a ? or question mark preceding the words of the title. Example: A Christmas disk contains a song named "Joy to the

Re: [man-lug] Minimal Linux Distrib

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Giacomo Lacava" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [man-lug] Minimal Linux Distrib Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:24:34 + If you don't need X, you can go for a heavily stripped-down Debian, Slackware or Gentoo... or if you feel like learning, there's always Linux From

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Mathias, On 12/6/06, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Brian. Brian Durant, 06.12.2006 17:32: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock for all users … You could wai

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 17:32:04 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock for all users and will install

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 17:32:04 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock for all users and will installing Flock screw up Firefox in > anyway? Just to be sure

Re: Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Brian. Brian Durant, 06.12.2006 17:32: > I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app > from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install > Flock for all users … You could wait[0] or try it on your own[1]. > … and will installing Flock screw up

raid1 internals

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Tutty
I'm trying to find info on the error handling of the raid1 system. This is an off-shoot of another thread looking for a backup archive format with imbedded error correction. All the raid documentation for linux talks about a drive either beeing good or failed. Suppose I have a 3-disk raid1 array

Re: Something different -- playing with the Hurd

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:31:46AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 06 01:25 -0600]: > > > I've been thinking about it, but haven't had the time. Do you now have > > a working install? how about X? > > I would say that it is mostly working. So f

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Question: how likely is it that both disks develop bad blocks, while > none of them is damaged? I'm no expert on this, but I guess a better > strategy might be to rotate backups on two disks, and use (and check: > fsck and sm

Re: How do I configure debootstrap from within the businesscard cd? (Ultra minimal install)

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:22:01AM -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > At least could anybody tell me where to ask this question? > Debian-devel, debian-boot? Debian-administration? maybe the debian installer list, if such a thing exists (and it probably does). A signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > David Baron: > > > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want > > to > > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > > first. > > There is absolutely no reason to k

Re: Hi from Bulgaria

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:43:34PM +0200, .::<-::AMP::->::. wrote: > Hello, I have some problem installing Debian 3.1r4 on my PC the problem is > that I have SATA2 HDD HITACHI on my MSI K9N Ultra motherboard ( > http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=731) > and

Re: Hi from Bulgaria

2006-12-06 Thread Difei
On 12/6/06, .::<-::AMP::->::. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have some problem installing Debian 3.1r4 on my PC the problem is that I have SATA2 HDD HITACHI on my MSI K9N Ultra motherboard ( http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=731 ) and the installer i

Newbie wants to install Flock on Debian Etch rc1 i386.

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
I downloaded and extracted Flock. I expected to have to build the app from source, but I don't see the usual scripts. So... how do I install Flock for all users and will installing Flock screw up Firefox in anyway? Cheers, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

IRC server level recording

2006-12-06 Thread Tony Heal
I am looking for a way to record specific channels on my IRC server. I would like to have a searchable, postgresql based database. Anyone have any suggestions? I tried using drone but it does not support logging into a passworded server, only passworded channels. Thanks in advance Tony

Hi from Bulgaria

2006-12-06 Thread .::<-::AMP::->::.
Hello, I have some problem installing Debian 3.1r4 on my PC the problem is that I have SATA2 HDD HITACHI on my MSI K9N Ultra motherboard ( http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=731) and the installer is unable to detect it ("no partitionable media foud") how c

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:01:49PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > Thanks Mike, > > If I can attempt to summarize a portion of what you said: > > If the issue is resistance to data block errors, it doesn't > matter if I use a file system or not so I may as well use a file > system

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > > ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to > delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried > first. There is absolutely no reason to keep several official mirrors in your sources.list. They all contain the same softw

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
ALL the alternatives available are in /etc/apt/sources.list. I do not want to delete access to ftp.us.debiian.org. I want the local mirrors to be tried first. > /etc/apt/sources.list is where you can change it so apt knows where to look > > David Baron wrote: > > How does one set preferred mirro

Re: Can't get etch rc1 kppp or ndiswrapper wireless to connect to the net.

2006-12-06 Thread heba
2006/12/6, Mike Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: sorry, I meant yes, I was a member of pid group as myslf and root. don't worry...^__^ do you have create a policy for your group to connect internet in the firewall with iptables? I apologize if I ask things that seems stupid, but I need to know a

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:55:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >I'm focusing on the one-drive issue because this is one drive sitting in > >a bank vault. This is __archive__ (just like tape). I have backup > >procedures as a separate issue. One of the places that backup data goes > >to is th

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:58:35PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:08:54PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > >>Yes. But I don't want to loose any data at all. > > > > > >there is no way to guarantee this. you could improve your odds by > >havi

Re: Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread Mark
/etc/apt/sources.list is where you can change it so apt knows where to look David Baron wrote: How does one set preferred mirros for Apt. Seems to alway go to http://ftp.us.debian.org which is erratic and slow (usually but not always) accessed from Israel. We have hamakor.co.il which will zip t

Preferred Mirrors for Apt

2006-12-06 Thread David Baron
How does one set preferred mirros for Apt. Seems to alway go to http://ftp.us.debian.org which is erratic and slow (usually but not always) accessed from Israel. We have hamakor.co.il which will zip through if I can get Apt to use it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:31:18AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > I use backup2l to make incremental backups to a partition in /dump. > These backups are then GPG-encrypted, with the key of the owner of each > server. Thereby ensuring that the entire backup depends on the survivability o

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:01:36PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:53:13AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > I'm going to be backing up to a portable ruggedized hard drive. > > > Currently, my backups end up in tar.bz2 format. > > > > > > It

Re: How do I configure debootstrap from within the businesscard cd? (Ultra minimal install)

2006-12-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
--- Ottavio Caruso wrote: > [Initially posted on alt.os.linux.debian, no replies.} > > I believe that one can trim down a standard debootstrap > installation > (currently 180MB for sarge and over 230 MB for etch) hacking one > of > the related scripts (eg: usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/sarge) an

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
On 12/6/06, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > > Thanks. The interesting thing is that my xorg.conf already reads > "DefaultDepth 24". I was positive that this was the same problem that > I was experiencing - system freeze/crash with Gmail and Firefox. Hmm. > As soon as I

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Douglas Tutty wrote: > The idea is that a format with built-in error-correcting would scatter > the redundancy around the disk so that if a few blocks are bad, the data > can still be retreived. Point taken. > Even raid1 doesn't accomplish this. With raid1 and two disks, if both > disks have b

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-06 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:19:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Code without licence tends not to propagate. Linux wasn't the first > Unix-compatible one to have been written. It seems to me there was a > Unix-compatible kerlen written in the language TURING sometime in the > late 70's

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Breslauer
Jason Dunsmore wrote: My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient myself by moving the mouse to see where it went, the mouse moves rapidly all

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Kent West
Brian Durant wrote: > > Thanks. The interesting thing is that my xorg.conf already reads > "DefaultDepth 24". I was positive that this was the same problem that > I was experiencing - system freeze/crash with Gmail and Firefox. Hmm. > As soon as I stopped using Firefox to read my Gmail account, the

Re: emacs -nw in UTF-8 xterm does not work

2006-12-06 Thread Claus Fischer
Vincent Lefevre wrote: : You should have a 'u' after the first dash (this corresponds to the : input). This is your problem. You should try Emacs 22 (provided by : emacs-snapshot). Support of Unicode is broken (not fully implemented) : in Emacs 21. emacs-snapshot from sid indeed works. I'm going

Re: mouse freaks out

2006-12-06 Thread Kent West
Jason Dunsmore wrote: > My Logitech usb mouse (model M-BT96a) has a tendancy to freak out a > couple of times per hour. When this happens, the mouse cursor > suddenly goes to one of the screen corners. When I try to reorient > myself by moving the mouse to see where it went, the mouse moves > rap

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Albert, On 12/6/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After reading this thread, I searched for a solution with

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
there is just one annoying issue - when printing some postscript files on 4100, it's printed reversed - i.e., white text on black rectangles :( it happens only with some of ps's... this happens whatever driver we use (hplip, hpijs) except for the postscript ppd, but then it's not possible to ch

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >After reading this thread, I searched for a solution with renewed > >enthusiasm, and just now found this: > >---

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: There seems to be some confusion between two different issues: 1) There is a new archive signing key for Etch. The Release files are currently signed with both the new and the old key. Apt is satisfied with the old signature, but it wil

Re: Something different -- playing with the Hurd

2006-12-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 06 01:25 -0600]: > I've been thinking about it, but haven't had the time. Do you now have > a working install? how about X? I would say that it is mostly working. So far I haven't been able to cleanly shutdown the system. It doesn't (yet) su

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