Re: Smtp auth

2006-12-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:07:37PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > 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 ([EM

Re: 48000Hz bitrate Audio distorted

2006-12-07 Thread Fab
> Can you show us the relevant part of `dmesg'? Never ran `dmesg' before, what should I look for? >Are you using ALSA or OSS? It's a fresh install so I guess Alsa, how can I check? > What kind of distortion are we talking about? Hard to describe, I'd say high pitched, very metallic sound, also

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061207 21:39]: > I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab > (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't > work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone > tell me what might have happened? > > (This is of c

Re: 48000Hz bitrate Audio distorted

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Whenever I play a video with an Audio bitrate of 48000Hz in Totem or > VLC, the sound is very distorted, doesn't matter if it's in mp3 or AC3 > format. > Video files with an audio bitrate of 44100Hz plays fine. Odd, it's usually the reverse. > Sound card is an onboard (Asrock 939Dual-Vsta) C-Me

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 20:42, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snip] [snip] > I don't like arguments. That isn't what I've been led to believe. > Raid 1 doesn't do that, AFAIK. I won't respond further, as this > is getting way away from the OPs qu

Re: large rendering

2006-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:31, Mark Grieveson wrote: > When using KDE, sometimes the rendering of the desktop will become too > large, making things unusable, and requiring a reboot to fix. This > occurs, usually, when I open a fullscreen game such as defendguin or > supertux. In particular,

large rendering

2006-12-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
When using KDE, sometimes the rendering of the desktop will become too large, making things unusable, and requiring a reboot to fix. This occurs, usually, when I open a fullscreen game such as defendguin or supertux. In particular, if I've accidentally doubleclicked the mouse, when only a sin

Re: debian and graphics drivers [was google earth and graphics drivers]

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Ok, it looks like I've sort of figured out my problem. I was using the "vesa" driver instead of the "i810" driver. So I changed that field in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, gave and updated the identifier appropriately(?). The modified lines in xorg.conf are: Section "Device" Identifier

Re: How to use network-manager in gnome by non root?

2006-12-07 Thread H.S.
gulfstream wrote: The nm-applet is not displayed in notification area at all when I login use a normal user. Is root password necessary to use network manager applet as a normal user? How to do it? btw, it's so strange that I can not receive the mail from debian-user malllist. Regards, gulfs

48000Hz bitrate Audio distorted

2006-12-07 Thread Fabrice Renaud
Whenever I play a video with an Audio bitrate of 48000Hz in Totem or VLC, the sound is very distorted, doesn't matter if it's in mp3 or AC3 format. Video files with an audio bitrate of 44100Hz plays fine. Happens both in Etch and Sid i386 and Amd64. Sound card is an onboard (Asrock 939Dual-Vsta

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:51:12AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >I scan using and HP PSC all-in-one money pit and it works flawlessly > >with xsane. > > Maybe its worth buying this scanner. Is it a SCSI one? Maybe they work > more easily in sane and xane. > no, its a USB Hewlett-

Re: Can not receive mail from debian-user maillist

2006-12-07 Thread gulfstream
Of course subscribed. It's fine now, it is so slow yesterday. 2006/12/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:45:23AM +0800, gulfstream wrote: > It's so strange. I have to ask the obvious -- are you subscribed? A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Crontab Problem

2006-12-07 Thread Grok Mogger
I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone tell me what might have happened? (This is of course supposed to be on one line) 00 22 * * * root nice /som

Re: Can not receive mail from debian-user maillist

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:45:23AM +0800, gulfstream wrote: > It's so strange. I have to ask the obvious -- are you subscribed? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 19:21, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:39:50PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Don't you wish you could run linux on the IBM 1401? No. They were a PITA. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] What your code looks like is RAID-3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#RAID_3 A RAID 3 uses byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. RAID 3 is very rare in practice. One of the side-effects of RAID 3 is that it generally cannot service multi

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 19:25, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:18:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/07/06 17:39, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > You mean there's no emulator that lets me run Fortran for the 704? I

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 18:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >>> One way of doing RAID 5 with three discs is to write data to >>> each of two discs, and write the bitwise XOR of the data on >>> the two discs to a third. This requires no spe

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hello after a while on this. I have tried xsane in Debian and Fedora until > I am blue in the face and I can't get it to work. I am starting to think > the only way to get a scanner to work in Linux is if you write the program > in assembler code and hire an idiot savant to configure it. > I ge

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >why are you not just pulling packages from the net? > > I could do it, but I prefer using the DVDs. My idea is to get to a state > where I bootstrap download DVD images using jigdo and thus minimise the > load on the debi

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:39:50PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes, > >uncompressed is batter. > > > >And if your error-correction software ahould happen to be unusable in > >several years, your errors will

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:09:23PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Everything involves Pascal's triangle somewhere :-) > > >thanks for the refresher! > > Sorry, my grad schooling is in Mathematical Probability and Statistics. > I almost got a Ph.D (a kid suddenly came along, and I had to get a > r

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:36:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/07/06 16:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> RAID is *not* for archives!!! > > > > RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why > > it would

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > Also I managed to specify the DVD with apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 add (I > think it was cdrom1) and it then read in the DVD images for Sarge 3.1 r4 > and upgraded everything and inhaled all the packages

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:18:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/07/06 17:39, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > I wrote some machine language programs for the IBM 1401 in 1969. > > Does that count as programs that

Can not receive mail from debian-user maillist

2006-12-07 Thread gulfstream
It's so strange. Regards, gulfstream

Trouble browsing secure web site (http://www.scotiaonline.scotiabank.com)

2006-12-07 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, I'm having problems doing online banking at my banks secure website listed in the subject. I have no problem using that website with sarge but when I'm using testing or unstable pages don't load fully. A google search for "scotiaonline linux" show that I am not the only one who's bugg

Re: How to use network-manager in gnome by non root?

2006-12-07 Thread gulfstream
The nm-applet is not displayed in notification area at all when I login use a normal user. Is root password necessary to use network manager applet as a normal user? How to do it? btw, it's so strange that I can not receive the mail from debian-user malllist. Regards, gulfstream

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 07 16:08 -0600]: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:41:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > OP specifically noted: > > I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date The reason for that was so I don't clobber other files that may be older, jus

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. > >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:28:39 -0800 > > > >On Fri, Dec 08, 200

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRU

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: I'd only trust "RAID archiving" if the controller and a rescue CD were also stored in the "archive location" along with the hard drives. I gave two examples of RAID archiving which required no special controller, and which would need to special rescue CD to use. You snipped

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software... Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:27:04 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:24:35AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > Hello after a while on this. I have

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:28:39 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > But maybe there is some smart way to

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > But maybe there is some smart way to combine the apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 > stuff with apt-get install so that I can specify the DVD drive. > why are you not just pulling packages from the net? I realise that may be th

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:24:35AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > Hello after a while on this. I have tried xsane in Debian and Fedora until > I am blue in the face and I can't get it to work. I am starting to think > the only way to get a scanner to work in Linux is if you writ

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software... Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:39:23 -0500 >> > I have given up on sane with my scanner. >> I guess you mean xsane. If so, a bewildering interface, a badgering >>

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:39:50PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes, > >uncompressed is batter. > > > >And if your error-correction software ahould happen to be unusable in > >several years, your errors will

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 17:39, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > I wrote some machine language programs for the IBM 1401 in 1969. > Does that count as programs that can't be run any more? $ wajig show simh [snip] Description: Emulators for 3

trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have been trying to get away from the dreaded 15 CD set and substitute it with the much wiser 2 DVDs for Sarge 3.1. I reinstalled the Sarge 3.1 r3 and this resulted in both the CD drive and the DVD drive being detected and two nice icons being made one for each in gnome

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 17:36, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> RAID is *not* for archives!!! >>> >>> RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why >>> it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply

Re: Installation problem

2006-12-07 Thread Colin
Wei-Min Gu wrote: > With a Debian CD, which was made from debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso, > I tried to install Debian GNU/Linux on my new PC but failed. > > The installation was stopped since "No partitionable media were found". > It shows as the following: > > No partitionable media were found. >

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
José Alburquerque wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRUB on my MBR. I use Mic

Re: How do I do n-up printing with my layout?

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hi Everybody, How do I do n-up printing of postscript files in Linux using the layout of my choice? I can use psnup to convert a .ps file to one with say, 6 logical I use mpage. It works great for me. I use it for two-sided printing, two-up, t

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes, uncompressed is batter. And if your error-correction software ahould happen to be unusable in several years, your errors will not be easy to corrected. Even with FEC uncompressed may be better. OTOH, few

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: RAID is *not* for archives!!! RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply making two (or more) copies of the data. Are you saying that making more than one copy of a backup is not a

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRUB on my MBR. I use Microsoft's MBR, and use the Win

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> [snip] > I quite agree. But in the absence of error-correction codes

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
José Alburquerque wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). The etch installer's lilo won't run. I could tr

google earth and graphics drivers

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Hi, I'm trying to use Google Earth. Every time I run it I get the following message: You are currently running Google Earth in 'OpenGL' with software emulation. In this mode, Google Earth will work but it will run very slowly. If you want to run Google Earth more quickly we suggest that you

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). The etch installer's lilo won't run. I could try running the installer ag

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061207 14:13]: > I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. > It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functional sarge and a severely > broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). > > The etch installer's lilo won't run.

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, only t

Re: How to uninstall X

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:28:43AM -0700, Chris Purves wrote: > What is the best way to completely uninstall X from my system? > Presently, I have xorg installed. I think I should be able to remove > one of the X libraries, but I'm not sure which one. > You should be able to remove (purge) xorg.

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:26:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > > > > No, you _should_ compress it and then use some of the space you saved to > > > add so

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:54:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. > It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely > broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). > > The etch installer's lilo

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 16:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> RAID is *not* for archives!!! > > RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why > it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply > making two (or more) copies o

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-07 Thread Martin Fuzzey
Thank you for reply. I have indeed set up SASL authentication as you describe and the actual authentication (which occurs at each connection to the remote SMTP server) works fine. The problems are : 1) My ISP doesn't like *empty* AUTH=<> in the "MAIL FROM:" field of the envelope. They *do*

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: RAID is *not* for archives!!! RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply making two (or more) copies of the data. Are you saying that making more than one copy of a backup is not a reasonable approach

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:30:47PM -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > an

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:41:23AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [Mike wrote] So, the probability that at least one disc fails is 1-(1-p)(1

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 03:41:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/07/06 15:12, Almut Behrens wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> I have a directory of files that are created daily using > >> filename

Re: How do I do n-up printing with my layout?

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hi Everybody, How do I do n-up printing of postscript files in Linux using the layout of my choice? I can use psnup to convert a .ps file to one with say, 6 logical I use mpage. It works great for me. I use it for two-sided printing, two-up, two-up two-sided, and fo

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 15:12, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> I have a directory of files that are created daily using >> filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose >> names adva

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 11:41:23AM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > > here. > > > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > > want to do. > > >

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose > names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz > to filename-20061203.tar.

Re: How do I do n-up printing with my layout?

2006-12-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 19:11:38 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > How do I do n-up printing of postscript files in Linux using the layout of > my > choice? I can use psnup to convert a .ps file to one with say, 6 logical > pages > per sheet. But the problem with this is that

Re: /dev/md0 don't start after controller change

2006-12-07 Thread michael
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:25:40 +0100, Andrea Ganduglia wrote > > In some way /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 lost information about --add > option after any reboot. :-( After you add your partition, how does mdadm --detail --scan compare to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > one, o

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 07:57:29PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > > here. > > > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > > want to do

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread H.S.
Stephen R Laniel wrote: The easiest way wouldn't involve the filename at all. If you know that a file created on date D is stamped with date D -- i.e., if your files all look like so: (13:09) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls filename-20061207.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slaniel slaniel 0 2006-12-07

Setup a printer on debian linux

2006-12-07 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am looking for an up to date documentation on how to setup a printer under a debian/testing system .I am reading for example, that one should not anymore install foomatic-filters-ppds (which use to contain the ppd file for my printer), so I am guessing this is also a bad idea to down

Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). The etch installer's lilo won't run. I could try running the installer again and telling it to try gr

Re: Two gateways on same network

2006-12-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:50 +0100, srg krn wrote: > It is normal that if I connect to your public IP (say IPa) from the > 128k line my connection times out. > > THE REASON IS: > It is normal because I am in Internet and my machine sends the SYN [snip] Thanks, the why I understand - it's the how..

sarge->etch upgrade hits dependency hell

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate one, only to find that lilo crashed when it was trying to make the system bootable (i

Re: Two gateways on same network

2006-12-07 Thread srg krn
It is normal that if I connect to your public IP (say IPa) from the 128k line my connection times out. THE REASON IS: It is normal because I am in Internet and my machine sends the SYN packet to your IPa, then SYN packet arrives to your linux machine, but the routing table in your linux machine s

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Albert Dengg
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:16:54PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filenam

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ben Breslauer
Nate Bargmann wrote: I have a directory of files that are created daily using filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose names advance from filename-20061201.tar.gz to filename-20061202.tar.gz to filename-20061203.tar.gz and so on. Based on the date in the filename, I

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I have given up on sane with my scanner. >> I guess you mean xsane. If so, a bewildering interface, a badgering >> licence message, and a lack of stability, make this a program to avoid. Hmm... interesting. I started with the software that HP distributes with my OfficeJet: a complete waste

iceweasel will not start

2006-12-07 Thread Angelina Carlton
Hi, I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.. I have a fresh install of debian sid but I cannot start iceweasel at all. It fails with exit 1. >From the command line I first rm -rf .mozilla to force a new user profile and then do: iceweasel -V -safe-mode -gtk-debug=1 -gdk-debug=1 and it spit

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 12:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are create

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:16, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske > here. > > This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I > want to do. > > I have a directory of files that are created daily using > filename-`date +

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
name at all. If you know that a file created on date D is stamped with date D -- i.e., if your files all look like so: (13:09) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls filename-20061207.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slaniel slaniel 0 2006-12-07 13:09 filename-20061207.tar.gz -- then you can just use find(1). You could d

Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
Since there is a lot of knowledge on this list, I thought I'd aske here. This may be trivial, but I'm not even sure how to search for what I want to do. I have a directory of files that are created daily using filename-`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.gz so I have a directory with files whose names advance fr

Debian 2.6.17-9 Etch Cisco Aironet 350 can't get a compiled module to run

2006-12-07 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Hi all, not sure using the proper place for such request, but let's have try I having an old HP Omnibook900 and I'm compiling an optimized Linux image for it under Debian distro. When using the defacto package from Debian the pcmcia card is configured an work like a charm. When I do use my com

Re: links -g version 2.1pre26-4

2006-12-07 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:06:16AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: links -g version 2.1pre26-4 Hello, "links2 -g" version 2.1pre23-1 works fine on my box, but version 2.1pre26-4 doesn't work ? (it's the package : link

canto cumulus

2006-12-07 Thread deb
hi list is there anybody who has some experience in working with cumulsserver 6.6 on debian sarge? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:16:11AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > > No, you _should_ compress it and then use some of the space you saved to > > add some carefully chosen redundancy which will allow you to reconstruct > > everyt

USB attached ATA drive: wrong size

2006-12-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I bought an 80GB ATA drive and an external enclosure for it. I connect it on Sid and I see: ... SCSI device sdb: 66055248 512-byte hdwr sectors (33820 MB) ... running cfdisk /dev/sdb indeed shows 33819.73 MB. But the face of the disk (Seagate) says 80GB. Can anybody shed light on this?

How to uninstall X

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Purves
What is the best way to completely uninstall X from my system? Presently, I have xorg installed. I think I should be able to remove one of the X libraries, but I'm not sure which one. -- Take care, eh. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 09:07, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:36:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/07/06 08:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> [snip] [snip] > Personal data. D

Re: restarting isdnutils fails

2006-12-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 29 Nov 2006, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I am running a sarge system with an AVM Fritzcard DSL providing ISDN as well. Note: I have no experience with active ISDN cards whatsoever... > vbox3 serves as answering machine. Sometimes the card hangs and I restart the > connection completely usi

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

2006-12-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 17:06 -0500, T wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:06:08 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:14 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. > >> > > >> > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I g

offre d'emploi

2006-12-07 Thread nevios
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Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:41:23AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:11:06PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [Mike wrote] > > >>Let p be the probability of failure of each disc, independently of the > >>othe

Re: How to use network-manager in gnome by non root?

2006-12-07 Thread H.S.
gulfstream wrote: I have installed network-manager and network-manager-gnome. But Only root can use network-manager through nm-applet in notification area, other users can not use the function of network-manager. How to use the function of network-manager by user who is not root? Regards, gulf

SOLVED: Re: Prevent DVD autoloading in Etch

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: [...] Does anyone know how I can prevent the DVD disc being autodetected? Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks to Lillo for this reply off-list: desktop-->preferences-->removable media, set your favourite tool whit media support Select the "Multimedia" tag and in "

How to use network-manager in gnome by non root?

2006-12-07 Thread gulfstream
I have installed network-manager and network-manager-gnome. But Only root can use network-manager through nm-applet in notification area, other users can not use the function of network-manager. How to use the function of network-manager by user who is not root? Regards, gulfstream

How to use network-manager in gnome by non root?

2006-12-07 Thread gulfstream
I have installed network-manager and network-manager-gnome. But Only root can use network-manager through nm-applet in notification area, other users can use the function of network-manager. How to use the function of network-manager by user who is not root? Regards, gulfstream

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: No, you _should_ compress it and then use some of the space you saved to add some carefully chosen redundancy which will allow you to reconstruct everything, not just some things, in case of failure. (E.g.,

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