Re: XP and Samba.....again

2006-12-20 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Thursday 21 December 2006 00:07, schmity wrote: > Newbie here. I have a home network with a XP machine and a Debian > machine connected through a router. I have not set Static IP's on > either machine. I am trying to connect these machines with samba, and > I have made a simple smb.conf file

XP and Samba.....again

2006-12-20 Thread schmity
Newbie here. I have a home network with a XP machine and a Debian machine connected through a router. I have not set Static IP's on either machine. I am trying to connect these machines with samba, and I have made a simple smb.conf file as follows: ### [glob

changing alt-tab behavior in fullscreen mode

2006-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Server : Debian, Etch, vncserver 3.3.7-13 Client : Windows, Xp, vncviewer 3.3.7 When I access the vnc session in fulscreen mode on the windows machine, the alt-tab is not being sent to the Debian machine. Pressing alt-tab just switches the windows on the Windows machine. How can I make alt-tab s

Browsing source packages

2006-12-20 Thread Mumia W..
Aptitude lets people browse the binary packages that are available for Debian--very nice. But what do I do if I want to browse the source packages? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~mumia.w.18.spam/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: "Local Packages": can I use /opt/ ?

2006-12-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:07:52 +0700 "Ali Milis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Suppose there exists large-company.com and > branch1.large-company.com. Both are producing "local packages" > which may conflict with each others. /opt may be better for one, since there may be conflict. The FHS

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-20 Thread David Liontooth
Paul Johnson wrote: > For posterity, it might be helpful to post what motherboard and chipset > that's for. Right -- this is a Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939. The Gigabyte K8NSC-939 has the same "AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron temperature sensor", as does the Tyan Tomcat S8350 and lots of other amd64 boards

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:25:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable' > > > in sources.list once i

unscientific debian users world survey

2006-12-20 Thread Ken Irving
I've been messing around with timestamps and timezones lately, and was curious to see how posts to debian users might be distributed around the globe, as indicated in the message timestamp. My local archive of the du list is far from complete, as I tend to delete a lot of stuff and it only goes b

Re: Imagen de disco en Debian

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Alejandro, Esta list es para discusiones en inglés. Si preferies, hay una lista disponible (debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org) para discusiones en español. On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:55:53PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > Tengo un servidor Debian Etch el cual debo llevarlo a un data center > ajen

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable' > > in sources.list once i've replaced 'testing' with 'etch'? or have the > > ref's to 'stable

Re: New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Black Dew
Michael Fothergill wrote: I guess (and other people on the list here will correct me if I am wrong) that you are going to need the AMD64 version of Debian. Not necessarily. i386 works just fine on 64 cpus The gain in performance from running a 64bit kernel is hardly noticeable in most common

Imagen de disco en Debian

2006-12-20 Thread Alejandro
Tengo un servidor Debian Etch el cual debo llevarlo a un data center ajeno para hacer housing. Este servidor tiene un solo disco y no quiero correr el riesgo de que un dia se rompa y quedar fuera de servicio. Por lo tanto, quiero poner como esclavo un segundo disco exactamente igual al primero

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 15:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > [snip] > we still have printer ports, right?). I've had better luck with Epson than You're too young to remember when computers talked to printers via serial ports. There was great cele

moving var

2006-12-20 Thread nomar
I'd recommend using rsync for this kind of thing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rsnapshot

2006-12-20 Thread nomar
Have a look at an application called rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ # apt-get install rsnapshot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

interfaces

2006-12-20 Thread nomar
# man interfaces You'll find the config file here: /etc/network/interfaces -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/06 15:30), Laura J. Portscheller wrote: > I am very new to linux. I have used it to a minimal extent and like > it, but have no experience in system administration and all the many > technical matters involved with it. I want to install linux on my > laptop and want to make sure that th

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:20:16PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > and until 'etch' becomes 'stable', do i get rid of the ref's to 'stable' in > sources.list once i've replaced 'testing' with 'etch'? or have the ref's > to 'stable' been ignored all along, beginning at the point where i put the

RE: New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Hi there, From: "Laura J. Portscheller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Subject: New User Information Request Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:30:51 -0700 I am very new to linux. I was once too I had used Unix machines before however. I have used it to a minimal extent and like it, but have no exper

Re: New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 03:30:51PM -0700, Laura J. Portscheller wrote: > I am very new to linux. I have used it to a minimal extent and like it, but > have no experience in system administration and all the many technical > matters involved with it. I want to install linux on my laptop and want

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:01:35PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > > > live cd, moved it and

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Digby Tarvin wrote: > I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for > (or sites I should consult for this information)... > > I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed > or heavy duty construction. > It is mainly for CD/DVD labels, and the occasional print

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-20 Thread Paul Johnson
David Liontooth wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> David Liontooth wrote: >> >>> >>> If I issue >>> >>> /etc/init.d/sensord start >>> >>> to start the sensor daemon, the script seems to run fine, but the daemon >>> doesn't actually start. On my other machines, it runs as expected. Any

Etherconf gone? What do I configure NICs with?

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, Main question: What should I use to setup network cards in Etch? Details: For the last year or so I've been using the package "etherconf" to set up secondary network cards and whenever I needed to change the initial configuration. Typically I "apt-get install ethconf" and for subsequent

Re: local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local -

network inventory

2006-12-20 Thread Tony Heal
I am looking for a network inventory program that will list hardware and software components of each computer on hand. I would prefer to have it integrated with postgresql also. Any suggestions would be helpful Thanks in advance Tony

New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Laura J. Portscheller
I am very new to linux. I have used it to a minimal extent and like it, but have no experience in system administration and all the many technical matters involved with it. I want to install linux on my laptop and want to make sure that there are no compatibility problems with your product. I

Re: ETCH Installation succes :-) WAS: New Debian User

2006-12-20 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Niels Rasmussen wrote: Well didn't know what happened :-) Guess the RAMS didn't emptying itself at first, but today when I want to solve to "X aborting" thing, the Gnome suddenly appear on the screen :-D Oh boy !! This is what have wanted for so long ! Debian on my own box !!! The instal

Re: What is the best way to install Samba

2006-12-20 Thread schmity
I also did the following: # Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbpasswd brent New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Linuxbox:/home/brent# cat /etc/samba/smbpasswd brent:1000:874EA23DF4AFD3CFC2265B23734E0DAC:153EDE431C871577C60F69CAD6DF1601:[U ]:LCT-45895F8A: Linuxbox:/

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:33:10AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 18 December 2006 11:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > largely. Are you currently pointed at testing or at etch? If at > > > testing, you might want to cha

Re: local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:14:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I b

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread richard
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 01:41:11PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > > as it wouldn't boot afterw

Re: What is the best way to install Samba

2006-12-20 Thread schmity
Alright, I have made a simple smb.conf file as follows. ### [global] # Server configuration paramaters netbios name = LINUXBOX server string = Samba %v on (%L) workgroup = SANDSTORM encrypt passwords = yes [data] path =

Re: What is the best way to install Samba

2006-12-20 Thread schmity
Alright, I have made a simple smb.conf file as follows. ### [global] # Server configuration paramaters netbios name = LINUXBOX server string = Samba %v on (%L) workgroup = SANDSTORM encrypt passwords = yes [data] path =

Re: LAN problem with Etch (and konqueror resolved)

2006-12-20 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 11 December 2006 01:00, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2006 00:16, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > Nigel Henry wrote: > > > Sorry for my ignorance. I have the zeroconf package installed. what is > > > the syntax needed to purge it? > > > > > > Nigel > > > > It should be > > > > a

ETCH Installation succes :-) WAS: New Debian User

2006-12-20 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Well didn't know what happened :-) Guess the RAMS didn't emptying itself at first, but today when I want to solve to "X aborting" thing, the Gnome suddenly appear on the screen :-D Oh boy !! This is what have wanted for so long ! Debian on my own box !!! The installation was a breeze, actu

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-20 Thread Niels Rasmussen
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:53:35 + Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Niels Rasmussen wrote: > > > > [...] > > What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter > > linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got > > quite rusty over the years :-) > > [...] >

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:29:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:51:57PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [...] > > warning! train platform analogy! warning! > > > > okay, here's how I view the releases. Debian is like a set of > > trains. There are a limited

Re: New Debian user

2006-12-20 Thread Chris Lale
Niels Rasmussen wrote: [...] What is the syntax of the sudoers file ?? Or is there a smarter linux command that'll do the trick ? (my linux capabilities has got quite rusty over the years :-) [...] Look at section 7 of this article http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/checkinstall.html.en

Re: cleanup after dist-upgrade

2006-12-20 Thread Greg Folkert
For keeping it very quick a top post: dpkg --purge $(dpkg -l | grep ^rc | cut -f3 -d\ ) That will take care of all the rc packages. On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 10:29 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > OK, I got all the problems sorted out after doing dist-upgrade on a > live production server :-)

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Greg Folkert
Sorry, I sent this to Digby directly and NOT to the list. On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 17:25 +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for > (or sites I should consult for this information)... > > I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about s

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 13:13, Ryan Castleberry wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 12/20/06 11:25, Digby Tarvin wrote: >> [snip] >> >> I love my Dell 3100cn. It's a big network *laser* printer that cost >> about $350. >> >> > I second the Dell 3100cn. Not

Printer: Epson!

2006-12-20 Thread Eeltje
Since some time I use an Epson Stylus C46. The support in Linux is excellent! I think most Epson printers work fine in Linux. You should consult: http://www.freestandards.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/DatabaseIntro to check whether a printer is fully supported in Linux. -- Eeltje de Vries --

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Ryan Castleberry
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 11:25, Digby Tarvin wrote: I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for (or sites I should consult for this information)... I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed or hea

Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Warren
Bill Warren wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > From: Angelo Bertolli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 12/18/2006 10:20 PM > To: Bill Warren > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Problems with phpbb and mysql vi dselect > > Bill Warren wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 11:25, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for > (or sites I should consult for this information)... > > I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed > or heavy duty constru

Re: Daemonologists wanted

2006-12-20 Thread David Liontooth
Paul Johnson wrote: > David Liontooth wrote: > >> >> If I issue >> >> /etc/init.d/sensord start >> >> to start the sensor daemon, the script seems to run fine, but the daemon >> doesn't actually start. On my other machines, it runs as expected. Any >> daemonologists out there? > > Wha

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > no keyboard. Anyway it

re: apt-cache bin files getting corrupted

2006-12-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check /etc/apt/sources.list on both machines. If you are using the uchicago mirrors for deb and deb-src, that's why this is happening. You want to switch to another set of mirrors since uchicago seems to have got itself corrupted. For a little while I had this problem too but cleared it up b

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:25:13PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for > (or sites I should consult for this information)... > > I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed > or heavy duty construction. > It is mainly fo

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rtpn> I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some rtpn> What should I have done? are you moving it because root is getting full? i've always moved /usr without problem - it's larger, anyhow. lish

Re: local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:14:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. > > It works right with a partition that contains /home: > > > rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 > > > But it does not work right with the partition that I boot int

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:39:32PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Updating of RedHat/Fedora machines are the HELL. > This is WHY I am dedicated "Debian GNU/Linux Consultant". > Actually, if you are fortunate enough to have a homogeneous environment (or mostly so), Red Hat can be handled very

Re: Xen and X-Servers

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:39:18PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Now I have created scripts, which starts on 4 independant X-Servers > from the 4 Chroots on tty9 (Sid) to tty12 (Woody) > > Now I do not realy like to use chroots and have read that there is > an ongoing development, which perm

RE: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Linux friendly colour printer? Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:25:13 + I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for (or sites I should consult for this

Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Digby Tarvin
I'm after thoughts on the current best colour printer to go for (or sites I should consult for this information)... I don't do a lot of colour printing, so I don't care about speed or heavy duty construction. It is mainly for CD/DVD labels, and the occasional print of a digital photograph. Ability

local partition backup with rsync

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I would like to do a local partition backup with rsync. It works right with a partition that contains /home: rsync -av --delete /hda10 /sdb7 But it does not work right with the partition that I boot into: rsync -av --delete --exclude /home --exclude /usr/local --exclude /hda10 / /hdb

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 10:38, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-12-02 16:14:58, schrieb Douglas Tutty: >> I've only done it once and that was on my new Asus M2N-SLI that has a >> bios utility built right in to allow you to save the bios and update a >> new one.

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-20 Thread Baz
On 12/20/06, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2006-12-12 21:41:11, schrieb Baz: > http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main You should use ONLY deb http://www.debian-mul

Re: strange processor (slow on AC, normal on battery)

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:08 +0100, strawks wrote: > I have an Asus A6VA laptop (Intel Centrino, 1.8GHz Pentium-M). > > On Linux 2.6.18-3, when running on battery, the system works fine. But > when I plug the AC adapter, the system is very slow, CPU frequency stays > often below 40MHz. Running the

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

2006-12-20 Thread Max Hyre
Dear Angelo & Dave: Angelo Bertolli wrote: > David Christensen wrote: >> there was an SVN "feature" whereby SVN applied to same version number >> to all files Really, truly it /is/ a feature. It's one of the driving forces behind writing SVN. >> Can SVN deal with the various line endings aut

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-13 09:28:52, schrieb Ken Hu: > Our company choose RedHat(before) and CentOS(now) as our main web server > just because the availability of the hardware drivers. > > Usually we use IBM's PC servers with hardware raid and we can only get > the driver of the raid controller card for RHEL

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-12 21:41:11, schrieb Baz: > http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main You should use ONLY deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main OR deb http://www.debian-multimed

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-12 23:38:35, schrieb Justin Hartman: > Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure > where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am > interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable > as a web server in a production environment

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-09 20:26:03, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hi, > > Not a Newbie but after trying to find which package contains the 'configure' > script for almost 1 hr { expecting it to just be there anyway }. It is in the source package you have downloaded. Change into the root of this source and

Xen and X-Servers

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Xen Geeks, I have a Devel-Station where I have 5 installations: /dev/sda1 Mastersystem /dev/sdb1 Unstable (Sid) /dev/sdc1 Testing (Etch) /dev/sdd1 Stable(Sarge) /dev/sde1 OldStable (Woody) /dev/sdf1 /usr/src Now I have created scripts, which star

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-09 18:07:15, schrieb Micha Feigin: > That is what I'm afraid of at the moment, the help file implies that I need an > account for each procmail spool, which sounds rather against the whole idea of > procmail and fetchmail. I was wondering if there is a way around that. First: apt-get i

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-07 22:34:06, schrieb 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

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-07 16:48:43, schrieb Russell L. Harris: > This is curious, because the Etch installer installs GRUB, not LILO. > LILO is deprecated, if not obsolete. Even the Sarge installer > installed GRUB by default. LILO is not deprecated and can not be since GRUB does not work on all configurat

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-07 15:20:26, schrieb H.S.: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > >find directoryName -mtime +X -print0 |xargs -0 rm '{}' This can handel daily files for unlimited years > $> find directoryName -mtime +X -exec rm -f '{}' \; This can handel only files from the last 15 years :-P Thanks, Greeti

Re: Can bot use Fn+F7 to switch LCD/CRT on Thinkpad X60s

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-05 12:52:19, schrieb gulfstream: > I have use ibm_acpi module in my kernel(2.6.18), and I can use Fn+F4 to > suspend to RAM and Fn+F12 to suspend to disk. But the system do not respond > to Fn+F7, so I can not switch the LCD and external CRT. Moreover, when I run > "echo video_switch > /

Re: Loading /tmp/kmap/blankmap

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-05 01:37:50, schrieb Pigeon: > Anyone here seen this? Do you have tried: cd / && grep --recursive "kmap/blankmap" * 2>/dev/null And wait some time... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-02 18:56:53, schrieb j Mak: > Hi, > > I am not able to find a debian logo with a transparent background. > Could anyone point me to a link where I can download one? On the Debian Website you will find the Debian Swirl as XCF file and if you open it in "The Gimp" you can switch off the

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-03 08:32:18, schrieb John Hasler: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > When _does_ the licence on things like an old dos floppy expire > > In the US, 95 years from date of first publication or 120 years from date > of creation: whichever comes first. But only, if the Software is official support

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-02 16:14:58, schrieb Douglas Tutty: > I've only done it once and that was on my new Asus M2N-SLI that has a > bios utility built right in to allow you to save the bios and update a > new one. No dos required at all, just the bios image on a floppy or USB > stick (or on a MS partition on

Re: Etch status..?

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Steef and *, Am 2006-12-06 20:03:12, schrieb steef: > thanks michelle. your answer makes things much clearer. i understand > your remarks better now. The problem is: HOW can I install Debian ON SUCH MACHINES in the future? The machines are 333 to 450 MHz and I can not say, they a

Re: snmpwalk to remote address gives timeout

2006-12-20 Thread Bart
Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: > Bart wrote: > > Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: > >> Bart wrote: > >>> Fabrice LORRAIN schreef: > >>> > >> ... > > However if I run "snmpwalk -v 1 -c public 192.168.1.36 system" on the > > stable box, with 192.168.1.36 the IP address of the testing box, i get: > > Timeou

Re: xine video playback jumpy

2006-12-20 Thread Kent West
andy wrote: The playback on xine seems to be quite jumpy. Is there anything that I can do (e.g. an option, for example) that will change this and make the play-back smoother? One thing to try is to make sure DMA is turned on for your drives (particularly DVD drive, if you're playing a DVD whe

more farting around with jigdo and Etch RC1...

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists/jigdo people, As you can see one file was missing in the DVD image #1 of Etch RC1 i386 used to make CD#5 of the same Etch release... Jigsaw Download "lite" Copyright (C) 2001-2005 | jigdo@ Richard Atterer | atterer.net Loading settings from `/home/mikef/.jigdo-l

Re: GNOME-bluetooth package AWOL in Etch i386?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/19/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:50 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > As far as I can see, this issue has been going on for about a year now > without resolution. So, it won't be a part of Etch? What about bluez? > I see that both Debian and Ubu

Re: moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:36:16PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some > live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine > as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with > no keyboard. Any

Re: ldap server restart

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:24:41AM +0100, Fabrizio Lippolis wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez ha scritto: > > >Have you looked at bug report #304735 [0]? > > No I haven't, I just wonder that after so long the problem hasn't been > solved yet. :( > It might be worthwhile to email the upstream developm

strange processor (slow on AC, normal on battery)

2006-12-20 Thread strawks
Hello all, I have an Asus A6VA laptop (Intel Centrino, 1.8GHz Pentium-M). On Linux 2.6.18-3, when running on battery, the system works fine. But when I plug the AC adapter, the system is very slow, CPU frequency stays often below 40MHz. Running the following commands, CPU frequency goes up to 1.8

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:01:10PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > I also need CVS's ability to deal with line endings, because I move text > files, source code, etc., between Windows/Cygwin and Linux for > development, testing, and use. Can SVN deal with the various line > endings automatica

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:01:05PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > It's really not a matter of a repository version number being applied > to all files in the repository. Rather, think of the repository > version number in terms of a snapshot of the repository at a > particular moment in time

weird mousing on several Debian systems

2006-12-20 Thread hendrik
Weird mousing on two Debian systems (1) Last night, when I started firefox on my AMD-64 etch machine, it complained firefox was already running. Fair enough -- I have one shared home directory used on several machines, and it probably *was* already running somewhere else. Firefox seems to do

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

2006-12-20 Thread richard
> Andy Hawkins wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, I've been getting regular instances of the bin files in >> /var/cache/apt getting corrupted (any apt related command seg-faults >> unless >> I delete these files and do another 'update). > > It happened to me a couple of weeks ago, when I erroneously

moving /var

2006-12-20 Thread richard
I recently tried to move /var to a new partition. Booted from some live cd, moved it and edited /etc/fstab to suit. Broke the machine as it wouldn't boot afterwards (in fact I recollect it booted but with no keyboard. Anyway it was unusable.) I thought it might be an initrd problem, and had a ha

Re: smooth upgrades

2006-12-20 Thread richard
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:51:57PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] > warning! train platform analogy! warning! > > okay, here's how I view the releases. Debian is like a set of > trains. There are a limited number of platforms for getting on the > trains. Each platform has a name and the

xine video playback jumpy

2006-12-20 Thread andy
Greetings The playback on xine seems to be quite jumpy. Is there anything that I can do (e.g. an option, for example) that will change this and make the play-back smoother? TiA /A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Compiling ffmpeg with mp3lame support on debain with 2.6.19

2006-12-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 08:25 -0500, Luke MacNeil wrote: > I've been trying for the last week or so to get a ffmpeg to compile. > >From what I've read the debian package comes without support for mp3, so Isn't the ffmpeg packages from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ compiled with lame? -- Cheers

Re: Fwd: X aborting

2006-12-20 Thread Kent West
Niels Rasmussen wrote: > I've installed Etch and xorg seems to be the new standard X in Etch. >> > As John C suggested the "radeon" trick worked :-) >> > >> > Now I can use X as root, but not as user ! >> > >> > I get this error: >> > >> > "X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. >> >

Compiling ffmpeg with mp3lame support on debain with 2.6.19

2006-12-20 Thread Luke MacNeil
Hello Everyone, I've been trying for the last week or so to get a ffmpeg to compile. >From what I've read the debian package comes without support for mp3, so I've got to compile it myself. I've tried a few things, including recompiling the kernel with both the new and old versions of v4l. I don't

Re: Add hardware to an existing system

2006-12-20 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/16/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: kevin bailey wrote: > Something I've never known how to do?!?! > > Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and > I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner. > > Now I take it that during inst

Re: restarting eth0

2006-12-20 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Jhair Tocancipa Triana writes: > Like > /etc/networking restart Typo. I meant /etc/init.d/networking restart (my apologies for replying myself). -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: restarting eth0

2006-12-20 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
richard writes: > I use 'ifdown eth0' > followed by 'ifup eth0' > I expect there is another way. Like /etc/networking restart It will only work if the eth0 interface is marked as auto in /etc/network/interfaces. And it will bring _all_ interfaces marked as auto down and up. It is shorter tha

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2006-12-20 Thread richard
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:51:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > If there's anyone who > (a) want sound, and > (b) doesn't often have difficulties with sound, > I'd like to know about it. [...] For desktop/tower boxes, I ususally find it just works. At worst, I might have to unmute t

Re: restarting eth0

2006-12-20 Thread richard
> Hello all > > Should be just a quickie: how does one restart the ethernet card eth0 in > Etch? I use 'ifdown eth0' followed by 'ifup eth0' I expect there is another way. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: restarting eth0 (Resolved)

2006-12-20 Thread andy
Stephen Ing wrote: I don't think it has changed. ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 Cheers, Stephen -Original Message- From: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 20, 2006 3:07 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: restarting eth0 Hello all Should be just a quickie: how does one restart t

Re: restarting eth0

2006-12-20 Thread Stephen Ing
I don't think it has changed. ifdown eth0 ifup eth0 Cheers, Stephen -Original Message- >From: andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 20, 2006 3:07 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: restarting eth0 > >Hello all > >Should be just a quickie: how does one restart the ethernet card

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