dialup connectivity problem

2007-01-23 Thread Zach
Hi, I am having a problem in Debian (testing) and wonder if you could help me. In Windoze I can stat a download program and left unattended it will run for 5 hours before the ISP automatically disconnects, however in Linux when I am running 'apt-get upgrade' sometimes it will run for 5 hours also

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before > deleting them.

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 1/18/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. - --- HEADER BLANK_LINE TOP_POST BLANK_LINE MESSAGE S

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Jacques Normand wrote: > you stay offline for a long time. I also do not know what happen at > startup to correct for the skew of the rtc during the shutdown. If it is > taken care of by ntpd at start, then you have one less reason to leave > it on... ntp can do two things. It

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Francis Healy
I'm dodging the bile being spewed at top posters. Bottom line, top posting is not evil. Scrool down if you want to read the original message. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C wrote: >> I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty >> than those attend

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Bruno Voigt wrote: Jacques Normand wrote: I'm running debian/unstable on my laptop and often the LAN/WLAN is not connected (yet) when the system is starting up - including NTPD. NTPD then seems to discard all unreachable server entries and ends up with no peer

Re: Slow scrolling in Icewaesel

2007-01-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 01:20 +0100, Jarek wrote: > Dnia 24-01-2007, śro o godzinie 01:06 +0100, Jarek napisał(a): > > Hi all! > > > > I've noticed that some web pages on my PC are scrolling very slowly > > eating up 100% of CPU. > > The example is here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/e

Re: Slow scrolling in Icewaesel

2007-01-23 Thread Jarek
Dnia 24-01-2007, śro o godzinie 01:06 +0100, Jarek napisał(a): > Hi all! > > I've noticed that some web pages on my PC are scrolling very slowly > eating up 100% of CPU. > The example is here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html > > Is this a problem with Iceweasel (m

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
John C wrote: >> I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty >> than those attending too small degree of it. >> - Thomas Jefferson > > If you really believe this quote, why do you insist that bottom > posting is the only correct way to go? Because the top-posters ar

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? Restore it from your backup media. Failing that, it's gone (think twice, delete once). Better get yourself a nice firewire external hard drive of incredible size and start using faubackup before it happens again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

wine core dump

2007-01-23 Thread Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
Hi, I use wine in a debian/sid machine but in the last 2-3 weeks (after some apt-get updade/upgrade) it just does not run any application it used to run without problems. Following is its core dump: wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x7d481a6c at address 0xb7dc1141 (thread 0009), star

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-23 Thread Jacques Normand
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:53:55PM +0100, Bruno Voigt wrote: > >How about calling the init.d script from /etc/network/interfaces? > > > >I mean, there is little need for having the deamon running while > >offline and providing that your clock does not drift too much, that > >should do it. > > > T

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:48:43PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Mike, please don't cc: me as I subscribe to the list. thanks. > > > I apologize, I'm using gmail and it did that automatically for some > reason. > > On Tue, Jan 23,

Re: Off Topic: Slashcode alternatives

2007-01-23 Thread IntnsRed
You'll find a vast number of Slashcode work-alikes. The basic idea behind /. has been cloned many times. Debian stable includes "squishdot", a Zope-based CMS that works similarly to /. But I'd recommend taking a trip over to http://www.opensourcecms.com/ and/or http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ and

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:11 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > The other issue is that I have two soundcards. That in itself isn't a > > problem, but the it is a problem with the way debian apparently handles > > them, which seems to be the most random thing I've ever seen. When it boots > >

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:46:00PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > Building your own Debian packages is actually quite easy. See: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336 > That is part 1, which only discusses setting up the build environment. Part 2 has the rest: http://www.debian-a

Sound jerking with via 82xx soundcard

2007-01-23 Thread Atis
Hello, I just installed clean etch, and first thing to notice is that any sound is jerking. After noticing in kde, i tried amarok (with alsa and oss), moc, mpg123, everything is the same. At the same time, volume control work immediately, without any delay. System: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 256M

Re: RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > mv $@ ~/.Trash > Hmm. There are some problems here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which rm /home/roberto/bin/rm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ rm test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls .Trash/ test [EMAIL

Re: RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like this hanging around t

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Mike Myers
On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike, please don't cc: me as I subscribe to the list. thanks. I apologize, I'm using gmail and it did that automatically for some reason. On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-W

RE: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Ross
> One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. > The package > available for Arch Linux was a little outdated but it took me > no time at all > to create a package via ABS with the lastest Hercules > version. The process > basically amounts to: > > $ abs <-- populate

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Mike, please don't cc: me as I subscribe to the list. thanks. On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:27:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I'm still trying to adj

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:58:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/23/07 13:38, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > If you program in C++ at all, these three books are a must have. Even > > if you don't program in C++, if you

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:30:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > It is said there are users that didn't reinstall for more than 10 years. > > I'm one of them, though I have upgraded all my hardware. I'm not at ten years yet, but I have a server that started out as Woody s

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Oleg Verych
Followup-To: On 2007-01-23, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:53:22 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:38:30PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: >> > >> > I have set up clock in my Ericsson mobile phone more than 3 years >> > ago. If dri

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Mike Myers
On 1/23/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it > manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been > great, but i'm hav

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:25:21AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'unde

Re: random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it > manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been > great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm > having. B

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:25:21AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > > > 'undelete' files. How ab

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Hugo, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:09:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. That's the first I heard of it: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/hercules What operating system facilities do you use wi

Re: help me reset cylinder information

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:03:58PM -0700, Basil Beltran wrote: > greetings > > In my recent noob past, due to a flubbed windows-linux install, I messed > with the cylinders of my new and trashed disk with some linux command I now > forget. (on the advise of another forum I probably should not ha

random quirkyness

2007-01-23 Thread Mike Myers
Hi all, I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm having. Both of them seem related to modules. First one is with the nvidia driv

Re: SAMBA deletes folders in my home folder

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:26:38PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Well, I explain in more detail now. I have a Debian file and print > server which runs SAMBA. I use SAMBA to share printers between my WinXP > machines and it works fine. As you know, when you careate an account in > SAMBA for each

Re: SAMBA deletes folders in my home folder

2007-01-23 Thread Danesh Daroui
Well, I explain in more detail now. I have a Debian file and print server which runs SAMBA. I use SAMBA to share printers between my WinXP machines and it works fine. As you know, when you careate an account in SAMBA for each WinXP user, when SAMBA server appears in the Wokgroup computers in Wi

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:32:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > > switches to

help me reset cylinder information

2007-01-23 Thread Basil Beltran
greetings In my recent noob past, due to a flubbed windows-linux install, I messed with the cylinders of my new and trashed disk with some linux command I now forget. (on the advise of another forum I probably should not have been reading) Anyhow, today...qparted correctly sees a 6L300R0 (300G

Re: Manpages??

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 13:28, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I am running a debian derivative system. > > # apt-get install manpages > > tells that latest manpges are already installed, but > > $ man fork (or man 2 fork) > > says that there is no manual entr for f

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Mike Polyakov
std::set does _not_ waste memory. Paul, Yes, but I didn't say it wasted memory. I said it would use extra memory, since the original problem was posed as finding unique values in an array, I assume you are given an array of values up front with which to work with. In this case, inserting all th

Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
WireSpot wrote: > Can anyone recommend a piece of software that will watch a file or a > directory and tell me what processes mess with the files in there? In > particular, I'd like it to react when a file is removed. Tripwire can tell you that it's changed, but not who has changed it. There's a

Re: Manpages??

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:28:34PM -0500, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I am running a debian derivative system. > > # apt-get install manpages > > tells that latest manpges are already installed, but > > $ man fork (or man 2 fork) > > says that there is no manual entr for fork > > So how do I get

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 13:38, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] > If you program in C++ at all, these three books are a must have. Even > if you don't program in C++, if you program at all Code Comp

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-23 Thread Bruno Voigt
Jacques Normand wrote: I'm running debian/unstable on my laptop and often the LAN/WLAN is not connected (yet) when the system is starting up - including NTPD. NTPD then seems to discard all unreachable server entries and ends up with no peers left. In some googled doc I found the ntp.conf opti

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Popescu writes: > It is said there are users that didn't reinstall for more than 10 years. I'm one of them, though I have upgraded all my hardware. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manpages??

2007-01-23 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:28:34PM -0500, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > So how do I get and install the mapges? manpages-posix-dev I had to hunt a little to figure this out: 1) dpkg --get-selections |grep man to figure out that the package called 'manpages' probably contains the already-installed

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:22:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Nicolai M. Josuttis, The C++ Standard Library, covers all this and much > more. It is expensive, but perhaps you can find a copy at a nearby > university library. > This is an awesome book. A couple of years ago, I broke down,

Manpages??

2007-01-23 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am running a debian derivative system. # apt-get install manpages tells that latest manpges are already installed, but $ man fork (or man 2 fork) says that there is no manual entr for fork So how do I get and install the mapges? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:06:02PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > That does not work to well in an automated script, but thanks > what doesn't? oh, top-posting. please don't do that. > > > Tony Heal wrote: > > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files.

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:16:46PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: Can one switch from one version to another, from Etch to Sid for example, by simply updating sources.list and running an update/upgrade? I do like the "rolling update" feature some distribution, suc

Re: webserver with power management

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:49:17PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I have a webserver, using apache2. I've got gnome-power-manager running too. > I'm wondering if suspend via gnome-power-manager affects a website being > served. Or, does hibernate via gnome-power-manager affects a website being

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could probably write a perl or python script (call it "safe_rm") that traps the input parameters and does a fancy mv, echoing the fully qualified file name into either ~/.trash (if run by an unprivileged user, or /trash if by root. Sadly, this wil

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? > Yes. From a recent backup. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:16:46PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > > > You sound like you are experienced enough that you might think about > > running "sid", "unstable" debian. Its does break now and then, but really > > keeps up very well. > > That sounds like it might be a good option. Andre

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:44 -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to > 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same > switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before > deleting them. > > Any

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
this is really a reply to Mike: On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:01:34AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:36:18PM -0500, Mike Polyakov wrote: > > Michael, > > > > >Why not just use a std::set here? Repeated inserts of the same > > >value will be ignored. > > > > True, but

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread John Hasler
Kevin writes: > Can one switch from one version to another, from Etch to Sid for example, > by simply updating sources.list and running an update/upgrade? To upgrade to the next version of Debian one edits /etc/apt/sources.list, runs 'apt-get update', and uses 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (or the equiva

Re: base-config equivalent to Etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/23/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sarge has a command base-config which -- besides running as part of the installation process -- is also available to change or correct such things as the time zone, passwords, etc. This command does not seem to exist as such in Etch. Is there an

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Anson Gardner
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:22, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, > > I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I > thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge > in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit. > S

Unidentified subject!

2007-01-23 Thread ellese_rothwell
Hya asl

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
That does not work to well in an automated script, but thanks Tony _ From: andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:00 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: undelete Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not re

webserver with power management

2007-01-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
I have a webserver, using apache2. I've got gnome-power-manager running too. I'm wondering if suspend via gnome-power-manager affects a website being served. Or, does hibernate via gnome-power-manager affects a website being served? I'm using Etch. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread andy
Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like this hanging around t

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:16:46 -0600 Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The thing to remember about Debian -- when a release goes "Stable" > > then it doesn't change, except for security fixes. So if you > > install etch, you will NEVER see a new version of Hercules other > > than securit

RE: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. Anyone have something like this hanging around their system somewhe

Re: base-config equivalent to Etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:44:03 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sarge has a command base-config which -- besides running as part of > the installation process -- is also available to change or correct > such things as the time zone, passwords, etc. This command does not > seem to exist

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:53:22 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:38:30PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > > I have set up clock in my Ericsson mobile phone more than 3 years > > ago. If drift exists, it is less that one second, after all. > > I was

Re: Cdrecord with a 2.4 kernel

2007-01-23 Thread Sonixxfx
I thought this problem only occured with a 2.4 kernel, but it is also happening with a 2.6 kernel. Thanks Ben 2007/1/23, Sonixxfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I am trying to burn multisession cd's with cdrecord but I have a problem. After I have written a multisession disc, and mount it, the b

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:12:45PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ken Heard wrote: > > > >Linux kernel updates CMOS (hardware clock) time every 11 minutes. > > > > Only when in ntp sync mode, AFAIK. Maybe the new RTC cl

Off Topic: Slashcode alternatives

2007-01-23 Thread KS
Hi all, I was looking into the possibility of setting up a website using slashcode [slashcode.com]. On reading the INSTALL file that comes with slashcode, I figured out that the requirement of mod_perl, TZ=GMT (MySQL), and other perl packages makes it difficult to have it installed without root ac

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Andrew, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:53:59AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > nudge > debian. > > there you go. ;-) Thanks, I needed that. > You sound like you are experienced enough that you might think about > running "sid", "unstable" debian. Its does break now and then, but really >

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:22:55AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, > > > The package is built and a package file is created that can be installed via > the standard package manger. If something is already 'debianize' (De

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:38:30PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > > I have set up clock in my Ericsson mobile phone more than 3 years ago. If > drift exists, it is less that one second, after all. I was under the impression that mobile phone's sync their clocks over the cellular network, but I may b

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:12:45PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ken Heard wrote: > > >Linux kernel updates CMOS (hardware clock) time every 11 minutes. > > Only when in ntp sync mode, AFAIK. Maybe the new RTC class lets one change > this easily, but then the "C

Re: [OT] Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:55:32AM -0500, celejar wrote: > On 1/22/07, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:25:23AM -0600, John C wrote: > >> >I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much > >Liberty > >> >than those attending too small degree

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Hugo, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:09:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. > > > > That's the first I heard of it: > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/hercules > > What operating system facilities do you use wit

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:49:30PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Have you put a password on your bootloader (GRUB, etc) to restrict changing > > the boot parameters? > The same applies to the bios. Otherwise someone could just switch off > the machine, enter a knop

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 10:37, Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a way to recover deleted files? Maybe, if you are using FAT (highly unlikely) or ext2 (also highly unlikely) and you pulled the plug as soon as you noticed what you did. Sadly, the standard answer, thoug

NFS map_static Not Supported?

2007-01-23 Thread Matt Miller
I'm using NFS to share files between etch machines, and I want to map specific client users to specific server users. I'm reading some stuff that says that the "map_static" option of /etc/exports is what I want, but the man page for this file does not mention this option. In fact, this option is

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony Heal wrote: Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony Yes, but as they said, not if you are still using the same computer. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Ken Heard wrote: > >Linux kernel updates CMOS (hardware clock) time every 11 minutes. Only when in ntp sync mode, AFAIK. Maybe the new RTC class lets one change this easily, but then the "CMOS RTC" port to the new RTC class ain't in Linux mainline yet. > >In-kernel clock, th

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kevin Monceaux wrote: Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit. I've been a Linux user for years. I star

Re: Market News Release: USSG Appoints... d17 ts

2007-01-23 Thread Annmarie
pernickety entrancement dye Press Release: USSG medullas USA Signal Technology USSG Appoints Strategic & Learning Services Its Manufacturers Representative for New Mexico. uncoupling DALLAS, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 22, 2007 -- USA Signal Technology, Inc. USSG, a Dallas, Texas-b

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
Is there a way to recover deleted files? Yes. 1) Shut down the computer. 2) Ask a more specific question. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:22:55AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, > > I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I > thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge > in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/1/23, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony Forensic Analysis. There are some tools that could help to recover deleted files, like the coroners toolkit or sleuthkit/autopsy. http://www.honeynet.org is a good place to learn something about it. http:/

undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Heal
Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony

Re: SAMBA deletes folders in my home folder

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:17:45AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > I have installed SAMBA and it works fine. Each user with WinXP has its > own home folder and all printers all shared between all WinXP users. The > problem is when I create a folder in my shared folder and then restart > the ser

Re: ntp and hwclock

2007-01-23 Thread Ken Heard
Oleg Verych wrote: Linux kernel updates CMOS (hardware clock) time every 11 minutes. In-kernel clock, that uses various CPU/Chipset hardware and is stable enough. Its precision is as good as CPU frequency high (mostly). Any big drift may be caused by bugs in the kernel, low precision of CMOS whi

Re: Slow web browsing?

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > ... > > I'm running stable with some stuff off backports.org, like Firefox and > Thunderbird. > > I can't pin down exactly what caused the problem, I've installed karm > and flashplayer-nonfree lately too, I've removed flashplayer an

Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit. I've been a Linux user for years. I started with Slackware in the

python readlines() is slow when run in an apache2 cgi running in a vserver

2007-01-23 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, I'm just clueless with one particular behavior of the readlines function. I've written a sample program that illustrates this "prehaps bug" I'm encountering. The box I used for this is an AMD Sempron 2800+ with 256 Mb of RAM : - When run on this standard etch box as a cgi script in apache2,

Re: Revive dark photos -- Conclusion

2007-01-23 Thread ][
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:44:39 +, ][ wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra's suggestion, > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/270822 > is the most comprehensive. I found it has covered all the cases > for my dark photos. thanks Sjoerd. One of my case is in door shooting, with very big and bri

Re: firefox keeps dying with libpangocairo error

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:49:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/23/07 08:57, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > >> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:

Re: firefox keeps dying with libpangocairo error

2007-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 08:57, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: >> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:03, tom arnall wrote: >>> after a recent etch dist-upgrade, firefox keeps dying with: >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ f

Re: Debian Installation Problem

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:33:53PM +0200, Nikolai Todorov wrote: > Hello, > recently I had a big problem with the net isntallation of Debian 31r4 > sarge. I just cannot connect to internet... During the installation i > wrote my IP( it is static IP), my gateway, my subnet mas and dns. The > istalla

Re: kdm changing fonts?

2007-01-23 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, On 1/22/07, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 22, 2007, at 5:05 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: > I don't > quite understand the "dpi" option there... What does it refer to? > (dpi="dots per inch", right? dpi = dots per inch. Think of it as the inverse or "inches per dot". If a sc

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/22/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/07 08:12, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:30:29AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 21,

Re: firefox keeps dying with libpangocairo error

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:17:40AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 15:03, tom arnall wrote: > > after a recent etch dist-upgrade, firefox keeps dying with: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ firefox > > /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin: symbol lookup error:\ > > /usr/lib/lib

Re: Help! Can't login or su, but SSH is ok... [solved]

2007-01-23 Thread Marc Branchaud
The winbind entries were still in /etc/nsswitch.conf, but removing them didn't help. What did help was removing use_first_pass from /etc/pam.d/common-auth. Doh! Serves me right for trying to fix problems at the end of the day... Thanks for your pointer though, Kevin! I did have to clean up

Cdrecord with a 2.4 kernel

2007-01-23 Thread Sonixxfx
Hi, I am trying to burn multisession cd's with cdrecord but I have a problem. After I have written a multisession disc, and mount it, the burned files are not shown at /media/cdrom. The files are written to the disc though, because I can access/see them when I have rebooted my system and mount th

Re: lrc files: ASCII text?

2007-01-23 Thread Victor Munoz
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:41:44PM -0300, Victor Munoz wrote: > > Now the Debian part:-) > > The command 'file' on the sample lrc says: 'ASCII English text, with > CRLF line terminators'. The file from the web says: 'ASCII English > text'. The file I have is 'ASCII text, with CRLF line terminator

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