Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 00:37:37 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: >On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 04:01 +, s. keeling wrote: >> Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > >> > Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that >> > are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-30 Thread andy
Dave Witbrodt wrote: Hi all, I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash drives over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had been using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in February, but when I bought a new video card recently I found

How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?

2007-01-30 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi, I am using Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad and would like to use the laptop monitor in parallel with an external one. But whatever I try - if an external monitor is connected, the laptop monitor remains black... If there is anybody who could have a look on my attempts to make this work

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-30 Thread Brian Hostetler
Greg Folkert wrote: > I am running SA using SA-Exim at SMTP time. This then rejects the mail > before it is accepted, if it doesn't do RFC822 properly. > > Yeah, I know this is against the RFC, but it has reduced the processing > on my machine by magnitudes. If they really want to send it to me,

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-01-30 Thread Rob Sims
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:44:19PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Oleg Verych wrote: > >30-01-2007, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> пишет: > > > >>30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: > >> > >>>On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: > >>> > Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end da

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:46:27PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: > > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > > feedback. > > > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning > > to wonder whether I forgot

Re: Debian install on a GA-965P-DQ6

2007-01-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:36:09PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install debian on a GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with a > linksys usb wifi adapter. When the install comes to the point of > detecting and mounting the CD-Rom it fails and tells me that it > couldnt find the CD-Rom. I t

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:05:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > feedback. > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning > to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the > wrong mainta

Re: Boot logs ?

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Frank McCormick wrote: Does Debian (Sarge testing) save COMPLETE boot logs anywhere? Dmsg | less only gives me a "cleaned up" boot log - but when my system boots I can see there are some hotplug problems that aren't in the log. Ahhh the recurrent question. A lot of what Sarge generates d

Buffer I/O error on device hdc

2007-01-30 Thread victor nawothnig
Hello. I'm on Debian Etch and when I try to copy files from a DVD (which is not scratched) I get many errors like that in my syslog: ATAPI device hdc: Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03) Unrecovered read error -- (asc=0x11, ascq=0x00) The failed "Read 10" packet command was: "28 00 00 04

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > feedback. > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning > to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the > wrong maintainer group ..

Debian install on a GA-965P-DQ6

2007-01-30 Thread latnem
I'm trying to install debian on a GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard with a linksys usb wifi adapter. When the install comes to the point of detecting and mounting the CD-Rom it fails and tells me that it couldnt find the CD-Rom. I think its doing this because the ide drives are controlled by the SCSI2 b

Boot logs ?

2007-01-30 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all Does Debian (Sarge testing) save COMPLETE boot logs anywhere? Dmsg | less only gives me a "cleaned up" boot log - but when my system boots I can see there are some hotplug problems that aren't in the log. BTW I am running Sarge on a partitio

Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller driver for linux-2.6.9

2007-01-30 Thread KokHow.Teh
Hi; Due to my clearcase linux thin client version which comes with mvfs module that is built against linux-2.6.9 kernel headers, I have to use this version of linux kernel on my workstation which uses Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller for harddisks. Linux-2.6.9 does not have the driver fo

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 03:05, cga2000 wrote: > Bug #352758 Your bug is sill here: http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-boot%40lists.debian.org -- Linux is like a tipi: no Windows, no Gate and an Apache inside -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: OT: sponge burning! [was Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!]

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Don't those all come with some kind of anti-bacterial crap in them? > that may effect the outcome. No, but they are primarily made out of polymers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 07:01:30PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> > I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects >> > browsing habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. >> >> This is a battle you, and any

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But what does it do to square sponges from Bikini Bottom? > > > > (No, I'm not going to sign my name to that one!) > > Too late, From: header gave you away. Gee, Sponge Bob has gotten really cleaver lately. I had no id

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Then, for your kids' peace of mind, maybe we should not mention the > > idea of putting certain square sponges into the microwave! > > It's amazing the crap that passes for animation these days... Yes. It's certainly n

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Marc Shapiro wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects >> browsing habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. >> > Agreed. But there are many websites with that bug. True, though if you've got the time and willing to put

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > But what does it do to square sponges from Bikini Bottom? > > (No, I'm not going to sign my name to that one!) Too late, From: header gave you away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin running as 'nobody' causes problems

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: > I am running SA using SA-Exim at SMTP time. This then rejects the mail > before it is accepted, if it doesn't do RFC822 properly. > > Yeah, I know this is against the RFC, but it has reduced the processing > on my machine by magnitudes. If they really want to send it to me,

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > I think that has more to do with Opera marginalizing themselves by expecting > people to put up with *more* ads or pay for a web browser. That has little to do with what the websites do with the user agent string than anything else. > Sounds like the actual problem is th

Re: Best way to shrink Windows on new laptop?

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian > (naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I > just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very* > rarely, that I needed it. > > I'd therefore like to keep

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Hal Vaughan wrote: > Then, for your kids' peace of mind, maybe we should not mention the idea > of putting certain square sponges into the microwave! It's amazing the crap that passes for animation these days... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects >> browsing habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. > > This is a battle you, and anyone else who thinks like you, is going to > lose. Opera has had user agent mung

Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 07:48 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/29/07 22:01, s. keeling wrote: >> > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that >> >> are

automounting usb flash drive

2007-01-30 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I am running etch with kde. Whenever I inserted my sandisk usb flash, it used to get mounted in /media/disk. Though permissions are shown as drwxr-xr-x, I couldn't write to it. Hence I thought to use debian-administration article, I made symlink to /dev/sda1 to /dev/flash with following line in 01

Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread cga2000
I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any feedback. I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the wrong maintainer group .. etc. Could someone more knowledgeable than myself take

Is your KERNEL pattern right?

2007-01-30 Thread Mark Williamson
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{product}=="Palm Handheld*", KERNEL=="ttyUSB[013579]", Shouldn't you be matching [13579]? Matching the 0 as well will match the first serial pipe to the handheld, not the second. On my Palm zire I can only hotsync to the second... I used the rules: BUS=="usb", SYSFS{produc

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-01-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Oleg Verych wrote: 30-01-2007, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> пишет: 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight savings time in the US? Which branch are you running?

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-30 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 1/30/07, Dave Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, (...) Since Etch is nearly ready to be released, I decided that my best bet was to keep the new kernel and replace everything else! ;-) I chose to dist-upgrade to Etch. I've been using Etch now since Sunday night, and everythin

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread David Shultz
One thing i just want to know. I think i didn't make that clear in my earlier post. Sorry about that. The website: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/3648 states that the openbsd-inetd package hangs only when a static ip is used using netcfg/disable_dhcp=true at installation(netinstaller) cd's boot

Re: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hi there, > > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM >

Re: Where to get php *4.4* for sarge?

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Erik Persson wrote: > I need php 4.4 for sarge but i can't find it. > Does anyone know where to get it? > > It doesn't *seem* to be at backports! > > php 5 will not do, neither will php 4.3!! > You can always backport it yourself: http://people.connexer

Re: resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:21:59PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi > > Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, > with the following specs: > > - kernel 2.6.18-smp package > - lvm 2.02.06-3 > - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) > > I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLIN

[: ot ;] (was Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
30-01-2007, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> пишет: > 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: >> >> On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: >>> Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight >>> savings time in the US? >> >> Which branch are you running? > > I'm sure, but that seem to

Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-30 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Hi all, I ran into problems with Gnome automounting CDs and USB flash drives over the weekend. I have been sticking with Sarge, and I had been using a backports kernel (2.6.15) that I custom compiled back in February, but when I bought a new video card recently I found that I had to compil

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:36:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects browsing > habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. > Good look convincing even 1% of website developers that employ such brain-dead tactics that t

Re: Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:05:10AM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > If it's really looking for "Firefox" then the only thing I can imagine > is an anti-IE website done so on purpose. > You would be surprised. A large number of websites check user-agent strings so that only "supported" browsers

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 17:39 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > How does one use dmix, or is that used when the sound server is > > disabled? > > First of all, dmix, sound servers (esd and so on) are all used if your > card can't do hardware mixing. If it can do hardware mixing, you don't > need to

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:29:07PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I believe K-C already lost the ability to enforce Kleenex as a trademark > after uptake made their brand the generic word for "disposable tissue > primarily intended for your nose." Hormel is fighting an uphill battle and > using v

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-30 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:05:58AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: >My understanding is that IceApe (pardon the studly caps) is an > unbranded version of SeaMonkey. Thus we get: > > Firefox -> Iceweasel > Thunderbird -> Icedove > Mozilla suite -> Iceape

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: Thanks for your answer bob. Now there's only two problems remaining. First, my internet connection still isn't working, but I see I'll have to go investigate on this one but 2nd you might be able to help me with. my usb hdd, /dev/sda on the standard and sdb on my se

Re: module-assistant/ndiswrapper/kernel-headers

2007-01-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:23:30PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, hey. don't you wish this snow would quit hanging around? I just rebuilt my laptop and am having problems getting ndiswrapper installed. Module-assistant gives me an error sayin

Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:25:37PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > The last time I tried KVM (probably release 5) Windows was very sluggish > under > it. One very noticeable problem was that the clock ran way too fast (minutes > going by in seconds). Wasn't KVM just merged like a few weeks ago

Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 18:06, Matt Price wrote: > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM > is to let her use soft

Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up > a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM > is to let her u

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Roman Stöckl-Schmidt
Thanks for your answer bob. Now there's only two problems remaining. First, my internet connection still isn't working, but I see I'll have to go investigate on this one but 2nd you might be able to help me with. my usb hdd, /dev/sda on the standard and sdb on my self-built kernel is fat32 or

running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up a windows VM using the new KVM module and rdesktop. The idea of the VM is to let her use software she feels she 'really needs' -- right now, th

policy for motd and motd.tail

2007-01-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I've found out _how_ the /etc/motd and /etc/motd.tail work. I'm wondering _why_. I used to put reminders (like do a backup) into /etc/motd with a cron job. This way I would get the reminder until I removed it. Now, however, to put a reminder and have it appear immediatly, _and_ have it survive

Re: module-assistant/ndiswrapper/kernel-headers

2007-01-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 12:23 -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > The problem is that there is no kernel-headers package > with the same exact package version as the installed kernel version. > > The installed kernel is reported as 2.6.18-3-486 by uname -a. The only > kernel headers package availab

Where to get php *4.4* for sarge?

2007-01-30 Thread Erik Persson
I need php 4.4 for sarge but i can't find it. Does anyone know where to get it? It doesn't *seem* to be at backports! php 5 will not do, neither will php 4.3!! Thanks! Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: module-assistant/ndiswrapper/kernel-headers

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:23:30PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi All, hey. don't you wish this snow would quit hanging around? > > I just rebuilt my laptop and am having problems getting ndiswrapper > installed. Module-assistant gives me an error saying I do not have the > correct kern

HP SCSI controller compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, can anyone please confirm me whether the following SCSI controller by HP works fine on Debian Sarge? Thanks. http://snipurl.com/18tvg It's also reported as part number 374654-B21. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

2007-01-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:13:48PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello fellow Debian aficionados, > > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format > a large disk. > > I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly: > ># tw_cli /c4/u0 show > > > >Unit UnitType

Re: Recording audio with Debian - hardware/software suggestions

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:26:41PM -0500, KS wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > many mixing boards have two outputs: 1 for the mains and 1 for the > > monitors. The levels can generally be controlled seperately for these > > two channels. If you have that capability, I would recommend y

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:08:30PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote: > David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 21:59: > > hi ;) > > > > > this is just a thought(please forgive my ignorance). > > no problem, you are welcome. > > > is it possible to install debian EtchRC1 without using > > the dhc

Re: resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:21:59PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi > > Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, > with the following specs: > > - kernel 2.6.18-smp package > - lvm 2.02.06-3 > - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) > > I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLIN

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 22:01 +, Oleg Verych wrote: > I'm sure, but that seem to be an e-mail with some kind of virus. I don't think so, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Descript

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 16:01, Oleg Verych wrote: > 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: >> On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: >>> Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight >>> savings time in the US? >> Which branch are you running? >

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Ben Breslauer
Oleg Verych wrote: 30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight savings time in the US? Which branch are you running? I'm sure, but that seem to be an e-mail with some kind of virus. Assuming

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Oleg Verych
30-01-2007, Ron Johnson: > > On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: >> Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight >> savings time in the US? > > Which branch are you running? I'm sure, but that seem to be an e-mail with some kind of virus. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:32:34PM +, John K Masters wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:01:06 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > According to 'apt-cache show squirrelmail' (for sid), the current 2 > > packages (1.4.9a-1 and 1.5.1-4) support php4 or php5. Check the result > > for

Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

2007-01-30 Thread Pim Bliek
I might be *very* wrong, just taking a wild guess here... Isn't this some kernel config param somewhere for big disks (>2 TB)??? Good luck chasing this one. I am curious of the outcome, since I will probably be setting up a fileserver somewhere in the coming months with the same sizes. Pim On 1

Re: apache2 not picking default

2007-01-30 Thread Pim Bliek
> WHY doesn't Apache take the first one? 00default that is. Doesn't it > work alphabetically? > It depends. In the end it appeared to be a config file in the conf.d/ dir in the /etc/apache2 dir.. Something in there was very wrong. It was the phpbb.conf... Didn't need it anymore so simply removed

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:35:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/30/07 12:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 13:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:02:28PM -0500, Hal Vaughan w

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread David Shultz
But as i already said RC2 is on the way with lot of bugfixes, also the "netbase" package were update recently iirc, so better to wait a bit (2 or 3 weeks i guess). Thank you Thilo Six for your help. I guess I've to wait. May Debian live forever.

Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-30 Thread WireSpot
On 1/28/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know you've said this before, but is it the same files? or the same directory? if it is, in that you can narrow down the scope somewhat, maybe a simple chown root:root, chmod 000 on the appropriate part of the file system will get you

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:27:46 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:10:49PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:02:47 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mu

Re: ldap + pam howto?

2007-01-30 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 10:04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam > authentication system for system users. > Would you know a recent howto talking about that? > I dont need generic howto, I am interested in the debian spec

resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-01-30 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi Since a couple of months I am running Etch on a new production server, with the following specs: - kernel 2.6.18-smp package - lvm 2.02.06-3 - RAID5 on a 3Ware card (3w_9xxx) I want to grow my /var filesystem ONLINE. I can find tons of docs on offline resizing, but I am not in the position t

ide-floppy in etch

2007-01-30 Thread Easthope
About a week ago Kevin Ross mentioned, "/lib/modules/2.6.18-3-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko" Thanks Kevin. The machine is now running kernel 2.6.18; the *.ko file you cited is present. If the machine is started with a 100 MB Zip disk in the drive, fdisk -l still fails to report it. What

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread Thilo Six
David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 21:59: hi ;) > this is just a thought(please forgive my ignorance). no problem, you are welcome. > is it possible to install debian EtchRC1 without using > the dhcp assigned ip address? Yes it is, but not with netinstall image. Since i use pppoe

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread David Shultz
While in d-i you can always switch to the "loging console" with ALT+F4. There it should be more verbose about what´s going on. Thanks for helping a newbie like myself. While doing a little research i found the following website. http://www.debianhelp.org/node/3648 So it seems that the package

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 13:58, William Chipman wrote: > Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight > savings time in the US? Which branch are you running? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFv

Re: a few dumb questions about apt sources.list file contents....

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:01:45AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > Here is my apt sources.list file; > > localhost:/etc/apt# more sources.list > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > Binary-1 (20061110)]/ etch contrib main > Try us

Adresverandering / Change of email address

2007-01-30 Thread Johann Spies
If you use the following email address for me: As u die volgende e-posadres vir my gebruik het: [EMAIL PROTECTED] please change it to verander dit asseblief na [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vrede /Peace Johann Spies -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 021-982 2694 / 082 782 0336 / 021-808 4036(w) Posbus

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:01:06 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to 'apt-cache show squirrelmail' (for sid), the current 2 > packages (1.4.9a-1 and 1.5.1-4) support php4 or php5. Check the result > for 'etch' (which is still 'testing'). Here is the related info: > -

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:10:49PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:02:47 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mutt for a while and just > > go myself into more trouble. IIRC, the thing to do is set all your

Re: Recording audio with Debian - hardware/software suggestions

2007-01-30 Thread KS
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > many mixing boards have two outputs: 1 for the mains and 1 for the > monitors. The levels can generally be controlled seperately for these > two channels. If you have that capability, I would recommend you use > the monitor output for recording as you can then cont

Re: kqemu /dev node

2007-01-30 Thread Bob McGowan
David Baron wrote: This is being created, apparently by a /etc/qmeu-ifup (there are several) with major 250, minor 0. kqemu.ko gets placed in misc. Implication is major==10? There is no entry in /proc/devices (and this cannot be simply edited). kqemu has a minor value of 63 in /proc/misc

Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST)

2007-01-30 Thread William Chipman
Has there been a patch to adjust the start / end date changes for daylight savings time in the US? William Chipman, Infrastructure Manager JSA Technologies 877-572-8324x2204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jsatech.com <>

module-assistant/ndiswrapper/kernel-headers

2007-01-30 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I just rebuilt my laptop and am having problems getting ndiswrapper installed. Module-assistant gives me an error saying I do not have the correct kernel-headers package installed and fails to build ndiswrapper. The problem is that there is no kernel-headers package with the same ex

Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

2007-01-30 Thread Michael S. Peek
Ron Johnson wrote: Maybe fdisk can't handle huge disks? Have you tried cfdisk or sfdisk? Or, maybe, 3ware has it's own partitioning tool? cfdisk says: FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size Press any key to exit cfdisk sfdisk says: # sfdisk /de

Re: gcc docs and linking...

2007-01-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:18:07PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just when I thought I just about had a Debian system that > was complete enough to develop on without needing access > to my older distros > > Does anyone know how to fix: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/audio$ man gcc > No

Re: apt-listbugs BTS #244555 ... How does one tell if the BTS is down? [SOLVED?]

2007-01-30 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I just did a Sarge "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" and it > tripped over apt-listbugs. The error is as described in BTS > #244555[*]. So, to verify I'm experiencing the same thing, how do I > confirm the BTS is down, if indeed it is? On about the fourt

Re: self-built kernel causing boot problems

2007-01-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: Hi fellow debianists! I've compiled a kernel from the up-to-date kernel-source-2.6 package with the aim to be able to build realtime linux security module. To do this I followed the instructions from the README.Debian in the realtime-lsm documentation. I got the li

Mysql on Sarge

2007-01-30 Thread Joe Tannenbaum
Hello, I loaded Sarge with php and mysql and got php4 and mysql-4 I updated php to php5 and it seems ok I updated mysql to mysql-5.0, but though apt-get says I have the 5.0 client and not the 4.1, my info page and mysql-admin says the client is 4.1!!?? How can I fix this? Any help appreciated.

Re: Can't post to list with mutt/exim4?!

2007-01-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:02:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went the headers-rewrite route with exim/mutt for a while and just > go myself into more trouble. IIRC, the thing to do is set all your > headers and envelope headers in mutt and then allow > local_sender_retai

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:26:11PM +, John K Masters wrote: > I have just setup a mail server on Etch using Postfix and Courier. > Would like to offer users webmail via Squirrelmail. Do I install PHP4 > or 5? > > Any comments welcome. According to 'apt-cache show squirrelmail' (for sid), the

Re: gcc docs and linking...

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 13:18, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just when I thought I just about had a Debian system that > was complete enough to develop on without needing access > to my older distros > > Does anyone know how to fix: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/a

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 13:26, John K Masters wrote: > I have just setup a mail server on Etch using Postfix and > Courier. Would like to offer users webmail via Squirrelmail. Do I > install PHP4 or 5? > > Any comments welcome. php4 is pretty old. -BEGIN PGP

gcc docs and linking...

2007-01-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
Just when I thought I just about had a Debian system that was complete enough to develop on without needing access to my older distros Does anyone know how to fix: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/work/audio$ man gcc No manual entry for gcc I have tried installing the gcc-4.1-doc package, b

Re: Debian 3.1r4 HD install error.

2007-01-30 Thread redhat penguin
ye, i also asked this question on debian forums and same was told. Im downloading the etch installer now. Thanks!

Re: Partitioning And Formatting A Large Disk (2086.09GB)

2007-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/30/07 13:13, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hello fellow Debian aficionados, > > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format > a large disk. > > I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly: >> # tw_cli /c4/u0 show >>

apt-listbugs BTS #244555 ... How does one tell if the BTS is down?

2007-01-30 Thread s. keeling
I just did a Sarge "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" and it tripped over apt-listbugs. The error is as described in BTS #244555[*]. So, to verify I'm experiencing the same thing, how do I confirm the BTS is down, if indeed it is? I've re-run it three times now with about fifteen minutes betw

PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread John K Masters
I have just setup a mail server on Etch using Postfix and Courier. Would like to offer users webmail via Squirrelmail. Do I install PHP4 or 5? Any comments welcome. -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this messag

Re: PGP Keyservers being glacially slow, lately

2007-01-30 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 01/29/07 22:01, s. keeling wrote: > > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Has anyone noticed that as of about 3 weeks ago, that keyservers that > >> are typically used (MITs and the other usual candidates) are responding > >> terribly, horrifically sl

Re: Debian Etch RC1 installation problem(tcpd package)

2007-01-30 Thread Thilo Six
David Shultz wrote the following on 30.01.2007 18:52: > I was trying to install Debian Etch RC1(x86 version) using > netinstaller. It downloads all the packages successfully > but while installing one of those packages my computer > hangs for indefinite amount of time. It displays the > foll

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