Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Joerg Lange
On 3/28/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Parse this single line file: /proc/loadavg. Thats what I already do in the perl program I wrote, in order to get the latest load (first number is the average per 1 minute)... Is there anything else you want to tell me, something that I missed?

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I believe it would also be useful for you to try a more recent version of ifiles. I use it from cvs. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
"KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:47:37 -0400, "KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > digicam is a good option ;) > > . > > Ok, this time it gave me the login screen :). Going into console(if > > there is any) and restarting with the logging option. > > > > Didn'

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Why don't you send me , attached? If you compress it enough it will probably be just a few KB, and I think my mail can handle even a few MB. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:47:37 -0400, "KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > digicam is a good option ;) > . > Ok, this time it gave me the login screen :). Going into console(if > there is any) and restarting with the logging option. > Didn't last long. The problem came up again. It looks as i

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:52:20PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > To get a response around here, you should start your own thread by > > sending a new email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use a meaningful > > subject and please ask intelligen

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:26:27 -0300, "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't > > booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the > > messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to

Re: Openssh-server installation in etch

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:46:25AM +0800, Tim Yang wrote: > I have done a fresh installation of etch RC2 release, in order > to set up a server for home use one a x86 box which I > constantly try out different distributions. > > I have selected a few

make[2]: *** [bg.gmo] Error 127

2007-03-28 Thread eklektik
Hi, Each time I try to compile a program I receive the following error message: file=`echo bg | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && -o $file bg.po /bin/sh: line 1: -o: command not found make[2]: *** [bg.gmo] Erro

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Johnson
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > To get a response around here, you should start your own thread by > sending a new email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use a meaningful > subject and please ask intelligent questions > (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html). An

Openssh-server installation in etch

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Yang
I have done a fresh installation of etch RC2 release, in order to set up a server for home use one a x86 box which I constantly try out different distributions. I have selected a few tasks in addition to default selection such as file server, etc. during the installation. The / partition is a fre

Re: elive

2007-03-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:17:07PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hi. Has anyone seen and checked out elive. Someone told me about it > today, and it looks pretty good. It's a distro for low end computers > using enlightenment, that is completely compatible with Debian. > > Their wiki doesn't

elive

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi. Has anyone seen and checked out elive. Someone told me about it today, and it looks pretty good. It's a distro for low end computers using enlightenment, that is completely compatible with Debian. Their wiki doesn't seem to work, however. I tried to register, so that I could help out and

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:18 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable >

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:39 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > ...> > > The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit > > one. > > Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the > same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change a

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-28 Thread gustavo halperin
Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4:

Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:19:03 +0530 (IST) Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I had a debian etch running on my system for the past few months. > Today the system was working fine, i was out for a while for tea, > when i came back, it

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-28 10:54:41 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > can you use auto_view for this? Not possible: the diffs are in the body of the message (text/plain). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog:

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to start system/mountfs daemon (or service ?). Hum... It would probably be more productive if you

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:03:00 + (UTC) Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:21:12 -0400, Celejar wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> Actually, the war itself is a "war of

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:36:26 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:16:53 + (UTC) Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:06:34 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> > Am 2007-03-19 02:04:42, schrieb Arnt Karls

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as > everybody thinking something does not make it true. Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where a large enough group can make any foul syntax and grammar correct. Remember, Lexicographers not

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-28 Thread macondo
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Default User wrote: How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? As root, try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 hth raju Do as raju says and choose the 'sis' driver in the video section. --

Re: ..OT : Number of OT Posts

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:06:21 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-18 23:05:57, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: >> ..according to my s/n stats here, the women will be rather pleased with >> my prick size. ;o) > > .. :o) > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day .. ;o) > Michel

upgrading remote servers

2007-03-28 Thread Tony Heal
I have 300+ remote servers running sarge / 2.4 kernel and I would like to upgrade these servers to etch / 2.6 kernel. All servers have relatively the same hardware, older systems have 40 or 250gb IDE hard drives and older 3ware RAID card, newer systems have 250GB SATA hard drives and a more r

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-28 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:50:07AM EST, Dave Workshop wrote: > On Wed, 2007-28-03 at 06:45 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: [..] > > Run the following commands: > > > > fc-cache -fv > > fc-list > > > > The output of the first command should include the > > directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

Re: gdm and intel G965

2007-03-28 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
Thanks very everyone for the help. But, as I said, I am a bit tired of installation. got many problems with sata controler and later with the network driver. I'll use vesa driver until kernel 2.6.19 comes to etch. For now, I'll focus now on making the sound works. arrr... On 3/28/07, Anson Gardne

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-28 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:05:58PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: [..] > > So the first thing he needs is a friendly ISP. I don't think > > cablevision would let me run a server. > > Would they even know if he's running imap-ssl? Especially if it's > on a non-standard port? With millions of subscrib

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread KS
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on >> http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the >> machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. >> After I was done with making a bootchart

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:59:58 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/28/07 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 25 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > [snip] >> Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a >> w

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
Teilhard Knight wrote: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:39:49PM EST, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea > where to start. > > Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few > things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my > Ether

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others. > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with > module-assistant. How

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:50:07 -0500 Dave Workshop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Liam for the tips. The command (run as root) > > fc-cache -fv > > produced this output; [...] > fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts": caching, 60 > fonts, 0 dirs [...] > > fc-cache: succ

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Teilhard Knight wrote: > >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. >> Only >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go >> with >> it, and that port doesn'

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:21:12 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > >> Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a >> war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes: >> >> Torturin

Re: How to compile

2007-03-28 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Tue ... you wrote I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. ... later you wrote in answer to this > I'm running etch-amd

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:16:53 + (UTC) Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:06:34 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Am 2007-03-19 02:04:42, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: [snip] > >> Or, you will have to _forgive_ Osama for felling the WTC. ;o) >

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:32:57 -0700, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> 2) The white asses of Jews which have very late adopted the judaeism >> for arround a half century. >> >> > I was sympathetic to some of your arguments until this nonsense.

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a > war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes: > > Torturing prisoners. > Using white phosphorus against combatants and civilians >

atmel pcmcia card: MAC failed to boot MAC address reader

2007-03-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Debian people, On some elderly laptop we have tried to use 3Com 3CRWE62092B Wireless LAN PC Card. Laptop is running freshly installed Debian etch rc, but it fails to bring that pcmcia wifi alive, log messages show , | pccard: card ejected from

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. Nope. That sounds like clear weather to me. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-28 Thread Wackojacko
gustavo halperin wrote: Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4: try to burn the dv

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Greg Folkert wrote: ...> The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit one. Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change at different rates. :-) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:30:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:05 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > > Folks > > > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:01:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 26 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> > >> Waitaminnit! > >> > >> We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" > >> > > Ahh, but s

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable > price, once it was scriptable the price increased by more tha

Re: problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:29:46PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using ssh. I > can > ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on FC2's CLI, but if I > try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's a no go. I tried > in /

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > >> I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the > >> world. > >> But what should I use to see what time is at anot

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:36:28PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Which means Security updates for Sarge will stop soon right? > And I will need to upgrade all the Sarge servers on the net soon :-) > Security support for Sarge will continue for 1 year after the release of Etch or until the release

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 09:31, Joerg Lange wrote: > Hi all, > > is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? > > For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool > that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/28/07 10:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails > >>> through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:06:34 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-19 02:04:42, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: >> ..as EU members? The EU has its own (token) military force, but I am >> not aware of any Swedish troops in Afghanistan. > > Me too... > >> ..peace. First we need

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, > but how do I upgrade? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include source lines for etch, run 'aptitude update && aptitude upgrade', then 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. During the last stept you have to make sure ap

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yeah, but Oregon still doesn't trust me to pump my own gas. Of course, with some of the crap I see around here, that's probably a good thing. Is it that they don't trust you to pump the gas safely, or is it protectionism for gas-station worker as I think it was in

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 10:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails >>> through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering. >>> Getmail can do this on its ow

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:37:30PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Joerg Lange wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? > > > >For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool > >that samples every minute or every few minu

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 25 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] > Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a > war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes: > > Torturing prisoners. > Usi

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:04:22 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-19 18:18:46, schrieb Arnt Karlsen: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:04:52 -0400, Roberto wrote in message >> > Of course, this raises the following question: >> > >> > "If Allah is all powerful, why could he

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Okay, got it... Commented out the auth methods and it works. Details details. later, -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
> >>I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the > >>world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a > >>future time? This seems to work: $ TZ=EST date -d "2010-12-26 16:20 PST" Sun Dec 26 19:20:00 EST 2010 Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 10:53, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. > But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? The date(1) CLI app will do what you w

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? I usually use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldc

Re: Samba PDC LDAP NSS prob.

2007-03-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
Some additional info. I've discovered this clip from the log about a page before the error message appears: UNIX token of user 0 Primary group is 0 and contains 0 supplementary groups [2007/03/28 16:12:42, 5] smbd/uid.c:change_to_root_user(275) change_to_root_user: now uid=(0,0) gid=(0,0)

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 01:34:23PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings; > > It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, > but how do I upgrade? > > I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build

Re: Tool to monitor system downtimes?

2007-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joerg Lange wrote: Hi all, is there a simple tool to monitor high system loads and outages in debian? For me, it would be completely sufficient if there would be a tool that samples every minute or every few minutes (e.g. in a cron job) the system load and reports any issues to the user in a si

What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

2007-03-28 Thread wix
Greetings; It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, but how do I upgrade? I tried doing a network install but neither of the choices to build init.rd worked, so that was a few hours wasted. I have a working install of stable/sarge running. Can I start from there some

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread michael
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 13:05 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Folks > > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to > > > work in another Debi

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-28 Thread Cassiano Leal
Dave Ewart wrote: On Tuesday, 27.03.2007 at 23:25 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking about] Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your servers running stable? An example which springs to mind would be

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Johnson
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 20:10, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:13 +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > > appear to have been received. > > > > So this is a test. > > thanks > > tim > > You mean the "USP drive performance" e-

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:13:27PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > appear to have been received. > > So this is a test. If you are refereing to the "USP drive" email that Greg mentioned, then your mail is getting through. The problem is

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel B.
Mike McCarty wrote: ... If power fails during a write, and the drive scribbles on the disc in a spiral pattern as the head moves toward the parking area, that particular disc is hosed. But the disks almost surely don't scribble on the disk in a spiral pattern. (They'd detect that power is fail

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread judd
On 25 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > ... > > And I understood that you have yet to provide actual proof of war > crimes. You ramble on about the GCs and NATO treaties, but you have > yet to point out even one *specific* instance which when brought > before a court has a reasonable chance as b

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread judd
On 26 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> >> Waitaminnit! >> >> We all know "creation and evolution are processes running under EMACS!" >> > Ahh, but something must have been used to design Emacs (it did not > evolve by itself), and s

Re: sound blaster card

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:48:19PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 05:37 -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > Folks > > I've a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24bit soundcard which I've got to > > work in another Debian 2.6 box but am having problems with another box, > > so all help welcom

Re: List access

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:13 +, Tim Johnson wrote: > I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not > appear to have been received. > > So this is a test. > thanks > tim You mean the "USP drive performance" e-mail? -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a c

List access

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Johnson
I sent an email to this address last weekend, it does not appear to have been received. So this is a test. thanks tim -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palmer, Alaska, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using > ssh. I can ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on > FC2's CLI, but if I try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's > a no go. I tried in /etc/ssh_config on Etch unco

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:02:19 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Am 2007-03-18 22:36:12, schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez: >> Are these the same Muslims who are blowing innocent men women and >> children in markets schools and other public places? > > It seems you do not know anything

problems with accessing X apps with ssh

2007-03-28 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm having a problem accessing X apps from FC2 to Debian Etch using ssh. I can ssh in to Etch ok, and can display stuff like lsmod on FC2's CLI, but if I try to run Gedit, Kwrite, or any other Xapp it's a no go. I tried in /etc/ssh_config on Etch uncommenting the line. ForwardX11Trusted yes Thi

Double mounted partition icons on the gnome desktop

2007-03-28 Thread llimaa
Hi, i hope anyone can help me with my problem or maybe bug? Description of the problem: GNOME show me two mounted volume icons on the desktop for the same hard disk and the hard disk is correctly added to fstab. "/dev/mapper/hdb1_crypt/bstorage ext3 defaults0 2" I've read that

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Anson Gardner
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:06, Siju George wrote: > > > > Etch will be released any day now. You will save yourself much grief if > > you just start off with Etch than starting with Sarge and trying to > > upgrade to Etch. There have been some very major changes. > > Which means Security upda

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with > >--prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an > >removing method if wanted latter. > >Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

Re: cron.d works, but cron.daily doesn't

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 28-mrt-2007, at 4:27, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: On 3/27/07, Peter Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've got a strange issue with cron. I try to run a simple script that calls tar to backup my wiki. I can run the script using sudo, it runs fine from an entry in cron.d but refuses to r

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 27.03.2007 at 23:25 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been > > thinking about] > > > > Is there any problems running clients on Sid, but having your > > servers running stable? An example which springs to mind would be

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Ron Johnson wrote: There seem to be a few OCR projects in the Debian repository. Don't know how good they are, though. As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with large, clear characters. Whi

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On 3/18/07, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:53 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. > But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? I usually use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ -- Cheers, Sv

Re: mutt config tip for reading log files

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:21:13PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-03-28 11:50:42 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc > > color body brightred brightdefault > > "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))" > [...] > > But how can

Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] >> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice >^^ >> No such file or directory. >> (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device >> (EE) PreInit fa

[Solved] Re: xdm suddenly stopped

2007-03-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Arvind Marathe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like something happened to your mouse (do you have a > > cat? :) ). Check cables and try replacing it with a known good > > mouse. > > Couldn't figure out why the usb mouse suddenly died (must be a stray > cat, took 6 lng months to find

Re: BellSouth DSL with

2007-03-28 Thread getzjd
As I wrote this, i realized what I did. DOINK... Follow that document link above and you should be working -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdm and intel G965

2007-03-28 Thread Anson Gardner
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 07:21, Platff wrote: > I'm on the same situation. > > vesa driver works in e520 configuration but this is not the solution > because of its low performance (I'm using it now) > > After lot of Googling, I tried to modprobe intel agp modules and I tried to > create by hand /d

Re: Truetype Fonts Sarge 3.1

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Workshop
On Wed, 2007-28-03 at 06:45 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:47:15 -0500 > "Dave Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have downloaded (apt etc) and "installed" truetype fonts which > > Sarge placed in file: > > > > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/ (60 entries

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

2007-03-28 Thread getzjd
I am trying to do something similar with SBC Netopia 3546 with a sonicwall behind it. I want the SonicWall to have an external IP We have 5 IPs. I am xxx.xxx.xxx.161 to xxx.xxx.xxx.165 The IP the Netopia pulls with PPoE is xxx.xxx.xxx.166 According to this documentation http://www.netopia

Re: apache-mpm-prefork debian perfomance tuning

2007-03-28 Thread Siju George
On 3/28/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:21:56PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > OK. I am not sure if a connection that small can handle a slashdotting, but I guess you will find out :-) alright :-) > May I Know why Is ther any problem using Sarge? >

Re: OT: Hardware diagnostic

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:10 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Not Debian-related at all, but you folks are brilliant > > Didn't I say you folks were brilliant?! > > Thanks, Greg! Your hints to tinker with the drive's BIOS settings paid > off. Here's what I finally settled on th

Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? Thanks! -- Zhengquan Zhang Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing,P.R.China. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:24 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > > put on a server?" > > Realy good question... > >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 16

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