Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will Parkinson wrote: > Raquel wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000 >> Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on >>> was sending spam emails for some ot

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 01:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/16/07 00:55, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that > >>> tough

Re: really dumb question

2007-04-15 Thread steef
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 07:59 +0200, steef wrote: hi, where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard under etch? [i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find the driver there] 8139too thanks, greg, i know that

Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
I'm not sure if this is a bug in OOo, or what, but it suddenly stopped displaying the word count in my document, when I went on typing and checked it. I found that by selecting all text, I could get a count, but not unless I did so; it would otherwise display 0 words 0 characters for the total. If

Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/07 12:11, wangxu wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/16/07 09:32, wangxu wrote: > >>> I am using thunderbird. >>> Is there anything I can do to achieve this? >>> >> Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder. >

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/07 00:55, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote: >> [snip] >>> Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that >>> tough. But I doubt you w

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Will Parkinson wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and > even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using > debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of > things. > > Any help much appreciated You can u

Re: really dumb question

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 07:59 +0200, steef wrote: > hi, > > where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard > under etch? > > [i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find > the driver there] 8139too -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory S

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 23:44 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > [snip] > > > > Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that > > tough. But I doubt you will at the moment. > > According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2

really dumb question

2007-04-15 Thread steef
hi, where can i find the driver for a rtl8139 (chip) realtek networkcard under etch? [i used to load them under woody from the modconf list, but cannot find the driver there] thanks and regards, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

RE: Xen 3.0.4 on Debian

2007-04-15 Thread Andrey Dmitriev
I have tried installing it from Xen's site, but I kept getting.. xen:~/dist# ./install.sh Installing Xen from './install' to '/'... - installing for udev-based system - modifying permissions All done. Checking to see whether prerequisite tools are installed... Xen CHECK-INSTALL Sun Apr 15 21:4

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-15, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich escribió: >>> Are there any issues to be aware of or is it just an 'aptitude install >>> texlive'? > > Very important! For TeXLive to operate properly, it appears that you > must purge all the teTeX configuration fi

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: >> On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. >> I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly >> detect my network hardware. >> >> The main modules s

Re: php failure with iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070415 23:28]: > You don't need to install any of the php packages if you yourself do > not write php scripts. Thanks, Kushal. I wish I had found that simple explanation in my searches with Google. It turns out that my ISP uses cPanel and the problem is c

Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

2007-04-15 Thread wangxu
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/16/07 09:32, wangxu wrote: > >> I am using thunderbird. >> Is there anything I can do to achieve this? >> > > Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder. > That folder is a single text f

Re: how to get curses/termcap liberay?

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/07 11:04, wangxu wrote: > I was configuring mysql manually. Why? What's wrong with the mysql package in Debian? > it says. > checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No > curses/termcap library found > > > what package

Re: dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/07 21:56, Carl Fink wrote: > I can't make it, either. > > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation. I get this: > > (Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing navigator-smotif-477 ... > update-a

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/07 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > Indeedly. If you want to make a OO.o v2.2 backport, it really isn't that > tough. But I doubt you will at the moment. According to the debian-oppenoffice list, a backport of v2.2 is coming Soon. - --

Re: Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/07 09:32, wangxu wrote: > I am using thunderbird. > Is there anything I can do to achieve this? Create a temporary mbox folder and move the thread into that folder. That folder is a single text file. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Etch upgrade and keyboard in WindowMaker

2007-04-15 Thread csanyipal
Hello! On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:14:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Hello all. I upgraded my workstation from Sarge to Etch this weekend. > The biggest annoynce I have encountered is that my keyboard is "broken" > in WindowMaker. That is, alt+tab no longer switches between windows. > F1

Re: php failure with iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/16/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am unable to log into the web mail screen of my hosting provider, because iceweasel doesn't know how to handle the php script "login.php". iceweasel asks if I wish to open the script or save the it as a file. It is really not an icewea

Re: Any good and high quality music player?

2007-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:24:52 -0400 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real speakers and > then fiddle with alsaconf setting. Thus to get 'better' sound, you need > better equipment, which excludes using tiny laptop speakers :-) Yep, I do t

Re: dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:56 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I can't make it, either. > > I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation. I get this: > > (Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing navigator-smotif-477 ... > update-alternatives: internal error: /v

Re: System crash with oom-killer message

2007-04-15 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 4/15/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/15/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Here are the facts, > > System > Debian Etch (upgraded from Sarge) > Kernel 2.6.8-3-386 > x386 arch. > Running > Apache2 2.2.3-4 > mysql-server 5.0.32-7etch1 > php4 4.4.4.

how to get curses/termcap liberay?

2007-04-15 Thread wangxu
I was configuring mysql manually. it says. checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found what package should i install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:03 +0100, andy wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > andy wrote: > > > > > > > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to > > > go and > > > save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. > > > Now > > > everything except the very

php failure with iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am unable to log into the web mail screen of my hosting provider, because iceweasel doesn't know how to handle the php script "login.php". iceweasel asks if I wish to open the script or save the it as a file. In its previous incarnation running Etch, the machine was able to log into the web mai

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 15 April 2007 19:47, Will Parkinson wrote: > No it was our sever that was sending the spam, so there must of been a > script placed on our server by someone else (ie we were hacked or > something) This is somewhat unusual; relaying is much more common. I assume you have carefully checke

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 04:58 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > My commiserations, Andy. The good news is that failure to set the auto-save > feature happens only once. Once you get burned you're unlikely to > forget it. > You're using a somewhat oldish version of OOo, 2.0.4. The STABLE ETCH versi

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
andy wrote: > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to go and > save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. Now > everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not* impressed > (so much for my Linux advocacy!). > How can I recover the docu

where is libptp2?

2007-04-15 Thread Bruno Buys
Anyone here use the libptp2 package? It talks to usb ptp devices. I am quite sure I used it under sarge x86. But running etch amd64 now, and I can't find it anywhere. Neither apt-cache search, google, apt-get.org or packages.debian.org (and I looked under oldstable also). The sf page for libptp se

Re: Really annoying! Volume % window that won't go away. After etch upgrade.

2007-04-15 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:11:32PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:05 -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > The most annoying and urgent is that on login with kdm, a window > > pops up right in the middle of the screen (quite large too) with > > "Volume" in extremely large letters an

Re: OpenOffice.org spellchecks

2007-04-15 Thread charles norwood
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 13:14 +0100, andy wrote: > I am using OOo on Etch with the English (UK) dictionaries enabled. > However, I am finding that when I have the spell check enabled for when > I type, there are no errors being picked up nor does the manual spell > check find any errors either, de

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Will Parkinson
Raquel wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000 Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on was sending spam emails for some other company that i've never even heard of. I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from h

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer wrote: On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as the module for my wirel

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Jonathan Kaye
andy wrote: >>> >> Hi Andy, >> Again, it would be helpful if you indicate which version of OOo you are >> using. What was the backup frequency set to in Tools -> Options -> >> Load/Save -> "Save Autorecovery every . minutes"? That will determine >> with what frequency your work is backed

Re: Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer wrote: On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as the module for my wirel

dpkg: I refuse to do it and you can't make me!

2007-04-15 Thread Carl Fink
I can't make it, either. I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation. I get this: (Reading database ... 124364 files and directories currently installed.) Removing navigator-smotif-477 ... update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/navigator corrupt: priority /usr/lib/nets

Etch NetInst Thinkpad 600

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On my old Thinkpad 600, I am attempting to install Etch via NetInst CD. I am having trouble with pcmcia detection, which means I cannot properly detect my network hardware. The main modules seem to load (pcmcia-core, pcmcia, yenta_socket), as well as

Can I move the content of all threads below one topic in the maillist into one single txt file?

2007-04-15 Thread wangxu
I am using thunderbird. Is there anything I can do to achieve this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:26:43 +1000 Will Parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The reason i ask is that recently a server that i was working on > was sending spam emails for some other company that i've never > even heard of. I'm just looking at ways to avoid this from > happening in

Compiz and button 8

2007-04-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I use Compiz on my Lenny box with a wireless mighty mouse: I would like to take advantage of the side buttons (button 8) which seems to be recognized by `xev': how can we associate this extra button to a compiz function ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mail

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Will Parkinson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the se

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and > even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using > debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.

Re: Time/Date via Gnome clock app (sid)

2007-04-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/07 17:05, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: > Hi. > I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome > clock application. > Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time > has a -5min difference with the

Re: how to scp from one box to another with no root ssh?

2007-04-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:53:57PM +0300, Atis wrote: > On 4/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In the past, to move config or script files from one box to another on > >my home network I've used scp or rsync. > > > >However, recent discussions on the list have pointed out tha

Re: Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:03:02AM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: > Hi All, > > I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and > even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using > debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things.

Restrict server access

2007-04-15 Thread Will Parkinson
Hi All, I was wondering if there was any way to restrict server ssh, ftp and even http access to certain countries / ip ranges? I've been using debian for a while at home but am pretty new to the security side of things. Any help much appreciated Cheers Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-15, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1. > > my PS1: > > PS1="${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \[${BLUE}\]\#\[$NC\]]\w\$ " > > hth. That's interesting. If I put the \n at the end of my prompt it works

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:37:37PM -0400, Patrick Cummings wrote: > > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge > > to etch upgrade> To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: Soundcard issues

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 05:22:41PM -0400, Barry F Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 04/13/2007 03:50 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2007/4/12, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ls may be broken

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 05:40:08PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for > podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast > under the date directory and put

Re: upgrade sarge2etch: sendmail doesn't work correctly

2007-04-15 Thread Micha Borrmann
Zitat von Micha Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've one problem with sendmail. I'm using a certificate based relaying. The clients are verified from the system, but the SMTP connection are not used to sent mail. In /var/log/mail.info the following lines are logged: Apr 12 12:47:50 etch sm-mta[1

etch: truetype mit defoma

2007-04-15 Thread Boris Andratzek
Moin zusammen, manchmal ist es schwer... Ich versuche, entsprechend einer Anleitung, die mit Sarge immer funktioniert hat, ein paar Truetype-Fonts einzubauen. Das geht nicht (s.u.). Google sagt mir, dass ich nahezu der erste Mensch bin, der das Wort 'HintGenerator' jemals in seiner Konsole g

Time/Date via Gnome clock app (sid)

2007-04-15 Thread Andrea S. Gozzi
Hi. I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome clock application. Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time has a -5min difference with the real one. I wanted to use the servers pool instead but I can't access the menu. Every time I try t

Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Gerard Robin
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:15:52PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: From: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: bash prompt won't wrap properly X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 re

Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread zfh
--- Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200 > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the > available > > multimedia packages for Sarge since Etch has gone > stable. Christian, Since Sarge will be supported by d

Re: dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:27:48 -0500 "Andrew Bassett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/15/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Gunnar Björkdahl: > > > > > > I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in > > > /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote: >> Magnus Pedersen wrote: >> >> > David Dawson wrote: >> >> >> Thanks! ... >> >>> What does dmesg give your right after: >> >>> >> >>> - you plug in the device? >> >> This: >> >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:09:29AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:06:02AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:02:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > > Downloading a video from youtube onto

ls may be broken

2007-04-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I download podcasts with podracer and had set up a subscriptions file for podracer that under original circumstances made a directory for a podcast under the date directory and put the actual mp3 files into that directory. I don't know if it's changes in python or some subdirectories creation l

RE: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Cummings
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:28:32 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Problems with sarge to etch > upgrade> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED > MESSAGE-> Hash: SHA1> > Patrick Cummings escribió:> > The computer was > work

bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've modified my bash prompt to display the number of minutes of battery time left. I use the following code in my .bashrc: ## alias bt="acpi | awk '{print \$5}' | awk -F : '{print \$1*60 + \$2}'" # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color) case "$TERM" in xterm

Re: Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:21:12 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a bit sad. Christian has trashed all the available > multimedia packages for Sarge since Etch has gone stable. In > effect. if we want multimedia packages we are being forced to > upgrade to, at least Etch. I hav

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:39:06 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is just a consequence of the fact that the package "base-files" > (which contains /etc/debian_version) is the same for Unstable and I see. Thanks for the explanation, it makes sense now. > Florian --

Re: dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew Bassett
On 4/15/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gunnar Björkdahl: > > I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in > /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside > world. What have I done wrong or missed? There is no way to know. You didn'

Re: Soundcard issues

2007-04-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/15/2007 11:55 AM, Colin wrote: > Barry F Smith wrote: >> I had a similar problem when I upgraded to etch. I'm not sure if this was >> mentioned yet, but what I had to do was: >> 1. Run alsaconf >> 2. Run alsactl store >> 3. Add my soundcard kernel module in /etc/modules, so that the module wo

Re: dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Gunnar Björkdahl: > > I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in > /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside > world. What have I done wrong or missed? There is no way to know. You didn't tell us what you wanted to use dnsmasq for (DNS, DHCP

Etch upgrade and keyboard in WindowMaker

2007-04-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Hello all. I upgraded my workstation from Sarge to Etch this weekend. The biggest annoynce I have encountered is that my keyboard is "broken" in WindowMaker. That is, alt+tab no longer switches between windows. F12 no longer brings up the menu. F11 no longer brings up the window list and alt+# (

Unwanted Printer Test

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On bootup - Etch, stock 2.6.18 kernel - my Brothers HL-730 laser printer prints a partial test page and stops with the error light flashing. I don't need or want this test page. The printer is almost 10 years old but it works fine on those rare occasions (like income tax preparation) when I m

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 15:53 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > If sarge is now old-stable (and I think it is), how would we access > Woody packages? Here, http://archive.debian.org/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

problems to install postfix 2.3.8-2+b1 on etch

2007-04-15 Thread Christian Meissner
Hi, i upgraded my sarge box to etch and now i'm not able to installing postfix 2.3.8-2+b1. dpkg failed with error 139 Running newaliases Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfix. Starting Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixinvoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action "restart" failed. dpkg:

kernel panic upgrading from 2.4.27 to 2.6.8 kernel related to initrd and devfs

2007-04-15 Thread steve doerr
Does anyone know how I can get around the following error? VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hda1 cramfs: wrong magic pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernal panic: Attempted to kill init! When I ran LILO I got the warning below but

dnsmasq in debian

2007-04-15 Thread Gunnar Björkdahl
Hi all I'm trying to setup dnsmasq on my LAN. I configured the adresses in /etc/hosts and I can ping them fine. But I am unable to ping the outside world. What have I done wrong or missed?

Fwd: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Sarge packages have disappeared Date: Sunday 15 April 2007 21:50 From: Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: >> nigel h

Debian/Etch/4.0 upgrade experience

2007-04-15 Thread James D. Freels
Essentially flawless ! I have upgraded two i386 and one amd64 machines from sarge to etch. Except for configuration files that I changed myself, it was clean and straight forward. I am VERY impressed. -- James D. Freels, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Windmills can't even produce enough energy to

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: >> nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's >>> when trying to access it? >> Sarge the stable distribution is now

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 18:28:03 +, David Dawson wrote: > Magnus Pedersen wrote: > > > David Dawson wrote: > > >> Thanks! ... > >>> What does dmesg give your right after: > >>> > >>> - you plug in the device? > >> This: > >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address

Sarge->Etch upgrade breaks cupsys network printing

2007-04-15 Thread Ralph Katz
With sarge on two computers, this worked smoothly to print from either box: Sarge box -> Sarge box with printer Now:Sarge box -> Etch box with printer With Etch now running on the box with the HP5L printer, only local jobs print. Print jobs from the sarge box are not accepted. Using

Re: Sarge packages have disappeared

2007-04-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 15 April 2007 20:53, you wrote: > nigel henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What's happened to the repo for Sarge Christian. Folks are getting 404's > > when trying to access it? > > Sarge the stable distribution is now called etch. > > Christian I appreciate that Christian. Stable is

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:27:50 -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:05:08 -0400 Greg Folkert wrote: > > > "Lenny/Sid", it used to say "Etch/Sid" until about November of 2006. I > > am sure it will say Lenny/Sid until a few weeks until the (set, but not > > met) release of Lenny. >

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread David Dawson
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > David Dawson wrote: >> Thanks! ... >>> What does dmesg give your right after: >>> >>> - you plug in the device? >> This: >> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 >> usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice >> >> >>> - you modprobe t

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 04/15/2007 10:31 AM, andy wrote: > My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went > to go and save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the > document crashed. Now everything except the very earliest save > is gone! She is *not* impressed (so much for my Linux > advocacy!). As

Re: Soundcard issues-RESOLVED

2007-04-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/15/2007 12:22 PM, Barry F Smith wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:36:03AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: >> On 04/13/2007 03:50 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >>> >>> 2007/4/12, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: >> >>> I have the same issue for an isapnp soundcard on etc

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:30:41 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it was explained to me, following an aptitude upgrade with aptitude > dist-upgrade solves this. Leave your sources.list as it is and do a OK, it seems to be installing those extras now. It seems aptitude dist-upgrade

Re: Daily Updates

2007-04-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:05:08 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Lenny/Sid", it used to say "Etch/Sid" until about November of 2006. I > am sure it will say Lenny/Sid until a few weeks until the (set, but not > met) release of Lenny. But what's the rationale behind that? I mean, at a

Re: Problems with sarge to etch upgrade

2007-04-15 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Cummings escribió: > The computer was working perfectly since almost 1 year before the > upgrade and as far as I know there is no hardware problem with it. > Thanks for your time Well, there's a problem with your RAM memory, try with another m

Re: Gnome and root permission (bug?)

2007-04-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 19:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > That looks more like a Ubuntu type thing to me. Debian's gnome should > be asking for the root password to perform administrative functions, not > a the user password, unless of course it is actually calling gksudo to > do the functions. > > S

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-15 Thread andy
Jonathan Kaye wrote: andy wrote: My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went to go and save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the document crashed. Now everything except the very earliest save is gone! She is *not* impressed (so much for my Linux advocacy!). How can I

Re: Complete system freeze from virtual terminals / terminal emulators

2007-04-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 21:09:16 -0700, Pat Primate wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote earlier: [...] > > It looks like your X setup is OK as far as the graphics card is > > concerned (see my remarks below). Maybe the problem is in some weird way > > related to the pcspkr module which controls the sys

Re: How to set up Logitech Quickcam Chat in Debian Testing

2007-04-15 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Dawson wrote: Thanks! ... What does dmesg give your right after: - you plug in the device? This: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice - you modprobe the module? This: Linux video capture interface: v2.00 us

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sunday 15 April 2007 08:20, Alan Chandler wrote: > Now when I look at a similar exchange when I am using the gateway > machine just as a hop and there is a machine behind the gateway I get a > different pattern > > youtube->me http cont seq 4344 next seq 5792 > me->youtube tcp ack seq 5792 > you

Re: libc6 testing

2007-04-15 Thread Seb
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:17:37 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Still wait until tzdate is build against the new glibs. Sofar, do an > apt-get upgrade instead of an apt-get dist-upgrade. Thanks, I understand. Cheers, -- Seb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

2007-04-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 4/15/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It must be noted that you should not manually remove files that are part of a package. I really know better than to do that :) But it was just a man page, so I figured it would do no serious harm if I tried it. The dpkg --force-overwrite com

Re: Gnome and root permission (bug?)

2007-04-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 11:07 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 16:04 +0200, Mauro wrote: >> >>> I've just installed debian SID and I've chosen to try GNOME. Now >>> everytime I execute an administration applicatio

Re: Installing alpine on a system which already has pine

2007-04-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello: > > I'm trying to install alpine, the free successor to pine, but aptitude > reports: > > Unpacking alpine (from .../alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alpine_0.83+dfsg-2_i386

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:52:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list/group, (I seem to be in a slashy mood...) > > I've had an idea for a while to make a package of wallpaper and/or > other theme elements and put it in a repository, updated weekly or > monthly--maybe one package for each--

Re: libc6 testing

2007-04-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 the mental interface of Seb told: [...] > I see that tzdata replaces libc6, but I've had these two installed > for a long time without this problem. Anybody got any idea what > the issue is? Still wait until tzdate is build against the new glibs. Sofar, do an apt-get upgrade

Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

2007-04-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Carl Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Over the past few days, the above server has refused downloads at least 19 > of 20 times when using apt-get. Am I the only one experiencing this > problem? Downloading from there right now. It's not very fast and thars saying something. T

Re: ftp.us.debian.org not responding

2007-04-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:06:14 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using debian.mirrors.tds.net, which is extremely fast. I typically get 620 kB/sec downloads, which is about as fast as my Internet connection can handle. kB(ytes) or kb(its)? kilobytes

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