Re: Newbie Samba help (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
On 4/26/07, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:03:47 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interestingly from the Win Xp machine I can see a whole bunch of > files and folders with names that start with a "." that I can't see > from the Gnome desktop.

[OT] Favoured Firewall

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2007, 15:05 -0400 schrieb Celejar: > Well, on this list our (including me) favorite firewall is Shorewall, Well, is it? Mine's IPCop, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Samba help (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread John K Masters
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:03:47 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interestingly from the Win Xp machine I can see a whole bunch of > files and folders with names that start with a "." that I can't see > from the Gnome desktop. > These are hidden files. Not shown by default in Gno

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

2007-04-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:06 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> michael: >>> >>> httpd (no pid file) not running >>> apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified >>> domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName >>> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind t

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-25 Thread Scott Gifford
Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but... Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > OK, I think its the latest kernel and some interaction with my > motherboard. I just booted a hand compiled 2.6.19 (originally done > when Debian was on 2.6.18 - because was needed to load the AGP

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

2007-04-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070425 15:42]: > > While the installation of texlive went fine with my Sid box, it did take > quite a lot of space doing that upgrade. It ended up using more than > 500MB in my /usr partition. Did anyone notice that? In my installation of etch, /usr/share/texmf-texlive o

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 13:11:44 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. [...]

Re: Architecural modelling software

2007-04-25 Thread John W. Foster
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 16:42, andy wrote: > I am looking for some architectural design modelling software that will > enable one to design buildings and model the effects of lighting, wind, > insulation values, etc. > Does anyone know of anything that can do this kind of job? I've searched > on

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

2007-04-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Florian Kulzer([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:15:47 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Florian Kulzer is reported to have said: > > [...] > <> > > > > Interesting. My testing partition has been kept current by upgrading > > for years. I do not have the

Re: custom usb install image

2007-04-25 Thread nicholas
Douglas Allan Tutty said: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 06:16:25PM -0500, nicholas wrote: mount -oloop boot.img /mnt fdisk /dev/sda # create one 300MB bootable FAT16 partition mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 mkdir /target mount /dev/sda1 /target (cd /mnt && tar -cpf - .)|(cd /target && tar xpf -) { so th

Re: Xircom pcmcia ethernet card not working in Etch

2007-04-25 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 19:14, Dario Teixeira wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > I have just installed Debian Etch, my very first Debian. (Though I've > used Kubuntu before). I did a CD based installation, using the KDE spin. > I am now trying to connect to the network, but I have a problem since

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Look at cfengine, bcfg2, or changetrack. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Newbie Samba help (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Sneep
Many Thanks for all the replies ... Turned out that all I needed to do was an "smbpasswd -a jan" and re-enter my password. At first I tried the settings you suggested ... I printed out your email and my smb.conf and compared them line by line. The differences were very small. Below is the smb.co

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:42 -0400, P Kapat wrote: > Might be a little OT, but here is the question: Suppose I plugin an > USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE > pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What > if I don't want to mount it thi

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:48 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > > I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. > > Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig > > > > However, the new kernel does

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 20:51 -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hi. > > So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning > for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. [snip a REALLY GREAT IDEA] I wish something or some project would work on this. I've known

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:45 +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: [snip a lot of aggressive accusations and ranting about UBUNTU] > It looks to me that if I do not ask you directly, I may be waiting > forever :) Nothing like being confrontational right from the get go. It is the single most asinine thing new

Re: Architecural modelling software

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:42 +0100, andy wrote: > I am looking for some architectural design modelling software that will > enable one to design buildings and model the effects of lighting, wind, > insulation values, etc. > Does anyone know of anything that can do this kind of job? I've searched

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/25/2007 07:59 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: >> Is there a way to safely update the running kernel 2.4 >> to 2.6? What to do if the new kernel does not boot? >> > > Yes. > Before you start, only have one kernel (the working 2.

Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hi. So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. I would like to: 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, I don't want to have to "csv add" any files); 2. Not have to manually chec

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Is there a way to safely update the running kernel 2.4 > to 2.6? What to do if the new kernel does not boot? > Yes. Before you start, only have one kernel (the working 2.4) installed. There should be a symlink from /vmlinuz and

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Stephen Cormier
On April 25, 2007 04:48:17 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. > Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig > > However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic > when trying to mount the root parti

Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 09:48:17PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. > Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig > > However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic > when trying to mount the root

Re: moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:12:19AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, > did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 > (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:42:56PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE > pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What > if I don't want to mount it this way (why? i'll explain later **). I > want to go back to CLI

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-25 Thread Colin
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Is there a way to safely update the running kernel 2.4 > to 2.6? What to do if the new kernel does not boot? You keep the old kernel around so you can boot from it if things go wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
On 4/25/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to > debian-4.0r0. Well, you are changing the distribution completely. So, it is always better to use a consistent way to do that, rather than end

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
Might be a little OT, but here is the question: Suppose I plugin an USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What if I don't want to mount it this way (why? i'll explain later **). I want to go back to

Xircom pcmcia ethernet card not working in Etch

2007-04-25 Thread Dario Teixeira
Dear Debian users, I have just installed Debian Etch, my very first Debian. (Though I've used Kubuntu before). I did a CD based installation, using the KDE spin. I am now trying to connect to the network, but I have a problem since neither the drivers for my laptop's wireless card are installed

Re: Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to debian-4.0r0. Is there a way to dist-upgrade for the installed software (including dependencies) only?, to keep the extra stuff out that #apt-get dist-upgrade wants to download and install. -i

Re: Disable ipv4 fragmentation

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:28:42AM +, J HU wrote: > Dear experts, > > I'm developing an C++ application with sockets in a debian with a version > of kernel 2.6.x. > > The idea of my application is to send messages using UDP sockets and have > only one receiver socket which receive all the m

Re: the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Patterson
* Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-25 11:19:05 -0700]: > But if you want/require PostgreSQL for those two, you'll still need > mysql for the first. As I suspected, alas. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Mike Polyakov
You are asked to setup a non-root user as part of the NetInst. This is the User that I setup. Yes, as Dave said, you have to use smbpaswd as root to add new users which can access samba. Then you have to setup your /etc/samba/smb.conf file to define shares, which are portions of your filesystem

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread P Kapat
You probably need to create the user for Samba too, via smbpasswd. As I said, please send your /etc/samba/smb.conf if you want more help. As Dave was suggesting, you need to modify smb.conf. There are a few GUIs that do that for you (http://us4.samba.org/samba/GUI/). Its easier to edit the file

Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-25 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Is there a way to safely update the running kernel 2.4 to 2.6? What to do if the new kernel does not boot? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Neil Sumner wrote: I cant boot your dvd's the installation gets to mounting the dvd and fails it says there is no module for the dvd and suggests that it must be an old dvd drive it isnt it is new, it is a SONY DVD RW AW G170A All *nix do this with my system which is an i

Architecural modelling software

2007-04-25 Thread andy
I am looking for some architectural design modelling software that will enable one to design buildings and model the effects of lighting, wind, insulation values, etc. Does anyone know of anything that can do this kind of job? I've searched on Sourceforge and google.com/linux but to no avail. Ar

Re: apache2: no listening sockets

2007-04-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 12:06 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > michael: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > Forcing reload of web server (apache2)...apache2: Could not reliably > > determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for > > ServerName > >

dvd problem

2007-04-25 Thread Neil Sumner
I cant boot your dvd's the installation gets to mounting the dvd and fails it says there is no module for the dvd and suggests that it must be an old dvd drive it isnt it is new, it is a SONY DVD RW AW G170A All *nix do this with my system which is an intel dp965lt motherboard and E6600 core 2

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-25 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:05:22 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:58 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:04 -0400 > > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:22 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > [snip for brevity] > >

COMPOSITE

2007-04-25 Thread gaidin
I found that with XAA and Composite disable, I am getting performance back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dis-upgrade using apt-get

2007-04-25 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I have a small debian-3.1r3 system. I want to upgrade it to debian-4.0r0. Is there a way to dist-upgrade for the installed software (including dependencies) only?, to keep the extra stuff out that #apt-get dist-upgrade wants to download and install. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

SEGV and ABRT with vim in mailx

2007-04-25 Thread cls
I still use mailx as my main mail user agent, with vim as VISUAL (v and ~v commands) editor. It's efficient, with helpers like metamail, and multiple xterms. I use vim's "set mouse=a" feature. vim catches mouse input, unless shift is down, where the xterm gets it as usual. Since upgrading Sarge

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 13:11:44 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >>> I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an >>> up-to-date Etch box. [...] >>> The output from dmesg shows: >>>

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

2007-04-25 Thread KS
Russell L. Harris 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 files before installing > TeXLive.

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:26 -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive si

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 16:14 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > You are asked to setup a non-root user as part of the NetInst. This is > the User that I setup. That's not enough for Samba. You probably need to create the user for Samba too, via smbpasswd. As I said, please send your /etc/samba/smb.

apache2 and proxy

2007-04-25 Thread michael
I'm a bit confused. I have the following snippet at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf ### MKB: only 130.88.*.* to access citations Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Allow from 130.88 which seems to stop ALL access (giving a 403) whereas it used to allow me to use a proxy 130.88.96.66 (squid2.um

Re: libXfont.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Init_FreeType

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:15:47 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Florian Kulzer is reported to have said: [...] > > You seem to have some non-Debian X libraries on your system. My guess is > > that you have to get rid of them. I would start by (temporarily) > > removing the symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/libX

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-25 Thread Anson Gardner
On Friday 20 April 2007 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the replies, everyone. > > We seem to have two basic ideas: > > 1. A Debian package, updatable with apt. > 2. A GUI app that would manage all the different things and ways to > be updated. > deb http://debian.websterwood.com/ e

RE: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Sneep
You are asked to setup a non-root user as part of the NetInst. This is the User that I setup. -Original Message- From: Dave Ewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 25, 2007 3:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Newbie Samba help On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 14:58 -040

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /media/pen mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have, in fact

Re: xkb options

2007-04-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070425 14:07]: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:38:57 -0500 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. Any recommendations about typing tutor > software or resources? I'm currently using dvorak7m, and I've tried > gtypist. Though I alre

Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but > really mean the 4th of December. Still, your system should know the > real day, and really so should you. Therefore, I am not asking for a > fix, rather I am just pointing

kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot

2007-04-25 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic when trying to mount the root partition... My laptop is a sony vaio... On other computers (desktop

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Ken writes: Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? >>> ma

Re: cups and samba stop working after upgrade to etch

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 16:22:43 -0400, Bill Shofner wrote: > On 04/24/2007 12:43:57 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> I think you can now also restore the rest of your system (your libc6 >> version was OK, by the way.) I would do it like this: >> >> 1) Comment out all unofficial repositories (including

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 25.04.2007 at 14:58 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: > I just installed the latest OS using a NetInst CD and during the install I > checked the boxes for "File Server" and "Print Server" and I have been to > HYPERLINK "http://localhost:901"Http://localhost:901 to verify that Samba is > up and

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Hasler wrote: > > Ken writes: > >> Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? > > > > man locale > > locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

2007-04-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:29:37 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and > > shutting down services is particularly difficult. > > But maybe more difficult than > aptitude install > ;-) Well, on this

Re: xkb options

2007-04-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:38:57 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070424 08:42]: > > I understand that. I'm actually currently using dvorak7m to teach > > myself touch typing using the dvorak keymapping, and I'm using an > > ordinary qwerty keyboard

Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Jan Sneep
I just installed the latest OS using a NetInst CD and during the install I checked the boxes for "File Server" and "Print Server" and I have been to HYPERLINK "http://localhost:901"Http://localhost:901 to verify that Samba is up and running.   I can "see" the Debian server from my Win XP machines,

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Simply adding the following line to file: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist blacklist snd_cs46xx solved the trouble. For some reason Linux mis-detects the cs423x chip as a cs46xx chip which is Crystal's PCI chip. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

MySQL install on Etch

2007-04-25 Thread whitelined
Hi, I'm having a problem installing MySQL 5 on etch. Currently, when MySQL goes through set up, the following error happens: Error in my_thread_global_end(): 1 threads didn't exit Then the process just hangs. I've tried purging, and reinstalling MySQL, but it still doesn't set up. Sometimes it

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
Joe Hart wrote, in part: locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which tells me that because I use a US English version of IceDove, it uses it's own settings. My experience exactly: that IceDove uses its own set

Re: the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Dave Patterson wrote: Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both dat

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:56 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I am using a stock debian kernel package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 Please update to the Etch Kernel. linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 does not even exist in the Stable repository. "linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7" And BTW, installing "linux-image-2.6-k7"

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:13 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >> [snip] >>> How about posting it here? >>> >>> - >>> >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>> # >

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 14:26 -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > [snippage] > >> That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > >> this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I convert

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an > up-to-date Etch box. [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /media/pen > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist > > I have, in fact, tried two separate pen d

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 13:32 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > Many, all I can say is sorry... it appears ISA has fallen on the > floor > > in Debian, and it might slip into a crack soon, if something isn't > done. > > Still, SOMETHING that remains in Etch thinks it needs to

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had not. If so, then where shoul

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:13 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > [snip] > > How about posting it here? > > > > - > > > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > > > # /dev/hda3 > > U

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Greg Folkert wrote: Many, all I can say is sorry... it appears ISA has fallen on the floor in Debian, and it might slip into a crack soon, if something isn't done. Still, SOMETHING that remains in Etch thinks it needs to load a driver, and all I am trying to stop. It is not that I want the dri

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-25 Thread Sam Leon
Miles Fidelman wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Adam Hardy wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my prio

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:40 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > princess:~# modprobe -l | grep cs423 > > Mine comes back with... > > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/oss/cs4232.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/opti9xx/snd-opti92x-cs4231.ko > /lib/modules/2.6

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > How about posting it here? > > - > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > # /dev/hda3 > UUID=456600fd-b794-4931-8703-bd

moved system to different partition; grub boot problems

2007-04-25 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I recently had some problems with my sata drive (sda), so I got an IDE drive, did a fresh install of etch to partition 1 (hdc1), put home on partition 4 (hdc4), and left partition 2 blank. I then copied my sid system from sda10 to hdc2, using dd. Everything looks fine in hdc2, and when I mou

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Ken writes: >> Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? > > man locale locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which te

ra0-tool lets disappear ' floppy' ??!!l

2007-04-25 Thread steef
hi you all out there, got a strange problem. when i install a wireless asuscard, i.e. the driver; rt2500-source (debian; etch) 'floppy' disappears without a trace out of 'system, storage media'. manipulating /etc/fstab has no results. floppy does not come back 'no device etc.' i tested th

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Michael Lueck
Greg Folkert wrote: princess:~# modprobe -l | grep cs423 Mine comes back with... /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/oss/cs4232.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/opti9xx/snd-opti92x-cs4231.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/kernel/sound/isa/cs423x/snd-cs4236.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-6

the mysql postgresql question.

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Patterson
Hi all - is it possible to go with one database system for all package dependencies? Package foo depends on mysql for install, Package bar allows postgresql or mysql but requires one or the other. Package umpty-scratch prefers postgresql. Is it necessary to have both database systems installed

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] > That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to > Etch, but it is possible that I had not. If so, then where should I > check to

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:59 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:02:00PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Well, my Kubuntu system runs 2.6.20 and havs everything as sdX (when it > > > was hdX before)

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread John Hasler
Ken writes: > Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? man locale -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:58 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:35:04 -0400 > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:22 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: [snip for brevity] > > > > Personally, I'd use a cluster/distributed filesystem with back links or > > refe

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:43:52AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on > this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive sinc

[solved] Mysql database interface problem with Sympa Debian upgrade to 5.3.2

2007-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Copy of http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2007/04/25/solved-mysql-database-interface-problem-with-sympa-debian-upgrade-to-532 I upgraded the Sympa mailing list manager to 5.2.3-2 using the Debian package from the "Testing" repository. The database part of the upgrade procedure was a bit f

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. My /etc/fstab is: # /etc

Re: Etch / ThinkPad 600E / How to blacklist the soundcard?

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 10:28 -0400, Michael Lueck wrote: > Significant changes have been made between Sarge and Etch. The files > mentioned long long ago to cure PnP trying to load an AC97 driver for > a ThinkPad 600E with integrated CS423x chip are no longer > there. Where has the inequivalent fun

Re: Image sizing in Konqueror

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > Is it possible -- by means of an extension perhaps -- to make large, > dense images, e.g. jpegs, to fit the window when opened in KDE > Konqueror? This kind of reduction is possible in Iceweasel, but I would > like the same thing in

Re: [solved]: web alternative to knockd for a "secure" sshd server?

2007-04-25 Thread Nick Demou
On 4/23/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Nice idea. Is it easy to support sshd-httpd on the same port also? > > Yes - assuming that the httpd client doesn't use pooling or the like, > which stops the client from "talking" immediately upon connection: > [...] > I did do

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an > up-to-date Etch box. > > My /etc/fstab is: > > # /etc/fstab: static file s

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-25 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:30:33AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 00:45 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > > rsync uses ssh as the transport layer, similar to scp. > > > > Int

Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. My /etc/fstab is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # /dev/hda2 /

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Wackojacko
Wackojacko wrote: Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UU

Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
All the dates of e-mails in Icedove are backwards at least in my boxes, i.e., day-month-year, instead of year-month-day. Likewise, the times are in 12 hour notation, followed by AM or PM. My locale preferences in KDE are set as year-month-day and 24 hour time and date formats. Apparently the

Image sizing in Konqueror

2007-04-25 Thread Ken Heard
Is it possible -- by means of an extension perhaps -- to make large, dense images, e.g. jpegs, to fit the window when opened in KDE Konqueror? This kind of reduction is possible in Iceweasel, but I would like the same thing in Konqueror. Ken Heard -- To UNSUB

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