Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:29:25 +1000 M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In much the same situation, on an old Toshiba laptop, 64 MB RAM and > 10 GB hard drive, Etch installed, using fluxbox window manager and I > created an ~/.Xsession just as your example above. With is file the > machine boot

How to set "using dhcp hostname"?

2007-06-12 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I have a dhcp server on my net, which also provide hostnames based on ip. Like if a machine get a ip of 192.168.1.147, then its hostname would be ks147. Now I have a debian box running on the net, and I have configured using dhcp to get ip. But I do not know how to conf

splitting tar files and zero padding

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Gilbert
hello, my goal is to eliminate (or split out) the last file from a tar archive, and i'm having trouble understanding the extra bytes added and zero padding that is done to tar files. let me illustrate what i'm doing. first, i'll create some sample files $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=file1 count=100

Start X on multimedia machine

2007-06-12 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a machine that is attached to a TV, for watch stuff dvd's etc with mplayer. what I do currently is log into the machine and start X with /usr/bin/X11/X :0.0 vt07 & and then start watching stuff with export DISPLAY=:0.0 mplayer now it works for the first file, but then goes whac

Re: Aptitude can't upgrade Apt!

2007-06-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Frank McCormick wrote: > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > If the problem persists for couple

Re: RE: Can someone tell me the function for getting MIB-2 object values from Debian Linux Kernel ?

2007-06-12 Thread Kapil Bhasin
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Aptitude can't upgrade Apt!

2007-06-12 Thread Frank McCormick
Running Sid. Some time ago I started getting this message from sudo aptitude update : Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Sam Leon
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:44:51AM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: (Please, CC me on answers. Thank you.) Hi! We are having some difficulties here to find a good solution for a problem. There is a computer connected to 3 ADSL lines (two of 8M and one of 2M),

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W
-Original Message- >From: Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Mumia W wrote: >> [...] >> However, aptitude just won't forget about the original >> CD-ROMs. [...] > >Try [hashing] out the references to the cdrom. > >[snip] > >Julian > > I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages w

Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-12 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 18:59, Liam O'Toole shared this with us all: >--} On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:07:42 -0400 >--} Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} >--} > On 6/12/07, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} > > >--} > > Both of those files influence what clients (e.g. window managers) >--}

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-12 Thread Julian De Marchi
Mumia W wrote: Hello. I'm having a problem getting aptitude to forget about a couple of CD-ROMs. I might give the CD-ROMs to my father soon; however, I've loop-mounted the ISO files from which the CD-ROMs were made, so I should be able to install from those. However, aptitude just won't forget

Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-12 Thread Mumia W
Hello. I'm having a problem getting aptitude to forget about a couple of CD-ROMs. I might give the CD-ROMs to my father soon; however, I've loop-mounted the ISO files from which the CD-ROMs were made, so I should be able to install from those. However, aptitude just won't forget about the origin

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-12 Thread Sudev Barar
On 13/06/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06/12/07 16:57, Massimo Modica wrote: > A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > >> OpenOffice. >> >> http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html >> > > Thanks for your suggestion, but the problem of using OpenOffice is that > it

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:58:58PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > On 6/12/07, James Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > >> Are these http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes-2.6 the needed patches? > >> > >Yes thats the same set of patches i used. You also wi

The utility of alien (Re: Aptitude wants to remove OpenOffice.org)

2007-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Manon Metten wrote: > Still two question remains in my mind. First: What good is Alien for? It is the best attempt yet to automatically convert an rpm file to a deb file. But just because it is the best automated process available available does not mean that the deb produced is good. As the old

Radi 5 Drama

2007-06-12 Thread Julian De Marchi
Hi all, My Raid 5 fell over. :( Have been trying to recover it with no luck. Here is my setup and what i have done. Linux, software raid5. Seven SATA drives in the array (the 8th drive was supposed to be a hot-spare, but it didn't get properly initialized into the array). Had one drive fai

tmpfs question

2007-06-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I have a virtual server from Bytemark, running what was installed as Sarge and upgraded along the way to Etch. For some reason there are two tmpfs mounts, both 72MB in size - about half my memory each: # df -lh FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ubdc

Re: DHCP+LDAP

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:28:50PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hello, > > doing an aptitude search dhcp shows me a list of dhcp clients and > server . However there seems to be now DHCP server that can use LDAP > as a source at list grepping thru the descriptions doesn't show > anything. > I t

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:44:51AM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > (Please, CC me on answers. Thank you.) > > Hi! > > We are having some difficulties here to find a good solution for a > problem. There is a computer connected to 3 ADSL lines (two of 8M and > one of 2M), a card to the intern

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:00:24PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Robinson wrote: > > I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron > > > > 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro > > > > #!/bin/sh > > #

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 6/12/07, James Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Are these http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/#routes-2.6 the needed patches? > Yes thats the same set of patches i used. You also will need to know about source routing and being able to route off multiple routing table

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi James! On 6/12/07, James Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it is posisble thought it was some time ago i have done something > like this. You need to patch the kernel or there is problems with > packets coming out of the wrong interface when you are doin

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
Mahesh M wrote: Hi, Once I tried using the deluser commmand and while trying to see how well it works, I tried the following command: deluser root And to my surprise, root was deleted. Is that good? Self-termination, suiside!!! I dont know if this is a bug, or if it has be

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Robinson wrote: > I can not find a log. The macro does not work via cron. The macro runs > if I run it as root. Oh, and it is not a macro. And the output will not go to the log but will instead be mailed to the owner of the cron task. Who owns that cron task? Look in that user's mailbo

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Robinson wrote: > I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron > > 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro > > #!/bin/sh > # > #

Re: non-packaged window managers?

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 12-06-2007 a las 19:11 -0400, Zach escribió: > I wanted to try some window managers (and add ons) not yet packaged > for debian testing. What is best way to handle it? And I want to > update the Debian Menu so I can choose this custom wm from my other > Debian-aware wms and I also wish to

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi James! On 6/12/07, James Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes it is posisble thought it was some time ago i have done something > like this. You need to patch the kernel or there is problems with > packets coming out of the wrong interface when you are doing nat with > several different

Re: Is this a bug?

2007-06-12 Thread Zach
You also must be careful with `unlink` :) From the package info for `irpas`: " Like all powerful tools, someone whom is terminally stupid could cause great damage when using these tools, so be careful." Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: (Please, CC me on answers. Thank you.) Hi! We are having some difficulties here to find a good solution for a problem. There is a computer connected to 3 ADSL lines (two of 8M and one of 2M), a card to the internal network and in the future, a new card, connected to

Re: Enable SNMP read-only on routers for network monitoring

2007-06-12 Thread James Stevenson
rocky wrote: Hey, I'm following the tutorial on http://www.aboutdebian.com/monitor.htm. It says to configure the MRTG to monitor the router traffic, I need to have read-only SNMP enabled on target routers. Our office does not use Cisco routers. We are using TL-R478+ which is a chinese brand. We

non-packaged window managers?

2007-06-12 Thread Zach
I wanted to try some window managers (and add ons) not yet packaged for debian testing. What is best way to handle it? And I want to update the Debian Menu so I can choose this custom wm from my other Debian-aware wms and I also wish to add the Debian Menu to my custom wm. And I want to add my cu

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 12-06-2007 a las 17:49 -0500, Lance Simmons escribió: > I was trying to do a fresh install of etch using the net-install > cdrom, but my cdrom drive kept flaking out. I figured that I'd have > to install a new drive, but then I remembered that Debian can be > installed from floppies -- or

Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-12 Thread Lance Simmons
I was trying to do a fresh install of etch using the net-install cdrom, but my cdrom drive kept flaking out. I figured that I'd have to install a new drive, but then I remembered that Debian can be installed from floppies -- or at least it could in the past. But was the new version of Debian too

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/07 16:57, Massimo Modica wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: OpenOffice. http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html Thanks for your suggestion, but the problem of using OpenOffice is that it requires too many steps and is quite complex. They use WorldMerg

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-06-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Zach wrote: > There > are millions and millions of MS Windows uers who can't do much beyond > checking email, surfing the web and playing games and then millions > more who are what I call 'corporate users; they only do certain tasks > using involving Office. The typical Linux user tended to be mo

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-12 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I must somehow have messed up my partitiontable when i put Debian on > my Laptop. Now every time i let grub handle a new kernel it > "rearranges" my partitions (just their number/order in grub.conf) so > that i have to manually edit its boot-options. Are you talking abou

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-12 Thread Massimo Modica
A. Ben Hmeda wrote: OpenOffice. http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html Thanks for your suggestion, but the problem of using OpenOffice is that it requires too many steps and is quite complex. They use WorldMerge because it allows to do the work in a few

Re: cron chgrp woody

2007-06-12 Thread Matías Palomec
On 6/12/07, Chris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro #!/bin/sh # # chgrp -R nogroup /usr/local/apache2/www/foodmanagementsystems.com/gary I can not find a log. The macro does not work v

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-12 Thread Bob McGowan
arijit wrote: Hi all, I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia right now I've switched to 'vesa' but I want to use 'nvidia'. Also when i use "nvidia-settings", i get this error:

OT: time and its expression. Was: Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 06/12/07 13:04, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Did I *really* have to explain something that data centers have > >> been doing since most of us were in diapers? > > > > Of course not, but you /do/ need to be more cl

Re: Prolific USB-Serial converter trouble

2007-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use a USB-serial converter with an external (RS232), > hardware modem. The converter is a no-name, Asian brand with the > Prolific 2303 chipset. I'm trying to get it to work with the pl2303 > driver. Using the in-kerne

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-06-12 Thread Zach
I care more about the quality of Linux users than the quantity. There are millions and millions of MS Windows uers who can't do much beyond checking email, surfing the web and playing games and then millions more who are what I call 'corporate users; they only do certain tasks using involving Offi

DHCP+LDAP

2007-06-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, doing an aptitude search dhcp shows me a list of dhcp clients and server . However there seems to be now DHCP server that can use LDAP as a source at list grepping thru the descriptions doesn't show anything. So I'm sure there are packages that can do that I'm just blind to find them. A

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-12 Thread Massimo Modica
Ron Johnson wrote: To integrate into Thunderbird, or run stand-alone? Integration with Thunderbird is not a requirement. (How will you get your contact information from Windows to Linux?) Using CSV files. Will you be running this, or will a scared non-techie be doing it? A scared non-

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/07 13:04, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Did I *really* have to explain something that data centers have been doing since most of us were in diapers? Of course not, but you /do/ need to be more clear, especially for non-English-as-first-language folks. Wh

Prolific USB-Serial converter trouble

2007-06-12 Thread Celejar
Hi, I'm trying to use a USB-serial converter with an external (RS232), hardware modem. The converter is a no-name, Asian brand with the Prolific 2303 chipset. I'm trying to get it to work with the pl2303 driver. Using the in-kernel version (2.6.21, built with make-kpkg from the Debian source pa

Re: Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-12 Thread Kent West
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Kent West wrote: I'm currently running Etch, and just realized that the Hyphenation module in OpenOffice.org is not installed. So I've gone looking for it, and can not find the US English version. Google's not much help either. I've tried: sudo aptitude search ...

[OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/technology/12apple.html Electronic Arts and Id announced that they would begin releasing popular games for the Macintosh simultaneously with Windows versions. A Unix that has current, popular, *native* games? "Many" Windows users will feel it's now

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Gifford wrote: > Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > >> I've read a lot about backup software and already decided about which >> one to use. I would like you to ask about advice about hardware. >> Is external USB disc suitable

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Did I *really* have to explain something that data centers have been > doing since most of us were in diapers? Of course not, but you /do/ need to be more clear, especially for non-English-as-first-language folks. What I think you mean is to have each set

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/07 06:20, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I recommend having 2 (or more) drives off-site, each older than the other. Isn't that going to be hard to achieve? How can they each be older than the other? It'd be like you being older than me and me being olde

Re: Where's OO.o's Hyphenation for US English?

2007-06-12 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Kent West wrote: > I'm currently running Etch, and just realized that the Hyphenation > module in OpenOffice.org is not installed. > > So I've gone looking for it, and can not find the US English version. > Google's not much help either. > > I've tried: > sudo aptitude search ... > Where's

Re: a2ps and bitstream vera fonts

2007-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can you tell me how do I use Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono > font with a2ps, enscript, etc.? Not exactly, but I use the "-f" switch on enscript passing it Courier7. Try playing with "xlsfonts | grep -i bitstream" or something. -- Any technology disting

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Chris Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am trying to run the [following] in woody using cron so my cron > > 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro I assume this is in /etc/crontab, yes? You need to tell cron who to run it by: 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * root /path to macro > #!/bin/sh

Re: Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX

2007-06-12 Thread David Dawson
David Dawson wrote: > Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX: > > After a recent upgrade to Debian Testing, support for this camera has been > downgraded, with the result that VLC can now only display the stream at a > much lower resolution. > > Formerly the resolution was an acceptable 640x480, now

Re: Mutt now shows Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks

2007-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:15:02PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Recent Lenny update: > > > > Mutt now shows "Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks" The default browser is > > set to lynx! I assume an update of shared-mime-info(?) has changed this > > but It was

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Scott Gifford
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:32:00AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: [...] >> Figuring out exactly how much memory a set of processes are using is a >> difficult problem. Looking in /proc/$pid/maps is a good place to >> start. >> > > probably the e

Re: trouble playing WMA

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:51:46AM -0400, Zach wrote: > > On 6/12/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the line: > > > > > >deb http://www.debian-mu

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Arnau
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:32:00AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: Arnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi all, I have a server with 4GB of RAM and I wanted to know how much memory is being used by a PostgreSQL. To do so I have executed the following: ps -A -o rss

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:32:00AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Arnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi all, > > > >I have a server with 4GB of RAM and I wanted to know how much > > memory is being used by a PostgreSQL. To do so I have executed the > > following: > > > >ps -A -o rss,vs

Re: trouble playing WMA

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:51:46AM -0400, Zach wrote: > On 6/12/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the line: > > > >deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main > > Ok. the package is w32codecs A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Scott Gifford
Arnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > >I have a server with 4GB of RAM and I wanted to know how much > memory is being used by a PostgreSQL. To do so I have executed the > following: > >ps -A -o rss,vsz,command|grep postgres | awk '{rss += $1; vsz += $2 > } END { print "Real: ",rss

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Scott Gifford
Mitja Podreka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I've read a lot about backup software and already decided about which > one to use. I would like you to ask about advice about hardware. > Is external USB disc suitable for this? Should I put an extra disc to > my workstation? To add to this que

A question about memory usage

2007-06-12 Thread Arnau
Hi all, I have a server with 4GB of RAM and I wanted to know how much memory is being used by a PostgreSQL. To do so I have executed the following: ps -A -o rss,vsz,command|grep postgres | awk '{rss += $1; vsz += $2 } END { print "Real: ",rss/1024"MB Virtual: ",vsz/1024"MB" }' And the r

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-12 Thread arijit
Hi all, I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. Error shown : unable to load module: nvidia right now I've switched to 'vesa' but I want to use 'nvidia'. Also when i use "nvidia-settings", i get this error:

Re: Couple setting questions

2007-06-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:05:03AM +0200, Vladimir Strycek wrote: > > >When I had that problem, my 486 was 'C' while my Athlon64 was > >en_CA.UTF-8. So when I ssh'd to the Athlon, I typed: > > $ LANG=C > > > >and then everything was fine. > > > >The 486 wouldn't run Etch so I cobled together

Re: Force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install our remove package

2007-06-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello, >Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when > install or remove package. Run it interactively (just type aptitude with no arguments). Then when you hit 'g' for go, it will tell you what it wants to d

Re: IceWeasel crash my debian laptop

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 03:30:20PM +0800, jeffry s wrote: > > > >On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> > > >does this problem occur with other browsers such as > >konquerer? how about with another gecko based browser (iceape?)? > i only have iceweasel installe

Re: IceWeasel crash my debian laptop

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 12:01:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:51:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > and don't take this the wrong way, but maybe you should build your app > > so you can't select columns that dont exist? > > > Perhaps he should cons

cron chgrp woody

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro #!/bin/sh # #

Re: Force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install our remove package

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:49:57AM +0100, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello, >Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when > install or remove package. I'm guessing you're running installs from the command line? You want to pass -P or set the o

a2ps and bitstream vera fonts

2007-06-12 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hi Everybody, Can you tell me how do I use Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono font with a2ps, enscript, etc.? Regards, Santanu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ETCH - AMD64] Problem: No NIC on Gigabyte GA-M61VME-S2

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Adie
Hi I am trying to install DEBIAN ETCH on to a GA-M61VME-S2 based machine, the NIC uses the RTL8201 chipset. I have used both the AMD64 & i386 images and have the same problem... The install process finds all hardware, including the SATA drive, expect the MOBO NIC. I understand that in the kern

Re: Problem installing Wine

2007-06-12 Thread arijit
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 12:54 +0200, Udo Klein wrote: > Dear all, > > I've tried unsuccessfully to install wine. I've included the result of > doing "aptitude install wine". I'd be very thankful for your help. > > Udo Hi Udo, I am using latest wine(0.9.38) from Winehq. It installed perfectly. A

Re: [solved] exim4 config (?)

2007-06-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:21:50 +0100 William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > William Pursell gmail.com> writes: > >> I'm still confused as to why gmail is in the picture at > >> all when I run mailx. I did set smtp.gmail as my smtp > >> smarthost when I ran dpkg-recon

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Michael Fothergill escribió: Hang on a minute. Does this mean I download some md sum files as well as the iso file and then put the iso file and the md sum files in the same directory and then run md5sum ? If so, and even if the iso file is error free and if the CD burner thinks it has bur

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:22:33PM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >Something to consider: The price of an external multi-drive enclosure > >with cables would probably cost more than an old spare computer (PII?) > >plus a decent PCI ethernet card. I did that with my 486

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: > On 12 juin, 12:00, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > > > find the answer on the Net. I

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread judd
On 11 Jun, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/11/07 04:40, Mitja Podreka wrote: > ... > > I recommend having 2 (or more) drives off-site, each older than the ^^^ > other. Rotate them along with your on-site drive. ^ You can do t

crob chgrp

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I am trying to run the folloing in woody using cron so my cron 2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro #!/bin/sh # #

Load balancing with multiple ADSL connections?

2007-06-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
(Please, CC me on answers. Thank you.) Hi! We are having some difficulties here to find a good solution for a problem. There is a computer connected to 3 ADSL lines (two of 8M and one of 2M), a card to the internal network and in the future, a new card, connected to a radio link (giving 4 connec

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Miguel J. Jiménez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file... Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:57:44 +0200 Michael Fothergill escribió: OK, I went in the /tmp area and to my

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-12 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 11:29 +0200, Valentin wrote: > > Does editing /boot/grub/device.map not fix this? > > I don't know, haven't tried that. But wouldn't that just change the > drive grub boots from? grub's working fine, after all. It's the kernel > that can't find the disk... Or does the kernel

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Michael Fothergill escribió: OK, I went in the /tmp area and to my pleasure I found the unmessed with iso file. So I dumped it in the CD burner and now I have the CD I need. I have moved the iso file to my/home directory in case I find there are errors in the CD I burned when I come to instal

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Miguel J. Jiménez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file... Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:18:30 +0200 Michael Fothergill escribió: Dear Debianists, I downloaded an iso

Re: Problem installing Wine

2007-06-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Tuesday 12 June 2007 13:54:40 Udo Klein wrote: > Dear all, > > I've tried unsuccessfully to install wine. I've included the result of > doing "aptitude install wine". I'd be very thankful for your help. > > Udo > > BEGIN > > debian:~# aptitude install wine > Reading package lists... Done > Build

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I recommend having 2 (or more) drives off-site, each older than the > other. Isn't that going to be hard to achieve? How can they each be older than the other? It'd be like you being older than me and me being older than you, both at once. Cybe R. Wizar

Re: Problem installing Wine

2007-06-12 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Udo. Udo Klein, 12.06.2007 12:54: > I've tried unsuccessfully to install wine. I've included the result of > doing "aptitude install wine". I'd be very thankful for your help. With every problem related to APT, you should always post your sources.list also. > […] > Unpacking wine (from .../w

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread Lethal Possum
On 12 juin, 12:00, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > > find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) > > that I currently

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Michael Fothergill escribió: Dear Debianists, I downloaded an iso file for a Debian based distribution called 64 studio. I didn't use wget I just did a an http download It was only about 650MB or so and didn't take that long... http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/images.64studio.com/ Iso f

Problem installing Wine

2007-06-12 Thread Udo Klein
Dear all, I've tried unsuccessfully to install wine. I've included the result of doing "aptitude install wine". I'd be very thankful for your help. Udo BEGIN debian:~# aptitude install wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Init

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread Lethal Possum
Hi Jochen, Yes mounting samba shares is a pretty convenient and transparent way to access the data on my server. I do that all the time but I think that USB 2.0 might be faster for large transfers. It would also be more "plug and play" if someone visiting me with a laptop just wants to grab some f

burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I downloaded an iso file for a Debian based distribution called 64 studio. I didn't use wget I just did a an http download It was only about 650MB or so and didn't take that long... http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/images.64studio.com/ Iso file name was 64studio-install_1.

Force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install our remove package

2007-06-12 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello, Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install or remove package. Thanks Jaime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

2007-06-12 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 07:30 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:09:02PM +0200, Wolodja Wentland <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > as of today i get the following error when running "aptitude update", > > which is _not_ fixed by multiple runs of "aptitude update" a

Enable SNMP read-only on routers for network monitoring

2007-06-12 Thread rocky
Hey, I'm following the tutorial on http://www.aboutdebian.com/monitor.htm. It says to configure the MRTG to monitor the router traffic, I need to have read-only SNMP enabled on target routers. Our office does not use Cisco routers. We are using TL-R478+ which is a chinese brand. We manage the rout

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) > that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also > like to be able to si

Re: trouble playing WMA

2007-06-12 Thread Zach
On 6/12/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the line: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main Ok. If you need to capture streaming audio in wav format, the key is to use "pcm" as the "-ao" option to mplayer; see the excellent article at: ht

Re: Can debian act as an USB mass storage device?

2007-06-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lethal Possum: > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) > that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also > like to be able to simply plug my laptop into the server with a US

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-12 Thread Valentin
> Does editing /boot/grub/device.map not fix this? I don't know, haven't tried that. But wouldn't that just change the drive grub boots from? grub's working fine, after all. It's the kernel that can't find the disk... Or does the kernel read from that file? -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? --

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