Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Galevsky wrote: > > How can I make the /home/user1/testfile belong to user1, the owner of > > the script instead of the user that launches it ? > > On DEBIAN, to remove a file, you need write permissions on the directory > in which it resides. I suppose user1 could gi

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > The main problem with your suggestion is that the default umask of 022 > doesn't do any good even if your directory is group sticky. You would > need a umask of 002. Thank you for mentioning that. I had forgotten to mention umask. Fortunately umask is an easy, easy, e

Inet security

2007-06-13 Thread Mike McClain
I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. 'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you export, if you have nothing listening that can do you harm you are secure...' Disregarding email exploits and exploits through your browser is this true? Assume the hardwa

/usr/lib/python2.3 in lenny

2007-06-13 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Hi, recentley my dist-upgrade told me that the directory /usr/lib/python2.3 could not be removed because it was not empty... I actually only have pyhton2.4 and python2.5 packages installed. My question is: is it safe to remove that directory manually? I do not like to keep unuseful thing on my

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-13 Thread Zach
Sheesh talk about jumping through hoops. Udev was supposed to be so great and make life easier? haha that sure turned out great eh? Give me back devfs! I seriously hope kernel architects drop udev in the future (Please Lord) and go back to the devfs extensions which were already in the pipeline

ata2 problems on boot

2007-06-13 Thread remigio
Hi, I've installed Debian Etch and there is this problem: system starts and during boot it pauses for at least one minute trying to setting an "ata2" device. Dmesg shows: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa1) ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5) a

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Cameron Hutchison
L.V.Gandhi wrote: >On 6/13/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> L.V.Gandhi wrote: >> > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 >> > files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find >> > out which files differ more than say 5 lin

Re: Problem with usb wifi dongle

2007-06-13 Thread salahuddin pasha
On 6/14/07, salahuddin pasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: for Asus Spacelink WL-167g check http://salahuddin66.blogspot.com/2006/08/wifi-in-debian.html On 6/1/07, Sylvain Archenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to make my wifi dongle working on my debian sid box (Asus > wl-167

Re: ralink wifi card

2007-06-13 Thread salahuddin pasha
On 6/6/07, Harold R. Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm having trouble getting my rt61 based card working under debian etch. lspci shows i've got the right card: 00:0f.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI the steps i've taken so far are 1.grab the driver from ralink's website

Re: Problem with usb wifi dongle

2007-06-13 Thread salahuddin pasha
for Asus Spacelink WL-167g check http://salahuddin66.blogspot.com/2006/08/wifi-in-debian.html On 6/1/07, Sylvain Archenault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make my wifi dongle working on my debian sid box (Asus wl-167g). I tried with the official drivers (rt2500 or rt2x00) and w

re: some problem in scripting

2007-06-13 Thread Mike McClain
On 13 Jun 2007, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >I added one more field and found that ^M in the LO_52_WK field before comma. >I tried sed -e 's/M$//'. this didn't help. >Any solutions? What you see as ^M is the carriage return, CR = \015 = \0x0d = "\r". Look for fromdos or roll your own with `tr -d "\015"`. HTH

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-13 Thread arijit sarkar
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >

Why my gtk problems can not act on key press sometime?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using Debian unstable (kernel 2.6.21) with gnome. And sometime, my app's windows just have no react when I key in something, but they does hung, they can react on mouse actions. I need to unfocus and focus the window for many times, then it may work.

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-13 Thread David Fox
http://lwn.net/Articles/230975/ its not the article I was looking for (which actually shows you how to do the calculations...), but its pretty cool As I recall, there was a utility somewhat like vmstat(1) but unique in that it could crawl through the system and find out all the different r

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:04:56PM -0500, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > However, aptitude just won't forget about the original > CD-ROMs. This is my current sources.list: > > /etc/apt/sources.list- > # > > Security Updates > deb cdrom:[Debian GN

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

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:25:39PM +0100, Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Thank you all for you replies. > This was the answer I was look for since I prefer to use the command > line, although running aptitude from an unprivileged user(mentioned by > Johannes) was also a

Re: Aptitude can't upgrade Apt!

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
Note that it may be a few days before a new aptitude is uploaded: the new apt interacts badly with aptitude and I need to track down why. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aptitude remembers CD-ROMs under Etch

2007-06-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:03:59AM -0500, "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 06/13/2007 03:17 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 21:34:28 -0500, Mumia W wrote: > >>I've tried that many times. Those 'Ign' messages will > >>disappear after I've removed the CDROM

Why my gtk problems can not act on key press sometime?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I am using Debian unstable (kernel 2.6.21) with gnome. And sometime, my app's windows just have no react when I key in something, but they does hung, they can react on mouse actions. I need to unfocus and focus the window for many times, then it may work.

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:45:50PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:28:31PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Arnau wrote: > > > > > >> In fact what I really want to do is

risk assessment for old toolbox

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
Hello all, I have an IBM 486 with 32 MB ram, and S3 video. I know it runs Woody very well and it will run Sarge (but sarge uses more memory). Upgrading to Etch killed libc6 and I haven't tried a total debian reinstall woody > sarge > etch again. Most of the time, I would use this box to ssh int

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:59:40PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 6/13/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip excellent explanation of diff] > > > Thanks for your effort and time. All these leads to get list of lines > differing in each file. Once again I have to go through all lines

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > aptitude -R install foomatic-filters-ppds > > > > And what does apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds get you? > >--- > (0) heretic /home/keeling_ dpkg -L foomatic-filters-ppds | wc -l > 2696 That

Re: switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine > > > > It is a flat panel lcd with a native mode of > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortuna

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread s. keeling
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote: > > This is on Etch with "Desktop Environment" de-selected on install (no > > Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg > > before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice

What is this mkinitramfs error message about?

2007-06-13 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear, After I compile and install 2.6.21 kernel, I run mkinitramfs like this: /boot# mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.21 2.6.21 While I got the error: Error: missing mapper/rootvg-root root /dev/mapper/rootvg-root /sys entry This is my mount: /boot# mount /dev/mapper/rootvg-ro

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Mitja Podreka wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > 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? Not really. You're better off

Re: Debian OS Backup

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Jacob Ramirez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > We are running linux with Debian OS. I am new to using linux and > debian. Can I use an external hard drive to backup the operating system > and files on our linux servers? Of course. > If so, how do I crea

Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-13 Thread M-L
On Thursday 14 June 2007 09:04, Andrew Sackville-West shared this with us all: >--} On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:33:53AM +1000, M-L wrote: >--} > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:47:56 +0100 >--} > Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} > >--} > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:04:14PM +, M-L wrote: >--} >

Ethan G. has added you as a friend on Meetro...

2007-06-13 Thread Ethan
Hi debian-user, Ethan has invited you to join Meetro - the new way to meet people near you. http://www.meetro.com/register/?invite=3b525f59ab1a928dacc647c135fb2a3d Meetro is a "location-aware social messenger" that combines all the fun aspects of 'Social Networks', will all the real-time commu

Re: some problem in scripting.

2007-06-13 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/13/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:58:18PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. The > last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this file as > original file has empty lin

Re: missing ghostscript fonts

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:16:08PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > In my recently installed Etch system, ghostscript seems unable to find some > common fonts. Are you running gs and do you have the gsfonts package(s) installed? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/13/07, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 > files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find > out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see > manu

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:28:31PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Arnau wrote: > > > >> In fact what I really want to do is > >> monitor how much memory PostgreSQL is using. > > > > What about top? If y

Re: switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:32:40AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine > > It is a flat panel lcd with a native mode of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, I've run up against problem similar to > [0] in xorg with the i810 driver

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-13 Thread Sean Zimmermann
Here's what Iceweasel says on my about: page: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/2007031001 Iceweasel/2.0.0.3 (Debian-2.0.0.3-1) I'm running this on a ppc system; could that have something to do with the problem? Sean Zimmermann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 02:08:43PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Thank you very much for the answer. However, I just realized that > debian-multimedia is devoted to the i386 arch. Mine is amd64... snif Mine is amd64 as well. Lots of stuff on -multimedia is for amd64. However, IIRC, acror

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:12:34PM +0200, Galevsky wrote: > Let's have 3 users: user1, user2 and user3 > let's have a user1 script: /home/user1/script.sh > > Script is: > > #!/bin/bash > if [ -f '/home/user1/testfile' ] > then rm /home/user1/testfile > else touch /home/user1/testfile > fi > >

Re: supported hardware accelerated 3D card with OpenGL driver

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:34:26PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > I see that Asus EN7300GT silent is an excellent choice, isn't? Works just fine for me; 1600x1200 at 85 Hz (the monitor's limitation) with great DVD playback with mostly idle CPU and minimal memory usage, with hardware mpeg decoding, bl

Re: how to configure users X setup?

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:33:53AM +1000, M-L wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:47:56 +0100 > Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:04:14PM +, M-L wrote: > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > # > > > # My creation .Xsession file > > > # > > > # To remove the cursor after a

Re: etch - iptables question

2007-06-13 Thread Robert Hodgins
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:47 -0700, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I just install new debian. > but it seems nothing iptable in the default > installation > > how can I install? 1) you can use a pre-written script like this one: http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/fw_laptop Getting it going is discusse

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread CaT
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote: > This is on Etch with "Desktop Environment" de-selected on install (no > Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg > before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be > no web browser it cou

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:14:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I agree. That should really be handled using famd. > > *IF* it were needed to be changed when files appeared there then I > would agree to go with famd. It is a good suggestion in that case. > But I reall

etch - iptables question

2007-06-13 Thread ann kok
Hi all I just install new debian. but it seems nothing iptable in the default installation how can I install? and how can I install new kernel? can you show me steps? Thank you Got a little couch pot

Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-13 Thread s. keeling
This is on Etch with "Desktop Environment" de-selected on install (no Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be no web browser it could be configured with? Or can you confure CUPS with w3m? :-P It's

Re: some problem in scripting.

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:58:18PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. The > last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this file as > original file has empty lines and single field lines also. > SYMBOL,HIGH_PRICE,L

Re: some problem in scripting.

2007-06-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:58:18PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I created a .csv file in this format from a original file from the net. The > last field here is the last field in original file also. I made this file as > original file has empty lines and single field lines also. > SYMBOL,HIGH_PRICE,L

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 whe

Re: Best way to synchronize ?

2007-06-13 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 5:32 pm, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:19:54 +0200 > > Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using KDE and related kontact on two PC (desktop and laptop). > > What is the best way to synchronize both computers (especially for >

Re: dd_rescue works to copy an NTFS ...

2007-06-13 Thread Anson Gardner
On Thursday 07 June 2007 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I dont know anything about dd_rescue but I once rescued an NTFS partition > with ntfsfix utility which is part of ntfsprogs. Gotta run it from a Linux > partition if you have any. Before I mess with anything like that I always use dd_resc

Re: Best way to synchronize ?

2007-06-13 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:19:54 +0200 Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using KDE and related kontact on two PC (desktop and laptop). > What is the best way to synchronize both computers (especially for > KAddressBook and KMail applications) ? Check out Unison http://www

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Keith Christian
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. How to do it in command line easily? -- L.V.Gandhi htt

Best way to synchronize ?

2007-06-13 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I'm using KDE and related kontact on two PC (desktop and laptop). What is the best way to synchronize both computers (especially for KAddressBook and KMail applications) ? Thanks. Bye, Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

missing ghostscript fonts

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Kleene
In my recently installed Etch system, ghostscript seems unable to find some common fonts. I'm trying to work with a big pile of lecture images I've made over the years with Adobe Illustrator, and most of them fail now in gs. I made a test file circle.ai that has just a black circle, and gs displa

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:47:13 L.V.Gandhi, vous avez écrit : > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files > with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out > which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. > How t

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Mathias Brodala, 13.06.2007 22:51: > L.V.Gandhi, 13.06.2007 22:47: >> I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files >> with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out >> which >> files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manu

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. L.V.Gandhi, 13.06.2007 22:47: > I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files > with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out > which > files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. How to > do it in command line easi

Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-13 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would like to compare both directories and find out which files differ more than say 5 lines. I use kompare and see manually. How to do it in command line easily? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.co

Re: Install windows with debian problem

2007-06-13 Thread Thiago Santos Faria Xavier Teixeira
I have great news!! i resolved my problem using testdisk package within ubuntu live cd. i tried with ntfsprogs, and other tools but didn't work. with testdisk i could recover my data from the NTFS partition. testdisk is just perfect and i recommend it to every partitions problem. Thanks for help

Re: How to Dual-Head? [Was: xrandr only shows one video card]

2007-06-13 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 5/24/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So obviously, I'm clueless about how to get dual-head working now that xinerama appears to be unusable (with the "i810/intel" driver update which breaks it). Anyone have any pointers to documentation that might get my dual-head working again? I

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I can't find package acroread in debian-multimedia. Is still there? AFAICS, there is nothing against downloading the .tar.gz from the Adobe site and install it according to the instructions -- since it is nothing more than a directory that you can put into /usr/local.

Re: Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/13/07 11:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have been using Debian and Iceweasel for a few months now, and so far I haven't had any major problem. However, recently, Iceweasel began having this strange problem where fonts on a page would change color. For example, on the mplayer homepag

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

2007-06-13 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Bob, Thank you very much for your detailed explanation. As I mentioned before, I'v already removed the rpm OOo files and installed the 2.2.0 OOo backport. It runs fine. I see your point of view that it's better to search for some alternatives if I can't find a deb substitute for an rpm packag

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I just realized that debian-multimedia is devoted to the i386 > arch. Mine is amd64... snif Mine is amd64 too. I maintain a 32-bit chroot for all of my multimedia needs. That is what I recommend. Here are some documentation pointers. http://www.debian.org/doc/man

Re: network instalations & preseed.

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jaime Ventura wrote: >Im trying to setup a preseed file to achive newtork instalation from > a debian mirror. >Can I (through a preseed process) remove the cdrom source from > target system's /etc/apt/souces.list? Yes. The following documentation may be of use to you. http://wiki.deb

Re: crob chgrp

2007-06-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > I agree. That should really be handled using famd. *IF* it were needed to be changed when files appeared there then I would agree to go with famd. It is a good suggestion in that case. But I really don't think there is a need for this that can't be handled by appropri

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:21 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:16:56PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi > > > > I can't find package acroread in debian-multimedia. Is still there? > > (and yes, the line deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main is in > > my sour

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Gifford
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Arnau wrote: > >> In fact what I really want to do is >> monitor how much memory PostgreSQL is using. > > What about top? If you need to, you can limit top to a list of PIDs top has the same issues as

Iceweasel Display Problem

2007-06-13 Thread svz90
Hello. I have been using Debian and Iceweasel for a few months now, and so far I haven't had any major problem. However, recently, Iceweasel began having this strange problem where fonts on a page would change color. For example, on the mplayer homepage (mplayerhq.hu), the fonts would show up i

switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
I'm trying to configure a monitor my wife purchased for her machine (shouldn't let her do that...). It is a flat panel lcd with a native mode of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, I've run up against problem similar to [0] in xorg with the i810 driver (she's running etch). I have hacked her xorg.con

Approved Special Ed and General Ed CPDUs Online for Illinois Educators

2007-06-13 Thread CPDU Coordinator at KDS, Melanie Fox
Dear Illinois Teacher, **PLEASE SHARE THIS NOTE WITH YOUR STAFF AND COLLEAGUES THAT COULD BENEFIT FROM SPECIAL ED AND OTHER CPDUs or IN-SERVICE CREDIT FOR SALARY INCREASE** This Summer Semester, Illinois Educators can complete required Special Ed and other CPDUs online anytime, anywhere. The I

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

2007-06-13 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > > But the spelling on their wizard for the spell-check dictionaries > > > is rather ironic: http://www.acu.edu/~westk/dict.jpg Humorous... > > It gets worse: try going along with the "wizzard" and progress bars > > fill w/o

Re: acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:16:56PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi > > I can't find package acroread in debian-multimedia. Is still there? > (and yes, the line deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main is in > my sources.list file) > Yup, it's still there. http://www.debian-multimed

acroread

2007-06-13 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi I can't find package acroread in debian-multimedia. Is still there? (and yes, the line deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main is in my sources.list file) Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get a symbol of laplace in latex

2007-06-13 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:46:13 +0800 "li sh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > I am using latex, and i want to use the 'L'-like symbol in the > Laplace transform. how to get it ? > I use $\laplace$, but the result doesn't seem to be that i want. > I use \mathscr{L}. You have to \usepackage{mat

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NB: I run on SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire. So why did you mail this list? This list is for Debian, most versions of which use a GNU/Linux kernel, unless you are using Debian on an OpenSo

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Frank Terbeck
Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Depends, of course, on the volume. > > Ok, let's say that every 1 minutes, the volume it's very low. > > > > > On the other hand, I've never used getmail; I use fet

[OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Galevsky
Hi, it is not the first time that i am facing this kind of problem, but I never find out . I decided to ask for some help. Let's have 3 users: user1, user2 and user3 let's have a user1 script: /home/user1/script.sh Script is: #!/bin/bash if [ -f '/home/user1/testfile' ] then rm /home/use

Re: supported hardware accelerated 3D card with OpenGL driver

2007-06-13 Thread csanyipal
Hello Doug! On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:44:02AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:01:47PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > My system is Etch, with compiled kernel-2.6.18. > > > > I want to by a cheaper (around 160 USD) hardware accelerated 3D videocard > > for which I can

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Orestes leal
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:17:10 +0200 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Orestes leal: > > > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 > > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main > > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmai

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:11:57 -0400 "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > And in case you don't

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Orestes leal: > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from > the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because th

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:08:32 -0400 Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:00:44 -0400 > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:52:03 -0400 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Ore

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Orestes leal
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:00:44 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:52:03 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > > > > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:52:03 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 > > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main >

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:19:01AM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 > server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main > pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from > the 7 accounts of

Re: supported hardware accelerated 3D card with OpenGL driver

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:01:47PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > My system is Etch, with compiled kernel-2.6.18. > > I want to by a cheaper (around 160 USD) hardware accelerated 3D videocard > for which I can to install an OpenGL driver. > > I think it will to be some PCI-E nvidia or ati videocard,

Re: Prolific USB-Serial converter trouble

2007-06-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:15:53 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 230

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

2007-06-13 Thread Jaime Ventura
Thank you all for you replies. This was the answer I was look for since I prefer to use the command line, although running aptitude from an unprivileged user(mentioned by Johannes) was also a secure option Is there a way to set the option "Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt" from a pressed file

Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Orestes leal
Hi Everyone, Recently i've setup a mail service for my 7 users through my and pop3 server and getmail to get the email from every account from my main pop3 server, everything ok but i can't setup getmail to get email from the 7 accounts of my main server at the same time, and because that I do

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > And in case you don't have any floppy handy, you can use > > www.goodbye-microsoft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . > >

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > And in case you don't have any floppy handy, you can use > www.goodbye-microsoft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . Well, this applies only, if you have that other OS preinstalled. However, debian can also be installed via usb

Re: A question about memory usage

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Arnau wrote: > In fact what I really want to do is > monitor how much memory PostgreSQL is using. What about top? If you need to, you can limit top to a list of PIDs Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

network instalations & preseed.

2007-06-13 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello, Im trying to setup a preseed file to achive newtork instalation from a debian mirror. Can I (through a preseed process) remove the cdrom source from target system's /etc/apt/souces.list? Thank you all for helping. Jaime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

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

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello, >Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when > install or remove package. Maybe even better just run aptitude as ordinary user (from CLI). Whenever you want to commit something it will also ask you

Re: Aptitude can't upgrade Apt!

2007-06-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:14:16 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 23:19:03 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Running Sid. > > > > Some time ago I started getting this message from sudo > > aptitude update : > > You probably upgraded to apt version 0.7.2

Re: how to get a symbol of laplace in latex

2007-06-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:46:13PM +0800, li sh wrote: > Hello > I am using latex, and i want to use the 'L'-like symbol in the > Laplace transform. how to get it ? > I use $\laplace$, but the result doesn't seem to be that i want. > The UK TeX FAQ[1] has an entry for symbols[2]. The comprehens

Re: aptitude and apt-get path error

2007-06-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:02:59AM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > Hi, > > > > In attempt to run apt-get update or even aptitude update, i got the error > bellow: > > It seems the paths are wrongly typed. But I’m pretty sure they are correct > Looks like a network configuration problem. What d

how to get a symbol of laplace in latex

2007-06-13 Thread li sh
Hello I am using latex, and i want to use the 'L'-like symbol in the Laplace transform. how to get it ? I use $\laplace$, but the result doesn't seem to be that i want. -- lish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

aptitude and apt-get path error

2007-06-13 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi, In attempt to run apt-get update or even aptitude update, i got the error bellow: It seems the paths are wrongly typed. But I’m pretty sure they are correct debianserver:~# aptitude update Err http://ftp.br.debian.org etch Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ftp.br.debian.org' Ign h

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