Re: my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly

2007-06-23 Thread Thomas Hoppeer
Hi Arijit, Try look at this link maybe it gives you some hints what is going on. http://www.linuxconfig.org/HowTo_mount_cdrom_in_linux On 6/23/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 18:05:17 +0530, arijit sarkar wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a peculiar problem. o

Question about initrd and multiple cryptdisks

2007-06-23 Thread Edmund Jorgensen
Hi, I'm using Debian 4.0, and I installed with the encrypted root / lvm option. I have a second hard drive that I would like to encrypt and add to the same lvm group. The problem is that I would have to get the initrd image to prompt for the passphrase for the second disk as well, and I can't fi

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 23-06-2007 a las 18:43 -0700, L.V.Gandhi escribió: > On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within > double > quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not > performed on the > r

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-23 Thread Zach
On 6/23/07, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem with this solution being that you have to work out dependancy chains by yourself, where an apt-get/aptitude purge will work them out for you. To see for yourself, try it on any "-data" package. That's true but I like contro

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wu-Kung Sun, have solve the line breaking problem. Now something else. On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:23:34 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat temp1);do echo > "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done FYI, the best approach fo

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, Wu-Kung Sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results." So try "$(cat temp1)" - Thanks for the reply. However result was [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for line i

Re: synchronize sendemail / cyrus / ftp / ssh password

2007-06-23 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Till Wimmer wrote: i'm running a server for several customers using cyrus/IMAP, sendmail, apache2 and ssh. I'm looking for a way to store all the passwords for them in _one_ database so i can manage them easily by a web interface. By artifically tying the database concept

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread - Tong -
Wu-Kung Sun, have solve the line breaking problem. Now something else. On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:23:34 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat temp1);do echo > "20070622,$line">>temp2 ;done FYI, the best approach for your above is to use sed, which can still mainta

Re: backports

2007-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 17:28:19 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: [...] > > In backports-users Alexander Wirt wrote: > >> I have uploaded the bpo keyring to the archive which makes it > >> possible to add the bpo archive signing key via apt-get install > >> debian-backports-keyring to

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-06-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is a mailing list for sed [EMAIL PROTECTED] for those interested in keeping tabs on this editor and exchanging tips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
The bash manpage says "If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results." So try "$(cat temp1)" -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where does mailman put...

2007-06-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/23/07, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's all in those binary files. Mailman offers you some cli tools to work with them in the mailman/bin directory. Mucho thx. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with

Re: problems with radeon driver (solved)

2007-06-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:47 +0800, Bob wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:26 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 > >> (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't wo

courier-imap: IMAP_UMASK has no effect

2007-06-23 Thread info
Hi, I set IMAP_UMASK=077 in /etc/courier/imapd and restarted courier-imap, using Debian Etch. Then, I saved a message to the IMAP mailbox using KMail. The permissions of the message file are set to 0644, while I expected 0600. Can you reproduce that? Is it a bug? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRI

scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have a file temp1 as below [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ cat temp1 ABB,ABB LTD., 4730.00, 4779.00, 4700.00, 4726.45,59655 ACC,ACC LIMITED, 860.00, 864.90, 844.30, 852.25 ,228318 When I run on command line as [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stock$ for line in $(cat te

synchronize sendemail / cyrus / ftp / ssh password

2007-06-23 Thread Till Wimmer
Hello, i'm running a server for several customers using cyrus/IMAP, sendmail, apache2 and ssh. I'm looking for a way to store all the passwords for them in _one_ database so i can manage them easily by a web interface. My solution was to store the passwords in a MySQL table. Now the problem is

size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-23 Thread Steve Kleene
Is there a way to make the iceweasel window consistently pop up at the same position every time? I've been unable to control this. I'm calling Iceweasel 2.0.0.4 from an xterm under the fvwm-2.5.18-3 window manager. Adding a line like this to ~/.Xresources worked for Netscape but is ignored by ice

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1824

2007-06-23 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Baron wrote: > However, what harm would there be in it? Openoffice reads them and writes > them > and we like that, right? I rather prefer open documents that doc's and xls's, don't you? That's like "I can chat/surf in my Windows machine, the

Re: how to install ntfs-3g from etch-backports

2007-06-23 Thread Steffen Joeris
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:25:08 pm baldyeti wrote: > Added the necessary line to sources.list, yet apt-get > won't find the package. > > # apt-get -s -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g > > I cannot seem to make this work; thanks for any help. The only ntfs-3g package I could find on backports.org is a

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1824

2007-06-23 Thread David Baron
On Friday 22 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard > From: "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "debian users" > > Hi, > > This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Hagar de l'Est > < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >. > Is not exac

Re: [SOLVED] kqemu on Sid

2007-06-23 Thread David Baron
On Friday 22 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So qemu hangs in kernel 2.6.21 if you turned off paravirtualization and > are using kqemu. End of story. I am running 2.6.21 with no PARAVIRT and kqmeu works just fine. Might be that my old pentium-III clunker has no relevance for paravirtualiza

how to install ntfs-3g from etch-backports

2007-06-23 Thread baldyeti
Added the necessary line to sources.list, yet apt-get won't find the package. # apt-get -s -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g I cannot seem to make this work; thanks for any help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6 kernel upgrade gives garbled video (w/o X11)

2007-06-23 Thread cmiramon
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > so, who knows what else might have gotten changed and what other etch > stuff you may have drug in. One of these things could be causing a > problem. maybe console-tools? just a guess. > I had the same problem after yesterday upgrade on my sid 386 notebook. Downg

network configuration issue - iptables

2007-06-23 Thread Adam Hardy
I have set up a network for our house using a gateway server with etch and two NICs, eth1 for the internal network and eth2 for the DSL modem. I set up iptables with firewall-builder and all seems OK, but I can only ever access the web interface on the DSL modem from the gateway server directly

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 June 2007 at 09:31, Ross Boylan wrote: | On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: | > I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) | > with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a | > molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile | > with my install

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Launching /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm from a terminal yields the following lines: odd - that moved to /usr/bin last year. Is this from the updated Debian package? > Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: XF86Paste > Warning: ... found while pa

Re: Waking up server during boot prevents NFS mounts after upgrade to etch

2007-06-23 Thread Malte Forkel
Bob Proulx schrieb: This might help. Are you aware of the NFS mount option 'bg'? bg If the first NFS mount attempt times out, retry the mount in the background. After a mount operation is backgrounded, all subsequent mounts on the same NFS server will be backgrounded immediat

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
On 2007-06-23, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [rearranging for legibility] > On 6/22/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi. >> > >> > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: >> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr

Re: checkinstall lacking on stable

2007-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:32 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I am now at such cases for amd64 (dual core opterons) > with OpenMPI (a parallelization support) and Amber (a > molecular dynamics package), which I wish to compile > with my installed intel fortran and c. I can't help with your problem,

Re: backports

2007-06-23 Thread Chris Lale
Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: >> Francesco Pietra wrote: >>> deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free >> The above line works for me (giving only a GPG error) with both "aptitude >> update" and "apt-get update". > > Install the debian-backports-keyring pack

Re: backports

2007-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Lale wrote: > Francesco Pietra wrote: > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free > > The above line works for me (giving only a GPG error) with both "aptitude > update" and "apt-get update". Install the debian-backports-keyring package from backports. In b

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-23 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 6/18/07, Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:14:35 -0500 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian > Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting > ever more sluggish.

Re: Debian default ssh configuration problem with public/private key checking

2007-06-23 Thread - Tong -
Thanks for the respond Andrew, On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:50:17 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> I'm trying to setup Debian to accept my remote ssh >> login. No problem with that, but I'm facing a >> configuration problem: >> >> It doesn't seem to be able to handle/accept the public/private k

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/22/2007 05:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi folks :-) >> >> Which value hddtemp show? (about my ata disks, between 45-55 C) >> >> Is it correct? Or I should worry? >> > > 45-55 C seems a little hot. They will probalby work for you but your >

Re: compatible UPS - solved

2007-06-23 Thread Colin
csanyipal wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:32:32AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> csanyipal wrote: >>> http://www.apcupsd.org/ >>> >> And that site says that apcupsd supports an Inform Guard 600A? > > No, I actually haven't an Inform Guard 600A, but will to by some UPS. > On that site I find

Re: my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly

2007-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 18:05:17 +0530, arijit sarkar wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a peculiar problem. one of my DVD is not recognized when > inserted into DVD drive. > I've LG GSA-H10N DVD-RW. > When double-clicking on drive icon from nautilus, i get this error > message: > > mount: block devic

mplayer permissions?

2007-06-23 Thread Barry Samuels
Further to my previous post I discovered that by deleting the mplayer configuration in the user's home directory I could then get mlayer to start from the command line although it would still have the same problem with videos on the web. I realised that on the machine that did work it did h

my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly

2007-06-23 Thread arijit sarkar
Hi, I am facing a peculiar problem. one of my DVD is not recognized when inserted into DVD drive. I've LG GSA-H10N DVD-RW. When double-clicking on drive icon from nautilus, i get this error message: mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad opt

Re: which program can read M$ Access file (.mdb)

2007-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.06.07 19:18, Serena Cantor wrote: > So many software I have never heard of! you've heard now... use "dpkg -p mdbtools" etc. > I'd rather install a pirated version of M$ Office > Thanks anyway! > > --- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > kexi-mdb-plugin - MS Access (MDB) driver

xterm hanging

2007-06-23 Thread pol
Launching /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm from a terminal yields the following lines: Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: XF86Paste Warning: ... found while parsing ' XF86Paste:insert-selection(SELECT, CUT_BUFFER0) ' Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion enc

mplayer permissions?

2007-06-23 Thread Barry Samuels
I posted very recently about a problem I was having with mplayer starting and immediately stopping on one of our machines. I have noticed another poster in this list with, apparently, the same problem. I have discovered that root can run mplayer without problems so it seems to be a permis

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Manon Metten wrote: Hi, This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by Hagar de l'Est < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >. Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us. Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxm

Re: Epiphany crashes

2007-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:28:00 +0530 Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:28:00AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > Any suggestions? Anything I should remove? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Kumar > > > > Doesn't epiphany store its user preferences under ~/.gconf?

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Mike, We both have the same kind of sound card. Things to do if those haven't yet been done. Understand first Debian is a light traveling operating system; what packages you didn't download beyond a basic set will not be on your system. Contrast that with say slackware where all packages s

Re: sound problem

2007-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 17:13:40 +0800, Canhua wrote: > hi, all, my laptop has problem out sound. > Mine is a samsung laptop, running debian testing. > > "lspci|grep audio" outputs: > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controll

Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel

2007-06-23 Thread Joris
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 12:12 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Mr. Kaye, many thanks. Unfortunately, there is no such option in the > two "mouse" related sections: > > == > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option

Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel

2007-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:12:15 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007, Jonathan Kaye was heard to > say: > > The mouse/touchpad is controlled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Look for a > > Section "InputDevice" and if you see something like this: > >  Option          "ZAxisMapping"          

Re: apt-caher or approx?

2007-06-23 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 22-06-2007, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El vie, 22-06-2007 a las 15:50 -0300, Andrés Ghigliazza escribió: >> Hi there, >> >> We will soon have, 5 or 6 Debian boxs (servers and desktops), in our >> LAN. We would like to know, if it is better to use apt-cacher o approx >

Re: backports

2007-06-23 Thread Chris Lale
Francesco Pietra wrote: > I need to install "checkinstall" for Linux Debian etch, from backports, > primarily on amd64 etch. To check viability, and modifying a recipe found for > "sarge", I unsuccessfully tried with i386 by: > > (1) Adding this line to my /etc/apt/sources.list file > > deb http:

Re: Epiphany crashes

2007-06-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:28:00AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Any suggestions? Anything I should remove? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Kumar > > Doesn't epiphany store its user preferences under ~/.gconf? You could > use gconf-editor to reset epiphany's entries. Well, a removal of .gconf also did

Re: Epiphany crashes

2007-06-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:45:07 +0530 Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever I start epiphany, it just crashes, and I get the following > dialog box: > > > > The application epiphany-br

Epiphany crashes

2007-06-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Whenever I start epiphany, it just crashes, and I get the following dialog box: The application epiphany-browser has crashed.

Re: Purge leaves some files

2007-06-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > I suspect that the package maintainers neglected the full purging script. > This > seems to be the case with a number of packages that I have encountered. They > either do not fully remove the binaries, libraries, and documentatio