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

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Signed for good. :)

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Chuck Payne wrote: Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am no

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:35:19AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > >>Chuck Payne wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. > >>>I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install > >>>exim. I have try to google, but

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Chuck Payne
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Chuck Payne wrote: Hi, I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install exim. I have tr

Re: stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:19:22AM +, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even fully > diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are: > 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and > annoying) during long

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:45:26AM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Chuck Payne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. > > I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install > > exim. I have try to google, but mo

Re: reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:51:38PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. on June 21... > > Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I > received my cc: email, there was no acknowlegement from the Debian Bu

Re: how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. > I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install > exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it >

Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

2007-06-24 Thread rocky
On Jun 15, 5:30 pm, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:15:13 -, rocky wrote: > > Hey, > > > I updated my debian box to the latest stable release which is etch. > > And the xserver stop working. I start the machine with a knoppix live > > CD version 2.78 runin

reportbug emails [EMAIL PROTECTED] but no response

2007-06-24 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, the last bug I successfully submitted via reportbug was #429996. Since then I have attempted to submit a couple more bugs, but although I received my cc: email, there was no acknowlegement from the Debian Bug Tracking System, nor did the reports appear on bugs.debian.org. The last bug I c

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

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:18:49PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > So many software I have never heard of! > I'd rather install a pirated version of M$ Office > Thanks anyway! are you freakin' serious? you ask for help from this list on how to use all this great free software and then when its possi

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

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:39:13AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Manon Metten wrote: > > > >Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition. > >(Cookies have to be enabled for this site.) > > yep. done. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

how to exclude a package

2007-06-24 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app. Payne -- To UNSU

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

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Malte Forkel wrote: > No, I wasn't. Thanks! After adding the 'bg' option, the NFS mounts work > again. Results depend on ASYNCMOUNTNFS. This is probably related: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-sysvinit-commits/2006-November/000923.html "It is useful to disable this on machine

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

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:39:44PM +, - Tong - wrote: > 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:

Re: network configuration issue - iptables

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:35:09PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > 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 acces

Re: size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:13:55PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > 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 lin

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Zach wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > >To see for yourself, try it on any "-data" package. > > That's true but I like controlling exactly what is purged and I prefer > CLI over GUI. apt-get is a CLI. Try 'apt-get remove --purge somepackage'. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

stability problem; Asus M2N-MX mobo AMD 64; etch; is it hardware or software?

2007-06-24 Thread Prismatic Plasma
I've had this problem for a while, and I can't seem to solve or even fully diagnose what's wrong. The 2 most common symptoms are: 1) random segmentation faults during compiling. It's most apparent (and annoying) during long compiles. There's sometimes an assembler message instead, complaining ab

Re: Nvidia Card - nvidia driver or nv ?

2007-06-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 June 2007, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have a nvidia card, and I was wondering if I should be using the > nv driver or the nvidia driver. I don't do any thing flash, watch > movies with mplayer and some developmen

Re: GNU/linux equivalent to Windows 'expand' command?

2007-06-24 Thread Gernot Hassenpflug
Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > `p`p`pOn Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:35:08PM +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been trying to use PPDs for some Konica Minolta all-in-ones >> (Bizhub C450 and 550), and the driver pacakges from Win2000 and WinXP >> could be unzipped und

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on > another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and > burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all > hard dr

Re: Fail2ban application

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 10:54:49PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > I get sporadic and not uncommon failures to authenticate sending email using > exim4 smarthosting to my provider. Is there a way to get fail2ban to give me > immediate notification when this occurs? fail2ban is designed to ban ip add

Gallery2-Sarge

2007-06-24 Thread John Fleming
Hello - I've used Gallery2 and Gallery1 by installing from the tar.gz package from the menalto website. I see they are available in Sarge, and I have questions about installing one codebase and using from several different virtual host URLs. I'd like to know more about how the install goes us

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/24/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kby

[SOLVED]: Ethernet RJ-45 Not Working

2007-06-24 Thread TW
I reinstalled the OS and it works fine. ~Telly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:14:40PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Carl. > > Carl Fink, 24.06.2007 22:37: > > Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? > > I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. > > Any errors? What about ~/.xsession-er

Re: xterm hanging

2007-06-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: apt-caher or approx?

2007-06-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:56:48PM +, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > I am using approx for a at least one year now. I used apt-proxy before. > Approx is fast and simple. There is almost no configuration (just add > the repository you want to use) and change the sources.list of your > host. Concern

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-24 Thread Owen Heisler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/22/2007 05:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Quoting Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> 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

Re: Server keeps freezing up

2007-06-24 Thread Till Wimmer
Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi Till > > Thank you very much for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. You're welcome. > > > What does concern me however is that the freeze starts first with > mysql and in particular quite heavy load database on that. Basically > that database crashes while t

Re: Server keeps freezing up

2007-06-24 Thread Till Wimmer
Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi Till > > Thank you very much for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. You're welcome. > > > What does concern me however is that the freeze starts first with > mysql and in particular quite heavy load database on that. Basically > that database crashes while t

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

2007-06-24 Thread baldyeti
Thanks for your replies gents. It seems reliability is not fully guaranteed unless one runs under 2.6.20+ with fuse 2.6.9+. Etch fulfils neither requirement. Apt-cache tells me I could install 2.6.21 (probably thanks to etch-backports). Do you think the kernel upgrade would take care of fuse, and

Re: time zone

2007-06-24 Thread s. keeling
j j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there See /etc/default/rcS Please don't post html to mailing lists. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread s. keeling
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kbyA8Zy5wYXJyb25kb0BnbWFpbC5jb20+IHdyb3Rl > Ogo+Cj4gR

Re: Memory leaks and swap

2007-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:50:39PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > Hi! > > Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process > with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. > Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down >

Re: Server keeps freezing up

2007-06-24 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi Till Thank you very much for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. On 6/24/07, Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sounds to me like a hardware problem. Or did the problem start after a certain update? What do the log files look like just before the crash? This problem began

Re: Server keeps freezing up

2007-06-24 Thread Till Wimmer
Hi Justin, sounds to me like a hardware problem. Or did the problem start after a certain update? What do the log files look like just before the crash? Maybe you should run a memory check or change the RAM bars. Did you check the BIOS settings? Maybe there are wrong timing settings for the RAM.

Re: mail server for offline system

2007-06-24 Thread Hans du Plooy
Owen Heisler wrote: Postfix, exim4, or any other decent mail server in Deiban that (preferrably) can be configured easily with will suffice. The server must support Maildir folders, honor the ~/.forward file (perhaps they all do?), and not attempt to deliver non-local messages when a specified i

Nvidia Card - nvidia driver or nv ?

2007-06-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a nvidia card, and I was wondering if I should be using the nv driver or the nvidia driver. I don't do any thing flash, watch movies with mplayer and some development work with eclipse and firefox. I do use the TV out on one of my machines. Last time I checked the main difference wa

Re: Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-24 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Carl. Carl Fink, 24.06.2007 22:37: > Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? > I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. Any errors? What about ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Does totem-gstreamer work? What version are you r

mail server for offline system

2007-06-24 Thread Owen Heisler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I'm sorry if this message shows up several times; mutt mangled my mail) I've been using Postfix, but would like to find a mail server that supports running on an offline system. I tried masqmail, but it is old, has lots of very old bugs, and the sof

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-06-24 Thread David Fox
On 6/24/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: First of all, I would quickly try if the crash on shutdown goes away when you use the "nv" or the "vesa" driver. (Just to make sure that we only have to worry about the nvidia driver and nothing else.) I guess I could try that. The Xo

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-06-24 Thread Sam Leon
David Fox wrote: Hello, when I was running etch I had the nvidia driver on a Geforce FX 5200 running just fine. I've done a recent (as of a few days ago) dist-upgrade to lenny and the DRI no longer works. Additionally, I'm seeing a stack backtrace and a sig11 from the X server on shutdo

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 08:36:12 -0700, David Fox wrote: > Hello, when I was running etch I had the nvidia driver on a Geforce FX > 5200 running just fine. > > I've done a recent (as of a few days ago) dist-upgrade to lenny and > the DRI no longer works. > > Additionally, I'm seeing a stack backtra

Re: I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ? It's stable, usable ?

2007-06-24 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
We are using it since month ago. No problems.(Not too much time, though). But I believe it's worth trying, because I don't know any other simple and secure way to share files under Linux. 2007/6/18, KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I would like know if someone use or have used NFS v4 ?

Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. I read the list, no need for personal answers. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blog

Server keeps freezing up

2007-06-24 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi Folks I have a major problem in that my Debian Etch server keeps freezing and the only way to get it back online is to manually reboot it. This started about a month ago but as time increases so does the amount of freezes and to be honest I don't have a clue where to start to resolve this issu

Ethernet Not Working With RJ-45 Cable

2007-06-24 Thread Telly Williams
I have been connecting to the internet via USB cable on my laptop, which works fine, but, when I take out the USB cable and attempt to use a Computer Network Cable (Category 5E, RJ-45) I dont' get a connection anymore (even though it says I'm connected). I even set SELinux to passive to see if

Re: time zone

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-24-06 at 19:59 +, j j wrote: > Hello > > The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is > there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? I think tzconfig will setup your time zone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Fail2ban application

2007-06-24 Thread David Baron
I get sporadic and not uncommon failures to authenticate sending email using exim4 smarthosting to my provider. Is there a way to get fail2ban to give me immediate notification when this occurs? Such occurances get to /var/log/auth and other logs as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

time zone

2007-06-24 Thread j j
Hello The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? I remember older debian used to have base-config; what is it replaced with in the current debian 4(64 studio). I know libc6 is involve, but I am not sure how to te

Memory leaks and swap

2007-06-24 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hi! Sometimes I experience system hangs because of memory leaks. A process with a memory leak eats all memory till the system starts swapping. Only a few seconds after the process was started the system slows down till it is practically useless. I believe this could be prevented by deactivating sw

Re: size and position of iceweasel window

2007-06-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:13:55 -0400 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-06-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had burn

Apache Dying Weekly

2007-06-24 Thread ejahn
This same problem cropped up for me when I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. I think, in my case, the problem was that the /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 script/conf file wasn't updated to say "/etc/init.d/apache2 reload" and still had the older "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart" which failed. -- To UNSUB

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

2007-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 12:36:01PM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: > I'm sorry, was that sarcasm? Or, did you not realize that you told me to do > what my transcript shows me doing on the first line? It was. And I didn't remember the subject. Bad, cranky day, caffeine deficiency, lack of sleep or

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

2007-06-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Richard Bronosky wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep f-spot > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Build-dependencies for f-spot could not be satisfied. If you are doing this on Etch (as you mentioned), then my guess is that you have deb-src, deb

Re: "shell" in Makefile

2007-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:40:40AM -0700, Easthope wrote: > Debian users, > > In > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a= > summary > > Vivek described a makefile containing this text. > > obj-m := hello.o > KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build > PWD :

exim macro DEBCONFstringOK_config_adapted

2007-06-24 Thread David Baron
I want to keep my config files for exim4 for now. Where do I place this macro and how? Just says to "do it" :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB Failed To Install on a Large (280 GB) HD

2007-06-24 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
It's an EIDE drive. On 24.06.2007 at 18:41 Mathias Chauvin wrote: >Hello, > >What is your hardware? The GRUB installation may failed due to SATA >settings. You may use the console (CTRL-ALT-F2) to debug the GRUB >installation... > >-- > work hard, die young > IT Stuff on http://blog.m

"shell" in Makefile

2007-06-24 Thread Easthope
Debian users, In http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a= summary Vivek described a makefile containing this text. obj-m := hello.o KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build PWD := $(shell pwd) default: $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules shell is no

Re: GRUB Failed To Install on a Large (280 GB) HD

2007-06-24 Thread Mathias Chauvin
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 10:44:26AM -0600, Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: > Hello, last net installer image (Debian 4.0 r0 i3) failed to install GRUB > on a large 280-GB drive (Seagate ST3300831A). > > BIOS MBR protection is off. > > Any suggestions? Hello, What is your hardware? The GRUB installatio

Re: backports

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > Yes, you can: Just run the "gpg ... --recv-keys ..." command as your > normal user and the new key will be added (as untrusted) to your normal > user's public keyring. Then you can perform the check: [...] Thanks for the details, Florian. I'll try it out. -- Chr

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

2007-06-24 Thread Richard Bronosky
I'm sorry, was that sarcasm? Or, did you not realize that you told me to do what my transcript shows me doing on the first line? The second command I issue was an attempt at getting more feedback than the simple: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Build-dependenci

retrieving source text for a driver

2007-06-24 Thread Easthope
;Debian users, At Wed, 6 Jun 2007 11:46:42 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, "... this email flamingice sent to the adm8211 ml ... ... wireless-dev git repository ..." So I went to http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a= summary and found a list of revisions of ma

Re: Slightly annoyed question about Debian package system

2007-06-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 10:35:54PM +0200, Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Is there any chance to find out in which package the start-stop-daemon > is w/o reinstalling the whole debian distribution and hopeing that it > will be installed automatically? If I understand your question,

GRUB Failed To Install on a Large (280 GB) HD

2007-06-24 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Hello, last net installer image (Debian 4.0 r0 i3) failed to install GRUB on a large 280-GB drive (Seagate ST3300831A). BIOS MBR protection is off. Any suggestions? Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypip

Solved Re: Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel

2007-06-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 June 2007, Joris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > So, in the touchpad section, add: > > Option  "VertEdgeScroll""false" > > Enjoy! Success! No more accidental scrolling! Many thanks. I did look through th

lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-06-24 Thread David Fox
Hello, when I was running etch I had the nvidia driver on a Geforce FX 5200 running just fine. I've done a recent (as of a few days ago) dist-upgrade to lenny and the DRI no longer works. Additionally, I'm seeing a stack backtrace and a sig11 from the X server on shutdown. I just did an aptitude

Re: Connected to DHCP server but cannot access internet

2007-06-24 Thread Rehceb Rotkiv
OK, I got it. There was a second DHCP server in the network without an internet connection! While the other operating systems (Windows) by chance chose the right server, Debian got the wrong one. Funny, who would have guessed that... Thanks for your help anyway! -- View this message in context:

Re: windows compatability issues with ftpd (wrong filenames sent)

2007-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 24.06.07 15:46, Micha Feigin wrote: > I set up ftpd on my machine to easily trasfer the occational files to > windows systems (it's usually disabled for the security aware, only > enabled inside secure networks for the duration of the transfers) which ftpd? > The problem: the file names and di

Re: adsl usb

2007-06-24 Thread Sudev Barar
On 24/06/07, seeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how can i hook up my adsl modem using the usb instead of the ethernet connection? the modem is a netopis cayman 3300 series? Lookup http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/ I think this is also now in the debian repos. HTH -- Regards, Sudev Barar -- To UNSUB

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

2007-06-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi! On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:09:49AM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep f-spot > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Build-dependencies for f-spot could not be satisfied. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -b source f-s

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/24/07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23.06.07 14:23, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Subject: scripting - cat breaking line > 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,A

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/23/07, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 pathna

Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

2007-06-24 Thread Richard Bronosky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep f-spot Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Build-dependencies for f-spot could not be satisfied. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -b source f-spot Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Need to get 1

windows compatability issues with ftpd (wrong filenames sent)

2007-06-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I set up ftpd on my machine to easily trasfer the occational files to windows systems (it's usually disabled for the security aware, only enabled inside secure networks for the duration of the transfers) The problem: the file names and directories appear under windows with their time as part of th

Re: How Can I Setup procmail to deliver into /var/mail[solved]

2007-06-24 Thread Orestes leal
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:32:36 +0530 Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, you right!, I make a symlink and worked, thanks for the tip, and thanks to the list an all the folks. > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:57:11PM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > > Why ? Why not just make a symlink? > > On

adsl usb

2007-06-24 Thread seeds
how can i hook up my adsl modem using the usb instead of the ethernet connection? the modem is a netopis cayman 3300 series? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: courier-imap: IMAP_UMASK has no effect

2007-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.06.07 23:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 tha

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.06.07 14:23, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Subject: scripting - cat breaking line > 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

Re: backports

2007-06-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 08:54:05 +0100, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > > > An even better approach would be to download the Backports.org Archive > > Key manually and to check the signature before adding the new key to > > apt's keyring. (Installing the debian-backports-keyr

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Lale
Mike McCarty wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: >> >> dmesg indicates that a Via chipset has been detected: >> Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3 >> >> The Alsa Soundcard Matrix[1] indicates that this is built into the >> motherboard >> ("VIA southbridge AC97 audio"). > > I just talked on the '

Apache 2.2 rewrite rule help needed

2007-06-24 Thread Jim Seymour
Hi All, Running Apache 2.2 on Debian testing and having no luck getting a rewrite rule to work. Straight out of the rewrite guide I am trying the following to force the domain name to always be displayed as www.domain.com even when it is accessed as domain.com. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP

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

2007-06-24 Thread andy
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 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 petiti

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

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Lale
Steffen Joeris wrote: > 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 c

Re: backports

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Lale
Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > An even better approach would be to download the Backports.org Archive > Key manually and to check the signature before adding the new key to > apt's keyring. (Installing the debian-backports-keyring package directly > means that an unverified post-installation scri