Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Orestes Leal
El Mar, 14 de Agosto de 2007, 8:29 pm, Frank McCormick escribió: > >> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 >> Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Frank McCormick wrote: >> > > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, >> > > which aptitude dumped into /usr

Re: Where to get debian iso public pgp key?

2007-08-14 Thread Joey Hess
Pat wrote: >Hello, > I have downloaded the md5sums file for the iso images and gpg gives me: > gpg: Signature made Sat 07 Apr 2007 09:17:29 PM CDT using DSA key ID >88C7C1F7 >gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found > >Where do I find this key for verification? It i

Re: pacakges installation report

2007-08-14 Thread Wei Wang
As far as I know, Aptitude records its log in /var/log On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:52 +0200, pol wrote: > i would like to log installation and uninstallation of the deb packages: i > mean a time ordered list of the admin operations. > Any ideas? > > thank you > > -- > Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Where to get debian iso public pgp key?

2007-08-14 Thread Pat
Hello, I have downloaded the md5sums file for the iso images and gpg gives me: gpg: Signature made Sat 07 Apr 2007 09:17:29 PM CDT using DSA key ID 88C7C1F7 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found Where do I find this key for verification? It is not on https://db.debian.org/ or http://k

Bugs (pppoe & disable root login) about Debian 4.0(Etch) Installation

2007-08-14 Thread Huang, Kuan-Chung
1. I use netinst CD to Install "etch" on my PC (Intelx86 - CPU is AMD duron 800MHz) with the following boot parameters: expert modules=ppp-udeb 2. The language for installation is zh_TW (Chinese traditional) and the keyboard mapping is US. 3. During installation I choose to NOT

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 20:54 -0400, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? > > In my script I have > > touch -r "$file1" "$file2" > > the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. > > The problem is when file1/2 are irregular

photo album or photo viewer in xfce

2007-08-14 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, Can anyone recommend a package or application for efficient viewing of photos in xfce? I installed showfoto in one system; it invokes many dependencies. Thanks, ... Peter E. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/14/2007 07:54 PM, - Tong - wrote: Hi, How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? In my script I have touch -r "$file1" "$file2" the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g., -test.file1/

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:54:33PM -0400, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? > > In my script I have > > touch -r "$file1" "$file2" > > the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. > > The problem is when file1/2 are irr

Re: Re: problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Diego Brouard
Hi. The hardware is a PIV 2.8 ( is not "so" old :) ) I've made my homework ( http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk.html ) and AFAIK, all that "CHS" stuff is not applyable for modern hard drives and it seems that Linux just ignores it. Also, I modprobed "edd" linux module which gives

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-14 Thread kaldrenon
On Aug 14, 7:30 am, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED] muenchen.de> wrote: > Try installing and using xserver-xorg-video-intel. It is only available > for lenny/testing and sid, unfortunately [1]. (I didn't succeed in > running i810 on etch with the displays wide display resolution.) Taking yo

Re: new

2007-08-14 Thread Wei Wang
Check the following URL to see whether your scanner is supported by SANE or not. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:00 -0500, Charlotte Mooney wrote: > I am new to the Debian world but my question is I have a flatbed scanner > that was working on win98

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-14 Thread William Walter
>On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 13:56:21 -0400, William Walter wrote: > The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and > Debian Etch refuse to boot up. > I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixing this problem. Is > there anything else I should > do? > >>Florian Ku

Re: Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 17:54, - Tong - wrote: > How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? > > In my script I have > > touch -r "$file1" "$file2" > > the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. > > The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g.,

Command touch and irregular file names

2007-08-14 Thread - Tong -
Hi, How to let command touch to work with irregular file names? In my script I have touch -r "$file1" "$file2" the file1/2 can be anything file, ../path/file, /root/file, etc. The problem is when file1/2 are irregular file names. E.g., -test.file1/2. I.e., anyway to make the following touc

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
> 2. when i go to the gui -opendesktop --and i click on the network applete, > and deactivate the adapter and activate ---I am able to ping on my local > network. > 3. i can not ping past the my default gateway ---i double checked the > default gateway settings they are correct standard 192.168.2.1

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Habashy
On 8/14/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh, I know how to make that happen. Just put the dsl or router's > configuration address in the /etc/resolv.conf file as the search domain > and clear out the servers in that file. Could be your router or modem was > told by your provider o

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-14 Thread kaldrenon
On Aug 14, 7:30 am, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED] muenchen.de> wrote: > Try installing and using xserver-xorg-video-intel. It is only available > for lenny/testing and sid, unfortunately [1]. (I didn't succeed in > running i810 on etch with the displays wide display resolution.) This sou

human engine ?

2007-08-14 Thread lostson
Hello Is it possible to get the human style and engine on Debian ? I have been googling trying to find an answer with no luck. Or maybe the glossy theme but I think that is included in gnome 2.18. I really like both of those styles and am curious if this is possible, thanks. LostSon -- To UNSU

Can't print web pages correctly

2007-08-14 Thread Keith Bates
Hi, I'm currently using "testing" and I have this problem that regardless of the web browser (Mozilla based, Opera, Konqueror), pages are printed with the wrong orientation. If I print them in portrait, they come out landscape. but obviously with the bottom part of the page cut off. If I print th

Controlling Syslog Rollovers

2007-08-14 Thread Martin McCormick
Is it possible to tell syslogd under what conditions to roll over each syslog file? Under FreeBSD, for example, there is a file called newsyslog.conf which lets one tellsyslogd to start a new syslog file at Midnight or some other designated hour instead of just waiting until the log file ha

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Guys, I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit but I was looking fo

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 20:39, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my > reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was > looking for a good diagramming software

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-14 Thread Anthony M Simonelli
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 01:39 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my > reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was > looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 17:14, koffiejunkie wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/14/07 14:40, koffiejunkie wrote: >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> I have a strange problem. I use an external IDE/Firewire enclosure on >>

Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey Guys, I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit but I was looking for something with a little less learning curve. Ot

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Takehiko Abe
Frank McCormick wrote: >>> Well, I always store there all the sources related with my kernel, >>> modules, etc... I haven't get any problem... BTW, remember doing >>> the symlink to /usr/src/linux from your kernel-source. >> >> Well then why the warning from the Kernel developers? And what's >> t

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Frank McCormick wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 > > Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, > > > > which aptitude dumped into

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Xft.antialias: 1 > Xft.dpi: 93 > Xft.hinting: 1 > Xft.hintstyle: hintfull > Xft.rgba: rgb > Thank you for your suggestions. I will try this out. I am by the way using DWM for my window manager and I have an .Xdefaults file with some xterm font settings. Should I put your config there or in a sep

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > aterm is also a very nice replacement to xterm because it uses so little > memory. (The 3 aterm windows I have up right now show RSS of 2404, > 2448, and 2464 in output from ps aux.) There are several variables. For instance, the scrollback size affects t

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread michael
Copying the same file to the notebook's internal drive via samba works fine, and then copying the file from the notebook's drive to the external drive (i.e. no samba) works fine. Any ideas? Would be interested to see if sharing the drive via netatalk makes a difference. Have you tried this?

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-14 Thread Frank McCormick
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 > Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, > > > which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of > > > the first things it says is " D

Re: can't receive mail

2007-08-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Steve Kleene wrote: I am trying to replace my old Red Hat 6 mail server with an Etch machine. Welcome At the moment, the Etch machine can send mail but not receive it. In all cases I am using sendmail. The default installation of sendmail only listens on localhost. C

Re: Sendmail +SASL +openldap

2007-08-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi community Hello I have to authenticate Sendmail using openldap (I can't choose another SMTP is for my job, also I've already got cyrus-imap using sasl and openldap). I use sendmail/openldap/dovecot Should I SASL in order to integrate both send

NIS ypbind -p option

2007-08-14 Thread Vassilis Vatikiotis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anyone dealing with the lack of -p option (fixed port for ypbind) in ypbind (nis package). Is there a package maintainer/developer for the nis package? thx -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mo

Re: problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Diego Brouard wrote: Hi. I'm not sure if this is a debian caused problem but perhaps. I installed recently a debian etch box on a RAID 1 based on one IDE hard disk. My intention was adding its pair later. Now I want to add this second hard disk. Both are identical model but for one de them, fdi

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Oh, I know how to make that happen. Just put the dsl or router's configuration address in the /etc/resolv.conf file as the search domain and clear out the servers in that file. Could be your router or modem was told by your provider or manufacturer that it needs a firmware update. Another pos

Re: courier imap fails to create a cache file (=UML hostfs problem)

2007-08-14 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Benedict Verheyen schreef: Hin i installed courier imap 4.1.1 in an uml server as replacement for my current vserver setup. It also has exim 4.63, maildrop, getmail4, spamassassin and clamav. Courier is giving me following errors: Aug 14 13:06:44 loki imapd: Error: Permission denied Aug 14 13

Re: can not launch any window manager -- solved

2007-08-14 Thread B Thomas
Thank you for all your help. It turned out that reinstalling libxdmcp6 solved the problem. Apparently this library must have got corrupted during the hard boot. Are there any utilities in debian that will scan all files and report which are corrupted ? regards b thomas On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at

a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Habashy
Hi -i got a crazy connectivity issue on my hands. THis machine was running fine for about a month or so --then i lost connectivity. I have no errors to tell me what is going on. i have switched the built-in nic on the motherboard and the hub ports --there are other devices that working fine. I have

Re: (solved) Re: how to (dis)allow some users from using wireless router?

2007-08-14 Thread Adrian Levi
On 8/15/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:57:45 +1000 > "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 8/13/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:18:19 +1000 > > > > > > > > > I don't quite follow you. Can you explain in more detail?

problem with hard disk geometry

2007-08-14 Thread Diego Brouard
Hi. I'm not sure if this is a debian caused problem but perhaps. I installed recently a debian etch box on a RAID 1 based on one IDE hard disk. My intention was adding its pair later. Now I want to add this second hard disk. Both are identical model but for one de them, fdisk tells me a wrong geo

Re: Iceweasel file associations

2007-08-14 Thread Steven
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:40:45 -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00763.html has a link to > an extension that does this. http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258012

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread koffiejunkie
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 14:40, koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, I have a strange problem. I use an external IDE/Firewire enclosure on my notebook. This works 100%, is solid as a rock and performs very very well. It works with USB2 too, relia

Re: can not launch any window manager

2007-08-14 Thread Steven
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:02:02 -0400, B Thomas wrote: > functioning cursor. No matter what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the Feel free to post your ~/.xinitrc Have you modified any files in /etc/X11 ? By default, even if all else fails, you should be presented with at least one term window. Wh

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 14:40, koffiejunkie wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a strange problem. I use an external IDE/Firewire enclosure on > my notebook. This works 100%, is solid as a rock and performs very very > well. It works with USB2 too, reliably, just sl

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 21:19 Tue 14 Aug , John K Masters wrote: > On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second > > computer > > to try things on

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer > to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move > everything

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Michael Shuler
On 08/14/2007 03:06 PM, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote: >> First...vim. (Yeah, I'm old school) OK. I'm in text entry mode and >> I want to navagate up/down/left or right. If I press an arrow key, a >> new line is opened and a character ("B" or "D" or ...) is put in the >> first po

can't receive mail

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Kleene
I am trying to replace my old Red Hat 6 mail server with an Etch machine. At the moment, the Etch machine can send mail but not receive it. In all cases I am using sendmail. The server (Syrano) has a fixed IP address within the university system. I have both Old Syrano and New Syrano configured

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've

Re: can not launch any window manager

2007-08-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/14/2007 01:02 AM, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and > imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch > any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm). All I see > is a grey background with a functioning cursor. No matter >

Samba + external drives

2007-08-14 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I have a strange problem. I use an external IDE/Firewire enclosure on my notebook. This works 100%, is solid as a rock and performs very very well. It works with USB2 too, reliably, just slower. I have a Mac Mini at home, so I have some samba shares on the external drive. The M

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/14/2007 02:37 AM, pedxing wrote: > I can sympathize with the OP, it's nice to get to the part of the man > page you want, then just dump out of less and have the relevant bit > still on the screen. On my etch box, that is the default behavior for aterm; exiting less just returns the bash pr

Re: change/add kernel module options on boot

2007-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 16:11:50 +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello. > I have a server with a fiberchanner adapter which needs the option > lpfc_topology=0x02 set. > Where can I do It? > I've tried adding the following line on /etc/modules without success: > option lpfc lpfc_topology=0x02 I

Kicker eats memory in unstable

2007-08-14 Thread nicals wahlgren
Unstable, amd64. Kicker, 3.5.7-2+b1, eats memory, after about 1h VmSize =1.5G, VmRss = 750M. Anyone else got this problem? Ideas what to do? System: Amd64x2 5600, 2G memory /N -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move everything else over shortly. Right now, I've got two annoyances tha

Kicker eats memory in unstable

2007-08-14 Thread nicals wahlgren
Unstable, amd64. Kicker, 3.5.7-2+b1, eats memory, after about 1h VmSize =1.5G, VmRss = 750M. Anyone else got this problem? Ideas what to do? System: Amd64x2 5600, 2G memory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspend resumes after 6 minutes!

2007-08-14 Thread marc
Florian Kulzer said... > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:39:55 +0100, marc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using KDE or Gnome on a laptop, when I suspend, all seems fine. And, if > > I resume within approx. 10 mins, the resume works as expected. > > > > However, when I resume after 10 mins or so, the fan star

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Steven R. wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other day: IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... blah blah blah and I knew it was a hack because setting $IFS just seems bad..

Re: (solved) Re: how to (dis)allow some users from using wireless router?

2007-08-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:57:45 +1000 "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/13/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:18:19 +1000 > > > > > I don't quite follow you. Can you explain in more detail? > > > > Celejar > > Ok, Assuming your wireless router can use

Re: shutdown

2007-08-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/14/2007 09:02 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: Alas, it did not work. The computer at my workplace, which also has Etch, does shutdown properly, though. One difference between these computers was in the setup of them -- I installed the default desktop for the computer at work (which is also an

can not launch any window manager

2007-08-14 Thread B Thomas
Hi, I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm). All I see is a grey background with a functioning cursor. No matter what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the result. This d

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, personally I'd say they both equally powerfull in general (I think both a touring complete which makes them both full grown programming languages - correct me if i'm wrong) depending on the job i use one over the other. If it would be a python script only spawning OS processes it might be a l

Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, might be A LOT more convienient aptitude search ajp (proxy_ajp something like that) # mind the target protocol RewriteRule ^/foo ajp://the.host.with.tomcat:8009/path/to/webapp hth martin On 8/14/07, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Has anyone built mod_jk for sid?

Re: shutdown

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:00:13 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it's more a kernel thingy, along with some hardware. > > Anyway. when you get Grubs menu, select the kernel you want to boot, > then press "a". Do one space, and add acpi=force to the kernel line, > then press "b" , and t

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-14 09:32:44 -0400, Steven R. wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other > > day: > > > > IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... blah blah blah > > > > and

Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi all, Has anyone built mod_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris libapache2-mod-jk should be available for sid or does that not do what you are looking

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-13 14:40:57 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> There's a big difference: GCC is useless for the end user. And >> I don't think that old GCC versions are really necessary. > > They are if you need to compile old software. Some stuff just

Re: new

2007-08-14 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:13:56 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am new to the Debian world but my question is I have a flatbed > scanner that was working on win98 se I think I downloaded the proper > package for it but still can't get to work, for I feel I don't know > the proper way of gett

Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi all, Has anyone built mod_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

laptop-mode vs powersaved

2007-08-14 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, Just wondering if I'm understanding this correctly: powersaved and laptop-mode does the same thing, so I should use one or the other, but not both. Is this correct? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: > > Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen > except > for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream > vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. Put Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dp

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Applebaum
> > I can sympathize with the OP, it's nice to get to the part of the man > page you want, then just dump out of less and have the relevant bit > still on the screen. > > A way to do this without opening a second xterm is to run screen in > your terminal session. Then it is even easier to flip

HTC as USB gprs/edge modem on linux

2007-08-14 Thread b0f
Hi, I've got an HTC P4350 running Win Mobile 5. I can synchronize data with synce, everything work fine. But i can't use it as an USB modem on linux, where as everything work fine on windows. To get it working with windows, i activate the 'internet share' on the HTC and plug it to the laptop by

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Steven R.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > So what's the right way to do this? I hacked one together the other > day: > > IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... blah blah blah > > and I knew it was a hack because setting $IFS just seems > bad... p

Re: kernel compile module compile

2007-08-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:54:55 -0400 (CDT) "Orestes Leal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this modules doesn't work 'yet' with that kernel, > one Question, How do you build your kernel? > it´s suggested by linux that the sources of the kernel > must not be placed in /usr/src > > for example my k

Re: Free dive log software?

2007-08-14 Thread Joe Hart
Sending to list where it belongs. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Free dive log software? Date: Tuesday 14 August 2007 From: "Richard Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joe Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14/08/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SCUBA (Self Contained

Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hans Vogelsberger: > Perhaps the reason is a difference between your old and your new file > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi. I'm not sure if it's an error in those files, I tried also selecting "se", the Sweden keyboard (which should be identical, but traditionally the Finland keyboard has worked

Re: Free dive log software?

2007-08-14 Thread Joe Hart
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 14:06:22 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/14/07 06:23, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > Is anyone aware of (good) software that allows you to log your dives, > > your brevets and everything else that relates to diving? > > > > KDE/Qt with SQLlite preferred, but I am not too particula

Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Karlsson
Orestes Leal: > yeah, happens to me with gdm-2.14, but, does CTRL + ALT + F1 works ? No, that doesn't work either. > I suggest you that start a session from the command line with the > startx command and if this way donÂt work do a 'Xorg -configure and > the CLI and follow the steps suggested, g

Re: Free dive log software?

2007-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/07 06:23, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Is anyone aware of (good) software that allows you to log your dives, > your brevets and everything else that relates to diving? > > KDE/Qt with SQLlite preferred, but I am not too particular on the > exact

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kaldrenon wrote: > On Aug 12, 10:50 pm, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip example from xorg.conf] [snip] > I'm using the driver "i810" - an Intel driver for the Intel chip > driving the graphics in my (*sigh*) Dell laptop. I tried replacing

Free dive log software?

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Hartmann
Is anyone aware of (good) software that allows you to log your dives, your brevets and everything else that relates to diving? KDE/Qt with SQLlite preferred, but I am not too particular on the exact mechanisms. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

courier imap fails to create a cache file

2007-08-14 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hin i installed courier imap 4.1.1 in an uml server as replacement for my current vserver setup. It also has exim 4.63, maildrop, getmail4, spamassassin and clamav. Courier is giving me following errors: Aug 14 13:06:44 loki imapd: Error: Permission denied Aug 14 13:06:44 loki imapd: Failed to

"gshadow" file does not get synced automatically in Etch while edited manually with "vigr"

2007-08-14 Thread Siju George
Hi, I get the following messages after I edit "/etc/group" file with "vigr" manually and save it You have modified /etc/group. You may need to modify /etc/gshadow for consistency. Please use the command `vigr -s' to do so. What should I do to get the "/etc/gshadow" file also updated automaticall

Re: libcbtsysinfo in /home/user

2007-08-14 Thread spammed
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:43:28PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > I have a new dir in /home/magnus, /home/magnus/cbt and I have not put it > there. It contains cbt/lib/libcbtsysinfo_0.so and google draws a blank on > that filename. Has my system been compromised (theres is nothing out of the >

Re: way of getting flashplayer9 to work in amd64 etch....

2007-08-14 Thread Robert S
> I have just got flashplayer9 working on Iceweasel in amd64 etch. > > I did the following stuff recommended by some helpful guys at > http://www.dipconsultants.com: > Funny you should post this - I just got this working about an hour ago after a lot of unsuccessful attempts. I put the plu

Re: pacakges installation report

2007-08-14 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:52 +0200, pol wrote: > i would like to log installation and uninstallation of the deb packages: i > mean a time ordered list of the admin operations. Any ideas? Have a look at: If you use aptitude: /var/log/aptitude As apt-get does not provid

Re: Suspend resumes after 6 minutes!

2007-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:39:55 +0100, marc wrote: > Hi, > > Using KDE or Gnome on a laptop, when I suspend, all seems fine. And, if > I resume within approx. 10 mins, the resume works as expected. > > However, when I resume after 10 mins or so, the fan starts, the CDROM > whirrs, but the moni

Re: Debian boot cd stalls: Dell Dimension E521 with amd64

2007-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 22:50:33 +, Joel Malard wrote: > The installation stalls just after the message > >"io sceduler cfg registered (default)" > > I tried "install BOOT_DEBUG=3" but got no error message. > > I tried netcfg/disable_dhcp=true > hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false > exclude por

Re: New hard drive problem

2007-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 13:56:21 -0400, William Walter wrote: > The problem resurfaced again today. The same error message came up and > Debian Etch refuse to boot up. > I used UUID of all the hard drives. Still no luck in fixing this problem. Is > there anything else I should > do? Where did you

Re: kernel compile module compile

2007-08-14 Thread Orestes Leal
Maybe this modules doesn't work 'yet' with that kernel, one Question, How do you build your kernel? it´s suggested by linux that the sources of the kernel must not be placed in /usr/src for example my kernel sources are in /kernelsource El Dom, 12 de Agosto de 2007, 2:08 pm, L.V.Gandhi escribió: