Re: why is debian coreutils so old?

2007-08-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a reason why the version of GNU coreutils in debian is so old? You should probably ask the package maintainer directly. Some information is available at [1]. Another package that could use an update is bash: Ubuntu has 3.2 since December 2006[2

Re: why is debian coreutils so old?

2007-08-23 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Bader wrote: > Is there a reason why the version of GNU coreutils in debian is so old? http://bugs.debian.org/coreutils -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

USB..... detected not working since upgrade...

2007-08-23 Thread Charlie
The USB ports are detected, and the lights go on and someone is home. Then the lights go off as every USB port leaves. tail /var/log/messages and unplug then plug them in, the lights go on for a moment, then out and leaves these messages:- Aug 24 16:29:36 taogypsy kernel: usb 5-1: USB disconnec

Epson Perfection 1270 error

2007-08-23 Thread Андрій Боровий
Hello, everybody. I've just tried to make some scan with Xsane, and discovered, that scanners' lamp is not returtning on it's place, after making preview or scanning. It's suddenly stops in (I suppose) the same place. Can you advise me where I have to send bug-report? I'm not subscribed to this ma

Re: Has recent apache2 upgrade screwed something

2007-08-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/23/2007 04:03 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: [...] Include /etc/apache2/sites-available/www-common RewriteRule ^/$ /blog/app [PT] [...] I still get HTTP response "400 No Host matches server name www.chandlerfamily.org.uk." If home.chandlerfamily.org.uk doesn't have t

Re: clamdscan - spcify server?

2007-08-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/23/2007 03:47 PM, koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, I'm wondering - if I run clamdscan, it connects to clamd automatically (I have it set up with TCP instead of local socket). If I want clamdscan to use a different server, how do I tell it to? I can't seem to find any information on this o

why is debian coreutils so old?

2007-08-23 Thread Miles Bader
Is there a reason why the version of GNU coreutils in debian is so old? Debian has coreutils 6.0, which was released in August 2006, and the latest stable version of coreutils seems to be 6.9, released in March 2007. There's at least one really annoying bug in Debian's version of coreutils that w

Re: Python init

2007-08-23 Thread Noah Dain
On 8/21/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:11:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Not that all of the libraries need to be moved into the root partition > > for it to function as a stable init platform. Outside of sys (which is > > compiled in), os, re

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-23 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: >> Thanks for reply, >> But there is no answer for my questions, I fomulate it in another way: >> Suppose you have a thounsand pack

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for reply, > But there is no answer for my questions, I fomulate it in another way: > Suppose you have a thounsand packages ( you downloded them because you > need them for your own purpose) > > you want to create CD exacly like the Of

using reportbug-ng without an smtp server

2007-08-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hi I don't have an SMTP server running on my computer. I was able to report bugs via reportbug using bugs.debian.org as smtphost. However, I do not see any such option for reportbug-ng. It looks like it needs a properly configured mail client (kmail, evolution etc.,) to report bugs. How to repo

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-23 Thread Manu Hack
On 8/23/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > > I finally have the chance to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log in recovery > > > >

Re: printing from kpdf does not work

2007-08-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Florian Kulzer wrote: > Are you using the lpr command from the "cupsys-bsd", the "lpr" or the > "lprng" package? Do you use CUPS with KDE? > $dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr cupsys-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr $dpkg -l \*print cups\* | grep ^ii ii cups-pdf 2.4.2-3 PDF printer for CUPS i

Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0)

2007-08-23 Thread Francois Duranleau
Hi! Trying to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (actually, 2.6.18) from 2.4.27, when I boot my system with 2.6, I get the following error: VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-

boot error

2007-08-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For the past few weeks I've been seeing an error message fly by (doesn't seem to affect anything) and I curious what's going on. the message is: dbus unknown username "haldemon" in message bus configuration file. I'm running Sid...so it shouldn'

Re: Has recent apache2 upgrade screwed something

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Alan Chandler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/app > > > > Object not found! > > > > So what - that is never a valid url anyway > > The key ones are > > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > which

Re: lenny repo unstable now?

2007-08-23 Thread David Fox
On 8/23/07, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not the same but quite similar. > > Starting two or three days ago, quite a bunch of packages need upgrading > (all were up to date less than 7 days ago), e.g. Tong: As of right now (6PM Pacific time, 8/23/07) I am about to do a dist-upgrade o

Re: how to keep eth0 etch0 and not change

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael Kerwin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I am seeing some strange behavior on a debian etch stable computer that I > just installed using the new debian 4.0 r1 disc. > > > > I have the static address set in /etc/network/interfaces for eth0 but then > when I ran ifconfig it

Re: Has recent apache2 upgrade screwed something

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 24 Aug 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: > > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/app > > Object not found! > So what - that is never a valid url anyway The key ones are http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk which should rewrite to http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk/blog/app (/blog/app is then sent of

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Wohler wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Correct. Linux 2.4 support has been dropped post Etch. > > > >> Since the kernel for this particular system (a vserver) is not under > >> my control and I don't expect it to be upgraded anytime soon if ever > >> this would be bad. > > > > That could be a

Re: Has recent apache2 upgrade screwed something

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Alan Chandler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, John W. Foster wrote: <> > > --- > > The server seems to be working OK. Looks like a DNS server that is > > setup incorrectly. If you want the site to be

Re: how to keep eth0 etch0 and not change

2007-08-23 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Kerwin wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --=_NextPart_000_0026_01C7E5A6.73D59EE0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >

Re: Can't change keyboard preferences

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 16:16:43 -0400, Richard Kublik wrote: > I recently installed debian from a net install disk. Everything seems to be > working except the keyboard. When I try to change the keyboard preferences > I get the message: > The Application "gnome-keyboard-properties" has quit unex

Re: printing from kpdf does not work

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:54:55 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all > > If I am printing from command line using > > lpr -P printername file.pdf > > then I am able to print file.pdf. However if I am printing from kpdf using > > File -> Print > > it does not work. There are no erro

Re: Exim4 and authentication

2007-08-23 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
Celejar wrote: > Is that the entire (relevant part of the) log? Yes! > Try (as root) 'exim -qff' to force exim to start a queue runner and > check the log. 2007-08-24 00:22:45 1IOL4e-0003NO-Nl == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnsl

Re: cannot logoff/shutdown properly

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:25:47 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 8/21/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 12:29:53 -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > > > I finally have the chance to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log in recovery > > > mode but it didn't have anything with "(EE)" or "(WW)". > > > >

Re: dpms setting does not work for vesa

2007-08-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 23 August 2007 23:46, - Tong - wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:55 +, - Tong - wrote: > >> My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more: > >> > >> $ xset dpms force off > >> server does not have extension for dpms option > >> xset: unknown option force > > > > load/en

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem (SOLVED)

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Hi Wayne. > > > > > > Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: > > > > I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gatew

lenny repo unstable now?

2007-08-23 Thread - Tong -
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:05:53 +0200, Mich Lanners wrote: > Two > days ago, the automatic update thingy suggested upgrading a few > packages, among them libc6 (from 2.6-2 to 2.6.1-1) > > Problem is, the installation of libc6 failed, ... > > Did anyone experience this? Not the same but quite simil

how to keep eth0 etch0 and not change

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am seeing some strange behavior on a debian etch stable computer that I just installed using the new debian 4.0 r1 disc. I have the static address set in /etc/network/interfaces for eth0 but then when I ran ifconfig it said it was eth9 and it was using the dchp address from the server not my

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > > address you are? > > Your local network address: > ~$ /sbin/ifconfig > > Your internet address: > ~$ wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ 2>/dev/null Or for the blind: http://moan

dpms setting does not work for vesa

2007-08-23 Thread - Tong -
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:33:55 +, - Tong - wrote: >> My newly installed xorg doesn't support dpms any more: >> >> $ xset dpms force off >> server does not have extension for dpms option >> xset: unknown option force > > load/enable the following module, > > "extmod"# some commonly us

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:31:03 -0400 Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > > > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > > > address you are? > > > > > Try this > > ifconfig eth0 | grep i

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Orestes leal
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > > address you are? > Try this ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2 }' Where eth0 it's your first network card, and so on. Good Luck. -olr.

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:17:11AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:06:45PM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I have yet to find a ready-made null-modem cable that is actually wired > > correctly for use by UNIX. How it should be wired can be found in > > several places acces

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Ken Irving wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip address you are? The command ifconfig can be used, but note that by default it's not in a regular user's path, so us

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Wackojacko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> Hi Wayne. >>> <> >> - >> # PCI device 10ec:8139 (8139too) >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVER=="?*", SYSFS{address}=="00:48:54:d1:35:1c", >> NAME="et

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/23/2007 05:02 PM, Michael Kerwin wrote: > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > address you are? Your local network address: ~$ /sbin/ifconfig Your internet address: ~$ wget -O - http://whatismyip.org/ 2>/dev/null Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Michael Kerwin wrote: > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > address you are? The command ifconfig can be used, but note that by default it's not in a regular user's path, so use /sbin/ifconfig. This will show the se

Join me on Last.fm!

2007-08-23 Thread Franz Gustav Niederheitmann
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Join me on Last.fm!

2007-08-23 Thread Franz Gustav Niederheitmann
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Re: Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/07 16:02, Michael Kerwin wrote: > Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip > address you are? GUI or text mode? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a

Upgrading libc6 on lenny leads to unusable system

2007-08-23 Thread Mich Lanners
Dear list, I'm struggling with a problem I have a hard time fixing myself. I'm running lenny originally installed form a weekly-build netinst. Two days ago, the automatic update thingy suggested upgrading a few packages, among them libc6 (from 2.6-2 to 2.6.1-1) Problem is, the installation of li

Re: Has recent apache2 upgrade screwed something

2007-08-23 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007, John W. Foster wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2007 00:31, Alan Chandler wrote: > > My web site, see address in my signature has just started going > > wrong after the a recent upgrade to apache2 that occured on my etch > > system a few days ago. Unfortunately I did some o

Command to see ip address on etch stable

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Kerwin
Is there a command on debian etch stable that you can run to see what ip address you are? Thanks, Michael Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:12:33AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:49:34PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > >>I ask me if this message is a problem or not : > >> > >>Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 > >>Aug 22 11

clamdscan - spcify server?

2007-08-23 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I'm wondering - if I run clamdscan, it connects to clamd automatically (I have it set up with TCP instead of local socket). If I want clamdscan to use a different server, how do I tell it to? I can't seem to find any information on this on the clamav website or in the clamav docs?

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Wackojacko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> Hi Wayne. >>> >>> Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new system install, I had not u

Re: DSL hangs/disconnects randomly

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Amit Finkler([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi everyone, > > I have both SuSE and Debian stable (etch) installed on my hard drive. > While in SuSE everything is normal with the DSL connection, it > randomly hangs or disconnects (can't really put my finger on which one > it is. I'll

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem (SOLVED)

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi Wayne. > > > > Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: > > > I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new > > > system install, I had not upgraded in a few w

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wackojacko
Wayne Topa wrote: Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi Wayne. Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I decided that it was time and did the up

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:06:45PM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Fili Wiese wrote: > > I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers > > using a null modem cable. > > ... > > > > Maybe the (brand-new) null-modem cable is not wire

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne. > > Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: > > I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new > > system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I > > decided that it was time and did the upgrad

Re: Exim4 and authentication

2007-08-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:33:15 +0200 Mauro Sacchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > Please post the exim log (/var/log/exim/mainlog). > > > debian:~# cat /var/log/exim4/mainlog > 2007-08-22 22:27:59 1INwo3

DSL hangs/disconnects randomly

2007-08-23 Thread Amit Finkler
Hi everyone, I have both SuSE and Debian stable (etch) installed on my hard drive. While in SuSE everything is normal with the DSL connection, it randomly hangs or disconnects (can't really put my finger on which one it is. I'll be glad to have your directions as to how to find out) and I have to

Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Wayne. Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21: > I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new > system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I > decided that it was time and did the upgrade overnight. This morning > I rebooted the box to upgrade my sid partiti

Re: Apache2 & php5 Problem

2007-08-23 Thread Robert Cates
Randy Patterson wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 16:04, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Randy Patterson wrote:> After running the above command, this is only item related to php that it lists; php5_module (shared) So it's installed... The only thing it could be happening then

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:37:00PM +0200, Fili Wiese wrote: > I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers > using a null modem cable. > This link is needed as a redundant connection for Heartbeat. > Both machines are indentical (both hardware and software). > > In my hu

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-23 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:49:34PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: I've currently a problem with my hard disk but I'm not sure that it is really a problem. So, I'm asking you if it's really a problem and if there are solutions or not. :-) I ask me if this message is a pr

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:01:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > I am not aware of an analogous concept in GNOME or others... Looks much > > a Microsoft way, forcing users to have something on the desktop that's > > not theirs and what they can not remove. > > Now, I am not familiar with that either, b

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Fili Wiese wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers using a null modem cable. This link is needed as a redundant connection for Heartbeat. Both machines are indentical (both hardware and software). [cut] I'm really at a loss :S Does anybody have a c

latest udev (0.114-2) problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wayne Topa
I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I decided that it was time and did the upgrade overnight. This morning I rebooted the box to upgrade my sid partition and when I rebooted testing, I had lost my my

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread H.S.
Hi, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > Hello, > > This should do the trick: > > # for dir in /home/*; do ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/instructions.pdf > $dir/Desktop/ > > Of course, you may want to make sure that /home/* matches only real home > directories (there may be /home/lost+found if you have

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread H.S.
Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all >> current user's Gnome desktops? >> >> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link >> to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I a

Re: Testing Spare Drives in Software RAID

2007-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1656 +0200]: > > Yes, it will. Obviously, use of a drive will more likely cause > > errors, but as long as SMART does not report any, the drive is ready > > to go. Also, SMART can run low-level tests itself. > > Does this mean that if a

Re: network trouble: dhcp works, resolv.conf correct, ping doesn't work

2007-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
(Sorry about the delay!) On Mon, 2007.08.20 21:37, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:26:11AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the internet connection on a Lenny/Sid system. > > It is a very simple connection to a cable modem via an ethernet > > cable.

Re: msmtp (and mutt)

2007-08-23 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
My provider uses unencrypted transmission of data... But: finally I found the solution: the right line is not auth on but auth login "Auth on" leaves to msmtp to find the most sicure method, so it thinks that LOGIN is not sicure and doesn't send... With le right line, I force msmtp to use the LOGIN

Re: Testing Spare Drives in Software RAID

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:05:56PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1449 +0200]: > > I don't know how to test the actual functioning of a spare drive. With > > no activity on a spare, S.M.A.R.T. may not have any data to go on. > > Yes, i

Re: Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/23/2007 08:37 AM, Fili Wiese wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers using a null modem cable. This link is needed as a redundant connection for Heartbeat. Both machines are indentical (both hardware and software). Some info: --

Re: Problem accessing PS/2 mouse using input core

2007-08-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 23 August 2007 13:13, Isidor Zeuner wrote: > Dear mailing list subscribers, > > after upgrading from kernel 2.4.31 to 2.6.21 on a debian box I'm not > able to use the PS/2 mouse (Logitech optical) anymore. On kernel > 2.4.31 it worked fine using the character device driver. As this > dr

Re: msmtp (and mutt)

2007-08-23 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-08-23T13:47:10+0200, Mauro Sacchetto wrote: > I tried to configure msmtp for mutt One of the problems with msmtp is that you either have to configure mutt to wait for messages to be delivered (inconvenience) or risk losing mail (bad). It does not route mail, so system messages for root

Serial port connection (null modem) not working

2007-08-23 Thread Fili Wiese
Hello, I'm having trouble setting up a serial connection between two servers using a null modem cable. This link is needed as a redundant connection for Heartbeat. Both machines are indentical (both hardware and software). Some info: -

Re: msmtp (and mutt)

2007-08-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 13:47:10 +0200, Mauro Sacchetto wrote: > I tried to configure msmtp for mutt > > My: ~/.msmtprc: > > == > account tele2 > host smtp.tele2.it > port 587 > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > auth on > user > password > tls off

Re: Testing Spare Drives in Software RAID

2007-08-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.23.1449 +0200]: > I don't know how to test the actual functioning of a spare drive. With > no activity on a spare, S.M.A.R.T. may not have any data to go on. Yes, it will. Obviously, use of a drive will more likely cause errors, but as lon

Re: Testing Spare Drives in Software RAID

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I know mdadm offers a "--test" command, but it seems quite useless: > > -t, --test > Generate a TestMessage alert for every array found at > startup. This alert gets mailed and passed to the alert program. This > can

Unsolved Scanner Problem

2007-08-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Problem: USB Scanner locks up (does not reset?) after one or two scans. Disconnecting the usb cable and reconnecting it solves the problem for another couple scans. The system is Etch with a 2.6.18 kernel compiled from the Debian source. The problem was first encountered several months ago

msmtp (and mutt)

2007-08-23 Thread Mauro Sacchetto
I tried to configure msmtp for mutt My: ~/.msmtprc: == account tele2 host smtp.tele2.it port 587 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] auth on user password tls off == and in .muttrc:

Problem accessing PS/2 mouse using input core

2007-08-23 Thread Isidor Zeuner
Dear mailing list subscribers, after upgrading from kernel 2.4.31 to 2.6.21 on a debian box I'm not able to use the PS/2 mouse (Logitech optical) anymore. On kernel 2.4.31 it worked fine using the character device driver. As this driver is not present anymore on Linux 2.6, I try to use the input d

Adaptec 2120S on etch

2007-08-23 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I unsterstand that I need to do: enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y and CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID={y,m} to get Adaptec 2120S to work on etch. Please can someone point me in the right direction to do this. I have PCs running Sarge and Etch. I do not normally recompile Kernels. Regards Chris -- To

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:19 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all > current user's Gnome desktops? > > More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link > to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. [...] Hello, This should d

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

2007-08-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all current user's Gnome desktops? More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file on a ce

Re: safe to remove linux-kernel-headers?

2007-08-23 Thread Sven Joachim
Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to upgrade kdebase and it says that it's going to remove > linux-kernel-headers > > is it safe to do so? Yes, linux-kernel-headers has been superseded by linux-libc-dev, which should be installed instead: , | $ apt-cache show linux-lib

safe to remove linux-kernel-headers?

2007-08-23 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I'm trying to upgrade kdebase and it says that it's going to remove linux-kernel-headers is it safe to do so? thanks in advance Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) HOME: http://www.lorenzobe