Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:51:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/29/2007 03:53 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> I do my housekeeping in aptitude interactive mode, with a flat package >> list (this is my default, but you can get one from the menu) where I mark >> everything as auto-installed (press

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 10:40 PM, KS wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/29/07 19:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: This is new. I've been getting these directly to me too after I post. What can Debian do about this? It seems that some newsgroup has decided to tie into the list but then rejects everything noisilt

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/30/2007 01:13 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files. So I thought Anyone else getting this message over and over? Anyone else notice that a news gateway somewhere seems to be broken? :( Most definitely somethin

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:13:27PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files. So I thought > > Anyone else getting this message over and over? Anyone else notice that a > news gateway somewhere seems to be broken? :(

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefan Monnier wrote: > My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files. So I thought Anyone else getting this message over and over? Anyone else notice that a news gateway somewhere seems to be broken? :( -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-29 Thread John W. Foster
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:16, Steve Lamb wrote: > > I do not see this as the case. I took your suggested to google on > those terms and what I found in the first 3 pages of hits were many, many > "Open Source" solutions which were Windows only, pared down versions of > enterprise solutio

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > without much luck. > > Cchris > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -07

Re: Nomachine on Debian unstable?

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Wed, 26 Sep, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:51:12 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > > After that I tracked down what happens if I do > > > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I only got that working when I disabled PAM in my sshd_config and > > enabled password authenti

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread didier gaumet
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: [...] > and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D Hello Preston, what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was

apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Hi, 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there was a way to tell apt-get

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
A properly configured olvwm WM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Thanks for the pointers. It helped. The http://localhost:631 gets farther. Had to log in as printer admin which I have been using root login-id. I went through the pages and it allowed me to choose vendor Hewlett- Packard. Then choose HP2100 (there wasn't a HP2100TN network printer) and then cho

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
> See the manpage of apt_preferences. (search for "local > site") Hi, and thanks for helping out. It's not working :( I tried: Package: * Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 1001 Also tried: Pin: origin apt-cache policy xchat; prints a priority of 500 for both file and http. I took a look at the apt-ho

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept > word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files

Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. I got it to print from windows because it had some Java aplet that downloaded DLL and did a windows install and it will print from Windows now. The software it installed was called "HP internet Printer

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Update: This works: Package: * Pin: origin http.us.debian.org Pin-Priority: 100 But, this does not work: Package: * Pin: origin Pin-Priority: 100 I did not run dpkg-scanpackages. Instead i mounted my iso images via loop, and put this in source.list. deb file:/usr/share/debian/pkg/disc1/ etch cont

Re: cronjob problem

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Angela Gavazzi (2007-09-27): > Hallo, > > could someone please explain me why the following cronjob generates an empy > file when copy-pasting the command to console generates a "full" file? > It's in roots crontab created with crontab -e > > 00 21 * * * /usr/local/ldap/sbin/slapcat > >

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Jesus Arocho (2007-09-28): > Try an entry in /etc/udev/10-local.rules; great howtos on the net. > > On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:50, Dan H wrote: [...] There's also great information on quoting, e.g. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html -André -- May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb!

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp:

Re: Facist Debian Users

2007-09-29 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
Alan Truism wrote: You guys are too much. They're just thinning the herd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2007-09-29 Thread Leah Eason
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Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:30:29 -0400, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Apparently policy does not list requirements but best practices. IOW > > policy is not (supposed to be(?)) used to enforce behaviour. > > N

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> I found that the litest is icewm. Works great on my P-II-133 with 64 MB > ram and on my 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. The 486 wouldn't run Etch so > it runs great with OpenBSD. Woody also runs great on it. Iceweasel > takes a long time to render. > > Doug. Try DWM. Much lighter than icewm. Als

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 01:30:15AM +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, > > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, > > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept > > word,

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jabka, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:38:14PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Can't > start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address > Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Do you > already have an

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-29 Thread David Fox
On 9/29/07, Francisco M Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/29/07, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I'll try it again...OK, m-a a-i got and built the nvidia kernel > > module > >Good! =) Actually, the upgrade to get the nvidia drivers went better than expected. In sum, I

apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Hi, 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there was a way to tell apt-get

Re: Nomachine on Debian unstable?

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Wed, 26 Sep, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:51:12 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > > After that I tracked down what happens if I do > > > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I only got that working when I disabled PAM in my sshd_config and > > enabled password authenti

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Update: This works: Package: * Pin: origin http.us.debian.org Pin-Priority: 100 But, this does not work: Package: * Pin: origin Pin-Priority: 100 I did not run dpkg-scanpackages. Instead i mounted my iso images via loop, and put this in source.list. deb file:/usr/share/debian/pkg/disc1/ etch cont

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp:

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
A properly configured olvwm WM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: cronjob problem

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Angela Gavazzi (2007-09-27): > Hallo, > > could someone please explain me why the following cronjob generates an empy > file when copy-pasting the command to console generates a "full" file? > It's in roots crontab created with crontab -e > > 00 21 * * * /usr/local/ldap/sbin/slapcat > >

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
> See the manpage of apt_preferences. (search for "local > site") Hi, and thanks for helping out. It's not working :( I tried: Package: * Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 1001 Also tried: Pin: origin apt-cache policy xchat; prints a priority of 500 for both file and http. I took a look at the apt-ho

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Thanks for the pointers. It helped. The http://localhost:631 gets farther. Had to log in as printer admin which I have been using root login-id. I went through the pages and it allowed me to choose vendor Hewlett- Packard. Then choose HP2100 (there wasn't a HP2100TN network printer) and then cho

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread didier gaumet
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: [...] > and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D Hello Preston, what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Jesus Arocho (2007-09-28): > Try an entry in /etc/udev/10-local.rules; great howtos on the net. > > On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:50, Dan H wrote: [...] There's also great information on quoting, e.g. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html -André -- May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb!

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept > word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > without much luck. > > Cchris > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -07

Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. I got it to print from windows because it had some Java aplet that downloaded DLL and did a windows install and it will print from Windows now. The software it installed was called "HP internet Printer

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-29 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/29/07 19:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> This is new. I've been getting these directly to me too after I post. >> What can Debian do about this? > >> It seems that some newsgroup has decided to tie into the list but then >> rejects everything noisilty back to the posters

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc > > contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many > > months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 04:27 -0500]: > > > > Btw, THIS IS ALL VOLUNTEER WORK HERE. fyi. > > Yup. And I for one appreciate our Debian Volunteer Overlords. ;-) Ah geez. You made me laugh. I even considered typing "LOL" ... Crap!

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ahh you will have to excuse me, but what exactly is top posting and > what do you mean by trimming? > Ill try to fix it myself if I can. > > On 9/26/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > >

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and m

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
s/Jones/West/g You gotta change your name to Steve. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You need a more compliant girlfriend. Lucy Liu-bot comes to mind. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dated_a_Robot wtf did I just waste fifteen minutes reading? You do not point at wikipedia articles citing toons. Geez. It may have been an enjoyable episod

Re: Newbie help with simple C program, USB device under Debian

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > Please refrain from your attacks. 'Be nice to folks' is a general rule. > > Your right. My apologies to Oleg and the list. Quite right, and thanks. Done it before myself and hope to minimize its ocurrence in the future. [EMAIL PROT

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? You could (aptitude search): p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager and no I never have. -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 27 Sep 2007, s. keeling wrote: > > Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc > > > > contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which ha

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.or

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > >keeling: > >> Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any > >> bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat. > >> > >> How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports > >> f

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > > > > a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is > > whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a > > goal. I'm satisfied to leave that up to the individual. It's none of my business. Caveat em

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I don't like it, but I also don't like reloading. :-) Ah, ya puss! Burn a backup CD and do it. Think of all those doors opening up for you. You can try anything! =[8]-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)ht

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/07 19:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > This is new. I've been getting these directly to me too after I post. > What can Debian do about this? > > It seems that some newsgroup has decided to tie into the list but then > rejects everything noisil

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 07:37 PM, helices wrote: Thank you, all, for your insights. When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;<) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 08:24:51PM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >You could also run 'sync;umount /dev/sda1' before unplugging, just to be > >sure. > >Umm, OK. But that sort of obviates the point of > usbmount. I guess I'll just continue to umount by hand. I don't use a

Re: Facist Debian Users

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:54:01PM -0700, Alan Truism wrote: > You guys are too much. For the incredibly low, low price of: ZERO dollars! You get all this and more YOU΅D BE INSANE TO GO ELSEWERE! hope that explains. K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :'

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
SO I set it up as: ipp://192.168.1.5/ipp/ other printer (it said no IPP port 631 at host ipp://192.168.1.5/ipp/ so I had to use other printer rather than ipp printer in the add printer wizard). and chose raw no driver. It makes me wonder if there is a networking issue, but I can telnet to the pr

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:28:38AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:44:58 -0400, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:30:29AM -0400, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > >> > more likely t

Facist Debian Users

2007-09-29 Thread Alan Truism
You guys are too much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:37:10PM -0500, helices wrote: > > When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I > often (not always ;<) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. > That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a > different copy residin

Re: portable Iomega HD

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:03:10PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi, > > I have a portable Iomega 120 GB HD. I am running etch. When I connect > the HD to the USB port, etch doesn't show any device attached to the > port... I wonder why? the portable hd doesn't acts like another usb > device

Re: should a package compile on installation ?

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:54:52PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello ,.. > > > im thinkg about giving a package the abuilty to download and compile > the last source is it wise ? huh? this is normal: get upstream, create source package, create b

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
This is new. I've been getting these directly to me too after I post. What can Debian do about this? It seems that some newsgroup has decided to tie into the list but then rejects everything noisilty back to the posters. Doug. - Forwarded message from Moderation Robot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:51:04AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:31:32 -0400, Douglas A Tutty > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>Here's my personal letter template. ... > > Thanks, those give me a nice starting poin

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:50:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On 9/27/07, Manu Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a general question which I got when trying out different > > windows managers/desktop environments. When I try to use windowmaker > > (I wanted to make my computer fast

Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Stefhen Hovland wrote: > Is this possible for pbzip2 to run on a tar which outputs to standard out? > > I am trying to speed up a backup process which takes hours, i have > about 100g of uncompressed data which will be tar'd up and is > currently running

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:55:47PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-09-23 11:14:57, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > > On small systems, what about the penalty of just larger binaries? I > > have some older boxes with 16-64 MB ram. > > > > Doug. > - END OF REPLIED MES

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 07:18:34AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 02:47:23PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > > package: mysql-server > > > > version: 5.0.45-1 > > > > ...copious apt output... > > > Setting up mysql-server-5.0 (5.0.45-1) ... > > Stopping MySQL database s

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Max Hyre
Pál Csányi wrote: > 2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning >> house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can >> clear out the dust bunnies, etc..? > > If you use aptitude, or synaptic then you must

Re: DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Nick De Graeve wrote: > I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line > starting with "Ign" when I update my repositories: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update > Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] > Hit h

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Max Hyre
2007/9/29, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can someone recommend a newbie-friendly easy, and safe way of cleaning > house so that I can retain those packages that I need (and want) but can > clear out the dust bunnies, etc..? A cleanup I like is `localepurge', which is newbie-friendly and ea

Re: Spring clean

2007-09-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/29/2007 03:53 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: I do my housekeeping in aptitude interactive mode, with a flat package list (this is my default, but you can get one from the menu) where I mark everything as auto-installed (press M) that I don't specifically want. It might take a while, but apti

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-29 Thread helices
Thank you, all, for your insights. When I composed the first message, I had in mind the olden days when I often (not always ;<) made a bootable floppy when I made a new kernel. That bootable floppy booted off of the exact same kernel, except a different copy residing on the floppy. When the syste

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread Max Hyre
Andrei Popescu wrote: You could also run 'sync;umount /dev/sda1' before unplugging, just to be sure. Umm, OK. But that sort of obviates the point of usbmount. I guess I'll just continue to umount by hand. Best wishes, Max Hyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-29 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:59:26 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 >> Photo. > >> Neither work with Debian Linux. > > Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few upgrades

Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten

2007-09-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, it was called fmt and is sometimes found with the name newfmt. On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near to a desired length as possible without splitting words. A

Re: xterm .Xdefaults & font size

2007-09-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I edit the .Xdefaults : > xterm.*faceName: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xterm.*font: -biznet-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* (the package description for biznet font says it is a bitmap font) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp:

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Update: This works: Package: * Pin: origin http.us.debian.org Pin-Priority: 100 But, this does not work: Package: * Pin: origin Pin-Priority: 100 I did not run dpkg-scanpackages. Instead i mounted my iso images via loop, and put this in source.list. deb file:/usr/share/debian/pkg/disc1/ etch cont

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
> See the manpage of apt_preferences. (search for "local > site") Hi, and thanks for helping out. It's not working :( I tried: Package: * Pin: origin "" Pin-Priority: 1001 Also tried: Pin: origin apt-cache policy xchat; prints a priority of 500 for both file and http. I took a look at the apt-ho

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Jesus Arocho (2007-09-28): > Try an entry in /etc/udev/10-local.rules; great howtos on the net. > > On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:50, Dan H wrote: [...] There's also great information on quoting, e.g. http://www.vranx.de/mail/tofu.html -André -- May as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb!

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept > word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files

Re: Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Thanks for the pointers. It helped. The http://localhost:631 gets farther. Had to log in as printer admin which I have been using root login-id. I went through the pages and it allowed me to choose vendor Hewlett- Packard. Then choose HP2100 (there wasn't a HP2100TN network printer) and then cho

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread didier gaumet
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: [...] > and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D Hello Preston, what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop it seemed to me that the last Debian version usable (speed...) was

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
A properly configured olvwm WM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-29 Thread Vivek.M
Hi, 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there was a way to tell apt-get

Re: cronjob problem

2007-09-29 Thread André Berger
* Angela Gavazzi (2007-09-27): > Hallo, > > could someone please explain me why the following cronjob generates an empy > file when copy-pasting the command to console generates a "full" file? > It's in roots crontab created with crontab -e > > 00 21 * * * /usr/local/ldap/sbin/slapcat > >

Re: Nomachine on Debian unstable?

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Wed, 26 Sep, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:51:12 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > > After that I tracked down what happens if I do > > > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I only got that working when I disabled PAM in my sshd_config and > > enabled password authenti

Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian

2007-09-29 Thread J
Trying to get a network printer HP LaserJet (tm) 2100tn to print from debian that I got for free. I got it to print from windows because it had some Java aplet that downloaded DLL and did a windows install and it will print from Windows now. The software it installed was called "HP internet Printer

Re: Re: Network settings don't stick after reboot

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Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-29 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > without much luck. > > Cchris > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -07

Re: Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

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Re: Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

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Re: Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

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Re: [Fwd: Re: canon printer driver question]

2007-09-29 Thread steef
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Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and m

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Pál Csányi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about stumpwm? > > http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/ > > Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch? You could (aptitude search): p stumpwm - a Common Lisp window manager and no I never have. -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of an

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