Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:33:57 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use > pico? Any editor. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cpufrequtils

2008-01-22 Thread Kalessin
You should stay with the ondemand governor, you will not see any difference, except on yout electricity bill (and on the environnement too). Anyway, just edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and it should work. (as root : echo "performance" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuf

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Rick wrote On my own systems, I make swap huge (10 GB or more for 1 GB RAM -- Disk is cheap!) so I can mount /tmp on a tmpfs filesystem. Is this for apps that say "if malloc() fails, I create a tmp file"? IOW, you pretty much ensure th

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 22:54, Rick Thomas wrote: > The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with > AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap > out a program when memory became full, UNIX allocated a page of swap

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately followed by ro

cpulimit

2008-01-22 Thread Manu Hack
Hi all Debian users, Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be invoked like nice, i.e., put it before the command I want to run like cpulimit -l 50 some_commands Any input is appreciated. Thanks! Man

Re: lightning, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-22 Thread H.S.
(Fixed the typo in the subject line.) H.S. wrote: Hello, I think after the recent two upgrades (within the last week), the Lightning extension for Icedove mail client seems to be screwed up. No calendars are shown anymore, no days are shown, the extension's interface is non-responsive for

lightnight, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-22 Thread H.S.
Hello, I think after the recent two upgrades (within the last week), the Lightning extension for Icedove mail client seems to be screwed up. No calendars are shown anymore, no days are shown, the extension's interface is non-responsive for the most part. This is on Debian Testing and with I

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap out a program when memory became full, UNIX allocated a page of swap for every page of virtual memory a program occupied. So if vi required 256K to ru

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 19:08, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget. > > I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like a > system with more

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 21, 2008 10:15 AM, Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps school/work starting back up after a holiday break has a bunch > of bored script kiddies busy with more important things to do? Script kiddies know about background execution and things like cron and at these days; time

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 21, 2008 9:42 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? I believe something has changed with the spamfilter on l.d.o; a good deal of my spam was coming from

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:37:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-23T13:33:57+1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use pico? > > $ mutt > > /editor I think the question was regarding Alpine. -- Regards, S.D.Allen - Toronto -- T

Re: problems with IPMASQ

2008-01-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:52:58PM +0100, Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime wrote: > > On Debian, you shouldn't have to do the rout add thing. ipmasq will > > likly just work on its own, and you may just confuse it. > > I added it because without it, it does not work either. That's because you need

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:55:21PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I had thought about dropping the cross-platform requirement, and just > suggesting to everyone to use a Knoppix LiveCD to do this > PC-cum-Morse-keyer program, but from this discussion, and my own > personal failure to find a solutio

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:08:14PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget. > > I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like > a system with more RAM would need less swap,

Re: LVM2 resize problem

2008-01-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 05:53:33PM +0100, Adrian Chapela wrote: > I have a lvm volume with two PV. I need to take away one of them. The > data size is less than one PV size. All of data could be writen on one PV. > > I can do a resize of filesystem, but I can do a pvmove. I can do a > lvreduce a

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread David
David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget. I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like a system with more RAM would need less swap, not more. In particular, it always seemed to m

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: The old "you need 2x RAM for swap" rule is hard to forget. I never really understood the rationale for that rule. It seems like a system with more RAM would need less swap, not more. In particular, it always seemed to me like it'd be a bit

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-22 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > so a device does not need to be mounted for a sync to work? Sync only affects file systems on mounted devices. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-23T13:33:57+1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use pico? $ mutt /editor /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH slowness

2008-01-22 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 20, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: On 01/20/2008 04:29 PM, Curt Howland wrote: In the last few days, ssh connections have turned dog slow. I mean very slow, like 20-30 seconds of just sitting there after issuing "ssh server" before it asks for my password. This is very stran

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Jan 22, 2008 7:33 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:23:57PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > My theory about flushing even makes a testable prediction: if you run > > umount(8) first and have no other removable media, then sync(1) should > > complete a

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 22, 2008 3:41 AM, Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing > machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard. Hyperbole much? /etc/termcap is a regular pain to get things set up right; mutt is practically a n

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:43:22AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I tried swtching over to Mutt, yet having used (pine) for more than a > decade, I cannot find myself to migrate, now that pine is dead, I have > switched to alpine and cannot get enough of it! Can you tell it to use any editor, say

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:10:05PM +, Pantor wrote: > > Right, .muttrc is ready. What's now? Is it? Then what is the trouble. Are you getting your mail from an ISP? What are you using for that? AIUI icedove has all this "built-in" when you click "get mail". Mutt does not[1]. You need to use ei

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:23:57PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > My theory about flushing even makes a testable prediction: if you run > umount(8) first and have no other removable media, then sync(1) should > complete almost immediately. I don't think I've ever done this, unlike > the two poin

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-22 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and right-shift keys, or the < and > keys. For one key, a short "dit" audio tone would be generated, and for the other key, a longer "dah" audio tone would be gen

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 16:52, Travis Crook wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 > Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 >> Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Travis Crook wrote: >>> [...] > Fi

Re: problems with IPMASQ

2008-01-22 Thread Carlos Enrique Carleos Artime
[ For a reason I don't understand, the first message had been sent with subject "Problemas" and did not appear in http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/01/ but randomly I found it in http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-01/msg02090.html with a kind answer in http://linux.derkei

Re: telepítés

2008-01-22 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:19:16PM +0100, csoboth ambrus wrote: From: csoboth ambrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: telepítés X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.debian.org X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.1

Firefox error - SSL_ImplementedCiphers

2008-01-22 Thread Zach
After an upgrade a few weeks ago I now get an error every time I start firefox and I'm worried SSL is no longer working: /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking I'm running Debian lenny with 2.6.18 kernel and the fir

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:53:47 -0700 Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 > Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Travis Crook wrote: > > [...] > > >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The > > >> question is: how do I tell

telepítés

2008-01-22 Thread csoboth ambrus
tisztelt hölgy/ur olyan személyel szeretném felvenni a kapcsolatot aki a telepitéstöl a hasztnálatig tud segíteni. válaszukat előre is köszönöm. tisztteletel:csoboth ambrus e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ui: NÉZD, itt tanulok: http://eduverzum.educomm.hu! Új nyelvoktató portál ingyenes mintaleckék

cpufrequtils

2008-01-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I run vmworkstation. I do not want my desktop to use ondemand. cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors userspace conservative ondemand powersave performance when I edit /etc/init.d./cpufrequtils ...snip # Set ENABLE to "true" to let the script run at boot time.

Re: iptables & firefox

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:44AM -0800, johnny wrote: > Ok, sorry for the post, udp in input only from (router, 53) is enough > for the tools but firefox wants other udp... > I gotta study more... > suggest you use --jump LOG before you drop/reject that way you can see what is being dropped/re

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:38:11 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: > [...] > >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The > >> question is: how do I tell the nic (which is a RealTek 8111 > >> Gigabit on-board adapter) to use the forcedeth driv

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:27:50PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and right-shift keys, or the < and > keys.

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Travis Crook wrote: [...] >> First one in the list, after running modprobe forcedeth. The question >> is: how do I tell the nic (which is a RealTek 8111 Gigabit on-board >> adapter) to use the forcedeth driver instead of the r8169, which is >> automatically loaded on boot? > >> Thanks! >> >> Try

Re: "invoke-rc.d dictd stop" gets long time.

2008-01-22 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:33:01PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: "invoke-rc.d dictd stop" gets long time. Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:14:05 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/22/08 15:02, Travis Crook wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 > >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wro

Strange boot message

2008-01-22 Thread Frank McCormick
Can anyone tell me what this message in syslog is all about ??? Jan 22 14:30:07 debian kernel: intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. <4>intel_rng: If you can't or Jan 22 14:30:07 debian kernel: don't want to <4>intel_rng: disable this in firmware setup, and <4>intel_rng: if Jan 22 14:

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 15:02, Travis Crook wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the >>> dri

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the > > driver used for the onboard ethernet card from

Re: "invoke-rc.d dictd stop" gets long time.

2008-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:04:09 +0100 Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > time sudo invoke-rc.d dictd stop > > real 0m30.055s > user 0m0.024s > sys 0m0.028s > > The same problem arises when I shutdown my box to stop all the services and > the > machine stops after a very long

Re: IceDove vs Kmail

2008-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:30:08 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > OT, but I set up an MTA (postfix, in my case) as a relay host. So, > whether using Icedove, Kmail, Mutt, whatever, I always send email to > my computer (haggis). Postfix then turns around and relays it to my > ISP

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 13:44, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi all, > I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the > driver used for the onboard ethernet card from the RealTek driver to > the nvidia forcedeth driver. I have had no luck on Google tod

Re: recent updates

2008-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:57:16 +0900 David S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > I've also been getting this: > > > > option_space_encapsulate: option space agent does not exist, but is > > configured. > > > > I've been getting this message too. > > However, just identifying ourselve

Changing Ethernet Drivers

2008-01-22 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I am having a difficult time figuring out how to change the driver used for the onboard ethernet card from the RealTek driver to the nvidia forcedeth driver. I have had no luck on Google today. I have the forcedeth driver installed (modprobe forcedeth displays no errors). How do

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-22T20:15:55+0100, Dan H wrote: > In general I'm a big fan of programs that can only configured through > read-only dotfiles but I think mutt is clearly over my head here. As > much as I'd prefer a console email client (but I didn't like pine > much). $ mutt /imapserver 4th hit on goog

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/22, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ Please stop top-posting. ] > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 21:59:13 -0600, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote: > > Hi, now I sent dpkg-reconfigure again and I get this: > > > > debian:/home/alekz# dpkg-reconfigure locales > > perl: warning: Setting locale fa

Re: removing gnome

2008-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:20:12 + "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get remove deletes the program but leaves config files, > apt-get remove --purge deletes everything. >From 'man aptitude': Purge : remove it and all its associated configuration and data files.

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 19:09:55 +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:41:21 + Patter wrote: > > > Oh mutt's good, you can just configure it to do everything under > > the sun so a muttrc builder such as http://www.muttrcbuilder.org/ > > can put a lot of good setting in to start from. >

Re: "invoke-rc.d dictd stop" gets long time.

2008-01-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-22 20:04 +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > time sudo invoke-rc.d dictd stop > > real 0m30.055s > user 0m0.024s > sys 0m0.028s > > The same problem arises when I shutdown my box to stop all the services and > the > machine stops after a very long time. > > This happens after a recent upg

Re: Problem with console and locales

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. ] On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 21:59:13 -0600, Alejandro Aguila Sáinz wrote: > Hi, now I sent dpkg-reconfigure again and I get this: > > debian:/home/alekz# dpkg-reconfigure locales > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settin

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:24:54 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put there password="yeah_like_i_am_gonna_tell_you" and later replace > that in the generated file. > > Anyway, who needs passwords? Yeah, that's what I'd have done, but still I don't know where to enter my IMAP server.

Re: KDE4 installation on Debian!

2008-01-22 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 22, 2008 6:36 AM, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peoples, > I used the following link > http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/install-kde-4-on-debian-unstable-sid to > install KDE4 on my HP Presario Laptop and thought I would try it out. > > Everything went smoot

"invoke-rc.d dictd stop" gets long time.

2008-01-22 Thread Gerard Robin
hello, time sudo invoke-rc.d dictd stop real0m30.055s user0m0.024s sys 0m0.028s The same problem arises when I shutdown my box to stop all the services and the machine stops after a very long time. This happens after a recent upgrade in sid. -- Gérard

Re: broken Xorg [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 22, 2008 12:02 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Updates on the situation > I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After > looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery > partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery

Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-22 Thread Joseph
I had a similar problem. I solved it installing from a USB stick. Cheers, Joseph

Re: no snd with Intel ICH5

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 16:17:47 -0600, J. Price wrote: > Installed etch, > 2.6.18-5-686 > > ran alsaconf; sees the controller. Unmuted in alsamixer. Verified user > is in audio group. > > etc/modules is empty > > Perhaps I mistakenly did something during installation?? > > Ran modprobe -l and it

Re: Unable to play mp3 files after yesterday's dist-upgrade on Lenny

2008-01-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 00:24:08 +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > till yesterday, mp3 files were running fine using totem, xine as well > as VLC. But after a dist-upgrade, it refuses to play in these players. > Currently I am able to play mp3 files with mplayer only. > > This is the error message I

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:09:55PM +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:41:21 + > Patter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh mutt's good, you can just configure it to do everything under > > the sun so a muttrc builder such as http://www.muttrcbuilder.org/ > > can put a lot of good set

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:41:21 + Patter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh mutt's good, you can just configure it to do everything under > the sun so a muttrc builder such as http://www.muttrcbuilder.org/ > can put a lot of good setting in to start from. Hmmm... I tried that, hoping that this woul

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:17:32PM +0100, Christian Ruffer wrote: > but it only works for the bash settings. colors and aliases. The umask > isn't set :( If you've found a config file which sets the colors and aliases correctly, then that file is being run and it *is* setting the umask. There's j

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
charlie derr wrote: SNIP He actually has a second machine (laptop) with ubuntu on it (an attempt to switch distros in the past). Since I'm not nearly as proficient with untangling ubuntu problems as I am with understanding debian, I don't think that it really makes sense (in the past there w

broken Xorg [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-22 Thread Jimmy Wu
Updates on the situation I've shrunk Vista and left it as the first partition on the HD. After looking around, I think that my laptop does not have a recovery partition, which is rather strange. There is no Rescue and Recovery ThinkVantage tool, or anything that says create recovery media at all.

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-22 11:41:38 +, Pantor wrote: > It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. > To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing > machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard. Mutt's configuration is not that bad: very powerful and

Re: iptables & firefox

2008-01-22 Thread johnny
Ok, sorry for the post, udp in input only from (router, 53) is enough for the tools but firefox wants other udp... I gotta study more... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread charlie derr
steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | |> |> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a |> routine update and everything breaks. ? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem with anything breaking

LVM2 resize problem

2008-01-22 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hello I have a lvm volume with two PV. I need to take away one of them. The data size is less than one PV size. All of data could be writen on one PV. I can do a resize of filesystem, but I can do a pvmove. I can do a lvreduce and a vgreduce and the data seems to be OK but it isn't normal pr

Re: wodim does not write DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
>If the inclusion of cdrecord into GPL-strict Linux distros were >important to you (I'm assuming it ain't, why should it) you could >just GPL it and take the wind out of the stupid Debian maintainers' >sails. After all it's you who insists that the CDDL and the GPL are >compatible. It seems that y

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: | |> |> I went the Ubuntu route a couple of years ago. It's fun until you do a |> routine update and everything breaks. ? Ive used it on this laptop for almost 3 years, and never had a problem with anything breaking. you use som

formatting ext3 vs fat32 while copying files

2008-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greets. I recently copied a bunch of files from a fat32 flash to my ext3 (~/Desktop). Some of them are cyrilics and became .mp3 or similar. I can copy then within the ext3 but if i try to copy them to another fat32 i get a bunch of errors, mostly "invalid parameters". Also when trying to c

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Christian Ruffer
Is it really so hard to set umask for one user? Can somebody tell me about a documentation or sth. to solve this problem. How should it work in your opinion, mayby something is missconfigurated on my system. I expected that the changes hast to take place in .bash_profile and for no-loggin-sh

iptables & firefox

2008-01-22 Thread johnny
Hi, I'm restricting my server's access with some very simple rules (OUTPUT accept of default, my job only on INPUT initially drop of default) ... ... $ipt -A INPUT -p udp --s $router --sport 53 -j ACCEPT ... ... paying attention to DNS issues. But when my firewall is running, Firefox can't access

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:10:21 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/22/08 05:41, Pantor wrote: > [snip] >> It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. >> To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing >> machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard.

Re: IceDove vs Kmail

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue January 22 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > OT, but I set up an MTA (postfix, in my case) as a relay host.  So, > whether using Icedove, Kmail, Mutt, whatever, I always send email to > my computer (haggis).  Postfix then turns around and relays it to my > ISP's smtp server.  This, along with fetch

KDE4 installation on Debian!

2008-01-22 Thread Stef Daniels VK5HSX
Hi Peoples, I used the following link http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/install-kde-4-on-debian-unstable-sid to install KDE4 on my HP Presario Laptop and thought I would try it out. Everything went smoothly with the install, without errors (surprisingly). However, upon using KDE4, I ha

Re: IceDove vs Kmail

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 08:11, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I had a problem this morning, not sure how it happened or what is going on. > suddenly I can't send mail from kmail, error, saying plain isn't supported > from my smtp server. So I fired up IceDove, configur

IceDove vs Kmail

2008-01-22 Thread Paul Cartwright
I had a problem this morning, not sure how it happened or what is going on. suddenly I can't send mail from kmail, error, saying plain isn't supported from my smtp server. So I fired up IceDove, configured it the same as kmail for my smtp setup, and mail went out. It also continued to work fine f

Re: bash history

2008-01-22 Thread michael
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 06:16 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2008-01-17 05:37:34 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> set -o histappend > >> > >> appends the history file instead of overwriting it. > > > > $ set -o histappend > > bash: set: histappend: invalid option

Re: Configure postfix to send out emails on local machine

2008-01-22 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22-Jan-08, at 2:16 AM, rockymaxsource wrote: Hey, Our company has a domain www.ourcompany.com registered and the site is hosted at a hosting company. The company does not provide SMTP service neither does my ISP. But I will need to send out e-ne

Re: KVM problems in sid

2008-01-22 Thread Peter Jordan
Jonathan Doe, 01/21/08 21:57: > Hello, > > I have just noticed a problem with kvm in Debian Sid. Whenever I try to > launch > an instance of kvm, be it a disk virtual machine image I have already made or > a livecd, a window for kvm appears and just stays blank. > > If I try to do the same th

Re: wodim writes DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Misko wrote: I am trying to burn iso image to DVD with no success. Already wasted 5 discs and have no clue what is wrong. Here is what dmesg report after wodim filed to write to DVD: $ dmesg | tail attempt to access beyond end of device hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 isofs_fill_super: bread failed

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/08 05:41, Pantor wrote: [snip] > It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. > To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing > machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard. That's why I on

Re: wodim writes DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Dennis Furey
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Misko wrote: > I am trying to burn iso image to DVD with no success. > Already wasted 5 discs and have no clue what is wrong. Would it be worth trying growisofs? It seems to work better than wodim for DVD's. Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-22 Thread charlie derr
Rick Dooling wrote: On Jan 21, 7:20 pm, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He's really eager to upgrade from etch to something newer. You didn't say why? Is there a particular program he craves a newer version of? Most of them :-[ It looked to me like icedove 2.0.0.9-3 is available i

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Christian Ruffer
but it only works for the bash settings. colors and aliases. The umask isn't set :( Christian Ruffer schrieb: there was no .profile file in the /home/user/ Path. Now i copied ~/.profile and no it works! Christian Ruffer schrieb: Thats what I already tried. I can't belive it is so hard to set

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:41:38AM +, Pantor wrote: > > It is correct. Because Mutt is written not for humans. > To configure Mutt for use it is the same as configure mechanical typing > machine through USB connection for use instead for a keyboard. Oh it's not that bad! For the OP: I use a

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Andres Migliazzo wrote: > As far as now we have advanced in discussing where the swap partition should > be (the location on the hard disk)... or even if is convenient to have a > swap file or a disk partition... > Are we in conditions to make a wrap up and a close up conclusio

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Christian Ruffer
there was no .profile file in the /home/user/ Path. Now i copied ~/.profile and no it works! Christian Ruffer schrieb: Thats what I already tried. I can't belive it is so hard to set spezial user settings vor the bash. i want to change the default umask permanently for one user. 1. I change t

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Pantor
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/08 16:37, Pantor wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/19/08 09:32, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Pantor wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/19/08 13:04, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:47:49PM +, Pantor wrote: [s

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-22 Thread CaT
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 11:04:11PM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > right (to your tastes)? Why spin off instead into this silly "I'm > right and everyone else is evil!" diatribe? It's hard to stop breathing. ;) -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the greatest tribu

Re: recent updates

2008-01-22 Thread David S
Celejar wrote: > I've also been getting this: > > option_space_encapsulate: option space agent does not exist, but is > configured. > I've been getting this message too. However, just identifying ourselves won't get us far, does anyone have any information on the reason for the message? David

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Christian Ruffer
Thats what I already tried. I can't belive it is so hard to set spezial user settings vor the bash. i want to change the default umask permanently for one user. 1. I change the .bashrc file. uncommented umask nothing 2. I added a .pam_umask file with 002 in it. nothing 3. I tryed to change um

Re: wodim does not write DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:40:19 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: > This is a result from incorrect device handling by wodim. > As you see, wodim does not support to write DVDs, conclusion: > Just don't use unsupported software like wodim. Although what you say is factually correc

Re: Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:12:11PM +0100, Jens Franik wrote: >Guten Tag Mattias Wadenstein, > >am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 um 10:29 schriebst Du: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7/ > >> They are now authorized on the tracker > >I put on my seeding this images: > >debian-31r7

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-22 Thread Wackojacko
Amogh Hooshdar wrote: but in your aptitude list I can't find sun java plugin anywhere. and adobe flash player works fine on my system. I am unable to get java plugin with iceweasel. i sun-java5-jre i A sun-java6-jre I think these two packages provide the java-runtime-environment which

Re: wodim does not write DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
>Fixating... >Errno: 0 (Success), close track/session scsi sendcmd: no error >CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) >Sense Bytes: 70 00 02 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 0E 04 08 00 80 >Sense Key: 0x2 Not Ready, Segment 0 >Sense Code: 0x04 Qual 0x08 (logical unit not ready, lo

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