Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:59:53PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:49:18PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > >Daniel Dalton wrote: > > >0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh > > When would that stop? How do you make it stop at 10? b

firewall or securety software

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Do I need any securety or firewalls on my debian box? I am going through a router. If I do what command line firewall or securety software can I use? Thanks, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Fwd: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the > on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia > card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel. > > What

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:38:25PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port > on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on > the modem but I still don't see any network connection. My ISP said > they use PPPoE but they never

DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-23 Thread Zach
I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on the modem but I still don't see any network connection. My ISP said they use PPPoE but they never told me a username or password. Assuming they tell me this how

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:17:45AM +, Jamin Davis wrote: > Richard A Nelson wrote: > >> Does the libnss_ldap version swap that caused this also correspond to >> when libnss_ldap also switched to the newer libldap libraries ? > > Yep - on my stable box: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd /lib/libnss_l

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > >>> Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names >>> not directory entries >> yeah only on username expansion > > Please also check for group entries > malloc: unkno

exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a location to do this. Alex -- "Arbolist ... Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees." - George W. Bush 08/21/2001 as quoted in USA Today sign

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:49:18PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >Daniel Dalton wrote: > >try 'man 5 crontab', that will tell you the format of the crontab file > >For your case, I think the following line should work > >0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh >

Re: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-23 Thread debian
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel. Do you frequently compile your kernel? The nvi

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-23 Thread Jamin Davis
Peter Robinson wrote: Stopping web server: invoke-rc.d: initscript thttpd, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing thttpd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting web server: thttpd. Errors were encountered while processing: thttpd You could either s

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast. This is because I get better download s

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse [SOLVED]

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:52:15 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't worry about this, the fuse initscript does not exist in Etch. (I > forgot to check that before I sent my previous message. I run Sid.) > > Can you use sshfs after you modprobe the fuse module? If so then you can

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Daniel Dalton wrote: try 'man 5 crontab', that will tell you the format of the crontab file Ok had a quick read. For your case, I think the following line should work 0 7 * * * /path/to/script.sh When would that stop? How do you make it stop

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Dalton writes: > man crontab but didn't find much. man 5 crontab -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:49:15PM -0600, Depo Catcher wrote: > > Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send out mass > emails to a bunch of different addresses? maybe you should lurk in a spammer irc channel or something. I'm sure they have plenty of tools for sending

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:37:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: >>> http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 >>> What are you, some kin

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:37:56AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: >>> http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 >>> What are you, some kind of canon

Re: scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast. This is because I get better download speeds earlier in the morning. So what script co

Re: Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Frank McCormick wrote: I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel. Do you frequently compile your kernel? The nvidia-installer is a bit

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 16:32, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080223 10:42]: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. >> My reply is below. >> >>> Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell

scripts running all the time?

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I want to put a call to my hpodder (podcaster) in a script that runs all the time. So I can have my computer on and when the time hits 7 am or between 7 and 10 am it will podcast. This is because I get better download speeds earlier in the morning. So what script could I add an if statem

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:20:31AM +, Kjö wrote: > > > cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? > > > Command failed: Device busy > > > Command failed: Device already exists > > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > > Command failed: Device already exists > >

Nvidia to Intel

2008-02-23 Thread Frank McCormick
I just went back to the straight Intel video driver for the on-board video on my Sid installation. I was running an older Nvidia card but got tired of trying to keep the driver up to the kernel. What I didn't realize was how slow the Intel video is - in Firefox for example I can almost s

Any tips to get Iceweasel to handle .jhtml

2008-02-23 Thread John W Foster
I need to have Iceweasel handle .jhtml files & so far not doing it. Any tips? FRosty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux [SOLVED]

2008-02-23 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Feb 23, 5:00 pm, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I solved the issue by installing the ROX file manage. And may I say > a beautiful application. Then I simply create a simpling to ~/apps for the > apps that I need and right click on it to and choose "Set Icon..." > >

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Kjö
> > cryptsetup: unknown fstype, bad password or options? > > Command failed: Device busy > > Command failed: Device already exists > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > Command failed: Device already exists > > cryptsetup: cryptsetup failed, bad password or options? > > cr

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:07:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi ! > > Feb 19th, I upgraded my debian testing as I do about twice a week. My > computer was then turned off (but I thing the upgrade was finished) and > I'm not able to boot anymore : I get these error messages : > > Setting u

Re: APT version 0.6.x.x,the meaning of warnings,and lack of signs of checks.

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:39:10PM -0800, alexandre suzuki wrote: > Now I have all my installed packages from the CDs in > aptitude with the following warning: So you are mixing the packages from your Sarge CD's with packages from backports.org? > warning(in red): > This version of the package i

courier-imap uid/gid problem

2008-02-23 Thread ml
Hi, After upgrading from etch to lenny courier-imap does not seam to like my userdb configuration. I can authenticate but not get any mail. No error messages are present in mail.log or mail.err. I am running the following versions: courier-authdaemon0.60.1-1+b1 courier-authlib

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Andrius
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to [EMAIL PRO

boinc-app-seti -- |Message from server: platform '' not found

2008-02-23 Thread Vasichkin
I've got problems running boinc client. here logs from boinc manager: 24.02.2008 1:14:33||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 24.02.2008 1:14:33||libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5 24.02.2008 1:14:33||Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client 24.02.2008 1:1

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 18:17:28 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> Hi, > >>=20 > >> I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've > >> noticed that several programs that try

Re: Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Yang
Thank you all very much for the info. I'll try the octave first. Thanks. M. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:45 -0500 > "Michael Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > I want to install the matlab package

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 14:03:53 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: [...] > > Try "modprobe -v fuse" (unload the module first if it is already > > loaded). This should create /dev/fuse or give you an error message. [...] > Ok that worked. I was able to load the fuse module and running ls -l > lis

Re: lost my 'menu' key

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-17, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-17, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 17:58:02 +, Tyler Smith wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got my menu key bound to the root menu in fluxbox: >>> >>> from ~/.fluxbox/keys: >>> None Menu :RootM

Re: Bothering error messages on console terminal (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:28:10PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > # udev.conf > > > > # The initial syslog(3) priority: "err", "info", "debug" or its > > # numerical equivalent. For runtime debugging, the daemons internal > > # state can be changed with: "udevcontrol log_priority=". > > udev_l

Re: Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 07:37:57AM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On Feb 23, 12:40 am, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess I use the "ln" command right? And also how do I change icons for > > these apps? I will probably set up a lightweight WM for them, something > > l

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've > noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are > confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAI

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:10:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/23/08 10:09, Chuck Rhode wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. > > My reply is below. > > > >> Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use > >> the printer as the

Re: Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux [SOLVED]

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> If you are going the fluxbox route, why not just configure keys, like, > e.g., Ctrl-Alt-f starts Firefox, etc? > > If you want icons on a lightweight window manager, I think idesk is > what people use. I personally just configure key commands. > > http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Howto_idesk

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chuck Rhode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080223 10:42]: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. > My reply is below. > > > Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use > > the printer as the console output and a USB keyboard as the console > > input.

Re: Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:45 -0500 "Michael Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > > I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any repositories > I can use? > > Thanks. > M. Hi there, I took a course that required MATLAB. For almost all of the homework assignments, oct

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-23 Thread Jeff D
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi, I would like to remove the package thttpd but get the following error message. I do not see the process running (with ps aux for instance). How can I get rid of it. Here is the message I get from aptitude: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 276185 fil

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > The 2.6.18 images have fuse.ko included. However, we should make sure > that your experiment with module-assistant has not left behind an > additional - possibly broken - fuse module. Run > > find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name fuse.ko > > and verify that it only lists one file: > /lib/modul

Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-23 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi, I would like to remove the package thttpd but get the following error message. I do not see the process running (with ps aux for instance). How can I get rid of it. Here is the message I get from aptitude: Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 276185 files and directories curr

Re: Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Yang wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any > > repositories I can use? > > > > Thanks. > > M. > matlab is a commercial product. For many uses, octave s

Re: df reporting incorrect available space

2008-02-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat February 23 2008 12:13:42 Chris Purves wrote: > I am having problems with the reported available disk space on my root > partition with df. The Used and Available amounts do not add up to the > total amount. The difference is the reserved blocks percentage, which you can adjust with tune2f

Re: Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Peter Robinson
Michael Yang wrote: Hi all: I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any repositories I can use? Thanks. M. matlab is a commercial product. For many uses, octave should be just as good and is available in debian (the syntax of octave is about 98% identical with that of ma

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-02-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I am designing (with the help of Dallas/Maxim, NXP and LM) new DC-ATX- > PSU's (with 24V DC entry to use it in Photopholtaik-Systems) and was > searching for the amperage of the connectors of an ATX-PSU. Well, I recommend you go to extreme levels of o

Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Michael Yang
Hi all: I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any repositories I can use? Thanks. M.

Re: df reporting incorrect available space

2008-02-23 Thread Adrian Levi
On 24/02/2008, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems with the reported available disk space on my root > partition with df. The Used and Available amounts do not add up to the > total amount. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounte

df reporting incorrect available space

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I am having problems with the reported available disk space on my root partition with df. The Used and Available amounts do not add up to the total amount. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 255912243314 0 100% / tmpf

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:02:53 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > > Do you have "fuse-utils" installed? /dev/fuse is meant to be created with > > ownership root:fuse, so the fuse group has to exist on your system. If I > > remember correctly, this group is created by the post-installation sc

Re: Internet Problem

2008-02-23 Thread Henrique Rennó
I have tried enabling this option but it does not work. The strange thing is that I tried connecting in a friend's house the way I'm trying here and my laptop connected to the Internet normally. I don't know what could be misconfigured in my Windows XP. > I used the "share my internet connection"

Digikam - Camera not recognized correctly

2008-02-23 Thread Chris
after a recent upgrade in testing, digikam does not recognize my Olympus fe-190 camera correctly anymore. Instead, it reports the camera as a Olympus C-310Z and fails to connect. Using PTP USB mode it is possible to connect, but not with the functionality I had before (new pictures are recogni

Re: sudden problem with clamav hosing my server

2008-02-23 Thread samk
See Thread at: http://www.techienuggets.com/Detail?tx=24538 Posted on behalf of a User I have the same problem too. My server stopped delivering mail yesterday, and as a temporary workaround I just moved the /etc/amavis/conf.d/15-av_scanners to the /root/ directory and restarted amavis result

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > Do you have "fuse-utils" installed? /dev/fuse is meant to be created with > ownership root:fuse, so the fuse group has to exist on your system. If I > remember correctly, this group is created by the post-installation script of > fuse-utils. > > You can check if your system has the fuse group

Re: debian 4.0 on ppc

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I am sorry I haven't replied. Anyways it looks like its a CD related problem. Did you burn it to a CDRW? What software did you use to burn it? I am using an older PowerBook G4 500MHz and I did not have to do anything special or copy any files to the root HD. I simply burned the etch

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2008-02-23, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --pfTAc8Cvt8L6I27a > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >> I'm using exim/fe

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-23 Thread Wackojacko
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (and that was my prefe

Re: how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > am trying to get the replication of audio working, no success so far... > > i read through the docu at the pulseaudio pages, which i can't really > apply since i am running gnome, and as it seems gnome allrea

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/23/08 10:09, Chuck Rhode wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. > My reply is below. > >> Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use >> the printer as the console output and a USB k

Re: proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:37:33PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've > noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are > confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: APIC error on CPU0:40(40)

2008-02-23 Thread eric s
Florian Kulzer wrote: APIC error on CPU0:40(40) APIC error on CPU0:40(40) anyone knows how to correct this? My knee-jerk response would be to try booting with the "noapic" and/or "nolapic" kernel parameters. (I don't know any specifics about the T7200.) thanks! it worked I added to /boot/gr

proper mailname

2008-02-23 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using exim/fetchmail/mutt to send and receive mail. However, I've noticed that several programs that try and send me messages are confused - things like sudo and at, which try and mail messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] sedgenet is just a made-up domain I picked when I set

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-23 Thread Chuck Rhode
Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:02:24AM -0500. My reply is below. > Perhaps I can get away without the VT520 if I can tell unix to use > the printer as the console output and a USB keyboard as the console > input. You might be able to find a DecWriter in working condition.

Reflecat xScan

2008-02-23 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Have someone tested the Reflecta xScan in Debian? http://www.filmscanner.info/en/ReflectaXScan.html Regards, -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

Re: Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux

2008-02-23 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Feb 23, 12:40 am, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I use the "ln" command right? And also how do I change icons for > these apps? I will probably set up a lightweight WM for them, something like > fluxbox or DWM. So how is changing icons in Linux done? > If you are goi

Bothering error messages on console terminal (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-02-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> when I plug in my usb pendrive, the >> >> following >> >> message appears: >> >> >> >> sda: assuming drive cache: write through >> >> >> >> . How can I avoid this as well, and all undesired kernel messages? "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:44:43AM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > On 22 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you mean get the machine to see? > I can't access it, view it, format it or anything? I'm at a complete loss > on how to proceed. > > > What does dmesg show? > eth0:

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:59:36 +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > debian:~# lspci -nn [...] > 00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. Unknown device > [1106:5372] > 00:0f.1 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. > VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE [1106:05

ide-tape crashes

2008-02-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Debian Etch 4.02 I have an STT2 Travan tape drive, which I use with Amanda for backup. When running amverify on a tepe containing multiple images, I get the message: ide-tape: bug: tape->next_stage != NULL checked tony-lx.magpieway.net._var.20080204165847.0 double fault gdt at c1a0d000 [255 b

Re: APT version 0.6.x.x,the meaning of warnings,and lack of signs of checks.

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 15:39:10 -0800, alexandre suzuki wrote: > 1) > I installed apt-0.6.46.4 from backports.org because I wanted security > checks of Release.gpg not only the check of the md5s. However my > first run of it(see above) does not show any sign of the checks.When I > did apt-get upd

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 23 Feb, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which SATA controller are we talking about? Post the output of: > lspci -nn | grep -i sata debian:~# lspci -nn 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE Host Bridge [1106:0336] 00:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: VIA Technologies, In

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:44:43 +, Mitch Crawford wrote: > On 22 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > What do you mean get the machine to see? > I can't access it, view it, format it or anything? I'm at a complete loss > on how to proceed. > > > What does dmesg show? > eth0: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xd

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:14:46 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-02-22 18:57:31 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Do you have "fuse-utils" installed? > > Since sshfs depends on fuse-utils, I suppose that Amit has fuse-utils > installed. What I meant was: "Did fuse-utils install successfull

Re: Discovering A SATA HD

2008-02-23 Thread Mitch Crawford
On 22 Feb, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean get the machine to see? I can't access it, view it, format it or anything? I'm at a complete loss on how to proceed. > What does dmesg show? eth0: RTL8169s/8110s at 0xd8850c00, 00:e0:4c:69:13:15, IRQ 50 Probing IDE interface

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:33:19PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new > > message) be

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:30:32AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > > Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-) > Do they require a "special" spanner? :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#465608: "education" has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:44:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > >> No such luck :-( > > A (hopefully final) fix for the problem was tested yesterday by > Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> successfully. The > packages versioned 0.826 just hit incomin

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: > > [snip] > > Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new > message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-to: header). I use > reply and just

how to get pulseaudio working?

2008-02-23 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello am trying to get the replication of audio working, no success so far... i read through the docu at the pulseaudio pages, which i can't really apply since i am running gnome, and as it seems gnome allready starts up a pulseaudio daemon on the laptop i use for the tests, all seems fine,