Network printing trouble

2008-03-31 Thread andy
Hello I am obviously going about this the wrong way, but I'm not sure where my error lies. A second (or third) pair of eyes would be helpful. On box A there is an USB printer. Box B wants to use that printer. Box A and B are both connected via a hub to a firewall that does IP masking. Box A

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread andy
Chris Walters wrote: Just wondering if you've tried the Debian Backports site for the packages you need? If they are there, they should install with no problems. If not, my best suggestion would be to grab the source, and compile it yourself, then make a .deb out of it and use the normal m

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) > > > > ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P > > Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing > any problems that I know about. Not a good idea to erase log fi

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-31 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> > But these are details, and mostly the problem is solved, and I'm |> > grateful for your help, |> |> There might be a problem with pdftex.map. Look at the output of |> |> kpsewhich pdftex.map |> |> and check if this files c

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Jeff D wrote: >have you tried to manually load the iwl3945 module? I >beleive that the >ipw driver has been replaced with the iwl. Oh, yes, thank you! I found the entry in the Wiki for doing this, followed everything exactly, and now im back on wireless. Thanx all! Jen

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:26, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades > im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. > > Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had > been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now > im run

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades > im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. > > Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had > been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now > im running kernel

Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:26, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades > im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. > > Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had > been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now > im runnin

Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-03-31 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Hi, I am running Lenny. I usually accept all the upgrades im offered, so i upgraded my kernel recently. Now my Intel wireless card doesnt work, because i had been using the ipw3945-modules-2.6.22 package, and now im running kernel version 2.6.24. And i cant find the package for ipw2945 2.6.24 an

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:06:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: [...] > > > I guess Jumpin Jackass w

Re: how to reset desktop env. config? (was: Re: What are these folders in home?)

2008-03-31 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
H.S. wrote: > But then, the question is, what is > the "right way" to start over using a desktop environment above? Is > there a "soft reset" for window managers and desktop env.? > AFAIK, such a "soft reset" does not exist for KDE 3.5.5 users. It would be cool to have such a thing though. I gav

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Henry
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > > put them all in the same subnet (ie 192.168.0.128-255) and then nmap -sS > > - -PN 192.168.0.128/25 | grep [uU][Pp] > > What does it mean to say 192.168.0.128/25 ? /25 indicates the subnet

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-31 Thread s. keeling
Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > T o n g wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: > >> > >>> how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP server? > >> > >> Install sendmail-doc and c

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-31 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Rich Healey wrote: > put them all in the same subnet (ie 192.168.0.128-255) and then nmap -sS > - -PN 192.168.0.128/25 | grep [uU][Pp] What does it mean to say 192.168.0.128/25 ? Instead, I settled on to sudo nmap -sS -PN 192.168.1.1-255 It seems to be working... thanks raju -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-31 Thread s. keeling
T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: > > > >> how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP > >> server? > > > > Install sendmail-doc and check /usr/share/doc/sendm

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 andy wrote: | Paul Cartwright wrote: |> On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: | This sounded like a pretty straight forward response. | | Once I downloaded the packages and went to install, this is what I got: | | ~$ sudo dpkg -i libofx4_0.9.

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: |>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister |>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:1

Re: how to reset desktop env. config?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> paragasu wrote: >> >>> AFAIK, >>> you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden >>> files. >>> the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you >>> can login >>>

how to reset desktop env. config? (was: Re: What are these folders in home?)

2008-03-31 Thread H.S.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store a

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 31 March 2008 21:24, Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? > > Thanks > > Phil Wiley > Massachusetts, USA You mean to download an image fo install: i386 will do. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:06:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run Windows, odds are you're on i386, less likely ia64 or amd64. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Can't set font color in open office?

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Yang
I upgraded to 1:2.4.0-3, but the problems still exist. The color can not be displayed in writer, but can be shown in the PDF after exported. Is this expected or not? M. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using openoffice 2.4.0-rc1-2. I was using the

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrot

Re: Can't set font color in open office?

2008-03-31 Thread Michael Yang
I'm using openoffice 2.4.0-rc1-2. I was using the same way as you do to set font color. It doesn't work. I'll try the latest version later on. Regards. M. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Florian Kulzer < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:00:34 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: >

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:47:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > Just to follow up... yes you can migrate from i386 to amd64, but what > a royal pain... > > lots of manual dpkg work... jumping back and forth between new and > old install and chrooting into the new install to get thing

problem with pgadmin3 and postgres 8.3

2008-03-31 Thread Alex Samad
Hi It seems like the older version of pgadmin3 don't play well with postgres 8.3. The postgres people suggest (recommend) using version 1.8. But it seems like we can't have version 1.8 or anything greater than version 1.4 because wxwidgets isn't being maintained (well that is to say that the curr

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > Hey, > > > They also alphabetically increment with each release and Gutsy Gibbon,

busybox mount broken in sid/amd64

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
I'm resending this because I think it got lost with liszt.debian.org being down. I apologize if it ends up being a dupe... A Has anyone else seen erratic behavior from busybox sid amd64? I have a couple of custom scripts in my initrd that handle encrypted swap and so forth. As part of this the

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:19:13AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:53:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On 03/29/08 21:44, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > I'd fall back to "gravid giraffe", which is at least an amusing mental > > > image.

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread andy
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: First I would try to install it with 'dpkg -i'. Another option would be to set 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf, add a source for lenny and try to install with 'aptitude install -t lenny homebank'. If this

Re: Re: resume ... resume ... resume ...

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew & others, > > Thanks for the ideas. > > asw> When did this start? > > When I upgraded the system from etch to lenny, > or shortly thereafter, about the middle of February. > > asw> what changed? > > Nothing was chan

Re: Re: resume ... resume ... resume ...

2008-03-31 Thread peasthope
Andrew & others, Thanks for the ideas. asw> When did this start? When I upgraded the system from etch to lenny, or shortly thereafter, about the middle of February. asw> what changed? Nothing was changed with the intention of having a "resume" capability. My best guess is that a dependen

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > First I would try to install it with 'dpkg -i'. Another option would be > to set 'APT::Default-Release "stable";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf, add a > source for lenny and try to install with > 'aptitude install -t lenny homebank'. If this doesn't pull in too

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.31.2259 +0200]: >> I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it >> looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. > > I wish I had my copy next to me, but I know Martin Krafft's excellent > book _The Debian

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-31 23:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-03-31 21:15 +0200, andy wrote: > >> I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it >> looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. >> >> http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 >> http://packages.qa.debian.

Re: Postfix Access Problem

2008-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:36:28PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Mar 31 16:07:28 Phoenix identd[8050]: started > Mar 31 16:07:28 Phoenix sm-mta[8049]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map > "access": missing map file /etc/mail/access.db: No such file or directory > Mar 31 16:07:28 Phoenix sm-mta[804

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-31 21:15 +0200, andy wrote: > I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it > looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. > > http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html > > Is it best to simply give this a

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/31/08 14:24, Phil Wiley wrote: > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions > should I use? Are you asking whether this is a 32-bit or 64-bit system? (Since x86-64 systems also have a 32-bit mode, you can always run it

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 31/03/2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same goes for .sylpheed .sylpheed-claws and probably other mail clients. > > Regards, > Andrei Although Thunderbird stores in ~/.thunderbird, Firefox stores in ~/.mozilla. I could imagine that there are those who use Firefox who might no

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:15:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > Greetings > > I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it looks > like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. > > http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 > http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html > > Is

Re: Postfix Access Problem

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 31 2008 13:36:28 Thomas H. George wrote: > Ran apt-get install postfix and then fetchmail. Fetchmail saw the > messages but could not post them (and, therefore did not purge them). > > tail /var/log/syslog reported /etc/mail did not contain access.db. (The > relevant output is attach

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread Glenn Becker
I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. I wish I had my copy next to me, but I know Martin Krafft's excellent book _The Debian System_ has some good material on how to safely mix and match like this. One o

Postfix Access Problem

2008-03-31 Thread Thomas H. George
Ran apt-get install postfix and then fetchmail. Fetchmail saw the messages but could not post them (and, therefore did not purge them). tail /var/log/syslog reported /etc/mail did not contain access.db. (The relevant output is attached as post.txt.) man access listed modifications to /etc/p

Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-03-31 Thread andy
Greetings I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html Is it best to simply give this a miss, or to download a tar ball and

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:50:01AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > paragasu wrote: > > > AFAIK, > > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. > > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you > > can login > > just fine. > > > > One

AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-03-31 Thread Phil Wiley
My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? Thanks Phil Wiley Massachusetts, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:02:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: >>> Chris Bannister wrote: I think xmms is no more anyway. >>> A number of distros have dropped xmms. >>> As far as I vaguely remember, t

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > They also alphabetically increment with each release and Gutsy Gibbon, > > Hardy Herron and Intrepid Ibex are the current timeline releases f

Re: just like the old days (TeTeX to TeXLive)

2008-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 18:22:18 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: [...] > This second produced a null output. And following up on that hint, > and with the help of /usr/share/doc/tex-common/TeX-on-Debian.txt, > I was able to create 10local.cfg in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ with: > > Map pmn.map > > Thi

Re: dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 23:08:32 +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian > Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from > KDE that the device had been discovered. Did you choose a default action for that type of

Re: Disabled /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon: adverse reactions?

2008-03-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/31/2008 10:08 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:38:17PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: My booting of Etch was being slowed by /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, so I removed execute permissions from that file, and now my boots are 10 seconds faster. [...] If gnome require

Re: Can't set font color in open office?

2008-03-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:00:34 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi: > > I'm working in the openoffice writer 2.4.0 (lenny/sid 2.6.24-1-686), but it > seems that the font color setting doesn't work for me. > > After I set the color to selected words, the color doesn't get changed. > > Anybody have

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Channon
Michael Yang wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using xfce4 now. It seems to me it's also getting slower (been using for a long time now), I'm wondering if there's any tools to analyze the system performance? This might go down poorly with some pe

dansguardian does not stop

2008-03-31 Thread Mauro
hello debian people, my problem with dansguardian started when I saw this message: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running postrotate script for /var/log/dansguardian/access.log I began to investigate, and found that the dansguardian init scripts don't work properly; in fact, after I typ

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: xfce used to use gtk1. It now uses gtk2 which is far more bloated which makes it slower. It also uses more memory... Icewm does not, and OpenBox may not either. You could try those. currently i use FVWM-Crystal as my default desktop environment with Fluxbox as

Re: What is this ata exception

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:04:28PM +, T o n g wrote: > I saw the following for the first time when I rebooted just now: > Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 > action 0x2 frozen > Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:10:07PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > > There is a lot more than just the I/O scheduler. It just popped into my > > head because I am doing the configuration right now, myself, and because > > of the debate/controversy about it. Also, you will want to build the > > device dr

Re: svn command

2008-03-31 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-03-31T15:45:49+0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > What package should I install in my Debian Etch system to use the `svn' > command? My search was not successful. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search svn|grep 'bin/svn$' subversion: usr/bin/svn /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:46:44PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Presto

Re: Disabled /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon: adverse reactions?

2008-03-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:38:17PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > My booting of Etch was being slowed by > /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, so I removed execute permissions from > that file, and now my boots are 10 seconds faster. > > However, the avahi-daemon still starts. Will there be any advers

Re: Dovecot and Resolvconf issues

2008-03-31 Thread chavdar
Thanks a lot. В пн, 2008-03-31 в 23:39 +0900, Osamu Aoki написа: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:01:56PM +0300, chavdar wrote: > > Dear list, > > 2. Resolvconf > > So far, we manipulated our network settings for the server > > through /etc/resolv.conf - where we supply a list of DNS servers

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog (resolved)

2008-03-31 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080331 08:56]: > On Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 00:37:14 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Regarding alternatives to Blosxom: Blosxom is written in Perl. A > > clone (which since has taken on a life of its own) is Pyblosxom, which > > is written in Python. Both are

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-31 Thread cypherstrong
Ok in fact what I have saw is this First, db2 start with 256m share memory ... So it's ok, they are be able to do it on both system Second, they try to change by following the memory of the system On redhat, it's ok On debian, they don't do it properly Perhaps it set a too high value I have try

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: I think xmms is no more anyway. A number of distros have dropped xmms. As far as I vaguely remember, the reason is that it still uses gtk1, and there were certain problems preventing i

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-31 Thread Andrius
T o n g wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP server? Install sendmail-doc and check /usr/share/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz for SMART_

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: paragasu wrote: i will love to find out all the option available. I just one to ask one more thing. i hope it is not too much. Isn't the kernel have modular support. able to load and unload the needed and unneeded modules on the fly? How much is the improvement compare to t

Re: Dovecot and Resolvconf issues

2008-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:01:56PM +0300, chavdar wrote: > Dear list, > 2. Resolvconf > So far, we manipulated our network settings for the server > through /etc/resolv.conf - where we supply a list of DNS servers to be > querried. > The new system has that file, manipulated by the program res

Re: svn command

2008-03-31 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:45:49PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi to Debian users. > > What package should I install in my Debian Etch system to use the `svn' > command? My search was not successful. apt-get install subversion > Thanks for any reply > Rodolfo --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Wireless2

2008-03-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 31 March 2008 16:18, Jonathan Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I assume if I get the following messages: > lono wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > I do not have wireless extentions. W

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: i will love to find out all the option available. I just one to ask one more thing. i hope it is not too much. Isn't the kernel have modular support. able to load and unload the needed and unneeded modules on the fly? How much is the improvement compare to the strip down versio

svn command

2008-03-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to Debian users. What package should I install in my Debian Etch system to use the `svn' command? My search was not successful. Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless2

2008-03-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:18:51AM -0400, Jonathan Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I assume if I get the following messages: > lono wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > I do not have wireles

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:41:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Then DROP the idea of hw-raid. Get a damn good SATA/SCSI/SAS HBA, and >> use software raid. BTW, damn good means no VIA, SiS, nVidia, or other >> el-cheap-o half-broken SAT

Wireless2

2008-03-31 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hello, I assume if I get the following messages: lono wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. I do not have wireless extentions. Where can I obtain these? Thanks, -- Jonathan Wynn Smith Doctoral Stud

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2008-03-31 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Johnathan, I am forwarding your message to the debian-user list which is more appropriate for a user question. The -devel list is for issue related to the development of the Debian distribution. Cheers, Kev - Forwarded message from Jonathan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 31 Mar

OCR friendly fonts - saving GPG key safely

2008-03-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Does anyone know OCR friendly fonts. I am trying to print things like gnupg keys and recover it by OCR. It has to be fixed width font. (Experiment was done via PDF(OOffice)->graphic(Gimp). gocr was usable but tesseract was not at first try.) Bitstream was best but F was converted to f. Co

Wireless

2008-03-31 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hello, What is the best way to obtain wireless internet on Debian. I have version 4.0. Thanks -- Jonathan Wynn Smith Doctoral Student in Howard University Program in Atmospheric Science Washington, DC 20059 336-601-4563 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail)

Re: Can we run a qemu instance as a dedicated home network firewall?

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:20:26 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Can we use a virtual qemu linux machine as a firewall for > a real home network? > > I have a small network at home, with a few desktops and a DMZ and > a linux firewall machine. > > Now that virtualization is working for me, via qemu,

What is this ata exception

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
Hi, I saw the following for the first time when I rebooted just now: Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 123392 in Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr ker

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-31 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:17:51 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:21:17 am Andrius wrote: > >> how to configure Sendmail to send a messages through ISP SMTP server? > > Install sendmail-doc and check /usr/share/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz > for SMART_HOST ( define(`SMART

icedove: pdf-attachment as Content-Type: app_lication/x-ms_down_load

2008-03-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo debian expertise! I just got an email automatically returned from an 'connntent checccker' (deliberate misspelling to get the mail through debian's tough spam filters): > banned name: application/x-msdownload In fact I just sent a pdf atta

Dovecot and Resolvconf issues

2008-03-31 Thread chavdar
Dear list, It seems the new update of the stable flavour messed up things a bit, as a result our mailserver after update has certain issues. We lost our mailserver after hard drive malfunction, however managed to save configs. But these configs with new debian wouldn't work. Mailserver before the

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
paragasu wrote: > AFAIK, > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you > can login > just fine. > One has to be careful. For example, Kmail (from KDE) uses .kde to store all the mail. If some

dmesg reports connection of mass storage device but no kde pop-up nor device file created

2008-03-31 Thread Arthur Marsh
I plugged in a USB mass storage device into my pc running Debian Unstable and unlike several months ago, did not get a notification from KDE that the device had been discovered. dmesg reported: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4 usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen f

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 31/03/2008, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, > you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. > the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can > login just fine. That's what I figured, but: > be careful. ;) That's why I ask!

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread paragasu
> There is a lot more than just the I/O scheduler. It just popped into my > head because I am doing the configuration right now, myself, and because > of the debate/controversy about it. Also, you will want to build the > device drivers you need as modules, and configure the system to unload > mo

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: thanks Mark Allums, Honestly, i spent less time looking on the kernel side. i will look at the documentation for the I/O scheduler options. great information you have ;) Ron Johnson gets the credit. The idea is, you are low on RAM, so prevent anything from using RAM. If you

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: There are three I/O schedulers in the 2.6.24 distribution. The deadline, anticipatory, and completely fair. You will see these as options when you run make gconfig (or whichever config you run). Completely Fair (CFQ) is now the default. This was mildly controve

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog (resolved)

2008-03-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 00:37:14 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Regarding alternatives to Blosxom: Blosxom is written in Perl. A > clone (which since has taken on a life of its own) is Pyblosxom, which > is written in Python. Both are CGI scripts. If you're not accepting comments, or not im

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread paragasu
AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. be careful. ;)

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread paragasu
> There are three I/O schedulers in the 2.6.24 distribution. The > deadline, anticipatory, and completely fair. You will see these as > options when you run make gconfig (or whichever config you run). > Completely Fair (CFQ) is now the default. This was mildly controversial > when they made the

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-31 Thread Hugh Lawson
Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06: > > Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the > >> mount.cifs binary: > > [ snip ] > > > >> The format of the /etc/fstab entry changed, requiring t

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Haines Brown
Owen, Thanks for the clear explanation of the redirection. I should be all set now. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 31 March 2008 11:45, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 31/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) > > > > ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P > > Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing > any problems that I

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 31/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ~/.java/ (java is a system-wide app, no? Can I erase this? I use > > OpenOffice, which I know has a java dependency) > > personal settings for java I do not remember ever setting personal settings for java, in fact, I was unaware that an

kernel panic - not syncing, attempt to kill the idle task

2008-03-31 Thread Micha
My friends laptop that I installed debian on for him started to give a kernel panic this morning with the message, kernel panic, not syncing, attempt to kill the idle task. I don't have physical access to it at the moment. We tried removing power and battery and pressing the power button to drain

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: BSD 7.0 is alleged to be better than Linux 2.6.xx, but that is disputed. You might want to use a different scheduler and I/O scheduler than the default if you use a 2.6.24 kernel. As the man said, compile your own. well, add RAM is out of question, because it is a

Re: Cron Daemon backup message too big

2008-03-31 Thread Owen Townend
On 31/03/2008, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone kindly communicated to me privately, and I realized that I was > not being sufficiently complete regarding my problem. > > In my backup script, I have the line: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media|... " 2>&1 | cat -vt > > What t

Re: most lightweight debian server

2008-03-31 Thread paragasu
> BSD 7.0 is alleged to be better than Linux 2.6.xx, but that is disputed. > You might want to use a different scheduler and I/O scheduler than the > default if you use a 2.6.24 kernel. As the man said, compile your own. > > I can't answer as well about the userlands. That depends on what > envi

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