Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Maas
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 17:12 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please remove this e-mail address and unsubscribe me from future > > mailings. > Hey!! READ the freeking message: > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: [snip] > >>> Is there a way to tell how much memory the Linux kernel is using, >>> and what for? >> Not really. Kernel 2.6.26 should expose b

Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: > > > > Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory > > is used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the > > usual init, getty, klogd, sshd, etc). > > Yes. Yup. > > I assume that this memory i

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/04/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/25/08 21:13, s. keeling wrote: > > Sorry for the thread snatch. > > > > I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway > > linux.debian.user. I've seen this befo

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 21:13, s. keeling wrote: > Sorry for the thread snatch. > > I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway > linux.debian.user. I've seen this before and I'm wondering if there's > anything I can do about it, other than g

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-25 Thread s. keeling
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:28 + > Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > > seemingly at random on my screen. It l

Re: Howto mount a Debian disk (LVM, dm-crypt)?

2008-04-25 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 25 April 2008 20:27, Hans Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I installed an etch system the usual d-i way (using the complete disk, > one partition, LVM, dm-crypted), but now I have to mount this disk on > the same computer which now has a new (bigger) disk. I have an IDE/USB > adaptor for this, but

[Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me? (was: Re: Grub2)

2008-04-25 Thread s. keeling
Sorry for the thread snatch. I'm (usually*) reading d-u in slrn via the mail to news gateway linux.debian.user. I've seen this before and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do about it, other than going utf-8 myself (I've no need for it (I think)). -- B

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:26:51AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-04-25 04:28 +0200, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > and there is a tool to verify that there are not missing files from your > > installed DEB files (i think its 'debverify'?? if anyone know, do tell) > > It's called `debsums', actual

Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

2008-04-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +0100, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following > situation of unmet dependencies: > > $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies > Reading package lists... Done > Building

Howto mount a Debian disk (LVM, dm-crypt)?

2008-04-25 Thread Hans Martin
Hi, I installed an etch system the usual d-i way (using the complete disk, one partition, LVM, dm-crypted), but now I have to mount this disk on the same computer which now has a new (bigger) disk. I have an IDE/USB adaptor for this, but of course the easy way (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt or similar) doe

Network-manager wireless reconnect

2008-04-25 Thread Miguel Gaiowski
Hey everyone, How do I get network-manager to retry to connect to a wireless network if the signal goes down? That is, everytime someone adds new rules to the router and restarts it, the signal goes down for some seconds... Network-manager will try to reconnect once then 'give up'. I didn't fin

Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

2008-04-25 Thread Marcelo
Hi, After a update (~3 days ago) my D630 don't halt properly anymore. When I try to shutdown by gnome or by # shutdown -h 0 my HD isn't finalized properly and when I start/restart my system I got fsck work because my HD isn't previous umounted. My system: Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid uname -a L

Re: system sounds [ FIXED]

2008-04-25 Thread H H
H H wrote: Hi, wonder if anyone can give me a clue to getting the system sounds working on my lenny 64bit? All other sounds worked fine so i installed esound which got system sounds working but my skype and youtube stopped working. I have uninstalled esound to get skype and youtube back stoppi

Re: First time ssh user needs help, getting authentication failures

2008-04-25 Thread Nathaniel Homier
Rafael Fontenelle wrote: 2008/4/25, Nathaniel Homier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: So I aptitude ssh and set it up according to this document: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-sec-services.en.html#s5.1 I get authentication failures. I a

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Mark Allums wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: > In any case, see below... > >> Low-level used to need to be done for some reasons, such as to adjust ---DELETED stuff--- > Well, as I said, I do not have first-hand experience with it. I have read many times that low-level formatting is done by

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:28 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > seemingly at random on my screen. It

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
Bob McGowan wrote: > In any case, see below... > >> Low-level used to need to be done for some reasons, such as to adjust >> the sector interleave, or to switch the drive to a different physical >> orientation (required with stepper motor head positioning). It is no >> longer required to do it m

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:48AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > > On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: >>> so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the >>> emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight

system sounds

2008-04-25 Thread H H
Hi, wonder if anyone can give me a clue to getting the system sounds working on my lenny 64bit? All other sounds worked fine so i installed esound which got system sounds working but my skype and youtube stopped working. I have uninstalled esound to get skype and youtube back stopping the syste

Re: Grub2

2008-04-25 Thread Bipin Babu
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Friday 25 April 2008 15:50:50 Bipin Babu, vous avez écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone tried Grub2? > > I do since some weeks. > > > I run lenny and Grub2 is only a 'dummy package' in the > > repository. I have the st

Re: Grub2

2008-04-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Bipin Babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone tried Grub2? I run lenny and Grub2 is only a 'dummy package' in the > repository. I have the standard apt sources. Any howto to replace the > existing grub with grub2 would be great. > > BTW what is GFX-Gru

difference between kernel logs and /sys/class/net

2008-04-25 Thread Martin Fuzzey
Hi all, I have a machine running debian etch (2.6.18) with an onboard (8159) ethernet interface and a firewire port. By default both the kernel (as witnessed by dmesg) and /sys/class/net see eth0 = firewire eth1 = ethernet If I blacklist the ieee1394, uhci1394 and eth1394 modules (or disactivate

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please remove this e-mail address and unsubscribe me from future mailings. Hey!! READ the freeking message: *-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] *it is on the bottom of EVERY email you get

Re: no text or icons in x with intel x3100 (gdm and xfce)

2008-04-25 Thread Micha
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:31:38 +0300 Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried configuring my new computer with ati x3100 graphics card > of course it's an intel x3100, not ati ... > If I use debian's default configuration don't get any text or icons at all on > screen, that includes gdm, xfce

custom kernel and make kpkg modules_image

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I made a custom kernel: make kpkg --revision=.custom.10 --append-to-version=.cybo.1 --initrd kernel_image this issued in: linux-image-2.6.25.cybo.1_custom.1.0_amd64.deb I installed this and wanted to make nvidia modules for it: make-kpkg modules_image This issued an error: (para phrased,

Newbie trying to configure his hardware (video, sound and wifi).

2008-04-25 Thread soyivan soyivan
Hi! I am no so new in Linux, but yes as administrator of my own machine, last times I were just using normal applications and so on. I have in my computer installed Debian Etch, and I have installed Ubuntu and Xandros recently. In Ubuntu and Xandros, I have no problems with Audio, but in Debian

Claim Ref. Number: 34V/27N/30H 03NL

2008-04-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
__REMOVED__ === Benvenuto in Maxi Mail di Virgilio e Tin.it! [EMAIL PROTECTED] tramite il servizio Maxi Mail ha messo a tua disposizione i seguenti allegati : * loto.txt (0 byte) per prelevarli, fai click sul seguente link che t

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data light blinks (Samsung ML-1430) then the server st

Re: Grub2

2008-04-25 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Friday 25 April 2008 15:50:50 Bipin Babu, vous avez écrit : > Hi All, > > Anyone tried Grub2? I do since some weeks. > I run lenny and Grub2 is only a 'dummy package' in the > repository. I have the standard apt sources. Any howto to replace the > existing grub with grub2 would be great. The

Re: exim4

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Maas
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 08:28 -0400, J. Little wrote: > Hi, > > I have two questions. > > First, there are forged junk emails put return_path to me. I from time > to time receive undelivered emails (i.e., no such user). How can I > reject those undelivered emails? Try this one: http://slett.net/sp

Re: importing a

2008-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 20:59:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 14:27:57 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > > does anyone know how to Import the archive signing key from : > > > > http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc > > wget http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-v

no text or icons in xserver (gdm and xfce)

2008-04-25 Thread Micha
I tried configuring my new computer with ati x3100 graphics card If I use debian's default configuration don't get any text or icons at all on screen, that includes gdm, xfce menus and toolbars, terminal, etc with the vesa mode forced it works and with ubuntu, same xorg.conf and compiz it works

Re: Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:22 -0400 Mark Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > I have been trying to record in audacity without s

Re: importing a

2008-04-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 14:27:57 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > does anyone know how to Import the archive signing key from : > > http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc wget http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc apt-key add etch-volatile.asc (Only the second command needs

Re: Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 25 April 2008 02:05 pm, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using > alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on. > Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the

Re: Fwd: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 13:34, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: [snip] > >> Run "apt-cache showpkg flashplugin-nonfree" to determine what > packages are >> available in your current repositories. Also which version of > Debian you are >> using? > > > And do you have d

Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: > Hi list. > > Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory is > used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the usual init, > getty, klogd, sshd, etc). Yes. > I assume that this memory

Fwd: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
2008/4/25, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 04/25/08 10:57, Chris Roberts wrote: > > On Friday 25 Apr 2008, simon rowe wrote: > >> I have recently installed Debian for the first time > >> and am just trying to get to grips with using Linu

importing a

2008-04-25 Thread Michael Habashy
does anyone know how to Import the archive signing key from : http://www.debian.org/volatile/etch-volatile.asc ??? thanks mjh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on. Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the 6 connections shown in the Audacity dialogue including Alsa default

Re: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 10:57, Chris Roberts wrote: > On Friday 25 Apr 2008, simon rowe wrote: >> I have recently installed Debian for the first time >> and am just trying to get to grips with using Linux. I >> am having trouble installing flash player with apt, >

Can'r record in audacity

2008-04-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been trying to record in audacity without success. Using alsamixergui all the relevant controls are up and on. Audacity plays back fine using the Alsa default, but none of the 6 connections shown

Re: Questions about d-i disk encryption

2008-04-25 Thread Hans Martin
Jordi wrote: > On 25/04/2008, Hans Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I like to have half of my disk crypted (with /, /usr/, /home, > >all in one crypted partition), and the other half without > >encryption e.g. as /usr/local). > [snip] ... > Neither of those configuration options ar

Re: Debugging a java programme

2008-04-25 Thread andy
Rafael Fontenelle wrote: 2008/4/25, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: Hello I tried to run a java-based programme on a Lenny machine. This is what happened: $ java jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: j

Re: new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/25/2008 03:11 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to try and mount this drive with: S

Re: Questions about d-i disk encryption

2008-04-25 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 25/04/2008, Hans Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I like to have half of my disk crypted (with /, /usr/, /home, >all in one crypted partition), and the other half without >encryption e.g. as /usr/local). [snip] > 2. Because I'm experimenting with the installation, I would like >

Re: Debugging a java programme

2008-04-25 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
2008/4/25, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello > > I tried to run a java-based programme on a Lenny machine. This is what > happened: > > $ java jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar > at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libg

Debugging a java programme

2008-04-25 Thread andy
Hello I tried to run a java-based programme on a Lenny machine. This is what happened: $ java jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.90) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundExcep

Re: Custom icon

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Friday 25 April 2008 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 25 April 2008 17:31, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > (This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed > > virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file > > already. So here are t

Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread David
Hi list. Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory is used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the usual init, getty, klogd, sshd, etc). I assume that this memory is being used for Linux caches - file buffers etc to speed up disk access and so on. Is there a w

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Mark Allums wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: I have Maxtor IDE drives and Maxtor makes (or made, I got this some time ago) a DOS based utility to do low level formats. Your disk vendor probably has something similar available. The Maxtor utilities will prep

Questions about d-i disk encryption

2008-04-25 Thread Hans Martin
Hi, two questions related to the current d-i (lenny) netinst CD: 1. I like to have half of my disk crypted (with /, /usr/, /home, all in one crypted partition), and the other half without encryption e.g. as /usr/local). What is the easiest way to achieve this? 2. Because I'm experimenti

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-25 Thread Chris
On Friday 25 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Chris wrote: > > that seems like a nice approach. Why do I need to touch the SENTINEL > > file? > > > > C > > Chris, > > in the example, you touch the file ONCE to make it exist. Then when you > mount music, it will "mask" the file. That file wi

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Jochen Schulz wrote: paragasu: Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand because my bios only support 2GB. Linux doesn't care what the BIOS thinks about the hard drive. Have you tried to use larger disks? Chances are that it just works[tm]. J. If you do go this way,

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Chris wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: Chris wrote: Hello, I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the script

Re: Custom icon

2008-04-25 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 25 April 2008 17:31, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > (This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed > virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file > already. So here are the questions: > > 1. What format does the icon have to be in? I

Re: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Roberts
On Friday 25 Apr 2008, simon rowe wrote: > I have recently installed Debian for the first time > and am just trying to get to grips with using Linux. I > am having trouble installing flash player with apt, > below is the output that I am getting: > > simondebian:/sys# apt-get install flashplugin-no

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:28 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > > > > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up > > seemingly at random on my screen. It

Re: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 25 April 2008 18:45:05 Richard Möhn wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:16:27PM +0100, simon rowe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have recently installed Debian for the first time > > and am just trying to get to grips with using Linux. I > > am having trouble installing flash player with apt

Re: Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Möhn
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:16:27PM +0100, simon rowe wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently installed Debian for the first time > and am just trying to get to grips with using Linux. I > am having trouble installing flash player with apt, > below is the output that I am getting: > > simondebian:/sys

Installing flashplayer

2008-04-25 Thread simon rowe
Hello, I have recently installed Debian for the first time and am just trying to get to grips with using Linux. I am having trouble installing flash player with apt, below is the output that I am getting: simondebian:/sys# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree Reading package lists... Done Building

Custom icon

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi all, (This should be very easy) Debian Etch and KDE desktop. I installed virtualbox and want to add a custom icon for it. I have the icon file already. So here are the questions: 1. What format does the icon have to be in? 2. I noticed that there are different locations for icons/us

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-25 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:42:03AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:16:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Patrick Ouellette wrote: > >> > >> I've run machines with 1Gig or more RAM with NO SWAP. I've also run > >> machines with 4Gig of RAM and 16Gig of swap (BIG datase

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:59AM -0400, Frank wrote: > > > For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly > at random on my screen. It looks like a terminalbut with no cursor > inside. The only way it can be closed is by using xkill. I use IceWm and > unless I kil

Almost Working (was:Re: Help using my new scanner)

2008-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Shapiro wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 07:36:01 you wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Are you in scanner group? Yes, my original post says that I chan

Grub2

2008-04-25 Thread Bipin Babu
Hi All, Anyone tried Grub2? I run lenny and Grub2 is only a 'dummy package' in the repository. I have the standard apt sources. Any howto to replace the existing grub with grub2 would be great. BTW what is GFX-Grub? Is it a patch for GRUB or GRUB2? I don't see it in the lenny repos. Any idea? T

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
paragasu: > > Or simply because the hard disk it quite old. I buy it second hand because > my bios only > support 2GB. Linux doesn't care what the BIOS thinks about the hard drive. Have you tried to use larger disks? Chances are that it just works[tm]. J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Allums
paragasu wrote: So, I think that the command 'cat /dev/null > /dev/hdd' did nothing to your system. Maybe something else? i also don't know, it happen after i run that command. There is a lot of error message displayed in the screen. But i am not surprise if it is because of somethin

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Eric Cooper
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:07:51PM +0800, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > You are asking generically Packages without specifying a mirror. Are > they granted to be identically replicated among all mirrors? Of course > they *probably* are due to how mirroring works, but is it *granted* that > there are

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Berni Elbourn wrote: A good system in my world has the absolute minimum of files to do the job properly. For a start there is by definition going to be less potential for security holes...anyhooo try this: # tasksel Berni Berni, I like. That goes back a ways. That should do it

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chris wrote: that seems like a nice approach. Why do I need to touch the SENTINEL file? C Chris, in the example, you touch the file ONCE to make it exist. Then when you mount music, it will "mask" the file. That file will only show up when your smb mount for music is not mounted. T

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-25 Thread paragasu
> > So, I think that the command 'cat /dev/null > /dev/hdd' did nothing to > your system. Maybe something else? > i also don't know, it happen after i run that command. There is a lot of error message displayed in the screen. But i am not surprise if it is because of something else - coincident th

Re: -- Spam --Re: re[2]: subscription

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rafael Fontenelle wrote: You are probably right. This signature seems like these email clients (e.g. Thunderbird). This would explain the confirmation message sent by him. But this doesn't explain why he can't unsubscribe - if he tried correctly. Cheers, Rafael Interesting: I use like the

Re: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:26:22PM +0800, John Marvin L. Magsino wrote: > i have 2 ISPs ( 2 routers which act as a gateway) and a debian Box running > Apache + PHP + Mysql. what i wanted to do is to make the debian box port > forwarded to both the ISPs. You mean:?

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:43:53PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:05:23PM -0400, Dylan Garrett wrote: > > > One issue that I see that you should fix (though it won't affect your > > results): > > #bin/bash! > > Should be: > > #!/usr/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/bash? where? /bi

exim4

2008-04-25 Thread J. Little
Hi, I have two questions. First, there are forged junk emails put return_path to me. I from time to time receive undelivered emails (i.e., no such user). How can I reject those undelivered emails? Second, I found there are spammers using dial-up connection (slow but not blacklisted) to send junk

Re: search for Tree genration script for openoffice .

2008-04-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jabka Atu: > > I'm searching for tree generration script (or extention). > for example if input the next text : -- snip > and i will get a OCBT as an image/Chart whatever. Graphviz can do this (but with a different syntax). It can output various file formats, but I don't think it can rceate OOo f

Re: when Debian SID have installed, never could to go to testing?

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 06:01, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > I have installed Debian SID on my old laptop. > > I am asking a self whether I can to go from this system to the > testing? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and wait a month. Your formerly-Sid system wi

search for Tree genration script for openoffice .

2008-04-25 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,.. I'm searching for tree generration script (or extention). for example if input the next text : root left node sub left node sub Right node. Right node. and i will get a OCBT as an image/Chart whatever. Redars ,... Thnx in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Burning Audio CD

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu April 24 2008, Daniel Ngu wrote: > >> Your media might not be rated for speeds of 1, which is quite slow. > >> What you might try is to use a speed factor of 1/2 your CD burner's > >> rated top speed (if it's like 24, use -speed 12). See if that helps. > >> > >>>  Daniel > > > > Thanks David

when Debian SID have installed, never could to go to testing?

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I have installed Debian SID on my old laptop. I am asking a self whether I can to go from this system to the testing? -- Regards, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 03:11, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got > the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting > order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what

Where can I find php_dbase.so suitable for debian etch?

2008-04-25 Thread Jaisen N.D.
Hi, I have a problem here. I installed php, apache, mapserver and mapscript on my Debian etch box. I downloaded php-mapscript demo gmap-ms46.zip from http://dl.maptools.org/dl/ then made some required tweakenings, installed and tried to run it. It should look like as it seen here:- http://

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 04/24/2008 07:29 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM: On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full"

MySQL - Tuning for higher performance

2008-04-25 Thread cypherstrong
Hi I'm looking for a wait to fine tune mysql5 on debian etch Is they a wait to do a calcul to adapt perferly mysql conf to computer capacity ? Thanks signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Roberts
On Thursday 24 Apr 2008, Chris wrote: > mounted as smbfs in fstab I thought smbfs was unmaintained and that cifs was the better option - anyone? Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new computer maybe wrong dvd burner

2008-04-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
I got a dvd burner in a refurbished more modern machine and may have got the wrong brand and model. Later I'll get some help changing booting order in cmos to pick this drive up. For now I don't know what device to try and mount this drive with: Script started on Fri 25 Apr 2008 04:03:35 AM E

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:35:57PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the > files "Packages.gz", "Packages.bz2", "Sources.gz", "Sources.bz2" and > "Release" from the directories Neat project. I'm jumping into it with a question

how can i use undefined symbol

2008-04-25 Thread 서청원
I got this message during compiling module. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST WARNING: "tasklist_lock" [ /Red/src/Red.ko] undefined! make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686' Actually, Red.ko had made but can not load the module due to the unknown symbol (tasklis

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-25 Thread Berni Elbourn
Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of packages? How do you know that packages are missing? How do you know which

Re: [sane-devel] Calling a script after USB scanner is plugged

2008-04-25 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Apr 24 22:45 Julien BLACHE wrote (shortened): > udev is an incredible piece of crap, but the good news is that this > piece of crap is mostly stable those days. Which is a big step forward > already. > > (and I'll refrain from saying anything at all about the genius who > invented udev