Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 27 floréal, an CCXVI, Raj Kiran Grandhi a écrit : > I am not so sure of vlc and others. Be aware, however, that the software > based rendering and scaling are significantly slower and highly cpu > intensive. With recent computers, that is not an issue except for very high-definition v

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: FF is just a memory & cpu hog, I used to have a machine working OK with my own optimized kernel but QT and xfce4 + FF are just eating all and I swap like crazy... The recommendation I collected is just add few

Re: ASMTP with PAM: Easiest route?

2008-05-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: Going from a completely fresh prospective, what MTA makes it easiest to set up ASMTP, checking against PAM for passwords? You should probably use SMTP AUTH, it took me a minute to decode ASMTP, and was only able to do so by context. But that said, pick

Re: Sendmail and HostStatus handling

2008-05-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 14 May 2008, NFN Smith wrote: If I set DAEMON_HOSTSTATS="No"; in sendmail.conf, then sendmailconfig deletes /var/lib/sendmail/host_status, as described in relevant documentation. However, somewhere along, sendmail is still trying to write to that directory on the regular runs of the s

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-14 Thread 刘建才
>>刘建才 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just Thanks a lot for the reply,A Strange thing is I can't receive my >> own letter from the mailing list,so Yesterday I tried three ways to >> send my mail,Could you please tell me how many of the last mails you >> received,If not three,then From which mail bo

ASMTP with PAM: Easiest route?

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Going from a completely fresh prospective, what MTA makes it easiest to set up ASMTP, checking against PAM for passwords? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Explaination of .pgp part: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/rant-gpg.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message pa

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Hasler
> However, that script DOES exist in the stated path. So what gives with > this? That path ("usr/sbin/update-grub") is relative to the current directory of the process using it. You probably want "/usr/sbin/update-grub". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wonder how to debug this further ...? > > If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are > being sent to the ".xsession-errors" file in your home directory -- > check there for more clues. It is empty: % l

Re: Kernel panic: initramfs problem?

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:57:30AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:49:17AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:14:04AM -0700, Bill wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom > > > mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev faile

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
andy wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is despite the mediaplayer I am using

I/O error reading swsusp image with 2.6.18-6-686

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I've been struggling with my server not rebooting due to stopping at the error: Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda2) = hda2(3,2) kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda2 Attempting manual resume attempt to access beyond end of device hda2: rw=16, want=8, limi

Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 2:30 am, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 00:30:23 -0700, lovecreatesbea... AT gmail DOT com > wrote: > > [...] > > > Hi, this is the output, > > >     $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > >     Password: > >     mount: /media/cdrom0 is no

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
What is the current working directory when this script gets run. You told it usr/sbin/update-grub not /usr/sbin/update-grub Note the difference. I still don't know why this is necessary. During the most recent kernel upgrade in Etch, I watched carefully for the usual warning message about not

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > > > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of > > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
John Fleming wrote: I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:43:14PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed May 14 2008 18:43:14 John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run the apt-get inst

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 07:47, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. > > The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. > Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, > xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the sc

Re: bash doubt

2008-05-14 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:21:07AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >> i=$i+1 > > This syntax is broken. Any of these alternatives will work: > >- let i=$i+1 >- let i+=1 >- i=$(( i + 1 )) > > Basicall

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:36:25PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > > had it print a test page. Th

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:34:12PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm is not part of Debian. Get rid of > it and the proper module at /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm will be used. > Running "aptitude install

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Arvind, On Thu, 15 May 2008, Arvind Marathe wrote: You might also try xzgv. Out of the viewers I've tried so far I think I like xzgv the best. After only five to ten minutes of tinkering I'm already able to navigate to the next/previous image, zoom in and out, etc. as quickly as I can in xv

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Barroso wrote: > Somebody with the same problem ? Any workarround ? I'm on dialup. Its normal for me to wait for iceweasel to grab a page and display it. Well, firefox load pages fast, but sometimes It takes various seconds while I can't click any link / bookmark or google

gpg trust paths

2008-05-14 Thread Richard Hector
The wiki page for the recent OpenSSL vulnerability offers a perl script for checking keys, and a gpg signature for that script, and a key id for that signature (that of Florian Weimer) I can import the key as shown, and show that the script was indeed signed by that key. However, gpg warns me tha

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:50:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/14/08 08:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'

Re: Blue movies - literally!

2008-05-14 Thread andy
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: andy wrote: I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine o

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:24:24PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:31:15PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:03:59PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wro

Sendmail and HostStatus handling

2008-05-14 Thread NFN Smith
I run sendmail 8.13.8-3 on an etch box, and am having a small problem with configuration of HostStatus that seems to be related to how sendmail is implemented in Debian. If I set DAEMON_HOSTSTATS="No"; in sendmail.conf, then sendmailconfig deletes /var/lib/sendmail/host_status, as described in

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi lists, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often > discussed. > > On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone here ever used the "Grapher" application that all Macs come with? >> It is a very nice piece of softw

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/08 02:49, Mumia W.. wrote: [snip] > > Oh, and by the way, one of those "people" might be Google. Would we be > smiling if Google abandons its opensource efforts and throws its weight > behind proprietary software and Microsoft's TCPA? Nah.

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/08 08:02, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure >> But isn't that

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny > character and hung. I went to

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
charliesdad wrote: I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny character and hung. I went to /etc and set up the values in the con

how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread charliesdad
I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny character and hung. I went to /etc and set up the values in the config file. It now dies

Re: Self Certification

2008-05-14 Thread Siva Mylswamy
Hi, I would be grateful, to receive some information regarding Self Certification for my hardware. Thanks Siva

Re: the document "Sound in Debian GNU/Linux"

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:21, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > This document, > "http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applicatio >ns_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_AL" in revision 1.2, 27th > November 2007 states, > "... Rename the file instead: # mv /etc/m

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: > >> As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I >> use gqview though. > > I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. > I'll t

usb not found on initial boot

2008-05-14 Thread Russell Gadd
I have a bootup problem with a USB stick I have a USB stick which is permanently plugged in (for backup purposes). When the PC first boots the stick is never discovered, but if I wait a few minutes and reboot, it generally gets discovered and mounted with an icon on the desktop. I'm using Etch. I

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. I'll take it for a spin when I get home later. One of the main features I look for is plen

Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 00:30:23 -0700, lovecreatesbea... AT gmail DOT com wrote: [...] > Hi, this is the output, > > $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > Password: > mount: /media/cdrom0 is not a block device > $ dd if=/dev/hdc bs=256 count=1 | hd > dd: opening

firefox (etc??) probs

2008-05-14 Thread michael
Slightly OT, but wondering if 'strace' experts here can here: A colleague running FC8 (Fedora) seems to have intermittent problems starting firefox, particularly from the Gnome menu bar, but also probs starting openoffice. I did an `strace -f` and compared to my nicely working firefox (FC7) and th

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: > FF is just a memory & cpu hog, I used to have a machine working OK with > my own optimized kernel but QT and xfce4 + FF are just eating all and I > swap like crazy... The recommendation I collected is just add few more > add-

Re: Mouse click acting strange after Lenny updates

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
There's a bit more info below, while trying to find out what is going on here. On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:09, Nigel Henry wrote: > Hi Folks. I found I hadn't updated my Lenny install for nearly 2 months, > and after a 3 day dialup session in downloading, and installing 800Mb of > updates, the mo

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Micha
On Tue, 13 May 2008 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT) Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion > > and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just > > want to o

Re: [OT] Comcast, Verizon and Google censoring the internet?

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Pi, I have had this problem too I have solved this piggy problem by installing a script "dontfoolme.php" which serv the images and if the request does not come from inside my Webspace I send piggy images back... If you use in the HTML pages the full path for the images, you can run SED ove

Re: [OT] Ogg-Player and SSH client for Symbian S60 3rd Generation

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Eduardo, Am 2008-05-13 08:14:01, schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > I don't know about SCP/SFTP, but there is a port of putty for Symbian: > http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ Thanks for the link... downloaded! Now I need a scp/sftp which let me up/download stuff to my Website. Editing HTML

Re: replacing pxe.linux.0

2008-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-13 16:48:51, schrieb Benjamin Schmidt: > Sounds like installing from CD is some very old guru-task and possible > no more "provided" ;) Right! -- And there are people talking about Debian on BlueRay Media! I have the 50 GByte one which would be enough for Lenny+2 too. Hmmm, maybe I am

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:57:58 am Raquel wrote: > I guess that I'm having trouble understanding what the problem is. > On my servers, e2fsck is only run when the machine is rebooted and > then only after it's been rebooted 30 or 40 times (or whatever the > number is). I think by default it's X

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 08:27:47 am Rico Secada wrote: > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? Don't. If your machine is truly available as much as possible, the odds of it running into a fsck

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Wright
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 11:34:12 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > > Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for > > openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I > > thought I'd just do a dis

Re: Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:06:03 -0500, Rob Wright wrote: > Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for > openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I > thought I'd just do a dist-upgrade. > > Everything seemed ok, except now I'm stuck wi

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Jordi" == Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know we have more options, but I can't remember what they > are. There's a pretty big graphics package that I think > had to do with KDE. I seem to recall the maintainer had a > female name, but it looks lik

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during three or four seconds. I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love the comment that firefox/iceweasel is irresponsible. Perhaps its

difficulties updating Etch

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'm having trouble updating Etch: I get various errors during the update phase of aptitude. Sometimes its just "some files failed to download"; I guess it timed out or something. I'm on dialup. How to prevent absolute timeouts but allow (encourage) aptitude to re-issue requests. Sometimes I get

Re: mac grapher for linux

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm forwarding this to the d-science list, where this stuff is often > discussed. > > On 13/05/2008, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone here ever used the "Grapher" application that all Macs co

the document "Sound in Debian GNU/Linux"

2008-05-14 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, This document, "http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_AL"; in revision 1.2, 27th November 2007 states, "... Rename the file instead: # mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.obsolete Now run alsaconf aga

Re: After update perl ,apt-cacher won't work

2008-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:34:03 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > in between, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:28:15 +0800, 刘建才 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I updated My Debian 4.0 server yesterday,but forget exactly which > > > package upgraded,only remember perl related things, then apt-cacher >

Inconsistent state in util-linux

2008-05-14 Thread Rob Wright
Greetings. Tried to use aptitude this morning to install the update for openssh/openssl. Saw that there were a few upgrades that were needed so I thought I'd just do a dist-upgrade. Everything seemed ok, except now I'm stuck with util-linux in an inconsistent state, and I don't know quite know

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-14 17:32, Ramiro Caire wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: >> Hi. >> >> What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced >> HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? >> >> If the forced check is shut o

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:27:47 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the > forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as > possible? > > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Kim > > Please double-check that you haven't got "Tamper Data" enabled when you > experience these irresponsible (sic, couldn't resist...) moments of > browsing. I disabled both, but I'm sure tamper was off when it occurs > > > This extension can be pretty heavy o

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > > during three or four seconds. > > If you mean "unresponsive," I've often found t

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:27:47PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced > HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? > > If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also > I don't have phy

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > during > > three or four seconds. > > I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love t

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:11:13AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: > Best-practice for a mail server is to run a caching name server to > minimize DNS timeouts. If you're not already doing so, you might want to > consider that. You migh

Re: Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Ramiro Caire
Rico Secada wrote: Hi. What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also I don't have physical access to the machine only SSH. Best r

Recommendations on forced disk check

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. What are your recommendations on using tune2fs to turn off the forced HD check on a server that needs to be available as much as possible? If the forced check is shut off, should one run some manual check? Also I don't have physical access to the machine only SSH. Best regards Rico. -- T

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Viktor Matys wrote: > WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be > reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? I run postfix, not sendmail, but wanted to suggest that you check your /etc/hosts file to ensure that there

Re: sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Viktor Matys wrote: > Hello, > > I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. > When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: > > WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be > reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? > > As

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi list, > > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during > three or four seconds. [snip] > I didn't install any plugin recently (only tamper data and developer > extension installed on my iceweasel) Please double-check that you haven't got

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible > during three or four seconds. If you mean "unresponsive," I've often found that firefox is unresponsive during heavy I/O, especially disk I/O. There are settings

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:04:07 +0200 Kim Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rico Secada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to > > download the latest set of rules. > > > > I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC > > c

Re: Where does apt store its arch?

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:31:59PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > It's built into apt using the configuration variable COMMON_ARCH > (apt-pkg/init.cc:36), which is set by "configure" from the output of > "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH" (configure.in:91). Thank you! This was very helpful

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Bogdan Marian
Rico Secada wrote: Hi. I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download the latest set of rules. I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr

Re: Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download > the latest set of rules. > > I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC > contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr

Re: 64bit vs i386

2008-05-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Sure, on the 80486 or early Pentia. But everything since then has > PAE. Perhaps, but as I understand it PAE is basically a segmentation hack (remember overlays in the real 386 days?) which adds a layer of indirection to memory acces

Spamassain sa-update fails

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I tried to use the sa-update Debian script for Spamassasin to download the latest set of rules. I get the following error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/share/perl5 /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/s

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during > three or four seconds. I think you mean nonresponsive, but I love the comment that firefox/iceweasel is irresponsible. Perhaps its web designers who are ir

Re: Problems with SPAM on a Debian with Postfix, amavis and spamassasin

2008-05-14 Thread Kim Christensen
Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I have setup Debian Etch with Postfix, Amavis and Spamassasin. My > problem is that a LOT of SPAM mail gets trough the system. > > I have taken a look at the headers of the SPAM mail, and they score > between 0.232 to 2.354 and I have set the sa_tag2_level_deflt and 7

howto: romanian alphabet - special characters?

2008-05-14 Thread Bogdan Marian
Hey, I'm on KDE and even if i switch to Romanian Layout, i dont't get those special characters on OpenOffice. Do i need to install some special fonts or smth? I have already installed Linux Libertine fonts but still... Anyone can help please? Thx, -- Bogdan MARIAN Java Software Developer Tim

Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi list, Since one week ago I'm noticing firefox is sometimes irresponsible during three or four seconds. First I experiment it with swiftfox, then I used Firefox (iceweasel) 2 and the problem didn't go out. Then I switch to iceweasel 3 from experimental, and I see this again. I don't know how c

Problems with SPAM on a Debian with Postfix, amavis and spamassasin

2008-05-14 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I have setup Debian Etch with Postfix, Amavis and Spamassasin. My problem is that a LOT of SPAM mail gets trough the system. I have taken a look at the headers of the SPAM mail, and they score between 0.232 to 2.354 and I have set the sa_tag2_level_deflt and 7.5. I have followed this guide i

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > John P Loes, MD wrote: > > I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? > Jonathan The grub loves them. :-) -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the

test3 mail, please ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
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Re: CD has not been seen in debian40r3 console

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:30:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 14, 3:10?pm, Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What about: > > mount /media/cdrom0 > Hi, this is the output, > > $ su -c 'mount -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 /cdrom' > Password:

Re: where did www.debian.org/security/key-rollover/ go?

2008-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-05-14 04:39, Joey Hess wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I don't suppose that new version of (was it ssh) in Sid that warns of >> connections with weak keys will be backported to Etch as a security fix? > > Yes, ssh in etch will be updated.

test2, please, ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
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Re: HTMLVIEW to read mutt HTML email from browser

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:53:56PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I've never had to wait for lynx to start up, even on my 486. I just hit > > "v

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:29:39PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/13/08 20:21, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > I have a 9" bw monitor. I get along just fine with icewm. I'm sure > > But isn't that 9" monitor a VT520? > No. The VT520 I measure as 12" diagonal. I have a bw 9" monit

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > In hours per day, the biggest function of our Debian system is to access > the Internet. The absence of a FOSS implementation of Flash is a huge > gap. I have installed the closed source Flash 9 player and Firefox > plugin on some of t

test mail, please ignore

2008-05-14 Thread Ivan Glushkov
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Re: Alsa configuration

2008-05-14 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:36:53 +0200 Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > former AUDACITY-problem turned out on "how to configure alsa properly > for recording". > > Starting > alsamixer > within text-console MIC and CAPTURE are on. > Soundhardwa

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. Th

Mouse click acting strange after Lenny updates

2008-05-14 Thread Nigel Henry
Hi Folks. I found I hadn't updated my Lenny install for nearly 2 months, and after a 3 day dialup session in downloading, and installing 800Mb of updates, the mouse has started to act a bit strange. It was ok after the updates, but after a reboot, and logging in to KDE, If I click on a desktop

X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Dippel
I can't get into any of my sessions, whatever I do. The machine starts up and shows kdm, as it has been doing for some years. Only, whenever I logon, as any user, or any session (kde, gnome, xfce), it starts, then some scrambling of the screen, and back I am at login applet. The only one that work

sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Viktor Matys
Hello, I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? As we can see there in brackets is a

sendmail - dns lookup problem

2008-05-14 Thread Viktor Matys
Hello, I have sendmail installed on several servers of different customers. When I run sendmailconfig on some server I get message: WARNING: local host name (;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached) is not qualified; see cf/README: WHO AM I? As we can see there in brackets is an er

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