Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 22:44:03 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I know, esophagus doesn't look much less wierd. Then again, I often > spell wierd wiierd. Now that is *really* weird - or perhaps you were being wonderfully ironic ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Brist

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > How to uninstall programs installed in wine? Just a useful tip I've picked up... If the programs don't need to "see" each other, I suggest using the WINEPREFIX environment variable. $ WINEPREFIX=/

Re: problem with Chinese file names

2008-06-02 Thread Fan Liu
Hi, You probably need the utf8 option added when mounting the FAT partition. Here's an example from my /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /media/disk vfat rw,utf8,auto 0 1 Cheers, Fan On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:39:18PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I can use Chinese file names in s

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-02 Thread James Richardson
Jeff Grossman wrote: > Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a chown on > a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole /var/ > directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the enter key > I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root for /var > assuming

problem with Chinese file names

2008-06-02 Thread Serena Cantor
I can use Chinese file names in sarge. And I can use Chinese file names in Chinese Windows 2000 The problem is inter-operate In sarge I can't use files with Chinese names in FAT partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Sliding OT (was:Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.)

2008-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:17AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: How to uninstall programs installed in wine? distill it to a port? Bad Toad! Hit

Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-02 Thread Jeff Grossman
Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole /var/ directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the enter key I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root for /var assuming that was the best bet. Through

Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:24:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/02/08 20:18, H.S. wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wondering if myspell-en-ca is somewhere in Debian repositories. My > > Openoffice.org's spell checker is not work if English (Canada) language > > is chosen. I have narrowed down to t

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:24:05PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 29/05/2008, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm attempting to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot > > Why? Do you really need to do this? Or is this just one of those > things you want to do for the geek points?

Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 20:27, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Who needs -en-ca when you've got -en-us? Canada isn't *that* >> relevant, is it? > > Judging by CAD and USD these days, looks like it is :) A temporary adjustment. It'll eventually go back d

Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: Who needs -en-ca when you've got -en-us? Canada isn't *that* relevant, is it? Judging by CAD and USD these days, looks like it is :) Seriously though, if there is English (CA) language and en-ca locale, how come no myspell-en-ca in Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 20:18, H.S. wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering if myspell-en-ca is somewhere in Debian repositories. My > Openoffice.org's spell checker is not work if English (Canada) language > is chosen. I have narrowed down to the absence of this package

no myspell-en-ca in Debain?

2008-06-02 Thread H.S.
Hi, Just wondering if myspell-en-ca is somewhere in Debian repositories. My Openoffice.org's spell checker is not work if English (Canada) language is chosen. I have narrowed down to the absence of this package. Apt-cache search doesn't give anything. Any insights? thanks, ->HS -- To UNSUB

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot up Lenny? Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there. Nigel. I'm hardly a scriptin

Re: problems with gnu screen within console (solved - or atleast culprit found)

2008-06-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/02/2008 12:13 PM, Arvind Marathe wrote: [...] Now the only inconvenience is that i have to specify the full path, when i need to use coot. [...] No you don't. You can set the path in /etc/profile, or you can place a symbolic link to the coot binary in /usr/local/bin. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-02 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 29/05/2008, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm attempting to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot Why? Do you really need to do this? Or is this just one of those things you want to do for the geek points? - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of > updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. Looking at > my saved history files, I hadn't updated for nearly 2 months. > > I save the

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:17AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > >>How to uninstall programs installed in wine? > >> > >> > > > >distill it to a port? > > > Bad Toad! Hit yourself over the head with

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:29:53PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:53:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > [etch-ia32] > > type=directory > > description=Debian Etch ia32 > > groups=games > > run-setup-scripts=true > > run-exec-scripts=true > > personality=linux32 >

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-06-02 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 16:33:53 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:31:26 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 23:47:06 +0200, Rainer Dor

Re: Homepage management system?

2008-06-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Micha: > > I am looking for some framework to allow easily setting up homepage for all > the > people in my uni lab. The idea is to setup some template that they can fill > out > as no one is getting around to it I don't know how tech-savvy your users are, but I found rest2web to be a quite good

Re: play mms streams in firefox

2008-06-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:49:35 +0300 Bogdan Marian wrote: > I installed the "mozilla-mplayer" package and added the > mplayerplug-in.so library to .mozilla/plugin. Still, iceweasel says > it has no protocol associated with mms. Can anybody help? I can only say that I have totem and totem-mozilla in

Homepage management system?

2008-06-02 Thread Micha
I am looking for some framework to allow easily setting up homepage for all the people in my uni lab. The idea is to setup some template that they can fill out as no one is getting around to it (A home page, publications page, not much more) Preferably I want something that can be setup in a user

VNC Server

2008-06-02 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm having a very strange that never spent hence. VNC installed on a Linux server Debian (vncserver) that I only authentic all the right username and password, but when you type the characters are totally different, and both servers are with the keymap

Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-02 Thread Nigel Henry
Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. Looking at my saved history files, I hadn't updated for nearly 2 months. I save the history from the updates in /home/user_name/history-files, and label t

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-06-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 16:33:53 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:31:26 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 23:47:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > >

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread thveillon.debian
Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site does not seem to exist. Any suggestion? Thanks, Bob -- Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics, Concordia University College of Alberta, 7128

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:09:36PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:21 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:13:07AM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an > > > AMD64? > > > > j

Re: Broadcom NetExtreme BCM5722KFB1G and Debian Etch AMD64

2008-06-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:48:44 +0200, Thomas Brandt wrote: > I have a Dell server with 2 network controllers with a Broadcom > BCM5722KFB1G - chip (1 x onboard, 1 x PCI-E). > Unfortunately Debian Etch AMD64 does not recognize them. > > > Somebody did post a workaround on this website: > > htt

Re: problems with gnu screen within console (solved - or atleast culprit found)

2008-06-02 Thread Arvind Marathe
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Arvind Marathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Tony R Quilkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Arvind Marathe wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arvind Marathe wrote: > > T

newpki-client unable to logon in lenny

2008-06-02 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
Does anyone use newpki on debian testing? It works OK in etch, but when I try to use newpki-client (on lenny) against newpki-server (on etch), I am unable to log in using previously generated pkcs12. Same pkcs12 works ( even now, and has been working all the time) ok on newpki-client running on etc

Re: problems with gnu screen within console

2008-06-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:02:51PM +0530, Arvind Marathe wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Tony R Quilkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arvind Marathe wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Arvind Marathe wrote: > > The u

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread Micha
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 13:06:38 + "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good Monday Morning > > Try this link: > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sun+java&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all > First of all that is for the stable distribution (although I don't know which one

Re: Problem with setting up a networking interface

2008-06-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:51:00PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a new linux box for xen. Here is my setup > > Lan ( 192.168.1.1) connecting to 5 computers. The one I am setting up the > new linux has Lan IP (192.168.1.105). > I want to set it up so that this 192.168.1.10

Re: work and live in canada

2008-06-02 Thread Brad Rogers
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Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-06-02 Thread Walt L. Williams
Good Monday Morning Try this link: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sun+java&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all On Wednesday, 28 May 2008 3:13 pm, Robert Jerrard wrote: > Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an > AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was

Re: gnome launch problem - Thanks

2008-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 07:51, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:30:01PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [snip] >> >> Open a terminal and start "gnome-panel"; if it fails to start, it should >> provide an error message that might provide a clue about

Re: gnome launch problem - Thanks

2008-06-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 03:30:01PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/01/2008 01:20 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: >> No menu bar, no tool bar. >> >> I have been using icewm with no problems but decided to check out >> gnome. If I log out, change the session to gnome and log in I get a >> blue scree

Re: HotSwapping Disks

2008-06-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-05-30 15:18:23, schrieb UDP 514: > I have a server with hot swap disks. > I'd like to be able to swap out a non-system disk , eg /dev/sdd and put in > a new > disk, partition it in fdisk, then mount those partitions. This all works > fine, I can partition it, > but the linux kernel hang

Re: Simple awk question

2008-06-02 Thread Axel Schlicht
kj wrote: But I cannot find it in my awk book (O'Reilly's sed&awk). I'm trying to make three columns out of a postfix mail log. Queue ID, From address, and remote server response for certain situations (it's already grepped down to that). awk '{print $7" "$6" "$17}' $17 is the first word

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Problem with setting up a networking interface

2008-06-02 Thread Pete Kay
Hi, I am trying to setup a new linux box for xen. Here is my setup Lan ( 192.168.1.1) connecting to 5 computers. The one I am setting up the new linux has Lan IP (192.168.1.105). I want to set it up so that this 192.168.1.105 computer can run Xen with 2 domU. I try to set it up so that dom0 ha

Re: Unknown Server Failure, Logs and openntpd

2008-06-02 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 30 May 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know what caused the freeze; The hard reset would keep the > shutdown scripts from setting the system time to the hardware clock. On > restart, did the ntpd eventually get a network connection and fix the > time? Yes.

Broadcom NetExtreme BCM5722KFB1G and Debian Etch AMD64

2008-06-02 Thread Thomas Brandt
I have a Dell server with 2 network controllers with a Broadcom BCM5722KFB1G - chip (1 x onboard, 1 x PCI-E). Unfortunately Debian Etch AMD64 does not recognize them. Somebody did post a workaround on this website: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/freebsd-bugs/2008/1/18/581834 With this work

Re: Lenny with newest installer on Thinkpad: no sound in KDE, avahi problem

2008-06-02 Thread John O'Hagan
I'm posting this again, hopefully with correct threading this time; sorry. [...] >This is probably exhaustively written up somewhere - but I can't find a >concise source. Following advice on the Wiki for KDE and sound hasn't >helped. [Alsaconf/Kmix/alsamixergui all appear to work and the volume >

Re: ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?

2008-06-02 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-06-02 08:37 +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: The subject shall tell you already a lot but lastely I had to remove ntp from my machine. Could you please elaborate why you had to do that? I found this unfortunate and I'm just asking here if this is normal or if thi

Re: ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?

2008-06-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-02 08:37 +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: > The subject shall tell you already a lot but lastely I had to remove > ntp from my machine. Could you please elaborate why you had to do that? > I found this unfortunate and I'm just asking here > if this is normal or if this could have been