Re: managing source packages

2008-06-04 Thread David
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michal Kapalka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using Debian stable on my laptop for some time now, and I > really appreciate it, especially because updates do not break things > that work well. However, sometimes I need a package/feature that is only

Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

2008-06-04 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all On 6/5/08, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tony Heal wrote: > >> >> I am trying to mount an smbfs as the backup user and something is not >> right. I can run this as root and it works fine >> >> mount -t smbfs –o owner=backup -o lfs -o >> username=administrator,password=XX /

Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

2008-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Tony Heal wrote: I am trying to mount an smbfs as the backup user and something is not right. I can run this as root and it works fine mount -t smbfs –o owner=backup -o lfs -o username=administrator,password=XX //192.168.2.200/drobo /media/drobo/ yet when I mount it that way the backup

mounting an smbfs as non superuser

2008-06-04 Thread Tony Heal
I am trying to mount an smbfs as the backup user and something is not right. I can run this as root and it works fine mount -t smbfs -o owner=backup -o lfs -o username=administrator,password=XX //192.168.2.200/drobo /media/drobo/ yet when I mount it that way the backup user has no permi

Re: Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed June 4 2008 20:30:14 Robert S wrote: > I think we might be on the wrong track here. I think that the Windows > client changes the file to world read/write/execute for all users and > groups, and this creates these permissions on the file on my debian > machine. > > Is there any way that Sam

Re: Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Robert S
>> > Take a look at "testparm -sv | grep map". >> >> Thanks. I'm not familiar with "map hidden". What does it mean? Here it >> is: > > I don't see the answer there. Can you post > your whole smb.conf, and your samba version? > I think we might be on the wrong track here. I think that the Wind

Re: Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed June 4 2008 19:25:07 Robert S wrote: > > Take a look at "testparm -sv | grep map". > > Thanks. I'm not familiar with "map hidden". What does it mean? Here it > is: I don't see the answer there. Can you post your whole smb.conf, and your samba version? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Compiz perished (intel 965 card)

2008-06-04 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 04/06/2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ack, I didn't think it would happen to me, but it did. Latest testing > Compiz with the Intel GM965 finally crapped out. I had been having > more crashes than usual with Compiz, and now it's finally gone. Ah, sorry to reply to m

Re: Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Robert S
>> I have the following in my smb.conf: >> >> [public] >> path = /home/apache/files >> force user = www-data >> force group = www-data >> read only = No >> create mask = 0640 >> force directory mode = 755 >> guest ok = Yes >> >> ls /home/apach

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Joh

Re: Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed June 4 2008 18:35:34 Robert S wrote: > I have the following in my smb.conf: > > [public] > path = /home/apache/files > force user = www-data > force group = www-data > read only = No > create mask = 0640 > force directory mode = 755 > g

Samba writes wrong file permissions

2008-06-04 Thread Robert S
I have the following in my smb.conf: [public] path = /home/apache/files force user = www-data force group = www-data read only = No create mask = 0640 force directory mode = 755 guest ok = Yes ls /home/apache/files/Dictation// -l total 7

64bit virtual guest

2008-06-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been using vmware-server for a while, but would like to use a open source product instead, so I dove into virtualbox-ose, looks okay but I have run into some hiccups, can't install a 64bit guest :( downer for me. My next thought, before going back to vmware, was qemu, does it handle 64

Re: Bad component signal?

2008-06-04 Thread owens
> I recently changed my vga cable with a component cable a my mythtv > mediacenter. From the moment i made the switch the image quality is bad. > There are brown/darker thick lines rolling from bottom to top witch are > very annoying while watching movies or tv. With the vga cable the image > was b

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

2008-06-04 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 17:12:49 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Wireless didn't work immediately - following the advice on the wiki > exactly and downloading the Intel version 3.0 firmware worked like a > charm _EXCEPT_ that I can't get a usable dhcp lease. > > I've a fe

Bad component signal?

2008-06-04 Thread Gino Heusdens
I recently changed my vga cable with a component cable a my mythtv mediacenter. From the moment i made the switch the image quality is bad. There are brown/darker thick lines rolling from bottom to top witch are very annoying while watching movies or tv. With the vga cable the image was better

re:how to display

2008-06-04 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, But it needs password, I want to avoid passwd I want in another way just to redirect the dispaly without login in the remote machine thanks bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]

2008-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 13:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 22:34:04 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: [snip] >> >> Now when I notice that a newer version of xserver-xorg-video-ati has >> moved to testing (which, among other places, I can see at >>

Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]

2008-06-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 22:34:04 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 21:09:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 14:27:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10

Compiz perished (intel 965 card)

2008-06-04 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
Ack, I didn't think it would happen to me, but it did. Latest testing Compiz with the Intel GM965 finally crapped out. I had been having more crashes than usual with Compiz, and now it's finally gone. Unfortunately, I can't tell if this is partly my fault or not. I did mess around quite a bit with

[Debian-User] Has anyone used crosshurd to install debian/gnu Linux?

2008-06-04 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I'm thinking on performing a fresh install on a 2nd partition. I was thinking on using crosshurd (I've used it to install hurd, but never linux), since according to its sid package web page [1], it looks like crosshurd can do it: -

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Joh

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I wrote: > > And in fact, for (using a number I just pulled out of thin air) 90% of the > > time I've been using Debian, going back to Slink, Stable has been so > > obsolete as to be hard to use for anything but some servers. > > H

Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 08:15, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] > > Strange. The name according to htop and top is gnome-appearances and it > appears to be spunoff by GDM. Ah, that's why I don't see it! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morb

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/02/08 23:28

Re: Problem with Ubuntu printing on a Debian server

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:01:27AM +0200, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: [snip] > if a network printer is activated by default (otherwise I get this > message after activating a network printer via mouse click). > When I try now to print the document the access_log on the Ubuntu client > gets the foll

Re: managing source packages

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM +0200, Michal Kapalka wrote: > I have been using Debian stable on my laptop for some time now, and I > really appreciate it, especially because updates do not break things > that work well. However, sometimes I need a package/feature that is only > in testing/unst

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >>>[snip] > >>> > Wine is fermented from fruit. > Distilled win

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:48:57AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > So? I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be > > remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'. > > Sometimes (rarely) thi

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 06:05:49PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This may be more interesting [1]: > > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > [...] > > No it's not. The principal goal of testing is to evaluate what > > would be our next stable if we tri

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be more interesting [1]: Pierre Habouzit wrote: [...] > No it's not. The principal goal of testing is to evaluate what > would be our next stable if we tried to release *RIGHT NOW*. > Packages with RC bugs cannot be part of a release, so must

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

2008-06-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
I just found this information out this morning when I did a fresh install of Lenny and couldn't find ntpdate. I think my heart skipped a beat. # If you use the testing distribution, please note that ntp has been # removed from it because of a license issue¹. You should be able to # install

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Michal Kapalka
Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> So? I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be >> remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'. >> Sometimes (rarely) things break, but that's something I prefer to >

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:02:13AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > So? I've been using testing for years, and have found it to be > remarkably stable - it's remarkable precisely because it IS 'testing'. > Sometimes (rarely) things break, but that's something I prefer to > live with so that I can

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:12:14 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Frank, > Typical is right - half the signed messages I get can't be verified. For me, that's a rare occurrence. Hence my calling attention to your posts. As some would say; "Go figure" -- Regards _

Re: at version oddity

2008-06-04 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 16:15:09 +0200, Sven Joachim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In the at source tree, configure.in specifies > > VERSION="3.1.9" > > so apparently the maintainer forgot to increase it for the 3.1.10 upload > (3.1.10.1 was an NMU). Nothing to worry about, but you should repor

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Preston Boyington
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Wine is fermented from fruit. Distilled wine is brandy. Beer is fermented from grain. Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? Technical

managing source packages

2008-06-04 Thread Michal Kapalka
Hi, I have been using Debian stable on my laptop for some time now, and I really appreciate it, especially because updates do not break things that work well. However, sometimes I need a package/feature that is only in testing/unstable, and which is not (yet) in backports. The safest way (I guess)

Re: at version oddity

2008-06-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-04 14:39 +0200, Bob Cox wrote: > Is it possible I have installed it incorrectly, or is 'at' displaying > the wrong version? The latter. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy at > at: > Installed: 3.1.10.1 > Candidate: 3.1.10.1 > Version table: > *** 3.1.10.1 0 > 500 h

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Forwarded message from Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) > (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) > From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tu

Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-04 Thread Pete
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Ding Honghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I need a todo manager tools has such feature: > > 1. category support ( personal, business, etc ) > 2. remind before due date ( by mail ,etc ) > 3. relation between todo li

Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Rhode
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:20:11 +0200, Ding Honghui wrote: > I need a todo manager tool. Here's something I've been kicking around: o http://lacusveris.com/Tonto/HowTo/005.html -- ... Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA ... 1979 Honda Goldwing GL1000 (Geraldine) ... Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX

Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:06:12 -0700 freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:59:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 06/03/08 08:29, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:45:47 +0100 Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Jochen, > > > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949B > > gpg: requesti

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-04 Thread Christopher Judd
On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, > > > I think, Pota

Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
- Forwarded message from Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:14:03 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#484129: release.d

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jochen, > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949B > gpg: requesting key 3710949B from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net > gpg: key 3710949B: "Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" not changed > gpg: Total numb

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Brad Rogers: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> All's well that ends. > > Indeed. > > Now, where is your PGP public key? It doesn't appear to be on the > regular servers. As such, signing messages is, pretty much, redundant. $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949

at version oddity

2008-06-04 Thread Bob Cox
Is it possible I have installed it incorrectly, or is 'at' displaying the wrong version? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy at at: Installed: 3.1.10.1 Candidate: 3.1.10.1 Version table: *** 3.1.10.1 0 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/stat

Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-04 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ding Honghui wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I need a todo manager tools has such feature: > > 1. category support ( personal, business, etc ) > 2. remind before due date ( by mail ,etc ) > 3. relation between todo lists ( such as todo A dependence todo B ) > 4. supp

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:27:59 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Frank, > All's well that ends. Indeed. Now, where is your PGP public key? It doesn't appear to be on the regular servers. As such, signing messages is, pretty much, redundant. -- Regards _ / )

Video Adapter intel965

2008-06-04 Thread Сергей Овчар
Hi. Can anyone help me configure my videoadapter i965(notebook acer4315)? Is there in Lenny any drivers? How can I configure it? Drivers, downloaded from http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html, I can't build. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg didn't ask me about monitor and video adapter. What

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:17:06AM +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Claudia Sommer schreef: > > Hallo Debian, > > ich habe eine Live CD von Debian, wenn ich von der CD boote, öffnet sich > > ein Fenster mit Login und Passwort, wie lauten die ? > > Username: live > Password: live Username: user

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-04 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Claudia Sommer schreef: > Hallo Debian, > ich habe eine Live CD von Debian, wenn ich von der CD boote, öffnet sich > ein Fenster mit Login und Passwort, wie lauten die ? Username: live Password: live See: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/FAQ#head-da35f51e4a39f2bdefd85e7cae8b0e90b550d923 With

Problem with Ubuntu printing on a Debian server

2008-06-04 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi there I have a problem with printing from my Ubuntu (8.04) workstations on network printers exported by a CUPS server running under Debian Etch. On the Debian server the CUPS version is 1.2.7 while on the Ubuntu boxes CUPS version is 1.3.7. To be a bit more precise: printing with lp works fine

Re: how to display on another machine

2008-06-04 Thread Guillermo Mulliert Carlín
Hello, On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, abdelkader belahcene wrote: |> Hi everybody, |> I want to run a program and display the graph on another machine. |> I declared : |> export DISPLAY=192.168.10.10:0.0 |> ran on the local machine ( which not 192.168.10.10 ) |> gedit |> |> I want to receive the output on

Re: how to display on another machine

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:47:17 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to receive the output on the remote machine. The first > problem is to give probably password, ( the machine 192.168.10.10 must > accept the display) , on the machine you want to display the output, ty

Re: Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:08:46 +0800 Ding Honghui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a todo manager tools has such feature: http://www.todotxt.com/ > 1. category support ( personal, business, etc ) Yup. > 2. remind before due date ( by mail ,etc ) If you install the "tickler" script > 3. rela

how to display on another machine

2008-06-04 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi everybody, I want to run a program and display the graph on another machine. I declared : export DISPLAY=192.168.10.10:0.0 ran on the local machine ( which not 192.168.10.10 ) gedit I want to receive the output on the remote machine. The first problem is to give probably password, ( the mach

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-03 22:24, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 23:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> 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 wa