Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it?

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
Apologies for any confusion. While making changes to my LAN, I had some downed systems and used a friend's laptop while he was here. I should have either waited or sent it later. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:55, Sebastian Günther wrote: * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.10.08 03:22]: But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Well, you can't receive mails on the system, but you can receive all system mails, because they are sent via msmtp to your smarthost. On a Des

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-14 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:32:10 +0530 "Krishna Chandra Prajapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using mysql-server-5.0.32 on debian (etch). I would like to > know from where i can get patches for mysql and how to install the > mysql pathces on debian. > > Thanks, > -- > Krishna Chand

MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-14 Thread Krishna Chandra Prajapati
Hi, I am using mysql-server-5.0.32 on debian (etch). I would like to know from where i can get patches for mysql and how to install the mysql pathces on debian. Thanks, -- Krishna Chandra Prajapati MySQL DBA, Mob: 9912924044 Email-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15.10.08 03:22]: > > But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. > Well, you can't receive mails on the system, but you can receive all system mails, because they are sent via msmtp to your smarthost. On a Desktop system you normally do not need local

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Denvid Wright
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:08:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > For instance, stating it in the file: Again, not everyone has time > > to read all the comments in all the files. As to unrealistic > > expectations, what would be so hard with us

Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it? thanks PS. my cups: $ dpkg -l *cups

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: >>> [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit >>> How do you do that? Just install the am

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? Yup :) Very simple, addresses a lot of problems. In produ

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 21:15, H.S. wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a > >>> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > >> But then you can't receive local (intra-system

Re:[OT] Old Boxen [WAS] old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 21:15, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask beca

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: > [snip] >> I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit > > How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? > Yup :) Very simple, addresses a lot of p

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range. This will be the hardest part. Most in the $10-$15 range won't have enough RAM to do the things you want or disc space that you desire. $20/month is a closer price point. Personally I've gotten VMs from tektonik.com(?)/

64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in troubl

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: >> > Right up until it doesn't. And when it doesn't, it's a severe pain to fix. I noticed that in FC9, the sound was working quite smoothly even when the processor was quite busy (updating and installing stuff using yum). This was a surprise to me. With as busy processor i

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Etch > > > Reading man apt-file I can't resolve what flag to be up to find a > package which provides a named tool/command. > > e.g. mysqladmin coming form mysql-server apt-file search mysqladmin apt-file search `which commandname` but that might not be

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
H.S. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> A good way to needlessly complicate your audio setup especially if >> everything is working fine using the traditional ALSA approach. >> Pulseaudio also breaks voice and sometimes all sound support in Second >> Life despite claiming ESD compatibility. Puls

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with >>> the nVidia driver in icewm. >>> >>> I have the

[SOLVED] Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. >>> But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. >> >> Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp?

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >>> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. >> But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. > > > Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > > But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail. Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I am trying out ms

[SOLVED] Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:41:48PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >hello all, > > > >I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my > >21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in > >iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I fo

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:00 AM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what is > its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been successful in > installing and running it, could you share your experience. > > By the way,

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 17:21, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, o

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/10/15 paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Not necessarily. I would start off with a 64MB or 128MB and load test it. If >> it suits your >> needs, why pay more? > it is necessary. Standard installation of apache + mysql + debian + > postfix etch consume memory more than 128MB (maybe you can do >

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:38:11PM -0700, paragasu wrote: > well, i prefer XEN because that is the best virtualization to date. > Amazon EC2 and gogrid use XEN. and XEN cannot be oversold. What makes it "best" for you as a guest? Xen CPU time can be oversold. And anyway, I would also care about

About apt-file

2008-10-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Etch Reading man apt-file I can't resolve what flag to be up to find a package which provides a named tool/command. e.g. mysqladmin coming form mysql-server Or any other packages will be more suitable for this job? TIA B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friend

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread paragasu
> Not necessarily. I would start off with a 64MB or 128MB and load test it. If > it suits your > needs, why pay more? it is necessary. Standard installation of apache + mysql + debian + postfix etch consume memory more than 128MB (maybe you can do tweaking) on my VPS server it takes 180MB+ by onl

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Ignacio Mondino
Hi On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:20:01PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > wine started its life as a windows 3.11 emulator (or non-emulatr, > > whatever). > > Not in amd64. > > > There's also dosemu. > > Not in amd64. Both wine and dosemu are available in amd64, at least in lenny and sid. Ch

create folders in data drive

2008-10-14 Thread John Lindsay
I have a debian (I believe it is lenny) system running and somehow managed to install a second drive (called /new-disk) where owner and group are root. As user I can open the drive up and add and delete files but can't create folders (create folders is greyed out when '/new-disk' icon is opene

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with > > the nVidia driver in icewm. > > > > I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windo

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:08:17PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > For instance, stating it in the file: Again, not everyone has time to > read all the comments in all the files. As to unrealistic > expectations, what would be so hard with using a bash script specifying > the rewrite was going to

[OT] Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" error w/TrueCrypt 6.0a on Ubuntu 8.04.1 server x64

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, [Preamble] I've marked this post as off-topic because it's about Ubuntu, not Debian. I have already posted this message to the Ubuntu-users mailing list, but my impression is that people on the Debian-users mailing list tend, on average, to have a greater general knowledge of Linux than

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
H.S. wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a >> smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp > > Thanks. > > Should I prefer on of these over the other I've never used msmtp, so I cannot really talk about it, but

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:50:15PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at

Re: what linux/limit.h is needed for backporting cups from lenny to etch?

2008-10-14 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:09:56PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > Install the source for the kernel in use and see if the problem still > appears. It's still there. -- Linux amin 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i586 GNU/Linux Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > Keep replies to the list. > > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500,

Re: Warning before running update-grub (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Instead of just calling > > update-grub, a script could have said, "This update will > > re-write /boot/grub/menu.lst. Press return to continue." That > > would have been enough (although giving a choice of continuin

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a > smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp. > > Thanks. Should I prefer on of these over the other? -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding n

Re: Warning before running update-grub (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan wrote: > Instead of just calling > update-grub, a script could have said, "This update will > re-write /boot/grub/menu.lst. Press return to continue." That would > have been enough (although giving a choice of continuing or not would > have been nice, too). > [...] > I see the po

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:26 +0200, Johannes wrote: > On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Google lvm tldp for the howto. > > or just: > > # aptitude install doc-linux-html > > $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html & > > > Johannes > > Funny, never knew tha

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd > like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd > like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. > > Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with > the nVid

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails > via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. > > I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and > Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perhaps msmtp? The last one I learne

Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:12:40PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails > via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. > > I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and > Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perh

old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Finally unpacking after my move and I came across some old games I'd like to play. I had them when my IBM ValuePoint 486 was screaming HOT. Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with the nVidia driver in icewm. I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windows 3.

how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perhaps msmtp? The last one I learned from here: http://phos

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: > A good way to needlessly complicate your audio setup especially if > everything is working fine using the traditional ALSA approach. > Pulseaudio also breaks voice and sometimes all sound support in Second > Life despite claiming ESD compatibility. Pulse is not without major

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Sam Leon wrote: > Does the hard drive have to spin up in order to flush a buffer or > something before shut down? Any way to get around this? Unmount the volume when not in use. Unmounted volumes do not need to spin up during shutdown. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:35:10PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 21:28:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can > > tell, with a OpenVZ host. s/OpenVZ host/OpenVZ guest/ naturally. > > Also OpenVZ can be

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:43:33 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

Re: puseaudio in Debian - is it ready?

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Is anybody using pulseaudio in Debian? I am interested to know what > is its status in Debian Sid and Lenny. If somebody has been > successful in installing and running it, could you share your > experience. > > By the way, Fedora uses p

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Nick Lidakis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello all, I use Iceweasel with icewm (no DTE). I've temporarily switched from my 21" monitor to a very small one and the fonts on e.g. the toolbars in iceweasel are too big. For Konqueror I found some K settings app to change those fonts. Is there a simple app to inst

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-14 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:02:54 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking >> capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly >> installed lenny. >> >> How can I get it back? > > Did you check if it is activated? > > Edit > Prefe

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes
On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Google lvm tldp for the howto. or just: # aptitude install doc-linux-html $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html & Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 21:28:50 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > This can easily be done with a Xen guest. Not possible, from what I can > tell, with a OpenVZ host. Also OpenVZ can be oversold easily, whereas the same can't be done with Xen. (Well not memory anyway.) Xen is probably a nice o

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Carl Fink engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: >--} > On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: >--} >> [...] >--} >> This sounded really promising.  I was going to try it. >--} >> >--} >> But now the stupi

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:34:05PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services > off a consumer-grade network link. A little googling and Wikipedia-ing > reveals that what I probably want is a "virtual private server". Then I > can still

Re: hanging on startup

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:42:25AM +0300, Erik Brucken wrote: > Hi, > > my system amd64/unstable won't start up anymore after latest upgrade. Last > message before booting stops is "dirmngr..." I cannot give more details right > now. Anyone with same experience out there? > No experience since

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:34:53AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 09:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Welcome back Douglas. I hope you had a great vacation. > No vacation. Moving. nice to be back. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:18:19AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > True. That's firehol. Never heard of firehol. Can you tell it what to expect and not log? > Where've you been for 3 months Doug? Moving from Kingston to Orillia. Note the new email address. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:58:41PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Keep replies to the list. > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:33:00 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >hello all, > >

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:55:15PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will > > typically go to root's mailbox. > > Well, root seems not

Re: Which package provides lvcreate

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:41:47PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > --- "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:37:39AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > > For operational help for standard stuff, I always refer to the > > LVM-HOWTO. Its available with all the other

Re: FW: understand the logs

2008-10-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 07:12:11AM -0400, paul wrote: > REVISED FOR I SAID "man klogd" meaning "man logd" > >SNIP> But what is the way to avoid those messages entirely? >SNIP> > > Set logging to the level you choose. Try "man logd" without the quotes. > If you do that, you'll turn off all logg

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Abel McClendon
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:04:07 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe this is not the nicer way things could work, but given the constrains > in which Debian operates, the mailing lists are where we have more attention > and "human resources" t

Re: lsmod q

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Hector
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:40 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > That means if I wait a little bit that '[permanent]' should go. > Let me see. It seems that [permanent] means the module can't be unloaded; I guess it's unlikely to go away soon. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Best Mozilla plugin for viewing WMV?

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
mozplugger or totem-mozilla or mozilla-plugin-vlc? Or something else entirely? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. I'm using trinity rescue at http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1&front_id=12 I don't know, but I think lenny beta installer perhaps has lvm's tools instaled in r

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan escreveu: > > It was two years ago. I don't remember all the details, but > > basically I did something like "aptitude update && aptitude > > upgrade", got a new kernel image, and a clobbered menu.lst and it > > took me hours be

Re: hanging on startup

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:42:25 +0300, Erik Brucken wrote: > Hi, > > my system amd64/unstable won't start up anymore after latest upgrade. Last > message before booting stops is "dirmngr..." I cannot give more details right > now. Anyone with same experience out there? I run Sid/amd64 as well,

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 14:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Ron is correct (as usual); there are lots of housekeeping that must Just on the easy stuff. Debian does so much for us, and daemons like Postfix are so stable, with simple-to-read text files that they can run unattended for years, leading to

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 17:55 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. Or if you have a better solution, > here is my problem: > On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I have > problems when aptitude upgrade the kernel. I got the e

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 20:01 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have Debian Sid (with KDE4) in various partitions, shared with three vfats > for Win98, Shared data and audio files, on two 40gig disks. I have had to > make > a lot of partitions to expand and shoe-horn in as the linux needs expanded. >

Re: Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 11:50, Sam Leon wrote: I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:36:25 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I only wanted to point out that there is a direct logical line from > > the replies to your bug report to the relevant documentation. > > Therefore I think that your complaints

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Julian Blake Kongslie
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 15:08 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > As a user, you run apt and get notified that important files > may be changed. [snip] Sorry, but you've said this several times in this thread, and it's just wrong. Apt/dpkg/whathaveyou do *not* notify the user whenever they are going

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan escreveu: > It was two years ago. I don't remember all the details, but basically I > did something like "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade", got a new > kernel image, and a clobbered menu.lst and it took me hours before I > got the server up and running. The system worked fine u

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: I take it I will need to get a Krb5 schema file for ldap? Yes, and iirc, one comes with Heimdal package (likely in /usr/share/doc) if you can't find one, let me know Yea I'm not actually sure why we need kerberos, but my boss seems to think we d

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Hard Drive Spin Down >Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:25:58 -0500 > >>On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: >>> I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I >am >>> using rsnapsho

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan escreveu: > > I don't mean this with any offense, but you're so wrapped up in the > > details you're not seeing what's going on. You're re-arranging the > > deck chairs on the Titanic. > > I may be, after all this thread has bee

Re: choice of debian kernel for etch

2008-10-14 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Tuesday 14 October 2008 07:53:12 Boris Demirov, vous avez écrit : > Boris Demirov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have this situation where I want to select an already recompiled > > debian kernel for the following hw: > > > > 16GB ram > > Intel E5420 xeon (2x4 cores cpu) > > > > with the requireme

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hal Vaughan escreveu: > I don't mean this with any offense, but you're so wrapped up in the > details you're not seeing what's going on. You're re-arranging the > deck chairs on the Titanic. I may be, after all this thread has been going on very long. So I kindly ask you to summarize what did y

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But does it address the original issue? The original report is > > that menu.lst is overwritten without notice. > > A fact that is noted in that file, by the way. > > In the top, there are pointers to documentation on

New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread David Baron
I have Debian Sid (with KDE4) in various partitions, shared with three vfats for Win98, Shared data and audio files, on two 40gig disks. I have had to make a lot of partitions to expand and shoe-horn in as the linux needs expanded. So one of these 40gigers, a maxtor which has been giving problem

Re: Load web page with Flash movie --> System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-14 06:30, Carl Fink wrote: > But now the stupid computer won't boot past "setting the system clock" in > Linux. Still works fine in Windows. This happens occasionally on my lenny thinkpad as well ;-( (Last kernel upgrade?) Usually it will reboot just fine. HTH, Johannes signatur

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 min

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-14 17:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 3 debian laptops with lvm, the root partition is too small. So I have > As far as I see, you can resize the lvm without unmounting /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html- 11.9. Extending a logical volume To extend a logica

Re: Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/08 11:50, Sam Leon wrote: I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me a 5MBs boost but tha

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:21:59 +, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking > capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly > installed lenny. > > How can I get it back? Did you check if it is activated? Edit > Preferenc

Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 minutes of inactivity to save power (y

Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me a 5MBs boost but that was all. I also tried blacklisti

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-10-06 18:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi. Im running Lenny on two computers, and have been very happy with > it. Nothings ever really been broken, so i dont think that a "stable" > version is necessary for what i need. > > I dont really want to go "unstable"--the name alone scares m

Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst

2008-10-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 01:41 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/13/2008 08:59 PM, H. S. wrote: > > [...] <--deleted--> > > My Debian system doesn't have a grub.conf but a /boot/grub/menu.lst > instead. I create boot stanzas by modifying menu.lst, but I've heard > that FC users need to edit grub.co

Re: how adjust toolbar fonts in iceweasel?

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Douglas A. Tutty escreveu: > I think its somewhere in the settings but I can't figure out how to get > there. I thought it was about:settings but that doesn't work. > > I also need to change the browser ID to firefox, which is on that same > settings page but I can't remember how to get there. >

Re: Fwd: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket)

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
Aioanei Rares wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Aioanei Rares wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Aioanei Rares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 PM >>> Subject: Re: (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/ru

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