Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-17 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Friday 17 October 2008 11:40:55 pm Jason C. Wells wrote: > Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? > > For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made > their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files > aren't quite so slick with handling

Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
Is it advisable to install non-Debian provided packages? For example .deb files are out for openoffice3 but they haven't made their way to lenny yet. It seems like the Sun provided .deb files aren't quite so slick with handling dependencies. That or I am missing some important bit of underst

Re: How to apt-get over ssh tunnel through a firewall?

2008-10-17 Thread Bob
Mitchell Laks wrote: On 14:38 Fri 03 Oct , Celejar wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:02:22 -0400 There are several apt proxies available: apt-cacher apt-cacher-ng apt-proxy approx [I use approx; various readers of this list have their own preferences.] Set up one of them on A, configure B-

Where is the command to load ethernet network module placed?

2008-10-17 Thread J . H . Kim
Hi, everyone I wonder where the ethernet network module is loaded. Is it loaded in the kernel source code statically or in the init script? I think the network module is loaded after init user process is created, but I don't know where the loading point is. Please tell me where the command

update-grub and chroot

2008-10-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, I tried to update my grub menu.lst in the chroot system using update- grub, but it doesn't work. I'm wondering if it is possible to update the grub menu.lst in the chroot to reflect its appropriate kernel to boot from. thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourcefor

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:24:15AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I've never used xprint. I never needed it before. I've used for > several years n

Re: [OT] Debian is good for old brains (and young ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:01:51PM EDT, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:35:39PM EDT, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 10:52:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> > >> > I wonder if playing chess might have simila

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:34:31 -0700, Richard A Nelson wrote: >> "Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local delivery >> agent by default, so you should not have to set up a .forward." >> >> Or there is something else? > > procmail is optional, and so can not be the default MDA > >

Re: Why not thunderbird

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Leon wrote: > T o n g wrote: >> Hi, >> I know that thunderbird has been renamed to icedove in Debian. But for >> iceweasel, we can still type the command firefox, mozilla-firefox, or >> even mozilla and start it. >> So why icedove is not providing

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:06:54, Dexter Filmore wrote: >> snip >> >>> That doesn't quite work out: >>> >>> mount /cdrom >>> /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom >>> md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory >> Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel) >Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:12:58 +0100 > >>On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:27:48 +0200 >>"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Hello Mathieu, >> >>>

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
> > The problem is that the automounter cannot make a direct connection > between a specific user session and the physical act of someone plugging > in a new device. It could probably be improved to make better guesses, > but it's impossible to know. > I can understand that. Can it be automoun

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: welcome back >Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:59:24 +0100 > >>On 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> DSL normally is sent as a number of frequency bands called bins. >The >>> spectrum ran

Re: [OT] Debian is good for old brains (and young ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:35:39PM EDT, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 10:52:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> > I wonder if playing chess might have similar effects. My father loves >> > to play chess with the computer, but stays awa

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-17 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2008-10-15 22:47:15, schrieb Stephen Liu: > > Hi Jochen, > > > > This is only an example. We already know mysqladmin coming from > > mysql-server/-client. Therefore we can add mysql on the search. > In > > some other case if we have no idea

(SOLVED) Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

2008-10-17 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 07:54 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,10.Oct.08, 04:46:23, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > Try man kernel-img.conf > > > > > > $ man kernel-img.conf > > > No manual entry for kernel-img.conf > > > > > > I can't find a package kernel-img.conf either?! > > > > And how

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Cartwright: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> If you found that your session had a disk window open then your session >> (and hence your user) must have automounted the medium. For your user, >> go to > > actually, she plugged in the USB stick about an hour before I got up, so > it was her in he

Re: [OT] Debian is good for old brains (and young ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:35:39PM EDT, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 10:52:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > I wonder if playing chess might have similar effects. My father loves to > > play chess with the computer, but stays away from it otherwise... > >

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
Ups, I meant iceweasel bellow... On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Florian Kulzer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07:36 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Florian K

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07:36 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 17:10:35 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> When I try to

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, T o n g wrote: I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering my mails. However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ spool/mail without being forwarded. "Most Linux systems are set up to use procmail as the local delivery a

Re: Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering > my mails. > > However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ > spool/mail without being forwarded. > > How should I fix it? Do I need that .forward file? > > My setting has b

Re: AW: Cannot login to Debian Lenny

2008-10-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 17 October 2008 22:27:13 Torsten A. wrote: > Thanks for your quick reply. > > I called in single user mode 'add user test' with the following output: > > Adding user ... > Adding ... > ... > Copying files from '/etc/skel' > Passwd: Permission denied > Passwd: password unchanged > Try agai

Mails stay in /var/spool/mail, without being forwarded

2008-10-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, I use sendmail as the default MTA, and have ~/.procmailrc for filtering my mails. However, in my newly installed system (Lenny), my mails stay in /var/ spool/mail without being forwarded. How should I fix it? Do I need that .forward file? My setting has been working fine for many years.

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:32:27AM -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> Hi, >> I am looking for a live CD with lvm on it. > > INSERT has it: http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT_en.html > > ... looking at the project page, though, they haven't done a release in > a while. Last

Re: PXE server configuration

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:18:40PM +0200, Jesus arteche wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I got to install a PXE server in my net so that i can install ubuntu and >> debian via netboot, i made it with tftp and dhcp, this is easy for these >> two distros because they have already a netbo

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:27:48 +0200 "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mathieu, > ok, at least I am not going nuts :) :-) After Marc Shapiro replied, I realised that my "one shot" test was probably not good enough so, like him, I tried several more times. More often than not,

Re: Why not thunderbird

2008-10-17 Thread Sam Leon
T o n g wrote: Hi, I know that thunderbird has been renamed to icedove in Debian. But for iceweasel, we can still type the command firefox, mozilla-firefox, or even mozilla and start it. So why icedove is not providing the thunderbird command? thanks You can try making a link: ln -s /u

apt-cross --arch powerpc -i gcc

2008-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I would like to install a power-ppc gcc compiler on my debian testing box. I found a simple page for gentoo: http://psas.pdx.edu/GentooCrossCompilerHowto/, and I was interested to do the same. I do have qemu installed, but I simply can't get g

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:07:36 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 17:10:35 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my > >> spooler engine, I don't

Installing fonts in Lenny (use defoma?)

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
I'm wondering about the most correct way to install a TrueType font in Lenny. What I did: Downloaded http://hiran.in/content/fonts/rufscript/Rufscript010.ttf Moved rufscript010.ttf into ~/.fonts/ Ran 'fc-cache ~/.fonts/' And now I can use the font from all of my fontconfig-aware apps (all the imp

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:53:42 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let >> her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of >> /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group a

Re: Cannot login to Debian Lenny

2008-10-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 21:21:43 +0200, Torsten A. wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to > login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much > about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it. > > The p

AW: Cannot login to Debian Lenny

2008-10-17 Thread Torsten A.
Thanks for your quick reply. I called in single user mode 'add user test' with the following output: Adding user ... Adding ... ... Copying files from '/etc/skel' Passwd: Permission denied Passwd: password unchanged Try again [y/N] n (yes: same again) Chfn: PAM authentification failed Adduser: '/

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:53:42 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of > /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group as root: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PXE server configuration

2008-10-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:18:40PM +0200, Jesus arteche wrote: > Hey, > > I got to install a PXE server in my net so that i can install ubuntu and > debian via netboot, i made it with tftp and dhcp, this is easy for these two > distros because they have already a netboot images for that. The serve

Re: Cannot login to Debian Lenny

2008-10-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 17 October 2008 21:21:43 Torsten A. wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to > login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much > about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it. > > Cheers, > To

Cannot login to Debian Lenny

2008-10-17 Thread Torsten A.
Hello everyone, I'm having trouble to login to my Debian Lenny, indepent whether I wan't to login using gdm or plain at the console. Another is that I don't know much about Linux, I am still trying to get along with it. The problem is that when the dialog appears to enter the username I do so, th

Problems in Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922

2008-10-17 Thread Masatran / Deepak, R.
I recently installed Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922 alongside Debian Etch. I use Sawfish with XFCE panel, Thunar, etc. I have these problems: 1. Some XFCE icons are missing, including "Show Desktop". Thunar shows the same icon (sheet of paper) for everything. 2. MPD won't play. Sonata

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Oct 2008, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2008 17:59:24 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Larry > > > > Perhaps you can answer something I've wondered about. Is it necessary to > > use a filter on a DSL socket if no ordinary phone is to

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> > this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and >> > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I >> > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from al

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what Debian's current default solution for auto-mounting > is, but the problem is that this program simply cannot tell who of you > is using the USB drive. pmount, i use it through gkrellm: http://packages.de

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:06:54, Dexter Filmore wrote: > snip > > > That doesn't quite work out: > > > > mount /cdrom > > /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom > > md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory > > Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/cdrom...? $ ls -l /cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-07-11 00:40

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Oct.08, 18:10:26, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > this doesn't seem to be true the job runs and produces output and > > root mail is (via /etc/aliases - thanks to Doug!) sent to me but yet I > > don't get any o/p from /etc/cron.daily jobs whereas I do from all my > > crontab jobs... > >

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/17 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen: >> 008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> thanks, I'll let her know! >>> >>> I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about >>> ownership, though it did say write protect was off.. >> >> Be careful how you wor

Re: [OT] Debian is good for old brains (and yound ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,17.Oct.08, 10:52:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I wonder if playing chess might have similar effects. My father loves to > play chess with the computer, but stays away from it otherwise... > > Regards, > Andrei A friend just suggested that if old brains were reading

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >> When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my >> spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print >> PostScr

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Amit Uttamchandani escreveu: > The problem with that is that it installs all the kde runtime > libraries. The machine that I am using is really limited in power. I > can't even run GNOME here without slowdowns etc. I am guessing all > those runtime libraries will eat up alot of RAM and cpu cycles >

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 17 October 2008 17:59:24 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Larry > > Perhaps you can answer something I've wondered about. Is it necessary to > use a filter on a DSL socket if no ordinary phone is to be plugged in? It > doesn't seem to make any differe

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:40 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my >> spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print >> PostScript/default as I do with iceape.

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
thveillon.debian wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : >> thveillon.debian wrote: >>> BALLABIO GERARDO a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. I tr

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread mess-mate
John Hasler wrote: Both work fine from here five times in a row. Iceweasel 3.0.1 on Debian/Sid. No problem here with iceweasel-3.0.3 Lenny -- mess-mate May you do Good Magic with Perl. -- Larry Wall's blessing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
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: >> >> > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie >> > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's >> > the reco

Re: [Debian-User] iceweasel + lprng

2008-10-17 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 17:10:35 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When I try to print a page from iceweasel, if I have lprng as my >> spooler engine, I don't get in the file-print menu an option to print >> PostS

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Dexter Filmore
snip > That doesn't quite work out: > > mount /cdrom > /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom > md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory Isn't /cdrom a symlink to /dev/cdrom...? Maybe give it the real device path rahther. Dex -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL

Re: [OT] Debian is good for old brains (and yound ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Oct.08, 10:52:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > See what I found: > > http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/does-the-internet-boost-your-brainpower/?ei=5070 > > that must be the reason I like Debian so much. I wonder if playing chess might have similar effects. My father loves to

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/17/08 02:43, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Don Sutter wrot

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > DSL normally is sent as a number of frequency bands called bins. The > spectrum ranges from 0 to about 1MHz. The DSL filter is used to > separate the bottom bin which is used for POTS (plain old telephone > service). In the home the filter is usually in

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Oct.08, 06:19:59, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > That doesn't quite work out: > > mount /cdrom > /Fri Oct 17-06:14:44HDC5# md5sum /cdrom > md5sum: /cdrom: Is a directory You don't need to mount it and you have to run md5sum on the device file, not the mount point. > or > > /home/hugo/gpc-qt

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On Oct 17, 4:10 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JoseC.Rodriguez writes: > > ...everytime the package and libraries get updated it'll have to be > > downloaded again and again (if you're on Sid). > > Why do you think you have to constantly update everything just because you > are runnin

[OT] Debian is good for old brains (and yound ones too)

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, See what I found: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/does-the-internet-boost-your-brainpower/?ei=5070 that must be the reason I like Debian so much. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I do not know exactly what is happening but give you some idea... On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 07:53:42AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of > /media/disk ( /dev/s

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: JoseC.Rodriguez writes: ...everytime the package and libraries get updated it'll have to be downloaded again and again (if you're on Sid). Why do you think you have to constantly update everything just because you are running Sid? It's exactly the reasoon I like Sid: every

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:31:00 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Having used okular in KDE 4, I believe it is one of the best and most > > feature rich pdf viewer out there. Mainly highlighting and ability to > > do comments are of most interest to me.

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

2008-10-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:40:25AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > but at the same time i read the release notes for the new Ubuntu beta, and its really nice. I *want* Gnome 2.24 (the auto >>> >>> Unstable is at GNOME v2.22.5 > > I said: > >> >> Unstable (or Si

Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > > I will second Avast. You will have to pay for a company use, but they do > have a freebie version that you can use at home. There is not much > difference between the two from what I can tell (in terms of what they > can do). Plus their support has been really helpful when I needed it. > >

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-17 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2008-Oct-16, at 8:05 PM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Also, I discovered lighttpd and nginx, and I think one of them will meet my needs, saving a ton of memory vs. Apache... lighttpd/nginx + exim4 + spamd looks like it will fit just fine in 256M even under a load burst. By sure to check th

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread John Hasler
JoseC.Rodriguez writes: > ...everytime the package and libraries get updated it'll have to be > downloaded again and again (if you're on Sid). Why do you think you have to constantly update everything just because you are running Sid? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread steef
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/17/08 02:43, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dotan Cohen: > 008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> thanks, I'll let her know! >> >> I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about >> ownership, though it did say write protect was off.. > > Be careful how you word it. I think this message just refers to the physica

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Cartwright: > > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > her save a file, permission denied. ... > I am logged in first, vt7, she is logged in 2nd, vt8, and when I > switched to my login, there was the disk window open ( /media/disk). I don't know what Debian'

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: thorntreehome @gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: welcome back >Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:48:57 -0700 > >>On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:34:18 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >>> No such luck. I'd be concerned that the broadband modem w

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread H.S.
thveillon.debian wrote: > Hi, > > md5sum /path/to/isofile > > put cd/dvd in tray, then > > md5sum /dev/cdrom (or /dev/cdrom0... what applies to you). Won't the md5sum depend on the exact command that was used to burn the iso (how many blocks were burned)? -- Please reply to this list onl

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:47:53AM +0200, BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: > Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or > dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been > burned correctly. > > I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that they work. > >

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:56:51AM +0200, Neil wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400 > >> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Thu,

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote: > > > If I wish to have, say, a backup script running daily by the system (ie > > with su privileges) and to have access to any std out/err output what's > > the recommended Debian way to d

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:05:17 +0200 "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mathieu, * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4628&view=rev * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4627&view=rev I can get a 404 error on the second one, however if I cop

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > thanks, I'll let her know! > I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about > ownership, though it did say write protect was off.. > Be careful how you word it. Some users look at this as a way of saying "Linux is garbage, Windows r

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:05:17 +0200 "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > If I click on the following URLs: > > * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4628&view=rev > * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4627&view=rev > > I can get a 404 error on the seco

Re: OT: welcome back

2008-10-17 Thread Thorny
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:34:18 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > No such luck. I'd be concerned that the broadband modem would produce too > much interference with my wife (remember my low-MHz thread). I know that > a DSL filter causes problems. > Of course, I don't know your wife, but around her

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/17/08 03:14, Juha Tuuna wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Could someone please try and report ? Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.0.3 The first link usually works, not always though. The second one is just the opposite, it usually doesn't work but sometimes it does. Random generator? Almos

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
On Oct 17, 12:40 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use KDE 4 either. apt-get update + apt-get install okular offers > to install/upgrade 57 libraries and install okular. 113MB. That takes me > about 5 hours. If you have broadband takes you 5 minutes. > > Why don't you just d

RE: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:35 PM > Don Sutter wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like > > to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is > > generally slime free

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/17/08 02:43, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/17/08 00:45, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:41:49 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/16/08 21:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't s

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let >> her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of >> /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group as root: >> [EMAIL

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 21:27:26 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Why not use a real database like PostgreSQL and > not crap which must be patched to be a database? Please don't troll. Please also don't send a one/two line message with a 15 line signature. How many people really need your p

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread John Hasler
Both work fine from here five times in a row. Iceweasel 3.0.1 on Debian/Sid. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-15 22:47:15, schrieb Stephen Liu: > Hi Jochen, > > This is only an example. We already know mysqladmin coming from > mysql-server/-client. Therefore we can add mysql on the search. In > some other case if we have no idea of the package. We only know the > command/file. How can we f

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-15 11:05:24, schrieb Adam Hardy: > Is there a basis for the file name restrictions on ext3, i.e. can I say, > well ext3 is based on a standard, so I'm going to restrict the file names > on macs, otherwise they won't be backed up? There are none. You can even have a backslash in the F

Re: MYSQL PATCHES FOR ETCH

2008-10-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-10-15 11:32:10, schrieb 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. Why not use a real database like PostgreSQL and not crap which mu

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of > /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group as root: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls -l

USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls -l /media/disk total 208 -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc root 36352 2008-

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread thveillon.debian
Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : thveillon.debian wrote: BALLABIO GERARDO a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that they wor

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Having used okular in KDE 4, I believe it is one of the best and most feature rich pdf viewer out there. Mainly highlighting and ability to do comments are of most interest to me. However, I do not use KDE 4. Is it possible to build okular using QT4 libraries without KD

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, If I click on the following URLs: * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4628&view=rev ii iceweasel 3.0.1-1 OK * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4627&view=rev Not Found. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
thveillon.debian wrote: BALLABIO GERARDO a écrit : Hi all, I'd like to ask for suggestions on how to check a cd-rom (or dvd-rom) against the original iso image to verify that it has been burned correctly. I tried a couple of methods, but I am not sure that they work. One was to mount the is

PXE server configuration

2008-10-17 Thread Jesus arteche
Hey, I got to install a PXE server in my net so that i can install ubuntu and debian via netboot, i made it with tftp and dhcp, this is easy for these two distros because they have already a netboot images for that. The server is running under Debian 4.0 and i wondering if there are some way to do

Re: Programar un generador de funciones con el AC'97

2008-10-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
joan vicient wrote: Hola, me llamo Joan y estoy estudiando Electrónica. Me he propuesto escribir un driver para la tarjeta de sonido de un portátil de modo que funcione como un generador de funciones. Mi portátil tiene un controlador intel de la familia 82801, hub6 ( ICH6 ) con un AC'97 integrad

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:14:03 +0300, Juha Tuuna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Could someone please try and report ? > > Windows XP Pro SP3, Firefox 3.0.3 > The first link usually works, not always though. The second one is just the > opposite, it usually doesn't

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:05:17 +0200 > "Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Mathieu, > >> * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4628&view=rev >> * http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/gdcm/?rev=4627&view=re

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