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Re: Question about get-selections

In <20090327195314.gt29...@swansys>, green wrote: >Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: >> Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to >> get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the >> query string should be. I think the most useful one

Re: thunderbird and evolution

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:08:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Instead of complicating things, set up an imap server for storage and > your MTA as a relay host. Okay. So as I understand it: - All messages are stored on a server, the server has tools to receive the mail from my isp - I can then ac

Re: Question about get-selections

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Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:39:26AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,28.Mar.09, 00:52:58, Divick Kishore wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > > privileges. Running

Re: Resizing LVM partition

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:01:18AM -0300, Daniel Bareiro (daniel-lis...@gmx.net) wrote: > How I can to extend a LVM partition? Why do you want to do that? I've always thought it one of LVM's main attractions that it it makes partition resizing almost totally unnecessary. Instead, just create a

Re: Touchpad hangs on Lenny

Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 17:44 -0600: > Don't know what a 'thread' is? It's hard for me to give a good short > answer, but it's important to know. Use google, wikipedia, etc. Ivan, (if you don't know about threading): Evolution should allow you to view messages threaded, somewhere in one

Re: Question about get-selections - a little story

Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 18:14 -0600: > Recently I agreed to acquire a backtrace using gdb on > gnome-terminal. I had reported it crashing under a certain > situation. I'm not skilled at debugging, but gnome-terminal is > important to me, so I agreed. The work did not go well. Things went

Re: thunderbird and evolution

On 2009-03-27 22:51, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I plan to use evolution and thunderbird occasionally to read my mail. I normally use mutt from a console, but how can I configure thunderbird and evolution to do the following? - Read mail from /var/mail/daniel, and don't move it, just read it from t

Re: Resizing LVM partition

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 00:01 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a hardware RAID with a logical drive that I expanded adding a > disk being of the following way: > > Name Part TypeFS TypeSize (MB) > ---

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 00:45 +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > > Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > only from amazon, USA or UK. > > For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code >

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--- johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de escribió: From: Johannes Wiedersich To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pdf -> jpg Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:48:04 +0100 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: >> What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? >> >> > screen

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

> I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other Region > Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I cannot use. There are several ways to do that: 1 - use `regionset'. But this can only be used 5 times. 2 - change your DVD's firmware (there's a web site

Re: problem with module loading in etch

Thanks! I'll try your solutions later on. On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Long Wind wrote: >> I have a bttv card >> etch loads driver for it during booting >> but etch does not use correct options >> so I have to use commands below: >

Re: Konqueror: select all doesn't work in the location bar

On 3/26/09, Harold R. Grove wrote: > On Thursday 26 March 2009, Randy Kramer wrote: >> On Thursday 26 March 2009 05:02:48 am Thorny wrote: >> > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:49:37 -0400, Randy Kramer posted: >> > Not sure if confirmation is what you want, for me in Konq 3.5.9 on >> > Lenny, select all wo

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On 4/25/09, leo wrote: > when I exec ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org for example, the out is: > > "no server suitable for synchronization found" > so it's posible a misconfiguration or no access > what could be the problem here? If you are running ntpd while trying ntpdate, it will fail (with the above q

Re: Most current printer support

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > FYI re adding hp printers and All-in-Ones: > > Add the printer using the Gnome add printer wizard or by running the > 'hp-setup'. Either will auto-detect network printers, select a ppd, > and add the queue. The add printer wizard in the

Re: Question about get-selections - a little story

On 2009-03-27_17:43:22, green wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600: > > On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: > > > I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. > > > It > > > would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it. ..

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

Divick Kishore wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I >> > am >> > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser >> > privileges. Running mount command shows the following: >> > >> > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs

Re: Touchpad hangs on Lenny

Hey, Ivan, you high-jacked my thread. If you want to get some intelligent traffic on your question you should start a new thread. I see you are using Evolution as you MUA. I don't know Evolution, but I'm sure it does have a way for you to start a new thread for your new topic. Don't select 'Reply'

Re: Question about get-selections

Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 16:35 -0600: > On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: > > I think I have minimally tested these commands, but it has been a while. > > It > > would be great if someone could try this out and add a wiki page for it. > > Well, I'm going to try it out, I can't promi

Re: time server

Paul E Condon writes: > ...suppose you are looking at old emails in an archive. Suppose it > matters to the minute when that old email was actually sent, like in a > criminal or national intelligence investigation. Is there a database > somewhere that records the dates of switching to and from summ

Touchpad hangs on Lenny

Hi All, I have problem with Synaptics touchpad on Dell 640m(E1405) and Lenny. From several days very oftten touchpad arrea and buttons stop responding, after a minute they are back functional. If I press keyboard key (any key) during hang period touchpad function properly. Google do not help

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

On Sat,28.Mar.09, 00:52:58, Divick Kishore wrote: > Hi, > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > privileges. Running mount command shows the following: > > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs

Re: Question about get-selections

On 2009-03-27_13:53:14, green wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: > > Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to > > get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the > > query string should be. > > Restoring the package set is not

Re: More: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 08:50:35, Curt Howland wrote: > More information, sorry I didn't think to include this in the prior > message. > > Any ideas? > > = > $ dpkg -l | grep awk > ii gawk1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and > processing l > ii mawk1.3.3-11.1 a pattern

Re: mouse and gpm

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:48:00AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 08:20:12AM +0100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:15PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are > > > doable with the extensio

Re: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 08:27:10, Curt Howland wrote: > This is the second day I've gotten this error, on up-to-date Lenny. > > I'm going to go look for what package "awk" should be in, but I cannot > imagine why it would be missing. Aren't "grep" "awk" and "sed" the > basic building blocks of all UNI

Re: problem with module loading in etch

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 05:42:32, Long Wind wrote: > I have a bttv card > etch loads driver for it during booting > but etch does not use correct options > so I have to use commands below: > > rmmod bttv > modprobe bttv card=8 > > I add "bttv card=8" to /etc/modules > but it does not help. > > My ques

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

[top posting fixed] On Fri,27.Mar.09, 04:52:52, paragasu wrote: > > Yes, but this is usually done by some user tool. What Desktop > > Environment are you using? (I can help with Xfce, but am not familiar > > with KDE or Gnome) > i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can b

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

[please don't cc. me.] On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:07:24 +0530 Divick Kishore wrote: > > > > > But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the > > > entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same > > > permission issue. Not sure why is this happening. > >

Re: fish problem almost solved

On Thu,26.Mar.09, 20:58:53, leo wrote: > ...writing KDE_FORK_SLAVES value in ~/.xsessionrc works until I > restart KDE. You probably need to 'export' it: export KDE_FORK_SLAVES=true Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) sig

Re: Question about get-selections

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 09:26:59, Paul E Condon wrote: > I see you have a different search string than has been mentioned before. > Is yours really what you use, or something typed from memory? The ones > I have tried didn't seem to give correct results. It was from memory, and I was even right ;) Le

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

> > > But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the > > entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same > > permission issue. Not sure why is this happening. > > Well, you can't be surprised that you can't chown, since the filesystem > is RO, and if the

[Solved]Re: Unable to boot into encrypted file system after upgrade etch --> lenny

On 26 Mrz., 16:10, Michael Lange wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:41:26 +0200 > Ok, there seems to be a bug in debian's initramfs-tools that resembles a lot the one described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507721 . In the last few days I learned how to unpack, edit and re-pa

Re: extract debian package default config

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 11:09:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? > > No. Various way to do that have been proposed already in this thread, > but there's no simple and reliable way to do that. It's too > bad, really. I wish `dpkg' was c

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:10:07 +0530 Divick Kishore wrote: ... > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though > > I am > > > > > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > > > > > privileges. Running mount command shows the

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Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

On Fri,27.Mar.09, 10:58:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Oh, and forgot to say, it is a bug you found, but since you are > running etch (which is now oldstable) it might have been found (and > fixed) a long time ago. If I don't forget I'll look into it... Ok, as far as I can tell the bug is only pre

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Javier Barroso wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek >>> wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but

Re: problem with module loading in etch

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0400, Long Wind wrote: > I have a bttv card > etch loads driver for it during booting > but etch does not use correct options > so I have to use commands below: > > rmmod bttv > modprobe bttv card=8 > > I add "bttv card=8" to /etc/modules > but it does not help

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

[Please don't reply to me personally, as per the list's code of > conduct.] Oh Sorry about that...I just hit the replyall button in my email client. > > > > Hi, > > > > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though > I am > > > > able to mount, but I am unable to access th

Re: Illogical drives?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: > Greetings: > > Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some > more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. > > Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm > looking at a file sys

problem with module loading in etch

I have a bttv card etch loads driver for it during booting but etch does not use correct options so I have to use commands below: rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=8 I add "bttv card=8" to /etc/modules but it does not help. My question is how to help etch use correct options so that I needn't enter

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 01:19:35AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> >> On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. >>> me to [snip] > > So, it appears that this proprietary and restric

Re: mounting filesystems in Gnome

On 2009-03-27_21:09:19, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > I have a vfat partition on /dev/sda7. I would like to use the option in > Gnome to mount the file system automatically using the Properties dialog. I > open the Properties dialog, go to the Volume tab, and set the following: > > Mount Po

Re: question about applying patch to kernel 2.6.26

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:27:37PM +0430, a dehqan wrote: > In The Name Of God > > I'll be thankfull if you guide ; > this patch > codehas > been saved as 2.patch in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 directory. > and with this

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

[Please don't reply to me personally, as per the list's code of conduct.] On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:16:15 +0530 Divick Kishore wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > > > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser

Re: Question about get-selections

Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: > Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to > get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the > query string should be. Restoring the package set is not so simple as restoring the packages that are ma

Re: pdf -> jpg

Miles Fidelman wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: >> What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? >> >> > screen capture? Would work, but not necessarily the best way. I'd suggest 'convert' or gimp. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

> > Hi, > > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > > privileges. Running mount command shows the following: > > > > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01)

Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:52:58 +0530 Divick Kishore wrote: > Hi, > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > privileges. Running mount command shows the following: > > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor

Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

Hi, I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser privileges. Running mount command shows the following: /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) But when I try to acc

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > So, it appears that this proprietary and restrictive Regions Code thing is > absolute, and cannot be got around, and I apparently just have to accept > that the video companies don't want us to watch their DVD's here in > Australia. If you have

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A recent dist-upgrade to Lenny has broken galeon's neat "myportal" homepage feature. This is version 2.0.6-2.1. 1. Previously, the URL 'myportal:' worked fine. The error message for that is now: "myportal is not a registered protocol". 2. Galeon's help suggests using the URL 'about:myportal'. T

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:34:50 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: [105 lines trimmed] > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. You have added exactly one line; please trim messages when replying. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) e

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On 27 March 2009 18:50:28 Norbert Zeh wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > > Thierry > > And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? > > - Norbert Not yet! Thie

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Frank wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Bret Busby: > > > > > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > > > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > > > > > Are these movie players able

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which isn't availab

Re: Most current printer support

FYI re adding hp printers and All-in-Ones: Add the printer using the Gnome add printer wizard or by running the 'hp-setup'. Either will auto-detect network printers, select a ppd, and add the queue. The add printer wizard in the CUPS web interface is way more work. If you're adding an Officejet

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 06:34:50PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Living in France, I play DVD's from Canada by changing the region set. > Thierry And your DVD drive does not complain if you switch back and forth? - Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Illogical drives?

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:23:22AM -0600, postid wrote: > Greetings: > > Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more > reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. > > Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking > at a file syste

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On 27 March 2009 17:19:35 Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > >> > >> Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > >> on

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Bret Busby: > > > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > > Region Codes, or

mounting filesystems in Gnome

Hi, I have a vfat partition on /dev/sda7. I would like to use the option in Gnome to mount the file system automatically using the Properties dialog. I open the Properties dialog, go to the Volume tab, and set the following: Mount Point: /media/f/ File System: vfat Mount Options: rw nosuid I t

Re: kbuild-2.6.28 in sid?

Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I am running the 2.6.28 kernel in sid, and wanted to build the vmware kernel modules - for this I need the headers for 2.6.28, fine, but they depend on linux-kbuild-2.6.28 which isn't available Searching on packages

Re: time server

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > OT question: I think the actual, underlying time data source for email > time is the Unix time clock on the originator's host. This gets > translated into a text string for insertion into the email. I think > the format of this string is su

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

Bret Busby: > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? The region code is not

Re: Illogical drives?

Greetings: Thank you all for your explanations and patience. I've done some more reading, though I'm not sure that I completely understand. Here's what I think I'm hearing: When I look at a directory I'm looking at a file system, not necessarily a list of physical locations. But on the other

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have th

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

> @ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region > p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD > dri This may not help much if he also wants to play Australian DVD's, as they would then have the wrong region code, and I am not sure whether you can switch region codes at will.

Re: $DISPLAY set when I log into virtual console

On Mar 27, 12:30 pm, Dale Harris wrote: > So I don't run xdm or gdm, or similar display.  I like to come in via > regular getty to the virtual console and start up startx on my own. > However, I notice now that $DISPLAY is let to localhost:0.0 when I log > in, and I'm wondering... why?  And where

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > > Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > only from amazon, USA or UK. > > For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code > thing, appare

Re: time server

On 2009-03-27_08:14:01, John Hasler wrote: > leo writes: > > my ISP ntp server is having problems with dayligth hour changes... > > NTP deals only in UTC. "Daylight savings" has no effect on it. > -- > John Hasler OT question: I think the actual, underlying time data source for email time is th

DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

Hello. As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available only from amazon, USA or UK. For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD playe

Re: pdf -> jpg

Rick Pasotto schrieb: > What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? > I got best results with imagetops + convert: imagetops -scale 300 image.jpg > temp.ps convert -density 300 temp.ps image.pdf Using directly convert image.jpg file.pdf works in principle, but does

Re: Question about get-selections

On 2009-03-27_11:19:29, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,26.Mar.09, 19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I wouldn't put my backup info in /etc/apt. Most of what is in /etc/ > > (just like the rest of the file system) is managed by packages which are > > managed by apt. You may find that what y

Re: extract debian package default config

Hi Hugo, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : Sylvain Viart wrote: Is there some command which can extract the apache2.conf from the package or is it extracted somewhere? I use mc for that. Thanks, you're right. This is like extracting the package with ar or dpkg -x mc - midnight commander - a pow

$DISPLAY set when I log into virtual console

So I don't run xdm or gdm, or similar display. I like to come in via regular getty to the virtual console and start up startx on my own. However, I notice now that $DISPLAY is let to localhost:0.0 when I log in, and I'm wondering... why? And where it is set. I would like to turn it off. I don't

Re: Question about get-selections

I'm convinced that the suggestion is worthwhile, but I'm having difficulty following it. See below. On 2009-03-27_16:33:11, Owen Townend wrote: > 2009/3/27 Paul E Condon : > > On 2009-03-26_19:08:32, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> > >> Many of those packages will have been installed automatically b

Re: Illogical drives?

postid wrote: Just finished a lenny install. I used manual partitioning in the graphical installer to do the following: #1 primary 19.0 GBntfs #2 primary 6.0 GB B F ext3 / #5 logical 1.0 GB F swap swap #6 logical 14.0 GB F ext3 /home #1 is Win2000 and boots

Re: pdf -> jpg

> What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? maybe "pdftoppm | ppmtojpeg" ? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: extract debian package default config

> Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config? No. Various way to do that have been proposed already in this thread, but there's no simple and reliable way to do that. It's too bad, really. I wish `dpkg' was careful to stash a copy of the original conf file somewhere w

Most current printer support

We're setting up some Debian installations for some customers, and I'm trying to make sure that the printing support covers as many models as possible. Since printing is covered by a number of different packages, I want to make sure that I've included everything I need. If I set up Debian stable

Re: Fwd: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

Curt Howland wrote: == - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64136 2008-11-16 09:18 avisync l? ? ? ? ?? awk - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39828 2008-04-16 18:37 barcode == There's some filesystem corruption. Are you familiar with fsck?

hp proliant dl380 g5 intermittent network connectivity issues (debian lenny 5.0)

Got some serious issues with a brand new hp dl380 g5 running debian lenny. The machine seems to have issues with intermittent network connectivity. It'll work for awhile and then stop working. The real bugger is that I'm having diagnose this remotely. Initially we thought it was a bad hp NC360T a

Re: pdf -> jpg

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:59:33AM -0400, Steve Reilly wrote: > Rick Pasotto wrote: > > What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? > > if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different > types. take a look at that Duh! I use 'convert' all the time but it didn'

Re: pdf -> jpg

Rick Pasotto wrote: > What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? > if im not mistaken imagemagick can convert files of many different types. take a look at that steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: pdf -> jpg

Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if its a single one then the gimp could do it for you -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: pdf -> jpg

Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? screen capture? -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: pdf -> jpg

On 27 March 2009 14:46:50 Rick Pasotto wrote: > What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? > > -- > "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace > alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with > an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them

pdf -> jpg

What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? -- "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed--and hence clamorous to be led to safety--by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --- H. L. Mencken Rick Pasottor..

Fwd: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I've found the "problem". Although "ls -al /usr/bin/awk" comes back with nothing, if I cd to /usr/bin and do a "dir", I get the following: == - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64136 2008-11-16 09:18 avisync l? ? ? ?

Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is the second day I've gotten this error, on up-to-date Lenny. I'm going to go look for what package "awk" should be in, but I cannot imagine why it would be missing. Aren't "grep" "awk" and "sed" the basic building blocks of all UNIX? Curt-

Re: Consolechars Question

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:41:03AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:02:42AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > During bootup (Le

Re: time server

leo writes: > my ISP ntp server is having problems with dayligth hour changes... NTP deals only in UTC. "Daylight savings" has no effect on it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

More: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 More information, sorry I didn't think to include this in the prior message. Any ideas? = $ dpkg -l | grep awk ii gawk1:3.1.5.dfsg-4.1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l ii mawk1.3.3-11.1 a pattern scanning and text pr

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