Re: mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach whollyg...@letterboxes.org [2009.06.07.0457 +0200]: > Can anyone tell me why the following command > creates 2 spares instead of just one? > > # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b internal \ > -n3 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 \ > -x1 /dev/hdk1 --name FileServ -a yes Give it time;

Re: Configuring preferred web browser with Icedove

2009-06-07 Thread 明覺
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,07.Jun.09, 21:03:26, AG wrote: >> Hello List >> >> How does one configure Icedove (Thunderbird) to use the system's default >> browser.  My system's default browser is Opera, but Icedove will always >> call up Konqueror and I cannot see

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister : > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > > > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > > > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. > >

building libapache2-mod-rpaf

2009-06-07 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I want to use libapache2-mod-rpaf on a bunch of etch servers; the package is available in sarge and lenny, but not etch. I downloaded the lenny source package, and had a look at the build-depends, which is where it got interesting. It build-depends on apache2-threaded-dev. We use the pre

gshare and firefox

2009-06-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've set up an ftp share with gshare, and everything works fine via lftp, dillo, and so on, but firefox refuses to show the contents of the shared directory. It can see the contents of a file, if given the full path, but not the directory itself. Thus: # Shows nothing; just a blank page. I'm e

Re: Configuring preferred web browser with Icedove

2009-06-07 Thread Oscar Nuñez
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,07.Jun.09, 21:03:26, AG wrote: Hello List How does one configure Icedove (Thunderbird) to use the system's default browser. My system's default browser is Opera, but Icedove will always call up Konqueror and I cannot see any obvious way to change that ... eve

Re: mplayer screensaver

2009-06-07 Thread JoeHill
steef wrote: > Tony Asnicar wrote: > > how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? > > mplayer -stop-xscreensaver > > doesn't work :S > > thanks > do: > > $xscreensaver-demo & > and shut the screensaver off on the appearing panel. Are gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver the same th

Re: Backup tar (/dev/st0)

2009-06-07 Thread Spiro Harvey
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:07:41 -0300 Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > I have a backup that uses 4 tapes with tar, but must return a single > file that is in the second tape, but when I put the second tape and > give the tar-xvf / dev/st0 it does not agree and says it is continuing > another volume, n

Re: Suggestion for a mail package

2009-06-07 Thread Spiro Harvey
> We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like > to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration. > Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier and exim, but > their web-based GUIs were not that good. Any other email packages out > there we

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 25 May 2009 08:37:33 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: > > I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This > > elderly machine > > had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1,

Re: MySQL admin qref? [Solved]

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
deb...@waysoft.com : > On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:41:10 -0600 "s. keeling" wrote: > > Incoming from Robert Baron: > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > (0) [root] infidel /root_ mysql > > > > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user > > > > 'root'@'localhost

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-07 Thread Wayne Topa
lrhorer wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: lrhorer wrote: I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with 4G of RAM. I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer attached via USB. The system says it sees the printer, 2. What does lpstat -t show when run by

Re: cANT login to kde...

2009-06-07 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
raman narasimhan ha scritto: i recently installed ktorrent. it'd lots of dependencies. Now when i login i'm shown a window that says --- | kstartupconfig4 does not exis

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread John Hasler
The current chrony initscript looks for a defaultroute at startup. If one is found it puts chronyd online. The ip-up script is only used with PPP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: LILO not run after kernel install/update

2009-06-07 Thread jidanni
Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes: > Well, re-sending since nobody replied... >> P.S. no, I won't use grub. Hmmm. Maybe the two sentences are related. Even me, kicking and screaming, finally am using grub (grub2). Let's see. Apparently I just use $ tail /etc/default/grub GRUB_TERMINAL=console case $(

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-07 Thread Wayne Topa
lrhorer wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: lrhorer wrote: I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with 4G of RAM. I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer attached via USB. The system says it sees the printer, 2. What does lpstat -t show when run by

Re: A question about `aptitude purge'

2009-06-07 Thread jidanni
Daniel Burrows writes: > the bash completion stuff is actually stored in > /etc/bash_completion, which is part of the bash package. $ apt-file search /etc/bash_completion|wc -l 500 $ apt-file --fixed-string search /etc/bash_completion bash-completion: /etc/bash_completion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How many users will fall for my Disposition-Notification-To?

2009-06-07 Thread jidanni
Andrei Popescu writes: > At least the first time, Outlook will ask before sending a "read > receipt", but the same dialog box also has an "always" checkbox, so if > you check that receipts will be sent without you knowing. Ah ha. > As far as I can tell, mutt doesn't have any support for this, but

Re: Configuring preferred web browser with Icedove

2009-06-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,07.Jun.09, 21:03:26, AG wrote: > Hello List > > How does one configure Icedove (Thunderbird) to use the system's default > browser. My system's default browser is Opera, but Icedove will always > call up Konqueror and I cannot see any obvious way to change that ... > even "advanced co

Configuring preferred web browser with Icedove

2009-06-07 Thread AG
Hello List How does one configure Icedove (Thunderbird) to use the system's default browser. My system's default browser is Opera, but Icedove will always call up Konqueror and I cannot see any obvious way to change that ... even "advanced config" doesn't seem to show any options. I'm using

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-07 Thread lrhorer
Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 23:37, lrhorer wrote: >> I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with >> 4G of RAM.  I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c >> printer attached via USB.  The system says it sees the printer, and the >> driver

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 10:59:50 -0400 Daryl Styrk wrote: ... > I've had nothing but great results with chrony. Aside from an issue of > chrony falling back to 127.127.1.1 when it cannot connect to a ntp server.. > Which happens often with my laptop as I move around during the day.. I > fixed tha

Re: Printing to HP Deskjet 940c

2009-06-07 Thread lrhorer
Wayne Topa wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >> I have CUPS setup under Debian "Lenny" an an AMD Athlon 64 x 2 CPU with >> 4G >> of RAM. I cannot get the system to print to my HP Deskjet 940c printer >> attached via USB. The system says it sees the printer, > > What in the system sees the printer, the cu

Re: mplayer screensaver

2009-06-07 Thread steef
Tony Asnicar wrote: how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? mplayer -stop-xscreensaver doesn't work :S thanks do: $xscreensaver-demo & and shut the screensaver off on the appearing panel. regards, steef -- steef van duin publicist, research-journalist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

mplayer screensaver

2009-06-07 Thread Tony Asnicar
how can I disable gnome-screensaver when using mplayer? mplayer -stop-xscreensaver doesn't work :S thanks

Re: Problems with OOo3.0.1 - not retaining formats when copying

2009-06-07 Thread AG
Girish Kulkarni wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, AG wrote: Does anyone: (a) have similar problems with their version of OOo? or (b) have any thoughts about installing the version referenced above? No idea why you're having that problem. But just wanted to mention that it doesn't exist on OOo Write

Re: Problems with OOo3.0.1 - not retaining formats when copying

2009-06-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, AG wrote: Does anyone: (a) have similar problems with their version of OOo? or (b) have any thoughts about installing the version referenced above? No idea why you're having that problem. But just wanted to mention that it doesn't exist on OOo Write 2.4.1 on my Lenny syste

Re: DPkg::Pre-Invoke

2009-06-07 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/6/6 Andrei Popescu : > On Sat,06.Jun.09, 10:52:30, Peter Jordan wrote: >> >> i want to be informed per mail if someone installs, upgrades, >> downgrades, removes or purges a package via aptitude, apt-get or dpkg. I >> could of course parse the /var/lib/dpkg/status file, but that's not what >>

Debugging a kernel module

2009-06-07 Thread Anton Piatek
I am trying to debug a kernel module (thinkpad_acpi in this case). I know that because it is in the kernel I cannot just hook up a debugger or anything without UML or a second machine kind-of-thing which will probably take too much time for me at the moment. I tried recompiling the kernel with the

placing a watch on a package

2009-06-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Are any command line interface packages available in debian to place a watch on a specific package of interest? I'm thinking possibly something like watchupstream since that package wasn't specifically described as being graphical user interface but don't know for sure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:07:08PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Has been happening quite a bit lately: > > Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 > seconds ... that is 30 minutes. > > The dovecot IMAPd server is un

cANT login to kde...

2009-06-07 Thread raman narasimhan
i recently installed ktorrent. it'd lots of dependencies. Now when i login i'm shown a window that says --- | kstartupconfig4 does not exist or failed. the error code is

30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-07 Thread David Baron
Has been happening quite a bit lately: Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 seconds ... that is 30 minutes. The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it again works

Re: flash drive encryption between different OS's

2009-06-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:30:14AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 07:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > >> I'm looking for a solution to encrypt a flash drive formated in FAT32 so > >> it can easily be decrypted acro

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Laurentiu: On Friday 05 June 2009 19:57:26 Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: > Hello everyone, > > After a fresh (re)install of Lenny, I installed all cca. 800 previously > installed packages (from a list file, via "xargs aptitude install") and > then restored /etc from my rdiff-backup archive (contai

Re: lenny install through apt-proxy

2009-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mike: On Friday 05 June 2009 02:40:09 mike wrote: > Has anyone installed lenny, with a netinst cd, going to a server running > apt-proxy to get packages? Yes, but I think to remember that you can't completly do it "as is" since even on the expert mode you are not allowed to choose repos for

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-07 Thread JoeHill
ronggui wong wrote: > Dear all, > > Thanks for your response. I find that the output is mp2 if I use > ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3. Of course, I can use lame to further > convert the mp2 file to mp3. How can I achieve the same mp3 by one > command? > > I tried add the command mentioned by Sj

Re: HP 550 NA950EA

2009-06-07 Thread pch0317
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:19, pch0317 wrote: Hi I would like to buy a notebook HP 550 NA950EA. Can I install debian testing on it? If yes, all hardware (especially wireless card and internet camera) work correctly? google: "hp 550" http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/

Problems with OOo3.0.1 - not retaining formats when copying

2009-06-07 Thread AG
Hello list In OOo Writer, when I copy text (as well as tables) from one *.odt to a second *.odt or within the same *.odt, any formatting in the original gets lost in the pasted version. I am using OOo 3.0.1 OOO300m15 (Build:9379) on an up-to-date Debian Squeeze. Gnome and KDE libraries are

Re: changing to UTF-8

2009-06-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > I still see characters such as hyphens > > (-), boldface pipes, and single quotes rendered as â (circumflex-a) in my > > terminal windows. If I set LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, then the characters are > > shown correctly. > > Your locale setup is fine. The problem here is that your terminal is > i

Re: google cal issues, questions re: epiphany, iceweasel, iceowl

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:37:15AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > sudo aptitude install epiphany > (yes, I have sudo) and it got and installed > epiphany epiphany-data > But whereis epiphany shows > /usr/lib/epiphany > only > and the only epiphany I can find to run is > epiphany-game > (much like dig

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: > > > While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as > > alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. > > Not unless it's terribly misc

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:47:04PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > In these difficult times, if I could afford a typing teacher, they'd > better keep their mouth shut. > > :-) > > And in any case, if they were not able to teach me computer keyboarding, > as opposed to the ancient art of ruling the ty

Re: mailining list deactivate

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 02:36:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Though there's no reason that the list couldn't tag on another text part > with the unsubscribe footer (though the bigger issue is why doesn't the > guy's mail reader support List-Unsubscribe and List-Subscribe headers in > the first p

Re: customize emacs

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:49:20AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > Emacs is very huge software, it is not easy to customise!!! > I need customizing 2 things: Please post such questions to an appropriate list, say an emacs support list. -- Chris. == I contend that we are both athei

Re: Archive Signing Key

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:15:39PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi,I saw in debian site,Debian Archive Signing Key to be changed I have > install the lenny on my PC, have to change something if I installed a new > package, Have you got debian-archive-keyring (version: 2009.01.31) installe

Re: HP 550 NA950EA

2009-06-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:19, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > I would like to buy a notebook HP 550 NA950EA. > > Can I install debian testing on it? > If yes, all hardware (especially wireless card and internet camera) work > correctly? google: "hp 550" http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:18:59 -0400 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried > http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: > > > > > Weekday Skiers > > > > http://www.cnn.com";>CNN > > > and got a gray 300x5