Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-20 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
09/17/2009 07:48 PM, Andrei Popescu: Agreed. Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and various packages install cron jobs implicitly. However, isn't there a local-only mailer that respects /etc/aliases and is lighter-weight than exim4? I'm interested as well. What about

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,17.Sep.09, 19:48:06, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,17.Sep.09, 08:14:30, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Agreed. Cron and anacron both need a mailer to inform you of errors and > > various packages install cron jobs implicitly. > > > > However, isn't there a local-only mailer that r

Re: How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished?

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,21.Sep.09, 11:05:09, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished? > > What do I need to put into > /etc/init.d/rc.local's > INIT INFO section? > > Can I put it there or must I put it into /etc/init.d/xdm's? > > I read insserv(8) but it is m

Re: How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished?

2009-09-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Dan Jacobson] > How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished? Well, there are several ways to do this, but I will limit myself to one of them. I assume you start with these headers, which are the current ones in unstable: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: xdm # Require

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 22:34:23, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip grub2 troubles] As far as I understand you "fixed" your problem by going back to grub1. > I also don't see any reference in it to the Ubuntu which I have on > hda3. Debian testing is on hda2. For the archives, to boot other OSes on your

How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished?

2009-09-20 Thread jidanni
How do I ensure xdm only starts after /etc/rc.local is finished? What do I need to put into /etc/init.d/rc.local's INIT INFO section? Can I put it there or must I put it into /etc/init.d/xdm's? I read insserv(8) but it is mishmosh to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: passwd: Permission denied ?

2009-09-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 09:34:12AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to change a local user passwd as root and I get this error > message ... which seems a bit unreal to me ... > > > passwd: Permission denied > passwd: password unchanged > > > The machine is running Lenny 64 bits

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-20 Thread Frank
aries...@clearmail.com.au wrote: >> Frank videotron.ca> writes: >> >>> I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the >>> solutions. >>> >>> During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted >>> to >>> update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked t

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-20 Thread ariestao
> Frank videotron.ca> writes: > >> >> I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the >> solutions. >> >> During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted >> to >> update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked the chain >> option. The >> boot went w

Grub update problems

2009-09-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the solutions. During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted to update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked the chain option. The boot went well, so I ran the update-from-grub-legacy script. Now I am

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > In the mixer (both alsa and xfce) I have only one  "Headphones" volume >> control. Probably irrelevant, I also have "IEC958" switches and >> "IEC958 Playback Source" options; no idea what these are for. IEC958 is optical/digital in/out as far as i know, you probably don't

Re: zhone debian sid

2009-09-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:48 AM, A.A. wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed debian sid and zhone on my freerunner gta02. > When I run zhone it result: > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "/usr/bin/zhone", line 74, in ? >     import cairo > ImportError: No module named cairo > > what's the

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> nothing is wrong - you may have many input/outputs. you have to figure >> out >> which controls are for the headphones. Unfortunately it depends on your >> card. Mostprobably you have to assign the correct output to your >> applicati

Re: Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-20 Thread Frank
Frank videotron.ca> writes: > > I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the solutions. > > During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted to > update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked the chain option. The > boot went well, so I ran th

Grub 1.5 error after update

2009-09-20 Thread Frank
I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the solutions. During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted to update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked the chain option. The boot went well, so I ran the update-from-grub-legacy script. Now I am

Re: netstat output

2009-09-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: > netstat output: > > server:~# netstat  -tulp > Active Internet connections (only servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address > State       PID/Program name > tcp        0      0 *:mysql                 *:* > LISTEN

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/20/09, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > nothing is wrong - you may have many input/outputs. you have to figure out > which controls are for the headphones. Unfortunately it depends on your > card. Mostprobably you have to assign the correct output to your > application. > > In alsamixer I see many

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

2009-09-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Is the script /etc/init.d/alsa-utils run on reboot? As far as I can tell > you should see a "Setting up ALSA" message at boot. > I don't know why the messages are garbled, but this is what I get ALSA-related in /var/log/boot: Sun Sep 20 22:42:23 2009: ^[[74G[ o

Re: recent xterm/terminal(?) change (control-C) shows ^C?

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Wayne Topa wrote: >>> >> >> Thanks for the tip! This ^C really bothered me as I copy-paste from >> terminals very often! >> The question is, how do you make this change permanent? I manned stty >> and nothing is mentioned, I straced it and could not find where it makes >> its changes, so how do

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
T o n g wrote: > > Thanks for your feedback, Emanoil. Could you elaborate more? unison > "looks" promising to me, and I've just learned that there are no ocaml > runtime dependency for it on i386, amd64. So usability is the most > important issue to me now. Anyone has positive experience with uni

Re: no sound in headphones

2009-09-20 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/17/09, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> an issue that I also encountered in 2.6.26. Although I have sound in >> hte computer speaker, I have none in the headphones. When I plug the >> headphones (or external speakers), the computer speakers are not >> muted, and there is

Re: error en debian

2009-09-20 Thread Victor Padro
2009/9/19 jonathan godoy : > hola necesito ayda urgente.. acabo de instalar debiaan 5 pero  tambien tenia > instalado ubuntu 9.4 con ext4 y no me aparece en el grub!! como hago para > que salga en la lista? ahora de plano no me agrado debian.. ni la tarjeta > inalambrica me reconocio.. adenas aun c

Re: error en debian

2009-09-20 Thread Pedro Insua
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 05:03:17PM +, jonathan godoy wrote: > > hola necesito ayda urgente.. acabo de instalar debiaan 5 pero > tambien tenia instalado ubuntu 9.4 con ext4 y no me aparece en el > grub!! como hago para que salga en la lista? ahora de plano no me > agrado debian.. ni la tarjeta

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 19:40:54, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Do 'alsactl store' and 'alsactl restore' work for root? Do you have the > > package alsa-utils installed? > > > Yes, both work as expected: storing and restoring the correct levels. > Also, alsa-utils 1.0.20

Re: Support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus

2009-09-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-20 20:29 +0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> Is there support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus 1TB external drive in >> Debian 5.0 release? If not, are there 1TB external drives that are >> supported and is there a plan to support the Maxtor drive in some future >> releases? >> > Unle

Re: Support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. George E. Moore wrote: > List, > > Is there support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus 1TB external drive in > Debian 5.0 release? If not, are there 1TB external drives that are I can't see the ums-onetouch module within the 2.6.26 kernel (current 5.0

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-20 Thread Simon Thum
Justin Piszcz wrote: > Solution for now as I need a working desktop: > > 1. Recover OS from backup before upgrade: > 2. Pin kde* and xorg* so they are not upgraded anymore. > > In the future/if someone from xorg can respond-- is there a fix/way to > make the semantics such that 'xset m 20/5 1' i

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

2009-09-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/20/09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Do 'alsactl store' and 'alsactl restore' work for root? Do you have the > package alsa-utils installed? > Yes, both work as expected: storing and restoring the correct levels. Also, alsa-utils 1.0.20-3 is installed. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus

2009-09-20 Thread Victor Padro
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Dr. George E. Moore wrote: > List, > > Is there support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus 1TB external drive in > Debian 5.0 release? If not, are there 1TB external drives that are > supported and is there a plan to support the Maxtor drive in some future > releases?

Re: Support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus

2009-09-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dr. George E. Moore wrote: > List, > > Is there support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus 1TB external drive in > Debian 5.0 release? If not, are there 1TB external drives that are > supported and is there a plan to support the Maxtor drive in some future > releases? > Unless this drive behaves in s

Support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus

2009-09-20 Thread Dr. George E. Moore
List, Is there support for the Maxtor Onetouch4 Plus 1TB external drive in Debian 5.0 release? If not, are there 1TB external drives that are supported and is there a plan to support the Maxtor drive in some future releases? gmoore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d etc, on upgrade

2009-09-20 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:23:07AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > Would anyone know how to keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d > etc, on upgrade, thats after I ran update.rcd package remove. > > Im using heartbeat with LVS (ldirector). For my setup, a while ago, > I did an update.rcd

Re: OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Chris
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:29:53 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,20.Sep.09, 18:27:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > 3. Your message is offtopic on debian-user, the list in my .sig > > would have been more appropiate (Reply-To set accordingly). > > ...now it is. > > Regards, > Andrei I apologiz

Re: apt source compilation error

2009-09-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-09-20 18:40 +0200, Peng Yu wrote: > I downloaded apt_0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1.tar.gz and decompress it. Then I > run ./configure and make. Out of curiosity, why are you doing that? Apparently you don't use etch, because... > Compiling contrib/mmap.cc to > /home/pengy/download/linux/debian/etc

apt source compilation error

2009-09-20 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, I downloaded apt_0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1.tar.gz and decompress it. Then I run ./configure and make. But I get the following error. Could somebody let me know how to fix the problem? Regards, Peng Compiling contrib/mmap.cc to /home/pengy/download/linux/debian/etch/admin/apt-0.6.46.4/obj/apt-pkg/mm

Re: OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Lee Winter
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Chris wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:04:40 +1200 > sam blackmore wrote: > >> Yup this is a mail bomb - sign on with Greenpeace to help stop >> climate change. You'll win a planet! ... > > You can't stop cyclical stages (please, no more global warming or > clim

Re: [Xorg Mouse Acceleration is Broken in new Xorg 7.4?] Re: Mouse/keyboard no longer work after apt-get dist-upgrade in testing?

2009-09-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Solution for now as I need

Re: OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 18:27:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 3. Your message is offtopic on debian-user, the list in my .sig would > have been more appropiate (Reply-To set accordingly). ...now it is. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.

Re: OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 09:24:06, Chris wrote: [snip everything] 1. Please do not respond to spam 2. If you do feel an uncontrollable urge to talk about a spam message at least do not quote it (not even partially) 3. Your message is offtopic on debian-user, the list in my .sig would have been more ap

Re: alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 12:05:17, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > Even more sound trouble. On my system ALSA seems unable to (re-)store > the audio levels for "Master". All other levels and switches are > stored and restored as expected, but on start-up "Master" is always > muted and at 0%. Do 'alsac

Re: Advices regarding hdparm multcount option

2009-09-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.07.09 14:31, Dominique Dumont wrote: > My Gygabyte motherboard (SB700 with AMD4400+) has poor SATA > performance. Any disk I/O leads to high system CPU percentage. > And the AHCI interrupt is about 1000/s even for low disk usage. > > Using hdparm, I've found that all my sata disks have mult

OT: Re: There is no planet B

2009-09-20 Thread Chris
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:04:40 +1200 sam blackmore wrote: > Yup this is a mail bomb - sign on with Greenpeace to help stop > climate change. You'll win a planet! > I've just Signed On with thousands of other Kiwis calling for urgent > action on climate change and I think you should too! > > Please

using skype with a bluetooth headset

2009-09-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm to get skype working with my bluetooth headset I managed to get it paired using blueman-applet and even get audio on it from mplayer using: player -ao alsa:device=bluetooth ~/Music/When\ I\ Grow\ Up.flac I setup a .asoundrc file containing: pcm.bluetooth { type plug slave {

Re: Sharing ppp connection with wlan interface

2009-09-20 Thread Vinícius Massuchetto
Oh Sorry... I forgot to mention an important info. Here's my dnsmasq.conf file: domain-needed bogus-priv interface=wlan0 dhcp-range=192.168.0.1,192.169.0.100,12h Thanks again. -- Vinícius André Massuchetto http://vinicius.soylocoporti.org.br Vinícius Massuchetto escreveu: Dear all. I've been

Sharing ppp connection with wlan interface

2009-09-20 Thread Vinícius Massuchetto
Dear all. I've been trying to serve a ppp0 internet connection through a wireless network. I made a small script to be ran when i want to do that: ifdown wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 essid "VinaNET" mode Ad-Hoc ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.254 echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward /etc/init.d/dnsmasq st

Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-20 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:37:51 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Jack Schneider [2009.09.20.0044 > +0200]: > > I get to the "Give root password for maintenance etc." place and > > when I do it will not allow me to find any logs. I can run dmesg > > which looks normal. Anything that that

Request for mutual web link

2009-09-20 Thread invitel...@crosslink-builder.com
Dear debian-user I would like to build a reciprocal website link between www.acopart.org and www.archivum.info. I believe that the content in both websites would be of great interest to visitors and this could result in increased web traffic and improvement in google page rankings for both busi

EIP: [] do_exit+0x40c/

2009-09-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
I started getting this error recently, and I'm not sure why. I found this reference to a kernel error, but it says unstable/testing, and it is rather OLD..: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/2004-December/011652.html and these messages were in a terminal window I had up: pa

alsa does not (re-)store audio levels

2009-09-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all Even more sound trouble. On my system ALSA seems unable to (re-)store the audio levels for "Master". All other levels and switches are stored and restored as expected, but on start-up "Master" is always muted and at 0%. I tried to work around and set Xfce to run "aumix -v60" in terminal a

[Fwd: Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem?]

2009-09-20 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem? Resent-Date:Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:58:38 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:57:58 -0400 From: Thomas H. George To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Refer

Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem?

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: >> soundcard. From you comment below I understand that the sound card is using >> the input from all these sources simaltaneously and so the ones not >> needed must be muted. The more complex soundcards may have an internal swi

[Fwd: Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem?]

2009-09-20 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: Alsa Problem or Audacity Problem? Resent-Date:Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:58:38 + (UTC) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:57:58 -0400 From: Thomas H. George To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Refer

Re: keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d etc, on upgrade

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 10:23:07, Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > Would anyone know how to keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d > etc, on upgrade, thats after I ran update.rcd package remove. > > Im using heartbeat with LVS (ldirector). For my setup, a while ago, > I did an update.rcd ldirector rem

keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d etc, on upgrade

2009-09-20 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya Would anyone know how to keep a packages daemon from adding to rc.d etc, on upgrade, thats after I ran update.rcd package remove. Im using heartbeat with LVS (ldirector). For my setup, a while ago, I did an update.rcd ldirector remove, but when a release from debian stable was released,

Re: Raid disk delimma

2009-09-20 Thread thveillon.debian
Jack Schneider wrote: > Hi, All > > Somewhere (about 9/15) in my enthusiasm for Debian, Testing up2date > & kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64,--updating I said (y) where I should have said > (q). My system will not boot correctly. It halts with: fsck died with > exit status 8 > > I have 4 disks, 2 in raid