Re: emacs: send mail with sendmail

On 2010-09-29 05:04 +0200, T o n g wrote: > Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the "send mail (with sendmail)" > menu, but get a "send mail (with gnus message)" menu instead. As you > might have guessed, it doesn't work for me. Did it work before on the same machine? > $ tail -1 /var/l

Re: How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:34:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS >> document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like >> to directly use a vi

Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. (Previous message) Folks It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail when you are the originator of the message. I will have my ISP look into it. If you have a x...@gmail.com address, you might not

unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

os : lenny 5.0.4 i have run gsynaptics from command line : $ gsynaptics and it has shown the following error : GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics i have edited the file of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added support for synap

Issue with fast-user-switcher-applet

Hi, everyone -- I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on squeeze. The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching! I left-click on it on the panel, pull down to the user I want to switch to, and -- nothing happens. It seems to be a problem with the applet itsel

Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

Package: gnome-core Version: 1:2.30+1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'm quite satisfied with the Clearlooks to be the default GNOME theme, and I don't want anything else. Please provide the default GNOME theme (whatever it is) in gnome-core, instead of putting it anywhere else. The current situation fo

emacs: send mail with sendmail

Hi, Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the "send mail (with sendmail)" menu, but get a "send mail (with gnus message)" menu instead. As you might have guessed, it doesn't work for me. $ tail -1 /var/log/mail.log Sep 28 23:00:07 coral sm-msp-queue[5145]: o8SATjAs007592: to=root, ctladd

Fwd: Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

This is a PS to my previous post, which is included below. On Windows 7, there is a list of 230 fonts, found in ??? \Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts but I don't know the entire directory tree--i.e., I don't know how to get to \Control Panel in the console so as to copy everythin

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

On 9/28/2010 6:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? Most surely, yes. I've got all MS TrueType fonts installed O:-) Evince lists as

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

Miles Fidelman wrote: > lrhorer wrote: >> If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my >> questions there. >> >> I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I >> have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the >> application. Right no

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

Michal wrote: > On 28/09/10 14:05, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> lrhorer wrote: >>> If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my >>> questions there. >>> >>> I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. >>> I have two essentially identical Linux servers w

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

Another way to do it would be to have the "invisible" sudo similar to NEEDSUDO="" if [ "`id -u`" != 0 ] ; then NEEDSUDO="sudo" fi echo abc | $NEEDSUDO tee /tmp/t Then, if the uid is not 0 (root), then it inserts the sudo line...If run by root, then NEEDSUDO is empty. --b On Tue, Sep 28, 2010

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

On 9/28/10, Angus Hedger wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:46:04 -0400 > Alex wrote: > >> Also, off-topic, but does anyone know if Xfce works properly in >> Squeeze? When I installed Lenny on my old ~2004 Celeron machine, >> Xfce's various modules didn't seem to be integrated like they should >> be

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:46:04 -0400 Alex wrote: > Also, off-topic, but does anyone know if Xfce works properly in > Squeeze? When I installed Lenny on my old ~2004 Celeron machine, > Xfce's various modules didn't seem to be integrated like they should > be - as in drag-and-dropping files between T

Printer paused, "/usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed"

Hi, I irregularly have a problem when trying to print to a network printer from my Debian Testing laptop. Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer results in the printer reporting (via localhost:631/pr

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

On 9/28/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > IMHO Ubuntu distribution is set somewhere in a middle between Debian > Testing and Debian Unstable. So, according to that, using Ubuntu you > have already using some kind of Debian Testing. Therefore, if you > switch to Debian Squeeze, I will gain even more sta

Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that > he wants to be able to run either as his non-superuser self or as root. Exactly. Thanks Stephen. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:14:24 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: >>> I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more >>> knowledge, why root would need sudo? >> >> invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root >> > I'm, not sure what you mean by "embedded" here, so my guess is that y

Re: How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:34:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS > document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like > to directly use a virtual PDF printer. Are there such possibilities > under free conditions?

How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

Hi, Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like to directly use a virtual PDF printer. Are there such possibilities under free conditions? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefior

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

Dne, 27. 09. 2010 12:25:51 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree] [Disagree] Keep 'em coming, J. It's been a while since I've come across somehin

Re: root can't sudo

>> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400 (EDT), >> Stephen Powell said: S> I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that S> he wants to be able to run either as his non-superuser self or as root. Easy. This preserves arguments including spaces: #!/bin/sh PA

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:33:47 -0400 Mike Viau wrote: > And now its available on squeeze under the flashplugin-nonfree > package: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/flashplugin-nonfree > > Remember to remove your previous flashplugin .so file if you couldn't > wait like me. > > Enjoy! > >

Re: allow_cancellation in /etc/e2fsck.conf doesn't work

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:29:02AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-28 09:14 +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote: > > > Today when filesystem check started I decided to try the feature I enabled > > once > > ago - I hit Ctrl-C expecting to terminate the check for this time. Yeah, it > > termi

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:28 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:09:15 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> You had several unrelated problems. >> >> (1) The initial RAM disk specifications were missing from the two >> boot menu items in /etc/lilo.conf that used th

Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:13:58 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01:10 +0200, Alexander Hintzer wrote: >>> Why should one use "sudo" in addition to being root and thus having >>> all rights? >> >> +1 :-) > > I don't s

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Alex wrote: > On 9/28/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Alex wrote: >>> On 9/27/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Goldshtein Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM Subject

RE: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:20:12 -0500 > On Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:15:27 +0100 wrote: I dont know, they are normally pretty quick, but if you cant wait, purge any other flash plugins, and download the .so and drop it into "/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins" and it should be picke

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:26:42 +0200, T o n g wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:58:05 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more knowledge, why root would need sudo? invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root I'm, not sure what yo

RE: nvidia-kernel-2.6-amd64 vs nvidia-kernel-dkms method

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:45:01 -0500 wrote: > >>> Has the nouveau code been stripped from the nvidia-kernel-2.6 packages >>> so that it only used the NVIDIA driver module? > > They were still in staging, last I looked. That means that you have to > enable staging drivers in the kernel source con

Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:13:58 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01:10 +0200, Alexander Hintzer wrote: >> Why should one use "sudo" in addition to being root and thus having all >> rights? > > +1 :-) I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that he want

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

On 28/09/10 14:05, Miles Fidelman wrote: lrhorer wrote: If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my questions there. I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the application. Right

Re: root can't sudo

I was looking at this last night. As a test, I pulled root out of sudoers, and it gives the same error as it would for a non-root user, "root is not in the sudoers. This will be reported." I can't figure out why it is giving you a permission denied. Are you running extended acls or anything like t

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 16:29, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > On 2010年09月27日 18:25, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > It would help to know what software "runs the website". Are we talking > > about Apache2? > > No. In fact I wanted to abstract the software running on there for a > reason: there is a http server (n

Re: lenny & blue ray

Mark Allums a écrit : On 9/28/2010 1:52 AM, a.kapetano...@hispeed.ch wrote: > I am looking to buy a Blue Ray writer, but I don't see any software on debian Lenny to burn such a media. > > I think that it probably exists, so, can please someone help me ? I think Nero has a Linux Player.

Re: lenny & blue ray

On 9/28/2010 4:35 AM, dulev wrote: On 9/28/2010 1:52 AM, a.kapetano...@hispeed.ch wrote: I am looking to buy a Blue Ray writer, but I don't see any software on debian Lenny to burn such a media. I think that it probably exists, so, can please someone help me ? I think Nero has a Linux Player

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

lrhorer wrote: If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my questions there. I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the application. Right now, I have the programs - a bash script a

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:18:46AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > >> > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I > >> > missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? > >> > >> Most surely, yes. I've got all MS Tru

Re: Asynchronous HTTP Cache Validations - Varnish or Squid for high volume websites?

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Yes ! > 600 req/s at Varnish and only 5-10 req/s at Apache behind ! > > Of course, you'll have to tune and adapt to your site, but really woth it, > especially with CMS like Drupal, which are very hungry on resources. > Thanks Allan & Gi

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I >> > missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? >> >> Most surely, yes. I've got all MS TrueType fonts installed O:-) >> >> Evince lists as used in that PDF: Ar

Re: root can't sudo

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01:10 +0200, Alexander Hintzer wrote: > Am 28.09.2010 02:16, schrieb Tom H: >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, T o n g wrote: >>> >>> What could be wrong? >> >> grep root /etc/sudoers >> >> > Why should one use "sudo" in addition to being root and thus having all > rights?

Re: lenny & blue ray

> On 9/28/2010 1:52 AM, a.kapetano...@hispeed.ch wrote: > > I am looking to buy a Blue Ray writer, but I don't see any software > > on debian Lenny to burn such a media. > > > > I think that it probably exists, so, can please someone help me ? > > > I think Nero has a Linux Player. I don't know

Re: lenny & blue ray

On 9/28/2010 1:52 AM, a.kapetano...@hispeed.ch wrote: I am looking to buy a Blue Ray writer, but I don't see any software on debian Lenny to burn such a media. I think that it probably exists, so, can please someone help me ? I think Nero has a Linux Player. I don't know if it support Blu-R

Re: allow_cancellation in /etc/e2fsck.conf doesn't work

On 2010-09-28 09:14 +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote: > Today when filesystem check started I decided to try the feature I enabled > once > ago - I hit Ctrl-C expecting to terminate the check for this time. Yeah, it > terminated, but filesystem seem to be remounted to read only (through there >

allow_cancellation in /etc/e2fsck.conf doesn't work

Hi! Today when filesystem check started I decided to try the feature I enabled once ago - I hit Ctrl-C expecting to terminate the check for this time. Yeah, it terminated, but filesystem seem to be remounted to read only (through there was no messages saying that), because when init scripts procee

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

On 9/28/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Alex wrote: >> On 9/27/10, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Mark Goldshtein >>> Date: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:49 PM >>> Subject: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with

Re: root can't sudo

Am 28.09.2010 02:16, schrieb Tom H: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, T o n g wrote: I had no problem invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root before, but not now in my new installation: r...@coral:~# echo abc | sudo tee /tmp/t sudo: can't open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied sudo: no va