Re: boot + lvm ?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:24:44PM +0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello, > > I encounter a problem using lvm and lilo. > On standart install, everythings works despite the boot partition is on a > logical volum. > > But when I try to make a custom kernel and then run a lilo, I get the > follo

Re: Server recommendations?

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: > I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or > quad core 64-bit CPU at >2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of > course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else > is not that impor

Re: curious USB hard drive problem

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:15:45PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: > I have a 2.5" Toshiba MK1032GAX hard drive in a USB powered > enclosure which doesn't seem to work properly with Debian. > > The curious thing is that I am fairly sure that the drive is > ok, because if I put it into an older (looks l

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:04:37PM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. > I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced > bigger and uglier fonts. > > How is it done? Install the kbd package and con

Re: Problem in running postgres

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:10:59AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currnetly running Debian Sid. When my system boots up, I get this error: > > psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server > running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket > "/va

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:34:02AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: > My question is slightly related to this post, so I'm posting it here. > > I'm currently running my Sid on a 40GB hdd which is running out of life, In > a few days I'll buy a new 80GB. Now what is the best way 2 dump my whole / > to my hd

Re: perl: how to suppress system()'s output or quiet down `tar`

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 01:07:28PM +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > From a perl script I call 'tar' with system(). But with every system() > call I get the output from tar to my console: "tar: Removing leading / > from absolute path names in the archive" and it messes up my perl > script's output.

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:50:19PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > My goal is ultimately the following. I want to be able to say > "I'm interested in getting a Super Device 4000" and then go > through whatever steps I need to verify that it will or won't > work before I even try it. I'd like to

Re: PCI-E Gb LAN controller support

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:05:14PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > My new ASUS motherboard has PCI-E Gb LAN controller on-board. I can't > get the Etch installer to recognize it. Should I be able to? Or is > it too new for Etch? ( I don't really need 1 Gb ethernet, but I would > like to be able to us

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > This is what root's recently been up to on my laptop: > > ? manually adjusting the system & hardware clock Look at chrony. If you don't want it to sync to an NTP server over the net, it still has the capablility to take your watch time

Re: Soundcard not detected after debootstrap!

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:07:43AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: > On 1/12/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Are these installed? > >alsa-base > >alsa-utils > >libesd-alsa0 > > > alsa-base and alsa-utils were installed earlier, and but i missed > libesd-alsa0, now when i installed that t

Re: tty migration

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:41:04PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 1/11/07, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:22:05PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >> >Note: I'm not trying to migrate a process from one machine to another

Re: drivers in linux

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:43:22PM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian? I > am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of > drivers and device manager and stuff from windows. > > > Is there such a device manag

Re: tty migration

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:22:05PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >Note: I'm not trying to migrate a process from one machine to another, > >just the program's stdin, stdout, stderr from a VC to a ssh. > > Perhaps you should use GNU Screen instead. It will change your life :P > I thought screen

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:15:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > That's one of the things I like about Linux. It encourages good > > security practices by not making it too difficult to do privileged > > tasks from within a user account. > > yes .. but what I'm really not too comfortable with is m

tty migration

Is there a way to reassign a running process from one tty to another? E.g. I start a job on the computer in the basement. Now I'm finished being down there and want to move upstairs. From upstairs I can ssh to the computer in the basement. I would like to move that running job to the shell runn

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:41:45AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > > >> > I can bu

Re: ntfs with encrypted files

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:35:25PM +0100, BAGI Akos wrote: > Hi List! > > I have the following problem: > - on xp the user encrypted 6 GB of data ( documents, photos etc.) > - the data was copied tho an USB-HDD ( the user didn't mention that the > data is encrypted) > - the xp was fully reinstall

Re: error using make-kpkg

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:51:13AM -0700, jdaues wrote: > Just curious: > > > >If you're using a stock debian kernel, why not use the pre-packaged > >nvidia drivers? > > > >Get X working with the nv driver and save that xorg.conf as > >xorg.conf.nv. > > > >Then install the nvidia drivers and run

Re: error using make-kpkg

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:11:09AM -0700, jdaues wrote: > I am following instructions for Debian NVIDIA proprietary display driver > installation through APT here: > http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Debian_NVIDIA_proprietary_display_driver_installation_through_APT > > I get to the point of this comman

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:20:28AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu January 11 2007 06:15, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Have you had a look at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ ? You might > > > find that interesting. > > > > I'll dl it and chec

Re: exim4

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:14:57AM +, Andrew Critchlow wrote: > Hello all, I'm busy finding out and setting up exim4 on debian. I just > had a few questions: > > Does exim4 not accept any client connections such as pop3/imap/web > interface or do you have to install 3rd part applications for

Re: About apt-get messages

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:02:42AM -0800, rangalo wrote: > Hi, > > I thanks for you suggestions. > > I tried the faq but while importing the multimedia key, I get following > message > - > [code] > > gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 07DC563D1F41B907 && > apt-key add /ro

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:39:57AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (10/01/07 23:13), Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I'm running Etch amd64 and this is my first box without a floppy drive. > > On previous boxes I've used Woody's boot floppies and some extra > >

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:22:00PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed January 10 2007 20:45, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Of

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:49:20PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:23:29AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> I think shorewall assumes that you don't really want to block /all/ > >> outbou

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Hi Roberto > > > > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser, > > or read a pdf with diagr

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, > > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso and I'm on dial-up in

light-weight rescue live CD?

I'm running Etch amd64 and this is my first box without a floppy drive. On previous boxes I've used Woody's boot floppies and some extra utilities disks I've made to cobble together a text-mode rescue setup on a ram disk. Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, etc.

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:57:54PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > >Of course, some things

Re: resources to resolve dependency problems

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:34:40PM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone point me to documentation that could help resolve a > dependency problem? > > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > libapache2-mod-php4: Depends: apache2.2-common but it is not installed > libxine1

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:34:46PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > jdaues writes: > > > So I installed resolvconf, and then reentered the values for the > > network. I rebooted and now resolv.conf is this: > > > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > > resolvco

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:23:29AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > >> > I use shorewall with default block everything all

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI. Or at least > >they cannot be done efficiently. > I've seen people before say t

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text > >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat > >different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing h

Re: Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:10:59AM -0800, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > Hello, > > I've just gotten this USB host-to-host device for my new-year, and I > wonder if it can be used with Linux. > > When connected, the device is recognised as a cdrom: > scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROMOTi EasyCopy-

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:23:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:08:58PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > For me, if something flat out requires a GUI I go and find a different > > way. My firewall box for example has no gui apps at all,

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. > > > > I'll stick with plain /bin/su. > > > > However, in a situation with multiple admins it is nice to ha

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:35:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> James Stevenson wrote: > >> > >> >> If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can p

Re: Cannot boot after sarge->etch upgrade

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:42:38PM +0300, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I know it sounds strange (I've already did this on four servers without > problems) but on the last I've got a problem - it does not boot after > upgrade. > This compu

Re: How to create a debian-Cd like a standard

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:01:51AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I create a debian Cd from a selected packages for my own purpose, so I > have 2 cd's, the first official one ( a bootable cd) and the second > built with dpkg-scanpackage. Instead of this a want a Cd like the > official s

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:35:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > James Stevenson wrote: > > >> If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only > >> against incoming messages, and is useless against spyware which > >> "phones home" or zombie-ware which spews email spam. > > > > No

Re: dial up connection

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:49:25PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that c

Re: dial up connection

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? > > You need to be in "dialout" to run programs such as Minicom that connect to > serial ports. The names "dip" and "dialout" are of historic signific

Re: sound in kernel 2.6.19.1

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:26:18AM +0200, jobs wrote: > Hello > > I have not sound using mplayer or any player but I have the beep sound. > > I was compiled kernel 2.6.19.1 almost with the same sound config as > with the kernel-2.6.15.1, but I have not sound using the new kernel. > I get two err

Re: dial up connection

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:11:01PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > Is there a graphical application for achieving a dial-up connection for > > > xfce? > > > > Try gpppon. It is essentially a GUI wra

Re: What's wrong with abiword in etch

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:33:00AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > Dear All: > > Although openoffice,org is great , I still need to use abiword because I > have a lot of existed documents edited by abiword. > After upgrade to etch , the abiword won't start anymore. > (I've tried to reinstall it , but that

Re: totem media player...

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:38:11AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I also tried firing up totem movie player to see if it would help. Excuse > my ignorance but is it the free alternative to real player? > > It can't seem to find the real player files on the web page. You can get > the web

Re: High CPU load with AIGLX when watching tv or movie

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:32:33PM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using testing with latest nvidia driver (graphics card is Ge6600 and CPU > is Barton 2500+) and I'm playing around with AIGLX and compiz. I observed > that the CPU usage is much higher when using compiz than without i

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:25:37PM +0100, rafiks wrote: > > [quote]I had a WD Cavier that died. I think the bearing overheated and the > speed wasn't constant as it squeeled. After I powered-off and it > cooled, the JFS was able to sort itself out and I saved the data.[/quote] > > Is it that bad

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:52:57PM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:20 PM -0600: > > > Most electronics are designed for an ambient (to them, not the case) > > temperature of 25 C max. > > It would be nice if we could as

Re: Problem with software-raid/lvm after reinstallation (2.6)

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:04:28AM +0100, "J?rgen P. Tjern?" wrote: > I recently reinstalled my (outdated) Debian Unstable to Debian Testing. > When this was completed, I attempted mounting the datapartitions from > my old installation, and I had a bit of problems. > > Basically, I have a softwa

Re: S.M.A.R.T. smart long selftest aborted by host

[snip] > Everything works fine for sdb: > > /usr/sbin/smartctl -t long -d ata /dev/sdb > > then check status with: > > /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb > > will show me the progress and eventually that it "completed without > error". > > When I do the same with /dev/sdb

S.M.A.R.T. smart long selftest aborted by host

Hello, I have two Seagate Baracuda 7200 80 GB drives. I've got smartmontools and have smartd set to monitor all attribues but I don't have it run self-checks automatically. The computer isn't on all the time so I can't schedule in advance when it will be on. I'd like to check the drives manuall

Re: xcdroast Invalid readcd version -unknown- found

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:44:40AM +0100, csanyipal wrote: > Hello! > > I upgraded from Sarge to Etch. :) > > Now I try to run Xcdroast (from an xterm), but get an error message: > > --> > ** (xcdroast:9724): WARNING **: Invalid readcd version -unknown- found. > Expecting at leas

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:04:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > The problem where I live is the ambient temperature. It is now 8AM and > the temperature is 21C 70F. That is the case temp also and the mobo temp > is 34C. The CPU temp is 40C. > > But houses here are either built out of corrugat

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:10:44PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 12:00:07PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Of course, you are more than welcome to use reiserfs, JFS, or XFS. > However, reiserfs, from my understanding, has its own set of issues and > JFS and XFS are

Re: Can I change motherboard without reinstal ling sarge

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:04:34AM +0800, a wrote: > > I change motherboard, sarge refuse to boot, it says BIOS check fails > I used debian before (woody, potato...) there's no such problem > Do I have to re-install sarge? If the old and new motherboards are identical there should be no problem.

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:26:42PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. > > Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I > > was able to get a similar MB, only slight

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:45:44PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > > > I really understand you, I started with Commodore 128, and first started > > bah! I spit on your shiny new commodore. *my* commodore was a vic-20

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:06:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: > > > >>>On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > >>>>I use de

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:59:50PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:15:46 -0600 > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > > > Another option would be to put the image on the web somewhere, and > > > post a link to it in the relevant query message. > > That's

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:42:45AM +, andy wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > >On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:58:53 + > >andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>??ukasz Andrzejak wrote: > >>>On 1/4/07, *Hugo Vanwoerkom* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> wrote: > > >Install the bigmem l

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > > > I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor > > > to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime >

Re: Graphic Card

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:30:34PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu January 4 2007 20:15, Danesh Daroui wrote: > > Well, I will not use this machine for game or something like that. > > In that case the nv driver will probably suffice. I've used it with success > before. I like to play death ma

Re: Graphic Card

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:15:26AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Well, I will not use this machine for game or something like that. I had > selected "nv" and as I said it worked but the resolution sucked. > Everything was too big and I could not change the resolution. I didn't > have such proble

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: > I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor > to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime > os is shutdown automatically. The cpu load is low. It run at 100% for > some time

Re: booting debian on powerpc

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 06:52:30PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > I'm hitting a deadend trying to install debian on an old powerpc > currently running os 7. The computer runs ok as a mac os box and has > networking installed so I've got internet and lan connectivity. > > Following what I've found

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:22:50PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >I run amd64 Etch on an AMD Athlon 3800+, one GB stick DDR2-800 ECC > >memory (I know, to really get the dual data rate I need two sticks, > >that's next year's upgrade). Sin

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:47:48PM +, andy wrote: > ?ukasz Andrzejak wrote: > >Hi, > > > >On 1/4/07, *Kumar Appaiah* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> wrote: > > > >A couple of my friends who were using Sarge, on machines with 128 MB > >of RAM and 256 MB of RAM have com

Re: unable to parse package file; aptitude effectively dead.

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:09:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:49:39AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > While I'm waiting for someone to *fix* bug 405506, does anyone have an > > > idea how to recover from it? Is a reinstall in order? > >

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:09:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:30, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > > > C

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. > It seems to me that much of this spam includes graphic images (presumably that contain ads but I don't open them). Could

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:02:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:50:40PM -0300, Alejandro wrote: > > People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and > > then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the > > linux ssh server.

need for something like samhain with dialup?

I'm seeking a quick word of advice: For simple dial-up intermittant internet access, running amd64 Etch, is there any need for something like samhain or is that just overkill? If there is, is samhain the best or is there something better? I don't have anything listening on outside interfaces,

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:01:30AM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop? > > Hi Doug, > > Well, a few reasons. It seems like the right t

Re: a bug with tomcat5.5 on debian

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:49:52AM +0200, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > I installed tomcat5.5 on my Debian box (using apt-get) > but when I tried starting tomcat by running > > /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start > > it would just print: > > Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5. > > but Tomcat won't

Re: new to debian but having installation problems

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:10:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 02:24, Mike Myers wrote: > > On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > m-a update > > > m-a prepare > > > m-a a-i nvidia > > > > > > modconf > > > -> select and load the nv

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:45:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:10:15PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:48:28AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >>>On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:33 -0500, Dougla

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:19:34AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > >>On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > >>>On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, R

Re: /tmp is looking full but du doesn't show why

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 12:05:15PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > I've noticed my /tmp directory filling up and thought I ought to check > out why using du > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /tmp > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/alpha-tmp >

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > >> > >> I would like to make my Etch box use less power

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 08:10:15PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:48:28AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:33 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > I'm using Etch amd64 and the CSS magic lib is not available yet so I > >

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:48:28AM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 19:33 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I'm using Etch amd64 and the CSS magic lib is not available yet so I > > can't watch DVDs. Soon I hope. > > debian-multimedia.org see

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard > time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is there a package I > can install or a web page I can read that is a gentle guide to reducing my > pow

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:37:02PM -0500, vineyard saker wrote: > Second - please bear with me, I am a DVD-issue newbie & ignoramous, > but I need some help. > [big snip] > I turns out that I needed either a Dual Layer DVD+R (DL) or a Double > Layer DVD-R(DL) which each have 8.5GB of space (This

Re: grub doesn't worj on my primary drive...

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:06:48PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I installed Etch on my old Gateway 2000 PC. The slave drive is 13GB in > size and Etch is parked on it. > > The primary drive is a smaller 1GB drive with Windows 98 on it. > > It didn't work properly because on booting I get

Re: acroread on amd64

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:23:59AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > does anyone succeeded to run properly acroread on Etch amd64 box ? > > I have follow the instruction in > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq > > but I get Pango critical messages: > in fact it seems that the wrong Pango libra

Re: Seeking CPU Recomendations

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:29:55PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 11:05:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Thomas H. George wrote: > >>>Until now my Athlon XP 1800+ has been adequate for everything I do. Now > >>>I want to capture digital vi

Re: insurance software

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:59:49PM +0100, Manuel Souto Pico wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for some free software for insurance business. A friend of > mine is going to migrate all his client's data to a new (commercial) > application, but before he does I'd like to make him consider other > (fre

Re: default firewall/IDS that comes with DEBIAN

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:23:55PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 06:52:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:25:44AM -0500, mutsuura wrote: > > > All > > > > > > Another newbiew question... > > > > > > While browsing my auth.log file, I notice 'ma

Re: moving /var

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:01:35PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Really, I asked two questions mixed up together. The other is how to > run makeinitrd, or anything else such as lilo or grub-install (or > whatever the command is) in a chroot, when chrooting cuts you off from > the /dev and /p

Re: Palm III xe

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:44:15AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (18/12/06 18:58), Rob Wright wrote: > > I'm new to Debian, so please forgive me if this has been beaten to death. > > Through Red Hat, Fedora, and OpenSuSE I've not been able to get my old > > Palm IIIxe to connect and ultimately

Re: How do I upgrade my stock kernel via aptitude?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:26:44PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am running a 2.4.27 kernel that came with my sarge system, no > fancy custom stuff. I recently got a Debian Security update > telling me about these vulnerabilities in the 2.4 kernel, and so > naturally I'd like

Re: New hardware in Etch

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:24:19PM +0100, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a system with 6 GB RAM, two AMD Opteron > CPUs and an S-ATA HD. Will these components run under > a default Debian Sarge. If so, where can I check that > both CPUs are running? Will /proc/cpuinfo provide > appropr

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:51:45PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:42:21PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > If there's anyone who > (a) want sound, and > (b) doesn't often have difficulties with sound, > I'd like to know about it. > > Sound seems to be one of t

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:42:21PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > >This is all goblygook to me; my current box has a SB16 > > > >...Note that I don't run gnome. I have been using icewm since my current > >box has a 486. > > Coming here is a good place to start when having issues getting s

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:24:30AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:07:17AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > > > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >Yester

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:30:43PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > >[...] > >Yesterday I downloaded xorg. Today I downloaded some apps (I'm on very > >slow dialup at 1.5-2.5 KB/s) and alsa. Tomorrow I'll get something that > >will make a sou

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:37:54AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > Before I poked around the usual way I wanted to make sure there was no > > new snazzy sound auto setup. It seems there isn't. > > There isn't... but you shouldn'

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