Debian Installer + LVM

2004-07-01 Thread Michael Bellears
Is there any trick to using LVM with the Debian Installer? I partition the HD -> Config the logical Vol. Manager -> Configure Volume Group -> Create Vol. Group. And I get: No physical volumes (i.e. partitions) were found in your system... I am obviously doing something incorrectly - So any assi

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-07-01 Thread MillTek
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, MillTek wrote: Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system and cpu temps and fan speeds? I've read a few but so far have only been able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with Athlon 2500. ins

Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

2004-07-01 Thread David Baron
I actually got a mach64.ko to compile and load. Congratulations. Unfortunately, the xfree and mesa versions on that CVS would no compile. I do have mesa-dri-mach64 and dri-trunk stuff from Sid. So I load at start up agpgart, ati-agp and the mach64 modules. Agpgart and mach64 are acknowledged in

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:22, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Does this exist? > >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > >> Am I the only one going crazy j

Re: automounting

2004-07-01 Thread Silvan
> cdrom is /dev/hdd and is what i want to automount at this point along with > /dev/fd0. Where would /media have come from? From discover, I think. I have it too, and at some point I answered "yes" to a question to the effect of "do you want discover to manage your CD-ROM symlinks for you auto

Re: Temp and fan speed monitoring in GKrellM

2004-07-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, MillTek wrote: > >>Can anyone recommend a good tutorial in using GKrellM to monitor system > >>and cpu temps and fan speeds? I've read a few but so far have only been > >> > >>able to get CPU temp sdisplayed. My board is an Abit NF7-M with Athlon > >>2500. install l

Re: Debian Installer + LVM

2004-07-01 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 05:06:39PM +1000, Michael Bellears wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:06:39 +1000 > From: Michael Bellears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Debian Installer + LVM > > Is there any trick to using LVM with the Debian Installer? > > I partition t

RE: Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

2004-07-01 Thread David Baron
< I actually got a mach64.ko to compile and load. Congratulations. Unfortunately, the xfree and mesa versions on that CVS would no compile. I do have mesa-dri-mach64 and dri-trunk stuff from Sid. So I load at start up agpgart, ati-agp and the mach64 modules. Agpgart and mach64 are acknowled

Re: Moving from RedHat/KDE to Debian/KDE

2004-07-01 Thread James Sinnamon
Dear Mark and everyone else, On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 05:09 pm, you wrote: > This may be too late, but I think you need to use > 'dexconf' to update XF86Config-4. ... that did it! A snapshot can be found at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/debian/sarge-1280x1024-kde-2.png ... which is a vast imp

Recommended external USB DVD+RW drives?

2004-07-01 Thread Luke Reeves
I'm in the market for an external, USB dual-layer DVD recorder. But I'm not sure which ones are compatible with Linux and the dvdrwtools. The one I'm examining is the Sony DRX-700UL, a slick little package. Can anyone recommend me similar external DVD writers? Or any information about the S

Re: Global Env Variables

2004-07-01 Thread John Patterson
> > So the earliest place I guess you could get it in would be to stick the > "export VARNAME=VALUE" lines at the begining of /etc/rc.d/rc > That would be fairly global. > > -Ben. > I added these lines to the begining of /etc/init.d/rc: export LANG=en_GB export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-su

[plug] Philippine Open Source Conference 2004

2004-07-01 Thread Zak B. Elep
Hello Debian Developers and Users, Imperium and Media G8way are sponsoring the Philippine Open Source Conference 2004 on August 17, 18, and 19 at EDSA Shangri-la, Manila, Philippines. Some of you guys might be interested in participating, as volunteer speakers, participants or whatnot. Visit the

Mozilla Print Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity with mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very often, but I did once last week and again last night and the problem existed on both occassions. I print a page. It looks good in the

Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

2004-07-01 Thread deb_milist
hi all After installing squid, i went to some experiments such as determining which host to allow and deny. One of those is allowing all clients machine to update their winblows without any authentication by adding .microsoft.com to one rule that can be connected without authentication from

FYI: Mouse cursor problem due to wrong VideoRam value

2004-07-01 Thread James Sinnamon
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:34 pm, James Sinnamon wrote: > Dear Mark and everyone else, > However ... > > Cursor now gets blocked out with ugly black stripes > -- > > One problem, which is more than a little irritating, is that a >

mozilla-mplayer

2004-07-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, One of the hardest things to give up when I stopped using windows, was the various movie trailer sites. I am a complete cinema junkie. I love them. I finally found mplayer-mozilla at one of the sites listed at www.apt-get.org and installed it. Now I get

RE: Mach64 DRI -- almost there, but ...

2004-07-01 Thread David Baron
One other problem. One an Xsession has restarted or even simply logged in and out, dri comes up disabled. The Glx libary returns that the system cannot do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

install: kdelibs3 - error in unpacking

2004-07-01 Thread Alexandr Rosen
Hi, I am new to linux and debian and kde, and I have a problem with installing the system - the message kdelibs3 - error in unpacking occured during install, and "dpkg --configure kdm" says that errors were encountered while processing. Is there any easy solution? Thanks a lot for any hin

postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread paunoga
Hi, I have just successfully installed posfix as my mail server. Now I can send e-mails with both commands "mail" and "sendmail" but my problem is that the mail arriving has a "wrong name of sender" and a wrong "from" adress. It's just like this: from: wrong_name1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> These n

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:22:41 +0200, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Does this exist? > >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > >> Am

postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Pau Novella
Hi, I have just installed successfully posfix as my mail server. Now I can send e-mails with both commands "mail" and "sendmail" but my problem is that the mail arriving has a "wrong name of sender" and a wrong "from" adress. It's just like this: from: name1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> These names an

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Brad Sims([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > no Xprint servers found... > > xprint starts with no errors... I did a apt-get purge and reinstall > of xprt and friends, and mozilla and friends. > > echo $XPSERVERLIST returns blank > and here is my output from xprint restart: > [EMAIL PR

Re: Mozilla Print Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity with > mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very > often, but I did once last week and again last night and the > problem exi

Re: mozilla-mplayer

2004-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Keith O'Connell wrote: > [sound in mplayer] Hi Keith, look at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - you can select between various sound plugins there. HTH, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- Key ID 0x728d9bd0 - public key available at wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Mozilla Print Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
>> I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity >> with mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very >> often, but I did once last week and again last night and the >> problem existed on both occassions. >> >> I print a page. It looks good in the p

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not try a tabbed window manager? It seems to me that grouping Because it doesn't answer the question. :) Although had he been using a proper window manager such as Fvwm, he could have used the FvwmTabs module[1] to swallow rxvt's, xterms, etc. --

Re: mozilla-mplayer

2004-07-01 Thread Keith O'Connell
> "WL" == Wolfgang Lonien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WL> look at /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf - you can select between WL> various sound plugins there. That was it change ao=alsa1x to ao=oss and everything works great! Thank you Keith -- _ Ke

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd love to swap gnome-terminal for xterm, but I can't live without > tabs... I've started using screen recently. It's way cool. It doesn't have tabs, but the functionality provided by tabs is there: you can have multiple shells running in the same

Re: Bandwidth monitor perip

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Mulcahy
You may also wish to investigate iperf (measures available bandwidth - if you're willing to do some scripting to collate the results) or bandwidthd (gives a very simple page listing bandwidth used by each client, not in debian yet afaik but possibly on the way - http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/)

Re: mozilla-mplayer

2004-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
Keith O'Connell wrote: > Thank you uw = you're welcome Cheers, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- Key ID 0x728d9bd0 - public key available at wwwkeys.de.pgp.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How hard would this be?(Learning LaTex)

2004-07-01 Thread Johan Kullstam
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:21:41 -0500, cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Someone told me today at lunch that what with my "wierd obsession", as > > he called it, to perhaps go without a gui(X), I should try "that latex > > thingie". My buddy is a rea

Python problem with Fonts

2004-07-01 Thread David Goodenough
I am trying to run a Python program which uses ReportLab, and it is having some problems with fonts. I am not a Python programmer, so this may be a very basic problem. I am running Python 2.3 on Unstable. The end of the traceback I get is:- File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/reportlab/pdf

Amazingly slow bootup on HP laptop and other problems

2004-07-01 Thread Sudarshana Koushik
Hi ppl, So here goesI installed debian/unstable on HPnx9110 and almost everything works fine, except 1. The first line after lilo ('Loading Linux..') takes ages. The dots appear one after the other so slowly, it painful to watch it. The normal bo

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:43:54PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: | > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at | > | a time, gets dozens of "une

Re: [OT] yahoo protocol switching

2004-07-01 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 30 Jun 2004 04:05:40PM -0500, Kirk Strauser insinuated: > On Wednesday 2004-06-30 03:40 pm, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > so i took matters into my own hands. i'm having a small group of > > us (10-15) download gaim and other clients, and sign up at > > gabfest.net (thanks a lot, jamin!), f

Re: Mozilla Print Problem

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Keith O'Connell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > >> I am using testing at the present, and I have an oddity > >> with mozilla. I don't have occassion to print from mozilla very > >> often, but I did once last week and again last night and the > >> problem existed on

Re: Re: apt-get install hangs while unpacking

2004-07-01 Thread Salman Haq
Hi, I'm experiencing similar problems when trying to install libgtk2.0-dev from our local mirror. Doing apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev lists all the dependencies it is going to install and proceeds to download and unpack libexpat1-dev. After this package is installed, the whole process just slows d

Re: automounting

2004-07-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I sort of have automounting working. I'm using it with kernel 2.6.7, compiled in as a module and with the autofs package installed. However, even though during my bootup messages I get starting automounter: /var/autofs/misc and even though there's a probe line for it in /etc/modutils/autofs,

Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-07-01 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, I'm assuming there's something in the root filesystem (which fortunately by the way is only 100mb though of course i'm still concerned since it is the root file system) that makes mount and /etc/mtab consider it an unknown type, yet it does appear from the boot messages that it is mountin

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 10:55AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > $ apt-cache policy restartd > restartd: > Installed: 0.1.a-3 > Candidate: 0.1.a-3 > Version Table: > *** 0.1.a-3 0 > 990 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages > 80 http://http.us.debian.org sid/main Pack

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 11:20PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:43:54 -0500 > Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > at http://backports.org, i search for "restartd" and get > > > > Sorry, no packages found. > > At the risk of starting a flamewar about whether djb's tools > ar

Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

2004-07-01 Thread Lucas Albers
[stuff about squid not working for windows update deleted.] I dont' acl limit what users can connect to. Only users on the local domain can use the proxy cache. I use a debian squid proxy for upwards of 3000 clients. Works perfectly, saves tons of bandwidth, and speeds everything up. attached is

init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread MillTek
HI, There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc. Where do you do this? Is there a specific script that is always accessed and if so which one? Appreciate the help Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 08:58AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > >Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: > >>questions: > >>1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active > >> daemons and restart them when necessary? maybe some > >>

Creating own installer images

2004-07-01 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but it's only available as a module, so no luck with just building it statically in

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:27PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside > > gnome-terminal. > > For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with > gnome-terminal at 87x98 chars) it is really noticeab

Re: Lynx and xhtml

2004-07-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 the mental interface of Thomas Dickey told: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:51:17PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 the mental interface of > > Thomas Dickey told: > > > > > Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >> I'll look into that

tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:34PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I've started using screen recently. It's way cool. same here. kahuna powerful for us command-line folks. > The best part about screen is that you can set it up such that > each xterm is just a new window showing the existing list of > she

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart > bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc. > Where do you do this? Is there a specific script that is always > accessed and if so which one? I answer

Re: Creating own installer images

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:41PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have > machines here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and > need to install Woody on them. The driver for this controller > was opensourced, but it's only available as a modu

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/bash > /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here: invoke-rc.d

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. There's a _plethora_ of information about this already -- search the net. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Wee

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try the same tests with vim at a console . > try the same tests with vim in rxvt or xterm. rxvt and xterm use more or less the same -xrm's and so the same techniques. > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > try the same tests with mc

Re: Creating own installer images

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to create special Debian installer images, as we have machines > here with Promise PDC20378 S-ATA RAID controllers and need to install > Woody on them. The driver for this controller was opensourced, but > it's only available

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 12:24 schrieb Pau Novella: > Now I had found out that I can modify the name and adress using differents > options in the MUA, but I would like to have the corrects ones fixed in the > postfix configuration. > > Can anybody help me? Use sender_canonical_maps. Put the mapping

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Have you looked at "split mode" ? In my .screenrc I have this: bind b eval "split" "resize -13" "select 19" "redisplay" "focus" "select 0" "redisplay" "redisplay" That creates a new window at the top of my screen and puts screen 19 in it then puts screen 0 in the bottom. You can do a "ctrl

Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-07-01 Thread Philipp Weis
On 30 Jun 2004, Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system seems to be functioning fine; I recently changed it to ext3. > When I look at dmesg my root system (/dev/hda3) is indicated as mounted > and an ext3 filesystem with internal journal. However, when I run "mount", > while my othe

Re: postfix configuration

2004-07-01 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg: > This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails > coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To make "mail" use your correct real name, make sure to have it set in your /etc/passwd. Each user can change this information hi

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread MillTek
Thomas Adam wrote: --- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI, There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc. Where do you do this? Is there a specific script that is always accessed and if so which on

Cups stops accepting print jobs

2004-07-01 Thread Jacob S.
I just upgraded from stable to testing yesterday and must say it went a lot smoother than I expected. Several dependency problems, packages, held back etc., but that's to be expected for a large upgrade. What I didn't expect though, was when I tried printing this morning and it didn't work. Everyt

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread MillTek
Thomas Adam wrote: --- MillTek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HI, There are several things I'd like to do at boot time, includingstart bootlogd and syslog. I've been told to set up an 'init script' etc. Where do you do this? Is there a specific script that is always accessed and if so which on

gimp dependency problems in Sid

2004-07-01 Thread H. S.
On Sid, I am having this problem with gimp since a couple of days when I did the usual upgrade. Gimp was removed and not I cannot install it. It says it needs gimp-data. I uninstalled gimp-data, and then tried to install gimp(2.0.2-2) and gimp-data(2.0.2-3) (using deslect), and it still gives s

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 10:38:51PM -0500: > On Wed, Jun 30 at 03:43PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Will Trillich said on Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500: > > > questions: > > > 1) what's the best way (e.g. debian way) to monitor active > > > daemons and restart th

rechercher driver creative vibra 16

2004-07-01 Thread SERAPHINE Hugues
 bonjour je recherche le  driver de la carte son creative vibra 16 . Si jamais vous possèder ce driver par pitié veuillez  svp mindiquer un moye pour le télécharger .Merçi je vous en serais très reconnaissance .

Re: Straw 0.23 LookupError

2004-07-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 18:48:06 -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > This is not a new problem in Debian/unstable, It is reported as http://bugs.debian.org/256700 . > Are there any workarounds? Yes. Start it through "env LC_ALL=C straw". HTH, Ray -- [...] computer source code, though unintelligible to

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 05:59PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > #!/bin/bash > > /etc/init.d/some-daemon-here restart > > Better to use 'invoke-rc.d' here: > > invoke-rc.d

Re: Amazingly slow bootup on HP laptop and other problems

2004-07-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Sudarshana Koushik wrote: Hi ppl, So here goesI installed debian/unstable on HPnx9110 and almost everything works fine, except 1. The first line after lilo ('Loading Linux..') takes ages. The dots appear one after the other so slowly, it painful

kwifimanger

2004-07-01 Thread Greg Sidelinger
I was just wondering if there is anything special that one needs to do in order to make the kwifimanger work with testing. I have no problem getting my wifi connections to come up with /etc/networking/interfaces an and using a setup like. #auto eth2 iface eth2 inet dhcp wireless_essid wifinetw

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:34:06PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > | problem: xinetd, after working just fine and dandy for weeks at > | a time, gets dozens of "unexpected signal" (source unknown) > | and gives up the ghost. > |

Re: Gnome fonts and themes

2004-07-01 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Smith, Paul [BL60:SU40:EXCH]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sp> I have this same problem (mozilla-firefox fonts are very small) after sp> upgrading to Gnome 2.6. sp> I checked and I do have the gnome-settings-daemon running, so that's not sp> what I'm missing. I seemed to have solved th

restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 02:46PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30 at 06:25PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > restartd. > > aha. not available for woody, but it's available for sarge... > [hmm -- must look into the /etc/init.d/restartd script to make > sure it's properly launched ther

Re: postfix configuration: SOLVED

2004-07-01 Thread paunoga
On Thursday 01 July 2004 19:37, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > Am 01.07.2004 um 19:15 schrieb Dennis Stosberg: > > This will cause postfix to rewrite the sender address in all mails > > coming from your localuser to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To make "mail" use your correct real name, make sure to have it set

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases > > or settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... > > we're not picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information about this a

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Thomas Adam([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > > picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information abou

Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

2004-07-01 Thread Adam Aube
deb_milist wrote: > After installing squid, i went to some experiments such as determining > which host to allow and deny. > One of those is allowing all clients machine to update their winblows > without any authentication by adding .microsoft.com to one rule that can > be connected without auth

Debian Installer + MD RAID? was: Debian Installer + LVM

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Alexei Chetroi wrote: I've just tried beta-3 of Sarge installer and I have to say that I'm impressed. Great job, folks. I've installed my current system from beta-2 on lvm, beside root partition, but in beta-2 me had to format physical volume from shell, as I didn't find how to do it from install

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable specifying > the whole path. less chance of intervention or misdirection > based on $PATH mungings... /etc/init.d is not in $PATH, and as such scripts are run as root anyway, invoke-rc.d is perfe

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work? Quite possibly... but as long as it works... :) -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net "TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net " We'll just

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't very nice of you Adam. You may have notices that Will The name's Thomas. Adam is my surname. :) > As long as your in a bad mood, did you notice that Will had the Well the problem there is that with e-mail being ambiguous, you read it ent

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Hood
Thomas Adam wrote: > 1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following: > # apt-get install bootlogd No such package. bootlogd is actually included in the sysvinit package. You turn it on by setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes in /etc/default/bootlogd. > As for syslog this is automatically started up

sh scripting framework project?

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
I have a few scripts I've written, that each have various levels of reporting errors. I'd like to unify the error reporting, and initialization as much as possible. One thing I just thought of was to write a wrapper that creates a different email based on exit code. The thing is, I'd rather w

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:38, Thomas Adam wrote: > If the OP were to be more specific as > to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft > together some of my own notes. I do have a question: In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. How can I

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:00 pm, MillTek wrote: > I tried apt-cache search 'various-versions-of-bootlogd' and had no luck > either?? It's not there in Sid. You're not crazy. > Also, I'd still like the name of one of the standard scripts that I can > change to have it do stuff. Maybe one of t

OpenOffice Window Values Location

2004-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and sizes of the windows it opens upon startup? For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window is at the very top of my screen such that the window bar is off

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? You can use "bind" and "bindkey" for screen. > And back on xterms - does anyone know something that doesn't have the > redraw problems of gnome-terminal, yet is

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:00 pm, MillTek wrote: > > > I tried apt-cache search 'various-versions-of-bootlogd' and had no > luck > > either?? > > It's not there in Sid. You're not crazy. It's part of the packages: initscripts sysvinit -- Thomas Adam

Re: OpenOffice Window Values Location

2004-07-01 Thread Harshwardhan Shashikant Nagaonkar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where OpenOffice stores the default locations and sizes of the windows it opens upon startup? For some reason, something got messed up in my installation of OpenOffice, and now when it opens a document, the window is at the very top of my screen such th

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-07-01 Thread Silvan
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:37 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > *.deb and *.rpm patches are readily available, but... That brings to mind an opposing point, actually. I don't have statistics to back this up, but my gut says at least 75% of the Linux world runs on RPM-based distros for better or worse.

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:34PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > shouldn't that use start-stop-daemon to do its work? > > Quite possibly... but as long as it works... :) sorta. the output from the restart (or cancellation) scripts as set up in /etc/resta

Re: restartd (resurrecting dead daemons)

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perhaps there's a wrapper to syslog-ify stdout and stderr? > anybody know? (even Tom?) logger(1) can do this, but if you're that serious, I would hack the script to make use of start-stop-damon with various --flags -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 09:31PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for daemon-config-file-settings, i'm more comfortable > > specifying the whole path. less chance of intervention or > > misdirection based on $PATH mungings... > > /etc/init.d is not in $PATH, a

Re: init scripts?

2004-07-01 Thread MillTek
Thomas Hood wrote: Thomas Adam wrote: 1. As far as bootlogd is concerned, do the following: # apt-get install bootlogd No such package. bootlogd is actually included in the sysvinit package. You turn it on by setting BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes in /etc/default/bootlogd. As for syslog this is aut

Re: automatically restarting dying daemons?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > starts with a slash, it's an absolute reference, no > uncertainties about it; if it does NOT start with a slash, then > your environmental variable $PATH is called upon to supply > likely directories to scan, looking for an executable by the > name y

Necesito ayuda

2004-07-01 Thread Instituto de Investigaciones Porcinas
Estimados señores vivo en Cuba y necesito bajar los driver del modem MT5600ZDXV, los que he encontrado no son gratis. Me podrían indicar algun sitio de donde bajarlos. Gracias anticipadas Jose Luis Reyes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem

2004-07-01 Thread Faithful John
When i did open up an xterm and typed the command this is what it said (the expected i'm pretty sure) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ script Script started, file is typescript [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmovie XMovie (c) 2001 Heroine Virtual The mpeg file opens fine. When i press play, it restarts and then no

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:53 am, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. > > inquiring minds want to know. :) Well I got tired of .screenrcs found via google being so poorly

Re: debian sarge xfree86 problem

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Faithful John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When i did open up an xterm and typed the command this is what it said > (the > expected i'm pretty sure) Yes, that's right. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ script > Script started, file is typescript > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmovie > XMovie (c) 2001 Heroin

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:51 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. > > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? Hrm I am not sure of the keybindings for your need but the .screenrc commands

Re: automounting

2004-07-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I sort of have automounting working. I'm using it with kernel 2.6.7, > compiled in as a module and with the autofs package installed. However, ... > So what do I do to get the module to load and autofs to be running without > having to do it man

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 7:06 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > I am not using cups so this may not help. > > My firefox stopped printing after the last upgrade and I had to > install xprt-xprintorg & xprt-common.  I also could not find any > printers.  After much reading I finally got it working by adding

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