Re: Trying to do network install of sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Vangel
Dick Steflik wrote: > I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install > of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this > by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four > floppies from the current release (and the march one also),

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-17 Thread Jules Dubois
On Saturday 16 July 2005 21:18, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no >> security. Thats a major issue in my mind. > > Could you explain that in newbie-ease? Sure. > I seem to be getting updates for sarge from se

dselect install of deb package -- Where is it?

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: [Using Debian 3.1 Etch] I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to install a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb available on the author's site. In fact, I downloaded an earlier and a later version: kradio_0.3.0-snapshot-2004-02-2

Re: "makeobj" wrapper script -- how to use it? -- Solved

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Forget this issue. I have decided to instead the deb file instead. Thank you. Benjamin On Saturday 16 July 2005 01:31 am, you wrote: > Dear friends: > > I am trying to install a KDE program called Kradio-1 from source tarball. > Configure went fine. I then was warned NOT to use "

Re: Wmaker Nautilus (in only one window)?

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. While many mail clients will accomodate unwrapped text: - Some don't. Be considerate. - Many more fail to wrap and attribute quotes properly. - Many web-based list archives render unwr

Re: last update / upgrade killed grub ...Attention !

2005-07-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:53:28 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; > and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come > up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.) > I also notice that the screen is almost unreadab

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-17 Thread Deboo ^
On 7/17/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:42:43PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > Using Fedora Core 2 on an Intel P-4 with an Intel D845 Motherboard. > > > > > > Then why are you asking questions on the

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-17 Thread Deboo ^
On 7/17/05, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/17/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:42:43PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > On 7/16/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Using Fedora Core 2 on an Intel P-4 with an Intel D845 Motherboa

Re: Neighbour table overflow (No buffer space available)

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:28:23AM +, Malthe Borch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello ng, --- > > Recently our firewall (running debian woody testing) began having > difficulties on the outbound uplink, injecting lots of these errors into > the syslog: > > Jul 7 22:43:30 localhost kernel: N

Re: OT: Windoze spyware?

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > > >>Windoze XP box on my LAN is sending http requests to > >>a site named movies.go.com, although there is no web > >>client running on the XP

Cups: canon backend hanging

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't use) hanging in CUPs. My load average is currently 13+, and there's nothing I can kill to bring down the processes. $ ps aux | grep ' [D] ' root 19562 0.0 0.0 3388 576 ?DJul12 0:00 /usr/lib/cups/backend/cano

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-17 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/05, Geoff Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 12:57:28PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 23:17 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > wget -O - http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2 | \ > > > tar -xvvjf - > > > > > > I hunted for rute for

lprngtool - where has it gone ??

2005-07-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
Seems lprngtool is not available on Sarge any more ? Made a search, but nothing shows. Also searched the Debian site, but no results. I know we used to have it ! Has it been dropped accidentially ? And, no, I don't want to use CUPS instead. Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-07-17 Thread Petri Tanninen
"apt-get remove x-common" will do the trick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 07:34:19PM +0200, Dom wrote: > Thank you all for your help, I've found out even more than I needed. > I can proudly say I won a several days battle between a man and the > machine and I have a Sarge version of Debian Linux installed (with > gdm). > The biggest problem is tha

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:05:57AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:18:23PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > >Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no > > >security. Thats a major issue in my mind. > > > > Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be gettin

Re: Upgrade and repartition advice

2005-07-17 Thread Chris Lale
Ken Januski wrote: Hi, I'm about to upgrade my Debian install to Sarge. I've always done this online before but it's been slow since I use dialup. This time I bought a set of CDs for a work pc so I'd like to do the upgrade from them. BUT, many months ago my Windows 2000 partition self-des

type= parameter missing from linux-2.6.12 tuner module

2005-07-17 Thread ephemeroot
There appears to be significant differences between the "tuner" module in linux 2.6.12 and the same module under linux 2.6.11. In particular the "type" paramater is missing from linux 2.6.12.3, as shown by a comparison of the truncated modinfo output appended at the end of this email. I absolutely

Re: Illegal instruction on Gimp startup

2005-07-17 Thread csj
On 16. July 2005 at 9:05PM +0200, strawks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Gimp 2.2.8 on a Pentium 2 and when it starts, just > after initializing script-fu, it says : > > (script-fu:24106): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error > Illegal instruction Apparently this

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-17 Thread Gregory Soyez
On Sunday 17 July 2005 11:27, Deboo ^ wrote: > > > [snip] > I have also tried the solutions mentioned on linuxprinting.org's page > given above but the printer just won't print under linux. I have successfully configured the same printer on my computer using the foo2zjs package. You can either do

Copying directory containing internal hard links to other partition

2005-07-17 Thread B-Fly
I want to move a directory containing my backups (created by faubackup) to another directory on a different partition. The problem is that the backup directory contains a lot of hard links (to files inside the same backup directory). Simply copying the directory with 'cp -R' replaces the hard

Re: FTP authentification issue

2005-07-17 Thread Wim De Smet
On 7/15/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 July 2005 08:58 am, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > On 7/15/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear friends: > > > > > > I have run into an unusual and inexplicable FTP authentification issue. > > > It's the first time I'

Blam/Straw/Alexandria crashing ...

2005-07-17 Thread alan bonard
Hi, I recently find my [ PIII 0.5Gb RAM Debian unstable ] machinefreezing and running slowly, andrss aggregators 'Blam' and 'Straw' not downloading initial feeds ('Straw' giving the message "No data yet, need to poll first" .. while Yarssr, Liferea, and Firefox-sage work well) and Alexandria crash

Can't install KDE in Sid

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi All. I've been building a partition on my laptop for Sid (with 40 GB available one might as well play, right?) and I'd really like to run KDE. However whenever I select KDE, libglu1-xorg is shown as broken. The description says: * libglu1-xorg conflicts with libglu1 (provided by xlibmesa-glu

KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Hamster
Does anyone know of an ETA for KDE 34 in unstable? Even if I could get an indication of if it's weeks or months away. I realise in previous months the delay was due to the impending release of a new stable, but that's been out for a while now. Thanks.

Re: Trying to do network install of sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
Robert Vangel wrote: >Dick Steflik wrote: > > >>I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install >>of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this >>by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. >> >> > >Is there no network access on the lapto

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:19:59PM +0200, Hamster wrote: Does anyone know of an ETA for KDE 34 in unstable? Even if I could get We have now a C++-ABI transition, so every package depending on C++ libs must wait, until the new libs are compiled with the new compiler on all architectures. IIRC k

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-17 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 15:15 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Has anyone got an read the Debian Linux Bible? Yes. And the one I got a few months ago is way old (2.2). The new book by Martin Krafft -- "The Debian System" is exactly the one I'd been looking for. It's an excellent discussion of sarge (3.1)

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Roby
Hamster wrote: > Does anyone know of an ETA for KDE 34 in unstable? Even if I could get > an indication of if it's weeks or months away. > > I realise in previous months the delay was due to the impending > release of a new stable, but that's been out for a while now. > > Thanks. I don't know,

Pinnacle pctv stereo no sound

2005-07-17 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm using debian sarge with kernel 2.6.8. I have problem getting sound to work for my tv tuner which is Pinnacle Pctv stereo with saa7134 chipset. I have the internal audio connector connected to Aux in on my sound card. I can get the picture but there is no sound, just a background noise. Whe

mrtg to monitor cpu usage.

2005-07-17 Thread Meni Shapiro
Hi, I'm tying to monitor cpu usage on my debian box (PII -350) with mrtg. I'm using ssCpuRawIdle and i get the graph fine!! Problem is i get a full graph since the cpu is mostly in idle time and i want to see the usage % is there  is simplier way then adding all deltas and dividing by total???

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the } email was sent to. } } Most ISPs don't like that anymore, and SpamAssassin (and probably } Baysians a

Konqueror URL Launch Issue

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: Here is what I did: I deleted my /home/sher/.kde directory in its entirety. Actually, I just renamed it. Logged out. Logged back in. The raw, unconfigured, original KDE with the Wizard greeted me. I then tested Konqueror: BLANK. It took it over a minute or maybe two to

Konqueror URL Launch Issue -- follow-up

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: Note: I know that Kmail is trying to launch Epiphany and not Konqueror because Epiphany appears in the taskbar when I click on a URL in Kmail. Then, inexplicably, I see Konqueror with its download box instead of Epiphany. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:11:55AM -0700, Bernie Betlach wrote: > I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I > install Ubuntu or Debian??? The main difference between the two is the installer, I think. Any Linux distribution will give you the same components: GNOME

K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to user. Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from the author urging me to run it as root only. Here is the screenshot: ht

Re: Can't install KDE in Sid

2005-07-17 Thread Joe Potter
Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hi All. > > I've been building a partition on my laptop for Sid (with 40 GB > available one might as well play, right?) and I'd really like to run > KDE. However whenever I select KDE, libglu1-xorg is shown as broken. > The description says: > > * libglu1-xorg conflicts w

Re: Trying to do network install of sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
steflik wrote: > Kent, > Woody isn't on the system, it "was" on the system until I > repartitioned the harddrive and formatted it. > The question is really... is there a problem with the net-driver > diskette as it hangs when trying to load the yenta socket driver? > > Dick Steflik > Ah, misunders

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. After > being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to user. > Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from

Re: Konqueror URL Launch Issue

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: >I deleted my /home/sher/.kde directory in its entirety. Actually, I just >renamed it. Logged out. Logged back in. The raw, unconfigured, original KDE >with the Wizard greeted me. I then tested Konqueror: BLANK. It took it over a >minute or maybe two to do anything (www.nyt

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 08:48 am, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > > > The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. > > After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back > > to user

Re: Konqueror URL Launch Issue

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 08:49 am, Kent West wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > >I deleted my /home/sher/.kde directory in its entirety. Actually, I just > >renamed it. Logged out. Logged back in. The raw, unconfigured, original > > KDE with the Wizard greeted me. I then tested Konqueror: BLANK. It took

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Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: >On Sunday 17 July 2005 08:48 am, Carl Fink wrote: > > >>On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: >> >> >>>The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. >>>After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting b

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Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get. When > I > tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I should run K3b > as user, I switched to user, but as soon as I tried to run it as user,

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:57:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > your Konqueror issues, makes me wonder; did you install Debian and have > stuck with Debian, or did you maybe start with Knoppix/Ubuntu/etc, and > maybe have added in some non-Debian sources? If the latter, that could > be the cause of yo

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 08:57 am, Kent West wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > >On Sunday 17 July 2005 08:48 am, Carl Fink wrote: > >>On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:24:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > >>>The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. > >>>After being admonished no

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:11:21AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Here is the info. Let me know what you think. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ ls -la > total 24 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2005-07-11 23:11 . > drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2005-07-14 01:11 .. > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root6 2005

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:14 am, you wrote: > grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab Dear Stephen: Here is the result of your command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /dev/hdd/media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,u

K3b should be run as ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Stephen: Here is my full fstab: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hdb1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb5

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-17 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 07:11:55 -0700, Bernie Betlach wrote: > I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I > install Ubuntu or Debian??? No doubt: Debian Reason: I tried Ubuntu, is nice to install, recognised my hardware. The great and decisive 'but': packages are les

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roby wrote: Hamster wrote: Does anyone know of an ETA for KDE 34 in unstable? Even if I could get an indication of if it's weeks or months away. I realise in previous months the delay was due to the impending release of a new stable, but that's been out for a while now. Thanks. I d

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:20:38AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i cdrom /etc/fstab > /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > /dev/hdd/media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 Okay. So your CD writer is either /de

How to check ARP cheat in Lan.

2005-07-17 Thread 不坏阿峰
 Maybe arp cheat i called is correct, i think you can understand. thx  i found some software that used in the company for Lan monitor,first it can sniffer,and second it can control to stop some computer outing to internet . i find some details and guess it may be use arp cheat to prevent the compu

Munin alternatives

2005-07-17 Thread Mezei Zoltan
Hi! I'm a happy user of munin. However munin uses RRD databases and therefore it do not keep historical data older than a day, a week, a month or a year. So I'm looking for an alternative with about the same funcionality and the possibility to use another database solution, preferably postgresql.

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:28 am, you wrote: > ls -la /dev/hdc > ls -la /dev/hdd > groups Dear Stephen: Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:53 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear Carl: > > I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get. > When I tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I should > run K3b as user, I switched to user, but as soon as I tried to run it as >

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc > brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd > brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdd > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > sher dia

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT! Solved!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:10 am, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:53 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear Carl: > > > > I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get. > > When I tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I > > should run K3b as use

Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: My answer, as a former user of Xandros, a derivative of Debian, is simple: it's always best to get the original, if the original is as good or better than the copy. In this case, I bought Xandros 2.0 about two years ago and used it

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go into the thread titled "Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma". raju -- Kamaraju

Can't launch URL from email -- Question

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: If I were to RE-install Konqueror in apt-get, would that solve the URL launch issue? If so, would reinstalling Konqueror also mean that it would reinstall all of KDE? By the way, please remember that I am running Etch. Thank you. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:10 am, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > >Dear friends: > > > >To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: > > Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the > same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go int

Re: Can't install KDE in Sid

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Joe. My primary reason for building a Sid partition is to try the Xorg stuff. I'm quite impressed so far. The debconf dialogs and Xorg auto-probe made this the most painless X install this side of KNOPPIX. Except for the fact that it died the first time since I hadn't installed any fon

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
So, is /media some new LFS directory? I used the Sarge installer recently to create a new Sid partition and my fstab had the cdrom mount point as /media/cdrom yet no /media directory was created, or apparently visible to me, but /cdrom was. I edited my fstab to go with the older /cdrom, but now I

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:02 -0500]: > There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many > derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. That statement might get our Slackware friends in an uproar. ;-) Not so long ago Slackwar

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:37 -0500]: > So, is /media some new LFS directory? I used the Sarge installer > recently to create a new Sid partition and my fstab had the cdrom mount > point as /media/cdrom yet no /media directory was created, or > apparently visible to me, bu

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Mitja Podreka
Benjamin Sher wrote: The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to user. Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from the author urging me to run it as root only. Here is the screens

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

2005-07-17 Thread John Foster
On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't use) hanging in > CUPs. My load average is currently 13+, and there's nothing I can kill > to bring down the processes. > > $ ps aux | grep ' [D] ' > root 19562 0.0 0.0

Re: OT: Windoze spyware?

2005-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: [snip] > Well, for a few months there (roughly March - May) it was inordinately > p

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Colin
Benjamin Sher wrote: There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. Please, please, please don't speak on things you know nothing about. There are way more than just two main Linux distributions. Also,

Updates: useful link

2005-07-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Someone posted this on /. - very useful! http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: type= parameter missing from linux-2.6.12 tuner module

2005-07-17 Thread csj
On 17. July 2005 at 5:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There appears to be significant differences between the > "tuner" module in linux 2.6.12 and the same module > under linux 2.6.11. In particular the "type" paramater is > missing from linux 2.6.12.3, as shown by a comparison > of the tru

cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

2005-07-17 Thread J. Grant
[please include my email address in any replies] Hello, I wonder if anyone knows why I have this displayed when booting up debian sarge? cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! I have this in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 There

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Mr Mike
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:41:19 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:02 -0500]: > >> There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many >> derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. > > That statement might get

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Just want to make two observations: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. > Each have many derivates. While it is true that Red Hat and debian both have many derivatives, it goes deeper on the Red Hat side, where some distr

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Mr Mike
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:48:59 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [...] > } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the > } email was sent to. > } > } Most

default info browser

2005-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
So after 4 years of stubbornly refusing to accept info pages and sticking to plain old 'man' I've decided that it's time to embrace info and give it a shot for a while. However, I don't much care for the text-mode info browser that's used by default. What I'd like to do is force emacs to be my info

set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to english so I can post the errormessage here on the list. How do I do this? Using bash shell

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:26:07PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > Also, lets not forget the french... Mandrake is a fine linux. It's also a Red Hat derivative, so it fits into the (false) statement that the original poster made to the effect that every Linux distribution is either a Red Hat or a Debian

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language > is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to > english so I can post

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 15/07/05 14:37,typed: > > You can downgrade to udev 0.056-3, and put udev 0.062-4 on hold for the > present. > > That is exactly what I did. thanks, ->HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apol

xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.
I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon trying to be installed complains: ~# apt-get -s install nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installe

restore default permissions to /usr/bin /usr/sbin

2005-07-17 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, After an installation of Realplayer in /usr, I noticed that file permissions under this dir is changed. Particulary, users can't read into /usr/bin and I suspect that /usr/sbin is affected as well. Could anyone tell me what is the default permissions of these three directories in

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc >brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd >brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdd > > Yikes! "others" should not have write access to either of these drives. (At lea

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.17.1529 +0300]: > The new book by Martin Krafft -- "The Debian System" is exactly > the one I'd been looking for. It's an excellent discussion of > sarge (3.1), and it's full of useful information: theory, > philosophy, HOWTO, and why. May I

Re: restore default permissions to /usr/bin /usr/sbin

2005-07-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: phyrster wrote: Hi Debianers, Hmm. Does that make us all Debianaire? After an installation of Realplayer in /usr, I noticed that file permissions under this dir is changed. Particulary, users can't read into /usr/bin and I suspect that /usr/sbin is affected as well

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:49:57PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > > errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language > > is set to norwegian

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Scott
Mr Mike wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:48:59 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the } email was sent to. }

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread hell0 un1verse
On 7/17/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:26:07PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > > Also, lets not forget the french... Mandrake is a fine linux. > > It's also a Red Hat derivative, so it fits into the (false) > statement that the original poster made to the eff

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:48 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [...] > } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the > } email was sent to. > } > } Most I

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:30:07PM -0400, hell0 un1verse wrote: > Client desktop: Ubuntu, server side: Debian stable. > > Choice makes sense?:) Seems sensible to me. I don't have much experience with large deployments, so there may very well be good reasons to use Debian unstable in server instal

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:48 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: } > [...] } > } But then you'll be replying f

Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]

2005-07-17 Thread Adam Hardy
And, also snap a list of everything to be removed. When you do an "apt-get remove --purge xserver-common" is a BIG depends for many things. It causes tons o stuff to be removed. Also those things secondarily force other things to be removed. Overall, I feel I am far better off doing the removal a

Using a prism2 usb card on Sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Johnston
hi, I've just done a fresh install of Sarge using kernel 2.6.8-2-386, and now I'm trying to get a Prism2-based USB wifi adaptor working so I can connect the machine to the network as a normal client. My initial thought was to to 'apt-get install linux-wlan-ng' which went fine, up to the poin

RE: Re: Re: SATA problems

2005-07-17 Thread Jim Blake
I've certainly got further but not in the way you might expect. I contacted the Shuttle supplier (again) and this time they told me there was a problem with interaction between the Samsung CDRW/DVDROM and the SATA Maxtor drives, which meant that the boot sector was getting stomped on. About thi

for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Mike
Does anybody know why debian doesn't detect SATA optical drives? I'm using sid, it detects my SATA controller and loads everything up. But completely ingores my plextor 716SA DVD Burner. I havn't gotten a single response to this question the last 8 times i've asked it. -Mike (I didn't post m

sound problems

2005-07-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
Somehow I've lost my sound. It used to be there, but not any more. dmesg shows: via82cxxx: Six channel audio available PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:11.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA112 (Unknown) via82cxxx:

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/16/05, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:24:35 +0200 > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > Where do I go from here to make th option '-vo xv' default? > > > > You need to edit MPlayers config file to make it default. > > Ad

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