Re: ways to prevent certain programs accesing the internet in Linux

2005-08-26 Thread Alexandre Rossi
> I just wonder how I can control which programs can or cannot have > access to the internet/intranet or resources outside the local > computer. This may be what your are looking for. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/120

How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, on my SID system, I experience that alsamixer settings are not restored after booting. It looks like /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils is called at the wrong time (too early?). Because after rebooting I can restore alsamixer settings just by calling '/etc/init.d/alsa-utils start' or alternatively by

Error message on upgrade & install

2005-08-26 Thread Ms Linuz
No luck googling ... This error message appears when apt-upgrading ( if there is(are) package(s) needed to be upgraded ), and installing. --- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/apt-history", line 33, in ? import apt_pkg ImportError: No module named apt_pkg -- But it upgrade

Re: debian wireless setup

2005-08-26 Thread Billy Morgan
On Friday 26 August 2005 06:23, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (typo in the To: address, resending) > > > Randy Foiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> OK. I am fully confused and ticked off :) > >> I am unable to configure ndiswrapper past > >> ndiswrapper -i

Re: mass user property changes

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 25.08.2005 at 21:52 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:33:21PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > Wouldn't > > > > #vi /etc/passwd > > /false > > cepasswd n.n.n.n.n (looking out for system accounts) > > > > That probably should be:

i cant print from firefox?

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff works good now, but printing is still a bit strange. I can print pdfs with gpdf, and documents from openoffice, but I cant print anything from firefox, even though I select the same printers in the menus. I noti

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread David Huemer
Hi Tim, Try placing an executable file with "alsactl restore" in /etc/rc2.d and call the file S99alsa, or something. The important part is S99 which means alsactl is one of the last things which will be called while booting. David On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 09:54 +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Hi, >

How can I specify email address for log_accum.in (CVS)

2005-08-26 Thread Xavier MOGHRABI
Hi, I'd like to use the scripts log_accum.in for CVS and commit_prep.in for projects using CVS to send mails to a mailing list. I don't understand how to configure them well. Could you please help me to do this ? In fact, we are using CVS 1.12.9 included in Debian Sarge. I'm already tested oth

vim: non-root user in gnome-terminal

2005-08-26 Thread Alex
Hi all, I'm running sarge wuith Gnome and I have a problem when I start vim in a gnome-terminal (using vi, not gvim). No problem when I su root, but as a normal user I notice that any document I open gets scrambled as I try to move around the document. The document does not really get scrambled

Sarge d-i and serial install

2005-08-26 Thread Dick Davies
Hi, I hear rumours that if a machine has no video card, (sarge) debian-installer will try to open a serial console. I want to install on a mini-itx box with no monitor, but it's got a graphic card on-board that can't be disabled. Is there a way to have it start d-i on a serial console (say, no

Fwd: vim: non-root user in gnome-terminal

2005-08-26 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/26, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I'm running sarge wuith Gnome and I have a problem when I start vim in a > gnome-terminal (using vi, not gvim). > No problem when I su root, but as a normal user I notice that any > document I open gets scrambled as I try to move around the documen

Re: OpenOffice Math and sum symbol

2005-08-26 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/25, Joachim Fahnenmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Paolo, > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > 2005/8/25, Jan T. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:16:21PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > (...) > > > > > (1) Specify the sum symbol? It

Re: update-alternatives and window-manager and display-manager

2005-08-26 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/26, Marcel Gschwandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 11:50 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > I think that * update-alternatives is a good facility > > > > It isn't, really. > IMHO it is. Thnx fot the support Marcel, moreover i want to say that update-alternatives is documented

Fwd: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2005/8/24, David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > debian users: > > I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my reply > went to the message author and not to the list. It is my understanding that > the > people in charge of this list think that his behavior is a fea

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi David, I linked /etc/init.d/alsa-utils to /etc/rc2.d/S98alsa-utils. That works fine (as I said: I works if I invoke it later). But this shouldn't be the general or official solution. Does it work for you by default, I mean without interfering manually? If yes, what's wrong with my system? R

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:51:06AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: } Gregory Seidman wrote: } } >On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:32:23AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: } >[...] } >} I find your side's evangelical zeal a little grating. If you have a } >} case, make it without calling those who disagree with you "brain-dead

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:54:45AM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > on my SID system, I experience that alsamixer settings are not restored after > booting. It looks like /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils is called at the wrong time > (too early?). Because after rebooting I can restore alsamixer settings just

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Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-26 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, > >I would like to make a list of email clients which have a > > reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I > > know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would > > comment about whether their favorite email client has this feature or not

Re: adding modules to an initrd image

2005-08-26 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:52:10PM -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > I have recently installed Etch onto my computer, an ST20G5 from > shuttle. I am using a SATA HD, which is on a ULI SATA controller. > I am able to install to the hard-drive after I load the module > manually in the installer via modpro

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi, > I experienced the same problem. When alsa-utils was called, the driver > module for my sound card was not loaded yet. alsa-utils wouldn't trigger > autoloading of the module either, so it failed to restore the mixer > settings. The module was autoloaded later, probably when KDE started up.

/media/cdrom0 disappears

2005-08-26 Thread my deb
Hi, My /media/cdrom0 disappears by itself. I run testing on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a DVD-RW drive in a removable bay. Every time I reboot it looks like: nils:/# ls -l /media/ totalt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2004-12-12 23:51 cdrom -> cdrom0 nils:/# and I can't use my CD/DVD drive. I th

Re: i cant print from firefox?

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:40:12 +0200, Eric Persson wrote: > I'm using cups, and I couldnt get the line above to work from the shell > either, so it might be that? but what should the line say? :) Cups (if you've got cupsys-bsd installed) provides an lp command rather than an lpr one. You should als

Re: How to compile in Debian?

2005-08-26 Thread Teilhard Knight
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:01 AM Subject: Re: How to compile in Debian? On 8/25/05, Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suppose you want to compile your drivers for your wireless adapter, which is what I actually want to do. If I am not mistaken, I need a build symbolic link in "

Re: Fwd: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Katipo
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I vote for "Reply to list" it is more simple, i think that anybody at least onece replied to message author by mistake. PAolo Is it really all that hard? 'Reply to all' (in this case, Thunderbird), and delete the non-applicable address. It is possible to have li

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On 8/6/05, Steven Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? > (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) > -Steven I'm going to buy a samsung YP-C1Z, which is a 1GB flash player that supports ogg and is quite reasonable in price (I think)

Re: Newbie: How-to Disable onboard sound

2005-08-26 Thread Roger Creasy
On 8/24/05, Joachim Fahnenmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:47:18PM -0400, Roger Creasy wrote: > > Hello: > > > > I am trying to get ALSA to use an Ensonic 1371 sound card instead of > > the onboard card. I cannot find a way to disable the onboard card in

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 26.08.2005 at 13:07 +0200, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 8/6/05, Steven Pasternak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? > > (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) > > -Steven > > I'm going to buy a samsung YP-C1Z, which is a 1GB fla

blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, I know this might seem a little strange but my system seems to have developed a blind spot for Java. I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to execute [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java I get bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or d

Re: adding modules to kernel

2005-08-26 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Secondly, why do I need root privileges for make-kpkg kernel-image? This > step merely creates the kernel*.deb file, I thought. Perhaps fakeroot works? See the --rootcmd option for make-kpkg. Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Bill Day
It took me a couple of times to notice I had a slight typo in my setup before I reeally relaized what was going on, once I slowed down and double checked my install from( http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch11.html ) all went quite well. On Friday August 26 2005 7:32 am, Graham

nforce4 PATA support?

2005-08-26 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi, after some research, I ordered a MSI Neo4 Platinum Mainboard, which uses the nforce 4 chipset. Until today, I was fairly confident that I could get the planned configuration to run, but just now I'm not so sure anymore. Each and every writeup I found so far on the 'net talked only about SAT

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
Thanks for the pointer. The problem, though, is not getting Java installed; I have it installed and I am using the 64bit linux version as I write. The problem is that a 32bit VM that I use (because the 64 bit version doesn't have a client mode) has for some reason stopped working. I am conce

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Graham Smith wrote: >I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to >execute >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java >> >I get >> bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory >which is quite plainly wrong as the file most certainly does ex

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I > > > could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by > > > Raquel I sim

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:10, Kent West wrote: > > How 'bout showing us the output of "ls -l > /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java"? Here's mine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 Sep 15 2004 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java Well if y

Re: upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2005-08-26 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apt-get install kernel-2.6, for stable > in unstable (and poss.testing) renamed to sometihng else, do dpkg -l > '*kernel*' In unstable, it's linux-image instead of kernel-image, linux-headers instead of kernel-headers, and so on. Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
Hello, I'm new user of nagios, and i'm not sure of everything i want to do. All is ok, but my boss (he give me a lot of trouble!) want to nagios do the service check faster (every 10second for example). So a lot of question come into my too small head : - Do i need to use another monitoring softw

U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is "no"; so what is the best solution (well-debugged, simple to use, relatively long-lived) one can find short of installing a separate partition or disk which can handle

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Graham Smith wrote: >On Friday 26 August 2005 13:10, Kent West wrote: > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> ls -l /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java >>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 Sep 15 2004 /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java >> >> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin$ ll >total 3160 >-rwx

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Do i need to use another monitoring software? I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. I recently started using munin in addition to nagios and other monitoring software and I am impressed with

Re: Fwd: vim: non-root user in gnome-terminal

2005-08-26 Thread Alex
It might be a gterm configuration problem, you said in root no probs, while in non root you have problems, but non root is a single user (your personal account)? If yes you could try if vim works in gterm of another non root user (eventually you could create it). PAolo you're right. it works w

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java does not exist. But that is sometimes wrong. Look if this file is a shell script. If so, look at its shebang line and fi

tiny fonts in xmms and xchm

2005-08-26 Thread Alex
Hi, there are two applications in my sarge installation (using GNOME) for which displayed fonts are so small that I can't even read them. This also applies to the menu items. I have the same problem with xmms and xchm, but all the other applications are fine. Any idea? FYI, an excerpt from

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:47, Kent West wrote: > > Try performing some other action on the file, such as renaming it. Yep I can rename it. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 2005-08-26 12:21 javarenamed # ./javarenamed -su: ./javarenamed: No such file or directory > > Also try it from a differen

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would like to make a list of email clients which have a reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would comment about whether their favorite email client has this f

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:30, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory > > This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java does > not exist. But that is sometimes wrong. Look if this

Re: Installation problems

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: > After considerable web research on various distros I decided to > try the then new Debian 3.1r0a-i386 "Sarge". > > After booting -- I thought successfully -- strange things happened > which did not strike me as quite right. For example: > > 1. Printing > > I tried f

rsync knoppix dvd download

2005-08-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
How to download knoppix dvd using rsync. I am accessing internet through a proxy. I tried rsync src des. I get error as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rsync ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/dvd/KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08-16-EN.iso /mnt/wind/lvg/Linux/ ssh: ftp: Temporary failure in name

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
>> - Do i need to use another monitoring software? >I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. The essential things to monitor is switch, gateway .. >Every 10 seconds can put a lot of load on your network connections >especially if you monitor a lot of services an

Problem with update of libc6 in unstable?

2005-08-26 Thread John Foster
I have tried to update libc6 in unstable. Every time I try it says it will remove my active kernel. I have not seen that before or if so I have forgotten it. I am using a kernel that I compiled ver 2.4.22 I do NOT want to upgrade my kernel as I will need to recompile it for my hardware. Is this

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-26 Thread Adam Garside
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:23:00PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > http://www.linuks.mine.nu/debian-faq-wiki/ This wiki was developed by folks in #debian on irc to answer the FAQs we get on a daily basis. Accounts are limited but can be requested from the maintainer. -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: rsync knoppix dvd download

2005-08-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:38:56PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > How to download knoppix dvd using rsync. I am accessing internet > through a proxy. I tried rsync src des. I get error as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rsync > ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/download.linuxtag.org/knoppix/dvd/KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08

Re: Sendmail woes

2005-08-26 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Thu, 2005-25-08 at 14:14 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > use sendmail from sendmail.org ... and it'd work fine > > you will also need to have the proper support files in addition > to access Yes, I could install the version from sendmail.org, however that's not what I would prefer. The debian packag

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is "no"; so what is the best solution (well-debugged, simple to use, relatively long-lived) one can find short of installing a separate partition

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 August 2005 13:37, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux > (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is "no"; so > what is the best solution (well-debugged, simple to use, relatively > long-lived) one can find shor

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-26 Thread Pooly
2005/8/26, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi >I would like to make a list of email clients which have a > reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I > know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would > comment about whether their favori

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-26 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: C Shore wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've confirmed that that debian wiki is down for others as well as myself, so I am wondering if anyone knows whether it has disappeared permanently or if it will be back soon. (http://wiki.debian.net

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > I got an Ibead 400: 1GB flash RAM and a 'proper' USB mass storage > interface. Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? My rio karma crapped out and they just gave me my money back, now I don't have a player any

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050824 22:20]: > I fear I can't use this command, because I lack access to a debian machine > right now. No problem, you could use simple e-mail vor submitting bugs against the "wnpp" (work needing and prospective packages) package. Place "ITP" for "int

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Graham, - make shure, that file is not a symlink. It should tell you if you do 'ls -la'. - make shure that not one of the directories has obscure permissions. You could (as root) copy the java file into /tmp and try to execute it there. Does it work? If not, maybe the file is corrupt. Try th

Re: i cant print from firefox?

2005-08-26 Thread James Vahn
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Eric Persson wrote: I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff works good now, but printing is still a bit strange. Cupsys and gimp-print have improved things tremendously, if your printer is supported... Unfortunately, firefox uses Xprt inst

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
I just forgot: make shure, you don't have an alias in your shell. Try 'alias' in your bash. Tim Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 13:32 schrieb Graham Smith: > Hi, > > I know this might seem a little strange but my system seems to have developed > a blind spot for Java. > > I have a JDK installed

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:42PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 13:30, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory > > > > This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > The upgrade "manual" suggests using aptitude dist-upgrade and doing > the kernel upgrade in a separate step. After upgrading to Sarge, I > later upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.4.27 and all went well. > But keep your old kernel around ... just in

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Graham Smith wrote: >On Friday 26 August 2005 13:47, Kent West wrote: > > >>Try performing some other action on the file, such as renaming it. >> >> > >Yep I can rename it. > >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 64492 2005-08-26 12:21 javarenamed > ># ./javarenamed >-su: ./javarenamed: No such file or

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:34, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > Hi Graham, > > - make shure, that file is not a symlink. It should tell you if you do 'ls > -la'. nope it's not a symlink > - make shure that not one of the directories has obscure permissions. drwxr-xdrwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 2005-08-2

Re: upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2005-08-26 Thread Tong
Thanks everyone for the reply. I installed kernel-image-2.6.11 in Debian Testing. > I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6. Yeah, I know the simple > answer is install the 2.6 kernel and boot into it. It actually *IS*. > For me particularly, I use SCSI emulation for my CDs in kernel 2.4...

Re: Sendmail woes

2005-08-26 Thread Kai Grossjohann
"Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It used to be that when I went into the /etc/mail directory and made > changes to the access file then typed make, the access.db file would be > updated and I could then reload sendmail. It seems now with Sarge that > it does not do

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to execute > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java > > I get > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory > > which is quite plainly wrong as the file m

Problems with Opera and X

2005-08-26 Thread Jiri Palecek
Hi I have problems running Opera versions >=8.01 on my Debian box. After some time (could be after clicking on the fourth link, or even earlier), Opera exits with a message Fatal IO error: client killed I made some captures and it seems that the X server is causing this (if connection is over T

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:43, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Then maybe it's a shared library that's missing? I had a problem like this > years ago with Modula 3. There's some kind of command (strace ? -- I > forget the name; I use it so rarely) that will trace all the system > calls while your progr

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread Paul Smith
What exactly are you looking for? There are a large number of 100% web-based tax programs available. These work very well on Linux. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 05:47:49 -0400 Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (yes, we are > the elite, we are among the wealthiest in the world) And we owe it all to the fact that we've opted for a /free/ OS! Cybe R. Wizard -take /that/, MS! -- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us.

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 14:37, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > What happens when you do > > strace -f /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java In another post there is a strace without the -f option here is one with it. # strace -otrace.txt -f /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java strace: exec: No such file or di

Re: /media/cdrom0 disappears

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La my deb ha escrit, a 26/08/05 12:21: > Hi, > My /media/cdrom0 disappears by itself. > I run testing on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a DVD-RW > drive in a > removable bay. Every time I reboot it looks like: > > nils:/# ls -l /media/ > totalt 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2004-12-12 23:51 cdr

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread David Jardine
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:42PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 13:30, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory > > > > This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> > or 'ldd java', > > this looks bad > > $ldd java > /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) Here we go. Let's concentrate on this. Normally, /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is a symlink to e.g. (on my SID system)

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:32, Kent West wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: > >On Friday 26 August 2005 14:34, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > >>or 'ldd java', > > > >this looks bad > > > >$ldd java > >/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > >ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unkn

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:46, David Jardine wrote: > > > > Cheers, > > > > Unfortunately I had thought of that and the java file in question is a > > binary not a shell script. > > You haven't got an invisible character (space, for example) at the > end of the name by chance, have you? I.e "java

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Graham Smith wrote: >On Friday 26 August 2005 14:34, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > >>or 'ldd java', >> >> > >this looks bad > >$ldd java >/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory >ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) > > What's the result of "

Re: tiny fonts in xmms and xchm

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Alex ha escrit, a 26/08/05 14:36: > Hi, > > there are two applications in my sarge installation (using GNOME) for > which displayed fonts are so small that I can't even read them. This > also applies to the menu items. > I have the same problem with xmms and xchm, but all the other > applica

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:42, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > > or 'ldd java', > > > > this looks bad > > > > $ldd java > > /usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > > ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) > > Here we go. Let's concentrate on this. Norma

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Kent West
Graham Smith wrote: >On Friday 26 August 2005 15:32, Kent West wrote: > > >>Graham Smith wrote: >> >> >>>$ldd java >>>/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory >>>ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 exited with unknown exit code (127) >>> >>> >>What's the result of "ls

DMA not working

2005-08-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi, I'm using kernel 2.6.12.4 (vanilla), recompiled, on a Kubuntu, and when I try to enable DMA, I get this error: sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) I know that this typically means that the

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/26/05, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $file java > java: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux > 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Crazy question: You are trying this from the 32-bit chroot, right? > $ldd java > /usr/bin/ldd:

Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-26 Thread Turloch O'Tierney
Dell Gx280 installation Tigon3 ethernet card is not supported on the debian testing network install download(kernel 2.6.8). (http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/) Error: [tg3:eth%d:Firmware "tg3/tso-1.4.0" not loaded; continuing without TS0] The sarge network install failed due t

LinuxBasic.org is now offering a free Linux class

2005-08-26 Thread peter colton
Hello all just thought that some would find the info below very usefull. LinuxBasic.org is now offering a free Linux class for people who want to learn what is under the hood of a Linux-System. Course will be using the RUTE-Book for it's study material. Details can be found her

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread Sebastian Kayser
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Do i need to use another monitoring software? > >I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. > The essential things to monitor is switch, gateway .. Bosses always appreciate - besides the uptime of your systems ;

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
> # ls -la /lib/ld-* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97904 2005-08-20 00:03 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root11 2005-08-22 16:17 /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> > ld-2.3.5.so > > Hmmm I wonder if this is has something to do with the upgrades going on in > unstable at the minute. Shouldn't t

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 25 August 2005 11:28 pm, Wulfy wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >These people are the guides. If they thought as the rest of the guided > >humans, the future would be blackly dark, as when under a > >thunderstorm. They have created Debian by not listening to the > >multitudes. The mu

Re: Sendmail woes

2005-08-26 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 15:35 +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > I think that Debian itself runs /usr/share/sendmail/update_sendmail. > That ought to be almost as convenient as running make. Does it do the > trick? It looks like it does more from the output, however it still doesn't create either an a

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri August 26 2005 06:33 am, Derek "The Monkey" Wueppelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > I got an Ibead 400: 1GB flash RAM and a 'proper' USB mass storage > > interface. > > Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? > My rio kar

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:55, Kent West wrote: > > I'm a little hazy on the chroot; is your "./java" command failing to be > found while in chroot, or while not in chroot. If while in, that seems > odd, as the symlink is there. If while not in, I'd just create a new > symlink: > > ln -s /lib/ld-2

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Tait
At 14:33 26/08/2005, Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > I got an Ibead 400: 1GB flash RAM and a 'proper' USB mass storage > interface. Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? My rio karma crapped out and

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 26 August 2005 15:56, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 8/26/05, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $file java > > java: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for > > GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > Crazy question: You are trying t

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/08/05 14:28), marco_elen wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I've got an LH3 also upgraded to sarge recently (from an original woody > > install) and upgrading with aptitude worked flawlessly. I also had a > > couple of LHPro200's which I've now given away

Re: tiny fonts in xmms and xchm

2005-08-26 Thread Dorpmüller
"apt-get install xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi -transcoded xfonts-base -transcoded" will help you. Flori -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email clients with reply-to-list feature

2005-08-26 Thread Stephen Patterson
> >> >I would like to make a list of email clients which have a >> > reply-to-list feature either built-in or as an add on. This is what I >> > know so far from reading the archives. I am hoping that others would >> > comment about whether their favorite email client has this feature or > not

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:28:28 +0200 "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > > > > > BTW ... I'm booting off the SCSI drive too. > > > Sorry, but I can't understand the meaning of this last sentence > (my english is not good) > I don't know if I ca

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