Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:16, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to > update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the > environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use > sudo. env shows

Re: nxclient stopped working after xorg upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 00:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > After upgrading sid machine to the latest xorg, nxclient stopped working. > Before the xorg upgrade nxclient used to work fine. Upgrading the nxlibs package did the trick. Now nxclient is working properly. For someone reading this thr

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? (...) It seems that the lists.debian.org MX (murphy.debian.org) is with problems right now, huge queu

Re: Mail getting through?

2006-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >>sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the >>list don't seem to have made it all the way! > > > Lately I've been having problems with this too. Well over 12 hours for > an email to m

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:16 +0200, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem. I have sudo setup so that I can sudo apt-get, to > update for instance. In one network when I have an http_proxy set in the > environment apt-get update can connect when I use su, but not when I use > sudo. e

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
thanks guys, problem solved with this unrar from non-free

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 25 May 2006 06:36, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? > > It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion > is long over by the time

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:15:00PM -0300, Donald Teed wrote: > Howdy, > > We are evaluating Redhat, Suse and Debian. I've > been working with Linux for several years, and my > preference comes down strongly on Debian fitting > in where BSD currently provides our core Internet services. > I have n

Re: (switching between X11 and consoles (Re: switching games between fullscreen and window)

2006-05-26 Thread lee
> How do I disable Caps_Lock? I disabled it with entries like that: clear Shift clear Lock clear Control clear Mod1 clear Mod2 clear Mod3 clear Mod4 clear Mod5 addShift = Shift_L Shift_R addControl = Control_L Control_R addMod1= Alt_L addMod2= Num_Lock addMod3=

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Chris
Thanks! On Friday 26 May 2006 02:41, Limin Wang wrote: > Chris, > > The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to > /etc/sudoers: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo more /etc/sudoers > # /etc/sudoers > # > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. > # > #

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joseph Smidt wrote: > Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox etc... ? "most"? In Sid, XFce4 & GNOME are both very solid. Don't remember ever having either one of them barf or freeze on me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: logrotate's problems with /var/log/pacct

2006-05-26 Thread Christoph Groth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Marcum) writes: >> every day Anacron tells me about problems it has with logrotate. I >> couldn't find any report about a similar problem on the net. Is this >> behavior normal (how can I get rid of it, then?) or is it maybe a bug? >> > > What is in /etc/logrotate.d/pacc

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:02:29PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Just curious, > > > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? > > murphy (the machine that handes lists.debian.o

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 25 May 2006 13:02, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > murphy (the machine that handes lists.debian.org) has been listed by > SpamCop. It is under heavy load since the queue is growing longer and > longer. Ah-ha! If your mail isn't getting through because it's getting dropped by mail serve

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 25 May 2006 03:36, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? As per RFC, the only reasonable expectation for email delivery time is "Less than 4 days." Beyon

2.6.16 update, lost wireless - seems not a udev issue

2006-05-26 Thread Richard Boyce
Hi, I recently upgraded Debian unstable and installed the 2.6.16-12 linux-image. All seems well except I am unable to bring up my wireless connection. ifup freezes when it tries to run dhcpd on the wireless card: richhnix# ifup -v eth2 Configuring interface eth2=eth2 (inet) run-parts --verbos

Re: Icons missing in Etch

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
I had a problem with the Evolution icons not appearing because I was running KDE. I am using etch. I am now running gnome-settings-daemon and I can see my Evolution icons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail option

2006-05-26 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:05:56PM +0100, Mark wrote: > man fetchmail? thank you very much. -- Mission SS - Jeffrin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation

2006-05-26 Thread N A
Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Also, the website is slightly confusing (I'm a first time Linux user). Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mail getting through?

2006-05-26 Thread Andy Streich
On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:39 am, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the > >list don't seem to have made it all the way! > > Lately I've been having problems with this too. Well over

Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Richard
Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, to find a certain information. ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, from the folder. Regards Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> You: * 3 * > > Uh, no. That's called industry standard. The buttons are numbered in the > order that they appeared. We had a one button mouse, then a 2 button mouse > and then a 3 button mouse.

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-26 Thread cga2000
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 05:18:10PM EDT, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. > > I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. > > I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some > things remain. > > I note that gconfd-2 is ru

Re: PUBKEY errors

2006-05-26 Thread Stef VK5HSX
Hi Florian.. On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:22 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > The first key that you are missing is the 2006 Archive Signing Key: > > wget -q -O - http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc | apt-key add - > > (the "apt-key" part needs root) > > The other key is the public key of

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Limin Wang
Chris, The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to /etc/sudoers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo more /etc/sudoers # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults

Re: Mail getting through?

2006-05-26 Thread Limin Wang
Yes, the same issue. BTW, now I got your reply two time. Regards, Limin * Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 16:39:34 +0100]: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > >sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the > >list don't seem to ha

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 26 May 2006 09:46, Glenn Meehan wrote: > Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? or the A540? David > > -- > Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? You piss off any moderators lately? They can set the list to delay messages. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:38:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Or is everyone seeing the same time delay? > > No. Mail gets sent out in the same order as the distribution file which is the same order as the one people subscribed in. This doesn't normally make a difference of more than a few se

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:39:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 25 May 2006 13:02, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > murphy (the machine that handes lists.debian.org) has been listed by > > SpamCop. It is under heavy load since the queue is growing longer and > > longer. > > Ah-ha! If

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:36:33AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? > > It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion > is long ove

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:36:33AM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Just curious, > > Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours > between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? I (the original poster of the former thread) had the same problem. I solved the prob

installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Liudmila Yafremava
Hello! I have been trying to install Sarge on Toshiba Libretto 110ct for weeks with no success. I gravely need someone to take me through it, as I feel that I've tried everything and can't think of anything else to do. The laptop had an empty hard drive and external PCMCIA floppy and cd drives

Corruption on forum link "language....

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Boyle
Hi There is a heap of pornographic links dumped by some anonymous vandal. Would you attend to it please Kevin Boyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:17:16AM -0500 or thereabouts, Owen Heisler wrote: > So 'aptitude upgrade' is like 'apt-get upgrade'. But there is no > 'dist-upgrade' option for aptitude. I don't get it... How can I see, > in aptitude (interactive), a full dist-upgrade? Sorry I haven't been followi

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-26 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:04, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > That would mean that I have to create four different icons on my desktop > for each specific Eterm geometry, but I don't want to have four icons > for Eterm... You might want to make a shell script that launches all 4 Eterms: One script, 4 she

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:16:16PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > As I posted to this list a while back, I have had to abandon xterm in favor > of gnome-terminal because some aspect of the xorg upgrade made the xterm > font unchangeable. > > One annoyance is that I can't post from a GUI app into gnome-

Re: Linux boot CD failure

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:01:38AM +0800, qgong wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I failed to install Linux on a new PC by Debian installation CD. > The booting process stalled after I pressed "Enter" at the first Debian > prompt. The system stalled, displaying "Loading" below the prompt line. I > have tr

mount a cd with /dev/scd0

2006-05-26 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, I'am using a vanilla kernel and I'am trying to mount a cd with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt but I receive the error message: mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device It was working under woody now I have a new kernel (2.6.16) and made an update to sarge which doesn't seem's to work

can't get working more (than two) keybord layouts in x(.org)

2006-05-26 Thread ; ) -
hi community. well, here is the problem. i have debian unstable on my box, with (ukrainian) language environment set up with debian's language-env. and i can't get working more than two keyboard layouts in x.org. i tried to activate third (russian) layout by adding it to my ~/.xcyrillic, i.e. t

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arafangion wrote: > George Borisov wrote: > >> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> [snip] > You may be required to use the proprietary "Ximian Evolution" which is > the same as the free version, but it contains a module that allows it to > talk to Exchan

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
David A. Parker wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? I was receiving all messages from lists.debian.org on a substantial delay a few days ago. Most messages

Re: mail option

2006-05-26 Thread Limin Wang
If you're using procmail to filter your email. You can config your .procmailrc as follows: :0 * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] inbox/ :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Regards, Limin * Jeffrin Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 18:07:20 +0530]: > hello all, > > since i have subscribed to various ma

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion is long over by the time my respons

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-26 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Thilo Six wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ivan Glushkov wrote the following on 24.05.2006 09:04: On my 1280x1024 screen the following looks quite ok: Eterm -g 102x35+0+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+0+512 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+0 & Eterm -g 102x35+640+512 & That w

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -

Re: sudo versus su environment?

2006-05-26 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 May 2006 02:41, Limin Wang wrote: > Chris, > > The latest sudo will reset the env default, so you need add below line to > /etc/sudoers: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo more /etc/sudoers > # /etc/sudoers > # > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. > # > # See the

Re: eterm / gnome window position [SOLVED]

2006-05-26 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Dale Hair wrote: The string I have for my Eterm icon is: /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of the terminal, since they are the same. If I set a

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:40:39PM -0500, Liudmila Yafremava wrote: > > Hello! > > I have been trying to install Sarge on Toshiba Libretto 110ct > for weeks with no success. I gravely need someone to take me > through it, as I feel that I've tried everything and can't > think of anything else to

Re: [UNVERIFIED SENDER] Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Kent West
Donald Teed wrote: > Has anyone ever written a book like "The complete Debian handbook"? You might give Martin Kraft's book a try: http://debiansystem.info/ -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xprt_64

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am getting the following error in my messages file: Xprt_64: cat: /var/run/Xprt_0.pid: No such file or directory Why I am getting this error? How can I go about rectifying this error? Thanks -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

QUARANTINED: Returned mail: Data format error

2006-05-26 Thread WorkgroupMail Content Filter
The message "Returned mail: Data format error" from MAILER-DAEMON, sent on 5/26/2006 07:19 was quarantined because it contained either an executable file, a batch file or a screen saver file. All of these types of attachments are considered security risks. Please consult your mail administrator

Re: Environment and Sudo

2006-05-26 Thread viraj
On 5/25/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Commands invoked using sudo do not receive/honor environment items or aliases.Example would be the alias vi="vim". Invoking normally will run vim, invokingusing sudo vi will get the "other" vi. Is there something else I need in /etc/profile or som

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2006-05-26 Thread Glenn Meehan
Does anyone if there is support the the Cannon Powershot A530 yet? -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Bart Schelstraete
Hi, I'm using the current Debian 'unstable', and since yesterday my X doesn't accept the key inputs anymore. When I press a key, nothing happens. So my X is unusable. I noticed the log below, somebody who knows what I can do about this? As you can see in the log, I'm using X.org. -- X Window S

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N A wrote: Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Unfortunately: NO. from the installation manual: http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs0

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Adam Funk wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -r PACKAGENAME /etc/apt/` turns u

Re: utf problem with mutt

2006-05-26 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > since i passed onto a amd64 machine i noticed that the basic charset > used is utf8 > > but mutt displays that in hex codes, with a \ prepended... > > reading french and german mails in the great majority, this isn't v

Re: Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-25, 19:04:36 (-0400) skrifaði Richard: > Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, > to find a certain information. > ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, > from the folder. You have to use an external tool (something like eyed3 on the mp3 files) a

Re: Grep

2006-05-26 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 26. May 2006 02:04, Richard wrote: > Is there a way to read mp3 ID3 tags using greg?, > to find a certain information. > ie. joint stereo, and being able to select those, and delete them, > from the folder. > > Regards > Rich install and try mp3info It's capable of finding all sorts of i

(Some) received packets are not reaching a listening application (UDP?)

2006-05-26 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
Hello everybody, I have an issue with an application not receiving all traffic that it should be getting. The current system is a non-Debian GNU/Linux, but since I had a similar issue using Debian and I am not following any other Linux-related list, I hope not to be off topic. I have taken the li

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-05-26, 04:39:55 (-0400) skrifaði N A: > Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron > system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard > drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Yes, you can do that by using a virtual machine (see http://

Re: X-Windows Problems - Progress

2006-05-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to ge

Re: mouse problem

2006-05-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
kangja wrote: Sorry, forgot about the attachment in the previous mail. Mine is a 7-button optical mouse. It had worked properly before when I was running kernel-2.6.12. Failed to work after I upgraded to kernel-2.6.15. It does not work whether I use udev or not. I can make it work by doing a a

repetitive apt-get upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Daniel D Jones
What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's listed again. Is this a problem with the package or something on my machin

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
the one Derek sent to me unrar e rarFile.rar I included non-free on my apt sources.list then 'apt-get install unrar' if you mean, the command line yes, there is no X interface. -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.16 update, lost wireless - seems not a udev issue

2006-05-26 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 5/25/06, Richard Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded Debian unstable and installed the 2.6.16-12 linux-image. All seems well except I am unable to bring up my wireless connection. ifup freezes when it tries to run dhcpd on the wireless card: (...) Hi Richard, Since you

Re: install Kernel source???

2006-05-26 Thread nicolasardissono
El Miércoles, 24 de Mayo de 2006 14:01, Liam O'Toole escribió: > Hi! > Please pardon the stupid question...but...I am trying to install a > piece of software on my Debian test machine and the setup is failing > with a Kernel source error while attempting to build some sort of > module. The vendor

Re: installing sarge from hard drive on libretto110ct

2006-05-26 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi Liudmila, I have Debian (amoungst other things) running on a Libretto 110CT. It is a nice little machine once you get it installed, but as you have discovered, one of the more challenging install targets... The PCMCIA floppy is of limitted use for installation, because it is PCMCIA and only t

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-26 Thread Dirk
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but >>where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. >> >> >>It there any simple example server available that was written to work >>with ine

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-26 Thread Donald Teed
Hi, I agree that Debian rocks.  I've spent a few years with different distros to figure that out.  However this is a decision made by committee of people, and so business logic must govern the decision making process. The big difference between commercial and non-commercial is obviously support a

Re: gpilot & pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 16:11 -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [some of this is in the earlier message] > > hi ubuntu, d-u is not ubuntu. [stuff deleted] > I of course know nothing about what this might mean. In any case I'd > love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the > evolution/p

Re: Which is the most stable of Debian releases?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from long-time Debian users (say those who experienced it pre-Woody)

Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-05-26 Thread lee
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:55:27PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > And second, it does not only work with Floppy... burn the BIOS onto a > CD and it works too. > > All of my AsusTek mainboards (K7 and K8) have the same EZ-BIOS no need > for stupid DOS-FLASH-TOOLS... They are outdated! Hm, how

Re: repetitive apt-get upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:21, Daniel D Jones wrote: > What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? > Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go > through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's > listed again. Is th

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Pol Hallen
> Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron > system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard > drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? i dont understand: do you would like install debian on the fat/ntfs?! O do u want install debian on 250Mb drive

OpenVPN hardware requirements

2006-05-26 Thread Dexter
Hi, we have 1Mbps/1Mbps internet connection. We have firewall with hardware: Pentium 400MHz, Ram 192 MB. We use it as firewall, proxy (squid) and OpenVPN server. Is this hardware enough? To me it seemed, that it's enough, untill I have run also OpenVPN client on this firewall that connected to oth

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:56 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Even my posts are delayed. I do not know the reason. I am sending this > message > on 4:56pm May 25, 2006 EDT. Let's see when it arrives on the list :-) Nice delay there: Received: from murphy.debian.org ([70.103.162.31])

Re: Directory overwriting

2006-05-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> When I copy a file into the present directory, with: >>> >>> $ cp /path/to/file . >>> >>> , if the file already exists it is overwritten, i.e. the `old one' >>> is removed and the `new one' takes its place. >>> Instead, with directories it is not the same: >>> when I

Re: rdate, ntp configuration

2006-05-26 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 14:41 +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Have you tried to grep through the /etc directory to search for the IP > for instance? Or just grep for rdate and see what you get. That's the first thing I did - hence my question... rimwards:/etc# grep -r 128.2.136.71 * rimwards

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:03 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions as to my actual question, or should I take > it up with the GNOME developers? Or even violate what I just wrote and file > a Debian bug and let the Debian developers take it up with the GNOME > developers? The

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-26 Thread Dirk
John L Fjellstad wrote: > Dirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but >>where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. >> >> >>It there any simple example server available that was written to work >>with ine

x11-common: I fiddled with the X11 symbolic links

2006-05-26 Thread Samuel Krempp
Trying to fullfill x11-common's postinst requests, I'm pretty certain I messed up my X11 lib / bin / include directories and symlinks. Where can I find a description of what the standard X11 directory setup is (for sid), with details about the /usr/lib/X11 /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/include/X11 symbo

Re: fish & scp

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:47 +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi > for a not known reason when i csp or fish (konqueror) a file to a > remote machine, the transfert stalled after a few seconds and no > more route to the network. > I don't know wehre to search exactly. > Any help would be very appreciated.

[OT-ish] diagnosing serial port functionality?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm having lots of trouble syncing my Palm V to my new, fast computer (ASUS A8N-SLI MoBo, amd 380+ dual-core cpu). Usually I use a serial-to-usb adaptor to connect my serial-out cradle to my computer, but I'm beginning to think there's some hardware problem with the adaptor (the data it

totem playlist: character encoding problem.

2006-05-26 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use totem to play the song. In playlist show strang song name like a attach file. -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> totem.png Description: PNG image

limit the download bandwidth for adsl customers

2006-05-26 Thread david robert
Hi Guys, We are an ISP providers.We are providing ADSL,SDSL and other services.In most of the ISP's now a days they are providing only 2 GB or 4 gb etc.. bandwidth usage for their users this includes download limit. How to configure this bandwidth usage limit for each user? this can be done in Rout

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 22, 2006

Auto detect smarthost for exim4

2006-05-26 Thread Surachai Locharoen
Hi debian-user   I use laptop on dhcp network for home, and office. Each place is used ISP different. I have to config exim4 smarthost for each time I switch the place. Could you any suggestion how to exim4 to auto detect smarthost? -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: keyboard not working anymore in Xorg

2006-05-26 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
you check this files /etc/X11/xorg.conf the InputDevice keyboard thing, and /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 post it here if you find nothing, it seems that you have an error, just in the beginning of the second one -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

2006-05-26 Thread Owen Heisler
Stephen wrote: > Owen Heisler wrote: > > So 'aptitude upgrade' is like 'apt-get upgrade'. But there is no > > 'dist-upgrade' option for aptitude. I don't get it... How can I see, > > in aptitude (interactive), a full dist-upgrade? > > Sorry I haven't been following this thread, but thought I'd

ALSA, AWE32, kernel 2.6 issues?

2006-05-26 Thread Mark Tilford
I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2 to 2.6; various other problems eventually required a complete OS reinstall. I can't get my sound card (Creative SB AWE 32) to work with ALSA; it worked fine under OSS. Is there anything special about Debian that may require me to configure things differently

Re: limit the download bandwidth for adsl customers

2006-05-26 Thread LeVA
2006. május 26. 16:28, david robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > Hi Guys, > > We are an ISP providers.We are providing ADSL,SDSL and other services.In > most of the ISP's now a days they are providing only 2 GB or 4 gb etc.. > bandwidth usage for their users this includes

debian kernel package for ubuntu

2006-05-26 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hi all ... I'm trying to help someone rebuilding its kernel from sources. Since I do not have physical access to the machine, I planned to build a custom debian package linux-image using make-kpkg on my own debian box and let her install the package with dpkg on her ubuntu box. So my question i

Re: Paste with translation table into gnome-terminal?

2006-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:46:20AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > The actual problem is with Language Handling and the simplification of > it for End users. Which means, file a bug report *SOMEWHERE* where you > feel it will at least be looked at. Will do. I'll file against gnome-terminal and let

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:14:14PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > read the documentation, its written in several languages ;-) Smiley or no, that isn't helpful. The OP is clearly new to Linux, and the Debian documentation is not newbie-friendly. The suggestion of a LiveCD is a good one. Knoppix or

Re: rar archiver

2006-05-26 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > if you mean, the command line > yes, there is no X interface. That is not true. "file-roller" and "xarchiver" should do just that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: ppp/wvdial help!

2006-05-26 Thread vasundhar
Hi, I am trying wvdial as normal user and its giving errors saying no permissions to /dev/modem and only getting connected when I am trying with root previlages. how ever if I am using as normal user, I am forced to run wvdial.conf once again to make the modem work efficiently. I would like to kn

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Scott Lair
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Þann 2006-05-26, 04:39:55 (-0400) skrifaði N A: Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Yes, you can do that by u

is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-05-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
Hi, I've been using unstable on my desktop for several years now, and I'm very happy with it. I don't mind the occasional breakage, and actually think fixing bugs can be fun ;-). What I am planning to do now, is to set up my Mac Mini as a "collaboration" server. I want to use: * apache2 + twi

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