backgrounding a script

2007-06-21 Thread MiKe McClain
Thanks, Rob I hadn't even considered recursion. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > yong lee wrote: [...] > > I have to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new changes > > after I open a new terminal window everytime. Even a reboot does > > not help. Does anyone have any idea ? > > You say that

Re: JAVA AWT exception in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:13:19 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a following exception when I ran a JAVA program > which uses AWT in a terminal window. The same program > works in Windows environment. Do I miss some > configuration settings in debian environment ? Thanks > -Yo

Re: where ist libapache2-mod-auth-mysql?

2007-06-21 Thread Till Wimmer
Is no one out there from the debian team reading this mails? I really wonder where this package went to and why? Where is the place to get such kind of information? I googeled a lot. The only information i could found was this one: "apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql". In the meantim

Re: Issues dist-upgrading Etch to Lenny - 1 week old

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:21:17PM -0700, David Fox wrote: [...] > > Also the libgphoto problem is still there. please post up the libgphoto problem again... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: First Outing with MusixTex

2007-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:17:22PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. > I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. > Hebrew characters show as '?' > TexLive Hebrew is installed. > So how do I get it to be used? Do you need

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:59:25AM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: > >So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. > >or I have to reformat and do it again. > > Sure you can. > > Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubunt

Re: where ist libapache2-mod-auth-mysql?

2007-06-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 09:58:04 +0200, Till Wimmer wrote: > I really wonder where this package went to and why? > Where is the place to get such kind of information? http://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libapache-mod-auth-mysql.html > I googeled a lot. The only information i could found wa

Re: elementay fax questions

2007-06-21 Thread Tim Yang
20 Jun 2007 09:33:30 -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For incoming faxes, the fax-modem must obviously discriminate between analog voice and digital fax so that the phone rings with an incoming voice message and does not with a fax. Can I assume this capability is now present in all fax-

depmod in Debian doesn't support compressed module?

2007-06-21 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, When I use Live-CD, I found depmod didn't support compressed module so that the modules.dep was empty. I search the web, finding there's an " --enable-zlib" option for module-init-tools. Why Debian didn't enable this? Or can I build my own version of module-init-tools? Thanks in adv

how to persuade Iceape to use Evo

2007-06-21 Thread michael
Since my Debian upgrade (or before?) it appears that clicking on a mailto URL in Iceape doesn't open a new email using Evolution -- any ideas on how to get this to happen? I've looked at Iceape prefs (nothing set) and Gnome's preferred functions (set to Evolution) but can't see what's wrong. More d

Re: supported hardware accelerated 3D card with OpenGL driver

2007-06-21 Thread csanyipal
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:15:36PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:34:26PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > I see that Asus EN7300GT silent is an excellent choice, isn't? > > Works just fine for me; 1600x1200 at 85 Hz (the monitor's limitation) > with great DVD playba

cups-pdf

2007-06-21 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to change the overlay/watermark text in cups-pdf... The one that say, for example, "Company Private" ... Thanks... -- .-. | Miguel J. Jiménez

Re: screenshot

2007-06-21 Thread Jose Rodriguez
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:50:08 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-06-20 20:29:14 +0100, Jose Rodriguez wrote: > > I use ksnapshot, don't know how big it is, but it does a good > > job, > > Really big, taking into account the dependencies: > > After unpacking 68.1MB of addit

Re: elementay fax questions

2007-06-21 Thread Haines Brown
"Tim Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 20 Jun 2007 09:33:30 -0400, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For incoming faxes, the fax-modem must obviously discriminate > > between analog voice and digital fax so that the phone rings with > > an incoming voice message and does not with a fax. C

Re: [Evolution] how to persuade Iceape to use Evo

2007-06-21 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:23 +0100, michael wrote: > Since my Debian upgrade (or before?) it appears that clicking on a > mailto URL in Iceape doesn't open a new email using Evolution -- any > ideas on how to get this to happen? I've looked at Iceape prefs (nothing > set) and Gnome's preferred funct

Re: skype and amd64

2007-06-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 19:43 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am running etch in a amd64 machine. I need skype running on it, > > because my co-workers uses skype in their windows worlds... > > How can I get skype running in amd64+etch? I googled the

Re: skype and amd64

2007-06-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 07:17 +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: > Hi Marcello > > Am Mittwoch, den 20.06.2007, 11:45 -0300 schrieb Marcelo Chiapparini: > > Hello, > > > > I am running etch in a amd64 machine. I need skype running on it, > > because my co-workers uses skype in their windows worlds... >

Re: problems with radeon driver

2007-06-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:48 +0800, Bob wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 > (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this > card, after a small GUI activity, the screen

help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an invalid operation. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: screenshot

2007-06-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jose Rodriguez wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:50:08 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-06-20 20:29:14 +0100, Jose Rodriguez wrote: I use ksnapshot, don't know how big it is, but it does a good job, Really big, taking into account the dependencies: After un

Re: JAVA AWT exception in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:13:19PM -0700, yong lee wrote: > I got a following exception when I ran a JAVA program > which uses AWT in a terminal window. The same program > works in Windows environment. Do I miss some > configuration settings in debian environment ? Thanks > -Yong > Are you using

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:37:54AM +0530, arijit sarkar wrote: > I have debian installed on my 160gb hdd. > > [NOTE: this is the exact disk structure] > / -> 7gb > swap -> 2.5gb > /home -> rest 144gb > > now I feel, I could have used that space to install another linux OS for > testing/exploring.

Re: [Evolution] how to persuade Iceape to use Evo

2007-06-21 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:05 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:23 +0100, michael wrote: > > Since my Debian upgrade (or before?) it appears that clicking on a > > mailto URL in Iceape doesn't open a new email using Evolution -- any > > ideas on how to get this to happen? I've lo

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-21 Thread steef
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:53:17 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I am trying to setup a dual screen from a laptop with another LCD > monitor. However, this new monito

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Barr wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. Sure you can. Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubuntu live CD, and use parted or one of it's GUI frontend

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread arijit sarkar
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 10:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Yes. However, please look into swithing to LVM. This will help greatly > with situations such as you are encountering now. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > thanks for all the suggestions. Since I'm switched to linux just recently (i

syslog for ip table log

2007-06-21 Thread ann kok
Hi all I want to use the syslog to log iptable log it works in fedora but not in debian, Why? restart the syslog. but the log is still showing in console instead of /var/log/iptable/info kern.=info /var/log/iptable/info iptables -A INPUT -s 10.0.0.1/32 -d 10.0.0.2/32 -j LOG --lo

Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

2007-06-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Orestes leal wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:53:19 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michelle Konzack wrote: Not the best way, but it works perfectly See attached Shell-Script. This is what I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%

shrink /home

2007-06-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way: 1 - To do a backup of all files in the /home directory, including the hidden ones. 2 -

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 21 June 2007 15:55, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me > that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an > invalid operation. > > -- > my place on the web: > floss-and-misc.blogspot.com I think

Which device did I boot from?

2007-06-21 Thread Dallas Clement
Hello all, I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time. I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least it's name while executing an init script from initramfs. Does anyone know how this can be done? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-21 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me > that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an > invalid operation. Dunno if you didn’t see it but the last mail in this report says that the patch providing t

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean resize2fs? I could not find e2resize anywhere. Yes, sorry. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered >> that >> /etc directory is missing. I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that I >> must >> have. > > Perhaps not. > > T

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] kqemu on Sid

2007-06-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I installed qemu on Sid. But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18 kernel. So I compiled/installed http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz and that

Re: JAVA AWT exception in debian

2007-06-21 Thread yong lee
Yes, I am able to run a Swing application from a terminal window. Yong --- Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:13:19 -0700 (PDT) > yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got a following exception when I ran a JAVA > program > > which uses AWT in a terminal wi

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread yong lee
Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I change its default if I want the file to be sourced when I login using GDM. Thanks Yong --- Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > > yong lee wrote: > > [...] >

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Here is how to do it. I posted this back on 31 March 2007. This illustrats the value of searching the archives first. Good Luck! Dennis 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Click "Edit" 3. Click "Current Profile" 4. Select "Title and Command" tab 5. Mar

Connected to DHCP server but cannot access internet

2007-06-21 Thread Rehceb Rotkiv
I can suddenly no longer access the internet with my Debian Etch (default kernel + updates). I get "Page not found" in Firefox and ping www.somesite.com says "unknown host". ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 and the thereby invoked dhclient work as expected, that is I get a valid IP address by the DHCP ser

Re: Which device did I boot from?

2007-06-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
Dallas Clement wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to determine which device I booted Linux from at run-time. > I'd like to obtain the boot device's major/minor numbers or at least > it's name while executing an init script from initramfs. I don't know if that is available at initramfs, but there

Re: problems with radeon driver (solved)

2007-06-21 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:26 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 > (AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this card, > after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported this > problem

Re: How to change the default GTK input method?

2007-06-21 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiano Bertol Leal escreveu: > Jan Willem Stumpel escreveu: >>> S, my question is: is there a way I can set my DEFAULT input >>> method to this cedilla thing, and never have to worry about >>> accenting a c again? >> Don't know if it can be done,

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #1815

2007-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. > > I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. > > Hebrew characters show as '?' > > TexLive Hebrew is installed. > > So how do I get it to be used? > > Do you

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I change its default if I want the file to be sourced when I login using GDM. Thanks Yong --- Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:55:37 -0600 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > > >> > > yong lee wrote: > >

Re: skype and amd64

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Soyez
Hi folks... > Skype's support for linux is rubbish and no 64 support shown on their > website so you can, install the 32bit version and run it with chroot. I have recently downloaded the archive from the skype website (v1.3.0-53) and it's working perfectly fine on my amd64 debian (without chroot

Re: [PARTIALLY SOLVED] kqemu on Sid

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:25:50AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > So kqemu-1.3.0pre11 (the latest version) hangs the system solid with > 2.6.21-1-k7, the Debian stock kernel. But I have modified that kernel > with 2.6.21-ck2 from here: > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ > > Go

cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-06-21 Thread Bruno Buys
I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? very thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-06-21 Thread Tod Detre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Most pdf's are mainly text. You should be able to use standard tools like grep and perl. Bruno Buys wrote: > I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line > tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty > ke

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-06-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Bruno Buys wrote: > I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line > tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty > keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? > > very thanks! I dont think there is any reliable way of doing this since it is po

Re: Connected to DHCP server but cannot access internet

2007-06-21 Thread Tod Detre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is in your /etc/resolv.conf? Do the correct name servers appear in there? If you ping an ip address of a server, does it work? What about using an IP in firefox? If the name server is set up correctly in /etc/resolv.conf, but you're not getting

Re: cups-pdf

2007-06-21 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to change the overlay/watermark text in cups-pdf... The one that say, for example, "Company Private" ... Thanks... I'm not a guru, but i think that it could be a solution in cups-pdf configuration file (/etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf) there's a sec

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > [...] > > >> It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of >> this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a Dell monitor. >> There is no other informa

Re: ulogd postgreSQL module problem

2007-06-21 Thread vizze
Chris Bannister wrote: Could you post the offending query? Hiding any sensitive data if necessary. solved...i did't read man very well, the problem was that ulog table wasn't created. Error reporting is not so clear but... somewhere in the pc ulogd place a file for every db, called *.dump.

Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?

2007-06-21 Thread Tobias Nissen
Hello Bruno! Bruno Buys wrote: > I'd like to be able to search keywords in pdf files using cmd line > tools. My intention is to write shell scripts to automate heavy duty > keyword searching. Anyone has experience with that? As Tod wrote *most* PDFs are mainly text, i.e. not all. But for those wh

Re: First Outing with MusixTex

2007-06-21 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 21 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. > > I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. > > Hebrew characters show as '?' > > TexLive Hebrew is installed. > > So how do I get it to be used? > > Do you

any realaudio plugin?

2007-06-21 Thread michael
I've been trying a few things but just can't get mozilla (unstable) to view the videos (realaudio plugin?) from the BBC web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm Any clues any body?? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l |grep -i -e mozilla -e flash ii flashplugin-

X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Zach
Greetings, I recently tried out a fairly recent Ubuntu boot CD (just to test it - no plans on switching from Debian which I love) and was surprised to see that my X desktop looked so much better: it was brighter and even in the gnome-term and xterm I tried the fonts seemed better contrast, more c

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 04:43:06PM -0400, Zach wrote: > Greetings, > > I recently tried out a fairly recent Ubuntu boot CD (just to test it - > no plans on switching from Debian which I love) and was surprised to > see that my X desktop looked so much better: it was brighter and even > in the gnom

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Zach
On 6/21/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: first thing I'd do is very closely read the xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log generated by *each* system and look for critical differences. It could be something as simple as the dpi setting, for example. It could also be a theme thin

How Can I Setup procmail to deliver into /var/mail

2007-06-21 Thread Orestes leal
Hi Folks! I have a simple configuration that trouhg fetchmail procmail deliver all mail to /var/spool/mail, the thing it's that I want procmail deliver all mails to /var/mail. Only that, thanks to all of you folks. Best Regards, >From Cuba. Orestes. -- Orestes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UN

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:51:15 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam, I think you have a good point. So how do I > change its default if I want the file to be sourced > when I login using GDM. > > Thanks > Yong > > > --- Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 20

Re: cups-pdf

2007-06-21 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi again. I think i've something that could work. First, i've found the better tool to do the job: pdftk. It could modify a pdf file with a background pdf as watermark. I've write down this simple script (called watermark_pdf): ---

Re: JAVA AWT exception in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:43:47 -0700 (PDT) yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I am able to run a Swing application from a > terminal window. > > Yong > --- Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:13:19 -0700 (PDT) > > yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Eğitim ve Danışmanlık Hizmetleri

2007-06-21 Thread interaktif akademi
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Re: How Can I Setup procmail to deliver into /var/mail

2007-06-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks! I have a simple configuration that trouhg fetchmail procmail deliver all mail to /var/spool/mail, the thing it's that I want procmail deliver all mails to /var/mail. Only that, thanks to all of you folks. Why ? Why not just make a symlink? If you must, you can

Re: How Can I Setup procmail to deliver into /var/mail

2007-06-21 Thread Orestes leal
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:32:52 +0200 Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Orestes leal wrote: > > Hi Folks! > > > > I have a simple configuration that trouhg fetchmail procmail deliver all > > mail to > > /var/spool/mail, the thing it's that I want procmail deliver all mails to > > /var/m

Turning off the %^&* scroll wheel

2007-06-21 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid. Over this last week, something happened to the mouse interface. I have a laptop with a touchpad. For some reason, now there is a "scroll wheel" area on the right side of this touchpad, something I never turned on deliberately.

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-21 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > Good thought, but "acpi=off" did not make any (noticeable) > > difference. It still hung during boo

Re: shrink /home

2007-06-21 Thread s. keeling
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the > system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to > shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way: > > 1 - To do a backup of all files in

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 04:58:06PM -0400, Zach wrote: > On 6/21/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >first thing I'd do is very closely read the xorg.conf and > >/var/log/Xorg.0.log generated by *each* system and look for critical > >differences. > > > >It could be something

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-21 Thread s. keeling
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> > >> It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of > >> this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

2007-06-21 Thread s. keeling
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > > > > > Good thought, but "acpi=off" did not make any (noticeable) > > > difference. It still hung during bo

Re: shrink /home

2007-06-21 Thread Till Wimmer
s. keeling wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the >> system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to >> shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way: >> >> 1 - To d

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Zach wrote: > I remember when I had my old Nvidia card I could use 'nv' or > 'nvidia' driver to get hardware acceleration working. Any idea how to > do so for my ATI card? > To enable hardware acceleration, In the "Module" section of xorg.conf you should load "dri". So the corresponding stanza i

Mutt lock sent

2007-06-21 Thread Larry Fletcher
Since upgrading to Etch I've started receiving the following messages from Anacron: Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on lotek.lafn.org /etc/cron.daily/anacron-sys: Couldn't lock /sent Could not send the message. / I eventually traced this to emails that mutt sends from the

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Zach
On 6/21/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To enable hardware acceleration, In the "Module" section of xorg.conf you should load "dri". So the corresponding stanza in /etc/X11/xorg.conf will look like Section "Module" # bunch of load statements here Load "dri" # bunch of

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:38:30AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > >> > > >> It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the m

Re: X problems

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:20:20PM -0400, Zach wrote: > > What does the mode indicate? Could that be the problem? Maybe the game > I played was misdetecting, is there a quick way to verify that > hardware acceleration is working? on my rig: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i dri /var/log/Xorg.0.log |

Re: How Can I Setup procmail to deliver into /var/mail

2007-06-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:57:11PM -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > > Why ? Why not just make a symlink? On my machine, it's symlinked already: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp] cd /var/spool [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/spool] ls -l mail lrwxrwx

Re: any realaudio plugin?

2007-06-21 Thread Jonathan Kaye
michael wrote: > I've been trying a few things but just can't get mozilla (unstable) to > view the videos (realaudio plugin?) > > from the BBC web page > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm > > Any clues any body?? > > Thanks, Michael > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l |grep -

Re: help with "apt-get purge"

2007-06-21 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 6/21/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 21.06.2007 15:55: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133421 promised me > that "apt-get purge" now works (0.7.2) but it complains that it's an > invalid operation. Dunno if you didn't see it but the