vncserver and wrong xinitrc permissions

2007-03-10 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I installed the vnc4server package on Etch. When launching vncserver, I want to get a "normal" desktop environment, so I uncommented the two lines in the ~/.vnc/xstartup file which is automatically created: # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-13 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 13/03/2007 18:00, Michelle Konzack wrote: Do you have tried to backport the ORIGINAL Debian Source 2.6.9-2 to Sarge? -- I have tried it and it works. No I didn't. Thanks for the suggestion but in the meantime I have copied what I needed with plain cp over the default NFS and then copied o

Using quotes in bash script parameters

2007-03-13 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, this is not strictly Debian-related, but I'm doing it on Etch, so... :) Let's say I'm writing a script like this: #! /bin/bash SUBJECT="This is a test mail" WARNMSG="An error occurred" WARNCM

Re: Using quotes in bash script parameters

2007-03-14 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 14/03/2007 12:20, Cédric Lucantis wrote: well, hum you see what I mean don't you? :) eval "echo $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD" Yes thanks ;), I already tried it after your second message and was just going to reply now, it indeed works fine. Thanks again. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I'd like to prevent the motd from appearing when someone logs in via ssh on an Etch machine. I already have "PrintMotd no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but the motd still appears. Any clues? -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 18/03/2007 14:20, Tobias Nissen wrote: Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it "the right way"... Infact, this file is used to suppress motd (and last login) output when motd is enabled in sshd_config, but in my case it

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 18/03/2007 19:10, Tobias Nissen wrote: If you use pam (grep UsePAM /etc/ssh/sshd_config) then you might want to disable printing of the motd in /etc/pam.d/ssh. Look for a line like sessionoptional pam_motd.so and comment it out. Oh yes, that was it, thanks! I already did it on

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 18/03/2007 19:40, Wei Chen wrote: Have you tried restarting/reloading the daemon? You mean after setting PrintMotd to "no" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Sure. The setting is actually there since quite some time, with many reboots in the meantime. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 18/03/2007 20:20, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: My guess is that the motd is getting printed from some other thing (ex:- login). One way to check for this is to PrintMotd yes in sshd_config and see if motd appears one extra time. If it does, the Yep it did indeed. The problem was in /etc/p

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-28 @ 12:49:05 (week 09) Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. > did you try vga=normal? that should at least get you a readable > screen. won't be the best res. I did, but still no cons

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-05 @ 01:48:40 (week 10) Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. > Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? Other than wanting to try out a couple of new features no, not really.

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. > You can try to "modprobe vesafb" (or whatever fb module is suitable > for your graphics card) from an X root console and see if this helps. I am sorry to say it didn't.

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-21 @ 19:12:39 (week 12) Florian Kulzer wrote: > Let me just quickly correct my earlier statement: I think the Debian > Linux source packages have the "modular vesafb" option removed anyway > because it caused trouble in the past. I half remembered this and then I > mixed things up a bit

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> > On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? > > > > Correct. Clean install > > > >> what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? > > > > $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reac

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you > do > > these look ups or when the server starts? > > Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? /var/log/syslog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Looking for a RTSP proxy

2007-03-27 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I need to install a RTSP proxy on a Debian Sarge machine (but I could have an Etch one available, too), to allow access to rtsp:// RealVideo content from Windows clients in a LAN where web access happens through Squid on that same Sarge machine. The only solution, by searching on Google,

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On 3/18/07, Jeff Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most installed packages will mess $HOME more or less when compiled with --prefix=$HOME. Though, keep the log of `make install' may be used as an removing method if wanted latter. Is there some package manager that can be used for normal user under

lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details

2007-07-09 Thread Kees de Koster
I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.' If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warning - lp: cannot stat lp device '/dev/lp0' - No such file or directory'

Re: lpd: cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details

2007-07-11 Thread Kees de Koster
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, s. keeling wrote: > Kees de Koster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday >> I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd: >> cron.daily found err

Re: people.debian.org down?

2007-07-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:31:02PM -0700, Paul A. Scott wrote: I can't ping in from here (Tucson, Arizona, USA). I can not gain access, and i am in Australia. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Julian De Marchi
Frank McCormick wrote: The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-08-15 @ 01:39:48 (week 33) Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my > reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was > looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircui

Etch and Linuxant drivers

2007-08-29 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, has anyone successfully installed the Linuxant drivers on an Etch machine, using the official Debian Linux kernel packages? They don't seem to work on my machine, and Linuxant support suggested to download a more recent kernel source and build it, but it's something that I'd prefer to avoid

Setting procmail globally for maildir delivery

2007-09-01 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I'm running a small mailserver using Postfix on a Debian Etch machine. For various reasons I decided to switch from the default mailbox format to maildir, and I did it by adding the relevant configuration parameters in Postfix's main.cf and removing the following line in that same file, which

Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read it anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell). When I try to sync my mail using offlineimap it crashes after a while with the following output

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: > How about: > > # rm -f 1141914051.* > > No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar > mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work. $ rm -i 1141914051.* rm: cannot lstat `1141914051.M4

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 16:35:28 (week 46) Matthew Krauss wrote: > I'm thinking you have a file with a name that the shell doesn't want to > handle correctly. As far as I can tell, there's nothing irregular about the name itself. The only somewhat "special" characters in it are a comma, an equal sign an

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 12:25:25 (week 46) Ken Irving wrote: > See if find sees the file, e.g., > > find -name 11419\* > > and if it does, then something like > > find -name 11419\* -exec rm {} \; > > or > find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \; > > if you'd like to have a look at it.

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 17:47:40 (week 46) Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:02 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > [...snip...] > > #--- > > # cd ~/Maildir/.Applications.\[vim\]/cur > >

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 19:16:00 (week 46) Wayne Topa wrote: > Been there, done that. Now when I come across a file the is there but > isn't, I run mc. If it's really there, mc will remove it. Hi Wayne, Well then, that convinced me the problem is to be found at a lower level. mc listed the file with a

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: > OTOH, something is there. Try using > > # lsof Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks! I tried both but lsof didn't list the file as being used and fuser couldn't find the file at all ("No such file or directory").

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist [SOLVED]

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 08:56:14 (week 46) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rumours I have heard about reiserfsck suggest to me that taking a backup > is *highly* recommended before doing reiserfsck. Right you are! I did, excluding the directory containing the troublesome file. > Some copying/backup programs

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 10:42:25 (week 46) Bob McGowan wrote: > First, HdV has discovered his problem is directory structure corruption. > This is the correct answer, based on all the failed attempts to > remove, in one way or another, this file. Indeed. What most of the proposed methods had in common

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 19:28:40 (week 46) Douglas Tutty wrote: > I see from later posts that reiserfsck worked. I used to have this > problem. I tracked it down to a problem within reiserfs where it stores > small files within the directory structure itself (as a speed-up > measure). I got tired of it

Re: ripping several hundred cds?

2006-11-26 Thread Kees de Koster
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Price wrote: > > --=-4swe7firyBzwtOpLZAyH > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > for xmas I'm switching our stereo over to an electronic system -- > probably a combination of an ipod and a linux player. =20 > > as pa

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-28 @ 18:08:42 (week 48) Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > >we tested this. whatever we choose, printer still prints duplex, > >long-edge flip. as a default, this is fine, but when you need something > >special (like short edge, 2 pages per paper), it is not possible. > > > >it seems that the se

CUPS client problem

2006-11-30 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hello, I have a new laptop (Dell D620, with etch freshly installed) from my new job and I am trying to print using CUPS. The situation is the following, at work there are two different networks: xxx.xxx.10.xxx (let's call it 'internal') and xxx.xxx.20.xxx (let's call it 'external'). The cups

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-12-11 @ 07:50:07 (week 50) Russell L. Harris wrote: > I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred > or so recipients. > > I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". > I installed the package and looked at the example files in > "/usr/sh

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote: > Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of > it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to > user.js: The GNOME file picker is so b

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote: > To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway. > I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on > the older one, whic

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: > You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every > file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've > noticed it does list all files in a directory on the

Pinning X.org

2007-01-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I need to upgrade my laptop without upgrading X.org. The laptop is a reasonably up-to-date etch install with X.org 7.0.22 and proprietary drivers from ATI. (As soon as I have time and can risk a non-working X server I'll upgrade those too.) I want to pin X.org, but am not clear on the depende

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/11/07, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in the dust? If devs stick their heads in the sand and ignore developments then things will atrophy. In fact, in th

Re: DVD menu creator

2007-01-12 Thread Kees de Koster
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, andy wrote: > Dear all > > Although I have been using the command line to write up quick and dirty > xml files to use in the process of burning DVD video files to disk, I > was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for a (graphical) > application that would do

Re: Whois DNS help needed

2007-09-05 Thread Julian De Marchi
Rick wrote: have a problem, need to find out how many websites, belong to a dns server... (don't know the websites) example: if name server is: "ns1234.comp.com" http://whois.domaintools.com That website should perform the operations that you require. Julian De Marchi --

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Julian De Marchi
Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do you mean that there's nothing I can do about it? Silly question. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-26 Thread Nick De Graeve
d the console output anymore but I fear the worst. What should I do? Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's.

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-27 Thread Nick De Graeve
cks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-28 Thread Nick De Graeve
uditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
uditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
cks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- T

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
cks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... -- T

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
cks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. -- T

DiffIndex ignored when updating repository?

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
uditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of and technical information on movie sound systems. De geschiedenis van en technische informatie over geluidssystemen voor cinema's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-23 Thread Eric De Mund
h-resolution images within them due to insufficient memory. Regards, Eric -- Eric De MUND | Ixian Systems | Jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/main [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650 Castro St, #120-210 | Y!M: ead0002 ixian.com/ead/ | Mountain View, CA 94041 | ICQ: 811788 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: [OT/Sometimes Windows is better] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-14 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/11/07, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wim De Smet said... > On 1/11/07, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But that's my point, really: why continue to clone TC, when there are so > > many additional functions out there on other tools that leave TC in t

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-23 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/22/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/07 08:12, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:30:29AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 21,

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-24 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/24/07, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C wrote: > It's kinda like a religious fanaticism... "everyone should act and > believe like I do". And yes, you're absolutely right - there is too much > bile being spewed at top posters. No, it's not. It's called a convention for comm

HP SCSI controller compatibility

2007-01-30 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, can anyone please confirm me whether the following SCSI controller by HP works fine on Debian Sarge? Thanks. http://snipurl.com/18tvg It's also reported as part number 374654-B21. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-01-31 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/31/07, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I've a question on behalf of the Debian Ombudsman Team: - Is there any current issue you would like to see solved into our post-etch release (Lenny) ? Something I'd actually like to see resolved before the release is the whole info-fil

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as rants or flames, don't waste my time. Oh the irony! There are nicer ways to ask for help you know. Starting of by flaming people, then preemptively trying to make them re

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/1/07, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Hi. Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation takes over: is there n

Re: goddammit

2007-02-02 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as > >rants or flames, don&

New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status? I know I could install Sarge and then upgrade to Etch afterwards, but a previou

New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its "stable" status? I know I could install Sarge and then upgrade to Etch afterwards, but a previous up

Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 03/02/2007 14:40, Marko Randjelovic wrote: You can check bug reports to see if packages you are using are affected with some bugs that can cause you problems. Etch is not quite stable, look at http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/. Sarge had less than 10 Thanks, this can be a good idea

What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750 or a

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-04 @ 08:45:38 (week 05) Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But how is their Linux support? > I would buy Tripp-Lite because it is readily available here in Mexico, > but, again, how is the Linux support? Hi all, Thanks for all the input. I agree with the advice not to skimp on the UPS. Howeve

RE: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread Julian De Marchi
Curious, how cold does it get, and what country are you in? -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 12:36 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What UPS to buy -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 20:23, K

Re: Revive dark photos -- Debian gimp packaging question

2007-02-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-01-22 @ 00:26:12 (week 04) ][ wrote: > Hi, > > I remember that I revived some dark photos to normal look by simply > choosing certain gimp menus. Now I want to do it again, but couldn't find > the menu entry any more. I often use "Tools" -> "Color Tools" -> "Curves" in these situations.

Re: Rsync, how to include ~/.files but not ~/.dirs

2007-02-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-01-25 @ 04:05:25 (week 04) ][ wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to tell rsync to backup all the . files under my home but > no any . directories? E.g., .profile in, but .gconf/ & .gnome/ etc out? > > FYI, I tried with the following exclude rules but it didn't work, . > directories > ar

Re: Easier to Read Fonts

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/11/07, Winston Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To my chagrin, web pages are actually easier to read indirectly from my wife's Windows machine (when I connect to it by VNC from my Debian box) than directly on my Debian box. Her Firefox uses Times New Roman, which I believe is a true type fon

Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/11/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought I could use the net and find a publisher in the U.S. but that's not how it works. Most publishers wont touch writers who don't have an agent and agents wont touch writers that haven't published. How bout putting it up on one of the sel

Re: ip forwarding

2007-02-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/12/07, Andrew Critchlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I am having some problems either understanding ip forarding or configuring it? My set up is: XP1 - Debian/Server - XP2 XP1 IP = 10.251.134.20 Debian/Server eth0 = 10.251.134.10 Debian/Server eth1 = 172.16.0.50 XP2 IP =

Re: Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the PDF filenames. I h

Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)

2007-02-16 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/16/07, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ACPI is still a thorn in my side too. I've seen way too many notebooks on which fans simply don't switch on and off reliably, and suspend works but resume doesn't - surely there must be a generic way to handle these things? I'm not sure if y

Re: Hangup in atan2() / __signbitl()

2007-02-20 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/19/07, Eric Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Two questions: Has anyone stumbled on this before, and do you have a fix? I am not sure on what package to submit a bug. It seems the problem would be in libm, so that would be the libc6 package? What kind of info should I add? The info

Etch installation problem

2007-02-23 Thread Marco De Vitis
Hi, I'm trying to install Etch on a new machine, using the net install CD, but I encountered a problem. In short, the install process halts soon after tasksel, with a progress bar stopped at 5%. The motherboard is a Supermicro PDSME+ with an Intel ICH7R chip and builtin SATA. I wanted to inst

Re: Etch installation problem

2007-02-23 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 23/02/2007 17:50, Michael Pobega wrote: Apparently the Debian Etch RC1 NetInstall is broken[1]. It was reported by multiple people that their installers halted on 5%. The current fix is to use the daily installer build, installing right off of the CD (Without using the net to download package

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Julian De Marchi
is because of the age, you would be able to pick up several for a cheap price! :) -- Cheers, Julian De Marchi -- OpenNIC user - http://www.opennicproject.org/ Support OpenNIC, become a member today! -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-06 Thread Julian De Marchi
HP/Compaq Proliant 5000. 200 MHz (may be available slower) is a possibility at $300 USD on eBay plus shipping it across the border to Canada. 2 PCI busses with 5 slots (2 shared with EISA), max 4 GB ram, Pen Pro CPU, 5 bays in a rack-mount, 4 in a tower (may be other options but I haven't got

Re: error during apt-get update

2008-03-06 Thread Julian De Marchi
> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://ftp.iitm.ac.in etch/main > Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.iitm.ac.in_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/auto/home2/sen# > ..

Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
to do this if I was using emacs as the editor. I have nano set as my default editor for mutt, as I am more familar with nano. Any ideas of how I would accomplish this? Or should I start using another editor? --- Cheers, Julian De Marchi -- OpenNIC user - http://www.opennicproject.org/ | http

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
> You should be editing on the way to the bottom. Pure bottom-posting is > as bad as pure-top-posting. If I had just bottom-posed, you would see > Ron's signature lines, the debian-list signature line, and Ron telling > you to turn on line wrapping. As it is, I left more than I probably > should

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
> Mutt doesn't default to top posting, it defaults to putting the cursor at the > start of the message so you can read along as you go down, interspersing your > reply and removing unnecessary text. This is not a bug: It is by design and > is a feature. > I am fully aware this is not a bug(f

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-30 Thread Julian De Marchi
other terms that I tried which appear to all go in decline. I think this *might* prove your point. -- Cheers, Julian De Marchi -- OpenNIC user - http://www.opennicproject.org/ | http://www.opennic.glue Support OpenNIC, become a member today! -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments

Re: ieee that doesn't suck

2006-05-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
mine all the necessary modules and packages. If it doesn't, I'm afraid that a solution might not be that simple ... I have firewire both on my laptop as my desktop, and it works out of the box (I do use ubuntu on my user systems). Hope my advice was at least a bit useful. It might help (n

Re: [Unstable] NFS problems

2006-05-17 Thread Wim De Smet
Just a blind guess, but is your lo interface mounted? Try doing ifconfig, if there's no configured interface with address 127.0.0.1 then that might cause weirdness like the stuff you're seeing. On 5/16/06, El Virolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem still hasn't been fixed in the latest upd

Re: nfs mount question

2006-05-17 Thread Philippe De Ryck
t; Anybody knows how to figure out *why* the mount hangs? > > H > Don't know to figure out how, but I know the solution :) Try installing portmap on the client. I've searched for this problem too, and that solved it for me. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: photo management and camera download by date

2006-05-24 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-22 @ 19:09:53 (week 21) Richard Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way > that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on > Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The > camera will often hav

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

2006-05-27 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-24 @ 22:15:00 (week 21) Donald Teed wrote: > If you have the time, I'd also appreciate any comments > you can share on pros and cons of Debian. I think > I'm aware of the basic features from my experience > running Debian, but I'm thinking of things that > might not come up until in a

Re: probleempje..?!

2006-05-29 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 15:14 +0200, -=greya=- wrote: > hi, > ik heb onlangs de Debian 64bit netwerk-installatie cd gedownload, > deze herkent mijn SATA-DVD brander niet,maar ik raak ook niet verder dan de > herkennings module van de cd ..? > terwijl dit ee netwerk installatie cd zo

Re: Slow initial connection to NFS mounts

2006-05-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
Once the > connection is done everything works fine. The Mandrake boxes connect > quickly. I am talking several minutes for 5 mounts. Any suggestions? > > Hi, Do you have portmap running on the ubuntu machines? (/etc/init.d/portmap start) Hope this solves your problem! Phil

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-30 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? Take a look at ffmpeg. I regularly use it to convert clips to a format that suits me better. Works like a charm. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-31 @ 14:03:32 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > On 5/30/06, J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linu

Re: Why does Firefox's middlemouse.contentLoadURL keep getting reset?

2006-06-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 6/5/06, Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know how to use about:config to sett middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true in order to enable pasting links directly in. But why does this customized value get annoyingly reset to false with every upgrade? Are you running unstable? I myself am an

Re: ejecting CD in a program....

2006-06-10 Thread Philippe De Ryck
the source of the command "eject"? This works pretty good, so maybe you find some clues in there. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security updates and apt-get

2006-06-10 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ation list of package updates. I believe this covers all the updates in stable (correct me if I'm wrong). Regards Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

2006-06-11 Thread Philippe De Ryck
the config, not xinerama or other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. Good luck! Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache + php: url arguments empty

2006-06-11 Thread Johan de Jong
://localhost/?mytag=a the value of mytag is empty. I stumbled on this problem when migrating an existing and working webpage. Any ideas what is wrong? All config files are from a fresh install, no modifications. Thanks, Johan de Jong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

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