Re: mcedit copy to cooledit.clip
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi, When mc runs in forked shell, like script, the ctrl-ins keys in mcedit to copy marked text to cooledit.clip doesn't work. Anybody knows why not? Hugo Have you tried the Learn Keys function in mc? (I prefer using nano instead of the mc editor, but it's worth a try). -- Never believe the attribution of a quotation you find on the Internet. (George Bernard Shaw) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1Rhmu8-0005z4-Nz@lat.local
Re: No cdrom device
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all. I rebooted, opened the tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off the cdrom drive. No luck - booted from the hard drive. That sounds like a hardware problem with the cdrom drive. Also,modprobe sr_modgave me sg0 in /dev (?). mount /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom gave mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device This is getting wierder and wierder. -- Never believe the attribution of a quotation you find on the Internet. (George Bernard Shaw) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1Rg7jv-0005eG-Cy@lat.local
Re: NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001a703 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux Sharon. What is the output of mount? It's possible that even though the partition ID byte says Linux, it may be formatted as FAT or NTFS. -- Never believe the attribution of a quotation you find on the Internet. (George Bernard Shaw) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1Rg7gQ-0005GZ-J2@lat.local
Re: Launch default application from file in command line.
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hello there, Is it possible to launch a default application with a file from the command line, e.g. something like: ./myfile.pdf which would retrieve the default PDF viewer and launch it on myfile? For the moment, I have a bash script called with launch argument, which analyzes the extension of argument and calls the program; e.g. launch myfile.pdf spots pdf and calls evince myfile.pdf. The problem is that it won't follow automatically if I decide to change my default PDF viewer or in case I create a new file/program association (unless I make the script read some configuration file somewhere, I suppose). Any idea? Yet another option is /usr/bin/see, part of the mime-support package. You can also use mc, which has its own config file. -- We've had 30 years of center-right to extreme-right governance and the country has gotten steadily worse. The triumph of politics is that at least half the country blames the Democrats for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1RcoQ8-0001al-Mz@lat.local
Re: Running apt*, help needed
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I can mount the disks on a machine that is running OK. Many TIA! Dennis This sounds like a job for apt-zip. -- We've had 30 years of center-right to extreme-right governance and the country has gotten steadily worse. The triumph of politics is that at least half the country blames the Democrats for this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1RcoUf-000254-AX@lat.local
Re: Crontab Problem
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone tell me what might have happened? (This is of course supposed to be on one line) 00 22 * * * root nice /some/place/myscript.sh 1 /other/place/logs/`date +%F`.output 2 /other/place/logs/`date +%F`.errors The % sign has a special meaning in crontabs. Change it to \%. -- Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes. -- The Best of Will Rogers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I am working on a shell script that generates file names to use with bladeenc. Everything works right except that every single music file the script creates via bladeenc has a ? or question mark preceding the words of the title. Example: A Christmas disk contains a song named Joy to the World which comes out as a file named ?Joy to the World.mp3. I don't think there is anything wrong with bladeenc because I can manually produce Joy to the World.mp3 with spaces and all by enclosing the name of the output file in or double quotations. This means my script is sneaking nulls or who knows what else in to the variable which I called $songfilename. Isn't there something I can do in sed along the lines of sed '/[[0-9][a-z][A-Z ]]/p' to pass only blanks, letters and numbers, but filter out anything else? How does your script create the file names? The example above is not quite what I need. It just passes everything so what I want is to pass only what matches the regular expression. I did make the shell script print the title with an echo $songfilename and what it printed looked perfect. Try this: echo $songfilename | od -to1z -- The more things change, the more they'll never be the same again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Odd Gnome behavior
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I have run across an oddity in Gnome's behavior when running admin tools from the gui. If I run any of the tools found in the Desktop - Administration menu, explicitly from that menu, Gnome asks me for the root password. I enter the root password and it tells me I entered an invalid password. However, if I run any of those same admin tools from the Applications - Debian - Apps - System menu Gnome accepts the root password and they run just fine. Does anyone know what is going on with this? I do the vast majority of my work from the bash prompt, but on occasion I will want to just look at a setting and will choose to do that from the gui tools. Although this problem is easily worked around I'm stumped as to why this is happening. BTW, this behavior started when I changed the behavior of sudo from the Debian default of not requiring a password to requiring one. I've since reversed that to see if that is responsible for the change in behavior in the gui, but it has made no difference whatsoever. Sudo usually requires your password, not root's. That's how it works on Ubuntu, where the root password is usually disabled. -- A feature is nothing more than a bug with seniority. -- Unknown source -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A question about Timestamp and Created Time
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:22:08AM -0200, Eduardo wrote: Hi, I have a FTP server that is outside my company and the users on my network (inside the company) must put their files at this FTP vwith the help of a NFS mounted directory that I shared with SAMBA. But when anyone puts a file in there, or even if I transfer the file using SFTP, the Created Time attribute changes to the current date. And when anyone puts a file via FTP, the Created Time changes too. Does anybody knows how can I keep it to original?? Always upload files as zip or tar files. When the files are extracted they will have the original timestamps. -- This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't. -- Douglas Hofstadter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring ppp and lan
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 12:19:15AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with both up I get DestinationGatewayGenmask Flags MSS Windo irtt Iface joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 00 ppp0 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth1 default 192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 00 eth1 Since your wireless router is not connected to the internet, you should not use it as a default gateway. pppd usually does not replace an existing default route, but you can add replacedefaultroute to /etc/ppp/options. -- When you dig another out of trouble, you've got a place to bury your own. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: starting qemu: shm problem
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:05:06PM +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to star qemu but I have problems. I'm using Etch and qemu 0.8.1-1 When I try to start I receive an error message stating that I have not enough shared memory. the mount command says: devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) If I do what qemu suggest: umount /dev/shm mount -t tmpfs -o size=144m none /dev/shm the emulation starts correcty Here my questions: 1. is this the expected behaviour? 2. where can I find documentation about shm device and temporary file systems? For a start, you can read the comments in /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs 3. how can I change the shm device? Create an /etc/default/tmpfs containing the line TMPFS_SIZE=144M The default size is half of available memory, so I suppose your system has 256M or less? -- All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. -- Ashleigh Brilliant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Romanian
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:45:21AM +0200, user local wrote: drwxr-x--- 2 user1 user1 48 2006-11-13 10:17 FiĹ?iere descÄ?rcate [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ ls Fişiere\ descărcate # # in fact, the title on the desktop (gnome) looks fine: Fişiere descărcate (I've written this # in an out of the box Mozilla browser on a standard multiuser workstation romanian # Debian Sarge installation. However, in the ls listing the name of the folder looks like in # the first line. # # I suppose that I shoud change the font either in gnome-terminal or somewhere in the # gnome configuration files, but I have neither hint about what font to be used or files # I should modify. # In the gnome-terminal menu, choose Terminal: Set Character Encoding: Current Locale (UTF-8). -- A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths. -- Steven Wright
Re: Why root fs read-only on shutdown?
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:11:16AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: Hello, every day I turn my computer off when I leave work. Consequently, I have to turn I back on when I get back. About twice a week, of course, one of my 6 harddisk partitions is ready for its routine check on startup which costs me precious worktime. In an attempt to gain maybe 2 hours cumulative over my entire work life, I came up with the following brilliant idea: To my custom shutdown script (which backs up my day's work and does some cleanup) I added the line: touch /forcefsck and placed this symbolic link in rc0.d: S41checkfs.sh - ../init.d/checkfs.sh (right after S40umountfs - ../init.d/umountfs). The idea being that I don't care how long the machine works before powerdown as by that time I'm well on my way home. It didn't take me long to discover that init.d/umountfs remounts / read-only, preventing checkfs.sh to wipeout the /forcefsck flag, but as the remount line was commented as superfluous in init.d/umountfs I took the liberty to comment it out. Anyway, checkfs.sh still can't delete the flag because rm still says that the root fs is read-only. This of course results in *every* partition being force-checked on *every* startup, which is the exact opposite of what I had been trying to accomplish. A grep on remount in init.d, however, revealed that there are no other scripts that remount / as read-only. So how come that / is read-only by the time I get to my ingenious rc0.d/S41 hack? If you try to fsck / while it is mounted read-write, you will be warned that this is a very bad idea. You could run fsck and then remount / again, or make a copy of the checkfs script and modify it to do fsck -f. -- If you wait long enough, it will go away... after having done its damage. If it was bad, it will be back. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xargs and max chars
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +, michael wrote: Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multiple times with the output concat-ed ie you get groups of date sorted files rather than a single list of date sorted files... (giving xargs the '-x' aborts the above cmd indicating find returns more chars than xargs can handle on a single run)... That's the purpose of xargs, to handle longer lists of arguments than the shell or the kernel can handle in a single run, by breaking them into multiple runs. How then can you get a single list of files sorted by date? You could use find -printf, with a format string beginning with %Ts, and pipe the output to sort -n. -- It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dash scripting / simple rexex substitution?
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:35:51PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: Hello list, I'm doing some initdrd tinkering and I'd like to keep dash in place. I also want to keep as much bloat out of the initrd as possible, so installing externals such as tr / awk / sed / grep is undesirable. Perhaps you could use busybox or lua. Both of these are in tomsrtbt, which fits on a 1.7 meg floppy. -- Lackland's Laws: (1) Never be first. (2) Never be last. (3) Never volunteer for anything -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /tmp/orbit-user
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:25:42PM +0200, heba wrote: hi all, I've a problem, checking my network with netstat I find a series of string: unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 9895 /tmp/orbit-user/linc-164b-0-2ed418eb4af6 Why is this a problem? These are Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication. You can list network connections with netstat -tuna. search with google I've known that the orbit don't run on the user but on the root. Any one know like modify the permiss from user by root, please? I don't think this is something you need to change. -- God must love the common man; He made so many of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev and how to find a harddisk
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 02:02:14PM +0200, Goran wrote: Hello, I'm searching for a way to identify my harddisk with a script (somethink similar to fdisk -l). For that I watched out in /sys/block/hd* or /sys/block/sd*. But which entry shows me that I've found a read/write (harddisk) device or just a read-only device (cdrom)? hdparm -I dmesg | grep hd grep hd /var/log/dmesg cat /proc/ide/*/*/media -- Changing husbands/wives is only changing troubles. -- Kathleen Norris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding hard links
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:45:05PM -0400, T wrote: Hi How can I find hard linked files? Is it possible to find the hard links of the same file? Ie, group the above finding into same file groups? Use stat or 'ls -i' to find the file's inode number, and 'find -inum' to find other files with the same inode. -- See, these two penguins walked into a bar, which was really stupid, 'cause the second one should have seen it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gid option on ext3 in fstab
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:28:14PM +0200, Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: Hi I want all files on a partition, used as a nfs-share, to have utysket as group. Earlier I had a script to run every second hour to set the right group. But then i remembered the gid option in fstab. /dev/hdc1 /Lager/01 ext3gid=utysket,noexec,defaults 0 2 But it doesn't work: main:~# mount /Lager/01/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option gid=1002 or missing value I use the same option on my laptop (mounting vfat partition), and it works. So i don't what to do different. The gid and uid mount options only work with file systems such as vfat, which do not have a uid and gid for each file. Instead, you could use chmod g+s. BTW how much real difference do extra mount option, such as noexec and etc., do to enhance security? They do what they say, not allowing exec, suid, etc. on a mounted file system. Imagine if someone could mount a floppy or USB drive containing an suid root shell. -- Do you guys know we just passed thru a BLACK HOLE in space? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: password problem in kde
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:56:30PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: As root I can login in konsole. But with same password, I couldn't login in kde dialog for changing time. First I had en_IN as locale. I changed the locale to en_US to rectify problem with audacity menus appearance. I tried to delete encription in /etc/shadow and redone passwd command. Still I have problem in KDE. Any solution? For security reasons, the display managers xdm, kdm and gdm are configured by default to prohibit login as root. You can login as a regular user and use su or sudo. By the way, what do you mean you tried to delete encryption in /etc/shadow? If you edited that file by hand, you might not be able to login or su as root at all (like Ubuntu!) -- Deek Yes, America is a country based on how pissed-off a group of taxed people can get. Deek We exist as a country because we're cheap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel uninstall
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:05:11PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote: Debian i386 etch kernel linux-image-2.6.15.1-k7 with appropriate nvidia kernel, running OK. Also installed linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7 without proper match for X11. Wanting to change to 2.6.17, I tried unsuccessfully to first unistall 2.6.16 (apt-get --purge remove), always aborted because package is in incorrect state. Neither apt-get -f install nor reinstall followed by --purge remove were successful (package in incorrect state). Could you suggest how to get rid of 2.6.16? If you aren't short on disk space you could just go ahead and install 2.6.17. You should get a boot menu with the newest kernel as default. -- This is a scsi driver, scraes the shit out of me, therefore I tapdanced and wrote a unix clone around it (C) by linus -- Somewhere in the kernel tree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'stty sane' in insane
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:39:20PM -0400, T wrote: Hi In my script, I always use 'stty sane' to set my tty to a sane stage, after temporally changing any tty attributes. But for recent month or two, my BS key often stop working, only today did I finally track it down to the 'stty sane' statement: $ stty sane $ asdsf^H^H^H I.e., my BS key is producing ^H instead of erasing previous letter afterward. So what should I do? I still like to use 'stty sane' to reset my tty, and I still want my BS key to be configured as ^H, instead of something else. Can I have both? SANE=$(stty -g) stty $SANE -- I love ROCK 'N ROLL! I memorized the all WORDS to WIPE-OUT in 1965!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] carriage return/line feed characters
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:18:04PM -0700, noc wrote: sorry about the office topic. At one point I used a command shell (?) to display whether a file had an extra CR-LF characters. For some reason I'm drawing a blank :( can anyone enlighten me. cat -v ? -- The person you rejected yesterday could make you happy, if you say yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system hang-up
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 03:33:02PM -0700, Emil-Valentin Toma wrote: I've tried many times to install different flavor of linux on a [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 48 MB memory, as bases. Only after repeated trials those system were installed. Particullary, I have problem installing sarge 3.01r2, if I'm not wrong. At 61% the disc freezes. May I avoid this problem? As a detail for much information. I've installed Puppy with no problem but in the time of function, also the harddisc freezes and I have to reset the system. How big is the hard disk? Maybe it is full. Or if the drive is as old as the rest of the PC, it probably has bad sectors. -- Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux Gazette
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:54:50AM +0800, loveboy wrote: Hi, Who know the mirror which have the Linux Gazette,I can put it in my /etc/apt/sources.list to install it. Isn't Linux Gazette part of the main Debian archive? You can choose lg-all, lg-issue*, lg-subscription or lg-latest-two packages, or you can get the tar files or read online at http://linuxgazette.net. -- A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears. -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which locale
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 07:20:31PM +1000, Wei Hu wrote: Thanks Mathias. I'm wondering that the filename is encoded with gb18030 (not utf8). If that is indeed the case, it should be possible to rename the file with mv $filename $(echo $filename | recode gb18030..utf-8) You might try 'ls -b' to show the filename without 'invalid unicode' or question marks. -- The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech. -- Clifton Fadiman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory card reader on Etch
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:05:50PM +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller 02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller 02:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller 02:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: msb01:~# ... The last four lines seems to indicate that the card reader is working. Mybe I'm doing something wrong. Do you see anything in /var/log/messages when you insert a card? -- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where can i find non-free repsotries for debian ?
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: Hello... many gr8 progs aren't relased on the debian tree (even that the source code is relased). so many times i need to recomile packages from source (and it takes sometime hours). im searching for Non-free /unoficial mirrors that i could add to /apt/source.list. i had found this : http://www.debian-multimedia.org but im searching for more. Try http://apt-get.org -- Cutler Webster's Law: There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 02:14:35PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi folks, is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ? If eth0 is online, ssh, scp and rsync always wants to send over eth0. In the manpages I found no way to change it. (Background: I have wired cable on eth0 and wireless on eth1. You might say: Just change it ! But as I work on different places, then I have continously to change. What a mess) Set routes to specific sites or subnets via eth1, then set your default route. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bringing up eth0 NIC without logging in
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:12:48PM +0100, marc wrote: Hi. I have a couple of Debian installs on my laptop, on one the eth0 NIC comes up during the boot process, but on the other it doesn't, although it's identified and there in dmesg. I'm using the same interfaces file for both, but clearly I'm missing something - that I probably did in the midst of time and have now forgotten. /etc/network/interfaces says auto eth0 inet dhcp After boot, ifconfig shows no eth0, but ifup eth0 says eth0 already configured. There is no way out at this point. When I ifdown eth0 followed ifup eth0 (or dhclient eth0) all is sweet. What am I missing? Is the module for the nic listed in /etc/modules? Maybe dhclient runs before the module is loaded. Is the nic built in or on a card? -- Behind every successful man you'll find a woman with nothing to wear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: really confused about root's shell - please clue me up
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:02:20PM +0200, LeVA wrote: Hi! When my root's shell is `/bin/bash' in the /etc/passwd file, and I do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile (/root/.profile) gets executed. After setting the root's shell to `/bin/sh', and do `su' as a simple user, then the root's .profile doesn't get executed until i run su as `su -'. My /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/bash. ps.: I can tell if the .profile is used or not from the prompt (I have the PS1 variable set in the .profile file). Do you have a .bash_profile or .bashrc? -- meeting, n.: An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or department not represented in the room must solve a problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Command line audio and CD player?
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:47:46AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:46:14 +0200 Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any command line tool that plays both? I can't think of any specifically that do the job. On the other hand, one would think that 'mplayer' should be do it, but several attempts to access the cd device (/dev/cdrom, or /dev/hdc) failed here. 'mplayer vcd://1' managed to read the TOC and it acted like it was going to work (disc accesses) but it just stops. I really didn't expect that to work, because I have an audio CD in the drive, but not a video cd. Still, one would guess that if there's any command like player that should be able to do the job, it should be mplayer, simply because it seems to be able to play anything, and audio CD playback should be simple enough, relative to the other stuff that mplayer can do. If it isn't a video CD, try cdda:// and make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cd player. -- Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars. -- Mohammed Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse Pointer in Enlightenment
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:43:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I'm using Enlightenment Manager Windows, for me is the best. Any way I use in Enlightenment a big Virtual Desktop with the edge flip enabled, sometime when I lose the pointer I move the mouse in order to catch it with my eyes again, and sometime because of this moving, I pass to the neighbor Virtual Desktop. I really want to stay using the edge flip feature so I want to know if you know some feature (like in windows) that when is pressed for a few seconds some key (for example Ctrl or Alt) something pass with the pointer of the mouse (for example came bigger) and I see where the pointer is. Thank you in advance, Gustavo Halperin You could install xeyes (used to be part of xbase-clients, now it's a separate package; a pair of eyes that look toward your pointer), or even oneko (a little cat or dog that chases the pointer). -- What hath Bob wrought? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: (The following is based on my experience. I hope I'm not entirely wrong in my understanding of how this works. :-) If you log in on a regular terminal (i.e. not in X at all) then /etc/environmentis used. Mine looks like this: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 The dpkg-reconfigure you did should have affected that file. However, I'm not sure whether it'll take effect without a reboot. If you log in using a display manager (GDM, KDM, ...) then it might set the locale itself (I know GDM does). AFAIK you have to log out, change the locale, then log in again in order to change it. The OP was asking why date does not show the time in the correct time zone. That is set by /etc/timezone or the TZ environment variable. The locale affects the language for month and weekday names, whether dates are shown in m/d/y or d/m/y or y-m-d format, and whether time is shown in 12 or 24 hours. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 34th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3172 Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mangled $PATH
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 12:36:40PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I found an odd problem. When I login as root via the X-window, all my terminal sessions have a $PATH variable with '/ sbin;' as one of the directories. When I login in via CLI I do not have this. I can't find it in ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile, or /etc/profile Where did this odd character get inserted? Maybe in .xsession or .xinitrc? -- If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh. -- Dave Johnson, on dead seagulls -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turn off Process
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:11:35AM -0300, Henrique Rennó wrote: Hello!!! I've installed Debian Sarge 3.1 in my laptop (Acer Aspire 3002LCI) and every time I give the halt command the system starts going down without showing information on the screen (it turns black) until I hear a sound that I think it's the hard disk stopping working then I turn off the computer because it does not turn off by itself. You might need to change the apm or acpi settings in the boot loader. My doubts are how I could configure Debian to show the proper messages of services being stopped and things like that when turning off the system and how the computer could be turned off by itself after everything has been finished (is there something with APM???). If you give the halt or shutdown command from X, the messages are sent to tty7 or whichever virtual terminal was active at the time of the command. To see these messages, you can switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-(F1-F6)) before shutting down, or press alt-F7 after the graphic display stops. -- What this country needs is a good five cent nickel.
Re: logrotate's problems with /var/log/pacct
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:56:24AM +0200, Christoph Groth wrote: Hi, 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/pacct ? -- God, I ask for patience -- and I want it right now! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: View Debian mailing lists in a news reader
I'm pretty sure you can post via news, at least on gmane.org, and am testing it with this very message. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:20:08PM -0500, Daniel L. McGrew wrote: Thanks, I appreciate the help, but that didn't work... it's not lists.debian.org or linux.debian.user... I'll keep trying... Most sincerely, If your ISP's news server doesn't carry linux.debian.user, you can set up news.gmane.org as the news server, and get the newsgroup gmane.linux.debian.user. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting OOo to use Firefox
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: As indicated in another thread, I've recently switched to Enlightenment from Gnome due to the keyboard mapping bug (I'm still going to test out a workaround, but I need to get work done in the meantime...) I'm finding out that gnome was doing a good amount of linkage for me. In particular, I used to be able to click on a weblink in a spreadsheet and have it opened in Firefox. Not anymore. OOo complains: OpenOffice.org could not find a web browser on your system... I've checked into the /etc/alternatives system and firefox is my chosen browser for x-www-browser. OOo doesn't seem to give me a spot to enter an application for handling www, so I can't just slap a path to a binary into a config anywhere (unless I've missed something -- which I could have). I've googled quite a bit about this and I can't seem to come up with a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction? In Firefox preferences, do you have Firefox should check to see if it is the default browser when starting? -- Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart -- and only the pure in heart can make a good soup. -- Ludwig Van Beethoven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB will not load
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:47:50PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: i see other people have been having a similar issue with GRUB not loading, my issue is from a hdd, after installation, GRUB loaded fine on this computer when i was testing to see if i would be interested in trying out linux, but when i transferred the hdd and formatted and reinstalled GRUB would and still will not load, i waited nearly a hour. What exactly was the last message on the screen while you were waiting for grub to load? -- If you stew apples like cranberries, they taste more like prunes than rhubarb does. -- Groucho Marx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/mouse disappears during reboot...
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:27:46PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hello, on a sarge system I created a link ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse After reboot it is gone. Does anybody know, who deletes the link and why? If you use the 2.6 kernel, it's udev. /dev is a tmpfs which is created each time you boot, and you should edit your /etc/XF86Config or /etc/xorg.conf to use /dev/input/mice. -- I feel ... JUGULAR ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help connecting two debians via dial up
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:10:46PM +, enediel gonzalez wrote: Hello: I'm trying to connect two debians using two modems, but I've a misconfiguration on mgetty and ppd that close the connection after I saw a prompt, I need to have the prompt on the second computer. Which prompt did you see? The login: prompt or the shell prompt? Do you have debug in /etc/ppp/options on both machines? Can you post the relevant lines from /var/log/syslog on both machines? -- The world is no nursery. - Sigmund Freud -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: win-axe clones
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe? What does win-axe do? -- The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No shell, Only FTP access
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:18:58PM +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: Hello all I running a webserver with multiple users and domains. I want some users to have no shell access, only FTP access to upload websites and chroot'ed in their home directory. I have all the domains located in /home/www/domainname1/ , /home/www/domainname2/ etc. I give the user proper access to the domain under /home/www/. I chroot'ed the user in /home/www/domainname1/ I gave shell /bin/false User is denied shell access but also FTP!!! If I give /bin/bash and test the user is logged inn and chroot'ed in /home/www/domainame1/ I'm using vsFTPd. How can I deny shell access and allow FTP? Is /bin/false listed in /etc/shells? -- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler
Re: icewm and keys
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:30:06AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:40:54 -0400 Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems configuring the keys in icewm. The box is running Mandriva. I downloaded and compiled the most recent icewm. The problem is that some of the keys I configure do not work. F1 and F2 are ok F3 and on are not. Of the Alt+Ctrl sequence, r and b do not work. [... snipped key table ...] two things come to mind: 1. those programs are not in your path properly? any number of reasons for this but its possible. 2. those keys are bound by something else that is interfering. One other thing comes to mind: Why did you write to debian-user if you are using Mandriva? -- Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get install elinks
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:33:38PM +0200, Jeroen Brandwijk wrote: wiske:~# apt-get install elinks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: elinks: Depends: libperl5.8 (= 5.8.4) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages wiske:/home/jeroen-test# reportbug `apt-get install elinks` E: Broken packages bash: reportbug: command not found Are you using testing or unstable? What happens if you try apt-get install libperl5.8? -- Love is never asking why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: utf-8 and gnuplot
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 08:52:33AM -0300, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: Hi, I would like to use gnuplot with my locale environment set to UTF-8. However, when the gnuplot terminal is set to x11, the utf-8 strings are interpreted as iso-8859-1. If the gnuplot terminal is set to png, the strings are drawn as if they were iso-8859-2. I filled a bug report to gnuplot, but the developer told me that gnuplot has no problem and that I have to choose an utf-8 font: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1458525group_id=2055atid=102055 Then, my question is: How can I find such an utf-8 font? I used xfontsel to search for an utf-8 font, and I put the only font whose encoding (according to xfontsel) was u into my .Xresources in the hope that this u meant utf-8: Look for fonts with iso-10646 encoding. -- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Alexander Pope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] How to subscribe to this list but disasble receiving the mail?
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 10:00:13PM +, Adam Funk wrote: Someone on news.nntp.readers asked [1] about how to get posts through to the linux.debian.user newsgroup. I told him to subscribe to the debian-user mailing list, then disable mail delivery, in order to get his posts through the newsgroup - mailing list gateway. I'm sure this is what I did a few years ago, but I can no longer find the link to set this option (disable mail delivery) on the debian-user mailing list interface. Where is it? The first time you post to linux.debian.user, you should get an email from lists.bofh.it. When you answer that email you should be able to post via the newsgroup. -- Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit. -- David McCord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mucked-up locale settings in testing
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 02:23:05PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: Is the `locales` package installed? I /believe/ it is ... in aptitude, locales is highlighted green, is marked 'ciA' in the leftmost column and is taking up 11.2 MB if I am reading the display correctly. c usually means a package has been installed and removed but not purged. ci means that the package has been configured and is marked for installation. A means that the package is marked to be automatically installed; it will be removed if no other packages depend on it, but that shouldn't happen with locales. If I run 'apt-get install locales' I get a shower of unmet dependencies, mostly for kdelibs4c2a and libqt3-mt. Then at the bottom of /that/ there is the interesting message: locales: Conflicts: base-config but 2.53.10 is to be installed What packages depend on base-config? The description says it can be removed once your system is installed. (I'm using Ubuntu Breezy, and the locales package here does not show a conflict or dependency with base-config). -- Never eat anything bigger than your head. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is the GRUB menu file?
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 07:20:46PM -0800, pair odocs wrote: I am a new user who just installed debian 3.1r1 with the 2.6 kernel with GRUB in the mbr. Much went well for a 'desktop' install...later we could talk printer and video codecs. One issue: I can't find the GRUB menu list file in this installation. Where is it? It would be much easier to make some multiple disk multiboot changes if I could directly edit it rather than do it indirectly through GRUB. It should be in /boot/grub/menu.lst, like it says in the man page. -- Fascinating, a totally parochial attitude. -- Spock, Metamorphosis, stardate 3219.8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd doesn't connect
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Fabián Barco wrote: Hi, I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0. The modem was working ok! but now the modem doesn't connect. I have the following message in the /var/log/syslog file tcflush failed: Bad file descriptor tcsetattr: Invalid argument (line 1010) I was trying setup a ldap + samba server, I modified the /etc/pam.d/common- files. It is that I remember. I have pctel modem, HPS56 MicroModem on pc100 board. Which is the problem? and How to can I solve it? thanks! Probably a winmodem. Try http://linmodems.org or buy an external modem. -- Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Re: Stupid shell script question about read
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:23:20AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Hi list,
Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in
bash/posh/dash?
benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c
benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c
foo bar baz
If I try the same with bash (or other sh-compatible shells), the
variables $a $b and $c are unset. From the bash man page:
Posh and dash behave like bash in this respect, so I guess that this is
not a bug, and that what zsh does is actually an extension. So, what is
the correct POSIX-compatible way to get read to work as I want?
I think the POSIX way would be
echo foo bar baz | { read a b c; echo $a $b $c; }
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Re: Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:32:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is missing: But even after I do aptitude reinstall passwd, nothing changes... What is wrong there ? Maybe that file is supplied by one of the libpam* packages? -- Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. -- Peter Drucker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binary output from ls
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 05:09:30PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi, if I issue ls . filelist.txt as user I get: a binary file like: ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m ESC[0mfilelist.logESC[0m ESC[01;34mgconfd-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkde-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkeyring-CXhOCWESC[0m ESC[01;34mksocket-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;35mmapping-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34morbit-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mssh-mmCRYB8783ESC[0m ESC[01;35mxmms_glushkov.0ESC[0m ESC[0mzmanImD0upESC[0m ESC[m ... if I do that like root, I get the list of files as expected. What is the difference? Both root and the user are using the same shell. What terminal are you using as root and as user? -- no brainer: A decision which, viewed through the retrospectoscope, is obvious to those who failed to make it originally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No audio output when playing CDs
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:47:44PM +, John Halton wrote: Since the recent ALSA upgrade (that seems to have caused a number of problems for other people) I'm now unable to play audio CDs on a number of applications (gnome-cd and XMMS, for example). I can play them fine on Amarok, but would prefer to get the other apps working to avoid having to start up Amarok just to play a CD. Any suggestions? Does your PC have a wire from the CD drive to the sound card? -- Man who arrives at party two hours late will find he has been beaten to the punch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk checks on restart
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:32:24PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: I have a server (woody) that is rarely restarted, but when it is a disk check is preformed that can take as log as 20 minutes. I believe it is running fsck at boot up before mounting the partitions and when it gets to /var (92GB) and /opt (92GB) it take it a while to complete each. So I have 2 questions. 1. Is it actually running fsck Probably. 2. is there an online way to perform these checks so that it takes less time to restart when required. (1) Use tune2fs to set how often a full fsck is done, based on the number of mounts or the amount of time since the last one. (2) Convert your filesystems from ext2 to ext3, if your kernel supports it (tune2fs -j). (3) You can change the last field of the line in /etc/fstab to zero, so the filesystem will not be checked at boot. (4) You can run fsck on an unmounted filesystem or one that is mounted read-only. -- Q: What do you call a WASP who doesn't work for his father, isn't a lawyer, and believes in social causes? A: A failure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug in en_US locale
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:59:49AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Anyone else wondering about this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=347323 My calendar apps now start with the first day of the week being Monday. I'm not willing to give up that day off at the start of the week. ;) Seems like a serious bug, but it has not been responded to. Am I looking in the wrong package? I had noticed that jpilot was starting weeks on Monday. I set LANG=C and started jpilot, and it showed weeks starting on Saturday! -- Don't mind him; politicians always sound like that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: maximize an xterm
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 08:28:26AM +, debian wrote: Please, how can I send the xterm I am working in a signal to maximize itself, or minimize itself ? Thanks apt-get install xtermcontrol -- like: When being alive at the same time is a wonderful coincidence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling xboard on debian # No such file or directory # error: `XtNdefaultDistance' undeclared here (not in a function)
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:41:41PM +0100, Morten Gulbrandsen wrote: Hello list readers, I'd like to download compile and run xboard under debian. Have you done apt-get build-dep xboard? -- AUTHOR FvwmAuto just appeared one day, nobody knows how. -- FvwmAuto(1x) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permissions with rlogin
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:23:49PM -0300, Claudio Plateroti wrote: I need to give permissions to a machine to connect with rlogin . What i have to do ? Install rsh-server or rsh-redone-server, or use ssh. Rsh-server is not installed by default for security reasons. -- The modern child will answer you back before you've said anything. -- Laurence J. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't chmod
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:01:33PM +0100, Igor Milovanovic wrote: I have this file: -rwx-- 1 f13o f13o 7.1K 2003-06-12 14:08 ppmtolss16 and i can't (?!) chmod it to 755 as user f13o? This hasn't happened to me... please, help. What are the permissions of the directory? -- One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. -- Larry Gelbart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA And Flash-- how do I make them play together?
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:45:57PM +1100, Keith Bates wrote: After re-installing and re-configuring ALSA, I have all my normal sound sources (xine, xmms) working well but I can't get any sound from flash in my browser (both Firefox and Opera). I did have them working previously, so there's probably some setting I've mixed. Can someone offer suggestions? On my system, sound works in Firefox with this in ~/.mozilla/firefox/rc: FIREFOX_DSP=none -- Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't sync with Evolution
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:56:25PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote:
Hi all, new Debian user here having migrated from Mandriva 2006 to
Ubuntu to Debian and am trying to settle in to this apparently wonderful
distro, where dependencies are minimal, and Linux is as Linux should be.
Here's my question:
I am trying out Evolution for the first time after being a Kmail/KPilot
user for along time and I am trying to sync my Zire 31 to it. I have
Gnome Pilot running, but it can't seem to see my Zire.
I can see the kernel messages saying hotplug and the USB subsection see
it, and are creating ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1, but are one of these symlinked
to /dev/pilot? Or do I need to create it?
I use jpilot, not Evolution, but I have this in /etc/udev/udev.rules:
BUS==usb, KERNEL==ttyUSB[13579], SYSFS{product}==Palm Handheld*, \
SYMLINK+=pilot
Every USB Palm device creates two ttyUSB devices; some Palms sync on the
first device, the Zire 31 uses the second one. The other tty is
supposedly used for debugging, but I'm not sure how. If you had another
usb-serial device such as a USB-RS232 adapter, I don't know whether the
even/odd numbering of the Palm devices would change, requiring a
different method to create the /dev/pilot link.
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Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:08:24PM +0100, Sonixxfx wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. Thanks for your help. If you use aptitude, the syntax is almost exactly the same, and it logs its actions in /var/log/aptitude. Running upgrades from cron is risky, you might try the -s option, which tells what would be installed and removed without actually doing it. -- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partition sda1 on usb pen not recognized
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:11:53AM -0800, scanda wrote: == update i've another laptop ( an old texas instrument ) with debian sarge, kernel 2.4 if i plug the usb pen ( iomega mini 128 ) i've the same problem afther the command fdisk -l /dev/sda udev find the sda1 partition and everything went ok any idea Some usb devices are formatted like big floppy disks, i.e. you mount them as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1. Nowadays it usually doesn't make sense to split a 128 or 256 meg drive into smaller partitions, so a partition table isn't always necessary. -- Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' -- they have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logrotate don't route
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:20:27PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: Have you tried it with the -f option, i.e, logrotate -f /var/log/backup from the command line? If that works, it may be that your computer was simply not switched on at the time logrotate should have been doing its job. If that is the case, you should install anacron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Logrotate don't route
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote:
Hi all,
I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate
my backup's log.
This is the text in my file:
/var/log/backup {
rotate 4
monthly
compress
delaycompress
missingok
notifempty
create 640 root adm
}
I have also restart my system, but my log don't route.
Could you help me???
Has it been a month since that file was last rotated? If not, you can
use the command logrotate --force /etc/logrotate.d/backup to rotate it
now.
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Re: Where are GTK devel packages?
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:01:37AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. The program aborts with the message, the GUI requires GTK devel packages (which were not found) My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but I probably do not have the whole Gnome package installed as I normally use icewm. I don't need a lot of bells and whistles as the programs I use: openoffice, xfig, gimp, cups, pysol and mozilla work fine but I would like to add mplayer-plugin to watch TV clips. Tom George What's wrong with the existing mplayer binary packages? Have you run apt-get build-dep on the package you are trying to compile? -- If it ain't baroque, don't phiques it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: undo the command apt-get clean
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 06:14:49PM +0200, Yuri Pakhomov wrote: there are way to restore deb files from installed packages. But i dont't know command exactly. dpkg-repack -- Real programs don't eat cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Access to ntfs partition for users
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:55:59PM +0200, Yuri Pakhomov wrote: I tried to add lines to fstab to mount my ntfs partitions: /* /dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,iocharset=koi8-r 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/d ntfs ro,users,gid=users,uid=nobody,iocharset=koi8-r 0 0 */ But cannot access mounted volume as users (although they are in users group) If i tell uid=user , so user user can access mounted volume. How to make it accessible to whole group, not single user? Use the umask option, umask=000 or umask=007. -- Nirvana? That's the place where the powers that be and their friends hang out. -- Zonker Harris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox font support on Sarge
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:55:47AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I just did a Sarge install and trying to get fonts up to where they are on my Sid machines. After the base install and installing Firefox I noticed poor font support and often missing symbols. I started blindly throwing font packages at it: msttcorefonts x-ttcidfont-conf gsfonts-x11 Which seems to fix most things. Even after adding the above, I've been seeing a number of sites that use emsp; entity. On those sites, do you see emsp; spelled out, or do you see the box symbol? If it is spelled out, that would be an error in the HTML. -- Remember that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Cleveland. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox help.
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:56:26PM -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: There are a few things that have been annoying me about Firefox. One reason for asking here is that I'm using the version bundled with sarge and would rather not upgrade. First off, is there some way to close that god awful find bar with the keyboard? The one eating up screen real-estate at the bottom of my window until I touch the rodent? Press the Esc key. -- Life is a POPULARITY CONTEST! I'm REFRESHINGLY CANDID!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mrxvt doesn't display ncurses applications correctly
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 09:03:36AM -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: Hello, I decided to switch from xfce4-terminal to mrxvt but I can't get it to display properly ncurses-based applications, such as mutt or aptitude. The problems are: 1. Line-drawing characters, such as the ones mutt uses in threads, or aptitude to draw boxes, are displayed as boxes and other ugly-looking glyphs. 2. The cursor disappears when mutt or aptitude are running. Is your locale UTF-8 or ISO-8859-*? -- He hath eaten me out of house and home. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New post install tidbits?
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:10:48PM -0500, Chinook wrote: I would not mind logging in and starting the desktop GUI from Terminal, but for my wife's sake I need a KDE login GUI that does not require the root password to shutdown. If you want to make it easy for your wife to shut down, you could change the ctrlaltdel line in /etc/inittab: ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now Change -r to -h and the system will shut down when ctrl-alt-del is pressed. (First you might have to press ctrl-alt-F1 to get to a text console). -- Dyslexics have more fnu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to show bad sector of a file system
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:14:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have fxck-ed a file system, now i want to know whether there are bad sector, which command can show bad sector? Thanks in advance! badblocks or fsck -c. With today's hard drives, if there are any bad sectors which are not automatically remapped, it is time to replace the drive. I recommend installing smartmontools. -- Real Users know your home telephone number. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fstab problem
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: Rodney Richison wrote: Can any tell me why this works manually mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive But this in fstab does not work /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 1 1 or this /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 0 0 or this /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive ext2defaults 1 2 A bit more info. This is debian sarge. No gui. I chmod 777 /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and it finally mounted with mount -a I then rebooted to make sure would mount. It did not. And would not with mount -a I then chmod /mnt/idedrive AGAIN and mount -a then would mount the drive. Do the permissions of /mnt/idedrive (when hdc1 is unmounted) change? Is it possible that /dev/hdc1 does not exist at the time during bootup that drives are mounted? Are you sure that /dev/hdc1 has an ext2 file system? -- My face is new, my license is expired, and I'm under a doctor's care -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firewire, reboot, /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:34:39PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: Hi Debian users, My workstation's inputs (keyboard and mouse) froze today for the second time in 6 years and I had to hit the reset button. Everything came back up fine (thanks, journaling!) but when I try to mount my external firewire drive which I use for backup, I get this: [snip] Can someone put me on the path to getting this fixed? Thanks for reading! I don't know much about firewire, but how long have you had that drive? And by the way, how long have you had the drive(s) that it backs up? -- The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAM Authenication problems
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 04:57:23PM -0800, Vadim wrote: I updated my box today morning (I am using testing), and I lost my authenications. Seems like PAm is not using shadow passwords. My common-password contains only one live (default): password requiredpam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5 Are there any other parameters which could contribute to this? Has the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow file changed? Does each line in /etc/passwd have x in the second field? You should have copies of these files in /var/backups. -- I like being single. I'm always there when I need me. -- Art Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mountvirtfs
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:45:27AM +1100, Glenn Meehan wrote: Hi, I just did an apt-get upgrade and I got the following message: Configuration file `/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs' == Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. == Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. I am running testing/unstable with a 2.6.8 kernel. Should I keep the original version or accept the package maintainers version? Only you can know what is different between the two versions on your machine. Press D and then decide, or ask about specific changes if you need help. Sometimes the changes in a config file are just comment lines or things that you (or a previous admin) chose to change. -- Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple cron.daily script problem
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:48:51PM +0200, David Baron wrote: I have something like mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory umount /mnt/clamscan The mount point is not the fstab mount point and the disk is not mounted to its normal mount point when this script is run. The clamdscan cannot access the directory because of permissions problem. The script used to work fine with the disk at its normal mounted point on bootup. What to do? Change the permissions. Use the umask=000 option, like in fstab. In fact, you could add this mount point to fstab with the noauto option. -- Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. -- Kirk, The return of the Archons, stardate 3157.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: basic questions
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:37:09AM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , testing, 2.6. 2. Should I be able to see files in the Swap partition ? No. How do I know that it is properly working ? free or top will tell you how much swap is available and how much is in use. In KDE browser it tells me that swap is not mounted (although in /etc/fstab it is ), also during boot up I get mounting local file system ...Fail The Fail message doesn't sound good. Perhaps you should post the output of: cat /etc/fstab mount fdisk -l -- RHAPSODY in Glue! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xine Skips Horribly
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:03:29AM -0800, Jacob Jennings wrote: How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on their harddrive? hdparm /dev/hda (or whatever the name of your hard drive is; /dev/sda for SCSI or SATA). -- Who dat who say who dat when I say who dat? -- Hattie McDaniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stopping Bootlog daemon... failed!
On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:02:02AM -0800, Fred J. wrote: Hello when I do a fresh boot, the last line reads Stopping Bootlog daemon... failed! I am running debian testing 2.6.13 /etc/default/bootlogd # Run bootlogd at startup ? BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes Check the messages during bootup to see if bootlogd was ever started. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: save modified email attachment in received email
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:07:10PM +0100, Dexter wrote: Hi, do somebody know, if it`s posible to modify email attachment (document) and save it in the same received email? This mean, next time you open the same email, attachment will stay modified. I know, it is posible on MS Outlook through IMAP. I wass not able to do it with other program. Dexter It is possible in mutt, you can edit an entire email including mime headers, boundary strings, etc. Modifying a binary attachment could be tricky. You might have to save the attachment, change it and then encode it to put it back into the email. -- The greatest disloyalty one can offer to great pioneers is to refuse to move an inch from where they stood. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Request to remove Information
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:37:10PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: ISTM, that our entire economy has been jacked up about $40,000 per year, to accomodate. Hey, where's my $40,000? Give it back! :) -- Remember, in 2039, MOUSSE PASTA will be available ONLY by prescription!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Permanently stoping gnome-panel
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:31:41AM +1100, Neil Dugan wrote: Hi, I have set up tightvncserver on my computer, I am using 'gnome-panel' to put up some icons etc.. on the vnc screen. My problem is when I go to stop the new gnome-panel process it won't stay stopped. I puts a requester on my main X window that refuses to go away. Is there any way to stop the second gnome-panel process completely? I have tried 'kill pid' 'kill -9 pid' 'killall gnome-panel'. Regards Neil. Look for the Sessions tool (in System : Preferences) and remove gnome-panel from your session. -- Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday. -- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with ATAPI
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:20:23PM +0800, Nabil Hashem wrote: Hey, i recently installed my new DDR ram, and my CD-Rom drives dont work any more. It says that my cd drives are non atapi compatible, so it doesnt work. My old ram was SDRAM and i dont know if that would ahve made a difference. please get back asap, nabil Try memtest86. -- What's the MATTER Sid? ... Is your BEVERAGE unsatisfactory? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the right way to rm packages?
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +, s. keeling wrote: I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with it. In the past, I've mixed aptitude remove with dpkg -r, then cleaning up after the result. What's the right way with aptitude? How do I not blow away $SOMEWANTEDPACKAGE correctly? I'm running sarge. I always use aptitude in the interactive mode; you press g and it shows a list of packages to be installed or removed, and you can change the list. -- Life is cheap, but the accessories can kill you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how can have a animal in boot screen
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:27:45AM +0800, biosedit wrote: how can have a animal in boot screen like freeBSD but not a picture is make with - - - - - - - (like this Do you mean like this? \ ^__^ \ (oo)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || (apt-get install cowsay, but I'm not sure how to get it into the boot.) -- Each person has the right to take the subway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what are different about the modules
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:44AM +0800, biosedit wrote: hi what are different about the modulesalias char-major-13-32 mousedev alias char-major-13-33 mousedev alias char-major-13-34 mousedev alias char-major-13-35 mousedev alias char-major-13-63 mousedev in /etc/modutils and what is the 33 34 35 63 to represent thank you Those are the minor device numbers as you would see in ls -l /dev/input/m*. 63 is /dev/input/mice, and the others are mouse0, mouse1, etc. depending on how many mice are detected. -- When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PID column selection in 'top' scrambles display
[Followup-To: header set to gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.] On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:54:51 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having problems with the later (post-Sarge) procps package and specifically the top binary. If I select to sort the output by PID (the leftmost column) the output becomes scrambled. I experienced this problem also with the the same package from Hoary but not in the older ones (Sarge and Warty). I don't know whether this is a bug or not. Anybody experiencing the same problem? I just tried it and noticed the same problem. It definitely seems to be a bug. If you press x so the column is not highlighted, the display clears up. -- Some settling may occur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: https on testing/unstable
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:33:44PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: Hello List, Whenever I run testing or unstable I am unable to access my bank online, with any browser. I'm trying to use Scotiabank online. That is about the only secure site that I use so I haven't noticed any other problems. Does anyone know why that would be, or what if anything I can do to get access to my banks site? The site works fine when I'm using Sarge. What errors do you get when you try to access the bank? Does it work in stable? Which browsers have you tried? Do you enable cookies and javascript? -- BOFH excuse #405: Sysadmins unavailable because they are in a meeting talking about why they are unavailable so much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: Hi all! well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the magic keys didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor uninstall. (xserver-xorg to be precise) So after somme googling, I tried to edit /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates and remove the entries of xserver-xorg I also removed /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.* (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, and so on) but the system still won't install the package. It always failed during the preinst script it seems : You could try going back to an earlier version of xserver-xorg (you might need to find it at snapshot.debian.net, or it might still be in your cache); or, if the problem is the preinst script, you could try running it with sh -x, or insert exit 0 as the second line of the script. -- Thou hast seen nothing yet. -- Miguel de Cervantes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make boot CD to run your curent hard disk installed linux?
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:57:47PM -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I have installed stable release of debian (using the netinst CD) on a headless machine (no kb, mouse or monitor) . The machine also does not have a floppy drive. I like to make a bood cd of the installed kernel so that I can bypass the grub boot. Specifically the grub setup boots win XP by default and I need to have something that can boot linux on demand. (Note that without KB and monitor I am blind to grub interaction an cannot ask it to boot the non default selection which is linux) Why would you install two operating systems on a machine where you cannot choose the OS at boot time? -- Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee. -- Kim Hubbard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reduce write access to hard disk
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:12:07PM +0200, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycles before the cells wear out and therefore I'm looking for ways to reduce the number of write cycles. First of all, it is obvious, that swap partitions have to be avoided and replaced by real ram, so currently I'm planing for 2 maybe even 4 GB of memory. Now, I've once used noflushd on a notebook, which somewhat does, what I want, however, with every read cycle also writes are performed. Are you aware of the noatime mount option, which you could put in /etc/fstab? You could also use a non-journaled filesystem, such as ext2. -- Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: some changes after upgrading Testing (locale ,gv)
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:14:48PM -0400, H.S. wrote: 2. When I do ssh to my university, I am getting: couldn't set locale correctly couldn't set locale correctly couldn't set locale correctly Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged $ LANG=en_US ssh -f -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm -s $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ssh -f -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm $ LANG=en_CA ssh -f -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] xterm -s The only one that seems to work is if I set LANG=C. I have: ii kdessh 3.3.2-1 ii openssh-client 4.2p1-5 ii openssh-server 4.2p1-5 ii ssh4.2p1-5 It isn't clear whether those error messages come from your machine or the university's, but you can try: locale -a to see which locales are currently available. dpkg-reconfigure locales to add the locales you want. I should also mention that some packages are yet to be upgraded: $ sudo apt-get -s upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: abiword-common abiword-gnome cupsys-driver-gimpprint foomatic-db-gimp-print grip ijsgimpprint 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. These don't seem to be related to the problems you mention, but why haven't you upgraded them? -- The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. -- E. Hubbard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fail to load Gnome
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:53:13AM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Logged in through 'Failsafe Gnome' and everything worked fine. I am not out of disk space - I have more than 3Gb free. The only visible difference in 'Failsafe Gnome session' as compared to normal Gnome session is that GAIM doesn't start automatically upon logon. Does Gaim run if you start it in the failsafe session? -- We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. -Samuel Goldwyn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best practices for installing Debian in a new disk?
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:46:46PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Will 'dpkg --get-selections' list all installed software? How about the few ones I compiled from source? How do I document it? If you made them into .deb packages and installed them, they will be listed. -- Knghtbrd If I start writing essays about Free Software for slashdot, please shoot me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Find installed packages with no dependecies
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:21:38AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:19:10PM +0200, Carlos Pe?n Costa wrote: It's possible to find or remove installed packages with no dependencies? When you install packages with apt, it can install extra packages to meet dependencies, but when you remove packages, apt only removes the packages you have selected. Try deborphan. And use aptitude to install and remove packages. -- A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks you for nothing. -- Joey Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash commands
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:18:05AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Hi all,
I downloaded the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide the other day an have
started to work my way through it. I'm fairly new to bash so I get more
than a little confused when the output I get is nothing similar to what
the ABS Guide says it should be.
Here is what has me confused at the moment.
b=${a/23/BB}
echo b = $b
Now the ABS guide says that where I'm setting b it should be
substituting BB for 23. It also says that the output of 'echo b - $b'
should be: b = BB35
However, what I get as output is as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo b = $b
b = total 520716
drwxr-sr-x 2 ffreeloader ftp48 2005-10-13 07:50 script
-rw-r--r-- 1 ffreeloader ftp 532692172 2005-10-12 09:38 server_2003.zip
You haven't aliased the echo command, have you? Try these commands:
type echo
declare -a
declare -f
--
stab_val(stab)-str_nok = 1;/* what a wonderful hack! */
-- Larry Wall in stab.c from the perl source code
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