Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Joost De Cock
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:50, Danny O'Brien shoved this is my mailbox: > ... We have a PHP4 site that worked fine > under a previous RedHat build, but we just can't get it working on this > Debian build. ... > But when we go to login to our PHP site, our login is rejected and we > get the fol

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-02-25T07:21:35+0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Why would you think so? After adding the journal to convert an ext2 file system to ext3, it is easy to forget to change /etc/fstab in which case you degrade to ext2. /Allan -- Allan Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA signature.asc Desc

Re: Software RAID1 install notes - Debian Sarge

2004-02-24 Thread Timo Railo
Hi! Alvin already pointed out the most likely cause for your problem: kernel not supporting software raid. For my setup, I had to build my own kernel (and then build again because DMA was not enabled for my controller). Here are nice instructions for building the kernel: http://www.projektf

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:21:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get no logs at all. What would the problem be? Do I need to open some > port or something? You shouldn't be running port restrictions outbound, and allow related and established

Re: Beginner question

2004-02-24 Thread Pedro M.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi apologies if this is primitive, Don´ t worry. YOu don't have to apology ;( In any case, one can create a newbie-user and advanced-user email lists if necessary. I think it's what Debian need now . Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:14:30PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Probably to do with the crowded conditions on UK roads... with > something like a quarter of the US's population crammed into the area > of one of the smaller states, most people of an age to dr

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:19:03AM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Did Jan forget to change the file system type in /etc/fstab? Why would you think so? -- ``You know those mail clients: MS Outlook, mail(1), or even telnet(1). All of them suck. This one just sucks less.'' pgp0.pgp Descriptio

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 00:32, David Purton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:03:49PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:43, David Purton wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote:

Talk on "Why Linux, Why Debian"

2004-02-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi folks, With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome. I would like to thank all the people who helped me put this together. Now, if only I don't blank out in stage fright tomorrow ;-)

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 12:12, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >3) Perhaps there is an easier/better way to do this > > > > Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just > > not use apt and Debia

Re: Multiprocessor Linux boxes

2004-02-24 Thread Johann Koenig
On Tuesday February 24 at 11:31pm Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I've been in discussions with a client about doing some numerical > >modeling once I get back from deployment. This may very well turn > >out to be a major portion of my science work. > > > >To that end, I'm curious about

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:03:49PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:43, David Purton wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or there

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Al Davis
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:02 pm, Jan Minar wrote: > Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3.  His > understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is > today.  Days passed, several crashes occurred.  Jan didn't care.  He > thought the journal would.  The F

Re: wheel mouse not working

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 23:49, xucaen wrote: > hi all, i just bought a wheel mouse and the wheel doesn't work. I ran > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and I set the option in Mozilla 1.5 to use the > wheel > but nothing happens when I spinn the wheel.. > I just recently dist-upgraded to testing

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Danny O'Brien penned: > > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in >/auth.php on line 10 > > Line 10 in auth.php looks like this: > > $result = pg_exec( $link, $sql ); > Well, first of all, from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-query.php : No

Re: wheel mouse not working

2004-02-24 Thread rintek
xucaen wrote: > hi all, i just bought a wheel mouse and the wheel doesn't work. I ran > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and I set the option in Mozilla 1.5 to > use the wheel but nothing happens when I spinn the wheel.. > I just recently dist-upgraded to testing, kernel-image-2.4.24-1-k6. > > t

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-02-25T05:02:58+0100, Jan Minar wrote: > Jan was mystified. Did Jan forget to change the file system type in /etc/fstab? /Allan -- Allan Wind P.O. Box 2022 Woburn, MA 01888-0022 USA signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Colin Watson penned: >> >> Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just >> not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, >> manage that yourself, especially if you recompile your own kernel >> anyway. I'll be flamed for going against the

e1000 / debian installer problem

2004-02-24 Thread Hamid
Hi I am trying to install debian on my machine. It has a Gigabyte motherboard (8KNXP) which uses IntelPro/1000 CT ethernet controller. I downloaded the CD images from http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso and burned it to a CD. In its list it sho

Gnome Mixer 1.4 Problems

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
I'm using Gnome 1.4 on Debian 3.0r2 with OSS sound. I use Gnome Mixer to set my system volume to very low, but whenever I reboot, it magically goes right back to (almost) full. It's almost like it's being told to go back to some saved position that's at an 80% mark or something. Note that when

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, xucaen penned: > >> I use ext3 for main partitions so that if the power fails, I be >> likely to have a corrupt filesystem. I still use ext2 for /boot, for >> example, because it is small (therefore the journal's overhead is >> more expensive) and it isn't updated very frequently an

wheel mouse not working

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
hi all, i just bought a wheel mouse and the wheel doesn't work. I ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and I set the option in Mozilla 1.5 to use the wheel but nothing happens when I spinn the wheel.. I just recently dist-upgraded to testing, kernel-image-2.4.24-1-k6. thanks! jim -- To UN

Multiprocessor Linux boxes

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
>I've been in discussions with a client about doing some numerical >modeling once I get back from deployment. This may very well turn out to be >a major portion of my science work. > >To that end, I'm curious about what you know about multi-processor Linux >boxes. I'm interested in trying up yo f

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:28:31AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:09PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > > > wow.. ok.. i hadn't thought of that.. so umm.. I could move all my stuff > > over to the new drive and... edit /etc/fstab to mount..? > > is there anything else I would hav

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:58:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Less likely to suffer catastrophic data loss in the event of a crash. Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3. His understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is today. Days passed, severa

Re: [Fwd: Re: Anti-aliasing fonts in OpenOffice & vncserver]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
Mike Fedyk wrote: Mike Fedyk wrote: Tim Waugh wrote: The fontconfig library does client-side text rendering. Thanks. I looked it up and it looks like it's freetype that does the rendering. There's a new package in Debian Unstable and the changelog mentions freetype changes. I'm downloading

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:43, David Purton wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote: > > > > I set up sa-exim over the weekend

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:17 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? > > Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red > > Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my

Re: help

2004-02-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:45:57PM -0600, Anne Wright wrote: > I had an orchid by my Epson 740 printer ... pollen dropped into it. > It says paper jam. Think there is a way I can clean it out. I have > spayed it with CRC Duster and picked out anything that I can see with > tweezers. Can I take

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:24 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > | > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling > | > fs instead of ext2? > | > | Becau

Re: Broken system libgcc_s.so.1 errors after ungraceful shutdown

2004-02-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
Nick Lidakis wrote: I seem to have broken my debian unstable. I completed a apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade on Saturday to install Xfree 4.3. Everything installed fine, but the power to the laptop was interrupted accidentally and I didn't get a chance to power up the machine until today

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:40:44PM -0500, xucaen wrote: | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:24:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: | > | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: | > | > hi all, just looking for information

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 20:23, Andy Firman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:40:05PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:33, Norman Walsh wrote: > > > / Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > > | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very o

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:29:09PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:38:30AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:24:41PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > | > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling > | > fs instead of ext2? > | > |

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? Personally, I would add a deb-src

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Andy Firman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | You need some gnome libraries. Not sure exactly which onesbut I solved | the problem by doing an apt-get install gnome or something like that | to get as much gnome stuff as possible. If you got the disk space, | try it! It should work.

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:49:58AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: | On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: | > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling | > fs instead of ext2? | | Because 3 > 2. LOL! I use ext3 for main partitions so that if the power fails, I

pravion 9680c recovery disk

2004-02-24 Thread LGinn910
I have lost my pravilion recovery disk and need to try to locate another. Any Ideas at all ??

Re: Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? Personally, I would add a deb-src line for unstable, get

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:38:30AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > > > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the driv

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:47:00PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > How about grabbing the stream from an NPR station that carries the show? > WUNC does, I know: www.wunc.org. Please don't top-post. Also please don't CC me when posting to the list. The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets m

Powerdown with apm in newer kernels ##FIXED##

2004-02-24 Thread Cage
This is for everyone who has tried to compile a newer kernel than the stock 2.4.18bf-2.4 and lost the ability to shut down your computer at powerdown. The problem lies in new features in the newer kernels and the default settings when you compile. I found the problem. When you first untar the k

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 08:10 pm, xucaen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:43:02PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > > > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs > > > instead of ext2? > > > > copy all your important *.mp3 and *.mpeg

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of > ext2? copy all your important *.mp3 and *.mpeg files onto your 100GB disk partitioned as ext2 .. as if that was your only copy of it now power off your system ... and reboot

Upating Wine on Woody?

2004-02-24 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
What do you guys suggest I do to get a new version of wine for Woody? Download the source and compile it myself? Use 'alien' on the latest Red Hat packages? Get a backport from apt-get.org? Build my own package? -- Joel Konkle-Parker Webmaster [Ballsome.com] E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of > ext2? > > thanks! > > Jim This is a very busy list that is primarily about Debian. Not to be a jerkbut please google first about Linux things that

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
xucaen wrote: hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of ext2? thanks! Jim Less likely to suffer catastrophic data loss in the event of a crash. Also, quicker fsck comletion when booting after an unclean umount (as happens in a crash). I personally prefer XF

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Sanchez
John Schmidt wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:49 pm, xucaen wrote: Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size of the drive? another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? thanks! Jim A good rule of thumb is that the size of

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > The streams are visible at > . > > Any suggestions? > -- Same behavior here. It's either updated codecs that mplayer doesn't support or maybe the server expect

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:43:02PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > > > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of > > ext2? > > copy all your important *.mp3 and *.mpeg files onto > your 100GB disk partitioned as ext2 ..

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size > of the drive? > > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? swap should be 256MB or so ... if you see that your system is using more than 6

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:51:26PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of > ext2? Because 3 > 2. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Software RAID1 install notes - Debian Sarge

2004-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya roger On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Roger Chrisman wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am following software RAID1 installation instructions posted to debian-user > in August of last year. I find problems with his instructions as I progress, > and have finally gotten stuck, see "STUCK HERE" bellow. > > Any

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:49:34PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size > of the drive? Your RAM size matters, not the HDD. First of all, you don't want to swap _at all_: buy yourself more RAM, it's cheap nowadays. Swapping

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
How about grabbing the stream from an NPR station that carries the show? WUNC does, I know: www.wunc.org. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMA

Re: creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:49 pm, xucaen wrote: > Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to > the size of the drive? > > another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? > > thanks! > > Jim A good rule of thumb is that the size of swap sho

Problem with using DRI cvs

2004-02-24 Thread Robert F Merrill
Since I've started using the XFree 4.3.0 debian packages, I've had a problem: Programs run with libx11-6 4.3.0 from sid won't connect to regular 4.3.0 or DRI trunk servers (or I think vice-versa) I get "protocol not supported by server" with an xauth error in the xfree log. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:09:30PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. > > > > Hi, xucaen. > > > > You d

Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Carl Fink
I've been a fan of the NPR show "Car Talk" for years now. I can't easily hear it on the actual radio any more, so I have been playing the Internet stream. However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site cl

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread David P James
On February 24, 2004 18:56, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > > try these: > > # this is needed once for the Java plugins for Mozilla (j2re1.4): > # deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./ Thanks Wolkfgang! That set did indeed work; in Mozilla as a plugin and in Konqueror directly as an executable. St

ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
hi all, just looking for information here; why use ext3 journaling fs instead of ext2? thanks! Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

creating swap partition

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
Hi all, quick question here. how big should a swap partition be relative to the size of the drive? another quickie.. does each hard drive need it's own swap partition? thanks! Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

e1000 / debian installer problem

2004-02-24 Thread Hamid
Hi I am trying to install debian on my machine. It has a Gigabyte motherboard (8KNXP) which uses IntelPro/1000 CT ethernet controller. I downloaded the CD images from http://people.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso and burned it to a CD. In its list it sho

problem with defoma and non-GTK/KDE apps

2004-02-24 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I have a very strange problem: normally I have the path for defoma (/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType) in my XF86Config-4 and GTK/KDE apps work well. However, simple x-apps which don't use these libraries wont start but compla

Software RAID1 install notes - Debian Sarge

2004-02-24 Thread Roger Chrisman
Hi guys, I am following software RAID1 installation instructions posted to debian-user in August of last year. I find problems with his instructions as I progress, and have finally gotten stuck, see "STUCK HERE" bellow. Any suggestions where to find good software RAID1 install instructions? An

aol voicemail

2004-02-24 Thread Daniellawddsdan
Is it possible to add music and world time ( or internet time ) to aol by phone    [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xtree for Linux

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:30:30AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > stephen parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > above the home directory. I assume there must be a way to fold up subtrees. if my memory serves I think you can use the '+' and '-' keys to open and close the directory tree. jim

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:56:11AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. > > Hi, xucaen. > > You don't have to reinstall the whole system just to add some disk > capaci

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:40:05PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:33, Norman Walsh wrote: > > / Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, > > | but I'd like to run it to try out some calen

Re: gnome 2.4

2004-02-24 Thread Jim Woodward
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Jim Woodward wrote: I'm running debian sarge. How does one easily reboot or shut down from user in gnome 2.4? Thanks, Jim Go here: http://jarno.gmxhome.de/gdm-shutdown/logout.html Follow the directions to install the gdm, gnome-session, and gnome-panel packages. -Roberto

installing Debian from local network

2004-02-24 Thread Daarian D.
Hello! I want to install Debian from local network. I have a functional Debian server (3.0 stable, kernel 2.4.21) with dhcp, tftp and nfs all working. The client is configured to boot with netboot package, and in images director is tftpboot.img (from Debian CD). The client boots, connects dhcp, get

Re: OO 1.1.0 crashing ... [fixed ?]

2004-02-24 Thread Adam Bogacki
Thanks, this provides useful information.     On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 02:48, Adam Bogacki wrote: > > #16 > > #17 0x4016b3ea in AllSettings::GetStyleSettings() const () > >    from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I was able to enable my logs and run ntpdate with > a server but I am still getting the same problems. I also opened port 123 > on udp and tcp but that had no effect, and I really don't understand why > you need to open a p

Re: apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:03:37PM -0500, xucaen wrote: > I added a new hard drive but I can't use the drive until I install debian on it. Hi, xucaen. You don't have to reinstall the whole system just to add some disk capacity. Use lvm, or simply tar c | tar x a whole tree, or copy around -> res

Re: xtree for Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
stephen parkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nicest bit i remember was the ability individual files in different > levels of a dir struct and delete, copy, move or zip them with/without > the dir paths. > never found the dir struct bit in any tool since though. I've seen a few (but since I ha

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread developer
I got it working I just have to have 123 open but I was under the impression that it could be run on an unpriviledged port. Thanks very much for all your help though > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thanks for the replies. I was able to enable my logs and run ntpdate >> with

apt-get debian-cd installs openoffice.org!!

2004-02-24 Thread xucaen
Help! Last week while trying to install openoffice my drive ran out of space and the install failed. I tried to remove openoffice but it says I should try reinstalling it. == whitestar:~# apt-get remove openoffice.org Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:04:58AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote: > > > I set up sa-exim over the weekend and it works nicely, but... > > > > > > > > > I can't

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:04:27PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote: > > I set up sa-exim over the weekend and it works nicely, but... > > > > > I can't even find where the daemon stores the whitelist database to > > delete file

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Lonien
David P James wrote: > I guess I'll try again later on with the one you used. Hi David, try these: # this is needed once for the Java plugins for Mozilla (j2re1.4): # deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./ HTH, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: sa-exim & remove from autowhitelist

2004-02-24 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +1030 or thereabouts, David Purton wrote: > I set up sa-exim over the weekend and it works nicely, but... > I can't even find where the daemon stores the whitelist database to > delete file :( Mine is in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf -- Men are wise in proporti

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread David P James
On February 24, 2004 17:23, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 10:53]: > > I can't view Java applets on websites anymore (I'm pretty sure I > > used to be able to > 1 year ago). Here's an example of where this > > is happening, but it applies to every site using a Jav

Re: apt-get upgrade (stable to testing) 151 packages held back

2004-02-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 12:57]: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:44:57 -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > > rhc:/etc/apt# apt-get update > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" supposedly makes more sense when upgrading between > releases. I'd --dry-run it first though. For clarity, that

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread developer
I was able to get ntpdate to run manually but it only seems to work if I open up 123 udp on my firewall. I modified the ntpdate init.d script to remove the -u option which seemed to help when I run that. But like you said shouldn't i be able to run this with the default debian install and more im

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 15:06]: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: > > > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I > > > only want to use secure updates (that means

I am having trouble trying to send e-mail to msn custormers

2004-02-24 Thread RRe76bob
    Bob, have a nice day from Idaho

Re: Beginner question

2004-02-24 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi apologies if this is primitive, I've just installed Debian 3.0 and lilo successfully using woody, but when the system is booting it goes through all the configurations then it suddenly freezes at /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz. I have also noticed it stalls when it

Ntop dies on stable

2004-02-24 Thread Geoff Nordli
Hi everyone. I installed ntop on stable, but ntop frequently dies. I have seen this problem before and it was fixed in a more current version of ntop. Does anyone have a similar experience with ntop with the version released in woody? I tried doing a source install from testing, but unfortun

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:20:23PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: > > Yes, but not only! In the former case (upgrading debian distribution) I > > only want to use secure updates (that means updates which are believed > > to work very stable and full

Re: /mnt created at boot?

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 3:46 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:16:45PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Monday 23 February 2004 11:20 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:03:53PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> >> I'm working on a system where upon boot the /mn

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread Norman Walsh
/ David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Looks like I'm having a similar problem with evolution 1.4.5. I didnt | really notice because I dont use the calendaring feature. Evolution is | also failing to shutdown correctly at times, usually after being open | for a significant amount of

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread Pigeon
Aargh, think I cocked up my last reply... ignore that, and copy this :-) -s isn't for specifying a file of NTP servers; it's to make it log to syslog instead of standard output. Script for running ntpdate when connecting: #!/bin/bash . /etc/default/ntp-servers test -n "$NTPSERVERS" || exit 0 echo

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:21:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running woody with a stable/testing mix. I installed ntp using: > apt-get install ntp-simple ntpdate > I configured three servers from the ntp public server website here is an > excerpt from my /etc/ntp.conf: > server 209.8

Re: Evolution oddness

2004-02-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:33, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | I don't know when or how I broke this, I don't run evolution very often, > | but I'd like to run it to try out some calendaring stuff. When I start > | evolution and click on the Calendar sho

Re: ntp won't work

2004-02-24 Thread developer
Thanks for the replies. I was able to enable my logs and run ntpdate with a server but I am still getting the same problems. I also opened port 123 on udp and tcp but that had no effect, and I really don't understand why you need to open a port in order to just query the correct time. Here is th

Re: Java applet troubles on websites (Mozilla, Firefox, Konq)

2004-02-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 10:53]: > I can't view Java applets on websites anymore (I'm pretty sure I used to > be able to > 1 year ago). Here's an example of where this is happening, > but it applies to every site using a Java applet: > > http://www.queensu.ca/surp/index.htm W

Re: Updating Debian in a very secure way

2004-02-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Moritz Beller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040224 14:12]: > user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm not sure I understand the question. Is it that you want only > > security updates? That is, do you wnat ot skip those upgrades that have > > no impact on security? > > Yes, but not only! In the f

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:49:15PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: > > > Dunno what they do now that ABS is common. > > Do they still teach if you have a floor mounted automatic, to hit neutral > during a panic stop? AFAIK they've never taught that... autos aren't

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:47:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: > > > The UK's Highway Code calculates stopping distances from the equation: > > > > d = v + 0.05(v^2)(d in feet, v in mph) > > Scary numbers at my cars top speed of 160mph :) > > (Something

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