Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-06 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/2/05, Peter Sebastian Masny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Hi Peter. > I've documented several Debian installation processes and would like to > publish them so other might benefit. I would like to format the steps > as clearly and easily as possible. Common HOWTOs look like: > > %

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-06 Thread Michael
What did you do when you burnt the CD?  I've used a number of netinstimages with no trouble. I tried a variety of different procedures.  The first cd I wrote to was the ISO, files not verified.  The second was another burn of the image--data not verified.  The third try involved extracting the ISO,

Re: KErnet

2005-05-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:27:46PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: > I want to upgrade my kernel using apt but I cannot remember the command, > apt-get install kernel-?. This is killing me, I just want the latest i386 > kernel. > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-386 (if you prefer, you c

Re: New kernel compiled does't work, gives errors

2005-05-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:32:56PM +0530, Deboo Geek wrote: > Why does it happen that when a working (modular) kernel which is > working fine on one system (a P - III), when copied to another system > (a P4), boots but gives hundreds of messages a bout modules. I did > copy the modules directory un

Re: Man command unresponsive

2005-05-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:53:39AM -0700, Matthew Schultz wrote: > When I type man and nothing else I get "What manual page do you want?" > so the command is there and working I would deduce. However when I type > "man ls" or any other command, there is no output at all. I've seached > google gr

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Eric Gaumer: >> >> create a file to use. In the case of /dev/null you are just >> telling mutt that there is no input to receive. > > Actually, you're using the device /dev/null to provide stdin, and > /dev/null is the device that provides nothing. > Which is

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael: > > I have been having troubles to no end installing Debian on my system. > I've recently purchased a WD800JD SATA hd and the I/OFlex SATA Controller. > > First I was trying to install Woody for ~3-4 days before I received both > pieces of hardware and have been trying to

DisplaySize ignored?

2005-05-06 Thread Carlos Rodrigues
Hi! I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86Config-4", but this is com

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Pollywog: > Please post your question in plain text. Many people read the list with Mutt > and not with a browser or mail client capable of reading HTML and one of > those people might have the answer you seek. Get a real mail client. It looks fine in my mutt. -- Any technolog

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-06 Thread Pollywog
Please post your question in plain text. Many people read the list with Mutt and not with a browser or mail client capable of reading HTML and one of those people might have the answer you seek. 8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Non-debian cd

2005-05-06 Thread Michael
Debian,I have been having troubles to no end installing Debian on my system.I've recently purchased a WD800JD SATA hd and the I/OFlex SATA Controller. First I was trying to install Woody for ~3-4 days before I received both pieces of hardware and have been trying to install it for many hours today

Re: PPT to pdf question?

2005-05-06 Thread Scott Wolchok
On 5/5/05, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a tool that will convert a MS-Ppt slides to Postscript > or PDF format? > > -ishwar > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > $ apt-cache search

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Scott Wolchok
On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Alphonse Ogulla: > > > > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 > > If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that yo

filesystem writes not visible to other users?

2005-05-06 Thread Scott Perry
I have this strange issue that is very odd.. heres an example: I edit a testfile in php in eclipse on my windows machine on my local net. I save the file to /var/www/ud/test/bug.15.test.php over my samba volume. I load the directory in firefox, but the file is not visible. I check through a sh

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Eric Gaumer: > > create a file to use. In the case of /dev/null you are just > telling mutt that there is no input to receive. Actually, you're using the device /dev/null to provide stdin, and /dev/null is the device that provides nothing. -- Any technology distinguishable fro

Re: wireless card for a laptop

2005-05-06 Thread Russ Price
M. Maas wrote: I've recently bought a new netgear WG511. But all the newer ones are being sold as WG511 but actually are WG511v2 as in version two of the product. This version contains a broadcom chipset and will not work with Linux. Except perhaps with ndiswrapper... So far, my favorite has been t

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
"M. Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a > screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black > "X" which is the mouse. There's a barely documented command line option on recent X servers. If you pass "-br" (short

problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-06 Thread germ germ
I am running 2.2.20 and I have installed the driver for my NIC but am unable to pull an IP. I configured /etc/network/interfaces as: iface eth0 inet dhcp iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 lo 'dmsg|grep eth0' shows what NIC and driver are install and it shows the MAC address. 'ifup -a' returns an

adduser: what is the difference between --disabled-password and --disabled-login

2005-05-06 Thread Shaul Karl
adduser(8) states that With the --disabled-login option, the account will be created but will be disabled until a password is set. The --disabled-password option will not set a password, but login are still possible for example through SSH RSA keys. I wonder what is the differe

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread tomi (sent by Nabble.com)
Werner Otto wrote: Can one use dd on a mounted partition, if so will it clone the boot partition aswell and good to boot from? Don't use dd on a mounted partition. Any files that change while dd is running will end up corrupted on the new drive, and likely the filesystem itself will be corrupt

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Marty
David wrote: After a quick "cp --help", I see that it, too has a --one-file-system option, so no doubt you could use an identical strategy using "cp" as with "tar". If drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are identical models, then "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" works and insures an exact sector for secto

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-06 Thread Rene Tapia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you, that definitively solved the problem. > > I'm getting a little confused about these managers. > What is the > difference between display, session, login and > window manager and > what are examples for them? I'm asking just for > curiosity... I don't k

Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Please, > > how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone > (in the UK) ? Firstly, you need to obtain an account with a provider who will allow you to send a text message from a web page. In the UK www.o2.

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-06 Thread Caleb Walker
wget doesnt do what you want? On 5/6/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > > and create a static version of all generated pages (or selected > > genera

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread David
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:07:17PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi all, > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 I'd prefer to go another route, any of which would require first creating

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > and create a static version of all generated pages (or selected > generated pages). I guess it would be simplest to start with an > existing crawler, and bolt on

RE: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Patrick Kirchner wrote: > > Now I get it, so if I have the file "email_body" with the text > in it, I don't need the " Yep. The name "email_body" is just a fictitious name though. There are several ways to inject text into mutts standard input stream. The easiest is to create a file to use. I

Re: wireless card for a laptop

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dbp lists wrote: > Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop? >>From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear > WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. > Hi, I've recently bought a new netgear WG511. But

RE: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Patrick Kirchner
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:05 PM > To: Debian User List > Subject: RE: command to send mail > Patrick Kirchner wrote: > > I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've always done this: > > mutt -s SubjectHere -a /path/t

Re: exim4 misconfigured

2005-05-06 Thread Adam Garside
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:59:56PM -0300, David Roguin wrote: > Hello, > when i was installing debian i choose to configure exim4 later; but > now when i do dpkg-reconfigure exim4; it doesn't prompt for all the > option it showed me in the installation dialog. > > how can i configure exim4? dpkg-r

RE: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
Patrick Kirchner wrote: > I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've always done this: > > mutt -s SubjectHere -a /path/to/attachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > It's nice because the e-mail just goes with the attachment and > no further prompts are needed, but how does the "email_body

Re: exim4 misconfigured

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 21:59, David Roguin wrote: > how can i configure exim4? dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config :) -- Lee. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

exim4 misconfigured

2005-05-06 Thread David Roguin
Hello, when i was installing debian i choose to configure exim4 later; but now when i do dpkg-reconfigure exim4; it doesn't prompt for all the option it showed me in the installation dialog. how can i configure exim4? regards.

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 6 May 2005 15:39:21 -0500 "Patrick Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:28 PM > > > Hello, > > > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? > > mutt [EMAIL P

Re: NT ACL support

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 15:38, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a > line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL. It would have to support Windows-side ACLs to work properly I guess, so this is posix ACL support prob

RE: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Patrick Kirchner
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:28 PM > To: David Roguin > Cc: Debian User List > Subject: Re: command to send mail > David Roguin wrote: > > Hello, > > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? > mutt [E

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
David Roguin wrote: > Hello, > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a -s "Subject of email" < email_body -- Eric Gaumer Debian GNU/Linux PPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://egaumer.pagecache.org PGP/GPG Key 0xF15D41E9 pgp3sorHfYJAO.pgp Description: P

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Gaumer
David Roguin wrote: > Hello, > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a -s "Subject of email" < email_body -- Eric Gaumer Debian GNU/Linux PPC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://egaumer.pagecache.org PGP/GPG Key 0xF15D41E9 pgpe3khsEW8mU.pgp Description:

command to send mail

2005-05-06 Thread David Roguin
Hello, Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file? thanks.

Re: NT ACL support

2005-05-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba >> packages? >> >> I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a >> line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL. > > A

Re: Auto Disconnet ...

2005-05-06 Thread Jerzy Wolowik
Dear Roberto, Phil, finally I solved the problem. After a little bit of sniffing the net I found that ALL connections from remote Win2k machine dies after certain amount of time. The culprit of that crime is improperly uninstalled firewall. It happens on Windows system. Thank all of Your for Yo

Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday May 6 2005 11:59 am, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Surely there has to be a web site somewhere that I can email and it > will forward the text on my behalf to a designated mobile number. > > I have in mind something that I cobble together on the command > line. Yup, the mail program is scriptable

Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Persson
Joe Mc Cool wrote: how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone (in the UK) ? You can always install gnokii, you'll need a phone and it wont be free, but it will probably work better. :) www.gnokii.org //Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Michael Z Daryabeygi
have you tried an IM client that supports SMS? I have never tried it over seas, but I figure if it is SMS it should work. I use gaim for sms with AIM. Just put a plus sign in front of the number when you add them to your buddies. Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Please, > > how can I use my woody box to se

Re: kernel installation problem

2005-05-06 Thread Eugen Ciur
Cool ! this works. Thanks one more for help. Regards, Eugen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone (in the UK) ? My google searches have come up with nothing. Surely there has to be a web site somewhere that I can email and it will forward the text on my behalf to a designated mobile number. I have in mind someth

Re: VIA VT6102 Onboard NIC

2005-05-06 Thread Ross McKillop
I had this experience though not with the same card and it was with "Woody". Installing Sarge from the netinstall iso image and choosing a 2.6.x kernel solved the problem for me. If you have a different NIC to use during the install, that might help. The problem in my case seemed to be th

Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: > What Paul (I think it was Paul; I'm going on memory) means is that > you can post the image on your own personal web site, and then post > a link to that website in IRC or in IM. Many ISPs provide 10MB or > so of web space as part of their package (

Re: KErnet

2005-05-06 Thread Christian Kasprowicz
Hi Tim, do you want to upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6? this is via apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.xxx(see packages.debian.org), if you are on sarge. Same with 2.4 kernel, but I’d first do a apt-get update \ apt-get upgrade. AFAIK this also updates kernels if they have security issues… Regards,

DAT-Streamer HP C1533A only ~500MB???

2005-05-06 Thread Christian Kasprowicz
Hi all, I got a DAT- issue here: I have the HP C1533A. Everything looks fine, can access it BUT: when Iâm writing more than my /etc directory to it (which worked for testing â) I get a message that there's no space left. All data together is about 700MB, mostly in small but compressable files(te

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 envelopes with hp psc 1210

2005-05-06 Thread Rick Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Marks wrote: - --snip-- > Try this: > > "Message received at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > The problem is definitely related to paper size. Note that the envelope > I'm using is 4.125 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide. If the page is set to > these dimens

Re: Re: Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-06 Thread Christian Kasprowicz
I got it! I got mad and just tried everything else… so I rewrote my /etc/modules to: sd_mod sr_mod loop sg ide-scsi …see, it works(thought it should do so via the modules.conf, had some/all of these in different orders…)!!! Thank you all for your comments, I thought I couldn’t be th

Re: starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-06 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:51:41PM +0930, David Purton wrote: [...] | When I run vim, with out the X server running, it still tries to connect | to the forwarded X server because $DISPLAY is set. Yep. | Of couse it fails, | but it is not falling back to the terminal version, it just dies. Odd.

Re: wireless card for a laptop

2005-05-06 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 11:04 -0700, dbp lists wrote: > Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop? > >From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear > WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. > > Actually - any general advice at all on running debian on a l

Your site

2005-05-06 Thread web10spiders
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KErnet

2005-05-06 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
I want to upgrade my kernel using apt but I cannot remember the command, apt-get install kernel-?. This is killing me, I just want the latest i386 kernel. Thanks, tim Timothy F. Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-06 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 06 May 2005 05:43 pm, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Oh, let me assure you that make-kpkg does /not/ call clean > when invoked with kernel_image. That seems to be the case, that it does not call "clean" because I always need to do "clean" before I start the compile. If I forget

Re: Random Crashing KMail

2005-05-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Mr Mike wrote: > Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? It is quite > annoying... I can't seem to find a rhyme or reason for them and they > aren't doing any real damange to my system. I just restart it and it runs > for a while but a wrong cli

wireless card for a laptop

2005-05-06 Thread dbp lists
Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a laptop? >From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. Actually - any general advice at all on running debian on a laptop would be appreciated. (woody vs sarge vs sid). Kernel

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 06 May 2005 09:37:20 +0100, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Huh? The only time make-kpkg calls the kernel build script's clean >> is in make-kpkg's clean target. When you tell make-kpkg to clean >> stuff, it calls the kernel's clean targets, which makes

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Braiden wrote: > > The proprietary nvidia drivers display the nvidia logo rather than the > checked > pattern. I suspect it simply draws an image on the screen before making it > visible. > > Maybe if you set your X startup scripts to immedia

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread M. Maas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: >> You can't. I believe it is hardcoded in the depths of X. (Perhaps >> the newer >> X stuff from X.org might do something differently) > > > Just installed X.org and can report that it doesn't solve this problem, > sorry. > > Wa

Re: Random Crashing KMail

2005-05-06 Thread Mr Mike
On Friday 06 May 2005 04:38 am, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 10:33, Mr Mike wrote: > > Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? It is quite > > annoying... I can't seem to find a rhyme or reason for them and they > > aren't doing any real damange to my system.

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 envelopes with hp psc 1210

2005-05-06 Thread Mr Mike
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 08:25 pm, John Marks wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have been running Debian Sarge and enjoyed until I ran apt-get > dist-upgrade. > I will not be doing that again any time soon. It has caused nothing but > trouble. > > I cannot get it to print #10 envelopes with the corr

Re: apt CDROM Method

2005-05-06 Thread Mr Mike
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 05:24 pm, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > > apt CDROM method /var/lib/apt/methods/CDROM has quit finding my DVDRW > > for some reason. > > > > I recently modified my fstab and mountpoints in /media to reflect the > > actual de

Re: apt CDROM Method

2005-05-06 Thread Mr Mike
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:20 am, Angelina Carlton wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:48:27PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > > apt CDROM method /var/lib/apt/methods/CDROM has quit finding my DVDRW for > > some reason. > > > > I recently modified my fstab and mountpoints in /media to reflect the > >

Re: VIA VT6102 Onboard NIC

2005-05-06 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 06 May 2005 04:41 pm, Ross McKillop wrote: > > I'm newish to debian but not to linux, and this has me rather > confused. I cant, for one, work out why the network card would work > perfectly during the initial installation but not afterwards. I had this experience though not with the sa

Auto disconneting time

2005-05-06 Thread Jerzy Wolowik
I've checked: syslog, auth.log, daemon.log, lastlog, user.log Nothing special. No crashes, no refused connections, ect. JW, CAS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems logging in to X-windows [KDE]

2005-05-06 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Subject: > >I recommend that you throw that installation away and use the Sarge >netinst CD image to install with. There's really no point in >installing Woody and upgrading to testing anymore; the new installer >works great. I'm amazed at how many people are still usin

Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin1
Thanks Laura, The four-digit masks did the trick, but I don't understand why 3-digits work ok for fat but not for ntfs. I'm sure I read somewhere that a missing first digit should default to zero anyway. I'm even more confused because the sense of the last three digits is the inverse of the requir

VIA VT6102 Onboard NIC

2005-05-06 Thread Ross McKillop
Hi, I have recently installed debian using the net install CD image. During the installation the system connected to the internet (after being manually given an IP number as DHCP is temperamental on this network at best) downloaded all of the base system, then rebooted. On reboot the network c

Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-06 Thread Laura Melton
On 06 May 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: >Laura Melton wrote: >>Thanks for asking this question; I hadn't realized it was possible to >>remove the pesky executable permissions, so I hadn't even tried to find >>out how to do it! > >It's not generally useful to do so, however - if it's a script, you >don

Re: how to have zend optimizer in php ?

2005-05-06 Thread Lee Braiden
On Friday 06 May 2005 16:40, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I have a default Woody installation of php > I would like to have zend optimizer installed. > How have I got to do? > > I search on packages.debian.org with the "zend" keyword, but had no > results... Zend Optimizer is commercial

Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread James C. Hall MD
James C. Hall MD wrote: hja123 hja123 wrote: hi, is there an Instant Messenger group for Debian users? hja123 GAIM is my favorite. Works great with my IM and ICQ contacts. Jamie Oops, my bad. Still recovering from this sinus cold ! I re-read the question ! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: NT ACL support

2005-05-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba > packages? > > I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a > line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL. Afaik samba i

how to have zend optimizer in php ?

2005-05-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, I have a default Woody installation of php I would like to have zend optimizer installed. How have I got to do? I search on packages.debian.org with the "zend" keyword, but had no results... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: There is no lftp in sarge....

2005-05-06 Thread zn
Joey Hess wrote: zn wrote: I just wander why such a famous software is not included in sarge.It's puzzling. lftp was removed from sarge due to being linked against openssl while being GPLed software, which was a violation of its license (bug #305160). It has been fixed and is due to re-ent

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Werner Otto
Norman Hooper wrote: Hi Alphonse Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another (hdb) of the same size as follows: # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost have over dd or vice versa? If they're identical

Packages depending on different versions of libraries

2005-05-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, for some libraries, there are different versions concurrently available, and different packages are built with different versions of those libraries. In such cases, this may cause different versions to be installed, even if it's not really needed. Example (atm on sarge): % grep-status -F

Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread James C. Hall MD
hja123 hja123 wrote: hi, is there an Instant Messenger group for Debian users? hja123 GAIM is my favorite. Works great with my IM and ICQ contacts. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge and IBM z800

2005-05-06 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/6/05, Marek Rudziak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > It is possible to install Debian sarge on IBM z800 ? > If yes, did you have any documentation? It should be able to, as the z800 can run the S390 port of Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread Kent West
hja wrote: >This had been mentioned to me before. Excuse my ignorance, I don't what >that means. Which website? Is there a website that anybody can post >anything to? > > When posting a question like this, it's really a good idea to leave some context in the post. If I hadn't remembered Paul's

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
* Alphonse Ogulla: > > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that you don't copy files but the whole hard disk - including boot sectors

Re: Re: IM

2005-05-06 Thread hja
This had been mentioned to me before. Excuse my ignorance, I don't what that means. Which website? Is there a website that anybody can post anything to? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auto disconnecting time

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: > Yeah, > > I've been doing so. But problem persists. > OK, so if I've got this straight - you're having problems with not only telnet disconnecting, but also ssh? Do you have autolog installed? Anything in /var/log concerning

Auto disconnecting time

2005-05-06 Thread Jerzy Wolowik
Yeah, I've been doing so. But problem persists. My system is (at least seems to be so far) highly secured - just disconnected from the internet. This is standalone system for testing and developing only. I'm newbie to Debian so the most important to me now is to discover a hole in my knowledge.

NT ACL support

2005-05-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba packages? I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT ACL. Second question is, If NT ACL support is not already compiled into the pac

sudden slow display response

2005-05-06 Thread michael
I also get a slow display response, seemingly whenever the filesystem is accessed (see below too). Can't see anything wrong so please help. The graphics card is a :04:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) Thanks, Michael Forwarded Message Fr

Re: Re: ide- cd-writer fails under sarge(2.4.27-ct-1)

2005-05-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi, On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:44:29AM +0200, Christian Kasprowicz wrote: > Hi, > > > > I work with a 2.4 kernel. > > The following modules are loaded: > > Module Size Used byNot tainted > > > > sg 25180 0 > > loop8440

Re: Re: faxing via broadband

2005-05-06 Thread hja
Hi Lee, ur mail makes interesting reading. I am trying to avoid buying a fax. I'll just ask the other side to scan in the doc and email as attachment to me. This won't be difficult with those all-in-1 machines. Cheers hja123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: faxing via broadband

2005-05-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> From: Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: > Today 05:29:30 >>On Friday 06 May 2005 11:05, hja123 wrote: >>Interesting, what you said about faxing and broadband. I would have >> thought that it is possible since broadband can handle images. I >>came >> across some non-free software available

Re: Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 6 May 2005 14:41:11 +0100 David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every now and again I take a bucket-load of photographs, then I get > the job of organising them. To do this nicely I would like to be able > to create thumbnails of them. > > Just scaling the image isn't good enough, so

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-06 Thread hjvm
Thank you, that definitively solved the problem. I'm getting a little confused about these managers. What is the difference between display, session, login and window manager and what are examples for them? I'm asking just for curiosity... Regards, Hans-Joerg v. Mettenheim On 4 May 2005 at 12

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Norman Hooper
Hi Alphonse > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 > > Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost > have over dd or vice versa? If they're identical, I'm sure

Re: Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread Jon Dowland
David Dorward wrote: Does anyone know of a tool like this? Or of any libraries (Perl modules by preference) that would make it easy to write it? The latter. Many years ago I wrote some thumbnailing stuff that solved the aspect ratio bit (but not the bounding box interactive cropping bit) in perl

Re: Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread Kent West
David Dorward wrote: I'd also like to be able to pick a part of the image to focus on, e.g. if the image is a portrait of a person I could pick their face. Idealy I'l like a piece of software which would present me with the images one at a time and let me draw a bounding box (with a fixed ratio I s

Thumbnail picking software

2005-05-06 Thread David Dorward
Every now and again I take a bucket-load of photographs, then I get the job of organising them. To do this nicely I would like to be able to create thumbnails of them. Just scaling the image isn't good enough, some images are portrait, some are landscape, so I'd end up with thumbnails of different

Re: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

2005-05-06 Thread Norman Hooper
Hi, A few more thoughts ... > When I boot the custom kernel it comes up fine, but after a while, it > starts with: > kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > sda2: rw=0, want=1218969608, limit=1146494790 > (sda2 is the /home partition) ... > /boot:$ diff config-2.6.8-200504

Re: Auto Disconnecting...

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: > telnet daemon: > in.telnetd in /usr/sbin/ it's 0.17-18woody2 according to dpkg > managed by inted and indirectly by tcpd daemon as stated in inetd.conf: > [snip...] > > Watch out! Please, think at first of all that obvious thing

disk cloning with dd

2005-05-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Hi all, Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another (hdb) of the same size as follows: # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost have over dd or vice versa? Thanks, Alphonse Ogulla Nairobi, Kenya.

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