Re: Merging workstation and server systems

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting VSJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I've a small home network, with an old server system, running Woody and WWW/mail/proxy/NFS/Samba/NIS services. This system is up 24/7. I also have another old system, acting as a

[OT] I compiled mplayer- no sound playing movie

2005-06-27 Thread Mikael Backman
Messages from mplayer with -ao alsa: alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} then it hangs with -ao oss Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/ac3 - 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... [format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported

Re: [OT] I compiled mplayer- no sound playing movie

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:29:27PM +0200, Mikael Backman wrote: Messages from mplayer with -ao alsa: alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} then it hangs with -ao oss Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/ac3 -

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:40 -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote: Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support group calendaring and contacts. Two commercial packages:

Re: problem with ssh

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Andrew Schulman wrote: Hi everybody, i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but i've got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the computer: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Permission denied (publickey). What do i have to modify in my hosts sshd.config

Having crashes with Wolfet that take the whole system down!

2005-06-27 Thread Mika Rastas
Hi First of all, I have done some searching for wolfet bug reporting place but did not find one. (Sorry) If you know the place to send this tell. So All most every time I play wolfet it crashes after a while taking the whole system down. Nothing is'nt responding. Sometimes though I get a

qmail-src not activating changes

2005-06-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I installed qmail-src and removed its patched qmail-1.03 folder. I unzipped its qmail_1.03.orig.tar.gz file and then patched it with the following patches from qmailrocks.org: qmail-1.03-forcetls-20040703.patch qmail-1.03-jms1.5.patch I also

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.27.1655 +0200]: Any timeline when it will be available in North America? Mh, well... it's all obfuscated right now. The US market is just a major pain for foreign companies. Fact is that we are working hard to get it to you asap. While I

wrong sources.list ?

2005-06-27 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, This is the content of my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src

Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I am trying to renew my subscription. Is this the place? How / why did the renewal process go wrong? Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)

Re: wrong sources.list ?

2005-06-27 Thread Alex Lubberts
Hi, This is the content of my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src

MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread disciple
This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of questions for those that have it running. 1. What card would you suggest that I use? 2. To install, do I just do apt-get install mythtv? What are the steps to

Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Tilley
There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain number of seconds. Problem? I forget the name of it, so apt-get is useless to me. Help??? Thanks, Bob -- Q: Where's the Lone Ranger take his garbage? A: To the dump, to

Sound Blaster Live 24bit Model: SB0410 Chip CA0106

2005-06-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: Funny story here. I bought this card because I thought the onboard audio of my new mobo (EPOX EP-8VTAI) would be hard to configure. It's the other way around: the onboard is a dream, the card is junk. You have to get the latest Alsa (2.4.x) or 2.6.11 to get the CA0106 driver.

Re: qmail-src not activating changes

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:29:18AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Hi, I installed qmail-src and removed its patched qmail-1.03 folder. I unzipped its qmail_1.03.orig.tar.gz file and then patched it with the following patches from qmailrocks.org: qmail-1.03-forcetls-20040703.patch

more info

2005-06-27 Thread Dylan Evans
here are a bunch of misc info: 2 dvds from an online vendor, linux-cd.com it successfully booted from the dvds, launching the installer. list of hardware: A7V333 mobo w/ 1800+ Athlon Geforce 2 400 belkin something or other 10/100 ethernet (see below) coupla hds (seagate and something else - but

Re: Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Samuel B Preston wrote: I am trying to renew my subscription. Is this the place? How / why did the renewal process go wrong? Subscription to what? This is a public mailing list. Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick Kirchner
-Original Message- From: Robert Tilley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:22 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Hiding the X Cursor There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain number

Synaptic not starting after upgrading to xorg

2005-06-27 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I've upgraded to xorg using the repo from http://debian.linux-systeme.com but now I cannot start synaptic. The box requiring the password appears but after I enter the password, it dissapears and nothing happens. How could I fix this?

Re: About blackdown

2005-06-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hal Vaughan hal at thresholddigital.com writes: My understanding, though, is that this while AWT has some work done, Swing is still undone. When I write in Java, I'm working on a client program for my business that receives data and prints it. Since it goes on subscriber's computers, it

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-27 Thread alex
Alle 18:17, giovedì 23 giugno 2005, Maurice O'Regan ha scritto: Hi, How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? /etc/network/interfaces man . A.

Trouble starting X [Was:Re: more info]

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Dylan Evans wrote: when I typed startx at the command prompt, it made the same error messages it did initially, snip [EE] xf860 penserial: cannot open device /dev/input/miceno such device [EE] configured mouse: cannot open input device [EE] PreInit failed for input device Configured

Re: more info

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Dylan Evans wrote: and for kent's help: the when I entered the lines as you told them to me ( #apt-get install aptitude #aptitude install x-window-system kde gnome icewm wmaker fluxbox /*because I have a lot of free space*/ #/etc/init.d/kdm start ) nothing happened, nor when I

Re: Your The Economist Customer Service Request

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I want to renew my subscription. How do I do it? Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)

Re: usb disks

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:57:19AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I installed my brand new version of Debian testing and i discovered that it manage plugging and unplugging of usb disks and pens automaticaly and mounts devices in /media/something. Now: 1) What program do that? 2) I whant to

Re: Merging workstation and server systems

2005-06-27 Thread VSJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just run sarge for everything? So then why the need to run etch packages for logged in users? No one knows how long it will take before etch becomes stable. I don't want to run old software for workstation desktop users (sarge will be ancient in three

Re: Woody- Sarge. System won't reboot cleanly

2005-06-27 Thread Robert S
I'm not sure you want to be running the 386 kernel. Try installing one the amd kernels, perhaps the 2.6.8-2-k7 kernel-image. Tried that - got endless reboots. I assume that the k7 kernel won't run on a k6. Nor will the 686 kernel. I managed to compile a k6 kernel, but got the same problem

Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:50:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: Saverio Trioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you have to edit the file /etc/sudoers with the command 'visudo', for security reasons. For this, you have to get used to the editor 'vi'. In fact you don't. I, for

Chkrootkit reports infection

2005-06-27 Thread Robert S
I've recently updated to sarge. When chkrootkit runs daily, I get a (presumed) false positive: # chkrootkit -q /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/proc/.keep /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/root/.profile I assume that this is due to the presence of dotfiles installed by mindi. I've tried suppressing this output

no kdm after 2.2-2.4

2005-06-27 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, if this is a FAQ, my google searches can't find it. I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24 solaris kdm: :0[610]: Hung in

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Dickopp
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book The Debian System, Congratulations, I'll order a copy soon! :) The hardcover edition will be available in stores in the beginning of July. A list of online shops stocking it is kept

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Stephen Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.06.27.1157 +0200]: I went to amazon.co.uk to order a copy, but it isn't listed yet :-( They often list books *before* they become available so you may want to contact them and provide details. Don't worry, we did. It just so happens that

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Hugo, can you describe your problem? Regards, MC Yes, I realized after I posted that the question was wrongly posed. My problem is stated in another (unanswered) post: I am using a deskjet plus HP printer that I bought

saslauthd does not start at reboot

2005-06-27 Thread Caleb Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had to do some modifications because of postfix's chroot and smtp auth. I have /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd where the pid files and socket files are located and then I linked this saslauthd to /var/run/saslauthd but everytime I reboot the

mouse and kvm switch

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Hardy
My mouse is created problems when I switch back to xfree86 on my debian box using my kvm. At one point I had the mouse set up perfectly. Switching backwards and forwards between the boxes on my kvm caused no problem for debian (I've got Redhat and Windows boxes too). Now however, well

Re: saslauthd does not start at reboot

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:34:48PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: I had to do some modifications because of postfix's chroot and smtp auth. I have /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd where the pid files and socket files are located and then I linked this saslauthd to /var/run/saslauthd but

RE: mouse and kvm switch

2005-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Adam Hardy wrote: My mouse is created problems when I switch back to xfree86 on my debian box using my kvm. I test drove half a dozen KVM switches a few years backing trying to find one that could do AT/COM1 (AT motherboards) and PS/2 (ATX motherboards) plus DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD O/S's. As

Re: Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Stolp
* Robert Tilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-06-27 15:30]: There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain number of seconds. Problem? I forget the name of it, so apt-get is useless to me. Help??? apt-cache search mouse |grep

no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Has there been a hold put on updates lately ;-) For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 computers I maintain. My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows; #Debian deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free #deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge

Re: Re: changing from unstable to testing

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:10:49AM +, Anton Bretterklieber wrote: My problem: I did an upgrade to gnome-panel 2-10.1.3. From now on, gnome-panel doesn't work - gnome-panel crashed. Also bugbuddy shows only a blank window, therfore I cannot send a bug-report. You probably don't need to

Re: a question about apt_preferences,

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to set up apt_preferences to pin priorities on the basis of the name of a release rather than on the basis of (stable|testing|unstable). I tried a line : Pin: release a=etch I filed a bug report against apt for

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:39:49PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: Additional sense: Data phase error Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 238 Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1 Lots of

Re: video slower than sound

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:08:22PM +0200, Michal Simovic wrote: hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit xine has some

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 27 2005, Rodney D. Myers wrote: For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 computers I maintain. I am seeing the same behaviour (I'm using testing, obviously). I even tried to look at my sources.list to see if there were any errors there, but there were none.

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:11:31PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Lots of people, including me, have problems with USB and firewire devices entering uninterruptable sleeps. I don't know of any work-arounds or fixes; I think this is an ongoing, if not necessarily high-piority, development

Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Simon
Hi There, I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on another (listening to multiple IPs). The problem is that i can ping eth0's IP, but not eth1's... but it shows up on the box as up and i can

Re: MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday June 27 2005 1:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of questions for those that have it running. 1. What card would you suggest that I use? 2. To install, do I

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday June 27 2005 9:43 am, M N wrote: I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would like to know how I may be able to run .exe files as Windows does. Short answer: You don't, that's a Windows format. Long answer: You can, but it requires emulation. See also, Cedega, Win4Lin,

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:06:12 +1200 Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There, I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on

tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-27 Thread Stefhen Hovland
Does anyone have any tips or relevant links for tuning the Linux IP stack? About the only url I have found is: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/ About the only thing I have found to change in this link above were: echo 8388608 /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max echo

Launching apps in a new X display?

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello all, i am using Debian Sarge and am trying to launch an application in a new X server. if I do $ xinit -- :1 the X server is indeed launched, but the default xterm application does not start. if i look at the terminal that i launched xint from, i see a lot of repeating error messages

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Simon
Jacob S wrote: What is the chipset on eth1 and what driver are you using for it? (Not saying that I have the answer, but you are more likely to get one if you include that information.) You might also copy/paste the output of cat /proc/interrupts. You may have a driver that a) is buggy b)

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:15:06 -0700 Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been a hold put on updates lately ;-) For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 computers I maintain. My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows; #Debian deb

Re: Having crashes with Wolfet that take the whole system down!

2005-06-27 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Mika Rastas wrote (Tuesday 28 June 2005 5:33 am): Hi First of all, I have done some searching for wolfet bug reporting place but did not find one. (Sorry) If you know the place to send this tell. The original creators of enemy territory (et, or wolfet) can be found at www.splashdamage.com .

Re: sarge install on hp DL320

2005-06-27 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- saravanan ganapathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Daniel Thoroughgood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: saravanan ganapathy wrote: Hai, When I try to install sarge (2.6 kernel) on hp Dl320(SATA HDDs) , it says that no common CDROM detected. If I choose 2.4 kernel, then it was

Re: Holding packages compiled from source back from updates

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Terry Burton wrote: I've compiled the mysql-4.1 packages from source to enable OpenSSL support. I understand that I therefore take responsibility for updating these packages with regard to security issues. Firstly, what is the official debian method for holding source compiled packages back

Re: su $PATH gdm

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: Anyway the problem arises also with gdm: if i run startx in gnome (ALT+F2 - echo $PATH ~/what_path) or in a terminal run by gnome the $PATH is ok if i use gdm the $PATH is not ok (since gdm is run as root it will change user id shomewhere) I just posted a

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