Re: Wordpress

2005-08-30 Thread Andy Streich
On Monday 29 August 2005 11:33 am, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Either I don't understand what you're saying or you didn't understand > the linked website: this mailing list was added to Gmane already a long > time ago, and the link above links directly to its blog interface on Gmane. > Thanks, that

RE: Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-30 Thread brodul
-Original Message- From: Michael Spang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30. avgust 2005 23:39 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. brodul wrote: >I am installing DEBIAN, I press Enter to boot, but

dhcp network printing with proxy

2005-08-30 Thread L.V.Gandhi
we are in a lan with mask 255.255.0.0 which accesses internet thro a proxy.  Addresses assigned by dhcp. Say first two machines are given hostnames as abc and def and third machine as xyz. We have abc and def connected with a printer. xyz has to access the printer connected to the first two. All ma

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread David Koski
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 07:39 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > ..go on shopping sprees every weekend or so. My cousins were dumped into > daycare as soon as they hit the minimum age (6 weeks-- I kid you not), and > are the most undisciplined kids I've ever seen. Preachers kids are almost > always b

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: > I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Nice place > except no ADSL or cable Internet services. Until I can get a wireless link > going, I will be forced to use dial-up Internet access. Residents in the > area rep

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:53:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > working two lower paying jobs to make ends meet. However, the people > who are in such situations are completely dwarfed by the number of > people who have the husband and wife both working and unwilling to give > up their lei

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 15:17, Greg Folkert wrote: > Vi, even then it might just not be noticed. I am thinking that you are > not clear as to what FAMD just is. > > --- > Description: File Alteration Monitor > FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications

glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge

2005-08-30 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, I'm running a stock sarge machine with the 32bit 2.6.8 kernel on a AMD64 3200+ machine. I'm using some unstable and demudi packages. Problem I'm having is that a few apps (actually almost all my v4l apps) crash when I try and capture video. Actually there is no fault, but the software

Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?

2005-08-30 Thread Joe Smith
- Original Message - From: "Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:13 PM Subject: Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso? Well, as a last resource, one can dualboot the two systems in the same machine? Of course. You can use

subscribe - unsubscribe

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya debianites - is it just me or did the same happen to some of you too?? - i had to resubscribe to get some debian-user emails - bunch of debian-user up until about Aug 27 22:56:58 and last one and only one at Aug 28 05:21:40 and cold-turkey till now for deb-user and no error messages

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Wolfe
Yeah made sure I downloaded and saved my licenses ;) On 8/30/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:22:24PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:> On Tue August 30 2005 10:01 am, Ian wrote: > > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser.> > I

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:22:24PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Tue August 30 2005 10:01 am, Ian wrote: > > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. > > I might use it sometimes. > > > > Anyone else's thought's on it? > > Has opera changed their license... or??

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 30 2005, Ian wrote: > My main reason for not using Opera is the lack of extensions. I can't > live without Adblock now. I have never used adblock (or any extension at all, to be honest, since I've heard that they decrease the stability of the browser), but using privoxy as a proxy blocks a

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue August 30 2005 10:01 am, Ian wrote: > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. > I might use it sometimes. > > Anyone else's thought's on it? Has opera changed their license... or?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I should have mentioned, I'm the: > >> > >> > >> Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy > >> > >> from debian-user > >>

How to setup a ftp/http server to enable network install in a lan?

2005-08-30 Thread Liu Zhen
Hi, I have several server to administrate, and I'm expected to administrate more servers in the recent future. I want to install debian3.1_r0a-ia64 to these servers. I have downloaded cd ISOs from debian, and placed these ISOs on a http/ftp server in my lan. I can boot a server using debian's boot

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Ian wrote: > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK > browser. I might use it sometimes. I'll have to give it a try again. At one time I had it registered. Hell, I pledged to register the Linux version if they developed one. That should tell ya how far back it was

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Grant Thomas wrote: > What is adblock? A poor man's adzapper. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-

Tcl/Tk question

2005-08-30 Thread Leonardo Sá
Is it possible to change fonts, themes, menu style etc. on Tcl/Tk applications? Best Regards, Leo

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread David Koski
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 06:36 pm, Grant Thomas wrote: > > And love the mouse gestures. Mouse gestures are awesome. And now you can get mouse gestures for FireFox. But I still like the feel of Opera better. Opera also has goot support for customizing the mouse in other ways too. For example,

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Grant Thomas
I use it as my preferred browser. If you like a minimalistic approach (I do), there is a skin caled Breeze Micro, you can get it from the community section of Opera.com Some sites I still have to use IE - when in windows. Other than that, I really enjoy the browser, it even has an integrated email

Re: Still no joy with the Kyro card.

2005-08-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:18:59AM -0700, SimonF wrote: > Since this doesn't seem to appear on "linux.debian.user" I'll try > sending it directly... > > >Unfortunately, it has a PCI Hercules Kyro card, which works > >great under Windows, but only in text mode for Linux. > This is not stricltly tru

Re: sound does not play

2005-08-30 Thread Peter J Ross
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 01:00:40AM +0200, Juraj Fedel wrote: > I am trying to install Debian Sarge from 14 CD to my brothers > computer. Installation is OK but there is no sound. When I try > to play some sound with 'play sound.wav' nothing happend. No > error reported - no sound on speakers. It d

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I should have mentioned, I'm the: >> >> >>   Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy >> >> from debian-user >> >> I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: >

Re: Planet Penguin Racer problems

2005-08-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 06:18:58PM -0400, Laura Bruce wrote: > I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad. We are having trouble with > PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer). Upon starting a course, > the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of > looking ahead from beh

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for the trick. I have just tried it, but unfortunately I still get the same error messages: the problem is somewhere else. Jerome Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Jerom

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Sean Davis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:21:34AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > "Basajaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself, > > hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying > > noises with pon? > > There is an AT comma

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 8/30/05, David W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have mentioned, I'm the: > > > Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in! guy > > from debian-user > > I just tried this with vi, and when I went to save, got this message: > >E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! t

Re: apt-? method to get list of current packages installed

2005-08-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Roberto C. Sanchez on 30/08/05 17:19, wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:50:30PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez on 30/08/05 15:51, wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:43:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:41:11 PDT, Eric Brown writes: How do I get a list of

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Don't mean to be overly pedantic, but just because something has a small memory footprint (which I assume you mean) it doesn't make it quick. Some programs sacrifice speed in order to use less memory and vice versa. I do concede that small footprint probably means faster start up time tho :) Joe

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Ian wrote: I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. I might use it sometimes. Anyone else's thought's on it? I've used it. Small footprint, therefore quick. Mozilla suite, - browser, mail, calender, gives me all I need for a small business setting. -- To

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:40:12 +0200, Derrick Hudson wrote: | and keeping my Debian stable system up to date. Do it at night. 'Aptitude update' before bedtime, then 'aptitude upgrade' as you're heading off to bed. Wake up in the morning and it's all done. Debian can do it all by itself.

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 the mental interface of > Jerome BENOIT told: > > > Hello List, > > > > I have jsut tried to build a kernel 2.6.11 with make-kernel on the daily > > update > > Etch box: > > while I could do a few weeks

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Derrick Hudson wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: | I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Best dial-up modems in the world are... http://www.maestro.com.au/special%20modems.htm In the country you have special situations that gift y

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Jerome BENOIT told: > Hello List, > > I have jsut tried to build a kernel 2.6.11 with make-kernel on the daily > update > Etch box: > while I could do a few weeks ago it without difficulty, > I get now error messages: I suspected that > gcc-4.0 finds

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
>From the make-kpkg manual page: "You may control which version of gcc used in kernel compilation by setting the Makefile variables CC and HOSTCC in the top level kernel Makefile. You can do this simply by % MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg ... " Cheers, JoelOn 8/30/05, Jerome BENOIT

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, thanks for your reply: finally I built a 2.6.12.6 kernel with with gcc-4.0 . As a matter of fact, I do not know how to proceed to build a kernel with make-kpkg and a non-default gcc compiler: I had tried export HOSTCC=gcc-3.4 export HOSTCXX=g++-3.4 export CC=gcc-3.4 export CXX=g++-3.4

problem setting up LVM with new debian installer (Sarge)

2005-08-30 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi Moments ago I finished installing Sarge on my new machine. Almost everything went fine but apparantey I have made some mistakes. I opted to manually partition my disk and have created 3 primary partions: /boot, / and a third partition I set up for LVM. I then used the LVM tool to create

Re: Re: Can Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel 50 run Debian

2005-08-30 Thread moonlight09
Hi, I'm trying to install debian on a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 server, but I can't load the proper Sata drivers. Does anyone has the solution ? Fyi, on Fedora, the ATA_PIIX drivers were loaded Thank you in advance, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?

2005-08-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Well, as a last resource, one can dualboot the two systems in the same machine? Joe Smith wrote: Len, let me clear this? Are x86_64 and AMD64 the exact same thing? Can they run ordinary x86 apps? Yes, both refer to AMD64. The can both run 32-bit apps. In fact if running a 32 bit kernel

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread botio
> > > > Famd on my system sometimes hogged all my CPU time and system > > monitor shows > > it takes about 99% of the cycles. > > I've seen this too, now I use gamin on sid as an alternative to fam and I don't have this problem anymore. also, that's moving on the kernel side, 2.6.13 now uses

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi! On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:45:19PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > 1) which terminal emulator does apt-listchanges use by default? man > apt-listchanges says that it uses $PAGER by default. But I do not have > $PAGER set, so I wonder which terminal emulator it is using. IIRC, the defaul

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Spang
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Jan C. Nordholz wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this changelog, The names are not disp

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:18:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Debian users, I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun si

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:18:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java > plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on > the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun site. Does this > mean t

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jan C. Nordholz wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example t

Re: Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-30 Thread Michael Spang
brodul wrote: I am installing DEBIAN, I press Enter to boot, but then: . . . Freeing unused kernel memory: 96 k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. I am a n00b please explain clear. Sorry for my EN. First off, "n00b" tends to a derogatory term.

Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-08-30 Thread furufuru
Hello Debian users, I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun site. Does this mean there aren't standard Debian packages which can replace Sun's Java? Not that I

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-08-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralph Katz wrote: On 08/28/2005 08:10 PM, George App wrote: I am currently running debian testing (etch) I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header and footer show up. Any ideas? Thanks, George

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > > debian package changelogs are encoded in Unicode, where every character > with an ASCII value > 128 is represented as two bytes. To properly read > such files, invoke a terminal emulator in Unicode mode - e.g. xterm has a >

Re: changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:13:13PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which > displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this > changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example the upgrade > xpad pack

Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:36:15PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: My wife is using sarge on a Pentium I 200 mhz, 96 mb ram, 2 gb disk. I've set it up a week or so ago, so final results are not in yet. So far, it works just fine with XFCE using firefox. Openoff

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-30 Thread Markus Döbele
I had a look at this page, but its for submitting bugs. I don't understand what that has to to with each other. I need someone that helps me doing a Debian package and do not want to report a bug. Confused Am Freitag, 26. August 2005 15:32 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > Hi! > > * Markus Döbe

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-08-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralph Katz wrote: On 08/28/2005 08:10 PM, George App wrote: I am currently running debian testing (etch) I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header and footer show up. Any ideas? Thanks, George

Re: Is there a Debian 3.1 AMD64 iso?

2005-08-30 Thread Joe Smith
Len, let me clear this? Are x86_64 and AMD64 the exact same thing? Can they run ordinary x86 apps? Yes, both refer to AMD64. The can both run 32-bit apps. In fact if running a 32 bit kernel it should behave identically to a normal 32 bit x86 processor. If running a 64 bit kernel, 32bit progr

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue August 30 2005 01:10 pm, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:28 -0400, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > > > > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f > > > > This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :) > > So, why not use the tools

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue August 30 2005 12:21 pm, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 the mental interface of > Alan Ianson told: > [...] > > > 1) How can I stop and restart exim from the command line? > > $ /etc/init.d/exim4 stop|start|restart > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > $ fin

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:26:38PM -0400, Brendan wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 08:58 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > not to." I think it is rather indicting. Parents do a piss poor job of > > raising their children to be concerned citizens because they are too > > busy working their two jo

postfix + sasl + mysql

2005-08-30 Thread Juan Manuel Tato
hello, here again. i´m having a problem, in the authentication using courier-authdaemon for smtp, for imap and pop3 works fine. when i tried to send an email i have this error in the syslog Aug 30 16:54:19 ns1 postfix/smtpd[2767]: warning: unknown[192.168.100.11]: SASL PLAIN authentication fai

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread Brendan
On Monday 29 August 2005 08:58 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > not to." I think it is rather indicting. Parents do a piss poor job of > raising their children to be concerned citizens because they are too > busy working their two jobs so they can live in the nice neighborhood in > a 5 bedroom hou

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:39 -0500, Vi Arguelles wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > > my user. I think it should run as root... Saverio, if it ran as root for managing your stuff... hmm that

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:28 -0400, Ben Bettin wrote: > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f > > This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :) So, why not use the tools that Debian gives you? knight:/etc/logcheck# update-rc.d usage

Re: DenyHosts...

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:56:05PM -0400, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a Debian Sarge package for "DenyHosts"? > http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ > There is not. However, you can use the reportbug package to file a RFP bug. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.n

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Ben Bettin told: > > > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f > > This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :) Full ACK ;-) Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-)

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-30 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:29:55 +0200 Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XFree86 has created licensing issues, which is the reason why xorg was > started at all. I remember things a bit differently. X.org was started as a result of difficulties of developers to gain admittance to the i

Re: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:45:57PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: > There is nothing in the log, it is 0 kb > If your syslog is 0 kB, then you have other bigger problems. Check that out first. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgp93e9UqnfFS.pgp Desc

Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:36:15PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > > My wife is using sarge on a Pentium I 200 mhz, 96 mb ram, 2 gb disk. > I've set it up a week or so ago, so final results are not in yet. So > far, it works just fine with XFCE using firefox. > > Openoffice takes several minutes to s

DenyHosts...

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Crongeyer
Hi all, Is there a Debian Sarge package for "DenyHosts"? http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/ Thanks Ralph -- Linux, to keep you humble.

RE: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
There is nothing in the log, it is 0 kb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roberto C. Sanchez Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 3:16 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mysql problems after the install On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Ian
I think the "user-mode" of Opera would be much more useful if it worked like the Platypus FF extension feature "Repair" button, as it removes ads, too. -- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/30/2005 01:20 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:48:16PM -0600, Ð???ä?? vÎ?? wrote: > >>Hello, can someone tell me the basic system requirements for some Linux >>Desktops? i just need the processor speed and amount of ram required for >>Gnome, KDE, XFCE4, and Fl

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:01, Ian wrote: > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. > I might use it sometimes. > > Anyone else's thought's on it? I've used it for years. Non-exclusively, though, just for special purposes, like browsing certain types of websit

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
> > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? > > $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f This mess is why I prefer sysv-rc-conf :)

Re: famd hogs all CPU time

2005-08-30 Thread Vi Arguelles
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > my user. I think it should run as root... > Mmm, I did it once. I didn't kill it kill it. I just restarted the daemon and all was well. I had no problems, but YMMV. If

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/28/2005 08:10 PM, George App wrote: > I am currently running debian testing (etch) > > I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing > a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header > and footer show up. Any ideas? > > Thanks, George > > This

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Alan Ianson told: [...] > 1) How can I stop and restart exim from the command line? $ /etc/init.d/exim4 stop|start|restart > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? $ find /etc/rc?.d -name '*exim4*' | xargs rm -f but why? Elimar -- On the ke

Re: shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
> 1) How can I stop and restart exim from the command line? Do an "ls /etc/init.d" to see what's listed. In mine I saw "exim4". So you should be able to do: /etc/init.d/exim4 stop /etc/init.d/exim4 start /etc/init.d/exim4 restart > 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? Well, I think th

Re: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:52:54PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: > I have just apt-get install mysql and I am now having troubles with starting > it. I cannot find a solution and want to see if anyone might know the > problem. > > Here is the error when I start mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql

changelog names are not displayed properly

2005-08-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Using Debian Sid, I have apt-listchanges package installed which displays the changelog before installing the packages. However, in this changelog, The names are not displayed properly. For example the upgrade xpad package shows xpad (2.9-2) unstable; urgency=low * Fix broken entries in chan

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel B.
Darrell Bellerive wrote: Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Set up auto-dialing. Maintain a local Debian mirror (so when you decide to install or upgrade a package you can install it right away (without hav

Re: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Don Hayward
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: I have just apt-get install mysql and I am now having troubles with starting it. I cannot find a solution and want to see if anyone might know the problem. Here is the error when I start mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) debtest:/etc/init.d

Re: Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue August 30 2005 11:52 am, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: > I have just apt-get install mysql and I am now having troubles with > starting it. I cannot find a solution and want to see if anyone might know > the problem. > > Here is the error when I start mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) > >

shut down exim4

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, I need to shut down exim temporally just to try something out but I have never done that before so I have a couple questions. Thanks in advance. 1) How can I stop and restart exim from the command line? 2) How can I stop exim from loading on boot? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Mysql problems after the install

2005-08-30 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
I have just apt-get install mysql and I am now having troubles with starting it. I cannot find a solution and want to see if anyone might know the problem. Here is the error when I start mysql (/etc/init.d/mysql start) debtest:/etc/init.d# ./mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld...f

Re: Security Upgrade Overwrites MySQL Config

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:34:50AM -0700, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I have MySQL 4.1 running in Sarge. The other day I did a security > upgrade on MySQL and it overwrote the server's my.cnf. The only > change it made was to the basedir, but that was a huge change since the > server was trying to

Security Upgrade Overwrites MySQL Config

2005-08-30 Thread Donald Perkovich
I have MySQL 4.1 running in Sarge. The other day I did a security upgrade on MySQL and it overwrote the server's my.cnf. The only change it made was to the basedir, but that was a huge change since the server was trying to use a non-existent database. After a little checking I discovered the pr

non-determinate program execution in perl

2005-08-30 Thread Donald Perkovich
I have a perl program that runs every hour that scans a POP3 maildrop. About once every other day the program fails and I get this error: Can't call method "user" on an undefined value at /home/user/bin/fetch-headers.pl line 40. It appears to me that the hash isn't being properly initialized. He

Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-30 Thread brodul
I am installing DEBIAN, I press Enter to boot, but then: . . . Freeing unused kernel memory: 96 k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.   I am a n00b please explain clear. Sorry for my EN.  

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Ingason
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:44:16AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: I found it. I simply changed my key-board lay out. I must say, I never thought of just using a French ley out... I'm a dolt, I suppose. Just a quick tip: note that when you have multiple keyboard lay-out

Install problem: Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

2005-08-30 Thread brodul
I am installing DEBIAN, I press Enter to boot, but then: . . . Freeing unused kernel memory: 96 k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.   I am a n00b please explain clear. Sorry for my EN.

Re:OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Ian
My main reason for not using Opera is the lack of extensions. I can't live without Adblock now. I do like the text browser emulation and the User-mode in Opera though. I do suppose you could do the same thing in Firefox with a Greasemonkey script...-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfe

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-30 Thread dwilliams1066
This did it!!! I had misunderstood the last lines of this post. (I stupidly missed the "in either case". I"m back in business. Thank you Bryan! Thank you all! A VERY grateful Dave Williams. Bryan Donlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 8/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:01:09PM -0500, Ian wrote: > I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. I > might use it sometimes. > > Anyone else's thought's on it? > I have it installed on my workstation (with ad bar) since I usually only use it in the case I am test

Re: best way to use a package from unstable in stable...

2005-08-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:04:51PM -0400, Ben Bettin wrote: > Properly setup your /etc/apt/preferences file to include JUST that > package from unstable. > > When Sarge was in testing I wanted to use the firestarter package from > unstable. This was my /etc/apt/preferences file for using all > pa

Re: OT: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Stevens
> > On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:12 am, Jacob S wrote: > > > > > Yes, I trust my ability to use awful software (Windows) more than I > > > trust sys-admins I've never met to keep internet servers secure. > > > > I seriously question the intelligence of trusting software known to be > > insecure

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-30 Thread Bruno Buys
I get ~10 C difference, between athcool on and off! Can´t live without it. Even watching movies or tv it makes difference. Those nasty warnings apply mostly to experimental support for some chipsets. I never had problems. Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue August 30 2005 05:40 am, Bruno Buys wrote:

Re: best way to use a package from unstable in stable...

2005-08-30 Thread Ben Bettin
Properly setup your /etc/apt/preferences file to include JUST that package from unstable. When Sarge was in testing I wanted to use the firestarter package from unstable. This was my /etc/apt/preferences file for using all packages from testing, and the single package from unstable: Package: * P

Re: Two questions about building kernels

2005-08-30 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/29/05, David A. Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine.  Two things are ratherproblematical:The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet.  If it is one, canI add to it the values I want for CC & CFLAGS so they are tied to a particular build confi

OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Ian
I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. I might use it sometimes. Anyone else's thought's on it?-- "If practice makes perfect, and no one is perfect, then why practice?"

best way to use a package from unstable in stable...

2005-08-30 Thread JBaczynski
I am running 3.1 stable & logrotate 3.7-5 as included with stable.  Unstable now has 3.7.1-1 which has some date logic in it that I really want.  The package has dependencies that aren't included in stable.  Is there a recommended way that I can get the newer version of the package into my

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