Re: reusing deb files

2005-09-20 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/21/05, Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on anothermachine. Let me explain more clearly:If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the packagemmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded intodirectory /var/cache/apt/archives/

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:02:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > The best Debian reference manual is called "The Debian Reference Manual." > It's > free, and can be downloaded here in a variety of languages and formats: > > http://www.us.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ or apt-get install debi

Invitation to California, Spain, and Italy; c/ka

2005-09-20 Thread IPSI Conferences
Dear Dr. Debian, Based on your explicit or implicit interest expressed in the past, on behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to extend a cordial invitation for you to submit a paper to the IPSI Transactions journal, or to attend one of the upcoming multidisciplinary, interdisciplinar

RE: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-20 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? > Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? > Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire debian server? > Unfortun

reusing deb files

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Storey
I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another machine. Let me explain more clearly: If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed. That's fine, but I have

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:21 +, Pollywog wrote: > On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Josh Battles writes: [snip] > > I would have bought a UPS for my computer but I don't know of any low cost > UPS > units that are compatible with Linux. How low is low? $ uname -a Linux haggis 2

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, charlie wrote: > >|> Battery boxes should be plastic. > >| > >|I have never seen a metal battery box. that's why battery holds in a car is metal, so you have to buy a new car every few years :-) > WE have four of them for our 700 amp 24 volt solar system. Being

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread charlie
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:21:43 + Pollywog used the keyboard to craft this: >|On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: >|> Josh Battles writes: >|> > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the >|> > task... >|> >|> Only if you expect to have a power failure

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/20/05, S3GFAULT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly > that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. > > Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, > please skip to the section marked SUMMARY

Re: dependencies

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:27 -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote: > On 9/20/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, can anyone help me with this dependencies? I can't freaking upgrade. > > > > This is Sid, just did apt-get update and need to update my system a bit. > > > > Any idea?

downgrading g++-4.0 using snapshot.debian.org

2005-09-20 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have a sid chroot that I am trying to figure out which version of g++-4.0 stopped compiling a big c++ code that I work on. I have manually downloaded a couple of different versions of g++-4.0 and related packages from snapshot.debian.org, but it seems rather painful to just use dpkg -i *

Re: dependencies

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 9/20/05, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, can anyone help me with this dependencies? I can't freaking upgrade. > > This is Sid, just did apt-get update and need to update my system a bit. > > Any idea? > [snip] > debian:~# apt-get -f install > Reading package lists...

Re: Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-20 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On 9/20/05, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64... I would like to know if my > hardware has support, and I would like to use > the familiar Debian O/S... I have installed it already however I need > gigabit lan support and PCI express support... > C

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Storey
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 08:09 am, Ed wrote: > As a rather "newbie" myself, I suggest reading the docs, this list, and > remember "Google is your friend". I normally let Debian install the The best Debian reference manual is called "The Debian Reference Manual." It's free, and can be downlo

Debian on AMD64?

2005-09-20 Thread Jacob
Has anyone gotten Debian running on an AMD64... I would like to know if my hardware has support, and I would like to use the familiar Debian O/S... I have installed it already however I need gigabit lan support and PCI express support... Any good reference or experience with this would be well a

Re: USB2 Video/TV capture?

2005-09-20 Thread Ephemeral root
Quothing Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:28 -0500, Ephemeral root wrote: > > Has anybody managed to get any brand of a video or TV capture > > device connected via USB2 to work under Debian? The first > > result I got on a Google search for "linux video usb2 > > captur

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
> bittorrent and bittorrent-gui are also available. However, I'm > wondering why not using jigdo. It's supposed to be the preferred > method to download debian iso's, and it doesn't congest the servers > either. The mechanism is a bit different since the packages are > separately downloaded, but

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/20/05, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/05, Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:22 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > > On 9/20/05, Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. > > > > I see a list of files

Re: Trouble Disabling orinoco Modules in Favor of hostap Modules on Boot

2005-09-20 Thread Jeff Stevens
I should have mentioned initially that I had checked out /etc/modules. No mention of the orinoco driver there. I hadn't tried adding hostap to /etc/modules. Unfortunately, this didn't prevent the orinoco module from loading. A copy of dmesg can be found here: http://www.mossycup.com/dmesg You

dependencies

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, can anyone help me with this dependencies? I can't freaking upgrade. This is Sid, just did apt-get update and need to update my system a bit. Any idea? debian:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to corre

How do you load your Mp3 flash player?

2005-09-20 Thread Bill Thompson
Hey all, I'm looking for a good solution to load tunes into my new iAudio G3. The device mounts like any USB based storage device and I can copy files into it with no trouble, but I would like to find a GUI program that will let me make a playlist and then dump the files all at once in the proper

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Hi Ron,On 9/20/05, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:> Hi,>> I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging> workstations without cd drives.  THese are donated boxes with small hard > drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-20 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:41, William Ballard wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horribly unusable. Now m

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-20 Thread Ed
As a rather "newbie" myself, I suggest reading the docs, this list, and remember "Google is your friend". I normally let Debian install the basics and then apt-get X and Gnome. I'm just a normal, everday desktop user. Internet, email and a half dozen Ham Radio apps. I did not find Debian diffic

Learning how to compile modules

2005-09-20 Thread Maximillian Murphy
Dear All, Decided it was about time I learnt something about the magical open-source kernel. So I had a good stare at the source which was quite fun. I then borrowed a copy of OReilly's Linux Device Drivers. Pretty much on page 1 there's a kernel version of a Hello World program: #define MODUL

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/05, Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:22 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > On 9/20/05, Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. > > > I see a list of files, none two large. > > > What do I need to do next? (cut) > > $ bt

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/05, Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. > I see a list of files, none two large. > What do I need to do next? Use a bittorrent client. You need to download one. If had a Debian installation around, you would do something like: # apt-get instal

Re: Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread Maximillian Murphy
That's interesting! Do keep us posted if you find out what it is. Sorry I can't help. I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, not high up. I seem to remember that the first thing a computer does on booting is to copy a chunk of data from the primary partition into RAM and execute it. Is th

Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Fritz
I click on I386 on the bit torren debian page. I see a list of files, none two large. What do I need to do next? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble Disabling orinoco Modules in Favor of hostap Modules on Boot

2005-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:33:28 -0700 Jeff Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/discover.d/hostap-utils: > # Blacklist orinoco_*, they load instead of HostAP > # for Intersil Prism 2/2.5/3.0 hardware > skip orinoco_pci > skip orinoco_cs > skip orinoco_plx > skip hermes > > However, something el

Re: embedding fonts

2005-09-20 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:39:48AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > Hi, I'm running testing. I am having trouble with creating PDFs with > embedded fonts. (I'm generating them from LyX and LaTeX sources.) The > process worked before an apt-upgrade I did a week ago. > > I'm still investigating; I

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:15:05 +0100 Pooly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm trying, is to have Rosegarden4 working, which is ok now, > (except jack lost few samples). > The timidity acting as a server eat 20% of my CPU, is it normal (even > when nothing is playing) ? Soundblaster live cards ar

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-20 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:50:15 +0100 Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, > > when I try to play sound with alsa under a 2.6 kernel, the quality is > awful, the system seems to repetitively play little snatchs of my tune > over and over, superimposing some of the sound on top of what it

RE: Debian Compatible UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Craig M. Houck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:33 PM > > > The more I think about this the more I think using car batteries for this > is a tad dangerous, sealed, old-school with caps, no spill batteries, etc > no matter the type/style. Chemically created en

RE: two scary syslog kernel messages

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> On 2005-09-20 14:30:10 -0500, "Alejandro Bonilla" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel: > >> Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT > >> 2005 i686 > >> GNU/Linux > >> > >> My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading

Re: two scary syslog kernel messages

2005-09-20 Thread Sean
On 2005-09-20 14:30:10 -0500, "Alejandro Bonilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel: Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading enabled, 2GB RAM, and 2 SATA dr

Re: sarge bug: if system drive sata, then pata drives slow and unable to set hdparms on pata ide devices

2005-09-20 Thread Philip Vanhoutteghem
hi, I'v got a similar problem as the one you exposed on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg01413.html (rem : I used the installer before the official sarge release) hdparm /dev/hda gives: /dev/hda: multcount= 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq=

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
ok then, just clarifying (don't want to screw this up):On 9/20/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gregory Seidman wrote:> } fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions faster way to copy partitions from one disk to another iswith sdisk or  "cat file | fdisk " can't f

Re: [Webmin-maintainers] Re: Problem with webmin-exports

2005-09-20 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Nils Erik Svangård wrote: > Ok I solved this problem partly. > It seems that NFS exports is per filesystem, I exported /mnt, where my disks > is mounted. I had to export each individual filesystem. This is common > knowledge when dealing with NFS, I hadnt a clue. > The problem

Re: Module Assistant and NVIDIA

2005-09-20 Thread Tom Allison
David Roguin wrote: No, it doesn't. You'll have to run module-assistant again. On 8/20/05, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I upgrade the linux-kernel and/or nvidia drivers, does the m-a automagically do the driver upgrade for me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Fwd: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync

2005-09-20 Thread Dick Davies
'anybody can log in from anywhere' with nis/ldap is just plain FUD. NIS and LDAP are designed to do this, they do it (reasonably) well. scping over password and shadow is an ugly hack and will bite you if you create users on a regular basis. Maintenance is a pain. You also have a single 'master c

Re: How to lock user in his home.

2005-09-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 10:37 -0300, Leonardo Marques wrote: > Hello people, > > I wanna how to lock a user in his home, he cannot see any other > directory, just his home. Someone how can i do this? > Well, the problem here is that *NIX doesn't by default allow "users" to write to the "system" di

RE: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hello again. > > > You are definitely right. You might want to send an email > about it in to the > > debian-kernel ML? > Well, at least I could try. Do you think it makes sence - I do not > want to bother they. Go ahead and send them an email. They should or could still maintain the 2.4 branch

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Peterson
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging > workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard > drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean. Have you looked a

Re: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hello again. > You are definitely right. You might want to send an email about it in to the > debian-kernel ML? Well, at least I could try. Do you think it makes sence - I do not want to bother they. > Anyway, you can always move to 2.6.13. I have my iptables box working cool > with 2.6.12. Well

RE: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi Alejandro, > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support > > > which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel > > > updates are distributed over apt-get. > > > I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although > > >

Memory Black Hole

2005-09-20 Thread S3GFAULT
Hi all, The subject of this message could have been 'Memory Leak' but honestly that doesn't sound dramatic enough for my problem. Warning, this turned out to be a longish email, for the impatient, please skip to the section marked SUMMARY at the bottom. Last summer (2004) I installed Debian Woody

Re: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi Alejandro, > > Hi there, > > > > I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support > > which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel > > updates are distributed over apt-get. > > I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although > > already 2.4.31 i

Re: Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

2005-09-20 Thread Ron Peterson
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:34:03PM +1000, David Harrison wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had any experience with either of the > following cards (do they work, do they suck etc) : > > MegaRAID SCSI 320-1LP > > MegaRAID SCSI 320-2E > > I'm interested to hear if anyone has any good experiences

RE: No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi there, > > I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support > which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel > updates are distributed over apt-get. > I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although > already 2.4.31 is out. > > No chance to get p

No Kernel updates via apt-get?

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi there, I am still running a 2.4.x kernel since I need stable isdn support which is not really there in 2.6 - however I wonder why no kernel updates are distributed over apt-get. I am still using the 2.4.27 shipped with sarge - although already 2.4.31 is out. No chance to get pre-compiled up2da

Re: Debian Compatible UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Craig M. Houck
lol. Now U'r talking. Pull a rear wheel and attach a belt to a generator, use that generator for making the electricity in the building with the linux boxes. If you can get it just right, given that LINUX is in the middle somewhere this might just morph into a perpetual energy machine!!! At 01:4

I want to be vendor of Debian.

2005-09-20 Thread Giovani Dias
Friends, I am needing the aid of the friends to place name in the list of official vendor of the Debian.  Already I sent much email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and none had return. What I need to make to have my name in the List of Salesmen of  Brazil?    Thanks!   Giovani Dias - [O Duende]Lin

Re: Problems with traffic shaping (tcng / tc)

2005-09-20 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Does really nobody know wether this does not work? Should it work theoretically? Maybe you could point me where tc/tcng-experienced people are - I do not want to nerve with this topic since its of course on topic on the debian users list ;-) Thanks for your patience, lg Clemens 2005/9/20, Cleme

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-20 Thread Marty
Peter Coppens wrote: If I remove pcmcia-cs (or at least make sure it is not initialized by removing the links from the /etc/rcx.d directories) I can't even manually start the network (with ifup -a) after booting I'm not familiar enough with pcmcia-cs nor hotplug to guess what's happening, but b

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:18:35AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: } On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:49:25AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: } > } Hi, } > } } > } I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging } > } workstations

RE: two scary syslog kernel messages

2005-09-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel: > Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT > 2005 i686 > GNU/Linux > > My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading enabled, 2GB RAM, > and 2 SATA drives running in software RAID-1 (everything is mirrored > including

apt-build

2005-09-20 Thread mess-mate
Hi all, what wrong with apt-build/sarge ?? Seems sarge sucks . This is what i have after a apt-build install -t sarge ethereal : Fetched 784kB in 15s (51,0kB/s) dpkg-source: extracting atk1.0 in atk1.0-1.8.0 -> Building libatk1.0-dev <- E: Unable to find a source package for atk1.0 Use

two scary syslog kernel messages

2005-09-20 Thread Sean
I'm running Debian Testing with the following kernel: Linux marvin 2.6.11-1-686-smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 20 20:18:45 MDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux My system is a 2.8Ghz Intel P4 with hyper threading enabled, 2GB RAM, and 2 SATA drives running in software RAID-1 (everything is mirrored including the boot

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It > was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by Debian. > Removing this has fixed it. Would you k

RE: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Coppens
If I remove pcmcia-cs (or at least make sure it is not initialized by removing the links from the /etc/rcx.d directories) I can't even manually start the network (with ifup -a) after booting If I first manually start pcmcia I can ifup the network. Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Pete

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Jeff D
Matt Price wrote: Hi, I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean. my thought is: do a workstation install of ubuntu on one drive and

Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11

2005-09-20 Thread Eric P
>>An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All >>Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. >> >>It says: >>udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. >> >>However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. > > > Look for "linux-image-*" instead

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Seth Goodman wrote: [a lot of good stuff about UPS and batteries] Thanks for the great info! Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > Yes, a vented enclosure should do the job but what of the batteries that > are sealed (gelled)? They are "low gas" and unspillable but overcharge them and they'll vent. > Wouldn't that dispose of the problem of gases emanating from the battery? It's a non-problem. Unless you

Re: starting irexec in a startup script

2005-09-20 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:42:53PM +0300, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > The lirc daemon starts at startup and I want to launch the command "irexec > --daemon" too. To achieve this I made a script in /etc/init.d which contains > this: > > #!/bin/bash > > su lorand -c "irexec --daemon" > > th

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

2005-09-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:13:31AM -0500, J French wrote: > We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In > the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem > (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support > live

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by Debian. Removing this has fixed it. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/D

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Josh Battles
John Hasler said: > > Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle batteries > are designed to be deeply discharged with great frequency. Car batteries > are designed to frequently delivery large amounts of current and be either > on float charge or disconnected most of the ti

RE: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:16 AM > > > Josh Battles writes: > > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the > > task... > > Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle > batteries are designed t

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 12:21, Pollywog wrote: >I would have bought a UPS for my computer but I don't know of any low > cost UPS units that are compatible with Linux. Getting a UPS working with Linux is easy. Get a UPS that is on this list: http://www.networkupstools.org/compat/stable.html T

Re: Debian Compatible UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Craig M. Houck wrote: The more I think about this the more I think using car batteries for this is a tad dangerous, sealed, old-school with caps, no spill batteries, etc no matter the type/style. Chemically created energy in a thin walled box is not to be played with, particularly when it sits i

Quake3 Arena source release

2005-09-20 Thread Dale Amon
I'm playing around trying to compile it. Is anyone else looking at it? Please respond directly, especially if you are familiar with q3lcc... -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consulta

Re: Debian Compatible UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Craig M. Houck
The more I think about this the more I think using car batteries for this is a tad dangerous, sealed, old-school with caps, no spill batteries, etc no matter the type/style. Chemically created energy in a thin walled box is not to be played with, particularly when it sits ideal a lot. When in a car

Printing via LAN fails

2005-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following helpful advice here recently my LAN is now up and running. Now I'm seeking to print remotely, i.e. from my laptop to the printer attached to my desktop. Everything else is working (ssh, sftp). Both are running Debian Sid. I use lpd plus magicfilter for printing. I can print files by cop

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Josh Battles writes: > > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the > > task... > > Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle batteries > are designed to be deeply discharged with great frequency. Car ba

Re: Fwd: qmailadmin 500 internal server error

2005-09-20 Thread Scot Hilden
Jared Hall wrote: I keep getting the same two errors over and over again (and for some reason the time is way off) from /var/log/apache2/error.log [Tue Sep 20 01:57:55 2005] [error] [client 192.168.0.2] Premature end of script headers: qmailadmin [Tue Sep 20 01:57:55 2005] [error] [client 192.16

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 11:49:25AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > } Hi, > } > } I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging > } workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard > } drives (as

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 09/20/2005 03:39 pm, Josh Battles wrote: > Alvin Oga said: > > car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely > > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the task, > but a generic car battery would definately be cheaper. > > > and keep your car

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread John Hasler
Josh Battles writes: > I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the > task... Only if you expect to have a power failure every day. Deep cycle batteries are designed to be deeply discharged with great frequency. Car batteries are designed to frequently delivery large amou

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gregory Seidman wrote: > } fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions faster way to copy partitions from one disk to another is with sdisk or "cat file | fdisk " > } mkswap /dev/hdb5# do I need to do this? no .. swap partition is optional, and if you have enuff

Fwd: qmailadmin 500 internal server error

2005-09-20 Thread Jared Hall
scot- > The qmailadmin file is a binary file, so there is not much you can look > for in there. If you are still getting the 500 error you may take a look > at /var/log/apache2/error.log and see if you can spot what it is > missing. Normally qmailadmin is easy enough to reinstall that people > will

Re: [kde/qt] Unicode/special char problem

2005-09-20 Thread Andrea B.
Alvin Oga ha scritto: > > hi ya andrea > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Andrea Ballatore wrote: [...] >> >>What's the difference? How can I fix the problem? > > > google/yahoo for answers > utf8 UTF-8 > > localedef -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.utf8 > ( use the your locales ) I found the

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers? now nis vs. rsync

2005-09-20 Thread Patrick Rittich
Alvin Oga wrote: anybody can login from anywhere after you set up nis or ldap ( both are bad idea ) or rsync /etc/passwd /etc/shadow to each machine ( my preference ) I like this idea of using rsync to copy over /etc/passwd, but I have to ask, what problems does nis have (since that's what

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: } Hi, } } I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging } workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard } drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean. } } my thought is

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Josh Battles
Alvin Oga said: > car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely I would think that a marine deep cycle would be better suited to the task, but a generic car battery would definately be cheaper. > and keep your car battery outdoors, not indoors ... > and do not light a

Re: lightweight iconbox - SOLVED

2005-09-20 Thread Ganeshram Iyer
On 9/20/05, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 13:44 -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote: > > On 9/19/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ganeshram Iyer: > > > > > > > > i am using a very slow PC with Debian Sarge with low HD and RAM. Can > > > > anyone suggest a ligh

Re: Used Laptop Reccomendations for Sarge

2005-09-20 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 07:05 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: Thinking about getting a used laptop and loading sarge into it. I was wondering what specs I need to look for It really depends on what sort of performance you're looking for. I bought a secondhand Compa

Re: OT: What do they mean: T1, T3, DS-3, DS-48, OC-3, OC-48, OC-192...

2005-09-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 06:40 am, Oliver Lupton wrote: > Andy Anderson wrote: > > I know that this is off topic, but I've been curious for a while > > as to what, exactly, the acronyms (or designators, or whatever > > they're properly called) in the subject line mean. I sort of > > have some

Re: K3b is toast after recent SID dist-upgrade

2005-09-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote: > Any data project fails complaining about mkisofs not being correctly > terminated, unable to determine image size etc. > > What the hell again ? Install and use apt-listbugs. You'd have been notified that mkisofs is utterly broken before upgradin

Re: Security Updates

2005-09-20 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:33:58AM -0400, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: > Quick question. What security update has caused a whole wack of X > libraries to be updated? I have cron-apt running and this morning at This is DSA-816 (not yet announced, currently pending). > 4:00am nothi

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done > 2. In the centre we do a lot of video editing using Premiere on > window$. > I know some Linux video editing software but the problem is that just > one computer is powerful enough to do the job. If I make cluster o

Fwd: qmailadmin 500 internal server error

2005-09-20 Thread Jared Hall
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jared Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 20, 2005 7:34 AM Subject: Re: qmailadmin 500 internal server error To: Scot Hilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/20/05, Scot Hilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might try the ScriptAlias without the double quotes a

K3b is toast after recent SID dist-upgrade

2005-09-20 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Any data project fails complaining about mkisofs not being correctly terminated, unable to determine image size etc. What the hell again ?

Security Updates

2005-09-20 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
Quick question. What security update has caused a whole wack of X libraries to be updated? I have cron-apt running and this morning at 4:00am nothing needed updating, but now when I do an update on the same system it wants to update a bunch of xlibs. Yet on debian.org/security/ nothing seems to hav

Re: Install USB Mouse, Lose Keyboard

2005-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Sorry, more details... Started with PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard. Debian performs as expected, using KDE with X. Power down, remove PS/2 mouse, install USB optical mouse. Power up and select Windows boot. Both mouse and keyboard operable. Shut down and reboot (no po

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mitja > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done - do not put/keep any data on any PC, as users will erase it or copy it or break in or ?? and you have to figure out what they did t

Re: Used Laptop Reccomendations for Sarge

2005-09-20 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 07:05 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Thinking about getting a used laptop and loading sarge into it. I was > wondering what specs I need to look for It really depends on what sort of performance you're looking for. I bought a secondhand Compaq Armada m700: Pentium-III 1g

Re: qmailadmin 500 internal server error

2005-09-20 Thread Scot Hilden
Jared Hall wrote: Debian Users I've been having trouble with qmailadmin, and the qmail mailing list has not been very active. I'm hoping some of you may have some answers for me. The install for Qmail is clean. I ran an install check on it, and everything seems to be working fine. Vpop is al

quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging workstations without cd drives. THese are donated boxes with small hard drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all identical) all wiped clean. my thought is: do a workstation install of ubuntu on one drive and get it all cleaned

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