Connect from Windows to LPR

After googling and still confused ... I've got a lpr server with Epson dotmatrix. I can print from localhost and from windows clients and other linux boxes via lpr port. ( Windows clients have to be installed lpr support ) The problem is there's an old application that need to print to lpt port. I

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Hi all, A long time ago, GNOME used to have an "other" menu or something similar in the 'start menu' that had non-gnome applications in the list. Sometime ago, this had dissapeared, and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it back. I'm running Debian unstable. Regards, -- Titus Barik <[EM

Re: How to list all files that are going to be installed when doing "apt-get upgrade"?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:21:45AM +0200, Sonixxfx wrote: > Thanks Joe, > > It works quite well, only "awk '{print $1}'" also shows the "/unknown" part > that is appended to the packages names. For example: > > libsnmp5/unknown > unzip/unknown > cpio/unknown > > Because of this dpkg cannot handl

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With the major changes in sid I'd like to know if running a mixed stable/unstable system is ok.  I'm working iwth an install of sarge when it was frozen just before going stable but I've got apt pinned to unstable. I don't normally install much but lately trying to install latex and firefox 1.0.7 a

Re: backup compress on the fly

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:56:45 -0500 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Mc Cool wrote: [snip] > > If you are making archives, or you are backing up a system which, > if it failed and you lost everything it would be a terrible > disaster, then I recommend you *not* to compress your backup

Re: apache2 mod_perl sarge not working

Thanks for pointing out my mistake in the directive. I have corrected that and added the Options +ExecCGI. Now the script is functioning. /var/www now has a Perl directory and the config is as follows: --- LoadModule perl_

Re: apache2 mod_perl sarge not working

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:33:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to get mod_perl working on my Debian Sarge box. I have > installed the libapache2-mod-perl2 and its dependencies via Synaptic. > > My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load file has the following: > > --

apache2 mod_perl sarge not working

I am trying to get mod_perl working on my Debian Sarge box. I have installed the libapache2-mod-perl2 and its dependencies via Synaptic. My /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load file has the following: --- LoadModule perl_modu

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

Matt Price wrote: > that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about > shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the > origin. Unfortunately cna't post my bootlog b/c bootlogd doesn't seem > to wantto run! I have the following /et/default/bootlogd: > # Run b

backup plan for home server

I'm in the phase of planning a backup strategy for my home server (mail, web, wiki, documents, pictures) and I wanted to have the opinion of those more experienced so that I don't discover I did something wrong when it's too late. What do I want to protect against: - drive failure - accid

Re: exim4 how to enable authorisation

On 30/09/05, Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now I get "TLS not supported"...still have to figure that out. > Finally got it all sorted out. I've written a howto which covers proper setup for system password authentication using saslauthd. http://chris.northfolk.ca/2005/10/01/exim4-se

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

On Friday 30 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: > Hey all, >I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on > a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all > went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root > partit

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

On Friday 30 September 2005 06:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: > Hey all, >I kind of got myself into a pickle. no wonder the pickle tasted funny :P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webserver mirroring or web cluster tools

On Friday 30 September 2005 05:11 pm, Radhika wrote: > Hi, > > We are going to host the webserver for our ISP and we need to install > high availability.So is there any free webcluster software`with more > reliability and good performance or free mirroring software to > configure this.I am planni

Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

Hey all, I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root partition in a volume group, so right now my root partition is at /dev/

Re: Can't get past "Choose your language"

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:58:55PM -0700, Janeque Peterson wrote: > I'm installing the full set on an older Thinkpad (390E) and after > choosing the language I get sent back to the same "choose your language" > screen. There's no error message of any kind. Anybody know what might be > going on? Hi

Webserver mirroring or web cluster tools

Hi,   We are going to host the webserver for our ISP and we need to install  high availability.So is there any free webcluster software`with morereliability and good performance or free mirroring software to configure this.I am planning to install this on debian linux.   Thanks for your help Yaho

Re: How-to build deb package from already installed package

On 09/30/2005 08:57 pm, Petr Mandys wrote: > Hello, > > is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently > installed in the system? > > How to? As another reply mentioned, the command is dpkg-repack That's just the name of the package, not the filename, so if I wanted to repac

Re: How-to build deb package from already installed package

Petr Mandys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently installed > in the system? > > How to? dpkg-repack -- Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

How-to build deb package from already installed package

Hello, is it possible to build deb package from package which is currently installed in the system? How to? Thanks Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1 This works if /dev/hda is the exact same size and partitioning as /dev/hde. nah it leaves the br alone Umm, yes it leave the BRs alone. But the BRs don't

Re: ripping audio cd (sarge)

Hi Robert On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:29:38PM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hi > > I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of > the music title. I have heard about 'abcde' and have used 'jack' long > ago (but forgotten the details). I didn't know which one to take, so

Can't get past "Choose your language"

I'm installing the full set on an older Thinkpad (390E) and after choosing the language I get sent back to the same "choose your language" screen. There's no error message of any kind. Anybody know what might be going on?   Thanks.

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

hi ya mike On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1 > > This works if /dev/hda is the exact same size and partitioning > as /dev/hde. nah it leaves the br alone > system, or somebody? Otherwise, I'd fear possibly clobbering the >

gee-thanx Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

hi ya mike On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > trivial way to make it boot as /dev/hda: > > - assuming you are currently booting from /dev/hda to make the > > clone > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde bs=446 count=1 > > I just checked, and with a floppy at least, it pres

Re: ripping audio cd (sarge)

Hello Robert Epprecht (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of > the music title. I have heard about 'abcde' and have used 'jack' long > ago (but forgotten the details). I didn't know which one to take, so > I wanted to try both, but cou

Re: just wanna switch the menu.lst for grub in the mbr to read

BUYO-BUYO-IGOR wrote: >have DeMuDi(Sarge) in one partition >had Slackware in another >installed plain Sarge to that another one >was happy with the grub in mbr >which searches for he menu.lst in the /boot/grub of that >plain Sarge >but now am willing to bring back Slack again to where that >menu

Re: linux-wlan-ng/firmware loading

Matthias Leopold schrieb: hi this one is for those brave folks who know about the interiors of linux-wlan-ng setup and how it is handled the upstream way and in the available debian-packages. i'm trying to use a testing system with recent wireless software. so i use a selfcompiled 2.6.12.5

Re: ripping audio cd (sarge)

grip is a quite nice ripping software. Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: grip does this exact function, AND you can configure it to encode it into the format of your choice. On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Robert Epprecht wrote: Hi I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of th

Re: ripping audio cd (sarge)

grip does this exact function, AND you can configure it to encode it into the format of your choice. On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hi > > I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of > the music title. I have heard about 'abcde' and have used 'jack' long

RE: ripping audio cd (sarge)

Hi I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of the music title. I have heard about 'abcde' and have used 'jack' long ago (but forgotten the details). I didn't know which one to take, so I wanted to try both, but couldn't manage to run either of them. I'm not really clea

ripping audio cd (sarge)

Hi I want to rip my audio cd's and have the files renamed to the name of the music title. I have heard about 'abcde' and have used 'jack' long ago (but forgotten the details). I didn't know which one to take, so I wanted to try both, but couldn't manage to run either of them. I'm not really clear

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: non-identical, old disks which likely have bad sectors (so don't want to dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf or similar). good ... than use tar or cp or any other fs dependent copying so then, question is: how to run grub, preferably non

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just

Syslog message: Kernel modules not enabled

Hi all, I have installed Debian Sarge... After that, I have removed the kernel-image package and I have installed the kernel-source-2.6.8-16 package. I have configured and built the kernel with the command #make all modules_install install Now when I start my computer this line appears on my s

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Hello, I'm looking for a PC with Debian pre-installed. I checked the http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed recommended by a list member (thank you Antonio Rodriguez). I found two companies the sell reasonably priced pre-installed debian workstations... - http://opensensesolutions.com - htt

Re: backup compress on the fly

Joe Mc Cool wrote: Please, my ancient, but reliable, backup script is essentially: find /my_dir | cpio -ov > /dev/st0 But, (now that I have installed all those lovely debian goodies), the wretched tape is filling up and asking for another. (I erase the tape beforehand.) I really want t

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: non-identical, old disks which likely have bad sectors (so don't want to dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf or similar). good ... than use tar or cp or any other fs dependent copying so then, question is: how to run grub, preferably non

Re: Your Email to Healthy Computer Club Customer Service

Dear Customer, Thank you for contacting Healthy Computer Club (HealthyComputerClub.com). We do our best to answer all emails within 24 to 48 hours. One of our Customer Service representatives will respond to your email within that timeframe on a first come, first serve basis. In the meantime,

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

Scott Fitzgerald wrote: I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

Stephen R. Laniel writes: > If you want them to be available to all users, I suspect the canonical > answer would be /usr/bin. Don't put local software in /usr/bin. It may collide with something installed by the package manager. Put it in /usr/local/bin. That's what it's for (except on BSD). -

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: > non-identical, old disks which likely have bad sectors (so don't want to > dd if=/dev/hde of=/dev/hdf or similar). good ... than use tar or cp or any other fs dependent copying > so then, question is: how to run grub, preferably non-interactively, >

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:47:14AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > > I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A > > convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a > > command, accessable to all use

bootlog [was: control of modules?]

On 9/28/05, Jan C. Nordholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:27:24PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > on a system that's been running debian for several years, I seem to > > have several systems for organizing modules on my machine -- > > /etc/modules/ /etc/modu

Re: backup compress on the fly

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > my ancient, but reliable, backup script is essentially: > > find /my_dir | cpio -ov > /dev/st0 find /my_dir \( -type f -o -type l \) | tar zcvf /dev/st0 -T - - grep out stuff you don't want before tar > I also need to know how to restore

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

ummm... well, you guys sureh ave been busy while I was away... I'm afraid Mike's right -- doubtless this wwas clearer to him than to alvin b/c he was helping me out in an earlier, similar thread. I am trying to duplicate these disks and make them bootable. Here's the situation: about 25 machin

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

As an update on this I installed the joystick package and when running jstest it registers all events, as they happen with the joystick. All buttons work. jstest reports all joystick movement correctly. It's just that no games are recognizing it. Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hey Wackoja

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

> > I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on > > copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great > > to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able > > to log into root and run apt-get while on the road. > > Ju

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

Hey Wackojacko, I'd read your posts on that already. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be my problem. The permissions are correct and I don't have to recreate/reload anything after reboots. Wackojacko wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a Gravis Blackhawk that isn't being recognized

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

Scotty writes: > I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A > convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a > command, accessable to all users. /usr/local/bin, of course. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

> I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. > > I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on > copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great > to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able > to log

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:47:14AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A > convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a > command, accessable to all users. If you want them to be available to all users, I su

Re: Standard place for Bash Scripts

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 07:47 -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A > convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a > command, accessable to all users. /usr/local/bin but users will have to ensure that's in th

Standard place for Bash Scripts

I was wondering if there was a standard place for bash scripts. A convention or "normal place" where they can be placed to be turned into a command, accessable to all users. --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able to log into root a

Re:%20Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

I have the same problem. The faxsend command part of the Hylafax package (under /var/spool/bax/bin) is actually a wrapper to choose between usual modems and faxCAPI modems: #!/bin/sh # # This script is a wrapper to call the correct faxsend # program, depending of the modem type # PARA=$* SENDFA

Re: Joystick not recognized by games

Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have a Gravis Blackhawk that isn't being recognized by any games. It is, however, recognized at boot as recorded by dmesg. The following modules are loaded at boot: joydev, grip, emu10k-gp, gameport, and ns558. I'm running a Soundblaster Live! sound card. There i

backup compress on the fly

Please, my ancient, but reliable, backup script is essentially: find /my_dir | cpio -ov > /dev/st0 But, (now that I have installed all those lovely debian goodies), the wretched tape is filling up and asking for another. (I erase the tape beforehand.) I really want to fit all my current

Re: nvidiafb

Hello, When compiling kernel 2.6.13.2 with new nvidiafb I get no console video (blank screen). compiling with no rivafb (no module) get the same as making rivafb in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. I have a geforce 5200 graphic card. Somebody have an idea ? Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: nvidiafb

Hello, When compiling kernel 2.6.13.2 wint new nvidiafb I get no console video (blank screen). compiling with no rivafb (no module) get the same as making rivafb in /etc/hotplug/blacklist. I have a geforce 5200 graphic card. Somebody have an idea ? Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: subversion 1.2.3a for sarge?

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:18:10AM +0200, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > Thanks for the effort. > > I did discover the same problem. My solution was to use Sun's Java > packaged with java-package instead of kaffe. Then the compile went > fine, including all checks. (Though I wasn't planning to use ja

Re: bayesian filter training question

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:14:53AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On torsdag 29 september 2005, 21:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > So, I finally decided to get with the 20th century and install > > spamassassin (acutally spampd hooked through postfix) to do site-wide > > spam filtering for my se

Re: permissions below /dev/ across reboots

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:50:55PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > Hello, > > How does one set the permission of /dev/net/tun so that they remain > across reboots? > I guess it has something to do with /etc/udev/permissions.rules. > But there is no manpage on permissions.rules. > > -Hanspeter >

Remote install of Debian failing

Hello, Some time ago I did a successful remote install of Debian overtop of RH9. I took copious notes. This time, however, I am unable to get the install to work. I have tried two different methods. (1) using http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall while running dpkg-reconfigure --insta

Re: login, path and ~/.profile

Look at the bash manpage, search down to the INVOCATION section. The rather amazingly complex rules for which files are sourced, in which order etc. are described there. I think ~/.profile is skipped if ~/.bash_profile exists, although don't quote me on that. If I want stuff to run no matter wheth

udev and kernel 2.6.8 after dist-upgrade

Hello I am using GRUB 0.91 to load my box; I have windows on hda1 and debian on hda2 and debian on hdb which has several partitions. After #apt-get dist-upgrade I am having some problems. When I boot into hda2, I get the login prompt but during the boot, I noticed the following 2 lines which I nee

Re: [OT] Drawing a rectangle with Gimp

Ryan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And secondly, the way the Gimp has a decentralized window setup > (they're all 100% "MDI" windows, to use the Win32 term) is a curse and > a blessing. In most Linuxy desktop environments, it's easy to switch > virtual desktops, and makes this a more pleasan

Re: login, path and ~/.profile

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:02:23AM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:50:05AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i was looking to change the prompt of a UML and while i was at it i > > noticed something in regards to the path that is set. > > When logging in these

Re: login, path and ~/.profile

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:50:05AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i was looking to change the prompt of a UML and while i was at it i > noticed something in regards to the path that is set. > When logging in these files are processed (used echo to find out) > /etc/profile > /etc/bash.b

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:20:24 -0400 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > following up on several earlier threads, including one of my own -- > > I'm trying desperately to install grub on an auxiliary hard drive > currently living on the 3rd IDE bus (/dev/hde). This is part of a

Re: aptitute "Unable to correct dependencies" -- how to fix?

Bill Marcum wrote: > Start aptitude in interactive mode, and press "b" to find broken > packages. Thanks! I'm making progress now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: subversion 1.2.3a for sarge?

Thanks for the effort. I did discover the same problem. My solution was to use Sun's Java packaged with java-package instead of kaffe. Then the compile went fine, including all checks. (Though I wasn't planning to use javahl so I could just have avoided building this package.) I simply changed th

Re: hardware recommendation

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:33:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, first time in this list. > > I've been a Suse user for the last several years and have decided to try > Debian. I'm looking to purchase a new system. Can anyone recommend a > system that Debian will install with no problems,

Re: eth0 does not start during boot, but can be started manually

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:15 -0700, richard wrote: > Dear Steven, > > Thanks! It sounds plausible. Can you give me a bit more detail (or a > reference) on how to do that, please? As I recall from reading, the > number-order in a particular run level will determine the event > ordering, but in wh

Re: problems with fbsebg

On 2005-09-22 @ 17:55:41 (week 38) Christian Christmann wrote: > after running dist-upgrade couple of days ago I get the error message when > trying to set a new background picture with "fbsetbg": > > fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper. Run 'display > -geometry 1280x1024+0+

Problems with OpenAFS

Hi there I tried to install OpenAFS on Debian Sarge 3.1. To do this I used the afs-newcell script as described in the documentation (I have already a working Kerberos V setup, afs principal is included). Unfortunately, the afs-newcell script returns an error where it complains that it cannot find

Asterisk 1.2beta as debian package?

Hi! Does anyone know if there are packages for the asterisk 1.2beta? Where could I find them? Thanks. Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan SeitzE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | WWW: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/| | PGP Public Keys: http:

Re: bayesian filter training question

On torsdag 29 september 2005, 21:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > So, I finally decided to get with the 20th century and install > spamassassin (acutally spampd hooked through postfix) to do site-wide > spam filtering for my server. Yiiihaaa! > My question is this.  As I am training > it with sa

Re: hardware recommendation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi, first time in this list. I've been a Suse user for the last several years and have decided to try Debian. I'm looking to purchase a new system. Can anyone recommend a system that Debian will install with no problems,