Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding out all about an unknown drivge, and that's "sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd" whereupon it told me the n

Re: Seagate external firewire opinion

2005-10-15 Thread Willie Gnarlson
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:51:24AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote: > > Hello lovers of all that is Debian, > Hi there, Willie. Hi, Rogério. > > I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire > > hard drive for use for backing up the syste

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 12:04:19AM -0400, theal wrote: > The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. Does > anyone know of a way to recover this? > > Tony Try this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/02/msg00528.html Modify so it search /lib instead of /usr/X11R6

Re: mozilla no-script extension

2005-10-15 Thread [KS]
Mark Grieveson wrote: > > I tried this, but the new profile imported the extension settings. No. Don't import anything when you start mozilla with the new profile. Copy files that you need from old profile manually. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: 2.6.13 & a dvd reading issue

2005-10-15 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 11:23:11 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a very suspicious size. LFS borkage maybe? It is extremely strange > that the kernel version has anything to do with it, though. It is. I reverted back to 2.6.8-2, but then wanted to give the 2.6

re: mozilla no-script extension

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I installed the extension no-script to mozilla-browser. It did not work; so, I also installed the Extension Manager extension, which is the prescribed way (from the no-script website) to uninstall this extension. However, this extension also did not work.

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
theal wrote: > The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. > Does anyone know of a way to recover this? > > Tony 1. Restore from backup. 2. If you don't have a backup, copy the directory from a machine that's setup as close as possible as your server. If it's not an ex

Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird... > >I used apt-get to >retrieve it and install it from the debian.org server. Went in >very smoothly, and in less than five minutes I had configured it >and downloaded 150 messages from my SpamCop.net popmail server. > >Then a co

Re: /lib deleted

2005-10-15 Thread theal
Sorry, forgot to tell you that this is on a woody system.   Tony - Original Message - From: theal To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 12:04 AM Subject: /lib deleted The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my ser

/lib deleted

2005-10-15 Thread theal
The /lib directory was deleted by accidentally on one of my servers. Does anyone know of a way to recover this?   Tony

RE: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-15 Thread David Christensen
René Berber wrote: > Yes but... the problem is caused by the terminfo data you showed: > columns is not defined. > Try "echo $COLUMNS"... now "export COLUMNS=80; top"; does it work? COLUMNS is getting set someplace: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $COLUMNS 80 Any other ideas? David

Re: Lucy & the Football

2005-10-15 Thread Adam Porter
~/.mozilla-thunderbird. You can drill down to more specific stuff if you want. Really, you should consider something like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. It will take care of many of your problems off-the-bat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Opening and/or setting up XFree86 in Debian sarge

2005-10-15 Thread Adam Porter
To be frank, I recommend you install a more desktop user-oriented distro like Ubuntu, MEPIS, or Xandros. All of those are based on Debian. Any of those will get you started with just about everything you need already set up, yet still have the ability to manually install and configure other thing

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Duncan Anderson wrote: I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live in the "first world", but spare a thought for people in places where a P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with Win98 on it. (Preferably something like Debian 2.1, though.) I do live in the

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

2005-10-15 Thread David R. Litwin
"if at all" is an indication of not working. Your very first post said the same. The question is whether it works (ie, _reliably_) when you use"dhclient ath0", which you've twice implied it does.  Stop going off ontangents and just answer the questions! No. It is not reliable. It barely works. Yes,

nautilus cd-record

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Nautilus cd/dvd creator no longer writes to CDs or DVDs on my system. It only gives the choice of "file image". Also, applications such as k3b, gnomebaker, and XcdRoast, do not write bootable cds, but only data. For instance, when I try to write the latest Ubuntu, or Libranet, instal

Re: getting rid of mozilla no-script exptension

2005-10-15 Thread [KS]
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I installed the extension no-script to mozilla-browser. It did > not work; so, I also installed the Extension Manager extension, which is > the prescribed way (from the no-script website) to uninstall this > extension. However, this extension also did not work. I

getting rid of mozilla no-script exptension

2005-10-15 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I installed the extension no-script to mozilla-browser. It did not work; so, I also installed the Extension Manager extension, which is the prescribed way (from the no-script website) to uninstall this extension. However, this extension also did not work. I find that the half-working

RE: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-15 Thread David Christensen
Brian Dessent wrote on cygwin: > You're setting TERM before connecting? Yes. > Have you verified that the setting is indeed changed once you are > logged on to the remote? Yes. > You might try "vt102" as well. Also, consider using rxvt with Cygwin I prefer that the machines I log into work c

Lucy & the Football

2005-10-15 Thread george5
My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding out all about an unknown drivge, and that's "sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd" whereupon it told me the names of all the drive's par

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Marty wrote: Dick Davies wrote: On 11/10/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your machines are all exposed to the internet or to an insecure > LAN, then I don't see how you can safely use ssh at all. I would > never attempt such a thing, so you are much braver t

Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-15 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I've been chasing a problem with Cygwin ssh and Debian 3.1 top. Here's my original posting to debian-user: -Original Message- From: David Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:13 PM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Cygwin, ssh, and t

Re: Thundermail and txt attachments

2005-10-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks for your replies. C. Chad Wallace wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, is there a (Debian) way to ask Thunderbird to encode `text' (as LaTeX source file) attachment ? In fact I recently experienced the follwing: one of my correspond ask to send him a LaTeX

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered > >that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond > >about 128 gig; the other gets stuck somewhere between 2.5G and 80 G. >

Need help APM & Sarge Compaq Presario 1200 Notebook

2005-10-15 Thread Marcelo Cury
Dear colleges, I have been trying to do APM turn the power off after shutdown with no success. Does anybody knows what I have to do ? APM stops everything on my notebook but it remains "on", so that it is necessary press and hold the power button for 3 or 4 seconds to turn it off. Best wishes,

Re: Bash commands

2005-10-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
$a is unset. Rob Sims wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:18:05AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi all, I downloaded the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide the other day an have started to work my way through it. I'm fairly new to bash so I get more than a little confused when the output I

Re: X under heavy load

2005-10-15 Thread Jan T. Kim
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:29:26PM +0200, Marc Br?nink wrote: > Hiho, > > I'm generating a map. So it has nothing to do with X. However does > someone have a clue how to track this down? > > Thanks > Marc > > > On Freitag, Okt 14, 2005, at 20:45 Europe/Berlin, Antonio Paiva wrote: > > >Marc,

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread Kent West
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: > i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days > ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to > reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). Whatever problem you have, you probably don't need to reins

Re: User shutdown from xfce4 or gdm

2005-10-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/15/2005 02:00 AM, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I am using gdm and xfce 4.0 and would like to be able to shutdown > as my normal user without giving a password. It seems like this > is possible. Xfce4 gives a message when I try to shutdown when I > log out that I must install sudo or put the us

Re: Global address book

2005-10-15 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:04:31PM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi , > > one of our clients want to host a Mail server, (Debian) with a Global > address book feature on it using Ldap. > > Has anybody been using a GAB , based on Ldap and Debian?? > Or how does one go about it?? > > > > -- > TAC S

Re: ati radeon x600 with etch

2005-10-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I have found that it is better to stick to the open source ati drivers, they even tend top work better than the ones provided by the ati site. Are you using xorg, or xfree86? how about hw acceleration? i think it's still only possible with fglrx. although it doesn't work for me at the moment...

Re: Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Meshbah Uddin Ahmed wrote: Hi, i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). there is no option abt reinstall or upgrade as there is

Re: telnet as login shell

2005-10-15 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen Le wrote: > Is it possible to change a user's login shell to an instance of telnet > to a user-unique port? When a user logs into my server, I'd like them > to be immediately dropped into a telnet session on a specific port > running on the server and to b

Software raid 5 performance tuning?

2005-10-15 Thread Marc Dreher
Hello, after a recent (data) lossy HD crash I decided to build a software raid 5 (3 disks)with Debian Sarge (2.6.13 Kernel) to keep that from happening again :-) Works pretty well but I am not really satsfied with the write performance (via samba). When uploading files via samba I get around 6 MB

Re: ati radeon x600 with etch

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:55:01AM -0400, Cliff Pankonien wrote: > hello all, > i am trying to download the ati installer from ati's web site, but > every time i try i get the contents of the file. i have successfuly > downloaded it in the past (aug, when i got a new pc). i have tried > sa

Re: Re: Configuration error running su in unstable

2005-10-15 Thread chris
I had the same problem after upgrading   [login (1:4.0.3-35) to 1:4.0.12-6   I would assume] : mypc:~# su configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator) configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ'

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Hodgins Family
Good afternoon: I think this exchange sparked more discussion than Brendan anticipated. It caught me, that's for sure. Another few benefits of keeping old CPU's going hit me yesterday (after buying a brand new battery for an 80386 motherboard -- the kind you have to solder on!): i) To the sp

Howto Debian Reinstall

2005-10-15 Thread Meshbah Uddin Ahmed
Hi, i have been using debian sarge 3.1. all pkgs r works fine. few days ago i have faced a prb duting booting. at that time i want to reintsall my Debian from CD. i have downloaded this from online (minimal). there is no option abt reinstall or upgrade as there is a option in REDHAT. altho

dynamic linking of lib that uses other libs how?

2005-10-15 Thread Britton Kerin
I am trying to figure out if its possible to somehow insulate the user of a library I wrote from the linking needs of the libraries my library uses. Here is the situation in detail: mylib uses OpenGL, gtk, and gtkglext. I would like to provide something like the pkg-config that comes with gtk an

Re: All rights reserved v.s All rights what?

2005-10-15 Thread John Hasler
bxuef writes: > To clearly state the GNU/GPL values and distinguish "All Rights Reserved" > from it, what is the proper way of saying it? Note that "All rights reserved" has been obsolete for decades. > "All rights free"? do we have other alternatives? You could say "No rights reserved", but of

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread dking
And not all sysadmin jobs pay even half as much as $70,000/Year. On 15 Oct 2005 at 10:17, John Hasler wrote: > Duncan writes: > > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live > > in the "first world"... > > This is not true. Not everyone in the "first world" is pullin

Re: gmplayer not working

2005-10-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Enrique Morfin told: [...] > vo: X11 running at 1152x864 with depth 24 and 32 bpp > (":0.0" => local display) > libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h > from libpng-1.0.18 > libpng warning: Application is running with png.c > from libpng-1.

All rights reserved v.s All rights what?

2005-10-15 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, To clearly state the GNU/GPL values and distinguish "All Rights Reserved" from it, what is the proper way of saying it? "All rights free"? do we have other alternatives? regards bxuef -- dhammapada says: He who has no desires in this world or the next, without longings, f

gmplayer not working

2005-10-15 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I tried to compile mplayer, and it worked. mplayer runs flawlessly. Unfortunately gmplayer don't. I compiled: #CC=gcc DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--enable-gui --enable-menu" debian/rules binary (gcc is 4.0, i got some warninigs but no errors. If compiled with 3.3 got any warning, but got exactly the

Re: ati radeon x600 with etch

2005-10-15 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, i am trying to download the ati installer from ati's web site, but every time i try i get the contents of the file. i have successfuly downloaded it in the past (aug, when i got a new pc). i have tried saving the text in a new file and then making it executable, which then runs partwa

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Raquel Rice
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:46:04 +0200 Duncan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you > live in the "first world", but spare a thought for people in > places where a P1 with a 1GB hd is something amazing, even with > Win98 on it. (

telnet as login shell

2005-10-15 Thread Stephen Le
Is it possible to change a user's login shell to an instance of telnet to a user-unique port? When a user logs into my server, I'd like them to be immediately dropped into a telnet session on a specific port running on the server and to be disconnected when their telnet session ends. Thanks.

ati radeon x600 with etch

2005-10-15 Thread Cliff Pankonien
hello all, i am trying to download the ati installer from ati's web site, but every time i try i get the contents of the file. i have successfuly downloaded it in the past (aug, when i got a new pc). i have tried saving the text in a new file and then making it executable, which then runs par

Re: Statically-linked binaries

2005-10-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
This is more of a repost. Is there anyone packaging statically-linked executables so that one doesn't worry about shared libraries? I'm thinking something like a single set-up file which will then install to the intended locations without the worry about dependencies. malebo

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread John Hasler
Duncan writes: > I agree with Rob. Obviously 200 dollars is a neglibible sum if you live > in the "first world"... This is not true. Not everyone in the "first world" is pulling down $70,000 a year as a sysadmin. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Kernel Panic with Sarge

2005-10-15 Thread michael
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:47 -0400, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > michael bailey wrote: > > [..] > > > > kernel: CPU 0 : Machine Check Exception: > > 0004 > > > > kernel: Bank 4 : b2040151 > > > > kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt > > > > After the reboot both the gre

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Duncan Anderson
Hodgins Family wrote: Hey! Just take them to a recycling center and buy something from this decade used for under 200. Hold on a sec. Why go through all the bother? 1) 200 bucks all at once may not be a feasible outlay. 2) some of the older software may run just fine on the older mach

Re: savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa

2005-10-15 Thread Pooly
Hi, > All the needed modules are also installed: drm, savage, agpart, via_agp > (my laptop has a VIA mainboard) and none complains about anything. > > > X.org seems to be well configured: > Section "Module" > Load"GLcore" > Load"bitmap" > Load"dbe" > Lo

Re: Spammassassin Problems

2005-10-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-09-16 12:42:46, schrieb Cipher Trust Support: > Hi, > cat /etc/procmailrc > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin > SHELL=/bin/sh > > :0fw > | /usr/bin/spamassassin ^ This is stupig and schould never used. USE: spamc > * <30 This rule should be before the pr

Re: 2.6.13 & a dvd reading issue

2005-10-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David E. Fox wrote: > DVD, and it stopped at around the same point, leaving a 4.2 gb > (approximate) iso file - which then had, of course, reading errors when This is a very suspicious size. LFS borkage maybe? It is extremely strange that the kernel version has anything to do

Duplicatingchannels doesn't work

2005-10-15 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm using tvtime and alsa. The sound of the tv tuner is connected to the auxiliary port of my Creative Live 5.1. I also have 4 sattelites and a subwoofer and when watching tv  only the two front speakers work. I tried to solve this by editing .asoundrc like this: pcm.!default {     type plug

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Frank Copeland
On 14 Oct 05 18:03:52 GMT, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said, I don't have enough space in the new apartment to set up > multiple computers, but I dislike having computing power going to waste. > Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to possibly > distribute

konsole + login shell

2005-10-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I use fvwm for window manager, but have both xterm and konsole installed on Sarge. Xterm uses /etc/profile when starting, konsole apparently does not. I cannot find good docs for konsole with just the konsole installation. How do you change konsole's behavior to use /etc/profile? Thanks

Re: variants Re: Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix

2005-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Joey. On Oct 12 2005, Joey Hess wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > The Ubuntu people are synchronizing their work with Debian all the > > time > > Ubuntu has a general policy of not sending patches back to Debian > developers. I didn't know that. > They make their patches available on a web

Re: kernel patching

2005-10-15 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 10/15/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch files are from the base release, not the last EXTRAVERSION - > so you need linux-2.6.13 to patch rather than linux-2.6.13.2. Sorry! Thanks for the info. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: kernel patching

2005-10-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:42:02AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I already had linux kernel linux-2.6.13.2.tar.bz2. I untaared in > /usr/src. and sym link to linux. I downloaded patch for 13.3 and 13.3 > gz files and gunzipped. > I did dry run patch. I got error. Look at the patch file - you should s

Re: Programmieren mit Delphi

2005-10-15 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cristaino Ronaldo wrote: > Meine Damen und Herren, Hi The language used on this mailing list is supposed to be English! > ich habe linux möchte aber wie mit Delphi > Programmieren welche Programmier sprache ist genau so > wie Delphi und kann sie bei

savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa

2005-10-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all, I'm trying to make DRI work on my laptop, which has a debian stable installed (maybe with remnants of the old testing), and the recent x.org backport fetched from backports.org (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7bpo1). This is what lspci says about my grafic card: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controll

ati driver problem

2005-10-15 Thread Áron Deák
I am new to linux so please forgive me for this noob question. I have installed the driver for my ati videocard I downloaded from ati.com but I still can't change the resolution of the screen to anything higher than 800*600 my friend has the same problem. How come that not even the newest versions

Re: Knoppix KDE problem + apt problem

2005-10-15 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:28:48 +0200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdeedu-data_4%3a3.3.2-3.sarge.1_all.deb > (--unpack): trying to overwrite > `/usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/edu_languages.png', which is > also in package

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Katipo
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a firewall or back

Re: Seagate external firewire opinion

2005-10-15 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 15 2005, Willie Gnarlson wrote: > Hello lovers of all that is Debian, Hi there, Willie. > I am thinking of purchasing an external Seagate USB 2.0 / Firewire > hard drive for use for backing up the systems on my LAN Well, I have a similar situation here: I have an IDE drive in an Firewire/