Re: xdvi gets updated only if it is active window

2005-10-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
T wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:20:24 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: foreground. Is there any way to update the contents automatically even if the xdvi window is not the active window? why you want to do that? Let's say I have the .tex file opened in vim+vim-latexsuite and .d

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:03 -0400, j j wrote: > Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to > convert rpms to deb. http://openoffice.debian.net/ 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target unstable. Becau

Re: How to install debian on an external hard disk drive

2005-10-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 08:10 -0700, Bob A wrote: > Hi, > > Im greatly interested in learning linux and wish to > install debian distribution onto an external disk > drive. > Here are my machine specifications: > Processor: Pentium4 > Existing OS: Windows XP Home edition > 120GB external hard disk >

Re: Mouse Pointer Problem

2005-10-21 Thread srikanth y
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Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-21 Thread Robert Epprecht
"Basajaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thank you for answering. > BTW, I have the idea that cfdisk is "better" than fdisk, > although I am so accustomed to fdisk that I always use it. Same for me. I have tried cfdisk, but have seen at least two hard-disks which I could not partition with cfdisk,

Re: knoppix-autoconfig

2005-10-21 Thread Paras pradhan
Yes i have tried ... that but i am getting some problem with /tmp folder... tmp is symlinked to /var/tmp and /var/tmp has sticky bit on Do i need to special treat the /tmp folder for xorg? Paras. On 10/21/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Maybe xorg.conf f

probrem with sound card

2005-10-21 Thread 张勇顺
I uses alsa driver in kernel2.6.11.3 for my sound card the sound card work well when the computer is start but it is not work after about 10min with xmms or mpp3blaster or mplayer mpg123 but i am can heard it work with gaim when uses mpg123 the errn is MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joi

/root/.ssh/authorized_keys and command= entries

2005-10-21 Thread David Christensen
Debian user: I am trying to figure out how to execute a shutdown on a Debian 3.0 machine using "ssh root@ " syntax, but don't want to allow root logins. RTFM "man sshd_config" indicates that I need the following line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: PermitRootLogin forced-commands-only Restarting

Re: program name

2005-10-21 Thread kangja
Is there no way to deal with this problem? I have given the reason why I want to do it. kangja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Greg
I got the mouse and desktop to work. I will post tomorrow regarding how I did it. I have a few more things to fix (wireless networking, etc), but I like what I see so far. It seems to be a very elegent operating system. Good night. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-21 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:12:14PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: William Ballard wrote: > Single-letter element-centric XML is fairly readable: > > > 1432 > 1892 > You are joking, right? You're just not used to it. Once

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: zlength='wc -l $zonename|(read len fname; echo $len;)' Sorry, those single quotes should be backticks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Martin McCormick wrote: "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: Why not just use wc and sed? A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to use head -n -6. There is, however, a problem with that last suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD syst

Re: any idea if this works on Debian?

2005-10-21 Thread Bruno Buys
Rishi wrote: Hi Anyone heard of this product and tried out to see if it works on Debian? http://shopping.sify.com/shopping/product_detail.php?pid=13172459&prodid=13949639 -- Rishi If it is seen as a 'usb-storage' device, it will, most likely, work. The page does not detail... One thing:

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
"Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: >Why not just use wc and sed? A good idea and also a good idea from Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to use head -n -6. There is, however, a problem with that last suggestion in that the script is actually being run on a FreeBSD system and FreeBSD's version of

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 21 October 2005 08:58 pm, Greg wrote: > Actually, I did a Google. I ran tasksel as root and loaded the files > for the dektop. I answered several questions during the process. > However, I still can't load the desktop. I get the following error > message > > (EE) ef860penSerial I canno

any idea if this works on Debian?

2005-10-21 Thread Rishi
Hi Anyone heard of this product and tried out to see if it works on Debian? http://shopping.sify.com/shopping/product_detail.php?pid=13172459&prodid=13949639 -- Rishi

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Greg
Actually, I did a Google. I ran tasksel as root and loaded the files for the dektop. I answered several questions during the process. However, I still can't load the desktop. I get the following error message (EE) ef860penSerial I cannot open device /dev/input/mouse (EE) ConfiguredMouse: Cannot

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 21 2005 06:45 pm, Greg wrote: > It worked, sort of. > > Thanks to all for the advice, including the kind I didn't listen to. > The dual boot stet up fine. However, during the Debian install, I > accidently skipped over the part to install the desktop environment, > print server, etc

Re: evolution 2.04 mit debian sarge Anwendung des Filters auf Ordner Verschickt

2005-10-21 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:11:45 +0200 Erich Minderlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hallo > > Ich wollte mir ein paar Filterregeln basteln und dieses Filter dann auf > den ordner Verschickt anwenden. Spart das einsortieren. ce liste n'est pas le liste debian allemande. :) Viel Gl\"uck bitte frage

Hi best-data-recovery.info, Reciprocal Links invitation

2005-10-21 Thread Links
Hi best-data-recovery.info, Sincerely invite your sites for Reciprocal links. My name is Recardo, I now manage few web sites. I found your site best-data-recovery.info, would like to reciprocal links exchange with: best-data-recovery.info, or any other websites you own it. It is very common a

Re: Kernel 2.4.31 does not compile on Debian sid/unstable?

2005-10-21 Thread David
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:05:59PM +0200, Bo?tjan Müller wrote: > I am trying to compile a 2.4.31 kernel (with some additional patches) > and have had no success in doing so today (i tried without patches - > vanilla kernel also). > $ export MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" > $ make-kpkg --revision 0 --bz

Re: help: udev rule for usb stick

2005-10-21 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 20 October 2005 11:35, Matteo Semplice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks for your reply (and all the others, which kindly pointed out docs > on the web that sadly already sit on my machine but had already given no > help) > ... > udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q pat

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:45:19PM -0700, Greg wrote: > Thanks to all for the advice, including the kind I didn't listen to. > The dual boot stet up fine. However, during the Debian install, I > accidently skipped over the part to install the desktop environment, > print server, etc. When all wa

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-21 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > Single-letter element-centric XML is fairly readable: > > > > > > 1432 > > 1892 > > > > You are joking, right? You're just not used to it. Once you get the hang of the "context" -- i.e., in that,

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Greg
It worked, sort of. Thanks to all for the advice, including the kind I didn't listen to. The dual boot stet up fine. However, during the Debian install, I accidently skipped over the part to install the desktop environment, print server, etc. When all was complete I was left with a prompt. Not w

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:59:29PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:57:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I > > > expected it to and I

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:57:13PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I > > expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are > > a bunch of DNS

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I > expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are > a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and > I hoped to do th

Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-21 Thread Martin McCormick
A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and I hoped to do that with a while loop driven by the ls command. In order to loose the bo

Re: xdvi gets updated only if it is active window

2005-10-21 Thread T
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:20:24 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > foreground. Is there any way to update the contents automatically even > if the xdvi window is not the active window? why you want to do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 13:23 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Where do you find themes? How do you update them? My daughter has a > rather extreme case of missing controls in mozilla -- but only in etch. > In sarge -- same box, same set of home directories, but different / -- > everything works fine.

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-21 Thread mikepolniak
On 08:11 Fri 21 Oct , SpamHog wrote: > Thank you for clarifying! > > I'll never again root =(hdx,x) after a kernel. > > Yet, there must be something else munching up this boot. > > Whence the hda5 reference comes is not explained even by a missing > SECOND specification of hda6 as running ro

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Shark Wang
but how about the Gnome ? thanks! -SharkOn 10/22/05, Paulo M C Aragão <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno,> How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ?KDE sources all shell scripts placed in ~/.kde/env. What I do is:1. ln -s /etc/environment ~/.kde/env2. Place all global environment va

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Iain Stephen
Hi all, Problem solved. Deleting the profile did not help, but deleting the profile and then reinstalling Firefox fixed the problem. Strange thing though, copying *any* file from the backed up profile to the new profile screwed things up again, so I'll just stick with the new profile. At least

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Bruno, > How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ? KDE sources all shell scripts placed in ~/.kde/env. What I do is: 1. ln -s /etc/environment ~/.kde/env 2. Place all global environment variables in /etc/environment This way they're available to console and KDE-started appl alik

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 21 October 2005 04:22, Mark Hansen wrote: > Thanks. Here are a couple follow-up question then. > > (1) If I start 2 separate VMWare processes, they should each be able to > grab 3GB of memory (more or less) - is that right? > > (2) My Dell box has 2 Xeon processors and I'm running the SM

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-21 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:49:14 +0100 marc considered, crafted and sent: >|--- Yes, I've tried that, but no joy. >|--- >|--- > Also try to connect with a terminal >|--- > program such as minicom. Sometimes you can find clues to the problem by >|--- > entering and watching everything as it happe

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Antony Gelberg wrote: He is new to Debian but sounds like he has a decent understanding of PCs. If he is stupid enough to delete his Windows partition during the install, it will certainly be the kind of mistake he learns from. :) d-i is very friendly and I think he should proceed with both d

debian webinst with silicom pcmcia ethernet card

2005-10-21 Thread Riivo
hello, i have trouble installing debian on my laptop computer, because install cannot detect my Silicon pcmcia ethernet card and i have no clue what to do.. any help? :) riivo[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Add which package to get mplayer to play an ogg stream?

2005-10-21 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 20 October 2005 14:27, Adam Funk wrote: > On my Debian testing system at work, this works (using Marillat's > mplayer-i586 package): > > $ mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg > > > On my Debian testing system at home (using Marillat's mplayer-k7 > package), however,

Dhcp request on wrong eth

2005-10-21 Thread Lars
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I got a problem with dhcp3-server. I got 3 nic in my firewall (eth0 -2). Eth0 is not being used in the moment, eth1 is the wan-nic, eth2 is the local lan (and splitted into 4, eth2 to eth2:3). The NIC's, that are in used, is placed in the same swit

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez
Greg wrote: > I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current > machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). > The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain > Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. >

Mathematica seg. faults with glibc 2.3.5

2005-10-21 Thread Jan
Hello I recently upgraded my Debian unstable, so that it is fairly up to date with the newest packages (which it wasn't). In the process, glibc was also upgraded. This meant that my Mathematica 4.2 would not work anymore. I faced a similar problem before, the solution I used then was to install an

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 23:30 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > Is openoffice 2 considered to be a different package from openofice 1.14? > > > Or is it a newer version of the same package? > > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > It is quite diff

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Dobbs
Make sure that your tuner is set to use the proper NTSC/pal and frequency table. This should be in whatever software your using example xawtv. - Original Message - From: "Simo Kauppi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 08:22 -0400, Mark Hansen wrote: > Thanks. Here are a couple follow-up question then. > > (1) If I start 2 separate VMWare processes, they should each be able to > grab 3GB of memory (more or less) - is that right? More or less. The 3GB per partition is divided into distin

Re: [skype] X server and skype, that's a problem

2005-10-21 Thread m
Sound is very sensitive to temporal disturbance. Much more so than video. Hey, it's pressure changing over time. I imagine that almost certainly, if you can bump up the priority of the skype processes involved all should be fine. But I don't actually know any more than the theory. nice is

Re: Re: X.Org Hits Testing: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-10-21 Thread Torsten Crass
Hi there, after doing a "smart upgrade" using Synaptic (yes, I am talking about the package manager GUI here... ;-), I can't get *any* mouse-like device to work on my ThinkPad T42... I am using Debian unstable with X.org, and neither the "nipple" nor the synaptics touchpad are responding any more.

Re: Newb question : What package will the system use if both testing and unstable sources are defined ?

2005-10-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 the mental interface of Maxim Vexler told: > Hello. > > I'm facing this situation on my first day with debain : > > I wish to have both php5 and xorg-server installed on my system, those > packages are provided from the unstable repository - which is fine. > The problem arise

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2005-10-21 Thread Torsten Crass
Hi there, after doing a "smart upgrade" using Synaptic (yes, I am talking about the package manager GUI here... ;-), I can't get *any* mouse-like device to work on my ThinkPad T42... I am using Debian unstable with X.org, and neither the "nipple" nor the synaptics touchpad are responding any more.

Re: phpmyadmin + apache2 [solved]

2005-10-21 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Friday 21 October 2005 17:09, you wrote: > > > Add index.php,index.phtml to your DirectotyIndex and keep the .phtml > > > extension to your "AddType application/x-httpd-php" > > > Let we know if it works. > > I'm afraid it didn't. I've attached my apache2.conf for reference. > Try this: > > # a

Newb question : What package will the system use if both testing and unstable sources are defined ?

2005-10-21 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello. I'm facing this situation on my first day with debain : I wish to have both php5 and xorg-server installed on my system, those packages are provided from the unstable repository - which is fine. The problem arises with my understanding of the way apt works: If a version of a package FOO is

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-21 Thread m
Absolutely true. When I started my blog esquipulas dot homeunix dot com, I was looking for a blog machine using LaTex. It does not exist, but what a chance. LaTex has it all and has had so for years. I've noticed that Wikipedia uses a funny combination of latex and ?ml as its input language.

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-21 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:28:14AM +0200, wvl wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble getting my Pinnacle PCTV Pro to work, which I > bought in the Netherlands (europe) a few (2?) years ago. > > After loading bttv I only get snow on the top of the screen.. > everything below that seems to be froze

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Marty
Greg wrote: I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. I've alr

Re: no /etc/ld.so.conf on sarge?

2005-10-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:23:00PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > is it ok to create this and just add the additional paths I need? or do > I have to add all the default paths as well if I create one? > > You can safely create the file and add only the additional paths. -Roberto -- Roberto C. S

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: My question is this, I want to use a boot loader that will load either WinME or Debian. Grub seems like the default boot loader per the installation docs I've read. During installation, will Grub be smart enough to see WinMe on the other drive and will itput the boot loader file on

Nistnet on Debian

2005-10-21 Thread RSiffredi
Has anyone compiled Nistnet on Debian linux. If so, which kernel and which packages are required for successful compliation. THanks, Rocco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
yep you should be fine... just remember if you ever nuke your debian install your bootloader will no longer work (or maybe its just that it wont find its menu.lst file, can't remember as its been awhile since I goofed up and did that) since thats where it stores the grub files (even though grub wil

Ready to join the club..

2005-10-21 Thread Greg
I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. I've already partition

no /etc/ld.so.conf on sarge?

2005-10-21 Thread Matthew Lenz
is it ok to create this and just add the additional paths I need? or do I have to add all the default paths as well if I create one? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Is openoffice 2 considered to be a different package from openofice 1.14? > > Or is it a newer version of the same package? > > > > -- hendrik > > It is quite different.OOo 2.0 is version 2.0, which is the latest. 1.1.4 > has b

configuracion de exim4 me genera un ciclo

2005-10-21 Thread enediel gonzalez
saludos a todos estoy configurando un exim4 sobre debian sarge stable para que sea el smarthost de un exchange estoy detras de router con ip real, y el exchange es ademas el dns, ya esta configurado que el exim de la cara a internet en el router. los mensajes hacia el exterior salen perfec

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 21 October 2005 01:26 pm, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:02:25PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote: > > > I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked > > > soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. > > >

evolution 2.04 mit debian sarge Anwendung des Filters auf Ordner Verschickt

2005-10-21 Thread Erich Minderlein
hallo Ich wollte mir ein paar Filterregeln basteln und dieses Filter dann auf den ordner Verschickt anwenden. Spart das einsortieren. Es geht leider nicht. Es ist möglich die Filterregeln zu erzeugen. aber das anwenden auf den Ordner verschickt funktioniert nicht. ist dieser Fehler und seine Lö

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-10-21 11:06:33 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ? If you start X11 with startx, then it will inherit the variable values set for your shell. > I asked that question a while ago. > It appears e.g. that xterm

Re: Debian can't connect to internet gateway

2005-10-21 Thread Dan
That did the trick! Thanks alot bud! You saved me hours of work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:02:25PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote: > > I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked > > soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. > > alien -i *.rpm > > > > Is there a big difference from the last RC

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Andrew Nelson
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:06:33 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I setup some environment variables needed by applications in > > user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works > > fine. But starting these applications

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:39:47PM +0100, Ben Whyte wrote: > Iain Stephen wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) > >all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has > >restored them and no aother programs are affect

mysql & logrotate not behaving post Etch dist-upgrade

2005-10-21 Thread s. keeling
I received this this morning: From: Anacron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily' on infidel Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:37:47 -0600 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.00, version=0.96.2 /etc/cron.daily/mysql-server: ERROR a

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Rick Friedman
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote: > I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked > soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. > alien -i *.rpm > > Is there a big difference from the last RC? I used alien -i *.rpm on the OpenOffice.org 2.0 RPMs. It worked fine. Th

Re: Document management system

2005-10-21 Thread Peter . Robinson
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:34:13AM -0400, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > > > I al searching for a document management system or whatever it is > > where i can > > > > - add files (off course) > > - add files by more then just one > > - indexing and searching on content of the files > > - make statist

sound card probem

2005-10-21 Thread 张勇顺
I uses alsa driver in kernel2.6.11.3 for my sound card the sound card work well when the computer is start but it is not work after about 10min with xmms or mpp3blaster or mplayer mpg123 but i am can heard it work with gaim when uses mpg123 the errn is MPEG 1.0 layer III, 192 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joi

TeTeX 3 in experimental

2005-10-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
Is anyone using the TeTeX 3 packages in experimental? How functional are they? I really want/need a newer version of fontinst, but the version I need (1.92) is, as far as I can tell, only available (for Debian) in those experimental packages. Backports.org only has a version 2 TeTeX. I'd very mu

Kernel-img 2.6.8-2-386:...symbol _errno, version GLIB_2.0 not defined

2005-10-21 Thread nasr . laili
Further to my yesterda's date message > Package:kernel-image 2.6.8-2-386 | libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 ?? > [Using GNU/Linux 2.4.27-1-386 - Debian-Sarge] > Hi all! > on december last year, closing bug #282692 (relating to > k-i-2.6.8-1-386), Masanori Goto said: > [..skip..] The question ge

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I setup some environment variables needed by applications in user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works fine. But starting these applications from kde menus don't work as obviously these user env.variables are not set. I suppose kde user is

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:00 -0700, Jared Hall wrote: > I took care of it all last night a couple of minutes after I posted. > Here's what I did. > > I looked at my logs and found that there was no successful root login. > the reason netstat was showing another root connection from the > mentione

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-21 Thread SpamHog
Thank you for clarifying! I'll never again root =(hdx,x) after a kernel. Yet, there must be something else munching up this boot. Whence the hda5 reference comes is not explained even by a missing SECOND specification of hda6 as running root. Nothing anywhere specifies hda5. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-21 Thread SpamHog
Thank you for clarifying! I'll never again root =(hdx,x) after a kernel. Yet, there must be something else munching up this boot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to install debian on an external hard disk drive

2005-10-21 Thread Bob A
Hi, Im greatly interested in learning linux and wish to install debian distribution onto an external disk drive. Here are my machine specifications: Processor: Pentium4 Existing OS: Windows XP Home edition 120GB external hard disk Please help me regarding the steps to follow to partition my exter

Re: update kernel

2005-10-21 Thread my_mail
Hello SuperrrLeha, Thursday, October 20, 2005, 4:21:03 PM, you wrote: S> How i can update kernel? I hope that is good steps: 1. download kernel 2.6.12 from http://www.kernel.org or from disk of linuxforum magazin 2. unpack archive to /usr/src/ 3. cd /usr/src/*new_src_kernel* 4. make clean 5. m

Kernel-img 2.6.8-2-386:...symbol _errno, version GLIB_2.0 not defined

2005-10-21 Thread nasr . laili
Package:kernel-image 2.6.8-2-386 | libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 ?? [Using GNU/Linux 2.4.27-1-386 - Debian-Sarge] Hi all! on december last year, closing bug #282692 (relating to k-i-2.6.8-1-386), Masanori Goto said: > You use non debian version ls, or you install your version in > /usr/local/b

Re: Writing Audio CD's / GnomeBaker

2005-10-21 Thread John Marks
On Thursday 13 October 2005 17:27, Amir Widjaja wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm fairly new to Debian. I installed Debian a few months ago, and one > of the first things I did was download GnomeBaker to create an audio cd, > which worked flawlessly. > > A couple of months later, I tried creating another au

Re: Add which package to get mplayer to play an ogg stream?

2005-10-21 Thread Adam Funk
j j wrote: > I *think* mplayer plays oggs without the need of extra codec. That's what I thought. > but try vlc > to see if your ogg file is in good shape. I know the stream itself is OK because xmms plays it with no trouble on both machines, and mplayer plays it on one machine while at the s

How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-21 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I setup some environment variables needed by applications in user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works fine. But starting these applications from kde menus don't work as obviously these user env.variables are not set. I suppose kde user is different than logged us

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread j j
I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS.  If it worked soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. alien -i *.rpm Is there a big difference from the last RC? On 10/21/05, Jan T. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:03:31AM -0400, j j wrote:> Where are the .debs? Oo

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Ben Whyte
Iain Stephen wrote: Hi all, After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has restored them and no aother programs are affected. Any ideas how I can get them back? I had this issue it was to do wit

Re: Dial-up modem 'No CARRIER'

2005-10-21 Thread W. Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 marc wrote: > = > chat script > > # This chatfile was generated by pppconfig 2.3.10. > # Please do not delete any of the comments. Pppconfig needs them. > # > # ispauth PAP > # abortstring > ABORT BUSY ABORT 'NO CARRIER' ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO DI

Re: Problem with DNS resolving on Debian sarge

2005-10-21 Thread Marc PERRUDIN
Yoav a écrit : > Hi... I'm having a problem with my connection (PPPoE) on a fresh > Debian 3.1 sarge installation. > Just after boot time everything is OK, I can access any working site > including this one. > but after some time (a few hours probably) there seems to be a problem > with DNS resolv

Problems with 'create mask' and 'security mask' in SAMBA configuration

2005-10-21 Thread Amadeu A . B . Júnior
Hi guys, I am mounting the homes of my users via samba. Both server and clients are linux boxes running Debian Sarge. My samba package (server and smbfs) are 3.0.14a-3. What I would like to do should basically result of: directory mask = 0700 force directory mode = 0 directory secur

[Fwd: Segfault in Samba] and NOW?

2005-10-21 Thread Amadeu A . B . Júnior
Hi guys, I received an email from my samba-server reporting a segmentation fault in Samba. Looks the email: --- Original Message Assunto: Segfault in Samba De: "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data:Qui, Outubro 20, 2005 8:12 Para:[EMAIL

Re: Problem with DNS resolving on Debian sarge

2005-10-21 Thread amalgam.swhe
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:27:02PM +0200, Yoav wrote: > Hi... I'm having a problem with my connection (PPPoE) on a fresh Debian 3.1 > sarge installation. > Just after boot time everything is OK, I can access any working site including > this one. > but after some time (a few hours probably) there s

Re: Loosing mouse when screen is locked

2005-10-21 Thread Craig M. Houck
I have a similar problem. Try ctrl-alt-F2 (if it will let you go to a terminal) then ctrl-alt-F7 to go back. this wakes my mouse when it freezes. At 08:59 AM 10/21/2005 +0200, Emmanuel Quevillon wrote: >Hi, > >I run a Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a Dell latitude D810. Everything went fine >when I instal

Re: how can to install ati driver with gcc-4.0.2

2005-10-21 Thread Lubos Vrbka
biosedit wrote: > how can to install ati driver with gcc-4.0.2 > i am uses ati9600(RV350) and install driver 8.14.13 > with gcc3.4.3 kernel 2.6.8 the driver is work well > but now i am update gcc to 4.0.2 kernel to 2.6.13 the driver is not work > and can't install the driver > > > assuming new VM

Kernel 2.4.31 does not compile on Debian sid/unstable?

2005-10-21 Thread Boštjan Müller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello all, I am trying to compile a 2.4.31 kernel (with some additional patches) and have had no success in doing so today (i tried without patches - vanilla kernel also). $ export MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" $ make-kpkg --revision 0 --bzimage --add

Re: gnome doesnt start

2005-10-21 Thread Kent West
wood wood wrote: >i was trying to make some changes in >/etc/apt/sources.list >and i dont know what happened but my user dir >'wood' which was under /home got deleted. > > I can think of no way that these two items (editing sources.list and /home/wood disappearing) would be related. Is /home on

Re: Running > 4GB of Memory

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Hansen
Thanks. Here are a couple follow-up question then. (1) If I start 2 separate VMWare processes, they should each be able to grab 3GB of memory (more or less) - is that right? (2) My Dell box has 2 Xeon processors and I'm running the SMP kernel. Even without CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G, should the 2 pro

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
Bruno Buys wrote: > Basajaun wrote: [snip] > >Yes, the 2.4 does fine. Since SATA is seen as IDE by 2.4, the ide-* > >modules are loaded, then the IDE devices are seen. The problem under > >2.6 is to have some SCSI modules loaded _first_, so they get hold of > >the ide[01] channels, and actual IDE

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