Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:52, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I would think it would work better to write a script that automatically > cross references the DU and DD lists (since this jerk seems to be on > both), and generate a one time email (like, "PLease confirm you are > subscribed to this list!"), with ea

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (This has probably already been thought of and discussed. I'm not > even saying this is the case here, just some thoughts.) > > Could this be a new form of mild denial-of-service attack? Imagine, > someone who has a grudge against a

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(This has probably already been thought of and discussed. I'm not even saying this is the case here, just some thoughts.) Could this be a new form of mild denial-of-service attack? Imagine, someone who has a grudge against a mailing list finds some addresses that have anti-spam autoresponders li

SOLVED: KDE Trash Script & Cleaning out old backup (*~, *.bak) files

2006-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I was able to contact someone who goes by "Steven A" who has put together this great script called "KTrash". It doesn't use kfmclient, it simply uses mv and some bash scripting to correctly move and (if needed) rename files/dirs, and creates the .trashinfo files that store the deletion date

Re: Promise SATAI150 TX4 not visible to sarge debian-kernel 2.6.8-2 even with modprobe. Does work with etch 2.6.12-1 kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Tuesday 03 January 2006 12:43 am, Mitchell Laks wrote: Promise SATAI150 TX4 not visible to kernel 2.6.8-2 Sarge kernel: Sorry: I discovered a well known issue with 2.6.8 kernel. See http://www.biocatalyzer.net/linux/suse92/promise.html I excerpt from it below. (I am putting this here so

Re: [Listmaster] Seeking petsupermarket

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:25, Cord Beermann wrote: > > Someone who is subscribed to d-devel forwards the mails to > petsupermarket. petsupermarket itself is not subscribed to any of our > mailinglists. > > If you have seen those c-r-responses outside of the debian-lists, or > in the last days on other

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1/2/06, Andrew Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 02 January 2006 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >I just posted a message to the list, and immediately received an > > > >

Promise SATAI150 TX4 not visible to sarge debian-kernel 2.6.8-2 even with modprobe. Does work with etch 2.6.12-1 kernel

2006-01-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am setting up a server with SATA drives. I will use software raid 1, thus don't care about "bios" "raid". I tried the Highpoint 1520 cards. I discovered that they need the proprietary hpt driver downloaded from their site. It currently does work with 2.6.8-2 kernels after you copy it o

SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
solved, but not at my full satisfaction... I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a 2.6.12-10 config file. I therefore voided one of the main gain I wanted by building my own kernel: getting rid of initrd. I still got my own kernel at the time I wanted (ie: not waiting

Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format?

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Howie
Rippit the Ogg Frog wrote: > One would think that the "file" command would say, but it just tells you > that the CDROM device file is a device file, rather than saying anything > about the media that is accessed through it: > > # file /dev/scd0 > /dev/scd0: block special (11/0) `man file`, or `fi

NPTL issues w/ stable

2006-01-02 Thread David Coulson
I've got a few boxes running Debian stable here, all updated. One box behaves oddly, in that I get this: # getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION linuxthreads-0.10 When on everything else I get getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION NPTL 0.60 One the boxes which use NPTL, I can do this: # ldd /lib/libm.so.6

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Ed wrote: >We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. >Debian can print a test page, but applications like >web browsers can't make anything come out. Try turning off bi-directional in the printer properties under Windows...worked for me. Thanks for the helpful hint. But this p

Building complex packages,conversions and alien

2006-01-02 Thread nuno romano
jupiter:~# alien --scripts --to-deb MySQL-server-5.0.18-0.glibc23.ppc.rpm Package build failed. Here's the log: dh_testdir dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k -d dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \ xargs -0 -r -i cp

Re: web host suggestions?

2006-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/27/05, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which web hosting company would a Debian user (not developer) choose > for his personal website (jidanni.org)? > Got by with no ssh or cgi and only 1Gb/month bandwidth and 25Mb > disk usage at affordablehost.com for US$20/year, but would like m

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/2/06, Andrew Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 January 2006 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I just posted a message to the list, and immediately received an > > >e-mail from someone's anti-spam system wanting me to confirm

"DROPPED IN=eth0 ... messages on console

2006-01-02 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD64 chip in it. I have cable broadband which is connected via a cable modem and a network card. I have two versions of Debian unstable on my box. The first one is Kanotix (call it "K"). The second one is pure Debian unstable (call it "U"). Both are almost up to date. When

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

2006-01-02 Thread Anton
Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:02:23PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi написал: Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to send an email when a particular threads gets updated. These threads could be anything that you opted in (for example, threads started by a person, threads to

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Howie
jlquinn wrote: > One alternative if you want to get 3D running and are willing to use the > NVidia driver is to download and install their package rather than whats > in the repository. > > Alternatively, find, fix and/or report the bug in the nvidia-glx debian > package. The binary nvidia module

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 January 2006 15:45, Steve Webster wrote: >Wayne Topa wrote: >>LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>>Hi! >>> >>>Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to >>> display it's menus and dialog windows? >>>Thanks! >> >>Not quite sure what you mean but >> >

Re: can't mount my root partition (rescue mode)

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Howie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is that I can't mount my root partition (which is /dev/hda4) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -t ext3 /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, >missing codepage or other error >In some cases useful info i

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Ed
>We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. >Debian can print a test page, but applications like >web browsers can't make anything come out. Try turning off bi-directional in the printer properties under Windows...worked for me. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: gnome-volume-manager works *too* well!

2006-01-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an external firewire drive with several partitions on it, only > one of which I need on a daily basis. As soon as I switch it on, > gnome-volume-manager mounts all (five) partitions. Is there any way I > can instruct gvm to ign

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread David L. Johnson
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 17:57:53 -0500 Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the > > >nVidia card hurdle and run > > > > > >apt-get install x-window-system > > >apt-get install gnome > > >apt-get install kde > > > > > >(trying t

gnome-volume-manager works *too* well!

2006-01-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hello all, I have an external firewire drive with several partitions on it, only one of which I need on a daily basis. As soon as I switch it on, gnome-volume-manager mounts all (five) partitions. Is there any way I can instruct gvm to ignore four of them? TIA sdt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: How to automount an usb key ?

2006-01-02 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 1/2/06, Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I try to setup an automount for an usb key and have the following config : > > File auto.master: > /mnt/etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 > File auto.misc: > usbkey -fstype=auto:/dev/sda > > Directory /mnt is cre

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > I just moved from nvidia driver to nv. The first reason is that there's > is a bug that doesn't let me install nvidia-glx without uninstalling > x-system-core, xserver-xorg and xserver-xfree86. > Anyway, I feel better using nv as it's free :-) > Now, can I install glx dri

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

2006-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Currently on web based forums, one can request the forum software to > send an email when a particular threads gets updated. These threads > could be anything that you opted in (for example, threads started by a > person, threads to which a person replied, threads in w

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the > > nVidia card hurdle and run > > > > apt-get install x-window-system > > apt-get install

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/2/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Stromas wrote: > > >Greetings, > > > >I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the > >nVidia card hurdle and run > > > >apt-get install x-window-system > >apt-get install gnome > >apt-get install kde > > > >

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 06:32 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > Well I tried your (Michael and Paul's) ways (which, btw used to be the > [...] > > > > A bit of info I did not have -because I did not think of it- before: > > cfdisk /dev/hda

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 01/02/2006 05:16 PM, Andrew Vaughan wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:07, The Wanderer wrote: Okay, that does sound intentional enough. (I'm currently wondering how to get reportbug to re-present its initial "first-run setup" sequence, since I cancelled out of that because I'd given the wrong co

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:07, The Wanderer wrote: > Okay, that does sound intentional enough. (I'm currently wondering how > to get reportbug to re-present its initial "first-run setup" sequence, > since I cancelled out of that because I'd given the wrong command line > and as a result now have no ~/.

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
(...rassum, frassum...) On 01/02/2006 04:00 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: The Wanderer wrote: (In the process, I've discovered that reportbug does not permit a bug to be reported on a dependency package, but only on the packages it depends on. This is probably another bug...) I didn't believe

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 07:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > Katipo wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > >> We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. > >> Debian can print a test page, but applications like > >> web browsers can't make anything come out. > >> > >> > >> (I tried a well-crafted question,

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Webster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > >LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > >>Hi! > >> > >>Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display > >>it's menus and dialog windows? > >>Thanks! > >> > >> > > >

Re: Memory usage (avoid swapping, top accuracy...)

2006-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2006-01-01 07:08:23 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: See: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Has Swap Prefetch patch to make that easier. Especially for laptops. Thanks, I'll try that in a few days. To see who runs what check out: http://klive.cpushare.co

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:41:09 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Katipo wrote: > > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >> We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. > >> Debian can print a test page, but applications like > >> web browsers can't make anything come out. > >> > >> > >>

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
The Wanderer wrote: > (In the process, I've discovered that reportbug does not permit a bug to > be reported on a dependency package, but only on the packages it depends > on. This is probably another bug...) I didn't believe this at first but it's true! I think it's planned behavior, though. L

Problem with media mounting and huge log files

2006-01-02 Thread Eric P
Apparently, something is going haywire when I insert a CD. I get this repeating message: ... hdd: ATAPI reset complete hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ... And these logs eat up my HD space if I don't catch it quick enough. kern.log messages syslog I'm running

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
jlquinn wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: I just moved from nvidia driver to nv. The first reason is that there's is a bug that doesn't let me install nvidia-glx without uninstalling x-system-core, xserver-xorg and xserver-xfree86. Anyway, I feel better using nv as it's free :-) Now, can I inst

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Katipo wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. Debian can print a test page, but applications like web browsers can't make anything come out. (I tried a well-crafted question, maybe this sloppy one will get a response.) Mike Got xprt installed? I

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Steve Webster
Wayne Topa wrote: LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi! Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's menus and dialog windows? Thanks! Not quite sure what you mean but Edit -> Preferences -> Content-> Fonts&Colors Advanced -> Display

Re: Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Katipo
Mike McCarty wrote: We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. Debian can print a test page, but applications like web browsers can't make anything come out. (I tried a well-crafted question, maybe this sloppy one will get a response.) Mike Got xprt installed? Sloppy answer, slo

Re: nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-02 Thread jlquinn
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: I just moved from nvidia driver to nv. The first reason is that there's is a bug that doesn't let me install nvidia-glx without uninstalling x-system-core, xserver-xorg and xserver-xfree86. Anyway, I feel better using nv as it's free :-) Now, can I install glx driver for

nvidia vs. nv drivers

2006-01-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
I just moved from nvidia driver to nv. The first reason is that there's is a bug that doesn't let me install nvidia-glx without uninstalling x-system-core, xserver-xorg and xserver-xfree86. Anyway, I feel better using nv as it's free :-) Now, can I install glx driver for nv? How do I do that? -

Re: 10 second startup for emacs on system with 1GB ram Athlon64 3200. postgresql shared memory issues. vi ok immediate

2006-01-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 01 January 2006 08:20 pm, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jan 01 2006, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > How to dispense with it? > > Do you possibly have anything like ecb, semantic, eieio, speedbar-*, > cedet-* installed in your machine? If you don't have any use for them, > I'd suggest you to uninst

Re: ups and software for automatic shutdown.

2006-01-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mauro Sanna wrote: Can you suggest an ups with a software for automatic shutdown for my debian servers? I have just installed a Back-UPS LS 500. Debian package apcupsd supports that out of the box. That's sort of a bottom of the line UPS, I think, but with the PC, m

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:57, J.F. Gratton wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > > I've been unable to access any partition on /dev/hda sinc

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread The Wanderer
(Grrr... same broken "reply to poster, not to list" behaviour... resending to the mailing list, and setting reply-to by hand despite the extra aggravation.) On 01/02/2006 12:20 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: The Wanderer wrote: In current sid, the x-winow-system-core package depends on both xfon

Re: MythTV mirrors or updated howto.

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen wrote: Hi there. I'm trying to install mythTV on my debian-box, but I can't update from the suggested deb-mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv personally I use knoppmyth and love it So, what happens wi

Re: mini-dinstall

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:26, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > On Sat 31 Dec 2005 07:58, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:06, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > > > Is mini-dinstall supoused to copy/move the incoming packages from the > > > incoming directory to the

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > > > 12hrs.. I've had problems here

Re: Can I install a package and restrict its use to only one other package?

2006-01-02 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:53:16PM -0500, Edward C. Jones wrote: > The unofficial packages for the image viewer "XV" are getting old. When Just as a matter of interest, where *are* the unofficial packages for xv? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: manually run e2fsck

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Rodney Richison wrote: My system wants me to run e2fsck manually. How to do this in debian? The machine boots and runs fine. S, with grub, can I boot somehow not mounted and run e2fsck without a rescue cd? I assume you're talking about / here, otherwisae, just umount the partition and ru

Re: mini-dinstall

2006-01-02 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
On Sat 31 Dec 2005 07:58, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:06, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > > Is mini-dinstall supoused to copy/move the incoming packages from the > > incoming directory to the repository/archive ? > > Yes, but unless your running in daemon mode, it d

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME

Re: How to automount an usb key ?

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I try to setup an automount for an usb key and have the following config : I''m having the same trouble with a flash card reader. works like a champ to mount it manually, but cannot get automount to do it. MEanwhile automount works great for my nfs shares...

Re: X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Jim Seymour
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the > nVidia card hurdle and run > > apt-get install x-window-system > apt-get install gnome > apt-get install kde > > (trying to avoid restarting th

Re: undo the command "apt-get clean"

2006-01-02 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 06:14:49PM +0200, Yuri Pakhomov wrote: > there are way to restore deb files from installed packages. But i dont't > know command exactly. > dpkg-repack -- Real programs don't eat cache. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Udev and storage devices

2006-01-02 Thread Jacob S
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:55:16 + "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/31/05, Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would agree with you, except I found autofs wouldn't work with > > symlinks. It wanted to be pointed at the real device. So I put the > > name and symlink param

Re: manually run e2fsck

2006-01-02 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 11:46 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > How to do this in debian? unmount the partition have have to e2fsck and run it: # e2fsck /dev/hda2 (for example) -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP, Plone, PhpBB, JetSpeed... are good:

X configuration (amd64)

2006-01-02 Thread Aaron Stromas
Greetings, I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the nVidia card hurdle and run apt-get install x-window-system apt-get install gnome apt-get install kde (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login scree

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 03:25, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 January 2006 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I just posted a message to the list, and immediately received an > >e-mail from someone's anti-spam system wanting me to confirm that I'm > >a real person. > > [...] > If that was [EMAIL PRO

manually run e2fsck

2006-01-02 Thread Rodney Richison
My system wants me to run e2fsck manually. How to do this in debian? The machine boots and runs fine. S, with grub, can I boot somehow not mounted and run e2fsck without a rescue cd? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing http://www.rcrnet.net 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 74020

Re: Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:01:37AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. The > program aborts with the message, " the GUI requires GTK devel packages > (which were not found)" > > My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Wayne Topa
LeVA([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi! > > Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's > menus and dialog windows? > Thanks! Not quite sure what you mean but Edit -> Preferences -> Content-> Fonts&Colors Advanced -> Display Resolution might be

Re: Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thomas H. George wrote: > I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. > The program aborts with the message, " the GUI requires GTK devel > packages (which were not found)" > > My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but I probably do > not have the whole Gnome pa

MythTV mirrors or updated howto.

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Bernhard Arp Sørensen
Hi there. I'm trying to install mythTV on my debian-box, but I can't update from the suggested deb-mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv Does anyone have another mirror to use? Does any of you know a good howto on debian and mythTV? Thanks

Re: Where to file a package-dependency bug?

2006-01-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
The Wanderer wrote: > In current sid, the x-winow-system-core package depends on both > xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi. The package description for xfonts-75dpi > includes the note: > > > == > This package and xfonts-100dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at > different resolutions; on

Re: disk partitioning

2006-01-02 Thread danwebb
Mr. Jensen i don't know how to mirrow a disk if you have this info it is be most needed. dan  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > > 12hrs.. I've had problems here with my smtp; not sure it went well) > > > > Hello, > > > > I've b

Help! Can't print on Windows Shared Printer!

2006-01-02 Thread Mike McCarty
We have an HP Deskjet connected to a Windows printer. Debian can print a test page, but applications like web browsers can't make anything come out. (I tried a well-crafted question, maybe this sloppy one will get a response.) Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 January 2006 04:54, LeVA wrote: >Hi! > >Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to > display it's menus and dialog windows? >Thanks! > >Daniel > Now thats a question I'd also like to find the answer too, gawd they are tiny fonts on a 1600x1200 screen. >-- >LeVA

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 January 2006 01:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I just posted a message to the list, and immediately received an >e-mail from someone's anti-spam system wanting me to confirm that I'm >a real person. > >Geez, just imagine if everyone on the list had one of these. We'd > get tons of auto

Corrupted ulogd pcap files

2006-01-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only > tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and

How to automount an usb key ?

2006-01-02 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I try to setup an automount for an usb key and have the following config : File auto.master: /mnt/etc/auto.misc --timeout=60 File auto.misc: usbkey -fstype=auto:/dev/sda Directory /mnt is created and autofs daemon seems correctly started as status display: ... C

Re: Autoexec.bat

2006-01-02 Thread 袁苏义
If you want to run some scripts on startup , move these scripts to /etc/initd/ and run "rcconf" (apt-get install rcconf). At 2006-01-02一的 19:46 +0530,Anil Gupte worte: > Is there an equivalent of the autoexec.bat file in Debian? Basically > I want to execute a scrpt and maybe mount a USB port o

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Martinell
On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > 12hrs.. I've had problems here with my smtp; not sure it went well) > > Hello, > > I've been unable to access any partition on /dev/hda since I've compiled > my own kernel

samba, cups and cupsaddsmb

2006-01-02 Thread Angela Gavazzi
Hallo, I have an old samba-cups printserver (woody), connected to the domain through winbind, that I want replace now. I installed a new samba-cups server on a sarge machine. Windbind works, I can get all users and groups. I copied the generic windows postscript driver files as in cupsaddsmb-

Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. The program aborts with the message, " the GUI requires GTK devel packages (which were not found)" My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but I probably do not have the whole Gnome package installed as I normally us

Re: Autoexec.bat

2006-01-02 Thread Björn Lindström
"Anil Gupte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically I want to execute a script I usually do that by calling it at the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh, clearly stating in a comment that it's my local addition. > and maybe mount a USB port on startup. Mount an USB device you mean? You can do that

Re: Autoexec.bat

2006-01-02 Thread Anders Breindahl
On 2006-01-02 1946, Anil Gupte wrote: > BlankIs there an equivalent of the autoexec.bat file in Debian? Basically I > want to execute a scrpt and maybe mount a USB port on startup. > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. I don't know what ``BlankIs'' is. Mounting your USB-thingie should be do

Autoexec.bat

2006-01-02 Thread Anil Gupte
Is there an equivalent of the autoexec.bat file in Debian?  Basically I want to execute a scrpt and maybe mount a USB port on startup.   Any suggestions will be appreciated.   Thanx, Anil Guptewww.keeninc.netwww.icinema.comk.e.e.n., inc.Milwaukee, WI, USA+1-414/431-8775Pune, MH, India+91-20/3

Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format? (SOLVED)

2006-01-02 Thread Adam Fabian
Oops. I see you found the -s option. Maybe the standard input version will be useful or illuminating anyway, eh? ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format?

2006-01-02 Thread Adam Fabian
Try the '-s' or '--special-files' switch to the file command. turingmachine# file -s /dev/scd1 /dev/scd1: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'FOO' My first thought worked, incidentally, which was more like: head /dev/scd0 | file - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Felix Miata
LeVA wrote: > Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's > menus and dialog windows? The preferred method is with gnome-control-center. If you don't have this gcc installed or don't get the results you want with it, you can override using CSS. See http://www.moz

Trouble with autoconf, automake and aclocal

2006-01-02 Thread Andi Drebes
Hello, I am currently developing an application that I would like to distribute over the internet. I read about autoconf, automake and aclocal and recognized, that I've already used these programs to install other software on my system. So I decided to use it for my application, too. I wrote a conf

Re: ups and software for automatic shutdown.

2006-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Sanna wrote: Can you suggest an ups with a software for automatic shutdown for my debian servers? I have just installed a Back-UPS LS 500. Debian package apcupsd supports that out of the box. That's sort of a bottom of the line UPS, I think, but with the PC, monitor, modem plugged into

Re: GUI

2006-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
branko wrote: Hi.Please help.I want to use Linux but in GUI.I have a DVD of Debian Sarge.I have tried to install it and evrything went fine except at the end all I got was a prompt.I have tried evry command I could think of to get GUI but could not.What do I have to do to get graphical interfac

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
Stefhen Hovland wrote: >i think ifrename will do what you are asking, you can specify that >eth0 always be bound to x, and eth1 always bound to y, etc.. > > >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename > >stefhen > >On 12/29/05, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>With the new w

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:52:26 +0100 Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover > etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order > with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first > corres

ups and software for automatic shutdown.

2006-01-02 Thread Mauro Sanna
Can you suggest an ups with a software for automatic shutdown for my debian servers? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not debian specific, but please help me ....

2006-01-02 Thread Roberto
Thanks Alain ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not debian specific, but please help me ....

2006-01-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Roberto wrote: Hi all, I can't find how to set a defult and convenient attribute mask when file are created on linux. I need a whole group can write file created by anyone in the group. So I need the g=rw be the default permission at file creation. Actually I get g=r only by default man uma

Re: Not debian specific, but please help me ....

2006-01-02 Thread Alain NISSEN
You can set your "umask" to 002 instead of 022 (the default on most Unix setups). Just add the following line umask 002 in ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile files, for yourself and other people belonging to the related group. Hope this helps. Alain Roberto a écrit : Hi all, I c

Re: console tool for checking web sites

2006-01-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Chris Howie wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I want to use text-based console api tools for checking the contents of web pages. I.e. not for the human eye but for an api. What is the best tool for that? python-twisted? I find the most straightforward method is to look at the page source and writ

Not debian specific, but please help me ....

2006-01-02 Thread Roberto
Hi all, I can't find how to set a defult and convenient attribute mask when file are created on linux. I need a whole group can write file created by anyone in the group. So I need the g=rw be the default permission at file creation. Actually I get g=r only by default Thank you very much Ro

RE: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Yes, it is. Firefox uses gtk toolkit which uses .gtkrc* (like .gtkrc-2.0) config files. One way is to manually create this file or in KDE you can install gtk-themes-qt or something like this to force gtk apps to use the KDE theme or fonts. Another thing I had to adjust to get rid of huge fonts

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread Thomas Jollans
LeVA wrote: >Hi! > >Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's >menus and dialog windows? >Thanks! > >Daniel > > > I don't think so. A while ago I filed this as a bug in mozilla-firefox. (1.0.7 then) I got no response I am aware of. it's bug #326270. I am not c

firefox - how to change menu font

2006-01-02 Thread LeVA
Hi! Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's menus and dialog windows? Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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