Re: Recommended Debian book?

2006-03-06 Thread Deboo ^
Could someone tell me which of these books is similar in type to the Linux by Carla? I mean Q/A type. I knew one more was there but don't know which one   Regards, Deboo  On 7/22/05, Hans-Peter Sulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 19 July 2005 Glenn English wrote:> > http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
THE problem http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html caused by my stupidness http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00501.html seems to be that the configurations that any Debian tool expects are confusingly out of order or missing in a way that cannot be foreseen (since

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Andras Lorincz
I don't have the problem, presumably because the following appears in /etc/bash.bashrc: # Commented out, don't overwrite xterm -T "title" -n "icontitle" by default. # If this is an xterm set the title to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir #case "$TERM" in #xterm*|rxvt*) #    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: >Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > > >>Tore Ericsson wrote: >> >> The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever >>>and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, >>>I'd appreciate other

More on the clock problem & base-config.

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Bonert
I posted earlier here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00647.html --- I figured-out that the clock problem is related to time zones. The hardware clock is set correctly. Linux is compensating for a time difference that doesn't exist. I know this because I booted into Windoze-- the

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >>The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever > > > >and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, > > I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for >

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: >Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > > >>Are you saying that if you "dpkg -i kdelibs4c2a_3.5.1-2_i386.deb" >> >>the installation of the deb will fail? >> >yes indeed > > Oh-h-h-h. Does it complain about the libkdecore also, as in: >/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 06:23 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >>The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever > > > >and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, > > I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for >

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:15:28PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > > > >>Paul E Condon wrote: > ... > >>>I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. > >> > >>... why? ... > ... > >I think it is a

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: >>The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever >> >> >and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd >appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering >anyhow :) > > Are you saying tha

Upgrade frustrations (in testing) with shorewall crashes, clock troubles, tomcat4 crashes

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Bonert
I recently upgraded my testing distribution and got a lot of headaches. - SHOREWALL Lately, the shorewall versions changed so much that I couldn't ignore changes (in the config) anymore. Shorewall was crashing my computer on shutdown. On shutdown I was getting somet

Re: Re: Verifying DMI Pool Data

2006-03-06 Thread martha
when I start up this is what I get in the left hand corner it reads verifying dmi pool data ...   Y symbel that looks like a light socket twice. can you help me  Martha [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OfficeJet 4110 [Was: Why do I bother?]

2006-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brett wrote: jlquinn wrote: I posted several days ago about the lack of success I'm having with an HP 5440 (regular inkjet). I have hpijs installed (the debian package), but the HP tools can't find the printer and hence nothing works for me. I see the printer device show up in the kernel l

Re: Compilation problems with libxalan

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Mladen Adamovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You probably have AnyMeal related problem so the better idea is to use > anymeal mailing list or forums. > Most probably you are using different version of Xalan-C then the > AnyMeal's authors. I was guessing something like that. The thing that confu

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Internally consistent. If you look at the 6.x documentation they treat > the whole thing as a stream operation, i.e. load an image, do this, do > that, maybe load a second image and so something with that, composite > the two images, load a third, resize i

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Tadeusz Bak
Tim, Please have a look at the thread "sudo doesn't set HOME" in this list. Thanks, Tad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Craig M. Houck wrote: Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample:

Re: !

2006-03-06 Thread andy and alice
I am trying to learn more about the Marinus VanPopering family that arrived in New York from the Netherlands in 1852.  Although there were at least two VanPopering families that settled in Sayville and West Sayville, I am interested most in the Dutch origin of Marinus (b. 1814) and his son D

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-03-06 Thread cga
Brian Clark wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor positio

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread charles norwood
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 20:05 -0500, Marty wrote: > > Speaking of testing, in another posting you mentioned that you were > a newbie. I admire your pluck and daring. > Me too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh & DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread David Berg
On 3/6/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to get X Forwarding to work right over my ssh tunnels. > Apparently I hadn't restarted my server. ~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart fixed the problem. --Dave

ssh & DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread David Berg
I can't seem to get X Forwarding to work right over my ssh tunnels. On the the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep X11 /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 On the client: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ^[^#\n] /etc/ssh/ssh_config Host * ForwardX11 yes ForwardX11Trusted yes C

permissions group sticky

2006-03-06 Thread Tony Heal
Hi All   I have a java program running on a Debian sarge server. One of the things contained in it's sar file are some cgi files. During the installation of this program the original directory gets deleted and the new sar gets expanded, then I set the permissions on the cgi files. the comma

kernel 2.6.x and 3c574_cs driver

2006-03-06 Thread Bob McGowan
The bottom line problem is that I'm not able to build a kernel with the driver for this card. Basically, I can't find it listed in the configuration tool (make xconfig). The following is a bit of the history and background information. I have an old Sony VAIO laptop with a 3Com PCMCIA ethern

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Marty
Tore Ericsson wrote: Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-03-06 Thread Andrew Cady
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:42:04PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > > key sequence and it have it

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Clark
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 01:23:11AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a > > key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor > > position in my aterm when con

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
> The only two suggestions I'd have then is to try reinstalling whatever and I have no means of 'reinstalling whatever' except the netinstall CD, I'd appreciate other suggestions than what seems impossible, thanks for bothering anyhow :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: XML parser

2006-03-06 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Deephay wrote: are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! Both Sax and Dom parser's are available for C/C++. Google it. -- Mladen Adamovic http://home.blic.net/adamm http://www.shortopedia.com http://www.froola.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Compilation problems with libxalan

2006-03-06 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Matthias Julius wrote: Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: You probably have AnyMeal related problem so the better idea is to use anymeal mailing list or forums. Most probably you are using different version of Xalan-C

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel B.
Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: ... I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. ... why? ... ... I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. Why does it seem to be a design flaw

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Tuesday 7 March 2006 00:05 skrev Kent West: > Tore Ericsson wrote: > >My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue > >(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand > >how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal > > mistake, >

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root env

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Tore Ericsson wrote: My hope is that some experienced Debian user may see the key issue (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html) and understand how to correct the malconfiguration that came about after my fatal mistake, It's a stab-in-the-dark, but I'd try using aptitude

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Andrew Archibald wrote: Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinst

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Here is what I just found on X.Org Foundation Website. Look at the caption : "I keep getting the message: "failed to initialize core devices" on their Website But does it mean I have to start over the whole installer process via Internet (a few hours), and if so how can I tweak p

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: Kent, As recommanded I added "exit 0" at the beginning of the gdm file using the command "nano gdm" from root, and it did work. Now I can boot not using the recover option, and I get a prompt line ending with $ (user environment, I guess) instead of a prompt line with # (root env

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Monday 6 March 2006 23:03 Kai Sandsengen wrote: > I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be > the same I had. Kai, In the ultimate sense, we may have the "same" problem, that is, such a problem that may be resolved by a complete Debian reinstallation. Now since my

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:41PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. Consistent with what? Not many tool

Re: Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Salman wrote: > I am trying to install debian on my wife's computer. It already has > Windows XP installed and running on the first partition and used to have > Mandrake 10 on another partition. Both Windows XP and Mandrake 10 > recognized all hardware c

Compilation problems with libxalan

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Hi, I am trying to build AnyMeal (http://anymeal.sourceforge.net). When running make I get following error: , | In file included from /usr/include/xalanc/XPath/XPathProcessorImpl.hpp:39, | from xmlDocument.cpp:27: | ../xalanc/PlatformSupport/XalanMessageLoader.hpp:29:29: err

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Timothy Cowlishaw
On 6 Mar 2006, at 22:02, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: (First, is that as typo? (spurious space in PATH)) I would assume that sudo merely executes the program, and does not start a new shell (unless you ask it to), thus my assumption is that it's your env, merely executed with root's

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Jason Clinton
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:38 +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install > gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since > gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it > says that it can't inst

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Kai Sandsengen
I don't see the origin of your problem (just signed up) but it might be the same I had. I have just signed up to day and are not familiar with debian, neither can I tell you what to do, but only tell what I had to do. Installed the «testing» on my hp laptop very easylie and are working, ther

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote: Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i had disabled), but apparently not for root

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Matthias Julius
Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. Consistent with what? Not many tools are expecting non-option arguments before options (I can't th

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > >Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". > > Right. > > > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. > > Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my >

Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Timothy Cowlishaw
Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. i have added the following to /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc, / root/.profile and /root/.bashrc: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/j2sdk/bin

932c

2006-03-06 Thread Michael J Shannon
My deskjet has a flashing cartridge indicator.  I have removed them, and cleaned them up, yet nothing I do will get rid of the indicator.  The print queue says the print file is in error.  Any help will be appreciated.                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problems with new testing kernel package

2006-03-06 Thread Angelo Bertolli
After installing kernel 2.6.15 on my laptop, my laptop suddenly won't boot from that kernel. It doesn't even get to init. It seems to not be able to find the gzip module on startup. I wrote down the errors since all I get is BusyBox when I boot: ... some hardware detection stuff here ... Begi

Courier

2006-03-06 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. How can I resolve this??? PS: Sorry, for the first message, I sent

Courier

2006-03-06 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a mail server with qmail and squirrelmail using courier-imap (version 4.0.6). When I erase one message, my file maildirsize is updated, but if I erase many messages at the same time, the file maildirsize is not updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Olafur, When I try to remove xserver-xorg the Debian system tells that I have to reinstall it first. If I try to reinstall it, I am told to first remove it (see earlier posting). In both cases the reason is the ugly inconsistent configuration. Two examples of this are the results of your propos

Re: installing Debian on an oldworld Mac

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 6-mrt-2006, at 20:13, petereasthope wrote: I've just read ten recent messages about support for boot floppies and conclude that I should not expect them to work soon. Currently, is there any way to install Debian on an oldworld Mac, other than by CD? You could use bootx to start an instal

Re: postgresql-common 42 fails to upgrade

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Andrew Cady wrote: On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date. [...] Setting up postgresql-common (42) ... dpkg: error processing postgresql-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error ex

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: I identified that I am using GRUB and X Windows System Version 6.9.0 Now, with my limited knowledge of Linux/Unix, here is what I've done: * I switched to the /etc/init.d/ directory using the "cd" command * I listed the files using the "ls" command * There I found t

Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

2006-03-06 Thread Tore Ericsson
Andrei, > You could try getting the .deb for xserver-xorg and linux-image... and > install them manually with dpkg -i > > Just a thought > Andrei > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough: Yes, that is probably true regarding my situation. I try my best. Further, I be

Re: Upgrading from slink on 486 w/ 32 Mb ram and 3c509tp NIC

2006-03-06 Thread Hodgins Family
Good morning! > > The sarge hardware probe doesn't find the nic though. Debian site > > doesn't seem to have the old version iso's for a gradual upgrade > > process. Anyone able to advise? Sorry, got into this list late and lost the original post! Old version iso's "for a gradual upgrade" ca

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Craig M. Houck wrote: Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% im

Re: getting apt-zip to work

2006-03-06 Thread The Quibbler
On Sunday 05 March 2006 12:20 pm, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 07:56:21AM -0500, The Quibbler wrote: > >I'm getting an empty list. The info file doesn't seem very clear on how > >to use it. The fetch script is only 850 bytes. When I run it I get an > >empty tar file. > > > >I tr

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/6/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gnome, Fluxbox, and KDE have no control over or issue with the '-T' option.Most distributions, if not all, configure their default shell (usuallybash) to step on the title of xterm windows. I don't have the problem, presumably because the following

IPS HLBR 1.0 released (off-topic)

2006-03-06 Thread Eriberto
IPS HLBR - Version 1.0 can detect malicious traffic using regular expressions Version 1.0 of Hogwash Light BR, released march 5th 2006, brings two interesting new features. The first one is the ability of using regular expressions to detect intrusion attempts and e-mails with virus or phishing. T

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel B.
Paul E Condon wrote: Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". Right. > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my local mirror? Something else?) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
> "Andrew Archibald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled once on a fine day: >Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is >supported by the Linux kernel? We had this talk about pci cards a little while ago, it should apply to USB also as the main difference is the way its connect

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:41:43AM -0600, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T > >>"string" option, > >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname > >> and current

Re: Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
SPELYA wrote: I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux.  The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface).  It is likely not set up properly.  Would you like to view the X Server

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:22:50 -0500 "Craig M. Houck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey; > > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full > sized' image? > > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I > am to stoopid to figure them out or they really

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Gnu-Raiz
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: >> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T >>"string" option, >> but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname >>and >> current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? > >It doesn't. Your sh

Improperly Configured Screen ?

2006-03-06 Thread SPELYA
I have just installed Debian, but my system does not boot properly under Linux.  The following error message box appears when booting: Failed to start X server (your graphical interface).  It is likely not set up properly.  Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the p

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Willie Wonka
Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > wrote: > > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > > with sudoers to get

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _L.V.Gandhi_, on 03/06/2006 10:42 AM,typed: On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't "dpkg-recon

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. I tried a few different

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Chuck Payne
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working.

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 11:03:26AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more consistent. The old behavior still works in

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, chouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stii having problems ... > > convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg > convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'. > > cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg > mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg > mogrify: no decode delegate for th

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The options are most definitely NOT supposed to come before the input > file. This changed in version 6.x to make the ImageMagick syntax more > consistent. The old behavior still works in certain situations, but > there are no guarantees. Thanks

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 06.03.2006 at 09:59 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc > server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and > has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. apt-get install dan

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:37:30AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? convert or mogrify is probably the easiest. I have tried many programs found using apt-cache s

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread chouck
Stii having problems ... convert -resize 10x10% DSCF0134.JPG DSCF0134.jpg convert: no decode delegate for this image format `DSCF0134.JPG'. cp DSCF0134.jpg dscf0134.jpg mogrify -scale 10x10% dscf0134.jpg mogrify: no decode delegate for this image format `dscf0134.jpg'. On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:22:50AM -0500, Craig M. Houck wrote: >Hey; > >What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' >image? > >I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to >stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want.

Re: Installing fonts

2006-03-06 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 3/5/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > > > You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if > > you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do > > dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. > > Doesn't "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" also need root access

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/06, Craig M. Houck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' > image? convert or mogrify is probably the easiest. > I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to > stoopid to figure them out or they

Re: Gnome desktop environment removed on Upgrading using synaptic

2006-03-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:08AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: >On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the >> system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at >> the list

Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
Hey; What is any easy to use program to generate thumbnails from a 'full sized' image? I have tried many programs found using apt-cache search BUT either I am to stoopid to figure them out or they really don't do what I want. Fore xample: convert image.JPG -resize 10% images.jpg complains. THA

Re: apt-proxy-import help

2006-03-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Johan Daine [Sat, Mar 04 2006, 08:18:47AM]: > Hi everyone, > > I am making some tests with apt-proxy. > apt-proxy is working perfectly. I have been purging gpm, removing the > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [-] [apt_pkg] No Packages files available for > security backend > 2006/03/04 08:16 CET [

Re: XML parser

2006-03-06 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > > are there any XML parser library packages for C and C++? thx! libxml2 and libxml2-dev are probably what you need. The C library is fully functional, and there is another project underway to get them up and running with

What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I have a small group of friends and we are wanting to set up an irc server for us, I am wanting to know what irc is the easy to set up and has dcc working by default. Also what does it take to get jabber working. Thanks, Chuck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Andrew Archibald
Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported by the Linux kernel? I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation isn't ideal. For example I have to reinstate the kernel module ever

Festival MIF-SCIENCES Havana

2006-03-06 Thread Festival MIF-SCIENCES
Title: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: Dear Colleagues/Estimados colegas: We are pleased to send you the Web Site of the Movie and Scientific Video Festival MIF-SCIENCES in HAVANA, to be held in the Comodoro Hotel, Havana City, Cuba, from june 6 to 11 of 2006./Nos complace enviarles e

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:04:38AM +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" option, > but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the hostname and > current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? It doesn't. Your shell prompt i

Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?

2006-03-06 Thread Keats
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Andras Lorincz
> Hi,>> When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the> hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option?What window manager are you using?Are you 100% sure xterm is the terminal being used? How ar

Re: NVIDIA Freeze + not an nvidia problem ?

2006-03-06 Thread Keats
hello i ve tried to do a : dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg it ask me few questions but after the "dri" question, it freezes it's not due to my answer, i ve tried "yes" and "no" and it's doing the same... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: poff script problem

2006-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > I use pon and poff for my dialup(not dsl). I do not need root permission > for either. From what I read in /usr/bin/poff, it finds the ppp process > and 'kill's it. Not sure where the problem maybe. Unfortunately, Poff _does_ need root permission when you are running PPPOE. --

Re: setting xterm title with -T doesn't work

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1141639478, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hi, > > When starting xterm I would like to set the title with -T "string" > option, but it has no effect. Instead appears the title with the > hostname and current path. Why does xterm ignore the -T option? What window manager are you using? Are you 100% s

Re: sudo doesn't set HOME

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:21:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > 1.6.8p7-1.3 does not set some ENV variables because it was > deemed this was a security risk. As a result it functions > differently than previous versions and you have to fiddle > with sudoers to get it to behave as it did before.

Re: Using setenv DISPLAY

2006-03-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:08:35AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > > $ sudo echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > That seemed OK, but when I did: > $ sudo env | grep DISPLAY > [nothing returned] > Why do I get inconsistent results? In the first case, the > value of D

Re: php4-ftp / ftp.so [solved]

2006-03-06 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:28 +0100, Mark Lijftogt wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >Warning: ftp_close() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given > >in /home/www/web3/web/testftp.php on line 33 > > > > > > > Ah.. debugging.. not so much fun for us non-coders. > The error msg says enough thoug

Re: nautilus able to access windows machines

2006-03-06 Thread Kent West
Abhishek Verma wrote: Hi, Yet another issue. Now that I have upgraded nautilus, I am unable to access windows machines using the smb protocol. It flashes an error saying invalid location even though the location exists and can be accessed from other machines. Also, I am able to ping that mac

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