Official and unofficial Debian CDs (was: Do Debian official CDs include sources?)

Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two unofficial DVDs with Sarge 3.1, coming from a magazine, > only including binary files. > I want to purchase a set of official DVDs: > > http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ > > , but would like to know if they actually include debian sources fi

Re: Vi problems from recent upgrade

On 24/05/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last character) of the line, and the direction key

Re: Directory overwriting

Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I copy a file into the present directory, with: >> >> $ cp /path/to/file . >> >> , if the file already exists it is overwritten, i.e. the `old one' >> is removed and the `new one' takes its place. >> Instead, with directories it is not the same: >> when I do: >> >

Re: Redirecting X from a remote host

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:31:36AM -0600, Ed wrote: > I need to redirect an X application on a Debian box to run on another > system running cygwin X. > > I managed to start X on the cygwin machine. > I telneted to the remote Debian box. > Now I want to invoke an application and have it displayed

rar archiver

I've installed 'unrar-free' and 'rar-2.80' on my etch but they are both not working they list the files in the archive but when going to extract, return 'failed' And my stupid windows user friend just extracted then on rwindows any help? -- Henrique G. Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compile firefox.

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:11:28AM +0200, Mark Maas wrote: > It would seem you miss a program that is beeing used by the make script. > > apt-cache search nsinstall may give you a package that provides it. > apt-cache does not give any typical nsinstall stuff. i had downloaded an rpm having nsins

Redirecting X from a remote host

I need to redirect an X application on a Debian box to run on another system running cygwin X. I managed to start X on the cygwin machine. I telneted to the remote Debian box. Now I want to invoke an application and have it displayed on my cygwin X (client?) On the debian box I know I need to do

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

Thanks. I've been in a windows world lately and have forgotten so much simple stuff. Here's what I did: I modified the .bash_profile with # set PATH so it includes Java stuff if it exists if [ -d /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06 ] ; then PATH=:"${PATH}":/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06/bin:/usr/local/jdk1.5.0_06

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but ha

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but har

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:14:52AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Colin Finck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > > script or program. > > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > > server and the

Re: UBTA - Wall Street Journal Agree - Ref. al474

Travis, P2P Sports Betting Software May Change Casino Sports Betting VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - UBA Technology Inc. (UBTA), has entered into initial negotiations to install its proprietary betting exchange software in traditional land-based casinos. Read the whole story: http://it.geocitie

Re: install Kernel source???

On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:05:48 -0400 "Dov Oxenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Please pardon the stupid question...but...I am trying to install a > piece of software on my Debian test machine and the setup is failing > with a Kernel source error while attempting to build some sort of > modul

Re: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 10:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A program I wrote and has run many many times before suddenly stopped > running, giving "permission denied" errors. Thinking this ight have to > to with the recent C++ library changes, I recompiled it. But this did > not help. I decided to

How does inetd work?

I know inetd forwards a programms (servers) stdout to the client... but where does it forward the requests from a client to? It's not stdin.. It there any simple example server available that was written to work with inetd? Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: resolv.conf changing over time

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 20:08 -0400, T wrote: > The problem is it won't be long before my etc/resolv.conf, which points to > my own DNS cache server, get changed. How can I solve that? Is there any > hooks like ipup(?) for dial up? if you use pump for a dhcp client, there are a couple of ways to te

2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc I'm using gparted gui for the partition of the drive. (newbie) Thanks ++ Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

install Kernel source???

Hi! Please pardon the stupid question...but...I am trying to install a piece of software on my Debian test machine and the setup is failing with a Kernel source error while attempting to build some sort of module.  The vendor is recommending "you should install kernel-sources for 2.4.27-2-386 pri

Re: eth2_temp

Quoting Marcos Dione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: here's the relevant output of ifconfig -a: eth2_temp Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:77:C0:BB BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overr

Maximum UDP datagram size ???

Recently, I have run into amanda response failures; and the following page outlines debugging strategies: One suggestion is to INCREASE maximum UDP datagram size. WHAT is this value, by default, in Debian? HOW can I change it? Appa

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

And both Evolution and Thunderbird as IMAP clients are PITA to work with . Thunderbird sometimes can't copy the outgoing message into Sent Items folder [1]. Evolution crashes when replying to a message with an embedded image. [2] [sigh] Nothing is perfect in this world... I sometimes think about

Segmentaion fault during boot

Hi everybody, Last Saturday there was an electrical problem in the building, so the machine turned off. During boot up, a lot of messages saying "segmentaion fault" are displayed, so I cant see what is happening before this errors. After this messages, another message says it cant mount /dev//

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

Owen Heisler wrote: > > I have Debian running on another drive now, and have another question. > When I update the system using aptitude, the "mark upgradeable > packages" (or similar) option in the menu will mark all the packages to > update. Then I can see what it is planning on doing. This is

Re: Re: Gnome 2.14 crashes in Etch after upgrade

I noticed the message below on the list, and have the same problem. I manually restored parts of my .gconf directory, noting which things cause the crash. It was a time consuming task, the biggest nuisance is having to reboot after every crash. I have reduced it to: ~/.gconf/%gconf-tree.xml ~/

Re: resolv.conf changing over time

T wrote: > > My crabby ISP is so screwed up, that I need 4 or more seconds to resolve > google.com, and many time I would get "domain name not found" right in the > middling while I'm looking my yahoo email. It's no use complaining to my > ISP. I just installed the DNS cache server. > > The prob

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but har

Which is the most stable desktop?

Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox etc... ? -- -   Joseph Smidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get question

Andrew Sackville-West writes: > apt probably doesn't realise that you previously removed apache2 and so > doesn't know to reinstall the confs. just a guess there. 'apt-get remove apache2' removes the package but not the configuration files. Thus when he later did 'apt-get install apache2' apt ass

Re: photo management and camera download by date

jmt wrote: On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:09, Richard Otte wrote: Hi, I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The camera will often hav

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Colin Finck wrote: > Hello, > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx" to start it again, but o

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

2006. május 24. 16:26, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a > search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. > > I downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin file, and ran the > install. I tried it in b

eth2_temp

hi all. first of all, I'm not suscribed to this list, so please cc: me in the answers. so, I just installed an etch server (wanted shorewall 3.x) which will serve an internal net through 4 adsl lines. the problem (is not actually a problem, but I would like to know anyways) is that the thi

How to install jdk1.5?

I'm trying to install jdk1.5 on my Sarge system. I ran the I did a search for jdk in Debian space and found very little. I downloaded the jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin file, and ran the install. I tried it in both /usr/local and then again in my /home/myusername space. In neither case did it insta

Re: SOLVED: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:52:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had changed the mount options for the volume containing the source and object code to 'user,defaults'. For some reason that turned off execute Yes, as it is written in the man page for mount for the option user and users: T

Disable a driver loading in Sarge with backports.org kernel and udev

Hi all, Before using the newer udev or kernel from backports.org, hotplug gave the possibility to disable a driver by putting the driver in the blacklist of hotplug. However, with a more recent kernel needing a more recent udev, hotplug isn't used any more. Kernel in use: linux-image-2.6.

Re: photo management and camera download by date

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2006-05-22 @ 19:09:53 (week 21) Richard Otte wrote: [snip] > > What I do is first copy the images to my system. Then I use a program > called exiv2 to automatically rename the files using the timestamp as > stored in their EX

Vi problems from recent upgrade

In more recent versions of vi (vim), the insert/replace keyed functionality is no longer working as it was. The prompt "insert" or "replace" does not appear, one cannot go to the very end (after last character) of the line, and the direction keys give (escaped) characters instead of positioning

Re: Banshee?

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 11:13 +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > I am wondering whether anyone has used Banshee (reviewed at > http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html and if so, what > have they thought of it? I like others use and Ipod, however, GTKpod is > good, but I am having to use cross

SOLVED: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:11:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A program I wrote and has run many many times before suddenly stopped > running, giving "permission denied" errors. I have found the problem. I feel really stupid, but maybe someone will make the same mistake and find this in t

SOLVED: Has /bin/sh become a bad interpreter on etch?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:12:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This morning, when running a script I have run many many times before, I > got the message: > > bash: /home/parents/bin/acc05: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I have found the problem. I feel really stupid, but may

why bother Re: dual head with 2 graphic cards issue

hi ya nicoco On Wed, 24 May 2006, Nicoco wrote: > the 0 0 does not change anything it wont > sorry but I don't understand !!! where is the error here ? > "aticonfig Monitor 0" is used by "aticonfig Screen 0" used in Layout the point: it is not working for one reason or another ... > >> B

Re: Parallelizing fetchmail

On May 23, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Casey T. Deccio wrote: The "queue" is a regular MTA mail queue for a system, not a user mailbox or maildir. So there are in fact two mail queues, one for MailScanner, and one for the MTA: 1. The message is received by the incoming MTA and queued in the incom

Re: More questions about T-bird (was Re: Problem with T-bird (was ...))

s. keeling wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> RMB on the folder, properties, click "check for new mail" or some such. > ...^^^ Maybe on your mouse. On mine, that would be MB3. Maybe on your mouse, MB3 here is "center". :P -- Steve C. Lamb | But who dec

Re: X-Windows Problems

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > > to get gdm to sta

Re: Script to delete duplicate files

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:58:16AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: } } On 19.05.2006, at 21:39, Ken Irving wrote: } } >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:10:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: } >>Ok, using fdupes -f I have created a file that contains a list of all } >>duplicate files. So, what command can a

Re: searching for dts_internal.h

LeVA wrote: Hi! Anyone knows which package contains the file in the subject? Thanks! Daniel I use apt-file for this. apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

try Ctrl+Alt+Backspace? Regards, Limin * Colin Finck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-23 23:16:46 +0200]: > Hello, > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server an

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

Ctrl+ALt+Backspace? * Colin Finck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-23 23:16:46 +0200]: > Hello, > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx"

Re: dual head with 2 graphic cards issue

hi again Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Option"Xinerama""true" # # looks like ati config tool is messed up # Screen 0 "aticonfig Screen 0" Screen 1 "deuxieme" Above "aticonfig Screen 0" whacky ... normally it would be s

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

You have to configure your debian to start on runlevel 5 it's on the file '/etc/inittab' then you have to configure your X to start only on runlevel 5 and not on 3 it's simple, you have to rename services that you want to start like 'S99gdm', if you don't want it to start as 'K99gdm' or you can us

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

Hello Colin, Colin Finck wrote: I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a script or program. On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian system this does not work. Additio

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

CTRL+ALT+Backspace * Colin Finck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-23 23:16:46 +0200]: > Hello, > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx"

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Colin Finck wrote: >Hello, > >I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with >a script or program. >On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the >X server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my D

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a script or program. What I usually use is # /etc/init.d/ restart. I use GDM, so I use # /etc/init.d/gdm restart. -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lgrinberg.org

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

Colin Finck wrote: > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian system this > does not work. If you ar

Re: eterm / gnome window position

Jon Dowland wrote: [moving back on-list] At 1148461742 past the epoch, Ivan Glushkov wrote: I looked almost everywhere in the gnome settings (v.2.14.1) and I could not find anything appropriate. Am I missing something, or really gnome does not supporting that feature? I expect metacit

Re: photo management and camera download by date

On Tuesday 23 May 2006 04:09, Richard Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way > that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on > Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The > camera will often have photo

Re: apt-get question

Eric Wong wrote: > > 3) dpkg -P apache2 > And then I remove apache2 Try using "apt-get remove --purge apache2" instead? Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: resolv.conf changing at boot

Don Jackson wrote: > After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. > waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every > time). This is happening on two different computers which were upgraded. > > I find that my original entries of two nameservers in my re

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access > MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSo

Re: Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet card not detected by Debian

> I have net install/Minimal Install CD of Debian. I have "Marvell Yukon > Gigabit Ethernet card 88E8053 PCI-E" which detected by WinXP and Red > Hat. When stsrting installation ,It attempts to auto-detect the network > card and fails, then displays a list of drivers for network cards.I > could not

Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

> Hi all, > > Last year I purchased a new amd64 system: an AOpen XC cube EZ482, > where I have been trying to install Debian for a long time. Still no > luck with Debian testing amd64 net install, from April 13th 2006. So > rather than keep trying out daily images and wasting CDs, I'm asking > her

Re: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:11:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A program I wrote and has run many many times before suddenly stopped > running, giving "permission denied" errors. Thinking this ight have to > to with the recent C++ library changes, I recompiled it. But this did > not help.

Re: utf problem with mutt

[pushing the discussion back on-list] At 1148408048 past the epoch, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland > wrote: > > I do have some issues, however, using this underneath a > > screen session. > > ehm i am exactly under a screen session since i migrate >

Re: utf problem with mutt

At 1148378437 past the epoch, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > edit the link in /etc/alternatives so that editor points to vim > instead of nano. That'll still get zapped on upgrade if nano carries a lower priority (which it seems to). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: eterm / gnome window position

[moving back on-list] At 1148461742 past the epoch, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I looked almost everywhere in the gnome settings > (v.2.14.1) and I could not find anything appropriate. Am I > missing something, or really gnome does not supporting > that feature? I expect metacity (the window manager f

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access > MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. MS Outlook on Wine ? Ace. -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You see? The mysteries of the Universe are revealed when you break

Re: resolv.conf changing at boot

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:03:48PM -0500, Don Jackson wrote: >After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. >waiting long periods for apparently DNS lookup (10-20 seconds every >time). This is happening on two different computers which were >upgraded. > >I find that my origin

Re: samba domain controller

On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:53:50 +0500, Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for my english... Try in XP: secur.reg: -- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters] "requiresignorseal"=dword: "signsecurechannel"=dword: -- Then

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:25:32PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access >MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. If the Exchange server is recent enough it supports IMAP. Talk to your system admin and ask about i

compile firefox.

hello all, i am trying to compile firefox. i had given ./configure --disable-compile-environment --enable-application=browser it did not show any errors. but when i gave "make" it gave... --- /usr/bin/nsinstall -R nsinstall ../dis

Re: dual head with 2 graphic cards issue

hi nico > Nicoco wrote: > > here is my xorg.conf : good... > Section "ServerLayout" > Identifier "Default Layout" > Option"Xinerama""true" # # looks like ati config tool is messed up # > Screen 0 "aticonfig Screen 0" > Screen 1 "deuxieme" Above "aticon

Re: Screen recorder on debian

Hi.}} On 5/24/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: }} I test on wink. I impress on it. but I can not type thai character on text box. Does anybody know config wink to support i18n or thai language?I've have found in Wink Forum this: http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopi

Re: Screen recorder on debian

actually I want a tool that create tutorial for any program. So It should be record my action at the first and then I should able to edit the capture movie to insert description or explain what I do. Kan On อ., 2006-05-23 at 19:13 +0200, Johann Franz wrote: Surachai Locharoen wrote: > Is the

Re: Screen recorder on debian

I test on wink. I impress on it. but I can not type thai character on text box. Does anybody know config wink to support i18n or thai language? Kan On พ., 2006-05-24 at 09:15 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi! Few time ago i need to do the same thing. Finally my choice was between In

Re: Screen recorder on debian

Hi!Few time ago i need to do the same thing.Finally my choice was between Instanbul & Wink (that is not opensource, of course,, it's a freeware).Today i use Wink, and i think is the simpler (and better, for my expectations) to use. Bye.On 5/23/06, Johann Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Surachai Lo

Re: eterm / gnome window position

Juha Tuuna wrote: On Tuesday, 23. Mayta 2006 10:07, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi all, I prefer to have 4 Eterms open on my desktop. The problem is that every time I have to rearrange them such, that they precisely fit to my screen. I looked at man pages for Eterm, googled a little bit, but I coul

firefox problem in unstable

Hi. I am using unstable. While trying to mail from the web interface of our mail account that is a SquirrelMail v1.4.6 i encounter with a "save file" dialog box when i try to send a mail. The "compose.php" file is being asked for to be saved. I can see my mails. Read my mails. The only problem occ

Re: resolv.conf changing at boot

Have you set a DHCP in your router for clients LAN? I have had the same problem, and using static IP and DHCP disabled i fixed the problem. ... On 5/23/06, Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After recent upgrades in etch, I found my Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. waiting long periods for appar

Re: samba domain controller

I've had the same problem in the past. Are you sure that the Domain SID is the same? I mean, if WinXP has already joint to one domain (on different machine for example), the operating system saves a kind of Domain ID called SID, and it is unique. You can view the SID on samba typing net getlocalsi

Re: apt-get question

Hi Roberto,   Really thanks a lot!   I tried to search it in google, but couldn't find out the solution. Your information is extremely helpful !! Thanks a lot!   :) KC Eric  On 5/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Wong wrote:> Hi,>> I am newbie to Debian, and have a question

Re: Firestarter not starting

Thank you for your very helpful and informative response, Ken. As you can see from my cross posting, I have now worked most of it out. The upshot is that my firewall is and has been operating fine and it starts from ip-up. I have now got rid of the irritation of the error message on boot..

RE: Can't set bash prompt

Jorge Peixoto wrote: > One of the users of this machine has a wrong bash prompt. ... If you're using Debian 3.1, take a look at /etc/profile. I have a script "cvsenv" which sets up environment variables for CVS usage. It also changes my Bash prompt (PS1). On fresh installs of Debian 3.1, /etc/p

RE: Root Login invalid

Dear Mark, I can login using XDM, but not able to login normal mode, I have checked and found that rights of /etc/ssh/*.* is 777 it's original is 664, and I have done the same but it's still giving error and sshd couldn't start. So I am thinking the main problem is sshd service, please help if yo

Re: Has /bin/sh become a bad interpreter on etch?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This morning, when running a script I have run many many times before, I > got the message: > > bash: /home/parents/bin/acc05: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied This, together with the other mail you sent, seems to point that you have some filesystems mounted n

Re: Help! I can't even execute my own executables any more!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > execve("i686/txt", ["i686/txt"], [/* 26 vars */]) = -1 EACCES (Permission > denied) > It looks as if execve is failing to read the executable. But there were > no compilation errors, and permissions seem to be set correctly. It is indeed an EACCESS error, but permission

PUBKEY errors

Greetings, These following errors were shown with the "apt-get update" command. I have tried a few things to try to import the PUBKEY into my sytem, without success. I would appreciate any help.. Many thanks W: GPG error: http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable Release: The foll

GLIBC_2.0 error

Hello everybody I have a program (matlab) which stopped working after a recent upgrade of unstable. THe license manager wants to see GLIBC_2.0 defined. output of strings /lib/libc.so.6 | grep GLIB contains GLIBC_2.0 string, but the license manager still does not work. I have tried setting the e

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

Colin Finck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a > script or program. > On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X > server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian system this > does n

Re: X-Windows Problems

Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:30:43AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed > > > > There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with > > Sarge/s

Re: About newsgroups related to debian lists

On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:11:28 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 21 May 2006 09:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Now, I realised that `gmane.linux.debian.user' preserves the message's >> original headers, whereas `linux.debian.user' changes the Message ID >> into a different value. > > Differen

Re: Which is the most stable of Debian releases?

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been > wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as > regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from > long-time Deb

resolv.conf changing over time

On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:23:16 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > You use DHCP and your DHCP client changes /etc/resolv.conf because new > name servers are announced. > It is one of the main reasons to use DHCP: getting a working network setup I'd feel more than happy if my /etc/resolv.conf change onl

Re: Can I stay in testing without going etch?

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 10:45 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 11:10:13AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I have been following this thread as I am working on switching to > > Debian, and have just these questions: > > > > If I install Debian stable and have "stable" in t

Re: searching for dts_internal.h

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:59:49PM +0200, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Anyone knows which package contains the file in the subject? If you have it installed, try a dpkg -S dts_internal.h As an aside, it's not always conienent to find the subject when writing a reply, especially a long one.. -- Christ

Re: apt-get question

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:16:42PM +0800, Eric Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get. > > Conside the following steps: > > 1) apt-get install apache2 > > Now apache2 is installed and working fine > > 2) rm -rf /etc/apache2 > I try to remove all configur

Data-driven GUI Builder

Hi I had always been looking for a general purpose GUI building program. The easiest task is the command-line wrapping program, because the switches and their options are limited. I once came across such great program that ideal for such case -- you throw it some (xml based?) data and it can bui

Re: PHP 4 uninstall

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:44:34PM +0200, JB MORLA wrote: >I have mistakenly installed php4 when I wanted php5. >Which apt-get commands should I use to completely remove PHP 4? This ought to do it: apt-get --purge remove `dpkg --get-selections | grep php4 | awk '{print $1}'` You might pr

Re: photo management and camera download by date

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:09:53PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way >that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on >Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The >camera will often hav

Re: utf problem with mutt

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:40:11 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > [...] > > > BTW at each update my default editor is changed to that horrible nano > > instead of the normal vim, any way to stop this? > > I did not yet have time

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