Re: invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:05:27AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I > tried to save the current settings when I log out. But gnome says it can not > save thunderbird

reply_header [was Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format]

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mathias Brodala wrote, On 10/09/06 11:29: The text above was automatically generated, but is still not completely what I want. Hell Arthur. Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. An info first: if you are searching for an opt

Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hell Arthur. Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. An info first: if you are searching for an option, you should look in about:config first. When an option doesn’t exist there, it doesn’t exist. OK, but

Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/09/06 22:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> Hell Arthur. >>> Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. >>> An info first: if you are searching for an option,

Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hell Arthur. > >> Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set >> attribution lines in Thunderbird. > > An info first: if you are searching for an option, you should look in > about:config first. When

invoke thunderbird and firefox when gnome starts

2006-09-09 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all,In order not to invoke thunderbird and firefox manually when gnome starts, I tried to save the current settings when I log out.  But gnome says it can not save thunderbird and firefox settings.I also tried to start thunderbird and firefox in .xsession: ...# thunderbird and firefoxthunderbi

saving digital photographs

2006-09-09 Thread H.S.
I have around 4.5GB of photos from the past few years on my hard disk. I have all of these as albums in digikam. I am thinking of saving these on to a DVD and freeing up the space from my hard disk. I was wondering of anyone has any suggestions on how best to do this. Should I just dump the d

Re: Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hell Arthur. > Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set > attribution lines in Thunderbird. An info first: if you are searching for an option, you should look in about:config first. When an option doesn’t exist there, it doesn’t exist. > I'd like to be able to have th

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
CaT wrote: > Qmails logging is horrendous. There is no link between logs of > connections and the source and destination of an email. This makes > tracking an IP of a single hit to many destinations a right rotten pain > in the arse if not impossible. Its internal message ids are recycled so > if y

Setting Thunderbird email client attribution line format

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I must be missing something obvious, but I can't find how to set attribution lines in Thunderbird. I'd like to be able to have the following appear when I reply to a message: On --, wrote: Where is this set and where is this setting documented? Regards, Arthur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the > update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it > would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks > existed

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > the most annoying parts are accept-then-bounce behaviour This is a serious flaw, IMHO. I had to deal with a qmail system in a production environment. A few dozen domains hosted on a single box times a few dozen boxes. Because of the mail policies of the admin

Re: Problems with latest sid update - udev and other services not starting

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:21:04PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:36:12 -0400, Scott Reese wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > That might be caused by a missing S36udev-mtab link in rcS.d. > > > > > > The root of the problem seems to be a bug in sysv-rc, which ma

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Scott
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time > to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the > dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file > before this morning. > > sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-

Re: Debian Newbie looking for Usefull Tools

2006-09-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Raquel wrote: On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:04:02 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you really want to use webmin, use the upstream version (see my other messages on the topic), but it is much better to actually learn the system's interface and where everything is located via the

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:12:23AM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > Testing cannot get very unstable as it wouldn't follow Debian rules. > Everything > that's in testing must be tested in unstable for some time. So, I don't think > being in testing will be such a mess in two months. Hi Jordi, yes it

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > You say you reinstalled from zero twice. What's the best way to get into > unstable? Installing the stable version and then doing a dist-upgrade or > installing unstable right-away, I mean when debian installation asks you which > so

Re: Debian Newbie looking for Usefull Tools

2006-09-09 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:04:02 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you really want to use webmin, use the upstream version (see > > my other messages on the topic), but it is much better to > > actually learn the system's interface and where everything is > > located via the comm

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 03:39:24PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 08 September 2006 15:09, Andrei Popescu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > If we are talking about unstable breakages I always remember the > > yaird issue (about

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-09 Thread Bill Wohler
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still think the installation of a OS (any OS) is not something to do > if you don't have some basic knowledge of computers. That's a bug, not a feature. I'd like to see the installation of Debian be as hard as "installing" your TV: plug in some wires

Re: Problems with AllegroCL & SETI Server

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:08:40PM -0500, Sandra L. McGrew wrote: > I'm trying to clear up at least two things... > > 1st. What directory is AllegroCL located in??? > 2nd. Everytime this Debian computer loads or unloads a package it tries to > contact an alien server at berkley.edu... at some IP.

Re: Debian Newbie looking for Usefull Tools

2006-09-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:19:12PM -0700, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi there, Im a newbie at debian, just installing debian 31r0a from a DVD. I got an ADSL connection with a crappy modem. Anyhow, I want to make a box that can do: - Generating traffic usage (download/u

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Halton wrote: > The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my > installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio > chipset). > > Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an > audio p

- TERRORISMO: CASINI A RUTELLI, GRAVE DIMENTICARE 11/9

2006-09-09 Thread Clark Haney
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Re: software raid on /

2006-09-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 09 September 2006 19:45, Michael Ott wrote: > Hi! > > I have an box with raid1 for every partitions. But since a replace of a > harddisk the / partition will only use one disk. I can add the other > part using mdadm. > > Here my menu.lst > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-

No sound for non-root users

2006-09-09 Thread John Halton
The sound has stopped working for regular, non-root users on my installation of Debian Etch (on a Dell PC with integrated Intel audio chipset). Sound still works for root (or using sudo), but when I try to run an audio program as an ordinary user (eg mplayer, alsamixer), I get an error saying

"Issue(s?) with the new udev

2006-09-09 Thread John -
Yesterday I upgraded to the latest udev (udev_0.100-1_i386.deb), and found at least one problem: tpb (ThinkPad buttons) would not run because of /dev/nvram not being reachable. I downgraded to udev_0.098-2_i386.deb, and the problem went away. I confess, configuring udev still occasionally mystefie

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Chris
On Saturday 09 September 2006 16:35, Ron Johnson wrote: > PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote: > >> Chris writes: > >>> I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no > >>> breakage in unstable use their systems for anything ot

software raid on /

2006-09-09 Thread Michael Ott
Hi! I have an box with raid1 for every partitions. But since a replace of a harddisk the / partition will only use one disk. I can add the other part using mdadm. Here my menu.lst title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-686 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 roo

Re: Can't resize partition with qtparted / parted

2006-09-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 02:46:03AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to install Debian in a second partition beside fedora but > can't resize my fedora partition neither with qtparted nor with parted. > parted prints the following warning message: > > Warning: You request

Can't resize partition with qtparted / parted

2006-09-09 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi, I would like to install Debian in a second partition beside fedora but can't resize my fedora partition neither with qtparted nor with parted. parted prints the following warning message: Warning: You requested to resize the partition to 12103.660 - 41076.643MB. The closest parted c

Re: An elementary question about execution permissions

2006-09-09 Thread Arthur Marsh
Paul Scott wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:58:18 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And NO, Cecile is not in tose list! :-(=) I had to do this, since Cecile (my cat) had several times rebootet my computer. (I have configured my fvwm with keyboard support

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-09 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 10:30 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > } On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > [...] > } Exactly what I was wondering. Hopefully debian-installer will allow > } creation of multiple partitio

HP PSC 1410 on a XP share

2006-09-09 Thread Roelf Renkema
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, Trying to print to the printer listed in the subject and it took me more or less the whole day to find a message suggesting to unselect bidirectional printing to get it to work. Guess what? It worked. Guess again? I don't want to keep switchi

Problems with AllegroCL & SETI Server

2006-09-09 Thread Sandra L. McGrew
I'm trying to clear up at least two things... 1st. What directory is AllegroCL located in??? 2nd. Everytime this Debian computer loads or unloads a package it tries to contact an alien server at berkley.edu... at some IP... it never can contact it... I've successfully pinged this server at the IP

Re: config mixer device for aumix

2006-09-09 Thread Andreas Eriksson
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 03:35:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > I put 'snd_mixer_oss' in /etc/modules, and now /dev/mixer is > created at boot. However, I am concerned that this might not > be "The Debian Way" to do this, and might get broken again on a > future package or distr

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > Do you print, do you burn CDs, do you transfer photos from your > camera? Yes. > If you do, and on top of that in KDE I said that I use neither KDE or Gnome. > If you do, and on top of that in KDE (gasp!), you will have had breakage > in the last six months on several occa

Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?

2006-09-09 Thread CaT
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:04:36PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:51, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > qmail has the least Debian support, due

Re: SCIM On Debian sid

2006-09-09 Thread Arne Götje (高盛華)
On Friday 08 September 2006 23:39, Rocky Ou wrote: > Thanks very much for your reply:) > > I extracted them from .bashrc > > %%--Begin%% > #--Scim Settings-# > GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" ; export GTK_IM_MODULE > QT_IM_MODULE="xim" ; export QT_IM_MODULE expor

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote: >> Chris writes: >>> I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no breakage >>> in unstable use their systems for anything other than a console

Re: Multiple RAID or encrypted partitions

2006-09-09 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: } On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 13:35 +1000, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: [...] } Exactly what I was wondering. Hopefully debian-installer will allow } creation of multiple partitions in a single RAID array when Etch is } released. (Until then, I h

OpenOffice.org: interface font; javaldx: no JRE?

2006-09-09 Thread Tom Verbreyt
Hey ho, My default installation of OOo on Debian sid works fine, except for the fact that its UI font is ugly and way too large. Its size at least can be adapted (Tools -> Options -> OOo -> View -> Scaling), but there's no way I can have it use a different font face. It surely does not use the sys

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread PD Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
On Saturday 09 September 2006 14:23, John Hasler wrote: > Chris writes: > > I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no breakage > > in unstable use their systems for anything other than a console log in. > > I run Unstable on my workstation and have not had breakage for years.

xvnc4viewer fonts

2006-09-09 Thread Morten O. Hansen
Hi, Where does programs like xvnc4viewer (I guess all pure X programs?) get their default font from? the font xvnc4viewer is using here now is really ugly (and small). Just a couple of days ago, it was using a different font, so I probably installed a font-package that took over as default. With

Re: config mixer device for aumix

2006-09-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 12:43:31 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2006-09-08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 21:42:06 +0300, Simo Kauppi wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:30:29PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 00:06:53 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Bader wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > I've found that real problems are _extremely_ rare -- the recent xorg > upgrade is the only one that's bit me in ages and ages. Mostly the only > thing that goes wrong is packages that wo

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 09 September 2006 05:12, Jordi Carrillo was heard to say: > Testing cannot get very unstable as it wouldn't follow Debian > rules. Everything that's in testing must be tested in unstable for > some time. So, I don't think being in testing w

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Miles Bader
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for saying that again. I sometimes seriously wonder if the > people who claim to have no breakage in unstable use their systems for > anything other than a console log in. I certainly do. I suppose it does depend on which packages you have installed, bu

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: > I sometimes seriously wonder if the people who claim to have no breakage > in unstable use their systems for anything other than a console log in. I run Unstable on my workstation and have not had breakage for years. However, I do not blindly upgrade every day. I follow debian-dev

ov511/pwc philips toucam pcvc 720k in Etch no working driver now

2006-09-09 Thread Adrian Midgley
Recently this was working well, but in the last few days it has stopped. ov511 (17th July version) will not compile, giving this error message (plus several pages more I assume to be consequent upon it) lyrae:/usr/src/modules/ov511# make gcc -c -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DOUTSIDE_KERNEL -O2 -Wall -Ws

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 -> 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before this morning. sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p"

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Jordi Carrillo
Testing cannot get very unstable as it wouldn't follow Debian rules. Everything that's in testing must be tested in unstable for some time. So, I don't think being in testing will be such a mess in two months. On 9/9/06, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash

Re: CUPS dependencies

2006-09-09 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:01, Roger Leigh wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:58:22PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> I must be among the lucky or blessed (take your pick). Since I > >> switched to CUPS and Gutenprint a couple of years back my printi

[SOLVED:] postfix in unstable does not auth to smarthost

2006-09-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only significant difference I can spot is the 'noanonymous' option, > which I already tried (sorry, forgot to mention in OP). IT HAD TO BE A STUPID MISTYPE. Sorry for caps, but you can imagine my frustration when I noticed it was stmp_ ... instead o

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread Chris
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:54, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > > Is Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system? > > If you have to ask, the answer is definately "no". Thanks for saying that again. I sometimes seriously wonder i