Re: recognition of dkpg file by OS

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:41PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried to run dkpg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 bash: dkpg-reconfigure: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which dpkg-reconfigure [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - Password: miami:~# which

downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread Martin Smith
Hi, i am currently using Windows XP home and wanted to use Debian to see what it is like, now i have got Jigdo, and i am not sure what files i have to download using and how to actully use Jigdo. I have read the FAQs and the help documnet on the website but i am still confused on what i

Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome

2006-10-18 Thread Carl Greco
Has anyone got the keyboard shortcut (Applications-Desktop Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts) assigned to Take a screenshot or Take a screenshot of a window to work for Sarge distribution (latest release with 2.6.8 kernel, gnome 2.8 and keyboard: pc104, us, xfree86)? Default setting has the

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:06:10AM -0500, cothrige wrote: * Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Patrick, most folks just run 'shorewall'! And you can add more rules if you need to. =Kev This does seem to be the consensus here. However, as I have never used this tool it is a

Re: recognition of dkpg file by OS

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: recognition of dkpg file by OS Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:31:31 -0400 On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:41PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried to run dkpg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$

Re: gid option on ext3 in fstab[SOLVED]

2006-10-18 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
Bill Marcum wrote: The gid and uid mount options only work with file systems such as vfat, which do not have a uid and gid for each file. Instead, you could use chmod g+s. Thanks you very much. I only used sticky bit on files and never though of using it on directories. Best Regards /Lars

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at

how to install ali web cam .

2006-10-18 Thread Jabka Atu
Good Evening. i have debian unstable on acer 5102wlmi. it has ali web cam : Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp i googled the web and found that the module that shoukd support it the 560x should be in my kernel allready but i could not load it : FATAL: Module m560x not found. nor find

cdebootstrap, USB-Ethernet

2006-10-18 Thread shark
The Pegasus driver successfully operates a Belkin USB-Ethernet adapter on my desktop Pentium system. Required modules are loaded automatically. Recently I installed the base system on the hdd from a Toshiba Pentium laptop 4000CDS using cdebootstrap. With that system, the indicator light on

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:21 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch me it? How do I know that the

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread cothrige
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As I see it, you have two choices. If you just want something that should do what you want and don't want to have to set anything up, just install ipmasq. It determines what the untrusted network is by where the default route or gateway

Kernel panic on Dell with Debian

2006-10-18 Thread Luiz Felipe
Hi, I've tried to install Debian Sarge in a Dell PowerEdge 1425. The CD doesn't recognize the SCSI adapter (AIC), but I've found one ISO which contains the driver needed (http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers). After successfully installed, the system doesn't have

Re: how to install ali web cam .

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 20:14 +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Good Evening. i have debian unstable on acer 5102wlmi. it has ali web cam : Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0402:5602 ALi Corp i googled the web and found that the module that shoukd support it the 560x should be in my kernel allready but i

Re: firewalling, imap, DMZ's etc.

2006-10-18 Thread Adam D
Joe wrote: George Borisov wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 1. use my smoothwall box as is, portforward IMAP to my server and run with it. potential problems are that my LAN, behind smoothwall, is pretty loosey goosey and I run a pretty good risk of being compromised. especially

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 11:30 -0500, Carl Greco wrote: Has anyone got the keyboard shortcut (Applications-Desktop Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts) assigned to Take a screenshot or Take a screenshot of a window to work for Sarge distribution (latest release with 2.6.8 kernel, gnome 2.8 and

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. please send. I'm afraid I don't. Though, the documentation is fine. Regards,

Re: cdebootstrap, USB-Ethernet

2006-10-18 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Pegasus driver successfully operates a Belkin USB-Ethernet adapter on my desktop Pentium system. Required modules are loaded automatically. Recently I installed the base system on the hdd from a Toshiba Pentium laptop 4000CDS

exim4 outgoing address translation

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
Hello, I currently have exim4 set up and working fine. Outgoing mail is rewritten from dtutty to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I get it to rewrite it to Doug Tutty and Jane Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: how to start the sound system

2006-10-18 Thread Kay Smarczewski
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 14:20:35 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: [ ATI SB450 HDA sound card with snd_hda_intel module ] Now i've found out another even more curious thing: everytime i purge alsa-base, alsa-utils and

Re: how to start the sound system

2006-10-18 Thread Kay Smarczewski
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 14:20:35 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: [ ATI SB450 HDA sound card with snd_hda_intel module ] Now i've found out another even more

how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
in good old sarge there was a script in /etc/init.d/ that would check the clock with the ntp server(s) in /etc/default/ntpdate. But how does it works in Etch, since the init.d script is gone ? Of course i can execute ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl but if i want it to sync every 24hrs should i put it in

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Debian.gz: * npdate is no longer started from an init script but instead by ifup (closes: #56499, #245338, #312576) * Run ntpdate from ifup in the background (closes: #321759, #375280, #382543) The script is now in /etc/network/if-up.d

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... On 10/18/06, Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Debian.gz: * npdate

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:36:08PM +0200, harm wrote: i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... If you want something to resync periodically, then use

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
From another of those pesky /usr/share/doc files: che:/usr/share/doc/ntpdate# cat README.Debian ... Note that ntpdate is *not* really intended to be used by hosts with good network connectivity. The ntp package, which provides a persistent daemon that does a better job of keeping system time

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
apt-get install ntp i will just asume that wil sync every Xtime. Lets read the manpage now, ok :)thnxOn 10/18/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:36:08PM +0200, harm wrote: i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is

Re: how to start the sound system

2006-10-18 Thread Kay Smarczewski
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:23:31PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 14:20:35 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: [ ATI SB450 HDA sound card

Re: downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:55PM +0100, Martin Smith wrote: Hi, i am currently using Windows XP home and wanted to use Debian to see what it is like, now i have got Jigdo, and i am not sure what files i have to download using and how to actully use Jigdo. I have read the FAQs and the

Re: Kernel panic on Dell with Debian

2006-10-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.10.06 15:51, Luiz Felipe wrote: I've tried to install Debian Sarge in a Dell PowerEdge 1425. The CD doesn't recognize the SCSI adapter (AIC), but I've found one ISO which contains the driver needed (http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers). After successfully

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread H.S.
cothrige wrote: * H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, my custom firewall script does take start, stop and restart arguments and so I could call it using the rc method. However, I have thus far used it by calling it with a pre-up line in the stanza for my eth0: pre-up

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-18 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Liam O'Toole wrote: I used to use Helvetica as the application font, and quite liked it. What caused me to change was that it kept popping up in web pages at inappropriate sizes, looking --- as Rick puts it --- seriously ugly. I never found a way to alias Helvetica to a Truetype font in the

Re: recognition of dkpg file by OS

2006-10-18 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:27:41PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried to run dkpg. It's dpkg, not dkpg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 bash: dkpg-reconfigure: command not found As you see it didn't work. So I tried using whereis [EMAIL

RE: downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
Hello Martin, I am also new to Debian having only just installed it. But maybe I can help a little bit and others can correct any inaccuracies. I have broadband that is fast enough to have allowed me to download all 15 CDROM images from a mirror site and burn them to CDs. If you do this

Re: how to start the sound system

2006-10-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 21:54:07 +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:23:31PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:17:21PM +0200, Kay Smarczewski wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:02:23PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at

Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Thanks for the help. I haven't posted since Thursday because, well, it hasn't crashed! After five crashes by noon Wednesday, I was out most of Thursday, treated it with kid gloves Friday and Monday (minimal interaction, did 99% of my work on the laptop), ramped up a bit yesterday, and today have

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread John Hasler
cothrige writes: Interesting what you say about ipmasq. How automatic is it? I would have assumed that it had more to do with making your machine a gateway, which mine isn't, than firewalling itself. I am assuming that it does both? The name is misleading. Ipmasq configures both NAT and

ipsets for shorewall on a Sarge system

2006-10-18 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know whether ipsets will work on Sarge systems and which kernel I should install on a Sarge system to get it to work? I have found information that kernel 2.6.16 is required for ipsets functionality but also read that it can work on 2.6.11 kernels. Is patch-o-matic available for

Re: Kernel panic on Dell with Debian

2006-10-18 Thread Luiz Felipe
Yes, I was on this way: initrd. But when compiled the new kernel with --initrd parameter, it seems that the initrd isn't in the package. Also, I ran the mkinitrd -o output, and the command doesn't create the output file and doesn't report me any mistakes. So, any suggestions about how to

Re: LTO-2 Tape Drive Recommendations

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Tim Boring wrote: I'm looking to get an LTO-2 tape drive/autoloader for doing server backups. I've tried a Dell PV-122 autoloader (8 cartridges) but had issues with it, so I'm thinking about trying something different. (Tried calling Dell tech support but they weren't very

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread cothrige
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] The line beginning with pre-up means to execute the following command before the current interface (in whose stanza the line is) is brought up. Very important to know. Many thanks. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 10:45, Yura wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. please send. I'm afraid I don't. Though,

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 14:36, harm wrote: i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... Of course it's not listed in ps

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread harm
i noticed that already, its not a daemon. Ive installed the ntp package and that IS a daemon. No more time worries for me anymore :)On 10/18/06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1On 10/18/06 14:36, harm wrote: i think i should read those

Re: downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Mikef writes: If you could download just one CD that you can use together with an internet install I think this would be the way to go if you have a broadband link. The netinst CD is exactly that. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
steef wrote: thank you all for your comments. i have decided to install AVG because i function here as mailserver for two maillistst, from - mostly- windows_machines via my debian-computer to other (mostly) windows_machines; with the exception of some french farmers who installed linux

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I hope that didn't come across as harsh as it now looks to me. It

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Yura wrote: What is the best program that control/monitor the status of an APC UPS under Linux? I use apcupsd and it works pretty well for me. Pretty much dropped right in. Config files have great comments and it just works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Michael Fothergill wrote: I also have a broadband connection and the 15 CD set of official Sarge stuff. Overkill. If you have a broadband connection, for the sake of your time (wasted by downloading more data than you have to and burning CDs you won't need) the Debian mirrors (bandwidth) and

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Yura wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. please send. I'm afraid I don't. Though, the documentation is fine. Regards, -Roberto One more

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Grok Mogger wrote: Is there any way to install an rpm on Debian...? There's rpm, but alien might be better (since it'll try to convert it to a .deb) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would that have been enough to include and fire up some kind of firewall or do I need to install that separately? If so what firewall would you recommend and what aptitude command will fetch me it? How do I know that the firewall is on and

HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Rev. John Missing
When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound. Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem? -- Namaste, Rev. John Yona Gadadoli (Praying Bear) Missing ([EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (http://victims-of-the-state.blogspot.com

Re: downloading the files using jigdo

2006-10-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mikef writes: If you could download just one CD that you can use together with an internet install I think this would be the way to go if you have a broadband link. The netinst CD is exactly that. If you have ANY Debian CD, you don't need to download

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote:

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:32:52PM -0500, cothrige wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Interesting what you say about ipmasq. How automatic is it? I would have assumed that it had more to do with making your machine a gateway, which mine isn't, than firewalling itself.

boot sequence and alsa

2006-10-18 Thread Denis Sheynihovich
Hi all, I am having a problem with alsa modules during boot. The problem is the following: after boot sound card does not work, when I do /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload it works OK. I checked that after boot all the required modules are loaded (via lsmod), so it not the problem of loading the

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Colin
Stephen Cormier wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: Make sure that you have these set they work for me. #UPSTYPE apcsmart #DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 UPSTYPE usb DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] You don't have to specify the DEVICE setting anymore (at least in the etch and sid

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:00, Colin wrote: Stephen Cormier wrote: On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: Make sure that you have these set they work for me. #UPSTYPE apcsmart #DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 UPSTYPE usb DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] You don't have to specify

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 10/19/06, Rev. John Missing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound.Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem?I am running both testing and sarge. In both in firefox also, I don't have sound in flash. I am using KDE. Even

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...] http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html I

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 14:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote On 10/14/06 19:53,

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There's Xen. And VMware. VMware has been around for years, and is a known, rock-solid hypervisor. Actually, I believe that Xen is a virtualizer. Or do they have different approaches for their workstation and server products?

Wine doesn't create desktop icons

2006-10-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop when I install a new program? I need to install a browser plugin only available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music theory. I'd like to be able to install Firefox for Windows and see the icon on my

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 20:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There's Xen. And VMware. VMware has been around for years, and is a known, rock-solid hypervisor. Actually, I believe that Xen is a

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:37:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 20:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There's Xen. And VMware. VMware has been around for years, and is a known, rock-solid hypervisor. Actually, I

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 20:42, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:37:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/18/06 20:04, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Who spends on server

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly [...]

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Grok Mogger wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [*snip*] I looked into this and it turns out that they do have a Linux version available. But apparently only as an rpm. Is there any way to install an rpm on Debian...? I guess a good 2nd question to ask would be, if so, does it seem to work

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread David Dawson
harm wrote: in good old sarge there was a script in /etc/init.d/ that would check the clock with the ntp server(s) in /etc/default/ntpdate. But how does it works in Etch, since the init.d script is gone ? Of course i can execute ntpdate ntp.xs4all.nl but if i want it to sync every 24hrs

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:02PM +, David Dawson wrote: but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute ntpdate instead Better still is chrony. It polls ntp sources when you're online, skewing the system time instead of jumping it like ntpdate, and

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Kent West
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 10/19/06, *Rev. John Missing* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound. Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem? I am running both testing and sarge. In

Re: Wine doesn't create desktop icons

2006-10-18 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:35:29PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop when I install a new program? I need to install a browser plugin only available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music theory. I'd like

modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2,

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/18/06, Rev. John Missing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound. Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem? when you start mozilla with aoss mozilla, does it work? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:51:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. The MB has a serial port and I have 3

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Dave Dawson writes: but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute ntpdate instead Or you could install Chrony, which does what Ntp does and works fine with dialup. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/18/06 21:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. That's a perfectly

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-18 Thread Rev. John Missing
Jason Dunsmore wrote: On 10/18/06, Rev. John Missing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays but I get no sound. Can anyone suggest where to start looking for the problem? when you start mozilla with aoss mozilla, does it work? Yeah, it works

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 PCI-E x1

Re: modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread M-L
On Thursday 19 October 2006 12:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared this with us all: -- I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), -- but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up -- my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. -- -- The MB has a serial

Re: How many DDs are there?

2006-10-18 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/18/06, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - At times, Debian can look like OS by committee. Eeww. I don't properly understand. Which model do you prefer? For instance (in no particular order), Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Steve's Jobs and Wozniak, and Richard Stallman. Outliers

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread cothrige
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The name is misleading. Ipmasq configures both NAT and firewalling. The default configuration is suitable for most, but you can tweak the scripts to do whatever you need. However, it is not clear that you need a firewall at all. If you have only

Re: Firefox: Help Report Broken Website

2006-10-18 Thread KS
amateur wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:43:33AM -0400, KS wrote: Hi, 1. Open Firefox (opening page is about:blank) 2. Help Report Broken Menu -- disabled 3. go to a web site, i.e. browse atleast one website 4. Help Report Broken Menu -- enabled I think this should be a type of

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