how can i add delta (as x _1- x_2) in OO?

2006-10-29 Thread Jabka Atu
hello ... how can i add delta sign in formulas when i use math ? for exmample : Delta X = X_1 - X_2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread W Paul Mills
anthony wrote: Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664

Re: cupsys setup dumb question

2006-10-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:56:08PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I install cupsys and apache among many hundreds of other packages. > I point my browser (firefox) at localhost:631 as the howto directs and ... > I'm told " > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access the resource on this serve

Re: How to reverse a package upgrade?

2006-10-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:58:58PM -0800, rds wrote: > Is the old version of the package still available in "testing"? And if not, is > there a way to rollback to a previous verson of the package? I'm using > aptitude You want to take a look at http://snapshot.debian.net/ - although bear in m

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the generic device before trying to use it. Furt

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Zoran Kolic
> Default Depth 24 > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes "1024X768" "800X600" "640X480" If ctrl/alt +/- doesn't work, why don't you just left 1024x768 and restart x? Man pages are installed? Zoran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

cupsys setup dumb question

2006-10-29 Thread Paul E Condon
I lost my sarge in a power glitch and am recreating. Most things are going well but ... I install cupsys and apache among many hundreds of other packages. I point my browser (firefox) at localhost:631 as the howto directs and ... I'm told " Forbidden You don't have permission to access the resource

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/27/06, celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Desktop Environment [ xfce] Is it safe to assume that you mean Xfce4? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: postgresql database file names

2006-10-29 Thread Tony Heal
For those who care. Here is how you determine the disk space used for each postgresql db. #!/bin/bash # scan the list of databases and provide the disk space used in human readable form dbs=`psql template1 -tc "select datname from pg_database"|sed s/" "/""/g` for i in $dbs do oid=`psql template

[EMAIL PROTECTED] fsck! On boot it dies... yet drive okay?!?

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Bonert
On booting my Debian system I get something like: - [sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /mnt/mdk] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda11 /dev/hda11: clean, 5765/130048 files, 1425960/2596497 blocks Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x309 of format 3.6 with standard journal Blocks (total/free): 200800/192582 by 4096

Problem setting up a mirror

2006-10-29 Thread Loukas Kalenderidis
Hi guys, I've attempted to set up a local Debian mirror on a server here and run into some problems. I've installed and configured the anonftpsync script as per its instructions, but when I run it the log says the following: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
Douglas Tutty wrote: I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: Difficult to change things like margins Can't make html plain text output has blank lines that must be edited. My

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > You don't use synaptic Er, X for package selects? > or dselect, eh? Full screen for package selects? :D 'sides dselect < aptitude's full screen. :P -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dr

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/27/06, Zbigniew Wiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, here's my types: I think it would be useful to categorize users e.g.: desktop home, desktop office, web admin, There'll probably be a lot of overlap, but it's a good idea to consider. * cd-ripper [ k3b ] I was not even aware of t

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:14:46AM +, anthony wrote: > Hello > > The result (as root) of ls -aFI / > > ./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fonts.cache-1 home/ initrd/ > initrd.img@ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ nano.save opt/ proc/ > root/ root.choice/ sbin/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ va

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:45:07PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hmm, wait, iceweasel will be harder... 2 more letters. You don't use synaptic or dselect, eh? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations!

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/29/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/27/06, Rodrigo Paes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * misc utilities [ sudo, grep, lsof, top, wget, meld, ssh ] Nice that you pointed out meld, a graphical diff. I once saw such a utility on Windows, and always wondered if there wa

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:00:46PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > LyX > > > Kenward > -- > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be > _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, > because passing civilization along from one generat

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:38:44PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > > When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? > > Hi Doug, > > The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and DVD-RWs >

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I > started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: > > Difficult to change things like margins > > Can't make html > > plain te

How to reverse a package upgrade?

2006-10-29 Thread rds
Debian / testing Hi, Upgraded "suversion" package to the latest in debian/testing, that is, version: 1.4.0-5 . Once upgrade was completed, it became clear that I should have stuck with the old version of subversion package, the old version was version 1.3.2-5, I think. So, now it's highly desir

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-29 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Diumenge 29 Octubre 2006 20:41, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > I would try this: Thanks for this tutorial! Only one question: what's the reason for those new packages: linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-1-486 with nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-source upgrade ? -- Benjamí http://blog.

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
> When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? Hi Doug, The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and DVD-RWs by buzzing and whirring for a little while before giving up, sometimes

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Carl Fink wrote: > It's easier to install on Debian. That's all. How, exactly? I'm betting that Firefox will just live in non-free and be just as easy to install as IceWeasel. aptitude install firefox aptitude install iceweasel Hmm, wait, iceweasel will be harder... 2 more letters. --

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:26:56PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I > > don't like wysiwyg. I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html. > > > > Something like

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-reconfigu

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-29 Thread cothrige
* Angelina Carlton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > At the moment mrxvt does not support utf-8 but perhaps it will in the > near future? If so, you might find rxvt-unicode an adequate interim > replacement. I would think this is a little simpler than trying to > remove unicode from your OS. >

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > My primary use is for letters and notes but also larger projects. I > don't like wysiwyg. I want to be able to make: ps, pdf, txt, html. > > Something like DebianDoc seems overkill for a letter. I'd just use docbook (I haven't loo

Re: help

2006-10-29 Thread Tim Post
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:54 +0200, Yura wrote: > > Are you being abducted and e-mailing the Debian lists via SMS for help? Very, very *bad* idea. Fedora lists handle Kidnappings. Best, -Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread James Richardson
Douglas Tutty wrote: > I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I > started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: > > Difficult to change things like margins > > Can't make html > > plain text output has blank lines that must be edi

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:12:57PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > Ugh, that would truly be lame. This is the replacement drive for the > original, which I RMA'd because it couldn't read DVDs (didn't crash the > system though). > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 19:47 -0600, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > > > > > My

Re: grub choices

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu > choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Ugh, that would truly be lame. This is the replacement drive for the original, which I RMA'd because it couldn't read DVDs (didn't crash the system though). Hopefully the fact that this one is failing differently means it's not something outside of the drive that would require sending the whole t

document processing

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: Difficult to change things like margins Can't make html plain text output has blank lines that must be edited. My primary use is for le

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-29 Thread Angelina Carlton
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The big problem is that I don't particularly like xterm and use mrxvt, > which does not have unicode support yet. I can work around it mostly, > but it isn't perfect and still breaks sometimes. If possible, and > assuming it won't break things, I would pref

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze (Correction, not mounting)

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Okay, point taken about the term "mount". What I mean is that inserting a normal CD into the drive causes the machine to lock up. I'm not trying to do anything interesting with the disc like rip tracks off of it; Gnome merely tries to access it and the machine seizes. On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:43

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:39:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > So I'm leaning toward two bad floppy drives in two machines within my > house. I'll know more when I can try these floppies in a third and maybe > fourth Debian box at work tomorrow. It could be just dirty heads. Yo

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0800, Jeff Goodman wrote: > anthony wrote: > >Hello > > > >I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of > >debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home > >directory. When I log in I get the message - your home director

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > >> Try scraping the mold off with a couple of >> fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 > /dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory > > > Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:42 -0800, jantzen wrote: > Hi All, > > My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, > however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're > mounted. I'm unable even to ping the machine after this occurs. This is almost certainly har

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Your listing ran all together; perhaps you posted HTML? anthony wrote: > I have these permissions on /home/anthony my home folder; my username > is anthony : > > total 80drw-rw-r-- 11 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-24 16:51 audio > drw-rw-r-- 2 anthony anthony 4096 2006-10-19 13:36 background drw-rw

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> I'm going to try another couple of >> floppies, and via Knoppix. >> >> > > I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it > formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read > those files from it, I then did th

solved - renaming LV which is root makes system unbootable

2006-10-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/10/06 20:11), Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:41:12PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > using lvm lvrename, I renamed all the LVs and changed the entries in > > /etc/fstab to reflect the new names, rebooted and it hangs because it > > can't find the / partition. I suspect th

Re: why only root can wirte to dos partition and java obfuscate

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:34:11PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have sarge, hda1 is vfat, I mount it, but only root can write to it. > > How to add write permission to other users? > vfat doesn't have the concept of users/owners/permissions. Mount assigns one uid/gid to the whole vfat file s

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:42 -0800, jantzen wrote: > Hi All, > > My system is unable to mount music CDs. neither does mine. :) cd's dont have a mountable filesystem on them. (nor any kind of filesystem). they have raw data, so-to-speak. if you want to use them as files, you need to 'rip' the cd.

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:58PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > My system is unable to mount music CDs. You don't mount an audio CD. There's no reason to even try, as they don't have a filesystem on them. Why trying to apparently hangs up your box, I have no idea. -- Marc Wilson | You can't ki

Re: renaming LV which is root makes system unbootable

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:41:12PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > Hi > > I've been experimenting with LVM on my laptop to be able to install > several systems with the flexibility to adjust sizes. I named the VG > 'alpha' and the LVs a, b, c and d. /boot is a real partition, a = /, > b = /usr, c

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > I'm going to try another couple of > floppies, and via Knoppix. > I just tried yet another floppy, and although it looked like it formatted properly, and I was able to copy a few files to it and read those files from it, I then did the verify thing again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:58PM -0800, jantzen wrote: > My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, > however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're > mounted. Music CDs can't be mounted; they don't have a filesystem on them. You can either play t

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 06:42:33PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00 > > Its the 'auto' that's the problem. > > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put > > here. > > You mean like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo mount -t vf

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-29 Thread cothrige
* Justin Piszcz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > One reason for it is to display e-mails correctly in pine, mind you, it > needs to be patched and configured with UTF8 support and you need to run > xterm -u8 but then at least e-mails written in the UTF8 charset look > correct :) > > Justin. > >

Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread jantzen
Hi All, My system is unable to mount music CDs. I can read DVD's and CD-Rs, however music CD's cause the entire system to lock up when they're mounted. I'm unable even to ping the machine after this occurs. Debian version: testing Kernel: 2.6.17-2-amd64 DVD-RW: Pioneer DVR-K05 I've tried taili

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > Could be the media. > > Try scraping the mold off with a couple of > fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 /dev/fd0u1440: No such file or directory Hmm; apparently udev makes this command slightly obsolete now

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-29 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, cothrige wrote: > Okay, I really am an idiot when it comes to unicode. More than that > if you ask my wife. But, I have been wondering why I need unicode at > all? I never used it, knowingly, before Debian but I noticed that it > is apparently the default now. So, some a

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Kent West
Douglas Tutty wrote: > If you look in your /etc/fstab for the entry under floppy, you'll > probably see something like: > > /dev/fd0/floppyautouser,noauto00 > > Its the 'auto' that's the problem. > > Try mounting it manually to determine what types to put > here. > You

Re: How to vnc to not log?

2006-10-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/29/2006 01:11 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Anyone know how to get VNC to not log it's errors? I have gotten into the habit of using VNC as my main interface on my server machine. Every few weeks the log fills up root forcing me to shut down VNC so it'll close the log file and allow it to be

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:33:31PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > >celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > >>machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my > >>private wireless network which I contr

why only root can wirte to dos partition and java obfuscate

2006-10-29 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge, hda1 is vfat, I mount it, but only root can write to it. How to add write permission to other users? BTW is there any java obfuscate? Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http

Re: grub choices

2006-10-29 Thread Roby
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu > choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu choice

KDE/Kprinter and Postscript

2006-10-29 Thread Anthony M Simonelli
At my company, we have a server called a Fax*Star.  This server runs on Windows XP and shares a virtual printer via SMB.  The Windows driver used is 'Generic / Text Only' and does not accept any Postscript jobs.  I'm trying to send a text file to this printer using CUPS/KDE3.5/Etch using the te

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread anthony
Hello The result (as root) of ls -aFI / ./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fonts.cache-1 home/ initrd/ initrd.img@ lib/ lib64/ lost+found/ media/ mnt/ nano.save opt/ proc/ root/ root.choice/ sbin/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ var/ vmlinuz@ of  -aFI /home ./ ../ bin/ boot/ cdrom@ dev/ dyne/ etc/ .fo

Re: Etch Upgrade to Apache2 seems to have screwed tomcat

2006-10-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 29 October 2006 22:40, Alan Chandler wrote: > and looking in /etc/apache2/modes-enabled/jk.conf I have > > JkWorkersFile /etc/apache2/workers.properties > JkLogFile /var/log/apache2/mod_jk.log > JkLogLevelinfo > JkMountFile /etc/apache2/urimap.properties Its looking increasing as

grub choices

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu choice for it in grub? Thanks,

Re: yikes

2006-10-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:05:27 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Holy scare the crap outta me! I normally keep my computer on, because I > run a web server. But today I turned it off, and when I went to turn it > on, the xserver wouldn't start. Yikes. However, given that I have

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:51:43PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +, anthony wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian > > for > > over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread cothrige
* Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And new items: > > * (games) [ ADOM, nethack ] > > * (news) [ slrn, nget ] > > Is adom free software now?! Last I remember, it was free-as-in-beer > only, no sources available. > > -Miles > Hmmm. Now that I

Re: postgresql database file names

2006-10-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how do you determine the disk size of a database. I have a var partition > that is at 90% capacity and growing, and there are some databases I can > remove, but it would be easier if I knew which DB's were taking up what disk > space.

Re: respectful slightly dumb question about 64 bit computing.....

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 16:55, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: [snip] > As someone who is migrating from a 486 with 32 MB ram to an AMD Athlon > with 1 GB ram, I'll be interested in this discussion. In my

Re: Upgrade to Apache2

2006-10-29 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:55:46 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the update to Apache2 in Testing, I got bit by a couple of > things. > > The first issue is discussed in bug 392701. I have websvn installed > and am getting an error on AuthUserFile. I have both authz_host.load

yikes

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
Holy scare the crap outta me! I normally keep my computer on, because I run a web server. But today I turned it off, and when I went to turn it on, the xserver wouldn't start. Yikes. However, given that I have an ati card, I found the right package, and installed it via aptitude (xserver-xo

Re: Etch Upgrade to Apache2 seems to have screwed tomcat

2006-10-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 29 October 2006 22:40, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have got over most of the issues, but one is completely foxing me. That > is getting requests passed through to tomcat. I should say, that prior to the upgrade I had downloaded and installed a binary verision of mod_jk from the apache web

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent West wrote: > I have just 30 minutes ago tried to use three 3.5" floppies on two > different machines, and can't get anywhere with them. I decided to put > it on the back burner and read my email when I c

Re: cd-rom iso image with /etc/apt/sources.list, local repository

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:48:57AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Is it possible to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to read a CD-ROM or > DVD ISO image in place of a physical CD-ROM? I am thinking in terms of > mounting the ISO image with the "loop" option of mount, as I do when > using jigd

Re: laptop display

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:02:04AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-recon

Re: respectful slightly dumb question about 64 bit computing.....

2006-10-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:22:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I have been reading about the benefits of 64 bit computing on the web. In > the old days I used to run some molecular dynamics calculations on a DEC > Alpha with a 64 bit chip in it and the developer there did get a definite

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 16:22, anthony wrote: > I can get root access thru the failsafe terminal mode, but I still don't > really get what is up. if I changed the permissions as myself, why > cannot reset them as myself or as root? What exactly did you chown and/

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:21:19PM +, anthony wrote: > Hello > > I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for > over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log > in > I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong

renaming LV which is root makes system unbootable

2006-10-29 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've done something rather silly. I've been experimenting with LVM on my laptop to be able to install several systems with the flexibility to adjust sizes. I named the VG 'alpha' and the LVs a, b, c and d. /boot is a real partition, a = /, b = /usr, c = /var and d = /tmp and all has been wor

Etch Upgrade to Apache2 seems to have screwed tomcat

2006-10-29 Thread Alan Chandler
I just did an upgrade of my etch based server, and as part of the process it seems to have completely screwed my apache setup. I have got over most of the issues, but one is completely foxing me. That is getting requests passed through to tomcat. apache2.conf has the following lines to enable

Re: Iomega CD-RW driver for Linux

2006-10-29 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-29, 19:20:37 (-0300) skrifaði Alejandro: > Hi all, I've got an Iomega CD-RW USB connected to my Debian but I can't > find any driver in Internet to download. Iomega official web site says > that there is no support for LinuxDo you have any idea how I can do > to work with this d

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread anthony
I can get root access thru the failsafe terminal mode, but I still don't really get what is up. if I changed the permissions as myself, why cannot reset them as myself or as root?I don't have a cd drive, but I can boot from usb. So far it sounds like the easiest thing is to make another user cp al

Iomega CD-RW driver for Linux

2006-10-29 Thread Alejandro
Hi all, I've got an Iomega CD-RW USB connected to my Debian but I can't find any driver in Internet to download. Iomega official web site says that there is no support for LinuxDo you have any idea how I can do to work with this device in Linux ??? Or any similar driver that works fine ???

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Miles Bader
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And new items: > * (games) [ ADOM, nethack ] > * (news) [ slrn, nget ] Is adom free software now?! Last I remember, it was free-as-in-beer only, no sources available. -Miles -- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you d

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: [snip] >> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. > > Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) startx is your friend.

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Goodman
anthony wrote: Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > > > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 anthony anthony 26 2006-09-21 18:56 /home/anthony/.dmrc > > > > but the login message is the same. Look into ~/.xsession-errors, maybe there's more info. And BTW, my ~/.dmrc is 600: -rw--- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 37 2006-08-0

Re: postgresql database file names

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 11:18, Tony Heal wrote: > OK, how do you determine the disk size of a database. I have a var partition > that is at 90% capacity and growing, and there are some databases I can > remove, but it would be easier if I knew which DB's were taki

Re: Jerky Mouse Movement - SOLVED!

2006-10-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from > linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom > Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.Clearly there is > something w

Re: postgresql database file names

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 14:07, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:00:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# du --summarize --human-readable /var/lib/mysql/* > >> He is working with PostgreSQL. > > True, but I figured th

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/29/06 11:38, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:24:26PM -0500, Russell L. Harris > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> There is much confusion concerning Procmail recipes among those >> who have written Procmail HOWTOs, so beware! You do

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > Hello > > I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of > debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home > directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dm

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 09:41, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/27/06, Mirto Silvio Busico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * misc utilities [ sudo, grep, top, wget, lynks ] > > I can't find lynks anywhere. Is this a typo? Yes. The packages are lynx and links

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 13:37, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:07:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 10/26/06 13:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> note: you don't hav

Re: [kde-linux] no local printer with Konqueror 3.5.5

2006-10-29 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:11, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 29 October 2006 21:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 21:20:17 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:37, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [snip] > I uncommented the sock line. Restarted CUPS. Still d

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 10:08, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * shell [ bash ] > > Not such a valid entry, unless many entries go for other shells. If > so, then this goes to 'misc utilities', unless you disag

Re: /dev/lp0 - Permission denied after CUPS upgrade

2006-10-29 Thread Chris
On Sunday 29 October 2006 20:30, Colin wrote: > Chris wrote: > > This is an older post from a while back. The problem seems to have > > resurfaced. On my machine after a reboot, I have: > > > > crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 2006-10-29 20:03 /dev/lp0 > > > > I can't use the printer until I change it t

Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread anthony
Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664 (its actually the whole

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-29 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > That doesn't sound right. Try moving ~/.mozilla out of the way and start > with a fresh profile. It makes no difference. > If that doesn't work, maybe you can try launching firefox with strace > and see if you can spot something strange. I'm not familiar with strace and w

mutt and maildir question (after recent thread)

2006-10-29 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi folks, I just took the plunge to try maildir. I use mutt and had to add a few things to my .mutt/muttrc but it seems I'm missing some info. When I used mbox, I could move a mail from mbox A to mbox B by using 's' in mutt and then type in '=NEWMAILBOX' as the new location. This is not quite worki

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On 10/29/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/27/06, Rodrigo Paes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * misc utilities [ sudo, grep, lsof, top, wget, meld, ssh ] Nice that you pointed out meld, a graphical diff. I once saw such a utility on Windows, and always wondered if there wa

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