Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:18:48PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> The % sign has a special meaning in crontabs. Change it to \%. > > > > I don't see any hint of that in crontab(1) or cron(8), but I do see > > s

Re: Boot Debian from USB disk

2006-12-09 Thread Yuwen Dai
Hi Hugo, Have you included USB drivers in your initrd? regards, Yuwen

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Irving wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: >>> I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab >>> (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:13:22PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > > I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab > > (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't > > work. It seems like the job just never

Re: raid + lvm setup

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 06:20:31PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:52:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > > > > > Th

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 08:52:22PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:54:36 +, Chris Lale wrote: > The NewbieDOC wiki now has a version of these Aptitude notes > (http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Aptitude_-_using_together_with_Synaptic_and_Apt-g

Re: raid + lvm setup

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:13:51PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:52:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Then LVs for everything including swap. > > > > my genuine curiousity question is

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:26:03PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was attempting to install a source only program , concerning mobile phone > flashing. only to find the file "configure" does not seem to exist. > Tried as user and root What leads you to believe that whatever it is you

Re: raid + lvm setup

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 05:52:08PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Then LVs for everything including swap. > > my genuine curiousity question is why you would bother to put swap on raid? I > suppose if you had a lot of s

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:06:17AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > OK, let me deal with that. The best way to do it would be as follows. You > would buy the first set of CDs/DVDs from a vendor. So if it were for Sarge > 3.1r0, then you would use jidgo to bootstrap to new CD images for Sa

Re: raid + lvm setup

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Then LVs for everything including swap. my genuine curiousity question is why you would bother to put swap on raid? I suppose if you had a lot of swapping going on and a drive failed, it could be catastrophic, but that's the only

pdfbox compilation on debian/etch (Could not create task or type of type: propertyfile.)

2006-12-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, Has anyone tried to build pdfbox on a debian/etch system ? Steps: ( get PDFBox-0.7.3.zip from the sf.net mirror) $ unzip PDFBox-0.7.3.zip $ cd PDFBox-0.7.3 $ ant <...> package: BUILD FAILED /tmp/PDFBox-0.7.3/build.xml:163: Could not create task or type of type: propertyfile. Ant could

raid + lvm setup

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
I'm going to be reinstalling my amd64 using Etch RC1 in an effort to track down bug 402157 re grub not installing. This gives me the opportunity to rearrange how the drives are set up. I have two Seagate Barracuda 80 GB SATA-3.0 drives. Right now (running amd64 Etch pre RC1), I have both drives

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-09 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 10:34:06PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote: > I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab > (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't > work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone > tell me what might have happened? > > (T

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:03:51 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EM

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread John Hasler
jao writes: > I was attempting to install a source only program , concerning mobile > phone flashing. only to find the file "configure" does not seem to > exist. The configure script, when there is one, is included with the source. To run it you type "./configure" in the top directory of the

Re: Non-printable Bytes in Variable Data solved.

2006-12-09 Thread Martin McCormick
I finally fixed the problem I was having with the shell variable in double quotes and my face is a bit red, but not too red. It appears that the output of the cdda2wav file had a tab preceeding each song title to make it print nice and pretty. I successfully removed all the extra

Re: is there a way to convert ntfs to ext or reiser ?

2006-12-09 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 10:31:40PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > On 12/7/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On 06.12.06 10:11, Jabka Atu wrote: > >> Hello , id like to convert my 120 Gb ntfs parttion to ext3 or to > >> reiserfs (the files are about 1gb each ) . > > > >ntfs dr

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 09 December 2006 23:18, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], 09.12.2006 21:26: > > I was attempting to install a source only program , concerning mobile > > phone flashing. only to find the file "configure" does not seem to > > exist. Tried as user and root > D

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED], 09.12.2006 21:26: > I was attempting to install a source only program , concerning mobile phone > flashing. only to find the file "configure" does not seem to exist. > Tried as user and root How about autogen.sh? What’s that software so that others can have a lo

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-09 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [very entertaining discussion snipped] > the "automatically remove unused packages" option. When in doubt, run > "aptitude install -sf", check what it wants to do and smack it over the > head with "keep-all" if you do not like what you see. (0) heretic /hom

./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread jao
Hi, Not a Newbie but after trying to find which package contains the 'configure' script for almost 1 hr { expecting it to just be there anyway }. I was attempting to install a source only program , concerning mobile phone flashing. only to find the file "configure" does not seem to exist.

Re: Not sure I get this unmet dependency

2006-12-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:45:03 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Sometimes I get confused by what the package system is telling me. > I'm not sure what's happening below. > > On Sid trying to update Gaim: > > $ apt-cache policy gaim > gaim: > Installed: 1:2.0.0+beta5-3 > Can

Re: is there a way to convert ntfs to ext or reiser ?

2006-12-09 Thread Jabka Atu
On 12/7/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 06.12.06 10:11, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello , id like to convert my 120 Gb ntfs parttion to ext3 or to > reiserfs (the files are about 1gb each ) . ntfs drivers in linux can read from NTFS partitions. however I don't know about any

Not sure I get this unmet dependency

2006-12-09 Thread Bill Moseley
Sometimes I get confused by what the package system is telling me. I'm not sure what's happening below. On Sid trying to update Gaim: $ apt-cache policy gaim gaim: Installed: 1:2.0.0+beta5-3 Candidate: 1:2.0.0+beta5-6 Ok, trying to upgrade: $ sudo apt-get install g

usbhid and wireless keyboard and mouse - avoiding lockups

2006-12-09 Thread Chris
I'm using the following fancy wireless USB keyboard and mouse. The thing is giving me alot of trouble though. Often the mouse and/or keyboard lock up. Sometimes on boot the mouse only moves up and down not across. I can sometimes get things back with: rmmod usbhid modprobe usbhid /etc/init.

bottleneck tourism

2006-12-09 Thread rock
In Perl, you can have a list and a scalar of the same name, and they refer to unrelated pieces of memory. Thanks for a great job well done, an enjoyable evening, and making working here so much fun. I'm guessing that they've got some form of inspection today as the frenetic activity going on was w

how to connect to smb printer ?

2006-12-09 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello. im trieng to connect to smb printer (printer that is connected to windows workstation) when i try to use Kprint and choose smb printer im unable to open the shares on the sharing pc im getting the next error : using anonimus: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED using user and password on the window

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-09 Thread David Baron
On Friday 08 December 2006 22:05, Micha Feigin wrote: > I couldn't find anything about this in google. > > I currently have a working setup I like that uses fetchmail and procmail. I > thought of moving to kmail since it can do a few things that annoy me with > sylpheed. Is it possible to use kmail

Re: recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-09 Thread David Baron
On Friday 08 December 2006 21:00, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:20 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > I recommend keeping the old cdrecord and mkisofs around until k3b, > > > nautilus or whatever you are using is updated to work with the new > > > utilities. 'Twas not really nice of

Boot Debian from USB disk

2006-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, There was a HOWTO do this by George Hein on May 12 2006, that shows up on Google but is absent from Debian mailing lists. Roberto answered the post by asking if George would add it to the Wiki. To which there was no answer. I would like to do this but am running Lilo and George ran grub

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/06 14:05, Micha Feigin wrote: > I couldn't find anything about this in google. > > I currently have a working setup I like that uses fetchmail and procmail. I > thought of moving to kmail since it can do a few things that annoy me with > sylp

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:21:27 -0800 John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I couldn't find anything about this in google. > > > > I currently have a working setup I like that uses fetchmail and procmail. I > > thought of moving to kmail since i

Re: Xen smp

2006-12-09 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
On lør, desember 9, 2006 00:46, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: >> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:15:56PM +0100, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: >> >>> Hi list. >>> I'm running Xen under Etch and running an instance of Etch under Xen, >>> the >>> host is showing two cpu's but the guest

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
We're wanting to use one Debian box to play two different audio streams to two different systems: one playing music-on-hold for our general telephone system, and one playing tips-and-updates for our Helpdesk phone system (for simplification purposes, you can just think of the two streams going to

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/06 20:27, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:26:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:23:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > I wish there was an in

Re: Setup a printer on debian linux

2006-12-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/12/06 11:38), Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On 12/8/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Although this talks about windows/samba printing, I've found it a useful > >reference for setting up printers generally: > > > >http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html > > This is de

How to disable password for default keyring?

2006-12-09 Thread gulfstream
I use network-manager to manage my networks of my laptop and save WEP password for wireless network in system default keyring. When I use network-manager to connect wireless network, network-manager needs get the WEP password from default keyring, so I must input the password for default keyring.

Re: KDE login

2006-12-09 Thread Eeltje
Leslie Rhorer schreef: > I'm running KDE under Debian Sarge, and it won't allow me to log in as root. Change /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc as follows: [X-*-Core] AllowNullPasswd=false AllowRootLogin=true -- Eeltje -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:01:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:52:23AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Also, my brother loves Debian (except that he wouldn't if I > > wasn't around), but has to dual-boot since he needs a Cubase or Reason > > (music production) wh

Re: Cannot compile kernel

2006-12-09 Thread 0x7a337230
On 12/9/06, Leslie Rhorer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Leslie Rhorer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I have installed Sarge on an e-machines desktop system, and it's working >very well, but I am having two problems with LAN access. I'll detail the >first here, and h

Re: KDE login

2006-12-09 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Leslie Rhorer wrote: I'm running KDE under Debian Sarge, and it won't allow me to log in as root. I need to be able to do this, and a root login works fine on the machine running Woody. How can I configure this newer version of KDE to allow root logins? Also, when I use XDMCP to log in to th

How to disable password for default keyring?

2006-12-09 Thread gulfstream
I use network-manager to manage my networks of my laptop and save WEP password for wireless network in system default keyring. When I use network-manager to connect wireless network, network-manager needs get the WEP password from default keyring, so I must input the password for default keyring.

Remise sur vos cadeau de noel

2006-12-09 Thread pascal
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KDE login

2006-12-09 Thread Leslie Rhorer
I'm running KDE under Debian Sarge, and it won't allow me to log in as root. I need to be able to do this, and a root login works fine on the machine running Woody. How can I configure this newer version of KDE to allow root logins? Also, when I use XDMCP to log in to the old machine running

Re: Cannot compile kernel

2006-12-09 Thread Leslie Rhorer
"Leslie Rhorer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I have installed Sarge on an e-machines desktop system, and it's working >very well, but I am having two problems with LAN access. I'll detail the >first here, and hopefully someone can help. The LAN works pretty wel

Re: How do I do n-up printing with my layout?

2006-12-09 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On 12/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could maybe work around the problem by going via PDF, i.e. ps2pdf file.ps pdfnup --outfile newfile.pdf --nup nxm file.pdf pdftops newfile.pdf "nxm" is the nup specification, e.g. 2x3 for two columns by three rows. You might have to use "