Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

2007-05-14 Thread fabio natali
Raquel scrisse: > In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be > wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, etc. > What is the best tool for Gnome? gphoto2 or digikam. i use them with my canon powershot a520, they work great. gphoto2 is a command line tool.

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-14 Thread David Dawson
Florian Kulzer wrote: > aptitude -F '%?p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/3\.5\.6/{print $1,$2}' Thanks. This is what I get from the above command: kde-i18n-engb 4:3.5.6-1 kde-i18n-eo 4:3.5.6-1 kde-i18n-fr 4:3.5.6-1 Is any package there likely to be involved? If I were to add a non-broken i18n-xxx pa

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name > "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or > what was the command that created it etc from any log files. Are you sure you haven't written something con

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh

2007-05-14 Thread dulev
> > > After starting Edith (but not logging in locally), I have been > > > logging into Edith via SSH from Kate. But when I execute mc over > > > the SSH link, the two-panel mc display is corrupted. Instead of > > > horizontal and vertical rules, I see strange characters in groups of > > > three.

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh

2007-05-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* dulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070515 01:21]: > > After starting Edith (but not logging in locally), I have been logging > > into Edith via SSH from Kate. But when I execute mc over the SSH > > link, the two-panel mc display is corrupted. Instead of horizontal > > and vertical rules, I see strange

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh

2007-05-14 Thread dulev
> After starting Edith (but not logging in locally), I have been logging > into Edith via SSH from Kate. But when I execute mc over the SSH > link, the two-panel mc display is corrupted. Instead of horizontal > and vertical rules, I see strange characters in groups of three. > > What is the prop

Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-14 Thread Deboo ^
I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or what was the command that created it etc from any log files. I did not have a firewall yet. I am testing postfix on and off but don't keep it onlien for more

jigdo for lenny

2007-05-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
I would like to obtain a set of ISO DVD images for "testing", but the link: Official jigdo files for the "testing" distribution on DVD: [i386] takes me to the URL: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/i386/jigdo-dvd/ and a "NOT FOUND" error message. The same is the case wi

configuring midnight commander for use via ssh

2007-05-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have Debian running on two machines, Kate and Edith, in my LAN. (Who says you can't have your Kate, and Edith, too?) The Gnome desktop is installed on both machines. Also, midnight commander (the original mc, not Gnome commander) is installed on both machines, and works perfectly when accessed

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello Mumia: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:28, Mumia W.. wrote: > I suggest that you dedicate a runlevel, say 3, to debugging this > problem. For RL (runlevel) 3, disable as many services as > possible--making it almost the same as RL 1; then re-enable only those > services that get you basic network c

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:49:21PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > >On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:13:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > >>cga2000 wrote: > >>>On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > 3. in the parent script, where you use your s

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:28:38PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/14/2007 12:45 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: > > I'm going to try to attach a dump of ps -aux as ps.txt > > I don't know if the list will allow the attachment, but we'll see. > > It will be easier to read than if pasted into kmail, I think

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-14 Thread william pursell
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:58 +0100, william pursell wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: then i type "fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin" which i assume changes it into a .deb file? and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found" whats going wrong? D:

Re: Announce: DebianArt

2007-05-14 Thread Bill Wohler
"André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you test? Please register and put your artworking :D Nice stuff! It would be extremely useful to put a thumbnail of each image(s) next to the description. That way, one can view 10 images on one page without having to click and wa

Re: DNS in Windows environment

2007-05-14 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:52:08 -0700, Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like to set up a DHCP/DNS server (on Debian Etch) for Windows clients, *Only* DHCP/DNS? DHCP is OS independant, so your question boils down to the DNS server. You might want to either try setting up a WINS s

Re: Grub without Linux.

2007-05-14 Thread Mr. Ray Chan
1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; 2. After your saw the prompt, use command "FDISK /MBR"; 3. Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] さんは書きました: > Debian users, > > I have a machine with two disks. /dev/hda has > Windows 98; /dev/hdb has Debian Etch. Grub > starts either system. The root partiti

Grub without Linux.

2007-05-14 Thread peasthope
Debian users, I have a machine with two disks. /dev/hda has Windows 98; /dev/hdb has Debian Etch. Grub starts either system. The root partition for Grub is in Debian, (hd1,0). I want to move the Debian drive to another machine and leave the Windows disk in working order. Reinstalling Gru

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > | > Hi list, > | > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > | > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: > | > HD = 6000M > | >

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/14/2007 12:45 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: I'm going to try to attach a dump of ps -aux as ps.txt I don't know if the list will allow the attachment, but we'll see. It will be easier to read than if pasted into kmail, I think. trying attachment. tim I suggest that you dedicate a runle

Re: SSMTP and SMTP without encryption

2007-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
Michael Pobega wrote: I'm currently in the middle of trying to swerve away from using Gmail, but the last thing standing in my way before I do is to get SMTP working. SMTP works under Thunderbird so I know my account is fine. (In all scenarios, I am using "/usr/sbin/ssmtp -auACCOUNT -apPASSWORD"

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:18, Michael Pobega wrote: > Nope, sysv-rc-conf is only a graphical program for showing what is on > and off. You could of course ls /etc/rc(0-6 and S).d/ to show what is > running on each runlevel. I'm going to try to attach a dump of ps -aux as ps.txt I don't know if t

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:31:32PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:04, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > Everything there looks fine, actually. I have no idea what the problem > > could be. I'm sorry we couldn't resolve it, but I'm fully out of ideas. > > > I'm sorry too. Hop

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:04, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Everything there looks fine, actually. I have no idea what the problem > could be. I'm sorry we couldn't resolve it, but I'm fully out of ideas. > I'm sorry too. Hopefully someone else will step in here, 'cuz this install is unusable until

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:07:35PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 00:09, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > I really have no idea what could be going on; Are you losing the lease > > on your IP (That is if it is dynamically assigned through DHCP). Try > > using a static IP and see if

How to blacklist (was Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law)

2007-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/14/07 19:41, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:14:22 -0500 > John Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Roberto, Joe Hart and Celejar >> >> You three seem like really nice guys, but I am getting a >> little old and tired of the off topic

SSMTP and SMTP without encryption

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm currently in the middle of trying to swerve away from using Gmail, but the last thing standing in my way before I do is to get SMTP working. SMTP works under Thunderbird so I know my account is fine. (In all scenarios, I am using "/usr/sbin/ssmtp -auACCOUNT -apPASSWORD") > [EMAIL PROTECTED] c

Gigabit ethernet low traffic and high latency

2007-05-14 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, I have spend the two last day, trying to solve a strange problem. I have 2 hosts connected using Gigabit Ethernet link and a switch between: * host giga: NFS server, Cat6 SFTP link, RTL8111/8168B NIC (r8169), Core 2 Duo T7600, 1GB RAM, SATA drive (xen dom0), linux 2.6.18, etch * host gran

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 00:09, Michael Pobega wrote: > I really have no idea what could be going on; Are you losing the lease > on your IP (That is if it is dynamically assigned through DHCP). Try > using a static IP and see if that works. Hi Michael: I am using a static IP address: Below is a c

Re: xkb options

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 18:44:12 -0400 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:49:15PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:51:35 -0500 > > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [some helpful, very detailed typing instructions] > > > > Thank you ver

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 19:14:22 -0500 John Burnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto, Joe Hart and Celejar > > You three seem like really nice guys, but I am getting a > little old and tired of the off topic posts. So here is my > question. > > How do I blacklist a individual user on this mailin

Administre su pymes - Maximice sus ganancias

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Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:36PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be > wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, etc. > What is the best tool for Gnome? > I have a Nikon 600 something or other and it works very nicely with gt

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:14:22PM -0500, John Burnett wrote: > > Roberto, Joe Hart and Celejar > > > > You three seem like really nice guys, but I am getting a > > little old and tired of the off topic posts. So here is my > >

Canon PowerShot A570IS

2007-05-14 Thread Raquel
In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, etc. What is the best tool for Gnome? -- Raquel I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:14:22PM -0500, John Burnett wrote: > Roberto, Joe Hart and Celejar > > You three seem like really nice guys, but I am getting a > little old and tired of the off topic posts. So here is my > question. > > How do I blacklist a individual user on this mailing list. > I wo

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-14 Thread John Burnett
Roberto, Joe Hart and Celejar You three seem like really nice guys, but I am getting a little old and tired of the off topic posts. So here is my question. How do I blacklist a individual user on this mailing list. I would like to do it in ~.spamassassin in the user_prefs file. I have tried black

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 04:09:16PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 23:18, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Well if you have an iptables ruleset already set up on the system it may > > do you well to post the output of iptables -L here. > > Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) > target prot o

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 14 May 2007 23:18, Michael Pobega wrote: > Well if you have an iptables ruleset already set up on the system it may > do you well to post the output of iptables -L here. ## I didn't do anything to set up iptables, here is the output from the dump: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:18:50PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 20:46, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:49:41PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > On Monday 14 May 2007 20:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > Nothing there looks out of the ordinary. The only ones

RE: kernel or ppp problem?

2007-05-14 Thread James Stevenson
Could you try these with the baud set to 17.2k or lower ? Some UARTS have problems when going above that. Whats the output of the serial ports in /proc/tty/drivers/serial ? PS. Just up really early. > -Original Message- > From: Eugene Stemple [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 May 200

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread cga2000
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:49:21PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: > Further processing would then need be done on the string to break it up > into pieces, or not, as dictated by the needs of the caller. My 'child > | read a b c d' is a quick way to read in the multiple lines output by > your method

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 14 May 2007 20:46, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:49:41PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 14 May 2007 20:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > Nothing there looks out of the ordinary. The only ones having to do > > > with the internet are apache2, bittorrent, and cup

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread mess-mate
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | > Hi list, | > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. | > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: | > HD = 6000M | > hda1= / = 5650M | > hda2= swap = 50M | > hda3 = 300M | > I did a debootst

Re: xkb options

2007-05-14 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:49:15PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:51:35 -0500 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [some helpful, very detailed typing instructions] > > Thank you very much. So how's your typing coming along? As a f/up to Russell's excellent "minute

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:13:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: cga2000 wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: So: $ echo a b c d | read x y z p $ echo $x $y $z $p a

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences of "\)" with a

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Now there must be a reason why Microsoft browbeat and legally harrassed > Robertson until he gave up the name "Lindows". Certainly. They _paid_ him. The reason being that it had become quite clear that the court was not only going to allow the continued use of the LINDOWS ma

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:13:32AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: > > > > > > > >> 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: > >> > >> HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip) > > > >.. you can take it one t

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >william pursell wrote: > >>Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you > >>meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' > >Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... > > > >>which will replace occurences > >>of "\)" with

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
David Baron wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/1000338 67/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. http://ww

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:49:41PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 20:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > Nothing there looks out of the ordinary. The only ones having to do with > > the internet are apache2, bittorrent, and cupsys. Try disabling those > > and see what happens next

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread David Baron
On Monday 14 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to > > kill Linux. > > > > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/1000338 > >67/index.htm > > > > But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. > > > >

Re: HAL crashes with dbus

2007-05-14 Thread Kristian Lampen
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18 (update almost everyday). As I tried to use my USB-Stick yesterday, I recognised that kde does not mount it automatically (the same with cdrom). The last t

Re: Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 18:08:02 +, David Dawson wrote: > I have a problem in the control center in KDE 3.5.5 with Debian Testing > (Lenny). > > The app runs but the only menu item is 'Network' > everything else is gone. > > I tried apt-get remove kcontrol --purge and then apt-get install ..

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 14 May 2007 20:00, Michael Pobega wrote: > Nothing there looks out of the ordinary. The only ones having to do with > the internet are apache2, bittorrent, and cupsys. Try disabling those > and see what happens next time you boot up. Also post the output of this > command for me: That

Re: Etch hangs when installed on vmware

2007-05-14 Thread Hans Ivers
On May 13, 10:10 am, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I am not a newbie to installation. I have installed debian before in > vmware machines. > I downloaded Etch (4.0r0) and started the installation. > > The first place where the hang started is when the kernel loaded. > > It b

Re: sane question

2007-05-14 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jude DaShiell escribió: > Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is > it only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location? The sane package on debian archives is a full sane package. Just don't distribute the

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:14:33PM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 19:50, Celejar wrote: > > > I'm not either, but apache and bittorrent are both network services, > > and bittorrent can oversaturate a network. It can't hurt to turn > > them off and see what happens. > > What wo

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 12:14:33 + Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 19:50, Celejar wrote: > > > I'm not either, but apache and bittorrent are both network services, > > and bittorrent can oversaturate a network. It can't hurt to turn them > > off and see what happen

Re: DNS in Windows environment

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:52:08 -0400 "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone, > > I like to set up a DHCP/DNS server (on Debian Etch) for Windows clients, and > the question is, do I have to setup samba server, for the server and the PCs > to communicate? The DNS server should r

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 14 May 2007 19:50, Celejar wrote: > I'm not either, but apache and bittorrent are both network services, > and bittorrent can oversaturate a network. It can't hurt to turn them > off and see what happens. What would be the 'debian' way to turn them off? NOTE: I will need apache full

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:41:32AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > Hello Michael: > On Monday 14 May 2007 18:41, Michael Pobega wrote: > > apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, and check what web related services are > > started at bootup. It could possibly be a daemon that is intrfering with > > your internet

DNS in Windows environment

2007-05-14 Thread Loeghmon T. Nejad
Everyone, I like to set up a DHCP/DNS server (on Debian Etch) for Windows clients, and the question is, do I have to setup samba server, for the server and the PCs to communicate? The DNS server should resolve names/addresses for the local hosts (LAN) as well as for the internet. Will one of yo

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:32 + Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michael: > On Monday 14 May 2007 18:41, Michael Pobega wrote: > > apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, and check what web related services are > > started at bootup. It could possibly be a daemon that is intrfering with > >

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 May 2007 09:03:41 -0500 Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten > after getting a DHCP response. There certainly is; we discussed this on the list n

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:29:12 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to > kill Linux. > > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm [snip] I'm not a rabid MS basher, but this

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello Michael: On Monday 14 May 2007 18:41, Michael Pobega wrote: > apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, and check what web related services are > started at bootup. It could possibly be a daemon that is intrfering with > your internet connection. > > -- Done. If I read sysv-rc-conf correctly, the follow

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 06:39:41PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: > > HD = 6000M > > hda1= / = 5650M > > hda2= swap = 50M > > hda3 = 300M > > I did a d

Control Center Problems in KDE 3.5.5

2007-05-14 Thread David Dawson
I have a problem in the control center in KDE 3.5.5 with Debian Testing (Lenny). The app runs but the only menu item is 'Network' everything else is gone. I tried apt-get remove kcontrol --purge and then apt-get install ... But this is not a fix. Does someone have a fix for this problem? Than

Re: Unthreaded applications?

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 07:52:06PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Please break you Mails at 72 characters since my terminal is only > 132 chars (others may only 80 characters) because I do not want to > break code sniples into several lines... > > Your longest line is 254 characters!!! > > [...

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:29:12PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to > kill Linux. > > http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm > > But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. > > ht

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:09:44AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > On Monday 14 May 2007 04:52, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared > > > to configure pr

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

2007-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 22:54:48 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote: > Hi all. > > A recent install of the Etch release. > Root uses 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' to change the video resolutions. > Root can start X no problems. > Existing user cannot login with gdm - returns to login box. User can > log

Re: aptitude wants to install apache

2007-05-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 18:44:43 +1000, Robert S wrote: > I am planning to upgrade my sarge box to etch. The upgrade guide suggests > running "aptitude" then pressing "g" to resolve dependency problems. This > indicates that a number of packages will be removed and that apache, > apache-common

Re: Unthreaded applications?

2007-05-14 Thread Michelle Konzack
Please break you Mails at 72 characters since my terminal is only 132 chars (others may only 80 characters) because I do not want to break code sniples into several lines... Your longest line is 254 characters!!! Am 2007-04-05 22:30:55, schrieb memutza: > Hi, > > I have an application that needs

Re: kernel or ppp problem?

2007-05-14 Thread Eugene Stemple
James, The serial ports (both ends) are set at 38.4K. As to PPP on the two ends -- lets call the systems "black" and "white" (for lack of a better name) -- the Black system has an mgetty listening on the serial port (ttyS0) and brings up pppd when valid LCP packets are seen; the White sys

Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615 Come on, when will M

Re: Re[2]: Build X 3.3.6 version under etch

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:05 +0300, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > > Yes, I use etch. I have upgraded sarge to etch. > > > If you are then install the "libc-compat" libraries. > > Sorry, but waht of libc6 compatibility package called something > like "libc-compat" can I install? [snip no compat lib

Re: XFCE will not manage desktop

2007-05-14 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 12:58 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I started using XFCE. But after I configured it, it will not manage the > desktop. I turn on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop" in Desktop Settings, > but it turns off automatically. Kindly suggest a solution. Make sure you are saving

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:58 +0100, william pursell wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > >> then i type "fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin" which i > >> assume changes it into a .deb file? > >> and the terminal then tells me: "-su: fakeroot: command not found" > >> > >> whats going wron

Re: Xmms: 'Double size' and flac problem

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:49 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > Running debian etch 4.0 stable. xmms 1.2.10+200611. > > When I click on Options -> Double Size, the display gets messed up and > xmms hangs. > > Also, though the flac plugins are installed, it does not play flac > files, saying that the

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

2007-05-14 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On May 9, 10:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > As an alternative in Vim, you could try > > > :set filetype=mail textwidth=72 formatoptions+=ac > Or just use the mail.vim ftplugin? rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/14/07, J HU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, Perhaps it's an easy/silly question but I don't understand how it works. (I'm working in a debian) I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of this structure. After the call I get that the total size is 64Bytes

Re: using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
J HU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of > this structure. > > After the call I get that the total size is 64Bytes but if I get the size > of each field and I add them manually I get that it should be 61Bytes... > > Anyone knows

using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread J HU
Dear all, Perhaps it's an easy/silly question but I don't understand how it works. (I'm working in a debian) I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of this structure. After the call I get that the total size is 64Bytes but if I get the size of each field and I

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
cga2000 wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:33:12PM EDT, Bob McGowan wrote: 3. in the parent script, where you use your script, change it to be: HTTP_proxy=$(getproxyip) .. you can take it one tiny step further by using an array: . child: cz=($c0 $c1 $c2)/* .. $c4 .. etc.

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > > > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get > > > overwritten after getting a DHCP response. > > > > Can't the router be reconfigured? > > I opened up port 53 for both UDP an

Re: vim wrapping [Was: Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)]

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nice, but claws will do this as I type ;) > > Does that mean that you can't prevent the wrapping to happen? Because > I often need to type in long lines (e.g. code, commands or log). Edit -> Special Paste - unwrapped - wrapped

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-14 Thread Bob McGowan
Hans du Plooy wrote: william pursell wrote: Your version is missing the final ', so I'm guessing you meant: sed 's/\\)/ /' Yes, sorry, several mistakes on my part... which will replace occurences of "\)" with a single space Not what I had intended, I just wanted to replace ) with a space.

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi list, > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: > HD = 6000M > hda1= / = 5650M > hda2= swap = 50M > hda3 = 300M > I did a debootstrap on the hda3 partition and the etch base is there > i

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-14 Thread Tim Johnson
On Monday 14 May 2007 04:52, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared > > to configure properly - software installation from mirror > > went without a problem >

Re: fetchmail problem on etch

2007-05-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:36:25AM -0400, thanigai rajan wrote: > hai all, > > i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). > it works on a particular user. > > say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user named > sathish can't retrieve mails from i

Re: vim wrapping [Was: Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)]

2007-05-14 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Andrei Popescu dies 08/05/2007 hora 18:20: > > Sure it will. Put your cursor in the paragraph, in command mode, hit > > gqap > > Note, no ':', just straight. > > Nice, but claws will do this as I type ;) Does that mean that you can't prevent the wrapping to happen? Because I often ne

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
mess-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: > HD = 6000M > hda1= / = 5650M > hda2= swap = 50M > hda3 = 300M > I did a debootstrap on the hda3 partition and the etch base is there > installed. > Have to c

Re: fetchmail problem on etch

2007-05-14 Thread mess-mate
thanigai rajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | hai all, | | i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). | it works on a particular user. | | say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user | named sathish can't retrieve mails from isp server. | | while

creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-14 Thread mess-mate
Hi list, i've a machine with xubuntu installed. The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: HD = 6000M hda1= / = 5650M hda2= swap = 50M hda3 = 300M I did a debootstrap on the hda3 partition and the etch base is there installed. Have to correct grub to boot etch on hda3, seems not a problem. But

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Dan H wrote: > On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:56:21 -0400 > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can > > "browse" back in time. In my case, I always have hourly snapshots > > going back f

fetchmail problem on etch

2007-05-14 Thread thanigai rajan
hai all, i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). it works on a particular user. say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user named sathish can't retrieve mails from isp server. while user sathish give the command as "fetchmailconf" it says th

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very > simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the > files in my home dir to the windows partition as well as mirror it to > a remote ftp server using lftp. You will l

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