UPDATE: Always falling to grub prompt (now I don't even have prompt)

2007-09-14 Thread Victor Munoz
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:50:49AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I'm not positive that gparted will move the beginning of a partition, > but its certainly worth a shot. This is what I'd do: > > 1. Backup everything. > 2. Review 1 several times. > 3. launch a live-cd (knoppix or somesuch)

Re: How to use GNUPG to sign and encrypt emails?

2007-09-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:33:26 + (UTC) Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I've thought a lot about security lately and one of the "items" on my > list is signing and encrypting my mail using gnupg. Now how is this > done? I am currently using the sylpheed 2.4.5 client

How to use GNUPG to sign and encrypt emails?

2007-09-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I've thought a lot about security lately and one of the "items" on my list is signing and encrypting my mail using gnupg. Now how is this done? I am currently using the sylpheed 2.4.5 client compiled with gnupg support. If I choose to sign and encrypt messages, I am not able to send them

Re: Configuring onboard intel soundcard: No sound

2007-09-14 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Peter Robinson wrote: > Hey good folks, > Any ideas? PS, I am running sid with a 2.6.22 kernel. I have your same sound board and did happened the same that you. I purged and installed alsa again a sound worked. I didn't goes deeper in what was wrong, but doing that worked (and in several other mac

Configuring onboard intel soundcard: No sound

2007-09-14 Thread Peter Robinson
Hey good folks, I am trying to get sound running on a computer with an intel board and the following parameters: # lspci | grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) # cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA In

Re: Kernel upgrade question

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:03:25PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I've got one machine running Debian Sid that has not be upgraded in a > month or so. It's running a custom kernel I built who-knows-when > (2.6.6). Frankly, I can't remember the reason for the custom kernel. So am I wedged? $ sudo

re: html email

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using that procmail stuff may solve this problem. I'll know by tomorrow since I have a few lists that send s

Re: Custom debian packages

2007-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:15:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear fellow Debian users. > > I've recently been looking to making my own custom Debian packages from > source, as some of the software found in Etch is a bit outdated for some > of my needs. Since I've found no back ported packa

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi you all, > > I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to > receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. > > thanx in advance The Fujitsu P7120 wo

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:20:58PM +0100, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > "Any reason you were doing this through dselect rather than apt-get or > aptitude?" > > How do I get a list of packages installed/availbale through the apt > interface? If I can I will happily move on

Re: X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-14 Thread Gordon Pedersen
On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:07:17PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > I did not install xorg package

Kernel upgrade question

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Moseley
I've got one machine running Debian Sid that has not be upgraded in a month or so. It's running a custom kernel I built who-knows-when (2.6.6). Frankly, I can't remember the reason for the custom kernel. But, I'm a bit concerned because I probably compiled most features into the kernel and not as

bsh-gcj package breaks Iceweasel javascript functionality.

2007-09-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello all, I found that Iceweasel was consistently freezing when trying to run Javascript if the the package bsh-gcj is installed. This package is a dependency of the openoffice.org-gcj package. Removing bsh-gcj fixes the problem. I am curious as to which package I should file a bug report ag

Strange networking problems

2007-09-14 Thread Andrey Falko
Hi everyone, I am having some very strange, likely Debian-related networking problems. I was trying to set up some bandwidth tests between a few nearly identical machines. I label them s0, s1, s2. All are Debian boxes. When I transfer a large file from one box to another, the transfer starts out

Re: Linux Printer Sharing

2007-09-14 Thread steve
ArcticFox wrote: I have an HP printer that I would like to share to my other two computers. One's a Mac and the other's Windows. The printer will be connected to the server through USB, I can get the server to print to the printer, but I can't get the other two computers to find it. Please he

Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.

2007-09-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Mumia W.. wrote: >> >>> If connections from localhost are not blocked, this should work. >>> However, I see you're starting a Gnome session; I hope that you're not >>> doing that from within another Gnome session for the same user account. >>> >>> Gnome is a complicated

Linux Printer Sharing

2007-09-14 Thread ArcticFox
I have an HP printer that I would like to share to my other two computers. One's a Mac and the other's Windows. The printer will be connected to the server through USB, I can get the server to print to the printer, but I can't get the other two computers to find it. Please help, I've no idea w

Custom debian packages

2007-09-14 Thread tolecnal
Dear fellow Debian users. I've recently been looking to making my own custom Debian packages from source, as some of the software found in Etch is a bit outdated for some of my needs. Since I've found no back ported packages that suits my needs, I thought about making my own custom packages. I've

Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.

2007-09-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Mumia W.. wrote: > >> If connections from localhost are not blocked, this should work. >> However, I see you're starting a Gnome session; I hope that you're not >> doing that from within another Gnome session for the same user account. >> >> Gnome is a complicated environment with ma

Re: X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:07:17PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? > > > > sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directo

Phone spam payback

2007-09-14 Thread Mike McClain
Today I had 7 messages on the answering machine all with the same voice leaving the same message, ' We have a very important message for Mike but all our agents are busy. Please hold.' I get so many messages from people who don't know anything about me but that I might have money I might send them

Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.

2007-09-14 Thread H.S.
Mumia W.. wrote: > If connections from localhost are not blocked, this should work. > However, I see you're starting a Gnome session; I hope that you're not > doing that from within another Gnome session for the same user account. > > Gnome is a complicated environment with many parts that must b

Re: SA-learn on remote host

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:23:16PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on > host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except > whitelisted mail to spamd on another server - host2. host2 simply runs > the mail throug

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 9/14/07, Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for > > quite some time. > > * Mouse cursor moves, and can select windows (maximize/minimize) > >

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement >and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm, >gaim, etc). Although you're not using Metacity, maybe have a look at bug #427406 [0], the symptoms are exactly the

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/14/07, Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for > quite some time. > * Mouse cursor moves, and can select windows (maximize/minimize) > * Can not select items in a window (firefox/etc) with mouse >

Re: Re exim4, postfix problems - Thanks

2007-09-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:38:28PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Still posting from iceape. > > No, now posting from mutt Great! > > > > > > I removed the server line;

Re: off: Audio CD's and Microsoft

2007-09-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 14, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Rick wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070912/tc_pcworld/137106 Read this, you thought DRM endcoding music was bad... this is sick. "tracking" you... I don't see what's so awful about this, to be honest. It allows fair use while still providing a way to

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I fail to see why you couldn't write a filter (using maildrop or >> procmail) to pipe the message through w3m -dump (or links -dump) before >> storing the message. > > Thanks John. That seems to be the definitively best way to go. I just > have to wor

Re: disabling and enabling services

2007-09-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/14/2007 11:15 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Folk, Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely examples. In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out unused services? No, you would di

Re: X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-14 Thread Gordon Pedersen
On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? > > sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory > apt-cache rdepends cpp > shows, among other things, xbase-clients as

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Ralph Katz wrote: Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm, gaim, etc). I regularly see a similar problem on several boxen - and have for quite some time. * Mouse c

off: Audio CD's and Microsoft

2007-09-14 Thread Rick
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070912/tc_pcworld/137106 Read this, you thought DRM endcoding music was bad... this is sick. "tracking" you... Cheer's Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-09-14 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:29:28 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:25:39PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> How do you use the key(s) listed in "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg" to >> authenticate the individual installed packages. > > sorry, beyond me. on my system it just works.

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I have over here appears to be working since the de-html-backup file already has 29 lines of text in it. So here's a little patch to be placed in the .procmailrc file above the default recipe if one exists. Cut here: # create backup for de-html'd email :0 c * ^Content-Type: text/html de-

Re: Small USB stick system

2007-09-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:02:15PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:57:56PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > Suppose one wanted one usb-key to serve the two main purposes of > > > having one: system maintenance and installa

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:54:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:32:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Obviously a better method, yes.

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:50:13PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided > the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the > message first to another folder; then they run the message contents > through lynx

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:29:48PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before > > starting on that though. Procmail scares me. > > What about maildrop? After a lightning skim of the man pa

Re: Can't apt-get install mplayer...

2007-09-14 Thread Orbit
That worked great, thanks! --Paul T. --- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Orbit wrote: > > I can't install mplayer because: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > mplayer: Depends: libavcodeccvs51 (>= 3:20070329) but it is not going to > > be > > installed > >

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/14/2007 03:19 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 9/14/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A curious and rare (2 times since Etch became stable) X freeze or hang >> has me wondering what to do. >> >> Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement >> and running apps

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > In .muttrc: > > auto_view text/html > > > > In .mailcap: > > text/html; w3m -dump -T text/html '%s'; copiousoutput > > text/html; lynx -dump '%s'; copiou

Re: Small USB stick system

2007-09-14 Thread Haines Brown
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:57:56PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Suppose one wanted one usb-key to serve the two main purposes of > > having one: system maintenance and installation. I see directions for > AFAIK the Live Debian project was working on

Re: make menuconfig problem - Thanks

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
A very late but heartfelt thanks. I have been unable to respond properly for the past several days as I struggled with the postfix setup. This has finally been resolved with a great deal of help from Andrei. On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:25:24PM -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 1

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:32:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > > received text quoted ready

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the message first to another folder; then they run the message contents through lynx -dump -stdin -nolist and back out into the message stream. They also p

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I now have ATI and sound working but not wireless and I'm not the only > one. I've installed firmware-iwlwifi, which is supposed to work. After It took a while for ipw2200 to work right, I don't think iwlwifi is there yet (unless you're using 2.6.23-r

Re: Re exim4, postfix problems - Thanks

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:24:54PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Still posting from iceape. No, now posting from mutt > > > > I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't > > remember entering such a line. I believe it was a

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:31:07 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:40:56 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I ju

SA-learn on remote host

2007-09-14 Thread John K Masters
I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except whitelisted mail to spamd on another server - host2. host2 simply runs the mail through SA and passes it back to host1 from which I read on my local box via M

Re: ffmpeg v3:20070719-0.0 from debian-multimedia can't set audio bitrate

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:30:47AM -0400, - Tong - wrote: > > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 3:20070719-0.0 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > The current version of ffmpeg from debian-multimedia testing repo > (v3:20070719-0.0) doesn't allow me to set audio bitrate: > > $ ffmpeg -i test.avi -vn -ac

Re: ffmpeg v3:20070719-0.0 from debian-multimedia can't set audio bitrate

2007-09-14 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:24:31 +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> The current version of ffmpeg from debian-multimedia testing repo >> (v3:20070719-0.0) doesn't allow me to set audio bitrate: > > Read the manpage. silly me. thanks and sorry to disturb you (including my previous question), Chris

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:21:19PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:31:07 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:40:56 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > When I go to ww

Re: disabling and enabling services

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:15:54AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended > to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely > examples. > > In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out > unused

Re: X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Gordon Pedersen wrote: > I am top-posting the crucial error message. Context follows below, > and in prior posts this thread. > > > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue > > there. > > sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or director

Re: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 9/14/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A curious and rare (2 times since Etch became stable) X freeze or hang > has me wondering what to do. > > Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement > and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrel

X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement (etch)

2007-09-14 Thread Ralph Katz
A curious and rare (2 times since Etch became stable) X freeze or hang has me wondering what to do. Problem: X ignores keyboard and mouse input, but shows cursor movement and running apps update normally on-screen in visible windows (gkrellm, gaim, etc). What happened: Viewing email message in ic

Re: ffmpeg v3:20070719-0.0 from debian-multimedia can't set audio bitrate

2007-09-14 Thread Christian Marillat
"- Tong -" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 3:20070719-0.0 > Severity: normal > > Hi, Hi, > The current version of ffmpeg from debian-multimedia testing repo > (v3:20070719-0.0) doesn't allow me to set audio bitrate: Read the manpage. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [SOLVED] Testing: New libxml2 breaks openoffice.org

2007-09-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:05:35AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:59:49AM +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:44AM +0200, Stephan Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strings /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30 | gre

Re: UTF-8 on Debian Etch

2007-09-14 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to figure out how to view/edit UTF-8 files properly in Emacs > on Debian Etch. I've installed emacs-mule and a whole bundle of > fonts, but I still get backslash-escaped characters in Emacs instead > of UTF-8. My locale is set to "en_US.UTF-8".

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:31:07 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:40:56 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I > > > just get a

X bombs, calls for /usr/bin/cpp at startup - Why? Was: Surefire Xorg driver/config?

2007-09-14 Thread Gordon Pedersen
I am top-posting the crucial error message. Context follows below, and in prior posts this thread. > are there any errors in ~/.xsession-errors? maybe there's a clue > there. sh: /usr/bin/cpp: No such file or directory What is cpp (is it same as gcc)? Why would it be referenced while starting

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds a good idea. I'll have to wait till I'm feeling strong before > starting on that though. Procmail scares me. What about maildrop? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) sign

Re: install to and boot (debian) lenny from USB

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:16:56AM -0400, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > Thank you! Using the right keywords in Google is becoming like an art. > My search took me to not so helpful sites. my search was: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian+installation+usb+key&btnG=Google+Search A signatu

Re: Re exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still posting from iceape. > > I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't > remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically > generated or picked up from some previous configuration. You mean the 'mydestination'. I

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:55:46PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here is the thought that struck me: could I in principle write a script > > to take such void plus html messages, strip the tags (replacing URLs > > when the href text doesn't have

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. > > If you click on v, and select the text/h

Re: disabling and enabling services

2007-09-14 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:15:54 -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended > to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely > examples. > > In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out > unused services? Defi

Re: Temporarily disable a repository

2007-09-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 16:20:50 +, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to temporarily disable a repository? > If so, how? > > I'm using ffmpeg from debian-multimedia repository, but I want to use the > version from official Debian lenny repository instead temporarily. What's > the eas

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > -BEGIN PGP

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-14 Thread David A. Parker
Randy Patterson wrote: I ran 'chmod 755 test.php' on the file in question. Loaded this file with browser and got the very same results. Checked /var/log/apache2/error.log and no error. Checked /var/log/apache2/access.log and I had accessed the file. I have been to debian-administration.org

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-14 Thread Hans Hofker
Randy Patterson wrote: I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 The description for libapache2-mod-php5 states that it only works with the "prefork" version of apache2 (package

Re: UTF-8 on Debian Etch

2007-09-14 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 14, 2007, at 9:25 AM, - Tong - wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:05:10 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Trying to figure out how to view/edit UTF-8 files properly in Emacs on Debian Etch. I want to know that too, but I think by default Debian Etch does not use UTF-8, Debian Lenny does.

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:10:44AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:03AM +0100, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyon

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:02:56AM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. > > If you click on v, and select the text/ht

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:40:56 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I > > just get a blank page. I get the same result even with -safe-mode > > option. Is this a

Re: UTF-8 on Debian Etch

2007-09-14 Thread - Tong -
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:05:10 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Trying to figure out how to view/edit UTF-8 files properly in Emacs > on Debian Etch. I want to know that too, but I think by default Debian Etch does not use UTF-8, Debian Lenny does. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http:/

disabling and enabling services

2007-09-14 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, Some services listed in /etc/services, might never be intended to operate on a specific machine. bootps and finger are likely examples. In interest of security, is there any benefit in commenting out unused services? Other services, such as telnet, are needed in my LAN but should be

I hate Alsa [Solved]

2007-09-14 Thread Barry Samuels
Further to my previous posting I have, at last, got sound recording from a microphone working properly again. I don't, however, dislike Alsa any less because I don't know exactly what I did to put it right. I had already run alsaconf twice before posting but tried it again for a third time. Th

Temporarily disable a repository

2007-09-14 Thread - Tong -
Hi, Is it possible to temporarily disable a repository? If so, how? I'm using ffmpeg from debian-multimedia repository, but I want to use the version from official Debian lenny repository instead temporarily. What's the easiest way of doing that? thanks Ref: $ apt-cache policy ffmpeg ffmp

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Obviously a better method, yes. But when I reply, I will not get the > received text quoted ready for editing if the email is void. If you click on v, and select the text/html version of the message and click on r, mutt will quote the text/html versio

UTF-8 on Debian Etch

2007-09-14 Thread David Brodbeck
Trying to figure out how to view/edit UTF-8 files properly in Emacs on Debian Etch. I've installed emacs-mule and a whole bundle of fonts, but I still get backslash-escaped characters in Emacs instead of UTF-8. My locale is set to "en_US.UTF-8". Clicking Options/MULE/ Set language environ

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I just get a blank page. I get the same result even with -safe-mode option. Is this a bug in iceweasel? I was having similar problems with Firefox (upstream) when I had Flashblock installed and enabl

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-14 Thread Randy Patterson
On Friday 14 September 2007 02:26, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2007/9/13, Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:19, Jeff D wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > I installed apache like; > > > > > > > > aptitude insta

ffmpeg v3:20070719-0.0 from debian-multimedia can't set audio bitrate

2007-09-14 Thread - Tong -
Package: ffmpeg Version: 3:20070719-0.0 Severity: normal Hi, The current version of ffmpeg from debian-multimedia testing repo (v3:20070719-0.0) doesn't allow me to set audio bitrate: $ ffmpeg -i test.avi -vn -acodec ac3 -ac 2 -ar 48000 -ab 192 -y test.ac3 FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copy

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/14/2007 07:02 AM, Daniel Santos wrote: Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothin

Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.

2007-09-14 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/14/2007 03:04 AM, Michael Yang wrote: On 9/14/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/13/2007 11:28 PM, Michael Yang wrote: Hi guys: I installed the tightvncserver on Debian Etch, and set it up as normal as I did in my old system (fedora). I opened the terminal from local gnom

Re: install to and boot (debian) lenny from USB

2007-09-14 Thread Loeghmon T. Nejad
Thank you! Using the right keywords in Google is becoming like an art. My search took me to not so helpful sites. On 9/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:55:04PM +, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > > I like to install Debian (desktop version) to a 4G

Re: install to and boot (debian) lenny from USB

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:55:04PM +, Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: > I like to install Debian (desktop version) to a 4GB flash disk. Can > someone please give me a link to a good, easy to follow instructions, > for doing this? Thank you all. well, google could certainly tell you. That's what I di

install to and boot (debian) lenny from USB

2007-09-14 Thread Loeghmon T. Nejad
I like to install Debian (desktop version) to a 4GB flash disk. Can someone please give me a link to a good, easy to follow instructions, for doing this? Thank you all. -- Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

how to isolate kernel panic problem

2007-09-14 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I've been running custom kernels from: deb http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main deb-src http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel trunk main and over the last couple of latest snapshot releases of kernel 2.6.23-rc5 had the dreaded "capslock and numlock fl

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread KS
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I > just get a blank page. I get the same result even with -safe-mode > option. Is this a bug in iceweasel? > > I called the citicards customer service website 1-800-347-4934 to > inform them about the

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/14, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marcher wrote: > > In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can > > hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be > > done from debian then). Something like 2GB RAM a decent CPU (not too >

Re exim4, postfix problems

2007-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Still posting from iceape. I removed the server line; it was clearly a mistake. I don't remember entering such a line. I believe it was automatically generated or picked up from some previous configuration. I am attaching the last 20 lines of /var/log/mail/mail.log. They show that if I

Re: Package list problem

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Santos
Andrei : I ran that command on terminal.app and on the resulting packages onward and every one is not installed. It reverse depends on gnustep (virtual package), which reverse depends on gnustep-games and gnustep-devel, that don't rdepend on nothing. Mumia : I used aptitude instead of synap

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Martin Marcher wrote: In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be done from debian then). Something like 2GB RAM a decent CPU (not too much since it'll be dedicated to file services and RAID) and the opt

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI > > video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also > > the sound is a problem. They all do work but it

Re: Can not see my desktop in vnc session that is started up from local display.

2007-09-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:04:53 +0800 "Michael Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant not to add the gnome-session at the end of the xstartup > script. In Fedora, the script I used was a little different: > > #!/bin/sh > # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: > unset SESSION_MA

Re: websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/14/07 05:11, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> Is there any financial institution who offer credit cards and also help >> free software? Even if they do not help free software, I would be >> happy if >> they have a website which i

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