/proc/net info ?

2007-09-28 Thread chloe K
Hi all How can I find out all info about /proc/net ? eg: rt_cache and softnet_stat are for what purpose Thank you - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

DSL setup under Debian/GNU Linux with GNOME

2007-09-28 Thread Khurram Pirzada
Hello List, I have PIII, 800Mhz, 512MB RAM, with RTL-8139 lan-card and a ZXDSL-831D DSL modem with 256 kbps broadband connection. I was given IP address, default gateway address but NO DNS address, with a user name and password to connect to this DSL. Its PPPoE setup. I could easily manage

Re: /proc/net info ?

2007-09-28 Thread Wayne Topa
chloe K([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi all How can I find out all info about /proc/net ? eg: rt_cache and softnet_stat are for what purpose Thank you - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:19:28PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: thanks. I've become sort of a wmii zealot in the last little while. It's been fun. hope I didn't steal your thunder. :) Lol no not at all. You should give DWM a try. I think there are improvements over wmii. Also,

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Meanwhile, you could try my workaround [1] for Etch: The problem in alsaconf is the result of the presence of the file /etc/modprobe.conf. This causes /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian

Re: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-28 Thread Bonnel Christophe
Have you tried to boot with the noapic option with all of your OS to see differences ? Eric Estes a écrit : Something I found interesting...PCLinuxOS out of the ones listed below is the only one that worked for me (normal network speeds). I noticed it's the only one that has IO-APIC-level

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Meanwhile, you could try my workaround [1] for Etch: The problem in alsaconf is the result of the presence of the file /etc/modprobe.conf. This causes /etc/modprobe.d/ to be ignored by Debian packages (including alsaconf) which store

Re: news for debian

2007-09-28 Thread KS
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, debian news are rare event. Jerome DWN used to be regular but the last one was 3 July'07 :( http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ roberto wrote: hello is the mailing list of debian-news still active ? thank you ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

RE: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-28 Thread Eric Estes
Something I found interesting...PCLinuxOS out of the ones listed below is the only one that worked for me (normal network speeds). I noticed it's the only one that has IO-APIC-level rather than IO-APIC-fasteoi. Could that be my problem and if so how do I fix that? PCLinuxOS: [EMAIL

how to find modifier key in KDE

2007-09-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, Just a little questions: How do I find out which one is the modifier key on a particular keyboard layout (layout in, variant guru) in KDE? I am running updated Testing and am using the Keyboard layout switcher in KDE to switch between the layouts. thanks, -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Decompiling locale definition files

2007-09-28 Thread Mike Polyakov
Hi, I would like to decompile several locale files located in /usr/lib/locale, such as LC_COLLATE, and view their contents in human readable form. Is there a program which can do that - i.e., that will reverse what localedef does? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion. I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian, though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take this as a complaint from

Re: How do you unmount all your drives

2007-09-28 Thread Gabrielle Chatelet
On Friday 28 September 2007 14:00, Sid Arth wrote: Hi, is there a command I can use that unmounts all unnecessary drives? And what command can I use to just unmount one drive? man umount -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

How do you unmount all your drives

2007-09-28 Thread Sid Arth
Hi, is there a command I can use that unmounts all unnecessary drives? And what command can I use to just unmount one drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-28 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:39:21 - Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps without much luck. Cchris On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizsnyik

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files.

setkeycode problem at boot

2007-09-28 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello I encounter a problem with the installation of the current version of etch on an dell optiplex 745. At boot I obtain a message with setkeycode (the map between scancode and keycode is not set for some code) I have tried at getkeycodes which has returned : getkeycodes Plain scancodes xx

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

news for debian

2007-09-28 Thread roberto
hello is the mailing list of debian-news still active ? thank you ... -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Wackojacko
Mike McCarty wrote: Anyway, unless I want to make a hobby of making that machine able to boot Debian, and fiddling with it just to see if it could have been made to work, I'm afraid Debian is pretty much gone on this machine. Even if I make the machine dual boot, I wonder just how often it

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 Photo. Neither work with Debian Linux. Check the location of the firmware file, esfw41.bin. A few upgrades ago, my system also lost the configuration entry in

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
didier gaumet wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:56 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: [...] and fyi, i use debian with fluxbox on my P133, 16mb, compaq laptop. :D Hello Preston, what version of debian are you talking about? On a P133, 32MB, Dell Laptop it seemed to me that the last Debian

Re: Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

2007-09-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:46:56 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hello, I am trying to run debian-amd64 sid on my new system and so far am very happy with the relative ease of the installation process (thank you developers). I tried to install the flashplayer-mozilla|flashplayer-nonfree. Both

Re: Sound stopped working in Sid

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Lale
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote (on the Debian-User list) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg02165.html : On 24 Sep 2007, Chris Lale wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: This is probably because alsaconf is broken [1]. What version are

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-28 Thread Wei Wang
Hi there Try to modified it and save it on SUSE machine. Then copy the file back to etch laptop. On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:15 +0100, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open (maybe 25

RE: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-28 Thread Eric Estes
I tried the noapic option when installing Debian but I'll try the others when I get home and will post back. On a side, is there a way to switch Debian to use the IO-APIC-level option over the IO-APIC-fasteoi? -Original Message- From: Bonnel Christophe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: udev and automounting

2007-09-28 Thread Jesus Arocho
Try an entry in /etc/udev/10-local.rules; great howtos on the net. On Thursday 27 September 2007 07:50, Dan H wrote: Hello, I'm really having trouble getting my head around udev and udev rules for removeable USB devices. When I plug in my USB stick, it automounts under /media/sda1. What I

Re: How do you unmount all your drives

2007-09-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sid Arth wrote: Hi, is there a command I can use that unmounts all unnecessary drives? And what command can I use to just unmount one drive? What do you mean by unnecessary? If you do not want to access files in those drives, you can unmount them with: # umount /path/to/mount/point That

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:14:06PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Thanks all for the advice and help with this. I went over ... Windows XP. ... snipped tale of the death of a free computer... and a fantastic anecdote in support of RTFM! ...

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) The concept is not hazy, but the practice is. I don't understand THEM much at all. But, as I advised my son, I don't try too

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Preston Boyington
Kent West wrote: Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) ...that lives in another town and can't come to dance (prom, graduation, party) because she always seems to get sick or help her parents. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: hp psc driver question

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:01:37AM +0200, steef wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 11:53:44AM +0200, steef wrote: hi, cups gives a driver for the hp-printer psc (all in one) 2500. does anybody know if this driver works also for the hp psc 2575? according

Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:08:14AM -0400, Stefhen Hovland wrote: On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Stefhen Hovland wrote: Is this possible for pbzip2 to run on a tar which outputs to standard out? I am trying to

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Wackojacko wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] to Debian. Her plan is to use Knoppix to move her mail files etc. from the Debian partition to an external FAT drive, and then reboot Windows and import. If the debian install used ext2/3 then there is a driver for windows XP

Re: binary packages versus source

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:58:13AM +0200, pietia wrote: so , why the developers doesn't recompile their packages ? Or why there are no packages in two version (compiled using gcc 3 and 4 )? Sorry for my questions - if sounds stupid. Time to start reading about Debian. Start at:

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Linux's target is the modern desktop and the focus is on keeping up with new hardware. The BSDs keep the drivers for old hardware but patches require building and that building relies on gcc which isn't optimized for use on old

[solved] Re: how to find modifier key in KDE

2007-09-28 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Just a little questions: How do I find out which one is the modifier key on a particular keyboard layout (layout in, variant guru) in KDE? I am running updated Testing and am using the Keyboard layout switcher in KDE to switch between the layouts. thanks, -HS

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:34:53AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Sounds good to me, but I'm no image guru. The only reason I asked was because in Mac OS X, when you click Save As.. under the Preview application (which is a PDF/Image viewer), there is a Reduce file size... menu

Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/28/07 13:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] my thought on this... I don't know how tar links in to bzip2 (which is a compression option for tar (-j?). But maybe its possible to substitute pbzip2 through something as

Re: can pbzip2 run on stdout?

2007-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/07 13:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] my thought on this... I don't know how tar links in to bzip2 (which is a compression option for tar (-j?). But maybe its possible to substitute pbzip2 through something as simple as a

Re: How do you unmount all your drives

2007-09-28 Thread Sid Arth
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Sid Arth wrote: Hi, is there a command I can use that unmounts all unnecessary drives? And what command can I use to just unmount one drive? What do you mean by unnecessary? If you do not want to access files in those drives, you can unmount them with: # umount

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: So, for example, if I'm working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the other half. Open another, and they each get squeezed into 1/3, etc.

Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-28 Thread Nigel Henry
All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows up in /boot ok, but running lilo doesn't add it to lilo's menu. I read a while back that earlier

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/28, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: So, for example, if I'm working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the other half. Open

How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-28 Thread Sid Arth
Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at other times. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Neil Watson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? You can assign you xterm properties in .Xdefaults: # fonts xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold xterm*faceSize: 12 # other options

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 27, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: So, for example, if I'm working in an x-term and I want another one, when it opens, the first one gets resized to half the screen and the new one gets the

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) The concept is not hazy, but the practice is. I don't understand THEM much

Re: apt-get file:/; unloading kernel modules (2.6.18).

2007-09-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 21:54:45 -0700, Vivek.M wrote: Hi, 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the latest pkg. Since i pay for

xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-28 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/28, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? You can assign you xterm properties in .Xdefaults: # fonts xterm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold I

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Smerdon
Sid Arth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at other times. You can probably use use `cron' to achieve this. -- Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Smerdon
Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2007/9/28, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? You can assign you xterm properties in .Xdefaults: # fonts xterm*faceName:

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread steef
David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better before Debian came along ) The concept is not hazy, but the practice is. I

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-28 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/9/28, Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2007/9/28, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? You can assign you xterm

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-28 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:08:21 +0200 Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/28, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to xterm to set up font size, using dwm? You can assign you xterm properties in

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Manu Hack
On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:41:12PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: On 9/27/07, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 21:02 schrieb Manu Hack: Hi all, I have a general question which I got when trying out

rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread helices
I have several rather complex debian systems, including software raid 5 and lvm, c. Occasionally, in the past, I have upgraded a debian system, after which it no longer boots successfully. Unfortunately, for these complex systems, neither the install/boot media, nor knoppix, result in access to

Re: xterm .Xdefaults font size

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:37:36PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: 2007/9/28, Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2007/9/28, Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:38PM +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: Where can I pass the -fn argument to

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/07 16:31, steef wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 28, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... (what' s a GF?) ... Girl-Friend. (I used to understand the concept of girlfriends better

soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd installations but no clear answer on the linux part. I'd rather have debian on

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote: [snip] Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :) What's the benefit of transparency? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page). It has all

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:21:31PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: On 9/27/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its probably got more to do with memory *use* than management. By that I mean, you may end up wasting memory by using kde apps within a different wm. The kde apps will

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Manu Hack
On 9/28/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote: [snip] Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :) What's the benefit

Re: Nspluginwrapper on AMD64

2007-09-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:43:43AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: The two related bugs in the BTS seem to be about experimental versions of flashplugin-nonfree. Which version are you trying to install? Version 9.0.48.0.2 works fine on my Sid/amd64 system, without any need for a

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread helices
* Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007.09.28 21:25, helices wrote: Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of the System Rescue CD

Re: bash, xbindkeys and dual screen

2007-09-28 Thread Nguyen, Cuong K.
On 09/27/2007 06:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I haven't tried two distinct screens, so I can't directly compare them. I find the moving of the mouse from one screen to the other to be intuitive and natural for me, but in reality, I rarely use the mouse anymore. I probably don't need to

what packages do you reccomend to compile source

2007-09-28 Thread Sid Arth
Hi, I was wondering what packages you guys would recommend for me to get if I wanted to compile some programs from source. Sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what packages do you reccomend to compile source

2007-09-28 Thread Wei Wang
Package build-essential contians c/c++ compiler aptitude install build-essential On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 21:54 -0500, Sid Arth wrote: Hi, I was wondering what packages you guys would recommend for me to get if I wanted to compile some programs from source. Sid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: what packages do you reccomend to compile source

2007-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:02:35PM +1000, Wei Wang wrote: Package build-essential contians c/c++ compiler aptitude install build-essential The 'build-essential' meta-package is a great start. Next you will want many -dev packages. If you needed the Python galago development files than you'd

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd installations

Re: what packages do you reccomend to compile source

2007-09-28 Thread Wei Wang
For a specific package (eg. netpbm) which might need development libraries. apt-get build-dep packagename In case build errors arise, try the above way. On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 23:32 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: The 'build-essential' meta-package is a great start. Next you will want many -dev

Re: Does lilo still have a limit on it's menu entries?

2007-09-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/28/2007 03:18 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, originally started off as Woody 3.0r2, and LiLo was, and still is the bootloader. I installed on Etch yesterday the 2.6.18-5 kernel, which shows up in /boot ok, but running lilo doesn't add it to lilo's

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/28/2007 09:25 PM, helices wrote: * Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:27:02 -0500 helices [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you do? If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you don't need a specific Debian

syslog recommendations?

2007-09-28 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let me, say, aggregate logs from lots of different boxes and maybe even do other sorts of cool things (find patterns, etc). Any suggestions would be greatly

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:32:43PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: Hmm. That seems like it'd be a pain with xterms, since text software often doesn't take well to having its window resized. I try to keep my xterms as close to 80x24 as possible to minimize problems with things like aptitude.

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:27:02PM -0500, helices wrote: So, going forward, I want to incorporate generation of bootable rescue cd's into my upgrade processes. Clearly, such a cd will exactly duplicate my last successful boot, and give access to ALL files and filesystems. [1] What is the

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