Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
>> I guess you can edit /etc/inetd.conf and then restart inetd. >> >> On my Lenny installation the initialization script is >> /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd . >> > i changed the port my ftp server use, then it starts. it's good, i'm > not so stupid. Sure. Nobody said you were. Have a nice day/night.

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Star Liu
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Star Liu wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: >>> i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but >>> i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp se

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Star Liu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: >> i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but >> i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server >> starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it,

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Star Liu
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: >> i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but >> i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server >> starting, so i want to find out the app and st

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Star Liu
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: > i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but > i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server > starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it, how to do it? > thanks. i have found it by lsof -i:21,

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: > i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but > i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server > starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it, how to do it? > thanks. Try with netstat -p ? -

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or directory Looks like you don't have t

how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Star Liu
i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it, how to do it? thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:45:35PM -0700, ghe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > > > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? > Not to host dozens of websites - but to host crucial servers. Minimalism: a Debian base in

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
H.S. wrote: Steven Demetrius wrote: H.S. wrote: What kind of cards are supported in Debian (Testing)? What I have mind, if it is possible, it to get a bluetooth card for the PCMCIA slot and use it for a mouse and a headset and probably also for a cell phone. Thanks. If you have USB on your l

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Because Debian sounds cooler. CentOS sounds like it's worth a cent. > > This one should be saved for the marketing people. They would definitely go for this one. That is one department less to convince. :) -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list o

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Louie Miranda
For me, even if I am a Debian user and admin. I still choosed Cent OS? Why: Not sure if cPanel would be ok with Debian. But, if Debian will surely release a note or cPanel? an article about it, I will definitely switch my server anytime! :) -- Louie Miranda (lmira...@gmail.com) http://www.louiemi

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Carl Fink
CentOS didn't exist when I started using Debian, and I'm used to it now. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Help

2009-03-04 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:14:08 -0800 "Dylan M." wrote: > It is taking a very long to boot up the debian os. How long should it > take to boot up? Please use meaningful subject lines. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Su

Re: gconftool-2

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 21:32:09 Rick Pasotto wrote: > gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename > $FileName > > Why would that line not work when executed in a script run by cron even > though it does work when the script is executed from the command line? Environment

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Steven Demetrius wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> What kind of cards are supported in Debian (Testing)? >> >> What I have mind, if it is possible, it to get a bluetooth card for the >> PCMCIA slot and use it for a mouse and a headset and probably also for a >> cell phone. >> >> Thanks. > > If you have U

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Demetrius
H.S. wrote: Hello, I do have any experience with PCMCIA bluetooth cards on laptop and have some questions. I have gone over some web pages about what these cards are, but my question are more of practical nature. This is on a laptop which has a slot for Type 2 PCMCIA (also called PC?) card. If

gconftool-2

2009-03-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
I keep my system updated daily to testing and that may be the problem but still there's something I don't understand. I have a script that is run by cron every 15 minutes to change the background on my screen. Recently the script stopped working. The strange thing is that if I run the script from

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Eric Gerlach wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:40:51 -0500 From: Eric Gerlach To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Adding installed packages to menu Resent-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:41:22 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 0

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +, Hendrik Boom was heard to say: > I have now upgraded aptitude. Issuing the same command I used before > gives me lists of lackages to install/remove/upgrade, as usual, and then > a bunch of packages to remove to resolve conflicts. But it provides no

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: > b...@bretnewworkstation:~$ cat > /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop > cat: /usr/share/applications/flightgear.desktop: No such file or > directory Looks like you don't have that file at all. > From history in

pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Hello, I do have any experience with PCMCIA bluetooth cards on laptop and have some questions. I have gone over some web pages about what these cards are, but my question are more of practical nature. This is on a laptop which has a slot for Type 2 PCMCIA (also called PC?) card. If I were to buy

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread steve
Bill Thompson wrote: > > +Reputation > All the cool kids use Debian. Debian/rules ;) > +1 http://blogs.pcmag.com/atwork/2008/07/why_debians_still_a_great_distro_choice.php http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talks/why_debian/talk.html I could post links all day but it seems pointless. Debian

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? Apt over RPM -- works more reliably. I like Debian's (almost always) putting configs in /etc -- easier to find and keep backed up. The array of distro sets (

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Thompson
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:10:41 -0800 (PST) Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > To All Web Hosting Providers, >   > I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of > developers. > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? >   > Both technical and logical inputs or

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? To give a serious answer: because I know how to use Debian. Choosing CentOS would lower my productivity because I'm not familiar with it. Time spent on learning it is lost money since "time == money" ;)

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Stephan
Debian vs CentOS http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/840600.html Personally, I like the concept behind Debian. CentOS is ultimately dependent on Red Hat, while Debian is essentially self-contained. Should Red Hat shutter their doors tomorrow, CentOS would eventually bec

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Oliver Schneider
> I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of > developers. >   > Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? >   > Both technical and logical inputs or explanation is greatly appreciated. - The superior package management system and its numerous fron

Re: Restrict Internet Access and User-Groups Management.

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 17:18:20 Luis Maceira wrote: > A normal user( adduser "normaluser") belongs automatically to the group > normaluser,and only to this one, > but he/she can also automatically connect > to the Internet. Yes, opening sockets on ports > 1024 is allowed to all users. > How c

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: To All Web Hosting Providers, I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of developers. Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? Both technical and logical inputs or explanation is greatly appreciated. Becau

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Allums
thveillon.debian wrote: When can we expect either a proper kernel kbuild, or a decoupling of dependencies that will allow building out-of-tree kernel modules without needing kbuild? This was posted not long ago in a similar thread : Gilles Mocellin wrote : Le Wednesday 04 February 2009 00:

Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Raleigh Guevarra
To All Web Hosting Providers,   I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of developers.   Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites?   Both technical and logical inputs or explanation is greatly appreciated.     Raleigh

Re: incomplete kernel install, etch-backports

2009-03-04 Thread s. keeling
Mark Copper : > > I'm trying to update an older system to Etch. I'm following Release > Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. For hardware reasons, I ran the command > > aptitude -t etch-backports install linux-image-2.6-686 > > Output for the command > > aptitude show linux-image-2.6-686 > >

Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:37:43 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:49, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800 > > Star Liu wrote: > > > >> I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source > >> platform and develop tools. I'm also a web develo

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:28:45AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I meant you can not compare echo with sed You're missing the point: it's not sed that expands things. Run 'set -x' in your shell and run those examples. You'll see the command after the expantion by the shell. (Use 'set +x' to s

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >> Oh, this is nonsense >> >> we would then use echo to do the job of sed, wouldn't we? > > Nither. We let $SHELL expand the command-line first. > > But if you want a more complex example with sed: > > sed -e "somano "with" a dog" /etc/passwd > sed -e "somano \"wit

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:24:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Because of the size of the files involved, the number of files on > which I have to perform this operation I decided to use sed (instead > of doing it manually in vim) Do this *manually* in vim? There were suggestions for a n

Restrict Internet Access and User-Groups Management.

2009-03-04 Thread Luis Maceira
A normal user( adduser "normaluser") belongs automatically to the group normaluser,and only to this one,but he/she can also automatically connect to the Internet.How can the system administrator restrict the Internet access to specific users and block all others.With commands like adduser addgroup

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:04:32AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> josep wrote: > >> > why isn't it working? :( > >> > > >> > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat > >>

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-04 Thread thveillon.debian
Mark Allums a écrit : > Anthony Campbell wrote: > I need driver version 180.29. I have not been >> able to install this, either with the Nvidia installer or with >> module-assistant. Possibly this is because the linux-headers for this >> kernel are not installable (because kbuild for it is not ava

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
H.S. wrote: > Then > $> sed -e 's/\(a(.*)\)1b/\123b/' foo.dat > foo_new.dat > > Or just: > $> sed -e 's/1b/23b/' foo.dat > foo_new.dat > > if only 1b is to be replaced. Same thing using perl (will replace > contents of foo.dat inplace): > $> perl -p -i -e "s/1b/23b/g;" foo.dat > > > Regards p

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> josep wrote: >> > why isn't it working? :( >> > >> > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat >> > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf >> >> your quotes don't match. (T

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Allums
Anthony Campbell wrote: I need driver version 180.29. I have not been able to install this, either with the Nvidia installer or with module-assistant. Possibly this is because the linux-headers for this kernel are not installable (because kbuild for it is not available). That has been my exper

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:16:31AM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: > From history in Synaptic; > > "Commit Log for Mon Mar 2 13:41:22 2009 > > > Installed the following packages: > fgfs-base (0.9.10-1) > flightgear (0.9.10-2) > freeglut3 (2.4.0-5) > libalut0 (1.0.1-1) > libopenal0a (1:0.0.8-4) > plib1.8.

Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

2009-03-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:49, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800 > Star Liu wrote: > >> I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source >> platform and develop tools. I'm also a web developer so I'm interested >> in gecko, and know that gecko is also able t

application to create "screen mockups".

2009-03-04 Thread Antonio Diaz
Does exist a linux application to create "screen mockups"? Some application like "Wireframe Sketcher" or "Balsamiq Mockup" Or, at least, a free java application which I can use in Linux.    Thanks in advance, __ LLama Gratis a cualqu

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 16:24:27 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] > Now, > I would like to replace all the occurrences of > > a(ijk)1b with a(ijk)23b > a(jik)1b with a(jik)23b > a(ikj)1b with a(ikj)23b > and so on for all the strings such as a(???) > > Because of the size of the files in

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following file. > >> cat junk.txt > a(i)1b > a(j)1b > a(ij)1b > a(ji)1b > a(ijk)1b > a(jik)1b > a(ikj)1b > a(jki)1b > a(kij)1b > a(kji)1b > > In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now, > I would like to replace all the occurrenc

Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800 Star Liu wrote: > I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source > platform and develop tools. I'm also a web developer so I'm interested > in gecko, and know that gecko is also able to build desktop > applications by XUL, not only display htm

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:24:27PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following file. > > > cat junk.txt > a(i)1b > a(j)1b > a(ij)1b > a(ji)1b > a(ijk)1b > a(jik)1b > a(ikj)1b > a(jki)1b > a(kij)1b > a(kji)1b > > In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now,

RE: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: kamaraju kusumanchi [mailto:raju.mailingli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:24 PM > Subject: OT: matched string of a regular expression > > Consider the following file. > > > cat junk.txt > a(i)1b > a(j)1b > a(ij)1b > a(ji)1b > a(ijk)1b > a(jik)1b > a(ikj)1b > a(jki)1b >

Nautilus didn't update content of a directory automaticly

2009-03-04 Thread Philip Stone
Hi, I just switch from gentoo to debian. Everything is working fine. Some missing programms but that I already have added by my self and maybe submit a .deb package for that programms. But to my problem I have... I just select "Desktop" at the installation process and get a gnome desktop in v

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 07:47:06 Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > How can I create a permanent tap0 interface? Tap interfaces are by their very nature transient, so that's not very easy. You could use tunctl to create the tap interface, but I'm not sure if OpenVPN will use an existing tap interface t

OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Consider the following file. > cat junk.txt a(i)1b a(j)1b a(ij)1b a(ji)1b a(ijk)1b a(jik)1b a(ikj)1b a(jki)1b a(kij)1b a(kji)1b In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now, I would like to replace all the occurrences of a(ijk)1b with a(ijk)23b a(jik)1b with a(jik)23b a(i

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 09:46:13 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty (dtu...@vianet.ca) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > > > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? > > > > I stand cor

Re: No more logins after upgrade to deb 5.0

2009-03-04 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Axel Werner (i...@awerner.homeip.net) [04.03.09 14:39]: > Hello Debian Gurus! > > I got a realy realy BAD problem after Upgrade from Debian 4.x Etch to > Debian 5.0 Lenny i was not able to resolve or even trace the source of > trouble. Maybe one of you guys can help me find the problem. > > > P

Re: linux kernel confusions

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 04:50:56 Gary Sewell wrote: > ++ > dpgk -l > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig- pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) >

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > > Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> But in the mean time I've built you a package (I'm assuming you are using an >>> i386 processor): http://mretc.net/~cris/tmp/wmsm_0.2.1-1_i386.deb >>> >>> All it installs is the single (12KB) executable to /usr/X

Re: browse with root-rights

2009-03-04 Thread E.D. Grootjans
Dave, Bacula is an option for backing up files and i think a very good one. But there is more to it than that. I use my server as a printserver. And just because I work at work with MS Office, I have that installed too at home. Just because I have to work on them at home and at work, i use the sa

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:15:56PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > >>>Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? >

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:27:11 -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: > * Hendrik Boom [2009-03-04 18:12:04 +]: > > >> Now I am inclined to ignore this behaviour and proceed with the >> installation. The next step, assuming there's enough space, is to >> upgrade apt and/or aptitude. >> >> Any comments?

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Daryl Styrk
* Hendrik Boom [2009-03-04 18:12:04 +]: > > Now I am inclined to ignore this behaviour and proceed with the > installation. The next step, assuming there's enough space, is to > upgrade apt and/or aptitude. > > Any comments? Is this a know bug in etch's aptitude? Or is my > configurat

trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
{1} The release notes did not say to run aptitude install debian-archive-keyring but it was necessary to avoid obnoxious warnings. It perhaps should. (2) The release notes said to ask aptitude to report on the amount of storage needed by running aptitude -y -s -t --with-recommends dist-upgra

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 18:14:54 +0100, josep wrote: >why isn't it working? :( > >sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat >/etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf Because you've got nested quotes. e.g. This fails: sed -i "s/"bob"/"chris"/g" /tmp/blah

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Adam Hardy wrote: Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You can abuse laptop mode and do > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump > and then look in the syslog I think. It's no abuse at all: it's the just The Right Way to do it. BEWARE, tho: make sure your syslog doesn't get written to disk, otherwise you'll get a storm of writes causing other writes ad-na

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:21:18PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > josep wrote: > > why isn't it working? :( > > > > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat > > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf > > your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues

Re: How to adjust margins in xpdf reader?

2009-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Very useful with single-column LaTeX documents. I have no idea how to do > that with xpdf or evince. FWIW, the upcoming Emacs-23 includes a PDF viewer, which offers just that feature. But yes, I'd also like to see it in xpdf. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread josep
wow ^ ^ Thanks for the quick replies :) > it works!

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Sjors Gielen
josep schreef: why isn't it working? :( sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com ";/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf You're using quotes inside quotes. Try this: sed -i "s/#send host-name "\""andare.fugue.com"\"";/send host-name

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
josep wrote: > why isn't it working? :( > > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:14:54PM +0100, josep wrote: > why isn't it working? :( > > sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat > /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf What is it supposed to do? What does it do in practice? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabbe

Re: To All Web Hosting Providers

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raleigh Guevarra wrote: > To All Web Hosting Providers, To all posters to debian lists: If you want to get some replies to your questions, you should start a new thread. Hiding your question within a rather boaring thread on mailing list etiquette is

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Douglas A. Tutty on 04/03/09 14:46, wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using 25

sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread josep
why isn't it working? :( sed -i "s/#send host-name "andare.fugue.com";/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g" /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

Re: IceW moves from wokrspace to workspace.

2009-03-04 Thread Chris
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 13:15:13 -0600 Chris wrote: > Greetings, > > Here's my dilemma: > I keep claws in workspace 5. I also keep IceW in workspace 4. > If there is a link I wish to click on in mail (in workspace 5), IceW > moves from workspace 4 into workspace 5 within Gnome. > > I know this does

Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

2009-03-04 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio, >> I then bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150, it does hardware encoding >> which means nil CPU usage. This proved faultless for all my >> conversions. > > Nice to know. Encoding in which format, BTW? MPEG-2? Yes, mpeg-2. Through v4l2-ctl yo

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator. I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself, and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu,

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-04 Thread Stephan
Install the version of Debian you'd like (Lenny I assume, unless you're looking for unstable or volatile versions) then aptitude remove php5 then install the version of php you want. Pet wrote: Hi all, I'd like to install newest version of Debian available, but with one of older releases of

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 16:32:44 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich (johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de) wrote: > Virgo Pärna wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:09:29 +, David Jardine wrote: > >> Do you really want to do that? It's normal to have mail for root > >> diverted to an ordinary user acco

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Teemu Likonen wrote: > For your information, there are _lots_ of mailing lists where "reply to > all" is the norm. So being on a mailing list is not the reason per se. > Yeah, I know there are such lists. I personally find that recommendation plain stupid. If people are going to use 'reply to a

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:09:29 +, David Jardine wrote: >> Do you really want to do that? It's normal to have mail for root >> diverted to an ordinary user account. Run: >> > > The problem could be, that Icedove (at least in Lenny) doesn't have > Movemail support - so

Re: Which C++ Library am I Looking For?

2009-03-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-04 15:53 +0100, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> You need: >> >> #include >> >> to use this function. > > Thanks! > > That makes that line work, now it's choking on other functions (in > this case memtest). I'll just take it one function

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:51:20AM +0900, Bret Busby was heard to say: > The package is flightgear, the Flight Gear Flight simulator. I installed flightgear on my computer overnight to test this myself, and it does appear to go into the Gnome menu, under "Applications -> Games". Its .desktop

Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-04 Thread Pet
Hi all, I'd like to install newest version of Debian available, but with one of older releases of PHP (5.1.6). Is it possible? How can I accomplish this? Thanks, Pet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: Which C++ Library am I Looking For?

2009-03-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a program that compiled fine on Etch, but when I compile it on Lenny, it's looking for a function called transform. I've tried comparing library lists of the libs installed on the Etch system and the Lenny one

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:09:33PM +, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? > > I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using > 256, i had a system with 196 but this

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-03-04 13:31 (+0100), Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> PS: Don't CC people unless they say it specificaly, as we are on the >> mailing list. > > For your information, there are _lots_ of mailing lists where "reply to > all" is the norm. So being on a mailing list is not

Global Linux Meeting March 7 Sat BerkeleyTIP -Global - For Forwarding

2009-03-04 Thread john_re
Ekiga(Gnome meeting), Asterisk, Xen, Virtualbox, Debian 15 Years, Free and Open Future, Amarok, ZFS, FreeBSD, Python, OLPC = SCHEDULE Schedule: All times Pacific Std Time = GMT -8H ex: 10A PST = 1P Eastern ST 10 ABegin: Set up. Get on IRC & VOIP 11 AEkiga3 talk LIVE

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-03-04 14:13 (UTC), David Jardine wrote: > If I remember correctly, the phrase was "we are on the mailing > list...", which is quite a different thing. Please don't twist > people's words. If I in fact remember incorrectly, I take that all > back :) OK, good point. Such things get easily l

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 03:57:18 Bret Busby wrote: Perhaps, it is due to the categorizing of the games, within the KDE applications menu, and it was not sure which subcategory of Games, was applicable? Possibly - but I have always understood that its

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-03-04 13:21 (UTC), Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > Not on Debian mailing lists: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > > On 2009-03-04 08:22 (-0500), Michael Marsh wrote: > > > If you go to lists.debian.org and

To All Web Hosting Providers

2009-03-04 Thread Raleigh Guevarra
To All Web Hosting Providers,   I need your help to prove and defend Debian to the CIO and a dozen of developers.   Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites?   Both technical and logical inputs or explanation is greatly appreciated.     Raleigh

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Thorny wrote: > Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? I stand corrected, minimal 48MB, recommended 512MB.[1] You're using 256, i had a system with 196 but this one only has 128... we'll see. Thanks for the heads-up. [1] http://debian

Re: No more logins after upgrade to deb 5.0

2009-03-04 Thread Axel Werner
Am 04.03.2009 14:45, Dave Ewart schrieb: SSL or TLS, then the Lenny packages for TLS are fussier about the type of certificates that can be used to verify the service. Thanks, but i dont run SSL/TLS yet for testing purpose. All "hacker friendly, unsecure cleartext" communications here.

openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-04 Thread Bernd Aufrecht
Hi, I am running Debian Lenny and have a small issue regarding my bridging setup with OpenVPN. The bridge works flawless but when I changed the OpenVPN config a couple of days ago and did a restart the bridge suddenly stopped working. It seems everytime I do a restart the bridge loses the tap0

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-03-04 13:21 (UTC), Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Not on Debian mailing lists: > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct On 2009-03-04 08:22 (-0500), Michael Marsh wrote: > If you go to lists.debian.org and click on the first link > (introduction to Debian mailing lists), there's a Cod

Re: No more logins after upgrade to deb 5.0

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 04.03.2009 at 14:37 +0100, Axel Werner wrote: > I got a realy realy BAD problem after Upgrade from Debian 4.x Etch to > Debian 5.0 Lenny i was not able to resolve or even trace the source of > trouble. Maybe one of you guys can help me find the problem. Not completely clear from rea

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Thorny
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:51:16 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > From the Debian manual, a minimal install for X > requires 512MB. Where did you find this? Can you provide a link so I can look at it? In the Debian Installation Guide I can find it as a recommenced amount but not as a required amount,

Re: Mailing-list conventions (was: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?)

2009-03-04 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 4 March 2009 14:22:17 Michael Marsh wrote: >> # If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy when > you did not ask for it, do it privately. > -- > Michael A. Marsh Thank you Michael, I had not noticed that. I will obei this rule from now on. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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