Re: File size limit exceeded

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >apt-get remove postfix: >Processing triggers for man-db ... >/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst: line 3: 6289 File size limit > exceededperl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man"); $( = $) = $pwd[3]; $< = $> > = $pwd[2]; > exec "/usr/bin/mandb", @ARGV' -- "$@" >

File size limit exceeded

2009-05-29 Thread Miguel Obliviemo
I have a problem with Postfix not working but manual SMTP works. So I'm at the point of uninstalling and reinstalling Postfix the Debian way and can't do a thing because of this error. "File size limit exceeded" I've seen the message in other contexts. I forget the details, but just walking aw

Re: Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

2009-05-29 Thread ronggui wong
Thanks for your hints, and I find "shortname=mixed" is more close to what I want. Regards Ronggui On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > ronggui wong wrote, on 2009-05-30 12:08: >> >> Dear All, >> >> I use this setting in /etc/fstab to mount fat32 partitions. >> >> /dev/hda6    

Re: Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

2009-05-29 Thread Arthur Marsh
ronggui wong wrote, on 2009-05-30 12:08: Dear All, I use this setting in /etc/fstab to mount fat32 partitions. /dev/hda6 /media/wine vfatuser,umask=000 0 0 It works fine, except that the upper case of folder name becomes lower case when the name contains upper case letter

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-29 Thread jidanni
The sites usually detect you are trying to save a copy and won't proceed. Try putting a man in the middle (WWWOFFLE). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,29.May.09, 08:26:53, Joel Roth wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for > > me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. > > What about Debian? > > It was disable

Re: Forcing mount to use a particular file system type

2009-05-29 Thread Brent Kolasinski
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Oliver Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to mount a volume that is supposed to be FAT32, all sources I > could find agree on that and so does sfdisk (reporting it as FAT32). However, > the FS ID in the partition table is different, because it is a so-called

Re: setting a static ip for my lenny box

2009-05-29 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Padro wrote: > You need to have permissions whether you edit the /etc/network/interface or > the network manager applet. Very true. So: sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces I suspect he already knew that, though... - -- Glenn English g...@slswar

Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

2009-05-29 Thread ronggui wong
Dear All, I use this setting in /etc/fstab to mount fat32 partitions. /dev/hda6 /media/wine vfatuser,umask=000 0 0 It works fine, except that the upper case of folder name becomes lower case when the name contains upper case letter only, namely "R" becomes "r", but "Keep" is

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-29 Thread LinuxChuck
May I suggest a firefox addon called "Downloadhelper". I believe it is capable of saving flv (flash video) files to your drive. Just go check out https://addons.mozilla.org and you should be able to find it there.

Forcing mount to use a particular file system type

2009-05-29 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, I'm trying to mount a volume that is supposed to be FAT32, all sources I could find agree on that and so does sfdisk (reporting it as FAT32). However, the FS ID in the partition table is different, because it is a so-called "backup capsule" from Paragon Drive Backup. Now I'd really like to

Re: setting a static ip for my lenny box

2009-05-29 Thread Victor Padro
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM, ghe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Donald Raikes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I installed lenny yesterday on my desktop system. I would like to change > > it so it has a static ip address rather than a dhcp assigned one. > > > > How do I

Re: udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Franklin, thanks much for the description of udev. I found a website with an article on writing udev rules and that was at the top of google's sort order and started reading it earlier today. There was much work done on udev and it's quite impressive how it handles usb type devices. Earlier I

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Tony Baldwin
Jochen Schulz wrote: Johannes Wiedersich: Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the email without attachments. It's quite a fe

Re: setting a static ip for my lenny box

2009-05-29 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donald Raikes wrote: > Hello, > > I installed lenny yesterday on my desktop system. I would like to change > it so it has a static ip address rather than a dhcp assigned one. > > How do I go about setting the ip address? > If there is a console-based

setting a static ip for my lenny box

2009-05-29 Thread Donald Raikes
Hello, I installed lenny yesterday on my desktop system. I would like to change it so it has a static ip address rather than a dhcp assigned one. How do I go about setting the ip address? If there is a console-based method I would prefer that since icannot edit the network configuration through

Re: Multiple iso in a single dvd

2009-05-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:29:23PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 19:37 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: >> >> Can anybody help me by giving instructions to create a bootable image >> containing multiple iso. I want to create a DVD image which may >> contain iso of different debian

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >Anyway, I'd like to know what happened >to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only been using it as my main OS since the end of 2004. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:52:56PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> mutt + muttprint give acceptable results, but I have no idea how to >> script it. >> > > > Wow muttprint want the following... > > > $ aptitude install -s muttprint > 0 packa

Re: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC)

2009-05-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Jonathan Kaye (Mon, 18 May 2009 15:15:27 +0200): > Yes, but sadly 4.2 is not hitting squeeze all at once. I got about 6 4.2 > upgrades today with the results that a lot of my kde apps are no longer > functional. The menu items along with their associated icons are gone: > kpat, amarok, k3b are 3

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:52:56PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > mutt + muttprint give acceptable results, but I have no idea how to > script it. > Wow muttprint want the following... $ aptitude install -s muttprint Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading stat

How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-29 Thread lee
Hi, the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? Some sites feed the data too slow to watch while it's being fed, so I want to download what's being send instead and save it to a file that I can play later when all the data h

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 25 May 2009 01:55 pm, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone tha

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:35:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,29.May.09, 00:35:38, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? > > > > cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 > > note: starting, version 1.3.0 > > error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': S

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:18:56PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > > Csanyi Pal wrote: > > > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd

Re: Diagnosing sound problems

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,29.May.09, 19:53:07, Peter Robinson wrote: [snip] Everything looks normal. Do you get sound if your run speaker-test -c2 (interrupt with Ctrl+C)? Are the volume levels ok? Check with alsamixer. Regards, Andrei The sound levels are at max. I hear some system so

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-29 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,29.May.09, 14:15:27, H.S. wrote: >> And earlier today I rebooted my Testing machine, the one that was having >> the problem in Konsole, and the problem seems to have disappeared! >> >> So, ctrl+s is working now in my rtorrent interface in Konsole on my >> Testing mach

[OT] Piratical (was: ccsm plugins have no options. Compiz in testing (squeeze))

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <381668cc0905291331m47532db3ld292827ad0bc0...@mail.gmail.com>, Blake Amstead wrote: >Compizconfig-setting-manager or ccsm has no functionality. ^ Yes. It does not address either of these tasks: 1. Capturing boats, ships, materiel, "booty"

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:27:29PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should If your CUPS configuration includes the installed cups-pdf package and a configured PDF printer, you should be able to print directly to the virtual PDF devi

ccsm plugins have no options. Compiz in testing (squeeze)

2009-05-29 Thread Blake Amstead
I have posted this on the compiz site, but seeing as how I am using the deb packages I'd thought I'd post here too. Compizconfig-setting-manager or ccsm has no piratical functionality. No options when I click on the plug-in buttons with in the application. My compiz is working, but I can not chang

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Csanyi Pal
Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> So: can one install on it say a Debian GNU/Linux Lenny? > > Mind that it is a "headless" device. Everything has to be done > through ssh (or local telnet). It has no cd-rom drive, keyboard, > or monitor. But it is just a Debian system (for powe

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Johannes Wiedersich: > > Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should > basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of > the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the > email without attachments. > > It's quite a few mails i

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:26, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for > me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. > What about Debian? > > Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this > functionality? Switch to terminal, ps

convert e-mails to pdf / ps

2009-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hi list! Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the email without attachments. It's quite a few mails in a folder on their own an

Re: No protocol specified, cannot open display error

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Aniruddha ha scritto: Hi, After an certain amount of time applications no longer open on my Gnome desktop, When I try to run a program from an already opened terminal I get the following output: $ gedit No protocol specified cannot open display: When I log out and in the problem is solved.

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090529013505.ga12...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:21:38AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: >> In <20090528153521.ga31...@emurlahn.burrows.local>, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Joel Roth ha scritto: Hello all, I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. What about Debian? Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible, but clunky if I a

Re: Diagnosing sound problems

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 19:53:07, Peter Robinson wrote: [snip] Everything looks normal. Do you get sound if your run speaker-test -c2 (interrupt with Ctrl+C)? Are the volume levels ok? Check with alsamixer. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Alb

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 08:26:53, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for > me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. > What about Debian? It was disabled upstream (in Xorg) > Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this > funct

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Muzer
Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. What about Debian? Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible, but clunky if I am tes

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 14:15:27, H.S. wrote: > > And earlier today I rebooted my Testing machine, the one that was having > the problem in Konsole, and the problem seems to have disappeared! > > So, ctrl+s is working now in my rtorrent interface in Konsole on my > Testing machine, but I have no idea w

No protocol specified, cannot open display error

2009-05-29 Thread Aniruddha
Hi, After an certain amount of time applications no longer open on my Gnome desktop, When I try to run a program from an already opened terminal I get the following output: $ gedit No protocol specified cannot open display: When I log out and in the problem is solved. Is this a know bug in Le

Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
Hello all, I've noticed that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace no longer kills X for me (sid). I see Ubuntu has disabled this key combination. What about Debian? Is it me or Xorg? And how could I re-enable this functionality? Switch to terminal, ps ax, kill is possible, but clunky if I am testing a bunch of win

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-29 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 08:35 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:02:59AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > was heard to say: > > Isn't that supposed to change in the future (but perhaps not before > > Squeeze) > > so that we can have versioned dependencies on virtual packag

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-29 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:28:42PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi debmasters, > > I thought I'd give the Webkit based Midori browser > a try, and ran into a dependency problem. > > I've got libwebkit. > > ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.1.7-1 Web > content engine l

Re: ctrl+S in rtorrent in konsole suspends output instead of starting torrents

2009-05-29 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , H.S. wrote: >>> I have just noticed that I cannot start or resume torrents in konsole >>> with the usual CTRL+S rtorrent key combo in konsole as I was able to in >>> the past (till several weeks ago perhaps). It instead suspends output >>> (and CT

Re: poff -a used to discoonect it but debian loged out !

2009-05-29 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God Thanks alot for your attention ; Debian loged out means that /etc/init.d/gdm has been restarted when poff -a runned . Is it bug?or lenny was exploited ?How can be sure now debian has no rootkit or viruses ? Regards dehqan On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM, John Hasler wrote:

Re: Diagnosing sound problems

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,29.May.09, 08:19:35, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi deb-gurus, after an update, sound on my system stopped starting automatically and I needed to run alsaconf after each boot to get it started. So I updated all packages on my system and now it seems that even alsac

Re: bacula-web from debian repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:18:50PM -0300, Claudio wrote: > Hi Zhengquan, > > I hope this url, help for your needs. > > http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm Thanks Claudio, the link great but seems bacula-web is not in the repo. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: bacula-web from debian repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Claudio
Hi Zhengquan, I hope this url, help for your needs. http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/baculaweb.htm On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Hi, debian list, > > Has anybody installed bacula-web from debian-repo? Is there a debian > package for this? > > TIA, > > -- > Zhengquan >

Re: poff -a used to discoonect it but debian loged out !

2009-05-29 Thread John Hasler
dehqan writes: > After connecting to a free vpn server , poff did not work to disconnect > it's conection "poff" has nothing to do with vpn. > poff -a used to discoonect it but debian loged out ! "poff" closes PPP connections. "poff -a" closes all PPP connections. If by "logged out" you mean d

[SOLVED] Re: Problems with Exim av_scanner using a separate ClamAV server

2009-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200905282135.16143@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <200905281654.47500@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>I'm getting errors in my /var/log/exim4/paniclog: >>2009-05-28 20:15:17 1M9m0T-00059K-21 malware acl condition: clamd: >>connection to 172.20

bacula-web from debian repo?

2009-05-29 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Hi, debian list, Has anybody installed bacula-web from debian-repo? Is there a debian package for this? TIA, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

VLC not showing video

2009-05-29 Thread mathengejr
How do i get video to work on vlc. I noticed this since I reconfigure kernel. Running from terminal I see xvid has issues wakari...@debian:~$ vlc VLC media player 0.8.6h Janus [0304] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound

poff -a used to discoonect it but debian loged out !

2009-05-29 Thread a dehqan
In The Name Of God I'll be Thankfull if you guide ; After connecting to a free vpn server , poff did not work to disconnect it's conection ,also KVPNC could not able to quit or disconnect connection . poff -a used to discoonect it but debian loged out ! Is it kind of bug ?Or has debian been exploi

BUG: Problem while booting Debian with LVDS connector instead of VGA

2009-05-29 Thread User Debian
Hello, I have a problem that I meet each time I boot Linux on an embedded computer. Configuration: Embedded PC : ECM-LX800 Screen: LVDS (and not VGA) Linux: Debian ETCH version 2.6.18-6-686 The problem comes after GRUB gives the instruction on which partition to boot, BUT before that Linux kern

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Miles
Thanks, Adrian. I was sure that it wasn't just the firewall at this point - that it was necessary to kill eth1 to get eth0 fully functional. I was wrong. This is now just a firewall problem. And this is a "handcrafted" beast, with lotsa rules. I wouldn't dream (well, not yet anyway) of asking

Re: Login-Problem

2009-05-29 Thread Bob McGowan
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:47 +0200, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > On 05/28/2009 08:38 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 19:59 +0200, K. Jantzen wrote: > > > > > Changing the login screen I must have changed something that now prevents > > > a "normal" login (with the possibility to login

Re: etch pam update not signed

2009-05-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:04:23AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > > Anyone know why these aren't signed (or signed by an unknown key)? I > > installed the latest keyring. > > > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! > > libpam-runtime libpam0g libpam-modules libpq4 > > Install th

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
I seem to have lost track of the goal here. Please refresh me. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:28:46PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Can you get a reliable tape drive, incl. some tapes, that stores at > > least 1TB per tape, for max. $200 now? > > No. You can get used LTO-3 drives for about $250 on ebay. Tapes, of > whatever capacity, end up costing about $

Re: how to set the option for automatic mount in debian lenny?

2009-05-29 Thread Yi Zhao
yes,I have ask the same question sometime ago. now, I found that, the automatic mount is generated by gnome-volume-manager, but, I don't know how to set the option for gnome-volume-manager or gnome-volume-properties thanks --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Neal Hogan wrote: From: Neal Hogan Subject: Re: ho

Lenny kpdf much slower than on etch

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I'm finding that kpdf is much slower on Lenny than on Etch. When I load a new doc, it takes forever to generate the first page (and the thumbnails). Is there some setting I can change somewhere? This is on my dual-P-II-450. It takes 100% of a CPU for about 10 seconds before I can

Re: debootstrap error on install

2009-05-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 May 2009, Ingo Naumann wrote: > How did you copy the files on the USB stick? > > OK, I think I know what happened; the img I downloaded was probably faulty because the md5sum didn't match. Should have checked that first. But anyway, I can't go on now because the aborted install has screw

Re: How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-05-29 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi, > > I have my laptop installed with Debian for two years. It's been working > fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, > Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues > now. T

Re: hylafax

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:08:37PM -0400, Tom Low-Shang wrote: > Is Hylafax still the only open source fax server available? Last time I did fax, I used mgetty+sendfax. It worked just fine. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: iceweasel preferences help needed

2009-05-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qui, 28 Mai 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: But thanks for the suggestion. I had forgotten about "about:config", and have never really understood where it fit into the larger scheme of things. A question: Is there any documentation of what all these setting are supposed to do? Short of reading the

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher Judd
On Friday 29 May 2009, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2009/5/23 Chris Bannister > > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > Hi you all, > > > > > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not > > > connected to the network so I usually do upgrades by

Re: Hard lock from the very start, almost

2009-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John wrote: > IMP T-42p, not quite up-to-date sid > > Before upgrading, for some reason I tried suspend (Fn-F4). The machine > suspended, but would not come back. Eventually I just held the power > button until it stopped. > > Now it is almost totally locked up tight: I get an initial flash of >

Re: how to set the option for automatic mount in debian lenny?

2009-05-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all: > I have a usb disk (volume "samsum") with format fat32, when I insert it from > usb, the system will mount it automatic, then there is a icon display in the > desktop, but, I will got two message: > 1: invalid option for mount, > 2: when

Re: debootstrap error on install

2009-05-29 Thread Ingo Naumann
How did you copy the files on the USB stick? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

2009-05-29 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/5/23 Chris Bannister > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi you all, > > > > I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to > > the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd > iso > > images, burning im

how to set the option for automatic mount in debian lenny?

2009-05-29 Thread Yi Zhao
hi, all: I have a usb disk (volume "samsum") with format fat32, when I insert it from usb, the system will mount it automatic, then there is a icon display in the desktop, but, I will got two message: 1: invalid option for mount, 2: when I try to open the folder by double click the icon, i got:

Re: where is the sound device in debian?

2009-05-29 Thread Yi Zhao
yes, it is!! thanks very much! --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Nigel Henry wrote: From: Nigel Henry Subject: Re: where is the sound device in debian? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 5:06 PM On Friday 29 May 2009 10:26, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, I'm using debian lenny, but I

debootstrap error on install

2009-05-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to install Debian on an eeepc 901 from a usb stick. When I get to installing the base system the following appears: Debootstrap error: Release file signed by unknown key (key id x. Is there any way round this? Should I use the standard debian iso image instead of the one

Re: udev tutorials or howtos?

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 22:21 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Do any such files exist? As usually, see the docs in /usr/share/doc/udev/ and the manpages (use "apropos udev" for the list of manpages related to udev). Google is you friend too. > Earlier I tried using mtools and even mount to >

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-05-29 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi, > What are you planning to do? The plan is to have one host machine that has a unified (all the same versions) set of GCC and a libc (not necessarily glibc) that can be used to build our product for different platforms. Potentially distcc would be used to speed up the builds. > You may fin

Re: Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Lenny, I'm getting an error in my daily cron log: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return

Re: where is the sound device in debian?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 16:26:15, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, I'm using debian lenny, but I can't found /dev/dsp or /dev/audio > device in /dev directory? where is it?? These "devices" are only needed if your app relies on OSS. Try switching it to 'alsa' for the output. If this is not possible then you

Re: Diagnosing sound problems

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 08:19:35, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi deb-gurus, > > after an update, sound on my system stopped starting automatically and I > needed to run alsaconf after each boot to get it started. So I updated > all packages on my system and now it seems that even alsaconf was > automat

Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running Lenny, I'm getting an error in my daily cron log: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 The failure appea

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,29.May.09, 00:35:38, lee wrote: > Hi, > > what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? > > cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 > note: starting, version 1.3.0 > error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR: /dev/eth0: No > such device > note: exiting Hhhm, I never needed

HTC Palm OS

2009-05-29 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am trying to connect an HTC TouchPro to my squeeze box with kde4 as DE. The device is recognized as I can see from dmesg output below, but I can not browse it anymore like when I was running gnome as DE. Does anybody ever managed such kind of phones in kde? Any suggestion? Regards

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Paul Johnson schreef: > K. Jantzen wrote: >> I installed Debain-AMD64 and almost evrything works perfectly. >> >> Exception: Iceweasel is extremely slow. >> I assume that this is, like with Firefox in other distributions, due to >> the IPv6 processing. After having turned off IPv6 >> Firefox is fas

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-29 Thread marc
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. said: > In <20090527163101.gg5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >> Anyway, I don't like it. It's >>something hidden from the user instead of telling them about it. That's >>never a good idea. > > Actually, according to actual HCI studies it is often better to hi

Re: where is the sound device in debian?

2009-05-29 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 29 May 2009 10:26, Yi Zhao wrote: > hi, all, I'm using debian lenny, but I can't found /dev/dsp or /dev/audio > device in /dev directory? where is it?? Try installing the oss-compat package, and they should turn up in /dev. All the best. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-05-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:33:26PM +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is there > a cross compiler tool chain What are you planning to do? You may find Emdebian useful: http://www.emdebian.org/ > which is used to do the builds

where is the sound device in debian?

2009-05-29 Thread Yi Zhao
hi, all, I'm using debian lenny, but I can't found /dev/dsp or /dev/audio device in /dev directory? where is it??

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,28.May.09, 21:50:26, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I also do not quite understand why you should want to use > Lenny, rather than Etch, on a server. Sure, you can still use etch, but next February the security support will end and you have to upgrade to lenny anyway. Regards, Andre

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:17:23PM +0200, rimaya wrote: >> 2009/5/28 Johannes Wiedersich >>> rimaya wrote: >>> echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ --> reboot >>> Why reboot? Is 'modprobe -r ipv6' not sufficient? >>> >>> No. I tried but not work. >

Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic?

2009-05-29 Thread Yi Zhao
the format is fat32, where is the config/option for this automatic mount? I want to see or change the default setting. thanks --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote: From: Ivan T. Ivanov Subject: Re: Rhow to mount a usb disk automatic? To: "Yi Zhao" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: