Re: Can't recall the package name..........

2009-08-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:57:35 +0530 Kousik Maiti sent this information: >Use cups. Thank you Kousik -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 . Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the Divine is shining thr

Re: Can't recall the package name..........

2009-08-25 Thread Charlie
Found it thank you. Sorry for the noise. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 . The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn is you're the same fool. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regai

Re: Can't recall the package name..........

2009-08-25 Thread Kousik Maiti
Use cups. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Charlie wrote: > > Just got a new hard drive after the old one died, trying to get printer > working, can't recall the package name that has all the printer > information and drivers. > > Can someone please inform me. > > Thank you > Charlie > -- > Re

Can't recall the package name..........

2009-08-25 Thread Charlie
Just got a new hard drive after the old one died, trying to get printer working, can't recall the package name that has all the printer information and drivers. Can someone please inform me. Thank you Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 23:30, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha wrote: ... 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where it resides and can back it up and human read it As the resident Sylphe

Re: .mov skipping?

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 21:58, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: RJ> On 2009-08-22 01:58, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: nope, all of the recent offenders report "ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie" with file. the only working .movs i have around right now RJ> Like I said,

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > >> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 >> kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. > > maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > Micha wrote: > ... > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > it resides and can back it up and human read it > As the resident Sylpheed fanboy, I must point out that

Inquiry:How to make use of VM to install RedHat 7.2

2009-08-25 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know how we can make use of CentOS 5 installation on the pc and make use of it as host for VMWare/Virtualbox/Qemu and then inside one of VM try to install RedHat 7.2 ? Sorry bothering you and thank you in advance Regards H.Motamedi

Re: .mov skipping?

2009-08-25 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Ron Johnson wrote: RJ> On 2009-08-22 01:58, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> nope, all of the recent offenders report "ISO Media, Apple >> QuickTime movie" with file. the only working .movs i have around right now RJ> Like I said, run idvid on them. erm. installing tovid wan

Re: modifier keys stop working [second try]

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:48 -0400 Steve Kleene wrote: ... > 3. Finally, a fun puzzle (inspired by actual events). If I have a window up >with text I want to save before shutting down the windows, how can I do >the save without modifier keys? I can copy the text with the mouse, but >

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:57 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: > > > On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling > > mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to > > do that explicitly from the command line > > N

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 Micha wrote: > On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: > >> Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail > > > > I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls > > it

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:07:35 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: ... > p.s. starting with a server that had just over 600 packages, i'm now > down to 460, with no loss in functionality. hopefully, this will make > that final upgrade as safe as possible. Just as a miscellaneous reference poi

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Charlie : > On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" > shared this with us all: > > >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no > >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). > > > >On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 18:29, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail f

Re: modifier keys stop working [second try]

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Kleene
[At the risk of being annoying, I am re-posting this question.] I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. I run an up-to-date Lenny system and use the window manager fvwm (2.5.26-1) so that I can mostly work from the command line. I also have a virtual XP machine (VM, VMware 1.06). If I use

RE: my monitor wont start

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to a text console. You should be able to login normally and fix your xorg.conf file. Also, from within X, you can press Ctrl-Alt-+ to cycle through the resolutions. One of them should make your monitor happy. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> >> [..] >>> but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking >>> about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could

my monitor wont start

2009-08-25 Thread Salman Bashir
Hi I installed Debian through network option. However after installation, I booted my computer for the first time and waited for my "moment of truth". However I got a blank screen on my LCD monitor which said, "Video mode not supported". And debian I guess was working fine but there was no outp

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 22:46:55 Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > > > > you have the root already > > > > root(hd1,0) is used for setup, I think. > > The only reason I posed the que

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-25 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Ron Johnson writes: > On 2009-08-23 11:01, Francesco Pietra wrote: >> Hi: My old K7S5A (SiS735 chipset) Athlon i386 lenny desktop has died >> and I am wondering how to set up a new one for the same service >> (running 32bit graphic scientific programs, besides office use, and >> establishing scp

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:14 PM > > Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc > file > > causing startup to fail? > > > > Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? > > Okay, c'mon, did you read his

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread JoeHill
Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Mitchell Laks [mailto:ml...@post.harvard.edu] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:48 PM > > > > On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>startx or gd

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Mitchell Laks [mailto:ml...@post.harvard.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:48 PM > > On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>startx or gdm? > > > > > >i shut off gdm and am work

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >>startx or gdm? > > > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might no

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 17:11:45 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > > > it'

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk > isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use > smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. Erhm... the drive's fairily recent, it's a "Maxtor 160GB SATA II 7200RPM 8Mb Cache" fr

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 17:11:45, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Recall that if I change the login directory to > /home/bill/temp in /etc/passwd > then bill can startx just as any other user can. it is only > from the /home/bill that x fails (silently :() What are the permissions of that directory? Regards

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! i only put it on for my sister anyway, i use command line > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. i have tried it no success.

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > it's broken! I agree that there is some file that is causing the problem, but I

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: startx or gdm? i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. :) Good for you! Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. -- Obsession with "preserving cultural

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > startx or gdm? i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. :) mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 14:40:35 deb...@waysoft.com wrote: > I can't imagine that a program like "screen" would be > denied. 1. Non-standard (i.e. not part of the well-understood system image). 2. Additional work load -- maintenance; security. ...just off the top of my head. -- Boyd Stephen Sm

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:08:12PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to > >> install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. > >> Can somebody let me

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread debian
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:10:32 -0500 Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to > install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. > Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home > directory? > > Regards, >

RE: TV Tuner

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:15 PM > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > > From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:42 AM > > > > > > Purchased and install

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-25 10:10, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home directory? You can't. Anyway,

Re: TV Tuner

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:42 AM > > > > Purchased and installed Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250. After installation > > X-window failed to start, error message Type1, no such m

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 14:08, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. Can somebody let me know how to install such a package

Re: Confused about lenny, KDE4 and debian-multimedia.org

2009-08-25 Thread SteveM
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > KDE4 libs *are* available in stable (lenny), but without specific error > messages (preferably from aptitude or apt-get) it's impossible to help > further. And your sources.list might help too ;) Yes, the sources.list did help. It read sid, not

RE: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Peng Yu [mailto:pengyu...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:11 AM > > Hi, > > My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to > install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. > Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to >> install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. >> Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home >> directory? > > You can

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-25 10:10, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home directory? You can't. Anyway, why install a *Debi

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote: [..] > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about > my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits of cloning the Micr

Re: TV Tuner

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:25:25AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:42 AM > > > > Purchased and installed Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250. After installation > > X-window failed to start, error message Type1, no such m

RE: TV Tuner

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:42 AM > > Purchased and installed Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1250. After installation > X-window failed to start, error message Type1, no such module. lspci > showed multimedia video controller Conexant Device 888

Apache error for debian 2.6.24

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Kurecka
I'm trying to run Apache on a debian 2.6.24 system but it doesn't seem to be working and I get the following error in the error.log file once a second. (38)Function not implemented: Couldn't create pollset in child; check system or user limits Upon googling I came across various posts that stat

RE: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:41 AM > > is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can get > horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet and do > what it takes to switch to apache2? (apache2 is current

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can >>> get horde up and run

Re: VLC sid upgrade loses color, has wrong aspect ratio (Solved!)

2009-08-25 Thread Joel Roth
Easy solution... Delete the .vlc directory in your home directory. VLC now keeps its config information in $HOME/.config/vlc/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=855394 -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can > > get horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet > > and do what it takes to switch

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny > > system, just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path, > > then make the switch to apache2.

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: > > This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and > the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important > commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird > boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - li

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can get > horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet and do > what it takes to switch to apache2? (apache2 is currently on the > system, it's just

Re: apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny system, > just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path, then make the > switch to apache2. but it seems like i won't have that option since > i'm runnin

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-25 Thread Joe
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote: Apache/php is also very slightly different, and I still have a couple of minor quirks I haven't tracked down yet. Unavoidable whichever way you go. does that refer to upgrading from apache1 to apache2? because when i do my full upgrad

apparently, lenny, apache 1.3 and php5 is a bad combination

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny system, just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path, then make the switch to apache2. but it seems like i won't have that option since i'm running some apps (eg., horde) which now fails to make a mysql DB connection, and th

Re: How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Niu Kun
Peng Yu 写道: Hi, My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home directory? Regards, Peng So far as I know, Redhat also support apt se

How to install a debian package without root on a non-Debian system?

2009-08-25 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, My system is RedHat. But I don't have root permission. But I want to install a Debian package (for example, screen) in my home directory. Can somebody let me know how to install such a package in my home directory? Regards, Peng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: TV Tuner

2009-08-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:12:31PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Thomas H. George [mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:47 PM > > > > I recently emeraged from the dark ages and purchased a 23" LCD monitor. > > Now I am wondering about purchasing a TV tuner and

Re: final issue? imapproxy: "Error reading banner line from server ..."

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this > > upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only > > partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete its > > configuration generat

Re: final issue? imapproxy: "Error reading banner line from server ..."

2009-08-25 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete its configuration generates: Log started: 2009-08-25 10:01:25 Setting up ima

final issue? imapproxy: "Error reading banner line from server ..."

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete its configuration generates: Log started: 2009-08-25 10:01:25 Setting up imapproxy (1.2.6-5) ... S

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
fslint and cruft are also helpful in keeping a system clean, by finding out duplicate files, broken links, etc. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > much thanks to whoever suggested "deborphan" recently to help me > clean out unused libraries. i've been fairly conservative with it, > getting rid of libs a bit at a time and making sure things still run. > p.s. starting with a server that had just over 600 packages,

Re: Grub vrs: Lilo

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 06:33:25, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently changed some of our machines from booting with Lilo to > Grub. Now when doing a kernel upgrade nothing is said about having > to reboot the computer like it did with Lilo. > > I see nothing in the logs abo

Grub vrs: Lilo

2009-08-25 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, I recently changed some of our machines from booting with Lilo to Grub. Now when doing a kernel upgrade nothing is said about having to reboot the computer like it did with Lilo. I see nothing in the logs about the computer using the new kernel so I assume you still need to reboot to

Re: a couple remaining issues after dist-upgrade, etch -> lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote: > Robert P. J. Day 写道: > > i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded, > > rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran > > across: ... snip ... > > 3) in fact, running "aptitude upgrade" tells me that slapd i

Re: a couple remaining issues after dist-upgrade, etch -> lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Niu Kun
Robert P. J. Day 写道: i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded, rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran across: 1) my /etc/aliases.db file was deleted. no problem, i just recreated it with # postalias hash:/etc/aliases easy enough t

a couple remaining issues after dist-upgrade, etch -> lenny

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded, rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran across: 1) my /etc/aliases.db file was deleted. no problem, i just recreated it with # postalias hash:/etc/aliases easy enough to fix but should i hav

Re: a pseudo-"clone" facility for migrating to new hardware?

2009-08-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote: > >> My advice would be to grit your teeth and install a completely new >> system, based on your existing packages. Then copy the data and as >> much configuration information as possible. Sorr

Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - like why isn't swap moun

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote: > On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling > mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to > do that explicitly from the command line Not very familiar with kmail, but claws-mail (sylpheed too?) has configur

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Micha
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote: Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to pu

Re: emacs23 problem

2009-08-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-25 12:08 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > While trying to find why auctex is not working as expected with > errors like this: > (snip) > > I found that when I use emacs22 this does not happen. I then > reinstalled gnuserv and with emacs22 that was also working as > expected. My earlier p

emacs23 problem (was gnuserv)

2009-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
While trying to find why auctex is not working as expected with errors like this: == Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "auctex.e= l") load("auctex.el" nil t t) eval-buffer(# nil "/home/js/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at = buffer posi

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 12:42:46, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 13:51:14, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > > root(hd1,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Aug.09, 05:00:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the "minimal" part appears to be correct. it's a back-room server, > ssh-accessible only, no X. i've been removing things to the point > where i'm now down below 450 packages. i'm a big believer in > simplicity. You might want to disable

Re: Confused about lenny, KDE4 and debian-multimedia.org

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:34:00, Steve wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running lenny (kde3) using several of Christian Marillat's multimedia > packages. Installing k9copy fails due to unmet lib dependencies. They > appear to be kde4 libs yet are clearly in the stable branch. I'm use to > waiting on sid

Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 13:51:14, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Lenny stable, here is the respective part of my menu.lst: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 > root(hd1,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > initrd /boot/initrd.im

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200 > kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its syntax) is *very* powerful. I recently did a major

Re: "deborphan" is a wonderful utility

2009-08-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage. > > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch > > system is listed as an orphan. > > > > coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of

Re: Book reader

2009-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:52:11PM +0600, Viatcheslav Trotsak wrote: > What is the special software use in Debian for books reading (analog > ICEReader)? I don't know ICEReader but FBReader is available in Debian. If you run "aptitude show fbreader" you will see an impressive list of features. R

Re: gnuserv

2009-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
Mike O'Connor wrote: > The gnuserv package also distributes a script named "dtemacs" which > will run check for an already running instance of emacs, and start one > if non is found. > More information about gnuserv can be found at: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnuClient None