Re: test

2005-10-12 Thread Bob Alexander
Dan wrote: I cant create a new topic!! Thanks God for that ! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with CUPS

2005-10-11 Thread Bob Alexander
Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: I installed CUPS and ran the daemon, also added my HP Deskjet 680c to the system, but the printer doesn't print. When I go to Completed Jobs it says all of them were cancelled. See if http://chefacciamo.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Debian/CUPS can help you

Re: AGRICULTURE - TECHNICAL TRANSLATION

2005-10-09 Thread Bob Alexander
Javier Redoano wrote: TECHNICAL TRANSLATION English/Spanish - Spanish/English - Crops - Cattle Raising - Swine - Poultry - Farm Machinery - Agricultural Inputs - Veterinary Medicine - Farm Management - Agricultural Economics - Commodity Commercialization - Rural Policy - Natural Resources For

Re: Help for damaged package management

2005-10-09 Thread Bob Alexander
Mankuthimma wrote: Now if I ask upgrading this package, the system wants to REMOVE approximately 130 packages Most probably, you are missing a couple of gnome dependencies, try doing this # aptitude install gnome-desktop-environment OMG Mankuthimna !!!

Help for damaged package management

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear friends, I have reinstalled a Debian machine after having my laptop tracking unstable for a couple of years. This time I wanted a testing environment with only a few packages I need from unstable. I have tried using aptitude but now quit after it has taken a few liberties I did not

bootlog not working in etch

2005-10-08 Thread Bob Alexander
Cannot find a bootlog in /var/log Stopping KDM on the console I see the last line is: Stopping bootlog daemon: failed! The last word is is a yummy strawberry red :) How to fix this ? Thanks, Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Please teach me something on Debian and modules

2005-01-07 Thread Bob Alexander
I am trying to load the ibm_acpi module with some options. I placed the ibm-acpi line in /etc/modules I tried using the following line in /etc/modprobe.conf options ibm-acpi hotkey=enable,0x experimental=1 ran depmod -a and rebooted but the options I need are not activated. What am I doing

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Alexander
Nate Duehr wrote: Bob Alexander wrote: A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. Tell TB not to store Trash on the server. It's

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Alexander
Sam Watkins wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:33PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: A last item I do not like about TB is that using IMAP, my emails are on the server, and in TB when I delete an item it gets into the server's Trash folders and emptying it therefore takes a while. I recommend

Alternative X and graphic drivers. HOWTO ?

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Alexander
I have this Thinkpad T40 with a fairly standard Debian sid on it. Reading some appends it appears that using the X.org and/or ATI's binary driver could enhance performance and/or stability (upon susupend/resumes) of my machine. Do I understand correctly that I can run EITHER XFree86.dfsg OR

SOLVED: APM not waking up after prolonged sleep to RAM

2005-01-06 Thread Bob Alexander
As many of you might have read with both 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels and APM, my Thinkpad T40 (2373-92G) did not resume after being left in suspend to RAM for a longish time (very approx. over 45 min). Shorter sleeps went just fine and the machine restarted just perfectly with it's brilliant

debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-05 Thread Bob Alexander
Up to now I have been reading this lists mail with Thunderbird, fetching it via IMAP from my ISP. Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam. Of course it threads topics and I can label individual emails in different colours. What I do not like about TB is the relative

script help

2004-12-29 Thread Bob Alexander
I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of them has a different .config file. Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as find /usr/src -name .config for example: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-rja/.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-rja/.config and for

Re: Problem with network after new kernel tryout

2004-12-28 Thread Bob Alexander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Users, A couple of weeks ago I tasted debian first time and was so excited about what Linux can offer these days that I wanted to give a serious try to move permanetly to linux world and leave windows behind. Installing Sarge went without any complications,

sid dvd jigdo site

2004-12-28 Thread Bob Alexander
Is there some dependable site serving sid images in DVD format ? I have used a site in .hu about ten days ago and now wanted to build the updated images but it complains about a mismatch between the NEW .jigdo and .template files I have just downlaoded from there. Thank you, Bob PS Just in case

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Greg Folkert wrote: So what do you think of those of us that *DO* use Sid + Experimental for Production? Careful what you say... I do have experience with Debian. No I am not an idiot, I have very UN-limited needs, I have been known to talk out of /dev/ass, have built very elaborate systems to

gconfd filling up my logs

2004-12-27 Thread Bob Alexander
gconfd spews out stuff to my syslog and messages: Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Dec 27 13:51:50 localhost gconfd (root-6798): Resolved address

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-26 Thread Bob Alexander
Rogério Brito wrote: Just hang on a second! If you are so afraid of breaking your system, you should not be using sid, but using testing instead. Did I really sound that afraid ?! Natural language is such an imprecise tool. Especially when two different mothertongue use a third language to

Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
Background considerations, question follows: When I was studying as a doctor (a lng time ago) my Pharmacology professor told us: A good doctor is never the first to use a new medicine and never the last to abandon an old one and later on my sailplane instructor told me: There are old

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
alireza faryar wrote: I installed fvwm on debian.testing using apt-get install fvwm. When I run fvwm, it complains that can't open display. What am I missing, Thanks farid Are you running that from xdm or gdm or what ? Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Or you could use William Ballard's system of keeping the upgrades separate by differently labeled .deb directories and simply reverting to a set of .debs that worked if you run into problems. He has posted his scripts to this list at least twice that I know of. Sounds

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
Rob Bochan wrote: On Saturday 25 December 2004 10:48 am, Bob Alexander wrote: snip Is there an automatic way to check even only for the number of severe bugs for a package from any of the package manager frontends ? Install the apt-listbugs package. Sounds GREAT. Tried reading or finding examples

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-25 Thread Bob Alexander
Rob Bochan wrote: I use it myself on my laptop that runs Sid, which I use for my business, to check to see if there's anything major I need to know before I upgrade anything. It runs automatically whenever I run apt-get upgrade. It's saved my butt more than once. Thank you very much Rob. Of

[Re: dnsmasq help needed]

2004-12-24 Thread Bob Alexander
Forwarding the dnsmasq problem analisys of Simon Kelley. He very smartly spotted the bug I was talking about. Happy XMas to Simon and all of you ! Bob ---BeginMessage--- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 23 23:19:37 2004 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-ifm-sid: lyb6AYqk X-ifm: VirusFree Received:

CPU Frequency scaling applet not working

2004-12-24 Thread Bob Alexander
I am running my rebuilt system and still have a few minor glitches. Please be patient :) The GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.3.1 installed from the corresponding Debian sid package now only show the CPU frequency but does not permit me to select/change to tother frequencies. Reading in

Re: CPU Frequency scaling applet not working

2004-12-24 Thread Bob Alexander
Glyn Tebbutt wrote: Did you install the cpufreqd? When it's installing (or reconfiguring) it asks if you want to run it with suid, say yes, restart cpufreqd and reload the applet, it should work now, it did for me anyway. Glynn you're a genius. I ran dpkg-reconfigure gnome-cpufreq-applet and set

Re: dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-23 Thread Bob Alexander
Sam Watkins wrote: you can watch the TTL dropping by typing repeatedly: dig www.apple.com Thank you Sam. Very interesting. But I keep on being a little confused. tcpdump -n -i eth0 port 53 shows activity for dig www.apple.com every time, while for all other names I can try, the activity on

Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
After moving/resizing my /var,/usr/tmp and /home ext3 filesystems, Partition Magic ferociously disfigured my / partition (on which there also was the .15 stage GRUB loader so I could not even boot to XP anymore). After some 9 hours I am mostly back and this time with all but / on LVMs :) Now a

ALSA mixer does not unmute the volume

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Each time I reboot and login as bob I must manually launch alsamixer and press M to unmute the main volume. Why doesn't this get remembered across reboots ? Using sid on 2.6.9 custom compiled kernel. TIA, Bob ii alsa-base 1.0.7-2ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-oss

Re: No net, kernel recompile

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Ted Parks wrote: Ifconfig lists eth0 for the Orinoco card. The first three lines: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr (then the MAC address . . .) UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

LVM warning at boot

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Can I get rid of the following errors/warning at boot time regarding my LVM setup ? TIA, Bob Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Creating device-mapper devices...done. Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Setting up LVM Volume Groups... Wed Dec 22 20:05:23 2004: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a

Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Why are so many more applications listed under Gnome's-Applications-Debian menu that directly into Gnome-Applications ? For instance the installed k3b is only in the former list under Debian menu-Apps-System and not where I would have expected it Gnome-Applciations-Multimedia (for instance).

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Paul E Condon wrote: I've been lurking on this thread. When I saw mention of Karten's system-info script I googled it and downloaded it without any problem. Your problem is probably temporary. Maybe, try again. Paul, the link is really 404. Googling did not get exactly Karsten's script but some

Re: Back from near death: exhausted. Question 1

2004-12-22 Thread Bob Alexander
Michael Marsh wrote: If I understand what you mean correctly, then it should be easy. Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you can just move one mbox file in place of another. For instance, if you have myBackupInbox, you can move that to Inbox and be ready to go. If you're trying to merge,

Moving from single to multipartition

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Dear Debian-friends, I am moving my fully updated Debian sid from a single partition to a multipartition scheme. My old monopartition which is currently alive is now on /dev/hda12 and is around 3.5 GB. The doubt I am having is how to properly move the / data to the new 70MB

Re: Moving from single to multipartition

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Scarletdown wrote: 2) Copy the old /var, /tmp, /usr and /home data onto the new partitions, delete them, copy the rest on the new / (... snip ...) 7: Update your /etc/fstab file to mount those new partitions And that is really all there is to it. Repeat the process with your other partitions.

creating a c: filename

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
My Notes client under WINE setup needs to configure a directory called dosdevice which needs to be populated by symlinks to the filesystem. These symlinks must be called c: d: etc I am not able to understand how can I create such wierd names. Tried with '' with with \: etc but nothing worked.

Re: creating a c: filename

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Robert Waldner wrote: Which filesystem do you use? On my laptop, ext3: Robert, you are a genius ! (as ALMOST all Roberts :)). I am trying to do it on a FAT32 filesystem which of course is strongly objecting :) Thank you. Bob PS Of course on ext3 it works aok PPS This is a disaster for me :( I

apt-get screwed ? please help

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
In an attempt to mount /usr normally and then remount it ro to upgrade packages I must have screwed something. Now in order to straighten things I have tried to mount the /usr rw upon boot but I still get errors. Here is what I do and related data. Any help please ??? TIA, Bob t40:/home/bob#

Re: creating a c: filename

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Paul E Condon wrote: mkdir c: also works for me. Some console messages are a bit tricky to interpret, but directory is named as you wish without any quoting. Paul, the problem was that I tried creating the c: file on a FAT32 filesystem. On ext2/3 etc it works fine. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: apt-get screwed ? please help

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Bob, hello list! On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: [...] dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2

Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Slowly building my disaster assurance strategy on top of the file backups. Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that would build a file with useful information. Here it is: lsmod lspci dpkg --get-selections sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda df uname -a Now the questions: 1) Other

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Ron Johnson wrote: 2) I would like to redirect the output to a file called with the catenation of 'uname -n'.'uname -r'.config.MMDDHHMM.txt where MMDDHHMM is a timestamp of the command execution time. How do I obtain such value ? $ date +%Y%m%d%H%M How do I create the required

Re: creating a c: filename

2004-12-21 Thread Bob Alexander
Paul E Condon wrote: The fact that mkdir c: works for ext3 (which is what I have) and not for fat32 leads me to believe that there is a rule against colon in file name that is part of the fat32 standard and is being enforced by the fat32 implementation. I am not optimistic about you finding what

dnsmasq help needed

2004-12-20 Thread Bob Alexander
using tcpdump I see that Intranet queries are resolved on my localhost by the installed dnsmasq daemon (e.g. w3.ibm.com) while external sites (e.g. www.apple.com) are always sent to the first upstream DNS each time. Why ? Thank you for any help, Bob Alexander /etc/dnsmasq.conf only has

Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Bob Alexander
the possibility of going back to some previous state of the file. Any ideas ? Thank you very much, Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help on changing partitioning scheme please

2004-12-18 Thread Bob Alexander
Situation: 1) running monopartition Debian on /dev/hda8 2) similar size spare partition on /dev/hda7 that can be sliced at will 3) /dev/hda5 FAT32 partition used as Windows XP data partition First question: I would like to transition from the monopartition to one with independent /, /home, /var,

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Bob Alexander
Alvin Oga wrote: - backup scripts are all FREE ... and all require tweeking, which users and servers you want to backup to where Thank you Alvin, what you say is very very interesting. Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just use the diff command to compare any

Any Debian package to manage Apache users ?

2003-10-27 Thread Bob Alexander
Is there some GUI to define, revoke, update passwords for Apache(2) users ??? Tried Apache Webmin but it does not and I would like to avoid using the htpasswd command line for this (many users and quite dynamic). Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

How does Debian cope with overworked mantainers ?

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Alexander
these cases (i.e. finding a new mantainer without consent of the current) ?? Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Alexander
need) and have only them and their prerequisites being installed. Take care. Bob Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto nel messaggio news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:34:07PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote: I have way too many packages installed that I do not really need. I have

Best way to prune my installation

2003-10-13 Thread Bob Alexander
help. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please help with Sarge and my network card

2003-06-21 Thread Bob Alexander
, wireless etc. Thank you. Bob Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]