Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb Thank you for your suggestions. I will try this out. I am by the way using DWM for my window manager and I have an .Xdefaults file with some xterm font settings. Should I put your config

Re: All linux-image-2.6-* packages in Etch/4.0 vulnurable?

2007-08-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marcus Blumhagen: Packages I found depending on the wrong kernel version: linux-image-2.6-xen-686, linux-image-2.6-xen-vserver-686, linux-image-2.6-486, linux-image-2.6-686, linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem, linux-image-2.6-amd64, linux-image-2.6-k7,

Re: Changing the look of GTK apps from the commandline

2007-08-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: Since I don't run GNOME Environment, is there anyway I can change the look of the GTK apps from the commandline. Specifically, can i just download a theme and change a config file? Yes. Download theme, unpack it somewhere (IIRC, ~/.themes is a good place) and edit your

Re: new drive = new install?

2007-08-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
David A.: What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive and copy everything from the old one? Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWTOs available, one being

Re: Migrate debian services to a new debian system

2007-08-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay, so I want to make the asrock my server...it is quieter and uses less power. I don't have a lot of time for trouble shooting etc. so I want to plan this out so it mostly works on the first shot. My strategy is to setup each services one at a time...then transfer to

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Julian De Marchi: Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do you mean that there's nothing I can do about it? snip Silly question. No, it's not a silly question. Serena, of course you can do something about it. It's linux, afterall.

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd sources.list file

2007-09-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mostafijur Rahman: I tried to install GUI after installing my ISO CD.But I think problem in file /etc/apt/sources.list . You are messing up a few things. It is always better to describe your original problem than to ask how to accomplish what you think *might* solve your problem. So,

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd sources.list file

2007-09-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:46:50AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: If you wanted to install pure Debian stable, this is most probably not what you want. The installer should have asked you about that anyway. But well, here's what I guess is what you want/need: deb http

Re: After Installing ISO Image I cant access GUI and Nedd sources.list file

2007-09-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:12:55PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Andrei Popescu: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:46:50AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free AFAIK ftp.debian.org is kept only for legacy reasons. Thanks

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: I am looking for a tool to help me maintain a backup of a writing project. I kept all my documents (PDF, PPT, DOC, OOo, Latex etc.) from university in SVN while studying. Before I tried SVN, I had used unison but that didn't scale well to more than two computers and I couldn't

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: However the decision came down to one factor which I did not list. When I was reviewing SVN one thing popped into my head over and over, Why Perl!? What does Subversion have to do with Perl? (Not that I think your decision is wrong, I just don't know what you're referring

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. :) One of my main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since an outside editor is required it is my

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Chuck Payne: Now I am trying to get count to work with zgrep. When I do zgrep -c, I get a what I am looking for and not a count. Anyway try to play with it to figure before I crash. You may have to resort to this: gunzip -c foo_file.gz | grep -c bar_pattern J. -- When I get home from

Re: Debian Mail through Exchange Server

2007-10-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Joel Roberts: Does anyone know of a walkthrough or how to configure the Debian server to route mail messages through the Exchange server? Exchange should be able to speak plain SMTP so it isn't any different than other MTAs. You may use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4' (or whatever MTA you already

Re: Dovecot duplicating emails

2007-10-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alexander: Almost all (not quite all) emails that arrive and sit in the Inbox get copied and appear 2x, 3x . . the longer I leave it the more copies I get. This happens only to emails received during a Thunderbird session. If I shut TBird down and restart, only the emails received after

Re: why not compiled eagle adsl

2007-10-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
abdelkader belahcene: I want to install the eagle for usb adsl, but it requires the source of kernel, Why there is no compiled package as other softwares? I don't know the software, but my guess would be the reason is a problem with the license. Debian adheres to the DFSG (Debian Free

Re: online sourcecode viewer

2007-10-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: On this list some time ago there was named a web sourcecode viewer: a server to which you could register and on which you could put chunks of code so that other people could look at it. Even though your description reminds me of Sourceforge, you are probably looking for

Re: apt-get not working

2007-10-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
muthuraman.s: I use Ubuntu 7.04 and when I try to install K7(thinking to increase the speed) kernel for the PC with apt-get, I get the following error.not only for K7 it says the same message except for the package name( last word in the message). I do not know what is wrong . Reading

Re: Debian server software setup question

2007-10-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Labens: I'm interested in the Debian Linux software for use in building a home file server. I'll need it to provide print server function CUPS. as well as file backup Several options, depending on your needs. and UPS shutdown support. Depends on UPS in use. Many are supported, as

Re: updating to last sarge

2007-11-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
roberto: in order to perform a distro upgrade to debian etch i have to do the update to the last released sarge (as stated in debian official guide to this kind of upgrade) so i have to change the occurrences of stable in my /etc/apt/sources.list to sarge If you are currently using stable

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jean-Louis Crouzet: #cat sip.conf | grep -v ^; That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do grep -v '^;' sip.conf If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace followed by a ';' as well, do grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' J. -- When standing at the top of

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Randy Patterson - [Tech]: In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jean-Louis Crouzet: Jochen Schulz wrote: If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace followed by a ';' as well, do grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' OK thanks for the tip now running. I still need display line such as bindport=5060 ; UDP Port to bind

Re: Sid/Unstable

2007-11-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff Grossman: [...] How dangerous would it be for me to move completely to unstable? I do not think it would be particularly dangerous. Security updates generally reach sid quite fast (but, of course, without guarantee). But with about seven years of Debian experience, I still refrain from

Re: Suggest core2duo motherboard for debian.

2007-11-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Semih Gokalp: Hi.I have Asus P5K SE motherboard and can not install debian etch amd64. When I try install debian etch,cd-rom device not mount so i can not install. You might try to use thew installer for lenny, since it contains a more recent kernel. At http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ you even

Re: updates in Sid

2007-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank McCormick: I usually run aptitude updating my Sid system every two or three days but lately (the past week or so) there are no new packages. Is it possible I did something with aptitude to cause it to ignore new stuff ? No. There was a problem with Debian's build machine, but now

Re: any pages listing text mode resolutions of video cards?

2007-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel B.: Kevin, And setting vga=771 or similar in your kernel options? Yes. I've been using vga=10 in my kernel options (via LILO) to set the virtual console text mode resolution at boot time. I am not absolutely sure, but I don't think vga=10 gives you a real framebuffer. It just

Re: disk failure

2007-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: 'tiger' just told me various home directories are unavailable and upon further investigation I see disk errors. Here's the first reports I can find regarding said hard drive: Nov 13 02:23:01 ratty /USR/SBIN/CRON[19292]: (michael) CMD (rsync -r -v -P --links --stats

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

2007-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: I have a partition that I'm mounting in a specific user's home directory, and want that user to be able to read/write to that partition. However, I've been unable to find (google, man, etc) any way to accomplish this; the few hints I have found indicate it works fine with a

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

2007-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: Jochen Schulz wrote: Are you aware that you only need to tweak the permissions to your liking once? Just create an ext2/3 filesystem, mount it as root and then change the permissions of the mount point. This will affect the root directory of your new file system and doesn't

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
André Wendt: I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't

Re: debian ISO question

2007-11-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Quitoriano: im new to debian im looking which version should i download. i can see the stable version is 4.0 but when i look for the ISO i only see debian-4.0r1? is this the latest? or is it a release candidate? No, the 'r' stands for revision. When downloading an image, always pick the

Re: Anyone using icewm on Sid?

2007-11-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anthony Campbell: Following today's upgrade on Sid I've started getting complete lockups in X. I thought at first it was a bug in xserver-xorg and submitted a bug report but now I think it's to do with icewm. Same here with current IceWM and X.org from unstable. The machine wasn't completely

Re: Anyone using icewm on Sid?

2007-11-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:46:23PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: Yep, happens to me too, with icewm-session and -experimental. Something is definitely wrong as the graphics in the toolbar are all messed up. According to the aptitude log, icewm wasn't updated (on my

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: What I'm concerned about is the chord names (A, D, etc) need to line up with the word where the chords change, which means exact placement will be necessary. I currently do this in OO.o with a monospace font and manually spacing over to where the chord name goes. I am sure this

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kent West: Looks promising, but the learning curve appears to be a right-angle. From page 2 of the manual: If you are not familiar with TEX at all I would recommend to find another software package to do musical typesetting. Setting up TEX and MusiXTEX on your machine and mastering it is

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonas Geiregat: Hello, At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dave Ewart: On Tuesday, 06.03.2007 at 10:48 -0600, John Hasler wrote: It it my understanding (which may be obsolete or even simply erroneous) that in Germany computer games are not to be made available to children unless they have been approved and that the approval costs money. This is

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partitions?

2007-03-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Johannes Wiedersich: The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first). Just in case you don't know already: you can change that with tune2fs. What is a reasonable schedule for a server or a workstation? I

Re: convert the DVD region

2007-03-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
gustavo halperin: There are any way to rip a DVD region 4 and make a new DVD but with another region ?? Self-burned DVD generally do not contain a region code, so they can be played on any player. I found this quite interesting page on this topic:

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3 - 2.3.8-2 (etch)

2007-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Shuler: Today's postfix update has broken my smtp configuration, I had the same issue and solved it temporarily by installing OpenSSL from unstable. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415670. The release manager noted that unstable's version of OpenSSL won't be

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jian Jun Wang: I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon 3. edit

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrew Sackville-West: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that dock into a system tray? I use orage a little and its okay. Don't know if it works outside xfce though... Yes it does. I don't know

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Florian Kulzer: My impression is that most, if not all, of the dist-upgrade problems posted here are related to going to testing before it is released, or even involve unstable and experimental. + a lot of the problems only occur because many people *always* use dist-upgrade *and* they do

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and put '@startup fetchmail' (no quotes in either case). Then, whenever your machine starts up, it should start fetchmail for you. Shouldn't it also put a symlink

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sánchez: To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and put '@startup fetchmail' Oh, and BTW: it's @reboot, not @startup. :) J. -- I worry about people thinking I have lost direction. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/22/07 08:18, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and put '@startup fetchmail' (no quotes in either case). Then, whenever your machine starts up, it should start

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/22/07 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: If your /etc/fetchmailrc is empty anyway, you can edit /etc/default/fetchmail to disable the system-wide fetchmail daemon altogether. This solution has the advantage, that every user can manage his/her own POP accounts (without the admin

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sánchez: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:21:45PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez: To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and put '@startup fetchmail' Oh, and BTW: it's @reboot, not @startup. :) Doh! My mistake. I was going from memory

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Greg Folkert: On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Yes. On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway. ^ users You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set to run every 10-30 minutes. Much

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

2007-03-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: [...] Why created multiple daemons for activity that's going to run every X number of minutes, when cron is already specialized for that purpose? It just doesn't hurt. Maybe one could even argue that letting fetchmail run in daemon mode takes less resources over time than

Re: Measuring optimizing broadband speed

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach: I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line. To monitor interface throughput, I often use nload. It shows an ASCII graph and cur/max/avg bandwith usage. I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the

Re: Linux network security poll

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Zach: I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering if list members could explain their security setup (network configuration, DMZ, firewalls, IDS, logging, etc.). I just have a router between the

Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dawn Light: Some incoming messages are adressed to the office and some are addressed to the various architects ( There is only one E-mail address). Thus anyone who wishes to read his incoming messages and send messages needs to physically go and use the workstation with the mail client.

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis G. Wicks: IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading might be the answer to my problems. It may be the answer, but upgrading to sid will pose a whole lot of new questions. If you don't know how to upgrade, you probably

Re: Java Plugin for Iceweasel for AMD 64 bit Debian?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amogh Hooshdar: I have Debian installed on AMD 64 bit laptop. How can I install the java plugin for iceweasel? You can't, since there is none. I have heard that Sun has not released a Java plugin for AMD 64-bit. Is this true? Yes. Your only option is to install a 32bit chroot with Firefox

Re: How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Martin Mewes: Javier Vasquez schrieb: Then the rest is kind of recipy for upgrading: -- aptitude clean -- aptitude update -- aptitude safe-upgrade -- aptitude full-upgrade If _I_ do this nearly the complete system would be erased when I _would_

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 02/11/08 09:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: /me wonders just how much more he has to learn before he thinks that he knows a reasonable amount about Linux... Very few people are true, complete *ix gurus anymore... According to this mail2phpBB gateway, at least I am a

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Micaela Gallerini: On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. [...] Lyx it's another substitute also it's not very easy. Lyx can only be used to create PDF files. To my knowledge, you cannot use it to edit existing files. J. -- I enjoy

Re: Problem changing display color in 'ls'

2008-02-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Salmon: The real problem is my 72 year old eyes. I have a lot of trouble reading some of the pre-selected list colors in 'ls'. If you are using some terminal emulator in X, the easiest solution is to change the colors for this terminal. gnome-terminal, xfce4-terminal (which is what I

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

2008-02-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Russell L. Harris: Over the years, every time I have reinstalled Debian, I have saved the mail files. Now I have a dozen or more files, with many duplicate messages. Mbox files? Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach whereby I can process these mail files to

Re: windings and acroread

2008-02-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ulrich Scholz: Dear all, I'm using Acrobat Reader 7.0 with Debian testing. On viewing a document, I get the error Cannot find or create the font 'Windings'. Some characters may not display or print correctly. It's probably Wingdings and you should get it when installing

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: I am curious, do you think this is done in LaTeX? -- snip http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/820-0176/820-0176.pdf It doesn't look like it is: $ pdfinfo 820-0176.pdf Title: Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:XPP Producer: Acrobat

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sunnz: The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux distros, the

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore but it involves telling the kernel how

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-02-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: Jochen Schulz wrote: My question is: are there any known limits on the amount of RAM Lenny can operate with? No, but I think you have hit a problem Linux has with certain mainboards that I have read about a few times already. I don't know the exact solution anymore

Re: apt-get update on ftp.uk.debian.org

2008-02-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alle Meije Wink: Err ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org stable Release.gpg Could not connect data socket, connection timed out The mirror is either temporarily broken or down for good, Just use another one, there's nothing else you can do. J. -- I frequently find myself at the top of the stairs with

Re: Newsreader question

2008-02-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Hasler: Zoho writes: I follow debian-user by reading it from Pan (a newsgroup reader). I am wondering if anyone knows of software that I can run on my server that makes all my subscribed newsgroups available through a web interface? Install Leafnode and you will be able to read

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

2008-02-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: What is the best tweak to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in order to enable my kernel to recognise and utilise the additional RAM? Looking through this file, the relevant section appears to be this commented part: ## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option ## e.g.

Re: Additional RAM brings Lenny to a slow-down

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
andy: I added mem=2048M to the end of the line so that it now reads: # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet mem=2048M And ran /usr/sbin/update-grub and rebooted. It still took just under 10 minutes to get back to login at the gdm screen, so I am at a complete loss now. Try a few megs

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 02/29/08 14:43, Jochen Schulz wrote: Which still leaves the question how to synchronize messages status (read/unread) across multiple computers. Some time ago I used slrnpull for offline reading and copied my .newsrc back and forth, but that was a real pain. Well, X

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kevin Coyner: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote.. And I am still searching for a decent console newsreader that supports UTF-8, so if anybody can recommend one... Not sure if it supports UTF-8 or not, but have a look at newsbeuter. Newsbeuter is an RSS

Re: Tweaking /boot/grub/menu.lst to use 2GB RAM

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jeff D: You really shouldn't have to add anything to see 2G of ram. If you aren't I suspect that there is something else going on with your system. It's a hardware and/or Linux bug. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nuclear apocalypse.

Re: Newsreader question

2008-03-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/01/08 12:46, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: Well, X is network transparent, so why not just run the app on node_a, and display it on current_node? *Offline* reading. Irrelevant to the point at hand. No. Offline like using my laptop while commuting and the machine

Re: what is where in the iso-images

2008-03-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Debian-Website is embarassing! That's not exactly the word I would have used, but I tend to agree. Where are the hints that if you want a debian with kde, you should download this file: [filename]? What gives you the impression that you need a specific image to

Re: sensors

2008-03-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Willem Stumpel: -12V:+1.70 V (min = -13.76 V, max = -14.91 V) V5SB:+5.05 V (min = +0.27 V, max = +3.44 V) VBat:+0.16 V (min = +0.59 V, max = +3.20 V) fan1: 0 RPM (min = 164 RPM, div = 128) CPU Fan:1854 RPM (min = -1 RPM, div = 4) fan3:

Re: /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size]

2008-03-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: After recent Exim4 setup on a new Debian 4.0r3 installed mail server I'm seeing this error; '/var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero size' This logfile contains the info you need. If you don't understand it, post it here. J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Brosius: I installed debian 4.0 r3 amd64 on my laptop an Acer Aspire 9920. The graphic card is Nvidia 8600M. The installation went well until after the reboot. Then the X server didn't start. I installed then with apt the debian package nvidia-glx. But when I then start X I get a

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/13/08 01:23, Jan Brosius wrote: I there nothing I can do to install debian on my laptop. Sure. People do it all the time. People install Debian on his laptop all the time? :) Since you can't get in via a normal boot, I suggest that you use a LiveCD and disable

Re: X doesn't start after installing debian

2008-03-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 03/13/08 15:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: At least with gdm, if X doesn't come up after three attempts, it offers you to view the X log file and then drops you into console login. Well that's interesting. Does it mean that you've got to reboot 3 times? (Not that that's bad

Re: DVD life-cycle

2008-03-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nuno Magalhães: - rip a DVD into a suitable format: divX, whatever. I'd like to make sure the ripped version is an exact bit-by-bit copy of the original - for backup purposes mom! - but that's not reeelly necessary. As long as i have the video, audio and subtitle tracks well-defined and

Re: Apt Database Recovery

2008-03-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: I have been getting this when upgrading: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/apt-listchanges, line 227, in ? main() File /usr/bin/apt-listchanges, line 148, in main seen.close() File /usr/lib/python2.4/bsddb/__init__.py, line 237, in close v =

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives. J. -- Whenever I hear the word 'art' I reach for my visa card. [Agree]

Re: Addons and Iceweasel

2008-03-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Walt L. Williams: How can I get my favorite firefox addons to work with iceweasel The same way you do it with Firefox. Additionally, some addons are available as Debian packages and can be installed system-wide. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised

Re: AT Package Requires Courier MTA

2008-03-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrei Popescu: at depends on mail-transport-agent provided by courier-mta. Just pick your favorite and install it along with at like: aptitude install at postfix Or to get a list of all packages providing mail-transport-agent: $ aptitude search ~Pmail-transport-agent p

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Russell L. Harris: Such remote maintenance of the server from a machine in the LAN becomes tedious unless there is on each machine an account with the same username, password, and passphrase. Not true. You can log into another machine with any username you want. Either you

Re: Wireless

2008-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonathan Smith: What is the best way to obtain wireless internet on Debian. I have version 4.0. Get supported hardware, install wireless-tools and configure the new ethernet device. In other words: be more specific. What's your current state concerning your problem, what did you try already

Re: Partition not mounting

2008-04-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank: Recently my Debian Sid installation has stopped mounting second partition (/dev/hda3) on boot. As far as I know nothing has changed. What does 'mount /dev/hda3' print when executed as root? If it looks like an error, what are the last few lines from 'dmesg'? J. -- Thy lyrics in pop

Re: [OT] reStructured Text real world usage

2008-04-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Amit Uttamchandani: I usually have to type up the notes pretty quick in class and sometimes with LaTex, typing up \item and \textit{}...takes sometime... Take a look at the vim-scripts package. It contains a quite impressive LaTex mode. It takes some time to learn how to use it, though. But

Re: Question about how aptitude search is used

2008-04-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Burrows: In the current CLI, aptitude search blah searches for packages whose name contains blah. In contrast, apt-cache search blah searches both package names and descriptions. Which is the reason why I am almost exclusively using apt-cache for searches (and probably the reason

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: when I migrated to amd64, I did nothing special for flash, and it seems to just work... (Now I'm thinking I need to go check). In theory, in sid, you use nsplugin-wrapper to allow 32bit flash to run on 64bit systems.

Re: bash script question

2008-04-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ken Irving: If you want to remove the .svn/ directories and everything within them, something like this should work (remove the 'echo' if the output looks ok): $ cd starting/directory $ find . -type d -name .svn -exec echo rm -r {} \; GNU find also accepts the parameter (or better:

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

2008-04-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kyle Barbour: dpkg: failed to write status record about `vlc-nox' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device Run 'apt-get clean' and see how much free space you get. Apt stores downloaded debs locally and never deletes them until asked to do so. J. -- I have been manipulated and

Re: Webalizer Seizes to work after a cronjob addendum

2008-04-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Marvin L. Magsino: it says /var/log/apache2/access.log.1 could not be read. i checked the /var/log/apache2/ and found out that only access.log exists. i guess it is not generating access.log.1 because of the crontab i made. Usually, the program logrotate moves access.log to access.log.1

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
NN_il_Confusionario: I suspect that when the power supply is completely off (first case), then the harware (the nic) loses the status that makes it able to wake on lan (a manual boot, with the re-initialization of the nic by the bios would be necessary to re-enter the wake on lan status)

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

2008-04-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonathan Kaye: Thanks for the link. Just to be sure I understand, in my /boot/grub/menu.lst file I have this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro I should change this line to kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe Is this the

Re: banshee transition - or worse?

2008-04-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Enno Weichert: First I supposed this is a transition problem with banshee and stayed calm but now I am not so sure anymore. And if it's not I'm not sure where the error may be found. Since this is lasting for a week now I just thought I might ask the public. What exactly is your question,

Re: cli for iso files

2007-01-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Grieveson: Hello. I'm looking for a command line iso cd-burner application to use instead of nautilus-cd-burner. I tried the package burn, but it does not work. What does not work? Maybe I can help. I am using it, too, and have looked at the (quite ugly) source a few times. I'm

Re: mounting the minimum

2007-01-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
gustavo halperin: I have some kernel-modules questions: After the linux SO was started, can I check which modules of /etc/modules was successfully mounted and aren't in use? First: you do not mount modules, you just load them. Then: yes, lsmod may help you with that. But there is no way to

Re: SSH doesn't work with RSA keys

2007-01-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alejandro: People, I have generated the key pair RSA from my root linux's user and then I copy my RSA public key to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys from the linux ssh server. Good. After that I edit the sshd_config file and put permit rootlogin no Erm, to permit means to allow. You just locked

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