Re: Alt-SysRq & kernel 2.6.8: HOWTO?

2004-10-04 Thread Piero Furiesi
>IIRC, You have to enable kernel hacking. Then the Mag-Sys-Reg-key-config >should appear. Well, I thougth that were the solution. But the "Magic SysReq" option for kernel 2.6.x is now under "Kernel debugging"... I found it! anyway, thanks.

Re: Mail on laptop

2004-10-04 Thread Koen Vermeer
Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > Of course! :-) After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > different address. >

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Marco Bellini
i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never tried it, so it's just a suggestion... http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ HTH marco On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:22, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via

Re: Mail on laptop

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Bock
Hello! I do not know wether this will help in your setup, but with esmtp you can send to different smtp relays depending on the senders address. On my laptop I have the following: I let exim deliver only local mail, including that all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, thank very much for your suggestions. Tobias Kraus wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: Hello List, I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net my laptop once it is connected: what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this. My deskt

cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, as I cannot read my battery status, my laptop went off unexpectingly. After reboot, and a fsck, and reboot again, I get the following message: INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none)

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread A. C. Censi
You can try also rdiff_backup: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html A, C, Censi On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:55:50 +0200, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > thank very much for your suggestions. > > Tobias Kraus wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerom

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 3, 2004 05:49 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:43:08PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On September 28, 2004 08:47 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0300, Der

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 4, 2004 05:43 am, Marco Bellini wrote: > i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never > tried it, so it's just a suggestion... > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ imo, the critical word there is "Rescue". I couldn't figure out a way to get Mondo to just back up

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Andrew Porter wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" > > What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? it shows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2235 Oct

Cannot get debconf version

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf ver

debconf source

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf ver

Re: Cannot get debconf version

2004-10-04 Thread Emmanuel Halbwachs
Hello, Ivan Glushkov a écrit : E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? I am not an expert at all, but : - what is the output of 'dpkg -l debconf'? - then try 'apt-get install d

Re: debconf source

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 4, 2004 12:31 pm, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Please don't start new threads to ask old questions. This is all based on an apparent corrupted partition as reported in the thread 'Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"', but people aren't going to know that from your description here. > E: Ca

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Tobias Kraus
[...] > > I was planning to do something similar: > backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. > > Yes, please send your shell script. @ML: I turned of automatic line break for this mail. Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters. Thanks. Thanks

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-04 Thread Thomas Hood
User space cannot veto APM suspend requests in current Linux kernels. What is keeping your machine from suspending is the firmware. If you have a PCMCIA card then try ejecting it before attempting to suspend. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you very much, Jerome Tobias Kraus wrote: [...] I was planning to do something similar: backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. Yes, please send your shell script. @ML: I turned of automatic line break for this mail. Please don't complain about lines longer

Amilo A1630

2004-10-04 Thread my-linux-news
Hey! I have an FSC Amilo A1630 and wanne know if anyone of you have any experience with debian on this laptop. I also wanne ask about the hardware informations. I couldn find any special informations aubout this laptop except the normal sell infos. thxAufnehmen, abschicken, nah sein - So einfach is

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-04 Thread Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to qu

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:58:28AM -0300, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi group, > > > >I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > >possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... > > > > > [snip] > > There has b

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041004 10:09]: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > > my laptop once it is connected: > > what is the best way to do so ? > > My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in t

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Tobias Kraus
Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > Hello List, > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > my laptop once it is connected: > what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop tests hourely if it is a

Re: Alt-SysRq & kernel 2.6.8: HOWTO?

2004-10-04 Thread Piero Furiesi
>IIRC, You have to enable kernel hacking. Then the Mag-Sys-Reg-key-config >should appear. Well, I thougth that were the solution. But the "Magic SysReq" option for kernel 2.6.x is now under "Kernel debugging"... I found it! anyway, thanks.

Re: Mail on laptop

2004-10-04 Thread Koen Vermeer
Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > Of course! :-) After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > different address. >

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Marco Bellini
i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never tried it, so it's just a suggestion... http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ HTH marco On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:22, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via

Re: Mail on laptop

2004-10-04 Thread Martin Bock
Hello! I do not know wether this will help in your setup, but with esmtp you can send to different smtp relays depending on the senders address. On my laptop I have the following: I let exim deliver only local mail, including that all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, thank very much for your suggestions. Tobias Kraus wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: Hello List, I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net my laptop once it is connected: what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this.

cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, as I cannot read my battery status, my laptop went off unexpectingly. After reboot, and a fsck, and reboot again, I get the following message: INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none)

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Andrew Porter
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ?

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread A. C. Censi
You can try also rdiff_backup: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html A, C, Censi On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:55:50 +0200, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > thank very much for your suggestions. > > Tobias Kraus wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerom

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-04 Thread Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due

Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 3, 2004 05:49 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:43:08PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On September 28, 2004 08:47 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0300, Der

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 4, 2004 05:43 am, Marco Bellini wrote: > i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never > tried it, so it's just a suggestion... > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ imo, the critical word there is "Rescue". I couldn't figure out a way to get Mondo to just back up

Re: broken cd-rw drive

2004-10-04 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:58:28AM -0300, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi group, > > > >I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > >possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... > > > > > [snip] > > There has b

Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Andrew Porter wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" > > What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? it shows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2235 Oct

Cannot get debconf version

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf ver

debconf source

2004-10-04 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf ver

Re: Cannot get debconf version

2004-10-04 Thread Emmanuel Halbwachs
Hello, Ivan Glushkov a écrit : E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? I am not an expert at all, but : - what is the output of 'dpkg -l debconf'? - then try 'apt-get ins

Re: debconf source

2004-10-04 Thread Derek Broughton
On October 4, 2004 12:31 pm, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Please don't start new threads to ask old questions. This is all based on an apparent corrupted partition as reported in the thread 'Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"', but people aren't going to know that from your description here. > E: Ca

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Tobias Kraus
[...] > > I was planning to do something similar: > backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. > > Yes, please send your shell script. @ML: I turned of automatic line break for this mail. Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters. Thanks. Thanks

Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?

2004-10-04 Thread Thomas Hood
User space cannot veto APM suspend requests in current Linux kernels. What is keeping your machine from suspending is the firmware. If you have a PCMCIA card then try ejecting it before attempting to suspend. -- Thomas Hood

Re: remote backup

2004-10-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you very much, Jerome Tobias Kraus wrote: [...] I was planning to do something similar: backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. Yes, please send your shell script. @ML: I turned of automatic line break for this mail. Please don't complain about lines

Amilo A1630

2004-10-04 Thread my-linux-news
Hey! I have an FSC Amilo A1630 and wanne know if anyone of you have any experience with debian on this laptop. I also wanne ask about the hardware informations. I couldn find any special informations aubout this laptop except the normal sell infos. thxAufnehmen, abschicken, nah sein - So einfach is