Re: FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

2003-09-13 Thread Robert Storey
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:43:12 -0400 Peter Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that Winsock reference mean that only software running under > Windows can get through??? I've used Kbear and Konqueror successfully > to ftp to other sites... I encountered something like this once. Somebody

Re: priority of find

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:07:15AM +0200, joachim klamann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Im using debian 3.0 on a laptop with 64 mb ram and 4 gb harddisk. > Processor is Intel Celeron 366. Every time I boot >>find<< is running, > consuming most of the power and blocking every other process. How >

Re: what is password to set mysql root user password?

2003-09-13 Thread Wayne Gemmell
By default root is set to have no password on the local machine. On Sunday 14 September 2003 06:01, Daniel B. wrote: > The mysql-server package says (e.g., in > /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian) to set the MySQL root user > password using: > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-

Installation of Sid from CD part 2

2003-09-13 Thread Heiko Baums
It seems that my mail was cutted by the server. So here's the second part: 4. Scan every CD of Sid one after the other starting with the last CD (CD 11) backwards to the first CD (CD 1) with the command 'apt-cdrom add'. 5. Remove the lines for the Woody CDs in the file '/etc/apt/sources.list'.

Installation of Sid from CD

2003-09-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi, for everyone who had problems with the installation of Sid from CD a short report about my attempts and the meanwhile resolved problems with it. I'm not a Linux but a Debian novice who wanted to look at Debian a bit closer. Because of the actuality of the software I wanted to install Sid d

Re: simple audio recording

2003-09-13 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Michael West wrote: I would like to record single track audio to my computer. I do not need to sync to video, I have little interest in editing. However, I would like high quality recordings. What do I need from a software/hardware side to record org-vorbis or wav files from a high quality micr

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Joachim Förster wrote: Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tom Allison said: Jacob Anawalt wrote: Joachim Förster said: Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk cache, logs and other status

simple audio recording

2003-09-13 Thread Michael West
I would like to record single track audio to my computer. I do not need to sync to video, I have little interest in editing. However, I would like high quality recordings. What do I need from a software/hardware side to record org-vorbis or wav files from a high quality microphone? -- "In the

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-13 Thread Josh Rehman
Andy Firman wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor, whereas rugged rel

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-13 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Pigeon wrote: [snip] Conclusion: DOS can't cope with the presence of non-DOS extended partitions. How dead and chewed. So it seems that the options are something like: - don't have a Linux partition on that drive at all - don't have your second DOS partition, so there can be room for the ext2 p

directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-13 Thread Mental Patient
Anyone using this setup? I recently switched my Geforce3 for a Radeon. I have glx/X11 stuff working fine, but was wondering about getting directfb working. I've tried passing vga=791 at the grub prompt, as well as video=radeonfb, but the console stays black until X starts (gdm). Anyone have thi

Re: NFS share: cannot write

2003-09-13 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Clive Menzies wrote: On (13/09/03 01:32), Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can mount it from the allowed computer, but I cannot write to it from the client 8-? Here are the configs: Server: - - quiniserver:/# cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: the a

what is password to set mysql root user password?

2003-09-13 Thread Daniel B.
The mysql-server package says (e.g., in /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian) to set the MySQL root user password using: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' However, when I try that, it asks for a password. So what is the password I need to enter to set the password?

screen -- won't start on remotely displayed rxvt

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm running remote X display (essentially an X terminal) in which the X server is on a local system and clients are run remotely from another system on my LAN. This is via tcp X connections, not an SSH tunnel. I'm finding that I cannot run 'screen' in this configuration. However: - Locally la

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:27, Tom Allison wrote: > Tom Allison wrote: > > I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: > > private socket dir: Permission denied" > > > > Root works fine, but no one else does. > > > > help? > > I was searching through the archives and found

Followup report (was Re: Galeon 1.2.5 proxy settings not respected consistently)

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:01:32PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm using Galeon 1.2.5 on testing/unstable. > > My proxy settings aren't being consistently applied. They appear to be > accepted and working properly for some period of time, but then fail to > work for no app

Re: ..chroot-installs onto RAID-1 disks ,was: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:31:38 -0400, > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:31, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > ..has anyone tried us

cannot get anything from dhcp

2003-09-13 Thread tvn
I have a problem requesting dhcp from my laptop's wired ethernet card, a Broadcom integrated nic, using driver bcm4400. In /etc/networking/interface I already have auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and I use dhclient to get the ip. It just can't seem to get anything from the dhcp server, after

Re: FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

2003-09-13 Thread Juri Haberland
Peter Christensen schrieb: > But recently I wanted to FTP a photo to the "personal web space" that my ISP > provides. I've been unable to do this, and have not found any information on > what is going wrong. I wonder if some servers are set up so that only > Windows applications can access th

FTP only with Windows? Why not Linux?

2003-09-13 Thread Peter Christensen
Dear Debian Users, I've been using Debian for about a year now. It's been challenging, but also very rewarding. Searching this list in Google Groups under muc.lists.debian.user has been a wonderful resource. But recently I wanted to FTP a photo to the "personal web space" that my ISP provi

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Re: talk & talkd [Solved]

2003-09-13 Thread Davi Leal
Davi Leal wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid), updated today: > > I have installed: > talk 0.17-7 > talkd 0.17-7 > > > When I execute "talk user" I get: > > Error on read from talk daemon: > Connection refused. Press any key... > > > What can I do?. Solved installing the xinetd packa

Re: Browser problems

2003-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:32:45PM -0500, Patrick Klee wrote: > I can't start Galeon, Konqueror OR Mozilla. I don't know the answer to your specific problem (because I run testing) but you need to be more specific. What does "can't start" mean? When you click the icon nothing happens? If t

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-13 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:33:22PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 09:38, Pigeon wrote: > > (preliminaries snipped) > The Linux boot floppy is a bit more tricky.I thought I'd better first > delete the existing Linux partitons on the drive using cfdisk rather than DOS > fdisk

Apt-get, re-installing a debian system

2003-09-13 Thread TongKe Xue
Hello, I just re-installed my debian system (switched to testing/unstable to try out the newer XFree86; decided to switch back to stable + install XFree86 4.3.0 manually), and when I installed X-windows, KDE, and a bunch of developer tools, it seemed to me as if quite a lot of the files were bei

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:09:02PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:27:26 -0400, > >Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>I was searching through the archives and found this earlier. > >>Apparently the problem is in

Remote sound

2003-09-13 Thread David Corbin
I know there are several packages available for doing "remote sound" (where the speakers are on a PC other than the application producing the sound). I'm just looking for basic sound stuff. Nothing fancy. Which package do people recommend? -- David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBS

Re: insmod tun fails. modprobe tun succeeds.

2003-09-13 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 01:33:43 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez wrote: > No bug, just the behavior of the program. You probably want to stick to > modprobe anyway. Turns out that with the version of insmod that is for kernels 2.5.48 and above, one should either specify the path or use modprobe.

Re: change $PATH system-wide?

2003-09-13 Thread HdV
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, David Morse wrote: > I would like to add /usr/yokel/bin to my PATH system-wide. I can't find > what config file to use. /etc/profile doesn't do it. As far as I know /etc/profile is read by all Bourne Shell derivatives if you start up a login shell. Did you verify this by lo

Browser problems

2003-09-13 Thread Patrick Klee
Hello fellow Debian users. I was wondering if anyone running Sid/Unstable on an AMD Duron with 256MB of RAM has been experiencing problems on i386 getting browsers to work? I can't start Galeon, Konqueror OR Mozilla. I need mozilla becuase I installed Java and play Runescape. I have KDE 3.1.3

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Allison
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:27:26 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Tom Allison wrote: I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied" Root works fine, but no one else does.

Problem installing Debian on a Gateway m500 notebook

2003-09-13 Thread Hooman
Hi all, I am trying to install Debian on a Gateway m500 notebook. Installation of the main modules and kernel goes very smoothly. I didn't select anything extra to the basic operating system with 'tasksel'. After the installation finished and I rebooted the system, a lot of numbers scrolled on the

Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > > and if you really wanna tune your hd, use the proper partition order > > sizes and locations on the disk platter ... > What do you exactly mean with "proper partition order sizes and locations on the > disk platter"? Could you please be more con

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:27:26 -0400, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom Allison wrote: > > I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: > > private socket dir: Permission denied" > > > > Root works fine, but no one else does. > >

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-13 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:29, csj wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > Is it that much work to, as Osamu Aoki said, change the priority > or downgrade the bug? Then I'd know how I stand WRT package. I > know its limits, especially when the author or maintainer rants > "Yyyou moron, that

Problems after moving root partition

2003-09-13 Thread Wayne Gemmell
Hi all, I crashed kde and my whole system by trying to stop k3b from erasing a CD and ended up with files system problems. I then copied all that was possible to a temp directory and did a much needed revamp of my partitions and as a result of this my root is now hda3 where it used to be hda10.

Re: apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread David Z Maze
tongKe Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (2) I want to be able to post to debian-user, but read in digest > mode ... I started out subscribing to debian-user-digest, but then > realized I didn't know how to post, debian-user doesn't place any particular restrictions on who can post; it's fine t

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sam, 2003-09-13 at 23:54, David Palmer wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > > Woody. I've successfully upgraded

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread David Palmer
On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs > when I try to start i

Re: installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied" Root works fine, but no one else does. help? I was searching through the archives and found this earlier. Apparently the problem is in /tmp. it's owned by root.root an

Re: apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:18:05AM -0700, tongKe Xue wrote: > Hello, > > (2) I want to be able to post to debian-user, but read in digest > mode ... I started out subscribing to debian-user-digest, but then > realized I didn't know how to post, so I unsubscribed from > debian-user-digest, and su

Re: Fortune and KMail

2003-09-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 20:29:02 +0200, Mark Annandale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Guys > > Could someone explain to me how to add 'fortune' onto the end of my > signature file. My signature is obtained from 'output of command > cat > sig', however adding && fortu

installing X from -testing

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Allison
I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied" Root works fine, but no one else does. help? -- There's just something I don't like about Virginia; the state. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

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2003-09-13 Thread wen
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2003-09-13 Thread wen
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Re: hdparm, hard drive howto, tutorial

2003-09-13 Thread Antonio Rodr
> and if you really wanna tune your hd, use the proper partition order > sizes and locations on the disk platter > > c ya > alvin What do you exactly mean with "proper partition order sizes and locations on the disk platter"? Could you please be more concrete? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

change $PATH system-wide?

2003-09-13 Thread David Morse
I would like to add /usr/yokel/bin to my PATH system-wide. I can't find what config file to use. /etc/profile doesn't do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc broken?

2003-09-13 Thread Andrea Tasso
if you have another linux box installed on another partition, boot it and then mount the corrupted one and reinstall libc6 to that target, with the --root option of dpkg. If you have not, two choices: try to do what above with the deb install cd, or install a small box on a free partition and g

Fortune and KMail

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Could someone explain to me how to add 'fortune' onto the end of my signature file. My signature is obtained from 'output of command > cat sig', however adding && fortune to the end of cat sig produces and error - Failed to execute signature script cat sig && fortune: Unknown error 127

talk & talkd

2003-09-13 Thread Davi Leal
Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid), updated today: I have installed: talk 0.17-7 talkd 0.17-7 When I execute "talk user" I get: Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any key... What can I do?. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:39:01AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Silent hard disk? Buy a Seagate barracuda with FDB. I've got an > ST340016A, which runs at less than 2.5 bels (read: inaudible) even when > seeking. They make larger models as well that don't go above 2.5bels as > well. These drive

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-13 Thread Julian Hernandez
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:00:16 +0200, Mark Maas wrote: > Thanks oliver, > > I only did "apt-get install mysql-server" after which I did "mysqladmin -u > root -p create moregroupware" > > Nothing... Same error with our without the "-p" > > If a root password has been set, it has been during dow

..use formail to split digests, was: apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:18:05 -0700 (PDT), tongKe Xue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (2) I want to be able to post to debian-user, but read in digest > mode ... I started out subscribing to debian-user-digest, but then > realized I didn't know how to post, so I un

Re: apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread TongKe Xue
Hello, It's weird replying to my own post, but a few minor corrections. (1) somewhat useless: the from should have said "TongKe" rather than "tongKe" -- didn't realize it until now, when I got a copy of my own email, d'oh (2) for the XFree86 question, for ATI graphics card, are there any c

libc broken?

2003-09-13 Thread Raul Montagne
Hi! Suppose that when I was trying to apt-get install imagemagick and upgrading "some" libraries, one of the libraries was libc6... and was not completely upgradedit might be broken giving as a result an useless linux installationisn't it? In fact, the booting process just freezes! 1.- how

Re: Broken mail - Upgrade Exim3 to Exim4

2003-09-13 Thread Russ Cook
I have a very basic setup - a smarthost that I dial up to, and a local network (lan) in my home. My error was with the local interfaces option - I specified specific IP addresses for all machines on my network, instead of using the default. I used dpkg-reconfigure to go back and correct my mistake

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:33:16 +0200 "Stefan Waidele jun." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster wrote: > > [...] > > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty > > disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? > > You might try running squid chrooted

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
--- Brian C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with > Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs > when I try to start it.

Re: per-user localization

2003-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:24:40AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > How is per-user localization handled in debian? I'm used to the > Mandrake method of having a ~/.i18n that containts stuff like this: Just set the LANG environment variable, or LC_whatever if you need something more specific, in

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:29:42AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > Colin Watson wrote: > > That's entirely up to the maintainer of the package and/or any > > other random people who happen to look at it. Forget policy > > here, it's a matter of people having time and inter

apt-get, debian-user-digest, xfree86

2003-09-13 Thread tongKe Xue
Hello, I have a couple of questions: (1) Anyone know what algorithm apt-get uses to determine the speed at which files are downloaded? I tried apt-get on a package earlier, then canceled it, and then tried apt-get again, and for two or three brief seconds, it reported at downloading at about t

Samsung usb gdi printer (ML-1710), system freezes periodically

2003-09-13 Thread Loren King
Hi, I have the most recent release of Debian running with a very recent version of the linux kernel, and I recently added a Samsung usb printer (ML-1710). I had it up and running using the corrected *.ppd file at linuxprinting.org, and I'm using cups and foomatic. My problem is this: things will

Video Card for Woody

2003-09-13 Thread Brian C
Hi, I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with Woody. I've successfully upgraded XFree86 to unstable but X still barfs when I try to start it. (mga_hal module doesn't exist, etc.) Anyway, that's no

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-13 Thread John Hasler
csj writes: > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? No. "make config" and "make menuconfig" still work. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-13 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 08:29:42AM +0800, csj wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > That's entirely up to the maintainer of the package and/or any > > other random people who happen to look at it. Forget policy > > here, it's a matter of people having time and in

DriveStatusError BadCRC

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Allison
I need some help. I have a FIC SD-11 motherboard and a hard drive that keeps dumping out the above error whenever dma is enabled. hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } I am running kernel 2.4.14-2.4.22 and they have all

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-13 Thread csj
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0800, csj wrote: > > I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. > > > > I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're > > too expensive to fix or upstream thinks they're a "feature").

Re: gs-fonts ruin wmaker desktop

2003-09-13 Thread csj
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:35:57 -0400 (EDT), John Holland wrote: > > I recently installed Debian (mixed stable/unstable) on a > laptop. I wanted the nice look of anti-aliased > fonts. Everything looks great but I found that if the gs-fonts > were installed it wrecked my wmaker desktop and other gui >

Re: bug tracking

2003-09-13 Thread csj
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:38:20 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [1 ] > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 04:02, csj wrote: > > I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. > > > > I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're > > too expensive to fix or upstream thinks they're a "feature"). > >

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

2003-09-13 Thread csj
At 12 Sep 2003 23:30:19 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > Has anyone been able to successfully use this package? I > installed it but make xconfig just dies with a million errors, > all coming out of scripts/kconfig/qconf.o. > > For reference, I have installed libqt-dev, so I thought I would > be go

Re: Broken mail - Upgrade Exim3 to Exim4

2003-09-13 Thread csj
At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:53:40 -0500 (CDT), Russ Cook wrote: > > Please disregard my request for help. I ran dpkg-reconfigure > exim4-config and paid closer attention to my responses and the > prompts offered. All now appears to run properly. I'm a happy > camper. Mind sharing your experience?

Samsung 1710 laser printer?

2003-09-13 Thread ccn
Any success or failure stories under Debian? Thanks, ccn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Maas
I got that as well? I must be missing something... - Original Message - From: "Elie De Brauwer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Mysql question. > When you go to > /etc/mysql/ > and l

Re: security update broke X

2003-09-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 03:36, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have made the security update on a woody box. Now my X seams broken: > > On the top of the screen there's a region showing garbage and the mouse > > can be moved, but the mouse keys do not wor

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Michael D Schleif
Jacob Anawalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:09:12:14:47:04-0600] scribed: > If I just wanted quiet a firewall and router, I'd go with some netgear > router or similar device. The LRP (www.linuxrouter.org) seemed to be > moving towards doing basically what these ~ $50.00 (U.S.) devices do. It's > a 'D

per-user localization

2003-09-13 Thread Wesley J Landaker
Hi folks, How is per-user localization handled in debian? I'm used to the Mandrake method of having a ~/.i18n that containts stuff like this: LC_TELEPHONE=en_US LC_PAPER=en_US LC_NAME=en_US LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_TIME=

Mozilla fonts

2003-09-13 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
The newer mozillas, e.g. Sid's mozilla-snapshot, have 'default' fonts which I rather like (of course, 'there is no accounting for tastes'). In the Preferences menu, the serif font is just called 'serif', the monospace font is called 'monospace'. I found that (at least on my system) these are in re

Re: dvd::rip / transcode

2003-09-13 Thread David Fokkema
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 01:35:53PM +0200, daniel wrote: > Well, it seems we have been passing through the same difficulties or > similar. This week has been the first time I have tried dvdrip. > > In my case im encoding in divx5 format.. > > Well, I finally got to transcode and making a good avi

Re: just get the changelog

2003-09-13 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:01:05 +0800 Dan Jacobson wrote: > What is the URL these days to just get a changelog? I use http://people.debian.org/~noel/changelogs/ -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: best laptops for debian linux

2003-09-13 Thread Ian Silvester
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:12:47AM -0700, Jon wrote: I'm looking to buy a laptop that can easily be set up to run debian linux. I do not need a high end graphics card, nor is there a real need for a big screen. Being light weight is not a primary factor, whereas rugged reliability would be. Can

Re: kernel 2.4.22

2003-09-13 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:36, JG wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Any word on when 2.4.22 might make it into sid? > > Tomorrow. (it is in incoming.debian.org today). > and the matching alsa-modules ? Currently 2.4.21 is in sid but alsa-modules 2.4.20! Andreas

Re: security update broke X

2003-09-13 Thread Paul E Condon
Some extra info. to help whoever may be concerned: I did the update from inside a screen of multi-gnome terminal while running X. It worked without any strangeness. I started the upgrade just before going to bed. This morning it was complete. I read my mail. Saw the post to which I'm responding. R

Re: dvd::rip / transcode

2003-09-13 Thread daniel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fokkema wrote: | Hi group, | | I use the packages video-dvdrip and transcode from Christian Marillat. | When I rip a dvd, everything works fine, but when I try to transcode it, | nothings seems to work. Using two-pass encoding, the first pass work

Re: ssh-agent not the mother of all my processes?

2003-09-13 Thread HdV
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Neo wrote: > using debian woody close to a year, still learning every > day, and running more and more in more difficult to answer > questions. I know the feeling }:-) > To propagate the ssh-agent values to all your processes > it is started as one of your first

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:47:04 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Allison said: > > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > >> Joachim Förster said: > >> > >>>Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > >>>cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
Hi! On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:30:29 -0400 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jacob Anawalt wrote: > > Tom Allison said: > > > >>Jacob Anawalt wrote: > >> > >>>Joachim Förster said: > >>> > >>> > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > cache, logs and o

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Joachim Förster
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:01 -0600 (MDT) "Jacob Anawalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joachim Förster said: > > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty disk > > cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? > > I don't know why it uses the hard disk, but if it is

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
Joachim Förster wrote: > [...] > Does anybody know, why squid uses the harddisk although its (empty > disk cache, logs and other status files are on the tmpfs)? You might try running squid chrooted to a directory on a ramdisk... Just a quess, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-13 Thread Elie De Brauwer
When you go to /etc/mysql/ and look in the file my.conf on my system it contains: # This will be passed to all mysql clients [client] #password = my_password port= 3306 socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock (no pass set, which is also the default by apt imo). hth > I

[Help] Find alike apache "ab" benchmark tools

2003-09-13 Thread axacheng
Hello List : i known apache stress-tool "ab" can suffice for me, but "ab" seems can not generate graphical reports to me Therefore, i'm finding a tool that can "round-robin" / excessive load to benchmark my apache web server and generate detailed easy to read graphical reports. i found

Re: Mysql question.

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Maas
Thanks oliver, I only did "apt-get install mysql-server" after which I did "mysqladmin -u root -p create moregroupware" Nothing... Same error with our without the "-p" If a root password has been set, it has been during downloading and unpacking of the debian package. in other words: not by me..

dvd::rip / transcode

2003-09-13 Thread David Fokkema
Hi group, I use the packages video-dvdrip and transcode from Christian Marillat. When I rip a dvd, everything works fine, but when I try to transcode it, nothings seems to work. Using two-pass encoding, the first pass works, but the second does nothing. Using single-pass encoding no frames are enc

Re: Not-so-strange question about bind

2003-09-13 Thread Robin Smith
There are two ways to do this. 1. If you have two network interfaces on the host have bind9 running against only any card - one for internal one for external. 2.Use views in bind9 and only run one version of bind9. e.g. view "internal" { match-clients {10/8; }; }; view "external" {

Re: Adding users /home

2003-09-13 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Annandale (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous > Linux distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I > have added myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to > access all my old data on /home. >

Re: how to get a silent harddisk?

2003-09-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
Silent hard disk? Buy a Seagate barracuda with FDB. I've got an ST340016A, which runs at less than 2.5 bels (read: inaudible) even when seeking. They make larger models as well that don't go above 2.5bels as well. These drives are incredible. Plus, they run cool, so if you have variable-speed

Re: Adding users /home

2003-09-13 Thread Josh Rehman
Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous Linux distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I have added myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to access all my old data on /home. Has anyone experienced thi

Re: Adding users /home

2003-09-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Mark Annandale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030913 00:58]: > Hi Guys > > I have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous Linux > distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I have added > myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to access all my old dat

Re: Adding users /home

2003-09-13 Thread Neo
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 08:58, Mark Annandale wrote: > Hi Guys > > I have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous Linux > distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I have added > myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to access all my old data

Adding users /home

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys I have installed debian (via a Knoppix CD), and overwritten a previous Linux distro. My /home folder exists from the previous distro and I have added myself as a user. However I cannot seem to be able to access all my old data on /home. Has anyone experienced this, and if so, did you f