Re: After updating testing, must now 'ifup eth0' manually - why?

Daniel Nilsson wrote on Nov, 1: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:56:46PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > This is on a laptop, so the card is a pcmcia card; it always used to get > > connected after being recognised. Now it gets recognised quickly but doesn't > > get connected until I manually 'ifup

Re: Finding your computer ipaddress

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 01:37, Mirco Sippel wrote: >sri schrieb: >> www.debianhelp.co.uk is a web site that automatically detects and >> displays your computer's IP address. This can be helpful for >> configuring a computer on a network, setting up communications >> software, or troubleshootin

ipw2200 issues

Hi, I've just about had enough of my problems with the ipw2200 driver and the 2.6.12 kernel. I used to have a rock solid wireless connection while I was using vanilla kernel 2.6.11.8 and ipw2200 driver version 1.0.3 but ever since upgrading the kernel to 2.6.12 (vanilla or debian version doesn't m

Re: Finding your computer ipaddress

sri schrieb: www.debianhelp.co.uk is a web site that automatically detects and displays your computer's IP address. This can be helpful for configuring a computer on a network, setting up communications software, or troubleshooting an Internet connection. Your Internet Service Provider or IT hel

Re: Network Stress Testing

Nelson Castillo wrote: Hi, I want to debug several ethernet links between PCs in the same subnet. Which tools should I use? What should I read about TCP/UDP stress testing? nttcp is good for simple tests, especially for testing raw throughput. You will want to watch your error counts with if

Re: After updating testing, must now 'ifup eth0' manually - why?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:56:46PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > This is on a laptop, so the card is a pcmcia card; it always used to get > connected after being recognised. Now it gets recognised quickly but doesn't > get connected until I manually 'ifup eth0'. Anyone know why this broke? Do I >

Re: Which Java to use?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:09:53PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > I need to install a Java Runtime Environment (now, for Firefox) on my > churchs computer lab systems (all Sarge). I installed Flash by using the > "flashplugin-nonfree" pkg. I've found something similar for installing a > JRE: "java-pac

Fwd: [BSDCert] BSD Usage Survey Report

-- Forwarded message -- From: Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 1, 2005 6:08 AM Subject: [BSDCert] BSD Usage Survey Report To: bsdcert@lists.nycbug.org At long last, the BSD Usage Survey Report is available for download at: http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/pr_20051031_u

Network Stress Testing

Hi, I want to debug several ethernet links between PCs in the same subnet. Which tools should I use? What should I read about TCP/UDP stress testing? Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to foo

Update on mysterious change in X authorization behavior

Marty wrote: On one of my Sarge systems, if X access control is enabled, i.e. "xhost" yields the following output: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect then if I su to root, X apps now start normally, as if I had previously executed "xhost +". All my sarge systems ar

Re: OO 2.0 no spell check

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:50 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:40:46 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:56 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; > > > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffi

Re: Which Java to use?

Jim Hall wrote: > I need to install a Java Runtime Environment (now, for Firefox) on my > churchs computer lab systems (all Sarge). I installed Flash by using the > "flashplugin-nonfree" pkg. I've found something similar for installing a > JRE: "java-package". It works with the Standard Edition of

Re: Re: program name

For the beneift of others who may face the same problem in the future, there is an easy way out. There is another keyboard driver called "kbd" and with it, XFree86 can work without a physical keyboard. kangja -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: deny unwanted threads

Good time. There are so many threads in this list , and it is great of course , but some of them are not interesting for me . So , i'm just in writing some scripts for mailfilter and mutt to delete them on pop3-server before downloading .And i have some questions: I don't know about milter

Re: nautilus cd-burner

> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 07:57 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > > Hi All! > > > > > > I was trying to burn a CD-RW today with Nautilus CD-burner. But I > > >got an error writing to CD-RW. > > > > > > Detailed error output from cdrecord: > > > > > > cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot

Re: nautilus cd-burner

gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 07:57 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > I was trying to burn a CD-RW today with Nautilus CD-burner. But I > >got an error writing to CD-RW. > > > > Detailed error output from cdrecord: > > > > cdrecord: Operation not p

Which Java to use?

I need to install a Java Runtime Environment (now, for Firefox) on my churchs computer lab systems (all Sarge). I installed Flash by using the "flashplugin-nonfree" pkg. I've found something similar for installing a JRE: "java-package". It works with the Standard Edition of the following: Sun 1

Re: nautilus cd-burner

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 07:57 -0800, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Hi All! > > I was trying to burn a CD-RW today with Nautilus CD-burner. But I got an > error writing to CD-RW. > > Detailed error output from cdrecord: > > cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl > SCSI buf

Re: What blocks access to my host?

I got a bit further now. I'm not sure how I did it but I can connect locally (inside the firewall) to all ports that my machine listens to EXCEPT the port 25. Can it be something about exim configuration? -a On 10/31/05, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is true, my router ony allow

Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

On Monday 31 October 2005 18:56, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >David Baron wrote: >>The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? > >I am also having the same problem updating the kernel from >2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.14-1-686 . The exact errors are as follows > > ># apt-get i

After updating testing, must now 'ifup eth0' manually - why?

This is on a laptop, so the card is a pcmcia card; it always used to get connected after being recognised.  Now it gets recognised quickly but doesn't get connected until I manually 'ifup eth0'.  Anyone know why this broke?  Do I need to change the order in which things start up? Patrick

Re: OO 2.0 no spell check

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:40:46 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:56 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > OOo2 is in unstable now. > > > everything installed

Re: What blocks access to my host?

That is true, my router ony allow port 22 (ssh) for remote access, but I'm testing from the same subnet within the firewall. I did this massive upgrade/update using aptitude (I guess, something went funny during initial install). Still can't telnet to port 25, though I noticed that iptables was ins

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

Correction: Paul Sheer's RUTE book is now at http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:19 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: > I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 > GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM > modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better > speed and performance. Do you hit swap on a regular basis? Ho

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:28:33PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > programs together. Daily life will remain more or less the same. 2GB makes VMWare very nice, especially with a modern fast CPU that mostly idles anyway. Carve off 3 512 MB chunks and you can simulate a network. It's also the best w

Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

there has been some discussion of this problem (and some solutions) on the linux.debian.kernel list. for your reading pleasures thanks to the wonderful world of http://groups.google.com/ Bringing the 2.6.13 (and beyond) kernel to sid, solving ... http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.kerne

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

Robert Kopp wrote: --- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules)

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

--- "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert > Glueck wrote: > > I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel > Celeron, 1.8 > > GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM > DIMM > > modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

[KS] wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get > some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. > [...] I've spent a lot of money - too much - on a tall stack of beginner's/intermediate guides to Linux. If I were to have to do it all over again, I w

Re: RealPlayer causing ~/.xsession-errors flood

Ralph Katz wrote: > On 10/31/2005 04:00 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm running GNOME 2.10.2 in Debian Etch on an i686 platform. Just >>noticed that before long my ~/.xsession-errors file looks like this >>every time I launch RealPlayer. >> >>(I don't want to use RealPlayer but

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

Justin Guerin wrote: On Friday 28 October 2005 17:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: However if I do the following then the keyboard shortcuts are not working. On the machine running nxclient, Go to the command line prompt open an X server by doing X :1 & Now start nxclient in this DISPLAY=:1

Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

David Baron wrote: The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? I am also having the same problem updating the kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.14-1-686 . The exact errors are as follows # apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-1-686 Reading package lists... Don

Re: Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:19:09PM -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: > I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 > GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM > modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better > speed and performance. > > However, the memory module

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

On Monday 31 October 2005 11:28, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of > the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. > > LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen. > There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, the

Does increasing RAM 512 MB -> 1 GB lead to better performance?

I'm thinking of upgrading my i686 system (Intel Celeron, 1.8 GHz) from 512 MB RAM to 1GB (it uses PC133 SDRAM DIMM modules). I'm assuming this upgrade will give me better speed and performance. However, the memory module maker Kingston says that most operating systems are optimized for a set ra

Re: how to close the nxclient session properly

On Friday 28 October 2005 17:15, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > However if I do the following then the keyboard shortcuts are not > working. > > On the machine running nxclient, Go to the command line prompt > open an X server by doing >   X :1 & > Now start nxclient in this >   DISPLAY=:1 nxclient &

[Fwd: I2O v dpt_i2o & #328534]

I posted this on debian-kernel but didn't receive a response (late in the day I guess). Any help would be appreciated.. --Dennis --- Begin Message --- Apologies in advance if this post has been directed to the wrong list. If it has been posted incorrectly please let me know and I'll pos

Re: marillat false alarm?

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I'm not sure about the chkrootkit complaint. However, if you don't like Marillat's packages, or that you can't "verify" them, then quit using them. They are unofficial anyway, so I don't see the problem. I don't know of any "official" counterparts with equivalent fu

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

* [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 31 10:15 -0600]: > He wants a "user oriented" book rather than one focusing on > administration. Also I think it should be a general one rather than for > a specific distribution. Perhaps a trip to the bookstore and checking out some titles might be in order.

Re: marillat false alarm?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Since the Oct 29 update of realplayer: > > # chkrootkit -q > > /usr/lib/realplay-10.0.6/share/default/.realplayerrc > > Besides having no idea what chkrootkit is complaining about, > what really bothers me is having no way to validate mari

books/doc for programmers and sysadmin on a debian system

is anyone aware of books/doc about how best to: 1) manage source-code (not just in a CVS/subversion but, how do you lay it out so that managing multiple projects is easy) 2) do .deb packaging easily. 3) manage package repos easily. 4) etc.. i have read the individual docs/books (auto-tools, c

marillat false alarm?

Since the Oct 29 update of realplayer: # chkrootkit -q /usr/lib/realplay-10.0.6/share/default/.realplayerrc Besides having no idea what chkrootkit is complaining about, what really bothers me is having no way to validate marillat packages, since I'm running stable. (That's another issue which

Re: RealPlayer causing ~/.xsession-errors flood

On 10/31/2005 04:00 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running GNOME 2.10.2 in Debian Etch on an i686 platform. Just > noticed that before long my ~/.xsession-errors file looks like this > every time I launch RealPlayer. > > (I don't want to use RealPlayer but as far as I know it's t

Re: The client-server terminology when referring to X (was: Remote X login)

Maxim Vexler wrote: The X server (which is running on the local laptop) obeys the demands of the application and draws what was requested from him, that is why the laptop in question is the SERVER. Not draws, but *displays* the client's output. "Draw" has a much narrower meaning in X or graph

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

On 31/10/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curt Howland said... > > Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of > > the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. > > > > LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen. > > There's some disk access

Sarge on a Sunblade 100

Matt; >I'm going to Demo the Sun Fire v20z next week, if you want sarge-on >-sun opteron info, follow up w/me later. An experience with Debian on a Sunblade 100? I have the netinstall Cd for SPARC and it goes as far as to say it is loading LINUX and hangs!! > RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU Sys

RealPlayer causing ~/.xsession-errors flood

Hi all, I'm running GNOME 2.10.2 in Debian Etch on an i686 platform. Just noticed that before long my ~/.xsession-errors file looks like this every time I launch RealPlayer. (I don't want to use RealPlayer but as far as I know it's the only player that works with the BBC's Radio Player web inter

Re: Server hardware for Sarge

You would be well advised to steer clear of the DELL 1850 poweredge, as it is clunky hardware and you cant even reach the ethernet ports on the back without plugging in some funky extention cable. Bad design. Many SATA controllers built in to newer motherboards arent supported until you get into

Re: OO 2.0 no spell check

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:56 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ OOo2 is in unstable now. > everything installed fine. Except I have no spell check. I've > uninstalled, and reinstalled a few times, but fo

can use of smartctl prevent disk probs?

Hi, Since failures with /dev/hdc I have been paying attention to smartctl. It is a, how should one say it, interesting program that provides lots of data. But it is not clear to me how you can prevent disk failure other than buying a disk with 5 year warranty, or something. I wrote a program t

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

Curt Howland wrote: Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen. There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the CPU fan starts spin

The client-server terminology when referring to X (was: Remote X login)

On 10/31/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:00:26PM -, marc wrote: > > Used on the client > ^^ > > Beware confusing client and server when discussing X. In X parlance, the > server is your desktop and the machine with the applications on is

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On lørdag 29 oktober 2005, 17:00, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >   mathematics [ octave ] I'm, contrary to everybody else, going to comment just on this. My favorite here is without a doubt R. r-recommended in Debian and http://www.r-project.org/ on the web. It has some minimal, but very cool, O

Re: OO 2.0 no spell check

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:10:24 +0800 Heimdall Midgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2005/11/1, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > > > everything installed fine. Except I have no spell check.

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

Look at 'Linux administration and beginner's guide' (2nd Edition), S. Shah, McGraw-Hill is a good starter. -ishwar On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Antony Gelberg wrote: > John Purser wrote: > > > One thing I've found to be very helpful is to get a distribution > > specific or at least friendly manual to be

Re: Getting Debian updates onto a slow bandwidth system

On lørdag 29 oktober 2005, 04:52, David E. Fox wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:18:12 +0200 > > Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A somewhat related question: Can jigdo, when building CDs, take the > > updates and replace the packages that has been updated, in the > > install image? > >

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

That happened to me too (black screen) and also no sound (lots of messages of the form "snd_: Unknown symbol snd_" in the logs). So, downgraded to my previous kernel by now... Och On Monday 31 October 2005 15:28, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the us

Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

On 31/10/05, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of > the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. > > LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen. > There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, the

Re: Can't get grip to normalize before encoding.

On Saturday 29 October 2005 12:40, Adam Funk wrote: > I have grip 3.3.1-4 installed and configured as follows: > > Ripper: grip (cdparanoia) > > Rip file format: /home/MISC/grip/%A--%d--%t--%n.wav > > Options: Wav filter command: /usr/bin/normalize-audio -a > -20dB /home/MISC/grip/%A--%d--%t--%

Sid, problems with 2.6.14

Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of the tank, as it were, and tried it out today. LILO puts up the usual ".." for loading, then bam, black screen. There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the CPU fan starts spinning up like it's util

Re: AAAA domain bug in Sarge Package bind9 9.2.4

I've reported this bug using the Debian bug tracking system. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336614 On 8/21/05, Martynas Brijunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Franz, > > looks like it means that there is no way to have a properly working > BIND9 if you want to stay within the

Re: Playing a dvd movie when inserted

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > Under Desktop -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and Media Preferences > -> Multimedia I have /usr/bin/totem dvd: set to play when a dvd is > inserted. I always have to start totem manually. Where do I need to look > to get this working

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Popularity Contest would be even better if it didn't list 'required' > and 'standard' pacakges to judge true popularity. How does one call > 'dpkg' or 'apt' popular when one doesn't really have a choice --- it's > a dedian system after all. I doubt it really makes

Playing a dvd movie when installed

Under Desktop -> Preferences -> Removable Drives and Media Preferences -> Multimedia I have /usr/bin/totem dvd: set to play when a dvd is inserted. I always have to start totem manually. Where do I need to look to get this working correctly? I am running Debian Etch with vanilla kernel 2.6.12 on an

Finding your computer ipaddress

Hi, www.debianhelp.co.uk is a web site that automatically detects and displays your computer's IP address. This can be helpful for configuring a computer on a network, setting up communications software, or troubleshooting an Internet connection. Your Internet Service Provider or IT help desk may

Re: OO 2.0 no spell check

2005/11/1, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; > > deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ > > everything installed fine. Except I have no spell check. I've > uninstalled, and reinstalled a few times, but for the life of me, I > cannot get spe

mysterious change in X authorization behavior

On one of my Sarge systems, if X access control is enabled, i.e. "xhost" yields the following output: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect then if I su to root, X apps now start normally, as if I had previously executed "xhost +". All my sarge systems are up to date, b

Re: gzcat

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 15:23 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi Guys > > Of what package is this part of? > > Or better yet, find out what package a particular file is part of? # aptitude install apt-file # apt-file update $ apt-file search gzcat libcompress-zlib-perl: usr/share/doc/libcompress-z

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005/10/31, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/29/05, Heimdall Midgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2005/10/30, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > This nautilus-cd-burner would have received my vote ahead of K3b if it > > > did not toast my CDs so many times and if it

OO 2.0 no spell check

I've installed OpenOffice 2.0 from; deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ everything installed fine. Except I have no spell check. I've uninstalled, and reinstalled a few times, but for the life of me, I cannot get spell check to function. Any ideas? Thanks -- Rodney D. Mye

Re: HP Web Jetadmin

Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:38:02PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote: Has anyone successfully installed the current version of HP Web Jetadmin on Debian Yes, it's not like it was a big deal. - and set up a printer under Cups? Unfortunately. But I can't

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:09 -0500, [KS] wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good > recommendations from subscribers to this list. > > A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few > tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is

E17 + Entrance failed to source /etc/X11/Xsession.d

Hi debianners, I use this source to install E17 (enlightenment 17) deb http://soulmachine.net/debian unstable/ and entrance as a display manager. The problem I have is that Entrance didn't source X setting scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d. How to make entrance source them when launching E17?

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

On 31-okt-2005, at 17:09, [KS] wrote: Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to start l

Xorg/UIM leakage

Hello, I've been struggling with X using up LOADS of memory lately, and after reading up a bit on known issues etc I found out that, according to xrestop, uim seems to leak badly. This is a snippet from a short time after booting: Pixmaps: 62882K total, Other: 108K total, All: 62990K t

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

On 10/31/05, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good > recommendations from subscribers to this list. > > A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few > tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is cur

Re: (OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

On 11:09 Mon 31 Oct , [KS] wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good > recommendations from subscribers to this list. > > A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few > tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious

Re: getmail (fetchmail-look-a-like) + cyrus

Sorry for asking this list, 'cause I've found a solution: After some searching on the getmail mailing list I found this setup useful getmailrc content section [destination] [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/sbin/sendmail arguments = ("-i", "-f erroraddress", "the_address_to.forward.to

Re: Remote X login

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:00:26PM -, marc wrote: > Used on the client ^^ Beware confusing client and server when discussing X. In X parlance, the server is your desktop and the machine with the applications on is the client. This is because the X server is running on your de

(OT) Beginner's Linux book recommendation

Hi all, This is a little bit off topic but I thought I might get some good recommendations from subscribers to this list. A friend of mine has just installed Linux (err...SUSE) after a few tries. Now that he has his Linux running, he is curious to start learning Linux usage. He emailed to know wh

nautilus cd-burner

Hi All! I was trying to burn a CD-RW today with Nautilus CD-burner. But I got an error writing to CD-RW. Detailed error output from cdrecord: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl SCSI buffer size: 64512 cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (ubuntu-0.

Re: Server hardware for Sarge

On Monday 31 October 2005 13:40, Siju George wrote: > Hi all, > > Could some one please recommend a fully supported Server hardware from > vendors such as IBM, Dell, HP etc. I 've been running servers on amd > athlon till now but am presently in need of some server class > hardware. looking forward

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

On 9/10/05, Tim Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use a Dell Latitude D600. Works awesome! > Tim > i also currently hold D600, but i would like to upgrade to latest stable kernel-source package; which one are you using? does it correctly manage your hardware? i did not find any 2.6.x (x>8)

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > JV> That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-) > > You mean the harddrive is dying? No, probably not. You can install smartmontools to keep an eye on it though. Cheap electronics just cause problems and it sounds like you are suffering from one. :( > I r

Re: gzcat

On Monday 31 October 2005 16:10, David Dorward wrote: > On 31/10/05, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or better yet, find out what package a particular file is part of? > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en-gb.html#search_contents Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

2.6.14 image will not install

The new mkinitrd.yaird fails. Anyone else have this problem, fixed it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Server hardware for Sarge

On Monday 31 October 2005 15:40, Siju George wrote: > Could some one please recommend a fully supported Server hardware from > vendors such as IBM, Dell, HP etc. I 've been running servers on amd > athlon till now but am presently in need of some server class > hardware. looking forward for some go

Re: gzcat

On 31/10/05, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or better yet, find out what package a particular file is part of? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.en-gb.html#search_contents -- David Dorward

getmail (fetchmail-look-a-like) + cyrus

Hi, Recently I installed a bells-and-whistles mailserver on a Debian Sarge box, acoording to the howto at http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/debian_sarge-cyrus-howto.pdf It runs quite fine (using Postfix-mysql, Cyrus, Web-cyradm, ...) but now I want to get some mail over pop3 (from my provid

Potwierdzenie rejestracji - krok 2/3

Witamy, Dziękujemy za zarejestrowanie się w naszym serwisie internetowym poruszającym tematy publikacji i szkoleń z zakresu marketingu, sprzedaży, motywacji, zasad odnoszenia sukcesu i rozwoju osobowości. By aktywować swoje konto musisz dokończyć proces rejestracji klikając, bądź wklejając w

RE: gzcat

Like so: $ dpkg -S /bin/zcat gzip: /bin/zcat -Original Message- From: Hans du Plooy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: gzcat Hi Guys Of what package is this part of? Or better yet, find out what package a particul

Re: How to look up the serial port in debian?

> Could anyone show me how to look up the used serial ports in Debian? I want > to use a serial port terminal to connect to a target board. But the > terminal said that the port I chose was already in use. So I came to ask > for help. They're usually on the back of the box. Here's what to look

Server hardware for Sarge

Hi all, Could some one please recommend a fully supported Server hardware from vendors such as IBM, Dell, HP etc. I 've been running servers on amd athlon till now but am presently in need of some server class hardware. looking forward for some good recommendations. Thankyou so much Kind Regards

Requesting POSIX/SUS features from glibc

Hi, Feature test macro _POSIX_SOURCE refers to which edition of POSIX.1 ? And _XOPEN_SOURCE refers to which SUS version ? I've got installed libc6 and glibc-doc both 2.3.5-7. I've carefully read the documentation from these packages, but couldn't find clear, unambiguous answers. It was clear t

gzcat

Hi Guys Of what package is this part of? Or better yet, find out what package a particular file is part of? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remote X login

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 the mental interface of marc told: [...] > Presumably I've missed a step or two in the setup, so I'd > appreciate any pointers. man ssh Look for -X option. HTH Elimar -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/31/05, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Oct 29 11:04 -0500]: > > > disc burner [ k3b ] > > e-mail client [ Mutt ] > > file manager [ Midnight Commander ] > > terminal emulator [ Xterm, RXVT, Konsole ] > > text editor [ FTE ]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Oct 31 2005, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I am really passionate about my choice of text editor. I love FTE and > it's my default. I cannot stand vi/vim and Emacs drives me nuts. FTE > operates the way I am used to. I have never used anything other than Emacs. In fact, when I do, I feel like I'm h

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

On 17:18 Mon 31 Oct , John O'Hagan wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > >John O'Hagan wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >> I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel > >>sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and the > >>stock source from kerne

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