spoofing myself without meaning to

2005-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a box, wheat, connected to the internet and my local network. Another box, corn, is on the local network. I'm running DNS on wheat and have two domains to call my own (both going to the same IP address). When I try to access corn from wheat I get errors that wheat is spoofing. This happens

Re: Firefox and Flash

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have this problem too. It's with just about any plugin: flash-nonfree, mozilla-mplayer, and the sun Java plugin from the 1.5.0 SDK. I am convinced that firefox is doing something wrong -- I can confirm that this happens to me with 1.0.7 (from testi

Use sony DSC-T5

2005-12-29 Thread Pepo
Hi friends... I have a camera sony dsc-t5, it works so fine in usb storage mode; but, this camera can be used like webcam in Windows (puagh!) if I choose pc-cam mode in the camera menu ... How do I can use this cam like web-cam in my debian (testing) box ? thanks. -- Linux User R

Re: raid - superblock problem?

2005-12-29 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Fri, December 30, 2005 0:48, Mike Bird said: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:37, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: >> ns01:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0 >> mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got ) >> ns01:~# >> Hwat does it mean that super block is not found? I have googled a lo

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2005-12-29 Thread Chinook
Jules Dubois wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:56, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian. Trouble is they include lilo and I'm using grub. Then below it say

Re: excludes list

2005-12-29 Thread Daniel Webb
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:16:21PM -0500, Chinook wrote: > I had gotten that far - just unfamiliar with the specifics of the Linux > file system. Found some more info though, like > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html > and http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html > whic

Firefox and Flash

2005-12-29 Thread [KS]
Hi, I have noticed that whenever I do something with a flash animation and try to browse to another page, it freezes Firefox and the only thing I can do is to kill it and restart. Anyone else experiencing similar problems? It was with 1.0.7 and is still there with 1.5. I checked with a clean profi

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Brian Nelson wrote: > s/non-free/GPL-incompatible/ No, non-free. If it were GPL-incompatible there are quite a few pieces of software in Debian right now that would be shunned for the very same fact. Several free licenses are GPL incompatible. The problem was that the Windows version was

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2005-12-29 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 29 December 2005 20:56, Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > For current stable kernel 2.4.27 it gives instructions on how to setup > an ATAPI CD-RW/DVD+-RW recorder on Debian. Trouble is they include lilo > and I'm using grub. Then below it says (I think) that

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Tiago Pedrosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chinook wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a s

Re: how to design a protocol to help 1000 PCs know whether online or not

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
Serena Cantor wrote: > (Sorry, I know this is not suitable place to post this question. If you > know where I should post, pls let me know.) > > There are 1000 PCs, each know these 1000 PC's IP address, each is equal. > How to design a protocol for every PC to find out the other PCs are >

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-29 Thread [KS]
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > And another thing: when connecting the USB cable, make sure you have the > camera in *playback* mode. If you don't, there won't be any connection > and you'll be checking your cables all over the place, like I did. > I don't why Canon can't st

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

2005-12-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing", > > I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which > had a non-free license at the time. s/non-free/GPL-incompa

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If person system: it's *trash*, don't store old stuff in it! > > > > Well, I prefer to do it anyway, for personal reasons. ;

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Pepo
:) I dont like anyone just tell me anything in any moment, I like search by my self; but if you like that hmmm! In Debian (the better for me ;)) To update information about new packages: * apt-get update Then to know which packages installed have new updates: * apt-show-versions -u | sort | l

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:41 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > > than six months. > > > > I

kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

2005-12-29 Thread Chinook
I have two optical devices in internal bays. ATAPI CD-R/RW 32X10 T.GA (/dev/hdc, ) at /media/cdrom0 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM][Error] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96R] ATAPI PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-103 1.90 (/dev/hdd, ) at /media/cdrom1 [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R] [Error] [SAO; TAO] Even

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Daniel Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > > > Is t

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Purves
On 30/12/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > > than six months. > > Is this for a personal system or an ISP/company/email-host? personal

Re: Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:45:55PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: > > Is this feasible? > > I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. > > Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed? Does the Debian testing > authority (or wh

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-29 Thread Rodney Richison
I don't think this came up in the thread, but does it show up in dmesg at all? It should theoritcally show up a the same time as all the other disks Posting relevant portion of dmesg below...It seems it finds hdc ok. But maybe not in time before it runs fsck maybe? . *

Re: How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

2005-12-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Orange wrote: Hello. I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages. I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full system installation and then some, and would like to use that collection as

Test Page prints fine, Can't print on SMB Shared Printer

2005-12-29 Thread Mike McCarty
Synopsis: GNOME/Debian prints a test page using an ethernet LAN to a Windows 95 machine, but still cannot print from applications. Booting from either Knoppix or Kanotix LiveCD and configuring the printer works fine. Google turned up no help on this. Windows Machine: HP DeskJet 895c connected to

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Tiago Pedrosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chinook wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player t

Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Alan Scott
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:42:54PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul: > > Exim should be set up and configured to provide a sendmail facility. More > likely is the case that your ISP blocks outbound SMTP connections, and you > haven't configured

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bryan G wrote: i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm Does this work under linux? All I see on the site specifies "Win95/96/2000/XP" or "only Win2000/XP".

back slash & Japanese yen

2005-12-29 Thread Masa Takeuti
Hello I can't put backslashes correctly. My keyboad is configured as french-canadian and xmodmap shows me this : 49 0x002f (slash) 0x005c (backslash) 0xff (VoidSymbol) 0x00ad (hyphen) 0x007c (bar) When I use Abiword, I can put a backslash correctly. But, in terminals,

Re: excludes list

2005-12-29 Thread Chinook
Brad Sims wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote: In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data that is not needed. For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /pr

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2005-12-29 Thread Stefhen Hovland
i think ifrename will do what you are asking, you can specify that eth0 always be bound to x, and eth1 always bound to y, etc.. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename stefhen On 12/29/05, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the new way of device creation and module loadin

Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2005-12-29 Thread Svante Signell
With the new way of device creation and module loading (udev, discover etc) my ethernet modules (3c59x,8139too) are loaded in different order with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.14. For 2.6.14 3c59x is loaded first corresponding to eth0 and then 8139too corresponding to eth1. With kernel 2.6.12 they are lo

how to design a protocol to help 1000 PCs know whether online or not

2005-12-29 Thread Serena Cantor
(Sorry, I know this is not suitable place to post this question. If you know where I should post, pls let me know.)   There are 1000 PCs, each know these 1000 PC's IP address, each is equal. How to design a protocol for every PC to find out the other PCs are still online? Thank you!!! Yahoo! Sh

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:05 -0600 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500 > kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there > > is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is >

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-29 Thread Bryan G
i found this, I haven't installed it yet but it claims to replace realplayer without the problems of realplayer taking over your PC http://www.codecguide.com/download_real.htm

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:09:33 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there > is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is > considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this > feature. N

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Daniel Webb
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > than six months. > > Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a cro

Re: raid - superblock problem?

2005-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:37, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > ns01:~# mdadm -E /dev/md0 > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md0 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got > ) > ns01:~# > > Hwat does it mean that super block is not found? I have googled a lot > around but is not able to find out if or what

raid - superblock problem?

2005-12-29 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi, can someone help me understand this problem about disks/raid/superblocks I have a sw raid5, tree IDE disks that is split up to md0/ md1/ md2/, ext3 filesystem. They are all in fstab and autostarts just fine. but... if I do : ns01:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.01

Re: notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this feature. well, it must be lonely ;) Now my question is 'Is there

Re: excludes list

2005-12-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote: > In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I > need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data > that is not needed. > > For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, > /ho

notification of updates

2005-12-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
In windows XP, when using acroread, it gives a notification if there is a new version of acroread available. While this popup is considered annoying by a lot, for some reason, I happen to like this feature. Now my question is 'Is there any software in Debian which performs a similar functionali

Re: kpilot not syncing addresses and todos [FIXED kinda]

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Howie wrote: > Sorry for revising this so soon, but it turns out that the calendar seems to > be > completely unsynchronized. The first sync or so saw some data transfer, but > now changes on either device are not noticed by the other. Todos a

Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul: Exim should be set up and configured to provide a sendmail facility. More likely is the case that your ISP blocks outbound SMTP connections, and you haven't configured Exim to use a smarthost to deliver mail. - -- Chris Howie http://www.chrish

Re: trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

2005-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 22:22 +, Paul Scott wrote: > I have tried twice to report the following bug with reportbug but it is > clearly not going out because sendmail is not configured on my system > since I use Thunderbird for email. I am including the bug report here > because I don't know w

Re: kpilot not syncing addresses and todos

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Howie wrote: > If I make a change on the Palm, it's copied to the PC when I sync. Any > changes > made on the PC are inexplicably lost. Yes, I'm saving after editing in > korganizer. Yes, kpilot is set to synchronize and ask me if there's a

trying to use reportbug to report the following bug

2005-12-29 Thread Paul Scott
I have tried twice to report the following bug with reportbug but it is clearly not going out because sendmail is not configured on my system since I use Thunderbird for email. I am including the bug report here because I don't know when I will have time to do this correctly and the bug should

kpilot not syncing addresses and todos

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now that I've got my palm working, kpilot is being very... uhh, what's the word... well, stupid comes to mind. If I make a change on the Palm, it's copied to the PC when I sync. Any changes made on the PC are inexplicably lost. Yes, I'm saving after

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/12/05 21:07), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of > Clive Menzies told: > > > > where is autostart? > > $ cat /etc/default/mdadm > > # This file is automatically generated. > # Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it. > START_DAEMON=true > MAIL_

Re: How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

2005-12-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
> How can I make the required index file(s) so that dselect will be > happy with that collection and that subdirectory as a source of > packages? dpkg-scanpackages(1) Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:32 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: [snip] > > > > You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special > > table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined > > directory structure. > >

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-29 Thread ML
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:33 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A little while ago I posted a query on this camera. > > > > No answers. > > > > It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems. > > > > However... > > make

Re: Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

2005-12-29 Thread Marty
Edward C. Jones wrote: How can I solve my problem? Do I need to install dnsmasq on T? If so, can I download it to K then copy it somewhere in T? Take a incremental backup of T, noting which files which have changed since yesterday's daily backup, then restore T from yesterday's backup. Now

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12 [FIXED]

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My palm connects on /dev/ttyUSB1. You'll note in > your log that the visor > module grabs both 0 and 1, and there is a difference > between the two, but > I forget what it is :) Well gosh darn golly gee. On my other palm, ttyUSB1 is the debugger nu

Re: kde : which repositories ?

2005-12-29 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:03, Chris Howie wrote: > Bruno: > > If you are using etch (testing) or sid (unstable), the kde metapackage is > broken, and will likely be for a while. Install kdebase, then pull in the > individual packages you want. Chris, it's working. Thanks. Bruno -- To UNS

How to create an index file for a local collection of deb packages?

2005-12-29 Thread Orange
Hello. I run Debian Linux, and use dselect to select and install packages. I have a collection of about 1300 MB of my favorite required and desired packages in a subdirectory -- everything needed for a full system installation and then some, and would like to use that collection as the source of pa

Re: Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, A little while ago I posted a query on this camera. No answers. It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems. However... make sure that you set CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without it. And another thing: w

Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-29 Thread Robert Glueck
Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: >> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov >> format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a >> standard >> TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. >> It's able to play commercial movie

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
--- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked > correctly; what's the output > of: > > ls -l /dev/pilot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-10-18 00:52 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB0 Of course I checked that. =P Chris [EM

Installing testing: can't get cable Internet after reboot

2005-12-29 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD64 chip. I have two disks with different versions of debian on them. The first system (which I will call "K") is Kanotix which I regularly update from Debian unstable. It has been working well for quite a while. The second system (which I will call "T") is Debian testing

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
My palm connects on /dev/ttyUSB1. You'll note in your log that the visor module grabs both 0 and 1, and there is a difference between the two, but I forget what it is :) Anyway, you could try using ttyUSB1 instead of 0. Dec 25 20:38:14 joehill kernel: usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS con

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 the mental interface of Clive Menzies told: > where is autostart? $ cat /etc/default/mdadm # This file is automatically generated. # Run 'dpkg-reconfigure mdadm' to modify it. START_DAEMON=true MAIL_TO="root" AUTOSTART=true which gives instructions to /etc/init.d/mdadm

mini-dinstall

2005-12-29 Thread José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández
Is mini-dinstall supoused to copy/move the incoming packages from the incoming directory to the repository/archive ? -- José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández

Re: hosed disk usage stats

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
Marty Landman wrote: Worked like a charm, gotta read up on init - looks handy. Since df looked good before running fsck wonder if something I did recently messed up the display and just stopping my running processes fixed it? Yeah that is kinda weird. My best guess is that since the kernel tr

[OT] MPEG2 on Windows (was Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote: > kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do > it, as onw of it's side functions. Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my digital camera on my Sarge box to MPEG2 to using Kino. It plays fine

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what's the output of: ls -l /dev/pilot -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Edito

Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Matt England
Sarge-built binaries running on Woody systems: Is this feasible? I'm not talking about package management...just the raw, binary. Are dynamic-library-management tricks needed? Does the Debian testing authority (or whoever is given responsibility of anointing Debian releases for distribution)

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Rodney Richison wrote: Bill Marcum wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: Rodney Richison wrote: Can any tell me why this works manually mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive But this in fstab does not work << snipping>> I guess it doesn

Re: hosed disk usage stats

2005-12-29 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:18 PM 12/29/2005, Chris Howie wrote: Try running fsck on the drive. It usually goes something like this: # init 1 lots of crap while apps shut down Including ssh. :) Console almost at arm's length though. # mount / -o remount,ro Went well; for the heck of it I did a df right afte

Firefox font support on Sarge

2005-12-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I just did a Sarge install and trying to get fonts up to where they are on my Sid machines. After the base install and installing Firefox I noticed poor font support and often missing symbols. I started blindly throwing font packages at it: msttcorefonts x-ttcidfont-conf gsfonts-x11 W

Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-29 Thread Manaen Schlabach
Sorry about that Gmail has some strange defaults in its web interface. How to send stuff in plain text isn't readily apparent and neither is the reply to all button. Regards On 12/29/05, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: > > I'd lik

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/12/05 18:59), Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > I just posted how I fixed this here: > > > > add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules > > Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to > true. :-) where is autostart? > > BTW it works without loadin

Cannon PowerShot A410

2005-12-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, A little while ago I posted a query on this camera. No answers. It turns out it is supported by gphoto2 w/o problems. However... make sure that you set CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y in your kernel. I did not do that and it will not be found without it. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: kde : which repositories ?

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
Bruno: If you are using etch (testing) or sid (unstable), the kde metapackage is broken, and will likely be for a while. Install kdebase, then pull in the individual packages you want. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a-

Re: Software RAID autostart [SOLVED]

2005-12-29 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clive Menzies wrote: > I just posted how I fixed this here: > > add libata and ata_piix to /etc/modules > > YMMV Nice, that did the trick. Plus it helps if you set autostart to true. :-) BTW it works without loading "ata_piix", is that for your in

Re: fstab problem

2005-12-29 Thread Rodney Richison
Bill Marcum wrote: >On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:08:09PM -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > > >>Rodney Richison wrote: >> >> >> >>>Can any tell me why this works manually >>> >>>mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive >>> >>>But this in fstab does not work >>> >>>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/idedrive

Re: hosed disk usage stats

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
Marty: Try running fsck on the drive. It usually goes something like this: # init 1 lots of crap while apps shut down # mount / -o remount,ro if this fails at all, kill any processes that have files open for write on / then try again. DO NOT run fsck if / is mounted read-write! # fsck /de

Re: remove old trash from imap, server side

2005-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:47 +0800, Chris Purves wrote: > Hello, > > I am running courier IMAP using maildirs. I would like to know what > is the best way for removing mail from the trash folder that are older > than six months. > > Is there any functionality built into courier or should I make a

Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?

2005-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: > I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format > on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard > TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. It's > able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, finalized

Re: Inetd vs. Xinetd

2005-12-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Rick Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an > advantage to > having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have > > netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and > installing > xinetd? > > An

Re: having problems installing raid

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/12/05 18:34), enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello > I've 2 HD SATA Seagate of 80 GB each, and I need to make a fresh sarge's > installation with RAID1. > If on the installation process I choose expert26 to select the module mdcfg > necessary to create the RAID, I got problems and finally I cou

Re: Sofware RAID autostart

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/12/05 14:47), Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: > Hi > > I'm have two 120gb HD and decided to setup a software raid and mount > /home on the raid. The raid is created with mdadm and works fine. But > the raid doesn't start after reboot! > I'm running Sarge with a standard 2.6.8-smp kernel and has

Re: Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade - SOLVED!

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/12/05 15:33), Clive Menzies wrote: > Update: > > Both machines have the same modules loaded, however on the second > machine (Venus), the SATA modules don't seem to get loaded until mdadm > fails to find the array. > I'm not sure where to go from here; I don't have the knowledge or skill

Re: Mdadm raid1 "broken" after kernel upgrade.

2005-12-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/12/05 16:43), Clive Menzies wrote: > This isn't very helpful but I'm having the same problem. I had a > similar problem when setting up two identical servers about a year ago > and found the 2.6.8-1-686 worked but 2.6.8-1-386 didn't. FWIW the 2.4 > series kernel also worked. > > I just up

Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Howie
I have been trying for several days to get my palm to sync over USB, with no success. My system is running debian etch with the stock 2.6.12 kernel (linux-image-2.6.12-1-686) to be precise. When I tell my palm to HotSync, dmesg displays the expected output: --- snip --- ohci_hcd :00:

Re: reinstalling config files

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:38:28AM -0400, Steve Mallett wrote: > This didn't help. While "dpkg --purge apache2" reported that it was > purging apache2.. "apt-get install apache2" didn't reinstall the need > files under /etc/apache2 & don't appear anywhere else that I see. Probably the files ar

Re: reinstalling config files

2005-12-29 Thread Steve Mallett
On 12/20/05, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > * Steve Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051220 19:01]: > > > I was having trouble getting php4/apache2 to play nice on Sarge, apt-get > > removed then, which left the apche config files. stupidly I rm -rf'd > > apache2 & can't instal

Using par2

2005-12-29 Thread David Garamond
I found out about par2 a few days ago and I think it's absolutely great. And I think I've grasped the basic concept. But does anyone know how to use par2 to accomplish the following: Suppose I have 5000MB of data. That's a bit over 7 CDs (or 1 DVD). Can I backup this data to, like, 10 CDs or alter

-T / --files-from option for du?

2005-12-29 Thread David Garamond
I intend to suggest to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about adding a tar-like -T / --files-from option to du. But does anyone agree that such option is needed/desirable? Suppose I have 9000 files and I want to know the total disk usage of 4500 of them. The file names don't have any common patterns (so we can't

Sofware RAID autostart

2005-12-29 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
Hi I'm have two 120gb HD and decided to setup a software raid and mount /home on the raid. The raid is created with mdadm and works fine. But the raid doesn't start after reboot! I'm running Sarge with a standard 2.6.8-smp kernel and has writing "md" and "raid1" in "/etc/modules" and created t

hosed disk usage stats

2005-12-29 Thread Marty Landman
Newbie here. Have Woody running on a P166 w/ 48MB ram and 4GB hd. Major apps running ok - htdig, apache, samba. But when I look at disk usage get this: UNCLELEO:/home/marty# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-566353887454 1

Re: Problem about soundcard fail to work after a power failure.

2005-12-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
haoniukun wrote: I have a create SB 5.1 soundcard with the chip emu10k1x. The soundcard worked excellently for me before the power failure. But after a power failure this afternoon, it doesn't work for me.:( Message at the boot time indicates that alsa fail to initialize with error code -5. Will

Re: exim4 behaves strange

2005-12-29 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Michael Przysucha wrote: } I have a problem with my exim4 deamon. It is configured to relay with } SMTP-Auth. Yesterday everything was fine but over night the following } behaviour started to occur with every message: [...] } 2005-12-29 11:53:58 1ErvPv-

Re:  3d acceleration (Mach 64 ATI rage pro)

2005-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 29 December 2005 05:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >There are debian packages which are more up-to-date than those sited > > above. Add to your sources.list: > >#new DRI locations? > >deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ > >deb-src http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ > > > >There are thre

UPnP - Server in Debian

2005-12-29 Thread Christof Hurschler
I posted a similar message a while back but got no response. Maybe there has been some progress in this area. I want to use a streaming client to play music from my Debian server. The client uses the UPnP protocol. Has anyone set up a UPnP media server on a Debian machine? I`ve tried getting

Re: remove unneeded modules at boot?

2005-12-29 Thread Alexis Huxley
> dmesg(8) mentions some modules etc. (?) that I probably don't use but > are perhaps included in the stock 2.6 kernel: See http://dione.no-ip.org/~alexis/computing/ahdg/ahdg/ahdgse44.html#x124-660007.14 Alexis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: How to build RHEL software to run on Debian?

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Matt England wrote: > I'm a software developer, and I would like one set of software binaries > (applications, libraries) to be able to run across many Linux platforms, > including FedoraCore, Redhat Enterprise Linux, and Debian (much the same > way XAMP

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 1:26:59 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>Robert Glueck wrote: > >> > >>>I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format > >>>on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard > >>>TV set. > >> > >> > >>

exim4 behaves strange

2005-12-29 Thread Michael Przysucha
Hello, I have a problem with my exim4 deamon. It is configured to relay with SMTP-Auth. Yesterday everything was fine but over night the following behaviour started to occur with every message: 2005-12-29 11:53:52 no host name found for IP address 192.168.1.1 2005-12-29 11:53:55 1ErvPv-JF-9A

Problem about soundcard fail to work afte r a power failure.

2005-12-29 Thread haoniukun
Dear all debian users,   I have a create SB 5.1 soundcard with the chip emu10k1x. The soundcard worked excellently for me before the power failure. But after a power failure this afternoon, it doesn't work for me.:( Message at the boot time indicates that alsa fail to initialize with error cod

Re: Evolution

2005-12-29 Thread Gert Brinkmann
Mitja wrote: > I have GNOME and I use a KMail (thanks for help) as a mailer. I tried to > uninstall Evolution but in this case Synaptics want to remove gnome and gnome > control center. It is possible to remove it, please? Are you sure, that the control center wants to be removed? In my case on

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Tiago Pedrosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinook wrote: > > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >> Robert Glueck wrote: > >> > >>> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format > >>> on a standalone DVD player t

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