Re: apache2

2006-01-11 Thread Mauro Sanna
> Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ There is an italian too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Step 1: Subscribe to Debian security lists. Step 2: (If you're really serious about security) Subscribe to relevant package security lists (upstream). Step 3: apt-get update/upgrade regularly for security updates Step 4: (Most importantly) Make regular backups, on- and off-site. Step 5: (Again, if

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Mauro Sanna
> Yes I think you are save to consider Sarge a secure Debian fork > (anyway the unstable and especially the testing branches are more > likely to have unfixed bugs, by design (latest-and-greatest simply > has not had a lot of time of testing yet)) I think that unstable rather than testing has more

Re: Trying to mount CF card

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 07:02 +0900, Chris Williams wrote: > I have a 10-in-one multiple card-type reader thingy with a CF card slot. > This is the first time I have ever used it. > > Inserting the card I get a /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 devices. But when I go > to mount it, the mount fails. > > $ moun

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2006-01-11 Thread Limin Wang
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Re: Where is postrotate script? (was: logrotate + mysql = "Help!")

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On 1/10/06, Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> um... n/m I had a different error, I meant to reply to an >> older post by someone else who had the same error... >> Sorry for the mixup and getting your hopes up Still, who knows, >> maybe it'll work

Re: logrotate + mysql = "Help!"

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Porter
Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On 1/7/06, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Done. I await the next cron run. > > Not much enlightenment from the verbosity: > > running shared postrotate script > error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log > > I wonder: what script

Re: My Wireless Troubles

2006-01-11 Thread David R. Litwin
David your will have repositorioes  (in the sources.list )  for kde 3.5 and gnome?I have gotten KDE 3.5 from the standard Sid repository (http://http.us.debian.org/sid et cetera).Perhaps I misunderstood your question.? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and

Dlink DWL-G510: Never get hardware present message

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1.    I'm following the instructions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything   A

Trying to mount CF card

2006-01-11 Thread Chris Williams
I have a 10-in-one multiple card-type reader thingy with a CF card slot. This is the first time I have ever used it. Inserting the card I get a /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 devices. But when I go to mount it, the mount fails. $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp [...]try dmesg | tail or so. $ dmesg | ta

ndiswrapper -l doesn't return hardware present

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I have a Dlink DWL-G510 that works find under Windows XP (dual boot). I'm trying to get it to work with Debian 3.1r1.    I'm following the instructions at http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/ndiswrapper_on_Debian_Sarge_without_having_to_compile_anything   Af

Re: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:58:31PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. > > I had two problems: > 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and > 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below > but misinterpre

Re: kernel-2.6.15 cannot compile

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Nelson
Eike Lantzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error: > > gzip > -9qf > /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/conf.vars > install -p -m 644 > debian/buildin

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:28 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Marty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > > >> I wrote: > >> > >>> A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us > >>> cannot be distributed at all. > >> > >> > >> Marty writes: > >> [snip] > > > > If their laws have

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Touche', I had indeed momentarily forgotten that. I had also at the time spoken rather pointedly to my senators and representatives about the absurdity of it, and that it should be stepped on at the earl

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but >> I'm not sure if Noriega actually did some of his drug related stuff >> while it was still our territory. > >No. Panama has been an independent nation since it seced

Re: apache2

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:50:44AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > BTW this is an English language list :) Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S. Farrell
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for > the direct reply Andy. Are you Grring because you wish you were using Mutt? It's the answer to all your problems! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto make "top" in debian show CPUs separately like that of Redhat

2006-01-11 Thread Siju George
On 1/11/06, Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:22:23PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:45 +0530, Siju George wrote: > > > How do I make the top command show CPUs separately as in Redhat? > > > shown below. > > > > Start top.Hit '1' (One).

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Gabriel S Farrell
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:58:00PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on > the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump > downloaded photos. > > I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: I notice

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm Nope. Never was. It was a part of Venezuela, and we helped it get I can't believe I wrote that. It was *Colombia*, of course. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,3

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:31, Mike McCarty wrote: loos wrote: [snip] Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. Or even in other countries. Noriega was arreste

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

2006-01-11 Thread Chinook
Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:48:49AM -0500, Chinook wrote: I've got /netatalk/ installed and minimally configured on Debian and set all the appropriate switches in OS X, and I can look at and move files back and forth from either box if I initiate (mount) the server on my

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread cmetzler
> Also, bear in mind that at one point, panama was our territory, but I'm > not sure if Noriega actually did some of his drug related stuff while > it was still our territory. No. Panama has been an independent nation since it seceded from Colombia in 1903. Perhaps you're referring to the Ca

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 22:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. > It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop I think someone is playing with your head, and that you need to study up on /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and ho

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >loos wrote: > >[snip] > >> Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic >> it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes >> this law. > >Or even in other countries. Noriega was arrested by US forc

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:09:07 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Likewise, the "clean room" argument made above by Andrew is inapplicable to a patent. What is covered by the patents I read would (IMO) preclude anyone from creating LFN entries in a FAT sty

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-11 Thread J.Moore
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 22:13 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > > > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > > > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. > > You need a 2.2 ke

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
loos wrote: [snip] Debian is international, but like any other person juridic or physic it can be sued for infringe a law in the country where it infringes this law. Or even in other countries. Noriega was arrested by US forces in Panama, where he lived, for violating laws passed by the USA,

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: I wrote: A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us cannot be distributed at all. Marty writes: That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. Yes. Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? Debian. Does "us" include

Re: Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

2006-01-11 Thread Lee Ann Spalteholz
  Hi,   My name is Roger Spalteholz Jr.  I dont see my last name too often, actually never.  Are you related is some way to me.  I would be interested in talking with you.  Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have time.   Roger A Spalteholz Jr

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost synchronization with the computer for a moment, and gone back to printing in text mo

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-11 Thread J.Moore
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:38 -0700, Hodgins Family wrote: > Good morning! > > > J.Moore wrote: > > I need to do an install of Debian 2.2 (potato) to do some maintenance on > > an old application. The author claims it will only run on the 2.2 > > kernel, and I want to eliminate as many variables as

RE: SOLVED (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Thanks everyone for helping lead me to the solution. I had two problems: 1.I needed to change the mouse to /dev/psaux and specify PS/2 and 2. I wasn't updating the XF86Config-4 file ( I had read the note below but misinterpreted it ) I had been changing the config but didn't realize that it wa

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 09:16:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop 1) Unplug printer. This should clear it's memory, which can contain pages and pages of smiley faces. 2) Use lp

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread David Berg
Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for the direct reply Andy. > I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my > nightly automatic aptitude update && aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran > overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed pac

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2006-01-11 Thread MalindaFlores
did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop

Re: mozilla + mutt

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:51:43PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: > > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives > > you symlink the line: > | www-browser to something link > > /usr/bin/mozilla

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 09:55 pm, Joey Hess wrote: > Jason Michaelson wrote: > > One thing that i find interesting about this is that if, indeed, the > > patents only apply to using multiple directory entries on an "8.3" file > > system to simulate long names (as appears to be the case), digit

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Michaelson wrote: > One thing that i find interesting about this is that if, indeed, the > patents only apply to using multiple directory entries on an "8.3" file > system to simulate long names (as appears to be the case), digital cameras > don't fall under the patent. Personally, if som

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 03:26 +0100, Tokar wrote: > Hal Vaughan a écrit : > > >But Zero-point energy works. > > > >I know it does. > > > >I saw Colonel Carter working with a zero-point module on Stargate SG1. > > > >Hal > > > > > I saw her too, it's a huge power source. You can even create a vorte

Re: base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Troy Nelson wrote: > I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my > pen drive. Installing Debian from files on a USB drive is documented in the installation manual. Installing _to_ a USB drive is mostly a matter of finding a drive, bios, and bootloader that all hap

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Tokar
Hal Vaughan a écrit : But Zero-point energy works. I know it does. I saw Colonel Carter working with a zero-point module on Stargate SG1. Hal I saw her too, it's a huge power source. You can even create a vortex to another galaxy. Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lvm boot error

2006-01-11 Thread oo famcr
hi I have a system with sarge stable up to date Because the driver's reason, I update the kernel to 2.6.14.5. Everything is OK, except some error in /var/log/boot: Tue Jan 10 18:42:30 2006: Setting up LVM Volume Groups...Tue Jan 10 18:42:30 2006: Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while.

base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Troy Nelson
I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my pen drive. This way I don't have to have cd-rom drives in all my computers. Thanks Troy

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Marty wrote: John Hasler wrote: >Marty writes: >>That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. > >Yes. > >>Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? > >Debian. > >>Does "us" include billions of Chinese and Indians? > >US patent

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:30 pm, loos wrote: > Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 17:16 -0500, Michael Marsh escreveu: > > On 1/11/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But you definitely have to come up with some soft of working > > > implementation, be it hard- or software, I agree. > > > >

Re: apache2

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 16:53), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ich habe per "apt-get install apache2" apache installiert und der > Server is auch erreichbar. > Nur wenn ich den Dokumentations-Link der dummy-apache page anklicke > wird diese nicht gefunden. You need to install apache2-doc BTW this is an English

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread loos
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 17:16 -0500, Michael Marsh escreveu: > On 1/11/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But you definitely have to come up with some soft of working > > implementation, be it hard- or software, I agree. > > Actually, that requirement was dropped awhile ago. You only

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread loos
Em Qua, 2006-01-11 às 19:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Marty wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: > > >Marty writes: > > >>That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. > > > > > >Yes. > > > > > >>Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? > > > > > >De

apache2

2006-01-11 Thread coderacc
Hall, ich habe per "apt-get install apache2" apache installiert und der Server is auch erreichbar. Nur wenn ich den Dokumentations-Link der dummy-apache page anklicke wird diese nicht gefunden. - Not Found The requested URL /manual/ was not found on this server. - Wird die Doku nicht mi

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:27:54PM -0500, Marty wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Marty writes: > >>That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. > > > >Yes. > > > >>Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? > > > >Debian. > > > >>Does "us" include billions of Chinese and Indians? > > > >US patents

kernel-2.6.15 cannot compile

2006-01-11 Thread Eike Lantzsch
I attempted to compile kernel-2.6.15 with make-kpkg but I got this error: gzip -9qf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.15.20060111/conf.vars install -p -m 644 debian/buildinfo /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15/debian/linux-image-2.6.

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running L

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Marty
John Hasler wrote: I wrote: A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us cannot be distributed at all. Marty writes: That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. Yes. Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? Debian. Does "us" include billions of Chinese

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Oliver Lupton, > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: > > > When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls > > past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug > > the debug message, not the debuging informat

and it's a good thing too (Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?)

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Clive Menzies wrote: It's written as a comment in the conf file itself. If you manually modify the conf file dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 won't work until you move the modified file out of the way: # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically # updated # again, run

Re: apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, What am I to do with the bug reports I regularly receive from apt-listbugs when installing or upgrading debian packages? I installed Debian Sarge because I am a relative beginner and didn't want to worry about OS and application security issues. Now I administer a M

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Marty
John Hasler wrote: I wrote: No. The kernel probably infringes dozens, perhaps hundreds of patents. Debian's policy is to ignore patents in the absence of evidence that the owner is likely to enforce them on us. Marty writes: Does this policy also determine the "non-free" designation A work

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 18:34), Erik Karlin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > > was in /etc/X11. > > > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > > create a new XF86Co

apt-listbugs and security

2006-01-11 Thread david cuthbertson
Hi, What am I to do with the bug reports I regularly receive from apt-listbugs when installing or upgrading debian packages? I installed Debian Sarge because I am a relative beginner and didn't want to worry about OS and application security issues. Now I administer a Media-Wiki based site, secur

Re: mozilla + mutt

2006-01-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/01/06 21:01), mess-mate wrote: > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've come in late on this but have you looked at /etc/alternatives > you symlink the line: | www-browser to something link > /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox > | > I did :( > /usr/bin/mozilla is a link to /etc/alternatives

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:43:37 +0100 Marc PERRUDIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Also there are things that apt can do aptitude can't. (Seen in the > >apt-build > >script.) > > > > > Yes, aptitude doesn't have the 'source' command so you can't download > source package with aptitude. [EMAIL PR

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Erik Karlin
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it > was in /etc/X11. > > I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to > create a new XF86Config file. > > I did an experiment. I deleted (sa

Re: apt-get error

2006-01-11 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:38, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting following errors after "apt-get upgrade".I'm using Sarge > 3.1 and tried to upgrade after adding testing & unstable repositories > to my source.lst file.All packages were successfully downloaded. >

Re: tar: --delete macht tar-Archiv korrupt

2006-01-11 Thread Matthias Meyer
Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:51:59PM +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> Mache ich was falsch? > > Ja: du solltest mal nach die deutsche > debian-user-german@lists.debian.org Liste mailen. :) Siehe: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ > > Die Liste wohin du jetzt g

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 yeilds no XF86Config-4 file?

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Title: Message I'm very confused. Where does the XF86Config-4 file live? I thought it was in /etc/X11.   I also thought that dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 was supposed to create a new XF86Config file.   I did an experiment. I deleted (saved elsewhere) the XF86Config-4 file and tried to

Re: mozilla + mutt

2006-01-11 Thread Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao
mess-mate wrote on Jan, 11: [...] > | > | > after an update of the mozilla suite ( debian/sarge) mozilla can't > | > | > be launched whtin mutt. [...] > | You're in mutt, you click on a html attachment, what happens then ? > | > Lynx open in a terminal with the html page. The way this thing wo

Re: (SOLVED) Logrotate don't route

2006-01-11 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:14:35PM +0100, Marco wrote: > David Jardine ha scritto: > >On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote: > > > >>David Jardine ha scritto: > >> > >>>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: > >>> > >>> > Hi all, > > I have

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:14:55PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: } When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls } past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug } the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just } scrolls quickly by in the terminal:

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 04:14:55 PM, Haines Brown wrote: When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: I vaguely recall

apt-get error

2006-01-11 Thread Nikhil Prabhakar
Hi, I'm getting following errors after "apt-get upgrade".I'm using Sarge 3.1 and tried to upgrade after adding testing & unstable repositories to my source.lst file.All packages were successfully downloaded. --

Re: Tar help

2006-01-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 09:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 09:23:13AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What version of tar? 1.14 is known to be busted, 1.13-19 and 1.13-25 >> are > >Ouch. How busted? It seems to be the one in stable. Are all my > backups vapour? > I could

Re: saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:14:55 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: > When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls > past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug > the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just > scrolls quickly

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Matthew J. Harmon
http://www.uspto.gov/main/faq/g120005.htm http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html Patents protect inventions, and improvements to existing inventions. [0] "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture..." Copyrights protect literary, artistic, and musical works. [0] http

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Bruno Buys
Haines Brown wrote: I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump downloaded photos. I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: # env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug -f "/opt/tmp/camera" -P and

RE: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo MicroCenter PowerSpec, but I've had it running Linux and X success

saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: For debugging messages, please use the --debug option. Debugging

saving xterm scrolling data to file

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
When I run a command with debug in xterm, a lot of info scrolls past. How can I save this to a file? All I get is how to debug the debug message, not the debuging information itself, which just scrolls quickly by in the terminal: For debugging messages, please use the --debug option. Debugging

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:58 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on > the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump > downloaded photos. > > I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: > > # env LANG

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/11/2006 03:30:07 PM, Marco wrote: Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... BTW, you want your free memory to decrease becase memory is no good unless it's used. If it's not used for anything else the OS uses it for disk buffers. See also vmstat & ps -axv Karl <

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 1/11/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But you definitely have to come up with some soft of working > implementation, be it hard- or software, I agree. Actually, that requirement was dropped awhile ago. You only have to roughly describe an implementation. There are actually a lot

Re: computer do not go power off automaticly

2006-01-11 Thread Vincent Smeets
I have an old computer (1999) and there the apm module didn't work either. I now have found the solution. I checked the dmesg log and found that my computer has an ACPI, but linux isn't using it because it is too old (1999 < 2001). I have added the kernel parameter "acpi=force" and now my comp

gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-11 Thread Haines Brown
I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump downloaded photos. I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: # env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug -f "/opt/tmp/camera" -P and get: 11.855812 gpho

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Marco
Joris Huizer ha scritto: Marco wrote: Hi all, How to check the memory used from a task? With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... Help :-( Thanks Marco Top should tell you the meemory per task - start

Re: New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: > > I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a > /dev/input/mice no device found error. > > I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse > still doesn't work. > I added mousedev to /etc/modules

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:50:07 +0100 Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer ha scritto: > > Marco wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> How to check the memory used from a task? > >> > >> With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. > >> > >> Every day my free memory decrease and I

Wierd processor usage after 2.12 and 6.9

2006-01-11 Thread [KS]
Hello all, Since the last couple of days when I got the gnome 2.12 and X.org 6.9 upgrades, my machine has been acting a bit strangely. The processor usages goes to 100% for simple tasks e.g. copying data from DVD to HDD (it shouldn't use that much processor due to DMA), deleting a directory contai

Re: (SOLVED) Logrotate don't route

2006-01-11 Thread Marco
David Jardine ha scritto: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:09:57PM +0100, Marco wrote: David Jardine ha scritto: On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:12:46PM +0100, Marco wrote: Hi all, I have make in /etc/logrotate.d a new file (as name backup) for rotate my backup's log. This is the text

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: > > > >No, you are confusing the patent system with copyright. A patent covers > >*an idea*, not an implementation. -- snip > Ideas are not patentable (in the USA). You are probably right, I must have confused this. Although I find the distinction not to be easy, at least when softwa

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Marco
Joris Huizer ha scritto: Marco wrote: Hi all, How to check the memory used from a task? With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... Help :-( Thanks Marco Top should tell you the meemory per task - start

New install->Broken X->modprobe mousedev->now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Ed Young
I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and now when I reboot, X starts but still no mouse. I've run dpkg-rec

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > A work that infringes a patent that is likely to be enforced against us > cannot be distributed at all. Marty writes: > That sounds like a pretty subjective standard. Yes. > Who decides what's "likely?" Who is "us"? Debian. > Does "us" include billions of Chinese and Indians? US p

Re: Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Marco wrote: Hi all, How to check the memory used from a task? With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... Help :-( Thanks Marco Top should tell you the meemory per task - start top and press 'f' - this

LI-2.6.15-1-686 Recommends Libc6-i686 Unmet Dependency

2006-01-11 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Just installed the subject linux-image and linux-headers, apparently successfully, but libc6-i686 wont install with unmet dependencies. Console output as follows: ChatagnierL-Home:/var/log# aptitude install libc6-i686 E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. E: Unable to corr

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Jason Michaelson
One thing that i find interesting about this is that if, indeed, the patents only apply to using multiple directory entries on an "8.3" file system to simulate long names (as appears to be the case), digital cameras don't fall under the patent. the dcf specifcation (http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF)

Free Memory and Tasks

2006-01-11 Thread Marco
Hi all, How to check the memory used from a task? With "top" I look only total memory, free memory and used memory. Every day my free memory decrease and I don't understand why... Help :-( Thanks Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:09:07 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West: > > > > [snip] > > > > >>If it applies to drivers, I think that linux FAT system is a > >>clean-room creation and would probably be okay. > > > > > > No, you are confu

Re: Local --> apt

2006-01-11 Thread David Baron
>On Wednesday 11 January 2006 07:27, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > Is there any way to moving a /usr/local installation into apt, meeting >> > dependencies, etc. Most information is in the configure program with the >> > application being compiled. >> >> Look at checkinstall. >Yes, I got this on

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-01-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:00:11 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Q3. It would be better to specify distributions by name (sarge, etch, > > sid) in order to better archive the post. You can search later for the > > problem and have a clue of what distribution they apply to. >

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