Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless of what happens :) I triple-checked that I'm trying to mount the correct partition and did it without using fstab, and that's not the problem, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo umount /mnt (to unmount the root partition) [

3Ware controller and Drive SPindown?

2006-02-16 Thread Jan Johansson
Is it possible to spin-down drives that is connected to a 3Ware controller? I am pondering adding an old 7000-series board to one of my boxes, but it would be nice to retain power save (Or rather Noise-save).

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do y

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: Ok, what is possible is that the geometry written to the beginning of the new partitions is not correct, and so the start of /home is now being miscomputed somehow. I d

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:01 am, Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? >> I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use >> software such as Gwenview. Thx! >> >> Deephay showimg is good for viewing, haven't

Re: udev problem

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this) but wh

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
I've read up a bit from the Partition-Rescue mini-howto, and am not feeling so panicked any more. My understanding is that cfdisk would have *only* changed the partition table, which resides on the MBR. And since I haven't accessed the portion of the disk for which I changed the partition table,

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ok, I've drawn a map of your disc, both presumed before and after, and I think I know what cfdisk did. Before you did anything, you had either three or four entries in your PT, it's hard to tell, as cfdisk is not actually showing your PT. But anyway, you had Primary Bootable Win95 FAT32 (hda1)

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
You still there? Things don't look too bad to me, so far. Still here, making some progress... Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand i

udev problem

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
Hi all, I have a problem with udev here: every time when I was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines like this on the console: "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines goes a little bit fast and I cannot remember the exact format but it is more or less like this)

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
> of an extended partition you created before. Or are > you using LVM? If you use LVM, I can't help you much > if at all. Sorry, I didn't answer this before: no, I'm not using LVM. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls /mnt bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var boot dev

Can't open encrypted partitions

2006-02-16 Thread the Vonks
I have three encrypted partitions, which I normally open like this: gpg --decrypt keyfile.gpg | cryptsetup create misc /dev/hda11 mount /dev/mapper/misc Where keyfile.gpg is created like this: head -c 2880 /dev/urandom | uuencode -m - | head -n 65 | tail -n 64 | gpg --symmetric -a Howe

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
2006/2/17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First step before messing with partitions: do a backup. > Second step before messing with partitions: save your MBR on a floppy. > Third step before messing with partitions: save the first sector > of each partition on a floppy. I have backups at home

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: > > >the bios manager only let me create and destroy full size RAID arrays >(i think, I don't remeber exactly if the size can be changed, but I >don't think so). I made the partitions during win2k installation... > > > Then you've got hardware raid, some linux devs call these t

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread charles norwood
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:53 -0400, Glenn Taylor wrote: > M-L wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> > Bruno Buys wrote: > >> > > Glenn Taylor wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > >> RedHat > >> 8.0

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Michael M.
Fábio Dias wrote: I googled this a lot before mailing the list. There is a lot of information about hardware raid, and md software RAID. But are only a few links (ubuntu) about these fake raids chipsets. By the way, here go THE dummy question: tldp?? The Linux Documentation Project: http://ww

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Stefan, > I've never done a dual boot raid configuration before, are you able to > split up your arrays with the BIOS Raid manager? the bios manager only let me create and destroy full size RAID arrays (i think, I don't remeber exactly if the size can be changed, but I don't think so). I made the

moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-16 Thread Levi Waldron
I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: 5700MB free space hda5 logical linux ext3 [/home] hda6 logical linux swap hda2 primary linux ext3 [/] hda1 primary other OS I wanted to use the free space, so I

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: >I tried. My partitions where already made during win2k installation (I >think I forgot to tell I'm trying to make a dual boot config.). The >raid manager on the installer doesn't recognize them. Should I install >linux before windows?? > > I've never done a dual boot raid conf

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Kent West
On 2/16/06, the original poster wrote: i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. Here's what I wrote several years ago (but I don't claim that it's a "good tutorial"): http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=03/10/05/025207 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Gnu-Raiz
On Thursday 16 February 2006 06:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2/16/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hello, >> >> i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. >>ive >> done enough googling and havent seen anythin

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Wow, first, thanks for the quick answer! > You can create RAID arrays in woody installer, I've done it on the same > chipset I tried. My partitions where already made during win2k installation (I think I forgot to tell I'm trying to make a dual boot config.). The raid manager on the installer doe

Re: Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Fábio Dias wrote: >Hi everyone, >I hope this is the right place for doing that, and I didn't find any >good information about my problem, so here I go. > >I have an ASUS P4P800 SE mobo, with ICH5R south bridge, 2 SATA 80Gb >hard drives in raid 0 config. In windows, everything is OK, but any >linux

Re: NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Sinan Nalkaya wrote: >it seems the source is trying to use binaries and libraries located at >your local pc, so you need a su rights to compiled kernel on your local >pc. > > > > Here's the exports file on the FreeBSD server, my remote uid is 1000 and so is the users uid of the shared home direc

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
thank you all, I am going to read the manual carefully - Original Message - From: "David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian_user" Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:57 PM Subject: Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

Intel ICH5R fake raid installation

2006-02-16 Thread Fábio Dias
Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place for doing that, and I didn't find any good information about my problem, so here I go. I have an ASUS P4P800 SE mobo, with ICH5R south bridge, 2 SATA 80Gb hard drives in raid 0 config. In windows, everything is OK, but any linux installation see these di

bootsplash in sid

2006-02-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I tried to install bootsplash in sid. I had two problems. First is regarding sysv-rc-bootsplash. It doesn't patch rc and rcs scripts properly. Any how I tried to bypass it by removing it. second initrd.img gives kernel panic. I saw post in bootsplash discussion as below. It's because you are using

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
> > How do I make the modules to install? > > make modules > make modules_install > > does not do anything! If you're using the kernel package tool, it will build a .deb kernel (including modules). When you install that, it will install the modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:41, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >Reinstall of originalawk solved the problem. The kernel-image >package builds and installs fine. > >How do I make the modules to install? > >make modules >make modules_install > >does not do anything! > Well, the obvious question would have

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
> Maybe you have to add the line > > exec xscreensaver & > > instead of just xscreensaver No. The exec line should be the last line in the file where you start your wm, such as exec /usr/bin/enlightenment And you don't need the & on the line, since you can't background an exec'd process. xscr

Re: [SOLVED] kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Reinstall of originalawk solved the problem. The kernel-image package builds and installs fine. How do I make the modules to install? make modules make modules_install does not do anything! -ishwar On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am trying to compile the kernel for enabling SMP

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
I found the solution after a few more hours on google. If X says the nvidia module can't be loaded, when lsmod says it is, then nvidia-glx probably isn't installed. For some reason apt-get dist-upgrade removed nvidia-glx. I suppose that's what I get for running "sleep 8h; apt-get -y dist-upgrade".

Re: usb2 to fast

2006-02-16 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:43:10PM +0100, nicals wahlgren wrote: > Is there a way to slow an usb connection to usb1 speed? > > In debian when I am transferring files to mp3 player or sd memory card > through card reader it goes very quick but the files are mostly > unreadable. When using Win XP

Re: [debian] Re: Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict SOLVED!

2006-02-16 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:58:14 + John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keith Bates wrote: > > Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some > > reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In > > the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is

Re: Re: Mouse Bindings

2006-02-16 Thread Christopher Booth
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 4 5" i have 5 button mouse 1st position = left mouse button 2nd position = mouse wheel down 3rd position = right mouse button 4th position = mouse wheel up 5th position = mouse wheel down 1 = left click 2 = mouse wheel down 3 = right click 4 = scroll up 5 = scroll dow

mini-commander error on load "Failed: Failed: Schema ......"

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Blumel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I get this error on the loading of mini-commander. Failed: Failed: Schema `/schemas/apps/mini-commander-global/macro_patterns' specified for `/apps/mini-commander/macro_patterns' stores a non-schema value Failed: Failed: Schema `/schemas/apps/mini-com

Re: instalaçao

2006-02-16 Thread Bruno Buys
kubernat wrote: eu baixei o arquivo debian-testing-alpha-netinst-iso porem grei o disco de instalaçao porem o mesmo nao da boot peo cd o que esta faltando? grato arthur Cara, manda pra lista debian em portugues, essa lista é em inglês. De onde você baixou esse iso? I'm telling him this

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: (cut) > I've not been using debian for very long (actually, it's only here for the > OpenMOSIX clusters). Are you saying that apt-get cannot be configured to > prevent a kernel upgrade and that

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 16 February 2006 14:55, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 09:05 +0800, Richard wrote: >> On 16/02/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:38 +, Andy Hawkins wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > In article >> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:08:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > >On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > >>2.4.26. I would like to use a script to

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 16 February 2006 18:34, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > Your attitude is exactly the kind of trolling that kept me from using > > Debian until within the past year. Yes, you. Katipo. Not the OP. > > One of the things which has given me a bad taste in my mout

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread riches
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: apt-get upgrade on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" want

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: >apt-get upgrade > > on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the > kernel: Carl, # e

Re: Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
Keith Bates wrote: Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the world again. If you're running Debian testing, then you could try just

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread Marty
David Baron wrote: Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... why? I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Bug? This can happen if you use UTC in your R

Re: Re: How to disable this PPP message

2006-02-16 Thread John Q. User
Hi, Here is what I did. Please note: this is probably not appropriate for a professional/production/multi-user system. I run Debian as software development platform w/ Firestarter to manage IPTables. Firestarter causes IPTables to log messages related to various DoS attacks.attacks.attacks.attack

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Your attitude is exactly the kind of trolling that kept me from using Debian until within the past year. Yes, you. Katipo. Not the OP. One of the things which has given me a bad taste in my mouth for all UNIX like systems from the start is that they seem to breed

How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-16 Thread riches
I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: apt-get upgrade on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the kernel: # apt-get -V upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependen

Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict

2006-02-16 Thread Keith Bates
Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the world again. But not this time! I use alien to convert the rpms provided by OO to debs. The

trusted php5 repositories ?

2006-02-16 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all, do you know any trusted php repositories [php5 - deb packages] that i can install php5-* stuff from. some packages are not included in main ftps [such as php5-mcrypt, php5-pear ... etc] so i need one that contains all php5-* ... thanks in advance...

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Josep, thank you, I've done what you say and this is the output: debian:/etc# sftp -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to localhost... OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. ive > done enough googling and havent seen anything comprehensive. i have > found some but they seem to be mostly mandrake(iva) or fedora core or > some other distro

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:01, Katipo wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > >>[...] > >> > >>>For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and >

key bind paste from ?

2006-02-16 Thread Brian Clark
Hi there, This may be a strange request. What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor position in my aterm when connected to a remote host. My window environment is OpenBox. A shell alias on the remote host is o

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Katipo wrote: I find Microsoft utterly repugnant. What have your personal feelings got to do with this mail echo? And why would anyone post a lambast on what is a user's group? This whole thread seems severly OT to me. Perhaps if the O.P. would be so kind as to advise as to which particular

kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am trying to compile the kernel for enabling SMP with command: fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version="-smp" kernel-image in /usr/src/linux directory and see the error message:: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.7' COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l 'gcc*' perl dpkg 'libc6*' binutils ldso mak

Re: 8000 drivers?

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:35, Eric Schultz wrote: >I have a HP CD-Writer Plus 8000 and am looking for the software > that will allow the unit to be used as a writer. Did you get you're drivers > online or with the unit? Mu. See the CD Writing HOWTO for more details. http://ursi

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Jesse
Thanks, best to just downgrade. I modified the files as you suggested but aptitude claims it can't find the package file in the associated directory which is a bit strange. Hopefully that'll iron itself out. Thanks again,   JesseMatt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:it seems that the upgrade f

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn Taylor
M-L wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > Glenn Taylor wrote: > > > >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running RedHat > >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. PC is an > >> AMD k6

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade last night (amd64 testing) and now X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) But when I run lsmod it's still there. I've tried rebooting, unloading & reloading the module, and even installing a newer

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:56, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > my problem: > > the analog (vga) output and monitor is a little off. let me explain: > the horizontal size of X is a little to wide for the monitor and the lcd > doesnt provide a mechanism to adjust the size of the display, just the > po

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread Roel Schroeven
David Baron schreef: Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... why? I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Bug? Apart from time zone problems, it just

8000 drivers?

2006-02-16 Thread Eric Schultz
 HI Debian,      I have a HP CD-Writer Plus 8000 and am looking for the software that will allow the unit to be used as a writer.  Did you get you're drivers online or with the unit?   Thanks,   Er

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread Ravi Kumar
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:17 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 2/15/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem here: How to start an application automatically > > after X is started up? > > Actually I want to start the xscreensaver in daemon mode after X > > is started up. I add

instalaçao

2006-02-16 Thread kubernat
eu baixei o arquivo debian-testing-alpha-netinst-iso porem grei o disco de instalaçao porem o mesmo nao da boot peo cd o que esta faltando? grato arthur  

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Katipo
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: [...] For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and it installs and works. There are modifications I make, Yes,

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread Josep Serrano
Hello lucato You have enabled remote root login in your sshd_config. Anyway doucle check that this is the actual configuration file being read when sshd starts (see your init scripts). To debug your problem try to use sftp in the local server from command line: sftp -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] paste

good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. ive done enough googling and havent seen anything comprehensive. i have found some but they seem to be mostly mandrake(iva) or fedora core or some other distro centric. any suggestions for a distro agnostic tutorial or a debia

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:29 -0500, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The > best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc) > > So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice > > > > Compaq AMD Athlon64 2.

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any better. If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of toy, somthing to play with. For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I st

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: . . . X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" . . .can't get X to start properly. I got the same error some days ago when upgrading xorg. Xorg works normal again (apart from a hardly noticeable fraying of bold letters) after I have changed the li

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel B.
Glenn English wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:08 -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote: What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam delivery attempts? sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-16 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
The "best" SDK is SUN sdk read this http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Java and especially last part Installing eclipse is extremely easy -- just unpack archive with binaries somewhere and launch it :) В Срд, 15/02/2006 в 16:54 -0800, Marc Shapiro пишет: > Please, no flame wars! > > I u

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:57 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: > Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > then using aptitude backrev xserver-xorg, and then hold the package. > > For someone very new to aptitude, could you elaborate on how to do > this? sure! # aptitude then use '/' to find a pac

What filesystems does LVM (lvm2?) support?

2006-02-16 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, I've googled this but never actually got a definite answer... What I want to know is: What filesystems does lvm (or lvm2) support? Cheers, -Glen

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Cody Chamberlain
once your apt sources are updated, and your conf file has been modified according to matt's instructions, you simply search for xserver-xorg in aptitude. since the snapshot repository has been added (and assuming you updated) the 6.8.2 version should be available simply install teh older versio

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: It sounds like you're already at a spot where you can't reasonably reduce bandwidth used by email any further. Yeah, that seems to be true, unfortunately. For example, does your network have a caching HTTP proxy? If not, you're literally flushing bandwidth down the to

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn English
On Thursday 16 February 2006 12:22, Daniel B. wrote: > My idea (which I don't is practical) was to query RBLs in real time > after receiving a TCP connection (SYN?) packet and before sending an > acceptance (or rejection) packet. Relative to your suggestion, that > would save the bandwidth of rec

Re: default desktop list?

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:04, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Is there a list of the packages that are included in the > default desktop install? $ aptitude show desktop-base -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-user. pgp4yNhh7aOY8.pgp Des

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ivan Glushkov wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 2/15/06, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, if I issue ls . > filelist.txt as user I get: a binary file like: ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m ESC[0mfilelist.logESC[0m ESC[01;34mgconfd-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkde-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34

X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade last night (amd64 testing) and now X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) But when I run lsmod it's still there. I've tried rebooting, unloading & reloading the module, and even installing a newer kernel (2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-

Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am used to connect to my LAN server using sftp (with tectia client), logging in as "root". My server is a Debian testing updated day by day. Since 2 or 3 days I am unable to connecto to the server as "root". If I try to connect with another account I get in; seems that some software are bl

Re: What filesystems does LVM (lvm2?) support?

2006-02-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Yu,Glen [Ontario] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've googled this but never actually got a definite answer... > > What I want to know is: What filesystems does lvm (or lvm2) support? To the file system, LVM logical volumes look like normal block devices, e.g. partitions. You can use any

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Björn Lindström
Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > then using aptitude backrev xserver-xorg, and then hold the package. For someone very new to aptitude, could you elaborate on how to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:20:55 + Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:09:30 +0100 > Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > if I issue ls . > filelist.txt > > as user I get: > > a binary file like: > > > > ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m > > ESC[0mfilel

Constantly losing connections to mounted network drives

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Stanton
I am running debian stable ppc on an old mac G3 laptop. I have 2 mounted network drives - one mounted via samba is on a macOSX panther system, and the other a netware filestore mounted via ncpfs. Here is my relevant fstab entries: //193.x.x.x/YellowDog /mnt/mic smbfs username=,password=

Re: Deny spam with Exim4

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Casey T. Deccio wrote: I am getting a lot of spam on my exim4 mailserver, much of which is logged with "no host name found for IP address ..." and "no IP address found for host ...". The acl_check_rcpt acl is mostly set with the debian defaults. Not exactly what you asked, but maybe quite clos

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 09:05 +0800, Richard wrote: > On 16/02/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:38 +, Andy Hawkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > >roberto<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > a

Re: network problems specific to linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 (SOLVED)

2006-02-16 Thread Nil Cire
I have fixed the problem. I just had to type irqpoll as a kernel boot option. Does anyone know why this is?On 2/15/06, jlmb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Nil Cire wrote:> Oh, the wlan0's not on there because I did not have the card plugged in. > I have already recomplied the modules. I noticed that th

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:09 -0800, Jesse wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded my etch installation and ran into what might > be an issue with xserver-xorg. I'm running KDE 3.5 and everything > works fine except that the pointer-arrow is *extremely* slow and the > "button tap" feature no longer

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... > why? > I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my > time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Make sure you have your timezone correct

Re: Debian as terminalserver

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Dugan wrote: > Have you had a look at LTSP, www.ltsp.org. I had this setup some time > ago and it worked well. Thanks, I'll have a look. - -- /Lars -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunde

Have trouble accessing monit via web browser

2006-02-16 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, Recently I tried using monit (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit), but I'm unable to view my processes or check my server status as described on the site. I can access my page that is running from apache2, but if I add the ":2812" at then end, the Firefox (and IE) tells me they can'

Your site

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Re: Terminal Server

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel A Beller wrote: > Want to be careful on how you install apps, they can end up copied into > RAM on diskless clients if installed as if on local system. With > openoffice, this may eat up all 128 Mb's of RAM you've got. Sorry to jump in and "st

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:12 -0800, S Clement wrote: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric > facility. Since you sound like a non-techie, I suggest you go to http://www.ubuntu.com and ask them to send you their CD(s). It doesn't cost anything, and it's a Debian

Deny spam with Exim4

2006-02-16 Thread Casey T. Deccio
I am getting a lot of spam on my exim4 mailserver, much of which is logged with "no host name found for IP address ..." and "no IP address found for host ...". The acl_check_rcpt acl is mostly set with the debian defaults. I enabled CHECK_RECPT_VERIFY_SENDER, which denies for "!verify = sender".

[Fwd: Load test with mechanize]

2006-02-16 Thread Surachai Locharoen
Is debian limit the number of open tcp socket? if yes , how many socket they are allow? Kan Original Message Subject: Load test with mechanize Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:09:19 +0700 From: Surachai Locharoen <

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
third! Nice software. gqview is fine... but feh as well... i use both. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: custom network intefaces during boot for Debian

2006-02-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:42, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so > that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. > Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, > I have a laptop with

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