splashy in sid

2006-02-17 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have dell inspiron 600m with sid. I tried to install bootsplash with kernel patches. But failed. Then I tried splashy. This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I saw in dmesg I have both radeonfb and vesafb. Can this be source of problem? I enabled debug in /et

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
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2006-02-17 Thread Bob Hynes
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Re: Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd

2006-02-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:00, Bill Marcum wrote: >On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:32:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is >> missing: >> >> >> But even after I do "aptitude reinstall passwd", nothing changes... >> What i

cannot load color "black"

2006-02-17 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, Some of my applications like xscreensaver (also rxvt and other apps) will return some information like: "Cannot parse color black" or "Cannot load color black". some of them (like xscreensaver) only returns the message but still running correctly and some of them (like rxvt) canno

Re: Sound problems

2006-02-17 Thread Rosina Bignall
On Friday February 17 2006 5:22 pm, Jan Schledermann wrote: | | You don't mention what kind of sound server you are using on your system. | In KDE you should probably be using ALSA (with arts emulation). | The problems you are mentioning could be caused by "the real" arts | conflicting with ALSA. |

Re: Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd

2006-02-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:32:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is missing: > > > But even after I do "aptitude reinstall passwd", nothing changes... > What is wrong there ? Maybe that file is supplied by one of the li

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Rodney Richison
> >Even more oddly, I find Debian easier to install... > >/M > > > Admittedly, tonight, I booted to XP to sync up data to a usb drive. Syncback (a great program for windows), and windows just "seeing" the drive was just to appealing when I was in a hurry. I'm so ashamed of myself... -- Hig

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:46:36PM -0700, Charles wrote: > I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I > use for a test bed. Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to > learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported > ac

New install and newbie questions

2006-02-17 Thread Charles
I've just downloaded and installed the "sarge" distribution on a computer I use for a test bed.  Since I'm used to hosing this box and reinstalling to learn more, most of the hardware present is fairly generic and well supported across both Linux and Windows.   So far, I have network connecti

Re: Laptop Battery

2006-02-17 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Just for those who want to read up on this subject, from a non engineer point of view you might want to check out this link, or read the gentleman's fine book. http://www.buchmann.ca/toc.asp This topic came up on the 1.7 volt Panasonic battery topic I was involved with some time ago. Oh if you

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/17/06, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: > > 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

Re: what screwed up mozilla and seamonkey?

2006-02-17 Thread Yani Copas
Rick Pasotto wrote: Running seamonkey, the first symptom I noticed was that my WebDeveloper toolbar was greyed out. I quit seamonkey and fired up the debian installed mozilla. Now the WebDeveloper toolbar was missing. I logged out of gnome and now when I run either mozilla or seamonkey not on

Re: bootsplash in sid

2006-02-17 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/17/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you have a look at splashy? http://splashy.alioth.debian.org yes. I feel bootsplash is much better than splashy. of course kernel stuff involved. -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: USB flash/pen drives

2006-02-17 Thread Colin
BOSS wrote: > How bout a USB Flash/Pen drive installer? > Would be economical and very helpful, in my case yes VERY helpful. You haven't read the Installation manual, have you? ;-) http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread M-L
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:51 am, john gennard wrote: >> Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 >> Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. >> >> The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked >> well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 >> with

Sponaneous KDE logouts since recent upgrades (etch)

2006-02-17 Thread techno_plume-debianwork
Hi, I'm having a problem with KDE; it seems to have only cropped up since recent apt-get (via Synaptic) upgrades. I regularly apply relevant upgrades via Synaptic. Key recent upgrades would be KDE and the kernel - to 2.6.15-686. The problem happens when I leave the computer for a little while. Th

Re: what screwed up mozilla and seamonkey?

2006-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/17/06, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running seamonkey, the first symptom I noticed was that my WebDeveloper > toolbar was greyed out. > > I quit seamonkey and fired up the debian installed mozilla. Now the > WebDeveloper toolbar was missing. > > I logged out of gnome and now when

Re: Sound problems

2006-02-17 Thread Jan Schledermann
Rosina Bignall wrote: > > Hi - > > For some reason, the sound quit working. But after running alsoconf, it's > somewhat working again. Events in KDE work, and some apps, but other apps > don't, including some simple ones: > > > Thanks, > Rosina > > You don't mention what kind of sound se

Re: USB is fickle

2006-02-17 Thread Jan Schledermann
ke6isf wrote: > Running Sarge with Linux 2.6.8-2-k7. It might be pertinent to know > that I'm using Gnome under XFree for my GUI. > In short, what should I look for to solve these problems? Nothing is > popping up in the syslog othe than an address failure occasionally, > but that doesn't seem

many segfaults scrolled by when updating with aptitude now X won't start

2006-02-17 Thread Daniel Johnson
Last night I was doing a long overdue update on a system I use mostly for learning. Many things must have gone horribly wrong during the update as a result of all of the segfaults, but aptitude seemed to think it was a success. I'm not sure what all is broken, but I know that X for sure is broken

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Micha Feigin wrote: > If the battery is Li-Ion then their nice due to relatively high capacity and > presumably no memory but they have a lifespan of about two to two and a half > years without regard to usage (storing them half charged when not used is best > though). T20s ha

USB is fickle

2006-02-17 Thread ke6isf
Running Sarge with Linux 2.6.8-2-k7. It might be pertinent to know that I'm using Gnome under XFree for my GUI. When mounting a digital camera on my machine, I get one of two reactions from the system - the camera mounts, allows me to copy (but not remove) files, and if I unplug without unmountin

Routing or iptables problem, or masquerading?!

2006-02-17 Thread jb701
I have got a bit further with my networking problem, using a linux box as a router, now I have a different problem. I have five machines [Windows PCs and Macs] connected to an ethernet switch. They are all 192.168.0.x One of these has two NICs, and is used to connect in the linux box. The s

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry the sent button took me by surprise and for a change it had to work the first time. On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:07:46 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:51:59 + > john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just before Christmas, I bought a secondha

setting up software RAID 1+0

2006-02-17 Thread debian_questioner
Installing Debian 3.1 on a box with 4 SCSI 18.2 GB HD. SCSI card is a non-RAID adaptec card. I am trying to set up the 4 drives as 2 RAID0 of 36 Gig each mirrored (RAID1) SO far, I am able to get the two 36 GB RAID0 partitions set up, but then when I try to create another MD, it says I don’t h

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: Draining NiCds and NiMH batteries to empty is harmful. Don't do it, you're asking for permanent battery damage. It only works as a stopgap measure if As a little bit more info on that, a battery is a collection of cells. Not all the cells will discharge at exactly the s

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-17 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:27:50PM +0200, 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 somethin

Sound problems

2006-02-17 Thread Rosina Bignall
Hi - For some reason, the sound quit working. But after running alsoconf, it's somewhat working again. Events in KDE work, and some apps, but other apps don't, including some simple ones: $cat sample.wav >/dev/dsp bash: /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy $ play arrow-hit.wav sox: Can't open

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.17.2125 +0100]: > I am not sure of where you are located, but considering you wrote your > book German too (and a good read it was!) you might want to take a look What, it's out already? We just sent it to the press last week... :) But yeah,

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:40:27AM -0800, Levi Waldron wrote: > So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up > into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of > each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing > hda7 as a mountabl

netstat

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Hardy
I use netstat to check what's going on with the ports on my hosted server each night, and I have got this entry (see below, last on the list). This has occurred 3 days in a row now. This is not a user, and I have jakarta-tomcat running a java appserver on that HTTPS port. I can't see any trace

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 09:22, Joey Hess wrote: > Josep Serrano wrote: > > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the > > bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional > > package if you already have the stuff to the the job? > > > > Maybe

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 08:01, Josep Serrano wrote: > > On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: > >> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? > > > > Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. > > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the > bootc

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:05, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > > I've just recharged the battery which took just > > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off battery 11 min

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 09:51, john gennard wrote: > Can anyone offer any suggestions (solice is perhaps > too much to hope for). I've never had anything to do with > Laptops before, so I'm in the dark. With batteries, they're not something you can buy used with any great reliability.

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-02-17 @ 12:44:25 (week 07) martin f krafft wrote: > Hi, > > We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following > requirements: > > - must be absolutely silent > - must be capable of running Debian Hi Martin, I am not sure of where you are located, but considering you wrote yo

what screwed up mozilla and seamonkey?

2006-02-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
Running seamonkey, the first symptom I noticed was that my WebDeveloper toolbar was greyed out. I quit seamonkey and fired up the debian installed mozilla. Now the WebDeveloper toolbar was missing. I logged out of gnome and now when I run either mozilla or seamonkey not only is the WebDeveloper t

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 2/17/06, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote:> On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit > > port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Kent West
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:51:59 + john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. I've just recharged the battery whi

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: 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 :) Yeah, I was pretty leary of going with anything other tha

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:51:59 + john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 > Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. > > The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked > well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:19:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the battery meter warned me that I had 0 minutes left, I rebooted it to the LILO prompt, stopped it there and let it drain the battery until it just died and couldn't be turned back on. I think

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exa

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Craig M. Houck
Your battery she is deceased and no more. The good news is one can be had for not to much. I find on eBay from 1.47 (44 shipping) to about $80 I didn't chekc the shipping) for a thinkpad T20 battery. RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBS

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:05:21PM -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: I've just recharged the battery which took just over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching to it, in one minute I go

[**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly the same way as l

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:19:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Once the battery meter warned me that I had 0 minutes left, I rebooted > > it to the LILO prompt, stopped it there and let it drain the battery > > until it just died and couldn't be turned back on. I think it ran for > > nearl

Re: bootsplash in sid

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:59:26 -0800 "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install bootsplash in sid. Did you have a look at splashy? http://splashy.alioth.debian.org Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCR

double-sided printing

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
I use CUPS's xpp. It lets me tell it whether to print double-sided. For files from some programs, it does double-sided when I tell xpp to do so. For postscript files from my own programs, it prints single-sided anyway. What kind of postscript code do I need to use so for end-of-page so that x

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:05:21PM -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > > I've just recharged the battery which took just > > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off batter

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 > Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. > > The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked > well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 > with the AC

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
john gennard wrote: Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. So far so good, as the man said when he fell past the twentieth floor. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used t

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:42:12AM -0800, ke6isf wrote: > I'm going to jump in as well. > > I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. > Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make > it talk to my networking hardware. > > My advice is

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've just recharged the battery which took just > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off battery 11 mins > left' quickly followed by 'running out 0 mins left'. > >

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Edward Shornock
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: [...] > I still can't use it to connect to the web. I got to the point where > it told me something about a sequence that was not 6-bit pure and the > 7-bit was always zero. X would not work. I was told that there were > no screens avail

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
> It would seem that I've been 'sold a pup', but > before getting a new one (assuming one can be found), I > just wondered if anything in the Debian software could be misconfigured. > The battery itself seems in almost pristine > condition to my inexperienced eyes. > No, that battery is damag

Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread john gennard
Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 with the AC Adapter. However, last evening I decided to use the battery to see h

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > Hi all > > I was looking in the list of packages that are available and I came across > these two > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from t

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-17 Thread david robert
just follow this http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/time.htm and in this article menctioned that try to install ntpdate packageMarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 t

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread ke6isf
I'm going to jump in as well. I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make it talk to my networking hardware. My advice is to get Sarge, and go from there - aside from the fact that it seems

Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread david robert
try here you can get any software for linux   http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htmAndrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:01:43 +0800"Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> Greetings all,> > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software?> I am not using Gnome / KDE

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Josep Serrano wrote: >>>On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >>> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? >>> >>>Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. >>> >> >> >> Yes, tmpreaper does the job.

Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:01:43 +0800 "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 If you used ACDsee before you might like G

Re: Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-17 Thread Dexter
I have OpenVpn instaled on my Debian firewall. I use Shorewall to manage firewall. I have 3 interfaces eth0, eth1, eth2 in firewall host (Zones: LAN, DMZ, NET). OpenVPN make 4-th interface tun0 (Zone: VPN). Than I have set up policies and rules for trafic betwen Zones. It is easy to set up and and

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Josep Serrano wrote: > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the > bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional > package if > you already have the stuff to the the job? > > Maybe I am wrong and it is a bad idea using bootclean.sh in crond

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +02

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
Are you actually receiving mail from the Debian mailing list? When I wrote to you directly just now, I got a spam-filtering challenge, which the automatic email forwarder at Debian is unlikely to be able to respond to. If not, go have a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ where you wil

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:42:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 10:07, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Is anyone here willing and able to help the OP, or is this thread > > going to mutate to another subject with the OP dangling in the > > wind? > > Several people have already po

Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Przysucha
Hello, I want to set up a Bridge/Router which shall include a VPN gateway to a campus network with iptables. First of all: Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 running on a Soekris net4501, 3 NICs, headles, 133MHz, 64MB RAM, 512MB CF-card purpose: I need access to the campus network through the VPN tunn

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread John Halton
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people have already pointed out that more info is needed. > > I hope he can get back to us with more about what is going on, but with what > he's given us, I know I don't have a suggestion, other than what has been > given. Agreed. There

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit > > port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and > > the Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is

Re: Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is missing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ls -1 /etc/pam.d/ > apache2 > ... > common-account > common-auth > common-password > common-session > ... > other > ppp > samba > ... > xscreensaver > > The passwd

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > > kernel-imag

Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Jan Johansson wrote: However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it without evident errors). Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems particularly relevant. I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this error. Any ideas?

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Josep Serrano wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why install

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > > So I basically would like to know whats the diffe

Re: lovesong 2006-02-16 23:02 System Events

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
Does anyone know what these logcheck messages mean? It seems to be detecting AGP devices several times a day. I'd understand if it were recognising my video card at boot time, but I reboot *very* rarely. They are probably innocuous, but I've become easily worried since my gateway machine was

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: > 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 cann

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. >I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. > Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > Yes, you can use any partition type you want. B

Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric > facility. > > I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the web. My > windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I figur

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
> On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? > > Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional

File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread Wodzu Wodzowski
I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? Oglądaj Puchar Jedynki 18 l

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: > Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To

enabling wireless

2006-02-17 Thread David Berg
I just switched my laptop from the default ubuntu install to Debian Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no wireless extentions". Can I get this functional without building my own kernel? I'm running t

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oh yes! recently I added a "/bin/echo bla bla bla" in may .bashrc to have some host info when I log in. Removing that echo solved the problem! Thank you a lot!

Re: Kernel 2.6.15 networking works with irqpoll

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Nil Cire [Thu, Feb 16 2006, 01:01:32AM]: > I recently had another post about the networking not working. Well, > I've solved it. However, I still don't know why it works. What the > heck does irqpoll do? Is there any way I can do it without using > irqpoll? Refer to my other post (Netw

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:07, Mike McCarty wrote: > Is anyone here willing and able to help the OP, or is this thread > going to mutate to another subject with the OP dangling in the > wind? Several people have already pointed out that more info is needed. I hope he can get back to us with mo

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Iuri Sampaio [Sat, Feb 11 2006, 05:29:53PM]: > 80 GB Hard Disk ... > 120GB HD You asked about performance and do not know more than "X GB"? Please realize that most cheaper laptop harddisks are rotating with 4200 RPM, better ones with 5400 and best with 7200, and there is real speed d

Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2006, Jan Johansson wrote: > > >However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it > >without evident errors). > > > >Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems > >particularly relevant. > > > >I don't much like relying on files that have been

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ron Johnson [Sat, Feb 11 2006, 07:26:30PM]: > > Video card: NVIDIA 128mb dedicated > > This is the video card of choice for Linux. The (closed-source) > 3D driver is excellent. Please, on a laptop? When did they start supporting the power management properly? The free driver works

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

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Carrigan
Yu,Glen [Ontario] 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? A LVM volume is just a block device so you can put any filesystem on there that you want. However, since one of the benefits of LVM is

Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? There's a nice script in /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh that does the job. It is called from mountall.sh at boot time. And it is so nice that is reads the configuration in /etc/default/rcS where you can set TMPTIME to the number of days you want hold old files in

Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? There's a nice script in /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh that does the job. It is called from mountall.sh at boot time. And it is so nice that is reads the configuration in /etc/default/rcS where you can set TMPTIME to the number of days you want hold old files in

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.17.1557 +0100]: > http://www.soekris.com/ > > or a pc104 architecture? added to my list. I am definitely looking for finished products/boxes, not motherboards for OEM though. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the lis

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Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread Deephay
thx guys, I am trying to use gqview :) - Original Message - From: "kamaraju kusumanchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:08 AM Subject: Re: image view software > Clive Menzies wrote: > >>On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: >> >> >>> Anyone can recomme

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit port > as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and the > Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is just as fast. Does that mean I can just install Debian

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:54:11AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > 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 as

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-17 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, roberto wrote: On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i cheked the BIOS setup: the video shared memory is not set; hence the problem is only about this module 'highmem' in the kernel; hence i realized the only one solution is to recompile... if any other way, pl

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