Re: Upgrade to 2.6.15

2006-02-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello John Talbut (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I > wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested that > I would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I duly went looking > for the kernel-source-2.6.12 pack

Re: Upgrade to 2.6.15

2006-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 02:07, John Talbut wrote: > I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I > wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested that I > would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I duly went looking for > the kernel-source-2.6.12

3.1 speculation

2006-02-20 Thread Shane
Maybe it'll give 3.1 some respectability. If i recall, when it was first released no one liked it much. That was before MS bought off so many drones. Shane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
> Tmpreaper probably does 'the right thing' However, if you mount /tmp with noatime, I don't see how tmpreaper would know what's safe to delete and what isn't. 'apt-cache show tmpreaper' says that it goes by access time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Upgrade to 2.6.15

2006-02-20 Thread John Talbut
I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested that I would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kernel. So I duly went looking for the kernel-source-2.6.12 package, only to find it nowhere in testing. Instead it s

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Marc Shapiro wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you have a dynamic IP of some sort. You might want to look at registering your ip with one of the dynamic dns services, who will effectively map your address to a static for you.

Re: Can't open encrypted partitions

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
Have you checked the actual output of GPG? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Neil Dugan
Mike McCarty wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge. I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. Thanks in advance! Almost surely you do not have a fixed IP address. If you want to host a web site, the usual way with this type

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

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
Daniel Johnson wrote: > 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

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
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?? If you want maximum data security, you might want to

Re: Sponaneous KDE logouts since recent upgrades (etch)

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Porter
> The problem happens when I leave the computer for a little while. The > screensaver kicks in as normal and I'll return to the PC in say ten > minutes and press a key/move the mouse. The screensaver clears and the > desktop/application shows for a moment but then I'm logged out back to > the

Re: wine 3d very very slow, toolchain problem?

2006-02-20 Thread Geoff Reidy
Rodney Gordon II wrote: Recently I have built my own compilation of wine on Debian, three different revisions (0.9.6 .7 and .8). All of these versions are compiled correctly. I have noticed an odd problem with these builds of wine, and the commercial cedega fork of wine on Debian. My dilemma: I

Hanging sunrpc connections.

2006-02-20 Thread Insane Boi
I have a debian sarge machine (we'll call machine1) at home that currently lists 67 sunrpc connections to another server (machine2) of mine.  However, machine2 does not indicate any open connections to machine1.  The output of 'netstat --inet | grep sunrpc' on machine1 produces (abridged): tcp 

GRUB ... extended partition ... Windows XP

2006-02-20 Thread Glenn Becker
Hi All - I will try to make this short, but it feels like an epic at this point. :) I'm trying to create a 6-OS laptop (80gig hard drive on a Dell Inspiron 4100): WinXP, Debian and Slackware Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris 10 x86. My first try was with a primary partition for Windows and

Mailman docs?

2006-02-20 Thread Dennis Carr
Are there Debian-specific documents for installing Mailman in Sarge, or should I rely on certain bits and pieces of the docs on gnu.org? Curious, -Dennis Carr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:39:11PM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Let me clarify a bit. > > I know I should not put testing on a production server, but testing at > that point (January a year ago) was almost the stable sarge and I took a > chance. Woody was just too old

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Baron Christophe wrote: > > What is usenet? > > Mike McCarty writes: > > A collection of open post groups. > > Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. hi John, several people in a discussion amongst some Free software folks

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Evan Carmi
Mehmet Fatih Akbulut gmail.com> writes:second method : >[assuming you dont have any version of KDE] >#apt-get install kde >this will install all dependencies. >[and the most important assumption in this method is : you've configured your >sources.list! i mean at least you have some repositories in

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:28:20 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been watching the apache logs on a website I work on and have > seen strange entries recently. They are in Combined form, and here > is a snippet: > > 221.226.124.1

Re: Keep those gears a-turning!

2006-02-20 Thread nick
Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 19 February 2006 15:17, David Baron wrote: Glxgears hardly move at all. The frame rates, however, report seemingly correctly. If they are moving at some multiple of the vertical scan rate, they may even move backwards slightly, like the wagon wheel spokes in an

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-20 Thread Nic
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > away due to this inefficient filepicker. It certainly is a shame. But it wouldn't be if you could simply

custom module configuration with make-kpkg

2006-02-20 Thread Identity Guarded
Hi, I've searched a little too long now for an solution to what I think is a very simple problem. I'm compiling a kernel in a subdirectory of my home with `make-kpkg kernel-image` and I've got my .kernel-pkg.conf set up to: maintainer := Sukant Hajra MODULE_LOC := $(HOME)/src/linux/mod

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-20 Thread Peter McAlpine
As far as advantages, most of them should be called 'potential' advantages and are outlined quite well in some of the documents referred to by some other replies. It's a remarkably interesting project, but (besides the odd story I've heard to run a web server just to show it can be done) it's not

Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Issue

2006-02-20 Thread David R. Litwin
When I issue the command line of:   apt-get install gcc kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18 libc6-dev tk8.3 libncurses5-dev fakeroot   How do I know the exact names for the available packages for this project?  Are these names aliases that point

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:41:15 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > >If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you > >have a dynamic IP of some sort. > > > > > > > >You might want to look at registering your ip with one of the dynam

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:45:24AM +, Evan Carmi wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering about the best (easy and/or stable) way to install the K > Desktop > Environment on Debian. Does anyone know of a website that has information on > this? Or maybe another resource? Which packages to I need to get

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi,first method: [assuming you have a previous version of KDE! to upgrade it!!!]#vi /etc/apt/sources.listinsert lines below in it:# KDE 3.5deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.5.0/ ./[ps: or you can add unstable + testing repositories in your sources.list but this time when dist-upgrade the

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 00:45 +, Evan Carmi wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering about the best (easy and/or stable) way to install the K > Desktop > Environment on Debian. Does anyone know of a website that has information on > this? Or maybe another resource? Which packages to I need to get and do

Re: switching between keyboard layouts in gnome 2.6

2006-02-20 Thread Leonid Grinberg
It is a Gnome Panel widget... I myself use USA and Russian Phonetic. Just create a Keyboard Indicator widget, right click, add whatever keyset, you want, and then change the key. I know for a fact that you can use Alt and Shift (although on one of my computers, it is a little faulty and refuses to

KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Evan Carmi
Hi, I am wondering about the best (easy and/or stable) way to install the K Desktop Environment on Debian. Does anyone know of a website that has information on this? Or maybe another resource? Which packages to I need to get and do I have to install Qt or any other packages? Thanks, Evan -- T

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Linas Zvirblis wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian. I did not mean to use word "blame" in any negative way. I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is closed. It will. Usually, when trying to figure out

Re: [SOLVED] Re: usb stick not aumounting and no icon on desktop

2006-02-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
H.S. wrote: I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 and the USB icons now appear on the desktop and get automounted as well. All is well, but only with the new kernel 2.6.15. That's good to know. I also had the same problem, but only with some usb drives (most worked well) - perhap

[SOLVED] Re: usb stick not aumounting and no icon on desktop

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>It appears that udev (or something) is not working right in Debain Etch. >>Earlier today I upgraded a bunch of packages and now USB stick >>automounting has stopped working. I do not get the USB icon on the >>desktop when I insert a USB thumb drive into a

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian. I did not mean to use word "blame" in any negative way. I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is closed. It will. Even after closing the application causing leak, memory can't

Re: making a (s)vcd

2006-02-20 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:15:57PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I have a 700M avi file that I'd like to put on a (s)vcd. When I run [snip] > Is it possible to make a (s)vcd from a 700M avi file? I use the following, which produces two VCDs from a 700M avi, IIRC: echo "maxFileSize = 795" > size.

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Tim Connors
L.V.Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:33:01 +: > I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times > system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. > In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various > points of time sequentially

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-20 Thread John Hasler
Baron Christophe wrote: > What is usenet? Mike McCarty writes: > A collection of open post groups. Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/20/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the > memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using > "top" or similar application and post the outcomes. After last post, it started hanging. I am not BLAM

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 Error: could not connect to dbus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: No reply within specified time Are DBus (package dbus) and HAL (package hal) installed and running? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-20 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Nic wrote: The 1.5 mozilla causes us to suffer the GTK file picker. There is a solution to this at the bottom of this page: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=318860&highlight=filepicker but I wonder if there isn't a better way. Is it possible to use GTK theme support to change

Re: firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started machine. ... Any co

Re: DHCP address problem after etch upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread jlmb
David Jarvie wrote: > After my latest upgrade this week (I'm running etch), the DHCP address > allocated to my machine has changed from being one allocated by my DHCP > router to being some external address. This results in the machine on my > network not being able to see my machine. > > Previousl

Re: sarge iso cd

2006-02-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I saw some posts talking abour debian 3.1r1. what is this r1? This _is_ Sarge + security updates. Just go to [1] and look for up-to-date mirror that contains this release. Look at [2] to find out what was updated. [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/ [2] http://www.debian.org/N

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Karen Larson
Thank you for your reply. Let me clarify a bit. I know I should not put testing on a production server, but testing at that point (January a year ago) was almost the stable sarge and I took a chance. Woody was just too old. I didn't think of using dist-upgrade as I was going from the old te

firefox memory leak

2006-02-20 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started machine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free

Re: sarge iso cd

2006-02-20 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/20/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Wher one can get sarge cd isos with latest updates for new installations? > > > > -- > > L.V.Gandhi > > http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ > > linux user No.205042 > > I stand to be corrected but I believe Sarge + Security Upda

making a (s)vcd

2006-02-20 Thread Rick Pasotto
I have a 700M avi file that I'd like to put on a (s)vcd. When I run ffmpeg -i file.avi -target svcd out.mpg the resulting file is over twice as big and thus vcdimager -t svcd out.mpg complains about the size. Is it possible to make a (s)vcd from a 700M avi file? -- "Government is actually t

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:12:31PM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > A dual CPU Intel machine was installed with Debian testing on 1/14/05 > with a 2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel. Security updates were applied over the > next year as they became available. Machine was backed up to an > unpartitioned USB ex

Re: Could you do me a favor?

2006-02-20 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Monday 20 February 2006 00:47, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am in mainland China, can't visit the site below: > > www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org > > because the government block it. Could you visit it > and get the latest issue and sent it to me (about 6 > pdf files, about 100k in total)? Thanks! >

apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've been watching the apache logs on a website I work on and have seen strange entries recently. They are in Combined form, and here is a snippet: 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1" 404 288 "http://www.google.com

Re: why my IP in sarge differ from my IP in win2k

2006-02-20 Thread Rob Sims
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:42:02PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > Both use auto-config, ( I guess it's DHCP), below is > output of ipconfig by win2k: > > Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : > IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 221.137.89.103 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:0F

Re: Sendmail: Deferred: Name server: : host name lookup failure

2006-02-20 Thread Gong, Jack (Controllers, IT)
* This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure

gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-20 Thread Nic
The 1.5 mozilla causes us to suffer the GTK file picker. There is a solution to this at the bottom of this page: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=318860&highlight=filepicker but I wonder if there isn't a better way. Is it possible to use GTK theme support to change the way the GT

DHCP address problem after etch upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread David Jarvie
After my latest upgrade this week (I'm running etch), the DHCP address allocated to my machine has changed from being one allocated by my DHCP router to being some external address. This results in the machine on my network not being able to see my machine. Previously, the router allocated an a

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:06:09AM -0500, Shane wrote: God forbid that Debian or any other Linux distribution should become like Windows. Just take some of the rough edges of the install and configuration. 3.1 is coming. I hope. Wasn't 3.1 the first even

Re: Lost X server after dist-upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 20 February 2006 12:36, jerry wrote: > to KDE but I can't. > > I suspect the problem is that root and myself don't have valid > .Xauthority files but I can't figure out how to repair it. > > I would appreciate any advice on how to get back to using KDM for login > and getting X server ac

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:24:00PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Almost surely you do not have a fixed IP address. If you > want to host a web site, the usual way with this type of > setup is to use disc space on your ISP's machine. Hosting > your own website requires fixed IP, and that means that >

Re: sarge iso cd

2006-02-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Wher one can get sarge cd isos with latest updates for new installations? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042 I stand to be corrected but I believe Sarge + Security Updates do not yet exist as cd isos. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: OT: recommendation for a USB SD memory card reader

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:37:31AM -0800, grover mitchell wrote: > Howdy debianistas, > > Does anyone have any recomendations on a good USB card reader? I am thinking > about getting a Nikon D50 camera, and it uses SD memory cards. If anyone has > any advice, good or bad, about which card reader I

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Baron Christophe wrote: is this a usenet list ? No, it is an e-mail list (echo). What is usenet? A collection of open post groups. Can I use this list using email? You can if you subscribe. Forgive I understand noting about what is related to network. Forgiven, but try using Google

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you have a dynamic IP of some sort. You might want to look at registering your ip with one of the dynamic dns services, who will effectively map your address to a static for you. ddns rings a bell as

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
john gennard wrote: I am most grateful to the seventeen persons who responded to my request; it would take up a lot of list space to reply to each. In a few weeks, I'll be 76 and do not need to use a battery as I've no intention or need to take the machine outdoors. I could easily buy a

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:49PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I use sarge. > > I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do > I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. > If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you have a dynamic IP of some sort. Depe

Re: Installing lmule

2006-02-20 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello Everybody!!! I'm repeating a problem I'm having installing lmule. I'm following the steps from the INSTALL file of lmule, the same steps given in this site: http://www.todo-linux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1694. The configure script passes without errors (after installing l

Re: Could you do me a favor?

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Serena Cantor wrote: I am in mainland China, can't visit the site below: www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org because the government block it. Could you visit it and get the latest issue and sent it to me (about 6 pdf files, about 100k in total)? Thanks! Trying to get yourself put into jail? You mi

Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-20 Thread Adam Funk
I just upgraded from 2.4.27-2-k7 to 2.6.8-2-k7 and booted successfully. I then did `aptitude install pmount` but it isn't working. When I connect and disconnect USB devices, the /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 (for example) appear and disappear, but I have a pmount-hal command instead of pmount and it doe

compilation error ?

2006-02-20 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all,when i try to compile a package [yakuake], i get the following errors :configure.in:43: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE  If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.   See the Autoconf documentation.configure.in:48: error: possibly undefined

machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-20 Thread Karen Larson
A dual CPU Intel machine was installed with Debian testing on 1/14/05 with a 2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel. Security updates were applied over the next year as they became available. Machine was backed up to an unpartitioned USB external hard drive at /dev/sdb with a tar command (similar to backing

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:49PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > >>I use sarge. >> >>I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do >>I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. >> > > If you use DHCP to configure your cable modem, chances are that you >

Re: Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread Morgan Reed
Peter, thanks, I actually did use that guide to do the set-up, and it was very helpful. the problem I have is how do I move from having either a RAID0 or RAID1 to having BOTH. I have the four disks broken up into two RAID0 arrays of two disks each. what I want to do now is have the two

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
Serena Cantor wrote: > I use sarge. > > I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do > I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. > > Thanks in advance! > I guess if you have DHCP then you shouldn't trust that you will get the same IP forever even if you get the same one over

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge. I have cable modem connection, use DHCP to config, Do I have fixed IP? I plan to set up web site using it. Thanks in advance! Almost surely you do not have a fixed IP address. If you want to host a web site, the usual way with this type of setup is to use dis

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

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Josep Serrano wrote: Hello all again. So what do we do? What is the cron/multi-user safe way to clean up regularly /tmp ? AFAICT, there isn't one. How can one know that some weird file wasn't put there by some application or other, and intends to open it in a day or two when it gets started a

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Rodney Richison wrote: 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... Why? Computers are tools. The software we load on t

Re: Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Tuesday, 21 February 2006 02:48, Jamie Thompson wrote: > Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > http://pdo.debian.net/ > > Nope, already spotted that one as the url was given in the link on > the packages.debian.org placeholder page. My bad. One thing you can do is to use the -d option to aptitude (or equival

OT: recommendation for a USB SD memory card reader

2006-02-20 Thread grover mitchell
Howdy debianistas,Does anyone have any recomendations on a good USB card reader? I am thinking about getting a Nikon D50 camera, and it uses SD memory cards. If anyone has any advice, good or bad, about which card reader I should get, that would be great. Additional input on experience with differe

Re: fetchmail broken after etch update - a kludgy fix

2006-02-20 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/20/06, Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:38:38AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:> if [ ! "x$START_DAEMON" = "xyes" ]; then>echo "Edit /etc/default/fetchmail to start fetchmail">exit 0 > fi> Temporarily, I have commented out the above lines, and my

Re: where is APT::Default-Release documented?

2006-02-20 Thread Simo Kauppi
`man apt_preferences` has some explanation on how to use the "Default Release" and priorities. HTH, Simo -- :r ~/.signature signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Lost X server after dist-upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread jerry
I have been fighting with this for over a week and am looking for some help. Short version; I am running debian unstable, installed as 3.0/woody. I have done some dist-upgrades in the past, the last being about 9 months ago. I was using kdm to login to fluxbox, KDE or another window manager an

Re: gpg error help

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
Ishwar Rattan wrote: > How do I get the gpg key of ftp.nerim.net (apt-get update > complains about it): > GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures > couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > 07DC563D1F41B907 > > -ishwar > > Here, this

Re: Introducing myself and ATI+Toshiba problem

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin Mark
Ciao Mirto, On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:20:54PM +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > > I've installed etch on my Toshiba Satellite P20 (with an ATI graphic > card), and now I'm triyng to put at work the hardware components. While you can get general Debian help here, I'd also suggest jo

Re: usb stick not aumounting and no icon on desktop

2006-02-20 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > It appears that udev (or something) is not working right in Debain Etch. > Earlier today I upgraded a bunch of packages and now USB stick > automounting has stopped working. I do not get the USB icon on the > desktop when I insert a USB thumb drive into a USB slot even tho

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

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition

Outdated Sarge kpdf

2006-02-20 Thread Elmer E. Dow
I'm running Sarge and discovering that often kpdf either crashes or fails to display pdf files properly. For example, attempting to view IRS forms displays the forms in 11x14 format instead of 8.5x11. I booted WinXp and used Acrobat Reader 5.0 there and it tells me that I should upgrade to at l

gpg error help

2006-02-20 Thread Ishwar Rattan
How do I get the gpg key of ftp.nerim.net (apt-get update complains about it): GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

where is APT::Default-Release documented?

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel B.
I'm having trouble getting APT::Default-Release to work. Where is the documentation for it (in Sarge)? The apt.conf(5) manual page sees to be where it should be documented (e.g., in its section "The APT Group"). However, that manual page doesn't mention it, anywhere. The aptitude(8) manual pa

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

2006-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel B. wrote: Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition ta

Re: Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread Peter Colton
On Monday 20 February 2006 16:47, Morgan Reed wrote: > Fresh install of 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) > > Morgan Hello Morgan, Have a look at

Re: Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
Alex Nordstrom wrote: > > http://pdo.debian.net/ > Nope, already spotted that one as the url was given in the link on the packages.debian.org placeholder page. Case in point: http://pdo.debian.net/changelogs/pool/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.21a-4/changelog signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digit

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-20 Thread steef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:06:09AM -0500, Shane wrote: God forbid that Debian or any other Linux distribution should become like Windows. Just take some of the rough edges of the install and configuration. 3.1 is coming. I hope. Wasn't 3.1 the first even s

Re: Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-20 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:06:09AM -0500, Shane wrote: > God forbid that Debian or any other Linux distribution should become > like Windows. > > Just take some of the rough edges of the install and configuration. > > 3.1 is coming. I hope. > Wasn't 3.1 the first even slightly usable version

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-20 Thread steef
mslinuz wrote: Toshiro wrote: I didn't know that xmms wasn't in development anymore. What is its substitute? I've been using moc (Music On Console), already packaged in Debian, which is able to play a quite impressive list of music formats. It, together with easytag, are the "must haves" audio

Re: Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Tuesday, 21 February 2006 02:01, Jamie Thompson wrote: > Whilst packages.debian.org is down, is there any way to get a hold of > the changelogs? All links seem to point back to packages.debian.org, > which makes me nervous before upgrading packages where I don't know > what the changes are... http

Changelog access

2006-02-20 Thread Jamie Thompson
Whilst packages.debian.org is down, is there any way to get a hold of the changelogs? All links seem to point back to packages.debian.org, which makes me nervous before upgrading packages where I don't know what the changes are... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread David Koski
What is the partition ID of the RAID0? David On Monday 20 February 2006 08:47 am, Morgan Reed wrote: > Fresh install of 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) >

Need help installing RAID 0+1

2006-02-20 Thread Morgan Reed
Fresh install of 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 sa

after upgrade to etch, nautilus hangs when I drag desktop icons

2006-02-20 Thread Johannes Kiehl
Hi folks, since I moved to etch/testing, my gnome desktop icons freeze whenever I drag them around. How can I learn more about where nautilus gets stuck? Killing, then restarting nautilus with strace returned the following lines around the segmentation fault: % strace nautilus ... select(4, [3],

nscd / LDAP / getpw* functions

2006-02-20 Thread Ugo PARSI
Hello, I have a small problem with nscd and the use of getpw functions on my Debian boxes. Actually, nscd doesn't seem to cache any of my requests for some programs... even for the simplest ones... for example that one : #include #include #include #include int main(int ac, char **av) {

Re: debian pine source build 4.62

2006-02-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
The messages were deleted from /var/spool/mail/user as far as I could tell they were put nowhere else. I hadn't done enough fine tuning of the pine configuration file for that. It's possible something verizon.net installed on the home network may have got a little too hyperactive though tooo.

Brazilian Soccer News

2006-02-20 Thread Brazilian Soccer News
           TetraBrazil offers International Coaches the unique opportunity to travel to Brazil and get the Brazilian National Soccer Association Professional Coaches’ License ("A" License). Brazilian National Soccer Coaches Association - AB

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