Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 03:46:30PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I think I was not clear in my statements. Two machines A and B are > in lan coonected to DHCP server which gives random ip addresses on > each boot. They are not constantly on. Each machine has only one > user. Both ids are different. I

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:27:02AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:14, Andrew Cady 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

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:14, Andrew Cady wrote: > 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. > > [...] > > > After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't > > installed

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
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. [...] > After more than a dozen tries, understandable since I haven't > installed it for over five years, I finally got it installed the way I > wanted

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:53:15AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X > session is running on? grep 'using VT number' /var/log/XFree86.(whatever).log > Alternatively, is there any way to specify which tty an X session > is started on. >Fr

Re: script execution on the machine when its boots

2006-02-24 Thread Rodney Richison
Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > I have a firewall / gateway ruleset that I want excuted when the > machine needs to reboot. > > I placed the script in /etc/network/if-up.d, but I found that on doing > so, the script did not execute. > > Would anyone know how and where I can place my script for e

Re: dual head, xorg and -sharevts

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:36:52AM +0100, Guillaume Membré wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to have 2 independent X on which I can have a normal > desktop on the fisrt one (called D) and on the second one with Mythtv > (called M). I would like to be able to restart my server D without > interferin

Re: Can't open encrypted partitions

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Porter
Kees Vonk wrote: > Adam Porter wrote: > >> Have you checked the actual output of GPG? > > I have checked the GPG output (it is 64 lines of random characters, as > expected). I originally generated the keys for aes-loop multi-key setup, > and then forgot to truncate it when I started using dm-cry

Re: synaptic starting in console not from menu

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Porter
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have installed sarge r1 starting with base install and then using > apt-get kdebase, x-window-system-core, synaptic etc. After correcting > sudoers file for env, I could start synaptic from konsole. But when I > click synaptic in menu nothing happens. How to get it work? > Is

Re: IP bandwidth consumption logging

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:51:57PM +, Richard Gaywood wrote: > Hello list. > > I'm looking for a little tool that will provide me with, say, daily > summaries of how much traffic was on each TCP and UDP port. A bit like > the rather nifty iptraf but not real-time. The tool you want is iptable

Fwd: exec, stdin, stdout, stderr

2006-02-24 Thread David Berg
-- Forwarded message -- From: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 25, 2006 12:22 AM Subject: Re: exec, stdin, stdout, stderr To: Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think I understand most of it but can't figure out what `exec` > > called without any arguments will do. Doe

Re: key bind paste from ?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > 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. > > Is there something that will do this? Y

can I define a default printer in firefox? how?

2006-02-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running cups under sarge. I can print from firefox, but the print window shows five printers, two are attached to a Mac in the next room, two are figments of firefox's imagination. The firefox print window always comes up with one of the figments preselected (its designation is "xp_ps_spooldir_

Re: backports vs testing (etch)

2006-02-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you follow their recommendation and pin the backports sources to a > very low priority, then you should be OK. As far as upgrading, it will > not be officially supported to upgrade from Sarge+backports to Etch > (once Etch goes stable

Re: scp problem

2006-02-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/24/06, Dan Sheffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q1) Yes you run a program that scans the network range. Very usefull. Prob > even more ways. > Q2) You should never give full access to some random folder on a box for > security. below is what I have used to transfer file between PC. Only

bash history search key binding

2006-02-24 Thread Lei Kong
Hi all, I am using debian testing, and the bash version is 3.1.5. I have the following lines in my .bashrc to assign arrow keys to history search: bind '"\M-[A":history-search-backward' bind '"\M-[B":history-search-forward' It worked well before, one day, after I did a routine upgrade, it st

Re: backports vs testing (etch)

2006-02-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To begin with, backports.org is designed to allow the user/admin to > stick with a proven and stable system, but upgrade small parts of it to > newer releases that are built to run on the older libraries available in > stable. For exampl

Re: scp problem

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Sheffner
Q1) Yes you run a program that scans the network range.  Very usefull.  Prob even more ways. Q2) You should never give full access to some random folder on a box for security.  below is what I have used to transfer file between PC.  Only use one slash like below.  Let me know if it doesn't work. sc

Re: packages.debian.org

2006-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Martin Paraskevov wrote: > Why has packages.debian.org been down for > so long. > When I go to packages.debian.org/stable > for example it > works fine but not packages.debian.org . > > Regards, > Martin >

Re: backports vs testing (etch)

2006-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 2/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>To begin with, backports.org is designed to allow the user/admin to >>stick with a proven and stable system, but upgrade small parts of it to >>newer releases that are built to run on the older libraries available

packages.debian.org

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Paraskevov
Why has packages.debian.org been down for so long. When I go to packages.debian.org/stable for example it works fine but not packages.debian.org. Regards, Martin

exec, stdin, stdout, stderr

2006-02-24 Thread David Berg
I'm trying to read a bash script and fortunately am confused at the first non comment line. looking at: exec < /dev/null test -t 1 || exec > /dev/null test -t 2 || exec 2>&1 I think I understand most of it but can't figure out what `exec` called without any arguments will do. Does it simply rep

Re: install help with tosiba laptop

2006-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >>On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> todd,>> please keep >>replies on the list. thanks.> also use inline responses, it makes for better >>readability.>> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Sw

Re: backports vs testing (etch)

2006-02-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Martin Paraskevov wrote: > I am confused as to why backports.org exists. If > I want to use the latest software, > should I use backports.org or I should upgrade to > etch (I am currently using sarge). > What happens if I use backports for some time and

scp problem

2006-02-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
My laptop is in lan for which dhcp server is router Linksys BEFW11S4. Router is connected to cable modem. Router assigns IP randomly. My laptop has both wifi and eth. It had ips 192.168.1.101 and 192.168.1.102. Another machine with eth has ip 192.168.1.103. This I got it from that machine. Q1) is t

search target releases for packages

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Paraskevov
Can I search target releases for packages? With apt-get -t I can install from target releases but I cannot search target releases with apt-cache. For example, I wanted to install java-package but I cannot find it in the stable repositories but I cannot search the testing repository either. Regard

sid upgrade today

2006-02-24 Thread L . V . Gandhi
Today I did apt-get upgrade udev was one of the packages. I got some udev error while booting. Because of this, my bootsplash didn't work. But when I did grep boot, kernel, syslog and message for udev, I didn't get anything. At least, I though boot log will give some lines. Whethere anybody experie

backports vs testing (etch)

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Paraskevov
I am confused as to why backports.org exists. If I want to use the latest software, should I use backports.org or I should upgrade to etch (I am currently using sarge). What happens if I use backports for some time and then decide to upgrade to etch. Will I end up with a broken system? What is the

linux help

2006-02-24 Thread Wale Akintan
Im sorry to bother you, but I finally got the apache running correctly. It was my naivety. I was specifying the wrong port in the URL. Like I said earlier, I am a complete rookie at this. And this simple mistake has cost me 2 nights of sleep and almost cost me a girlfriend too! Thanks anyway, and y

Re: UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Dan Jacobson wrote: > For the locales stuff, should I use > zh_TW.UTF-8, zh_TW.Utf-8 or zh_TW.utf-8? > My guess is the latter, from locale -a. use the utf ( lower and upper case sensitive ) version supported on your pc ( output of locale -a and xlsfonts ) to change between

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #421

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Paraskevov
Thanks Leonid. I am not familiar with the concept of Gnome Panel widgets. I couldn't find any useful info on the internet either. What are these widgets and how can I create one as you say in your instructions. Thanks, Martin Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:09:01 -0500From: "Leonid Grinberg" < [EMAIL PR

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > version of libfreetype6 on hold

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:48:35PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > version of libfreetype6

Re: linux help (running apache web server)

2006-02-24 Thread David Berg
On 2/24/06, Wale Akintan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Im a complete rookie in linux and I have just installed redhat 9.0. I This is a Debian support list, not Redhat. For Redhat or apache specific help you really ought to try redhat.com and apace.org to find the relevant mailing lists. Yo

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/24/06, Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running debian testing.  I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterdayand it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worriedwill break my window manager (Window Maker).  I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things

Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read through the aptitude man pa

linux help (running apache web server)

2006-02-24 Thread Wale Akintan
Hello, Im a complete rookie in linux and I have just installed redhat 9.0. I am a totally new user. I downloaded some instructions on installing apache web server, and it seemed to go fine. I test started the web server with the /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start command and it started. pid 1808

[SOLVED] Re: Basic help with HP5440 inkjet?

2006-02-24 Thread jlquinn
I eventually found a conflict between the printer and a logitech quickcam I also had plugged into the machine. Once I removed the quickcam, the printer worked perfectly. So, this still begs the question of why they conflict, but it's a problem I can put on the back burner for now. Jerry Qui

Setup script for XDM login screen

2006-02-24 Thread Björn Lindström
Where is the right place to put stuff that you want to run when starting XDM now. I used to have this in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup: #!/bin/sh xsetroot -solid dimgrey but it's not working anymore with xdm-6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-24 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:13:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote.. > > > > > >>> 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/intl/en-us/"; "Mozilla/4.0 > > >>> (compatible; MSIE 6.

UTF-8, Utf-8, or utf-8?

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Jacobson
For the locales stuff, should I use zh_TW.UTF-8, zh_TW.Utf-8 or zh_TW.utf-8? My guess is the latter, from locale -a. Should I report bugs if I see mentioning of the others? How about for web pages? charset=utf-8 like tidy or UTF-8 like Google? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: On rtorrent

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi, Michael and others. On Feb 23 2006, Michael M. wrote: > Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude > complained when I marked it for installation. That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in fact, I always track te

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 16:56, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > > You aren't given a choice of keeping your old grub

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Interestingly, there is no two-line instruction on your mail. > I've noticed the same for some other people, too, but haven't chased it > down. Hint: it is there, your client isn't showing it, and it is related to gpg support. Mutt doesn't show it (by

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > > > You aren't given a choice of keeping your old grub config file, > > because without an update, you can't boot the n

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:06:27 +0800 Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, as a question of policy, are the half-dozen daily "unsubscribe" > messages from those too illiterate to comprehend a two-line > instruction added in caps to every message on the list considered > spam? They're cer

konqueror and eml

2006-02-24 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I have never tried eml files before, but fi i tried to open one in konqueror, it gives me a small erro window with: Could not start process Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'mhtml'. I'm using sid. With all updated. Installed: konqueror, konqueror-nsplugins, konq-p

Re: cleaning up audio recording

2006-02-24 Thread Travis Crook
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:41 -0700 John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The > recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of > noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from > general

Re: New install and newbie questions

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
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 across both Linux and Windows. So far, I have ne

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:38:00 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi spam-killers, > Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. > It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. > Cheers, > Kev Sylpheed users ar

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-24 Thread Christian Pernegger
> The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > amor eyesapplet fifteenapplet kdetoys kmoon kodo kteatime ktux kweather > kworldclock xmms [...] IMHO aptitude suffers from two grave design bugs: 1) it's resolver uses a dist-upgrade strategy, thus [U] (upgrade all) will happily mar

cleaning up audio recording

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from general background noise. Are there any good packages out there that would allow me to clean

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 04:37, Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: > Hi all, > >I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks > formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the > 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded > the li

snapshot?

2006-02-24 Thread cody chamberlain
Is anyone else having trouble connecting to snapshot.debian.net? I have been trying to get some older ipw2200 source and I can't connect to their repository. I haven't been able to find any news on other debian sites about. Whats the story? Cody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Arnau
Hi all, I have tried all your suggestions and none of them worked. Even I have dowloaded the latest unstable installer from debian.org, net install and normal installer, and I reinstalled again from scratch the result is the same as when I upgrade the kernel: Alert! /dev/sda1 does not e

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-24 Thread Oğuz Yarımtepe
Or $cd $pico .bashrc and add these lines: http_proxy=http://some.ip.number:port export http_proxy logout from konsole and open it. apt-get update will work. Cum 24 Şub 2006 01:13 tarihinde, Christoph Nenning şunları yazmıştı: > Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 14:24 schrieb Deephay: > > Greet

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately > >

JE CHERCHE DES ACHETEURS DE L'OR

2006-02-24 Thread EZIAN KOKOU SYLVAIN
BONJOUR CHER Ami   C’est avec un grand plaisir que je vous envoie cette lettre pour vous dire que j’ai de l’or d’une quantité de 300 kilos.Si vous pouvez m’aider à trouver les client faire couler le produit je vous vendrai le kilo à 6.500 EURO. Je vous faire savoir l’or se t

JE CHERCHE DES ACHETEURS DE L'OR

2006-02-24 Thread EZIAN KOKOU SYLVAIN
BONJOUR CHER Ami   C’est avec un grand plaisir que je vous envoie cette lettre pour vous dire que j’ai de l’or d’une quantité de 300 kilos.Si vous pouvez m’aider à trouver les client faire couler le produit je vous vendrai le kilo à 6.500 EURO. Je vous faire savoir l’or se t

Re: DVD ISO files [SOLVED]

2006-02-24 Thread Travis Crook
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:00:17 -0700 Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new to the list and to Debian itself (but not necessarily > new to linux). I would like to install it and try it out, but I have > some questions. I have downloaded two files (DVD iso images) that are

Where is linux-wlan-ng?

2006-02-24 Thread Branden Faulls
I recently downgraded a laptop of mine (Thinkpad X24) from an out of date Testing (sarge when it was in testing) distribution to Stable (sarge as of Feb 2006). To get the pinning to work as I downgraded, I had to remove linux-wlan-ng. Unsurprisingly, now the built-in prism2 based wireless doesn

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 11:51, Chris Lale wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > A couple of thoughts come to mind. I don't kow if they will help you. > > > > 1. Use > > > > aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade > > > > instead of aptitude update && aptitude upgrade. This will deal > > intell

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable > -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable

Re: Configuring inittab

2006-02-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:50:34PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Tarvin, > > Am 2006-02-19 18:02:20, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > > Debian by default does not make good use (IMHO) of the runlevel mechanism. > > Oh yes, it does. Actually I was expressing my opinion (that is what IMHO means),

bug hub 1-0:1.0 at start

2006-02-24 Thread mjv.perdriau
BUG after installation   At first starting of debian 3.1 Sarge kernel 2.6 After installation All runs normally but no use possible A message fill in the screen : « hub 1-0 :1.0 over-current change on port 2 » « hub 1-0 :1.0 over-current change on port 2 » ……etc…..   the restart signal i

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It pri

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:38:00AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: } Hi spam-killers, } Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. } It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Sure, no problem. Now, given that I archive my spam (yes, spamassassin is trained on everythin

Re: etch vs sarge

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hi List! I run services on sarge in two major parts: - qmail,clamav,spop3, ssmtp,rblsmtp and - apache2,mysql 4.1,php4 I'm considering to dist-upgrade from sarge to etch(testing) I would like to use mysql5 and php5 if it's not a to big deal to change. My question is: Can

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Alex Nordstrom wrote: > Now, as a question of policy, are the half-dozen daily "unsubscribe" > messages from those too illiterate to comprehend a two-line instruction > added in caps to every message on the list considered spam? They're > certainly unsolicited (nobody wants

Re: New user

2006-02-24 Thread Todd Weaver
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:24:19AM -0600, The Digital Pioneer wrote: > Hello. I just joined this mailing list, and I hope it will be beneficial to > me. Welcome. > My first question is: > > I'm having some trouble getting ACPI working. It must be disabled in GRUB's > boot params or else the boot

audio equalizer for debian?

2006-02-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Does anybody know of a good audio equalizer program for alsa? I'm apt-cache searching, but all I get are plugins for xmms (using sarge). I'd like a real time, generic graphic equalizer. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 11:51, Chris Lale wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately > > unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is t

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Saturday, 25 February 2006 00:38, Kevin Mark wrote: > Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. > It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Presumably, KMail users should also be able to participate. > - Forwarded message from Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 24 February 2006 08:25, Bradley Alexander wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. > > I heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work > > around but it may be hard to d

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: Hi all, I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to

Re: MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread John Halton
On 2/24/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1] Bounce as in mutt b. I don't know if and how this can be done in > thunderbird Apparently the following extension allows bouncing using Thunderbird - http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/ Haven't looked into it any further though so don't

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Hal Vaughan wrote: I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable to avoid! I lost a day tracking it dow

MUTT users PLEASE read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: lists.d.o Spam (was: Marking BTS spam)]

2006-02-24 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi spam-killers, Here is a new test system to improve spam reporting in Debian. It seems mutt users will be the primary ones to use this. Cheers, Kev - Forwarded message from Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:03:31 -0600 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hallo!

Re: gnome broken ????

2006-02-24 Thread Ray Lanza
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:11, mslinuz wrote: > Ray Lanza wrote: > > > I tried that and a bunch of other stuff. I even created a new account > > expecting it to initialize properly on the first login but symptoms > > were the same, three icons on the desktop but no panels. KDE seems to > > works o

Re: Installation issues

2006-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-20 10:41:39, schrieb TAC Forums: > Hi All, > > I was trying to install Debain Sarg stable 3.1 on a system, with 20 GB > HDD and 128 MB RAM. > I checked the disk space with df-h , thre seems to be hardly any usage.. > > What could be the issue here, has any one faced a similar problem?

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Andy, Am 2006-02-19 20:49:16, schrieb Andy Anderson: > Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this > except me... > > I have a server with some disk space shared using > Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. > When a user logs in to a workstation, I'd like their > home sh

Re: Configuring inittab

2006-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Tarvin, Am 2006-02-19 18:02:20, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > Debian by default does not make good use (IMHO) of the runlevel mechanism. Oh yes, it does. Debian give you the freedom to configure your rcX.d HOW YOU WANT! > It bundles all multi-user stuff into runlevel 2 and then leaves 3-5 undef

Re: Why does aptitude do this?

2006-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Rob, Am 2006-02-18 21:29:04, schrieb Rob Blomquist: > How can I stop that from running? I don't want any packages removed from my > system unless I say so. Twice now I have used the aptitude GUI, and deleted > big chunks of my system that I had to reinstall. > > Consequently, I am now stayi

What virtual package is "minimal system"?

2006-02-24 Thread hendrik
I managed to install etch on my AMD-64 system, except that in the package selection I could not even ask for it to nstall "minimal system" because of dependency conflicts. Neither could I do manual package selection -- it just never did that part of the installation even though I had reqiested

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
I have little to no idea what's going on on this thread as I have just joined, but I'm guessing from the subject that someone is having boot trouble. I have had some trouble booting into any kernel. Have you tried putting in the parameter 'acpi=off'? When I do that, I can boot. Otherwise, it freeze

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-24 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:29 -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Yes, as I understand it reiserfs has some attribute issues with 2.6.15. I > heard that it will be fixed in 2.6.16. Someone has posted a work around but > it may be hard to do with reiserfs on /. Is this specific to AMD? I have been ru

New user

2006-02-24 Thread The Digital Pioneer
Hello. I just joined this mailing list, and I hope it will be beneficial to me.My first question is:I'm having some trouble getting ACPI working. It must be disabled in GRUB's boot params or else the boot goes to 'Uncompressing Linux. OK' and freezes up. The only way to do anything is hold in t

Re: sound issue

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 01:20:20 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello. On a Sarge machine with 2.4.27-2-686 kernel on a Pentium II machine, I'm having problems with sound. I'm using alsa, with the modules installed. I've run alsaconf, and have enabled sound for gnome appli

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hendrik Sattler wrote: Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 24 February 2006 09:20, Juergen Fiedler wrote: >On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: >> >> There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. >> > >> >Remote network security auditor

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: > >> There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. > > > >Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion > > Detection System > > Agree

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:55:39PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for > me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word "Xeon" mentioned, > so if I bought a Xeon computer, for example, I wouldn't know from that > page alone to install

Re: Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Arnau Rebassa Villalonga wrote: >I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks > formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the > 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded > the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to 2.6.15

Re: install help with tosiba laptop

2006-02-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:31 -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> todd,>> please keep > replies on the list. thanks.> also use inline responses, it makes for better > readability.>> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote:> > > do i n

Re: Where Is the ChangeLog for Packages?

2006-02-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/22/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find the changelog for the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 package. > Since packages.debian.org is down, the temporary site doesn't seem to have > this info. I need to see if any changes were made that effect serial port > drivers. > > Wh

Sometimes nothing happens when printing to network printers

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Rothenberg
I've been having trouble printing to network printers from KDE and Gnome applications lately, using CUPS or LP. No errors show up, and as far as the applications are concerned, the documents printed. But the documents are never actually sent to the printers. There's no problem with the printers

Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Arnau Rebassa Villalonga
Hi all, I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to 2.6.15-686-smp (having with both

Error rebooting after upgrade from 2.6.12-i36 to 2.6.15-i686

2006-02-24 Thread Arnau
Hi all, I've installed a new Dell poweredge 850 server with SCSCI disks formated as ext3 from a netinstall, it run smoothly and installed the 2.6.12-i386 kernel image. After the aptitude dist-upgrade, I upgraded the linux-image to the 2.6.15-686 and also to 2.6.15-686-smp (having with both the

Re: dual processors

2006-02-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/02/06 19:53), Charles wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Clive Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:11 AM > Subject: Re: dual processors > > > >On (22/02/06 15:52), Ken Walker wrote: > >>Does Debian stable 3.1, net install detect and insta

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-24 Thread Welly Hartanto
mslinuz wrote: Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Ea

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