Re: USB-memorystick fails to mount on laptop (Sarge, kernel 2.6.8)

2006-03-02 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:47:12PM +0100, jmt wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a problem with mounting an USB-memorystick on my laptop (HP/Compaq > > Presario 2100) > > > > The laptop is a dualboot machine, and when I run Win XP there is no > > problem w

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Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

2006-03-02 Thread martin f krafft
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Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-02 Thread Andras Lorincz
There are 2 lines: one beginning with the options word and the second with the post-installOn 3/2/06, Andrew Sackville-West < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200"Andras Lorincz" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi,>> I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with ke

Re: ERP & accounting software

2006-03-02 Thread debian
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 06:57:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Bernard Fay wrote: > > Hello group, > > > > I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and > > if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a > > small to medium business. I've

Re: Installing DVD-drive (ATAPI) -- replaces cdrom drive / Help needed.

2006-03-02 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:52:34AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:11:04 +0100 > Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > what does show up in /dev? are there any symlinks to /dev/hdc at all? > > you might look into http://www.reactivated.net/writing_ud

Re: Installing DVD-drive (ATAPI) -- replaces cdrom drive / Help needed.

2006-03-02 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:50:31AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Søren Christensen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [snip] > see the howto's > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DVD-Playback-HOWTO.gz > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CDROM-HOWTO.gz > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz >

Re: question about my .muttrc and mutt [solved]

2006-03-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 07:12:54PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:35:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > My first email was actually a resend after I got a bounce. I must have > > answered a question wrongly during setup of exim. When I copied the > > exim setup from th

Re: packages as per sources

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > May be I was not clear. I wanted to packages installed say from nerim > source. How to get it? deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main # TeTeX-3.0 deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 sarge main I got those from d

Re: question about my .muttrc and mutt

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:35:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > My first email was actually a resend after I got a bounce. I must have > answered a question wrongly during setup of exim. When I copied the > exim setup from the old system, the new started sending email > properly. If I really want

Re: Further installation woes WAS: trouble installing RAID and LVM.

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:09:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > During the installation, after the reboot into the new system, it goes > into package-selection mode. It is during this time that it gave me the > choice of choosing categories of packages or individual package > selection. W

Re: PCI to PCMCIA card

2006-03-02 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:47:41PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > Does anyone have any experiences with a PCI to PCMCIA card? I've used I got some quite inexpensively off e-bay some time ago and they work just fine with 16 and 32 bit pcmcia. I got them precisely for wireless networking but other car

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-03-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Richard Hector wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 00:49 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The final corrected version will be uploaded to http://people.cornell.edu

Re: Mplayer and alsa bug?

2006-03-02 Thread Adam Porter
I've no experience with amd64, but I can tell you or suggest a few things: I'm running mplayer-k6 from the marrilat repo. I don't know anything about the repo at UCLA.edu you posted. I'm using the same package of libasound2 that you are. My questions/suggestions: 1. Does ALSA work for other a

Sudden sound performance problem

2006-03-02 Thread Adam Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running Debian full-time on my desktop for over a year now, with a combination of testing and unstable (mostly testing). At the moment I'm running 2.6.15, compiled with Debian's default config except for turning on a couple of things so I co

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 00:49 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > trivial you think they are) on the following FAQ on debian-user. The > final corrected version will be uploaded to > http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-g

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:23:20AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi list, > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > bash/posh/dash? > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c > foo bar baz > > If I try the same with bash (or other sh-

Re: kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Roman Makurin
В сообщении от Четверг 02 марта 2006 22:54 Bernd Prager написал(a): > I tried to compile the new kernel. > "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: > > CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o > fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': > fs/nfs/direct.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/02/2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > >>> Andrew Cady wrote: >> > >>> I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally >>> have Linux, and even says this on their website. > > > Nothing but lip service. I

Re: environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?

2006-03-02 Thread John Hasler
Chris Roddy wrote: > Based on what I could find on Google, these are usually intended for the > so-called "extended ASCII" 8-bit character set that was used on IBM PC's > and compatible systems running DOS. You probably want one of these: xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Alfredo Finelli
On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:23, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi list, > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > bash/posh/dash? > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c > foo bar baz > > If I try the same with bash (or other sh-compatible s

Re: kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006, Bernd Prager wrote: > > I tried to compile the new kernel. > > "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: > > > > CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o > > fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': > > fs/nfs/dir

Re: environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 08:37:21PM -0500, Chris Roddy wrote: > Hi -- > > I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is > suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that > was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's. > > Based on what I could find o

Re: kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006, Bernd Prager wrote: > I tried to compile the new kernel. > "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: > > CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o > fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': > fs/nfs/direct.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'nfs_free_user_

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > Andrew Cady wrote: > > > > > >(If you're thinking that just because Dell can't switch to Linux they > >have no power, consider that they *could* start shipping PCs with > >Firefox, or servers optionally with Linux, or PCs witho

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:23:20AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi list, > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > bash/posh/dash? > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c > foo bar baz > > If I try the same with bash (or other sh-

environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Roddy
Hi -- I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's. Based on what I could find on Google, these are usually intended for the so-called "extended ASCII" 8-b

Re: xrdb questions

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:02:59AM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Please re-read my post. I know you don't want the resources cleared. > > That's why I told you how to avoid it! > > I am still not sure how the information will help my problem. W

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread Colin
Doofus wrote: > My question now is: which is the better kernel build method, initrd > where everything can be just modularised and there's not much else to > worry about, or compiling the necessary core drivers into the kernel and > loading other modules on-the-fly as needed (which is what I've alw

Re: kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Bernd Prager
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Bernd Prager wrote: I tried to compile the new kernel. "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': fs/nfs/direct.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function 'nfs_free_user_pag

Re: ERP & accounting software

2006-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bernard Fay wrote: > Hello group, > > I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and > if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a > small to medium business. > > TIA, > > Bernard > > I've begin experimenting with sql-ledger. It is very f

ERP & accounting software

2006-03-02 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, I need suggestion for ERP and accounting softwares running on Linux and if it could be package for Debian it would be a plus. It would be for a small to medium business. TIA, Bernard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox has a serious memory leak issue, esspecially if you open more the one tab. Make sure that your hard disk is not thrashing due to swap usage. I have to restart firefox every few hours due to this problem to cleanup memory. It's not a leak. It's a /feature/.

Re: Debian Install problem on Inspiron

2006-03-02 Thread cody chamberlain
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 00:14 +0200, Oğuz Yarımtepe wrote: > Hi. I tried to install Debian Inspiron 16000 with Debian 3.1r1, rc2, > netsinstall and Sarge. Each time the installation failed because the > installed couldnt find a disk for partititoning. > > Here are outputs of some commands when i

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Britton Kerin wrote: I would like to buy my non-linux girlfriend a ready to use laptop with: wireless scan, falling back to CAT5 DHCP open office CD ROM that automounts SD card reader that automounts working sound card reasonable memory and disk

Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

2006-03-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm plan on installing Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PE2800 server > soon (just waiting for a few more pieces of equip. to arrive) and while I > have used Debian a little bit in the past, I've never installed i

Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Micha feigin wrote: Firefox has a serious memory leak issue, esspecially if you open more the one tab. Make sure that your hard disk is not thrashing due to swap usage. I have to restart firefox every few hours due to this problem to cleanup memory. The memory leak in Firefox comes up a lot

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Almut Behrens
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:19:02AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > On 3/2/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > > bash/posh/dash? > > > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > > benjo[4]:~% echo $a

postgresql-common 42 fails to upgrade

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Schurter
I have a Debian Etch machine that I keep up to date. Recently when I tried to upgrade from (I believe) postgresql-common version 39 to postgresql-common version 42 in Synaptic, I received an error that a sub-process install had failed. Like a fool I closed the window before copying down the o

Debian Install problem on Inspiron

2006-03-02 Thread Oğuz Yarımtepe
Hi. I tried to install  Debian Inspiron 16000 with Debian 3.1r1, rc2, netsinstall and Sarge. Each time the installation failed because the installed couldnt find a disk for partititoning. Here are outputs of some commands when i opened the machine with Knoppix: lspci -vv: http://pastebin.com/5

Messages from my firewall

2006-03-02 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have Debian Sarge 3.1 r1 with Firestarter as my firewall and I am on DSL. The firewall works great but I am receiving messages every minute or two with the following format: Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0f:b5:46:4f:5a:00:0b:23:ca:68:ec:08:00 SRC=4.79.142.206 DST=71.129.207.113 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PR

Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-02 Thread Josh Battles
On Wed, March 1, 2006 11:04 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > . wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> how can I copy a 12GB file at reasonable speed over a 1000Mbit ethernet connection from one computer (mailserver) to another (SAMBA file server or my workstation) without going to lengths like installing an FTP server o

Re: Installing packages from source

2006-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
RAPPAZ Francois wrote: > Hi, I would like to install libgnomeprint-2.2-2.10. > On my sarge I got 2.8 and with Abiword, fill justified text using true type > font are ill printed. > > I've read that upgrading libgnomeprint would solve this. > > The next version of libgnomeprint-2.2 I've found

Re: kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bernd Prager wrote: > I tried to compile the new kernel. > "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: > > CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o > fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': > fs/nfs/direct.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'nfs_free_user_pages' > fs/nfs/direc

Mplayer and alsa bug?

2006-03-02 Thread Wackojacko
I am unable to use alsa as the output plugin for mplayer. mplayer -ao oss works fine but alsa (the default) gives Starting playback... alsa-play: write error: Broken pipe0) ??,?% alsa-play: trying to reset soundcard A: 0.3 (00.3) of 256.0 (04:16.0) 0.2% the error is sometimes repeated sever

Re: Installing a package from "testing" or "unstable". How?

2006-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Chris Lale wrote: > Kevin Dean wrote: > >> In order to do this, you must have the testing or unstable repository >> enabled and un-commented in /etc/apt/sources/list >> >> For instance, (please not, this will be different based on your >> mirrors and sources, but the concept is the same. >> >> as

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread Chris
ke6isf wrote: > Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions > provided on the IRC channel. > > OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java > hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > hidejournal-0/

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread ke6isf
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: This is a zipped file of java files, you can use the jar utility to unzip it, see man jar. This is nice, but it simply unpacks, and I'm at a loss as to how to run it. -Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 12:53:54 (-0800) skrifaði ke6isf: > Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions > provided on the IRC channel. > > OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java > hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang

What do you do with a .jar file?

2006-03-02 Thread ke6isf
Running Sarge with the Sun Java package installed, per the instructions provided on the IRC channel. OK, so I have this .jar file. If I open it using 'java hidejournal-0.3.1.jar', it gives me: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: hidejournal-0/3/1/jar If I open it fr

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Alvin Oga wrote: dell cuts corners by: a) making a custom motherboard b) making a custom power supply c) making custom cables and pcb to hold things together d) making custom firmware to assure you're stuck into their modus operandi e) charging you for 3yr warranty for their proprietory hardw

Re: Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:56:01PM -0500, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm plan on installing Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PE2800 server soon (just waiting for a few more pieces of equip. to arrive) and while I have used Debian a little bit in the past, I've never installed in

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-03-02 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Ketil Froyn wrote: Hi, I have a computer with some network interfaces, and I am unable to determine which physical interface gets assigned to which ethX during boot. Specifically, my problem is that the firewire driver suddenly started using eth1 instead of eth2 yesterday. It hadn't done thi

Debian 3.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 Server

2006-03-02 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, I'm plan on installing Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PE2800 server soon (just waiting for a few more pieces of equip. to arrive) and while I have used Debian a little bit in the past, I've never installed in on a server before. I was hoping somebody who has done this before

kernel 2.6.15.5 and fs/nfs errors

2006-03-02 Thread Bernd Prager
I tried to compile the new kernel. "make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg kernel_image" generates: CC [M] fs/nfs/direct.o fs/nfs/direct.c: In function 'nfs_get_user_pages': fs/nfs/direct.c:110: warning: implicit declaration of function 'nfs_free_user_pages' fs/nfs/direct.c: At top level: fs/nfs/direct.c:1

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Joerg M. Sigle
Hi, Kevin. I don't have a solution, but I found that interesting, so did some experiments: $ bash --version bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.0(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. $ echo foo | read a; echo $a returns empty variable a whole lot of

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
Oooh, sorry - wrong slashdot link: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/16/2025243 - > > I have a very naive question: > > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? Don't think Sarge or Etch will work as is, Sid with some serious panelbeating might. > I thin

Re: MacBook Pro and Debian

2006-03-02 Thread Hans du Plooy
> > I have a very naive question: > > can we install Debian on a MacBook Pro (IntelMac) laptop ? Don't think Sarge or Etch will work as is, Sid with some serious panelbeating might. > I think I read about someone installing windows someway. Only Vista, the earlier ones doesn't support EFI (or what

Re: modprobe.d and post-install problem

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:28:13 +0200 "Andras Lorincz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a tv-tuner with saa7135HL chipset and works fine with kernel version > 2.6.15.4. When booting I want to pass the module alsa=1 option and to load > the saa7134-alsa module also. So I took these steps: >

Re: upgrading Cyrus

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 06:08:28PM +0100, . wrote: Hi, has anyone yet updated Cyrus 1.5.19-9.2 to 2.2.12-4? I was in the middle of testing the conversion on a copy of the mail spool, but lacked the ctl_mboxlist script/program. That should have been in the cyrus-common package, but it was now

Re: Exim rejecting _everything_ with spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread .
. wrote: put a size limit on the mails to be checked for SPAM (in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf), like 10kb or 100kb: acl_check_data: # Deny if the message contains a virus. Before enabling this check, you # must install a virus scanner and set the av_scanner option above. # discard malware

Re: Installing DVD-drive (ATAPI) -- replaces cdrom drive / Help needed.

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:11:04 +0100 Søren Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:49:27PM +0100, Søren Christensen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just installed a DVD-burner. It replaces a cdrom-drive. It works, > > I can mount a cdrom as I could before, and I have copied

Re: upgrading Cyrus

2006-03-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006, . wrote: > has anyone yet updated Cyrus 1.5.19-9.2 to 2.2.12-4? > I was in the middle of testing the conversion on a copy of the mail > spool, but lacked the ctl_mboxlist script/program. That should have been ctl_mboxlist is in /usr/sbin in the Cyrus 2.1 packages. You have

Re: Exim rejecting _everything_ with spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X-Spam_score_int: 6 The spam score is high enough to have the mail rejected. Here's my exim4.conf file. I put "#Spamassassin" comments near every block I added for spamassassin. #Spamassassin #acl_smtp_data = acl_check_data #acl_not_smtp = acl_check_data #Spamassa

Re: Installing packages from source

2006-03-02 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:00, RAPPAZ Francois wrote: > Hi,  I would like to install libgnomeprint-2.2-2.10. > On my sarge I got 2.8 and with Abiword, fill justified text using true > type font are ill printed. > > I've read that upgrading libgnomeprint would solve this. > > The next version of l

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge [OT?]

2006-03-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:06:24AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500 > >"Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't > >>listen to the instruction to install a version fro

Re: Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread David Kirchner
On 3/2/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in > bash/posh/dash? > > benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c > benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c > foo bar baz > > If I try the same with bash (or other sh-compatible she

upgrading Cyrus

2006-03-02 Thread .
Hi, has anyone yet updated Cyrus 1.5.19-9.2 to 2.2.12-4? I was in the middle of testing the conversion on a copy of the mail spool, but lacked the ctl_mboxlist script/program. That should have been in the cyrus-common package, but it was nowhere to find in version 2.1. So I had to upgrade to

Re: USB-memorystick fails to mount on laptop (Sarge, kernel 2.6.8)

2006-03-02 Thread jmt
On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a problem with mounting an USB-memorystick on my laptop (HP/Compaq > Presario 2100) > > The laptop is a dualboot machine, and when I run Win XP there is no > problem with the memory-stick (except that the USB-stick is USB2.0, and >

Kernel Panic (using make-kpkg & dpkg)

2006-03-02 Thread Harish G. Naik
On 3/2/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Harish G. Naik wrote:> $make-kpkg kernel_image> $dpkg --install kernel-2.6.15*.deb>> Now when I try reebooting into the new kernel, I get: > If you don't include the switch "--initrd" on your "make-kpkg" command > line then you *must* compile the drive

Re: xrdb questions

2006-03-02 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please re-read my post. I know you don't want the resources cleared. > That's why I told you how to avoid it! I am still not sure how the information will help my problem. Will the resources persist across reboots or logging out of X? Since the last x

Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

2006-03-02 Thread j-debian_lists
> Firefox has a serious memory leak issue, esspecially if you open more the > one tab. Make sure that your hard disk is not thrashing due to swap usage. > I have to restart firefox every few hours due to this problem to cleanup > memory. It's not a leak. It's a /feature/. ;) http://developers.sla

Exim rejecting _everything_ with spamassassin

2006-03-02 Thread j-debian_lists
I'm trying to set up spamassassin under exim. When I send an email to my server, I see something like this in the rejectlog for the message: X-Spam_score: 0.6 X-Spam_score_int: 6 X-Spam_bar: / X-ACL-Warn: accept But in the mainlog, I see a reject log like this for any incoming emails: 20

Re: Installing DVD-drive (ATAPI) -- replaces cdrom drive / Help needed.

2006-03-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Søren Christensen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:49:27PM +0100, Søren Christensen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just installed a DVD-burner. It replaces a cdrom-drive. It works, > > I can mount a cdrom as I could before, and I have copied a DVD (movie) >

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread anoop aryal
On Thursday 02 March 2006 03:41 am, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > On 3/2/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anoop aryal wrote: > > >On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:32 pm, Doofus wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>I hope someone can help me out here. > > >>I'm finding 2.6 quite complex compared with the 2.

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel B.
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500 "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs a version from Testing. (I have both Sarge and Testing mir

Re: trying to use Knoppis to recover unbootable debian linux drive

2006-03-02 Thread Luis R Finotti
Hi, kenn wrote: Greetings. I'm still trying to recover data from a drive that won't mount, and in spite of lots of help from this list, I haven't accomplished it yet. My current plan of attack is to try to boot on Knoppix and copy to a USB thumb drive. I've learned the obvious stuff ... I've

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Britton Kerin wrote: I would like to buy my non-linux girlfriend a ready to use laptop with: wireless scan, falling back to CAT5 DHCP open office CD ROM that automounts SD card reader that automounts working sound card reasonable memory and disk working video acceleration

Stupid shell script question about "read"

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi list, Could someone tell me why the following works in zsh but not in bash/posh/dash? benjo[3]:~% echo foo bar baz | read a b c benjo[4]:~% echo $a $b $c foo bar baz If I try the same with bash (or other sh-compatible shells), the variables $a $b and $c are unset. From the bash man page: >

Re: Need help recovering Debian that won't boot.

2006-03-02 Thread Kent West
kenn wrote: I did this, and I could see my mounted drive ... but if i tried to ls, i got mostly garbage, so i've probably done something ELSE wrong. I went back to the knoppix boot to see if I had further destroyed anything, but fortunately, everything there still looks the same, so at least I

USB-memorystick fails to mount on laptop (Sarge, kernel 2.6.8)

2006-03-02 Thread severino
I have a problem with mounting an USB-memorystick on my laptop (HP/Compaq Presario 2100) The laptop is a dualboot machine, and when I run Win XP there is no problem with the memory-stick (except that the USB-stick is USB2.0, and the port on the laptop is USB1.1) I can use the memorystick with my

Re: 2.6 compilation woes...

2006-03-02 Thread David Baron
Do you make an initrd with your kernel? If you are using resierfile, then you probably need one. Use mkinitrd so make it as yaird (newer stuff) will often not work right. Otherwize, try to compile in everything you need for your root file system. Yaird has options that will give you a good start

Re: Kernel Panic (using make-kpkg & dpkg)

2006-03-02 Thread Doofus
Harish G. Naik wrote: Hi, I am currently running Debian Sarge testing. GCC version is 3.3.4 I needed to compile and install 2.6.15 used $make-kpkg kernel_image $dpkg --install kernel-2.6.15*.deb Now when I try reebooting into the new kernel, I get: VFS: Cannot open root device "hdas" or unkn

Re: printing problem

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-03-01, 12:54:20 (-0500) skrifaði Kevin B. McCarty: >>Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: >>>Hi again, after trying a few stuff out I think that when I try to >>>print using lp -dojs (or lpr -Pojs, where ojs is the name of the >>>printer queue I set up for the pr

Re: loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Renato Serodio
I did install modconf, but it was actually made redundand by the new module-init-tools architecture: you'll notice it will write to /etc/modules, which appears to be there for backward compatibility.

trying to use Knoppis to recover unbootable debian linux drive

2006-03-02 Thread kenn
Greetings. I'm still trying to recover data from a drive that won't mount, and in spite of lots of help from this list, I haven't accomplished it yet. My current plan of attack is to try to boot on Knoppix and copy to a USB thumb drive. I've learned the obvious stuff ... I've mounted my hard dri

Looking for someone who really knows the USB subsystem

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Bronosky
I have an IR remote control with a USB reciever which identifies itslef as a keyboard mouse combo. The problem is that half the buttons signals are not being picked up by the driver that is used by default. I don't know enough to even lookup how to fix this. I'm hoping to start by mounting the d

Re: xrdb questions

2006-03-02 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:18:15AM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote: > >> I did forget to mention that if I run > >> > >> xrdb --query > >> > >> I do see the emacs and rxvt stuff ,

Re: loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 11:53:50 (+0100) skrifaði Renato Serodio: > Hello all, > > I'm puzzled by the module system for kernel 2.6. Everything's working > fine, that's a point, but still.. > > I used make-kpkg to create my kernel and modules, in this case ipw2100 > and ieee_sth. After installing them, I

Re: xrdb questions

2006-03-02 Thread Robert D. Crawford
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am using fvwm with no dm. I have been working on this problem for >> a while and cannot seem to get it sorted. I have the line: >> >> xrdb ~/.Xdefaults >> >> in my .xinitrc file. The settings in there, however, are not being >> read > > Have you tried "xr

Re: User And Group create failures - sarge

2006-03-02 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-02, 12:29:19 (+0200) skrifaði Marlon v/d Linde :: Clue: > # addgroup --system bind > Adding group `bind' (111)... > Done. > > Obviously this worked: > > # getent group bind > bind:x:111: > > > but now I have to create a user, in that group: > > # adduser --system --home /var/cache

Re: xrdb questions

2006-03-02 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:37:39PM -0600, Robert D. Crawford wrote: >> I did forget to mention that if I run >> >> xrdb --query >> >> I do see the emacs and rxvt stuff , and if I exit emacs and rxvt and >> start them up again, things are fine. >> > The

Kernel Panic (using make-kpkg & dpkg)

2006-03-02 Thread Harish G. Naik
Hi,I am currently running Debian Sarge testing.GCC version is 3.3.4I needed to compile and install 2.6.15used $make-kpkg kernel_image$dpkg --install kernel-2.6.15*.deb Now when I try reebooting into the new kernel, I get: VFS: Cannot open root device "hdas" or unknown-block(0,0)Please append a corr

Re: Kernel Panic (using make-kpkg & dpkg)

2006-03-02 Thread Mike van Vugt
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:54:42PM +0530, Harish G. Naik wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running Debian Sarge testing. > GCC version is 3.3.4 > > I needed to compile and install 2.6.15 > used > $make-kpkg kernel_image > $dpkg --install kernel-2.6.15*.deb > > Now when I try reebooting into the ne

Kernel Panic (using make-kpkg & dpkg)

2006-03-02 Thread Harish G. Naik
Hi,I am currently running Debian Sarge testing.GCC version is 3.3.4I needed to compile and install 2.6.15used $make-kpkg kernel_image$dpkg --install kernel-2.6.15*.debNow when I try reebooting into the new kernel, I get: VFS: Cannot open root device "hdas" or unknown-block(0,0)Please append a corre

how to configure adsl modem (sagem 800)

2006-03-02 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi everybody my friend wnats to switch from window$ to linux and use the adsl connexion (modem SAGEM 800). His has of cource a login and a passwd. When we switch to linux ( debian) and install the product, it gives a list of ISP with VPI and VCI ( what are ??), and asked to choose one of them,

loading modules (or not!)

2006-03-02 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello all, I'm puzzled by the module system for kernel 2.6. Everything's working fine, that's a point, but still.. I used make-kpkg to create my kernel and modules, in this case ipw2100 and ieee_sth. After installing them, I notice that they get automatically loaded at boot. Well, modules.dep was

Re: xorg sdk

2006-03-02 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, not sure what you mean but if you compiling some xorg software you need development packages. These are the ones in debian that have package names that end in -dev. So: apt-cache search xorg|grep "\-dev" may show you what you are looking for. yes, i know and tried that, but: apt-cache search

User And Group create failures - sarge

2006-03-02 Thread Marlon v/d Linde :: Clue
Hi, I have done a fair bit of googling, and spent a while on freenode on this problem, fyi, I did rtfm ;) I would very much appreciate some word on this, as I am stuck. Basically, Ive seen this happen once before with clamav package, and now with the bind package. I know this is not a packag

Sun or SuperMicro: Which to choose

2006-03-02 Thread Bart van den Heuvel
Hi, I'm not used to use Linux with new hardware :-) But todays new server hardware is so cheap that i'm gonna buy something. My budget is around 1500 euros and I want a 1u high Opteron 175 dual core server system with 2gb mem and 2 x 180 GB disks. IPMI is a an nice extra but not a reason to go ove

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