Re: firewall/router machine

2006-03-11 Thread Meni Shapiro
Did you enabled packet forwarding on your kernel?sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 Yes, I checked that first thing and it is enabled. What next?? Thanks again   To configure it at boot see /etc/sysctl.confMeni Szapiro

postfix configuration

2006-03-11 Thread Joseph Smidt
I am trying to get postfix to connect to BYU's smtp server nm.byu.edu an to be honest despite all the documentation I have read I can't figure out how to do it.  It requires a password and you always have to use encryption.   Is there any package in Debian that helps you configure postfix?-- -

Re: Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 March 2006 00:41, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: > >Starting to get into topic drift here... Gee, I hadn't noticed :) [...] And when he called, I was in the middle of trying to figure out Azureus. Its moving data, but I haven't figured out where its putting it, and the sta

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty said: > >>I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that >>messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the >>list. > > > This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years. On > many things Debian is sens

Re: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-11 Thread Philip Mak
Tony Heal wrote: > From the man page > Protocol all will match with all protocols and is taken as default > when this option is omitted. > > So try removing the -p tcp and see if that fixes it. Same problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -j DROP iptables v1.2.11: c

Getting OT: Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: Starting to get into topic drift here... On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 7.5GB? You'd better set the expiry in your email client to a shorter period too. I've taken to gettin rid of old messages in some folders just to

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty said: > I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that > messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the > list. This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years. On many things Debian is sensible. On this Debian is downrig

Re: Zaurus help

2006-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Cybe R. Wizard said: > If so, you are in the wrong place. Well, not entirely. You're focusing on the PC. Realize the Zaurus is a palm like computer that runs Linux. So from that angle they're in the same general orbit. :) -- Steve Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

version 2.3.5-13 of libc6 on etch is getaddr broke?

2006-03-11 Thread John covici
After upgrading etch to this version proftpd would not work at all -- I got things like Mar 11 16:51:25 main in.proftpd[16591]: connect from 71.240.224.83 (71.240.224.83) Mar 11 16:51:25 main proftpd[16591]: getaddrinfo 'main.wlym.com_main.wlym.com' error: Name or service not known Mar 11 16:51:25

Re: Wireless interface fails to initialize fully; still need to get DHCP manually

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
Robert Glueck wrote: Mark Fletcher wrote: I had exactly the same problem -- with different hardware. The cause was that PCMCIA services are started in the boot / startup sequence AFTER networking is set up, so at the time the startup procedure is trying to connect to your network PCMCIA ser

Re: Windows won't boot!

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
Gregory Seidman wrote: By installing Sarge I have somehow rendered my friend's Windows system unbootable. The original configuration was two 200GB drives, hda and hdb. Windows XP was on hda and the other drive was apparently empty. I repartitioned hdb as part of the Sarge install, removing the

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
gawab wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro said: Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have been getting so long is that we are running out of "Toy Story" character names. What do we do when there are no more characters left? Start working through

Re: MAILTO=/dev/null

2006-03-11 Thread Erik Persson
Tony Heal wrote: I have a file named 'custom' in /etc/cron.d and the first line in this file is MAILTO=/dev/null. I have a file that is run every minute that tests permissions on a file and emails me it they have changed. This script is to troubleshoot another problem. * * * * * root /u

RE: iptables wrong version?

2006-03-11 Thread Tony Heal
>From the man page Protocol all will match with all protocols and is taken as default when this option is omitted. So try removing the -p tcp and see if that fixes it. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philip Mak [mailto:[EMAIL P

MAILTO=/dev/null

2006-03-11 Thread Tony Heal
I have a file named 'custom' in /etc/cron.d and the first line in this file is MAILTO=/dev/null. I have a file that is run every minute that tests permissions on a file and emails me it they have changed. This script is to troubleshoot another problem. * * * * *   root /usr/local/b

iptables wrong version?

2006-03-11 Thread Philip Mak
I am trying to ban an IP address from my server (*.*.*.* is a real IP): [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ipchains -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP ipchains: Protocol not available [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# iptables -A INPUT --source *.*.*.* -p tcp -j DROP iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize

Sarge nits: console resized, kernel vga parameter over-ridden, and dead keys.

2006-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I have three niggling little problems I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm running stock Sarge on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with xserver-xfree86 (ATI Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x (rev 02)), stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686. - At boot, my console window is resized down to a smaller than full-screen b

Where to submitting a bug for GNOME panels

2006-03-11 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
So I found that when I try to move a GNOME panel (the ones where you put application lists, volume controller, application menu, etc.) I can place it far from scrren borders. After moving it, it is impossible to move it again. What package i submit the bug to? Thnx PAolo -- if you have a minute

Re: Fwd: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware]

2006-03-11 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/3/11, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:26:25PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > I beg you pardon, sir... it's my email web interface fault's... > > Who is forcing you to use gmail? For exaple a firewall? Anyway gmail is good, I can read and manage email ev

Re: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread Kent West
William Roca wrote: I have a problem. While trying to install, I got a message that said: "no Ethernet card detected". Could you help? I do have an Ethernet card. That's why I cannot understand. I also have Windows XP Professional in another hard drive with Broadband internet. What type

RE: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread William Roca
I do have an Ethernet card. That's why I cannot understand. I also have Windows XP Professional in another hard drive with Broadband internet. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Olafur Jens Sigurdsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:00 AM To: William Roca Cc: d

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:27, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: > >[snip] > unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a >>>

Re: gnome ~/Desktop directory setting

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
my goal is to get rid of that extra directory in my home dir, so that won't really solve the problem. mike On 3/11/06, Laurent CARON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Gilbert a écrit : > > Hello all, > > > > Does anyone know how to change the gnome desktop directory location? > > I would rathe

Re: gnome ~/Desktop directory setting

2006-03-11 Thread Laurent CARON
Michael Gilbert a écrit : Hello all, Does anyone know how to change the gnome desktop directory location? I would rather use something like ~/.desktop rather than ~/Desktop. I've searched the keys in gconf and can't find one for this setting. Thanks in advance for any help. Mike Hi, wo

Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2006-03-11 Thread Kent West
baileywick wrote: When I try to pull up guns america I get the old "this page not available." This has been going on for several weeks. What happened? Glenn Bailey Works fine from here. Have you emptied your cache late

Re: scanner permissions

2006-03-11 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sat, March 11, 2006 21:27, Freddy Freeloader said: > Hi All, > > I have a problem that just started with my scanner permissions. I can't > access it by any means unless I am root. I am running a mix of Sarge > and Sid using the 2.6.15-k7 kernel. > > Running sane-find-scanner or scanimage -L a

Re: HELP

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Conrad McClure wrote: I installed debian, but what do I do with it, how do I use it? Does it have a graphical interface, or is it command line only? how do you use openoffice with it? how do you surf the internet? these are just a few questions? It looks almost like unix, which is very unfriend

gnome ~/Desktop directory setting

2006-03-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello all, Does anyone know how to change the gnome desktop directory location? I would rather use something like ~/.desktop rather than ~/Desktop. I've searched the keys in gconf and can't find one for this setting. Thanks in advance for any help. Mike

Re: Is udev really 'optional'?

2006-03-11 Thread Jason Clinton
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 17:43 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Being on a laptop, I really need the functionality. Am I going to > have to give up the hotplug package or will it continue to be an > alternative to udev? I have been under the impression that udev is replacing hotplug permanently and t

Re: Fwd: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware]

2006-03-11 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:26:25PM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I beg you pardon, sir... it's my email web interface fault's... Who is forcing you to use gmail? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP

2006-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 14:26 -0600, Conrad McClure wrote: > >>I installed debian, but what do I do with it, how do I use it? > >> > >>Does it have a graphical interface, Yes. > or is it command line only? If you want it that way. > >>how do you use openoffic

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Thomas H. George wrote: [...] A search of the Debian packages for linux-source finds nothing. Tom George What are the entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list? I have deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-f

Re: Creating a journal as an afterthought

2006-03-11 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:55:22 -0500, Andrew Cady wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:11:45AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > [...] > >> The second paragraph suggests that this should have happened >> automatically when I updated my (very aged) Woody to Debian 3.1r1 (the >> i

scanner permissions

2006-03-11 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I have a problem that just started with my scanner permissions. I can't access it by any means unless I am root. I am running a mix of Sarge and Sid using the 2.6.15-k7 kernel. Running sane-find-scanner or scanimage -L as root correctly identifies my scanner, an HP 6200C. Running

Fwd: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware]

2006-03-11 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Ooops I did it again... -- Forwarded message -- From: Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-mar-2006 21.23 Subject: Re: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware] To: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006/3/11, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > > 2006/3/11, Mike

HELP

2006-03-11 Thread Conrad McClure
>>I installed debian, but what do I do with it, how do I use it?Does it have a graphical interface, or is it command line only?>>how do you use openoffice with it?how do you surf the internet?>>these are just a few questions?>>It looks almost like unix, which is very unfriendly to m

Re: Problems with cdrecord under kernel 2.6.15-8

2006-03-11 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Sat, March 11, 2006 19:02, Todd A. Jacobs said: > Since doing an upgrade to testing, I can no longer burn CDs using any > tool in my arsenal, although DVDs continue to burn correctly. When > trying to burn CDs, I get lots of errors similar to the following: > > cdrecord: Warning: Running on

Re: opie otp with nxserver 1.5.0?

2006-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 10:50:18AM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have a server set up for PAM authentication using OPIE, and want to > get my nxclients to connect with a one-time password. Since the > nxclient prompts for a password up-front, I never get the challenge. Just to clarify, the pro

netcat on windows [WAS: copying a 12GB file]

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:02:19AM -0600, anoop aryal wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 09:43 am, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > > FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is > > > probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an > > > excellent SSH/SCP cli

Re: firewall/router machine

2006-03-11 Thread jlmb
Meni Shapiro wrote: > hello list, > > I'm trying to configure my debian sarge 3.1 as a router using iptables. > i got 2 nic (eth0, eth1) and a real ip 8 address for the lan and a true > ip (diferent class) for the internet nic > something like xx.xx.xx.1-8 with x.x.x.1 as the gateway on the FW >

Re: Re: WWW.GUNSAMERICA.COM

2006-03-11 Thread baileywick
When I try to pull up guns america I get the old "this page not available." This has been going on for several weeks. What happened?   Glenn Bailey

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike McCarty wrote: That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find it imaginable that /var would be < 500MB, my /var is < 300MB. And on occasion, I have cleaned out the package manager stuff (though it tends to come back). # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Availa

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] unimaginable today, my /var/cache alone is 1,273,796 whatevers in du's default format. Which is not a big deal since /var is on /dev/hdd, a That's way more than I would permit on my machine. I not only find it

Re: Problems with cdrecord under kernel 2.6.15-8

2006-03-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:02:30 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since doing an upgrade to testing, I can no longer burn CDs using any > tool in my arsenal, although DVDs continue to burn correctly. When > trying to burn CDs, I get lots of errors similar to the following: > >

Re: Problems with cdrecord under kernel 2.6.15-8

2006-03-11 Thread Matthias Julius
"Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The kernel doesn't seem to include modules for ide-scsi anymore, and I > have to manually load sg.o with "sudo modprobe sg" before cdrecord will > even find the device. What's weird, though, is that burning DVDs on the > same device still works. > > W

Re: xine under sarge

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Buys
Mark Walter wrote: Hi all, I can't load a DVD with xine. I mount the DVD with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt Then I start xine as a user: xine /mnt/video_ts/vts_01_0.vob Here the error message: *** The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough right's for it, or source doesn't

opie otp with nxserver 1.5.0?

2006-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a server set up for PAM authentication using OPIE, and want to get my nxclients to connect with a one-time password. Since the nxclient prompts for a password up-front, I never get the challenge. Can anyone point me to a how-to for PAM+OPIE+NXSERVER, or provide a few tips to get me going?

Re: dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, etc. don't work - "relocation error".

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Guerin
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > >> I cannot use dpkg, wajig, apt-get--I always get a >> message: >> "/usr/bin/perl: relocation error: >> /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol__libc_stack_end, > version >> GLIB_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so2 with link >> time reference". >>

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 13:47, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: >>>I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, >>> and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in >>> them. >>> >>> >>>Which of these mu

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread jlmb
> > A search of the Debian packages for linux-source finds nothing. > > Tom George > > [ atrus ]$ apt-cache search linux-source linux-patch-debian-2.6.15 - Debian patches to version 2.6.15 of the Linux kernel linux-source-2.6.15 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.15 with Debian patches linux

Re: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware]

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/3/11, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [useless copy of private e-mail sent in reply to private e-mail cut] [reply to the list pls] BUT YOU SENT ME A PRIVATE E-MAIL. You are the one who replied off the list! I simply followed your lead, figuring you wanted the me

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:35:02PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Jacob S wrote: > >Since anybody can post to this list without being subscribed (witness > >the spam we get), where is the problem? You simply subscribe under one > > I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home mac

Re: new user

2006-03-11 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: Dion wrote: I love sarge , having trouble connecting BBand to my linux box , wish my sarge box would run wifi to my windows laptop . advice? For broadband, the best solution is to use an ethernet ADSL modem rather than a USB one. It sound as though you would want a c

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:31:43AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources > > beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which > > I downloaded from Testing last year. What has chang

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Jacob S wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Mike McCarty wrote: I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. As an example

Problems with cdrecord under kernel 2.6.15-8

2006-03-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Since doing an upgrade to testing, I can no longer burn CDs using any tool in my arsenal, although DVDs continue to burn correctly. When trying to burn CDs, I get lots of errors similar to the following: cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-1-686 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues

Re: Zaurus help

2006-03-11 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 10:26:34 -0600 Earline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I have a Zaurus SL-5500 and I cant get it to Sync with my PC > undrerstand there might be a way to get this to work I am new to > Linux and OS is XP Pro on my PC and XP Media Center on my Dell > laptop. I have downlo

firewall/router machine

2006-03-11 Thread Meni Shapiro
hello list,   I'm trying to configure my debian sarge 3.1 as a router using iptables. i got 2 nic (eth0, eth1) and a real ip 8 address for the lan and a true ip (diferent class) for the internet nic something like xx.xx.xx.1-8 with x.x.x.1 as the gateway on the FW machine asigned to eth0. and yy.yy

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 06:52, Charles wrote: >I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and >/var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. > > >Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at > the moment) a home machine; I don't *ne

Zaurus help

2006-03-11 Thread Earline
Hi, I have a Zaurus SL-5500 and I cant get it to Sync with my PC undrerstand there might be a way to get this to work I am new to Linux and OS is XP Pro on my PC and XP Media Center on my Dell laptop. I have download the CD from Sharp but still no luck Would appreicate any help or direction

dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, etc. don't work - "relocation error".

2006-03-11 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > I cannot use dpkg, wajig, apt-get--I always get a > message: > "/usr/bin/perl: relocation error: > /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol__libc_stack_end, version > GLIB_2.1 not defined in file ld-linux.so2 with link > time reference". > > I run "Linux version 2.4.27-2-586tsc"

Re: pppd doesn't connect

2006-03-11 Thread Fabián Barco
other solution? On 3/4/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:48:08PM -0500, Fabián Barco wrote: > > Hi, > > I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0. > > The modem was working ok! > > but now the modem doesn't connect. > > I have the following message in the /var/log/syslog

Strange GNOME Problem

2006-03-11 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I have a rather stange and, frankly, silly problem with GNOME. You see, I have around 20 icons on my desktop. They are all arranged in different places, with Firefox in the top right corner, the Wastebasket in the lower right corner, along with two other folder icons. On the left side of th

Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
belahcene abdelkader wrote: thanks, right but in my case 2.6.8 there is no snd-hda-intel.ko dpkg -S snd-hda-intel.ko dpkg : *snd-hda-intel.ko* not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux debian21 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux best regards Support for the Intel

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which I downloaded from Testing last year. What has changed? Tom George Since Linux is not the o

Re: Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Guerin
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Þann 2006-03-11, 04:47:40 (-0800) skrifaði belahcene abdelkader: [snip] > I dont know when the change from .o to .ko was made, maby that is > confusing your dpkg -S search. > .o was used in 2.4.x kernels, and .ko in 2.6.x. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Charles wrote: I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the log files, but I don't know

Re: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-10, 22:55:03 (-0500) skrifaði William Roca: > Hi, my name is William. I am about to install Debian Operating System, but > I have a problem. While trying to install, I got a message that said: "no > Ethernet card detected". Could you help? Is your case perhaps that you dont have an

Re: xine under sarge

2006-03-11 Thread Kent West
Mark Walter wrote: Hi all, I can't load a DVD with xine. I mount the DVD with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt Then I start xine as a user: xine /mnt/video_ts/vts_01_0.vob Here the error message: *** The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough right's for it, or source doesn't

Re: xine under sarge

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 10:58:38 (+0100) skrifaði Mark Walter: > I mount the DVD with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt Uhh, why do you mount the DVD? Xine should just read the DVD unmounted just like with a music CD right? > The first time I started xine there was a player where it was able to >

Re: VNC client/server combo doing VNC over HTTP

2006-03-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 March 2006 03:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > >On Friday 10 March 2006 09:29, nullman wrote: > >>2 short infos to clarify : > >> > >>1. VNC over http doesn´t exist > >>2. Port-Numbers can be altered with any version > >> > >>Solution would be : ssh on Port 443 ... wit

Re: I can not lock screen.

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 19:22:22 (+0700) skrifaði Surachai Locharoen: > I use debian testing and Gnome 2.12. I can not lock screen. How to fix > it? Is this problem related to the xscreenserver? because I have > initialize xscreenserver and see the xscreenserver demo. Do you get any error messages? Oli

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:52:27 (-0700) skrifaði Charles: > I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and > /var/lib. These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them. > > > Which of these must be present for the machine to run? This is (at the > moment) a home machine;

Re: Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-03-11, 04:47:40 (-0800) skrifaði belahcene abdelkader: > thanks, > right > but in my case 2.6.8 there is no snd-hda-intel.ko > > dpkg -S snd-hda-intel.ko > dpkg : *snd-hda-intel.ko* not found > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux debian21 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST > 2005

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Thomas H. George wrote: > I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources > beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which > I downloaded from Testing last year. What has changed? > > Tom George > > Since Linux is not the only kernel on which Debia

Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which I downloaded from Testing last year. What has changed? Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 10.03.2006 at 22:09 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Marc Shapiro said: > > Personally, my theory on the REAL reason that the release cycles have > > been getting so long is that we are running out of "Toy Story" character > > names. What do we do when there are no more characters left? > >

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marc Shapiro wrote: David Berg wrote: I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm not looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessarily as I realize they would all be guesses. Perhaps I could

GXine crashes in fullscreen mode

2006-03-11 Thread Aravind. R
Hello I am using Gxine version 0.5.4 It crashes when I try to view in fullscreen mode. This is the message I get as soon as I open gxine: lirc: lirc_init failed. Make sure that you have lircd running lirc: and that you have the permissions to connect to the socket And this is what I get

Re: Xserver-xorg - radeon module?????

2006-03-11 Thread Jacob S
Kai Sandsengen wrote: The module will not load and the module version seems out of date, how can I solve > this??? /var/log/Xorg.0.log [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.16.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed. # lsmod | grep radeon radeon 73856 0 drm

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Jacob S
Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Mike McCarty wrote: I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. As an example, I'd like to pro

Re: Re: udev doesn't creat /dev/audio

2006-03-11 Thread belahcene abdelkader
thanks, right but in my case 2.6.8 there is no snd-hda-intel.ko dpkg -S snd-hda-intel.ko dpkg : *snd-hda-intel.ko* not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux debian21 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux best regards __

Re: gcc change from 4.0 to 3.4

2006-03-11 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Hugo, > But you didn't tell us what the problem was. it was related to this problem. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=303098 with cernlib libraries. Regards, MC

Re: RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch

2006-03-11 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
No wonder you cant find any radon.o kernel modules since the modules name is radeon.ko (notice the extra e and k) and are located in /lib/modules/(kernel-version)/kernel/drivers/char/drm/ Try upgrading your kernel to 2.6.14, dont know if it has the desired version of the radeon module but it is wo

I can not lock screen.

2006-03-11 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use debian testing and Gnome 2.12. I can not lock screen. How to fix it? Is this problem related to the xscreenserver? because I have initialize xscreenserver and see the xscreenserver demo. -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Agilesoft Coporation Company Limited

State of webmin (was: Webmin themes)

2006-03-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 02:10]: > the current webmin packages will not be included in the next stable > release 'etch' becuase the maintainer did not have time to work on them. > Someone here may help you solve your problem, but if you have interest, > you may be able to lend

Re: UOL: [Fwd: RE: Re: Hardware]

2006-03-11 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/3/11, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's an example one I got. I get several a day. > It's annoying. > > Original Message > Subject:RE: Re: Hardware > Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:35:58 -0300 (BRT) > From: AntiSpam UOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: mike.mccar

Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Charles
I've noticed that I have files piling up in /var/cache, /var/log, and /var/lib.  These three folders now have 100 mb of files in them.Which of these must be present for the machine to run?  This is (at the moment) a home machine; I don't *need* the  log files, but I don't know what happens

Re: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread Mike McCarty
Chris Lale wrote: William Roca wrote: Hi, my name is William. I am about to install Debian Operating System, but I have a problem. While trying to install, I got a message that said: “no Ethernet card detected”. Could you help? Does your motherboard have a built-in ethernet interface? Some d

Re: Xserver-xorg - radeon module?????

2006-03-11 Thread Wackojacko
Kai Sandsengen wrote: The module will not load and the module version seems out of date, how can I solve this??? /var/log/Xorg.0.log [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.16.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed. # lsmod | grep radeon radeon 73856 0 drm

Xserver-xorg - radeon module?????

2006-03-11 Thread Kai Sandsengen
The module will not load and the module version seems out of date, how can I solve this??? /var/log/Xorg.0.log [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.16.0 but version 1.17.0 or newer is needed. # lsmod | grep radeon radeon 73856 0 drm61716 1 radeon

Re: gcc change from 4.0 to 3.4

2006-03-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Andrew, run the following: update-alternatives --config cc thank you very much. This has been a good help, that resolved also my compiling process. Regards, MC But you didn't tell us what the problem was. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Web application loadtest tool on debian.

2006-03-11 Thread Surachai Locharoen
Anybody use had used loadtest tool on debian? Which is the best? (Easy to use and many report) -- Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Agilesoft Coporation Company Limited

Re: Windows won't boot!

2006-03-11 Thread Wackojacko
Gregory Seidman wrote: By installing Sarge I have somehow rendered my friend's Windows system unbootable. The original configuration was two 200GB drives, hda and hdb. Windows XP was on hda and the other drive was apparently empty. I repartitioned hdb as part of the Sarge install, removing the u

Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

2006-03-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 March 2006 04:00, Mike McCarty wrote: >I'd like to propose a change to subscription protocol used here. >I suggest permitting a non-member alias to post messages, while >sending the e-mails from the list to the real e-mail address. > >As an example, I'd like to propose that I be able

mp4, audio and mplayer

2006-03-11 Thread David C. Weichert
Hi, what do I need to install to play http://www.archive.org/download/DuckandC1951/DuckandC1951_256kb.mp4 with sound? I have Debian Testing with main and marillat repositories. The packages faad and libfaad2 are installed, (both) version 2.0.0-0.7. Error output by gmplayer: "FAAD: Failed to de

Re: Hardware

2006-03-11 Thread Chris Lale
Chris Lale wrote: William Roca wrote: Hi, my name is William. I am about to install Debian Operating System, but I have a problem. While trying to install, I got a message that said: “no Ethernet card detected”. Could you help? Does your motherboard have a built-in ethernet interface? Some

xine under sarge

2006-03-11 Thread Mark Walter
Hi all, I can't load a DVD with xine. I mount the DVD with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt Then I start xine as a user: xine /mnt/video_ts/vts_01_0.vob Here the error message: *** The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough right's for it, or source doesn't contain data (e.g. no

Linux phones...

2006-03-11 Thread Digby Tarvin
Does anyone on this list have any experience with any of the Linux based mobile phone handsets (like the Motorola A760)? I am curious to know if it is worth upgrading - it would seem that it should go some way to resolving the usual problem of lack of vendor support for connection to Linux based c

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