Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
cga2000 wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOL.

ata2 problems

2007-02-07 Thread remigio
Hello, I'm having some problems with ata2 on boot. Bug#402533 refers to my problem. Are there some solution? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6 bug

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Kevin Ross wrote: Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 libc6-amd64 libc6-dev I'm running Sid with the 2.6.18-4-486 kernel. Is it even possible to run 64-bit apps with a 486 kernel? This is something that I have wondered about too. I've been cu

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
Steffan Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know of a dedicated server provider who are capable of > putting Debian on an up to date machine and who are cost/support > competitive with Servermatrix? I've had a look at the Wiki list of > known Debian-friendly hosts, but I'm very intere

Re: iptables usage

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/6/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to get iptables working so that I can finally have a worthwhile client-side non-graphical firewall. So to test it out, I typed these two commands: /# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT # iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT

Re: server-mirror-HELP

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/7/07, Guillermo Garron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/7/07, Tuani Panggabean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Plase help me > I have Debian 14CDs, will make mirror-server-LAN > so I'tried with configurations following > > begin copy Cds one per one to direktory /debian/sarge > > #cp -R /media/c

Re: server-mirror-HELP

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/7/07, Tuani Panggabean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Plase help me I have Debian 14CDs, will make mirror-server-LAN so I'tried with configurations following begin copy Cds one per one to direktory /debian/sarge #cp -R /media/cdrom/* /debian/sarge (what this real correct ??) #dpkg-scanpackages

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/7/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/ > > and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the > /etc/inittab again > and change your line > id

Re: writing to CD-R's

2007-02-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:24:01PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:45:21PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Maybe this will turn out to be the brain-deadest question of the year, > > but I'll risk it .. > > > > Is there any way I can just write to a CD-R .. until it "fills u

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 19:00, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 17:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:54:52PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 a

Re: firewall/service configs (was a bunch of other things)

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 18:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:11:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/07/07 17:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > public servers.

server-mirror-HELP

2007-02-07 Thread Tuani Panggabean
Plase help me I have Debian 14CDs, will make mirror-server-LAN so I'tried with configurations following begin copy Cds one per one to direktory /debian/sarge #cp -R /media/cdrom/* /debian/sarge (what this real correct ??) #dpkg-scanpackages pool/contrib /dev/null |gzip -9c >Pakckages.gz #dpkg-sca

Re: writing to CD-R's

2007-02-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:58:12PM EST, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > perhaps dar? That's a good one .. :-) ...! I posted here because I started looking at dar and it looked like an interesting component of a more general backup strategy .. I have no problem reading man pages or even the code to figure

RE: Job Offer No Eudcation Required

2007-02-07 Thread Cleo Glass
Hi Debian-tetex-maint. I sincerely hope this message finds you in a great spirit. Just for a start I'd liket o congratulate you on this offer because our corporation got your contact and your short profile through an email listing affiliated with CareerBuilder. I would be extremelyi nterested

Re: font problems

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Polyakov
All I can suggest now is that you copy the font to one of the system directories listed when you run 'fc-cache -vf' (without a directory argument). Seems a lot of trouble to go to just to use a font, doesn't it? Fortunately, defoma does all this work for you in the case of official Debian font pac

Re: font problems

2007-02-07 Thread Mike Polyakov
This line tells you that fontconfig is simply ignoring the font. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you placed a true type font there. It works with true-type version of the same font (from this url: http://www.proggyfonts.com/index.php?menu=download): $ ls -l ~/.fonts -rw-r--r

Re: writing to CD-R's

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:45:21PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Maybe this will turn out to be the brain-deadest question of the year, > but I'll risk it .. > > Is there any way I can just write to a CD-R .. until it "fills up" .. > stick in another CD-R .. etc. using something like dd ..? And read

Re: firewall/service configs (was a bunch of other things)

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:11:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/07/07 17:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> Have the firewall *redirect* incoming imaps requests to your server. > >> > > > > and that is what I currently d

Re: writing to CD-R's

2007-02-07 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
perhaps dar? http://dar.linux.free.fr/ -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/ > > and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the > /etc/inittab again > and change your line > id:3:initdefault: > to > id:2:initdefault: > > with this li

writing to CD-R's

2007-02-07 Thread cga2000
Maybe this will turn out to be the brain-deadest question of the year, but I'll risk it .. Is there any way I can just write to a CD-R .. until it "fills up" .. stick in another CD-R .. etc. using something like dd ..? And read the data back to my HD using the same "stream of bits" strategy ..

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/6/07, myusernet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? Hi, just, go to the /etc/inittab and change this line id:2:initdefault: for this id:3:initdefault: then rename your file SXXgdm or SXXkdm or SXX

Re: firewall/service configs (was a bunch of other things)

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 17:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/07/07 13:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/07/07 11:31, A

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Marty
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, we have a bunch of apc back-ups cs500 ups-es for our desktops. they work fine with the exception of one machine, where we are getting ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-1: device descriptor read/64, er

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 17:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:54:52PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 07 F

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 > > > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> LOL. I su

Re: libc6 bug

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Kevin Ross wrote: Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 libc6-amd64 libc6-dev I'm running Sid with the 2.6.18-4-486 kernel. Is it even possible to run 64-bit apps with a 486 kernel? This is something that I have wondered about too. I've been curious as to why it was in

RE: libc6 bug

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Ross
> Errors were encountered while processing: > libc6 > libc6-amd64 > libc6-dev > > I'm running Sid with the 2.6.18-4-486 kernel. Is it even possible to run 64-bit apps with a 486 kernel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

firewall/service configs (was a bunch of other things)

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:56:31PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/07/07 13:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> > >>> If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IM

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:14:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:14:43 -0500 > > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > So what about novicedoc as a project title? > > > > > >

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 13:57, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IMAP >>> would be the best

Re: SpamAssassin/ProcMail Questions

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:06:05PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > a. Start a new thread not reply to an existing one another one of those simple things that many people don't seem to get right away... Is it not obvious how to post to the list by mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] hmm... A signa

RE: iptables usage

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Ross
> I've been trying to get iptables working so that I can finally have a > worthwhile client-side non-graphical firewall. So to test it out, I > typed these two commands: > > /# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT > # iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT > > /And for some reason I completely lost

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:54:52PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 200

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread marc
Douglas Allan Tutty said... > If we went with a wiki, we could have one long page for our project What's the benefit of doing that? > with sub-projects as separate chapters. We can follow the same layout > as a debiandoc e.g. release under GPL, Abstract, TOC, then the chapters. Chapters are go

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 02:49:00PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:14:43 -0500 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So what about novicedoc as a project title? > > > > > > I don't

Re: The system hangs up when I press ctrl+alt+f1

2007-02-07 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Michael Pobega writes: > myusernet wrote: >> I want to kill X, so I press the combination but the system hangs up, >> half of the screen was the desktop and the other one is totally black. ^ > Are you sure you're pressing the

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:35:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > This is good news, AFAIK aptitude seems to purge the requested > > package but only _removes_ the dependencies. > > > > Guess I will then use plain apt again. > > You can tell aptitude to purge unused packages: > > $ man

Re: exim4 smtp auth

2007-02-07 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
You can not force client to authenticate, but you can force accepting mail from client to fail if client is not authenticated. You should check acl_smtp_mail or acl_smtp_rcpt and reject mail if client is not authenticated (but accept mail from foreign servers that are trying to send mail to your u

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 16:27, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > > I started with a ne

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 22:01:46 +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > [...] > > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option? > > > > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course. > > This > > will remove conf

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 15:57:07 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > > > Ehh? For such a simple program I think it's well documented. 'man r2e' > > and the self documented config file ~/.rss2email/config.py should > > tell you all you

Re: Purging config file of removed package

2007-02-07 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 18:36 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 17:11:36 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > during the upgrade of udev, it found that I still have > > /etc/init.d/hotplug. This is true, but since I remove the hotplug package > > before (apt-get remove

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 04:22:18PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > > I started with a net installed etch rc1 for amd64. I have ASUS M2N-MX > > > mobo with SATA

Re: News Flash

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:27:13 -0800, Baz wrote: > On 2/7/07, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >It seems to me that Steve Jobs likes DRM very much, as long as it makes > >it difficult for competitors to interoperate smoothly with iTunes and/or > >the iPod. (I know that the end user has relatively

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Prismatic Plasma
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:28, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > > I started with a net installed etch rc1 for amd64. I have ASUS M2N-MX > > mobo with SATA harddrive and IDE dvd writer. Install went okay, but no > > sound. Made a

Re: SpamAssassin/ProcMail Questions

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:38:07 -0500 "Matthew Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to be having trouble getting SpamAssassin running. I have set > up Etch with PostFix, ProcMail, and SpamAssassin. The PostFix setup > has been working fine but I wanted to set up SpamAssassin. So I added > the co

Re: News Flash

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:19 -0800, Baz wrote: > Steve Jobs is promoting the idea of ending DRM. Read at > http://blogs.marketwatch.com/bambi/2007/02/apples_jobs_has.html I recommend reading Ed Felten's take on this, http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1117 -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.

Re: News Flash

2007-02-07 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 08:27 -0800, Baz wrote: > "I know that the end user has relatively easy ways around > these restrictions" > > Care to expand on this? I posted an inquiry on this new list back in > December regarding work-arounds for iTune/iPod-dependent music. The > word, "easy" was nowhe

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-07 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:07:59PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:59:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > The document is now licensed under GPL v2. Please let me know if there is >

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:25:53PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > [...] > > Is there also an 'autopurge' option? > > Not sure how Aptitude behaves on this but you can append --purge of course. > This > will remove config files for the removed and automatically removed packages. > [...] This is

Re: Trouble with encrypted filesystems

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:22:48 +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > The main advantage of pmount is that it allows all members of the > > "plugdev" group to mount pluggable devices. This eliminates the need to > > add entries for pluggable devices to /etc/fstab. Since I use pmount

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:22:01PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > On Wed 2007-02-07 13:57:42 -0500, Stephen wrote: { ...} using fetchmail/procmail to get RSS. > That's what I do, into its own folder. > > > I just grabbed it, the documentation is non existent. :( > > Ehh? For such a

SpamAssassin/ProcMail Questions

2007-02-07 Thread Matthew Kelly
I seem to be having trouble getting SpamAssassin running. I have set up Etch with PostFix, ProcMail, and SpamAssassin. The PostFix setup has been working fine but I wanted to set up SpamAssassin. So I added the command mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail, then added the procmailrc to the etc direct

Re: problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:20:55PM -0500, Prismatic Plasma wrote: > I started with a net installed etch rc1 for amd64. I have ASUS M2N-MX mobo > with SATA harddrive and IDE dvd writer. Install went okay, but no sound. > Made a custom 2.6.20 kernel. Now I have sound but no cdrom! The trouble > shows

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Andrei. Andrei Popescu, 07.02.2007 21:21: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100 > Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello me. >> >> Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: >>> Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: But AFAIK there's no way to let apt-get also remove the depen

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:01:32 +0100 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello me. > > Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: > > Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: > >> But AFAIK there's > >> no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. > > > > Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic

problem with udev, etch, custom 2.6.20 kernel, and ide devices

2007-02-07 Thread Prismatic Plasma
I started with a net installed etch rc1 for amd64. I have ASUS M2N-MX mobo with SATA harddrive and IDE dvd writer. Install went okay, but no sound. Made a custom 2.6.20 kernel. Now I have sound but no cdrom! The trouble shows up in udev, but I'm not sure if that's the root of the problem. hda show

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:20:06 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 2007-02-06 08:19:50 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:12:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > PSGML is for SGML, not for XML editing (though it may appear to >> > work wi

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:20:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > If I were to transform my firewall machine in a mailserver then IMAP > > would be the best choice to access it. > > That's the *second worst* place to put it. > please enlighten. I am i

Re: Removing Unused Programs

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello me. Mathias Brodala, 07.02.2007 00:59: > Marcus Blumhagen, 07.02.2007 00:41: >> But AFAIK there's >> no way to let apt-get also remove the dependencies. > > Not yet. APT 0.7.0 comes with automatic dependency removal[0] which should be > equal to what Aptitude offers. And it works like a ch

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:24:35PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:14:43 -0500 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what about novicedoc as a project title? > > > > I don't know what all questions alioth asks when one registers a > > project, but for a sho

Re: error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:43AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the logs, > i > discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs. (haven't > looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below is a sample > of

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-02-07 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:22:33AM -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote: >> The computer has just begun loading the CD and it seems to be hanging. >> >> This is what I see: >> >> Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives >> >>

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-07 Thread Wulfy
Celejar wrote: A common problem with linux gui tools is that they are often really just simple front ends to the cli tools, and they often aren't really easier to use than them; if the user doesn't have a pretty good understanding of the underlying cli tool he'll be stuck even in the gui, and if

error loggers gone crazy - disk full

2007-02-07 Thread tom arnall
last night my system ground to a halt with a full disk. looking at the logs, i discovered that they were the main if not the only resource hogs. (haven't looked for other sources of spurious disk usage). below is a sample of 'debug'. 'kern.log' and 'syslog' have the same messages. you can tell b

Re: How can I install a system whose locale is utf-8 compatible

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:44:36AM +0200, Mehmet Fatih Akbulut wrote: > $ apt-get install locales > $ dpkg-reconfigure locales > > then select your desired language with utf-8 extension. > and finally hit the enter. > > > On 2/7/07, wrote: > > > > When choosing langu

libc6 bug

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I ran across a when running apt-get upgrade yesterday. It looks to be a problem with the postinst script itself, but I'm not positive. Here is what apt-get reports when setting up libc6. Setting up libc6 (2.3.6.ds1-11) ... invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/glibc.sh not found. dpkg:

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:14:43 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:51:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:28:56 -0500 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I need to look around further at alioth but I _think

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 13:57:42 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:26:44PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote: > > [ ...] > > > > Does it do mbox format and are URLs included ? > > > > It delivers either via smtp or /usr/sbin/se

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:51:02 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > Or if you feel brave, mutt-ng from experimental. I you set up your > > mail to use Maildir than you can switch mail clients with problems, > > or even >

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:50:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Or if you feel brave, mutt-ng from experimental. I you set up your mail > to use Maildir than you can switch mail clients with problems, or even

Re: iptables usage

2007-02-07 Thread Listscribbler
>Subject: iptables usage >From: Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:01:23 -0500 >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >I've been trying to get iptables working so that I can finally have a >worthwhile client-side non-graphical firewall. So to test it out, I >typed these two

Re: iptables usage

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Pobega
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:16:31 -0500 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> P.S. You should start a new thread for new problems, you might get >>> more answers that way >>> >> I thought this /was/ a new thread? :-P >> > > Threading is not only done

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 06:26:44PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote: [ ...] > > Does it do mbox format and are URLs included ? > > It delivers either via smtp or /usr/sbin/sendmail, not directly to > a mail store. Hm OK Then I use say pro

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:39:31PM -0500, KS wrote: > I'm just jumping in to this thread after reading the last few posts in > this thread. If you need the latest wiki (with PHP5), I can offer to > host it and connection is pretty reliable too. My friend who offers the > hosting can help as he hi

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:28:56 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:05:27 -0500 > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:46:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-07 Thread KS
Chris Lale wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:09:30 -0500 >> Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> So if we go with the wiki, we (or at least I) have to learn a new markup language and resign ourselves that the work

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:09:39PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:05:27 -0500 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:46:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > We could start a project on alioth. We can setup a repository, > mailinglist, and

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread David Hart
On Wed 2007-02-07 12:47:55 -0500, Stephen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:00PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > > > > For the few RSS feeds that I need to read I use 'rss2email'. > > Looks great -- Without looking at the package, just a couple quick > questions; > > Does it do mb

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 11:58:11 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as these discussions go, we should probably move to debian-doc > since this discussion isn't about, directly, solving users' problems. > What say ye? If this seems reasonable, let me know and I'll post this

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 11:31, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, why don't you implement IMAP? >>> Because at the moment it's all on the same computer. I am thinking >>> to

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:50AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >RE: how to write the documentation, where to put it. > > > >It seems that wget won't crawl through a wiki, it will just grab the one > >page. Its no different than saving the page with the browser. > >

Re: Grrr!

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 11:19, Dan H. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> It's called the "Unsent" folder. > > I know. But after I hit "Cancel" on the "Sending message" dialog (which > had been on the screen for minutes), my messages appeared neither in > "Sent" no

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:05:27 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:46:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:16:58AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > If we went with a non-wiki format then we need a home. > > > > A h

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:46:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:16:58AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > If we went with a non-wiki format then we need a home. > > A home on which to develop? or a home on which to publish? > With a distributed revision control

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:59:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 07:59:40PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > The document is now licensed under GPL v2. Please let me know if there is > > anything else I can do. > > possibly the LGPL or the WxWindows leicence t

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:00:05PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >If we were to have a page clearly labled as GPL, would you be able to > >spit out an html of a wiki page any beter than we could pull off with a > >browser? > > I'm not quite sure what you mean. The wiki pa

Re: documentation for novice and newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:58:16AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:30:10PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I have also been subscribed to the debian-doc list which is extremly low > > volume (probably a symptom of why we're having to have this whole

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 11:10 -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:26 -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > >> Chris Bannister wrote: > >>> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Raju's point about employment with capitalone is ent

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:01:00PM + or thereabouts, David Hart wrote: > On Wed 2007-02-07 11:33:24 -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > Of course since you're using T-Bird for e-mail, it would check the RSS > > feeds at the same time it polls for e-mail. I really wish I could > > use mutt though. ;)

Re: Grrr!

2007-02-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:00 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/07 09:49, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:41:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> No. It's *all* text. SMTP *only* handles text. > >> > >> The function of

Re: Bacula start up issue

2007-02-07 Thread Graham Smith
Graham Smith wrote: Hi, I installed Bacula yesterday which was a painful experience because I mistakenly answered no when it asked me if I wanted to install the database. Anyway, I installed the database by hand, configured Bacula and went to fire it up. Running "/etc/init.d/bacula-director

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 > > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do > >> some browsing when Goo

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Steffan Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running yi.org with iweb.ca, they're good, and cheap. > >They have special deals on sometimes too, so keep an eye on the "last > >minute" section of their dedicated webpage. I ended up getting a dedicated > >system with 300GB harddrive,

Re: ups not recognized by usb

2007-02-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:12 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/07 10:03, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >> Hmmm. And you're sure that the software on this machine is > >> *exactly* the same as the "working" computers? > >> > > > >> If that is correct,

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:05:14 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, why don't you implement IMAP? > > > > Because at the moment it's all on the same computer. I am thinking > > to go for IMAP as soon as I get my firewall back on line (hdd is > > down), > > Ah, a secu

Re: Grrr!

2007-02-07 Thread Dan H.
Ron Johnson wrote: > It's called the "Unsent" folder. I know. But after I hit "Cancel" on the "Sending message" dialog (which had been on the screen for minutes), my messages appeared neither in "Sent" nor in "Unsent", which is why I called it a "secret queue". >> The SMTP server seems to prefer

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steffan Davies: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> Why not make an Etch netinst.iso and take it to the server and try it? > > Sadly, they won't do that for me (though I suggested it myself -all our > other boxes are upgraded immediately to Etch as soon as we get them) and > Servermatrix live seve

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/07 10:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:56:14 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/07/07 02:39, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:5

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