Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/03/2007 12:20 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira: Mumia W..: See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. We don't have control over the PDF. We want to change all machines running Windows

Re: Help

2007-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
As root, type tasksel and hit return. Arrow down to desktop environment and hit space bar once. If you see a star appear to the left of desktop environment you've selected it. Next, hit return to tell tasksel to work. It should download several packages for you. When the root prompt returns,

browser confusions

2007-09-03 Thread Bhasker C V
All, There are multiple browsers in my system (Etch). Icescape firefox mozilla but what is the difference between these ? I can see that these are sharing the information between each other (bookmarks etc.,) I am using opera for all my normal browsing but using icescape for my banking re

IndoeBooks.Com Koleksi eBooks Murah - New Site

2007-09-03 Thread IndoeBooks Admin
Dear Rekan debian-user, Sesuai dengan perkembangan internet, maka IndoeBooks.com menyesuaikan diri dengan merubah penampilan website kami, dengan harapan dapat memberikan informasi kepada para member dengan lebih baik lagi. Selain dengan merubah penampilan website, membe

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/07 22:13, blues wrote: > I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very > interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business model > of MS.i like the idea of using free software to monitor and > protect a netwo

s.m.a.r.t problem

2007-09-03 Thread michael
Hello, I have an sda (seagate ST3320620NS) drive that is split into a few paritions, of which, all are configured into corresponding raid 0 arrays via mdadm. Below is the output of: # smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Al

Wired fontconfig behavior

2007-09-03 Thread Wang Xu
Hi list, I set alias of monospace in my ${HOME}/.fonts.conf like this: | | monospace | | Bitstream Vera Sans Mono | FZXiYuan-M01S | | but with fc-match, I found the latter have a higher position: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fc-match -s "monospace"|h

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. First step will be to use Linux full time as your main system. I recently started using Debian Etch full time and I have definitely learned so much more. There is always something new that you will learn everyday. Next step would be to r

Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-03 Thread blues
I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business model of MS.i like the idea of using free software to monitor and protect a network, and I hope to make a career out of it...does anyone have any tips as to what i shou

Re: Aptitude behaving strangely

2007-09-03 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:46:15 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > > > My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When > > doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while >

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/3/07, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does it work in firefox? > > and have you tried the below or using automatix? Automatix has a bad reputation among distribution developers. I don't know the full story but I suspect it's a lot like the way the Wine developers despised WineTools. Users,

Re: Help

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:43:42PM -0700, Mostafijur Rahman wrote: > Hello > Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got only Text > mode.How I can get GUI mode? Please feedback me step by step.It will be > better for me. You can just type "installgui" at the boot prompt, an

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote: > I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash > recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:40:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > does it work in firefox? > > and have yo

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Graham
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:38:03 -0700 Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives > system. However, when I run (as root): > #update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim > I get an error: > #update-alternatives: Cannot find alternative `/u

Help

2007-09-03 Thread Mostafijur Rahman
Hello Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got only Text mode.How I can get GUI mode? Please feedback me step by step.It will be better for me. Thanks from mostafij - Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, yo

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 wa

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread steve
Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote: I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: what usual

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > #crontab -e > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > How do I change what gets used? Do you have an EDITOR environment variable set? The man page say

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:27:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > > > select the first

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:32:39 +0200 "Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > > #crontab -e > > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim > > > editor. How do I change what gets us

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Raquel. > > Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > #crontab -e > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim > > editor. How do I change what ge

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
> Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > #crontab -e > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > > How do I change what gets used? > > Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred > shell

Re: crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Raquel. Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > #crontab -e > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > How do I change what gets used? Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred shell. (~/

crontab -e

2007-09-03 Thread Raquel
I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command #crontab -e I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. How do I change what gets used? -- Raquel If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessar

can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote: > I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash > recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > what usually works for me is to unistall

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread steve
Steve Kleene wrote: I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. I have these packages installed: flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.48.0-0.2 Macromedia Flash Player libflash-mozplugin0.4.13-8

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > > select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I > > sign on and then i

Two Xorg processes?

2007-09-03 Thread Davide Mancusi
I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running, one of which is always stuck at CPU=0.0% but nevertheless shows the same memory usage as the other process. From top: 3062 root 15 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.7 5.9 10:34.47 Xorg 3140 root 20 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.0 5.9 0:0

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-09-03 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:37:58 +0530 "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-30 > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:27:56 +0530 > > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window > > >

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass > >>that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove

Re: Acceptable CPU temperature range of idle computer?

2007-09-03 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:13:42 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:13:42 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:17:44PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> Since upgrading from Sarge to Etch, my CPU temperature appears to be >> running 5-10 deg.C higher; >> SNIP

can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. I have these packages installed: flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.48.0-0.2 Macromedia Flash Player libflash-mozplugin0.4.13-8 GPL Flash (SWF) Libr

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove it) based on what I read in the header. Before we get too far down t

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread David Baron
Using nvidia's own installer will likely work first time every time. (You will have to restore the symlink on xorg updates if you do not change the directories). The first time I tried Debian's modules, it did not work. Later on, they did but with a lower frame rate. In any event, use m-a (modu

hard disk crash revisiited

2007-09-03 Thread steef
dear florian, pinneped and others, thanks to your help (and some further study of myself) did I succeed this afternoon in recovering 50GB of data from a completely crashed hd (see a former thread). dd_rescue and fsck did the job in this case. thanks again for all your help for which i am dee

Re: flac and wav

2007-09-03 Thread H.S.
Adam Hardy wrote: > Marko Randjelovic on 12/08/07 16:52, wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Hmmm. I don't know why I automatically assumed (yeah, yeah, I know) >>> was a Windows app. :( >>> >>> Anyway, rezound in Unstable is a beta version (0.12.2beta-10), and >>> quite an early version. Maybe tha

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread ZephyrQ
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:54:02PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > Current error message says "Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module" which lead me to the question about kernels... Did some double checking. I'm running on 2.6.18-5-486. The nvidia kerne

Re: Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I > sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the > rub menu again. .

Re: Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:07:01PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h > 1.7G./var > 32K ./tmp > 4.0K./selinux > 16K ./lost+found > 16M ./boot > 852K./home > 0 ./sys > 4.0K./initrd > 22M ./etc > 81M ./lib > 515M./proc

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:54:02PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > > >Current error message says > >"Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module" > >which lead me to the question about kernels... > > Did some double checking. I'm running on 2.6.18-5-486. The nvidia > kernel m

Re: [SOLVED] mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:25:39PM +0100, michael wrote: > aha, if i set > dc_other_hostnames='ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk' (ie not just 'ratty') > (using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config's screen "enter a ;-sep list of > recipient domains for which this machine should consider itself final > dest") then

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass > that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove it) based on what I > read in the header. Before we get too far down the garden path with this, wha

Re: etch : system hangs

2007-09-03 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Mridul Manohar Mishra wrote: > Hi, >I am using following configuration as my hardware -: > PIII 700 MHz > 128 MB SDRAM > no graphics card > > It shows 5080 as free. > I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. > I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or

[SOLVED] mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:05 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrot

etch : system hangs

2007-09-03 Thread Mridul Manohar Mishra
Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or screen gets filled with vertical coloerd lines

Re: etch : system hangs

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mridul Manohar Mishra wrote: Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either ha

Re: Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G

etch : system hangs

2007-09-03 Thread Mridul Manohar Mishra
Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or screen gets filled with vertical coloerd lines

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > >

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be mu

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread ZephyrQ
ZephyrQ wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several times (usually manually changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' and back again when glx couldn't load) and checked the previous thread for help (read the m

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a python script to call exipick to find all frozen message

Grub boot of new install.

2007-09-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have built a Debian Etch partition from the buisness card cdr mainly so I can use/upgrade programs that depend on Gnome libraries. I tried an Ubuntu install earlier. Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a

Re: workaround for: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-09-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-03 03:38:13 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > Sarge uses S02mountvirtfs, and Etch uses S04mountdevsubfs.sh. > > Probably there's a bug in one of Sid's startup scripts. My machine is sid and has no problems. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible

Re: Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bi

Re: Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread tabris
Daniel D Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h > 1.7G./var > 32K ./tmp > 4.0K./selinux > 16K ./lost+found > 16M ./boot > 852K./home > 0 ./sys > 4.0K./initrd > 22M ./etc > 81M ./lib > 515M./proc > 6.3G./root > 3.3M./sbin > 3.7M

Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?

2007-09-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread ZephyrQ
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several times (usually manually changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' and back again when glx couldn't load) and checked the previous thread for help (read the man pages and othe

Disk usage

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel D Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bin 8.0K./media 8.0K./mnt 208K./dev

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Nelson A. de Oliveira: > Mumia W..: > > See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. > > The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. > We don't have control over the PDF. > We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only > missing thi

Re: Cups printing problem

2007-09-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 14:47:52 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:43:18 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > > I have just installed Debian etch from scratch. In attempting to set up > > > the printing the cups printe

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > >

invisibility of Ensoniq audio to users

2007-09-03 Thread Peter Easthope
Folk, Lenny works fairly well here with several useful applications. This problem is reminiscent of another a few months back. This time there is more to it than an entry in /etc/group. alsaconf has no trouble configuring both the USB audio and the Ensoniq. In any application using sound, the

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 Doug wrote: > I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one > hostname would have more than one IP address. Any host which is on more than one network interface (for example a firewall or a router) will have more than one IP address. It may also

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas A. Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: >

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Rudnick
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 21:26 +0800, 应富鸣 wrote: > On 9/3/07, G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > H, when you install the package tofrodos, the command(s) wil not > be tofrodos or the similar ones, but these two: dos2unix and unix2dos. > dos2unix transfers the file format from MS Windo

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, > This will be sort of involved Why make it involved? :) > I'm wanting to learn python so ... use a python script to call > exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim queue, then feed the > message id's to something ... so I can look at the message headers. > ... > I'm assumin

pkg download using apt-get - but the gcc didn't bring crt1.o

2007-09-03 Thread Chan Lee
Hi, After I did install Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes, I found that the gcc is not installed. Looking around what's the best way to install gcc, I found the 'apt' and did install the gcc using 'apt-get install gcc', which asked to mount the DVD1 and then the gcc installation was

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:44:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If you happen to live in the country where the spam originates and if > that country happens to have decent anti-spam laws, you might help to > fight spam at its roots by reporting it to the network owner and/or take > legal act

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object > oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe > that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be much easier to > abst

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to > automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a > python script to call exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim > que

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > > 2007-09-03 16:13:43 Start queue run: pid=3893 > 2007-09-03 16:13:43

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: >> Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting >> spam through this list now > > >> Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off t

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > I see. I get no output doing that: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mailq > > Password: > > > > All right. Exim4 doesn't have anything in its queues. Either it > deliv

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! Essentially, I've just noticed

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >>> In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root >>> with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with

Radius using passwd file

2007-09-03 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi, I am trying to run radius in order to authenticate against passwd/shadow files (unix users), but I can't do that. In radiusd.conf I have: unix { cache = no cache_reload = 600 passwd = /etc/passwd shadow = /etc/sha

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > I am also still having problems getting nvidia-glx to work under Etch > with latest updates. nv works fine (but no glx...). I've checked my > apt-sources list and made sure that the appropriate drivers are pointing > to the appropriate

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > I see. I get no output doing that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mailq > Password: > All right. Exim4 doesn't have anything in its queues. Either it delivered the mail or it didn't accept it for delivery in the first place. > > See w

How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, This will be sort of involved I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a python script to call exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim queue, then feed the message id's to

nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-03 Thread ZephyrQ
I am also still having problems getting nvidia-glx to work under Etch with latest updates. nv works fine (but no glx...). I've checked my apt-sources list and made sure that the appropriate drivers are pointing to the appropriate version. I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online resources. TeX/La

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:20 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welco

DDNS service for domain name

2007-09-03 Thread KS
Hi, I have been using a free DDNS service with a sub-domain for my machine running over a DSL line. It has been good enough for a few web pages. But I was wondering if there is free DDNS service which supports personal registered domain names. I have a domain name that will be used with a hosting

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 10:20:36 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one > hostname would have more than one IP address. Not at all. e.g: nslookup google.com Server: 80.68.80.24 Address:80.68.80.24#53 Non-autho

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > > > > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail has

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for > > a couple of weeks. I can email off my bo

Auto update for kde menu

2007-09-03 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone know how to or IF the kde menu editor can be made to auto update the menu system? Does gnome have a auto updater for the menu system? For example I removed several debian packages from the system and the menu links are still in kde-menu. It seems to me that this should be automatic. I cur

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for > a couple of weeks. I can email off my box but not to my username on the > box. I can't see what the problem i

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-03 Thread 应富鸣
On 9/3/07, G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Matus UHLAR wrote: > > > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: > in > > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed un

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Yes, that´s right but if you have to perform many operations > maybe the "echo" + "bc" form is quite faster > Felix If I had to perform many computations and found that the speed of Python was too slow, I would probably code in C or Fortran instead -- Stanley C. Ki

mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread michael
I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for a couple of weeks. I can email off my box but not to my username on the box. I can't see what the problem is. They are probably both a red herring [1] but (a) I did have some

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > This is an added disadvantage for me, since it also can take 10 or more days > until a fix can enter Testing where it is fixed sometimes on the same day in > Unstable. Finally, it all depends only on one thing: you! What you want d

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with > 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I > changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem. I > stil

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-09-03 Thread bob
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > cothrige wrote: >> This is pretty easy if you have either mplayer or audacity installed. >> If you happen to be playing from BBC 7 it is particularly easy, and all >> you have to do is right click on the listen link and save the ram file >> to your drive. Then you just re

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:34:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too. texdoctk was new > > to me, though. I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that, > > --wow! There is a lot of additio

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-03 Thread John Hasler
Kumar writes: > You can, even now, try putting testing in your sources.list and try to > move to testing. Good idea. > Testing is also a trifle better than instable because the secutiry team > now gives security updates for testing as well. Added advantage: it gets > all newer packages from unsta

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > You're right: it depends on if big honkers like openoffice, > iceweasel, icedove, celestia-common, "gcc" or any of the other > myriad Big Packages are being upgraded. > > Today, there's about 120MB of data to download. > About 17 h

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? Ben It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar exim: permission denied. In .

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