Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
Bogdan Marian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an > older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i > can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very > important and can't be brought down righ

Re: cron and command quote

2008-03-24 Thread David Fox
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so with || we get execute command1 OR command2, whic ever one executes > first. I don't believe that this would be the desired result in this > situation. Not precisely. According to "man bash" a sequence of command1 || comm

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-24 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've one seriously cheapo Concord Eye-Q 1000 (1.3 Mpx res.). This > model is not listed in gtkam's database. Does digiKam handle it? There's no exact match in digikam (current lenny) but there are some other close models

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
[snip] > > > You guys know about reportbug --kudos right? That is a cool way to > thank > > > No. Jeez, Debian just keeps on getting deeper and deeper! Thanks. > man reportbug. > > Shouldn't somebody report this to the coreutils maintainer so they can > implemement it across the board there? D

Errant ld-linux.so.2

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Every now and then, I have an apparently memory-leaking ld-linux.so.2 process running. When I kill it, nothing else seems adversely affected. Is there some way I can identify what's spawned it? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
Nick Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tyler Smith wrote: > >> Robert Thompson wrote: > >> > >>> Question is: How does digital cameras work with > >>> Debian? > > > > I've found gthumb to be a pretty good place to begin > > There are doubtless also KDE apps that do the same thing, if you > > prefer. >

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Owen Townend
On 24 Mar 2008 20:43:26 -0400, Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it > working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's > vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace > through the

Re: Routing and Gnome PPP

2008-03-24 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: > Or, just switch to pppconfig and create a button that runs "pon" and > "poff". Gpppon provides just such a button. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that > >>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file > >>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD u

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mumia W.. wrote: > > > On 03/24/2008 05:20 AM, Rico Secada wrote: > >> This goes out to all Debian developers/advocates. > >> > >> Despite my other post with a question about using testing in production, > >> I fully understand the way stable is, and

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Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Vikki, s. keeling, Ron, > > Thanks for the comments. > > The MUA is in Oberon and I don't want to > abandon it. fwiw, I (as Ron alluded) also use a less than conformant toolset. I read the mailinglist in a mail to news gateway, in an NNTP newsreader

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2008-03-24 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, Has anyone got one of these working well dual head? I've got he right driver, and using the aticonfig script i just can't get tit to work. The clsoest i come is firing up X, enlightenment (dr17, latest cvs) sees it as two xinerama screens,

Re: windows partition not usable

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45:05PM +, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote: > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail 0 1 > /dev/hda3 no

Re: Routing and Gnome PPP

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:31:40PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote: > I have been successful in getting Debian onto the internet > using Gnome PPP. (I have dailup) the one small quirk is > I have to manually add a default route to ppp0 to get it to > work. > > Is there a way to include the command t

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript, > > SSL, etc and will help you decide if the problem is the browser or the > >

Re: DELL Inspiron 530N

2008-03-24 Thread mike
Tom Goulet wrote: On 3/22/08, DebianMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just received a Dell Inspiron 530N pre-installed with Ubuntu. I am now trying to figure out how to install debian on it. When I try to boot my Debian LiveCD (20070716-07:09) I am getting an error message similar to :

Re: Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: > > > > 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster > > 10.0.0.4 con

etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
I've been trying to install the nvidia driver. I managed to get it working, but my solution is not entirely satisfactory, because it's vulnerable to an update of the nvidia-glx-legacy package. I'll trace through the problem, and perhaps somebody can point to a better way. Debian etch nVidia Cor

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Allums
Mike Bird wrote: On Mon March 24 2008 16:08:29 Mark Allums wrote: If at all possible, set up a new machine with Etch to use as a mail server, and migrate to it. If possible, get another machine to be a router, another one to be a web server and DNS server. Then, take down the existing machin

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-24 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Adam Hardy shared this with us all: >--} nikon D60 on 23/03/08 20:37, wrote: >--} > http://www.nikond60.com Nikon D60 >--} > >--} > Robert Thompson wrote: >--} >> Hello All, >--} >>I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a > USB --} >> to >--} >> co

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/08 18:27, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon March 24 2008 16:08:29 Mark Allums wrote: >> If at all possible, set up a new machine with Etch to use as a mail >> server, and migrate to it. If possible, get another machine to be a >> router, another one

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript, > SSL, etc and will help you decide if the problem is the browser or the > video rendering. I don't see javascript support in my links

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 24 2008 16:08:29 Mark Allums wrote: > If at all possible, set up a new machine with Etch to use as a mail > server, and migrate to it. If possible, get another machine to be a > router, another one to be a web server and DNS server. Then, take down > the existing machine, upgrade it,

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Mumia W.. wrote: > On 03/24/2008 05:20 AM, Rico Secada wrote: >> This goes out to all Debian developers/advocates. >> >> Despite my other post with a question about using testing in production, >> I fully understand the way stable is, and I greatly appreciate it! >> > Seconded. > You guys know

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch didn't upgrade the kernel and broke software RAID

2008-03-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded from Sarge to Etch one of my servers. > But the kernel is still the old kernel with sarge in the end and not > Etch's. Any idea why? Dont know the answer to your other question. But in general, the kernel is not upgraded unless you have one of the kernel

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Bogdan Marian wrote: > Hey, > > I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an > older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i > can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very > important and can't be brought down right now by my t

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Allums
Bogdan Marian wrote: I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very important and can't be brought down right now by my tests ( the

windows partition not usable

2008-03-24 Thread Hans-Gerhard Schrick
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail 0 1 /dev/hda3 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom0 ud

Routing and Gnome PPP

2008-03-24 Thread Walt L. Williams
Greetings I have been successful in getting Debian onto the internet using Gnome PPP. (I have dailup) the one small quirk is I have to manually add a default route to ppp0 to get it to work. Is there a way to include the command to add a default route to Gnome PPP so I don't have to keep adding i

Re: naive question: sshfs with negative niceness

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/22/08, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on my (little) cluster, I used sshfs to mount the `/home' directory > on the worker nodes: is it possible (and recommended) to give a negative > niceness to sshfs ? You can run: | nice -10 sshfs foo: /bar You should be fine. Tom -- To UN

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch didn't upgrade the kernel and broke software RAID

2008-03-24 Thread Siju George
Hi, I upgraded from Sarge to Etch one of my servers. But the kernel is still the old kernel with sarge in the end and not Etch's. Any idea why? Also it broke the the Software RAID and made superblocks of some partition corrupted and I had to use xfs_repair to repair them but stimm could not mount

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-24 Thread Michael Paulsen
Florian, You assume correctly I inserted; deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free into /etc/apt/sources.list. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I'll get your suggestion a try and see what happens. Regards, Michael On 3/24/08, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Adding a ttyS

2008-03-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/24/2008 06:36 AM, Jean Létourneau wrote: Goo day, How do I add a /dev/rrtS? I have 6 physical com port on my machine, but Debian only see 4 of them. I use the command MAKEDEV but they do not appear in the /dev, only in the /dev/.static/dev, I tryed to copy them from /dev.static/dev to

Re: Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 03/24/2008 05:20 AM, Rico Secada wrote: This goes out to all Debian developers/advocates. Despite my other post with a question about using testing in production, I fully understand the way stable is, and I greatly appreciate it! Being able to run a stable environment without having to worry

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Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 21:27:29 +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote: > I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an > older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i > can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very > important and can'

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:39 -0400 "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Patrick, > Maybe I caught the upgrade at a bad moment! :-) Indeed. TBH, I have no idea what could have caused such a problem as you describe. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious i

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2008-03-24 Thread tony mollica
Hello. I'm trying to get an understanding of udev and a usb floppy drive I have. The drive is a Mitsumi usb floppy sold under the Nexxtech name and it does work but there are a couple of behaviors that I don't understand. First, without any udev rule mods, plugging the drive in results in a long

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:27:29PM +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote: > Hey, > > I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an > older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i > can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very > importa

Re: Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:27:29PM +0200, Bogdan Marian wrote: > Hey, > > I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an older > version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i can't risk > it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very important and

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" > error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been > experienced by quite a few people : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.html

associating names and addresses

2008-03-24 Thread peasthope
Douglas & anyone else interested, At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:12:44 -0400 Douglas Tutty wrote, >> # /etc/hosts file >> 127.0.0.1 peasthope.yi.orgjoule localhost > ^^ >this should be: localhost.localdomain localhost > >if you don't ow

Re: aptitude update "BADSIG" Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: > Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the "BADSIG" > error from "aptitude update", which googling reveals has been > experienced by quite a few people : > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/08/msg00100.htm

Help me setup AntiSpam filter

2008-03-24 Thread Bogdan Marian
Hey, I need your advice people! I need to setup an AntiSpam filter on an older version of Postfix, on Debian Sarge. I would go to Etch, but i can't risk it for the moment, as the server I'm referring to is very important and can't be brought down right now by my tests ( the machine acts as a:

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 17:02:18 -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote: > On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen wrote: > > Hi ya, > > > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every > > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's > > to my hard drive and direct APT or

Re: sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:09:22 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > > copying mp3 files f

Re: continuity of a topic in debian-user

2008-03-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 07:02:49PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Well gmane doesn't seem to preserve threading either so I guess this > > leaves googlegroups. > > > > I use gmane servers with knode. Never had a problem with threads on d-u or > any other lists

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 > "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > > > > pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands > > will fix it: > > > > rm /etc/alternativ

Re: Window backgrounds

2008-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/08 04:46, Thilo Six wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote the following on 24.03.2008 07:50 > > > >> I'd just copy the Sea Cork image from the Windows partition over to >> your home directory and then to set the desktop image: >> System->Preferences->

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/24/08, Sanjaya Vitharana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selecting 1024 x 768 75 Hz choosing "Medium" will end up with 1024 x 768 60 > Hz. > > Now Desktop->Preferences->Screen Resolution has only 60 Hz option in > dropdown for 1024 x 768. Blast it. Try installing gvidm, too. Try using the "ve

Re: problems booting

2008-03-24 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Reid wrote: On Sunday 23 March 2008 01:57, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I assume I'm running into problems with udev not naming the devices consistently but am not quite sure of my diagnosis or how to fix it if that is the problem. I don't think udev rules will fix it, since the

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-03-24 Thread Sanjaya Vitharana
> I suspect that your monitor doesn't actually have a horizontal sync of > 30 to 54, it's just wrong on the web site. Why don't you run > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg again, and this time instead of picking > "Advanced" to specify the numbers directly, choose "Medium" and pick > "A monitor that c

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:23:32 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I've only used Exim because it's debian's default. Exim v.3 was quite > simple to set up. Exim v.4 became far more complicated, so much so that > debian made a debconf front-end to configuring it. I still had to make > some tweaks but

Re: When will Security updates to Sarge stop?

2008-03-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 March 2008 03:00:10 am Siju George wrote: > Hi > > When will Security updates to Sarge stop? See the Debian Releases page at http://www.debian.org/releases/ > I have some servers running it well? Was that a statement or a question? I personally have no idea if you have servers, mu

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-24 Thread Nick Boyce
Tyler Smith wrote: Robert Thompson wrote: >> Question is: How does digital cameras work with Debian? > I've found gthumb to be a pretty good place to begin There are doubtless also KDE apps that do the same thing, if you prefer. For KDE there is 'digiKam' : http://www.digikam.org/about.ht

Re: Adding a ttyS

2008-03-24 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Jean Létourneau wrote: Goo day, How do I add a /dev/rrtS? I have 6 physical com port on my machine, but Debian only see 4 of them. I use the command MAKEDEV but they do not appear in the /dev, only in the /dev/.static/dev, I tryed to copy them from /dev.static/dev to the

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Patrick, > pointing to the wrong place after the upgrade. These two commands > will fix it: > > rm /etc/alternatives/acroread > ln > -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread > > Yo

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

2008-03-24 Thread Jörg Becker
On Sunday 23 March 2008 19:49, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: > On 19/03/2008, Jörg Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I also tried noauto in fstab an manually mount after boot. But with the > > same result: device is busy. > > Does any error or warning message appear in kernel logs? Either at > star

Re: dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 07:38:36PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to > install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound > server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc. I ap

clisp and clx isuue

2008-03-24 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I installed the packages: cl-flexichain cl-mcclim cl-spatial-trees cl-swank cmucl-source cl-clx-sbcl cl-mcclim-examples cl-asdf and I use clisp. the /usr/share/doc/cl-mcclim/readme.debian tells: To compile the McCLIM CLX backend, use (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :clim) (a

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Wiseman: > > > > > rm /etc/alternatives/acroread > > ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread > > The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use > update-alte

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread alan
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that >>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file >>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_? >>The CD would

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? FIXED?

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. > The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. It appears there's a clash between whatever it is that uses and updates /etc/networ

Re: Adding a ttyS

2008-03-24 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Jean Létourneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Goo day, > > How do I add a /dev/rrtS? I have 6 physical com port on my machine, but > Debian only see 4 of them. I use the command MAKEDEV but they do not appear > in the /dev, only in the /dev/.static/dev, I trye

Re: Digital Camera

2008-03-24 Thread Adam Hardy
nikon D60 on 23/03/08 20:37, wrote: http://www.nikond60.com Nikon D60 Robert Thompson wrote: Hello All, I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with Debian? Try: sudo gphoto2 --auto-dete

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:12:58PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to > > say: > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:26:19PM -0700, PETER EAST

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel instance via ssh from one > > of my boxes at my house to remember the name of an add-on i > > installed. > > > >

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:13:19PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: > I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally > consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product > (which I don't). > > So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't

Re: Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: > > 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster > 10.0.0.4 convex.reidster.net convex > 10.0.0.4 toys.reidster.nettoys.reidster >

Upgrading Sarge to Etch Pining apache 1.3 and php4

2008-03-24 Thread Siju George
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg1.html > Thanks Thilo. I have a Few Server running Apache 1.3 and PHP 4 Is it enough that I put in /etc/apt/preferences Package: apache Pin: version 1.3.* Package: php

Re: sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080324 04:49]: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:06:15AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > > copying mp3 files from an ext3

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Patrick Wiseman: > > rm /etc/alternatives/acroread > ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use update-alternatives. J. -- Whenever I hear the word 'art' I reach for my visa card. [Agree] [Disagr

Adding a ttyS

2008-03-24 Thread Jean Létourneau
Goo day, How do I add a /dev/rrtS? I have 6 physical com port on my machine, but Debian only see 4 of them. I use the command MAKEDEV but they do not appear in the /dev, only in the /dev/.static/dev, I tryed to copy them from /dev.static/dev to the /dev, but still, my setserial keep saying my tt

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:45:08 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, all: > > After my usual daily update of my testing system this morning, which > updated only acroread and related stuff, acroread and the browser > plugin were broken. It turns out /etc/alternatives/acroread was > pointing to the

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue > >> > with the DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to > >> > etch)? > >

Re: windows partition not usable

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 23:15:51 +0100, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > I have debian etch installed on my laptop. > > I have also a windows xp service pack 2 partition. But I made an > installation mistake, so that at the moment I cannot use this windows > partition from deb

exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product (which I don't). So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't be too bad to learn exim, a bit of googling around just brought up

Re: sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. > >

Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network

2008-03-24 Thread Micha
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:30:58 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: > > Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I hav

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-24 Thread Joost Witteveen
On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list, > I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel instance via ssh from one of my > boxes > at my house to remember the name of an add-on i installed. > > The problem is that i

Thank you for keeping stable just the way it is!

2008-03-24 Thread Rico Secada
This goes out to all Debian developers/advocates. Despite my other post with a question about using testing in production, I fully understand the way stable is, and I greatly appreciate it! Being able to run a stable environment without having to worry about updated packages that suddenly change

Re: SAMBA W2K3 ADS

2008-03-24 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Saturday 22 March 2008 15:17:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED], vous avez écrit : > Hi @ll, > > i try to setup a samba server with authentication against a win2k3 > server with ads. I use Debian Etch with the last release and updates. > > I use this howto > http://plone.held-im-ruhestand.de/software/samba-an

Re: When will Security updates to Sarge stop?

2008-03-24 Thread Thilo Six
Siju George wrote the following on 24.03.2008 11:00 > Hi > > When will Security updates to Sarge stop? > I have some servers running it well? > I wnat to upgrade to Etch but want to plan it accordingly. > > Thanks > > -Siju http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg1.html -- bye Th

Re: Comments on testing in production

2008-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:36:05AM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi. > > I am setting up a couple of Debian Etch boxes for production and I am > using DRBD 7 in a cluster setup. > > Now DRBD 8 some more advanced features which will improve the system, > so I am stuck with a choice of how to deploy

When will Security updates to Sarge stop?

2008-03-24 Thread Siju George
Hi When will Security updates to Sarge stop? I have some servers running it well? I wnat to upgrade to Etch but want to plan it accordingly. Thanks -Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Window backgrounds

2008-03-24 Thread Thilo Six
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 24.03.2008 07:50 > I'd just copy the Sea Cork image from the Windows partition over to > your home directory and then to set the desktop image: > System->Preferences->"Control Center"->Appearance heh funny I think OP isn't refering to a 'Sea Cork' but to 'see

Re: sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:06:15AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a > good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when > copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. > > Contrary to t

Comments on testing in production

2008-03-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I am setting up a couple of Debian Etch boxes for production and I am using DRBD 7 in a cluster setup. Now DRBD 8 some more advanced features which will improve the system, so I am stuck with a choice of how to deploy DRBD 8 on the system. I don't like to use backports of any kind because th

sort files by name and maintain sort order when copying to mp3 player

2008-03-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
After two hours of searching with Google and Yahoo, I have not found a good approach to the problem of maintaining proper file order when copying mp3 files from an ext3 directory to a flash-based mp3 player. Contrary to the instruction manual, the player (a Creative MUVO) plays files in the order