I'm using Xfce4 in Lenny and would like to see icons pop up for
removable media when it is plugged in. I've configured udev and
autofs so that the media is mounted when I plug it in, but I'm not
getting the desktop/file manager icons in Xfce.
The only info I can get from Xfce is a complaint that
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:27:12PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:18:27 -0500, David Berg wrote:
> > Gmail's web interface is getting painfully slow on my old computer so
> > I've decided to go back to using mutt. I've got thing configured
Gmail's web interface is getting painfully slow on my old computer so
I've decided to go back to using mutt. I've got thing configured pretty
well, but any time I'm reading or composing an e-mail the IMAP
connection times out. Is there something I can do to keep the
connection open while I'm not
I don't know if there's a good way to ask this question, and am very
tempted to just hit cancel now...
I'm curious to know when etch might freeze. Now, before you all jump
on me and tell me "its ready when its ready", let me clarify. I'm not
looking for a date, or a month, or even a year necessa
On 3/9/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:13:46 -0600 "David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 3/9/06, Florian Kul
On 3/9/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Correct me if I'm mistaken, being that PROGRAM is a _key_ it is run
> > before the device is created so that it can be used to determine which
> > name should be us
On 3/8/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to automount my digital camera (mass storage) when it is
> connected. I have udev scripts to give me a /dev/camera symlink which
> appears to be working, and created a map in hotplug to call a script
> called ph
On 3/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
> > On 3/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>David Berg wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm trying to automount my digital camera (mass storage) when it is
On 3/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
> > On 3/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>David Berg wrote:
> >>
> >>>I'm trying to automount my digital camera (mass storage) when it is
On 3/8/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
> > I'm trying to automount my digital camera (mass storage) when it is
> > connected. I have udev scripts to give me a /dev/camera symlink which
> > appears to be working, and created a
I'm trying to automount my digital camera (mass storage) when it is
connected. I have udev scripts to give me a /dev/camera symlink which
appears to be working, and created a map in hotplug to call a script
called photodl which seems to be getting called.
The problem is that photodl is called bef
On 3/6/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't seem to get X Forwarding to work right over my ssh tunnels.
>
Apparently I hadn't restarted my server.
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
fixed the problem.
--Dave
I can't seem to get X Forwarding to work right over my ssh tunnels.
On the the server:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep X11 /etc/ssh/sshd_config
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
On the client:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ^[^#\n] /etc/ssh/ssh_config
Host *
ForwardX11 yes
ForwardX11Trusted yes
C
Does anyone have any experiences with a PCI to PCMCIA card? I've used
Ricoh based ISA cards but if I remember right had trouble with PCI
versions. This was 4 years ago though. Some minor configuration
isn't a problem though being able to plug it in and add drivers for
the wireless card would be
I've been trying to figure out how to have my photos downloaded
automatically when I plug in my camera/memory chip. After looking
through the hotplug scripts for a week, I am still no closer to a
solution. The most irritating thing is that when connecting the
camera in gnome, gnome-volume-manager
On 2/26/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:44PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> > On 2/26/06, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On 2/22/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > ne
On 2/22/06, L. V. Gandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hotplug: called by the kernel, loads the proper driver is can run scipts
> >
> > udev: called by the kernel, dynamic filesystem in userspace that relies on
> > tmpfs, lately replaces hot
-- Forwarded message --
From: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 25, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: exec, stdin, stdout, stderr
To: Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think I understand most of it but can't figure out what `exec`
> > called
I'm trying to read a bash script and fortunately am confused at the
first non comment line.
looking at:
exec < /dev/null
test -t 1 || exec > /dev/null
test -t 2 || exec 2>&1
I think I understand most of it but can't figure out what `exec`
called without any arguments will do. Does it simply rep
On 2/24/06, Wale Akintan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Im a complete rookie in linux and I have just installed redhat 9.0. I
This is a Debian support list, not Redhat. For Redhat or apache
specific help you really ought to try redhat.com and apace.org to find
the relevant mailing lists. Yo
I sent this to debian-laptop but I'm hoping to get some added input
from the gurus here. This problem is driving me up a wall.
Thanks much.
--Dave
-- Forwarded message --
From: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 22, 2006 5:19 PM
Subject: acpi and backlig
On 2/21/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:06:35PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work
> > together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very
> > coar
Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work
together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very
coarse look at the programs so I can better understand the docs that
come with the specific programs.
Thanks
--Dave
On 2/18/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:23AM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> >Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized
> >as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no
>
>
I just switched my laptop from the default ubuntu install to Debian
Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized
as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no
wireless extentions". Can I get this functional without building my
own kernel?
I'm running t
On 2/16/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have tried to add a line "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in the ~/.xsession
> file
> but the X cannot be started up currectly, it will return to the tty1 finally
> after
> the "startx" command was issued.
I think I know what the problem is n
On 2/15/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> but I to know that if I can do something with
> the X initiating scripts
>
Try using .xsession like I suggested in my previous post. If that
doesn't work, let us know what the error message(s) if any are and how
it fails.
Also, how are you starting
> > fgconsole (1)- print the number of the active VT.
> > ...
> >
> > It seems to need super user privileges though. I can see why super
> > user privileges should be necessary for chvt but not fgconsole. Does
> > anyone know why or should it be reported as a "bug".
>
> Hi,
>
> it doesn't
On 2/15/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X session is
> running on?
$ man -k vt
...
fgconsole (1)- print the number of the active VT.
...
It seems to need super user privileges though. I can see why super
user privil
On 2/15/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I heard that the ~/.xinitrc is not for start some application after X is
> started up,
> so I think it is totally wrong to modify the .xinitrc file, that's the reason
> why I
> didn't mention the error message...is there another way to do this thin
On 2/13/06, Nevruz Mesut Sahin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote comand below to terminal
>
> tar -cvvf /disk1/data/xyz.tar /disk1/data/folders
>
> it works but created file (xyz.tar) is hidden. when I
This might not be related to your problem but I don't see any mention
of using -v twice in t
On 2/12/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> the 'magic' is to never bother with escaped space!! Just use double
> quotes!
>
> cd "$DIR"
I'm thinking too hard again. I was trying to wrap it in {}. Is there
a solution using braces as well?
Thanks.
--Dave
I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of
directories and runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting right
though. Most of the directories have spaces and they are making
things difficult for me. Here is what I have:
for DIR in dir\ 1 dir\ 2 dir\ 3; do
cd $DIR
On 2/7/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:24:19PM +0300 or thereabouts, Vin Jacob wrote:
> >
> > Try this works perfectly.
> >
> > http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
>
>
> Thank-you so much Vin, it worked perfectly (as you stated) !!
>
> Now all we need is for thi
On 2/6/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Doesn't the router, transport and TLS have to be configured as well ?
>
> > All I had to do on my sarge box was configure with debconf for
> > smarthost delivery with smtp.gmail.com for the server, then add the
> > second line to the passwd.c
On 2/5/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jacob S wrote:
>
> > Which exim4 packages are you trying to install? It looks like most of
> > the config files in my /etc/exim4 were created by the exim4-config
> > package, not exim4 or exim4-base, as one might expect.
>
> Yeah I was thinking
Search the archives for my posts. I just posted what your looking for
a week ago or so.
Dave
On 2/5/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello folks.
>
> I've spent this morning Google'ing and Yahoo'ing attempting to find a
> tutorial for setting up Exim4 to send to GMail Smarthost.
I just struggled through getting exim setup to use gmail as a
smarthost. Since I had a hard time finding the instructions I needed,
I thought I'd add them here to save someone else some time. Simply
adding:
smtp.gmail.com : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : passwd
to /etc/exim4/passwd.client as the docs
On 1/21/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would be an interesting (and probably not too difficult) task to
> implement this with procmail and a couple scripts to hardlink emails
> into different Maildir directories. Then pick your client of choice.
> In my case I'd pick mutt, whic
> You may also want to take a look at iproute and especially tc (traffic
> control).
>
I noticed that option after I came up with some search terms. Can
that be configured for userland changes?
Dave
On 1/12/06, Joshua Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 12:55:46AM -0500, Gabriel S. Farrell wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:00:02PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
> > > Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry fo
How can I set upgrade or backup traffic to the back burner so that web
browsing or audio streams don't suffer? Basically a renice equivalent
for network traffic.
A man page or proper search terms is sufficient, I just can't seem to
come up with appropriate terms.
Thanks,
Dave
Grr, I've got to get to a mailer more flexible than GMail. Sorry for
the direct reply Andy.
> I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my
> nightly automatic aptitude update && aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran
> overnight, it wants to remove the newly installed pac
> On January 7, 2006 06:31 pm, 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?
I have a Sony DSC P8 and it is just a mass storage device.
On 1/4/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:08:02 +1100
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm using ALSA and the only issue is if an application is using Sound
> > device (/dev/dsp) and another
> > application is trying to use it, it says "/dev/dsp" is already
I'd like to start a DVD playing and then lock the keyboard and mouse
so that a password needs to be entered to stop playback.
I had origionally thought that I could just use xscreensaver to call
xine on the root and have xscreensaver lock.
Problem is, xine turns off the screensaver when it loads
On 9/8/05, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:16:05AM -0500, David Berg wrote:
> > I'm running PHP5 from http://people.debian.org/~dexter on sarge with
> > apache 2. Running a script which calls xml_parser_create() produces:
> >
&g
I'm running PHP5 from http://people.debian.org/~dexter on sarge with
apache 2. Running a script which calls xml_parser_create() produces:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function xml_parser_create() in
/var/www/po/photo.add.2.php on line 711
Am I missing a library or is the one that is installed
I have a dsl gateway that can't seem to give out proper dns
information. So I configured it to pass different dns servers in its
dhcp leases. When I cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases it looks like
this:
lease {
interface "eth0"
fixed-address 192.168.0.2;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of
swap and low on physical memory.
Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical. I'm
upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to know why I'm
swapping so much.
I usually only run Firefox, XMMS, Gaim, Gkre
el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:33:37PM -0500, David Berg wrote:
> > I'd like to set my system up so that if I insert a DVD it will
> > automatically load up xine or xmms in the case of a cd, run a script
> > when I plug in my camera etc.
&
Thanks. I should know better than to forget to RTFM before consulting the list.
Dave
On 7/27/05, Roby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
>
> > I have some dead space on my disk before logical partition hda7 that I
> > want to add to hda7. Parted is not l
I have some dead space on my disk before logical partition hda7 that I
want to add to hda7. Parted is not letting me resize or move the
partition to include the dead space. Is there another utility that
might or should I just plan on restoring from backup?
Does anyone know why parted could grow
I've tried several times to install DIgitalDJ with no success. Here
are the steps I have taken this most recent time to prep for
installation and running for first time:
mysql packages:
mysql-admin
mysql-admin-common
libmysqlclient14-dev
libmysqlclient10
libmysqlclient12
I'd like to set my system up so that if I insert a DVD it will
automatically load up xine or xmms in the case of a cd, run a script
when I plug in my camera etc.
Are there scripts that are already called when a CD is inserted that I
can modify? How about when the usb mass storage device is detec
I am trying to hammer out some commands to backup my drive to DVD. I
would like to place one or two partitons on each dvd as space allows.
This is the command I tried first:
growisofs -z /dev/dvd /home /usr
This almost gave me what I wanted but I lost the home and usr
directories and only got t
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:26:49PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> David Berg wrote:
> >Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to
> >dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and
> >/usr, /) to they're own dvd.
Need some help hammering out a tar/mkisofs command to backup my disks to
dvd. I'm looking to burn two root level directories (/home,/var and
/usr, /) to they're own dvd. Problem is I don't have room to build the
tarball or iso on the hard disk before I burn it. Using a command such
as
mkisofs
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