Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

2004-02-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And just a small addition: > When using kernel-image.debs one can set up kernel-img.conf to let > lilo be run automatically, see man kernel-img.conf Kinda dangerous. It will usually work until you get to a system that hasn't set this option and then yo

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread stephen parkinson
Nano Nano wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:19:46PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] movies on our computers. If they make it illegal for us to watch them, why would we buy them? It just doesn't add up. ...But it probably does add up for Congress. Of course, in that case, what's adding up

Re: Congratulations

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
There are easier Debian-based distros such as Knoppix, Lindows, Xandro, etc. Some cost, some are Gnu or Opensource. One can be up and running, at least to some extent, in a quarter hour. Then, the fun begins, but ... you are up and running. It would be a lot nicer if we spare each other the pro

Re: kernel 2.6.2 / sarge / cdrecord fails

2004-02-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
What's the command you give to cdrecord? Did you put hdc=cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is) instead of hdc=ide-scsi in the bootparameters? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Unable to cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
I, too, could use the information. Note that while it is "deprecated", ide-scsi is still there so meanwhile, one can continue to make use of it. The main thing is this: Under 2.4.22, for example, CDs might have been set up in /etc/fstab to mount to /dev/hdd or the like. Under 2.6.*, you need /d

Re: ALSA - Not working with 2.6 kernel

2004-02-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device > > Below is a short part of the /dev/snd directory > > kanger:/dev/snd# ls -l > total 0 > crw-rw1 root audio116, 0 Feb 7 23:35 controlC0 > crw-rw1 root au

Debian laptop and internet connection sharing

2004-02-22 Thread nick
I sometimea use my Debian Laptop with a Wi-Fi card to access the Verizon WiFi spots in Manhattan. My partner (in the ambulance) is finding it increasingly difficult to find public WAP's. Would it be possible for him to plug a crossover cable into my RJ45 jack and share my internet connection whi

Re: Unable to mount cdroms in linux 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: alternative to vmware?

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Win4Lin (I still cannot afford it but ...) the promises sound good :-) Already up and running? Pass the Lindows on to friend still hemming-and-hawing about taking the "step up" :-) --- Begin Message --- Greetings NeTraverse Registered Members, NeTraverse is pleased to announce a very special lim

Re: DVD Copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Raiz-mpx
On Saturday 21 February 2004 11:29 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:10:35PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:34 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >Sorry Bijan, > >You didn't mention piracy, I was just disgusted with the court >ruling against >321 studi

Re: Debian laptop and internet connection sharing

2004-02-22 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:18:49AM -0500, nick wrote: > I sometimea use my Debian Laptop with a Wi-Fi card to access the Verizon > WiFi spots in Manhattan. My partner (in the ambulance) is finding it > increasingly difficult to find public WAP's. > Would it be possible for him to plug a crossover

Re: chroot + apt-get

2004-02-22 Thread Gary Sandine
On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:35, Horst Exenberger wrote: > That means that there are no problems, even if apt-get/dpkg writes on the > screen that it is restarting daemons, I just don't need to care about it. I have seen two behaviors (I saw them tonight in different systems): 1. I get a message tha

Getting USB audio (or anything else) to work in 2.6.* -- solved

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
The names have been changed to protect the innocent: The old one usb-uhci The new one uhci-hcd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Compiling extra modules for 2.6.*

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Besides the path problems and new constants that pop up in those .h files ... There is a new module format and extension (.ko). So how do I compile from existing source packages? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel Image 2.6.2-3

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Attempting to apt-get this one wants to REMOVE hotplug! So, I guess from now on, one is either commited to 2.6.2+ or stays with 2.6.2-2 and the older working kernel. (Unless the hotplug replacement is backwards compatable--I just love it when apt-get wants to remove important stuff for a simple

Python distutils problem

2004-02-22 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I'm trying to install the Python MySQL connector on Debian testing. If I do 'python -V' I get enterprise MySQL-python-0.9.2 # python -V Python 2.3.3 But when I try to run a script that relies on distutils I get this: enterprise MySQL-python-0.9.2 # python setup.py build Traceback (mos

Re: How to config twice with make-kpkg

2004-02-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 06:43:17PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > That's ekactly what I do. Works every time :-) > I also like doing it better that way so that I am > sure make-kpkg won't stop to ask me any questions > once I embark on building the kernel-image. Note how do you uninstall the old

Re: apt-get install leads to much trouble

2004-02-22 Thread Moritz Beller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Enrico Zini) writes: >> Isn't there any possibility of getting my apt-get work again? >> Thanks for all of you who have any clue and tell me. > > I can't recall the precise details, however I solved this issue by > removing libxcursor-dev and xlibs-dev, including depending packa

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Is there any need for this if I am NOT booting from a CD? On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Scoring up unstable security fixes in my /etc/apt/preferences:

2004-02-22 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:37:14PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > > Is it possible to configure my /etc/apt/preferences in such a way that > > I automatically upgrade a package from testing to unstable whenever > > this can save me from a security pro

Re: Scoring up unstable security fixes in my /etc/apt/preferences:

2004-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:37:14PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > Is it possible to configure my /etc/apt/preferences in such a way that > I automatically upgrade a package from testing to unstable whenever > this can save me from a security problem? > > Perhaps I am looking for a pin that tel

Kernel recompile with minor changes -- how?

2004-02-22 Thread Christian Schnobrich
Hello, when I'm compiling a kernel, it is quite common for me to miss a module at first, or have wrong values in some place or other. I'm following what I read in the kernel-package docs, with next to no understanding of what it actually does... Apparently, compiling will start from scratch each

Postfix needs an FQDN?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I have configured postfix with smarthost. When I send an email, it goes to nowhere. Using the mail command I checked that postfix gives a warning that the domain name is not set. If I set it, I get the following warning: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

2004-02-22 Thread Nano Nano
> On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would > > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x Q: Is putting hdc=cdrom equivalent to not putting anything at all? I.e., will ide-cd get loaded by default? (I tried this and my ker

empty tty's

2004-02-22 Thread Ernest Adrogué
Hi, When I switch from one tty to another with Alt + left/right arrow, it cycles through tty7 to tty12 (which are empty) instead of going from tty6 directly to tty1, which would be more useful. Oddly enough, when I start X11 and exit, then it skips the empty tty's. Does anybody know how to do this

Cannot run 'make *config'...

2004-02-22 Thread Alex Papadopoulos
Hi there. I just downloaded the latest kernel-sources of the 2.6 series and I cannot configure them. Whatever I try ('make config, menuconfig, xconfig, gconfig') I get the same error : [...] /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h:8: error: stray '\270' in program /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h:9: error

Re: NVU

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Looks quite nice and interesting. This is a mozilla based program and would be platform independent. There are Windows install and Linux tarball on the site. One does not configure;make;make install. Calls to mind another mozilla based program we might find interestings: Activeware's Komodo, a

tar/tape

2004-02-22 Thread Dr Gavin Seddon
Hello, When i try tar cvf /dev/tape to backup my machine, I get: tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The data should fit on a tape without compression, so I don't think it's a space problem. Can anyone suggest what to do? Also, What command

Re: chroot + apt-get

2004-02-22 Thread Horst Exenberger
Gary Sandine wrote: >On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 00:35, Horst Exenberger wrote: >> That means that there are no problems, even if apt-get/dpkg writes on the >> screen that it is restarting daemons, I just don't need to care about it. > >I have seen two behaviors (I saw them tonight in different systems):

Re: Pipe Symbol

2004-02-22 Thread Robert Tilley
On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:25 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:55:10PM +, Thomas Sommer wrote: > > Since yesterday i'm not able to type a "pipe" or a "bigger than" "smaller > > than" symbol. I cannot determine where this comes from. > > I'm using Debian unstable with 2.4

Re: Packaging quality

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:07:32 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:50:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:43:31AM +, Colin Watson wrote: >> > I know you weren't; I was referring to Paul's remark about package >> > quality, which came right out of lef

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Vineet Kumar writes: > This way if anything gets scratched, stolen, melted on the dash, etc., > I'm only out the cost of CDRs. But the publisher has lost the sale of a replacement CD, which is why they don't want you to do it (of course, if the CD only cost a buck or two you probably wouldn't). >

USB hangup on shutdown 2.6.2-2

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Get a USB-request -32, then nothing. Any ideas? (At least I have ext3 working in this kernel.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dcgui problems

2004-02-22 Thread steven noble
the problem seems almost trivial but itspissing me off im running a mac with dcgui version 0.2.19, and because a mac only has a single click mouse i cannot get a filelist, is there another way to get the filelist? _ Tired of 56k? Ge

LVM

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
I never set up LVM (I only have one partition--should probably change this, but) and so it must have gotten in the bootup sequence because the UI in Webmin. In any event, in 2.4.22, it worked, no VM groups. Under 2.6.2-*, get LVM "module not loaded?" message on bootup and shutdown. 1. If I do n

Re: compiling plex86-kernel-src with 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-22 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:00:11 +0100, Titus Barik wrote: > I'm trying to compile the plex86-kernel-src package using the stock > 2.6.3 kernel from kernel.org on Debian/unstable to no avail. > > host-linux.c:27:31: linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory Replace any #include "linux/

Re: Access to ttyS0 and ttyS1 confusion

2004-02-22 Thread Mark Gillingham
On Saturday, February 21, 2004, at 05:30 PM, Bill Marcum wrote: The BIOS settings for the serial ports should be clearly labeled. Maybe your internal ports are disabled; try "dmesg | grep tty" The result is the same as the BIOS settings on a similar box: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty

Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Patrik Lindahl
Hi, I hope this is the right forum for this... I happened to notice that the logo of elektrostore.se is almost the same as the Debian logo... It looks like they have changed the color and rotated it slightly. The URL is: http://www.elektrostore.se/ -- Patrik Lindahl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread David P James
On February 22, 2004 09:51, Patrik Lindahl wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this is the right forum for this... > > I happened to notice that the logo of elektrostore.se is almost the > same as the Debian logo... It looks like they have changed the color > and rotated it slightly. > The URL is: http://www.e

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Joel Konkle-Parker
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: With the recent injunction granted against 321 Studios for their DVD X Copy software for copying DVDs, I've been wondering something. Why is it necessary to break CSS encryption to make a copy? Could you not make a bit-for-bit copy of the DVD and have the contents still

Kernel Compile Problems

2004-02-22 Thread Robert Tilley
A "make menuconfig" fails in checklist.c with the following: debian-rtg:/usr/src/linux-2.6.3# make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/fixdep SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.h HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kc

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:56AM -0500, David P James wrote: > The Debian project would probably have grounds for copyright > infringement since the logo is not being used to refer to the Debian > project. Trademark. Sorry, I'm also nitpicking.com. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ALSA - Not working with 2.6 kernel

2004-02-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 21 February 2004 14:57, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device It turns out that discover loaded kernel modules for the non alsa sound drivers which conflicted with the alsa ones. I s

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 22 February 2004 16:50, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:27:56AM -0500, David P James wrote: > > The Debian project would probably have grounds for copyright > > infringement since the logo is not being used to refer to the Debian > > project. > > Trademark. > > Sorry, I'm al

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:20, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > 1. > I would recommend against nitpicking with the " " missing from the "-- " > above your sig. It invites more of the same ;-) Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by the remailer at d-u. -- richard

tar --listed-incremental

2004-02-22 Thread Ric Otte
Hi, I'm trying to use tar for incremental backups. After reading what I could find on the web, it looks as if I need to use the "--listed-incremental" option. With this option tar creates a file that keeps track of the changes. So if (in /home/ric) I type: tar -cvf /mnt/BACKUP1 --listed-increm

Re: Kernel Compile Problems

2004-02-22 Thread Brian Brazil
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:11:24AM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote: > scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or directory Install libncurses-dev. IIRC its one of the suggests for kernel-source-* Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:47:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Vineet Kumar writes: > > This way if anything gets scratched, stolen, melted on the dash, etc., > > I'm only out the cost of CDRs. > > But the publisher has lost the sale of a replacement CD, which is why they > don't want you to do it

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Richard Lyons wrote: > I would recommend against nitpicking with the " " missing from the "-- " > above your sig. > ... > Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by the > remailer at d-u. I see no evidence of that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Ho

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Jérémie Knuesel
>First of all I'm right now stuck with apt-get not ready to install >anything as per another post from me. > >This is what I get: > > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily > unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/)

Re: tar --listed-incremental

2004-02-22 Thread Ric Otte
Sorry, I mistyped. Instead of > ..For each incremental > backup, I then type: > tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP1 --listed-incremental=LIST Instead, I should have typed: tar -xvf /mnt/BACKUP2 ..listed-incremental=LIST Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread John Hasler
Bijan Soleymani writes: > The publisher would want you to pay them money everytime you listen to > the cd, whenever you look at the cd, etc. They'd even like it if you paid > them without any reason. The publisher wants money, period. Which is to say that they are just people. > Copyright exists

Re: Photosmart 715 digicamera drivers

2004-02-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:12:30AM +0200, M Hartley wrote: > I humbly apologies but I am looking for Windows drivers. > > Can you help or at least point me in the direction http://www.google.com -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search

Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:07:07AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >I'm a grown adult who in various small ways makes a conscious choice to > >violate certain laws, in a non-harmful way. This occurs at many levels > >in society (5 miles over the speed limit). The distinctio

Re: Taking a module from another kernel?

2004-02-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:28:32PM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Is it possible to compile a single module from a later kernel source for > my current kernel? > > I'm using the stock Debian kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686, but the driver for > my sound card only works in 2.4.20 and later. I want

OT: C++ mailing list sought

2004-02-22 Thread martin f krafft
Please forgive me asking this question here. Since accu.org charges for mailing list access and the Cpp list @topica was pretty bad when I last checked it out (or is this not the case anymore?), I am looking for a C++ mailing list for general discussion and problem solving. I wouldn't mind if it's

Postfix again

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I was getting an error about having no FQDN set up so I setup a fake domain which doesn't exist. Now I get another error when trying to send mail to anothe user on this local computer, or even to some email address on the net: postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or dir

Shutdown and reboot doesn't unmount partitions

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
At times while shutting down the system, I have seen that init doesn't start the kill processes and the machine just reboots or turns off suddenly, without unmounting the partitions which causes lots of troubles the next time the machine boos. Just yesterday, this happened again and at the next boo

Unidentified subject!

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I installed some ham radio programs and accidentally also installed the rspf daemon. Now the next time I booted my machine, it would get stuck/hung starting rspfd and whatever I do, I couldn't get to the login prompt. Pressing Ctrl-C when init started didn't help. So, I booted with an old 2.2 kern

Mac address changing utility?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
Like the mac address of an ethernet card can be changed with ifconfig hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, is there some utility in windoze to do this? I'm asking this here because if asked at a windoze ng, they might not even know what I'm speaking of. I have to sometime use windows on my laptop and need t

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:11:50AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I.e., they are willing to tolerate copyrights that don't inconvenience > them. Yes that makes sense. People may tolerate speed limits because they make their neighborhood a safer place. But they won't tolerate a 5 mile/hour speed limit

bdflush can't work with ext3

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I have converted my partitions to ext3 but I learnt the other day while trying to use bdflush to make the hdd spin down, that it won't work with ext3 partitions ecause ext3 partitions wrrite to disk every 5 seconds, the journal get written I mean. Is there no way to make the hdd spin down with ext3

Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I need to, having kept all these diffe

boot 2.4.x *after* using 2.6.2 ???

2004-02-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
OK, I am finally testing v2.6.x kernels on one box. Prior to yesterdays 2.6.2 install, I had successfully used the following: 2.4.23-1-686 2.4.24-1-686 This box uses lilo, and I successfully switched between these kernels at boot time. Then, I installed this: 2.6.2-1-686 Yes, it boot

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-22 Thread stephen parkinson
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:07:07AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: Nano Nano wrote: I'm a grown adult who in various small ways makes a conscious choice to violate certain laws, in a non-harmful way. This occurs at many levels in society (5 miles over the speed limit). Th

Cron problem?

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I use a small wav file which sounds like an old wallclock dong for sounding the number of hours, using cron. When played manually, it plays fine (I use the "play" utility toplay it from cron), but from cron, the sound output is very distorted. Even if nothing else is running on the system, it's dis

Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup

2004-02-22 Thread Deboo
I had 2 hard disks and one cd drive of which I remove one hard disk and the cd drive (they were not there when I installed debian too, had added them later). But now when booting, I get timeouts for them: hda: SAMSUNG SV0401H, ATA DISK drive hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfff8) hdc: IRQ probe failed

dependency validator tool ???

2004-02-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
I am not quite sure how to search for this, and so far I have not turned up anything substantive ;> Is there some dpkg/apt tool to scan an existing system, and pass judgment on the current state of installed dependency integrity? Yes, I have a good idea how the installation process works, and I a

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:51:58PM +0530, Deboo wrote: > Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I need to, > having kept all these different mailboxes in one directory. Never having > made an addressbook, is what caused this problem. I would like to sort, > search and make a li

Re: Shutdown and reboot doesn't unmount partitions

2004-02-22 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Deboo, On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:43:25PM +0530, Deboo wrote: > At times while shutting down the system, I have seen that init doesn't > start the kill processes and the machine just reboots or turns off > suddenly, without unmounting the partitions which causes lots of troubles > the next time

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John Hasler: > Vineet Kumar writes: > > This way if anything gets scratched, stolen, melted on the dash, etc., > > I'm only out the cost of CDRs. > > But the publisher has lost the sale of a replacement CD, which is why they > don't want you to do it (of course, if the CD only cost a

Re: LVM

2004-02-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:06:31PM +0100, David Baron wrote: } I never set up LVM (I only have one partition--should probably change this, } but) and so it must have gotten in the bootup sequence because the UI in } Webmin. In any event, in 2.4.22, it worked, no VM groups. } } Under 2.6.2-*, get

Re: OT: C++ mailing list sought

2004-02-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:59:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: } Please forgive me asking this question here. Since accu.org charges } for mailing list access and the Cpp list @topica was pretty bad when } I last checked it out (or is this not the case anymore?), I am } looking for a C++ mailing

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:51:58PM +0530, Deboo wrote: } Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to linux } and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many them in many } different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. } } Now, I could search for one or tw

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Kai Schindelka
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Also have a look at this excellent step-by-step HOWTO: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Excellent, indeed. Thanks for the link! -- Bye, Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

vim and emacs together

2004-02-22 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello all, I'm looking at an editor which would have the ease of use of VIM right on top of EMACS. I hate the way cursor movement is implemented under EMACS ( or should I say that I like the way cusros movement is implemented under VIM ). But I'm eager and willing to use a EMACS environm

Re: vim and emacs together

2004-02-22 Thread Nathan Malmberg
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:15:39AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hello all, I'm looking at an editor which would have the ease of use > of VIM right on top of EMACS. I hate the way cursor movement is > implemented under EMACS ( or should I say that I like the way cusros > movement is implemente

Re: Kernel compile blues

2004-02-22 Thread Kai Schindelka
Deboo wrote: Looks like the HA driver module the boot drive is attached to is missing in initrd. A misconfigured LILO may also be the cause. HA driver module? What's that? I'm sorry: Host Adapter. I am no native speaker. And I use grub, not lilo. Ok, that leaves that out. > Anyway, is it good to

Re: empty tty's

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:08:23PM +0100, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > When I switch from one tty to another with Alt + left/right > arrow, it cycles through tty7 to tty12 (which are empty) instead Looks like something or someone has activated those ttys. Review you /etc/inittab, and/or /etc/init.d sc

Re: dcgui problems

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:55:22PM +, steven noble wrote: > im running a mac with dcgui version 0.2.19, and because a mac only has a > single click mouse i cannot AFAICT, there MUST be a way to emulate all the 3 mouse buttons. If not, tons of apps would be broken. HTH -- Jan Minar

Re: GCC

2004-02-22 Thread Mike M
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:40:07PM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > The old will still be available in the C++ standard, but the > functions and variables won't be in the std namespace. I really must read up more on the namespace feature and why I'd want to change the standard namespace. Googling

Re: Cron problem?

2004-02-22 Thread Jan Minar
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:57:27PM +0530, Deboo wrote: [...] > When played manually, it > plays fine (I use the "play" utility toplay it from cron), but from cron, > the sound output is very distorted. [...] Interesting. Some probably-not-very-useful idea

Re: boot 2.4.x *after* using 2.6.2 ???

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
I got the please append correct root= the 1st time I tried booting 2.6.2 (I have never gotten an initrd working with 2.4.22). The place to do it is in the mkinitrd.conf. Instead of ROOT = probe or anything linke that ROOT = "/dev/hdb1 ext3" -- substitute your boot device and file system. Quotes

Re: USB problems

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
Well, an attempt to install kernel image 2.6.2-3 wanted to remove hotplug. I found an update for hotplug and did that and then 2.6.2-3 installed without complaining. This did NOT correct the usb-request-ubr -32 hangup on shutdown. I apparently can excape or time out of this but ... I noticed a

Re: LVM

2004-02-22 Thread David Baron
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:06:31PM +0100, David Baron wrote: } I never set up LVM (I only have one partition--should probably change this, } but) and so it must have gotten in the bootup sequence because the UI in } Webmin. In any event, in 2.4.22, it worked, no VM groups. } } Under 2.6.2-*, get

Re: Scoring up unstable security fixes in my /etc/apt/preferences:

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 12:49:36PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote: > I am getting a little tired of having to look at the Debian website > every day. Therefore I would like to configure apt in such a way that > I automatically update insecure packages

Weird File Change in Debian Sarge

2004-02-22 Thread geek
My box is a P4 Xeon whitebox server w/ 1Gram, 3ware 7506-8 raid card hooked with 4x 160G maxtor HDD as RAID 5. Debian Sarge Plain 2.6.3 kernel LVM on root partition. XFS(built as module) filesystem on all partitions except /boot which runs on reiserfs I have lots of stories to tell about this serv

scanners under 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread csj
It seems that CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m which produces the "scanner" module, has disappeared from kernel 2.6.3. I copied my working 2.6.2 config, passed it thru make gconfig without any manual changes, and now "grep -i scanner .config" returns nothing. Any idea (tips, URLs) how to get scanners worki

sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:26:28PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sunday 22 February 2004 17:20, Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > > > > 1. > > I would recommend against nitpicking with the " " missing from the "-- " > > above your sig. It invites more of the same ;-) > > Ok, I withdraw that comme

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:43:33PM +, Pigeon wrote: > That's a stupid advert. What it actually demonstrates is that the > driver in the advert doesn't know how to brake in an emergency > situation - the car slides to a halt with its front wheels lo

Re: scanners under 2.6.3

2004-02-22 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 05:48:28AM +0800, csj wrote: > It seems that > > CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m > > which produces the "scanner" module, has disappeared from kernel > 2.6.3. I copied my working 2.6.2 config, passed it thru make > gconfig without any manual changes, and now "grep -i scanner > .conf

Re: Congratulations

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader
* mal icous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-19 22:37]: > i probably should not waste your time with complaints, but i really > feel i need to get someone to listen to my complaints, in the > purpose of making the Linux / Debian Distribtuion a better world / > product. > In the interests of constructi

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:20:48PM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > assume perfect driver, what is difference in stopping distance 30mph cf > 35mph According to the ODOT Driver Manual[1], page 39 (in the PDF, 33 on printed page), you add another 80

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:51:47PM +0100, Patrik Lindahl wrote: > I happened to notice that the logo of elektrostore.se is almost the same > as the Debian logo... It looks like they have changed the color and > rotated it slightly. > The URL is: http:

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:20:43PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > 2. > Funny, this thread is a rerun of one about three or four months ago... And endless flame-wars on the artwork related furry newsgroups...man, furry artists can be such whiners somet

Re: Stolen debian logo?

2004-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:26:28PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > Ok, I withdraw that comment - they are apparently being stripped by the > remailer at d-u. Really? When did that start? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :ht

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: > Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to > linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many > them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. > > Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever

Re: GCC

2004-02-22 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Mike M wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:40:07PM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > The old will still be available in the C++ standard, but the > > functions and variables won't be in the std namespace. > > I really must read up more on the namespace f

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-22 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:47:24AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Vineet Kumar writes: > > This way if anything gets scratched, stolen, melted on the dash, etc., > > I'm only out the cost of CDRs. > > But the publisher has lost the sale of a replacement CD, which is why they > don't want you to do it

Re: tar/tape

2004-02-22 Thread Tom Vier
> tar: /dev/tape: Wrote only 4096 of 10240 bytes > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now try: mt setblk 0 here's the line i use to backup (change the -V label): tar -cv --totals -X /etc/tar_exclude.conf -g /var/state/tar/tape \ -L 3200 -V "host - level # - `date`" -f /dev/st0 / -- Tom

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