Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Thursday 03 June 2004 01:17 am, Jules Dubois wrote: > have to resolve manually. Nothing has ever broken, just sometimes I can't > upgrade some packages immediately. I did hit one real irritation. Right when I was doing a new install on several boxes they broke ALSA so that it didn't install

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

Silvan wrote: That's about the worst I've seen breakage wise after some time running (variously) either testing or unstable. Months? Years? I don't remember. I took the plunge sometime after I got into dependency hell trying to install some backport against another backport that didn't like

Re: HP LC2000 & Debian

I just installed Debian on a LC2000. It worked fine with the 2.4.26 kernel and I just upgraded to the 2.6.6 kernel with SMP and it appears happy with that. Next for me will be trying to work out how to get the sensors and other stuff like that working properly. - Craig -- Craig Small Gnu

Re: here's how I installed Sun's Java, comments are welcom

On Thursday 03 June 2004 03:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My log of installing Java is at: > >   http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Install_Sun.shtml OK. DId all that. Update-alternaves from the dummy packages also made such links on /usr/bin (belong there). I still get: Error occurred dur

NIce cron or anacron jobs

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sid: Caps-Lock shifts keyboard layout + network problem

Dear all, one of my students is working under sid with kde and a US keyboard layout. For editing, everything works fine except when he presses the Caps-Lock. Then, the whole layout is shifted by one to the left, i.e. H becomes G, F becomes D, D becomes S etc. Does anybody know how and where I c

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Re: sid: Caps-Lock shifts keyboard layout + network problem

> one of my students is working under sid with kde and a US keyboard > layout. For editing, everything works fine except when he presses > the Caps-Lock. Then, the whole layout is shifted by one to the > left, i.e. H becomes G, F becomes D, D becomes S etc. Hmm - under gnome, using the

Re: Boot partion too small

On 02-06-2004 17:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Glenn: qtparted will do this. I find the easiest way to run it, including usable support for resizing NTFS partitions, is from the system rescue cd at sysresccd.org. Just enter "run_qtparted" from the Linux Live CD. [] and my 2 cents. I found, that

Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)

On 02 Jun 2004, Paul Stolp wrote: > * Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-02 12:44]: > > > > > > Since a recent upgrade of firefox (Sid) I find that printing from > > Firefox still works but it is now very small. Previously it used to fill > > up an A4 page,but now it prints a very small

Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)

On 03 Jun 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Jun 2004, Paul Stolp wrote: > > * Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-02 12:44]: > > > > > > > > > Since a recent upgrade of firefox (Sid) I find that printing from > > > Firefox still works but it is now very small. Previously it used to fi

S/MIME support in Emai clients

Hello, Could anybody, please, suggest me what is the most efficient mail client under Linux from the viewpoint of handling S/MIME? -- -=Robert & Beata Golovniov | Lviv, Ukraine=- ~~ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&B

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

Robert Golovniov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could anybody, please, suggest me what is the most efficient mail > client under Linux from the viewpoint of handling S/MIME? PGP is far more widely used than S/MIME in this day and age in mail and news. I would suggest going that route instead. --

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iptables

I was trying to write up an iptables script last night and managed to get it work, or so I thought. When I run it, the interface just dies. It's still configured and "up", but any kind of traffic sent to it is ignored. I even added lines like: iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -j LOG and I don't get

Username length limit?

Hi, I'm trying to find out the maximum length of usernames on Linux systems (Debian Woody specifically, but I guess it's the same between different distros). Strangely enough, I can't find any clear answer to my question. So I have two questions really: - what is the maximum length of usernames

Re: Username length limit?

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:13:08 +0200, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to find out the maximum length of usernames on Linux systems > (Debian Woody specifically, but I guess it's the same between different > distros). Strangely enough, I can't find any clear answer t

Re: console keyboard setup question

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:34:04AM +0200, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > Thanks! > > with your hint I did an apt-cache search on "keymap" and found console-data, a > dpkg-reconfigre console-data and subsequenty on console-common followed by a > reboot got my keyboard set correctly. > > My conso

xpdq?

I see there is no xpdq package in sarge or sid. Was the package orphaned? With the broken cups in sid I want to start using the trusty old pdq again. I don't need xpdq, but that makes life a lot easier. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Univers

Debian menu in gnome

Hello, Is there an easy (or not) way to get rid of the "Debian menu" in the gnome main menu? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grub & Nvidia

Hi people, i have a computer with an nvidia MX200 32 Megas. I have change from lilo to grub, but after the bios init, a blank screen appears! After the 10 seconds, linux is loaded properly, so grub is working properly but not showing anithing. Changing the Nvidia card, everything is correct

Re: NIce cron or anacron jobs

David Baron wrote: How does one assure that such jobs be run with -nice ##. Simply placing this on the command line as "jobbin -nice ## " ... does not seem to work. Try this as an example cron entry (assume every midnight): 0 0 * * * nice cleanup_script.sh Not all jobs know the arguement '-nic

USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

* Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 03 06:13 -0500]: > how exactly it freezes? Everything stops, no mouse pointer response or keyboard response. > - can you ping the machine? No. Last night the desktop was locked up and there was no network response. > - does it freeze when you

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Extract ISO image

How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a time. I guess it would be possible to use this program in conjunction with 'awk' to extract a

Re: [SOLVED] apache over ssl stopped working

I changed the NameVirtualHost to *: and adjusted the VirtualHost directives to reflect that change and it worked again. Regards, Benedict -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 21:40, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2004-06-01, Sebastian Kügler penned: > > 1) What would you recommend to create the symlinks in the various > > runlevels, what is the preferred way of manipulating the runlevel stuff? > > a)ln -s > > b)update-rc.d > > 2) If I remove a

Re: Username length limit?

Daved Daly wrote: On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:13:08 +0200, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find out the maximum length of usernames on Linux systems (Debian Woody specifically, but I guess it's the same between different distros). Strangely enough, I can't find any clear answ

Re: Username length limit?

> Daved Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 12:47]: > > On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 12:13:08 +0200, Roel Schroeven > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to find out the maximum length of usernames on Linux > > systems (Debian Woody specifically, but I guess it's the same > > between

Re: Username length limit?

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:21:08 +0200, Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > however, to be really safe and compatible with "older" software > make use of 8 characters only. For example, older Solaris versions > cause strange errors if you exceed. > > wbr, > Lukas Linux Admin FAQ: 6.17 What is th

Re: Username length limit?

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:56:45PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > Daved Daly wrote: > > So, is it true that the only documentation is the source code? But what > source code should I look at? passwd, pam, glibc, ... ? Those, and all utilities that work with usernames. Traditionally, 8 char usern

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

I know this problem, too. At least at home everything freezes with a chance of 50% when I put in an USB drive. This was with kernel 2.4 (with backported usb modules from Suse I think) and kernel 2.6 (suse and debian), and usb 1.1. With usb 2 it seems to work now . Nevertheless, when I copy more

Re: broken cups in sid

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 21:46, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] > How about waiting for a couple of days until things settle down > instead. If you see dependency problems you can just hold current > versions of some of the things if you want to upgrade others, or > quit and try again later. Thanks Mic

Re: iptables

Tom Allison wrote: > I was trying to write up an iptables script last night and managed to > get it work, or so I thought. > When I run it, the interface just dies. > It's still configured and "up", but any kind of traffic sent to it is > ignored. I even added lines like: > iptables -A INPUT -i

Re: xpdq?

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:58:56 +0200 Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see there is no xpdq package in sarge or sid. Was the package > orphaned? GIYF. I did a Google search of Debian mailing lists on "xpdq" and found that it was offered for adoption in 2003. I saw no sign that anyone pi

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

* J. Preiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 03 08:03 -0500]: > I know this problem, too. At least at home everything freezes with a chance of > 50% when I put in an USB drive. This was with kernel 2.4 (with backported usb > modules from Suse I think) and kernel 2.6 (suse and debian), and usb 1.1.

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Whom to ask about package system errors?

Hi! In the last days I had a huge problem with the package system, and I'm not sure whether the packages are messed up or whether it is my fault. All kde packages refuse to install. They need the libcupsys2 package, but according to apt-get, this has no installation candidate and is replaced by

Sound-Juicer error

Hi, I don't know if anyone else has gotten this message, but when I installed sound-juicer (apt-get), I get the following message whenever I start it: Could not start sound-juicer Reason: The plugin necessary for cd access was not found... I have all of the gstreamer plugins installed. Can anyo

Re: Whom to ask about package system errors?

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:15, Kevin Boergens wrote: > Hi! > > In the last days I had a huge problem with the package system, and I'm not sure > whether the packages are messed up or whether it is my fault. > > All kde packages refuse to install. They need the libcupsys2 package, but > according

Re: Extract ISO image

On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 06:38, Torquil Macdonald SÃrensen wrote: > How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) > extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. > > 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a > time. I guess it would

Which Debian version?

I am setting up a computer with Debian, and want to know if there is a better version to try. Basically, stable vs testing version. Would one work better than the other. The computer is a Compaq Proliant 1850R. It is a Dual Pentium 3 600 Mhz with 265 MB of RAM, onboard nic, SCSI. The hard dr

Re: USB module causing lockups? (Was: Strange lockups in X)

Mmmmh... to continue the suse stuff: they gave the tip to load ehci before ohci, and IMHO ehci stands for the faster subsystem and ohci for usb 1.1, is that right? It would explain the situation that I have less problems with faster usb ports, and the problem would be only in the ohci code. Lo

Re: Whom to ask about package system errors?

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:15:43 +0200 Kevin Boergens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > In the last days I had a huge problem with the package system, and I'm > not sure whether the packages are messed up or whether it is my fault. > > All kde packages refuse to install. They need the libcupsys2

xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure with exit status 127

I am trying to apt-get upgrade a machine which is about 1 month out of date. When I do so it comes up with this error message, and then another saying that the preinstall process failed ..., i.e. repeating this message, and NOTHING else. Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? This is a Debian uns

Re: Problem installing display driver VIA on debian

"Vijaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have a problem installing the Grpahic driver for the folloiwing > configuration.. > > Chipset -VIAKM266 > VIA VT8235 CE > > Graphics-Intergrated VIA Unichrome Graphics. > > MotherBoard -A7V26

Re: apt dependency problems

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 17:43, Lee Hanxue wrote: > Preparing to replace apache 1.3.29.0.2-4 (using .../apache_1.3.29.0.2-4_i386.deb) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installation script: Permission denied > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apache_1.3.29.0.2-4_i386.deb

Re: NIce cron or anacron jobs

On Thursday 03 June 2004 14:28, you wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > How does one assure that such jobs be run with -nice ##. Simply placing > > this on the command line as "jobbin -nice ## " ... does not seem to > > work. > > Try this as an example cron entry (assume every midnight): > > 0 0 * * *

Heads up: latest libcurl2 package broken

Hi all, The latest libcurl2 package (version 7.12.0-1) in unstable is broken, see bug # 252348. I strongly recommend staying with 7.11.2-1 or earlier until the bug is fixed. Among other things, it breaks discover and therefore also xserver-xfree86 preinst and postinst scripts. regards, -- Kev

jigdo problem

I'm trying to get the Woody iso image with jigdo, but I'm not getting anything! I'm using the standard information that I found on the site. I got a .jigdo file, as well as the .template. It unpacks the template as well. The problem is that the http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ doesn't seem

Re: jigdo problem

Wait, nevermind. I figured out the problem. I was using the NON-US link by mistake. I must have read the wrong one. All is running fine now. Thanks though. -- Brian Ronk System Administrator BookMasters, Inc Brian Ronk wrote: I'm trying to get the Woody iso image with jigdo, but I'm not get

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:01:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Silvan wrote: > > One of the other Rosegarden developers keeps trying to get me to buy a copy of > SuSE, so I can get a "right and proper" distro. No thanks... One pretty decent "Desktop Linux" based on Debian is Libranet;

Re: xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure with exit status 127

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:13:55PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > I am trying to apt-get upgrade a machine which is about 1 month out of > date. When I do so it comes up with this error message, and then another > saying that the preinstall process failed ..., i.e. repeating this message, > and

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian Kügler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It's probably easier to use `ln -s` than to get update-rc.d working as >> you would like. > >I am now using symlinking rather than update-rc.d, and it seems to work fine. Sure, until policy changes, the internal implem

Re: xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure with exit status 127

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:09:00PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:13:55PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > I am trying to apt-get upgrade a machine which is about 1 month out of > > date. When I do so it comes up with this error message, and then another > > saying that

Re: xserver-xfree86 failed to preconfigure with exit status 127

Alle 17:13, giovedì 3 giugno 2004, David Goodenough ha scritto: > I am trying to apt-get upgrade a machine which is about 1 month out of > date. When I do so it comes up with this error message, and then another > saying that the preinstall process failed ..., i.e. repeating this message, > and NO

Re: Extract ISO image

Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a time. I guess it would be possible to use this program in con

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Thursday 03 June 2004 12:07, S.D.A. wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:01:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Silvan wrote: > > One of the other Rosegarden developers keeps trying to get me to > > buy a copy of SuSE, so I can get a "right and proper" distro. No > > thanks... > > One pretty decent "Des

Trying to move root partition

I want to move my root partition to a new drive.  I created a new partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed fstab to point to the new location.  However, when I reboot from the new location, I get t

Printing under Sarge is messed up.

Has anyone else had a problem with printing under Sarge recently? I can not print from Thunderbird, Firefox, Opera, OOO, or a simple editor that I wrote using Python. All of these programs printed fine until three, or four days ago. Thunderbird sends a message to the console saying: "lpr: stdi

Re: Whom to ask about package system errors?

Hello! Thanks to both of you for the quick answer. You want to be able to run down issues like this if you're going to run unstable, IMHO. I did an "apt-cache showpkg libcupsys2" to find out 1) that it is indeed present in stable and testing, but not in sid; 2) that the KDE package that depends o

Re: Debian menu in gnome

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 07:10:24 -0400 (EDT) "Scott Ware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an easy (or not) way to get rid of the "Debian menu" in the > gnome main menu? > > Thanks! > Even better, is there a way to get rid of the Gnome

dpkg-reconfigure locales and German Umlauts with English Messages

Dear all, short version: I would like to make use of German Umlauts but have all the messages displayed in English. How can I achieve this? long version: I tried dpkg-reconfigure, selected all the character sets and chose a default encoding. After logging in again, on the one hand, the Umlauts

pureftpd config questions.

Hi all, I'm using pureftpd on SARGE and I don't know where to put startup options? I think it's in "/etc/init.d/pureftpd" but I can't figure out what lines to edit to make this happen. I want to run it in TLS mode by default, does anyone know to set this up? Also when I try to stop the pureftpd

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

Thanks for all the advice. I'm going to try to install Sarge on my XP box as a dual-boot and begin testing. Mepis and Libranet are both appealing, but I think I'll stay with pure Debian for now, since that's what I'm getting comfortable with. I haven't used the desktop environment in linux yet,

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

Incoming from S.D.A.: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:01:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Silvan wrote: > > > > One of the other Rosegarden developers keeps trying to get me to buy a copy of > > SuSE, so I can get a "right and proper" distro. No thanks... > > One pretty decent "Desktop Linux" based on D

Re: Trying to move root partition

Paul Galbraith wrote: I want to move my root partition to a new drive. I created a new partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed fstab to point to the new location. However, when I reboot from the ne

Re: Thanks; introductions; my question.

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:44:55PM -0500, dircha wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:51:16PM -0500, dircha wrote: > >The case for (b) is inaccurate... the filesystem *will* be readable > >under Windoze, but will contain a whole bunch of files and directories > >as opposed to a sing

Re: pcmcia modems with debian

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 01:50:11 +0200, Mal Beaton wrote: > I finally have the need for a modem on my laptop > before diving in a purchasing a pcmcia modem > > would like to hear what people are using out there and how easy or how > much trouble they were to set up > > any advice would be greatly a

Re: xpdq?

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:00:15 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > With the broken cups in sid I want to start using the trusty old pdq > again. I don't need xpdq, but that makes life a lot easier. There's always lprng, which works beautifully with magicfilter. -- Stephen Patterson http://patter.mine.

Re: cdrecord warning

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:48:06PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > Hi everybody, > > when I try to burn a CD as a normal user, I often get this warning: > > cdrecord.mmap: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler > cdrecord.mmap: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set prior

Can't play audio CD's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. I've been using xmms to play some mp3s. But I can't play and audio CD's. I understand that you don't need to mount the CD to play it. But I can't work out what I need to do to play the

Re: Trying to move root partition

Kent West wrote: Paul Galbraith wrote: I want to move my root partition to a new drive. I created a new partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed fstab to point to the new location. However, when I re

Re: Can't play audio CD's

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:22 +0100 James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. > I've been using xmms to play some mp3s. But I can't play and audio > CD's. > > I understand that

GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the software.  Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit with it at business other than programming per se?  Should I develop a patentable extension to the Debian opus, is there any claim against my profit?   Do you

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Re: Can't play audio CD's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodney D. Myers wrote: | On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 19:39:22 +0100 | James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | |>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>I've just got my sound card working by installing the 2.6.6 kernel. |>I've been using xmms

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

Howard Levine writes: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software. Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit with > it at business other than programming per se? No one has any claim against your use of Debian or your profit by it, full stop. >

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

On 2004-06-03, Miquel van Smoorenburg penned: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sebastian > Kügler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It's probably easier to use `ln -s` than to get update-rc.d working >>> as you would like. >> >>I am now using symlinking rather than update-rc.d, and it seems to >>wor

Re: TMDA and other challenge-response systems considered harmful

On 2004-06-03, Tim Connors penned: > > Spammers already break so many laws[1] that if if was easy to catch > them (and it is[2]), something would be done about them, if law > enforcement cared at all. > Speaking of spamming, please don't CC me. It's against the list policy, I already get your mis

very messed up reiserfs with bad blocks

Hi, I have a problem with a reiserfs partition. Some days ago the drive reported bad blocks, so I ran the badblocks program tried to fix the filesystem with the badblocksoutput. Assuming I fixed the badblock list with 'reiserfsck --badblocks' I tried to access some (reported broken) files on that

Re: Which Debian version?

Brian Ronk wrote: > I am setting up a computer with Debian, and want to know if there is a > better version to try. Basically, stable vs testing version. Would one > work better than the other. Actually, as recent discussion on the list showed, the real choice is between Stable and Unstable. Wh

Re: dpkg-reconfigure locales and German Umlauts with English Messages

* Lukas Ruf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040603 10:32]: > Dear all, > > short version: I would like to make use of German Umlauts but have all > the messages displayed in English. How can I achieve this? Try just using LANG=en_US.UTF-8. You should be able to see not only German, but also J

Network/DSL uptime log?

I look for a command/daemon that will keep a history of my DSL-connection downtime. My Verizon ADSL connection has been down about 60% of the time for 3 weeks, so I want to log the actual downtimes. For example, in a file like /var/log/eth1-downtime I would like to see lines like June 2 10:

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

* Robert Golovniov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040603 02:43]: > Hello, > > Could anybody, please, suggest me what is the most efficient mail > client under Linux from the viewpoint of handling S/MIME? Though I'm not using S/MIME, afaik both mutt and thunderbird should su

Re: NIce cron or anacron jobs

* David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040603 08:18]: > On Thursday 03 June 2004 14:28, you wrote: > > David Baron wrote: > > > How does one assure that such jobs be run with -nice ##. Simply placing > > > this on the command line as "jobbin -nice ## " ... doe

opening .m3u files in konqueror

Hi! When I try to open an m3u file in konqueror it always tells me to Save it, or open it with KWrite (?!?!). I have set up the file associations in konqueror: audio mpegurl scpls x-mpegurl x-scpls Both of them has XMMS application. But the konqueror always trying to open the m3u with

Re: Which Debian version?

Adam Aube said: > Brian Ronk wrote: > >> I am setting up a computer with Debian, and want to know if there is a >> better version to try. Basically, stable vs testing version. Would one >> work better than the other. > > Actually, as recent discussion on the list showed, the real choice is > bet

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

Howard Levine wrote: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software. Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit with > it at business other than programming per se? There is nothing that prevents you from making money off of the use or sale of GPL

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

Vineet Kumar said: > * Robert Golovniov ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040603 02:43]: >> Hello, >> >> Could anybody, please, suggest me what is the most efficient mail >> client under Linux from the viewpoint of handling S/MIME? > > Though I'm not using S

Re: Taming the new fvwm

* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040602 13:27]: > Has anyone managed to tame (e.g. get the menus to obey) the new fvwm > package: > > ii fvwm2.5.10-6F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5 I just did this: cp /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc WFM. I hadn't custo

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

On Thu 3 June 2004 16:43, Luis R. Rojas wrote: > > is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? mine says it couldnt > find it? in case it isnt. can you install manually? # apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://david.jamesnet.

Re: S/MIME support in Emai clients

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 16:43:18 -0400 (AST) "Luis R. Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is thunderbir in the apt-get or aptitude tree? mine says it couldnt > find it? in case it isnt. can you install manually? It is in testing (0.5) and unstable (0.6). -- Got Backup? Jabber: Shadowdancer at jabbe

Re: Grub & Nvidia

Ghe Rivero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have a computer with an nvidia MX200 32 Megas. I have change > from lilo to grub, but after the bios init, a blank screen appears! > After the 10 seconds, linux is loaded properly, so grub is working > properly but not showing anithing. Changing the

Re: cdrecord warning

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:59:52PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 05:48:06PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > when I try to burn a CD as a normal user, I often get this warning: > > > > cdrecord.mmap: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-sch

Re: desktop Linux for a debian user?

On Thursday 03 June 2004 12:07 pm, S.D.A. wrote: > One pretty decent "Desktop Linux" based on Debian is Libranet; > > . Interesting. I've got some friends who are almost ready to bite, but I've been afraid to feed them Debian for fear that the installer wo

Re: Which Debian version?

Brian Ronk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am setting up a computer with Debian, and want to know if there is a > better version to try. Basically, stable vs testing version. Would > one work better than the other. If you need to ask, stable is what you need. Wait until you know how Debian wor

Re: Trying to move root partition

"Paul Galbraith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to move my root partition to a new drive. I created a new > partition and formatted it, and then used cp -a from a knoppix CD to > copy the root parition files over to the new parition, and changed > fstab to point to the new location. Don't c

what happened to KDE?

I few hours ago I upgraded the "unstable" version (2.4.20 kernel) with 'dselect' and found that a KDE log-in session was no longer an option. I've tried to force it back in but all that did was mess up Gnome a little. For example, the upper task bar is gone and the lower is empty. I can probably f

Re: GNU or Open Source Licensing agreenemt.

Howard Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I understand the license to freely copy, alter, and distribute the > software.  Does anyone have claim against my USE of it, or my profit > with it at business other than programming per se? Yes, but only if you don't also release your source code. IAN

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