Where is everyone

2004-06-15 Thread David Baron
Usually get a bunch of digest each day! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Debian on a small PC?

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Joyce
> -Original Message- > From: Nicolas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 2:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Debian on a small PC? > > > Hi, > I borrowed a little embedded PC from work (yes, my boss > knows it) with 96 > megs of disk (flash) and 64 megs

Getting fax to work on 2.6 kernels

2004-06-15 Thread David Baron
Efax based applets would work on 2.4 kernels but seem outdated. On the new kernels, I get i/o errors at every attempt. I also have the mgetty. How does on set this up. None of these things have the modem setup/test/detection of fax apps in the "other" OS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Chad Perrin
Simon Kitching wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: s. keeling wrote: I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. Could've fooled me. KDE

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-15 Thread Alexander Sack
Thunderbird crashes itself. There is no open dialog Maybe you have been upgrading from 0.5-x? If this is the case, try to rename the chrome directory in the users profile. At least until this is done after a major version upgrade, thunderbird may show some unwanted sideeffects. -- GPG messages

Re: Ugly (xemacs) font

2004-06-15 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, Another idea is to put the 100dpi and 75dpi unscaled fonts near the beginning of the font path. Uuups, I misread your message. After moving 100dpi and 75dpi to the front, it worked! After some searching I fount that the font in question was from the ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp package. Simply removi

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gpm and 2.6 kernels

2004-06-15 Thread Johann Spies
I have seen this on at least 3 different machines now: While gpm starts up correctly using the 2.4 kernel when a machine boots up, it does not with the 2.6 kernels (at least 2.6.3, 2.6.5 and 2.6.6). The startup messages shows that gpm has started, but is not the case. The problem is that when you

Re: a pair of questions

2004-06-15 Thread Steven Yap
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 04:00, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Hi Steven, I also have a 4-slot card reader, is a HP pavilion a250y > modified (customized). I tried the name{all_partitions} trick as > suggested by john fj... (sorry, hard spelling) and didn't > work. The thing is, I didn't do anything o

extending logical volume

2004-06-15 Thread Alexei Chetroi
Hi, I was using LVM for a while, and now trying to extend some volume without any success. Don't understand why? Here is logical volume: lexa:/home/lex# vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name system VG Access read/write VG Status available/resizable VG #

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Connors
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:14:37 +1000: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > I gave up on both of those; they're equally uncontrollable, and far > > > too fat to leave any room for actual applications to run. ymmv. > >

Circuit simulation with oregano?

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Funk
$ apt-cache search spice gnucap - GNU Circuit Analysis package gwave - a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators oregano - GNOME application for schematic capture of electrical circuits I've installed all three packages. I ran oregano and threw in a simple circuit to try it out. The simulator re

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Tim Connors
Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:45:51 +1200: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:14, CaT wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} free > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > >

Re: openwebmail + postgresql configuration

2004-06-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:01, Tom Allison wrote: > I'm running my authentication through a pgsql database with passwords > that are stored as md5 hashes of the password. > This authentication model is working for the dovecot imap server. > > However, under openwebmail I am accessing the database t

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:40, Paul Scott wrote: > > As to the original topic a strong reason for my using KDE over Gnome is > having all tasks in the taskbar instead of only those on the current > desktop. If someone knows how to easily fix this in Gnome I might give > it another look. Errm, d

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-15 Thread richard lyons
On Monday 14 June 2004 23:01, Michael B Allen wrote: > For some reason bash isn't sourcing /etc/profile. In fact after > adding . /etc/profile to .bash_profile I don't think .bash_profile > is being sourced b/c it had no effect. > > I just wiped RH 7.3 and I don't know the shell best-practices for

Proxy question

2004-06-15 Thread aurel . ric
Hi, I was just wondering if there is a way to redirect any incomming HTTP proxy traffic (don't know port or proxy address)? In a nutshell, my question is: Is it possible, with iptables or whatever, to detect if an incoming packet is a proxy request? Hope you understand :) Aurel -- Aurelien Ri

Re: kde removes on dselect-upgrade

2004-06-15 Thread richard lyons
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 02:06, Cristi Banciu wrote: > Hi, > > I am running sid and when I perform an apt-get dselect-upgrade it > wants to remove kde. > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > (14 or more lines of packages to be r

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-15 Thread Mal Beaton
Alexander Sack wrote: Thunderbird crashes itself. There is no open dialog Maybe you have been upgrading from 0.5-x? If this is the case, try to rename the chrome directory in the users profile. At least until this is done after a major version upgrade, thunderbird may show some unwanted sideeff

xcdroast in kernel 2.6 doesn't work with ATAPI or SCSI

2004-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
It's supposed to be unnecessary to use scsi-emulation in 2.6 kernels but if I try to use ATAPI, xcdroast simply hangs with a message saying it won't work properly (this is latest version from Sid). I therefore gave up and compiled a kernel with SCSI emulation, which worked for me in kernel 2.4, bu

postfix: /etc/aliases ignored?

2004-06-15 Thread Erik Steffl
system: debian unstable, postfix 2.1.1-8 I have /etc/aliases, recreated /etc/aliases.db using newaliases even though I am not sure it matter because here's what I have in main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases the problemn is that aliases are ignored, e.g

Re: Proxy question (transparent)

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was just wondering if there is a way to redirect any incomming HTTP proxy > traffic (don't know port or proxy address)? > In a nutshell, my question is: Is it possible, with iptables or whatever, to > detect if an incoming packet is a proxy request? You're looking fo

Keyboard map probs

2004-06-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, Did an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" and my keyboard settings has been reverted to the US map (again!) and while I can use "loadkeys uk" and "setxkbmap gb" to get the UK keyboard back on X and console - but I can't remember how to make the changes permament? Rebooting reverts t

Re: postfix: /etc/aliases ignored?

2004-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:18:59AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: [snip] > the problemn is that aliases are ignored, e.g. this one (from > /etc/aliases): > > root: erik > /var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp[/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp] said: 550-Mailbox > unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated

Re: openwebmail + postgresql configuration

2004-06-15 Thread Tom Allison
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:01, Tom Allison wrote: I'm running my authentication through a pgsql database with passwords that are stored as md5 hashes of the password. This authentication model is working for the dovecot imap server. However, under openwebmail I am accessing th

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> saying they're revolutionary in doing so. But then, that's the Gnome bunch > for ya. ALL generalizations are ABSOLUTELY a waste of EVERYONE's time. There is NEVER, ANY benefit to making them WHAT-SO-EVER. Humorously, One of the recently boxed GNOME 'bunch'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Mozilla thunderbird crashes when opening attachments

2004-06-15 Thread Alexander Sack
bingo. Worked. Thanks very much I will definately remember that one Thanks for confirming this! The good news: as mentioned upstream [1] , the next tbird (0.7) won't need any user profile modifications anymore! [1] - see mscott's answer on my request (asac) - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewt

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji You must use "sda1", not "sda": the data is on the first (and only) partition of the "disk". Ciao, Enrico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: extending logical volume

2004-06-15 Thread Alexei Chetroi
Hi, Already solved this issue. I have to change allocation of PE from cont. to next free. After that no problems extending logical volume. Thanks. On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:13:33AM +0300, Alexei Chetroi wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:13:33 +0300 > From: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

alsa drivers choking kdeinit

2004-06-15 Thread Joost De Cock
Hello list, for over a month now I've been troubled by a KDE that would increasingly slow down as the uptime of my laptop went up. After a wile, kdeinit would come up and take lots of system cpu. As I kept my laptop running, the cpu spikes caused by kdeinit would become higher, longer sustained

RE: Getting fax to work on 2.6 kernels--SOLVED

2004-06-15 Thread David Baron
My fax modem is indeed detected at bootup. It is on COM3 (ttyS2). This port's UART is NOT detected. I set it using setserial. If this setting is persistant, then, all is well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

2004-06-15 Thread Nicholas Lativy
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:33:22AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > Ah! Now I can eject the audio CD. The program "eject" handles this. A simple "eject /mnt/cdrom" replacing "/mnt/cdrom" with the mount point of your drive should work. If you don't already have eject it is contained in a package of

New Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered

2004-06-15 Thread Bertrand CACHET
/According to linuxreviews article's on 6/11/2004, there is a nasty bug that lets a simple C program crash the kernel (2.4.18-2.6.x reported so far), effectively locking the whole system. Affects both 2.4.2x and 2.6.x kernels on the x86 architecture. This exploit can be compiled and run without

Re: xcdroast in kernel 2.6 doesn't work with ATAPI or SCSI - BY-PASSED

2004-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It's supposed to be unnecessary to use scsi-emulation in 2.6 kernels but > if I try to use ATAPI, xcdroast simply hangs with a message saying it > won't work properly (this is latest version from Sid). > > I therefore gave up and compiled a kernel with SCS

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

2004-06-15 Thread Nicholas Lativy
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:42:39PM +0100, Nicholas Lativy wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 03:33:22AM +, Ed Sutherland wrote: > > > > Ah! Now I can eject the audio CD. > The program "eject" handles this. A simple "eject /mnt/cdrom" > replacing "/mnt/cdrom" with the mount point of your drive sh

Re: How Do I Update to Gnome 2.6?

2004-06-15 Thread Ed Sutherland
Thanks. I don't want to get a flame-war started, but is Gnome 2.6 comparable to KDE in the following areas: CUPS support (using a CUPS printer from within Gnome), address book and configurability? The reason I ask, is that I prefer the Gnome 'look' and would like to have just one 'major' deskto

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:10:56PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > I am curious as to what the pros and cons would be of picking just one > desktop and deleting the other. Please tell me which you prefer, and > resons why. I have bothe kde and gnome now. Thanks, > > Cecil > Hi Cecil, you may need them

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:40, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > >> > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji > > You must use "sda1", not "sda": the data is on the first (and only) > partiti

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Sorry, but you'll get always this problem if you change to another kernel image. Currently I wanted to update from 2.2.20 (boot disks from internet) to 2.4, and the message is the same. Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 21:09 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:01, J. Preiss wrote: > >

Re: kde removes on dselect-upgrade

2004-06-15 Thread Cristi Banciu
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 12:33, richard lyons wrote: > I thought that was all in the past (as of a week ago). Have you done > an 'apt-get update' lately? yes, I did and still same error. What repository do you use? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Kernel update problems

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Hi all, I wanted to change from kernel 2.2 (Boot-Disks-Download) to kernel 2.4 or better 2.6. Now I've been toold to modify manually my lilo.conf by debconf. But I'm quite sure that if I'd update from a woody-cd to a newer kernel, all these changes are made automatically. So I'm wondering: where

OT: Google or Registrar cracked?

2004-06-15 Thread David Purton
Spam detection software, running on the system "vetinari.marshwiggle.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or block similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of t

raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installing the raid tools. kernel version is 2.4.18-k7 i installed raidtools2 and mdadm. i created a new file /e

problems with ftp2.de.debian.org

2004-06-15 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hello I on Knoppix 3.3 with varios upgrade to sid/sarge. Since a week or so I cannot perform any upgrades and updates anymore since it seems that ftp2.de.debian.org Which is set per default in /etc/apt/sources.list Is down. Is this problem known? Could I just use ftp.de.debian.org or an

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Edward Murrell escribió: On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 09:10, Cecil wrote: I am curious as to what the pros and cons would be of picking just one desktop and deleting the other. Please tell me which you prefer, and resons why. I have bothe kde and gnome now. Thanks, Cecil You can install and

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T08:12:39Z, Tim Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Especially if you only have 256MB ram (think: anything more than 1 year > old - ie, what the majority of us own). I have a K6-3/333 laptop that I just upgraded from 96MB to 192MB. I used KDE before the upgrade, and I use KDE now

Re: OT: Google or Registrar cracked?

2004-06-15 Thread Shaun ONeil
> Just trying to get to google and it wont name lookup > > whois google.com gives among other things: > > > Server Name: >IP Address: 80.190.192.24 >Registrar: GANDI >Whois Server: whois.gandi.net >Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net > >Server Name: >IP Address: 209

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:53, Harland Christofferson wrote: > this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a > new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. > /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installing the > raid tools. > > kernel version is

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T03:01:59Z, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pisses me off to no end when i want to copy from folder A to folder B > which are both in folder C and I have to open two windows and drill both > windows down to that one subfolder and then split when I can just drill > once, split

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
> Here are some of the lines from my lilo.conf: > --- > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda7 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686 > label=2.4.26-1-686 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686 > read-only > --- > Mmmh... and here starts my problem: I do not have such entries in /b

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Tuesday, 15 June 2004, you wrote: >On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:53, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> this is my fist time installing raid0 on a machine that is not a >> new install. /dev/hda has gobs of good data i don't want to lose. >> /dev/hdc is newly partitioned and formatted before installi

what do i need to install???

2004-06-15 Thread Cecil
I have installed my nvidia driver problem free before... But now when i try to get my kernel headers, it says it cant find them. I have updated... And I am running testing. Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-386 Cecil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
CaT wrote: > It's more of a case of 'Isn't 240Mb (or 200 cos of squid) a bit much for > a pretty desktop?' ;) That depends. To a person with ~700Mb, no. To a person with ~8Mb, yes. However somehow this became a holy war of "OMG that's so bloated!!!" instead of answering the OP's question

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Simon Kitching wrote: > It's always real hard to measure actual memory usage of an app. This > 240MB is presumably actually the memory taken by the kernel plus disk > cache + all sorts of other stuff too, like SSH servers. Nope, the disk caches and such are on the free line. The 240Mb isn't a

Gnome 2.2.6 Unmet Dependencies?

2004-06-15 Thread Ed Sutherland
I've been trying to apt-get (through mirrors.kernel.org) Gnome 2.2.6 for the ppc. Debian says there is an unmet dependency: "The following packages have unmet dependencies: Depends: gnome-games (>=1:2.6.0) but 1:2.4.3-3 is to be installed" What do I do? Thanks. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Kirk Strauser wrote: > I really don't know where people get this "KDE is slow" stuff to be honest. He got it from someone surmising that my KDE was 200Mb without backing it up. So, here's some rumor control. I closed down KDE and killed all apps that had been running. Ran free. Then logged

Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)

2004-06-15 Thread chris-usenet
On Monday 14 June 2004 11:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with > 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041 > (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with > it. David Sanders <[EMAIL PROTEC

Please test Cernlib & PAW on AMD64 and "exotic" arches (sample test included)

2004-06-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I hacked out a port of Cernlib for AMD64, and it should now be available in the AMD64 archive (thanks to Andreas Jochens for building it). If anyone who has an Opteron machine could do some testing on it for me, please let me know the results. I'm particularly interested in whether the F

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 08:56, Harland Christofferson wrote: > *snip* > > > > >What is the partition type on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1? If they > >are not both > >FD (Linux raid autodetect), your raid array won't work. > > the partition type? okay ... new territory for me. they are ext2 > w/ ID of 8

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T15:52:23Z, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > He got it from someone surmising that my KDE was 200Mb without backing it > up. I think you're probably right. Maybe it's that people load KDE and launch one program and freak out at the resource usage. They don't realize that KD

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Chandler
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 05:06 am, Adam Funk wrote: > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 12:40, Enrico Zini wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:46:37PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > >> > And after I try to mount it (mount /dev/sda /mnt/fuji): > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/fuji > > > > You must use "sda1

Re: strange problem with sound card

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Monday 14 June 2004 23:57, j smith wrote: > i have SB 16 and Debian 3.0. after compiling kernel > 2.4, i put the following to /etc/modules: > > sound > uart401 > sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 > > it seems that sound driver works, because lbreakout2's > sound effect is OK and xawtv

Re: raid0 initialization

2004-06-15 Thread Harland Christofferson
* snip * >It sounds simple, but if you get into trouble, you might want to search the >archives for problems other people have had, or you might want to check out >this link: >http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ > >It's quite complete, very recent, and a good resource. I recommend reading

saslauthd : Permission denied after todays dist-upgrade

2004-06-15 Thread Bengt Thure'e
Hej I did a apt-get dist-upgrade on my mail server this evening on my mailserver which is based upon Sarge. After this postfix can not connect to the saslauthd daemon anymore. Has anyone else encountered the same problem? I checked the /var/cache/apt/archives directory for the latest installed p

Re: what do i need to install???

2004-06-15 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 09:11, Cecil wrote: > I have installed my nvidia driver problem free before... But now when i > try to get my kernel headers, it says it cant find them. I have > updated... And I am running testing. > > Couldn't find package kernel-headers-2.6.6-1-386 > > Cecil That packag

saslauthd : Permission denied after todays dist-upgrade - Solved

2004-06-15 Thread Bengt Thure'e
Bengt Thure'e wrote: Hej I did a apt-get dist-upgrade on my mail server this evening on my mailserver which is based upon Sarge. After this postfix can not connect to the saslauthd daemon anymore. Has anyone else encountered the same problem? Needed to do a adduser postfix sasl since post

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
Steven Yap wrote: On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 22:40, Paul Scott wrote: As to the original topic a strong reason for my using KDE over Gnome is having all tasks in the taskbar instead of only those on the current desktop. If someone knows how to easily fix this in Gnome I might give it another look

Re: bash profile how?

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:01:06PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > For some reason bash isn't sourcing /etc/profile. In fact after adding . > /etc/profile to .bash_profile I don't think .bash_profile is being sourced > b/c it had no effect. > > I just wiped RH 7.3 and I don't know the shell best-p

Re: xcdroast in kernel 2.6 doesn't work with ATAPI or SCSI - BY-PASSED

2004-06-15 Thread steef van duin
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Jun 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: It's supposed to be unnecessary to use scsi-emulation in 2.6 kernels but if I try to use ATAPI, xcdroast simply hangs with a message saying it won't work properly (this is latest version from Sid). I therefore gave up and compiled a

iptables - ip_conntrack_max

2004-06-15 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi Debian users, I read this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2003/03/msg00011.html about ip_conntrack_max (iptables). So I would like know how can I do to my debian put 5000 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max in the boot without use /etc/rc.boot/ Hugs Gilberto -- To U

df and strange filesystem synonimity

2004-06-15 Thread Bluejack
I've tried hunting google and various archives for some hint that someone has seen & solved this before, but I am apparently not using the right search terms: I recently set up a linux box (older, 2.5 G HD, i386, PIII-233, the latest Woody dist) and I mounted /usr and /usr/local as separate filesys

Re: USB and debian ppc

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 15 Jun 2004 06:10:06 +0200, r351574nc3 escreveu: > Is there anyone on that knows about which would be a suitable usb > adapter for debian ppc on a g3? I installed an I/O Gear usb adapter > and found it works in OS 9 and OS X, but gives me strange errors in > linux. Weâd need to kn

Hotplug USB printer agent not remove'ing

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
I have a Canon BJC-3000 USB-connected printer, and for some reason it will quite frequently loose connection with the computer. I donât know if it is my toddler messing the cables, a defective cable, whatever. It shouldnât be a big deal, simply taking the cable off and on again do

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:50:07 +0200, dircha escreveu: > In GNOME try printing in the default installs of gpdf (PDF), ggv > (Postscript), Epiphany (web browser), or Abiword (word processor) to > name a few. It works nicely in the 2.6 version, now in CVS. Real spoiler here is CUPS. --

Re: df and strange filesystem synonimity

2004-06-15 Thread Bluejack
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:09:53 -0400, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: /dev/hda5 /usr defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr/local/ defaults 0 0 You will then get them proper. You need to remove any file in /usr/local/ when the REAL filesystem is not mounted, as that would be space use

Re: df and strange filesystem synonimity

2004-06-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:31, Bluejack wrote: > I've tried hunting google and various archives for some > hint that someone has seen & solved this before, but I am > apparently not using the right search terms: > > I recently set up a linux box (older, 2.5 G HD, i386, PIII-233, > the latest Woody d

Re: df and strange filesystem synonimity

2004-06-15 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:31:52AM -0700, Bluejack wrote: > > I've tried hunting google and various archives for some > hint that someone has seen & solved this before, but I am > apparently not using the right search terms: > > I recently set up a linux box (older, 2.5 G HD, i386, PIII-233, > th

performing diff on parts of a file

2004-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am looking for a program/script(?) which performs diff on parts of a file. Say I have a file of 100 lines. How to do diff on lines between 20-30, and 50-60 without writing them into separate files. Which software should I learn for this? sed/awk/perl? thanks for any ideas raju -- To UNSUBSCRI

Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Daniel Klein
Hoi, this is my first time on debian when a new version of some program comes out that I want immediately. I have firefox 0.8 installed, an apt-get install mozilla-firefox tells me I have the latest version, and in my apt/sources.list it says unstable after the url.. when, roughly, can I expect

Re: df and strange filesystem synonimity

2004-06-15 Thread Silvan
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 02:27 pm, Bluejack wrote: > Thank you. Your guess about my fstab file was, of course, correct, > and your solution exactly what I was looking for. All healed now, > and another little piece of information added to my growing > body of linux minutia! They got to you before

Re: accessing a fuji digital camera

2004-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
Just a month ago I bought a Fuji FinePix A330 and it is working flawlessly with my TP 390E and Debian Testing. I do load and unload the USB modules at each invocation of my script since I have no other USB devices. I have a attached a copy of the script if that will help. - Nate >> -- Wireles

Re: iptables - ip_conntrack_max

2004-06-15 Thread Angus D Madden
Gilberto Villani Brito, Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:23:22PM -0300: > Hi Debian users, > I read this message: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2003/03/msg00011.html about > ip_conntrack_max (iptables). So I would like know how can I do to my > debian put 5000 in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrac

Re: Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Ken Simon
Daniel Klein wrote: Hoi, this is my first time on debian when a new version of some program comes out that I want immediately. I have firefox 0.8 installed, an apt-get install mozilla-firefox tells me I have the latest version, and in my apt/sources.list it says unstable after the url.. when, ro

Problems with DISPLAY and X

2004-06-15 Thread J. Preiss
Hi, I got the old problem with authentication, X-forwarding, setting Display and so on... what I tried: first, I exchanged my ssh public keys (dsa) on both pcs, just to be sure (I did it by scp and ssh, but there was a one-line-command to do that, can someone tell me?) when I call xterm with

Re: Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ken Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jun 15 14:27 -0500]: > Daniel Klein wrote: > >Hoi, > > > >this is my first time on debian when a new version of some program comes > >out that I want immediately. I have firefox 0.8 installed, an apt-get > >install mozilla-firefox tells me I have the latest v

Re: iptables - ip_conntrack_max

2004-06-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Gilberto Villani Brito (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I read this message: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall/2003/03/msg00011.html > about ip_conntrack_max (iptables). > So I would like know how can I do to my debian put 5000 in > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max in the boot with

Re: trouble adding window manager to GDM

2004-06-15 Thread Philipp Bliedung
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 18:30, Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hello, I am running Debian unstable and updated to Gnome 2.6 this past weekend. After the update (and an update to the newest version of gdm 2.4.4.7-3) I can't select any other window managers from the GDM login-scree

Re: Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Daniel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040615 20:45]: > this is my first time on debian when a new version of some program comes > out that I want immediately. I have firefox 0.8 installed, an apt-get > install mozilla-firefox tells me I have the latest version, and in my > apt/sources.list it say

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:01:29AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-06-15T03:01:59Z, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Pisses me off to no end when i want to copy from folder A to folder B > > which are both in folder C and I have to open two windows and drill both > > windows down

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-15T18:27:51Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) writes: > Not bad. But IMHO far better: > $ cd /u[tab]sh[tab] etc. > $ mc al[tab] si[tab] Note that you skipped a latter part of my message: >> Of course, my main file manager is Konsole and Zsh, so most of this is >> academic on

Re: Gui interface ideas

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Evan Fowle
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Loren M. Lang wrote: > I have setup a series of programs for controlling/monitoring/testing > some hardware through a serial port that are all command-line based. > The engineers working on the project were fine with this, but as they go > into production, they need a more d

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Kirk Strauser wrote: > Still, one thing that Konqueror lets me do more conveniently than a shell > prompt is interact with remote filesystems. I can use the sftp:// or > fish:// methods to browse filesystems on servers located elsewhere, then > drag-and-drop files to windows browsing local Samba s

gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems should be) a quick answer. How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to switch Caps Lock and Control and have done this for the console but it gets unswitched when Gnome (gdm) is started. How do I switch

ftp with tls

2004-06-15 Thread Edwards, Thomas W.
Has anyone gotten this to work in setting it up using tls for proftp?  The module mod_tls is built into the core of proftpd, however the example config doesn’t seen to explain where the keys’ come from?  Is there another setup example of this anywhere besides the proftpd site which I am mis

Re: Howto: Eject CD?

2004-06-15 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-10, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from Ed Sutherland: >> >> Still, I am unable to mount /dev/hdb or /dev/cdrom in order to play >> the audio CD. > > You don't mount audio CDs, and it's not /dev/cdrom; it's /cdrom. > Far as I know, you can (u)mount devices by specifying either the mount

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Patrick Lane
Menu/Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:02, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for such a basic question but can't seem to find (what seems > should be) a quick answer. > > How do I switch key bindings in Gnome 2.6 (for Sarge)? I like to > switch Caps Lock and C

Re: gnome 2.6 and keybindings

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Yeatman
I've checked this 10 or so times. I must be missing something. How do I remap the keys? When I go to Applications/Desktop Preferences/Keyboard, a window labeled "Keyboard Preferences" emerges. There are two tabs, "Keyboard" and "Typing Break". Neither seem to offer key remapping. Clicking "Acc

Re: Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra
Em Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:50:14 +0200, Daniel Klein escreveu: > when, roughly, can I > expect new stuff like this to surface in unstable? Whenever the maintainers find the time, barring discovery of major bugs. There arenât schedules, and personal circumstances can influence.

Adaptec 1210SA SATA RAID-Controller - Driver Issues

2004-06-15 Thread Jan Tytgat
Hello, A couple of months ago I've bought a SuperMicro server. Apart from the onboard SATA-controller, my shop provided me with a basic Adaptec RAID-controller: SATA RAID 1210SA. When installing redhat9 on my system, this gives no problems since the drivers provided by adaptec are specifically c

Re: Firefox 0.9

2004-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
Daniel Klein wrote: Hoi, this is my first time on debian when a new version of some program comes out that I want immediately. I have firefox 0.8 installed, an apt-get install mozilla-firefox tells me I have the latest version, and in my apt/sources.list it says unstable after the url.. when, r

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