Re: recording package transactions

2004-09-28 Thread Lukas Ruf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-28 08:13]: > > for a while people have wanted a way to keep track of apt's actions. I do: - -- BEGIN #!/bin/sh DATE="`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M`" LOG="debian.packages" VAR="-V" if [ "`hostname`" = "uccel

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

2004-09-28 Thread Wim De Smet
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:34:57 +0200, Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The debian java howto is very old. Is there one for sarge in wotk? > > I try to setup an IBM-Java2-ppc-142(which is only avaiable as tar.gz or rpm > file) SDK kit for my old powerpc.I installed it to /opt/IBM-Java2-p

Re: Detached Signatures in Pine

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:44:14PM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > Can we have detached gpg signatures in Pine ? If Yes, how ? > > > rrs > > - -- Hi Ritesh, I know of 2 kinds of sigs: mime and ascii/inline. What's 'detached'? -Kev --

Re: recording package transactions

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:11:04AM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-09-28 08:13]: > > > > for a while people have wanted a way to keep track of apt's actions. > > I do: > > Of course, files could be deleted but I do not. > Hi Lukas, this makes a list of the packa

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks > super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... > > Get xfig and transfig > > use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate your > .fig files. > > These you edit with xfig. Use "T" button

Re: Recording a skype conversation.

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:23:22PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > I've just installed Skype (http://www.skype.com) and it seems to work > all right. > > Now I want to be able to record conversations. If I start a recorder > and then try to make a Skype call, the call want go through. > > Any way of

Re: [hpoj-devel] Can only print one document

2004-09-28 Thread Brendan Simon
I think it is working now. I had upgraded my kernel from 2.4.26-1-k7 to 2.4.27-1-k7. I didn't think this would cause things to go astray. I stuffed around for ages but could only get one page to print. I then got a reply from Scott (below) and decided to try kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 but that w

Gimp2 segfault

2004-09-28 Thread LeVA
Hi! Anyone experiencing a segfault with Gimp2 in Sarge? I've tried to run gimp(2.0.4) compiled from sources, and installed from deb packages (sarge, gimp2.0.4), but neither of them could start. I get this error message everytime: $ gimp (script-fu:8668): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_

Re: Detached Signatures in Pine

2004-09-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:44:14PM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Can we have detached gpg signatures in Pine ? If Yes, how ? rrs - -- Hi Ritesh, I know of 2 kinds

Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Jacob Larsen
I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. The script may only run in 1 instance. My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The script should write a run file, and if the run file exists, exit. Is this the best way? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread hendrik
I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will eventually change to sarge, but at a time of my choosing, and with suitable parallel operation:

Re: Comment on running Debian on AMD 64

2004-09-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 11:17:08AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:49:11AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm prepared to upgrade a PC to AMD 64. Any comment in respect of > > running Debian on AMD 64 will be appreciated. > > Take a look at http://www.nl

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Blake Swadling
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:23, Jacob Larsen wrote: > I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. > The script may only run in 1 instance. > My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The script > should write a run file, and if the run file exists, exit. > Is this t

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Dave Howorth
In reply to: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running > woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will > eventually change to sarge, but at a time

Re: xscreensaver

2004-09-28 Thread Tom Allison
Blake Swadling wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:25, Tom Allison wrote: How can I configure xscreensaver to automatically load for every user of X window on my workstations? See the thread in the archives titled "bash profile does not get loaded" and substitute xscreensaver for profile. create a fi

Idea

2004-09-28 Thread remy harel
Hi folks, Debian user for a long time, I think debian is a really good project, and a wonderful linux distribution. One more time, congratulations, and maybe one day I'll join you to help this project, but I still hesitate, I don't know if I m enough good to help ( young french engineer ). Wha

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/09/04 12:02), remy harel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Debian user for a long time, I think debian is a > really good project, and a wonderful linux > distribution. One more time, congratulations, and > maybe one day I'll join you to help this project, but > I still hesitate, I don't know if I

apache2 debian backport archives

2004-09-28 Thread Tom Stockton
Hi there, Does anybody know where I can get hold of old versions of the apache2 backports ? Specifically I am looking for apache2-mpm-worker 2.0.49. I am currently running the prefork version but would like to switch to the worker module without upgrading to 2.0.51. Any help much appreciated.

Sed scripting...

2004-09-28 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have a need for some search and replace type activity... I need to change the urls in a bunch of files within a directory hierarchy. I have been playing with sed to get the replacing done, and have come up with the following: sed -e 's/^.*:\///g' -e '/^\//!s/^/\//g' -e '/$BASE_URL/!s/^

Re: 5.1 audio files in asf or asx format?

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:15:02 +0200, Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I try to listen to a 5.1 audio stream at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index.shtml. > > Are there tools for debian with which this is possible? > I tried juk, kaffein, xmms and xine. No luck at a

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

2004-09-28 Thread Blake Swadling
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:14, Wim De Smet wrote: > > And how do I get .jar files to work by doubleklickind under kde 3.2.3? > > Are there maybe some security problems? > > There's probably some sort of configuration dialog in KDE to establish > a relationship between filetypes and programs. Find it

Re: 5.1 audio files in asf or asx format?

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:15:02 +0200, Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I try to listen to a 5.1 audio stream at > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index.shtml. > > Are there tools for debian with which this is possible? > I tried juk, kaffein, xmms and xine. No luck at a

Re: mozilla-thunderbird and clamav

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:20:28 +0700, Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > - I've got freschclam for clamav updating purpose and running it as > daemon while > this box is always connected to the internet. > - In other word, I should apt-get install kernel-image-smp ? > On

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

2004-09-28 Thread Rthoreau
> From: Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Today 02:14:17 > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:34:57 +0200, Christian Leimer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The debian java howto is very old. Is there one for sarge in wotk? >> >>I try to setup an IBM-Java2-ppc-142(which is only avaiable as tar.gz >> o

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:15:00PM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > First of all, this is my first usage of the Debian mailing lists, so > if I have mailed this to the wrong list, I apologize and ask that you > simply direct me to a more appropriate list. > > I am interested in the HP Proliant ML350

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Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... Get xfig and transfig use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate your .fig files. This generates one .fig file for eac

Missing /proc/scsi files...?

2004-09-28 Thread Stephen Tait
Does anyone know what is going on with /proc/scsi/* in 2.6.8...? I'm trying to run the 3ware disc management daemon on my 9500 (3dm2), which fails because it can't find /proc/scsi/3w-9xxx. In /proc/scsi I only have scsi and device_info... zaphod:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scs

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:31:00AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:31:00 +0100 > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: remy harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Idea > > On

cleaning clutter out of /dev/ after installing udev

2004-09-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, i am looking to clean up my /dev/ directory after converting to udev but do not know how. i am not using devfs at all (it is not compiled into my kernel), and i have tried deleting every device except for: console, null, and zero (based on some online recommendation) but the system prompte

newbie trying to install usb modem

2004-09-28 Thread Stephen Puttick
I have just installed sarge using CDs (jigdo download of 1st 3) on my old win98 PC. I have 2 hard disks so Debian is on a separate disk - so no real problems if I need to start again. I have an Alcatel speedtouch 330 USB (broadband/ADSL) modem, which works on both the win98 PC and my win xp lap

Problem with USB HD (on a S-ATA HD system)

2004-09-28 Thread anchisi.davide
Hi, I'm trying to connect an external USB2 hard disk to my Debian box, but I got the following message as I plug it in: usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using address 2 usb 3-3: control timeout on ep0out usb 3-3: control timeout on ep0out usb 3-3: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, so we might as well have a look at .config. Frank alright, let me attach some files..:) Thanks! Jule -- Jule Slootbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thesloot

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 28-09-2004, om 11:45 schreef Clive Menzies: > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How do I set it up to make sure I stay with woody and do not > > automatically upgrad to the new stable? > In your /etc/apt/sources.list change references from "stable" to > "woody" and then y

cannot umount / when shutting down

2004-09-28 Thread Pau Capdevila
Hi, Sometimes I see the message that has not been possible to umount the root filesystem during halt sequence. Then I suffer the endless fsck of the filesystem (it is ext3) on the next start. Does anybody know what may happen? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: newbie trying to install usb modem

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:27:26 +0100, Stephen Puttick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed sarge using CDs (jigdo download of 1st 3) on my > old win98 PC. I have 2 hard disks so Debian is on a separate disk - so > no real problems if I need to start again. > > I have an Alcatel speedto

Newbie trying to install Soundcard on Debian Linux

2004-09-28 Thread Marion Hall
What’s the easiest way to install soundcard drivers on system.  I’ve setup an Icecast server and I need a working sound card.  My computer (Gateway) has an onboard soundcard, but if it is easier to install a soundcard, then I can do that.  Also, how do you go about testing the sound card on

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Jacob Larsen
I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. The script may only run in 1 instance. My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The script should write a run file, and if the run file exists, exit. Is this the best way? yeah. Accpeted method is to write a lock file

Best Way to Share Printers?

2004-09-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I have a LAN connecting three Debian systems. Until now there has never been a need to share printers as pre-LAN each system had its own printer. Now one printer has died and we wish to share. I have references on Samba and Swat but they refer to sharing among Windows and NT systems. Is ther

Re: Best Way to Share Printers?

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:40:25 -0400, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a LAN connecting three Debian systems. Until now there has never > been a need to share printers as pre-LAN each system had its own printer. > > Now one printer has died and we wish to share. I have referenc

Re: cannot umount / when shutting down

2004-09-28 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sometimes I see the message that has not been possible to umount the > root filesystem during  halt sequence. > Then I suffer the endless fsck of the filesystem (it is ext3) on the > next start. > > Does anybody know what may happen?

Re: Newbie trying to install Soundcard on Debian Linux

2004-09-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Marion Hall (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > What's the easiest way to install soundcard drivers on system. I've > setup an Icecast server and I need a working sound card. My computer > (Gateway) has an onboard soundcard, but if it is easier to install a > soundcard, then I can do that. Al

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Clive Menzies_, on 09/28/04 06:31,typed: > . > . list. Debian-user may be high maintenance but if you use a good mail client (such as mutt) it is fairly easy to ignore/delete threads of no interest. It is a forum where merely by reading the threads Or if you read them on Gman

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Jacob Larsen wrote: > I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. > The script may only run in 1 instance. > My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The script > should write a run file, and if the run file exists, exit

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Wim De Smet
Hi, On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:49:07 -0400, Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't > > think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, > > so we might as well have a look at .config. > > > > Frank

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, H. S. wrote: > Apparently, _Clive Menzies_, on 09/28/04 06:31,typed: > > . > > . > > list. Debian-user may be high maintenance but if you use a good mail > > client (such as mutt) it is fairly easy to ignore/delete threads of no > > interest. It is a forum where me

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Jule Slootbeek
Wim De Smet wrote: Hi, What is the nice value of X? (check with top) It might cause problems with 2.6 if it's still at -10, you can dpkg-reconfigure it and change it to 0 if it is. You might want to check out other processes and their memory usage too. Lately I had a similar problem and it was ess

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Mark Schonfeld
Just out of curiosity, you installed it on the G4 ML350 or was it the G3 ML350? This was with the 642 raid? On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:09:31 +0200, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:15:00PM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > > First of all, this is my first usa

Re: Sed scripting...

2004-09-28 Thread William D Ricker
Pete, > I have a need for some search and replace type activity... Perl can do s&r inplace as wellas filter, and handles context better than SED too. With modull Regexp::Common, you can even use a pattern crafted by an expert to match URLs. seems to me you may need Perl patterns' lookahead conte

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Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Clive Menzies: > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the > > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running > > woody and not follow stable to a big change to sarge. Oh -- I will > > In

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

2004-09-28 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:50:58PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear insinuated: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:37:46PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > now i'm having a totally different problem, actually: after > > figuring out how to mount it, i put about 500 songs on it, and > > then disconnected and reconne

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Eddy
Clive Menzies a écrit le 28/09/04 12:40 : On (28/09/04 12:02), remy harel wrote: Hi folks, [...] I was on many debian mailing lists, and I recently left these lists, for 2 main reasons. First, I got more than 100 mails a day, it's a bit too much according to me ! And the second... how to say.. In

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

2004-09-28 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:43:56PM -0700, Brian Nelson insinuated: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:17:23AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > > > i just got an iPod(!), and i'm very excited to start using it. > > > however, i can't figure ou

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

2004-09-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: ... /dev/sda /mnt/ipod hfsplus rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0 ), /var/log/syslog gives the error: Sep 27 16:12:48 homeruns kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfsplus is recommended. mounting read-only. and then it mounts it read-

Re: Missing /proc/scsi files...?

2004-09-28 Thread Stephen Tait
At 13:50 28/09/2004, you wrote: Does anyone know what is going on with /proc/scsi/* in 2.6.8...? I'm trying to run the 3ware disc management daemon on my 9500 (3dm2), which fails because it can't find /proc/scsi/3w-9xxx. In /proc/scsi I only have scsi and device_info... I'm currently running the

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > > >Maybe the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo" and "dmesg" would help. I don't > >think kernel options would make a huge difference, but you never know, > >so we might as well have a look at .config. > > > >Frank > > > > alright, let

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:56:35AM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > Just out of curiosity, you installed it on the G4 ML350 or was it the > G3 ML350? This was with the 642 raid? I'm not exactly sure. It might be a G3 (I can't check easily, it is at a customer site).I believe it was a 641 raid. Fra

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the > > > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue running > > > woody and not follow stabl

Re: Idea

2004-09-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> Apparently, _Clive Menzies_, on 09/28/04 06:31,typed: > > . > > . > > list. Debian-user may be high maintenance but if you use a good mail > > client (such as mutt) it is fairly easy to ignore/delete threads of no > > interest. It is a forum where merely by reading the threads > > Or

vfat iPod suddenly fails to write [was: Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB]

2004-09-28 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:02:31AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > ... > >/dev/sda /mnt/ipod hfsplus rw,user,noauto,noatime 0 0 > > > >), /var/log/syslog gives the error: > > > >Sep 27 16:12:48 homeruns kernel: HFS+-fs warning: Filesystem was not > >cleanly unmounted,

Debian sid - jigdo problem

2004-09-28 Thread Ivan Imperl
I finished downloading debian-20040914-i386-binary-1.iso and wanted to test if all packages are there. So I mounted iso file to ~/scan, run jigdo-lite, and let jigdo-lite scan ~/scan: Files to scan: 1 Not downloading .template file - `sid-i386-1.template' already present Found 6649 of the 6659 f

Flash card reader

2004-09-28 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hi all, I have de following flash card reader, does anybody know how to make it works? :00:10.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 1724 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASno

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Clive Menzies: > On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When the > > > > big switchover comes, I want the woody machine to continue r

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Joost Witteveen
Clive Menzies wrote: # this doesn't: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main contrib non-free Ah! Well this does here: deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main Reminds me of the time my box was rooted. Must have been 1997 or thereabouts, and I was constantly

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Adam Funk
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 16:30, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:23:15AM +0200, Jacob Larsen wrote: >> I have a script that I'd like to run as often as possible. >> The script may only run in 1 instance. >> My idea is to have a cron script to start it once every hour. The >> s

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Justin Guerin
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 10:52, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote: > > > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > > > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When > > > >

Re: 5.1 audio files in asf or asx format?

2004-09-28 Thread Christian Leimer
Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:15:02 +0200, Christian Leimer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I try to listen to a 5.1 audio stream at >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index.shtml. >> >> Are there tools for debian with which this is possible? >> I tried juk,

Re: GCVS resets write access for user

2004-09-28 Thread Otto Wyss
> You can use 'cvs watch off' to disable the notification feature, and the > need to cvs edit files. > Yes this seems to be the right command unfortunately I can't figure out how it works with the CVS repository at sourceforge.net. Which CVSROOT is needed? I usually don't checkout it unless I have

Re: [solved] Re: mounting iPod with USB

2004-09-28 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 12:16:52PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:43:56PM -0700, Brian Nelson insinuated: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 12:34:25PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: [...] > > > > > > all appears to work now. my files are transferring over > > > slow-as-molassses US

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4 support

2004-09-28 Thread Mark Schonfeld
Ok. Thank you. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:07:33 +0200, Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:56:35AM -0400, Mark Schonfeld wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, you installed it on the G4 ML350 or was it the > > G3 ML350? This was with the 642 raid? > > I'm not exactly

Re: Can only print one document

2004-09-28 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:14:56AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I'm running Debian testing (kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7) with CUPS (cupsys > and cupsys-bsd 1.1.20final) and I have an HP LaserJet 3330. > > I have had it working with earlier kernels and cups but now it only > prints one document and

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:49:49PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > That runs the script as root, right? If you wanted to run it with as > another user, would you just stick a bit of sudo in that inittab > entry? Sure: mysc:2345:respawn:su - someuser -c /path/to/myscript -- Dave Carrigan Seattle, WA

LaTeX with Emacs

2004-09-28 Thread Ali Nassar
Hi All, I am using emacs on Debian-Linux to edit LaTex files. Is there any tool in emacs to make a delimiter check? I mean to count the number of left delimiters in the file and compare it with the number of right delimiters and then give me an error message if a delimiter is missing. I have been

Re: Best Way to Share Printers?

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:40:25 -0400, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a LAN connecting three Debian systems. Until now there has never > been a need to share printers as pre-LAN each system had its own printer. > > Now one printer has died and we wish to share. I have referenc

Re: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
--- Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > >I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ... > >"Reading Package Lists... Error! > >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > >E: Read error - read (14 Bad address) > >E: The package lists or status file could

RE: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
--- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge > sources.list? > > If so take the lines out and update again. > > regards > > Thing > > -Original Message- > From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 28 Septembe

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:11:21 -0600 Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (0) root /root_ aptitude update > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree > > Reading extended state information... Done > > W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org > > wood

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

2004-09-28 Thread Christian Leimer
Wim De Smet wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:34:57 +0200, Christian Leimer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The debian java howto is very old. Is there one for sarge in wotk? >> >> I try to setup an IBM-Java2-ppc-142(which is only avaiable as tar.gz or >> rpm file) SDK kit for my old powerpc.I inst

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

2004-09-28 Thread Christian Leimer
Blake Swadling wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:14, Wim De Smet wrote: >> > And how do I get .jar files to work by doubleklickind under kde 3.2.3? >> > Are there maybe some security problems? >> >> There's probably some sort of configuration dialog in KDE to establish >> a relationship between f

PHP as CGI: Denial of Service?

2004-09-28 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello there, PHP set up as CGI (either with binfmt and suEXEC or via suPHP) can expose your system to a denial of service attack. Even a very simple page like can bog down a server completely if the reload button on the browser is pressed continously for some seconds. I already tried the RMax

Re: mii-tool eth0 wierdness

2004-09-28 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:22:10AM +1200, Simon Buchanan wrote: > Hi There, i have a debian woody box that i am connected to via ssh, here > is the ifconfig: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:FC:XX:XX:XX > inet addr:203.109.xxx.xx Bcast:203.109.xxx.xx > Mask:255.255.255.

Mirror with some errors..

2004-09-28 Thread UnKnown
Hi ppl Im using debmirror to mirror debian with the following options debmirror -a i386 -s main,contrib,non-free -h ftp.debian.org -d stable / -d testing /home/debian/debian/ --nosource --progress This shuld mirror the main, contrib and non-free for the architectures stable and testing, without t

Re: Recording a skype conversation.

2004-09-28 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:39:38AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:23:22PM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > > I've just installed Skype (http://www.skype.com) and it seems to work > > all right. > > > > Now I want to be able to record conversations. If I start a recorder > > and t

Re: 5.1 audio files in asf or asx format?

2004-09-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:04:05 +0200, Christian Leimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Vettorello wrote: > [...] > > > But for mozilla-mplayer I need sid, right? Mmh, you're right, seems it's missing from Sarge... > And I must use mplayer for ppc from somewhere. > Can you test if it works w

Re: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
--- Rob Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: > >I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ... > >"Reading Package Lists... Error! > >E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > >E: Read error - read (14 Bad address) > >E: The package lists or status file could

Re: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" - Thanks, got this one fixed!

2004-09-28 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
As some people suggested, I put "APT::Cache-Limit 1000;" in /etc/apt/apt.conf (that I had to create). THANKS to everybody (there was a number of replies); Also in future I'll try to be more mindfull to use a search engine first. Sincerely - Mr. Jan Hearthstone. = Modelling the

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/09/04 18:50), Joost Witteveen wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >Ah! Well this does here: > >deb http://security.debian.org/ woody/updates main > > Reminds me of the time my box was rooted. Must have been 1997 or > thereabouts, and I was constantly keeping my box uptodate with > the lat

Re: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"

2004-09-28 Thread Tim Gunning
Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote: --- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge sources.list? If so take the lines out and update again. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 20

lprng cron job deleting old print jobs

2004-09-28 Thread Sean McAvoy
Hello, I am experiencing a problem with lprng on several machines (all woody): /etc/cron.daily/lprng: co: file 'hfA615', age 45.01 hours > 24.00 hours maximum (removing) I get messages like the above every day. Users have also complained about missing print jobs, it would seem they are spooled b

Re: Apache2 'SSLEngine on' not working in testing

2004-09-28 Thread Rob
Hi Jake, I am having the same problem. After an upgrade to Apache2 2.0.51-2 (testing) my ssl site also does not work. I haven't gone so far as to purge and reinstall the packages yet. Using netstat -l does not show anything listening on my port 443. There doesn't seem to be anything in my a

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Max Moritz Sievers
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:01, Clive Menzies wrote: > I don't think there is any non-free stuff on them. Time to google to verify > that. Take a look at the Virtual Richard M. Stallman: http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/vrms -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Max Moritz Sievers

Paid focus group telephone interview for Linux Debian users

2004-09-28 Thread Matt Butler
Hello,    I am putting together telephone conference groups the week of October 4th. The session lasts 60 minutes by phone and pays you $150. The topic is to discuss Linux systems and support, specifically we are looking for users of Debian or Fedora or some other free Linux distribution

Auto reply message: Casino Support cannot except email attachments

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Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 10:52:47AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > On (28/09/04 10:02), s. keeling wrote: > > > Incoming from Clive Menzies: > > > > On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have a machine running woody and another running sargs. When th

Re: Run script as often as possible

2004-09-28 Thread Jacob Larsen
mysc:2345:respawn:su - someuser -c /path/to/myscript Thanks! And I guess if I want to write output to a file I do this: mysc:2345:respawn:su - someuser -c /path/to/myscript >> /var/log/myscript.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

2004-09-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Ali Nassar wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using emacs on Debian-Linux to edit LaTex files. Is there any tool in > emacs to make a delimiter check? I mean to count the number of left > delimiters in the file and compare it with the number of right delimiters > a

Unidentified subject!

2004-09-28 Thread oliverheard
i have installed debian 3.0 on my pc and when i try to login it seems to load up for a few seconds but then i just get the logon dialog again please can someone help me as i am quite new to linux as i used to be a windows user but the very second i got a taste of a knoppix cd from a friend i hav

Re: Re: Alsa in Debian Sarge? How to?

2004-09-28 Thread Michael Haggerty
Hello, There is no need to do that. First, if you use Kernel 2.6, you must make the changes to /etc/modprobe.d, not /etc/modutils. I had similar problems with my modprobe configuration after a round of configuration (including running alsa-config) and ended up with a problem with symptoms like th

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