partition /var is full

Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I have removed the biggest files in /var/log/. How can I solve this p

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

El Martes, 28 de Septiembre de 2004 20:04, Ali Nassar escribió: > 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

binary compatibility between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

Hello. I have an application, currently running on SUSE 7.0 woth 2.4.4 kernel. I wanted to move this application to Sarge 2.6.3. I set everything up, including the same libg++ , however the application fails to retrieve the serial number of the machine (I don't know what function they used, it's a

Re: Idea

Eddy wrote: > How does a beginner decide whether the question he's going to ask is of newbie or expert level ? If he posts in the beginner's list just because he is a beginner, he might never get a reply to a difficult question or problem because the experts do not read that list. I already sa

Re: keeping woody

Max Moritz Sievers wrote: 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 Brilliant! However, # dpkg --purge unra

Re: Idea

Eddy wrote: > How does a beginner decide whether the question he's going to ask is of newbie or expert level ? If he posts in the beginner's list just because he is a beginner, he might never get a reply to a difficult question or problem because the experts do not read that list. I already sa

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

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 and then give me an error message if a delimiter is miss

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: LaTeX with Emacs

Ali Nassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using emacs on Debian-Linux to edit LaTex files. Is there any tool in > emacs to make a delimiter check? I believe M-x check-parens will do it. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Bad DM!:Put the Hand of Vecna in the bag with the r

Re: binary compatibility between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels

"Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello. > I have an application, currently running on SUSE 7.0 woth 2.4.4 kernel. I > wanted to move this application to Sarge 2.6.3. I set everything up, > including the same libg++ , however the application fails to retrieve the > seria

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: Run script as often as possible

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. what does that mean? as many instances as possible until the cpu load in maxed out? > The script may only run in 1 instance. And that would be ... > My idea is to have a cron

RE: Newbie trying to install Soundcard on Debian Linux

Am Dienstag, 28. September 2004 18:35 schrieb Marion Hall: > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen > 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 s

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

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

Hello Michael Haggerty (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> 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

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

I enabled MTRR, and along with that and the other things suggested, i managed to get >500 fps with glxgear, before it was around 200fps. This seems to have helped some stuff, thanks alot! Jule Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote: Maybe the output of

Re: partition /var is full

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > >

Samba - hostname no appear in smbstatus

Hi, Newbie here. I'm having problems with seeing the hostname of a Linux box correctly under Samba with smbstatus. Background: I'm running sarge with Samba 3.0.5 on a server that I built. It sits on our local network behind a Smoothwall firewall, which functions as a virtual nameserver using our

Gnome-Panel no longer starts at login, or after

A few days ago I logged into GNOME using GDM and the gnome panel failed to start up. That left me with just sawfish running. This is usable but I would like the Gnome panel back for convenience sake. I have tried the following: Renaming each of the following files or directories: ~/.gnome/sessi

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 04:06, Christian Leimer wrote: Thanks. I try that if I got java to work. Do you need the IBM JDK for any particular reason? At newton we have been using Sun SDK only for ages as we have previously had compatibility trouble with the blackdown one, but the 1.4 package li

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

Nori Heikkinen wrote: 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, r

asus a7n8x built in nic and intel pro 100 S nic

i have the asus a7n8x, with the built in NIC as well as a 2nd nic i added, an intel pro 100 S, with chipset number 82550. I'm trying to use the netinst cd and its not working because it keeps failing to set up my network cards. I tried installing it using both the 2.4 kernel and the 2.6 kernel

Re: partition /var is full

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var

progress x.org?

I have a hart time to get suatble information about x.org to debian. I read I think that they were going to wait for something (I dont know). But beside of that. Does anyone have a timeplan to when x.org is going to enter sid (or into experimental et al.) And, when that now happens, how have you

Going to sarge / sid with apt-get dist-upgrade

How would I do such a thing? I always get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Cole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Going to sarge / sid with apt-get dist-upgrade

nano /etc/apt/sources.list change sarge/testing for sid/unstable Remember that you won't be able to downgrade... Alejandro On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:22:12 -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would I do such a thing? I always get: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dep

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: Going to sarge / sid with apt-get dist-upgrade

Alejandro Matos wrote: nano /etc/apt/sources.list change sarge/testing for sid/unstable Remember that you won't be able to downgrade... Alejandro On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:22:12 -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How would I do such a thing? I always get: Reading Package Lists... Do

Re: Going to sarge / sid with apt-get dist-upgrade

I don't know about your answer...but I would stay with sarge Alejandro On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:36:31 -0700, Cole S. Ashcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alejandro Matos wrote: > > >nano /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >change sarge/testing for sid/unstable > > > >Remember that you won't

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

Blake Swadling wrote: > Do you need the IBM JDK for any particular reason? Yes. I need it for www.bluej.org Its the only 1.4.2 SDK for powerpc. Blackdown is 1.3 and Sun SDKs are only for Intel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Debian java howto for sarge?

On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 10:28, Christian Leimer wrote: > > Blackdown is 1.3 and Sun SDKs are only for Intel. Ah latest PPC release is 1.3. Confused me cause the latest x86 is 1.4. bugger :( Blake Swadling Senior Software Engineer Newton Pty Ltd Telephone: +61 2 6247 3544 Fax: +61 2 6247 3533 Mo

Apache::DBI

Where do I put the configuration line for the Apache::DBI module in apache. It says to put it into httpd.conf, but nothing else is managed in that manner. Rather, things like mason are done via the /etc/apache/conf.d/ directory. Should I do the same here? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Idea

They tried this at a LUG nearby. The LUG is in very bad shape as the result for many reasons mentioned here (fragmentation and politics mainly). They are down to about 25% of their original size. While you mean well, I don't think you want that to happen to Debian. Seriously, there's a lot of s

Re: UML - User Mode Linux

On earth date Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:01:49 +0300 the carbon unit named Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 09:19:53PM -0300, SmileyByte wrote: > > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:19:53 -0300 > > From: SmileyByte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1

Re: Can only print one document

> I am currently running a 2.6.4 kernel on the box with the HP 3330 > (connected over usb), but I don't recall any differences with kernel > > "lpr file.ps" it prints fine and the queues are empty. If I run "lpr > > file.ps" again the printer says "Printing Document" but nothing happens. > Soun

Re: mozilla-thunderbird and clamav

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. I've been using thunderbird for my e-mail client. Everyday I get > several e-mails that clearly contain viruses. But it seems that > clamav doesn't do anything about it. ( ye

Re: [OT] Feature-creep in MozFirefox 1.0PR

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Moz lists are lousy, just vent this opinion here: > > I'm worried by creeping featuritis in Firefox 1.0PR. The > "popup-blocker" and "plugin-notifier" and > "find-as-you-t

Re: Detached Signatures in Pine

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Detached Signature" means that the signature isn't encoded into the > original email, leaving it untouched. Instead it gets itself attached as > a file. Ah, that's PGP/MI

Re: keeping woody

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How do I set it up to make sure I stay with woody and do not automatically > upgrad to the new stable? In /etc/apt/sources.list, change everything that says stable to woody. -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jule Slootbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I play games the graphics are slow, and I usually have to turn > down a lot of options, for example, when i play Battle for Wesnoth, > during the automated sequences the

Re: Idea

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 remy harel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, why not create for exemple, debian-user-beginner, > debian-user-average and debian-user-expert ? Search the archives, this has been discussed before. Long story short: Beca

Re: Idea

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 fa

Re: Best Way to Share Printers?

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 there a better alternati

Re: keeping woody

<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olav Lavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 >> >

Re: Unidentified subject!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 knopp

Re: Computer not running at highest possible speed

Paul Johnson wrote: Sounds like OpenGL or your X server isn't properly set up. The only problem I'm having with the X server is this: Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0". I'm not sure what to do about it, since it kind of conflicts with nVidia's driver settings. if anybody has

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:20:04 +0200, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Sure. Don't use xprint. Mozilla is perfectly capable of generating > > > printed output on its own. > > > > > Yah, but for some reason wh

Re: Alsa in Debian Sarge? How to?

Michael Haggerty wrote: The problem turned out to be that somehow an empty /etc/modprobe.conf file had gotten created. Apparently if that file is present, then the files in the /etc/modprobe.d directory are not loaded (unless /etc/modprobe.conf loads them explicitly). So I could change the fil

php4 with mysql support

Hey Everyone, I am having some trouble configuring php4 with mysql. phpinfo via phpmyadmin interface does NOT show a 'MYSQL' table, normally located about 2/3 of the page down.. Reference URL(What it should look like): http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/test.php My URL(what it

Re: php4 with mysql support

the best thing to do it probably install php4 from source using --with-mysql=/path/to/mysql.h that has always worked for me Jule Trev Thorpe wrote: Hey Everyone, I am having some trouble configuring php4 with mysql. phpinfo via phpmyadmin interface does NOT show a 'MYSQL' table, normally loca

Re: Unidentified subject!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 knop

thunderbird 0.8 and segfaults

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (BHi, (B (Bsince the upgrade to thunderbird 0.8 I have a lot of segfaults. I think (Bit has something to do with the extensions I have installed. (B (BI have: (B (Benigmail (debian package) (Bquote colors (Bbuttons! (Bmnenhy (Bpurge b

[ANNOUNCE] debian-multimirror

Perhaps anybody is interested in my new-yet-another-debian-mirroring-tool. But this one aims to fill all the functionality holes that the other debian-mirroring tools had in the past. I'm polishing it for the stable release, give it a try and send me some coments! http://pedro.larroy.com/debia

Re: php4 with mysql support

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:03, Trev Thorpe wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I am having some trouble configuring php4 with mysql. > > phpinfo via phpmyadmin interface does NOT show a 'MYSQL' table, normally > located about 2/3 of the page down.. > > Reference URL(What it should look like): > htt

Re: keeping woody

Incoming from 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 > > [snip] > Anyway http://www.debian.org

Re: keeping woody

Incoming from Justin Guerin: > > Are you sure this isn't just an aptitude problem? Aptitude doesn't seem to > like it when you change sources.list. Have you tried apt-get update first? That is nuts. Not only that, it worked! Thank you very much. > I find that when I add a new source, I ha

Re: Detached Signatures in Pine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Detached Signature" means that the signature isn't encoded into the original email, leaving it untouched. Instead it gets itself attac

Re: Best Way to Share Printers?

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > 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. > > > > No

Increase Max Threads

Hai, i) What is the limit on the max number of threads on debian woody (2.4.18-bf2.4) ? How to find this? ii) How to increase? What will be the recommended max value to increase? Please guide me Sarav __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yaho

<    1   2