Re: INND at run time!

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:27:47AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am just getting started with linux, how do i make innd start at boot > timeand make it run forever.. On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:22:23AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try running it from init.d itself, it shows "i

Re: cdrom ownership being reset to root:disk upon reboot

2004-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 16 December 2004 02:33, H. S. wrote: > #to make CDROMs root:cdrom > hdc:root:cdrom:660 > hdd:root:cdrom:660 The fact that have two cdrom drives maybe the cause of the problem. The script in /etc/udev/scripts has some defaults (only one drive). -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fi

OT [SOLVED] Who owns the damn Bible

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:43:34AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > but apparently Mr. "I Love Windows, Porn, and the Bible" Zaine is the > only person who has the Oxford commentaries (the stuff at the start of > each Book of the Bible). The National Coalition of Churches, USA (the folks that bro

is there a version problem between Sarge Disk

2004-12-16 Thread belahcene
Hi, I download last some CD's from /pub/cd-images/debian-weekly/i386/ Now, I want to continue the downloading, but the content is not the same , i 've noticed from the size for example for the new sarge1.iso is 671 150 080 while the last one ( I ve downloaded ) is 671 012 864. The question is :

missing /media/cdrom0

2004-12-16 Thread Alberto Bert
Hi all, I recently installed debian testing on my laptop, and I had some trouble with my cdrom. Now at least it seems that I can mount it, but: I need to make the /media/cdrom0 directory by hand at each reboot... Someone told me it can be related to discover, but I'm a real beginner. Can anyone h

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Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread chris-usenet
Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? Dovecot with Maildir support works for me. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

driver Card bus

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Re: OT [SOLVED] Who owns the damn Bible

2004-12-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:21:30 -0500 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:43:34AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > but apparently Mr. "I Love Windows, Porn, and the Bible" Zaine is the Enough. This is worse than the spam. *plonk* -- Chris Metzler

writing dvd, any suggestion?

2004-12-16 Thread Alberto Bert
Do you have suggestion about which dvd writing program should I use? I saw xcdroast should do it but I need to install something like prodvd, unfortunately I don't know where can I find it (debian packages). Apparently there are also command line programs, for me they are ok, but which one would

Re: writing dvd, any suggestion?

2004-12-16 Thread LeVA
2004. December 16. 10:54, Alberto Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> [EMAIL PROTECTED],: > Do you have suggestion about which dvd writing program should I use? > > I saw xcdroast should do it but I need to install something like > prodvd, unfortunately I don't know where can I find it (debian > packages)

Re: OT [SOLVED] Who owns the damn Bible

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:37:52AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > *plonk* *plonk* right back atcha. I put OT in the subject. Stop grandstanding. I'm done anyway. It's interesting why this version of the Bible isn't distributed in Debian and Freeware software. Don't be a dick. -- To UNSUBSCR

Intel Vtune

2004-12-16 Thread michael
Has anybody any experience of using Intel VTune on their Debian system, eg to analysis performance of programs and/or the system? Any problems building it, for example? Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

usb port problem

2004-12-16 Thread Dheerendar srivastav
Dear sir , I have using Linux Desktop , and internet access by Relince WLL LG340 Head set , but this WLL support only serial port , I am switch over on Laptop , and my Laptop does not have serial port , i have purchase convertor to convert serial to USB , but my Linux Laptop does not support US

Preserving directory sort order in mkisofs

2004-12-16 Thread Jean Hoderd
Hi everybody! I am trying to create a CD where the file order in the directory list is the same as it was under the original ext3 partition. However, mkisofs *always* sorts the entries alphabetically, alas! Is there any way to achieve what I intend? (please note that the -sort option in mkisofs

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:10:37PM -0200, feanor7 wrote: > Actually my servers have cron-apt installed and every night they do > "apt-get update". At morning I check the possible changes and decide > which packages should be upgraded. Most of time I do a "apt-get > dist-upgrade" and life continues.

kfmclient

2004-12-16 Thread messmate
Hi, can't launch kfmclient. This error occurs: 'kdeinit couldn't launch kfmclient' I've checked permissions and the config but nothing helps. This happens suddenly, don't know why. Any help would be very appreciated. mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

How do I make email like WWWOFFLE and NOFFLE?

2004-12-16 Thread Scotty Fitzgerald
What steps are required to make my email work like WWWOFFLE and NOFFLE? I have Exim running and I heard about Fetchmail, but I need to know the basic concepts. Any help or pointers to faqs on how to do this are greatly appreciated! --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: writing dvd, any suggestion?

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:54:34AM +0100, Alberto Bert wrote: > Do you have suggestion about which dvd writing program should I use? > > I saw xcdroast should do it but I need to install something like prodvd, > unfortunately I don't know where can I find it (debian packages). I don't see that on

Re: knoppix HD-install problem

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 02:19:32PM -0500, David Syme wrote: > I am not sure I agree with the above statement. 'above' ...or was that 'below'? > While RTFM is a bit > impolite, I do think asking knoppix-related questions on a debian > mailing list is a bad idea. I am not saying that there are no

Re: Preserving directory sort order in mkisofs

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:26:42AM -0800, Jean Hoderd wrote: > I am trying to create a CD where the file order > in the directory list is the same as it was under > the original ext3 partition. However, mkisofs > *always* sorts the entries alphabetically, alas! Possibly it is a requirement of iso

Re: How do I make email like WWWOFFLE and NOFFLE?

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:25:01AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > What steps are required to make my email work like WWWOFFLE and > NOFFLE? I have Exim running and I heard about Fetchmail, but > I need to know the basic concepts. Any help or pointers to > faqs on how to do this are greatly a

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
Thomas H. George wrote: I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the closest with an option to peek at these values but I have not f

Re: Preserving directory sort order in mkisofs

2004-12-16 Thread Jean Hoderd
> How the files are listed is purely determined by the > program you use > for listing that info, so ls, mc, krusader, even > firefox or whatever > you use for that. > > `ls' has lots of sorting options. By default it > sorts the files > alphabetically, which I guess is what most programs > do. Yo

Calling a script when an Xsession ends

2004-12-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi, is there any generic way to have a script called when an X session is terminating? Like an Xsession-end or something? My situation: I was fiddling with gpg-agent (and seriously think that the people who came up with the current design should be shot) and managed to start it from a script i

RE: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Eric van der Paardt
I know that with my poweredge I had to use lilo, grub bombed repeatedly, and admittedly after an hour or so of trying to figure it out I just gave up and used lilo. But other than that it is up in Debian, happy on its raid 5. -Original Message- From: Jeremy T. Bouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Work Around. apt/sources.list problem

2004-12-16 Thread Dave Whiteley
For the benefit of anyone following me... I was trying to install Bricolage. The suggested /etc/apt/sources.list clauses # bricolage deb http://tetsuo.geekhive.net/mark/debian unstable ./ deb-src http://tetsuo.geekhive.net/mark/debian unstable ./ did not work. However I have found that #

ide-scsi emulation and modules configuration at

2004-12-16 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
Here is a good question. I am trying to get generic Sarge 2.4.26 system to recognise and configure IDE CD-writer and CD-reader at a startup using ide-scsi emulation as described in file:///usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup /boot/grub/menu.lst title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.2

Re: OT [SOLVED] Who owns the damn Bible

2004-12-16 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: It's interesting why this version of the Bible isn't distributed in Debian and Freeware software. I agree. I'm glad to know why the [N]RSV is not available. Thanks for the research. (And that milena link was just ... disturbing.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Funk
Following a recent discussion on this list ("Using more than one driver for a laser printer?") I used CUPS to set up two virtual printers that both connect to /dev/lp0 using different drivers: the Brother driver and the raw PostScript driver. The first one is my default and I use the second one fo

videoconferencing tools

2004-12-16 Thread alberto
-- I appreciate if you send me a copy off-list to: albertobig (AT) tiscali (DOT) it --- Hi all, I am starting up a videoconferencing project. We would like to run a Master's course over the Internet. We would ideally like to have audio/video streaming and some interactive cap

Html drop-down menu in Mozilla/Firefox

2004-12-16 Thread Shaikh Quader
Could anyone please tell me how to enable the drop-down menu support for Mozilla/Firefox? For example, a drop-down menu generated from the following html is easily visible in Internet Explorer. But the drop-down isn't visible when the web page is opened from Mozilla/Firefox. Members Consti

Re: Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:02:18PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > Following a recent discussion on this list ("Using more than one driver > for a laser printer?") I used CUPS to set up two virtual printers that > both connect to /dev/lp0 using different drivers: the Brother driver > and the raw PostScri

free swap

2004-12-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am just wondering naive questions about the swap memory: does it make sens to free the swap ? how can we free it ? Thanks, Jerome -- If you are convinced by the necessity of a European research initiative, please visit http://fer.apinc.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gimp / bitstream Vera Sans Bold

2004-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Debian-list, I have a testing distribution of Debian on a Dell precision 340 and have not been able to get gimp or mozilla to run. Mozilla crashes with a warning about a memory access error, and gimp exits with a warning that it cannot open the font file for Vera sans. Quite a few people seem

Re: Html drop-down menu in Mozilla/Firefox

2004-12-16 Thread David Dorward
Shaikh Quader wrote: Could anyone please tell me how to enable the drop-down menu support for Mozilla/Firefox? For example, a drop-down menu generated from the following html The HTML simply describes a number of generic blocks and links (its very poor markup, whomever came up with it should be

Sound problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas Sjölin
I have a problem with sound under debian woody. Just installed over the net and everything is running fine, except the sound. When I start X I get this message: --- Sound server informational message Error while initializing the sound driver: Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device)

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Christian Convey
Christian Convey wrote: Do you guys have any reflections on why, for technical / social / market / whatever reasons, this difference exists between the two OS's exists? And are those differences necessary or accidental? Just FYI: here's a summary of the answers I've heard. Hope it's helpful. So

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-16 Thread Roel Schroeven
Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but t

Re: writing dvd, any suggestion?

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
Alberto, Posting to the list instead of replying to individual posters is more likely to get you an answer, if only because you reach more people that way. On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:08:28PM +0100, Alberto Bert wrote: > On Dec 16, 2004 at 12:08:36PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > > On Thu, Dec

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ? - Thanks

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas H. George
xfig does exactly what I want and is fully documented. I don't know how I overlooked this program when I searched the Debian packages. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 19:54 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Christian Convey wrote: > [snip] > An additional comment: Anyone wishing to fund/support a developer's work > on any particular type of hardware certainly can. Rarely does anyone do > it, however. You think IBM doesn't pay people to work o

Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?

2004-12-16 Thread Shaikh Quader
I used to be a Redhat user until recently where the commands were: /etc/init.d/sshd start /etc/init.d/sshd stop /etc/init.d/sshd restart Shaikh On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:12, Charles Read wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I just installed Debian and I can't figure out how to start and stop > sshd. I hav

Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas Ruschival
I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter? I know there are Atmel and Prism chipsets that are supported, unfortunately most resellers

mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread jack kinnon
Hi folks, I have problem trying to mount my Benq 52x32x52 cd-rw with command and error as attached. Where is my mistake? Thks Jack __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com debian:/c

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-16 Thread jano kupec
the cdrom/cdrw filesystem is iso9660, i think, so mount it with -t iso9660 i hope this helps jano jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I have problem trying to mount my Benq 52x32x52 cd-rw with command and error as attached. Where is my mistake? Thks Jack debian:/cdrom# mount /dev/hdc -t ext2 /cdrom mou

Re: Problem with mii-tool...

2004-12-16 Thread Roel Schroeven
Norbert Gruener wrote: Hi all, I have a "Samsung X10plus" laptop with the builtin ethernet interface "Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT". I am running the "Sarge" snapshot from Dec 5th. I have my laptop connected to the ethernet before I start booting. After I had booted my system I submit the command

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:22:29 +, Daniel Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for re-awakening this fairly dead thread, but... > > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:30:25 +0200, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There are, as posted, other alternatives as well. Ext3 is simplest, I think

Re: Why is dvips ignoring the -P option?

2004-12-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:28:54PM +, Adam Funk wrote: > On Thursday 16 December 2004 13:40, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:02:18PM +, Adam Funk wrote: [...] > >> > >> When I run "dvips -Pps foo", the output goes to the Brother printer > >> driver. I can get it to

Re: Calling a script when an Xsession ends

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:36:28PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > is there any generic way to have a script called when an X session is > terminating? Like an Xsession-end or something? If you edit your ~/.xinitrc (for startx) or ~/.xsession (for the display managers) you can add stuff after invoki

/dev/lp0 getting deleted

2004-12-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I installed sarge on one of my machines which went flawlessly. Thanks to the team who have done a neat installer. Initially lprng was installed. I removed it and installed lpr. Funny thing is that /dev/lp0 was missing. So, I recreated it with proper perms, etc. On reboot it is again missing :

Re: ide-scsi emulation and modules configuration at

2004-12-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Lsmod shows that after reboot both cdrom and ide-cd modules are running > I can mount CDROMS to /dev/hdx. I have /dev/scdX setup properly. > Mounting of /dev/scdX fails, "dmesg shows that ise-scsi emulation does > not work. I believe you need to tell ide-cd to ignore your ide-scsi drives. My n

Re: ide-scsi emulation and modules configuration at

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:19:20AM +1100, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > What is for > max_scsi_luns=1 > > System has internal SCSI drive and 2 IDE cdroms. What should be a > max_scsi_luns? from /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz (one of the ldp howtos, in the doc-linux-text package):

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:22:29PM +, Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > the Debian system refuses to mount the Windows FAT32 partition, although it > does recognise it. you need to load the "vfat" module: modprobe vfat I was a bit annoyed with Ubuntu, I would expect them to load the "vfat" module

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Re: free swap

2004-12-16 Thread Sam Watkins
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:29:02PM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I am just wondering naive questions about the swap memory: > does it make sens to free the swap ? > how can we free it ? What do you mean "free" it? no, it's doesn't make sense! unless you explain a bit more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: free swap

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Jerome BENOIT([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello List, > > I am just wondering naive questions about the swap memory: > does it make sens to free the swap ? Why would you want to? > how can we free it ? If by "free it" you mean "remove it from being used" them see man swapoff. W

Re: writing dvd, any suggestion?

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Alberto Bert([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Do you have suggestion about which dvd writing program should I use? > > I saw xcdroast should do it but I need to install something like prodvd, > unfortunately I don't know where can I find it (debian packages). > > Apparently there ar

Re: FAT32 (was: dual-OS system)

2004-12-16 Thread Daniel Goldsmith
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:44:40 +, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Goldsmith wrote: > FAT32 is called vfat all though Linux world. > > mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows I'm not being deliberately obtuse here, but I tried that and I got a 'not supported' message > > o Why

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:30 -0200, Mario Menezes wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:56:39 -0500, Christian Convey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > Linux kernel support hardware architectures like (paste from $KERNEL/arch): > alpha cris ia64 m68knommu ppcsh sparc64 x86_64 > arm

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Jacob S
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:27:46 +0100 Thomas Ruschival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit > through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported > through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter? > I kno

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:20 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? > > Looking at "practicing" getting one installed, for future reference. Courier-imap works for me. Google is a big he

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. > > Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? I would recommend BincIMAP. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Html drop-down menu in Mozilla/Firefox

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Aube
Shaikh Quader wrote: > For example, a drop-down menu generated from the following html is easily > visible in Internet Explorer. But the drop-down isn't visible when the > web page is opened from Mozilla/Firefox. > > >href="member.html">Members >href="constitution.html">Constitution >

AMD 64 with woody or sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Nick Miller
Hey all, I am wondering what experiences, positive or negative, you all have had running woody or sarge with AMD's line of 754 & 939 64bit processors. I would really like to push my company to replace some of our lower end servers with systems built around these chips. Have a nice day, Nick --

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-16 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:52:51AM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote: > Why don't you do `apt-get upgrade'? I am under the impression that > `apt-get dist-upgrade' is only meant to be used when you are switching > from one distribution to another, e.g. from woody to sarge. `apt-get upgrade` upgrades a

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread SULEK Nicolas DSIC SDEL
Ron Johnson a écrit : On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:20 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm looking at trying to install an IMAP mail server. Which one(s) are fairly simple to install/setup/configure? Looking at "practicing" getting one installed, for future reference. Courier

Installation shadows: where is mkinitrd ?

2004-12-16 Thread Andrea Tasso
Hi all, I am installing a sarge with uml; everything works well until kernel installation, then it tries to start mkinitrd. I get something like: uml device is not a valid block device. I wanted to bypass the problem commenting out some lines of mkinitrd script, but I cannot find it in the ram mou

RE: Sound problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Eric van der Paardt
Make sure you user is a member of the audio group. As by default /dev/dsp is only rw to root and the group audio. crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 22 14:54 /dev/dsp -Original Message- From: Thomas Sjölin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL P

Re: runit

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:09:07PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:26:12PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > do I have to be worried? are there big [dis]advantages to having this > > program installed? just wondering! > > I'd remove it (runit and runit-run) if I were you. > >

Re: simple IMAP mail server to install/setup

2004-12-16 Thread SULEK Nicolas DSIC SDEL
Ron Johnson a écrit : On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:50 +0100, SULEK Nicolas DSIC SDEL wrote: +1, courier-imap is a good choice you can also try dovecot which is a bit more difficult than courier-imap, but more secure. courier-imap isn't secure? (Or, should I say, is

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap chroot. It just works, seriously. I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox, Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenO

debmirror fails: "argument bla isn't numeric in division..."

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Pedro Clemente
This is really strange. Im trying to mirror a sarge tree... I can't get the "packagesxxx.gz" into my disk... Check the last lines... It really makes me think of what is wrong... I checked the script but I'm no perl expert so I so nothing wrong at the line mentioned... mySarge:~# debmirror -v --n

Sarge and sound

2004-12-16 Thread Ted Parks
I am trying to configure the sound card on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using Alsa drivers. The Sarge kernel includes OSS drivers, I think. I cannot get the snd-opl3sa2 driver to load, despite the fact that modinfo shows the driver is there. Do the kernel OSS drivers interfere with ALSA? How can I get th

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Ted Parks
Thomas, I personally have found ndiswrapper difficult to get running under Sarge. I would be interested in hearing other people's experiences. I now have ndiswrapper installed, can load the driver with modprobe, but have yet to make my LinkSys card connect to the network. Best, Ted Parks On Th

Re: Re: is there a version problem between Sarge Disk

2004-12-16 Thread belahcene
thanks for reply, but you don't answer to my question, can I install some CD from the previous week and others from the current week ? In fact I don't burn the CD, I only mount them on the hard disk with loop option, on my web server and I can quickly install on any machine deb http://172.19.1

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Gerard Robin
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very > fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of > xml documents... kxmleditor Description: XML Editor for KDE KXML Editor is simple program,

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-16 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:44:05AM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: > Short answer: dist-upgrade will install new packages when required, > upgrade only upgrades the package itself. Ah, I get it now. Thanks. Of course it's right there in the docs... /usr/share/doc/Debian/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html, e

Re: Debian and Dell?

2004-12-16 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 17 Dec 2004 1:41am +1100 from Jon Dowland: > Writing this using Debian/sarge kernel 2.4.27-1-686 on a Dell Optiplex > GX270 with a 17" Dell TFT (not sure of model #). > > So far no problems although I think I faffed around with XF86Config > quite a bit. Likewise, running Debian sid

gateway SOLO 5350 and apm sleep/suspend

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, i have a gateway SOLO 5350 and am trying to get it to sleep/suspend. using : $ apm -s it actually does sleep, but i cannot get it to come back. i am currently running a custom compiled 2.6.7 kernel. relevant section of my .config file: # APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support # CO

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ben Bettin
I think I answered my own question. Poking around at the documentation project's site I found the following: * aptitude install package/unstable This installs package from the unstable distribution while installing its dependencies from the testing distribution. * aptitude install -t unstable pa

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/16/2004 02:20 PM, Ben Bettin wrote: I think I answered my own question. Poking around at the documentation project's site I found the following: Ben, You have a typo in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Firestarter has been in testing all along. I would still like to get Firestarter if it's p

Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?

2004-12-16 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Hey everybody! I just installed Debian and I can't figure out how to start and stop sshd. I have tried all the 'usual' stuff to no avail. Any help? Look in the /etc/init.d directory, where the start/stop scripts live. Not

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:47:50PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very > > fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of > > xml documents... > Has

Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
I just assembled a new machine with a Asus P5GD1 Pro motherboard. This has a built-in 10/100/1000 NIC Marvell 88E8053. I booted the machine using a usb pen with sarge-business-card-installer iso on it. It booted ok, loaded the drivers from the pen, but the installer was unable to find the netwo

Configuring sound in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Felixk Karpfen
I would welcome a pointer to relevant configure documentation that will help to identify and correct the problem on my successfully(?)-installed Debian Sarge. The following extracts of the current state of affairs on my box may help: ,[ sounds.txt ]- | Entries from "dmesg". | --

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:41 -0500, H. S. wrote: --snip-- > Okay, here is what I get when I list the hd[cd] permissions and those of > the device link created by pluggin of a USB stick based on my rule in udev: > ~# ls -l /dev/hd[cd] /dev/*hs* > brw-rw 1 root disk 22, 0 Dec 15 14:13 /dev/hdc

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-16 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 19:54 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: Christian Convey wrote: [snip] An additional comment: Anyone wishing to fund/support a developer's work on any particular type of hardware certainly can. Rarely does anyone do it, however. You think IBM doesn

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Alex Malinovich_, on 16/12/04 15:11,typed: On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:41 -0500, H. S. wrote: --snip-- Okay, here is what I get when I list the hd[cd] permissions and those of the device link created by pluggin of a USB stick based on my rule in udev: ~# ls -l /dev/hd[cd] /dev/*hs* brw-r

cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread H. S.
I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use the cdrecord to burn CD's and K3b does not see my cdwriter as a write but as a read

Re: Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: [Solved] ls color for bad symbolic link

2004-12-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Tong([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:51:22 +, Jason Chambers wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:29:22PM -0500, Tong wrote: > >> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:48:34 -0500, Tong wrote: > >> > >> > I remember that my previous distro can distinguish symbolic li

gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the "gnome file picker" for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, not gnome). I find this incredibly frustrating to use, as it doesn't have a command line to type in & doesn't show dotfiles. I am looking for a way to set pre

Re: free swap

2004-12-16 Thread Nitebirdz
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:29:02PM +, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am just wondering naive questions about the swap memory: > does it make sens to free the swap ? > how can we free it ? > Other than actually disabling swap with the 'swapoff' command, I simply cannot see how else

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Travis Crump
Ralph Katz wrote: Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) Ok, I am confused. Isn't us.debian.org just a round ro

Re: Preserving directory sort order in mkisofs

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Thursday 16 December 2004 0726, somebody named Jean Hoderd inscribed this message: > Btw, the reason why I wanted to preserve the original > order is simple: I am burning a CD with MP3s for a > hardware player. I wanted the tracks to appear in > a certain order, which is not the same as the >

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread kurtz
El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: > Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to > think that the only reason to write software is to sell it > and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course, that it is perfectly po

Re: cdrecord in 2.6.9 (vanilla vs debian kernel package)

2004-12-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 16 December 2004 03:43 pm, H. S. wrote: > I have this odd situation. I am running 2.6.9 in Sarge which I compiled > by downloading the 2.6.9 kernel source from kernel.org since Sarge > doesn't have this as a package yet. In this kernel, I am not able to use > the cdrecord to burn CD's a

Re: Wlan adapter

2004-12-16 Thread Gerard Ceraso
Thomas Ruschival wrote: I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter? I know there are Atmel and Prism chipsets that are supported, unfort

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-16 Thread Nathanael Hasbrouck
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 1325, somebody named Alvin Oga inscribed this message: > > I *am* looking for out-of-the-box usability, > > sounds like you need to use "live (standalone) linux cd" to know that > hardware all works ... > - installing from cdrom to hardisk is a separate problem >

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