Re: amanda

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Mansfield
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:27 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Does anybody here use amanda? I'm running Amanda on a woody system, all runs fine. > On my spanky new Sarge system, apt-get's amanda-server simply doesn't > work. It gets installed as user:group backup:backup, and amdump won't > run unles

Re: chroot: login console does not ask root password

2004-12-29 Thread Victor Munoz
Thanks for the answers! The problem was indeed that I had not yet set the password for root in the chroot environment. Now everything is normal. Victor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: its a matter of ssh and its not working for me

2004-12-29 Thread Sam Watkins
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:56:01PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote: > I have the public keys placed in remote machines under the correct user > account .ssh/ etc.. both sshd_conf files are identical (machines A,B). > > machine A will automatically ssh login (without password) and rysync doesnt > ask

Re: Re: Help abt playing file over MODEM

2004-12-29 Thread Allan Kamau
Hi, I have a related problem, but mine is how to play a sound file over a modem. At the moment I am unable to send a sound file's content and have the sound audible at the other end of the line, I get noise instead. I've tried several files that are mono, 8000Hz, 8 bit. I am working on a low cost I

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Thanks Sam, your comments are indeed helpful. Both problems have been resolved. There is another problem of an error message when start x11: Sound Server information Message: Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Permission denied). The sound server will con

Trust 250 mouse - wheel problem

2004-12-29 Thread Diego
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.1/Xfree86 4.3.0.1 with a Trust 250sp mouse. The problem is that the wheel is not working, only the wheel. I don't know if this helps, but the mouse works if I configure it like PS/2, GlidePointPS/2, MouseManPlusPS/2, and doesn't work like ImPS/2, NetMousePS/2, NetScrollPS/2,

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread Dani Belz
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:00:15PM +1300, YH wrote: > There is another problem of an error message when start x11: > > Sound Server information Message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be > opened (Permission denied). The sound server will continue, using th

Using killfiles

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 03:32 pm, John Hasler wrote: > Please stop changing the subject of this thread. It makes it hard to > keep it killfiled. Filter smarter, not harder. Most email filters out there these days have the concept of threads. If you use procmail, check out the message IDs

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread Jonathan Opperman
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:00, YH wrote: > Thanks Sam, your comments are indeed helpful. Both problems have been > resolved. > > There is another problem of an error message when start x11: > > Sound Server information Message: > > Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp ca

Re: [OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:23 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nate Duehr wrote: > > Nothing like the exact same view for 8 or more hours of driving. ;-) > > I-10 across the southwest. *blink, blink* I-10 has some pretty cool stuff along it, though. But I guess you have to be in the right f

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Thanks Dani. At my user log in, I typed: debian$ echo $USER debian$ yuja debian$ groups debian$ yuja Then I typed at root: root$ adduser $USER audio root$ you're done Then I rebooted the machine and logged in again. The same error message still came. Anything I am missing here? Thank you. Yuja Da

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:58 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: Finally, a topic I'm qualified to speak on (living in northeast Nebraska and all that). I've never been on I-80 west of Lincoln - is it really *that* bad? As a fairly new resident of the state I'm not too well acquai

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread Dani Belz
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:28:40PM +1300, YH wrote: > Thanks Dani. At my user log in, I typed: > > debian$ echo $USER > debian$ yuja > > debian$ groups > debian$ yuja > > Then I typed at root: > > root$ adduser $USER audio > root$ you're done you now added root to group audio! You have to $ a

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-29 Thread Nate Duehr
martin f krafft wrote: I have one of those D-Link USB network interfaces, which are wonderful. Plug it in, get a regular 10/100 Ethernet interface, supported by Linux and working just fine. However, right now I am in dire need to establish a link between two machines, and my beloved ethernet cable

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Sorry Dani, my dumb. The error message has gone. Do I also need to add myself to video group (adduser yuja video) as I am installing xawtv right now? BTW, speaking xawtv, I've just have an error during "make xawtv": "/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lXaw", but I can see /usr/X11/R6/lib/libxaw.so.7 on

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium > > >"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, A dirty bomb is a nuclear device designed to kill

entering unicode chars

2004-12-29 Thread David Purton
Hi list, Where do I configure entering of unicode characters in Gnome 2.8? I don't even know what the technical term, but as in pressing a modifier key, then the accent and then the letter. i.e., 'e => Ã At the moment, some of them don't do the right thing: e.g., -a => Ã I would prefer if i

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.29.1042 +0100]: > With practice, you can make an Ethernet cross-over cable in ten seconds > with a crimp tool and a spare piece of CAT 5 and two RJ45's. I know. I have made many of them already. But I'd prefer not to carry around CAT 5, RJ45's,

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.29.0700 +0100]: > Also, not every machine (I work with) has USB. Ha, what a dork I am. No USB dongle-ethernet combo will be of much use then. I guess the IP-over-USB idea is not a bad one. However, I have never set it up, so I do not know i

[SOLVED] Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-29 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, Thank you to H.S. and Andrea! It is now working. The point is that while trying to understand my problem I erased me from the "hal" group. After adding me back to this group, everything is working smooth ;-) When I plug in my stick, my archos or my camera the icon is automatically appearing

Backups - what files can safely be omitted?

2004-12-29 Thread Robert S
Thanks for the folks who advised me re backing up a running system. I'm just testing mondo at the moment. Looks ideal for my purposes. What files can safely be omitted from a debian system backup? Obvious ones are /var/cache/apt/archives (if you're like me an hold onto these files) and /var/

Re: Wayward syslog items

2004-12-29 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My syslog has failed items for pppd and chat. Just fine since I have > > no pppd connection and no chat. Question is why I am getting this? I > > did not see anything appropriate in /etc/init.d. > > Strangely enough I have the same

You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread Aditya Pratap
Hi, I am getting this message when I try to upgrade KDE using apt-get install - You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. Is it ok if I delete the files in this directory? Or is there any other way out. Thanking in advance, -- Aditya Pratap V., Goshamahal, Hyderabad - 1

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread David Purton
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:14:59PM +0530, Aditya Pratap wrote: > Hi, > I am getting this message when I try to upgrade KDE using apt-get install - > You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > Is it ok if I delete the files in this directory? Or is there any other > way out. I

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:14:59 +0530, Aditya Pratap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am getting this message when I try to upgrade KDE using apt-get install - > You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > Is it ok if I delete the files in this directory? Or is there any

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-29 Thread Ed Curtis
Yes, it is really that bad. The trip between I-80 and I-70 down 383 is much worse though. I have driven from N. Indiana to Colo. Springs twice now. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:58 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Finally, a topic I'm qualified to speak o

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:10:52PM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:10:52 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > > My arch is 686 only. 686

Courier-imap Mysql 4.x

2004-12-29 Thread Guilherme B. Viebig
Hi all,   Merry Christmas and a happy new year...    I´m using sarge, and my courier-imap don´t work with Mysql 4.x, but, perfectly with 3.x   I need to know if there is a way to use mysql 3.23.xx in my sarge, or a updated courier-imap that supports mysql 4.x.   Thank you in advance...     G

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Glenn English
Hey, will you ununto/god/God guys please cut it out. This list has so much traffic already I can barely scan it as fast as it comes in. I've got to get breakfast sometime this morning... -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Courier-imap Mysql 4.x

2004-12-29 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:11:22 -0300, Guilherme B. Viebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Merry Christmas and a happy new year... > > I´m using sarge, and my courier-imap don´t work with Mysql 4.x, but, > perfectly with 3.x > > I need to know if there is a way to use mysql 3

Re: [SOLVED] Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-29 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:05:11 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you to H.S. and Andrea! It is now working. The point is that while > trying to understand my problem I erased me from the "hal" group. After > adding me back to this group, everything is working smo

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Aditya Pratap wrote: Hi, I am getting this message when I try to upgrade KDE using apt-get install - You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. Is it ok if I delete the files in this directory? Or is there any other way out. Thanking in advance, You are just storing previously do

Re: entering unicode chars

2004-12-29 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday December 29 2004 10:56, David Purton wrote: > I don't even know what the technical term, but as in pressing a modifier > key, then the accent and then the letter. It's not a solution to your exact problem, but the correct term for the modifier key is "compose key". This might help yo

Re: Backups - what files can safely be omitted?

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert S wrote: Thanks for the folks who advised me re backing up a running system. I'm just testing mondo at the moment. Looks ideal for my purposes. What files can safely be omitted from a debian system backup? Obvious ones are /var/cache/apt/archives (if you're like me an hold onto these file

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:10:52PM -0800, saravanan > ganapathy wrote: > > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:10:52 -0800 (PST) > > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 22:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > What's as effective as DU at piercing modern armor? This was my question as well. I mean, DU is so damn heavy, and that's what makes it amazing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

script help

2004-12-29 Thread Bob Alexander
I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of them has a different .config file. Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as find /usr/src -name .config for example: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-rja/.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-rja/.config and for e

Re: entering unicode chars

2004-12-29 Thread Alexander Mikhailian
David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do I configure entering of unicode characters in Gnome 2.8? This is called "dead keys" and is a feature of X-Window. Gnome has nothing to do with them. Do _locate Compose_, choose the Compose file for your locale, edit it as you feel it and restart

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Paul, Paul Gear wrote: > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system > is installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade > to 2.6.9 (once it is released) unless i explicitly install it? Does > the fact that i asked for kernel-image-2.6-686 have any b

Re: script help

2004-12-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Bob Alexander wrote: I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of them has a different .config file. Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as find /usr/src -name .config for example: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9-rja/.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.10-

Re: script help

2004-12-29 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:26:17 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I keep a few different kernel source trees under /usr/src and each of > them has a different .config file. > > Part of my pre-backup script I would like to run a command such as > > find /usr/src -name .config > > for

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: --snip-- > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. Bravo! I second that wholeheartedly! -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:08 +0800, Katipo wrote: --snip-- > Take the time to sit down and watch a sunset sometime, then chuck the > book away. > Regards, Amen to that! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my publ

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread Alexei Chetroi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:59:47AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:59:47 -0800 (PST) > From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody > > --- Alexei Che

Re: Exim4 config help request

2004-12-29 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:31:59PM -0500 or thereabouts, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 > > SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for > > exim4 (I have been using Sendmail an

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 15:42, Curt Howland wrote: > I prefer AMD and "open" drivers (sorry, nVidia), can someone suggest a So, the 'nv' driver is not included with distributions anymore, or is this going to be 3D TV from the future? 2D TV is just fine... Starting out with such a righteous b

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexei Chetroi wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:59:47AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

netenv boot popup

2004-12-29 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Can someone point me to the source that explains how to remove the Network Environment Setup popup that comes up on boot. The onboard documentation doesn't say how. Plz copy [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I'm not subscribed Thanks, Leonard Chatagnier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes >>/except/ the caller. "man 2 kill" on any unix/linux box. What kernel >>are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 or >>another architecture ? >2.4.27, from

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 03:30, Nate Duehr wrote: > Let's put it this way -- it looks nice, but the view doesn't change much > for many many miles after Lincoln. Come on out to Denver sometime, and > you'll see. ;-) I plan to next summer. Nothing but fresh air, open skies, and three scre

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 20:26, dorn hetzel wrote: > No, it's quite nice actually. My wife is from Omaha and we were out > in NE over thanksgiving (drove out from Atlanta). I live about 100 miles northwest of Omaha. We're still far enough east to be in the Missouri River valley terrain inst

Re: [OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 03:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > I-10 has some pretty cool stuff along it, though. But I guess you have > to be in the right frame of mind to really go tooling around the > southwest. I lived in Springfield, Missouri when I enlisted in the Navy. I did my basic trainin

kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been trying to recompile my kernel to a 2.6.8 one on debian sarge. But no matter what I do it seems to get kernel panic when I try to boot. See the message at http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_boot_2.6.8.gif hda3 is the debianpartition mounted / with ext3 on it. I found a bunch

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread saravanan ganapathy
> > > > > > 2nd, if you want to use kernel that comes with > > > stable, install package > > > kernel-source-2.4.18 and recompile it with > highmem > > > enabled. I wouln't > > > recommend package from kernel.org as Debian > kernel > > > include some patches > > > and security back-ports. Otherwi

tracking memory resource issues

2004-12-29 Thread Brian
Hi all, As a longtime Debian user, I really appreciate the community that makes Debian the best. My question: What is the best way to track down a possible memory leak that I have no idea which program is causing it even? Here is the problem: I have a PIII-600 with 256 MB and an ATI Radeon 9000

PXE Server

2004-12-29 Thread disciple
I've created some images using Symantec Ghost 8. I would like to use my debian box as a pxe server to distribute these images to Windows clients. Is this possible? Please show me the way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: bootsplash + debian Sid kernel 2.6.9 (initrd problem?)

2004-12-29 Thread Gael
Brian Pack wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 02:45 +0100, Gael wrote: Hi, I have a debian-kernel 2.6.9 and I try to use bootsplash. The framebuffer is ok (vesafb 1024x768x16). Bootsplash works anytime but at boot-time (each console has a picture and the first console has an animation at shutdown-time

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:49:19AM +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > > > Your religious-right-wing crap belongs off-list, this is about debian > and linux. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. I read the book, and made some observ

Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is hidden? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-designed applications: http://wxguide.sf.net Desktop with a consist

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread Kent West
David Purton wrote: apt-get autoclean - this will delete all packages not currently installed Correction: from "man apt-get" autoclean Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only removes package f

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is > hidden? apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search Parse.pm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:18:34 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse > is hidden? According to packages.debian.org, it's in the package libtimedate-perl. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

machine falling into a non-usable state for no apparent reason

2004-12-29 Thread Thomas McLean
Hi all, I'm running SID on 2.6.9 (no other kernel was installed before the current one). I've got a problem where my box randomly hangs and doesn't allow any connections in or out - ssh, telnet, finger, httpd - nothing except icmp ping requests. I've ran memtest and that seems to log the X sessio

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-29 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 07:49:07 -0800 (PST), saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have done recompile using kernel-source-2.4.18 and > after reboot I got the following error > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly > Freeing

Re: machine falling into a non-usable state for no apparent reason

2004-12-29 Thread Christian
Am Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2004 17:47 schrieb Thomas McLean: > Hi all, > > I'm running SID on 2.6.9 (no other kernel was installed before the > current one). I've got a problem where my box randomly hangs and > doesn't allow any connections in or out - ssh, telnet, finger, httpd - > nothing except i

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:30:15PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > > Paul Gear wrote: > [snip nested attributions, correctly I hope] > > > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is > > > installed (on 2.6.8,

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) Do you mean kernel-source-2.6? There are no packages named kernel-latest-* in the repository. However it look

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.29 16:20, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: >>No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes >>/except/ the caller. "man 2 kill" on any unix/linux box. What kernel >>are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 o

LDAP auth problems

2004-12-29 Thread Romel Sandoval
Hi everybody :-) I'm trying to configure a LDAP server with Debian Sarge. But I have some problems with the packages. First I make... #apt-get install slapd ldap-utils libsasl2-modules And then debconf ask... Do you want to omit the configuration for slapd? Ans=No Enter your dns domain name: A

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of the contaminated area until the radioactive material was cleaned up (or a few millions years passes

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread dorn hetzel
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than > something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a > city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of the > contaminated area until the ra

Re: [SOLVED] Re: permissions with udev/pmount?

2004-12-29 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hi, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:05:11 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Thank you to H.S. and Andrea! It is now working. The point is that while trying to understand my problem I erased me from the "hal" group. After adding me back to this group, ever

alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
Howdy yall, I'm in the process of setting up a brand spankin' new sarge box, but I'm having a little trouble with alsa... I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives referencing the error I'm getting and google has been no help to me. --- Here's the backgrou

Re: alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread kurtz
bandito escribe: > I installed alsaconf, alsamixer, alsa-base, etc. etc. and met all > package dependencies. What about alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7? -- http colon slash slash kurtz dot blogsite dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread David P James
On Wed 29 December 2004 02:49, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > > > > Your religious-right-wing crap belongs off-list, this is about debian > and linux. It would if he had written any, but so does your willfully-ignorant-left-wing crap. > > I

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is > > hidden? > > apt-get install apt-file > apt-file update > apt-file search Parse.pm Sorry I don't use apt and "dpk

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Otto Wyss
Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse > > is hidden? > > According to packages.debian.org, it's in the package libtimedate-perl. > Thanks a lot. It didn't occurred to me to look at packages.debian.org, I only tried "dpkg -S Pa

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
agreed, the intended effect of DU rounds versus dirty bombs are quite different. but while it certainly may be easier to clean up than other more common contaminants, i think the people who live in the areas where we're firing this stuff are pretty content to let it sit there and have their kids mu

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:45:06 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > --snip-- > > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. > > Bravo! I

Re: alsaconf failing on sarge, depmod says unresolved symbols

2004-12-29 Thread bandito
Yep, that is installed as well Bill On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:19:05PM +0100, kurtz wrote: > bandito escribe: > > I installed alsaconf, alsamixer, alsa-base, etc. etc. and met all > > package dependencies. > > What about alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7? > -- > http colon slash slash kurtz dot blogsite

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:18:02PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > Sorry I don't use apt and "dpkg -S Parse.pm", which probably is the same > as "apt-file search Parse.pm" doesn't find anything. dpkg -S only searches already installed packages. apt-file does the same thing but includes not-installed pac

Re: Debian package containing perl Date/Parse.pm

2004-12-29 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:18:02 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: > William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote: > > > Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module > > > Date::Parse is hidden? > > > > apt-get instal

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> > The Muslims believe in a conecpt of "nullification" (I forget the > correct term) that essentially states that later verses in the Quran > that contradict with earlier verses, contradict or "trump" the earlier > verses. Read the book I mention above and you will see what I mean. > The Quran d

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Persson
Bob Alexander wrote: Eric, what bootloader are you using ? Please post what is in your lilo.conf or grub/menu.lst I'm using grup and the contents of my menu.lst is at http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/menu.lst Aslo, what version of sarge are you using ? cat /etc/debian_version gives me 3.1 Wha

Re: Webcam in Debian

2004-12-29 Thread Barrett Dillow
I've tried using a Logitech Quickcam Express before, but never with any success. I knew the camera worked in Windows, but I could never get past whatever step should come after loading the kernel module for it. I wouldn't know which devices in /dev/ to use, etc. That was a while ago, however. I

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > > you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386) > > Do you mean kernel-source-2.6? No.

ide-scsi with 2 drives

2004-12-29 Thread Robert Epprecht
Hello Up to now I had one hd and one dvd writer and everything worked fine. Now I have added a second hd and a dvd rom drive: /dev/hda hd /dev/hdb dvd writer /dev/hdc hd /dev/hdd dvd rom A short test with another OS (no, it's debian woody ;-) without ide-scsi seems to do fine with all of

When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some references about it, with some propositions about implementing a list moderator I think. It is putti

[[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Syed Huq wrote: The Muslims believe in a conecpt of "nullification" (I forget the correct term) that essentially states that later verses in the Quran that contradict with earlier verses, contradict or "trump" the earlier verses. Read the book I mention above and you will see what I mean. The Qura

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:35 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with s

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

2004-12-29 Thread CW Harris
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:31:33PM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:33:14PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote: > > > There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what > > > you are looking for? (E.g

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Syed Huq
> Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians > (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their > religion and later say that they must be converted? That would > seem like a contradiction to me. > The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the Book

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Syed Huq wrote: Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their religion and later say that they must be converted? That would seem like a contradiction to me. The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > [snip] > > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. But "man created God in his own imag

pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2004-12-29 Thread Mauro Darida
Hello, I am experiencing a weird thing: I have got KDE kppp perfectly working but when it comes to use pppd directly with the pon script even from root pppd won't start. I have the following /var/log/ppp.log: Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi pppd[1302]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Dec 29 19:49:50 ifi ppp

Re: Exim4 config help request

2004-12-29 Thread Joe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I just installed ProMepis and it installs by default exim4 SMTP service. I am looking for a simple working configuration for exim4 (I have been using Sendmail and have tried Postfix too!). Requirements is that it should send

Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Brendan
On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:35, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at > the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is > several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some > references about it, with some

Re: Installation

2004-12-29 Thread YH
Thanks Dani, that fixed the the permission denied error, but actually, it came another "No such device" error message: Sound Server information Message: Error while initializing the sound driver, device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such device). The sound server will continue, using the null ou

cannot open root device "801"

2004-12-29 Thread Eric N. Valor
Hello. I recently recompiled my 2.6.8 kernel. Now I can no longer boot my system. It fails with the message "cannot open root device "801" or unknown-block(8,1)". I am using a Symbios SCSI card without any IDE devices (save the CDROM) in my system. My lilo.conf properly identifies the boot dev

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