backport dependencies

2005-05-03 Thread Bill Moseley
I should know this better. I'm using exim4 on Woody via backports.org: deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ woody exim4 I'm not clear how dependencies work with this. If I go to update the system it wants to install the following: exim4-config, exim4-base, libgpg-error0, libgcrypt11, libopen

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Lars Roland
On 5/3/05, Andrey Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check the yes command. > > You probably want something like > > yes | apt-get upgrade -youroptionshere > > or > > yes N | apt-get upgrade -youroptionshere > > etc. Great - I did not know that one exsisted, it solved my problem. Thanks fo

Re: backport dependencies

2005-05-03 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Tue, 3 May 2005 00:04:27 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If that's the only backports entry I have in sources.list, then will > only packages in the http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/exim4/ > tree get fetched? > > I'm just wondering if dependencies can fetch outsid

Re: permission problem

2005-05-03 Thread Beretta
On Sun, 01 May 2005 03:30:13 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >Basically, i change all the dirs and files to rwx for owner, group and >others. Just out of curiosity, why in the heck would you do that? >BTW, in the tick box for permission, what does a shaded box mean? Tick box? Are you imp

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-03 Thread Adam Hardy
On 02/05/05 14:14 Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I'm not using gpm either. Was the RedHat box? Yes it was. But I had gpm on debian and had the problem. I dumped gpm in an attempt to solve the issue. Well, I also remember trying to sort this out a while ago (maybe two years?), also with no success. I

usb printer and vmware

2005-05-03 Thread David Garamond
I was trying out VMWare Workstation today on my Debian Sarge desktop to run Windows XP, because I just got a printer (HP Laserjet 1000) which I couldn't get to work with CUPS. And qemu doesn't support USB yet. Whenever the printer is turned on and USB cable plugged in, the 'printer' kernel module

Re: Problem with K3b

2005-05-03 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:06, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On May 2, 2005 05:53 pm, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > Somehow, I closed the project window that was part of the main K3b > > window. I can still open the project window, but I can't find a way > > to re-dock it with the main window. Can anyon

Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-03 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 00:56, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote: > Hi all, > > Features I would like: > > - console prompt support. This has two aspects: >-- Copying text off of the web page selects only the code > and not the prompt or comments >-- Preformatting with appropriate prompts/c

Re: usb tv card

2005-05-03 Thread Walter Hoolwerf
On 2005-05-03 01:20:10 +0200, Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Don't let waiting for Linux support stop you from doing something great with cheap hardware...as much as it pains me to say: just get a slow Windows box for the input and then transfer the data to your Linux box for the processing.

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > For instance I want the parse this string > > Form = 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x = 5\", > so thats it',Connection=5 > > Into the strings > > Form > > = > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Lars Roland wrote: Great - I did not know that one exsisted, it solved my problem. Thanks for the reply A mere 96 lines of C it seems, too! Doesn't even check your mail :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:50:08AM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > For instance I want the parse this string > > > > Form = 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x = > > 5\", > > so thats it',Connection=5 > > > > Into

Re: smssend does not do anything ?

2005-05-03 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Brian Potkin wrote: > Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 01:02:52 +0100 > From: Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: smssend does not do anything ? > Resent-Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:18:26 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, May

Drive a free ad-wrapped car

2005-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reference ID: 081825962 You can even get paid to drive it! Companies will pay you to drive in their cars, or they'll sponsor your car - paying up to $3200 a month just for driving the normal routes you do everyday. That's right - companies provide one of their ad-painted cars for you to drive. Jus

getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! haviong trouble getting my latest bought laptop running its a medion si 2010, and neither debian testing install dvd nor knoppix 3.8 are able to boot it after the message uncompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel. nothing happens i supsect it has something to do with th

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not starting GNOME Display Manager (gdm); it is not the default display manager. Starting K Display Manager: kdm. Starting WINGs display manager: wdm. Not starting X display manager (xdm); it is not the default display manager. Hmm weird. each of the display managers a

Re: usb printer and vmware

2005-05-03 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2005 10:32 schrieb David Garamond: > Whenever the printer is turned on and USB cable plugged in, the > 'printer' kernel module is automatically installed. I had to do > an 'rmmod printer' first before VMWare could claim/use the USB > device. And if the printer is turned off and

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Laurent CARON
Bruno Boettcher a écrit : Hello! haviong trouble getting my latest bought laptop running its a medion si 2010, and neither debian testing install dvd nor knoppix 3.8 are able to boot it after the message uncompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel. nothing happens i supsect it has so

Re: Fail to run /usr/sbin/base-config when install Debian

2005-05-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:50:22AM +0800, ææ æ wrote: > I install debian from an existing FC2 system. I > followed the installation guide until section 3.7.5.4: > > > 3.7.5.4 Configure Timezone, Us

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:10PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > try knoppix in expert mode loading linux... loading minirt something... nothing (means empty screen..) still seeing nothing. -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Laurent CARON
Bruno Boettcher a écrit : On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:10PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: try knoppix in expert mode loading linux... loading minirt something... nothing (means empty screen..) still seeing nothing. try switching to another vt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

printing with gnumeric

2005-05-03 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Dear list, Am I the only one for which gnumeric freezes whenever I try printing (or just doing a preview) a sheet ? ... Experiences about that ? Thanks, Aurélien. Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. Watch for it everywhere. **

Re: migrating from RedHat to Debian without losing configuration

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Some are standard (like the /etc/passwd, and so on). Even for those though, things like UIDs for daemons etc. differ. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SSH Blocking (and then IMAP passwords)

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Bill Moseley wrote: Scares the crap out of me using someone's Windows machine to connect with putty. I fear spyware key loggers. I assume they exist. A pool of keypairs then, which have a one-use expiry, would be ok. Presuming you used different passphrases for each one of course :) -- To UNSUBSC

Re: printing with gnumeric

2005-05-03 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 à 14:01 +0200, Aurélien Campéas a écrit : > Dear list, > > Am I the only one for which gnumeric freezes whenever I try printing (or > just doing a preview) a sheet ? ... Experiences about that ? Thanks, > Aurélien. > Sorry, this is on SARGE, off course. The printer is a cup

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:55:53PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > try switching to another vt ehm... the thing is after the ramsdisk is loaded, CD led stays dark... and all vt's are blank -- ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://in

[OT] Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-03 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Lee Braiden_, on 03/05/05 04:44,typed: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 00:56, Peter Sebastian Masny wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>Features I would like: >> >>- console prompt support. This has two aspects: >> -- Copying text off of the web page selects only the code >> and not the prompt o

Re: smssend does not do anything ?

2005-05-03 Thread Brian Potkin
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > See where you get with: > > > > smssend eurobate.sms username password network number "message" > > > > Brian. [Sig snipped] > Hi and thanks for reply > > I did a test on a windo

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Radu Brumariu
Andrey Andreev wrote: > Radu Brumariu wrote: > >> Andrey Andreev wrote: >> -- Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: --snip-- > For instance I want the parse this string > > Form = 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x = 5\", > so thats it',Connection=5 > > Into the strings > > Form > > = > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not a

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! In an effort to balance the awareness and usage of free and open source among the world's population, I am trying to obtain as many open source masterplans (in PDF) as possible. I plan to have them translated, revised and compiled into one masterplan above all masterplans which I can then

Re: Debian loads too many modules at boot

2005-05-03 Thread Paul
hey all, I love it when experts give vague answers. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/6/45 Apparently, from what I read, this is an issue with the newer kernels. It's some debugging "feature" that they have implemented for some reason or another. I believe this was an issue in the 2.6.8 kernel but not

can't see volumes from a NexStor 4700s (Raid array)

2005-05-03 Thread Mario Positano
I'm having some trouble seeing the volumes of my disk array (NexStor 4700s) on any of my debian (Sarge, 2.6.8 kernel) machines. Does anyone have this working? It's plugged into an Adaptec aha-2940u2b (using the aic7xxx module). I've also tried the aic7xxx_old modules but I get the same res

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Andrey Andreev
Radu Brumariu wrote: > Andrey Andreev wrote: >>Radu Brumariu wrote: >>>Andrey Andreev wrote: >-- >Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. > Wha

Re: usb tv card - small computers

2005-05-03 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:26 am, Walter Hoolwerf wrote: > The thing is, I like the mac mini so much because it's small, nice > designed and (as I've been told) really silent. I'm not sure if there > are any x86 alternatives which have at least the "very silent" and "not > very large and ugly" prope

Re: printing under debian

2005-05-03 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
> > Hi David, > > thanks a lot for this info. when I do *apt-cache search cupsys*I can > > see some more packages like cupsys-bsd cupsys-clent etc. etc. should I > > need these packages too ? > > I don't know. cupsys will get you the cups printing system, replacing > (and exceeding) the funct

Re: printing under debian

2005-05-03 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
On Monday 02 May 2005 2:28 am, Deboo Geek wrote: > On 4/28/05, Jpydeep Bakshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > now I am in icewm. so no more help from KDE-tools. so how can I configure > > printer under icewm. I used Lprng but I like to adopt the *CUPS* system, > > so what are the packages I need for

mplayer with TRIO 64V2 DX/GX card

2005-05-03 Thread Joydeep Bakshi
Hi, Is there any one in this list who is using mplayer with 'S3 TRIO 64V2 DX/GX' PCI VGA? I have this card and Xfree86-4 server. I select x11 as driver with mplayer like 'mplayer -fs -vo x11 .' but can't get the full scren. then I try 'mplayer -fs -vo sdl .' and this time I

Re: mplayer with TRIO 64V2 DX/GX card

2005-05-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > I have this card and Xfree86-4 server. I select x11 as driver with mplayer > like 'mplayer -fs -vo x11 .' but can't get the fullscren. then I try Try mplayer -vo x11 -fs -zoom -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Descr

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread hjvm
OK, thank you, your suggestions put some light on the problem. But I still have questions... On 3 May 2005 at 11:48, Jon Dowland wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Not starting GNOME Display Manager (gdm); it is not the default > >display manager. > >Starting K Display Manager: kdm. >

Re: mplayer with TRIO 64V2 DX/GX card

2005-05-03 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 15:01, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: > Hi, > Is there any one in this list who is using mplayer with 'S3 TRIO 64V2 > DX/GX' PCI VGA? > I have this card and Xfree86-4 server. I select x11 as driver with mplayer > like 'mplayer -fs -vo x11 .' but can't get the full scren. t

Re: Fail to run /usr/sbin/base-config when install Debian

2005-05-03 Thread 溪渊 潘
Hi Bill, It seems that there's no 'strace' in system at this stage of installation. --- Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写道: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:50:22AM +0800, 溪渊 潘 > wrote: > > I install debian from an existing FC2 system. I > > followed the installation guide until section > 3.7.5.4:

Re: choose the default display manager

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But when I set the DM to kdm in /etc/X11/default-display-manager I get a totally different *window* manager, i. e. I get XFCE4 instead of KDE. That's even stranger as I thought that kdm would start kde. But it obviously doesn't. In this case at least only kdm is started

Re: Debian loads too many modules at boot

2005-05-03 Thread Jon Dowland
Gokul Poduval wrote: Hello, I am running Debian Sarge. Whenever Debian boots, it loads almost every modules present in /lib/modules/kernel-number. This causes boot times to be in the rage of 5 minutes for me. I think discover is casuing this. Has anybody managed to reduce boot time, while still hav

urgent : ssh without password prompt and password client auth

2005-05-03 Thread STEPHANE DURIEUX
Hello Well everything is in the title. I would like to use ssh in scripts so without entering the password. The problem is that such commands don t work: echo passwd | ssh host (ssh doesn t read std input) I don t want to use private keys (so not ssh-agent). Does anyone has an idea (via environm

ip forwarding

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, simple firewall problem: 1 external nic (eth0) 1 internal nic (eth1) i do not need to do any snat or masquerading, i am just looking to forward the traffic from the internal to the external. so far: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # iptables -L -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 1

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 03 May 2005 08:24:56 -0500, "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello! > >In an effort to balance the awareness and usage of free and open >source among the world's population, I am trying to obtain as many >open source masterplans (in PDF) as possible. I plan to have them >tra

about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Voiculescu Corneliu
I had mistaken and I removed the /var/lib/dpkg/available file from a linux Debian sistem What should I do to use apt-get without reinstalling the Debian? Corneliu Iosif Voiculescu Facultatea de Inginerie Tehnologica Universitatea "Transilvania" Brasov Sectia Rob

Re: urgent : ssh without password prompt and password client auth

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 03.05.2005 at 17:04 +0200, STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote: > Well everything is in the title. > I would like to use ssh in scripts so without entering > the password. > The problem is that such commands don t work: > echo passwd | ssh host (ssh doesn t read std input) You might be able to ge

Re: urgent : ssh without password prompt and password client auth

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach STEPHANE DURIEUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 3 May 2005 17:04:44 +0200 (CEST)): > Hello hi > Well everything is in the title. > I would like to use ssh in scripts so without entering > the password. > The problem is that such commands don t work: > echo passwd | ssh host (ssh doesn t

Can anyone offer help re Apache2 and phpicalendar?

2005-05-03 Thread Darcy Parker (Home)
Good day all, I have setup an internal websever using Apache2 and I have added phpicalendar. The problem I am having is getting the remote phpicalendar to update using the calendar plug-in under mozila thunderbird. It is a standard debian install, the websever is working, I can see the cal

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Adam Garside
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:14:35PM +0300, Voiculescu Corneliu wrote: > I had mistaken and I removed the /var/lib/dpkg/available file from a > linux Debian sistem > What should I do to use apt-get without reinstalling the Debian? deselect update -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: urgent : ssh without password prompt and password client auth

2005-05-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from STEPHANE DURIEUX: > > Well everything is in the title. > I would like to use ssh in scripts so without entering > the password. local_ ssh-keygen -t pick_one When it asks for your _passphrase_, hit ENTER. Now (assuming "remote:~you/.ssh/" exists): - local_ scp ~/.ssh/id_pick_

Re: ip forwarding

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 10:05 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > hello, > > simple firewall problem: > > 1 external nic (eth0) > 1 internal nic (eth1) > > i do not need to do any snat or masquerading, i am just looking to > forward the traffic from the internal to the external. > > so far: > > # ec

[fixed] Re: smssend does not do anything ?

2005-05-03 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi, thanks for the tip, I just put both options on one line and then it works fine. Thanks /ernst-magne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Mario, Nice ASCII logo. I work for poor people through UNDP. I am not a government nor Microsoft employee. (Ask Bill) > A lot of people in poor and developing countries are already > aware that they should move towards open source, and they > themselves keep up with those master plans everyda

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
please stop posting this! Nice ASCII logo. > > I work for poor people through UNDP. one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and ii) much money is being wasted. > I am not a government nor Microsoft employee. shouldn't make a difference as money rules the world (*cough

OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Timo, > please stop posting this! Get your weak wood out of my wheels! I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. > > I work for poor people through UNDP. > > one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and > ii) much money is being wasted. There are good people in the

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Adam Garside
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > deselect update dselect update -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Lee Braiden
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:21, Adam Garside wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > > deselect update > > dselect update Hmm.. maybe someone should start working on a meta-dselect, which deselects selected actions for the selections that dselect selects ;) -- Lee

Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-03 Thread Peter Sebastian Masny
Lee Braiden wrote: As for comments and user editing etc... either start looking into wikis etc., or talk to a web developer, and have him/her make it for you, if you don't know how yourself. p.s.: this is a web development question, not a debian one ;) Thanks for the quick response. The bullets

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps) >>please stop posting this! > > > Get your weak wood out of my wheels! > I fight poverty to avoid ending up like you. > > >>>I work for poor people through UNDP. >> >>one more proof that there i) are wrong people in the wrong places and >>ii) much money is being wasted.

Re: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread Joel Rees
Fafa Hafiz, Pardon the top post, but master plans are for totalitarian governments and bureaucracies. Their sole purpose is to assist in perpetuating established institutions. (No institution is going to plan it's own demise. Oh, and how well they serve their purpose is a subject of some debate

RE: OPEN SOURCE MASTERPLANS

2005-05-03 Thread bob
hay nut case. take this bull shut some place else. this is not the place to be saying lies like that. You are so full of your own shit I can smell your rotten stink over the internet You have no idea what you are talking about. grow up and become a real member of the world -Original Message

I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread Paul E Condon
I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package installed and running. But I can't figure out what to do in order to the TeX packag

Openoffice won't load and won't terminate afterwards

2005-05-03 Thread Vjekoslav Brkic
Hello everybody, I'm running Sarge on a machine which eth boots a dozen other machines, exporting to them a read only root filesystem (also Sarge). I try to start openoffice on those machines and is stops at the splash screen, progress bar at 2/3. Sometimes it even opens a titled blank window. Th

help me create a boot up disk for my computer

2005-05-03 Thread s l
hello   Ok here is what's going on I just got this used computer from a friend ( he's not very good with computers) and I forgot to get the bootup disk from him. long story short he doesn't  have it and I need to create one, but since the 3 1/2 inch floppy drive has not installed i

Re: about dpkg

2005-05-03 Thread Adam Garside
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:46:00PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 17:21, Adam Garside wrote: > > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: > > > deselect update > > > > dselect update > > Hmm.. maybe someone should start working on a meta-dselect, which dese

Re: Problems logging in to X-windows [KDE]

2005-05-03 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
it is a clean install, the disk is 15% in use (about 17GB free) Yes I have set the default window manager to KDE (as was stated in a previous reply to this topic) It is still happening and still am no closer to finding out why. Any help appreciated. :) P.S. Could it be a permission problem by

Re: Silence apt-get for real

2005-05-03 Thread Radu Brumariu
Andrey Andreev wrote: >Radu Brumariu wrote: > > >>Andrey Andreev wrote: >> >> >>>Radu Brumariu wrote: >>> >>> Andrey Andreev wrote: >>-- >>Configuration file `/etc/qmail/tcp.smtp' >>==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installatio

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from H. S.: >> >> do not take long. They are fine. It is only the compilaton of a new >> kernel after "make-kpkg clean" that takes around 50 or 58 minutes (1.8 >> GHz PIV with 256 MB of RAM). > > You must have the slowes

Re: I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Paul E Condon: > I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found > a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. > I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package > installed and running. But I can't figure out

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jon Dowland wrote: > However, make-kpkg clean does more than just delete the object files, > it also cleans up some debian state stuff (.stamps etc.) which > unfortunately you do need to do on every rebuild. It may be possible > to ask make-kpkg to no

Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?

2005-05-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Garamond wrote: > Can I prevent/protect a package from being accidentally removed? By > 'accident' I mean answering Yes in apt-get remove prompt or just > clicking Apply in synaptic without realizing that an important package > is being removed.

Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Antonio
Hi. I'm trying to install Debian for the first time. I choose to install Debian 3 RC2, through the internet using a minimal installation CD. But when I did the first boot (to actually download and install the packages from the internet) the computer (Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D) stopped because of

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: > Aptitude and apt-get behave differently when removing packages. > Aptitude keeps track of which packages were install because the user > directly requested that they be installed and which were installed in > order to satisfy a

Re: help me create a boot up disk for my computer

2005-05-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
s l wrote: hello Ok here is what's going on I just got this used computer from a friend ( he's not very good with computers) and I forgot to get the bootup disk from him. long story short he doesn't have it and I need to create one, but since the 3 1/2 inch floppy drive has n

Re: I need help with TeX administration on Debian Sarge

2005-05-03 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 03 mai 2005 à 11:16 -0600, Paul E Condon a écrit : > I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found > a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr. > I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package > installed and r

df shows negative blocks after upgrading libc

2005-05-03 Thread JT Justman
Hi - I recently upgraded my libc6 to 2.3.2 by downloading and installing the packages manually. It was required for another package. Now, I'm getting bad results from df: # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1-19885254958655 1

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:50, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x=5\", so > > thats it' > Would be yet harder still if you correct your grammar and put the > missing apostrophe in penultimat

Re: Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 03 May 2005 13:58:41 -0700): > Hi. > > I'm trying to install Debian for the first time. I choose to install > Debian 3 RC2, through the internet using a minimal installation CD. > But when I did the first boot (to actually download and install the >

Re: Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Antonio
How do you get the installer to install and boot the 2.6 kernel? --Antonio Richard Mittendorfer wrote: Also sprach Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 03 May 2005 13:58:41 -0700): Hi. I'm trying to install Debian for the first time. I choose to install Debian 3 RC2, through the internet using a mini

Re: migrating from RedHat to Debian without losing configuration

2005-05-03 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:02 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Some are standard (like the /etc/passwd, and so on). > > Even for those though, things like UIDs for daemons etc. differ. And from RH7.3 to Debian Sarge, the UIDs for users change dramatically, too (from 500+

Re: Openoffice won't load and won't terminate afterwards

2005-05-03 Thread Kent West
Vjekoslav Brkic wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm running Sarge on a machine which eth boots a dozen other machines, > exporting to them a read only root filesystem (also Sarge). > I try to start openoffice on those machines and is stops at the splash > screen, progress bar at 2/3. Sometimes it ev

Re: Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 03 May 2005 14:34:40 -0700): > How do you get the installer to install and boot the 2.6 kernel? > --Antonio > don't know. google or F1 may tell. _AFAIK_ it's some bootoption like "expert" typed at the prompt. isn't there a help when F1 is pressed? II

Re: migrating from RedHat to Debian without losing configuration

2005-05-03 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Glenn English_, on 05/03/2005 02:35 PM,typed: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:02 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Some are standard (like the /etc/passwd, and so on). Even for those though, things like UIDs for daemons etc. differ. And from RH7.3 to Debian Sarge, the UIDs

nvidia gl issues

2005-05-03 Thread Bill Day
I have a sarge systemrunning kernel 2.6.8 nvidia geforce 4000 64mb agp card on a shuttle ai61 motherboard gl seems to work properly but I have "glitches" during intesive game play and when i "watch" screensaver. it just hangs for a sec or so then continues on and does it againa few seconds la

Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Kevin Vickers
The relevant lines from /etc/fstab are: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winC vfatnoexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/winE ntfsnoexec,ro,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 The resulting permissions are: /mnt/winC rwx r-- r-- , i.e. 744 /mnt/winE r-x ---

installing X causes RAID to fail

2005-05-03 Thread mrogers
Hello: I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this problem... I've been trying to get RAID up and going (consistently) for a few days now. After attempting many things such as installing with/without a desktop, changing partition sizes and changing the number of partitions, I've narrowed

Re: Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Richard Mittendorfer wrote: > _AFAIK_ it's some bootoption like "expert" typed at the prompt. isn't > there a help when F1 is pressed? IIRC the option to boot 2.6 is > availible only with the sarge installer? Yeah, only with the new installer, you type "linux26" for standard installer or "expert26

Re: Problem during boot

2005-05-03 Thread Wulfy
Antonio wrote: How do you get the installer to install and boot the 2.6 kernel? --Antonio I think either: linux26 or expert26 should boot into the 2.6 kernel. IIRC the are on one of the Fn keys... -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack

Joint-venture

2005-05-03 Thread Mrs.Al-Ajia Shinkafi
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Re: Cannot remove 'execute' permission from vfat & ntfs partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Vickers) writes: > The relevant lines from /etc/fstab are: > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/winC vfatnoexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 > 0 > /dev/hda6 /mnt/winE ntfsnoexec,ro,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 > 0 > > The resulting permissions are: > > /mnt/

Belföldi hétvégék - LICITEN

2005-05-03 Thread Reise Info
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Re: migrating from RedHat to Debian without losing configuration

2005-05-03 Thread Glenn English
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:01 -0400, H. S. wrote: > Wonder what number the "standard" UID's start with? 500, 1000, ...??? As far as I can tell (from Aeleen Frisch and Evi Nemeth books on system administration) there is no standard. It's up to the sysadmin. When I ran into the RH/Debian problem, I

Re: pdf printing

2005-05-03 Thread Tony Godshall
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > Using xpdf when you tell it to print, it displays a dialog, in a textbox is > lpr > remove the r to obtain lp which is the cups command to print and it works > Have a good day I use 'lpr filename.pdf' and it just works. I'm not sure the mechanism, but I do ha

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:22:39PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:50, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 16:08 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > > > 'This is a bad bad thing, but not as bad as it would be if \"x=5\", so > > > thats it' > > > Would be yet harder sti

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Re: urgent : ssh without password prompt and password client auth

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 03.05.2005 at 22:57 +0200, STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote: > --- Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 03.05.2005 at 17:04 +0200, STEPHANE DURIEUX wrote: > > > > > Well everything is in the title. I would like to use ssh in > > > scripts so without > > entering > > > the pass

Re: Best way to document console steps on a web page?

2005-05-03 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-05-03, Peter Sebastian Masny penned: > > Thanks for the quick response. The bullets trick is a nice one. I > was hoping to find a wiki that had this ability built in (ideally a > Debian packaged wiki). Dokuwiki has editable stylesheets, so I'll > give that one a try. > moniwiki allows y

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