Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-07 Thread Michael
This is the verbatim error message: "The CD-ROM contains a non-Debian CD.  Please insert a Debian CD to continue with the installation." This was the common error received when using the cd I just burned using CDBurnerXPPro3 (found this software in a Debian installation manual). I tried mounting a

Problem with dependences

2005-05-07 Thread ice.dp
Hi, I want to install qmail: # wajig install qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb dpkg: regarding qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb containing qmail: qmail conflicts with mail-transport-agent ssmtp provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. dpkg: error processing qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb (--install): conflicting p

Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sat, 07 May 2005 03:00:12 +0200, germ germ wrote: > I configured /etc/network/interfaces as: > iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface lo inet loopback > auto eth0 lo Make it: auto lo eth0 so that the loopback interface is configured first. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Problem with dependences

2005-05-07 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 07 May 2005 08:45, ice.dp wrote: > # wajig install qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb > dpkg: regarding qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb containing qmail: > qmail conflicts with mail-transport-agent > ssmtp provides mail-transport-agent and is installed. > dpkg: error processing qmail_1.03-37_i386.deb (--

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-05-07 03:25:37, schrieb Pollywog: > Please post your question in plain text. Many people read the list > with Mutt > and not with a browser or mail client capable of reading HTML and one > of > those people might have the answer you seek. > > 8) Hmmm, I am using 'mutt' and can read tex

Re: IM

2005-05-07 Thread Scarletdown
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: > > >>What Paul (I think it was Paul; I'm going on memory) means is that >>you can post the image on your own personal web site, and then post >>a link to that website in IRC or in IM. Many ISPs provide 10MB or >>so of web space

Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 05:57:39PM -0700, germ germ wrote: > I am running 2.2.20 and I have installed the driver > for my NIC but am unable to pull an IP. > > I configured /etc/network/interfaces as: > iface eth0 inet dhcp > iface lo inet loopback > auto eth0 lo > > 'dmsg|grep eth0' shows what NI

SOLVED: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:10:58PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: > On 5/6/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:41PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > I am considering how to crawl a site which is dynamically generated, > > > and create a static version of al

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
* Scott Wolchok: > On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> BTW: if I were you, I'd take the time to plug one of the drives on the >> secondary ide controller (if your machine has one). Copying between two >> IDE devices on the same controller is awfully slow. > > Don't you mean th

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread Lee Braiden
On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about > "primary" and "secondary" controllers when we mean the two IDE > connectors on standard mainboards. I think that's also how it's printed > on the mainboards themselves and i

Re: AMD cooling utility in debian

2005-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 6 May 2005 11:26:06 +0100 "Wackojacko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I don't think that is the case--at least, not in stock Debian kernels. > >I have an Athlon XP 1700+, and it idled at 45C until I installed > >athcool. Now it idles below 40C, sometimes as low as 30-32C in cooler > >we

Re: Re: Music player under linux for ape?

2005-05-07 Thread Toderel Adrian-Aurel
Hello! I see that you have same problem as me! Here can be a single 'magic word' : SourceForge.net: Project Info - Monkey's Audio Codec non-win32 ports http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac-port/ you need two tarballs: mac-3.99-u4-b3.tar.gz and xmms-mac-0.3.1.tar.gz . Compile mac-3.99-u4-b3.tar.g

Re: protecting/preventing a package from being removed?

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen Patterson
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > You can put the package on hold. I'm not sure if it is the best way to > secure the package from accidentally being removed. but if you put the package on hold it'll never get upgraded... -- Stephen Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patter.mine.nu/ Linux Counter No: 1

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
* Lee Braiden: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about >> "primary" and "secondary" controllers when we mean the two IDE >> connectors on standard mainboards. I think that's also how it's printed >> on the main

KDE

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi all,   I am trying to install kde on my Debian system. But when I try to do this I get the message below. When I try to run apt-get -f install it also doesn't work. Can anybody help me?   debian:/home/paul# apt-get install kdeReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneYo

Re: NT ACL support

2005-05-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba packages? I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT

Re: NT ACL support

2005-05-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Schulman wrote: On 5/6/05, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can anyone tell me if NT ACL support is compiled into the Debian Samba packages? I've read the Debian rules file in the Samba source package and see a line for ACL support but am unsure if that is Posix ACL or NT AC

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-07 Thread John Hasler
Eric Gaumer writes: > Which is what I stated... providing /dev/null means you provide nothing > (i.e. there is no input to receive). /dev/null provides nulls. That is not the same as no input. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael: > keeling: > > > > What did you do when you burnt the CD? I've used a number of netinst > > images with no trouble. > > I tried a variety of different procedures. The first cd I wrote to was the > ISO, files not verified. The second was another burn of the image--data not

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Michael: > I recently tried the disks and cd on a Windows 98 machine (~8 years old) > and encountered the same error message. Therefore, the error seems to be > less a factor of an unsupported cd-writer and more a factor of burn > quality/burn type. Although, considering both cd d

Re: command to send mail

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Gaumer
John Hasler wrote: > Eric Gaumer writes: >> Which is what I stated... providing /dev/null means you provide nothing >> (i.e. there is no input to receive). > > /dev/null provides nulls. That is not the same as no input. /dev/null or the null device is a virtual device that discards all data w

install sarge to boot on lvm on raid5 ???

2005-05-07 Thread Michael D Schleif
I downloaded sarge-i386-1.iso on 2 May 2005. I was happy to find installation options for BOTH RAID5 and LVM, right there in the disk partitioning menus. They weren't totally intuitive to me; but, I managed to configure LVM on RAID5 without any errors. Then, I came to the boot loader step. It d

Re: IM

2005-05-07 Thread Colin Ingram
Scarletdown wrote: >Paul Johnson wrote: > > >>On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: >> >>In a pinch, you can also upload an image to my wiki for display. >>http://ursine.ca/Special:Upload >> >> >. Or, if you want to get some geeky experience points, >you can apt-get install vsftpd,

Re: IM

2005-05-07 Thread Mike Ward
imageshack.us also works for a quick post of a screenshot. Then just link it in IRC. On 5/7/05, Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scarletdown wrote: > > >Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > >>On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote: > >> > >>In a pinch, you can also upload an image to my

Re: OpenOffice 1.1.3 envelopes with hp psc 1210

2005-05-07 Thread Colin
John Marks wrote: > On Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:33, Paul Stolp wrote: > > If I set the page dimensions to 4.3" by 9.5, the envelope prints > correctly - proper landscape output > > Anything less than 4.3" tall will fail. e.g. 4.3" works, 4.2" fails." Do you know how long this problem has been bugg

Re: install sarge to boot on lvm on raid5 ???

2005-05-07 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 7 May 2005 10:08:30 -0500): > I downloaded sarge-i386-1.iso on 2 May 2005. I was happy to find > installation options for BOTH RAID5 and LVM, right there in the disk > partitioning menus. > > They weren't totally intuitive to me; but, I mana

Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread Peter Klauer
I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my mouse is not recognized and I can find no combination of keys to move around the desktop to g

Re: Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread Richard Mittendorfer
Also sprach Peter Klauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 07 May 2005 08:45:00 -0700): > I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. > It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized > and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my > mouse

Re: Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Peter Klauer: > I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. > It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized > and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my > mouse is not recognized and I can find no combination of k

logrotate and syslog

2005-05-07 Thread Dalibor Straka
Hello, my /var/log/syslog is rotated but there is nothing in /etc/logrotate.conf nor in /etc/logrotate.d/*. How is syslog rotated? Does it have its own rotate skript (why?!!!). Thanks a lot, -- Dalibor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Richard Mittendorfer wrote: > Also sprach Peter Klauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Sat, 07 May 2005 > 08:45:00 -0700): > >>I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. >>It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized >>and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnom

Re: logrotate and syslog

2005-05-07 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 07 May 2005 04:09 pm, Dalibor Straka wrote: > Hello, > > my /var/log/syslog is rotated but there is nothing in > /etc/logrotate.conf nor in /etc/logrotate.d/*. How is syslog rotated? > Does it have its own rotate skript (why?!!!). > > Thanks a lot, look in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd 8)

Why do ACLs disappear?

2005-05-07 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, I have a little problem concerning the persistance of Access Control Lists (ACL) on a ReiserFS filesystem: Whenever I reboot the machine, they vanish partially. I have my home dir /home/jim set to mode 700, so noone else can read it. But apache needs to be able to walk through it to my pu

Re: logrotate and syslog

2005-05-07 Thread Martin Dickopp
Dalibor Straka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my /var/log/syslog is rotated but there is nothing in > /etc/logrotate.conf nor in /etc/logrotate.d/*. How is syslog rotated? It is rotated in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd. (See also /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd). Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: exim4 misconfigured

2005-05-07 Thread Laurent CARON
David Roguin a écrit : Hello, when i was installing debian i choose to configure exim4 later; but now when i do dpkg-reconfigure exim4; it doesn't prompt for all the option it showed me in the installation dialog. how can i configure exim4? regards. dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config -- Let oth

Re: KDE

2005-05-07 Thread hacker
Which version are you running? It looks like your sources.list doesn't pick up all the available kde files. Testing works fine here, so make sure you have a 'testing' entry in your debs in /etc/apt/sources.list, then 'apt-get update', the try 'apt-get install kde/testing'. good luck On 5/7/05,

Re: DisplaySize ignored?

2005-05-07 Thread Brian Potkin
Carlos Rodrigues writes: > I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the > screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps > are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set > "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86

Re: PPT to pdf question?

2005-05-07 Thread John Carline
Scott Wolchok wrote: On 5/5/05, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a tool that will convert a MS-Ppt slides to Postscript or PDF format? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ apt-cache sear

package search

2005-05-07 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages Search package directories Keywords: image editor Search on: descriptions Allow searching on subwords: yes Distribution: testing hit search: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=image+editor&searchon=all&subword=1&

Re: package search

2005-05-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 04:07:16PM -0400, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages > > Search package directories > > Keywords: image editor > Search on: descriptions > Allow searching on subwords: yes > Distribution: testing > > hit search: >

Re: Non-debian cd

2005-05-07 Thread Michael
When you burn with them, ignore the living daylights out of what they say about burn speed.  Just tell the burn program to use 4x, or even 2x.  You needed a cup of coffee anyway, didn't you?  Go for a walk. Yes, I was thinking about burning at a lower speed than 4x.  I am giving 2x a go (the file i

Re: Stuck at desktop

2005-05-07 Thread Kent West
On Sat, 07 May 2005 08:45:00 -0700 Peter Klauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5. > It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized > and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my > mouse is n

Audio CD Burning Perplexities

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I have on the hard drive 20 wav files (Signed 16 Bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo). I did succeed burning them one at a time to a cd with the command cdrecord -v dev="ATA:1,1,0" -tao -pad -nofix filename.wav with the -nofix option removed for the last track. The resulting cd play

Re: package search

2005-05-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:54:34PM -0100, David Roguin wrote: > maybe you should use > apt-cache search image editor well, it wasn't me, but Frederico, who reported the problem -- so I'm replying to the list... > > On 5/7/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 0

portsentry only blocking once - need to restart

2005-05-07 Thread Jochen Kaechelin
I have the following problem: Wenn I do a nmap to a portsentry protected host I will be blocked after 3 scans with the following command: KILL_RUN_CMD="/sbin/iptables -I INPUT -s $TARGET$ -j DROP" When I flush iptables (iptables -F) and try to nmap the host again portsentry does not block it aga

suddenly, strange segfaults, kernel logs

2005-05-07 Thread Peter Molnar
Hi, i have a debian machine that has been stabily working for 1 month. On Friday users have reported, the services were not working anymore and have done a reboot. At that time approximately (when it stoped working), i had the following in / var/log/messages: May 6 16:44:50 *** kernel: KERNEL

xkb problem

2005-05-07 Thread aldo.maggi
i have a problem with xkb which cannot solve. i use sid (but the problem arose while sarge was installed on my laptop); after a crash provoked by hibernate, apparently, something was corrupted. gnome started but a couple of pop-up win's appeared warning that an error had occurred while activating X

configuring horde3: authentication troubles

2005-05-07 Thread w trillich
we're having a dickens of a time figuring out how to get horde off the ground-- apt-get install horde3 turba2 mip4 ingo1 apt-get install php4-{gd,ldap,mcrypt} pear install mail_mime pear install auth_sasl http_request services_weather net_url pear install cache pear install net_sieve pear upgrade-

folder display order in mutt

2005-05-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm having a problem with folder sort order in mutt. I have indentical mutt configurations on two boxes, and am synchronizing them with offlineimap. However, the folders will not sort the same way on both boxes, and I want the folders in all caps to sort to the top. For example: Box 1 (non-IMAP, a

Re: portsentry only blocking once - need to restart

2005-05-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 10:19:48PM +0200, Jochen Kaechelin wrote: > A bug or a feature? Probably a feature. My educated guess is that the IP is being added to portsentry.ignore after being dropped, and that file is only cleared when restarting the daemon. It seems like you might get friendly host

root partition 76% after sarge upgrade

2005-05-07 Thread Frank Jansen
Greetings, I recently upgraded a system from woody to sarge and the root partition wound up at 76% full. The woody system was at 15% full. Root is about 100MB in size and /var, /tmp, /usr, /home and swap are in separate partitions. Its a standard scientific desktop (not server) ta

Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread germ germ
I changed the eth0 dchp line to: iface etho inet static address 192.168.0.129 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.2 "ifconfig -a" inet line now has IP,mask and bcast but I am unable to ping out or get pinged. do I have to modify anthing in /etc/dhclient/conf? --- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: folder display order in mutt

2005-05-07 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:25:10PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm having a problem with folder sort order in mutt. I have indentical > mutt configurations on two boxes, and am synchronizing them with > offlineimap. However, the folders will not sort the same way on both > boxes, and I want the

Re: problem bringing up eth0

2005-05-07 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from germ germ: > I changed the eth0 dchp line to: > iface etho inet static > address 192.168.0.129 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.0.2 > > "ifconfig -a" inet line now has IP,mask and bcast but > I am unable to ping out or get pinged. > > do I have to modify anthing in /etc/

Removing what a meta-package provided

2005-05-07 Thread Daniel Déchelotte
Hello, Here is the baseline: while "apt-get install kde" installs KDE, "apt-get remove kde" does not remove anything. Power users know this, but it can be disconcerting for novices, and every user could benefit from a way to say "okay, enough played with , now I want to remove it". At this point,

config network

2005-05-07 Thread Peter Klauer
Can someone steer me to an artical about setting up a comcast broadband connection for a stand alone machine. When I installed Debian I must have done it wrong. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: config network

2005-05-07 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 17:03 -0700, Peter Klauer wrote: > Can someone steer me to an artical about setting up a comcast > broadband connection for a stand alone machine. When I installed > Debian I must have done it wrong. I can't point to an article, but I can tell you that once the signal becomes

Re: C-Media 8738 ALSA problems

2005-05-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsa itself is the problem. I had tried versions 1.0.6 and 1.0.8 on fedora core 3 and while alsa could raise the speaker volume fine attempts to play a wav file with play /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav and aplay -q /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav both resulted in absolute silence. alsa is a se

Re: root partition 76% after sarge upgrade

2005-05-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:41:42AM +1200, Frank Jansen wrote: > 25Mb is /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386 . Another worthy is /etc/gconf with > 11MB. Can these two be safely removed ? Where can I find a reference Don't remove modules if you've got modules enabled in the kernel. That's asking for trouble

Re: folder display order in mutt

2005-05-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 01:06:52AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote: > locale setting? (LC_COLLATE) That's it! The "good" box has everything set to POSIX, while the "bad" box is set to en_US. So, "export LC_ALL=POSIX" solves the problem. However, I'm trying to figure out why the boxes are different, si

Re: suddenly, strange segfaults, kernel logs

2005-05-07 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2005-05-08, Peter Molnar penned: > > I suppose a hardware issue. The kernel messages and segfaults could > indicate corrupted memory or a corrupted bus. > I always suspect memory or power supply first. If those two are fine, I start looking further. Can you swap out the memory and/or power su

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Friday 06 May 2005 09:07 am, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi all, > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 should work > Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost

Re: suddenly, strange segfaults, kernel logs

2005-05-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
> I suppose a hardware issue. The kernel messages and segfaults could indicate > corrupted memory or a corrupted bus. Hi. I don't know if you're running x86. If you are, try memtest86+. $ apt-cache search memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org. Regards, Nelson.-

RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread hja
This there a Debian package for Realplayer? If not, what is the best equivalent? hja123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 5/8/05, hja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This there a Debian package for Realplayer? If not, what is the best > equivalent? Yes. Check out Christian Marillat's repository: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:43:41AM +0800, hja wrote: > This there a Debian package for Realplayer? If not, what is the best > equivalent? I think there may be a Deb package, but I just play all my media files in mplayer. Definitely give mplayer a look; it's the very rare media file that it doesn't

Re: Removing what a meta-package provided

2005-05-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
The non-automatic thus potentially difficult question is "what is part of KDE?" Surely kdelibs. What about Qt? And libc6? (just to name three of KDE's dependencies and to show that the answer is *not* fully deducible from the dependency graph). So the maintainer will have to take some subjective de

Re: RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:22:09PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > I think there may be a Deb package, but I just play all my > media files in mplayer. Definitely give mplayer a look; it's > the very rare media file that it doesn't know how to play. I know it's a religious argument, but I prefer

Re: folder display order in mutt

2005-05-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 07 2005, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > where is this being set as the system default? Possibly, via dpkg-reconfigure locales, when the systems were installed. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms packag

Re: RealPlayer

2005-05-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:37:09PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I know it's a religious argument, but I prefer totem. Quality of play in > full-screen mode is better to my eye, and the user interface is enormously > superior. You know, I know a lot of Linux users who are into religious debates. The

Re: root partition 76% after sarge upgrade

2005-05-07 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:41:42AM +1200, Frank Jansen wrote: > > > Greetings, > I recently upgraded a system from woody to sarge and the > root partition wound up > at 76% full. The woody system was at 15% full. Root is about 100MB in > size and /var, /tmp, The .deb used for upg

A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-07 Thread Byron Hillis
Hi everybody, A bit off topic, but it is on a Debian machine. Here's the situation. I've got a bunch of files layed out like this... /cvs/proj/src/rs232/rs232.asm /cvs/proj/src/rs232/include/rs232_include.inc /cvs/proj/src/rs232/include/rs232.inc /cvs/proj/src/a2d/a2d.asm /cvs/proj/src/a2d/includ

Re: A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 03:36:23PM +1000, Byron Hillis wrote: > Hi everybody, > > A bit off topic, but it is on a Debian machine. Here's the situation. I've > got a bunch of files layed out like this... > > /cvs/proj/src/rs232/rs232.asm > /cvs/proj/src/rs232/include/rs232_include.inc > /cvs/proj/

Re: A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-07 Thread Allan Wind
On 2005-05-08T02:02:27-0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > my 2 cents Nice. > > A="/cvs/proj/src" > B="/code" > find "$A/" |while read line; do > X=$(echo "$line"|cut -d/ -f6-); X=$(echo "$line"|baseline); > ln -s "$line" "$B/$X"; > d

Re: A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-07 Thread Allan Wind
On 2005-05-08T02:05:53-0400, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2005-05-08T02:02:27-0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > my 2 cents > > Nice. > > > > > A="/cvs/proj/src" > > B="/code" > > find "$A/" |while read line; do > > X=$(echo "$line"|cut -d/ -f6-); > >

RE: A Simple Scripting Question

2005-05-07 Thread Byron Hillis
> > > > > > A="/cvs/proj/src" > > > B="/code" > > > find "$A/" |while read line; do > > > X=$(echo "$line"|cut -d/ -f6-); > > > > X=$(echo "$line"|baseline); > > Argh, that should have been: > > > X=$(echo "$line"|basename); > > >

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread David Baron
On Friday 06 May 2005 17:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 > > > > Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost > > have o

Internet Troubles

2005-05-07 Thread David R. Litwin
To make my life more simple, I'll use hpijs. But, back to the Internet. I've decided that my problem is with the ppp0 bit. If I prompt (or, what is the term) ifconfig ppp0, it says essentially, that the device does not exist. This is after I've run pppoeconf. How do I create a ppp device?-