Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
Thankyou so much Alvin for the detailed reply :-) Could you please answer some of my doubts based on your feed back? On 6/14/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote: > > > I want to have the following partitions in both the hard disk > > >

Re: No updates for Sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La John Graves ha escrit, a 14/06/05 07:47: > I was successfully using apt-get to maintain my sarge installation on my > server. The week before sarge went stable I changed the 2 entries in my > sources.list from testing to sarge and again successfully received an > update. Now that Sarge is s

Netinstallation of Debian 3.0 - regarding

2005-06-14 Thread bs . gopinath
Hello , I need to install debian 3.0 through net installation, how can i do it?, please send me some installation manuals with step by step. Regards Gopinath S Bownan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No updates for Sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Mike
John Graves wrote: I was successfully using apt-get to maintain my sarge installation on my server. The week before sarge went stable I changed the 2 entries in my sources.list from testing to sarge and again successfully received an update. Now that Sarge is stable, I have not received any

Re: Re: changing from unstable to testing

2005-06-14 Thread Anton Bretterklieber
Thank you for helping! My problem: I did an upgrade to gnome-panel 2-10.1.3. From now on, gnome-panel doesn't work - "gnome-panel crashed". Also bugbuddy shows only a blank window, therfore I cannot send a bug-report. thx Anton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: a question about apt_preferences,

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [...] > I've looked at the contents of several release files, and see that in > these files the stable/testing/unstable value is in the 'Suite:' > field. In man apt_preferences, this is called the Archive, not the > Suite. This, I think

Login as a root

2005-06-14 Thread puishor
Hi ! every time when I start konsole , I get loging as usual user. To switch to root user I must enter: > su > passwd : Even if I put su statement in .bashrc it would ask me the password anyway. So... the question is what should i write in .bashrc (eventually plus the password) , so that konsole

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Mark wrote: > Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > Removing xserver-rage128 ... > > sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory > > dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > > I'd look at the post removal

Re: Netinstallation of Debian 3.0 - regarding

2005-06-14 Thread hell0 un1verse
On 6/14/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello , > > I need to install debian 3.0 through net installation, how can i > do it?, please send me some installation manuals with step by > step. > > Regards > Gopinath S Bownan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i'm running Sid (ext3 fs) on an Acer Travelmate 8005 laptop. It is few days that i've got this warning from the kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended I've tried to run e2fsck /dev/hda but here are the results: e2fsck 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005) C

Re: Using Cedega

2005-06-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, you can try with the loader you can find here: http://www.liflg.org/?catid=7&gameid=44 Hope this helps, MC Romulo Sousa wrote: Hi folks, I would like to run JediKnight Academy at my box cuz I don't wanna to reboot it and load windows just for games. Speacially cuz it's crashing all th

Re: Continuing problems with installer and Sager 9880

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
> Does anyone have any suggestions on next steps or how to get past this > impasse? In particularly, how might I diagnose at a finer granularity > why partman is failing. The only interesting messages in the logs are > these: I think that partman is not really failing. Your problem falls in

the guests face

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Re: e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 15.06.2005 um 10:21 schrieb Marco Calviani: > I've tried to run e2fsck /dev/hda but here are the results: > > e2fsck 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005) > Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... /dev/hda is your complete hard disk. The ext2 file system you want to check is (almost) always

Re: upgrading to stable sarge produces Segmentaion fault

2005-06-14 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:51:06PM +0200, Florian Sukup wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded to stable sarge. > > Unfortunately there appearing errors with two packages: sendmail and > apache. > > The apache package install ok, when /etc/init.d/apache start is called: > > > >

Re: Setting up PostgreSQL on Debian...

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/06/05 20:41), John Hasler wrote: > I get exactly the same error here. The user I am running pgAccess as is a > PostgreSQL user. When I run psql I can create the database and then open > it in pgAccess, but I can't create it in pgAccess. > > Looks like a but. but what? ;) It's not a bug.

Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail (Imap)

2005-06-14 Thread VFJ - Damiaan Peeters
Hi I upgraded our server to sarge. I was running * Postfix, Squirrelmail (& qpopper) The upgrade went almost perfect. Only a few small glitches (e.g. the removed php-gd2 package) could be fixed very quickly. Our website is running a lot faster than before (thanks to mysql v4, i believe). I

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
Cam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WindowMaker is the best... it doesn't seem to be under development > anymore though... am i wrong? Last CVS snapshot is dated 2005-04-09 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 01:38 schrieb j Mak: > 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find > repository addresses. There is a tool called "apt-setup", which will help you to make entries for mirrors near you and/or the cdroms you have. Of course, you can always edit your sources.list manually la

Re: changing from unstable to testing

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/06/05 06:10), Anton Bretterklieber wrote: > > Thank you for helping! > My problem: I did an upgrade to gnome-panel 2-10.1.3. From now on, > gnome-panel doesn't work - "gnome-panel crashed". Also bugbuddy > shows only a blank window, therfore I cannot send a bug-report. > > thx > Anton

Re: No updates for Sarge

2005-06-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 09:36 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > En/La John Graves ha escrit, a 14/06/05 07:47: > > I was successfully using apt-get to maintain my sarge installation on my > > server. The week before sarge went stable I changed the 2 entries in my > > sources.list from testing to sarge a

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:17:09PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > satisfies my requirements well. I wouldn't have put so much time > > into fixing up the packages for Debian if I didn't think it was > > useful. > That's nice that you spend time on it -

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Matthias Kaeppler
j Mak wrote: 1 My /apt/sources.list is empty, where can i find repository addresses. If it is empty, I suggest you first run apt-setup. This will create a first sources.list for you, and will offer you a long list of debian mirrors from all around the world. These are for official packages

Re: e2fsck problem

2005-06-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, how could i know which partition is causing the ext3 warning? Regards, MC Dennis Stosberg wrote: Am 15.06.2005 um 10:21 schrieb Marco Calviani: I've tried to run e2fsck /dev/hda but here are the results: e2fsck 1.38-WIP (09-May-2005) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blo

Re: Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail (Imap)

2005-06-14 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 14.06.2005 um 09:06 schrieb VFJ - Damiaan Peeters: > When i try to log in i get the error message: > ERROR: > Bad request: The IMAP server is reporting that plain text logins > are disabled. Using CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 authentication instead > may work. Also, the use of TLS may allow Squirrel

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Adam Funk
Simon Huggins wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:09:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: >> --- Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Does that mean that xfce4 is a good compromise then between both of >> > these concepts given you can install as many or as few of the >> > components as you lik

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Adam Funk
Jochen Schulz wrote: > A window manager is a program that just "manages windows". It gives > applications an area on the screen where they can be displayed and most > often the WM draws a border around it, gives it a nice title and enables > the user to do things with these windows - put one on th

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Andre Venter
Ultimately this is one of those personal taste type things.. Whatever works for you is your best option. Maybe try a few and see what works for you - Original Message - From: Adam Funk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Request for win

Re: Using Cedega

2005-06-14 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, you can try with the loader you can find here: http://www.liflg.org/?catid=7&gameid=44 Hope this helps, MC Romulo Sousa wrote: Hi folks, I would like to run JediKnight Academy at my box cuz I don't wanna to reboot it and load windows just for games. Speacially cuz it's crashing all th

Re: Login as a root

2005-06-14 Thread Philipp Pagel
puishor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > every time when I start konsole , I get loging as usual user. Yes, it's supposed to be that way. > So... the question is what should i write in .bashrc (eventually plus > the password) , so that konsole app would login me as a root user by > default ? Why on

Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail and Imap

2005-06-14 Thread VFJ - Damiaan Peeters
Hi I upgraded our server to sarge. I was running * Postfix, Squirrelmail (& qpopper) The upgrade went almost perfect. Only a few small glitches (e.g. the removed php-gd2 package) could be fixed very quickly. Our website is running a lot faster than before (thanks to mysql v4, i believe). I also i

Re: system monitoring software

2005-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:12:15AM -0600, Cam wrote: > I'm looking for some software that can do some basic system-monitoring > tasks (check if services are up and running, hard-drive space, etc). > I've been looking at some things like nagios, OpenNMS, and Cacti... > they all look pretty good (i

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 09:27 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > On 6/13/05, Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 12:58 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I would like to implement Disk mirroring ( Raid1 ) in Debian Sarge. Is > > > it possible to c

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
On 6/14/05, Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 09:27 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > > On 6/13/05, Aurélien Campéas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Le lundi 13 juin 2005 à 12:58 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I would like to implement

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 16:09 +0530, Siju George a écrit : > I first created identical partitions in each hard disk and marked them > as RAID Physical volumes. The I created the RAID devices and then > specified mount points and ReiserFS :-) > > It worked al right and easy but when I installed the

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/06/05 16:09), Siju George wrote: > Alright friend :-) > > I just completed it successfully! > > I first created identical partitions in each hard disk and marked them > as RAID Physical volumes. The I created the RAID devices and then > specified mount points and ReiserFS :-) > > It worke

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Aurélien Campéas
Le mardi 14 juin 2005 à 03:57 -0700, Alvin Oga a écrit : > > On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote: > > > Yes its partition 2 . what would be an appropriate location??? > > I just followed the BSD way where swap (b) comes immediately after / (a). > > What is appropriate for linux?? > > swap can

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
On 6/14/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cat /proc/mdstat > Thanks a lot Clive :-) #cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md2 : active raid1 hdd3[1] 4883648 blocks [2/1] [_U] md3 : active raid1 hda5[0] hdd5[1] 489856 blocks [2/2] [UU] md4 : active raid1 hda6[0]

[Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Smith
Hi, Sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this question but I thought this was probably the best place to ask it. I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new small business. If possible I would like colour but if a sufficiently good black and white is available

pinning ssh to whatever is current in stable?

2005-06-14 Thread Anonymous
On a Debian testing system I want to pin the ssh package only to whatever is the current version from the stable repository. I've read the APT HOWTO and I think I want to put this stanza in /etc/apt/preferences: Package: ssh Pin: release a=stable,c=main,o=Debian,l=Debian Pin-Priority: 1001 Is t

Re: Sarge Upgrade Problem Webmail (Imap)

2005-06-14 Thread VFJ - Damiaan Peeters
I already tried to configure squirrelmail using all login methods, although i have nothing special configured (like MD5 or TLS). BTW i believe it is $imap_auth_mech not $imap_auth_meth. Below there is a connect to my imap server. There is one word which cought my attention: "LOGINDISABLED". This

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
On 6/14/05, Rhomboid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to install Sarge yesterday with RAID (md) from the initial > setup on a machine. I tried RAID-0 and RAID-1 and both times the > installation failed on grub-install. It just hung. The third time I let > it sit for about 5 hours and when

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 09:42:02PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > The load time - at least to me - is a rather specious argument. Most > people, I would think, would keep the WM up and running as long as the > box is (personally, this box has been up for nearly four months, and I > could count on the

Mailinglists

2005-06-14 Thread VFJ - Damiaan Peeters
We do have a server running. It's running apache(1.3.33), php4, mysql 4, postfix, amavisd-new, spamassassin, ... Now we want to set up some newletters (or mailinglists). I know that there is a lot on the market * Mailman * Smartlist * MajorDomo * Listserv * ... Which one should we use? Things th

ReiserFS warning while adding debian mirror on Sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
hi all, I think I have seen this warning atleast three times as I installed Sarge with ReiserFS as file system both with and with out RAID1. ReiserFS: md7: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item ReiserFS: md7: warning: vs-8115: get_num_ver: not directory item ReiserFS: md7: warning: vs

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:25:08AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > But neither XFCE nor KDE are window managers. They are desktop > environments. This is a common misconception among people discussing > "graphical environments" for X. Both incorporate the functionality of WMs into them. Persono

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/06/05 16:52), Siju George wrote: > On 6/14/05, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > cat /proc/mdstat > > > > Thanks a lot Clive :-) > > #cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md2 : active raid1 hdd3[1] > 4883648 blocks [2/1] [_U] > > md3 : active raid1 hda5[0]

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never quite understood the > logic > behind requiring command line tools and text files to configure a > graphical > environment. No? See this: http://edulinux.homeunix.org/fvwm/user_enumerate.html > Also calling XFCE a desktop environment

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:35:23PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > A Desktop Environment provides a full framework of integrated > applications (such as a file manager, office applications, etc.) that > all share the same theme. Often common options applied to one program, > will affect the other comp

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:56:46PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > I need to compile up 4.2.2 packages for sarge and bung them on the > alioth page at some point. Mmmm, upgrades. I really should see if there's something later than 4.0.6 out. :D -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your pr

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 02:00:18PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Having been a loyal IceWM user since Potato was new I recently switched > to Xfce4 to see what it could do for me. Well, IceWM has /never/ > crashed on me in all that time. Last week Xfce4 crashed on me five > times. Other than th

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > I reckon ;) Having started with KDE and switched to xfce, it seems an > excellent compromise. I tried a few WM's and icewm came close to what I > was looking for but it was just a bit too light on frills and whistles. > Whereas xfce

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Thanks Kent, that did the trick "touch /etc/X11/Xserver" followed by "apt-get dist-upgrade -f" I am still having problems with a few application but at least my installations are not erring out like they were before. Brian

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oddly enough when you said "share a common theme" my first > reaction is > "that's a WM" as a WM controls the widgets on the application which > is part of > the theme. No, I meant it from an aesthetical point of view only. Umm, where did you g

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
Kevin, Thanks, for the device. I used a touch command follow by an apt-get mentioned in a previous post to get past that error. I was having problems with Apache, PHP4, proftpd and MySQL. I got past most of those by installing the Webmin module which seem to initiated a re-installation of the

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:58:29PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > No? See this: > http://edulinux.homeunix.org/fvwm/user_enumerate.html Doesn't change my opinion. I believe it was either Larry or Guido (one of those P language makers) who once said that what makes a language suited for a part

Re: Exim4: disablign delay in flushing mail queues

2005-06-14 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Micha Feigin wrote: When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the first few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do /etc/init.d/exim4 restart. Any way to disable this behaviour with exim? +++ Thi

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:49:27AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > I liked that setup so much that when I moved on I kept the home dock > (bought it with my own funds) and purchased an identical laptop off of eBay. > It has served me well for 3 years though nowadays I run XFCE4 instead of KDE. >

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:08:25PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > No, I meant it from an aesthetical point of view only. Umm, where did > you get the idea that a WM controls the widgets on an application? > That's not true. The fact that when you shut down the WM without shutting down X the win

Re: Gwebdec (Solved)

2005-06-14 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: > Now that's a fine Idea. and in the "Gwebdec" thread he wrote: > No. Gwebdec is a Webshots for Linux, in essence. and in the "ifconfig" thread he wrote: > Firslty, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the Top Post Thread > Comment. I've not been paying attention to it.

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-14 Thread Cliff Flood
James Miller wrote, on 06/09/05 13:43: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-panel: Depends: libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.5.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libecal6 (>= 1.0.4) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libedataserver3 (>

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote: > Yes its partition 2 . what would be an appropriate location??? > I just followed the BSD way where swap (b) comes immediately after / (a). > What is appropriate for linux?? swap can be anywhere on the disks swap is supposedly never used ... why would

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! THIS IS INEXCUSABLE ! ! ! I find this on DEBACLE: NOUN: 1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat;

Forcing a PCMCIA card to a specific eth?

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
Quick question I've not been able to find an answer for. Google hath failed me! I've got a Netgear 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card. I had put in my modules alias file the module that loads for that card as eth1. However when I pop the card into the slot it registers at eth0 and uses the configu

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Want to do the same with a "pure" WM. Step 1: open a CLI. Step > 2: enter > the command name. Step 3: close the CLI. Step 4: realize I forgot > &! at the > end of the command. Step 5: reopen CLI. Step 6: type in the command > name and > &!.

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact that when you shut down the WM without shutting down X > the window > border along with the close/minimize/maximize buttons (aka, the > widgets) > disappear? :P Those are window decorations that the WM defined, so of course they'd dis

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/06/05 12:58), Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I never quite understood the > > logic > > behind requiring command line tools and text files to configure a > > graphical > > environment. > > No? See this: > > http://edulinux.homeunix.org/fvwm/user

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-14 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > >> Help me please! > > > I find this on DEBACLE: > > NOUN:... failure > > > Nothing on DEBOCLE. > > Buy RedHat or SUSE. Oh. Do they have spellcheck? (I'm kidding-g-g-g! No need to flame me. Although a nice flame-broiled Whopper soun

Canon MF3110 a linux

2005-06-14 Thread Robert Bitala
dobry den mam tlačiareň Canon MF3110 a chcel by som ju pouzivat pod linuxom. Momentalne mam nainstalovany Danix. Je mozné ju rozchodit pod Danixom prípadne iným linuxom? Ak áno, ako? (nedarí sa mi zohnat driver). Dakujem RB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/06/05 13:08), Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oddly enough when you said "share a common theme" my first > > reaction is > > "that's a WM" as a WM controls the widgets on the application which > > is part of > > the theme. > > No, I meant it from

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jun 2005, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > [snip] > Actually I've found WMs lacking at managing windows. I consider starting > a window with the desired application part of good management. Configuring > that portion for most WMs is a PITA. The other portions they are equal to the > DEs like

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:38:35PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Sure -- but at least doing it that way means you yourself have defined > how it is to operate, rather than relying on the existing operability > of what's available. And you have done any less? Unless you coded the WM you are only

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:41:32PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uh, no, it doesn't. XFFM is a separate application. XFFM can be > I meant that in terms of it is still used and recognised by XFCE. But Natilus and Konqueror were recognize

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread michael
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:35 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the slightly off topic nature of this question but I thought > this was probably the best place to ask it. > > I'm looking to get a half way decent laser printer for my (very) new > small business. If possible I would li

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such as? You're implying that there's something magical going on > without > giving specifics upon which to discuss. No, I'm merely stating that with most WMs, the emphasis is on yourself to define how things are to operate -- and that you you

courierwebadmin: ERROR: No such file or directory

2005-06-14 Thread Jacob Friis Larsen
When I ask courierwebadmin to "Install new configuration" I get this: >>Installing new configuration... Installing aliases/webadmin... ERROR: No such file or directory<< Any idea what I have done wrong, or haven't done? Thanks, Jacob

Re: Newbie needs help fine tuning sarge

2005-06-14 Thread Clinton V. Weiss
Matthias Kaeppler wrote: # Skype, Java 5, Real Player, Flash, etc. deb http://archive.unable-to-package.org/debian-utp sarge main contrib non-free restricted Doesn't work. And it looked useful! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uhm, isn't that what I went into in my other message? Part of > managing a > window is being able to easily and readily configure opening/closing > windows > (and the applications in thos windows). Most fail spectacularly on > that > point. Ah

Re: Forcing a PCMCIA card to a specific eth?

2005-06-14 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 14.06.2005 at 05:37 -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > Quick question I've not been able to find an answer for. Google hath > failed me! I've got a Netgear 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet card. I had put in my > modules alias file the module that loads for that card as eth1. However when > I

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:04:26PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > But like all good WMs, they can be changed -- as to how > this happens, depends on the WM, and to an extent, depends upon how far > one is prepared to dig to do it. Then name one WM where I can press a button to add a menu item wit

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > It's certainly pretty easy in Icewm. You just add a suitable line in the > menu file and it then appears in the menu list when you press Ctrl-Esc. How are the lines added? My previous example, only minorly exagerrated, was ba

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then name one WM where I can press a button to add a menu item > without > having to resort to the intervening process of a CLI window, text > editor and > manual entry/formatting and I might be interested in it. Without > that, > however, whi

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See, Thomas pointed to a web page where a WM's text file > configuration was > defended because it was too complex to represent graphically. Yet in > the > above we have 5 items. It's not that it's too complex -- it's just that *trying* to do

setup an acx-wlan card

2005-06-14 Thread Mike Herzog
Hello everyone, i just managed to install and setup a D-Link 520+ (an acx100 based card) in my computer (an AMD Duron running Kernel 2.6.8 and debian stable). After running the 'start_net'-script there is a wlan0-interface that is associated to my AP. It knows the MAC of the AP and got an IP-Addre

MSI 915GM4-F Intel® Pentium 4 ATX Mainboard

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Opperman
Hi All Just wanted to find out before I purchase this Mobo if someone's already been through the process of installing Sarge or any distro with this MB? Any prior experience with this? And tips/hints would be appreciated. I am also used to installing debian with normal ATA drives, now i am gett

sar output fails on sarge with udev and 2.6 kernel

2005-06-14 Thread Yogesh Bhanu
Hi , Looks like a bug . Or something failed . I just moved one of my nfs servers to sarge from woody, as the system has 6 GB of ram I compiled the kernel 2.6.11.12 . The system is working fine. although sar for the i/o system is failing . I have not compiled devfs option . iostat 1 shows

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Graham Smith
how about putting 'linux' and 'printer' into a search engine, you may find something like http://www.linuxprinting.org/ which tells you what works with Linux (but not Debian/testing specifically) Personally, I've a Brother HL-5150D which does duplex and wasn't expensive but I do have some proble

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

2005-06-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Cliff Flood: > > Is there anything I can do to fix it and restore my nicely configured, > efficient Gnome working environment? :) Try 'apt-get -f install' without any further arguments. If that fails, I would try to remove suspicious packages and reinstall them. J. -- I wish I was gay. [Agree

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:00:03PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Such as? You're implying that there's something magical going on > > without giving specifics upon which to discuss. > No, I'm merely stating that with most WMs, the emphasis is

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve C. Lamb: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I reckon ;) Having started with KDE and switched to xfce, it seems an > > excellent compromise. I tried a few WM's and icewm came close to what I > > was looking for but it was just a bit too light on frills and w

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:16:23PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > But I personally don't see how it is "lacking" if you have to use a > text editor to change a menu entry -- I see it as just another means to > achieve the same goal. Just because that means might not be how you > wanted, that is not l

syslog-ng error message while starting / stopping: KERNEL_RINGBUF_SIZE & KERNEL_RINGBUF_SIZE is of unaccepted value

2005-06-14 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello debian-user mailing list ! Fresh installed system Dual MMX 466 with sarge r0 (not r0a) and 2.6.8-2-686-smp kernel. echolon:~# apt-get install syslog-ng Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: klogd sysklogd The followin

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto - bad

2005-06-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote: > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md2 : active raid1 hdd3[1] > 4883648 blocks [2/1] [_U] you have a bad raid system ... you lose one partition and your entire raid disks can be toast - if /dev/md2 is /boot ... - why do

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Steve C. Lamb
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See, Thomas pointed to a web page where a WM's text file configuration > > was defended because it was too complex to represent graphically. Yet > > in the above we have 5 items.

Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
I am having a strange problem setting my ip address on my only (eth0) ethernet connection. If I use either a static or dhcp iface stanza in /etc/network/interfaces it fails. Here is the output from the dhcp version. - Internet Software Consortiu

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope. It's spot on. Forcing people to learn loads up front to No, I've said, it's just another means to configure something. If something is predominately a text-based configuration, then that can be just as intuitive as a graphical one, IMO

Re: Setting up PostgreSQL on Debian...

2005-06-14 Thread Redefined Horizons
How do you sign into pgAccess as the user with the creation privileges? I didn't see a place to log on directly in pgAccess. Does it use the permissions of whatever current user is logged into Debian? If I have a user created for Debian, do I simply log in as postgres and grant that user the creat

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve C. Lamb: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > It's certainly pretty easy in Icewm. You just add a suitable line in the > > menu file and it then appears in the menu list when you press Ctrl-Esc. > > How are the lines added? With the right tool to do

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pardon me if I don't believe you when you say that the miriad of > *graphical style options* can't be represented *graphically*. If > they > couldn't then they wouldn't exist, would they? This one of those things you'd realise, if you used the

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- "Steve C. Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default configuration for shell access is munged and doesn't > work. > You're using a thin-client with only the X session to work with. How > do you > edit the text file when you can't get to it? That's not lacking? > The > functionality d

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