Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Robert, unfortunately this is not a very user-frienfly program when it comes to _detailed_ analysis. I need something that shows clearly which programs uses a certain quantity of memory. Regards, MC Robert Vangel wrote: Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Debian, maybe this is slightly OT, bu

Re: is there parted for ntfs ?

2005-07-04 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:52:54AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: > Hi , > I want to resize my ntfs partition, but it is not > supported by the parted ( on sarge) apt(-get|itude) install ntfsprogs -- Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: BT848 TV Tuning Problems

2005-07-04 Thread Marty
Rudi Starcevic wrote: kernel: tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (bt878 #0 [sw]) That's not the output 2.6.8 tuner gives, so I grepped through old kernels and I can't find anything matching that output, although 2.4 comes close. What distro are you using? I'm using Debian. I installed with th

iptables - no TTL target?

2005-07-04 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello, i'm running a debian sarge with a self compiled 2.4.27 (debian) kernel as firewall / router. What i'm trying to do is to increase the TTL of packets leaving a certain subnet by one. Reading the iptables man page this should be able with something like this: eris:~# iptables -I FORWARD

Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I have the choice I'd rather follow the Debian way... Is there any? Thank you? -- Miroir de l

can't switch to virtual console

2005-07-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone, I'm not sure if it's debian or keyboard or X issue,but however...I'll really appreciate your help. I'm using Debian testing with 2.6.11-rc3 kernel,every time when the mashine boot I'm logging into the X server,and after this I can't switch anymore to the other virtual consoles using Ct

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > There was no invitation to configure the package, so I guess I missed > something. Any ideas what I need to do to get xfce 4.2 for real? Debian XFCE crew is out there: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-xfce/ May be you should subscribe to their ML (http://lists.ali

woody->sarge: aptitude cache lock problem

2005-07-04 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I'm trying to upgrade the system from woody to sarge. Followed the steps in the Debian release notes for sarge (http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/index.en.html): that is: - edit sources.list - apt-get update - aptitude install aptitude - aptitude install doc-base - ap

Re: can't switch to virtual console

2005-07-04 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not sure if it's debian or keyboard or X issue,but however...I'll > really appreciate your help. > I'm using Debian testing with 2.6.11-rc3 kernel,every time when the > mashine boot I'm logging into the X server,and after this I can't > switch anymore to the other vir

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Debian, maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists a program to show the real memory usage of every process that is running on a certain machine. Thanks, MC How about gnome-system-monitor? The "Process Listing" tab should tell you all th

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:51:35AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Marco Calviani wrote: > > maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists > >a program to show the real memory usage of every process that is > >running on a certain machine. > > > How about gnome-system-m

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread mess-mate
Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with | aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and | nothing's different. The xfce info tells me I'm still using 4.0.6. | There was no invitation to configure the p

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-07-04, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > > What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? > I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it > would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. > If I have the choice I'd rather follow the

Re: isp service

2005-07-04 Thread Joseph Haig
--- roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 16:04, TedNick wrote: > > How and where can I find a Linux friendly ISP. > > Best of luck. I've only heard of one linux friendly ISP in England. > And that would be? ;-) The original poster didn't say where he is, but if he is in E

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread Marco Calviani
Thanks, it come close to what i need. Regards, MC Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:51:35AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marco Calviani wrote: maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists a program to show the real memory usage of every proces

WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread trevor hamel
i recently installed linux. when i finished the installer i as hoped to be gretted with an OS with a display like windows what i gto was more like a display of dos. can someone tell me how to get it to not be in command prompt... because i didnt think that was what linux was thank you for t

Re: iptables related query

2005-07-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-07-03 @ 21:40:06 (week 26) Mal Beaton wrote: > I prefer to use sub chains to identify from the internet or from > internal etc I do too, but as the corresponding webpage states: Note that this ruleset is written with readability and clearness in mind so anyone can fathom it. Thus it is

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/07/05 01:23), trevor hamel wrote: > i recently installed linux. when i finished the installer i as hoped to be > gretted with an OS with a display like windows what i gto was more like a > display of dos. can someone tell me how to get it to not be in command > prompt... because i did

Re: smbmount

2005-07-04 Thread Ms Linuz
Khanh Cao Van wrote: >I have just the CD 1 of Debian 3.1 , all another deb packages was in >the other server that run samba . After finishing install base >component of debian , I would like to mount to the shared forder on >that server but could not findout the smbclient or smbmount ! ! ! ! > >H

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and > nothing's different. The xfce info tells me I'm still using 4.0.6. > There was no invitati

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
'ello Debian On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:07:47AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > | aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and > | nothing's different. The xfce i

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 04.07.2005 at 09:10 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? I need to have > several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it would be > better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. If I > have the choice I'd

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:17:12PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > Anyway, the point is that you really *shouldn't* trust the > root user if you don't have to. And if you can encrypt your > filesystem, you should. You do have to trust the entity that provides your service, and its agents, at leas

ltmodem setup

2005-07-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm running Etch on a Compaq Armada m700. It has a built in lucent modem, and I have the driver version 8.26a from the ltmodem.org site. When I run ./build_module, I get the following output: Now acquiring distribution data: The Linux distribution is: debian, testing/unstable TARGET_C

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Kent West
trevor hamel wrote: > i recently installed linux. when i finished the installer i as hoped > to be gretted with an OS with a display like windows what i gto > was more like a display of dos. can someone tell me how to get it to > not be in command prompt... because i didnt think that was what

/dev/log

2005-07-04 Thread michael
I saw the following in my 'tiger' output --FAIL-- [dev002f] /dev/log has world permissions which is indeed true: $ file /dev/log /dev/log: socket $ ls -lt /dev/log srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-06-28 13:28 /dev/log but I cannot find a manual page etc that tells me what this socket is for o

Re: courier-maildrop & mysql support!

2005-07-04 Thread Chris Boot
Hi, On 3 Jul 2005, at 22:38, h2t-nl wrote: Hello guys, Somebody in the community that can help me with the maildrop package that support Mysql? As far as I know the present courier-maildrop version (0.47.4) doesnt=B4t support this! Has somebody already compile this package to support mysql? B

Re: iptables - no TTL target?

2005-07-04 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: * Mart Frauenlob wrote: eris:~# iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -s 192.168.13.0/24 -j TTL --ttl-inc 1 iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Do you have module table_mangle loaded ? modprobe table_mangle and also these modules: ipt_TTL for the target,

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > ... and I should have said.. and then use ~/dominik as your ~. Don'tcha mean "I should have said, chmod 700 ~" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} pwd /home/grey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ls -ld /home/grey drwxr-xr-x 59 grey grey 2856 2005-07-04 03:51 /home/grey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} chm

Re: iptables - no TTL target?

2005-07-04 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: IIRC You need CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y to add the TTL target, not the TTL matching module (which you already have). Which should of course say CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TTL! Doh! I'm sure you guessed that though, right? ;-) eris:/usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.27# cat

Debian Roadmap

2005-07-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I may have missed this, but is there some place (other than trying to keep up with the dev list) where I can get an idea of what the roadmap for Debian (particularly Etch) looks like? Things like what big changes are coming, when e.g. X.org will be added, ect. Thanks -- Kind regards Ha

Re: (SLIGHTLY OT): PC speaker not working with 2.6.12.2 kernel

2005-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Monday 04 July 2005 01:40, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:02, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > However, under my new kernel the PC speaker (which > > I use only for beeping me when mail arrives, when I > > hit tab in a shell and haven't typed enough to > > uniquely identify a file

Re: Starting SA with Procmail

2005-07-04 Thread John Fleming
I'm giving up on procmail. You shouldn't have to give up. I suspect a lot of people use procmail just as you have described you want to do. It is the simplest implementation of SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Postfix, and works great. You shouldn't be limited as to whether you use it site-wide o

Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
Hi good people, I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text, store an electronic copy of the document and its digital signature to disk and lastly print the documen

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/4/05, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > > aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2, restarted X Windows, and > > nothing's different. The xfce

Re: Install Perl modules the Debian way

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Funk
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > What is the Debian way to install Perl modules? > I need to have several modules on my Testing box and then wondered if it > would be better to use cpan installer or any kind of Debian way to do it. > If I have the choice I'd rather follow the Debian way... Is ther

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread John Hasler
Alphonse Ogulla writes: > I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will > capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash > algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text... I suggest that you use SHA-2. SHA-1 may no longer be secure. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 7/4/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/4/05, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_ reached. I updated with > > > aptitude and apparently installed xfce 4.2

Re: Starting SA with Procmail

2005-07-04 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 07:20 -0500, John Fleming wrote: > You shouldn't have to give up. I suspect a lot of people use procmail just > as you have described you want to do. It is the simplest implementation of > SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Postfix, and works great. You shouldn't be > limited as

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
> You do have to trust the entity that provides your service, and its > agents, at least to some extent. > > For example, an encrpyted filesystem does you no good if you are > using the hardware provided by the hosting company which can insert > keyloggers and take copies of the private keys whic

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 04 Jul 2005 14:10, Shaun Lipscombe wrote: > On the gpg mailing list they basically came to the conclusion that SHA-1 > is *weaker* than previously thought based on the fact that collisions > can be found in SHA-1 in 2**69 hash operations, much less than the > brute-force attack of 2**80 o

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:07:27AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Since Debian is geared more for those who want to control their computer > rather than be controlled by their computer, the installation is pretty > minimalistic unless you tell it be otherwise. And it might be worth mentioning that if

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 04 Jul 2005 13:42, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > The objective is to set up a robust electronic document validation > system that can authenticate electronically produced documents using > Debian GNU/Linux and other open-source tools. My search for an > existing open-source solution did not yi

Re: Detailed memory usage

2005-07-04 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi Debian, > maybe this is slightly OT, but i would like to know if there exists a > program to show the real memory usage of every process that is running > on a certain machine. > > Thanks, > MC > > ps (man ps for info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: can't switch to virtual console

2005-07-04 Thread Tom Verbreyt
Hey ho, > I'm not sure if it's debian or keyboard or X issue,but however...I'll > really appreciate your help. > I'm using Debian testing with 2.6.11-rc3 kernel,every time when the > mashine boot I'm logging into the X server,and after this I can't > switch anymore to the other virtual consoles us

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

2005-07-04 Thread Dave Howorth
Alphonse Ogulla wrote: Hi good people, I wish to get your views on how I can implement a system that will capture text of a financial document that is to be printed, run a hash algorithm (SHA-1) over the document text, store an electronic copy of the document and its digital signature to disk and

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 04 July 2005 04:23, trevor hamel wrote: > i recently installed linux. when i finished the installer i as hoped to be > gretted with an OS with a display like windows what i gto was more like > a display of dos. can someone tell me how to get it to not be in command > prompt... because

does Sarge have a /boot/boot-menu.b file?

2005-07-04 Thread Luke Call
Does Sarge have a /boot/boot-menu.b file? I just upgraded from Woody and it hangs at the beginning of bootup after saying just "LI" where it used to say "LILO". I tried running lilo manually but it requires a /boot/boot.b file. My /boot/boot.b appears to be a symlink to /boot/boot-menu.b, whic

Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread Eduardo B. V. Pereira
Hi, I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window manager do you think is the best one and why, to help choose the ones I'm going to try first. Thank you all, e. pereira __ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http

Re: installing sarge to lvm

2005-07-04 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 05:37:37PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:23:31PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:29:15PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > After that, you go back to the partitioner and then the new LVM > > > logical volume

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Kent West
Douglas Ward wrote: >On Monday 04 July 2005 04:23, trevor hamel wrote: > > >>can someone tell me how to get it to not be in command >>prompt >> >c. Run a command to install something pretty >Either: >aptitude install x-window-system kdm kde synaptic openoffice.org >mozilla-firefox > >OR: >aptit

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >You say you're joking, but, I bet Trevor has never seen a text-based web >browser. So, Trever > Oops, sorry; "Trevor". -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package insall/uninstall weird behaviour

2005-07-04 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:30:38PM -0400, adijr . wrote: > hello. > > I have a little problem > > running debian 3.1 r0a > > i was trying to install a hl5140 driver package, and the only one i seemed > to find was an rpm. So i installed it with alien, but it wasn't very > useful. Upon uninstal

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 03 July 2005 03:16, Dominik Margraf wrote: > Hello! > > Currently, the default setting is that root can see and modify > anything, including the contents of the users' folders, moreover, > users can also see the contents of other users' folders by default. > These pose a significant confi

Re: how to startx at boot time

2005-07-04 Thread James Vahn
Khanh Cao Van wrote: > I' tried change the run level in /etc/inittab to 5 but my PC did not > boot in X at boot time . Ofcause I've install all gnome and x windows > and could startx by hand . How should I do ? Debian doesn't use runlevels in that manner. I removed gdm/kdm/xdm and have these lines

Re: packet libmyodbc broken in SID?

2005-07-04 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Thanks Kevin, i am aware of the pitfalls introduced by SID. But all I was looking for was information. I think it is a good idea to ask the mailing list before I file a bug. E.g. sometimes someone knows that there is a workaround, which might be helpful when filing a report. Or someone just kno

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread Kent West
Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: >I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window >manager do you think is the best one and why, to help >choose the ones I'm going to try first. > > This question gets asked quite a bit. Here's a recent thread that should just about cover it: http://lists.de

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:32:21AM -0300, Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window manager do you think is the best one and why, to help choose the ones I'm going to try first. This has been covered several times in the past on this list. One of th

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread Harish G. Naik
On 7/4/05, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:32:21AM -0300, Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: > >manager do you think is the best one and why, to help I like XFCE, http://xfce.org -- Regards, Harish G. Naik http://harishgnaik.net

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Eduardo B. V. Pereira wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window manager do you think is the best one and why, to help choose the ones I'm going to try first. Thank you all, e. pereira Without giving the specifications of your computer (like how fast it is, available

Re: Newbie: What's the Best Window Manager?

2005-07-04 Thread John Hasler
e. pereira writes: > I'm new to Linux and I would like to know which window manager do you > think is the best one and why... FVWM, because I've been using it since the early nineties and I'm used to it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

perl grab /etc/group info memory error

2005-07-04 Thread michael
Hi, I'm getting an "out of memory" error when trying to grab the gid information for a user from /etc/group. The problem only occurs when there is a group of about 1000 users in it. Less than about 500 users as members of the group, will not produce the error. The original error was noticed in

Re: Need help with exim4 SMTP Auth [SOLVED]

2005-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:31:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:56:02PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Where can I get info. on how to resolve this? >> I haven't found anything that looks like SMTP Authentication in the exim4 >> documentation on my mac

[OT] - UPS APC

2005-07-04 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am buying a UPS APC, for three PC.Anyone having problems with "apcupsd - APC UPS Power Management" on Sarge, or it that people said works very well? My candidate UPS: http://www.apcc.com/products/configure/index.cfm?show_power_module=NO&SERVICENEW_OPTION3=none&SERVICENEW_OPTION

Re: how to startx at boot time

2005-07-04 Thread John Hasler
James Vahn writes: > Debian doesn't use runlevels in that manner. Debian doesn't default to using runlevels in that manner, but you are free to configure them any way you wish. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:04:15 +0300 "Raymond A. Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 June 2005 17:10, Carl Fink wrote: > What would you suggest? The ones you mentioned are all Video players, > aren't they? amarok ! :) Seriously it's nice, but it's not something I'd run if I had an

Re: xmms skips all files

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:25:51 +0300 "Raymond A. Meijer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want it to be as minimalistic as possible. Well, not as minimalistic > as a console program, but you catch my drift ;) amarok ! :) Seriously, try beep-media-player or maybe zinf. Dunno if there are Debian p

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?(Don't think the server accepted this last time).

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:51:19 -0400 marcel usma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > im running linux mandrake kde 3.3 limited edition 2005 install debian? :) Well, as a long time mandrake user, I had terrible problems with the latest (ca. 9/04) cooker and decided to jump ship -- going first with mepis

Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

2005-07-04 Thread Dom Delimar
I'm actually not a Debian user yet, but I'm preparing to migrate from WinXP to Debian so I thought this could be a good place to ask for help as some of you must have been in the same situation already. I hope. So how can I keep all my emails from Outlook Express and integrate them into any of the

Re: xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

2005-07-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:35:57 -0400 "H. S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not. > While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports "Couldn't > connect to host: :". m3u streams typically contain links to mp3 files, but not a

Re: xfce 4.2

2005-07-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:10:41AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 7/4/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/4/05, Simon Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:03:39PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > > > I'm on 'testing', which xfce 4.2 _finally_

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Re: how to startx at boot time

2005-07-04 Thread James Vahn
>if [ `tty` = "/dev/tty1" ]; then A typo -- a single = is used to assign values, not compare them. The script should use ==, thusly: if [ `tty` == "/dev/tty1" ]; then -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

hostname change

2005-07-04 Thread Haines Brown
When I installed sarge last time, I managed to insert my FQDN in as hostname: # hostname teufel.hartford-hwp.com and now regret it. I must change my domain name to "hartford-hwp.com" and leave my host name (name of my machine) as "teufel," so that the FQDN ends up being teufel.hartford-hwp.co

mounting usb devices consistently

2005-07-04 Thread Edward Kamau
Hi I have a usb sd card reader a usb cruzer mini jump drive and a usb cf card reader. I have created mount points for them as /cfcard /sdrive and /jdrive. AT the time I set them up this corresponded to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1. So /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/

Re: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

2005-07-04 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Dom Delimar ha escrit, a 04/07/05 18:52: > I'm actually not a Debian user yet, but I'm preparing to migrate from > WinXP to Debian so I thought this could be a good place to ask for > help as some of you must have been in the same situation already. I > hope. > > So how can I keep all my ema

Debian Sound Configuration

2005-07-04 Thread Leonardo Sá
I have a C-Media 8738 Sound Card (not onboard), but I have no clue where to configure it. I have 5.1 speakers that works fine under windows, but only the front speakers works under sarge out of the box. I Tried to understand the alsa and oss sound systems but documentation over the internet seems t

Re: sarge and sound

2005-07-04 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 23:29 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I'm using the built-in sound on a km4m-v msi motherboard. I get sound > from xine, xmms, and mp3blaster but nothing from cdplayer and when I > enable the gnome sound server startup all I get is a bunch of static. > > What have I overlooked?

Re: Package insall/uninstall weird behaviour

2005-07-04 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 16:30 -0400, adijr . wrote: > > Removing hl5140lpr ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5140lpr.postrm: line 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file > or directory > dpkg: error processing hl5140lpr (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 > Errors were enc

Re: Package insall/uninstall weird behaviour

2005-07-04 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 14:25 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 16:30 -0400, adijr . wrote: > > > > Removing hl5140lpr ... > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5140lpr.postrm: line 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file > > or directory > > dpkg: error processing hl5140lpr (--remove): > > subprocess

Re: SSH and X11 Forwrding query

2005-07-04 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Gentlemen: Thanks to your recommendations (from Jacob S, John Smith, Tony Godshall), it worked once I turned it on in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. I must have done that when I used it before, but I've completely forgotten. Thanks again. Regards, Dean On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:54:51PM +0200, John Sm

Re: does Sarge have a /boot/boot-menu.b file?

2005-07-04 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Luke Call (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I just upgraded from Woody and it hangs at the beginning of bootup > after saying just "LI" where it used to say "LILO". I tried running > lilo manually but it requires a /boot/boot.b file. My /boot/boot.b > appears to be a symlink to /boot/boot-menu

Re: Package insall/uninstall weird behaviour

2005-07-04 Thread John Hasler
David Clymer writes: > Alternatively, you could create a the file it is looking for: > # touch /etc/init.d/lpd This is the way to do it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt repository for my intranet

2005-07-04 Thread Israel Garcia
List, I have 14 debian sarge on my intranet, and, they have access internet trough a http proxy server. I would like to make a mirror repository inside my network, How can I do this? Does anybody has any script to do this? -- Regards; Israel Garcia

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

2005-07-04 Thread Nobrin ;-\\
Great! That's what I'm looking for. Do you know any text about this? Thanks! ps The idea of linux from scratch is great too. > Hi Norbin, > here is a simplified view on unix: > hardware->kernel-modules->kernel->libraries->applications/servers > harware(screen,mouse,hard drive,modem...) > kernel

Re: apt repository for my intranet

2005-07-04 Thread VSJ
Israel Garcia wrote: > List, I have 14 debian sarge on my intranet, and, they have access > internet trough a http proxy server. I would like to make a mirror > repository inside my network, How can I do this? > Does anybody has any script to do this? > Use a proxy such as apt-cacher or apt-prox

Re: apt repository for my intranet

2005-07-04 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Monday 04 July 2005 16:54, Israel Garcia wrote: > List, I have 14 debian sarge on my intranet, and, they have access > internet trough a http proxy server. I would like to make a mirror > repository inside my network, How can I do this? > Does anybody has any script to do this? apt-cache show a

Re: mounting usb devices consistently

2005-07-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 01:31:03PM -0400, Edward Kamau wrote: > Hi > > I have a usb sd card reader a usb cruzer mini jump drive and a usb cf > card reader. I have created mount points for them as /cfcard /sdrive > and /jdrive. AT the time I set them up this corresponded > to /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 a

irq 11: nobody cared!

2005-07-04 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! The above line appears in dmesg (followed by "[] __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0" & similar lines), and everything connected to the 2 affected usb ports doesn't work fine (*). For instance an usb mouse hasn't got an smooth movement. It's a Benq JB7000 laptop, and I'm using kubuntu 5.04 & 2.6

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
> > > METHOD 1. Fairly Involved, but worth a try a. Log in as 'root' (You probably entered a password for 'root' during the install, as well as a user and password)[4] b. Run commands to make sure the system is partly up to date: echo "deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian stable contrib main non-

Re: dnscache resolution

2005-07-04 Thread Bayrouni
David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:10 +0200, Al Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I installed dnscache , it is running but daes'nt resolve any names !!! netstat -na |grep -v unix Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Ad

Is Kernel-source-2.6.8 package updated or not?

2005-07-04 Thread Martin C.
Hi all... I have a doubt about is kernel-source-2.6.8 package old or it is not. I usually use that package for my custom kernels, downloading it with apt-get from official debian repository. Days ago, i saw a new bug for kernels 2.6.x (http://secunia.com/advisories/15812/) but nobody in debian se

Re: Is Kernel-source-2.6.8 package updated or not?

2005-07-04 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Is the bug critical to your usage of the system? All software is prone to bugs! Choice is yours to make. -ishwar On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Martin C. wrote: > Hi all... I have a doubt about is kernel-source-2.6.8 package old or it is > not. > I usually use that package for my custom kernels, download

Still not fixed ipup problem.

2005-07-04 Thread Alan Chandler
I am still finding that ipup is failing to bring up my ethernet interface with the correct ip address. Its still the same problem I raised approx a month ago. Effectively I get two RTNETLINK answers failures during the /etc/init.d/networking start sequence as shown from /var/log/boot snippet

Re: Is Kernel-source-2.6.8 package updated or not?

2005-07-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:39:38PM -0300, Martin C. wrote: > Hi all... I have a doubt about is kernel-source-2.6.8 package old or it is > not. > I usually use that package for my custom kernels, downloading it with > apt-get from official debian repository. > Days ago, i saw a new bug for kernel

dh-make-perl problem

2005-07-04 Thread Tom Allison
First, I'm not sure if this is the best list but it's probably the best start. The problem I am having is part debian, part dh-make-perl and probably perl. But I'm not sure where one ends and the other begins. So I thought I would begin here and see where it takes me. I am having trouble insta

Re: Need help with exim4 SMTP Auth [SOLVED]

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:59:03AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I moved from exim4-daemon-light to exim4-daemon-heavy and ran ... > others who have this problem and find this in the archives: ...-heavy > contains the fix. Email was already working when I did the The light version does SMTP auth

Re: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

2005-07-04 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:52:51PM +0200, Dom Delimar wrote: > So how can I keep all my emails from Outlook Express and integrate > them into any of the Linux mail clients? I actually don't know which To the best of my knowledge, and I'm no Outlook expert by any means, Outlook is holding your dat

Re: [OT] - UPS APC

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 04 July 2005 12:15, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am buying a UPS APC, for three PC.Anyone having problems > with "apcupsd - APC UPS Power Management" on Sarge, or it that people > said works very well? > > My candidate UPS: > http://www.apcc.com/products/configure/index.c

Re: Is Kernel-source-2.6.8 package updated or not?

2005-07-04 Thread Martin C.
Hi and thanks for aswering... > You are correct that the kernel-source has not yet been updated. Don't > forget that Debian has to coordinate the build and simulataneous release > of lots of kernel-image-* packages. Even with that, serious and > critical vulnerabilities (of which the one you cit

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