Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2005-09-01 Thread Stephanie da Silva
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

daemon

2005-09-01 Thread Roman Sozinov
There are some daemons in my Sarge, but i do not know neither i need them or not. What are makedev, klogd, rmnologin, sysklogd daemons?   Roman

fetchmailing with procmail for mutt

2005-09-01 Thread BUYO-BUYO-IGOR
am switching from osx to demudi on osx was running fetchmail with procmail to prepare files for mutt so tried the same setups but when doing fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" it requires a password to do it which on osx didn't occured and feeding it anything results into cannot find DN

Problem mdadm / mdstat raid 1 debian sarge (amd64)

2005-09-01 Thread Fred Jakobza
Hi, thre is a problem with mount of sata raid 1 devices after reboot. the partitions of the raid devices are randomly mounted in different order. (debian sarge amd64 RAID.) Why are the order of the partions in the mdstat different? Installed software are mdadm and amd64 kernel 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8

Re: Messaging Users

2005-09-01 Thread Ms Linuz
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Wednesday 31 August 2005 06:21 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >>On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:30:24PM -0400, Scott wrote: >> >> >>>Is there a utility like M$'s "Net Send *" that will pop up messages on >>>connected users' x-sessions? >>> >>> >>Not by default. P

Re: I need your urgent response.

2005-09-01 Thread check cons
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Re: RH -> Debian migration breaks CGI script under Apache

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
I suggest starting a new message, rather than replying to an unrelated one, when you are asking a new question. By replying to an unrelated question your message will appear threaded with the first discussion and could be passed over by people who may otherwise be able to help you. Yours, -- Jon

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home of the > Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. It might be worth trying to get laptop.debian.net CNAME'd onto your site, once running, if a DD gets involved :

Re: subscribe - unsubscribe

2005-09-01 Thread Ken Heard
I had the same problem. I was subscribed to the debian-user-digest list, but for some reason the last digest I received was number 2141 at 01:16 Toronto time on 2005-08-25. Usually there are five or more digest posts every day; I thought it odd that they stopped abruptly when they did. I al

Re: subscribe - unsubscribe

2005-09-01 Thread Ken Heard
I forgot to add that I had not unsubscribed to debian-user-digest, nor did I resubscribe to it after I stopped receiving it. (I subscribed to debian-user instead.) Does debian-user-digest still exist? -- Ken Heard Toronto, Canad

Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Å
I'm familiar with how Apache 1.3.x is to be setup, but confess I don't understand Apache 2 well. I'm doing a new Sarge installation (offsite) on a box which won't be on the Internet. I installed Apache 2 and PHP 4. PHP is working fine, however in checking my configuration via phpinfo(); I notice t

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote.. > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home > of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. Great idea but way too heavy of a website for me with all that Flash and music. Just my two cents. Ke

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Derek Wueppelmann
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 08:21 -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote.. > > > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home > > of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. > > Great idea but way too heavy of a w

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Bruno Boettcher
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: > I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home of the > Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. heh isn't a site devoted to free software but build with proprietary means denying access to whoever doesn't can

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > besides the publication of that link was a bit fast, that site doesn't > work at all... or maybe its my flash implementation that is no new/old I don't think that's the site.. I think it's a parking page. -- Jon Dowland http://jo

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 01.09.2005 at 08:14 -0400, Steve Å wrote: > I'm familiar with how Apache 1.3.x is to be setup, but confess I don't > understand Apache 2 well. > > I'm doing a new Sarge installation (offsite) on a box which won't be > on the Internet. I installed Apache 2 and PHP 4. PHP is working fi

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Ken
Philip Schwartz wrote: I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. Doesn't work with Konqueror on FreeBSD :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

xorg + xinerama - but on an on-demand basis

2005-09-01 Thread Marc Koschewski
Hi folks, I've been searching the Net a couple of times for now but I didn't find a solution to my 'problem'. The thing is I use my mobile at home and at work. At home I usually only use my laptop monitor only whereas I use a TFT screen at work. When I start X 'by hand' (without gdm on boot) I ma

RE: Exim4 & Mail Headers

2005-09-01 Thread Eric van der Paardt
> Received: from localhost.localdomain (camax5-065.dialup.optusnet.com.au > [203.164.4.65]) > > What I don't like is the localhost.localdomain bit, but of course I don't > have > a valid domain that I'm sending from, so what is the correct value to have > this set to and where do I set it? There

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Å
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:46:56PM +0100 or thereabouts, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 01.09.2005 at 08:14 -0400, Steve Å wrote: > > > I'm familiar with how Apache 1.3.x is to be setup, but confess I don't > > understand Apache 2 well. > > > > I'm doing a new Sarge installation (offsite) on a

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
I just reinstalled my LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP) development server at my office. I'm keeping track of -everything- I do while setting it up so my coworkers can have some idea how to do it themselves. I installed the following packages (selected via aptitude), and then installed any "recommend

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Steve Å
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:41:42AM -0400 or thereabouts, Ben Bettin wrote: > I just reinstalled my LAMP (Linux/Apache/Mysql/PHP) development server > at my office. I'm keeping track of -everything- I do while setting it > up so my coworkers can have some idea how to do it themselves. I > installe

oggenc doesn't recognize my WAV

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Crawford
I have some WAV files of my piano compositions that I wan't to convert to ogg vorbis with oggenc. But when I try I get the following message: "ERROR: Wav file is unsupported subformat (must be 8,16, or 24 bit PCM or floating point PCM" Here's what the file command says about my WAV file: "Mic

Re: xorg + xinerama - but on an on-demand basis

2005-09-01 Thread Kai Grossjohann
You could start two instances of the X server, each running one instance of gdm. One would be running on vty7, one on vty8, and you could switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. I don't know how to tweak the gdm setup to start two of them. Kai -Original Message- From: Marc

Re: Best way to apt update the kernel from 2.6.8 to on server running sarge?

2005-09-01 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 02:11 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I have a number of servers that I have running Sarge. The stable repository > does not have later kernels than 2.6.8. > > what is the best way "debian" to get the later kernels onto my servers? > i dont know what the *best* wa

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Vangel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Å wrote: > > > Hello Ben: > > Yeah I have everything installed that I need -- Did PHP4-MySQL get enabled > automatically for you, or did you have to add the module manually to > 'apache2.dconf' ? What syntax does the apache2.conf file use for

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
Everything was automatic. /etc/apache2/apache2.conf - didn't even touch it /etc/apache2/sites-available/default - edited it to limit access to my sites (think of it as apache's own personal firewall) /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini - edited it to enable register_globals (yeah it's not overly secure, b

Re: Apache2 & MySQL

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Bettin
> Yeah I have everything installed that I need -- Did PHP4-MySQL get enabled > automatically for you, or did you have to add the module manually to > 'apache2.dconf' ? What syntax does the apache2.conf file use for this module ? In addition, I don't think you even have to tell apache2 about mysql.

help: self compiled kernel reboot problem: unable to mount root fs on unknow

2005-09-01 Thread weiyun lv
VFS: cann't open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option. Kernel Panic -not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown -block(0,0) hello, I am a newbie and I just installed sarge and want to work on it, trying to write a device driver for an I

Re: Messaging Users

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 September 2005 02:27 am, Ms Linuz wrote: > >And with that, I say what's wrong with running your own jabber server and > >using Psi? > > 100% Agree. > Even I prefer eJabberd server with client using Gaim or Kopete ;-) Gah! How can you stand to use Jabber when you only use clients t

Re: xorg + xinerama - but on an on-demand basis

2005-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:46:45PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > You could start two instances of the X server, each running one > instance of gdm. One would be running on vty7, one on vty8, and you > could switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. I tried that. It didn't work. gd

Gnome panel already running - error message

2005-09-01 Thread Preston Boyington
After a recent update (I am running Unstable) I receive an error message at GNOME startup that states that there is already a panel running. Once GNOME finishes starting it offers me a box to "ok", but how can I tell it to only open one panel to begin with? Where do I edit this configuration?

Users cannot connect to ftp server

2005-09-01 Thread Jacob Friis
I have users who was created a long time ago who can connect to my server via FTP. Now, when I create new users, they cannot connect via FTP. I use vsftp on Debian stable. Any ideas? Thanks, Jacob

Re: oggenc doesn't recognize my WAV

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:06:05AM -0300, Michael Crawford wrote: > I have some WAV files of my piano compositions that I wan't to convert to ogg > vorbis with oggenc. But when I try I get the following message: > > "ERROR: Wav file is unsupported subformat (must be 8,16, or 24 bit PCM > or floa

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Derek Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would have to agree. I'm not a fan of flash to begin with, but to > rely on it for navigation, especially with no alternative, that's a > bit much to ask users who are just looking for information to cope > with. Just an opinion though. Using flas

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:35:08AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 the mental interface of > Ric Otte told: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a 300gb drive that I separated into two 150gb partitions: one > > hfsplus (for macs to backup to) and one ext3. I formatted the hfsplus > >

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Schwartz
Sorry for the confusion, The flash site is not the debain-laptop.org site. The server it was on is having a few problems. I will have it fixed and the site up by the 15th. Sorry everyone. --Philip > Derek Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I would have to agree. I'm not a fan of flash

How do I create my own package revision

2005-09-01 Thread John Smith
Hi All, how do I create my own package revision from a "package-1.0-1_i386.deb" to "package-1.0-1myown_i386.deb" ? Specifically, I want to recompile snmpd with other than the compiled in defaults, which I already can, but I can't find the #$%*! revision number. I think the debian

Re: How do I create my own package revision

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:59:05PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > how do I create my own package revision from a "package-1.0-1_i386.deb" > to "package-1.0-1myown_i386.deb" ? > > Specifically, I want to recompile snmpd with other than the compiled in > defaults, which I alread

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of Ric Otte told: [...] > I have hfsplus and hfsutils installed, so that isn't the problem. > I now wonder if Linux supports reading HFS+ filesystems, but not > writing to them, and that is causing this phenomena. $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hfspluspartiotio

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:51:19AM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: > Sorry for the confusion, The flash site is not the debain-laptop.org site. ^^ I just looked up www.debain-laptop.org and it immediately reffered me to www.microsoft.com. Loo

etch netinstall

2005-09-01 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, I just tried to install Debian etch using netinstall on my home PC. I always did it that way.. OK, when it did not find my network card I was not surprised (I made an additional CD with kernel 2.6.13 and the LAN divers from Marvell planning to upgrade the kernel, install the network drive

Re: etch netinstall

2005-09-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi all, I just tried to install Debian etch using netinstall on my home PC. I always did it that way.. OK, when it did not find my network card I was not surprised (I made an additional CD with kernel 2.6.13 and the LAN divers from Marvell planning to upgrade the kernel,

Re: How do I create my own package revision

2005-09-01 Thread John Smith
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:04:18 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:59:05PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > how do I create my own package revision from a "package-1.0-1_i386.deb" > > to "package-1.0-1myown_i386.deb" ? > > > > Speci

Re: Re: Sarge Sound Issues

2005-09-01 Thread Ben Alls
kde uses oss by default, try to set arts to use ALSA in the KControl panel. go to sound options, and advanced (i think) to change the driver to alsa rather than oss. if that doesnt work, try un-installin alsa and adding snd-mixer-oss and snd-pcm-oss to you /etc/modules file. it worked for me.

Problem with xdm

2005-09-01 Thread Tim Bedding
xdm shows a box with Login: Password: However, the words Login and Password seem to be in a smaller font than I would expect. Can anyone think why this would be? Might I be missing a font package? I have xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-pex xfonts-scalable packages instal

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Philip Schwartz
Yeah it is debian-laptop.org, but the site is not going to be up until 9/15 now because of hosting problems. > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:51:19AM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: >> Sorry for the confusion, The flash site is not the debain-laptop.org >> site. >

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 06:07:44PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of > Ric Otte told: > > [...] > > I have hfsplus and hfsutils installed, so that isn't the problem. > > I now wonder if Linux supports reading HFS+ filesystems, but not > > writing to the

move from ide to scsi

2005-09-01 Thread Rodney Richison
Am attemping to move from an ide drive to a scsi drive. Before moving I did modprobe megaraid. Then after ghosting I fixed grub. Now I get this right after it appeas to be looking for ide stuff. I edited fstab to be sda rather than hda 426:cannot open /dev/console: No such file Kernel panic - no

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-09-01 Thread Guido Heumann
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 21:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] > I wasn't asking whether there's an official Debian package > for the Sun Java. I knew that's impossible exactly for the reason > you explain. What I was asking was whether there are _free_ Java > components usable as a browser

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 the mental interface of Ric Otte told: [...] > I have the same lines in my kernel config and mount it using the exact > same command that you use. I read the doc you > suggested, but it seems to be only about the hfs filesystem and not > the hfs+ filesystem. Hmmm, try: $ hpmo

proxy on synaptic

2005-09-01 Thread belahcene
Hi, I haven't a direct access to the net, I go thru a proxy, synaptic gives the possibility to put the proxy server, but there is no input for username and passwd, which required when I try to update. thanks for help bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 upgrade breaks iptables?

2005-09-01 Thread rs
Debian/sarge $ uname -a Linux srv 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:58:38 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Hi, It appears that "kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 2.6.8-13 -> 2.6.8-16" upgrade breaks iptables. After upgrade ... /sbin/modprobe ip_tables /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp /sbin/

chat error: Can't get terminal parameters...

2005-09-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! This is for info. I forgot that I had changed my USRobotics External Modem to port ttyS0 and it was still pointing to ttyS1 in pppconfig. Then chat gives you a confusing message: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error I looked all over the place and finally installed mi

gconfd errors in /var/log/messages

2005-09-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Sep 1 14:18:30 localhost gconfd (raju-7859): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/rajulocal/.gconf" to a writable configuration source

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:11:40PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I just looked up www.debain-laptop.org and it immediately reffered me > to www.microsoft.com. Looks like they're trying to catch people > who misspell debian and don't know debian is not microsoft. More likely, your browser did a go

Re: Users cannot connect to ftp server

2005-09-01 Thread David Jardine
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:19:45PM +0200, Jacob Friis wrote: > I have users who was created a long time ago who can connect to my > server via FTP. > Now, when I create new users, they cannot connect via FTP. > I use vsftp on Debian stable. > Any ideas? Perhaps you have userlist_enable set, in whi

Re: proxy on synaptic

2005-09-01 Thread Franco Gorziglia
2005/9/1, belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > I haven't a direct access to the net, I go thru a proxy, > synaptic gives the possibility to put the proxy server, > but there is no input for username and passwd, which required when I try > to update. > thanks for help > bela > One solution is cr

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-09-01 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Markus! * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050830 23:06]: > I had a look at this page, but its for submitting bugs. > I don't understand what that has to to with each other. > > I need someone that helps me doing a Debian package and do not want to report > a bug. > > Confused [ 35 lin

Help with starting Totem

2005-09-01 Thread [KS]
Hi all, Whenever I try to start Totem, it gives me an error "OSS device /dev/dsp is already in use by another program." and quits. How can I get it to work? All other sound applications like xine, xmms, etc work fine and don't complain about /dev/dsp being busy. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: etch netinstall

2005-09-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu September 1 2005 09:29 am, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi all, > > I just tried to install Debian etch using netinstall on my home PC. I > always did it that way.. OK, when it did not find my network card I was > not surprised (I made an additional CD with kernel 2.6.13 and the LAN > divers from

Re: Problem with the setup process

2005-09-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Raj M wrote: I am a newbee to the linux system. In order to have debian as my OS, I downlaoded from the debain website, the stable 3.1 version. I completed the installation as per the debian setup. Now after rebooting and entering the login and pwd information, I get the following information.

open /dev/sequencer: No such device

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have two machines. One machine is a laptop with a Yamaha sound card. The other is a desktop with nForce2 audio. Both have the required ALSA drivers loaded, including all the oss legacy emulation modules. When starting Battle for Wesnoth on the laptop, it gives the error "open /dev/sequencer: N

Re: open /dev/sequencer: No such device

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:25:15PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have two machines. One machine is a laptop with a Yamaha sound card. > The other is a desktop with nForce2 audio. Both have the required ALSA > drivers loaded, including all the oss legacy emulation modules. When > starting

Re: Lost Labyrinth

2005-09-01 Thread Markus Döbele
Hy Alex, Thanx for the information. I read it and just submitted a RFP. I hope that I find somebody that can help me. Markus Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2005 21:49 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > Hi Markus! > > * Markus Döbele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050830 23:06]: > > I had a look at this page, but

Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the background: command & However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the backgro

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:33:28 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: >command & > >However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local >machine blocks. If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running on, `man nohup`. cheers, &rw -- -- "Having a firewall that

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:38:50PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:33:28 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: > >command & > > > >However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > >machine blocks. > > If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread dking
You could do this: nohup $command But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a bash shell do this: #start another bash shell bash #start your background job command & #exit the subshell exit #exit your ssh connection exit That should work. - D On 1 Sep 2005 at 17:33, Robe

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:52:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You could do this: > nohup $command > > But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a > bash shell do this: > > #start another bash shell > bash > #start your background job > command & > #exit the subshell

Re: proxy on synaptic

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/1/05, Franco Gorziglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2005/9/1, belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> Hi,> I haven't a direct access to the net, I go thru a proxy,> synaptic gives the possibility to put the proxy server, > but there is no input for username and passwd, which required when I try> to upda

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:44:46 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: >> If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running >> on, `man nohup`. >That wasn't it. I still had to kill the ssh process on my local >machine after starting the remote process. Of course that wasn't it.

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Do you want to use `at' ? Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:52:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do this: nohup $command But I always usea trick I find works with bash, so when your in a bash shell do this: #start another bash shell bash #start your backgrou

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Paul Stolp
* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-09-01 16:45]: > Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the shell? I use "screen" for these sorts of things -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread David Kirchner
On 9/1/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > running. Is there a way to get it start the process in the background > and then detach from the

Netware login from linux without IPX

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody knew how to get Netware interoperability in linux working when the network uses TCP/IP instead of IPX for communication? All the netware tools I have (nprint, slist, pqlist), and that other people reference only seem to support IPX. I'm specifically interested i

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:20:10AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:44:46 EDT, "Roberto C. Sanchez" writes: > >> If you don't care as much about your ssh session as the command running > >> on, `man nohup`. > > >That wasn't it. I still had to kill the ssh process on my l

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:38:35PM -0700, David Kirchner wrote: > On 9/1/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote still has jobs > > running. Is there a way t

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Do you want to use `at' ? > That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` or something like that. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpTv4cQaT113.pgp Description: PGP sign

Re: mounting large hfsplus partion

2005-09-01 Thread Ric Otte
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:15:24PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hmmm, try: > $ hpmount /dev/hdc2 > *** bla > *** blo > y > $ hpumount > hpumount: destroy: bli > $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/hdc2 /HFS > > Elimar That gave me the following: hpmount: /dev/hdc2: This is not a HFS+ volume (Unkno

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Do you want to use `at' ? That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` or something like that. -Roberto at -f

Re: Multiple monitors?

2005-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jeffrey Alsip wrote: > > Is it possible to run multiple monitors under Debian? If so, what steps > > are necessary? http://www.Linux-1U.net/X11/Dual/ look for the MultiUser section c ya alvin > Better yet: get 3 more keyboards, 3 more mice and yo

What value does putting dns-nameservers in interfaces do?

2005-09-01 Thread Eric Brown
In testing, I'm installing postfix and it is pulling in this resolvconf package. resolvconf is trying to tell me that it is much better to put my name servers in /etc/network/interfaces. But why? What is the benefit? Does I need this line for each defined interface or just at the top of t

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-09-01 Thread charlie
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:07:18 +0200 Guido used the keyboard to craft this: >|Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 21:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >|[...] >|> I wasn't asking whether there's an official Debian package >|> for the Sun Java. I knew that's impossible exactly for the reason >|> you ex

Re: etch netinstall

2005-09-01 Thread Franco Gorziglia
2005/9/1, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu September 1 2005 09:29 am, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just tried to install Debian etch using netinstall on my home PC. I > > always did it that way.. OK, when it did not find my network card I was > > not surprised (I made an add

Re: What value does putting dns-nameservers in interfaces do?

2005-09-01 Thread Franco Gorziglia
2005/9/1, Eric Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In testing, I'm installing postfix and it is pulling in this > resolvconf package. resolvconf is trying to tell me that it is much > better to put my name servers in /etc/network/interfaces. But why? > What is the benefit? > > Does I need this line for e

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:18:50AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >>Do you want to use `at' ? > >That seems a bit kludgy. I suppose I could always do `at now + 1 min` > >or something like that. > >-R

Help with CD-ROM

2005-09-01 Thread Don Munson
I am a linux newbie - real new with just enough knowledge to be dangerous to myself. I have the Woody CD set and installed Debian multiple numbers of months ago. I was running a web server with no issues and then the power supply for my computer died. I replaced the power supply and brought the c

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread charlie derr
Kevin Coyner wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote.. I am pleased to announce that debian-laptop.org will be the home of the Debain on Laptops Information and Guide repo. Great idea but way too heavy of a website for me with all that Flash and music. J

Re: oggenc doesn't recognize my WAV

2005-09-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
can you open/play the .wavs in audacity? if so, you can encode ogg from there. A Michael Crawford wrote: I have some WAV files of my piano compositions that I wan't to convert to ogg vorbis with oggenc. But when I try I get the following message: "ERROR: Wav file is unsupported subformat (m

Re: how do I change language in Gnome

2005-09-01 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
I want to change the language too, with dpkg-reconfigure locales I have selected german. But when I choose the german language with gdm, and log in, I receive an error message, saying that that language is not installed. But in a shell I can make a : $ LANG="de_DE" date "+%A" Donnerstag The loca

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Greg Norris
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > background: > > command & > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh process on my local > machine blocks. I guess that it is becuase the remote

Re: Starting background process in ssh session

2005-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:09:54PM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I occasionally log into a machine remotely and start a process in the > > background: > > > > command & > > > > However, when I log out of the machine, the ssh pr

Re: how do I change language in Gnome

2005-09-01 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Am 01.09.05 schrieb Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want to change the language too, with dpkg-reconfigure locales I > have selected german. > But when I choose the german language with gdm, and log in, I receive > an error message, saying that that language is not installed. > > Bu

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Re: Help with CD-ROM

2005-09-01 Thread Kent West
Don Munson wrote: >I have searched and can find nothing definitive. I did find a loose >connector that went from the CD not being in the system at all (no wonder >with no connection) to getting an error message of Unable to identify CD-ROM >format from dmesg. > So you're saying you reconnected th

Re: Which Java for browser plugins?

2005-09-01 Thread furufuru
Andy Streich wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > I used java-package along with Sun's Java 5. Instructions here: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 Great article! That works for me. Thanks for your help. Returning to my original questi

OT: the GIMP; was: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Kent West
charlie derr wrote: > Here's what it looks like in firefox (where i do more browsing than > from any other browser, though i regularly use epiphany, konqueror, > mozilla, safari, links and lynx as well) > > http://people.simons-rock.edu/cderr/debian-laptop.png > Just in case you were using the GI

Re: Debian Laptop problem and guide repository.

2005-09-01 Thread David R. Litwin
On 31/08/05, Philip Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That is exactly what I am shooting for and want to see. I have beenworking on changes to the installer and I just started working on a customcd iso that will use new versions of discover, hotplug, newer kernel modules, and more laptop related

KDE Clarification

2005-09-01 Thread David R. Litwin
Forgive me for asking but,I should like to have a bit of clarification. Is KDE 3.4.2 ready to be installed on Sid under the i386 architechture. I got KDE 3.4.1 from Alioth; perhaps this explain the long list (see below).? I ask for I am getting the following message with synaptic (I switched from a

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