Re: Apt for organising things other than executables?

2005-09-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Maximillian Murphy wrote: > > So yes, were I to wish to use apt on a set of files of my own, how do I do it? > Create .deb packages, and set up your own apt repository... -- ... bleakness ... desolation ... plastic forks ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

weird acl behavior

2005-09-05 Thread Kent Tong
Hi, If I create a file in a directory, it should get a copy of the default ACL of that directory, right? But somehow it is not inheriting the execute (x) right. Here is a sample session: cladms003:/var/Share/Packages/Qemu# getfacl -d . # file: . # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x g

djbdns: set ip for domain

2005-09-05 Thread Jacob Friis
I have djbdns running as a dns cache. when I try to connect to my Samba server whith its outside dns name i want djbdns to return the local ip address. Is that possible? Thanks, Jacob

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, first off, I'm no expert, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. Now then, AFAIK, ALSA doesn't care about /dev/dsp* entries. Again, AFAIK, those are part of OSS, not ALSA. If I understand how things work correctly, they kind of run parallel to each other, and are independant. So I

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Jari Aalto
Larry Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been | having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided | to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how | to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I have | searched google

RE: djbdns: set ip for domain

2005-09-05 Thread James Skinner
-Original Message- From: Jacob Friis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 5:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: djbdns: set ip for domain I have djbdns running as a dns cache. when I try to connect to my Samba server whith its outside dns name i want dj

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Kai Grossjohann wrote: >> >> > nuhup somecommand > somefile & sleep 1; tail -f somefile >> Oh! Fascinating. Does nohup look with isatty(3) to determine what it >> should do? > > Yes. It looks at file descriptors 0, 1, and 2, and redirects any tha

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 06:35:44PM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > I have been using icewm for about 5 years, but I have been > having problems since I upgraded to sarge. So I decided > to try another window manager, but I can't figure out how > to get xwindows to use the new window manager. I hav

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The number of people who somehow think that $RANDOM_APPLICATION just > must have hidden options to do exactly whatever random thing they > think it should do always astounds me. In Emacs, there is usually a $RANDOM_VARIABLE to tweak $RANDOM_LISP_FUNCTION

Linux module for Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX" LAN card

2005-09-05 Thread Frederic Dernbach
Hello, I want to reompile a debian kernel and I need to select the appropriate network module ("--> Network device support" of make menuconfig). lspci -v says that I have an "Accton Technology Corporation SMC2-1211TX" LAN card. Which menuconfig option should I choose in order to include the

Valknut

2005-09-05 Thread Nils Erik Svangård
Hi! I'm doing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade everyday, and now a look of packages is on my waiting list due to the gcc40 transition. The only thing making me hold back the installation is Valknut which has yet to be updated. Does anyone know the status of that package. Or perhaps has som good reco

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2005-09-05 Thread corax
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kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread David Niemi
Yub, another Debian noobie here. I am also running Fedora 4 i386_64 and this is my first install of Debian a couple days ago using a DVD from the magazine Linux Format. When I installed the 2.4.27 XX kernel was installed but I'd like to go up to the 2.6.8-11-emt64t-p4-smp kernel as I've got a dua

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:12:41AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > cd /tmp > touch testfile > find . -iname testfile -print > > and I get nothing. On my end that works perfectly. You do, indeed, have the syntax right. Here's what I get: (09:16) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp (09:16) [EMAI

using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Kevin Coyner
I've been using linux for quite a while but am still perplexed by the proper usage of the 'find' program. I always end up using locate instead. Anyway, I need it now so I re-read the man and tried the following: cd /tmp touch testfile find . -iname testfile -print and I get nothing

Re: How to install Brother 2070N

2005-09-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:05:21AM -0400, [KS] wrote: > I had followed the directions and then went to http://localhost:631 and > found the printer listed. Then I clicked on "Modify Printer", used ipp > protocol and after that step I'm stuck at "Model/Driver for HL2070N" > printer. The options for

KDE on Sid

2005-09-05 Thread David Baron
Looks like nearing completion. With libtq3-mt around, finally getting there. Still wants to remove too much stuff to do the upgrade, though. Most all attempted upgrades have been tedious and tenuous for a while. Hope Sid gets straightened out soon :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:12:41AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > cd /tmp > > touch testfile > > find . -iname testfile -print > > > > and I get nothing. find --version GNU find version 4.2.24 ls -la > /tmp/ls.txt find /

tiny font in some apps after changing locale - what to do?

2005-09-05 Thread Dom
Hello people, Few days ago I changed my locale to hr_HR.iso88592 with dpkg-reconfigure locales. It was English before and I need it Croatian now. Since then I installed some new packages including Gnome Disk Catalog (gtktalog), gnome-pim and sanduhr. Now, in these applications' GUIs I get really,

pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Haskell
hello all, i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* that in the process, my pager has changed from /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. e.g. if i type: cd /usr/include/ bash displays: Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) when i type y, bash lists the files using /bin/more. chase `which pag

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas Adam
--- James Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello all, > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > whe

Re: ALSA setup fails for user

2005-09-05 Thread Haines Brown
I apologize if this message goes out twice. The only way I can post to the debian-user list is via smtp, but I normally read it in the newsgroup. Too overwhelmed with other problems to be able to turn my attention to this issue. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, first off,

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 the mental interface of James Haskell told: > hello all, > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibiliti

configuring locales: "double free or corruption"

2005-09-05 Thread Frederik Eaton
Hi all, I'm running into the following problem. Whenever I try to configure 'locales' (which is whenever I try to install something with 'apt', since the configuration fails each time), I get the following error: # dpkg --configure locales Setting up locales (2.3.5-3) ... Generating

uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread Cedric BRINER
hello, I'd like to install a v20z server but the debian-installer kernel doesn't support my scsi/ethernet chipset : ( so I thought about installing this servers with FAI. and to do a minimalistic configuration of FAI to just install the base system to it.. and then install the other packages b

Kernel changes

2005-09-05 Thread Tim Bedding
Is advanced noticed given if support for a particular kernel is going to be dropped? Would that be given via the debian announce list? I would like as much time as possible to move to a newer kernel. I would like to avoid a situation where I have to do a hurried kernel upgrade in order to move to

Re: How to install Brother 2070N

2005-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:09:19PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > I am trying to see if I can get this Brother HL-2070N printer to work > with my Debian Sid work station. > > I have connected the printer to the switch of my home network > (192.168.xyz). The printer got an IP address from my DHCP server >

Re: Putty (plink) causes zombie process while executing a command

2005-09-05 Thread Martin Burger
> Any idea why plink causes the zombie processes? How can I debug that > problem? Setting LogLevel in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to VERBOSE instead of DEBUG solves that issue, no zombie processes anymore. See: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967 Regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/5/05, Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using linux for quite a while but am still perplexed by > the proper usage of the 'find' program. I always end up using > locate instead. Anyway, I need it now so I re-read the man and > tried the following: > > cd /tmp > tou

cups wants to remove the kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Giovanni Gigante
I have a Sarge machine: a standard install with default kernel. Now I want to install CUPS to use it as a print server. Following the "Debian and Windows Shared Printing mini-HOWTO", I tried to install CUPS (apt-get install cupsys). The installation begins, and among other things it says:

manpages inaccessible

2005-09-05 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
Since installing sarge, I have not been able to run most of the manpages on my box. Can I execute apt-get to reinstall all -- and only -- the relevant manpages? And, if so, how? Thanks, sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another word I should use for google searches? Can anyone make a suggestion? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: icewm window titles

2005-09-05 Thread Olive
Larry Fletcher wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: Larry Fletcher wrote: I just upgraded to debian sarge which uses icewm 1.2.20+21pre1-3. The problem I'm having with icewm is the window titles switch when the initial application calls another application. For instance, when mu

parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio

2005-09-05 Thread David Balch
Hi, Can anyone help me with resolving this error message I am getting in my syslog: ---8< parport0: FIFO is stuck parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio DMA write timed out ---8< I had noticed the message before, but not done anything as it didn't appear to

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Stephen R Laniel wrote: (09:16) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ find . -iname testfile ./testfile It should work fine on your end, too. See below; I think you did something incorrectly. Incidentally, I think '-print' is superfluous; I'm pretty sure the default is to print. Yes, I think so too, bu

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Larry Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I seems like I remember that years ago all you had to do > put the name of window manager at the top of some file, > but I can't find anything like that. > > Can someone please help me? .xsession or .xinitrc Not sure what the difference between those

Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kai Grossjohann wrote: > The docs say that it is not necessary to redirect stderr; > from (coreutils)nohup invocation: > >If standard error is a terminal, it is redirected to the same file > descriptor as the standard output. Reading that now I see that too. A good catch. (I think I

Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video >problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another >word I should use for google searches? Can anyone make a suggestion? Do

Re: How to install Brother 2070N - SOLVED

2005-09-05 Thread [KS]
Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:05:21AM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > >>I had followed the directions and then went to http://localhost:631 and >>found the printer listed. Then I clicked on "Modify Printer", used ipp >>protocol and after that step I'm stuck at "Model/Driver for HL2070N" >>

Re: How to install Brother 2070N

2005-09-05 Thread Raquel Rice
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:42:39 -0400 Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to remember there was another package of printer drivers to > install, Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the package, > but it din't seem to be printer-specific. Before I installed the > package, cups didn

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
James Haskell wrote: > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > when i type y, bash lists the files using /bi

[Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text]

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
--- Begin Message --- Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Xeno Campanoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another word

Illegible Firefox menus

2005-09-05 Thread David Balch
Hi, The menus in Firefox (and Thunderbird) are illegible pure white, as in this screenshot: http://davidbalch.f2s.com/linux/ff-menu.png This is apparent in my regular profile, and in a new blank profile. I'm using Gnome 2.10.1, and Firefox 1.0.6 from testing. Any ideas on how I can get legible

Re: Kernel changes

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Bedding wrote: > Is advanced noticed given if support for a particular > kernel is going to be dropped? Would that be given via > the debian announce list? Not usually. But this typically gets endless discussion on the development lists though. And the release notes will have more informatio

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Kai Grossjohann
John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > .xsession or .xinitrc > Not sure what the difference between those two files are. .xinitrc is invoked by "xinit". "startx" invokes "xinit". .xsession is read by xdm. (And I think by other foodm programs, too, such as kdm, gdm.) Kai -- To UNSU

Re: Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Xeno Campanoli
David Niemi wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 09:49 -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: Sorry, I keep sending to personal rather than debian-user.  David's suggestion worked.  Thank you David.  I've got much better video now, and good window sizing. xc email message attachment (Re: Every fif

Re: configuring locales: "double free or corruption"

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Frederik Eaton wrote: > I'm running into the following problem. Whenever I try to configure > 'locales' (which is whenever I try to install something with 'apt', > since the configuration fails each time), I get the following error: > > # dpkg --configure locales > Setting up locales

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Cedric BRINER wrote: > # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 > kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian > patches > # > arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? Because the name was changed to linux-source-2.6.11 to differentiate it from the h

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
James Haskell wrote: > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilities? (y or n) > when i type y, bash lists the files using /bi

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > Incidentally, I think '-print' is superfluous; I'm pretty > > sure the default is to print. > > Yes, I think so too, but I do recall being on some UNIX's where this was > not the case. The classic legacy find from AT&T UNIX V7 did not default t

Re: uncomprehension in apt-cache

2005-09-05 Thread TreeBoy
On Monday 05 Sep 2005 18:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Cedric BRINER wrote: > > # apt-cache search kernel-source-2.6 > > kernel-source-2.6.8 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.8 with Debian > > patches # > > arrgh ! that's it . why can't I see the kernel-source-2.6.11 ??? > > Because the name was chan

Re: [Fwd: Re: Every fifth character blurred in text]

2005-09-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 05 September 2005 09:49 am, Xeno Campanoli wrote: > That sounds like it could be it.  I do have a sharp LCD screen.  The > recommended resolution stated on page 29 is 1280x1024.  Looks like my > highest resolution in the XF86Config-4 file is 1152x864.  Can you suggest a > good way to gene

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Coyner wrote: > I've been using linux for quite a while but am still perplexed by > the proper usage of the 'find' program. I always end up using > locate instead. Anyway, I need it now so I re-read the man and > tried the following: > > cd /tmp > touch testfile > find . -iname

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
James Vahn wrote: > Edit or create ~/.inputrc to contain the line: > > set page-completions off > > and new instances of bash will no longer use the internal pager. I think you knew this but just did not say it explicitly. But for the original poster... But then no pager will be used a

Re: Kernel changes

2005-09-05 Thread John Hasler
Tim Bedding wrote: > I would like as much time as possible to move to a newer kernel. I would > like to avoid a situation where I have to do a hurried kernel upgrade in > order to move to the new "stable". You do not necessarily have to do a kernel upgrade in order to move to the new Stable, nor d

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Niemi wrote: > Yub, another Debian noobie here. Welcome! > I am also running Fedora 4 i386_64 and this is my first install of > Debian a couple days ago using a DVD from the magazine Linux Format. > When I installed the 2.4.27 XX kernel was installed but I'd like to > go up to the 2.6.8-11-

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread David Niemi
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 12:13 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Niemi wrote: > > Yub, another Debian noobie here. > > Welcome! > > When I installed the 2.4.27 XX kernel was installed but I'd like to > > go up to the 2.6.8-11-emt64t-p4-smp kernel as I've got a dual Xeon > > emt64 3.2Ghz system. > >

IP vs IFCONFIG (was Re: Network card recommendation)

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Daniel L. Miller wrote: My firewall is continuing to run reliably - of course. I have noticed that on of the 3com NICs, I have a single RX overrun reported. Just one - no errors, and no increases in the overrun number. :00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporati

Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-05 Thread Andreas Moser
Hello debian-user. At the moment I'm very desperate with the installation of the hylafax-server on my debian system. The receiving of facsimiles is working but there is no way, that the delivery of a facsimile is working too. In this mail I will try to explain, how I installed the hylafax-ser

sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Sanjay
Hi, I am trying this for a while, I am close but not sure what is missing. I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries about spam and stuff. What I need to do is to be able to connect to this

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-05 Thread Michael Spang
Hubert Chan wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 15:40:58 +0100 (BST), Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dear All, Is there a way of switching on permission to have hard links to directories? Is there a rationale for disallowing this? The Linux kernel VFS does not allow directory hard links f

Desktop document search DWWW

2005-09-05 Thread Thomas
On Debian systems there is a packaged named "dwww" http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/dwww that permits searching your installed documents via a web browser similar to a Google search. I have grown so accustomed to it that I would like to have it on my Fedora FC4 system. Or better yet, have

Re: Desperation with Hylafax and AVM Fritz ISDN Card PCI on a debian system

2005-09-05 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:53:27PM +0200, Andreas Moser wrote: > (...) > Seems so that my controller is working. > Now I had to check whether the group dialout can access on /dev/capi20 > and the user "uucp" is member in this group too. > > alpha:/dev# ls -l capi20 > crw--- 1 uucp dialout 68,

Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?)I know I need to compile a ker

starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so thx debian! I u

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > .xsession or .xinitrc > > Not sure what the difference between those two files are. > > .xinitrc is invoked by "xinit". "startx" invokes "xinit". > > .xsession is read by xdm.

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Oliver Lupton
jeroen wrote: Hello all, --intro I'm trying (finally) to get debian to work on my Vaio PCG-C1VE. Using the latest version of the installer (floppy images) i succeeded in installing 3.1 on the little b*st*rd. Previous versions didn't support USB disks (at least not on a noob level) so t

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > After looking around some more I found out the x-session-manager works > for startx, but it's not updated when new window managers are > installed. The x-session-manager updates: > /etc/alternatives/@x-session-manager Why should th

Re: Illegible Firefox menus

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:45:15PM +0100, David Balch wrote: > The menus in Firefox (and Thunderbird) are illegible pure white, as in > this screenshot: http://davidbalch.f2s.com/linux/ff-menu.png People never search list archives, people never use Google, people never even read. It's a given.

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:48:25PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot > and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every > Evening. In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. What do any of those

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
jeroen wrote: > I used apt to get me the files i needed during the installation (i > did have to do an 'ifup -a' to get the network up - and still have to > after every reboot - but that's slightly OT here). Take a look at "/etc/network/interfaces" (also "man interfaces" for examples). Once con

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
No one *needs*bootsplash.My appologies: I really, really want Bootsplash. > (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?)Is there some particular reason it should?  Most people actually *use* the computer rather than rebooting it over and over and over and over...As I wrote (and

Re: pager changed after upgrade from woody to sarge:

2005-09-05 Thread Peter J Ross
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:55:09AM -0700, James Haskell wrote: > hello all, > > i just upgraded from woody to sarge, and it *seems* > that in the process, my pager has changed from > /usr/bin/less to /bin/more. > e.g. if i type: > cd /usr/include/ > bash displays: > Display all 370 possibilitie

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: >jeroen wrote: > > >>With my limited knowledge i though i could have forgotten to add a >>window manager >> >> > >I don't think so; this looks like a video sync -type issue. > > You can double-check this possibility by installing another wm ("aptitude install icewm", etc

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though > > pathnames do). That means that '-iname /tmp' will probably evaluate [snip] > The results you post look like there is a bug in the option processing > of find. I

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > Any way, have you any advice not using HTML... -- Administration & Formation à l'administration de serveurs dédiés: http://www.google.fr/search?q=aspo+infogerance+serveur

Re: Illegible Firefox menus

2005-09-05 Thread David Balch
On 05/09/05 21:21, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:45:15PM +0100, David Balch wrote: > >>The menus in Firefox (and Thunderbird) are illegible pure white, as in >>this screenshot: http://davidbalch.f2s.com/linux/ff-menu.png > > > People never search list archives, people never us

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:42:09PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote.. > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:56:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes > > > (though pathnames do). That means that '-iname /tmp' will > > > probably evaluate > [snip]

Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread George App
I am currently running debian testing (etch) I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header and footer show up. Any ideas? Thanks, George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
This is a rather common problem with a simple solution.In Firefox, under File, choose Page Setup. Now, click on the tab Margins & Header / Footer. Set all values to 0.25 (inches). Click on OK. Next, under File again, choose Print. Click on Properties and set all number values to 0.25 (inches). Cli

Re: kernel 2.4 -> 2.6 upgrading procedure

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
David Niemi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > In the future when you install Debian it is highly recommended to > > install using the linux 2.6 kernel instead of the 2.4 kernel. Yes, I > > Wasn't obvious when I read through the install instructions :) Yes. Agreed. Grumble, grumble. In the future

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Brian Nelson
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is dual-boot and > the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: Shutting Down every Evening. > In addition, I shall be getting a lap-top soon. (By the bye, why doesn't > Debian have Bo

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Coyner wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote.. > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > The results you post look like there is a bug in the option > > > processing of find. Note that I also mentioned that this was unlikely and asked about other possibilities such as aliases and wrappers. > > I think the

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-05 Thread Kenneth Jacker
drl> In Firefox, under File, choose Page Setup. Now, click on the drl> tab Margins & Header / Footer. Set all values to 0.25 drl> (inches). Click on OK. Next, under File again, choose drl> Print. Click on Properties and set all number values to 0.25 drl> (inches). Click on OK. Thanks for

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Sanjay wrote: > I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails > from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries > about spam and stuff. I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should move away from sendmail. Half will be

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Mark Crean
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: [snip] > > Any way, have you any advice to get me closer to me goal of > Bootsplashedness? > You might find this url helpful: http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/3124 FWIW, I've got bootsplash here working fine on a 2.6.11 kernel but I canno

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns a "command not found" On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:25, Kent West wrote: jeroen wrote: I used apt to get me the fil

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian Nelson wrote: > "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Before I go any further, yes, I need bootsplash: My computer is > > dual-boot and the other user insists on A: Using Windows and B: > > Shutting Down every Evening. But the other user will never see bootsplash. You booting li

Re: starting X makes the screen go white (newb - new install)

2005-09-05 Thread jeroen
Sorry if this came in double, the resend i did might have tricked your mail rules (it did trick mine) Jeroen On 05 Sep 2005, at 22:19, Oliver Lupton wrote: I'm a newbie too, but try running 'gdm' (GNOME Display Manager, I think) instead of 'startx' and see how that works. #gdm returns

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > Any way, have you any advice > > not using HTML... Using mutt, I see no html. Is this a bug or a feature of mutt? (I do often get html attachments - and also

2 NIC card questions

2005-09-05 Thread Adam
I currently am running a Debian Stable server with two NIC cards. Only one NIC card is configured and providing the machine Internet access. The two NICs are: 1 RealTek (forget model number) - 10 MB/S 1 Network Everywhere (tulip) 10/100 MB/S Now I was thinking of possibly using my machine as a n

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread Sanjay Debian
On 9/5/05, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sanjay wrote:> I am trying to setup a sendmail server so that we could send test emails> from our application. Its on lan behind firewall so there is no worries> about spam and stuff.I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you sho

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:04:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > > Any way, have you any advice > > > > not using HTML... > > Using mutt, I see no html. Is t

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > not using HTML... Well, what did you expect? You're using evocrap as a MUA. Switch to something decent that actually allows you to control which part of a correctly-formatted rich-text message (ie including both HTML and

Re: 2 NIC card questions

2005-09-05 Thread Bruno Buys
This setup seems ok to me. Even though eth cards are very cheap, you can keep the existing realtek. I have one computer here in a similar condition, but running coyote linux. Its very easy to setup a linux firewall. I'm no expert and found no problem. Adam wrote: I currently am running a Deb

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
Bob Proulx wrote: > I think you will get at least ten responses suggesting that you should > move away from sendmail. Half will be to postfix. Half will be to > exim. Any idea why? I've never understood why Debian moved to Exim as the default MTA. Longtime sendmail user, 10-11 years. I didn't

Re: Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-09-05 Thread valentin_nils
Hello Ravindra, sorry I mistook the 336 for the 335. I am terrible sorry. So anything I said 2 days ago (in the below e-mail) MIGHT NOT BE FULLY TRUE and applied to the 335. I did a follow up on the 336 and found that basically they have 2 differences 1) Chipset for the 336 is Intel E7520 2) Gr

Re: X windows libraries??

2005-09-05 Thread Pablo Bullian
Thanks a lot for your recomendation about qemu, i can compile it and it works grate and also i can run the bochs virtual disk with the OS inside. Pablo E. Bullian

Re: Mutt and html [was: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash...]

2005-09-05 Thread James Vahn
David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:09:31PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: >> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:36 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: >> > Any way, have you any advice >> >> not using HTML... > > Using mutt, I see no html. Is this a bug or a feature of mutt? > (I do ofte

Newsgroups for Debian

2005-09-05 Thread Adam
Are the linux.debian newsgroups offical? Also, are they mailing list copies?-- Love Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,  Faithfulnes, Gentleness, Self-Control.^^ You need all of these.

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