Re: Issue with ttf-bitstream-vera

Julien Sobrier wrote: Hello, I had to run "dpkg --configure -a". But after 48 hours, it is still at the beginning: Setting up ttf-bitstream-vera (1.10-3) ... Regenerating fonts cache... How much time is it supposed to take? Is there a way to skip it, or to speed up the process? Thank you Juli

Re: Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread! It looks as though my choices are ImageMagick's import, KSnapshot, or Gimp's Acquire with the possible need for further trimming. Thank you again, Bruce Ward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On 15 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya anthony > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > desktop: > > > > /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback > > 192.168.0.20arcadia.acampbell.org.uk arcadia > > arcadia.acupuncturecourse.org.uk accampbell.uklinux.net > > 1

distinguishing USB device from non-USB

Hi I need to distinguish what kind of device is /dev/hda, hdb ..., /dev/sda, sdb, ... Generally it can be IDE disk, SCSI disk, flash card, USB stick, USB disk, hardware RAID, etc. I looked to /proc file system and didn't find any safe method to find it out. Is in debian any userspace tool which ca

Problem whith fluxbox

Hello everybody: I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox the fonts on the menus and on the windows title bar appears "smoothy", don´t look wheel and I can´t read It. I take a look to the styles files but the font path are the same for

Laptop Installation Problem

This is proving to be one of my most challenging installations yet. I just recently became the owner of an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT laptop (Pentium 100, 800MB hard drive, 24MB RAM which will eventually get upgraded to its maximum 40MB, CD-ROM drive, external floppy drive.) Anyway, I curre

Re: device file permissions the debian way

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:26:58 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:41:47 -0400 (EDT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Haines Brown) wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can > It was my understanding that gxine likes to see

Re: Minimize diskaccess on a light server

Thank you for pointing out the obvious, however this is not the case. The bug has been acknowledged by AMD, and was fixed in later revisions. Unfortunately the manufacturing date of my CPU predates the fix. http://membres.lycos.fr/poulot/k6bug.html http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInform

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On (15/09/05 17:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > > googling hasn't helped. > > > > > > I have two computers, desktop and laptop, and a

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

Álvaro Eixea wrote: > Hello everybody: ¡Qué tal, Álvaro! > I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody Woody is old, man! > and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox Aha!, the problem is this: Fluxbox :^) > the fonts on the menus and on the windows title bar > appears "smooth

packages not on hold

Greetings, I have been trying to put some self compiled packages on hold, but for some reason apt seems to be ignoring the "hold" status. See below: xx:/home/$user# dpkg --get-selections | grep squid squid hold squid-common

Re: weirdest network problems of my ilfe

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > Hi, > > Ok after installing the new router that came w/ my dsl i'm having the most > mind-boggling internet problems of my life. Here's some background on my > network: > > >+Linux box >|Linux l

Re: packages not on hold

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:57PM +1000, brett wrote: > The following packages have been kept back: >squid (2.5.9-10sarge1 => 2.5.9-10sarge1) >squid-common (2.5.9-10sarge1 => 2.5.9-10sarge1) > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > Obviously apt wants to replac

Re: ffmpeg won't install

Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm running etch right now, and trying to get ffmpeg installed, via aptitude, but I keep getting this error message; sudo aptitude install ffmpeg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done R

Re: can not edit XF86Config-4

dale schleyer wrote: for some reason i am unable to edit the XF86Config file even though i am logged in as "root" any help greatly appericated You need to give us more information - the above is far too vague. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: I got random freeze in my KDE......

yasker wrote: It is the completely FREEZE. The mouse point can't move. Any key include num lock response none. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and Ctrl-Alt-Fx can't work too. I have no choice except press the reset button. I got AC97(intel 810 or 810E, I can't remember.), and install this version(Debian S

Re: gview and viewing .gz text files

John Talbut wrote: Once upon a time I could view various types of file from Nautilus using gview. Now it offers to open files using gview but comes up with an error when I try. And gview does not seem to exist anywhere any more, not on my system nor in Debian. What has happened to it and wha

Re: distinguishing USB device from non-USB

Pavol Gono wrote: Hi I need to distinguish what kind of device is /dev/hda, hdb ..., /dev/sda, sdb, ... Generally it can be IDE disk, SCSI disk, flash card, USB stick, USB disk, hardware RAID, etc. I looked to /proc file system and didn't find any safe method to find it out. Is in debian any use

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

Álvaro Eixea wrote: Hello everybody: I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox the fonts on the menus and on the windows title bar appears "smoothy", don´t look wheel and I can´t read It. The new version is Sarge. Please install tha

Re: Laptop Installation Problem

2005/9/16, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is proving to be one of my most challenging installations yet. I > just recently became the owner of an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT > laptop (Pentium 100, 800MB hard drive, 24MB RAM which will eventually > get upgraded to its maximum 40MB, CD

Re: adventures with window managers

Adam Hardy on 13/09/05 17:39, wrote: [can change the window manager in gnome] by changing the window manager > command in here ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/%gconf.xml I discovered that sawfish, metacity and enlightenment work. Blackbox and uwm don't (weird effects happe

Re: adventures with window managers

Adam Hardy: > > The problem with gnome is that it stalls on startup for about 3 to 5 > mins with certain window managers: wmaker, uwm, blackbox, icewm I don't use Gnome but I tried it with IceWM and it didn't stall back then. > I think it lies with either gnome-proxy or gnome-session, I'm not s

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:50:04AM -0700, Basajaun wrote: > Álvaro Eixea wrote: > > Hello everybody: > > ¡Qué tal, Álvaro! > > > I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody > > Woody is old, man! > > > and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox > > Aha!, the problem is this: Fl

Re: No Starch Press releases _The Debian System_ by Martin Krafft

Jules Dubois wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:58, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: While appreciate the hard work that Martin has done on his book, and the general interest about it on this list, I think that advertising it like this goes against th

deb-user digest - stopped?

Is the debian-user-digest still working - I don' seem to have received anything in the last couple of weeks... -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

backups (dirvish) + dynamic IP

Following some advice on previous threads I've been playing with 'dirvish' for backing up some machines. One problem I've come across is how to deal with dynamic IP for a client machine - anybody got a workaround for this? Or know of a backup system that I can run from the client (dynamic IP, not u

cron + ldap = disaster?

Hi, I have successfully deployed a single sign on solution with openldap, it works great. But, there is a little problem with cron. Everytime one of the users' or system's crontab changes, cron stops working. The number of cron processes skyrockets (within minutes you see it going from 1 to hund

dirvish and root password

I can't see anything in the dirvish FAQ or manual page about this so can somebody tell me why dirvish requires the root password on the client and how to circumvent this (I've sudo on the client but not the root password)? Thanks, -- Michael Bane Atmospheric Physics Group University of Manchester

Re: lm-sensors bug?

On 9/15/05, wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanx for your help...I compiled a new kernel 2.6.13 and it is working now... strange...How to get, config while using sarge?-- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/linux user No.205042

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/09/05 17:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (15/09/05 15:18), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and > > > > googling hasn't helped. > > > > > > >

Re: setting up environment variables

Daniel B. on 15/09/05 17:55, wrote: On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in > /etc/profile since a

Re: setting up environment variables

> I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing? > A linux thing? An X thing? Seems debian-specific. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/01/msg04226.html Right now I'm having a problem with UML and i found a solution. # mount root_fs mnt-uml/ -o loop # echo "LD_AS

[gnome art] I cannot identify a program

Here's a screenshot: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=29148&file1=29148-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=Ubuntu+Hoary+Custom+Set+Theme I want absolutely to install the application in top-left corner. Can you tell me which is it? -- +-+

Re: [gnome art] I cannot identify a program

--- Andrea Ballatore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want absolutely to install the application in top-left corner. Can > you > tell me which is it? gaim. -- Thomas Adam ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crys

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > ticked. The help file says: > > Use Router As DHCP Server > > The MR814v2 router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host > Configuration Protocol) server, which provides the TC

Overwhelmed newbie

Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux ready to install), and

Re: [gnome art] I cannot identify a program

Looks like Gaim. Kai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz: > Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony > laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly > overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! > > I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I > have Opera for Linux ready

New udev breaks hotplug ?

After recent udev upgrade hotplugging of USB flashdisk in KDE stopped working - the icon of flashdisk did not appear and the media kioslave does not display the flashdisk. I have noticed that '/sbin/udevsend' is now registered as a kernel hotplug handler instead of the old good /sbin/hotplug by

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

--- Fritz Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony > laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly > overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! > > I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the inter

Re: apt-get lockdown

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:08:49PM +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote: > Dear List, > > Following the security advisories, I tried to upgrade several packages on my > PC running Debian Sid. I did it with apt-get. I presume some of them are > related to an upgrade of glibc, for after download I got the

readpst

I've just been handed a couple of Outlook PST files to convert to any other usable format. I installed readpst, but it really didn't get anywhere with the PSTs that I have. Instead I got the sequence of errors below. It may be because the PSTs are a very recent version; I know very little about the

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: announcing the beginning of security support for testing

* Jiann-Ming Su: > On 9/9/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing >> etch/security-updates main contrib non-free > > How is this different from "deb http://security.debian.org/ > testing/updates main"? Is testing/updates actually use

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup (or is it the third?). >

Re: Minimize diskaccess on a light server

Hello, > Does anyone have any hints on how to proceed? Maybe install > "laptop-mode-tools"? What about a way to track disc access? Just one hint when you have discovered which files are frequently accessed: If they needn't be persistent, you could link them to a file on tmpfs (/usr/src/linux/Do

Re: Basic questions about PHP5 on Sarge

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:12:36AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I have read about sites offer PHP5 for use with Sarge. > > 1) Is there a downside or risk associated with these "unofficial" > Debian packages? Do some Google searching and see if the benefits/risks are worth it to you. I have seen

Re: packages not on hold

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:57PM +1000, brett wrote: > Greetings, > I have been trying to put some self compiled packages on hold, but for some > reason apt seems to be ignoring the "hold" status. See below: > > xx:/home/$user# dpkg --get-selections | grep squid > squid

Re: readpst

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:37:15AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > I've just been handed a couple of Outlook PST files to > convert to any other usable format. I installed readpst, > but it really didn't get anywhere with the PSTs that I have. > Instead I got the sequence of errors below. It may b

Re: Basic questions about PHP5 on Sarge

Thanks for the info and tip on PHP5. I'll do some research. On 9/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:12:36AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > I have read about sites offer PHP5 for use with Sarge. > > > > 1) Is there a downside or risk associated with

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

On 9/16/05, Fritz Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 > CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am > utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic > names and cryptic

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux re

ifup doesn't setup wireless encryption

I can configure my wireless card as I want it using iwconfig, but when I use /etc/network/interfaces it doesn't setup encryption unless I "ifup" twice (by using --force the second time). I put the following in my interfaces file: iface eth2 inet static address 10.1.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup (or

Re: ffmpeg won't install

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:16:14 +0100 Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > I'm running etch right now, and trying to get ffmpeg installed, via > > aptitude, but I keep getting this error message; > > > > sudo aptitude install ffmpeg > > Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: > Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 > CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am > utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic > names and cryptic descriptions on the second boot

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:16:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen > (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? > > I am aware of the GNOME applet (but that doesn't seem to capture a window) a

Unsolicitated "Not Modified" response slipping through proxy

Hi all (sorry for "cross"-posting), from the time I'd upgraded to apache 2.0.54-5, we've experienced severe problems running a customer's reverse proxy server: briefly, apache refuses to deliver content that's returned as "Not modified" by the backend servers. Instead, apache simply forwards the

Debian 3.1 - avr-gnu tools comile errors

Hi, I work under Debian 3.1. I've got compilation errors: 1. simulavr-0.1.2.2: /usr/local/avr/simulavr-0.1.2.2/src/disp/disp.c - error 'KEY-ENTER' undeclared etc. (multiple errors) 2. gdb-avr-6.3: /usr/local/avr/gdb-avr-6.3/gdb-6.3 - configure error: no termcap library found 3. insight-6.1: --

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown said: > Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 > CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am > utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic > names and cryptic descriptions on the second bootup

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > > ticked. The help file says: > > > > Use Router As DHCP Server > > > > The MR814v2 router is set up by default as a DHCP (Dynamic Host > >

Re: packages not on hold

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:51:57PM +1000, brett wrote: > Obviously apt wants to replace my packages with the official debian > packages. This was working fine before the recent squid security update... No, obviously apt-get is NOT going to replace your packages with the ones from the archive. Th

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: >Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop >(Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices >about which I know nothing! > > The RAM is a little lean for some of the more popular GUI setups (KDE, Gnome, etc), bu

Re: ffmpeg won't install

Rodney D. Myers wrote: afraid that was the answer. :-( I was a little short. The other alternative is to wait until testing is unbroken again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: minicom display problems

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to get minicom to properly display the color graphics >of an ncurses app like iptraf? I am using the multi GNOME terminal as my >X terminal, but xterm seems to have the same problems. > >So far I've tried: >-settin

Sound on AOpen XCCube

Without (yet) going into the gory details of everything I tried, has *anyone* gotten sound to work on an AOpen XCCube? I have an EZ65 running Sarge. -- JR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Simo Kauppi ha scritto: Hey Marco, I thought I knew what you was trying to do, but now I think I don't :( The rewrite rule that we started with does exactly that, i.e. it rewrites the clients request domain1.com to www.domain1.com. I thought this was what you were trying to do originally. Any

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 05:20:21PM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop > (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with > choices about which I know nothing! > > I only need the ability to dial-up and netw

Re: making apt-file do it's job

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > I believe you want to use 'apt-cdrom'. I don't have a Debian > CD in front of me, but check out the man page for apt-cdrom: > it looks like you'll do something like > > sudo apt-cdrom add > > to get the indexes recreated. Then ap

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Josh Battles wrote: Fritz Brown said: Well, I don't have any idea what's what when I begin the install. I have 7 CDs (booting from the CD), and get through the partitioning OK, but am utterly without a clue when it starts asking about packages with cryptic names and cryptic descriptions on

Re: Problem with webmin-exports

Ok I still have problems, I have tried some more things: #cat /etc/exports /mnt    192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,sync) #ls -al /mnt totalt 52 drwxr-xr-x   7 nisse nisse 4096 2005-04-07 15:20 . drwxr-xr-x  23 root  root  4096 2005-07-23 13:57 .. drwxr-xr-x  22 nisse nisse 4096 2005-08-31 01:23 Brygg

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Kent West wrote: Fritz Brown wrote: , surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux ready to install), Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these versions you'll want to

Re: still no sound juicer (was Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today)

Apparently, _Marc Wilson_, on 16/09/05 02:17,typed: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:13:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > >>er .. a little question. What packages will be removed if I remove gnome >>and gnome-desktop-environment. I am guessing since there are >>metapackages, nothing else will be removed. > >

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

I'm very grateful to everyone for their suggestions but I'm starting to think it's about time to give up :-( Don´t give up! Linux computers are designed to work in networks. Please be so kind to post the complete contents of your /etc/network/interfaces again here. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Marco wrote: If I put only the option "ServerAlias", the bar of the client doesn't come rewritten. You need to do both a ServerAlias and a Rewrite. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a screencapture utility?

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:38 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 12:16:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm running sarge/GNOME. I'd like an ability to capture portions of a screen > > (part of a window preferably). Is there something which will do that? > > > > I am awa

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Fritz Brown wrote: > Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop > (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with > choices about which I know nothing! > > I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I have > Opera fo

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1

Re: readpst

Stephen R Laniel wrote: I've just been handed a couple of Outlook PST files to convert to any other usable format. I installed readpst, but it really didn't get anywhere with the PSTs that I have. Instead I got the sequence of errors below. It may be because the PSTs are a very recent version; I

Re: Re: Overwhelmed newbie

See: http://www.damtek.com/D-I.php use this as a guide, try to get Sarge if you can, and you can pretty much just follow it, only if you use the CD, then make that change in the apt-sources part, i.e. pick CD, not the internet. If you can not get Sarge, then you can still use my howto as a gen

Re: still no sound juicer (was Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today)

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:17:23PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:13:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > er .. a little question. What packages will be removed if I remove gnome > > and gnome-desktop-environment. I am guessing since there are > > metapackages, nothing else will be r

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On 16 Sep 2005, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >I'm very grateful to everyone for their suggestions but I'm starting to > >think it's about time to give up :-( > > Don´t give up! Linux computers are designed to work in networks. > Please be so kind to post the complete contents of your > /etc/netwo

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Angelo Bertolli wrote: > On that note, I found that Firefox and Thunderbird are a couple of > those programs that you don't want to use the Debian repository to > get. I don't know why but the Debian versions of Firefox and > Thunderbird don't allow me to install new themes or extensions. Works

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Angelo Bertolli wrote: Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.

Re: readpst

Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > >> I've just been handed a couple of Outlook PST files to >> convert to any other usable format. I installed readpst, >> but it really didn't get anywhere with the PSTs that I have. >> Instead I got the sequence of errors below. It may be >> becau

Re: cron + ldap = disaster?

Not exactly related, but I had very similar nasties on freebsd 5 with nss_ldap recently. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81555 (basically make sure you're using the latest nss_ldap) On 16/09/05, Natxo Asenjo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully deployed a s

Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

Hello, I'm trying to set up a about half a dozen linux boxes for my company. I wanted to know how I can set one machine to maintain an user and password list that would be accessible to all of the computers. Or alternately, my company does run a windows domain, can have have the linux boxes check

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 02:43:43PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (16/09/05 12:13), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Under LAN IP setting, the entry for "Use Router as DHCP server" is > > > ticked. The help file says: > > > > > > Use Router As DHCP Server

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Re: Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:38:33AM -0700, John wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up a about half a dozen linux boxes for my company. > I wanted to know how I can set one machine to maintain an user and > password list that would be accessible to all of the computers. > NIS and NFS would certa

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Hey all, We are currently a Dell shop, but are getting frustrated with the lack of debian support available for our Dell servers. Specifically, see these [1] [2] threads on the linux-poweredge list if you are interested. 1. http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2005-March/01967

Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

Hello, We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database.  In the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem (snapshot) switch to backup the running database.  Does dump on linux support live filesystem backups as well?  How are most people backing up

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

Angelo Bertolli wrote: Kent West wrote: Fritz Brown wrote: , surf the internet (I have Opera for Linux ready to install), Once you have an Internet connection, you're good to go. Most applications you want are available from the official Debian repositories, and it's generally these v

Re: Tape Backup advice needed - dump, tar etc.

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, J French wrote: > Hello, > We are setting up Debian Linux on a new server for a PostGreSQL database. In > the past, on FreeBSD, I used the dump utility with the live filesystem > (snapshot) switch to backup the running database. Does dump on linux support > live filesystem bac

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Marco wrote: Angelo Bertolli ha scritto: ServerName domain.com ServerAlias www.domain.com ServerAlias pop.domain.com ... RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^pop\.domain\.com$ [NC] Rewri

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anyone have spamassassin 3.1 packported to sarge?

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Re: Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

--- John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up a about half a dozen linux boxes for my company. > I wanted to know how I can set one machine to maintain an user and > password list that would be accessible to all of the computers. > There is a How To for NIS here: http:/

gdm, kdm, xdm can't startkde

Hi people, This one's driving me crazy. I'm running Debian Etch 2.6.8-2-386 and recently "upgraded" from xfree86 to xorg. Everything is fine except this one problem. I can't start kde (my desktop of preference nor gnome nor xfce from any display manager. Say I'm using gdm. I boot up and the gdm scr

Spammassassin Problems

Hi, I am new to Debian, I have been using SuSE since 5.3 and have just move to Debian. I am having a problem getting Spamassassin to work correctly. It's running. I have turn it in default and I am see process... ps ax | grep spam 1657 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --ma

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