List subscription?

2005-09-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
I just accidently sent a message to the list from an account that I am not subscribed with to this list, and then, realising my mistake, resent it with the subscribed account. Both came through. Does the list accept mail from just anyone then? Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gdm, kdm, xdm can't startkde

2005-09-17 Thread Mr Mike
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:37:46 +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > 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 > fr

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> He's also trying to install Opera and yet noone's jumped on the 3 people >> that are shoving him towards Firefox and Thunderbird. > I don't know if they are doing that. Sure are. > It's far easier for a newbie to install from main, without having to >

Re: List subscription?

2005-09-17 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 09:22 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I just accidently sent a message to the list from an account that I am > not subscribed with to this list, and then, realising my mistake, resent > it with the subscribed account. > > Both came through. > > Does the list accept mail from j

Re: List subscription?

2005-09-17 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote (Saturday 17 September 2005 5:53 pm): > On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 09:22 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Does the list accept mail from just anyone then? > > Yes, that is why sometimes you see people saying please CC me in Replys. Considering the throughput of this list,

Re: gdm, kdm, xdm can't startkde

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Mr Mike wrote: > Actually, it does tell you.. It is saying it can't find the startkde > script in /usr/bin. At the command line type which startkde and it will > tell you what directory it is located in.. My guess is maybe /opt/kde/bin > or maybe some other 'not so usual' directory... then in

Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Otto Wyss
With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but since I upgraded to XFCE4 (Debian/stable) I can't. Which package is missing? O. Wyss -- Development of frame buffer drivers: http://linux-fbdev.sf.net Sample code snippets for wxWidgets: http://wxcode.sf.net How to build well-desi

app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Søren Christensen
Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. What app should I be looknig for? Severino -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote: > Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, > that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. > > What app should I be looknig for? if you're using mplayer to play the movie, mplayer

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:40:19AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] S?ren Christensen wrote: > > > Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, > > that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. > > > > What app sho

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Hey, there's a bug! Replace "dhcp" by "static" please on both computers. Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:54:03AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > Well, I think I do need to change the mpeg/movie content, that is to > make a copy with added subtitles. I'm looking for some kind of > "DVD-factory" app. > dvdauthor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:02:59AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, > that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. > > What app should I be looknig for? > > Severino apt-cache show kino Package

DegradedArray event on /dev/md[0-9]+ (was: degraded array - former device is unavailable)

2005-09-17 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Philip Ross wrote: > Philip Ross wrote: > > I'm getting exactly the same problem after upgrading a test system from > > Woody to Sarge. Every time I reboot the md raid1 root device is failing to > > come up with both mirrors (see dmesg output below). When I add the missing > >

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:00:03AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:54:03AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > > Well, I think I do need to change the mpeg/movie content, that is to > > make a copy with added subtitles. I'm looking for some kind of > > "DVD-factory" ap

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On fredag 16 september 2005, 21:09, Antony Gelberg wrote: Please reply onlist. Errr, well, I don't consider this an important topic for the list, and it is also rather rude to respond to a off-list message on-list. Please refrain from that in the future. I suppose

Hauppage ImpactVCB PCI Video Capture Board?

2005-09-17 Thread Søren Christensen
I have a lot of VHS movies, that I use en teaching, but I would like to transfer them to DVD for easier acces to specific points. According to the (swedish) homapage for Hauppage, the ImpactVCB - family of Video Capture Boards should be able to accomplish this, and the have links for third-party d

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Andy Streich wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little support for in the

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Angelo Bertolli wrote: Andy Streich wrote: On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place. That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On lørdag 17 september 2005, 13:23, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Oh, there is plenty of reason. Stable has its issues, as any other > > complex software system. > > Ok, what reasons are there to get burnt by using stable?  The point > of stable is that it is very unlikely to burn a clueful user. For

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Steve Lamb wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: I really don't think that this is the kind of thing to recommend on d-u without a very good reason. The amazingly simple install is a very good reason. Hell, I've used Debian since the libc5 days and *I* preferred Ubuntu's setup to even Sarge's.

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Steve Lamb wrote: Antony Gelberg wrote: See my previous post. He's trying to install Debian, let's help him install Debian. However hard people think it is, choosing Desktop from the dreaded tasksel gets most people on their way. He's also trying to install Opera and yet noone's jumped

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Steve Lamb wrote: Katipo wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: He's also trying to install Opera and yet noone's jumped on the 3 people that are shoving him towards Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't know if they are doing that. Sure are. It's far easier for a newbie to install from main, w

Re: Problem building from package sources

2005-09-17 Thread Roger Creasy
On 9/14/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 07:04:23PM -0400, Roger Creasy wrote:> Hello:>> Any time that I try to install software from source files, I get the> foillowing error when I type ./configure:> > checking for gcc... gcc> checking for C compiler defau

rs6000

2005-09-17 Thread Ömer TELLİ
Merhabalar elimde bir adet ibm rs6000 43p model 150 server bulunmakta fakat üzerinde aix 4.3.2 bir işletim sistemi var ben bunun üzerine debian'ın herhangi bi sürümünü kurmak istiyorum fakat hangi sürümünü kuracagımı hangi versiyonunu kuracagımı bilmiyorum ve ayrıca cd den boot edip kurabili

UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I live in rural Mexico and we get frequent power outages. Yesterday's creamed my voltage regulator and the power supply. Got to bite the bullet. I would like a UPS that warns me when power starts fluctuating and then shuts down the system. Debian of course, Sarge now. Are there a

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/05 12:45), Antony Gelberg wrote: > My understanding is that Debian welcomes patches from anybody who can > improve the documentation situation on the www.debian.org. The Debian > Reference is a good start but could be so much better. > > Perhaps those of you who have your own howtos a

Suspend-to-ram kills touchpad

2005-09-17 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi all, I've made some progress on this; I'm running Sarge with a lot of Etch upgrades on a "whitebox" (unbranded) laptop with a 855GM chipset. Since kernel 2.6.12, suspend-to-disk (S4) has worked well, simply using the KDE klaptop applet. However, suspend-to-ram (S3), which I think most laptop

Re: Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/17/05, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but sinceI upgraded to XFCE4 (Debian/stable) I can't. Which package is missing? "Settings, User Interface Preferences" does it for me. Patrick

Re: frozen emial in exim4

2005-09-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:28:05PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > I get a bunch of frozen emial in my exim4 queue. How can I tell what the > problem is? > > 21h 105K 1EG6ne-0006Kv-TB <> *** frozen *** > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Both the mail.log and mail.err in /var/log are empty: > > $

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

2005-09-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 05:38:03AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: >I have 2.6.8 kernel source. I tried the following both patches separately >in the same order. ie second time src previous patched source was deleted >and new src was installed. >bootsplash-3.1.6-2.6.8.diff >bootsplash-

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 September 2005 08:23, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >Hi Debian! > >I live in rural Mexico and we get frequent power outages. >Yesterday's creamed my voltage regulator and the power supply. Got to >bite the bullet. > >I would like a UPS that warns me when power starts fluctuating and then >s

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday September 17 2005 16:54, Gene Heskett wrote: > even after all this time they have not made it work with the USB > ports on their UPS's, so you lose a seriel port to connect the > software to the UPS. Gr. I need that port for other things. Wouldn't it be possible to use a USB/Seri

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 17 September 2005 11:05, Nicos Gollan wrote: >On Saturday September 17 2005 16:54, Gene Heskett wrote: >> even after all this time they have not made it work with the USB >> ports on their UPS's, so you lose a seriel port to connect the >> software to the UPS. Gr. I need that port

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

2005-09-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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. (By the bye, why doesn't Debian have Bootsplash as a standard?) I

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Colin
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi Debian! > > I live in rural Mexico and we get frequent power outages. > Yesterday's creamed my voltage regulator and the power supply. Got to > bite the bullet. > > I would like a UPS that warns me when power starts fluctuating and then > shuts down the system. Debian

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread TreeBoy
On Saturday 17 Sep 2005 11:38, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >># The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian > >>installation > >>auto eth0 > > > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > Hey, there's a bug! Replace "dhcp" by "static" please on both computers. > > Flo

Re: Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/17/05, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/17/05, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but sinceI upgraded to XFCE4 (Debian/stable) I can't. Which package is missing? "Settings, User Interface Preferences" does it for m

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Matthijs
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:40:06 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like a UPS that warns me when power starts fluctuating and then > shuts down the system. Debian of course, Sarge now. > > Are there any recommendations out there? I've got an APC Back-UPS CS500. It's connec

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:41:47AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > To do things the debian way, I should give /dev/hdc 660 permission and > add the user to the disk group, but it doesn't work. Have you also made the user logout? This is necessary to inherit new group membership. Check the output of

Re: UPS recommendations?

2005-09-17 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On lørdag 17 september 2005, 17:01, Colin wrote: > Then get an APC one.  I have two of them for my systems (LS 500, CS > 500) and they've been working great.  The best part is the linux > software you need is already part of Debian.  The package is called > "apcupsd".   That's pretty neat! Since

playing midi with timidity

2005-09-17 Thread Pooly
Hi, apparently midi is not supported by the snd-viaxx driver (with the VT8233),so I started timidity : timidity -iA but when I play a midi file (with Kmid for example),I hear nothing, except if I press stop, I hear one or two notes. I've added option on the config file to make timidity less CPU-h

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-17 Thread Marco
Simo Kauppi ha scritto: Okey, how does this look? 000-domain: NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerName www.domain.com ServerAlias *.domain.com domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Clive Menzies wrote: On (17/09/05 12:45), Antony Gelberg wrote: My understanding is that Debian welcomes patches from anybody who can improve the documentation situation on the www.debian.org. The Debian Reference is a good start but could be so much better. Perhaps those of you who have yo

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Sep 2005, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > >On 9/17/05, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > iface eth1 inet dhcp > > address [2]192.168.0.22 > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > address [3]192.168.0.20 > I could be m

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Sep 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/09/05 18:20), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 16 Sep 2005, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > It looks as if the router does NAT between the wireless and the wired > > > segments. > > > Can you configure the router to do bridging ? > > > >

Re: Hauppage ImpactVCB PCI Video Capture Board?

2005-09-17 Thread Søren Christensen
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:53:36PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > I have a lot of VHS movies, that I use en teaching, but I would like to > transfer them to DVD for easier acces to specific points. > > According to the (swedish) homapage for Hauppage, the ImpactVCB - family > of Video Capture B

Re: Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Patrick Wiseman wrote: On 9/17/05, *Patrick Wiseman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 9/17/05, *Otto Wyss* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current default font but since I upg

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Haines Brown wrote: I'm trying to set up a new installation of debian so that user can play DVDs. I have debian sarge 2.6.8-2-686, an IDE dvd drive, gxine 0.4.1-1, libdvdread3-0.9.4-5. I can play .mp3 files OK with gzine. I created a dvd symlink: $ ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 S

Re: Font selection with XFCE

2005-09-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 9/17/05, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote:> On 9/17/05, *Patrick Wiseman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:> > On 9/17/05, *Otto Wyss* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:>> With XFCE3 it was possible to select the current def

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/05 18:08), Antony Gelberg wrote: > Taking your notes section by section: > > Desktop - take a look at the Install Guide. Is there anything in your > notes that would be useful there? > File /mail server - this could go into the Reference. See 3.4, 3.5, 9.6. > LAPP - nothing like this

bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Rodney Richison
Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc But I'd like to add multiple lines at one time. Like the ones below. I realize I could cat them in from a text file, but I'd like to m

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I'd like to add multiple lines at one time. Like the ones below. > I > realize I could cat them in from a text file, but I'd like to make > this > script non-dependant of other text files. > > export LS_OPTIONS='--color=auto' > eval `dircol

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Haines Brown
> Have you also made the user logout? This is necessary to inherit new > group membership. Check the output of the `groups' command to be sure. Jon, that was my problem. My excuse is lack of sleep and too many pressing distractions, but I should have thought of it anyway. Thanks for the instant r

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This works, but another poster implied this is a security risk. So is > the "debian way" to change ownership of /dev/hda to root/cdrom and > put > user into the cdrom group? Correct. No non-root user should ever be in group 'disk' -- instead, just us

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I mercifully forgot everything I knew about terminals in the '80s, >But now I am puzzled by two purely theoretical questions: > >1) why don't LINE and COLUMN get listed when I run "printenv"? Because the resize command prints out t

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. > I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this > > echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc > > But I'd like to add multiple lines at one time. Like the on

Re: Apache2 & mod_rewrite

2005-09-17 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:47:12PM +0200, Marco wrote: > OK. Apache2 works perfectly now. Thanks :-) > > I have also an other question to the rewrite module and Apache2. I have > configurated a virtual host with ssl. > I would like all connection to "https://*.domain.com"; are rewritten to > "ht

Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-17 Thread Felix Karpfen
As a fairly recent arrival to Debian, I have just viewed the current content of my /tmp directory. And found the following (snipped): , | total 256 | -rw-r--r-- 1 felixk felixk 44215 Jan 22 2003 craig01_small.jpg | -rw-r--r-- 1 felixk felixk 1301 Jan 22 2003 craig02_small.jpg | | SNIP |

Re: Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:11:15AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > I suspect that there is a missing cron routine and would welcome > the needed pointers in order to persuade the "tmp" directory to live > up to its name. > By default, /tmp is cleaned on reboot. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez h

Re: Cleaning Sarge's tmp directory

2005-09-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 the mental interface of Felix Karpfen told: > As a fairly recent arrival to Debian, I have just viewed the current > content of my /tmp directory. And found the following (snipped): apt-get install anacron && rm -rf /tmp/* Elimar -- Numeric stability is probably not all

configuring muttrc

2005-09-17 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. Thanks. sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-17 Thread Antony Gelberg
Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. I think the best thing to do is google. There's a lot of good muttrcs out there, ready for adaptation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-17 Thread Peter J Ross
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for > Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my > needs. You need a properly configured Mail Transport Agent and (probably) Mail Delivery Agent. Conf

Automatically maintaining permissions on specific directories

2005-09-17 Thread Olle Eriksson
Hi Is there any way to enforce the permissions on a specific directory so that everything that is in it will always have the correct permissions? I know a simple cron job can do the job but I have fucked up more file and directory permissions than wanted on more than one occasion this way. And

watching an avi

2005-09-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
System: KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb) Running testing so have switched to X-org Most of the time I can watch avi videos using xine with no problem, even full screen. Sometimes xine runs but the display window rem

Re: bash script

2005-09-17 Thread Rodney Richison
Almut Behrens wrote: On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 02:33:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: Am trying to automate some stuff for future installs. I'd like to echo multiple lines to the end of a file. Like this echo '. /etc/bash_completion' >> ~/.bashrc But I'd like to add multiple lines at one

Re: Automatically maintaining permissions on specific directories

2005-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/09/05 01:39), Olle Eriksson wrote: > Is there any way to enforce the permissions on a specific directory so > that everything that is in it will always have the correct permissions? > > I know a simple cron job can do the job but I have fucked up more file and > directory permissions than

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-17 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On (17/09/05 21:50), Sam Rosenfeld wrote: | | From: "Sam Rosenfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:50:28 + | Subject: configuring muttrc | | Precisely what inf

Re: playing midi with timidity

2005-09-17 Thread John O'Hagan
Pooly wrote: >Hi, > >apparently midi is not supported by the snd-viaxx driver (with the >VT8233),so I started timidity : >timidity -iA >but when I play a midi file (with Kmid for example),I hear nothing, >except if I press stop, I hear one or two notes... > >[...] Hi Pooly, I had similar a pro

Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-17 Thread Adar Dembo
Back in October I setup a software RAID 5 array using MD. I used 5x300 gig SATA-II drives, running on two Promise TX4 SATAII controllers (the new ones with NCQ). One controller connected to two drives, and the other to three. A few days ago, after moving to a new house, I set up the server co

The footers in a2ps

2005-09-17 Thread Malcolm E. Jordan
I have installed a2ps version 4.13b-4.3 on Debian 3.1 stable with the 2.4 linux kernel. The program works well with the exception that I cannot get any of the three footers to print. I have gone over the documentation, search the archives, and reinstalled the program but nothing seems to wor

Broken pipe when attempting to upgrade to Etch

2005-09-17 Thread Dave Patterson
With xorg now in etch, I attempt to upgrade from Sarge via apt-get dist-upgrade with preferences set to testing, and the process halts with error processing .../x11-common_6.8.2.dfsg.1-6_all.deb (unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package xorg-common process killed

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-17 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 23:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 20:56 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:28:08PM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 2:16 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > Regarding package managers... apt-get isn't a

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 12:27:07AM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > Perhaps he's saying 'apt-get' and meaning 'dpkg' Thank you, but unlike most users of unstable today, I do actually know the difference between the two. I also know the difference between a low-level tool written as a demonstration of

shorewall and samba problem

2005-09-17 Thread askar k
Hello all! I'm using Debian 3.1 and shorewall 2.2.3 I installed samba on the same machine where I already have shorewall installed. As I noticed samba is disabled by default in shorewall. So, I followed the instruction in http://www.shorewall.net/samba.htm: 1. Added the lines into /etc/shorewa

Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-17 Thread William Ballard
I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become horribly unusable. Now my question is, when should I start tracking Sid again, because Nic

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya the only major piece of info that is missing: a) cat /proc/mdstat b) what exactly was the commands you type vs the english explainations On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: > Sep 11 23:46:57 localhost kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! > Sep 11 2