Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Well I like the benefit of typing one line. In debian, being in the > group sudo allows you to skip using a password. So to me there's a > benefit over: typing su, typing root's password, typing my command, > exiting. I like the benefit of not having to worry about

LILO, SATA & IDE drive

2005-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I just successfully installed etch (now upgraded to sid) onto a SATA drive /dev/sda. Now, though, I want to get my data off of the old IDE drive. So, I stuck it in and powered up. Unfortunately, but understandably, the box wants to boot off of that drive /dev/hda. So, I think that I can/sho

Re: Printer

2005-09-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 9/26/05, Malcolm Lalkaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try installing the debian package cupsys-bsd. Tell me if it helps. I have it installed. lvgdell600m:~# dpkg -l|grep cups ii  cupsys 1.1.23-10  Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii  cupsys-bsd 1.1.23-10  Common UNIX Pr

installing system wide firefox extensions

2005-09-26 Thread Gebhardt Thomas
Hi, i wonder,whether there is a documented and preferred way to install a firefox extension on a debian system such that all users can access it. Thanks for any hint! Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard

2005-09-26 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Eric P wrote: > Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? > Alt-tab? -- Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. -- Mike Coleman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: LILO, SATA & IDE drive

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ron On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > I just successfully installed etch (now upgraded to sid) onto > a SATA drive /dev/sda. Now, though, I want to get my data off > of the old IDE drive. So, I stuck it in and powered up. > Unfortunately, but understandably, the box wants to boot

change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Hi I'm trying to replace Metacity with Enlightenment as the window manager in Gnome. I did this by modifying the corresponding entry in the Control Center of Gnome, but it is simply ignored... even Google didn't help me... any clue please? thanks in advance Lorenzo -- +--

Re: vncserver

2005-09-26 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > I didn't see the inetd.conf line, but logins are > probably being handled > > through your preferred X Display Manager. > > Not what I asked. I asked how users can > disconnect/reconnect not > logout/log in. One of

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Seth Goodman wrote: > Referencing 822 for much of anything these days is not very useful, unless > if you're interested in email history. Which is something you need to know when blatently getting 822 and 2822 backwards when it comes to reply-to. > As I pointed out in a previous post, > Reply

Re: Two internet connections, one firewall

2005-09-26 Thread Brent Clark
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: I wonder if it is possible to have two internet connections running at the same time on one box. Sure, one connection, one Eth Schema: Router0 <---> Eth0 TUX Eth1 <---> Router1 Eth2 |

Re: change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
mhh... not exactly... moreover these are the alternatives setting already: /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/gnome-session /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager -> /usr/bin/enlightenment and it doesn't work anyway... moreover, I guess there should be a way to change it by the user,

Re: change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
David Huemer wrote: You could try the following: Do a 'ps ax' in the console and kill the current window manager. Then enter the name of the wm you want to use (enlightenment in your case). Then log out and check save current settings in the mask. already tried that: metacity respawns immediate

Re: change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:30:05AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to replace Metacity with Enlightenment as the window manager > in Gnome. I did this by modifying the corresponding entry in the > Control Center of Gnome, but it is simply ignored... even Google didn't > help

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 25 Sep 2005 23:23:48 -0700, James He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > regular kernel? Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't see them for some reason). -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread Marco Calviani
James He wrote: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping: 8 cpu MHz : 1600.096 cache size : 2048 KB Hi James, your CPU does not

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every > twenty-four hours. Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to skip? -- Carl Fin

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:03 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > On 25 Sep 2005 23:23:48 -0700, James He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > > regular kernel? > > Yup, use SMP. I get 2 cpus in cpuinfo that way (although top doesn't > see

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:37 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:03 +0100, Dick Davies wrote: > > On 25 Sep 2005 23:23:48 -0700, James He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > > > regular kernel? > > > > Yup, use S

Re: LILO, SATA & IDE drive

2005-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi ya ron > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I just successfully installed etch (now upgraded to sid) > > onto a SATA drive /dev/sda. Now, though, I want to get > > my data off of the old IDE drive

Re: LILO, SATA & IDE drive

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > > you can also go into the BIOS and tell it to boot off hd0 > > vs hd1 > > If the BIOS has such an option, I haven't found it. yeah.. dell bios wont allow you to change between hd0 and hd1 etc but most bios do have boot order someplace > >o

Re: change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Dmitri Minaev wrote: Hi, 1. Launch a terminal. 2. Launch Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Sessions 3. At Current Session tab, mark 'metacity', click Remove, click Apply. The window manager must shut down. 4. Switch to the terminal window, type 'enlightenment &' 5. Close the session manager and the

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 26 September 2005 10:37, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... > > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every > > twenty-four hours. > > M

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Runing 2 squids

2005-09-26 Thread Ben Sagal
Is it possible to run two copies of squid concurrently (same executable + cache, just different config files)? Ben

Disk mirroring on sarge howto with screenshots

2005-09-26 Thread Siju George
Hi list, Around the release of Sarge there was a howto on the internt on how to implement Disk mirroring in Sarge with screenshots. I am not able to locate it now :-( Could some one please help me with the link??? Thankyou so much kind regards Siju

Gateway M325X Laptop (Intel 855pm chipset) with sarge installer

2005-09-26 Thread Scott Fitzgerald
Looking at this gateway laptop, it's wired ethernet is of intel manufacture but I am not too sure of it's wireless. At any rate, does anybody have experience with installing Sarge on this Laptop? I would really like to know if it installs straight (as in, without ndisserver, or any unusual need

retaining file permissions and ownership across sub-directories in Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Rishi
Hi I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. If it is not, I would be grateful to anyone that would be kind enough to point to me appropriate forum so that I can take this query there instead. I need to retain the same file permissions and ownership across sub-directories in Linu

Re: Runing 2 squids

2005-09-26 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Ben Sagal napisał(a): Is it possible to run two copies of squid concurrently (same executable + cache, just different config files)? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you cannot share cache directiories between different squid instances. But you could always try to run one copy of squid act

RE: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Seth Goodman
> From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:50 AM > > > Seth Goodman wrote: > > Referencing 822 for much of anything these days is not very > > useful, unless > > if you're interested in email history. > > Which is something you need to know when blatently

Brazilian ABNT2 and close braces key missing

2005-09-26 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
    Hi. Is it just me or the close braces key is missing from the GNOME Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard layout?     I am using debian sarge 3.1.-- Fred

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Joel Peter William Pitt wrote: > I am confused however, since I'm reasonably sure I haven't tinkered > with my Xauthority files - ie they are the debian default - and yet > synaptic has no problem running from su. > > -Joel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> su - > Password: > westk03:~# synaptic

Re: lmsensors alarm....

2005-09-26 Thread Geoff Reidy
Simon wrote: > Hi There, > > We have a one of our servers producing a "sensord: Sensor alarm" in the > syslog. Its a dual athlon box and here is the output of #sensors: > > (Any idea of whats happening here? Im sure that there is no case sensor > > web1:/proc# sensors > w83627hf-isa-0c00 > A

HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
I'm sure that to many people on this list, not being able to run WinXP would be considered a good thing (TM), but trust me, I have lots of important reasons for needing it :) Anyway, here is the deal: I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one with Debian Sid. I

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >>1. Training oneself not to run things as root is one benefit of sudo, so >>that you don't mess up when you go to another machine. >> >> > >One presumes when you go to another machine you won't have root. > Hmm; I've got two machines here in the h

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >>And when you need to run an X app? Ah, gotta muck around with Xauthority >>files now. >> >> > >I've yet to see an X app that needs me to have root. Chances are if such >a beast exists I don't need it. > > /usr/bin/synaptic, at least on my box.

RE: annoying screensaver

2005-09-26 Thread Eric van der Paardt
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:35:16PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is a priority controller in redhat screensaver. In Sarge, my > > screensaver always uses over 90% of CPU. Is there any way to set low > > prioity of sreensaver in debian? Thanks! > > This requires that you laborio

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >>Unless you need to know two days after the fact, when you've forgotten >>when you did what when. >> >> > >Why would I need to know what I did and when I did it? If something is >broken the path is clear... fix it! > > > Wow. We must have total

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >I like the benefit of not having to worry about permissions on certain >directories getting in my way when I am looking for information. For example.. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log} cd exim4 >cd: permission denied: exim4 > > > This is so true. But this is a benefit of be

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-26 Thread Roby
Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I tried that and it seemed to work. When I ran > 'grub-install /dev/hda5' it reported 'no errors' and > seemed to execute successfully. However, upon reboot, > I am back to XP bootup. Is there another step that I > need to include? > > Steps so far: > > 1. Boot up with li

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:28:47 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > >Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>And when you need to run an X app? Ah, gotta muck around > >>with Xauthority files now. > >> > >> > > > >I've yet to see an X app that needs me to have root. > >

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 2:02, Roby wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I tried that and it seemed to work. When I ran > > 'grub-install /dev/hda5' it reported 'no errors' and > > seemed to execute successfully. However, upon reboot, > > I am back to XP bootup. Is there another step that I > > ne

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 2:02, Roby wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I tried that and it seemed to work. When I ran > > 'grub-install /dev/hda5' it reported 'no errors' and > > seemed to execute successfully. However, upon reboot, > > I am back to XP bootup. Is there another step that I > > ne

Re: retaining file permissions and ownership across sub-directories in Linux

2005-09-26 Thread Mariusz Kruk
Rishi napisał(a): Hi I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. If it is not, I would be grateful to anyone that would be kind enough to point to me appropriate forum so that I can take this query there instead. I need to retain the same file permissions and ownership across sub

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: >>From an xterm: > $ su -m > >Then you can run /usr/sbin/synaptic from a # prompt in a >user's xterm. > > > > Ah, okay. That's good, and decreases the benefit of sudo for me. (And thanks for quietly correcting my typo of "bin" to "sbin".) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

aptitute "Unable to correct dependencies" -- how to fix?

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Funk
For a while now I've been getting the problem below. My /etc/apt/apt.conf contains only two lines. APT::Default-Release "testing"; APT::Clean-Installed "off"; My /etc/apt/preferences has one hand-coded pin and a bunch produced by apt-listbugs. I tried removing the hand-coded pin and still got t

Re: Responses to the list (oops)

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Seth Goodman wrote: > I am well aware of the differences between the two standards. You would do > well to read them both carefully as well as RFC1123. Apparently not since you got them backwards and couldn't even see the problems in your own argument. > In the redistribution case, the only

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy: > Anyway, here is the deal: > I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one > with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when > WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,

Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I thought I would give you guys the heads up about a problem I just experienced, before anyone else wastes CDRs, or worse, looses data. I upgraded to the 2.6.12 kernel last week, and every CD burned since then has been a coaster. Everything appeared to burn and fixate like normal, without any err

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: > I'd rather have a consistent habit across the machines. Key words, consistent habit. The habit is the important part, not how it is achieved. I have the same habit with su. > Which implies that you're firing up an xterm, "su"ing and doing your > command, then exiting out

Re: annoying screensaver

2005-09-26 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:31:49AM -0500, Eric van der Paardt wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:35:16PM -0700, Jianbo Wang wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > There is a priority controller in redhat screensaver. In Sarge, my > > > screensaver always uses over 90% of CPU. Is there any way to set low >

RE: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Žáček Kryštof
Lucky you. I did not even get so far to spoil the CD. K3b permanently fails to burn any data CD for me with 2.6 kernel. It keeps reporting something about failing mkisofs or cdrecord, operation not permitted or so. The same setup did work fine in the past with 2.6 kernels. Now, with fully up-to

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Roby
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: > title Windows NT/2000/XP hide (hd0,4) unhide (hd0,0) > root(hd0,0) > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > title Windows 95/98/Me hide (hd0,0) unhide (hd0,4) > root(hd0,4) > savedefault > makea

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >>So, I'm confused. Are you saying that the logging capability of sudo >>provides a benefit on a single-user machine (my claim), or not (the >>original claim)? >> >> > >I pointed out that sudo provides logging. You got into the semantics of >loggi

RE: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
You could always do what I did. 2.6.6 works fine for me. Of course, you might not be able to get to it now. Good think I never EVER remove old kernels unless they are REALLY old ;) On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-2] Žáček Kryštof wrote: > Lucky you. I did not even get so far to spoil the CD. K

Re: Your Email to Healthy Computer Club Customer Service

2005-09-26 Thread help
Dear Customer, Thank you for contacting Healthy Computer Club (HealthyComputerClub.com). We do our best to answer all emails within 24 to 48 hours. One of our Customer Service representatives will respond to your email within that timeframe on a first come, first serve basis. In the meantime,

Re: Two internet connections, one firewall

2005-09-26 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 9/26/05, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > I wonder if it is possible to have two internet connections running at > > the same time on one box. Sure, one connection, one Eth > > > > Schema: > > > > Router0 <---> Eth0 TUX Eth1 <---> Router1 > >

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Steve Lamb wrote: Angelo Bertolli wrote: Well I like the benefit of typing one line. In debian, being in the group sudo allows you to skip using a password. So to me there's a benefit over: typing su, typing root's password, typing my command, exiting. I like the benefit of not

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Daniel Garcia
Why is it interesting to have a different partition for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a home computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate the size for each partition Thanks Daniel --- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Ron John

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Dick Davies
On 26/09/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > home > computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate > the size for each partition > > Thanks > Daniel off the top of my hea

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote: > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a So that your / is as static as possible. And decoupled from about as much as possible. The first time you have problems with memory or disks, yo

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Bradley Alexander
On Monday 26 September 2005 11:25 am, Dick Davies wrote: > On 26/09/05, Daniel Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > > home computer. You mentioned a "home" computer. I have more than on

Re: vncserver

2005-09-26 Thread Robert Wolfe
- Original Message From: Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: vncserver Date: 26/09/05 04:50 > We use it to connect from *Windows* desktops to our > linux terminal server. Yes, running this way means we > lose the disconnect/reconnect fun

Re: Video card : ATI Radeon X300

2005-09-26 Thread Bruno Costacurta
I used xorg it on my laptop Acer 9100 with Sarge since 2 days. Card video is ATI Radeon X600. And it's working fine. In fact, I moved to xorg because suffered a non-supported ATI Radeon under XFree86 version 4. Bruno On Monday 26 September 2005 06:40, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 9/25/05, David Clyme

Re: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:55:39AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > You could always do what I did. 2.6.6 works fine for me. Of course, you > might not be able to get to it now. Good think I never EVER remove old > kernels unless they are REALLY old ;) > I beg to differ. I

Re: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 16:48 schrieb Žáček Kryštof: > Lucky you. I did not even get so far to spoil the CD. K3b permanently fails to burn any data CD for me with 2.6 kernel. > It keeps reporting something about failing mkisofs or cdrecord, operation not permitted or so. I recently had a s

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Clinton
On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every > twenty-four hours. I am reporting the issue. Why are you always such a troll? -- I u

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread James He
Hi Marco, I didn't notice it that there is no "ht" sign in the flags info below until you pointed it out. I'm sorry. But I do have another machine with one hyper-threading CPU, so never mind. Thanks for all. :-) $ cat /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic sep mtrr p

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So, > if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite > Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be > able to boot Windows XP at all

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:19, Roby wrote: > Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: > > title Windows NT/2000/XP > > hide (hd0,4) > unhide (hd0,0) > > > root(hd0,0) > > savedefault > > makeactive > > chainloader +1 > > > > title Windows 95/98/Me > > hide

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McCarty wrote: > Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > You might find this bug interesting. > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250765 > > Very interesting indeed. So I wonder whether this will show up for > > other desktop environments, too. > > I use Gnome

newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Jim Woodward
How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping. ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, many drives will give you an ECC error back when

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: > ReiserFS is faster than ext3 ONLY for files under 4kB. In such a case, > you can expect to experience faster speeds than ext3 by a factor of 10 Come to think of it, where did you get these numbers from? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to fi

Re: unsubscribe

2005-09-26 Thread Raquel Rice
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Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Rob Benton wrote: > > I've lost data and a whole partition using xfs. I wouldn't call it > > stable. I use reiser now. XFS *is* stable now, as long as you don't do a "don't do that" thing like two MDs on top of each other (to get RAID

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:20 -0400, Jim Woodward wrote: > How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? > dmesg does not have all the information. > I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 > Thanks enable /etc/default/bootlogd: $ cat /etc/default/bootlogd # Run bootlogd at startup ? BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, James He wrote: > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > regular kernel? It depends: - If it is a 2.4 kernel, don't bother. Use an UP kernel. - If it is a recent 2.6 kernel, it depends on the workload. Try it, and do some measurements. --

Re: gnuplot and PDF

2005-09-26 Thread Aaron Maxwell
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:58 pm, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:29:35PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > does anyone know why the testing gnuplot package does not support > > > PDF output ? > Jerome, you might want to file a bug report or feature request on the > gnuplot

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping. > > ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan > test hits the bad sector, whichever happens fir

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 14:01 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, James He wrote: > > Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine use SMP kernel, or stick to a > > regular kernel? > > It depends: > - If it is a 2.4 kernel, don't bother. Use an UP kernel. what's an UP kerne

partitions Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote: > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > home > computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate > the size for each partition rasputnik> * If /home gets hosed, you can still get

Re: ip changed when the system is running

2005-09-26 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
Thanks for help. Can you tell me some more detailed informations? In the fact, I didn't change anything of dhcp client's configuration. Each time ifup eth0, I always got such info: CopyrigVht 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved.

Re: ip changed when the system is running

2005-09-26 Thread Xiaoyang Gu
You mean some command can add to /etc/dhclient-script, such as firestarter? Is there anyway to make the lease time longer? I hope that when my box is running, the ip address doesn't change at all. Thanks a lot! On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:40:43PM -0400, John covici wrote: > When you use dh

Re: GRUB bootloader issue

2005-09-26 Thread H.S.
Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I need help figuring out what is going on with my > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It > discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to > XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who Try th

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Rob Benton
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Rob Benton wrote: I've lost data and a whole partition using xfs. I wouldn't call it stable. I use reiser now. XFS *is* stable now, as long as you don't do a "don't do that" thing like two MDs o

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Ron Johnson wrote: > Malte Cornils wrote: > > PS: Please Cc: me if possible > > If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer > to only go to the list. Unless specifically requested by the poster. Please see the Debian mailing list policy: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Malte Cornils wrote: > > > Does anyone have a clue why 2 GiB is the limit? It is not for me. I can malloc() up to 2.9G. > It seems malloc restricts itself to the user space. > But if you were te replace malloc (or provide your own allocation > and freeing methods, which *

Re: Should one CPU(Hyper-Threading) machine install SMP kernel?

2005-09-26 Thread Marco Calviani
James He wrote: Hi Marco, I didn't notice it that there is no "ht" sign in the flags info below until you pointed it out. I'm sorry. But I do have another machine with one hyper-threading CPU, so never mind. Hi James, no problem! If you own a PIV CPU with HT you should use, for example,

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:08:55AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2005 12:15 am, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... > > people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every > > twenty-four hours

Re: newbie boot question

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Jim Woodward wrote: How do I retrieve the messages that I see when booting? dmesg does not have all the information. I'm using kernel 2.6.13.2 Good question. I'd like to know this too. I always thought that short of puting up an external serial interface, this wasn't possible. Angelo --

Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-26 Thread Angelo Bertolli
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: drive itself "goes around" the bad spots, using sector remapping. ONLY when you write to a bad sector, OR a SMART offline/online surface scan test hits the bad sector, whichever happens first. Before that, ma

Re: vncserver

2005-09-26 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message > From: Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: vncserver > Date: 26/09/05 04:50 > > > We use it to connect from *Windows* desktops to > our > > linux terminal server.

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Malte Cornils wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a clue why 2 GiB is the limit? > > It is not for me. I can malloc() up to 2.9G. > > > It seems malloc restricts itself to the user space. > > But if you were te r

Re: Cdrecord and linux 2.6.12

2005-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:55:39AM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > You could always do what I did. 2.6.6 works fine for me. Of course, you > might not be able to get to it now. Good think I never EVER remove old > kernels unless they are REALLY old ;)

apache-ssl and php4

2005-09-26 Thread Tim Jordan
I have a server configured with apache and php4 working great. I just added the apache-ssl package and I created my own certificate. My problem is now when I try to access a .php page over SSL I get a prompt to download the file instead of it opening in my browser. Could someone please advis

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 10:15:51PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: Gee, what about by just NOT upgrading the box TODAY? Oh, that's right... people die or something if they don't update the installed packages every twenty-four hours. Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to sk

classics Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Here is the very simple test program. > > > > #include > > #include > > #include > > > > const int amountK = 1024; > > > > int main() > > { > > unsigned long count = 0; > > > > for (;;) /* loop forever */ > > { > >

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Marc, how can people know which 24 hours to skip? > > The ones for which you have no backup... but ... update/upgrade is updating the system .. not user data and there's gazillion ways to update/restore/recreate the system to be able to recover

change in Debian policy? WAS: Re: annoying screensaver

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:47:07AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Actually, it was pointed more to the way things are getting covered up > as dists move towards the black box approach. Not that easier isn't > better in many/most cases, but it strikes me that an easy to follow > trail back to t

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