Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Mauro Condarelli
> == > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:20:29 -0500 > From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid) > == > > But you said the shutdown was/is because of a BIOS thermal event.

Re: installing D-Link DWL-650 (16-bit) on sid w/ 2.6.12 kernel

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Scott
Aleksandar Ristovski wrote: Paul hello, after putting the lines you suggested in the appropriate files it still doesn't work. When I try with "ifup" and get this: # ifup eth1 Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; No such device. Error for wireless request

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > >There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). > > >I made a fresh install of debian on a spare p

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Scott
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: There seems to be a bug in the current version of wireless-tools (?). I made a fresh install of

Re: Wireless access suddenly broken

2005-10-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Oct 2005, Paul Scott wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >On 29 Oct 2005, David Goodenough wrote: > > > > > >>On Saturday 29 October 2005 18:48, Paul Scott wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Anthony Campbell wrote: > >>> > >>> > On 28 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > There see

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:51:38PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > >Disclaimer: The intended dvds "are not" commercial ones. > > > There are a few options: 'tovid' (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/), its a > nice script for converting video to dvd, that started as a thread at >

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Wackojacko
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:51:38PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Disclaimer: The intended dvds "are not" commercial ones. There are a few options: 'tovid' (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/), its a nice script for converting video to dvd, that star

Re: deny unwanted threads

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 30-okt-2005, at 5:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good time. There are so many threads in this list , and it is great of course , but some of them are not interesting for me . So , i'm just in writing some scripts for mailfilter and mutt to delete them on pop3-server before downloading

Re: Re: maildrop and mysql, temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x0B

2005-10-30 Thread Babar Shafiq
Hi, SIGSEGV on most systems. Software error, hardware error Same problem I faced last night so the fix is, check the maildropmysql.config it must be at correct location you set in ./configure command when installing maildrop. /etc/maildropmysql.config OR /usr/local/courier/etc/maildropmysql.con

Re: Silicom Ethernet adapter ?

2005-10-30 Thread Edwin Cronje
Hi there, I just bought a seconhand laptop and it have a Silicom Ethernet pcmcia card in, I can find drivers for it and would like to know if maby you know what it does exactly. Thanks Edwin cronje got your thread on the internet -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RE: Adding new hardware after installation

2005-10-30 Thread Li Weichen
Or just type following (if you have the etherconf package installed), #dpkg-reconfigure etherconf > -Original Message- > From: Bryan Donlan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:50 AM > To: Gary > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Adding new hardware after inst

Re: Two tuxes, an xp and a DNS problem

2005-10-30 Thread John Purser
On 10/30/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Purser said... > > On 10/29/05, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have three machines in a small network: one XP, two Linux - let's call > > > them xp, tux1 and tux2. xp connects to the Internet via a dial-up modem. > > > Internet Connection

Re: set custom font in Emacs

2005-10-30 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:41:45PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > > > Emacs only cares about core fonts. Your installation of Vera Sans Mono > isn't one. Therefore, Emacs can't see it. > > Solution... since even a GTK2 emacs doesn't use anything

Re: Firefox crashes [was Re: Desktop Crashes]

2005-10-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/29/2005 10:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My firefox crashes are not random. They happen consistently at the same > places when I do the same things. > > e.g. > I can visit the ebay home page but as soon as I do a search it crashes > In my webmail when I try to upload an attachment with t

Re: Compromise and updates

2005-10-30 Thread harry_johnson
I am trying to see if any uypdates are out there for my card i have a Radeon 9200 can you help me out"

Re: Compromise and updates

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:43:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to see if any uypdates are out there for my card i have a Radeon > 9200 can you help me out" The best place to go for that information is www.ati.com. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~robe

mouse button bounce

2005-10-30 Thread Neil Dugan
I have a problem with a mouse button, sometimes when activated it bounces and that acts like I hit the button twice. Is there a way I can tell gnome to ignore the second button click if it happens within a very small time frame? That is to say the mouse button clicks need to be more that 0.1

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:51:38PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Disclaimer: The intended dvds "are not" commercial ones. There are a few options: 'tovid' (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/), its a nice script for converting video to dv

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:46:39PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > Dvrequant can shrink vobs, and make a movie fit into smaller media. It > uses the tcrequant tool from transcode to shrink mpeg2 streams. > https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvrequant According to the man pages of dvrequant, it handles

Soundcard: via82xx and alsa

2005-10-30 Thread micobros
  Hello all,   I've been trying to install this soundcard for a couple days now. Its an Onboard VIA82xx chip. I tryed it on different kernels (2.6.0, 2.6.10 and 2.6.14) with this configuration:   # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m   # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND

Re: mouse button bounce

2005-10-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:17, Neil Dugan wrote: >I have a problem with a mouse button, sometimes when activated it >bounces and that acts like I hit the button twice. This can be a symptom of poor assembly in the mouse. I have seen in past years, mice which gave an apparent dbl-click because t

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-30 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
John O'Hagan wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel >sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and the >stock source from kernel.org. > >The reason I ask is that I'm always keen to get the latest kernel, >particularl

Best way to restrict users to "one" application

2005-10-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi! Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just a web browser. To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only login into a graphical desktop and there only can start a web browser (firefox)

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Bruno Buys
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:46:39PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Dvrequant can shrink vobs, and make a movie fit into smaller media. It uses the tcrequant tool from transcode to shrink mpeg2 streams. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvrequant According to the man

Re: Soundcard: via82xx and alsa

2005-10-30 Thread Bruno Buys
micobros wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to install this soundcard for a couple days now. Its an Onboard VIA82xx chip. I tryed it on different kernels (2.6.0, 2.6.10 and 2.6.14) with this configuration: # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

Re: how can have a animal in boot screen

2005-10-30 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:27:45AM +0800, biosedit wrote: > how can have a animal in boot screen > like freeBSD > but not a picture > is make with - - - - - - - (like this > > < Do you mean like this? > \ ^__^ \ (oo)\__

Re: what are different about the modules

2005-10-30 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:36:44AM +0800, biosedit wrote: > hi > what are different about the modulesalias char-major-13-32 mousedev > alias char-major-13-33 mousedev > alias char-major-13-34 mousedev > alias char-major-13-35 mousedev > alias char-major-13-63 mousedev > in /etc/modutils > and > wha

keep getting "GPG error" while doing update

2005-10-30 Thread H.S.
Hi, I have been getting this error since a week or two when I do apt-get update: Fetched 3652kB in 20s (180kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net testing/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is no

Re: OT: A very cute wallpaper, thought y'all would like it.

2005-10-30 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:44:43PM -0500, Ian wrote: > Hope y'all like this wallpaper. The penguins aren't mine, I did the > background, though. Enjoy. Would their be any point in having an SVG wallpaper? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

XV with Nvidia on Sid xorg

2005-10-30 Thread William Ballard
Does XV work on Nvidia with Sid's Xorg, using Nvidia's propitary drivers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Soundcard: via82xx and alsa

2005-10-30 Thread micobros
Just tryed with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-k7 which installed kernel 2.6.12-1-k7. I have the exact same results with alsa :( Any other ideas? Cheers, mico "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." (Oscar Wilde) > -Original Message- > From: Bruno Buys [ma

Re: XV with Nvidia on Sid xorg

2005-10-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Sunday 30 October 2005 11:20 am, William Ballard wrote: > Does XV work on Nvidia with Sid's Xorg, using Nvidia's propitary > drivers? Yes it does. As far as I know, there's no extra configuration required. -- I use digital signatures and encryption. My key is stored at pgp.mit.edu 0x8DB3BF09

Re: Firefox crashes [was Re: Desktop Crashes]

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ralph Katz wrote: On 10/29/2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Definitely hardware. Do you have another motherboard? That would be great so you can crosscheck. Mobos are not expensive BTW, I note you can get a refurbished Abit for $37. None of those packages you mention crash in Sarge. Not so fast

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mauro Condarelli wrote: == Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:20:29 -0500 From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid) == But you said the shutdown was/is because of a BIOS therm

Re: Best way to restrict users to "one" application

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi! > > Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to > effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just > a web browser. > > To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only l

Re: OT: A very cute wallpaper, thought y'all would like it.

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ian wrote: Hope y'all like this wallpaper. The penguins aren't mine, I did the background, though. Enjoy. http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/4610/seehearspeak10x68tw.jpg This one is better: http://img387.imageshack.us/my.php?image=silent1024x7687dy.jpg But thanks for the site! And the image

creating a custom service

2005-10-30 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, how can one create a custom service that is executed during the boot sequence? I guess the first step is create a script in /etc/init.d. But how is it then activated? -Hanspeter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: keep getting "GPG error" while doing update

2005-10-30 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, I have been getting this error since a week or two when I do apt-get update: Fetched 3652kB in 20s (180kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net testing/security-updates Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is

Re: Where did the AT go?

2005-10-30 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:45:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > after an update of several programs using aptitude, I can no longer type an > "@" from the keyboard (I have a German QWERTZ keyboard, 105-de). Normally, > to > get the "@" on this keyboard, you need to type ALT-GR

Re: creating a custom service

2005-10-30 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Hanspeter Roth wrote: >Hello, > >how can one create a custom service that is executed during the boot >sequence? >I guess the first step is create a script in /etc/init.d. But how is >it then activated? > >-Hanspeter > > > > Assuming your script is /etc/init.d/foo, you would make a symlink thus

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:38:13PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: > >According to the man pages of dvrequant, it handles only one title. In > >some cases, there are several titles (>=5) in one dvd, where each > >individually doesn't require shrinkage. > > > Indeed. Well, I never bother, cause the others

Re: keep getting "GPG error" while doing update NO_PUBKEY

2005-10-30 Thread James Vahn
"H.S." wrote: > I have tried: > apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg > apt-key add /usr/share/keyrings/debian-role-keys.gpg > but the warning doesn't go away. What other keys do I need to import? W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security-updates Release: The follo

Re: Soundcard: via82xx and alsa

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
micobros wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to install this soundcard for a couple days now. Its an Onboard VIA82xx chip. I tryed it on different kernels (2.6.0, 2.6.10 and 2.6.14) with this configuration: When i try to launch alsamixer: # alsamixer alsamixer: function snd_ctl_

Re: Can't get grip to normalize before encoding.

2005-10-30 Thread Adam Funk
On Sunday 30 October 2005 00:40, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Not knowing much about sound other than I listen to KUSC all the > time... Is this related perhaps to the note in the man page for > normalize: ... > Unfortunately, many MP3 players do not support v2.4 > tags (including xmms, as of

Re: keep getting "GPG error" while doing update NO_PUBKEY

2005-10-30 Thread H.S.
James Vahn wrote: > "H.S." wrote: > >>I have tried: >>apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg >>apt-key add /usr/share/keyrings/debian-role-keys.gpg >>but the warning doesn't go away. What other keys do I need to import? > > >W: GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net etch/security

Re: mouse button bounce

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
This should be easy to fix. Under the Applications menu, pick Desktop Preferences, then Mouse, and adjust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

whats the deal with libid3-3.8.3c2 and grip and k3b

2005-10-30 Thread H.S.
For a few days now I have not been able to upgrade grip. There seems to be a missing library: libid3-3.8.3c2(?). Looks like k3b depends on the older version of this library and grip on the newer. Here is what I get if I try to upgrade grip: ~# apt-get -s install grip Reading package lists... Done

[OT] thanks c++ gcc Qt!

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, There are *at least* 2 areas that always get my admiration: the kernel (now running 2.6.14-rc1 doing great!) and c++. How anybody can get a compiler off the ground and make sense out of my scratchings and have it all come out as code is beyond me. But Sarge now has a c++ compiler that ve

OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do "cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is a disk image file of the original drive. Will the physical sector arrangment be preserved using

Re: creating a custom service

2005-10-30 Thread Hanspeter Roth
On Oct 30 at 14:07, Mitch Wiedemann spoke: > Assuming your script is /etc/init.d/foo, you would make a symlink thusly: > > ln -s /etc/init.d/foo /etc/rc2.d/S80foo > > What's happening is that the symlinks in /etc/rc2.d/ which start with > the letter "S" followed by a number (00 - 99) are all

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote: > I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. > > Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do > "cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is > a disk image file of the origina

Re: Can't net to router or beyond

2005-10-30 Thread Meni Shapiro
ok...i'm lost here... 2 more things though that i would like 2 c, if u don't mind... $mii-tool $ifconfig MeniOn 10/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Meni Shapiro > On 10/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> > I'm on unfamiliar territory here; I ran "route -v" and got > > the

Re: creating a custom service

2005-10-30 Thread John Hasler
Hanspeter Roth writes: > So one has to do it by hand. Isn't there a convenience tool like > `chkconfig'? apt-get install sysvconfig or man update-rc.d -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable live CD distro, and then do this: dd if=/dev/hdd of=/dev/hda That

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be > >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place > >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:15:56PM -0500, Marty wrote: I plan to mirror then replace a hard drive, using an identical model drive. Instead of a device-device copy e.g. "cp /dev/hda /dev/hdb" I hope to do "cp image" followed by cp image " where "image" is a disk image

Re: Best way to restrict users to "one" application

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:57:18PM +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi! > > Under Windows NT it using the policy editor it was very easy to > effectively restrict users to certain applications, for instance just > a web browser. > > To be more concrete: I would like to have a user which can only l

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Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Here are two pointers for kernel building newbies: > > 1. Be sure that the code for your IDE chipset (if you're using IDE) is > built in to the kernel, rather than being built as a module. - ditto for sata chipset for sata disks > 2. Be sur

Re: OT: Mirroring via disk image file

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:08:08PM -0500, Marty wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >If the drives are *exactly* identical, you can move your old drive to be > >the slave on the secondary ide channel, which makes it hdd. Then place > >the new drive on hda. Boot Knoppix, or another suitable li

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2005-10-30 Thread Jacob Lahr
debian-user@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hotplug --> prevent modules from being load.

2005-10-30 Thread Jacob Lahr
which facility of hotplug has to be desactivated in order to prevent the different chipset modules from loading? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: A very cute wallpaper, thought y'all would like it.

2005-10-30 Thread Ian
What line? The credit or the "Speak no evil"? I have the SVG of the penguins, but not of the wallpaper itself. Would it be possible to use The GIMP to convert it into an SVG? If so, I'll be sure  to give it to you. If you want the penguins get them here: http://uploadhut.com/view.php/382244.svg O

Re: OT: A very cute wallpaper, thought y'all would like it.

2005-10-30 Thread Ian
Update, sorry, found a JPG to SVG converter. The image isn't amazing quality when blown up, but it works. http://uploadhut.com/view.php/382258.svgOn 10/30/05, Ian < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:What line? The credit or the "Speak no evil"? I have the SVG of the penguins, but not of the wallpaper itsel

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Mauro Condarelli
> == > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:19:48 -0600 > From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid) > == > > Mauro Condarelli wrote: > >>== > >>Date: S

GNOME polling CUPS every 5 seconds and flooding CUPS access log

2005-10-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
sebyte wrote: >> I'm running a 2 week old installation of Debian Etch on an i686 platform >> and I've just noticed that my /var/log/cups/access_log is _huge_ (despite >> daily rotation) because the following two lines are being written every >> 5 secondss: >> >> localhost - - [30/Oct/2005:00:01:00

What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-30 Thread Aaron Stromas
Hi, I had to re-install my machine using stable distribution. This is my server running Exim, Cyrus, Apache etc. It seems that when I selected a bundle of packages at the installation, it had installed some kind of the firewall, or did some configuration I can't figure out. Namely, I can telnet to

Tor, Privoxy and GMail

2005-10-30 Thread Heimdall Midgard
I'm having problems connecting to GMail using the combination of Tor and Privoxy and a 56K dialup connection. Every so often I would also get an alert from my browser that GMail could not be found. The only change I did to the default Debian settings for Tor and Privoxy is the one mentioned in the

desktop icons in gnome

2005-10-30 Thread Ed Kademan
I would like to get rid of the trash, computer, and home icons on my gnome desktop. I tried gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible false gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible false gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /apps/nautilus/d

Re: PID column selection in 'top' scrambles display

2005-10-30 Thread Bill Marcum
["Followup-To:" header set to gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.] On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:54:51 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm having problems with the later (post-Sarge) procps package and > specifically the top binary. If I select to sort the output by PID > (the le

Re: What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-30 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Aaron Stromas wrote: >Hi, > >I had to re-install my machine using stable distribution. This is my >server running Exim, Cyrus, Apache etc. It seems that when I selected >a bundle of packages at the installation, it had installed some kind >of the firewall, or did some configuration I can't figure

find: files *created* before a specified time ???

2005-10-30 Thread helices
I need to automate the deletion of files in a specified directory that were created X number of days ago, or more. Usually, I use `find' and -mtime; but, I do not believe that any combination of atime, ctime nor mtime get me what I need. Am I missing something here? What do you think? -- Best

Re: find: files *created* before a specified time ???

2005-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 19:54 -0600, helices wrote: > I need to automate the deletion of files in a specified directory that > were created X number of days ago, or more. > > Usually, I use `find' and -mtime; but, I do not believe that any > combination of atime, ctime nor mtime get me what I need.

Re: What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Aaron Stromas wrote: > I can telnet to SMTP post locally (telnet 127.0.0.1 smtp) that should will always work ... > "connection refused" when I try to telnet from a box on the same > subnet. on the target box .. turn on telnet in /etc/inetd.conf and consider your machines

Re: find: files *created* before a specified time ???

2005-10-30 Thread John Hasler
helices writes: > I need to automate the deletion of files in a specified directory that > were created X number of days ago, or more. There is, of course, no way to determine when a file was created as distinguished from when it was last modified. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

mkisofs can't handle files > 2GB?

2005-10-30 Thread Bruno Buys
I run through this, while trying to burn a 4.2 GB file to a dvd media. K3b log has this line, which seems to be the culprit: /usr/bin/mkisofs: Value too large for defined data type. File /backup/hda2/movie-640x480-1800kbps-pal-m-30fps-deint_ci-00:12-24-10-2005.avi is too large - ignoring K3b

Boot loader option

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Panen
Hi I have installed sarge before but i forget now, is there an option to choose between installing grub to the MBR and to the /root ? I would not like to install to MBR.

ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-10-30 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi All! Yesterday I tried to make Emacs 21.4 use antialiased ttf fonts. So I installed xfstt (ttf font server) and many ttf fonts for different languages. After that the hardrive started working very very slow. So the whole system now is very slow, though there is enough memory, cpu usage is very

permission to access to ntfs partition

2005-10-30 Thread Wodzu Wodzowski
quote: = [Wodzu Wodzowski] > One is with mount command problem. I wrote in fstab file: > /dev/hda2 /mnt/winD ntfs ro,user,auto 0 0 This *is* the wrong list, as mentioned - but anyway. I don't know why you use both the "user" and "auto" flags. For one thing, "auto" is already the defaul

Re: glxinfo, xorg in sarge claiming to not support certain visuals

2005-10-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:17:11 -0200 Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, for the first time in my life, I installed tuxracer (well, Tuxracer as well as fgfs *used* to work before this last x.org upgrade. I should say that nearly anything complex (more complex than glxgears, that is)

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > I did *NOT* touch the standard debian defaults (that might be the problem, > but I don't know what I should modify and how to do it!) There aren't any. This is BIOS land, unless sensors -s broke it. First, as it is true for *ALL* Intel boards, for

Re: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

2005-10-30 Thread James Vahn
Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy} > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > ide0: reset: success > > What does that mean and how can I solve this problem? That's what you get when you buy things on sale... ;-) Try turning the write-cache off: hdparm -W0 /dev/hda --

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Turn off the BIOS thermal event shutdown function. Don't do that to a server, EVER. Fix the thermal limits instead, that's where the problem is. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness

Re: Shutdown due to thermal event (sid)

2005-10-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Mauro Condarelli wrote: > The motherboard is an intel D865GBF. You have an excellent board with excellent support, I suggest you take advantage of it. Go to Intel's website, search for D865GBF, download the BIOS updates and specification updates (make TRIPLE sure to read thes

Re: What blocks access to my host?

2005-10-30 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 08:10:25PM -0500, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Is there a telnet *daemon* running on the computer? telnet to localhost > and telnet from another computer on the subnet are two very different > things. And did you perhaps note from his example that he was using the telnet clien

Re: OT: A very cute wallpaper, thought y'all would like it.

2005-10-30 Thread salahuddin pasha
thanx but i have design some svg wallpaper in debian using inkscape but it can't render correctally (when in svg) (can't setup as wallpaper correctally) until i export it in to png or jpg (all designed in debian) the svg "http://salahuddin66.deviantart.com/" the debian version a

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-30 Thread John O'Hagan
Antony Gelberg wrote: >John O'Hagan wrote: >>Hi all, >> >> I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel >>sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and the >>stock source from kernel.org. >> [...] >> >> What do I need to be aware of if I u

Installing sarge with etch installer?

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Nilsson
Hi, I'm preparing to install a brand new server which will be running Debian stable (sarge) when everything is said and done. The motherboard is however a pretty new model using an Intel ICH7R south bridge for which I don't believe there is support in the standard sarge install CD based on some ot

apt-cache search XXX segfault under locale zh_CN

2005-10-30 Thread sea
Apt-cache search didn't work for me since I upgraded to "experimental".It always segmentation fault under local zh_CN.gbk: ... debian:~$ apt-cache search libgcc Segmentation fault debian:~$ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.gbk LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="PO

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-30 Thread John O'Hagan
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:53 am, you wrote: > John O'Hagan wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm looking for a brief summary of the differences between Debian kernel > >sources (such as those provided by the linux-source-2.6* packages), and > > the stock source from kernel.org. [...] > >What do I need to be aw

Re: Stock vs. Debian kernel sources

2005-10-30 Thread Michael Rozhavsky
Hi John, You need to do is remove the initrd line from the boot loaded configuration file. If you are using lilo, the line looks like initrd=/initrd.img John O'Hagan wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 02:53 am, you wrote: > >>John O'Hagan wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I'm looking for a brief summary of

s/w raid and bios renumbering HDs

2005-10-30 Thread Hari Bhaskaran
Hi, I am trying to setup a RAID-1 setup for the boot/root partition. I got the setup working, except what I see with some of my tests leave me less convinced that it is actually working. I am not using the raid-setup options in the debian installer, I am trying to add raid-1 to an existing system

Synaptic Problem

2005-10-30 Thread Paras pradhan
hi: I am using synaptic_0.57.5.1_i386.deb from debian testing repository. when i run synaptic from anyuser.. i get 'Segmentation Fault" Error. My question is what is the reason behind "Segmentation Fault". Does it have issues relating to gcc/g++ libraries?. i mean.. what happens if i run the prog