slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread roberto
hello i have kernel 2.6.8-2-386 currently installed and when i boot not being connected to the network the booting process stops for at least 3 or 4 minutes showing: . Starting MTA: . and then it goes on correctly, but it is very tedious to wait so much, how can i skip this test if the pc

dependency handling of mixed system using aptitude

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Purves
Hello, I am keeping a stable/testing mixed system using pinning with aptitude. My /etc/apt/preferences file looks like this: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 500 This works great installing all stable packages, but using testing

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-23 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: Katipo wrote: "I'm your shrink" Yeah, right! It's a truer quote than you know. http://imdb.com/title/tt0114558/quotes 1/2 way down. Put in context you'll understand. :P Just another Rock 'n' Roll Doctor, Stevie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Open ports in Debian

2005-11-23 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Rutger, > PORTSTATE SERVICE > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 80/tcp open http > 111/tcp open rpcbind > 113/tcp open auth > 903/tcp open iss-console-mgr Before starting nmap, use netstat. You can find out which program uses which port with netstat -tulpen for your in

Re: Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.

2005-11-23 Thread Niklas Palmqvist
On 22 Nov 2005 10:31:48 -0800, ponga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wish I had some idea for you... how long did you let the process run,just to see if it would finish? For 5 minutes or so. Anyway, we figured it out, we narrowed it down to one single package. Then we removed some (stale) files in /var

cannot copy files from cd after burn it o n disc using cdrecord

2005-11-23 Thread tshxiayu
Hello, I use cdrecord to burn some files on a cd under debian,but I cannot copy the files to my PC under windows,why? Thank you! Jeff 完 全 免 费 & 无 限 容 量 = 你 的 网 易 相 册

Re: slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread Eriberto
A solution: #apt-get install sendmail Regards, Eriberto roberto escreveu: . Starting MTA: . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread marzubus
The problem is that the MTA is trying to do reverse lookups on you hostname, configure local dns on the box, or put a /etc/hosts entry with your ip and full dns hostname in it. Kegan Holtzhausen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: LCD don't work after kernel recompilation

2005-11-23 Thread marzubus
did you use you existing kernel config from /boot/config-2.6.8-2 ? because you can just copy that into your 2.6.12-2 kernel tree as .config and then make menuconfig, save & exit and then compile as usual. This should give you an exact same config just with newer code compiled in. Kegan Holtzhaus

Re: remote login script

2005-11-23 Thread marzubus
What about ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] this enables x11 forwarding for session Kegan Holtzhausen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote login script

2005-11-23 Thread Yoram Hekma
Amish Rughoonundon wrote: Hi, I would like to do something only when i remote login to my debian box. I would like to run export DISPLAY=[client ip]:0.0 but i don't want linux to do this if I login on the box itself. Thanks Amish I take it you log in using ssh? If so, try ssh -X or ssh -Y.

network partially configured by modprobe

2005-11-23 Thread olive
Hello, I run Linux with a 2.6.13 kernel without udev but with hotplug (with almost evething compiled as modules). I have noticed that just modprobing e100 (the module corresponding to my network card) partially configure the network. To understand what happens I proceed the following exporiment:

Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Hi, On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as xyz on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It gives me the following message. Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this could mean that there is so

Software RAID 1 with SATA on Debian Sarge and IBM eSeries 206

2005-11-23 Thread TAC Forums
Hi, We have been trying to install Debian Sarge 3 on a IBM eSeries 206 server with 2 SATA drives, but failed to do so. We managed to setup the software RAID 1 as per the instructions on the link below. http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/ However, we noticed while installing the boot loade

Re: Using LaTeX (was: Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !)

2005-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:25:33AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > I flirted with LaTex briefly, a while ago, but didn't get very far. > Your advice prompts me to revisit it :) > > Regards > > Clive To install tetex 3.0 on Sarge add: deb http://people.debian.org/~frank/teTeX-3.0 sarge main t

Re: cannot copy files from cd after burn it on disc using cdrecord

2005-11-23 Thread olive
tshxiayu wrote: > Hello, > > I use cdrecord to burn some files on a cd under debian,but I cannot copy > the files to my PC under windows,why? > Thank you! > cdrecord is used to burn a raw image of the file on the CD. You must first create a iso filesystem with mkisofs. For example: mkisofs -J

Re: make an updates CD?

2005-11-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Steve McIntyre wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hodgins Family wrote: Have a look at "update-cd" in the debian-cd package. It's the script that I use to create the r0->rX CDs when we do point relea

Re: make an updates CD?

2005-11-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Steve McIntyre wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: Have a look at "update-cd" in the debian-cd package. It's the script that I use to create the r0->rX CDs when we do point releases. It should do almost exactly what you need... Sorry spoke too soon :-( Found it. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

X Server not working on Video Card

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Hi, I have two machines with the Intel D845 series motherboard. Both of them have a different number from the D845 series. In one when it asked me to select my video card I chose Trident, since D845 was not on the list, and X server works fine. In the other also I chose Trident, since it wa

from hotplug to udev and speedtouch modem: a report of problems

2005-11-23 Thread Filippo Rusconi
Hello Debianists, this mail is a rather detailed report of my attempts to have the green ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB modem running after I moved to the udev system some days ago (the bottom line is that I feel I'm not far from getting it to work, but I need your help): # apt-get install udev ... ins

Re: Using LaTeX (was: Re: Writing technical text - THANKS !)

2005-11-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/11/05 01:24), Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:25:33AM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I flirted with LaTex briefly, a while ago, but didn't get very far. > > Your advice prompts me to revisit it :) > > To install tetex 3.0 on Sarge add: > > deb http://people.debian.

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Libin Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as > xyz > on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It > gives > me the following message. > > > Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If yo

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Joseph Haig wrote: How did you change your username? I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc My first guess is that when you log in as abc it is looking for a home directory /home/abc and, not being able to find it, ends the session immediately. Gnome (or ma

Re: Package installation problems with apt-get and dpkg on a Sarge box.

2005-11-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-22 12:04:45, schrieb Niklas Palmqvist: > Hi there. > > Having a problem with a package installation, and I would appreciate some > pointers. > > Running Sarge on a HP pc, P4, 256 Mb ram, ide disc etc. Ihave a sytem AMD Sempron 2400 with 256 MB of memory and if I install something, it

rtc.ko query

2005-11-23 Thread Paras pradhan
hi; I am having a problem regarding rtc.ko. the warning message is as: -- modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting rtc (/lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/drivers/char/rtc.ko): No such device --- rtc.ko module is present but again i am getting this warning. is this rtc related to real time clock and loading of

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc Since I don't know what kind of gui it was, please send the output of: # ls -la /home/abc # cat /etc/passwd|grep abc # cat /etc/group -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: X flickering

2005-11-23 Thread jack
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jack wrote: > > I'm running testing (etch) on x86. About a week ago, possibly > > Wednesday 16/11 (sorry, I can't be more precise), after updating my > > packages, I've started having problems with "flickering" in X. The > > trouble is, I can't pinpoi

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
1. login as root Type the following in the terminal: 2. groupadd anygroup 3. useradd -g anygroup -d /home/anyuser anyuser 4. passwd anyuser # "anyuser123" 5. mkdir -p /home/anyuser 6. chown -R anyuser /home/anyuser 7. chgrp -R anygroup /home/anyuser 8. logout 9. login as anyuser Cheers, Yuriy

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Libin Varghese wrote: Hi, On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as xyz on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It gives me the following message. Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself this coul

Re: does module-assistant 0.10 work fine?

2005-11-23 Thread Roby
Xiaoyang Gu wrote: > hi, > After upgrade module-assistant to 0.10, i found that i can't use SELECT > item in its main dialog. That is after typing m-a, choose SELECT and > press enter, but nothing happened. There should be a list of available > modules which can be compiled. > I deupgrade module-a

Voice recognition

2005-11-23 Thread Juraj Fedel
Is there available some free software for voice recognition - speach-to-text process (oposite of text-to-speach for which there are festival, flite, ViaVoice ...)? Juraj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cups, Samba and the terror called Windows :)

2005-11-23 Thread Martijn Marsman
Hi all, When setting up cups and Samba to make an anonymous printserver for a lot of clients and 20 printers i noticed this works fine :D only 1 problem, when adding a printer to windows, it asks about the driver. in my samba config a pointed out a directory where the drivers are, but i dont

Re: Opening manual pages in Konqueror

2005-11-23 Thread Ken Heard
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:28:55AM +, Ken Heard wrote: When I tried to view a manual page on Konqueror by entering man: dpkg (there is such a manual page), I received the following message: KDE Man Viewer Error Try 'man:dpkg' instead of 'man: dpkg', so without

mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Does any one know the correct invocation of mplayer to play mp3 music file(s)? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dependency handling of mixed system using aptitude

2005-11-23 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:19:34 +0800 Chris Purves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am keeping a stable/testing mixed system using pinning with > aptitude. My /etc/apt/preferences file looks like this: > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 600 > > Package: * > Pin: relea

Re: Voice recognition

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> Is there available some free software for voice recognition - > speach-to-text process (oposite of text-to-speach for which > there are festival, flite, ViaVoice ...)? http://linux-sound.org/speech.html -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/23/2005 12:30 AM, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I've been using Exim since I started doing e-mail on my Debian box > many years ago. But I never was able to really get into its configs- > the docs are kind of hard to grok for me. And the exim4 configs > really make my brain hurt.

Re: mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread Oliver Lupton
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:35:46 -0500 (EST) Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any one know the correct invocation of mplayer > to play mp3 music file(s)? > > -ishwar > > Just `mplayer mymusic.mp3` works for me, make sure your mplayer was compiled with MP3 support (uses lame iirc).

Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
Hi, I have Debian etch and I want to install mplayer. I have already added the following to sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main But when I make a apt-get update, I get this errors: Err ftp://f

Re: mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> Just `mplayer mymusic.mp3` works for me, make sure your mplayer was compiled > with MP3 support (uses lame iirc). It uses mp3lib. Lame is an encoder. MEncoder uses libmp3lame to encode to mp3. -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-23 Thread Thorsten Rump
audio editor [ audacity ] audio player [ xmms, mp3blaster ] ripper [ dagrab ] pdf [ xpdf ] disc burner [ xcdroast, cdrecord ] e-mail client[ thunderbird, M2 ] file manager [ mc, emelfm ] image editor [ gimp ] image viewer [ GQview,imgSeek, browser] package manager [ synaptic ]

aptitude update problem

2005-11-23 Thread marc
Hi, When doing # aptitude update on my etch setup, I'm getting the following error: Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages [49.0kB] 99% [8 Packages gzip 0] [7 Packages 0] gzip: stdin: not in gzip format Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/contrib Packages Sub-process gzip re

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 11/23/05, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have Debian etch and I want to install mplayer. I have already added > the following to sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main > > But when I make a apt-get update, I get this errors: > > --

Re: Cups, Samba and the terror called Windows :)

2005-11-23 Thread Martijn Marsman
Whoops, the testparm ouput is wrong, heres a new one without errors.. /Centauri:/var/lib/samba/printers/test# testparm Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[drivers]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[print$]" Loaded services file OK. Server role:

Re: X Server not working on Video Card

2005-11-23 Thread Kent West
Libin Varghese wrote: > Hi, >I have two machines with the Intel D845 series motherboard. Both of > them have a different number from the D845 series. In one when it > asked me to select my video card I chose Trident, since D845 was not > on the list, and X server works fine. In the other also

HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system. I am trying to get it to work with lpr The name of the printer I am calling is the same name as its host name which is hp7efdfb, its local address is 200.0.0.117 I have it using port 9100 whic

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
> Hmm, I'm not sure, but would it be an authentication problem? I have > no problems with marillat's repository but of course I grabbed the gpg > key for it... I'm surprised to find that what used to be marillat's > web page doesn't have the gpg info: > http://debian.video.free.fr > However it ca

Problem with Speedtouch

2005-11-23 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Hi. I managed to install my speedtouch modem on my brand new Sarge Debian, and then I was able to connect to internet, so I connected to the security upgrades server. Everything went OK... but now I can no more connect :-( I installed the basic 2.4.x kernel for a k7 athlon processor. Can it be t

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:26:25PM +0530, Libin Varghese wrote: > Joseph Haig wrote: > > >How did you change your username? > > > I used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to > abc Could you tell us which program/GUI that was? Or at least, how you found it (which things did

Can't apt-get php4-gd and libphp-jpgraph

2005-11-23 Thread James Scott
I am trying to install an application (Maia) that needs GD and JPGraph on Sarge/Stable but I cannot get 'apt-get' to correctly install php4-gd or libphp-jpgraph. I can use either apt-get or aptitude to install these packages, and there doesn't seem to be any installation errors.  I then restart apa

usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I had a Wooody that became a Sarge and then bacame an Etch. The CUPS on it worked very well, I used to use the "printer" module. Now I see that the module is "usblp" and the problem is that when I send a job to the printer, it is told to be sent, no error message, but, but, but,... nothing is p

Re: Re: Intel 82845g Problem.

2005-11-23 Thread Leonardo Uzcudun
Very nice but i810 doesn’t work, so only chance is vesa (but at 640x480….very nice). Another solution? Leo ___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: slow starting MTA

2005-11-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 01:12 am, roberto wrote: > hello > i have kernel 2.6.8-2-386 currently installed and when i boot not > being connected to the network the booting process stops for at least > 3 or 4 minutes showing: > . > Starting MTA: > . > > and then it goes on correctly, but

SATA software RAID recovery problem

2005-11-23 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
Hello, I'm trying to add SATA software RAID-5 to a system, which boots an runs off an internal IDE HD (storage space provided by the RAID is intended for backups and archives). It's a Pentium4 2.4GHz Dell desktop, 1GB RAM. SATA adapter is Promise SATAII-150 TX4. Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.14-2, m

upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread Antoine Solomon
hello, Could anyone point me to information on upgrading from stable to testing.?  The reason I ask is because I have a nvidia graphics card and unable to load X.  -- Antoine W. Solomon Jr.

Re: upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:45:24PM -0500, Antoine Solomon wrote: > hello, > > Could anyone point me to information on upgrading from stable to testing.? > The reason I ask is because I have a nvidia graphics card and unable to load > X. Which card? Is it possible for you to grab just the updated

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-11-23 Thread Oliver Lupton
audio editor [ gnusound ] - rarely used audio player [ audacious ] ripper [ abcde ] pdf [ gpdf ] disc burner [ none ] e-mail client[ sylpheed-claws-gtk2 ] file manager [ xfce4-terminal ] image editor [ gimp ] image viewer [ display, mozilla-firefox ] package manager [ aptitude (cli mode) ] terminal

msql libs : what package?

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Fortin
Hi guys! I've this fatal error on a php page: "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: msql_connect() in /var/www/rendimenti/index.php on line 3" I'm on Debian Sarge: # dpkg -l|grep php ii php4 4.3.10-16 ii php4-cgi 4.3.10-16 ii php4-cli 4.3.10-16 ii php4-common4.3.

Re: upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> Could anyone point me to information on upgrading from stable to testing.? > The reason I ask is because I have a nvidia graphics card and unable to load > X. # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade BTW you don't need to upgrade the system to be able to use X. -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > What to try? I'm running "testing" now. When testing gets fixed, install hplip+hpijs+hplip-ppds, use one of the hplip PPDs to configure the printer in CUPS, and you will be set. But currently testing is broken, and you will not be able to inst

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Libin Varghese
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:26:25PM +0530, Libin Varghese wrote: Joseph Haig wrote: How did you change your username? used the gui, for adding users and groups, there i editted xyz to abc Could you tell us which program/GUI that was? Or at least, how you found it

Re: upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread Antoine Solomon
if i used the nvidia drivers from their website, would this conflict with deb pkg sys?  On 11/23/05, Rafal Czlonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could anyone point me to information on upgrading from stable to testing.?> The reason I ask is because I have a nvidia graphics card and unable to load>

Re: usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
> > What to try? I'm running "testing" now. > When testing gets fixed, [...] > But currently testing is broken, What changelog/whatever have I got to daily check to stay tuned of the state of Etch about that? -- A powerfull GroupWare, CMS, CRM, ECM: CPS (Open Source & GPL). Opengroupware, SPIP,

ssl connection problem

2005-11-23 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I am trying to connect to the ftp server using SSL running on linux from windows using cuteftp but although it logs in properly, cuteftp displays an error after some time. I installed ftpd-ssl in debian. Thanks for any info: 230 User axr0284 logged in. STATUS:> Login successful. COMMAND:>

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
... > But the problem has not been solved. I get the same error when I make > apt-get update. I really dont know what's happenning. > > Thanks, > Sergio I doubt it's marillat's repositories: FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ [DIRUP] Parent Directory

Re: usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > What to try? I'm running "testing" now. > > When testing gets fixed, [...] > > But currently testing is broken, > > What changelog/whatever have I got to daily check to stay tuned of the > state of Etch about that? None AFAIK. But apt-li

Re: upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:27:12PM -0500, Antoine Solomon wrote: > if i used the nvidia drivers from their website, would this conflict with > deb pkg sys? No, why should it? -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread Ishwar Rattan
And invocation of mplayer for audio-cds? -ishwar On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rafal Czlonka wrote: > > Just `mplayer mymusic.mp3` works for me, make sure your mplayer was > > compiled with MP3 support (uses lame iirc). > > It uses mp3lib. Lame is an encoder. MEncoder uses libmp3lame to encode > to mp3

Installation directory for modules

2005-11-23 Thread John Talbut
When I run the Makefile below it installs the module in : /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)/extra As far as I can find out, this is the expected behaviour from the kbuild Makefiles. However, modprobe looks for modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. How can I get the modules to install in this dire

Re: mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread steef
Ishwar Rattan wrote: Does any one know the correct invocation of mplayer to play mp3 music file(s)? -ishwar mplayer [-ao] [alsa or oss or ..] [-v] /file_with_music/*.mp3 good luck, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: mplayer and mp3s

2005-11-23 Thread steef
Ishwar Rattan wrote: And invocation of mplayer for audio-cds? -ishwar On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rafal Czlonka wrote: Just `mplayer mymusic.mp3` works for me, make sure your mplayer was compiled with MP3 support (uses lame iirc). It uses mp3lib. Lame is an encoder. MEncoder uses libmp

confusing processes

2005-11-23 Thread Amish Rughoonundon
Hi, I was wondering where all these processes /sbin/getty ... came from since I did not start them . Anybody could enlighten me. Thanks Amish ps g PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1346 tty1 Ss+0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 1347 tty2 Ss+0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 1348 tty3 Ss+

Re: upgrade from stable to testing

2005-11-23 Thread steef
Antoine Solomon wrote: if i used the nvidia drivers from their website, would this conflict with deb pkg sys? On 11/23/05, *Rafal Czlonka* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Could anyone point me to information on upgrading from stable to testing.? > The

Installing an SVN repository -- permissions, and general tactics?

2005-11-23 Thread Tom
Hey ho, With a couple fellow students, I have a small school project going, and we thought a repository might be a nice way of managing what little and slow progress we're making at this point. It'd be nice to be able to use the repo fully by the time it will be useful. For a while, I've consider

Re: confusing processes

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> Hi, > I was wondering where all these processes /sbin/getty ... came from since I > did not start them Do you want virtual terminals or not? ;-) -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:06 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > Hmm, I'm not sure, but would it be an authentication problem? I have > > no problems with marillat's repository but of course I grabbed the gpg > > key for it... I'm surprised to find that what used to be marillat's > > web page

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-23 Thread marc
Katipo said... > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >On (20/11/05 22:08), Katipo wrote: > > > > > >>Clive Menzies wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I suspect Intel is in no way unique in this respect; my own limited > >>>experience of large corporations has been similar. As in many other > >>>bureaucratic organi

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
005/11/23, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I doubt it's marillat's repositories: > FTP Directory: > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ > [DIRUP] Parent Directory > [FILE] Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . Nov 23 00:22

Re: usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 16:48 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > > > > What to try? I'm running "testing" now. > > > When testing gets fixed, [...] > > > But currently testing is broken, > > What changelog/whatever have I got to daily ch

Re: confusing processes

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:28:06PM -0500, Amish Rughoonundon wrote: Hi, I was wondering where all these processes /sbin/getty ... came from since I did not start them . Anybody could enlighten me. Thanks Amish ps g PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1346 tty1 Ss+0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tt

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 11/23/05, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:06 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: ... > > I always used stable, testing, unstable rather than etch, sid etc. in my > apt sources list for marillat's repository (works fine here). Maybe he > doesn't have the symlin

Re: confusing processes

2005-11-23 Thread Björn Lindström
Amish Rughoonundon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering where all these processes /sbin/getty ... came from since I > did not start them > . Anybody could enlighten me. Thanks > Amish > ps g > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 1346 tty1 Ss+0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > 1347 tty

spampd problems

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I set up spam filtering a few months ago with spamassassin and spampd. Everython has been going smoothly until a few days ago. Now I preiodically receive this error: spampd[7181]: WARNING!! Error in process_request eval block: /usr/sbin/spampd: write error: Connection reset by peer at /usr/sbin/s

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/11/23, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And I can see the Packages file with no problems (even without the gpg > key, just plain firefox)... I guess you should try apt-get clean, and > if that doesn't work, maybe there's something corrupted... If apt-get > clean doesn't help

Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
I think this is the first time I have gotten segmentation faults using Debian stable, on stable hardware. I got them while, or after, reading several 1.44M floppy disks, mounted using mount or fdmount. Before the segfaults, I may have lost track of what I was doing and tried to mount a floppy mo

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:30:52PM -0500, Marty wrote: > I think this is the first time I have gotten segmentation faults using > Debian stable, on stable hardware. I got them while, or after, reading > several > 1.44M floppy disks, mounted using mount or fdmount. > > Before the segfaults, I may

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Rafal Czlonka
> I cant download the Packages.gz. Firefox says: "550 Can't change > directory to /debian-marillat/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:Not > a directory" > > And also when I try to download it with wget !! Strange, it works for me. -- Rafal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/11/23, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I cant download the Packages.gz. Firefox says: "550 Can't change > directory to /debian-marillat/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:Not > a directory" > > And also when I try to download it with wget !! Well, I think I have some problem

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: It sounds like you may have a bad memory module. Go grab a Knoppix CD or DVD and boot it with the memtest or memtest86 command. You can check the cheat codes with F2 or F3 to see which it is exactly. Then let the box run for at least 12 hours on all the tests. Depend

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 06:34 +0800, Katipo wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >On (20/11/05 22:08), Katipo wrote: > > > >>Clive Menzies wrote: [snip] > > What happens when the individual no longer exists? > > Because, in the future, existence without the organisation is going to > become increas

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:58:44PM -0500, Marty wrote: > > I suspected that too, so I ran my own stress tests overnight without > discovering a hardware problem. My tests have always found memory problems > in the past, although sometimes they require a longer testing period. > In addition, this

Problems with IP address change

2005-11-23 Thread Grant Thomas
Hello all, and thanks for any help in advance. The problem I am having today is dealing with changing the external IP address of a router / firewall. To change the IP address, I edited the /etc/network/interfaces file, and changed the address from xx.xx.97.99 to xx.xx.97.100 Then I ran the follow

snmp: operationally down

2005-11-23 Thread Grant Thomas
Hello all and thanks for the help. I am using MRTG to monitor and archive bandwidth usage on my router's ethernet ports. However, I have run into a problem with eth0 reporting as down. when I do the following command: snmpwalk -v 2c -c community localhost interface the following values are retur

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Following up, after some research I found this c.o.l.m. thread may describe the same problem: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/browse_frm/thread/826d6ad5a33fc7a7/460a72cb19108f31?tvc=1&q=2005+debian+segfault+OR+segfaults+OR+%22segmentation+fault%22+wine+OR+fdmount+OR+mount&hl=en#

Fileserver performance

2005-11-23 Thread Cliff Flood
Hi all, I just got a new Dell[0] workstation yesterday and have Debian Testing running on it. What I intend using this machine for is a file server (an iTunes share using a DAAPd, store time-shifted TV etc.), to replace an ancient PC running OpenBSD 3.5. I'm moving the large discs from this m

Re: Fileserver performance

2005-11-23 Thread Marty
Cliff Flood wrote: Hi all, I just got a new Dell[0] workstation yesterday and have Debian Testing running on it. What I intend using this machine for is a file server (an iTunes share using a DAAPd, store time-shifted TV etc.), to replace an ancient PC running OpenBSD 3.5. I'm moving the larg

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:35, marc wrote: >Katipo said... > >> Clive Menzies wrote: >> >On (20/11/05 22:08), Katipo wrote: >> >>Clive Menzies wrote: >> >>>I suspect Intel is in no way unique in this respect; my own >> >>> limited experience of large corporations has been similar. As in >> >

Re: grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-23 Thread Tony Godshall
... > > So my question is... Can you tell me or point me toward where I > > would put my "echo to the penalty box" in the Exim4 configs? > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Tony > > Just a guess: Use fail2ban, point it to exim4/mainlog, set > /etc/fail2ban.conf to trigger 'Unrouteable' to ban the of

(solved) usb HP printer etch usblp

2005-11-23 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 21:08 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Well... I am going to switch to sid. > Cant wait. Switched to Sid and then installed hplip. I just reconfigured the printer using hplip through the cups web interface then it was OK. I am going to write a tutorial for this and th

kernel upgrade questions

2005-11-23 Thread David Zelinsky
I'm trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 on my Thinkpad. I'm using custom built kernel rather than the stock debian kernel, since the stock kernel doesn't have some features that I want. My question is how to deal with all entries in /etc/modules.conf and /etc/modules that refer to module

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