Mike McCarty wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
am trying to decide which Linux to install.
1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure
OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications. Oh yes, she sa
Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. I have apache
configured with a default virtual host, and even when I get Wordpress to
install, the Debian docs that come with it seem insufficient for getting
it up and running in my environment.
Does anyone know of a
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior:
>> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
Felix (I know, I'm replying to Mike but attribution is corerct here), this
page is simply outdated. It references 822 and was wri
I have a database
name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do this in several step
using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step using perl. This is what I
have in sed and what does not work in perl.
SED
#!/bin/bash
echo -n "Please
enter the name of the new database: "
> Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Wordpress on a Debian 3.1 system. I have apache
>> configured with a default virtual host, and even when I get Wordpress to
>> install, the Debian docs that come with it seem insufficient for getting
>> it up and running in my environment.
>>
>> Does
Steve Lamb wrote:
> business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose.
This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa!
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On 12/19/05, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
> > business. The [b]sender[/b] gets to choose.
>
> This is the result of too much time posting to phpbb forums. Mia culpa!
Could be worse. You could have written:
The
.B sender
gets to choose.
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On 12/19/05, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do
> this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step
> using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl.
[...]
> PERL (single lin
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
> I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do
> this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step
> using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl.
>
> SED
> #!/
Peter Nuttall wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:52:07AM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
You might want to send this report to debian-boot@lists.debian.org (I
think) so they can fix the problems mentioned above
OK. But also do as here:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.h
On 12/19/05, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kent West wrote:> Chinook wrote:am trying to decide which Linux to install.1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication. I'm sure>>OpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
>>and Firefox for co
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Brad Sims wrote:
> >I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the
> >exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/...
> >
> >Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this?
> >
> >Also can you think of anything
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:38:23PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
} I have a database name I want to replace inside of an xml file. I can do
} this in several step using sed, but I would like to do it in a single step
} using perl. This is what I have in sed and what does not work in perl.
}
} SED
} #!/
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19-12-2005 13:46]:
>
>
> >
> >Am I missing some configuration or boot parameter?
> >Any hint?
>
> Currently 2.6.14 and yaird are broken. see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343042
>
> there are a number of solutions, but IMO the
Hi,
Sorry to send the patch here because my ISP does not allow me to send email to
bug report.
This patch is similar to bug #323602, but fix another problem. It may solved
the problem raised at the end of message of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323602
which is:
,-
| T
Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes wrote:
I've already solved this problem with yaird. I've been receiving those
messages after booting the new kernel.
sorry, my bad. i didn't read closely enough
A
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Mike McCarty wrote:
Chinook wrote:
...
Hmm, just looked this over. I hope it isn't overkill/too long/
confusing. I might point out that as far as *using* Linux, there's
very little difference between distros. It's in *system admin*
where they differ from each other, mostly. ...
Not at all -
Sorry Mike - I left an "l" off the end of the link
I wrote the article:
http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.html
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I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation
when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting
colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if
this is really a bug or just a misconfiguration on my end?
To do the test, create two files both named "udev.rules"
(per
On Monday 19 December 2005 11:44 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
> It looks like you also don't have /backup on there. What
> else did you not mention that you don't put on your backups?
Nothing else /backup is a mountpoint for /dev/sda1
> "Can I, starting with a bare-metal machine, do a standard
> ins
Hello,
I attempted to install pygtk via "apt-get install python2.3-gtk2".
However, when i type:
import pygtk
pygtk.require("2.0")
import gtk
It gives me:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
33, in ?
Chinook wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Chinook wrote:
...
[snippy]
I wrote the article:
http://homepage.mac.com/lee_cullens/Bx3.htm
Hmm, browser couldn't find that URL...
[more snippy]
One possibility (and one I recommend, actually) is to get LiveCDs and
run off them for a while. That
Heimdall Midgard wrote:
I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation
when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting
colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if
this is really a bug or just a misconfiguration on my end?
To do the test, create two files bo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:40:35AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> One thing to look for on these machines: if you replace the MBR
> with GRUB or LILO or the like, they like to go into "system recovery
> mode" where they undo the changes you made. With these machines
> it is better (IMO) to let the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does anyone on
the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114
controller? What have you encountered?
Bad question. You need to k
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug
> filed against it for failing to do so.
How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly
and newer clients (of
Hi Clive and everybody else that replied.
On Dec 19 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:
> I use it and it seems to work well :)
Nice that you have vrms installed. :-)
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you're thinking in terms of
> development; ie. what more one would want it to do unless you're
> think
> You need to copy the .disk directory too.
Cool, I missed that one, it fixed my problem :)
Thanks a lot..
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:36:10 -0800
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some software does honor list-post and those that don't often have a bug
filed against it for failing to do so.
How comes traditional *nix mailers can handle non-munging AND munging correctly
On Friday 16 December 2005 03:06, Jacob S wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:55:58 +0200
>
> roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<...>
> > +OK [SYS/TEMP] Due to a temporary system problem, this mailbox will
>
<...>
> It looks like there's not anything yo
On 2005-12-18, Felix Miata penned:
>
> That's only one admin's opinion. I find the opposite superior:
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
>
> This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private
> answers list. You can't have a public discussion when people make
> th
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:56:15 -0800 (PST)
"Caleb Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Perhaps because my subject was not specific enough, I did not get a
> response. I really need to get this computer up and usable but for now, I
> cannot get over this dependency issue. I dont even w
2005/12/20, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> > I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim installation
> > when editing generic config files. The syntax highlighting
> > colors appear wrong. Could somebody do a test to confirm if
> > this is really a bug or just a mi
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:49:17PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi Clive and everybody else that replied.
>
> On Dec 19 2005, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > I use it and it seems to work well :)
>
> Nice that you have vrms installed. :-)
>
> > I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you're thinking in term
Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I
AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever
that means), but rat
On 12/19/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I can't find someway to get around this problem I'll have to abandon Gmail
> and pay for mail. I don't even know where to start with that, most have too
> small a capacity.
>
> Please somebody. Suggestions. :-(
Could this be your problem?
https://
Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
Oh, one piece of advice I forgot to mention:
Never take the advice of people who use spellings like
"kewel", "n33t", and abbreviate "you" to "u", etc.
Could you please explain me why? Just to know
And what does kewel means? :-P
am I very ignorant
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 21:27 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Wonderful test. It says I should be using Debian :-)
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd
>player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo
>component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a
>pretty big hard drive (30 m
Cian Phillips wrote:
> I'm a complete newbie at this so bear with me. I have recently upgraded
> my machine to testing/unstable and have lost sound. I have played with
> alsaconf but it reports "No supported PnP or PCI card found.". As you
> can see from lspci below I have an onboard ali card a
When logrotate rotates the apache logs
(/var/chroot/apache/var/log/apache/), it appears to not be able to
stop/start apache, therefore there is no further logging performed until
I manually stop then start apache (/etc/init.d/apache stop then
/etc/init.d/apache start)
Any suggestions as to what I
Gabriel wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I
AM NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever
that
Hi,
I'm using Etch with x.org, xdm, and fluxbox. I've discovered that I
can't open an X windows after I log into root using su, as when I try to
open emacs to edit a config file. I have to use 'xhost local:' first.
Not a big deal, but I have to do this everytime I log in. Is there a way
to ma
I have an old laptop I wanted to try to get to work.
It came with Win 98, which I removed and replaced with
XP. However, the machine has these specs:
PMMX 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 gig HDD
and the HDD was too small to install SP2 onto the
machine. As a result, I am convinced that Linux is the
way to
Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Felix Miata wrote:
> >> This is a public discussion list, not a public questions/private answers
> >> list. You can't have a public discussion when people make their replies
> >> private.
> And it is up to the individual on how they wish to reply. Quite frankly
> if s
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get source
> will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source
> = to get other versions.
>
> From the apt-get manpage
>
>source source causes a
I'm setting up local partial mirrors. Debmirror keeps telling me that
the repository can't be confirmed. Evidently I need something called
apt-key to 'install' these key files.
But where is apt-key?
Google finds many hits on apt-key, all telling me that all I have to do
is... It's not in Martin
Gabriel wrote:
> Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer
> from gnome?...
> I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any.
>
>
> Any idea?
>
I don't use gnome, but here's one way. If /etc/sudoers includes:
username ALL=NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt
and
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:29:25 -0800 (PST)
J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old laptop I wanted to try to get to work.
> It came with Win 98, which I removed and replaced with
> XP. However, the machine has these specs:
>
> PMMX 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 gig HDD
>
> and the HDD was too
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 20:40 -0500, Roby wrote:
> Gabriel wrote:
>
> > Why I don't need to supply the root password to shutdown the computer
> > from gnome?...
> > I've been searching for any option related but didn't find any.
> >
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> I don't use gnome, but here's one way.
Hi, Andrew.
First of all, thank you very much for giving vrms a try.
On Dec 20 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> If you purge a package, could it please disappear from the vrms
> listing?
Yes, this is already fixed in current vrms. I think that you may have an
old version of it installed in your
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:43:41 -0700
Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up local partial mirrors. Debmirror keeps telling me that
> the repository can't be confirmed. Evidently I need something called
> apt-key to 'install' these key files.
>
> But where is apt-key?
>
> Google
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:39:35AM -0500, Brenden Eng wrote:
> I just bought a Thinkpad T43p (2668-H8U) and I am currently running Debian
> Unstable on it.
> Everything works, bar the odd SATA->PATA converter that IBM stuck on. I am
> happy with it.
>
> There are plenty of resources for thinkpad
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote:
> I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano
> and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English?
> Thanks.
If you use an editor much, it's in your best interest to learn Vim. I still
ki
Heimdall Midgard wrote:
Note how addition of a pair of parentheses to Line 3 of the
second file "causes" Line 4 to be displayed in the right
"comment" color.
I can reproduce the behavior you were talking both in vim and gvim. But
I do not know anything about udev syntax, so cannot comment
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 06:48:51PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> I have something like
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/clamscan o ro
> clamdscan .. /mnt/clamscan/a-directory
> umount /mnt/clamscan
>
> The mount point is not the fstab mount point and the disk is not mounted to
> its normal mount poin
2005/12/20, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2005/12/20, Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Heimdall Midgard wrote:
> > > I just noticed something weird with my (G)Vim
> > > installation when editing generic config files. The
> > > syntax highlighting colors appear wrong. Could
> > > somebo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:17:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical
> backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another
> machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the
> fi
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:24:37PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote:
> I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the
> exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/...
>
> Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this?
Yes. Like others said, though, you really have to try it to be c
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:56:15AM -0800, Caleb Walker wrote:
> Hello all,
> Perhaps because my subject was not specific enough, I did not get a
> response. I really need to get this computer up and usable but for now, I
> cannot get over this dependency issue. I dont even want openoffice
> insta
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can boot from floppies and do a net-install, no
> CD at all. Of course you can also use the CD if you
> want.
>
> Debian should run just fine in 2 gig, just select
> packages carefully (don't use the Desktop task, do
> the manual package select
Ed Paris wrote:
Hi There,
I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and
nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in
English? Thanks.
Take care,
Ed
zless
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Recently, in Kmail, I had to do a "Check What The Server Supports"
under the POP account settings, because there had been a change with
Gmail. The scan set the changes and it's worked perfectly since. Are
you using Kmail, or can your software do the same sort of scan?
Curt-
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Mike McCarty wrote:
> Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>
Chinook wrote:
> I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that
> I'm expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to
> install. I AM NO
Hi Everyone,
I'm struggling getting the NFS server to work
properly. I've tried it with the nfs-kernel-server
package as well as the nfs-user-server package. I'm
using the Sarge release.
I'm trying to boot an embedded linux box from NFS.
However, the embedded box reports 'read-only file
system
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have mypreferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.--Kent
It says that because Debian doesn't have a preference or default.
It would claim that Debian doesn't have Gnome either.
Ke
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
> preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
> right this moment.) Oh well.
I didn't like the fact that there wasn't a 'Neither' or 'Other
Felix Miata wrote:
> The default (passive) choice to a public discussion list should always
> be to the list, requiring no more thought than choosing to reply at all.
> Choosing not to reply to the group should require an active choice, not
> a passive choice. Private replies add nothing to the dis
On 12/19/05, fabrizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi everybody.
> At the moment i'm using smbmount and smbfs utilities, but i'm not satisfied
> with this tool, cause using gnome with nautilus and browsing dirs or shares
> is really slow and not efficient.
> so i'm looking at fusefs + smbfs. is s
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:29, Michael Marsh wrote:
> Could this be your problem?
> https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10289&topic=1511
No, thats not my problem. :-(
> I've had no problems with Gmail POP.
Could you, please, tell me which mailer your using, your settings and
On 12/19/05, roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:29, Michael Marsh wrote:
> > I've had no problems with Gmail POP.
> Could you, please, tell me which mailer your using, your settings and your
> Gmail POP setting. I might be missing something. I hope I'm missing
> somet
--- J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I downloaded 4 floppy images and wrote them. The
> boot
> process was going just fine until I came to the net
> detect part. I tried to detect with DHCP, which
> normally works without a hitch. This time, it said
> the
> autoconfig failed. I tried a manu
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 05:06, Curt Howland wrote:
> Recently, in Kmail, I had to do a "Check What The Server Supports"
> under the POP account settings, because there had been a change with
> Gmail. The scan set the changes and it's worked perfectly since. Are
> you using Kmail, or can your so
I am running a Debian 'testing' with kernel 2.6.8.
I downloaded quicktime4linux2.1 and libmpeg3 and extracted the files.
Following instructions in the README file, I ran 'make' in the libmpeg3
dir. No problem. But when I next ran 'make' in the quicktime4linux dir,
I encountered in the beginning a
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Installing from a usb-stick using either of the 2 way on this link:
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I have the following problem:
Boots is OK, I can choose language, keyboard, but then the
netinst.iso which is on the stick is not founded by the installer.
I tried on 2 diff
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 04:12 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> I have apt-key already installed:
> #apt-key
> Usage: apt-key [command] [arguments]
Thanks. You must be running testing or sid. I found it...
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:41, Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:38:57PM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> > If you have deb-src lines pointing at stable and unstable apt-get
> > source will get the latest (ie, unstable) version. Use apt-get source
> > = to get other versions.
> >
> > From
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:45:37PM -0500, Chinook wrote:
> I have an X86 based PC (with a ATI AIW 8500 card) on my LAN that I'm
> expunging XP from and am trying to decide which Linux to install. I AM
> NOT :-) looking for a heated debate of which is best (whatever that
> means), but rather whi
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