LDAP schema for kaddressbook?

2006-01-22 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, recently I moved my contacts and addresses, which I manage with kaddressbook, from the local file-based backend to my ldap server. This works quite well in general, but unfortunately kaddressbook is unable to save some extended properties like the date of birth or instant messaging addresse

Re: xorg resolution problem in testing with

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:45:54 -0500 "J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got Debian testing running xserver-xorg on a system running the > Intel 82865 graphics controller. > > I can't get 1152x864 resolution even though it's set up in xorg.conf. > > KDE says I can have 1024

VPN server connection problem

2006-01-22 Thread Deephay
Hi all,   I want to connect to a VPN server using PPTP (ms chap), so the pptp-linux package was installed.   The connection was established succesfully (plog and ifconfig -a is ok), but I still cannot   browse the intranet pages, why? thx a lot!

Re: xorg resolution problem in testing with

2006-01-22 Thread Tim Connors
"J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:45:54 -0500: > Hi, > > I've got Debian testing running xserver-xorg on a system running the > Intel 82865 graphics controller. Dunno anything about this graphics card, but if this is a laptop, does the symptoms match up with anythin

Re: VPN server connection problem

2006-01-22 Thread srg
Do a tcpdump in your pptp interface and it will give you the cause of your problem. Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > I want to connect to a VPN server using PPTP (ms chap), so the > pptp-linux package was installed. > The connection was established succesfully (plog and ifconfig -a is > ok), but I stil

Re: VPN server connection problem

2006-01-22 Thread srg
try to add a route through your pptp interface. Deephay wrote: >seems that the system didn't use the VPN connection to transmit the packets.. >how to configure? > >- Original Message - >From: "swhe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:

Re: VPN server connection problem

2006-01-22 Thread Deephay
seems that the system didn't use the VPN connection to transmit the packets.. how to configure? - Original Message - From: "swhe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 8:40 PM Subject: Re: VPN server connection problem route ? On 1/22/06,

Exim4 & SSL support

2006-01-22 Thread Marco
I all, I have exim4-daemon-heavy (v. 4.50-8) installed on my Linux Box with Debian Sarge. Can exim4 work with SSL support (port 465)? Thanks Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

System administration question

2006-01-22 Thread Mitja Podreka
hello As I'm very new in system administrating and not an old Debian user either, I would like to ask you for some suggestions about system administration. I have six identical networked computers running Debian. All the computers are new and powerful enough to run all the necessary applicatio

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Adam James
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 02:49 -0500, Chinook wrote: > Chinook wrote: > The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early > on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't > actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the > hostname "deb

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2006-01-22 Thread Gardner Diego
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Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:49:17AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early > on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't > actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the > hostname "debian1." >

Re: xorg resolution problem in testing with

2006-01-22 Thread J. Van Lierde
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:45:54 -0500 "J. Van Lierde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got Debian testing running xserver-xorg on a system running the Intel 82865 graphics controller. I can't get 1152x864 resolution even though it's set up in xorg.conf. KDE says I

Re: Building Linux 2.6.16-rc1-git4

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:50:37AM +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > I cannot get 2.6.16-rc1[-git4] to build, so am seeking advice here. > > "make vmlinux" gives me this: > > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/ver

Re: ***SPAM_sub*** Re: 83 IBM P4 LAPTOPS FOR SALE OFF LEASE

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Johannes, Am 2006-01-12 18:07:41, schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > This email violates German (and as far as I know European) law, when it > passed the Atlantic. FullACK! > Sometimes it's a pity that German law standards are so different from > those in the US. Otherwise, I would petition

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread cmetzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I now have an AMD64 running the 2.6.12 kernel. > > But: Before going any further, I should mention again that this is *not* the best list for solving AMD64 issues. The debian-amd64 list is. There are AMD64 users here, to be sure; but there are more of them there, a

system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certain amount of effort,

Re: ATI video card confusion

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Rainer, Am 2006-01-03 15:28:18, schrieb rwetechnik: > hello, > > i saw you have the same graphic card i use. i need a driver for the ATI > R6DDR SG32M (Windows 2000) Linux and Windows are not compatibel, so you should go to the manufacturers Website and download your drivers there. > can

Gconf file /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconftree.xml

2006-01-22 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
File /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconftree.xml is about 30M large. I guess, that parsing this file will take some time and memory. It holds a lot of useless (for me) data, i.e. a lot of translated strings in locales, that i don't need. If i remove this strings, can I get some speedups during gnome sta

Re: Older platform compatiblity with Debian

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-03 09:42:02, schrieb Riley, James F (US SSA): > To Whom It May Concern: > > I am new to Linux in general and I am trying to find out the > compatibility of use some version of Debian Linux with and older > personal computer. The systems I am thinking of switching is a ten year > pc cur

Re: Hardware SATA Raid Controller

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Marco, Am 2006-01-04 12:14:17, schrieb Marco Neves: > Hi ppl, > I thought that a Raid5 with several smaller disks would solve > our problem, it depends > but that brings me other. I would need a raid controller, that do it > by > hardware, not that sh*t that (at least some) Prom

Re: Remote administartion via email

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-05 11:27:15, schrieb celejar: > I'm looking for an application to do remote administration of my > Debian box > via email. The app should read mail (presumably authenticating via pgp > / gpg > keys) and execute commands contained therein. The box connects to the + cryption > internet i

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Tyson, Am 2006-01-06 16:05:45, schrieb Tyson Varosyan: > * lsmod > outfile.txt > > Ok, how do I get my outfile to a floppy? 0) Because Windows is stupid: unix2dos -b outfile.txt which converts the CR/LF 1) Insert Floppy 2) mount /media/

Re: Relative Search

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-06 15:54:38, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > try this > > find -L -atime+34675 /chicago -iname hrussocszy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ >psql world world=# SELECT * FROM residents WHERE name ~* "hrussocszy", city ~* "chicago" LIMIT 10; Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator

Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Tyson, Am 2006-01-06 13:56:10, schrieb Tyson Varosyan: > I have ppp0 listed with a valid IP address (I can ping it from the > outside), Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol Inet addr:70.218.54.229 P-t-P > 66.174.26.4 Mask 255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICASE > MTU:0 Metric:

Re: Gconf file /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconftree.xml

2006-01-22 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
В Вск, 22/01/2006 в 19:35 +0300, Vitaliy Ischenko пишет: > File /var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconftree.xml is about 30M large. I guess, > that parsing this file will take some time and memory. It holds a lot of > useless (for me) data, i.e. a lot of translated strings in locales, that > i don't need. I

Re: Can't install packages

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-07 05:29:35, schrieb Bas Cancrinus: > Dear list, > > When I try to install an arbitrary package with apt-get or dselect I always > receive the following error: > > ... > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xyz.deb > (--unpa

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-07 19:31:36, schrieb Robert Thompson: > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? It depends on libgphoto2. Which Camera do you have? > Thanks > Eric G

Re: Digital Camera

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Hugo, Am 2006-01-08 12:41:17, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > I got a Cannon A410. > I gambled on its support, but gphoto2 supports the A400 model. > Won the bet: plug in the USB, issue gphot2 -P and download all the pics. > > But that gamble may not work. If you do not get it to work, please con

gs-esp, gs-gpl or gs-afpl?

2006-01-22 Thread H.S.
While reading another post here, I noticed gs-afpl was giving smaller PDF files of these gs-* options to a user. Which of the three is 'better'? Or, which of the three makes 'best' PS or PDF files? Any recommendations? I have these installed and am currently using gs-esp: ~# dpkg -l gs-* | grep

Pornview Segmentation fault

2006-01-22 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
~$ pornview xine_thread: init threads xine_thread: open display gtkxine: auto-detecting video driver... Segmentation fault I'm working on testing, before last update pornview works perfectly. How can I repair this situation? -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero http://www.openclose.it

Re: writing huge files on DVD

2006-01-22 Thread Joanne Yap
hey i have problem i hope u could help... do u know how to write files to dvd?? i don't want to burn it i just want to write it on but the computer won't let me.. it kept on saying please insert a cd to e: but i don't want to write on a cd i want to write on a dvd can u help? To help you stay sa

How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Sonixxfx
Hi,Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. Thanks for your help.Regards,Ben

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chinook
Almut Behrens wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:49:17AM -0500, Chinook wrote: The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the hostn

Re: Immortal processes [was: mc not loading and not dying (sid)]

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 19:41:34, schrieb Hal Vaughan: > What are options to use in NFS to avoid that? I've had problems before where I do not know, because since 03/1999 (since I use Linux) I have never had a lock. I export with: __( '/etc/exports' )__

Re: Immortal processes

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-09 19:32:51, schrieb Jan C. Nordholz: > So summing up, this sounds like a bug in TkRemind... where exactly is > TkRemind? Could you name me the package? (I'd go look myself, but > packages.d.o > is currently down...) This is not an excuise!!! apt-cache show tkremind Greetings

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 12:26:27, schrieb Gene Heskett: > Hi All; > > I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list again > this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails filtering, neither > of which seem to work. I have written an autoreponder in procmail which forward all st

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 20:01:33, schrieb Ron Johnson: > Here's how I do it using mailfilter. Maybe it will give you a > tip. > > >From ~/mailfilter: > killfile = "$HOME/killfile"; > if (lookup($sender, $killfile)) > { > to "Maildir/.Trash" > } > > Relevant portion of ~/killfile:

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 20:01:33, schrieb Ron Johnson: > >From ~/mailfilter: > killfile = "$HOME/killfile"; > if (lookup($sender, $killfile)) > { > to "Maildir/.Trash" > } > > Relevant portion of ~/killfile: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the ~/.procmailrc :0 * ^From:[EMAIL PR

Re: Backports instruction does not work, why

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 13:14:44, schrieb T: > $ grep -1 backports /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release a=sarge-backports > Pin-Priority: 200 ^^^ > I want to install the backports' asciidoc. > > $ apt-cache policy asciidoc > asciidoc:

Re: syntax error in /etc/init.d/boot_xconf

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 15:18:21, schrieb Eike Lantzsch: > iptohex () { > IP=$1 > > HEXIP=$(for ALL in $(echo "$IP" | tr "." " ") ; do > if [ $ALL -lt 16 ] ; then > echo -n "0$(echo -e "obase=16\n$ALL" | bc)" > else > echo -n "$(echo -e "obase=16\n$ALL" | bc)" > fi

Re: Observations on greylisting (I get no spam any more)

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-08 23:02:11, schrieb Daniel Webb: > so I turned off greylistd. I receive almost no spam at all now. Has spam > drastically fallen in the last year? One person I know said they get about Maybe at you. I get around 500-8000 SPAMs per day which is around twice the amount before 16 mon

Re: Tabbrowser Extensions

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Please do not post those stupid HTML crap Am 2006-01-09 02:05:54, schrieb Mark Grieveson: > Thanks. This did work. I had installed the extension globally; so, I had to > remove files from both my home directory, and from /var/lib/mozilla/chrome as > well. I did this, rebooted, and then started

Re: cups - samba - frustration!

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Angela, Please do not Hijack Mailthreads of others. If you want to ask something, please write a NEW message instead of replaying to another thread. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with

Re: Installation CDs for potato (Debian 2.2)

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul, I am creating a TByte Archive Server of Debian and I am searching for older Official Debian-CD-Images. Generaly I am looking for 2.2.r7 but yours 2.2r5 are better ethen nothing. Do you have the binarys only or with sources? I am interested in a full copy of it (any architektures) bu

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 09:19:30, schrieb Matthew Dawson: > Also there are things that apt can do aptitude can't. (Seen in the apt-build > script.) Yes:apt-get moo (Try it out ;-) ) Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:53:51, schrieb Andy Hawkins: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude update > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
apt-get install mpack and/or apt-get install mime-construct Am 2006-01-11 15:49:22, schrieb Don McLaughlin: > I'd appreciate any pointers to some command-line tools for doing the > following. > > (1) Take mail and news messages as input files and produce as output > files the

Re: Enterasys CSIBD-AA wireless pcmcia card.... where to get drivers...

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
At the manufacturers website! Am 2006-01-11 09:26:59, schrieb Steve Duggins: > Where you able to find drivers for this card I am in the same boat > > Notice: This email is a "DRAFT Working Document" and intended for "Internal > distribution only." > > Steve Duggins > Utah State Agency for Surpl

Re: gphoto2 debug message

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:58:00, schrieb Haines Brown: > I'm using gphoto2 for a Canon A510 (PTP). It seems to be seen OK on > the usb bus. I have a directory /opt/tmp/camera/ into which to dump > downloaded photos. > > I find that I can't use gphoto as user, and so as root I do: > > # env LANG=C gphoto

Re: apache2

2006-01-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-11 16:53:45, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hall, > > ich habe per "apt-get install apache2" apache installiert und der > Server is auch erreichbar. > Nur wenn ich den Dokumentations-Link der dummy-apache page anklicke > wird diese nicht gefunden. > > - > Not Found > > The requested

Re: pet super market at uol dot com dot br is back

2006-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:52, Michelle Konzack wrote: >Am 2006-01-08 12:26:27, schrieb Gene Heskett: >> Hi All; >> >> I'm being banged on by them for every post to the debian-user list >> again this morning. And I've written 2 filters for kmails >> filtering, neither of which seem to work. > >I

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread David Koski
I don't see the original post so I might be missing something but I did an install of AMD64 and it too did not boot. I found that grub was using (hd0,0) where it should have been (hd0,1). I edited the line with grub interactively and it booted. Regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Saving menu-accessible preferences?

2006-01-22 Thread Charlie Zender
Hi, I use kpdf under KDE (in Kubuntu 5.10) quite frequently. Is there a way to make kpdf automatically start with the "Watch File" and "Fit to Page Width" options enabled? The man page does not indicate any such command line options. However, there's a lot about KDE and sessions I don't understan

[SOLVED]Re: firefox printing: extraneous printers, removing xprint and dependencies

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:19:17 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:13:46 + > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On (18/01/06 21:35), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I have several extraneous printers in my Firefox (1.07) print dialog >

Re: Gmail & Maildirs [Was: Re: GMail like offline email client]

2006-01-22 Thread David Berg
On 1/21/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be an interesting (and probably not too difficult) task to > implement this with procmail and a couple scripts to hardlink emails > into different Maildir directories. Then pick your client of choice. > In my case I'd pick mutt, whic

Build a own mail server

2006-01-22 Thread G-Point
hello can i build on my ubuntu a smtp server? which are the most used solutions? thanks

Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a bug which will soon be squashed). Anyways, as I am going to be using this laptop with Wi-Fi, I decided to just buy a wireless card seperately. I have

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devi

Re: Saving menu-accessible preferences?

2006-01-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Charlie Zender wrote: Hi, I use kpdf under KDE (in Kubuntu 5.10) quite frequently. Please use appropriate mailing list. This is debian-user mailing list. kubuntu is not Debian. It is based on Debian but not Debian. Is there a way to make kpdf automatically start with the "Watch File" and

How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-22 Thread Sonixxfx
Hi,I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can someone tell me how I should configure those cards to achive this? I actually already

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chinook
Adam James wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 02:49 -0500, Chinook wrote: Chinook wrote: The issue is something that I wondered about (and commented on) early on. On my Mac I see the printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] but my Mac can't actually print to it because my Mac (via my router) can't resolve the

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:17:14PM -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, ... > > The only question that I have at this point is should I remove the > preferences from /etc/apt? I don't really understand what I did here. Can > you point me to a document that describes what you suggested? >

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
On 2006-01-22 19:08:24, Sonixxfx wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. I don't know about apt-get, b

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-22 Thread Klaus Pieper
This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're trying to *read* from your memory stick here, not write to it. If you want to blank the memory stick, you need to use the prior command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb Andrew, Just wanted to backup the mbr before overw

Re: System administration question

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:33:47PM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > hello > > As I'm very new in system administrating and not an old Debian user > either, I would like to ask you for some suggestions about system > administration. > I have six identical networked computers running Debian. All the

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sonixxfx: > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? aptitude logs its actions. apt-get doesn't. But may may already be happy with dpkg's logging mechanism. Caveat: dpkg in unstable doesn't log yet. I don't know about aptitude in stable. > I occasianall

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Wackojacko
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, so, I am trying to update a sid system that hasn't seen much use for a while, so I did an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had been running a 2.6.10 kernel, so the new udev wouldn't install properly and I ended up with 1500 incompletely installed packages. So, with a certai

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-22 Thread Yani Copas
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Kn

Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread K MS
Hi,     Kindly help me get my first browsing experience in Debian linux. I have tried various list-archives recommended by Google still have not been able to get around fixing this.     Email below is rather long. I have explained my installation and shown the logs before asking my questions at the

Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or > > temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the > > /d

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

2006-01-22 Thread Curt Howland
Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will > tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). Indeed yes. The included "nv" driver uses 75 dpi, the non-free "nvidia" driver uses 111 dpi. /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (==)

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Sonixxfx([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards. > > Thanks for

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-22 Thread James Strandboge
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:17 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Jamie, > > Thanks very much for this. It when mostly as planned. There were two > problems that I hit. > This is why downgrades aren't officially supported. But you found your way, so good. :) > The only question that I have at th

Printing out a large volume of email

2006-01-22 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Dear group, I would like to print out a mailbox containing about 1,000 emails. The mailbox is in mbox format currently. One option is to write a short Perl script which extracts each email and produces a long text file containing a series of formatted header/body pairs, which I would then send th

perl based web site in a can type reccomendations?

2006-01-22 Thread Britton Kerin
I would like to be able to put together something like what is seen on the linksys routers, i.e. tabs for configuring a system, popping up help, etc. without having to monkey around with the details of html and CSS any more than strictly necessary. Perl is the lang I know so I like it over php o

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:20:40 +0100, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > Hello, > > I just ordered an IBM Thinkpad A21e. It has a (wired) LAN card, and 2 > PCMCI slots, but no wireless card. It also comes with Windows 2000 (a > bug which will soon be squashed). > > Anyways, as I am going to be using this lapto

Re: Firefox Configuration

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 18:50:19 +0100, Winton Roseland wrote: > I recently installed Debian after running Knoppix for over a year. I > have installed Firefox as it was not added automatically. I am trying > to get a correct action when using this mailing list. When using > Windows, I can double

utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Haines Brown
I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the directories with the files and images from the site? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: utility to grab a web site

2006-01-22 Thread Edward Shornock
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:44:57PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I have a need to recursively capture the entire contents of a large > web site that uses frames. What utility would accomplish this and > automatically reproduce the directory structure and populate the > directories with the files and

Re: gs-esp, gs-gpl or gs-afpl?

2006-01-22 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:38:27PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > While reading another post here, I noticed gs-afpl was giving smaller > PDF files of these gs-* options to a user. > > Which of the three is 'better'? Or, which of the three makes 'best' PS > or PDF files? Any recommendations? Unfortunate

gnome & firefox & thunderbird

2006-01-22 Thread Adam Hardy
I keep seeing messages about Firefox and Thunderbird but it's never about this and I can't find any info about how to control this in Gnome: I want to click on a link in Thunderbird emails, and see the Firefox browser pop up a new browser window in the foreground. Currently the link opens in

Re: writing huge files on DVD

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:48:58 + (GMT) Joanne Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey i have problem i hope u could help... do u know how to write files to > dvd?? i don't want to burn it i just want to write it on but the computer > won't let me.. If you don't want to burn it try with a marker

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

2006-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
Curt Howland wrote Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:14:25 -0600 (CST): > Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will > > tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). > Indeed yes. The included "nv" driver uses 75 dpi,

Re: How should I configure my two lancards on my Debian system?

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:22:15 +0100 Sonixxfx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a linux box connected directly to the internet that has two lan cards > installed on it. I would like to connect two other computers to those cards > so that they can make use of the internet connection. Can s

SELinux

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I am getting the following error in my start up messages: "failed to mount /selinux" Why am I getting this message? I don't need SElinux or it's associated mandatory access controls. How can I opt out of SElinux? Thanks -- Glenn Meehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Build a own mail server

2006-01-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:14:08 +0100 G-Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello > can i build on my ubuntu a smtp server? > which are the most used solutions? > thanks You should ask on the Ubuntu forums. We can only tell you about Debian Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't unders

Re: [OT] Mozilla/Java: xpicleanup.dat files wanted

2006-01-22 Thread Rob
Here is the problem. When you close the browser it goes through some sort of cleanup process. When you are logged on to a limited user account you cannot launch the browser. Every time you try to you get a message that a previous installation has not finished. And if you try to click on the

How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Joseph Smidt
I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together.  Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others.  Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together.  My question is how do you do it?  I have two compute

Re: Sarge AMD64 installation won't boot

2006-01-22 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 03:46:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Before going any further, I should mention again that this is *not* > the best list for solving AMD64 issues. The debian-amd64 list is. Indeed. I know that. In fact, I had an ongoing thread on the debian-amd64 list about t

Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Dan Martins
Which group should 'own' the files in my home directory? I just noticed that most sub-directories and files in my home folder are owned by dan:dan. dan is the user account i use on my pc, it is the only account i log in under other than root (this is a home pc, i'm the only one that uses it).

Re: Who should own my home directory?

2006-01-22 Thread Glenn Meehan
Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is to create a group for each user name that is created. I don't know why it does this. It seems to me that a users group would be a more logical way to go. But I

Re: How to combine computers?

2006-01-22 Thread Marty
Joseph Smidt wrote: I'm sure you all have seen places where their are many computers networked together. Form any one of them you can access any of the accounts of the others. Multiple computers running the same system, like at office computers all tied together. My question is how do you do i

Re: Trying to upgrade libc6: aptitute wants to remove the kernel.

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:51:04 + Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a mixed stable/testing system which I've been trying to upgrade > and dist-upgrade for a while. Whenever I try to `aptitude install > libc6` to testing or unstable, with various options, I get this ominous > warnin

Firefox DNS lookups

2006-01-22 Thread Tom Cook
All,I'm running firefox 1.5.dfsg-4 on an unstable install.  Whenever firefox is running it sends almost constant DNS requests (3 or 4 requests per seconds).  This traffic stays constant for hours at a time. Anyone know what causes this, or how I can stop it?Tom

Re: partition problems

2006-01-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 15:56:17 + (GMT) david cuthbertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Sorry, I am still learning, so not very good at > explaining things. > > /dev/hda1 is winxp > I now know that /dev/hda2 is the extended partition > Then comes Debian: > /dev/hda5 is swap > /dev/hda7 is /

Re: Internet access problem with Debian Sarge + BSNL Dataone

2006-01-22 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 1/22/06, K MS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4727]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4728]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0 >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[4728]: PPP session is 7279 >Dec 23 21:57:23 localhost pppd[47

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:36:26AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > I've got my AppleTalk/zeroconf LAN setup working for file sharing - > with netatalk and task-howl on the Linux box. > > > When I had my printer connected to my Mac I could print to it from the > Linux box with just CUPS whether the Ma

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:16:45PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > 1) cdrecord (for music and cd-rom isos) > 2) cdrdao if I need to burn vcd's > 3) growisofs for dvd's > > Of the three, cdrdao is more perplexing because I have to remember the > options each time - or simply use cdr (ctrl-R) in bash t

Re: mysql database location

2006-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 03:41:30PM +, david robert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have installed mysql server from debian package and everything is working > now > i need to take a backup of databases.I want to know the location where it will > store all databases.I guss it is in /var/lib/mysql/mys

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