NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Hi, I've got one laptop running Debian Etch and a server running FreeBSD 6.0. The server has NFS and ssh setup and configured. I use ssh for administration and NFS to store and backup files onto my remote home directory. I've recently tried to use my NFS storage to compile a kernel, however, I was

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Kopp
--- S Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still can't use it to connect to the web. I got > to the point where it told me something about a > sequence that was not 6-bit pure and the 7-bit was > always zero. X would not work. I was told that > there were no screens available. The usb > c

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: >> Bruno Buys wrote: >> > Glenn Taylor wrote: >> > >> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > RedHat > >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. > PC is an > >> AMD k6 300mhz

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-16 Thread Graham Smith
As far as the JDK / JRE goes I would stick with the Sun VMs for now. They are fairly easy to install on Debian (Google for debian java). There are plenty of development environments for Java but the two most widely used are eclipse and netbeans. I use netbeans but I am considering switching to

Fwd: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Mankuthimma
On 2/16/06, S Clement < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric facility.Now that you have sent this to Debian, you can always send your M$ related rants to a psychiatric facility.  I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to conn

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Edward Shornock
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: [...] > For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and > it installs and works. There are modifications I make, but it works. > > When will Debian? Oddly enough, I find Debian and Linux in general to be much easier

Re: NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Sinan Nalkaya
it seems the source is trying to use binaries and libraries located at your local pc, so you need a su rights to compiled kernel on your local pc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Stefan Srdic
Sinan Nalkaya wrote: >it seems the source is trying to use binaries and libraries located at >your local pc, so you need a su rights to compiled kernel on your local >pc. > > > > Okay, tried it manually as root. I was able to get the gconf configuration menu up and running. How can I do this as

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2006-02-16 Thread Guido Adriaansens
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Kernel 2.6.15 networking works with irqpoll

2006-02-16 Thread Nil Cire
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently had another post about the networking not working. Well, I've solved it. However, I still don't know why it works. What the heck does irqpoll do? Is there any way I can do it without using irqpoll? Refer to my other post (Networking problems

Re: Courier IMAP - Outlook 2003

2006-02-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/02/06 09:39), Serhan D. KIYMAZ wrote: > A few weeks ago I've installed qmail, courier-imap, vpopmail, tcpserver > for my company to send/receive emails. > Everything is fine with Kmail and Thunderbid. It's possible to > send/receive mails, reach virtual shared folders. > But when Outlook 2

xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-16 Thread Cedric BRINER
hi, how can I achieve to unlock the xscreensaver with the root password. I was thinking about using the pam. But I've not found any information on how to do this. the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users. Ced. -- Cedric BRINER Geneva - Switzerland -- To UNSUB

Re: No audio output when playing CDs

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
On 2/15/06, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does your PC have a wire from the CD drive to the sound card? No, but that hasn't been a problem before, and Amarok can still play CDs - except that if I flick from track to track I soon hit an error with Amarok telling me that "device /dev/

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread M-L
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:12 pm, S Clement wrote: >> I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility. > >> I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the > web. My windows connection went down and I could not re-install it. I > figu

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
David Kirchner wrote: On 2/15/06, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, if I issue ls . > filelist.txt as user I get: a binary file like: ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m ESC[0mfilelist.logESC[0m ESC[01;34mgconfd-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkde-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkeyring-CXhOCWESC[0m

Kernel for EMT64

2006-02-16 Thread Jonis Maurin Ceará
Hi list. How to compile my kernel for 64bits processor? I have P4 630 (3Ghz, 64bits (EMT64)). When i go to 'make menuconf' on kernel, i can't see EMT64 on CPU Type menu... After setting "export ARCH=x86_64" and run 'make menuconfig' again, now i see "Amd-Optron/Athlon64", "EMT64" and "generic-

openmosix patched kernel

2006-02-16 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i was wondering why debian is not, as today, able to give an openmosix-enabled patched kernel, and it lacks the openmosix userland utilities. It seems that kernel-patch-openmosix has been put in oldstable some time ago, but for what reason? Thanks in advance, MC

Re: NFS share problems

2006-02-16 Thread Sinan Nalkaya
in this case the nfs server options may be required, because there is several options like root_squash or no_root_squash that sets the uid and gid on the client (your local comp.), btw on your local computer as i know you have to have some root rights to compile kernel,so you can use sudo or (i hav

Terminal Server

2006-02-16 Thread Philippe De Ryck
Hi, I have a few specific questions about a possible TS setup. As you may have seen in my previous post, I'm looking for a good setup for a couple of debian machines (somewhere around 8 to 10) in a school environment. I have a bunch of older machines (P3 500 with 128Mb RAM) that have some trouble

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
Hi, I have tried to add a line "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in the ~/.xsession file but the X cannot be started up currectly, it will return to the tty1 finally after the "startx" command was issued. But now the problem is solved, I created a file "98scrsvd" with a line "xscreensaver -no-splash

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: >On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: >[...] >> For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and >> it installs and works. There are modifications I make, but it works. >> >> When will Debi

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread John Halton
On 2/16/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > >[...] > >> For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and > >> it installs and works. T

apt-zip problem

2006-02-16 Thread Sed Nivo
Hi, I want to download a Debian package with depends from computer with Windows. I use apt-zip. But in scripts that are generated with apt-zip aren't any URL's with packages. Maybe it's because I have installed Debian from cdrom and in my computer isn't Packages.gz file.

2.6.15-1-686 Kernel Wont Upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
Haven't been able to upgrade using testing with the 2.6.15-1-686 linux-image. Installing the libslang2 packages results in error code (1). The error is consistently reproducible. I have woody-bf-2.4 and 2.6.8-2-686 kernels installed also and have upgraded under testing primarily but have, I think,

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Bruno Buys
Edward Shornock wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: [...] For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and it installs and works. There are modifications I make, but it works. When will Debian? Oddly enough, I find Debian and Linux

Re: Debian as terminalserver

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Dugan
Lars wrote: Hi I got a mini-itx epia-800 board and i'm planning on using it to experiment with terminal-server. The mini-itx should work as a diskless thin client and i got a pc to work as server. But what software makes a good terminal-server? I read that the fai-server, although its an install

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2006-02-16 Thread Ivan Paganini
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Re: Re: Gnome in testing

2006-02-16 Thread Joseph Smidt
I believe you, however why does distrowatch still say testing only has gnome 2.10: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian   and  http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/meta-gnome2.html  still says gnome 2.12 has still not entered testing?-- --

image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use software such as Gwenview. Thx! Deephay

Re: Terminal Server

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel A Beller
Hi, You will need stronger server to do XDMCP as bulk of computing is done at server. In our first runs with diskless etherboot clients, were able to server ~30 clients from P3 800 w/ 256 Mbyte RAM without much problem. Want to have fast network (you mentioned) and fairly quick HDD. Want to b

Re: apt-zip problem

2006-02-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:48:39PM +0200, Sed Nivo wrote: >Hi, > >I want to download a Debian package with depends from computer with >Windows. I use apt-zip. But in scripts that are generated with apt-zip >aren't any URL's with packages. Maybe it's because I have installed >Debian from cdrom and

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: > > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? > I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use > software such as Gwenview. Thx! > I like gqview :) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSU

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:01:43PM +0800, Deephay wrote: >Greetings all, > > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? >I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use >software such as Gwenview. Thx! Imagemagick's display? /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP:

dbus startup failed

2006-02-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
TOday I upgraded 'hal' and 'gnome-volume-manager' which replaced dbus-1 with 'dbus' but then the startup failed with this message: - Starting system message bus: dbus. Starting Hardware abstraction layer: /usr/sbin/hald: unrec

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a > psychiatric facility. Whatever works for you, I guess. > I have just spent a little over two weeks unable to connect to the > web. My windows connection went down and I cou

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John Halton wrote: Not odd at all. Installing Windows XP is a nightmare - well, to be fair, the actual "base install" is OK-ish, but dumps you in a very basic setup with no network, no sound and a 640x480 VGA display. You then have to install multiple drivers in a specified order with a reboot be

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 14:30 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: > > > > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? > > I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use > > software such as Gwenview. Thx! > > > I like gqview :) second that. -matt

[Fwd: Mantis and Apache 1.3]

2006-02-16 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I install apche and mantis(bug tracking system) from debian testing repository. After finish I access to http://localhost/mantis/index.php. Web browser state that PHTML detected and download dialog box is shown. I think php script is not interprete. So I try to install php4 from apt-get again.

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I like gqview :) second that. third! Nice software. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

custom network intefaces during boot for Debian

2006-02-16 Thread John Davis
Hello Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, I have a laptop with a lan based eth0 and a wifi based eth1. If I am not connected to

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:30:57PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:01:43PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > >Greetings all, > > > > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? > >I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use > >software such

Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread David Baron
Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... why? I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Micha feigin
I like gqview for checking out directories and playing with id tags for later sorting. It can be a bit slower on large directories then gimageview if I recall its name correctly but the interface is quite nice. For one time image viewing I use feh -FZ (will also do slideshows if you replace the im

Re: default desktop list?

2006-02-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I recently installed Etch, but the install malfunctioned midway through. The operating system works, but has a great many quirks. Is there a list of the packages that are included in the default desktop install? Could you explain the quirks that you are experi

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread David Berg
On 2/16/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have tried to add a line "xscreensaver -no-splash &" in the ~/.xsession > file > but the X cannot be started up currectly, it will return to the tty1 finally > after > the "startx" command was issued. I think I know what the problem is n

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any better. > If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of toy, somthing > to play with. For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the > disks in

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Clive Menzies wrote: On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software? I am not using Gnome / KDE, so the I don't want to use software such as Gwenview. Thx! I like gqview :) Regards Clive Some are already suggested. you can also try x

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread Craig M. Houck
David; This may not be the case, BUT there are several m/b's (I have an older abit BX6 rev) that I understand can cause the pc clock to be skew under Win98. It does with the box I built. Could be a similar effect. >Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... >w

Re: custom network intefaces during boot for Debian

2006-02-16 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 08:42, John Davis wrote: > Hello > > Here is a script modification for /etc/init.d/networking in Debian so > that your list of network interfaces can be reconfigured during boot. > Why would you like to have a script like this? Well, in my case, > I have a laptop with

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Lubos Vrbka
third! Nice software. gqview is fine... but feh as well... i use both. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deny spam with Exim4

2006-02-16 Thread Casey T. Deccio
I am getting a lot of spam on my exim4 mailserver, much of which is logged with "no host name found for IP address ..." and "no IP address found for host ...". The acl_check_rcpt acl is mostly set with the debian defaults. I enabled CHECK_RECPT_VERIFY_SENDER, which denies for "!verify = sender".

[Fwd: Load test with mechanize]

2006-02-16 Thread Surachai Locharoen
Is debian limit the number of open tcp socket? if yes , how many socket they are allow? Kan Original Message Subject: Load test with mechanize Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:09:19 +0700 From: Surachai Locharoen <

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn English
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:12 -0800, S Clement wrote: > I am wondering if I should be sending this to Debian or to a psychiatric > facility. Since you sound like a non-techie, I suggest you go to http://www.ubuntu.com and ask them to send you their CD(s). It doesn't cost anything, and it's a Debian

Re: Terminal Server

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel A Beller wrote: > Want to be careful on how you install apps, they can end up copied into > RAM on diskless clients if installed as if on local system. With > openoffice, this may eat up all 128 Mb's of RAM you've got. Sorry to jump in and "st

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Have trouble accessing monit via web browser

2006-02-16 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, Recently I tried using monit (http://www.tildeslash.com/monit), but I'm unable to view my processes or check my server status as described on the site. I can access my page that is running from apache2, but if I add the ":2812" at then end, the Firefox (and IE) tells me they can'

Re: Debian as terminalserver

2006-02-16 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Dugan wrote: > Have you had a look at LTSP, www.ltsp.org. I had this setup some time > ago and it worked well. Thanks, I'll have a look. - -- /Lars -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunde

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... > why? > I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my > time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Make sure you have your timezone correct

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 18:09 -0800, Jesse wrote: > Hi, > > I recently upgraded my etch installation and ran into what might > be an issue with xserver-xorg. I'm running KDE 3.5 and everything > works fine except that the pointer-arrow is *extremely* slow and the > "button tap" feature no longer

Re: network problems specific to linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 (SOLVED)

2006-02-16 Thread Nil Cire
I have fixed the problem. I just had to type irqpoll as a kernel boot option. Does anyone know why this is?On 2/15/06, jlmb < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Nil Cire wrote:> Oh, the wlan0's not on there because I did not have the card plugged in. > I have already recomplied the modules. I noticed that th

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-16 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 09:05 +0800, Richard wrote: > On 16/02/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:38 +, Andy Hawkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > >roberto<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > a

Re: Deny spam with Exim4

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Casey T. Deccio wrote: I am getting a lot of spam on my exim4 mailserver, much of which is logged with "no host name found for IP address ..." and "no IP address found for host ...". The acl_check_rcpt acl is mostly set with the debian defaults. Not exactly what you asked, but maybe quite clos

Constantly losing connections to mounted network drives

2006-02-16 Thread Rich Stanton
I am running debian stable ppc on an old mac G3 laptop. I have 2 mounted network drives - one mounted via samba is on a macOSX panther system, and the other a netware filestore mounted via ncpfs. Here is my relevant fstab entries: //193.x.x.x/YellowDog /mnt/mic smbfs username=,password=

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:20:55 + Oliver Lupton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:09:30 +0100 > Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > if I issue ls . > filelist.txt > > as user I get: > > a binary file like: > > > > ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m > > ESC[0mfilel

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Björn Lindström
Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > then using aptitude backrev xserver-xorg, and then hold the package. For someone very new to aptitude, could you elaborate on how to do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What filesystems does LVM (lvm2?) support?

2006-02-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Yu,Glen [Ontario] (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I've googled this but never actually got a definite answer... > > What I want to know is: What filesystems does lvm (or lvm2) support? To the file system, LVM logical volumes look like normal block devices, e.g. partitions. You can use any

Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I am used to connect to my LAN server using sftp (with tectia client), logging in as "root". My server is a Debian testing updated day by day. Since 2 or 3 days I am unable to connecto to the server as "root". If I try to connect with another account I get in; seems that some software are bl

X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread j-debian_lists
I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade last night (amd64 testing) and now X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) But when I run lsmod it's still there. I've tried rebooting, unloading & reloading the module, and even installing a newer kernel (2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-

Re: binary output from ls

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Ivan Glushkov wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 2/15/06, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, if I issue ls . > filelist.txt as user I get: a binary file like: ESC[0mESC[0mAcro3nKTzaESC[0m ESC[0mfilelist.logESC[0m ESC[01;34mgconfd-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34mkde-glushkovESC[0m ESC[01;34

Re: default desktop list?

2006-02-16 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:04, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Is there a list of the packages that are included in the > default desktop install? $ aptitude show desktop-base -- Alex Nordstrom http://lx.n3.net/ Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to debian-user. pgp4yNhh7aOY8.pgp Des

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn English
On Thursday 16 February 2006 12:22, Daniel B. wrote: > My idea (which I don't is practical) was to query RBLs in real time > after receiving a TCP connection (SYN?) packet and before sending an > acceptance (or rejection) packet. Relative to your suggestion, that > would save the bandwidth of rec

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel B.
Paul Johnson wrote: It sounds like you're already at a spot where you can't reasonably reduce bandwidth used by email any further. Yeah, that seems to be true, unfortunately. For example, does your network have a caching HTTP proxy? If not, you're literally flushing bandwidth down the to

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Cody Chamberlain
once your apt sources are updated, and your conf file has been modified according to matt's instructions, you simply search for xserver-xorg in aptitude. since the snapshot repository has been added (and assuming you updated) the 6.8.2 version should be available simply install teh older versio

What filesystems does LVM (lvm2?) support?

2006-02-16 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hi everyone, I've googled this but never actually got a definite answer... What I want to know is: What filesystems does lvm (or lvm2) support? Cheers, -Glen

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:57 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: > Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > then using aptitude backrev xserver-xorg, and then hold the package. > > For someone very new to aptitude, could you elaborate on how to do > this? sure! # aptitude then use '/' to find a pac

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-16 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
The "best" SDK is SUN sdk read this http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Java and especially last part Installing eclipse is extremely easy -- just unpack archive with binaries somewhere and launch it :) В Срд, 15/02/2006 в 16:54 -0800, Marc Shapiro пишет: > Please, no flame wars! > > I u

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

2006-02-16 Thread Daniel B.
Glenn English wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:08 -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote: What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam delivery attempts? sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: . . . X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" . . .can't get X to start properly. I got the same error some days ago when upgrading xorg. Xorg works normal again (apart from a hardly noticeable fraying of bold letters) after I have changed the li

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: I have ordered an installation set for 3.1 to see if it works any better. If it doesn't, I'll have to relegate Debian to the status of toy, somthing to play with. For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I st

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:29 -0500, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The > best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc) > > So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice > > > > Compaq AMD Athlon64 2.

good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
hello, i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. ive done enough googling and havent seen anything comprehensive. i have found some but they seem to be mostly mandrake(iva) or fedora core or some other distro centric. any suggestions for a distro agnostic tutorial or a debia

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread Josep Serrano
Hello lucato You have enabled remote root login in your sshd_config. Anyway doucle check that this is the actual configuration file being read when sshd starts (see your init scripts). To debug your problem try to use sftp in the local server from command line: sftp -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] paste

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Katipo
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: [...] For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and it installs and works. There are modifications I make, Yes,

instalaçao

2006-02-16 Thread kubernat
eu baixei o arquivo debian-testing-alpha-netinst-iso porem grei o disco de instalaçao porem o mesmo nao da boot peo cd o que esta faltando? grato arthur  

Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

2006-02-16 Thread Ravi Kumar
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 10:17 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 2/15/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a problem here: How to start an application automatically > > after X is started up? > > Actually I want to start the xscreensaver in daemon mode after X > > is started up. I add

8000 drivers?

2006-02-16 Thread Eric Schultz
 HI Debian,      I have a HP CD-Writer Plus 8000 and am looking for the software that will allow the unit to be used as a writer.  Did you get you're drivers online or with the unit?   Thanks,   Er

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-16 Thread Roel Schroeven
David Baron schreef: Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... why? I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means something. Bug? Apart from time zone problems, it just

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:56, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > my problem: > > the analog (vga) output and monitor is a little off. let me explain: > the horizontal size of X is a little to wide for the monitor and the lcd > doesnt provide a mechanism to adjust the size of the display, just the > po

Re: X error after dist-upgrade

2006-02-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade last night (amd64 testing) and now X errors on me saying (EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0) But when I run lsmod it's still there. I've tried rebooting, unloading & reloading the module, and even installing a newer

Re: Failing Sarge net install

2006-02-16 Thread Glenn Taylor
M-L wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > Glenn Taylor wrote: > > > >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running RedHat > >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. PC is an > >> AMD k6

Re: problems with xserver?

2006-02-16 Thread Jesse
Thanks, best to just downgrade. I modified the files as you suggested but aptitude claims it can't find the package file in the associated directory which is a bit strange. Hopefully that'll iron itself out. Thanks again,   JesseMatt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:it seems that the upgrade f

Re: 8000 drivers?

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:35, Eric Schultz wrote: >I have a HP CD-Writer Plus 8000 and am looking for the software > that will allow the unit to be used as a writer. Did you get you're drivers > online or with the unit? Mu. See the CD Writing HOWTO for more details. http://ursi

kernel compile question..

2006-02-16 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am trying to compile the kernel for enabling SMP with command: fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version="-smp" kernel-image in /usr/src/linux directory and see the error message:: ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.7' COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l 'gcc*' perl dpkg 'libc6*' binutils ldso mak

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Katipo wrote: I find Microsoft utterly repugnant. What have your personal feelings got to do with this mail echo? And why would anyone post a lambast on what is a user's group? This whole thread seems severly OT to me. Perhaps if the O.P. would be so kind as to advise as to which particular

key bind paste from ?

2006-02-16 Thread Brian Clark
Hi there, This may be a strange request. What I decided to look for, without success, is a way to press a key sequence and it have it paste a password at the current cursor position in my aterm when connected to a remote host. My window environment is OpenBox. A shell alias on the remote host is o

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 16 February 2006 16:01, Katipo wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 03:47:58AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement wrote: > >>[...] > >> > >>>For work I will have to use WinXP. With that I stick the disks in and >

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/16/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > i am looking for a good tutorial on how to setup a dual monitor. ive > done enough googling and havent seen anything comprehensive. i have > found some but they seem to be mostly mandrake(iva) or fedora core or > some other distro

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Josep, thank you, I've done what you say and this is the output: debian:/etc# sftp -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to localhost... OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.

trusted php5 repositories ?

2006-02-16 Thread Mehmet Fatih Akbulut
hi all, do you know any trusted php repositories [php5 - deb packages] that i can install php5-* stuff from. some packages are not included in main ftps [such as php5-mcrypt, php5-pear ... etc] so i need one that contains all php5-* ... thanks in advance...

Debian Testing + Open Office 2.0.1 conflict

2006-02-16 Thread Keith Bates
Yesterday, I did an upgrade on my Debian testing system. For some reason, when some KDE packages are upgraded Open Office breaks. In the past I've just re-installed my OO deb files and all is well with the world again. But not this time! I use alien to convert the rpms provided by OO to debs. The

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