Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off > your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to > save. I know you don't have a floppy, but do you have a USB > stick? Something? Anything? How about this: copy them off to > y

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Katipo
Hal Vaughan wrote: I would suggest the same to you. Are you here to help him or blame him? He's stuck, he's frustrated. He's letting us know. He's having trouble. Do you want to help him or just piss him off? I am helping. I'm showing him where he refuses to look, and until he do

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Katipo
Mike McCarty wrote: I pointed out to him that he didn't even know what "troll" meant, but I suspect that it rolled off his back. It's called a play on words, Mike. Regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: Mike, I'm going to have to add you to my holiday card list, regardless of what happens :) I just wish I could help. Everything looks like it ought to. I don't see why there would be a problem. [snip] I'm going to call it a night and see if if there's any more advice by m

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: 2006/2/16, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Remember, before doing anything to try to fix this, copy off your MBR, and the first sector of each partition you need to ^^ [snip] Will do, tomorrow. My laptop is s

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-17 Thread roberto
On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > I have exactly the same problem. Durin boot, the BIOS sees all the > physically installed 1Gb of memory. But the sarge's kernel only sees > 885Mb... > > The video shared memory is set in the BIOS setu

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
Hi lucato > > the init.d script that start sshd is the debian default: (..) > $SSHD_OPTS is an empty variable in /etc/default/ssh: If you are using default init with enpty options then sshd reads the configuration file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. That's fine. Now your local sftp client log has som

Re: usb2 to fast

2006-02-17 Thread nicals wahlgren
using sync worked fine. Thanks! /N Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:43:10PM +0100, nicals wahlgren wrote: Is there a way to slow an usb connection to usb1 speed? I can think of two ways : * rmmod ehci_hcd (remove the usb2 host controller driver, that sho

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread Deephay
thx :) - Original Message - From: "Lubos Vrbka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian_user" Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: Re: udev problem >> I have a problem with udev here: every time when I >> was booting the computer, the udev always

Midnight Commander does not support UTF8 ?

2006-02-17 Thread Žáček Kryštof
I have recently switched my SID to UTF8 locales. It was as easy as running dpkg-reconfigure localeconf (great !). Everything works fine as before. The only problem I have is the Midnight Commander displaying nonsense - the columns are not correctly alligned, characters randomly split around the

Re: Wireless Card on linux

2006-02-17 Thread Chris Lale
Deboo ^ wrote: Hello, I have a Compaq Armada with a Netgear wireless PC card (the one which is linux supported), could someone detail the steps needed to make it work fully? And how to make both the wired lan and wireless lan work together. I guess it has to do something with routing but no

Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all I was looking in the list of packages that are available and I came across these two linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from the version numbers obviously). The description using apt-cache isnt very helpful.

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Jon Dowland
[posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from the > version numbers obviously). I think that the linux

Re: Midnight Commander does not support UTF8 ?

2006-02-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Žáček Kryštof wrote: > I have recently switched my SID to UTF8 locales. It was as easy as running > dpkg-reconfigure localeconf (great !). > > Everything works fine as before. The only problem I have is the Midnight > Commander displaying nonsense - the columns are not correctly alligned, > charac

about change document root

2006-02-17 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
I want to change apache document root to remote machine disk. I wrote document root "10.0.0.121/mydisk" but iti did not work does any body knows please help. Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!

Re: How to prevent kernel upgrade from apt-get?

2006-02-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running a couple of OpenMOSIX clusters, and OM depends on kernel > 2.4.26. I would like to use a script to run: > >apt-get upgrade > > on all of the cluster members, but "apt-get upgrade" wants to upgrade the > kernel: > ># apt-get -V upgrade >Readin

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Friday, 17 February 2006 17:33, Brent Clark wrote: > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from > the version numbers obviously). The description using apt-cache isnt > very helpful. linux-image is the new, kernel-ne

Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Funk
I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those processors? I'm also concerned about the potential shortage of 64-bit software for a genera

Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd

2006-02-17 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is missing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ls -1 /etc/pam.d/ apache2 ... common-account common-auth common-password common-session ... other ppp samba ... xscreensaver The passwd package is installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >dpkg -l passwd | egr

Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home partition. If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly but ends with the message "Error exit delayed from previous errors". However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it without

Re: good dual head x tutorial

2006-02-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:00:16PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: >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

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Philipp Pagel
Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking in the list of packages that are available and I came across > these two > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from the > version numbers obviously). > The des

PCMCIA

2006-02-17 Thread Gilberto Villani Brito
Hi, I have a Debian 3.1 and I can't use 2 adapters PCMCIA ISA. The system detect the both, but it can't up the 2 PCMCIA Cards. If I put just one adapter, the system works nice. Gilberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following requirements: - must be absolutely silent - must be capable of running Debian - must allow for 3 network interfaces, one of which could be a builtin 802.1x-ready WLAN access point (WPA2 support required). - must allow fo

USB flash/pen drives

2006-02-17 Thread BOSS
Hello,  I have a dysfunctional cd/dvd/floppy drive on my laptop and want to install debian lite if any onto a bootable usb pen drive. Can you help? I have installed the Debian 3.1 the 1.9Gb file (from APC Mag) onto my desktop and thoroughly enjoyed it, i have yet wanted in some what a lite

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:02, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, > Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian > architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those > processors? > > I'm also concerne

RE: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Jan Johansson
>However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it >without evident errors). > >Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems >particularly relevant. > >I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this >error. Any ideas? Can I ignore

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Campbell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home > partition. > > If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly > but ends with the message "Error exit delayed fro

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:02, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, > Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian > architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those > processors? > > I'm also concerne

Re: Tar: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2006, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Anthony Campbell<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home > > partition. > > > > If I do "tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac" everything seems to go correctly

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 03:16, Katipo wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > >I would suggest the same to you. Are you here to help him or blame him? > > He's stuck, he's frustrated. He's letting us know. > > > > > He's having > >trouble. Do you want to help him or just piss him off? > > I am

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Mankuthimma
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But it's just wrong.  Your first post was just plain rude and nasty and therewas no excuse for it.  Such posts only serve to drive people away, not tohelp.  The OP knew Debian is a Free operating system supported by people who are willing to spend

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:44, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi, > > We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following > requirements: > > - must be absolutely silent > - must be capable of running Debian > - must allow for 3 network interfaces, one of which could be > a builtin 802.

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 09:11, Mankuthimma wrote: > On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But it's just wrong. Your first post was just plain rude and nasty and > > there > > was no excuse for it. Such posts only serve to drive people away, not to > > help. > > The OP knew Deb

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 2/17/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with udev here: every time when I > was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines > like this on the console: > "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines > goes a little bit fast and I cannot r

Can't build cpad-kernel with 2.6.15

2006-02-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm running a Debian stock 2.6.15-1-686 kernel on etch, and I've installed the kernel headers. I'm trying to install the cpad-kernel module(s) (version 0.9-10 is installed) with module-assistant, but the build is failing. Am I doing something wrong? Some googling turned up a 1.4rc3 version, so 0.

IP bandwidth consumption logging

2006-02-17 Thread Richard Gaywood
Hello list.I'm looking for a little tool that will provide me with, say, daily summaries of how much traffic was on each TCP and UDP port. A bit like the rather nifty iptraf but not real-time.I want this because my server is capped to fairly small amounts of bandwidth each month and a friend has as

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:44 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi, > > We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following > requirements: > > - must be absolutely silent > - must be capable of running Debian > - must allow for 3 network interfaces, one of which could be > a builtin 8

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread John Halton
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Courtesy is rising above others' rudeness and anger and being decent to them > even in such a case. Agreed. I also found the OP's attitude a bit unhelpful ("Why can't Debian be more like Windows?" - gosh, where to start?) but I think we should h

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:38 +0100, Philipp Pagel wrote: > Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking in the list of packages that are available and I came across > > these two > > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > > So I basically would like to know wha

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 09:11, Mankuthimma wrote: And the OP is silent after all the ruckus his mail has created. IMHO, he deserved every bit of the rudeness, nastiness. Courtesy is rising above others' rudeness and anger and being decent to them even in such a c

Re: moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Levi Waldron wrote: I had some unused space at the beginning of my hard drive, with my partition table looking something like: Well, I hoped to see a bunch of messages and one of them being a RESOLVED. The only new thing I can think of is that, since this partition was at the bottom of the old

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Is anyone here willing and able to help the OP, or is this thread going to mutate to another subject with the OP dangling in the wind? I agree that the OP could have done much better managing how he expressed his emotions. I also agree that his problem is as yet only very vaguely described. Can w

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 04:38:37PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > I suppose you mean "troll". The etymology of the word "troll" in > this context refers to fishing, not to creatures of german mythology. Maybe that's what trolls do when there's no one on the bridge? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: ghost MB of memory

2006-02-17 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, roberto wrote: On 2/15/06, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i cheked the BIOS setup: the video shared memory is not set; hence the problem is only about this module 'highmem' in the kernel; hence i realized the only one solution is to recompile... if any other way, pl

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:54:11AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > 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 as

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit port > as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and the > Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is just as fast. Does that mean I can just install Debian

Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread Deephay
thx guys, I am trying to use gqview :) - Original Message - From: "kamaraju kusumanchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:08 AM Subject: Re: image view software > Clive Menzies wrote: > >>On (16/02/06 22:01), Deephay wrote: >> >> >>> Anyone can recomme

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Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.17.1557 +0100]: > http://www.soekris.com/ > > or a pc104 architecture? added to my list. I am definitely looking for finished products/boxes, not motherboards for OEM though. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the lis

Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? There's a nice script in /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh that does the job. It is called from mountall.sh at boot time. And it is so nice that is reads the configuration in /etc/default/rcS where you can set TMPTIME to the number of days you want hold old files in

Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? There's a nice script in /etc/init.d/bootclean.sh that does the job. It is called from mountall.sh at boot time. And it is so nice that is reads the configuration in /etc/default/rcS where you can set TMPTIME to the number of days you want hold old files in

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

2006-02-17 Thread Dave Carrigan
Yu,Glen [Ontario] 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? A LVM volume is just a block device so you can put any filesystem on there that you want. However, since one of the benefits of LVM is

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Ron Johnson [Sat, Feb 11 2006, 07:26:30PM]: > > Video card: NVIDIA 128mb dedicated > > This is the video card of choice for Linux. The (closed-source) > 3D driver is excellent. Please, on a laptop? When did they start supporting the power management properly? The free driver works

Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Feb 2006, Jan Johansson wrote: > > >However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it > >without evident errors). > > > >Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems > >particularly relevant. > > > >I don't much like relying on files that have been

Re: AMD 64 X Intel 32

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Iuri Sampaio [Sat, Feb 11 2006, 05:29:53PM]: > 80 GB Hard Disk ... > 120GB HD You asked about performance and do not know more than "X GB"? Please realize that most cheaper laptop harddisks are rotating with 4200 RPM, better ones with 5400 and best with 7200, and there is real speed d

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 10:07, Mike McCarty wrote: > Is anyone here willing and able to help the OP, or is this thread > going to mutate to another subject with the OP dangling in the > wind? Several people have already pointed out that more info is needed. I hope he can get back to us with mo

Re: Kernel 2.6.15 networking works with irqpoll

2006-02-17 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Nil Cire [Thu, Feb 16 2006, 01:01:32AM]: > 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 (Netw

Re: Unable to use sftp with root account

2006-02-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oh yes! recently I added a "/bin/echo bla bla bla" in may .bashrc to have some host info when I log in. Removing that echo solved the problem! Thank you a lot!

enabling wireless

2006-02-17 Thread David Berg
I just switched my laptop from the default ubuntu install to Debian Sarge and the Atheros wireless card (pci not pcmcia) is not recognized as wireless. iwconfig sees it but says there are supposedly "no wireless extentions". Can I get this functional without building my own kernel? I'm running t

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: > Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber -- To

File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread Wodzu Wodzowski
I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? Oglądaj Puchar Jedynki 18 l

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Josep Serrano
> On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? > > Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional

Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
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. > > 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 figur

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. >I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of above file system. > Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > Yes, you can use any partition type you want. B

Re: udev problem

2006-02-17 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 16 February 2006 23:37, Deephay wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with udev here: every time when I > was booting the computer, the udev always show some lines > like this on the console: > "udevd_even: run program /.../.../ failed" (these lines > goes a little bit fast and I cann

Re: lovesong 2006-02-16 23:02 System Events

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
Does anyone know what these logcheck messages mean? It seems to be detecting AGP devices several times a day. I'd understand if it were recognising my video card at boot time, but I reboot *very* rarely. They are probably innocuous, but I've become easily worried since my gateway machine was

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > > So I basically would like to know whats the diffe

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Josep Serrano wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why install

Re: "Error exit delayed from previous errors"

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Jan Johansson wrote: However, the resultant home.tar file appears to be OK (I can extract it without evident errors). Google shows a number of references to this problem but none seems particularly relevant. I don't much like relying on files that have been generated with this error. Any ideas?

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 17 February 2006 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > > kernel-imag

Re: Missing /etc/pam.d/passwd

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > On one of my debian testing machines, the /etc/pam.d/passwd is missing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >ls -1 /etc/pam.d/ > apache2 > ... > common-account > common-auth > common-password > common-session > ... > other > ppp > samba > ... > xscreensaver > > The passwd

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-17 Thread Graham Smith
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit > > port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra features and > > the Althon 64 in 32 bit mode is

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread John Halton
On 2/17/06, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several people have already pointed out that more info is needed. > > I hope he can get back to us with more about what is going on, but with what > he's given us, I know I don't have a suggestion, other than what has been > given. Agreed. There

Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-17 Thread Michael Przysucha
Hello, I want to set up a Bridge/Router which shall include a VPN gateway to a campus network with iptables. First of all: Linux version 2.4.27-2-386 running on a Soekris net4501, 3 NICs, headles, 133MHz, 64MB RAM, 512MB CF-card purpose: I need access to the campus network through the VPN tunn

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:42:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 10:07, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Is anyone here willing and able to help the OP, or is this thread > > going to mutate to another subject with the OP dangling in the > > wind? > > Several people have already po

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
Are you actually receiving mail from the Debian mailing list? When I wrote to you directly just now, I got a spam-filtering challenge, which the automatic email forwarder at Debian is unlikely to be able to respond to. If not, go have a look at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ where you wil

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 17 February 2006 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > [posted to debian-user-digest rather than debian-user?] > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +02

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Josep Serrano wrote: > Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to simply reuse the > bootclean.sh by simply making a symlink. Why installing an addittional > package if > you already have the stuff to the the job? > > Maybe I am wrong and it is a bad idea using bootclean.sh in crond

Re: Routing, Bridging and VPN

2006-02-17 Thread Dexter
I have OpenVpn instaled on my Debian firewall. I use Shorewall to manage firewall. I have 3 interfaces eth0, eth1, eth2 in firewall host (Zones: LAN, DMZ, NET). OpenVPN make 4-th interface tun0 (Zone: VPN). Than I have set up policies and rules for trafic betwen Zones. It is easy to set up and and

Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:01:43 +0800 "Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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! > > Deephay If you used ACDsee before you might like G

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Josep Serrano wrote: >>>On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: >>> Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? >>> >>>Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. >>> >> >> >> Yes, tmpreaper does the job.

Re: image view software

2006-02-17 Thread david robert
try here you can get any software for linux   http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/tools.htmAndrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:01:43 +0800"Deephay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:> Greetings all,> > Anyone can recommend me a good image viewing software?> I am not using Gnome / KDE

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread ke6isf
I'm going to jump in as well. I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make it talk to my networking hardware. My advice is to get Sarge, and go from there - aside from the fact that it seems

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-17 Thread david robert
just follow this http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/time.htm and in this article menctioned that try to install ntpdate packageMarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Baron wrote:> 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 t

Re: Whats the difference

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:33:48AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > Hi all > > I was looking in the list of packages that are available and I came across > these two > > linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 > > kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > > So I basically would like to know whats the difference (apart from t

Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread john gennard
Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 with the AC Adapter. However, last evening I decided to use the battery to see h

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread jlmb
> It would seem that I've been 'sold a pup', but > before getting a new one (assuming one can be found), I > just wondered if anything in the Debian software could be misconfigured. > The battery itself seems in almost pristine > condition to my inexperienced eyes. > No, that battery is damag

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-17 Thread Edward Shornock
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:12:18PM -0800, S Clement 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 avail

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > I've just recharged the battery which took just > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off battery 11 mins > left' quickly followed by 'running out 0 mins left'. > >

Re: Why maybe you should bother

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:42:12AM -0800, ke6isf wrote: > I'm going to jump in as well. > > I've been using Sarge since shortly after its release as stable in June. > Previous experience with Woody (3.0) was lackluster, being unable to make > it talk to my networking hardware. > > My advice is

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
john gennard wrote: Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. So far so good, as the man said when he fell past the twentieth floor. The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used t

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 > Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. > > The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked > well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 > with the AC

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:05:21PM -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: > > I've just recharged the battery which took just > > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off batter

double-sided printing

2006-02-17 Thread hendrik
I use CUPS's xpp. It lets me tell it whether to print double-sided. For files from some programs, it does double-sided when I tell xpp to do so. For postscript files from my own programs, it prints single-sided anyway. What kind of postscript code do I need to use so for end-of-page so that x

Re: bootsplash in sid

2006-02-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:59:26 -0800 "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install bootsplash in sid. Did you have a look at splashy? http://splashy.alioth.debian.org Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread John M Flinchbaugh
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:19:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Once the battery meter warned me that I had 0 minutes left, I rebooted > > it to the LILO prompt, stopped it there and let it drain the battery > > until it just died and couldn't be turned back on. I think it ran for > > nearl

[**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

2006-02-17 Thread Levi Waldron
So I got up this morning (on the west coast, as you hoped), booted up into knoppix again, and started backing up my MBR and first sector of each partition. Then I noticed an icon on the knoppix desktop listing hda7 as a mountable partition, so I thought I'd try it again. Exactly the same way as l

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 01:05:21PM -0500, John M Flinchbaugh wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +, john gennard wrote: I've just recharged the battery which took just over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching to it, in one minute I go

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Craig M. Houck
Your battery she is deceased and no more. The good news is one can be had for not to much. I find on eBay from 1.47 (44 shipping) to about $80 I didn't chekc the shipping) for a thinkpad T20 battery. RbtBotL Craig - ><> oBU SysAdmin /|\ 607 777 6827 ^ Tot Ziens -- To UNSUBS

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