Re: NFS Not Mounting at Boot

2006-02-23 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Thomas F. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > I'm coming from a long spell in the postgres > lists, where they hate top-posting. :) And do they get irritated by un-edited replies too? -- JR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: spurious C warnings..

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Digby Tarvin wrote: Is the standard available online somewhere? Yes and no. It may be *purchased* online. There are also draft copies online which are free, but are not *exactly* what was adopted as the final draft. Look for N9724.pdf and N9724.txt with Google, or I can shoot you an e-mail with

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

2006-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1828 +0100]: > i am thinking half-hour timeslots and stuff like this: > > madduck:2006-02-28:-1000:0 # sleeping still > madduck:2006-02-28:1000-1030:5 # okay > madduck:2006-02-28:1030-1500:3 # less preferred > madduck:20

Restoring Firefox Passwords/Prefs

2006-02-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
My 'firefox' got hosed again (all I did was to remove the 'downthemall' extension) ... even "firefox -safe-mode" didn't work ... G-R-R-R-R! After first backing up my '.mozilla' directory, I reinstalled 'firefox'. But (of course) all my "saved passwords" (and preferences) are unavailable. Does a

Re: trouble using debian on tft (dvi or vga connector)

2006-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir & Madam, after installing Debian on my machine I encountered a problem when trying to use my TFT-Screen via DVI-Connector, same counts for standard cable. Only when I use my CRT i can see the screen after the boot-up. We need more information about your setup

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-23 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
gtk file chooser uses home dir as default :) and it is MUCH better then kde file chooser (for me) В Втр, 21/02/2006 в 13:57 -0200, Toshiro пишет: > > FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > > being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > > a

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names >> and tells which kernels will work on which ones? > I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/ gives you the information > you seek. If not, what is missing?

Re: using lpr to print to a cups printer

2006-02-23 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
cupsys-bsd В Втр, 21/02/2006 в 13:31 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > I used cups to set up a printer via ipp and it works for kde programs and > gtk programs, but anything that uses lpr (including firefox) does not work. > How can I get lpr to use the cups printer? > Thanks. > > signature.as

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-23 Thread Ralph Katz
I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a good discussion here: Password-less logins with OpenSSH http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152 I prefer to use passwords but only need to enter o

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-23 Thread Toshiro
Well, at least in the first couple of firefox 1.5 versions that were available in sid, it was impossible to select home dir as a target directory; I don't know about the latest versions, I'm using konqueror since then :) Regarding which version is better, I think it's a matter of what you need;

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-23 Thread steef
John Halton wrote: On 2/20/06, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so: i decided to keep mplayer. is at least as good as the rest and without humbug or fancy gui's. i like to *do* classic linux from the command-line. Should you develop a yearning for a "fancy gui" for mplayer, you can alw

Re: Restoring Firefox Passwords/Prefs

2006-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
Kenneth Jacker wrote: My 'firefox' got hosed again (all I did was to remove the 'downthemall' extension) ... even "firefox -safe-mode" didn't work ... G-R-R-R-R! After first backing up my '.mozilla' directory, I reinstalled 'firefox'. But (of course) all my "saved passwords" (and preferences)

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-23 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
Windows has awful file chooser :D If you mean "selecting a program to open a certain file type" -- then it's not a gtk fc fault ;) В Чтв, 23/02/2006 в 17:41 -0200, Toshiro пишет: > Well, at least in the first couple of firefox 1.5 versions that were > available > in sid, it was impossible to sel

Re: Getting Ensoniq 5880 soundcard to work again after 2.4 to 2.6 kernel upgrade.

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-23, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: >> lsmod includes the following: >> >> es1371 36864 0 >> snd_ens137125252 0 > > You're loading both the OSS and ALSA versions of the sound module. You > have to choose just one. I recommend the ALS

Wireless: problems with encryption

2006-02-23 Thread Magnus Therning
I'm about to start pulling my hair over this damn wireless issue. I had it all working this morning, but without any sort of encryption on my wireless router. Then I turn WPA (PSK) back on, and now no amount of configuration can even make scanning work :-( # lspci |grep Ra :00:07.0 Network

Re: spurious C warnings..

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Digby Tarvin wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Is the standard available online somewhere? Yes and no. It may be *purchased* online. There are also draft copies online which are free, but are not *exactly* what was adopted as the final draft. Look for N9724.pdf and N9724.txt with Google, or I can sho

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 11:55, Adam Funk wrote: > On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a table anywhere that lists processors by their common names > >> and tells which kernels will work on which ones? > > > > I hope the list on http://www.debian.org/ports/ giv

Re: Restoring Firefox Passwords/Prefs

2006-02-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
Florian: Thanks for the prompt, "full featured" help to my problem! I'll apply your ideas when I return home tonight ... Thanks again, -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Lale
Juergen Fiedler wrote: Hello, I used to run Nessus on a semi-regular basis to make sure that my firewall is still doing what it is supposed to do. With the latest version of Nessus not actually being all that free anymore, I find myself looking for alternatives: Something that looks for open po

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:24:53PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > >>Greetings all, >> >> I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as >> apt-get? >>thx! >> >>Deephay > > > You could try apt-cacher, which is basically a caching proxy. > > HTH, > --j

Re: Problem recording sound

2006-02-23 Thread steef
W Rockbell wrote: Hi, I have a Creative Sound Blaster Live! card and configured it using alsaconf. It works perfectly, except that I can't record with it. I was trying to record a piece of audio from a video. So I tried using sound-record command while I was playing the video: sound-recorder

SERA VOCE PRA ME BEIJAR?

2006-02-23 Thread eu
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Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:30:18PM +, Chris Lale wrote: > Juergen Fiedler wrote: [looking for alternatives to nessus] > There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. > > Chris. This far, I have only used Snort as an IDS. I hear that it can be used for other purposes, too, b

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
> There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System -- "Meine Hoffnung soll mich leiten Durch die Tage ohne Dich Und die Liebe soll mich tragen Wenn der Schmerz die Hoffnung bricht"

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-23, Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It gives the information -- but not in a dumbed-down enough format for >> me. For example, nowhere on that page is the word "Xeon" mentioned, >> so if I bought a Xeon computer, for example, I wouldn't know from that >> page alone to insta

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-23 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM -0600, Grant Thomas wrote: > Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or > like Spotlight in OS X? > Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder: > A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of saved searches.

iptables and syslog

2006-02-23 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hello, a couple of years ago I designed a firewall with iptables. I wrote some rules of the kind: iptables .. -LOG The packages that mathed the rule were displayed in /var/log/syslog. Now I have had to change the firewall, since I had some errors I have written some rules like iptables -A

Re: Limiting scp access

2006-02-23 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
You may also want to look at SCPONLY. Description: Restricts the commands available to scp- and sftp-users "scponly" is an alternative 'shell' (of sorts) for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote e

anyone using unionfs yet? merging package states needs some tools

2006-02-23 Thread Nic
So I've just started playing with unionfs as a way of dealing with the many different projects I've got on my laptop. I keep a root fs for each "thing" that I'm doing. I use unionfs to minimize disc space... I can have one main fs (or one per debian issue) and lots of directorys keeping updates fo

mod_auth_mysql (apache2) and utf8 charset?

2006-02-23 Thread mueller-w
hallo! i tried to setup mod_auth_mysql on apache2 (sarge) to use groups authnetication (the user authentication works). the group query fails with a mysql error: ERROR 1267 (HY000): Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE) and (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation 'find_in_set'

Re: debian-user and mutt...

2006-02-23 Thread Rob Sims
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:04:24AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-02-09 15:27:22, schrieb Digby Tarvin: > > There is nothing incorrect in my headers as far as I know, but I do > > use a 'Reply-to:' to make sure that mail goes to my mailbox rather > > than just back to wherever I happened

Re: debian-user and mutt...

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Rob Sims wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:04:24AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-02-09 15:27:22, schrieb Digby Tarvin: Oh no! The "header munging" Thread From Hell Which Will Not Die has resurrected. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This

Re: install help with tosiba laptop

2006-02-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:42 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote: > I am trying to install debian for the first time and after i install > disk 1 (Stable release 3.1r1 - 'Sarge') and hit enter to boot my > computer keeps getting hunging up on "detecting hardware to find > CD-ROM drives" screen at 2% comple

Re: cdparanoia hangs

2006-02-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Thomas H. George on 23/02/06 17:52, wrote: Given the command to rip a track - e.g. cdparanoia 3 - the program starts to rip the track, then hangs with a message: ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: ATAPI reset complete This repeats until I use top to find paranoia's PID and kill the pr

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-23 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2006 14:24 schrieb Deephay: > Greetings all, > > I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as > apt-get? thx! > > Deephay Hi, you may have a look at apt-proxy regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: install help with tosiba laptop

2006-02-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
todd, please keep replies on the list. thanks. also use inline responses, it makes for better readability. On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote: > do i need to know much to go through this? this is my first debian > install (or any linux experience, for that matter) and i am a

Re: install help with tosiba laptop

2006-02-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/23/06, Matt Zagrabelny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > todd, > > please keep replies on the list. thanks. > also use inline responses, it makes for better readability. > > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 18:22 -0500, Todd Swackhamer wrote: > > do i need to know much to go through this? this is my first deb

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-23 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 2/23/06, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp > and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a > good discussion here: > > Password-less logins with OpenSSH > http://www.debian-administration.org/art

Re: Getting Ensoniq 5880 soundcard to work again after 2.4 to 2.6 kernel upgrade.

2006-02-23 Thread Colin
Adam Funk wrote: > /etc $ grep -r 1371 modutils/ > modutils/sndconfig:alias sound-slot-0 es1371 > > I haven't tampered with anything in /etc/modutils/ yet -- should I > edit modutils/sndconfig and replace es1371 with snd_ens1371. Yes, do this > I've just tried > # rmmod es1371 > but it didn't he

Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable to avoid! I lost a day tracking it down and finally found that

Re: logrotate question

2006-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:12, Michael Schurter wrote: >Chris Brandstetter wrote: >> Also, on kind of a side note, I usually setup /var on a seperate >> partition so that if it does become full you still have access to >> your system, and it will mostly still function as normal. > >While this

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: >> There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. > >Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion > Detection System Agreed. Portsentry and tcpwrappers, along with iptables, has kept me safe and i

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Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads

2006-02-23 Thread Michael M.
Rogério Brito wrote: And another suggestion would be to use rtorrent, which is much less fat than using bittornado, the original bittorrent client or azureus (which needs a Java Virtual Machine environment to be run). Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude com

Re: gnome broken ????

2006-02-23 Thread mslinuz
Ray Lanza wrote: > I tried that and a bunch of other stuff. I even created a new account > expecting it to initialize properly on the first login but symptoms > were the same, three icons on the desktop but no panels. KDE seems to > works okay except that the window system hangs when you logout.

Re: Really stupid question...

2006-02-23 Thread mslinuz
Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:17 +0700, mslinuz wrote: Andy Anderson wrote: Okay, I'm sure everyone here knows how to do this except me... I have a server with some disk space shared using Samba. Each user has an account and a home share. When

Re: just a little OT: online meeting coordinator sought

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:13:31PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.23.1828 +0100]: > > i am thinking half-hour timeslots and stuff like this: > > > > madduck:2006-02-28:-1000:0 # sleeping still > > madduck:2006-02-28:1000-1030:5

Re: machine crashes with kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:31:40AM -0600, Karen Larson wrote: > Or is there really a kernel bug? > > Replacing the network card won't solve the original problem however as > there should be no networking involved, only USB file transfers. > > Karen Hi Karen, those message refer to some sort of n

Unreadable DVDs

2006-02-23 Thread Damien Solley
Greetings, I am trying to write single session DVD+R discs under Debian Etch (and previously also in Sarge). I have tried Nautilus CD/DVD burner and K3b. Both programs apparently write the disks and report a successful burn. However, the disks cannot be mounted or read on this or any other machine.

Where has the plain acute character gone

2006-02-23 Thread Joerg M. Sigle
Hello. I'm using Debian 3.1 in an, until recently, regularly updated system, in Germany. I am desperately trying to make bash (or xterm or konsole using bash) display an "acute" (034, b54 or so) character. In ancient times, one could display such a character using the acute key, and then the sp

2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread Bradley Alexander
I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees consol

Re: Re: bash: make: command not found

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Tellamalla
Title: Re: Re: bash: make: command not found Hi, I am not getting make command in my Cygwin bash window , What is should do, Can I install separately for this make. Thanks&Regards Robert T [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: bash: make: command not found

2006-02-23 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Robert Tellamalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.24 00:00]: > I am not getting make command in my Cygwin bash window , > What is should do, You should ask for help at the proper place: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- JR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: 2.6.15 boot problems

2006-02-23 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:41, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from > 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). > > With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of > the boot

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your extraordinarily clear explanation of what was going on and plan for proceeding. I read it and this is what I did. I used the fact that my partitions were /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda2 / /dev/hda3 /home and all i had on the extended partition was the swap

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Mitchell Laks wrote: Dear Mike, Thank you very much for your extraordinarily clear explanation of what was going on and plan for proceeding. I read it and this is what I did. You are welcome. [snip] 1. I Backed up all my /home data via rsync to another machine. Good! [snip] Because yo

question about sound recording

2006-02-23 Thread Serena Cantor
I have sarge and use default kernel and cs4281 module. I can't record audio part of TV signals. The capture tool is producer, by real.com When I am in woody, I compile kernel 2.4, and watch TV and exit xawtv, I still can hear sound of TV, so producer can record both audio and video. Now in sarge

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:29:15PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >>>Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 > >>>chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about > >>>these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the > >>>GPL'd rt2500 d

On rtorrent (was: Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads)

2006-02-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Michael and others. On Feb 23 2006, Michael M. wrote: > Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude > complained when I marked it for installation. That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in fact, I always track testing) and I *do* have rtor

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