Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Brad Sawatzky wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Ali Milis wrote: > >> > >>>Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >>> > The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are > fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days

xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. here is a part of the Xorg.log (**) Generic Keyboard: Core Keyboard (**) Option "Protocol" "standard" (**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard (**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30" (**) Option "Xkb

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: A related question is how to do it without taking the machine down uncleanly or fiddling an arcane file somewhere. I've thought about perhaps doing... To my understanding it's not a good idea to do a fsck to a mounted filesystem. If your question is 'how to _force_ a fsck w

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from > XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. [...] > No core pointer > > The problem seems to be the mouse or touchpad. The computer is a laptop > (Compaq Presario 21

Re: debian vs redhat

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 00:32 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:03 -0700, charles norwood wrote: > > > >> Debian stable may be able to run on an unplugged computer > >> > > > > Maybe it's because you use Stable? Why I unplug the machine while > >

Re: debian vs redhat

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:37 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > solid. Debian stable may be able to run on an unplugged > ^ > > > computer > > any machine can boot and run in the unplugge

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:33:48AM -0400, Andrew Cady wrote: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > > I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from > > XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. > > [...] > > > No core pointer > > > > The problem se

Debian documentation question

2006-04-06 Thread Achim Stumpf
Hi NG,   I am trying to install Debian Sarge on a Scenic xl-1184. and it doesn't work out.   So I read the installation manual and in chapter 5.3.5 Bug Reporter is written:   If you get through the initial boot phase but cannot complete the install, the bug reporter menu choice may b

Re: Upgraded to FVWM 2.5 and I need help.

2006-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-04-05 18:32:38 -0500, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > 3) VNC viewer does not work with fvwm 2.5. Is there a known work around. I use both VNC and fvwm (package version: 2.5.16-2), and I don't have any problem. I'm affected only by these fvwm bugs: 263945 (apparently due to uninitialized da

vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all.A little, stupid,  question.It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss data?(...i hope i hope i hope...)Thanks!

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Doofus
Bruno Buys wrote: Raju, The lists are spammed, I agree. But being able to post without subscription is part of the openness Debian wants to achieve. I'll never accept this reasoning. To my mind it takes openness to a level that just causes unnecessary grief for many legitimate users. Why

GC85 PCMCIA modem

2006-04-06 Thread Dexter
Hi, i have SonyErisson GC85 pcmcia modem. I don`t know, how to set it. Can somebody tel me? I tried this: # cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "Sony Ericsson", "GC85 PC Card", "ML2022" manfid: 0x0221, 0x2000 function: 2 (serial) # # wvdialconf Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'. Scanning your ser

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread linux
Zitat von Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss > data? Why don't you save all your data (what you always should do if you are planning something like that), create your ext3-partition and copy your data back. No data should

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:24, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. > A little, stupid, question. > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss > data? > (...i hope i hope i hope...) Not gonna happen unless you back everything up and restore from backup to the ext3 media

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Søren Christensen wrote: I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. [...] (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSe

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Yes, of course.But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!!If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before formatting in ext3 HD! Thanks - i'll procede with backup:-( On 4/6/06, Paul J

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Doofus
Pascal Hakim wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:21:47AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: John Hasler wrote: raju writes: Is there anything that can be done with lists.debian.org that cannot be done through google groups? Is there anything that can be done with goo

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Quite possibly you can fix this by finding the new device node of your > touchpad and putting that into your xorg.conf. The device node is > probably in the /dev/input directory, for example /dev/input/mouse0. A > quick way to try it

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from XFree86 > to Xorg, but it will not start. > > here is a part of the Xorg.log [...] > (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device > (EE) PreInit failed for input

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: Quite possibly you can fix this by finding the new device node of your touchpad and putting that into your xorg.conf. The device node is probably in the /dev/input directory, for example /dev/input/mouse0.

Re: Debian Sarge server frozen (em64t-p4-smp)

2006-04-06 Thread Simon
On 4/6/06, listrcv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon wrote: > > Hi There, We have a mail server (postfix>amavis>dbmail) running debian > > sarge (2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp) running dual xeons with a tyan > > motherboard and 3ware hardware raid5. Everything has been running fine > > up to now, but in th

icewm and keys

2006-04-06 Thread Jesus Arocho
I am having problems configuring the keys in icewm. The box is running Mandriva. I downloaded and compiled the most recent icewm. The problem is that some of the keys I configure do not work. F1 and F2 are ok F3 and on are not. Of the Alt+Ctrl sequence, r and b do not work. key "F1"

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro > >Did you install the 64 bit version? > >> (etch/sid) on my amd64 dual core system

Re: various parts of gnome up the creek

2006-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
Justin Guerin on 06/04/06 01:34, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I can't get the sound back on (even though I see the esd daemon sitting there) and the shell launchers in x give me "error creating child process". I also see lots of different apps saying: /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 131: /dev/null: Per

Who is?RPSL format?

2006-04-06 Thread Oskar Abley
Hi I don't know if you can help or direct me this link came up when I tried to find out who was accessing my computer notified by my firewall. when I did a back trace it gave me the Ripe message. Is there an easier way than doing compiling as a am not a programmer although played with pascal a few

Re: Debian Sarge server frozen (em64t-p4-smp)

2006-04-06 Thread listrcv
Simon wrote: so that would mean going from kernel-image-2.6.8-9-em64t-p4-smp to kernel-image-2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp? Is this correct given your comment above? Hm, hard to say, check out http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=kernel-image-2.6&searchon=names&subword=1&ver

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Søren Christensen wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:44:00AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > >>Quite possibly you can fix this by finding the new device node of your > >>touchpad and putting that into your xorg.conf. The device

Re: various parts of gnome up the creek

2006-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
Justin Guerin on 06/04/06 01:34, wrote: What versions are your running? Both of Debian (sarge, etch, sid, mix?) and of the failing programs. Are any packages in a broken state, unconfigured, or otherwise not installed properly? I.e. does apt-get install (whatever) suggest you do an apt-get -f

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:51:30AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > > Can you quote: > > 1. the total number of posts from all sources received by the d-u list > servers in the last twelve months, > > 2. the number of posts received by non list members in the same period, Presumably you mean *from* non-

Re: tex broken

2006-04-06 Thread David Wainberg
Thank you for your response. Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The same version of pdfetex works fine for me. (Debian Sid, "tetex-bin" > package version 3.0-16) Yes, I am using the same version. > Did you try to specify the full path explicitly, > starting from root, e.g. "latex /ho

No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Andre Pannes
Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ I have loaded this at 2005 on your Ftp Server and it works great now i must have a new DVD Editon for Private and Job (There handled better

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Mark
Andre Pannes wrote: Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? Because of it's size. I guess the Debian team can handle a cd or two beeing downloaded. But when they start to distribute DVD's it's time to consider other very nice technologies,

Re: Who is?RPSL format?

2006-04-06 Thread Mark
Oskar Abley wrote: -- IMPORTANT: This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediately by return email and delete the do

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hello! Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 14:09 schrieb Andre Pannes: > Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? Do you realy have to download the complete DVD? Isn't the netinstaller-CD enough? Last time, I saw many magazines with a sarge-DVD. So, maybe. Frank -- Daß

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before > formatting in ext3 HD! Sti

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread dusan . vodopivec
> Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? > Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ Try http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r1/i386/iso-dvd/ Greetings dulev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:09:40 +0200 (MEST) Andre Pannes wrote: > > > Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. > > Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? > > Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ > > I have loaded this at 2005 on your Ftp Server and it works g

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andres Pannes wrote: > >Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. > >Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? > >Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ > >I have loaded this at 2005 on your Ftp Server and it works great now i must >have a new DVD Editon for Private

how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Cheers, IVan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before > formatting in ext3 HD! Sti

Re: ntp.conf and ntpd

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:57 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Is there a way to configure ntpd to listen to a select number of > interfaces? I have it set up on a virtual server and the ntpd program has > attached itself to hundreds of interfaces. If you were to look at the ntp-docs th

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Miquel van Smoorenburg [Thu, Apr 06 2006, 10:29:00AM]: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need exactly 64 bits, int64 is your best bet. If you need > at least 64 bits, long long will probably work fine. I guess you mean int64_t and uin

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Ott
> Hi all, > since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the > temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure > that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Here is an example for an Thinkpad laptop. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_scr

squirrelmail-configure changed mysteriously

2006-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.6-1 on a system that is mostly sarge with some etch packages. This morning, tripwire reported that /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure has changed and indeed, in line 388, 'Organization Title' was changed to 'Organization Ditle'. I am not aware of upgrading Squirrel

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] in /dev/input/ I find 13 files: event[0-3] js[0-3] mice mouse[0-3] I get the same message, with each file: no such device [..] If I remember correctly the upgrade from Sarge to Etch takes you f

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Frank Lanitz wrote: Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before formatting

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having > /var and /home on

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd!A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert filesystem in one step.Sure, i've already done a backup copy, and already fdisk & mkfs.ext3 the hd!Thanks anyway! On 4/6/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: F

Re: Who is?RPSL format?

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Oskar Abley wrote: -- IMPORTANT: This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediatel

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread listrcv
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having /v

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Michael Ott wrote: Hi all, since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Here is an example for an Thinkpad laptop. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/AC

Re: horde ?!?

2006-04-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:25:57 +0200 "Meni Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello plp, > > Sorry for the off-list question: > does anyone know what happen to horde.org ??? > I can't reach it by web nor ping nor traceroute...nothing?? > can anyone try: > http://www.horde.org > > Is it just me o

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Doofus wrote: Can you quote: H! Someone calling for reasoned, rational discussion! H! Someone start a flamewar, instanter!!! 1. the total number of posts from all sources received by the d-u list servers in the last twelve months, 2. the number of posts received

Re: debian vs redhat -fair

2006-04-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 However, Woody (which was released analogous to RH9) was just as rock solid stable as Sarge. I agree completely that we must compare relatively equal systems, but doing so does not change the outcome: Debian Stable lives up to its name. I was using

Re: Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-06 Thread Doug Miller
On 4/5/06, Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I could not locate the description of the switches, for example what is > > wep_tx_keyidx=0 > > wep_tx_keyidx=0 will use the '0' WEP for transmission. Usually you have 4 WEP keys, labeled 0 through 3. By default you ususally use the 0 key for eve

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: AMD decided that, to help with compatibility with s/w written when sloppy programmers assumed that sizeof(int) == sizeof(*), integers

default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
Hello.  I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian.  Also, is it the same for all linux systems? 

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. At 03:20 PM 4/6/2006 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: >Hi all, >since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the >temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees.

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops its very common to at least dramatically slow down system fans when they're not needed. When modern laptops are in an idle or nea

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Craig M. Houck: > > You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. When you are using a Pentium M processor and have almost no load, it is intended behaviour that the fan doesn't run. That's the whole point of thi

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Michael Schurter wrote: Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops its very common to at least dramatically slow down system fans when they're not needed. When modern lapt

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
Michael; Thanks for the heads up on that. I missed the fact that this was a laptop...AND I just built a new box with a P4. Yes, a P4 would make smoores very nicely!! >> You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan >> on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to s

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Brad Sawatzky wrote: On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: A related question is how to do it without taking the machine down uncleanly or fiddling an arcane file somewhere. I've thought about perhaps doing... FYI, if you simply want to force a fsck on the next boot (ignoring the various

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/group to get the textual gro

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:51:30AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > > Can you quote: I can't do the last twelve months, as we don't keep our data that far back, and some of these numbers have to be counted invidually, but here are the numbers for March. Due to our multi step filtering process I can't

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
'lo, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Doofus wrote: > > > >Can you quote: > > H! Someone calling for reasoned, rational discussion! > H! Someone start a flamewar, instanter!!! > > >1. the total number of posts from all sources received b

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Even if we assume that I fell asleep on the page down key while counting 4., and guess that I missed half, we're still talking about blocking over 800 valid messages. 25/37700 works out to be 0.066% of spam not being blocked. It's still annoying of cour

Re: debian vs redhat

2006-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:03 -0700, charles norwood wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:58 -0700, John wrote: Hi, just wanted to say I've used various versions of linux, and have mainly stuck with redhat/fedora (yeah, I know), but the latest versions have sort of bothered me. So

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: > >Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in > >debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? > > All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) o

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I do not need to cool down my processor down to 37 degrees, as it is in > the moment. I need to make my fan speed dependent on the cpu > temperature. This will save battery & reduce noise. Any idea how to do > that? btw, I have loaded the

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Albert Dengg wrote: at least in my expirience if the user has write permisions in the diectory only because of a certain group membership (for example in /usr/src with the src group) the gid of the file is set to respective group and not the users primary group. Excellent point. Thanks for th

Re: dpkg-repack question

2006-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The md5sum of your recreated package does not match the md5sum of the package in the archive (according to the package listing downloaded from the archive). Since they both have identical version numbers, apt is (rightly) convinced that y

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: > > ChadDavis wrote: > > >Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in > > >debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? > >

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:52:51PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > OK, so at the moment both are not installed, but their configuration > files are still present. The last versions that were installed > correspond to the old "matching pair" from Sarge. These were probably > removed because of depen

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael Schurter wrote: ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/gr

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Pascal Hakim wrote: 'lo, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: I predict that (1) two already-formed factions will immediately chime in (2) a near flame war will ensue (3) no such figures will be forthcoming Sorry. No, no; as I wrote below I'm *hoping* to be pr

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:58:55AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: ... > That should only happen if you have the setgid flag set on the > parent directory. ah sorry i forgot... i _have_ learned that sometime in the past... now that you mention it i remeber ;) yours albert pgpdH2FXP8c4L.pgp Descripti

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
listrcv wrote: Sorry to reply to you, but I can't find the message you replied to. Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown w

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops, often the CPU is put into some sort of "low power mode" in which most functions are shut down, and the CPU can run without a fan in

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:24 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. > A little, stupid, question. > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without > loss data? > (...i hope i hope i hope...) > Thanks! No one has written a FAT->ext2 converter similar to the FAT->NTFS converter t

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. here is a part of the Xorg.log [...] (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:29 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro > > >

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:02:06AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > > without hosing your con

Postgresql module of Freeradius on Debian

2006-04-06 Thread lmyho
Hello All, I am working on a project which need postgresql and freeradius to work together. I have installed postgresql on the Debian system, and recently freeradius-1.1.0. But during the test, we found that the freeradius software installed on the debian doesn't have the postgresql module we ne

win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe?

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > > without hosing your connection), remount ro

help connecting two debians via dial up

2006-04-06 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello: I'm trying to connect two debians using two modems, but I've a misconfiguration on mgetty and ppd that close the connection after I saw a prompt, I need to have the prompt on the second computer. Could somebody advice me where I can find the right documentation for my case. Thanks i

[SOLVED]Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > Thank you, Florian, I'll try this out in the evening. I think this > should work, it sounds right. > > Thanks again. > A kernelupgrade and a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg was enough to get X running again. Needs some smaller a

SOLVED: group use of a Windows game in Wine (WAS: default group ownership of a file)

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: > > ChadDavis wrote: > > >Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in > > >debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? > >

Debian package for Freeradius_Postgresql module

2006-04-06 Thread lmyho
Hello All, We have a project which is built on postgresql and freeradius on debian system. I have installed postgresql-8.1 on the Debian system, and lately freeradius-1.1.0 also. Things seems ok, but when we started to test, we found that the postgresql module of freeradius is missing in the debi

No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hello all I running a webserver with multiple users and domains. I want some users to have no shell access, only FTP access to upload websites and chroot'ed in their home directory. I have all the domains located in /home/www/domainname1/ , /home/www/domainname2/ etc. I give the user proper

Re: tex broken

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
David Wainberg wrote: Thank you for your response. Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The same version of pdfetex works fine for me. (Debian Sid, "tetex-bin" package version 3.0-16) Yes, I am using the same version. Did you try to specify the full path explicitly, starting from

Re: icewm and keys

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:40:54 -0400 Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having problems configuring the keys in icewm. The box is running > Mandriva. I downloaded and compiled the most recent icewm. > > The problem is that some of the keys I configure do not work. F1 and F2 are > ok

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? To actually answer your question: files are saved with the user and group ownerships of the effective user. For almost all applications, this is the user

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:30:07AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:26:13AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > >>drifting OT, but to help improve your "snappiness" try some of the > >>lightwieght WM's (like IceWM) or a tiled one like

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe? That depends. What is win-axe? -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:18, Øyvind Lode wrote: > I give the user proper access to the domain under /home/www/. > I chroot'ed the user in /home/www/domainname1/ > I gave shell /bin/false > > User is denied shell access but also FTP!!! > If I give /bin/bash and test the user is logged inn and chroo

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Tudi LE BLEIS
On 4/4/06, Monique Y. Mudama <...> wrote: > On 2006-04-04, Pascal Hakim penned: > > I'm sorry, but I don't believe you can say something is another > > user's responsability. The last thing the listmaster team wants to > > have to do is to go through every message that has leaked the > > headers an

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Doofus
Pascal Hakim wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:51:30AM +0100, Doofus wrote: Can you quote: I can't do the last twelve months, as we don't keep our data that far back, and some of these numbers have to be counted invidually, but here are the numbers for March. Due to our multi st

Re: ntp.conf and ntpd

2006-04-06 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Thanks, Ken On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:57 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Is there a way to configure ntpd to listen to a select number of > > interfaces? I have it set up on a virtual server and the ntpd program has > > attached itself t

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