xmove + ssh failure

2006-04-24 Thread Jørn V. Christensen
Hi This is a follow-up on a thread from january 2004 - if this mail is not recognized as a follow-up - please take a look at the problem on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/01/msg01220.html . Root of the problem: When you log into a server with SSH (with X11 forwa

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Serena Cantor wrote: I bought a second-hand Ethernet card, how to test it? Perhaps and over-simple suggestion but... If you give them both an IP address on the same network, you should be able to "ping" one from the other. Regards -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spa

Re: After recent Debian sid upgrade 2.6.16 to 2.6.16, vmware-config.pl fails

2006-04-24 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:04 +, RParr wrote: > I have been running VMware 5.5.1 under Debian sid with 2.6.15 kernel and > X.org 6.8.x. > > Now, after dist-upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel and X.org 7.0 (and a lot of > other upgrades that came along as part of the deal), building vmmon > module via

Re: After recent Debian sid upgrade 2.6.16 to 2.6.16, vmware-config.pl fails

2006-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
RParr wrote: I have been running VMware 5.5.1 under Debian sid with 2.6.15 kernel and X.org 6.8.x. Now, after dist-upgrading to 2.6.16 kernel and X.org 7.0 (and a lot of other upgrades that came along as part of the deal), building vmmon module via vmware-config.pl fails. vmware-config.pl s

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:49 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:19 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > >>My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say, > >>FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add > >>jou

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-24 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 4/23/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:03:46AM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > Just checked, yes I have S20firestarter in rc2.d. But I have no idea about > > the > > rc*.d directories? What are they for? How does this link I have affect > > the start > >

mount --bind and /etc/fstab

2006-04-24 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi all I'm running a webserver for some friends etc. Most of these users only have FTP access (no shell access) and they are chroot'ed in their home directories. Home dirs are under /home but www domains are placed in /var/www and some users are administrating multiple domains. I cannot cre

Re: mount --bind and /etc/fstab

2006-04-24 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Øyvind Lode wrote: Or anyone have a better solution? I don't know about "better", but I do something different. Each user has a "sites" directory in the home area. This is typically structured: ~/sites/www.sitename.com/html/ For some users who ask, I also make a "logs" directory. Users t

Re: [OT] c programming mailing list

2006-04-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Juraj Fedel wrote: Can anybody recommend some mailing list eqivalent or similar to news://comp.lang.c (I do not like to use newgroups)? Umm, comp.lang.c is not about programming, it's about a language. There's a difference. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,3

Fwd: Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install

2006-04-24 Thread Ross Drinen
--- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:22:46 +0200 > From: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:32:58 -0700, Ross Drinen wrote: > > [...] >

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Wu-Kung Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got the same problem. A symlink for firestarter is in the rcN.d > directories and it even shows up as started in the bootlog. But it > doesn't show up in the process list until I manually start it. That > plus it seems to have a memory leak are m

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither grub > nor lilo need the update. Lilo does. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Hasler wrote: Sumo Wrestler writes: As Joris Huizer says, it's the new point release. I'll get it sometime, but not now :) There is no reason not to get it now. Point releases always go smoothly. If you have been doing sec

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andreas Rippl wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:46:56PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Joris Huizer wrote: I don't know exactly why libc6 is upgraded, but the upgrade seems to be part of the 3.1r2 update (see http://release.debian.org/stable/3.1/3.1r2/) I got it too, just

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Øyvind Lode
Serena Cantor wrote: I bought a second-hand Ethernet card, how to test it? I have 2 PCs, both have a Ethernet card, both running Linux. Now I connect them with a line, how to test the connection? Is there Linux command that send a message thru eth0 interface to display on the other PC? Thanks!

Re: [OT] c programming mailing list

2006-04-24 Thread John Hasler
Juraj Fedel wrote: > I do not like to use newgroups Why? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libXda.so

2006-04-24 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:52 -0700, Isabella Thomm wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian unstable and since the last update to the new xorg my > 3d acceleration does not work anymore. glxgears tells that it misses the > accelerated x library libXda.so.1, which was not necessary before. In > which p

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes. You can mount an ext3 system as an ext2 without missing a bit, *EXCEPT* for what is in the journal. If the ext3 partition was not unmounted cleanly, data will be lost. Ext3 does add overhead, and takes up space on the disk, so there are minima

Re: debootstrap fetching nonexistant packages

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:35:18PM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > Moin, Christopher. > Du warst folgender Meinung: > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:43:22PM +0200, Johann Hartwig Hauschild wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I'm trying to install debian sarge with debootstrap. > > > The problem is

Re: Fwd: Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install

2006-04-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 14:25:53 -0700, Ross Drinen wrote: > --- Florian Kulzer wrote: [ note: It is maybe better not to quote full email addresses in the body of the message. This mailing list is archived on many different web sites. The headers normally get obfuscated, but email addresses in

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Michael M.
Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 22 April 2006 21:09, Michael M. wrote: Aunt Matilda is only vaguely aware of what an operating system is, and has no idea that any alternatives exist. Give Aunt Matilda some credit. Odds are if she watches Star Trek or pays any attention to the evenin

Permanent /dev/cdrecorder

2006-04-24 Thread Marco
What's the best startup script to put a # ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrecorder (needed by cdrdao)? Bye, Marco

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Arafangion
Doofus wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: chris roddy wrote: so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your show has gotten tiresome. Might I suggest a filter? Or maybe just pressing delete? I find it mildly ironic that people who flock to a distribution supposedl

Scoop authentication problem

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Ryan
I'm using version 0.9.0-15 of the Scoop CMS, installed via apt-get from the Unstable distribution. When I tried to create a new user account, I got the message "Invalid IP or form key". I threw some debugging statements into /usr/share/perl5/Scoop/Utility.pm and determined that when it unhashes

Re: Fwd: Re: System Locks up after kdevelop install

2006-04-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:41:19AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 14:25:53 -0700, Ross Drinen wrote: > > --- Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [ note: It is maybe better not to quote full email addresses in the body > of the message. This mailing list is archived on many differen

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Colin
Serena Cantor wrote: > I bought a second-hand Ethernet card, how to test it? > > I have 2 PCs, both have a Ethernet card, both running > Linux. Now I connect them with a line, how to test the > connection? Is there Linux command that send a message > thru eth0 interface to display on the other PC

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-24 Thread Miles Bader
BTW, any good recs for drives? Is storagereview.com basically the best place to look? I'm still using a 4.5 GB SCSI disk (with 50-pin interface) as my main storage, and one these days would like to upgrade to something a bit more modern (with only 10x or 20x the space :-)... However, given that

Re: HP Laser Jet 1000

2006-04-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Carl wrote: > A HP Laser Jet 1000 printer and driver was to be installed on a PC > running Debian Etch. Please file this as a bug against foo2zjs, as you describe either problems im the foo2zjs interaction with udev, or a nice howto that might be useful to add to the document

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 April 2006 09:27, Steve Lamb wrote: > I find it > mildly ironic that people who flock to a distribution supposedly for it's > social contract are some of the most anti-social one can run across. I think Chris could just as easily say the same about you. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 April 2006 15:42, Michael M. wrote: > Now Nike and Intel, on the other hand ... everyone here knows them! Now if both companies were forced to hire people locally instead of hiring people from out of state or on H1B's, we would be getting somewhere... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (

Re: libXda.so

2006-04-24 Thread Almut Behrens
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:52:25AM -0700, Isabella Thomm wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian unstable and since the last update to the new xorg my > 3d acceleration does not work anymore. glxgears tells that it misses the > accelerated x library libXda.so.1, which was not necessary before. In >

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-24 Thread lmyho
--- "Matthew R. Dempsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:03:46AM -0700, lmyho wrote: > > Just checked, yes I have S20firestarter in rc2.d. But I have no idea about > > the > > rc*.d directories? What are they for? How does this link I have affect the > start > > of fire

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Serena Cantor
You are right. Thanks! I will buy a crossover, hope it does not cost much, or I will consider buy a hub. PS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not seems to be a valid address,right? --- Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me elaborate on what 0yvind said. > > You cannot directly connect two computer

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael M. wrote: Well, my mom asked me what a "blog" was a few months ago because she heard some newsmodels talking about blogs on TV. So I guess these things can filter down eventually. But she lived in Hillsboro, one town west of Beaverton, and I daresay she had not heard of Linux. My

Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

2006-04-24 Thread lmyho
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Firestarter as such does not need to show up in processes, because it > just activates the native firewall contained in the linux kernel > itself. What you see in the process list is only the GUI. You can > safely shut it down, the firewall will

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Serena Cantor wrote: > You are right. Thanks! I will buy a crossover, hope it > does not cost much, or I will consider buy a hub. > > PS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not seems to be a > valid address,right? > Please don't top post :-) You are correct that it is not a valid address. Since the list a

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:49 +0100, Doofus wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 13:19 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > > >>My personal opinion is that anything "up to date" (as opposed to, say, > >>FAT12) will provide decent service for a desktop machine. I would add > >>jou

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Raquel Rice
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:54:14 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > > > > Well, my mom asked me what a "blog" was a few months ago because > > she heard some newsmodels talking about blogs on TV. So I > > guess these things can filter down eventually. But she li

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:13:06PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > ext2 is definitely faster than ext3. A quick googling turned up a filesystem benchmark comparison at http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html, which shows ext2 and ext3 almost indistinguishable. Do you know of measurements indicating

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:21 -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:54:14 -0700 > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael M. wrote: > > [snip] > > I grew up in Hillsboro several years ago. I'm going back for our > (mumble-mumble)-year high school reunion in August. I a

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Raquel Rice
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:34:05 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:21 -0700, Raquel Rice wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:54:14 -0700 > > Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Michael M. wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > I grew up in Hillsboro several

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 4/24/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the > universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out > shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local? > > -- > Marc Shapiro I feel t

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:26 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:13:06PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > ext2 is definitely faster than ext3. > > A quick googling turned up a filesystem benchmark comparison at > http://linuxgazette.net/122/piszcz.html, which shows ext2 and

Re: Etch and kvpnc

2006-04-24 Thread Grant Thomas
> > [snip backtrace] > > In the manage profiles / certificate/PSK area, can you check the option > "File contains PSK", then point to your pcf file? Does that work? > > Justin Thank you Justin for your help, but it looks like I broke a giant rule. I should really RTFM before I ask for help. Ther

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 24 April 2006 20:52, Serena Cantor wrote: >You are right. Thanks! I will buy a crossover, hope it >does not cost much, or I will consider buy a hub. > Cheap 4 port hubs=$40, half duplex. Cheap 8 port switch=$60, full duplex, which would you buy? -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble wit

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 April 2006 17:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the > universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out > shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local? I don't know. It would be intere

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Matthias Julius
Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm... I know a little about midi, but not much. Since I'm able to > play it with some application, I should think it would be possible > with any... AFAIK Timidity is not really a MIDI application as it does not use the MIDI sequencer. Instead it converts t

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs. So, you re- mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re- mount as ext3. [...] Huh? Are you suggesting that you can't permanently delete a file's data by overwriting the file before deleting it?

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Andreas Rippl wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:46:56PM -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] Hi Sumo, Hi Andreas, I have gone through the update (without giving much thought I have to admit) and there was no trouble here. I guess I didn't give a second thought because

US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Johnson
http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=8364&action=flatview Write your congress critter paper letter and ask them to bring back the Linux version or cancel America's Army for Windows, too. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:19:02PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 24 April 2006 17:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the > > universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out > > shopping. I wonder how many of us on

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > Besides, you can't "wipe" files on a journaling fs. So, you re- > > mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and then re- > > mount as ext3. > > [...] > > Huh? > > Are you

Re: US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:14 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=8364&action=flatview > > Write your congress critter paper letter and ask them to bring back the Linux > version or cancel America's Army for Windows, too. You're smoking crack again,

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-24 Thread IraqiGeek
On Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:15 AM GMT, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 20:52, Serena Cantor wrote: You are right. Thanks! I will buy a crossover, hope it does not cost much, or I will consider buy a hub. Cheap 4 port hubs=$40, half duplex. Cheap 8 port switch=

Re: US Taxpayers: America's Army for Linux cancelled

2006-04-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 24 April 2006 23:14, Paul Johnson wrote: > http://www.linuxgames.com/news/feedback.php?identiferID=8364&action=f >latview > > Write your congress critter paper letter and ask them to bring back > the Linux version or cancel America's Army for Windows, too. Interesting dilemma for any Qua

Re: slimp3 server behaving oddly

2006-04-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-16, Monique Y. Mudama penned: > I run the slimp3 package. Lately I've been using it a lot more than > usual, because I finally put a client box next to my stereo so that > I can listen to my music on decent speakers. > > Anyway. > > It just stopped working. [snip] With no leads, I gav

Re: Permanent /dev/cdrecorder

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Marco wrote: > What's the best startup script to put a > > # ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrecorder > > (needed by cdrdao)? > I guess you are using udev, so add this to /etc/udev/cd-aliases.rules: ENV{ID_CDROM_CD_RW}=="?*", SYMLINK+="cdrecorder%e" HTH, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instru

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Scott
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Your problem boils down to the fact that Thunderbird does not provide any convenient commands to make use of that information. When I was getting increasingly annoyed by this myself (with Mozilla Mail), I came across the fol

Upgrade to KDE 3.5.0 and Kmenu is a mess!

2006-04-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
I upgraded my machine from 3.1r1 to backports in order to get KDE updated, and now I have several dozen links hidden in Lost & Found. I really don't want to configure this manually. Is there a way to update the Kmenu to the latest list easily? Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Horde takes forever to load

2006-04-24 Thread Butch Coolidge
Quoting "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Did you remove or purge? Did you also have to drop the database tables? -Roberto I did remove the packages, not purge. And I did no changes to the database. At first I downgraded horde3 and im4 to the versions in stable. With my current se

wandering network inferfaces

2006-04-24 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am having a small problem with the networking on the Debian Etch system I have installed on my Fujitsu P7120 notebook... The notebook has both wired and a wireless, with the wireless interface sometimes showign up as eth1, and sometimes as eth2. I just booted with /etc/network/interfaces specif

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-24 Thread Willie Wonka
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-06, Tudi LE BLEIS penned: > > On 4/4/06, Monique Y. Mudama <...> wrote: > > > >> Months later, I had filled half my quota, entirely with mailing > >> list entries. But there's no way to delete more than a page of > >> messages at a time via their web interf

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