Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Anil Gupte
I have DSL on a USB. But is it Debian? Actually I am going to be installing MythTV on this system, and I am not sure DSL can handle it. Even if it can, it may need some one more knowledgeable about Linux than me to make it work with DSL. :-( I know how to insall Myth on Debian. Thanx, Anil

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you take a look into the emacs info pages or the text file /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/DOC-21.4 (depending on your emacs version)? I use a line like emacs*Font: 7x13 in my .Xdefaults file. Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
Hi All, Recently I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.17-1-686, and found that suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk both works well. But when I want to install linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686, dpkg gives the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 Reading package l

Re: Directory overwriting

2006-07-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> When I copy a file into the present directory, with: >> >> $ cp /path/to/file . >> >> , if the file already exists it is overwritten, i.e. the `old one' >> is removed and the `new one' takes its place. >> Instead, with directories it is not the same: >> when I do: >> >>

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 03 July 2006 07:10, Anil Gupte wrote: > BlankNeed help and advice. > > I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done > two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was > going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. > > This system happen

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 7/2/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: He is probably talking about this feature of Bash from "man bash": Sure, I'm talking about it. How can I obtain those device onto Debian? ~# cat /dev/tcp/localhost/80 cat: /dev/tcp/localhost/80: No such file or directory -- Openclose.it - Idee pe

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar > installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that > Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword) is > using. It seems

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:01:06AM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On 7/2/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >He is probably talking about this feature of Bash from "man bash": > > Sure, I'm talking about it. How can I obtain those device onto Debian? > > ~# cat /dev/tcp/localhost/80 > ca

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on constant reboots. The apps, logs

problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello! And first of all many thanks to the developers of Debian GNU/Linux for the very reliable distribution! Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2006-07-03 Thread Arvind Marathe
Hi all, I am new to linux and newer to debian. I did a very stupid thing today. I needed to run the crystallography software ccp4, when i tried doing it, it said the 'libc.so.6' does not exist. So i transferred the file from a fedora core 3 machine to the debian machine. ccp4 did run for a while. B

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2006-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1151942614 past the epoch, Arvind Marathe wrote: ... > said the 'libc.so.6' does not exist. So i transferred the file from a ... ^^ > chroot: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.s0.6: file too short ^^ I'm gue

Re: Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1151878384 past the epoch, Dirk wrote: > I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't > remember on different machines (all with debian) and > randomly they bitch around giving me 421! How randomly? It would be helpful to know at which stage they offer the 421. According to RFC 959, it is

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1151929950 past the epoch, Serban Udrea wrote: > A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding > problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages > fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version > installed I tried to upgrade but after

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Serban Udrea
Hello, And thank you for your answer! Unfortunately there are more then two weeks since the security anouncement was sent. How much can it take to update mirrors?! Is there any other source I could use besides security.debian.org to make security updates. Best regards, Serban Udrea Jon Dowl

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread George Borisov
amateur wrote: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.17 but it is > not installable > E: Broken packages Welcome to unstable. ;-) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368544 With luck this should b

Re: Limiting bandwidth used

2006-07-03 Thread George Borisov
Peter Colton wrote: > > have a look at the link below, it may be able to give you a starting > point > for packet shaping for your situation. > > http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/computers/traffic_shaping.html Somebody actually visits my website! Woot! :-D Unfortunately, it may not be all t

Re: config file for bittornado command-line options?

2006-07-03 Thread Anonyma
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been using the bittornado command-line clients on linux and I > > want to know how to set --max_upload_rate --max_download_rate > > --minport and --maxport somewhere like a home-directory dotfile so I > > don't have to remember to set them every ti

quotaon fails - "Quota format not supported in kernel"

2006-07-03 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
I'm attempting to enable quotas on a Sarge system running a custom 2.6.17.3 kernel. # grep -i quota /boot/config-`uname -r` CONFIG_QUOTA=y CONFIG_QUOTACTL=y # quotaon -uv / quotaon: using //aquota.user on /dev/hda3 [/]: No such process quotaon: Quota format not supported in kernel. I've posted

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Serban Udrea wrote: Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version installe

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at /dev/sg1. > > It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that /dev/sg1 is not

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > amateur wrote: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686: Depends: linux-kbuild-2.6.17 but it is > > not installable > > E: Broken packages > > Welcome to unstable. ;-) >

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-03 Thread George Borisov
Bob Smither wrote: > > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. Hmm, I can boot from my Vaio PCMCIA CD-ROM drive. I did need to add "ide2=0x180,0x386" wh

New user can't write in /var/log

2006-07-03 Thread debian
Hi,   I have a new user that must be able to write in /var/log/ An application makes a file overthere and deletes in automatically. I can make it with root and change it with chmod but when it is deleted, it cannot be created again. Maybe stupid question, but how can i give a regular user f

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-03 Thread George Borisov
Lothar Braun wrote: > > But isn't this a bug anyways? I would expect OpenOffice to run without > gnome-specific extra packets. > Can someone explain to me why i need them? You don't anymore (at least in Sid,) as there is now an openoffice.org-gtk package. :-) Hope this helps, -- George Boriso

Re: New user can't write in /var/log

2006-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:48:04PM +0200, debian wrote: > I have a new user that must be able to write in /var/log/ No, you don't. A user has no reason to be able to write in /var/log. > An application makes a file overthere and deletes in automatically. Then it's a poorly-written application.

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-03 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Marc Shapiro wrote: > I have not done the upgrade, yet, so I have a question. I do not run > either KDE, or Gnome. Is this going to be a problem for me? Do I need > to install packages for a DE that I don't even run? Or should I wait > until they fix this before upgrading? You can install "op

modprobe mystery - application not started

2006-07-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i'm trying to configure the intel pro wireless 3945 network card to work on my machine. i installed the ieee80211 stack, the ipw3945 driver, the firmware and also the binary daemon. when started from the installation directory (as suggested for testing) everything works fine - the c

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 7/3/06, amateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IMHO, /dev/tcp/localhost/80 is just a virtual device specific to bash. Or you can think it as a abstract name. It doesn't really exist on the filesystem. So you can't use cat to access this file. It can only be read/written by bash. Like this:

mess

2006-07-03 Thread Francesco Pietra
I succeded alone to set up everything in order, wine included. No help needed anymore. francesco _ I forgot to present the problem of wine failure to launch also to the wine list. While my amd64 debian etch is in order, 32 bit debian etch has suffered much and is now in

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Monday 03 July 2006 16:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > but still, istm that for some reason rsync doesn't realise that you > > haven't changed everything. maybe you need to go through it once and > > then its alright after that? just a thought. > > Interesting. I c

Re: How to perform search in gnome terminal?

2006-07-03 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Jochen Schulz wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Search for a word or an expression in the whole terminal `history'. This is very useful, almost indispensable in some cases. I used to use that quite often with KDE graphical environment, before switching to Gnome. A

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote: > > > >i guess i was always under the impression that security updates were > >always for "stable" (sarge) ... sorry. It used to be that way. It changed recently. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-03 Thread Bob Smither
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Bob Smither wrote: > > > > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb drive. > > Hmm, I can boot fr

apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Ishwar Rattan
How does one install the upgrade that was downloaded as: apt-get upgrade -d -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:15:35AM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > How does one install the upgrade that was downloaded as: > >apt-get upgrade -d > > -ishwar just run apt-get upgrade everything that is already downloaded won't be downloaded aga

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:55:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Derek wrote: > > > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could > > lead to a accidental upgrade. > That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable, > testing or unstable, you don

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Vaughan wrote: I've seen entering/leaving daylight savings do something similar with Windows shares rsynced to linux. It might be worth letting rsync copy a few of the files to a temp location, and manually comparing timestamps/permissions etc. OK. I'll give that a shot. -Rober

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 05:51:21PM +0200, Lothar Braun wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 17:31 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > > The radio and check buttons appears 2 (radio) and 3 (check) times in > > OpenOffice.org: http://bitassa.com/stuff/ooocheckandradio.png > > > > Seems that is after the

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas Jollans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is the train car > currently parked at the testing station for repairs and modifications. > if you choose testing you will sooner or later be looking at the next >

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' Why? -- Marc Wilson | Remember, God could only create the world in 6 days [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because he didn't have an established user base. sign

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-03 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:05:02AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' > > Why? unless you want to use them again for so

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:29:09 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located a

Re: new Package of the Day features

2006-07-03 Thread Aaron Maxwell
... aaand now there's an RSS feed. -- Peace, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I cannot access my Jumpdrive from a Etch box with a 2.6.15 kernel. > > I have successfully used this Lexar 256 MB Jumpdrive Pro (usb 2.0) with > Sarge box and a 2.6.11 kernel compiled from source. > > With Sarge it is recognized as SCSI device sda and located at > /dev/sda1. It can be mounte

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread Mumia W.
amateur wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:01:06AM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >> [...] And this is from the bash manpage: NOTE: Bash, as packaged for Debian, does not support using the /dev/tcp and /dev/udp files. My bash manpage doesn't say that. Anyway, Andrea, grab t

/dev/lp0 rights and CUPS

2006-07-03 Thread Chris
I have added lp to /etc/modules as was suggested in another message to this list. Now I have /dev/lp0 upon boot, but CUPS (localhost:631) complains: "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied" here are the versions I have installed. ii cupsys 1.2.1-3

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2006-07-03 Thread Arvind Marathe
> At 1151942614 past the epoch, Arvind Marathe wrote: > ... >> said the 'libc.so.6' does not exist. So i transferred the file from a > ... > ^^ >> chroot: error while loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.s0.6: file too short >

Re: New user can't write in /var/log

2006-07-03 Thread RevSlowmo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:48:04PM +0200, debian wrote: >> I have a new user that must be able to write in /var/log/ > > No, you don't. A user has no reason to be able to write in /var/log. > >> An application makes a file overt

Re: new Package of the Day features

2006-07-03 Thread Angelina Carlton
Aaron Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For those interested, the Package of the Day has a couple of new > features, mainly filtering of less interesting packages and a ranking > of popularity (from popularity-contest data): > http://potd.redsymbol.net > > Next in line is an RSS feed... > >

impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread B.Hoffmann
Hello list, tried out the snapshot from 02/07/06 yesterday on my test drive (after finally wiping my last Windows install off it) and must say I'm very impressed ! Made great strides since sarge and feels much more up to date - and a lovely splash as well (sorry to be so vain). The only problem I

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:11:16PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:29:09 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: > >> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
amateur wrote: > There's another question: why didn't I receive my original email, that > is, the one you replied to? Does this list by default don't send the > mail back to the one who sent the mail? Or this list sometimes drop > some email? AFAIK, no. What happened is that gmail detected both ma

trouble connecting to wifi access point

2006-07-03 Thread tom arnall
i am having trouble connecting to one of the wifi access points in my n'hood. when i do this: sudo modprobe ath_pci sudo modprobe wlan_scan_sta sudo iwpriv ath0 mode 2 sudo wlanconfig ath0 list scan sudo iwlist ath0 scan sudo iwconfig at

Postfix, Courier-imap with mysql and squirrelmail

2006-07-03 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Hi there list. I'm having trouble with my mail-server running courier-imap and squirrelmail after moving it to a new box. The accounts allready there works just fine, but when I tried adding another account (by adding another user and password in the user-list in mysql) it didn't make the required

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: [ Hi -- you wouldn't believe the nightmare I just went through these last couple of days -- my keyboard is possessed by Linda Blair and the Stepford Wives, as well as being in need of an Exorcism ...I thi

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 23:08:43 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > There is a sanity check in the pre-removal script of the kernel image. > If you try to run > > sudo dpkg -r linux-image-$(uname -r) > >

Re: new Package of the Day features

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:35:58AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > ... aaand now there's an RSS feed. cool, now how about making the package title a link to packages.debian.org? then we can peruse more details easily... A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Printing stopped working on Debian testing

2006-07-03 Thread Chris Lale
Joshua McGee wrote: Printing stopped working overnight on Debian testing, [ ... ] May be a result of an upgrade. There is a bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351668 Check that eg lp0 exists in /dev. If not # modprobe lp If this works, add lp to /etc/

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > > Hi all; > > I have a few quick questions about how to upgrade ONLY certain apps/pkgs... > > Then get the source of newer version and compile it yourself under > stable environment. > > http://www.debian.org/doc

Re: dchroot with sid

2006-07-03 Thread Roger Leigh
Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Owen Heisler wrote: >> As a workarround, you can set the SU_NO_SHELL_ARGS environment variable >> before calling dchroot, or execute >> dchroot -- -c "command" >> instead of >> dchroot -- command >> ___ >> >> And you say write a script, s

Re: Re: Telnet mailserver 110

2006-07-03 Thread Mr. Jonathan P. Mwakijele
Dear Pol,I am interest is to configure POP3 client.Thanks  > I can telnet to my server normally, BUT I can't > telnet mailserver 110. ok :-) what do u do 4 connect? Check where your mailserver listening (loopback only? or in which interface) Which mailserver do u use? which error message appe

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le lundi 3 juillet 2006 07:10, Roberto Sanchez a écrit : > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use > > rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the > > receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. Maybe I don'

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread JJ
Your command is correct for what you want. I think you are running into issues with differences between the filesystems meta data. The -a options tells it to sync. up uid, gid, permissions, etc. So it is probably changing the uid and gid for all your files as it goes along. Causes a slight delay,

hosed my debian VM trying to update postgresql

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel McBrearty
I got quite frustrated trying to update postgresql from 7.4 to 8.1 on the debian VM I use on my laptop. I did "apt-get install postgresql 8.1" (which had worked fine on another machine) - the install worked fine, but I could never connect to the 8.1 server, even after doing "apt-get remove postgr

Re: Postfix, Courier-imap with mysql and squirrelmail

2006-07-03 Thread Sturla Holm Hansen
Sturla Holm Hansen wrote: > Hi there list. > I'm having trouble with my mail-server running courier-imap and > squirrelmail after moving it to a new box. > The accounts allready there works just fine, but when I tried adding > another account (by adding another user and password in the user-list in

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
JJ wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > I don't think I have lost the rsync data. Basically, what I do is: > > > > rsync -nave ssh ~/Documents/stuff/ remote:~/school/stuff/ > > > > Even if have changed only one or two files, it still wants to transfer > > everything. > > > > I will check ou

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 7/3/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: amateur wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:01:06AM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >> [...] > > And this is from the bash manpage: > > NOTE: Bash, as packaged for Debian, does not support using the > /dev/tcp and /dev/udp files. > My ba

Re: dchroot with sid

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Roger Leigh wrote: > > Willie Wonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I'm the schroot/dchroot maintainer. I missed the initial > question, but I'd just like to note that Hello! and Thank you for your awesome work and support ;-) > - the dchroot behaviour had an unintentional backward-incompat

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:16:43 +0100, "B.Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello list, > > tried out the snapshot from 02/07/06 yesterday on my test drive (after > finally wiping my last Windows install off it) and must say I'm very > impressed ! Made great strides since sarge and feels much mor

Re: hosed my debian VM trying to update postgresql

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:02:47PM +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote: [... deleted stuff about postgres that i can't answer] > - removed 7.4 > - removed 8.1 > - went across the m/c removing every related file and directory I > could find. (find . -name *postgre*, inspect results, then wipe 'em > ...

Re: changing icon theme in debian without a DE installed?

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Lidakis
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:46:39 -0400 Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried Googling this to no avail. I have the file manager Thunar installed. I'm trying to figure out how to change the icons that Thunar (or all of my GTK2 apps for that matter, e.g. Abiword)

RE: Postfix, Courier-imap with mysql and squirrelmail

2006-07-03 Thread Conrad_Williams
Maybe the umask in the start-up script for postfix. /etc/init.d/postfix Assume that owners and groups are set correctly for virtual mail directory and all users and groups are correct in passwd & group, as per original. Are all these things identical for both machines? > I'm having trouble with

printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-03 Thread Daniel B.
Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line of text (when printing a plain-text file). Thanks. ---

xorg dies. Modules loaded in wrong order?

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
After upgrading my etch to xorg7.0 and making everything up-to-date yesterday, (except for a few package aptitude didn't want to update) things went fine for a reboot or two. But today when I was out of the room, the screen went black. When I pressed shift, though it remained black except for ab

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:16:43PM +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > > I'll wait for when it's stable, but it's highly likely that I'll replace > the Breezy Badger on two machines when it's come up to it's end of > support early next year and go back to Debian. Sorry to be dense, but what's a Breezy Bad

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:24:32PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > amateur wrote: > > > There's another question: why didn't I receive my original email, that > > is, the one you replied to? Does this list by default don't send the > > mail back to the one who sent the mail? Or this list sometimes

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:59:11AM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > amateur wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 11:01:06AM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > >> [...] > > > >And this is from the bash manpage: > > > > NOTE: Bash, as packaged for Debian, does not support using the > > /dev/tcp and /dev/u

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Willie Wonka wrote: JJ wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I don't think I have lost the rsync data. Basically, what I do is: rsync -nave ssh ~/Documents/stuff/ remote:~/school/stuff/ Even if have changed only one or two files, it still wants to transfer everything. I will check out rdiff-backup.

Re: Mouse Pointer in Enlightenment

2006-07-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:43:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > I'm using Enlightenment Manager Windows, for me is the best. Any way I > use in Enlightenment a big Virtual Desktop with the "edge flip" enabled, > sometime when I lose the pointer I move the mouse in order to catch it

vm i/o error

2006-07-03 Thread Slava Mikerin
hello, i am using lvm 2 with and having problems with home partition. when i try activating my vg group "playbox" i get an error: Code: vgchange -ay /dev/evms/lvm2/playbox/home: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error /dev/playbox/home: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/outp

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
amateur wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:24:32PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> amateur wrote: >> >> > There's another question: why didn't I receive my original email, that >> > is, the one you replied to? Does this list by default don't send the >> > mail back to the one who sent the mail?

Re: linux-headers-2.6.17-1-686 has unresolved dependency

2006-07-03 Thread amateur
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:57:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > amateur wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 03:24:32PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> amateur wrote: > >> > >> > There's another question: why didn't I receive my original email, that > >> > is, the one you replied to? Does thi

Re: printing problem - spurious "d" characters, bad pixels, spuriousform feeds

2006-07-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
Daniel B. wrote: > Can anyone help with this? I got absolutely no replies when I > posted it before. Now the problem is much worse, with dozens > of errors per page, maybe evening averaging one error per line > of text (when printing a plain-text file). I'm taking a _very_ wild guess here: perh

setup RAID after LVM

2006-07-03 Thread Gilbert Wong
Hi all,Is it possible to setup mdadm (or any other s/w raid) after LVM2 is already there??i know LVM is top of RAID so i don't know if i can manage without re-install the OS.Thanks in advance.

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 03 July 2006 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:16:43PM +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > > I'll wait for when it's stable, but it's highly likely that I'll replace > > the Breezy Badger on two machines when it's come up to it's end of > > support early next year and go

Re: /dev/lp0 rights and CUPS

2006-07-03 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 03:31, Chris wrote: > I have added lp to /etc/modules as was suggested in another message to this > list. Now I have /dev/lp0 upon boot, but CUPS (localhost:631) complains: > > "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied" > > here are the versio

Re: /dev/lp0 rights and CUPS

2006-07-03 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 14:27, John O'Hagan wrote: > > I find I also have to use an old /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file if I want to > print as a user (from KDE at least) - I'm in the process of trying to work > out why. > It was because the new /etc/cups/cupsd.conf contains: # Only listen for

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:45:51 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry to be dense, but what's a Breezy Badger? I believe it's Ubuntu's latest distribution, based on unstable. Actually, it could be a few releases back, I haven't kept up with Ubuntu's naming. www.ubuntu.com > -- hendrik -- ---

locale and font alias

2006-07-03 Thread T
Hi My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default locale to English? As the side effect, the fixed font is of iso8859-15: $ grep ^fix /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 Having removed all xfon

Re: setup RAID after LVM

2006-07-03 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Dienstag, den 04.07.2006, 11:53 +0800 schrieb Gilbert Wong: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to setup mdadm (or any other s/w raid) after LVM2 is > already there?? IMHO mdadm doesn't care if the "disk" it's operating with are real disks, logical-volumes, encrypted containers or slices of pizza. Ae

How to remove gnome-panel-data?

2006-07-03 Thread Art Edwards
I'm trying to remove gnome-panel-data on a stable box. Here is what I get. apt-get remove gnome-panel-data Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-panel-data 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded. Need

Re: locale and font alias

2006-07-03 Thread Willie Wonka
T wrote: > Hi > > My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default > locale to English? ~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales#As a User ~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales #As Root use the SpaceBar key to place/remove an [x] in the boxes - use Tab key to jump around, use U

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-03 Thread Mumia W.
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: On 7/3/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] My bash manpage doesn't say that [/dev/tcp is disabled]. But, do you have /dev/tcp onto your machine? Nope, the feature is disabled, but the manpage says nothing about that. I guess the manpage was fixed for Etch

Re: rhythmbox

2006-07-03 Thread Adam Hardy
Hans van Middendorp on 02/07/06 21:28, wrote: On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 15:48:20 +0100 Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Jollans on 02/07/06 15:05, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any

Re: Re: /dev/lp0 rights and CUPS

2006-07-03 Thread Christof Hurschler
> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 03:31, Chris wrote: > > I have added lp to /etc/modules as was suggested in another message to > this > > list. Now I have /dev/lp0 upon boot, but CUPS (localhost:631) > complains: > > > > "Unable to open parallel port device file "/dev/lp0": Permission denied" > > > > h