Re: xorg: Ctrl+Alt+F7 doesn't bring back WindowMaker

2006-07-19 Thread Yasir Assam
Whoops! I didn't see the other thread! Yasir I've never used WindowMaker, but have you tried just pressing Alt+F7 (no ctrl)? That works for me using gdm + gnome. Hi! I don't know since when Ctrl+Alt+F7 does not bring me back to WindowMaker any more. Once I switch from WindowMaker to conso

Re: Problem intalling xorg package.

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:36:23 -0700, Alex Yakushev wrote: > I got problem installing xorg package. Alex. > > apt-get install xorg > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > xorg: Depends:

Re: xorg: Ctrl + Alt + F7 does'nt bring me back to WindowMaker

2006-07-19 Thread CN Liou
Does another keyboard work? Yeah! My another old spare keyboard proves that F7 and F9 of the existing keyboard are broken. I should not have posted this problem in the beginning which have wasted everyone's precious time! Pardon me for being stubborn! Regards, CN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

ldap on etch

2006-07-19 Thread n r
Hello, I have Debian Etch, slapd 2.3.24. I try to add a ldap user with a ldif file, but I have this message: adding new entry "uid=martin,ou=People,dc=lorraine,dc=u-strasbg,dc=fr" ldap_add: Internal (implementation specific) error (80) additional info: no structuralObjectClass operatio

Re: Gimp 2.2.6 and "libpangocairo".

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 19:53:50 -0600, DJ Hackenbruch wrote: > Please can someone help me. I was trying to update my GIMP and it > stopped working. The GIMP 2.2.6 package seems to install OK but when you > run it it wants to see "libpangocairo". Of which pango is available, but > cairo is not i

Re: Debugging udev

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 22:11:56 +0100, James Westby wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem which looks like it is udev (0.093-1) hanging at boot time. > The messages it look something like > > [grub prompt] > INIT version 2.86 booting > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher...udevd. > Synthesising

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: > Dear Srs, > > I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. > > The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, > 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see all of them right a

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:32:10 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Srs, > > I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with > Xorg/kdm/kde. > > The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, > 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see a

enable soap in Debian sarge php 4.3.10-16

2006-07-19 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey list, Can any of you tell me how to enble soap for php 4.3.10-16 on my debian sarge system please? Thanks a lot in advance! Rocky

RE: enable soap in Debian sarge php 4.3.10-16

2006-07-19 Thread Jerry DuVal
PHP distributed SOAP is not avail in sarge, it was implemented in PHP 5   http://us3.php.net/soap   You will have to use alternative methods such as a PEAR library http://pear.php.net/package/SOAP , http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/  NUSOAP , or curl.   From: Rocky Ou

IndoeBooks.Com: Mengungkap Rahasia Dimana dan Bagaimana Memperoleh eBooks di Internet dari Berbagai Sumber secara GRATIS !!!

2006-07-19 Thread Tandiono M
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Re: Easy to manage debian mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Karl Goetz
T wrote: Hi My adjacent debian mirror, gulus.usherbrooke.ca, goes off and on often. I need to access my 2nd choice when it is down. So I have to change my apt sources.list, pull down all the package lists from it before I can do anything. Now I'm thinking, I should put an persistent entry 'de

monitoring Xeon temp

2006-07-19 Thread michael
I wish to monitor the temp of the CPUs in my dual Xeon box. I've tried lm_sensors (see http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/327) but that appears to only pick up the RAM. Has anybody out there successfully monitored their Xeon SMP box? I'm running: Linux ratty 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Fe

creating incomplete mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Brad Brock
I want to create an incomplete mirror of debian sarge in my own hard drive from a debian mirror site, in case I don't need some of packages. How can I do it? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://ma

Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-19 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hi Everybody, I want a program that will allow me to capture video from my TV Tuner card AND at the same time show (in a window) what I am capturing. It should be able to capture both video and audio (audio via the line in of my on board sound card). Could you please suggest a program (not any P

Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Anil Gupte
Is there a shell command to read files?  I want to open a text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text.   Also, as I am in learning mode, is there a way to write text files from a script?   Thanx, Anil Gupte  

RE: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Jerry DuVal
http://perl.about.com/od/perltutorials/a/readwritefiles.htm you can get a lot of hits on google about reading and writing files in perl or bash   From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Read/W

RE: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
$ cat filename ß read the file $ echo ‘bob’ > filename ( [over]write to the file ) Or $ echo ‘bob’ >> filename    ( appends to the file )   From: Anil Gupte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:50 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Read/W

latest configuration supported by Sarge

2006-07-19 Thread Sumith augustine
hi all,please help me to find out a gud and latest configuration supported by Debian Sarge, so that i can  replace my debian server in which am running Subversion and backuppcI would also like to configure a PDC in it. I prefer going for AMD But i don't know which one to choose AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Du

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread George Borisov
chavdar wrote: > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables > who? (do you need to insmod?) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. Obvious, but have you checked to see if these modules are loaded? ip_tables iptable_filter If not, then load them. H

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-19 Thread Manon Metten
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: ... Over time I collected nine drives that stopped working: some wrote bad disks, others got read errors. Took the cases off and cleaned the lenses carefully with aqueous isopropyl "rubbing" alcohol on cotton swabs. Eight of the nine work perfectly now. Try it. The key

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread chavdar
On ср, 2006-07-19 at 13:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > chavdar wrote: > > > > iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables > > who? (do you need to insmod?) > > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > Obvious, but have you checked to see if these modu

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: Dear Srs, I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480) and I can see al

Read/Write files from a script

2006-07-19 Thread Anil Gupte/k.e.e.n., inc.
Is there a shell command to read files?  I want to open a text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text.   Also, as I am in learning mode, is there a way to write text files from a script?   Thanx, Anil Gupte  

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread George Borisov
chavdar wrote: > On ср, 2006-07-19 at 13:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: >> >> Obvious, but have you checked to see if these modules are loaded? >> >> ip_tables >> iptable_filter >> >> If not, then load them. > > Which options in the config file are these, because I answered with Y to > all options

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1153318438 past the epoch, George Borisov wrote: > Try executing the following: > > modprobe ip_tables > modprobe iptable_filter The OP's first post indicates he has enabled the ipfilters stuff as built-ins (Y) rather than modules (m). So, modprobe will not help. You may need to upgrade your

setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread anonymous
Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted filesystem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, The web-site of Gnucash defines it as a personal and small-business accounting software. Is there accounting software for the large enterprise in Debian? Is Gnucash the most advanced in its class? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

mailserver backup (hardware change)

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) I must change my hardware server. I use debian sarge. In my machine i have several services, but the only I had better backup is mailserver (with whole users's configurations, etc.) - i use courier with pop3 with pam autentications. How I do it? Is it sufficient backup /etc/passwd

Re: large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:23 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > The web-site of Gnucash defines it as a personal and small-business > accounting software. Is there accounting software for the large > enterprise in Debian? Is Gnucash the most advanced in its class? If you haven't checked out

File manager for creating relative symbolic links

2006-07-19 Thread Tony Terlecki
Can anyone suggest a file manager where I can create links that are relative symbolic links? With konqueror I can drag and drop files but when I specify 'link' as the drop option it creates absolute symbolic links. Alternatively is there a tool which quickly converts absolute to relative symbolic

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,how? i dont have a > > problem logging in,but then all i get is debia"a"mike~

Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have only 10 CD-RW disks that I use for mondoarchive. But I wanted to try Grml-0.7 on one of them. So I needed to save the contents of one of them and use that. So I found this site: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialCDBurn.html So I did: 1. mount /cdrom 2. mkisofs -

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Mladen Adamovic
Tony Terlecki wrote: Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, loop through each line and parse the line of text. Depending on what you want to do: man sed man awk Yeah, but he asked about shell commands which read files, and that is 'cat' so my addon to

debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread A B
Hi! I want to install a debian onto an amd64 machine, and i have a promise fastrack tx4310 sata raid (II) controller. In the fastrack bios i set up raid5 for three devices (three hardisks [each are 320GB]), and everything looked fine, but when i boot into with knoppix (2.6.17), or debian sarge i

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: > >> > >>I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. > >> > >>The modes are ok: I have only four resolutions (1280x10

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: > Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on > a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted > filesystem? > It depends on how you want to do this. If you want a completely encryp

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread Tony Terlecki
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:19:30PM +0530, Anil Gupte wrote: > bg image(cid:014e01c6ab29$652db160$6400a8c0@Aum) > Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, loop > through each line and parse the line of text. > Depending on what you want to do: man sed man awk Regardl

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread claytonk
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:11:08 +0300 chavdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I am running Debian unstable. My current kernel is 2.6.12 and it is my > own custom build. Following the recent security advisories, last > night I decided to upgrade my kernel. I downloaded the Debian source

Re: File manager for creating relative symbolic links

2006-07-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 15:09 +0100, Tony Terlecki wrote: > Can anyone suggest a file manager where I can create links that are > relative symbolic links? With konqueror I can drag and drop files but > when I specify 'link' as the drop option it creates absolute symbolic > links. > > Alternatively i

Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
Hello! I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created during initial install of the system. None of the users created after install (more specifically, I would like to auto-logon the user mythtv) is displayed i

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-19 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:31:54PM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I want a program that will allow me to capture video from my TV Tuner > card AND at the same time show (in a window) what I am capturing. It > should be able to capture both video and audio (audio via the line

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:55:08 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. > > But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created > during initial install of the system. None of the users created

Re: Read/Write files from a script?

2006-07-19 Thread LeVA
2006. július 19. 16:31, Mladen Adamovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian User ,: > Tony Terlecki wrote: > >> Is there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text file, > >> loop through each line and parse the line of text. > > > > Depending on what you want to do: > > > > man sed > > man aw

RE: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Jan Johansson
>look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add >users in there Will certainly do when I get home, thanks! But, would GNOME use KDE3 config files?

APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Be sure to actually check the listed paths in the Packages.gz file to make sure that they are pointing to the deb files in question. It sounds like you have the Packages file written in the proper format so that it can be added to the package tree via APT or Synaptic (frontend to apt), but that

Re: large enterprise accounting package available?

2006-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Look at sql-ledger. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 22:54:31 +0800]: > As I recall, this broke for me in going from 2.6.15 to 2.6.16. > > Clayton > Yup, it did - my solution was to install a stock kernel, and used it's .config as the basis for my custom kernel's config, then remove the stock k

Re: Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:14:34AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have only 10 CD-RW disks that I use for mondoarchive. > > But I wanted to try Grml-0.7 on one of them. So I needed to save the > contents of one of them and use that. > > So I found this site: > http://www.yolinux.com/

eth manual setting of speed and duplex

2006-07-19 Thread Hakim
Hi NG, I would like to set manually the speed and duplex mode of my nic. I know there are tools like ethtool and mii-tool, but those ones are not working with my 8169 Realtek card. Thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:31:19PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: > > > Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on > > a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted > > filesystem?

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED ?

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
s. keeling wrote: Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:32:10 -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote: I've got a new plain install of etch which is running ok, with Xorg/kdm/kde. The modes are ok: I have only four res

Re: debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
> My question is that is here anobody who has experiences with this card? > Is it a real hw sata card, can i use it for HW sata raid, or not? If > yes, then how? I downloaded a driver (modul) from promise.com, and > after i loeded it,  i saw the same. > > Thanks for your help, i hope anyone can hel

Re: Editing run level S (was encrypted filesystem that can be mounted remotely?)

2006-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:19:08PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: > Leading on from the earlier posters question about configuring an > encrypted filesystem that does not interrupt the boot process with > a password prompt... > > Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something > (in th

Re: creating incomplete mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Pol Hallen
> I want to create an incomplete mirror of debian sarge > in my own hard drive from a debian mirror site, in > case I don't need some of packages. How can I do it? I remember that in www.debian.org (but don't remember exact link) for do it. Maybe, with "apt-cache search mirror" (or the equivalent)

Re: creating incomplete mirror

2006-07-19 Thread Guillaume
Pol Hallen a écrit : I want to create an incomplete mirror of debian sarge in my own hard drive from a debian mirror site, in case I don't need some of packages. How can I do it? I remember that in www.debian.org (but don't remember exact link) for do it. Maybe, with "apt-cache search mirror" (

RE: APT Black Magic

2006-07-19 Thread Jean-Sebastien Pilon
Should take a look at reprepro http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286 > -Original Message- > From: T.J. Duchene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:20 AM > To: debian-user > Subject: APT Black Magic > > Be sure to actually check the listed paths in t

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread John Mason
unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a hard link OR a symbolic link will remove the link/file. Anyhow, the error means that the p

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:03:26AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 04:46, Rick Pasotto a écrit : > > I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to > > run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run > > resize2fs /var needs to be unmount

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-19 Thread Art Edwards
The rewritable media actually use phase change materials that are locally melted by the write-laser. Depending on the shape of the laser pulse, the material is left in either an amorphous or a poly crystalline state (polycrystalline is more conductive and, hence, more reflective.) The read senses

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: > In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a > dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted > when really needed. If you are really paranoid, you can remove your > network connection whenev

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED ?

2006-07-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:40 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] > > > I followed Mr. Keeling's suggestion and, at the end of > dpkg-reconfigure, I got an warning message: > > > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has > > been > customiz

Re: sarge for i386

2006-07-19 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hi Mike, Before we proceed, please pardon me if I'm rehashing, but I don't know your level of skills. > On Tuesday 18 July 2006 21:58, mike williams wrote: > > > is it possible to use the gnu\lnux as a "normal" OS to do things like > > > browse webpages and download programs etc... and if so,ho

Re: Search for text string in files

2006-07-19 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:49, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Cool, thanks! I will log this command in my memory. > Alas, the string "jack" is not in any of my rcn.d files or init.d, so > I'm lost again. > -Chuckk > > On 7/18/06, Fred J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $grep -FHrn jack /path/ > > > > >

dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread John Schmidt
Hi, I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. I get the following error messages from dmesg: EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs:

Re: little project

2006-07-19 Thread Felipe Leon
Thanks Kevin, Ron, and Thibaut for their ideas and input. I'll get in contact with this people from the dominican republic and see what happens. Thibaut made me think on taking mor care of the hardware and have a strong back up system, which definetively I will take into account, thanks for this. W

Re: Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread Noah Dain
On 7/19/06, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may well be the most useful and powerful "new" puppy around. Used by Knoppix and others to "merge" the CD image file system with the operational ramdisk FS and with a user's FS (no longer restricted to a /home/user). Magic. A normal mount re

Re: Editing run level S

2006-07-19 Thread John Hasler
Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the 'Debian way' is to remove something (in this > case 'cryptdisks') from runlevel 'S'? One way is by installing and running sysvconfig. > Finally, I tried using 'sysv-rc-conf', and it seems that it did allow > me to deactivate cryptdisks - although

Re: Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:47:47PM -0400, Noah Dain wrote: > >OK. There are "ufs" items on the kernel sources and apt shows union-fs > >packages. How do these relate and what needs be installed to make use of > >this? Configuration? What happens to fs-tab? Build the source with "module-assistan

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:17:33PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: > > > In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a > > dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted > > when really needed. If

Re: dma errors

2006-07-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:29:51 -0600 John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two IDE drives connected together using lvm. The drives are > quite new, the motherboard is quite old. I put a single ext3 > partition on top of lvm which is used for temporary large data sets. > I get t

Re: Read/Write files from a script

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:13:26PM +0530, Anil Gupte/k.e.e.n., inc. wrote: > BlankIs there a shell command to read files? I want to open a text > file, loop through each line and parse the line of text. while read line do echo "processing line: $line" done < input_text_file -- "Artificial intel

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:34:11AM -0500, John Mason wrote: > unlink is not really a "link"... it's the name of the command. The > "unlink" command really just means delete. Not a clue why they call it > unlink and not delete but basically calling unlink on a file OR a > hard link OR a symbolic

APT Black Magic Solved...

2006-07-19 Thread Redefined Horizons
My thanks to Ron and T.J. for their earlier posts about my problem. With their suggestions and a little more trouble shooting I was able to solve the problem. I wanted to post the solution to the list so others might find it when searching the archives. The original problem was that APT and Synap

Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Eduardo
I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to use? And if Debian has it compiled? The card is (listed with pci.ids) : 1904 Hangzhou Si

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo wrote: > I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. > I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in > /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to > use? And if Debian has

Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-07-19 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. I thought I could use videoRam with xorg.conf, but I couldn't, and when I read the man page, it seems that one can't use it for that purpose. I think one poss

Make an updates disk?

2006-07-19 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got three friends who installed 3.1r2 from CD. They're on dial-up. I'd like to make an update CD for them from the files in my /var/cache/apt/archives. It would be nice if they could use apt-cdrom add to bring it in. (Otherwise I'm jus

Re: Anyone seen this?

2006-07-19 Thread s. keeling
John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > process to delete that pid file. Once I did a dumb thing and did a > "chown -fR someuser:someuser /" and my entire disk was then owned by Glad I'm not the only one. I didn't do it. The student I was training at the time must have, and it was quite a shock f

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:12:01 +0200 "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >look in /etc/kde3/kdm/kderc (I think that's the file) you can add > >users in there > > > Will certainly do when I get home, thanks! > > But, would GNOME use KDE3 config files? Nope. Gnome will have it's own c

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 13:14:42 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Eduardo wrote: > > I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID. > > I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in > > /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to > >

Re: [OT] How do I make my computer act like a telephone?

2006-07-19 Thread Hex Star
Why not just use Skype which lets you call any landline or cellphone over the internet (needs a high speed broadband internet connection to work properly though)?On 7/18/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Preamble:Hello list. This is rather not Debian related, but I simply can't find t

Re: Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:26, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond > the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. No, nor would you want to if you could. Video RAM is typically considerably faster

SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Michele Della Marina
Hello all! Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? I have no knowledge about it, but my desire is learn something ... can you send me a link or a good tutorial? Thanks -- Michele Della Marina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sending text messages to people's phones via email, or something else? - Joe smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Michele Della Marina
yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible? On 7/19/06, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michele Della Marina wrote: > Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service? Do you mean for sen

DLink DFE-530TX network card slower than other computers

2006-07-19 Thread DC A
I've 3 winxp and 1 debian sarge computers. All of them are behind a router. all of my windows computers' internet speed is 4.1 mbps and debian's speed is 3.4 mbps. Is there anyway to find out what is slowing down my debian box? And then speed up my debian box from there. Any help will be appreci

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Joe Emenaker
Michele Della Marina wrote: yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible? Well, in the US, each mobile phone provider has their own email-to-SMS gateway (http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm), and

Re: Playing with backported kernel

2006-07-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 11:08:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it is a good idea to install the 2.6.16 kernel from backports. But apt-get told me it would need to remove hotplug. I'd also like to keep my current setup (with 2.6.8-2-k7 sarge stock, whic

Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers

2006-07-19 Thread Eduardo
I tried first with 8139cp and ran : du:~# modprobe 8139cp du:~# ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.221 255.255.255.0 up SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device eth1: ERROR while g

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-19 Thread Bruno Buys
Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hi Everybody, I want a program that will allow me to capture video from my TV Tuner card AND at the same time show (in a window) what I am capturing. It should be able to capture both video and audio (audio via the line in of my on board sound card). Could you please

Re: SMS Gateway

2006-07-19 Thread Chris Jones
You could try using an email-to-sms gateway service -- many ISPs and telecommunications companies offer such a service. Michele Della Marina wrote: yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :( .. is possible

Re: Autologin, not possible to select user?

2006-07-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 04:55:08PM +0200, Jan Johansson wrote: > > Hello! > > I am grying to set up autologin in GNOME 2.1.4 in my Etch-box. > > But, the only user in the list I can chose from is the user I created > during initial install of the system. None of the users created after > install

Re: debian install with promise tx4310

2006-07-19 Thread nicolas(yahoo)
El Mié 19 Jul 2006 12:35, Pol Hallen escribió: > ope anyone can help me - either to tell it' s just > > > fakeraid -, or help. what i have found with sata it's that the debian kernels don't work. i compile and install the kernel 1.6.16.18 from http://www.kernel.org and it's work form me with a si

Bug? xxdate.exe missing from tex/hevea

2006-07-19 Thread T
Hi The helper script xxdate.exe is missing from tex/hevea in the testing/unstable release: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searchword&case=insensitive&version=testing&arch=i386&word=xxdate.exe http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=searc

Can't ping

2006-07-19 Thread Christian Christmann
Hi, after an update of my Etch system yesterday, I can't connect to the internet properly via my DSL connection. After running pppoeconf and entering my user data and password and then connect to my provider with "pon dsl-provider", with ifconfig I can see that my ppp0 has a dynamic IP address. W

Re: Copy CD to disk + copy disk to CD + reuse

2006-07-19 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugo Vanwoerkom) writes: > So I did: > 1. mount /cdrom > 2. mkisofs -r -o 11.iso /cdrom [...] > Guess what? That CD-RW does not boot. > > What's wrong with the scheme? > The boot portion of the CD contents needs special treatment. To create a valid bootable image of

/etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory

2006-07-19 Thread Iuri Sampaio
I erased the directory /etc/postgresql and now I get this error message every time I run a pgsql command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -l /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: line 2: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding -

Re: Etch: blank (black) screen, Xorg is running, modes are Ok - SOLVED

2006-07-19 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:34:40 -0300 Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [SNIP] I followed Mr. Keeling's suggestion and, at the end of dpkg-reconfigure, I got an warning message: > xserver-xorg postinst warning: not updating /etc/X11/X; file has > been

Re: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff D
Iuri Sampaio wrote: I erased the directory /etc/postgresql and now I get this error message every time I run a pgsql command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ psql -l /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/readpgenv: line 2: /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env: No such file or directory List of databases Name | Owner |

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