Re: Annoying iptables console logging

2006-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 16:01:27 -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > those messages are printed by kernel to the current console(s). > > 'dmesg -n' configures messages of which level to print to the console(s). > > They all are still send to kmsg, where syslogd,syslog-ng or

dpkg --purge pkgs

2006-08-24 Thread Iuri Sampaio
I try to uninstall the follow package running the command:   desktop:~# dpkg --purge aolserver4   but I get this error message:   desktop:~# dpkg --purge aolserver4 dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of aolserver4:  aolserver4-nsopenssl depends on aolserver4 (>= 4.0-1). dpk

Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"

2006-08-24 Thread Robert S
I have recently got the following output: # apt-get upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sensible-mda 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgrad

Re: dpkg --purge pkgs

2006-08-24 Thread George Borisov
Iuri Sampaio wrote: > > Does anyone know how to get rid of it I want to install a fresh > aolserver version, and I believe I need to clean up the house first! You could use aptitude instead of dpkg? Much easier to manage dependencies. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd sig

(no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Brent Clark
Hi anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. Im not looking for the empty line, I need a line that contains the characters ^$. Kind Regards Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. grep '\^\$' filename should work... regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://www.lubos.vrbka.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
This has worked for me http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69 On 8/24/06, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # apt-get upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sen

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Kim Christensen
On 8/24/06, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. Im not looking for the empty line, I need a line that contains the characters ^$. grep "\\^\\$" /var/log/testlog.log -- Kim Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Christof Hurschler
No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It works under root. Something seems to have changed in a recent dist-upgrade. The device is listed as: T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=

Re: fonts messed up [SOLVED]

2006-08-24 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Mark Willson wrote: Lorenzo, These errors indicate it might be related to the message below. Is it possible? -mark Summary: - Unstable users, please place xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-9 on ho

Re: fonts messed up

2006-08-24 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
John Schmidt wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 07:41, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi after a recent upgrade (unstable) all my fonts are almost complitely messed up. I cannot use KDE since almost everything text is missing, and also gnome is barely usable (most text disappear from menus and termina

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mihira Fernando wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> >> Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. >> >> Practically, though, no. >> >> Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors >> who are pledged to vote for a sp

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Kim Christensen
On 8/24/06, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. Im not looking for the empty line, I need a line that contains the characters ^$. grep "\\^\\$" /var/log/testlog.log -- Kim Christensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> There's also the case of the Libranet help list that had a number of >> quite knowledgeable people on it, but when Libranet started censoring >> them (I won't go into the entire story,

Re: Thread-aware MUAs

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 21:16, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 20:43, Ron Johnson wrote: Daniel Rose wrote: [snip] > People who don't like off-topic threads need

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread M-L
On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us all: >--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously > working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It works > under root. Something seems to have changed in a recent dist-upgra

Re: Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"

2006-08-24 Thread Robert S
This has worked for me http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69 Thanks for the speedy answer. I see that sendmail is listed in the security section. All is still not right: # apt-get dist-upgrade Now when I run it again: ~# apt-get dist-upgrade -s Reading Package Lists... Done Buil

Re: Apt-get upgrade: sendmail etc "kept back"

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
There is a new mail about libsasl2 on debian-security On 8/24/06, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/69 The following packages have unmet dependencies: sendmail-bin: Depends: libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19.dfsg1) but 2.1.19-1.5sarge1 is to be installed R

Re: now for ssh

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
This is easy PuTTY and WinSCP - they both can https-tunnel web-proxies :-) Just add the line Port 443 to your /etc/ssh/sshd_config and then just use PuTTY under windows: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe 1) Enter the port 443 instead of 22 there 2) Specify t

> Viren-Warnung

2006-08-24 Thread mailadmin
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, in einer von Ihnen verschickten E-Mail wurde ein Virus gefunden. Deswegen wurde die E-Mail nicht zugestellt. Empfänger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Returned mail: see transcript for details Wenden Sie sich bitte an Ihren System-Administrator, um Ihr Computer-Syste

Re: IBM A21m thinkpad power management

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Allison
Gilles Mocellin wrote: And when it comes to another note book --- It's either a T60 or X60 but I'm not sure which will work more "out of the box" with Debian. Do you have laptop-mode-tools and laptop-detect installed ? When you unplug the power cord, it puts your laptop in a power saving mode

Re: Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Allison
Paul Scott wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Dave Patterson wrote: * Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-12 16:01:39 -0700]: Any ideas why I can't get an Orinoco Silver card: Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Version 01.01 manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 works with a stock 2.6.15 kernel but not with a 2

Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron Goodman
I've had some hard drive corruption issues, I was able to transfer pretty much everything to another disk, but I had 192 bad blocks on my old disk so I have inevitably lost some data, furthermore I can't seem to boot.  I have booted to knoppix but I when I try to chroot into my debian environment,

Re: cups upgrade AuthClass/AuthUser missing comments.

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: it finally happened after about two years of perfect service. I upgraded cups on my server and clients. I kept the config files the same. And not all my printer functions are dead. I fixed this by downgrading cups. After reading some of the posts here it seems that there are

Re: SOLVED! Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Allison
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 August 2006 10:27, Scott Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages recommends it for no good reason). Purge it. Sure enough, zeroconf was install

[debian-sarge] conflict between passwd and base-config package

2006-08-24 Thread Sannie Kwakman
Hi all! During a security update of the passwd package, apt-get returns the following error: Unpacking replacement passwd ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_1%3a4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/id/man8', which is also in package base-

Program to draw chess boards

2006-08-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
[Maybe a little offtopic] I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN description of the board, in an automatic way (something like a script, good for automating the drawing of many boards). Is there any program that do that? Thnx PAolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [debian-sarge] conflict between passwd and base-config package

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:40:23PM +0200, Sannie Kwakman wrote: > Does anyone in the mailinglist know how to fix this problem? dpkg --force-all --install /var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_1%3a4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb Steve -- Debian GNU/Linux System Administration http://www.debian-administratio

Fwd: Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Christof Hurschler
Von: M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us > all: > >--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously > > working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It > works > > under root. Something see

[debian-sarge] conflict between passwd and base-config package

2006-08-24 Thread Sannie Kwakman
Hi all! During a security update of the passwd package, apt-get returns the following error: Unpacking replacement passwd ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_1%3a4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/id/man8', which is also in package b

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Christof Hurschler
Von: M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us > all: > >--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously > > working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It > works > > under root. Something see

Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine (even if a chess engine exists: http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.alakuijala/pychess.html), but it could be grat for chess interfaces, for drawing boards, and similar things. I foudn out a library for these things (http://www.alcyone.com/sof

Re: dpkg --purge pkgs

2006-08-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:36:51AM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Iuri Sampaio wrote: > > > > Does anyone know how to get rid of it I want to install a fresh > > aolserver version, and I believe I need to clean up the house first! > > You could use aptitude instead of dpkg? Much easier to manage

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Wackojacko
Christof Hurschler wrote: Von: M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us all: --> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It works under root.

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine (even if > a chess engine exists: > http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.alakuijala/pychess.html), but it could be Maybe NumPy would speed things up? > grat for chess inter

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 24.08.06 10:47, Brent Clark wrote: > anyone know how to grep on a few files and search for ^$. > > Im not looking for the empty line, I need a line that contains the > characters ^$. grep -F '^$' -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Aug 23 22:55 -0500]: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 19:35, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > ¹ For those not of US origin, the US has had an electoral college to > > > decide it's soverign since it's inception, the popular vote for presiden

Re: SOLVED! Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-24 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 24 August 2006 06:11, Tom Allison was heard to say: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages > >> recommends it for no good reason). Purge it. > I've seen a number of peop

Re: IBM A21m thinkpad power management

2006-08-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Tom Allison wrote: > The I tried these and I think the problem comes down to the fact that this > is older than the T40's (which someone said worked well) and has zero > (functional) support for ACPI other than reading the battery life. Most of > the ACPI functions are simp

Configuring Prelink (repost)

2006-08-24 Thread David Baron
I am trying to use prelink. The cache file is a year old and incorrect. I changed the /etc/default/prelink to prelinking "yes". The cron.daily script (or any other wet-run) yeilds: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: /etc/cron.daily/prelink: line 53:  6925 Aborted                 /usr/sbin/prelink -a $PRE

Re: Debian & ATI Radeon X300 don't mix?

2006-08-24 Thread Morten O. Hansen
Hi, I would recommend using the script from [1] I'm using them on debian sid now, and they are working quite well. (and has been updated to cover the latest driver version). This script handles downloading, compiling kernelmodule and also configures your system, so after you have run it everything

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-24 Thread Rich Johnson
On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Jason Martens wrote: [...snip...] My second question: - After the LILO ''upgrade'', attempts to install lilo have my system unbootable, can anyone tell me how I bolixed things up and walk me through a recovery process? (step 1: how to obtain an bootable flopp

Re: Program to draw chess boards

2006-08-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN > description of the board, in an automatic way (something like a > script, good for automating the drawing of many boards). Is there any > program that do that? The best is TeX solution -- not exactly drawin

Re: Program to draw chess boards

2006-08-24 Thread Patrick Drechsler
Paolo Pantaleo wrote on 24 Aug 2006 11:45:58 MET: > [Maybe a little offtopic] > > I need to draw some chess boards, starting let's say from the FEN > description of the board, in an automatic way (something like a > script, good for automating the drawing of many boards). Is there any > program t

Re: make menuconfig segfault

2006-08-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas Dickey wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Back in 2003 make menuconfig always segfaulted unless I used a ncurses tarball and used that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg04950.html Now, 3 years later, it still happens: ...and still (google says I

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:06:03 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > Christof Hurschler wrote: > >>On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us > >>all: > >>>--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously > >>>working scanner is no longer accessible for

Re: Debian-Etch Update 08/19/2006 - AA/Font issues?

2006-08-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 18:26:54 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] If the Xft settings are a problem in KDE then you have to check the following options in ~/.qt/qtrc: $ grep Xft ~/.qt/qtrc enableXft=true useXft=true $ cat .

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine (even if > a chess engine exists: Uh... why? I mean that's a pretty definite statement to throw out without an explanation. For those who are fond of the language, such as myself, we're left with extreme cu

Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Aaron Goodman wrote: > Is there a way to check which files got corrupted and replace those > files? Or if not can I simply run a command to reinstall all of my > installed packages? I'd say just reinstall in place. Copy /etc to a different location so you don't lose your configuration. I'm

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? > > I don't see that much off-topic discussion here (IMHO, anything related to > Debian user experience is on-topic here and that's pretty wide topic), but > the problem of all off-topi

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: >> Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine >> (even if a chess engine exists: > > Uh... why? I mean that's a pretty definite statement to throw > out without an explanation. For those w

how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? E.g. I run: tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log But it folds the output so that what is messy is now messier... H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Kent West
I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this box and do a clean install of X (not of Debian itself, just of the X Window System bits). Problem

Re: how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? Since these apps treat the screen as a "glass teletype", that would be a function of the console or xterm, not of tail. As to how to modify the console, though...

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. > > > > Practically, though, no. > > > > Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants vote for Electors who > > are pledged to vote for a specific candidat

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:26, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uh, gas prices ring a bell? Of course you didn't reply to that, you > blindly skipped over it. Just like you go amazingly silent any time > someone nails you with cold hard facts. s/cold hard facts/rock-stupid morons/ and you would have

how to modify context ("right-click") menus in KDE ?

2006-08-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hello, I would like to modify context menus in KDE. E.g. to add entry "scan with antivir" when right-click on the file or directory. Google didn't help much. How to ? pls regards Zbigniew

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I > can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely > horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this > box and do a clean install of X

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 23:13, Mihira Fernando wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Technically, yes. That's how the Constitution designed it. >>> >>> Practically, though, no. >>> >>> Citizens, dead people, and illegal immigrants

Re: how to modify context ("right-click") menus in KDE ?

2006-08-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to modify context menus in KDE. E.g. to add entry "scan with > antivir" when right-click on the file or directory. Google didn't help > much. > Why do you even need to scan anything with an antivirus? Reg

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Rick Reynolds
That's your problem. aptitude sucks. Interesting claim. I thought I was finally getting into "Debian Power User" mode when I switched from apt-get to aptitude. What are the weaknesses of aptitude that make you say the above? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I had a dream that I was eating my

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I > > can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely > > horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this > > box and

Re: Install

2006-08-24 Thread John -
On (23/08/06 21:25), Paras pradhan wrote: > To: debian-user > From: Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Install > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:25:47 -0400 > >Hi all: >I have a debian sid in my machine running fine. now i want to install >debian sarge in one of my partitions. I d

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Dimitar Vukman
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:56:19 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. I always use something like "aptitude install -t version xxx". Aptitude remembers reverse dependencies, hence aptitude purge xxx will remove xxx and all it's deps, apt-get won't. -

PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, where could I get good and trustworth postgresql 8 debs which would be updated in case of security issues? On www.postgresql.org there are only rpms... I'm using at the moment 7.x debs, but I need 8.x for a libpq-program I'm developing... $ cat /etc/debian_version 3.1 $ dpkg -l | grep

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread Christof Hurschler
Von: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:06:03 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > Christof Hurschler wrote: > > >>On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with > us > > >>all: > > >>>--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A > previ

Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > where could I get good and trustworth postgresql 8 debs > which would be updated in case of security issues? > > On www.postgresql.org there are only rpms... > > I'm using at the moment 7.x debs, but I need 8.x > for

uptimes > 50.0, dmesg says 'race' a lot...?

2006-08-24 Thread will trillich
Free pages:2716kB (0kB HighMem) Active:60873 inactive:60733 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:679 slab:4954 mapped:121541 pagetables:965 DMA free:668kB min:20kB low:40kB high:60kB active:6028kB inactive:5980kB present:16384kB protections[]: 10 360 360 Normal free:2048kB min:700kB low:140

Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders

2006-08-24 Thread Jason Martens
Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2006, at 1:35 AM, Jason Martens wrote: > [...snip...] > >> mount -t proc proc /proc > Check: This sounds too much like a magical incantation) > There's nothing really magical about it. To have network access, you need /proc mounted in your chroot, which is all

Re: Asus sucks (Re: sata sucks)

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-15 20:26:30, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Do you happen to know how screwed you are if the power fails during the > BIOS update? Or is the BIOS update governed by another nonupdatable BIOS? Asus use Crash-Free BIOS. The update tool (EZ-BIOS) can not be changed. It works always even if

Re: [OT] Apology (was Re: Determinate the directory whithin a script)

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-18 05:22:12, schrieb Mumia W.: > Sorry Michelle. Oh... > It's too bad this isn't a news-server that supports cancels > because I would've canceled my post. > > We all contribute in our own ways with the resources we have. > You are in the military; you don't have the freedom to do

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-18 22:31:45, schrieb Arthur Marsh: > Thanks, installing > > xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and > xfonts-75dpi-transcoded > > and running > > fc-cache -v You do not need this, since the packages do it automaticaly while installing. > fixed the problem I had with xmms not displaying accen

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 10:32:10, schrieb Zbigniew Wiech: > I also has this problem. There's a lot of free games attached to > childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way > to play them on linux. With all respect to WINEs people, its in very ... > beta stage. It failed to open

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 06:42:50, schrieb John Hasler: > Zbigniew writes: > > There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of > > them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. > > If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? Because the Spy-Ware which

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 08:03:34, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > That's what LSB is for. > > > If it ony it were that simple :-) > > LSB *requires* RPM! Yuck! GAMES should be installed in /opt// or ~/bin// IF games are good coded and static compiled they are working always and on any locations. Greet

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Sorry for the late answer, but your mail was a FP. Am 2006-07-25 23:30:25, schrieb Bruno Buys: > Why won't it run? I'd try sarge with 2.6 kernel (i386) + base install. I > have sarge 2.6.8.2-386 running on a amd k6 300 with 64mb, just base > system, runs great. It is NOT recommended to run Lin

Re: Her reboot isleminden sonra ALSA icin alsaconf calistirmazsam ALSA calismiyor

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Merhaba Emre, please ask at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Salamlar Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant Am 2006-07-26 21:23:17, schrieb Emre Sevinç: > > Merhaba, > > Kisa bir süre önce bilgisayarima ALSA ile ilgili paketleri kurmus ve

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-26 17:39:56, schrieb djhack: > Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. > Balsa - Copies entire message at reply. I have tried the suggested "Ctrl > Kmail - Configured it, and got test messages in and out then it started > Evolution - Configured it, and got

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:24:03PM +0200, Dimitar Vukman wrote: } On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:56:19 -0500 } Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } } > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. } } I always use something like "aptitude install -t version xxx". } Aptitude remembers reverse dependencies,

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread T
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:05 -0500, Kent West wrote: > ... > > Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude ... > > apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task. how did you do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [debian-sarge] conflict between passwd and base-config package

2006-08-24 Thread Sannie Kwakman
Steve Kemp schreef: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:40:23PM +0200, Sannie Kwakman wrote: Does anyone in the mailinglist know how to fix this problem? dpkg --force-all --install /var/cache/apt/archives/passwd_1%3a4.0.3-31sarge8_i386.deb Steve That did the trick, thank

remote access via ssh?

2006-08-24 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Remote system is debian derivative. When I access this system using ssh, the connection does not execute $HOME/.bashrc on remote system. Any ideas? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Roberto, On 8/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > $ dpkg -l | grep postgres > ii postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge2 object-relational SQL database management > ii postgresql-cli 7.4.7-6sarge2 front-end progr

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Kent West wrote: >>> I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I >>> can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely >>>

Re: Strange Boxes instead of letter-font in X

2006-08-24 Thread Luis Hidalgo
(Sorry Michelle) >From Willie Wonka:>I'll wager a guess and say your FONT or LOCALE are messed up -- pertaining to>UTF-8 and default Languages / Keymap codes you have installed...etc>I think those 'numbers' instead of fonts is/are the UTF-8 representation in >code of wghat the font should be (mappe

Re: Python & chess

2006-08-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Paolo Pantaleo wrote: >> Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine >> (even if a chess engine exists: > > Uh... why? I mean that's a pretty definite statement to thr

Re: how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:50:50AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? > > E.g. I run: > > tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log > > But it folds the output so that what is messy is now messier... So you want the lines to be cut off at the end of

Re: Suggestion for offtopic-list

2006-08-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: I see a significant percent of the traffic on this list being due to off-topic threads. And some contributors are complaining about the unnecessary traffic. Why not simply create a debian-offtopic list? I suggest the following scheme: - create off-topic list. - move all

Re: remote access via ssh?

2006-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:06:35PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > Remote system is debian derivative. When I access this system > using ssh, the connection does not execute $HOME/.bashrc > on remote system. My .bash_profile starts with if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi According to

Re: Rebuilding Corrupt Debian

2006-08-24 Thread Aaron Goodman
On 8/24/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Goodman wrote:> Is there a way to check which files got corrupted and replace those> files? Or if not can I simply run a command to reinstall all of my> installed packages?I'd say just reinstall in place.  Copy /etc to a different location

Re: remote access via ssh?

2006-08-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Other login shell, wrong permissions, ... What does ssh -V show? A workaround: ~/.ssh/environment On 8/24/06, Ishwar Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remote system is debian derivative. When I access this system using ssh, the connection does not execute $HOME/.bashrc on remote system. Rega

Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alexander Farber wrote: Hello, where could I get good and trustworth postgresql 8 debs which would be updated in case of security issues? On www.postgresql.org there are only rpms... I'm using at the moment 7.x debs, but I need 8.x for a libpq-program I'm developing... $ cat /etc/debian_vers

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Kent West
T wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:41:05 -0500, Kent West wrote: ... Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude ... apt-get and dselect have been similarly useless for this task. how did you do? Well, this was on a university lab machine that hadn't been updated

Re: Troubles burning CD-ROMS [SOLVED]

2006-08-24 Thread Travis Crook
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:00:57 +0800 Lars Boegild Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: > > > It seems I would be able to burn a disc as root, but > > apparently I don't have enough free space on /tmp (and can't delete > > anything in /tmp, but that's an issue for another day). >

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kent West wrote: I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this box and do a clean install of X (not of Debian itself, just of the X Window System

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 24 August 2006 04:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:26, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Uh, gas prices ring a bell? Of course you didn't reply to > > that, you blindly skipped over it. Just like you go amazingly > > silent any time someone nails you with cold hard fac

Re: [newbie]: own boot/root cd with grub : ide problem

2006-08-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:12:33PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: >Hello, > >As a newbie (not really a developper) I want to make my own boot/root CD. >So I have made a custom kernel, an initrd to be loaded by the boot loader >and a root tree. >The ramdisk contains device /dev

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Aug 23 23:00 -0500]: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >>Nevermind that he was impeached for lying under oath in an > >>investigation > >> > > > >Er, sorry, "Faced Impeachment" is what I meant. > > > > point of fact, li

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Aug 23 22:55 -0500]: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 19:58, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > ¹ For those not of US origin, > > > > Ignore Paul as he slants his posts to cast the most negative light on > > any non-socialist administration. Given this is a Capita

system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs

2006-08-24 Thread tom arnall
My system hangs momentarily every 4 mins 2 secs. The event coincides with a 'top' entry in which 'events/0' grabs 50-95% of cpu capacity. How can I determine what is causing the event? Thanks, Tom Arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

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