Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: >>> Thanks for the advice. >>> I looked at the files under /root, and found >>> there is a file .xs

Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:59:21AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > maybe you mentioned this before, but what is your X/2.6 problem? > > Just horning in on this thread here; there are 2 reasons why I run 2.4 > on my current sarge box: > > 1. I have random keyboard freeze

Re: which mailing list manager...

2007-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:27:03AM -0500, Attila Horvath wrote: > Hi All > > Any opinions about which mailing list manager is better? [..] On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:34:06 +1300 I wrote: > >Having to go to a web page to change details on what is just really an > >email service is a bad thing IMO, so:

Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-19 Thread celejar
On 1/18/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:15:15PM -0800, Kevin Ross wrote: > > Is there a relatively straightforward way to install a 2.4 series kernel > on Sid? > > I currently use unstable repos and would like to do a complete > > dist-upgrade, but

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Lubos Vrbka
jie gong napsal(a): Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. What is that? Can I delete it? the file contains errors from your x session. it seems you use some x program that just gone mad and prints a lots of error

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothing at all happens. On Thu Jan 18 14:05:12 2007, Kevin Ross wrote: > C

Serious problems with USB devices on Etch

2007-01-19 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, I have installed debian etch on my laptop, and usbd devices and network interface doesn't works. When system comes up displays this error: usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71 usb 3-2: de

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread jie gong
Thanks a lot. It indeed solved my system problem. On 1/19/07, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jie gong napsal(a): > Thanks for the advice. > I looked at the files under /root, and found > there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. > What is that? Can I delete it? the file con

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread jie gong
Just cleaned up the .xsessionerror file, have not looked the content, pity! Did some experiment. I started the x-session under root (althought it is not good to do that) Found the .x-sessionerror show up again. The content is: Xsession: X session started for root at Fri Jan 19 07:03:55 EST 2007

Re: apache2 not picking default

2007-01-19 Thread Pim Bliek
Figured it out after long searching. It was some bogus crap in /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpbb.conf :( Pim On 1/19/07, Pim Bliek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am using Apache2 on Sarge. I have an /etc/apache2/sites-enabled dir looking similar like: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Jan 19 13:15 00defa

apache2 not picking default

2007-01-19 Thread Pim Bliek
Hi I am using Apache2 on Sarge. I have an /etc/apache2/sites-enabled dir looking similar like: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Jan 19 13:15 00default -> default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jul 24 2005 pre1.domain.nl -> ../sites-available/pre1.domain.nl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Sep 4 18:50 de

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator! > Why can't I do the same thing in Stupid Old Linux? You can, if you know how. Once you figure out how you will know better than to do it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: > >>> Thanks for the advice. > >>> I looked at the files under /root, and found > >>>

Re: Handy Bash alias script

2007-01-19 Thread cassiano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why I didn't do this sooner. Am I just late to the party? =) I couldn't figure out a way to do this without using a script. I wanted to just make a one-line alias to do this with existing shell commands, but I couldn't figure it out. Let me know if there

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Ron Johnson napisał(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/07 17:43, Greg Folkert wrote: But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator This is becouse Windows is stupid. running programs as a root gives them ability to damage your system. Why can't I do the sam

kernel versions in releases.

2007-01-19 Thread jdaues
Currently, I am using Debian Etch with kernel version 2.6.18-3-686. This kernel has a bug that affects me in a rather annoying manner. This bug is fixed in 2.6.20. Since etch is frozen, I am assuming that 2.6.20 will not be in the final release of etch, correct? Can one estimate when 2.6.20 wi

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: > Are you saying that there is FSF- defined "non-free" software in Debian? Well, Debian silently includes the "non-free" archive in the default apt-sources so that new users can easily install non-free software without realizing that it is non-free. -- John Hasler -- To UNSU

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Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-19 Thread celejar
On 1/18/07, Kevin Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] This is probably not a great idea, since 2.4 kernel support has been dropped [0] from Debian. This means userspace tools with 2.4 support will not be supported anymore, as well as security updates. It might be worthwhile to try to get a

Used swap increasing after waking up from hibernate in Etch

2007-01-19 Thread Raghu Kodali
Every time my laptop wakes up from hibernate, I observe that my used swap has increased by approximately 2MB. I am seeing the usage of swap using the "top" command. Just to test it out, I did hibernate->wakeup->hibernate->wakeup without running any other application in between. I did not even chan

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Patterson
yea, verily, John Hasler sayith: > Well, Debian silently includes the "non-free" archive in the default > apt-sources so that new users can easily install non-free software without > realizing that it is non-free. Really? That was an option on the last install I did - etch businesscard - but th

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:26:54 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Mark writes: > > Are you saying that there is FSF- defined "non-free" software in > > Debian? > > Well, Debian silently includes the "non-free" archive in the default > apt-sources so that new users can easily insta

Re: apache2 not picking default

2007-01-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:22:35PM +0100, Pim Bliek wrote: > Hi > > WHY doesn't Apache take the first one? 00default that is. Doesn't it > work alphabetically? > It depends. > What point am I missing here? > > BTW, the default is the debian standard one with some alterations but > boils down li

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Re: kernel versions in releases.

2007-01-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:53:08AM -0700, jdaues wrote: > Currently, I am using Debian Etch with kernel version 2.6.18-3-686. This > kernel has a bug that affects me in a rather annoying manner. This bug > is fixed in 2.6.20. Since etch is frozen, I am assuming that 2.6.20 will > not be in the f

Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hello everyone, I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. Martin Kenneth Lopez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

OT: Windows(tm) window-management (was Re: GNOME / any shortcut to arrange windows?)

2007-01-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:36:44PM +0200, Nick Demou wrote: > Alternativerly even something like what "tile windows" > does under MS windows would be OK. As an aside, I have to say, I've found that managing windows in "Windows" can often be a lot more pleasant than many of the floating WMs availa

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:39:35PM -0600, jie gong wrote: > Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, > and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size > 4003647488. What is that? Can I delete it? to op: It's the stderr output of programs which have been created under an X s

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:50:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > And the idea of gNewSense is rather strange: take 16000 > DFSG softwares, fork 1000 of them, add better desktop > integration for these 1000 apps, add non-DFSG bits, call > it Ubuntu then remove the non-ubuntu-free bits and call it > gNe

Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hello everyone, I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. Martin Kenneth Lopez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. - --- HEADER BLANK_LINE TOP_POST BLANK_LINE MESSAGE SIG - --- into - --- HEADER B

Re: Handy Bash alias script

2007-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1/19/07, cassiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not just $ echo alias aliasname=\"alias commands\" >> ~/.bashrc Well, that would require typing that entire command manually every time. The idea is to have an alias that makes new aliases. If you had this in your .bashrc: alias newalias="

Re: network package management

2007-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:12:38PM +0100, Rob Wilco wrote: > Hello all, > > In large servers systems (+50 servers), we encounter issues with package > management. > > - we want a central point where it is possible to request package > versions and install new packages, > > - we have clusters

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Henrik Enberg
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be curious to know what applications are spouting crap into > it. There'd be a round of bugs filed by me on them. Mine is full of spewage from GTK-based apps. > I'd also wishlist xsession to round-robin that file from time to time. It's truncated on

how manage pasword with ldap

2007-01-19 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I am looking for a simple example or doc, for "authentification via ldap". I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and password). something like perhaps NIS ?? thanks for replay bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-19 Thread Dan H.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > maybe you mentioned this before, but what is your X/2.6 problem? Just horning in on this thread here; there are 2 reasons why I run 2.4 on my current sarge box: 1. I have random keyboard freezes on boot-up with the 2.6.8-3-k7 kernel 2. The SPICE package I'm freque

gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2007-01-19 Thread Arno Valentin
I have got the same Problem, but with Verision vim 70. and HP-UX 11.11. Makefile says: # - If you want a version of Vim that is small and starts up quickly, #you might want to disable the GUI, X11, Perl, Python and Tcl. # - Uncomment the line with --disable-gui if you have Motif, GTK and/or

Re: backup strategy using rsync

2007-01-19 Thread Randall Smith
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:08:31PM -0600, Randall Smith wrote: I've been looking at various backup strategies in the case I need to quickly (within an hour or so) move to different hardware. I like Linux-VServer because it makes the system mostly hardware agnostic, b

xine-ui: howto select 2nd sound card?

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, This on sid: xine-ui0.99.4+dfsg+cvs2006111 I would like to have it use the 2nd sound card. How do you do that? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboard Socket AM2 Asus M2NPV-VM and Debian

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
piter wrote: Hi, i am about to buy a pc whit this motherboard: *Motherboard Socket AM2* Asus M2NPV-VM DDR2/Vid+DVI+PCIe/R.SATA2/1394/Glan I have found comments about some problems for Asus motherboards with Debian (with sound and some kernel releases.) I woluld like to know if anybody of you hav

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/07 17:43, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: Thanks for the advice. I looked at the files under /root, and found there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. What is that? Can

Re: Motherboard Socket AM2 Asus M2NPV-VM and Debian

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
piter wrote: Hi, i am about to buy a pc whit this motherboard: *Motherboard Socket AM2* Asus M2NPV-VM DDR2/Vid+DVI+PCIe/R.SATA2/1394/Glan I have found comments about some problems for Asus motherboards with Debian (with sound and some kernel releases.) I woluld like to know if anybody of you hav

Re: chrony won't access hwclock but prevents hwclock.sh from doing so either

2007-01-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:59:46AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I'm running Etch amd64 on an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe MB with an AMD Athlon 3800+. Uname -a Linux titan 2.6.18-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 4 17:04:37 CET 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: how make the debian bootable

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > I use tar to copy from one harddrive to 2nd harddrive > > then i put the harddrive to another same harddrive > computer. how can I make it bootable? This is covered in the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini-HOWTO if you use LILO http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/

Re: SMTP server

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Grok Mogger wrote: > Hope no one minds if I hijack this thread. =) It's best to start a new one; better luck next time. :o) > I just read through all the responses and was surprised to see > three people using postfix, one using exim4, and none using > sendmail. > > I've heard so much about s

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Friday 19 January 2007 10:42, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. You're looki

Re: Re: gvim / vim -g WON'T WORK

2007-01-19 Thread Arno Valentin
I have got the same Problem, but with Verision vim 70. and HP-UX 11.11. Makefile says: # - If you want a version of Vim that is small and starts up quickly, #you might want to disable the GUI, X11, Perl, Python and Tcl. # - Uncomment the line with --disable-gui if you have Motif, GTK and/or

Re: backup strategy using rsync

2007-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I highly recommend that you look at backupninja for part of your backup strategy. It's great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-01-19 Thread Francis Healy
Mitchell Verter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Sarge on a pretty old Toshiba 2500CDS http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproducts/html/satellite/satellite_2500cds_spec.html I downloaded the netinst CD image (100 Mb) The computer has just begun loading the CD and it se

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/07 18:20, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator! > >> Why can't I do the same thing in Stupid Old Linux? > > You can, if you know how. Once you figure out how you will know better

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/19/07 12:07, jie gong wrote: > Just cleaned up the .xsessionerror file, have not looked the content, pity! > Did some experiment. > I started the x-session under root (althought it is not good to do that) > Found the .x-sessionerror show up agai

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 14:39 -0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. Like GForge? I believe this

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Kenneth Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.19.1939 +]: > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. try gforge.

setting editor options with update-alternatives

2007-01-19 Thread Seb
Hi, I recently changed my default editor program, by using: update-alternatives --config editor and I selected emacs-snapshot. However, whenever some program calls "editor", I'd like emacs-snapshot to be called with the -nw option, as I wouldn't want to be restricted if I'm at a terminal. I

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi folks, > with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was > thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. > --- > HEADER > BLANK_LINE > TOP_POST > BLANK_LINE > MESSAGE > SIG > ---

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Martin! On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. Would you

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Re: backup strategy using rsync

2007-01-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Randall, > I got to thinking, how hard would it be to isolate the hardware dependent > portions of a system, and simply backup and restore the hardware > independent portions onto a new system using rsync? Can someone shed some > light on the subject? A thinks I'm not clear on. I have implement

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:57:25 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was > thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. > - --- > HEADER

Re: Building Postfix with TLS support in Debian

2007-01-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:16:10 -0800 "Easthope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Users of Postfix in Debian, > > The Postfix manual has the section > "Building Postfix with TLS support". > Will this work in Debian Woody or Etch? > > If so, which packages will provide ssl.h, > libssl.so, libcrypto.so

RE: Building Postfix with TLS support in Debian

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Easthope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:16 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Building Postfix with TLS support in Debian > > Users of Postfix in Debian, > > The Postfix manual has the section > "Building Postfix

Re: chrony won't access hwclock but prevents hwclock.sh from doing so either

2007-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Hugo writes: > Doug, I recall(?) that solution from the list. I subscribe to it. But you > only rarely need the list because most of the time chrony works as > advertized. He did the right thing in filing the bug. -- John Hasler, Chrony maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBS

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi folks, > with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was > thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. Isn't "top post fixer" a synonym to a LART? ;-) -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > You, though, John, get flogged 100 times with a wet noodle for not > noticing obvious sarcasm. _My_ sarcasm was aimed at the OP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Change loader for programs

2007-01-19 Thread Emmanuel QUEMENER
Hello world, I would like to ask a rookie question about the possibility to reassign by substitution a new loader (/lib/ld-linux.so.2 or alike) to each program. In fact, I know that it's possible to launch it for example echo by using /new/path/lib/ld-2.3.2 /new/path/bin/echo but I would like to

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Ken Irving
Why would that be a problem? ;-} On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 12:29:04AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:57:25 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi folks, > > with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 23:49 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:57 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi folks, > > with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was > > thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. > > Isn't "top post fixer" a synon

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: > Well, Debian silently includes the "non-free" archive in the default > apt-sources I'm sorry, but you're completely incorrect. Perhaps you should use a version of the installer that is less than 6 years old before making statements about what it does? -- see shy jo signatu

grub: not found or no block device

2007-01-19 Thread Bernd Kloss
Hello, Etch installed on a computer with scsii-hd and transferred to a similar computer with ide-hd. Both: first partition primary/bootable and 1 extended partition with 1 logical drive: swap device.map, menu.lst and fstab adapted: hda instead of sda Booting with rescue-system, mounting /dev/h

Re: Sourceforge.net Code

2007-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > I been looking thru google and sourceforge but I didnt have luck I > was looking for an web aplication like sourceforge.net... did anyone > know a tool like this for download?... thanks in advance.. Apt found gforge, which appears to be what you're looking for if

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 05:52:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/18/07 17:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: > >> Thanks for the advice. > >> I looked at the files under /root, and found > >> there

Re: Handy Bash alias script

2007-01-19 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 1/19/07, cassiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why not just > > > >$ echo alias aliasname=\"alias commands\" >> ~/.bashrc [--snip --] > ...and have it work? Aliases don't support $1 or $@, do they? > They do here alias deps='a

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:37:36PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > Hello Douglas, > > I was interested in your reply to Daniel particularily as I have spent > quite some time endeavouring to get a font to my liking on a 19" TFT > screen without a framebuffer. With a CRT it was easy with svgatextmode

Re: chrony won't access hwclock but prevents hwclock.sh from doing so either

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:01:28AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:59:46AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> > >>>Running chrony version 1.21z05 a.k.a. the current Etch chrony version. > >>> > >>>I access the i

Re: no virtual terminals after fresh etch install

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:05:36PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Monday 15 January 2007 19:01, I wrote: > > I just did my first Debian install on a new desktop using the testing- > > i386-netinst CD. ... I cannot bring up the usual virtual terminals 1-6 > > (e.g. CTRL-ALT-F1). If I try, nothin

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 06:38:54PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:33:05PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 11:37:36PM +, Brian Potkin wrote: > > > Hello Douglas, > > > > > > I was interested in your reply to Daniel particularily as I have s

Re: kernel versions in releases.

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:36:46PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:53:08AM -0700, jdaues wrote: > > Currently, I am using Debian Etch with kernel version 2.6.18-3-686. This > > kernel has a bug that affects me in a rather annoying manner. This bug > > is fixed in 2.6

Re: Used swap increasing after waking up from hibernate in Etch

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:29:54PM +0530, Raghu Kodali wrote: > Every time my laptop wakes up from hibernate, I observe that my used > swap has increased by approximately 2MB. I am seeing the usage of swap > using the "top" command. > > Just to test it out, I did hibernate->wakeup->hibernate->wake

Re: OT: Windows(tm) window-management (was Re: GNOME / any shortcut to arrange windows?)

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:52:02AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:36:44PM +0200, Nick Demou wrote: > > Alternativerly even something like what "tile windows" > > does under MS windows would be OK. > > As an aside, I have to say, I've found that managing windows > in "Windo

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread John C
Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:21:31PM -0600, John C wrote: Many in the Free Software Movement consider Debian and Ubuntu to be not "free" enough because they contain "non-free" software. It's one of the prime reasons for the start

Bug in cups-pdf or in samba ?

2007-01-19 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, I'm about to write a bug report to cups-pdf, yet I'm not really sure if it is the right address. Do you know the following problem? I use cups-pdf together with samba. cups-pdf works just fine on the linux pc, but there is a problem, when the printer is accessed via samba. Since the win

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread John C
John Hasler wrote: John C writes: By the way several users have stated that it's not about DRM. That may very well be true, but I have still not found anything that confirmed that Debian has accepted and/or found that the DRM restrictions did not apply. As I understand it GFDL documents with

Debian instalation

2007-01-19 Thread Guillermo Garron
Hi, I have found some valuable info over the internet, and got some of it to build my own server. I put all that info in this page, hope could be useful to somebody. http://www.go2linux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=9 best regards, -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Well, Debian silently includes the "non-free" archive in the default > apt-sources Joey Hess writes: > I'm sorry, but you're completely incorrect. Good. I'm glad to be wrong about this. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: chrony won't access hwclock but prevents hwclock.sh from doing so either

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:32:18PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Hugo writes: > > Doug, I recall(?) that solution from the list. I subscribe to it. But you > > only rarely need the list because most of the time chrony works as > > advertized. > > He did the right thing in filing the bug. I wonder w

RE: kernel versions in releases.

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 4:40 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: kernel versions in releases. > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:36:46PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 19, 20

Re: grub: not found or no block device

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 11:51:37PM +0100, Bernd Kloss wrote: > Booting with rescue-system, mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt > chroot /mnt > grub-install /dev/hda(1) > > hda(1) = hda or hda1 > > => > /dev/hda(1) not found or no block device > > Also tried: > grub-install --recheck /dev/hda(1) => sti

RE: Debian instalation

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Guillermo Garron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:15 PM > To: Debian-Users List > Subject: Debian instalation > > Hi, > > I have found some valuable info over the internet, and got some of it > to build my own server. > > I put al

Re: how manage pasword with ldap

2007-01-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:54:54AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a simple example or doc, for "authentification via ldap". > > I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at > anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and > pass

RE: ide-floppy in etch

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Ross
> -Original Message- > From: Easthope [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 5:31 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: ide-floppy in etch > > Users of Debian and ide-floppy, > > In Etch, is ide-floppy available as a loadable module? > If so, where is it to

Re: kernel versions in releases.

2007-01-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:39:51PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Don't new kernel versions come out after release, with the updates? > Also, once Etch is stable, before Lenny is stable, won't a 2.6.20 end up > in testing at some point? > Yes. But the original question was a request fo

Re: how manage pasword with ldap

2007-01-19 Thread John Schmidt
On Friday 19 January 2007 01:54, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I am looking for a simple example or doc, for "authentification via ldap". > > I have a lab with 20 machines where the students can use anyone at > anytime, so I want to centralise the authentification ( login and > password). som

Re: 2.4 series kernel on Sid

2007-01-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:59:21 +0100 "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > maybe you mentioned this before, but what is your X/2.6 problem? > > Just horning in on this thread here; there are 2 reasons why I run 2.4 > on my current sarge box: > > 1. I have random

Re: grub: not found or no block device

2007-01-19 Thread Kent West
On 1/19/07, Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Etch installed on a computer with scsii-hd and transferred to a similar computer with ide-hd. Both: first partition primary/bootable and 1 extended partition with 1 logical drive: swap device.map, menu.lst and fstab adapted: hda instead of sda

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:06:04PM -0600, John C wrote: > > > Kevin Mark wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:21:31PM -0600, John C wrote: > > > >>Many in the Free Software Movement consider Debian and Ubuntu to > >>be not "free" enough bec

Re: grub: not found or no block device

2007-01-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:32:29PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > On 1/19/07, Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Etch installed on a computer with scsii-hd and transferred to a similar > >computer with ide-hd. > >Both: first partition primary/bootable and 1 extended partition with 1 > >logica

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:02:45 -0800 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu January 11 2007 18:54, M-L wrote: > > Can someone enlighten me please as to why this the URL below crashes > > Konqueror? > > > > http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_campaign_jan_2007/ > > It doesn't crash my konqueror on

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:57:36 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mainly because of this: > > http://www.avaaz.org/inc/interstateh2.swf > Curiously, that URL doesn't crash Konq. But it displays a message "unable to load netscape plugin" and just sits there. Konq (at least here) isn't

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:54:38 -0500 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Works fine on konqueror 3.5.5 installed from Debian Etch (testing) i386 > repositories. No crash and the site renders fine. Hmm. on etch, i386, I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy konqueror konqueror

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