Re: Newie questions about security

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:51:11 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:21:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> Firestarter and other Linux based firewalls are when you want to build a > >> firewall for your network. You canno

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

Paul Johnson wrote: > Would be half that if LA had not destroyed it's public transport in the > 1940s and 1950s. 45 minutes is a long commute by anybody's standards. Uh, no, Paul it wouldn't. It is pretty much physically impossible to get from Long Beach to Pasadena (specifically the doors I

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070302 01:42]: > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. It is a very simple little > thing, and I don't think it has any so

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 02:14:43 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070302 01:42]: > > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > > internet; I bough

thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

Dear all, I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion? I once backuped the whole inbox on a CD-ROM, and set the "local directory" on the

Re: who is responsible to keep the list of used $DISPLAYs at system level

On 01.03.07 13:09, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Pardon my ignorance on the subject: flow of X connections etc > > The problem is -- the user logs in into a remote system via ssh with X > forwarding and gets assigned DISPLAY=:13.0. Sorry I don't understand - what do you mean "gets assigned"? the DI

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 19:25, Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mitja Podreka wrote: [snip] > > Who's rich enough to afford to waste gas driving faster than 60 MPH, much > less more on a regular basis? Fuel economy on most vehicles takes a > massive no

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 02:29, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my > Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup > quick in thunderbird if need. What's your sug

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 01:17, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon >> upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower >> and error-prone than the one-st

check driver

Your USB gizmo should be recognized no matter what. A PS2 to USB converter needs extra circuitry (but this is a tiny chip which they can cast the connector over). Going the other way is easy because many USB keyboards have circuitry that will recognize they are not on a USB line and they wil

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:48:06 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > But USA is not the entire world. > > No, it's not. So why is the rest of the world trying to tell the > US what would work for them when most rational people in the US could > tell you it won

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:44:52 -0800 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > You're confusing socialism with totalitarianism. Please see my > > previous posts about this. > > You're thinking there is a difference is the mistake. And there are 50 years of history in the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:49:11 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've yet to see any automatic that was great. I've yet to drive an > automatic that didn't consistently pick the wrong gear when > accelerating hard or kill the gas mileage compared to the stick shift > version of the sa

Re: usb audio device & sound card

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:15 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Sounds like your cards are sometimes 0 and sometimes 1. > > A udev rule (or 2) should fix this. If this is an issue with udev, then file a bug (better ask the maintainer to nicely reassign it if it's an ALSA issue). This should just work rig

Re: How to best use the list?

Kent West wrote: [...] I just replied to this post in Gmail by hitting "Reply All", then manually taking out your email address and moving the debian-user address from the CC: field to the To: field. The same approach works in Icedove/Thunderbird. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

"apt-cache search archive mail|sort" brings up, among other things: archivemail - archive and compress your old email archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to restore and read them back in thundbird.

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

[snap] > > isn't recognized by MS Windows either. Does anyone know anything about > > these things? Do they only work with certain types of keyboards? Do I > > need to configure anything in software? Should I suspect that mine is > > defective? > > Correct; there are no electronics in the PS2->US

Re: can't browse samba network

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 09:20 +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > My platform is Debian etch with gnome as desktop environment. > I can mount samba shared folder manually , but I don't know why I can > not browse samba network by using Location/Computer/Network. > > Did I miss some necessary packages ? Make sur

why is grep behaving this way ?

I have logname command give me this output [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ logname bhaskerv and say i execute this command [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo `logname` bhaskerv till this it is all fine BUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ who | grep `logname` logname: no login name Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]..

Re: How to best use the list?

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:27 +, Chris Lale wrote: > The same approach works in Icedove/Thunderbird. There are also some more or less hackish extensions and patches available. For example, http://cweiske.de/misc_extensions.htm#replyToList -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:07:37PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ who | grep `logname` > logname: no login name > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... > Try `grep --help' for more information. Weird. Consiedering that this works: who | grep `whoami` Where's the catch? --

Re: Does Etch supports Dell SAS 5iR RAID card?

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:42 +0800, askxuefeng wrote: > I want to buy a Dell 1435 AMD64 server, is there anyone could tell me if > etch can be installed properly with SAS 5iR RAID card (PCI-Express)? Thanks! Sounds like it's supported by the megaraid_sas driver, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/ce

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

Salvatore Iovene wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:07:37PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ who | grep `logname` >> logname: no login name >> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... >> Try `grep --help' for more information. >> > > Weird. Consiedering that this works

Re: Fonts from GDM?

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:00:27 -0500 Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > # xdpyinfo | grep resol > resolution:75x75 dots per inch > > # xrdb -q | grep dpi > {no results} > Was this in the GDM or startx session? I'm guessing it was in the GDM session, because there the fonts

Re: [OT] Adobe Reader changes font size!

Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If I print a pdf document through MS Windows Adobe Reader, I see that >> the font is smaller than when I print it under Linux. Can anybody >> explain this, and to avoid it? Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you using a font that is available on b

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

Yuwen Dai wrote: >> >> >> "apt-cache search archive mail|sort" brings up, among other things: >> archivemail - archive and compress your old email >> archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl > > > > These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to > restore and rea

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

Yuwen Dai wrote: > I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my > Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the > backup quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion? How about creating a new folder, e.g., Inbox-2005. Then move all mails

Re: Fonts from GDM?

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:57:30 + Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #!/bin/sh > exec $(which X) -br -dpi 75 An update to my own message ... you should probably add the arguments '-nolisten tcp' to the above. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Fonts from GDM?

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > # xdpyinfo | grep resol > > resolution:75x75 dots per inch > Was this in the GDM or startx session? I'm guessing it was in the GDM > session, because there the fonts are smaller. Usually GDM sets the DPI to 96 by default. -- Chee

Re: linux-image-2.6-486 vs. linux-image -2.6-

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:44:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a place where the difference between these latest kernel binary ima

Re: Kernel install problem

Bob McGowan wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: why do you use "/boot/boot/grub/" and not the default "/boot/grub/"? what is in /boot/grub/menu.lst vs /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst ? Using /boot/boot/grub is necessary when /boot is its own f

Re: [OT] Adobe Reader changes font size!

Hello, you may try to install the fonts later. It may be useful to know how you get your PDF ? was it grabbed ? exported ? composed by pdf[La]TeX ? hth, Jerome Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I print a pdf document through MS Windows Adobe Reader, I see th

Re: Fonts from GDM?

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:40:53 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > # xdpyinfo | grep resol > > > resolution:75x75 dots per inch > > > Was this in the GDM or startx session? I'm guessing it was in the > > GDM session, b

Re: xorg stops putting monitor on standby after ~2 days

jason.public wrote: > I'm having a problem with xorg not putting the monitor on standby > after 2-3 days. If I restart X, the monitor will go on standby after > ~5 minutes, but then it will stop going on standby after X uptime is > over 2-3 days. This has consistently happened for several months

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

Oh yes, I will take all that is said in exam, and learn all to some degree. But I have so much work on Java, php, and virtual reality modelling languages, plus build the site, so I think I better build a simple server, as strong as I can. But can't spend months or years learning, I need to start d

Re: static IP

Thanks Andrei Thanks for such a good answer, now all is clear. So long Jordi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: static IP

And Andrei: > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) That is a very good point. When I had time (when will that happen??) I would like to make a site for people using Linux not to suicide trying to understand it, as many things are much simpler tha

Re: OT: sponge burning!

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:39:17PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:23:10 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you're thinking of the Roman Church's stricture against Onanism, > > well, Augustine had more than one weird idea. > > Big misconception (pardon the

CMS for server

Hello As I am now the pain of this list, I continue doing questions. I use a CMS for managing users in the portal I am building. Most people would know what is a CMS, but for the ones that don't know, I tell you: a CMS is a content manager system, basically is a web portal that you can personaliz

Re: usb audio device & sound card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Grieveson wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >>> Hi. I have a cheap usb audio device for Skype, and a regular >>> sound card for the rest of the computer. I'm using Etch. I >>> would like to be able to get sound when browsing the internet, or >>> l

Re: CMS for server

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: > - Xoops > - Joomla > - e107 > > What do you use in your servers? Have you been using these in your > servers? That's a very OT question, as it doesn't have anything to

Re: Audio recording hardware

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:30:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/07 13:44, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:04 -0600 > >> "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 15:51, Joe Hart wrote: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> However, I was exaggerating a bit. To go the 26 km from here to >> Amsterdam, it takes about a half of an hour with the car or the bus. >> The

Re: Audio recording hardware

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:57:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/01/07 15:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:28:57 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> For all you non-believers (sorry, too much religi

Re: CMS for server

On (02/03/07 15:18), Salvatore Iovene wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > > I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: > > - Xoops > > - Joomla > > - e107 > > > > What do you use in your servers? Have you been using these in your > > servers

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> >> Your math is way off. > > Uh, no, yours is. > >> 20 miles in 20 minutes is 60 mph, and yes, the >> buses do travel that fast when traveling on the highway. The speed >> limit for the bus is 100 km/h, wh

Re: usb audio device & sound card

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Grieveson wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: >>> Hi. I have a cheap usb audio device for Skype, and a regular >>> sound card for the rest of the computer. I'm using Etch. I >>> would like to be able to get sound when browsing the internet, or >>> l

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 03/01/07 03:00, steef wrote: > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 03/01/07 01:14, Joe Hart wrote: > >[snip] > >>yes! that went perfect for two years. last week w

Re: static IP

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:44:41AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > And Andrei: > > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > > (Albert Einstein) > > That is a very good point. > When I had time (when will that happen??) I would like to make a site > for people using Linux not to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

Paul Johnson wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: GNU/Linux has more in common with freedom of choice than anything else. It's originators my not see that, or have had it in mind, but the fact is it does. It doesn't require coercion or attempt to force anyone to do things exactly the same as eve

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi wrote: > Oh yes, > > I will take all that is said in exam, and learn all to some degree. > But I have so much work on Java, php, and virtual reality modelling > languages, plus build the site, so I think I better build a simple > server, as stro

Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Blair wrote: >I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a > recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk > that the sarge installer doesn't recognize). > >I downloaded the first CD image and booted the install

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:48:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > But USA is not the entire world. > > No, it's not. So why is the rest of the world trying to tell the US what > would work for them when most rational people in the US could tell you it > won't? > Becuas

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

Thanks for the suggestions everybody. I have quite specific backup requirements (a very large and mostly static resource) so I was just looking to see if anyone had already found the optimum solution for dealing with it. As there doesn't seem to be a bespoke solution and I'll be probably be doing

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:25:33PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> I saw two good firewalls: > >> - Firestarter wich is easy > >> - Shorewall wich see

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:38:25 +0200 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snap] > > > > isn't recognized by MS Windows either. Does anyone know anything about > > > > these things? Do they only work with certain types of keyboards? Do I > > > > need to configure anything in software? Should I suspect t

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:49 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > > I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the > > quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to > > download films and music from the internet. Some loophole in the > >

Re: check driver

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:43:33 +0100 (CET) pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your USB gizmo should be recognized no matter what. A PS2 to USB converter > needs extra circuitry (but this is a tiny chip which they can cast the > connector over). Going the other way is easy because many USB

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:17 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems > administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps > more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for > others. I've been running Etch for so

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

> Agreed, there are no electronics, however AFAIK USB and PS/2 are > different protocols - so they cannot be just swapped by using an > adapter. (PS/2 and AT could). There is a trick that USB mice's detects > where-im-plugged-into and adjusts protocol/wiring. With PS/2->USB its > worse, as PS/2 de

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. It is a very simple little > thing, and I don't thi

Re: [SOLVED] Re: sound in iceweasel

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:49:26PM +, andy wrote: > > > Thanks for the help - have fixed it. It was a combo of not having the > latest flash plugin (now fixed with flashplugin-nonfree) and adjusting > the /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc file as was suggested with reference to > Mozilla. Would

Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Charles Blair wrote: >>I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a >> recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk >> that the sarge installer doesn't recognize). > >>I downloaded the first CD image

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

Mariusz Kruk wrote: I always installed from the self-installing executables, not from rpms, since they're rh-specific. And, you might want to download updated version, because older versions of NB agents tend to have problems with new glibc. Were do you get the self-installing executables? T

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:47:05 +0200 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Agreed, there are no electronics, however AFAIK USB and PS/2 are > > > different protocols - so they cannot be just swapped by using an > > > adapter. (PS/2 and AT could). There is a trick that USB mice's detects > > > where-i

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:50:35 -0500 Scott Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > > in

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:48:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> But USA is not the entire world. >> No, it's not. So why is the rest of the world trying to tell the US what >> would work for the

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

On pią, 2007-03-02 at 09:53 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > > I always installed from the self-installing executables, not from rpms, > > since they're rh-specific. > > And, you might want to download updated version, because older versions > > of NB agents tend to have problems with new glibc. > >

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:49 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >> >>> I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the >>> quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to >>> do

Re: Fonts from GDM?

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:57 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > OK, try this. Create a file called .Xresources, containing the > following line: > > Xft.dpi: 75 > > To the start of your .xsession file, add this line: > > xrdb -merge .Xresources > > Finally, create a .xserverrc file with the fo

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

Mariusz Kruk wrote: Were do you get the self-installing executables? The only thing I've found for Linux, even on the Symantec site, were the rpm files. From Veritas FTP site, from the original CD. But I can't guarantee that BackupExec (because that's what you're using if I remember corr

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

Greg Folkert wrote: There isn't. Again, what have you tried to isolate any errors? Have you put the beremote into debug mode? Have you noted any errors on the server's logs? IOW, You really need to tell us hard info about your install and what kinds of errors you are getting and how you install

Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

Hi All, You folks were so helpful with my last problem, I thought I'd impose on your patience once again with the next one downstream. Two nights ago I (finally) upgraded an elderly system from woody to sarge. X stopped working. Moreover, it seems to have stopped working not during the upgrade to

RT61 ralink and new kernel

Problem solved!! Going from 2.6.18-3 to 2.6.18-4 the wifi card was no recognized.Doing a re-install of the card from from sratch partly solved the problem: module rt61.ko had to be re-inserted manually at each restart of the PC! Solved by: copying the new r61.ko file to /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-am

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

> > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:07:37PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ who | grep `logname` > >> logname: no login name > >> Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... > >> Try `grep --help' for more information. On 02.03.07 11:27, H?kon Alstadheim wrote: > I'm running SuSE, an

Re: installation problem with initramfs-tools

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:52:57PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > Charles Blair wrote: > >>I am trying to install the etch version of Debian on a > >> recently purchased HP Pavillion machine (it has a hard disk > >> that the sarge installer doesn't recognize). > > > >>I downl

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

Arlie Stephens wrote: The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the kernel's framebuffer. Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBDev option below. There are two other modules not

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

On 3/2/07, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd say that logname detects logged user by checking terminal of stdin file handle... Yup: $ echo | strace -o'|grep readlink' logname readlink("/proc/self/fd/0", "pipe:[5242235]", 511) = 14 $ strace -o'|grep readlink' logname readli

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:56:27AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi All, HI [...] > > X was running after that first stage of the upgrade (to latest woody) > but would not restart once I rebooted the system. I went ahead and > upgraded to sarge anyway, figuring I might get lucky, and could just

Re: Veritas Remote Unix Agent

Greg Folkert wrote: > There isn't. Again, what have you tried to isolate any errors? Have you > put the beremote into debug mode? Have you noted any errors on the > server's logs? > > IOW, You really need to tell us hard info about your install and what > kinds of errors you are getting and how y

Re: Number of OT Posts

"Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it really dual-ported? Some months ago I posted stuff there that > obviously nobody saw. My understanding is things posted to the mailing list will show up in the newsgroup, but not the other way around. Haven't really checked in awhile, so it might have

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 07:56 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > kernel's framebuffer. I (stupidly) failed to save the XF86Config file > before starting, but the curren

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

Yes, There are lots of alternatives like : who | grep `id -un` who | grep bhasker or even i tried to do this !!! who > a grep `logname` a that WORKS ONLY this command "who | grep `logname`" does not work ! WHY ? On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:16 +0200, Salvatore Iovene wrote: > On Fri,

Re: Xfree86 problems, sarge/woody

On Mar 02 2007, Wackojacko wrote: > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > >The complaint is that it fails to find a framebuffer, regardless of > >which answer I give to the question of whether or not to use the > >kernel's framebuffer. > > Have you tried manually editing the file? Comment out the UseFBD

Re: MP3

Am 2007-02-22 10:23:35, schrieb pinniped: > Even Bill Clinton would never be able to convince anyone that MP3 was free, > so I'm not surprised the software author charges for MP3 support - he may > have spent some money to acquire the documentation and also a licensing > arrangement. If you are

Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

Am 2007-02-21 13:13:33, schrieb Ron Johnson: > Where from? What's the model number? From my IBM Media-Server seller in Offenburg/Germany. The HDD'S are Deskstar 7K1000 in SATA. On Tuesday I have goten an E-Mail and maybe I get the Disks next week. Officialy they are sold at the end of March in

Re: [OT] Re: 1TB drives (was Re: Woody on 486 problem)

Am 2007-02-21 13:16:04, schrieb Joshua J. Kugler: > To clarify: couldn't find any *for sale* online. > > I can find plenty of pages talking about them, just none for sale. Since the official sale is not before March 2007? :-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadminis

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-20 10:34:03, schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..write new bios code for old 386 irons to use todays new big ass disks > > is trivial to you? ;o) > > If you can't write your own BIOS, you aren't a Real Geek. What about Linux-BIOS? And of all, the BIOS

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Hey Mike, Am 2007-02-20 14:04:27, schrieb Mike McCarty: > Don't listen to him. He thinks he's the only Real Geek. I've > written boot firmware for several new boards when I worked in > telecomm, and he doesn't think I'm a Real Geek. HOW easy is it today to write VERY small BIOS code to recognize

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-22 09:25:14, schrieb Mike McCarty: > > Sinclair ZX81 => Zylog Z80/Z8000 > > The Zilog Z80 is an 8 bit machine, the Z8000 is a 16 bit machine. The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. The 16 bit CPU was the: > >and then Later the Zylog Z8400 (16 bit) ...long time ago. Z80

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

Am 2007-02-26 09:46:16, schrieb Ron Johnson: > But that's not a stanford.edu (or any big European technical Uni) > address, is it? Even in Freiburg... It dependy heavily what you ware studying... Yeah IT-Students have access to the Data-Center and a private Key to go in (even at 2 AM in the morn

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-22 09:31:43, schrieb Mike McCarty: > I don't consider anything like a Pentium to be a "small" or "old" > machine. In my life, Pentium is still premium. I have 9 HP Vectry XA5/200MMT with each of 192 to 384 MByte of memory. All of them are using 8-32 GByte HDD's and three of them 3w65xx

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-21 13:18:54, schrieb Ron Johnson: > I'm stunned that "they" still make 32MB DRAM modules. It was one of the first Modules produced, but while searchin the Net I have found on eBay only 64 MByte for 3 years or such. > Why all that horsepower to track radar signals? Analysis. My progra

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Am 2007-02-22 09:30:08, schrieb Mike McCarty: > This sort of thing is already happening. Many Linux distros > claim to "keep old hardware alive", but won't run on anything > less than a Pentium with at least 32MB of RAM. I consider all Computers from 486/75 to P1/266 with 32 to 128 MByte and usefu

Re: Debian on ancient machines

Am 2007-02-21 13:39:46, schrieb Matthew K Poer: > I have a Thinkpad 600: ~5.5 gig HDD, 196mb RAM, and a P2. ..and if you look in the header of my Messages you will find something like :-) It is an IBM TP570, P2/366 with 192 MB no CD a/Floppy, ultra light running Sarge with fvwm, OpenOffice, Mo

Re: Debian on ancient machines

Am 2007-02-22 09:39:03, schrieb Mike McCarty: > >But he can run also to stay with Debian. > > No such domain: www.embedian.org \ / I was a little bit typing to fast... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

Re: Debian on ancient machines

Am 2007-02-22 09:41:19, schrieb Mike McCarty: > They claim to make a "universal embedded operting system." When do > I get my port to the MC68HC11? It's my favorite embedded machine. IF YOU CONTRIBUTE :-) Since you are a REAL-GEEK, - it will be no problem for you. :-) Happy coding

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

Am 2007-02-21 12:25:06, schrieb Kevin Mark: > Hi Michelle, > I have 2 suggestions: > I wanted to make a hard copy of the sarge installation manual. I was > able to send a pdf file to an email address assigned to a Kinko's store > (US printing chain). They were able to have it printed 2-sided with a

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

Am 2007-02-20 01:09:32, schrieb Karl Goetz: > I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could > recommend specific help they used to go with the huge quantity of > goodness-knows-what-quality doco on the internet. cifs/smb=> nfs dhcp=>

Re: [Debian-User] Xen Debian Package Management

Since you do not use a realname in your message I have found it in the SPAM-Folder. I do not understand why you are talkong abour Xen 2 if I have Etch- DVD's from November last year which have already Xen 3: ---[ command 'apt-cache search xen |grep -v roxen' ] libc6-xen - GNU

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