sound recording

2007-03-05 Thread BALLABIO GERARDO
(please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) Hi all, I'm trying to convert some old analog music recordings to CD format, using my PC running Sarge. I've found some directions in a howto, buyed a cable and plugged one side into the headphones output of my stereo, the other one into the line-in input of th

Re: separating x client from x server

2007-03-05 Thread Andreas Duffner
That's right. The program you're running *is* the X client, and it needs an X server to display its stuff on. Usually it uses the DISPLAY environment variable to find it. [...] One way that is apparently compatible with today's paranoia appears to be to use an option on ssh (I believe it's ss

Re: sound recording

2007-03-05 Thread Andreas Duffner
BALLABIO GERARDO wrote: (please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) []... buyed a cable and plugged one side into the headphones output of my stereo, the other one into the line-in input of the PC. > [...] I plugged the cable into the headphones output of the TV, but this time something strange h

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

2007-03-05 Thread Yuwen Dai
> The expected file /tmp/November didn't create. Maybe Procmail won't deliver in /tmp because everybody can read and write there. Maybe ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006 doesn't match anything in the mail. Test that with egrep. Now I change the rcfile as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat rcfile :0: * ^Receive

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > installation set a

Re: static IP

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:30:42PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > As far as I know, they aren't even talking on debian-doc anymore. The They are, but the list seems to be a clearinghouse(?) for patches submitted against the debian documentation. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Chris.

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: > > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles > > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go > > with. > > There's really very little

Re: Howto delete DVD-RW files

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:11:40AM +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a method to delete individual files in one DVD-RW, without > success :)Any suggestion? KDE or command line, I not use GNOME. > > Thanks! How expensive are they? :-) Just read the DVD-RW, and burn

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:38:59AM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > Maybe I have not understood your problem, but are you looking for bash > completion ? If you are, enable it in /etc/bash.bashrc. The OP is referring to filename expansion. To see what I mean try: man m with bash completion enabled

Re: webcalendar with PHP5

2007-03-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:08:34PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > Dear all, > > using etch, I would like to make use of webcalendar on my Apache 2 > webserver that runs smoothly with PHP5. > > webcalendar requires PHP4. > > Any suggestion on how to solve this issue? > > Thanks! > > wbr, > Lukas > -

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The > doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to > do this. [This reply is from memory, so it may have some errors, but it should give you a lead] This m

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Mitja Podreka
Ron Johnson wrote: Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve their own lives. Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying that rich people are rich because they are hard working. Like in every situation involving humans, this statement is tru

Using dpkg-scanpackages with a debian repository

2007-03-05 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, I'm creating a customized debian repository. In repository, i´ll go put the packages than i created. This packages are aplications, all with Sections optional in debian/control. I create the override.sarge.main file: package1 optionaladmin package2 optionaladmin package3

Re: xsane scanner root only

2007-03-05 Thread Gabor Nagy
> Hello. I have a scanner, HP ScanJet 6200C. Please help me! Try the scanner with this program too: http://sign-el-soft.hu/cgi/ng-xim.en.html and write me the result! (To start the scanner press Alt-Ins, or select the appropriate item from the Editor menu.) Gabor Nagy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, currently, I have a problem with frozen etch: In mid november, I filed a bug report to kdevelop (the bug was about debugging problems) which was fixed at the end of january. Thanks to the maintainer for that ! But the bug is fixed in kdevelop 4:3.4.0-1 which won't come into etch (Quote

advice on packaging phpxref

2007-03-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, on http://phpxref.sourceforge.net/ there is a software that I would need: A php cross referencer. A bit like this: http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/fc4/fc.c?a=x86_64 (for those who dont know), but for PHP _files_. I would like it to be packaged for APT. I searched through the web but did not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Marc Shapiro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism the more our country has declined in bot

RE: #chsh -s /usr/bin/passwd - by misteke

2007-03-05 Thread Jarek Buczyński
Nobody knows? Is it possible in general? -- Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using dpkg-scanpackages with a debian repository

2007-03-05 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:38:02AM -0300, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > Then I run the command: > > dpkg-scanpackages -u -a i386 > /var/www/mirrors/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/ > /var/www/mirrors/indices/override.sarge.main > > Packages Did you create .deb or .udeb packages? The '-u' opt

Rekan debian-user, informasi tentang koleksi 10000 eBooks IT & Non IT

2007-03-05 Thread Tandiono M
Yth. Rekan : debian-user, Saatnya untuk berbagi Informasi dengan anda! Apabila anda suka belajar atau membaca buku, berapa biaya yang harus anda keluarkan untuk membeli sebuah buku? Rp. 20.000? Rp. 30.000? Rp. 40.000? dan bagaimana bila buku tersebut berasal dari luar negeri (alias import)

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Wackojacko
Ken Heard wrote: After taking to heart the two messages received in response to my plea for help (thanks pinniped and Kevin Mark) I spent several hours on the net and found some useful information. Nevertheless, I still do not have a wireless connection. First, I agree with both pinniped and Ke

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > > [ snip some stats ] > >>> Sure looks like socialized medicine is sucking there, huh? > >> So what? The US also has the highest levels of obesity in the world. I >> *highly doubt* t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for > interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by > (or providing only token par

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:09:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Being rom the rest of the world, I have been losing respect for the >> United States because it fails to ensure a minimum standard of living >> for its people, and sends out armies to interfere in

OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Kent West
Freddy Freeloader wrote: [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders The Native Americans might disagree with you === From http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ debian-user mailing list Help and discussion among users of Debian Support for Debian us

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
s. keeling wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >> >> > Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither >> >> is >> > any >> >> other economic and political model combination. Correlation without >> > causation. >> > >>

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Mitja Podreka
Freddy Freeloader wrote: You truly have confused totalitarianism with socialism. No. You don't recognize socialism put into practice as different than socialism by theory. Even communism, in theory, is a peaceable, benign, good for its citizens, decentralized form of government. It's proven

Re: Using dpkg-scanpackages with a debian repository

2007-03-05 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello Kauppi, My packages are .deb. I remove the option -u, but the error continue. Best regards, Rodrigo Faria --- Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:38:02AM -0300, Rodrigo > Tavares wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Then I run the command: > > > > dpkg-scanpack

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:20:54AM EST, Steve Lamb wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke > > less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a > > little harder to reach). > > Ok, and now to point out the other

Re: Using dpkg-scanpackages with a debian repository

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:38:02AM -0300, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > Hello, > > I'm creating a customized debian repository. > In repository, i´ll go put the packages than i > created. > http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debrepository Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://peop

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:17:12 +0700 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Second, of the two wireless cards I tried, I found that one, the > SMC2835W, comes in three versions. Version 1 works if the prism54 > module is installed. However, versions 2 and 3 do not. The only way to > deter

apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Jonas Geiregat
Hello, At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The following signatures co

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:42:11PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > > - kernel 2.6.1

Re: How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:24:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2) Use apt pinning. > I have no experience with this. Won't that mean that in the long run I > will draw the whole KDE stuff from testing into stable ? Actually, apt-pinning is a lot easier than you think. Just google "apt-pin

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Mitja Podreka wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: You truly have confused totalitarianism with socialism. No. You don't recognize socialism put into practice as different than socialism by theory. Even communism, in theory, is a peaceable, benign, good for its citizens, decentralized form of gov

Re: How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Markus . Grunwald
Hello, > > 2) Use apt pinning. > > I have no experience with this. Won't that mean that in the long run I > > will draw the whole KDE stuff from testing into stable ? > > Actually, apt-pinning is a lot easier than you think. Just google > "apt-pinning" and the first result should be a HowTo f

Re: Is this a DoS attack?

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:07 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if data > were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do not show > anything wrong, nor does chkrootkit, and Top does not indicate any > unusual activity. Things

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is abominable. We should have accommodated them, not destroyed them for there is much we might have learned from them. However, I'd say our treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an imperialistic soc

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an > imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, not > politics. I dunno, most examples of modern day racism comes from politics. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who dec

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve > their own lives. Ah, but by doing that you absolve yourself of any control over them. No social s

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders > > > > The Native Americans might disagree with you As would the

Day light saving patch

2007-03-05 Thread Joly, Paul
I have a couple of debian servers and trying to find out a patch that will fix's the problem with the time change. Could you please send me the file or a link that I can get the file at. Thank- You Paul Joly System Administrator Interactive Constructs Inc. Follett Digital Resources 2

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: He also wrote >But I want the effect that: I type vi *a under the command line and >press tab >it will automatically expand to vi aaa. I am using bash. Whic

Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Standard CMOS Features does not list my dvdrw and cdrw drives. There are two ide headers on the board lab

Does debian support sata 750GB hard drive?

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Kerwin
I have built a Pentium core duo computer and can get debian to boot from the cd if it is an ide parallel drive but when I try it with a 750GB SATA drive it get to the point where it will try to boot from the cd rom and it can't. I saw that someone had a problem with this before. I am trying to boot

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 03:06, Paul Johnson wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > >> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Paul Johnson wrote: > Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither > is any > ot

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 04:29, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve >> their own lives. >> > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying > that rich people are

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 08:42, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is > abominable. So does this mean that you *do* agree that we conquered other people's lands? > We should have accommodat

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-03-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-27 14:57:48, schrieb Andrew Myers: > When you're on the digest that is not an option. Please consider us. :-( Do you know that there is a procmail recipe which split digests in seperated messages? Do not try to find excuses! Here is GNU/Linux country and the Windows Hell! Thanks, Gre

Re: Day light saving patch

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 05.03.2007 at 10:03 -0500, Joly, Paul wrote: > I have a couple of debian servers and trying to find out a patch that > will fix's the problem with the time change. > > Could you please send me the file or a link that I can get the file at. The patch should be included with your normal

Woody not supported?

2007-03-05 Thread Ed Curtis
I get this error when I apt-get update: Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Release Apparently, the repository no longer exists? Thanks, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Joe
Thomas H. George wrote: Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Standard CMOS Features does not list my dvdrw and cdrw drives. There are two ide

Re: Woody not supported?

2007-03-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > > I get this error when I apt-get update: > > Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages > 404 Not Found > Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Release > > Apparently, the repository no longer exists? That appears to be so. Fr

Re: Icedove does not save unsent messages to the Unsent Messages folder

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/07 05:07, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Testing your assertion now. Ok, I created the "03/03/07 07:39" email, and then did: File->"Send Later" Icedove put the email in "Local Folders".Unsent, because there *is no* Unsent folde

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:55:55AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > The way to really improve our country is to keep the government out of > just about everything. Government has a role to play in the lives of > its people, but that role isn't that of a nanny who creates citizenry > depende

Re: Using dpkg-scanpackages with a debian repository

2007-03-05 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello People, About my problem, i resolve it usingo the below command: dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | tee Packages | gzip -9 > Packages.gz Still, my repository it's Ok. Bye Rodrigo Faria --- Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > Hello Kauppi, > > My packages are .deb. > I rem

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian > governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities. The terms socialism and communism where not vandalized, they are and always have been s

DL140 G3 with stable

2007-03-05 Thread Arty Weissman
Hey all, Is there anybody out there who have successfully installed Debian Stable on a HP DL140 G3 with the root fs located on a disk attached to the internal SATA-controller? I'm having difficulties finding information on exactly which Adaptec card is attached to the mobo, and stable cannot find

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Ken Heard
After taking to heart the two messages received in response to my plea for help (thanks pinniped and Kevin Mark) I spent several hours on the net and found some useful information. Nevertheless, I still do not have a wireless connection. First, I agree with both pinniped and Kevin Mark that gui

Re: Woody not supported?

2007-03-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:59:35AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > > > > I get this error when I apt-get update: > > > > Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages > > 404 Not Found > > Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Releas

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:31:21PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:09:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Being rom the rest of the world, I have been losing respect for the > > United States because it fails to ensure a minimum standard of living > > for i

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:21PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > > > >>If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it > >>great. I hope you do notice that the further we

Re: pdsmi+ linux

2007-03-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:10:52AM +0100, impek wrote: > i finally success to install debian with the "test/etch" version. > But the networks card cause problem : > e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang > The network card keep disconnecting. > > I see a lot of people have that problem : > htt

Converting anaglyph (red/blue) "3D" images to normal 2D

2007-03-05 Thread Pigeon
I have only one functioning eye, and so cannot see the 3D effect in anaglyphic "3D" images whether I wear the red/blue glasses or not. To me, an anaglyphic image is a potentially nice photograph which is ruined by dirty great red and blue edges on everything. It must surely be possible to process

how to create a bootable 2.88M floppy boot image file

2007-03-05 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello, I would like to know how to create a vfat bootable 2.88 M floppy image file. I need it so as to merge two bootable floppy (one bootable plus the other) Thanks ___ Découvrez une

Re: Does debian support sata 750GB hard drive?

2007-03-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Kerwin wrote: > I have built a Pentium core duo computer and can get debian to boot from the > cd if it is an ide parallel drive but when I try it with a 750GB SATA drive > it get to the point where it will try to boot from the cd rom and it can't. > I saw that someone had a problem with th

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules is a symlink to the file ../permissions.rules. So, content is the same ;(

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Bob. Bob McGowan, 01.03.2007 20:53: > I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The > doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do > this. > > And, I see the permissions on it are: > > crw--- 1 root root 10, 200 2007-02-27 16:28 /dev/

Re: #chsh -s /usr/bin/passwd - by misteke

2007-03-05 Thread heba
2007/3/5, Jarek Buczyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Nobody knows? Is it possible in general? -- Best regards is not possible for that I know, naturally. Because the command chsh ask the sintax -s [SHELL] [NAME] infact, if I try the command like you write it the shell turn me the syntax erro

RE: why is grep behaving this way ?

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Ross
> 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 ? > Here's another workaround: NAME=`logname`;

Re: Is this a DoS attack?

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Anthony Campbell wrote: Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if data were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do not show anything wrong, nor does chkrootkit, and Top does not indicate any unusual activity. Things seem to be back to normal now. I have f

Re: why is grep behaving this way ?

2007-03-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 12:47, Kevin Ross wrote: >> 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 "

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:32:12PM +, Joe wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 > >AM2 combo from NewEgg. > > > >This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered > >two problems. > > > >First, Standard

Re: How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:57:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > > 2) Use apt pinning. > > > I have no experience with this. Won't that mean that in the long run > I > > > will draw the whole KDE stuff from testing into stable ? > > > > Actually, apt-pinning is a lot easier t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:07:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > So I guess the trick to getting the US to help you is make sure you aren't a > US taxpayer and move someplace disaster prone. > What a crock. If anything, the US government helps US citizens *far* more than it helps foreigners. O

Re: DL140 G3 with stable

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:26:01PM +0100, Arty Weissman wrote: > Hey all, > > Is there anybody out there who have successfully installed Debian Stable on > a HP DL140 G3 with the root fs located on a disk attached to the internal > SATA-controller? I'm having difficulties finding information on ex

Re: Does debian support sata 750GB hard drive?

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:48:15AM -0600, Michael Kerwin wrote: > I have built a Pentium core duo computer and can get debian to boot from the > cd if it is an ide parallel drive but when I try it with a 750GB SATA drive > it get to the point where it will try to boot from the cd rom and it can't.

Re: Wired and wireless PCMCIA LAN cards: configuration problems

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:17:12PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > There is absolutely nothing in the packaging or the manual on the > accompanying CDROM to identify the version. It so happens that I have > version 3; so I am out of luck as far as that card is concerned. Anyone > want to buy it? It wo

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:54:37AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > The US doesn't protect anyone. If the US were actually interested in > defense, rather than empire, the military bases overseas would be > closed, rather than manned in 170 countries, of which, what, 2 > are "at war" with the US?

Re: How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:24:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) Compile from source. > Hmmm. No problem. Would (IMHO) mean to install lots of *-dev packages, > but that's ok... Marcus, Using apt pinning is not for the faint of heart. Also, as you pointed out in another message, can be

Re: DL140 G3 with stable

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:32:53PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Excuse me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Sarge doesn't work with > SATA disks. If you're using a SATA disk you'd be better off installing > Etch, which will be the new Stable very soon. > In fact, Sarge does work with SATA di

Re: how to create a bootable 2.88M floppy boot image file

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:24:48PM +0100, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know how to create a vfat bootable > 2.88 M floppy image file. > I need it so as to merge two bootable floppy (one > bootable plus the other) > The machine that you are using to create the disk and the

aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2007-03-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. If I, for example, echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";'>>\ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/recommends.conf and try to install minicom, aptitude w

Re: Does debian support sata 750GB hard drive?

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Prangenberg
Michael Kerwin schrieb: > > I have built a Pentium core duo computer and can get debian to boot > from the cd if it is an ide parallel drive but when I try it with a > 750GB SATA drive it get to the point where it will try to boot from > the cd rom and it can’t. I saw that someone had a problem wit

Re: aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 14:49:43 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hello, > > Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts > that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. > > If I, for example, > > echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";'>>\ >

Re: How to get newer kdevelop in my etch installation ?

2007-03-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Great. So I have a bugfix for a problem that really drives us crazy here > but it won't come into the etch distribution. As I see it, I have these > possibilities: > Yeah! I can totally relate to your situation. Debian's insistence on stability can hinder access to the

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > Hello, > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GP

correction, Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

2007-03-05 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > Now I move both Inbox and the expected result to my home dir. But command > > $ formail -s < Inbox |procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile Should be $ formail -s procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile < Inb

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:54:04 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to > say: > > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 13:03:02 +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > Hello, > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG

undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Siju George
Hi, I just rm -rf some stuff from XFS filesystem :-( is there any way to undelete? Thankyou so much kindRegards Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2007-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Kulzer wrote: > AFAIK, aptitude only reads ~/.aptitude/config, /etc/apt/apt.conf, and > /usr/share/aptitude/aptitude-defaults. Settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ should definitely affect aptitude. I know that they do in at least some cases, since d-i uses aptitude for task installation, and

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

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:12:17AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 <--snipped stuff-->>> *REALLY BAD*: your business did regular backups to the same media!! _Always_ have multiple backup media and rotate bet

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > >>>On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/020_permissions.rules is

DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option to modify the content at all. Is this correct? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:04:05AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > >> Hello: > > >> I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Joe
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:32:12PM +, Joe wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Sta

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Mitja Podreka wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve >> their own lives. >> > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying > that rich people are rich because they are hard working. I've found the opposite tend

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option to modify the content at all. Is this correct? Sorry to reply to myself, but I left out anot

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >>> >>> If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward so

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