Re: Build a NAS/file server for mirror existent backup

2007-08-13 Thread Mirco Piccin
No suggests?

AIDE reports files as changed

2007-08-13 Thread Robert S
I run AIDE as a cron job every night. Following this I run aideinit immediately afterwards. Recently a few files have been shown to be changed eg: Output of the daily AIDE run (40 lines): decode_base64: Illegal character: $ AIDE found differences between database and filesystem!! Start timesta

Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration

2007-08-13 Thread Wackojacko
Adriano Bonat wrote: Its version 2.6.22.1. Follow attached my dmesg. You can check on it the message: sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 Thanks. On 8/7/07, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adriano Bonat wrote: Hm, I have a SATA controller, so the SCSI emulation owns the HD and

Re: SCSI device detection order

2007-08-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: I have a Firewire external hard drive, and recently with the upgrade to linux-image-2.6.22, my firewire block device has been detecting as sda instead of sdc, causing my machine to hang at boot if it is turned on. What can be done to resolve the detection order? This is e

Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Bob Middaugh
Hi, I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root pwd, Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu. After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm currently running and how this can be potentially disasterous. I'm prompted y or n, do I want to

Re: correct kernel for etch - i386 - intel celeron

2007-08-13 Thread Wei Wang
Just choose linux-image-2.6-686 which is the default and it is always pointing to last kernel that is optimized to i686 micro structure. >From Etch, all kernels are compiled with SMP support by default and there is no optimization specifically for Pentium4 or Athlon64 CPU. On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 21

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:31:45AM +0300, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Hi again, > > What is purpose of update-initramfs step? to update the initrd (initial ram disk) which is used to create a minimal environment to get the system booted. The initrd contains a small filesystem, appropriate modules for

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Hart
On Monday 13 August 2007 13:44:52 Bob Middaugh wrote: > Hi, > I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root > pwd, Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu. > > After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm > currently running and how this can

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Larry Irwin
On Monday 13 August 2007 13:44:52 Bob Middaugh wrote: I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root pwd, Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu. After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm currently running and how this can be potentiall

change/add kernel module options on boot

2007-08-13 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello. I have a server with a fiberchanner adapter which needs the option lpfc_topology=0x02 set. Where can I do It? I've tried adding the following line on /etc/modules without success: option lpfc lpfc_topology=0x02 I've also tried create a file /etc/modprobe.d/lpfc with the line above.

Soundcard AD1816A installation - "no such device"

2007-08-13 Thread kwiatek
I'm trying to install a soundcard AD1816A (Analog Devices) in Debian. After a clean boot, command "dmesg" returns: # dmesg [...] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'Analog Devices AD1816A' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, I

backports-2.6.21 kernel and ipw3945 & alsa modules.

2007-08-13 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have downloaded kernel source 2.6.21 from backports and compiled. I had previously ipw3945 and alsa modules in /usr/src/module. I compiled kernel with make-kpkg --initrd linux_image kernel_headers modules_image I couldn't get ipw3945 and alsa modules compiled. How to get ipw3945 module compiled?

lp or lpr printing from etch stable

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am have setup a cups hp 8150 printer through the kde gui and on this debian server I need to be able to print to the printer from lp or lpr I don't know which is best. I tried to print the the printer that I set up through cups using lp and lpr and the both printed the same. They cut off about 5

Re: php5 and UTF BOM header

2007-08-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. supermega, 11.08.2007 14:42: > On 11 Sie, 09:50, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use an editor which allows you to omit the BOM, it's optional for UTF-8 >> anyways. >> As long as you send the correct Content-Type header, the output won't be any >> different. >> > > I know this

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 11, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Concerning python, one still has 5 different versions (python2.1, python2.2, python2.3, python2.4, python2.5) in currently supported Debian versions! Yeah, and old GCC versions have to be kept around, too, for similar reasons. It's annoyi

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Using the standard xterm the control-middle mouse button will display many options of which one is "Show Alternate Screen". It is possible to flip back and forth (inconveniently) to

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Joe Hart
Sending message back to list: On Monday 13 August 2007 16:23:55 you wrote: > -- Original message -- > From: Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Monday 13 August 2007 13:44:52 Bob Middaugh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot

Re: lp or lpr printing from etch stable

2007-08-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael Kerwin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I am have setup a cups hp 8150 printer through the kde gui and on this > debian server I need to be able to print to the printer from lp or lpr I > don't know which is best. I tried to print the the printer that I set up > through cups u

Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my Quadro-pro card... I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first things it says is " DO NOT USE THE /usr/src area" because that is whe

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Frank McCormick wrote: > > > I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for my > Quadro-pro card... > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which > aptitude dumped into /usr/src. Reading the readme, one of the first > things it says is " DO NOT USE TH

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution

2007-08-13 Thread Pat
If this is Gnome you may have to select a higgher resolution under System Administration -> Display first and the you can set in in the user preferences. This was the experience I had when trying to do the same thing. It seems that the higher resolution has to be enabled by globally first. -- T

dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I downloaded flashplayer9. I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/ I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory.. So far so good. I then followed an instruction from a web site to put the fl

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I downloaded flashplayer9. > > I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/ > > I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with > flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory.. Is there

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:20:35 -0400 On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dea

Re: Confused about kernel source location

2007-08-13 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:41 -0400 Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > I have taken the first steps towards compiling an Nvidia module for > > my Quadro-pro card... > > I downloaded and installed the source for the current kernel, which > > a

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't tried that. I am using amd64 Etch by the way. Ah, important detail. You need to read up on nspluginwrapper, and you'll need to do manual installation because the amd64 flashplugin package appeared post-etch. You may be able to

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Andrew J. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:43:37 -0400 On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-13 09:18:46 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Aug 11, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Concerning python, >> one still has 5 different versions (python2.1, python2.2, python2.3, >> python2.4, python2.5) in currently supported Debian versions! > > Yeah, and old GCC versions ha

Re: place for script

2007-08-13 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 19:58 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I need to run manually the following script each time I boot the system: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > #switchs the Xvideo output to the correct CRT display > > xvattr -a XV_SWITCHCRT -v 1 > > fi > > >

way of getting flashplayer9 to work in amd64 etch....

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists I have just got flashplayer9 working on Iceweasel in amd64 etch. I did the following stuff recommended by some helpful guys at http://www.dipconsultants.com: First things first, as root: * Add repository to sources.list: o echo "deb http://www.dipconsultants.com/debian

new

2007-08-13 Thread Charlotte Mooney
I am new to the Debian world but my question is I have a flatbed scanner that was working on win98 se I think I downloaded the proper package for it but still can't get to work, for I feel I don't know the proper way of getting it to work. The file I got for it is inthe download section but xsane

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 13, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: There's a big difference: GCC is useless for the end user. And I don't think that old GCC versions are really necessary. They are if you need to compile old software. Some stuff just won't build with newer GCC versions. Also, your end u

Re: new

2007-08-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:00:33 -0500 Charlotte Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Charlotte, > I am new to the Debian world but my question is I have a flatbed > scanner that was working on win98 se I think I downloaded the proper You've missed a critical piece of info; Which make/model of s

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
type (n) at that prompt. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Bob Middaugh wrote: Hi, I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root pwd, Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu. After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm currently running and how

No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

2007-08-13 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I am having problems after upgrading a machine from Sarge to Etch (the machine was originally a Progeny Debian install, which has since been upgraded). After the upgrade, the keyboard does not respond under X (at least not from GDM, but I can't get to anywhere else without the keyboard). It wo

Re: Missing /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-08-13 Thread Mert Dirik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] yazmış: > Hi, > > I am building a win modem source code which requires > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build. I could not find the build in my > /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686 directory. What am I missing, and where can > I get the build from? > > Thank you. > > Jim > > Is it Conexant? If

Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! What an amazing system this is. Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-13 Thread kaldrenon
On Aug 12, 10:50 pm, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip example from xorg.conf] For each depth listed under Section "Screen", my xorg.conf contains the line: Modes "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" afte

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-13 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Amit. Amit Uttamchandani, 14.08.2007 02:36: > I know I could use the GNOME terminal or Konsole but they are not as quick as > xterm. Any other alternatives that you guys suggest? I switched to xfce4-terminal and am happy with it. It has some fancy stuff, a configurable interface and is damn fa

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/07 19:36, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! > > What an amazing system this is. > > Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen > except > for xterm

Re: Iceweasel file associations

2007-08-13 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:14:20PM +, Steven wrote: >=20 >> How can I change this behavior to "Just show me the $#%*'in file as plain= >=20 >> text in a browser tab"? > > This w

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-13 Thread Michael Shuler
On 08/13/2007 07:36 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop screen > except > for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font in xterm to bitstream > vera sans mono but the fonts in xterm look jagged and terrible in this screen. >

Re: Font Smoothing in Xterm

2007-08-13 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys, > > Been happily using debian etch for over a month now! > > What an amazing system this is. > > Anyways, font smoothing has been working quite well on this laptop > screen except for xterm. I finally figured out how to change the font > i

Sendmail +SASL +openldap

2007-08-13 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi community I have to authenticate Sendmail using openldap (I can't choose another SMTP is for my job, also I've already got cyrus-imap using sasl and openldap). Should I SASL in order to integrate both sendmail and openldap. Or does another way exist of performing this task? Thanks in advance

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-13 Thread Wei Wang
Do you have a working hardware 3D accelerated graphic card in your system? Run glxinfo | grep -i rendering to confirm. On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 12:11 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I think we're making progress. At any rate, I can do the install as my user > (kloro) from the install CD, though I get s

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-13 Thread Kent West
kaldrenon wrote: For each depth listed under Section "Screen", my xorg.conf contains the line: Modes "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" after I removed "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" from each line and saved th

Re: Iceweasel file associations

2007-08-13 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 8/12/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:14:20PM +, Steven wrote: > > > >> How can I change this behavior to "Just show me the $#%*'in file as plain > >> text in a browser tab"? > > > > This was discussed just recently on this

Re: No keyboard in X after upgrading to Etch

2007-08-13 Thread Orestes Leal
yeah, happens to me with gdm-2.14, but, does CTRL + ALT + F1 works ? I mean to go to the first tty/console? if it works from GDM to the terminal then the keyboard in X it´s working, I suggest you that start a session from the command line with the startx command and if this way don´t work do a 'Xor

pacakges installation report

2007-08-13 Thread pol
i would like to log installation and uninstallation of the deb packages: i mean a time ordered list of the admin operations. Any ideas? thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-13 Thread pedxing
On Aug 13, 6:30 pm, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Using the standard xterm the control-middle mouse button will display > >> many options of which one is "Show Alt