How to make deb packages when compiling from source?

Hey everyone, I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized that I might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick google search and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb file and then install the software. Then I could just use dpkg to in

Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?

On Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 07:04:43 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized that > I > might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick google search > and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb file and

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

Thank you guys for all the information. I might try a dist upgrade to sid, and if that is not working well, I might do a complete reinstall of etch. Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google video yesterday

Re: a LaTeX question

On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too. texdoctk was new > to me, though. I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that, > --wow! There is a lot of additional information there! > > Thanks Douglas > Indeed. This amazingly usef

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:31:27AM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote: > Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I > watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google > video yesterday, and in the end of the presentation he mentioned that > in the future, it mig

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

On 09/02/2007 08:24 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. We don't have control over the PDF. We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only missing thing is this barcode font on the PDFs. Windows displays the

Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I've recently been compiling a few programs from source. I then realized > that I might have to uninstall them in the future. Thus, I did a quick > google search and the main point was that after compiling create a .deb > file and then install the sof

Re: NMI received, likely on the PCI bus

On 02 Sep 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a > > hardware problem. > ... > > I'm using a Thinkpad Z61M with Sid, kernel 2.6.20.1-slh-smp-2. > > Thinkpads do NMIs and SMIs

does anyone work on SMSer ?

Hello ,.. i wish to create a debian package for SMSer by guySoft i didn't found an itp for it but maybe someone is working and didn't send one ;-) -- -- Could you at least use man ? Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

On 09/03/2007 02:31 AM, Rickard Lindberg wrote: Thank you guys for all the information. I might try a dist upgrade to sid, and if that is not working well, I might do a complete reinstall of etch. Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I watched 'The Technology Behind

Re: workaround for: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

On 09/03/2007 12:56 AM, Paul Scott wrote: Takehiko Abe wrote: (snip) Note that I've never had to do it myself. My /etc/fstab on a Sarge system has this entry: none/dev/ptsdevptsgid=5,mode=62000 I will try putting this in my fstab after I send this email. But my lenny

Re: Problems regarding sound

On 3 Sep., 07:00, "vivek shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running > fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on > VLC player and in the middle it just stopped working. After that I > tried > cat /dev/u

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

Hi. Kumar Appaiah, 03.09.2007 09:44: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:31:27AM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote: >> Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I >> watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google >> video yesterday, and in the end of the presentatio

Extending ext3 root-fs

Hello! I am running Debian 4.0 64bit on an Opteron. My disks are two RAID5 on a IPC VOrtex controller (gdth). My / is becoming a bit to small (Mostly stuff in /lib), so i extended it with lvextend -L +200M /dev/Debian/root Now, to resize the fs i intend to boot from a knoppix-live CD and then

Please introduce a sane way to merge config file differences during package installation

Package: debconf Version: 1.5.14 Severity: Wishlist Everyone will know a message like this: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? Ben It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar exim: permission denied. In .

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > You're right: it depends on if big honkers like openoffice, > iceweasel, icedove, celestia-common, "gcc" or any of the other > myriad Big Packages are being upgraded. > > Today, there's about 120MB of data to download. > About 17 h

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

Kumar writes: > You can, even now, try putting testing in your sources.list and try to > move to testing. Good idea. > Testing is also a trifle better than instable because the secutiry team > now gives security updates for testing as well. Added advantage: it gets > all newer packages from unsta

Re: a LaTeX question

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:34:10AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 02 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > Yes, I had spotted that it was installed on mine too. texdoctk was new > > to me, though. I had to install perl-tk and tetex-doc, but after that, > > --wow! There is a lot of additio

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > cothrige wrote: >> This is pretty easy if you have either mplayer or audacity installed. >> If you happen to be playing from BBC 7 it is particularly easy, and all >> you have to do is right click on the listen link and save the ram file >> to your drive. Then you just re

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with > 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I > changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem. I > stil

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:30:22PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > This is an added disadvantage for me, since it also can take 10 or more days > until a fix can enter Testing where it is fixed sometimes on the same day in > Unstable. Finally, it all depends only on one thing: you! What you want d

mail (un)delivery

I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for a couple of weeks. I can email off my box but not to my username on the box. I can't see what the problem is. They are probably both a red herring [1] but (a) I did have some

Re: Shut down or leave on?

> Yes, that´s right but if you have to perform many operations > maybe the "echo" + "bc" form is quite faster > Felix If I had to perform many computations and found that the speed of Python was too slow, I would probably code in C or Fortran instead -- Stanley C. Ki

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

On 9/3/07, G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Matus UHLAR wrote: > > > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: > in > > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed un

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for > a couple of weeks. I can email off my box but not to my username on the > box. I can't see what the problem i

Auto update for kde menu

Anyone know how to or IF the kde menu editor can be made to auto update the menu system? Does gnome have a auto updater for the menu system? For example I removed several debian packages from the system and the menu links are still in kde-menu. It seems to me that this should be automatic. I cur

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail hasn't been delivered for > > a couple of weeks. I can email off my bo

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! > > > > > > Essentially, I've just noticed that local mail has

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon Sep 03, 2007 at 10:20:36 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one > hostname would have more than one IP address. Not at all. e.g: nslookup google.com Server: 80.68.80.24 Address:80.68.80.24#53 Non-autho

DDNS service for domain name

Hi, I have been using a free DDNS service with a sub-domain for my machine running over a DSL line. It has been good enough for a few web pages. But I was wondering if there is free DDNS service which supports personal registered domain names. I have a domain name that will be used with a hosting

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:20 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > > I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welco

Re: a LaTeX question

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online resources. TeX/La

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. I changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the

nvidia-glx redux...

I am also still having problems getting nvidia-glx to work under Etch with latest updates. nv works fine (but no glx...). I've checked my apt-sources list and made sure that the appropriate drivers are pointing to the appropriate version. I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several

How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

Hi all, This will be sort of involved I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a python script to call exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim queue, then feed the message id's to

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > I see. I get no output doing that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mailq > Password: > All right. Exim4 doesn't have anything in its queues. Either it delivered the mail or it didn't accept it for delivery in the first place. > > See w

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > I am also still having problems getting nvidia-glx to work under Etch > with latest updates. nv works fine (but no glx...). I've checked my > apt-sources list and made sure that the appropriate drivers are pointing > to the appropriate

Radius using passwd file

Hi, I am trying to run radius in order to authenticate against passwd/shadow files (unix users), but I can't do that. In radiusd.conf I have: unix { cache = no cache_reload = 600 passwd = /etc/passwd shadow = /etc/sha

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >>> In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root >>> with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with

Re: mail (un)delivery

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:49:56PM +0100, michael wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:12:42PM +0100, michael wrote: I'm feeling a bit dense today so any help welcome! Essentially, I've just noticed

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > I see. I get no output doing that: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mailq > > Password: > > > > All right. Exim4 doesn't have anything in its queues. Either it > deliv

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: >> Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting >> spam through this list now > > >> Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off t

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > > 2007-09-03 16:13:43 Start queue run: pid=3893 > 2007-09-03 16:13:43

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to > automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a > python script to call exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim > que

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object > oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe > that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be much easier to > abst

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:44:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > If you happen to live in the country where the spam originates and if > that country happens to have decent anti-spam laws, you might help to > fight spam at its roots by reporting it to the network owner and/or take > legal act

pkg download using apt-get - but the gcc didn't bring crt1.o

Hi, After I did install Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes, I found that the gcc is not installed. Looking around what's the best way to install gcc, I found the 'apt' and did install the gcc using 'apt-get install gcc', which asked to mount the DVD1 and then the gcc installation was

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

Hi there, > This will be sort of involved Why make it involved? :) > I'm wanting to learn python so ... use a python script to call > exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim queue, then feed the > message id's to something ... so I can look at the message headers. > ... > I'm assumin

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 21:26 +0800, 应富鸣 wrote: > On 9/3/07, G.W. Haywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > H, when you install the package tofrodos, the command(s) wil not > be tofrodos or the similar ones, but these two: dos2unix and unix2dos. > dos2unix transfers the file format from MS Windo

Re: mail (un)delivery

Douglas A. Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: >

Re: mail (un)delivery

Hi there, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 Doug wrote: > I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one > hostname would have more than one IP address. Any host which is on more than one network interface (for example a firewall or a router) will have more than one IP address. It may also

invisibility of Ensoniq audio to users

Folk, Lenny works fairly well here with several useful applications. This problem is reminiscent of another a few months back. This time there is more to it than an entry in /etc/group. alsaconf has no trouble configuring both the USB audio and the Ensoniq. In any application using sound, the

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > >

Re: Cups printing problem

On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 14:47:52 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:43:18 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > > I have just installed Debian etch from scratch. In attempting to set up > > > the printing the cups printe

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

Nelson A. de Oliveira: > Mumia W..: > > See if you can get the barcode font embedded in the PDF file. > > The PDF is generated by a third part online system that we use here. > We don't have control over the PDF. > We want to change all machines running Windows to Linux, but the only > missing thi

Disk usage

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bin 8.0K./media 8.0K./mnt 208K./dev

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several times (usually manually changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' and back again when glx couldn't load) and checked the previous thread for help (read the man pages and othe

Re: How to make deb packages when compiling from source?

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk usage

Daniel D Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h > 1.7G./var > 32K ./tmp > 4.0K./selinux > 16K ./lost+found > 16M ./boot > 852K./home > 0 ./sys > 4.0K./initrd > 22M ./etc > 81M ./lib > 515M./proc > 6.3G./root > 3.3M./sbin > 3.7M

Re: Disk usage

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G./root 3.3M./sbin 3.7M./bi

Re: workaround for: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

On 2007-09-03 03:38:13 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > Sarge uses S02mountvirtfs, and Etch uses S04mountdevsubfs.sh. > > Probably there's a bug in one of Sid's startup scripts. My machine is sid and has no problems. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible

Grub boot of new install.

I have built a Debian Etch partition from the buisness card cdr mainly so I can use/upgrade programs that depend on Gnome libraries. I tried an Ubuntu install earlier. Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm wanting to learn python so I'm starting with projects that I want to automate at work. What I want to do in this specific instance is use a python script to call exipick to find all frozen message

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

ZephyrQ wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several times (usually manually changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' and back again when glx couldn't load) and checked the previous thread for help (read the m

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:05:16AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: So far I've coded everything as process oriented rather than object oriented as that is what I am familiar with, but I'm beginning to believe that using classes is probably the way to go as it would be mu

Re: mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > here's the o/p when I try to email myself: > >

etch : system hangs

Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or screen gets filled with vertical coloerd lines

Re: Disk usage

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Jeff D wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 1.7G./var 32K ./tmp 4.0K./selinux 16K ./lost+found 16M ./boot 852K./home 0 ./sys 4.0K./initrd 22M ./etc 81M ./lib 515M./proc 6.3G

Re: etch : system hangs

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mridul Manohar Mishra wrote: Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either ha

etch : system hangs

Hi, I am using following configuration as my hardware -: PIII 700 MHz 128 MB SDRAM no graphics card It shows 5080 as free. I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or screen gets filled with vertical coloerd lines

[SOLVED] mail (un)delivery

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 20:05 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:59 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:26:49PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:05 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:47:31PM +0100, michael wrot

Re: etch : system hangs

Mridul Manohar Mishra wrote: > Hi, >I am using following configuration as my hardware -: > PIII 700 MHz > 128 MB SDRAM > no graphics card > > It shows 5080 as free. > I am using debian 4.0 and it's my first time with debian based distro. > I am facing a weird problem. My system either hangs or

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass > that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove it) based on what I > read in the header. Before we get too far down the garden path with this, wha

Re: [SOLVED] mail (un)delivery

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:25:39PM +0100, michael wrote: > aha, if i set > dc_other_hostnames='ratty.phy.umist.ac.uk' (ie not just 'ratty') > (using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config's screen "enter a ;-sep list of > recipient domains for which this machine should consider itself final > dest") then

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:54:02PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > > >Current error message says > >"Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module" > >which lead me to the question about kernels... > > Did some double checking. I'm running on 2.6.18-5-486. The nvidia > kernel m

Re: Disk usage

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:07:01PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# du --max-depth=1 -h > 1.7G./var > 32K ./tmp > 4.0K./selinux > 16K ./lost+found > 16M ./boot > 852K./home > 0 ./sys > 4.0K./initrd > 22M ./etc > 81M ./lib > 515M./proc

Re: Grub boot of new install.

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I > sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the > rub menu again. .

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:54:02PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > Current error message says "Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module" which lead me to the question about kernels... Did some double checking. I'm running on 2.6.18-5-486. The nvidia kerne

Re: flac and wav

Adam Hardy wrote: > Marko Randjelovic on 12/08/07 16:52, wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Hmmm. I don't know why I automatically assumed (yeah, yeah, I know) >>> was a Windows app. :( >>> >>> Anyway, rezound in Unstable is a beta version (0.12.2beta-10), and >>> quite an early version. Maybe tha

hard disk crash revisiited

dear florian, pinneped and others, thanks to your help (and some further study of myself) did I succeed this afternoon in recovering 50GB of data from a completely crashed hd (see a former thread). dd_rescue and fsck did the job in this case. thanks again for all your help for which i am dee

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

Using nvidia's own installer will likely work first time every time. (You will have to restore the symlink on xorg updates if you do not change the directories). The first time I tried Debian's modules, it did not work. Later on, they did but with a lower frame rate. In any event, use m-a (modu

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove it) based on what I read in the header. Before we get too far down t

can't play Flash anymore

I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. I have these packages installed: flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.48.0-0.2 Macromedia Flash Player libflash-mozplugin0.4.13-8 GPL Flash (SWF) Libr

Re: Acceptable CPU temperature range of idle computer?

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:13:42 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:13:42 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:17:44PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> Since upgrading from Sarge to Etch, my CPU temperature appears to be >> running 5-10 deg.C higher; >> SNIP

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:58:59PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:48:48AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > >>Now on to the next step, to figure out a way to poll for stdin, pass > >>that to exim, and process the message(thaw or remove

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 02:37:58 +0530 "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-30 > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:27:56 +0530 > > "Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window > > >

Two Xorg processes?

I have noticed that I have two Xorg processes running, one of which is always stuck at CPU=0.0% but nevertheless shows the same memory usage as the other process. From top: 3062 root 15 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.7 5.9 10:34.47 Xorg 3140 root 20 0 132m 59m 7984 S 0.0 5.9 0:0

Re: Grub boot of new install.

On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > > select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I > > sign on and then i

Re: can't play Flash anymore

Steve Kleene wrote: I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. I have these packages installed: flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.48.0-0.2 Macromedia Flash Player libflash-mozplugin0.4.13-8

can't play Flash anymore

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote: > I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash > recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > what usually works for me is to unistall

crontab -e

I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command #crontab -e I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. How do I change what gets used? -- Raquel If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessar

Re: crontab -e

Hi Raquel. Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > #crontab -e > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > How do I change what gets used? Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred shell. (~/

Re: crontab -e

> Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > #crontab -e > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > > How do I change what gets used? > > Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your preferred > shell

Re: crontab -e

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Raquel. > > Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > #crontab -e > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim > > editor. How do I change what ge

Re: crontab -e

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:32:39 +0200 "Jan C. Nordholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22: > > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > > > #crontab -e > > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim > > > editor. How do I change what gets us

Re: Grub boot of new install.

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:27:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and > > > select the first

Re: crontab -e

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command > #crontab -e > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. > How do I change what gets used? Do you have an EDITOR environment variable set? The man page say

Re: can't play Flash anymore

Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote: I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: what usual

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root with 777 permissions. exim4 wa

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