Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-03 Thread Daniele Salatti
Hi! Here is the output of the commands you suggested: dpkg -S libsasl2.so.2: libsasl2-2: /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 cyrus-sasl2-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2.0.22 libsasl2-2: /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2.0.22 file /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: symbolic link to `l

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
odds are your power supply is on its way to the power supply cemetery. On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Kelly Clowers wrote: On 10/2/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes.

Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 03:42]: > Motion looks good; it has been a long time since I last looked at it. > I now am printing out and reading the manual/wiki and the FAQ. > > To get started with motion, would I likely be OK with the Debian > packages, which are 3.2.3 in the t

Re: disks available

2007-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
dmesg | grep "hd" | wc -l untested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge with 2.6.13 ISO?

2007-10-03 Thread Pim Bliek
Thanks, that worked! > > For a client I need to install Sarge on a server. This needs to be > > Sarge since their Live server is also running Sarge, and upgrading to > > Etch is not an option right now. > One of Kenshi Muto's customized Sarge installer images might work: > > http://mirror.home-dn

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Wayne Topa wrote: steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and cdrtools*. two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of cd

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/02/2007 05:11 AM, steef wrote: hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and cdrtools*. two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of cdrecord/cdr-tools

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so > >much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB > >drive. The box used to have an 8 GB dr

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:39:41PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There was no esfw41.bin in my system. I added a line "usb 0x048b 0x011b" > > to snapscan.conf and after this gimp ran 4 succesful color scans with > > the Perfection 2400 before locking

[Fwd: Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again]

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and cdrtools*. two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or

Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hi, I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I ran iceweasel. However it appears that a local instance of iceweasel is started. There is no iceweas

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Ronny Aasen
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:08 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote > host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using > "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I ran iceweasel. > However it appe

Debian Package of the Day

2007-10-03 Thread Rick Pasotto
What's up (or should I say down?) with http://debaday.debian.net/? The site won't come up and email is rejected. -- "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." -- Anonymous Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Michael Pobega wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system > crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to > anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other > things,

Re: Debian Package of the Day

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 09:09:31 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > What's up (or should I say down?) with http://debaday.debian.net/? The > site won't come up and email is rejected. The machine running that host is currently down, i already pinged local admins to reboot the machine. The last thing

OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread cothrige
Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or glitch was really nice. And the files sounded great (256K bitrate) and there was actually a

KDE Adept updater, Synaptic apt-get, Xserver issue

2007-10-03 Thread John W. Foster
I have seen this for years but until now I just left it alone. I now need to be able to allow someone else to do some of the system updating & they are not as experienced as I so they are less likely to perceive this as simply a quirk. When I do an update or any other function from the xserver s

Very slow USB boot

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Jordan
I've etch installed onto an USB hard disk. It works when booting from two modern computers (usb 2.0) but i'm having problems booting from an old pc (usb 1.0). The boot process is very very slow. It seems systems uses uhci_hcd in later case. I don't know where to begin

Re: Trouble with downloaded images...

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:43:15PM -, blues wrote: > I just dl'ed the latest release from www.debian.org. The first CD > (debian-40r1-i386-CD-1) seems to be corrupted...so I used the torrent > link and tried to download the CD again, and still cannot get a clean > installAny suggestions??

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:51:24AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system > crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to > anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other > things, but nothing

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard > that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and > need a replacement asap. I'm running an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe that has an AM2 socket. I hav

[DSA 1381-1] New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hi all, - Forwarded message from dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Package: linux-2.6 Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : local CVE-2006-5755 The NT bit maybe leaked into the next task which can local attackers to cause a Denial of Service (crash) on systems which

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:16:32PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 18:21]: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > > > the 32Gbyte clip j

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-03 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:50:58 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > Just came across this small utility. It might help. Install 'pdftk' from > aptitude or apt-get. I was using it this morning to combine pdf files. It has > a 'decrypt' option. I am not sure if this i

Re: Printer setup problem in Etch

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:01:00PM -0400, Bob C wrote: > I checked my bios setup and under Parellel Port Mode found four choices. > Normal, Bi-directional, EPP and ECP. I experienced the printer problem > with the bios set to ECP. > > When I choose Normal, the printer now works. Normal is uni-

Re: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965: xorg problem

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 18:05:31 +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > > I have a serious problem with Q963/Q965 graphic intel > card. I use the driver i810 and everything seems ok > except when I try to switch from X to console and to > back to X. > Then the display seems to be desynchronised. > > I

Any way to dist-downgrade?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Yang
Hi All: Due to one hang issues of apitude, I upgraded my linux-images, but didn't resolve the issues. Then I did "apt-get dist-upgrade", after which the aptitude issue is resolved, also after which more packages are upgraded that I didn't mean to. Now I want to keep only the kernel updated, bu

Re: KDE Adept updater, Synaptic apt-get, Xserver issue

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:17:44AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have seen this for years but until now I just left it alone. I now need to > be able to allow someone else to do some of the system updating & they are > not as experienced as I so they are less likely to perceive this as simply

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and > it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no > user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or glitch > was really nice.

Re: Very slow USB boot

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Michael Jordan wrote: > I've etch installed onto an USB hard disk. It works when booting from two > modern computers (usb 2.0) but i'm having problems booting from an old pc ^^^ > (usb 1.0). The boot process is very very slow. It s

Re: KDE Adept updater, Synaptic apt-get, Xserver issue

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:17:44AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I have seen this for years but until now I just left it alone. I now need to > be able to allow someone else to do some of the system updating & they are > not as experienced as I so they are less likely to perceive this as simply

Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 05:31:54AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 03:42]: > > Motion looks good; it has been a long time since I last looked at it. > > I now am printing out and reading the manual/wiki and the FAQ. > > > > To get started with moti

Re:Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Simbarashe Mhondiwa
I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult in fully explaining thwe difference between primary partition and extended partition would you please add more light to it for me please. Hope to hear from you so soon! __

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: hdc: ST3120026A, ATA DISK drive Right! Neither cdrecord or wodim can burn to a _Hard Disk_. where do you get this? He provided no info on what command he used and if you look, hdb is clearly an optical drive... are you drinking too m

Re: Any way to dist-downgrade?

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:04:05PM +0800, Michael Yang wrote: > Hi All: > > Due to one hang issues of apitude, I upgraded my linux-images, but didn't > resolve the issues. > Then I did "apt-get dist-upgrade", after which the aptitude issue is > resolved, also after which more packages are upgrade

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:05:38PM +, steef wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> I was merely speaking up in your defence since he was >> getting all sarcastic because he couldn't read... > > thanks. yes: that stupid sarcasm sometimes is really is a problem. Wayne already apologised f

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:49:28AM -0700, Simbarashe Mhondiwa wrote: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult in > fully explaining thwe difference between primary partition and extended > partition would you please add more light to it for me please. > Hope to he

Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread William Lynch
Hi everybody, I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are internal, and 1 is an external usb drive. When I restart the machine, /dev/sda1 (the usb drive) is never brought back up with the rest of the driv

Re: KDE Adept updater, Synaptic apt-get, Xserver issue

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:05:05AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Don't do an update from within Etch. Go to a VC, login, and do it from s/Etch/X It sort-of rhymes :) Sorry. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Rody
Take a look at: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html There are lots of other places to find on the net. This is just one of them. Rody Op woensdag 3 oktober 2007 16:49, schreef Simbarashe Mhondiwa: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a difficult

Re: Primary And Extended Partition

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:49:28AM -0700, Simbarashe Mhondiwa wrote: > I am having a difficult on the following issue. I am having a > difficult in fully explaining thwe difference between primary > partition and extended partition would you please add more light to it > for me please. Hope to hea

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Jolle "sjolle"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2007 04:12 PM, cothrige wrote: > Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and > it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no > user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or

Re: OT: Amazon DRM-free MP3 Downloads

2007-10-03 Thread cothrige
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1951219 > http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/1748213.shtml > http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/30/0148246&from=rss > > I

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. If you haven't

network traffic and cpu usage

2007-10-03 Thread Rody
I'm trying to figure out why moving large files over nfs generates so much cpu activity every few seconds. The progress dialog reaches speeds my nic can't possibly support (over 20 MB/s) as my nic's are 100 Mbit, then dropping back to zero and a few seconds later climbing up to the same insane

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Bader wrote: > You could also use the "seq" program instead (which comes with > coreutils): > > for i in `seq 1 $TEST`; do ... > > I'm not sure if that's more or less portable than using all these > various bash features... Much, much more portable, and readable. -- see shy jo signat

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:53PM -0400, William Lynch wrote: > > I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm > using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are > internal, and 1 is an external usb drive. When I restart the > machine, /dev/sda1 (the usb d

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:33:27PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system > > crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to > > anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other > > things, but

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good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. dd_rescue works okay, but is there something that tries "harder" to recover a

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread steef
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:05:38PM +, steef wrote: Wayne already apologised for this, BTW, and I was not flaming with the above comment. you are right. i did not see that message up till now. i withdraw my remark. regards, steef A -- To UNSUBS

HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Tyler MacDonald schrieb: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? Have you tried dvdisaster already? Michael -- Why is it tha

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. > > dd

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > Have you tried dvdisaster already? No, I

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices > sudo:

HELP! can't become root POSTSCRIPT

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0777, should be 0440 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Thilo Six
tom arnall wrote the following on 03.10.2007 21:12 > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin$ sudo /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver/snddevices > sudo: /etc/sud

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use > _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later.

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071003 13:56]: > I'm currently using dd_rescue to attempt to recover as much as I can from > some scratched DVD's. Thankfully, everything is burned with SHA1 sums, so > i'll know exactly what i managed to recover and what is definately lost. > > dd_rescue wor

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed out > of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: wow, that's ugly. And since it went for ~3mins that's a lot of chown'ed files. I agree with

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:18:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:07:53PM -0400, William Lynch wrote: > > > > I have a question that I was hoping someone could help with. I'm > > using a RAID5 for storage. 3 disks. However, 2 of the discs are > > internal, and 1 is

NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for the NFS-mounted directory, but "mount" complains about those

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting) ] On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:04:14 +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: > Hi! > Here is the output of the commands you suggested: > > dpkg -S libsasl2.so.2: > > libsasl2-2: /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 > cyrus-sasl2-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/us

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] Surely a P-II that came with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting the same geometry as printed on the drive. Thanks, Doug. Sorry about

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed > > out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > wow, that's ugly. A

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 21:02:41 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > Daniel Burrows writes: [...] > > It shouldn't matter which frontend you use. All the major frontends > > check the signature of the Release file when you download package lists > > from the archive. The Release file contains a cryp

Re: Problems with mdadm and a usb harddrive.

2007-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach William Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.10.03.1707 +0100]: > up after the raid5 is brought up. Is there any way to delay the startup of > the raid5 until after usb drives are seen? grep rootdelay /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/udev -A6 linux rootdelay=10 at the boot

Re: Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 03/10/07 14:54,Douglas A. Tutty napisał: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. I'm running an Asus M

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 03/10/07 20:42,Daniel Mahoney napisał: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for the NFS-mounted

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
MRH wrote: Dnia 03/10/07 20:42,Daniel Mahoney napisał: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for th

Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-03 Thread dondavis
I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 install? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Dnia 02/10/07 08:13,Amit Uttamchandani napisał: [] I tried out the settings but it still doesn't seem to help. I get a bunch of these errors repeatedly. a52: CRC check failed! a52: error at resampling a52: CRC check failed! 5.666 ct: 0.295 138/135 13% 5% 100.0% 127 0 1% a52: error at resamp

Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread mack stout
As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of companies (if not, maybe I could set one up) that use debian, or if other users might be wil

trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': arecord -d 5 file.wav this gives me a file with a size of about 100k. but when i try to play it with: aplay file.wav i get no sound. but aplay works fine with the files in /usr/share/sounds. is there a problem with

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-03 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:48:29 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Please be a bit more specific about what exactly you want to do. > Could I set up the server to be 64b

Debian Sid AMD64, lazarus / FreePascal and GTK2

2007-10-03 Thread MRH
Hi, anyone succeeded in building lazarus to use GTK2 widgets on Debian Sid AMD64? I followed the guide: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GTK2_Interface but when I try to build I get an error: make[2]: *** [../../units/x86_64-linux/gtk2] Error 1 Not very helpful. I have libgtk2.0-dev install

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread Simon Jolle "sjolle"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/03/2007 11:00 PM, tom arnall wrote: > i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': > > arecord -d 5 file.wav > this gives me a file with a size of about 100k. but when i try to play it > with: > aplay file.wav > i get no sound. but

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
How about snort, or zabbix, or zenoss? Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different passwords. Or too many tcpip requests. Our too much disk activity. Or if my apache webserver is being

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
mack stout wrote: As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of companies (if not, maybe I could set one up) that use debian, or if o

i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Habashy
I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different passwords. Or too many tcpip requests. Our too much disk activity. Or if my apache webserver is being hit alot -like a denial of service attack. Can anyone direct me to

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
There's a big list here: http://www.debian.org/users/ iWeb.com, my hosting provider, fully supports debian on their dedicated servers, and even runs a local mirror (http://debian.iweb.ca/). :-) - Tyler mack stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As silly as these questions are... I'm tryin

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:13:15PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > thanks all for being here. downloading the netinst CD now. > > tom, the profoundly embarrassed loose cannon its okay. I once did rm -rf /etc /cups and didn't notice for a while. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 14:07, you wrote: > On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am trying to record sound with 'arecord': > > > > arecord -d 5 file.wav > > Have you checked the mixer settings - specially is the microphone > plugged in to the right input and is the s

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Maarten Verwijs
Hi Ben, On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:57:59PM -0500, mack stout wrote: >As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management >at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, >registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of compani

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
On 10/03/2007 02:00 PM, mack stout wrote: > or if other users might be willing to testify that their > company uses debian. Not my company, but: http://www.dreamhost.com/ runs mainly on Debian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamhost -- Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Mahoney wrote: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for th

Re: Cannot run iceweasel on remote host

2007-10-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a weird problem when trying to run iceweasel on a remote > host through an ssh session. I have logged into the remote host using > "ssh -Y " and at the prompt of the remote host, I ran > icewea

Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Hello all, I'm still fairly new to Debian (<1yr). I'm using Etch. I update only through the little asterisk alert that pops up on Gnome. I use fluxbox, so only log into Gnome occasionally. Last time, there were many updates, including updates to Vim which I work in a lot. So I'm curious. I thoug

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, BartlebyScrivener wrote: Hello all, I'm still fairly new to Debian (<1yr). I'm using Etch. I update only through the little asterisk alert that pops up on Gnome. I use fluxbox, so only log into Gnome occasionally. Last time, there were many updates, including updates to Vim

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Michael Habashy
On 10/3/07, Daniel Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about snort, or zabbix, or zenoss? > > Michael Habashy wrote: > > I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. > > Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different > > passwords. > > Or too many tcpip r

PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for 000:02:05:0

2007-10-03 Thread Eric Estes
Any suggestions on how to fix this? I've tried: pci=nommconf --- resulted in my normal problem, really slow internet/network speeds pci=conf1 -- resulted in my normal problem, really slow internet/network speeds pci=conf2 -- resulted in a kernel panic Running either e100 or eepro100 di

Re: Etch updates contain new version of Vim?

2007-10-03 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Oct 3, 6:00 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a recent security update to vim, > see:http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1364 Thanks, Jeff. And now I know where to look :) rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: trying to record sound with 'arecord'

2007-10-03 Thread David Fox
On 10/3/07, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes to both. i used alsa mixer to set the mic level. i'm using a headset and > when i do input to the mic i can hear it in the headphones. having never tried arecord I tried it out - on lenny there seems to be a problem in that it can't open t

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 10/03/2007 08:39 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >[...] Surely a P-II that came > >with an 8GB drive (with no extra jumpers) should be able to use a 1 GB > >drive. The BIOS does show the correct size for each drive, detecting > >the

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:27:51PM +0100, MRH wrote: > Dnia 02/10/07 08:13,Amit Uttamchandani napisa??: > > > >I tried out the settings but it still doesn't seem to help. I get a bunch > >of these errors repeatedly. > > > >a52: CRC check failed! > >a52: error at resampling > >a52: CRC check failed

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:31:39PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:49:15AM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > Is there a tool available that does stuff like that? > > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster tha

Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-10-03 Thread Dancing Fingers
On Sep 30, 1:40 am, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 21, 2:00 pm, Dancing Fingers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thanks. This helps a lot. I also tried > > chown -R www-data /usr/share/tomcat5.5-webapps > > without much luck. > > > Cchris > > On Sep 21, 1:10 pm, Nyizs

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-03 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing I see in the repository is dvdisaster that you use > > > _before_ the cd/dvd gets damaged that can recreate it later. > > > > The docs claim you need the ECC file, but I am running it right now > > without an ECC file, and it is st

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > hi all and *especially j?rg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > > cdrtools*. > > > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on > > one of

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