Re: multimedia driver support questions...

2007-11-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 4, 2007 8:33 PM, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > running Debian Etch. I have an HP slimline 3120 (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual > Core Processor 4200+) > with an MCP51 chipset providing HDA sound. > > sound quibble: > -- when I plug my speakers into 'front' speaker jack (green in the

sa-learn error message

2007-11-05 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Hello I've got this error: $ sa-learn --spam 1193706642.H221893P4714.tenpostadsl.lviv.farlep.net:2,S syntax error for eval function GREYLIST_ISWHITE: greylisting("( 'dir' => '/var/spool/sa-exim/tuplets'; 'method' => 'dir'; 'greylistsecs' => '1800'; 'dontgreylistthreshold' => 11; 'connectiphdr' =

Re: reading email from gmail account with gnus in Emacs22

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:11:39AM -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote: > Hello Alexandru, > I use a different set up... > I use fetchmail to pull down my gmail into my system's mail spool and > then gnus reads it from there, when I reply, gnus has to send it through > the gmail server and adjust the From

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:33:45PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:40:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:31:53PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some > > > mails from news lists with HTTP format,

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello to all, > > when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the > message 'acpi_power_off called'. > However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via > alsaconf) and indeed I have a v

Re: Sending email using Alpine and gmail

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:17:12PM +, Peter Tynan wrote: > I'm trying to configure Alpine to send email either using gmails smtp server > or the local mail-server (exim4 configured to use gmails smtp server via > smarthost). Very interesting, and how is it going? Regards, Andrei -- If you

OFF TOPIC - UK Wholesale source PC Items

2007-11-05 Thread I.E.Broadbent
Apologies for being off-topic... but I thought that with the knowledge available in this group someone might be able to help. I am trying to locate a wholesale supply of monitors and other PC components (cases, CD/DVD-RW units, etc)... can anyone suggest a source, or are they all imported by i

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > > > > in debian services are started with an init script stored in > > > /etc/init.d/ and linked to variou

Gnome panel: Lost icons after dist-upgrade

2007-11-05 Thread Nick Croft
Hi List After 6 months of preoccupation with another project, I decided to do a dist-upgrade when a couple of packages started showing signs of their age. All worked fine. It's nice to be up to date. In my main user, where all the files and macros, aliases and habits reside, gnome-panel -- the

Re: font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, Does it substitute a different font (family) or does it show the same font rendered differently (larger/smaller, blurrier/more ragged, etc.)? i think it's the same font, but after kdm login it's renderend smaller and (subjectively) not so sharp. I would start by comparing the output of th

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:03:55AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Since you're on Debian, I'd suggest apt-get install urlview and add > > the urlview and add the config to your muttrc like the one in present > > in /usr/share/doc/mutt/examples/sample.muttrc.gz, which is: > > > > macro index \cb

Re: Using backports after upgrade

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:33:26PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > Hello - I was running Sarge with SpamAssassin upgrades from backports.org. > Then I upgraded to Etch. I have backports in my sources.list, but I don't > seem to be getting SA updates. (My SA is 3.1.7, and latest seems to be > 3.2.

Re: USB external hard drive spin down problem

2007-11-05 Thread Bob
Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:15:44AM -0400, Marty wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Marty wrote: >>On my Etch system a new Western Digital USB external hard drive seems to >>be automatically spinning itself down after a

Re: font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:37:18AM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > and now it works fine! later i also discovered that for xdm i explicitely > also have the option "-dpi 100" > > thanks for help! Theoretically the *correct* dpi setting (whether you like it or not) should be set by the X server if y

Re: Sending email using Alpine and gmail

2007-11-05 Thread Peter Tynan
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sending email using Alpine and gmail Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:06:51 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 01:17:12PM +, Peter Tynan wrote: I'm trying to co

Re: font change after kdm/xdm login

2007-11-05 Thread Lubos Vrbka
> Theoretically the *correct* dpi setting (whether you like it or not) should be set by the X server if you put your monitor's physical dimensions in xorg.conf right. problem is that this is a notebook (i945gm chipset) and i am attaching an external monitor to it. i haven't been able to figure

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-05 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:59 +1100, hce wrote: > Hi, > > Is the firefox the best browser? I can say definitively that Dillo is the best browser. There, that's settled. Next question? (p.s. I can also settle the vim vs. emacs question once and for all, but I charge for that. I take Amex, Vis

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 05 00:59 -0600]: > I guess I'm suggesting that you seriously question why > you are rejecting out of hand the two best choices for > development on Linux. Of course, I can't speak for the OP, but in my case it has been strictly a matter of familiari

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
hce wrote: Hi, I've just installed tftp and tftpd package by apt-get. But, I could not see the tftp server running. Actually, I could not figure out where is the tftp script. In FC6, the tftp script is in xinit.d. In Debian, there is not xinit.d. I have had good results by installing the tftpd

Re: Minolta driver and management software for Linux

2007-11-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
jekillen wrote: On Nov 4, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello: I am trying to set up a Minolta Magicolor QMS printer. The printer is a postscript laser printer. (The actual model number is QMS 6110 and it is dis- continued). The printer is set up to connect via et

alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro
Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working for normal users. They only run for root. I checked groups and permissions, and it seems ok. All user

Re: Debian Failure Setting Password

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:47:27PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I've run into a problem after I performed the following: > > [1] Changed the password for my root user with the usermod command. > [2] Changed the password of a non-root user with the usermod command. > [3] Added a new user with

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > go. What I was missing, and desperately wanted, was some kind of text > editor. I ended

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:31:53PM +1100, hce wrote: > I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some > mails from news lists with HTTP format, it was fine when I use Mozilla > mail reader, but with mutt and vim, I could not read the HTTP format > mails. One solution I can think

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > hce wrote: > > > > I press the right button of the mouse to the clock time on the panel, > > but there is not adjust time to change the time. What is missing ... > > Insufficient information to come up with a solution. Is it

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:26:03PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:26:52AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: > > It seems it works with some filesystem and do *NOT* work for swap > > partition. here as I show below, hde1 is swap partition and there are > > no label or uuid e

Re: V?: home network behind a firewall/router

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:34:29PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > 2007/11/4, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:46:20PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > > > > > > I have a Cable Modem connection to my ISP. > > > > my ISP >| > Cable Modem connecti

Re: disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:57:09PM +1100, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi, > > [As indicated in the Reply-To, please CC me on any replies] > > I got a Toshiba USB stick recently. It exposes two devices; a normal > writable USB mass storage device, and a faked USB optical drive. The > optical drive contains

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox > > shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to > > go. What I w

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread steef
Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working for normal users. They only run for root. I checked groups an

Re: disable mounting of bogus CD device on Toshiba USB stick?

2007-11-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Wise wrote: Hi, [As indicated in the Reply-To, please CC me on any replies] I got a Toshiba USB stick recently. It exposes two devices; a normal writable USB mass storage device, and a faked USB optical drive. The optical drive contains some windows apps for what seems to be a management a

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread steef
steef wrote: Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working for normal users. They only run for root. I che

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro
steef wrote: > Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an >> unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange >> behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working for normal users. >> They only run

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread steef
Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: steef wrote: Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:48:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > hce wrote: > > > > > > I press the right button of the mouse to the clock time on the panel, > > > but there is not adjust time to change the time. What is

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/5, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 05 00:59 -0600]: > > with them. So, I have been inspired by this thread to investigate > Emacs again. Try these: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6242 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5765 http:

Re: Gnome panel: Lost icons after dist-upgrade

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:44PM +1100, Nick Croft wrote: > Hi List > > After 6 months of preoccupation with another project, I decided to do > a dist-upgrade when a couple of packages started showing signs of their age. > > All worked fine. It's nice to be up to date. > > In my main user, wh

ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I am running etch on a dell laptop. I recently installed ssh: aptitude install ssh and started it: /etc/init.d/ssh start yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open. When I run # ps -e | grep ssh I get 3450 ?00:00:00 ssh-agent # ps aux | grep ssh john

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:01PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > > > > > > in debian services are started with

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:50:43AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:26:03PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:26:52AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: > > > It seems it works with some filesystem and do *NOT* work for swap > > > partition. here as

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:45:54AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/04/07 07:55, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Ron Johnson on 04/11/07 00:06, wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 11/03/07 18:59, hce wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Is the firefox the best browser? > >>>

Need help with install/config of bugzilla

2007-11-05 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have Sarge and Edgy 32-bit installed on systems and have tried, unsuccessfully, via apt-gets, to get bugzilla to talk to mysql. I have performed no manual tweaking. I've read several web postings and bug reports reflecting the error I keep seeing - bugzilla is unable to connect to localhost

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:44:00PM +, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running etch on a dell laptop. > I recently installed ssh: > aptitude install ssh > and started it: > /etc/init.d/ssh start > yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open. > When I run > # ps -e

Re: V?: home network behind a firewall/router

2007-11-05 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/11/5, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Is shorewall masquerading for you? > > > > No, I have not a public IP address yet, so I don't need it. > > Yes, you do. You have three networks: 192.168.1.0, 192.168.2.0, and > 10.91.0.0. The cable modem will route from the 10.91.0.0 but won

ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John O Laoi
On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > no output when you do that? Anything in the logs? > > > > > > > However, I cannot ssh int

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 17:44:00 +, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running etch on a dell laptop. > I recently installed ssh: > aptitude install ssh > and started it: > /etc/init.d/ssh start > yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open. > When I run > # ps -e |

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:55:21PM -0200, Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: > Ok, stuff in /proc are root group, but I believe it is ok. Yeah, I have the same and my audio works perfectly. > Also, if I install all the system, the alsa will work fine, but if I run > alsaconf, this error will

blacklist packages in apt

2007-11-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm unsure if "blacklist" is even the correct terminology for what I want to do, but at least it's a starting point. I administer servers for a small company. If it was up to me I wouldn't even have a gui on them, but the boss and developers come from the Windows world and require a

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > > no output when you do that? Anything i

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:11:28PM +, John O Laoi wrote: > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is > > sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there > > no output when y

Re: blacklist packages in apt

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I would just as soon not use apt-pinning if I don't have to, but if > that's what I must do, I'll use it. I think this is one of the purposes of apt-pinning. BTW, IIRC you must set a negative priority (I guess -1 will do) to

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread steef
Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: steef wrote: Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behavior of alsplayer, aplay, etc., to stop working

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro
steef wrote: > Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: >> steef wrote: >> >>> Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: >>> Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behav

Cancel my e-mail address

2007-11-05 Thread GEOFFREY ADI
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Please help me.

2007-11-05 Thread Mohammad Reza Abbasy
Hi. please help me about 3ddesktop and flaming and . and please help me for minimum requirement graphic card for 3d desktopn in debian etch 4. thanks alot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:12:48PM -0200, Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: > Ok Andrei, thanks. Here it comes some stuff to compare, if you do not > mind... I don't and I hope you don't mind me redirecting to the list (and Cc'ing you just this once). > # ls -ld /etc/mod* > drwxr-xr-x 3

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user -> Solved!

2007-11-05 Thread Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro
steef wrote: > Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: >> steef wrote: >> >>> Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: >>> Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root. It causes the strange behav

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user

2007-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:38:30PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > As mentioned above I don't have 'sound' and 'noOSS.modprobe.conf' is > identical. For 'alsa-base' see attached diff. Forgot to mention that I'm on unstable (you never mentioned your version) and I don't have the same card (thoug

ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John O Laoi
"Do you get any error message when you try to start /etc/init.d/ssh? Is there anything in /var/log/daemon.log? Does the sshd-blocking file /etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run exist on your system?" No errors when I do /etc/init.d ssh start # /etc/init.d/ssh stop # /etc/init.d/ssh start # cat /var/log/da

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-05 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi hce! On Mon, 05 Nov 2007, hce wrote: > Thanks Andy and other responses. It is a good solution although I wish > I could use the vim to read HTML with ability to click the URL links > like lynx (asking too much :-)). > > Thank you. > > Jim I'm not a Mutt expert but take a look at Roland Rose

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:50:23PM +, John O Laoi wrote: > # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh > openssh-client install > openssh-server deinstall > # > Looks like there's your problem. You don't have openssh-server installe

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John Schmidt
On Monday 05 November 2007, John O Laoi wrote: > # dpkg --get-selections | grep ssh > openssh-client install > openssh-server deinstall > # > > Thanks to everyone for your help. > > Maybe I should remove ssh and reinstall? > aptit

ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread John O Laoi
"Looks like there's your problem. You don't have openssh-server installed." "aptitude install openssh-server > > This should solve your problems." Thanks everyone. That did it. I suppose that I should have done #aptitude install ssh openssh-server in the first place. John

Re: alsaplayer does not work as normal user -> Solved!

2007-11-05 Thread steef
Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: steef wrote: Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: steef wrote: Jose Roberto B. de A. Monteiro wrote: Hello list, I was with my sound (alsa) work perfectly on my laptop, but for an unremembered reason I ran alsoconf as root.

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:08:21PM +, John O Laoi wrote: > "Looks like there's your problem. You don't have openssh-server > installed." > > > "aptitude install openssh-server > > > > This should solve your problems." > > > > Thanks everyone. That did it. > I suppose that I should have do

oleo somebody?

2007-11-05 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, is somebody actually using oleo? I had a look at it and it seems in theory to fulfill exactly my needs. But I do have some problems which in fact make it rather unusable: 1. The manual says that it is possible to write to a LaTeX file. But the command M-C-p only brings up the choice to eith

salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Mauro Darida
hello all, I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). The install wizard says mine is a "not supported linux platform" because is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it wants to install form its bin

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2007-11-05 Thread Sciencemail Monitor
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Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 5, 6:30 am, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've begun to see the need for an editor that works > with them. So, I have been inspired by this thread to investigate > Emacs again. I would not dismiss Vim out of hand. http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/89 I have to work

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:23:20AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Could not adjust time Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_bar: X-Spa

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:42 PM, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Nov 5, 6:30 am, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've begun to see the need for an editor that works with them. So, I have been inspired by this thread to investigate Emacs again. I would not dismiss Vim out of hand. http://w

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:22:30PM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have > downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). Installing Sarge apps like salome will turn Etch into a delicatessen. Sorry. What is salome? If it

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > I think it comes down to personal taste. I just can't get the hang > of vi. I use it when I have to, but after years of using it off and > on I still do things like accidentally insert 127 copies of the > letter 'a' into my

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My vim (not vi) tells me at the bottom of the screen. Right now it says: -- INSERT -- 13,66 All Yeah, that's the case on maybe a third of the systems I use. (For me vi is usually an 'e

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:18PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > > I think it comes down to personal taste. I just can't get the hang > > of vi. I use it when I have to, but after years of using it off and > > on I still

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: > Using vi requires you to keep track of the > editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in > input mode or command mode. I've never been able to do that reliably. Neither have I. However I did learn early on in my vim life that ESC in insert mode

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-05 Thread Roberto Nicolini
Mauro Darida wrote: > hello all, > I am trying to install salome in debian etch. At the salome website I have > downloaded the sarge tarball (there is none for etch). > The install wizard says mine is a "not supported linux platform" because > is not sarge and recognise only gcc of my system; it w

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:38:18PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >My vim (not vi) tells me at the bottom of the screen. Right now it > >says: > > > >-- INSERT -- 13,66 All > > Yeah, that's the case on ma

RE: Slow file transfers in nautilus.

2007-11-05 Thread J. Santos
Hi every one. Lately after a fresh install of Debian Ecth I'm having this most annoying problem, the transfer of files using nautilus takes two time as much than it did before, but only when copying from an external medium to my hard drive or copying from one folder to another in my hard drive if i

Re: Cancel my e-mail address

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:55 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please cancel my e-mail address. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Nov 05 17:55 -0600]: > David Brodbeck wrote: > > Using vi requires you to keep track of the > > editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in > > input mode or command mode. I've never been able to do that reliably. > > Neither have

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:01PM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > Using vi requires you to keep track of the > > editor's state in your head -- you have to remember whether it's in > > input mode or command mode. I've never been a

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/07 17:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> Using vi requires you to keep track of the >>> editor's state in you

question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Steve Lane
Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is dead, do we: 1) Have to manually install grub on the MBR on *both* drives, or is this

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: > Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the > kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots > correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is > dead, do we: > >

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > please provide > > > > dpkg -l tftpd > > ~$ dpkg -l tftpd > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-instal

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > > > > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > > > do > > > ec

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:19:20PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: > > Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the > > kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots > > correctly off

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Also, how is an ordinary user supposed to click on anything and change > the system time. Root shouldn't be running X to be able to change the > system time. Unless the thing the user clicks on links to some su > system. At least in KDE, if you right click on the clo

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > >> Manually installed packages have status "i " while automatically > >> installed ones have "i A". > > > > They have a "c" next to them. > >So what you di

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread Jeff Grossman
s. keeling wrote: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:19:49PM -0700, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Manually installed packages have status "i " while automatically installed ones have "i A". They have a "c" next to them.

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/07 17:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Nov 5, 5:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Using vi requires you to keep track of the editor's st

Re: [Fwd: Re: Installing Packages From Source]

2007-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:44:59PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: > > > > That was my opinion and why I asked the original question. So, I should > let aptitude know that I installed those packages myself? Even though > they won't be in the same directories that aptitude thinks they should > b

how can I aptitude install without interaction

2007-11-05 Thread hhding.gnu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When I upgrade libpam0g,a dialog is show by aptitude to make me select services to restart. I want upgrade it without interaction. I have tried aptitude -q=100 -y -f install libpam0g,but it does not work. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

.deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread jekillen
Hello; I just downloaded the file debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb from the Debian site. What is this; a zipped archive file? It is supposed to be english html version of Debian reference. If it is a tarball, should I rename it so tar can extract it? Thanks in advance; Jeff K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread hce
On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > please provide > > > > > > dpkg -l tftpd > > > > ~$ dpkg -l tftpd > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:35:13 -0600 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I survived a few months into my first foray into MS-DOS 3.3 with > edlin until someone mercifully gave me a disk with a better editor > (qed?) on it. By that metric I

Re: .deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:31:17PM -0800, jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I just downloaded the file > debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb > from the Debian site. What is this; > a zipped archive file? no, its a .deb, or debian package file. I think it is a kind of zip archive, though I've never bothered

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: > > > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > > please provide > > > > > > > > dpkg -l tftp

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