Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Shane D
The reason I don't do that, and trust me, I didn't see that much of it, is: (A)I am not advanced at the use of Linux (although I could call muyself a geek) (B)I need something that can talk to me effectively, and guess what guys: Linux sort of loses that bet for e-mail. So, I'll be here in gMail g

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Deng Xiyue
hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/9/08, Felix Cuello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Michael, >> >> First of all you have to install: >> >> manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development >> manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development >>

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin powerdev admin > Here are my groups

Re: sid scim and firefox: libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl

2008-01-09 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:53:30PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Hope this is the right place to look for ideas how to solve > me libraries problem. Turned out I had some libraries in /usr/local/lib that were a problem. $ ldd /usr/lbi/iceweasel/firefox-bin shows where ic

sid scim and firefox: libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl

2008-01-09 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Everyone, Hope this is the right place to look for ideas how to solve me libraries problem. When I upgraded my x86 system from etch to sid, two programs complained about libgtk-2.0-0: firefox and scim. Apt-get reports both programs are the newest versions. ii iceweasel 2.0.0.11-1

Re: xorg video parameter changes

2008-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I have just installed sid on a Portege 4010 that I just acquired. I used > the very latest lenny network installer. I installed all packages beyond > the base install at my control with aptitude. > > The whole screen isn't being used

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 17:27:42 +1100, hce wrote: > On 1/9/08, Felix Cuello wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > > > First of all you have to install: > > > > manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development > > manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 02:16, Shane D wrote: The reason I don't do that, and trust me, I didn't see that much of it, is: (A)I am not advanced at the use of Linux (although I could call muyself a geek) There's only one way to become advanced at Linux: attempt something advanced. Like setting up a "mail

Re: xorg video parameter changes

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Scott
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:51:46PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: I have just installed sid on a Portege 4010 that I just acquired. I used the very latest lenny network installer. I installed all packages beyond the base install at my control with aptitude. The whole scre

Re: [solved] sources list not found repository debian

2008-01-09 Thread Micaela Gallerini
ehm...I apologize, excuse me for my mistake. I solved to use backports, thanks again at all. -- Micaela 2008/1/4, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think this was meant for the list. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Alex Teclo
Hello, I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it might be some due to the installation of a new version of some package. Let's do grep "status installed

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete E

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-09 Thread hce
On 1/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Is "cdck" a command? I could not find it, or should I install it, what > > is the package? > > > > package cdck. All right, I installed cdck package. Here is the interesting test: 1

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Raquel wrote: > I think that this is what bothers me. I'm on at least a dozen lists > other than debian-user and debian-isp. However, the 2 Debian lists > are the ONLY ones from which come SPAM and viruses. Go figure, debian is supported by volunteers. If you can handle the spam problem better,

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > >> the plugdev group. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > > f

[OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set to a net of 3TB (the controller does s

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: > On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. >>> [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:35:42 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It amazes me that they refuse to accept the obvious. > Linux/Debian/Gnu provides all the solutions they need, yet they > continue to rely on Lookout! and Gmail, instead of slappi

Re: OT: Conference Recordings about Open Source topics

2008-01-09 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:45:35PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > On 01/08/2008 07:06 PM, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Not directly iPod compatible but enough for a few month I guess: > > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/ > > Thank you. It's a great archive about Debian related topics. Are

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread hce
On 1/9/08, Deng Xiyue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 1/9/08, Felix Cuello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello Michael, > >> > >> First of all you have to install: > >> > >> manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development > >> manpages-posix

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Lale
Jimmy Wu wrote: [...] > I have a few questions before I wipe > Vista off the laptop, specifically about the Thinkpad software that > comes preloaded. Does Debian provide similar support for stuff like > the "Client Security" that manages the fingerprint reader, and other > stuff the volume button

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Deng Xiyue
hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1/9/08, Deng Xiyue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On 1/9/08, Felix Cuello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello Michael, >> >> >> >> First of all you have to install: >> >> >> >> manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GN

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Micha
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:44:27 -0800 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:30:57PM +0800, Michael Yang > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Hi all: > > > > I'm starting the C++ Developer work on linux, no GUI app involved. > > > > Could you tell me what the

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Micha
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 11:19:46 +0800 "Michael Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OS's API is what I would need mainly. > > manpages are good, but it would be better if there is a well organized > documents. > > For example, when I want to investigate some issues on regular expression, > in Perl, I

Re: PPPoE Server IP assignation issue

2008-01-09 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Hi all, I installed a PPPoE server and it's up and running. I added users for those tunnels and my defaulted Eth. interface is not configured to any IP address. If I run #pppoe-server -L 12.0.0.2 -R 12.0.0.100 -N 2 I can have my client (i.e. for test a PPPoE clien

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 18:51 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-12-31, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, probably the previous chapter ("she-bang") was of more use > > but a useful ref. However, I'm still trying to understand why it's > > not usual to have a she-bang for the .b

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably > > invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written > > using bash syntax. They are, after all, configuration files for > > bash, so what ot

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: > > I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. I am in exactly the same situation, currently. My approach is to use dd_rescue (package name: ddrescue) to dump the disk's content and now I am abou

Re: Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Alex Teclo wrote: [snip] I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it might be some due to the installation of a new version of some package. This is Se

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably > > > invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written > > > using bash syntax. They

Bug in X with Sid?

2008-01-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In using the *tremulous* game in Debian Sid I get the following: 1. Not upgrading Xserver-xorg it works fine. Last August's version: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 X.Org X s

aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I do on my home server aptitude search ~i >installed_packages Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. How can I do that? I tried: # aptitude reinstall http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-09 Thread steef
hce wrote: On 1/8/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: Hi, Is following burn CD command correct? I've got following errors: $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,1,0 101) '' 'ATAPI CD

Slow scrolling in openoffice 2.3 calc charts

2008-01-09 Thread Bob
Has anyone else seen this behaviour with up-down scrolling in openoffice 2.3. as I am not sure whether this is a problem with openoffice of my PC. I have a complex spreadsheet which generates several mainly x-y (scatter) charts. Since upgrading to v2.3 scrolling up and down the charts has become e

Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-09 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have ch

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:15:10AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wr

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:44:27AM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > libstdc++6-4.2-doc has some documentation for C++ stuff, but for > the STL stl-manual. I meant to say that "for the STL I prefer the documentation in stl-manual". You can also find this by typing "

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we e

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
I am afraid I am responsible for this thread. Therefore just some words. Chris Howie is reported to have said about spam: ... people could stop talking about it and get back to their lives, since it was fixed some hours ago. Wayne Topa wrote: ... This seems to come up at least once a year.

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2008-01-08 14:34:55, schrieb Jochen Schulz: > Hans Vogelsberger: > > > > [...] Well, in the meantime it seems that every spam is let through > > by the debian-user filters. > > No: . > > The amount of spam that has passed

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM +, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > > > Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:36:22PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 1/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > > Is "cdck" a command? I could not find it, or should I install it, what > > > is the package? > > > > > > > package cdck. >

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:15:10AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 08 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 A

Re: ssh X11Forward safety

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:20:12PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > security of my data and a need to use a browser with javascript and > > sometimes flash; some sites only work with Iceweasel. > > You're over-complicating this

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello! > > I do on my home server > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > How can I do that? >

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > I do on my home server > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > How can I do that? > > I tried: > # aptitude reinstall > but n

C++ SQL interface

2008-01-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, i'm developing a small academic project and need to link to an Oracle database using C++ I'm kinda lost as far as google and oracle.com go, i asusme i oughta implement some Class, i just can't find it. The code is supposed to work in any platform and we're compiling it with both g++ and VisualS

Re: No DNS consistency checks in Debian spam filter?

2008-01-09 Thread Joe
Mike Bird wrote: On Tue January 8 2008 13:30:22 John Hasler wrote: Mike Bird writes: No, I checked headers during the flood. Debian was forwarding spam directly received from hosts with PTR records without matching A records. That just means it doesn't use your favorite method (because many I

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Patter
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0100, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > >> Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could get to i

Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Lair
Brian McKee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: > > > I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems > >to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. > >It didn't have this problem previously when

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: > Whatever you decide to do... > > Do a full backup first! Been there done that. Since that (not so amusing) memory I do have cyclic backups with the option to trigger it whenever needed (like now) :) martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/None

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > I do on my home server > > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > > > How

Re: [OT] [SOLVED] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Martin Marcher wrote: > we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk > space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. > > We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. > > Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set > to a net o

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 16:09, Joel Roberts wrote: > > I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully > > supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of > > spam e-mails weekly to pursu

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:21:08AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote: > > > > > Hi list > > > > I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year > > ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a > > Buf

Re: Broken Swedish keyboard layout

2008-01-09 Thread Davide Mancusi
Florian Kulzer ha scritto: [...] However, the Swedish (se) layout has been broken for a while now. If I type "qwerty", for example, I obtain "@ł€rt←", which is a bit annoying. Anyone with the same problem? Running Sid on amd64. I also run Sid on amd64. I see the same broken behavior when I u

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-09 Thread Joe Brenner
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old > > ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's good > > enough. > Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for >

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it > as an > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter > out > the mailing list spam. > Give your address to one of those "refer 10

How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it as an opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter out the mailing list spam. The suggestion I got from the bogofilter mailing list is to set up an ignorelist.db, in the same directory as the wo

Power management settings for Gnome

2008-01-09 Thread andy
Hi all and best for 2008! On a Lenny desktop system, using Gnome as my DE, I am wanting to accomplish the following: after a pre-set period of time a screensaver comes on for a pre-set period of time and then the monitor turns itself off/goes into standby/sleep mode. 30 minutes for each pre-

awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I try to use awk to print second field from a text file but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } {print $2}' > foltelepitett_debian_csomagok less foltelepitett_debian_csomagok .. bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox

Re: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello! > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } > {print $2}' > foltelepitett_debian_csomagok > > less foltel

startx from terminal or telnet

2008-01-09 Thread hagit
Hi, I have a very strange phenomenon. I connect to my box with telnet, change to super user (root) and run 'startx'. Then, if I don't run anything else from my telnet window (the same window I run the 'startx' from) everything goes fine. The X starts and I can work normally. BUT - If I run any comm

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it as an opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter out the mailing list spam.

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. > You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount > under /me

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } > > {pri

Re: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > > aptitude search ~i

Re: startx from terminal or telnet

2008-01-09 Thread Kent West
hagit wrote: Hi, I have a very strange phenomenon. I connect to my box with telnet, SSH is generally preferred to telnet nowadays for security reasons. change to super user (root) and run It's generally recommended to not run X as root. (It's generally not recommended to run anything

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it > > as an > > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter > > out > > the

Vá: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > > but awk prints a pa

Re: Vá: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, if you only need package name: > > > > aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f3 > > It is cut, not awk. > Howewer, it is not god. The output file contains empty lines > besides of the package names. No blank lines : aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll have more test data than you know what to do with. I was trying to offer a tip while bringing a c

Re: Vá: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 14:16:38 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi: > > > So, if you only need package name: > > > > > > aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f3 > > > > It is cut, not awk. > > Howewer, it is not god. The output file contains empty lines > > besides of the pack

Re: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread judd
On 9 Jan, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file >> > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as

Re: C++ SQL interface

2008-01-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hi, i'm developing a small academic project and need to link to an Oracle database using C++ I'm kinda lost as far as google and oracle.com go, i asusme i oughta implement some Class, i just can't find it. The code is supposed to work in any platform and we're compiling it w

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Daniel Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think I'm missing something here. Why are you doing the FIELDWIDTHS > thing when you can just split on whitespace? Won't something like: > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{print $2}' > give you what you want? No. The records for awk are like these lin

Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Shane D
Hey, What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to see if the studder I am recieving is caused by a terrible processor... -- -Shane Blog: http://blind-geek.com/blog/ CoOwner: http://sjtechzone.com AIM:

Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

2008-01-09 Thread Rogelio
Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview of what's running, but how do you drill down and correlate that with other thing

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up > bogofilter to > deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to > a > known mailing list that wasn't too bothered about spam on their list w

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9 Jan, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > > I try to use awk to print second fiel

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
hce wrote: On 1/8/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: Hi, Is following burn CD command correct? I've got following errors: $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,1,0 101) '' 'ATAPI CDROM

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Nigel Henry writes: > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal > with mailing list spam. I find that Spamassassin works fi

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 14:59, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to a known mailing list that wasn't too bothered about spam on their list would have been usefull

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 21:33:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > > lshal). > > I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. The amount of information is a bit

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Chris Howie writes: > The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers > with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll > have more test data than you know what to do with. But it may not have the right "flavor". I've found that different addresse

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can tell aptitude that you want a list of only the package names: > > aptitude -F%p search ~i Thank you! I should read better the aptitude man pages! -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 21:23, Chris Howie wrote: > Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. > > The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers > with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll > have more test data than you know

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 15:35, Bob McGowan wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspa

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Jimmy Wu
Thanks to Chris and Mike for your responses - I appreciate your input and time On Jan 9, 2008 6:14 AM, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Perhaps it would be best to install with dual booting by shrinking your > Windoze > partition - have a look at the Debian NewbieDOC wiki [1]. and

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:12, Chris Howie wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up > > bogofilter to > > deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to > > a > > kn

Re: Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
top free vmstat? you might want to google about monitoring linux in general On 1/9/08, Shane D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a > machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to > see if the studder

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Dan H wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written using bash syntax. They are,

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: > Nigel Henry writes: > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > > fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to de

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jan 09 08:29 -0600]: > Side note: I just can't get my head around GUI stuff, and my wife is > increasingly annoyed by the GNOME desktop I installed for her and wants > to go back to Windows. After more than a decade of working on > well-honed (for my needs) Linux

Re: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > >

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2008-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:35:14 + Mark Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:59 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or > > > something? > > > > I needed to do t

Re: Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

2008-01-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Rogelio([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to > Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to > Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview > of what's running,

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread David
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jan 09 08:29 -0600]: Side note: I just can't get my head around GUI stuff, and my wife is increasingly annoyed by the GNOME desktop I installed for her and wants to go back to Windows. After more than a decade of working on well-honed (for

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