brasero - not a bug in unstable

2008-01-23 Thread Kai AKA KaiSVK
Hi all, I am not sure, If I hit the right mailing list, but: I am using testing and I wanted to install brasero, but brasero is only in unstable, cause there is reported bug against it. The problem is, as the author of the bug report explains here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=45

Compiling blitz++ programs

2008-01-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, how come I can compile and run a blitz++-program without linking with -lblitz ? The following program works both when compiled with g++ with or without the -lblitz option. Running "ldd a.out" afterwards shows that it is linked woth libblitz in the first case, and not in the other. But th

Re: KDE4 installation on Debian!

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 22, 2008 11:05 AM, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm suprised that those are the only problems you encountered. Many people > that did not listen to KDE's explanations have been really angry or upset > about > the state of KDE 4.0.0. In fact, KDE 4.0.0 is in many ways a beta o

brasero - not a bug in unstable

2008-01-23 Thread Jozef Peterka
Hi all, I am not sure, If I hit the right mailing list, but: I am using testing and I wanted to install brasero, but brasero is only in unstable, cause there is reported bug against it. The problem is, as the author of the bug report explains here http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=45

How to do SMTP AUTH with exim?

2008-01-23 Thread Daniel Haude
Hello, I'm trying to send out email using exim. As I'm behind a firewall I can't just connect to any arbitary SMTP server out there but have to relay through my institution's SMTP server which requires authentification. Unfortunately I haven't found any information on how to make exim authentifica

Re: How to do SMTP AUTH with exim?

2008-01-23 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:34:47 +0100 Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to send out email using exim. Got it. Piece of cake. Just had to find the place in the /etc/exim dir and let Debian do its thing. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Firefox error - SSL_ImplementedCiphers

2008-01-23 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 23 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin: Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has > different size in shared object, consider re-linking See bug #459356 [1] Footnotes: [1] http://bugs.debian.org/459356 -- Alok E Pluribus Unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-23 Thread Patter
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:21 +0100, Dan H wrote: > Hmmm... I tried that, hoping that this would get me nearer the > infamous mutt. Hey, great, there's even an IMAP section! You can put > in everything... username, password, authentication methods... > except an IMAP server. I mean, c'mon. >From mi

List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-01-23 Thread SpamHog
I am selecting a set of add-on packages for a small "service & rescue" install. I would like to know what is already included in the base install, and in general I'd like to see the latest version of this list of thigs. My guess is that it might not be included in the minimal net-install boot imag

Debconf does not work

2008-01-23 Thread Miguel J.
Hi, while using synaptic debconf complains with this message and does not work at all: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54. debconf: no se pudo inicializar la interfaz: Gnome debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) debconf: probando ahora la interfaz

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-01-23 Thread Juha Tuuna
SpamHog wrote: > I am selecting a set of add-on packages > for a small "service & rescue" install. > I would like to know what is > already included in the base install, > and in general I'd like to see > the latest version of this list of thigs. > > My guess is that it might not be included > in

Re: lightning, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-23 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
H.S. wrote: > > (Fixed the typo in the subject line.) > > > H.S. wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I think after the recent two upgrades (within the last week), the >> Lightning extension for Icedove mail client seems to be screwed up. No >> calendars are shown anymore, no days are shown, the extension'

Re: cpufrequtils

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Kalessin wrote: You should stay with the ondemand governor, you will not see any difference, except on yout electricity bill (and on the environnement too). Anyway, just edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor and it should work. (as root : echo "performance" /sys/devices/

Re: Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-23 Thread Bruno Buys
Thanks, Joseph, Was that the same hardware? My problem seem to be related to the motherboard. Other people reported good results with the cpu.

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-17 02:15:55, schrieb Scott Gifford: > Also, some hardware RAID systems require the system to be offline to > do a rebuild, which is less than ideal. Never had such Hardware-Raids... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consult

Re: Question abut Debian 3.0

2008-01-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-17 23:20:03, schrieb Nyros Technologies: > Hi iam lalith, Using debain 3.0 server, Iam setting a cron job through > cron job Management can you tell me what is the commant to use to run > my file - END OF REPLIED MESSAGE - Forst of all, De

Grub serial console does not work

2008-01-23 Thread jimmi
Hi, I'm using since several years the serial console to get the grub menu from a headless PC, that I configured following the instruction of the Remote Serial Console HOWTO [1]. I'm now replacing the machine with a mini-itx assembled with an Intel D201GLY2 board [2]. Using the same configuration t

Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-23 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hoi Everyone Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser and type www.foo.bar. Now, my problem begins: Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite a lot of time (more than 15 seconds). Now, I suppose that something is going wro

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:31:11AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: > I am selecting a set of add-on packages > for a small "service & rescue" install. > I would like to know what is > already included in the base install, > and in general I'd like to see > the latest version of this list of thigs. > > My gu

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu > limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be > invoked like nice, i.e., put it before the command I want to run like > > cpulimit -l 50 some_co

Re: Debconf does not work

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:47:43AM +0100, Miguel J. Jim?nez wrote: > Hi, while using synaptic debconf complains with this message and does > not work at all: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54. > debconf: no se pudo inicializar la

Re: cpufrequtils SOLVED

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I run vmworkstation. I do not want my desktop to use ondemand. cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors userspace conservative ondemand powersave performance when I edit /etc/init.d./cpufrequtils ...snip # Set ENABLE to "true" to let the

Kernel panic with a recompiled LVM kernel.

2008-01-23 Thread ienabellamy
Hello! I have compiled kernel for many years but this is a big problem: i've setting up a Debian 4.0 'etch' server with, for the first time, scsi disk partitioned with LVM, so i can manage it in a better way. The problem is that after a right recompilation of kernel i'm getting the classic kerne

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:21:28AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >Rick wrote > >>On my own systems, I make swap huge (10 GB or more for 1 GB RAM -- > >>Disk > >>is cheap!) so I can mount /tmp on a tmpfs filesystem. > > > >Is this for apps that say "

Re: Grub serial console does not work

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 06:11:20AM -0800, jimmi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using since several years the serial console to get the grub menu > from a headless PC, that I configured following the instruction of the > Remote Serial Console HOWTO [1]. I'm now replacing the machine with a > mini-itx assembl

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 8:41 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu > > limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be > > invoked like nice, i

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Manu Hack wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 8:41 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:20:48AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: Is there any command like nice so that I can run a command with a cpu limit of at most x%? cpulimit is close to my need but it can't be invok

Re: lightning, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-23 Thread H.S.
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: H.S. wrote: (Fixed the typo in the subject line.) H.S. wrote: Hello, I think after the recent two upgrades (within the last week), the Lightning extension for Icedove mail client seems to be screwed up. No calendars are shown anymore, no days are shown, the extens

[Fwd: Re: Kernel panic with a recompiled LVM kernel.]

2008-01-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Original Message Subject:Re: Kernel panic with a recompiled LVM kernel. Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:21:12 +0100 From: ienabellamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bien ! i'll us

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is > resulted. I want to keep the

Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-23 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/23, Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser > and type www.foo.bar. > Now, my problem begins: > Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." > In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite > a lot of time (more than 15 seconds)

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080122 21:35]: > On Jan 21, 2008 9:42 AM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? > > I believe something has changed with

Re: Installing KDE4 on Sid

2008-01-23 Thread David Baron
Found this one, apparantly on Sid rather than experimental: kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 Attempt to install brings in a slew of other stuff (which may not actually be available since this was the only thing found in a search for "KDE4" on Sid. I am NOT using udev. Too many problems reported (though

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > programs it caused the cpu too hot and an automatic shutdown is > resulted. I want to keep the CP

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 10:16:56AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > > The problem is that I'm using a laptop but somehow (I don't know > > exactly why) recently when I run some cpu-intensive and time consuming > > programs it caused

Re: Grub serial console does not work

2008-01-23 Thread jimmi
On 23 Gen, 16:10, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > at the grub level. The kernel, on the other hand, is finding the serial > port at the same /dev/ttyS?. I don't know how to get grub to search for Yes Doug, the kernel option is still ttyS0 as before. I'll look for information on

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've never used it but what about CPU throttling? There's some package > > like CPU utils. Slow down the CPU and it runs cooler. Or complain to > > the people

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Manu Hack
On Jan 23, 2008 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:33:09AM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008 10:57 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've never used it but what about CPU throttling? There's some package > > > like

Re: telepítés

2008-01-23 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:19:16 +0100 (CET) csoboth ambrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tisztelt hölgy/ur > > olyan személyel szeretném felvenni a kapcsolatot aki a telepitéstöl a > hasztnálatig tud segíteni. válaszukat előre is köszönöm. > tisztteletel:csoboth ambrus Szia. Ez egy angol nyelvű l

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:05:56PM -0500, Manu Hack wrote: > I don't have a thermometer handy :) but the air coming out of the > laptop is pretty hot sometimes. What's the implication? My fan is > broken? The CPU can be no cooler than the air coming out. Either bad design or malfunctioning fa

/var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a newbie here. Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but archives is now eating up 1.05 GB, so I'll have to move (or preferably delete) it.

Re: Unable to play mp3 files after yesterday's dist-upgrade on Lenny

2008-01-23 Thread Amogh Hooshdar
This is the output of list plugins. $ xine --list-plugins=demux This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.99.6cvs. (c) 2000-2007 The xine Team. Available xine's plugins: -Demuxer: anx, image, iff, yuv4mpeg2, mpeg_pes, mpeg_block, wve, idcin, ipmovie, vqa, wc3movie, roq, str, f

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a > newbie here. > > Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB > /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but ar

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Gerard Robin
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:38:42PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: From: Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: /var/archive Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on liszt.de

Re: lightning, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-23 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
H.S. wrote: > Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: >> H.S. wrote: >>> (Fixed the typo in the subject line.) >>> >>> >>> H.S. wrote: Hello, I think after the recent two upgrades (within the last week), the Lightning extension for Icedove mail client seems to be screwed up. No calenda

Fwd: Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Angus Auld
--- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:22:38 -0800 (PST) > From: Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: /var/archive > To: Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just moved to De

Re: Re: help installing to this machine?

2008-01-23 Thread Joseph
On Jan 23, 2008 2:48 PM, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Joseph, > Was that the same hardware? My problem seem to be related to the > motherboard. Other people reported good results with the cpu. > I agree it's very likely to be related to the motherboard. The CPU should work fine

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To > clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: > Yes, my mistake; it's where you say. > sudo apt-get clean > Done that -

RE: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kuhar
[snip] > /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives To > clean the archives after upgrade you have to do: > Yes, my mistake; it's where you say. > sudo apt-get clean > Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Kent West
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? When you download .debs, this is the default location where they are stored for subsequent installation. M

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 20:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [snip] > > > /var/archives is strange that in my box I have: /var/cache/apt/archives > > To clean the archives after upgrade you have to do:

Re: Unable to play mp3 files after yesterday's dist-upgrade on Lenny

2008-01-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. It is very difficult for other people to follow the discussion if they have to scroll past your answers to find the questions and the context. ] On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 23:32:19 +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > This is the output of list plugins. > > $ xine --list-plu

RE: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kuhar
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Rick wrote >> On my own systems, I make swap huge (10 GB or more for 1 GB RAM -- >> Disk >> is cheap!) so I can mount /tmp on a tmpfs file system. > > > > Is this for apps that say "if malloc() fails, I create a tmp file"? > IOW, you pre

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Well that never would have occurred to me... Well, AFAICT that was only a fix for the underkying issue that caused him to want to switch drivers. Since that fix made the original driver work, he no longer needs to

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-23T15:17:29-0500, Mike Kuhar wrote: > Most things stated in this chain are true. But a couple notes. First, a > swap partition is not the same as a normal partition, i.e. ext2 or ext2. > That is, in Window's speak, it's not formatted. Process chunks that are > swapped in and out of sw

Re: Changing Ethernet Drivers [Solved]

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well that never would have occurred to me... Thats probably because that solution was related to his original problem, causing him to want to switch drivers, rather than being the reason why the driver would not switch

Re: cpufrequtils

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kalessin wrote: You should stay with the ondemand governor, you will not see any difference, except on yout electricity bill (and on the environnement too). Anyway, just edit /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/sc

RE: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kuhar
Subject: Re: Where do you put your swap partition? On 2008-01-23T15:17:29-0500, Mike Kuhar wrote: > Most things stated in this chain are true. But a couple notes. First, a > swap partition is not the same as a normal partition, i.e. ext2 or ext2. > That is, in Window's speak, it's not formatte

unresponsive system

2008-01-23 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running a wee mite slow time top -n 1 > output.txt real 67m42.116s user 0m0.008s sys

Xen: Dom0 amd64, DomU i386... amd64-libs?

2008-01-23 Thread Federico Lazcano
Hello list: I have a running dom0 with amd64 distro, and i created a i386 domU. I'm new to Xen, but as far is I know, this domU is a system with a 64 bits kernel and a 32 bits userspace, isn't it? I've installed libc6-xen, to avoid problems with TLS. When in a real enviroment I use a 64 bits k

Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote: Hoi Everyone Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser and type www.foo.bar. Now, my problem begins: Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite a lot of time (more than 1

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap out a program when memory became full, UNIX allocated a page of swap for every page of virtual memory

indefinitely hold a package

2008-01-23 Thread Preston Boyington
Since I have been having an issue with the current xorg blowing the display on this HP dv5000 laptop, I wanted to keep the currently installed (stable) version. Is there a way that I can let aptitude update everything else without having to worry about it automatically selecting xorg packages

X & interesting problem

2008-01-23 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I have 2 problem: Number one : /// I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome & my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work with just console, i can switch to other consoles(with CTRL+ALT+F1...F7) But when i start gdm it means my

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 14:49, Mike Kuhar wrote: > > Subject: Re: Where do you put your swap partition? > > On 2008-01-23T15:17:29-0500, Mike Kuhar wrote: >> Most things stated in this chain are true. But a couple notes. First, a >> swap partition is not the s

using apt-zip

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I am using apt-zip to upgrade my old laptop from Etch testing (when I installed on tjis laptop Debian Etch, then Etch was in testing state) to Etch stable. I red the tutorial http://linuxbasics.org/tutorials/using/apt-zip and man apt-zip. I did the following steps: sudo aptitude update

understanding ulimit -r -m -v

2008-01-23 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hello, I'm having a hard time trying to understand what the following limits actually do: -maximum size of a process's data segment -the maximum resident set size - rss -the maximum amount of virtual memory I googled for quite a while an did not find much. Thats what I figured so far: -the

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
[snip] > > Of course it's also usefull if for reason or other you remove a package, > then want to re-install it. You don't have to download it again, as it's > already waiting in the archives. > Thanks everyone; you'e a really helpful bunch here, and I'm learning a lot. I like this distro :) Ch

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Manu Hack: > The fan is working (I can tell as it's very noisy when I'm running > programs) and it's on a wood table. Will look into the CPU throttling > stuff later. Throttling the CPU would have the same effect as your idea of throttling programs not to use all available CPU cycles - exce

Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-23 Thread T o n g
Hi, A (adv) bash alias expansion question -- How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script? I have the following alias and function defined in my ~/.bashrc: $ alias rd alias rd='rmdir' $ type dt dt is a function dt () { pushd +$1 } How can I use them in my scr

Alsa and ens1370 card help

2008-01-23 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
The system is debian based with alsa-base and alsa-oss packages installed. On trying to configure ALSA as: # alsaconf I see the error message: Setting default volumes... amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device How do I fix it? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-23 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:10:13PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > A (adv) bash alias expansion question -- > How can I use my aliases or functions in my bash script? > > I have the following alias and function defined in my ~/.bashrc: > > $ alias rd > alias rd='rmdir' > > $ type dt >

Re: Alsa and ens1370 card help

2008-01-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 24 January 2008 00:13, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > The system is debian based with alsa-base and alsa-oss > packages installed. > > On trying to configure ALSA as: > > # alsaconf > > I see the error message: > Setting default volumes... > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

Re: Installing KDE4 on Sid

2008-01-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 23, 2008 7:58 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found this one, apparantly on Sid rather than experimental: > kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 > > Attempt to install brings in a slew of other stuff (which may not actually be > available since this was the only thing found in a search for

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-23 Thread Lesley Binks
On 22/01/2008, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An associate is not quite as avid a linux user as I am (though he's been at > it at least as long). He's got a machine that's > running etch that he uses as a general all-purpose workstation desktop > (gnome, icedove, iceweasel, ooo, emacs

Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
I'm trying to get started with Xen. I've installed Lenny and a bunch of packages that looked interesting and mentioned Xen in their descriptions. But there does not seem to be a Xen enabled kernel available. Is Xen built-in to the Lenny kernels, or what? I plan to spend tonite with my f

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with AT&T UNIX). In order to be completely sure you would be able to swap out a program when memory became full, UNIX alloca

Getting logrotate to rename to YYYY-MM-DD

2008-01-23 Thread Debian Luser
I'm trying to make a Debian system rotate its logfiles so that each previous day's logs have -MM-DD appended to the name (just before compression) and they then keep the same name until deleted. As opposed to the standard Debian method, where logs get a single number appended, which is then cha

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. Thanks! Rick I don't know if you've been here: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_xen3_debian, but, I too am trying to build a XEN enabled kernel using linux 2.6.23.9. This link looked straightforward and possible. I have not g

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 18:37, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 4:27 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> >> On Jan 22, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>> The rule of thumb comes from UNIX days (BSD and even before that with >>> AT&T UNIX). In orde

getting started with spamassasin

2008-01-23 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Hi. I'd like to get spamassasin going on my desktop (testing/lenny). Mail enters this box via fetchmail which was configured to poll an imap server. Exim delivers it to the users. The procmail package is installed. Configuration of fetchmail was done by fetchmailconf, no special exim tricks.

Re: etch --> testing

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
> I thought that at one point (in the past, when I was > paying a little more attention) that a certain > ubuntu release might be better > installed as a clean reinstall (rather than trying > to upgrade from a previous release). Hearing that > (or thinking I heard that), > I simply extrapolated

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I'm really gettin' old! > > Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much > easier, and don't appreciate what they have? I'm getting a new-to-me dot-matrix printer (Epson LQ-2080) delivered tomorrow. Next week

Re: Getting logrotate to rename to YYYY-MM-DD

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:51:28AM +0100, Debian Luser wrote: > I'm trying to make a Debian system rotate its logfiles so that each > previous day's logs have -MM-DD appended to the name (just before > compression) and they then keep the same name until deleted. > As opposed to the standard Deb

Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-23 Thread Joel Roth
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote: > >> Hoi Everyone >> >> Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser >> and type www.foo.bar. >> Now, my problem begins: >> Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." >> I

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I'm really gettin' old! >> Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much >> easier, and don't appreciate what they have?

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread joseph lockhart
only thing that i have ever had in /var/archives are the md5sum's and tarballs for backups created by backup manager (needless to say i have since sent backup manager to /dev/null) jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 Registered Kubuntu User #19678 this user is penguin powered __

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 23, 2008 9:38 AM, Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10 years on Mandriva, so a bit of a > newbie here. > > Can anyone tell me what significance /var/archives has? I have a 1.25 GB > /var partition, which always used to be plenty, but a

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:09:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it so much > >> easier, and don't appreciate what they have? > > >

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/08 20:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:09:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Have you yet bitched and compl

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-23 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:21:37 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> I have the following alias and function defined in my ~/.bashrc: >> >> $ alias rd >> alias rd='rmdir' >> >> $ type dt >> dt is a function >> dt () >> { >> pushd +$1 >> } >> >> How can I use them in my script? . .

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-23 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:55:51AM +, T o n g wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:21:37 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >> I have the following alias and function defined in my ~/.bashrc: > >> > >> $ alias rd > >> alias rd='rmdir' > >> > >> $ type dt > >> dt is a function > >> dt () >

Re: lightning, extension for icedove, screwed up

2008-01-23 Thread Michael Biebl
H.S. schrieb: > > "Lightning" could not be installed because it is not compatible with > your Icedove build type (linux-gnu_x86-gcc3). Please contact the author > of this item about the problem. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459340 -- Why is it that all of the instruments s

dpkg crawling!

2008-01-23 Thread Zach
I am not sure exactly when this behaviour manifested but it was within the past 2 months or so. Now whenever I install something the dpkg package database will eat up like 90%-100% of my CPU and the machine is near frozen until it completes. Even installing a small single package this will happen,

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-23 Thread Ted Hilts
Rick My response at very bottom. Ted Rick Thomas wrote: I'm trying to get started with Xen. I've installed Lenny and a bunch of packages that looked interesting and mentioned Xen in their descriptions. But there does not seem to be a Xen enabled kernel available. Is Xen built-in to the Lenn