Re: xserver crashing

2008-02-09 Thread Kalessin
Hello, You are using the wrong driver for your card : http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1540758&postcount=2 Then, about the nvidia installer warning, you can work around that by setting the CC environment variable (with the good version of gcc) before executing the nvidia insaller.

Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-09 Thread Zach
I am getting ADSL (728/128) next week and have some questions. I run Debian lenny with a 2.6.18 kernel. The DSL connection will use PPPoE and I'll be getting a static IP. I guess I just need 1 ethernet cable to connect the DSL modem to my NIC right? How do I setup the PPPoE account (username, p

Re: Strange Claws Behavior

2008-02-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:24:34 -0700 Travis Crook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Travis, > the About Claws screen comes up. Are the key combinations to the > shortcuts to the About menu configurable? If so, how do I change it Yes. It seems that whilst you had the "Help" menu open, and the poin

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
aptitude install pppoeconf from a debian CD then aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade as soon as you get online. You'll have a choice of dhclient or dhcpcd packages and pppoeconf installs dhclient. You may find it helpful to install dhcpcd and do an aptitude remove purge dhclient though

Re: xserver crashing

2008-02-09 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Saturday 09 February 2008 07:15:39 Kalessin wrote: > Hello, > > You are using the wrong driver for your card : > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=1540758&postcount=2 > > Then, about the nvidia installer warning, you can work around that by > setting the CC environment variable (w

Gigabyte M61P-S3 and wild MAC address of ethernet interface

2008-02-09 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Hi, I have got Debian 4.0r2 and Gigabyte M61P-S3 motherboard and I noticed it has "dynamic" MAC address :-/ I tried to fix the problem with the help of document http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/501 but with no success. The problem is that every time I boot my system Debian finds

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080209 03:28]: > I am getting ADSL (728/128) next week and have some questions. ... The easiest and quickest approach with the least hassle is simply to run SmoothWall Express 2.0 on an old computer, and let SmoothWall handle the PPPoE, firewall, router, DHCP, and loggi

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 2008-02-08 17:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: >> There are now updated packages of libgif4 available which include >> a transitional package for libungif4g, see >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/giflib/news/20080207T090208Z.html. >> >> Sven >> > > I th

Re: realtime-lsm module and vanilla 2.6.24 kernel

2008-02-09 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 15:06 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use the new vanilla 2.6.24 kernel with the > realtime-lsm module. Probably I should also mention that I am using Ingo Molnar's realtime preemption patch (which relies on the vanilla kernel): - kernel: http://

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-06 17:00:43, schrieb NN_il_Confusionario: > > You can use the IBM Netfini (Dual P2/233 with 512 MB of memory) > > as nice mini workstations which are cheap on eBay. > > I was referring to a (peculiar kind of) powerpc architecture, which the > reqester possibly dislikes since possibly Op

Re: [OT] dialup modemspeed change

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-03 12:07:11, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > You're probably too far away from the telco's D/A converter to get 56K. > Welcome to dialup-for-the-rest-of-us. ??? Sorry but, in Turkey where I have a haus at the end of the world and there I am using V.90 and get over 5 kByte/sec and the ISP

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

2008-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-09 11:49 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: >>Your mirror is not quite up to date. You need version 4.6.1-3 of > >>libgif4, where these transitional packages were added. Since you >>suc

Re: mailfilter (was Re: missing /var/mail)

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-04 03:34:01, schrieb Ron Johnson: > On 02/04/08 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: > > example from .mailfilter: > > > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/IN-personal/ > > > > if (/^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/) > > { > > to "$HOME/Mail/IN-debian-user/" > > } This is working, but... > > Notice the s

Re: [OT] dialup modemspeed change

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-03 08:57:55, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > > I've changed the physical location of the Sid box and the telephone > number that is being used to dial the ISP. > > Everything else is the same. > > Now the connection is at a lower speed than before: average 3000 B/s > while befor

Re: fsck.ext3

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-02 15:15:36, schrieb Paul Johnson: > On Feb 2, 2008 11:01 AM, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before I change something, I would like to know the current > > setings. How do I find those? > > I believe the manual page for tune2fs would be able to tell you how to > display th

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

2008-02-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-09 13:13 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm not using aptitude. I used wajig show-install libgif4. > > But wajig show-install imlib11 gives this: > > wajig showinstall imlib11 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The

Re: Shell script function problems

2008-02-09 Thread William Pursell
phillinux wrote: I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or the command line. The set command seems to show the loaded script in the shell (loaded with . FunctionName at command line) with other envi

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-02-09 11:49 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >> On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > >>Your mirror is not quite up to date. You need version 4.6.1-3 of > > > >>libgif4, where these tr

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-03 20:16:57, schrieb Pantor: > Hi lads, > > there is a modem plugged to PCI slot and no idea what to do with it. > Any suggestions, advices, please. What is the output of:lspci Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network

Re: SOLVED: Modem in Debian

2008-02-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-04 20:12:25, schrieb Pantor: > Dmesg shows > > body:/etc/vim# dmesg | grep -i tty > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > 00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > body:/etc/vim# > On chip: > > connexant >

Re: Kept back packages

2008-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If running unstable yes by all means; otherwise no. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
For the list, On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a > Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm > ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: > > (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdis

Icedove news

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I recently started using Icedove for mail & news (until now, I only used Iceape or a hacked Fedora Seamonkey version). I have some problems with "news". I have subscribed to a few newsgroups offered by the news server at my ISP (news.planet.nl). Each time I click on a newsgroup (say, alt.html)

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Adrian Levi: > > On 09/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a > > > Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm > > > ignor

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-09 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, I wrote: > 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a >specified position on my desktop (fvwm). On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:32:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: > If you want fvwm to open something at a definite location, s

Re: Icewm lost! Can't reinstall

2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-02-09 13:13 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm not using aptitude. I used wajig show-install libgif4. > > > > But wajig show-install imlib11 gives this: > > > > wajig showinstall imlib11 > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: > I'm sure some guy at Google is wondering why they just got a spike in > searches for "Overly Fond of Goats"... I wrote: > So how many hits did you get? Dave writes: > I found six... and debian-user had the #1 spot. It always does. I wonder if this will be the next "dueling banj

Re: Icedove news

2008-02-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I recently started using Icedove for mail & news (until now, I only used Iceape or a hacked Fedora Seamonkey version). I have some problems with "news". I have subscribed to a few newsgroups offered by the news server at my ISP (news.planet.nl). Each time I click on a

Re: Icedove news

2008-02-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/09/2008 07:31 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I recently started using Icedove for mail & news (until now, I only used > Iceape or a hacked Fedora Seamonkey version). > > I have some problems with "news". I have subscribed to a few > newsgroups offered by the news server at my ISP (news.plan

Re: doesn't open office support (Word's) inline comments?

2008-02-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:30:56PM +, michael wrote: > Given I didn't receive anything useful to a similar enquiry before > (below) but yet think that I can't be the only person doing this I'll > try one more time (or maybe I should put it in as a 'bug'/RFE?): > > Essentially, MS Word has comm

Re: mailfilter (was Re: missing /var/mail)

2008-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/08/08 17:41, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:34:01AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/04/08 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: >> [snip] >>> example from .mailfilter: >>> >>>

re: localhost prefixing problem

2008-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
sample email message cut here: From [EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3 Sat Feb 9 10:18:16 2008 Newsgroups: Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3> X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test message Fcc: sent-mail Message-ID: <[EMAIL PR

Re: MacBook

2008-02-09 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:46 -1000, RY wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel > Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? > The lack of middle-click plus many other little things drove me Mad when I did this last yea

Re: Icedove news

2008-02-09 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:30:41 Ralph Katz wrote: Hi Jan -- No. On up-to-date Etch, using icedove version 1.5.0.14pre (20071018), there is no problem here. You could close icedove, move your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default.lgh/News/ out of the way, and let icedove rebuild it upon restart. Then r

Re: Etch-and-a-half? When?

2008-02-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:07:06 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:29:11PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Here's a quote from the LCA: State of Debian article on lwn.net: > > > > "The Etch-and-a-half release will be happening soon. This i

Re: Grub Boot Error on Lenny

2008-02-09 Thread Schiz0
On Feb 8, 2008 5:27 PM, Michael D. Norwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > Schiz0 wrote: > >> I have Lenny running on a laptop. I selected to use grub version 2 > >> when it prompted me (back when I first installed grub). > >> > >> I just now updated my apt sources and ran

[OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
hello, Me again with my project. Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium {133|166}. Now I'm looking for a great case in which to mount it (them?). Starting with wikipedia on EMR shielding, and surf

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-09 Thread Joe
Zach wrote: I am getting ADSL (728/128) next week and have some questions. I run Debian lenny with a 2.6.18 kernel. The DSL connection will use PPPoE and I'll be getting a static IP. I guess I just need 1 ethernet cable to connect the DSL modem to my NIC right? How do I setup the PPPoE accoun

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: > > > > 1) eth3 and wlan0 differ > 2) add "auto eth3" or whatever to /etc/network/interfaces > > 3) you don't use wpasupplicant? > > pj 1. I did have auto eth3 in the file but probably I screwed something up in my repeated attempts to get iwl3945 working.

Re: localhost prefixing problem

2008-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:26:27AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > sample email message cut here: >> From [EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3 Sat Feb 9 10:18:16 2008 > Newsgroups: Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) > From: Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3> > X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAI

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread David Fox
On 2/8/08, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create > extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the files in the stick and reformat it to just one primary partition,

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:24:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > hello, > > Me again with my project. > > Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail > me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium > {133|166}. > > Now I'm looking for a great ca

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hmmm, a carpenter could probably do it better with real wood. Not composite but maybe pine or oak. On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:24:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello, Me again with my project. Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz comp

re: localhost prefixing problem

2008-02-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Kevin, The /etc/email-addresses wasn't set up properly but whatever is causing these malformed addresses is overwriting mail user agent headers and is unaffected by the contents of /etc/email-addresses apparently. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:43:42AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Hmmm, a carpenter could probably do it better with real wood. Not > composite but maybe pine or oak. > Wood is decidely poor at EMR containment. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Re: Hardware hassles: Linu

2008-02-09 Thread y-h-m . wi_spend_ti_here . 2-9-2
I am going only at the age of 23 in whom it lives in Japan. It lived in this Guam of being able the dance.It met black's person, and then, it was terrible and good-looking. It was sad not to fall behind though it was mail address phlegm. Serviceman's friend wants it by all means. Moreover, the per

Re: Printing GPG public key

2008-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 06:44:02PM +, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there a tool that'd help me create a sheet full of the fingerprint of > my public key? aptitude install signing-party Then you can use gpg-key2ps -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il |

Re: Printing GPG public key

2008-02-09 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:44:02 + Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Is there a tool that'd help me create a sheet full of the fingerprint of > my public key? Sure, just: # apt-get install signing-party and you'll have a nice /usr/bin/gpg-key2ps which does what you want :

Re: Shell script function problems

2008-02-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:36:53PM +, William Pursell wrote: > phillinux wrote: >> >> I'm trying to write a bash shell script to create user accounts that >> calls 2 functions. I can't call these functions from the script or the >> command line. The set command seems to show the loaded scri

Printing GPG public key

2008-02-09 Thread Magnus Therning
Is there a tool that'd help me create a sheet full of the fingerprint of my public key? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-09 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:54:02PM +, Felix Karpfen ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I recollect running a command that identified non-Debian packages >> as part of the upgrade to Etch and *the command gave the expected >> output*. But, alas,

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/02/2008, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/8/08, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create > > extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do > > > Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the

Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

2008-02-09 Thread cothrige
I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages. Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop. Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this. Here is what has been coming

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 07/02/2008, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and > > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much > > > to remember? > > > > Now ema

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-09 Thread marc
s. keeling said... > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Micha said... > > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 - > > > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to > > > > match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and > > > > LaTeX > > > > > > Personall

Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

2008-02-09 Thread Adrian Levi
On 10/02/2008, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages. > Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished > upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop. > Unfortunately I have not found a way

Re: xserver crashing

2008-02-09 Thread Telaman Consultancies
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: xserver crashing >Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:56:44 -0200 > >> >>The nv driver should work no matter what anyway. >> I haven't found that it does. I couldn't even obtain X with the nv driver, using a Lea

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread s. keeling
Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Can windows display 4 primary partitions or are you talking about > linux? I'm specifically talking about windows' ability to display more > than one primary partition on a device be it pen drive, usb hard > drive, sata/ide drive. I'f I'm wrong and windows

Re: Measuring & optimizing broadband speed

2008-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/08 16:13, Zach wrote: > I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, > particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line. > I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the > advertised bandwidth. I find that FTPi

Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

2008-02-09 Thread cothrige
"Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > you could try running, > > #dpkg --configure -a > > But likely I suspect it will fail. Yes, it appears to have changed little. Still failing. > Another option is possibly to pre-empt it and go ahead and delete: > /usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png Actu

Measuring & optimizing broadband speed

2008-02-09 Thread Zach
I am looking for accurate methods of measuring broadband speed, particularly for a 728 kbps / 128 kbps DSL line. I want to see how close my real world throughput gets to the advertised bandwidth. Also what is the theoretical maximum and minimum ping (average return time) and lag (standard deviation

Linux network security poll

2008-02-09 Thread Zach
I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering if list members could explain their security setup (network configuration, DMZ, firewalls, IDS, logging, etc.). Also what would you recommend for someone like

Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-09 Thread Zach
I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. I have a high end CD player and a medium end LP player and wonder precisely how I can transfer these to DVD? I would like to maintain the highest possible fidelity so even dumpi

Re: Linux network security poll

2008-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/08 16:18, Zach wrote: > I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to > the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering > if list members could explain their security setup (network > configuration

Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

2008-02-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 14:41:14 -0600, cothrige wrote: > > I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages. > Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished > upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop. > Unfortunately I have not found

suggestions needed: multiple nis, ldap, kerberos

2008-02-09 Thread Computer Gigs
hello folks, i am looking for suggestions on how to efficiently migrate multiple nis+autofs to be managed by ldap+kerberos. i have about 8 or more nis domains that i would like to consolidate. i would use ldap to hold the user list. there would a equivalent kerberos realm for each nis domain, th

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread s. keeling
David S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first > > ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the > > ptn table? > > I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not your > fault but the

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-09 Thread s. keeling
David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2/8/08, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create > > extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do > > Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the files in the stick an

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail > me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium > {133|166}. > > Now I'm looking for a great case in which to mount it (them?). Starting > with wikipedia on EM

Re: Linux network security poll

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:18:09PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I need to get serious about security since I will be soon connected to > the net almost 24x7 (barring a power outage etc.) so I was wondering > if list members could explain their security setup (network > configuration, DMZ, firewalls, IDS, l

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record albums) and > audio cassette tapes onto optical media for archival. > > I have a high end CD player and a medium end LP player and wonder > precisely how I can transfer these to DVD? > >

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:54:02AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Sun Ultra 30. Thing must weigh a ton. > It's yours if you pay shipping. It runs Debian Etch, OpenBSD, NetBSD, > and OpenSolaris. 17" Sun monitor included, ca. 250 Mb RAM, Plextor CD-R > drive

domain wide spam email address

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just process all mails sent to spamassassin as spam with a p

[Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up, I also installed usb_storage and usbatm modules just in case, but nothing... This used to work a

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Feb 9, 2008 8:12 PM, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up, I also > installed usb_

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 9 2008 06:12:18 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up, I also > installed usb_storage a

alsaconf works, startup doesn't

2008-02-09 Thread richard izua
Hi! I'm not exactly sure what I've done, since I've been instructed in #debian. But I've been advised to file a report. Anyway. My problem is that I can configure my C-MEDIA 8738 (8378?) sound card to work, but it won't stay like that after a restart. I have debian 4.0, Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Mihira Fernando
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: hello, Me again with my project. Some people off-list have found me some low-MHz computers and will mail me the boards with CPU + memory etc. One is a Tyan dual Pentium {133|166}. Now I'm looking for a great case in which to mount it (them?). Starting with wikipedia

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Feb 9, 2008 8:31 PM, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat February 9 2008 06:12:18 pm Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > > showing up, althoug

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/08 20:12, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up,

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Feb 9, 2008 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 02/09/08 20:12, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: > Once again, old IBM servers comes to mind. Those boxes must be made out > of steel or lead. Weighs a heck of a lot. Unfortuanly, those old IBM RS/6000 units still command 4-figure price tags. Also, the power supply would be dif

Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)?

2008-02-09 Thread Telaman Consultancies
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Archiving audio (high fidelity)? >Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:59:48 -0500 > >>On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:25:55PM -0500, Zach wrote: >>> I would like to transfer my collection of LPs (record album

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:12:18PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > showing up, although I have ehci-hcd and uhci-hcd modules up, I also > installed usb_s

How to disable link-local IP?

2008-02-09 Thread Ning Liu
Hi, I am using sid and 2.6.24 from Debian official repository. I installed network-manager and want it to obtain IP from DHCP server for eth0. Sometimes DHCP server responds slowly and cannot assign a valid IP immediately, and then network-manager assign a link-local IP like 169.254.x.x to eth0.

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/09/08 21:47, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Feb 9, 2008 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 02/09/08 20:12, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I >>> can't

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Feb 10, 2008 1:23 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/09/08 21:47, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2008 9:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> On 02/09/08 20:12, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >>> Hi, > >

Re: [Debian-User] Something wrong with udev / usb?

2008-02-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Feb 10, 2008 12:35 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:12:18PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 (debian stock), and on them I > > can't get my usb external disk to work. There's no /dev/sd* device > > showin