problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Bernard
Hi there, Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just upgrade (there has been Etch in between), I just saved directories and installed from the iso image debian-502a-i386-netinst.iso I choose somewhat automate

FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread kj
Hi guys, In Firefox I have en-gb selected as my default language, but when I type in a text box, it still highlight according to US spelling. I looked at about:config and found that spellchecker.dictionary is set to en-US. I set this to en-gb, restart FF, and it's back on en-US. I tried en-

Re: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 00:31 Wed 26 Aug , Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,25.Aug.09, 17:11:45, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > Recall that if I change the login directory to > > /home/bill/temp in /etc/passwd > > then bill can startx just as any other user can. it is only > > from the /home/bill that x fails (silent

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-26 Thread Justin The Cynical
Charles Kroeger wrote: virtually any board easily available today is going to make use of DDR2 memory What about DDR3 memory, is that preferable? IMO, YMMV, IMNAL, etc and so on, DDR3 would only be of any real use with higher end CPU and motherboards that can take advantage of the extra m

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: > Hi there, > > Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, > I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just upgrade (there > has been Etch in between), Why not just upgrade to etch (aka 'oldstab

Re: my monitor wont start

2009-08-26 Thread Glyn Astill
Try hitting "Ctrl Alt -" to switch to a lower resoloution? --- On Wed, 26/8/09, Salman Bashir wrote: > From: Salman Bashir > Subject: my monitor wont start > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 2:14 PM > > > > > > > > Hi > > I installed Debian throug

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Bernard
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 13:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bernard wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge, > > I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just up

Re: modifier keys stop working [second try]

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:34:48 -0400, I wrote: > 3. Finally, a fun puzzle (inspired by actual events). If I have a window up >with text I want to save before shutting down the windows, how can I do >the save without modifier keys? I can copy the text with the mouse, but >then what? R

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernard wrote: [snip] > My next problem is one of keyboard. I had chosen a kind of automatic > setup for my install. Despites this, I was questioned about language, > and I had replied 'French'. However my keyboard is in QWERTY instead of > being in AZ

maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:28:39PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my > > 200 > > kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task.. > > maildir (and procmail t

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-26 14:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Bernard wrote: >> >> Thanks in advance for your help in switching my keyboard to the French >> setup. > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Will not work¹ with the version of xserver-xorg currently in Lenny. :-( Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-26 14:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Bernard wrote: >>> Thanks in advance for your help in switching my keyboard to the French >>> setup. >> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg > > Will not work¹ with the version

Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-26 Thread Gav
Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could now do with MP3's too. :o| Gav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.Aug.09, 21:02:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Yes I moved to maildrop too. Its syntax is sane one. :) > > # These are the lists.debian.org lists > > if (/^List-Id:.*/) > > { > > to Maildir/.debian.$MATCH1 > > } > > Nice. But what happens if maildir folder does not exst in advanc

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.Aug.09, 11:22:14, kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > In Firefox I have en-gb selected as my default language, but when I > type in a text box, it still highlight according to US spelling. I > looked at about:config and found that spellchecker.dictionary is set > to en-US. I set this to en-gb, re

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Gav schreef: Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could now do with MP3's too. :o| Google is your friend: http://www

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman schreef: Gav schreef: Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could now do with MP3's too. :o| Google

Re: maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:02:48PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > # These are the lists.debian.org lists > > if (/^List-Id:.*/) > > { > > to Maildir/.debian.$MATCH1 > > } > > Nice. But what happens if maildir folder does not exst in advance. > Procmail used to create it on the fly bu

problem with util-linux-ng fsck and board with no clock

2009-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
I have an embedded board (a PCEngines Wrap board) which has no persistent clock. With earlier configurations I set the clock with ntpdate once the network was up. But with current sid I have a problem in that fsck in util-linux-ng 2.16 complains that the "Superblock last mount time (Sat Jan 1

Re: maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:38:05PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,26.Aug.09, 21:02:48, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > The rule above will actually create an mbox if the folder doesn't exist > (tested). Yesterday I just added a trailing "/" to indicate a Maildir, > but the debian-mips list didn't g

Re: maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:38:05PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I don't know what happens. The docs are also not very verbose on that > matter. It was in /usr/share/doc/maildrop/INSTALL.html If the DEFAULT_DEF/DEFAULT variable refers to a directory, maildrop assumes that it is delivering the m

Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Charlie
Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed or How do I configure xpdf to print with cups? Either will get me out of immediate trouble. TIA Charlie -- Registered Linux Use

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: >Charlie schreef: >> Hello all, >> >> Have been googling without much success: >> >> Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's >> kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed >Do you use squeez

Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Kurecka
I've tried getting Apache and Tomcat to work on my board. The board is a Compulab CM-X270 with debian version 2.6.24 run on a 32 bit ARM processor. What types of web servers can I put on this thing? It came with THTTPD but that seems to only work with CGI and I was hoping to develop with JSPs or if

Re: Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 14:06, Michael Kurecka wrote: > I've tried getting Apache and Tomcat to work on my board. The board is a > Compulab CM-X270 with debian version 2.6.24 run on a 32 bit ARM processor. > What types of web servers can I put on this thing? It came with THTTPD but > that seems to

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: >Do you use squeeze or sid? In KDE4 kpdf has been replaced with okular Thank you Sjoerd, okular I have. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 . Gaining enlighten

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charlie schreef: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: Charlie schreef: Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed Do you use sque

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charlie wrote: > Have been googling without much success: 'apt-cache search', 'aptitude search' or 'apt-file search' are probably better choices for this questions at debian machines. > Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's >

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:36:30 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: >Charlie schreef: >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman >> shared this with us all: >> >>> Charlie schreef: Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33:50PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman > shared this with us all: > > >Charlie schreef: > >> How do I configure xpdf to print with cups? > >That should just work. Is cups installed correctly? What does > > lpstat -a > >give

Re: problem with util-linux-ng fsck and board with no clock

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:20PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > I have an embedded board (a PCEngines Wrap board) which has no > persistent clock. With earlier configurations I set the clock with ntpdate > once the network was up. interesting. I have no experience with this sort of installati

Re: problem with util-linux-ng fsck and board with no clock

2009-08-26 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:20PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have an embedded board (a PCEngines Wrap board) which has no > > persistent clock. With earlier configurations I set the clock with > > ntpdate once the network was u

Re: modifier keys stop working [second try]

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:34:48PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [At the risk of being annoying, I am re-posting this question.] > > I am repeatedly losing modifier-key function. > > I run an up-to-date Lenny system and use the window manager fvwm (2.5.26-1) > so that I can mostly work from the co

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:48:30 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West shared this with us all: >On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33:50PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman >> shared this with us all: >> >> >Charlie schreef: > >> >> How do I configure xpdf to print with cup

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33:50PM +1000, Charlie wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman >> shared this with us all: >> >>> Charlie schreef: > How do I configure xpdf to print with cups? >>> T

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charlie schreef: Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed Do you use squeeze or sid? In KDE4 kpdf has been replaced with okular or How do I configure xpdf to print wit

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > >'A degradated event has been detected on md device /dev/md0 >P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the foll

ssh hardly usable after login

2009-08-26 Thread randall
hi all, have a peculiar problem for a few months already and i can't really understand whats the problem here. i have a debian machine in China and i connect coming from Europe, it used to work perfectly after some driver issues that forced me to change the network cards. At the moment: i can st

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30:03AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > > Micha wrote: > > > ... > > > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > > it resides and can back it up

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I set this to en-gb, restart FF, and it's back on en-US. I tried > en-GB too, just in case. Hi kj, Try en_GB i.e. use underscore not hyphen. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

iptables question?

2009-08-26 Thread I Rattan
Is it possible to restrict access by user-id under iptables firewall? If so, pointers to the info/example will be appreciated. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread John Hasler
Michael Kurecka writes: > I've tried getting Apache and Tomcat to work on my board. If you installed them from the Debian archive they should just work. If not file bugs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

connection issues

2009-08-26 Thread randall
hi all, having a problem since a few months and i cant really figure it out. i have a debian machine standing in China and i connect from Europe, so going over there just for this is slightly cumbersome. i did have some driver issues in the past but after replacing the network cards it worked fi

Re: iptables question?

2009-08-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-26 10:36 (-0400), I. Rattan wrote: > Is it possible to restrict access by user-id > under iptables firewall? > > If so, pointers to the info/example will be appreciated. Does "man iptables" qualify as a pointer? In "owner" module there is --uid-owner option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: maildrop: (aas: ProcMail ...)

2009-08-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,26.Aug.09, 21:31:45, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Besides, I tend to use Maildir/debian-*/ as folder name. I may do >maildirmake Maildir/debian-$MATCH1 I'm using a Maildir++ style structure. If I use some GUI client via IMAP the hierarchy is preserved ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't exp

Re: connection issues

2009-08-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
randall wrote: > so, before i try disabling the firewall etc... to see if it has any > results and risk losing the working LAN part of the story i wonder if > somebody here has a clue on what it could be. Factors external to the machine? Like limits on upstream / downstream data rates, imposed by

Re: connection issues

2009-08-26 Thread randall
Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:55:29PM +0200, randall wrote: >> At the moment: >> i can login using SSH and issue commands. >> but when opening a file or starting top the screen goes black until the >> connection times out, reset by peer. > > 1. Check remaining disk size not a prob

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread kj
Andrei Popescu wrote: Maybe it's using your $LANG variable to determine the dictionary. I know at least pidgin does that. $ export | grep -i lang declare -x GDM_LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" declare -x LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" declare -x LANGUAGE="" I tried setting the LANGUAGE variable too, to no avail. I wo

Re: connection issues

2009-08-26 Thread randall
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > randall wrote: >> so, before i try disabling the firewall etc... to see if it has any >> results and risk losing the working LAN part of the story i wonder if >> somebody here has a clue on what it could be. > > Factors external to the machine? Like limits on upstream

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread kj
Clive Standbridge wrote: Hi kj, Try en_GB i.e. use underscore not hyphen. Thanks. Unfortunately that didn't stick either :( --kj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: connection issues

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:55:29PM +0200, randall wrote: > At the moment: > i can login using SSH and issue commands. > but when opening a file or starting top the screen goes black until the > connection times out, reset by peer. 1. Check remaining disk size 2. Run "screen" so your session is ali

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread Graham
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:22:14 +0100 kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > In Firefox I have en-gb selected as my default language, but when I > type in a text box, it still highlight according to US spelling. I > looked at about:config and found that spellchecker.dictionary is set > to en-US. I set this to

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:33:46PM +0100, kj wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> Maybe it's using your $LANG variable to determine the dictionary. I >> know at least pidgin does that. > > $ export | grep -i lang > declare -x GDM_LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > declare -x LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > declare -x LANGUAG

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bd
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 09:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: > >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. > >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > > > >'A degradated event has been det

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 09:05 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > In <1251279376.9809.16.ca...@dell-desktop.home>, Bernard wrote: > >In any case, the Lenny install that I now get, shows defaults. > >mdadm monitoring keeps sending mails at each boot : > > > >'A degradated event has been det

ntp server setup

2009-08-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
how do i setup a local ntp server on my debian lenny so i can sync my guest os (vbox) without connecting to the internet (using host-only interface)? All i can find are articles on synching with ntp servers over the internet, not setting up a local ntp server. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http:/

Re: FireFox and UK spell checker

2009-08-26 Thread kj
Graham wrote: Not sure if I'm reading you right, but have you right-clicked in the text box, then gone to Languages and then selected Add Dictionaries...? If it was a snake I did have the GB dictionary installed. I'm still confused as to why it even shows the US dictionary option - I hav

Re: ntp server setup

2009-08-26 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:12:05 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > how do i setup a local ntp server on my debian lenny so i can sync > my guest os (vbox) without connecting to the internet (using > host-only interface)? All i can find are articles on synching with > ntp servers over the internet, not

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... IME, that's normal. Whatever block devices back your '/' file system can not be shut down cleanly, but since it i

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
s. keeling wrote: > Charlie : >> On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 "s. keeling" >> shared this with us all: >> >> >Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no >> >"Desktop Environment" on install; I startx into fluxbox). >> > >> >On one of them, dict-client works as exp

Re: motherboad for desktop

2009-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-26 05:30, Justin The Cynical wrote: Charles Kroeger wrote: virtually any board easily available today is going to make use of DDR2 memory What about DDR3 memory, is that preferable? IMO, YMMV, IMNAL, etc and so on, DDR3 would only be of any real use with higher end CPU and moth

RE: x won't start as a particular user. for other users works fine. what file is causing it? how to troubleshoot?

2009-08-26 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 3:14 PM >> > Is there something in your ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xsessionrc, or ~/.xserverrc >> file >> > causing startup to fail? >> > >> > Have you looked for errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file? >> >> Ok

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
Le mercredi 26 août 2009 à 11:51 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... > > IME, that's normal. Whatever bl

ceza ödemeyin

2009-08-26 Thread Vira Motorlu Araclar
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configuring Evolution on newly installed Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
The default install of 'Evolution' activates spell checking. Since I have chosen a French config, the dictionary that I have is a French one. So, whenever I type in English, every word gets underlined in red waves so as to point out that the words do not belong to the currently installed dictionary

can i ditch imapproxy?

2009-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as in, is it entirely optional? it's causing me grief on my new lenny system so i'd just like to take it right out as long as that won't cause problems. thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Wat

configuring printer in newly installed Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread bdebreil
I feel sorry that I installed Lenny in a somewhat automated install program. During previous installs of earlier distros, I was being asked if I wanted to configure a printer and what kind, etc... There were no such questions here, and my printer is not operating. This is an old parallel port print

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:03 -0400 Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300 > > Micha wrote: > > > ... > > > > 3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where > > > it resides and can back it up and

5 newbie Linux users & one shared media folder?

2009-08-26 Thread Nick Lidakis
I'm attempting to setup a Debian Linux/Gnome laptop for a friend, his wife, and their 4 kids. Each has a home folder that is private to the rest. They have small collection of music & photos that they would like to share. What's the most efffective way to accomplish this? This is a non-networked ma

Re: can i ditch imapproxy?

2009-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-26 12:59, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as in, is it entirely optional? it's causing me grief on my new lenny system so i'd just like to take it right out as long as that won't cause problems. thanks. Wouldn't that depend on what you use it for, compared to it's stated primary reason

repeated names in each /dev/disk/by-id/ata-*

2009-08-26 Thread jidanni
Dear Debian-user, I notice in the latest kernel, $ uname -a Linux jidanni1 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 19:11:58 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux The disk names are repeated twice in each line, $ ls /dev/disk/by-id|head -n 3 ata-ExcelStor_Technology_J680_ExcelStor_Technology_J680_VNR21EG20Q71MA ata-Excel

Re: 5 newbie Linux users & one shared media folder?

2009-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-26 12:11, Nick Lidakis wrote: I'm attempting to setup a Debian Linux/Gnome laptop for a friend, his wife, and their 4 kids. Each has a home folder that is private to the rest. They have small collection of music & photos that they would like to share. What's the most efffective way to

raid1 / mdadm issues on reboot - /dev/md* not showing up

2009-08-26 Thread Derek Bosch
I've had a sid/unstable system with four raid1 / mdadm partitions running for about 4 years now... Recently, upon boot-up, three of those four partitions come up as "auto-read-only" in /proc/mdstat for example: md3 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1] 280631360 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Re: Inquiry:How to make use of VM to install RedHat 7.2

2009-08-26 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:56 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please do me favor and let me know how we can make use of CentOS 5 > installation on the pc and make use of it as host for VMWare/Virtualbox/Qemu > and then inside one of VM try to install RedHat 7.2 ? Where is the debi

Re: 5 newbie Linux users & one shared media folder?

2009-08-26 Thread James Richardson
Nick Lidakis wrote: > I'm attempting to setup a Debian Linux/Gnome laptop for a friend, his wife, > and > their 4 kids. Each has a home folder that is private to the rest. They > have small collection of music & photos that they would like to share. > What's the most efffective way to accomplish t

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 12:50:23 bdebreil wrote: > My next concern are the error messages that keep displaying every 3 > minutes or so, if I am on a console (that doesn't show when I am under > Gnome Xterm). For a new issue, you should start a new thread. Other can can help you with the new

Re: 5 newbie Linux users & one shared media folder?

2009-08-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-08-26 13:34 (-0500), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-26 12:11, Nick Lidakis wrote: >> I'm attempting to setup a Debian Linux/Gnome laptop for a friend, his >> wife, and their 4 kids. Each has a home folder that is private to the >> rest. They have small collection of music & photos that th

Re: raid1 / mdadm issues on reboot - /dev/md* not showing up

2009-08-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derek Bosch [2009.08.26.2020 +0200]: > md3 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1] > 280631360 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > this device DOESN'T appear in /dev/md3 > > however: > md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] > 9767424 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > isn't auto-read-only,

Re: configuring printer in newly installed Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread rudu
bdebreil a écrit : I feel sorry that I installed Lenny in a somewhat automated install program. During previous installs of earlier distros, I was being asked if I wanted to configure a printer and what kind, etc... There were no such questions here, and my printer is not operating. This is an ol

Re: raid1 / mdadm issues on reboot - /dev/md* not showing up

2009-08-26 Thread Derek Bosch
forgot to attach my rcS.d S02hostname.sh S02mountkernfs.sh S04mountdevsubfs.sh S05bootlogd S05keymap.sh S06keyboard-setup S07hdparm S08hwclockfirst.sh S10checkroot.sh S11hwclock.sh S12mtab.sh S18ifupdown-clean S20module-init-tools S20policycoreutils S25mdadm-raid S30checkfs.sh S30procps S35mountall

Re: raid1 / mdadm issues on reboot - /dev/md* not showing up

2009-08-26 Thread Derek Bosch
it appears that if I let the system continue booting, the remaining /dev/md*s do get populated, which makes me suspicious of my /etc/rc*.d/ ordering... On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:03 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Derek Bosch [2009.08.26.2020 +0200]: > > md3 : active (auto-read-only) ra

Re: Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread Michael Kurecka
What do you mean by installing from the Debian archive?

Re: Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 14:45:52 Michael Kurecka wrote: > What do you mean by installing from the Debian archive? FAIL! Have you ever run Debian before? Have ever used apt-get or aptitude? Have you ever modified your /etc/apt/sources.list or files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? Might o

Re: Dell or HP laptop with excellent support to Linux (Debian)

2009-08-26 Thread Mark
I've used several Dell's at work ("business" quality, i.e. Latitude D830) while several friends have consumer-level (home) Inspirons. My advice is to go with a "business" level one; particularly the nVidia cards and wireless chipsets are better than on the consumer-level ones (in my experience at

Re: Web server on Debian ARM

2009-08-26 Thread John Hasler
Michael Kurecka writes: > What do you mean by installing from the Debian archive? Did you use the Debian package-management system to install it, pulling it from a Debian CD or a Debian mirror, or did you get it somewhere else? Debian provides both Apache and Tomcat packages for ARM. -- John Has

Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Jeff H.
Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards? -- "When Life hands you lemons, pelt your enemies mercilessly."

usb flash drive stops liking Debian GNU/Linux

2009-08-26 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hi all I have USB flash drive 8GB "Flash Voyager" from Corsair. It was working without a problem for about 1 year. Suddenly it stops working producing errors which you can see at the end of this mail. I brought it to the shop to get a replacement. Seller plugged it in to the Windows notebook

Re: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: > Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards? The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package repository. I think the "nouveau" X11 driver is also being packaged by a DD but is not in, or

Re: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: >> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards? > > The "nv" X11 driver is in the Offical Free-Software-Only Debian package > repository.  I think the "

ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread Eugene Apolinary
Hi... It's just not working! :( Machine [A]: Debian Lenny [server] Machine [B]: Debian Lenny [client] I just want to SSH from [A] to [B] without password... [A] # apt-get install openssh-server # dpkg -l|grep ssh ii  openssh-blacklist   0.4.1    list of default

RE: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith > Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: > >> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop > car

Re: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: >> From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM >> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith >> Jr. wrote: >> > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: >> >> Been thinking of

Re: ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread James Richardson
Eugene Apolinary wrote: > Hi... > > It's just not working! :( > > Machine [A]: Debian Lenny [server] > Machine [B]: Debian Lenny [client] > > I just want to SSH from [A] to [B] without password... > > [A] > # apt-get install openssh-server > > # dpkg -l|grep ssh > ii  openssh-blacklist

Re: ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 07:15:42PM -0400, James Richardson wrote: > Eugene Apolinary wrote: > > Hi... > > [snip] > > [B] > > I copied the generated "id_rsa.pub" file to the [B] and: > > > > cat id_rsa.pub >> /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys > > cat id_rsa.pub >> /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Re: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread JoeHill
Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM > > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith > > Jr. wrote: > > > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:52:06 Jeff H. wrote: > > >> Been thinking of switching to Debia

Re: ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread Eugene Apolinary
ssh -vv http://pastebin.com/f3d2d4e3d ssh -vvv http://pastebin.com/f687e372 I changed the "authorized_keys" permission on [B] to 600 Plus I tried to change PasswordAuthentication no in [A] /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and then restart ssh. But if I do this this happens http://pastebin.ca/1544022 t

Re: problem installing Lenny

2009-08-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:51:09 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:01:12 bd wrote: > > However, when shutting down, I always have a message saying > > that /dev/mapper/vg00-root could not be unmounted since it is in use... > > IME, that's normal. Whatever block

RE: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: JoeHill [mailto:joeh...@teksavvy.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:35 PM > > Kevin Ross wrote: > > > Only the legacy 173.xx kernel module is in non-free, even in Sid. If > you > > want the new 185.xx series, like for VDPAU for hardware-accelerated > video > > playback, you still

Re: Nvidia cards

2009-08-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, you can find the new 185.xx series in Sid. hth, Jerome Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:49 PM On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrot

GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-26 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi; Wondering if anyone knows of a GUI for managing a digital camera for downloading pictures, etc ? There doesn't seem to be any such beast in testing, preferrably one that works with Gnome as opposed to KDE. Thanks. Steve, Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

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