Re: Connecting to Sun EBS client via java web page

Camaleón, It is sid (I failed to mention that, I guess). Your direction worked perfectly. Changed that sysctl to 0, ran sysctl and it started right up. Thank you for that! I have been fiddling with this for a couple of months now... --b On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: >

Re: weird kmail double-messages

filters, procmail > filters, sieve filters...)? > I am getting mine from my upstream mail server at work. All lists are local, e.g. group aliases...Not on any other mailing lists, atm. kmail is fetching on its own, every 5 or 10 minutes, iirc...As well as using kmail's internal filtering. --b

Broken deps?

being in flux with the freeze, is this just a temporary issue which will be fixed soon? Should I wait for a day or two (its been a couple already) or should I start holding packages? --b

Re: Cannot print from Adobe Acrobat

fine. --b On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:57 PM, AG wrote: > Hello list > > I seem to have lost the ability to print from Adobe Acrobat using Debian > Testing. OOo prints just fine as do other applications, but for some reason > Adobe doesn't want to play nicely with CUPS. Can

Re: Cannot print from Adobe Acrobat

. On the desktop, I mainly read books, etc...Or more likely, convert them to epub. :) --b On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:42 AM, John A. Sullivan III < jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:23 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > > You should also probably consider an

libept0 -- Needed or not?

for the update? thanks, --b

Straw poll: What browser do you use?

thers use? --b

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

have been reconsidering that as well...Since it has been almost painfully slow the past month or so... --b On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Vince Vielhaber wrote: > On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote: > > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. &

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

y * Secure Login * NoScript * FoxTab (meh...) * CS Lite * BugMeNot (though I haven't used it in a while...) I have several others installed, but these are the ones I use more or less daily. --b On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexande

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

d to use windows and IE, and I never realized how horrible an experience surfing the web was for mere mortals...:) You get spoiled not to have to put up with all the advertising swill... --b On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 04:15, B. Alexander wro

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

automatically propagated. There are actually several similar packages (cfengine => perl-ish, bcfg2 => python-ish, puppet => ruby-on-rails-ish, etc.) They all have the same goal in mind, convergence of system configurations, loosely referred to as configuration management. --b

Newer kernels?

It seems that we (Debian) is falling further and further behind. The latest kernel in sid is 2.6.32+28, and I didn't see anything in experimental. Are we going to see any of the more recent kernels any time soon in Debian? Thanks, --b

Re: root can't sudo

r anything like that? That is the only way that you should ever get a permission denied result for root. --b On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:16:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > >> What could be wrong? > > > > grep root /etc/sudoers >

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

Another way to do it would be to have the "invisible" sudo similar to NEEDSUDO="" if [ "`id -u`" != 0 ] ; then NEEDSUDO="sudo" fi echo abc | $NEEDSUDO tee /tmp/t Then, if the uid is not 0 (root), then it inserts the sudo line...If run by root, then NEEDS

Re: [OT] a radar-like tracking device

do it on a shoestring. The episode is located at http://hackradiolive.org/show.php?show=9 --b On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Being off-topic I don't know which place better to ask such question. > > I want to have a radar-like device to track moving object. It sho

Re: Security policy

ecial Publication 800 series or the DoD's docs (which I haven't worked much with). Then there is PCI, FFIEC, etc for the banking industry. Gives new meaning to "The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from..." HTH, --b

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

t::Show-Upgraded. As other posters have suggested, try running it without the -u. --b

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

sure what distro it runs (Meego?), but the guy that got the TouchBook running Maemo, which is based on Debian. --b On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is at > university. So the main use wi

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

. :) --b On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is > > at university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of

ATI problems

ugh I prefer compiz. Anyone know of a fix for this? Thanks, --b

Re: Debian 6.0 'Squeeze' home server - Installation guide

t of my VMs are on openvz. In any case, you should definitely have your firewall on a separate machine, bare metal if possible. I also recommend your backup machine be on a separate bare metal machine. That said, you can probably combine your various web servers, etc. --b On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2

Wierd kde/gnome interaction

drive), the Gnome app (nautilus?) usually pops up before I have the chance to select it in the device notifier. Is there any way to shut Gnome up when I'm in KDE? --b

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

I checked with ps, and there was nothing gnome running. I'm remoted in from work, so I can't connect anything to it, but nothing seems to be listening from the gnome camp. --b On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:27:33 -0400, B. Alexander wro

Re: Wierd kde/gnome interaction

1660 ?SOct03 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-burn --spawner :1.57 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1 storm 4326 0.0 0.0 6108 1356 ?SOct03 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata How do I turn it off in KDE but make sure it is enabled if I ever log into Gnome? --b On Fri, Oct 22, 2010

Mail server recommendations

r with the following: * postfix * dovecot * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 block) * roundcube for webmail Anyone got any suggestons? Either anything I'm missing or packages that work better? Thanks, --b

Re: Mail server recommendations

I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > > (...) > > > Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for > &

Re: Mail server recommendations

I don't mind keeping my mail in a flat file rather than a db. I guess if I were doing higher volume stuff, it might make a difference, but most of the emails I deal with are read, deal with and delete. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camal

Re: Orphaned User Accounts?

accepted by the Project, the individual stakeholders and the maintainers, but I just thought I would throw it out there... --b On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:50 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Carlos Mennens writes: >> I never installed Apache so why would there be a '/var/www' directory >

*fox + gmail

32-bit sid (with an amd64 kernel, due to time shift issues), but it has been that way for well over a year. My work box, which is running 64-bit sid does not have this problem. I tried this in both iceweasel and swiftfox, cleared all the google cookies, and still the problem persists, but only on

Re: Wayland & Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?

lines and can be read by someone 2 rooms away... :) Having said all that, I have never used Unity. It may be the best thing since the invention of the computer, but I don't think so. Just my 2 cents. --b On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > &

Running kde and Gnome apps take over

ulted in a solution. Thanks, --b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikztzirjykyn+c7kxx8f7cp2twbnx_q0sytk...@mail.gmail.com

Re: To KVM or not to KVM

ink having to have a windows box to control it fits my workflow. That said, esxi is free, though when you put in the free license, it changes the filesystem to read-only. Virtualbox is another option, however it is not intended for server virtualization. It is more akin to vmware workstation or vmware pl

fatal error: no screens found

Hello Please help me out here. I dont seem to be able to use my Matrox G450 card with my IIYama 8617 monitor. But I tried another monitor and configured it with 100% the right settings and I got the same error. Installed the latest matrox drivers, but I already compiled the matrox driver in my

Evolution Contacts crashing or how to remove Evo configuration

The Contact part of Evolution is giving me some problems. Since I removed all contacts from my addressbook, Evolution crashes when I try to add or import a new contact. Any idea how to fix this? One way to fix it, is of course to reinstall/reconfigure Evolution. This is however not as easy as I t

Re: Why display the entire window contents when moving it?

arden wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 08:11:40 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: When dragging a window around, why isn't only the border displayed during movement, instead of all the details. ... Is this really a problem? what do you want to do with t

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

Ken Heard wrote: ... I first tried Steve Kemp's suggestion, because it was the simpler, as it did not require use of a live CDROM. He warned me that the command "mount -n -o remount,rw /" might not work. It didn't. It returned EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "drfaults" or missin

Re: xterm not dealing with long lines of typing correctly

Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 10:19:52 -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: Hello all, Recently I've noticed my xterm's doesn't seem to be handling line wrapping of commands correctly. Instead of wrapping to a new line the characters start wrapping back on the current line.

debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

Where does Debian (or debmirror?) store the public key that debmirror uses to validate Release files? In upgrading to Sarge, I purged (or upgraded) a few too many things, and now when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it says: ... [0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it says: ... [0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D gpg: Can&#

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

I wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ...when I try to run debmirror to keep my local mirror updated, it says: ... [0%] Keeping: dists/sarge/Release.gpg gpg: Signature made Sat Dec 17 05:46:27 2005 EST using DSA key ID 4F368D5D

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

Hans Ekbrand wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 04:50:47PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:10:56AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: ... I can't tell if I deleted a key I had before (in purging and/or re-installing some things I shouldn't h

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upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

Hey all, I'm running debian sarge (i386) with a couple unstable/testing packages on an AMD64. I had sound working fine on my via82xx with the same kernel (2.6.13-ck5) under oss before upgrading gnome. All I did today was change my gnome-desktop-environment to testing (etch) as it was buggy with m

etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound? WAS Re: upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

sound, nor for this video card. So I guess gnome-desktop-environment depends on a new version of udev. How can I get back my old sarge udev without breaking the other packages? Or fix etch udev so that it works (at least for my video capture and sound). Help! Thanks, B. > Hey all, > > I&

Easiest & Safest way to downgrade udev 0.89-1(etch) to 0.56-3(sarge) (including all that depends on it) WAS Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound?

ancy sounds very painful) Thanks all. .b. On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:38 am, B. Bogart said: > Hi again, > > So after a little more digging I see that my third video capture device (bttv) is also not working, in fact according to the kernel and dmesg it is registered to /dev/video2, but the

Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound? WAS Re: upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

cally make udev work. It is my understanding that udev should create nodes for devices sysfs sees, so it would be a udev problem rather than a sysfs or kernel issue?? Thanks. .b. > Probably there arent default rules for those devices, so you'll have > to write them. Its fa

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

Willie Wonka wrote: Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rate specification = 1500 *mbps* or *mb/sec* (megabits per second). No. Megabits be per second is "Mbps" (lowercase "m" means "milli"). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

Willie Wonka wrote: ... 1 bit * 8 = 1 byte ^^ I forgot to capitalize my 'B' in "Byte" above The word "byte" doesn't need to be capitalized. (Were you thinking of the capitalized letter "B" by itself when it stands for the word

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

Willie Wonka wrote: ... IOW - Is this how one would correctly display these rates ? 1500mbps = 1.5gbps = 187.5mBps = 1.875gBps ? I think you mean 1500Mbps = 1.5Gbps = 187.5MBps = 1.875GBps As you can see the capitalized 'B' appears a tad ...'out of place'(?), b

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

Mike McCarty wrote: Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning "karat". That's not surprising--in SI, the prefix is the scale factor, and the remainder is the unit. I don't think there are any unit symbols tha

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:50:27PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Well, I used to work as a watchmaker, and I can't think of any context where "KB" stands together as written with "K" meaning "karat". That's

Re: [OT] blink tag effect with animation

H.S. wrote: Arafangion wrote: I HATE BLINKING TEXT. I am sure that this sentiment is shared by many other people. Agreed. However, in case, the user wants a pair of words flashing for a few days to attract attention to a special item. Hmm. Words flashing for a few days. That sounds REALL

Re: Missing public keys in aptitude

Florian Kulzer wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 2/2/06, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: man apt-secure, man apt-key Neither are found on my Sarge install, and I don't see them in aptitude. Install the 2006 archive signing key. This has been explained plenty of times on the l

Re: Missing public keys in aptitude

Andreas Janssen wrote: ...If you use Sarge (without backported apt from somewhere else!), this problem shouldn'd occur, because not only apt-key, but the whole GPG stuff is not implemented in your apt. debmirror seems to be a different issue, however. It looks like debmirror from Sarge /does/ ch

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: ... ... the reason I'm using PIO mode in the first place is because I get massive file system corruption when I use DMA mode with IDE controllers on my motherboard (Asus A7M266-D; AMD 762(?) chipset). .

Re: instructions for switching to kernel 2.6 on Debian Sarge?

Digby Tarvin wrote: I didn't think there was much more to it than just doing a apt-get intall kernel-image-2.6.8 Actually, there is (or sure seems to be). As I mentioned, the documentation that I found did warn me that my mouse device (/dev/psaux) would change (and therefore gpm and X

instructions for switching to kernel 2.6 on Debian Sarge?

Where are instructions on how to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (ideally, specifically in Debian's Sarge release)? The instructions I've found so far are quite sketchy. (For example, although I have found instructions that tell me that my mouse is no longer at /dev/psaux but is now at /dev/input/mouse (o

Re: instructions for switching to kernel 2.6 on Debian Sarge?

Digby Tarvin wrote: ... Perhaps I was just lucky and by installing 2.6 from the start the installation process did everything for me... Oh--do you mean to installed Debian from scratch (as opposed to upgrading a previous installation)? (Mine was an upgrade from Woody to Sarge, and then trying

Re: instructions for switching to kernel 2.6 on Debian Sarge?

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:59:23 -0500 "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... the documentation that I found did warn me that my mouse device (/dev/psaux) would change (and therefore gpm and X might break), but the device the documentation said the mouse

switching to kernel 2.6 - diald error: "No pty found ..."

In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I'm encountering a problem with diald. It says: No pty in range pty[p-s][0-9a0-f] and then fails (saying "Diald is dying with code 1"). Any ideas (what to do to make such device nodes available, or maybe how to reconfigure diald to use

switching to kernel 2.6 - manual "modprobe lp" to dev /dev/lop

In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that device node /dev/lp0 (for a parallel-port printer I have) doesn't get created unless I manually run "modprobe lp". Is the printer (and/or parallel) port supposed to be recognized automatically and is /dev/lp0 supposed to be cre

switching to kernel 2.6 - splay "Failed to open sound device" /dev/dsp

In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that splay/xsplay fails, saying "Failed to open sound device". Using strace, I see that opening /dev/dsp is failing: open("/dev/dsp" ... ) = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy). I'm not knowingly running any sound daemons, so wh

Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - diald error: "No pty found ..."

John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: Is Sarge's diald supposed to work with kernel 2.6.8 and udev? Do you really need diald at all? What does it do for you that dial on demand can't? I don't know; maybe nothing. However, I'd like to avoid changing too many things at once. (At the moment

Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - diald error: "No pty found ..."

I wrote: John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: Is Sarge's diald supposed to work with kernel 2.6.8 and udev? Do you really need diald at all? What does it do for you that dial on demand can't? I don't know; maybe nothing. However, I'd like to avoid changing too many things at once. (A

Re: switching to kernel 2.6 - manual "modprobe lp" to dev /dev/lop

Mark Fletcher wrote: Daniel B. wrote: In trying to switch to kernel 2.6(.8) and udev on Sarge, I found that device node /dev/lp0 (for a parallel-port printer I have) doesn't get created unless I manually run "modprobe lp". Is the printer (and/or parallel) port supposed t

Re: udev is ruining my life

John W. M. Stevens wrote: Udev was a response to devfs. Sadly, BOTH systems were poorly thought out. ... > Udev was the user space devfs, but unfortunately, it was also designed to cover all of dev, instead of just the sub-set of hot attach/detach devices that make sense for a "dynamic"

Re: help with quoting/expansion in bash

Mike Bird wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:23, David Berg wrote: I'm trying to write a for loop that descends into a list of directories and runs a command. I can't seem to get the quoting right though. Most of the directories have spaces and they are making things difficult for me. Here is

Re: Are pre-2.6.15 kernels incompatible with udev?

Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:02:47PM +, David Jarvie wrote: I have updated my etch installation with the latest updates, which include kernel 2.6.15 and udev. I find now that when I boot up an older (customised) 2.6.12 kernel, X fails to start up because it can't fin

minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam delivery attempts? How hard is it to refuse incoming TCP connections to the SMTP port based on DNSBL, using exim4? Would refusing connections reduce the overall traffic (maybe even causing spammer machines to think I no longer run

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote: What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam delivery attempts? sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve your problem I was _already_ talking about rejecting mail at SMTP time

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:58, Daniel B. wrote: ... How hard is it to refuse incoming TCP connections to the SMTP port based on DNSBL, using exim4? That is easy, and I run my own DNSBL instead of trying to figure out exim4's ACLs in great depth. Would ref

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

Paul Johnson wrote: It sounds like you're already at a spot where you can't reasonably reduce bandwidth used by email any further. Yeah, that seems to be true, unfortunately. For example, does your network have a caching HTTP proxy? If not, you're literally flushing bandwidth down the to

Re: minimizing bandwidth taken be spam delivery attempts even when identifiable by "To:" address

Glenn English wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:08 -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/02/06 12:58), Daniel B. wrote: What anti-spam method minimizes the network bandwith used by spam delivery attempts? sa-exim with spamassassin rejects mail at SMTP time which may solve

Re: [**solved by a reboot**] moving (and losing?) partitions with cfdisk

Levi Waldron wrote: 3. after changing your partition table, you really do have to reboot - at least this is my best guess as to what the problem was. Sometimes you can avoid the need to reboot: If you can unmount every other partition that is on the disk whose partition table you are modifyi

where is APT::Default-Release documented?

I'm having trouble getting APT::Default-Release to work. Where is the documentation for it (in Sarge)? The apt.conf(5) manual page sees to be where it should be documented (e.g., in its section "The APT Group"). However, that manual page doesn't mention it, anywhere. The aptitude(8) manual pa

timing(?) problem syncing USB Palm OS device connected via udev (pilot-manager and pilot-link)

ystem with udev (Sarge's 0.056-3) and kernel 2.6.8 (Sarge's 2.6.8-16sarge1). Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: timing(?) problem syncing USB Palm OS device connected via udev (pilot-manager and pilot-link)

s udev work with program likes PilotManager and pilot-link? > > (Does udev not properly accommodate for needs of such programs? > Do those programs make bad (or just old) assumptions about > devices? Is something else the problem?) > > My PDA is a PalmOne Tungsten T5. > &g

Re: timing(?) problem syncing USB Palm OS device connected via udev (pilot-manager and pilot-link)

Jean-Marie Thomas wrote: > > On Sunday 26 February 2006 18:27, Daniel B. wrote: > > What does it take to get the timing right in trying to connect to > > a Palm OS PDA when using udev? > ... > > My PDA is a PalmOne Tungsten T5. > > > > I'm running a

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-02-23 08:49:04, schrieb Mitchell Laks: Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. fdisk /dev/hda Why not use cfdisk? Does cfdisk give as much control over partitioning (e.g., which partition numbers to use and where to place part

CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high, gets cut off

I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS, foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge: When I try to print plain text, the system cuts off the top two-thirds of the first line, and the first several characters on the left. From the position of the partially printed characters, it s

aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs a version from Testing. (I have both Sarge and Testing mirrors in my APT sources list file.) What needs to be done to get "--target ..." (or APT::Default-Rel

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

I wrote: When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs a version from Testing. (I have both Sarge and Testing mirrors in my APT sources list file.) What needs to be done to get "--target ..." (or APT::D

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:43:54 -0500 "Daniel B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I run "aptitude --target sarge install ...", aptitude doesn't listen to the instruction to install a version from Sarge; it installs a version from Testing.

Re: What do you do with a .jar file?

Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 08:22:44AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: there should be hundreds of articles on the internet for how to run an application from a jar file. google: execute jar file Yep: there's hundreds of articles on the _world wide web_ for most topics discusse

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

Paul E Condon wrote: Think OP was trying to use "sarge", not "stable". Right. > I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. Does anyone know why? (Is it a bug in APT tools? Something wrong in my local mirror? Something else?) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: aptitude --target target sarge xxx doesn't limit to sarge

Paul E Condon wrote: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:47:45PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: ... I think apt does not recognize "sarge" or "woody" or "etch" etc. ... why? ... ... I think it is a design flaw, more than an implementation bug. W

CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high,gets cut off

I'm having trouble with printing after switching to using CUPS, foomatic, and gs (gs-esp) in Sarge: When I try to print plain text, the system cuts off the top two-thirds of the first line, and the first several characters on the left. >From the position of the partially printed characters, it

Updrade to Sarge problem with apache und libpache-mob-php4

hello, i got a problem during to upgrade to Sarge with apache (1) and the module libapache-mod-php4. I always get the error: Setting up libapache-mod-php4 (4.3.10-15) ... Error: mod_webapp.so does not have a corresponding .info file. what can i do to fix this problem? thanks a lots for some hel

Copying directory containing internal hard links to other partition

I want to move a directory containing my backups (created by faubackup) to another directory on a different partition. The problem is that the backup directory contains a lot of hard links (to files inside the same backup directory). Simply copying the directory with 'cp -R' replaces the hard

why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? When I ssh in to my machine and do a big "diff -r ..." command, the ssh connection usually dies and I can't reconnect until the diff is done

window manager: move without raisiing window?

Besides FVWM, which window managers can move and resize windows without raising and/or focusing them? For example, I might have a command output window that is behind other windows and is mostly obscured but the last couple lines are still visible, and then I want to move or resize the window a b

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? I used dialup for years (on a K6-233 with 48M of RAM) and never had any such problems. Of course, I

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

Darrell Bellerive wrote: Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Set up auto-dialing. Maintain a local Debian mirror (so when you decide to install or upgrade a package you can install it right away (without hav

glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge

, so I hope someone has a suggestion. I'd be happy to do whatever tests to break the issue down further. Thanks all. B. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge

ng, so I hope someone has a suggestion. I'd be happy to do whatever tests to break the issue down further. Thanks all. B. signature.asc Description: PGP signature signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[nvidia driver] Twin View + TvOut

tion is this one: * first CRT: main monitor; * second CRT: leftOf extension of first CRT; * TV: clone of first CRT. Is it a pure utopia or have I got some actual possibility? Here is the interesting section of xorg.conf: #===TV-OUT== Option "NoLogo" "t

Re: setting up environment variables

On 9/14/05, *Kai Grossjohann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > If you want to change the envvars globally, then change them in > /etc/profile since all users' profile include that.

Re: setting up environment variables

Nelson Castillo wrote: I was unaware of the /etc/environment directory. Is this a Debian thing? A linux thing? An X thing? Seems debian-specific. Is PAM Debian-specific? Is PAM's sourcing of /etc/environment PAM-specific? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

glibc pthread_join freezing on sarge using PD/pdp/Gem software

lly need to get it working or I'll have to resort to dropping linux and going to an OS X machine. :( Thanks all for your time and attention. B. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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