On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:08:59PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This unsigned mail did get the unsubscribe option at the bottom. That
> > is true for all three unsigned mails in my inbox now. And all two
> > signed mails don't have the ad
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:25:16PM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:11:43AM -0700, mm wrote:
> >Is there any compelling reason to use `apt-get' over `aptitude', given
> >the latter's more robust feature set (installation tracking, for
> >example)?
> >
> >I've been using aptitu
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:29:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 4/28/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to toss in a little self-defense here, because
> > having "the computer ... do it for them" is so un-Debian,
> > and I'd hate to be thought of as un-Debian. :
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 09:29:26AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (16/05/05 22:54), Deboo ^ wrote:
> > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users?
> I would endorse Linux Administration Handbook mentioned by someone else
> and Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer which y
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:50:37PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in
> thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other
> special characters instead. What do I do to fix this?
apt-get install locales
US users will
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 11:44:19AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> >Scarletdown wrote:
> >
> >>That was somewhat helpful. The relevant bit on that page was right
> >>near the end:
> >>
> >>ogmmerge -o My_Video.ogm video.avi audio.ogg
> >>
> >>Additionally, the ogm file seems a
On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 03:31:20AM +0100, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge
> >of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy
> >my harddisk? I'll run e2fsck to check on defragmen
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:13:45AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On May 29 2005, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> > Today I got 77 updates to installed packages and I update 4-5 times a
> > week.
>
> I update my system every day and today the most conspicuous upgrade was
> that X was upgraded with some secu
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:10:05PM +0200, Elvis Cehajic wrote:
> Unix compatibility
Huh? Please quote relevant part you are replying to so the message makes
sense.
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:41AM +0800, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> Maybe there is an boot option or some other way, but a simple solution is:
> Install Woody and then upgrade the distribution to Sarge with apt-get
> dist-upgrade.
> Install the base Woody system and then change the /etc/apt/sources.l
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 01:16:18PM -0700, Chris Swanson wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone had any success getting Debian running on a Compaq R4025
> laptop? I know there are some issues with the built in video (ATI's
> 200m). If someone has (or hasn't) been able to get this to work right
> I would be inter
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:23:32PM +0200, Werner Mahr wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 13:10 schrieb Chris Bannister:
>
> > Are these steps correct?
> >
> > 1. apt-get update
>
> Not necessary.
>
> > 2. If necessary apt-get upgrade
>
> Not necessa
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 04:42:26PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies in advance for the basic question. I'm counting on the
> everlasting patience and generosity of the list members. I googled to no
> avail in search of an answer.
>
> How do I discover which device drivers are bu
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 12:53 +0200, Jimmy B wrote:
> > Hi list!
> > I recently installed debian sarge on my laptop, and I just realized that
> > the output does not fill my screen completly. It is kind of lika box in
> > the middle with lots of space around the edges left black.
> >
> > Anyone
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 03:27:56PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I didn't say we have to change our style, but we can be more accepting. I'm
> on a good number of mailing lists, some tech oriented, some not. I've also
> learned something amazing in life: it is our choice if something bothers us
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:51:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
[..]
> "two" means the number just prior to five ("three, Sire!"); oh, yes,
> prior to three.
> "too" means "also" or "overly much", as in "Kent's being too picky. He's
> ugly, too."
> "to" is used in just about all other cases, as in "Ar
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0400, Craig Russell wrote:
>ok-
>taking these suggestions (and I concur, grub is a lot easier) I still
>have the same problem with the kernel panic. / is on /dev/hda1 swap
>on /dev/hda2; grub recognizes the new kernel and it is an option on
>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:44:06AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > David Jardine wrote:
> > > Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
> > > by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't
> >
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:01:51AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> I kinda, sorta, almost, like the idea of forcing users to define their
> chosen distribution (potato, woody, sarge, etch) in their
> /etc/apt/apt.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al /etc/apt/
total 20
drwxr-xr-x3 root root
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:30:41PM +0800, Marc wrote:
> Ever since upgrading to kernel 2.6.8 on Debian (sarge) I've had a problem with
> keys auto-repeating in X Windows.
>
> The problem only shows up in X windows. While typing in a terminal window (for
> example) the key auto-repeat kicks in ma
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:39:02PM -0400, Marty wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> >On (10/06/05 13:13), Marty wrote:
>
> >>This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf
> >>file.
> >>I wonder how apt can function without it? In particular, how do you
> >>specify
> >>your
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 05:12:41PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote:
> In a nut shell you can control your "version" with the
> apt.conf/preferences files or by only downloading a package list from a
> single release.
Three questions (gotta get Monty Python outta this)
1) User copies /usr/share/doc/
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:55:57AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Apparently I best not give up my day job, and should stay
> away from the comedy-related fields.
No please, I do and have appreciated your sense of humour.
I think it was your reference(s) in the past to Monty Python
which brought a ch
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:16:52PM -0400, Craig Russell wrote:
>
>
> Craig Russell wrote:
>
> >Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:54:09PM -0400, Craig Russell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> ok-
>
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:00:31PM +0100, peter colton wrote:
> part is the use of aptitude with a dist-upgrade.
Isn't the lack of disk space the issue?
aptitude with a dist-upgrade will bring in all recommends which will eat
even more disk space!
suggest
1) apt-get upgrade
Watch packages do
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 05:48:48PM +, Pariah Dog wrote:
> [[I also posted this message to gmane.linux.sound, but since that
> newsgroup seems pretty dead, I'm also posting it here]]
>
> Linux is unable to see my "sound card"
>
> I'm running Debian 3.1, "Sarge" on an old Compaq Presario 5220.
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 06:42:04PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Usually, I can play .wmv files with mplayer. But it is not able to play
> certain wmv files, for reasons that I am unaware of. The image looks
> garbled up when I run mplayer. I have tried aviplay, xine, mplayer,
> kplayer an
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 08:43:58AM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 05:04, David R. Litwin wrote:
> > Hello you Useful Persons:
> >
> > I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots (designed
> > for windows).
>
> I'm guessing you're running GNOME, but just so yo
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:15:07PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the first
> few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do
> /etc/init.d/exim4 restart.
> Any way to disable this behaviour with exim?
Ther
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 05:04:42PM -0400, j Mak wrote:
> The problem is that I cannot make my Internet
> connection work with sarge. The only way I can
> download that file either with Knoppix or windows as
> an independent debian package, burn it into a cd and
> install it from there. Or from th
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> No package creates /etc/apt/apt.conf that I know about.
> And if it did then it would be a bug because that is supposed to be
> reserved for the local sysadmin. If a package did want to create a
> configuration for apt then it should
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:29:23PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 04:48 am, Basajaun wrote:
>
> > > Such
> > > people had the opinion rock was morally wrong and inferior to all other
> > > music. They may or may not have been right, but the point is it was only
> > > their opi
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:28:59AM +1200, wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 04:15:07PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > When I use fetchmail to import my mail through exim4 it only flushes the
> > first
> > few messages imidiatly and the rest are delayed quite a bit unless I do
> > /etc/init.d/exim
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:18:42AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Thankyou so much Aurélien and Roberto :-) I messed up my system
> installing them :-( going for a re-install of the whole system.
Are their any local linux user groups (LUGs) where you live. They
should only be too pleased to help you
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 12:29:06AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> In math (or maths, ifs yous plurals yours words), it's *greatest* common
> denominator.
mmm, maths, short for mathematics whereas math is short for maths?
Mathematics is plural like arithmetic is singular?
Is 'math' used for ma
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 07:47:33PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > Read an article in the WP about copyprotected CD's:
> >
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061800149.html
> >
> > Would cdparanoia care?
>
> I read that article all the way through this AM, h
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote:
> I'm learning a little something new about apt and dpkg and the like
> every day here in this list... But I have a question about this one.
>
> I have a directory full of *.deb files that may OR maynot have been
> installed already with d
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:06:02PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote:
> Hi all! Just wanted to ask a question here real fast.
>
> I just downloaded and built blueMail 1.2 (a QWK/BlueWave reader) for the
> Sparc version of Debian GNU/Linux and was wondering what I would need to
> do to contribute it to
Hi,
Saw this on linux-audio-user
(names removed)
> don't forget to update to the demudi's jack,ardour version. sarge's
> broken (ehem, it doesn't work for me).
Didn't Sarge ship with the horrible NPTL 0.60 bug?
That should be reason enough to use Ubuntu, Debian does not seem to mind
shipping c
Hi,
Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios
HTH
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:44:05PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:32:01PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> | I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during
> | install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from
> | DHCP.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:05:34AM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>Now I'm worried. Note: I don't have a reiserfs file system, only an
>ext3 fs since day one on all partitions.
>
>If anyone can help me to get the system bootable again, I think I can
>correct the lilo.conf prob
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:51:06PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
> Apparently, _Chris Bannister_, on 23/06/05 12:30,typed:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios
> >
> > HTH
> >
>
> There are around 3 method to do so (learned while googling for the
> problem, maybe somewhere meti
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:31:33PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 04:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote:
> > 'apt-get update' updates the Packages.gz for source and binary depending
> > on you
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 01:35:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (24/06/05 23:29), Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:05:34AM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >
> > >Now I'm worried. Note: I don't have a reiserfs file system, only an
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting X to work.
I'm running uptodate Sid with kernel-image 2.6.7 on a Compaq Deskpro
2000 PC5120
I've had X running previously but I don't normally run it so I
don't know when it stopped working unfortunately.
The full log is below but these are the errors from it
(--
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:17:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm having trouble getting X to work.
> >
> >
>
> In what way? Do you get the gray hatch screen, and then it dies? Or do
> you get garbled col
Hi,
When I had the default locale set to en_US.UTF-8, tasksel came
up an ugly screen in tty2-6 but ok in tty1. I had to prefix man
commands with LANG=C so they would display correctly in all ttys.
The keyboard CAPS-LOCK key didn't recognise the e or c keys, I thought
I had a keyboard problem!
Wh
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:27:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >startx from console. I'm not running a session manager.
> >I get the the gray screen with the cursor in the middle then nothing.
> >I have to CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to get ou
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:59:40PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:27:55AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > >startx from console. I'm not running a session manager.
> > >I get the the gray screen with
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:00:51AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>
> >>>Elijah
> >>>
> >>>
> >>That works for regular output. However, some programs also emit
> >>error messages onto stderr. The above command will *not* redirect
> >>error messages into less, so they might mess up the pagin
Hi,
I remember reading some articles in the LinuxGazette vol0-8 about
this.
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 03:18:25PM +0100, Geoff Thurman wrote:
> On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:41 pm, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Geoff Thurman wrote:
> > > On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
Hi mike,
What kernel version are you running?
I have just updated to 2.6.5 and noticed a similar thing, but I am in
the middle of updating stable --> testing --> unstable using aptitude
and at some stage I noticed Out of memory errors ... killing process
xxx which happens to be apache processes sp
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:13:01AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
> That's one (fvwm) that I haven't tried. Unless that's comes standard on
> some distro's that I have tried. I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip.
Since you are running Sid, install fvwm-themes. It isn't in Etch, but it
looks like you ca
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:22:33PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 1. "God has always been."
>
> 2. "All matter/energy Just Appeared."
>
> Which is more fantastical?
>
> Even I, an atheist, think that #2 is more fantastical.
Maybe you're agnostic?
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On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:39:04AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Now, how would one do this calculation in OO.o Calc? Or Gnumeric? Or
> maybe some other Debian math-y proggie? Maybe, how would one draw a
> graph comparing the two prices?
gnuplot?
http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/
I presume thi
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> the US is arguably one of the most prosperous nations in the world. I
> think that it is right for us to render humanitarian aid to other
> nations when we can. This is generally done through deployments of the
> military (Soma
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:22:35PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>Do try it. :-)
> >>
> >>[1] It's a bit of a learning curve, _but_ with power/versatility comes a
> >>huge manpage :-)
> >>
>
> I am a fvwm devotee. Absolutely everything is programmable through its
> .conf file. I have used it f
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
> I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say,
> without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It
> seems faster than kde, which is a no-brainer since KDE is so demanding
> on the resources.
Yep
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:16:51AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> >
> > You're ruling out one of the main candidates in the 2008 election;
> > Rudolph Gullianni. As far as I know he has had nothing to do with any
> > wars.
> >
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:54:19PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> That is not it. The point is that if a fetus at 22 weeks can survive,
> who gets to decide when the fetus is actually alive. I say we err on
> the side of caution and say that it is alive from the moment of
> conception. You a
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:27:12AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:55:47AM -0800, Jordi wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Yesterday I was able to run my server. I have 2 computers at home, one
> > is server and the other is not. Both are connected to router. One uses
> > Xubun
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:33AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
> > > I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say,
>
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:28:57AM -0300, Alan Romaniuc wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I ve trying kernel multipath feature, to use two diffrents links to
> connect to internet, but I can never get it work on debian etch
> distribution kernel. I can recompile the kernel as explained by LARTC
> list, and
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:00:02AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > By the way, isn't air travel an example of fairly efficient (and
> > government subsidized) public transportation, at least long distance
> > flights
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:29:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Doesn't
> (2) I'm also finding harder to sift the useful information from the
> dross, so I'll post a "me too" message.
and
> (4) Oh, I've been doing that a lot, I'll post an "I'm sorry".
conflict with
> (7) I'm such a prick, tha
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to
> use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was
> install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a
> 2.6.20.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:36:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:49:26PM +, andy wrote:
> > >
> > Thanks for the help - have fixed it. It was a combo of not having the
> > latest flash plugin (now fixed with flashplugin-nonfree) and adjusting
> > the /etc/icew
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:53:31AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The
> doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do
> this.
>
> And, I see the permissions on it are:
>
> crw--- 1 root root 1
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Who the heck made you God Moderator of Debian User?
>
> Why don't you look at the Debian-User List Charter.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
> debian-user mailing list
> Help and discussion among users
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:33:11PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote:
> I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in
> sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location
> (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file
> can be successfully chang
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:37:27PM -0800, Jordi wrote:
> Ok, Andrew
>
> So I leave it that way.
> Why I saw sometimes in some web sites this kind of static ips starting
> by 10.xxx.xxx.xxx and /number ?
>
> Jordi
http://aboutdebian.com/network.htm
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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
> Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
> - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge
> installation set a
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:30:42PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> As far as I know, they aren't even talking on debian-doc anymore. The
They are, but the list seems to be a clearinghouse(?) for patches
submitted against the debian documentation. Someone please correct me if
I'm wrong.
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote:
> > Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles
> > about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go
> > with.
>
> There's really very little
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:11:40AM +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a method to delete individual files in one DVD-RW, without
> success :)Any suggestion? KDE or command line, I not use GNOME.
>
> Thanks!
How expensive are they? :-) Just read the DVD-RW, and burn
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:38:59AM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote:
> Maybe I have not understood your problem, but are you looking for bash
> completion ? If you are, enable it in /etc/bash.bashrc.
The OP is referring to filename expansion. To see what I mean try:
man m with bash completion enabled
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> > A very large file in
> > /var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
>
> That would be the default delivery.
> Your procmail file should end with this
>
> :0
> /dev/null
>
> to prevent that.
Won't that lose mail if any recipe
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> > .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke
> > less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a
> > little harder to reach).
>
> Ok, and now to point out the othe
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run this:
>
> ~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u
>
> and I get:
>
> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update.
>
> That happens to be true. (Surprise!)
>
> But how does he know that initr
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:41:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:23:05PM +0100, pinniped wrote:
> >
> > Etch is almost 2 years old!
> >
> > SATA support began in the 2.5 kernels and some modules were backported to
> > 2.4. There have been many huge changes in the 2.6
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:54:11PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by
> > hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I call my computer Phoenix because it has gone through a massive
> upgrade. It had 1 GHz cpu, a motherboard with problems and two hard
> drives - hda with windoz for a couple of trivial apps and Debian testing
> for all the real wo
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote:
> > I may have missed something ; I am running Sid.
> > Enabling bash completion, it does not work. However, without bash
> > completion it does work ! Where is the trick ?
Ahh
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:49:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is what I get when I try to install libncurses-dev
>
> kold:~# aptitude install libncurses-dev
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states...
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > I am trying to find a package for performing sparse matrix computations.
> > All I could find under debian is superlu and libufsparse. Both of which
> > seem to only solve sparse linear systems but n
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Yes, I can tell the difference. I think your assumption is based on the
> > idea OPEC isn't profitting massively.
> >
> Wow. You really don't get it.
>
[..]
>
> Now, please demonstrate that you have a semblance of a clue, g
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:47:05AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Failure, we've hired warlords to hunt warlords again. Didn't we learn from
> working with bin Laden in the first place that you just can't trust
> warlords?
The "warlords" et al are only scapegoats.
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Don't forget t
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > >
> > Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were
> > basically tied by a resolution that was written with language only
> > authorizing
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:32:46PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote:
> > On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference fr
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:20:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> That's just not true. This world, particularly the West, already
> produces enough food to feed *everyone*, even while paying them not
> to grow food.
Ummm, so nothings dumped in the ocean for economic reasons?
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Chris.
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Don'
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote:
> I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these:
> - Xoops
> - Joomla
> - e107
What is wrong, if anything, with PHPWCMS http://www.phpwcms.de?
I haven't looked at it myself, but someone was praising it over a coupla
beer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:48:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[..]
> >>But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest kernel'
> >>as the ma
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:36:14PM -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> I saw this article online:
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html
> that leads me to believe the patch is available for Testing and Unstable,
> but not Stable/Sarge.
>
> I have not seen this weekend's time change mentio
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:55:18AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
> >David Primero Segundo wrote:
> >
> >>Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When
> >>i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or
> >>upgrade a package, or
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
[..]
> sort -m from_number to_number | uniq | wc -l
> 122010
>
> This is still almost 12000 too big (only 17 less than the 'uniq' on the
> separate files). So, I run this:
>
> sort -u from_number to_number | wc -l
>
> And I ge
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, ccostin wrote:
> If in mc -> Status section from /var/lib/dpkg/status , is modified from
> Package: mc
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: utils
>
> into
> Package: mc
> Status: install ok installd <- an error appear installd, i
Hi,
I rec the following by logcheck. Is it anthing I should worry about?
Mar 24 01:48:55 kan postfix/cleanup[25281]: B61E8F7A3:
+message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by
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Mar 24 01:48:57 kan postfix/cleanup[25281]: 2DB3FF7A3:
+message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by
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On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:06:33AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> use either of them (Well I know I don't use MySQL, but is hplip
> something that I could be using and not even knowing about?)
apt-cache show hplip | less
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Chris.
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Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entri
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:55:51PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Keep in mind Ubuntu is using the same system as Debian, but not using
> it the way it was meant to be used. Which is why Ubuntu debs don't
> work on Debian and vice-versa (For the most part). I personally think
Probably use differen
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