Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

* Christian Convey: > > FYI, the local mirror currently has about 12GB of content. I don't know > whether or not that implies I should expect a very long period of > CPU-boundedness for debmirror. I don't know debmirror, but I use apt-move to maintain a local debian mirror for my machines. I upda

Re: debmirror: cpu bound?

Hi Christian, Christian Convey: > > Thanks for the info, and I'd love a copy of your apt-move.conf file. No problem. /etc/apt-move.conf (comments stripped): APTSITES="/all/" # include whole sources.list # (except file­URLs) LOCALDIR=/

Re: DHCP Mac address

* Mark Maas: > > Does anyone know if it's possible to only give out leases to known > clients? > And those clients be authenticated by there MAC addresses? > > Prefferably the MAC address I place in a seperate file. Yes, I think every DHCP server allows that. If you're not too familiar with these

Re: Using Debian as an Access Point?

* Bruce Park: > > Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point? Sure. Get a PCI card (e.g. SMC 2802W, usable with prism54) and put it into master mode (iwconfig ethX mode master). You're done. Of course you can also do some filtering with iptables and install a DNS and DHCP server (->dnsmasq)

Re: mirror a debian mirror...

* Joao Clemente: > > I'll need to install two debian machines (sarge probably) in a place > where they have dial-up... I usually do my installation over the network > as I usually have acess to a broadband connection with unlimited > nacional traffic. > > I tought of mirroring a debian mirror to

Re: dumb question - not sure where to begin configuring a wifi card

* Rodney D. Myers: > > I'm trying to get my pcmcia wifi card (Netgear wg511) working. It > works under windos 98SE, needed for radio programming, but not sure > where to start looking for coinfiguration. > > Debian knows it's a Netgear card, and loads the prism54 module, but > not sure what I need

Re: installing on a partition

* Christian Evans: > > I will be completing a build in the next couple of days and have > decided to install Debian on my new system. However, I also need XP > installed, and I am not sure which I should install on my hard drive > first. Install Windows first, then Debian. Otherwise Windows would

Re: installing on a partition

* messmate: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The best way to do this is to create a large FAT partition because >>Linux has no (free) NTFS write support. You can do that at install time >>and select a mount point for it (eg "/data"). >

Re: Can a particular network card be permenantly bound to an eth'x' number?

* Ron Johnson: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:21 +, rich wrote: >> >> I have several network cards in my laptop - wired lan, wireless lan, >> loopback & firewire. After a recent update (I'm running testing) my >> interface numbers all jumped around so that instead of the wired lan >> being eth0, i

Re: disk cloning with dd

* Alphonse Ogulla: > > Can I simply use dd to clone my failing hard disk (hda) onto another > (hdb) of the same size as follows: > > # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 If it's exactly the same size, then yes. Keep in mind that you don't copy files but the whole hard disk - including boot sectors

Re: disk cloning with dd

* Scott Wolchok: > On 5/6/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> BTW: if I were you, I'd take the time to plug one of the drives on the >> secondary ide controller (if your machine has one). Copying between two >> IDE devices on the same controll

Re: disk cloning with dd

* Lee Braiden: > On Saturday 07 May 2005 09:53, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Maybe that was a misnomer on my side. In Germany we always talk about >> "primary" and "secondary" controllers when we mean the two IDE >> connectors on standard mainboards. I

Re: Login KDE style as Root

* David R. Litwin: > --=_Part_1971_12285146.1115616002504 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > TGV0IG1lIHByZWZhY2UgdGhpcyBieSBzYXlpbmc6IFllcywgSSBrbm93IHRoZSBzZWN1cml0eSB0 > aHJlYXRzIGludm9sdmVkIGluIApsb2dnaW5nIGl

Re: GUI?

* Lee Braiden: > > The command: > > apt-get install kdm xserver-xfree86 > > should get KDE up and running for you. Or, if you prefer GNOME: > > apt-get install gdm xserver-xfree86 > > Assuming I haven't forgotten something that is ;) Installing gdm (don't know about kdm) doesn't give you auto

Re: ckermit debian package is not .deb! How will I install it?

* Siju George: > > If I download the ckermit debian package from > > ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/bin/cku209.linux-i386-db3.0 > > how would i install it in debian?? This looks like an executable binary. You can just download it, make it executable (with a file manager or on the console with '

Re: Burning Cd's

* João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste: > > How to burn a CD using command line? The IMHO easiest way is to use 'burn'. Install this package or see http://www.bigpaul.org/burn/ for details. J. -- I like my Toyota RAV4 because of the commanding view of the traffic jams. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Sarge Performance

* Lars Roland: > > I just replaced my company anti-virus/anti-spam mail gateway from a > Redhat 7.3 with kernel 2.4.24 to Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8.1. I > had hoped that this transition would lead to better performance (new > perl, better drivers in the kernel and so on) but the performance ha

Re: many mail accounts and imap and postfix

* Mauricio: > > o Eudora seems to be using mbox format. I would rather use maildir No problem, since dovecot can deliver Maildirs. > o I would like to be able to apply spamassassin and other filters to > all the emails I receive. Some of the accounts I have do not come > with a good built-in

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

Simon: > > The only difference i can find is that an htparm on the RAID drive: > > woody: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.46 seconds =278.26 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.33 seconds = 48.12 MB/sec > > sarge: > > Timing cached reads: 196 MB in 3.38 seconds =

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

Simon: > Jacob S wrote: > > # hdparm /dev/hde > [...] > # hdparm /dev/hdg Again, I think you are searching in the wrong direction. Your 'hdparm -tT' results clearly showed that the great difference between your servers doesn't lie in hard disk performance (48 to 43 MB/s), but in Memory/CPU perfor

Re: Posted Three Times - No Responses

Thomas H. George: > > The problem: Every time I must shut down the system it locks up when it > tries to disconnect my Sony USB dvdrw drive. > > The Postings: May 17 - USB dvdrw mount point Woes >May 22 - kernel-2.6.8 USB problem >May 31 - Oops

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

Shidai Liu: > > How to list all the packages installed in the system You are talking about the packages you have installed? # dpkg --get-selections > and how to list them in a certain order like from oldest to newest? What makes one package older than another one? Time since installation on yo

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

Marty: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > >Again, I think you are searching in the wrong direction. Your 'hdparm > >-tT' results clearly showed that the great difference between your > >servers doesn't lie in hard disk performance (48 to 43 MB/s), but in

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

Joe Potter: > > When we get a Sarge release in a few days, we will get crazy behavior > out of Sid for a while? I seem to remember that when Woody was released, > updating in testing or Sid was a problem for a long time. Will that be > the case again? Nobody can say how seriously sid will break,

Re: Woody to Sarge "stable"?

Rhomboid Goatcabin: > > [...] Do all my systems go and try to install Sarge? I'm guessing > probably "yes", but will we get a nice announcement with a fair > warning period? The warning period has started some time ago. Act soon. Sarge will probably (and hopefully) be finished this very weekend.

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

Rogério Brito: > > This has been done in the past and I would expect that things would not > change so soon (see the many dummy bugs reported like "this package is not > suitable for testing"). Exactly these packages *will* get into etch after sarge is stable! The dummy bugs are there to prevent

Re: How can I share a mailbox between multiple OSes

David Witbrodt: > > This is a newbie question. I just installed Debian and several other > OSes onto my old machine. As I have been reading the docs, and have > started configuring things to my liking, I found myself wondering > whether an email application exists that would allow me to store my

Re: On IMAP servers

Erik Steffl: > > when I started using IMAP (2001/10/27) I tried number of IMAP capable > MUAs and all of them were kinda OK, mutt is the only one that I cannot > make save sent messages in imap folder but I guess I just need to read > the docs (I didn't try much). Hm? There's nothing special a

Re: On IMAP servers

TreeBoy: > > However, that's not so bad when you consider I have over 50,000 in my > Debian-User archive and over 30,000 in the Ubuntu-User archive. I really > should delete both of these, but I'm interested in how this 800MHz Mini-ITX > server scales: it can take 20 seconds to show the list of

Re: System won't boot with USB CardReader plugged in...

Hi Jan, Sorry that I cannot help with your problem, but: Jan Leewe Behrendt: > > p.s: I signed up for this mailing list yesterday and without really thinking > about it I chose my usual email adress... Is this a bad idea and should I > rather chose a "junk-box" for this purpose due to spam pro

Re: Installing the new release (Sarge)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > I downloaded the iso's yesterday after getting an email that Debian > GNU/Linux3.1 was released. I aborted the install When I reinserted > Disk-1 to start the install over, I noticed that there was no option to > install bf24. I want to install with all the latest kern

Re: sid upgrade

Paras pradhan: > > I am using debian unstable. yesterday i did apt-get dist-upgrade and > after that when restarting the gnome session, error of nautilus is > reported and gnome did't start. Doing a dist-upgrade of unstable may be dangerous these times. You have to take care yourself that apt d

Re: GNOME-GAMES BUG

cc: > > by remove only gnome-games on Sarge, > gnome and gnome-desktop-environment will be removed. So what? These are only metapackages that ease the install of the complete Gnome system. > 0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 3 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert. > Es m?ssen 0B Archive geholt

Re: Installing the new release (Sarge)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Now that I'm using my brain, I have yet another ?. The Debian 3.1r0 has > 14 iso's. I downloaded them all except for the last one. Why did you do that? Doesn't the computer you wanted to install sarge on have access the the internet? -Even then, you probably need at most t

Re: Installing the new release (Sarge)

Kevin Mark: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:04:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > If all I need are the 1st 3 or 4 CD's, then what is on the other 10 CD's, > > just a whole lot of software? Is there a breakdown somewhere of what is > > on each CD? Unfortunately, there is no list which pac

Re: how many cd for complete desktop

Joey Hess: > hacker wrote: > > > > Is it 'apt-get install kde' and then 'apt-get install gnome' or is it > > just installed automatically when you select desktop from the > > installer menu? > > The latter. Is there a strong reason why KDE and Gnome are bundled together in this task? It's been s

Re: [newbie] Cannot login as root (not a passwd issue)

Fernando Cacciola: > > I'm new to debian (knoppix 3.8.1 on HDD) and to linux in general. Welcome. :-) > So far everything works like a charm, except for one thing, the system > is configured to disallow root login... Where? You are trying to login as root via your display manager (graphical log

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

Anthony Campbell: > > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and > sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them > as spam, but this is ridiculous. Is there any way to stop it hap

Re: Upgrading to etch

Jan Leewe Behrendt: > > could anybody please tell me how to upgrade to etch? If you don't know how to do that, you better refrain from upgrading. Etch will not be as stable as sarge has been the last couple of months. I really do not want to offend you, but the number of mails that have hit the m

Re: Upgrading to etch

nullman: > > isnt etch currently only a very young fork of sarge ? > -> so IT WILL be as stable as sarge the last months ! No, it will not. Not in the Debian sense of 'stable' (no new features or packages) and because of that almost inevitably unstable in the usual sense (uninstallable packages,

Re: Error Reading Package Lists

Strake: > > Thx, it worked. I think I'll go download sarge now :D You don't need to download an installation CD and reinstall from scratch. Just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and change entries with 'woody' to 'sarge'. Then run 'aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade'. You might want to read

Re: Console Login

Mr Mike: > > another alternative is to edit your /etc/inittab and change your > default runlevel to something other than gui with network... then if > you need gui, just do init 5 at the cli.. That won't work with Debian. Debian boots everything already in runlevel 2. J. -- I am on the pay

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

john doe: > > I did a standard installation, somehow the font on gdm login screen is > so small it's almost unrecognizable. But once I login, all the fonts > are in reasonable sizes. Anyone else has a similar problem? I searched > around and couldn't find any answer. The gdm.conf file never > expli

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

j Mak: > > In my previous email I forgot to mention that when i > run startx i get the following message: Look at your /var/log/XFree86.0.log and search for lines beginning with '(WW)' and ('EE'). These are warnings and errors. Post them here if you don't understand them and what Google tells you

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

j Mak: > > I logged in with Knoppix and I searched the sarge > partition for the file you mentioned, but I found no > Xfree86.0.log file in the /var/log directory. Kent was right, you need to install the xserver first. The easiest thing for you to do is to run tasksel as root and select the "desk

Re: /etc/debian_version for Etch

Jerome BENOIT: > > I have just migrate to Etch, and I have a naive question. > My current /etc/debian_version file still contains "3.1", > which is valid release for Sarge: > 1] what must /etc/debian_version contain for an Etch box ? This is not yet decided, I think. The file is part of the packa

Re: sarge: gdm login screen: font too small

Jochen Schulz: > > # vim /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc > #!/bin/sh > exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 93 -nolisten tcp What I forgot was: add a this line with your values to the "Monitor" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Displaysize 286 214 # size in millimeters J. --

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

j Mak: > > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xfree89 is not > installed Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes, 86 not 89). I am very sure it's on the first CD. J. -- Tony Blair is a hypnotised self-seeking scarecrow just like all the rest. [Agree] [Disagree] <

Re: Newbie cannot start graphical desktop

j Mak: > --- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Then do 'aptitude install xserver-xfree86' (and yes, > > 86 not 89). I am > > very sure it's on the first CD. > > The “aptitude install xserver-xfree86” command worked. Great. &g

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be > >much appreciated. > > My favorite has always been icewm. > Very fast, and simple, but very configurable. Agreed. I use it, too. What I like most about IceWM is, erm, it's w

Re: Updating woes (debian sid)

Ibrahim Mubarak: > > For a few days now, I have been trying to update five packages > (file-roller nautilus nautilus-cd-burner totem totem-xine) but aptitude > / synaptic / apt-get all say that upgrading these packages will cause > some problems. That's a normal situation. Sid is dangerous. It wi

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Adam Funk: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > > But neither XFCE nor KDE are window managers. They are desktop > > environments. This is a common misconception among people discussing > > "graphical environments" for X. > > Educate me: what's the difference? A window manager is a program that just "ma

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Anthony Campbell: > On 13 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > I really tried using other window managers in the last approx. 4 years, > > but I always returned to IceWM. Currently I am trying to use it in > > conjunction with Gnome, but Gnome makes the login process

Re: gnome-panel .. gone .. #@!!!!

Cliff Flood: > > Is there anything I can do to fix it and restore my nicely configured, > efficient Gnome working environment? :) Try 'apt-get -f install' without any further arguments. If that fails, I would try to remove suspicious packages and reinstall them. J. -- I wish I was gay. [Agree

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Steve C. Lamb: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:09:31PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I reckon ;) Having started with KDE and switched to xfce, it seems an > > excellent compromise. I tried a few WM's and icewm came close to what I > > was looking for but it was just a bit too light on frills and w

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Steve C. Lamb: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > It's certainly pretty easy in Icewm. You just add a suitable line in the > > menu file and it then appears in the menu list when you press Ctrl-Esc. > > How are the lines added? With the right tool to do

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Steve C. Lamb: > > KDE/XFCE: I want to start an application which I've just installed. I > know the command name for it. Both have a launch bar. I enter the name, it > starts up. > > Damn. That was easy! So easy in fact that 80% of the time I don't > configure a launch button for any

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Steve C. Lamb: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:01:33PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Me neither. I have under twenty keyboard shortcuts (all > > Win+single-character and most of them mnemonics) for the apps that I use > > most often. > > Ye gads. Never understoo

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Anthony Campbell: > On 14 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > I think it was already there when I started using IceWM (~4 years ago)! > > Unfortunately, it lacks Tab-completion and history. What I like is that > > when you finish the command with Ctrl-Enter the comm

Re: Sarge - disk list?

Bill: > On June 14, 2005 05:56 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > ... the "netinst" iso comes with base -- whereas the business > > card one does not. > > Sorry no fast connection. I'll be installing from cd. This is why > I'm looking for the index, toc, list etc for the cds at the above > url. I t

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

Anthony Campbell: > On 15 Jun 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > Yes and no. With Win-Space I meant my keyboard shortcut: Windows key + > > Space bar. You could also do Ctrl-Alt-Space. > > Thanks for this clarification. My Windows keys don't seem to do this Mod

Re: Current stable kernel 2.6.11?

Rich Marsh: > > I have recently installed Sarge, and would like to run the latest stable > kernel. When browsing ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ I > noticed that in addition to the 2.6.8 kernel, there was also a 2.6.11 > kernel as well. Yes, but note that the 2.6.11 images belong to t

Re: Current stable kernel 2.6.11?

Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:44:50PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > (Although, currently the security system is currently broken anyway, > > AFAIK.) > > I believe that this is not correct. Security support held back the > Sarge release

Re: Fixing Mistake in grub config.lst; Need Rescue Disk

Martin McCormick: > > I then tried to install a 2.6.5 kernel on that system and must > have incorrectly modified /boot/grub/menu.lst because the system > doesn't boot. If you know the correct parameters (or know how to guess it), you can edit the boot entries by pressing 'e' in the grub men

Re: cd -> iso

Strake: > > I have a cd that i want to make an iso image of. How do i do this? Everything is a file: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/my-cdimage.iso See manpage of dd for more options. When using dd, always be sure you don't confuse if= (input file) and of= (output file). Typos can have devastating effect

Re: Synaptic

Christer: > > Is there anyway to change the synaptic program to search the web > (debian.home) for programs instead of everytime i will apply some new > installations synaptic ask me to insert cd 1 or 2 better go to debian > home for fresh material?? Synaptic is just a graphical frontend progr

Re: USB cdr

Andy Streich: > > So how do I mount the cdr drive itself so I have some place to write to/read > from? Look at the last lines of dmesg after plugging the drive into a USB port. It will tell you the device name of the drive. You can then mount it just like any other device, for example if you hav

Re: booting questions

Fernando: > On 6/17/05, Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can anyone please tell me what is each of these booting options: > > > > 1) noapic > > > > 2) acpi=off > > > > 3) nolapic > > > > And is 1) the same as 3) ? > > So no one knows about that? No. Nobody wants to read kernel docume

Re: Restricting kernel error messages to one tty

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > After futzing around with my kernel config, I've managed to get > iptables working. The problem is I get a lot of "Inbound IN=ppp0 > OUT= MAC= [etc]" messages on all tty's. I know how to > eliminate the messages themselves. That's good, I already forgot that! ;-) > But, sin

Re: Initial install question

Simon Kitching: > On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 03:32 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > > Greetings. I just installed Debian using the ISOs from your site. > > Everything went fine and then i got the "login" command. At this point > > I typed in my username and password and what i got was this: > > [EMAIL PROT

Re: xorg package

Al Bayrouni: > > I would like to pass to xorg. > I am running under debian unstable. > Is there any xorg package for Debian? Not in unstable, as you surely have found out by yourself by doing an 'apt-cache search' or the like. apt-get.org reveals some unofficial repositories, though. But if you

Re: X Font size

Jeff Elkins: > > Thanks! gnome-settings-daemon fixed me right up :) If you don't want to wait for g-s-d to startup on every login, you can tweak your ~/.Xresources file: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi: 93 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: rgb These settings correspond to the things yo

Re: xorg package

Jochen Schulz: > > http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/~branden/blog/exuberance/Debian/a_good_day_to_make_World.html > says upload into experimental will be done soon. More news: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gravityboy/14364.html (X.org will be uploaded to experimental in the next few

Re: procmail and samba

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > 1) Should procmail be trying to lock files when all my mailboxes are > in Maildir format? If not, what can I do to stop that? Remove the colon from the beginning of your recipes. Instead of :0: * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null write :0 * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/nul

Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?

fraz: > > [...] For future reference is there a better way to remove packages so > the unused dependencies are also removed? If you use aptitude to install packages, it will remember which packages have been installed just because something you really wanted depended on it. If you decide to remove

Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?

fraz: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > >Beware that aptitude in its default configuration always treats > >packages' recommends as if they were dependencies. You can easily switch > >it off in the options menu when starting aptitude with no arguments. > > I

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

Rodney D. Myers: > > Has there been a "hold" put on updates lately ;-) The hosting provider for ftp.debian.org and some other machines has recently resigned from giving Debian free hosting. Unfortunately that was not announced in time so FTP masters/DDs/whoever had to find a new location very quic

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

Adam Majer: > > One of the addresses seems to be, > > $ whois 128.101.80.133 > OrgName:University of Minnesota Don't know whether that one is old, but... > The other IP seems to be at, > $ whois 208.185.25.35 > > OrgName:Abovenet Communications, Inc ...this one is from the old hosting

Re: eclipse 3

* Blake Swadling: > does anyone know if eclipse 3.0.1 or 3.1 RC is available anywhere as a > deb package? AFAIK it's not. But you can just grab a copy from an eclipse.org mirror and unzip it anywhere you like (preserved, your $JAVA_HOME is set). As it contains an Update Manager itself, it's not d

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

Jonas Geiregat: > Hello, > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Relea

Re: Where is debian-non-US

Dave Ewart: > On Tuesday, 06.03.2007 at 10:48 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> It it my understanding (which may be obsolete or even simply >> erroneous) that in Germany computer games are not to be made available >> to children unless they have been approved and that the approval costs >> money. T

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partitions?

Johannes Wiedersich: > > The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are > fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first). Just in case you don't know already: you can change that with tune2fs. > What is a reasonable schedule for a server or a workstation?

Re: convert the DVD region

gustavo halperin: > > There are any way to rip a DVD region 4 and make a new DVD but with > another region ?? Self-burned DVD generally do not contain a region code, so they can be played on any player. I found this quite interesting page on this topic: http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/s-7740

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3 -> 2.3.8-2 (etch)

Michael Shuler: > > Today's postfix update has broken my smtp configuration, I had the same issue and solved it temporarily by installing OpenSSL from unstable. See . The release manager noted that unstable's version of OpenSSL won't be in

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Jian Jun Wang: > I installed Debian etch on my laptop and I want to configure fetchmail > to get my mails from gmail. In order to run fetchmail at startup, I did > 1. Installed sysv-rc-conf and toggle fetchmail in it as root > 2. edit /etc/default/fetchmail, to make it as daemon > 3. edit $HOME/.fe

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

Andrew Sackville-West: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > >> So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that >> dock into a system tray? > > I use orage a little and its okay. Don't know if it works outside xfce > though... Yes it does. I don

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Florian Kulzer: > > My impression is that most, if not all, of the dist-upgrade problems > posted here are related to going to testing before it is released, or > even involve unstable and experimental. + a lot of the problems only occur because many people *always* use dist-upgrade *and* they do

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Ron Johnson: > On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> >> To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and >> put '@startup fetchmail' (no quotes in either case). Then, whenever >> your machine starts up, it should start fetchmail for you. > > Shouldn't it also put

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Roberto C. Sánchez: > > To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and > put '@startup fetchmail' Oh, and BTW: it's "@reboot", not "@startup". :) J. -- I worry about people thinking I have lost direction. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Ron Johnson: > On 03/22/07 08:18, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Ron Johnson: >>> On 03/22/07 08:03, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> >>>> To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and >>>> put '@startup fetchmail' (no quo

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Ron Johnson: > On 03/22/07 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> If your /etc/fetchmailrc is empty anyway, you can edit >> /etc/default/fetchmail to disable the system-wide fetchmail daemon >> altogether. This solution has the advantage, that every user can manage >>

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Roberto C. Sánchez: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:21:45PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Roberto C. Sánchez: >>> >>> To make it start up as user, edit your crontab (use `crontab -e`) and >>> put '@startup fetchmail' >> >> Oh, and BTW: it&

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Greg Folkert: > On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 23:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Yes. On most peoples' systems there's only a fistful of anyway. ^ users > You are fooling yourself. Run them a one shot cronjob set

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

Ron Johnson: > > [...] Why created multiple daemons for activity that's going to > run every X number of minutes, when cron is already specialized for > that purpose? It just doesn't hurt. Maybe one could even argue that letting fetchmail run in daemon mode takes less resources over time than ha

Re: find encoding of filenames

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: > > Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how > do I determine their current encoding? Just a thought: $ touch äöüß.éèâ $ ls -lh äöüß.éèâ -rw-r--r-- 1 jrschulz jrschulz 0 2007-03-26 18:40 äöüß.éèâ $ ls -1 > filelist $ file filelist filel

Re: Hardware Change .... How to update

Khurram Pirzada: > > What must I do for my Debian to see new modem and install/use it for > 56k connection? What exactly are you expecting Debian to do? If you are running a stock kernel, you probably only need to install the software you want to use with the modem and use it. I don't know your h

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

Ken Hu: > > The dvd rom of my notebook is broken(can not read anything), and there's > no other removable devices like floppy or usb pen that can be used on > that notebook. > The only way I can boot is from the existed WindowsXP on 1 of my 2 > partitions. > > So , if I want to install debian on

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

Atis: > On 3/28/07, Ken Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for your information, I will give it a try. >> Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP >> installation along with my new debian OS ? > > Then you would need to resize windows partition first. You need to

Re: What's the best way to get from stable to testing?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > It seems that the testing dist has more good stuff in it than stable, > but how do I upgrade? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include source lines for etch, run 'aptitude update && aptitude upgrade', then 'aptitude dist-upgrade'. During the last stept you have to make sure ap

Re: Openssh-server installation in etch

Tim Yang: > > However I found a little problem. Since it is a server, I > try to connect from another box with SSH and it was > refused. I found out the problem was that the SSH server > was not installed. Only openssh client was installed, > not the server. I have to manually apt-get the openssh

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