blank screen in Xvnc / xrdb can't open display - on Woody

2003-11-16 Thread John Stumbles
ue, but I've lost that piece and haven't a clue how to investigate that possibility. Help! [fx: OP slamming into brick wall :)] tia -- John Stumbles -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Pessimists are never disappointed

Re: blank screen in Xvnc / xrdb can't open display - on Woody

2003-11-17 Thread John Stumbles
"Jonathan Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:04:42PM -, John Stumbles wrote: > > > xrdb: Connection refused > > xrdb: Can't open display 'Hostname:1' > > > > I think I re

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-24 Thread John Stumbles
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:13:59 -0700, consultores agropecuarios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: The real problem with SELinux is that it come from a really well known untrusted organization around the globe; This is one place I differ. I know and like Stephen Smalle

Re: how to find out IP address used by router?

2007-10-06 Thread John Stumbles
Ron Johnson wrote: Most, if not every, home router made in the last 5 years has an embedded web server and an internal IP address. So if the external interface is down and thus can't get to ipchicken or whatismyip, connect to that web server and it will tell you what the external address is.

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-06 Thread John Stumbles
Thilo Six wrote: What you did is: chmod -R /dev 777 as it seems where inside /dev is your whole system ( e.g. /dev/hda1) But surely doing chmod -R /dev/hda1 isn't the same as doing chmod -R / (where /dev/hda1 is mounted as /) is it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: HELP! can't become root

2007-10-07 Thread John Stumbles
Kevin Mark wrote: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/restore_packages_using_dselectupgrade/ This is a basic HOWTO for the above advice. Though one needs to save and restore one's sources.lst if it's not the system default in order to reinstall all the packages. And if the distro

Re: df -h listing

2007-10-09 Thread John Stumbles
roberto wrote: $ du -k ./ | sort -n | tail du {filesystem} | sort -rn | more produces a biggest-first list of space hogs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

2007-10-09 Thread John Stumbles
Brad Rogers wrote: Set up correctly, K3b can take the mp3s and create an audio disk. FSVO "correctly" :-) IIRC you used to have to install an mp3 decoder for k3b separately from the k3b package itself, though in etch it seems to be bundled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread John Stumbles
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Ideas? Magnifying glass on a stand? The depth of field with a camera is likely to be so shallow it'd be useless for 3D work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: camera for small work

2007-10-17 Thread John Stumbles
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: So at this point, the question is can a consumer digital camera function like a web-cam and then do I just view it with something like VLC? None of the cheap digicams I have/had (Nikon Coolpix and various Canons) nor my Pentax K100D DSLR can work as a webcam. My Pana

Re: How to read phone memory card?

2007-10-18 Thread John Stumbles
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Does anyone know how can Debian read a mobile phone memory card? I think I properly inserted the card into the PC, but then, how to mount it - *if* possible? On my etch system with kde when I insert a card into a card reader I get a window popping up asking me if I want

Re: How to read phone memory card?

2007-10-19 Thread John Stumbles
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Thanks for your replies, but not lsusb nor dmesg or fcdisk seem to tell anything about what the device could be. In the output of dmesg there's no `sd*' entry. # tail -f /var/log/messages .. Oct 19 14:06:04 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 960512 512-byte hdwr sec

Re: Obtaining my IP, strange results

2006-05-14 Thread John Stumbles
to get the status page from the router and grok out its IP address. John Stumbles .. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use HTML::TreeBuilder 2.97; use LWP::UserAgent; parse_contents (get_page()); sub get_page { my

dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)

2009-06-13 Thread John Stumbles
h default { mechanisms = plain passdb pam { } userdb passwd { } user = root } dict { } plugin { } -- John Stumbleshttp://stumbles.org.uk :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)

2009-06-13 Thread John Stumbles
erl -ne 'print if /^\s*[^#\s]/' dovecot.conf protocols = imap imaps log_path = /var/log/dovecot login_process_per_connection = yes mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv } auth default { mechanism

Re: dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)

2009-06-14 Thread John Stumbles
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a33b953.5030...@stumbles.org.uk>, John Stumbles wrote: >> I've got dovecot set up on an Etch box to use maildirs, with folders >> under ~/Maildir. >> >> The same setup on Lenny finds a user's INBOX in their ~/Ma

Configuring laptop interfaces The Debian Way?

2008-01-03 Thread John Stumbles
I'm trying to set up a laptop with both wired and wireless interfaces. Apart from difficulties in getting the wireless to work I'm a bit surprised by the way even the wired setup works. If I boot up the laptop when the wired ethernet is disconnected it spends quite a long time looking for a DHC

include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
IONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options contains the necessary permission, but $STARTUP must be getting set (I can't see where or how from looking at Xsession or the other startup files in Xsession.d) as .xsession is not being run. (I added a command to create a timestamped tag file whenever .xsession is run and it's not being run at X session startup.) I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but not found an answer to the question of setting the environment for my whole X session, not just for console session within X. I would also like to understand what happens when a gui session starts under kdm - what scripts etc get run? -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
de. That's good enough for now since I only use kde but I'd like to know how to do it for gnome and other sessions. -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread John Stumbles
guide covers startup in this kind of detail: <http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/startup.php>. KDM calls startkde which calls kdeinit which is the magic X process and spawns most of everything else. Thanks. -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Jon Dowland wrote: At 1146072858 past the epoch, John Stumbles wrote: On my system .[x|X]session doesn't exist by default, so kde (or whatever is chosen at the start-session menu) is getting started by some other mechanism. Yes, KDM is calling startkde which in turn calls kdeinit. T

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
nly one 'real' IP address. John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
ff GNOME, though it's so long since I've used it in anger I've forgotten them. Maybe I should give it another try, but can you (Magnus) as an obvious GNOME-o-phile, tell me what you like so much about it rather than KDE, that you think would benefit other users? John Stumbles -- To

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: I did try to use and understand GNOME (honest!) but it's too warped for my brain (or vice versa :-). To give an example: burning a CD etc under KDE I invoke k3b, select type of disc to burn, pick files to put on it, set a few options (e.g. joliet

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? A switch uses MAC addresses for ascertaining where to forward a message. It is unaware of IP addresses, so it cannot connect different nets. Yup. That's bridging, defined in 802.1d http://ww

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-28 Thread John Stumbles
g 10Mb/s. Ahhh, happy days :-) John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-28 Thread John Stumbles
to transceivers larger than a modern ADSL modem+router+switch+wireless box, connected via a bee-sting tap made with a sort of twist drill bit in a plastic holder to big fat yellow thick Ethernet cable running at a blistering 10Mb/s. Ahhh, happy days :-) John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread John Stumbles
Anyone know if there's currently a debian stable package of transcode? ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian no longer seems to have it. My sources.list has: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian stable main # apt-get install transcode Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package trans

Re: transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread John Stumbles
error with s/stable/sarge/ in sources.list. Where does the message about package transcode-doc replacing package transcode come from? How does the system 'know' this? And if I compile transcode from the sources am I likely to end up in dependency hell? Is there a debian-ish way to

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Stumbles
mrs_stellamohamed wrote: Dear Friend, [snip Nigerian scam] Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs. Stella Mohamed" or "all the sufferness". I'm sure these folks could make more money as entertainers than from these scams. -

Re: Contact My Secretary

2006-05-06 Thread John Stumbles
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 11:50:17 +0100, John Stumbles wrote: mrs_stellamohamed wrote: Dear Friend, [snip Nigerian scam] Brilliant - you couldn't make up stuff like this! I don't know which I liked better, "his name is Mrs.

How to submit bug re: kcontrol printers stops cups working

2005-12-01 Thread John Stumbles
e to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: connection refused. """""""""""""""""