reverse dns lookup problem on ssh debian vs redhat

2004-12-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi! I recently switched to debian Sarge (and sid) for all of my work (YAY I LOVE IT!). Now, until now, I had been using redhat 7.3 for my servers. I have many redhat 7.3 servers, and now, I have installed 2 debian sarge servers (i know it is not yet released, but I have tested it for months a

Debian sarge and production servers is it ready on 12/26/2004?

2004-12-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
Tim said: > If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are > one of > > 1. an idiot > 2. have very limited needs/no experience > 3. talking out of your ass > 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work Even Sarge? I need something more up to d

Re: Debian sarge and production servers is it ready on 12/26/2004?

2004-12-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 27 December 2004 12:32 am, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I think the issue is that packages are not directly uploaded to testing. > So it is possible to have version X of package A installed in testing. >... > If a serious or grave bug is filed, the package simply will not make it > into testi

thank you

2004-12-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
thank you so much sam! I will try to understand and play with your suggestion today. but my main interest is other network applications besides ssh, that are themseelves not dependant upon ssh, that the same have behavior (checking reverse dns) that is parallel to that of ssh, which also time

how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am running debian sarge. I use a hard drive for back up, and I have to remove the hard drive intermittently. Each time I pull out one of the the hard drives from the machine to store as a backup, it seems that I must always set the jumpers on both! drives each time. with 2 drives in mac

Re: how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:46 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > set the jumpers on the disk to be "cable select" > - do NOT tell the disk that it is master or slave > > make sure your ide cable has a hole in it so it can tell the system > that the disk is on the end or middle of the cable Thank you alvin

Re: how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-02 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:17 am, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:46 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > > set the jumpers on the disk to be "cable select" > > - do NOT tell the disk that it is master or slave > > > > make sure your ide cable has a

Re: tracking memory resource issues

2005-01-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Tuesday 04 January 2005 03:16 am, Sam Watkins wrote: > > climbed to unbearable. Further, even if I close > > all programs and leave the computer on, the memory > > usage doesn't drop to what it was when I logged > > in. How can I trace what software is sucking my > > memory? > > It's probably t

confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. I have read the software raid howto and he says to use "mdadm" because it is newer, more unified, (levitates, leaps over a building in a single bound), but then

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:27 am, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 05:21 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to set up a Debian box running Sarge, to include a storage > > array using raid5 with boot off a separate system disk. >

Re: confused. sarge raid5 -should i use mdadm or raidtools2

2005-01-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 06 January 2005 02:19 pm, Greg Folkert wrote: > Oh, yes my child... all you haav to do is remove udev for the time being > or recompile a kernel with raid* compiled in statically. Dear Greg, Thanks for your support on this problem and your careful and thoughtful advice! I am glad th

APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

2005-01-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I just set up a new server. It has an amd64 (3000+) chip on a asus K8V-X motherboard. I installed sarge with the 2.6.8-1-386 kernel I set up a software raid 5 and noticed that as soon as I began resync of the raid i get errors filling the dmesg log: APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) APIC error o

Convert individual Raid1 drive to standard Ext3 drive howto?

2005-01-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, In addition to my system drive /dev/hda (with all my standard partitions /, /home. swap ... ), I have a raid1 device. The raid is 2 - 250GB drives, with partitions /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1 respectively (each the whole drive) each partitioned as linux fd (raid) type, and configured as par

Re: Convert individual Raid1 drive to standard Ext3 drive howto?

2005-01-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I do not want to use raid5 because the raid5 took 2 days to resync with 4 250GB drives, while raid1 took 1 hour. Aso, this method of repeated raid1 allows for potentially adding more storage capacity to the system by just adding more drives to controllers on the system, which cannot be accom

Re: disk cloning with dd

2005-05-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Friday 06 May 2005 09:07 am, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Hi all, > 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 should work > Or will norton ghost do a better job? Btw, what advantages does ghost

nvidia 6600gt drivers hanging XFREE86 cpu usage 99.9%

2005-05-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
via ssh. Sometimes even that doesnt help and the process won't die. and I must reboot. This is using the proprietary nvidia kernel device installer. This is to inform others and ask for any advice... Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: KDE or Picasso?

2005-05-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:32 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > > CTRL-ALT-F1 gets you to a console prompt. login as root, then > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Then, CTRL-ALT-F7 takes you back > > Actually Alt-F7. In console you don't use Ctrl. > On all of my 50 Linux installations, Debian, Red

mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist

2005-05-15 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have multiple computers with debian installed. my /etc/fstab includes the lines /dev/hdd/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdc/media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 the /media directory has cdrom floppy and floppy0 files. I have noticed tha

Re: mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 16 May 2005 03:40 am, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi Mitchell, > Yes, I have noticed exactly the same thing. It seems that the > media/cdrom0 etc. are not persistent - they are removed every time your > reboot. I assume that this is a feature not a bug and that there are > good reasons for th

udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to configure udev scripts to automatically create /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1? Also shouldn't this be part of the debian sarge installer? If you agree I will submit a bug... Thanks, Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 16 May 2005 08:49 am, LeVA wrote: > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: > > Hi, > > are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to > > configure udev scripts to automatically create > > /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1? > > > > Also shouldn't this be part of the debian sar

discover1 vs discover vs discover2 debian installer bug

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
discover issues: I have seen references to /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom2 not being created as a result of a bug in discover. apt-cache show discover1 is what i have loaded. it is credited to the debian installer team version 1.7.7 is current. discover2 is version 2.0.7-2.1 credited to the di

Re: discover1 vs discover vs discover2 debian installer bug

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 16 May 2005 10:04 am, Mitchell Laks wrote: > discover issues: > > I have seen references to /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom2 not being created > as a result of a bug in discover. > > apt-cache show discover1 is what i have loaded. it is credited to the > debian i

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-05-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 16 May 2005 10:56 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users? > > > > Deboo > > Intermediate in what sense? Intermediate software developer? > Intermediate kernel hacker? Intermediate DB guru? > > -Roberto the new wiley p

Re: mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist

2005-05-17 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Tuesday 17 May 2005 08:32 am, Raphael Schneider wrote: Hi, On Monday 16 May 2005 19:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > I guess the thinking is that if you only reboot once a fortnight then > > creating the /media/cdromN mount points is no big deal. My gut feeling > > is that t

Re: discover1 vs discover vs discover2 debian installer bug

2005-05-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 23 May 2005 10:22 am, Ivan Teliatnikov wrote: > Desktop System Setup with Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 'Sarge' located at > http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/desktop-system-setup-debian-sarge.ht >ml#installation mentions this problem abd suggests work around. > > (In Installation section):

Fwd: Re: cdrecord -scanbus giving strange results.

2005-06-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 03:31 pm, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > "cdrecord -scanbus" gives these error messages with these device > > specifications: > > > > [no dev specs.], dev=ATA, dev=x,y,z (no matter the combination of x,y and > > z) > >

Mozilla-firefox printing menu non-working entries

2005-06-03 Thread Mitchell Laks
seem (at least) to be related to my cups printer name. What is Xprint anyway? I just have figured out cups (so to speak, at least it works now...) . I see Xprint on the google of mozilla-firefox. will it conflict with cups? Thanks, MItchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

did Sid equal Testing at the moment just before Sarge's release?

2005-06-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi! I saw all the articles on the switch of testing to etch and release of sarge as stable. I am one of many who has been running a desktop tracking sid for months. Just before the release, how far apart were sid and testing? were the only things in sid = bug fixes for sarge? This is relevant

Re: dma_intr - please help me troubleshoot this error!!

2005-06-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
> 1- you've got a dying or malfunctioning hard drive > 2- a bad connection (cable ?) between the HD and your motherboard > > check n°2 first ... > > WRT reiserfs it has been many years I haven't seen bug reports, but you > never know ... > > the dma stuff is lower level than the file system anyway

One time deal: Backup of raid5 to set of removeable hard drives on another machine?

2005-06-21 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have a (remotely stationed) server with a raid5 with about 630 GB of data that I would like to backup to a set of removeable hard drives on another pc at the same location. I will use 250GB hard drives as removeables. Based upon experimentation with data I find that using tar zcvf I w

Re: One time deal: Backup of raid5 to set of removeable hard drives on another machine?

2005-06-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 10:10 pm, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > If I understand correctly, the problem is that you have 2 removeable > drives and you can't mount them both at the same time, and one isn't > sufficient to contain all the data right? > that is indeed a much simpler way of saying it! i al

Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

2005-06-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 23 June 2005 05:33 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote: > With a Java client application you can use JDBC. > With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. > > I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. > What driver would I use in this case? > > Thanks, > > Scott Hue

/home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled. I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself 20 G of space. Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again. Same thing happened when i did -m2. Ok how to find the culprit ? A long long time ago, t

updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to some hijacked web site called http://firefox/ which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354... how to get rid of this annoy

Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear fellow debianers, Thank all of you for answering my question. It was very informative to see that the behavior arose from a careless? configuration assumption that assumes http://firefox/ will resolve to the real mozilla site. But more fundamentally- 1) why should my browser ever directed

Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
Ok the bug report text solves the problem! i replace the startup shortcut firefox with firefox file://www.google.com and now it starts properly. thank you all. By the way. I thank everyone for answering: that shows respect. but I do find that anyone who wrote "hardy har har har -> its s

solved: updated iceweasel firefox goes to nonexistent http://firefox

2007-02-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
I reolved annoying bug behavior of 1. firefox startup looking for http://firefox/ which was redirected by my ISP to an ad company site. 2. firefox ignored home page preference on restart of firefox. Solution: replace icon shortcut from firefox %u to firefox http://yourchosenhomepage thus

laptop sid upgrade. network works till startx then get agpgart kernel error and no network connectivity

2007-07-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I enjoy playing with sid :) I just updated to the latest sid on my Averatec Laptop 3250 running amd processor which worked fine before. Now when I boot all is fine, i can surf web using lynx if i stay in console mode. Then when i startx (i have tried it with kde, gnome, xfce4-session session

Re: laptop sid upgrade. network works till startx then get agpgart kernel error and no network connectivity

2007-07-30 Thread Mitchell Laks
1. what do i do next, Florian? Thank you very much Florian! ( and thanks Douglas as well. I dont know how to startx with rxvt. Could you explain that? do you mean saying startx rxvt?) Mitchell Laks > > -- > Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer >

Re: pkg-config lying about libglib2 version when compiling gtkglext. but correct .pc file is there

2006-12-11 Thread Mitchell Laks
usr/share/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/pkgconfig. - tfheen * Previous message: thanks Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

icewm emacs maximized flickering

2007-01-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
I have been using icewm and I have noticed funny behavior of emacs windows. If I maximize an emacs window, and try to move it right or left, (for instance on a two monitor x window), it RESISTS moving and "moves back to where it came from". Complete with flashing and flickering of the window. It i

postgresql 7.4 won't start after sarge -> etch upgrade

2007-10-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Debian experts, I just upgraded an old Sarge server to Etch. After the upgrade, I notice that the postgresq-7.4 server is not working. ie : the postgreql process wont start by itself on system boot up I dont know why the postgreql process wont start by itself - when I did /etc/init.d/p

Re: postgresql 7.4 won't start after sarge -> etch upgrade

2007-10-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:49 Sun 14 Oct , Pál Csányi wrote: > > > How should I rectify the problem? > > I would reinstall postgresq-7.4 : > aptitude reinstall postgresql-7.4 Thank you Pál, I had already tried that: apt-get install --reinstall postgresql-7.4 and it did not help :( Any other ideas? what is re

cant set group owner cdrom for link /dev/dvd

2007-01-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have noticed that a number of the video programs xine ogle etc like to use /dev/dvd as a default However they seem to also want the group permission to be cdrom... Note when i do ls -l /dev/hdc brwsrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2007-01-09 10:08 /dev/hdc however when I do as root ln -s /de

Re: cant set group owner cdrom for link /dev/dvd

2007-01-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 12:14 Fri 12 Jan , Greg Folkert wrote: > > In any case, if you are using any kind of Debian Linux other than Woody > or before, /dev is managed and should not be messed with directly. Rules > for device file creation need to be made. /etc/udev is where this magic > resides. For info on how-

Re: -bash: no job control in this shell

2008-01-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 12:51 Mon 07 Jan , Scott Gifford wrote: > > To find out, create a brand new user with default dotfiles, and try > logging in as that user. > > Hope this helps, > No such luck :(. Every user who initially logs in to tty1 gets the no job control message! Here is some information. I fin

Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi Gurus, I seem to have to rerun alsaconf to reconfigure alsa every time I reboot my computer. I have no idea why? I am running sid with debian standard kernel: when I run speaker-test I hear nothing. :( Here is my situation: uname -a Linux Rashi 2.6.23-1-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 21 12:00:17

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Mitchell Laks
imply kill kde, and then startx again - still no sound! So I dont even have to reboot, simply ending kde kills sound and then i need to reinstall via alsaconf. very upsetting! Any ideas??? Thanks Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Mitchell Laks
> > Also have a look at Kmix's "Settings"/ "Configure-Kmix". The "Restore volumes > on login" box is the one that used to create problems. Make sure that it's > unchecked. I got rid of artsd as suggested by Andrew Sackville-West, which did not help :(. However, your idea worked. When I start

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Chris, On 16:04 Mon 04 Feb , Chris Lale wrote: > Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Hi Gurus, > > > > I seem to have to rerun alsaconf to reconfigure alsa every time I reboot my > > computer. > > I have no idea why? I am running sid with debian standard kernel:

mutt-patches not displaying all mail lists in the sidebar

2008-02-12 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I just installed the mutt-patches package in order to get the sidebar to show what mailing subdirectories have new mail. I use the Mail directory format. I have about 10 different subdirectories. For some reason only one (an inactive old one) is showing in the sidebar. Is this a bug? If no

Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am running a minimal install debian machine as a firewall and I would like to keep it secure and up to date. I included deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free deb http://security.debian.org etch/update main contrib as the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and I run apt

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. > The meta-package will always depend on the most recent version and will > be updated at the time that the

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:37 Sun 09 Mar , Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Do you actually have packages from contrib / non-free? > > If not, remove those sources and save a few seconds on each update. If > you do, you better have non-free updates as well. > Tzafrir, Thank you. You have sharp eyes. On this, hopefully s

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 13:52 Sun 09 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote: > Every time I see that kind of message, I just pick the "real" base > package that I want. > I agree Ron, I would like to select it myself also. However, I kind of thought that when you do apt-get dist-upgrade against security and there is a major k

Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Which of these kernels is appropriate? linux-image-2.6-24-1-486 linux-image-2.6-24-1-686 linux-image-2.6-24-1-k7 I

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:09 Sun 09 Mar , Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun March 9 2008 11:40:57 Mitchell Laks wrote: > > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > > > have an actual linux-image deb installed

Why is cups printing of jpeg images so slow. compare with windows

2008-03-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I have always noticed that when my HP laserjet 1200 postscript printer is printing images, it goes very very slowly. i use Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended) driver. However for some reason, at work the windows printers are very fast. What is wrong. What am i doing wrong? Is true of any we

How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

2008-03-18 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, Here is the situation. You have machines A->B->C. You want to create a ssh tunnel directly from A to C. Machine A can see machine B and machine B can see C, but A can't see C directly. A and B are on a local network and only B has 'limited net access'. I know how to ssh in from A to B and

qemu debian install raw, cannot compress and copy to another machine, works on original

2008-03-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi I am playing with qemu. I created a debian vm. I did not use the qcow format, instead just big and raw. qemu-img debian.img 10G then i installed debian as usual qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda debian.img Now it works fine. I made some ovl files and they work too Now I tried to copy t

Re: qemu debian install raw, cannot compress and copy to another machine, works on original

2008-03-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
On the other hand, If I create a debian qcow image and then copy it to other machines it works fine. Similarly if I copy a windows 2000 or a winxp install, it works as well. It seems to be a problem with moving to another machine, because there was no problem with bunzip2 and tar on the same ma

Can we run a qemu instance as a dedicated home network firewall?

2008-03-30 Thread Mitchell Laks
apability. Now Machine A would not be configured to connect directly to the internet because we would want it to be firewalled by a virtual machine. We set up a vde_switch on A. Then we would bring up a qemu instance F (for firewall). ... Thank you, Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can we run a qemu instance as a dedicated home network firewall?

2008-03-30 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 14:04 Sun 30 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:20:26AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > Can we use a virtual qemu linux machine as a firewall for > > a real home network? > > Well, on normal i386 hardware (unlike e.g. Zseries with LPARs), >

firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear Gurus, I have got one of my Debian boxes into a funny state. :) I have many different machines, usually running sid or sarge. On one of my sid machines I am trying to print from firefox and I see that it has trouble with printing. When I push print the error dialog that pops up says T

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Sunday 14 May 2006 16:10, Florian Kulzer wrote: > There have been some problems reported recently related to xprint and > the upgrade to Xorg 7.0. If you use xprint you can try > > /etc/init.d/xprint restart Thanks Florian, I should have mentioned that I am using cups and I prefer to be using

Re: firefox printing not displaying Letter (8.5x11 inch) choice paper, closest is hp-us-government-letter (203x253 mm)

2006-05-14 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Monday 15 May 2006 00:21, Mitchell Laks wrote: I just saved my bookmarks and blew away my .mozilla directory and now mozilla prints fine again. I don't know how it got its complicated commands options before, however now they are gone and printing is wonderfully simple again. a

Re: X doesn't work as normal user

2006-05-18 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 18 May 2006 13:13, Hubeau Lionel wrote: > > Cheers. > > The solution was to create the "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config" with only one > line containing "allowed_users=anybody". For what its worth here are the contents of my /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config # Xwrapper.config (Debian X Window System

apt upgrade sarge -> etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I followed the release notes. I first did apt-get upgrade then I did apt-get install initrd-tools then i installed linux-image-2.6.18-686 at this point i got an error from udev. It said that the install of udev fail

Re: apt upgrade sarge -> etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-22 Thread Mitchell Laks
> > it's in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ thank you! > > > > > > I want to avoid just reinstalling etch from scratch if I can. > > > > How to go about debugging the error? > > 1. Make it more verbose > > and > > 2. find the script - where is it kept? > > 3. then edit the preinstall script and fix

Re: apt upgrade sarge -> etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:43 Tue 22 Jul , Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/22/2008 04:26 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I >> followed >> the release notes. >> > > You only need a kernel upgrade

where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, generally iceweasel remembers my passwords and logins to site. i think at one site i by accident clicked on 'dont remember login for this site' or something. now it expects me to enter the id and password by hand which is irritating. although by now I remember my 14 digit number login to th

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:07 Mon 28 Jul , ss11223 wrote: > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Preferences -> security -> Passwords Section / Exceptions button > Thank you all for this suggestion, but it is actually

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:14 Mon 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: > Go to: Edit -> Preferences -> Security -> Remember Passwords for Sites > then remove the public library from the "Exceptions..." list > > -- Dear Florian, the site in question is not listed there. That only lists my bank. there must be some oth

error running python pre-rtupdate hook python-gnome2

2006-09-17 Thread Mitchell Laks
Dear debian-users I run sid on my workstations: 10 days or so ago I had a hang up with apt-get dist-upgrade I got this error: "error running python pre-rtupdate hook python-gnome2" and upgrade stopped: and there were problems with the install of the three packages python python-minimal

PDL::IO::Dicom is not packaged in pdl package how to add it in? dh-make-perl not working??

2008-04-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
l-pdl-dicom$ so I dont see the .deb created in my directory. what does this mean and how to solve it? Thanks, Mitchell Laks

Re: PDL::IO::Dicom is not packaged in pdl package how to add it in? dh-make-perl not working??

2008-04-07 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 15:42 Sun 06 Apr , Kevin Mark wrote: > Or alternatively there is the debian-perl group, who group maintains > most of the perl packages. At the suggestion of debian-perl group I submitted the request as a bug to pdl package. also they stated that an upstream bug of (existence of debian d

using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, Someone recently talked about using ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to figure out the correct UUID to put into /etc/fstab for hard drives. I have /home on a raid1 /dev/md0 which is composed of two drive partitions /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 Now in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf I have: ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Thank you all for this very informative thread. So it seems that running blkid is the answer insofar as it tells me the information I need. I wonder: does this also work for lvm managed partitions? (an idea that seemed to be vetted but not concluded by the above thread posters.) Mitchell -

Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-04 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. I am tired of paying so much money for the new

fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition. very slow. how to tell what is happening?

2008-05-08 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I would like some feedback on what fsck is doing. How can I tell if it is making progress or just restore from backup? i just see checking stage 1 or something then nothing what to do to get some kind of (ascii :)) graphic or other feedback as to how it is doing? It just sits there. fsc

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
s - amd64 machine with 1 terabyte ram running kernel 2.4.18. thanks, Mitchell Laks > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

2008-05-10 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Does anyone

.xsession-errors file of 253G

2007-05-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I wanted to claim the all time maximum size for the .xsession-errors file. My home partition has a raid1 of 2 400G hard drives. Just today my home partition became 100% full. I see that this was already discussed last year on debian-user so I just post it to let people know who will come a

Re: .xsession-errors file of 253G

2007-05-28 Thread Mitchell Laks
I found a nice discussion of this issue on a ubuntu forum. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/xinit/+bug/60448 they discuss various approaches to handling the problem. They point out that gdm wipes out the log on restart. I am not running gdm, i start X with startx, that is why s

How to apply procmail to a maildir Mail/inbox?

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, My main inbox has a bunch of mails that really belong in other mail directories. They went to Mail/inbox because of an error in my .procmailrc I have now fixed my .procmailrc to correct the errors and now want to reapply the procmail to the contents of ~/Mail/inbox. Thus, I would like to tak

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:45 Wed 30 May , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved > several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it I recently opened and was browsing a 250G file with less. It was an .xsession-errors file that filled my home director

/media directory has unused "phantom directories" with hidden files .created_by_pmount

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
irectories and what created them? Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 06:44 Fri 01 Jun , Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are > referred to by the main index.html. > > One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. > > Is there a "slurp" application that walks through the f

Re: arts / CPU overload, Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.4

2006-09-20 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:12 Mon 18 Sep , Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Bernd Kloss wrote: > > Hello, > > > > what is the reason for the warning 'CPU overload' by artsd-Server? No sound > > running, no multimedia. > > > > What can be done? > > > > Thank You > > > > > > ___

eth0/eth1 suddenly renamed because of eth1394 ? eth1_rename?

2006-09-20 Thread Mitchell Laks
aces I can bring up the network. what is going on with the eth1394? what does this mean? What changed. Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2009-08-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
2. What can I do to make X more verbose so I can find what error is causing X not to start? thanks Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2009-08-24 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 10:58 Mon 24 Aug , Jimmy Johnson wrote: > her /home partition was full, she called me and said "it's broke." I > logged in as root and deleted the file and it was fixed. > -- thanks Jimmy, but that couldn't explain my problem, 1. No partitions are full. 2. Why would the other users be ab

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

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > > startx or gdm? i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. :) mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 00:36 Tue 25 Aug , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > look in /tmp or /var/tmp > > delete related files and dirs belonging to the user and restart X. > > they probably killed the pc and it has some lock files around > > it's broken! I agree that there is some file that is causing the problem, but I

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

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! i only put it on for my sister anyway, i use command line > > Have you tried "startx -- -v"? It might not work, but couldn't hurt. i have tried it no success.

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

2009-08-25 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 16:06 Tue 25 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-25 15:58, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >On 19:20 Mon 24 Aug , Ron Johnson wrote: > >>startx or gdm? > > > >i shut off gdm and am working with startx at the command line. > >:) > > Good for you! >

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

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

cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

2009-09-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) which I cannot figure out the cause for. any ideas on how to handle that? and so I am using the proprietary cisco vpnclient which

Re: cisco vpnclient: not able to get shell output for more than a few lines

2009-09-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:04 Sun 06 Sep , Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > I need to access a cisco vpn concentrator. > > I tried using vpnc and keep getting a message > vpnc: response was invalid [1]: (ISAKMP_N_INVALID_EXCHANGE_TYPE)(7) > which I cannot figure out the cause for. > any ide

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