Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

> Since most security updates for stable are going to be a version lower You can use APT preferences to give security updates a higher priority. Note also that there is a security repository for sarge... Morningly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg26802/pgp0

reportbug has a bug...

I have sometimes this error with reportbug (haven't seen what happens before it appears) : Please select a tag: [done] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1180, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 876, in main report = open_write_safe(filename, 'w

Re: reportbug has a bug...

> What versions of python and reportbug are installed? Sorry for the late answer... python 2.1.3-3.2 reportbug 1.50 Lately, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg15787/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: german ispell with mutt

> Ispell german and english dictionary Is it possible to mutt to pass to ispell the language from within information in mail, or a user's choice. If I type in english, french, german and russian, sometimes spanish, I'll have too many macros, I feel... Curiously, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: libc6 optimizations

> I was thinking that in addition to the kernel, libc6 was a good > candidate for a recompile in terms of overall performance boosts. I > know about gentoo, but I dont feel like changing distros. Benchmark have been made between Debian, Mandrake and Gentoo, with identical version of programs, and

Re: money/quicken/?

> And no, I never used double-entry in my checkbooking either. AFAIK, it is the standard way everywhere to write transactions for financial professionals. But one will not learn it in school... I took a book for the preparation of a financial diplom. Try the double-entry a while, and you won't go

Re: Address book sharing

> Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address > books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? I think by symlinking the files on the Debian partition to the Windows one... The LDAP solution could enable sharing it with even distant systems, but it a bit more

Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

> I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system > there is no /usr/src/linux You're mainly beginner, for that time, I presume... When you're searching for wehter a package should be installed to satisfy your needs, run : $ apt-cache search When it just outputs too many things, refine : $ apt-

Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

And to know what modules are compiled at the moment, simply run # modprobe -l But it only gives you the modules, not the drivers that are compiled IN the kernel... uickly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg00966/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

> Can someone share how they did it ? $ man crontab apt-get > thanks It was a pleasure... le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg00969/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

> What's the process in Debian to add a service like this ? # apt-get install etherconf You'll modify the network interfaces by simply running : # dpkg-reconfigure etherconf To know what it does : $ man interfaces ifup If you have your network card driver as a module : $ man modules Morningly

Total hangup when trying xtraceroute

I just tried xtraceroute some minutes ago, and the whole system froze... No reaction from any keystroke, or combination of keys. I looked at syslog, but nothing is visible. here are the four last lines before restart : Sep 6 22:15:09 bateleur -- MARK -- Sep 6 22:35:09 bateleur -- MARK -- Sep

make-kpkg doesn't parse version correctly ?

I've got a very strange error with make-kpkg when trying to build an image a second time. I've already used the woody one on this linux source successfully, so suspected a problem with the sarge I've upgraded to. But I have the same error with woody and sarge kernel-package... I used 7.107 and 8.

Re: type of file?

This command is file... Quickly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A msg01316/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

ALSA : /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy

I'm trying to have some sound coming out of my machine, but after having a kernel with sound, alsa modules installed, I can't get any sound. Here are the modules loaded : snd-ens1371 9440 1 snd-rawmidi12256 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 3968 0 [snd-rawmid

CUPS & HP OfficeJet R45

Hi, I didn't manage to print anything on a HP printer, an all-in-one OfficeJet Series R (R45). I has only installed CUPS without Cups-o-Matic, and tried (through SSH, I don't have physical access) : $ sudo lpadmin -d OfficeR -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd lpadmin: set-default failed: client

Re: CUPS & HP OfficeJet R45

I continued trying to see why cups is unable to set to device of my printer to parallel:/dev/lp0, and tried $ cat > /dev/lp0 -bash: /dev/lp0: No such device I've parport and parport_pc loaded as modules... And i'm in the lp group. Confsingly, le Moine Fou -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0x

Re: Problem with ifconfig

> I am having some problem that I don't understand with ifconfig: How is the interface brought up ? What is the content of /etc/network/interfaces ? > RX packets:26802 errors:22859 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 ^ Something is wrong with this if, for sure... Quickly,

Re: Kollab packages?

> Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list http://bugs.debian.org/204028 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54: > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be > > put on a server?" > Realy good question... >...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers! That's a shame. There are some slick rackable displays,

Re: Reporting a bug (was: fglrx driver problems)

Scribit Marko Randjelovic dies 29/03/2007 hora 19:08: > I run Etch on machine with Nvidia nForce3 250 motherboard and Radeon > 9550 graphics card. DRI is not working neither with radeon, nor fglrx > driver. I tried several versions of fglrx driver and kernel, Debian > and vanilla. > > I think it's

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

Scribit Peter Teunissen dies 31/03/2007 hora 21:48: > Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output > and keep it from shouting all over the place? What about the classical "1> /dev/null 2>&1"? Quicky, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Descrip

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

Scribit Mike McCarty dies 03/04/2007 hora 20:19: > AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL. Well, the FSF thinks it is. And says so on its website. At least if you're talking about the FreeBSD licence, aka 2-clauses BSD licence, or the modified BSD licence, aka 3-clauses BSD licence. The original BS

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

Scribit Michael Pobega dies 03/04/2007 hora 23:39: > > > AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL. > [Debian's social contract] says BSD is DFSG compatible. Which doesn't mean it's GPL compatible. Correctively, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

Scribit Dennis G. Wicks dies 05/04/2007 hora 08:28: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > [...] > > Any suggestions on how to stop this? Backup your FF private dir to be able to inspect it later and see what happened, but get it out of the way, so that you start a clean bro

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

Scribit Jan Willem Stumpel dies 05/04/2007 hora 13:51: > What would be the easiest system to do this? Should I learn Java? Or > something else? The Cairo library should probably offer everything you could want, and more. It has numerous bindings for languages, so pick one. It's written in C, and

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

Scribit Douglas Allan Tutty dies 05/04/2007 hora 09:32: > Personally, I only program in two languages: Fortran and Python. So I > would suggest python. Why not Fortran? ;-) Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Etch released.

Scribit steef dies 08/04/2007 hora 20:57: > consider a net-install if you have a fast internet-connection Please, respect the Netiquette *at least a bit*. You quoted 133 lines of an announcement just to write 1 line yourself. That's a pretty awful s/n ratio... Regards, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Next time you make a trace file... ( was Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker)

Scribit Ron Johnson dies 13/04/2007 hora 15:59: > >> please try to remember to add .txt to text file names. It makes > >> things easier for GUI tools. > > Really? I thought that was strictly a DOS/Windows-ism. > Nope. Otherwise, how would it know which app to open a file with? By looking at the

Re: vim wrapping [Was: Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)]

Scribit Andrei Popescu dies 08/05/2007 hora 18:20: > > Sure it will. Put your cursor in the paragraph, in command mode, hit > > gqap > > Note, no ':', just straight. > > Nice, but claws will do this as I type ;) Does that mean that you can't prevent the wrapping to happen? Because I often ne

BOOST program options and libstdc++5

I got the following problem with libboost-program-options1.32.0 on my system: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../lib/libboost_program_options.so, may conflict with libstdc++.so.6 And indeed, it segfaults when trying to run the program (