Is there something wrong with the sarge archive?

2007-02-27 Thread ss11223
my debmirror won't mirror the sarge archive currently. I get: Get Release files. http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release => [0%] Getting: dists/sarge/Release... 200 OK ok http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/Release.gpg => [0%] Getting: dists/sarge/Release.gpg... 200 OK ok gpg: Signat

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread ss11223
On Aug 10, 10:30 am, "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Just remember to tell you editor to "inserts spaces as tab" and set > > the tab width to something reasonable like 4. > > E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me happy for emacs: > >

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-17 Thread ss11223
Dave Bellows wrote: > Hello all, > > I just got a new ViewSonic VG2230 widescreen LCD monitor for my Debian > Testing box. After I installed it I ran "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh > xserver-xorg". It seemingly correctly configured xorg.conf for a > resolution of 1680x1050 as recommended by the bookle

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-30 Thread ss11223
On Nov 29, 11:00 pm, William Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a > week.>From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a > friend runsnearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily > upd

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread ss11223
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian people, > > This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I > bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one can > handle dual layered DVDs as well as the single ones. > > I then realised after nosing around in

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-11 Thread ss11223
On Dec 11, 9:00 am, "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred > or so recipients. > > I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". > I installed the package and looked at the example files in > "

Re: Problems booting

2006-12-28 Thread ss11223
On Dec 28, 9:00 am, "Jaume Alonso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) > and I installed it in the "Debian way" (by creating a .deb package of the > kernel and installing it). But I've got a problem: when I boot the sy

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread ss11223
> > That's an oddity. Have you tried http://www.us.debian.org/ ? > > > That works! I also *can't* get to www.debian.org from a Windoze box on > this LAN. > > I'm checking to see if anyone at my ISP is having trouble. > > Thanks, > > Paul > > Could this be a DNS problem? Did you try to access ww

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread ss11223
On Oct 2, 3:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$TEST}; do echo $i; done > {1..3} > > in the first example, its obvious.

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread ss11223
On Mar 26, 12:10 pm, Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh. Sorry. This page:http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian > Ah, but compare to other queries like "linux" or "japan" or "massachusetts" or "canada". Maybe there just is a general downward trend for many general terms. -- To U

Re: csh: how to use indirect ref to env vars

2008-06-25 Thread ss11223
On Jun 25, 9:40 am, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have acshscript in which I'd like to do set up a list of vars > and then to chk each of these are set, something like the below. > However, I can't find the magic incantation that allows to to check > ${$Vars} eg if $InMetFiles is set o

Re: csh: how to use indirect ref to env vars

2008-06-25 Thread ss11223
On Jun 25, 12:40 pm, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ah, I see rather than testing a variable we try and use it and catch any > error... it seems to work as you say... although this seems slightly > more elegant if less easy to add new VarN to: > > if ( $?InMetFiles == 0 || $?InTerFile == 0

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-27 Thread ss11223
On Jun 26, 2:40 pm, James Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008, Vwaju wrote: > > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > >http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be > > about the right size > > (163,392KB), but it fails to boot > > If y

How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread ss11223
I have a Debian Stable system which I just did the apt-get upgrade for the new linux kernel version. The system has two software raid volumes md0 and md1. md0 is /boot. md1 is a lvm2 volume group "VG" with four partitions "lvol0" throuth "lvol3" containing "/", "/ home", "/var" and "/chroot" Duri

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread ss11223
I should add that both md0 and md1 appear and md0 can be mounted from the limited shell I get dropped into. If I boot from a system recovery CD I can do vchange -a y VG and then mount the volumes in that system. But I am clueless as to how to get the Debian system to boot. Stuart -- To UNSUB

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread ss11223
utomatically tag new arrays as belonging to the local system > HOMEHOST > > # instruct the monitoring daemon where to send mail alerts > MAILADDR root > == > > the array definition are not really needed, if  your partition types are > set to FD > > &

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread ss11223
On Jul 27, 7:20 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 27, 5:40 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > try putting back your old mdadm.conf > > > this is how mine looks > > > = > > # md

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot -- SOLVED --

2008-07-27 Thread ss11223
And there it was The Grub menu.lst file was corrupted in the line specifying the /dev/ mapper command. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-07-28 Thread ss11223
On Jul 28, 12:00 pm, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: Can't reboot after update

2008-07-29 Thread ss11223
On Jul 29, 10:50 am, "Zembower, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone can help me with this urgent problem. I just applied > the updates that became available in the last couple days to my Debian > etch host running on a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server. This included an > update to the

Adding module to apache

2007-04-11 Thread ss11223
I am using apache2 in etch. As far as I can tell debian does not incude mod_logio in the distribution. I want to us this to monitor the actual line traffic from my server. (after dynamic compression) How would I add this module to my server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread ss11223
I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- upgrade' today. Now my keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard works on the non-x screens). As far as I can tell, none of my xorg config files have changed. Is this just me, or did this last upgrad

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread ss11223
On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > upgrade' today. Now my > keyboard won't work under xorg (the mouse works fine, and the keyboard > works on the > non-x scree

Re: Xorg keyboard broke on todays upgrade

2007-06-03 Thread ss11223
On Jun 3, 8:10 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:40 pm, ss11223 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have a machine running "testing" on which I did an 'apt-get dist- > > upgrade' today. Now my > > keyboard

Re: doing jobs at an remote machin, how to do it in an cshell scripts ?

2006-10-18 Thread ss11223
Aidan Shaw wrote: > Hi List ... > the problem is, I need an pretty and consice scripts in c-shell. can anybody > help me? > > Any suggestion is welcom. > > Thank you all. > Are you really confined to using csh? There are better scripting solutions. see: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread ss11223
On Oct 30, 6:50 pm, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional > option is OpenOffice. > > However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > that its the only format around, what works? I need not just

debmirror broken

2009-09-24 Thread ss11223
Sometime in the last week the "debmirror" script broke for me. It used to work fine, now I get: Mirroring to /home/ss/Download/DebianMirror/etch from http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ Arches: i386,amd64 Dists: testing Sections: main,contrib,non-free Pdiff mode: none Will

Re: apache error

2009-02-18 Thread ss11223
On Feb 18, 4:10 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > Restarting web server: apache2(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not > bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 > (98)Address already in use: make_sock:

Re: Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread ss11223
On Mar 12, 12:40 pm, "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: Dennis Wicks [mailto:w...@mgssub.com] > > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:22 AM > > Subject: Local mirroring How-To? > > > Greetings; > > > I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this > > but I can't locate it. > > > Here is

Re: Partitioning Scheme

2008-10-27 Thread ss11223
On Oct 25, 1:10 am, "Javier Vasquez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to install a new Debian system.  Previously what I've done > is to create 3 partitions (/, /boot, swap), but now that I have the > oporttunity, I'd like to do things differently.  I was reading the > Debian referenc

No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-07-01 Thread ss11223
I installed testing on an older machine with an Intel ICH9 controller on the mother board. Alsa reports that there is no audio card found. (This used to work under windows until I defenestrated the machine:-) I got the impression that there are options to put into /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf t

Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-07-03 Thread ss11223
On Sunday, July 1, 2012 11:50:01 PM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 iul 12, 16:51:28, ss11223 wrote: > > I installed testing on an older machine with an Intel ICH9 controller on the > > mother board. Alsa reports that there is no audio card found. > > Show us :)

Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-07-08 Thread ss11223
On Friday, July 6, 2012 5:00:01 AM UTC-4, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 03 iul 12, 14:25:21, ss11223 wrote: > > > > Ah, today /etc/init.d/alsa-utils start no longer complains of no sound > > card, but > > the sound still only comes out of the motherboard speaker

Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install

2012-07-10 Thread ss11223
> > speaker-test -c2 only hisses for the left speaker. > > Only left, are you sure? It should alternate between left and right, so > you might want to check your cables and speakers (and any volume/balance > settings they might have). > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- Remember, it is playing o

Re: No Sound Card found on Testing Install - SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread ss11223
OK, this is embarrassing, but I have solved the problem. The system had a headphone plugged in that had fallen behind the system unnoticed (and I thought the sound from its one speaker was the motherboard speaker). Unplugged the item and all is well. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread ss11223
On Apr 13, 1:50 pm, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens with > > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") > > First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or somethin

SELinux help

2012-04-17 Thread ss11223
Is there a forum for Debian SELinux help. I am trying to set up a server, but with SELinux enabled some functions are subtlety broken and it looks like some rules need tweaking. Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co