Re: integrar calendario do google com algum desktop

2008-01-18 Thread Brivaldo Junior
O Nautilus consegue sincronizar isso, e ainda ficam as atividades na barra de horários do Gnome. Abraço, Brivaldo Jr (condector) Em 16/01/08, Ronaldo Reis Junior[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Pessoal, alguem conhece alguma ferramenta que sincronize um calendário local (iceowl, korganizer, etc)

Erro ao enviar arquivo

2008-01-18 Thread Ayesha
Olá pessoal, Estou implementando, na verdade estudando como se faz :), o qmail e acabei de instalar o fetchmail. Criei um domínio e um usuário com o vpopmail. Até aki, beleza. Quando envio uma msg para a caixa deste usuário de teste, recebo a seguinte msg na ciaxa postal de um usuário de

RE: conectividade social + squid

2008-01-18 Thread Leandro Moreira
Caro, Resolvio isso de uma maneira bem pratica, fiz as conexões em direção aos ip's da caixa passarem por fora do proxy: $iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d ip_caixa --dport 80 -j ACCEPT Dessa forma todas as conexões para os servidor(s) da caixa vao passar por fora do proxy. Att. --

Re: [OT] Site da Caixa, Conectividade Social + SQUID

2008-01-18 Thread Rondineli Gama Saad
Cleyton Santana de Sousa wrote: 2007/6/29 Wendell Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Realmente esse software não deve passar pelo Proxy. Pegue os IPs que precisam ser liberados com o suporte da Caixa. Vc pode setar os mesmos no browser da máquina para não passar

Re: Regras para hd externo com udev

2008-01-18 Thread hamacker
fernando, do jeito que voce esta fazendo não lhe incomoda ? E quando voce for plugar o disco apenas para ver o seu backup como voce optaria para não realizar o backup naquele instante ? Tenho varios scripts para backup usando as novas instruções do UDEV, especialmente usando o UUID como

Servidor de Boot na Rede?

2008-01-18 Thread plebeo
olá Pessoal, eu montei um servidor de Boot com PXE aqui na minha rede, ate agora esta tudo funcionando legal, consigo instalar distribuicoes Debian Slackware e Ubuntu pela rede. Mas infelizmente tenho alguns clientes Rwindows aqui, que volta e meia tenho que formatar a maquina deles. Entao resolvi

Re: Recuperar dados de uma partição formatada - Reiserfs

2008-01-18 Thread Brivaldo Junior
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Era exatamente este comando que eu iria te indicar: reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S /dev/hdaX sim, ele resolve, ele vai varrer todo o seu disco e não apenas a área utilizada e recuperar as informações.. já cansei de fazer isso ao apagar ou recuperar

Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Bonert
Hi, What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get some software packaged and on debian? Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? --- I came across a neat little reference manager for OpenOffice.org -- that expands on the native OO.org ref manager and can share data

Re: Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

2008-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/08 01:57, Michael Bonert wrote: Hi, What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get some software packaged and on debian? Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? --- I came across a neat little reference

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David Baron: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Quoth David Baron: Would there be any script, option, or such to solve this problem in a more elegant manner and leave things alone when the network is doing what it is supposed to do? Depends. Are you

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote: I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a connection I don't even understand how the

Re: sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-18 02:54:12 +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: I don't think it's a bug, but a feature. It's at least a documentation bug. The sed(1) man page says: -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) I'd say that if it's

Re: bash history

2008-01-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-17 15:18:23 +, Magnus Therning wrote: On 1/17/08, Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man zshoptions Look at all the options in the History section... Of course that was /exactly/ what I was hoping to /not/ have to do :-) Luckily there aren't more than 18 options

Re: GTK update problems

2008-01-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:23:53 -0500 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? I am running Sid and IceWm and upon further investigation only certain themes are

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2008-01-18 15:32 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080117 22:42]: ... My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host (outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the help of this procedure:

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
the solution is not to use the sync option, that also increases your drive's lifetime. I put the `sync' option just to avoid drive corruption. If it is necessary to toggle it off, how can I be sure the process is terminated before I unmount the drive? This was discussed sometime ago in

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Mr Shunz
For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to gmail mail servers. Actually, if you send mail to an @gmail.com account, *your*

Re: GTK update problems

2008-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? Updated iceweasel yesterday in Sid and that pulled in libgtk2.0-0_2.12.3-2_i386.deb libgtk2.0-common_2.12.3-2_all.deb

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-18 15:32 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is

GTK update problems

2008-01-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? Cheers - -- Frank McCormick -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHkLZ9zWG7ldLG6fIRAuRTAKC3WHAFjc1A+CgeG2DQRJUJM2e93ACfYia5

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One ethernet card is connected to the Verizon dsl modem which is connected to the phone

Re: Question regarding mailgraph.

2008-01-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Justin Piszcz: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mailgraph/news/20071027T223920Z.html Why exactly was this removed? The reason is in the bug report referenced by the link you posted. This bug is a serious policy violation. Mailgraph will enter testing again as soon as this bug has been fixed.

Question regarding mailgraph.

2008-01-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mailgraph/news/20071027T223920Z.html Why exactly was this removed? I loved this tool! :( Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080117 22:42]: For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to gmail mail servers. My ISP is

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Irving
n Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the thing stops flashing? sync blocks, so you can tell from the command line when the job is done. I guess this thread took a turn to USB drives, which would

Re: Question abut Debian 3.0

2008-01-18 Thread s. keeling
Nyros Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi iam lalith, Using debain 3.0 server, Iam setting a cron job through cron job Management can you tell me what is the commant to use to run my file man crontab -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:53:10AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: You may want to add sync as the last command in your backup script do avoid data loss. I looked into `sync' manual but couldn't find out how to use this command. What should I say instead of `rsync -vr --delete Mail

Re: Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

2008-01-18 Thread H.S.
Michael Bonert wrote: Hi, What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get some software packaged and on debian? Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? --- I came across a neat little reference manager for OpenOffice.org -- that expands on the native OO.org

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread David
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. Hello Jimmy, I have found: Xfs is best for large file sizes, if that's what you are dealing with - graphics, and the ilk; Reiserfs

Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Damgaard
Hi I hope you can help me. My situation is this: After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my server does not boot. The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails just after GRUB

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread richbl
On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) richbl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 9:00 am, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For months, using gmail as the SMTP

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning,

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T16:11:17-0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. I use ext3 on same hardware, and (clean) mounts do not take any significant time: [ 19.209034] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 19.209039] VFS: Mounted

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I won't do it again.

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jimmy Wu: I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. That's because file systems are Voodoo. Everyone wants to take part in the discussion, without anyone really understanding what they're talking about. For example, an article from

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:25 -0500 Allan Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin,

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread David
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? http://lissot.net/partition/partition-04.html -- David Palmer Linux User - #352034 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. Why? Putting your swap somewhere else is actually quite useful. If you have a one of those new solid state conventional disk laptop hybrids (the Samsung R70 comes to my mind) then putting swap on the solid state disk

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 18, 2008 6:30 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. Or at least since the 2.6 kernel became commonplace. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. any journally fs will be slower than non-journaling fs ( ext2, dos, etc ) (2) Neither JFS nor XFS can be made smaller, although they can be extended if needed. i

Sarge r7 CDs released

2008-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
After a couple of false starts, we finally have the CDs and DVDs built for the latest sarge (oldstable) point release, 3.1 r7. See http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7/ for all your downloading needs: ISO images, jigdo files, bittorent, etc. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to gmail mail servers. Have you

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:13:44 -0600 Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You are saying that gmail no longer allows its SMTP server to be used as a smarthost for unauthenticated users. So, unless gmail provides a means of authentication (which is unlikely), you must use another

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) richbl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 9:00 am, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread richbl
On Jan 18, 9:00 am, Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080117 22:42]: ... My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host (outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the help of this procedure:

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Mr Shunz wrote: ... If with Verizon's SMTP works, to me is just a sign that gmail simply blocks your ip. This is highly likely if you're trying to run a mail server from within a dynamic ip block. And more and more big providers are doing this because

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread SpamHog
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-18 Thread joseph lockhart
Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Registered

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/08 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it

I need some help

2008-01-18 Thread Tony
I have a problem with amule, azureus and vlc I'm running Debian version 4.0 r1 etch i386 When I try to run this programs from the menu nothing happens and whe I executed the programs in the terminal I get the following output Initialising aMule Checking if there is an instance already running...

OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Hey folks! Apologies for the very off-topic post; I've been googling for the answer off-and-on for two days unsuccessfully, so I've finally decided to turn to the smartest group of people around. I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Larry writes: What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a DSL2 modem without the Router? Pppoeconfig will work if the modem is configured for bridge mode (like mine) but not if it is configured as

which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Jimmy Wu
Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administration touts XFS as

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-18 Thread Towncat
On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this safely. When

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri January 18 2008 10:20:11 Larry Fletcher wrote: This morning I noticed something new in the plog: Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Cannot determine ethernet

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Gonzalez wrote: For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script which was using commands.getstatusoutput. Changing this with an os.system call fixed the problem. Yes, if you redirect whiptail's output, you obviously won't see it on screen. -- see shy jo

Re: GTK update problems

2008-01-18 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:15:15 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? Updated iceweasel yesterday in Sid and that pulled in libgtk2.0-0_2.12.3-2_i386.deb

alsactl names finds nothing

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card. Alsaconf says it is not needed with Lenny but it will find the Creative Labs sound card. Unfortunately it also kills dsp. alsactl names finds nothing. I

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread richbl
On Jan 18, 9:00 am, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog suggests that the email is no longer

rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is the same with both my desktop PC and my laptop. In

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-18 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Hi, Thanks for your help. There were two problems here, 1) debconf didn't seem to reconfigure after a purge - this was fixed with Joey's comments, thanks a lot. 2) whiptail seemed not to display a configuration dialog. For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Larry Fletcher
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One ethernet card is connected to the Verizon

Repository mirror ftp.us.debian.org 204.152.191.39 gone bad?

2008-01-18 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hello, Because I live in the US I prefer to use ftp.us.debian.org as my mirror of choice in my apt source, however every once in a while I have problems with it, which makes me think I should give up and use a different mirror. I think the correct solution though is to fix the bad mirror,

Re: sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-18 Thread Bob McGowan
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-01-18 02:54:12 +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: I don't think it's a bug, but a feature. It's at least a documentation bug. The sed(1) man page says: -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:54:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 6:30 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. Or at least since the 2.6 kernel became commonplace. Nothing like swapping to a swap file

tcl8.5 tk8.5

2008-01-18 Thread Angus Auld
Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? Is there a way to build them for Etch? The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using for a few months. TIA. -- Angus ##Linux Laptop powered by

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:30:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe just as easy on OS/X and

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Rich Bloch wrote: Hello all, I have a situation that I'm having a hard time resolving. I have a local Debian box whose only job in life is to perform backups daily/weekly/monthly, generate an email of either success or failure, and send that email to my gmail.com http://gmail.com account. For

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is the same

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread richbl
On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) richbl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 9:00 am, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For months, using gmail as the SMTP

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs even if /boot is fine, if

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Kim Naim Lesmer
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:13 +0100 Thomas Damgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I hope you can help me. My situation is this: After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my server does not boot. The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on,

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Thomas Damgaard: The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails just after GRUB or something. GRUB would actually want to read from the disk. After initial BIOS bootstrapping, the master boot

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:11:17PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For

Re: tcl8.5 tk8.5

2008-01-18 Thread Angus Auld
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? Is there a way to build them for Etch? The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using for a few

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what is happening, but I have taken the primary hard drive out and put it in an USB enclosure, so that I can mount the root filesystem of the server on my laptop.

Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread tofu . oni
I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately followed by root, and with other

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately

Re: tcl8.5 tk8.5

2008-01-18 Thread Angus Auld
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? Is there a way to build them for Etch? The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using for a few

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:30:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe

Re: I need some help

2008-01-18 Thread Peter Greff
Hello! Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with amule, azureus and vlc I'm running Debian version 4.0 r1 etch i386 When I try to run this programs from the menu nothing happens and whe I executed the programs in the terminal I get the following output [...] Have a look at the

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Neidorff wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote: I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a connection I don't

Re: I need some help (Issues with amule, azureus and vlc)

2008-01-18 Thread David S
Tony wrote: The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. You might have run out of memory. Try adding more RAM to the system and see if it works David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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