Re: Apt Crippled

2011-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Feb 2011 at 22:54:16 +0200, David Baron wrote: Did that. It stumbles at the same point: Could be a mirror problem. Try another. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: checking for changes in file size/permissions since installation?

2011-02-13 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Feb 2011 at 23:17:12 -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Does apt/dpkg keep track of permissions and file sizes of the files which belong to a package? If so, how can this information be retrieved so as to compare to existing files on the file system? Is dpkg -c package.deb of any use?

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 15:57:31 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I'm upgrading my MythTV systems and was wondering what the status is of TV-out on Squeeze, using the nouveau driver. I've got a GeForce FX 5200 outputting to a standard-definition television. I'll use the proprietary driver if I have

Re: nouveau tv-out on squeeze?

2011-02-13 Thread Brian
On Sun 13 Feb 2011 at 20:00:10 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Thanks, I'll work on it tomorrow. If anybody has a time-saving step-by-step tutorial, don't be shy... For my Radeon 9200: xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 --crtc 1 xvattr -a XV_CRTC -v 1 Does

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-14 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 23:24:28 +, Steve Kleene wrote: Thanks. I tried that last week with debian-508-i386-netinst.iso and couldn't get the desktop to boot from it, despite trying the likely BIOS settings. Someone suggested that this would only work with a hybrid iso. Is that the case?

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Mon 14 Feb 2011 at 18:25:29 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never figured out how. I've tried

Re: hyperlatex for squeeze

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 07:00:52 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Is is likely that hyperlatex is going to be included in Squeeze? or is the complement of packages in Squeeze fixed, inasmuch as Squeeze now is Debian stable? Highly unlikely I would have thought, for the reason you have touched

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 08:45:43 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: This is the right approach. Incidentally, it doesn't matter whether it's .Xdefaults or .Xresources or anything else, as long as your .xinitrc (or whatever X startup system you're using) runs xrdb on it. I'll just add one thing. You

Re: xterm question

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 09:52:54 +, Clive Standbridge wrote: One way is to put a line like one of the following in ~/.Xresources *font: 6x13 XTerm*font: 7x14 The latter affects just xterm, but the former affects anything that uses a font resource (xterm,

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
and disconnecting the CD PRM in the machine. But that's only because I have time on my hands, :) -- Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110215190528

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 19:05:28 +, Brian wrote: I would go for a lower capacity USB stick and disconnecting the CD PRM in the machine. But that's only because I have time on my hands, :) PRM? Keyboard is playing up. It's my Tuesday wine installation! I've just tried Steve Kleene's

Re: Squeeze install hangs reading CD drive

2011-02-15 Thread Brian
On Tue 15 Feb 2011 at 19:50:47 +, Camaleón wrote: Basically, the installer has now two personalities (it can be run from a CD/DVD or it can be run from an USB disk) so it should automatically and transparently detect the medium where it lives. I do wonder whether the installer can

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 12:34:31 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:29 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, have you tried first with nouveau? That's the first thing I tried . Seemed to be OK, but a little on the slow side compared with my

Re: how to stop console font dimming?

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 18:22:33 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Gentlemen, upon boot I see , , , and Ladies? Loading initial ramdisk Loading, please wait... with the second line dimmer than the first. No big deal, but how can I stop such dimming? All I know is the second line is from

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 13:23:22 -0500, Frank wrote: Like I said, might have been an illusion - I have 3 distros on this computer..Sid - Ubuntu Maverick and Ubunty Natty...I have left Maverick with the Nouveau driver so we'll see. I am undecided what to do with Natty...I mean it's already

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:10:34 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-19 20:34 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: I'm trying to make nouveau work. There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X stack to sid, I

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:34:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/19/2011 02:10 PM, Brian wrote: With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than 5% of users) or the card is not supported well, you

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled Entry Level. I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 21:42:34 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/nouveau_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/README.Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Switching to NVIDIA

2011-02-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 at 14:51:00 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 19 feb 11, 20:10:28, Brian wrote: With NVidia the almost automatic response is to dive into the proprietry driver pool. It seems to me that unless 3D is a need (used by less than 5% of users) or the card is not supported

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 16:01:22 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this as its default. The default GRUB menu display screen is definitely 640x480. Are you

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 14:52:56 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: How do I set the screen resolution to 640x480? GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=vga=769 in /etc/default/grub doesn't work. There is lots of stuff on the web on how to do this, but I couldn't find anything /etc/default/grub specific.

Re: Setting the screen resolution in grub2

2011-02-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 15:23:02 +, Brian wrote: It can and it does. Your video card and the driver it uses have some bearing on this, as does /etc/default/console-setup. I got carried away there. /etc/default/console-setup doesn't alter the screen resolution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote: So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not /dev/...(s), the system won't get confused? One possible gotcha. When GRUB was installed where was it installed to? If it's to /dev/sda you may

Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?

2011-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 16:12:33 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: Either way, you're exposing your internal network to the Internet if you don't have good security procedures in place. Have a strong password (I recommend http://passwordcard.org), chroot jail your daemon, use remote logging, and take

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 20:19:50 -0500, PMA wrote: Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this alert! I may have alarmed you unduly and should have

Re: Need to confirm re 'fstab', before rebooting my Squeeze

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sun 27 Feb 2011 at 12:00:36 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: If you used the mini.iso to install to a different device[1], then it sounds like a bug. I can't think of any reason for the installer to offer anything but the MBR of the device holding /boot as *default* for installing grub.

Re: How do you remotely access a home server/network?

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 19:18:13 -0500, Slicky Johnson wrote: Jason, also have a look at the securing Debian manual with attention on ssh. Perhaps removing passwords all together and only using a key, no root, etc. From experience I will say moving your listening port from 22 to something else

Re: Problems installing VLC

2011-02-27 Thread Brian
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: I am having troubles installing VLC on testing/ wheezy. You have now solved your problem but if you have Debian-Multimedia in your sources.list it may have been the cause of your problem. My testing upgrade today wanted to remove vlc and vlc-nox.

I'm really interested, please send more info on your offer

2011-02-28 Thread Brian
all the best. Brian Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4165-220112128143029...@1m12m.com

Re: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/.. Hash Sum mismatch

2011-03-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 01 Mar 2011 at 22:41:41 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Seems to happen every other day, W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.tw.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages Hash Sum mismatch Anybody else notice such errors occurring more and

Re: debian on a laptop?

1998-03-23 Thread Brian
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Re: X11 problem with Trident card under Debian 1.3.1

1998-03-31 Thread Brian
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Re: Using MySQL as user database

1998-09-17 Thread Brian
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debian-user yes

2003-10-30 Thread Brian
Hi debian-user Herbal-RX has long been a leader in Male enhancement. nbpuenm Learn More: http://www.herbal-rx.us Ref#: 599229779171368783413371699589 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

download

1999-03-04 Thread brian
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usb cd-rw not found by cdrecord

2004-02-04 Thread Brian
(i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling cdrecord.mmap: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. ... I have a Lacie external usb IEEE1394 cd-rw. I included some extra info below in case it helps, Brian -- My kernel

Re: usb cd-rw not found by cdrecord

2004-02-04 Thread Brian
I rebooted with the burner on, and cdrecord outputs the correct info. Even after turning the burner off and back on. But what modules do I need to make it work? Right now, I basically have any enabled that might do the trick. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: usb cd-rw not found by cdrecord

2004-02-05 Thread Brian
to USB storage devices. Adam Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Windows filename dir renaming?

2004-02-13 Thread Brian
Hi, What is an easy way to rename a lot of files and directories that were moved from Windows? They have (, spaces, ^, $, etc in them. `ls |sed s/\ //g` removes spaces, but then I don't how to take each one and move the file/dir correctly. Brian -- ContagiousDesign! web . design . software

compiling the kernel

2004-02-14 Thread Brian
I want to be able to turn some options off and on in the kerenl so how do i compile the kernel in a debian system??? Thanks Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-15 Thread Brian
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Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-16 Thread Brian
there? This is the standard Debian package, apache/testing uptodate 1.3.29.0.1-3 and I haven't seen any related bugs using querybts. Brian -- ContagiousDesign! web . design . software . photo Brian Rose . programmer Stacey Rose . designer (604)-588-8827 . b_roseATshawDOTca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apache won't start although no errors

2004-02-16 Thread Brian
Hi, Sorry, I found this was bug# 219535, (I think). Disable php4 and the problem goes away. Course, so does php4 support. Hehe. Bummer. Brian -- ContagiousDesign! web . design . software . photo Brian Rose . programmer Stacey Rose . designer (604)-588-8827 . b_roseATshawDOTca

Re: need help on config PCI wireless card (rt2500 chip)

2007-09-20 Thread Brian
imagine all of them are free. The rt2500 driver may not be included because it is considered to be non-free. Debian certainly regards it as such, which is why it not on the installation CD. If Serena follows Gabrielle Chatelet's advice she should be up and running in no time. -- Brian

Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Brian
to do with the read command being executed in a subshell. So how can I extract the parts I want into variables to use them later on in the script? Thanks in advance Cheers Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-04 Thread Brian
Georg Neis wrote: Brian wrote: The following does not (the value is empty): echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; } echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty I assume it has something to do with the read command being executed in a subshell. Yes. So how can I extract the parts I

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-04 Thread Brian
Mark Clarkson wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:48 +0100, Brian wrote: echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; } echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty { read A B C D E F; } ( echo $teststring ) echo Data received = $E Bytes --- $E is empty Robomod, I could not get this to work

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-05 Thread Brian
Mark Clarkson wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not get this to work, the shell complains: ./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think this is rather

AT Package Requires Courier MTA

2008-03-28 Thread Brian
the AT install without Courier? I have never done this but I assume its not too big a problem to do. Cheers Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AT Package Requires Courier MTA

2008-03-29 Thread Brian
, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running an NSLU2 Slug, Debian Etch. Kernel=2.6.18-4-ixp4xx. I installed AT and was very surprised to see that APT requires that Courier Mail MTA is a prereq of AT. Me too. I've got at installed, and no courier: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ dpkg -l

Re: AT Package Requires Courier MTA

2008-03-29 Thread Brian
very much for the tips. Cheers Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

2006-12-30 Thread Brian
wondering how to debug this further, how can I get any error messages from nail into my logs? All I tried up till now doesn't seem to work. Cheers Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

2006-12-30 Thread brian
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup to send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various other things, they use Nail to sned the emails to me. I tried to setup my mothers PC

Re: Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

2006-12-30 Thread brian
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup to send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various other things, they use Nail to sned the emails to me. I tried to setup my mothers PC

Re: Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

2007-01-01 Thread Brian
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:48:24PM +0100, brian wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup to send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various other things

Re: Wierd problem with a script that calls nail

2007-01-02 Thread brian
Brian wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:48:24PM +0100, brian wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a Debian Sarge box and an NSLU2 (Unslung) that I have setup to send me mails when they startup, reboot, and do various

Disk Spin-down problems: nmbd to blame

2007-11-29 Thread brian
to strace at least). Could anyone give me some ideas on debugging this? Cheers Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk Spin-down problems: nmbd to blame

2007-11-30 Thread brian
brian wrote: Hi running Debian etch on an NSLU2. USB2 Disk will spin-down by itself after 10 minutes idle. /dev and /var/log are on RAMFS. Slug2:~# mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Brian
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Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-06 Thread Brian
Bob wrote: Jacob S. wrote: Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-08 Thread Brian
on the SA ok_locales function yesterday and loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry, these helped somewhat. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-08 Thread Brian
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue January 8 2008, Brian wrote: I turned on the SA ok_locales function yesterday and loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry, these helped somewhat. would you explain these a little.. is that 2nd line a file entry? how do you turn on ok_locales

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Brian
prompt) but it runs OpenBSD very nicely. CLI is as responsive as my Athlon64. Thanks, Doug. OpenBSD is fab for older hardware, X on a p3 laptop worked pretty well once I set it up. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-06 Thread Brian
I hadnt considered the multi proc possibility, there are indeed some dual proc p2 boxen available. I see a dual p2 300 (probably too fast) for 60 bux with 3 9 gig scsi disks and 512 mb ram as well. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

IRCD

1999-05-22 Thread Brian
Greetings; I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to compile an older copy of dalnet's ircd ver 4.4.10 however it appears that I may not have the correct libs? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance CT TCPIP Coordinator 44.88/16

dhclient and domainname\000

2000-10-12 Thread Brian
dhclient periodically appends a literal \000 to the search domain in resolv.conf. This happens with Woody and an NT4.5 server, and Potato with a Win2K server. Have others run into this? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access

lists.debian.org stopped sending to my domain (?)

2000-10-15 Thread Brian
For some reason, I've stopped receiving Debian list traffic at snowfox.net (64.193.169.237) - lists were working through last night. I'm still receiving from all other sites, and exim's logs don't show any messages being refused. I'm not on the RBL MAPS list, and mail-abuse.org doesn't test me

Automatic Debian 'slushy'

2000-10-31 Thread Brian
I don't know enough about apt or how Debian distribution sites are maintained to know if this is feasible. Would it be possible to approximate a 'slushy' release by only upgrading to newer packages when the version numbers of said package and its dependencies hasn't changed in (n) days? I'm

X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug to. Help? Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc consistently report that they don't know colors anymore: Warning: Color name black is not defined Warning: Color

Re: X4 lacking color definitions

2000-11-05 Thread Brian
--- brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:37:54AM -0800, Brian wrote: A fresh X install this morning made X4 an interesting surprise. One problem which I don't know which package to report the bug to. Help? Programs like Netscape, fetchmailconf, etc

Re: Windowmaker and sound

2000-11-16 Thread Brian
It's there in potato. I don't a corresponding package with any kind of sounds. --- Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David A. Rogers wrote: Does the current version of WindowMaker do sound events? I know earlier versions did with wmsound. But that was many versions ago and wmsound seems

Re: alsactl problem

2000-11-20 Thread Brian
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:51:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Philipp Schulte wrote: Try if there is a script called snddevices on your system. I compiled alsa from source and on my system the script is in /usr/local/src/alsa-driver-0.5.9d

/etc/cron.daily/squid - zipit rotate

2000-11-20 Thread Brian
I'm curious about /etc/cron.daily/squid - What's the logic behind the zipit and rotate functions when the script still relies on savelog for squid.out ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

multi-session, multi-ISO?

2000-11-22 Thread Brian
I back up about 80 megs of data nightly. I'd like to burn this straight to a CD-R as part of the backup script, but I'd hate to use a new CD-R every day. Is there a way to add files to sessions to a CD and still have a mountable filesystem? Do any of the CD filesystems available support this?

Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Brian
A recent update to one or more apache module installation scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off. Edit the section of your /etc/apache/httpd.conf with the LoadModule lines and check to see which modules might not be enabled. Compare against a working server or see if you've

Re: books on PHP, Perl, HTML, etc

2000-04-26 Thread Brian
fall into the trap that a lot of authors fall into. Brian

Re: Changing user name

2000-05-18 Thread Brian
-R cmatheson.cmatheson cmatheson $ logout Then, from that moment on, log in as cmatheson instead of fatmike. When you're satisfied nothing else on the system is 'owned' by the user fatmike: $ rmuser fatmike Brian

Re: changing default shells

2000-05-19 Thread Brian
Justin Megawarne said: On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:04:10PM -0700, Nick wrote: i installed Tsch how do i get back to BASH thankx easy peasy ... run chsh =) And another helpful tip is: If you don't know how to use vi, you'll need to edit all of your shell rc files (.bashrc, .tcsh, etc -- or

Base Install + SETI@Home

2000-03-01 Thread Brian
bones system and they usually get installed as a 'depends' with something larger. Anyone? :-) Brian

CD Release: Quick Question

2000-03-11 Thread Brian
Howdy, Slink 2.1 r4. *is* the current almost-bomb-proof release (The Y2K fixes, etc.), right? Forgive me for my moronic ways, Brian

AccelStar Permedia II AGP

2000-03-23 Thread Brian
and the server isn't listed. Any advice? Thanks, Brian

pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-18 Thread Brian
on the previous line to create a cascading formatting. Can someone point me to how I can stop this? I know I can fix past problems with cat file | tr -d '\t' , but how can I stop the bug in the first place? However, I can't get it to do it now for an example. Brian

ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread brian
Hi I have problem about ftp when run it in the unix unixftp 68.141.111.92 Connected to 68.141.111.92 220 ftp.eric.org FTP Server ready Name (68.141.111.92:root): fai 331 Password required for fai. Password: 230 User fai logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files.

Re: ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread brian
Hi Mike how can we enable it in the unix machine? Thank you Mike Dresser wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ken Gilmour wrote: ftp dir 227 Entering Passive Mode (68,141,111,92,217,95) ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp ftp dir 200 PORT command successful 226 Transfer complete.

smbmount

2003-03-25 Thread Brian
Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0 i386. I think the kernel is 2.2.20. At least that's what's returned when I do uname -a. My problem is I can't run smbmount using Debian. The error is: ERROR: smbfs filesystem not supported by the kernel Please refer to the smbmnt(8) manual page smbmnt failed: 255

PCMCIA package stops working w/new kernel

2003-03-25 Thread Brian
Hi, I just finished compiling a new kernel. I was using a 2.2.20 kernel and now I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel. Unfortunately, my PC Card doesn't work with this new kernel. If you have any ideas why the PC Card would stop functioning after creating and using a new kernel please let me know.

tutos pkg. in sarge (install problems)

2003-06-06 Thread Brian
Hi, Is anyone else having problems getting tutos to work? I have a superuser with encryption of password 'tutos' in mysql. However, I cannot login and the setup with scheme.php worked. How can I fix it? What other information should I give? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Lilo Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
as this newbie could tell) until the reboot failed. Thanks! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lilo Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Elie De Brauwer wrote: Did you run lilo after you copied the kernel ? Didn't it give any errors ? I just followed the newbie guide, and to me it looked like lilo was run by the dpkg -i process as it asked me several questions about LILO. I googled on this problem and found someone else

Re: Lilo Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Elie De Brauwer wrote: is it possible to rerun lilo with a certain level of verbosity and paste the output here ? Attached. (Because I can't for the life of me get anything to paste into a mozilla compose window. UGH.) liloverbosity Description: application/java-vm

Re: [SOLVED] Lilo Descriptor Checksum Error

2003-05-29 Thread Brian
Kevin McKinley wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:33 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/lilo.conf - boot=/dev/hda3 root=/dev/hda3 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label = Linux read-only - This told lilo to put

Success with TV output?

2001-01-18 Thread Brian
Anyone had any luck with one of the graphics cards with integrated composite out? I'd like to put together a system just for MAME, and I'd like to attach it to a large TV. I'm considering the Matrox G450, but can't seem to find any reference to using its TV out.

Re: Strange messages on all terminals

2002-03-12 Thread brian
to give to your friends and relieve your embarrassment. Brian.

Re: simple database?

2002-03-25 Thread Brian
databases, you may as well use Postgresql because it is a database you can grow into. My $.02, Brian On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 06:08 PM, Jeff Maxson wrote: Hi all, I've got a ton of books, and I was thinking about cataloging them in some sort of database. What would be something I could

plptools the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-18 Thread Brian
on /psion.stand/mnt type nfs (hard,intr) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ So, the psion is still mounted. If I try to umount the psion, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/brian# umount /psion.stand/mnt Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Program not registered umount: /psion.stand/mnt: device is busy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/brian

Re: plptools the Revo/(Diamond Mako)

2002-05-19 Thread Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: plptools the Revo/(Diamond Mako) From: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 10:34:46 +0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 17 May 2002 23:45:50 -0700 Brian

Re: plptools and Diamond Mako

2002-05-20 Thread Brian
Oh. Thanks. Is there a way to find out all programs that are included in a .deb pkg? If I do man plpftp, the See Also section shows ncpd and plpftp. Not plpbackup, etc. Course, the problem goes beyond plptools. Brian csj wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2002 08:30:11 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New Debian user - a bunch of problems

2002-05-22 Thread Brian
for it, I'd appreciate it. I had a similar problem. Do you have gpm running? ( I assume you know Ctrl-Alt-Fi takes you to the ith console to get a shell when X isn't working. X is F7.) Kill gpm if it is running and hopefully your mouse will start working. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to rebuild Woody kernel (Newbie)

2002-05-22 Thread Brian
If you're using X, (I don't remember from the original post), but synaptic--in my opinion, is more intuitive than dselect, capt, or deity. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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