Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Simon
Bob Proulx wrote: Simon wrote: I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on another (listening to multiple IPs). s/eth2/eth1/ ?? Should have been eth1. Sorry. The problem is that i can p

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Simon wrote: > I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny > enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on > another (listening to multiple IPs). s/eth2/eth1/ ?? > The problem is that i can ping eth0's IP, but not eth1's... but it shows > u

Re: Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Samuel B Preston wrote: > I am trying to renew my subscription. Is this the place? How / why did the > renewal process go wrong? You don't need to renew a scription to the debian-user mailing list. When subscribed you remain subscribed until you unsubscribe from it. See the mailing list document

Re: tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefhen Hovland wrote: > I am still recieving suboptimal usenet downloads from > news.giganews.com even after the 4mbps Comcast speed upgrade my city > went through a couple of months ago What, exactly, is suboptimal pr0n downloads from giganews? 100kps? 200kps? 50kps? What makes you think

Re: MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:00:32 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. What card would you suggest that I use? Hauppauge 250 and 350 are popular for use with MythTV in multi card configurations. Visit http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/ to see what it takes to install the driver and decide if you want

Re: su & $PATH & gdm

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > Anyway the problem arises also with gdm: > if i run > startx > in gnome (ALT+F2 -> echo $PATH > ~/what_path) or in a terminal run by > gnome the $PATH is ok > if i use gdm the $PATH is not ok > (since gdm is run as root it will change user id shomewhere) I just posted a

Re: Holding packages compiled from source back from updates

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Terry Burton wrote: > I've compiled the mysql-4.1 packages from source to enable OpenSSL > support. I understand that I therefore take responsibility for > updating these packages with regard to security issues. > > Firstly, what is the official debian method for holding source > compiled packages

Re: sarge install on hp DL320

2005-06-27 Thread saravanan ganapathy
--- saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Daniel Thoroughgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > saravanan ganapathy wrote: > > > > >Hai, > > > > > >When I try to install sarge (2.6 kernel) on hp > > >Dl320(SATA HDDs) , it says that no common CDROM > > >detected. > > > > > >If I

Re: Having crashes with Wolfet that take the whole system down!

2005-06-27 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Mika Rastas wrote (Tuesday 28 June 2005 5:33 am): > Hi > > First of all, I have done some searching for wolfet bug reporting place > but did not find one. (Sorry) If you know the place to send this tell. The original creators of enemy territory (et, or wolfet) can be found at www.splashdamage.com

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:15:06 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has there been a "hold" put on updates lately ;-) > > For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 > computers I maintain. > > My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows; > > #Debian > deb ftp

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Simon
Jacob S wrote: What is the chipset on eth1 and what driver are you using for it? (Not saying that I have the answer, but you are more likely to get one if you include that information.) You might also copy/paste the output of "cat /proc/interrupts". You may have a driver that a) is buggy b) d

Launching apps in a new X display?

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Gilbert
Hello all, i am using Debian Sarge and am trying to launch an application in a new X server. if I do $ xinit -- :1 the X server is indeed launched, but the default xterm application does not start. if i look at the terminal that i launched xint from, i see a lot of repeating error messages t

tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-27 Thread Stefhen Hovland
Does anyone have any tips or relevant links for tuning the Linux IP stack? About the only url I have found is: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/ About the only thing I have found to change in this link above were: echo 8388608 > /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_max echo 838

Re: Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Jacob S
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:06:12 +1200 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny > enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday June 27 2005 9:43 am, M N wrote: > I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would > like to know > how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. Short answer: You don't, that's a Windows format. Long answer: You can, but it requires emulation. See also, Cedega, Win4Li

Re: MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday June 27 2005 1:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a > few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of > questions for those that have it running. > > 1. What card would you suggest that I use? > > 2. To install, d

Multihomed - seperate subnets...

2005-06-27 Thread Simon
Hi There, I have a debian sarge box with 2 network card as eth0 and eth1 (funny enough!).. eth0 is the default on one subnet (a single IP) and eth2 on another (listening to multiple IPs). The problem is that i can ping eth0's IP, but not eth1's... but it shows up on the box as up and i can p

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 05:11:31PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Lots of people, including me, have problems with USB and firewire > devices entering uninterruptable sleeps. I don't know of any > work-arounds or fixes; I think this is an ongoing, if not necessarily > high-piority, development

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 27 2005, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 > computers I maintain. I am seeing the same behaviour (I'm using testing, obviously). I even tried to look at my sources.list to see if there were any errors there, but there were none.

Re: video slower than sound

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 08:08:22PM +0200, Michal Simovic wrote: hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit xine has some opt

Re: Freeze (system or just USB subsystem) on USB access

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:39:49PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: Additional sense: Data phase error Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 238 Jun 26 22:24:21 localhost kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sdc1 Lots of peo

Re: a question about apt_preferences,

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:47:16PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am attempting to set up apt_preferences to pin priorities on the basis of the name of a release rather than on the basis of (stable|testing|unstable). I tried a line : Pin: release a=etch I filed a bug report against apt for t

Re: Re: changing from unstable to testing

2005-06-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:10:49AM +, Anton Bretterklieber wrote: My problem: I did an upgrade to gnome-panel 2-10.1.3. From now on, gnome-panel doesn't work - "gnome-panel crashed". Also bugbuddy shows only a blank window, therfore I cannot send a bug-report. You probably don't need t

no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Has there been a "hold" put on updates lately ;-) For the past 3 or 4 days, I've had no updates from anywhere, on the 4 computers I maintain. My /etc/apt/sources.list is as follows; #Debian deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free #deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge m

Re: Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Stolp
* Robert Tilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-27 15:30]: > There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide > the mouse cursor after a certain number of seconds. Problem? I forget the > name of it, so apt-get is useless to me. > > Help??? > apt-cache search mouse |

RE: mouse and kvm switch

2005-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Adam Hardy wrote: > My mouse is created problems when I switch back to xfree86 on my > debian box using my kvm. I test drove half a dozen KVM switches a few years backing trying to find one that could do AT/COM1 (AT motherboards) and PS/2 (ATX motherboards) plus DOS, Windows, Linux, BSD O/S's. As

Re: saslauthd does not start at reboot

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:34:48PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: I had to do some modifications because of postfix's chroot and smtp auth. I have /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd where the pid files and socket files are located and then I linked this saslauthd to /var/run/saslauthd but everytim

mouse and kvm switch

2005-06-27 Thread Adam Hardy
My mouse is created problems when I switch back to xfree86 on my debian box using my kvm. At one point I had the mouse set up perfectly. Switching backwards and forwards between the boxes on my kvm caused no problem for debian (I've got Redhat and Windows boxes too). Now however, well actual

saslauthd does not start at reboot

2005-06-27 Thread Caleb Walker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had to do some modifications because of postfix's chroot and smtp auth. I have /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd where the pid files and socket files are located and then I linked this saslauthd to /var/run/saslauthd but everytime I reboot the li

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-27, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Marco Calviani wrote: >> Hi Hugo, >> can you describe your problem? >> >> Regards, >> MC >> > > Yes, I realized after I posted that the question was wrongly posed. > > My problem is stated in another (unanswered) post: I am using a deskjet > plus HP print

no kdm after 2.2->2.4

2005-06-27 Thread Joe Mc Cool
Please, if this is a FAQ, my google searches can't find it. I have just just upgraded from woody to sarge, no problem. But when I upgrade from the 2.2.20 kernel to 2.4.27-2-686, kdm will not start. In /var/log/syslog I get error messages like: Jun 27 17:47:24 solaris kdm: :0[610]: Hung in XO

Chkrootkit reports infection

2005-06-27 Thread Robert S
I've recently updated to sarge. When chkrootkit runs daily, I get a (presumed) false positive: # chkrootkit -q /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/proc/.keep /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/root/.profile I assume that this is due to the presence of "dotfiles" installed by mindi. I've tried suppressing this output usi

Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

2005-06-27 Thread Steve Block
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 11:50:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Bj?rn Lindstr?m wrote: Saverio Trioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: you have to edit the file /etc/sudoers with the command 'visudo', for security reasons. For this, you have to get used to the editor 'vi'. In fact you don't. I, for i

Re: Woody-> Sarge. System won't reboot cleanly

2005-06-27 Thread Robert S
> I'm not sure you want to be running the 386 kernel. > Try installing one the amd kernels, perhaps the 2.6.8-2-k7 kernel-image. Tried that - got endless reboots. I assume that the k7 kernel won't run on a k6. Nor will the 686 kernel. I managed to compile a k6 kernel, but got the same problem

Re: Merging workstation and server systems

2005-06-27 Thread VSJ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why not just run sarge for everything? > So then why the need to run etch packages > for logged in users? No one knows how long it will take before etch becomes stable. I don't want to run old software for workstation desktop users (sarge will be ancient in three years

Re: usb disks

2005-06-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:57:19AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I installed my brand new version of Debian testing and i discovered > that it manage plugging and unplugging of usb disks and pens > automaticaly and mounts devices in > /media/something. > Now: > 1) What program do that? > 2) I whan

Re: Your The Economist Customer Service Request

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I want to renew my subscription.  How do I do it?   Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)    

Re: more info

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Dylan Evans wrote: > and for kent's help: > the when I entered the lines as you told them to me > ( > #apt-get install aptitude > #aptitude install x-window-system kde gnome icewm wmaker fluxbox > /*because I have a lot of free space*/ > #/etc/init.d/kdm start > ) > nothing happened, nor when I

Trouble starting X [Was:Re: more info]

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Dylan Evans wrote: > when I typed "startx" at the command prompt, it made the same error > messages it did initially, > [EE] xf860 penserial: cannot open device /dev/input/miceno such > device > [EE] configured mouse: cannot open input device > [EE] PreInit failed for input device "Configur

Re: modify server's IP

2005-06-27 Thread alex
Alle 18:17, giovedì 23 giugno 2005, Maurice O'Regan ha scritto: > Hi, > > How can the server's IP address be modified permanently. > using ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4 only applies till a reboot occurs. > > Is the IP stored somewhere in a file ? > /etc/network/interfaces man . A.

Re: About blackdown

2005-06-27 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hal Vaughan thresholddigital.com> writes: > My understanding, though, is that this while AWT has some work done, Swing is > still undone. When I write in Java, I'm working on a client program for my > business that receives data and prints it. Since it goes on subscriber's > computers, it *h

Synaptic not starting after upgrading to xorg

2005-06-27 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I've upgraded to xorg using the repo from http://debian.linux-systeme.com but now I cannot start synaptic. The box requiring the password appears but after I enter the password, it dissapears and nothing happens. How could I fix this?

RE: Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Patrick Kirchner
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Tilley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 3:22 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Hiding the X Cursor > > There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window > that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain

Re: Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Samuel B Preston wrote: > I am trying to renew my subscription. Is this the place? How / why did > the renewal process go wrong? > > Subscription to what? This is a public mailing list. > > Sam Preston > > +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) > > +1 973 635 5113 (home) > > > > > -- To UNSU

more info

2005-06-27 Thread Dylan Evans
here are a bunch of misc info: 2 dvds from an online vendor, linux-cd.com it successfully booted from the dvds, launching the installer. list of hardware: A7V333 mobo w/ 1800+ Athlon Geforce 2 400 belkin something or other 10/100 ethernet (see below) coupla hds (seagate and something else - but th

Re: qmail-src not activating changes

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:29:18AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > I installed qmail-src and removed its patched qmail-1.03 folder. > I unzipped its qmail_1.03.orig.tar.gz file and then patched it with the > following patches from qmailrocks.org: > qmail-1.03-forcetls-20040703.patch > qm

Sound Blaster Live 24bit Model: SB0410 Chip CA0106

2005-06-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi Debian: Funny story here. I bought this card because I thought the onboard audio of my new mobo (EPOX EP-8VTAI) would be hard to configure. It's the other way around: the onboard is a dream, the card is junk. You have to get the latest Alsa (2.4.x) or 2.6.11 to get the CA0106 driver. Then

Hiding the X Cursor

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Tilley
There is a daemon that can be executed from a terminal window that will hide the mouse cursor after a certain number of seconds. Problem? I forget the name of it, so apt-get is useless to me. Help??? Thanks, Bob -- Q: Where's the Lone Ranger take his garbage? A: To the dump, to the

MythTV

2005-06-27 Thread disciple
This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a few weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of questions for those that have it running. 1. What card would you suggest that I use? 2. To install, do I just do apt-get install mythtv? What are the steps to installati

Re: wrong sources.list ?

2005-06-27 Thread Alex Lubberts
> Hi, > > This is the content of my sources.list: > > deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free > deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib > non-free > deb-src ftp://non-us.d

Subscription renewal

2005-06-27 Thread Samuel B Preston
I am trying to renew my subscription.  Is this the place?  How / why did the renewal process go wrong?   Sam Preston +1 973 986 2909 (mobile) +1 973 635 5113 (home)    

wrong sources.list ?

2005-06-27 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
Hi, This is the content of my sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.27.1655 +0200]: > Any timeline when it will be available in North America? Mh, well... it's all obfuscated right now. The US market is just a major pain for foreign companies. Fact is that we are working hard to get it to you asap. While I

qmail-src not activating changes

2005-06-27 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I installed qmail-src and removed its patched qmail-1.03 folder. I unzipped its qmail_1.03.orig.tar.gz file and then patched it with the following patches from qmailrocks.org: qmail-1.03-forcetls-20040703.patch qmail-1.03-jms1.5.patch I also copi

Having crashes with Wolfet that take the whole system down!

2005-06-27 Thread Mika Rastas
Hi First of all, I have done some searching for wolfet bug reporting place but did not find one. (Sorry) If you know the place to send this tell. So All most every time I play wolfet it crashes after a while taking the whole system down. Nothing is'nt responding. Sometimes though I get a mes

Re: problem with ssh

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Andrew Schulman wrote: >>Hi everybody, >> i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but >>i've got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the >>computer: >> >>$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] >># Permission denied (publickey). >> >>What do i have to modify in my

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 11:40 -0400, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts > that works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end > and support group calendaring and contacts. Two commercial packages: http://www.scalix.com/index.h

Re: [OT] I compiled mplayer- no sound playing movie

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:29:27PM +0200, Mikael Backman wrote: > > Messages from mplayer > > with -ao alsa: > > alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 > AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} > > then it hangs > > with -ao oss > > Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2c

[OT] I compiled mplayer- no sound playing movie

2005-06-27 Thread Mikael Backman
Messages from mplayer with -ao alsa: alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: iec958:{CARD 0 AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02} then it hangs with -ao oss Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/ac3 -> 48000Hz/2ch/s16le... [format] Sample format big-endian AC3 not yet supported [lib

Re: Merging workstation and server systems

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting VSJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Hi, > >I've a small home network, with an old server system, running Woody and > >WWW/mail/proxy/NFS/Samba/NIS services. This system is up 24/7. > >I also have another old system, acting as a

Re: problems unpacking kernel source

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:37:12PM +0100, Simon Rees wrote: > > Simon Rees wrote: > > > Hello > > > > > > I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude > > > unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: > > > tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > > >

Re: recompile kernel on a toshiba CDS220

2005-06-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 04:53:25PM +0200, mr jones wrote: > hi, > > I tried to install a 2.4.27 kernel on a Toshiba Tecra 220CDS, but when > I reboot, the system won't load and reboot continuously just after the > "loading linux..." message however I selected toshiba laptop support > in the kerne

Dialer Problems-Only Pon Works

2005-06-27 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
This issue was priviously posted as "Wvdial, Pon Broke On Sarge-Stable, Only Pon works On Woody-Done Everthing I Know-Need Help", but no solution forthcoming. Since then, have tried to configure KPPP and it wont work. Reposting with new info. Need serious Guru help. OOOPS, Fixed KPPP myself

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Hugo, can you describe your problem? Regards, MC Yes, I realized after I posted that the question was wrongly posed. My problem is stated in another (unanswered) post: I am using a deskjet plus HP printer that I bought in 1990. Used on M$ in the pre-Debian era. St

Re: Random Crashing KMail

2005-06-27 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 18:50, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 11.33, Mr Mike wrote: > > Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? Yes, there are. But it's much better in KDE 3.4's kmail. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the lis

Re: Random Crashing KMail

2005-06-27 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Friday 06 May 2005 11.33, Mr Mike wrote: > Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? It is > quite annoying... I can't seem to find a rhyme or reason for them and > they aren't doing any real damange to my system. I just restart it and > it runs for a while but a wrong cli

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
If by ".exe" you means an executable compiled in Linux (for example, a fortran or C executable) you should go to in the folder were the executable resides and type "./executable_name.extencion" (for example, ./sample.e) Marcelo On 27.06.05 13:43, M N wrote: I am an inexperienced(somewhat) L

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 27 June 2005 17:43, M N wrote: > I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would > like to know > how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. > > Thank you for any help. > > What you need is Wine. This will run many Windows programs as binaries. Sometimes there are progra

Re: Sound problem: My green output jack doesn't relay any data.

2005-06-27 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Xeno Campanoli ha escrit, a 27/06/05 16:00: >> I'm running Sarge, and I just installed it this weekend. I did >> install alsa, but I don't know if the test program I'm running is an >> alsa program. It's the "CD Player" in the multimedia pulldown, which >> seemed like the simplest one to t

Re: problem with ssh

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi everybody, > i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but i've > got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the > computer: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # Permission denied (publickey). > > What do i have to modify in my host

Re: a2ps printing .ps files?

2005-06-27 Thread Walt Sullivan
Quoting Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Anybody out there printing .ps files with a2ps successfully? > Yes, both as Interpreted PostScript (the way it's supposed to look on the page): [13:16][walt](0)$ a2ps -o - j1.ps | gv - [j1.ps (ps, delegated to PsNup): 1 page on 1 sheet] [Total: 2

Re: problem with ssh

2005-06-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hi everybody, > i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but > i've got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the > computer: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # Permission denied (publickey). > > What do i have to modify in my hosts sshd.config to h

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Monday 27 June 2005 18:43, M N wrote: > I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would > like to know > how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. > > Thank you for any help. You could use Wine (as root: `apt-get install wine') to run Windows executables. However, as Lee poin

Re: how many bugs in 3.1r0?

2005-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
Paul Smith wrote: %% Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jh> This is a mistake in the CD build. That text is intended to appear on jh> development CD builds but be removed from the final build, but jh> apparently noone remembered to remove it. Sounds like a perfect candidate for the "Th

Re: Can't print postscript with cups

2005-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
Henry Gunter wrote: If i try to print a postscript file lpr /var/lib/sql-ledger/users/1118008807.invoice.377.ps there is no response from the printer. I have turned on debug2 which dumps a ton of info "534 lines" into the log. but i can't seem to find the problem. Log can bee seen here. htt

Re: Question

2005-06-27 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 17:43, M N wrote: > I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would > like to know > how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. EXE files are windows or DOS files. It can be done for certain reasons, but the question, in the way you're asking it, makes no s

Re: problems unpacking kernel source

2005-06-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, have you tried to uncompress with tar --bzip2 -xvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 Regards, MC Simon Rees wrote: Hello I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.ta

Question

2005-06-27 Thread M N
I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would like to know how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. Thank you for any help. ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling w

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:42, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > > Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that > > works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support > > group calendaring and contacts. > > Kola

problem with ssh

2005-06-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi everybody, i'm trying to connect to my host via ssh fron another computer but i've got always this error, it refuses to give me the right to enter the computer: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Permission denied (publickey). What do i have to modify in my hosts sshd.config to have this working?

Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

2005-06-27 Thread Kent West
Björn Lindström wrote: >Saverio Trioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>you have to edit the file /etc/sudoers with the command 'visudo', for >>security reasons. For this, you have to get used to the editor 'vi'. >> >> >In fact you don't. I, for instance, make it use nano, by setting the >E

RE: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D. Hansen Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 12:42 PM To: Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG; Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: RE: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange I want to do the same - set somethi

RE: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Mark D. Hansen
I want to do the same - set something up for home / small biz use. Outlook must be front-end because users are in love with it. I want to get rid of exchange. What is the difference between open-xchange and the Novell/Suse OpenExchange product? Thanks, Mark > -Original Message- > F

Re: X Window problem after woody --> sarge upgrade

2005-06-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 08:27:43AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > >BUT -- now X is shot. If I try to start X either using > >GDM or startx, it starts up but then... my monitor > >goes into power saving mode!!! And nothing can get it > >to come out of it other than Ctrl-Alt-F1,

Re: openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Price
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Matt Price ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:46: any hints? thanks, You might try asking your question at the newsgroup gmane.comp.openoffice.general or else subscribing to the list: discuss@openoffice.org It's a good place for openoffice-related issues. Cheers, Jonathan t

Re: How to make account with sudo root permissions

2005-06-27 Thread Björn Lindström
Saverio Trioni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you have to edit the file /etc/sudoers with the command 'visudo', for > security reasons. For this, you have to get used to the editor 'vi'. In fact you don't. I, for instance, make it use nano, by setting the EDITOR environment variable to 'nano'. -

RE: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D. Hansen Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:40 AM To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/con

Re: problems unpacking kernel source

2005-06-27 Thread Jan de Haan
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:59:09 +0100 Simon Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude > unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: > tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > returned: > - > bz

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that > works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support > group calendaring and contacts. Kolab 2 seems to be decent, as they're using it for linking up

outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

2005-06-27 Thread Mark D. Hansen
Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support group calendaring and contacts. Thanks!

Re: problems unpacking kernel source

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Rees
> Simon Rees wrote: > > Hello > > > > I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude > > unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: > > tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 > > returned: > > - > > bzip2: Data integrity error when decompres

strange iptables behaviour after upgrading Sarge to Etch and kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2005-06-27 Thread Bernd Prager
Hi, After upgrade from Sarge to Etch my old iptables script suddenly causes some strange behaviour. I can't access https web pages from my internal network anymore. It seems that the masquerading into my local subnet somehow prevents https packets coming through. I get perfect https communication

Re: Merging workstation and server systems

2005-06-27 Thread michael
Quoting VSJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I've a small home network, with an old server system, running Woody and WWW/mail/proxy/NFS/Samba/NIS services. This system is up 24/7. I also have another old system, acting as a workstation, currently running Etch and physically located next to the server

Re: Woody-> Sarge. System won't reboot cleanly

2005-06-27 Thread michael
Quoting Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I recently upgraded my system to Sarge, and upgraded my kernel. I have a rather antiquated AMD K6 running on a K6BV3+/66 mobo (AT form factor). If I issue the "reboot" command, everything shuts down, until "rebooting" appears, but then nothing happens. I

Re: Announcing a new book: The Debian System -- Concepts and Techniques

2005-06-27 Thread michael
Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear all, I am pleased to announce the availability of my new (English) book "The Debian System", which Open Source Press[0] introduced at the Linuxtag 2005. I would like to thank all who have followed its development over the last year, and apologis

problems unpacking kernel source

2005-06-27 Thread Simon Rees
Hello I'm having problems unpacking the kernel-source-2.6.8 package. Aptitude unpacks the deb package and places it in /usr/src but attempting: tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 returned: - bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing. Input file = (stdin), output file =

recompile kernel on a toshiba CDS220

2005-06-27 Thread mr jones
hi,   I tried to install a 2.4.27 kernel on a Toshiba Tecra 220CDS, but when I reboot, the system won't load and reboot continuously just after the "loading linux..." message however I selected toshiba laptop support in the kernel configuration   any idea ?   thanks   j. Appel audio GRATUIT par

Oracle 9i, dbca problem error ORA 03113

2005-06-27 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
Hi, I've got a problem witg Oracle 9i. i've installed this with a lot of pb, but after some hours of works and some good help it run. Now, i try to create a database with DBCA. when the creation is at 46%, the error ORA 03113 appear. someone has an idea?

Re: How to change driver for NIC

2005-06-27 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: > Hi! > > So, I have Debian running inside VMware, and the NIC is detected as a > AMD PCnet (module pcnet32). I installed vmware-tools and would like to > know how to me Debian use the "vmxnet" driver instead. > > How is the right way to change which module is loaded for a

noflushd tries to spin down USB Flash drive.

2005-06-27 Thread fraz
I've noticed recently that if noflushd is started while a USB flash drive is present noflushd will try and spin down /dev/sda (the flash drive) and ignore /dev/hda. on these occations "/etc/init.d/noflushd start" says: Starting No Flush Daemon: pdflush wakeup interval 0 suspiciously low, overr

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