pidgin problems

hi i have currently the problem that since the last update in unstable i cannot access the menu bar, and the question is now, is that a known problem that others have to or is that just some sideefekt of my x configuration / window manager (wmii)? other then that it works, though the problem is t

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

H.S. wrote: ... Yes. The experiment shows that this is not going well. I was wondering if there are any alternatives. I currently have around 80,000 rules now inserted, and the process is still continuing more than 17 hours later! However, my internet connection seems to be holding up without a

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

can in prinziple run on any port you want, since you can tell then how to configure your clients, but there is no mechanism to tell other smtp servers "talk to me on port 666" or something. yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Different ways of locking accounts

? Thanks. > >> > >I think that you just described it. Change the user's shell to > >/bin/false or something similar. > > > But changing the shell to nologin or false will also block sftp access... apt-cache search sftp turns up rssh and scponly yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ACL support via NFS

Marco De Vitis wrote: On 09/03/2007 17:00, Marco De Vitis wrote: I'll now see if I can make it by installing the more recent rsync from backports, it's just one version behind the Etch one. Sigh! Also the 2.6.8 version from backports does not support ACLs. I then built and installed 2.6.9 on

Re: ACL support via NFS

Marco De Vitis wrote: ... tar cpSf - . | ssh 'cd ; tar xpSf - ' I don’t know, if tar supports ACLs. Unfortunately, it doesn't :(. there is star that should support ACL's with one version of the tar format (as there are actullay severall variants of it). yours albert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

n filesystems under 2 TB. I know > nothing about the restraints of the kernel, though. well, there is a large block device support in the linux kernel for devices >2TB, and the filesystems mostly support is (ext2/3: 16TB, xfs 8EB, ...). grub should not be a problem: who needs >2TB for /boot ?

Re: /dev/sda1 --> /dev/hda1 ???

raged to use it, since the sata support there is not activly developed anymore to my knowlege. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRdya9iIMiEpzxsFKAQKj/AP/QFy17zH7NMyx6wEVmcq6eyqw8B

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

andy wrote: Good day I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can exploit this arrangement to enable me to install onto the laptop

Re: SATA Raid Difficulty

Rob Wright wrote: ... Specifics: 3 74.5GB SATA drives Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to do to get it installed? Should I be using Sarge instead of Etch? If I need to prov

Re: firefox icon has disappeared

lp the reason is simple: firefox is no longer in debian because of issues with the firefox trademark. there is however a fork of the firefox code with the offending materials removed and renamed to iceweasel yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: IP-Adresse änder t sich

german bestimmt? > > English: was that meant for debian-user or debian-user-german? most likly... i thought it was on -german, otherwise i wouldnt have replied in german... yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: IP-Adresse ändert sich

Andre El-Ama wrote: Hallo Andre, Raus gehe ich über eine Router, auf dem läuft ein DHCP-Server, aber nicht für meinen Rechner, da der als Server mit Diensten eine fixe IP braucht. Genau das ist der Fehler, Dein aktiver DHCP-Server auf dem Router. Du wirst, sofern Dein Router nicht über ein -

Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

om here: http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which (you will also find a description on how to do it there) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: root on removable drive

increase the timeout how long the init script waits for the root disk, though i don't know the parameter atm... i hope the helps... yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing java (for limewire)

a. use dpkg -L to see what is in you newly created deb... otherwise use java-packe's make-jpkg (probably on sid) to create a deb from the .bin jre or jdk.. (worked for me in the past) yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dell power edge

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:01:05PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Albert Dengg wrote: > >the 64bit mode of opterons, athlon64 and intel p4/xeon is called either > >x86-64, amd64 or em64t... > >either way, you have to use the am

Re: default firewall/IDS that comes with DEBIAN

. If you prefer a graphical one than firestarter is also a > good choice. well, for the typical home user, there is more then enouth in the default debian install... iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P FORWARD DROP - -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT - -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEP

Re: dell power edge

e: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRYq+4CIMiEpzxsFKAQI/KQP/U/7NbqEVw1h/592RFOVyqMWB8d9Y5IqY y8Uea+ACPETI+hI9bq9k7cH+omsfBzOINq8x

Re: "/etc/alternative/" How to use it?

the web but couldn't find any developer information. > > TIA for any links. have a look at update-alternatives (to me, the manpages is relativly clear) i hope it helps a bit.. yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

rtain groups... (i do not use ubuntu, but it is that way on for example osx, where there is a special admin group that allows sudo of all commands after password prompt. of course, maybe you should not use such an account for daily work as you shouldn't do that with the

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

ss is just that with a password protected one, you are better protected against users that leave their consoles ungarded and also they _may_ think a bit more before procceding... that said, there is no such thing as ultimate security, there is a pro

Re: fs system for desktop

till be EXT3. Again, cuz it has got more > number of tools written for recovery and are pretty good. i agree, for that purpose i have a partition mounted with data=journal... though i have noticed that while good for fs integrity, that ist not good for performance... so, i can recommend xfs, thou

Re: Bash script question

> whether the name is older than the current day - X, but I'm having > trouble putting this into a script. povided that the file was not modified since it was created (ctime equals creation time) find $DIR -ctime +$DAYS -print0|xarg -0 rm should probaly work. not tested, though... (u

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

nf though for users not used to it, maybe doing a "dpkg-reconfigure -plowi xerver-xorg" would be better (of course only if your xorg.conf was generated that way) (have not tried it, i haven't expierencend this bug sinc'e i don't use gmail, and my x is running on 24bpp an

Re: The same hardware different ethernet device names

) calculates interface > number and what can cause such "disorder"? i have had a simialar expirience using cheap realtek based cards and also some 3com ones... since then i use ifrename to asign the names based on the mac address... this could also be done via udev i think...

Re: GPL X-rays

t; > Meanwhile, got a jpg off the qemu session. The program will not display > images > under WINE. you could try to ask about a good and for your situation usable programm on the debian-med list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/ yours albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

nt be able to install all of them at the same time, you can imagine that the 15 cd's would need quite a lot of disk space if you decompress and install all packages you can install at the same time, though there is litle point in doing that, i think. i hope that helps yours albert -

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: I still don't understand the sense of introducing new "free" logo. Because Mozilla won't let Debian distribute their logo. Tell me why should I use Firefox with free logo ("IceWeasel") instead of copyrighted "

Re: System maintenance

sarge atm, etch when it will be released)... that way you will only get security updates and no changing system and no need for cron-apt... just read debian-security-announce and run aptitude update; aptitude upgrade when an anounce consernse your system that should b

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

their advantages to) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFL1EyhrtSwvbWj0kRAlVVAJwI+7bBm2SyizrCtPUkFZr1LyOf7wCffvQV yBEUzQFoluFeGMux5vg+oQU= =dLMn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: non-free

some non-free package from non-free, either for running them or for building them. for security updates its more the question, what have you in your other entries? that should match yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE--

Re: mail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:04:28AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-09-29 23:55:00, schrieb Albert Dengg: > > > and that does not collide with what i have said... > > it delivers lokal mail...to your normal mail box so yo

Re: tvtime

rdware overlay surfaces. tvtime needs YUV2/xv overlay... what video card do you have and what driver? (ati,nivdia,...?), oss driver, closed source driver? yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFIsRphrtSwvbWj

Re: backing up a new laptop

backup, they have in the past changed the image format in a incompatible way. with partimage, you will only copy the used space and possibly even use a compression (gzip or bzip2). but: for the rescue partition: when the pc buisnes was still with ibm, they would send you cd's with the r

Re: mail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:57:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/29/06 16:13, Albert Dengg wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:16:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip

Re: mail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 04:16:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/29/06 15:37, Albert Dengg wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:54:58PM +0200, David C. Weichert wrote: >

Re: mail

oes not want to use fetchmail of course, otherwise it will create a loop i belive) it supports address rewriting, tls, smtp auth ... everything that is needed for a simple envirement yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linu

root on lvm2 & yaird & suspend2

suspending to is not on lvm, its a physical partition if that would matter. any ideas? yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFG+JAhrtSwvbWj0kRAhp3AJ0XA6Rd4Wklb+84gbGvBRbUZhAVdACfUN7q gCagDwE+l8m1dxK8Z

Re: Fwd: Help, lvm2 snapshot and XFS , using xfs_freeze to do this, but then lvcreate hang.

and create one, apart from the log/backup of the lvm metadata... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFGnHzhrtSwvbWj0kRAmG9AJ9kmxDc966f3eCF/JTHFMNANNeHLACePwbF p5bkkb1bIgz1ET9IE03zm0U= =Mi/y -END PGP SIGN

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > > Hello All > > > > > &

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

on the server side then on the desktop side... maybe file i whislist bug? yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFEUphhrtSwvbWj0kRAu0FAJ44KUOYZ1S4gHnXXMFqsSFlnAamuACfeuqH asrpIKVKmzf9nGKA8SvybKE= =Jxgw

Re: removing just-installed kernel

|source}-version (or linux-* if you use a kernel-package from etch or sid), though the files have a diffenrent name... you can check what kernel images are installed by running dpkg-query -l "kernel-*" and dpkg-query -l "kernel-*" yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTE

rss2email for mediawiki changes feed that requieres authentication

email but i can't get it to work with the authentication. so my question: is there a easy solution or do i have to do some coding and rewrite rss2email myself? tia yours albert PS:i do not have direct access to the wiki server so modifying the wiki is not really an option - -- Albert Den

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:08:31PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:09:13PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > >

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 02:09:13PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > > > Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > &

Re: netgear ethernet support in 2.6.16

n: Ethernet interface > product: DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller > vendor: National Semiconductor Corporation Hi should be the natsemi driver yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: PHP5 on unstable?

eady by the time sarge was released. you can however use the packages from backports.org if you want to use php5 on your otherwise stable(sarge) server. yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFDWrBhrtSwvbWj0

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

ted about it sometimes having troubles with the paper feed since it is about 2 years old (and in the first 2 years not that many pages printed, only about 4000 or so (ok thats relative...)) yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: alsa troubles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:24:57PM -0300, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:05, Albert Dengg wrote: > > Hi > > > > on one of my machines i have some troubles with alsa. > > > > the system has

Re: Etch: can I install xorg without all of those drivers

s unlikly that the hw changes... if you install using aptitude... just remove -all packages and by hand mark the input and video drivers you need using apt-get it should do if you just manually add the video and input drivers to the list of packages to install...then it should see that the deps

alsa troubles

userland components). does anybody have and idea how to fix that issue since it is anoying when my mother calls me every few days and i have to re-run alsaconf... tia yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU

Re: Postfix rewriting

s [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the sender.) Well for that, you can use sender_canonical_maps that way, i rewrite my local user to the full email address (e.g not just the user, but the whole address in one step). i hope it helps yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

;t keep backups for some data but that is because it is data i don't really care about if it is lost...) yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFAWSGhrtSwvbWj0kRApBUAJ9GePEE0HpcwOSukY/Lvdfoafl33gCfd3/f

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

please, reply to list, not pm yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFAVr7hrtSwvbWj0kRAo9KAJ0b4hW4XXcWoE67aU9y91yM77kOeACdHVpn qevcLqzQDrHz8tZLTeN3bas= =bgEZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBS

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

ted by default) that said...i use unstable on nearly all me desktop machines for some years now and i hardly ever have any problems... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQ

Re: Issues upgrading cpu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:36:45PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > On 9/6/06, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:51:48AM -

Re: Issues upgrading cpu

ssle? just guessing... what kernel are you using? i havent tried though i doubt that a normal 686 or k7 kernel supports either of these extentions and therefore will not test for them... what does it say when you start the amd64 installer and open a console?

Re: postfix in unstable does not auth to smarthost

[mail.gmx.net] sender_canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer = yes smtp_use_tls = yes though that way it also uses tls... so you might wa

Re: Which one should I install on IBM X60s laptop? - Sarge or etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:23:28AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Albert Dengg wrote: > >though if you can spend the bandwith to try i would probably reocmmend > >to try to start with a standard sarge netinst cd > >(if

Re: Which one should I install on IBM X60s laptop? - Sarge or etch?

d sarge netinst cd (if you want to have the newer apps later on, you can easily upgrade, but not downgrade). yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE7yG7hrtSwvbWj0kRAoHeAJ47CkyrUUJ2/XkLyaK9wxyt0VAhUgCeMQxi

Re: Debian support for Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet NIC?

there are 3 syskonnect/marvell drivers:sk98lin, skge and sky2 reading the docu sky2 should probably fit yours Albert PS: i have an 2 older marvell chip that works with newer kernels and the sk98lin driver, but have only read about the newer ones... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EM

Re: Problems with new kernel (SW RAID1+LVM)

sion >=2.6.17 since it uses devfs which is depricated i think since 2.6 and was now removed. you can either use initramfs-tools or yaird yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE7CEDhrtSwvbWj0kRAuqwAJ0W

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:53:12PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Monday, August 14, 2006 11:52 AM -0500, Albert Dengg wrote: > ... > At least they can do it, whether we approve of the results of not. > That's not the case for Deb

Re: when lid is closed

rse) yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5dQdhrtSwvbWj0kRAsJ2AJ9HS00xOnlATQyBvnSIp2b7aumtsACfc4v4 /iysl9rsa+9G6/m8WIE5OCc= =rZw7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [Fwd: downwards compatible??]

rt up on a 32 bits standard sarge > distro; kernel 2.6.8 etc. ?? yes, the amd64/emt64/x86_64 cpus are fully IA32 compatible. there could,however, be a problem with things like onboard ethernet and/or SATA controller(s) (don't know about sound) ... to fully use that, you might need a newer ke

Re: Get the ip address without using "root"?

ust calling "ip a" yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5ZNehrtSwvbWj0kRAsOXAJ9Ul3S0QHFgO3/1D5S27RfpM+OPCQCeLDCW usAb6vgTPfvMd4QLVglLrAA= =0PZu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

y knowlege that is also not a problem. yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5AXzhrtSwvbWj0kRAqmgAJ0XUZurk9eMpnFDjjsBY6ahbmZsAgCfX0E7 43wYiYCCHi9KPfDTba+089I= =+5sL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSU

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

y (d-i most of the time does it correctly be itself (the last time i had problems was due to a setup with serial console and lvm and linux sw raid which is a quite unlikely setup for a causual pc users...) yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Compiling kernel 2.6.16 or higher under Sarge

ough i belive there should also be newer kernel packages on backports.org ... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE4uf0hrtSwvbWj0kRAlroAJ0YjxOorIK6lD04IMtz8SR1X8XTRACeOwYi tN9gSLIxVGpi7kf43slWgvc= =zAUH -END P

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

n't know pcs worth a damn and would also have problems with windows)...i do the system administration and for them it just works (and for me it is less work them administrating a xp home install which does not have fs permissions where i have to reconstruct all sort of system files they alter

Re: Sony digital camera

good for focusing in the dark and the nightframing mode is great, the flash takes some time to fire and the laser tells everbody quite early you try to take a pics, suprising people with flash pics isnt easy ;) - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: New Video Card.

e nvidia drivers lately, basically nvidia just makes gpus and has others build the graphic cards. that said i must tell you that the nvidia drivers aren't without problems either to my expirience...and actully the fglrx drivers do work for me at the moment... yours Albert - -- Albert D

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

gt; check it still boots as > expected :). Hi just a question: why don't you just bind mount proc to your chroot? my chroot isn't and was never bootable...and i didn't have any problems so far... yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

r is most probably ohci1394, so to load it just type modprobe ohci1394, or add a line to /etc/modules with "ohci1394" in it. the drivers for the devices is probably best loaded by hotplug or udev and therefore done automatically yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

migrating sylpheed-claws mailboxes to cyrus

x27;m searching for a to migrate to whole mailboxes whith over 100 folders and subfolders and nearly 20 mails...so it has to be quite automated. i do have full access to the server if that is a question does anybody have any experiences or ideas how to do that? tia yours albert - -- A

Re: apt-get question?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:05:02AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:27:57PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > > and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' > > Why? unless you w

Re: apt-get question?

on't be downloaded again, but used from the already present local cache and afterwards you should probably clear the cache using 'apt-get clean' yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: force stable package if avail

from unstable/testing/backports/etc... for more information about pinning see also man apt_preferences yours Albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoqP5hrtSwvbWj0kRAsNhAJ4lot14vl7CQkr3HSWQ8v4qczwCzQCfQb2R

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

ependencies -- this can quickly turn into a big > mess. I understand that. What would be the correct "debian" way to proceed? well, i havent tried that, though i use backports.org with pinning on 2 machines... most likely its held back because of some dependencies... start aptitude a

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

much ram...the new ones would have no problems with something fancier...but never change a running system yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEoPs4hrtSwvbWj0kRAgtMAJ4z9CggFvd8O5LOSN0v9NHWC4QZ3ACdEJY6 cBZ

Re: Boot from SATA drive--module or built-in?

stem. it is the same if you want to boot from an ide drive without using an initrd you have to compile a suitable controller driver and ide disk support into the kernel yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

their bank account so that they have to work for have of their live to pay it back (if they are lucky and don't loose their jobs for one way or another)? yours albert - -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEVKgUhr

Re: How to install .deb package as non-root user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:21:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > use SUDO command .. but the root sysadmin.. should have to add to the > list of users to let u use sudo on any user's shell .. > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:43:57PM -0500, Matt Engla

Re: 2 tmpfs filesystems mounted?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:17:36AM +1000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > Since installing Debian 3.1r1 on a healthy HD, everything appears to work. > > However when I shut it down, there is a complaint about tmpfs running and > being switched to "read-only" m

Re: Running 2 versions of Debian?

ch...) and using dchroot every user can run apps in the chroot, and with this script it is also possible to simply create links to the programms from outside the chroot and using bind mounts you can share the data between chroot and outside.. i even ran a daemon once, but then you have to manuall

Re: How to allow multiple programs to emit sound simultaneously?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:11:37AM +0530, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: > How to allow multiple programs to emit sound simultaneously? > > Currently, only one program is able to emit sound at a time. > > I am using Debian 3.1 Hi well it depends... with alsa, depending on in whicht i order i start

Re: default group ownership of a file

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:58:55AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: ... > That should only happen if you have the setgid flag set on the > parent directory. ah sorry i forgot... i _have_ learned that sometime in the past... now that you mention it i remeber ;) yours albert pgpdH2FXP8c4L.pgp Descripti

Re: default group ownership of a file

Hi On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:10:41AM -0500, Michael Schurter wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: > >Hello. I need to know how the group ownership of a file is decided in > >debian. Also, is it the same for all linux systems? > > All Linux (and probably Unix) filesystems store a group ID number (gid) o

Re: Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ... > But it conflicts with all other MTAs, so if the box already has an > MTA (like pretty much all Linux boxes except Ubuntu), that will > get removed, possibly breaking something else. in that case, configure your mta to relay the msg

Re: Installer can't find HardDisk...

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:07:06PM +0200, anonym ano wrote: > Hi Simon, > > these aren't good news. I want to set up a server (Web and PostgresDB) with > debian, so I don't know if I should use the etch release. As far as I know, > it is still in a beta version. Do you think it is stable enough to

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 06:48:29AM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro > (etch/sid) on my amd64 dual core system. > > I wanted to see if it is really 64 bit. So naively i compiled the following > example program I found

Re: SATA disk smart or not?

ld say the problem is that the disc supports it, but the kernel not.. resecent kernels (i know it for 2.6.16) support smart for sata, older ones do no yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [solved] Problems with sata disc on a sarge

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:20:31 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Dengg) wrote: > Hi > > i'm using debian sarge on one computer with a asus a7v600x board > (via kt600 chipset) with a custom compiled 2.6.16 kernel (with > suspend2 patch). > it worked perfectlly well till now

Re: Understanding /root, /usr, /var and so on

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:13:52PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Andrew Cady wrote: > > > > A little research reveals that the original AT&T Unix contained no > > /sbin; however, the traditional contents of /sbin were present in /etc, > > mixed with configuration files. 4.3BSD placed these files

Problems with sata disc on a sarge

Hi i'm using debian sarge on one computer with a asus a7v600x board (via kt600 chipset) with a custom compiled 2.6.16 kernel (with suspend2 patch). it worked perfectlly well till now, but since the primary harddisk starts producing smart errors and dma timeouts i decided to replace it with a new s

Re: raid on bootup

le the raid seems to be started by the kernel...at least for me yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple sound cards and hotplug.

o /dev/dsp0 yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: woody to sarge?

es, see also man apt-get yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Stable vs. Testing Vs. Unstable

n go for unstableno real expirience with testing...I only briefly used it just before woody became stable this is just my opinion - i hope it helps.. yours Albert -- Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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