Re: Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Travis Crump
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 01 janvier 2009, vers 01:25, Travis > Crump disait : > >> I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was >> added. While X has flaked in the past, I'

hard crash on leap second

2008-12-31 Thread Travis Crump
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing anything unusual at the time. Any idea

Re: How to make dpkg forget a package was ever there?

2005-01-09 Thread Travis Crump
William Ballard wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after a power outage in the middle of a fairly big dist-upgrade. Just be careful, as you have the potential to really hose dpkg's idea of what

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread Travis Crump
David Garamond wrote: Travis Crump wrote: - No optical zooming (is it possible with gecko?) Ctrl-Alt-+ :), That's font scaling, not optical zooming :) No, font scaling is Ctrl-+, Ctrl-Alt-+[and for me only the + on the keypad works not the += key] zooms the entire desktop while keepin

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-02 Thread Travis Crump
David Garamond wrote: I found these gecko-based browsers in the repository. mozilla-browser mozilla-firefox kazehakase galeon epiphany Any others that I missed? I wonder if there's a browser with different/alternative UI. All of the above are basically "more of the same". The UIs are similar

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Kent West wrote: Pascal Bonesh wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:54 -0600, Kent West wrote: Does anyone know how to add the closing X to Firefox's tabs? have you tried TabbrowserExtension? No, because the homepage for that extension (http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/site/T

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Travis Crump
Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Travis Crump
Steve Lamb wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/m

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Travis Crump
Ralph Katz wrote: Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) Ok, I am confused. Isn't us.debian.org just a round ro

Re: dpkg uninstalled packages

2004-12-09 Thread Travis Crump
Alexander Pohl wrote: I'm using a freshly installed and up to date version of Debian Sarge. In Woody uninstalled packages had a description for installed as well as uninstalled packages by default. I would like to get the descriptions back as it is really bad when you don't see the description of a

Re: Spamassassin 3.0 not in testing

2004-12-07 Thread Travis Crump
MrVanes wrote: Hi, I've been watching the spamassassin package page (http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/spamassassin.html) for a while now, hoping for spamassassin 3.0 to enter testing but it's being held (for 23 days) by some 'aba'. SA has no dependancies (as far as I can see) that need to be fulfill

Re: playing mkv files.

2004-11-23 Thread Travis Crump
Alex Polite wrote: I'm trying to play som mkv (matroska) video files. So far I've tried mplayer, xine, vlc and gstreamer, all from unstable. None of them are able to play the files. Xine complains about a missing demuxer. I know that these programs support matroska so I guess the problem is the deb

Re: recover date after rm -rf

2004-11-13 Thread Travis Crump
Robert Storey wrote: There's no simple solution for recovering the data you've already lost. However, there is a very good way to prevent such a thing from happening again. There is an even better way, make backups. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Travis Crump
David Jardine wrote: On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:09:51PM -0500, Tong wrote: Hi, I used to use the following command/alias to get the names under the current directory in RH: ls -l | grep ^d | cut -c57- but in Debian, the position of the file name is not fixed. It is for me, and the above comman

Re: IDE not detected

2004-11-07 Thread Travis Crump
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 09:43 -0800, mamas wrote: My Debian testing system (2.4.27-1-386) has two SCSI hds and SCSI DVD reader and CD burner. The only ide device is a 60GB hd in which I installed a WinXP environment. Linux is booting without problems, but it does not detect (discov

Re: USE flags ??

2004-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:46:38 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, you could always do apt-get source and build your own debian packages with your custom-made Makefiles. How to do this for anything other than the kernel package is a bit beyond me, though, as sof

Re: printing black & white on a colour printer

2004-10-26 Thread Travis Crump
Levi Waldron wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 16:19:32 -0700, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I also have a Deskjet, different model though. Even when I pick Greyscale in the Printout Mode under Resolution it still says something like: 300 dpi, greyscale, Black and Color Cart. This leads me to be

Re: How to configure apt to retrieve Packages.bz2?

2004-10-18 Thread Travis Crump
s. keeling wrote: file size being downloaded or transferred, it is the Packages.gz file size, not the Packages.bz2 file size, which is significantly different. I have no idea what you're talking about. At least you are honest, but then why are you attempting to 'answer' him... As for why apt does

Re: disk defragmenting

2004-10-16 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro? Not anymore. and if not why? Modern filesystems are designed to minimize fragmentation in the first place. The need for a seperate, user-space defragger is the hallmark of a po

Re: Sid net-install

2004-10-16 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: "Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is it also possibe to download a minimal cd for SID net-install ? No. Please read the archives, this was asked recently. The package will be tested by all people using D-I netboot or businesscard builds and pointing to

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-12 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Wilson wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:51:34AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: Debian dynamically creates whatever devices that are neccessary when you log in (e.g., /dev/pts/) Not by default, it doesn't. Only if you're participating in the "my /dev is emptier than yours" dick-waving contest of d

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-09 Thread Travis Crump
Travis Crump wrote: Kent West wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: ... a poster in this thread said something along the lines of click on the top-right icon for a window and it has a drop-down menu that lets you move it. top-left is this a joke? the exact location is going to be pretty arbitrary

Re: Avoiding pattern expansion in bash?

2004-10-09 Thread Travis Crump
Olle Eriksson wrote: This might be a little off topic but here it goes anyway. I am writing a bash script that takes as input a file expression such as "/etc/lilo.conf" or "/boot/config*" etc. I want to keep those strings as they are (including the *) and echo them to a file. How do I prevent bas

Re: HOW to move one window from one desktop to another?

2004-10-09 Thread Travis Crump
Kent West wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: ... a poster in this thread said something along the lines of click on the top-right icon for a window and it has a drop-down menu that lets you move it. top-left is this a joke? the exact location is going to be pretty arbitrary depending on WM/theme... s

Re: broken packages

2004-10-01 Thread Travis Crump
Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 06:30:03AM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies for openoffice.org. So, I've updated apt and all Build-Depends packages manually. Now, apt-get build-dep openoffice.org wants to

Re: broken packages

2004-10-01 Thread Travis Crump
Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing the following problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep openoffice.org Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig Abhangigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut... Fertig E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies for openo

Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Travis Crump
Adam Funk wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:50, Adam Funk wrote: Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio format. I started wit

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is fo

Re: Developing flash on debian

2004-09-18 Thread Travis Crump
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 07:41:32AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: If you are using flash, I must warn you to only use it to make movies or games, NEVER for navigation, as it is not a highly accessible technology. Please, stay away from it for web design. Well said. It would be useful i

Re: I have no /usr/src/linux/ sources

2004-09-18 Thread Travis Crump
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 06:10:46 -0700, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: What am I missing here, besides these .h files? Nothing. How to cope: # mkdir /usr/src/linux # mkdir /usr/src/linux/include This is on

Re: saving web pages as text from mozilla

2004-09-14 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you force mozilla to save a web page as text? There used to be an option whether to save as html or as text but that doesn't exist anymore. I thought that perhaps mozilla paid attention to the file extention but sometimes when I save 'filename.txt' it *still* saves t

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Travis Crump
Tom Wesley wrote: Hi, Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Cheers, "aptitude markauto '~slibs'" should get most of them though there m

Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-10 Thread Travis Crump
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:45:41AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: Carl Fink wrote: I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and

Re: Cannot get this virtual package right!

2004-09-09 Thread Travis Crump
David A. Cobb wrote: I currently am running kernel-2.6.7-1 and I've slowly brought many key components up to the bleeding edge. I have apt at 0.6.25 I keep getting (aptitude, and others) depends on "libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however: Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 is not installed." I googled

Re: exim-tls removed from sid and sarge?

2004-09-08 Thread Travis Crump
Carl Fink wrote: I just noticed that all outgoing mail from my system is sitting frozen in the queue. I send using my ISP (panix.com) as a smarthost, and apparently exim-tls was removed from sid and sarge (and automatically uninstalled from my system), I find that unlikely. You can always try sn

Re: command to answer "what's your OS"

2004-09-08 Thread Travis Crump
Dan Jacobson wrote: Recently in webland I was asked What is your OS? I wanted a single command that would say Debian GNU/Linux, $ uname -a #no "Debian" Linux jidanni1 2.6.7-1-k7 #1 Thu Jul 8 06:45:35 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version #doesn't say GNU/Linux. testing/unstable $ grep f

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 the mental interface of John Harrold told: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I g

Re: Why did apt-get remove my equivs-made package to install gnupg?

2004-09-05 Thread Travis Crump
Adam Funk wrote: > I compiled GnuPG myself and installed it in /usr/local/. To satisfy > dependencies I created the following control file > > Package: gnupg-af > Provides: gnupg > Conflicts: gnupg > Description: GnuPG compiled by AF. > GnuPG compiled by AF > > and made a package file and insta

linux-kernel-2.4.27, hpt366 ide channel not detected

2004-09-03 Thread Travis Crump
I have two extra IDE [RAID] channels on my motherboard that use the hpt366 driver and I am using as just regular IDE channels. There is just one hard drive that is the master on the first of these channels which has several data partitions. With linux-kernel 2.4.25 with debian patches built w

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

2004-09-02 Thread Travis Crump
csj wrote: On 2. September 2004 at 1:19PM +, "Will Ness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested on IRC that I post the error log onto the mailing list for others to look at, and perhaps to solve my problem. The question is how do I do this on a

OT Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: > <#secure method=pgp mode=sign> Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Personally, I never liked the latency inherent in usenet. These days, it's about the same latency as email unless you're in some far-off corner of the planet connected o

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Travis Crump
Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: It's my first post here, and I'm having hard time trying to underderstand why linux.debian.* is being run as mailing list in the first place. I have no problems with moderation and revealing my mail address (it's my spam collector anyway). But SMTP is for mail, NNTP is f

Re: Questions about aptitude use

2004-08-30 Thread Travis Crump
Paul E Condon wrote: I have set up preferences to track testing, and have unstable available for use. I think I now see pachages from both sarge and sid on the aptitude interactive screen. Am I right, or am I dreaming? Is there a way to tell which release a pachage will come from if I markit for in

Re: question on pinning priorities

2004-08-27 Thread Travis Crump
martin f krafft wrote: folks, i am too tired tonight to set up a testing environment for this. plus, it's friday. so maybe someone Just Knows(tm). if stable is pinned at 900 and testing at 500, and i manually pull in foo from testing and then a new version of foo hits testing, what happens? what ab

Re: junk on tty after x crash

2004-08-25 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:12:52AM +0200, Andrej Hocevar wrote: Hello, this is very disturbing -- when my X server doesn't shut down smoothly, it leaves some junk behind on the tty it was running on. The result is that next time I startx, it doesn't use the same tty anymore. Wh

Re: building or obtaining debian non-free CDs ?

2004-08-24 Thread Travis Crump
B Thomas wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:52:34AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: You might mean non-us ?, not non-free as non-free is a part of woody. Using jigdo you can get non-us, disk one : http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r2/jigdo/i386/ -- Greg C. Madden non-free part of woody ?? I do

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-22 Thread Travis Crump
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. At the risk of

Re: select N random lines in a file

2004-08-22 Thread Travis Crump
Thomas Adam wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:35:14PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: Hello all, I would like to write a script that will select N number of random lines in a file. Any suggestions on how to do this? Here's one that prints random lines of files, ensuring not to overshoot the known l

Re: List mail not coming to me either...

2004-08-17 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: I wonder if this might have something to do with ISPs beginning to implement SPF. I doubt it. I have been having intermittent problems as well and something like SPF would tend to be all or nothing. I also don't use a commercial ISP for incoming mail and would probably know i

Re: apt-get upgrade doesn't honor my rebuilded packages

2004-08-15 Thread Travis Crump
Tong wrote: On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 16:23:05 +0200, Koos Vriezen wrote: ... CVS, I needed to recompile some c++ dependent packages like fam. ... Now if I do 'apt-get -s upgrade', I get ... so it wants to replace it again what I just build. How can I prevent this? What's puzzling me most is that this s

Re: SHN tools ???

2004-08-14 Thread Travis Crump
Michael D Schleif wrote: What are currently working sources.list entries for these packages? I have googled, and added these: deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./ This should have what you are looking for. I just added it yesterday and both shntools and xmms-shn show up. Whi

Re: screen messing with tab completion and other annoyances

2004-08-12 Thread Travis Crump
Jorge Santos wrote: Hello, I've searched for these but I can't find an answer: Screen, as configured by default, uses two switch windows, but this is annoying since it blocks tab completion for the shell and I can't find anything in the documentation about how to turn this off (or even that this

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-07 Thread Travis Crump
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Tong: You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration questions when installing via apt-get install ? man dpkg-reconfigure The man command can answer a lot of your ques

Re: Why Does KPackage Want to Pretty Much Wipe Out My System?

2004-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Scarletdown wrote: I'm needing to get the qt libraries properly installed so I can install knewspost. In KPackage, I selected libqt3 and libqt3-mt, then clicked Install Marked. Thankfully, I also selected "Test" as well, because this is the output that I got from the test install... You alrea

Re: Sarge security

2004-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 the mental interface of Paul Maser told: I installed the latest net-install Sarge dist and I noticed that apt/sources.list doesn't have a link to security.debian.org. Is there a program I can run to help me update this file or do I need to edit it manu

Re: Todays apt-get upgrade broke my subversion

2004-08-04 Thread Travis Crump
Lukas Ruf wrote: As I wrote: I run update/upgrade daily. Therefore, subversion was not affected today. It must rather deal with Berkeley DB or similar. Any further ideas? wbr, Lukas do a diff of /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. Assuming that you haven't done any additional inst

Re: Strange apt-get error

2004-08-02 Thread Travis Crump
John Summerfield wrote: I would guess that the packages are unsigned (??) or failed their md5sum check. Or rather the Release file is unsigned. I would do one of two things: a. File a bug report on it. This is an excellent way of ensuring the maintainer(s) know about it and is in line with Debia

Re: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...

2004-07-28 Thread Travis Crump
Mario Flores wrote: Hi: Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the /var/log/messages: Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- and they repeat every single hour at the exact same intervals. Does anyone know what they mean

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-25 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple "wget -

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-07 Thread Travis Crump
David P James wrote: On Wed 7 July 2004 01:26, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:21:43PM -0300, Toshiro wrote: I'm using sid and I noticed that instead of the fine firefox default icon (the fox around the globe) I have a really ugly blue globe; am I the only one with this icon or i

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Travis Crump
Gregory Seidman wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:30:48AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: } On (06/07/04 17:26), Brad Sims wrote: } > On Tuesday 06 July 2004 1:07 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: } > > Since I am not willing to configure my printers a third time with that } > > crappy Xprint stuff (why

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Travis Crump
Brad Sims wrote: On Tuesday 06 July 2004 2:32 am, Michael B Allen wrote: What! The PostScript/default printing was pretty bad but I'm a little surprised they dumped it entirely as it would require additional setup to get xprint running. Are you sure? I am, I was told that mozilla no longer support

Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution

2004-07-05 Thread Travis Crump
John Hasler wrote: Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes: I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution? http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member organizatio

sarge release vote

2004-07-02 Thread Travis Crump
For those that don't know, Option 2, postpone editorial changes to Social Contract until after Sarge releases, won the vote so hopefully Sarge's release can start to move forward again and happen in the not too distant future. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Other key combos for Multi_key

2004-07-02 Thread Travis Crump
Kai Grossjohann wrote: Currently, I can type the ä character like this: <"> <"> I would like to configure an additional combination: How to do that? (I know that the above combo produces æ, but I intend to configure more combinations so that I can still produce æ.) Kai You can t

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-23 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, Travis Crump penned: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the picture? Well, just to be

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-22 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2004-06-23, John Summerfield penned: I have been to www.apt-get.org and I got Mozilla from here, pine from there, KDE from somewhere else, Xfree from another... Do you get the picture? Well, just to be pedantic, you wouldn't find pine anywhere in debian because of its

Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question

2004-06-20 Thread Travis Crump
David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the K

swap partition crashed

2004-06-15 Thread Travis Crump
I managed to crash my swap partition[kernel error attached if you care], is there any way to get it back[without rebooting]. The only thing I can think of is to re-run mkswap on the partition, but that instinctively seems dangerous. swapoff -a or swapoff /dev/hda7[the partition in question] d

Re: hardware change

2004-06-13 Thread Travis Crump
Alex Lorca wrote: hi all i'm going to change some hardware in my computer (motherboard and video card)... do i need to reinstall the whole system?? in this case how can i save my configuration??? i need to install the same system in other computer too, how can i "copy" the same configuration of min

Re: ccing

2004-06-12 Thread Travis Crump
S.D.A. wrote: There are some cool tools available for archiving, that (as far as I know) won't work with Thunderbird mail. I can search my '*.tar.gz' archives, at the same time as searching the active ones, via mboxgrep. So yes, Mutt is definitely the superior tool, as far as I'm concerned. Umm, wh

Re: apt dependency problems

2004-06-06 Thread Travis Crump
Lee Hanxue wrote: This seems similar to a problem I ran into on a server that I installed here and (without thinking) set the noexec option on /var. You might try and see if that is the problem. Thanks a million! I checked /etc/fstab, and I found out I did not set the 'exec' option for the /var

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread Travis Crump
James Sinnamon wrote: Command (m for help): Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 522 4192933+ c W

Re: Size of default partition with d-i beta3

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Brent Bailey wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote: A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G driv

Re: Archives of prior testing/unstable packages?

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: I thought these were at archives.debian.org, that site's down. Or was it somewhere else? Desperately seeking the last best Galeon 1.2.x release. Peace. snapshot.debian.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: fun Re: Copy Linux Filesystem/Check/Compare Filesystems

2004-05-21 Thread Travis Crump
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004, Silvan wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 07:20 pm, Doug MacFarlane wrote: .. Any suggestions? Just exactly how would one tar one filesystem to another, without the intermediate tar file? mount /new-disk /mnt/new -- abort -- abort if failed tar cf - /home /var

Re: Version specific notes for debs

2004-05-20 Thread Travis Crump
Randy Orrison wrote: Keith Nasman wrote: I was thinking it would be really nice if it also showed some package notes for this particular build. This would be of particular interest for security patches. i.e. "This build incorporates bigfixes fixing vulnerability blah. See for more info". Or, it co

Re: can dvdrip copy DVD

2004-05-17 Thread Travis Crump
Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: Have got a DVD burner and can burn data projects fine. Now I want to start investigating DVD, so I thought I would start by simply trying to copy a DVD. I installed dvdrip and managed to rip the DVD to the hard drive. But cant work oput what I need to do next. Surley

Re: Apt error

2004-04-12 Thread Travis Crump
Tomy Alarie wrote: To the tune of a Sesame Street song: "One of these things is not like the others!" Look at your last line. Notice how all the other lines have "stuff" after the url. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what the "stuff" after the url on that last line

Re: Mozilla and local mail

2004-04-09 Thread Travis Crump
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, I want to try out Mozilla as a web and email solution, but I also want to keep fetchmail to call together all my mail, local and external and then have Mozilla get the mail from /var/spool/mail. I have trawled throuh the results of a google search and the soultion ap

Re: keep users alert to packages deleted from debian

2004-04-03 Thread Travis Crump
Brian Nelson wrote: I would venture to say that only 'apt-get source' is useful. Don't forget 'apt-get build-dep' and 'apt-get moo'... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Travis Crump
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Were the gaps between releases ever so large as the gap between woody and sarge? Alexis Wolfgang Potato=8/14/2000, Woody=7/19/2002: Debian has three more months before it matches the last gap... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Some sox questions.

2004-03-24 Thread Travis Crump
Adam Funk wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 07:40, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +, Adam Funk said (I'm running sox 12.17.4 on Debian testing.) sox -h and the man page suggest mp3 support, but $ sox foo.wav foo.mp3 sox: Sorry, no MP3 encoding support produces nothing (

Re: no audio cd play from CD writer

2004-03-19 Thread Travis Crump
Simmel wrote: Yes, I didn't check that. But does that also explain why I cannot get the tracks listings in xmms or in the "cd play" application? ->HS Nope, seems I missed that line, sorry :/ No if the cable is defective or missing only no sound is provided, but you should be able to see the track

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Travis Crump
Michael Satterwhite wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:31, Brian Nelson wrote: However, testing tends to be more broken than unstable. Testing works well right now since we're near a release and almost everything in there is in a releasable state, but after sarge releases, watch out. I'm sure

Re: no audio cd play from CD writer

2004-03-18 Thread Travis Crump
H. S. wrote: Hi, I have a CDROM and a CD writer on my Sarge system. Both are ATAPI (no scsi emulation). I installed Sarge only a few weeks ago. A little problem is bugging me, I can't play any audio CD from the writer(/dev/hdd). The CD plays fine from the CDROM(/dev/hdc). Any idea where I star

Re: What's the tool to set /ect/rc.* links?

2004-03-16 Thread Travis Crump
stan wrote: I've forgoten what the tool to set the startup links in teh /etc/rc.* directories is. I was thinking it was update_rc, but that doesn't seem to exist. Can someone refersh my memory? man -k seesm to be failing me here. 'mv', though you can use update-rc.d for local scripts. signature

Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

2004-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-15, Travis Crump penned: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig4A9C6BFDF59F36CFEFC734C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monique Y. Herman wrote: When entries in

Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

2004-03-15 Thread Travis Crump
Monique Y. Herman wrote: When entries in /etc/cron.weekly are run, what user/group are they run as? Whatever user it says in /etc/crontab. On mine it is root. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: stretching movies in mplayer

2004-03-07 Thread Travis Crump
Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to change the aspect ratio (stretch) a movie in mplayer in full screen mode? I have some movies that were in wide screen format and in the encoding where stretched to a bad aspect ratio and I would rather no re-sample the already sample movie which would degrade t

Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring

2004-02-29 Thread Travis Crump
Oliver Fuchs wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next parameter is the file to use: tar cvzf test.tar.gz / Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it. Yes, that is right ... my fault. By default, tar doesn

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

2004-02-17 Thread Travis Crump
Nano Nano wrote: [1] 230 mhz bus, 14% increase. Kernel compile time went from 6:11 to 5:20, a 14% increase. It's worth the trouble. So, you have a 14% performance boost, but you can only use it 75% of the time. 1.14*0.75=86%... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Travis Crump
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16.

Re: cdrecord priority

2004-02-04 Thread Travis Crump
Alf Werder wrote: On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 17:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-04, Gustavo Halperin penned: Hello List When I roast some CD with 'xcdroast' (or any other application), I can also do it another thinks in the computer. But if I call to the command 'cdrecor' (also I did

Re: sarge to stable?

2004-02-01 Thread Travis Crump
Simon Buchanan wrote: Does anyone know what the timeframes are for debian testing to become stable? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200308/msg00010.html ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] tuxracer + bunny hill: possible?

2004-01-18 Thread Travis Crump
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi! Latest thread on games prompted me to install tuxracer. I never play games, pure programming. Now I cannot get past bunny hill. Is it possible to get all 23 herrings and yet do it under 35 secs? Why did I ever start tuxracer? Hugo. Yes. The up arrow makes you go fa

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-17 Thread Travis Crump
Wayne Topa wrote: Richard Lyons([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Friday 16 January 2004 22:23, Wayne Topa wrote: [...] I have a mailfilter rule that deletes mail without an originating Message-ID: and it has not had a false positive in over 3 months now. [...] Would you care to shar

Re: apt-cache show (only newest package)

2004-01-13 Thread Travis Crump
Bill Moseley wrote: This laptop was installed as a Woody, then it went through testing and now unstable. I've got sources for all in sources.list. So, when I do $ apt-cache show foo I see more than one foo package. Can I use apt-cache to just show the most current package -- or really,

Re: looking for apt.conf reference

2004-01-11 Thread Travis Crump
GCS wrote: Hi. I am trying to fabricate a script, which runs as a _normal user_, checks my debs in a specified directory, and recursively download all of the dependencies. I can iterate on the packages and get the dependencies parsed from 'dpkg-deb -f package', but how can I download packages? I

Re: apt-check-sigs problem (plz cc adambarton@mac.com)

2004-01-11 Thread Travis Crump
Adam Barton wrote: Adam Barton wrote: [SNIP] If I manually verify ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Release & Release.gpg I get the following: blueboy:~# gpg --verify ./Release.gpg ./Release gpg: Signature made Thu Nov 20 19:57:33 2003 CET using DSA key ID 38C6029A gpg: Good signature f

  1   2   3   4   >