problems with smbclient & tar option - file size limitation?

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
Hi List, I'm setting up a small backup script using the smbclient command with the tar option. The machine that needs to be backuped is a W2K-Server. I thought it might be a good idea to test if the backup will work properly, to my surprise it won't. smbclient //192.168.1.150/hhwwwroot "" -N -Tc

Re: Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)

2004-05-21 Thread Nico De Ranter
I had the same problem after upgrading the kernel to 2.6. Mouse was gone completely in X, no way to get it back. I recompiled the kernel and everything works fine now. I'm not sure which change did the trick (I made a lot of changes to the kernel config). Nico On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:30:35A

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread welly hartanto
--- Clyde Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I > do a 'echo "OK" > > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there > something I need to do > to get the right device? > Are you using udev ? which kernel is your system running ? Several day

Re: Newbie Needs Printer Advice

2004-05-21 Thread Joris Huizer
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have a printer that hooks up to my USB port. If I do a 'echo "OK" > /dev/usb/lp0' I don't get any output. Is there something I need to do to get the right device? You can find information about all sorts of printers at http://linuxprinting.org/ Also, make sure you have

Re: Samba and network printing

2004-05-21 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya john On Thu, 20 May 2004, John L Fjellstad wrote: > CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to log in > > > > You may be having your account mapped to you guest user. > > IIRC the things that are required are: > > 1. U

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 May 2004, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:57:33AM -0400, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm running unstable and after some upgrade a few weeks ago, I noticed that > > Ctrl+Alt+F1 will no longer get me to the console if I'm logged in (it will > > From the GDM

Re: Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:19:56PM -0700, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson > C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think > I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? Find a good collection of printer driv

Re: logical drive limitation

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:57:13AM -0700, Ken Guo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Can you please tell me the drive size limitation of debian Linux. We > have a customer who create a 2.8 TB logical drive, but the debian > Linux host only see 0.34TB. Google for "linux large disk support" or "

Re: gdm root user startup with many windows

2004-05-21 Thread Thomas Adam
--- lunardancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hello - > I've checked /root/.* folders, but did not find such applications to Why are you running X11 as root? Sheesh, this is _stupid_. > load when startup. I think it might be some zombies or sth. left in > xsession , but don't know ho

RE: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-21 Thread Jens Simmoleit
> I don't think CUPS has that much to do with anything escputil does. At > least I've thought that it communicates directly with the printer, not > through CUPS. > If that's true you might also check if this has something to do with the bios settings. AFAIK all modern printers (from 3-5 years back

Re: Escputil --raw-device and CUPS

2004-05-21 Thread richard lyons
On Thursday 20 May 2004 03:08, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Nick Croft wrote: [...] > > $ escuptil -i -r /dev/lp0 is > > 'Cannot parse output from printer'. [...] > I wonder if it could be as easy as telling escputil that you have a > new model of epson printer (`new' means newer than Stylus Color 740

Re: Startup: give root password for maintenance

2004-05-21 Thread Mark Par
On Fri, 21 May 2004 09:25:57 +0200, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: > I installed new kernel which works fine but when i do a reboot i also > get in the upstart process: > > Give root password for maintenance > (or type control-D for normal startup) > > Of course i press control-D but how can i

Re: Startup: give root password for maintenance

2004-05-21 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I installed new kernel which works fine but when i do a reboot i also > get in the upstart process: > > Give root password for maintenance > (or type control-D for normal startup) > > Of course i press control-D but how can i remove

Re: Mail Delivery (failure inquirie@rishashay.com)

2004-05-21 Thread inquirie
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Re: Shuttle SB61G2

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 06:39:55AM +0200, Alexander Tillmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > does somebody know if the Shuttle SB61G2 is completely supported by Debian? My preferred solution to this problem is: - Get the latest Knoppix release. Yes, 3.4 is out ;-) - Get my "system-inf

Re: Ctrl+Alt+F1 not working?

2004-05-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:57:33AM -0400, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm running unstable and after some upgrade a few weeks ago, I noticed that > Ctrl+Alt+F1 will no longer get me to the console if I'm logged in (it will > From the GDM login screen). Are you remapping keys? > Do

Re: OT Shell tricks: I'll kill you later

2004-05-21 Thread Martin Dickopp
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have few ugly shell scripts which do a lot of WHOIS queries, which > I've found are prone to hang for a long time. The simple thing to do is > to hunt for whois queries, then, and periodically kill them: > > while sleep 600 > do >

Re: Another shell scripting question

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Connors
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Fri, 21 May 2004 01:39:55 +0200: > > --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > also sprach Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.05.20.2126 +=

Re: font path issue

2004-05-21 Thread Johan Renström
Hi again! Thanks for all the replys and thanks for the encourageing words Richard! A major part of the problem seems to have been a missing fonts.alias file in the /usr/local/Wolfram/Mathematica/5.0/SystemFiles/Fonts/Type1 directory. I found a post on that in the FAQ on the Wolfram site a while

Re: Samba and network printing

2004-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
CW Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Now, the smb user is my guest user. I'm not sure why it tries to log in > > You may be having your account mapped to you guest user. > IIRC the things that are required are: > 1. User is in the printer admin group > 2. User has a valid smb passw

Re: /dev/md0 and udev

2004-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
Richard Weil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Sarge with a 2.6.5 kernel. I'm trying to > create a RAID 5 array of three disks (though for > initial setup I'm only using two of three). When I > reboot, udev does not re-create my /dev/md0 device, so > the RAID array won't start. Any suggest

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Tim Connors
Brett Carrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Thu, 20 May 2004 21:39:35 +: > On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:25:24PM -0400, Bojan Baros wrote: > > And about the idea that Bill Gates floated out there, about solving a > > computer puzzle that would require 10 seconds or so of CPU time to send > > the

lazy programming tool

2004-05-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi, I have a slow dialup so I created a script to get the deb's I need without doing an 'apt-get update'. Maybe it will help someone else. --get_old_app.sh PKGNAME apt-get -y --print-uris install $1 2>/dev/null|grep http| awk '{print $1}'| cut -d"/"

Startup: give root password for maintenance

2004-05-21 Thread Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro)
Hello, I installed new kernel which works fine but when i do a reboot i also get in the upstart process: Give root password for maintenance (or type control-D for normal startup) Of course i press control-D but how can i remove this ? I want that the computer can automatically reboot without ask

Sarge Kernel 2.6 and (K)dm)

2004-05-21 Thread Björn Wolter
Ich habe installed a current snapshot of sarge the i installed the kernel 2.6.4 image now i cant boot directly into X. I use kdm as the login manager... kdm.log and XFree86*.log tells me that he has no core pointer, also he cannot open /dev/input/mice. strange is.. when i log in as root, and

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