Debian Etch Testing

2006-04-06 Thread Bal K Paudyal
All DVD video disk don't mount automatically. Can't be mounted manually. Detected as Blank DVD-RW disk (which is not true). My system is upgraded. Running i386 Etch in AMD 64 CPU. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote: C:\> pkzip -a -ex -p -r some_dir some_dir\*.* C:\> pkunzip -t some_dir C:\> deltree/y some_dir I seem to recall a long time ago that pkzip and pkunzip have an entirely different set of flags, all starting with / in DO

Re: apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > There was a security hole found in sudo and the fix was to disallow most > environment variables: > http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946 > > - Ryan Fix it adding env_keep = var_name to your Defaults line in /etc/sudoers. Notice that var_name doesn't have a dollar si

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to > Win-axe? What does win-axe do? -- The best laid plans of mice and men are held up in the legal department. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: help connecting two debians via dial up

2006-04-06 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:10:46PM +, enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello: > > I'm trying to connect two debians using two modems, but I've a > misconfiguration on mgetty and ppd that close the connection after I saw a > prompt, I need to have the prompt on the second computer. > Which prompt d

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:28, Paul Scott wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind: Windows only reads FAT-based or NTFS > > filesystems. If you're just trying to keep your files from Windows when > > you move to Linux, move the files you want to keep in My Documents on the > >

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Please use inline quotes. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:16, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd! > A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert > filesystem in one step. Well, you can speed it up

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote: > C:\> pkzip -a -ex -p -r some_dir some_dir\*.* > C:\> pkunzip -t some_dir > C:\> deltree/y some_dir I seem to recall a long time ago that pkzip and pkunzip have an entirely different set of flags, all starting with / in DOS. Consult pk(un)zi

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Johnson wrote: Please quote conversationally. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:48, Mirco Piccin wrote: Yes, of course. But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!!

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: > > [snip] > > > >>And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the time yet > >>and I also need to setup my own DNS service using BIND... > >

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 05:55, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > > If there's no way to do this, of cour

Re: evolution fails to start on Etch

2006-04-06 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 20:00 -0400, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > For the last few days, I am not able to start evolution, neither by > > clicking on its icon on KDE panel nor over command line. Command line > > starting doesn't even give any output. Anyone knows what is going on? > > Looks like som

Re: Problem Network and installation of Debian ETCH beta2 for AMD64/EM64T (testing)

2006-04-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
2) Don't be sent to a shell at the end of the installation, but to the GUI (Gnome, KDE, etc) ? Please see http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/324 raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Please quote conversationally. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:48, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Yes, of course. > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! No, it's not a stupid q

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 05:09, Andre Pannes wrote: > Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. > > Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? > > Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ > > I have loaded this at 2005 on your Ftp Server and it works great now i must

Problem Network and installation of Debian ETCH beta2 for AMD64/EM64T (testing)

2006-04-06 Thread Alisson Garcia
Hi.I'm trying to install debian etch beta 2, testing, and the following problems are happening:Apt is now (etch) configured before the reboot, so I can't install my pppoe network connection. When I used to use Sarge I could boot and configure apt just after the reboot. Then I would open a terminal

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Hex Star
/me wonders if your laptop may have died due to some messing around with the fan acpi config? :POn 4/6/06, Jochen Schulz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Craig M. Houck:>> You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop.Wh

Re: downgrading a package

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:48:08AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > I'm using etch / testing and I did some upgrades (to try to get the > hotsynch for my handheld working) but things went badly wrong. > > Now I'm trying to owngrade udev to 0.79 from 0.8xx but I can't get > synaptic to allow me to for

Re: cdrecord + udev

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > On Sarge, before installing udev to be able to run 2.6.16 I invoked > cdrecord with dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 and all was well. > > However after udev that does not work anymore. Now cdrecord -scanbus gives: > > Linux sg driver ve

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > I'll never accept this reasoning. To my mind it takes openness to a > level that just causes unnecessary grief for many legitimate users. What unnecessary grief? Take a look through the debian-user archive for March 2006. Count how many

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Please post in conversational order for ease of reading and quoting. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:37, Craig M. Houck wrote: > You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. Laptops ar

Debian md5sum

2006-04-06 Thread Brian Irwin
I have burned the 14 i386 debian CDs a couple of times using my Windows machine, but the md5sum (md5sum -c md5sum.txt) on CD1 keeps telling me there are 17 files whose md5 did not match the md5sum.txt file. I verified the iso file I burned from is good Here is the kicker... I took one of my CDs tha

cdrecord + udev

2006-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, On Sarge, before installing udev to be able to run 2.6.16 I invoked cdrecord with dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 and all was well. However after udev that does not work anymore. Now cdrecord -scanbus gives: Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0)

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: > [snip] > >>And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the time yet >>and I also need to setup my own DNS service using BIND... > > > Isn't BIND kinda insecure? > In what way? -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: [snip] > And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the time yet > and I also need to setup my own DNS service using BIND... Isn't BIND kinda insecure? -- - Ron J

Re: netbeans and sid.

2006-04-06 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:51:21PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I had installed netbeans 5 in sarge without any problem. Now in Sid, I > tried to install netbeans-5_0-linux.bin. But I couldn't. I have set > both JAVAHOME and JAVA_HOME to jdk1.5. I checked md5sum. It is ok. I > tried as > ./netbeans-5

Re: apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:52:04PM +0200, Renato Serodio wrote: > Hello group, > > did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy > with the following commands: > > $export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port > $sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) > > It appears now that t

downgrading a package

2006-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm using etch / testing and I did some upgrades (to try to get the hotsynch for my handheld working) but things went badly wrong. Now I'm trying to owngrade udev to 0.79 from 0.8xx but I can't get synaptic to allow me to force the version I need. The menu option is just greyed out. How can I

Re: Bluetooth modem

2006-04-06 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Frusch wrote: > How can I use a 56k bluetooth modem? > > I can find the modem with "hcitool" but a I can't create any connection. You should take a look at the supported bluetooth profiles as further steps depend on this. sdptool browse If it offers Serial Port Profile (SPP), make a connecti

squid and blank/empty passwords?

2006-04-06 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello to all: I installed squid via apt-get - I am trying to establish blank passwords for some squid accounts, and am using htpasswd /etc/squid/squid_passwd name_of_user When prompted for a password, I just hit enter twice. The squid_passwd file still shows an encrypted password. I've t

Re: icewm and keys

2006-04-06 Thread Jesus Arocho
Thanks, bound by something else is the answer. On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:40:54 -0400 > > Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having problems configuring the keys in icewm. The box is running > > Mandriva. I downloaded and c

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread Jan Schledermann
ChadDavis wrote: > Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to > Win-axe? If you install cygwin with X11 you'll have something that works reasonably well. In my experience though Win-Axe is both reasonably priced, very fast and very stable. It is well worth the price

apt-get, sudo and proxies

2006-04-06 Thread Renato Serodio
Hello group,did something change in sudo policy? I usually do my updates behind a proxy with the following commands:$export http_proxy=http://proxy.host:port$sudo synaptic (or sudo dselect) It appears now that the variable isn't passed to the sudo command. So, if I define the variable for root, and

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi Thank you :-) I'm just running a server for some friends and family so it's not that important. I stopped using ftp for some time and just scp/sftp but some compained about poor scp/sftp support in Dreamweaver so I put ftp back online. But I don't wan't all of them to have shell access

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

2006-04-06 Thread G.C.H.M. Verhaag
Mike McCarty wrote: . Are you using previously written CDROMs? There is apparently a problem with erasure of previously recorded CDROMs and cdrecord, which I saw discussed on Fedora Core List. IIRC, cdrecord allows one to erase and do some writing with on command, but this fails. If one doe

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-06, Tudi LE BLEIS penned: > On 4/4/06, Monique Y. Mudama <...> wrote: > >> Months later, I had filled half my quota, entirely with mailing >> list entries. But there's no way to delete more than a page of >> messages at a time via their web interface (please, someone, prove >> me wr

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Øyvind Lode wrote: > Hello all > > I running a webserver with multiple users and domains. > I want some users to have no shell access, only FTP access to upload > websites and chroot'ed in their home directory. > > I have all the domains located in /home/www/domainname1/ , > /home/www/domainname2

Re: ntp.conf and ntpd

2006-04-06 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Thanks, Ken On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:57 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Is there a way to configure ntpd to listen to a select number of > > interfaces? I have it set up on a virtual server and the ntpd program has > > attached itself t

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Doofus
Pascal Hakim wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:51:30AM +0100, Doofus wrote: Can you quote: I can't do the last twelve months, as we don't keep our data that far back, and some of these numbers have to be counted invidually, but here are the numbers for March. Due to our multi st

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Tudi LE BLEIS
On 4/4/06, Monique Y. Mudama <...> wrote: > On 2006-04-04, Pascal Hakim penned: > > I'm sorry, but I don't believe you can say something is another > > user's responsability. The last thing the listmaster team wants to > > have to do is to go through every message that has leaked the > > headers an

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:18, Øyvind Lode wrote: > I give the user proper access to the domain under /home/www/. > I chroot'ed the user in /home/www/domainname1/ > I gave shell /bin/false > > User is denied shell access but also FTP!!! > If I give /bin/bash and test the user is logged inn and chroo

Re: win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:04:47AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe? That depends. What is win-axe? -- Steve Block http://ev-15.com/ http://steveblock.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 07:30:07AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:26:13AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > >>drifting OT, but to help improve your "snappiness" try some of the > >>lightwieght WM's (like IceWM) or a tiled one like

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
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? To actually answer your question: files are saved with the user and group ownerships of the effective user. For almost all applications, this is the user

Re: icewm and keys

2006-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 06:40:54 -0400 Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having problems configuring the keys in icewm. The box is running > Mandriva. I downloaded and compiled the most recent icewm. > > The problem is that some of the keys I configure do not work. F1 and F2 are > ok

Re: tex broken

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
David Wainberg wrote: Thank you for your response. Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The same version of pdfetex works fine for me. (Debian Sid, "tetex-bin" package version 3.0-16) Yes, I am using the same version. Did you try to specify the full path explicitly, starting from

No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-06 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hello all I running a webserver with multiple users and domains. I want some users to have no shell access, only FTP access to upload websites and chroot'ed in their home directory. I have all the domains located in /home/www/domainname1/ , /home/www/domainname2/ etc. I give the user proper

Debian package for Freeradius_Postgresql module

2006-04-06 Thread lmyho
Hello All, We have a project which is built on postgresql and freeradius on debian system. I have installed postgresql-8.1 on the Debian system, and lately freeradius-1.1.0 also. Things seems ok, but when we started to test, we found that the postgresql module of freeradius is missing in the debi

SOLVED: group use of a Windows game in Wine (WAS: default group ownership of a file)

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > 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? > >

[SOLVED]Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: > Thank you, Florian, I'll try this out in the evening. I think this > should work, it sounds right. > > Thanks again. > A kernelupgrade and a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg was enough to get X running again. Needs some smaller a

help connecting two debians via dial up

2006-04-06 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello: I'm trying to connect two debians using two modems, but I've a misconfiguration on mgetty and ppd that close the connection after I saw a prompt, I need to have the prompt on the second computer. Could somebody advice me where I can find the right documentation for my case. Thanks i

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > > without hosing your connection), remount ro

win-axe clones

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
Does anyone know of an open source software that does something similar to Win-axe?

Postgresql module of Freeradius on Debian

2006-04-06 Thread lmyho
Hello All, I am working on a project which need postgresql and freeradius to work together. I have installed postgresql on the Debian system, and recently freeradius-1.1.0. But during the test, we found that the freeradius software installed on the debian doesn't have the postgresql module we ne

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:02:06AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > > without hosing your con

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

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:29 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro > > >

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Joe
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:00:52AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: I just made an dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch. I switched from XFree86 to Xorg, but it will not start. here is a part of the Xorg.log [...] (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:24 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. > A little, stupid, question. > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without > loss data? > (...i hope i hope i hope...) > Thanks! No one has written a FAT->ext2 converter similar to the FAT->NTFS converter t

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops, often the CPU is put into some sort of "low power mode" in which most functions are shut down, and the CPU can run without a fan in

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
listrcv wrote: Sorry to reply to you, but I can't find the message you replied to. Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown w

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
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: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Pascal Hakim wrote: 'lo, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: I predict that (1) two already-formed factions will immediately chime in (2) a near flame war will ensue (3) no such figures will be forthcoming Sorry. No, no; as I wrote below I'm *hoping* to be pr

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
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) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/gr

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Søren Christensen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:52:51PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > OK, so at the moment both are not installed, but their configuration > files are still present. The last versions that were installed > correspond to the old "matching pair" from Sarge. These were probably > removed because of depen

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > 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? > >

Re: dpkg-repack question

2006-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The md5sum of your recreated package does not match the md5sum of the package in the archive (according to the package listing downloaded from the archive). Since they both have identical version numbers, apt is (rightly) convinced that y

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Albert Dengg wrote: at least in my expirience if the user has write permisions in the diectory only because of a certain group membership (for example in /usr/src with the src group) the gid of the file is set to respective group and not the users primary group. Excellent point. Thanks for th

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 16:57 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I do not need to cool down my processor down to 37 degrees, as it is in > the moment. I need to make my fan speed dependent on the cpu > temperature. This will save battery & reduce noise. Any idea how to do > that? btw, I have loaded the

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Albert Dengg
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: debian vs redhat

2006-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:03 -0700, charles norwood wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:58 -0700, John wrote: Hi, just wanted to say I've used various versions of linux, and have mainly stuck with redhat/fedora (yeah, I know), but the latest versions have sort of bothered me. So

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Even if we assume that I fell asleep on the page down key while counting 4., and guess that I missed half, we're still talking about blocking over 800 valid messages. 25/37700 works out to be 0.066% of spam not being blocked. It's still annoying of cour

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
'lo, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:19:27AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Doofus wrote: > > > >Can you quote: > > H! Someone calling for reasoned, rational discussion! > H! Someone start a flamewar, instanter!!! > > >1. the total number of posts from all sources received b

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
Hi, On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:51:30AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > > Can you quote: I can't do the last twelve months, as we don't keep our data that far back, and some of these numbers have to be counted invidually, but here are the numbers for March. Due to our multi step filtering process I can't

Re: default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
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) on a per-file basis. The gid is looked up in /etc/group to get the textual gro

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Brad Sawatzky wrote: On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote: A related question is how to do it without taking the machine down uncleanly or fiddling an arcane file somewhere. I've thought about perhaps doing... FYI, if you simply want to force a fsck on the next boot (ignoring the various

default group ownership of a file

2006-04-06 Thread ChadDavis
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? 

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
Michael; Thanks for the heads up on that. I missed the fact that this was a laptop...AND I just built a new box with a P4. Yes, a P4 would make smoores very nicely!! >> You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan >> on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to s

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Michael Schurter wrote: Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops its very common to at least dramatically slow down system fans when they're not needed. When modern lapt

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

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: AMD decided that, to help with compatibility with s/w written when sloppy programmers assumed that sizeof(int) == sizeof(*), integers

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Craig M. Houck: > > You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan > on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. When you are using a Pentium M processor and have almost no load, it is intended behaviour that the fan doesn't run. That's the whole point of thi

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Schurter
Craig M. Houck wrote: You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. In laptops its very common to at least dramatically slow down system fans when they're not needed. When modern laptops are in an idle or nea

Re: Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-06 Thread Doug Miller
On 4/5/06, Z F <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I could not locate the description of the switches, for example what is > > wep_tx_keyidx=0 > > wep_tx_keyidx=0 will use the '0' WEP for transmission. Usually you have 4 WEP keys, labeled 0 through 3. By default you ususally use the 0 key for eve

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Craig M. Houck
You don't want the processor fan to stop...at least I would never want fan on top of the processor of ANY compuer I used to stop. At 03:20 PM 4/6/2006 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: >Hi all, >since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the >temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees.

Re: debian vs redhat -fair

2006-04-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 However, Woody (which was released analogous to RH9) was just as rock solid stable as Sarge. I agree completely that we must compare relatively equal systems, but doing so does not change the outcome: Debian Stable lives up to its name. I was using

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Doofus wrote: Can you quote: H! Someone calling for reasoned, rational discussion! H! Someone start a flamewar, instanter!!! 1. the total number of posts from all sources received by the d-u list servers in the last twelve months, 2. the number of posts received

Re: horde ?!?

2006-04-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:25:57 +0200 "Meni Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello plp, > > Sorry for the off-list question: > does anyone know what happen to horde.org ??? > I can't reach it by web nor ping nor traceroute...nothing?? > can anyone try: > http://www.horde.org > > Is it just me o

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Michael Ott wrote: Hi all, since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Here is an example for an Thinkpad laptop. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/AC

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread listrcv
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having /v

Re: Who is?RPSL format?

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Oskar Abley wrote: -- IMPORTANT: This email and any attachments may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify me immediatel

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd!A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert filesystem in one step.Sure, i've already done a backup copy, and already fdisk & mkfs.ext3 the hd!Thanks anyway! On 4/6/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: F

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:59 -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > If you're really stuck (ie. remote access to your box and you suspect fs > damage), get as close to single-user as you can (shutdown what you can > without hosing your connection), remount ro and give it a shot. (Having > /var and /home on

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Frank Lanitz wrote: Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before formatting

Re: xorg config-problem -- no mouse (on laptop with synaptics touchpad)

2006-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
Søren Christensen wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:08:58PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] in /dev/input/ I find 13 files: event[0-3] js[0-3] mice mouse[0-3] I get the same message, with each file: no such device [..] If I remember correctly the upgrade from Sarge to Etch takes you f

squirrelmail-configure changed mysteriously

2006-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.6-1 on a system that is mostly sarge with some etch packages. This morning, tripwire reported that /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure has changed and indeed, in line 388, 'Organization Title' was changed to 'Organization Ditle'. I am not aware of upgrading Squirrel

Re: how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Ott
> Hi all, > since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the > temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure > that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Here is an example for an Thinkpad laptop. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_fan_control_scr

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

2006-04-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Miquel van Smoorenburg [Thu, Apr 06 2006, 10:29:00AM]: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you need exactly 64 bits, int64 is your best bet. If you need > at least 64 bits, long long will probably work fine. I guess you mean int64_t and uin

Re: ntp.conf and ntpd

2006-04-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:57 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > Is there a way to configure ntpd to listen to a select number of > interfaces? I have it set up on a virtual server and the ntpd program has > attached itself to hundreds of interfaces. If you were to look at the ntp-docs th

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before > formatting in ext3 HD! Sti

how do I stop my processor fan

2006-04-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, since few hours my processor fan does not want to stop, and the temperature if my Centrino is 45 degrees. Do you know a way to configure that on which temperature the fan should switch on? Cheers, IVan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andres Pannes wrote: > >Dear Sir, Dear Mrs. > >Why can I not download the DVD Editon of Debian Sarge ?? > >Link http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/i386/iso-dvd/ > >I have loaded this at 2005 on your Ftp Server and it works great now i must >have a new DVD Editon for Private

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