Re: Debian Etch apache2 virtual host problem

2007-08-01 Thread rocky
Hey all, Thank you very much for your help! I will go back and make the changes. Blessings, Rocky -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LAN mail server

2007-08-01 Thread rocky
Hey list, My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. In order to learn DNS, mail server stuff, I installed bind9, apache2, sendmail and ipopd. I have set up DNS correctly so use other system on the same LAN can browse to the /var/www/2ndsite/htdocs directory by entering www.2ndsite.in into the addr

Re: booting problem (udev related?)

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Bader wrote: > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs > contents. Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kernel > is running (or is there an official "hint" mechanism I could use)? Yes. Please try that. > [I thought it just included _every_ pos

Re: Caps Lock don't work

2007-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/01/2007 02:12 PM, Salve Håkedal wrote: I run Etch on 3 machines, and have trouble with Caps Lock in the linux console. (In X it's ok.) machine[1a] Installed Woody in 2004, upgraded to Sarge and then Etch. Caps Lock works. machine[2] Installed Sarge, later upgraded to Etch when st

Re: OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios

2007-08-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
For the record, I had to set the RAM timing to 1:1 to slow the frontside bus down to 133MHz, with the CPU setting at 133 as is set by the "performance" default bios settings, in order to have stability. Memtest86+ was reporting errors otherwise. On 08/01/2007 03:49:03 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: H

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:47:46PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have you considered using the AMD64 port?, or perhaps you have some > custom 32 bit stuff that can only run on x86? Even if he does, it would probably run better in an i386 chroot. Unless he's developing the i386 kernel. Doug

Re: IO Error during APT use

2007-08-01 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 19:55:05 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: Thanks Bob! > Rico Secada wrote: > > Normally I would consider an IO error as a hardware error, but I > > don't think that is the case in this situation. > > Agreed. This is a userland program error message and not a device

Re: booting problem (udev related?)

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:50:08AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > I seems like it may be related to udev because if I look in /dev, the disk > device nodes which should be there _aren't there_, even though the disk > hardware is recognized fine by the kernel. > Udev isn't running yet. The boot de

Re: My experience with Lenny.

2007-08-01 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
I wrote: Another problem is openoffice.org-impress_2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1_i386.deb that crashes sometimes, I do not know exactly why. jdkaye10 replied: Bom dia Pedro, ... One point on Impress. Version 2.0.4 is a bit out of date. You might have more joy downloading from the Openoffice site where t

Re: Caps Lock don't work

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:12:26PM +0200, Salve H?kedal wrote: > I run Etch on 3 machines, and have trouble with Caps Lock in the linux > console. (In X it's ok.) > > machine[1a] Installed Woody in 2004, upgraded to Sarge and then Etch. > Caps Lock works. > > machine[2] Installed Sarge, la

Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

2007-08-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear fellows, > > I am usually looking closely the development of Debian and I like to see > which packages have been uploaded to Debian (including some of the > packages maintained by me) at http://incoming.debian.org/ > > There, I

Re: adduser

2007-08-01 Thread Oleg Verych
01-08-2007, Bob Proulx: > Oleg Verych wrote: >> Ids may change and i will end up with /var/spool/exim4 owned by >> different user in case /etc/passwd is new. > > I don't think that should be a concern because if the ownership of > /var/spool/exim4 needs to be non-root then it should be set in the >

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > It certainly can do what you want, if you leave it running and use it as a > shell and not as a single-command download tool. lftp can carry as many > transfers in parallel as needed, to as many sites as needed, and bo

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

2007-08-01 Thread michael
Quoting "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each running an assortment of jobs, and various long-run

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 15:40, Bob McGowan wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera an

Re: IO Error during APT use

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Rico Secada wrote: > Normally I would consider an IO error as a hardware error, but I don't > think that is the case in this situation. Agreed. This is a userland program error message and not a device driver error message. > I/O error : Input/output error > /usr/share/omf/gnome-netstatus/gnome-

Re: booting problem (udev related?)

2007-08-01 Thread Miles Bader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > I think the problem is your clue that previously you had compiled into > your kernel your required modules. This may be making it difficult > for mkinitramfs to determine which modules are required. If it fails > to detect this it would build an incorrect

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

2007-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:37:55AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I tried: > bug http://bugs.debian.org/%s > wphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go OK, i got it. It's interchanged! :-) http://bugs.debian.org/%sbug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?sea

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

2007-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:29:01PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Look at the Bookmark Shortcuts extension on this page: > > http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/ThirdPartyExtensions > > Many thanks for the pointer. I am still struggling with the format of the text file. I haven't had deskbar create i

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-01 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
OP: tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i try >to run, i get in the wine log the message: > > wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ > failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory > >sugg

trying to get wine to work

2007-08-01 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i try to run, i get in the wine log the message: wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory suggestions begged. tom arnall arcat

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Except that for a download that I have to restart 5 or 10 times, its > easier to put the url in a file and use wget, or for rsync I put the > whole command line in a file, pound-hack it, chmod +x and away it goes. > > If lftp had a download queue t

Re: booting problem (udev related?)

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Miles Bader wrote: > The problem is that with the new kernel, the system won't boot all the way. > It fails when it tries to mount the root partition, and dumps me into the > ramfs emergency shell. The error message is something generic like "File > not found" (sorry for the vagueness, those boot

What's The Status of Gatos With Xorg-7.2 and Ati Radeon all in Wonder x1300 PCIe 256 ?

2007-08-01 Thread Lic. Orestes leal
Hello friends, anyone knows somehting about this? Greetings from Cuba. Orestes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mysqld query logs

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Nicolas wrote: Hello, Basic question but I can't get to resolve it by googling around and playing with the options: when I start the mysqld daemon using the (unmodified) init script /etc/init.d/mysqld, the daemon is not logging any queries nor errors to syslog. Starting the

booting problem (udev related?)

2007-08-01 Thread Miles Bader
For a long time, I used self-compiled kernels, with no problems. Recently I installed a debian kernel package, "linux-image-2.6.22-1-686" (version 2.6.22-3). [It was a tight fit -- my root partition only has 130MB on it, and the debian kernel package used up 60MB -- but it did fit with about 4MB

USB/udev/hal - something changed?

2007-08-01 Thread pinniped
(quote) I can see the device using udevinfo and I can mount it as root manually, but why won't volume-manager work anymore? (end quote) Did you look at the actual device nodes in /dev to see who "owns" each device? If user:group=root:root then you need to read through the /etc/udev{,/rules.d} f

USB/udev/hal - something changed?

2007-08-01 Thread Todd Pytel
I used to be able to mount USB devices without any problem as long as I was part of the plugdev group. No need for fstab entries or anything else. Now I'm getting messages from gnome-volume-manager saying that I don't have sufficient privileges to mount the volume. I'm not sure exactly when this st

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Sasho Angelov wrote: > When I purge other linux-images everything is fine. Hmm... It is hard to debug remotely. If you are at the end of the possibilities then I would simply disable the prerm and postrm scripts entirely. This is a serious "force" action but if you have exhausted your other opt

[Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

2007-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Andrew. On Aug 01 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to > > open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files? > > I'm sure there is a 'pr

Re: Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

2007-08-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:29 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:07:24AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > > >My searches on how to get this working were inconclusive. I did find > > >something related to GNOME deskbar which does this, but I don't have > > >GNOME and don't want

Re: A question of fonts

2007-08-01 Thread andy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 23:28:01 +0100, andy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: [...] I have yet to try changing fontconfig/hinting_type to "Native" but will when a decent reason to shut X down presents in

Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

2007-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear fellows, I am usually looking closely the development of Debian and I like to see which packages have been uploaded to Debian (including some of the packages maintained by me) at http://incoming.debian.org/ There, I often like to look at the *.changes files, since they contain the descriptio

Re: [OT] Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:10:43PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:47:51 +0200 > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Florian, > > > > Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's wishes. > > The Town of Oyster Bay Arts Council makes you switch off your > > computer?

Re: Networking: Ports to Programs

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Bird
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 14:09, Bill wrote: > I'm generating spurious DNS requests from a > variety of (closed) ephemeral ports. By the time I identify > the port with tcpdump or snort or ethereal the request has > been made, answered and the port closed. So I'd like to > trace the connection ba

Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear fellows, > > I am usually looking closely the development of Debian and I like to see > which packages have been uploaded to Debian (including some of the > packages maintained by me) at http://incoming.debian.org/ > > There, I

Networking: Ports to Programs

2007-08-01 Thread Bill
Hi folks, I'm generating spurious DNS requests from a variety of (closed) ephemeral ports. By the time I identify the port with tcpdump or snort or ethereal the request has been made, answered and the port closed. So I'd like to trace the connection back to its source program/process. The necessa

OT: Success in reflashing a crippled OEM bios

2007-08-01 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, FYI. Some time ago I bought a cheap $150 Linspire box from Frys. (Great Quality PC, it says on the box.) I bought it because I knew Linspire did not ship binary-only drivers, so I knew the box would work with all distros. Sadly, Linspire has changed their policy and buying a box with thei

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use LABEL="camera" instead? You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems,

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-08-01 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 19:21, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 00:45:54 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > [...] > > > > > My TV card was set as /dev/video0, and some time later the webcam was > > > > set as /dev/video1

Bus error trying to start Quanta

2007-08-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi After my last upgrade of Debian, running testing, I get the error "Bus Error" when I try to start Quanta og KDevelop. I don't believe it's a hardware error. Any sugestions? Rico. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

IO Error during APT use

2007-08-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Normally I would consider an IO error as a hardware error, but I don't think that is the case in this situation. The last two days when I has been running "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" I get the following error: I/O error : Input/output error /usr/share/omf/gnome-netstatus/gnome-n

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-01 Thread Sasho Angelov
On 8/1/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does running update-grub by itself complete? Or hang? > > > update-grub complete successfully When I purge other linux-images everything is fine. -- Alexandar Angelov

Caps Lock don't work

2007-08-01 Thread Salve Håkedal
I run Etch on 3 machines, and have trouble with Caps Lock in the linux console. (In X it's ok.) machine[1a] Installed Woody in 2004, upgraded to Sarge and then Etch. Caps Lock works. machine[2] Installed Sarge, later upgraded to Etch when stable. Caps Lock won't work. Gives a mix

mysqld query logs

2007-08-01 Thread Nicolas
Hello, Basic question but I can't get to resolve it by googling around and playing with the options: when I start the mysqld daemon using the (unmodified) init script /etc/init.d/mysqld, the daemon is not logging any queries nor errors to syslog. Starting the mysqld_safe binary with the -l or --lo

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

2007-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Luís, I lost the beginning of this thread. :-( So, I may not know what you're talking about here. On Jul 31 2007, Luis Finotti wrote: > First, thanks for the reply! > > Perhaps you inadvertently made Print a shortcut for ksnapshot. If so, > > you should be able to disable it by going through

Re: laptop sid upgrade. network works till startx then get agpgart kernel error and no network connectivity

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 23:31:07 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 17:19 Sat 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Other options to try are "pci=routeirq", "acpi=off" and "nolapic" (plus > > combinations of all of the above). > > I was away for a few days Florian! > Great ideas! > The one that wor

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:33:14PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-line, which > > > is >

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use > > LABEL="camera" instead? > > You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems, but I > doubt tha

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-line, which is > > just as well: the transfer engine is well cared for, and not a secondary > > thing to t

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:59:42 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > TOBAC? Answered in my reply to Florian. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I must be hallucinating, watching ange

Re: [OT] Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:47:51 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Florian, > > Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's wishes. > The Town of Oyster Bay Arts Council makes you switch off your > computer? Now I am even more confused than Andrew... The Old Ball And Chain == The Wi

Re: [OT] Mathematics and the uselessness of numbers (was Re: Help buying Economic Printer)

2007-08-01 Thread judd
On 31 Jul, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [snip] > > Sorry for joining this OT thread. > > Don't get misled by the subject; this has nothing to do with > mathematics: > > 1) stddev's only apply, if temperatures would vary statistically and > wou

Re: A question of fonts

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 23:28:01 +0100, andy wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: [...] >>> I have yet to try changing fontconfig/hinting_type to "Native" but will >>> when a decent reason to shut X down presents in terms of work flow. >>> >>> Any

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-08-01 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 31, 2007, at 7:28 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Why not just code to the standard instead of to a browser, do your testing in an ACID compliant browser like Konqueror (instead of a browser that can't render to the standard), and then call it good? If it looks good there, it'll look just as goo

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 00:45:54 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] > > > My TV card was set as /dev/video0, and some time later the webcam was set > > > as /dev/video1. this works fine with the pre 2.6.17 kernels (no Udev), > > > and th

RE: syslog help - SOLVED

2007-08-01 Thread Tony Heal
Works great. thanks Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:07 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: syslog help > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: >>> USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine >>> for me with removab

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephane Durieux wrote: > > Of course the network connexion is good ! > > I can ping the server > > But you said that the server cannot access the network: > > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. If the server has > > > >

Re: syslog help

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:54:23PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I am trying to move my postgresql (v7.4) logging out of the syslog and > into a postgres.log. I want to do this so I can turn on logging full > bore and have logrotate keep the logs to a reasonable size. > > > > Here is my problem. Po

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:41:56PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Try lftp. I know of no better ftp client. But it is command-line, which is > just as well: the transfer engine is well cared for, and not a secondary > thing to the GUI. > I've got lftp installed but haven't tried

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephane Durieux wrote: > Of course the network connexion is good ! > I can ping the server But you said that the server cannot access the network: > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. If the server has > > > not access to internet, they cannot mount their directories ! This is a

syslog help

2007-08-01 Thread Tony Heal
I am trying to move my postgresql (v7.4) logging out of the syslog and into a postgres.log. I want to do this so I can turn on logging full bore and have logrotate keep the logs to a reasonable size. Here is my problem. Postgresql v7.4 will either log to STDOUT, syslog or none. I have been lo

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexandar Angelov wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > After fixing and running update-grub inspect the file. If update-grub > > runs without hanging then you should be able to purge the package. Does running update-grub by itself complete? Or hang? > > If all else fails and a package simply will not

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:34:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > This flip-flopping is, AFAIK, more the fault of the newer kernel then > > the fault of udev. If the kernel would always load the modules in the > > same order

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I used analog async ITU-T V42 modems for a *long* time (fortunately, I was > > able to move away before V9x hit the market). You really want an error-free > > channel without compression for regular Internet over PPP domestic use, and > > any mod

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-01 Thread Stephane Durieux
--- Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:51:40PM +0200, Stephane > Durieux wrote: > > Hello > > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. > > If the server has not access to internet, they > cannot > > mount their directories ! > > in what way

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:03:52PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > But not rsync, which I use whenever I can for large downloads due to > > errors creeping in for some reason over my noisy phone line and freqent > > line drops (and sus

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > I just started to use screen and it has 'control-a ?' which given you > the 'cheatsheet'. But you dont need all the commands to start using it. > > I use: > 'screen MYCOMMAND' to start a new screen session > control-a " for menu-based s

[OT] Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 16:25:20 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:52 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > > > you turn your machine off? ...blink blink... > > /me wanders away muttering and confused... > > :-) > > Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's w

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > But not rsync, which I use whenever I can for large downloads due to > errors creeping in for some reason over my noisy phone line and freqent > line drops (and susequent redials by pppd). Why do you allow for damaged packets at all? I used anal

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:25:20PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:52 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Andrew, > > > you turn your machine off? ...blink blink... > > /me wanders away muttering and confused... > > :-) > > Sometimes, I just h

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:18:09PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon > processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute > servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each running > an assortment of job

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:51:40PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. > If the server has not access to internet, they cannot > mount their directories ! in what way is network access broken? > > I have checked /etc/fstab > nfs server is re

nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-01 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. If the server has not access to internet, they cannot mount their directories ! I have checked /etc/fstab nfs server is referenced by is ip /etc/nsswitch.conf files hosts dns nis /etc/host.conf order hosts, bind, nis (I would like to know th

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-01 Thread Alexandar Angelov
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: /boot/grub/menu.lst is not corrupted > After fixing and running update-grub inspect the file. If update-grub > runs without hanging then you should be able to purge the package. > > If all else fails and a package simply will not pass the prerm or >

Re: ntfs mount errors

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:49:04AM +0200, pinniped wrote: > > (quote) > I still have the problem. ie. The windoze partition is > mounted automatically fine, but I can only cd to it if I am root. > (end quote) > > Do: > man mount > > Look at the 'Mount options for ntfs'. All your mysteries are ex

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > This flip-flopping is, AFAIK, more the fault of the newer kernel then > the fault of udev. If the kernel would always load the modules in the > same order then udev would probably assign the device nodes in a > consistent manner.

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:52 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > you turn your machine off? ...blink blink... > /me wanders away muttering and confused... :-) Sometimes, I just have to bend to TOBAC's wishes. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindin

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:13 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > It took all night and several extra gigabytes of temporary storage to > > install OpenOffice, though. > > That's annoy my missus no end. She

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:40:13 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Hendrik, > My son uses the gentoo distribution, and he loves it. Since all I occasionally look at Gentoo, with a slightly green eye. I've never quite mustered the courage to dive in, though. > He gets an ext

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:40:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > up-to-date than sid). It is a reportable bug if the gentoo package is > not as up-to-date as the upstream developers' release. Why isn't it in Debian? You can always file a minor or wishlist bug, and normally, my experience has been

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:05:06AM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:21:49 +0300, Andrei Popescu replied: > > IIRC your /boot partition was pretty big. Would it be ver

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:08:06AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > What we need is a multi-protocol proxy server that does proper > > throttling of download requests. > > Squid delay pools? Will work for http and ftp. But not rsync,

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:01:40 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:49:30 -0600 > Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Telly, > >> I wanted to know if some of you find it better to compile your >> programs or just apt-get install them? I've been thinking about just >

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > What we need is a multi-protocol proxy server that does proper > throttling of download requests. Squid delay pools? Will work for http and ftp. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the dark

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Mike Bird wrote: > packets aren't lost. This doesn't work for UDP and ICMP and works poorly > for varying loads. Correct. But it works wonderfully for long-lived TCP connections, and if you are using ftp/http (and not, say, bittorrent) to get your ISOs, it will help you. Th

Re: How to handle the bad sectors on the hard disk?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:21:43 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 07:08:25AM -0600, Ninenineone Efx wrote: >> Programs freeze sometimes complaining i/o error, access failure on >> specific sectors. >> My hard disk begins to have bad sectors. It's 10-year old computer. >> >>

Re: Is there a package for mathml fonts?

2007-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/01/2007 08:20 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: At http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/ it tells me On Linux with Xft-enabled builds, you should install the TrueType TeX fonts and Mathematica 4.1 fonts (repeat: 4.1). To install TrueType fonts, simply extract and copy the .ttf files in you

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/01/2007 07:23 AM, Steve Kleene wrote: The motherboard (Abit BX133 440BX) has four IDE connectors allowing 8 drives in total. hda-hdd have a speed of 33 MB/s max. hde-hdh have a speed of 66 MB/s max. So I have always had the two hard drives connected to hde and hdf. There are no other

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:31:07PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify > Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar > stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are > ru

Is there a package for mathml fonts?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
At http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/ it tells me > On Linux with Xft-enabled builds, you should install the TrueType TeX > fonts and Mathematica 4.1 fonts (repeat: 4.1). To install TrueType fonts, > simply extract and copy the .ttf files in your ~/.fonts/ directory > (create it if you

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:32PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > ALSO: I want to try the 486 linux-image, but dpkg refuses to install it, > saying that that package is only for I386. How can I install the 486 > linux-image on my AMD64 computer? You can't since the 486 kernel is 32-bit and

Re: Part3: More problems. [What was the subject?]

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:03:54AM -0500, Brad B wrote: > Thanks for helping me. I installed both of those, and it got past requesting > libc! > Now, it's requesting the kernel source, which i can't seem to find the > appropriate version of. Would you care to change the subject line to something m

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:45:23 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually > boot properly. Thanks. I'll definitely try this, but probably won't have time until tomorrow. > As for the grub-disk, if you mount it you should see a default m

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: > > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > > device once -- and never again, until I

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. > > I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered > simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. > Perhaps instead I will mak

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 31 2007 18:17, David Fox wrote: > Looking at a debian ftp site that I use (#1 listing in my sources.list) I > see: > > > debian/pool/non-free/n > ls -l nvi* > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Jul 7 08:35 nvidia-graphics-drivers > drwxr-sr-x 2 1176 1176 4096 Dec 7 2006 nvidia-graphics-driver

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:19:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] > Here's a fresh start, just to verify that your machine will actually boot properly. 1. Connect your drives to /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, set the jumpers on b

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-31 12:15:33, schrieb koffiejunkie: > Say you are booted into Linux1, and linux 2 is mounted at /linux2, you > need to do this (assuming they are both recent distrobutions): > > mount -t proc proc /linux2/proc This should be mount -t none /proc /linux2/proc -o bind Thanks, Greetings

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