Network latency. Sarge vs Etch.

2008-02-27 Thread Felipe Martinez Hermo
Hi, everybody! I have recently installed etch to upgrade my fileserver running sarge. The point is that I noticed a network latency problem, that I initially considered unimportant. This latency became a real problem with one of our applications which stores its data in a samba share

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:13:57PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. What exactly is that package? I can't find it in

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:38:18AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos instead. If you are using some proprietary software that is supported on RHEL (or Centos)

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-27 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 26/02/08 19:28, wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 00:16:36 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Florian Kulzer on 25/02/08 17:39, wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27/02/2008, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course I read Dilbert. And I am full aware of the corporate IT environment. But I'm still 30-young and think that I can change the world by trying. I'm so naive that I encourage others to do the same. I know that I'm doomed to

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Robin
On 27/02/2008, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote: On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread David S
Hi Zach I don't know how to fix your old laptop, and I have heard that laptop hard drives have stunted lifespans, but there are products on the market that can provide an external enclosure and USB interface for these hard drives. I have one myself, but you do need to look around. As for USB

xrandr laptop monitor flickering

2008-02-27 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I use my laptop monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and an external Samsung SyncMaster 740T ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) connected via VGA to the laptop. The configuration is: ~ % xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1824 VGA-0

Re: Re: mounting CD1 is not enough for mirroring and net install

2008-02-27 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, I added the official Release and the gpg files to the approprate place dists/etch ( I am using etch/R3), but I got same error unable to find the Release file. Maybe this can help to understand:When I start the client machine, the dhcp and tftp ran correctly ( the

Re: initrd

2008-02-27 Thread George
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the base, and following the instructions in the kernel source README. Do I additionally need to make an initrd for it to boot? NO. As long as you have everything you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello! I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. All steps went well. After typing pon dsl-provider it says it was loaded but when I try to open some page in firefox it says it was not possible to open the page. After typing plog I get an error of

Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed February 27 2008, Kelly Clowers wrote:  the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but when I restarted it, root owns it. I don't know about this particular issue, but I found famd to be a constant source of problems. Gamin is better, but not perfect. I actually don't have either

Re: DSL speed

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can do to to increase

Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Frenchguy
Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T1120, 72 Gig HD, 1Gig RAM) no video card in, I'm doing ssh to it then

Re: initrd

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27 Feb at 11:34 George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the base, and following the instructions in the kernel source README. Do I additionally need to make an

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian running on Sparc

lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

2008-02-27 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Hello everybody! I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: During shutdown I get: -- Αsking all remaining processes to terminate... done Killing all remaining processes... failed ... Deactivating swap... done Unmounting local

Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since! I've got a number of systems that for various reasons (mainly hardware-based) are running a custom 2.6.24 kernel. Obviously I'd like to make them official, does

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:13 + Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:38:18AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos instead.

unsetting bash language

2008-02-27 Thread niclas w
bash error msg are in swedish, and swedish characters works fine, but I want error msg in english(and still be able to write swedish characters). /Niclas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Tzafrir Cohen writes: Right. But then again, that software is probably not certified to work on CentOS. It's certified to run on RHEL. CentOS is not RHEL, even though it is based on its code and it is pretty close. Unfortunately managers are often firmly convinced that certified on RH means

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T1120,

Re: unsetting bash language

2008-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 14:53 +0100, niclas w wrote: bash error msg are in swedish, and swedish characters works fine, but I want error msg in english(and still be able to write swedish characters). Assuming this holds for other programs as well, you should set the LC_MESSAGES variable to C. If you

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Klein Moebius
* Ed Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-27 08:43:08 -0500]: Just installed a new etch server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Run dpkg-reconfigure postfix. Should have an ncurses interface pop up to run you through the

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Klein Moebius
And no, it's not normal. Dpkg should give a basic config when postfix is installed at the outset. -- Regards, Klein Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 07:25, Zach wrote: Hello, Thanks, Zach Well, I dont know if it's going to help, but I give an experince I had. Installing a new box, I had I/O errors, on a new material. exchanged the HD, same problem + segfault. Exchanged the memories, still the problem. It

IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Sunnz
Hello there, The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux distros, the

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another package. aptitude has no

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 07:43, Ed Curtis wrote: Just installed a new etch server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Where did you look? $ dir /etc/postfix/main.cf - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2116

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Sunnz wrote: Hello there, The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux

warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I am getting this annoying warning: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' Looking at the man page of readahead I need to include fcntl.h to get the declaration. But after digging in the source the readahead is only accessible if __USE_GNU is defined, which in turn is

postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ed Curtis
Just installed a new etch server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Thanks, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postfix and debian

2008-02-27 Thread Ed Curtis
Klein Moebius wrote: * Ed Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-27 08:43:08 -0500]: Just installed a new etch server and was running through configs and noticed the main.cf file is missing for postfix. Is this normal? Run dpkg-reconfigure postfix. Should have an ncurses interface pop

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since! I've got a number of systems that for various reasons (mainly

Re: HD problems

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Feb-08, at 1:25 AM, Zach wrote: Hello, Two day ago I suddenly got lots of I/O and read errors which went to all consoles on my laptop (Latitude C600 running Debian testing release with Linux kernel 2.6.18) followed by loud clicking noises

(OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Angus Auld
This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash animations, etc. makes it quite important, at least to me, that my browser be Flash-friendly. Adobe, in

Re: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-27 16:24 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, I am getting this annoying warning: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' Looking at the man page of readahead I need to include fcntl.h to get the declaration. But after digging in the source the readahead is

Re: IceWeasel and IceDove or other OS?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sunnz: The only Debian distro I have tried so far are Ubuntu's... however I am just wondering what are the state of IceWeasel and IceDove like? Are the source distributed in a portable form somewhere that can be downloaded and recompiled on other Unix like OS like other Linux distros, the

Re: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead'

2008-02-27 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-27 16:24 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hello, I am getting this annoying warning: warning: implicit declaration of function 'readahead' Looking at the man page of readahead I need to

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-27 Thread ElTino
Zach-5 wrote: Anyone have a good basic firewall (especially example rules scripts!) that I can put up? Besides a plain firewall what else can I do to make my machine more secure since it will be connected to the outside world nearly 24x7 from now on. Last week one of my friends had

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24,

cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Is there a better way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:37:11 -0800 Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read that there will be an etch and a half release that will include the 2.6.24 kernel (if it proves reliable). It is planned for etch r4, we are at r2 now so it looks to me that it will be some time yet before it

avahi-daemon - unrequired?

2008-02-27 Thread michael
I seem to have messages in my SYSLOG such as Feb 27 12:55:43 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Invalid legacy unicast query packet. Feb 27 12:55:44 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Invalid legacy unicast query packet. Feb 27 12:55:44 ratty avahi-daemon[2996]: Recieved repsonse with invalid source port 4034 on

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Zimmermann
Hello List, to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Is there a better way to do so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Your problem is that the shell doesn't expand the '*' to hidden files. You could do '.*', but that would match '..'

Re: Loading modules during startup

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Brock
--- Andrew Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 24 February 2008 09:13, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have put atl2 in /etc/modules and but after booting I see this in messages. localhost:~# cat /var/log/messages |grep atl2 Feb 21 12:16:11 localhost kernel: atl2: disagrees about version of

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Is there a better way to do so ? Go to the previous directory and then remove the directory using rm -rf. This will remove other hidden files along with the

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything since! [...] I have

amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
I just noticed a amanda dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't recognise. I see that it's some backup software. Whilst it's likely

Re: avahi-daemon - unrequired?

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:51:39 + michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello michael, but I'm unsure what 'avahi-daemon' is needed for... anybody care to illuminate me? or can I just uninstall it? It's used for DNS service discovery. If you're on a local network, using a networked, rather than

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Angus Auld wrote: This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash animations, etc. makes it quite important, at least to me, that my browser be

Re: cleanup a directory

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/27/2008 09:39 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: to clean some directories of mine, I use rm -rf * but files named as `.log' are not removed. Dot files are not expanded by * - to remove just the .log files, for example: find ./ -type f -name .log -exec rm -rf {} \; To remove everything in

Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-27 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support It also says

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
michael wrote: I just noticed a amanda dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't recognise. I see that it's some backup

Re: DSL speed

2008-02-27 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Z The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 Z Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My Z latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can Z do to to increase my download speed? I'm using

HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and an internet IP address. How can I use the web server account to bypass the proxy server?

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount. Problem is it won't allow me to mount/unmount anything. Did you mean you installed usermode? WT -- User n.:

Re: HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:27:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and an internet IP

Re: HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and an

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Actually, if he's got his own machine, then he can install the portableapps applications locally, without a flash drive. It's much faster that way, in fact, at the university I copy portable firefox to the machine I'm sitting at and

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:18:38AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Coporate IT is driven by sweetheart deals from suppliers to IT management. It is full of fiefdoms and not invented here syndromes. It is a meca to the power hungry and the control freaks. It has little to do with helping the

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:37:11AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A while back there was an announcement that debian would be updating to kernel 2.6.24, however I've not heard anything

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian

[OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220246 ASUS Eee PC 4G – Galaxy Black Eee PC Intel processor 7 Wide VGA 512MB 4GB Integrated Graphics - Retail for only $400! Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[solved] Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista

Open HTML file with OpenOffice in Gnome

2008-02-27 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
I just completed installing installing Debian Etch I386 on an AMD64 computer. A Gnome user needs to edit HTML with OpenOffice, so I right-clicked on one HTML file, and set it to open with OpenOffice. But double-clicking does not start OpenOffice. Nor does it give any error message. Currently, I

format site

2008-02-27 Thread Kouakou Chantal
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Re: [solved] Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:14:06PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks to all who replied. It seems that for my purposes this works: $ cd /path/to/dir $ ls *.txt */*.txt | sort Huh? That is not what you asked for. It does not trim the directory names.

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:15:14PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Actually, if he's got his own machine, then he can install the portableapps applications locally, without a flash drive. It's much faster that way, in fact, at the university

Debian method for bonding vlan

2008-02-27 Thread Rob Heilman
I have seen/used a couple different ways to setup Ethernet bonding and subsequently 802.1q vlans on top of the bond. Just curious if anyone knows the Debian way of doing this? Right now I use entries in /etc/modules 8021q /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 alias bond0 bonding options bond0 mode=1

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread Angus Auld
--- Jean-Louis Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angus Auld wrote: This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash animations, etc. makes it

Re: (OT) Flashplayer observations w/Opera etc.

2008-02-27 Thread komodo
On Wednesday 27 of February 2008 20:57:22 Angus Auld wrote: --- Jean-Louis Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angus Auld wrote: This are just my observations and experiences with Flash-player and Linux of late. I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the fact that

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 26 Feb at 12:36 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Huub wrote: You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy? I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I figure

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Habashy
thanks for the reply. Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components of debian?? i.e. xdm,gdm,kde and etc... thanks mjh On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Jamin Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Habashy wrote: I do not want to kill this to death but..on a good

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. Can anybody enlighten me? Lilo has always worked well for me. I find grub easier to use when booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:34:27 -0500 Michael Habashy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Michael, Just curious...do you know any other way to reset the base components of debian?? As root, dpkg-reconfigure should help you do what you want. If you fear your system has been compromised, reconfiguring

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Is it coughing blood?

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:56:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 19:08, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
John Hasler wrote: Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode then yes, he does. -- To

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 15:11, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Christopher Bradley
actually opera does have tabs (since before firefox) and does have a wand which remembers passwords. Before firefox, i used it as the best alternate to explorer when I have to use a windows machine. But why not load firefox? If you got opera on, firefox should be doable. If loading is an issue,

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread John Hasler
Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. I wrote: Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. H.S. writes: If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode then yes, he does.

Re: mounting error USB stick

2008-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:01:54 +, Adam Hardy wrote: [...] On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that would then mount it to /media

curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] GET / 400 1063 - - ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] GET / 400 1063 - - ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] GET / 400 1063 - - I see blocks of these in the apache2 access.log. -- richard -- To

Re: Debian method for bonding vlan

2008-02-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:39:10 Rob Heilman, vous avez écrit : I have seen/used a couple different ways to setup Ethernet bonding and subsequently 802.1q vlans on top of the bond. Just curious if anyone knows the Debian way of doing this? Right now I use entries in /etc/modules

Re: PPPOE Connection

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
John Hasler wrote: Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. I wrote: Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. H.S. writes: If he wants to make the ADSL modem work in bridge mode

getting gs to see ttf fonts (was: Re: openoffice.org: fonts different on a printout (PDF print works))

2008-02-27 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello If a document containing some Indic fonts is printed, those fonts come out to be different on paper. English fonts are okay though. However, if the document is saved first as a PDF file and then that PDF printed, all fonts come out okay on the printout. This is

Re: finally got lenny installed

2008-02-27 Thread Robin
On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the wrong way round from a user perspective. Because they were originally

Re: Flash removed from etch - process explained?

2008-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16:16 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: From a recent message on this list I saw a link to the 4.0r3 etch release http://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2008/msg0.html Going to that link I see that they have removed flash Closed source and no security support [...]

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-27 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 12:40 -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: michael wrote: I just noticed a amanda dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27

usbcore and ndiswrapper for toshiba laptop

2008-02-27 Thread diane mittnik
Toshiba laptop A215-S7422, debian etch installed # uname -a: 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm following the instructions here:

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:19:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/08 12:54, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/08 06:28, Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort

Re: Usermount

2008-02-27 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:30:00 -0500 Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Just installed usermount --- a graphical interface to mount/umount.

Opensync and GPE.

2008-02-27 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running the GPE applications (gpe-contact, gpe-calendar, and gpe-todo) on a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. I would like to use opensync with a Bluetooth connection to synchronize the contents of these apps on the Nokia with iceowl and icedove on my

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the FreeBSD logo contest [2], to create a friendly mascot for the Debian project (in a

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-02-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 02:07:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: Hi Michelle First, you do know that one can purcase DC ATX PSUs? Yes but with an efficienci horible... 40-70% only... I am working with chips from Dallas, Maxim, NXP

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