Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:48:10, Armin Häberling wrote: Hi all, I'm currently setting up a development machine of ours. For testing our application it need two static ips. it does not need to be accessible under these ips from outside. Another interface should be configured via dhcp. I would

Re: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:32:25, Adam Hardy wrote: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing from link to link - fortunately some websites don't demand

Re: directory to deb

2008-07-23 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:16:20AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: T o n g wrote: Apart from using checkinstall, if I've prepared a directory of folders and files, can I make the directory into a .deb file? As I know, no. In your case checkinstall is better. customizing the script which

Re: Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-23 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:13:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:11:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:46:02, Pavlos Parissis wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:11 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to scan a system to

Re: Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 12:37:37, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:13:06PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:11:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:46:02, Pavlos Parissis wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:35:11 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom [EMAIL

networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csányi Pál
Hello! I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to access the internet but server and desktop can't. I have setup shorewall (iptables) on every three system and so far it works but today it works not. I tried with command 'shorewall clear' to clear

Re: Skype64 or SIP alternative?

2008-07-23 Thread thveillon.debian
On 07/22/08 21:37, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, The only deb skype.com has is for i386 and i'm running AMD64. So, i tried using the static version (http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static) both with linux32 ./skype and just running the ./skype but i get the same result: it'll

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: Hello! I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to access the internet but server and desktop can't. I have setup shorewall (iptables) on every three system and so far it works but today it works

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:10:26 +0300 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 00:11:35, Alexander Fortin wrote: [locked root account troubles] Of course, I could unlock root account, but I thought it was good practice to avoid root login from tty/ssh etc, and I'm pretty

Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]

2008-07-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-18 12:04:35, schrieb Steve C. Lamb: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:01:31PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: I do not believe it, since I am admin a Courier-Imap Server with 73.000 users ith 2.8 million legitim messages and 8 million spams per day. And a d-u troll. I would

Re: Cannot find /dev/parport0

2008-07-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-07-17 10:04:33, schrieb Account for Debian group mail: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6MP This is the same as with serial drivers which are called ttyS00, ttyS01 but in real they are

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to access the internet but server and desktop can't. I have setup shorewall (iptables) on every three system and so

will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I think is MOST processes were shut down, then it just sits

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 14:35:31, Csanyi Pal wrote: Like I sed this problem is still here if I clear the iptables with 'shorewall clear' command. So I think this is not shorewall issue. If you enabled IP forwarding in shorewall (vs. sysctl.conf) then clearing shorewall will disable the

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 08:27:53, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 14:35:31, Csanyi Pal wrote: Like I sed this problem is still here if I clear the iptables with 'shorewall clear' command. So I think this is not shorewall issue. If you enabled IP forwarding in shorewall (vs. sysctl.conf) then

[OT] Re: .htaccess?

2008-07-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Lóránd Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't .htaccess rules work, when i example write this in it: AuthUserFile /home/username/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName Private Area AuthType Basic Limit GET POST require valid-user /Limit i just

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: when I went to the 2.6.25-2 kernel. what do I look for as far as stuck processes or logs??   What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/ Regards, Andrei took me a while to figure this out.. in reality, what I have is

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only with IP address: 192.168.2.100. If I try to access it with FQDN: csanyi-pal.info then I can't open it. Then it sounds like a DNS issue. Changed the

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 09:21:36, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:   What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/ took me a while to figure this out.. in reality, what I have is /etc/rc0.d Sorry, typo... now what.. does this mean

Fwd: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Brian McKee
g - missed reply to all (again) -- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: resurrecting dead mouse To: Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Started

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only with IP address: 192.168.2.100. If I try to access it with FQDN: csanyi-pal.info then I can't open it. Then it

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I tried to switch to VT (console) and I couldn't - Ctrl+Alt+F1 didn't work (and they used to couple of weeks ago). I don't even know where to look for the problem; xev detects KeyRelease XF86_Switch_VT_1 event, /etc/inittab contain getty respawns.

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: in the OFF button for 6 seconds, to turn it off. It still did it yesterday when I went to the 2.6.25-2 kernel. what do I look for as far as stuck processes or logs??   What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/ ok, I

Re: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:32:25AM +0100, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing from link to

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: does this mean anything?   Not to me, but somebody else might have an idea. Did you try looking through the bugs for the respective package? how do you find them?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:52, elijah r. wrote: Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you are downloading. I highly recommend you get the single Debian NetInstall ISO. Since you are using a Dial-Up connection, this

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:06:10, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: does this mean anything?   Not to me, but somebody else might have an idea. Did you try looking through the bugs for the respective package? how do you find them??

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:09:34, Nigel Henry wrote: I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same installer, as on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? AFAIK yes. You should read the FAQ at http://www.debian.org/CD/faq Also, if you have troubles booting you can try the LennyBeta2

Kernel not changed after Etch - Lenny upgrading! (was: Umts pendrive modem installation)

2008-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been following the guide at: http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=38 and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch. Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under

Re: Kernel not changed after Etch - Lenny upgrading! (was: Umts pendrive modem installation)

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:23:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote: deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and choose one close to you. I put that line in /etc/sources.list, then connected to internet and did: #

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 10:09:34 am Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:52, elijah r. wrote: Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you are downloading. I highly recommend you get the single Debian

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread elijah r.
I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same installer, as on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? I am pretty sure it is exactly the same, but it grabs installation packages from the internet instead of from the local CD/DVDs. Also, I wasn't sure whether you had tried passing the

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 09:29:59 pm Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:05:12 pm Celejar wrote: Hi, My xorg.conf files used to have sections such as these: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver synaptics

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: Posting your entire shorewall config could be a bit much, but maybe you know *exactly* what you changed from the default config and could post here. Here is the shorewall rules rules.gz Description:

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:41:38 Damon L. Chesser, you wrote : On Wednesday 23 July 2008 10:09:34 am Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:52, elijah r. wrote: Debian Etch ISO images are available for download, completely free, via the internet, just like those Fedora ISO's you

Re: Kernel not changed after Etch - Lenny upgrading! (was: Umts pendrive modem installation)

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:37:24 Andrei Popescu, you wrote : On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:23:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote: deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and choose one close to you. I put that line in

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Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:00, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot parameter turning off ACPI. how do I check if there is a boot parameter turning off ACPI?? In /boot/grub/menu.lst, the '##

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot parameter turning off ACPI. here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel

before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Vwaju
I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience with and knowledge of networking). I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.9 r3 _Etch_ Official i386 Binary-1 222080218-14:15 (debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso). I was able to ping both IP addresses and domain names. Then I installed ssh and

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot parameter turning off ACPI. here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 18:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot parameter

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 08:10:41, Vwaju wrote: I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience with and knowledge of networking). I installed Debian GNU/Linux 4.9 r3 _Etch_ Official i386 Binary-1 222080218-14:15 (debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso). I was able to ping both IP

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:51:05, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 18:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Alexander Fortin
On Jul 23, 2:30 pm, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I don't recommend allowing root login over ssh, but than can be disabled with sshd. I partially agree with the useless of the feauture, but Debian installer is asking if you want to allow root login or not, so I'm pretty

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 root(hd0,5) kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro expertgui i386

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 09:00:22, Alexander Fortin wrote: On Jul 23, 2:30 pm, Brian Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, I don't recommend allowing root login over ssh, but than can be disabled with sshd. I partially agree with the useless of the feauture, but Debian installer is asking

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 12:35:49, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 root(hd0,5) kernel  

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/08 08:46, Csanyi Pal wrote: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only with IP address: 192.168.2.100.

Weird Internet routing / mtu setting / browser / packet fragmentation problem

2008-07-23 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone here know how I can diagnose exactly where / why the following problem occurs...? I've got a typical adsl setup (in the UK) with my internal (192.168.0.*) network behind a nat router. Everything works perfectly (!) except for 1 problem, which is: If I try to view

Re: .htaccess?

2008-07-23 Thread Lóránd Erik
It's working!!:)) the httpd.conf file is empty, but the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file had many-many configuration in it, i modified the: Directory /var/www/ AllowOverrie All . . . /Directory and it works!! thank you!! 2008/7/23 Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 07/23/08 08:46, Csanyi Pal wrote: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Csanyi Pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From desktop I can to open web page on my apache web server, but only with IP address: 192.168.2.100. If I

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:02 -0500 Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debian etch did all updates When I view the cd disc I am not seeing all the mp3's on the cd disc some are missing when I view on Debian computer But when I view cd disc on a Windows XP computer I see all mp3's This

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to access the internet but server and desktop

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Paul Cartwright wrote: I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I think is MOST processes were shut

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-23 16:50, Damon L. Chesser wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/speed-up-your-synaptics-touchpad-in-ubuntu/

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: I have at home a small LAN with Debian GNU/Linux Etch boxes. The gateway/router can to

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-23 19:41, Wayne Topa wrote: I'll wait for 2.6.26 before I upgrade again. ISTR 2.6.25 has had 2 upgrades in the past 2 weeks. I don't know the plans of the kernel team, but this might have to wait till lenny+1... [1] Johannes [1]

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-23 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) My

Re: How to force ifup to wait for dhcp?

2008-07-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:24:23PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: How does one force ifup to wait for dhcp? The Lenny laptops here start wlan0. AP authentication and DHCP both occur independently in the background. Up to half a minute elapses before AP authentication has occured, DHCP has

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/08 12:41, Wayne Topa wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:48:45 pm Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-07-23 16:50, Damon L. Chesser wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/speed-up-your-synaptics-touchpad-in-ub untu/

Re: Cron jobs and root account locked on Lenny

2008-07-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-23 18:46 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm not an expert, but a quick read through passwd(1) says account expiry should be set to '1', while your 'passwd -S' shows '-1', just like a normal account. How about trying to lock it again? I tried that here, and it did not help.

Re: Problem with removing a chroot

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Buhr
Ryan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem removing the remains of a chroot; I used the script in /usr/share/doc/libpam-chroot/examples/ and it created hard links for the entire /proc folder in /var/chroot/user/testuser/proc/ and I cannot remove it. Can someone let me know how

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: This might not make any difference, but a kernel home-rolled from linux-source-2.6.25 and booted from lilo works perfectly for me on a  mobo with an nForce MCP55 chipset. I wouldn't begin to know how to roll my own kernel.. I think I remember trying it

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Johnny
Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:02 -0500 Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debian etch did all updates When I view the cd disc I am not seeing all the mp3's on the cd disc some are missing when I view on Debian computer But when I view cd disc on a Windows XP computer

Re: apt upgrade sarge - etch udev error can't get past it. Ideas?

2008-07-23 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:43 Tue 22 Jul , Mumia W.. wrote: On 07/22/2008 04:26 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I followed the release notes. You only need a kernel upgrade for that. I think sometimes kernel brings in other stuff

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/08 14:02, Johnny wrote: Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:02 -0500 Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Debian etch did all updates When I view the cd disc I am not seeing all the mp3's on the cd disc some are

Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver

2008-07-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Cartwright wrote: pardon me if this was already beat to death, but I was away last week.. Today I booted into my new 2.6.25-2 kernel and I tried to run my normal NVIDIA...-pkg1.run script. It complained about the XEN kernel and failed. So snip I can't use the vga= kernel parameter in

Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:50:10AM +0200, Armin Häberling wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Armin Häberling wrote: Hi all, [snip] why not add the addresses to lo then how can I do that? have a look at man interfaces, the section you want is up and

Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Mike Bird
Hi Armin, Use dummy0 for the static ip's, e.g.: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp auto dummy0 iface dummy0 inet static address 172.16.2.201 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 172.16.2.255 auto dummy0:1 iface dummy0:1 inet static address 172.16.2.202

Re: Has the memory hole in Xfce been fixed yet?

2008-07-23 Thread andy
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,21.Jul.08, 21:39:39, green wrote: On Sun, 2008.06.29, 181, andy wrote: Several months ago, it became apparent from a discussion here (and info elsewhere) that there was a significant memory leak in Xfce4. I think that it had something to do with Gtk but

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: Have you tried Sound Juicer, or ripping it with abcde? If it contains MP3s, it's obviously not an audio disc and there's no point in trying to rip it. J. -- I am getting worse rather than better. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/08 16:04, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: Have you tried Sound Juicer, or ripping it with abcde? If it contains MP3s, it's obviously not an audio disc and there's no point in trying to rip it. Duh, you're right. But Sound Juicer

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:49, elijah r. wrote: I don't know if the netinstall cd would do. Does it use the same installer, as on the 1st i386 cd for Etch? I am pretty sure it is exactly the same, but it grabs installation packages from the internet instead of from the local CD/DVDs.

Re: resurrecting dead mouse - and now the video signal on the other machine

2008-07-23 Thread Adam Hardy
From: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM Subject: Re: resurrecting dead mouse To: Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer

Re: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrei Popescu on 23/07/08 11:17, wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:32:25, Adam Hardy wrote: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing from link to link

Re: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Adam Hardy
Thomas Preud'homme on 23/07/08 10:58, wrote: The Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:32:25 Adam Hardy, you wrote : Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-23 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 23/07/08 01:05, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mié, 23-07-2008 a las 00:23 +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann escribió: Hi, Recently I tried to switch to VT (console) and I couldn't - Ctrl+Alt+F1 didn't work (and they used to couple of weeks ago). I don't even know where to look for the problem; xev

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-23 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 23/07/08 14:38, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Recently I tried to switch to VT (console) and I couldn't - Ctrl+Alt+F1 didn't work (and they used to couple of weeks ago). I don't even know where to look for the problem; xev detects KeyRelease XF86_Switch_VT_1

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 13:31:13, Csányi Pál wrote: I have at home a small

Re: Weird Internet routing / mtu setting / browser / packet fragmentation problem

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:14:25PM +0100, j t wrote: Hi all. Does anyone here know how I can diagnose exactly where / why the following problem occurs...? I've got a typical adsl setup (in the UK) with my internal (192.168.0.*) network behind a nat router. Everything works perfectly (!)

Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:38:43PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: Hi Armin, Use dummy0 for the static ip's, e.g.: any erason for dummy instead of loopback ? [snip] --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Davies
Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience with and knowledge of networking). If you're not familiar with networking then I would STRONGLY suggest that you stay well clear of putting your server directly on the Internet. Put it behind a

Greetings and question

2008-07-23 Thread Juan Ignacio
Hi I'm new here, I've been using Ubuntu, but the last edition hardy it's too bugged in my opinion, so I changed to Debian. I installed it from the netinstall cd. And I must say it so fast and stable. Well here is the question, I used apt-get install gtk-qt-engine and it says that the package

Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound and graphics. Do you think these will function under linux?

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-23 Thread Edward J. Shornock
On Thursday 24 July 2008 02.37.16 Juan Ignacio wrote: Well here is the question, I used apt-get install gtk-qt-engine and it says that the package couldn't be found. Why isn't the package in the repositories? I want this package because Firefox looks so awful. It's in Etch and Sid. If you're

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 24 July 2008 02:37, Juan Ignacio wrote: Hi I'm new here, I've been using Ubuntu, but the last edition hardy it's too bugged in my opinion, so I changed to Debian. I installed it from the netinstall cd. And I must say it so fast and stable. Well here is the question, I used apt-get

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:43 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound

unionfs or ausfs

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Was reading through an article talking about unionfs and ausfs, thought I could find a use for this at home. So I thought I would come to the list first to see what people experiences have been with these. Seems like unionfs has been added to teh 2.6 -mm kernel, but it seems like there are

Re: TBird Sieve [Was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!]

2008-07-23 Thread Chris Davies
Steve C. Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately this is bare bones, the scripts need to be handwritten. I was hoping for an inteface similar to TBird's internal filtering. IE, something parent friendly. :) I'm sure I saw something out there that did just this. Now that I've got

Re: 2.6.25 kernel and NVIDIA driver

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I can't use the vga= kernel parameter in 2.6.25-2: did you use it? What is your kernel command line? title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 root(hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro expertgui

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread Vwaju
On Jul 23, 7:30 pm, Chris Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building an internet server (primarily to get some experience with and knowledge of networking). If you're not familiar with networking then I would STRONGLY suggest that you stay well clear of

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 07/23/2008 07:00 PM: On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:43 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound and graphics. Do you think these will

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:32 -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:24:08PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Without us, odds are the i386-based machine you're sitting at wouldn't exist. Employing the royal we? Somehow, Paul, I think that without you we'd do just fine.

Re: what 4 packages have in common

2008-07-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 22-07-2008 a las 21:18 -0400, Jude DaShiell escribió: distro is lenny and packages in question are screen; clamav, nethack-console and nethack-common. I spent quite alot of time trying to install these with no luck. The post-install scripts for whatever reason all couldn't get

Re: before I could ping, now I can't

2008-07-23 Thread abel
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 23, 7:30 pm, Chris Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vwaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip 15 auto-eth0 ---snip should be auto eth0 no '-' in between. at first glance that is what I

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