Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Jun.09, 13:26:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: I'm struggling for a while now to get vdpau working with mplayer (from debian-multimedia and upstream svn), but it still doesn't work. XBMC is not available and mythtv seems to be a monster. ^ in Debian Regards, Andrei -- If

exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? Kind regards

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jun 2009, Martin Fluch wrote: Hello! I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I notice the following error messsage

Re: gcc-avr update problem

2009-06-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/17 J.Hwan.Kim frog1...@gmail.com Hi, everyone I'm using gcc-avr in etch. If I upgrade my debian to lenny and wish to use gcc-avr etch version not lenny version, how can I install gcc-avr and avr other package of etch in lenny environment? maybe apt pinnning can be of use

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I normally use mutt . Though the simple mail will also do: echo 'message body' |

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:26 +0100, Martin Fluch wrote: I'm trying to configure an ATI Technologies M52 (Mobility Radeon X1300) graphics card with 64MB of RAM on my T60. I have problem with getting the acceleration set up correctly (glxgears runs with about 110fps). I notice the following

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,17.Jun.09, 14:30:41, Wolodja Wentland wrote: (EE) RADEONHD(0): [dri] CP_INIT failed (EE) RADEONHD(0): RHDDRIFinishScreenInit: RHDDRIKernelInit Failed. I had that problem before and fixed it by installing 'firmware-linux', which contains (among others) the firmwares for the

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* packages that

Re: 'mktemp' testing package dependency

2009-06-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:47:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2009-06-17 05:59 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2009-06-16 21:44 +0200, Jason Filippou wrote:

Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread David
Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird way. Basically, this needs to happen: 1) Exim receives a

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 17 Jun 2009, David wrote: Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird way. Basically, this needs

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for sending/receiving mails in console mode. Any recommendation for good instructions/how-tos ? I think that the only way to dirctly tell exim4 to send mail is to speak SMTP to it,

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread David
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKIedua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: I'd strongly recommend against creating system users for unknown accounts. With the amount of spam we get today, you'd be flooded with new accounts. It would probably be better to create virtual users,

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:26:41PM +0200, David wrote: Okay, this is kind of a weird question, but it came up at work. I'm a complete exim newbie (I've never configured it before, beyond 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'), but a project came up where the manager wants to use exim in a weird

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 17 Jun 2009, David wrote: Could you point me to docs where I can read more about virtual users? Most of the Google results are for Virtual Domains, or for Exim in combination with other software. Exim doesn't really make a distinction between real users and local users. It can check

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Jordan
Suno Ano, Tue Jun 16 2009 12:37:28 GMT+0200 (CEST): Peter You can use svk instead of svn I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings. svk is an attempt to

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-17 Thread Oliver Schneider
I do not see how this solves the metadata issue if you use a version control system directly without the smartness etckeeper brings to the table e.g. by using its .gitignore settings. svk is an attempt to inject the notion of being a decentralized scm into a centralized one (which svn

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread David
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tuttydtu...@vianet.ca wrote: Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it send the mail blindly. If the user doesn't exist, exim bounces it back. the

external command from java

2009-06-17 Thread abdelkader belahcene
hi, how to execute an external program from java. the equivalent to the system C command : system( thecommand ), where command is any unix command or program like ls, gedit or firefox thanks for help bela

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Doug, Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Thanks a lot On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:10:17PM +0100, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to use exim4 for

Re: external command from java

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
abdelkader belahcene wrote: hi, how to execute an external program from java. the equivalent to the system C command : system( thecommand ), where command is any unix command or program like ls, gedit or firefox thanks for help bela You'd probably be better off asking on a java-dev

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 16:51:33 +0200, David wrote: This info is needed, because our software needs to hook into the exim mail life cycle at various points. Mainly for things like converting between email and non-email messaging systems. Basically, the idea is to use exim as the core engine

Re: [testing] bluez4 keypad [Resolved]

2009-06-17 Thread Alexandre
To activate bluetooth, you need a paperclip (trombone) each time you want to see it with hcitool scan. ^^ Then hidd --connect $KeyboardBluetooth_ADRR works (tried as root) After that, I need xmodmap and xev to configure it whith my own language. (hard with a broken arm ;) -- Alexandre

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 18c1e6480906170751s1156138ep8d3002b2528c3...@mail.gmail.com, David wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tuttydtu...@vianet.ca wrote: Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Install bsd-mailx. echo 'Body of the message' | mailx -s 'Subject Line' 'to#1' 'to#2' OR printf

Re: external command from java

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 46688cb90906170748v5acc1dcbh2c616ef948d4b...@mail.gmail.com, abdelkader belahcene wrote: how to execute an external program from java. Look at the documentation for java.lang.Runtime.exec family of functions. Compare/contrast with the exec* family of SUS C functions. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

compiling gnuchess

2009-06-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
on sid i386 after ./configure i ran make and the process stopped by input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here make[2]: *** [input.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread David
Thanks for the replies. I think what I'm going to do next is take a closer look at Qpsmtpd, since we'll probably need to do a fair amount of non-standard things on the mail servers, and it sounds like configuring exim to do those kinds of things could get very complicated. David. -- To

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread William Cooper
2009/6/17 David wizza...@gmail.com On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Douglas A. Tuttydtu...@vianet.ca wrote: Since this mail is coming from a trusted server, why not have a script on that server first check (via ssh) if the user exists? Or, have it send the mail blindly. If the user

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Thanks a lot to all for your input. Kind regards, yuriy

Re: compiling gnuchess

2009-06-17 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/17 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com on sid i386 after ./configure i ran make and the process stopped by input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here make[2]: ***

Re: 'mktemp' testing package dependency

2009-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-17 15:23 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:47:20AM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On 2009-06-17 05:59 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59:03PM +0200, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de was heard to say: On

2.6.30

2009-06-17 Thread David Baron
I compiled and an now running the 2.6.30 kernel. 1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data. I does seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I tune2fs back? Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? 2. Following new error: svc:

Re: compiling gnuchess

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 52d26d930906170911q518ebdf6vbac24bfed3cc0...@mail.gmail.com, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/6/17 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was here the

Re: compiling gnuchess

2009-06-17 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:54:12PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: on sid i386 after ./configure i ran make and the process stopped by input.c:95: error: static declaration of ‘input_thread’ follows non-static declaration common.h:719: error: previous declaration of ‘input_thread’ was

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Fluch
Hello Wolodja! Thanks a lot! This hint helped a lot, now the graphics accelereation seems to work fine. At least I get now about 770 fps with glxgears, so the improvement is very much noticeable. (And I noticed that the radeon driver does perform even better than the radeonhd driver; this is the

Re: Problems with play action in DopeWars game

2009-06-17 Thread AG
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 08:05:20AM +0100, AG wrote: What is very strange is that the problems are related to playing the game on this machine. My previous machine played it just fine, and it isn't the version either as far as I can tell, because I removed the

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-17 Thread Suno Ano
Peter Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ? yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one .svn/ at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them all over the place which is very annoying. Git only has one .git/ at the project root at that is it

Need advice on reinstalling because of iceape printing trouble.

2009-06-17 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I run lenny. I upgraded a month or so ago and switched from chroot based iceweasel to 64bit iceape+icedove. Since then my printing became sporadic from inside iceape. It would go thought motions but would not print anything. Attempting to print to ps file produces just basic header of

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Jordan
Suno Ano, Wed Jun 17 2009 19:07:31 GMT+0200 (CEST): Peter Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ? yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one .svn/ at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them all over the place which is very annoying. Git only has

PDF form data won't print

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Gould
Hello, I am looking for advice with a frustrating little problem: I am able to fill in PDF forms from the US IRS with either okular or evince (I am using the testing distribution). However, alphanumerical form data is invisible. It only displays the value for a particular field when I click in

Re: more than one drbd in heartbeat

2009-06-17 Thread Laurent Guignard
On Sun, 24 May 2009 12:58:15 +0200, michal krajcirovic wrote: Hi, Hello, I got a little problem, but I can not find a solution. I have several sections DRBD - /dev/drbd0, /dev/drbd1, /dev/drbd2, etc. on two arrays. On them I have the heartbeat. Above them is to run NFS.

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? Good question. I couldn't answer it immediately, so I've just installed etch on a spare machine, and gnome-terminal does the trick. Here's screencast of

Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

2009-06-17 Thread 365
Welcome to www.tennistips365.com Have a tour on the site and if you have any questions you are more than welcome to send me an e-mail. Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds. (During next week we start exclusive newsletter with technical and biomechanical tips.) Regards, Fredrik

Re: Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

2009-06-17 Thread Tony Baldwin
365 wrote: Welcome to www.tennistips365.com http://www.tennistips365.com Have a tour on the site and if you have any questions you are more than welcome to send me an e-mail. Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds. (During next week we start exclusive newsletter with technical and

puzzled about cron and anacron

2009-06-17 Thread Paul E Condon
I am setting up a cron job to do a daily backup of files on disk. I have put a call to the backup program in /etc/cron.daily and it does run daily, but not at the time that I would like it to run. The puzzle is that /etc/crontab specifies that the jobs in /etc/cron.daily should be run starting

Re: puzzled about cron and anacron

2009-06-17 Thread Suno Ano
[skipping a lot of lines ...] Paul I leave my computer on overnight just so I can have this job Paul done, but there are indications in the log that seem, to my Paul untrained eye, to be anacron restarting cron jobs every morning Paul --- why? And how does it arrive at 7:35? The

Re: Reminder - Free Movie: Learn to play forehand in 48.23 seconds - Tennistips from Sweden

2009-06-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:29:10 -0400 Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tony, There really is an inordinate amount of spam on this list. Not helped by people quoting back to the list verbatim. I've never seen so much on a user list. You should have seen the amount that arrived

Re: Automatically creating user accounts from exim

2009-06-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:51:33PM +0200, David wrote: 1. Is there a way for external programs to determine immediately when a mail was just delivered into the mail files? You can monitor files for changes in timestamps or size, which is essentially what shells do to notify users of new email.

Re: 2.6.30

2009-06-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: 1. Ext3 fs now default to writeback data mode instead of ordered-data. I does seem quicker. Question is whether this mode is safe? Should I tune2fs back? Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? Ordered-data is safer

SPAM on the List

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
List policy is clear concerning SPAM. Please take a minute to read the Debian mailing list policy - http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ If you'd like to reduce the SPAM you receive via the list, follow the instructions found as part of that policy - http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads

Re: 2.6.30

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090617211453.gq24...@penguin.codegnome.org, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:23:27PM +0300, David Baron wrote: 1. Should I use extents along with the writeback data mode? As for extents, they aren't supported in ext3 anyway. You'd need to reformat (not upgrade an existing

Re: GDM login screen freezes after suspend or hibernate

2009-06-17 Thread mmanns
On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:30:19 +0200 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Plz help. Anyone else on this list having the same problem? Same problem here after upgrade on Sunday. (Debian unstable, amd64) Problem: Both keyboard and mouse work neither in gdm or in kdm login screens. After a

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4, please? Install bsd-mailx. echo 'Body of the message' |

Re: exim4 query

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090617215741.ga6...@blitz.hooton, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:52:18AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 3df35b760906170818re166e28x8be9006d7...@mail.gmail.com, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Could you give some commands as examples of sending emails with exim4,

Re: Re: xemacs and auctex

2009-06-17 Thread Bob Parnes
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:10:17AM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote: Bob Parnes wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:12:50PM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote: I have the latest xemacs and auctex in lenny, but when I try C-c C-c, I get C-c C-c not defined. Any ideas what I did wrong? I suspect something

Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-17 Thread Petrus Validus
Hi All, I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8. During the software selection screen by default the options Desktop Environment Laptop and Standard System are checked. Usually I just install the base and build from there (on desktops) but since I'm on a laptop I'm wondering what tools and

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, j tmark...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's time for me to have a chat with the gnome-terminal people... From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2009-June/msg00037.html I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spacebar.

Help with rsyslog

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a syslog line that looks like this Jun 18 10:35:53 Thu Jun 18 10:42:37 2009 dlink-dir-855 System Log: Stored configuration to non-volatile memory notice the double dates stamps and it seems like I should be able to rectify this with rsyslog, but I am not sure how. I have had a quick

RE: Xorg driver from Ubuntu in Lenny

2009-06-17 Thread Kushal Koolwal
Install the devscripts-package, change to the source directory of the psb module and do 'debuild'. It willtell you which -dev package are missing, install them and repeat. If everything goes well, you should havea debian package which can be installed with 'dpkg -i xserver-xorg...deb'. So I

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Petrus Validuspetrus.vali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8.  During the software selection screen by default the options Desktop Environment Laptop and Standard System are checked. Usually I just install the base and

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-17 Thread Lachlan
2009/6/18 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Petrus Validuspetrus.vali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am installing Lenny on a Toshiba Tecra A8.  During the software selection screen by default the options Desktop Environment Laptop and Standard System are

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

2009-06-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* packages that depend on it.

wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-17 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
When I reboot my laptop, my wireless card sometimes gets recognized as eth2. Other times it gets recognized as wlan0_rename. Because of this, sometimes I end up with a booted machine with no network. Using Debian Lenny (stable), $dmesg | grep -i wireless [7.493507] iwl3945: Intel(R)

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