Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emacs (comes with a free operating system) Me don't understand. charlie already answered this better than I could. killer app: screen -x

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:16:11AM -0800, Raquel wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:04:26 +1000 Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/11/2007, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I give up. I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling and haven't been able to fix a thing. Are

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:56:45PM -0800, Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from 15

Re: Linux kernel email list??

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: Hey, I am trying to compile the 2.6.23.1 linux kernel and have ran into a brick wall. I know this isn't the list for it but was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of the appropriate list. I found

Re: Could not find nfs package

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:32:31PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:17:10PM +1100, hce wrote: I am from FC where installation of packages are different to Debian. welcome to the dark side should read: welcome from

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:59:25PM +0100, Lars wrote: Hi I'm running Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.22-2) on my laptop Asus M6Ne. After 5-10 min. in X the system freezes up (or part of it). ... I normally use Xfce4, but I read on bugs.debian.org something regarding freeze and audio. So yesterday

Re: Driver loaded, now, how do I access the camera? (WAS: Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera )

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:00:42PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: OK. I Manually downloaded the gspca-source module and did 'm-a update' and when I went through the steps it seemed to build OK, but did not load. Silly me! Once I unplugged the camera and re-plugged it in, the driver

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories: Oh, this is too easy: ... desktop OR window manager: * /usr/bin/x-window-manager terminal emulator:

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Oh, apparently we're taking this seriously... ;) On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:24:55PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: I'm piggybacking your reply, thanks for doing most of the typing Vikki :-P On 11/6/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your

Re: Can't connect to local machine using ssh

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:24:28AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: Doesn't seem to be that. Also I just tried to create a new user on the machine and that user can login with no problem, only the original one (and root which seems to be enabled in the setup file)

Re: Waiting for root file system... hang solved

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:14:44PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: it turns out you can do a reasonable amount of stuff in that busybox shell and if the system is close to booting, you can get it to go. What I

Re: Could not adjust time

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:48:45AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:08:48AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: hce wrote: I press the right button of the mouse to the clock time on the panel, but there is not adjust time to change the time. What is missing

Re: Gnome panel: Lost icons after dist-upgrade

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:44PM +1100, Nick Croft wrote: Hi List After 6 months of preoccupation with another project, I decided to do a dist-upgrade when a couple of packages started showing signs of their age. All worked fine. It's nice to be up to date. In my main user, where all

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:30:01PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... in debian services are started with an init script

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:50:43AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:26:03PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:26:52AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: It seems it works with some filesystem and do *NOT* work for swap partition. here as I show

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:45:54AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/04/07 07:55, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 04/11/07 00:06, wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/07 18:59, hce wrote: Hi, Is the firefox the best browser? When I installed the Debian,

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:44:00PM +, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I am running etch on a dell laptop. I recently installed ssh: aptitude install ssh and started it: /etc/init.d/ssh start yet when I look for open ports with nmap localhost, port 22 is not open. When I run # ps -e | grep

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:11:28PM +, John O Laoi wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh-agent is *not* the program that allows ssh connections. That is sshd. It should be started with /etc/ini.d/ssh start as root. Is there no output when you do

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:08:21PM +, John O Laoi wrote: Looks like there's your problem. You don't have openssh-server installed. aptitude install openssh-server This should solve your problems. Thanks everyone. That did it. I suppose that I should have done #aptitude

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:18PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:10:50PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: I think it comes down to personal taste. I just can't get the hang of vi. I use it when I have to, but after years of using it off and on I still do

Re: question about mdadm + grub interaction

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 04:39:25PM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: Greetings. In order to insure that a Debian stock kernel (i.e. the kernel installed from the linux-image-2.6.22-2-686-bigmem package) boots correctly off of a mdadm RAID 1 set of two disks if one of the disks is dead, do we: 1)

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... please provide dpkg -l tftpd ~$ dpkg -l tftpd Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err

Re: .deb ?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:31:17PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello; I just downloaded the file debian-reference-en_1.11_all.deb from the Debian site. What is this; a zipped archive file? no, its a .deb, or debian package file. I think it is a kind of zip archive, though I've never bothered to

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... please provide dpkg -l tftpd ~$ dpkg -l

Re: #437650 bug listed aginst libdb4.6.19-2

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:33:41PM -0500, kingbee wrote: Sir / Madame I have searched google but I am finding very little info about this bug that is reported by apt-get when I try to install this package. I have several packages behind libdb4.6.19-2 that I hesitate to upgrade because of

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:21:31PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote: On 11

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:27:53AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007 07:35, John Schmidt wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like the driver module that I need is spca501. There is a source package for Etch: spca5xx-source

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:34:20AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:27:53AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007 07:35, John Schmidt wrote: On Sunday 04 November 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like

Re: risks of using net apps as a user in wheel or adm?

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:23:47PM +, Joe wrote: ... It was to do with the original point, active client-side content of web pages, really. This was the 'vast majority of downloaded software' I meant, sorry, I musunderstood that point... and was contrasting it with the distribution of

Re: Testing with some Unstable

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 07:48:36AM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: I am currently running a Debian testing system. I want to live on the cutting edge with a couple of packages, particularly Sendmail right now. When I run aptitude install -t unstable sendmail libmilter1 I get the following

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:49:49PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: hi list, I run Debian 4.1.2-13 on Dell PowerEdge 650 with kernel 2.6.21-2-686. When I install the debian, the device name of partition is hda1, hda2. After install, I reboot it for times and it works. One day, I find it fail to

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:14:05PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hce wrote: Hi, I've just installed tftp and tftpd package by apt-get. But, I could not see the tftp server running. Actually, I could not figure out where is the tftp script.

Re: Could not find nfs package

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:17:10PM +1100, hce wrote: I am from FC where installation of packages are different to Debian. welcome to the dark side A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:26:52AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: It seems it works with some filesystem and do *NOT* work for swap partition. here as I show below, hde1 is swap partition and there are no label or uuid exists. as I know, tune2fs can add uuid or label for ext2/ext3 partitions. How

Re: hard disk device name change after reboot

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:26:03PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:26:52AM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: It seems it works with some filesystem and do *NOT* work for swap partition. here as I show below, hde1 is swap partition and there are no label or uuid exists

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 03:37:05PM +1100, hce wrote: On 11/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... in debian services are started with an init script stored in /etc/init.d/ and linked to various runlevels in /etc/rc[S123456].d/ I've checked in /etc/init.d

Re: Intel Deluxe PC Camera

2007-11-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:04:49PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not seem to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that it was time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded to 2.6.22-3-k7 from backports. Then I

Re: risks of using net apps as a user in wheel or adm?

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 10:41:35AM +, Joe wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:29:51PM +, Joe wrote: Microsoft Update and apt-get are probably as close as you get, and I wouldn't bet a large amount of money that either is 100% safe. One day MU will get

Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:46:45AM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Op Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:23:11 -0400 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:10:48 +0100 Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Following the directions at [2], the entry for wifi0 in /etc/network/interfaces now looks like this:

Re: Waiting for root file system... hang solved

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 02:38:36AM +, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I've had to learn my way around that having just reconfigured my laptop. The critical item is the contents of $ROOT. The value of $ROOT gets set by the kernel

Re: Debian Failure Setting Password

2007-11-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:47:27PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I've run into a problem after I performed the following: [1] Changed the password for my root user with the usermod command. [2] Changed the password of a non-root user with the usermod command. according to man usermod, the

Re: libgtkhtml: need help with compilation error

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Rehceb Rotkiv wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to compile GtkHTML 3.16.1 (which I need for compiling the newest Evolution). The configure script runs through without errors. make, however, terminates with these errors: ... testgtkhtml.o: In function

Re: resolv.conf question

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:20:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running Etch. My resolv.conf starts with the line: # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! and contains entries that I want to have new different values. I want to change the values in a way that last through a reboot,

Re: libgtkhtml: need help with compilation error

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:04:10AM -0700, Rehceb Rotkiv wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: definitely looks like you're missing a library there. or at least missing an include for GtkPrintOperation. That's per google and I'm no dev. On my system, the function

Re: how to reinstall?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:01:51PM +, michael wrote: sorry to be thick but when I run the netinst CD it knows about the current partitions so if I just hit 'finish partitioning and write changes to disk' is that sufficient/right? surely it will either wipe all data off disk (not what

Re: GLIBC_2.4

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:34:01AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: See my other reponse to this thread. ~/bin at the front of $PATH is a security risk. Miles writes: It an attacker is able to install stuff in ~/bin, they can (and almost certainly would) also modify your .profile

Re: how to reinstall?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:42:44PM +, michael wrote: On 2 Nov 2007, at 18:10, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:01:51PM +, michael wrote: sorry to be thick but when I run the netinst CD it knows about the current partitions so if I just hit 'finish

Re: risks of using net apps as a user in wheel or adm?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:41:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:19:58 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a more general question to an issue that came up in another thread. Not to single out Iceweasel but, for example, IIUC, javascript and

Re: GMT vs UTC

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:49:10PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am running etch. How can I know if the clock is set to GMT or UTC. And how can I switch from one to another? umm... aren't they the same thing? at least practically speaking? A signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: how to reinstall?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 07:06:10PM +, michael wrote: On 2 Nov 2007, at 18:51, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: but yes, essentially, you can select what happens to each partition. aha. you have to change Use as (from do not use to required filesystem) to get to the submenu which offers

Re: Waiting for root file system... hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:33:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it

Re: risks of using net apps as a user in wheel or adm?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:29:51PM +, Joe wrote: Microsoft Update and apt-get are probably as close as you get, and I wouldn't bet a large amount of money that either is 100% safe. One day MU will get hacked, and the whole world will collapse. wow, that's quite a comparison: Microsoft

Re: how to reinstall?

2007-11-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:29PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: - do 'dpkg --set-selections mypackages' for setting packages - do 'aptitude dselect-upgrade' to install all packages I always just run 'aptitude install'

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:01:53AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:35:02PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. The Documentation directory is part of the kernel source; you can also get it

Re: GLIBC_2.4

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:15:47PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:31:22 -0700, David Fox wrote: On Nov 1, 2007 5:49 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: ~/.bash_profile does this by default nowadays: # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d

Re: package

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:00:25AM -0700, ann kok wrote: thank you. but I run the apt-file search `which ip` can't get the iproute package for command ip addr what is the output of which ip you're getting the --help fro apt-file, so I'm guessing you aren't actually getting any output from

Re: package

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:02:51AM -0700, ann kok wrote: Hi all sorry. I still don't get it I install apt-file as suggestion. but I run this command, I get nothing ! apt-file search `which ip` | grep ip$ this command doesn't work, because the this command is structured based on the

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: ... I'm not sure which packages are required to upgrade the alsa driver on Debian, and any help/suggestions would be welcome, not only for me, but perhaps Richard also. probably only linux-headers-kernel-version and

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:33:00PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Oct 27, 2:50 pm, Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you use both aptitude and apt-get, read the NewbieDOC article about the magic bullet[1] aptitude keep-all.

Re: apt-get failing

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: Hello, I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get update fails with: Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg

Re: udev MAKEDEV

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:01:22PM +0300, Vadim Vatlin wrote: Now I create by hand md0, sda, sdb, sda1, sdb1 - all partitions which I want. udev will create these partitions on its own during boot. And when I run lilo I get: Fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfd00 Is this

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:31:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:22:16PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: [...] aptitude is by far one of the best package management tools out

Re: apt-get failing

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:05:32AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: On Oct 31, 4:00 pm, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:17:24AM -0700, justsimplequestions wrote: Hello, I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my

Re: GLIBC_2.4

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:52:36PM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:18:45PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:05:10PM +1100, hce wrote: On 10/31/07, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you installing mutt? Are you compiling mutt

Re: iptables and virtual hosts problem

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:09:50PM +0100, Erik Persson wrote: Hello! I have a server which is running 2 different virtual hosts (vserver), let's call them S for the server, A and B for the virtual hosts A and B. S, A and B have different ip-addresses (say s.s.s.s, a.a.a.a and b.b.b.b).

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 08:03:42PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:13:23 -0500 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:06:59 -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:50:37AM +0100, Dal wrote: Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:14:18AM -0600, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote: I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line

Re: alsaconf and printing

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:41:37PM -, Ed wrote: However, using the Desktop-Administration-printing Add Printer tool still does not produce a printers.conf file in /etc/cups, BUT using the CUPS HTML frontend, I did create a printers.conf file. In fact, the CUPS HTML frontend 'said'

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:36:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Argh!! thanks for your patience. can it be old age? ;o) at any rate: it happens, eh? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -ld /var drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2005-12-19 03:45

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:09:31PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:25:02 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... this bothers me, since I mostly use aptitude. When I need a build-dep or source, I'm concerned that later aptitude may wipe something

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you mean everything under /var, not just the immediate subdirectories? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/gnucash$ ls -lR /var/* 21 | awk '/^\// { / curr_dir=$0 }

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:07:23PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you mean everything under /var

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:19:58PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:25:02AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: this bothers me, since I mostly use aptitude. When I need a build-dep or source, I'm concerned that later aptitude may wipe

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:28:53PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 15:07:23 -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 14:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: when you say 'the rest of /var should

Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

2007-10-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:43:08PM -0400, steve wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:01:53PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get the 'Do not disconnect' screen on the ipod. It's great because I can see the ipod is charging.

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:08:06PM +, Joe wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: anyway, I didn't mean to offend, and I apologise. No offence taken, no apology necessary. If you can't talk straight on Usenet, where can you? There's a fairly broad line between robust discussion

Re: 2.3.0 ooffice

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 04:20:44PM +0100, Pavel SRB wrote: hi all as i am still fighting with oofice, i was thinking about getting the newest version. Now I have 2.4.0 downloaded via apt-get. I was searching for a while internet, about new sources to my /etc/apt/sources.list to have 2.3.0

Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: As far as the fam vs. gamin problem is concerned, aptitude figured out the correct course of action all by itself. It proposed to ignore the recommendation of fam by these

Re: configuring an external usb mouse wiith x to dynamically connect

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:34:38AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I have a thinkpad laptop with a trackpoint, touchpad and occasionally an external usb mouse. The laptop goes to sleep between uses so X isn't restarted much. I want to be able to connect the mouse on occasions, when it was not

Re: Problems with installing Debian Linux on a SATA hard disc

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:30:05AM -0700, Triskal wrote: Hi there! I did a search for my problem, but couldn't find the answer. If I overlooked it, I apologize. Also, I'm quite new to Linux (I've used it for LaTeX, but not much else, and I'm an absolute novice at installing Linux.) About

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i recently screwed up the permissions on my system.) but if i start it as root ('sudo'), or use iceape, all is ok. what specifically happens? do you get a

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Argh!! On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:35:13PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: Reading changelogs... Done Error: /var/tmp/kdecache-kloro is owned by uid 1000 instead

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 29 October 2007 13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:05:34PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: When I try to save html pages or whatever with firefox, nothing happens. (i recently screwed up

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:21:52PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all. Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing some setup. there are several possible things: 1. you aren't in the audio group (adduser you

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:16:03PM +0100, Joe wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I was just pointing out that the OP above was complaining about it not working in sid... which is pretty standard expectation for Debian behavior. Yes, I know what to expect with Sid, which I've been running

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:55:25PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-10-25, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/25, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can successfully connect to my home wireless using:

Re: Old mixed distro machine upgrade to stable: possible? worth it?

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:26:46AM -0700, Jaime Herazo B. wrote: Hi. Haven't written to this list in a while. Do you guys think it's worth to do a dist-upgrade to stable at this point? *I*'d do the upgrade, but I'm that kind of guy. It'll take forever and probably break a bunch of stuff,

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:57:02AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote: Found the problem - here's the story... I have an external usb drive mounted at /mnt/mirror. I do a nightly rsync to of system and home dirs to there. For some reason - still not sure what - it was not mounted, so

Re: locales broken

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 08:23:14AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This is an old problem I've had from the beginning under Etch, which for some reason disappeared (I believe), but now has reappeared. I seem to have locales defined on my system, but have no avility to change the configuration.

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:41:35PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can successfully connect to my home wireless using: iwconfig ath0 key 676bd87bc0dd5315f1cd8de794 dhclient ath0 and to unencrypted public access points

Re: boot process hangs on init of mysqld

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:17:22AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Keith! Unfortunately, this machine uses Lilo instead of Grub. Can something similar be done to enter 'single user mode' when booting using Lilo? I *think* you can just add kernel commands after specifying the image.

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:08:14AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote: I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off enough space to be able to get log in

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:33:48PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I just got this webcam, according to gspca maintener' site (http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html), it should work 'out of the box', unfortunately, I cannot get mine to work. It is suppose to use module gspca. Here are the

Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote: Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at 4MB/s it'll take a lng time to blank a 60GB

Re: Waiting for root file system... ...

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:17:33PM -0300, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Hi I am trying to make a smooth transition fom windows to Debian in my work PC. :) I needed to be sure that not having win on this machine wouldn't affect my work, since unfortunatelly we use many windows-based

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported by the linux kernel without this mess, then you would get a functioning eth0 which would then work just fine with the standard Debian networking

Re: Web cam Philips 0471:032d not seen

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 25 October 2007 21:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: where did you get these drivers? if they are from debian stable, they're probably just not up-to-date enough. Either pull the source from upstream or from

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:35:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 01:23:38PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Now, if you actually had a piece of hardware that _was_ fully supported

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