Re: sudo a user without password

and possibly even further to restrict what parameters they can pass to wine. But I'm not sure how to represent this in sudo, as the wine command line has spaces in it... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations Manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

would not be surprised to find linux tools that allow a PC to act as a USB device, rather than USB master. From here on, it is just software again. and probably lots of other ways... -- Karl E. Jorgensen IT Operations Manager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: turn off all logging

-- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100615222644.ga2...@hawking.jorgensen.org.uk

Re: removing gnome

actually be using some of them! At least this will give you a list of candidate packages to remove. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor

Re: powerline ethernet

transmitter and receiver are on the same phase. span type=my beliefE.g. in the UK, electricity is normall 3-phase, and alternate houses on a road are given 2 of the 3 phases. So your neighbours are usually on different phases, which prevents them from listening in./span Hope this helps -- Karl E

Re: dpkg purge problem

console and DISPLAY is set - then it shows the GUI on the X display that I'm not looking at Took me a while to figure out... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: old inkjet cartridges emanate

Re: Stability issues

happens in the other sessions when gcc fails Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. signature.asc Description

Re: lsof -- No such file or directory...?

is resolved now, next time something like this happens, try clearing out bash's internal hash table: $ hash -r before trying the command again. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune

Re: openvpn in spite of firewalls

link over ssh... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: A girl's conscience doesn't really keep her from doing anything wrong-- it merely keeps her from enjoying

Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

on my side ... except this is where I spoofed the user agent string, so don't know if that confused things a bit. The errors you describe are Javascript errors. And Javascript has got nothing to do with Java... (apologies if that sounds like I'm offending you. I'm not). -- Karl E

Re: Tools to store account (password..) in encrypted format ?

would like collaborate system. Not sure they exist... Why share passwords anyway? Most of the time, what you need is for multiple people to access the same unix/linux account - and this would be solved by people dropping their public ssh keys there... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: location for an openvpn command

192.168.2.5 verb 5 secret /root/key Then the init script for openvpn will take care of things... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination

Re: Why apache do not respct charset on web page ?

that the browsers are getting confused by having both HTTP headers and html meta tags And I wouldn't blame them either :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Always be sincere, even when

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

care less... Just a derailed brain... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: TANSTAAFL signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

or https with the command-line client? 2) Ditto - (but with tortoisesvn) ? Regards -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Memory should be the starting point of the present. signature.asc Description

Re: new debian user question about mysql on debian

-maint. It appears to be created to help the init scripts and (possibly) packaging. Why not use the (standard) 'root' account? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Here comes the orator, with his

Re: cannot mount usb pen drive

USB pen drive you try? If it only happens for a certain pen drive, I'd suspect faulty penware.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

applications use that as a proxy. That's what the ntlmaps package does... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Everyone is in the best seat. -- John Cage

Re: FileSystem Question

somewhere as a fuse filesystem. So if you set up a subversion server with mod_dav, mod_dav_fs and mod_dav_svn and point your FUSE filesystem at it, it might just work? Just my 2p.. (or 5 øre with the wrong exchange rate...) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL

Re: Error trying to run apt-get

(but depends on debianutils which in turn does supply it...) Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: The default Magic Word, Abracadabra, actually is a corruption of the Hebrew phrase

Re: how to tunnel all network to a specific ssh season

-- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: He was giving it last rites. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Apache: The requested URL / was not found on this server.

/apache2/sites-available? Normally, they're both 'proper' directories - but the individual files in /etc/apache2/sites-enable are *symlinks* to /etc/apache2/sites-available. The a2ensite/a2dissite are the tools intended to enable/disable sites... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: libneon25, or libneon26?

aptitude downgrade libneon? Unless you need libneon26 for something else outside the package management system (e.g. stuff you manually installed in /usr/local or /opt), I'd say to let aptitude do its thing. It's very good at keeping things tidy. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL

Re: No Sound After Playing XMMS

in advance. ~Telly esd getting in the way? How is your XMMS configured? ALSA? Esd? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Reporter: What would you do if you found a million dollars? Yogi Berra

Re: apt-get install problem

). The leftovere files you removed probably belong(ed) to mediawiki1.7 (or mediawiki1.9). If you blow that away (apt-get --purge remove ...) and reinstall it, you might get somewhere... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Any ksh Raw binaries Out there that work for linux i386?

Linux systems should have that available. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Buy the negatives at any price. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Epiphany crashes

--private-instance This would not tell what's wrong with the old profile, but at least it will narrow down your search... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: The man who sets out

Re: looking for a backup package

setup (config file, tape labelling, clients software on clients) it's definitely workable. And after than you're only stuck with changing tapes... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: algorithm

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

.) Build command 'cd f-spot-0.2.1 dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed I can't figure this out. But I had this problem with Sid unstable and now Etch. Ideas? # apt-get build-dep f-spot ? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: shell in Makefile

functions - one of which is 'shell', which calls an external (to make) command. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband

Re: Cannot build-dep f-spot. Debian's fault or f-spots?

write this thread off as solved. On 6/24/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:09:49AM -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep f-spot Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Re: Memory leaks and swap

and is quite harmless. But it is still subject to ulimit size. I had things like my browser Java plug-in failing silently until I increased the ulimit accordingly... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Scripting Apt-Get (pop-up screens, e.g. with kernel updates)

install whatever Hope this helps PS: Have a look at the debconf(7) man page (in the debconf-doc package) - should be useful for you. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: User n

Re: /etc is gone

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:49:47PM +, j j wrote: On 6/21/07, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote: Hello I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered

Re: /etc is gone

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:47:06PM +, j j wrote: On 6/20/07, Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote: Hello I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered that /etc

Re: backgrounding a script

was here There's probably other ways too. Since the shell won't wait for the script to finish, you won't get the exit code of it though... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune

Re: OS File Permission issue (chown -R root.root ../)

for / is / :-) # cd / # ls -lid .. 2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 .. # cd /root 2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 .. # ls -lid .. Same inode ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: OS File Permission issue (chown -R root.root ../)

-- \ chown --reference /mnt/foobar/@ /@ (double-check the syntax - this is from memory) PS: Considered restoring from backups? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: The worst

Re: screenshot

the command line Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: brokee, n: Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: /etc is gone

-only or filesystem corruption would be very interesting...) I am surprised that you don't mention any other problems - if /etc/ was really really gone, I'd expect loads of other problems. Hence the somewhat paranoid checks... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

you're after Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Hope not, lest ye be disappointed. -- M. Horner signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Unexpected irq trap when booting

might want to play with... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. signature.asc Description

Re: Is this a bug?

dangerous - system administrators are meant to know what they're doing. And if they don't, then you're screwed anyway :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: I have discovered the art

Re: sharing home directories for UML's

to recompile the package, but it *should* work... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: History is curious stuff You'd think by now we had enough Yet the fact remains I fear

Re: Making Deb Packages

to look at www.debian-multimedia.org - they should have a later version of ffmpeg already debianized. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Their idea of an offer you can't refuse

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

... if lots of packages are moved to non-free I might as well use ubuntu. I've never had to use non-free before. Obviously you're free to do so. After all, Ubuntu isn't bound by the DFSG, but something uncannily similar: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/licensing Regards -- Karl E

Re: Making Deb Packages

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:28:37PM +0300, Chaim Keren-Tzion wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 14:39:36 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:22:35PM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: Hi, How do I get started making my own debian package files from source. The definitive

Re: deranged mouse behaviour with ibm thinkpad t31

the same and to GlidePoint which doesn't function at all. device is /dev/input/mice Does USB mice work? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie

Re: Is there a Using Debian GNU/Linux sticker?

to add a counter sticker. Is there such a thing? Something like this? http://www.linuxiso.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=198 -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Even a hawk is an eagle

Re: why linux?

positive pigheadedness ? So I do, hence this reply. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. -- James

Re: how to use dependencies (control file)?

system. What you need is a line like this: Depends: kdetheme For the full gory details, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com

Re: links2 error from console

/dev/tty0 I presume that this is from the session where links2 didn't work? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: When a person goes on a diet, the first thing he loses is his temper

Re: Can't find cable internet connection

, it is still a bit odd. Basically, it's a long way of saying auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp My point being that the mapping eth0 stanza an no-op that will always map to eth0... Have you been using guessnet in the past? (just curious) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: kernel or ppp problem?

support. If you post the solution to the list, others may learn too... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: How to get the original configuration of a package

one), re-install the corresponding *.deb file: # dpkg --install --force-confmiss {{{PACKAGE_vers_arch}}}.deb Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: If Robert Di Niro

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

are welcome. Especially if somebody has ideas of packaging it neatly... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: It was OK before you touched it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:25:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:01:41PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Wed May 16, 2007 at 03:27:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: This is a function of your MUA, most

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

... Questions: - Is the filesystem running full? (sorry - gotta ask) - What does the system log say? Anything suspicious? Any IO errors, filesystem corruptions etc? - When was the filesystem last fsck'd? Sorry for all the questions, but this *is* intriguing :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bash scripting question

( cat ! A aest_90 B bush_90 C carol_90 D comp_90 E hirs_90 F roan_90 G swan_90 H vir_90 ! ) | while read letter name do printf '%s\n%s\n%s.ps\n\n' $letter $name $name done Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Packaged version of killfile?

Despite searching everywhere (I think...) I could not find a packaged version of killfile or anything related to that. Although I ended up writing my own (which kills threads based on Message-IDs), I'd rather be using something supported... Any ideas? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Quote or double quote error in crontab

to the command's stdin (with subsequent %-signs being transformed into newlines)... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Yow! Maybe I should have asked for my Neutron Bomb in PAISLEY -- signature.asc

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

and further out-of-sync where things eventually fail? Guesswork on my part... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: It's OKAY -- I'm an INTELLECTUAL, too. signature.asc Description

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:22:50AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:33, Antti Talsta wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tim Johnson wrote: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:79:35:E1

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:49:55AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Despite searching everywhere (I think...) I could not find a packaged version of killfile or anything related to that. It's a nickname

Re: disappearing files

remount ro, init 2, and now I can see them. That doesn't make sense... Do you have /usr/local as a separate mount point? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: No excellent soul is exempt from

Re: kernel or ppp problem?

results from running ppp manually with debug switched on (pppd $usual_options debug nodetach)... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: * Culus thinks we should go to trade shows

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

interpretation A, not B. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: love, v.: I'll let you play with my life if you'll let me play with yours. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

- especially if compared to the Windows equivalent (of which I know nothing...) I am using the ndiswrapper around a Windows driver for my Broadcom wireless network adapter. Shouldn't matter, assuming that you don't have any other network problems... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. I've installed the Etch

Re: I dont want to receive mail from Cron.

... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Re: Issues with external HD, changed to read-only

on it before re-mounting... Is there a way to change this so that the drive works correctly? All the other drives are working properly, just not this one. Depends on what has gone wrong. Probably yes. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL

Re: nfs username and passwd does not work on tty1, tty2, tty3

before posting. Otherwise you might miss out on the reply ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols

Re: nfs username and passwd does not work on tty1, tty2, tty3

/checkpassword.login first. If the newly-installed checkpassword.login does NOT support NIS passwords, this would explain the behaviour you're seeing. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's

Re: exporting a variable to global shells

have to change the option? Do you really need an IP on *every* boot-up? Even when not connected to anything? If so, why? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: HERE LIES LESTER

Re: mail proxy with GUI statistics

. GUI stats or GUI client? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Carson's Consolation: Nothing is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example. signature.asc

Re: help!

to (what I consider) to be the best guides. http://www.aboutdebian.com may be useful too and whats the difference between the kernal and the terminal?! :S haha The kernal is green - it stops at the terminal (which is usually black) :-) D'oh! -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Business card iso

-- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. -- Errol Flynn signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: keyboard layout diagram

it :-) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Inquiry is fatal to certainty. -- Will Durant signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

iso-8859-1 to my .muttrc solved the problem for me. Perhaps the same solution will work for you? -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: somebody was calculating pi on the server signature.asc

Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)

, but probably just because I haven't got the hang of it yet... Another nice thing: in vim: :set spell spelllang=en_gb and hey presto: spell check on the fly! -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's

Gnome apps: Very slow when changing preferences?

cannot see any clues in $HOME/.xsession-errors (I start gnome from .xsession) or from stdout/stderr when I launch things... Why are those preferences dialogs trying access my bookmarked places ? seems a bit freaky... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL

Re: Gnome-Keyboard-Properties

, furthermore, to find the data statement that controls the actual keyboard. Do you mean the keyboard mapping? i.e. the table that maps a key (or combination of keys) to a character? Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

/[ coreutils: /usr/share/man/man1/[.1.gz Cause: dpkg takes a search pattern, not a file name. Hence '[' is a special character for dpkg itself. From dpkg(1): dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ... Search for a filename from installed packages. :-) -- Karl E

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

it as a hardlink to test. This is open source, so why wonder? The source will tell. And as far as I can see, Mathias Brodala is spot on... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: When you have an efficient

Re: installing X libraries?? -- need your help!

-dev. There might be other libraries you need, but those checks are likely further on... Does the theme have a useful README or INSTALL file? They usually list the compile-time dependencies... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PCI controller issues and stable Debian vs latest ubuntu

that firewire is a network interface. When the installer asks you which device to use, I'd pick eth1. Actually: tcp/ip over firewire is not unheard of. And quite well supported as far as I know (although for those who care: apparently no longer supported in MS Vista ?) -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL

Re: Command line wave player

command from the sox package should do the trick too.. -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly

Re: cron and CRON

you'll probably see that the uppercase'd cron processes are the ones that spawned your sendmail process. Although by the time you read this, that process is probably dead... But don't be surprised to see other occurrences of the same... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Delete garbage in /var

1,8G 774M 918M 46% /var 918M free? Doesn't look like a problem at the moment... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism

Re: alsactl restore failed ...

message about the soundcard modules in there. What type of sound card? Assuming it is a PCI card (this usually includes on-board cards too), the relevant fragment of the output from lspci -v would be useful... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Remove mounted drive links from desktop?

false Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Unix is a Registered Bell of ATT Trademark Laboratories. -- Donn Seeley signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

preferences etc etc. Whether the default install should say stable or etch is a different matter. Don't be surprised if the current lenny (or any future RC) says testing though... [Runs for blast shelter...] You may be assimilated. Resistance will provide greater knowledge. -- Karl E. Jorgensen

Re: Problem with iptables

work! -A OUTPUT -m state --state RELATED -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -m limit --limit 1/sec -j ULOG --ulog-prefix 'OUT-unknown:' -A OUTPUT -j DROP -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: To take

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

where to proceed from here. Any help would be much appreciated! verbose is good - especially when it's not random ramblings :-) Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: One small step

Re: Problem with iptables

at the time of the log entry? It's not making sense ... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Things worth having are worth cheating for. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How do I start a X session on another machine

... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ls aborts due to free()ing an invalid pointer

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:55:49AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:23:21AM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote: I'm having a rather strange error while trying to ls a large directory. The setup is as follows: /home is nfs-mounted from a BSD

Re: dvd-rom structure

disk? You should be able to get *some* details with: $ file -s /dev/dvd Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: Your computer account is overdrawn. Please reauthorize

Re: Lost Internet Access

though... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. -- Al Capone signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: General questions...

only receive security updates: http://www.debian.org/security PS: Please don't top-post... -- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com Today's fortune: No two persons ever read the same book. -- Edmund

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