Re: selinux

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:07:16PM -0400, Neil Watson wrote: > Has anyone managed to get Selinux running in enforced mode? I tried it > on the weekend but enforcement began denying things. Postfix could not > read the alias file. Gnucash would not start. It would seem that the > policy needs so

Re: man for linux programmer's Manual

On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:48:47PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > When I used RH 9.1 before, I can call man to display linux programmer's > C / C++ manual. But, I am not be able to do it in my new installation of > Debian 4.0. How can I install it? > > Thank you. > > Jim Many of the

Re: Public PC

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:06:10PM -0500, Dave Walker wrote: > I hope to place a PC running Etch in our small (tiny, actually) > airport building for use by pilots. The PC will be used to access > perhaps 10 web sites (plus or minus) over a DSL connection and to run > a few utilities to show GMT an

Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear fellows, > > I am usually looking closely the development of Debian and I like to see > which packages have been uploaded to Debian (including some of the > packages maintained by me) at http://incoming.debian.org/ > > There, I

Re: IM on a home debian network

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > > >

Re: 'sensible-browser'

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:57:45PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > The browser I have running all the time is seamonkey. How can I get > programs that want to use a browser open a seamonkey window instead of > firing up the gnome or kde browser? If you examine /usr/bin/sensible-browser, which is not v

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:14:22PM +0300, Nick Demou wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? > I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be

Re: Terminal clock (script)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:04:36PM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > In case somebody will find it useful, i want share it. A script that > shows updated time and some more info in terminal's status line. I've > found this fun, when i use my desktop system. It's just text mode > actually. I use X very ra

Re: problem fixing eth0 IP

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:29:04AM +, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > I've just got my new machine running Etch. This machine is a server, so no > GUI or XWindows. I have the DHCP3-Client and DHCP3-common installed (by > default) which gets an IP just fine. But now I want to assign a fixed

Re: DSL-hosted LAMP server with minimal electricty consumption

On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:44:34PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, ... > However I'm looking for a server with a really small electricity consumption. ... Also, http://www.nslu2-linux.org -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Univers

Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:54:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error > > when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2 > > conditions to give the correct

Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:53:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/20/07 18:13, Kevin Mark wrote: > > A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error > > when it runs out of inodes?

Re: [OT] general mail questions

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:53:17PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions about how mail works. I'm using mutt with exim > on Lenny, which I use to access my pop mail account. I've noticed that > my messages sometimes are a long time getting from the server to mutt. > For examp

'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

A general Linux question: why does Linux report 'out of space' error when it runs out of inodes? Can't it distinguish between the 2 conditions to give the correct message or is there some other issue? Just curious as I just go this after making 1,000,000 small test files and got this (du -m -i). -K

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:43:20AM -0700, Bert Schulze wrote: > > apt-cache madison ... > > apt-cache's madison command attempts to mimic the output format and > > a subset of the functionality of the Debian archive management tool, > > madison. It displays available versions of a package in a

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:46:18AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian > >Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:20:24 -0700 > > > >On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 1

It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

I was reading Debian-devel and someone mentioned 'apt-cache madison ...' which I didn't know about. So I thought I was mention it so that folks can be aware of its existance. apt-cache madison ... apt-cache’s madison command attempts to mimic the output format and a subset of the functionality

Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:21:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:51:45 -, rocky wrote: > > [...] > > > By the way can you tell me what is a x-terminal-emulator do? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm > > You can

Re: Pivot monitor with X.org

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:42:35PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I intend buying a pivot monitor (the wide-screen becomes a tall-screen). But > how can I tell X.org to rotate the output image by a right angle? Also, can > X.org handle tall resolutions like 900x1440 (instead of 1440x900)? Ther

Re: Advise and direction required: Network File Server Access

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:45:18AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > Hi > > I have a Network File Server (Netgear NSLU2) which I would like to access from > my Debian Webserver, in order to store backups created via 'backup-manager'. > > I have read-up on samba and sbmclient and am totally confused as

Re: [OT] package for talking to usb device using visa protocol

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:18:08PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Hopping that I didn't miss spell this, I am looking for a reference or > preferably a library that would enable me to talk to a usb device that > uses the vesa protocol. I found some info from national instruments > that the device sho

Re: Purge leaves some files

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > I suspect that the package maintainers neglected the full purging script. > This > seems to be the case with a number of packages that I have encountered. They > either do not fully remove the binaries, libraries, and documentatio

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:59:25AM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote: > On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, arijit sarkar wrote: > >So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. > >or I have to reformat and do it again. > > Sure you can. > > Boot from a rescue CD, or better yet, a Debian or Ubunt

Re: First Outing with MusixTex

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:17:22PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format. > I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file. > Hebrew characters show as '?' > TexLive Hebrew is installed. > So how do I get it to be used? Do you need

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 07:46:55AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > Just curious: what induced you from freebsd to debian? > > Hi, > > Thanks all for your help. I decided to make the transition from FreeBSD > to Debian for a few reasons: > > 1) Virtualization: For

Re: Thinkpad 755CX

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:36:20PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > This is a 1995-vintage machine (guessing by the BIOS copyright date on > the bottom) with a Pentium 75 and 16 MB of RAM (originally 8 until I > found a loose RAM expansion card under the floppy disk, heh heh). It > has no CDROM, no U

Re: Is Etch still stable?

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:48:07PM +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > Hello folks, > > I visited http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ > It used to show 8 bugs "concerning the current stable release", that is > Etch, and some 500-600 "concerning the next release". Now it shows 522 > bugs for Etch

Re: Issues dist-upgrading Etch to Lenny - 1 week old

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:26:14PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > Hi everyone - after running Etch for about 1 month or so after Etch went > stable > (and having prior running the then-testing > branch (etch) for quite sometime, I decided to update my system to Lenny, > after > fixing my bandwidth sit

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:07:54AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:27:54 +0200 > "Philippe Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2) Under freebsd, ports can be checked against vulnerabilities with a > > simple command: > > > > -- > > Portaudit -Fda > > > > If there is anyt

Re: Basic SELinux Question

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:34:22AM +0100, William Pursell wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 03:22:11PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >> I was going to use an SE Linux mailing list for this, but, figured I'd > >> ask on this list first, figuring that I may have a bet

Re: how to configure users X setup?

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:21:46AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:37:35 -0400 > Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i looked in /home/foo and /root (i hav 2 users: 1 regular and root) > > neither has a .xinitrc or .Xclients > > i am running Debian testing release > > Both

Re: Mutt now shows Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks

On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:15:02PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > Recent Lenny update: > > Mutt now shows "Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks" The default browser is > set to lynx! I assume an update of shared-mime-info(?) has changed this > but It was previously set to lynx! > > Could this

Re: Mr. Mad Duck: about etch-stable fluxbox?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0500, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I looked on the maintainer webpage which seems to indicate that an IBM > Thinkpad 390 Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) needs to have a patch installed for > fluxbox to work. Since an MMX is somewhat slow, I was hoping to consider > flux

Re: Revert to simple Window Manager

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:33:43PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using the Gnome Desktop environment. As I learn to > use Linux/GNU more, I find that I want to slim down my computer as much > as possible. Hence, I would like to use just a window manager instead > of a

Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 12:28:18AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > > >Both Nautilus and Konqueror do it exactly the same way as Windows > >Explorer, click once in a heading to sort by that heading, click again > >to reverse the sort. The heading will show a small arrow pointing up > >or down

Re: RAW image file

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:25:10PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > Hi, > > What kind of applications can open and use RAW image file created by > digital cameras? Does such applications exist for Linux? > > Thanks, Like all good companies, they did not make the RAW format universal, only the term RAW. S

Re: does etch have package that allow user bypass Internet censorship

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:26:23PM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-03 03:09:33 -0700]: > > > Thanks! Don't worry. I know the government allow what, doesn't allow what. > > If you post > > antigovernment message in popular BBS, or protest before governmen

Re: set up MUA under only has console system

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:49:42AM +, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > I installed debian etch on my old pc. Right now I can not set up the > GUI. I'm wondering is that possible I could set up my computer be able > to read email within it? If it is possible which package should I use? > Do they have a

Re: Debian Etch can not startx

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:45:30AM +, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > I got a very old PC which was purchased 6 years ago. I use Debian > netinstall CD installed the base Debian etch system. I have been > trying to install basic GUI on it. Therefore I execute the following > command:[QUOTE]#aptitude u

Re: How to apply procmail to a maildir Mail/inbox?

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:32:01PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > My main inbox has a bunch of mails that really belong in other mail > directories. > They went to Mail/inbox because of an error in my .procmailrc > > I have now fixed my .procmailrc to correct the errors > and now want to

Re: grub

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:42:19PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still a linux newbie and I've gone from bad to worst. I used to have a > working etch system but in an attempt to get my printer working I reinstalled > etch several times and when it reboots it comes up in grub instead of the

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:09:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/30/07 12:18, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > >My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. > > > >After 10 years of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the > >point at which I am so angry with what is being done that I

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-05-31, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > About a year ago, there was a GR (general resolution) that Debian had > > and it said 'GFDL without invariant sections' are DFSG-free wh

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved > several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it > was an unorganized Sent Mail file. It's one huge concatenated > set of emails. When I've tried to op

Re: SCSI - SATA device name conflict

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:44:47AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers > >>first, or

Re: SCSI - SATA device name conflict

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers first, > or some flag to pass to the kernel to force the first hard disk to sda? > instead of using /dev/sda or /dev/sde use UUID notation. -- | .''`

Re: New and working Debian + WPA Howto online

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 06:46:19PM -0700, Christoph Pilka wrote: > Hi folks, > > if anyone of you is looking for a working howto concerning Debian > (Etch) + WPA encrypted WLAN configuration, take a look at > http://blog.slashconcept.com/2007/05/25/wlan-mit-atheros-chipsatz-wpa-unter-debian-etch >

Re: List of packages and version

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:30:01AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/27/07 08:31, Augustin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to be a new debian user. > > I have been browsing the debian.org site, but I couldn't find anywhere > > where I >

Re: how can i make my package better ?

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:14:40PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello ,... > i have started learning how to create Debian packages. > using the official > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html and " > Debian maintainers' guid

Re: Linux-Debian Chat Messenger Retroshare (serverless IM)

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:06:52PM +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Conny Kramer wrote: > >>Hello, > >>the new serverless Instant Chat Messenger Retroshare for Linux Release is > >>out. Eve

Re: securing desktop

On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I set up a donated computer for homeless adults who live in a > warehouse, and I would like to secure the desktop. The computer is > using Etch, with Gnome. > > The issue is that one of the residents will create hundreds

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/18/07 08:26, Deboo ^ wrote: > > On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316 was > >> the cause. Apparentl

Re: Where do you get beaver?

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:00:09AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I have installed minimal X on Etch Stable. Nicely working. > > Copy/paste from firefox and in to vi/jed doesn't seem to work, nor the > other way round. So I wanted a small and nice X text editor which I > can use as a medium to save the c

Re: do anyone work on translating the maint-guide ?

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:56:42PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello ,.. > i don't want to start working (translating ) on some thing that some > one allready started: > translating the package creation guide : debian new maintainer guide > into he

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:46PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Lots of folks create a presention in tex [ or similar markup languages] and then turn them into pdf file or to html/javascript. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my

Re: Bloat in desktop environments

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:31:16PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Memory requirements of desktop environments, from > : > > * XFCE 4: 128 MB > * Gnome 2: 384 MB > * KDE 3:512 MB > > Gnome, and KDE are slow, and resource-hungry. Why not make

Re: etch to lenny upgrade

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one > by > changing etch references to lenny. > > My current sources.list > > deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src

Re: list running applications

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:15:54AM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I have been play with the ps command and trying various options. Is > there an option combo that will show me just the running applications: > firefox, gvim, mutt, etc? Or another Linux command that will show me > just

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:37:39PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. > > > > - -- > > Ron Johnson, Jr. > > Jefferson LA USA > Hi Ron, > Actually, you can get a tar

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:55:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem &g

have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. - -K - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/|

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > | > Hi list, > | > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > | > The machine have ONLY a hd pa

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hi list, > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. > The machine have ONLY a hd partioned like this: > HD = 6000M > hda1= / = 5650M > hda2= swap = 50M > hda3 = 300M > I did a debootstrap on the hda3 partition and the etch base is there > i

Re: fetchmail problem on etch

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:36:25AM -0400, thanigai rajan wrote: > hai all, > > i have configured fetchmail on etch with postfix+dovecot(imap). > it works on a particular user. > > say a user thanigai can retrieve mails from isp server.but another user named > sathish can't retrieve mails from i

Re: Looking for Suggestions for a Headless Music-Client Setup

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:04:32PM +0200, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mini-PC that I'd like to setup as a music-streaming-client running > Amarok. I'd like to log into an X-Session on the client using VNC from > Windows or Linux. I've seen many HowTo's describing headless setups, but > ha

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > > I'd have her hide for using .docs anyway - if the documents > > aren't all readable text-only (with a screen reader for the > > blind/visually impaired or any other appropriate techn

Re: CD/DVD Drive Problems (Etch 4.0)

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:25:33PM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > I just installed Debian Etch 4.0 on to a machine that has a NEC CDROM > / DVD RW drive, and unfortunately it is having problems finding the > cdrom drive. > > I noticed this when I tried to install a package such as: > > debian:~#

Re: Best Debian packages

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:10:36AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:15:45PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? > > > > Another list of all console packages in debian? > > > > I see Etch has 21 CDs ... how many have the source

Re: How do yo u install minimal X with fluxbox on Etch?

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:42:31PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Even though I do not need to install X on my new Etch console system, > I would like to know how do you install X, is there some new way. > > How to install a minimal X so that if I need to run some remove X > apps, I can, with ssh. > > R

Re: DEBIAN ETCH : THANK YOU !!!

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:49:19AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The stable Debian GNU Linux has proven to be reliable and robust. > >From an engineering point of view I have to congratulate you on > concentrating on excellence and simplicity. Thank you very much for > keeping up the Decia

Re: moto4lin & my razr v3

On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:31:49AM +0300, Petteri wrote: > i'll teach you to turn away. kirjoitti to 10. toukokuuta 2007 03:12:08: > > i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i> hey, i'm having some trouble accessing my new motorola razr v3 > > on > > i> my debian etch

Re: [OT] Screen

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:38:01PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > > > > You have now officially blown your cover. Just waiting for > > > > the photographic proof that you are actually a crusty old AI > > > > hacker with a long beard and sandals... aha! here you are: > > Hahaha...wow...if I were les

Re: Linux-Debian Chat Messenger Retroshare (serverless IM)

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:51:01PM +0200, Conny Kramer wrote: > Hello, > the new serverless Instant Chat Messenger Retroshare for Linux Release is > out. Every Chat it private and encrypted. It offers: > > Can anyone put this into the debian distribution? If you or anyone wants to get this into

Re: Are volume labels a file-system thing?

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:15:13PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels > have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label > my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is > there some

Re: help!

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:10:25AM -0700, David wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I just downloaded and installed debian 4.0 stable on my laptop a > couple of days ago, i've been playing around with it and its great!. > although i have been having a bit of difficulty finding a good guide > that explains

Re: template error in friend declaration

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:20:42AM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, Is it a bug ?? > I tried to compile a cpp program which ran correctly on previous > release (sarge debian, gcc compiler 3 ), it gave errors, for the > declaration (even if I omit the symbols <> ) > > friend ostream & oper

Re: moto4lin & my razr v3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 03:12:08AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i> hey, i'm having some trouble accessing my new motorola razr v3 on > i> my debian etch system. i'm usin

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

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:39:12AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:48:50PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I have rambled on a fair bit now, but I just wanted to share my renewed > > admiration for mutt and its extensibility. Hopefully someone will find > > this h

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:33:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian users, > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf provides a selection of > depths and dimensions for the display. > For example, > Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > > How can I know the depth and dimensions > actually present on

Re: debian verizon.net and smtp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 04:04:50PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 05/05/2007 02:55 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > I am a subscriber to verizon dsl and I choose yahoo as my email > > provider. I use fetchmail to getmail and exim4 to sen

Re: MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:44:16PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > Since a recent upgrade to sid I've started getting this error whenever I try > to > startup matlab. This seems to come from the java environment since disabling > java removes the error (

Re: running an MSExcel add-in under linux spreadsheet.....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:58:53AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists > > Does anyone know if there is a way to run a MIcrosoft Excel add-in outside > MSExcel? Is there any software like OpenOffice or even gnucash that can > read in

Re: debian verizon.net and smtp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:49:46AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I > get asked for the password for verizon.net and then get told the message > wasn't sent because no mail from co

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:18:37AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 21:44 -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > > Gentlefolk: > > > >The discussion of `stable' vs. `etch' vs. `lenny' > > vs. ... got me to thinking. Is there any reason to off

Re: reporting problems with unstable

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:42:03AM +0200, Arnfinn Ringvold wrote: > Could anyone please advise me on reporting upgrade problems with the > unstable distribution (sid). I have not found any place to adress such > information. Perhaps the unstable team is continously aware of such > problems and woul

Re: wx2.6-examples

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:49:09AM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello, apparently the wxWidget packages from debian are compiled only for > work with Unicode versions, I really don't agree with this because I have a Would it solve your problem if you rebuilt the package with this option disab

Re: aptitude + dpkg

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:26:38AM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Given that aptitude is awesome and that all the stuff I want is missing > from all the repositories, is there anyway for me to use .deb files and > dpkg in conjunction with aptitude. I'm sure they have the dependencies > listed ins

Re: Versioned /etc ?

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:10:53PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > > [snip description of vicf] > > > > That rocks. > > > > Anyway to get into Debian as a package? Since you are t

Re: Init replacements e.g. upstart

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 02:23:14PM +0200, robin putters wrote: > >does anyone know if there are any plans to replace init with upstart or > >something similar in Debian like Ubuntu has? The reason I'm asking is > >that I've managed to get my wireless working > >via /etc/network/interfaces rather t

Re: Ruby Gems and Debian packages of Ruby Gems

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:16:34AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > I searched the archives and the web but I have not found helpful > answers to these questions. > > 1. What are the drawbacks of using the Debian packaged ruby >applications like 'rails' instead of the available gem? > > 2. What

Re: UUID vs /dev

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:28:24PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the > new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so > for norm

Re: dpkg-buildpackage; building from subversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:59:56AM -0700, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get my head around package building with Debian, coming > from my earlier experiences with RPMs. two bits: the debian-mentors mailing list and website (google will f

Re: versions of packages available in other branches

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:42:45AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Say I am running Etch and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains only entries > related to Stable. Using command line interface, What is the efficient way > to obtain information about

Re: How to diagnose backuppc issues?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 01:37:59AM -0700, mxc wrote: > > Hi there, > > I installed backuppc to do backups of our servers. For the first three weeks > everything went fine and then suddenly the backups stopped working. > Initially backuppc reported th

Re: compiling Xfce applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:17:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to start playing around with some Xfce coding, but am > having problems with the devlopment files. > > The tutorial at > http://xfc.xfce.org/docs/tutorial/html/chap

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:44:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > Each list has different purposes. Debian-user is about user support. > > Are you sure about that? I thought debian-user was for "Help and > discussion among users of Debian" (quoted from lists.debian.org) I did not expound upon what I

Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:59:33PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:17 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I just checked apt-cache, and there's no such package in > > testing. Checking the debian package search website shows > > emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you ge

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sounds like something to dicuss at the new debian-community.org site! > > join the mailing list and if you want a place for these, ask holger. > > Well, thanks, but I'm not sure what the point of Yet Another Mailing > List is w

Re: Fetchmail Problems

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:11:18AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/17/07 10:23, Kevin Mark wrote: > [snip] > > my setup uses fetchmail, exim4 and procmail. this is my understanding. > > pop3 server > > \/

Re: (S)ATA exceptions, disk frozen

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:06:23AM +0200, Gebhardt Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > we have about 60 opteron servers running sarge amd64 with a > 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel (previously they were running 2.6.18.1; > I installed the newer kernel in the hope that the problem would disappear). > > At a rate of a

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