Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:27:54 +0200 Philippe Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too:

Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade

2007-06-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:15:13 -, rocky wrote: Hey, I updated my debian box to the latest stable release which is etch. And the xserver stop working. I start the machine with a knoppix live CD version 2.78 runing on 2.4.27 kernel. At start up I see the below lines [QUOTE]Mouse is

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi, I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too: snip 3) Under FreeBSD, you get every morning a

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 6/15/07, Philippe Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi, I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too: (...) 2) Under freebsd,

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg (solved)

2007-06-15 Thread Eeltje
Did you get the nvidia module working again? It would be nice if you told whether you were successful or not... -- Eeltje de Vries -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. that its for shure an acces denied, try creating a new user and do the same and chek if the problem persist, if it does, then this might be a bug. I created a new user account and this one is OK. So, if no actual solution is found, I'll have to remove the broken users and

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: s. keeling wrote: (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui ... The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: lprng toncho/~ sudo

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as required? Or something similar. I gave up on aptitude within a few minutes of trying to use it during my upgrade to sarge. It completely refused to, getting

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I wonder if there is a way of having that on Debian too: 1) First of all,

fetchmail doesn't delivery to local mailboxes?

2007-06-15 Thread Orestes leal
Hi folks! Recently i've setup fetchmail to get all mail from 7 accounts (remember that in another post was with getmail), the problem is that when fetchmail get the mail it doesn't deliver to local mailboxes and I don't know why, some help always be welcome. Regards, Orestes. NOTE: My

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

2007-06-15 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/07 23:29, H.S. wrote: [snip] Last time I checked, it did not support reordering the files using drag and drop. It only supported up and down arrow keys; which can be quite a drag if I have many files! Just out of curiosity: what is the root problem

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-06-15 Thread chloe K
Hi Kushal Thank you so much What is the different linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 and linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 ? ls it related to the memory? If my machine has 4G memory, which one should I use? I only want to have

Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Gary Rosenfeldt
Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this oddity. Thanks,

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Orestes leal
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:02:40 -0500 Gary Rosenfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:50:58PM +1000, CaT wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as required? Or something similar. I gave up on aptitude within a few minutes of trying to use it during

Re: Software for email merging

2007-06-15 Thread A. Ben Hmeda
Massimo Modica wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: OpenOffice. http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/word_processing/writer2_EN.html Thanks for your suggestion, but the problem of using OpenOffice is that it requires too many steps and is quite complex. They use WorldMerge because it

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-15 Thread michael
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:00 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: OK, OpenLDAP allows anonymous connections for reading by default, but it doesn't allow writes on the tree, you have to specify rights on slapd.conf (WHO can do WHAT on WHERE). Aditional, you have to think that maybe isn't a good

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not experiencing any

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 12:15:07PM +0200, Gilles Sadowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: (I suspect it's more likely an environment variable -- the packaging system shouldn't mess with permissions on these directores -- but it would be nice to rule out any weirdness like that)

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:39:46AM +1000, CaT wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:51:00PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: s. keeling wrote: (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread CaT
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:05:59AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:50:58PM +1000, CaT wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:17:45AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Could some of that problem be having aptitude treat recommends as required? Or something

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread arijit sarkar
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not experiencing any

Re: iceape-browser crashes on http://www.i-dac.com/game/door/door3.html

2007-06-15 Thread Gerard Robin
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 03:45:26AM +, Oscar Blanco wrote: From: Oscar Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: iceape-browser crashes on http://www.i-dac.com/game/door/door3.html 2007/6/3, Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: install the driver in etch but couldn't find the directory /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

2007-06-15 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:55:28AM -0400, chloe K wrote: Hi Kushal Thank you so much What is the different linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 and linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 ? ls it related to the memory? From the description

how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread linux china
hello, Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. If yes, please let me know how. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-15 Thread Keith Christian
Cameron Hutchison wrote: You can then pipe the output of diff into the diffstat program (in the package of the same name) which will tell you how many lines have been added and removed (modified too, but that always seems to come up zero). That will give you a summary of differences, one line

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my

Re: gnome default browser

2007-06-15 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Magnus Therning escreveu: On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:12:42 -0700, liviu wrote: hello sorry for getting your time but i have a small problem i have debian 4.0 installed and using the iceweasel as default browser but when im using for example

Re: how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
linux china wrote: Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. If yes, please let me know how. Yes this is possible. But first let me talk about dh-make-perl. apt-cache show dh-make-perl Description: Create debian packages from perl

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] Doesn't include the ML-whatever OkiData driver for my IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer (the one pictured with the 'New' IBM PC in history books). Where do you keep getting ribbons for it? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. That's ridiculous. This is viral software. True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At least 144 packages which do not really need cups (because

Re: Basic SELinux Question

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 00:30, Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] Also, with FLOSS just like Nixon said trust but verify. FLOSS folks I know that Democrats confuse Reagan and Nixon on a regular basis, but it actually was Reagan quoting a Russian proverb. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish,

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Bonnel Christophe
I remember an old option in kernel that asked you which size of ram you think to be used. This option seems to have disappeared now. If you want a 2.6.11 kernel, try to compile the kernel and search for such an option... Christophe Nigel Henry a écrit : On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread charlie derr
I'm pretty sure the option is HIGHMEM -- grepping a 2.6.18 config file that I used to build a working kernel (that allows the ability to access more than 885M of RAM) finds # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y hth,

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-15 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/14/07, William Pursell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with same names. I would

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread s. keeling
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed. That's ridiculous. This is viral software. True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At least 144

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui ... The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: lprng toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree...

Re: fetchmail doesn't delivery to local mailboxes?

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 07:47, Orestes leal wrote: Hi folks! Recently i've setup fetchmail to get all mail from 7 accounts (remember that in another post was with getmail), the problem is that when fetchmail get the mail it doesn't deliver to local mailboxes and I don't know why, some help always be

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-15 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hi. [Sorry for starting a new thread (I deleted the wrong copy of the mail).] It would be interesting to see an strace of, e.g., ls trying to run as a broken user. You might have to get a statically linked strace to do this, though :-(. One thing you could try would be something

samba ldap howto

2007-06-15 Thread Rodney Richison
Looking for a fairly current debian samba ldap pdc howto.. The ones I find for sarge and/or etch all say at the top. This document is not yet finished.. :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by RCRnet, and is believed to be clean. -- To

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: (0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui ... The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: lprng toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui Reading package lists... Done

Re: how to request add new perl modules

2007-06-15 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
linux china wrote this at Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:06:23PM +0800 Could I request to add new Perl modules which is not supported by Debian? such as Inline::Java. Of course you can add new perl modules that are not available in Debian by means of pre packaged .deb-files. You have to ways of doing

Re: ata2 problems on boot

2007-06-15 Thread remigio
I have sometimes the same problem with my SATA disk ... the only solution so far I have found is open the computer and re-plug the SATA cable to the hard disk... After I reboot the problem goes away... The seller told me that is because the poor SATA connection but I do not know if that's

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 18:40, Bonnel Christophe wrote: I remember an old option in kernel that asked you which size of ram you think to be used. This option seems to have disappeared now. If you want a 2.6.11 kernel, try to compile the kernel and search for such an option... Christophe It

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't try to blow away lprng: There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages installed (I don't use a desktop

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it always has. And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mdadm.conf and mkconf inconsistencies

2007-06-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Erik Bataller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.06.14.1156 +0100]: I'm having boot problems with my ubuntu box and I believe it is because of both the race condition associated with booting an md ( ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/ 75681 ) and (perhaps or)

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have any GNOME libraries installed, so no wonder you've got to pulling in the world. It doesn't try to pull in all that stuff here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 18:42, charlie derr wrote: I'm pretty sure the option is HIGHMEM -- grepping a 2.6.18 config file that I used to build a working kernel (that allows the ability to access more than 885M of RAM) finds # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg [SOLVED]: CONFIRMATION

2007-06-15 Thread arijit sarkar
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 11:57 +0200, Eeltje wrote: Did you get the nvidia module working again? It would be nice if you told whether you were successful or not... -- Eeltje de Vries I am sorry not to reply early. I was busy for some personal business. Yes, this problem is solved now.

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 12:26, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have any GNOME libraries installed, so no wonder you've got to pulling in the world. It doesn't try to pull in all that stuff here. Maybe apt hates Canadians. -- Ron

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote: Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have any GNOME

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling writes: Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't try to blow away lprng: There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling writes: There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it always has. And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff. That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 15 June 2007 19:50, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 13:12, s. keeling wrote: [snip] He must be on the Communist Broadcorping Castration network. It and I manage to avoid each other, mostly. You can deny all you want, but I know that you watch it on your PVR. How 'bout you? Cheering for Paris

Re: Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
S. Keeling wrote: Ugh. The list of stuff it wants to get rid of is just weird. Audacity, Azureus, Bittornado-gui, Mplayer, Xcdroast, Xscreensaver?!? It is indeed incredible that some packages that do not even print (you were wrong about audacity BTW, because it *can* print -- but you could

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Stephen Cormier
On June 15, 2007 03:34:07 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 19:50, Stephen Cormier wrote: On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: Hello, I

Re: samba ldap howto

2007-06-15 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi. http://www.pictux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5 (yes, it's in italian; you can try reading it using babel fish translation: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=it_enurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pictux.org%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D5 ) I wrote down this guide

Re: Aptitude warning msg

2007-06-15 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Kushal, Douglas, On 6/14/07, Kushal Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, does this mean that /var/lib/lists is configured during installation of Debian? aptitude update writes the files in that directory. They are the package lists downloaded from the repository. These simply contain

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:43:56AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: I have just installed a new Debian Etch server, supposed to replace a FreeBSD 6 server soon. There are a few things I miss on the Debian box, and I

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread William Pursell
Philippe Lang wrote: 1) First of all, there is a nice feature under FreeBSD: on a shell, command history can be filtered with a few characters, when using the up arrow. For example, if you rember you restarted a deamon before, you can type /etc/i and then press the up arrow key. Only past

Re: From FreeBSD 6 to Debian 4

2007-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
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 anything wrong, you get:

Re: fetchmail doesn't delivery to local mailboxes?

2007-06-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Orestes leal escribe: Recently i've setup fetchmail to get all mail from 7 accounts (remember that in another post was with getmail), the problem is that when fetchmail get the mail it doesn't deliver to local mailboxes and I don't know why, some help always be welcome. I always let

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it always has. I wrote: And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff. s. keeling writes: That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an xscreensaver-nognome

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread John Hasler
Jan Willem Stumpel writes: I suspect some developers have been too generous in assigning dependencies to some packages -- especially library packages. It's upstream that decides to link to the libraries. Anyway I think the dependencies ought to be looked at very critically, and when possible

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 18:12:32 +, s. keeling wrote: [...] While we're at it, maybe we (well, I) need null-gnome, null-kde, ... placeholder targets to fool them into thinking they're there when they're not. If null-gnome is provided by fluxbox or xserver-xorg, there'd be no need for a

PaX - gresec patch

2007-06-15 Thread Vladimir Strycek
Hi all, i heard some interesting stuff about grsec so i decide to install it and found this in apt chpax - user-space utility to control PaX flags gradm2 - Administration program for the grsecurity2 RBAC based ACL system kernel-patch-grsecurity2 - grsecurity kernel patch - new major upstream

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-15 Thread Owen Heisler
michael wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:00 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: OK, OpenLDAP allows anonymous connections for reading by default, but it doesn't allow writes on the tree, you have to specify rights on slapd.conf (WHO can do WHAT on WHERE). Aditional, you have to think that maybe

Cursor problems

2007-06-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Periodically, my mouse cursor will turn black and/or pixelated, and I haven't been able to find a reason for this or a fix other than to restart X. It seems to happen most often when browsing with firefox under KDE, but I see this behavior more often (and more randomly) under Gnome. So, two

Re: Cursor problems

2007-06-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Periodically, my mouse cursor will turn black and/or pixelated, and I haven't been able to find a reason for this or a fix other than to restart X. It seems to happen most often when browsing with firefox under KDE, but I see this behavior more often (and more randomly)

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:26:07AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] Doesn't include the ML-whatever OkiData driver for my IBM Personal Computer Graphics Printer (the one pictured with the 'New' IBM PC in history books). Where do you keep

problem with fuse-utils ( ntfs-3g )

2007-06-15 Thread tombs
I'm using ntfs-3g without problems under Lenny 2.6.20 and 2.6.21.5 but since a week ago I'm having problems with the package fuse-utils ( what makes impossible to upgrade my system, having already 228 packages not upgraded), and I'm not able to do anything. No upgrade, nor remove, nothing. My

Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
The first time I run /etc/init.d/networking restart after a reboot I get the same message I would if I ran ifdown eth0 about eth0 releasing its dhcp address, and I no longer have network connectivity, i.e. the /etc/init.d/networking script does not seem to call ifup -a to restart all network

Re: Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is the following line in /etc/network/interfaces : auto eth0 If not, eth0 will only be brought up when manually instructed to do so with an ifup command. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/07 18:49, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I have a laser and an inkjet printer but my wife has chemical sensitivities and it takes a page 2 weeks to off-gas enough for her to be able to read them; the dot-matrix is fine. 99% of non-junk snail mail is laser printed/photocopied.

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:42:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/07 18:49, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I have a laser and an inkjet printer but my wife has chemical sensitivities and it takes a page 2 weeks to off-gas enough for her to be able to read them; the dot-matrix is fine.

Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Eric A. Bonney
I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just about the same packages on all three machines. Is there a feature somewhere

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread John Fleming
Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am wondering if it is something I did on the desktop? A cron job to update upgrade?

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:33:41PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just about the

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-15 Thread William Pursell
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In each directory, I have nearly 1000 files with

Re: problem with fuse-utils ( ntfs-3g )

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
tombs wrote: rFR fuse-utils 2.6.3-2 Filesystem in USErspace (utilities) The rFR means removed, Failed-config, Reinst-required. dpkg: error processing fuse-utils (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. That

Re: Compiz as default window manager

2007-06-15 Thread David Fox
compiz instead of metacity as default window manager? I mean without using compiz --replace. Thanks. By the way Ihave Debian Lenny. A related question - I have an Nvidia FX 5200 video card, and I have managed to get compiz to work off and on, but it usually will die or crash the x server, and

Re: Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Freddy Freeloader wrote: The first time I run /etc/init.d/networking restart after a reboot I get the same message I would if I ran ifdown eth0 about eth0 releasing its dhcp address, and I no longer have network connectivity, i.e. the /etc/init.d/networking script does not seem to call ifup

Re: Software updates?

2007-06-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric A. Bonney wrote: I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just about the same packages on all three machines. Is

Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

2007-06-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling writes: Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't

Re: fetchmail doesn't delivery to local mailboxes?

2007-06-15 Thread Orestes Leal
On Vie, 15 de Junio de 2007, 5:20 pm, Ismael Valladolid Torres dijo: Orestes leal escribe: Recently i've setup fetchmail to get all mail from 7 accounts (remember that in another post was with getmail), the problem is that when fetchmail get the mail it doesn't deliver to local mailboxes and

Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-15 Thread L . V . Gandhi
On 6/15/07, William Pursell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 6/14/07, *William Pursell* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have two directories A and B. In

Issues dist-upgrading Etch to Lenny - 1 week old

2007-06-15 Thread David Fox
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 situation after the move last month. The initial upgrade went well (some

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