Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Alex macgeek...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/28/10, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Alex macgeek...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/27/10, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message --

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 06:13:58 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:01:10 +0200, Alexander Hintzer wrote: Why should one use sudo in addition to being root and thus having all rights? +1 :-) I don't speak for the OP,

Re: [SOLVED] lilo config is busted, need help fixing it

2010-09-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:19:28 -0400 (EDT), bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:09:15 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: You had several unrelated problems. (1) The initial RAM disk specifications were missing from the two boot menu items in /etc/lilo.conf that used the standard

Re: allow_cancellation in /etc/e2fsck.conf doesn't work

2010-09-28 Thread Alexander Batischev
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:29:02AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-09-28 09:14 +0200, Alexander Batischev wrote: Today when filesystem check started I decided to try the feature I enabled once ago - I hit Ctrl-C expecting to terminate the check for this time. Yeah, it terminated,

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-28 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:33:47 -0400 Mike Viau vi...@sheridanc.on.ca wrote: And now its available on squeeze under the flashplugin-nonfree package: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/flashplugin-nonfree Remember to remove your previous flashplugin .so file if you couldn't wait like me.

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-28 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com said: S I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that S he wants to be able to run either as his non-superuser self or as root. Easy. This preserves arguments including spaces:

Re: loose access control that works for dynamic IP address

2010-09-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 27. 09. 2010 12:25:51 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html Keep 'em coming, J. It's been a while since I've come across somehing

How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

2010-09-28 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like to directly use a virtual PDF printer. Are there such possibilities under free conditions? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: How could I directly print to PDF? I can only print to ps, directly

2010-09-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:34:15 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Using lp and printing to my virtual postscript printer, I can get a PS document. Thanks to ps2pdf, I can then get a PDF one. But I would like to directly use a virtual PDF printer. Are there such possibilities under free conditions?

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-28 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:14:24 +0200, Alois Mahdal wrote: I dont use sudo, but can you explain me,so I will go to bed with more knowledge, why root would need sudo? invoking my scripts embedded with sudo as root I'm, not sure what you mean by embedded here, so my guess is that you mean

Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-28 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: I don't speak for the OP, but my guess is that the OP has a script that he wants to be able to run either as his non-superuser self or as root. Exactly. Thanks Stephen. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-28 Thread Alex
On 9/28/10, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO Ubuntu distribution is set somewhere in a middle between Debian Testing and Debian Unstable. So, according to that, using Ubuntu you have already using some kind of Debian Testing. Therefore, if you switch to Debian Squeeze, I

Printer paused, /usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed

2010-09-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I irregularly have a problem when trying to print to a network printer from my Debian Testing laptop. Initially, after setting the printer up via the CUPS web interface, everything worked fine. Now, sometimes, sending a job to the printer results in the printer reporting (via

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-28 Thread Angus Hedger
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:46:04 -0400 Alex macgeek...@gmail.com wrote: Also, off-topic, but does anyone know if Xfce works properly in Squeeze? When I installed Lenny on my old ~2004 Celeron machine, Xfce's various modules didn't seem to be integrated like they should be - as in

Re: Squeeze. nVidia video. How to change brightness with functional (Fn) keys?[SOLVED]

2010-09-28 Thread Alex
On 9/28/10, Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:46:04 -0400 Alex macgeek...@gmail.com wrote: Also, off-topic, but does anyone know if Xfce works properly in Squeeze? When I installed Lenny on my old ~2004 Celeron machine, Xfce's various modules didn't seem to be

Re: OT Re: root can't sudo

2010-09-28 Thread B. Alexander
Another way to do it would be to have the invisible sudo similar to NEEDSUDO= if [ `id -u` != 0 ] ; then NEEDSUDO=sudo fi echo abc | $NEEDSUDO tee /tmp/t Then, if the uid is not 0 (root), then it inserts the sudo line...If run by root, then NEEDSUDO is empty. --b On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:42

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

2010-09-28 Thread lrhorer
Michal wrote: On 28/09/10 14:05, Miles Fidelman wrote: lrhorer wrote: If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my questions there. I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the

Re: Mirror applications on Linux Server

2010-09-28 Thread lrhorer
Miles Fidelman wrote: lrhorer wrote: If there is a better forum for this, let me know and I will post my questions there. I am building an application which needs to have high reliability. I have two essentially identical Linux servers which can host the application. Right now, I have

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-28 Thread Doug
On 9/28/2010 6:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? Most surely, yes. I've got all MS TrueType fonts installed O:-) Evince lists as

Fwd: Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-28 Thread Doug
This is a PS to my previous post, which is included below. On Windows 7, there is a list of 230 fonts, found in ??? \Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Fonts but I don't know the entire directory tree--i.e., I don't know how to get to \Control Panel in the console so as to copy

emacs: send mail with sendmail

2010-09-28 Thread T o n g
Hi, Having updated emacs to v23.2+1-4, I lost the send mail (with sendmail) menu, but get a send mail (with gnus message) menu instead. As you might have guessed, it doesn't work for me. $ tail -1 /var/log/mail.log Sep 28 23:00:07 coral sm-msp-queue[5145]: o8SATjAs007592: to=root,

Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-28 Thread Tong Sun
Package: gnome-core Version: 1:2.30+1 Severity: wishlist Hi, I'm quite satisfied with the Clearlooks to be the default GNOME theme, and I don't want anything else. Please provide the default GNOME theme (whatever it is) in gnome-core, instead of putting it anywhere else. The current situation

Issue with fast-user-switcher-applet

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
Hi, everyone -- I'm having an issue with the fast-user-switcher-applet (2.24.0) on squeeze. The problem is this: every so often, it stops switching! I left-click on it on the panel, pull down to the user I want to switch to, and -- nothing happens. It seems to be a problem with the applet

unable to run gsynaptics on lenny

2010-09-28 Thread vishnu vardhan
os : lenny 5.0.4 i have run gsynaptics from command line : $ gsynaptics and it has shown the following error : GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics i have edited the file of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added support for

Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

2010-09-28 Thread Doug
This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. (Previous message) Folks It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail when you are the originator of the message. I will have my ISP look into it. If you have a x...@gmail.com address, you might

Re: Pinning perikelen

2010-09-28 Thread Arjen Bax
Op 28 september 2010 10:42 heeft Paul van der Vlis p...@vandervlis.nl het volgende geschreven: Enig idee wat bij mij die Translation-nl is, en hoe ik die kan beinvloeden? 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org testing/main Translation-nl Volgens mij kun je die regel gevoeglijk weghalen, want hij heeft

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