Advice on automated text processing script

2007-11-08 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I thought of no better place than to ask the experts here at deb-users list. ;) Anyways, I wanted to write a script that takes a "snapshot" of the current screen on the serial console. - i.e. I have a device connected through an RS-232 interface and I want to save the output into a

Re: updating to last sarge

2007-11-08 Thread roberto
On 11/7/07, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roberto: > > > > in order to perform a distro upgrade to debian etch i have to do the > > update to the last released sarge (as stated in debian official guide > > to this kind of upgrade) > > > > so i have to change the occurrences of "stable"

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:39 AM, dulev wrote: I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show some commands again and again, just because I have used them several times. Can the shell be more smart? Put in ~/.bashrc export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups Here I go and mention all

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Serena Cantor wrote: I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show some commands again and again, just because I have used them several times. Can the shell be more smart? Any shell could be made smarter -- the source code is available,

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread dulev
> I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show > some commands again and again, just because I have used them several > times. Can the shell be more smart? Put in ~/.bashrc export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show some commands again and again, just because I have used them several times. Can the shell be more smart? If you are using bash, export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups (or something like that) will do what you w

why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread Serena Cantor
I often use UP key to get commands entered previously. The shell show some commands again and again, just because I have used them several times. Can the shell be more smart? I use sarge. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best s

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Slow directory listings under light load

2007-11-08 Thread Ryan Bair
I have Debian Etch AMD64 installed on a Dell PowerEdge 1950, connected to a MD1000 (SAS/SATA array) via a PERC5/e SAS controller. The array is RAID5. The whole drive is LVM, 9TB are one big XFS partition. Linear reads/writes are very fast, directory listings are also fast. However, if the disk is

Re: Sid/Unstable

2007-11-08 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Nov 8, 2007 7:52 PM, Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this question is going to get a variety of answers, but I would > like to get everybody's opinion. I am currently running Testing with a > few packages from Sid. I just moved to Debian a few weeks ago. I am > running Debia

Sid/Unstable

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff Grossman
I know this question is going to get a variety of answers, but I would like to get everybody's opinion. I am currently running Testing with a few packages from Sid. I just moved to Debian a few weeks ago. I am running Debian as a home server which handles a website, e-mail server, samba serv

Re: want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-08 Thread David Fox
On Nov 8, 2007 12:24 PM, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM > Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) from 'lspci'). looking at the debian site > i find 'xserver-xorg-video-intel', but when i try to apt-get it i get: You

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.08 20:58, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > > I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I > > built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny > > distro that I use and my only real reason for building m

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:49:06AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > To check whether I should feel guilty giving that advice, I've checked > my listed procedure with my own usb stick. It survived it without any > problem and with the expected results: overwriting /dev/sda (in my case > it's sd

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: When I try: $ lsusb -v -D /dev/sdd Cannot open /dev/sdd That doesn't mean anything, I'm getting the same with my perfectly working usb stick. When I plug in the usb-key, the kernel log sayw: Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: usb 1-2.2:

Re: Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:06:15PM -0500, Larry Kilmer wrote: > The computer I am sending this email over is not the computer I am trying > to configure. The target computer is a Dell 8100. I downloaded the entire > 20+ cds, then bought the 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 book with cds. Mostly Ple

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > Hey, > > I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I > built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny > distro that I use and my only real reason for building my own kernel is > more for educational purposes than

Re: Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Larry Kilmer wrote: The computer I am sending this email over is not the computer I am trying to configure. The target computer is a Dell 8100. I downloaded the entire 20+ cds, then bought the 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 book with cds. Mostly it didn't give me much good info since the cds that

Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-08 Thread Larry Kilmer
The computer I am sending this email over is not the computer I am trying to configure. The target computer is a Dell 8100. I downloaded the entire 20+ cds, then bought the 2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 book with cds. Mostly it didn't give me much good info since the cds that came with it hung o

Re: want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:24:07PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM > Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) from 'lspci'). looking at the debian site > i find 'xserver-xorg-video-intel', but when i try to apt-get it i get: > >

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:44:02 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 > > Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Raquel wrote: > >>> On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 > >>> Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > Raquel wrote: > >>

Re: Sid

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:59:00 +0100 Darko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some of programs that i wish to use (dvdstyler, cinelerra) requires Sid > distribution of debian so is below link sid distribution > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/ That is testing (Lenny). Th

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and > > /tmp got messed up (good luck I cancelled it before it could do more > > damage). I man

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:45:40 -0600 "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote: > > > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file > > > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed

Sid

2007-11-08 Thread Darko
Some of programs that i wish to use (dvdstyler, cinelerra) requires Sid distribution of debian so is below link sid distribution http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-dvd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors.

Re: Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?

2007-11-08 Thread MRH
On 08/11/07 12:06,Stephan Seitz wrote: [] xorg.conf is the right place and DefaultDepth is the right option, but do have a color definition in die Display-Subsection, e.g.: Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Ati Radeon9250" Monitor

Re: File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > Hello, > > I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and > /tmp got messed up (good luck I cancelled it before it could do more > damage). I manually fixed some permissions so I could at least have a > working

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Jean-Louis Crouzet: #cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;" That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do grep -v '^;' sip.conf If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace followed by a ';' as well, do grep -E -v '(^\s*

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Haines Brown wrote: Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For making really sure you get to a clean state, I'd use this sequence (not tested as typed, but should work; unlike the previous suggestion of writing one sector with dd, this wipes the whole stick, so really make sure that this

File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Hello, I ran 'chmod -R o-rwx .*' in /root and all permissions in /var and /tmp got messed up (good luck I cancelled it before it could do more damage). I manually fixed some permissions so I could at least have a working environment to fix everything, but I don't know what the permissions should b

Re: GNU Emacs 21.4.1 and euro symbol

2007-11-08 Thread Pavel SRB
Pál Csányi wrote: Hello! I try to set up my Debian Etch system so I can to write the euro symbol in the GNU Emacs version 21.4.1. I red the documentation here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-applications.en.html but can't find the solution for my problem. I have a Hu

Re: rsync question

2007-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:04:56PM +, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > > I have the same structure on 2 machines. > I want to keep them in sync. > > I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD > and then rsync from the other as follows > > ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DD

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:34:40AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > $ df /media/usb-key > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdd1 499440303916195524 61% /media/usb-key > > I agree that it seems to be file system corruption, but dosfsck

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-08 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 19:54, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, > >> > >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the > >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. > >> Howeve

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:15:18 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: Yeah, this kind of stuff might be fun! Here we go... > audio editor: Audacity > audio player: Audacious > cd-ripp

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-08 Thread Lars
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I have had no X freeze on my Debian testing system since installing > the xfwm4 from unstable. Ok, thank you for testing. /Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

GNU Emacs 21.4.1 and euro symbol

2007-11-08 Thread Pál Csányi
Hello! I try to set up my Debian Etch system so I can to write the euro symbol in the GNU Emacs version 21.4.1. I red the documentation here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-euro-support/ch-applications.en.html but can't find the solution for my problem. I have a Hungaryan keyboard and

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jean-Louis Crouzet: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace >> followed by a ';' as well, do >> >> grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' >> > OK thanks for the tip now running. I still need display line such as > > bindport=5060 ; UD

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection [solved, sort of]

2007-11-08 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:23

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:28:34 -0500, I wrote: > Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser > but I do get name resolution? Surely I have to get past the browser for > name resolution. On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:34:26 -0500, Celejar replied: > If you're using DHCP from t

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote: > > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file > > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed > > dependency. > > It isn't needed for building the kernel, or even for configuring it > unle

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
Christian Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For making really sure you get to a clean state, I'd use this > sequence (not tested as typed, but should work; unlike the previous > suggestion of writing one sector with dd, this wipes the whole > stick, so really make sure that this is ok for you a

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 > > Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Raquel wrote: > >>> I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. > >>> > >>> I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and ca

Re: want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-08 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tom arnall wrote: > i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM > Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) from 'lspci'). looking at the debian site > i find 'xserver-xorg-video-intel', but when i try to apt-get it i get:

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:45:20PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 1:03 AM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an > > invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my > > own small w

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Kevin Monceaux wrote: anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): clip, Aubit4GL Humm, I seem to have experienced a momentary lapse of reason. I left out Hercules. That should have been at the top of my "great honours" list. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://ww

Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny distro that I use and my only real reason for building my own kernel is more for educational purposes than anything but I would also like to compile

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:22:16 -0600 "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20:

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 08:28:34 -0500 Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser > but I do get name resolution? Surely I have to get past the browser for > name resolution. If you're using DHCP from the router, as is the defa

want to install a driver for my video card

2007-11-08 Thread tom arnall
i want to install a driver for my video card ( Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) from 'lspci'). looking at the debian site i find 'xserver-xorg-video-intel', but when i try to apt-get it i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-intel

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: This looks like it might be fun. First of all, while I do know the meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time below. audio editor: N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing. audio player: mpg123 cd-rip

Re: rsync question

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davide Mancusi wrote: > Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto: >> Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new >> driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window >> starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). > > Ye

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Haines Brown wrote: $ df /media/usb-key Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdd1 499440303916195524 61% /media/usb-key Above you're using /dev/sdd1 # dosfsck /dev/sdd Here you're using /dev/sdd (not the partition 1). # mkdo

Re: GMT vs UTC

2007-11-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Note that while there is a difference between GMT and UTC, mostly > computers are set to GMT. The "M" is for Mean time which smooths over > leap seconds that occur in UTC due to the jitter of the earth's > rotation. Check wikipedia for a more precise answer. Note, however, > that its unlikely

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Davide Mancusi
Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto: Starting kdm isn't that necessary, if you're just testing the new driver/configuration. You can run just 'Xorg' to test whether X Window starts (kill it with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). Yeah, but if kdm is running and I kill X, it will restart it automatically. You need

how to install wien2k

2007-11-08 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I tried to install wien2k on debian etch, i coudn't, for several reasons, one of them, it needs fortran 90, I can't find it in debian repository, just gfortran ( fortran 95). We have install it in fedora 2 or 3 !!! I don't remmeber what exacltly the installed packages. So if somebody can't

Re: rsync question

2007-11-08 Thread H.S.
John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > > I have the same structure on 2 machines. > I want to keep them in sync. > > I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD > and then rsync from the other as follows > > ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ > Pa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 8, 2007 7:38 PM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of > > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war > > incited by it. In fact I

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread John Masters
On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war > incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends > to reveal various hidden ge

Re: Virtual machine

2007-11-08 Thread Pavel SRB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everyone, I currently run Debian (lenny) only on my workstation here. I have a short term need to run a software package which only exists for windows (I can´t get it to install properly under wine). I´d like to run WinXP in a vm in order to do this without re

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
> > Post the actual output of 'ls -la'. Also the output of 'df > /media/usb-key' with the device mounted would help > $ ls -la /media/usb-key drwxr-xr-x 2 brownh brownh20480 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jul 17 15:16 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 brownh brownh 1071529 Aug 14 14:35 B

Re: Can expect deal with dialog generated by whiptail?

2007-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:36:05PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: > I have some program which show some dialog by whiptail as UI to users, > can I use expect to run the program without any interaction? I would think not since expect will also see all the terminal control codes used to make the dialog/wh

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davide Mancusi wrote: > Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto: >>> No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module. >> Shouldn't >> >> # modprobe -r >> # modprobe >> >> suffice instead of reboot? > > Errr, yes. I suppose it should. *hid

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Jochen Schulz wrote: Jean-Louis Crouzet: #cat sip.conf | grep -v "^;" That's a useless use of cat. :) You may instead just do grep -v '^;' sip.conf If you want to strip empty lines and lines beginning with whitespace followed by a ';' as well, do grep -E -v '(^\s*;)|^\s*$' J. OK thanks fo

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread zecrazytux
Hi, scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file that > explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed dependency. Next time, you would try to find the needed

Re: Virtual machine

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:46:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I currently run Debian (lenny) only on my workstation here. I have > a short term need to run a software package which only exists for > windows (I can´t get it to install properly under wine). I´d like t

Re: Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-08 Thread David Baron
If you want it, you can get it from here: deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./ They have sources and images, realtime patched and regular and modules built for them as well. This ftp can be frightfully slow, however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Xorg not working after botched upgrade

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:34:17AM -0500, Carl Brown wrote: > On an old box, which rarely gets much attention since it usually "just works". > It's my fault, no doubt. I looked at the sources.list before I ran the > dist-upgrade, but it completely slipped my mind that the "testing" that was > on

Re: How to sort ignoring digits? (was: Contacts printing)

2007-11-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:42:33PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071106 06:42]: > > >> > In the documentation of `sort' I couldn't find the possibility of > >> > ignoring > >> > digits. I have a document that contains names and phone numbers and I > >> > wish

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > > directory > > Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. > > J.

rsync question

2007-11-08 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I have the same structure on 2 machines. I want to keep them in sync. I change a file (ZZZ.ods) on the one with IP address AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD and then rsync from the other as follows ~$ rsync -avh AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:/home/john/Documents/ ./Documents/ Password: receiving file list ... done Do

Re: Where to find driver for new HP printer (Color LaserJet 2605dn) [Solved -- Thanks!]

2007-11-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks to dulev and Jabka Atu, who both provided concise and cogent answers, I have now got this printer working perfectly on Etch. Sarge may be a bit more complicated, but I think that I have enough information to get that one working too. Thanks! Rick On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Rick

Re: User-provided post-install script?

2007-11-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:56:51AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > Well I'll probably do it and report back here if nothing else pops up. Please CC me for that :-) Another idea: * Create local mirror: * Rebuild package with epoch * Check update of upsream package. Osamu

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > directory Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised

Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I'm running Debian/Lenny which I update weekly. I downloaded the Linux source version 2.6.23.1 from the kernel.org site and uncompressed the file all with no problem. The next step was to create the configuration which I did by running; make defconfig This ran again without a problem. I

Error with apt-mirror

2007-11-08 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I want set up my own mirror of debian, I tried with apt-mirror and some files are missing, this is the error. I don´t understand, if there is 164 mb waiting for download why don´t download nothing. Thanks debian:/home/system/debian/mirror1/ftp.fi.debian.org/debian# apt-mirror Downloadi

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:03:59 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 > > Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Raquel wrote: > >>> > >>> Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere > >>> from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 11:35 PM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > spreadsheet: > > * > > > impress Did you mean OOo Calc or do you want this under another category. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Virtual machine

2007-11-08 Thread Federico Lazcano
El Jueves, 8 de Noviembre de 2007 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Hi, everyone, > > I currently run Debian (lenny) only on my workstation here. I have > a short term need to run a software package which only exists for > windows (I can´t get it to install properly under wine). I´d like

Sound Card Driver on DELL D630?

2007-11-08 Thread Michael Yang
Hi Any body has installed Debian Lenny/Sid on DELL D630 (T7250)? I hit a problem on installing alsa package for driver of sound card. It seems doesn't work and I can not startup alsamixer. Is there an extra steps to configure the sound driver on this laptop? I have it working on my PC machine. Y

Re: How to sort ignoring digits? (was: Contacts printing)

2007-11-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071106 06:42]: >> > In the documentation of `sort' I couldn't find the possibility of ignoring >> > digits. I have a document that contains names and phone numbers and I >> > wish to sort it by names. The `-k' option doesn't seem to help because >> > names and

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 8, 2007 1:03 AM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an > invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my > own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is > the best software

Xorg not working after botched upgrade

2007-11-08 Thread Carl Brown
On an old box, which rarely gets much attention since it usually "just works". It's my fault, no doubt. I looked at the sources.list before I ran the dist-upgrade, but it completely slipped my mind that the "testing" that was on the box was still etch, and I should have changed "testing" to "stab

Re: wpa_supplicant disconnecting problems

2007-11-08 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit of a wireless newbie. I'm trying to connect my tnet1130 PCI > wifi card (104c:9066) with the ndiswrapper to a Asus WL-500GP access point. > > I've got the ndiswrapper going, using Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-5-686,

Re: Export excrypted messages in evolution (cont)

2007-11-08 Thread Miguel J.
Sorry my bad english, I meant "decrypted" :-( I am sure you guys understand... El jue, 08-11-2007 a las 10:13 +0100, Miguel J. Jiménez escribió: > Hi, I am starting to use GPG with evolution to de/encrypt messages. From > time to time, when my IMAP box is highly occupied, I tend to backup my > ema

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Steve Kleene wrote: Is it strange that I can't get past the router with ping or with a browser but I do get name resolution? Surely I have to get past the browser for name resolution. It's not the same thing: your /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to the router, so the router implements a names

Export excrypted messages in evolution

2007-11-08 Thread Miguel J.
Hi, I am starting to use GPG with evolution to de/encrypt messages. From time to time, when my IMAP box is highly occupied, I tend to backup my emails in mbox format so I can burn them in DVD or similar. My question is as follows: Can I export an encrypted mail in deencrypepted form? ie. years from

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > n Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > What device are we talking about: What device and what partition on the > device? > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdd bs=512 count=1 > > Note that this is /sdd (this is a

Re: what is supposed to set $LANG?

2007-11-08 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a newly installed system and no /etc/environment, looking at files from an old system, it's supposed to be created by localeconf which no longer exists. The settings are now set in /etc/defaults/locale but the are not read for new terminals, also doesn't seem to help what kind of shell is u

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Haines Brown wrote: > > Kiran, > > Thanks for the help. I should emphazie that my promblem is not > > mounting the usb-key drive, but only deleting the files on it. I can > > copy those files, but not delete or modify them. However, if I add a > > te

Virtual machine

2007-11-08 Thread judd
Hi, everyone, I currently run Debian (lenny) only on my workstation here. I have a short term need to run a software package which only exists for windows (I can´t get it to install properly under wine). I´d like to run WinXP in a vm in order to do this without rebooting or working on a sep

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wonder if anyone has recently upgraded the fglrx ATI driver > from version 8.40.4 to 8.42.3, like I have done. OpenGL stopped > working after the upgrade and I am not able to figure out why. > > The first time I run an OpenGL application,

how to maintain DRI packages built from git

2007-11-08 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
Hi I built DRI from source since I needed some very recent fix. I don't know how long it takes for new code to reach debian unstable/testing repositories, which are the ones I'm using. The installation is as simple as copying the compiled libraries to the relevant places, so I couldn't (or figured

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-08 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:38:23

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

2007-11-08 Thread Samuel Krieg
Pigeon a écrit : > > It doesn't work with 2.4 kernels :-( > As I wrote, I'm using Kenshi MUTO's custom kernel ( http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ ). It provides 2.6.20 kernels for Sarge. By the way, Maarten gave me this link, it may help someone besides me. http://www.uta.fi/~pauli.borodulin/delloms

bittorrent error: connection break down from the corrispondent

2007-11-08 Thread Micaela Gallerini
Hi all, I try to connect to the debian etch repository to downloaded the patch cd, but every time the sistem say me: connection break down from the corrispondent anyone say me why, please? I try also with another cd, but the error is the same, thanks in advance. -- "L'uomo è l'animale più

Re: User-provided post-install script?

2007-11-08 Thread Christian Jaeger
Kevin Mark wrote: So apt-get calls dpkg and dpkg has 'post-invoke' options that run a shell script. Never tried this but this seem like a place to start. (See my other reply; *maybe* using the apt hooks is easier--but in reality it belongs to the dpkg space. Imagine I download a .deb and

Re: Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?

2007-11-08 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:59:44PM +, MRH wrote: That line sounds like where the problem lies. You might consider running in 16 bit color as opposed to 32 bit. This is what I thought, but what should I change? Something in Wine config or XOrg? I tried to change xorg.conf DefaultDepth 16 in

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