Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-21 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El dom, 21-12-2008 a las 15:52 +, steef escribió: > > El sáb, 20-12-2008 a las 09:45 +, steef escribió: > >> Eduard Bloch wrote: [...] > >>> Try this: > >>> > >>> mount foo.nrg /bla -oloop,offset=307200 [...] > hi eduardo, > > i did: > > st...@etchschijf:~$ sudo mount /home/steef/Desktop

Re: nrg2iso

2008-12-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
uld just use NeroLinux. > > [...] > > > thanks eduard, i'll was already experimenting with loop && to get a > sight on how things are in my iso_files. > So, what are the results of those experiments? [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 Gn

Re: init.d startup script does not exit

2008-09-14 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
t; > - Rex > > Rex, > > I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this, but you could try adding a > & > at the end of the start line: > su ${sUser} -c "$COLDFUSION_HOME/bin/jrun -start instance01" & Shouldn't that be: su ${sUser} -c

Re: Bash-SU Question

2008-09-13 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ething like: # su -m -c 'echo User: $(whoami)' user1 That way you won't have to care about escaping. [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theo

Re: Send email on calls to su

2008-08-19 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 20-08-2008 a las 02:34 +0100, Sam Kuper escribió: > 2008/8/20 Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, it sound like you [think you] need to give root access > for someone > to do something, and push it forward by not trusting her. >

Re: Send email on calls to su

2008-08-19 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
rward by not trusting her. You shouldn't give root access to someone you don't trust. Better yet, you shouldn't give root access to anyone. Considering that, sudo might be what you're looking for: http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/intro.html man sudo man sudoers man visudo

Re: problem with gnu emacs

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
pment > > This is weird because I don't see what a PNG library has to do with > running emacs in a console! Unless you're running emacs from an X terminal. If you are, try with -nw switch. Else, try reinstalling libpng, maybe the file got corrupt. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux

Re: locale errors

2008-08-11 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory > locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory > > Zach > -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between th

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
y to reproduce the bug. Luckily, you won't be able to. If you want to know more about each command, the man pages are a good starting point. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practic

Re: display on remote machines?

2008-07-30 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
that the Xserver in the remote machine was not run with the '-nolisten tcp' option. Also, you should not use xhost, xauth is the right way to go. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory a

Re: what 4 packages have in common

2008-07-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
couldn't get locks. Other than the accounts that were open on this > machine no other process was running to prevent this. dpkg did much > useless looping attempting in vain to clear these errors too. > > So... what are the exact errors you're getting from dpkg again

Re: Cannot switch to VT (console)

2008-07-22 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
aphics card is supported, you should try with nv. [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: Audacious won't open files specified in command line

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 17-07-2008 a las 00:00 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo escribió: > Hi, > > I'm trying to play audio files with audacious. From audacious(1): > > > audacious [-h] [--help] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] > >[--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enque

Audacious won't open files specified in command line

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
lp either. Any ideas on what could be wrong? Thanks! -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." si

Re: need help with chroot

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ic use of creating a debian chroot, you might prefer debootstrap(8). Also, there's a lot of posts on the list about these (there were some recently) and definitely a lot more in google. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-07 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El lun, 07-07-2008 a las 22:54 +0100, michael escribió: > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 17:56 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El vie, 04-07-2008 a las 17:24 +0200, Shawn Beasley escribió: > > > michael wrote: > > > > I was following the instructions on,

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-07 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
r. That may well be where the discrepancy shows up. > Interesting, doesn't that mess up with gpg signatures? Sure, Barclay doesn't seem to be using them, but what if he did? -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: using debootstrap to install Debian

2008-07-04 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
e fedora system, run 'grub-install --root-directory=/debian_chroot /dev/device' and edit /debian_chroot/boot/grub/device.map if necessary. Re-enter the chroot and run update-grub. Then make the bios boot from that device, however you do it, and there you go. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
e quality pretty much depends on the parameters you're using with mencoder. I would ask for the command you were trying, but I see you already solved your problem using transcode, which renders my mail useless ;). [...] > -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: B

Re: driver loaded automatically

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
r more info on configuring it. Here are some introductory articles. For advanced info, STFW. http://lwn.net/Articles/242046/ http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Hotplug http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Udev I'm not sure if the info is up-to-date, they were just sitting in my bookmarks.

Re: debug boot script

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
pt set to run? If it's run before the mountall script, /tmp was probably not mounted yet (assuming it's in a separate partition). Also, there's a script that cleans up /tmp and /var/tmp; make sure you're not running before that one either. You could try sending the output some

Re: Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El lun, 23-06-2008 a las 08:04 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > >> Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > >> > >> > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escr

Re: Default file manager

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ook at this site: http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/2.22/mimetypes-modifying.html.en -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no differ

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Font color in gnome panel

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
; > (Putting a [Solved] tag for the subject line) > > > > No problem. Found the answer on ubuntu user list. Also, found a program > > gnome-color-chooser which just does many things. > > It would be helpful to add links to that Ubuntu message, and to > gnome-color-c

Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora (SOLVED by ensuring PATH set for sudo/root)

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 12:37 +0100, michael escribió: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:50 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 10:41 +0100, michael escribió: > > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:17 +0100, michael wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06

Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 10:41 +0100, michael escribió: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:17 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió: > > > > I am trying to install Deb

Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 10:41 +0100, michael escribió: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:17 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 06:06 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 09:46 +0100, michael escribió: > > > > I am trying to install Deb

Re: Install debian Etch with debootstrap on top of fedora

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
that you're running it as root and the chroot binary is in PATH ('which chroot'). If that doesn't help, please copy the exact error you're receiving. > -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only dif

Re: Silly mistake in X config renders screen useless

2008-07-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
erver-ati-video successfully, but this > hasn't solved the problem. X is telling me that there are no screens. > How did debian originally configure my screen? Running > dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg doesn't even ask me questions > about the screen, and the xorg.con

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-28 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
orrectly thanks to mdetect. Is it > unusual to have to require root privileges to open /dev/psaux ? I > couldn't cat that device file on my usual login, and mdetect could not > discover it without being run as root. Yes, it's normal. The X server is run as root anyway. -- Gab

Re: Help with VLC - no longer plays video files

2008-06-28 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
at has happened here? > >> > > > > > [...] > === > Carl Fink wrote: > > I'll bet you're using files from debian-multimedia.org. Their libraries are > no longer compatible with the VLC distributed with Debian. See the newsbox > at that

Re: Help with VLC - no longer plays video files

2008-06-28 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ial repository and clearing the plugin cache with 'vlc --reset-plugins-cache. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
gt; goes black again with no signal to monitor and I'm forced to do a hard > reboot by hitting the box's reset button. > > The monitor in question is an Acer 22" lcd, if anyone out there has > any experience with these. > Can you post your xorg.conf and the file /

Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2008-06-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
> If you mean you want to see what changes have been made to the > > packages, check out apt-listchanges. > > > > > > Cheers, > > Kelly > > > > > > OK, apt-listchanges was the answer. Thanks! > The equivalent in aptitude is 'aptitude changelo

Re: Default file manager

2008-06-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
-handler.desktop;nautilus-folder-handler.desktop; in the file /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and replace it with something like this: x-directory/.*=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop; I remember this working back when etch was testing, not sure now. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #4

Re: mocp broken for anyone else?

2008-06-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
s/config.example.gz $HOME/.moc/ > gunzip $HOME/.moc/config.example.gz and mv config.example > config. Edit config, find "# Layout1", uncomment and enjoy moc. [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485059 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485059#10

Cannot build deb package from ati instaler (was Re: New version of fglrx broke my system)

2008-06-21 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 21-06-2008 a las 11:18 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > >> It installed with no problem and after rebooting (yes, I have to do > >> this; starting and stopping the t

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

2008-06-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
he X server; 2- 'rmmod fglrx'; 4- Re-start X server [...] > -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice.&quo

Re: New version of fglrx broke my system

2008-06-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 20-06-2008 a las 19:29 +0200, Jonathan Kaye escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > > I've been googling for hours trying to figure out how to solve this > > problem that arised from the last upgrade: > > > > I use lenny and the fglr

New version of fglrx broke my system

2008-06-19 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
nyone has any clue on what the problem could be, please let me know. Thanks! -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and p

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
s ago. > When was the last time he tried to use a Mac?: > "About a year ago" <<<<<<<<, ^ Note the comma. > "10 years ago" So, we're in 2008. That means that in 1998 he had the misfortune of managing a sizable network of Apple

Re: Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
s that are started on gnome startup. Pull all of them out and re-add them one by one. Most likely, one of them is keeping the init script from finishing and that's why you can't logout. Another way to go is to add a new user with a clean home and try with him. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/

Re: Strange problem printing with iceweasel

2008-06-05 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
page, re-open it still with iceweasel, then it prints > > correctly. Printing is OK with any other software, including web pages > > Have you tried printing one of those web pages' mirror sites ? That isn't a solution, is just a workaround ;). -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Lin

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
& i do > indeed work for an ISP. > > http://tinyurl.com/ail9 > http://compunction.org/art.html > > allow me to draw further attention to myself. :D > Aren't you the girl from the sexchart? -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Ke

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ys use base-10, not binary. They know it makes the > drives look bigger. On a side note, I just found out that many applications use base-10 too. GNU Parted for example. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference b

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 15:08 +0100, andy escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El vie, 23-05-2008 a las 07:16 +0100, andy escribió: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > > > My / partition is som

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ls 182GB. Strange, and I > cannot track it down anywhere, and I don't dual-boot, so unless 200GB > was listed on the packaging as an approximation, almost 20GB have gone AWOL. > Run 'parted /dev/yourdisk' and in parted's prompt enter 'print'. It will tell y

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-02-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
in the dictionary, but > > puppies > > is. If someone DIDN'T get that last message, would you please raise your > > hand?? > > Isn't that like, "If you can't hear me at the back, please raise your > hand?" > Unless he was trying to say

Re: [Debian-User] HP print cartidge utilities...

2008-01-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
tation after installing (of course > after the whole cups installation as well), to see how alignment and > cleaning is done... If it's possible with hplip, then I'll keep using > it, I was really missing cartridge application for long time, :). > It has an application called

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
If you want it to be sda1 instead of sda, try making a partition on it. OTOH, if you want it to be sda1 because you don't want to modify your fstab, you could try using pmount instead of mount. 'aptitude show pmount'. Checkout udev if you want it to have the same name each time you

Re: Question about torrent

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 29-12-2007 a las 16:26 +, Pantor escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El sáb, 29-12-2007 a las 15:31 +0100, strawks escribió: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:14 +, Pantor wrote: > >>> why only one torrent it is aloud t

Re: Question about torrent

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ad one torrent at a time. > > It's probably possible to specify a range of ports rather than a single > port. > That's correct, check out these keys in gconf: /apps/gnome-btdownload/settings/min_port /apps/gnome-btdownload/settings/max_port [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo

Re: How to uzip rar files?

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
de search unrar p unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files p unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files Once you installed one of those, ark should be able to do its work. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL

Re: HOWTO make apt(itude) ignore dependencies

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
for me, broken SDL to resolv dependencies. I recommend uninstalling libSDL, compiling it and installing it as described above. > > How can I force apt(itude) to ignore certain dependencies? I don't think it's a good idea, but you can always use equivs (aptitude show equivs).

Re: Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 28-12-2007 a las 16:04 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty escribió: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:35:36PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > > Aptitude users's manual explains the reinstall men?? command as follows: > > > > > Reinstalls the package. > > &

Aptitude's reintall

2007-12-28 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ted immediately and not when I press g? Or maybe something else. Thank you. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and pr

Re: Help needed in removing warning: "Untrusted packages could ..."

2007-12-27 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
org or whatever mirror I > > am using. > > > > Install debian-archive-keyring > I always wonder how does that happen (which is very often). How can anybody miss that package if apt depends on it?? -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID:

Re: emacs22 black text on white bg from menu but white text on black bg from console

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
manager, you're probably running the X version. You can either install emacs22-nox to get rid of the X version or you can read through 'info emacs' and find out what X resources you need to touch in order to get the color combination you want (I remember Emacs.background being for backgrou

Re: Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
lume-manager. Try disabling its digital camera functions, or disabling it completely and see if you still have problems with gtkam. On the other hand, the program executed by gnome-volume-manager is gnome-volume-manager-gthumb which in fact asks for a destination for the pictures (in lenny). --

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-01 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
s running: two 'dbus-daemon' and one 'dbus-launch'. > Killing > the 'dbus-launch' process fixes the problem (until the next reboot, of > course). dbus-launch is used to launch a program within a session bus instance. Try checking the init scripts to see wha

Re: Top-posting (was Re: CD to acc)

2007-11-28 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 28-11-2007 a las 23:56 +0100, Thierry Chatelet escribió: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:29, Robert Hodgins wrote: > No, as a good practice, you should remove everything that is not relevant to > the answer you give. Which is not the same as 'remove everything'

Re: Application in root window?

2007-11-11 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
r windows. Running an application in the root window often refers to running it as background. For example, some geeks and admins like to have a terminal with a 'tail -f' of some log as desktop background (in root window) and use transparent windows, which is very useful for /var/log/au

Re: netstat output evidence of a cracker?

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
rewall which I can > get a good look at those ports with? Or some other approach? There's a site called Shields-up that does what you need. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and

Re: Which package to use to unlock Gnome keyring?

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 10-11-2007 a las 08:24 +, Magnus Therning escribió: > There are two packages providing PAM modules for my Gnome keyring, > libpam-gnome-keyring and libpam-keyring. Which one should I use? libpam-keyring should do it. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public

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

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 10-11-2007 a las 12:04 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 02:34:34PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 09:31 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo w

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

2007-11-10 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El vie, 09-11-2007 a las 09:31 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West escribió: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:06:55PM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > 2007/11/8, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:33:45PM -0300, Gabriel Parro

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 cancelle

File permissions messed up in /var and /tmp

2007-11-08 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
t it may take a few hours...) Thanks!! -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to check tftp server is running?

2007-11-06 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ve been using it for a year now for several thin clients and I've never had any problems. Best, -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference

Re: How to set up cups-pdf as default printer?

2007-10-24 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
. I am not too familiar with cups > > so I apologize if this question is quite trivial. > > > > This is one a debian etch system by the way. > > > > Thanks, > > Amit > > > > > > > You need to add a new printer and then select the cups-pdf d

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > > [snip of something I can't help with] > >> She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer,

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 20:49 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > >> Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. > >> > > > > Cool! What distr

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
gt; I dunno how much progress will be made, even if I can make > everything work by Saturday evening. She seems kinda to have > made up her mind. I have, um, limited influence over her > behavior. :-) Well, the windows' been bought already... -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #4

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
; this way. > > $command -options & > I don't think that would work. That way the command 'command' will run as son of your shell session. When you close your session it will probably die (maybe not, depends on how the software works). That's why you need nohup

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ly what you need. BTW, please don't make top-posting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting [...] -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, ther

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > >> That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer > >> manager shipped with Debian is either

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
is not run from /etc/init.d, it is called by the ifup command (which is called by /etc/init.d/networking) if the interface is configured to do so in /etc/network/interfaces. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only differe

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
tions that you would expect in that kind of software. You either end up looking for alternatives (xscreensaver over gnome-screensaver, alacarte over the default menu editor, etc) or doing things on command line. The situation is supposed to be changing, but the change is slow. This is gnome, love it o

Re: bacula dependencies

2007-09-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
rce-help' . You're probably interested in --force-depends-version or --force-depends. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

Re: Help with fstab and ntfs

2007-09-22 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El sáb, 22-09-2007 a las 14:08 -0500, Sid Arth escribió: > On 9/22/07, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Have you tried any of the two choices? > > If you have a windows installed you could also try running a chkdsk on > > tha

Re: Help with fstab and ntfs

2007-09-22 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
p://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=es&q=%24LogFile%20indicates%20unclean %20shutdown%20(0%2C%200)%20&btnG=B%C3%BAsqueda+en+Google&meta= Try the second result and see if it works for you. If it doesn't keep looking on the results. By the way, please don't send HTML messages. [.

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-21 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
. From my personal experience, aptitude works much better if you use it as your package manager since the moment you install Debian than if you migrate to it after some time of using apt. Anyway, I gave up on it, is too smart for me :-P. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID

Re: can't access localhost

2007-09-21 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
There is nothing much in /var/log/syslog > Have you tried doing 'ifconfig lo up'? If that works try adding a line like the following to your /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo [...] Best. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-21 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
w manager running. > > Any ideas? Once you have compiz started try running gtk-window-decorator... not sure if that will work, but it's worth trying. BTW, if you want to start metacity when another WM is running use the --replace parameter. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #40

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
table then for end > desktop users? > Yes it is. Of course it's not meant for final users in the same sense as ubuntu is, you may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a non-st

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 19:52 +0200, Martin Marcher escribió: > 2007/9/20, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió: > > > I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which > >

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 14:26 -0300, Francisco M Neto escribió: > On 9/20/07, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 12:10 -0300, Francisco M Neto escribió: > > > > > > I already reviewed my xorg.conf file a few times, and a

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Usually this kind of devices are hardware-only and transparently work as a standard device for the OS. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no d

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
the > needed lines seem to be there. If you run it from a terminal does it output any errors? -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no dif

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
for servers) If you want to have the last version of every program then you should use Sid, which is always the unstable distribution... but, as you might have guessed from the name, it's not very stable. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL P

Re: Gnome Update Manager's "Smart" Update

2007-09-15 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
ed to simply not installing > > packages that would require such actions. > > Is that always the smart thing to do? > If you are using unstable, you should be used to deal with this kind of things. If you're using testing you should check if your issue has something to do with th

Re: Gigabit ethernet

2007-09-13 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
t > > > Sometimes in first tty I see message "sky eth0: tx timeout" and ethernet > > not work, while I reboot machine. Do you mean that ethernet doesn't work during the boot-up process or after it's fully booted and until you reboot? -- Gabriel Parrond

Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!

2007-07-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
`whoami` != "root" ]; then echo "you must be root"; exit; fi > > for i in $SHA; do > sudo umount -l /home/tejas/Desktop/$i Just a silly correction: the script only gets to this point if it's running as root, therefore the 'sudo' here i

Re: scripting - cat breaking line

2007-06-23 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
at temp2 > 20070622,3IINFOTECH,3I INFOTECH LTD., 304.00, 307.95, > 302.60, 305.55,184687 > 3MINDIA,3M INDIA LIMITED, 1785.00, 1823.00, 1760.00, > 1819.50,1464 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > I think ever line breaks are not considered. > Look for the IFS var

Re: non-packaged window managers?

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
yntax of the files there. Usually the debian menu will be there, if it's not you'll have to look at the wm docs and learn how to tell the menu where to find the menu entries. To add the wm to gdm check /usr/share/xsessions . Gabriel. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
aller for floppies! And in case you don't have any floppy handy, you can use www.goodbye-microsoft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . ;) -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that,

Re: shell or fileutils commands and whitespaced filenames

2007-06-09 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
nutes but without success, and now i just think it's > much > faster to simply ask somewhere :) - pls any enlightenment ? > greets, micha > 'man bash' /IFS -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The on

Re: [Resolved] pftp proxy

2007-05-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
> > large number of files on it and it would take ages to do this with the > > pftp program on my server. I searched the archive, but couldn't find > > anything... Here's your chance to add something... [...] Best! Gabriel. -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #40

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
t; file. There are things in memory that on a system with swap get swapped > out when memory gets tight that aren't used much anyway. Having a swap > file would free up memory for your applications. > > You can also use top to see what apps specifically are hogging the > memory

Re: aptitude deleted most of packages!!

2007-04-18 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
tude was right and you didn't need > them anyway (there are log files to check to see what was removed). > /var/log/aptitude -- Gabriel Parrondo GNU/Linux User #404138 GnuPG Public Key ID: BED7BF43 JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The only difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice." signature.asc Description: Esta parte del mensaje está firmada digitalmente

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