Debian

Getting no reply from this mailing list
Its a couple of times I have noticed that I am not getting reply in my inbox.. I had raised some queries and people had replied to it, but I didnt get any of it in my inbox, had to manually go and see it.. Is there some problem with mailing list software or is it under heavy stress due to traffic?? I hope t... 12 Mar 2010 07:12

custom SNMP for custom graph
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I have an already working MRTG+SNMP+Apache here: http://srv3.rktmb.org:90/mrtg/ I try to make a custom MRTG graph First, I need to build SNMP stuff. Say I want to monitor the access of my web server by counting the number of lines of my access_log file. Just that simple, to beg... 10 Mar 2010 01:58

KDE and Squeeze
I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible. I mean really, really bad. KDE3 wasn't exactly spe... 13 Mar 2010 14:13

Iceweasel 3.5.6 global spellcheck
I can't seem to get global spellcheck working for Iceweasel. I don't want to have all users download dictionaries to their HOME folder but rather a centraly installed dictionary for all users. In the past Iceweasel would detect and use myspell dictionaries. * Base System: Lenny * iceweasel: 3.5.6-1~bpo50+1 * m... 10 Mar 2010 08:34

DAAP server for OS X or Debian?
Hi, I use iTunes on a Mac to host my very large music library. I want to share this music over DAAP to my Debian box (dont really care what client i use, Rhythmbox or Banshee or Songbird is all fine), but the iTunes version encrypts it so you cant use it with non-iTunes clients. Is there a current, supported DAAP... 8 Mar 2010 17:33

Problem using totem
I'm running Lenny on a PC. When I try to use totem to display a .mpg file I get the fpllowing; epc_publisher_create_server: listening on http://peace:58293/ ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Init of Python module ** (totem:12145): DEBUG: Registering Python plugin instance: YouTube +TotemPythonPlugin ** (totem:12145): DE... 9 Mar 2010 15:48

Bash email attachment
On 8-3-2010 14:53, Raven wrote: Anyone knows how to solve this? Thanks Why don't you just BASE64 the attachment and set the proper mime-type? You might still be able to use uuencode, but setting a mime-type seems mandatory to me, because else the mail client has to guess what the attachment represents. ... 10 Mar 2010 18:41

NFS mount from a particuliar interface ?
Hello I have a Lenny server with two ethernet interfaces which is NFS CLIENT to a NETAPP filer I wonder if it would be possible to force NFS traffic to/from the filer on one ethernet interface and use the other interface for all other traffics ? like the following eth0 <------OTHER TRAFFIC----> LAN e... 9 Mar 2010 23:45

how are debconf and dpkg-deb related?
hi, I am studying the Debian package management system. I am having trouble figuring out how debconf and dpkg-deb are related. Heres how i understand the package management system: dpkg-deb does the actual installation/removal of packages dpkg is a frontend to dpkg-deb apt is front end to dpkg ... 8 Mar 2010 08:34

Overwrite existing partition with zeros without hurting partition table? (Debian Lenny)
On 2010-03-07 23:21, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 3/7/2010 9:18 PM: Hans Reiser is a Bad Man, ergo any code that Hans Reiser writes is Bad? That's so illogical, it makes ma think you're a Republicrat. For an educated man you make many assumptions, many incorrectly. I didn't ... 8 Mar 2010 02:06