Re: bogofilter feeback to mail server
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 16:35, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I have a small LAN for a half dozen users with a POP mail server that I > set up. The mail server filters spam with bogofilter. > > On my workstation, I use Mutt. Sometimes a bit of spam will get past > bogofilter and make it to my workstation (separate box from the mail > server, although same LAN). > > Has anyone come up with a good way of getting that spam back to the mail > server so that bogofilter can be run against it to update the files > goodlist.db and spamlist.db? > > I've seen several pages on the web on how to use Mutt macros to send the > spam through bogofilter -N and -S when bogofilter is run on the same > machine as Mutt. > > But what I haven't figured out is a clever way of using similar macros > to get that same type of feedback back to bogofilter on the mailserver > box. > > Any thoughts? Ive never done this before, but maybe you could setup a mail box on the server that sends commands and attached messages to bogofilter. Just forward the message as attached and perhaps send a command in the subject line, and have a perl script listening on the other end that runs bogofilter on the message depending on the command. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: update Gnome 2.0 : dependencies
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 18:19, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > I don't speak German, but I understand your question because I'm getting > the same error messages! As a newbie, I have no idea what's causing > them or how to fix them... Hmmm... are you using unstable? Because I remember a few weeks ago seeing some of this stuff, but it all worked itself out(it was due to the 2.0 to 2.2 transition). But I dont have a gdm2 package on my system. Try just installing gnome and gdm. That should get you all you need. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wine and IE
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 23:28, Kent West wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >Moreover: even in the corporate world, if two business needs make > >conflicting browser demands, you may not be able to accomodate them > >(particularly for specific versions of MSIE after 5.x). > > > >For this and other reasons, I consider the browser user-agent string to > >be harmful. You can join the protest: > > > >http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserAgentString > > > > Oh sure, use a phrase that discourages Christians and other > non-profanity users from participating in this community. Otherwise I'd > certainly give this movement serious consideration. > > Call me a prude. prude ;-) remove the offending word... I'm sure you'll still get your point across. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: update Gnome 2.0 : dependencies
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 00:48, Scott Henson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 18:19, M. Kirchhoff wrote: > > I don't speak German, but I understand your question because I'm getting > > the same error messages! As a newbie, I have no idea what's causing > > them or how to fix them... > > Hmmm... are you using unstable? Because I remember a few weeks ago > seeing some of this stuff, but it all worked itself out(it was due to > the 2.0 to 2.2 transition). But I dont have a gdm2 package on my > system. Try just installing gnome and gdm. That should get you all you > need. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy gdm gdm: Installed: 2.4.1.3-1 Candidate: 2.4.1.3-1 Version Table: *** 2.4.1.3-1 0 500 http://harshy.homelinux.org ./ Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.5.5-2 0 500 http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov unstable/main Packages 500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages oops... maybe if you want the latest gdm you should try putting that harshy.homelinux.org stuff into your sources.list. deb http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./ deb-src http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./ -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNOME2 questions
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 16:21, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > I just installed gnome 2 in sid and noticed a few things: > > 1) gdm looks the same as in woody (gnome 1.4). I had the backported > gnome 2 packages in woody and I'd like to use the "graphical" login. Check the archives from debian-gtk. There was some discusion on this. >From what I remember, some parts of gnome2 dont build on some archs and the gdm maintainer doesnt want gdm2 in there till everything does build. So till then: deb http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./ deb-src http://harshy.homelinux.org/files/debian/ ./ > 2) Something seems to be very slow with gnome-terminal. Scrolling text > in it eats my CPU to 100% and the scrolling is slow. Do you have transparecny enabled? That can make it slow. > 3) I can't find advanced control panel functions like "remember window > palcement" and so on. I hate it when I have to maximize mozilla every time. Are you using metacity or sawfish? From what I remember sawfish does this type of thing, while metacity doesn't. I think. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Direct cable connection
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:36, Pigeon wrote: > I don't think USB to USB is possible, as both PCs would want to be the > controller, which is not allowed. I think. USB to USB networking. Its in the kernel source, though I have never used it. Might be kinda cool to use sometime though. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hard lock ups
The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock lights blink about once a second. The box will not respond to anything including network traffic. I am using kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac5, but it also happens under 2.4.20 and a few others. All I have in my logs is this. Feb 6 21:15:18 GreyGhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! ^D^@=^?8^@^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^P<82>8^@e^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@v<84>8^@^A^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@A <86>8^@^M^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@<93>^K^D^@O<88>8^@^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@L<8B>8^@^X^C^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@e<8E>8^@^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^K^D^@b<91>8^@<8C>^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^K^D^@<93>8^@^A^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^S^K^D^@<95>8^@^B^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<98>8^@^D^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<9D>8^@]^E^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@38^@g^D^@^@<9D>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<9B>8^@I^E^@^@Feb 6 23:57:46 GreyGhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1#11, log source = /proc/kmsg started. I ran memtest86 on it and it came out clean through 9 passes. Im pretty much stumped on why it is doing this. Does anyone have a clue. Btw I am running unstable. Thanks P.S. please CC me as I am not subscribed. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: hard lock ups
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 12:39, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote: > > The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my > > computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going > > on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock > > lights blink about once a second. The box will not respond to anything > > including network traffic. I am using kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac5, but it > > also happens under 2.4.20 and a few others. All I have in my logs is > > this. > > > > > Have you recently opened the case for any reason? I had exactly these > symptoms recently and eventually found it was due to my having displaced > the data cables to the hard drives slightly. It was particularly > difficult to diagnose because I had just upgraded my CPU with an > Upgradeware adapter and naturally assumed at first that the trouble > was there. I even replaced the PSU, thinking it might be that, but the > roblem persisted at intervals. It finally disappeared after I unplugged > all the data cables and put them back. Nope, but the problem seems to have gone away for now. It seems to happen every few months and I would really like to track it down. Usually if I let the machine sleep(turn it off) for a night, it is all better the next morning. I just find it really weird and annoying and would like to figure out why it is doing it. Maybe its just something weird about my hardware. Thanks anyway. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 > > or /dev/lp1? > > echo yes > /dev/lp0 Doesnt always work. For instance on my printer, youll get nothing. A better way is cat /var/log/kern.log | grep lp That should show you what port your printer is on. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 15:34, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Is there any relevant node in the /proc filesystem ? Just a guess, but /proc/sys/dev/parport/ would be a good place to start. I have a two directories in there, one is default, and the other is parport0. My printer is on /dev/lp0. So Im guessing if you have parport0 in there your printer is on /dev/lp0. It doesnt list my printer as a device, but I bet if I tried using my printer for something, it would suddenly show up in there. But like I said, just a guess. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Video card change on working system
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:24, Mike M wrote: Single user mode should be good enough to configure xf86. All that needs to be done is dpkg-reconfigure in single user mode. Then tell it to boot to the next runlevel and XF86 should come up and everything. If it doesnt it should drop you to a console where you can tweak stuff. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X windows w/ no screen error
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 17:30, iggy wrote: > Hi all. My fresh install of debian will not allow me to use > gnome as i'm getting errors with x windows. My question is, > what file do I edit to configure screen 0? Thank you for your > time and consideration. -iggy Generally dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as root will get you back to the original configuration utility ran at install time. Also lspci -vv will give you detailed information on your video card(along with the rest of your system). P.S. wrap your lines at less than 80 characters -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gpg key in memory
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:53, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > I didn't think about that. I'm using Ximian Evolution 1.2.2. Im using evolution and it automagically takes care of that. Just click the button telling it to remember the passphrase when you type it in. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Screen Saver /Lock
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 15:52, Dominic Iadicicco wrote: > Hello all, > > Sometimes when I leave my x terminal I lock my screen so no-one will mess with > it. After I hit to lock button in Xfce it locks and a screen saver comes on. > When I come back most times, I have the have the desk top staring me right in > the face. It is unlocking it self. Considering I use a pretty hard to figure > out passwd and I am the only one on the floor I have ruled out that someone is > messing with me. > > Does anyone have any ideas what could be happening? For a while there xscreen-saver was dying on me for some reason, unfortunately I never figured out why. Maybe turn on verbose debugging and see if it leaves any notes behind. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Backup MX server
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 22:41, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Can you recommend one that's easy to configure/setup ? postfix with its webmin plugin. webmin-postfix if Im not mistaken. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make menuconfig
I recently reinstalled my debian unstable system and I wanted to compile a new kernel, but to my suprise make menuconfig would no longer work. It craps out with an error about not being able to find an ncurses library. I have libncurses5-dev and all of its friends installed. Anyone know what package Im missing to be able to use make menuconfig. -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3.0:Switching Video Card Drivers
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 13:14, nate wrote: > geno said: > > What is the easiest way to change the video card driver (to a different > > one on the disks) on an installed system? > > if you know what driver you need the easiest and safest way is to > edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and change the driver NO If you do it this way the next time you upgrade xfree86 your changes will get over written. It is safer to use the debconf interface to do it. dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 as root should do the trick. If you want to edit XF86Config-4 by hand then answer no to the first question(I believe) and have fun. Otherwise, just answer the rest of the questions and it will create a nice XF86Config-4 for you. -Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xserver mysteriously dieing
Recently my X server has been dying unexpectedly and unpredictably. I was wondering if anyone could help me diagnose this problem. I am running Unstable with Xfree86 4.2.1 and Gnome2 packages from experimental. This seems to occur when my computer is idle or possibly when I lock the screen(using xscreen-saver). I am totally stumped on this one. In my logs I see almost nothing. In ~/.xsession-errors I have basically this error repeated over and over again: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0 Also the only thing I can find in my system wide logs are: log/XFree86.0.log:AUDIT: Wed Oct 23 18:44:04 2002: 2812 X: client 2 rejected from local host log/messages:Oct 23 18:44:00 GreyGhost gconfd (shenson2-451): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly log/messages:Oct 23 18:44:00 GreyGhost gconfd (shenson2-451): Exiting log/daemon.log:Oct 23 18:44:00 GreyGhost kdm[391]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly log/daemon.log:Oct 23 18:44:04 GreyGhost kdm[2813]: session start failed log/syslog:Oct 23 18:44:00 GreyGhost kdm[391]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Any help? Thanks -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: configuring CMI8738 sound card
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 08:40, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have been looking for documentation on how to set up the driver module for > the C-Media CMI8738 sound card I have on one of the machines here. Including > the module when I've installed Debian Woody, didn't work. > I wasn't able to find a guide for doing this installation properly on this > machine, the Cmedia site has guides for almost every other distribution but > not Debian. > Could someone please suggest some instructions for properly installing the > module driver? > I have a C-Media based card. What I have basically learned is that you have to compile a custom kernel to get it to work. I compiled it in and it works great now, but I could not get it to work under the debian kernels. I use make-kpkg to compile kernels under debian and it couldnt be easier. apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev and apt-get build-deps kernel-image and you should have everything you need. --Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SPAM fiiltering
I am looking to start using a spam filter on my mail. I was wondering if anyone on this list had opinions/suggestions on the best one to use. I am using Evolution as my mail client, and postfix/woody on my mail server. I looked on line for some documentation on how to use spamassassin on my woody system, but the documentation that I have found says it needs better than the 2.20 that is in woody. I also heard about this new abyssian filter technique and I was wondering if there was any of those avaliable for evolution or postfix. I would rather have something for postfix because I would like to share the spam filtering capabilities with my roommate. Any howtos or advice on how to get spam filtering going? Thank you for any help -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting Linux from windows 2000
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:18, Pigeon wrote: > It is true that Windoze doesn't like changes to the MBR. To hack the > Win98 MBR I had to include code to put the original MBR back after the > hack had done its work, then make Windoze reinstall the hacked version > after it had done its check. That relied on having DOS available > underneath and probably would be much harder in 2k. It's not something > I would really recommend! No, Windows 95/98/ME all do just fine without the MBR. You can have lilo or grub steal it and windows wont even figure it out. Now Windows NT/2000/XP all need the MBR and wont boot without it. Under these you have to use the windows boot loader to load grub or lilo then they continue to boot linux. Best way is probably to make a grub boot floppy though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 23:58, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all, > > although i am getting increasingly comfortable with linux - and i thank > this wonderful group for all the help - one problem still remains. > > off and on, i keep getting microsoft attachments. i have found suitable > programs for msword and msexcel. however, i am stuck in case of ms > powerpoint. > > i am unable to find a utility that can handle ms powerpoint > presentations. anybody who knows any solution? ppthtml - A program for converting Microsoft Power Point Files .ppt kpresenter - a presentation program for the KDE Office Suite and from gnome.org agnubis, but I cant seem to find it packaged in debian/unstable. -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repost - printing - help please
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but: apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repost - printing - help please
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > > Just a general guess, but: > > apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa > > did that. now, although i have lpr installed, i do not have lpr entry in /etc/init.d! I dont either. I have an entry for lpd in init.d > what to do now? > try to print something? echo "test" | lpr failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(oh no a pun!!!). -Scott Henson (I really need to setup my .signature dont I? oh well...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repost - printing - help please
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:28, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! Ummm... Should Work (TM). > > > > failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I > > used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(oh no a > > pun!!!). > > sure did that. my /etc/printcap file now looks okay. If your printcap is setup correctly, I dont know. Are you sure you moved the new one into place? Your using the right port? /dev/lp0 (if on the parralel port). Have the correct kernel modules loaded? Is it using the proper driver? Im reading from the driver description that it is like a winmodem in the fact that it is a proprietary protocol. But linuxprinting.org says it works perfectly. Im not sure. Im reading some stuff there. Checkout: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=pnm2ppa http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/ Other than that, its past my bed time and I have class too early tomarrow morning. If you cant get it with this stuff send me a private email tomarrow and we will see what we can do. -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:56, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > Hello. > How can I turn off automatic start X-server after booting the system? > apt-get remove xdm kdm gdm wdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian on an iBook
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 15:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I was wondering whether anyone has been able to successfully install > Debian on an iBook. What problems were there? And have you been able to > have it set up for dual boot between Debian linux and OS X? > > Curtis Someone in my LUG is battling with an iBook or similar right now. check the archives at morlug.org for more... -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt and dist-upgrade
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 10:10, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Vineet" == Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vineet> (or better yet, do the upgrade using dselect or aptitude > Vineet> for a good overview of what will be upgraded, what new > Vineet> packages need to be installed, what packages are no longer > Vineet> used, etc.) > > FYI to the original poster on this thread: the -s (--simulate) flag to > apt-get is also a good way to see what apt-get is going to do without > actually doing it. Also the -u switch? With that apt tells you what its going to do. I find it very useful personally. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bug tracking
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 22:17, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:03:59PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > > > When the kernel crashes, there's no way for it to be able to know that > > > it's state is consistent. Because of this, it's not safe for it to try > > > to write to disks (since it could easily destroy everything on the > > > disks). > > > > > > The best it can manage is to write an 'oops' to the screen. You';; have > > > to either write this down manually off the screen, or plug in a serial > > > console and tell the kernel to dump oopses onto the serial port. > > > > Other unixes seem to manage to dump to the swap partition - is there > > some significant difference that make this impractical/more dangerous > > for Linux? > > I believe that 2.5 has this capability now too. I'm not sure what's > changed though to make it safe. With a patch I believe. Some believe its too dangerous to have a kernel in the middle of an oops trying to write to the disks. And I also belive Linus said it was unnessecary and vendors could patch the kernel if they wanted it. I think I remember seeing it on lwn or just maybe picked it up reading lkm, either way dont expect it in 2.6. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: motherboard
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 04:49, mess-mate wrote: > Hi > I've to purchase a new motherboard. > What about the ASUS P4PE or P4S8X ?? > Is there anyone use it and runs the on-board sound/lan ? > Thanks for the help > mess-mate Yes. On the system do an lspci and see what comes up. It will normally show you which chipsets are being used and you can then google for the chipset plus linux and come up with information. Also doing a make menuconfig from within the linux source tree will help you find what drivers are supporting your hardware. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 00:02, Terry Milnes wrote: > Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have > KNOPPIX installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the > other software that I want? Yes, Ive never done it but Ive heard of others doing it. Also Knoppix is based on a mix of stable, testing, and unstable, so if you use stable sources you may run into problems. It may be enough to use stable and some of the back-ports on apt-get.org , but I would personally go with unstable, especially if this is a desktop machine. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg/dselect misbehavior
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:42, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > Oh man.. I just spent about 4 days installing packages and reconfiguring > it from scratch, including rolling a new kernel. Not having to completely > redo all of it again from a Woody CD would be most preferred. Is there > any sort of Potato-to-Woody (2.2 to 3.0) automated update procedure implemented? > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:57:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500 > >Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive > >> crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for > >> the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation > >> procedure - > > > >Welcome back to the world, Rip. :) > > > >While you were sleeping Woody became the stable distribution (it's been > >stable since last July). > > > >In fact, a revision has been released and Woodyr1 is now stable. > > > >Potato is still in the Debian archives, but many are expecting support > >to be discontinued in a few months. Since you're installing to a new > >hard drive from scratch anyway, this might be a good time to move up to > >Woodyr1. > > > >A 2.2 kernel is installed by default; for a 2.4 kernel just type "bf24" > >at the initial prompt when you boot the installation CD. > > > >Kevin > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just make sure /etc/apt/sources.list has stable sources and do a dselect update && apt-get install apt dpkg && apt-get -u dist-upgrade now enjoy your new woody system. Ahh the beauty of Debian and apt. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:17, Peter Farley wrote: > I am running stable debian-390 under the hercules > emulator on an RH7.3 base system, and the debian-390 > kernel is 2.4.17-s390. I have set up my sources.list > to add the testing release, but neither apt-get > upgrade nor dpkg -l seem to have anything for the > kernel itself. > > Is the kernel not upgradeable with apt-get? I don't > want to build a kernel, I just want to install a > more current kernel image version than what is in > stable. > kernels are special in debian since you have to reboot for them to take effect. apt-cache search kernel-image should show you all the kernels avaliable. Choose one and apt-get install it making sure your boot loader recognizes the new one. Then reboot and enjoy. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile - kernel panaic at boot
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:06, Petr Simon wrote: > Please help! > I did it many times , but now I made some silly mistake and I can't boot > my fresly compiled kernel. I can boot Debian default 2.4.18-k7, but I > wanted 2.4.20 from source and it doesn't seem to work. What I did is: > untar it > ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux > cd linux > make mrproper > make menuconfig > make dep you dont need that. replace it with make-kpkg clean > make-kpkg -rev Custom.1 kernel_image > dpkg --install kernel-image > > and this is my lilo.conf: Two things. One, Switch to grub... youll be much happier. Two, make sure you have your filesystem compiled into the kernel, not as a module. Also your ide-chipset(as per a earlier poster) and all other relavent config options. I would recommend starting with your .config from the known working kernel. It can be found in /boot just copy it over to linux/.config and make menuconfig and go straight to your ide-chipset and set it to compile in and then your file system and set it to compile in. Then you can play around with everything else. Also try keeping acpi and apm out untill you get a known working kernel. Other than that maybe copy down the acctual error your getting durring the boot process. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:29, Peter Farley wrote: > But what are these ".udeb" files? Are these "unstable > deb's"? I would rather install at least a testing > kernel, I'm not quite ready to be on the bleeding > edge. > udebs are debs for the new installer. I dont think you should use these on a active system. They are cut down alot and I dont even know if dpkg will even install them. You really should look into building your own kernel with kernel-package. I have never used s390, so take my advice as someone who doesnt use that port. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon 1.3.3 and URL completion
check the debian-gtk-gnome archives. This was discused maybe a week ago. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install XFree86 4.3 on Woody?
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 19:02, Santiago Hirschfeld wrote: > Hi all, > > Im running woody with some packages installed from unofficial sources found > in apt-get.org, and i was wondering if it's a good idea to switch to XFree86 > 4.3, everything is working so well now, that i wouldn't like to reinstall > everything (again). I pretty new to debian, but i'm begining to get why is it > so loved. > If it's a good idea tu upgrade XFree86, can u suggest a source? please? I dont know about how recommended this is, but the Stone debs are good on sid. You might have some problems with them being compiled with gcc3.2, but Im sure you could grab the sources and build them with gcc2.95 instead. That is what I would do anyway. You can find the Stone debs on apt-get.org. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote: > > > > Check out the mtools package. > > > > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related > things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw > a command prompt, and isn't about to start now > > I was really just using the box of floppies as an example. Really, my > question is whether there is a reliable, GUI, way to access removable > media in linux?? gnome 2.2 has some nice features. The disk mounter applets might be of use. There is some limited retraining, but its one button and then the icon for that media apears on the desktop. My parents adjusted nicly to it. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Removable Media: What is the practical answer??
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 01:23, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 20:37, Bruce wrote: > > > > > > Check out the mtools package. > > > > > > > Yes, there are packages and command line tools to do many disk-related > > things, but don't forget Mom used WP5.x as her file manager, and never saw > > a command prompt, and isn't about to start now > > > > I was really just using the box of floppies as an example. Really, my > > question is whether there is a reliable, GUI, way to access removable > > media in linux?? > gnome 2.2 has some nice features. The disk mounter applets might be of > use. There is some limited retraining, but its one button and then the > icon for that media apears on the desktop. My parents adjusted nicly to > it. I almost forgot. Also magicdev would also be something you might wanna look at. Your gonna need an external repository, but from what I hear about it, it does what you want. It only works for CD's right now, but its a step in the right direction. Maybe burn all your mom's files to a cd-r for her... its probably eaiser to search and will most likely last longer. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help with USB
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 05:56, Petr Simon wrote: > Hi, > I never had problems with it. I need it for digital camera. I compiled > 2.4.20 set up nvidia (not easy though they have new installer :-( , and > then I found that there is no /proc/bus/usb! You should has something like this in your /etc/fstab. usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults0 0 All on one line of course. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: create an image of a partition
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:25, Roman Joost wrote: > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > partition? > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can write > the image back to the partition if windows goes crazy. I don't want > install all the drivers and time consuming reboots. > > Maybe someone know a good tool or some docs, which describes a good way > to backup the data like "dd". gzip or bzip2 the image. With an entire partition you should get mad compression on it. Thats probably what the other partition imagers are doing. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disable one users email?
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:05, Talon wrote: > Quoting Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > You'll have to read the exim.conf documentation to find out how to > > customize the TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION section and customize the > > local_delivery transport. > > > > Note that these methods will only stop them from sending & receiving > > mail using the account on that particular box, if they have internet > > access they have any number ways to send & receive email using other > > accounts unless you throttle their access back so much that they might > > as well not have an account (IMO). I'd be glad to hear from more > > experienced sysadmins on this, and I'm curious as to what's the problem > > with a normal user having mail access. > > I agree with you that if a user has an account, they should have email. > The accounts are for Elementary students. Some of the teachers/staff don't > want some kids to have access to email if they abuse it. (They could send > nasty emails to other class mates) (We use IMP) > We use a squid proxy to help block commercial email sites from the school, but > this will never stop a kid from sending email from their homes. > Anyway, I hope I never have to block email accounts, but if the boss says so, > then I guess I have to find a way. > Thanks for your suggestions. Couldnt you do the blocking from imp? Just disallow them from loging into imp. That would stop them from sending anything. Of course you would have to disable any mua that may be on the machines that exim will forward mail for. Also if these are elementary school students and all they use this machine for is email, why not just remove thier account if they are naughty. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: create an image of a partition
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 15:50, Rob Benton wrote: > On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 14:21, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030403 15:47 PST]: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:25:47 +0200 > > > Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Does somebody know a better way to create an image of a existing > > > > partition? > > > > > > > > I know dd=/dev/hda1 of=windows_partition.img, but the image has a size > > > > of 3 GB. I thought about backup a fresh win98 installation, so i can > > > How about tar-ing up the whole partition. I don't know how much space > > > that will save but it will surely come in under 3 GB. > > > > This is a Good Idea. Instead of taking a snapshot of the entire > > partition (which includes all of the unused space), just mount the vfat > > filesystem on it and tar it up. It will only be as large as the used > > space on the disk, which, for a fresh install, probably isn't all that > > large. Maybe even small enough to just put on a CD-R? > > > > good times, > > Vineet > > -- > > http://www.doorstop.net/ > > -- > > http://www.aclu.org/It's all about Freedom. > > Could you do that with a linux install, too if it was one partition or > is dd a better idea? > > tar -cjf linuxBackup.tar.bz2 / yup, but with debian I would recommend just taring up any data that you cant get back and doing a dpkg --get-selections >selections.bak and then when you restore your install you can just do a dpkg --set-selections -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > multimedia keys? When I use > Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" > in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to access a file with RTSP protocol?
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 05:30, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Many of the files in our university's server, have an address that > starts with "rtsp:\\" I investigated a bit, and it seems that RTSP is a > standard protocol for real time streaming, which is recognized by IETF. > > Still, nither mozilla nor Konqueror aren't able to do anything with > these file. left clicikng on file, and right clicking on it and issuing > the "save link target as.." command simply do nothing. > > How can I access these rtsp files? How can I doenload/listen to them? apt-cache search rtsp comes back with: liblive.com-dev - Libraries for RTP/RTCP/RTSP multimedia streaming I dont know what program uses this, but its a starting place. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB question
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:55, Linux wrote: > Greetings all. I've been with Linux for a few years, but trying Debian for the > first time. I'm having a bit of a problem getting GRUB set up, and I know it's my > fault. > > Could someone using Debian 3 please post the contents of /boot/grub/menu.lst for me > to take a look at? use grub-install /dev/hd? and update-grub then go in and edit your menu.lst file. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multimedia Keyboard
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 01:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 01:15:44PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:00, LeVA wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Anybody knows, how can I setup a Genius Comfy KB-16M Wireless keyboard's > > > multimedia keys? When I use > > > Option "XkbModel" "geniuscomfy" > > > in the XF86Config, some keys, still don't work. > > Look into hotkeyd and acme. Acme is the better of the two, but it is a > > gnome2 specific thing, while hotkeys works almost anywhere. > > I happen to like lineak a bit better for daemoning hotkeys. > > Has anyone an hotkeys daemon for non-X console though? I dont think thats possible. Hotkeys needs X to do its stuff. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Large files support and libc
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:08, Dmitry Krasnov wrote: > Hello! > > I'm primarily FreeBSD user so excuse me if my question is too stupid for > debian folks. I've used Debian 2.2 for telephony tasks last year with > kernel-2.2.18 but last week I've tried to upgrade it to woody and > kernel-2.4.18 because of large files support. System was upgraded smoothly > but I can't make LFS work. According to many HOWTOs that I found on the web I > have built and have installed kernel image and headers with make-kpkg. Next I > built glibc with new kernel headers: Kinda odd because I thought it should be automatically there if you had a 2.4.x kernel. > pharaoh# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=450 > File size limit exceeded Yup finishes sucessfully here. All I did was build a 2.4 kernel. Im using the standard glibc that comes with Debian/SID but I have a server running Woody, and that works as well. What file system are you running? Both of mine are on ext3. If you are runnning ext2 that may be the problem(though I think even ext2 has LFS now, I might be wrong though). -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Browser identity crisis
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 13:20, csj wrote: > A certain site's javascript afaict has checks to identify whether > the browser logging on is NS4 or IE4 or greater. Is there a way > to get Mozilla to identify itself as proprietary bro Netscrape? > This should be possible because I know Konqueror can do it. Using > Konqueror I can proceed much further in this site, but with some > difficulty, as the html support is less perfect than Mozilla's. I had a problem like this. What I did is found the login page that was beyond the checks. This allows me to use the website without going through all the browser checks and no one is the wiser. By the way I tried getting galeon to call itself netscape or msie 5, but it complained that it couldnt call itself mozilla 4 it had to say it was a mozilla 5 based browser. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the vanishing console message trick
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 23:51, Jeff Cours wrote: > lspci output: <http://www.moriarti.org/~jtc/lspci.txt> > > /etc/modules.conf: <http://www.moriarti.org/~jtc/modules.conf.txt> > > I'm running a Pentium IV system tracking Debian testing. The video card > is an ATI Radeon, Lilo's the bootloader, and I'm using a 2.4 series Kernel. > > Is there anything else I should be looking at? Well for one I don't see where the radeonfb driver is being loaded. Try making sure that gets loaded. Also, you are using 2.4.19. I remember having some trouble with my radeon and 2.4.17 through 2.4.19 kernels. I have used ac kernels for the longest time because my radeon work better with them. You might try getting the latest ac kernel or a 2.4.20-rcX-acY kernel. The later being the best as I have had some problems with 2.4.20-ac1 freezing up when trying to use 3-D apps. My last known-good kernel was 2.4.20-pre8-ac3. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3c90x drive
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 09:57, Ariane Machado Lima wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed the Debian 3.0, which hasn't recognized my NIC > 3c905c-TX. Then I download the 3c90x drive, but I am suffering with a > lot of compilation errors. Has somebody tried do that? Has somebody some > idea about my problem? modprobe 3c59x is what you are looking for. the 3c905c works perfectly with the 3c59x driver. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome2
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 11:02, Jianbo Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my woody gnome1.4 to gnome2.0 yesterday, and I change kdm to > gdm. When I login to gnome2, gnome2 is mixed with fvwm2, gnome2 is just > one of 9 windows of fvwm. And every time I login, I need locate two > panels. How can I use full gnome2 without other window manager? > Since I am not on mailing list, please reply or cc to me. Thanks! This is a problem with gnome-wm and the alternatives system in debian. update-alternatives --config x-window-manager You should do this as root and choose either sawfish or metachity. I use metacity and would recomend it over sawfish. Also another posibility is to do: killall fvwm2 && metacity& then logout being sure to save your session and next time you login as that user you will have metacity(but only for that user). -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get errors
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 14:20, Russell Poyner wrote: > I have a newly installed libranet 2.0 system (essentially woody). I am > attempting to upgrade to xfree86-common=4.2.1-4 in hopes of getting my radeon > 7500 to work better. There is an archive floating around with XFree86 4.2 compiled against woody. You might try searching the debian-x archives or apt-get.org might have it. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motorola SM56 on Debian Linux
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 20:53, S Yuval wrote: > Own a Motorola SM56 winmodem and run Red Hat Linux 7.1. Frustrated > with the poor maintenance capabilities of Red Hat I am considering > moving to Debian. However, that decision depends on whether I can be > assured that my modem works. Currently I am using drivers supplied in > rpm form from Motorola; these run only on the older 2.2.* kernel. From > my short experience with Red Hat 8.0 there is no way to migrate the > drivers to the newer 2.4.* kernel. > From the research I have done so far it appears to me that it > should not be difficult to convert the rpm package into a deb package > using "alien". The question is however, which release of Debian to > purchase and whether I have of a choice between what kernels I want to > use. According to LinuxMall.com, Debian 3.0r0 allows the user to > choose which kernel to install. > Does this mean there is any chance my modem will work? If it does, > I should get Debian 3.0r0 and install the older kernel, or should I > get an older version (e.g. 2.7.*) ? I'd appreciate your assistance. Debian comes default with 2.2.x kernels(on i386 at least) and alien should work just fine. You should go for the 3.0(woody) version as it is the latest. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 23:50, Michael Kahle wrote: > Greetings, > > I hope you all can help me resolve my problem. > > I am currently running Debian Sid on my computer. I have 3 SCSI drives in > it and I would like to add a fourth IDE drive to it. I have a 80 GB drive > that would be a great chunk-o-diskTM for me to store all kinds of goodies > on. I originally built the system with one SCSI drive and later added the > two others. This worked great for me! But here's my problem. I have heard > that by adding a IDE drive into the system I will no longer be able to boot > off of my SCSI drive. Is that true? I guess there is some BIOS issue with Depends on your bios really. My bios gives me the option of booting off a scsi card, but I have seen one or two that dont give that option. Im sure yours does since your already booting off of it. Just make sure you set your boot order correctly. > that. To add to the complexity of this, the drive has about 50 GB of data > that I want to keep... Oh, and it is formatted NTFS (Windows 2000). Can I > add this IDE drive 'as is' without re-formatting it? I seem to remember > seeing that I could mount a NTFS file system somewhere. This would be the problem. The kernel does have NTFS support. The read is marked experimental and the write is marked dangerous(from what I remember). Basically reading off of said drive is a bit touchy but can be done, but you should not write to drives containing data you even remotely care about. Now I have never used this, so this is just the impression I get from what Ive read about the subject. But then again maybe read the data off onto another disk(compressing it along the way to save space) then reformat ext3 and write the data back. That would be what I would do. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gaim problems
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 11:11, Joris wrote: > > Is anyone else using Woody's version of Gaim for Yahoo instant > > messaging? It worked fine here until about a week ago when I could no > > longer connect to Yahoo. The only error message shown is "Unable to > > read". ? > > yahoo changed it's protocol recently. the issue is fixed in gaim v0.59.8, > but at this time that version hasn't made it into unstable yet > I hope it does quickly, otherwise you could try building a package of your > own (downing the source from http://gaim.sf.net/ and running debian/rules) > greetz, Or better yet grab the sources from unstable and build a deb. Its not that complex. man apt-get apt-get -b source -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grab & switching HD Help!!!
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 08:34, Larry Shields wrote: > I am trying to switch a HD from one computer to another, but when Grub > starts, I get a message saying ERROR 17... > > Might anyone know what the ERROR 17 is, and how to correct it, so that > Grub will boot up the HD...??? > > Thanks to anyone that can help me out here on this one... I dont know, but try using grub-floppy if the system has a floppy drive. You should be able to boot the system with it and run grub natively. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Two sound cards?
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 05:47, Qian Gong wrote: > Hi, > > I have VIA on board sound and an additional Xwave 4000 PCI sound card. > The first one (VIA) is supported by kernel (built-in) and for xwave 4000 > I use alsa-0.9. The confusing thing is which card is connected to > /dev/dsp0 and which to /dev/dsp1. How can I configure this and let > application (e.g. xmms) use specified sound device? Thanks a lot. Generally whichever the kernel sees first. If the VIA is built-in Im guessing it would be /dev/dsp0 and the other would be /dev/dsp1. But you could always just plug some speakers into both and test which is which. Once you have determined it, it shouldn't change unless something about your config changes. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommendation for dual head video card
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 14:45, Bill Moseley wrote: > Any suggestions? 3D support, too? Any current ATI card works great at this. The radeon driver seems to support everything nicely. Im waiting on my roommate to get in his radeon and second monitor and we are gonna try to set up a quad head machine. -- Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Class notes in a tree structure
I hate to hit up the list with this problem, but I havn't been able to find anything anywhere else. I am looking for a program that would allow me to put my notes from class into a tree like structure on the computer for ease of studying. Does anyone know of such a beast? Thanks. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Class notes in a tree structure
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:53, Larry Holish wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:08:54PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > > I hate to hit up the list with this problem, but I havn't been able to > > find anything anywhere else. I am looking for a program that would > > allow me to put my notes from class into a tree like structure on the > > computer for ease of studying. Does anyone know of such a beast? > > Thanks. > > I like hnb for notes. > > Package: hnb > Priority: optional > Section: misc > Installed-Size: 154 > Maintainer: Andras Bali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1.8.1-1 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), libxml2 Maybe I should have specified X based... gtk or gnome based even better. I saw that and tried using it. Its just not easy enough to use for putting my notes into. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3d dosent work
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 06:42, Claus Christian Larsen wrote: > > How shall i enable direct rendering and get my 3d to work? Ussually if its avaliable it is turned on automatically. What version of debian are you using and what version of Xfree86. Purhaps the relevant parts of your XF86config-4 file. Also you might try sending a request for help to the debian-X mailing. I dont use a matrox so I cant really help you, but make sure your card has support for hardware accell and the correct modules are loaded. Meager help I know but maybe something will turn up. -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Class notes in a tree structure
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 07:34, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:54:53PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 23:53, Larry Holish wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:08:54PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > > > > I hate to hit up the list with this problem, but I havn't been able to > > > > find anything anywhere else. I am looking for a program that would > > > > allow me to put my notes from class into a tree like structure on the > > > > computer for ease of studying. Does anyone know of such a beast? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > I like hnb for notes. > > > > > Maybe I should have specified X based... gtk or gnome based even > > better. I saw that and tried using it. Its just not easy enough to use > > for putting my notes into. > How about web-based? I personally use a WikiWikiWeb for my notes and > projects. You can have pages arranged with as little or as much > hierarchical order as you want. > > There are a number of incarnations of it out there -- go to > freshmeat.net and search for "wiki" -- you'll see phpwiki, twiki, etc -- > all with slightly different aims, but all with the same fundamental > ideas. Thanks for the pointer. I choose a promising looking php4 setup called Brain Storm. It looks interesting from the setup they have on thier web page. The only problem Im running into now is that it wont run. It just tries to have me download it. I have php4 and all other dependencies installed, but it just wont run. Anyone know how to get it to run? thanks -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that if you mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: kernel source patching
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 22:39, Chris A. Morgan wrote: > Hi List > > I'm struggling through the sea of documentation as a linux and Debian newbie. Got >Debian 3.0 installed (2.4.18-bf.2) on my Thinkpad 770 with only a few minor >annoyances like no sound and some other strange functionalities. > > I want to upgrade to 2.4.19 kernel and compile it myself to perhaps get more things >working. I installed the source code from Debian CD's for 2.4.18 and downloaded a >2.4.19 patch from kernel.org. When I applied the patch, I got a zillion FAILED >messages, apparently because Debians version of the source code has been heavily >patched and modified already. How can I get clean source code to patch?? >Downloading the entire source code (over 30M) on my dialup is problematic. Would it >help to just compile 2.4.18 as I have it or would that give me what I already have >again? I'm a little frustrated from weeks of just trying to get Debian functional. > > If you can help me, please reply directly since I am not subscribed to the list >right now (200+ emails a day is beyond me). Ok basically the source that you got in the tarball that you got off the CD (Im guessing thats where you got it) should be the pristine source. Only if you run the .diff or the .dsc over it(I forget which) should the source be modified. Try doing a make clean before patching. Also I have noticed lately that some of the kernel patches act kinda screwy if you patch them from outside the root directory. Try cding into the linux directory then doing a zcat patch.gz | patch -p1 That should give you the proper patch with out any errors. Also try using make-kpkg to do your kernel building. First apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package then make menuconfig to configure it then make-kpkg clean make-kpkg kernel_image as always you should man make-kpkg for full set of options(I would really recommend this). I hope this helps... peace. PS. Try setting your column width to something like 74, it helps more people to be able to read your email. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot list
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 10:36, Russell wrote: > Hi, > > How do you stop make-kpkg deleting the 2nd last kernel? > I want lilo to show a list of more than two entries to > boot from. I dont believe you can. And anyway its not deleting your kernel, its only deleting the symlink to that kernel. It should still be in your boot directory. I think you would have to manually go back in and re-link it to something else or maybe directly reference it from the boot directory. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hde: lost interrupt + clicking sound = harddisk failing?
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 20:30, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > I am answering myself because I was wrong. Windows has the clicking > problem too, but it doesn't crash yet. Could this be the heat in the > computer causing the malfunction? > > Edwin Lau Yes, I once scorched a hard drive. It was spiting out all kinds of errors. I got some more fans and cooled it down and it aparently works just fine now. Though according to some utilities I have run on it any more trama to it and it will fail. You failed to say what hard drive you had, but some hard drives come with S.M.A.R.T. If it does you can apt-get install smartsuite to get some diagnostic utilities that will run under linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto dist-upgrade script
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 23:53, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > Hi, I've heard people can write some scripts and put it in a cron job > that do a dist-upgrade on their system then send what've been upgraded > to their emails. Can someone share how they did it ? thanks This is my crontab to do nightly mantinence on my system(backups to be added as soon as I get my new server up and running :-D) # use /bin/sh to run commands, no matter what /etc/passwd says SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin # mail any output to `admin' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 4 * * * dselect update && apt-get dist-upgrade -ydu && apt-history; ntpdate ns1.yourISP.com -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: systemcheck
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:05, martin f krafft wrote: > hi all, > > is there a suite of programs that can test an x86 system for any > errors? memtest86 is a start, but is there something that can do the > same for CPU/FPU, motherboard, timer, hdd, etc etc. > > sort of like the norton utils, but free would be nice! I remember a few things about something like this a while back on this list(I think). I tried out lucifer. http://www.fonix.org/public/ilink/index.html It is alright. -- oscar wilde -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Woody on a 486/50
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 19:29, David Sanders wrote: > The ramdisk needs a default value of a little over 4 Megs of "free" > memory to setup. Since your computer is locking up at this point, you > may be having a memory-shortage problem. It should work, but I can't > say for sure since, it has been a long time since I installed Debian > with anything less than 64 Megs of RAM. You might have a defective > memory stick in there...dunno. Anyway, if possible, try sticking in > some more memory if you can. You won't regret it My roommate has a bunch of old memory sticks(and I mean old) that he is looking to get rid of. If you would like some email me off list and I will see what I can do. Peace -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get dist-upgrade and disk space
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 22:31, David Zelinsky wrote: > This is really two questions about apt. > > First, how can I limit the amount of package archive that apt is > allowed to keep around? I have an old system with only 50 MB of free > disk space. It's running potato and I want to upgrade to woody via > http (there's no CD drive). But if I do "apt-get dist-upgrade", apt > will try to download way more than 50 MB of packages, will fill up the > disk and the upgrade will fail and my system will probably be trashed. > > The only thing I could find in the apt documentation was a passing > reference to the config entry Dir::Cache::archives saying if I set > it to a blank value, apt will not cache any archive files. Will a > dist-upgrade still work if I do this? Is there a better way? Im not familiar with this, but you could first run an apt-get clean to clear out the archives and then look at how much space you have for the dist-upgrade. If this fails you try finding major packages that have alot of things that have versioned dependancies on them then do an apt-get install and see how much in terms of archives it pulls in and slowly upgrade your system that way. Try libc6, perl, apache, python, and the like. You can check the output of apt-get -u dist-upgrade to get more packages to do the install trick on. This would be the best way I know of, though if you can find the option you spoke of above and use it I would think that would be better, but I fear that it only refers to how big apt will let the archive grow before deleting stuff and not to how much disk space it will use durring an upgrade. Though I of course could be wrong. > Second, is there a way to make apt (or dpkg) fail gracefully if a > partition fills up? I recently did a dist-upgrade upgrade from potato > to woody (on a different system than described above). It completed > without giving any indication of failure, but when I rebooted I got > the dreaded "LI" prompt (instead of "LILO"). Only when I booted with > a rescue disk did I discover that the root partition was 100% full. > After a little panicked messing around, I finally trashed an old > Windows partition (yay!) to get more space, repartitioned and > installed woody from scratch. You could have run apt-get clean after your dist-upgrade. Also I am assuming you installed a new kernel for the upgrade(or there would have been no need for the reboot) are you sure you ran lilo? Im not sure that lilo even cares about a full partition at that point in the boot. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Next step in bringing my Woody up to date
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 21:45, David Teague wrote: > > > Please CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with replyies. > > The subject says it all. > > On my K6 350, 64 MB RAM, I am running Woody, installed circa Nov 2001, My > sources.list points to stable and include security. If I understand things > correctly, I now need to run the commands > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > to bring my system up to date. I can then run > > apt-get install (whatever packages I want) > > or I could use dselect. > > Is this correct? Any more advice? True. You should be able to use this to keep yourself up to date. You will have to use apt-get dist-upgrade first because your system seems to be out of date from the time before woody became stable so you may have to do a couple of loops of apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install before it completely is updated. Then after that you should be able to just use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade once a week or more in order to bring down security updates. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB install disk, menu.1st
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 17:50, Q. Gong wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:03:37 -0400 > > From: Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Debian Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: GRUB install disk, menu.1st > > Resent-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:00:37 -0500 (CDT) > > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > My grub boot floppy is working great. Since menu.1st is a simple text file I > > can write it myself esily. The question is: where do I put it in the floppy? > > The floppy was created following the instructions in the grub manual. I > > haven't wanted to install grub in my hard disk, i am afraid of messing up my > > mbr. > > Thanks > > > > First run command grub. Then run command install at the grup prompt. > > grub> install (hdx,x)/path/to/stage1 (fd0) (hdx,x)/path/to/stage2 p > (fd0)/path/to/menu.lst or maybe run grub> setup (fd0) Works for me every time. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: user not root cause problem
On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 23:44, D. Nathan Cookson wrote: > As for the other part it is likely that /dev/dsp is owned and accessible > only by root. I believe that it need chmod a+w in order for it to work for > other users. > Also if xmms is the only program having a problem, then you should make sure xmms has write access to the directory where the mp3's are... in my experience xmms needs this for some reason. I dont really know why though. Peace -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netinstall ISO
I was looking today at the net install ISOs on d.o I noticed that there were several different ISOs I could choose from. Anyone have any spefic advice on which one is best. Thank you. Scott Henson -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim configuration and relaying
I have a small network which I am trying to setup a mail server for. I would like to get my box to relay the mail for the rest on the network, but it just wont. For one, it wont relay the mail when I use eximconfig and tell it to let the explicit IP address for my machine relay the mail. I also have sever other machines which I need to get this box to relay for as well, but I dont know how to make it relay for a range of IP addresses. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim configuration and relaying
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 00:55, John Griffiths wrote: > At 12:28 AM 9/22/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > >I have a small network which I am trying to setup a mail server for. I > >would like to get my box to relay the mail for the rest on the network, > >but it just wont. For one, it wont relay the mail when I use eximconfig > >and tell it to let the explicit IP address for my machine relay the > >mail. I also have sever other machines which I need to get this box to > >relay for as well, but I dont know how to make it relay for a range of > >IP addresses. Any ideas on how to do this? Thanks. > > > > For a small subnet I'd enter the IP's you want to get access individually, > it worked for me. Well that would work cause I would be relaying for would be 3 otehr computers, but right now its not even working on one. I currently have to ssh and send this in mutt. I have relaying set to 192.168.0.x (x being the final octet for my machine) in eximconfig on the server. But it still wont let it relay. Any help would be apreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C Integrated Development Environment
Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. Thankyou. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
Re: C Integrated Development Environment
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 01:35, Scott Henson wrote: > Im setting up a machine for a friend and he needs an IDE for developing > C and C++. Anyone have a recomendation on a good one he could use. > Thankyou. Sorry all. I guess i should mention he is using gnome. Its going to be a woody system. And before anyone suggests I switch him to KDE. I showed him both and he perfered gnome. It is ximian-gnome and he liked it alot. And he isnt interested in emacs or vim. I introduced him to both and he got lost.(GO EMACS) Thanks to all. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody > these days? > I really would not recomend installing potato then dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could never recomend that. What I did is got some woody disks and did a regular install. Now what I would recomend is useing the new net install CD's. I basically did that useing the regular CD's. The real advantage that I see is the smaller image. But I would really recomend that you install woody straight. You will save yourself so much pain. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pilot-link
I am trying to get my palm m125 to sync with my woody system. Now I went to visor list and they said that I needed the latest CVS version oh pilot-link. I was wondering if anyone had it packaged so maybe I could keep dpkg happy. Thankyou. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
Re: XP then Linux
On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > This might not be a cookie thing. (I presume that "max security" > means that cookies are disabled...) If you have a static, or > never-changing-dhcp IP address, they _might_ me matching name to > IP address. > > What happens when u go in thru a linux browser? > Ok ok. The thing with amazon knowing you by name has nothing to do with your IP address. This is microsoft passport in action. When you registered for passport inorder to stop XP from driving you crazy you gave it permision to hand out your personal information to anyone and everyone microsoft deems appropriate. And about your original question. Yes you can do that. Linux wont care where it is on the drive. You can copy it over to the first 10gb partition. The only problem with that is your swap partition. Basically what will happen is the linux partition wont be exactly 10gb. What I would do is format the first 10 gig partition as ext2(or what ever you want) then just mount it as /target then do a cp of everything in the root partition over to the new partition. After that you can easily boot into your new partition and run lilo(or grub) you would have to change /etc/fstab along with several other config files. Im probably forgeting somethings and this will most likely be realatively difficult. If I was doing it I would probably just reinstall debian. If your concerned about keeping the same packages you could do a dpkg --getselections > selections I think that is it. Then do a set_selections. I am not sure about how to use that, but the man pages will explain it sufficiently. But yeah. If you descide to go with the original plan you could always then mount the second partition under /opt or maybe cp your home onto it. Hope this helps some. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mp3 and background
I kind of have two questions that are really unrelated. First can anyone recomend a mp3 to wav converter sutible for use in burning mp3s to CD. I used to have music match under windows, but I want to do this under linux. Also I was recenlty poking around ebay and saw an auction for some debian CD's. Now on this auction was a screen shot with a great background. I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I could find some good backgrounds for gnome(this one was of an angel). Thank you for any help. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mp3 and background
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 14:19, Michi Onken wrote: > > Now on this auction was a screen shot with a > > great background. I was wondering if anyone could tell me where I could > > find some good backgrounds for gnome(this one was of an angel). Thank > > you for any help. > > Nice sources for wallpapers are e.g. www.themes.org and > www.digitalblasphemy.com, i think you'll find some nice backgrounds;-) > Thanks cool stuff, but does anyone know where I might find this background. http://www.webtechnologist.com/1/images/sexlinux2.jpg -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
Re: Galeon unstability
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 03:24, Johann Spies wrote: > I have galeon installed on woody and initially it worked without a > problem and I was impressed. But for the last few weeks galeon crashes > when I try to set the preferences. That happens even when I remove > ~/.galeon and try again. > I just did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade a few days ago and it introduced alot of instability into my system. I agree galeon has been hit hardest, but I have also been expierienceing problems with my panels, applets, and sawfish. Im not quite sure what was upgraded the last time, but I would like to try to figure it out. Is there anyway one can log what has recently been upgraded? Oh I am running woody as well. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody kernel question
On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 23:34, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have just done dist-upgrade from Potato to Woody. I have been using/learning > Debian for a few months. This was the first serious change from my initial > installation. The upgrade went smoothly, but took a while at 56k. I found many > nice improvements, but saw that the kernel had not been upgraded. I suppose I > could have known this before hand if I had read the right documents more > carefully, but I didn't. > > Now I look at the offerings of kernels in dselect. Which is recommended? > Of course I have to choose one that corresponds to my CPU, but what of > versioning? I see 2.2.20, 2.4.13, 2.4.14, 2.4.16, and 2.4.17. There are > limits to my adventurousness. Which is the likely choise for the default > Woody kernel when it becomes "stable"? I think I would like to use that one > if there are not good reasons to avoid it now. If I remember correctly the current consensus is that 2.2.20 will be the default kernel for woody. I think this was mainly because 2.4.x was not quite stable enough when the base system was frozen. iirc the base was frozen durring the debacle with 2.4.13(it corupted file systems). Right now 2.4.17 with marcello maintaining is just great. I have been using it for a while now and I have never had a problem with it, even with all the abuse that I do to it. Currently on my system: vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.4.17 vmlinuz.stable -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20 This seems to work for me. I never boot into 2.2.20 unless I am re-compliling 2.4.17, and this is just to be safe and to reduce a few minor hassels. But to answer your question 2.2.20 is going to be the default, but I would recomend 2.4.17 because it is far supirior in many ways. Also I would compile your own kernel. It teaches you alot and in the long run it is better(IMHO). Oh and use make-kpkg because it is the bomb! But remember... all of these opinions are for a home desktop. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome problem
Ever since my last update adn upgrade gnome has been acting really wierd. For one, I no longer have any icons on my desktop and when I right click on it, nothing happens. I have also noticed that my system as a whole is more and more sluggish. Programs have also been crashing at random intervals. This really distrubes me. Im hoping and praying that someone else is expieriencing this problem. I am using ximian gnome that is slowly warping into the woody version of gnome. I am also using sawfish. I am hoping it is a software problem because I keep hearing this strange grinding noise coming from my box with no percievable pattern. I really am concerned about this. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips
Re: Messenger
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:59, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Is there an application that will allow me to communicate with people using > MS Instant Messenger (or whatever it's called)? One that will let me log in > to hotmail.com as well? GAIM is what you are looking for. It has plugins that allow it to do MSN. I havent used it, but I hear it is stable and alright. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Messenger (GAIM)
On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 16:57, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Well, I don't understand something. I downloaded GAIM, followed the > instructions by running ":./configure" and then "make install" as root. > Supposedly, all I have to do is run "gaim" and all is good. But there is no > gaim. Anyone know why? Dont bother with that. just do an apt-get install gaim I think the current version in the cvs tree is .95 and the version in debian testing is .94, so I dont think its too bad. I would just get it from debian. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: to woody from potato, some advices...
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade > the packaging tools first. This has been the advice for upgrading from > one release to another for at least the last couple of releases. Is there a script or something for doing this automagically? I think there should be something that lets you more easily upgrade between dists. I think maybe someone(I would do it but I am not a DD) should maybe package an upgrade kit. Have it check the system and upgrade the apt and dpkg stuff first then upgrade everything else. I think it would be a good idea to have something like this for when woody goes stable. It would make everything so much smoother. It could also have some FAQs for dealing with upgrade problems and some scripts to fix some of the easier ones. I just think it would be a good idea. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making install disks
Due to alot of my mistakes my woody system is aproaching unusability. I kind of want to reinstall everything and start over. Also I want to use my 2.4.17 kernel from the start and maybe use a journaling file system. I like ext3 for its purported stability and riserfs for its advanced features, but I dont know(any suggestions or recomendations). Anyway, the point is I want to make some custom install disks from my kernel. Anyhelp? -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: to woody from potato, some advices...
On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 21:35, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:16:04PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 13:17, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:53:16AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > 1) Upgrade to woody via apt > > > > > > Definitely upgrade using woody's apt, not potato's - that is, upgrade > > > the packaging tools first. This has been the advice for upgrading from > > > one release to another for at least the last couple of releases. > > > > Is there a script or something for doing this automagically? > > * Edit /etc/apt/sources.list > * dselect update (or apt-get update) > * apt-get install apt dpkg > * apt-get dist-upgrade > > It hardly seems worth scripting ...? Well its not just doing that, its also fixing many of the problems that come along with a dist-upgrade. Also having the documentation in that package would be nice. Along with having a place to file bugs for general upgrade problems. That way problems relating to the upgrade could be tracked and possibly have fixes included in the scripts, or just state it in the documentation. I think it would be worth having something like that to make the upgrades between dists easier on non technical users. Its just my opinion. > > I think maybe someone(I would do it but I am not a DD) should maybe > > package an upgrade kit. > > Consider that this upgrade kit would then have the exact same problem - > if it ever had to change for whatever reason, then you'd have to upgrade > it first before doing anything else. :) > > It's a chicken and egg problem, but the release notes for each > distribution always make it clear what to do. Your probably right here, but the upgrade kit to woody would be in potato and the upgrade kit to woody + 1 would be in woody. It would be there for whenever the user wanted to upgrade. Like I said above, just a thought. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Copying and taring large amounts of data
I need to move large amounts of data from one disk to another and then tar it up for back up purposes. I have tried cp and mv, but both take very large amounts of time with many ide resets and faults. The amount of data I am trying to copy is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 15 gigs. It is going from a fat32 fs to an ext2 fs. I also notice that when I use cp, my system grinds to a halt and the cp comand doesnt do much. From what I am guessing is happening is that it fills up its buffers in main memory, then doesnt flush it to the disk. If I stop the command and issue a flush then the system starts working again. But if I dont issue a flush the system remains in that stalled state for like a minute. I am not completely sure how to best copy this large amount of data over, but I would like any ideas. I have 384mb of ram and am copying from an ATA 66 drive to a ATA 100 drive with a celeron 800mgh. Also a little off topic for this email, but I have been using 2.4.17 since it came out. Now this was the first kernel that I used the frame buffer. I always noticed it acted a bit wierd. Now I just installed 2.4.18 rc1 and the frame buffer acts as I would have expected it to. Was the frame buffer broken in 2.4.17? btw I am using the radeonfb. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving to kernel 2.4.17 questions.
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:19, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am currently running kernel 2.2.17 on a Woody box. I want to move to > kernel 2.4.17 (so that I can install a USB port) and I have a few > questions. I would recomend waiting till 2.4.18 comes out. It is currently at rc1 and I would think it will be out soon. The reason for this is because 2.4.18 has a number of USB fixes plus someother stuff that is better than 2.4.17 I have been using 2.4.18 rc1 for 3 days now and I love it. I think it is much better than 2.4.17. Also maybe you should think about cooking your own kernel. You end up with a smaller kernel that is better suited to your hardware. But this is just my opinion. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Optiplex Network
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 14:19, William Lacy wrote: > I am having the same problem on two different computers. One is an > Optiplex GX150 and one is a GX110. > > The problem is that the 3Com on board network does not detect in the > debian install, the 110 has a 3C579 and the 150 a 3C509 from what I can > tell. Both computers run fine with Red Hat. if I remember correctly modprobe 3c50x and modprobe 3c57x one will work on either machine. The reason why I say that is because I forget the exact module name. I think the same module works for both of them, but try it on each machine respectivly before you try the other. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome
I have been having some major problems with gnome and nautilus and a few other things relating to gnome. There has been some mad wierdness. For one it forgets my settings. And my desktop is in an unusable state. The panels constantly screw up. Anyone else having this problem, or know how to solve it? I dont even know what package is causeing this, or perhaps this is my fault. It is a woody system with a bunch of gnome packages from ximian. Any one want to venture a guess as to what is wrong? -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla Conflicts
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade today to bring my system up to date. When I did it I was really disturbed. Aparently: The following packages will be REMOVED: galeon nautilus-mozilla task-ximian-gnome The following NEW packages will be installed: libcamel0 libkrb53 The following packages have been kept back evolution This disturbes me. I use galeon as my webbrowser and nautilus. The ximian gnome thing isnt that bad, but this conflicting stuff is bad. It seems to conflict with mozilla-browser package. Why would it conflict with galeon or nautilus. This really confuses me. Should I file a bug. If so what kind. Any suggestions to keep galeon and nautilus? Thankyou. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt logs
Is there anyway to keep a log of what exactly has been upgraded and installed, and when it was upgraded or installed. I am just wondering this because it might be useful if I ever do an upgrade and it screws everything up. I am asking now as kind of preventive medicine in case I do ever screw anything up. I would like to maybe record the exact command issued and what was installed because of that command. Is there any program or script already able to do this, or am I going to have to write it myself. Thankyou for anyhelp. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Jerky, jumpy mouse problem...
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 09:51, Sam Stern wrote: > Hi James, > > Try disabling GPM. Disabling this service (and stopping it's running > instance) fixed the problem both on my workstation and my laptop. > I think you can also set GPM to repeat. Or atleast that is what all the man pages say. I have tried this several times and I cant get it to work. Anyone ever gotten this to work? Can you give me some pointers on how to get it to work? Thanks. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:09, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the card correctly, and when choosing the drivers "ati" or "r128" in > xf86cfg text mode, X won't recognize the card either. I've attached > two different error logs from tries with different drivers or so. > > Has anyone got a radeon (7500) running on such a system and does know > what the typical problems are or how they can be solved or can anyone > point me to one of the various threads which have been on this list > about radeon (I just don't know when these threads were here)? Or can > anyone tell me if the xserver_2.log is indeed indicating a bug in > X11? Ive got a Radeon VE running on my system. And all that is is a modified Radeon 7500 with some extra ports. I have the testing version of X running on it just fine. Here is a few parts of my XF86Config-4 file. Section "Module" Load"GLcore" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"dri" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"pex5" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" Load"xie" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon VE" Driver "ati" EndSection This works just fine and was set up by dexconf. You should do a dpkg --reconfigure of the X project. This is what I have working. You should also make sure that your not using the frame buffer. When I was trying to use the frame buffer it didnt work. So make sure it is disabled. Other than that you should be good. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrading to woody.
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:19, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > newbie here... > > Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. > If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... > > 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. > 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. > If you are useing dselect that is all. You need to make sure you update the database too. But I would recomend doing and apt-get update && apt-get install apt apt-utils dselect && apt-get dselect-upgrade after this your system should be just fine. But also remember it may remove some of your stuff and possibly even break your X server. I think you also need to install xbase-clients and xserver-xfree86. I would also recomend checking a recent thread on debian-devel about the upgrade process. basically they recomended that you do a dpkg --get-selections before and afterward to make sure you kept all your packages and dont go to use something one day and find its not there. Just a basic suggestion that will reduce any worries. I hope this helps. -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
