Success: migrating ISA PCMCIA bridge and wavelan NIC to kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I finally managed to get my old ISA PCMCIA bridge working with the 2.4.X kernels (running 2.4.9 right now). I went from the stand alone pcmcia modules package to using the built in drivers in the 2.4.X kernels. I had to change two files; as shown below. The first change was

apt-getting recommended/suggested packages?

2001-08-26 Thread Avdi B. Grimm
quick question: is there a simple way to tell apt-get to install a package *plus* all of it's recommended and suggested packages? For example, KDevelop can utilize a whole slew of optional packages if they are installed, but by default apt-get only fetches the necessary dependencies, not the recom

Re: using cd is shell script

2001-08-26 Thread Jason Majors
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:26:36PM -0700, bob parker scribbled... > Hi all, > being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that > goes like this: > > #! /bin/bash > # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain > > cd /some long dir chain/xxx > > > My question is, how can

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:43:03PM -0500, Stathy G. Touloumis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >older systems were MIPS, newer are x86 hardware, and > >there may be a CDROM port. > > The older versions are MIPS which I have found the Deb distro for this > as well as 2.4 kernel patches specifically

evolution and woody

2001-08-26 Thread Glen Snyder
Any word on if evolution will move over to testing any time soon (Or is it frozen out of woody for the time being?)??

Re: potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try

2001-08-26 Thread Mr. Jan Hearthstone
--- "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > on Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0700, Mr. Jan > Hearthstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >"~# grep fd0 /etc/fstab" gave output: > >"/dev/fd0 /floppy auto > > > user,owner,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,usrquota,grpquota,noauto > > 0 0" > > > > there

Re: Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-26 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm very well aware that telnet is not a secure protocol, and would never install it on a machine that is directly accessible to the outside world. It's on a fileserver on an internal network behind a firewall. I do know what I'm doing from this respect. I'm a newbie to Debian, not to *NIX and netw

colors wrong with X4.0.3/testing

2001-08-26 Thread DvB
I finally decided to get my woody machine at home to use the X4.0.3 nv driver instead of the xserver-svga from 3.3.6 it had been using. After some struggling with apt-get and dpkg, I finally decided to uninstall all X-related packages and start over. This worked fine except that now colors are scr

Re: Re: XF86Setup Error

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
> They suggest using either xf86cfg or XFree86 -configure, but > both of these > caused my machine (a dell dimension) to crash as (i think) > they are > essentially the same program. xf86cfg runs XFree86 -configure to generate a settings file, or so I read somewhere (manpage?) when i run xf86c

Re: Xwindows

2001-08-26 Thread R1nso13
yea, that kind of error also results from incorrect configuration. Specifically, make sure you specify refresh rate ranges that will work with whatever resolution and colour choices you make.

Re: XFree86 4.x RENDER extension...

2001-08-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 25 2001, Aaron Traas wrote: > I'm running Woody with Xfree86 4, and am wondering what I have to do > to get the RENDER extension to work, and thus get KDE to anti-alias > fonts. Can someone point me in the right direction? > > BTW: My graphics adapter is an ATI Rage Mobility Pro, and the s

Re: XF86Setup Error

2001-08-26 Thread R1nso13
phreaking, yea! anyway... i had the same problem: as it turns out the XFree86 organization has temporarily phased out XF86Config with XFree86 4.0 (the x server included in debian's testing distribution). They suggest using either xf86cfg or XFree86 -configure, but both of these caused my machi

Re: postgreSQL

2001-08-26 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2001-08-26 17:15:08, bob parker wrote: > Attempt to 'psql' get error message: > FATAL1: SetUserID: user 'bob' is not in pg_shadow > > How may i sign on to postgres - command line please Probably using 'ident sameuser', in order to create accounts login as postgres: su - <--- root pw su - pos

Re: Using Sympatico Warp ADSL w/ Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Jason Bleazard
Using Bell Sympatico "High Speed Edition" ADSL in Toronto I connected with PPPoE. Didn't use DHCP at all. All I had to do was: apt-get install pppoe (it's on the third CD) Then followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/pppoe/README.Debian Jason Dawe wrote: > > Hi. When I installed D

Re: MSN Messenger through Debian gateway

2001-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, ipchain has timeout. If you use ipmasq, see Z92timeouts.rul/def check -M option in man page. Make larger value. Also Do you provide IP to DOZE machine by DHCP? I assume you have fixed IP. But this may give random IP upon reboot. Also ISP issue, In order to protect you from ISP control

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
> that someone who hosts burningclown.com. who are they? and how much do > they charge you? because i am pretty sure they won't just add an A > record subdomain, at least not at no charge. The hosting company is WestHost: http://www.westhost.com. A great deal. G ++ http://www.bu

Re: custom kernel compilation THANKS!

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
Thanks all. After what was probably too long a prep period, I'm successfully running a customized version of 2.4.8. Giant fun! Best, Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com "Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All" ++

Using Sympatico Warp ADSL w/ Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Jason Dawe
Hi. When I installed Debian I said yes to the configure network with DHCP question. It said it worked. I also installed via-rhine for my network card, which I found was the right module after some research. I rebooted, and expected to be online. I can't ping anywhere, except myself. Ifconfig looks

Re: using cd is shell script

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Moss
bob parker wrote: Hi all, being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that goes like this: #! /bin/bash # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain cd /some long dir chain/xxx My question is, how can i make the change persist after the script is done Thanks Bob Parker No n

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 07:22:37PM -0500): > A couple of questions, subsequently ... please don't reply to my personal addy as well as debian-user... > This is my current /etc/resolv.conf: > > search speakeasy.net > nameserver 216.231.41.22 > nameserver 216.231.41.2 >

Re: custom kernel compilation

2001-08-26 Thread John Patton
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:45:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All, > > I'm trying to compile what is essentially a custom kernel (2.4.8); > however, the only thing I'm -certain- I want to customize is module > version support ... I need this to be disabled (I'm working through the > 2nd

MSN Messenger through Debian gateway

2001-08-26 Thread Jason Bleazard
I've been having a strange problem, and wondered if anyone could help. My wife and I have our home LAN going to the Internet through Bell Sympatico DSL through a gateway machine running Potato, using the ipmasq package. She runs Win98 (*) and uses MSN Messenger (**). What we've noticed is that M

unsubsribe

2001-08-26 Thread Will Macdonald
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Mod-ssl problem

2001-08-26 Thread MunFai
Hi! I am trying to sign my own server.crt file for use with Apache. I am using Debian, with OpenSSL 0.9.6b-1. I seem to be running into a problem when I'm running sign.sh to sign the .csr file. This is what I get: sblabs:/etc/apache/ssl.crt# ./sign.sg server.csr CA signing: server.csr -> server.crt

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Moss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings!! I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on CD-Writing HOWTO) that trac

Re: using cd is shell script

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:26:36PM -0700, bob parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that > goes like this: > > #! /bin/bash > # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain > > cd /some long dir chain/xxx > > > My question is, how

custom kernel compilation

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
All, I'm trying to compile what is essentially a custom kernel (2.4.8); however, the only thing I'm -certain- I want to customize is module version support ... I need this to be disabled (I'm working through the 2nd ed. of O'Reilly's "Device Drivers" book). After prepping to assure that I'm not

Re: hotmail access

2001-08-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:39:29PM -0700, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > > You need a web browser. apt-get install konqueror > > You also need crypto support, which will not be installed by default. These Really? You can't access a hotmail account without SSL? I'm impressed. noah -- ___

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-26 Thread Curt Howland
Sorry for the multiple replies, but I have some new data. Adding to the audio group didn't work, because the SB modules never loaded. I have figured out finally that the sound card modle is "ES1869", but I have not yet found any information on manufacturer other than this model number. If anyone

using cd is shell script

2001-08-26 Thread bob parker
Hi all, being a lazy typist i have writen a little script that goes like this: #! /bin/bash # go-xxx where xxx is the last dir in along chain cd /some long dir chain/xxx My question is, how can i make the change persist after the script is done Thanks Bob Parker _

Re: The Sound of Silence

2001-08-26 Thread Curt Howland
I'm getting the feeling that the module just isn't working, because on boot the error is: Starting Y Sound Server: /dev/dsp: Cannot open for playing. I believe now that the sbc60xxwdt module is wrong, I should be using the "sb" one. The problem is the module won't auto-probe, it dies with an err

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
Hi, A couple of questions, subsequently ... > your /etc/resolv.conf file would be > > cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf > domain mydomain.com > search mydomain.com > nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1 > nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2 > nameserver 3

postgreSQL

2001-08-26 Thread bob parker
Using potato r3 and postmaster is running. Attempt to 'psql' get error message: FATAL1: SetUserID: user 'bob' is not in pg_shadow How may i sign on to postgres - command line please Thanks Bob Parker __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 02:01:58AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've > just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, > 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a s

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad > document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a > known reason for this? Try: strace vi -- Karsten M. Self http://

Re: Re: SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:38:52PM +, Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > What's "fully working"? > > ok, just working then. > > > For an authoring tool, my recommendation is psgmltools under > > emacs. > > Got it! The problems come in the validation and filtering of > SGML i've

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: kernel 2.4.x Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:51:17PM -0400 In reply to:Oren Gozlan Quoting Oren Gozlan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > any info about kernel 2.4.x ? > any one have tried it ? Running 2.4.9 on 3 Potato boxes and 1 Woody box. No parobems. If you try a google search

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread David Jardine
I only know that I type 'vi' on the command line and - I've just checked - 'which vi' tells me '/usr/bin/vi' but, hang on, 'ls -l /usr/bin/vi' tells me it's a symlink to /etc/alternatives/vi and, hang on another sec, that is a symlink to /usr/bin/nvi, which seems to be the final destination at 3152

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Stathy G. Touloumis
older systems were MIPS, newer are x86 hardware, and there may be a CDROM port. The older versions are MIPS which I have found the Deb distro for this as well as 2.4 kernel patches specifically for the RaQ. I am able to access the Serial port and that is how I plan to install a 'real' OS on

Re: Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:09:51PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'll issue the standard advisory: telnetd is an insecure protocol and > > it's very strongly recommended that you *not* install or activate > > telnetd on your system. SSH is an encrypted,

Re: problems printing (fwd)

2001-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: problems printing (fwd) Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:56:28AM -0400 In reply to:Eric Howard Quoting Eric Howard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm having trouble getting printing to work. If I cat to the lp devices > I get `no such device', so I figure it is a problem with mis

Re: problems printing

2001-08-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: problems printing Date: Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:51:20PM -0400 In reply to:Eric Howard Quoting Eric Howard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Did you include the proc file system (most people do, Linux doesn't > > work much without)? Type ls /proc to check. > > Yep. > > > I

Re: segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:40:50AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: | I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad | document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a | known reason for this? Uhh, vi is and copyrighted by AT&T and I don't think it is maintained anymore.

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:53:51AM -0500, Stathy G. Touloumis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new user to Debian and wanted to know if there is some utility for > performing the installation of Debian. > > The situation that I am in is that I want to install Debian on a Cobalt > Ra

segfault in vi

2001-08-26 Thread David Jardine
I was trying to remove the formatting mumbo-jumbo of a MS WordPad document in vi, but it segfaulted - repeatedly. Is there a known reason for this? David

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Re: Help! telnetd not working!

2001-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I just installed debian on a new system today. Everything is working > > beautifully, except telnetd. I'm using xinetd (also tried inetd), and > > when I attempt to telnet to the machine, it sends me the contents of > > /etc/issue.net, and then eats up 99% CPU and just ha

xcdroast & woody

2001-08-26 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Greetz, Has anyone been able to get xcdroast to run on woody? Here is my error after I manually made a symlink for libtix: xcdroast Can't initialize the Tix extension. Any help greatly appreciated. tatah -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user \/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
It does. Fantastic. Thanks. That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully. This, however, is a framework ... Cool beans! Glenn On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: > your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since > it's the *name* of your c

Re: question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since it's the *name* of your computer. however, that does not prevent you from fitting it into the big scheme of mydomain.com. let's say that you named your machine "pear," then /etc/hostname would read just pear, your /etc/hosts fil

dbootstrap

2001-08-26 Thread Stathy G. Touloumis
Ok, from the docs it would seem that 'dbootstrap' is what I am looking for. I did not see any 'deb' package by this name. Does anyone know what 'deb' package this is under? I do not know what a Cobalt RaQ is and not completely understand the difficulties you are facing. Yet according to h

Re: gmix problems

2001-08-26 Thread Anthony Lau
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Martin Rowe wrote: > After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working :( > It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device - > check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the > kernel. Well the

Re: Re: SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
> What's "fully working"? ok, just working then. > For an authoring tool, my recommendation is psgmltools under > emacs. Got it! The problems come in the validation and filtering of SGML i've written. > If you're doing DocBook, there's a set of packages that you'll > want to > install, starting

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:29:57PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | also sprach dman (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:06:37PM -0400): | > The MAC address is only known along that particular wire. That is, if | > the IP packets pass through any routers or gateways the receiving side | > will see the MAC addr

Re: strange leaps in df % reported RESOLVED

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
> I'd look around with du (du |less etc) from the root directory to see > where these large jumps in disk usage are occuring. Wander in and take > a look at anything that looks suspicious. Also, if you don't run > apt-get clean it just keeps the debs for you. If you jumped to testing > or unst

Re: Installation of Debian

2001-08-26 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > I am a new user to Debian and wanted to know if there is some utility for > performing the installation of Debian. > > The situation that I am in is that I want to install Debian on a Cobalt > RaQ. I needed to netboot "bootp" the box and NFS mount a directory > structure. Now I am

Re: mod-ssl vs apache-ssl

2001-08-26 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:18:03PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > A little while ago, Hans (obviously from Northern Germany--moin > moin!) asked whether it was "better" to use mod-ssl or apache-ssl. > That question wasn't really answered. > > Since libapache-mod-jk only attaches itself to apa

Re: [OT] German-English translation tools

2001-08-26 Thread der.hans
Am 25. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Andrew Perrin so: > Does anyone know of any free (or at least reasonably cheap) tools to > assist in translation? I'm explicitly *not* looking for a program that > attempts to fully translate texts, but rather something to help with some > of the dirty work as I begin tra

question about hostname

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
All, I'm a bit embarrassed to be asking this question (more properly question-series), since I've been enjoying Linux since late '98 and ya'd think I'd know the answer to this by now ... however ... I'm wondering about hostname(s). What is -affected- by the name one chooses to give one's box? T

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > my laptop has two net interfaces, one wired and one wireless. they > have different MAC addresses, but i configured my DHCP server to treat > them the same so that i usually have the same IP no matter what card i > use. > > i just

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach dman (on Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:06:37PM -0400): > The MAC address is only known along that particular wire. That is, if > the IP packets pass through any routers or gateways the receiving side > will see the MAC address of the last gateway/router interface and not > the MAC of the sender.

Re: Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-26 Thread John Griffiths
At 06:57 AM 8/27/01 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Greetings!! > >I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, >without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless >you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read o

Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

2001-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:53:07PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Actuallly, I should be forcing myself to use Python, but habits die hard > and I just know my way around sed and awk pretty well, so they're the > first thing I turn to when a shell script stops being what I want. Understand your f

Re: Two video questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 26 August 2001 09:21 am, Ron Steinke wrote: > 1. Where is the native XFree86 libGL? > > I'm trying to get 3d acceleration working. I've installed > XFree86-4.1 from unstable, as 4.0 only supports the G200 and > G400, not the G450. I've compiled the dri extensions into th

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: | shouldn't sshd at least worry about the MAC address too (can it?) just | an IP is too easy to spoof (MAC are too i guess). The MAC address is only known along that particular wire. That is, if the IP packets pass through any rout

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sunday 26 August 2001 01:51 pm, Oren Gozlan wrote: > any info about kernel 2.4.x ? > any one have tried it ? > Running 2.4.8 custom on sid right now. The stock kernel didn't work for me, but the custom does. Works fine so far. I've been using the 2.4 series for a while now and I haven't reall

Re: questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Saturday 25 August 2001 10:37 pm, James T Prejsnar wrote: > Question 1) I'm using DHCP in my home network, and I'm having problems > getting the network interface up and running. Can I add the networking > interface module for my 3Com card or do I have to rebuild the kernel? I'm > seeing erro

Copying audio CDs on Debian

2001-08-26 Thread dbalder
Greetings!! I tried to copy an audio CD to put in the car using xcdroast. I burnt it, without checking .cdr files but it did not produce desirable results (unless you are an alien...). My understanding of the matters is (from what I read on CD-Writing HOWTO) that tracks are ripped first, then p

Re: "renicing" a network application

2001-08-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 09:08:44PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: > hi, > is there a known way to "renice" an application in terms of the > bandwidth it gets? i would like our mirror script, which is constantly > running, not to occupy more than 30% of our (limited and small) > bandwidth. > > any c

Re: ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I think in this case this was only able to succeed becuase you were actually in control of that session... Had it been someone else spoofing they would also have to already obtain the session keys being used... Jeremy On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 10:11:08PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrot

mod-ssl vs apache-ssl

2001-08-26 Thread Bill Wohler
A little while ago, Hans (obviously from Northern Germany--moin moin!) asked whether it was "better" to use mod-ssl or apache-ssl. That question wasn't really answered. Since libapache-mod-jk only attaches itself to apache, I'm now considering apache (with mod-ssl) over apache-ssl. I

Re: strange leaps in df % reported

2001-08-26 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 26 Aug 2001 15:05:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm seeing odd leaps in the Use% reported by df. The value leapt from 56% > to 59% last night, and from 59% to 62% just a few moments ago. > > 3% of 15gb (which is half my total space) seems like a lot o' space to > spontaneousl

Re: gmix problems

2001-08-26 Thread Martin Rowe
On Sunday 26 August 2001 17:13, Martin Rowe wrote: > Hi all > > After my most recent sid apt-get dist-upgrade gmix has stopped working > :( It pops up a dialog box reporting it couldn't open the sound device > - check permission to /dev/mixer and that sound is compiled into the > kernel. Well the l

ssh security question

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
my laptop has two net interfaces, one wired and one wireless. they have different MAC addresses, but i configured my DHCP server to treat them the same so that i usually have the same IP no matter what card i use. i just noticed a curious bit of possible security awkwardness. with my wired card, i

Re: gshutdown and the trash can thingy in GNOME

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:14:47 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > ** 2.)Still in GNOME: in gshutdown, how do I make normal user accounts able > to shutdown/reboot without the need for su/sudoing at the console? I would > appreciate such as some of our computers here are turned on/off on a regu

strange leaps in df % reported

2001-08-26 Thread burningclown
Hi, I'm seeing odd leaps in the Use% reported by df. The value leapt from 56% to 59% last night, and from 59% to 62% just a few moments ago. 3% of 15gb (which is half my total space) seems like a lot o' space to spontaneously be taken up ... I seem to recall reading at some point on the list of

Re: ftp not working

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:27:30 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson wrote: > ** hi, > ** > ** recently installed a firewall now ftp doesn't work (i.e. connection times > ** out)...the line to allow ftp thru iptables doesn't seem to work: > ** > ** $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --de

Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread Timeboy
On 26 Aug 2001 16:51:17 -0400, Oren Gozlan wrote: > ** any info about kernel 2.4.x ? > ** any one have tried it ? I use kernel 2.4.x since 3 or 4 month, without any problems on potato. There are some packeges to update, i taked from woody, to get a running kernel 2.4.x. Modutils and ppp are nece

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon Aug 27, 2001 um 01:01:35AM: > Will the file system mount in case it is corrupted ? To run e2fsck u should > first get the prompt at least in single user mode !!! Since when we convert > from ext2 to ext3 we also do tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/hdx. Thus at the star

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread hsejar
Eduard Bloch saw fit to inform me that: >#include >Rajesh Fowkar wrote on Sun Aug 26, 2001 um 10:10:35PM: > >> Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign >> corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? > >Remove the journal (man tune2fs), sca

Re: realplayer as plugin

2001-08-26 Thread Erik Steffl
'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > i am going nuts trying to get realplayer either open with > it's plugin or with plugger or even just with the 'open > with application' setting in either konq or netscape. > realplayer works well, but i am trying to not have to click > 'open' and specify the path

"renicing" a network application

2001-08-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi, is there a known way to "renice" an application in terms of the bandwidth it gets? i would like our mirror script, which is constantly running, not to occupy more than 30% of our (limited and small) bandwidth. any clues? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo

Re: [OT] raw TCP/IP sockets?

2001-08-26 Thread Mike Pfleger
Thank you, Dimitri. I am now a little bit less clueless :) Cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")

Re: problems printing

2001-08-26 Thread Jakob B. Jensen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:51:20PM -0400, Eric Howard wrote: > > > Is parport.o for the same kernel as the one you are running > > (type uname -a to check)? > > Well, it's under 2.2.17 and my kernel is 2.4.9, but the /lib/modules/2.4.9 > directory doesn't seem to have the module in it, so I assu

Re: [OT] raw TCP/IP sockets?

2001-08-26 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Mike Pfleger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello. > > I've included a snippet of an exchange regarding the "raw TCP/IP socket" > issue that Cringley (IIRC) was talking about in that article from a few > weeks back. Could someone please comment on whether I've understood > this correctly?

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Sean
You should be able to fsck the partition as an ext2 filesystem (if it wasn't umounted cleanly), and then use tune2fs -j to recreate the ext3 journal. Granted, I've never had occasion to actually try this, but from what I understand it should work. Sean On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:10:35 + Rajesh

Re: SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 06:22:23PM +, Hereward Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Firstly i'm told this is meant to be a highly controversial subject > and may start a flame war, am i right? > > What's the easiest (and hopeful best) way of getting sgml working > fully under debian.

Re: ext3 filesystem

2001-08-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Rajesh Fowkar wrote on Sun Aug 26, 2001 um 10:10:35PM: > Is there a possibility of the journal file of ext3 filesystem gettign > corrupted ? If yes. Are there any tools to recover from such situation ? Remove the journal (man tune2fs), scan the filesystem (man e2fsck) and rebuild the jo

Re: devfsd 'n halt

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:18:03PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: | hello. | | i've experienced a strange behaviour when shutting down my machine, | when the devfsd runs, cause devfsd stop-script is excecuted after the | TERM all KILL all script, so that there's no devfsd anymore which | could be sto

Re: Post Installation of a booter

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:46:32PM -0400, alex wrote: | I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot | loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot | floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the | past. However, LILO or GR

Re: DISPLAY and multiple ssh connections

2001-08-26 Thread dman
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: | Is there a command line switch to tell vim to not try and use the gtk | portions? Emacs does a similar thing (tries to use X) to me if I forget | the -nw switch on it. I'm guessing it's a default to try and be the | most reso

Re: problems printing

2001-08-26 Thread Eric Howard
> Did you include the proc file system (most people do, Linux doesn't > work much without)? Type ls /proc to check. Yep. > Is parport.o for the same kernel as the one you are running > (type uname -a to check)? Well, it's under 2.2.17 and my kernel is 2.4.9, but the /lib/modules/2.4.9 directo

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Re: kernel 2.4.x

2001-08-26 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Oren Gozlan saw fit to inform me that: >any info about kernel 2.4.x ? >any one have tried it ? Yes. I am at present on kernel 2.4.9 :-) What u want to know ? ( I am working on this kernel at home ). Warm Regards -- Ra

SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Firstly i'm told this is meant to be a highly controversial subject and may start a flame war, am i right? What's the easiest (and hopeful best) way of getting sgml working fully under debian. I just can't under stand what on earth is going on, or what it is trying to do. Please could someone

DBI/PostgreSQL problems

2001-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
Hi again people. All of a sudden I am having a huge amount of trouble with PostgreSQL/Perl/DBI. Two days ago, a (CGI, soon to become mod_perl) program (in perl, using DBI and Posgtres) that I was working on suddenly stopped working. Everytime I try to run it, perl just bombs with a 'segementatio

ftp not working

2001-08-26 Thread thomas anderson
hi, recently installed a firewall now ftp doesn't work (i.e. connection times out)...the line to allow ftp thru iptables doesn't seem to work: $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp ! --syn --source-port 20 --destination-port 1024 :65535 -j ACCEPT Thanks -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net

Re: No ide-scsi, no CD-RW

2001-08-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > You need to select and compile the ide-scsi module. Install (if you > haven't already) the kernel-headers and kernel-source packages for your > kernel version, then: > > cd /usr/src/kernel-source- > make menuconfig > > and follow th

Re: Apt-get problem

2001-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:42:50PM +1000, David Wiener wrote: > I have the following error with apt-get. Can someone sugest a way to fix > apt-get so I don't get the errors with the broken packages. apt-get is fine. [...] > Preparing to replace hbf-cns40-5 1.0-1 (using .../hbf-cns40-5_1.0-1_all

Getting sound to work on Dell Dimension XPS R400

2001-08-26 Thread Blars Blarson
I'm very favorably impressed with Debian 2.2r3. However, I havn't been able to get the built-in sound working on my Dell Dimension XPS R400. This is supposed to be a Crystal Semiconductor CS4236. The cs4232 module comments indicate that they support this chip, but seem to expect it on an ISA pnp

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