Re: Re: Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Scott
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 00:38:07 +0100 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Hans Ekbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:11:33AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: > > I have a fo

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:57:54PM -0500, Stephen Nosal wrote: | Folks - | | I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a | straight forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting | dh-client running. I've manageed to make it work with the same box | running NT, as wel

Re: apt error

2002-02-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 12:37:42PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi. If this message, or something similar, has been posted by me, I > appologize for the re-post. I am having a problem installing the source tree > in 2.2r5 stable. I am a blind user, and am running Speakup, which is a screen > revi

RE: php4 installtion

2002-02-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
Well who knows what caused my issue. I reformatted and did the entire install from scratch and all works well.   -Original Message- From: Jonathan Tabaco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 8:40 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: php4 installtion

scp question

2002-02-22 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I have two computers running debian linux; I can run ssh from one to the other, either way, with no problem. One is a ppp connection and the other is cable-modem. The cable-modem's address may not be static but hasn't ever changed as far as I know and the ppp connection's ip addresses are obtainabl

Aztech MM pro 16

2002-02-22 Thread Antonio Alberto Lobato
Hi all! Please, how do I configure (which modules, conf. programs, etc...) a sound card Aztech MM pro 16 ? Thanks Tom

dh-client setup problems

2002-02-22 Thread Stephen Nosal
Folks - I recently got Time Warner Road Runner installed. It seems to be a straight forward dhcp install but I'm having a problem getting dh-client running. I've manageed to make it work with the same box running NT, as well as an old Macintosh I have, so I'm pretty sure it's my dhcp setup that

Aztech MM pro 16

2002-02-22 Thread tomlobato
Hi all! Please, how do I configure (which modules, conf. programs, etc...) a sound card Aztech MM pro 16 ? Thanks Tom _ Oi! Você quer um iG-mail gratuito? Então clique aqui: http://registro.ig.com.br/cen

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-22 Thread Tim Kelley
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 22:18:03 -0500 timothy bauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well BSD had some advantages prior to 2.4/netfiler. Linux makes a pretty great firewall these days. However, I have heard ipfilter (BSD) is easier to understand than iptables (Linux). Couldn't tell you myself. > I

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Feb-2002 timothy bauscher wrote: > I am planning on building a firewall > here. There is a lot of hype about > Freebsd being great for firewalls, > and books regarding Linux firewalls. > > I love Linux, but I believe in > finding the best solution for a > problem. My question is not which O

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya use the distro you know how to harden to your likings... and can tweek and fix and debug if something happens... hardened linux distros ??? donno if its any better than off the shelf thats been hardened ... http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Distro/distro.gwif.html - define a security polic

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > > I'm in the market for a new computer and plan to run potato. The last > > time I bought a box for linux, I bought a cheap system and found the > > on-board sound & video chipsets weren't supported. usually newer boards are the ones not supported... unless were talking 3-5 yrs a

firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-22 Thread timothy bauscher
I am planning on building a firewall here. There is a lot of hype about Freebsd being great for firewalls, and books regarding Linux firewalls. I love Linux, but I believe in finding the best solution for a problem. My question is not which OS is better for a firewall, but which one you would use

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:17:41 -0600 Judith Elaine Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in the market for a new computer and plan to run potato. The last > time I bought a box for linux, I bought a cheap system and found the > on-board sound & video chipsets weren't supported. Currently running

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya to make an existing distro into a raid1 setup after the fact is a little dangerous to its data ... - backup your data first numerous ways to convert /dev/hda into raid1 with hda and hdc http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/SW-Raid-HOWTO.txt ( lots of "fun" reading...

Re: lilo problem

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy - first test that the sid kernel boots and oyu have sid running... by putting it onto floppy...and boot off floppy - sometimes it might not boot till you rdev the boot floppy ( the part i am wondering about for your kernel & system - once you know sid boots and redha

Re: lilo problem - / problem

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy if you "use" a precompiled kernel... you have to tell it where / is on the new machine... otherwise you do get those "kernel panics" and "no init found" - i always make a kernel on the target... and copy it around but if you copy that kernel to flippy... that floppy should bo

Re: [OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE/ SCSI

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya am curious... why 3Ware cards are not in the list of "hardware raid" supported chipsets.. - 3ware (supposedly) does raid0/raid1 in hw... - easy enough to test ... pull the drives... :-) c ya alvin On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Emil Pedersen wrote: > O Polite wrote: > > > > On Fr

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya kurdt to protect against "rm -rf"... - dont login as root...( if you were ) - have backups - run hourly incremental backup if you're really paranoid ( backed up into other server's disks ) - definitely run daily incremental backups into a different

smart-hosting w/ exim w/o dns - solved

2002-02-22 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hey people. I asked a while back about smart-hosting all mail from my desktop box to my firewall/router which is only known by it's internal IP and a hostname in /etc/hosts. It failed to work because exim kept doing DNS lookups on my router which has no DNS entry. The fix was to cha

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:19:30AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, R.Pac wrote: > > > how do I configure Exim with eximconfig if I'm behind a firewall ? is [snip] > system, I'd also recommend adding this after you run eximconfig to > /etc/exim/exim.conf (you'll see whe

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:30:52AM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: > Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. > > I get a message stating that the file exists. > > You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do t

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> in at over $400 more than I paid a few weeks ago. I bought mine at > Pogolinux.com. I wanted to support a linux builder. Came with > RedHat 7.2 but I replaced it with Debian. everytime i see pogo linux i have to bring this up. i ordered 3 1U servers from pogolinux last year, and it was a a

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> Would you know what kernel the red hat is using? > I assume it's 2.4, but it sounds really promising! > > I'll make sure to get a controller then, thanks. it's a 2.4 kernel of some sort. im certain it would work fine under 2.2 as well. i picked 2.2-compadible hardware such as Matrox G400 video,

php4 installtion

2002-02-22 Thread Jonathan Tabaco
I am attempting to install/configure php4   When I uncomment the loadmodule line for the php4 module I get VM: killing process apache   Anybody know why?    I can’t find anything on any of the sites….     Thanks in advance for any help,   Jon Tabaco

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Keith Willoughby
Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. > I get a message stating that the file exists. You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do this all the time. -- Keith Willoughby Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold

X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
G'day I upgraded one of my potato boxes to woody over the last two nights. I have encountered problems setting up X after the upgrade. After creating an XF86config, startx yields this error message: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link (Invalid argument) aborting I looked through the mailing

Re: Netscape: Can't enable javascript anymore

2002-02-22 Thread Jeff
Andreas Goesele, 2002-Feb-22 00:12 +0100: > Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Since a few days I can't enable javascript in netscape (4.77-2 on > > up to date woody) anymore. > > > > Trying to do so crashes netscape (it becomes unresponsive with very > > high CPU usage). It can no

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-22 Thread Michel Loos
Em Sex, 2002-02-22 às 17:56, Kent West escreveu: > Michel Loos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... > > I just found a user with username - > > on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow > > in shadow he is locked (*LK* a

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:17 PM 02/22/02 -0600, Judith Elaine Bush wrote: >Would anyone know whether > AMD 1400MHz Athlon Thunderbird Processor (266MHz FSB) > and > (AMD) Asus A7M266 AMD-761 Motherboard (DDR DRAM) >would work well with a 2.2 kernel? Hi, I've run Potato -> Sid on Athlon XP 1800+ on

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up questions: 1. How do I get to single user mode without rebooting? (I know I should already know this.) 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the partitions from /dev/hdaX to /dev/mdY? Once I'm in single user mode can I just "cp -R /dev/hdaX /dev/

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> > Would anyone know whether > AMD 1400MHz Athlon Thunderbird Processor (266MHz FSB) > and > (AMD) Asus A7M266 AMD-761 Motherboard (DDR DRAM) > would work well with a 2.2 kernel? > thats too weird. i have 2 AMD 1.4s here with A7M266s. they run redhat 7.x fine. haven't tried deb

Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-22 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
I'm in the market for a new computer and plan to run potato. The last time I bought a box for linux, I bought a cheap system and found the on-board sound & video chipsets weren't supported. This time, sound and video are non-issues -- the system will act as a personal server more than a workstati

Re: Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:11:33AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: > I have a four machine GNU/Linux (Debian) net in my classroom, for student > use. Many students have gotten to know the basics---which consists of how to > start up Galeon or Netscape, even how to log on as "students". (I set up one

Re: LapTop LCD shifted in X

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> Hi, > I have been attemting to shift my display down on my laptop. By > default, there is a 1/4 inch of unused display showing at the > bottom and the top 1/4 inch is off the top of the screen. This only > happens in 800x600 mode. In fact 640x480 mode shows up in the > middle of a 800x600 screen

Re: [OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE

2002-02-22 Thread Bill Moseley
At 03:20 PM 02/22/02 -0800, nate wrote: >one of my servers is running 3 x seagate ST39204LW >Ultra160 10,000RPM drives. 2 are in raid0 and 1 is >not. > >this is for a 477MB file. > >non raid: >mail:~# time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=10 count=5000 >5000+0 records in >5000+0 records out > >re

ipchains/firewall oddly blocking random websites

2002-02-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
I have a bizarre problem that I am having trouble fixing. I have a home firewall running kernel 2.2.20 with ipchains. For some odd reason, the firewall blocks about 5% of the websites I try to go to. I turned on logging for my HTTP ipchains rules and nothing out of the ordinary seems to be happe

Re: Static route config

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> Hi, > > How do I configure a static route into the startup scripts / files > so that the route is set at boot time? I dont think > /etc/network/interfaces will work for this because none of the > interfaces on the machine belong to the destination net. Here is > the config I am working wit

Re: [OT] Price / performance & Software RAID / Hardware RAID / IDE

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 02:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > >> if you can write data to /dev/hda1 in 5 seconds... >> writing to striped raid0 will be say 7-10 seconds... > Why is this? I thoght the point of raid0 was to write to all drives > in parallell. it is, and there is a decent performance improvem

Re: Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 22 Feb 2002, Alan Davis wrote: > I am trying to write this myself. I have found nothing that explains > GNU/Linux adequately to my students. I teach Biology at a public high > school on the island of Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands, a > commonwealth of the United States. Many of my

Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues

2002-02-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Karsten" == Karsten M Self writes: Karsten> The problem I'm having as a dialup user is when I pull mail Karsten> periodically. With several hundred emails stacked up, I can Karsten> readily run into user process limits (256 processes per Karsten> user) while handling mail. I use

Re: glade compilation problems

2002-02-22 Thread timothy bauscher
<< I don't remember the name of that new system, but I do see 'gnome-config' on my woody box. It is in the 'libgnome-dev' package. Try installing that and see if it helps. >> libgnome-dev was what I needed. Problem solved. Thank you! (==timothy==) --- On Fri, Feb 22

Re: RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:32:17AM -0800, Richard Weil wrote: > I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody > install. The software is newer than the docs, > particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with > experience would be most appreicated. The Software-RAID-HOWTO got me through th

Re: Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:11:33AM +1000, Alan Davis wrote: | I have found nothing that explains GNU/Linux adequately to my students. | I have a four machine GNU/Linux (Debian) net in my classroom, for | student use. Many students have gotten to know the basics---which | consists of how to start

Re: CUPS (2)

2002-02-22 Thread Cam Ellison
* Wayne Topa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Cam Ellison([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > * Randy Yarger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Try this suggestion: > > As I have not been following this thread you may already tried this. > > Add to the append line in lilo.conf > lp=par

Re: glade compilation problems

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:48:41PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: | I am having some problems compiling my | first glade application. I have fixed | several problems so far, but now I am | having troubles because gnomeConf.sh | cannot be found. | | I tried an apt-get install gnome-libs | and an ap

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:56:00PM -0600, Kent West wrote: | I can't address your issue, Michel, but I've been dying to say this to | someone. | | The only *nix I've ever known is Debian (going on about 4 years now), How lucky you are :-). | and this week I was tasked with putting in a new d

Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:52AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > "Karsten M. Self" writes: | > | > > When pulling mail, I'll see the system spike to 350 or more processes. | > > It appears that each mail delivery initiates a separ

Several packages fail to install, exit status 10

2002-02-22 Thread Kent West
Several weeks ago I had a failure trying to uninstall gdm on a sid box. Since then, I've been unable to install or uninstall [x|w|g]dm, and several other packages have started failing on install. I've been doing a dselect update/install just about every day, hoping that whatever's broken will g

Show me some good newbie intros to GNU/Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Davis
I am trying to write this myself. I have found nothing that explains GNU/Linux adequately to my students. I teach Biology at a public high school on the island of Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States. Many of my students have never used computers before

Re: CUPS (2)

2002-02-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Cam Ellison([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > * Randy Yarger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Try this suggestion: > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2001-December/063385.html > > It worked for me, just last night. (Basically, uncomment the two lines > > that are commented out a

glade compilation problems

2002-02-22 Thread timothy bauscher
I am having some problems compiling my first glade application. I have fixed several problems so far, but now I am having troubles because gnomeConf.sh cannot be found. I tried an apt-get install gnome-libs and an apt-get install gnome-libs-devel, but neither where found by apt. What should I ask

Re: Missing man pages on new sid install

2002-02-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:35:47PM -0600, Sean Hendershot wrote: > Dist-upgraded a base install of potato to sid today. Seems you didn't upgrade dpkg and apt first ... > manpage package is installed but the only manpage I have > is ae. Also I have no /usr/bin/man. You need to install man-db ag

Re: which driver for Belkin ethernet card?

2002-02-22 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would anyone know what driver I would need for a Belkin F5D5000 Desktop > > Network Card (pci)? > > To answer my own question (so please correct me if I'm wrong), but it's >the rtl8139.c or 8139too driver. Probably. Its a function of the chipset.

RE: [OT] MS/DoJ comments [was: "Blank Messages To Mailing List...", please let that thread die already :P]

2002-02-22 Thread Jeff Bonner
> Anybody here know how do something about this inconvenient > monopoly? I've read that something is brewing in the beginning > of March with Microsoft and the courts. Also, there's a Supreme > Court case regarding the latest 20 year patent extension. Your > comment should be read by a judge! In f

Re: ps/2 mouse with serial adapter: no go

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:12:55PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I cannot get any ps/2 mouse to work thru a serial adapter. | Is there something else I should be looking at? Unless you paid a lot of money for your adapter, it is nothing more than some wires between two differently shaped con

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-22 Thread Kent West
Michel Loos wrote: Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
There's a mini-HOWTO; here's a link: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html Unmount the partition the data is on as quickly as possible and then follow the howto. If you do a google search there was also a recent article someplace about undelete. Unfortunately it seems to work

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Kurdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > does anyone know how to undelete some files? > > i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded > > in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :) > > > > tnx Pauwel > > Th

linux 2.0.40 [was Re: 2 questions]

2002-02-22 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:57:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not only did the 2.0 series not end at 2.0.36, but it is still going. > > 2.0.40-rc3 was released only 8 days ago. We'll see a real 2.0.40 in the > > near

Re: AntiVirus 4 Linux

2002-02-22 Thread Hilko Bengen
"Liam Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on debian-user: > Bitdefender (www.bitdefender.com) is currently seeking Beta Testers for a > Linux A/V product. Look under products/beta. I d/l'd and Aliened it, however it does not work oin my Debian/unstable system. "Does not work" as in: , | [EMAIL

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 11:56, Rich Puhek wrote: > tristate. And I've still never found the post office. Everyone in > Chicago seems to go to the same post office, since they'll tell you how > long it takes to get there! I'm guessing that you're just joking, but at least for the benefit of dman if/

Re: ps/2 mouse with serial adapter: no go

2002-02-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Fri Feb 22, 2002 um 07:12:55PM: > I have the device set for /dev/ttyS0, which is correct (un-adapted > serial mice work fine). Look through the protocols. XFree has sometimes problems with low-cost mouse models. Also make sure that you mouse really understands

Re: Bandwidth limiting

2002-02-22 Thread Nick Jennings
Hi, I am running into the same problem and would like to know if you could provide a reference URL to some documentation on the various uses of 'tc' (or iproute in general). On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:33:29PM -0500, Guillaume wrote: > > Thank you all, > iproute was what I was looking for so long.

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-22 Thread DvB
Juhan Kundla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings to antipodes.. > > [tons of haba-haba about cars/trains/trucks/jumbos/whatever skipped] > > Gee, i am glad, i live in country small enough to bicycle around it... > :) Not if Americans lived there, it wouldn't be... my town's probably no big

LapTop LCD shifted in X

2002-02-22 Thread McGillan, Patrick
Hi, I have been attemting to shift my display down on my laptop. By default, there is a 1/4 inch of unused display showing at the bottom and the top 1/4 inch is off the top of the screen. This only happens in 800x600 mode. In fact 640x480 mode shows up in the middle of a 800x600 screen size, I.E. l

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Kurdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > does anyone know how to undelete some files? > i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded > in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :) > > tnx Pauwel There is a book about programming (The Pragmattic Programmer?) that give

ps/2 mouse with serial adapter: no go

2002-02-22 Thread schuetz
I cannot get any ps/2 mouse to work thru a serial adapter. I don't get any error messages, the cursor simply doesn't move. I'm running the generic VGA server. I have tried Microsoft, MouseMan, IntelliMouse, and most of the other usual protocols. I have the device set for /dev/ttyS0, which is c

Re: 2 questions

2002-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 17:22:38 +1100 Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dman wrote: > > It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for > > it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series > > ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. > > No

gnome-error

2002-02-22 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I ha installed woody in a fresh machine. I have installed the gnome stuff plus sawfish wm too. Now, when I point with the mouse the border, buttons or title bar of any window in the desktop I hear a "beep". Looking at the .gnome-errors file, I found that each beep produces a line in that

Re: lilo problem

2002-02-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:48:05PM -0500, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > I'm just coming into the thread, but if you had your initrd= > in the main section of lilo.conf, try putting it > in the image section of your Sid kernel. That way, > no other kernel will try to use it. Where should I put the init im

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... > I just found a user with username - > on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow > in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) > > NIS should not be r

RAID 1 setup on woody

2002-02-22 Thread Richard Weil
Hi -- I need some help setting up RAID 1 on a fresh Woody install. The software is newer than the docs, particularly for Lilo, so any help from those with experience would be most appreicated. My hda and hdc drives are identical in size. hda is divided into multiple partitions -- / (/dev/hda2), /

Re: CUPS (2)

2002-02-22 Thread Cam Ellison
* Randy Yarger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Try this suggestion: > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2001-December/063385.html > It worked for me, just last night. (Basically, uncomment the two lines > that are commented out at the bottom of mime.types and mime.convs in > /etc/cups). > > For

Re: PPPoverEthernet vs. PPPoverATM

2002-02-22 Thread dman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:02PM +0100, VERBEEK, Francois wrote: | Note that PPPoE is anyway encapsulated in ATM so you eventually get an | additional (and useless) overhead. Possibly. I expect, but have no facts or proof, that a "dsl modem" will strip out the ethernet frames and use only the p

Re: lilo problem

2002-02-22 Thread Bob Thibodeau
I'm just coming into the thread, but if you had your initrd= in the main section of lilo.conf, try putting it in the image section of your Sid kernel. That way, no other kernel will try to use it. Bob On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:47:53PM +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hello, > > Due to some workloa

Re: (OT) chicago

2002-02-22 Thread Rich Puhek
"Mark S. Reglewski" wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 08:25:02PM -0600, Rich Puhek wrote: > > > > I do love driving the Chicago area freeways though. Watch "Road Warrior" > > before you go and you'll be ready for the evening traffic. Nothing like > > following someone doing 85 on 355 (speed lim

Re: Static route config

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:01:40AM -0600, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > How do I configure a static route into the startup scripts / files > so that the route is set at boot time? I dont think > /etc/network/interfaces will work for this because none of the interfaces > on the machine belong to th

Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing Message

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:31:44PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:27:08PM -, Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > > Hi > > I have noticed that a number of people who post to this list post blank > > messages, with the actual message attached. Why is this? > > > Your

Re: Xwindows install problem on laptop

2002-02-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Feb-2002 Carlton Ellis wrote: > I just did my first Debian install last evening. Compaq Armada 1520 (oldie). > > I used debconf to add Xwindows (HTTP install). I have never been able to > get past the initial screen (after X-windows starts) with all the X's. The > "X" cursor does go to

[OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-22 Thread Michel Loos
Hi, I know it is not Debian related,but if anybody has an idea... I just found a user with username - on a sparc/solaris, he has both an entry in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow in shadow he is locked (*LK* as passwd) NIS should not be running, (and it would be a + entry, I think) any idea ? Michel

Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?

2002-02-22 Thread Paul Hampson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:39:02AM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: > > > On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > > http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-12.html > > > > http://www.cer

Re: minicom

2002-02-22 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:38:01AM -0500, Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: | Hi, | I'm trying to do install linux over serial console, everything is fine | until I have to insert root floppy - minicom goes offline | and there is no way to hit enter | | Any ideas? | | Marcin Kurc | CAD Systems Administrat

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Kurdt wrote: > does anyone know how to undelete some files? > i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded > in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :) > You might try recover. Not sure if it is available for stable. -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

tcp wrappers

2002-02-22 Thread Thedore Knab
I have some tcp wrapper syntax problems: What is wrong here ? Feb 21 11:30:01 albert sshd[21141]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 18: can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(WC-44-75.washcoll.edu) failed Feb 21 11:35:29 albert sshd[21163]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 18: can't verify hostname: g

Xwindows install problem on laptop

2002-02-22 Thread Carlton Ellis
I just did my first Debian install last evening. Compaq Armada 1520 (oldie). I used debconf to add Xwindows (HTTP install). I have never been able to get past the initial screen (after X-windows starts) with all the X's. The "X" cursor does go to a pointer, and then the machine hangs. I cho

Re: Exim configuration

2002-02-22 Thread Cam Ellison
* Tim Dijkstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > R.Pac wrote: > > > > eximconfig talks about a visible name for the system is itmy ISP domain > > name ? > > > No it's the name of your machine. Probably something like: > yourusername.yourisp.net . > > Not exactly, since that would imply that your

YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)

2002-02-22 Thread Timothy R. Butler
This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office package to be had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to install it that way rather than installing the OpenOffice.org binary which doesn't use package management. Thanks, Tim -- -

Re: is openssh version (in potato) 1.2.3-9.4 vulnerable?

2002-02-22 Thread Walter Tautz
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:20:00PM -, Liam Ward wrote: > > On 22 Feb 2002 at 9:11, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-12.html > > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-35.html > > > > which apparently refer

Re: CUPS

2002-02-22 Thread Cam Ellison
Thank you, Randy. Actually, I had noticed that printtool was available, and decided to switch to that. Simple setup, and the test pages print, but there is no apparent way to get lp to work. Despite the fact that test pages print, the autodetect feature claims I don't have parport compiled in

Re: deleted user but get vim mails from him

2002-02-22 Thread nate
> Hello, > > I recently deleted a user from my system, but every time I reboot > my system I get a mail that could not be deliverd. > > It's about a vi session that could be recovered, but it can't be > deliverd. > > Anybody any idea's how I can get rid of it? try checking /var/tmp there may be a

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Sebastiaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi, > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steffen Evers wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > > > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > > > > > Well, I inst

Re: two addresses on one interface in debian?

2002-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:38:23PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:50:52AM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote: > > How do I accomplosh this in Debian? Please tell me I can do it with the > > interfaces file ... I can find a reference to it in the man page but there > > is > > no desc

RE: PPPoverEthernet vs. PPPoverATM

2002-02-22 Thread VERBEEK, Francois
Note that PPPoE is anyway encapsulated in ATM so you eventually get an additional (and useless) overhead. Some say you never feel it, others say you do. Anyway, to avoid unnecessary encapsulation is always an advantage. The hack of Alcatel SpeedTouch home to SpeedTouch Pro is worth it, seeing as

Re: docbook xae problem

2002-02-22 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi Hans, Docbook-apps mailing list is the place to ask this sort of question. The list reference is found here towards the bottom of the page: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/ It could be something else with the install packaging etc. but some on the list use Debian as well. Ho

Re: undeleting

2002-02-22 Thread Paolo Falcone
Kurdt wrote: >does anyone know how to undelete some files? >i did an rm -rf of my .C files of my programming project (it was coded >in the Makefile, under the make clean option.. :) There's a howto to do the undelete "voodoo" if you're using the ext2 filesystem. Basically it's risky, as you'll

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Steffen Evers wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > > > Well, I installed windoze on that computer (win98) and used the 3com's > > dr

Re: 3c905c-TX-M hangs with much traffic (UPDATE)

2002-02-22 Thread Steffen Evers
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 15:40, Sebastiaan wrote: > several days ago I posted this message to the list, and it was said that > it is most probably a kernel bug. > > Well, I installed windoze on that computer (win98) and used the 3com's > driver, but I have the same problem: when transferring huge a

deleted user but get vim mails from him

2002-02-22 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hello, I recently deleted a user from my system, but every time I reboot my system I get a mail that could not be deliverd. It's about a vi session that could be recovered, but it can't be deliverd. Anybody any idea's how I can get rid of it? -- Rudy Gevaert - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.we

Re: Ensoniq: FIXED.

2002-02-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi: > I made it... > Please don't treat me bad... after the first changes > I *checked* the level settings in 'aumix' and the > volume on the speaker of course. Nothing. > Then today I launched first 'xaumix' in which all the > levels were set to zero (mute). T

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