nautilus playing fun with me

2003-01-13 Thread Lacoste (Frisurf)
I've upgraded to latest gnome code in unstable, and nautilus fails to start correctly most of the time (on the last 10 cession startups, only once it worked OK). The desktop starts showing, then dies. Repeat this 7-10 times (I didn't count, but the number guess it comes from a 'retry' setting).

Re: RFC: an introduction to configuring sawfish

2003-01-13 Thread Adam
Thank you for your response. Chris Lale wrote: Looks good! I cannot see any copyright though. You might consider the GNU Free Documentation Licence. Thank you, I have gone to the website and added the GNU Free Documentation License Copyright notice to my web page. If you join the Newbiedoc list

Re: Trouble implementing PRISM2 WiFi Card

2003-01-13 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been trying to use my new Wifi card for my laptop with limited > success. I have a Siemens(PRISM2 chipset) card that I cant seem to get running. > The card is recognised by the hardware and the last time I recompiled the > kernel

RE: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
Thanks. That fix seems to work. I think I figured out how to recreate the problem. I deleted the .mozilla stuff in the root folder, then I deleted compreg.dat. I ran galeon once and it was fine. Then I ran it again and I got infinite loop behavior. Then I deleted the compreg.dat again and eve

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:57:41PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On January 13, 2003 06:00 am, the fabulous Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much > > trouble. > > > > typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensiv

Can't open XFree86 log file

2003-01-13 Thread Russell
Hi all, As root, i can start XFree86 and it works ok. However, as a normal user, i get an error: Fatal server error: Cannot open log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log" I've tried deleting it. What else can i try? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> socket: Protocol not available - make sure CONFIG_PACKET Andrew> (Packet socket) and CONFIG_FILTER (Socket Filtering) are Andrew> enabled in your kernel configuration! Andrew> However, they do appear to be enabled;

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Chris" == Chris Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> sean finney wrote: >> >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet dhcp Chris> Thanks, I tried this, and then a screen comes up next time Chris> I re-boot asking me to configure my network. After that, Chris> however,

RE: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
I read of someone on another post with the same problem...I don't remember the exact reasons for this, but he was told to remove: /usr/lib/mozilla??/components/compreg.dat and everything was back to normal. Perhaps someone on the list can verify this. -Trey On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:34, Curtis

RE: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
I had never used abcde before and tried it based on your post...awesome! On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 08:29, Randy Orrison wrote: > | -Original Message- > | From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > | Sent: 13 January 2003 06:37 > | > | On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:55:33PM +0100, ernst wrote: >

RE: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
Well I have tried now running mozilla, and that doesn't spawn infinite windows, but rather just exits. There is not output in the console. It just exits. I have run apt-get install mozilla and apt-get install galeon Any ideas, Curtis -Original Message- From: Steve Juranich [mailto:[EMAI

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
> >Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support >ISO images? > There's some ugly windows gear that if it does support it doesn't give many clues as to how to use it. Been a few years since i burned a CD under windows tho, might be ubiquitous now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:41:50PM -0500, alex wrote: > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? An ISO image is a file containing an ISO-9660 filesystem. It is, essentially, a bit-for-bit copy of a CD ROM. You can use this kind of file to burn a CD, it's been around longer, is the

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:59:59AM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > most cd burning software supports it. Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support ISO images? -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you ha

Re: Lilo problem

2003-01-13 Thread Russell
Russell wrote: Hi all, I copied a working debian installation from one hard disk to another, except i had to make a new kernel and install it. I copied the new bzImage into /boot, and updated lilo.conf. /boot contains the new kernel and nothing else. When i run lilo, it gives an error message:

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > That is a good idea, and I will use it if I have to. It seems, however, that > mutt would have a cleaner way to suppress the individual addresses in a list > of addresses. What were you expecting? The only way you can suppress

email-fax gateway - need suggestions

2003-01-13 Thread Neal Lippman
I was hoping some folks here could give me some suggestions on setting up an email to fax gateway. My project is basically to provide a mechanism so someone can email to a an address in my office (eg "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and have that email automatically faxed out. This idea is to eliminate the ma

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"John" == John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote: >> A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's a >> lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that defines >> what it is...what it does. Can someone poin

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-13 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andrew" == Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> I'm moving to a DHCP arrangement for my home network. I've Andrew> set up the DHCP server, and it responds appropriately to Andrew> requests from two of the three other computers on the Andrew> network (one debian, o

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Greg Madden wrote: > [snip] > You can have this behavior if you do not have the following options enable in > your kernel config file. Pump will work dhclient does not. > > # Networking options > # > CONFIG_PACKET=m > snip > CONFIG_FILTER=y > Thanks - this does appear to b

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread nate
alex said: > A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's > a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that > defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me > to somewhere that discusses it? it's sort of like an archive. It is a file which usually contains man

Lilo problem

2003-01-13 Thread Russell
Hi all, I copied a working debian installation from one hard disk to another, except i had to make a new kernel and install it. I copied the new bzImage into /boot, and updated lilo.conf. /boot contains the new kernel and nothing else. When i run lilo, it gives an error message: Fatal: open /b

Re: tune2fs question (increase max_mount_count)

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Abdul Latip said: > Hi: > > Since I often turn on and off my PC, I would like to > increase the MAX_MOUNT_COUNTS of the file system. > AFAIK, "tune2fs" works for ext2 and ext3. > > Questions: > - Is there anything similar for reiserfs? > - Is it save to tune2fs on a mounted filesystem? as far as I

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-13 Thread Chris Owen
sean finney wrote: ok then, in that case, i don't remember what script takes you through setting up your network, but the config is stored in /etc/network/interfaces, and you want the following two lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and then it should Just Work. if you want this to be a sys

Re: Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Steve Juranich
On 13 January 2003 at 17:12, "Curtis Spencer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I launched Galeon the first time and everything worked fine. I imported > the bookmarks and started browsing the web. However, when I run it now, > it spawns windows in what seems like an infinite loop and I have to > con

tune2fs question (increase max_mount_count)

2003-01-13 Thread Abdul Latip
Hi: Since I often turn on and off my PC, I would like to increase the MAX_MOUNT_COUNTS of the file system. AFAIK, "tune2fs" works for ext2 and ext3. Questions: - Is there anything similar for reiserfs? - Is it save to tune2fs on a mounted filesystem? regards, -- Abdul Latip -- Angkasa Internet

Galeon HELP!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Curtis Spencer
I launched Galeon the first time and everything worked fine. I imported the bookmarks and started browsing the web. However, when I run it now, it spawns windows in what seems like an infinite loop and I have to console in and kill the process. I have no idea what logs to check or anything. Any

Re: ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread John Griffiths
At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote: >A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's >a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that >defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me >to somewhere that discusses it? > It's a single file which is an image of

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Fraser Campbell
On January 13, 2003 06:00 am, the fabulous Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much > trouble. > > typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive > than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the idea of going >

ISO image

2003-01-13 Thread alex
A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me to somewhere that discusses it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
Richard Beri sez: } On January 12, 2003 09:57 am, Ross Burton wrote: } > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: } > > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font } > > size, or disable it completely. } > } > Not always true -- some programs are now using Xft2, which use

Error while running apt-get update

2003-01-13 Thread Jorge Santos
I got the following error during my last update, after getting the Package lists: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing perl-doc (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status E: The package lists or status file could not be

Re: PERC3/DC or megaraid driver

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Sweeting
By the way, I've just tried to load the megaraid.o module from a floppy, as described in section 10.4 of the Debian Installation guide. I used a spare machine to get the megaraid.o module, and copied it into a directory /boot on a floppy (made with mformat a:). However, when I chose the option to

Re: End and home key on bash in X-window not accepted

2003-01-13 Thread Russell
Florian Sukup wrote: Hi, I'm new to Debian. I hope there is someone who can help. When I am writing on bash command line under X-window (I am using twm as windowmanager) the end and home key is not accepted. This is working on console and under SuSE-X-window configuration, but not in my xterms.

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Beri
> > You're right, gtk 2.2 brings in Xft2. It's very pretty. Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they "look" smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

All users of 3dfx Voodoo 5500 PCI

2003-01-13 Thread Kevin Smith
Hi All, Are there any users out there who have a 3dfx Voodoo 5500 PCI card installed successfully with Debian 3.0 Linux on a PowerPC? Specifically, a AppleMac G3 beige (OldWorld)? Or, in other hardware. If so, can you let me know how you configured X server to use this card correctly? As I can

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: | sean finney wrote: | > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:20:04PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: | > > The alias Group shows up in my addressbook, but when I send mail to this | > > group, every name appears in the To: field of each

Re: Disable Anti-aliased fonts

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Beri
On January 12, 2003 09:57 am, Ross Burton wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 12:40, Rob Weir wrote: > > You want to edit /etx/X11/XftConfig and change the minimum AA font > > size, or disable it completely. > > Not always true -- some programs are now using Xft2, which uses > /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. > >

Re: Email address to me in Pine

2003-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:42:16PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > When I get a messages to myself in pine it is marked with a + next to the > email. I find this a nice feature but wondered is it possible to set this > up for other email addresses that pine handel in the same session? It's some years s

Re: [OT] Process on which processor

2003-01-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:32:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > there was a SMP patch for procps a couple years ago, which also added > SMP support to top. I remember the 'ps' from it would show which processor > a process was on. So look into that. perhaps a recompile of procps will > give SMP support. I

Re: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to 2.2.20-idepci system

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Doug MacFarlane said: > But now I want to add a SCSI controller (Symbios), SCSI Tape-drive (HP), > and SCSI disk, none of which were on my old desktop. So I figure > > So I apt-got a 2.4.19-686 kernel image, and when I rebooted, I had to use > modconf to enable the 3c59x driver, and when I reboot

Re: Recommendation for dual head video card

2003-01-13 Thread Jens Grivolla
David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest the second video > card approach because you can probably be happy for about US$20, > rather than having to spend US$200 or more for a professional-grade > video card with two independent video outputs. AFAIK, for around 60EUR you get something

Re: Question for PPP Users

2003-01-13 Thread Clive Standbridge
On Sat 11 Jan 2003 19:58:22 +(-0600), John Hasler wrote: > Pppconfig creates a resolv.conf file in /etc/ppp/resolv for each provider. > The /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/0dns-up script moves /etc/resolv.conf out of the way > and the appropriate file from /etc/ppp/resolv in when a ppp connection > comes up.

PERC3/DC or megaraid driver

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Sweeting
Hi everyone, I've been trying to work out how to get the megaraid driver installed on my machine. It all seems rather complicated, with lots of mention of custom boot floppies and so on. Is there an easy way? I have a set of 6 Woody CDs, and I can boot off the first CD, so I am wondering if there

ISO8859-15 and fonts

2003-01-13 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i'm using fluxbox as windowmanager and i have problems getting a nice font that supports the euro symbol. In my console, i can press altgr (right alt) - e and it produces a nice eurosymbol. From the moment i'm logged in into x, xterm, evolution don't know the eurosymbol. However, in abiword i

Re: recommend a shell account provider?

2003-01-13 Thread Adam
Greg wrote: I'm looking for a shell account provider. My needs are simple: email service (preferably spool rather than imap/pop) some disk space dependable net connection, uptime, and disaster recovery vim, mutt, lynx, w3m, tcsh, bash, sed, awk, grep, (procmail?) Can anyone recommend such a servi

Re: Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to 2.2.20-idepci system

2003-01-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Doug MacFarlane [Mon, Jan 13 2003, 10:40:24PM]: > My original desktop had been installed by booting woody CDs and installing a vanilla >kernel, > and then apt-getting 2.418-686-smp kernel images (the kitchen sink variety, Do you have an SMP (multi-processor) system? > I believe).

Adding SCSI Controller, SCSI Tape, and SCSI Disk to 2.2.20-idepci system

2003-01-13 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: Well, I'm confused . . . After a meltdown of my primary Linux desktop, I setup my winblows machine to dual-boot in Debian. My original desktop had been installed by booting woody CDs and installing a vanilla kernel, and then apt-getting 2.418-686-smp kernel images (the kitchen sink va

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:30:05PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have used installed debian on pentium 3 and celeron without much > trouble. > > typically, i have found out that the amd processors are less expensive > than the intel ones. so, for a new pc was toying with the i

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of > | what DNS software you which to use). > > Technically this isn't true. A DNS server isn't required to store the > zones in the same format as bind. d

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: >> I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options doesn't let me >> interact with lilo, it just spits the information out to the serial port. > >This I find har

Re: do amd processors work well with debian?

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Johnson
I am running a 1.4 Athlon and am finding it fantastic. All I would say is that if you are only going to be running Linux on it avoid XP as the extra instruction searching will slow down (but this is truly marginal in the scheme of most desktops). On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 22:26, Klaus Thielking-Rieche

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-13 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:20:04PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > > The alias Group shows up in my addressbook, but when I send mail to this > > group, every name appears in the To: field of each email. How can I modify > > the list so that only "Group" appears in the To:

Asus L3436t

2003-01-13 Thread Matteo Floris
DEBIAN Salve, io ho acquistato un Asus L3436t con Windows XP e vorrei installare un server Linux per lavorare in locale. Vorrei sapere se lo schermo mi verrebbe riconosciuto con Debian; in tal caso acquisterei il prodotto. Lo schermo รจ un TFT LCD 14' con risoluzione (con Windows XP) da 1024x768,

Re: host for an apt repository

2003-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:40:53AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:17:00AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > > > >> I'm interested for packaging some software for debian. Any one know > >> about a free host to make my own

Re: Grab & switching HD Help!!!

2003-01-13 Thread Paul Scott
Scott Henson wrote: 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...??? Than

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:48, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > .. > > The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X > > terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack > > computer being meant to be reboo

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-13T20:11:10Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, that is rather strange. So each entry uses up an inode? Yuck. I was being facetious. The fact that djb uses a bizarre filesystem-dwelling configuration system doesn't surprise me in the least. See also: qmail's version o

K7VTA3 Mainboard socket A motherboards

2003-01-13 Thread user list
This is a follow up to the wierd behavior on new nodes. I am testing memory with memtest86 and, so far, I'm finding nothing wrong. These machines die at random placesin a job. where they die doesn't follow any logical pattern. Are there any pathologies with this main board. Art Edwards -- To U

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-13 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:20:04PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > The alias Group shows up in my addressbook, but when I send mail to this > group, every name appears in the To: field of each email. How can I modify > the list so that only "Group" appears in the To: field. > > Thank you. how

Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-13 Thread Seneca
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is > not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a > "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have > to run Evoluti

Email address to me in Pine

2003-01-13 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, When I get a messages to myself in pine it is marked with a + next to the email. I find this a nice feature but wondered is it possible to set this up for other email addresses that pine handel in the same session? I've had a look but can't see how (if at all possible) Cheers Rus -- http

Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-13 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:16:53 -0600 Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:42:41AM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:04:01 -0600 > > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson w

Re: How Can I Switch to System-V ?

2003-01-13 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:38:36AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I'm not sure about the names. The one computer which was using this > system wrote 'I see you are using System-V' when I ran the linux-wlan-ng > configuration and I thought it was editing the runlevel.conf file. ok, a quick rundo

Re: sourceforge - why it depends on exim and proftp?

2003-01-13 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:29:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > does sourceforge really need to depend on exim and proftp? wouldn't > other mail resp. ftp servers be enough? > > since both exim and proftp conflict with other mail resp. ftp servers > it means that sourceforge cannot be install

Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-13 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:42:41AM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:04:01 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > > > > > Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that > >

OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-13 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
How can I alias a bunch of addresses in Mutt so that only the alias name appears in the To: field? Example: alias Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The alias Group shows up in my addressbook

Re: MIT versus Heimdal Kerberos 5

2003-01-13 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:54:10PM +0100, Frank Lenaerts wrote about Re: MIT versus Heimdal Kerberos 5: Some things I forgot. > > My understanding is that you don't, really, and that the Kerberos code > > that appears in X might have maybe done authentication but not I suppose you mean that xdm

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Re: Solved, maybe a bug? Re: ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Kenward Vaughan said: > The first note I tried to send on this included a description about the > overwriting of /etc/issue as well. This I also fixed, but I wonder if the > problems involve a rogue script somewhere in a .deb package. I'd like to > file a bug against it, but don't know what evei

Re: Re: Can't boot "Kernel panic: No init found" -- partially solved

2003-01-13 Thread Rich
After many hours of trial and error, and Googling, I finally discovered that I had somehow deleted my /lib directory. init wouldn't run, but didn't give any usefull error, so the kernel just reported that init was missing. I restored a 6 month old backup, booted with error messages, but couldn

Re: What is Block-Major-114?

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:24:05PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the kernel/Documentation/devices.txt > file. > > Any clues where this is coming from? There is nothing in /etc/modutils that > refers to this device. You might get some information from: ls -

Solved, maybe a bug? Re: ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all who responded (including Thomas Shemanske via private notes) to my messages (the first one appears to have arrived after the second, at least here) about the RPC services. The notes came from different accounts as I scrambled about trying to get outside my LAN. As mentioned by se

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My thanks to all who responded (including Thomas Shemanske via private notes) to my messages (the first one appears to have arrived after the second, at least here) about the RPC services. The notes came from different accounts as I scrambled about trying to get outside my LAN. As mentioned by se

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 19:21:37 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > You can remove those lines once 4.3 is available. There is no way for > apt to know which version you want to upgrade to unless you tell it. But I wouldn't know when a package would be available (there are several packages I have to tra

Re: [OT] Process on which processor

2003-01-13 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > Hello, > > OK, I know that there is no processor affinity under Linux but is there a > way to tell which processes are running on which processor on an SMP > kernel? > there was a SMP patch for procps a couple years ago, which also added SMP support to top. I remember the '

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Carel Fellinger said: > > This I find hard to believe, did you try to send a break? According to > the lilo docs one needs to send a break instead of pressing shift to get > lilo's attention. no, haven't tried that:) thanks nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-13 Thread Craig Dickson
Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-01-13T16:49:26Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:05:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >> and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of what > >> DNS software you which to use). > > > Te

recommend a shell account provider?

2003-01-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
I'm looking for a shell account provider. My needs are simple: email service (preferably spool rather than imap/pop) some disk space dependable net connection, uptime, and disaster recovery vim, mutt, lynx, w3m, tcsh, bash, sed, awk, grep, (procmail?) Can anyone recommend such a service? An encry

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:18:58AM -0800, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > > a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option > > for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that > > Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that

listing intstalled packages and their origin

2003-01-13 Thread willem
Hi, There are several ways to get a list of the packages which are installed but i haven't been able to figure out if it i possible to list the dist they're from stable, testing or unstable. Is there a command for this or could i pipe dpgk -l through something else to get this done? Thanks in a

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:59:15PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: .. > The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X > terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack > computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between > various o/s, how reliable

tkmixer Pcm control doesn't control after new motherboard

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
In tkmixer, the Pcm control no longer works for me. I upgraded from a computer with a SoundBlaster 16 to one with an Asus A7M266-D with onboard C-Media 8738 audio. On the new system, tkmixer displays fewer sliders, so obviously something is different. The problem is the Pcm slider. It doesn

Re: Help, please! telnet down, smtp not available, pam screwy

2003-01-13 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Exim's panic logfile shows "TCP service "smtp" not found" ...that suggests that /etc/services is corrupt... > daddy:~# telnet localhost > telnet: could not resolve localhost/telnet: Servname not supported for > ai_socktype ...as does this. You probably need to reinst

[OT] Process on which processor

2003-01-13 Thread deFreese, Barry
Hello, OK, I know that there is no processor affinity under Linux but is there a way to tell which processes are running on which processor on an SMP kernel? Thank you! Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you

Re: ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Stephen Gran said: > Exim is either not running, or something is refusing the connection > (tcpwrappers ?) another thing to check would be /etc/services sounds like that file is missing or curropted. if it is, there is a chance that there is much wider spread curroption on the filesystem as well

Re: Easiest Nameserver

2003-01-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-13T16:49:26Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:05:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: >> and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of what >> DNS software you which to use). > Technically this isn't true. A DNS ser

Re: [apt] Disabling upgrade to insecure packages

2003-01-13 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 18:15:46 +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 15:46:36 +, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> Really? This is not what the apt_preferences man page says. In >> particular >> >> "Each package may be pinned to a specific version and each Packages >>

Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-13 Thread Petr Vanek
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 11:59:34PM -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hi - can anyone recommend a news aggregator similar to k.r.s.s. that is > not dependant on a window manager (KDE/gnome/WM)? Basically I need a > "ticker" like the one in Evolution's Summary page but don't want to have i wrote little

Re: Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option > for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that > Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one I haven't tried GRUB, but with LILO the serial options

Re: ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Kenward Vaughan said: > My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm > posting a different version... > > I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze > games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. > > I cannot fet

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-13 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 13 January 2003 07:21 am, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I'm moving to a DHCP arrangement for my home network. I've set up the DHCP > server, and it responds appropriately to requests from two of the three > other computers on the network (one debian, one WinXP). From the other > debian computer

Re: How have I misconfigured DHCP?

2003-01-13 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:21:39AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote about How have I misconfigured DHCP?: > I'm moving to a DHCP arrangement for my home network. I've set up the DHCP > server, and it responds appropriately to requests from two of the three > other computers on the network (one debian, o

Rack mounted backend ideas

2003-01-13 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I'm looking at putting a couple rack mounted systems in as a reorganisation of my computing environment - one an SMP IA32 type system (we'll see how many CPUs make sense) running as a file and computing server with Debian GNU/Linux, and the other likely only one CPU at present to run as an experime

Re: Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:07:36AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:20:54AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > > > Is there anyone here on the list that is using Debian as a personal > > video recorder? Anybody able to get an unattended machine to record a > > couple of differ

Re: MIT versus Heimdal Kerberos 5

2003-01-13 Thread Frank Lenaerts
on Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:10:17PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote about Re: MIT versus Heimdal Kerberos 5: > Frank Lenaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I configured MIT Kerberos 5 and can now use kerberised telnet, ftp, > > rlogin and ssh. However, I also want to have X over Kerberos. > > My under

ftp/telnet services down, fetchmail fails

2003-01-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
My other letter doesn't seem to have made it through to the list, so I'm posting a different version... I did a recent reboot into my Sid box after the kids played a few Windoze games, and found a few bizarre behaviors. I cannot fetch mail from my server. Typical message: --- daddy:~# fetchmail

Re: restricting wireless access

2003-01-13 Thread Jeff
martin f krafft, 2003-Jan-13 11:23 +0100: > also sprach Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.01.12.1953 +0100]: > > Thinking about it, what I described above really isn't a proxy but > > rather an offload of the SSL part of HTTPS. However, the clear text > > HTTP on the backend could then be proxied. I

Re: Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > For playing, transcoding, and yes recording, I recommend > mplayer. For the "unattended" part, use with good old reliable, > "at" or maybe even cron. Here's simple command to record a TV ^^ > show using mjpeg codec: > > aum

Re: Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread csj
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:31:23 +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:20:54AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote: > > Is there anyone here on the list that is using Debian as a personal > > video recorder? Anybody able to get an unattended machine to record a > > couple of different

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