Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Mark Roach said: > Hi, Nate. Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I am certainly able > (on my samba server with ext3+acls and winbind) to > > setfacl -m g:"Domain\\Domain Users":rwx filename > > or use the nt file permissions dialog. Maybe I am misunderstanding you > though. thats acls,

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 01:20:10AM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > > to use it under

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 03:04, Abdul Latip wrote: > Second, I am wondering if there exists a "PARTITION > MAGIC"-like software in Debian (better than fips?). > How easy is it to split a VFAT/ You-Know-What-Os > partition on the fly. this is obviously not part of debian, but I have had good results

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:41, nate wrote: [...] > Your biggest problem may be file permissions. Neither samba nor > samba-tng(as far as I know) support Domain group-based file permissions, > everything is based on unix groups/users. Hi, Nate. Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I am certa

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:35:55PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: [ Please don't top post, it makes your post hard to read and easier to ignore ] > Hubert Chan states that I can just take my old config file and copy to > the new tree. I assume you mean to copy it to where I am compiling the > ker

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:33, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not secure but better than > nothing) on my wireless card (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem > to use it under Windows, but it doesn't work with Linux. > Not to get too offtopic her

Re: Problems with Gnome2

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:52, Chris Hoover wrote: > Hi, > > I finally have gotten a clean install of gnome2 for my unstable dist > laptop, and I'm having some strange problems with gnome2 and was > wondering if anyone else is having them > > 1. I have a 1.7 Ghz p4m laptop with 512megs mem. Howev

Re: Need help using Belkin f5d5020 with network install

2003-03-07 Thread Bill Marcum
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 07:56:20PM +0100, Matthias Hentges wrote: > Am Don, 2003-03-06 um 11.24 schrieb Sean Melton: > > Please help- > > > > I am trying to install Debian on my laptop (HP Omnibook 4100) > > using my network. I have a Belkin f5d5020 nic that the setup utility > > is not

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
On 7 Mar 03 17:43:34 GMT, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugh Saunders said: > >> But i thought it would be more secure to put ALL : ALL in hosts.deny and >> then in.sshd : ALL in hosts.allow. This dosnt work[ssh connections are >> refused], how do i specify that i want all hosts to be able to

Re: Libranet to Sarge

2003-03-07 Thread Frank Copeland
On 6 Mar 03 22:35:56 GMT, Keith Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, is there some reason Debian can't adopt the Libranet > installer and tweak it for the Debain defaults intead of the Libranet > defaults? The installer is very nice. Debian supports 11(?) architectures. How many do

Re: Some kernel compile questions

2003-03-07 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003, Sukrit wrote: > > hi listers, > > i have some kernel related questions, i have read the fine manunal > (kernel-howto) but didn't get answers to these. > > 1. How do i decide which modules to load at boot time, which file is > to be edited? (i am thinking that i'll compile s

Re: allow root login when using gdm

2003-03-07 Thread jereme
Damian Slavek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running Woody and using gdm for logins. What do I have to change in > order to allow root to login? The machine boots directly to X. /usr/share/doc/gdm/html/C/x156.html#AEN347 In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf [security] AllowRoot=true > I'm not new to linux

exim dynamic confiuration

2003-03-07 Thread Jack Pistachio
This is for a dialup using exim. Is there anyway to dynamically configure exim so that it uses the IP address provided by the dialup ISP? -jackp __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UN

allow root login when using gdm

2003-03-07 Thread Damian Slavek
I'm running Woody and using gdm for logins. What do I have to change in order to allow root to login? The machine boots directly to X. I'm not new to linux, just Debian. RedHat was starting to scare me. Thanks in advance for any info. Damian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
This mail is solely to keep anyone up to date that was following this thread. I tried to no success recover my data. I tried demos of expensive recovery software - and some could find superblocks, but not recover my files. It seems the message is quite clear - no FAT - no recovery. I've managed

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Robert Storey
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:34:43 + "Hugo Ideler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? This probably won't work, but you could boot with a rescue CD (Knoppix is k

Re: SIS900 DCHP Problem (was: Newbie bull ...)

2003-03-07 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 05:06:06PM +0100, Michael Bona wrote: > Sorry, I am confused: Detection with DHCP fails - I can confirm that ;-( > Then what do you do to make the detection "work fine? do you have anything in your kernel logs that looks like: ... Error EERPOM read ... ? i remember a fel

[solved] Re: where'd my mouse go?

2003-03-07 Thread 'sean finney'
so about a dozen kernels later... i reverted to the debian stock kernel for 2.4.20, and things worked on that. so i examined the relevant differences between my config and debian's: 8,11c8,11 < CONFIG_MOUSE=m < CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y <--- debian --- > CONFIG_MOUSE=y > CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m

gtop

2003-03-07 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I tried to install gtop, and I had the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install gtop Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gnome-core gnome-system-monitor The following NEW packages will be installed: gtop 0 package

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-07 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Hubert Chan states that I can just take my old config file and copy to the new tree. I assume you mean to copy it to where I am compiling the kernel. But in which folder exactly and I assume this is prior to running make-kpkg -config=menuconfig kernel-image On Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003, at 12:21

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread Brad Eisan
Florian, John is completely right. Although you can edit the modules.conf file directly and it will still work, it is a good practice to do it through /etc/modutils and update-modules. To do it that way, here are the instructions: 1. cd /dev/modutils 2. nano (or whatever text editor u pr

Re: test

2003-03-07 Thread Andreas Happe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brad wrote: > test could you just use one of the alt.test* forums for such brain damaged test postings? Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Andreas Happe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote: >> Hugh Saunders said: >> another reason I don't use it is I prefer firewalls over it. > Hmmm i guess iptables would be better but i dont speak iptables yet and > hosts seemed like a quick f

Re: mini instalation

2003-03-07 Thread Brad Eisan
Narins, Josh wrote: Q. Can I install compact Debian i386 only with rescue.bin root.bin and driver-1.bin? Or base-#.bin are needed? Thank you Ivan Kolenko Ivan, Don't worry about those other posts. Those two disks are sufficient if your network card is recognized. If not, you will need th

Re: gnome 2.2 install for woody going wrong

2003-03-07 Thread tom
I should have pointed out that I am on the stable distro and that the website that I found the instructions at is: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8212380009.html On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:09:16AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have tried to install gnome 2.2, as per the instructio

Re: recurring error in exim's log

2003-03-07 Thread Jason Chambers
On Mar 7 15:58, ScruLoose wrote: > So yeah... now I'm receiving fetchmail's error message in my inbox every 5 > minutes. > it kinda looks to me like some spammer munged his headers so badly that > it's screwing things up for delivery. However, "General SMTP/ESMTP error." > doesn't tell me much ab

gnome 2.2 install for woody going wrong

2003-03-07 Thread tom
Hi, I have tried to install gnome 2.2, as per the instructions at www.desktoplinux.com - unfortunately, after typing # apt-get update I typed # apt-get upgrade instead of # apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines* Now, when I attempt this command, I get the following errors: Reading Package

Re: NVidia driver problem

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Vardan Gevorgyan said: > Hello > > I have problem with my video card. I still ure debian 2.2 and i could not > install my video card driver. you may get lucky and find Xfree 4.x for potato. it was available as .debs at one point though the site that had them doesn't seem to carry them anymore. I c

Re: hosts.(allow|deny) [non-NAT routing]

2003-03-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:55:12PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:01:14PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote: > > > Hugh Saunders said: > > > another reason I don't use it is I prefer firewalls over it. > > Hmmm i guess ipt

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > > > From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM > > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > > > See this post for more detail on this subject: > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/ > > m

Problems with Gnome2

2003-03-07 Thread Chris Hoover
Hi, I finally have gotten a clean install of gnome2 for my unstable dist laptop, and I'm having some strange problems with gnome2 and was wondering if anyone else is having them 1. I have a 1.7 Ghz p4m laptop with 512megs mem. However, gnome feels extreamly sluggish. An example of this woul

Re: Help with wireless

2003-03-07 Thread Emilio Murcia
Thanks everyone... it worked!!! Apart of some nasty messages as the ones shown below, my WLAN is now up and running smoothly!! I played with iwconfig and /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, got the "manfid" number... and learnt about schemes and all that :-) Gracias amigos!! -- The error messages

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:57:25PM -0800, nate wrote: > Hugh Saunders said: > > > There is no reference to ssh at all in daemon.log > > But.. I changed in.sshd to sshd and it now works. > > it may be in /var/log/auth.log been a while since I used tcp wrappers :) for the record, is all in /var/log

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible to recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't have an ent

Re: KNOPPIX and it configure.

2003-03-07 Thread Levi Waldron
On March 7, 2003 02:55 am, Rob Weir wrote: > As far as I can tell, this has absolutely nothing to do with Debian. > Surely Knoopix has a user help mailing list somewhere... Well, it's related in the sense that Knoppix is an auto-configuring Debian live CD. It's a mix of stable, testing, and unst

NVidia driver problem

2003-03-07 Thread Vardan Gevorgyan
Hello   I have problem with my video card. I still ure debian 2.2 and i could not install my video card driver.   Vardan Gevorgyan   P.S. My video card model is NVidia GForce MX-400.                                                             V.G.

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Martin" == Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Hi! I try to get the WEP encryption (sure, it is not Martin> secure but better than nothing) on my wireless card Martin> (Orinocco Silver) to work at home. No problem to use it Martin> under Windows, but it doesn't w

OT: Patch for ide-tape driver

2003-03-07 Thread Frans Pop
This might interest other Debian users who use the ide-tape driver. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: PATCH for ide-tape driver Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 00:00:24 +0100 From: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been experiencing problems with this driver. When

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-07 Thread Levi Waldron
On March 7, 2003 10:51 am, bob parker wrote: > That is easy if you have no subdirectories on the cdr, but gets a little > messy if you do, the files have to be piped to md5sum from find and xargs. Hm? Why wouldn't you just check each file individually by: mount /cdrom md5sum -c /cdrom/md5sum.txt

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread John
Should this not be placed in a file in /etc/modutils/... since /etc/modules.conf is automatically regenerated from all the files in /etc/modutils/... by update-modules ?? , hmm at least on unstable it is :) Brad Eisan wrote: Florian, I basically read a pile of tutorials online and put these ste

Map characters in telnet program

2003-03-07 Thread Paulo Henrique B de Oliveira
Hi all, I have installed in a Windows machine the netterm program that telnets to a HP-UX server and run some programs. The netterm program have some F keys (F2, F3, ..., F12) configured to other values (]^...). Where do I configure these in a machine running Linux and a xterm terminal? bash, x

Re: X11 problems: Caught signal 11. Server aborting

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Jörgen Andersson said: > Hi, > > I have some problems with my X. It crashes. It worked fine until yesterday > and I did nothing :). Except running apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. I'm > running unstable. > > Anybody have an idea, what's wrong. I have checked my memory with > memtest86 and it ok. >

Re: Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Whoops... That's a bad one. Really evil. So you wrote a new filesystem over your last one? A partition itself can be found again when it disappears from the disklabel, but this is different. AFAIK, the data (or probably 99% of it) is still there, on your partition, but there's no filesystem to t

Re: printer stalls on multipage documents?

2003-03-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 06:33, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello > have a problem, my printer a laserjet 5n doesn't seem to be able to > print ou multipage documents > > printing 1 or max 2-3 page documents is ok, but i noticed that printing > out something larger (which doesn't happen very often,

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 08:28, Dave Selby wrote: > /etc/aliases contains ... > > daemon: root > bin: root > sys: root > sync: root > games: root > man: root > lp: root > mail: root > news: root > uucp: root > proxy: root > postgres: root > www-data: root > > So my root mail goes to root ? because

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-07 Thread David McBride
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, >> I compiled Wacom and USB into the kernel, and my Wacom 6x8 USB does the >> job. Didn't have to do anything with XF86Config-4--it just works. >> >> I'm still trying to diagnose the lack of pressure/eraser support, but >> that will come ;-) X

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread Brad Eisan
Florian, I basically read a pile of tutorials online and put these steps together to get my own burner working. This *should* work for you as well: 1. Your lilo.conf is fine. Just be sure that you ran 'lilo' since you have made the changes. 2. Add the following to the end of /etc/modules.conf

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Brad Eisan wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on whether or not there is a GUI installe

Re: Blender menu problems

2003-03-07 Thread csj
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:17:05 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:45:30PM +, John Stevenson wrote: > > I am running the testing distribution of Debian and have > > problems with the application 'blender'. > > > > On launching the program it automatically spans the whole >

RE: mini instalation

2003-03-07 Thread Narins, Josh
> > Q. Can I install compact Debian i386 only with rescue.bin root.bin and > driver-1.bin? > Or base-#.bin are needed? > Thank you > Ivan Kolenko > Ivan, Don't worry about those other posts. Those two disks are sufficient if your network card is recognized. If not, you will need the dr

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:01:14PM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote: > > Hugh Saunders said: > > another reason I don't use it is I prefer firewalls over it. > Hmmm i guess iptables would be better but i dont speak iptables yet and > hosts seemed li

Re: where does "root" mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Glenn English
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:20, Dave Selby wrote: > When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant > find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. On some systems (of which mine is one) it it not possible, because the email delivery process isn't all

RE: Libranet to Sarge

2003-03-07 Thread Narins, Josh
> Hi, > Hi, > ...my question is if I do an apt-get > upgrade, will I officially be converted to sarge, or is there > more to it > than that? I believe you might have to apt-get dist-upgrade when doing a change so fundamental. ---

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 07 March 2003 3:47 pm, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: >> What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and >> add an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command >> 'newaliases.' > >This is a sendmail

Help! partition table!

2003-03-07 Thread Hugo Ideler
My disk layout: hda1: Windows XP 10 GB hda2: Debian 3.0 40 GB I've been happily using debian 3.0 woody for 2 weeks now. I decided it was time for an adventure and decided to install sarge unstable to my scsi drive. I booted the cdrom, and had fdisk write the partition table to my scsi drive. the

X11 problems: Caught signal 11. Server aborting

2003-03-07 Thread Jörgen Andersson
Hi, I have some problems with my X. It crashes. It worked fine until yesterday and I did nothing :). Except running apt-get update, apt-get upgrade. I'm running unstable. Anybody have an idea, what's wrong. I have checked my memory with memtest86 and it ok. Here is the X log. This is a pre-re

RE: where'd my mouse go?

2003-03-07 Thread Narins, Josh
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:23:05AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > but no module that looks like it ought to be the psaux module. very > > odd. also, Configure.help in my linux src doesn't say > anything about > > this being able to be a module. i think i'll just recompile the > > kernel wi

Re: Applying Debian diff to a newer upstream tar ball.

2003-03-07 Thread David Z Maze
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just applied a debian .diff.gz to a newer upstream tar ball. > Although the patch succeeded, any comments or pointers for discussion > about this process would be appreciated. I do believe that my case was > easy because the newer upstream tar ball

Re: recurring error in exim's log

2003-03-07 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:46:17PM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > > The "unqualified recipient rejected" is caused by mail > being sent to fetchmail without a domain. To allow Exim to > accept an unqualified recipient address add > "receiver_unqualified_hosts = localhost" to Exim's config > file.

Re: glob(7) man page is confusing

2003-03-07 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:39:47PM -0600, Gianfranco Berardi wrote: > In the glob(7) man page, you find the following: > > >Ranges > >There is one special convention: two characters separated by `-' > denote >a range. (Thus, `[A-Fa-f0-9]' is > >equivalent to `[ABCDEFabcdef0123456789]'.) One may

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >[ No technical content, just a funny story ] > > > >At a prior job, we had a bunch of servers in a datacenter. Some of > >the datacenter people liked to play with the keyboard; one of them was > >convinced that

AMD Barton experiences

2003-03-07 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Anyone running woody/sarge on a Barton? Is the extra cost worth it for a Barton vs 2500+XP What motherboard/RAM/Fan... are you using? What about memory heatsinks? worthing or not? which ones? I was thinking of the following system: ASUS A7V8X LAN AMD ATHLON XP 2500 "Barton" 333

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Hugh Saunders said: > There is no reference to ssh at all in daemon.log > But.. I changed in.sshd to sshd and it now works. it may be in /var/log/auth.log been a while since I used tcp wrappers :) if all else fails grep ssh /var/log/* :) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:52:44PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > What about running X locally and starting the window manager remotely? Doable, though I can't tell you offhand how to get the window manager to run remotely, since I don't recall where it's started from. > 1. less sensitive to NIC hiccu

Re: "resetting" a network card

2003-03-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:53:26AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The problem is that the network card, after lots of data (about 4GB) - > > > > > either in receive or in transmit, stops responding corr

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on whether or not there is a GUI installer for Debian. If so

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add > an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.' This is a sendmailism. exim will recognize changes to alias files immediately a

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread Florian Sukup
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:28:31PM +, Brad Eisan wrote: > Florian, > > I will need more detail. What kernel r u using? Contents of # uname -r 2.4.18 self-compiled to smbmount large files, rest unchanged from Debian. > '/etc/modules' ? Have you added anything to '/etc/modules.conf' ? What

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread Brad Eisan
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on whether or not there is a GUI installer for Debian. If so

Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE

2003-03-07 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:54, D. wrote: > > --- Didier Caamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, could anybody give me some direction > > to how can I uninstall > > wmaker, Gnome and kde? > > > > I accidentally remove Konqueror and most of KDE > > libraries while I was > > installin

Re: Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Joseph A Nagy Jr said: > Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on > making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask > (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on > whether or not there is a GUI installer for Debian. I

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Bob Paige said: > > But in your case, the maintainer put up some bogus packages. > > What I'm really thinking about is the appropriateness of using Debian for > a Linux-based appliance. At my work they have Linux appliances, but they > are always based on RedHat. I would think the apt-get functio

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Bob Paige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030307 11:53 PST]: > So, what is the chance that someone could spoof access to an update > server? Does apt-get provide some sort of security (i.e. ssh connection > to the server, or digital signatures on the packages)? You can use sign

Re: formail help

2003-03-07 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030307 11:51 PST]: > You don't understand my question. I can set up my .procmailrc for > debian-user mails but not this is my problem as I specified. > My question: which is the minimal set of mail fields to be become a > correct

Re: hosts.(allow|deny)

2003-03-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0800, nate wrote: > Hugh Saunders said: > > > But i thought it would be more secure to put ALL : ALL in hosts.deny and > > then in.sshd : ALL in hosts.allow. This dosnt work[ssh connections are > > refused], how do i specify that i want all hosts to be able to c

RE: howto verify burn?

2003-03-07 Thread Narins, Josh
> From: bob parker, Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:10 AM > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:16, Brad wrote: > > See this post for more detail on this subject: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200211/ > msg03076.html > > > > -Brad > > > Checked it out. From the posts it is still

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: Another variable, just in case it will shed any light: I'm using a USB ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M; very small). I've heard in the past of problems with USB ethernet adapters disconnecting and causing prob

test

2003-03-07 Thread Brad
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Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Friday 07 March 2003 1:16 pm, Dave Selby wrote: >On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +, Dave Selby wrote: >> > On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: >> > > what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root >> > > i

Re: Unistalling Gnome, Wmaker, KDE and re-installing KDE

2003-03-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 07 March 2003 07:34 am, Didier Caamano wrote: > Hello everyone, could anybody give me some direction to how can I > uninstall wmaker, Gnome and kde? > > I accidentally remove Konqueror and most of KDE libraries while I was > installing wine. I have tried several times to run apt-get insta

Re: Two network cards of same type, which eth0, which eth1?

2003-03-07 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mark Janssen wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 13:26, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I am going to be installing two new network cards soon, most likely > > I'll be ge

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 13:04, Svenn Are Bjerkem wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 23:16, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > And if there is lots of heat, light and smoke, get the fire extinguisher > > - it is not *totally* impossible for printers to catch fire. > > Old, very fast line printers could catch f

Applying Debian diff to a newer upstream tar ball.

2003-03-07 Thread Shaul Karl
I have just applied a debian .diff.gz to a newer upstream tar ball. Although the patch succeeded, any comments or pointers for discussion about this process would be appreciated. I do believe that my case was easy because the newer upstream tar ball was only slightly different from Debian's (old)

Re: Get in Trouble Now

2003-03-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:28, David Z Maze wrote: > arief_mulya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But I do notice that gdm is back to the gnome1.4 version. And the font > > become very ugly. > > The gdm is sid is the GNOME 1.4 gdm; I don't think the GNOME 2.x gdm > is there at all. (Not entirely

Re: gnomba wont smbumount

2003-03-07 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 11:47, Jason M. Harvey wrote: > hi, > > i have samba set up between two debian boxes. i can smbmount/smbumount > with no troubles. > last night i installed gnomba, which mounts shares very nicely. the > problem is, when i try to unmount them using gnomba, it fails, says "...

Installer Woes

2003-03-07 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Okay. My problem. I cannot reinstall RedHat. So, since I was planning on making the switch to Debian, I figured now would be the best time to ask (before I use the Debian Woody r0 3.0 cd's I downloaded ages ago) on whether or not there is a GUI installer for Debian. If so, where? I've been look

Re: apt-get security question

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Paige
nate wrote: Bob Paige said: I am curious about how secure the apt-get system is; is it possible to spoof a debian server and thus send compromised updates to a given machine? If you have 3rd party apt sources in your sources.list it is very easy to spoof an update. Which is one reason I do

Re: formail help

2003-03-07 Thread Attila Csosz
You don't understand my question. I can set up my .procmailrc for debian-user mails but not this is my problem as I specified. My question: which is the minimal set of mail fields to be become a correct mailbox? (only from, to, subject not enough I got "not correct mailbox" error message) Than

Re: Orinocco Silver and wep encryption.

2003-03-07 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Keith Winston wrote: > I have that card working. You need to add your encryption key to the > /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts file, something like this: > > [...] I had the settings there (I checked with iwconfig, how the card was configured) and also did configure the card manual

Re: recurring error in exim's log

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:40:04AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Actually, miguel is the name of my machine, and it's already set as the > 'qualify_domain'. Qualify_recipient is not set, so it should default to > 'qualify_domain', according to the comments in /etc/exim.conf . Is miguel in local_domai

Re: Dumb question: How do you reboot?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Nathan E Norman wrote: > >One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't > >dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a "login screen". Sigh. > >Unscheduled downtime. > Isn't this a good example of why _not_ t

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Another possibility I've considered would be to not use XDMCP but > instead NFS mount everything and invoke it from the client. Yeah, that works pretty well, provided the client's RAM and CPU are up to the task. > I'm not > concerned

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread Jorge Santos
Florian Sukup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have trouble writing a CD using cdrecord. > > My old Computer is running SuSE. There I can write a CD. > > There is Debian woody on my new computer and here it's not working: > > # cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 speed=10 blank=fast file.cd_image >

Re: XDMCP and client requirements

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote: > Another variable, just in case it will shed any light: I'm using a USB > ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M; very small). I've heard in the past > of problems with USB ethernet adapters disconnecting and causing > problems, but even whe

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread Brad Eisan
Florian, I will need more detail. What kernel r u using? Contents of '/etc/modules' ? Have you added anything to '/etc/modules.conf' ? What does 'cdrecord -scanbus' return? Do you have a symbolic link from /dev/scd0 to /dev/ (=what u call ur burner)? Have you added anything to 'append=

Re: floating point hex calc?

2003-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:21:57PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:53:02 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > `bc' comes with Debian. Start it with the -l flag (to do float > > math), set ibase to 16, and enter A-F in caps. The ">" and ":" show > > what I typed and what bc dis

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +, Dave Selby wrote: > > On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: > > > what do u mean by "via the web with kmail" ... anyways mostly root > > > is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to roo

Problem with X

2003-03-07 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Somewhere between an apt-get upgrade of unstable woody and the system crashing twice while trying to get a second ethernet card going I seem to have trashed my x. I have tried reinstalling various x-windows packages with no luck. The error message I am getting is: (EE) end of block range 0xfb

Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????

2003-03-07 Thread Christian Kaenzig
On Thursday 06 March 2003 20:57, Carla Schroder wrote: > A Google search for lp0 on fire turns up several hits: > http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:bcjVD8F2zJUC:www.kalamazoolinux.org/ma >ilarchive/0006/msg00188.html+lp0+on+fire&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Apparently this is > an old and honorable Unix humo

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