Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On March 30, 2003 11:03 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:45:55AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up > > > until now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i a

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-30 Thread erinn
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 11:06, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have the first 93 JPEG images from the new digital camera on my hard > drive. The gimp will load an image and print it perfectly. I see it > also has an option to create a thumbnail of an image. What I would like > is an album of thu

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:45:55AM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until > > now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i ask him how to do > > them, he keeps telling me to get Turbo

Re: Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > I read something about NTP and I like that, so I installed the ntp packages, > and I want to adjust the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the > message: > > 30 Mar 20:13:10 ntptimeset[11095]: the NTP socket is in us

Re: Java plugin help?

2003-03-30 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Paul Mackinney wrote: Mark L. Kahnt declaimed: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:45, Michael Bona wrote: Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: Hi, does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org does not seem to list any and

Re: Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread daniel huhardeaux
Terry Milnes wrote: I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non readable fonts. I have tried to just use TrueType fonts but X complains about font fixed. This font is located in the misc fon directory. Is there anyway to get XFT2 to alias fixed as Courier New? If not, how

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 31 Mar 2003 12:32 am, John Hasler wrote: > Eric G. Miller writes: > > To set the time explicitly, see the settime command of chronyc (info > > chrony). > > Setting the time with date as the OP did has the same effect. But after doing that, s

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Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:38:08 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. I've got > to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand coaster. So far, > the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was one I made a fractal out of > in the m

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:06:06AM -0500, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? i've definitely been in these shoes before. it may be too late depending on how active you

Re: Debian package from other orig.tar.gz

2003-03-30 Thread Brian Nelson
"Egor Tur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folk. > I want to build package from source but with other orig.tar.gz. > What can I do? Can I do change dsc file? md5sum? > Thanx. Extract the alternate tarball and apply the diff.gz to it with something like zcat *.diff.gz | patch -p0 Then, clean

Re: limiting hard drive space for a user..

2003-03-30 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie question I know, > But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive space ? > Is it possible ? yup. take a look at the quota and quotatool packages, and the documentation that comes with the

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 22:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until > now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i ask him how to do > them, he keeps telling me to get TurboTax for windoze. I keep > reminding him I run linux, but he keeps f

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 02:35:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://cdmediaworld.com/hardware/cdrom/cd_quality.shtml I can't believe that this is entirely accurate. I have had terrible luck with Pioneer discs, but no trouble at all with Memorex ones, which seems to be the exact opposite c

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:19:05PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the > heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50 > CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this > mailing lis

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Robert Storey
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? Although it's too late to help you recover the data you've already delete

pkt_too_big

2003-03-30 Thread martin f krafft
recently, i started seeing messages like this in my log: kernel: sending pkt_too_big (len[1500] pmtu[1427]) to self the MTU is 1500 on the interface, so i am puzzled. how can i find out what's generating these? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto

RE: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
> -Original Message- > From: Shri Shrikumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: LWN: Ptrace vulnerability in 2.2 and 2.4 kernels > > Does that mean that a kernel that has module loading disabled is not > vulnerable to t

Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?

2003-03-30 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 23:29, Peter Farley wrote: > But what are these ".udeb" files? Are these "unstable > deb's"? I would rather install at least a testing > kernel, I'm not quite ready to be on the bleeding > edge. > udebs are debs for the new installer. I dont think you should use these on

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Jeremiah Foster
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. is there an undelete util ? thanks Matt Matt, There is not an "undelete" utility as you might find under a proprietary operating system. However, if you were editing that file, in Emacs for

Re: How do I "apt-get upgrade" the kernel for debian-390?

2003-03-30 Thread Peter Farley
OK, I went to that link and downloaded what looks like the right files (please tell me if I downloaded the right ones: ipv6-modules-2.4.19-s390-udeb_2.4.19-2_s390.udeb kernel-image-2.4.19-s390_2.4.19-2.dsc kernel-image-2.4.19-s390_2.4.19-2.tar.gz kernel-image-2.4.19-s390-udeb_2.4.19-2_s390.udeb ni

Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed: > > "Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> I don't have a device /dev/dri/card0. Am I supposed to be > Paul> running devfs? Kernel config shows > > Paul> $ grep DEVFS config-2.4.20-k6 CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y # > Paul> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:16:40PM -0500, Andrew Perrin insinuated: > The past three years I've used TurboTax for the Web - works great, > easy to use, and works flawlessly (this year) with Mozilla as the > browser under debian. Last year for a short time it stopped working, > but it miraculously came

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
The past three years I've used TurboTax for the Web - works great, easy to use, and works flawlessly (this year) with Mozilla as the browser under debian. Last year for a short time it stopped working, but it miraculously came back when people complained about linux not being "supported." ap

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i ask him how to do them, he keeps telling me to get TurboTax for windoze. I keep reminding him I run linux, but he keeps forgetting. Is there an equivalent linux program that anyo

Re: [~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Wardle
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:25, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until > now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i ask him how to do > them, he keeps telling me to get TurboTax for windoze. I keep > reminding him I run linux, but he keeps f

Re: setting time via internet ?

2003-03-30 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, dave selby wrote: > Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via > the internet every time I log on? > Have a look at the chrony package. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit http://www.wreckingpit.com http://www.wattzap.com http:

Re: Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Terry Milnes wrote: I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non readable fonts. I have tried to just use TrueType fonts but X complains about font fixed. This font is located in the misc fon directory. Is there anyway to get XFT2 to alias fixed as Courier New? If not, how d

Re: Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage

2003-03-30 Thread Muralikrishnan B
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:12, David Z Maze wrote: > Muralikrishnan B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm > > compiling in a different path (just like ./configure > > --prefix=/custom/path) ? > > You'd need to edit the debian/rules scrip

[~OT] tax program for linux

2003-03-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
My dad, who has graciously done my taxes for me every year up until now, has finally shuffled them off to me. When i ask him how to do them, he keeps telling me to get TurboTax for windoze. I keep reminding him I run linux, but he keeps forgetting. Is there an equivalent linux program that anyon

Re: sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."

2003-03-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:03:26AM +0200, Nicolas Kratz wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:34:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Up-to-date sid installation w/ working X: > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /tmp/.X11-unix/ -a > > > total 16 > > > drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4

Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

2003-03-30 Thread briand
> "Paul" == Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I don't have a device /dev/dri/card0. Am I supposed to be Paul> running devfs? Kernel config shows Paul> $ grep DEVFS config-2.4.20-k6 CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y # Paul> CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT is not set # CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set

Re: Problems getting Samba to work fixed

2003-03-30 Thread David Meiser
Thanks everyone who provided help.  I found that, by putting my username in the username field, I could work around this issue in a fairly simple and sane manner, with a reasonable amount of security...  we already had some fool hack our first win32 media server and delete our music, so I have

Font problem after updating to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-03-30 Thread Terry Milnes
I can no longer use XFree86 as the fonts are rendered as long non readable fonts. I have tried to just use TrueType fonts but X complains about font fixed. This font is located in the misc fon directory. Is there anyway to get XFT2 to alias fixed as Courier New? If not, how do I get X readab

Re: Sarge Release Date

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Mueller
On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:28, David Krider wrote: > Please note that I'm NOT trolling or looking to start a flamewar. It's > just that it took me three tries to get Woody installed. I've heard that > Sarge will have a new installer and a new manual. I'm looking to get a > feel for the timeframe.

Re: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread Mike M
On Saturday 29 March 2003 17:25, David E. Meiser wrote: > I am attempting to build a media server, using samba to transfer files > to the media server from my Windows XP box and am unable to logon to the > media server. I am able to get to the media server and view the open > shares, but I'm unabl

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Russell Shaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.1.1 <-- network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.252 broadcast 192.168.1.3 auto eth2 iface eth2 inet static addre

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:40:39 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, I believe a primary purpose of this list is to teach, not > just solve problems. If I can make someone _think_ I've been more > successful than if I fixed whatever was broke. Oh and BTW, the OP > respond

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:40:33AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? $ apt-cache search undelete e2undel - Undelete utility for the ext2 file system endeavour2 -

Re: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:40:33 +1000 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. > It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. > > is there an undelete util ? "recover" undeletes files on ext2 partitions. If you have an ext3 partiti

Re: Programing Question

2003-03-30 Thread Harley D. Eades III
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:10:37PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:09:44AM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: Hello, This might be off topic, but I hope someone can answer a question for me. Is there any documentation on parpo

RE: undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have tried 'recover' Package: recover Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 104 Maintainer: Noel Koethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.3b-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/r/recover/recover_1.3b-1_i386.deb Size: 13360 MD5sum: a6d0b77ce1ad858878f46b4

foomatic scripts

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to configure a network capable printer using the foomatic scripts for PDQ. Does anyone have any experience with this, or other servers, that they could help explain? I'm trying for PDQ because of it's simplicity, but cups could work if I could get around some of the debian dependenc

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:59:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > auto eth1 > > iface eth1 inet static > > address 192.168.1.1 <-- > > network 192.168.1.0 > > netmask 255.255.255.

undelete

2003-03-30 Thread Joyce, Matthew
I have foolishly deleted a file I did not want to. It was created this morning, so it is not backed up. is there an undelete util ? thanks Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: limiting hard drive space for a user..

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:19:48 +1000 "Ross Tsolakidis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie question I know, > But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive > space ? Is it possible ? It is if you're using the ext2 filesystem for /home. I don't know about other fi

Weird Midnight Commander hangup Problem

2003-03-30 Thread Nick
For some weird reason, one of my Woody boxes has developed a problem running the default Midnight Commander package that comes with Woody (V4.5.55-1.2) - 9 times out of 10 "mc" just hangs, and never displays anything - if I Ctrl_C then I get back to the command prompt, with no consequent problems.

Re: limiting hard drive space for a user..

2003-03-30 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +1000, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: > Hi all, > > Newbie question I know, > But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive space ? > Is it possible ? man quota Look at the quota section - http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/c

Re: Help with DRM / DRI on Matrox G400

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
Mark Zimmerman declaimed: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:08:56PM -0800, Slava ZHdanobvich wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 19:23:03 -0800 > > Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've got a Matrox Millenium G400, and recently installed a DVDROM drive. > > > Unfortunately, Xine drops too

Java plugin help? (was: Mozilla 1.3 for Woody?)

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Mackinney
Mark L. Kahnt declaimed: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:45, Michael Bona wrote: > > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:57, Michael Bona wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> does anyone know a source for Mozilla Version 1.3 for Woody? Apt-get.org > > >> does not seem to list any and I

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:56:15 -0600 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet static > address 192.168.1.1 <-- > network 192.168.1.0 > netmask 255.255.255.252 > broadcast 192.168.1.3 > > auto eth2 > iface eth2 inet static > a

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 13:38:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > And also VNC should be mentioned here too. > > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ > > apt-cache show vncserver xvncviewer tightvncserver is a debian package of tightVNC, also worth mention. Kevin -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Linux installation support

2003-03-30 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:09:37PM +, kpn wrote: > Hello Linux-Support, Actually we're Debian-user. You won't find so much discussion of other distributions here. > graphic card: > ASUS V8200 Pure GeForce 3 > > Debian Woody: > Here was also no problem to install Linux from bootable CD. The

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:05:54 +0200 Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, still one problem remains, that i can't boot to windows. Maybe > someone has an idea or i've to reinstall this windows. Okey - it's not > a problem - i don't work with it. What does your Windows 98 entry currently say

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:39:00 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The canonical location is /boot/grub/menu.lst, *relative to the > default root partition*; if your /boot is a separate partition, try > using /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst. Not. The canonical location is relative to *grub's*

Re: buying a cd writer

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: > Hello Mike Dresser, > > Thank you for your reply - though I'd want to check - > is it this one you meant ? > http://www.liteonit.com/english/new_p_e/english--p-rw482448.htm > > I'm asking because the support section only talks > about Windows versions ...

Re: sound none-sound blaster pci512(help)pls((fixed))

2003-03-30 Thread chris parker
chris parker wrote: Burkhard Ritter wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, chris parker wrote: Relevant snips: lspci: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is the log with the right options (yesterday I forgot some, so I > didn't send it since I didn't think it would be useful). I hope you still > have some time to look at it, the problem keeps annoying me. Thanks! Well, after every DHCP REQUEST, th

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-03-30 Thread John Hasler
Eric G. Miller writes: > To set the time explicitly, see the settime command of chronyc (info > chrony). Setting the time with date as the OP did has the same effect. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

limiting hard drive space for a user..

2003-03-30 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Hi all, Newbie question I know, But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive space ? Is it possible ? -- Ross. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Webmin revisited

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Wardle
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 23:30, Mark Annandale wrote: > I'm forgetting something really simple here. When trying to connect to > https://localhost:1 I am getting the error message 'cannot connect to > loachost (port 1), whereas webmin uses the default port of 1. Webmin does not enable h

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-03-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 11:32 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > Now, 6 hours later that time is still 42 seconds out. > > > > How long does it take chrony to start relying on the server time

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Michael West
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:15:36AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 13:46:36 -0800, Michael West wrote: > > I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X > > hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. > > Look at all the scripts (eit

Re: How fast should chrony close the time gap?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a server which is using ntp to synchronise with the outside world with > ntp. > > My clock on my workstation seemed to get badly wrong this morning after > playing a dvd

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 13:46:36 -0800, Michael West wrote: > I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X > hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. Look at all the scripts (either in your $HOME or in /etc) that can be run by the shell at startup. Perh

Re: ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
At 13:46 Uhr -0800 30.03.2003, Michael West wrote: I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. Looks like you're setting $DISPLAY to '0.0' somewhere in your startup scripts? It should either be something like "lo

Re: sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."

2003-03-30 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 04:34:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Up-to-date sid installation w/ working X: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /tmp/.X11-unix/ -a > > total 16 > > drwxrwxrwt2 root root 4096 Mar 24 03:19 . > > drwxrwxrwt9 root root12288 Mar 30 2

Re: sound none-sound blaster pci512(help)pls

2003-03-30 Thread chris parker
Burkhard Ritter wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, chris parker wrote: Relevant snips: lspci: 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) lsmod: emu10k1

Re: PDQ print error

2003-03-30 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Allison wrote: I can do this: pdq test_file But I can't do this: uptime | pdq and I can't do this: man pdq | pdq Under other configurations, (cupsys-bsd and the old fashioned lpr) I was able to do these types of print commands successfully. I have installed: foomatic-bin foomatic-db foomat

Re: setting time via internet ?

2003-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 11:54:44AM +0100, dave selby wrote: > Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via > the internet every time I log on? > I use the package chrony It sets up a system for checking your clock against time standard on the web and adjusting the

ssh X11 forwarding

2003-03-30 Thread Michael West
I haven't been able to get ssh to forward X11 traffic. I also get no errors that I can find. I have "X11Forwarding yes" in sshd_config and login with `ssh -X hostname` but `echo $DISPLAY` gives '0.0' after successful login. I see no errors on either the server or client side or an any logs I hav

Re: sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."

2003-03-30 Thread jbmaxson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:46:58PM +0200, Nicolas Kratz happened to mention: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:23:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting." > > > > dang, I thought. So I do my googling, and found some others have

Re: Different install prefix for dpkg-buildpackage

2003-03-30 Thread David Z Maze
Muralikrishnan B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can get I dpkg-buildpackage to install the source package i'm > compiling in a different path (just like ./configure > --prefix=/custom/path) ? You'd need to edit the debian/rules script to configure the package appropriately. But why do you wan

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread David Z Maze
Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install grub to boot my linux or windows partition. > Unfortunatly it won't work. > Now, grub boots the grub shell, but nothing more. I've to tell him where > the configfile is > > configfile /grub/menu.lst > > My menu appears and i c

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
Andreas helped me out. The solution was a duplicate /boot directory in the /boot directory - like: /boot/boot/grub/ without a menu.lst. I deleted this duplicate directory and installed the "original" grub. After a reboot, i've my boot menu back :) So, still one problem remains, that i can't boot t

Re: Programing Question

2003-03-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:10:37PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 12:09:44AM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > >>Hello, > >> This might be off topic, but I hope someone can answer a question > >>for me. Is there any documentation on parport.h parpor

Re: sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."

2003-03-30 Thread Nicolas Kratz
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:23:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting." > > dang, I thought. So I do my googling, and found some others have asked > this question with the response of basically "well, do what it says and >

Re: Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Willem-Jan" == Willem-Jan Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Willem-Jan> Hello all, I read something about NTP and I like that, Willem-Jan> so I installed the ntp packages, and I want to adjust Willem-Jan> the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the Willem-Jan> mess

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Joseph Barillari wrote: > PJ> That's all you need to do. Don't expect full X sessions over SSH, > PJ> that's not what's intended there. > > There is a project called s-terminal > > http://ayesha.phys.virginia.edu/~bryan/projects/knoppix/sterminal/ And also VNC should be mentioned here

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> So I do not see any difference and yet, X over ssh only Michael> works in one direction. Michael> Any pointer gladly apriciated, Run 'ssh -v -X' and see what the last few lines tell you about the X forwarding. It i

Re: How to burn JPEG files to CD?

2003-03-30 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Thomas" == Thomas H George writes: Thomas> I successfuly downloaded 93 JPEG files from a digital Thomas> camera to the hard drive. Not wishing to tie up this Thomas> space permanently, I tried to burn them to a cd with the Thomas> command cdrecord -v dev=1,0,0 speed=8 -data

Re: Installing default printer

2003-03-30 Thread dhofstee
Lindsay Yardley wrote: I would like to install my printer using the default debian utilities I wanted to too, but lpr didn't work for me. Then I tried CUPS but I got inconsistent results. Only after uninstalling lpr and installing a "fake" lpr package that knows CUPS did things start to work

sigh..."X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership..."

2003-03-30 Thread jbmaxson
Hey folks, I have recently tried to strip down my system of the fluff I've been accumulating over the years, then reinstall things as I need them. Well, upon reinstalling X, I now get an error "X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious ownership (not root:root), aborting." dang, I thought. So I

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Michael Naumann
On Sunday 30 March 2003 20:17, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:53:21PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: > > Oh, somehow I expected another answer. > > I'm quite sure, that it should be possible to tunnel X over ssh. > > And in one direction it works perfectly. > > > > So from machin

Re: Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 12:16, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > Hello all, > > I read something about NTP and I like that, so I installed the ntp packages, > and I want to adjust the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the > message: > > 30 Mar 20:13:10 ntptimeset[11095]: the NTP socket is in

RE: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread David E. Meiser
>I beleve you'll get a problem no matter what you do, because if you >log on to the domain, the policy will probably keep you from logging >on to the sambaserver and if you log on to the XP box locally, you'll >probably get troubble because your not logged into the workgroup. But >I'm not 100% sure

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-30 Thread tjm3
Barak Korren wrote: Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have the first 93 JPEG images from the new digital camera on my hard drive. The gimp will load an image and print it perfectly. I see it also has an option to create a thumbnail of an image. What I would like is an album of thumbnails of all 9

Re: Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0600, Eric Eelkema wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 486 with three 3c509 cards set up as a router. It > took some work to get the cards on different IRQs, but I > think I did that correctly, and all of them work individually. > The problem is, when I bring up both int

Re: bootmanager madness

2003-03-30 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 08:40:30PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > AT the "grub" prompt, try doing this: > > grub> root (hd0,4) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub> quit I did it - all seems fine: grub> root (hd0,4) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boo

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-30 Thread ronin2
On 30 Mar 2003 12:19:05 -0500 "Mark L. Kahnt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for > the heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on > that 50 CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases > inappropriate for this

Re: scsi emulation howto (was Re: buying a cd writer)

2003-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Hilliard wrote: Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anybody provide a howto on scsi emulation in Debian ? I'm using a 2.2.20 kernel and I hope I don't have to compile a hole new kernel for this scsi emulation; /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz deals with CD-writing, a

Networking troubles with multiple nics

2003-03-30 Thread Eric Eelkema
Hi, I have a 486 with three 3c509 cards set up as a router. It took some work to get the cards on different IRQs, but I think I did that correctly, and all of them work individually. The problem is, when I bring up both interfaces to the internal network, the one I bring up first works, but the o

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "PJ" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJ> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: >> I'm a bit clueless now. >> Hopefully anybody can help me out here. >> I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. >> I can ssh -X successfull

Re: Problems getting Samba to work

2003-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David E. Meiser wrote: I see you have "username=dave" in your smb.conf and username = dave invalid users = root admin users = dave write list = dave will that say that the user dave resides on the linuxbox as well? And if so is that user one of a fev that's accessing the samba server? If that's t

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-30 Thread Barak Korren
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have the first 93 JPEG images from the new digital camera on my hard drive. The gimp will load an image and print it perfectly. I see it also has an option to create a thumbnail of an image. What I would like is an album of thumbnails of all 93 images with the ab

Re: sound none-sound blaster pci512(help)pls

2003-03-30 Thread Burkhard Ritter
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, chris parker wrote: > Relevant snips: > lspci: > 00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 >AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) > 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 > (rev 07) > lsmod: > emu10k1

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-30 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:05:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:53, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > [snip] > > > Ah,

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 07:53:21PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: > Oh, somehow I expected another answer. > I'm quite sure, that it should be possible to tunnel X over ssh. > And in one direction it works perfectly. > > So from machine m1 > ssh -X m2 xlogo > works fine, whereas from machine m2 >

Adjust time by ntp

2003-03-30 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
Hello all, I read something about NTP and I like that, so I installed the ntp packages, and I want to adjust the time with the command ntptimeset -s, but I get the message: 30 Mar 20:13:10 ntptimeset[11095]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting When I only do ntptimeset it gets the correct time, b

Re: scsi emulation howto (was Re: buying a cd writer)

2003-03-30 Thread Bob Hilliard
Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anybody provide a howto on scsi emulation in > Debian ? I'm using a 2.2.20 kernel and I hope I don't > have to compile a hole new kernel for this scsi > emulation; /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/CD-Writing-HOWTO.gz deals with CD-writing, and in the proc

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