Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Stuart Robinson wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?) > Sorry. > > Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I > suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would > prefer

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-06 Thread Naitik Shah
Well, if RH works, why not just steal the XF86Config file it generates! Thats how I got my first non RPM system working! I guess you dont have either NVIDIA or ATI but some onboard VGA chip. I've never used this one, so my config file is probably useless to you. Naitik. On 07 Oct 2003 08:17:43 +

Re: Mutt & Sylpheed

2003-10-06 Thread Naitik Shah
IT WORKED! Your simple configuration files were more effective in helping me set up one of the most useful things Linux has to offer! Now I've got fetchmail grabbing my mail, throwing it to prcomail, which pipes it through spamassassin (and razor somehow) and drops it into ~/Maildir which courier

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Partitions and format

2003-10-06 Thread Stuart Robinson
Hello all, I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?) Sorry. Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would prefer a journalling format can I change it without a reinstall?

Re: wine

2003-10-06 Thread Nick Hastings
* Peter Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031007 12:44]: > Hi I'm a freebsd user but decided to try woody at the suggestion of a > friend. It's great also. I got most things to work the first time. Welcome. > I have a question though. I installed wine Did you install a .deb package or did you build

Re: parport troubles

2003-10-06 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:26:33AM +0200, Rico -mc- Gloeckner wrote: > Maybe someone can shed some light. That reminds me that i should have atleast given two more details: - kernel is a vanilla 2.4.21 - hardware is an acer notebook (cant give the model no right now) -- | Rico -mc- Gloeckner

parport troubles

2003-10-06 Thread Rico -mc- Gloeckner
Hi, iam feeling a bit lost in this parport Issue. The Bios-Setting for lp0 definitely is 0x378/0x7, so wether i load the Modules or compile parport/parport_pc/lp.o directly in the Kernel, i always get: | parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: wrote 0x0c, read 0x04 | parport 0x378 (WARNING): DATA: wrote 0

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-06 Thread Jon Haugsand
* Naitik Shah > What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the > appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your > XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups > which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through > t

message board related

2003-10-06 Thread Jeffrin Jose T.
hello all, Is there any free message board script related stuff available for Debian GNU/Linux server. Please help me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

simply mutt (Re: Mutt with evolution)

2003-10-06 Thread Ashish Ariga
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:42, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using > > Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would > > like to know

Keyboard doesn't work after a modification in XF86Config

2003-10-06 Thread Hooman Javidnia
Hi, I added a "modeline" for 1280x854 resoloution in XF86Config-4 file and the computer doesn't boot to KDE or Gnome. Instead it starts with a text session. The problem is that the keyboard doesn't work and I can't do anything. I have to push the POWER button and force the computer to shut down.

vim + termcaps + colors

2003-10-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Yet again I come to the group for support ... Okay, so, I get pretty colors when I run vim from within screen, both through putty and on the console itself. When I run vim directly on putty or on the console, though, the only syntax highlighting is through bold. I'm guessing the difference is th

Re: ppp daemon WORKING!!!!

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
WOW thanks for taking me under your "wing". I'm actually online, here, courtsey of, ta da, DEBIAN! I looked in /etc/ after doing touch /etc/resolv.conf and the file had a "?" on it I though that was a bad sign however once I connected it changed (no "?" on the file now) I also have 22, yes twenty-t

root directory missing from /etc/mtab (and mount and df output)

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel R. Allen
I've got an oddity I hope somebody can explain for me- my root partition doesn't show up in mtab. Has anybody seen this before? /proc/mounts seems fine: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cat /proc/mounts rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 /d

Re: are you looking for vim + gnome 2?

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I just found vim-gnome in unstable, which seems to be the gnome 2 equivalent of vim-gtk. hope that helps someone; I seem to remember hearing some outcry about it recently. Since vim-gtk is built against GTK2, wouldn't having a build against GNOME2 be a bit redundant? Aren'

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-10-06 Thread Hooman J
I have added a "1280x854" line to all color depths in XF86Config-4 and I commented all modeline definitions which were generated by KNOPPIX. Now what I see on the screen is a really small copy of the whole desktop, probably 640x480! Another problem is that when I switch to a text console using alt+

are you looking for vim + gnome 2?

2003-10-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I just found vim-gnome in unstable, which seems to be the gnome 2 equivalent of vim-gtk. hope that helps someone; I seem to remember hearing some outcry about it recently. -- monique Please respond to the group OR to my email, but not both. (Group preferred.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: GTK question

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mark Roach wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just out of curiousity ... is it possible to force GTK2 to render GTK/GTK+ apps? I hask because I have a few apps (Audacity and a wxWindows based app that I am developing) that use GTK+, but would look lots better if rendere

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:01:41AM -0800, J Y wrote: > I looked in the file /etc/resolv.conf and there was nothing in it. > That's what ls -l gives too. > deblnx:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf > total 0 > deblnx:~# /etc/resolv.conf is a *directory*? How extremely peculiar. It's supposed to be a f

Re: Sendmail and SMTP AUTH

2003-10-06 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Umm... If you're installing the Debian sendmail packages getting this setup should be a matter of maybe 5-15 minutes at the most... The sendmailconfig script already notifies you if it detects SASL is available and mentions what packages to install and then re-run the sendmailconfig...

Gave it a try and will try again ....

2003-10-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Congratulations and Thanks You to everyone in here ! This is surely the most responsive and helpful list I met so far. Being a Linux user for the last 4 years (mainly RedHat) I was looking for an alternative; and Debian is the first thing to come into mind. I have now invested some three days, but

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Uwe Dippel
Here are the paths: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-06 Thread Naitik Shah
What graphics card are you using? Nvidia or ATI? Did you install the appropriate drivers? Did you change the driver setting in your XF86Config ? There's a dell laptop users mailing list on yahoo groups which is where I figured out how to get my inspiron to work. Go through their archives and files

wine

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Fraser
Hi I'm a freebsd user but decided to try woody at the suggestion of a friend. It's great also. I got most things to work the first time. I have a question though. I installed wine and when I tried to install a windows program it gave me the following error. "Wine cannot find the Freetype font l

Re: XF86Config-4 option for a Wide screen notebook

2003-10-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:55:09 +0200, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-29 08:12]: > >The first problem that I have is that the my computer's native > >resoloution is 1280x854, but Xserver boots the system with

seek problem on avi on cdrom

2003-10-06 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a divx avi file I created. On disk when playing with mplayer I can seek with no problem in the file (i.e. jump forwards/backwards). When I burn the file to cdrom I can no longer seek on the file with the error Cannot seek in raw AVI streams. (Index required, try with the -idx switch.) The fi

Re: Sendmail and SMTP AUTH

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
James W. Thompson, II wrote: I am trying to get Sendmail setup with SMTP AUTH for send mail from my powerbook. I have tried to follow the directions I have found but I am new to sendmail and Linux administration in general and am having problems, I want a strong authentication setup so that only

Sendmail and SMTP AUTH

2003-10-06 Thread James W. Thompson, II
I am trying to get Sendmail setup with SMTP AUTH for send mail from my powerbook. I have tried to follow the directions I have found but I am new to sendmail and Linux administration in general and am having problems, I want a strong authentication setup so that only users of my system can use

Re: Keyman

2003-10-06 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:05:55AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > To my understanding, there is no direct equivalent, because Linux > supports all keyboards (and if it doesn't, it's fairly easy to add > support). Yes, it is pretty easy to use xmodmap; but problem is, the mapping is one-to-one.

[OT] dvd playback jitter

2003-10-06 Thread Micha Feigin
I seem to get a wierd jitter with dvd playback on my laptop. Sharp edges in the images are broken in horizontal lines during movement (in the film). This happened with both xine and mplayer. I got the same behavior when trying to do a simple one/two/three pass encode using mencoder using some helps

Re: Changing system/menu fonts in gnome 2.2 debian

2003-10-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:53, Ben Edwards wrote: > Have been trying to change the size of application menue and text box > fonts for a while now. i have a 21" monior and the Address/URL bar and > drop down menus in mozilla are tiny. This is also the case in other > apps. I am sure there is a syst

kernel 2.6.0-test4 and ASUS P4P800

2003-10-06 Thread Neal Lippman
I'm having a heck of a time getting 2.6.0-test4 to boot on my ASUS P$P800-based system. I didn't have any real trouble getting a config working on my Athlon based system, but I cannot figure out where i am going wrong... If anyone has this MB and has successfully compiled a 2.6.0-test kernel, I wo

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 05 October 2003 06:02, Neo wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote: > > I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, > > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is there > > any setting that will restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot

Re: pls explain setrlimit log message

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 01:46:39PM -0400, Lou Losee wrote: > Can someone explain the following log message I am getting occasionally? > I did a man on setrlimit and understand that it has to do with resource > limits, but how do I find out some more detail to figure out the cause > and solution? >

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:21:17PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.06.1833 +0200]: > > sshd currently runs PAM session modules as the authenticated user, not > > as root. (I think 3.7 changes this.) > > > > [...] > > > > > Is this a known probl

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: outlineing program?

2003-10-06 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 07:37:59PM -0400, stan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:19:42PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:32, stan wrote: > > > I remeber a month or so back playing with a nice (Gnome base I think) > > > outlining program that generated XML files as an out

Re: off the list again

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
I know what it says but my inbox was only at 25% capacity. Something else is going on here. Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:52:24PM -0800, J Y wrote: > > My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about > > microsoft security, but I'm not

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: > stan wrote: > > > >A general wor of wisdom here, for what it's worth. > > > >I once made the mistake of allowing myself to be sucked in by the siren > >song of these offshot distors. As a result I am stuck with 2 machines (one > >at

Re: pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:40, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.06.2214 +0200]: > > Your note on the use of psql suggests that somehow SSL is the > > default access method on your machine. That does not happen for > > me, adn I don't know what in your

Re: NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-06 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:39:44PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > stan said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:02:15PM -0400: > > I;ve recompiled my kernel enabling NFS V3, and rebooted. Yet rpcionfo still > > reports: > > > > 132 udp 2049 nfs > > > > What else do I need to configure to allow

Re: NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
stan said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:02:15PM -0400: > I;ve recompiled my kernel enabling NFS V3, and rebooted. Yet rpcionfo still > reports: > > 132 udp 2049 nfs > > What else do I need to configure to allow this machine to be an NFS V3 > server? Be more specific: exactly what was

Re: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 00:16, Clive Menzies wrote: > I'm running the same version of galean without any noticeable > degradation in speed. I guess it must have been something that you've > added or changed recently I find that galeon, when left running for a long while, tends to get slower and slo

Re: [mICQ] ANNOUNCEMENT: mICQ 0.4.10.5 released

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:17:43AM +0200, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > # ANNOUNCEMENT:mICQ 0.4.10.5 # Excellent, just upgraded from 0.4.10.4, even though I haven't yet encountered any of the bugs you mention. Anyway, great work. Thanks a lot! :) //Peter --

Re: Struggling with User-Mode-Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 06 October 2003 19:19, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am trying to set up a user-mode-linux on my "sarge" server, so that I can > run an unstable build environment. I am struggling a bit with this > > I installed the kernel-patch-uml and the uml-utilities as will as > user-mode-linux. > > Howe

Re: Struggling with User-Mode-Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 06 October 2003 23:20, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031006 11:18]: > > I am trying to set up a user-mode-linux on my "sarge" server, so that I > > can run an unstable build environment. I am struggling a bit with this > > Is there some reason a simple chroot

Re: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages

2003-10-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/10/03 17:28), Nori Heikkinen wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0400 > From: Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages > > has anyone else noticed this? i'm running galeon 1.2.5-0.woody, and > have loved it

woody bf24 problem

2003-10-06 Thread LeVA
Hello! I have the 3.0_r1 cd. When booting from the cd, I type 'bf24', because I want to create an ext3 partition for my system, and this is not possible if I start the installation with the 2.2 kernel. But when the 'bf24' kernel starts and tries to detect what devices are in the ide channels, I

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-06 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Mon, 2003-10-06 um 16.37 schrieb Jon Haugsand: > The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its > policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the > following packages: > > XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) > kernel-sou

Re: kernel 2.4.22 documentation

2003-10-06 Thread Matthias Hentges
Hello Antonio, *please* fix your line wrapping. It's annoying to fix it manually. Am Mon, 2003-10-06 um 20.52 schrieb Antonio Rodr80h8(: > I have had a heck of a time with kernel 2.4.22, at one time I created > an image with kernel-package that worked wonderfully for my system, > then I decided

ANNOUNCEMENT: mICQ 0.4.10.5 released

2003-10-06 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
# # # # ANNOUNCEMENT:mICQ 0.4.10.5 # # # ##

RE: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500, > "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote i

Re: Struggling with User-Mode-Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031006 11:18]: > I am trying to set up a user-mode-linux on my "sarge" server, so that I can > run an unstable build environment. I am struggling a bit with this Is there some reason a simple chroot won't do? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/

Re: I'm off the users list again

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
I re-subscribed. I'm back!! Quoting J Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about > microsoft security, but I'm not even near capacity-only using about > 20-25% of my inbox. Why am I getting thrown off the list? The list is > working I presume. > >

I'm off the users list again?

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
My inbox (I'm using online e-mail) gets flooded with messages about microsoft security, but I'm not even near capacity-only using about 20-25% of my inbox. Why am I getting thrown off the list? The list is working I presume.

galeon REALLY slow in loading pages

2003-10-06 Thread Nori Heikkinen
has anyone else noticed this? i'm running galeon 1.2.5-0.woody, and have loved it for the past 10 months or so. now, for whatever reason, it takes anywhere from 1 second to 15 minutes to load a page -- and this over my super-fast DSL! mozilla and lynx don't have problems with the same pages, and

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 10:38 pm, Mental Patient wrote: > > Mental: > > I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar > > to me. How do I remove it? > > Its in the apt howto. For the sake of brevity, here's a url: > http:/

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing - raidtools

2003-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hi Alvin, > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:50:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > i assume that you have.. > > - software raid1 > > - "FD" as your partition type > > - lilo.conf or grub or other pointing to the /dev/mdxx devices >

Re: pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.06.2214 +0200]: > So it seems that pam_pgsql is choosing to use SSL to connect to > the PostgreSQL server. Weird! It does link against libssl, so you may be right. Apparently though, it doesn't implement SSL right... > Your note on the use o

tracking down kernel-panic cause?

2003-10-06 Thread Monique Y. Herman
This morning, I discovered to my great astonishment that my machine had kernel-panicked in the middle of the night. My main question is, how do you go about tracking something like this down? What utilities should I use to make sure my hardware is properly configured? Etc? If it happens again, s

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Mental Patient
Ralph F. De Witt wrote: On Monday 06 October 2003 08:49 pm, Mental Patient wrote: I also removed the apt-pinning that was going on. Mental: I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar to me. How do I remove it? Its in the apt howto. For the sake of brevity, here's a u

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 08:49 pm, Mental Patient wrote: > I also removed the apt-pinning that was going on. Mental: I do not understand what you mean by apt-pinning. The term is unfamilliar to me. How do I remove it? - -- Ralph *

Re: pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 18:01, martin f krafft wrote: ... > All in all, this make pam_pgsql pretty unusable, and I don't really > know why. I have never told it to use SSL, and that's where the > errors seem to come from. Postgres allows cleartext access: > > /etc/postgres/pg_hba.conf: > hosta

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-10-06 Thread Scott
>One tool I like a lot is modconf. Once you find the right tools for >doing the job in Debian, the configuration of things is generally much >easier. The trick seems to be learning the new tool names and learning >the Debian way of dong things. Thanks Jacob, I've added modconf to my "new" toolb

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:29, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Sorry, not even. Everything installed (it said so), but the fonts are > not (yet ?) available in any application (Galeon, term, Theme Selector). > What is necessary to add them to the available fonts ? Hm, should be done automatically. Could you pos

Epson C43 and C63 drivers

2003-10-06 Thread Savio Ramos
Hi, I can't find drivers for Epson C43 and C63 in www.linuxprinting.org. Does drivers of C42 and C62 works properly with C43 and C63? []'s -- Savio M. Ramos - Arquiteto Rio de Janeiro ICQ174972645 Debian-br#705 test/unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
Sent out this message about 2 hours ago, but it never got on the list. It is in my 'sent mail" so it seems like it went out. I looked in the file /etc/resolv.conf and there was nothing in it. That's what ls -l gives too. deblnx:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf total 0 deblnx:~# I was thinkin

kernel 2.4.22 documentation

2003-10-06 Thread Antonio Rodr80h8(
I have had a heck of a time with kernel 2.4.22, at one time I created an image with kernel-package that worked wonderfully for my system, then I decided to change the atapi to scsi to enable cd writing. This cost me loosing sound, and screwed my system to a point that only last night after one w

Re: Disable / override meta-refresh?

2003-10-06 Thread Travis Crump
Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm looking for information on blocking or disabling the meta refresh tag: I'm using (usually) Galeon 1.2.5, with a squid proxy. Other browsers (w3m, dillo) either ignore or allow overriding meta refresh. I'm aware of Mozilla bug #83265: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Mental Patient
Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Mental: Please forgive me jumping in here, I have just finished a Knoppix hard disk install, and need guideance in how to convert to unstable. The last time I tried I ended up with several version of hotplug and several essential files went missing, It was a horrible mess

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel B.
Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > ... > > BTW, what kernel are you compiling (sorry, late to the thread) Debian's 2.4.22-2, with Debian's 2.4.22-2 k7-smp config. file. > and what IDE chipset do you have? AMD 768 (amd7441) (dual-Athlon motherboard). Of course, thanks to the still-extant, long-time

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 08:06 pm, Mental Patient wrote: > Sure, knoppix jumped the gun on packageing X 4.3 and I had a couple > minor problems with it, but it was easily fixed. Further the > dist-upgrade to sid was a little bumpy, but thats to be ex

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:59:10 +0100 Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As an experiment, I'll CC you on this message, to see if the direct > > copy generates any sort of bounce. Hope you don't mind! > > Fine. OK, I've got your rep

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: > > I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is > sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault. Either way, it > has the same effect of discombobulating my hard drive so I have to do a lot > of

Struggling with User-Mode-Linux

2003-10-06 Thread Alan Chandler
I am trying to set up a user-mode-linux on my "sarge" server, so that I can run an unstable build environment. I am struggling a bit with this I installed the kernel-patch-uml and the uml-utilities as will as user-mode-linux. However, I cannot seem to create the tap device on the host. Do I

display manager problems

2003-10-06 Thread Matthias Leopold
hi 1.) since xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-11 was introduced into testing i have the problem that after xdm (or wdm) starts, i have to wait some time (maybe 30-60 seconds) before the xserver responds to keyboard input while the mouse works fine. after that or when i start X via startx theres's no prob

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 06 October 2003 15:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Johan Van den Neste wrote: ... > > > > Reiserfs is said to "greatly outperform ext3 on small files". All I can > > say is I'm not unhappy about the performance. ... > > I don't know much about ReiserFS, but I believe that XFS is much more >

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Mental Patient
stan wrote: A general wor of wisdom here, for what it's worth. I once made the mistake of allowing myself to be sucked in by the siren song of these offshot distors. As a result I am stuck with 2 machines (one at home, and one at work), bith of which I still actively use, but can't, in any reasona

Apt preferences: How to avoid a specific version of a package?

2003-10-06 Thread kimiko
How can I keep apt-get from trying specific versions of some packages when doing a dist-upgrade? I have unstable as default in apt.conf, so that gets priority 990. Then I have assigned priority 995 to experimental in preferences so that apt-get will upgrade to the latest and greatest (-pain-in-the

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.10.06.1833 +0200]: > sshd currently runs PAM session modules as the authenticated user, not > as root. (I think 3.7 changes this.) > > [...] > > > Is this a known problem? > > Yes, very much so. But am I reading you right: sshd 3.7 may change th

pls explain setrlimit log message

2003-10-06 Thread Lou Losee
Can someone explain the following log message I am getting occasionally? I did a man on setrlimit and understand that it has to do with resource limits, but how do I find out some more detail to figure out the cause and solution? snail pam_limits[14846]: setrlimit limit #6 to soft=-1, hard=-1 fai

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:09:15PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going > >with > >> a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at > >> Knoppix's site right n

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Alexander Schwoch
Hall Stevenson wrote: I sent this before I actually started *reading* Knoppix's page... :-) I guess I was thinking of Libranet instead, not Knoppix, espcially being that it normally runs off of a CD. I sure don't want that. indeed it runs off of a CD - nevertheless you can copy it to your hd usi

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
(This is a forward of a direct reply to me. I post it back to the list because I don't know the "real" solution to the problem. What package is responsible for the firewall rules below?) As for redirecting the output to a more suitable location, you could try the ULOG target that can be handled

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread J Y
I looked in the file /etc/resolv.conf and there was nothing in it. That's what ls -l gives too. deblnx:~# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf total 0 deblnx:~# I was thinking of looking through the dvd I installed from but this file probably gets set-up/created during installation. Once again, Thanks

pam_pgsql problems

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
I am trying to integrate a passwd/shadow table from an SQL database into a cluster of Debian systems. There are a number of users defined in the SQL database, way too many to allow for the standard flatfile /etc/passwd. So I'd like to combine the two authorization mechanisms and use the best of bot

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread ZekeVarg
I got this problem after installing firestarter, the solution is to edit /etc/init.d/klogd and change the line KLOGD="" to KLOGD="c 4" On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:01:27 +0530 Sudeep Mukherjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the > cons

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Sudeep Mukherjee
Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is from iptables and indicates access to the ports used for Windows/Samba > filesharing. Do > > iptables -L > > and check if there are entries with a LOG target. If you remove those entries, > the output should cease. If you want to get rid of it p

Illegal Instructions

2003-10-06 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I'm at a loss about what is causing these, or how to fix it . . It's a Debian Sparc Stable system, Sparc 20 with 256 mb of RAM. ranum:/home/madmac# ps Signal 4 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.7). Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ranum:/home/madmac# ps -elf Illegal instru

Re: pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:49:37PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > When I configure pam_mkhomedir in /etc/pam.d/ssh like so: > > session required pam_mkhomedir umask=0066 skel=/etc/skel > > then it fails to do it's job. The log reports "unable to create > directory" and "Permission denied". I t

Re: Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday 06 October 2003 18:31, Sudeep Mukherjee wrote: > Hi > Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the > console and am unable to work on the console. > > Output: > > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255 LEN=270 TOS=0x00 > PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP S

Forcing a device to use specific IRQ (pcmcia troubles)?

2003-10-06 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! A friend's got a Compaq nx9005 laptop. All works fine except pcmcia. When I plug a card in (Benq 802.11b) the following lines are added to dmesg's output: - - cs: memory probe 0x0c-0x0f: excluding 0xc-0xc 0xdc000-0xdfff

Weird console output from eth0

2003-10-06 Thread Sudeep Mukherjee
Hi Could someone help me with this. I keep getting this output on the console and am unable to work on the console. Output: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255 LEN=270 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=250 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=10.62.0.15 DST=10.62.0.255

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:38:38PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I should know better than to tangle with the list manager, but... I'm not *that* scary ;-) > In this case, it's not the person complaining wh gets unsubscribed, but > the relay address. > > E.g.: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] subscri

Re: GTK question

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Roach
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Just out of curiousity ... is it possible to force GTK2 to render > GTK/GTK+ apps? I hask because I have a few apps (Audacity and a > wxWindows based app that I am developing) that use GTK+, but would look > lots better if rendered with GTK2

ssh-add : where's the reaper.

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Moseley
How do programs get reaped from .xsession? I'm using this (subsection) in .xsession: $HOME/bin/root_window.pl & ssh-add $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa_pine < /dev/null & exec icewm-session But I'm left behind with the ssh-add zombie. Also, if I kill "root_window.pl" that's left as a zombi

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 11:49 AM 10/6/2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > So, would people suggest sticking with "pure" Debian or possibly going with > a Debian-based distro ?? If an off-shoot, which one ?? I'm looking at > Knoppix's site right now... Knoppix aims to produce a bootable, runnable, fairly complete desktop s

pam_mkhomedir

2003-10-06 Thread martin f krafft
When I configure pam_mkhomedir in /etc/pam.d/ssh like so: session required pam_mkhomedir umask=0066 skel=/etc/skel then it fails to do it's job. The log reports "unable to create directory" and "Permission denied". I think this is because SSH uses privilege separation, so the PAM stack is calle

NFS V3, how do I get it working?

2003-10-06 Thread stan
I;ve recompiled my kernel enabling NFS V3, and rebooted. Yet rpcionfo still reports: 132 udp 2049 nfs What else do I need to configure to allow this machine to be an NFS V3 server? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety

Re: FW: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Alphonse Ogulla
On Monday 06 October 2003 18:18, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Is it a laptop? I had a problem with my laptop where if the X server > was started while I had video output going to an external monitor Xv > playback would bluescreen. If I started the X server with video to the > builtin LCD it worked fi

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