Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:02, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote: > > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > > be tape. > > > > > > I recommend that you consider

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 22:07, David Purton wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: [snip] > > If you need to rec

Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Healey
Many of you have read my saga of trying to install Debian and witnessed my frustration. The main problem is that my onboard nic isn't supported by the kernel on the CD and there is no module for it installed either. This left me with no networking so I couldn't use any of the clever debian instal

What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-03 Thread Joe Rhett
Okay, this is probably a bonehead user question but I'm just getting used to Debian. Not normally a bonehead :-( I would like/prefer to run 'stable'. Debian/Woody installed on my laptop perfectly fine. Wireless/WEP, IPsec, X all up and running SWEET. Unfortunately, the stable browser is 'zilla

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice > > > when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the

Re: installing sarge with nforce2

2003-11-03 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:53:26PM +0100, Philippe Makowski wrote: > is the official installation cd of sarge > (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2 > chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ? AFAIK, the nforce2 ethernet adaptor requires the nVid

Re: Mainframe & thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-03 Thread cr
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 01:14, cr wrote: > > On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:13:01PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > Nah, that was EDIT.COM - before that appeared I used to use the Turbo > > > > C editor to e

Re: esd defies XMMS on sid

2003-11-03 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:25:58 -0600, Chema wrote: > Looks like you need to configure XMMS to use ESD: > > If ESD is running, nothing else is able to directly access > the audio dev, and you must reroute trough ESD. > XMMS has the apropiate output plug-in, just select it > in its preferences. T

RE: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Dennis van Turnhout
Go to /etc/init.d/ and create a file...for example "local" Edit it: #!/sh/bin ...Scripts or deamons to load at startup. Make the file executable: chmod +x local Create a symbolic Link in rc1.d or rcS.d ln -s /etc/init.d/local /etc/rcS.d/S98local Works like a charm ;-) Bye, Denni

Re: configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2003-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:33:43PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "#include " > foo.cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/cpp foo.cc > cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory > > > I'm using on Sid: > > ii autoconf2.57-11 a

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:40:55AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a > >

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-03 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. 1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? Security issues. 2. The sessions secect drop down menu has: Gnome, Gnome chooser, Debian, KDE, Xsession, Failsafe Gnome, Failsafe KDE. When you leave Gnome or

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 01:22 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned: > On 2003-11-03 18:28:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Really? Do you know how? > > Yes: fetchmail sent the mail to the local SMTP server, and there was a > configuration problem. IMHO, a mail fetcher should never use this > method by d

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 08:12:50AM +0100, Marco Cecconi said > Rob Weir wrote: > > >>Hello, which woody kernel supports Hyper Threading? I've read somewhere > >>that 2.4+ kernels support this feature but how? Is a SMP build > >>sufficient? > >Yes, thought 2.6 will do smarter things with it. You

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:02:27PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. > 1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? Because it's dangerous and stupid. Just use su -m when you need root, a

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a > > three-disk rotation isn't going to do much for you. > > We backup offsite

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031104 04:51]: > How about this part, from README.Debian: > These settings can now be set in either /etc/default/hdparm or in > /etc/apm/20hdparm. I advise against setting the same features in both - > unpredictable things could happen. > > And a quick look

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:33:13AM +, Pigeon wrote: > ...speaking of such things - if the remote machine gets a different > IP, through DHCP, every time it boots, is there a more elegant way I > can discover this IP than having the remote machine e

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031104 03:20]: > Where should I put a script that sets my drives settings with hdparm? There is a package called "hwtools" (or something similar), allready containing a /etc/init.d/hwtools, which is a proper Place to add your very own hdparm commandos. > Is

Re: installing sarge with nforce2

2003-11-03 Thread David Gaudine
Philippe Makowski wrote: > is the official installation cd of sarge > (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2 > chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ? > is there a success story ? I haven't had any luck with the network adapters. However, I'm s

Re: Kernel panic error

2003-11-03 Thread Anim Asante
My fstab file looks like this: /dev/hdb7 / reiserfs defaults0 0 /dev/hdb2 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy autouser

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > > be

libc6

2003-11-03 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, Is libc6 2.3.2.ds1-9 installable? (can be loaded and used, I mean) Thanks in advance, Oki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:32:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hard disks are so big nowadays, is a separate partition for apt > > > re

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday November 3 at 10:47pm Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2003 10:18 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > > apt-cache search hdparm > > > > > > I don't see what you mean. I have hdparm installed. > > > > > > I just want it to run everytime the machine start. I th

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 03 November 2003 10:18 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > apt-cache search hdparm > > > > I don't see what you mean. I have hdparm installed. > > > > I just want it to run everytime the machine start. I think that > > /etc/rc.boot would be a good place for my init script but I'm not > > sure.

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday November 3 at 09:58pm Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2003 9:29 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: > > On Monday November 3 at 09:20pm > > > > Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > Where should I put a script that sets my drives set

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:33:13AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:17:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:14:25AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > > I think woody is for those who really need seriously stable machine to > > > act as a server. > > > > Or a no-nons

apt-get question

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Soricone
Is it possible to "undo" an upgrade performed by apt-get, i.e. revert to your previous state? Thanks in advance... Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:17:57AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:14:25AM +0100, wsa wrote: > > I think woody is for those who really need seriously stable machine to > > act as a server. > > Or a no-nonsense desktop for your folks that you can administer > remotely for t

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice > > when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages > > couldn't be deleted from the server)?

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:41:15PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:00:19AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > be tape. > > > > I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 03 November 2003 9:29 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: > On Monday November 3 at 09:20pm > > Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > Where should I put a script that sets my drives settings with hdparm? > > > > Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations - disks

2003-11-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, David Purton wrote: > > Actaully we'd probably risk it with 3 disks - so at any given time we > have two full snapshots and then use the third disk for daily > backups. So drves would be not such a bad option. > > Also does anyone know anything about these Mobile Rack Hard

Re: hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Johann Koenig
On Monday November 3 at 09:20pm Alfredo Valles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Where should I put a script that sets my drives settings with hdparm? > > Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making init > scripts? > > Finally: Is there some way different from hdpar

财富门前的思考!

2003-11-03 Thread 3118
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hdparm script

2003-11-03 Thread Alfredo Valles
Hi all. Where should I put a script that sets my drives settings with hdparm? Is there a template or guideline to follow in debian for making init scripts? Finally: Is there some way different from hdparm to inform the kernel the behavior I want in my ide drives? Thanks in advance Alfredo

Office CUPs setup

2003-11-03 Thread Jerry Haltom
I have a few cups questions. I have a CUPs printer set up successfully on a central server. The central server can print just fine. Now, I want 30 or so odd desktops in the office to also use this printer. I had assumed you were suppose to set up a local queue on each individual machine, which poin

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-03 18:28:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Have you tried fetchmail? > > > > It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past > > with it). > > Really? Do

Re: FIXED: can't start KDE as user (SOLVED)

2003-11-03 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 23:23, Paul Scott wrote: > >That didn't do it for me yet... but I found another interesting thing: > >is it correct that the permissions on /usr/X11R6/bin is 700? > >I get complains from Xsession that it cannot find certain s

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-03 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:02:27 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. > 1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? > > 2. The sessions secect drop down menu has: Gnome, Gnome chooser, > Debian, KDE, Xsession, Failsafe

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread David Purton
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote: > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > be tape. > > > > I recommend that you consider an external USB drive for backups. It is > > the cheapest me

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Mental Patient
Malcolm Box wrote: OK, that looks like it might fix things. But can anyone tell me how to get the new version onto my machine given that both dpkg & apt-get don't work at the moment? Is there some way to manually unpack the files from the .deb into the right places? Malcolm Last time I bro

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:42, Bruce Sass wrote: > > > Daniel Stone's packages have migrated from penguinppc.org to Sid, so you > > > no longer need those sources.list entries you mentioned (but you did > > > > Are you sure? I just did an "apt-get update", but it still > > shows 4.2.1 : > > They ar

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Have you tried fetchmail? > > It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past > with it). Really? Do you know how? > > The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to ind

GUI login screen.

2003-11-03 Thread Hoyt Bailey
There are a few things I dont understand about Debians login screen. 1. Root cannot log in on this screen. Why? 2. The sessions secect drop down menu has: Gnome, Gnome chooser, Debian, KDE, Xsession, Failsafe Gnome, Failsafe KDE. When you leave Gnome or KDE by pressing the logout button you ar

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Norris
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 12:18:10AM +0100, Werner Mahr wrote: > Am Montag, 1. Dezember 2003 11:41 schrieb Marco Cecconi: >^ > Is my KMail broken? Time moves more quickly on hyperthreaded systems! ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Malcolm Box" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Scott wrote: > >> Malcolm Box wrote: >> >> >>> Near as I can tell, this is an assertion somewhere in the bowels of >>> libc - a nasty place for things to go wrong. The error seems to be >>> affecting anything trying to do certain type of fork() ope

Re: installing sarge with nforce2

2003-11-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Philippe Makowski wrote: is the official installation cd of sarge (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2 chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ? is there a success story ? The nForce2 chipset requires a binary-only driver from nVidia. You need to

Re: Crash in fork.c on everything = install hosed

2003-11-03 Thread Malcolm Box
Paul Scott wrote: Malcolm Box wrote: Near as I can tell, this is an assertion somewhere in the bowels of libc - a nasty place for things to go wrong. The error seems to be affecting anything trying to do certain type of fork() operations. Among others, it has taken out apt-get and dpkg :-( I

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-03 Thread wsa
Well, I'm having serious problems with Mplayer, actually with mencoder to be exact. I have a load of automated 'vcr' recording scripts. These scripts have always worked and have given out the right kind of files with the right kind of bitrate(given in the script) correct timings, correct audio...

installing sarge with nforce2

2003-11-03 Thread Philippe Makowski
is the official installation cd of sarge (http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/netinst/) working with a nforce2 chipstet motherboard (especially networking adaptator) ? is there a success story ? -- Philippe Makowski Ma clé PGP : http://makowski.eu.org/pgpkey.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-03 Thread csj
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:03:30 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:52:16PM +0800, csj wrote: > > What precisely does this package do? It's listed as a dependency > > of the latest libc6 packages (which I made the mistake of > > compiling then installing). > > It includes the f

Multi-user Ruby (was Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely)

2003-11-03 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 03 November 2003 22:58, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hold it... If you get this one then you get something terrific > besides just getting 4.3.0: XFree86's that will run side-by-side on > separate display cards. I am using this one right now. I am logged in > on a 17" monitor and to the left

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-03 Thread csj
At Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:12:07 +0100, wsa wrote: > > Thanks for explaining this in the other thread aswell. What i > wanted to ask, could this package be the cause of custom 2.4.22 > kernels not going past INIT (today's update fixed this problem) > which i and a few other people experienced over th

FW: Win32 virus targets Spamhaus

2003-11-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Very interesting read. It makes sense too. - Forwarded message from Emmanuel Seyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - | From: Emmanuel Seyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Win32 virus targets Spamhaus | Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:15:35 +0100 | Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all! I partitioned my new disk with parted. Runs great. However, when I run parted on it now he comes up with: No Implementation: This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't resize this (yet). So you can do anything else, no resizing. Googling my way around I find indica

Re: Serious problem, something corrupt, help!

2003-11-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 at 16:15 GMT, Anthony R. J. Ball penned: > > I meant to say that other commands... like mutt, ls, locate... are > all doing fine... > > How can I run fsck on a running system? especially if mount is > segfaulting... is it even possible. > > I think that if I reboot

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Peter wrote: Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr, Lukas I did a quick search on Google amd found it right

Re: Slow linux.bin (RESOLVED - without explication)

2003-11-03 Thread - _ r a r o h _ -
cr wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:16, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:48, - _ r a r o h _ - wrote: Hallo, installed woody with booting from floppy - it takes 4 minutes to read the floppy. I hear the movement of the floppy some 20 seconds ... Any idea how to fix ? 4 minut

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Have you tried fetchmail? It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past with it). > The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to indicate that it deletes > each mail after a successful fetch. How does it do that? I've been

Re: Line editors

2003-11-03 Thread csj
At Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:54:44 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Look into rlwrap, which wraps pretty much anything with > > libreadline functionality. Very cool. It's even smart en

Re: Debian on a windows network

2003-11-03 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:07:16PM +, Ken Gilmour wrote: | Hi there, | | We have a Windows Domain network using Active Directory and it is | very handy how we setup one account on one server and all the rest | of the computers logon to the domain, however, because I despise | almost everything

Re: Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. you can call it like this: scp someFile hostn

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-11-03 Thread David Gaudine
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Carlos Sousa wrote: Besides, an imap server doesn't really work with an MTA. It just sits on top of a few directories and distributes mail to connecting clients according to a configured set of rules. So go ahead and use sendmail and courier-imap, no rea

Re: Debian on a windows network

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Georgeson
If the AD controller is *only* there for user accounting, and you switch all desktops to debian, switch the AD controller to debian running openldap. I'm not exceptionally familiar with AD, but I believe a gross understatement would be to says that it's LDAP+KERBEROS. So some combination of samba+o

Re: Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on > copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp > localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. Ugly/weird/overkill way of doing it, but rsync -P 3dmark200

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Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:42:32PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > wsa (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > >> /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > > >> guarantee that the > > >>

Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. I don't really want to start having to setup auth keys just for a progress meter Rus -- w: http://www.jv

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-03 Thread wsa
Thanks for explaining this in the other thread aswell. What i wanted to ask, could this package be the cause of custom 2.4.22 kernels not going past INIT (today's update fixed this problem) which i and a few other people experienced over the last weekend? The original poster mentioned both mplayer

Debian on a windows network

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi there, We have a Windows Domain network using Active Directory and it is very handy how we setup one account on one server and all the rest of the computers logon to the domain, however, because I despise almost everything else about windows environments I'm wondering if it would be possible

RE: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-03 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi ! > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:05:10PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:12, Michael Dominok wrote: > > > dpkg -l |grep --extended-regexp > --regexp='^[uirph]c|^[uirph]i'|awk {' > > > print $2 "=" $3'} >/tmp/p_list > > I have to correct myself. Just noticed that package

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:45, wsa wrote: > Alvin Oga wrote: > > > /boot is NOT needed ... - /boot was needed in the old days to > > guarantee that the > > boot kernel was occupying the 1st 1024 cylinders > > So where do the kernels go when you don't have a /boot partition? > I'm now using

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-11-03 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:39:17 -0500 David Gaudine wrote: > > Another question. I want to switch from wu-imap to courier-imap > for efficiency. This seems to require switching from sendmail to > exim, so I did, but reluctantly since everyone else here uses > sendmail. Is it true that there's no w

Re: Problem with patched 2.4.20 kernel

2003-11-03 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 15:39, Cam Ellison wrote: > After making one modification (not at all relevant) to an existing > kernel, it will not compile, giving this message: > > net/network.o(.text+0xd147): In function `rtnetlink_rcv': > : undefined reference to `rtnetlink_rcv_skb' > make: *** [vmlinux

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2003-11-03 Thread moseley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "#include " > foo.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/cpp foo.cc cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory I'm using on Sid: ii autoconf2.57-11 automatic configure script builder ii cpp 3.3.1-2 The GNU C p

dpkg segmentation fault

2003-11-03 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi I get this when running aptitude: The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 locales 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 127 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/8785kB of archives. After unpacking 4694kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended stat

Program is using a deleted file warnings (tiger)

2003-11-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Tiger is giving me lots of reports like OLD: --WARN-- [kis012w] Program apcupsd (pid 32630, parent 32628) is using a deleted file: 22188 +/lib/libc-2.3.2.so.dpkg-new OLD: --WARN-- [kis012w] Program apcupsd (pid 32630, parent 32628) is using a deleted file: 86 983 +/var/log/apcupsd.events.1 (delet

Fonts gone in icewm

2003-11-03 Thread moseley
I was going to use "Subject: fsck'ing fonts" due to my ongoing frustration with fonts. I did a dist-upgrade on my sid laptop today and lost fonts in my window manager icewm (also lost xmd loging for some reason!!) I'm using the Infadel2 theme and it uses fonts like: TitleFontName = "-artwiz-sn

Re: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-03 Thread Graeme Tank
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:05:10PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:12, Michael Dominok wrote: > > dpkg -l |grep --extended-regexp --regexp='^[uirph]c|^[uirph]i'|awk {' > > print $2 "=" $3'} >/tmp/p_list > I have to correct myself. Just noticed that packages with long names

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Mental Patient
Tom wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:30:21PM -0500, Mental Patient wrote: Tom wrote: I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" frame). Thats an abuse of side effects and its usefulness is debatable. A

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Bruce Sass
> > Daniel Stone's packages have migrated from penguinppc.org to Sid, so you > > no longer need those sources.list entries you mentioned (but you did > > Are you sure? I just did an "apt-get update", but it still > shows 4.2.1 : They are in experimental. Apt will not fetch them unless you explic

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Mental Patient
Tom wrote: How come y'all are being adversarial? I agree with the maintainer. I'm just curious what browsers support it :-) Jeez, grandstanding Sorry if I came off as adversarial. Neither lynx nor w3m support about:blank. Neither does wget, LWP::UserAgent or any of the Java user agents I'v

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:30:21PM -0500, Mental Patient wrote: > Tom wrote: > >I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support > >about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" > >frame). > > > > Thats an abuse of side effects and its usefulness is debata

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Chema wrote: ... So the network installation of Sarge is my new bet. > But I want to know, how really unstable is it? I don't > think most people could live with Woody, so is it test the most used distro? server: I'd go with stable desktop: I'd go with unstable (that's what I use) testing,

'restore' not restoring timestamps

2003-11-03 Thread Romain Dolbeau
Hello, I do my backups with good old dump & restore on my Debian GNU/linux server. I did check some "full restore" when the backup system was installed, and the backups are OK - at least I can list the files on randomly selected tapes from past weeks. I just needed to do a very partial restore on

Re: Installation doesn't recognise my extended partition

2003-11-03 Thread David Jarvie
In the end I managed to manually mount the partition, and since then the Debian installation system has been able to see all my Linux partitions. Very strange! Really the installation program ought to be able to detect whatever partitions the Debian system can, both for consistency and to save peop

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:46:37AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:37:19AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:15:31AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support > > > about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a de

Re: 2.4.22 & IDE modules

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Georgeson
Sebastian Piecha wrote: On 3 Nov 2003 at 11:30, Justin Georgeson wrote: Which ide-controller do you use? An output of "lspci -vvv" would be helpful. intel piix 4 (440LX), ... 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMast

Re: Installing/Configuring SpamAssassin and ClamAV

2003-11-03 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 03 November 2003 19:31, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Paul Johnson posted a simple one to the list not a very long time > ago: http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt > > I had been doing just about the same thing a couple of days before > Paul's post. SA is working quite well, and rejecting

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:37:19AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:15:31AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support > > about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" > > frame). > > > > Maintainer closed

emacs: Cannot convert string

2003-11-03 Thread adsf afff
I have this problem when I issue the command emacs $ emacs prog/tnd.pl Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120- *-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120 -*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct emacs window opens up

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:15:31AM -0800, Tom wrote: > I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support > about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" > frame). > > Maintainer closed it as a nonstandard feature, but asked me I could > point to a standard

Re: connection refused to localhost

2003-11-03 Thread adsf afff
--- Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whoops - 631 rather... ?? > to do some printer managing task using the cupsys. which I am having some problems with deleting a printer as posted. __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.

Re: Installing/Configuring SpamAssassin and ClamAV

2003-11-03 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 03 November 2003 18:36, BruceG wrote: > Hey all, > >My mail server seems stable, so in an effort to confuse things > even more (er, I mean to have a secure system!) - I want to check out > SpamAssassin and an Anti-Virus tool. Excellent! ;-) >I've used SpamAssassin in a stand-al

Re: Browsers that *don't* support about:blank

2003-11-03 Thread Mental Patient
Tom wrote: I filed a wishlist bug against "links" asking for it to support about:blank (highly useful in frames pages as a default for the "body" frame). Thats an abuse of side effects and its usefulness is debatable. A highly useful default page in a frameset is one with relevant CONTENT. If y

Re: 2.4.22 & IDE modules

2003-11-03 Thread Sebastian Piecha
On 3 Nov 2003 at 11:30, Justin Georgeson wrote: > > > > Which ide-controller do you use? An output of "lspci -vvv" would be > > helpful. > > intel piix 4 (440LX), > > ... > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) > (prog-if 80 [Master]) > Control: I/O+ Mem-

Re: connection refused to localhost

2003-11-03 Thread adsf afff
--- Justin Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > adsf afff wrote: > > Hello > > when I try to go to http://localhost:631/ > > The connection was refused when attempting to > contact > > localhost:631 > > > > thanks for helping. > > > > more /etc/network/interfaces > > > > auto lo > > iface l

Re: connection refused to localhost

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Gilmour
why are you trying to access a web page on port 661? Best Regards, Ken Gilmour You may be beautiful but they're keeping my idea on file. Registered Linux User # 330371 http://counter.li.org Replying to the message sent by adsf afff  on Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:10:58 -0800 (PST), received at 18:25:5

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