Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:09:02PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > The directory certainly does, but it is empty. Hit the hotsync button. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian

CAD NEWS UP-DATES 2003

2003-12-30 Thread CAD NEWS 2003
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Re: Drives are not being detected

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Gayton
Thanks for the reply Alvin! Alvin Oga wrote: try to put your 3rd (new ) hd on as /dev/hdb if it works.. your drive is good I've got a volume group over /dev/hdb and /dev/hd3, I'm reluctant to mess with that until I have to ... I'm just trying to get the cdrom working again in isolation first -

Re: debmirror issue

2003-12-30 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 11:16 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using debmiror for quite awhile. Recently it has stopped > working, the last errors are the following: > "project/trace/clos: project/trace/clos failed > Failed to download files (51

volnter_org_tbl

2003-12-30 Thread mz
TNB-IT Security Admin: 'Virus Warning Message' Found virus WORM_HOLAR.M in file volnter_org_tbl.exe (in volnter_org_tbl.uu) The uncleanable file is deleted. - hey Check this out ;) TNB-IT Security Admin: 'Vi

Re: Problem: PHP installation does not support PostgreSQL

2003-12-30 Thread Yang Mei Lin
Sorry, the solution is already found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202393 On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 16:28, Yang Mei Lin wrote: > I have installed the packages as below by using apt-get install in > Debian "Sarge" Linux. > i php4 4.1.2-6 > ii postgresql

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Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:19:24PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > I am new to Debian but not so to Linux. I have studied the documentation, > and there seems to be multiple ways to install debian packages. This I > understand and am happily adding new packages as and when I need them > (using apt-get

Re: Drives are not being detected

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Andy Gayton wrote: > I'm running stable woody 3.0r2. > > I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide controller > and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I installed off cd and > everything came up fine. > > I've now tried to

Drives are not being detected

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Gayton
I'm running stable woody 3.0r2. I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide controller and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I installed off cd and everything came up fine. I've now tried to add a third hard drive onto the secondary ide controller.

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard. > 4

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ramesh On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All I want to do is to have the ability to run 4 IDE harddrives and 2 > CD/DVD ROM/RW drives. you can use the onboard raid port as plain ole ide ... just plug in a cable and see , dont forget to eanbel the bios to look for "r

Re: modem external

2003-12-30 Thread Bruno Vane
"Shaul Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Shouldn't the username and password be supplied here? I used to > configure this in /etc/chatscripts/. > You might also try the PPP-HOWTO and /usr/share/doc/ppp/*. It looks > to me a configuration problem on your par

Argosy HD-530 USB2/FW Linux Driver.

2003-12-30 Thread Felipe Zottola Diz
The Argosy USB 2.0 / Firewire 2.5" Hard Disk Interface is wholly usable in Linux. I am running RedHat 9.0, and issuing 'uname -r' on my linux box, it returns a kernel version 2.4.20-8... yeah! I know... that's nothing out of this world! To make things work nicely, there are a two files to look at

Gnome:Sid

2003-12-30 Thread Jeff Elkins
After an apt-get install of Gnome (90+Mb downloaded), when choosing gnome-session from the kdm menu I'm left with an xterm and an otherwise pristine screen. I'm lost! How do I configure this puppy? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

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Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2003-12-30 Thread Scarletdown
Alexander Winston wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 21:01, Scarletdown wrote: Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone there even posted a scr

Re: nVidia Control Panel?

2003-12-30 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 21:01, Scarletdown wrote: > Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control > Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? > > I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone > there even posted a screenshot... > >

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:57:51PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Nano Nano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Question to all: I literally specify that you need automake 1.7 and > > autoconf 2.50: is that wise? > > I wondered about. I am running testing and have automake 1.4-p6-2, > w

nVidia Control Panel?

2003-12-30 Thread Scarletdown
Anyone here know how to install or otherwise access the nVidia Control Panel that is supposedly part of the nVidia video drivers? I saw it mentioned in the Linux forums on nVidia's site, and someone there even posted a screenshot... http://web.njit.edu/~dpw2/nvidia-settings.jpg However, I can'

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Nano Nano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:08:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > [snip] > > > http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/pim.png > > > > [snip] > > > http://home.comcast.net/~40101.no

Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, I am ready to upgrade my aging Gateway PII 300 to some thing more modern. I plan to build my machine if I could and therefore looking for a motherboard. I like to have the ability to use more than the usual 4 IDE devices. Is there a solution (mobo choice) other than buying a standard one w

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I suppose I was not clear about the reason for using the on mobo RAID chipsets. I simply want to have the ability to use more than 4 IDE devices. I thought using the on board RAID controller was a easy solutions. I suppose not. All I want to do is to have the ability to run 4 IDE harddr

Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-30 Thread Andy Firman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:19:53PM -0800, wynn wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:19:24PM +, Adam Barton wrote: > > Guys, > what about us 'non-guys'? I think we are all guys. Unless you are something that we don't know about. www.dictionary.com 4 entries found for guys. 1. guy: Info

Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-30 Thread wynn
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Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-30 Thread Robert Storey
Questions about GRUB get asked a lot. I usually refer people to this article, which is still a pretty good primer even though it was written a few years ago: http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue85/4622.html GRUB is really good, and it's worth your time to learn how to install it and use i

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2003-12-30 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
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Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Antonio Rodr P `Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let me add another element to this topic: > > | >6 | 2 > |_ >3 > Well, if you allow me to add another element: when drawing ASCII pictures, make sure you use a non-proportional fo

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:08:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] > > http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/pim.png > > [snip] > > http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/x-0.1.tar.bz2 > > > > I spent a few dozen sec.s looking at thi

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Steven Yap
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 15:10, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Bingo, that seems to be it - I get two devices, a 0 and 1 created when I hit > the hotsync button. Which one needs to be symlinked to /dev/pilot ? For HotSync, I believe the second serial port (device 1) is used. With my T3, I hotsync using

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Bingo, that seems to be it - I get two devices, a 0 and 1 created when I hit > the hotsync button. Which one needs to be symlinked to /dev/pilot ? on my system at least, ttyS1 is the appropriate one. Not sure what 0 does; it exists, but doesn't handl

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Rob Benton
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:20, Jan Minar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:57:24PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:09:37 -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > > > > > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > > > to be root to mount with the -o loop optio

Re: OO1.1 fails to start

2003-12-30 Thread hanasaki
The version in sarge crashed like crazy. I ended up downloading from openoffice.org and installing manually. Also, any chance of the OO debian packaging person provided a package without the pretty icons (just keep the straight OO distribution)? KIS Thanks === On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 a

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Billson wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: > [I don't have the original post -- not sure who quoted what] > > > > > I need to create so

Re: was wondering

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:46:28 -0500, Xzbenjudah7 wrote: > I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to get some > source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color highlighting. I > am not sure what to call it but its the font that's typed whenever your at a >

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Re: was wondering

2003-12-30 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to > get some source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color > highlighting. I am not sure what to call it but its the font that's > typed whenever your at a promp

keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-30 Thread Adam Barton
Guys, I am new to Debian but not so to Linux. I have studied the documentation, and there seems to be multiple ways to install debian packages. This I understand and am happily adding new packages as and when I need them (using apt-get install and dselect). However, how should I be keeping Debi

Re: was wondering

2003-12-30 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to get some > source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color highlighting. I > am not sure what to call it but its the font that's typed whenever your a

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 19:07, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:09, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I have > > read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that /dev/usb/tts/* > > exists. > > > > The directory certainly d

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Steven Yap
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:35, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alan> I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I > Alan> have read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that > Alan> /dev/usb/tts/* exists. > > Alan> The dir

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:35, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alan> I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I > Alan> have read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that > Alan> /dev/usb/tts/* exists. > > Alan> The

was wondering

2003-12-30 Thread Xzbenjudah7
I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to get some source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color highlighting. I am not sure what to call it but its the font that's typed whenever your at a prompt. A different color for directories and another for executa

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I Alan> have read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that Alan> /dev/usb/tts/* exists. Alan> The directory certainly does, but it is empty. I'm not sure about th

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard. - yup

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya alex On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:49, Alvin Oga wrote: > --snip-- > > 3ware (raid cards) has readily available and easily understandable raid > > drivers for their cards > > > > hw raid -- you're stuck with what they give you for driver support >

Pinning to testing

2003-12-30 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi all! I was wondering if anybody could explain pinning to me... I know several sources, yes, but just one more time... Please...? OK, here's the problem: I've been tracking unstable on my workstation for a few months now, and I'm pretty happy with it, it's up-to-date now and I have the stuff

Re: chmod, apache and php

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen Turner
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 09:58, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:55:21PM +0100, Stephen Turner said > > On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 22:48, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:00:27PM +0100, Stephen Turner said > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > Thanks for all the help so far. > > > >

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-30 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: W: GPG error: http://download.kde.org stable Release: Unknown error executing gpgv W: GPG error: http://mirrors.kernel.org stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B629A24C38C6029A W: GPG error: h

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Pablo Aguiar
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:23:26 -0500 Bob Billson wrote: > I'm curious. Is there a similar program for mysql? Hi, Although not necessary - you don't need to register to search and download, but some freshmeat's system functionalities are only available to registered users - sign-up for a free acco

Re: Problems with fglrx driver and kernel 2.6

2003-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Elimar Riesebieter wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 the mental interface of Roberto Sanchez told: I am currently running 2.6.0-mm2, and have experienced some strange behavior from XFree86. Basically, I had to install the ATI fglrx driver to get decent performance in Neverwinter Nights (a Christmas gi

RE: linux!

2003-12-30 Thread Benjamin Grol
Hi TongKe, Thanks for your help today. I'll be burning the SULinux disk and trying to start the whole mess tomorrow. If you're around at any point tomorrow, please drop by the consulting desk. I'll be cranking away at installing Redhat... Once again, thanks for your help! -Ben > -O

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:49, Anthony DiSante wrote: --snip-- > I found apt-get.org, and see that there are lots of debian packages > available from various sources there. But some things, for example mozilla, > are available right from the mozilla site as binaries that have always "just > worke

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-30 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Scarletdown wrote: Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: panda wrote: Hi, I am not very sure I should be sending this on this list. Please tell me if I am wrong. I installed gaim ( version 0.72 ) using aptitude. It shows my contacts on YM and MSN but the moment I click on one of them ( off or online )

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:49, Alvin Oga wrote: --snip-- > 3ware (raid cards) has readily available and easily understandable raid > drivers for their cards > > hw raid -- you're stuck with what they give you for driver support >and monitoring > > sw raid .. do what you like to your hearts cont

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-30 Thread mickey
Quoting Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW, if something weird happens, how can I shut it down again? (you > never know...) iptables -F iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -t nat -F ought to do it. This won't clear out user-defined changes

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Nano Nano
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Billson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: [I don't have the original post -- not sure who quoted what] > > > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, > > > > househ

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:57:24PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:09:37 -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > > > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > > do. Mount has the suid

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:09:37 -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root > users to mount loop

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-30 Thread Scarletdown
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: panda wrote: Hi, I am not very sure I should be sending this on this list. Please tell me if I am wrong. I installed gaim ( version 0.72 ) using aptitude. It shows my contacts on YM and MSN but the moment I click on one of them ( off or online ) gaim shuts down. I w

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Billson wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned: > > > I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list, > > > household inventory). What choices do I have for creating user input forms,

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Henrique, Thanks for your reply. I suppose there is no point in buying a mobo with these extra chipsets as most of them seem to be not supported at this point. A simple followup. This is what I understand from your answers. Please correct me if I am wrong. 1) SATA is usable as host. The

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:05:48 +0900, B. L. Jilek wrote: > Hi Rob! > > On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rob Benton wrote: > >> I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have >> to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I >> do. Mount has the suid bit set.

Re: Problems with fglrx driver and kernel 2.6

2003-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 the mental interface of Roberto Sanchez told: > I am currently running 2.6.0-mm2, and have experienced some strange > behavior from XFree86. Basically, I had to install the ATI fglrx > driver to get decent performance in Neverwinter Nights (a Christmas > gift, w00t). My card

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-30 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
panda wrote: Hi, I am not very sure I should be sending this on this list. Please tell me if I am wrong. I installed gaim ( version 0.72 ) using aptitude. It shows my contacts on YM and MSN but the moment I click on one of them ( off or online ) gaim shuts down. I would send in a bug report bu

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:34:38 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > > [snip] > >> to know what things you can get is >> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages >> > > This is down at present. >

Problems with fglrx driver and kernel 2.6

2003-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am currently running 2.6.0-mm2, and have experienced some strange behavior from XFree86. Basically, I had to install the ATI fglrx driver to get decent performance in Neverwinter Nights (a Christmas gift, w00t). My card is a Radeon 9000 Pro, and I am running X4.3 from experimental. The driver (

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:02:04 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote: >> > Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it >> > gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Paul Morgan
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:27:56 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security >> repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid >> first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable

Re: debian distro on a floppy

2003-12-30 Thread Debian User
At Tuesday, 30 December 2003, you wrote: >On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:17:28AM -0500, Debian User wrote: >> years ago, when trying to fix a hdd problem, i came across floppy >> images that had all things necessary to run from a floppy. my hope >> is i can move the linux drive to /ved/hda, boot/run

gaim problem

2003-12-30 Thread panda
Hi, I am not very sure I should be sending this on this list. Please tell me if I am wrong. I installed gaim ( version 0.72 ) using aptitude. It shows my contacts on YM and MSN but the moment I click on one of them ( off or online ) gaim shuts down. I would send in a bug report but the message

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Akira Kitada wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: Hello, I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mozi

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-30 Thread Joris Huizer
Shaun Crossley wrote: On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:06:25AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of c

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ramesh On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID. Is this usable >as is without any additional kernel drivers. I ask this because I read in >many knowledge base resources that a HW controller looks just lik

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Craig Jackson
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:09, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I have read > assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that /dev/usb/tts/* exists. > > The directory certainly does, but it is empty. > > Not sure where to go next - can someone h

Re: Unable to boot new kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-30 Thread Andrés Roldán
This is not a LILO problem. This is a known kernel bug since 2.6.0-test5 IIRC. Search in google and you will find quite a long thread about this. Shahid Bhatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > I have installed the new kernel deb package 2.6.0 and after > configuring lilo and rebooting I

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-30 Ãs 16:34, Anthony Campbell escreveu: > On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > This is down at present. apt-cache does the trick, if you have the sources.list entries. -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
Em Ter, 2003-12-30 Ãs 15:49, Anthony DiSante escreveu: > I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of > the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the > sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mozilla, and the alsa audio > drivers

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-30 Thread Antonio RodrP`Y
> > >> Who's doing it backwards depends, I guess, on your point of view. > > > > > > I guess it's a religious war, but for once the superior options > > > seem technically obvious. > > > > My point was that neither is "backwards". Dates are no different > > than any other language element. Am

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: [snip] > to know what things you can get is > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > This is down at present. A. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/D

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Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Rob! On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Rob Benton wrote: > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root > users to mount loop devic

Strange idesk-problem

2003-12-30 Thread Kristian Niemi
I have this strange problem where idesk crashes if I try to drag an icon. It starts ok, I can click the icons -- but if I try to drag them, it crashes. When started from shell it says: "Can't load: /usr/local/share/idesk/icons/gaim.png bailing -- Gaim Check to see if the image and path to image

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Josh! On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Josh Robinson wrote: > a problem: > > i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the > instructions on the screen. and rebooted. > > except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in > the top left-hand corner of th

Re: "best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Akira Kitada
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of > some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get > dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, > like mozilla, and

Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a palm pilot m505 with usb cradle. All the intructions I have read assume that (assuming devfs is being used) that /dev/usb/tts/* exists. The directory certainly does, but it is empty. Not sure where to go next - can someone help me please. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:09:37PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have > to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I > do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root > users to mount

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID. Is this usable >as is without any additional kernel drivers. I ask this because I read in >many knowledge base resources that a HW controller looks just like an IDE >c

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Jan Minar
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:53:51AM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:08:12AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > You did not specify what kernel but I had to include a kernel > > module to get proper DMA working. > it's a problem of lack of proper module, don't you? > if so,

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
Josh Robinson wrote: Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your root partition, probably hda1. thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which is which of my various partit

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Akira Kitada
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:16:28PM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:01:37AM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > Partition check: > > hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 > > hda: error waiting for DMA > > hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete Data

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:11:14PM +, Josh Robinson wrote: > > Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, > > and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your > > root partition, probably hda1. > > thanks: how do i know which is my root partiti

mounting loopback as non-root user

2003-12-30 Thread Rob Benton
I guess I've never payed much attention to this until today but you have to be root to mount with the -o loop option. At least on my machine I do. Mount has the suid bit set. Is there some way I can allow non-root users to mount loop devices? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

"best practices" on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
Hello, I just installed Debian stable the other day, and with the help of some of the folks on the list here, got it upgraded (apt-get dist-upgrade) to the sarge "testing" packages. But some things, like mozilla, and the alsa audio drivers, and gaim, and xfree86, either didn't get installed, o

Re: dpkg/ucf hang (was: Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation)

2003-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
I have seen this before. First, make sure you are using the absolutely latest ucf from unstable, just in case. Any, I recall ucf has issues with debconf. Ask the maintainer to db_stop (tell debconf to stop) before calling ucf in any way, maybe this will fix the bug. Actually, calling any externa

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-30 Thread B. L. Jilek
Hi Leandro! On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > Em Seg, 2003-12-29 às 21:53, Bijan Soleymani escreveu: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > 200 Gig Western Digital 7200 RPM with 8M buffer: $239 CDN > > > > 18 Gig Maxtor Atlas

Re: slow booting after installing new hdd

2003-12-30 Thread Akira Kitada
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:08:12AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Akira Kitada wrote: > >Hi all. > > > > a few days ago, I had 82.3GB disk installed on my box > >as primary slave. > >after that, I turned it on and reading messages of kernel, > >and found messages that means 'hdb' recognized smoo

Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Hi, It is been a while since I did active stuff with linux. Thus my knowledge of what is current in the OS is outdated. I tried to get newer info with HOWTOs and other stuff. But still I am not sure at all. Here are my questions. 1) All most all of the newer motherboards come with SATA RAID.

Re: dpkg/ucf hang (was: Re: [users] Problem in starting OOo and its reinstallation)

2003-12-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Derrick, Thanks for your advice On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 04:43, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > It hanged there compelling me to close the Koncole window. > | I don't doubt it. > > | > Then I ran; > | > # dpkg --configure -a > | > Setting up foomatic-filters (3.0.0-20031207-1) ... > | > Conf

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony DiSante
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable for testing... Most of the time that isn't too much of a problem as "a

Re: Grouping groups

2003-12-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:43:44AM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: > I'm trying to set up a website on a Debian server in which anyone in one > group (www-data) can modify all files under /var/www, Don't use www-data for this. From /usr/share/doc/base-passwd/users-and-groups.txt.gz: Some web ser

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Robinson
> Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, > and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your > root partition, probably hda1. thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which is which of my various partitions - i can't r

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