Re: Debian dedicated hosting

2004-01-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:34:23AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > > Dennis Kaplan said: > > > > Check out 1and1.com I don't know if they are runing debian but they are > > hosting my http://guyscope.com there and I am very happy. > > I got an account on the system and they were running (i believe)

Re: Using S.M.A.R.T. on a Software RAID

2004-01-15 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:52:03AM -0500, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hi, > Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools) > to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It > seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that > one of the

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:41:36AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Hi D-U list folks, > > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. > > Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified

Re: Debian Certified Laptops!

2003-12-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 06:26:15AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi D-U list folks, > there was a recent thread about TigerDirect giving the nod to M$WINDOWS. > Now threre is a place to buy debian-certified (and can be preloaded with > debian or RH) laptops! (from LWN.net) > http://lwn.net/Articles/63

Re: Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:12:33AM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote: > Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bash's inbuilt ulimit command doesn't seem to include an RSS option, > > so I'm not sure I can run that before each daemon to force the >

Limiting daemons' RSS

2003-12-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
I have a server with very little memory. It's primarily an application server, but apache and exim are running for very light use. I'd like to ensure that apache and exim never starve other programs for memory by limiting their resident set sizes to a total of 6 and 4 megs apiece. I'm fine with th

Re: Murdering those mutt-gpg key retrievals

2003-12-05 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:03:40AM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello Brian! > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 04:45:16PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > >Automatic key retrieval is nice, however it also makes for very slow > >mail reading if it's done inside of mutt. > &g

Murdering those mutt-gpg key retrievals

2003-12-03 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:49:01PM +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: > > You can import keys manually just like > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 8DE4D38E > for Karsten's key. > > If you want to have it done automatically one way is to enable a > keyserver in your .gnupg/pgp.conf and enable > k

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Do you have any other evidence of the LKM Trojan, beyond chkrootkit's output? I think you may just be looking at a bug that's not yet been worked out. N

Automatic debsums generation

2003-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Since security is on everybody's minds at the moment, I thought I should share: I wanted debsums for all of my packages, not just the ones where the package includes them. This doesn't offer protection against server-side hacks, but it's at least another bit of reassurance for a local system. If

Re: grip in unstable

2003-10-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > Anyone having problems with grip in unstable? When I hit "rip and > encode", it says no songs selected, should it rip the whole CD? I say > yes, and it rips the first song to wav, then stops. This is a known bug and h

Debian/Testing and security updates

2003-07-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
Normally, packages go into testing after having been in sid for some time. Is there an exception that allows security updates to be rushed through, or should these be manually gathered from sid? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > I guess I'll be going back to 2.2 until this nonsense blows > oversigh. For a business, I'd just check to be sure that 2.2 will be okay for your needs. But I wouldn't step back to 2.2 until SCO actually makes the claims publi

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:37:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:32, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [snip] > > SCO

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:06:26AM +0530, Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: > > > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from > > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries > >

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > This Slashdot story > > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) > > references this Yahoo! story (htt

Re: How "unstable" is unstable?

2003-07-12 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:07:42PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I'm wondering, from those running sid, just how "unstable" is it at the > present time? > > The reason I am asking is that I would like to move on to KDE 3 and am > feeling behind the times, still using KDE 2.1 in woody. I've been > r

Why are passwords in /etc?

2003-07-05 Thread Brian McGroarty
This may be a silly question: Why is /etc/shadow in /etc? Generally, applications and static data go in /usr. You could mount /usr read-only save when installing apps, and none of the core Debian applications would break. Similarly, system-wide configuration data goes in /etc. You could mount /e

Re: "DriveReady SeekComplete" errors with new hard drive

2003-06-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:25:20AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I just recently added a new hard drive to my firewall machine and I'm > seeing the following errors: > > Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Jun 17 06:05:59 Bigbrother

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me > through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. vrms (99.5%) keeps me warm at night. :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: No sound - onboard VIA VT8233 AC97

2003-06-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Josh Metzler wrote: > I would appreciate any advice anyone can give me as to how to get sound > working on my new box. > > The mother board is the Shuttle AV49N, which has onboard VIA VT8233 AC97 > sound. > > I have been testing with cat reflect.au > /d

Re: Inserting Init script

2003-06-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:36:46AM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote: > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:37 am, Kevin McKinley wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 22:45:30 +0200 > > > > Marino Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Once I placed a bash script in /etc/init.d, how do I create a link so it > > >

Re: [OT] IBM clicky keyboards (was Re: ergonomic setups)

2003-06-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:44:16PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 19:21:08 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 12:10:31PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > After all, your employer is much more likely to get you a comfortable > > > keyboard than a new, er

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:03:58AM -0500, Ray wrote: > On Saturday 07 June 2003 16:04, Chris Metzler wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:47 +0200 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sat, 07 Jun 2003 03:29:37 +0100 > > > > > > David selby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Would there be much o

Re: newbie's question: how to undo dselect

2003-06-06 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:54:15AM -0700, Robert Fu wrote: > Thanks you all for your help! > > One of my friends helped me with a workaround, which > is to use apt-get to install the packages I want. I'll > wait for Colin's patch for dselect, and clean up the > mess later. It seems I should mostly

Free software... check. Free hardware?

2003-03-30 Thread Brian McGroarty
Debian's a wonderful thing. If you're running only the free packages, your right to continue using those packages forever is assured, barring any catastrophic changes in the law. But what about the software included with our hardware? There's software embedded in SCSI and ATA drive to control c

Re: smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:02:04PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:02:38PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and > > didn't see any note about this: > > > > smartsuite has

smartsuite obsolete?

2003-03-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
I searched the last quarter for the user and main developer list and didn't see any note about this: smartsuite has gone missing from all but woody. Is there a reason? For those who don't know it, smartsuite looks at drives' SMART diagnostics and warns if a drive is ready to fail. The combination

Re: unsubscribe still doesnt' work

2003-02-17 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:33:32AM -0800, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: > My last email, I was saying I thought I found the problem but no. I'm > still here, subscribed more than ever. Can the list manager write to me? > Anyone has access to the mysterious list server so that you can just > delete me from

Re: [OT] SpamCop.net

2003-02-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
nabled. I don't know if Lotus Notes > supports HTML mail, but I think it's likely that it does. It's worth noting that many mail readers allow you to disable the loading of external graphics, while still rendering HTML and attached graphics. This is a good way to defeat these spam

Re: KDE 3.1 in sid

2003-02-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:39:16AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:54:31PM +0800, Arne Goetje wrote: > > > Btw, is kde3.1 already in sid? I thought when I did my upgrade kde > > > would be upgraded, but nothing happend... > > You might consider switching back, as they real

Re: Installing Non-Debian Programs w/out Apt -- what effect?

2003-02-06 Thread Brian McGroarty
/usr, /bin or other directories which can be reconstructed entirely by reinstalling the same set of packages. Since /home is backed up completely, the software I'd have to track down and reconfigure is fully backed up. Of course, YMMV -- this won't work so well if you're installing fo

Re: gtoaster

2003-02-05 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:06:50PM +, Keith O'Connell wrote: > > I use gtaoster quite a lot for the various jobs I have with cdrw. I > was playing with dselect and I saw that cdrdao is now marked as an > obsolete package. > > I want to install gtoaster on a new machine, but will not be able t

Re: alsa driver configuration

2003-01-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:46:11PM -0600, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:55, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > But did you run '/etc/init.d/alsa start' as root? If so, and no errors > > occurred, what does 'lsmod' (again, as root) return? -- do you see your > > soundcard l

SuExec on Apache

2003-01-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
SuExec seems to be one way of running cgi as users other than www-data. Is this the only option? I'm curious what most do. SuExec isn't packaged so far as I can tell; is there any facility that might help ensure that a locally-built version is up to date? I'd hate to miss a security notification a

Re: Is this normal with USB mice?

2003-01-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:36:17PM -0500, Ayman Haidar wrote: > you need to setup both mice in your XF86Config, mine looks like this: > -- > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver

Re: KDE questions

2003-01-17 Thread Brian McGroarty
> 2) What's with konqueror not hanging on to cookies between sessions on >some sites (namely, slashdot)? Are you sure you're accessing the same way? SlashDot's cookie configuration is a little strange. www.slashdot.org and slashdot.org have different cookie sets for some things, and if you ac

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
o a single console client. If you run it in a 'screen' session on your remote machine, you can keep it running and telnet/ssh out to it. Brian McGroarty http://www.mcgroarty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anyone recommend news aggregator (rss/rdf) ?

2003-01-13 Thread Brian McGroarty
is that you can read from any machine with a web browser if you set it up on a net-facing machine, and you can style it however you please. Cheers - Brian McGroarty http://www.mcgroarty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xf864 config, and LCD flat panel dispalys?

2002-03-01 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:54:03PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:29:29AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > Just bit the bullet and ordered a nice flat panel LCD display for my wifes > > > new Debian "testing" workstation. > > > > > >

Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays

2002-02-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:20:37PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:29:29AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the new > > > Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife. > > >

Re: dual card lock up

2002-02-04 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:26:25AM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I had a dual boot system workin fine. Win2k and Debian woody(kernel 2.4 > > 17). I decided to add a 2nd video card..win2k, I've had no problems. > > but with Debian, on boot up it shows the c

Re: Strange traffic on internal net (slpd insecure?)

2002-02-02 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 12:50:40PM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I just upgraded unstable -- I believe my last upgrade was 2 weeks > ago. I'm now getting a LOT of messages like the below... > > Feb 1 08:53:01 booberry kernel: Packet log: output DENY eth1 PROTO=2 &g

Re: .debs of IBM Java runtime environment?

2002-02-01 Thread Brian McGroarty
From: "Morten Bo Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does anyone know of any unofficial .debs of the IBM Java > > runtime environment? I use -- deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.blackdown.org/java-linux/debian woody non-free

Re: 100mbit nic: intel or 3com?

2002-02-01 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:48:21PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:40:52PM +0100, Victor Julien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to build a debian based router/gateway/fileserver/mailserver for a > > home network with 12 clients. It will be quite low budget as the server i

Re: Interresting report by logcheck....

2002-02-01 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:01:48PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 02:10:07PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: > > > > What does this mean? I am running bind but it is behind firewall and > > inaccesible from outside.. > > > > logcheck is being stupid. It sees the word "attack" i

Strange traffic on internal net

2002-02-01 Thread Brian McGroarty
I just upgraded unstable -- I believe my last upgrade was 2 weeks ago. I'm now getting a LOT of messages like the below... Feb 1 08:53:01 booberry kernel: Packet log: output DENY eth1 PROTO=2 192.168.0.1:65535 +239.255.255.253:65535 L=32 S=0x00 I=0 F=0x4000 T=1 O=0x0494 (#8) eth0 is my exte

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-19 Thread Brian McGroarty
Single white male, 28, Chicago IL, high school graduate, programmer and project lead at Midway Games, LLC. Debian has been the OS of choice at home for a while now, and it's started to take its place at work as well. Asocial hermit, but prone to the occasional bout of Throwing It All Down And Havin

Re: Homework

2001-12-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:01:52PM -0300, Nicol?s Conde wrote: >Hello. >I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people > do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over > again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list archives}. >

Re: apt-get connect takes forever, download instantaneous

2001-12-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 06:51:33AM -0800, Seth Delackner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:06:44AM +, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Just a thought, > > > > try ping www.debian.org. if it takes a while to resolve the ip address, > > then the problem is something to do with the dns server (yours /

Re: Copying a harddisk to another using dd

2001-12-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
You'd really really want to take a look at specifying a block size if you take this approach, otherwise your copy is likely to take forever and a day. On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:11:31PM +0100, Steffan Baron wrote: > > If both hd's have the same geometry just use their device names as > arguments

Re: Character-mode clock

2001-12-08 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:55:39PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sounds like what you want is `vcstime` > > ...it's part of console-tools, so I'd be betting it's on your system > > already. > > Check in /etc/console-tools/config for the option

Getting an older package

2001-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Where might I find the 1251 versions of the nvidia source building packages? The 1541 release of the driver has problems with multihead support, and nvidia recommends stepping back to the older driver. It would be nice to keep this built as a deb to make future upgrading easier.

KDE and multiple monitors

2001-11-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
I remember some discussion about this a while back, however I can't seem to find it... It's my understanding that KDE needs to have multiple monitor support compiled in, but that the Debian packages wouldn't have this until some future change was made. Is this still the case in sid? If so, is som

live video streaming?

2001-11-11 Thread Brian McGroarty
I've a bt848 based video card. I'd like to capture video and serve it locally on our office LAN to 4-5 users, some running Linux, some running Windows. The application that seems to come closest to what I'm looking for is vic, which is really meant for videoconferencing. I was hoping to broadcas

Re: How to remove (delete) a message frozen by exim?

2001-10-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 03:26:19AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > bash-2.05# grep frozen /var/log/exim/mainlog | head -1 > 2001-10-27 07:38:03 15N0vD-r7-00 Message is frozen > bash-2.05# > > > I do not want this message to be sent. Will > > rm -v /var/spool/exim/input/15N0vD-r7-00-? >

Re: 512Meg of Ram

2001-10-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:19:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux > does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true? Where did you hear this?

lwresd - not listening on any interfaces

2001-10-25 Thread Brian McGroarty
I periodically get this in my log -- Oct 25 00:38:11 booberry /usr/sbin/lwresd[415]: not listening on any interfaces As I understand it, lwresd is for local name resolution, and so it shouldn't be listening on anything but possibly the loopback device anyway. I'm curious as to why this is log-w

Unable to connect to some hosts with ipmasq enabled

2001-10-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
I submitted this bug report; I'm wondering if I'm the only one having the problem? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=93 With IP Masquerading up on my Debian box, my Debian box cannot connect to some hosts, i.e. www.half.com, the 2600 majordomo listserver, my bank, etc. There i

Re: DriveStatusError BadCRC on hda

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 03:05:42AM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hello > > I've seen some messages in the system log and am wondering what to do > with them: > > Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA > Aug 14 06:25:53 pflanze kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported > id

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 08:38:08PM -0400, dman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > | My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian > | 2.4.x kernel. > | > | Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. > > Try

Re: Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 07:15:42PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian > 2.4.x kernel. > > > Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. > > > > Usually, shortly before freezing, I will see t

Freezing during kernel compile

2001-08-18 Thread Brian McGroarty
My machine locks hard during kernel compiles with any stock Debian 2.4.x kernel. Using 2.2.x, I can compile without an incident. Usually, shortly before freezing, I will see this dmesg, or one like it << Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffc printing eip: c01220

Re: kernel image 2.4.7 and missing module paths?

2001-08-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:33:43PM -0500, Brian McGroarty wrote: > Recently installed 2.4.7, having been running 2.2.19... > > Modules now reside in an initrd. > > With modules which are not built at kernel build time (alsa, nvidia), > what is the proper way to introduce thes

kernel image 2.4.7 and missing module paths?

2001-08-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
Recently installed 2.4.7, having been running 2.2.19... Modules now reside in an initrd. With modules which are not built at kernel build time (alsa, nvidia), what is the proper way to introduce these? The image files built by the source package want to use /lib/modules/2.4.7/... which makes them

initrd symlink?

2001-08-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:24:34PM -0700, Craig Coles wrote: > I have been trying to get a 2.4 kernel working in different forms for some > time now. The problems that have been posted with the results of: > > >VFS: Cannot open root device "302" or 03:02 > >Please append a correct "root=" boot op

What's happened to the task- packages?

2001-07-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
What's happened to the task- packages? Suddenly task-c-dev and the other programming-related task packages are listed as 'obsolete' on my system. Have these been replaced by something new?

Setting up printing

2001-07-14 Thread Brian McGroarty
I've never configured a printer under Linux. I've got an Epson Sylus Color 740i hooked up via USB, and I've got it to the point where I can cat files directly to the device and see them printed. I'm a bit baffled by the number of choices of packages which are available, as well as the number of pr

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
--- Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty > wrote: > > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added > apm=on > > to the kernel command line. > > > > How do I enable apm conso

APM console blanking

2001-06-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on to the kernel command line. How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of no mouse/keyboard. __ Do You Y

RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
It helps to get really short cables (3ft or less) between the box and the CPUs. This is one of those cases where gold contacts seem to help as well. Rule of thumb - it also helps if xres * yres * refresh rate is under 50 million unless you've got a really high end switch. --- Joris Lambrecht <[EM

RE: TNT2 and Potato XF86 3.3

2001-04-10 Thread Brian McGroarty
Try hooking each card to the monitor directly or reduce your refresh rate in order to compare the cards. Most switch boxes will muddy anything above 1024x768x60hz, as will long cable lengths. --- Brandon High <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > > > Moreover,

Minimal news server

2001-02-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
Which of the packaged news servers would be a good choice for a purely internal server? I don't need to link to outside newsgroups. I just want something that I can install on minimal hardware and walk away from.

ssh locking up

2001-02-19 Thread Brian McGroarty
I've got a Windows machine and a Woody box behind my office firewall. I use both to connect to my ISP's shell machines, and to map a port to the remote news server. The firewall/NAT and the remote machine are all FreeBSD - no MS Proxy madness involved here. My problem: I can keep a session open

Re: debian & poster

2001-02-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:34:19PM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote: > In Allan Andersen's email, 07-02-2001: > > Hi, > > > > Right now I have a poster with Corel Linux (better than nothing > > I think) hanging on my door. But I don't use the Corel Linux > > disto - so I thought if the

Re: ALSA & missing symbols

2001-02-04 Thread Brian McGroarty
should be fixed. 2.2.18pre21 and 2.2.18 seem to be fu-jucked up. > > The packages you'll need are kernel-source-2.4.0, alsa-source, alsaconf, > kernel-package. Read the README.debian files in their doc directories for > more info. > > --Warren > > On Sunday 04 Febr

ALSA & missing symbols

2001-02-04 Thread Brian McGroarty
If I use a kernel-image package and the corresponding alsa-modules package for 2.2.18 or 2.2.18-pre21 in unstable, I get a load of missing symbols. Are these out of sync, or is this indicative of something else amiss on my system?

Re: Connecting to a Microsoft Proxy Server

2001-01-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:27:07PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach Miller, Jim (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 02:22:34PM -0500): > > I have Debian 2.2 Rev 2 running on an NT run network. The Internet > > Connection here is via a Microsoft Proxy Server. What is the easiest way to > > connect to the M

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
u for you to choose > from. > > --- Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >What I was looking for was a font for use within X - > >specifically, for use in an xterm. > > > >I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I &

Re: vga8x16 font...

2001-01-24 Thread Brian McGroarty
ernel 2.4.0 there is an entire document > covering VGA > fonts, which can alos be compiled in the kernel. I do not know > if that is > what you were looking for, but it is at least something. > > Greetz, > Sebastiaan > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote

Re: autoInsertion of es1371 module

2001-01-22 Thread Brian McGroarty
Have a look at modconf --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a sound card which uses the module es1371. > I currently have to insmod it as root for sound. > > How do I configure the module so that it loads/unloads > as needed? > > thanks, > Jon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

vga8x16 font...

2001-01-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
Okay, this is driving me NUTS. I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find what package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I could find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. This was my standard xterm font previously. Any clue where it is?

Re: cdr recomendations

2000-12-26 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 05:21:21PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm thinking of buying a cd writer. > > The howto suggests that most ide drives should work fine with Linux. > > But I was just wondering what modals people have had good results with and > more importantly if there are

Re: Still cannot get off list

2000-12-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >From: Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Diagnostic: Tried to confirm unsubscription >Subject: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Thu, Dec 2

Re: erase my adress on your list!!!!

2000-12-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:17:09PM -0500, Jim Kroger wrote: > At 2:47 PM -0800 12/8/00, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > >This is rather odd - notice the lack of the debian-user tag at the > >bottom of this message? Hu. > > > >On Friday 08 December 2000 13:26, Marie-Christine Josso wrote: > > > >

Re: Who are the shitheads at Debian?

2000-12-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:28:59AM -0500, Brian Stults,,, wrote: > Jim Kroger wrote: > > > unsubscribe me, stick these 60 emails a day up your ass > > _ > > James K. Kroger, Ph.D. > > Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior > > Depa

Re: onboard sound with via82cxxx

2000-12-09 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:13:05PM -0600, Pascal Hos wrote: > Hi, > > I have a MSI 694d board with onboard audio with via82cxxx chip. I'm > having severe problems trying to get the sound working. When compiling > the kernel I selected modular sound card support and modular OSS sound > modules w

Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred

2000-12-07 Thread Brian McGroarty
I once had a problem similar to what you originally described. The culprit turned out to be a secondary mapping in hosts for the address record of the MX. In this case, it was a very bad nonsense address in the 192.168.x.x block. Whether mail would be delivered or deferred seemed to rely on a com

Re: [OT] Apple IIe help please

2000-12-02 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:25:07PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > > Hi all. I apologize for the off topic-ness of the message and the > cross-post. > I have a friend who has a program she likes (written in BASIC) on an Apple > IIe. > I have a way to get into the code and list it on the screen. What I

Re: gnome desktop

2000-11-30 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:37:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi -there. I've got not so big, but annoying problem. How could I change > the colour of icon's textlabels on my desktop? I haven't found anything > in GNOME's control center. Also, if I try cliking desktop's backgound > (with any

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

2000-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:55:54PM -0700, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Gary" == Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gary> I would assume that if you didn't want to leave the mail on the > Gary> remote server you'd just use fetchmail to download it, although, I > Gary> *think*

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:37:51PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:15:37AM -0600, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > > Why so much apt and dpkg and so little dselect? > > Personally, the fact that dselect sets packages to a new desired state >

bind misconfigured (?)

2000-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
My bind seems to be misconfigured, and I'm not sure where to look for the problem... I get suspect things like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup vixen.yipyap.net 196.7.142.133 [...] Name:vixen.yipyap.net.yipyap.net [...] yet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ hostname vixen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dnsdo

Re: web mail

2000-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
Do any of these handle multiple mutt-style (Mail/) folders? On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:22:06AM +, RP wrote: > At 09:57 29-11-2000 +, James Preece wrote: > > >Can anyone point me in the direction of a free or cheap web mail system to > >run on debian or any other linux based system. > PHP

Re: swapping minor device number allocations

2000-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
Begging pardon, how is this done? Bear in mind that, I'm not using loadable kernel modules. On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:29:47PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > you try reversing the order in which the drivers load ? > > nate > > Brian McGroarty wrote: > > > > I

swapping minor device number allocations

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
I'm not using loadable kernel modules. My tvmixer is taking minor device 0, giving it mixer 0. This leaves via82c686a (sound) taking mixer 1. What can I use on the kernel command line I can use to force these to reverse? I've currently swapped /dev/mixer0 and /dev/mixer1 which is a bit of a hack

Re: Configure XFree86 instead of xserver-svga?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:03:46PM +, Pollywog wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:57:46 -0700, Robert L. Harris said: > > > > Holy Iguana Droppings... > > > > Ok, > >I wanna give the guys at Xfree and the author of Dexter > > a virtual 6pack. I have NEVER had configuring X so easy befo

scp from stdin

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
Is there a way to pipe input to a file on a remote host via scp? i.e. tar cz ~user | scp ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:outfile.tgz

Re: Why not dselect?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > IMO it has one of the worst UI I've ever seen. it confused the > hell out of me when I was installing debian for the first > time. that's from the vi enthusiast:-) I'll admit it confused the hell out of me at first, then again,

Re: Serial Port 0 - Can you help?

2000-11-28 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:45:32AM -0600, Dave Bacon wrote: > I have referenced all of my Linux books on this one and still can't find > a solution. So I am hoping you can help me. I need to find a way to > prevent Linux from bringing serial line 0 up after a reboot. The > ifconfig utility shows

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