No tar for my tape drive!?!? SAS tape library help...

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Kahle
Any help here would be wonderful. tar will not work on my tape drive! Weirdness... Here is some background. I recently purchased a new IBM TS2900 Autoloader: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts2900/index.html I have hooked up this via an Adaptec SAS 58300: http://www.adaptec.com/en-

RE: Backup server with Windows Clients

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Kahle
I use Rsync to do this very thing. The only requirement you have, that I am missing, is that the user of the workstation to be backed up has no say in what gets backed up. Check out the following documents: http://www.gaztronics.net/rsync.php http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html - Shows how to s

Counsole problem with kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Kahle
I just built a system using the new debian-installer. Everything (almost) worked fine, but the d-i installed the default kernel, kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386. No problem. I just used aptitude to upgrade to kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686-smp. I then updated my menu.1st file and grub and rebooted. Everythi

OT: Dual Monitor Video Card Recommendations...

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Kahle
I am replacing my Debian workstation with a new machine. On my old workstation I have been using a Matrox G400 video card that I have been fairly happy with. One strange problem however. When booting into GDM and then login into Gnome, the right hand monitor displays the desktop with wavy lines,

RE: raidhotadd not working after reboot?!? *SOLVED*

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Kahle
On Thursday, June 03, 2004 4:59 PM, Michael Kahle wrote: > Recently when starting my computer I was notified by the Adaptec > SCSI BIOS that my disk ID #4 was not starting up. This disk was > failed. This disk is part of the software raid array that I have > setup on the machine.

raidhotadd not working after reboot?!?

2004-06-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Recently when starting my computer I was notified by the Adaptec SCSI BIOS that my disk ID #4 was not starting up. This disk was failed. This disk is part of the software raid array that I have setup on the machine. When the kernel booted it notified me that it could not see the disk and as a re

RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kahle
On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 10:42 AM Colin Watson wrote: >On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:19:29AM -0500, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: >>> I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do >>> it; the

RE: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kahle
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote: > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do > it; there are lots of ways it can break. I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this a problem? Please excuse my inexperience here. Michael --

RE: Woody and e1000 NICs - Checked by Vexira -

2004-04-06 Thread Michael Kahle
On Tuesday, April 06, 2004 Scott Bounds wrote: > Hello all. I am new to this list and am glad to be here. I am also a > real newbie with Debian. I just got a basic install done yesterday > (after four tries). I guess I'm pretty dumb. Anyway, I have three > SuperMicro SuperServers, Intel P4, In

RE: exim - spamassassin? - msexchange

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Kahle
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:32AM, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 10:46:24AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >| I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter >| email coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to

exim - spamassassin? - msexchange

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Kahle
I would like to setup a intermediary mail server that will filter email coming in for spam and then reroute the "good" mail to my msexchange server. Any suggestions on what I should use to do this? I am currently thinking that I need to use exim as my mta and spamassassin as my filtering program.

RE: Re[2]: VMware installation problem

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Kahle
Very cool. Thanks! Michael -Original Message- From: Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: VMware installation problem Hi there Michael, Monday, March 22, 2004, 8:51:54 AM, you wrote: >>Dne po 22. března 2004 12:42 C

RE: VMware installation problem

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Kahle
On Monday, March 22, 2004 8:52 AM, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote: >Dne po 22. března 2004 12:42 Cameron Hutchison napsal(a): >> Once upon a time Miroslav Maiksnar said... >> >>> Hi, >>> when installing vmware eval on my debian sarge I encounter problem >>> compiling modules. Install scripts refuses to

RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Kahle
On Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:12 PM, Richard Hoskins wrote: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Incoming from Roland Dunn: >>> >>> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and >>> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that >>> I can t

RE: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Kahle
Hi Roland, On Thursday, March 18, 2004 10:59 AM Roland Dunn wrote: > Having typed: "update-alternatives --config > x-session-manager" and choosen GNOME, GNOME now > starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > I can type "startx" when I want it to go into > GNOME. How can I force it not to

RE: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Oops... sends message in sucky outlook... sorry. See below for the rest of my message... -Original Message- From: Michael Kahle Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 11:27 AM To: Debian User List Subject: boot error -> cdrom: open failed.? Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel

boot error -> cdrom: open failed.?

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello. I recently built a 2.6.3 custom kernel for my debian/unstable machine. I am using the unstable kernel-source package. When booting my computer now I get a strange error: cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. cdrom: open failed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

RE: tun device on 2.6?

2004-03-03 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello Bradley, Bradley Alexander wrote: > I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally > compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use > of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel > documentation, but when I try to bring the device up

RE: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-02 Thread Michael Kahle
> ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition > exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? You could also try g4u (Ghost for Unix) http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ One nice feature is it allows a copy from partition to a ftp server then back again. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Is sarge in a pre-release phase?

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I have a server that is dedicated to doing backups via Amanda. I have recently purchased a Intel Pro 1000 Server adapter for this machine. To get this adapter working, I rolled my own 2.6.2 kernel, but this introduced more problems onto my Woody machine. The modutils package is deprecated for us

RE: trouble installing Woody w/ raid card

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Kahle
On Friday, February 06, 2004 2:58 PM Isaac wrote: >hello everyone, hello > I trying to install Debian 3 on a IBM Netfinity 5600 (8664-4RY) > server. This server has a IBM serveraid card (i think it is a 4L but > might be a 4P) with 4 scsi disks in raid5+spare configuration. This > server is dual

RE: Installing woody on IBM xSeries 342

2004-02-02 Thread Michael Kahle
> I'm trying to install woody on IBM xSeries 342 server with server raid 4lx, Had the same problem tracking this down myself. > does anybody have a working link to a driver disk (or can instruct me > how to compile the module so it will load)? This page got me started on the hunt: http://people

Debian for Dual Opterons...

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Kahle
Has anyone tried installed Debian on a dual Opteron system? I am thinking of building a new server based on this technology, any thoughts? Would I use the IA64 branch? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Tom wrote: > I think we as a plant need to play a fun game. For one > week, everybody has to in a serious way act the opposite > way of what they believe. > > Michael Moore and Al Franken need to be on TV fishing > and talking bout shotguns. George Bush needs to lead > an abortion rights mar

file creation permissions

2003-11-11 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, How would I force a newly created file by userA to have the permissions set automatically to userB, groupB 775? What I am trying to do is when a user uploads a file to our ftp server (proftpd) it does not create the file using their username as the group and owner of the newly created file

cvs import version numbers

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Kahle
I just installed CVS on my Debian box. I want to import a source tree of a project I have been working on into it. I was able to do this, but it was imported with the version number of 1.1.1.1. I would like to start over now and somehow re-import in with the version number of 0.1. Could someone

RE: problems upgrading libstdc++2.10-dev on unstable *fixed*

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Kahle
>-Original Message- >From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:55 PM >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:24:58AM -0500, Michael Kahle said >> Does anyone have any ideas here? I used dselect to completely remove >> the >> libstd

problems upgrading libstdc++2.10-dev on unstable

2003-10-15 Thread Michael Kahle
I just upgraded a whole pile of packages on my unstable workstation. I have been using: dselect update dselect install to initiate the upgrade process. I used to use: apt-get update apt-get upgrade but because of a problem with libxrender1 I switched to the dselect method. See: http://lists.debia

Took 2 days for my message to post!?!

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Kahle
Is the list running slow because of the MS Virus? My message: "Subject: route entries will not stick" was sent on Wed 9/24/2003 @ 12:52pm CST it posted to the list on Friday 9/26/2003 @ ~11:00 CST. Then my reply, "Subject: RE: route entries will not stick" which I sent on Friday 9/24/2003 @ 5:12

RE: route entries will not stick

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Kahle
Thanks, but I figured it out... I found this posting: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200206/msg01961.html michael -Original Message- From: Michael Kahle Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: route entries will not stick

route entries will not stick

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Kahle
Where do I configure entries into my routing table so that when I reboot they exist the next session? I am reading the Linux Networking HOWTO and this is 1) conspicuously absent 2) I am missing it or 3) when adding routes using the "route" command the table that is updated automatically saves your

Galeon - Mozilla - Epiphany = strange lockups

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I was using Woody for about a year on the machine I am writing to you from now (well, actually I am writing to you inside VMWare on a machine running debian...). Anyway, when running Mozilla from woody, every so often Mozilla would stop responding. The same would also happen to Galeon. I then in

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote: >>>Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? >> >> Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a >> later date. I the decided to switch to testing. >&g

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:20, Michael Kahle wrote: >> >Michael Kahle wrote: >> >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrende

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
>>Michael Kahle wrote: >>> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >>> >>> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >>&

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
>Michael Kahle wrote: >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >> 'diversion of

failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so

OT: Advice on Linux Web Hosting

2003-07-31 Thread Michael Kahle
I am wondering if anyone has any advice on a good linux web hosting provider. I am looking to go with a reputable company at reasonable rates. I would need anywhere from 6gb - 10gb / month bandwidth. Access to CGI bin preferable, other nice features would be MySQL, perl, php, etc. Preferably loc

Kernel Compile the Debian Way... was RE: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Kahle
>Michael Kahle wrote: >> I am not sure what you mean by the "--append-to-version" comment, I am >> going to assume that this is something that make-kpkg does >> automatically? When I built my kernel I did have to rename the >> /lib/modules/ direct

RE: ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-07-07 Thread Michael Kahle
ject.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=ALi&card= M1535%2CM1535D%2CM1535%2B%2CM1535D%2B&chip=M5451&module=ali5451 This worked perfectly. Thanks. I did already have myself added to that group, I did not know that you have to log in and then log out in order to notify the OS that you are

ADI Soundmax 1881 (intel chipset) w/ ALSA Drivers

2003-06-27 Thread Michael Kahle
Greetings fellow Debianites, Sorry, this may be a little long winded. For the past couple of days I have been trying off and on to get the ALSA drivers setup on my Woody box. The computer is a IBM Intellistation Z-Pro (6866-60U). Because I never had sound installed on this machine, I never had

RE: VMWare

2003-06-10 Thread Michael Kahle
[snip] > I wouldn't bother with anything before workstation 4. [end snip] I used Workstation 3 for about a year before, just recently, upgrading to 4. No problems with 3 at all... Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

RE: Testing the functionality of a parallel port...

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Kahle
> > I have greped for things that I thought would be relevant > in /var/log > > and could not find anything out of the ordinary. Any ideas? > > by default linux doesn't put the parallel port in interrupt > mode, most parallel ports default to using IRQ 7. On my > systems I force enable the pa

Testing the functionality of a parallel port...

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Kahle
How does one go about testing the functionality of the parallel port on their computer? I am trying to get my Samsung ML-1450 working with my Debian Woody workstation and I am having no luck. I have downloaded the drivers from Samsung for this printer and went through the setup. I am using lpr t

RE: Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Kahle
> Screen acts as its own virtual terminal. You start screen from any > terminal and it leaves you at a terminal prompt. Now you can > do whatever > you want (i.e. start your backup). From another terminal (ssh'd in or > otherwise) you can cause that screen virtual terminal to be > displayed on

RE: Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Kahle
> From: sean finney wrote: > heya, > > i'd suggest either nohup or screen. the former is dirt > simple but not very featureful, and the second is the opposite. OK, I just installed screen, very cool program, but not what I am looking for. I need to be able to run a program in a window. Then

Howto redirect output from a terminal

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Kahle
I am not sure how to ask for what I want here. But, here goes. I was using dump to make a backup of a directory on my computer. This was started from a terminal in X. As it was running I could see in the terminal window all the status output from the program. Good. This backup job took a long

RE: Kernel Compile Issue SOLVED

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Kahle
See below for information. This is now solved. The problem was that I didn't have CONFIG_FILTER compiled into my kernel. I don't get why this is nessessary. Thanks. Michael > -Original Message- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, Jan

RE: Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Kahle
> > The new kernel boots fine, but eth0 no longer can get an IP. lsmod > > says that I have no modules loaded. I double checked to > ensure that I > > didn't build this into the kernel and I did! So I did the same > > process a second time, same deal only this time I made sure that I > > sp

Kernel Compile Issue

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Kahle
I am afraid that I will be kicked off of this list because of this silly question. But, I'm stumped, this could be because it's 12:31am and I'm tired. Here goes: I am creating a custom kernel for Debian Woody. For some reason I cannot get my ethernet card to load as a module. I have done the f

RE: RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Kahle
> When I ran vgcreate it seamed to work fine. However it lists > the MAX LV Size as being 255.99GB. This does not make sense > with my configuration. I have 5 SCSI disk partitions in a > RAID5 array. Each partition is 36446.22mb. My math shows I > should have a MAX LV size of being 145784.8

RE: RAID & EXT2-fs error

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Kahle
> I am trying to install a Debian testing box with root on RAID > 1 following the instructions given at > http://karaolides.com/computing/HOWTO/lvmraid/ I am working on setting up a system with this configuration. I decided to work step by step with this howto to get my system running. Thanks

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Kahle
>I didn't even bother installing the 3ware software that came with the card, there is enough >support built into the kernel to make it work just fine. Just remember it's not /dev/hd? >anymore, it's /dev/sd?. The 3ware card is ATA RAID. I have SCSI disks in my system. I need a hardware RAID car

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Thanks to the both of you for your comments. My boss gave me the go ahead to purchase a Hardware RAID controller. I figured this would be a more robust solution that the Software RAID. Any suggestions on a brand? I am going to install Debian Woody on this computer so ideally I would want the co

Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Michael Kahle
I just got the cable and adapters I need to bring life back into Geocentric.(1) 6x '80 to 68pin' SCSI adapters and a arms length SCSI 68pin round cable to tie them all together. I must say, I pray too little. I mount the 6 drives into the IBM Z-Pro chassis. Route the cables, attach the adapters

RE: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Kahle
> A few years ago, the big high-load PSU I'd just bought > literally caught fire inside the server it was installed in, > so I swapped the old, low-load, non-burning PSU back in and > asked a friend to help me fix it. He was a better solderer > than me, so he replaced a couple of power transis

RE: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Kahle
> > > > In a moment of "ah-ha" I carefully removed two of the > pressed on > > > > connectors to the ribbon cables, and then just as carefully > > > > pressed them back on with the help of a vice and a micrometer. > > >=20 > > > Just for the record, may we know what brand of soda > inspired th

(OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer

2003-01-09 Thread Michael Kahle
Dear all, Thank you for the advise on adding the ide drive to my computer. I could not get the ide drive to even recognize. After some monkey-ing around, I decided to pull all the drives out of my computer and add 5 brand new 36GB 10,000 RPM 80pin SCSI drives to my computer. I printed out the S

Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Kahle
Greetings, I hope you all can help me resolve my problem. I am currently running Debian Sid on my computer. I have 3 SCSI drives in it and I would like to add a fourth IDE drive to it. I have a 80 GB drive that would be a great chunk-o-diskTM for me to store all kinds of goodies on. I original

OT: Via Eden Mini-ITX

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Kahle
Has anyone had any experience running Woody on one of these VIA Eden motherboards? I have a little project that I'm working on that I think this form factor would be perfect for. I have seen some good reviews on these, even some mentioning linux on them. Does anyone in the Debian crowd have anyt

RE: wu-ftpd woes

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Kahle
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: wu-ftpd woes > > > I am trying to setup a ftp server on my company lan for a > repository of g4u > c

wu-ftpd woes

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Kahle
I am trying to setup a ftp server on my company lan for a repository of g4u created machine images. I have chosen to install wu-ftpd. I cannot seam to get this to authenticate me. I have NOT setup anonymous user access, I am only configuring this based on the guest access wu-ftpd HOWTO: http://w

RE: HP Winprinters

2002-12-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Michael Kahle wrote: > Does anyone know where I can find the ppa (HP "windows" > printer drivers for > linux) website? Never mind, I found it... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pnm2ppa/ Its now called pnm2ppa instead of pbm2ppa (unless of course that was a typo on the Printin

HP Winprinters

2002-12-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Does anyone know where I can find the ppa (HP "windows" printer drivers for linux) website? Here is the link that was on LDP's site, but I get a 404: http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/ The LDP documentation that I was looking at is here (for refrence) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/H

RE: How to have many Win98 users & 1 Linux

2002-12-02 Thread Michael Kahle
//snip Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Putty looks to the uneducated user like a DOS-box. If you need > graphical programs, I can't help you other than to say it's > possible. Have a look at the HOWTOs wrt to X Window System and > remote applications. For this to work, you will need to spend a > reasonabl

RE: installation Problem

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Kahle
Dominic Iadicicco wrote: >When I go to install Debian 3.0 from an iso cdrom that I >downloaded I get an error when it comes time to install >the kernal drivers: "The installation program couldn't >find any directory containing the files rescue.bin, bf2.4/ >drivers.tgz." can anyone help me? -

RE: where do I find the kernel headers? *solved*

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Kahle
Seneca wrote: >On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:28:17PM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >> I hope this isn't a silly question. > >Most of the time, the only silly question is the one left unasked >(trite, I know). > >> >From the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/c

RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight *solved*

2002-11-22 Thread Michael Kahle
Osamu Aoki wrote: >On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:23:04PM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: >> Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >> > >> >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >> >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is m

RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Kahle
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > >I've heard of problems with locked screensavers in the past, and I >wouldn't be surprised if that *could* be a problem, but what is more >important is whether or not the system hangs at the same time each day >(potential cron job problem - check the tail of the back logs.) >

RE: Debian Testing Crashes Overnight

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Kahle
Mark L. Kahnt wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 11:26, Michael Kahle wrote: >> I built the system using Woody, then 'upgraded' to testing on my >> workstation. I use this as my primary computer here at work. At the end of >> the day, when I go home, I lock X and t

Debian Testing Crashes Overnight

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Kahle
This post is going to be a bit vague, sorry. I built the system using Woody, then 'upgraded' to testing on my workstation. I use this as my primary computer here at work. At the end of the day, when I go home, I lock X and take off. The next morning, the system is frozen. I can't do anything b

RE: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Kahle
Craig Dickson wrote: >I know there are other compilers/tools for Java than Sun's, but that >doesn't change the fact that the Java name is a Sun trademark and that >Sun has never submitted the language to an independent standards body. >Sun, all by themselves, defines what Java is and isn't. > >Crai

RE: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Kahle
-Original Message- From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:21 PM To: Debian User Subject: Re: OT: Politics of Java Craig Dickson wrote: /* snip > >No, you haven't been smoking too much RMS. Java is not an open standard; >it is controlled entir

RE: xvncviewer respawn

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Kahle
nate said: >Hugh Saunders said: > >> but this just causes >> INIT: id "8" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes >> to be repeated on the console. so that is obviously not the way to do it, >> any better ideas? > >probably because it cannot connect to the X server.. > >you could try a shell scr

where do I find the kernel headers?

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Kahle
I hope this isn't a silly question. >From the Debian FAQ (http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-kernel.en.html): //snip The kernel headers distributed with the kernel source are located in /usr/include/linux/include/. //snip I used dselect to install the kernel-source-2.4.18 package and a ls of the /

RE: odd behaviour with harddisk

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Kahle
I had a similar problem with an old gateway P150 with a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB drive. I had to flash the bios and then everything worked right. Still running Debian Woody as my file server. Good luck. Michael -Original Message- From: Burkhard Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tues

RE: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Michael Kahle
> Hello, > I've just tried to view the PDF at > http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) > with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. > top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the > rest. I left it running for a couple of minut

Re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Kahle
Tom, > This is my impresseion also. In particular I wonder what use you > could have for RAID 5, SCSI, tape backup, a Sound Blaster Audigy > Platinum and an ATI All-in-Wonder on the same box. The first three > are definite server-ware, while the last two (and maybe the DVD > player) sound like y

Re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Kahle
> What are you going to be using this machine for? This sounds like > overoveroveroverkill for a desktop machine (and inappropriate for a > server...). Save yourself a lot of money and just get IDE drives and use > software RAID, if you really want it. Then again, I don't know anything > about your

My ultimate linux box

2002-05-05 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, I am currently building a new computer to replace my P150 overclocked to P166! :) It's about time! The system will run Debian GNU/Linux, so I want to ensure that the hardware I go with will be compatable. You input is greatly appreciated. Here are the specs: Case: Enlight Full Tower (EN-

strange duplicate files... bug?

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I am seeing some strange behavior on my linux box. Any ideas. I have a Samba share called 'share'. This is a mounted hard drive with a ton of space that I place mp3's, pictures, files, etc... I use as a central repository for all of my junk. If I type 'ls -al' I get the following _partial_ lis

Re: Samba Messaging

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:25:57PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:07:47PM +0200, Tinus Kotze wrote: > > I converted my system to debian a while back and got the following problem. > > I > > can't receive/send messages while i can pretty much do anything else. I am > >

Re: xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
uot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18-Apr-2002 Michael Kahle wrote: > > I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed > > on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. > > > > I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep fo

xconsole won't allow input!?!

2002-04-18 Thread Michael Kahle
I have been using Debian Woody now for about 2 months. This is installed on an old P5 166 w/ 64 mb of ram. I made the decision today to install XFree86 with afterstep for a lightweight window manager. I managed to get everything working fine, but when I launch XConsole it won't let me put any in

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:35:35 -0500 > "Michael Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as > a > > gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? > Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Jabb

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bleah... why? Why Java or why something other than Gaim? If your question is the former, because I enjoy programing in Java. If it's the latter, I can't answer that as I have never used it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Once again, I answered my own question. GAIM seems to now be able to do them all! :) Lucky me. But how about a similar program GPLed written in Java? "Michael Kahle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a &g

Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Michael Kahle
Does anyone know if there is free software out there that acts as a gateway to AOL IM, ICQ, and MSN IM, etc.? I know about GAIM, but I would like one program that replaces them all. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL