Re: iptables log target logs everything to tty*. Why?

2006-06-22 Thread Philippe De Ryck
les ULOG and change --log-prefix to --ulog-prefix. This needs the ulog-daemon for logging though, but it's available on debian. Install it and all your messages will be sent to ulog. Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-18 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 11:28 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: > Thanks works perfect now. > > > > Kind Regards, > B.Hoffmann > > Linux User #398054 > > -Zenwalk- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)- > > Oh crap, ignore my last message, didn't see this one Philip

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-18 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ia/usbdrive. If that works, then edit your fstab (just faster by hand :)). Also check syslog for mount errors (check in real time using: tail -f /var/log/syslog in a terminal) Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
for that (you can click on the "Chose" button > and get the GTK picker, but why would you, unless you forgot the > path or the name?). Yeah, the "waiting on /usr/bin isssue" is bad > and needs to be fixed. > I run Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy) here (shame on me :)) and it

Re: Network Installation

2006-06-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
somewhere) and you can configure what you need to configure. Afterwards, you boot that system and finish the installation. Debootstrap needs a running Linux (Debian => maybe knoppix?) but there are LiveCD's out there that can help you with that. Just a suggestion Regards Philippe De R

Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

2006-06-11 Thread Philippe De Ryck
the config, not xinerama or other stuff. That's how I use it and how I like it. Good luck! Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security updates and apt-get

2006-06-10 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ation list of package updates. I believe this covers all the updates in stable (correct me if I'm wrong). Regards Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ejecting CD in a program....

2006-06-10 Thread Philippe De Ryck
the source of the command "eject"? This works pretty good, so maybe you find some clues in there. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow initial connection to NFS mounts

2006-05-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
Once the > connection is done everything works fine. The Mandrake boxes connect > quickly. I am talking several minutes for 5 mounts. Any suggestions? > > Hi, Do you have portmap running on the ubuntu machines? (/etc/init.d/portmap start) Hope this solves your problem! Phil

Re: probleempje..?!

2006-05-29 Thread Philippe De Ryck
hich allows you to prepare your harddrive and install the base system. This base system will handle the rest of the installation. I don't know about your hardware, but SATA-DVD burner sounds quite new. I honestly don't know how good that is supported. which version did you download? Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nfs mount question

2006-05-17 Thread Philippe De Ryck
t; Anybody knows how to figure out *why* the mount hangs? > > H > Don't know to figure out how, but I know the solution :) Try installing portmap on the client. I've searched for this problem too, and that solved it for me. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: ieee that doesn't suck

2006-05-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
mine all the necessary modules and packages. If it doesn't, I'm afraid that a solution might not be that simple ... I have firewire both on my laptop as my desktop, and it works out of the box (I do use ubuntu on my user systems). Hope my advice was at least a bit useful. It might help (n

Re: Accessing mail from remote

2006-05-04 Thread Philippe De Ryck
able or from my laptop (no need to constantly switch smtp's)) and to finish the job: squirrelmail for web access (apache2). I read my mail mostly in evolution, but occasionaly when I'm on a foreign system I use the webmail, which is pretty awesome. I believe that, if you're goin

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2006-05-01 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ought I'd ask again. > > thanks, > Brian Minton > As promised, here are the notes I've kept about this: pdbedit -c "[X ]" $username now don't ask me what I was thinking when I wrote this down, but maybe it can help someone :) (I don't even know if

RE: Machine Hostname

2006-04-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
name and you should be ready to go. Of course, instead of removing you should do "mv /etc/hostname /etc/hostname.bak" so you can easily restore your system if something goes wrong. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2006-04-29 Thread Philippe De Ryck
you guys know. >From what I remember, I looked up the command and it was "pdbedit". It seems to set some samba options, but I don't know the exact options. Hope this will help, but I'll post the info in my document monday anyway. Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sata sil3114 support

2006-04-27 Thread Philippe De Ryck
") gives the silicon image site with linux drivers as first hit. You might want to check it out. The kernel driver "silicon image" indeed only states 3112. I thought I saw some other silicon image driver somewhere else, but don't remember where. Might want to take a look at that t

Re: After recent Debian sid upgrade 2.6.16 to 2.6.16, vmware-config.pl fails

2006-04-24 Thread Philippe De Ryck
he following messages > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated <... vmware output ...> Just a suggestion, but maybe an update of the modules can help. You can find them by the name of "any-any update". Use at your own risk :) Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: grub-install in chroot not respected? [solved]

2006-04-21 Thread Philippe De Ryck
Send some filthy mail. > There has been a post a few days ago where you can find another solution to your problem: run grub with the new root-dir as parameter (no chroot required) grub-install --root-directory=new/ /dev/hdX this way, grub will use your "root-to-be"-directory an

Re: Thought on receiving two answers...

2006-04-21 Thread Philippe De Ryck
eason I think it is useful is because there might be a lag on the messages on the mailing list. If you're dealing with an issue that you'd like resolved ASAP the personal reply might be quite nice. I for one see my own messages appearing on the mailinglist with quite a lag. Sometime

Network printing

2006-04-18 Thread Philippe De Ryck
nes. Does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: statd not binding to outgoing-port

2006-04-18 Thread Philippe De Ryck
faults/nfs-* (common and kernel-server) you can set the ports for the daemons (as noted before) except for lockd. I've found that this can be fixed by putting the ports in /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nlm_* (tcpport/udpport) and restarting the nfs-server. A fix to the init-script of the nfs-server should take care of this. Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot problem with grub

2006-04-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
or the manual perhaps) for this specific info you'll find a lot more. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: syslog

2006-04-13 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ference. Then you can edit the config file and filter out hddtemp's logging. Just a suggestion Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where did my Debian menu go?

2006-04-10 Thread Philippe De Ryck
comes > back. Yes, I said *reboot*. :( > If I'm not mistaken, the package "menu" takes care of this. It might be possible that the menu is just hidden. Use the menu editor to find this out. Good luck! Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 06:19 -0600, Hodgins Family wrote: > Hi Phillipe: > > One issue that comes up is the way Ubuntu uses the sudo command. > During installation, newcomers (with prior experience in Linux) are > caught off guard when they are not asked to set up a root account and > password. I

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:49 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm getting a new computer at work with Ubuntu on it, but I'm used to > using Debian (at home and at my previous job). I understand that they > have some similarities. > > I'd appreciate any suggestions about common pitfalls when making this >

Re: disk space (when i use cp)

2006-04-02 Thread Philippe De Ryck
unt point for instance (/mnt/usbdisk1/somedir/usbdisk2 where usbdisk* are both mountpoints) and you copy something to usbdisk2 (which is not mounted) your data will be copied to usbdisk1, since the mount point is located on that disk. Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-04-02 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 15:53 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:19 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > > &g

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-31 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 23:19 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:45 +0100, N.Pauli wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > All of a sudden my machine has become incredibly slow to boot up and to > &g

Re: Hard disk failure?

2006-03-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
2a 213 205 000Old_age Always - 21 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000Old_age Always - 0 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 193 192 000Old_age Offline - 0 99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000Old_age Offline - 0 Good luck Hope I helped (a little) Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Incredibly slow to boot - any ideas?

2006-03-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
und here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983). Maybe a monitor for disk activity can be useful too (gkrellm for example shows activity and speed). Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Philippe De Ryck
dump the partitions from the HDD. Do NOT dump a mounted partition. Access the partition directly using the device (/dev/hda1 for instance). This way you'll have a consistent dump of your partition. I do not know what would happen if you dump a live system, but I don't think much good can

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-21 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 00:17 -0500, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > > > A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not just > > partition. I've had some systems that wouldn't accept the restored > > ver

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-20 Thread Philippe De Ryck
This way you're quite sure your backup will work on the actual system. A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not just partition. I've had some systems that wouldn't accept the restored version (PC wouldn't boot anymore due to no OS found) unless the whole disk was restored. Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-23 Thread Philippe De Ryck
destination host where you want the files. If you want to transfer whole directories, use scp -r Good luck Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-22 Thread Philippe De Ryck
nothing listening on that port it would be closed and if there is something listening it would be open! If I made a mistake anywhere, feel free to correct me! Philippe De Ryck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Terminal Server

2006-02-16 Thread Philippe De Ryck
serve the image, and thus doesn't need powerful hardware? Can anyone elaborate on the system requirements? The machines would be connected to one 100Mbit switch. I would opt for the OS-image read only on an NFS-share and maybe use the local HDD for swap. Thanks Philippe De Ryck -- To UNS

Debian workstations in a school environment

2006-02-14 Thread Philippe De Ryck
ndering if there are any documents (there must be!) available on these issues. I know it is possible, I've seen machines that disallow console login (only X was allowed) and a whole lot else. I can't seem to get much useful out of google ... Hope anyone can help me Kind regards Philipp