Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
> jennyw wrote: > Is this normal? I tried installing exim and sendmail instead, but the > same thing results. Do I have to do something special to get the spool > files created? Do I have to do something special to get the postfix > (or whatever) to write to the spool files? Postfix probably creat

Re: heads-up (and a chance to object) on expect packages

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Markley
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:33:25AM +0100, Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake forth: > > I'm planning to drop the two separate expect packages (expect5.24 and > > expect5.31) and create a single "expect" package with the current version. > > An automated upgrade path will be provided. [...]

Re: logitech mouseManPlus and fourth button: how to make it work?

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On (15/05/01 21:46), Erik Steffl wrote: > > is there any way to get the fourth button (on the side of the logitech > > mouseMan with wheel) working? It does not work at all - not even with > > xev. > > I had a similar problem getting my new-fangled optical wheel mou

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Brian May
> "Petr" == Petr Dvorak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Petr> netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 ' should get rid Petr> of them, signal 9 is not maskable. My experience, there are only two ways of killing netscape: 1. from netscape or the window manager close function. 2. kill -9. L

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Oki DZ
Thomas Weinbrenner wrote: > ,[ /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes ] > | Current Minimal Requirements > | > | > | Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've > | encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently > | runnin

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Robert Waldner
On Wed, 23 May 2001 12:33:12 +0700, Oki DZ writes: >It seems that libc6 has to be upgraded too; what are the consequences of >having unstable libs on a stable machine? Well, actually, my question >is: what unstable packages do you have to install on a stable machine in >order to have the machine h

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Oki DZ wrote: > It seems that libc6 has to be upgraded too; what are the consequences of > having unstable libs on a stable machine? Why not compile your own modutils package from the sources in unstable? You don't need to upgrade glibc then. > Well, actually, my question > is: what unstable pac

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Oki DZ
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Using kill -9 on a process means you may have to clean up the pieces. > Signals 15, 1, and 2 (TERM, HUP, and INT), are generally considered to > be polite requests to jobs to get the hell over it already, but to clean I think Unix designers were having mixed feelings abo

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Oki DZ
Robert Waldner wrote: > There´s a FAQ on www.debian.org about that, see > http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 I see, it's already on the homepage... Well, I think it's time to have a new feature on apt-get; it has to print something like: "Hi, wanna hear some news before continuing?" [Y/n] a

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Dalton
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Oki DZ wrote: > > It seems that libc6 has to be upgraded too; what are the consequences of > > having unstable libs on a stable machine? > > Why not compile your own modutils package from the sources in unstable? > You don't need to upgrade glibc then. Instructions for

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:11:48PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > Using kill -9 on a process means you may have to clean up the pieces. > > Signals 15, 1, and 2 (TERM, HUP, and INT), are generally considered to > > be polite requests to jobs to get the hell

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 11:29 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. I second this one from personal experience! Very bad... lucky I did it before I actually started working with the th

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Oki DZ wrote: > > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > Using kill -9 on a process means you may have to clean up the pieces. > > Signals 15, 1, and 2 (TERM, HUP, and INT), are generally considered to > > be polite requests to jobs to get the hell over it already, but to clean > > I think Unix designers w

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:11:48PM +0700, Oki DZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ... > > BTW, if I unload the NIC driver (along with lo), would the daemon exit? > > I was thinking about it, but since I was remote logging in to the > > machine, rebooting was the only option.

Re: moving partitions to another hard drive

2001-05-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 22 May 2001 23:04:49 -0500 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put both drives in and create your partitions on hdb with fdisk or > cfdisk. > Create your file systems with "mkfs.ext2 -c" and "mkswap -c" > Mount /dev/hdb1 and copy / on hda over with "cp -ax" > Swap the drives and replace. > >

RE: [users] Maildir protocaol spec?

2001-05-23 Thread Eugene van Zyl
I want to use a maildir as a sort of queue for processing incoming emails with structered data which needs to be processed and written to a db. Now, once I've decided to read a message, I move it to ./cur, but how do I let any other process like a POP3 server know that I'm currently reading this

root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
I have just found out that ~erik/.Xauthority is owned by root and I cannot access my X server (I couldn't run any X applications). I have no idea how that happened, I have started additional X server as root (startx -- :1), just like many times before, doing some testing of mouse settings.

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:35:37PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Oki DZ wrote: <...> > > Whoa, I tried many times, kill -9, killall -9 , to no avail. > > BTW, if I unload the NIC driver (along with lo), would the daemon exit? > > I was thinking about it, but since I was remote l

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Oki DZ
Robert Waldner wrote: > There´s a FAQ on www.debian.org about that, see > http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 OK, I've upgraded all the necessary packages; now depmod works fine. Thanks a lot. BTW, I see some conflicting programs; those on net-tools and netbase. debsums net-tools would retu

Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:54:42PM -0700, Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have just found out that ~erik/.Xauthority is owned by root and I > cannot access my X server (I couldn't run any X applications). You every symlink or hardlink this to your root .Xauthority file, by any chance?

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
Last time I've checked, this deb-url contained galeon and ximian packages of mozilla. They use a strange numbering scheme for the libnspr4 package and are never uptodate. Take the deb of galeon and install it with "dpkg -i galeon.deb". NB: galeon won't work with mozilla0.9 from kitame. You need to

Re: weird routing problem??

2001-05-23 Thread Kevin Ross
> ezekiel:/home/thoover# route -n > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.110.0.0.0 UG0 0

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
Hi all, Vester, did you use the alsa modules debain package or you take it from www.alsa-project.org source. I got the same problem : I've tried several thing and everything load fine but I hear no sound (after unmuting my card) or the alsamixer said me thing like "lsamixer: failed to open mixer #

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
IIRC this is a know issue with kernel 2.4.3. D process can't be killed : D mean UNinterruptible sleep and kill send a signal which wake-up target process if they are in an interruptible state.. Upgrade to 2.4.4 even if there is some drawbacks with it (there's a fork issue), or wait for 2.4.5 which

memstat shows many /lib/ld-2.1.3.so processes

2001-05-23 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, there is an odd phenomenon on one of my potato systems. memstat shows many ld replicas eating up the available memory. It seems that each process running is accompanied by such a loader replica resident in memory. Any hints? Thanks, Thomas # memstat 40k: PID 1 (/lib/libc-2.1.3.so

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >> I usually try to track down process relationships with 'pstree', then >> try killing related process with 15, 1, 2, and, if all else fails, 9. > >killall -9 would be much more efficient, right? 'killall' is a very dangerous command to

newbie problem

2001-05-23 Thread Derya PALANCI
Hi all,   I've treid everything i know or i've learned from this list and i couldnt manage to make x server work... I have an i810 board ann 2.2 potato. as a newbie i'm stuck... sometimes i say myself just give it up and install mandrake or something (because i've heard its easier) but i dont

Re: weird routing problem??

2001-05-23 Thread Iwan Mouwen
> Internet > | > | (external NIC) > | > ariel > | | >(192.168.1.10) | | (192.168.247.10) <--- (two internal NICs) > | | > | |

gnumeric

2001-05-23 Thread Jim McCloskey
I have a stable (2.2r3) system and this is the wrong time for me to think of upgrading to testing. It would be very useful, though, to have a more up-to-date version of gnumeric than the one available in stable (stable has 0.47; testing has 0.64). I don't use the whole gnome beast, but I do use t

Re: newbie problem

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:28:34AM +0300, Derya PALANCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I've treid everything i know or i've learned from this list and i > couldnt manage to make x server work... I have an i810 board ann 2.2 > potato. as a newbie i'm stuck... sometimes i say myself just

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-23 Thread sherab
Hi Vester, To use alsa-sound you don't need to configure the oss either as module or build-in while you build your kernel image. It was documented in the alsa-driver-0.5.10b.tar.bz2 package. Just configure the sound support in module or build-in, then compile your kernel as usual. If oss was bui

Re: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-23 Thread Timeboy
On Wed, 23 May 2001 01:57:09 +0200, spider wrote: > ** 1. did i do the right thing??? i mean is it the right file? > ** 2. there is this GNOME panel and icons on the desktop, but i dont have an 1. My .xsession file: sawfish & exec gnome-session 2. This is cause you have no windowmanager loade

Re: Netscape and Flash problem

2001-05-23 Thread Timeboy
On Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:08 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ** My suggestion is to get a different browser (galeon, konqueror, or > ** mozilla are strongly recommended), disable flash in it, and get a > ** freestanding Flash viewer for the rare time when Flash is useful. One > ** was mention

Re: modutils

2001-05-23 Thread Timeboy
On Wed, 23 May 2001 09:29:05 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > ** Hi, > ** > ** If I did "depmod -a" then /lib/modules/2.4.4/modules.dep would become 0 > ** in size. > ** > ** Pretty interesting... if modules.dep's size is 0, then no module could > ** be loaded. > ** What could be the cause? > ** I

ALSA / sound

2001-05-23 Thread vester
@ noah: hi...sorry, didn't read the INSTALL file carefully enough, sorry! =) anyway, it's all working now...except snd-seq-oss still won't load. but i hear sound -- that is what i wanted. thanks! @ christophe: i followed noah's suggestion and got the alsa package directly from www.alsa-project.or

Re: need help with ALSA / soundcard

2001-05-23 Thread vester
ooops, i forgot: use ./snddevices after you have compiled the drivers, and alsamixer will work! i think cameron just had the same problem and noah's advice fixed it for him -- good thing =) cheers, vester On Wed, 23 May 2001, [ISO-8859-1] christophe barbé wrote: > Hi all, > > Vester, did y

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a stable (2.2r3) system and this is the wrong time for me to >think of upgrading to testing. It would be very useful, though, to >have a more up-to-date version of gnumeric than the one available in >stable (stable has 0.47; testing has 0.64). > >I d

Re: newbie problem

2001-05-23 Thread Timeboy
On Wed, 23 May 2001 11:28:34 +0300, Derya PALANCI wrote: > ** Hi all, > ** > ** I've treid everything i know or i've learned from this list and i couldnt > ** manage to make x server work... I have an i810 board ann 2.2 potato. as a > ** newbie i'm stuck... sometimes i say myself just give it

Re: First step with Mutt

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: >on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:17:22PM +, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Could someone show me how I could configure e.g. exim to reach my ISP and my >> smtp and pop3 servers ? > >Have you installed exim? Walking through the postinst configuration >should set it u

Re: Netscape and Flash problem

2001-05-23 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 23 May 2001 11:18:59 +, Timeboy wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:08 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > ** My suggestion is to get a different browser (galeon, konqueror, or > > ** mozilla are strongly recommended), disable flash in it, and get a > > ** freestanding Flash viewer for th

Re: dif version of debian ??

2001-05-23 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Dan Christensen wrote: > > Hi All > > Im thinking about changen to debian from SuSE, so i started to get this list, > but now im more in dubt about the way debian works and who many dif version > ther are, i seen versions like 2.2.r2 2.2.r3 woody and the list go on. is > ther a place to get the i

Re: Netscape and Flash problem

2001-05-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:18:59AM +0200, Timeboy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2001 13:30:08 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > ** My suggestion is to get a different browser (galeon, konqueror, or > > ** mozilla are strongly recommended), disable flash in it, and get a > > ** f

login problem!

2001-05-23 Thread J . Ramón Fdez
Hi all, When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: login: jramon Sytem bootup in progress - please wait Password: *** Login incorrect I put the correct password, but it doesn't woork. However, I can login as root successfully. Where is the mistake? Thanks --

fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and Gnome). 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when starting emacs from the fvwm-mennu, it starts up with default values (white background,

Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
For a couple days now I've been experiencing alot of problems related to fonts in X. It must be related to recent upgrade of X or related font libraries. Certain font requents seem to be killing alot of applications with errors such as: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out

Re: weird routing problem??

2001-05-23 Thread Tom Hoover
Duh...thanks for pointing out the obvious...I knew that it had to be something simple! I now remember changing ezekiel's gateway to bethel (.11) when I needed to temporarily take ariel down for a harddrive change. I hadn't used the laptop since that time, and I evidently forgot to change the gate

Re: secure X terminal? (was: 12 box network...)

2001-05-23 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 03:35:28PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote: > On an only slightly related note, has anyone some experience with > secure X terminals? The i686 box on my desk is noisy. I would like to > replace it with an X terminal, but the X connection must be secure (I > type various

Does Communicator 4.77 really support Unicode?

2001-05-23 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi, I heard that, (and at least I saw the Unicode UF-8 in the character set in the menu) Communicator 4.77 for Linux supports unicode. But I always got trouble when displaying the page using unicode character, dont know why? Is there anything I missed in my system? . Even the dynamic font doesn't

Re: Debian-unstable?

2001-05-23 Thread Colin Watson
Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(*) I am seeing that there are 'woody' - and 'sid' - trees on the Debian >ftp servers. So, what is the 'current' working 'unstable'-tree of Debian? sid - but just use the 'unstable' symlink, which points to the right place. >Actually, I am searching for a

Printer

2001-05-23 Thread Sidney Brooks
I have already discussed my woes under "Two Problems". I have now changed from magicfilter to apsfilter. When I tried to print the test page, I received the message: /dev/lp0 : no such device. The device /lp0 appears in the /dev directory. It seems that the failure of the system to recognize my

dselect/apt-get: corrupted dependencies?

2001-05-23 Thread Berthold Cogel
Hello! Last weekend I tried to update my system (stable/testing/unstable). After I resolved all dependency problems with dselect I called 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' to install all the packages. I got a lot of messages about unmet dependencies. All of them covered programs I have already installed

Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Joel Mayes
The Eric Comspiracy strikes again Sorry, couldn't resist Joel -- No, Gates always knew the Internet was going to be important, just as Oceania has always been at war with East Asia. ;)

Re: Debian-unstable?

2001-05-23 Thread Sebastian Drews
Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (*) Seeing the fact that I am still having a slow yet expensive ( :( ) > internet connectivity, I guess it will not at all be possible to me to > download all the stuff directly to my machine so... hmmm if there's any > reader on that list who's locate

ppp through external isdn device

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
I can't get a successfull conection with an external isdn device, sometimes negotiation comes along, I get an IP address and DNS but am dropped down little after. This is aht the logs look like: May 23 14:01:33 devserver pppd[3341]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 May 23 14:01:34 devserver chat

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:35:37PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | Oki DZ wrote: ... | > I see; so the memory that once was used, wouldn't be returned back to | > the OS, right? | | AFAIK the OS takes care of all/most of the resources - file are closed | (but not saved), memory is released etc... if

Re: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-23 Thread francisco m . neto
» Timeboy disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > On Wed, 23 May 2001 01:57:09 +0200, spider wrote: > > > ** 1. did i do the right thing??? i mean is it the right file? > > ** 2. there is this GNOME panel and icons on the desktop, but i > dont have an > > 1. My .xsession file: > > sawfish & > exec gno

Re: XDM or GNOME???

2001-05-23 Thread matlads
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:57:09AM +0200, spider wrote: > i installed potato on my machine, and i had XDM as the window manager. > i wanted to switch to GNOME, so i put: > exec gnome-session > in my .xinit file (/etc/X11/xinitrd/.xinit --- i hope its the right path...) > > 1. did i do the

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread Daniel Katz
"Eric G. Miller" writes: > For a couple days now I've been experiencing alot of problems related to > fonts in X. It must be related to recent upgrade of X or related font > libraries. Certain font requents seem to be killing alot of > applications with errors such as: > > X Error of failed re

stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stable" with "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through the changes and found a couple of problems 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates s

Increasing PPP Dialup connection timeout

2001-05-23 Thread Scott_Patterson
Hello, For the last few days, I've been unable to connect to my ISP via dialup modem. Before this, I had no problem and it would connect very soon after dialing. Now, there appears to be line noise preventing it to connect at all. The problem is it connects in Windows fine. It takes a while (about

Gnus mail with pop/smtp

2001-05-23 Thread Ole Sebastian Stein
I would like to use gnus as my mail-client since kmail cannot handle larger ammounts of mail especially well (i.e. it crashes). However, I have tried to search for an easy way to understanding and setting up gnus for use with multiple mail-addresses and pop/smtp-servers but found nothing. The

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Michael Soulier
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:45:46PM -0500, Petr [Dingo] Dvorak wrote: > > netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 ' should get rid of them, > signal 9 is not maskable. But if the process is blocked on an uninterruptable system call, it will never return to receive the signal. This is a known Un

Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi There Fellow Debianites, I got the following message from logcheck. May 23 06:13:15 c243491-a sm-mta[407]: f4NCCqk7000407: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=2433, class=-30, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] Is there anyone who m

Re: gnumeric

2001-05-23 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be very useful, though, to have a more up-to-date version > of gnumeric than the one available in stable (stable has 0.47; > testing has 0.64). Ximian (http://www.ximian.com/) is packaging GNOME for several GNU/Linux distributions, including De

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread Dmitry Astapov
KO> "stable" with "testing". I did that, and ran dselect to browse through KO> the changes and found a couple of problems KO> 1: Its plan to upgrade my stable system generates some dependency KO> issues. It tells me that; KO> lwrsed recommends libnss-lwres libnss-lwres does not appear to be

Re: stable - testing

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Did you do the "update list of available packages" step before trying to proceed with select or install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith O'Connell) writes: > Hi, > > I decided to investigate the move from "stable" to "testing". I thought > it would be as simple as editing the sources to replace "stab

Re: login problem!

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
Sounds like you were running nis (yppasswd) at one time, but now are not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Ramón Fdez) writes: > Hi all, > When I try login in my debian 2.4 as normal user, system say: > > login: jramon > Sytem bootup in progress - please wait > > Password: *** > Login incorrect >

Re: Printer

2001-05-23 Thread W. Paul Mills
If there is no hardware port, you will get the message even if the dev file exists. I would try /dev/lp1 and see if that works. There have been some kernel changes over the years that affect how these devices are seen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sidney Brooks) writes: > I have already discussed my woes

easy question

2001-05-23 Thread vester
i know this sounds trivial, but i haven't figured it out...after installing and successfully loading ALSA drivers (as root) sound applications only work as root...what do i need to change to make sound accessible to normal users? anyone? thanks! -vester

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Gordon Hart
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:28:44AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Since you're probably root at the time you're doing this sort of thing, > you'll find yourself with an unusable system. > > For that reason, I always advise people to forget that killall exists, > even if it's a handy short cut on Li

announce galeon-0.10.6 unofficial package

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
i all, I've made a debian package for galeon 0.10.6. This package is build against sid (aka unstable)(should certainly rebuild against other debian dists). It requires a patched version of mozilla 0.9. I've rebuild the kitame packages with this patch and you can apt-get it at the same url. Feedba

Re: Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Mike Dresser
Jimmy Richards wrote: > Hi There Fellow Debianites, > > I got the following message from logcheck. > > May 23 06:13:15 c243491-a sm-mta[407]: f4NCCqk7000407: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=2433, > class=-30, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Michael Soulier wrote: MS> > netscape is known doing this, 'kill -9 ' should get rid of them, MS> > signal 9 is not maskable. MS> MS> But if the process is blocked on an uninterruptable system call, it will MS> never return to receive the signal. This is a known Unix dead

Re: easy question

2001-05-23 Thread christophe barbé
do a 'ls -l /dev/dsp' IIRC it should show the audio group so you need to add yourself in this group : # adduser yourlogin audio (or adduser audio yourlogin) Christophe On Wed, 23 May 2001 15:41:21 vester wrote: > > i know this sounds trivial, but i haven't figured it out...after > installing an

Re: Printer

2001-05-23 Thread Eamon Roque
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:44:12AM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > I have already discussed my woes under "Two Problems". I have now changed > from magicfilter to apsfilter. When I tried to print the test page, I > received the message: /dev/lp0 : no such device. The device /lp0 appears in > the /

Re: Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Gordon Hart
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 07:07:53AM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: > May 23 06:13:15 c243491-a sm-mta[407]: f4NCCqk7000407: > from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=2433, > class=-30, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] > > Is there anyone who migh

EIDE driver

2001-05-23 Thread J.A.Serralheiro
hello. I have an enhanced ide motherboard with a new fujitsu 20 gbyte harddrive. When I try to enable dma on the drive the following is reported: /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) Is this because the ide controler ( on b

Re: easy question

2001-05-23 Thread Gordon Hart
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:41:21PM +0200, vester wrote: > > i know this sounds trivial, but i haven't figured it out...after > installing and successfully loading ALSA drivers (as root) sound > applications only work as root...what do i need to change to make sound > accessible to normal users? an

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there is no way yo

Re: Sendmail Security Violation?

2001-05-23 Thread Jimmy Richards
Hi Mike D., Thanks for answering my question and satisfying my curiosity. I had noticed the 'BAD' in the message id, but didn't give it too much thought because I knew it was random characters. I have a look at the logcheck.violations file and maybe check out those manpages to get a bette

Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and wanted LILO to know about it, I'd edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo again to update the boot sector. Since grub knows about filesystems, do I need to do a similar upd

Re: [users] Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:18PM -0700): > No. Your memory's going to be released. But your files might be > scrambled. I would *not* 'kill -9' my mysqld server. one of the reasons why i wouldn't run mysql for any reason in the world! unless you don't need a true data

Is potato compatible with ATA-100 disks ???

2001-05-23 Thread Andreas Berglund
Is potato compatible with ATA-100 disks ??? (My kernel is 2.2pre18) -- MVH Andreas Berglund Företagsdata i Åhus AB Tel:044-289465 Fax:044-242550 http://www.fdab.se http://www.torget.fdab.se

PCI/ATI Radeon ?

2001-05-23 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Has anyone been able to use a PCI ATI Radeon card (as opposed to AGP)? I am using Woody and XFree 4.03. The docs at xfree.org say ATI Radeon chips are supported. I run xf86cfg and a gray screen appears in 1600x1200 resolution. There are no dialog boxes or configuration buttons, just a gray s

Re: Increasing PPP Dialup connection timeout

2001-05-23 Thread John Hasler
Scott writes: > Anyway, it seems that in Linux, pon quits before it could really > connect. So, instead of pon giving up in a minute or so, I'd like to > increase that timeout. Edit /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Replace connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider" with connect "/usr/sbi

creating a custom kernel without installing

2001-05-23 Thread Charles Lewis
I'm wanting to use mkboot to create a boot disk with a custom kernel so that I can use that kernel image to create a bootable cd. 1. How do I use make-kpkg to create a kernel image without actually installing it on my system? 2. How do I handle modules? 3. What is the easiest way to generate a bas

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread D-Man
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: | | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and You found a large amount of docs? Lucky you ;-). I didn't think there was a whole lot of d

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: md> also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): >> scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 >> /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin md> this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead md> p

boot disk

2001-05-23 Thread Theo Bierman
hi anyone know where i can get a boot disk to install debian from -- Theo Bierman Customer Implementation Team UUNET S.A., a WorldCom Company Tel: +27 11 235-6621 Fax: +27 11 235-6501 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Customer Service Centre: 08600 UUNET / 08600 88638 http://www.uunet.co.za

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
D-Man wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large > | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and > > You found a large amount of docs? Lucky you ;-). I didn't think

Re: [users] Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> also sprach Andrei Ivanov (on Tue, 22 May 2001 10:31:26PM -0500): > > scorpio 7314 0.0 3.8 2 4876 tty1 DMay10 0:00 > > /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin > > this is a straight-forward failure of the linux kernel. it's a dead > process, it doesn't listen to anything anymore. there

Re: Unkillable process

2001-05-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:35:37PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > doesn't take long). IIRC one reason an application is zombie is that its > parent waits for return value (which is sort of held by zombie, waitin > for parent to process the info or something like that). You've got it backwards. You g

Re: Font Problems in Sid...

2001-05-23 Thread matlads
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:33:08AM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > P.S. Anybody know a good introduction for beginners to this whole area > (i.e., fonts, character sets, and graphical displays)? check out 1. http://people.redhat.com/~mgalgoci/fonts/fixing.html 2. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini

Re: Problems installing postfix

2001-05-23 Thread jennyw
That worked! What's the reason for this, though? I mean, why does mutt expect a file that's not there? Thanks! Jen - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:33 PM Subject: Re: Problems installing postfix > On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 09:21:10PM

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2001-05-23 Thread Theo Bierman
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Re: Debian Reinstall

2001-05-23 Thread Eric Richardson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote: > > Hi there, > >I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed > >packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to > >know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to

IDE CD Burner

2001-05-23 Thread Andreas Tscharner
Hello World, Does anyone know a CD burner for IDE CD burnder drives? I know there is this "trick" to emulate an IDE burner as a SCSI, but I want a native IDE burner. Thanks in advance Andreas -- Andreas Tscharner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: fvwm2

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Hi List > > Using sid in the most recent version with XFree4.0.3, I just switched to > the good old fvwm I used to have in SuSE times (I never liked KDE and > Gnome). > > 1.) .Xresources. Well, the problem I have is: when starting emacs from > the fvwm-mennu, it starts

Re: boot disk

2001-05-23 Thread ktb
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:27:23PM +0200, Theo Bierman wrote: > hi anyone know where i can get a boot disk to install debian from I would start with the installation instructions on the website - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has beco

Re: root owner (or group) of lot of files in ~erik?

2001-05-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Mayes wrote: > > The Eric Comspiracy strikes again -- quote 1. You must be an Eric You may match on first, last, or middle name(s). We're not orthography bigots, if you're an Erik or Erich or Eirik you are also eligible. We're not sexists either, so Ericas and Erikas are als

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