Re: Problems with logcheck.ignore rules

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file. > Originally, only the first rule was present but it does not seem to > ignore entries as the 2nd and 3rd do < Probably I need a lesson in regex > >. Input would be appreciated.

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> It is a high performance file system, still somewhat > in the experimental stage. However, it has already > (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced > users with very particular requirements. > > It has a number of advanced features/benifits, but > perhaps the most mentioned is journalin

Network throughput too low?

2001-07-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Folks, A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low network throughput between my laptop and my desktop machine. I just ran a test with netpipe-tcp, and the maximum speed is some 15Mbps. As I have a 3Com 905C in the desktop box and a 3Com 574 PCMCIA card on the laptop (bot

rsync mutliple servers (accounts)

2001-07-11 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi Need some advice on rsyncing accounts within a LAN I have 2 files servers... running samba and other great linux stuff... This is what I want to do: I want to have samba box A be the main auth (PDC) samba box B just to have other shares obviously, accounts have to exist on each box if a u

Re: mason firewall building tool

2001-07-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "kiteless" == kiteless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kiteless> hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried kiteless> using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on I tried mason once. It has an `auto-learn' mode where it will scan the network and add filtering

Re: nvidia-glx package

2001-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> I downloaded and compiled nvidia-glx-src (1.0.1251-2) and nvidia-kernel-src > (1.0.1251-2). When I installed the nvidia-glx_1.0.1251-2_i386.deb I got the > following message: > > ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.dpkg-devert.tmp is too small, not checked. > ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libGL.so.1

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat > > in the experimental stage. However, it has already > > (as I understand) proven useful to some advanced > > users with very particular requirements. > > > > It has a number of advanced features/benifits, but > > perhaps the most mentione

xscreensaver-gl not working?

2001-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Romer
The xscreensaver-gl screensavers have stopped working for me, apparently with the upgrade to 3.33-1. The recent upgrade to 3.33-2 has not fixed it. The problem, specifically, is that whenever a GL screenaver runs, the screen displays an error message such as xscreensaver: child pid 9128 (gears) te

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Craig Dickson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > Just checked the reiserfs website, www.namesys.com, I think, > and it suggested the idea I had already. Resize your existing > partition, create a partition to hold your current data, copy > the data to the new partition, then make the original into a > reiser partition. A

Re: Problems with logcheck.ignore rules

2001-07-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Hanasaki" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hanasaki> I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file. Hanasaki> PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session [opened, closed] for .* Change this to: PAM_unix.*: \(imap\) session (opened|closed) for This can replace both your other r

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-11 Thread Christian Jaeger
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:33:55 +0200 Thomas Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might help more to have the file-systems mounted with the noatime > option so that each read of a cached file doesn't cause disk access. I do this anyway, but it doesn't help, since there are many logs to which

Re: Apache.pm failed to load

2001-07-11 Thread Bryan Andersen
Tommy Wu wrote: > > scheme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using woody on PIII. I found since June 26 or so when I dist-upgrade > > the system, my apache server reported "Apache.pm failed to load" and > > refused to work. > > Does anybody know how to solve the problem? > > I found that mo

Re: Tuxracer and 3D accelaration in debian

2001-07-11 Thread Chris Majewski
Setting up accelerated 3D is very hardware-specific. Take a good look at the docs on dri.sourceforge.net, maybe that'll help -chris Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay I try to run it from the console and here is some > warnings but I donbt know what to do :-) > > $tuxracer > Tux Ra

winmodem

2001-07-11 Thread GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI
Hi all. I have a driver for my LT winmodem running on 2.2.12-20 kernel. Now, I had compiled 2.4.5 kernel, and when I try to load the driver, it tells unresolved symbols, and a message saying was compiled for 2.2.12-20 kernel. Is there a way to load the driver without the kernel check moudule versi

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Just checked the reiserfs website, www.namesys.com, > > I think, and it suggested the idea I had already. Resize > > your existing partition, create a partition to hold your > > current data, copy the data to the new partition, then > > make the original into a reiser partition. > > As lon

Supper Coution

2001-07-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fred Grass 76 Hydro Street London, Ontario CA CA Domain Name: ADSL5.COM Use supper caution with thus guy - He'll turn you in.. His products are bad and will not back them up..

Re: apt cache/archive

2001-07-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 1:27 pm, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I'd upgraded some pakages in potato. Those .deb files are stored > in my /var/apt/cache/archive directory. Can I use them to upgrade > another potato without having to download the files again? How > should I do it? >

Re: LILO question

2001-07-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "mannequin" == mannequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mannequin> I know this has probably been asked on here before, but I'm mannequin> running Debian Stable on my i686 and I'm having problems mannequin> with LILO. Basically, I have Debian installed on /dev/hda mannequin> and Windoze on /dev

Re: winmodem

2001-07-11 Thread Miguel Griffa
At 02:55 p.m. 11/07/01 -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. I have a driver for my LT winmodem running on 2.2.12-20 kernel. Now, I had compiled 2.4.5 kernel, and when I try to load the driver, it tells unresolved symbols, and a message saying was compiled for 2.2.12-20 kernel. Is

No text echo in virtual consoles

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Rowe
Hi all I've got a weird error that seems to crop up after being in X for a while. If I switch to a virtual console I see the login prompt fine. If I type my user ID, the cursor moves, but no characters are shown. Obviously nothing shows typing in the password. I can then type (but not see) som

Re: startx -- :1

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Kent West wrote: > harsha wrote: > > gave startx -- :1 > > but this is what happens <...> > I noticed this a few months ago on my machines also (running Sid). I > don't know if the startx script/sequence is broken, or if the procedure > has been changed, but some one a

Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-11 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:04:16PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Folks, > > A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low > network throughput between my laptop and my desktop machine. I just ran a > test with netpipe-tcp, and the maximum speed is some 15Mbps. As I have

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 01:49:10PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > Just checked the reiserfs website, www.namesys.com, > > > I think, and it suggested the idea I had already. Resize > > > your existing partition, create a partition to hold your > > > current data, copy the data to the new par

Re: LILO question

2001-07-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Guy Geens on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:41:00PM +0200: > > "mannequin" == mannequin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mannequin> I know this has probably been asked on here before, but I'm > mannequin> running Debian Stable on my i686 and I'm having problems > mannequin> with LILO. Basi

Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Romer
My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never seems to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion of rebooting a system to fix a problem is giving me Windows flash

Via AC 97 Audio chipset

2001-07-11 Thread techlists
I have an AMD k7 800mhz computer. The mother board has on board sound. it's a VIA AC 97 audio Chipset. Anyone have any luck getting this to work. On the install I loaded the AWE32 module and it accepted it. now I can play cd's, but I have to turn all volume levels to full, but the sound is v

Re: [OT]IDE patch help

2001-07-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Cam wrote: > I'm attempting to use the IDE patch that I got from kernel.org. However > I'm running into a problem. Everytime I try to patch it...i get this > error: > bash-2.05# zcat ide.2.4.7-p3.all.07092001.patch.gz | patch -p0 > can't find file to patch at input line 4 > Perhaps you used the

Re: Tuxracer and 3D accelaration in debian

2001-07-11 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Steve Kieu wrote: > Okay I try to run it from the console and here is some > warnings but I donbt know what to do :-) > > $tuxracer > Tux Racer 0.61 -- a Sunspire Studios Production > (http://www.sunspirestudios.com) > (c) 1999-2000 Jasmin F. Patry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Tux Racer" is a trademar

Re: debian: mozilla-0.9.1 not as good as mozilla-0.8.1

2001-07-11 Thread Matt Brubeck
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Brendan J Simon wrote: > Thanks Paul. I hadn't installed the PSM. I have now installed it but > unfortunately it still doesn't work. I just get a sreen saying please > wait while downloading your account information. I can't say for sure, but this is probably caused by a f

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:57:33AM -0700, Geoffrey Romer wrote: > My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never > seems > to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, > the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As long as your hard disk is less than 50% full, sure... Yes :-( Plus, it should probably be less than 45% full just to be safe, because different filesystems make different use of the space. 45% is just a wild guess on my part. There's no "in-place"

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Geoffrey Romer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > My swap partition is behaving very rudely. Specifically, swap space never > seems > to get freed- swap size only increases, never decreases. Once it maxes out, > the system becomes sluggish, and there's nothing to do but reboot (the notion > of

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I try to clean up the swap once in a while after running big apps: swapoff -a and then swapon -a. Note that while you swapoff, if you run X, it might freeze up for the duration of the execution (however, it unfreezes once swapping is done). Andrei --

Re: multihomed linux box

2001-07-11 Thread aphro
sorry bout the long delay my mail server decided to die on me a couple days ago..copy/pasted your reply from the archives. GNU Zebra :) i'll check that out. Oh, and I have good news: in my *limited* testing, your trick with the metrics works fine: I remotely disabled one of the internet connec

Re: apt-get/dselect-problem

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:04:55PM +0200, Martin Bretschneider wrote: > moin moin Joost! > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:33:02 +0200 you were able to write: > > [...] > > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.4 _Sid_ - fsn.hu's i386 Binary-1 > > > (20010525)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/mai

Re: Getting dselect and apt-* to work from a local file system

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:54:11PM -, Tommy McDaniel wrote: > That doesn't seem like to me like what I want to do, but it could be. > Basically, I downloaded the basic files to install Linux on my Windows > partition and now want to use dselect to install packages, which will also > have to

Re: Docbook, MathML and Debian

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:18:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Joost> You are using openjade, perhaps? Try jade, it does work. > Joost> I got it to work once with the plex86 docs, which are xml > Joost> docbook. > > I am usin

Re: Problems with logcheck.ignore rules

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 03:48:07PM -0500, hanasaki wrote: > I have the following three rules in my logcheck.ignore file. > Originally, only the first rule was present but it does not seem to > ignore entries as the 2nd and 3rd do < Probably I need a lesson in regex > >. Input would be appreciated.

Re: kernel 2.4.5 problems

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote: > After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine > is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is > often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a > log entry at a cra

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:23:23AM -0700, abram olson wrote: > 1. I prefer my machine to boot to a command prompt > not to boot into X. Its set up to be using gdm. > Where do I change this? Can someone point me to a > good explanation of how debian boot scripts are > organized? Which init leve

Re: Installation problem

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:21:46PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote: > Mr. Kooij, > > Thank you for your suggestion but I still can not complete the installation. > Can someone out there tell me what does the Warning message mean? > And tell me why my computer keep booting itself? You should provide more in

Re: kettle and cattle (was: Problem with fetchmail (was: I can't start with mutt) solved !)

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:44:54PM +0200, Krzysztof Mazurczyk wrote: > Hi there > > It should be kettle of cause. There were more fun, I hope :). Or a cattle of cows. ;-) Cheers, Joost

Re: can't ssh or telnet to Debian box

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:47:41PM -0700, Owen G. Emry wrote: > Yes, it's just got the default .deny and .allow files. Can't see anything > wrong there. And all other services besides ssh and telnet seem to work > fine. Very frustrating! Thanks for the suggestion, though. What does "netstat

Re: /dev/lp0: No such device

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 06:51:47PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I've built myself a 2.4.5 kernel with parport support, but it appears > to be broken, as any attempt to print (whether to /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2, > par0, par1, or par2) results in the error "No such device". > /var/log/syslog records the

Re: applying a patch to nullmailer

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:59:59PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: > > [snip] > > > > You need to apply the patch before building the deb, obviously. > > Don't use the '-b' option to apt-get. > > > > cd /foodir > > apt-get source > > cd -* > >

deskjet 932C and cups

2001-07-11 Thread DvB
Has anyone been able to get an HP DeskJet 932C to work with cups on testing? If so, how? IIRC, this printer worked acceptably with cups on Mandrake 8 when I was running that. Here's what I've done so far: I first installed only cups (cupsys and cupsys-client), using http://localhost:631 to co

Re: Via AC 97 Audio chipset

2001-07-11 Thread David Z. Maze
techlists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: techlists> I have an AMD k7 800mhz computer. The mother board has on techlists> board sound. it's a VIA AC 97 audio Chipset. Anyone have techlists> any luck getting this to work. It works just fine for me using the ALSA driver[1]. You need to build it fro

sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Stults
Hello, In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida. When I interviewed, one of my requirements was that I be allowed to run linux on my office computer. They said it would not be a problem. However, now that I have signed the contract an

scaning the mails and attachment before sending out

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Kok
Hi all I receive some mails which have the following footnote: How do I do in my mail server? 'scaning the mails and attachment before sending out.' Does the debian have this free software Many thanks B. Regards Peter Messages and attachments are scanned for

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while > connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). > > On the laptop I installed the X-server - that means - I am able to move the > mouse

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Geoffrey Romer
> > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if upgrading > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > > workarounds? > > > > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap partition at least > twice as big as physical memory. This ha

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread DvB
Brian Stults wrote: Here is one concern of theirs, though, that I don't understand. They said one problem with linux is that it will trick their network into thinking that my linux box is the main server, thus bringing down a system of over 2000 users. I cannot imagine how this would happen.

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Eric E Moore
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Apt-get is generally much cooler when run as a dselect method. Joost> It will save you many pains if you take 30 minutes to learn the Joost> principles behind dselect and its slightly weird key Joost> assignments (it's still much easi

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Brian Stults wrote: > Hello, > > In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology > at the University of Florida. When I interviewed, one of my > requirements was that I be allowed to run linux on my office computer. > They said it would not be a problem. However, now tha

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Geoffrey Romer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm told that this is a bug in the 2.4 series- does anyone know if > > > upgrading > > > to 2.4.6 will help this problem at all? If not, are there any other > > > workarounds? > > > > > > > > One work around is to make sure that you have a swap

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 11-Jul 12:18, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:14:48PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I am new in debian. What is reiserfs > > > > > It is a high performance file system, still somewhat in the experimental > stage. However, it has already (as I understand) pr

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Bryan Andersen
Geoffrey Romer wrote: > Is > there still a rule that swap partitions can be no larger than 127 meg? If > not, I shall have to look into repartitioning... That restriction was eliminated some time between 2.0 and 2.2 kernels. I'm running a 2.2 with 3 * 512M swap partitions. -- | Bryan An

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Alan Shutko
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only other similar problem I can think of is vmware related. There's also the possibility that they're thinking about DHCP. A number of admins can tell stories of the time someone was trying to set up a DHCP server for one of their interfaces, and they misco

3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Sunny Dubey
hey, I have a 3c509 NIC. I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I stfw'ed. (searched the fucking web). looking at various mailing lists, i found that I wasn't the only one with the same problem, the common solution

Re: [users] Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Chuck Stickelman (on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:39:42PM -0400): > Do they make their Windows users sign the same document? Can these > "attached conditions" be binding if you've already assigned your contract? hehe. do they *know* what security is if they are windoze based? just had a long c

Re: [users] Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach DvB (on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 03:40:00PM -0500): > I'm willing to be that's exactly what they're talking about. There was > quite a to do about this a year or so ago when it happened at some large > company which then banned linux. I believe you have to explicitly tell > samba in the co

samba mounting problem

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
I did some more experiementing with samba mounts last night, and read the mount, fstab, and smbmount man pages, but couldn't find an explanation or a solution. I would like to have fstab entries that reference the samba shares on the win* boxes on my LAN and provide a global (ie under /mnt) locat

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Jason Healy
At 994884618s since epoch (07/11/01 15:50:18 -0400 UTC), Brian Stults wrote: > and 2) they want to know that I am conscious of security issues. If > anyone has any suggestions for the kinds of things to stress, I would be > happy to hear them. Our IT department was wary (though not afraid) of lin

X/gdm problem

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
I am using X4 from woody and gdm. Sometimes when I log out of GNOME I get the greyish screen and gdm doesn't reappear. If I log in to a vc I can restart gdm and everything is fine, but I am the only user of the system who can restart gdm. Has anyone else seen this or know how I can determine th

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Chuck Stickelman
D-Man wrote: > Disclaimer : I have no experience with ReiserFS, but I do use grub. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: > | San Segkhoonthod wrote: > | > | > GRUB do *support* ReiserFS. My debian boxes have > | > ReiserFS root file system and I boot them with GRUB.

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Sunny Dubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey, > > I have a 3c509 NIC. [...] > Does anyone have any insight on why this happens only in linux? (I tried > under windows, and it works there too) You don't have something configured correctly on your card. It's not a problem with the driver und

RE: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
FWIW, I absolutely loathe dselect. I'm sure it's probably improved with the last few releases of Debian, but it used to be a royal PITA. The only time I use dselect is during the initial installation just because it starts up automatically. I immediately exit dselect, let the system reboot, then

Re: [users] 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Sunny Dubey (on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:45:09PM -0400): > I tried both linux-2.4.6, linux-2.2.19pre17 (The one with potatoe) and > various dhcp clients (dhcpcd, pump, etc) and none have worked. dhclient? try that, then if that doesn't work, let me see your /etc/dhclient.conf file. martin

Probs with HTP370 ATA100/RAID Controller.

2001-07-11 Thread Martin Stjernström
Hi everyone!.. I have some problems when I install Debian 2.2(rev3), The install doesnt find any HD's or partiotions to install to.. I think Its because my HD:s are ATA100 ones.. and using the separate HPT370 controller and not the BIOS ide controller. My moterboard is ABIT KT7-100 Raid and

RE: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
For reasons unbeknownst to me, I've had problems before when using 3c509's with Debian's stock installation kernel. There has even been a few times when I had to swap NICs just for the installation to work. As soon as I compile my a custom kernel for the machines and put the 3c509's back in, it w

Re: Question about ipchains logging with syslog

2001-07-11 Thread Matthias Pitzl
Hello Jost, i've read the man page, but this doesn't help me. I tried to use different logging levels for the kern facility, but i don't had had any succes in filtering the ipchains output sole in the file. But thanks for your reply. Bye, Matthias 11.07.2001 19:16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joost K

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi brian... dont mention that you use ftp if its tunneled thru ssh ... its not an issue... ??? if you use ssh, use scp instead of ftp anyway... if you dont have anonymous ftp... you dont need ftp at all if you turned off stuff you dont use... you have a reasonable box if y

Re: [users] Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - samba

2001-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya you have to configure samba properly... redhat is bad about it's default samba config... too bad that they equate linux with "the whole kitten-n-kaboddle" instead of just that one badly MIS-configured box c ya alvin On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach DvB (on Wed,

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
Thomas Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have yet to have data loss on reiserfs...but have under ext2. I have not had data loss with reiserfs, but I have had problems serving a reiserfs over NFS. If I did a lot of activity on the NFS-mounted filesystem, (i.e., mozilla cache, compiling so

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Alan Shutko
Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the relatively uninitated amongst us, could you spell this out > quickly. What does dselct do that apt-get doesn't? I remember > hearing on a list that it doesn't handle suggests and reccomends, is > there anything else? That's basically it. --

Re: ntp - is it working (no logs entries)

2001-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya erick add/change the following to /etc/ntp.conf to get log entries logconfig all logfile /var/log/xntpd c ya alvin On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: > it looks like ntp is running but I see no log entries, only when it > starts. it used to log what it does, now it

Re: Oracle, perl & DBI under debian

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:01:25PM +, Victor wrote: > To use perl and DBI:oracle do I need to install > > perl and the DBI stuff for oracle from the DBI site only > > OR > > perl, the DBI stuff for oracle and A SERVER (PROPRIETARY) CLIENT FOR > ORACLE? I see that ther

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:01:36PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while > > connected (via PLIP) to the Server (Pentium, Suse 7.1). > > > > On the l

Xine(.deb) DVD Playback

2001-07-11 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I have been using xine + libcss + xine_libcss_plugin to play dvds. The quality of playback wasn't too great compared to previous setups (about 4 months ago) so i tried to install the .deb version of xine, and in the process upgrade to testing. But once installed I've seen that there is no

[OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Greg Wiley
Why do certain peoples' posts to this list show up as attached text files in my mail client (OE)? I get a blank message with two attachments: .txt and .dat. The text file contains the actual message. -=greg

Re: 3com NIC question

2001-07-11 Thread Steve Witt
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > I have a 3c509 NIC. > > I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpcd) But for > some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I stfw'ed. (searched the fucking > web). looking at various mailing lists, i found that I wasn't the o

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Brian Stults ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hello, > > In the fall, I will be starting a new position as Professor of Sociology > at the University of Florida. When I interviewed, one of my > requirements was that I be allowed to run linux on my office computer. > They said it would not b

Re: security report

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:01:05PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 11:41:30AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > I got the following security audit of a machine I recently installed > > Debian 2.2r3 on. I have run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade on it. The > > most serious p

Re: Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:48:12AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:32:37 -0700 > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't see a package named libc6g-dev in debian (web search form, all > > distributions). Do you mean libc6-dev? There is xlib6g-dev. > > That wa

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i donno for sure but i would suspect getting into an NT or windows box and sniffing from there would be easier than getting into a patched linux box and havign somebody sniff passwd rememboer all theose widnows box are basically "root" anyway ( okay...administrator ) and those use

CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no "%" ??)

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
i do "h2xs -AXn MyModule" to start out a new perl module, and i get -rw-r--r--1 will serensof 119 Jul 11 16:42 Changes -rw-r--r--1 will serensof 47 Jul 11 16:42 MANIFEST -rw-r--r--1 will serensof 231 Jul 11 16:42 Makefile.PL -rw-r--r--1 will serensof

Re: mod_php and mod_perl and apache at the same time?

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:37:34AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is there a known problem with getting apache and > mod_php and mod_perl all working at the same time? well, i don't know if this'll help much, but here's my setup: $ dpkg -l apache\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

DMA error

2001-07-11 Thread Neil Conway
Hi, I've recently been encountering some HDA errors/warnings that might be serious. I'm using the following hdparm script: hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda This script is executed on startup. I see the following errors in `dmesg`: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Err

apt-get/package list troubles

2001-07-11 Thread Kurt Lieber
I'm fairly new to Debian, so I apologize if this is really obvious. That said, I'm trying to install SSH2, which is available here: ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing/non-US/non-free/binary-i 386/ssh2_2.0.13-5.1.deb So, I have the following line in my sources.list file: (among o

problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear people, I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. I tried to run apt-get build pgp4pine just now as root in my home directory (the first time after changing the id, I think) and I discovered that something has got bollixeded up. I get /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: debian/rules:

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:24:15PM -0700, Greg Wiley wrote: > Why do certain peoples' posts to this > list show up as attached text files in > my mail client (OE)? I get a blank > message with two attachments: > .txt and .dat. The text file contains > the actual message. Maybe these are multipa

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:50:18PM -0400, Brian Stults wrote: > talk on the phone with the sysadmin of the College of Liberal Arts and > Sciences and explain two things: 1) they want to know why I need linux > instead of using their unix system and having MS Windows on the desktop; > and 2) they wa

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread David S Dameron
SuSe Linux has a version of linux that you can run from the cd. If you are using a FAT filesystem, it will create two files on your computer for you to store your settings and personal data. If you are using a NTFS filesystem, you have to run though the setup, it only takes 2 min. It does not rep

Re: mason firewall building tool

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Wright
On 11 Jul 2001 19:13:59 +0200, Guy wrote: > > "kiteless" == kiteless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > kiteless> hello all i was just wondering if any of you have ever tried > kiteless> using a program / package called mason to build firewalls on > > I tried mason once. It has an `auto-learn'

RE: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Ian Perry
Joerg, Do not reverse the fan in the P/S. The Power supply is the most robust piece of electronics in a PC and is actually designed to run 'HOT' (well hotter than a CPU or motherboard anyway) and reversing the fan will just blow hot air into sensitive electronics. Depending on the case style, it

Re: Thin-X-Client-Laptop

2001-07-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:20:26PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:01:36PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:27:05PM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to run X-Applications on my (old) laptop (486; Debian 2.0) while > >

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:33:47PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For the relatively uninitated amongst us, could you spell this out > > quickly. What does dselct do that apt-get doesn't? I remember > > hearing on a list that it doesn't handle suggests

Re: winmodem

2001-07-11 Thread D. Hoyem
Gargiulo, There is a way to fix you unresolved symbols problem but if you truly have a winmodem made by Lucent then you want to go to this url and it will lead you to where you can download a .deb driver for your kernel. linmodems.technion.ac.il Hope that helps ya Don --- GARGIULO Eduardo

Re: DMA error

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:14:08PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently been encountering some HDA errors/warnings that might be > serious. I'm using the following hdparm script: > > hdparm -d1 -u1 -m16 -c3 /dev/hda > > This script is executed on startup. I see the following err

Re: winmodem

2001-07-11 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:55:29PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a driver for my LT winmodem running on 2.2.12-20 kernel. > Now, I had compiled 2.4.5 kernel, and when I try to load the > driver, it tells unresolved symbols, and a message saying was > compiled for 2.2.

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