Re: Apache.pm failed to load

2001-07-11 Thread Tommy Wu
Bryan Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be relatred to the problem I ran into. Unfortunately for me > the perl 5.6.0 directory was already nuked by the upgrade process and > the upgrade failed due to missing files. I restored from backups as remove/purge libapache-mod-perl pac

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Moritz Schulte
"Greg Wiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. It's because your mail client is simply broken

kernel panics

2001-07-11 Thread Martin F. Krafft
hey all, my local network is attached to the internet via a 486DX-2/66 (currently only 8Mb of RAM but i am looking for more). only recently does this machine crash a whole lot, and it's always pid 0, the "process swapper" which appears in the kernel panic message. my initial thoughts were bad bloc

Re: Email Server

2001-07-11 Thread Aaron Hall
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Paul Rae wrote: > High everyone, bit of a newbie when it comes to it but slowly trying to drag > our systems from windows and first main task is mail... > > so ive got myself a nice server and played around with a few distros and > have decided on debian and exmin > > right he

Re: mason firewall building tool

2001-07-11 Thread Peter
> Actually, you can reduce the number of generated rules by adding to or > changing the mason default rules. > > Like most good tools in Linux, it is only really usefull if you know and > understand what you and your tools are doing. In order to make effective > use of mason one must be able to e

new samba

2001-07-11 Thread John Griffiths
Hi guys, I'm running debian 2.2r3 but i've got samba 2.2.0a compiled from unstable #apt-get -b source samba with deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free in my sources list I want to get the new samba 2.2.1 as the samba team have said its recommended for producti

Re: Download managers?

2001-07-11 Thread csj
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 18:05, John Griffiths wrote: > At 08:14 PM 7/10/01 -0500, Jeremy wrote: > >I am running stable, and I was wondering if there are any > > (preferably non-X) download managers that run well (and possibly > > come with) Debian. I need it for downloading some ISOs from a > >

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:46:04PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > 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

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
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: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread csj
On Thursday 12 July 2001 00:25, 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

Re: Newbie Tips: Will, you asked.....

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 10:46:58AM -0700, Hamma Scott wrote: >> -- >> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> : >> Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use? There's >> six, by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six, >> Ctl-Alt-F3 for console 3, and so

Repeat: Problem with Postgresql database

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Schramm
I just upgraded from potato to Progeny Debian. The upgrade went fairly smooth (thanks Progeny) and the system seems to be working well. My problem is that the postgresql database says that my username does not exist in the pg_shadow file any more. I thought that this was a problem that the users

Re: Via AC 97 Audio chipset

2001-07-11 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:01:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 pla

Re: DMA error

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:14:08PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote: > 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 >

Re: Mozilla + Java for potato

2001-07-11 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 15:39:03 -0700 Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 for

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:50:18PM -0400, 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 i

Re: Swap fscked in 2.4.5?

2001-07-11 Thread Sean Morgan
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: CVS breaks Makefile (pattern contains no "%" ??)

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:06:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote: [snip] > i've done a diff on the two resulting "Makefile"s and there's > lots, lots, lots. under RCS, all went well, under CVS, "make" is > broken somehow. > > (line 430 is " > tardist : $(DISTVNAME).tar$(SUFFIX) > " if it's relevant)

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:17:10PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:46:04PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > 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

Re: GRUB & Rieserfs

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:30:40PM -0400, Chuck Stickelman wrote: | 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* ReiserF

Re: Oracle, perl & DBI under debian

2001-07-11 Thread DvB
will trillich wrote: 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?

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Dave Carrigan
Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. You are now userid 500 in /etc/passwd, but the files are still owned by userid 1000. Changing your userid in /etc/passwd does not change the ownership of files. Try this: find / -user 1000 -pri

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, 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. Those are OpenPGP pgp/mime-compliant signed

Re: Via AC 97 Audio chipset

2001-07-11 Thread olgnuby
"Michael B. Taylor" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:01:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have an AMD k7 800mhz computer. > I think AC 97 is supported in kernel 2.4.x. I suggest you upgrade to > woody, or use the Bunk packages to get to potato+2.4. > I've got the Creative CT5880

Email Server

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Rae
High everyone, bit of a newbie when it comes to it but slowly trying to drag our systems from windows and first main task is mail... so ive got myself a nice server and played around with a few distros and have decided on debian and exmin right here comes the questions. 1. i will be hosting

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Jason Healy
At 994908313s since epoch (07/11/01 22:25:13 -0400 UTC), George C. Marshall wrote: > Samba does like to be the master browser, but it doesn't really matter who > is the master browser; in fact, having it be a Samba system is probably > *better* since it is more likely to be stable, cutting down on

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:51:03AM +0300, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: | 4. disable exim/postfix/sendmail. this will mean that you won't be able |to send mail locally (some applications like mutt rely on local MTA |to send their mail). If you use ssmtp instead of exim/other_complete_MTA you can

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:05:42PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: | Do windoze lusers also sign that? If not, you could yell "discrimination". | Because it's _your_ desktop. Because you don't know shit about winders. | They can either let you run linux, or pay for your MCSE courses. I like these

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:44:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: | On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, 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. T

Re: newbie doc volunteers

2001-07-11 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 09:39:52AM +0800, Lamer wrote: > I would like to join also. > Any more details about that? grateful to hear that. > > Calvin "Lamer" > Uncertified Linux Player > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hop over to http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ and see what's happening. we could proba

Re: XWD

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:04:57PM -0500, Jonathan Daugherty wrote: > Can someone tell how I might do automated X screendumps into a format > understandable by a browser? The XWD format isn't one of those formats. import from imagemagick. It allows you to specify file type directly. xwd can alwa

dissapointed...

2001-07-11 Thread Rogelio E. Castillo Haro
I'm sad because on my Netscape and Mozilla I can't work fine with java pages... this afternoon, mozilla downloaded automatically the java plugins but now when I try to run mozilla, it says that cannot run if another instance is running? What other?!!! I reboot linux twice and nothing... I saw last

Re: [OT] Why attached text messages?

2001-07-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:44:18PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, 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. T

Re: Question about ipchains logging with syslog

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:39:35PM +0200, Matthias Pitzl wrote: > 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

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Stig Brautaset
Brian Stults <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > happy to hear them. I plan on emphasizing the fact that I disable most > services in inetd. The only servers I run are an ssh server and an ftp > server. I do not allow anonymous ftp, and I tunnel all my ftp transfers > through ssh. I am the only perso

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

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 05:11:37PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #66 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Do you know WHICH SHELL YOU'RE RUNNING? If not, you can find out: > ps T > The first item listed is most likely to be your shell. > (Valid shells are listed in

Re: problem running apt-get -b

2001-07-11 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 11 Jul 2001, Dave Carrigan wrote: > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. > > You are now userid 500 in /etc/passwd, but the files are still owned by > userid 1000. Changing your userid in /etc/passwd does not change the > o

Re: Cannot connect to a website from debian linux box

2001-07-11 Thread evan . day
> ... > > If I do the same thing, from my linux box, it just does not respond. > Now if I run "telnet dcu.fi1.net 443" on sun box, it connects. If I run the > same thing on linux box, it does not. Check your kernel - do you have TCP ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification) enabled? Try: # cat

installing gcj, is this ok? (gcc-3.0)

2001-07-11 Thread D-Man
I want to install gcj on my system. I am running woody, and when I try and apt-get install gcj it says it needs gcj-2.95. Ok, so I add that to the apt line. Now it says it will install cpp-3.0 gcc-3.0 gcc-3.0-base and libgcc300. Will there be any problem with letting apt install gcc-3.0 next t

Re: [very very OT] noisy power supply

2001-07-11 Thread Paul Wright
Joerg Johannes wrote: > OK. Thanks everybody. I think I'll leave my power supply alone, put my > computer under my desk and look for a less noisy power supply. Putting > the box in another room is not very easy, because I need the > 3D-accelerated graphics from my geforce card, which I cannot exp

After power outage, Linux crashing

2001-07-11 Thread David
Hello everyone, A few days ago, the power went out while I was using linux. I am using SuSe linux if that helps. Fsck fixed the errors, but since then my computer has been locking up. How do I see what fsck fixed and what is causing my computer to lock up? I would like to redo lin

Man page output width

2001-07-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
Back a long time ago when I used to know roff in general, and groff in particular, really well (at Data General I wrote a lot of docs using groff, and talked to James a good bit about it), I took the tmac.an macros and modified them to decrease the margin on the man pages displayed on the TTY. It

Re: NO! chmod strikes!

2001-07-11 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ds> Changing it to: ds> find . -name .[^.] -print0 | xargs -0 chmod r-owx Not to be anal retentive, but ITYM: ... -name '.[^.]*' ... Your glob won't match anything except ".x" where x is exactly one character long but != ".". -- ---

Re: new to debian have questions

2001-07-11 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:47:39PM +0100, Eric E Moore wrote: > > "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 dse

XWD

2001-07-11 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Can someone tell how I might do automated X screendumps into a format understandable by a browser? The XWD format isn't one of those formats. -- Jonathan Daugherty Dept. of Computer Science / UCNS Workstation Support Group The University of Georgia /^.{10}\ +\d+\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+|\w+)\ +(\d+(

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

2001-07-11 Thread Martin F. Krafft
also sprach Brian Stults (on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 03:50:18PM -0400): > The only servers I run are an ssh server and an ftp server. I do > not allow anonymous ftp, and I tunnel all my ftp transfers through > ssh. um, why??? why not use scp or sftp? the thing is: anonymous ftp is "moderately" safe, reg

Re: X/gdm problem

2001-07-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:53:11PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > > 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 resta

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread George C. Marshall
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jason Healy wrote: > They might be referring to using Samba and setting it up as a domain > master. This is stupid, because a) it doesn't come configured that > way, and b) any organization worth its salt will run a backup domain > controller to ensure that nobody can hijack

Re: sysadmin won't allow linux - PLEASE HELP

2001-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
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. You might try mentioning that any of the security concerns brought up in this thread (dhcp, samba, etc), can a

Re: pine and Maildir

2001-07-11 Thread Brandon M. Browning
> >1. can pine use Maildir format, with a site config change > >(/etc/pine.conf)? __abandoning__ pine is not possible immediately. > > The Debian package of Pine has maildir support builtin. > > >2. since IMP works with imap, just changing the imap server to use > >Maildir instead of Mailbox wil

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