Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Brownlow
Matthew Garman wrote: > Some of these 3D screensavers will unexpectedly lock up my system---and I > mean *completely* lock up my system, can't ctrl-alt-f[1-6] to switch to a > text console, I can't kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace, etc. Nothing works. > > Obviously I don't like lockups like that, s

Re: Sendmail not sending queue's out.

2001-10-04 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Mike Dresser wrote: > Every couple days, i have to sendmail -q, beacuse /var/spool/mqueue has > sometimes dozens of outbound unsent messages. Once i do that, most of > them get sent, leaving the ones that are unreachable/etc left to be sent. what does mailq say about those me

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-04 Thread john
Jason, I can't get the bus mastering to work, and so cant get DRI to work (I think that's the reason anyway). If you trace the thread you'll see I've tried everything I can think of. If I find time I'll build a new (actually old) box this weekend and see if I can get the Voodoo to work - I suspe

Woody printing problem

2001-10-04 Thread Lars Jensen
I just installed woody, but can't get printing to work. When I try to print I get the error message that /dev/lp0 does not exist. The same error happens if I do try to direct a file to the device like this: testfile > /dev/lp0 I have an HP Deskjet 540 hooked up to my Parallel port (LPT1 in W

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Johnny Ernst Nielsen
>> I've been on the list, on and off, for roughly a year now and I have yet >> to get a single bit of spam, other than the occasional one that is sent >> to a list I am on. None of them have been addressed directly to me. > >It wouldn't surprise me too much if the spammers filter or weight the >

smbmount without password

2001-10-04 Thread Matthew Garman
I've got some samba shares on my OpenBSD machine that I'd like to use as drives on my Linux box. The shares are setup such that I can connect to them as guest (using no passowrd) with read/write access using smbclient. However, when I try to mount them (using smbmount or mount -t smbfs), I get th

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Robert Waldner
(mantra: *please* do *not* Cc me on list-mail, I read all the lists I post/mail to) On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 18:47:12 +0200, martin f krafft writes: >* Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.03 18:26:21+0200]: >> this.is.a.trap.graffl.net TXT "this is just a spamtrap" >> this.is.a.tra

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-04 Thread Chris Cothrun
Hi, I didn't see anyone else weigh in with quite my opinion so I thought I'd throw it in. > What could be happening here? I think I may be ready to buy a > set of 2.2 disks because from a beginner's viewpoint it seems > that successfully upgrading the OS to 2.2 was probably too > much to expec

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Antti Tolamo
At 08:58 4.10.2001, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: >> I've been on the list, on and off, for roughly a year now and I have yet >> to get a single bit of spam, other than the occasional one that is sent >> to a list I am on. None of them have been addressed directly to me. > >It wouldn't surprise

Re: OT: forking so apache won't wait

2001-10-04 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 04:28:01PM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 12:44:35AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > i know i've run across it before but when i WANT to stub my toe > > on it, it's nowhere to be found: HOW can i have apache/web page > > initiate a process and return

Re: DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-10-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:36:57PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-09-29 at 19:56, Andrew Robertson wrote: > > Hi. I just installed Debian last night on my system, > > and everything works great except the network. I have > > a cable modem, and the DHCP server requires that I > >

Re: Setting tab length universally

2001-10-04 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:30:46PM +1000, Andrew Sione Taumoefolau wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wondering if there was some method of universally setting tab > width. I find eight spaces a bit too much, and although I have found > methods of changing it in some applications, it'd be nice if I could

Re: how to fight back against Michael Bramer's spam

2001-10-04 Thread Glyn Millington
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) apt-get install procmail > 2) place all of grisu's spam as-is into its own folder; let's say you >call it "BASTARD" > 3) formail -s BASTARD < antispam > Haven't noticed the problem yet!! But thanks for the recipe ;-) Glyn --

Re: Compiled kernel 2.4.9 does NOT boot

2001-10-04 Thread Timeboy
- Re: Compiled kernel 2.4.9 does NOT boot - On Wednesday Oct 03 23:01 José Luis Rey wrote: > ** The problem is that after initrd is loaded kernel panics with: > **Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:03 I had the same trouble after my first self compiled kern

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, Its my impression that there are only a few email harvesters out there and that they don't work very hard. Perhaps once you have a list with a million names, its not worth wasting time building a new one. For example, I found about the time of Clinton/Lewinski I was getting a very well p

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-04 Thread Alex Hunsley
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > > Progress... I did apt-get install xaos from the net. It failed again, but > > suggested I run "apt-get -f install", which I have done, and it seems to be > > happily getting the needed dependencies. Is this the correct way to c

NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Bristow Paul-BPB007
Hi, I've recently installed debian on a spare PC at work and I'm having real problems getting NIS to work properly with groups. I'd appreciate any advice on the following problem. After installation I set up NIS using the nsswitch.conf file, the relevant lines are as follows. passwd:

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-04 Thread Andrea
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 23:10, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. How do I > tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than having it > looking at the places in sources.list? The package is sitting in /tmp at the > moment, and I'v

testing with 2.4.9 ppp apt-get upgrade errors

2001-10-04 Thread Mark Robinson
Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 31851 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ppp 2.4.1-4 (using .../ppp_2.4.1.uus-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ppp ... depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-586tsc/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for

aptitude basically unusable: what happened?

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Steffl
I used to use aptitude for most of the package manging activities, which mostly meant doing equivalent of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. lately (few month) the aptitude became completely usuable: package screen: I only see few packages in package tree, e.g. the Installed packages b

Re: NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bristow Paul-BPB007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > I've recently installed debian on a spare PC at work and I'm having >real problems getting NIS to work properly with groups. I'd appreciate >any advice on the following problem. >After installation I set

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-04 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Please write shorter lines - no more than 75 characters...) > I've downloaded a .deb package from the net and want to install it. > How do I tell apt-get that I'm giving it a direct file name rather than > having it looking at the places in sources.list?

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-04 Thread Wayne Topa
csj([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 03:49, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: > > > Hello, > > > > > > We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by > > > the latest psudo-image kit but from most of the sites > >

DHCP PUMP trouble

2001-10-04 Thread Eskild Wikkeling
Hello, I recently got a ADSL modem for babyxl (a dutch adsl provider that uses dhcp to give me my ip) and am trying to get it to work. in /etc/network/interfaces I have: auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname MYNAME.demon.nl and in /etc/pump.conf: domainsearch "

Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting

2001-10-04 Thread Bud Rogers
On Thursday 04 October 2001 04:54 am, P Kirk wrote: > Its my impression that there are only a few email harvesters out there > and that they don't work very hard. Perhaps once you have a list with a > million names, its not worth wasting time building a new one. I suspect there is some truth to

DHCP PUMP trouble

2001-10-04 Thread Eskild Wikkeling
Hello, I recently got a ADSL modem for babyxl (a dutch adsl provider that uses dhcp to give out ip adresses) and am trying to get it to work. in /etc/network/interfaces I have: auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname MYNAME.demon.nl and in /etc/pump.conf: domains

RE: NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Bristow Paul-BPB007
Thanks but I don't think there's a problem with the group map as it's working with a lot of other machines (hp-ux/solaris/mandrake). I did the "ypcat group" as you suggested on a working machine and it all looked normal. When I did the same thing on the debian machine I got the same thing back

Re: A challenge: 8,000 serial number labels

2001-10-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > Isn't there a label.sty in LaTeX ? I've used it for printing labels for > posters a long time back using perl to generate the numbers. Have to > look for the source though. take a look in labels package; use texdoctk utility to browse the non-stand

Upgradeing for largefile support?

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a machine that I installed Stable on a while back. The kernel is 2.2.19pre17. What do I need to do to upgrade this machine to have largefile ( >2G) file size support? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n.

What's the device name for my tape drive?

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian stable machine with all IDE dirves. it also has an Adaptec AIC-7892 SCSi controler. This controler has one slave device, a HP C1537A 4mm tape changer. It's at SCSI ID 5. What is it's device name? /dev/?? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]8

How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Liu Tao
I use random() in my program to generate a random number, but every time when I restart my program I get the same number. How can I get different random numbers each time? -- Regards Liu Tao

Q about autofs

2001-10-04 Thread Bill Benedetto
Good day. Under HP-UX, SunOS, and IRIX, I could have an entry in my /etc/auto.master file like this: /net -hosts which would allow me to access any exported filesystem from a remote system by accessing /net/REMOTE_MACHINE/EXPORT_FILESYSTEM For example: /net/rem123/export/home Unfortunatel

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread Rino Mardo
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:23:37PM -0400, dman wrote: > I too have set up GRUB to effortlessly dual-boot win2k and linux. I > breifly skimmed some of the other replies and saw suggestions > reminiscent of the docs on linuxdoc.org : do this with lilo, then do > this with the windows loader, then f

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-04 Thread Alexander Wallace
Well isnt the ReiserFS NetInst just that? I downloaded an iso and burned a cd On 4 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 03:49, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * kumar suresh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 07:13]: > > > Hello, > > > > > > We tried to download debian cdimages as instructed by > >

test

2001-10-04 Thread Marko Filipovic
test

Re: esd esdctl?

2001-10-04 Thread Robert L. Harris
Yeah, esdctl was in esound-clients. Now if I can get xmms, esd and vmware to play nicely together this will be great. Thus spake Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > * Robert L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011003 10:32]: > > > > > > Debian sid box running gnome. I have esound installed and es

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. Can ext2 be upgraded to ext3 once the machine is installed and I'm upgrading to 2.4.X? I take it I have to patch the kernel for ext3 as I don't see it as an option in my 2.4.10 kernel config. Thus spake A.R. (Tom) Peters ([EMAI

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:21:34PM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I use random() in my program to generate a random number, > but every time when I restart my program I get the same number. > How can I get different random numbers each time? Look at srandom() to seed the generator. You can seed it with t

Re: directly installing a deb package

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:51:15PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > I've tried using dpkg as described, but there are problems: > > pylori:~/debs# dpkg -i xaos_3_0-23_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package xaos. > (Reading database ... 16818 files and directories currently installed.) > Un

RE: DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-10-04 Thread David Priban
> > > Hi. I just installed Debian last night on my system, > > > and everything works great except the network. I have > > > a cable modem, and the DHCP server requires that I > > > send in my hostname with my request. So far, I have > > > tried (and failed at using): I've got DHCP working on

Re: kernel-source-2.4.9-1 builds but does not boot

2001-10-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 01:21, José Luis Rey wrote: >make dep >make >make modules >make modules_install >make install I strongly recommend that you install the package "kernel-package" and use make-kpkg to build the kernel. This builds nice Debian packages of the kernel which mak

Re: What to choose

2001-10-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:22, Teppo Hytönen wrote: > What comes to choosing between the two, it's personal preference that > matters. I myself recommend Debian: I love it myself, and yes, apt-get is > great. Then again, I haven't used Mandrake, but haven't heard a single > positive comment about it,

Purging deb

2001-10-04 Thread Jose Manuel Perez
Hi all. I've installed a package in my Potato but it crashed during installation and I'd like to uninstall it. I've tried dpkg --purge , with and without --force-??? option, but I've not found the way to remove it. Allways I've got: siul04:~# dpkg --purge lgtoclnt (Leyendo la base de datos ... [re

Re: Purging deb

2001-10-04 Thread Alexander Wallace
try apt-get remove lgtoclnt --purge On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jose Manuel Perez wrote: > Hi all. > I've installed a package in my Potato but it crashed during > installation and I'd like to uninstall it. I've tried > dpkg --purge , with and without --force-??? option, but > I've not found the way to re

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-04 Thread Jason Healy
At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote: > It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering. Can > you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my > problem > isn't bus mastering at all. Here's my output from `glxinfo`

Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:46:03PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote: > I bought a Matrox Millenium g450 over the summer. I got it setup to do > hardware accelerated 3d with XFree 4.x. > > The only real 3d apps I've used are the "glxgears" test program, and the > 3d screensavers that can be built with

Re: A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-04 Thread Yvonne Kelly
-Original Message- From:Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:57:58 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A simple question about wildcards with tar Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don't want

IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts trying to send, the receiver gets the right IP address, and sends the acknowledgement, but the transfer never sta

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread dman
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: | I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC | receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is | installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts trying to | send, the receiver gets the righ

Re: Voodoo3. DRI, X4.1.0 and Bus mastering <- Still no joy

2001-10-04 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 07:31, Jason Healy wrote: > At 1002229481s since epoch (10/04/01 02:04:41 -0400 UTC), john wrote: > > > It's interesting that you say you have DRI working but not bus mastering. > > Can > > you run setpci on the device and see if bit 3 of word 4 is set? If so my > > problem

Re: Purging deb

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 04:23:40PM +0200, Jose Manuel Perez wrote: > I've installed a package in my Potato but it crashed during > installation and I'd like to uninstall it. I've tried > dpkg --purge , with and without --force-??? option, but > I've not found the way to remove it. Allways I've got:

Re: downloading debian

2001-10-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Alexander Wallace([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Well isnt the ReiserFS NetInst just that? I downloaded an iso and burned a > cd > Wasn't aware of that one. Thanks! Now if he can get woody to something of that size, I would be estatic! Wayne -- You know you've been spendin

Re: Purging deb

2001-10-04 Thread Jose Manuel Perez
El Jue 04 Oct 2001 16:32, Alexander Wallace escribió: > try apt-get remove lgtoclnt --purge > Thanks for your answer. I've finally purged the package modifying postremoval script (lgtoclnt.postrm) at: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ to correct the error, well not at all, I've comented out the whole script, bu

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread John
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 06:32:33PM +0800, Rino Mardo wrote:> > i use debian2.2r0 and the stock lilo. i don't have problems installing > or using lilo or linux with win2k. only thing you have to remember is > install the jealous os first on the first partition, then linux on the > remaining parti

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Hallaran
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: seed your random number generator like so: srand(time(NULL)); before calling random. > I use random() in my program to generate a random number, > but every time when I restart my program I get the same number. > How can I get different random numbers each time

Re: OpenGL causes hard system lockups

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Agno
Dave Sherohman writes: > Once I've sshed into my G400/DRI box after the console has locked up, > is there any way to recover short of rebooting? I suspect that it > should be OK if I can come up with a way to reset DRI or agpgart or > something, but I have yet to find any information on which

Re: DHCP PUMP trouble

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 06:43, Eskild Wikkeling wrote: > Hello, > > I recently got a ADSL modem for babyxl (a dutch adsl provider that uses > dhcp to give out ip adresses) and am trying to get it to work. > > in /etc/network/interfaces I have: > auto eth0 eth1 > > iface eth0 inet static > > > if

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > | I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > | receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is > | installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts tr

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Thomas Hallaran wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Liu Tao wrote: > seed your random number generator like so: > > srand(time(NULL)); > > before calling random. That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the sequence of random numbers simply by guessing t

HELP: system hangs at boot

2001-10-04 Thread Lars Jensen
Whenever I boot up my system I get the following error message when the file system is being mounted: ERROR: "cannot fsck root fs because fs is not mounted read-only" and a little later the system hangs. If I boot my system with the rw option like this: boot: linux rw the boot process appears n

Failed Initialization of WD-7000 SCSI CARD

2001-10-04 Thread Mike Towery
I am using a Compaq ProSigna 300 with an Integrated 32bit FAST SCSI-2 Controller. I am getting the following error message "Failed Initialization of WD-7000 SCSI CARD" when I am booting from the rescue disk. I also have a Compaq CRD-254-V CDROM on ID 5 of the SCSI. It seems to recognize the CDROM

Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Fredrik Jagenheim
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > > receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is | > > installed on the firewall. If I try to send, it starts

Re: NIS and initgroups

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bristow Paul-BPB007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks but I don't think there's a problem with the group map as it's >working with a lot of other machines (hp-ux/solaris/mandrake). I did But perhaps mandrake is using a 2.4 kernel with 32 bit uid/gid support? >th

Re: Upgradeing for largefile support?

2001-10-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a machine that I installed Stable on a while back. The kernel is >2.2.19pre17. >What do I need to do to upgrade this machine to have largefile ( >2G) file >size support? You need to install a 2.4 kernel and the 'unstabl

Fwd: Re: IRC DCC through a firewall

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Pritchard
Quoting Fredrik Jagenheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Quoting dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I've got a Debian firewall setup, which is working ok. I can DCC > > > receive files, but I can't DCC send. The ip_masq_irc module is | > >

I nedd help with coccon !!

2001-10-04 Thread debian
Hi, I have been trying to install cocoon under jserv+apache but I don\'t see any progress with this I just have make all of what the How-To said... but I just don\'t get the http://127.0.0.1/Cocoont.xml to work... I am using woody. Please help...

Re: fetchmail error

2001-10-04 Thread Volker Schlecht
* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011002 22:44]: > What are you using as the MDA in fetchmail? I simply > use '/usr/sbin/exim %T' and it delivers locally (via procmail). I've used the same for a while, but that sometimes resulted in strange and annoying delivery errors, that's why I switched to handli

PHP Compilation error

2001-10-04 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I'm trying to compile php4 on a potato machine from deb srcs to install php interbase support. The following error occurs when running debian/rules binary Any hints? Thanks, Paulo Henrique #install the apache modules' files for i in gd lda

Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-04 Thread Liu Tao
Hi I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. Other ttys are normal. I tried "cat /dev/random" on Konsole, and it doesn't have thi

X related

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrin Jose T .
Is there any freely downloadable X window system administration guide available ? -- Jeffrin Jose T. www.MSServices.org GPG:1024D/F5726A1B

Re: setting a tty to login to remote computer via ssh

2001-10-04 Thread Shriram Shrikumar
--- Mike Alborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > init uses getty (or some variant - check /etc/inittab) to spawn a > terminal, and getty spawns /bin/login to produce the prompt and handle > user logins. getty can be instructed to spawn a different program with > the -l option. Perhaps if you put an en

LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Hi all, The system administrator at work is a subcontract employee. He is also the administrator at his company. The company that I work for also has employe's from his company working here and they travel back and forth between companies and use their M$ laptops at both sites. Here is the pro

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Alan Shutko
"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > program was started. And the impact of this depends on what the program is used for. If you're seed

NIC problems

2001-10-04 Thread Nils-Erik Svangard
Hi! I have a Realtek NIC, this is the output of cat /dev/pci Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 16). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xccff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd581 [0xd58100ff

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > > program was started. > > And the impact of this depe

Re: What to choose

2001-10-04 Thread Teppo Hytönen
I admit that I might've been a little too hard on them, yes. But I've heard much more good about Debian, and the examples about getting things to work were true. But of course Mandrake can't be that bad, otherwise no one would use it. It's just that I find Debian, both in abilities, features and id

ipmasqadm bug in potato 2.2r3 - 2.2.18 - i386

2001-10-04 Thread Andreas Beham
Sorry I dont know the package that covers ipmasqadm. But on my system i386 Potato 2.2r3 kernel 2.2.18 the localhost cant open any internetconnections anymore when I have defined some portforwarding rules (or is it just the large number that causes the bug I dont know). Here is the script that gene

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-04 Thread D.
Well in response to Does mine work the answer is No. I have tried for a few days to get this going and finally figured out that I did not have a eth0 device it was a sit0. I tried and read everything that I could and could not figure out a way to get the eth0. I tried to compile the driver like

Re: Characters can't be shown correctly on tty

2001-10-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 01:11:20AM +0800, Liu Tao wrote: > I typed "cat /dev/random" on tty1, and some strange characters scrolled , > so I pressed Ctrl-c to terminate cat. But after that, characters can't be > shown correctly on tty1, they are shown as strange characters. > Other ttys are normal.

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread Sean Morgan
On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:40:38 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sitting in front of a W2K-Debian dual-boot system now, and I have a > laptop set up that way also. I don't remember any particular > tricks/problems, other than to install W2K first. I just thought I'd post a working

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Liu Tao
On Friday 05 October 2001 01:36, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess > > > the sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which

Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Hi all, > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies and u

Re: DHCP PUMP trouble

2001-10-04 Thread Antti Tolamo
Eskild Wikkeling wrote: Hello, I recently got a ADSL modem for babyxl (a dutch adsl provider that uses dhcp to give me my ip) and am trying to get it to work. in /etc/network/interfaces I have: auto eth0 eth1 iface eth0 inet static iface eth1 inet dhcp hostname MYNAME.demon.nl and in /et

Re: DHCP problems with cable modem

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Fontenot
Are you sure that dhcpcd isn't working?  I just installed dhcpcd, and at first I thought it wasn't working, because there was nothing about DHCP written to the console during boot.  But I eventually discovered that it was working fine... it just doesn't print out its transmission and recep

how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-04 Thread ramsubs
i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome.   so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of copying the 3 cds into the 3 partitions, and sub

Re: dual boot with Win 2000?

2001-10-04 Thread D.
As a point of interest, When I used the same configuration that you have for your Windows partation "other=/dev/hda1" on a HP Pavilion 5450 my Windows Me would not boot up.. It gave the error message that It was missing the command.com file. When I realized what was wrong I changed it to "other=/d

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:02:31 -0600, Robert L. Harris wrote: > where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. It's a separate patch at the moment, AFAIK. It is included in at least Alan Cox' series of patches for 2.4 kernels (where you need to say [*] Prompt for development and

[OT] Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The system administrator at work is a subcontract > employee. He is also the administrator at his > company. The company that I work for also has > employe's from his company working here and they > travel back and forth between companies and use their > M$ laptops a

What am I doing wrong? (apt-get via http proxy)

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I have a Debian STABLE machien that I need to isntall at work behind a very restricitive firewall. I have a Squid server runing thta can get through the firewall (HTTP only ftp does not work). I have set up /etc/apt/apt.conf like this: // Pre-configure all packages before they are installed. // (

Re: resiserfs on woody install?

2001-10-04 Thread Andrew Agno
Robert L. Harris writes: > where can I find info on ext3? I don't see it in the kernel. Can ext2 be > upgraded to ext3 once the machine is installed and I'm upgrading to 2.4.X? > I take it I have to patch the kernel for ext3 as I don't see it as an option > in my 2.4.10 kernel config. htt

Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote: > i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome. > > so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of copyin

Re: Tulip driver unresolved symbols (UPDATE)

2001-10-04 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Guess what? If you have a netgear card, you probably want a ng_tulip driver instead of a tulip driver. I just found this out when I compiled a new kernel. Don't be mad, I didn't know either. :-) -- ||/ Peace, understanding, health and happiness to all beings! || |-K ars sine scientia nihil

eht0: Cared reports out of resouces

2001-10-04 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to install STABLE on a Compq Proliant server. It has a NIC that dmesg reports as OEM i8257/i8258 10/100 Ethernet. This machine will be an Amanda tapehost. When I start trying to run Amanda (which loads tthe network up pretty good). I get a continous stream of messages on the console abo

Re: How to generate a random number?

2001-10-04 Thread Erik Steffl
Alan Shutko wrote: > > "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the > > sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your > > program was started. > > And the impact of this depends on what the

Postscript printer doesn't work...

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Fontenot
I recently installed debian 2.2r3, including the various "parport" driver modules and the lp module.  I also istalled "lpr".  When the lpr command didn't print, I installed apsfilter, but it failed to print the test page.   I have a postscript parallel printer (Optra Ep), which is supposed t

Building 2.4.9 kernel for a laptop

2001-10-04 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
I'm trying to build the 2.4.9 kernel for my laptop. Everything works except for the PCMCIA system. When I insert the card, /var/log/message outputs that it's noticed the new hardware, but it doesn't identify the card (3COM 575BT) and there's no mention of eth0 in when I list interfaces with ifc

requesting information

2001-10-04 Thread Marc Weldon
I am starting a new company, and I was curious to know what services and/or products you offer in the way of computer security. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Mark Weldon _ Get your FREE

Re: Gnome + wmaker (problem switching workspaces)

2001-10-04 Thread Antonio Arauzo
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > there is at least one window running on current workspace. Has anybody > > > > experienced this? Is it any configuration problem? > > > What happens if you open, then close, a window? > > It doesn't matter. Whenever there is an open window on actual workspace > >

JDK on ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de?

2001-10-04 Thread Gary Hennigan
I was getting the 1.3 JDK with the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/Java/Linux/debian woody non-free but it seems that that directory has disappeared. Any idea what happened to it? There's a version for potato, but the woody one is gone. Thank

Re: What's the device name for my tape drive?

2001-10-04 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 08:01, Stan Brown wrote: > I have a Debian stable machine with all IDE dirves. it also has an Adaptec > AIC-7892 SCSi controler. This controler has one slave device, a HP C1537A > 4mm tape changer. It's at SCSI ID 5. > > What is it's device name? /dev/?? > as far as I k

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