Re: Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems

2002-02-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:27:10PM -0600, Deva Seetharam wrote: > Hi All, > i have a asuc cuv4x-d motherboard with dual pentium processors. currently, i > am running kernel 2.2.19 with smp. > > now, i am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17. algthough i am able to install > the kernel-image, the mac

Re: music cd not work, please help

2002-02-06 Thread eric
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On 5 Feb 2002, David Moore wrote: > > > es1371 is the driver for SB128 sound cards, and also several other sound > > cards. He's also got soundcore, so I don't think modules are the > > problem. Unless maybe it's a problem with ide-scsi? > > Oh, yes, that didn't even

Zope in sid broken?

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi All, I upgraded my sid machine since I last played with zope (1 month ago?). Previously I was using apache with mod_rewrite and fast_cgi (see [1]) and everything worked ok. Now (even if I revert to a default zope setup) I can't get zope to start. If I turn on debugging I can see a wh

Re: Zope in sid broken?

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Hastings
Forgot the reference: 1. http://www.zope.org/Members/ajlouie/fastcgidebian * Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020206 17:41]: > Hi All, > >I upgraded my sid machine since I last played with zope (1 month ago?). > >Previously I was using apache with mod_rewrite and fast_cgi (see [1])

music cd not work

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
No problem! Sorry for the bad quote, figured it would be helpful to include the line of thought that came to the solution. I really kinda wish it wasn't this inobvious to solve. I have to wonder if SCSI CD players handle audio significantly differently or what? On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, eric wrote:

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Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
MH wrote: > > > "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on > Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a > Craig> problem that resulted from ext3 itself. > > > *My* experience > >

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Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-06 Thread MH
> "Emil" == Emil Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Emil> MH wrote: >> > "Craig" == Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Craig> But quite stable at this point. I've been running ext3 on Craig> all my fs's for several months, and have never seen a

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kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following: >request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted >VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 >please append a correct "root=" boot option >kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount

Re: ReiserFS, ext3 (was: 'praise to the debian gods')

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
> > 1) Normally I know what I mean, and I'm trying to express myself >(though English isn't my native language as it isn't yours) ... Point taken, I should have been more generous in my interpretation. > So, as you noted this is not a kind of fs-flamewar, because I want a > fs's existence

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-06 Thread Elm Gysel
Hi, I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and I have a problem with ipmasqadm portfw. When I try to add a rule for forwarding a port I get the following error : ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 212.69.202.112 8002 -R 192.168.1.10 8002 portfw: setsockopt failed: Invalid argument when I try to get get a list I g

ipmasqadm portfw

2002-02-06 Thread Elm Gysel
(sorry for the wrong subject on previous post!)   Hi,   I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and I have a problem with ipmasqadm portfw.When I try to add a rule for forwarding a port I get the following error :ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 212.69.202.112 8002 -R 192.168.1.10 8002portfw: setsockopt failed

Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Terence Ng
I have just set up my MTA. After I read an email, I would like to delete it. After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is read only'. Why? Is it because I capture the mail directly from /var/spool/mail/ngterry? Did I miss any thing? Terence Ng

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-06 Thread Vegh Karoly
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, George Karaolides wrote: > Can't see anything wrong with these, at first glance at least. Dont search it any more, i found it. Because of the telephone system was the whole failure. Luckily we have two systems in the house, and when we tried it through the other one, it went s

Re: direct ISDN connection

2002-02-06 Thread George Karaolides
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Vegh Karoly wrote: > Feb 05 18:57:28 Call to tei 69 from onCONNECT (Data) > Feb 05 18:57:28 Call to tei 69 from onINTERFACE isdn0 called by 9905 > Feb 05 18:57:36 Call to tei 69 from onNormal call clearing (Private > network serving local user) > Feb 05 18:57

Power-off after Shutdown

2002-02-06 Thread techlists
I'm compiling a new kernel(2.4.17) for my laptop, and I know this may be a newbie question, But what do I enable in the kernel to enable it to automatically power off when shutdown is done? John

Re: How to keep modules configs current

2002-02-06 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 19:31, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes when I compile a new kernel and include a > different set of modules it can happen that there > are some error messages at boot time issued mostly > by modprobe saying something about devices/modules > or aliases not found. Or so

Re: HELP. I can't login as root !!!

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, David Turetsky wrote: > Can Microsoft be far behind? We already know they're far behind, the question is will they catch up? The answer to the question is no. -- Baloo

Re: Kernel 2.4.17 (smp) problems

2002-02-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:27:10PM -0600, Deva Seetharam wrote: > Hi All, > i have a asuc cuv4x-d motherboard with dual pentium processors. currently, i > am running kernel 2.2.19 with smp. > > now, i am trying to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17. algthough i am able to install > the kernel-image, the mac

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >Hi, >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >> I upgraded my kernel using the prepackaged 2.4.17 pentium pro >... >So you upgraded kernel. > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted >> VFS: Cannot open roo

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-06 Thread Ray
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 02:24:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install > apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following: > > >request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted > >VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 > >please

apt-get update problem

2002-02-06 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi!, I am trying to upgrade my system (potato 2.2.r5 + ximian gnome). After typing apt-get update I get the following error message: Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed provides line E: Error occured while processing gnumeric (NewVersion1) E: Problem with

Re: apt-get update problem

2002-02-06 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >apt-get update >Reading Package Lists... Error! >E: Malformed provides line >E: Error occured while processing gnumeric (NewVersion1) >E: Problem with MergeList >/var/state/apt/lists/red-carpet.ximian.com_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Package

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Terence! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: > I have just set up my MTA. After I read an email, I would like to > delete it. After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is > read only'. Why? Is it because I capture the mail directly from > /var/spool/mail/ngterry? Did I miss

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > >Hi, > >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: > >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root fs not mounted > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03

Re: apt-get update problem

2002-02-06 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:10:01 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am trying to upgrade my system (potato 2.2.r5 + ximian gnome). After typing > > apt-get update > > I get the following error message: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed provides

Re: Power-off after Shutdown

2002-02-06 Thread Vegh Karoly
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm compiling a new kernel(2.4.17) for my laptop, and I know this may be > a newbie question, But what do I enable in the kernel to enable it to > automatically power off when shutdown is done? > At kernel compiling, in the General setup section:

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:58:30PM +, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > Is their a way to say to dselect "just forget about all the packages you > currently have marked for install" from the command line so next time > you run it it only has a list of allready installed packages and ones > you can insta

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:09:37PM -0600, Mark Lanett wrote: > Or don't use dselect. Just quit from it after installing, and use apt-get > afterwards. apt-get isn't a complete replacement, as it was never intended to be a user's one and only package management frontend. For one, it doesn't underst

Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (was praise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread George Karaolides
> My additional observations on the following journalling filesystems > ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, as I use them at home as well as at the office... > (at home, I have a mixed scheme of filesystems employed in partitions) Thank you for sharing your observations. I'm now trying woody with root fs on re

Re: X environment

2002-02-06 Thread Leonardo F. S. Boiko
> Hi! > > I am using LeadTek WinFast 3D S600 Video Card, and I have installed > xserver-svga, xserver-vga16 fo XF86Setup 3D S600 Video Card, and I have > installed xserver-svga, xserver-vga16 for XF86Setup, and xfonts-base, > xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-100dpi, etc. And I use icewm-gnome and other >

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Glyn Millington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terence Ng) writes: > I have just set up my MTA. After I read an email, I would like to delete it. > After I type in 'd' or '^d', a message shows 'Mailbox is read only'. Why? > Is it because I capture the mail directly from /var/spool/mail/ngterry? Did > I miss any thing

Re: ipmasqadm portfw

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:53:01AM +0100, Elm Gysel wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.2.14 and I have a problem with ipmasqadm portfw. > >From what I understand from searching mailing lists and so on I don't have > this aspect commpiled into my kernel. > This is the .config file : [snip] Have you set C

A permanent block cursor

2002-02-06 Thread Leonardo F. S. Boiko
Hello. I dislike that blinking underline cursor. I found in kernel documentation file (2.2.19) VGA-softcursor.txt instructions on how to control the cursor, and I could make a nice, blocky, non-blinking green one. However, certain curses programs (such as vim and mutt) change the cursor back to th

Re: Stop dselect installing packages

2002-02-06 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Thanks Colin Thats exactly the thing I was looking for. Pat On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:43:18AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > You could move the cursor down to the line saying "Available packages > (not currently installed)" and press '_'. That will select to purge all > packages which aren't ye

the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Rachel Andrew
Hi I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today and got the following message: The following packages have been kept back: base-config console-data kate kchart kdebase kdebase-libs kdm kfocus kivio kmid koffice-libs konqueror konsole koshell kscd kspread jugar kword libkonq3 from sea

Re: apt-get update problem

2002-02-06 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi Erik, thank you very much, your suggestion worked perfectly. By the way, I've noted that in the last upgrades of ximian-gnome, several problems arises. I wonder if the ximian people is careful enough, as least with respect to the debian distribution... Regards, Marcelo On Wed, Feb 06, 2002

wmaker menu

2002-02-06 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi, I am running potato 2.2r5 and I have WindowMaker as the window manager. I would like to add nedit to the wmaker menu (apps -> editors -> nedit). I have installed nedit from the precompiled file the nedit people have at their webpage. It is a newer version that the one shipped with potato. I

Yahoo Groups like mailing list interface?

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is there anything out there that will do a webboard that sends and recieves its messages on a mailing list, ala Yahoo! Groups? Myself and several other list members on gods-creatures have mentioned that for legal and comfort reasons that we should move away from Y!G, however, a significant portion

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 21:32:49 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote: >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:44:58AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 16:02:23 -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 08:50:07PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote: >> >> Request_module[block-major-3] Root f

Getting mgetty-fax without the X business

2002-02-06 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear all - I would like to install mgetty-fax on my Potato server. This does not run X, and it never will, so I would rather save space and cpu-cycles and not install any x related things. However, is I do: apt-get install mgetty-fax -s I get a horrible bunch of x stuff rated as dependencies re

Strange error message

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
I'm testing out smartlist right now, and I got this bizarro message a few minutes after I sent a subscribe message at the test list address. I can't seem to parse that error on my own... -- Baloo -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 04:38:01 -0800 From: Cron Daemon <[EM

Re: wmaker menu

2002-02-06 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Marcelo! On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am running potato 2.2r5 and I have WindowMaker as the window manager. > I would like to add nedit to the wmaker menu (apps -> editors -> nedit). > I have installed nedit from the precompiled file the nedit people have > at their webpa

Re: Strange error message

2002-02-06 Thread Elm Gysel
Heya, try adding : user = to the local_delivery transport in the TRANSPORT section of your /etc/exim.conf file. Elm > 2002-02-06 04:38:01 16YRHa-0005CE-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/list/.bin/flist gc-request >

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Bill Benedetto
>>> Rachel Andrew writes: Rachel> I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today Rachel> and got the following message: Rachel> Rachel> The following packages have been kept back: Rachel> base-config console-data kate kchart kdebase Rachel> kdebase-libs kdm kfocus kivio kmid ko

firewire storage solution recommended

2002-02-06 Thread Patrick Hsieh
Hello list, I am planing to buy a firewire external removeable ide disk. How does currently linux 2.4 kernel support firewire interface? Any firewire removeable ide disk or interface has been proven workable under Linux 2.4? Any recommendations are highly welcome. -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROT

Re: apt-get update problem

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:36:48AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Happened to me to this morning. It seems that the Ximian people > introduced a version number in brackets after the line: > > Provides: ximian-gnumeric > > in the file you mention under Gnumeric section. They did *what*? Su

Can´t find /etc/fstab.....

2002-02-06 Thread ñalsdj ñasldkjf
When my Debian system is booting, a can se this message: _ Hable con sus amigos en línea, pruebe MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.es

Can´t find /etc/fstab.....

2002-02-06 Thread ñalsdj ñasldkjf
When my Debian system is booting, a can se this message: Can´t find /etc/fstab but I can´t understand why because this file already exists and have no configuration problems. _ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://

Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Hilts
The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a Debianized way to do this? Advice appreciated, thank you in advance. Chris Hilts [EMAI

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 07:59:06AM -0500, Bill Benedetto wrote: > >>> Rachel Andrew writes: > > Rachel> I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today > Rachel> and got the following message: > Rachel> > Rachel> The following packages have been kept back: > Rachel> base-config co

Re: Perl and CPAN

2002-02-06 Thread Paul Hampson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering > asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this > will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a > Debianized way to d

Re: OT-COX DHCP Cable Internet conversion

2002-02-06 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 05 February 2002 17:03, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Greetings: > > I wanted to post a quick note here for others going through the Cox cable > internet transition from Excite to Cox dhcp servers. > > When (if) you get your kit, copy the provided number and log onto the cox > web ser

Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Greer, Darren \(MED\)
Hello all, I am hoping you can help me with getting my sound working on my Dell OptiPlex GX1 (CS4236B). I am running kernel 2.4.17, and the latest stable alsa drivers as of yesterday, on Debian. I have compiled alsa with isapnp=yes, and compilation and install went fine. You will find all the d

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Rachel Andrew
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" should do the trick. Hi, that did work but when unpacking this happens: Unpacking replacement konqueror ... Preparing to replace libkonq3 4:2.2.1.0-6 (using .../libkonq3_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libkonq3 ... Preparing to replace kdebase-libs 4:2.

Re: Alsa on Dell OptiPlex GX1 (Debian/2.4.17/CS4236B)

2002-02-06 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Greer, Darren (MED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, after running /etc/init.d/alsasound start (output shown below), I > cannot open the mixer...running aumix says "error opening mixer". > However, if I "modprobe snd-mixer-oss" it works. So, the mixer thing is > my first challenge as to why

Re: Yahoo Groups like mailing list interface?

2002-02-06 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:53:45AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > Is there anything out there that will do a webboard that sends and > recieves its messages on a mailing list, ala Yahoo! Groups? > > Myself and several other list members on gods-creatures have mentioned > that for legal and c

freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Leif Thuresson
Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker they can recommend ? I would of cause like to have purify, but it is way out of my budget. /Leif [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ximian Install

2002-02-06 Thread Tim Grogan
Has anyone installed ximian-gnome on woody 2.2.20? Thanks. Tim

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:12:20 + Rachel Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I tried to do apt-get upgrade of my Woody system today and got the following > message: > > The following packages have been kept back: > base-config console-data kate kchart kdebase kdebase-libs kdm kfocus kivio

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > they can recommend ? apt-get install memtest86 Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "He hath not dealt wi

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:02:55 +0100 Leif Thuresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > they can recommend ? > I would of cause like to have purify, but it is way out of my budget. This may be what you are looking for... # apt-cache search memtest86 hwtools

Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Mullins
Can someone help me this? We run a FTP server that has constant scriptkiddie activity, i.e. uploading of warez. I would like to automate the removing of directories, as they are always a number, but I can't figure out how to test whether the name is or starts with a number. Does anyone have some g

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > they can recommend ? > I would of cause like to have purify, but it is way out of my budget. I'm not familiar with purify, but it looks like it intended to catch run-time memory leaks

.xsession fatal to X...?

2002-02-06 Thread Tom Schuetz
My X-Windows works fine, until I try to employ an .xsession file. Then, I get as far as they grey screen and "X" mouse-cursor, then it shuts down and I get the stderr as copied below. What's going on? Thanks, Tom XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stand

Re: Yahoo Groups like mailing list interface?

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On 6 Feb 2002, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 12:53, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > > Is there anything out there that will do a webboard that sends and > > recieves its messages on a mailing list, ala Yahoo! Groups? > > Try http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/ > There is a Debian packa

RE:freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Andrew Agno
I've used gc with C source, which works well. You may also want to look at mpatrol. Andrew.

kdm/xdm logon screen

2002-02-06 Thread Pieter De Troyer
Hi all, For a while now I have a stupid problem with kdam and xdm. Whenever I log on to the system, using the login screen from kdm or xdm, I get back to the login screen, whitout being logged in. The only way to get me in an X environment is by logging in on console and then issuing startx, and k

smartlist equiv of wwsympa?

2002-02-06 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
Is there something that allows users to read and post to a single mailing list ala wwsympa to sympa, but for smartlist instead? -- Baloo

Yet another mutt question

2002-02-06 Thread stan
OK, now when I;m in the index screen, and I want to use "q" to quit mutt. I get an error about "open mailbox". I'm gessing that the last mailbox I visited is still open. Is there some hook I can use to close an open mailbox when I enter teh index? -- "They that would give up essential liberty f

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Johann Spies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0100, Leif Thuresson wrote: > > Does anybody know a of freeware memory checker > > they can recommend ? > > apt-get install memtest86 No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose is to try an

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Leif Thuresson
Sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear on what I wanted. Purify that I referred to is a tool for checking incorrect memory usage when writing program. It can detect illegal memory references, memory leaks etc. I have found GNU checker so far http://www.gnu.org/software/checker/checker.html but there i

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. memtest86 tests viability of the RAM in your system. It's purpose > is to try and detect hardware problems with your systems memory. > > What Johan wants is a package to do things like bounds checking of > dynamically allocated arrays and uninitiali

Re: Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (was praise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread Paolo Falcone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am so happy to read your mail and interested in this topic. What about JFS? >Do you have any comment? Unfortunately, I've not yet tried IBM's JFS on my machines nor had any experience using machines that employ JFS. So I can't comment on it. Paolo Falcone ___

Re: Re: HELP. I can't login as root !!!

2002-02-06 Thread Paolo Falcone
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, David Turetsky wrote: > >> Can Microsoft be far behind? > >We already know they're far behind, the question is will they catch up? >The answer to the question is no. He he he... To further, I think that even if MS opens the complete source of its

Re: Re: journalling filesystems comparison (was ReiserFS, ext3 (waspraise to the debian gods))

2002-02-06 Thread Paolo Falcone
George Karaolides wrote: >I'm now trying woody with root fs on reiserfs on LVM on software RAID-1. >The woody reiserfs install disks were handy for this. Haven't done much >more than successfully install and boot the system, though; tests are >still in the future. > >Just how much better is XFS

Re: Mutt

2002-02-06 Thread Terence Ng
Glyn: What if I get: -rw--- 1 ngterry root 494616 Feb 7 00:01 /var/spool/mail/ngterry Sincerely, Terence Ng On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:56:42AM +, Glyn Millington wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terence Ng) writes: > > > I have just set up my MTA. After I read an email, I would like t

delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple hundred messages, and all of them are fetched. But when I get into Pine, only 100 of

Re: freeware purify like memory checker ?

2002-02-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:49:17 +0100, Leif Thuresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, maybe I wasn't very clear on what I wanted. > Purify that I referred to is a tool for checking incorrect memory usage > when writing program. It can detect illegal memory references, > memory leaks etc. > > I h

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
How about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch 1foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch 2foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ touch foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-sr-x2 aperrin aperrin 4096 Feb 6 11:18 . drwxr-sr-x 49 aperrin aperrin 8192 Feb

Re: the following packages have been kept back?

2002-02-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Rachel Andrew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" should do the trick. > > Hi, that did work but when unpacking this happens: > > Unpacking replacement konqueror ... > Preparing to replace libkonq3 4:2.2.1.0-6 (using > .../libkonq3_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb) ... > Unpac

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I thought I was losing mail; it does all eventually get to the inbox, but > why the big delay? > Are you using my pine packages? Because if so, I might know why. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braince

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Emil Pedersen
Ron Mullins wrote: > > Can someone help me this? We run a FTP server that has constant > scriptkiddie activity, i.e. uploading of warez. I would like to automate > the removing of directories, as they are always a number, but I can't > figure out how to test whether the name is or starts with a nu

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Brett Parker
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. > When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple > hundred messa

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > Looks like someone is already working on cyrus2: > Yes I know but they are taking their time about it. I have a mostly functioning package now, I just need to tidy it up some more before making another announcement. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: X environment

2002-02-06 Thread Terence Ng
Oh! I am so sorry. I mean after I type in startx, sometimes the window come out is in black and white, and it is jumping. Then I have to quit and try to startx again. Is X window not stable in Debian, or I miss some important packages to install? Thanks, Terence Ng On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 a

Re: wmaker menu

2002-02-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
The best way ist to use the debian menu system. You create _one_ menu entry and it is then added to the menus of all wmgrs you are running. See /usr/share/doc/menu. Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: kdm/xdm logon screen

2002-02-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 04:43:00PM +0100, Pieter De Troyer wrote: > For a while now I have a stupid problem with kdam and xdm. Whenever I log > on to the system, using the login screen from kdm or xdm, I get back to > the login screen, whitout being logged in. Maybe a start script problem. Does

Re: .xsession fatal to X...?

2002-02-06 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
There does not seem to be any error message. What is in your .xsession? Regards, Joachim -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Rupa Schomaker wrote: > > Looks like someone is already working on cyrus2: > > Yes I know but they are taking their time about it. I have a mostly > functioning package now, I just need to tidy it up some more before making > anoth

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-06 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > How did you get it to work with the currently broken SASL v2 which is what > is holding my packages from being uploaded? > > Cyrus 2.1 CVS REQUIRES SASL2 to work. Or are you packaging 2.0.x ? > Yes this is 2.0.16 which I believe is the late

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. > When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple > hundred messa

Re: Any interest in a cyrus2 package

2002-02-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Btw, I'm doing this mainly because I needed it for a project. If you want > to be the official maintainer be my guest. I can send you my work when it > is finished. Well, I am packaging cyrus 2.1, and all packages are named cyrus21-*, not cyrus2-*. Y

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Mullins
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:51, Ron Johnson wrote: > Try: >ls [0-9]* > > This is a minimalistic use of Regular Expressions. A simple script to > delete these sub-directories might be: > #!/bin/sh > for i in `ls [0-9]*`; do > echo $i > rm -rf $i > done > Thanks, that is exact

Creating boot floppies

2002-02-06 Thread Bill Wohler
The creation of boot floppies used to occur during the installation of kernel-image. However, when I just installed 2.4.17, I wasn't asked to create a boot floppy. And I want to create one. I discovered mkrescue but every operation resulted in some sort of an error, not the least of whic

Re: Parsing a file name in the shell

2002-02-06 Thread Ron Mullins
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:19, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Note the rm -rf line, which does what you're asking. But note also that > script kiddies may be capable of generating other devious filename > patterns, including those that start with . . Yeah, I've seen that and worse, but most of those names

firewire storage solution recommended

2002-02-06 Thread briand
> "Patrick" == Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> Hello list, Patrick> I am planing to buy a firewire external removeable ide disk. Does that mean a disk that goes into a firewire/ide converter ? Patrick> How does currently linux 2.4 kernel support firewire interface?

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