Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread ben
On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > Hi, > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed > > it. > > Hmm, why not install the .deb? > > Nick. > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using a

Re: Good Dual head /w TVout

2002-02-26 Thread Alan James
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:43:15 +0100 Pontus Edvardsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm struggling with the secondary head of my Matrox Millennuim G550. I want > to output that to my TV. I understand Matrox does not support this, still, > has anyone got it working somehow? > > Thanks for any

2.2r5 Install Endless Loop

2002-02-26 Thread Keith Parkansky
Not new to Linux (but no expert either) but new to Debian and am having big problems with the install of 2.2r5 using CDs. Everything is fine if I don't install Gnome/X, but if I select the Gnome and X selections in the task list the install ends up in an endless loop of '111' errors that is imposs

Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
I'm trying to do key authentication between the current unstable openssh and a remote box running RedHat and the following version of ssh-nonfree: SSH Version 1.2.27, protocol version 1.5 Regular logins work. I want to login without using a password. This is what I've done: I've enabled ssh1 su

Re: Locale e caratteri italiani

2002-02-26 Thread Pietro Cagnoni
> Ciao, > Trovo problematico usare il supporto per il display > di caratteri italiani es. e con l'accento ecc... > > Dopo aver settato la variabile cosi': > export LANG=it_IT > > locale mi dice: > LANG=it_IT > LC_CTYPE="it_IT" > LC_NUMERIC="it_IT" > LC_TIME="it_IT" > LC_COLLATE="it_IT" > LC_MONET

Help needed upgrading PCI video card

2002-02-26 Thread David Shepherd
I decided to upgrade the video card in my old Potato box (Pentium 200Mhz) from a Tseng ET4000 W32p to a SiS 6326. The motherboard doesn't support AGP so both cards are PCI. I was hoping it would be a simple as shutting down, swapping the cards, restarting and running XF86Setup to configure X. It

Re: 2.2r5 Install Endless Loop

2002-02-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:53:51AM -0600, Keith Parkansky wrote: > Not new to Linux (but no expert either) > but new to Debian and am having big > problems with the install of 2.2r5 using > CDs. Everything is fine if I don't install > Gnome/X, but if I select the Gnome and X > selections in the ta

Re: Bash does not get SIGWINCH after resizing console with fb-set

2002-02-26 Thread Jan Gorski
Karl E. Jorgensen: > >set checkwinsize > >in /etc/profile ? - Thanks, this helps me, but... why _bash_ have to check winsize after _each_ command if there is signal designed to tell an application that screen size changed? Pozdrawiam Slimak (na krawędzi)

Re: 2.2r5 Install Endless Loop

2002-02-26 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:04:37AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > apt-get install xfree86-common xserver-s3 twm xfonts-75dpi Oops, the S3 Virage Chip means the xserver-s3v package rather than xserver-s3. pgpOsDt3vcHD1.pgp Description: PGP signature

mount nfs with root privileges

2002-02-26 Thread jsalord
I'm trying that server A backs up server B mounting B via NFS. But, to copy completely all files, server A needs to access server B with root privileges. So far, I have used the option no_squash_root but server A still can't copy files only readable by owner (chmod 600). What I have to do to backu

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Re: mount nfs with root privileges

2002-02-26 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying that server A backs up server B mounting B via NFS. But, to copy > completely all files, server A needs to access server B with root > privileges. > So far, I have used the option no_squash_root but server A still can't copy > files

Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:47:52AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > | on Thu, Feb 21, 2002, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I agree -- it sounds like exim is forking lots of processes (one for > each delivery) as it tries to deliver

Re: YaOOQ (Yet another Open Office Question)

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This may sound stupid, but is there an up-to-date Open Office package to be > had as a deb? I was thinking it might be nice to install it that way rather > than installing the OpenOffice.org binary which doesn't use package > m

Re: [OT] "-" user on solaris

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Feb 22, 2002, Michel Loos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Em Sex, 2002-02-22 ?s 17:56, Kent West escreveu: > > Michel Loos wrote: > > Just thought I should make an OT posting even more OT :-) > > I can only totally agree with you. And sincerely the arguments for > keeping that thing are pure

Re: firewall: linux vs. freebsd

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Feb 23, 2002, Matt Garman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:18:03PM -0500, timothy bauscher wrote: > > I am planning on building a firewall here. There is a lot of hype > > about Freebsd being great for firewalls, and books regarding Linux > > firewalls. > > > > I lov

Re: why boot using floppy is very slow?

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, debianlist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very > slow..at least much slower than other linux distr...how can i > improve the speed based on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware > problem) i have a 2.2r4 boo

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: > > Hi, > > > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: > > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed > > > it. > > > > Hmm, why not instal

perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2002-02-26 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I start some application from the command line, I get these messages: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: LAN to Internet gateway problem [solved]

2002-02-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:21:47 +0100 "Tony Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephan Hachinger wrote (on 25 Feb 2002 at 17:36): > > > machine I want to configure as router is 192.168.90.95 (stephan). > > Stephan has a second network card inside (192.168.37.95) and > > connects to the internet

Re: NFS mount failure - why?

2002-02-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 02:35, Tom Cook wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > [snip] > > What does 'ls -l /usr1 /usr2 /usr3' tell you? No clues there: $ ls -ld /usr1 /usr2 /usr3 /usr1/usr2 drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Feb 8 00:46 /usr1 drwxr-xr-x9 root root 1024 Feb 8 01

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

2002-02-26 Thread Armin Wegner
aviplay It is in testing.

Re: mount nfs with root privileges

2002-02-26 Thread Tim Dijkstra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying that server A backs up server B mounting B via NFS. But, to copy completely all files, server A needs to access server B with root privileges. So far, I have used the option no_squash_root but server A still can't copy files only readable by owner (chmod 600).

Re: why boot using floppy is very slow?

2002-02-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
> debianlist wrote: > > I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very > slow..at least much slower than other linux distr...how can i improve > the speed based on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware problem) > i have a 2.2r4 boot floppy,,can i boot 2.2r5? As was mentioned

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have downloaded Acrobat Reader 4.0 in gzipped tar file and installed it. but when i start it by /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acrobat.sh, it says it can't find installation directory. I no longer use Acrobat (mostly because of how they tried to squash freedom in general

Re: user is not authorized to run X server

2002-02-26 Thread Kent West
Axel Minck wrote: Hi, I am running Debian potato with XFree 3.3.6, and I can only start X server as root ; otherwise I get a message "user is not authorized to start X server" I tried to modify my /etc/X11/Xserver file by replacing root by anybody but it doesn't work. I noticed that I

Re: main conf file

2002-02-26 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:45:59PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > I have just a comment now. > I love Debian, i really do but i has one major lack. > I'm talking about a main rc file like the rc.config on SuSE. In this file > should be informations wherer deamons/services should be star

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2002-02-26 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:35:15AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I > start some application from the command line, I get these messages: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common

2002-02-26 Thread Axel Minck
Hi, When I try to reconfigure xserver-common with dpkg, I get the following message: /debconf: package "xserver-common" is not installed or does not use debconf/ I tried to make apt-get install --reinstall xserver-common, but I am said that I have the latest version. Any idea? Thanks Axel

shutdown in gnome 1.4

2002-02-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running woody + gnome 1.4+ sawfish. I would like to know if there exists a clever way of shutdown the system than opening a shell, login as root and type "shutdown -h now". Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstall potato

2002-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:19:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > > > After updating to woody, would users advise to uninstall any old > > files related to potato? Would this provide a significant > > increase in available disk space? > > > > If the answer to these question is affirmative, then how's the

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > This is what I've done: > > I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh" > On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase. > I then copied the identity.pub to the RedHat machine and renamed it to > ~/.ssh/au

[OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread O Polite
I spent the morning moving to fetchmail/procmail for mail retrieval and filtering. I think I will be very happy with it indeed. Kmail and Evolution will let the user "apply filters" on already filtered messages so as to put them in some other folder. This is great when you realize that some filte

Re: shutdown in gnome 1.4

2002-02-26 Thread Alan James
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:59:22AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running woody + gnome 1.4+ sawfish. I would like to know if there exists > a > clever way of shutdown the system than opening a shell, login as root and > type > "shutdown -h now". > Thanks in advance If yo

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
* O Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:09]: > Is there anyway to do the same thing with procmail, apply it on an mbox > or Maildir? Yes. -- Frederik Vanrenterghem | Senate, n.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| A body of elderly gentlemen GPG Fingerprint:

Re: gnome-error (solved!)

2002-02-26 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:37:50PM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I ha installed woody in a fresh machine. I have installed the gnome stuff > plus > sawfish wm too. Now, when I point with the mouse the border, buttons or title > bar of any window in the desktop I hear a "beep".

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread O Polite
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:22, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > Yes. How?

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Umm... Unless you have some reason to be running that version of SSH instead of ssh2 or openssh (ssh) I wouldn't... I'm in the process of doing a post-mortem on a harddrive of a friend's computer in which we believe ssh 1.2.27 was the way they got in as it was one of the very few ports that

How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Liam Black
I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have been spending my time learning about the desktop much moreso than tackling the meat of the system... but that's what I'm attempting to do, now. So if a

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread David Bell
Absolutely. :) Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running Woody. :) On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is > there

Re: How to add second network card?

2002-02-26 Thread Eric Richardson
dman wrote: > > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isapnp or some linux > tool to do it, but I haven't tried. I heard of this so I'll take a look. > > | Okay, if I'm not running DOS, is there anyway to run it

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:30:53AM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Honestly SSH2's publickey or hostbased authentication might be an > easier choice... Would have upgraded in a blink of an eye ... but I'm not root on that machine :-) -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:03:17AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > The -v flag will give you some more verbose output (you can use that > flag up to three times to increase the verbosity further). Does that > help find the problem? Yes, thank you very much! debug1: Remote: Bad file modes for /opt/we

Re: perl: warning: Setting locale failed

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Kind all - I seem to be missing some vital setting in my system. When I > start some application from the command line, I get these messages: > > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: >

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
* O Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:30]: > How? Check the man page to make sure, but I believe it's procmail -m you should use. -- Frederik Vanrenterghem |Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GPG Fingerprint: | 966B 0E4B 25C1 CC04

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2002-02-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
Hi, sorry for being lazy anf forwarding the whole message. Do we have something like this in debian ? apt-cache didn't find anything for me. - Forwarded message from Peter Wächtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Peter Wächtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:53:38 +0100 To:

Re: pam-watch?

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: > > Luke Scharf wrote: > > > > I'm a system administrator attempting to install an application that > > relies on PAM (apache + mod_auth_pam). Is there any way that I can get > > a log of what PAM is doing? Ideally, I'd like to see what application > > is requesting authent

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: > * O Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:30]: > > How? > > Check the man page to make sure, but I believe it's procmail -m you > should use. Or just add a backslash to the mailbox in ~/.procmailrc. :0

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread martin f krafft
Maildir: cat * | formail -s procmail mbox: formail -s procmail < mbox -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "there are two major products that come out of berkeley: lsd and unix." one caused me an

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:45:56AM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > This is what I've done: > > I've enabled ssh1 support by "dpkg-reconfigure ssh" > On my Debian machine I generated a ssh1 key without a passphrase. > I then copied the identity.pub to the RedHat machine and renamed it to > ~/.ssh/au

Re: How to add second network card?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | dman wrote: | | | > | > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to | change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isapnp or some linux | > tool to do it, but I haven't tried. | | I heard of this so

Re: question about Acrobat

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:32:57AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Monday 25 February 2002 09:09 pm, Nick Hastings wrote: | > > Hi, | > > | > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:58]: | > > > i have downloaded Acrobat Reade

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: | > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is | > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have | > been spending my time learnin

Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

2002-02-26 Thread Rainer Sigl
Hi, I have a problem working with my ATI Rage 128 PRO TF card on my new DELL machine with a new Installation of Debian Linux and Xfree86-4 Output of lspc : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Ch

Re: [OT] How to run procmail on Maildir or mbox

2002-02-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric G. Miller wrote: >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: >> * O Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020226 15:30]: >> > How? >> >> Check the man page to make sure, but I believe it's procmail -m you >> should use. > >Or just add a back

Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Ulf Rompe
Noah Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Creating an SSH key with a blank passphrase is *absolutely* the > wrong way to go about this. Yes, it will work, but if anybody ever > manages to get their hands on the private key, they've got access to > your account on the remote machine. > > Passphr

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Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade Pe

cvs server giving permission denied: SOLVED

2002-02-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
Today I tried to setup a local cvs server, auch the headaches I got:( Finally I was able to do a `cvs -d co ...'. The next logical step was to try 'cvs update', but helas this gave a: Permission denied Not very helpful, nor informative; so I tried to search the archives. There were some h

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Re: Passwordless connection to ssh-nonfree 1.2.27

2002-02-26 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:46:32PM +0100, Ulf Rompe wrote: > This works for interactive use. But it doesn't fit the needs of cron > jobs. OK, you *can* use ssh-agent withing cron jobs, but you give up > more security than you gain using such a hack. > > So if you need an ssh connection within a cr

backup solution suggestions

2002-02-26 Thread justin cunningham
Hi all, I need to implement a backup solution for web, mail, dns, etc and wanted to hear any +/-  thoughts for writing a rsync scripts for cron for each server to do a weekly dump followed by daily incrementals OR use Amanda for this.  The server (woody), et al are already in place and I’m

Display cards .. Please help

2002-02-26 Thread shyamk
I am using a VIA/AMD-Duron system . The CD they gave does not contain any display drivers , etc , for Linux ! Could somebody please guide me on where I could get reliable drivers from ? Warm Regards, Shyam -- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])--(=)--(Shyam)--- "Beauty lies in the eyes

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: | | >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | > | >| | >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | >| Woody.

Re: Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro TF

2002-02-26 Thread Marc Aurele La France
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Rainer Sigl wrote: > I have a problem working with my ATI Rage 128 PRO TF card on my > new DELL machine with a new Installation of Debian Linux and Xfree86-4 Read your own posting! I quote: > Logfile: > This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any

[OT]: stripping html attachments

2002-02-26 Thread Timo Benk
Hi, i followed the thread about stripping html attachments and wrote the following recipe. it seems to work, but let me know if you have any improvements. procmail recipe: -- ## ## HTML

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:58 AM 2/26/02, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first chang

Apache / PHP / SNMP

2002-02-26 Thread Brendon Colby
Greetings, I'm using (Debian Potato): apache-ssl 1.3.9.13-3 php44.0.3pl1-0potato2 php4-snmp 4.0.3pl1-0potato2 When I call the snmpget() function, the Apache-ssl error log shows: [Tue Feb 26 11:33:31 2002] [notice] child pid 2708 exit signal Segment

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:32 PM 02/26/02 -0500, dman wrote: >| Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade >| Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I >| have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as >| seamless as you suggest, but it

Re: [OT]: stripping html attachments

2002-02-26 Thread Timo Benk
The following is a little bit better: -- ## ## HTML ## strip all html off the email

Re: Display cards .. Please help

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 10:57:25PM +0530, shyamk wrote: | I am using a VIA/AMD-Duron system . | The CD they gave does not contain any display drivers , etc , | for Linux ! | Could somebody please guide me on where I could get reliable drivers | from ? What video card do you have? Do you want to

shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
On my machine that's not doing PAM, I'm noticing after I took out cracklib-runtime and cracklib2, and then try to reinstall cracklib2, I get a bunch of diagnotic messages saying: shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory But

RE: shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
Try to install not from the directory that is removed while you are removing cracklib* -Original Message- From: Xeno Campanoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:27 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: shell-init: could no

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Re: shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Kurc, Marcin A." wrote: > > Try to install not from the directory that is removed while Good point. The shell-init messages have now gone away, but I still run: apt-get install cracklib-runtime for only a few seconds and I get no /var/cache/cracklib/*_dict.* files. Again, this works

Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Balazs Javor
Hi, Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from inetd critical to the system? I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. Many thanks for your help in advance! best regards, Balazs

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from > inetd critical to the system? > > I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, > so I was wondering if anything would break if I'd commented them out. > You can actually

Re: Spamassassin, fetchmail, exim, and system resource issues

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:12:06AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: [...] | I'd had exim running from inetd rather that as a daemon, which might | also explain the many forkings. [...] Yeah, that would have an effect on it. If exim runs as a daemon, then it can monitor and control the various forks

Re: dh-client setup problems

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 05:32:53PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | See below for dpkg -l pump dhcp-client. Not sure what it means :| | | ii pump0.8.11-3 | pn dhcp-client As the top lines of the output say, the 'ii' means that

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:59:41AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: | On 26-Feb-2002 Balazs Javor wrote: | > Hi, | > | > Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from | > inetd critical to the system? | > | > I'm trying to close as many ports as possible on my machine, | > so I wa

Re: shell-init: could not get current directory

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
"Kurc, Marcin A." wrote: > > how do you remove it? > dpkg --purge package-name? Yes, I do dpkt -P cracklib-runtime on both machines, then I do dpkg -P cracklib2 on both machines, and then I reinstall with apt-get install cracklib2 and apt-get install cracklib-runtime. On the purge, the machine t

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Sean 'Shaleh' Perry quotation: > You can actually uninstall inetd and have a working system. Well, a few points on this: - you can disable daytime, chargen, etc. without removing inetd; - inetd may be needed to run other things that you want to keep; - uninstalling netkit-inetd will al

Re: How to add second network card?-solved

2002-02-26 Thread Eric Richardson
Thanks for everyones help, solution inline. dman wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:58:38AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote: | dman wrote: | | | > | > Since the cards are PnP, you'll probably need to use a DOS utility to | change the card's settings. Perhaps you can get isapnp or some linux |

strange "sensors" readings

2002-02-26 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello ! At last, with Kernel 2.4.17 I got sensors to work. But the results are a bit strange : as99127f-i2c-1-2d Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at e800 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter VCore 1: +1.77 V (min = +1.74 V, max = +1.93 V) VCore 2: +0.11 V (min = +1.74 V, max =

Re: OT: SETI@HOME on Alphas

2002-02-26 Thread Jim Woodruff
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Actually, this is quite interesting. I know most of the story already > from various former Compaq and API employees, but I'm sure others are > curious as to where those really fast result times came from :-) Yes, please the discussion going

RE: why boot using floppy is very slow?

2002-02-26 Thread justin cunningham
I got the same latency w/ the floppy boot disk created from initial install. i'm using a w2k <--work laptop & woody dual boot and 'load linux' takes about 2mins (forever) on a p3700. I'll probably go back to lilo though the lilo mbr I had from potato got 'upgraded' and 'hosed' my mbr-- lots of l0

Re: Disabling discard, daytime, time

2002-02-26 Thread Patrick Kirk
My understanding is that nothing is lost if you comment out these lines and restart inetd. On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 18:57, Balazs Javor wrote: > Hi, > > Are the internal services discard, daytime and time run from > inetd critical to the system? > > I'm trying to close as many ports as possible

Ah, this is a known bug: #54214

2002-02-26 Thread Xeno Campanoli
My apologies for being oblivious to the Debian site's bug tracking resource. It turns out a Mr. Billson turned this one in in January 2000. Wah! So the trick to my problem is that something called "wordlist" is needed for the cracklib-runtime install to work, and apparently there is no strong de

XFree86 config ERROR~

2002-02-26 Thread debianlist
when i run test x-windows during the installation.the error msg jump out and installation cannot go on. error msg is:         _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect:Can't connect:error = 111.

SOLVED Re: any ideas? no network traffic gets through

2002-02-26 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:41:43PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, will trillich wrote: > >there's probably something simple that's wrong here, but my > >3c509 connection won't cooperate no my potato system. it'll > >respond only to self-pings; no other traffic seems to get in or

exim & printer

2002-02-26 Thread paul
I have debian potato 2.2. The printer will not work. at the command line it will print with cat filename > /dev/lp0. No cr, no lf. windows text file will print ok. The culprit seems to be exim which was sending all print jobs to my isp, ie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and of course coming back as an error.

Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Moseley
I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.17/scripts/lxdialog' /usr/bin/ld: cannot find

Re: Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

2002-02-26 Thread Richard Hector
Bill Moseley wrote: > > I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but... > > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' I think you might need the -dev package for this. Richard -- I'm currently looki

Re: Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

2002-02-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Feb-2002 Bill Moseley wrote: > I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source

ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hi! A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize the card correctly, and when choosing the drivers "ati" or "r128" in xf86cfg text mode, X won't

Re: exim & printer

2002-02-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:33:47PM -0800, paul wrote: > I have debian potato 2.2. The printer will not work. > at the command line it will print with cat filename > > /dev/lp0. No cr, no lf. windows text file will print > ok. > The culprit seems to be exim which was sending all > print jobs to my

Re: ATI RADEON 7500 and X problem

2002-02-26 Thread Tim Moss
Apparently, on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:09:29AM +0100, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > Hi! > > A friend of mine (not on this list) has problems getting X version > 4.1.0 (from testing) to start on his box with a Radeon 7500 card > inside. When trying xf86cfg in graphics mode, it doesn't recognize > the

Can't access www

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Price
I've probably done something dumb... I'm using Woody, and other than www my dialup ISP connection seems to work fine (ftp, ssh, X). However, Netscape, Lynx and Opera all fail to open web pages; Netscape says 'Connection reset by Peer', and the others say something to the same effect. If I use te

Re: strange "sensors" readings

2002-02-26 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Markus Grunwald wrote: > out what "VCore 2" could mean. I can't imagine the 0.11V to be wrong > since my machine works really fine :) I disabled this reading by commenting out it's entries in sensors.conf. -- Baloo

Re: backup solution suggestions

2002-02-26 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya justin backup mechanism do your development work on an internal machine.. not accessible from the outside when you are done testing... internal -> update external dns internal -> update external web internal -> update external mail never brin

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